I never thought I`d say this but I am going to wait for them to get the bugs out before going wireless. I allow almost all of my data to be freely accessed but the security concerns of wireless and ease of use issues are just horrendous at this point...
It`s a technology with a lot of potential but I will wait for it to mature... Does anyone have any stories about ease of use that might convince me otherwise?
These debates are so ridiculous as to make me sick... gaming has the best record of anything in terms of franchises not carrying weight...
A game is a world and when you beat a good one you may want to continue in that world there is nothing wrong with that.
Tribes 2 and UT2k3 are great examples of sequels that didn`t deliver and therefore fell on their face. Daikatana hyped like mad and failed... when you compare it to movies or even books it`s obvious that games are being consumed on a much higher basis of quality...
Games offer many more levels of review than any other medium before a purchasing decision. You can look at screens try demos read reviews even look over the storyline without destroying the enjoyability of a game totally. Word of mouth is pretty strong and piracy is always an option for those on a tight budget or those who have been burned before...
Any debate about the medium (gaming) dying is ridiculous, it`s clearly a superior creative space from any other form of artistic impression and offers more dynamic content control for the author. It will no doubt mutate but survival is almost assured just based on the facts of the medium.
The games listed above are all single player. You and I would agree that A.I. Can't touch a human opponent on a number of levels the greatest being a challenge that remains possible.
The truth is in terms of weapon balance, complexity, challenge, longevity, personal development and fun games with decent opponents and the multiplayer to support it are ten times any single player game.
Maybe you enjoy playing an A.I. set to "kinda stupid" but I prefer playing a person who learns from their mistakes tries to fool me and does any of the 10,000 other things a good player does to kick your ass.
It has always been my dream to be playing a game and not know whether I was playing a person or a machine in any given match.
When I sat down to make my own game however that got tossed out the window. It's so much easier to write decent net code then a decent A.I. that the two can't be compared, and when you consider that A.I. will never offer the same level of intensity that another player will the choice is obvious.
Assuming that game developers are failing in the development of decent A.I. is besides the point, the real problem involves a total lack of motivation.
For example it's easy to accheieve play balance with two people who use the same race and have the same variables applied, the more diffrences you create the more problems arise.
The Computer stores I go to (In Toronto) gave up on trying to explain to people the diffrences between various video cards. So they just printed out 2 of the Toms' Graphs, Quake 3 and something else. It's hilarious watching noobs staring at the thing and comparing it to the price list next to it.
The road warrior bot seems to be moving still.. are they dragging it along the course? Are we going to get footage of the collisions? I mean there are bound to be some great ones since computers make ridiculously large mistages, plus all the guilt of enjoying watching people die is avoided.
Napster didn't need marketting. The product isn't ready for mass market, when I build a house I still have to install old phone lines. That's crap, it's just not ready yet. Backwards compatability is one of the major problems and the other is ease of use.
Despite this I think they are fairly standardized now and the quality is excellent.
If someone offered a service which would patch the data from a phone # to an I.P. then I'd use it in a second.
1.) earlier phones and pda's provide wifi support for internet connectivity. This phone provides voip support right?
2.)If so why isn't it cell phone shaped? I mean the applications of this thing as a cell phone are pretty obvious, most urban areas have unsecured nodes.
It keeps saying I.P. does it support dns?
Is wireless flexible enough that I can move from one unsecured node to another with little or no appreciable lapse in signal?
Doesn't this whole wireless thing make it ridiculous to try and secure any information anymore? If I run an unsecured node will I get sued by the RIAA for someone downloading Jay-Z over my network?
Why would you bring law into this. Law is flexible and in this case it's probably designed in a way which is immoral.
Of course the real question as it has always been is about the rights of the producers to control their media shielding it from the public in order to maximize profit (HL2 = $15,000 now think about it from a profit perspective).
As opposed to the responsability of humans to share their idea's and knowledge with others.
Media is tough because people are unwilling to admit a "need" for the information, the result is that I pay $20 to hear Britny Spears while Einsteins decendants receive no money.
I don't think a company should have to compete against their own product whether they freely distribute it or have it reverse engineered. On that basis this emulator deserves the boot. But when I remember games from my earlier childhood that I can no longer play In any form including purchased it reminds me that free information is going to become more and more important for societal devlopment.
Besides the plunder and slavery of nations is much better established these days, it'll last for generations keeping your grand children in cheap women and plunder.
Well partially because sending a peron into battle offers yet another chance for corrections. Unfortunatly modern armies are little more than robots, they have no idea why they are fighting and they mindlessly pursue their objectives.
Doing this whole thing based on something like GPS which is controlled by one country is ridiculous.
If it was based on a soviet system you'd understand the problems.
The other codec missing from this test is real media. Now I know I know, "It's the Devil" but I've seen some pretty good results and now with real alternative around it's not too bad.
I mean I can fit 5 seasons of Daria on a cd and it's watchable. And there is tonnes of old anime kicking around in it.
Um DVD burners cost $140 cdn, high speed internet and bittorrent have made movie swapping easier and easier. Once the diffrence becomes irrelevant progress stops, for example it's going to be a long long time before something unseats 128kbps mp3 as the standard.
The question is parralel to whether something cool like rtf or swx format will be the long term universal standard or.doc. Doc. is the standard but it sucks, at the moment I think people might consider going back to mpeg 2 which I think is not a valid tradeoff but who knows.
The other reason this is important is the new HDDVD battle comming up, some people are trying to upgrade dvd decoding standard (I.E. What's in commercial dvd players) to Mpeg 4 and leave dvd sizes where they are other are trying to keep mpeg 2 but raise dvd size to 22 gigs to compensate. I think both solutions should be implemented but that's just a personal preference not a business decision.
I use Virtual Dub and you need to run the encoding program 2x which kinda sucks because you can't just leave it running all night you need to step in after 3hrs. I would like to use Gordian Knot but it's just too crappy the UI is terrible and the codec implementation leaves much to be desired.
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Yea I live in Toronto and the ear bud thing is definitly a fad. I`ve seen tonnes of people wearing whitish earbuds that aren`t standard Ipod ones.
I just find it funny that people would spend $500 on an mp3 player then use the crappy provided headphones...
I never thought I`d say this but I am going to wait for them to get the bugs out before going wireless. I allow almost all of my data to be freely accessed but the security concerns of wireless and ease of use issues are just horrendous at this point...
It`s a technology with a lot of potential but I will wait for it to mature... Does anyone have any stories about ease of use that might convince me otherwise?
These debates are so ridiculous as to make me sick... gaming has the best record of anything in terms of franchises not carrying weight...
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A game is a world and when you beat a good one you may want to continue in that world there is nothing wrong with that.
Tribes 2 and UT2k3 are great examples of sequels that didn`t deliver and therefore fell on their face. Daikatana hyped like mad and failed... when you compare it to movies or even books it`s obvious that games are being consumed on a much higher basis of quality...
Games offer many more levels of review than any other medium before a purchasing decision. You can look at screens try demos read reviews even look over the storyline without destroying the enjoyability of a game totally. Word of mouth is pretty strong and piracy is always an option for those on a tight budget or those who have been burned before...
Any debate about the medium (gaming) dying is ridiculous, it`s clearly a superior creative space from any other form of artistic impression and offers more dynamic content control for the author. It will no doubt mutate but survival is almost assured just based on the facts of the medium.
The games listed above are all single player. You and I would agree that A.I. Can't touch a human opponent on a number of levels the greatest being a challenge that remains possible.
The truth is in terms of weapon balance, complexity, challenge, longevity, personal development and fun games with decent opponents and the multiplayer to support it are ten times any single player game.
Maybe you enjoy playing an A.I. set to "kinda stupid" but I prefer playing a person who learns from their mistakes tries to fool me and does any of the 10,000 other things a good player does to kick your ass.
If you had Quake 1 you didn't miss anything. Now back to e1m2!
Was there a problem? Yes. Did he expose it? Yes. Did it make him increadibly famous and popular? yes.
Now why would you think they would have to bribe him to accomplish the above.
But if they offer someone cash, or continued hardware support, for a favorable review is that likely to backfire? I think not.
It has always been my dream to be playing a game and not know whether I was playing a person or a machine in any given match.
When I sat down to make my own game however that got tossed out the window. It's so much easier to write decent net code then a decent A.I. that the two can't be compared, and when you consider that A.I. will never offer the same level of intensity that another player will the choice is obvious.
Assuming that game developers are failing in the development of decent A.I. is besides the point, the real problem involves a total lack of motivation.
For example it's easy to accheieve play balance with two people who use the same race and have the same variables applied, the more diffrences you create the more problems arise.
The biggest advance in artificial intelligence so far came when the reaper bot started saying things like.
"I destroy you"
"Cry to your mom. b!cyh"
etc. I mean that was most humanlike characteristic ever to be properly emulated.
The Computer stores I go to (In Toronto) gave up on trying to explain to people the diffrences between various video cards. So they just printed out 2 of the Toms' Graphs, Quake 3 and something else. It's hilarious watching noobs staring at the thing and comparing it to the price list next to it.
They have a system called flops. But people aren't 1337 enough to handle that shizzle :)
The Linux system would have four wheels driving diffrent directions and millions of tiny parts doing identical jobs.
Actually Canada has more restrictive measures in place to limit the press than the U.S.
However we hardly ever use it and they are censored all the time. So we over legislate and underegulate.
They on the other hand lie, then conceal. No complains on this one, Go CANADA.
Sigh this sucks, they are making all these sci fi movies too late. The concepts in them aren't really fantastic anymore they are just not here yet.
I hope they make some of the really great ones while there is still time such as Ender's Game and Ringworld
Who cares I'm ashamed of my country for this. And after we handled the whole 9-11 crapshoot so well. Jeeze :(
The road warrior bot seems to be moving still.. are they dragging it along the course? Are we going to get footage of the collisions? I mean there are bound to be some great ones since computers make ridiculously large mistages, plus all the guilt of enjoying watching people die is avoided.
Napster didn't need marketting. The product isn't ready for mass market, when I build a house I still have to install old phone lines. That's crap, it's just not ready yet. Backwards compatability is one of the major problems and the other is ease of use.
Despite this I think they are fairly standardized now and the quality is excellent.
If someone offered a service which would patch the data from a phone # to an I.P. then I'd use it in a second.
I don't totally understand,
1.) earlier phones and pda's provide wifi support for internet connectivity. This phone provides voip support right?
2.)If so why isn't it cell phone shaped? I mean the applications of this thing as a cell phone are pretty obvious, most urban areas have unsecured nodes.
It keeps saying I.P. does it support dns?
Is wireless flexible enough that I can move from one unsecured node to another with little or no appreciable lapse in signal?
Doesn't this whole wireless thing make it ridiculous to try and secure any information anymore? If I run an unsecured node will I get sued by the RIAA for someone downloading Jay-Z over my network?
Soo confused.
Why would you bring law into this. Law is flexible and in this case it's probably designed in a way which is immoral.
Of course the real question as it has always been is about the rights of the producers to control their media shielding it from the public in order to maximize profit (HL2 = $15,000 now think about it from a profit perspective).
As opposed to the responsability of humans to share their idea's and knowledge with others.
Media is tough because people are unwilling to admit a "need" for the information, the result is that I pay $20 to hear Britny Spears while Einsteins decendants receive no money.
I don't think a company should have to compete against their own product whether they freely distribute it or have it reverse engineered. On that basis this emulator deserves the boot. But when I remember games from my earlier childhood that I can no longer play In any form including purchased it reminds me that free information is going to become more and more important for societal devlopment.
I need Wizardry 6!
That was a tough one.
They don't get to do that now?
Besides the plunder and slavery of nations is much better established these days, it'll last for generations keeping your grand children in cheap women and plunder.
Well partially because sending a peron into battle offers yet another chance for corrections. Unfortunatly modern armies are little more than robots, they have no idea why they are fighting and they mindlessly pursue their objectives.
Doing this whole thing based on something like GPS which is controlled by one country is ridiculous.
If it was based on a soviet system you'd understand the problems.
The other codec missing from this test is real media. Now I know I know, "It's the Devil" but I've seen some pretty good results and now with real alternative around it's not too bad.
I mean I can fit 5 seasons of Daria on a cd and it's watchable. And there is tonnes of old anime kicking around in it.
Um DVD burners cost $140 cdn, high speed internet and bittorrent have made movie swapping easier and easier. Once the diffrence becomes irrelevant progress stops, for example it's going to be a long long time before something unseats 128kbps mp3 as the standard.
.doc. Doc. is the standard but it sucks, at the moment I think people might consider going back to mpeg 2 which I think is not a valid tradeoff but who knows.
The question is parralel to whether something cool like rtf or swx format will be the long term universal standard or
The other reason this is important is the new HDDVD battle comming up, some people are trying to upgrade dvd decoding standard (I.E. What's in commercial dvd players) to Mpeg 4 and leave dvd sizes where they are other are trying to keep mpeg 2 but raise dvd size to 22 gigs to compensate. I think both solutions should be implemented but that's just a personal preference not a business decision.
I use Virtual Dub and you need to run the encoding program 2x which kinda sucks because you can't just leave it running all night you need to step in after 3hrs. I would like to use Gordian Knot but it's just too crappy the UI is terrible and the codec implementation leaves much to be desired.