A... Reliability A machine that's likely to fail is worth less than nothing, B Hardware standardization software actually set up to work with your hardware and a community of people using the same hadware (Teh Awsome!), also while the hardware isn't super powerful it probably has a lot of the functionality we'd expect usb2.0 instead of 1, pci-E slots (Same price as AGP 1 slots but nicer, PXE for the network, wireless, NCQ just tonnes of tiny little features that actually make a computer useful nowadays.
1. Descent - 6 Degrees of freedom done right and one of the first games to push beyond earth normal physics arguably paving the way for other games to move outside reality.
2. Quake 1 the first fps that allowed for tactical gameplay akin to chess, your skills developed as you played and there was always something more to learn, birth of first game player as idol "Thresh".
Starcraft - Micromanagement and Resource spooging.
Civilization 2 (I just played all 4 it's the best one) - Showing how gaming can make you see the world in meta. Very important because it shows how gaming's active involvement can show you the methods in a system, the better you get the closer your creation approaches reality (hopefully).
5. Planescape Torment - Why? Very simply, get this get that quests are out and you are really curious about what will happen next unlike ff7 where you merely care about the characters, this suspense and good writing actually allows you to try and predict what will happen, most games penalize you for doing this by being poorly written but Torment's Twists just add to the experience.
Honourable mention: Star Roads - No twitchers on the list you say? Star roads is here because it likens to the days of pong and pac man yet it has aged FAR better than either game (or galaga) it brought in elements like time limits which have become a huge staple, might not be the first game but it's still tonnes of fun, also a great midi soundtrack (Which pushed it past Tetris).
Holy crap they must be joking. Their points are all rediculous and terrible and actually bring up even more of the problems with the PS3.
On the plus side they do discourage people from stupidly buying the 360 like they did.
Blu-Ray is a non starter $600 is absurd, I don't care about inflation, they could choose their feature set and try and keep the price down, instead they decided to leverage their interests and build their tech base and launch at a price that doesn't appeal to consumers.
2 Models, Just to confuse you? No... It's stupid it differentiates the biggest advantage of consoles...
X-Fire, Damn finally Sony does something right, Slashdot in shock.
Basically X-Fire is an alliance between IM software like icq and an amazing game browser like all seeing eye.
It tracks stats and gives other players links they just click on to join the server you're in (find out what song you're listening to etc.
Endorsed by Thresh (The gaming god) it's got a tiny memory footprint to save those precious fps.
It also provides sound so you can ghost (A Form of cheating where dead players tell their friends where other players are allowing them to effectively look through walls and see 2 perspectives at once... look for telltale prefraging when two players have the same clan tag, you'll see it a lot).
If Valve had used ASE for HL2 they would still have the biggest game in the world, too many companies are liscencing tech from Gamespy and their technology is utter garbage.
Theoretically the editors should try to get confirmation of the story from someone involved (Or someone involved's blog or something) that would be heaven.
Scouring the net for news is just sad, if you confirm the story it's common sense, if you dig deeper in order to confirm it's journalism, and if you put all your stories together to form a coherent picture it's good journalism.
Eventually we might get some of that on Slashdot but I won't hold my breath.
Xanga: i scraped knee today when goig to kindergarten. dreamt about pony. hope toof fairi gives me $$ so i can bye lickorish. dreamt of ponies lsat night!
Get range over 2km and you won't need any more standards, people will start sharing more and try and find some way to protect their data (piped data through a trusted intermediary? Hello big big big money!)
Why is it taking them so long to ratify this standard? Packets seem to go in one end and come out the other (Grin).
They have the G and B specs and those are quite good, I understand there are currently problems involving airwave sharing but if that is the only consideration why did we get the other three standards?
Also what happened to 802.11i?
Maybe I'm being paranoid but is it possible the standard is being delayed for something like Vista or Intels new chipset? Something to package into new machines to ensure people buy them?
Damn you microsoft I now have paranoia that you are negotiating the built in media service with someone like Amazon and are meanwhile negotiating the wireless standard with the isps in order to get users to pay for such and such a wireless service (First three months are free!) and your media box now buys music only from Amazon (Who needs the liscence from Plays for Sure in order to keep operating)... I don't want to have to double guess what sneaky crap microsoft execs have planned for the next windows generation.
I guess I feel nice that there's linux out there and that governments like the EU mean that it won't be a MS isp and an MS media store and an MS certified hardware vendor providing the only Vista enabled hardware.
Another interesting thing about the movie, it wasn't very good.
Firefly is a great premise and the acting is pretty hard to mess up but overall the movie wasn't gripping, was confusing and just wasn't that good and reviews reflected that.
Yet people went to see it, they're probably wondering what they could accomplish with a good movie based on that I.P. (Disclaimer been playing too much "The Movies").
I don't have a problem with sci-fi enthusiasts clinging to older sci-fi some of it was indeed brilliant but I think it's sad when I hear them avoiding new franchises out of love for the old ones.
I don't like people complaining when the universes differ, that's part of sci-fi.
Anyway Eureka and Battlestar Galactica will be back soon...
And for action sci-fiers there's Dark Angel which many Firefly enthusiasts in particular seem to feel is totally anaethema.
If I lived in the U.S. I would want to keep my head down and fear for my ability to be an activist, why? I smoke marijuana occasioanly, smoke, drink and pirate movies, music, and video games (Sometimes violent ones *gasp*)
Now I think that even in the country where I live there is far too much control over all these areas (Except perhaps cigarettes).
If I ever lobbied for rights in any of those areas I would be challenged because I have no children to "protect" and my opinions on children having the right to know more about their world would generate gasps.
Ah well I suppose producing more boring people is more important than supporting freedoms for excentric people.
Meanwhile this boring lifestyle has created more suicide, psychological problems, and trying to police these rules is likely one of the leading causes of divorce.
The free market has ways of fixing things like IE but you can keep waiting.
And before you mention firefox remember that it was likely support for apple and the mandate that government sites be firefox complient that made the biggest diffrence, there is no free market.
Never was never will be there is only monopoly, oligopoly and government controlled market.
+: No Malaria (Important if you live somewhere with malaria)
-: Malaria thing, not a big deal if you live somewhere else, and is probably a little weird (Less ability for blood to carry oxygen isn't it? Instant nerd [Not that there's anything wrong with that])
-: What if chicks with sickle cell are HAWT
Seriously Darwin was all about the fact that there were concrete advantages to traits within environments (Including societies) Unfortunately he's pretty far out of date more recently there is Charles Dawkins who suggests that even the indivdual creature isn't the unit but rather the individual gene.
Here's an example of a bad gene, it reproduces itself in more than 50% of offspring and that's what it works to do, reproduce itself in more offspring, now I'm all for my wife bearing a clone of me with none of her genetic material but to cheat the system where everyone else is working together to help the whole? Sounds like some messed up conservatism or something. Pure evil.
Comment spam, if you look at the sellers with 1000s of transactions who loook really sketchy check who gave them feedback you will find, Identical feedback and no sales and accounts created 20 seconds ago.
They'vee been creating, fake accounts and fake feedback. AND IT SUCKS.
If you're an honest seller how long is it going to take you to get 99% positive feedback.
For the bad ones, it's just one more fake account away...
Slashdot Mirror
Descent is also credited as the first true 3D polygon based game.
A... Reliability A machine that's likely to fail is worth less than nothing, B Hardware standardization software actually set up to work with your hardware and a community of people using the same hadware (Teh Awsome!), also while the hardware isn't super powerful it probably has a lot of the functionality we'd expect usb2.0 instead of 1, pci-E slots (Same price as AGP 1 slots but nicer, PXE for the network, wireless, NCQ just tonnes of tiny little features that actually make a computer useful nowadays.
1. Descent - 6 Degrees of freedom done right and one of the first games to push beyond earth normal physics arguably paving the way for other games to move outside reality.
2. Quake 1 the first fps that allowed for tactical gameplay akin to chess, your skills developed as you played and there was always something more to learn, birth of first game player as idol "Thresh".
Starcraft - Micromanagement and Resource spooging.
Civilization 2 (I just played all 4 it's the best one) - Showing how gaming can make you see the world in meta. Very important because it shows how gaming's active involvement can show you the methods in a system, the better you get the closer your creation approaches reality (hopefully).
5. Planescape Torment - Why? Very simply, get this get that quests are out and you are really curious about what will happen next unlike ff7 where you merely care about the characters, this suspense and good writing actually allows you to try and predict what will happen, most games penalize you for doing this by being poorly written but Torment's Twists just add to the experience.
Honourable mention: Star Roads - No twitchers on the list you say? Star roads is here because it likens to the days of pong and pac man yet it has aged FAR better than either game (or galaga) it brought in elements like time limits which have become a huge staple, might not be the first game but it's still tonnes of fun, also a great midi soundtrack (Which pushed it past Tetris).
Holy crap they must be joking. Their points are all rediculous and terrible and actually bring up even more of the problems with the PS3.
On the plus side they do discourage people from stupidly buying the 360 like they did.
Blu-Ray is a non starter $600 is absurd, I don't care about inflation, they could choose their feature set and try and keep the price down, instead they decided to leverage their interests and build their tech base and launch at a price that doesn't appeal to consumers.
2 Models, Just to confuse you? No... It's stupid it differentiates the biggest advantage of consoles...
First off DirectX 10 is vista only.
Second microsoft maintains a stranglehold on ATI and Nvidia by being in charge of the directX featureset.
Third directX programmers tend to use microsoft editors.
X-Fire, Damn finally Sony does something right, Slashdot in shock.
Basically X-Fire is an alliance between IM software like icq and an amazing game browser like all seeing eye.
It tracks stats and gives other players links they just click on to join the server you're in (find out what song you're listening to etc.
Endorsed by Thresh (The gaming god) it's got a tiny memory footprint to save those precious fps.
It also provides sound so you can ghost (A Form of cheating where dead players tell their friends where other players are allowing them to effectively look through walls and see 2 perspectives at once... look for telltale prefraging when two players have the same clan tag, you'll see it a lot).
If Valve had used ASE for HL2 they would still have the biggest game in the world, too many companies are liscencing tech from Gamespy and their technology is utter garbage.
Theoretically the editors should try to get confirmation of the story from someone involved (Or someone involved's blog or something) that would be heaven.
Scouring the net for news is just sad, if you confirm the story it's common sense, if you dig deeper in order to confirm it's journalism, and if you put all your stories together to form a coherent picture it's good journalism.
Eventually we might get some of that on Slashdot but I won't hold my breath.
Xanga: i scraped knee today when goig to kindergarten. dreamt about pony. hope toof fairi gives me $$ so i can bye lickorish. dreamt of ponies lsat night!
(Xanga Comment ): A/S/L?
I got a BSOD while reading these comments, no joke :P
Get range over 2km and you won't need any more standards, people will start sharing more and try and find some way to protect their data (piped data through a trusted intermediary? Hello big big big money!)
Anyway...
Why is it taking them so long to ratify this standard? Packets seem to go in one end and come out the other (Grin).
They have the G and B specs and those are quite good, I understand there are currently problems involving airwave sharing but if that is the only consideration why did we get the other three standards?
Also what happened to 802.11i?
Maybe I'm being paranoid but is it possible the standard is being delayed for something like Vista or Intels new chipset? Something to package into new machines to ensure people buy them?
Damn you microsoft I now have paranoia that you are negotiating the built in media service with someone like Amazon and are meanwhile negotiating the wireless standard with the isps in order to get users to pay for such and such a wireless service (First three months are free!) and your media box now buys music only from Amazon (Who needs the liscence from Plays for Sure in order to keep operating)... I don't want to have to double guess what sneaky crap microsoft execs have planned for the next windows generation.
I guess I feel nice that there's linux out there and that governments like the EU mean that it won't be a MS isp and an MS media store and an MS certified hardware vendor providing the only Vista enabled hardware.
More informative than everyone else, keep up the good work!
Mod parent.... more up?...
TICTICTICTICTICTICTIC "Doctor Forbin, there is another." TICTICTICTICTICTIC
Best movie EVAR!
Another interesting thing about the movie, it wasn't very good.
Firefly is a great premise and the acting is pretty hard to mess up but overall the movie wasn't gripping, was confusing and just wasn't that good and reviews reflected that.
Yet people went to see it, they're probably wondering what they could accomplish with a good movie based on that I.P. (Disclaimer been playing too much "The Movies").
I don't have a problem with sci-fi enthusiasts clinging to older sci-fi some of it was indeed brilliant but I think it's sad when I hear them avoiding new franchises out of love for the old ones.
I don't like people complaining when the universes differ, that's part of sci-fi.
Anyway Eureka and Battlestar Galactica will be back soon...
And for action sci-fiers there's Dark Angel which many Firefly enthusiasts in particular seem to feel is totally anaethema.
If I lived in the U.S. I would want to keep my head down and fear for my ability to be an activist, why? I smoke marijuana occasioanly, smoke, drink and pirate movies, music, and video games (Sometimes violent ones *gasp*)
Now I think that even in the country where I live there is far too much control over all these areas (Except perhaps cigarettes).
If I ever lobbied for rights in any of those areas I would be challenged because I have no children to "protect" and my opinions on children having the right to know more about their world would generate gasps.
Ah well I suppose producing more boring people is more important than supporting freedoms for excentric people.
Meanwhile this boring lifestyle has created more suicide, psychological problems, and trying to police these rules is likely one of the leading causes of divorce.
The free market has ways of fixing things like IE but you can keep waiting.
And before you mention firefox remember that it was likely support for apple and the mandate that government sites be firefox complient that made the biggest diffrence, there is no free market.
Never was never will be there is only monopoly, oligopoly and government controlled market.
Slashdot Meta Data, Slashdot needs data from us by doing the same thing...
Wasn't there something like this where they paid you a little while ago?
Games companies need to stop being so reasonable, I'm going to go broke!
Put up or shut up, primary time buddy.
Interestingly some people think that the current Golden Age (Meh?) of medicine is built upon the biopsies and human testing of the nazi's.
Behind every great pharmeseutical and all that.
Ah well... Only time will tell.
+: No Malaria (Important if you live somewhere with malaria) -: Malaria thing, not a big deal if you live somewhere else, and is probably a little weird (Less ability for blood to carry oxygen isn't it? Instant nerd [Not that there's anything wrong with that])
-: What if chicks with sickle cell are HAWT
Seriously Darwin was all about the fact that there were concrete advantages to traits within environments (Including societies) Unfortunately he's pretty far out of date more recently there is Charles Dawkins who suggests that even the indivdual creature isn't the unit but rather the individual gene.
Here's an example of a bad gene, it reproduces itself in more than 50% of offspring and that's what it works to do, reproduce itself in more offspring, now I'm all for my wife bearing a clone of me with none of her genetic material but to cheat the system where everyone else is working together to help the whole? Sounds like some messed up conservatism or something. Pure evil.
Is slow, I don't know why it sucks so much but it surely does, I'm tired of wondering what would happen if I smashed the glass out of my CRT.
I want my 2200 Lumen, 1:75, 1600x1200 projector DAMN IT.
P.S. LCDs are garbage...
P.P.S. STICK YOUR $1200 HD TV up your ASS!
P.P.P.S. Mod me Troll...
RTW...
/CIS Hat We're coming for you /CIS
Comment spam, if you look at the sellers with 1000s of transactions who loook really sketchy check who gave them feedback you will find, Identical feedback and no sales and accounts created 20 seconds ago.
They'vee been creating, fake accounts and fake feedback. AND IT SUCKS.
If you're an honest seller how long is it going to take you to get 99% positive feedback.
For the bad ones, it's just one more fake account away...