Not a joke. My next door neighbor is a housing contractor. His house has been in the middle of a remodel for what seems like eight years now. In that time, he spent a year completing a large addition on our house.
GATTACA is a movie, not real life. It is worth thinking about, sure, but it should not be taken as a gospel prediction of what must happen if certain actions are taken.
It depends on the game. If I am playing Burnout Paradise, racing my car through the streets of a modern city, having billboards that advertise real products makes the game *more* immersive, not less.
Yeah, putting an ad in a fantasy or SF game is stupid, but if the game is something set in the modern world then it makes perfect sense to put ads in the game in places where the modern world has ads.
She will then dutifully go to Gamestop and ask for "AssRaper 2", the box of which will feature a masked man with a butcher's smock and a bloody chainsaw and will feature the add text "More Carnage than AssRaper!" and "With Decapitation Physics!" The warning label will have a large 'M' and will say "Rated for Mature audiences only because of massive death counts, realistic exploding bodies and scenes of torture". She will buy it, give it to her ten year old for Christmas.
Around March, she will walk in on her kid when he has reached a scene where a female NPC shows up topless. She will then promptly have a complete cow and write her congressman demanding that children be protected from this vile content.
They have the right to refuse service to anyone, therefore they have the right to say you can't buy anything if you don't voluntarily submit to search.
Your recourse is, of course, to not shop there. But they aren't abridging your rights because you are not required to shop there and thus any search is voluntary.
A boycott wasn't needed. If you fire your best people, your service will go to shit and your customers will get annoyed and go elsewhere. *That* was likely the killing blow, not any overt boycott.
Yeah, I agree...I only recently played it and am feeling very let down. The hype had me really excited and while it wasn't a bad game by any means...I'll almost certainly finish it...it was hardly the stunning advance that people had been calling it.
The game has a very "kitchen sink" feel, with the "hacking" and the "plasmids" and all the other mechanics piled on top of an average shooter with stunning visual design. The hacking, for instance, just gets tedious after the 50th time. The plot itself (other than the overall theme) is not all that great...too much of "I'll meet you just over hear" repeated for ten hours. The splicers' commentary was amusing at first, tedious after the 800th time you hear "I'm not a bad person".
I mean...it's no worse than the average game, perhaps even a little better, but it's not a stunning advance by any means.
The thing about having bootable USB keys is that it makes it much easier for you to appear not to have anything to hide. "Sure, officer, look all you want!" you say, while they scope out your laptop, ignoring your keychain with its ubiquitous USB key.
Having an encrypted laptop harddrive just risks a "Sir, if you don't decrypt this for us, we'll have to take it into our lab. You'll get it back in a month".
An even better way is to get a machine that will boot off of a USB key, and put all the "interesting" pictures on such a key, perhaps encrypted. It is a lot easier to hide a USB key, and this gives you a computer that is itself completely clean so you don't have to deal with demands for encryption keys.
Going all out is not "interval training", but this is exactly what making the game speed match the wattage will encourage. Instead, the player will likely ramp up until near collapse, and then stop entirely.
Interval training requires you ramp bake the effort periodically. If the game encourages that sort of thing, then by all means, that's great.
The only thing is that you definitely *don't* want to be going all out during cario exercise. You want to be keeping at the right heart rate. Better would be a game that went fastest when you are closest to the target heart rate for your age.
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I see Slashdot is showing its attention to journalistic accuracy. I've actually *played* Expresso bike thing and you don't "gun down" dragons with "handle-bar mounted triggers".
The buttons are the handle-bars are for shifting gears. The basic gameplay is that you run over coins of various colors and then have to go run into dragons of the matching color. (With various point values.) It's a pretty lame game, but it is mildly distracting.
I suspect that most people will stick to the basic "ride around a track with a pace rider" bit, which is decent enough.
The biggest problem is that even if you play at a machine in the gym, you still have to shell out $9.95/month to unlock a lot of the tracks. That's a pretty hefty price for a bike-racing game.
Note that placebos have been shown to have significant effects on non-faked problems. There are cases where a person will actually improve when given a fake drug and told it is real when they would not if they were told to "stop faking".
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Yeah, I worked at a business founded by a married couple and they divorced shortly after I left.
Not a joke. My next door neighbor is a housing contractor. His house has been in the middle of a remodel for what seems like eight years now. In that time, he spent a year completing a large addition on our house.
GATTACA is a movie, not real life. It is worth thinking about, sure, but it should not be taken as a gospel prediction of what must happen if certain actions are taken.
Yes, RPG gaming on the PS3 has truly faced Oblivion. What will the Fallout of this be for RPG fans!?
Yes, sadly.
Huh. This old timer knows how to use sprintf(buffer,"%0.05d-%0.04d",zip/1000,zip%1000);
Sadly, having interviewed people straight out of top 5 university CS programs, the answer might be "what a hash table is".
It depends on the game. If I am playing Burnout Paradise, racing my car through the streets of a modern city, having billboards that advertise real products makes the game *more* immersive, not less.
Yeah, putting an ad in a fantasy or SF game is stupid, but if the game is something set in the modern world then it makes perfect sense to put ads in the game in places where the modern world has ads.
Unless you went out of your way to "submit your score", you would not have been counted as a "pirate" by the World of Goo devs.
"Mommy, I want 'AssRaper 2'!"
She will then dutifully go to Gamestop and ask for "AssRaper 2", the box of which will feature a masked man with a butcher's smock and a bloody chainsaw and will feature the add text "More Carnage than AssRaper!" and "With Decapitation Physics!" The warning label will have a large 'M' and will say "Rated for Mature audiences only because of massive death counts, realistic exploding bodies and scenes of torture". She will buy it, give it to her ten year old for Christmas.
Around March, she will walk in on her kid when he has reached a scene where a female NPC shows up topless. She will then promptly have a complete cow and write her congressman demanding that children be protected from this vile content.
They have the right to refuse service to anyone, therefore they have the right to say you can't buy anything if you don't voluntarily submit to search.
Your recourse is, of course, to not shop there. But they aren't abridging your rights because you are not required to shop there and thus any search is voluntary.
A boycott wasn't needed. If you fire your best people, your service will go to shit and your customers will get annoyed and go elsewhere. *That* was likely the killing blow, not any overt boycott.
Yeah, I agree...I only recently played it and am feeling very let down. The hype had me really excited and while it wasn't a bad game by any means...I'll almost certainly finish it...it was hardly the stunning advance that people had been calling it.
The game has a very "kitchen sink" feel, with the "hacking" and the "plasmids" and all the other mechanics piled on top of an average shooter with stunning visual design. The hacking, for instance, just gets tedious after the 50th time. The plot itself (other than the overall theme) is not all that great...too much of "I'll meet you just over hear" repeated for ten hours. The splicers' commentary was amusing at first, tedious after the 800th time you hear "I'm not a bad person".
I mean...it's no worse than the average game, perhaps even a little better, but it's not a stunning advance by any means.
Clearly you would want the swap partition on your removable USB key. (Or you'd want to disable it entirely.)
Or just disable swap. (Or put it on a RAM drive.)
The thing about having bootable USB keys is that it makes it much easier for you to appear not to have anything to hide. "Sure, officer, look all you want!" you say, while they scope out your laptop, ignoring your keychain with its ubiquitous USB key.
Having an encrypted laptop harddrive just risks a "Sir, if you don't decrypt this for us, we'll have to take it into our lab. You'll get it back in a month".
An even better way is to get a machine that will boot off of a USB key, and put all the "interesting" pictures on such a key, perhaps encrypted. It is a lot easier to hide a USB key, and this gives you a computer that is itself completely clean so you don't have to deal with demands for encryption keys.
Going all out is not "interval training", but this is exactly what making the game speed match the wattage will encourage. Instead, the player will likely ramp up until near collapse, and then stop entirely.
Interval training requires you ramp bake the effort periodically. If the game encourages that sort of thing, then by all means, that's great.
The bigger annoyance is not saving the ghost data for every track.
The only thing is that you definitely *don't* want to be going all out during cario exercise. You want to be keeping at the right heart rate. Better would be a game that went fastest when you are closest to the target heart rate for your age.
I see Slashdot is showing its attention to journalistic accuracy. I've actually *played* Expresso bike thing and you don't "gun down" dragons with "handle-bar mounted triggers".
The buttons are the handle-bars are for shifting gears. The basic gameplay is that you run over coins of various colors and then have to go run into dragons of the matching color. (With various point values.) It's a pretty lame game, but it is mildly distracting.
I suspect that most people will stick to the basic "ride around a track with a pace rider" bit, which is decent enough.
The biggest problem is that even if you play at a machine in the gym, you still have to shell out $9.95/month to unlock a lot of the tracks. That's a pretty hefty price for a bike-racing game.
And the other 10% are chinese gold farmers.
If he ends up going to prison, the real dirty trick would be to *block* his expulsion, as he wouldn't be able to be present to vote on any issues.
Note that placebos have been shown to have significant effects on non-faked problems. There are cases where a person will actually improve when given a fake drug and told it is real when they would not if they were told to "stop faking".
The only trouble with that theory: the mechanical alarm clock is a lot older than the forty hour work week.