It would be a lot more fun if you could set up your PvP group like a real life battle, keeping your archers, healers, mages, etc protected behind a line of grunts.
Ahem,AFAIK, mages didn't prove very successful in actual battle in real life. That's why we see so few of them in battle nowadays...
I can still enjoy a rip-off if it's a good rip-off;)
It's not difficult to make a good rip-off from a great original. It's just a little sad. Castle in the sky offered a great story, fantastic animation and really good characters. The Disney rip-off was... well... okay, I guess.
I haven't seen nudity on TV in Japan. It seems to be very strict about this, like the US. This said, in European countries like Italy, Spain, France and Germany you can see naked women in shower-gel ads in the afternoon (or, of course, in uncensored movies). I guess that's why nobody there understood the fuss about "Nipplegate".
I know a lot of people who just didn't get the movie. Just look up in the web and you will find people writing about"a disgusting glorification of violence" and things like that. Are they blind? The soldiers even wear SS-like uniforms...
I read the book after I watched the film. As I remember, it's not a satire but a pretty serious story. Kind of anti-war with many new ideas.
My parent is right. There is no danger from Mac OS X. Both can benefit from each other, as the Apple Macintosh has benefited a lot from the UNIX-likeness of its OS X. Back in the times og Mac OS 7-9, there were very few ports of programs like Apache or things like that (and usually years behind other releases). I understand that these ports were very difficult to do. Now porting is much easier, and we get a lot more apps.
So in the (bright) future, some of us will use Macs with Intel-proccessors, some will use Linux-boxes. I'm pretty sure Apple-computers will still be more expensive than PCs. And if you want something special (like systems with many processors or the latest hardware), you can run Linux on other processors or hardware. Or if you want a huge choice of user interfaces. So there are still plenty of reasons to use Linux. But maybe a few programs for OS X will be ported to Linux, maybe Photoshop, Illustrator or whatever, as porting in both directions should be easier.
Of course, some people might still use that other OS from Redmond.
Aliens 2 and Starship Troopers both are excellent action movies. But Starship Troopers is also a very good satire on totalitarian regimes. I know, it's a satire 70% of all people don't seem to get.
I'm nor convinced, people even want a strong AI.
I for one like shooting hordes of relatively stupid enemies. I love Resident Evil 4 (finished it yesterday), but the enemies are not exactly clever (and no, that's not because they're zombies. They're not).
The challenge comes mostly from their number and some clever locations they're sitting or waiting.
IMHO, a clever combination of scripts and behaviour patterns should be enough to provide a reasonable challenge. If people want good (A)I, they can play online.
My guess is that Nintendo wouldn't do it if it came at a loss, so they'll probably end up making some money, but not the 3 million the author talks about. Besides, three million is not a very insignificant figure if you look at their profits for one quarter.
I think much more people would run old games on their consoles it they came as a really easy download. They could show some trailers or screenshots or make a "classice game of the week" with a playable demo. This way, many more than just a few geeks remembering their childhood days people would try out these games. And I think a few servers are much cheaper than packaging games and using retail stores.
If inconsequential details like what CPU is sitting at the heart of Apple's proprietary design causes you emotional distress you really need to reconsider your life.
This is Slashdot, man. If we had a "life" to reconsider, we wouldn't be here.
did they use a pc to show how much better their graphics are than pc's? probably.
In case of the XBox 360, they used Macs. Which should be kind of embarassing for Microsoft...
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What? Are you serious?
Yes, he is serious. One of the main selling points of the Nintendo Revolution will be its ability to download and play games from many older Nintendo consoles.
I think this is a clever move, as this might make the console more interesting for an older / more hard core audience (i.e.: people like many slashdotters).
It won't be a Mac mini lookalike... ...until the mouse has only one button.
You're wrong. It won't be a Mac mini lookalike until there is no mouse included.
(Which I think is a good idea, as I prefer to use a cheap Logitech optical 3-button wheelmouse on my Mac)
Or, sneak up behind a jackal sniper placed obviously in your path and bash him to death, and have it work the first time you play through, but the second time, he hears you, spins around, and one-hit-kills you.
So how did that happen? Has the ghost of the killed sniper told all other snipers: "Beware! Better listen and turn around if you hear someone approaching or you might share my terrible fate!". Or is there only one sniper that gets resurrected every time you meet him?
This is the game learning, not the NPCs...
I didn't see any evidence that the XBOX 360 OS is based on Windows 2000.
My guess is that it's based on Darwin, or Darwin's BSD core which should be free to use.
IMO, that explains how XBOX game-demos can run on Power Mac G5 computers (as seen on AnandTech).
MS has "borrowed" code from BSD before (for Win 2000, if I remember correctly).
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It would be a lot more fun if you could set up your PvP group like a real life battle, keeping your archers, healers, mages, etc protected behind a line of grunts.
Ahem,AFAIK, mages didn't prove very successful in actual battle in real life. That's why we see so few of them in battle nowadays...
I can still enjoy a rip-off if it's a good rip-off
It's not difficult to make a good rip-off from a great original.
It's just a little sad.
Castle in the sky offered a great story, fantastic animation and really good characters.
The Disney rip-off was... well... okay, I guess.
I haven't seen nudity on TV in Japan. It seems to be very strict about this, like the US.
This said, in European countries like Italy, Spain, France and Germany you can see naked women in shower-gel ads in the afternoon (or, of course, in uncensored movies). I guess that's why nobody there understood the fuss about "Nipplegate".
I don't even see why it would have to be shady. What's so shady about porn?
Shhh! Not so loud...
breaking into its most secure computers at the Pentagon and Nasa.
Their most secure computers should be those that are not connected to any network.
No people do get it.
I know a lot of people who just didn't get the movie.
Just look up in the web and you will find people writing about"a disgusting glorification of violence" and things like that.
Are they blind? The soldiers even wear SS-like uniforms...
I read the book after I watched the film. As I remember, it's not a satire but a pretty serious story. Kind of anti-war with many new ideas.
My parent is right. There is no danger from Mac OS X.
Both can benefit from each other, as the Apple Macintosh has benefited a lot from the UNIX-likeness of its OS X. Back in the times og Mac OS 7-9, there were very few ports of programs like Apache or things like that (and usually years behind other releases). I understand that these ports were very difficult to do. Now porting is much easier, and we get a lot more apps.
So in the (bright) future, some of us will use Macs with Intel-proccessors, some will use Linux-boxes.
I'm pretty sure Apple-computers will still be more expensive than PCs. And if you want something special (like systems with many processors or the latest hardware), you can run Linux on other processors or hardware. Or if you want a huge choice of user interfaces.
So there are still plenty of reasons to use Linux.
But maybe a few programs for OS X will be ported to Linux, maybe Photoshop, Illustrator or whatever, as porting in both directions should be easier.
Of course, some people might still use that other OS from Redmond.
rent Aliens 2 and Starship Troopers.
Aliens 2 and Starship Troopers both are excellent action movies. But Starship Troopers is also a very good satire on totalitarian regimes.
I know, it's a satire 70% of all people don't seem to get.
GNu is Unix
That would be GIU.
OSX is unix. Linux is unix. Therefore Unix wins and Windows loses. In the end that is all that matters.
But GNU's Not Unix.
I'm nor convinced, people even want a strong AI.
I for one like shooting hordes of relatively stupid enemies. I love Resident Evil 4 (finished it yesterday), but the enemies are not exactly clever (and no, that's not because they're zombies. They're not).
The challenge comes mostly from their number and some clever locations they're sitting or waiting.
IMHO, a clever combination of scripts and behaviour patterns should be enough to provide a reasonable challenge.
If people want good (A)I, they can play online.
My guess is that Nintendo wouldn't do it if it came at a loss, so they'll probably end up making some money, but not the 3 million the author talks about. Besides, three million is not a very insignificant figure if you look at their profits for one quarter.
I think much more people would run old games on their consoles it they came as a really easy download.
They could show some trailers or screenshots or make a "classice game of the week" with a playable demo.
This way, many more than just a few geeks remembering their childhood days people would try out these games. And I think a few servers are much cheaper than packaging games and using retail stores.
If inconsequential details like what CPU is sitting at the heart of Apple's proprietary design causes you emotional distress you really need to reconsider your life.
This is Slashdot, man. If we had a "life" to reconsider, we wouldn't be here.
Ah, well that explains the recent tech rumor flurry then; the WSJ had simply been transported back in time to 1996, when Apple was dying
Did I hear "beleaguered"?
Ah, the old times...
did they use a pc to show how much better their graphics are than pc's? probably.
In case of the XBox 360, they used Macs. Which should be kind of embarassing for Microsoft...
What? Are you serious?
Yes, he is serious. One of the main selling points of the Nintendo Revolution will be its ability to download and play games from many older Nintendo consoles.
I think this is a clever move, as this might make the console more interesting for an older / more hard core audience (i.e.: people like many slashdotters).
It won't be a Mac mini lookalike...
...until the mouse has only one button.
You're wrong.
It won't be a Mac mini lookalike until there is no mouse included.
(Which I think is a good idea, as I prefer to use a cheap Logitech optical 3-button wheelmouse on my Mac)
Or, sneak up behind a jackal sniper placed obviously in your path and bash him to death, and have it work the first time you play through, but the second time, he hears you, spins around, and one-hit-kills you.
So how did that happen? Has the ghost of the killed sniper told all other snipers: "Beware! Better listen and turn around if you hear someone approaching or you might share my terrible fate!".
Or is there only one sniper that gets resurrected every time you meet him?
This is the game learning, not the NPCs...
Most /. users would say something a little different to Microsoft: "**** ***!" (I switched to Linux/Mac).
I think he wanted something like the Japanese horror movie "The RIng" (aka Ringu), or its (IMO lame) American (or is it Canadian?) remake.
Ghost and Niobe are good but not *lead character* good.
I guess somebody called ghost is dead too. Or at least undead.
There is a difference between "extinct" and "very rare".
But what an exciting headline that would make: "Very rare herb found in California."
Wow.
What exactly makes this comment a troll?
I didn't see any evidence that the XBOX 360 OS is based on Windows 2000.
My guess is that it's based on Darwin, or Darwin's BSD core which should be free to use.
IMO, that explains how XBOX game-demos can run on Power Mac G5 computers (as seen on AnandTech).
MS has "borrowed" code from BSD before (for Win 2000, if I remember correctly).
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