For me, the two defining moments in HL were being heard and then shot at while crawling throgh the air duct. And when crawling through a water pipe when a soldier opens the other end, sticks a bomb in there and shuts the pipe again. My jaw was on the floor after those two moments...
Actually, Beatmania was one of the precursors to DDR, although it was originally played with an oversized keyboard/turn table layout instead of with your feet.
This is a honest question, is there any reason to pirate games when there are almost always free demos available? There may be the odd case where what you can play in a demo is way better than the rest of the game, but this usually isn't the case. The demos almost always give a very real sense of what the rest of the game will be like.
And when you only sorta like the game you pirated, do you go out and buy it, or do you delete your pirate copy and never play again? Or maybe you like the game just enough to keep the illegal copy but never pay for the real thing?
As a fellow CS student at MTU, Joe Nievelt is not only one of our best undergrads, and not just one of the best in the region but one of the nation's best as well.
As for what was actually going on, I don't live in the dorms, and hadn't heard of this until after the news stories came out, so I didn't know about it. However, Tech is small, about 6,000 students total, maybe a quarter of that live on our small campus. I did live in our dorms my freshman year and the dorm lans were limited by the building you were in, so they're fairly small networks, I couldn't believe the RIAA would target this guy.
Since when has Microsoft beat out competitors by putting out a better product? Maybe with some of their hardware, but that's about it.
My point is, however Microsoft tunes their search engine to compete with Google, it won't matter in the end what the actual quality of it turns out to be. They'll market the product better than Google, and they'll get it in front of Average Joe Computer User better than Google by whatever means they can.
In some student's eyes it is forced, I agree. But on a global stage, America is one of very few countries where any student (k-12) can go to school for free.
We don't treat it like a privilege, but we should, that was my argument.
Some of the blame should be given to the teachers. Whether they are burned out HS teachers, or professors who see their ONE class/semester as a distraction from research. There are some bad teachers out there, but not all are.
In my academic experience, even the classes with an EXCELLENT teacher were greeted with at least 1/4 of the students who couldn't care less and often that ratio was much higher. People will rant and rave forever about the "education problem" in America, but until most students truly view education as a privilege (as many other nation's students do) instead of one life's early obstacles that is largely a nuisance, improvement won't go very far.
In addition to this, it's apparently pretty difficult to make a profit on k-12 textbooks, and the toughest committees for passing/buying a book are in Texas. To avoid differing versions, costly rewrites and so on, most publishers give their books to a few select committees in Texas (and California) for approval and only if they pass there do they go on to the rest of the country.
It's not as local a decision as you may think. Well, unless you live in Texas or California. But you don't have to take my word for it.
File sharing can't go on unchecked, because that WILL hinder the RIAA's ability to profit. In the end, the RIAA is still a business and has a right to make money.
So now anything that threatens the profitability of an existing corporation/organization is wrong?
Record companies exist because they profit off the distribution of music. If a new technology comes along that distributes music without the aid of the record companies (but also compensates artists who want a return for their work) they have no right to exist anymore, as they have ceased to serve a useful purpose. They sure as hell don't have a moral right to protect their existence by purchasing laws and undermining the will and right of fellow citizens.
If you had argued that musicians have a right to make money off their work, and hence P2P networks need oversight/repair/whatever, I would be more inclined to agree. The RIAA on the other hand has no right to fight a new technology that makes them obsolete using OUR government as THEIR weapon.
Speaking of economics, I wonder what happens when you take away the income of consumers in a consumer based economy and pump it into a country on the other side of the globe.
This shouldn't be terribly difficult to do. Existing consoles have been doing this since the 32X (or whatever was the first CD system) with way less RAM. Gaming PCs usually have way more RAM than game consoles, add in all that RAM that's just waiting to be used on your GFx card (if you're not doing anything 3D), and it doesn't seem like much of a problem.
Personally, I welcome the move, game installs are getting freakin' huge (they always seem to be though...) It'd be nice to keep their HD footprint down to save games/new skins/levels/etc..
Playing right from the CD might be a problem if you multi-task while you game, but then I gotta ask, how many hands do you have?
That could be it, but what I think it boils down to is taste or personality. For me, I found Python strange at first, but after just a short while, I found it natural to program in Python, it fits with my brain for some reason.
Not that it isn't fun to watch people scream at each other about which language they like better...
Speaking of McDonald's, after my freshman year of college (in CS), I didn't plan on getting an internship as everyone told me that no one hires freshmen. So, instead, I fell back on what I did the summer before college, I painted houses.
Long story short, I ended up painting the house of a product manager at a small company and was psuedo-interviewed while painting (I didn't know it at the time). A couple weeks later, I had a nice comfortable job inside writing VB code.
So, my solution, paint houses until things turn around.
Yea, how dare people talk about the things they enjoy! The nerve!
It's the same reason I never go see movies, people are ALWAYS talking about movies they saw. And apparently, millions and millions of people watch movies, that just makes me want to see movies less so I can feel better than them! God, what mindless sheep they are!
Huh? What's there to get? Duke Nukem Forever was/is/will/never to be published by Take Two, the same publishers (though not developers) as GTA.
Of course, my genius comes from the simple fact that I read the article....
I too occasionally catch myself watching NASCAR and enjoy them talking about a lot of the mechanics behind the racecars, or the pit strategies that some of the crews are using. Surprisingly little about it actually has to do with driver technique, unless again, that's part of an overall plan (do we drive the top of the track where it's faster or the bottom where we'll conserve more fuel).
The knocking of NASCAR by Slashdot readers was really surprising. You'd figure a sport in which so much mechanical and technical skill is needed to win would be popular here. It's all about who has the machine that's in the best shape, with just the right tweaks for the conditions of the day. But I guess that type of thing is only cool around here if it involves a Linux box, or radio controlled robots bumping into each other instead of cars going 200mph.
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Whhhyyyy doooo weeee hunnnnnggggeeeerrrr?
Neil Manke is probably the only map designer I can name off the top of my head.
For me, the two defining moments in HL were being heard and then shot at while crawling throgh the air duct. And when crawling through a water pipe when a soldier opens the other end, sticks a bomb in there and shuts the pipe again. My jaw was on the floor after those two moments...
I thought it was a Sierra decision not a Valve one to can the Mac version?
Actually, Beatmania was one of the precursors to DDR, although it was originally played with an oversized keyboard/turn table layout instead of with your feet.
HERE is the psx controller for Beatmania.
Heh, don't get me wrong, while I was kinda sorta making a point I was also just curious. So thanks for replying.
This is a honest question, is there any reason to pirate games when there are almost always free demos available? There may be the odd case where what you can play in a demo is way better than the rest of the game, but this usually isn't the case. The demos almost always give a very real sense of what the rest of the game will be like.
And when you only sorta like the game you pirated, do you go out and buy it, or do you delete your pirate copy and never play again? Or maybe you like the game just enough to keep the illegal copy but never pay for the real thing?
As a fellow CS student at MTU, Joe Nievelt is not only one of our best undergrads, and not just one of the best in the region but one of the nation's best as well.
As for what was actually going on, I don't live in the dorms, and hadn't heard of this until after the news stories came out, so I didn't know about it. However, Tech is small, about 6,000 students total, maybe a quarter of that live on our small campus. I did live in our dorms my freshman year and the dorm lans were limited by the building you were in, so they're fairly small networks, I couldn't believe the RIAA would target this guy.
Since when has Microsoft beat out competitors by putting out a better product? Maybe with some of their hardware, but that's about it.
My point is, however Microsoft tunes their search engine to compete with Google, it won't matter in the end what the actual quality of it turns out to be. They'll market the product better than Google, and they'll get it in front of Average Joe Computer User better than Google by whatever means they can.
In some student's eyes it is forced, I agree. But on a global stage, America is one of very few countries where any student (k-12) can go to school for free.
We don't treat it like a privilege, but we should, that was my argument.
Some of the blame should be given to the teachers. Whether they are burned out HS teachers, or professors who see their ONE class/semester as a distraction from research. There are some bad teachers out there, but not all are.
In my academic experience, even the classes with an EXCELLENT teacher were greeted with at least 1/4 of the students who couldn't care less and often that ratio was much higher. People will rant and rave forever about the "education problem" in America, but until most students truly view education as a privilege (as many other nation's students do) instead of one life's early obstacles that is largely a nuisance, improvement won't go very far.
In addition to this, it's apparently pretty difficult to make a profit on k-12 textbooks, and the toughest committees for passing/buying a book are in Texas. To avoid differing versions, costly rewrites and so on, most publishers give their books to a few select committees in Texas (and California) for approval and only if they pass there do they go on to the rest of the country.
It's not as local a decision as you may think. Well, unless you live in Texas or California. But you don't have to take my word for it.
Record companies exist because they profit off the distribution of music. If a new technology comes along that distributes music without the aid of the record companies (but also compensates artists who want a return for their work) they have no right to exist anymore, as they have ceased to serve a useful purpose. They sure as hell don't have a moral right to protect their existence by purchasing laws and undermining the will and right of fellow citizens.
If you had argued that musicians have a right to make money off their work, and hence P2P networks need oversight/repair/whatever, I would be more inclined to agree. The RIAA on the other hand has no right to fight a new technology that makes them obsolete using OUR government as THEIR weapon.
Settle down man, the post was a joke, and was (probably) in reference to a Simpson's quote
Nelson: "Shoplifting is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark."
Speaking of economics, I wonder what happens when you take away the income of consumers in a consumer based economy and pump it into a country on the other side of the globe.
(Me without thinking much)...
This shouldn't be terribly difficult to do. Existing consoles have been doing this since the 32X (or whatever was the first CD system) with way less RAM. Gaming PCs usually have way more RAM than game consoles, add in all that RAM that's just waiting to be used on your GFx card (if you're not doing anything 3D), and it doesn't seem like much of a problem.
Personally, I welcome the move, game installs are getting freakin' huge (they always seem to be though...) It'd be nice to keep their HD footprint down to save games/new skins/levels/etc..
Playing right from the CD might be a problem if you multi-task while you game, but then I gotta ask, how many hands do you have?
Not that it isn't fun to watch people scream at each other about which language they like better...
Yea, it's weird if you're used to another language. But if you're used to indenting your code, there really isn't much of a leap from other languages.
Speaking of McDonald's, after my freshman year of college (in CS), I didn't plan on getting an internship as everyone told me that no one hires freshmen. So, instead, I fell back on what I did the summer before college, I painted houses.
Long story short, I ended up painting the house of a product manager at a small company and was psuedo-interviewed while painting (I didn't know it at the time). A couple weeks later, I had a nice comfortable job inside writing VB code.
So, my solution, paint houses until things turn around.
I don't think you're supposed to read the articles actually. I think I broke a rule or something.
Yet, posting on Slashdot outweighs that whole "sex-with-the-wife" thing.
Or is that just on Saturday afternoons?
Zing!
Yea, how dare people talk about the things they enjoy! The nerve!
It's the same reason I never go see movies, people are ALWAYS talking about movies they saw. And apparently, millions and millions of people watch movies, that just makes me want to see movies less so I can feel better than them! God, what mindless sheep they are!
Huh? What's there to get? Duke Nukem Forever was/is/will/never to be published by Take Two, the same publishers (though not developers) as GTA. Of course, my genius comes from the simple fact that I read the article....
Perhaps Manhunt is the long awaited sequel to Hunt the Wumpus?
I too occasionally catch myself watching NASCAR and enjoy them talking about a lot of the mechanics behind the racecars, or the pit strategies that some of the crews are using. Surprisingly little about it actually has to do with driver technique, unless again, that's part of an overall plan (do we drive the top of the track where it's faster or the bottom where we'll conserve more fuel).
The knocking of NASCAR by Slashdot readers was really surprising. You'd figure a sport in which so much mechanical and technical skill is needed to win would be popular here. It's all about who has the machine that's in the best shape, with just the right tweaks for the conditions of the day. But I guess that type of thing is only cool around here if it involves a Linux box, or radio controlled robots bumping into each other instead of cars going 200mph.
Feh.