I was thinking the same thing. I didn't know about this game and just checked it out because of this very item (I loved syndicate wars, pity it's just another fps). If I was a paranoid sort of guy I would almost think this is some sort of viral marketing technique. Grease a few palms to over rate our game, money well spent. But to be fair I don't know enough about the process to know how much it is open to this...
Would be interested if someone here knew more
I think the point was that a game should be able to contain the interest of the player without actually having to spend days or weeks in order to extract some enjoyment of the game, but people with more time could be rewarded for their efforts.
For example you would think all race type games would be like that but I always found the wipeout series of games pulling that trick off better than say the GT series. You could pick it up and have fun just bombing about and it would still be entertaining, but you also had the aspect of working through the times/laps if you wanted etc. I never thought that was completely true of GT, it just always seemed limited. Unfortunatley it is difficult to get the mix right, and some genres are simply not suited to it.
Being a Dad of 1 and 1/2, I dont get much time to play games anymore, though I did look at EVE online (being an old Elite fan, I just had to). It looked like a fantastic game, just not one I could play now with my time limitations. Unfortunately thats life, some genres and simply not open to me anymore, but there should be more thought put into people with limited time. I feel that game designers just expect us to spend more and more time immersed in their creations
Funny this article should come up today.. this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/492774 4.stm has been floated about (no pun intended) for a while now, I think it was cancelled before on cost grounds (15bn GBP is rather a lot).
I do find it a little frustrating that every time someone comes up with a way of reducing carbon emmisions, a "environmentalist" comes up with a reason why we shouldn't do it that way. For instance, "Nuclear" power stations, no I'm not a fan of them either but if you can come up with an alternative...please do...FAST.
Thats the point, we don't have a lot of time to come up with alternatives that everyone will be happy with. The environment is going to change no matter what, it just depends whether we have some control of the damage.
I actually think that wind turbines are rather beautiful. No, I wouldn't like one in my back garden, but if its lets me leave some sort of habitable planet for my son I'll help you dig the foundation for it.
Well that was my point to start with. The regualation of spam can only be a good thing. Yes, you will have illegal spam, but it will make it easier to prosecute. Some of the adverts nowadays increasingly try to make themselves look and feel like normal daytime tv shows to get your attention, yes it's not as blatent, but thats where the advertising watchdog comes in. I would hope the same thing would happen with spam.
You can delete spam before you read it and you have to consciously turn over when an advert comes on. Turning off the telly or switching over is very similar to clicking the delete button to delete spam, same thing, just different media.
What about telivision adverts? I would regard almost all of those as unwanted communication. There is of course the arguement that it costs money to download spam, but I pay monthly subscription for satellite so in effect I'm paying to watch unwanted adverts on telly too. The difference being is that most of the spam is vile and uncensored..the recent moves to regulate spam in my opinion are the only practical way to stop people being "turned off" (no pun intended) e-mail and the internet in general. The main difference is that telly's output is controlled through a single provider who can control what is seen or unseen..any one else got foil hat visions of the future?
Yes content is a very big part of the experience, but I would have thought that navigation paid an extremely important role too. Back and forward buttons are fine and but I can't see how they are unreplacable with something better. The best inventions are usually the ones where people say after "ahh, thats so simple anyone could have thought of that!". So why didn't they?
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Computer May Hang After a Surprise Removal of a Host Bus Controller
I had visions of dastardly Linux devotees saying "Aha! take that Gates!" on the poor wittle server..
I think I need to get a life....
Not really, the Z-report (I used to write the software for some of these tills) generated at the end of day will say how much has been sold to tally with the cash in the drawer. I've never heared of that as a reason by any of our customers. If the cashier wants to pocket the money he just types No-sale, which opens the drawer (even though this is a supervisor function 99.9% of tills can be opened by anyone, mainly due to apathy) and pockets the money.
I'm not sure that this could be considered "proof" as such. Nothing in the article says anything about how much actual heat they were exposed to. Not being a biologist I have no idea if these worms could survive such temperatures or if there was some other factor that they survived. Plus they were in a "mid-deck" of the shuttle so that could be another factor. I think that when people talk about life originating from other than the Earth (such as the some theories to do with Mars), they are thinking more along the lines of microbes, which would be more feasible.
As I said I'm not a biologist, but did they have a headache after the impact is what I want to know:)
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I was thinking the same thing. I didn't know about this game and just checked it out because of this very item (I loved syndicate wars, pity it's just another fps). If I was a paranoid sort of guy I would almost think this is some sort of viral marketing technique. Grease a few palms to over rate our game, money well spent. But to be fair I don't know enough about the process to know how much it is open to this... Would be interested if someone here knew more
I think the point was that a game should be able to contain the interest of the player without actually having to spend days or weeks in order to extract some enjoyment of the game, but people with more time could be rewarded for their efforts.
For example you would think all race type games would be like that but I always found the wipeout series of games pulling that trick off better than say the GT series. You could pick it up and have fun just bombing about and it would still be entertaining, but you also had the aspect of working through the times/laps if you wanted etc. I never thought that was completely true of GT, it just always seemed limited. Unfortunatley it is difficult to get the mix right, and some genres are simply not suited to it.
Being a Dad of 1 and 1/2, I dont get much time to play games anymore, though I did look at EVE online (being an old Elite fan, I just had to). It looked like a fantastic game, just not one I could play now with my time limitations. Unfortunately thats life, some genres and simply not open to me anymore, but there should be more thought put into people with limited time. I feel that game designers just expect us to spend more and more time immersed in their creations
Funny this article should come up today.. this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/492774 4.stm has been floated about (no pun intended) for a while now, I think it was cancelled before on cost grounds (15bn GBP is rather a lot).
I do find it a little frustrating that every time someone comes up with a way of reducing carbon emmisions, a "environmentalist" comes up with a reason why we shouldn't do it that way. For instance, "Nuclear" power stations, no I'm not a fan of them either but if you can come up with an alternative...please do...FAST.
Thats the point, we don't have a lot of time to come up with alternatives that everyone will be happy with. The environment is going to change no matter what, it just depends whether we have some control of the damage.
I actually think that wind turbines are rather beautiful. No, I wouldn't like one in my back garden, but if its lets me leave some sort of habitable planet for my son I'll help you dig the foundation for it.
Just not computer ready....sigh
or what about a thief scanning cars in a car park to see what is inside the boot? don't like that idea
Well that was my point to start with. The regualation of spam can only be a good thing. Yes, you will have illegal spam, but it will make it easier to prosecute. Some of the adverts nowadays increasingly try to make themselves look and feel like normal daytime tv shows to get your attention, yes it's not as blatent, but thats where the advertising watchdog comes in. I would hope the same thing would happen with spam.
You can delete spam before you read it and you have to consciously turn over when an advert comes on. Turning off the telly or switching over is very similar to clicking the delete button to delete spam, same thing, just different media.
What about telivision adverts? I would regard almost all of those as unwanted communication. There is of course the arguement that it costs money to download spam, but I pay monthly subscription for satellite so in effect I'm paying to watch unwanted adverts on telly too. The difference being is that most of the spam is vile and uncensored..the recent moves to regulate spam in my opinion are the only practical way to stop people being "turned off" (no pun intended) e-mail and the internet in general. The main difference is that telly's output is controlled through a single provider who can control what is seen or unseen..any one else got foil hat visions of the future?
Yes content is a very big part of the experience, but I would have thought that navigation paid an extremely important role too. Back and forward buttons are fine and but I can't see how they are unreplacable with something better. The best inventions are usually the ones where people say after "ahh, thats so simple anyone could have thought of that!". So why didn't they?
I liked: 327477 Computer May Hang After a Surprise Removal of a Host Bus Controller I had visions of dastardly Linux devotees saying "Aha! take that Gates!" on the poor wittle server.. I think I need to get a life....
hmmm I wonder if they keep Bombadil..he does do a lot of singing after all... ;)
Not really, the Z-report (I used to write the software for some of these tills) generated at the end of day will say how much has been sold to tally with the cash in the drawer. I've never heared of that as a reason by any of our customers. If the cashier wants to pocket the money he just types No-sale, which opens the drawer (even though this is a supervisor function 99.9% of tills can be opened by anyone, mainly due to apathy) and pockets the money.
replace yourself with a very small shell script?
I'm not sure that this could be considered "proof" as such. Nothing in the article says anything about how much actual heat they were exposed to. Not being a biologist I have no idea if these worms could survive such temperatures or if there was some other factor that they survived. Plus they were in a "mid-deck" of the shuttle so that could be another factor. I think that when people talk about life originating from other than the Earth (such as the some theories to do with Mars), they are thinking more along the lines of microbes, which would be more feasible. As I said I'm not a biologist, but did they have a headache after the impact is what I want to know :)