Whereas instead of very cold, 0 degrees Celcius is the coldness that causes water to freeze. And instead of very hot, 100 degrees Celcius is the temperature at which water boils.
God forbid we change from pretty cool inaccurate comparisons to accurate chemistry based ones.
Perfect realism is silly, unless you're making a simulator of course. That's why abstractions exist. Removing choices however does not make games better, it often just makes them seem dull by the end.
Personally, those moments of "do I give up this or that" are part of the fun of the game. Knowing you might be making the best decision, or that you might be making the next level difficult for yourself.
For the record, I run Blackbox in VNC server sessions on headless machines when I want access to remote GUI tools the fast way (tightvnc is faster than running a remote Gtk+ application).
As funny as that was, it annoys me when games allow you to carry phenomenal amounts of weight without considering the awesome difficulty of having 14 different massive hammers over your shoulder at once.
I think we just found the poster of disagree mail #2.
There's a time and place for grammar naziism, but the title of anything is neither. Its called poetic license, and most writers use it with subjects, titles and headlines as a way of putting a trademark on an otherwise boring statement.
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It could be argued that Bash has more language features than many programming languages.
Bash is a huge and very powerful system for both shell work and programming work. The programmable tab-completion being one of my favourites, spell checking is fun too, although I still prefer tcsh's syntax.
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That just shows ignorance of how much power exists within bash without using sed or awk. It also shows a lack of understanding of how powerful each sed and awk are as individual programs (or language, in awk's case).
You can write some substantial software in awk, and in bash, or in a combination of both, or using sed.
Of course, mentioning 'make' in a book on C programming makes sense, but not realizing how powerful make is is probably a result of how people associate it with programming only.
(example: I have a Makefile in/etc/samba to build my smb.conf from an smb-master.conf file after checking it for errors and stripping out comments)
I remember a PS2 work-out program that was quite popular with some of my wife's friends, not to mention Dance Dance Revolution and how many mats Konami sold before the Wii introduced the balance board.
Many of these things are not new -- just don't tell that to the Wii fanatics:)
Good luck with that. If you're right, you'll never know. If you're wrong, you may also never know.
Did the Pharoah know when 'God hardened his heart'? (the last five plagues, not the first five).
At any rate, I don't have to prove there's a God just because I believe there is. I don't have to prove my car is made out of metal or my driveway is concrete or that electricity would burn me either. But I'm quite satisfied with my belief in God. Enjoy your disbelief.
My comments about proof have nothing to do with science, and I didn't claim they did in the original post -- simply the rationality of believing something at all.
But speaking of proofs, you can prove the world round by logic, even if its not a scientific concept. Not everything in the world revolves around science. Math, logic, and reasoning help too.
As humerous as that was intended to be, the Bible is a very fascinating book in that it is much more accurately reproduced over a very long period of time than most historians would expect for such a large piece of literature.
Of course, this applies to original languages -- anyone who studies the English bibles and compares them is stupid -- the Bible wasn't written in English.
That doesn't make creationism true, but it makes believing in it defensible (and if you don't think so, you're too wrapped up in your own worldview to realize most people don't need their day to day beliefs to be rationalized and provable).
We've seen the resulting universe from what may have been a big bang, or a sudden creation, or a complete non-event, but we have no proof of any of them.
I have to say, I'm impressed with the number of companies making demos for this generation of consoles. There are demos available for a very large number of both PS3 and 360 games, and playing these has helped me figure out which games to buy or not.
In some cases, I don't need a demo. Anything by Naughty Dog or Insomniac I'll buy on day 1, no reason to ask questions. The same goes for Criterion games.
I was interested in playing the Darkness for example, but I found it very slow and a little dull. Clive Barker's Jericho looked interesting too but the tight spaces in the game really restricted the use of the characters, and the resolution was obviously very low so that put me off.
Just because you didn't doesn't mean others don't. I have several games I managed to get my hands on to try (especially PC games, where I don't know if my PC is powerful enough up front to play it) and ended up paying for a copy because I enjoyed it so much.
Morrowind would be one example that comes immediately to mind.
I'm still confused about how this made Slashdot at all. Who here doesn't know they could lose data in a power failure? Okay, hopefully those with their hands up don't run data centers.
Moving along, UPSs are cheap, especially for home usage. You can buy a decent UPS with excellent surge protection for a home PC for under $100.
You get access to all 256MB of RAM on the board. What did you want, access to the 256MB of video RAM too? That's part of the "restricted 3D video card" access unfortunately.
There have been good developments around 2D and 3D acceleration (including a Mesa implementation) on PS3/Linux.
There's no VM -- I'm not sure what you think you're on about. Maybe you should look at the IBM SDK documentation or the kernel development logs from the patches submitted to make things work on it.
Yes, there's hardware restrictions in place, but you're running right on the hardware as far as the CPU's concerned. You get access to USB and the hard drive through kernel level drivers to the hardware through Sony's hypervisor, yes, and your video access is somewhat limited although despite Sony's not providing one, some people have had success with an accelerated 2D driver on the RSX.
I hate child pornography too -- so long as its defined well and involves children, not pubescent well endowed 16 yr olds posing semi-nude for their friends on their webcam.
Unfortunately, these agreements and laws don't differentiate between "that's disgusting and horrible" and "wow, she's dumb".
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Whereas instead of very cold, 0 degrees Celcius is the coldness that causes water to freeze. And instead of very hot, 100 degrees Celcius is the temperature at which water boils.
God forbid we change from pretty cool inaccurate comparisons to accurate chemistry based ones.
The comment I made wasn't about realism within our frame of reference, but realism within that of the game.
If you came across an enemy with 14 hammers like your own and ten sets of armour and fifty potions, you'd be pissed off.
The character you play in a game should be realistic to the context of the game in question or else you lose the suspension of disbelief.
Perfect realism is silly, unless you're making a simulator of course. That's why abstractions exist. Removing choices however does not make games better, it often just makes them seem dull by the end.
Personally, those moments of "do I give up this or that" are part of the fun of the game. Knowing you might be making the best decision, or that you might be making the next level difficult for yourself.
Using an environment with a visible root window and running screensavers on the root window is even more fun for a demo.
Enlightenment has some cool ones too, like having your desktop ripple at the bottom.
So you like Blackbox too? Good stuff :-)
For the record, I run Blackbox in VNC server sessions on headless machines when I want access to remote GUI tools the fast way (tightvnc is faster than running a remote Gtk+ application).
I'll never forget beating Diablo 1 by carrying all mana potions instead of health potions and then using mana shield.
As funny as that was, it annoys me when games allow you to carry phenomenal amounts of weight without considering the awesome difficulty of having 14 different massive hammers over your shoulder at once.
Well, I think we all understand why you didn't cancel that phone number. Good on ya.
I think we just found the poster of disagree mail #2.
There's a time and place for grammar naziism, but the title of anything is neither. Its called poetic license, and most writers use it with subjects, titles and headlines as a way of putting a trademark on an otherwise boring statement.
It could be argued that Bash has more language features than many programming languages.
Bash is a huge and very powerful system for both shell work and programming work. The programmable tab-completion being one of my favourites, spell checking is fun too, although I still prefer tcsh's syntax.
That just shows ignorance of how much power exists within bash without using sed or awk. It also shows a lack of understanding of how powerful each sed and awk are as individual programs (or language, in awk's case).
You can write some substantial software in awk, and in bash, or in a combination of both, or using sed.
Of course, mentioning 'make' in a book on C programming makes sense, but not realizing how powerful make is is probably a result of how people associate it with programming only.
(example: I have a Makefile in /etc/samba to build my smb.conf from an smb-master.conf file after checking it for errors and stripping out comments)
I remember a PS2 work-out program that was quite popular with some of my wife's friends, not to mention Dance Dance Revolution and how many mats Konami sold before the Wii introduced the balance board.
Many of these things are not new -- just don't tell that to the Wii fanatics :)
Good luck with that. If you're right, you'll never know. If you're wrong, you may also never know.
Did the Pharoah know when 'God hardened his heart'? (the last five plagues, not the first five).
At any rate, I don't have to prove there's a God just because I believe there is. I don't have to prove my car is made out of metal or my driveway is concrete or that electricity would burn me either. But I'm quite satisfied with my belief in God. Enjoy your disbelief.
My comments about proof have nothing to do with science, and I didn't claim they did in the original post -- simply the rationality of believing something at all.
But speaking of proofs, you can prove the world round by logic, even if its not a scientific concept. Not everything in the world revolves around science. Math, logic, and reasoning help too.
As humerous as that was intended to be, the Bible is a very fascinating book in that it is much more accurately reproduced over a very long period of time than most historians would expect for such a large piece of literature.
Of course, this applies to original languages -- anyone who studies the English bibles and compares them is stupid -- the Bible wasn't written in English.
You can disprove flat-earth theory.
You can't disprove creationism.
That doesn't make creationism true, but it makes believing in it defensible (and if you don't think so, you're too wrapped up in your own worldview to realize most people don't need their day to day beliefs to be rationalized and provable).
We've seen the resulting universe from what may have been a big bang, or a sudden creation, or a complete non-event, but we have no proof of any of them.
Its called Hushmail, get an account.
I have to say, I'm impressed with the number of companies making demos for this generation of consoles. There are demos available for a very large number of both PS3 and 360 games, and playing these has helped me figure out which games to buy or not.
In some cases, I don't need a demo. Anything by Naughty Dog or Insomniac I'll buy on day 1, no reason to ask questions. The same goes for Criterion games.
I was interested in playing the Darkness for example, but I found it very slow and a little dull. Clive Barker's Jericho looked interesting too but the tight spaces in the game really restricted the use of the characters, and the resolution was obviously very low so that put me off.
Just because you didn't doesn't mean others don't. I have several games I managed to get my hands on to try (especially PC games, where I don't know if my PC is powerful enough up front to play it) and ended up paying for a copy because I enjoyed it so much.
Morrowind would be one example that comes immediately to mind.
It is almost always possible to do this -- defeating switches is as easy as ARP flooding.
Sniffing packets isn't rocket science.
Setting up per-machine VLANs would've been overkill and required per-machine VLAN tagging.
I guess you got confused and forgot to emphasize "doesn't require" in my original post.
Yes, you can make 3D accelerated weather channels, but its certainly not necessary.
I'm still confused about how this made Slashdot at all. Who here doesn't know they could lose data in a power failure? Okay, hopefully those with their hands up don't run data centers.
Moving along, UPSs are cheap, especially for home usage. You can buy a decent UPS with excellent surge protection for a home PC for under $100.
You get access to all 256MB of RAM on the board. What did you want, access to the 256MB of video RAM too? That's part of the "restricted 3D video card" access unfortunately.
There have been good developments around 2D and 3D acceleration (including a Mesa implementation) on PS3/Linux.
There's no VM -- I'm not sure what you think you're on about. Maybe you should look at the IBM SDK documentation or the kernel development logs from the patches submitted to make things work on it.
Yes, there's hardware restrictions in place, but you're running right on the hardware as far as the CPU's concerned. You get access to USB and the hard drive through kernel level drivers to the hardware through Sony's hypervisor, yes, and your video access is somewhat limited although despite Sony's not providing one, some people have had success with an accelerated 2D driver on the RSX.
I hate child pornography too -- so long as its defined well and involves children, not pubescent well endowed 16 yr olds posing semi-nude for their friends on their webcam.
Unfortunately, these agreements and laws don't differentiate between "that's disgusting and horrible" and "wow, she's dumb".