A little, but he's probably not a lawyer, he's more of, you know, a game designer. And while these days you need to know some stuff about laws when designing a game, he didn't want to say too much in case he said something that he shouldn't.
That was yesterday. It made front page coverage on slashdot, and, somewhat surprisingly, almost every major news source. So apart from that, yeah, no one mentioned it.
Yeah, mostly they were good. Except the one 'Does WOTC think all players are male?". I mean seriously, all the source books are written with the default pronoun as 'she'. It's pretty rare these days to find gaming groups without at least one female in it. Been to a con lately? Yeah, people like to point out that the stereotypical male gamer geek is still in abundance, but in every con I have gone to as of late I've seen more and more women going and playing. I mean hell, is someone still living in 1980 asking this question?
Though they do not appear to have done much, RPGs, especially D&D, influenced my life and, despite the jokes, they actually were directly responsible for forming a lot of my social skills, as well as teaching me the importance of communication and teaching me good problem-solving skills, all of which I use every day and I rely on to get me through life. Even still they greatly impact my life; my big 'vacations' of the year are to go to DragonCon and Frolicon, each of which would not have existed without D&D.
...Interesting, really. It can accomplish the goals set out to make adventures last longer, without everyone needing to sleep after their first fight. I'm kinda worried that with all this offensive power that PCs would be able to smack down enemies 2 at a time per round with ease, but I've not played yet.
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I came in prepared to watch it and argue with you, but damn, that video broke my spirit.
At least it's obvious that NASA hasn't been wasting money on video/graphics processing, editing and skills.
I've been intending on reading this one for quite some time now, so this will be perfect. I usually read on my lunch break and have worked my way through just about everything I'd wanted to read. This will be my first experience with a whole book in digital format. I lack an E-Reader so I guess this will show me if I really want to get one or not.
If you start adding 'maybes' and 'possibly' to everything, or even some things, they very much get the idea you don't actually know anything. And that drives them to religions and whatnot where everything is a certainty.
The issue is science itself. Science itself is a method by which we observe facts, come up with hypotheses, test those against more data, if they stick they become theories, and undergo even more testing. Many times these theories eventually fail and new ideas have to come forth and match all of it. And the people who disproved it, and maybe the people whose theory it was in the first place, are pleased and science progresses.
That is what John Q. Public doesn't like. It's totally baffling to come up with answers, spend all your time figuring out why your answers are wrong, and end up happy that you were. That's why they like religion so much more. It's more or less totally static and understandable without having to think any.
See, that's the funny part now - people are getting so lazy and expect so much from the computer that software compatibility is becoming less and less of an issue. So there really is a significant opportunity for Linux to be used by 'regular people.' Only caveat is it needs to come pre-installed on their computer.
I'm not sure how you figure this. The OP was right; it's exactly some of the reasons I don't use Linux.
I'm Lazy.
I don't care about all the crazy stuff Linux promises me. That it loves me and wants me and will respect me in the morning. What I care about was that when I tried to install it on my desktop, the video went into about 1000 tiny vertical green bars. And when I tried to replace Vista on my laptop with it there were no drivers for either my wireless or wired network cards. And even if I could accept I couldn't get on the internet, I couldn't play any of my games anyway. So I shrugged and gave up and went back to Vista. And yes, this was Unbutu 7.10. They desperately need a better name btw. So, in short, what the OP said. Linux doesn't 'Just work' out of the box and I can't use any of my applications on it. I'm too lazy to spend my time screwing around with that crap. Just let me play my Orange Box damnit. Till Linux can do that, it'll stay off any PC I actually ever use.
Funny this came up, just a few weekends ago I put together my girlfriend's new island and I attributed my speed and skill to my Lego proficiency as a child.
Even after that comment I still have a GF. Weird times, these days, neh?
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Agreed a thousandfold. I've never really understood people who got all bitter about one or the other. I thought they were both great. I do understand that people have their differences, but damn, I just wish they'd all get back together and do this amazing show again.
Don't get me started on how bad Rhino has screwed up the DVD end, though. Seriously, what in the hell were they thinking? If they had any damn sense they'd just release it the way TV shows do.
In any case, I still watch the show's reruns quite regularly and force them on every gf I've had (And no, I don't mean every real doll I've had).
I still occasionally sing the Gamera song..
"Gamera... Gamera... Gamera is really neat! He is filled with turtle meat! We've all been eating Gamera..."
While I can see this as a mark of the beginning of the end for Microsoft I really wouldn't write them off just yet. They still have a metric butt-ton of market share, and are still overall profitable. Should they manage to stop the hemorrhaging of cash with the XBox (Which I can easily foresee) and come up with a good reply to Vista (Like they did with Windows ME/Then Windows 2000), then I can see them rebounding quick.
However, I also see the general public becoming more and more sophisticated when it comes to things like Operating Systems and understanding that there are indeed options out there. And with knowledge of options will come people exercising those options.
In other words there's a up and down roller coaster ride ahead but this ride may be coming to a full and complete stop.
Crawling spider bots to check out the lays of buildings before the riot police go in, floating swimming robots to watch water pollution levels, I could even see them being used in pest prevention, using little robot drones to kill off unwanted pests. Sort of like Terminator, but for bugs.
The real question is how are they gonna power these suckers?
Groundbreaking in BioShock? I mean, a neat plot, simple gameplay where you got better/stronger/faster and all, but was it really that much better than anything else?
I've not played it, simply because it hasn't interested me enough. Most of the impressions I got from reviews was that it was good but kinda overhyped.
VBA Will continue to be supported by future versions of Office for Windows, just not Macs. Also, no more new Licensing. Really, to me, it sounds like Microsoft is about to do something with VBA it doesn't want Mac users to have right after launch.
Conspiracy theories aside it could just be they are going to keep the support for Legacy systems but don't want to keep up with that junk for mac users, maybe it's harder to implement on the back end?
Tech: Ok, put your mouse over the 'My computer' Icon and right click... Guy: Why does this have to be so complicated? Why doesn't everything just work right the first time? You Idiots should be shot! Tech: Well Sir, if you would just... Guy: I'm tired of you people and your attitudes, why I should...*ZAP* AHHH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? Tech: Now what did you learn? Guy: I'M GONNA KILL...*ZAAP* AHHH! Tech: A bit slow today are we?
There are some amazingly good games out there, and I've always been a proponent of free games like these.
Sometimes people get so caught up in complexity and huge long sprawling stories with cutscenes and movies and complex controls...most of the time when I want to play a game I just want something simple and fun. Those are the games I tend to go back to again and again.
I have a special fondness for the 'tower defense' type games.
People do not always react logically.
There is a good chance there will be a recession and a lot of people will lose jobs and look at ways to cut costs. The question is is whether they will see FOSS as a valid choice in that.
As it is, I suspect the vast majority of people will not. The thing is, in the more general population, FOSS/Linux/Whatever just plain has 0 visibility. It won't grow because people don't even understand it/recognize it as an option. This is changing. As Dell offers it on their Walmart PCs and businesses adopt Linux desktops, people will become aware of it as an option.
The real question is whether or not FOSS will become visible enough to the public eye and mind in time. Why 'in time'? I do believe that a lot of things, from volunteers times to bandwidth to development hours put in will be reduced by a recession. The less people have the less they have to give. It's nice to think that programmers who lose jobs will sit at home and code on FOSS projects all day but more likely is that they'll spend time looking for jobs, doing household tasks they'd otherwise hire people to do, and even accept other work part-time until they can find a 'real' job. Donations will slack off as purchasing power drops.
That is the race that must be won. Between getting the FOSS into the public sector with enough visibility to have it widely adopted before those who support it cease, at least in part, in order to focus on more immediate personal issues.
It could go either way, I believe. This could lead to explosive, radiating growth, or a die-off.
I agree with some of the others here.
How about a useful feature for once? I don't want games. I don't want web browsing. I don't want text messaging. I don't want 50 ring tones I don't want it to frigging glow blue. I want to be able to run down the street, habe it fall onto the concrete, and not shatter like a delicate glass figurine. I want it to work inside, underground, and in my car. I want a volume that goves above 'soft whisper'. I want a vibration function that is actually strong enough to sense. I want a ringer that I can hear in a crowded toom. I do not need it to weigh less than a peice of paper. a 1-lb phone is perfectly acceptable. Who needs it to be lighter than that? Who cannot carry 1 lb around?
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How silly, especially when the vast majority of cops I've seen have been black.
A little, but he's probably not a lawyer, he's more of, you know, a game designer. And while these days you need to know some stuff about laws when designing a game, he didn't want to say too much in case he said something that he shouldn't.
That was yesterday. It made front page coverage on slashdot, and, somewhat surprisingly, almost every major news source. So apart from that, yeah, no one mentioned it.
Yeah, mostly they were good. Except the one 'Does WOTC think all players are male?". I mean seriously, all the source books are written with the default pronoun as 'she'. It's pretty rare these days to find gaming groups without at least one female in it. Been to a con lately? Yeah, people like to point out that the stereotypical male gamer geek is still in abundance, but in every con I have gone to as of late I've seen more and more women going and playing. I mean hell, is someone still living in 1980 asking this question?
I suppose it had to happen at some point.
Though they do not appear to have done much, RPGs, especially D&D, influenced my life and, despite the jokes, they actually were directly responsible for forming a lot of my social skills, as well as teaching me the importance of communication and teaching me good problem-solving skills, all of which I use every day and I rely on to get me through life. Even still they greatly impact my life; my big 'vacations' of the year are to go to DragonCon and Frolicon, each of which would not have existed without D&D.
I am truly saddened.
...Interesting, really. It can accomplish the goals set out to make adventures last longer, without everyone needing to sleep after their first fight. I'm kinda worried that with all this offensive power that PCs would be able to smack down enemies 2 at a time per round with ease, but I've not played yet.
I came in prepared to watch it and argue with you, but damn, that video broke my spirit.
At least it's obvious that NASA hasn't been wasting money on video/graphics processing, editing and skills.
I've been intending on reading this one for quite some time now, so this will be perfect. I usually read on my lunch break and have worked my way through just about everything I'd wanted to read. This will be my first experience with a whole book in digital format. I lack an E-Reader so I guess this will show me if I really want to get one or not.
You have it exactly wrong.
If you start adding 'maybes' and 'possibly' to everything, or even some things, they very much get the idea you don't actually know anything. And that drives them to religions and whatnot where everything is a certainty.
The issue is science itself. Science itself is a method by which we observe facts, come up with hypotheses, test those against more data, if they stick they become theories, and undergo even more testing. Many times these theories eventually fail and new ideas have to come forth and match all of it. And the people who disproved it, and maybe the people whose theory it was in the first place, are pleased and science progresses.
That is what John Q. Public doesn't like. It's totally baffling to come up with answers, spend all your time figuring out why your answers are wrong, and end up happy that you were. That's why they like religion so much more. It's more or less totally static and understandable without having to think any.
I'm looking forward to 4th Ed, but damn that was sanitized. Straight from a marketer's mouth. I'd actually hoped for something more frank.
I'm Lazy.
I don't care about all the crazy stuff Linux promises me. That it loves me and wants me and will respect me in the morning. What I care about was that when I tried to install it on my desktop, the video went into about 1000 tiny vertical green bars. And when I tried to replace Vista on my laptop with it there were no drivers for either my wireless or wired network cards. And even if I could accept I couldn't get on the internet, I couldn't play any of my games anyway. So I shrugged and gave up and went back to Vista. And yes, this was Unbutu 7.10. They desperately need a better name btw. So, in short, what the OP said. Linux doesn't 'Just work' out of the box and I can't use any of my applications on it. I'm too lazy to spend my time screwing around with that crap. Just let me play my Orange Box damnit. Till Linux can do that, it'll stay off any PC I actually ever use.
Funny this came up, just a few weekends ago I put together my girlfriend's new island and I attributed my speed and skill to my Lego proficiency as a child.
Even after that comment I still have a GF. Weird times, these days, neh?
Agreed a thousandfold. I've never really understood people who got all bitter about one or the other. I thought they were both great. I do understand that people have their differences, but damn, I just wish they'd all get back together and do this amazing show again.
Don't get me started on how bad Rhino has screwed up the DVD end, though. Seriously, what in the hell were they thinking? If they had any damn sense they'd just release it the way TV shows do.
In any case, I still watch the show's reruns quite regularly and force them on every gf I've had (And no, I don't mean every real doll I've had).
I still occasionally sing the Gamera song..
"Gamera...
Gamera...
Gamera is really neat!
He is filled with turtle meat!
We've all been eating Gamera..."
While I can see this as a mark of the beginning of the end for Microsoft I really wouldn't write them off just yet. They still have a metric butt-ton of market share, and are still overall profitable. Should they manage to stop the hemorrhaging of cash with the XBox (Which I can easily foresee) and come up with a good reply to Vista (Like they did with Windows ME/Then Windows 2000), then I can see them rebounding quick.
However, I also see the general public becoming more and more sophisticated when it comes to things like Operating Systems and understanding that there are indeed options out there. And with knowledge of options will come people exercising those options.
In other words there's a up and down roller coaster ride ahead but this ride may be coming to a full and complete stop.
Has an auction by the FCC been so closely watched by the general public, I believe.
Of course, by 'General Public' I mean 'A lot of geeks', but I can still see this as one of the most important auctions of our lifetimes.
Isn't this sorta like those missionaries who will feed the starving if they convert?
This could end up being really interesting.
Crawling spider bots to check out the lays of buildings before the riot police go in, floating swimming robots to watch water pollution levels, I could even see them being used in pest prevention, using little robot drones to kill off unwanted pests. Sort of like Terminator, but for bugs.
The real question is how are they gonna power these suckers?
Groundbreaking in BioShock? I mean, a neat plot, simple gameplay where you got better/stronger/faster and all, but was it really that much better than anything else?
I've not played it, simply because it hasn't interested me enough. Most of the impressions I got from reviews was that it was good but kinda overhyped.
Me, I'll stick with TF2 a while longer.
VBA Will continue to be supported by future versions of Office for Windows, just not Macs. Also, no more new Licensing. Really, to me, it sounds like Microsoft is about to do something with VBA it doesn't want Mac users to have right after launch.
Conspiracy theories aside it could just be they are going to keep the support for Legacy systems but don't want to keep up with that junk for mac users, maybe it's harder to implement on the back end?
This could represent a new way of thinking of just not what our containers hold but how the containers interact with what they hold.
It probably won't amount to much for terrestrials but who knows? Sometimes it's the seemingly boring inventions which have a wide impact.
The engineers giving in to the Helpdesk people.
Think of the possibilities!
Tech: Ok, put your mouse over the 'My computer' Icon and right click...
Guy: Why does this have to be so complicated? Why doesn't everything just work right the first time? You Idiots should be shot!
Tech: Well Sir, if you would just...
Guy: I'm tired of you people and your attitudes, why I should...*ZAP* AHHH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
Tech: Now what did you learn?
Guy: I'M GONNA KILL...*ZAAP* AHHH!
Tech: A bit slow today are we?
There are some amazingly good games out there, and I've always been a proponent of free games like these. Sometimes people get so caught up in complexity and huge long sprawling stories with cutscenes and movies and complex controls...most of the time when I want to play a game I just want something simple and fun. Those are the games I tend to go back to again and again. I have a special fondness for the 'tower defense' type games.
People do not always react logically. There is a good chance there will be a recession and a lot of people will lose jobs and look at ways to cut costs. The question is is whether they will see FOSS as a valid choice in that. As it is, I suspect the vast majority of people will not. The thing is, in the more general population, FOSS/Linux/Whatever just plain has 0 visibility. It won't grow because people don't even understand it/recognize it as an option. This is changing. As Dell offers it on their Walmart PCs and businesses adopt Linux desktops, people will become aware of it as an option. The real question is whether or not FOSS will become visible enough to the public eye and mind in time. Why 'in time'? I do believe that a lot of things, from volunteers times to bandwidth to development hours put in will be reduced by a recession. The less people have the less they have to give. It's nice to think that programmers who lose jobs will sit at home and code on FOSS projects all day but more likely is that they'll spend time looking for jobs, doing household tasks they'd otherwise hire people to do, and even accept other work part-time until they can find a 'real' job. Donations will slack off as purchasing power drops. That is the race that must be won. Between getting the FOSS into the public sector with enough visibility to have it widely adopted before those who support it cease, at least in part, in order to focus on more immediate personal issues. It could go either way, I believe. This could lead to explosive, radiating growth, or a die-off.
I agree with some of the others here. How about a useful feature for once? I don't want games. I don't want web browsing. I don't want text messaging. I don't want 50 ring tones I don't want it to frigging glow blue. I want to be able to run down the street, habe it fall onto the concrete, and not shatter like a delicate glass figurine. I want it to work inside, underground, and in my car. I want a volume that goves above 'soft whisper'. I want a vibration function that is actually strong enough to sense. I want a ringer that I can hear in a crowded toom. I do not need it to weigh less than a peice of paper. a 1-lb phone is perfectly acceptable. Who needs it to be lighter than that? Who cannot carry 1 lb around?