So basically, if your game is crap don't release when everyone else does. Makes sense. These games all look horrible even from this early on.
Don't just sling insults around like that without even seeing a real demo. After playing The Red Star demo at Comic-Con, I was willing to give Acclaim another chance (yes, even after BMXXX). It's going to be a good game in the spirit of the old arcade brawlers.
I don't recall big production of Civics with faulty tires in the past five years.
Ford has a long way to go in terms of reputation. Ford withheld information about safety problems they KNEW ABOUT. People died because Ford was more concerned about profit margins than safety. When was the last time Honda released a rolling death trap?
If you don't have good story-writers, it doesn't matter how much talent the rest of the team has.
Because I play Tetris for the story.
Don't automatically assume that any game without a decent story is going to be bad. Total Annihilation had a terrible story, yet many acknowledge it as one of the greatest RTS games ever. Good gameplay with poor plot sells much better than a brilliant story with horrid gameplay.
The parent was not modded down for criticiziing iTunes. It was modded down because it was flamebait. Notice the use of the phrases "Apple zealots" and "gay little Apple logo" along with vague derogatory adjectives like "crappy" and "retarded." If the author of that post would like to post a revised edition of his comment that had been proofread and written in a logical, mature manner, I would be more than happy to pay attention to his opinions.
Not that I'm holding out hope or anything. This is Slashdot, after all.
but I'm not going to dump $1500 or so for the priviledge of getting some overpriced, proprietary hardware platform
First off, the hardware is not proprietary. The BIOS, however, is.
Second, you can get a Mac for under $1000.
Lastly, Apple's profits are not from software sales. If they were to start licensing the BIOS out AND port OS X to x86, they'd be sunk. Go back and take a look at how hard Apple got hit the first time they tried licensing the BIOS. Think of how much worse it would be if they had x86 computer companies undercutting them, too. Apple's profits are more from hardware sales than anything else, which is why allowing the production of clones and porting OS X to the x86 makes TERRIBLE FISCAL SENSE.
The honor code works incredibly well here at Mudd. It also makes us happy, because it gives us pretty much free roam of the academic facilities and often results in take-home tests and quizzes. Granted, we're a small school, and it would probably be less effective at a larger school, but it's still worth looking into.
Maybe for an encore, a bit more money could solve the drug problem, and improve student performance in our public schools!
Actually, a spending increase would definitely improve student performance. Spending more on education leads to more qualified teachers, better facilities, and smaller classes, all of which contribute to a better learning environment.
He has investments in oil and energy companies, and has fought to decrease our dependance on foreign oil. most peopel consider that a good thing. He has gotten the oil flowing in iraq
Just because the oil isn't under Saddam's control doesn't make it any less foreign. When one can get a tax break from buying an H2, our dependency on oil is NOT being reduced.
Cutting taxes from the rich does not hurt the middle class.
No, but it certainly doesn't help the middle class, and unemployment hits the middle and lower classes the hardest. The rich, being rich (funny how that works, isn't it?) are less in need of a tax cut.
If you expect Bush to create jobs, how is he supposed to do thst besides "trickle down." Or I suppose you expect him to build "public works."
Reagan tried "trickle down" economics. It didn't work. And I expect him to help create jobs by stablizing the economy, rather than by spending billions of dollars looking for weapons of mass destruction.
And that would be all well and good if he was using the upper end Airport Extreme base station. He is using an Airport Base Station 2.0, which does not have an external antenna port.
A company needs to make a profit to be able to fully survive.
Actually, in perfect competition in the long run, a company will make zero economic profits. For those of you who haven't taken an economics class recently, that means that the company's total revenue is exactly equal to its total cost.
If I understand correctly, the effort is not to port the GUI itself, but applications that use the kdelibs and arts libraries (i.e. koffice, konqueror, etc).
Running on an 800 MHz eMac with 512 megs of RAM and a GeForce 2, here are my thoughts on some of the higher end games currently available on the Mac...
JKII: Runs fine at 1024 x 768 (although you may get some slowdown at that resolution when you are a) swarmed by enemies or b) playing on Yavin 4 where the rain effects REALLY slow things down)
WC3: Nothing bad to say here. Runs perfectly smooth at high resolution without slowdown.
UT2K3 (demo, don't have full version yet): It's pretty...serioiusly, looks beautiful with very little slowdown.
NWN (demo again): Another great-looking game.
All in all, I've been pretty satisfied with my eMac as a gaming machine. Well, except for the speakers. But that's what headphones are for, right?
Unlike traditional radio it is easy to make copys of songs that have been webcasted and then place them on peer to peer networks such as bittorrent and napster.
It's perfectly easy. Get a radio with a line out jack, plug it into your computer's line in jack. Don't have a line in jack? Buy a sound card with one or a USB audio capture device (Griffin's iMic comes to mind). Streaming audio is no easier to pirate than radio.
You stay up all night thinking of complex strategems to catpure or defend a city or to prevent an enemy from building a certain crucial structure. There are so many variables to coordinate and dimensions to consider that it makes the brain all the more powerful.
And then you go to school the next day and sleep through your math test.
video games have always been helpful in the development process
Of course. Not only do they encourage hand-eye coordination, they also encourage important skills like pattern recognition (play any Mega Man game and you'll see what I mean) and innovative thinking (I could list a whole slew of games here...any strategy game, various Zelda games...in fact, any well made game will require you to innovate and adapt in order to progress through its levels.).
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So basically, if your game is crap don't release when everyone else does. Makes sense. These games all look horrible even from this early on.
Don't just sling insults around like that without even seeing a real demo. After playing The Red Star demo at Comic-Con, I was willing to give Acclaim another chance (yes, even after BMXXX). It's going to be a good game in the spirit of the old arcade brawlers.
I don't recall big production of Civics with faulty tires in the past five years.
Ford has a long way to go in terms of reputation. Ford withheld information about safety problems they KNEW ABOUT. People died because Ford was more concerned about profit margins than safety. When was the last time Honda released a rolling death trap?
Have PC manufacturers not picked up on that little $0.50 godsend that is the auto-crossing port?
That depends on whether or not you consider Macs to be PCs.
Did you forget about Perfect Dark?
If you don't have good story-writers, it doesn't matter how much talent the rest of the team has.
Because I play Tetris for the story.
Don't automatically assume that any game without a decent story is going to be bad. Total Annihilation had a terrible story, yet many acknowledge it as one of the greatest RTS games ever. Good gameplay with poor plot sells much better than a brilliant story with horrid gameplay.
...and then you will have to figure out what you are going to use 1000 static addresses for...
My server, my laptop, my cellphone, my PDA, my Game Boy, my coffee machine, my graphing calculator, my car, my watch...
I wouldn't hook a PS2 up to an EyeTV.
hand cape yourself
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superhand?
Take a look at their list. The most violent games on their are probably the ESPN games.
The parent was not modded down for criticiziing iTunes. It was modded down because it was flamebait. Notice the use of the phrases "Apple zealots" and "gay little Apple logo" along with vague derogatory adjectives like "crappy" and "retarded." If the author of that post would like to post a revised edition of his comment that had been proofread and written in a logical, mature manner, I would be more than happy to pay attention to his opinions.
Not that I'm holding out hope or anything. This is Slashdot, after all.
but I'm not going to dump $1500 or so for the priviledge of getting some overpriced, proprietary hardware platform
First off, the hardware is not proprietary. The BIOS, however, is.
Second, you can get a Mac for under $1000.
Lastly, Apple's profits are not from software sales. If they were to start licensing the BIOS out AND port OS X to x86, they'd be sunk. Go back and take a look at how hard Apple got hit the first time they tried licensing the BIOS. Think of how much worse it would be if they had x86 computer companies undercutting them, too. Apple's profits are more from hardware sales than anything else, which is why allowing the production of clones and porting OS X to the x86 makes TERRIBLE FISCAL SENSE.
The Harvey Mudd Honor Code
The honor code works incredibly well here at Mudd. It also makes us happy, because it gives us pretty much free roam of the academic facilities and often results in take-home tests and quizzes. Granted, we're a small school, and it would probably be less effective at a larger school, but it's still worth looking into.
It's called Google.
Maybe for an encore, a bit more money could solve the drug problem, and improve student performance in our public schools!
Actually, a spending increase would definitely improve student performance. Spending more on education leads to more qualified teachers, better facilities, and smaller classes, all of which contribute to a better learning environment.
He has investments in oil and energy companies, and has fought to decrease our dependance on foreign oil. most peopel consider that a good thing. He has gotten the oil flowing in iraq
Just because the oil isn't under Saddam's control doesn't make it any less foreign. When one can get a tax break from buying an H2, our dependency on oil is NOT being reduced.
Cutting taxes from the rich does not hurt the middle class.
No, but it certainly doesn't help the middle class, and unemployment hits the middle and lower classes the hardest. The rich, being rich (funny how that works, isn't it?) are less in need of a tax cut.
If you expect Bush to create jobs, how is he supposed to do thst besides "trickle down." Or I suppose you expect him to build "public works."
Reagan tried "trickle down" economics. It didn't work. And I expect him to help create jobs by stablizing the economy, rather than by spending billions of dollars looking for weapons of mass destruction.
And that would be all well and good if he was using the upper end Airport Extreme base station. He is using an Airport Base Station 2.0, which does not have an external antenna port.
No self-respecting geek watches Enterprise.
Actually, I believe they have to be released to the Tennessee prison system at the age of 19, if their sentence has not been served by that time.
A company needs to make a profit to be able to fully survive.
Actually, in perfect competition in the long run, a company will make zero economic profits. For those of you who haven't taken an economics class recently, that means that the company's total revenue is exactly equal to its total cost.
If I understand correctly, the effort is not to port the GUI itself, but applications that use the kdelibs and arts libraries (i.e. koffice, konqueror, etc).
They can't use P2P! Uploading a file to it would be illegal !
Running on an 800 MHz eMac with 512 megs of RAM and a GeForce 2, here are my thoughts on some of the higher end games currently available on the Mac...
JKII: Runs fine at 1024 x 768 (although you may get some slowdown at that resolution when you are a) swarmed by enemies or b) playing on Yavin 4 where the rain effects REALLY slow things down)
WC3: Nothing bad to say here. Runs perfectly smooth at high resolution without slowdown.
UT2K3 (demo, don't have full version yet): It's pretty...serioiusly, looks beautiful with very little slowdown.
NWN (demo again): Another great-looking game.
All in all, I've been pretty satisfied with my eMac as a gaming machine. Well, except for the speakers. But that's what headphones are for, right?
Unlike traditional radio it is easy to make copys of songs that have been webcasted and then place them on peer to peer networks such as bittorrent and napster.
It's perfectly easy. Get a radio with a line out jack, plug it into your computer's line in jack. Don't have a line in jack? Buy a sound card with one or a USB audio capture device (Griffin's iMic comes to mind). Streaming audio is no easier to pirate than radio.
You stay up all night thinking of complex strategems to catpure or defend a city or to prevent an enemy from building a certain crucial structure. There are so many variables to coordinate and dimensions to consider that it makes the brain all the more powerful.
And then you go to school the next day and sleep through your math test.
video games have always been helpful in the development process
Of course. Not only do they encourage hand-eye coordination, they also encourage important skills like pattern recognition (play any Mega Man game and you'll see what I mean) and innovative thinking (I could list a whole slew of games here...any strategy game, various Zelda games...in fact, any well made game will require you to innovate and adapt in order to progress through its levels.).