It will appeal to the ladies as well - some experiments with Rez have proved that both sexes equally love crazy mad abstract shooting stuff with excellent sound and visuals that does something they've never even imagined before.
We have rules to the extent that we limit play selection (for guys who want to go for it on their own 7-yard line on fourth down). Gamers won't be able to select offensive plays in certain situations. We'll also restrict the guys who like to move players around. Those guys who take a WR and put him at TE and move him way out in a formation, or a guy who uses fast wide receivers on the defensive line. It's the non-standard stuff the game is going to restrict. But the game has some real creative guys and I have to hand it to them. They are really good at exploiting every aspect. What we try to do is take out stuff we can't normally see in a football game.
While I love this game, I also don't feel comfortable when I hear these things that I interpret as arbitrary tweaks to cover up faults in the system.
For example, a local Econ professor did some research on decision-making and figured out that most teams are punting way too much. I chalked it up to traditional football thinking, and over a beer, he told me a little anecdote. Apparently in an old Madden game, gamers were going for it very successfully on 4th down(1). Once Madden heard about this, he thought it was "horrible" and the game engine was claimed to have been tweaked to make converting 4th downs artificially harder.
And why not play a WR as TE? There's Teyo Johnson drafted out of Stanfurd who's doing just that, IIRC from a Sporting News article. And it's not a stretch of my imagination to see Tony Gonzalez as a decent WR. Heck sometimes I draw up plays just for him so that I don't have to go and invest in an extra player....
When the developer says that he wants to restrict non-standard stuff, I simply don't feel comfortable. Admittedly they have done a great job in letting Michael Vick lead the league in my 2002 franchise running (well almost) and passing (rating-wise) but I think that basing player behavior on NFL teams is a less optimal result than I would prefer.
(1) In The Hidden Game of Football by Carroll, et al, the success rate on 4th down is quoted at 49% (p.23, revised ed.)
Well, I guess killing the Redcoats in the Revolutionary War is out of the question, being that the British were the "legitimate authority" back in 1776.
I'm feeling disapointed that when I hear about the law singling out violence against a group, I feel like it values one person's life over another one; as if the life of a cop is more valuable than that of a citizen. It's kind of like the hate crime thing.
In a blatant misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, over the past two weeks a group of national retailers forced FatWallet.com (www.fatwallet.com) to remove Day After Thanksgiving sales information from its site. In letters sent to FatWallet, each retailer claimed that the Copyright Act gives it a monopoly over this price data. Today, the Samuelson Clinic and Gray Matters, on behalf of FatWallet.com, challenges those letters as abuses of federal law, insists on damages, and refuses to disclose identifying information on the individuals who posted the sales information. For more about this issue, please read the press release [PDF], FatWallet's online story or the Chilling Effects story.
and are sometimes derided by the more liberal elements at Berkeley.
I went to a less idealistic (and more politically/culturally moderate) business school
I don't think that one's political leanings affects their ability to succeed in business.
PenguinOpus wrote: My experience with the cable industry has been that they have huge opportunity, but are too risk-averse technologically to make these things happen
Actually, Cox cable in Southern California already packages up the three main services (cable, phone, and internet) and sells them to you at a discounted price. AND with a set top box with digital cable.
ac wrote: "This is exactly what the founding fathers were doing when they made sure that freedom of speech became a pillar of what made this country. That is what makes this country so great. (Yes, there were a few hiccups, but at least today we can protest against the government and not fear being killed)."
Remember "Deep Throat", the anonymous informer who uncovered Nixon's Watergate scandal? I believe there's a good reason that the informer chose to remain anonymous...to this day.
By Simon Singh. Would appeal to non-math majors, too.
Inspired me to seriously consider Math as a major here at Berkeley. Now if only the department wasn't so nerdy...
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Spell-checking in textareas. No tpyos in this post!
Indeed.
If I wallhacked my way into being #1 on your CS server stats, would it have value?
Just try to avoid crawling into your basement and shunning human contact for days at a time.
I'll let you know how it goes when I get back to college next semester.
I have a truly wonderful proof of this fact...
but this margin is too small to contain it.
In a twisted way, if I were in Bill's position and wanted to further my self-interest, I would similarly give away a vast majority of my wealth.
Why? because I want my children to do well and I have some suspicion that too much money may be quite a hindrance to that.
Unfortunately, I'm not Bill, and I haven't found any takers on my debt yet.
It will appeal to the ladies as well - some experiments with Rez have proved that both sexes equally love crazy mad abstract shooting stuff with excellent sound and visuals that does something they've never even imagined before.
Original? hmm....
so they're developing this and Mozilla Firebird? *scratches head*
I like your playbook idea. If you had a tv-in card (i.e. an ATI TV-Wonder) perhaps you could take screenshots to show your plays.
We have rules to the extent that we limit play selection (for guys who want to go for it on their own 7-yard line on fourth down). Gamers won't be able to select offensive plays in certain situations. We'll also restrict the guys who like to move players around. Those guys who take a WR and put him at TE and move him way out in a formation, or a guy who uses fast wide receivers on the defensive line. It's the non-standard stuff the game is going to restrict. But the game has some real creative guys and I have to hand it to them. They are really good at exploiting every aspect. What we try to do is take out stuff we can't normally see in a football game.
While I love this game, I also don't feel comfortable when I hear these things that I interpret as arbitrary tweaks to cover up faults in the system.
For example, a local Econ professor did some research on decision-making and figured out that most teams are punting way too much. I chalked it up to traditional football thinking, and over a beer, he told me a little anecdote. Apparently in an old Madden game, gamers were going for it very successfully on 4th down(1). Once Madden heard about this, he thought it was "horrible" and the game engine was claimed to have been tweaked to make converting 4th downs artificially harder.
And why not play a WR as TE? There's Teyo Johnson drafted out of Stanfurd who's doing just that, IIRC from a Sporting News article. And it's not a stretch of my imagination to see Tony Gonzalez as a decent WR. Heck sometimes I draw up plays just for him so that I don't have to go and invest in an extra player....
When the developer says that he wants to restrict non-standard stuff, I simply don't feel comfortable. Admittedly they have done a great job in letting Michael Vick lead the league in my 2002 franchise running (well almost) and passing (rating-wise) but I think that basing player behavior on NFL teams is a less optimal result than I would prefer.
(1) In The Hidden Game of Football by Carroll, et al, the success rate on 4th down is quoted at 49% (p.23, revised ed.)
Til Madden '04 comes out, I've been obsessively playing Championship Manager 4, a football* game with similar concerns...
linky
*if by football you mean soccer
Right... but the HTML that points to said banner is loaded from the slashdotted server.
...and the top of the page loads first.
usually the ad is on the top of the page.
So there is some selectivity on what the server will send...
Well, I guess killing the Redcoats in the Revolutionary War is out of the question, being that the British were the "legitimate authority" back in 1776.
I'm feeling disapointed that when I hear about the law singling out violence against a group, I feel like it values one person's life over another one; as if the life of a cop is more valuable than that of a citizen. It's kind of like the hate crime thing.
...and Janet Reno must be thrilled.
remember, our TV screens tend to be 2D, as well.
A great story does not make a great game.
I don't feel like a gullible fool when I think about the time I cried during Final Fantasy 7...
from link:
In a blatant misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, over the past two weeks a group of national retailers forced FatWallet.com (www.fatwallet.com) to remove Day After Thanksgiving sales information from its site. In letters sent to FatWallet, each retailer claimed that the Copyright Act gives it a monopoly over this price data. Today, the Samuelson Clinic and Gray Matters, on behalf of FatWallet.com, challenges those letters as abuses of federal law, insists on damages, and refuses to disclose identifying information on the individuals who posted the sales information. For more about this issue, please read the press release [PDF], FatWallet's online story or the Chilling Effects story.
I went to a less idealistic (and more politically/culturally moderate) business school
I don't think that one's political leanings affects their ability to succeed in business.
Actually, Cox cable in Southern California already packages up the three main services (cable, phone, and internet) and sells them to you at a discounted price. AND with a set top box with digital cable.
It's happened already. Just not wireless yet.
ac wrote:
"This is exactly what the founding fathers were doing when they made sure that freedom of speech became a pillar of what made this country. That is what makes this country so great. (Yes, there were a few hiccups, but at least today we can protest against the government and not fear being killed)."
Remember "Deep Throat", the anonymous informer who uncovered Nixon's Watergate scandal? I believe there's a good reason that the informer chose to remain anonymous...to this day.
visualight wrote:
"While no one in Korea will run to the streets protesting..."
Weren't they protesting in the streets about the US [fill in the blank*] very recently?
*i.e. presence of troops, war on Iraq, "axis of evil"
By Simon Singh. Would appeal to non-math majors, too. Inspired me to seriously consider Math as a major here at Berkeley. Now if only the department wasn't so nerdy...