> I just started playing Borderlands and a friend was pissed at me for doing as well as he was with my 360 controller while he was on keyboard and mouse.
Sounds like a pretty shallow friend -- instead of being happy at your success, he is jealous ?!?!
> aha! A first person shooter - realistic? OK, how about no "health" indicator and no finding health packets along the road? How about, "you get hit, you are done."? How about no "respawn"? How about not being able to carry a massive number of weapons you can cycle through and "equip" out of your non-existent armory? How about sane limits to how much ammo you can carry? What about "cheat" modes that all these games have?
Go play "Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising" on hard-core.
Realism != FUN.
Simulation _may_ be fun, but generally, it isn't in video games.
Section. 4. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence."
> "Jesus" he himself would have never heard that name in his life (unless the Romans called him that briefly at his trial, right before nailing him to a cross).
Can you show me where in Latin or Greek there is a "J" sound please?
The name "Jesus" is a bastard transliteration. Hell, the "J" glyph wasn't even invented until the 17th century, AFTER the first 1611 KJV was printed.
"These have been... the voyages... of the space shuttle... Discovery. Her 30-year mission:... to seek out.. new science,... to build new... outposts,... to bring nations together... on the final frontier,... to boldly go... and do what... no spacecraft... has done before."
> And this is why most slashdotters hate facebook. Because they don't understand friendship, or the equivalent stimulation provided by nostalgia of said friendships.
Uhm, NO. We hate FB because it has a shitty implementation of privacy and security and couldn't code themselves out of a paper bag. Also, in 10 years, no one will give a fuck about FB. It's the latest social fad. If I want to share my pictures I'll either email them a link to my server, or host them on flickr, thank you very much.
> Do you remember the first time you played Doom? How about the first time you compiled a program. It's like that, but with people.
Sex would of been a better analogy... course this is/., so *shrug*, ok maybe your networking gaming analogy is the best one;-)
... to _finally_ settle on C:\users\ for the home directory?... or to keep fucking around with batch/scripting: command.com, cmd.exe, VBScript, Windows Scripting Language, and Windows PowerShell ?
"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." (Paraphrasing Edmund Burke, and quoting Henry Spencer who said it.)
At least Windows doesn't suck as bad is used to... now if they could only add Window Snapping when moving them around...
> The experiment always shows the truth^H^H^H^H^H reality and that is what scientists think. FTFY.
Experiment don't show truth - they show reality -- which _points_ to truth. If you have two experiment, that give contradictory results, you don't have truth (yet), you have a paradox. It takes _further_ experiment, to come to the correct _assumptions_ and _understanding_ of the problem, to reach a valid conclusion.
> That's how science, especially physics, works. It's all about the Real World and real, hard observations.
Right, just like Dark Matter, Dark Energy...oh wait.:-)
> Maybe it's just me but at some point in the last year FF3 started leaking tons of memory...
I've been using FF since 1.0.4. The dam thing has _always_ leaked memory (you can easily trigger this when using multiple tabs containing videos.)
I leave the browser open for _weeks_ at a time. Once it hits the 1 GB ~ 1.5 GB usage, I kill it, re-open it, and memory is back down to 200 MB ~ 400 MB. IMHO their garbage collector is broken. If I've just closed a tab, the chances of me wanting to re-open it, are higher the less time it has been, so I could see some memory being "still in use." If I closed a tab, and it's been a week, chances are, I don't want to re-open it -- and all memory should be released (and garbage collected.) It's like the devs never keep their browser open for more then a day at time, so they never see the memory problems when the browser is USED and OPEN for a month at a time.
FF3 doesn't seem nearly as bad as the 1.x series was. I'm hoping FF4 finally fixes this memory bug. Anyone else use the browser for weeks at a time?
> I associate arcade machines with being bored with money.
FTFY.:-)
Lots of good memories playing Super Hang-On (motorcycle handlebars FTW), Assault (drive tank with 2 joysticks FTR), and Magic Sword (COOP along with a NPC follower per player!)
> A good manager should allow accessing any website, and should set up goals to measure performance. Failure to achieve such goals should be discussed, to discover its reasons.
Somehow I don't think most employees would have any problem if goatse was blocked...:-)
> This is why I am a proponent of everybody studying martial arts. He raped her 'cause he's bigger and stronger.
Not that I disagree with you, but there are a few points to consider:
1. How long have you -actually- studied MA for?
Size MATTERS.
Aikido uses the momentum of the attacker against the attacker, IF you are able to pull the move off. If not, all that extra weight (and Strength) is going to hurt.
Not that knowing some Judo wouldn't hurt; I agree knowing SOME MA would help. The question is, can a person who is in a panic situtation remain calm enough to remember there training and do it? I would love to see some stats on women who have taken defensive martial arts and see if it helped?
One thing you never addressed is that MA builds your confidence. The strong prey on the weak, as humans we are part animals and are susceptible to this -- showing signs of confidence / assertiveness helps the attacker to shy away from them and to go prey on someone else [weaker].
2. Let's say we are in some mythical world where everyone knows MA.
This does nothing to stop _why_ the rapist did the act in the first place. You can't solve a mental problem with a physical solution, all you are doing is treating the symptom, not addressing the cause.
For the record, I was going to knee-jerk and say this wouldn't solve anything. At best, even the rapists will know martial artists, and you've just pushed the problem up one "level." But in reflecting, this is exactly what happens with guns + criminals preying upon the innocent -- they are less likely to invade someone's home when they know that they can get shot (or killed) because the home owner is defending his property. So in this point, I concede.
Yes! Another game designer _gets_ it ! Completely agree with everything you say.
> A real game ought to be *winnable*.
That's why I prefer the word "Social Toys" because that's what these are, at best. You "play" with a toy; there _may_ be goals, but there is nothing to "win." A game has (clear) ways to win _and_ lose. If you don't have, you don't have a game!
This same reason is why I am starting to detest MMO's like McWow. There is no winnable state -- granted, it confuses the issue, like getting to the highest level there is, but that is a _player_ goal, not a game state.
> For many the game held a lot of promise but since it was all about speed its "run a bit, fall, reload, run a bit more, fall, reload" gameplay just wasn't it. It appealled to the kind of person who gets a kick out of memorizing a Mario run through. For the ordinary Maria player who just wants to run through a level it was to unforgiving and to obscure with where you were supposed to go while also constantly adding pressure so you never could just look around to see what the designer had in mind you do next.
Yup, completely agree! I posted something similar in this thread as well.
- I grok the point of the game. I really do. You pull off all these amazing moves in one zen flow of execution and it feels fucking fantastic!
The hard Reality of the situation: You spend 1 minute figuring out where to go next. You die. You figure out that jump / climb, then you get stuck again trying to figure out the next 'segment'. Repeat ad nasuem. This constant interruption on trying to figure out how to make your way from 'Start' to some vague 'Finish' location, TOTALLY breaks the flow of the game. Each time you die, you figure out a little more of the "path" you are supposed to take. Finally, after 20 deaths, you can "chain" all the movement together, it feels awesome to do all these "stunts", and you think "this game has potential !" Then you die, and you realize you are a new checkpoint and you get to do it all over again until the chapter is done. LOL.
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> I just started playing Borderlands and a friend was pissed at me for doing as well as he was with my 360 controller while he was on keyboard and mouse.
Sounds like a pretty shallow friend -- instead of being happy at your success, he is jealous ?!?!
> aha! A first person shooter - realistic? OK, how about no "health" indicator and no finding health packets along the road? How about, "you get hit, you are done."? How about no "respawn"? How about not being able to carry a massive number of weapons you can cycle through and "equip" out of your non-existent armory? How about sane limits to how much ammo you can carry? What about "cheat" modes that all these games have?
Go play "Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising" on hard-core.
Realism != FUN.
Simulation _may_ be fun, but generally, it isn't in video games.
> No, they're not right. We are a representative democracy or a democratic republic.
Originally, we were a Republic. The word democracy or democratic doesnt even appear in the [US] Constitution.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Section. 4.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence."
> "Jesus" he himself would have never heard that name in his life (unless the Romans called him that briefly at his trial, right before nailing him to a cross).
Can you show me where in Latin or Greek there is a "J" sound please?
The name "Jesus" is a bastard transliteration. Hell, the "J" glyph wasn't even invented until the 17th century, AFTER the first 1611 KJV was printed.
> For many companies, (and I think this includes cell phone manufacturers) their brand is their most valuable company asset.
Nice post. Have to agree -- Apple has learnt this, MS still has yet to learn this wrt cellphones and the desktop (they understand this with Xbox.)
> They could just go with the Xbox 3G (3rd Generation!). Hey, it worked for Apple.
Uh, how does that compete / compare to PS4 ? :-)
Apple was a little sneaky in that they were piggybacking the "version" onto the cell protocol.
Oblg. ;-)
"These have been ... the voyages ... of the space shuttle ... Discovery. ... to seek out .. new science, ... to build new ... outposts, ... to bring nations together ... on the final frontier, ... to boldly go ... and do what ... no spacecraft ... has done before."
Her 30-year mission:
Thank-you!!! This makes Windows at least tolerable now!
* TaskBarShuffle
http://nerdcave.webs.com/
* AllSnap
http://ivanheckman.com/allsnap/
That's another good link!
Cheers
And why HTML, XHTML, XML, MIME is such a clusterfuck ...
http://diveintohtml5.org/past.html
> And this is why most slashdotters hate facebook. Because they don't understand friendship, or the equivalent stimulation provided by nostalgia of said friendships.
Uhm, NO. We hate FB because it has a shitty implementation of privacy and security and couldn't code themselves out of a paper bag. Also, in 10 years, no one will give a fuck about FB. It's the latest social fad. If I want to share my pictures I'll either email them a link to my server, or host them on flickr, thank you very much.
> Do you remember the first time you played Doom? How about the first time you compiled a program. It's like that, but with people.
Sex would of been a better analogy ... course this is /., so *shrug*, ok maybe your networking gaming analogy is the best one ;-)
Now get off ma lawn!
... to _finally_ settle on C:\users\ for the home directory? ... or to keep fucking around with batch/scripting: command.com, cmd.exe, VBScript, Windows Scripting Language, and Windows PowerShell ?
"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." (Paraphrasing Edmund Burke, and quoting Henry Spencer who said it.)
At least Windows doesn't suck as bad is used to... now if they could only add Window Snapping when moving them around ...
Oblg.: Bing Is No Good. :-)
> The experiment always shows the truth^H^H^H^H^H reality and that is what scientists think.
FTFY.
Experiment don't show truth - they show reality -- which _points_ to truth. If you have two experiment, that give contradictory results, you don't have truth (yet), you have a paradox. It takes _further_ experiment, to come to the correct _assumptions_ and _understanding_ of the problem, to reach a valid conclusion.
> That's how science, especially physics, works. It's all about the Real World and real, hard observations.
Right, just like Dark Matter, Dark Energy ...oh wait. :-)
There's a difference? :-)
> Unfortunately, all of the other vendors also suck.
We use Sophos at work. Haven't noticed any issues / problems in the few years we've been using.
> Maybe it's just me but at some point in the last year FF3 started leaking tons of memory ...
I've been using FF since 1.0.4. The dam thing has _always_ leaked memory (you can easily trigger this when using multiple tabs containing videos.)
I leave the browser open for _weeks_ at a time. Once it hits the 1 GB ~ 1.5 GB usage, I kill it, re-open it, and memory is back down to 200 MB ~ 400 MB. IMHO their garbage collector is broken. If I've just closed a tab, the chances of me wanting to re-open it, are higher the less time it has been, so I could see some memory being "still in use." If I closed a tab, and it's been a week, chances are, I don't want to re-open it -- and all memory should be released (and garbage collected.) It's like the devs never keep their browser open for more then a day at time, so they never see the memory problems when the browser is USED and OPEN for a month at a time.
FF3 doesn't seem nearly as bad as the 1.x series was. I'm hoping FF4 finally fixes this memory bug. Anyone else use the browser for weeks at a time?
Cheers
Obligatory South Park Carmen :-)
Ra-spect ma au-thor-it-tay !
> I associate arcade machines with being bored with money.
FTFY. :-)
Lots of good memories playing Super Hang-On (motorcycle handlebars FTW), Assault (drive tank with 2 joysticks FTR), and Magic Sword (COOP along with a NPC follower per player!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hang-On
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_(1988_video_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Sword
Cheers
> it is fraudulent for me to claim that I used Microsoft Paint to paint the Mona Lisa in an advertisement for Windows (assuming it wasn't parody).
Why? This guy really DID paint the Mona Lisa with Microsoft Paint !
"How to paint the MONA LISA with MS PAINT"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU
> A good manager should allow accessing any website, and should set up goals to measure performance. Failure to achieve such goals should be discussed, to discover its reasons.
Somehow I don't think most employees would have any problem if goatse was blocked ... :-)
Yeah, coming from Exel and C/C++ where ',' is a function argument seperator, using semi-colon ';' is plain frustrating.
With any luck hopefully there would be: const char ARG_SEPERATOR = ';'; that could be changed...
> This is why I am a proponent of everybody studying martial arts. He raped her 'cause he's bigger and stronger.
Not that I disagree with you, but there are a few points to consider:
1. How long have you -actually- studied MA for?
Size MATTERS.
Aikido uses the momentum of the attacker against the attacker, IF you are able to pull the move off. If not, all that extra weight (and Strength) is going to hurt.
Not that knowing some Judo wouldn't hurt; I agree knowing SOME MA would help. The question is, can a person who is in a panic situtation remain calm enough to remember there training and do it? I would love to see some stats on women who have taken defensive martial arts and see if it helped?
One thing you never addressed is that MA builds your confidence. The strong prey on the weak, as humans we are part animals and are susceptible to this -- showing signs of confidence / assertiveness helps the attacker to shy away from them and to go prey on someone else [weaker].
2. Let's say we are in some mythical world where everyone knows MA.
This does nothing to stop _why_ the rapist did the act in the first place. You can't solve a mental problem with a physical solution, all you are doing is treating the symptom, not addressing the cause.
For the record, I was going to knee-jerk and say this wouldn't solve anything. At best, even the rapists will know martial artists, and you've just pushed the problem up one "level." But in reflecting, this is exactly what happens with guns + criminals preying upon the innocent -- they are less likely to invade someone's home when they know that they can get shot (or killed) because the home owner is defending his property. So in this point, I concede.
Cheers
Yes! Another game designer _gets_ it ! Completely agree with everything you say.
> A real game ought to be *winnable*.
That's why I prefer the word "Social Toys" because that's what these are, at best. You "play" with a toy; there _may_ be goals, but there is nothing to "win." A game has (clear) ways to win _and_ lose. If you don't have, you don't have a game!
This same reason is why I am starting to detest MMO's like McWow. There is no winnable state -- granted, it confuses the issue, like getting to the highest level there is, but that is a _player_ goal, not a game state.
Cheers
> For many the game held a lot of promise but since it was all about speed its "run a bit, fall, reload, run a bit more, fall, reload" gameplay just wasn't it. It appealled to the kind of person who gets a kick out of memorizing a Mario run through. For the ordinary Maria player who just wants to run through a level it was to unforgiving and to obscure with where you were supposed to go while also constantly adding pressure so you never could just look around to see what the designer had in mind you do next.
Yup, completely agree! I posted something similar in this thread as well.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1995992&cid=35214326
- I grok the point of the game. I really do. You pull off all these amazing moves in one zen flow of execution and it feels fucking fantastic!
The hard Reality of the situation: You spend 1 minute figuring out where to go next. You die. You figure out that jump / climb, then you get stuck again trying to figure out the next 'segment'. Repeat ad nasuem. This constant interruption on trying to figure out how to make your way from 'Start' to some vague 'Finish' location, TOTALLY breaks the flow of the game. Each time you die, you figure out a little more of the "path" you are supposed to take. Finally, after 20 deaths, you can "chain" all the movement together, it feels awesome to do all these "stunts", and you think "this game has potential !" Then you die, and you realize you are a new checkpoint and you get to do it all over again until the chapter is done. LOL.