But then I feel that games are becoming like much other software in becoming more and more bloated. I can do much of my work in a bash shell with vi (used to be emacs but...) but still I run Win2K at work packed with all of these features that are just continually tacked on (and not, to me, entirely necessary).
Myself, I work at a financial software company, and I just see our system getting larger and larger and more and more bloated (running more and more slowly). It's the same problem that occurs with growing corporations that eventually get too big for their own good.
Getting back to the topic, I don't necessarily think good graphics and realistic gameplay are bad things, but games will gradually reach the point where everything is excess and there are simply all these features thrown in because there "may" be a use for them or because they are "cool". It has to reach a point of diminishing returns where these features just become frivolous.
I mean there has to be a reason why I find myself more often craving a good Doom map over anything in Quake (sure, Quake sucked...) or even just Space Invaders. I don't think the Old School games have to worry, if they truly are Classics, because their draw is still there. I still keep Space Invaders for NES on my computer.
Because, as the reviewer mentioned, and others mentioned in their posts, it's difficult to decide which is the causal factor (a common issue in psychology, especially a "softer" non-reaction-time based branch). You can alsways say that people who we deem to be introverts do these things (I don't know, read many books, program Linux, whatever), but you can't say that their introversion pushed them into these things, or they are introverted because they are interested (or do) these things.
It's sort of tough to say the latter, though, because I do work in somewhat of an introverted environment (very quiet, typically all business) but there are some (relatively) extroverted people here despite the environment.
Basically, I'm not sure if I'd say introversion and extroversion are a hard-wired "temperament" rather than a culmination of factors of our personalities and environments. Because of the people that I've been around and certain other factors I consider myself a bit less introverted than I used to be. So I think introversion and extroversion are more of a classification, or a convenience that people can use to categorize the state's of peoples' lives.
There is a greater issue than merely liability, economically.
Countries (especially the more economically aware ones) exert a lot of time and energy into controlling their economy, which is something that Central Banks are established to do. If any one individual were able to create or erase currency or wealth so easily, it could topple a fragile economy (such as America's might be these days, and certainly as Japan's currently is).
Supply and demand works with money just as it does with everything else. If people are allowed to create more and more "money" (via these characters and items) they could exploit it to counteract the Central Bank's decisions to their own benefit. Japan raises interest rates (to cut the money supply) and Sony creates a certain new item, or makes it easier to obtain, to increase a certain wealth in the game.
It's strange and somewhat telling how these digital worlds have become offshore lives and offshore bank accounts for certain groups of people, where a conversion rate can calculate how many dollars a gold piece (or whatever) is worth.
Sony, or the Everquest powers that be, shouldn't be a Central Bank.
This is probably the same guy that sued McDonald's for spilling hot coffee in his own damn lap, and the parents of the teenagers who sued McDonald's for being fat.
I'm not sympathetic to corporations, but I'm pretty sick of people making millions of dollars over being stupid, or for an idea that isn't worth anything.
"Buy it now"? Are you kidding me? I might as well patent the concept of "buying" and corner the whole market of selling.
_______________________________________________ I crochet because I'm lonely. I'm lonely because I crochet.
Hey, I'm 22 years old and I don't pay for my internet (I piggyback my neighbors wireless), I don't pay for my music (go to hell RIAA), I don't pay for my pr0n, and I sure as hell won't pay for news that I can just Google cache.
But I'm not freeloader, paying is for suckers.
Damn, I gotta go, though, my mom's coming to check her ebay auctions on the computer.
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Eventually M$ will make M$ElectoralCollege or some program like this and people won't be able to vote because they'll be too busy closing pop-ups the whole time.
________________________________________________ I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
IBM seeking to charge $699 for the use of any Linux systems, which include proprietary IBM-acquired Intellectual Property.
The only ones that win here are, of course, the lawyers. And perhaps the Linux-users.
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
His quote from the trailer of his new movie (apparently one of the better lines): "Some men are going to be killed here today" (cut to gun shooting) "and I'm gonna be the one killin' them."
Highlights from the biography:
"After making one soft core sex film, he vowed to not work again if that was the only work he could do. He didn't work for nearly six years..."
"His frontal nude scene in For Love of the Game (1999) was reportedly deleted after being met with laughter at test screenings."
"Sioux nation gave Costner a tract of land after making Dances with Wolves (1990). Costner built a golf course on that land."
And of course there was Waterworld, The Postman, 3000 Miles to Graceland and, of course, Waterworld.
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Bill Gates has recently announced that Microsoft is going to purchase the EU as a part of their Trans-Atlantic operations division.
"From my understanding, the EU has a lot of influence in Europe," Gates said at a press conference, "and we could use this to boost our products in all those countries over there."
Europeans are unhappy with the proposed takeover by the software omni-corporation. Germany has threatened to split off, Spain has threatened to strike. France has surrendered, stating officially, "What does it matter, anyway?"
The merger would make Microsoft the largest corporation/political coalition in the world. The U.S. Department of Justice is considering the anti-trust implications of the merger.
__________________________________________ I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Yes, a similar thing happened to me. I was serving tables in a restaurant and I started chatting with a customer about how waiting tables was a summer job while I got my Computer Science degree. And so he says, "Oh, you're a programmer, huh? Maybe you could help me with computer. Do you know anything about Windows?"
And I said, "Sort of, but I know a lot more about UNIX."
"Weird," he says, and then he leans in and says, "cause I always wonder, how do they take a leak when their weiners are chopped off?"
I was in a daze. Not everybody knows about UNIX/Linux as we do.
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Computers are flying our planes. Yes, to the extent that our pilots can drink on the job. It happens to the extent that, yes, the production of cars and chips has become largely automated, but the knowledge of the technology is oligarchical. A proportionately decreasing amount of people know how to use the technology and an increasing amount simply "trust" it.
I don't know what in the hell is going on with my car, that information is highly specialized, but I can drive it without any worries.
I don't want to be a doomsayer or anything, but this sort of sentiment could push us in the direction of an even more divided society where we DO have a "lower-class" that doesn't know the technology, and an "upper-class" that has all the control and will be responsible in case anything goes wrong.
Alternatively, though, it's difficult to say, because this might also be the sort of thing that will trigger a great cultural advancement. When something like language was developed, not all people were probably capable enough to grasp it. Yet of course now it is something that is nearly ineherent and natural to all humans.
Maybe this type of advancement will make ALL humans more technologically aware and more intelligent as a whole.
Yeah, I think it's a good thing with some bad potential. I also think that (like the parent) this is something that is much more prevalent already than we realize. I mean, the pilots thought it perfectly fine to drink before flying. Their getting fired was probably more for show (the illusion of human responsibility) than because of some very substantial danger. It's still the safer way to travel.
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Yeah, I understand the basis of their searches and everything along these lines, but I find it's a real pain for me to have to type in "apple -computer -'steve jobs' -'steve wozniak' -'Silicon Valley' +fruit +eat -'grocery stores' -'buy online'" when all I'm trying to do is find a damn fruit.
One methodology (which I am presently patenting) is to display some sort of "Synonym Filter". You can intelligently find similarities between different categories of "apple". For Apple Computer you may find a lot of "G4" and "deceptive benchmarking", while for Fiona Apple you might see "Criminal" and "Please eat", and for the fruit you'd see "Washington" and "Red Delicious". So form clusters based on these, and ask the user to narrow their search accordingly.
"We have determined multiple groups for your search 'apple':
Apple Computer...
Fiona Apple...
Washington Apple Growers... "
Not to say that I'd have faith in Google to worry about the one-sidedness of their results. I think that they're probably too busy manipulating the Internet so that they can sell their PageRanks or hoarding information about its users which it will sell to Corporations and the Government. here.
I got:
1) Turtle mouth
2) Iceberg chunks
3) Indiana Jones
4) An apple peel
5) Oktoberfest
6) Orange cream puff
7) Black tutu
8) Llama stool
9) Superman's couch
10) Insect repellant
So I guess my password is:
Thisisalotofbullshit
When I tried it, in the inkblots I think I saw:
"Too Many Users"
So I don't know what that makes my password.
It's strange how/. never gets/. but Microsoft can.
I don't think it's a secret what's in these "Protected A" documents. The only thing Canada has to write about is how pissed off they are at America and an expose on whether the Curling Championships were rigged.
Slashdot Mirror
But then I feel that games are becoming like much other software in becoming more and more bloated. I can do much of my work in a bash shell with vi (used to be emacs but ...) but still I run Win2K at work packed with all of these features that are just continually tacked on (and not, to me, entirely necessary).
...) or even just Space Invaders. I don't think the Old School games have to worry, if they truly are Classics, because their draw is still there. I still keep Space Invaders for NES on my computer.
Myself, I work at a financial software company, and I just see our system getting larger and larger and more and more bloated (running more and more slowly). It's the same problem that occurs with growing corporations that eventually get too big for their own good.
Getting back to the topic, I don't necessarily think good graphics and realistic gameplay are bad things, but games will gradually reach the point where everything is excess and there are simply all these features thrown in because there "may" be a use for them or because they are "cool". It has to reach a point of diminishing returns where these features just become frivolous.
I mean there has to be a reason why I find myself more often craving a good Doom map over anything in Quake (sure, Quake sucked
Because, as the reviewer mentioned, and others mentioned in their posts, it's difficult to decide which is the causal factor (a common issue in psychology, especially a "softer" non-reaction-time based branch). You can alsways say that people who we deem to be introverts do these things (I don't know, read many books, program Linux, whatever), but you can't say that their introversion pushed them into these things, or they are introverted because they are interested (or do) these things.
It's sort of tough to say the latter, though, because I do work in somewhat of an introverted environment (very quiet, typically all business) but there are some (relatively) extroverted people here despite the environment.
Basically, I'm not sure if I'd say introversion and extroversion are a hard-wired "temperament" rather than a culmination of factors of our personalities and environments. Because of the people that I've been around and certain other factors I consider myself a bit less introverted than I used to be. So I think introversion and extroversion are more of a classification, or a convenience that people can use to categorize the state's of peoples' lives.
It does seem like an interesting book, though.
There is a greater issue than merely liability, economically.
Countries (especially the more economically aware ones) exert a lot of time and energy into controlling their economy, which is something that Central Banks are established to do. If any one individual were able to create or erase currency or wealth so easily, it could topple a fragile economy (such as America's might be these days, and certainly as Japan's currently is).
Supply and demand works with money just as it does with everything else. If people are allowed to create more and more "money" (via these characters and items) they could exploit it to counteract the Central Bank's decisions to their own benefit. Japan raises interest rates (to cut the money supply) and Sony creates a certain new item, or makes it easier to obtain, to increase a certain wealth in the game.
It's strange and somewhat telling how these digital worlds have become offshore lives and offshore bank accounts for certain groups of people, where a conversion rate can calculate how many dollars a gold piece (or whatever) is worth.
Sony, or the Everquest powers that be, shouldn't be a Central Bank.
This is probably the same guy that sued McDonald's for spilling hot coffee in his own damn lap, and the parents of the teenagers who sued McDonald's for being fat.
I'm not sympathetic to corporations, but I'm pretty sick of people making millions of dollars over being stupid, or for an idea that isn't worth anything.
"Buy it now"? Are you kidding me? I might as well patent the concept of "buying" and corner the whole market of selling.
_______________________________________________
I crochet because I'm lonely. I'm lonely because I crochet.
Here's something they can agree on:
...
_ __ _
Force people to pay $15 for a crippled CD that installs spyware on your computer (or CD player?)!
Oh, wait
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Hey, I'm 22 years old and I don't pay for my internet (I piggyback my neighbors wireless), I don't pay for my music (go to hell RIAA), I don't pay for my pr0n, and I sure as hell won't pay for news that I can just Google cache.
But I'm not freeloader, paying is for suckers.
Damn, I gotta go, though, my mom's coming to check her ebay auctions on the computer.
________________________________________________ I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Eventually M$ will make M$ElectoralCollege or some program like this and people won't be able to vote because they'll be too busy closing pop-ups the whole time.
_
_______________________________________________
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
It doesn't matter, the code will vote for you.
At least I hear that's how it is in Soviet Russia.
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
IBM seeking to charge $699 for the use of any Linux systems, which include proprietary IBM-acquired Intellectual Property.
_
The only ones that win here are, of course, the lawyers. And perhaps the Linux-users.
_________________________________________________
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
My nomination for Best Short Subject is Kevin Costner's career.
His quote from the trailer of his new movie (apparently one of the better lines): "Some men are going to be killed here today" (cut to gun shooting) "and I'm gonna be the one killin' them."
Highlights from the biography:
"After making one soft core sex film, he vowed to not work again if that was the only work he could do. He didn't work for nearly six years..."
"His frontal nude scene in For Love of the Game (1999) was reportedly deleted after being met with laughter at test screenings."
"Sioux nation gave Costner a tract of land after making Dances with Wolves (1990). Costner built a golf course on that land."
And of course there was Waterworld, The Postman, 3000 Miles to Graceland and, of course, Waterworld.
_________________________________________
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Bill Gates has recently announced that Microsoft is going to purchase the EU as a part of their Trans-Atlantic operations division.
"From my understanding, the EU has a lot of influence in Europe," Gates said at a press conference, "and we could use this to boost our products in all those countries over there."
Europeans are unhappy with the proposed takeover by the software omni-corporation. Germany has threatened to split off, Spain has threatened to strike. France has surrendered, stating officially, "What does it matter, anyway?"
The merger would make Microsoft the largest corporation/political coalition in the world. The U.S. Department of Justice is considering the anti-trust implications of the merger.
__________________________________________
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Our next lawsuit is still being prepared, but subscribers can preview it early.
No, seriously, how long until SCO puts down another lawsuit for Apple's open-sourcing code that contains SCO's "proprietary" work?
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I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Yes, a similar thing happened to me. I was serving tables in a restaurant and I started chatting with a customer about how waiting tables was a summer job while I got my Computer Science degree. And so he says, "Oh, you're a programmer, huh? Maybe you could help me with computer. Do you know anything about Windows?"
And I said, "Sort of, but I know a lot more about UNIX."
"Weird," he says, and then he leans in and says, "cause I always wonder, how do they take a leak when their weiners are chopped off?"
I was in a daze. Not everybody knows about UNIX/Linux as we do.
___________________________________
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Forget CDs and Kazaa. I just bought an unemployed Broadway musician to play for me whereever I go.
Only $100 bucks and the best investment I ever made.
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
I don't know about the accents. Their accents tend to be loud and obnoxious and incomprehensible. And their beady little eyes and their flapping jaws.
I don't trust those guys--I think we should blame Canada for all this.
Computers are flying our planes. Yes, to the extent that our pilots can drink on the job. It happens to the extent that, yes, the production of cars and chips has become largely automated, but the knowledge of the technology is oligarchical. A proportionately decreasing amount of people know how to use the technology and an increasing amount simply "trust" it.
I don't know what in the hell is going on with my car, that information is highly specialized, but I can drive it without any worries.
I don't want to be a doomsayer or anything, but this sort of sentiment could push us in the direction of an even more divided society where we DO have a "lower-class" that doesn't know the technology, and an "upper-class" that has all the control and will be responsible in case anything goes wrong.
Alternatively, though, it's difficult to say, because this might also be the sort of thing that will trigger a great cultural advancement. When something like language was developed, not all people were probably capable enough to grasp it. Yet of course now it is something that is nearly ineherent and natural to all humans.
Maybe this type of advancement will make ALL humans more technologically aware and more intelligent as a whole.
Yeah, I think it's a good thing with some bad potential. I also think that (like the parent) this is something that is much more prevalent already than we realize. I mean, the pilots thought it perfectly fine to drink before flying. Their getting fired was probably more for show (the illusion of human responsibility) than because of some very substantial danger. It's still the safer way to travel.
I crochet because I'm lonely; I'm lonely because I crochet.
Some bonar posting "Is this newsworthy? A book two years ago ... blah blah blah" and getting modded +4 insightful for pointing it out.
So the next article on space and solar systems I see I'll post "Is this newsworthy? Copernicus knew about planets long ago" and reap my mods.
You think you know.
Just use this pass. You'll still get hacked like a poser, but you'll win in the end:
HASH: 7EC45608BC8B887F4F2E8522BCC8E1D0
Pass: youmayknowmypasswordbutimbangingyourwife
I crochet because I'm lonely, I'm lonely because I crochet.
1) Hype cutting-edge game of popular franchise
2) Release demos to pique interest of target market
3) Never release said product
4) ???????
5) PROFIT!
Yeah, I understand the basis of their searches and everything along these lines, but I find it's a real pain for me to have to type in "apple -computer -'steve jobs' -'steve wozniak' -'Silicon Valley' +fruit +eat -'grocery stores' -'buy online'" when all I'm trying to do is find a damn fruit.
... ... ... "
One methodology (which I am presently patenting) is to display some sort of "Synonym Filter". You can intelligently find similarities between different categories of "apple". For Apple Computer you may find a lot of "G4" and "deceptive benchmarking", while for Fiona Apple you might see "Criminal" and "Please eat", and for the fruit you'd see "Washington" and "Red Delicious". So form clusters based on these, and ask the user to narrow their search accordingly.
"We have determined multiple groups for your search 'apple':
Apple Computer
Fiona Apple
Washington Apple Growers
Not to say that I'd have faith in Google to worry about the one-sidedness of their results. I think that they're probably too busy manipulating the Internet so that they can sell their PageRanks or hoarding information about its users which it will sell to Corporations and the Government. here.
Remember that the human population is growing. We must be able to accomodate this.
In decades we might only have 99 or even 98 IPs per human being!
Where's IPv8?!?
Yeah, I can't wait until the day when I can do this:
$ ssh washing_machine
$ put laundry
$ select detergent
$ wash (Wash Again SHell)
Never even have to leave my bed.
I got: 1) Turtle mouth 2) Iceberg chunks 3) Indiana Jones 4) An apple peel 5) Oktoberfest 6) Orange cream puff 7) Black tutu 8) Llama stool 9) Superman's couch 10) Insect repellant So I guess my password is: Thisisalotofbullshit
When I tried it, in the inkblots I think I saw: "Too Many Users" So I don't know what that makes my password. It's strange how /. never gets /. but Microsoft can.
I don't think it's a secret what's in these "Protected A" documents. The only thing Canada has to write about is how pissed off they are at America and an expose on whether the Curling Championships were rigged.