Wowzors some ppl just wasted a few hours at work. (^^ I know I've been victim to the same trap, before >.>) No matter how much you write it always falls on deaf ears, and even if it doesn't it never really ties up all the points you wanted to make.
Anyway, I skimmed through much of what you wrote, because to me it's all pretty simple.
One way the developer has to apply to an instititution in order to publish software, and it's probably going to have a nearly prohibitally high pricetag for a middle class freelance developer to afford. -- In the name of expenses for the reviewers.
(This also screws with the idea of Open Source in it's current context)
The other way we have viruses.
It all really basic stuff. An 'ok' analogy: We either post a guard at the gate to our town, or we don't. If we choose not to have the guard, then we have to deal with whatever comes in unchecked. If we choose to have a guard, then we have to deal with the guard...
One of the many points where this analogy fails is the fact people aren't hard to deal with until you put them in a commitee, then they're a knotted ball of CATV sent from hell. The guard would be 16 people of varying dispositions with either their own agendas, or they have very little sense of urgency & pride. "Wouldn't there be some good people?", you ask.. Oh, there were originally 18, but the other 14 killed two of them off, and the final two were absorbed into the collective, indistinguishable from the rest.
I will say Doom3 has noticeable slowdown with more than 2 enemies onscreen, though. The bottleneck has still been my CPU and RAM for every other new game.
When these new cards came out after the 9800 and 5900 series were released (X800, etc.)I was scared I wasted my money looking at the performance improvements.
But, it takes so long for the average PC gamer to upgrade his card, software developers don't completely take advantage of the hardware.
I think people put too much emphasis on which generation to skip based on performance improvements. The software devs still have to design games for the market which buys them so it tends not to matter much.
It's kind of funny slow technology advances' root cause can be the consumer.
Also, is anyone else a bit sick of not having REAL competition between buisnesses these days? Nvidia and ATI do advance beyond each other, but the rate at which it exists is too damn consistent. I'm guessing neither wants to gain complete market share because that's like putting on a big 'For Sale' sign.
Anyway, I'm probably completely off, I'm just sick of one card barely beating out the other.
But when a rumor was floating around in my family that I was a bad lover (I know, weird family, was caused by a pedantic friend) and I told them of my 9 times conquest they were stunned.
So the fact that you don't believe me over the Internet doesn't suprise me at all.
As other comments posted show, the problem is with pitchers and such.
Recalibrating stationary digital coasters on the fly seems simple enough, but what happens when someone gets up and goes to a different table?
I suppose you could have an tag on the pitchers and glasses for the coasters to scan, but wow that just seems a ridiculous waste of technology for the sake of beer.
I've seen many a good person cheat, shoplift, or download P2P music. (Including myself)
You will never convince me downloading music makes someone evil. People have vices, some are worse than others. The ones you list are a lot less important than ideals such as "loyalty", avoiding domestic violence, or being finacially responsible.
Some vices are the result of our environment. The internet is an environment where a new P2P software sharing application can be released every six months, and you can shut them down a couple years down the line. Somewhere in between a lot of people download music for free. Deal with this and fix the actual problem instead of trying to convince me I'm evil for downloading music years ago.
You cannot morally influence someone to avoid stealing music from their own home because they're going to have friends with less morals that care not, and are living examples of what a low risk it is to be caught.
It's hard to justify stealing entertainment as evil. I mean try to justify stealing medical supplies or food or something. But jesus, entertainment? COME ON, ok ok ok so it's bad, but it is by no means evil. Fix the problem yourself because you can't MAKE STEALING ENTERTAINMENT LOOK EVIL...A more useful study would be one that shows most people who cheat, shoplift, or download P2P music don't have enough time to REALLY stick it to the man by doing all three in in one day.
Last night when corresponding with a German friend online I found out she only makes 600 euros a month in an office building.
Little did she know that's the type of wages one can get from working at McDonalds over here in the U.S.
My old job I made twice as much as her, and my current I'm making four times what she makes.
So yes, in a way the U.S. does care more about the people (ITS PEOPLE) because the competition is the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is worse economically for the most part. To be appealing, you don't have to be good, or the best, or perfect, you just have to be a little better than the competition.
But, I guess that's why our medical always sucks. hehe.
I'm just saying it sounds like your standards are based on a world under a united leadership, and it most definately is not. If one country can get a bit ahead at the expense of another, they'll probably do it.
And, if you ask them to relinquish control to the UN. Pft, the UN is going to need some leverage because no one just gives up a possible advantage in a competition.
It all goes back to the Lord of the Flies or Rome. Sure we can all work together in a controlled environment for a while, especially for survival. But, give humans time and they'll break down into factions that compete, eventually. It's how we evolve for Christ's sake.
It seems to me the smart thing to do is to get a contact down there first who can set you up with an initial task. That way when you show up you won't be waiting around for days as people find a use for you. It shouldn't be hard just call county clerk offices in differing cities and if they can't directly set you up with something I'm sure they can direct you to someone who can.
But then we go back to wth do you do when someone destroys the bridge. With few "independent giant rockets into space" active suddenly we're stranded on earth until we build a new bridge or build a new giant rocket.
I guess both would be good, I'm just saying it's probably a whole helluva-a-lot easier to destroy a space bridge than build one so defenses would be crucial.
..an MMO would be a great place to test the concept of a DIRECT democracy.
Imagine you're destroying the hordes of Nazarath when a little context window pops up in the corner of the screen that say "Amendment 23 requires your attention and voting participation."
And, then to take it even further you can test even more radical political approaches in MMO's like an institution REQUIRING it's denizens to vote or their account would be suspended. It would be a great testbed for real governments to find if hypothetical political strategies are even feasible.
But yes, before we could even get to that point on a mainstream level game we have to break through this facist barrier from game publishers, or look at freely distributed solutions which make it glaringly obvious there is a market for this type of "game".
In respect to his account being banned, I can sympathize with both sides. It mainly comes down to who the game is marketed to. I'm sure some Sim players didn't want to hear about virtual drama when they're playing to escape real life drama, for example.
In the end I'd have to side with SOE just because they didn't DESIGN the Sims to allow virtual/real currency exchange, and they certainly didn't design it to be an extension of the real world, regardless whether it is.
To the author of the article I WOULD say "Just go buy the game which does allow and foster a sense of the next frontier for virtual colonization."
But, the game you're looking for doesn't exist, yet.
Meanwhile thousands of FPS game servers are being maintained by people who pay a monthly fee for (you guessed it) a First-person-shooter. You think FPS servers grow on tree BOI!
Planetside is one of the few (only?) proof-of concepts. It's 2 and a half years old, and it got crappy reviews when it released. Planetside only proves 'getting it right the first time' is a hard thing to do.
Just because the ONLY example sucks doesn't mean the genre will.
An action-packed MMO that actually requires honed reflexes to replace MMO's major weakness (the boring click-n-level) along with possible story/quest potential to replace FPS's major weakness (obituary editors writing storylines.)
MMO's and FPS are the two most popular game genres.
With their powers combined IT IS CAPTAIN FPMMOS, the first-person massively-multiplayer online shooter. (or FPSMMO/MMOFPS, but i like mine betta;)
Seriously, when we get a good combination of the two I will SO buy it. And I'm sure everyone else will too. Can you say MMOGTA? or MMONFS with licensed vehicles?
thanks for a laugh..and mastubatory fantasy material ^^
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"A life?" :P
Wowzors some ppl just wasted a few hours at work. (^^ I know I've been victim to the same trap, before >.>) No matter how much you write it always falls on deaf ears, and even if it doesn't it never really ties up all the points you wanted to make.
Anyway, I skimmed through much of what you wrote, because to me it's all pretty simple.
One way the developer has to apply to an instititution in order to publish software, and it's probably going to have a nearly prohibitally high pricetag for a middle class freelance developer to afford. -- In the name of expenses for the reviewers.
(This also screws with the idea of Open Source in it's current context)
The other way we have viruses.
It all really basic stuff. An 'ok' analogy: We either post a guard at the gate to our town, or we don't. If we choose not to have the guard, then we have to deal with whatever comes in unchecked. If we choose to have a guard, then we have to deal with the guard...
One of the many points where this analogy fails is the fact people aren't hard to deal with until you put them in a commitee, then they're a knotted ball of CATV sent from hell. The guard would be 16 people of varying dispositions with either their own agendas, or they have very little sense of urgency & pride. "Wouldn't there be some good people?", you ask.. Oh, there were originally 18, but the other 14 killed two of them off, and the final two were absorbed into the collective, indistinguishable from the rest.
Yeah, that makes sense. You can only improve on an underlying structure so much before you need a new one.
:)
I want a new structure!
9800XT too
Yea, it's done me right.
I will say Doom3 has noticeable slowdown with more than 2 enemies onscreen, though. The bottleneck has still been my CPU and RAM for every other new game.
When these new cards came out after the 9800 and 5900 series were released (X800, etc.)I was scared I wasted my money looking at the performance improvements.
But, it takes so long for the average PC gamer to upgrade his card, software developers don't completely take advantage of the hardware.
I think people put too much emphasis on which generation to skip based on performance improvements. The software devs still have to design games for the market which buys them so it tends not to matter much.
It's kind of funny slow technology advances' root cause can be the consumer.
Also, is anyone else a bit sick of not having REAL competition between buisnesses these days? Nvidia and ATI do advance beyond each other, but the rate at which it exists is too damn consistent. I'm guessing neither wants to gain complete market share because that's like putting on a big 'For Sale' sign.
Anyway, I'm probably completely off, I'm just sick of one card barely beating out the other.
I actually liked spellforce.
:(
Sure it was repetitive, but the RPG elements made the grind easier.
What I DIDN'T like is when I got close to the end of the game and a bug in spellforce made my savegame unplayable.
And it's probably refurbished, too, unlike the PIC.
Honestly, I don't care.
But when a rumor was floating around in my family that I was a bad lover (I know, weird family, was caused by a pedantic friend) and I told them of my 9 times conquest they were stunned.
So the fact that you don't believe me over the Internet doesn't suprise me at all.
Either way, I had fun.
I have OT karma to spend on my ego.
9 is my all time in one day. I was 19.
When we woke up the next day and she was leaving to go home she said g'bye and I started singing 'LIKE A VIRRRGIN...TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME'
What? It seemed appropriate.
As other comments posted show, the problem is with pitchers and such.
Recalibrating stationary digital coasters on the fly seems simple enough, but what happens when someone gets up and goes to a different table?
I suppose you could have an tag on the pitchers and glasses for the coasters to scan, but wow that just seems a ridiculous waste of technology for the sake of beer.
ha!
..A more useful study would be one that shows most people who cheat, shoplift, or download P2P music don't have enough time to REALLY stick it to the man by doing all three in in one day.
Look, CRIA.
I've seen many a good person cheat, shoplift, or download P2P music. (Including myself)
You will never convince me downloading music makes someone evil. People have vices, some are worse than others. The ones you list are a lot less important than ideals such as "loyalty", avoiding domestic violence, or being finacially responsible.
Some vices are the result of our environment. The internet is an environment where a new P2P software sharing application can be released every six months, and you can shut them down a couple years down the line. Somewhere in between a lot of people download music for free. Deal with this and fix the actual problem instead of trying to convince me I'm evil for downloading music years ago.
You cannot morally influence someone to avoid stealing music from their own home because they're going to have friends with less morals that care not, and are living examples of what a low risk it is to be caught.
It's hard to justify stealing entertainment as evil. I mean try to justify stealing medical supplies or food or something. But jesus, entertainment? COME ON, ok ok ok so it's bad, but it is by no means evil. Fix the problem yourself because you can't MAKE STEALING ENTERTAINMENT LOOK EVIL.
Last night when corresponding with a German friend online I found out she only makes 600 euros a month in an office building.
Little did she know that's the type of wages one can get from working at McDonalds over here in the U.S.
My old job I made twice as much as her, and my current I'm making four times what she makes.
So yes, in a way the U.S. does care more about the people (ITS PEOPLE) because the competition is the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is worse economically for the most part. To be appealing, you don't have to be good, or the best, or perfect, you just have to be a little better than the competition.
But, I guess that's why our medical always sucks. hehe.
I'm just saying it sounds like your standards are based on a world under a united leadership, and it most definately is not. If one country can get a bit ahead at the expense of another, they'll probably do it.
And, if you ask them to relinquish control to the UN. Pft, the UN is going to need some leverage because no one just gives up a possible advantage in a competition.
It all goes back to the Lord of the Flies or Rome. Sure we can all work together in a controlled environment for a while, especially for survival. But, give humans time and they'll break down into factions that compete, eventually. It's how we evolve for Christ's sake.
It seems to me the smart thing to do is to get a contact down there first who can set you up with an initial task. That way when you show up you won't be waiting around for days as people find a use for you. It shouldn't be hard just call county clerk offices in differing cities and if they can't directly set you up with something I'm sure they can direct you to someone who can.
But then we go back to wth do you do when someone destroys the bridge. With few "independent giant rockets into space" active suddenly we're stranded on earth until we build a new bridge or build a new giant rocket.
I guess both would be good, I'm just saying it's probably a whole helluva-a-lot easier to destroy a space bridge than build one so defenses would be crucial.
They switched to an abacus.
someone with the name c0d3h4x0r is recommending the O.C. to slashdot.
god help us all@#%@#%$@# END^OF CARRIER
duh, it's kind of hard to get stuff to the middle of nowhere, too though. kind of defeats the purpose to use a bridge so far away from your supply.
the problem is, tactically, a frickin space elevator is really hard to defend.
think sept. 11
and no this isn't a troll actually visualize part of a frickin space elevator falling into the ocean, or worse on a nearby town.
it makes sense to create vessels that are terrain or air/space navigable because bridges can absolutely cripple you if they're taken out.
..an MMO would be a great place to test the concept of a DIRECT democracy.
Imagine you're destroying the hordes of Nazarath when a little context window pops up in the corner of the screen that say "Amendment 23 requires your attention and voting participation."
And, then to take it even further you can test even more radical political approaches in MMO's like an institution REQUIRING it's denizens to vote or their account would be suspended. It would be a great testbed for real governments to find if hypothetical political strategies are even feasible.
But yes, before we could even get to that point on a mainstream level game we have to break through this facist barrier from game publishers, or look at freely distributed solutions which make it glaringly obvious there is a market for this type of "game".
In respect to his account being banned, I can sympathize with both sides. It mainly comes down to who the game is marketed to. I'm sure some Sim players didn't want to hear about virtual drama when they're playing to escape real life drama, for example.
In the end I'd have to side with SOE just because they didn't DESIGN the Sims to allow virtual/real currency exchange, and they certainly didn't design it to be an extension of the real world, regardless whether it is.
To the author of the article I WOULD say "Just go buy the game which does allow and foster a sense of the next frontier for virtual colonization."
But, the game you're looking for doesn't exist, yet.
"Blowing the heads of whores is NOT ART!"
However, a whore blowing your head? Now, that's ART!
Meanwhile thousands of FPS game servers are being maintained by people who pay a monthly fee for (you guessed it) a First-person-shooter. You think FPS servers grow on tree BOI!
Planetside is one of the few (only?) proof-of concepts. It's 2 and a half years old, and it got crappy reviews when it released. Planetside only proves 'getting it right the first time' is a hard thing to do.
Just because the ONLY example sucks doesn't mean the genre will.
An action-packed MMO that actually requires honed reflexes to replace MMO's major weakness (the boring click-n-level) along with possible story/quest potential to replace FPS's major weakness (obituary editors writing storylines.)
;)
MMO's and FPS are the two most popular game genres.
With their powers combined IT IS CAPTAIN FPMMOS, the first-person massively-multiplayer online shooter. (or FPSMMO/MMOFPS, but i like mine betta
Seriously, when we get a good combination of the two I will SO buy it. And I'm sure everyone else will too. Can you say MMOGTA? or MMONFS with licensed vehicles?
took a good full few seconds but I got it.
lol
lol
..and mastubatory fantasy material ^^
thanks for a laugh
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AMD provides a better value than Intel, and has since the first generation Athlons. That was what? 6 years ago?
Recent occurrence my ass.
http://redhill.net.au/c/c-f.html
PLEASE, try to know what you're talking about.