Korea is largely considered, next to Japan, to be one of the gaming capitols of the world. If they all dump Microsoft I wonder how the game publishing/programming houses will react?
FFXI (which I play) has trading on a large level, from Auction Houses down to individual player Bazaars.
* Crafting is a massive part of the game, where you can learn cooking, woodworking, fishing, alchemy, goldsmithing etc. * The politics is quite prominent, where each of the three nations (Jeuno is neutral) competes for control of territory, thus dictating prices in that area, NPC's etc. If one nation controls area foo, certain shops may stock items bar for that amount of time * The quests are numerous, and also count towards how famous you are in each town and city. As well as being the only way to get certain equipment and items. * The missions increase your military rank in your nation by performing lengthy quests and such. * Also there is Ballista and Garrison "sporting" events, where you compete with a lot of other people in the same situation.
I know I am biased towards this game, but combat is not the only focus. A lot of people become intensely rich by being one of few who can manufacture a certain item, or who can teleport people to certain places. Other people go for the fame, or the highest fishing level (not easy to achieve) or for the rarest items.
For 500 of your dollars I could purchase a PS2, Xbox and a gamecube, plus several games, at the local GAME store. Second hand, granted, but fully functional.
If you even had the slightest clue, you'd realise the best way to get a website to display consistently, and degrade properly, across the board is to code tightly to standards.
The degredation is key. If you design some slapstick javascript cack rife with tables it's going to look shit on everything except MSIE 5.7 (for example)
Then don't fucking use them. No one is making you. And they can do what they like with their domains. If they don't like how you're using it, they can tell you to fucking go away.
1. It's 'rite', not 'right'. Important difference. </pedant>
2. Bullying is increasingly getting worse as a direct result of powers of discipline being removed from schoolteachers and the like. We're in a society where kids cannot get shouted at school, cannot get a good thrashing from their parents, and can basically do what they want.
I don't know how it works elsewhere, but in my school bullies were sneered at by all of us popular kids (gasp, a slashdotter was popular) and generally looked down upon. The only people who got bullied were the poor or stupid kids, of which the bullies were a part.
If we had nice corporal punishment, a good thrashing for bullies, it wouldn't happen. No one likes to be beaten, so to misquote the old phrase: Take the rod, beat the child. Liberal pansies can moan all they like, kids don't understand being talked at, but they do understand a smacked arse.
The scary part is that everyone tells me that the PS3 is harder to program for than the Xbox360, and the tools are nowhere near the quality of Microsoft's.
I wasn't aware that everyone had PS3 development kits. Development kits for a console that is nowhere complete yet.
Are you sure by "everyone", you don't mean "the fanboy gremlin that lives in my arse"?
And as these systems get more complex, the development is going to get harder. I am a Sony fanboy, buy I am interested in hearing about what it's like to develop for Nintendos new system. I'm not interested in hearing "omgz teh XBOX has best hax tools for game making!" or "stfu m$ noob, ps3 pwnz joo cell!".
How about some actual reporting, the last half of that summary was totally unneccessary.
Every week, maybe every day, we hear about another US-centric lawsuit based around "Intellectual Property" and licensing and a whole manner of stupid crap designed to limit access to our information-based purchases, such as DVDs or games or books.
I didn't expect anything but hypocrisy from the country that brought us the DMCA.
- The US, and the massive US military-industrial complex many despise, was essentially solely responsible for creating the internet (note: I am talking about the *internet*, not the world wide web, which itself would not have existed were it not for the internet)?
The UK was responsible for creation of the telephone, not the Internet, which itself would not have existed were it not for the telephone.
Your point?
Should the UK have the ultimate say in how phone numbers are dished out?
I see a lot of grousing in the linked discussion with people threatening to "leave and never come back". I'd wager almost everyone who is grousing uses Google, and this is exactly the same thing. Let's not forget that servers don't run on scotch mist and the bandwidth fairy certainly doesn't exist.
Someone needs to pay for this, and I don't see how relevant advertisements can detract from the site at all, in fact they will probably add to it a great deal.
If it was great big shiny flash banner adds with screeching canary gifs or something, I'd understand. The moaners need to put up, or shut up really.
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Korea is largely considered, next to Japan, to be one of the gaming capitols of the world. If they all dump Microsoft I wonder how the game publishing/programming houses will react?
This could be a good thing.
FFXI (which I play) has trading on a large level, from Auction Houses down to individual player Bazaars.
* Crafting is a massive part of the game, where you can learn cooking, woodworking, fishing, alchemy, goldsmithing etc.
* The politics is quite prominent, where each of the three nations (Jeuno is neutral) competes for control of territory, thus dictating prices in that area, NPC's etc. If one nation controls area foo, certain shops may stock items bar for that amount of time
* The quests are numerous, and also count towards how famous you are in each town and city. As well as being the only way to get certain equipment and items.
* The missions increase your military rank in your nation by performing lengthy quests and such.
* Also there is Ballista and Garrison "sporting" events, where you compete with a lot of other people in the same situation.
I know I am biased towards this game, but combat is not the only focus. A lot of people become intensely rich by being one of few who can manufacture a certain item, or who can teleport people to certain places. Other people go for the fame, or the highest fishing level (not easy to achieve) or for the rarest items.
Supplementing the gird is a commendable achievement.
Where are we keeping the real editors?
I can only imagine how proud you will be when your child becomes a perfect sphere...
I used to play football.
I bet it's not as much as they paid for it.
Not to mention that links has a graphical mode under the framebuffer too. :)
For 500 of your dollars I could purchase a PS2, Xbox and a gamecube, plus several games, at the local GAME store. Second hand, granted, but fully functional.
If you even had the slightest clue, you'd realise the best way to get a website to display consistently, and degrade properly, across the board is to code tightly to standards.
The degredation is key. If you design some slapstick javascript cack rife with tables it's going to look shit on everything except MSIE 5.7 (for example)
Then don't fucking use them. No one is making you. And they can do what they like with their domains. If they don't like how you're using it, they can tell you to fucking go away.
Umm, they ARE evolving, aren't they?
Nah, they were Intelligently Designed.
1. It's 'rite', not 'right'. Important difference. </pedant>
2. Bullying is increasingly getting worse as a direct result of powers of discipline being removed from schoolteachers and the like. We're in a society where kids cannot get shouted at school, cannot get a good thrashing from their parents, and can basically do what they want.
I don't know how it works elsewhere, but in my school bullies were sneered at by all of us popular kids (gasp, a slashdotter was popular) and generally looked down upon. The only people who got bullied were the poor or stupid kids, of which the bullies were a part.
If we had nice corporal punishment, a good thrashing for bullies, it wouldn't happen. No one likes to be beaten, so to misquote the old phrase: Take the rod, beat the child. Liberal pansies can moan all they like, kids don't understand being talked at, but they do understand a smacked arse.
I think blogs without user comments are destined to failure.
I don't know, Dooce and Maddox get a hefty helping of readers without any kind of comments system above emailing the author.
The scary part is that everyone tells me that the PS3 is harder to program for than the Xbox360, and the tools are nowhere near the quality of Microsoft's.
I wasn't aware that everyone had PS3 development kits. Development kits for a console that is nowhere complete yet.
Are you sure by "everyone", you don't mean "the fanboy gremlin that lives in my arse"?
And as these systems get more complex, the development is going to get harder. I am a Sony fanboy, buy I am interested in hearing about what it's like to develop for Nintendos new system. I'm not interested in hearing "omgz teh XBOX has best hax tools for game making!" or "stfu m$ noob, ps3 pwnz joo cell!".
How about some actual reporting, the last half of that summary was totally unneccessary.
I read that as "An Old Slapper Slacks up Hackware"
It must be time for coffee...
I'd like to point out the * beside his name.
He is paying.
I Passed up on some services because my email name was not available and I was offered those annoying 'number+name' combinations.
I totally agree with you Monkeyboy4.
*cough*
Don't get me wrong. I've been a programmer for quite some time and it sucks
I've worked retail, manufacturing, programming and in management.
They all suck. Work sucks.
I agree with you, most skilled workers don't, however, expect to get paid extreme amounts for knowing something most people don't.
Programmers are just egotistical and think they're better than everyone else because they understand these fancy new computer things.
Heh, ever played Zero Wing? They didn't belong to them for long.
Every week, maybe every day, we hear about another US-centric lawsuit based around "Intellectual Property" and licensing and a whole manner of stupid crap designed to limit access to our information-based purchases, such as DVDs or games or books.
I didn't expect anything but hypocrisy from the country that brought us the DMCA.
A non-profit running the .commercial domain?
does it run on linux?
*ducks*
Seriously, have they made the same improvements in the linux native drivers?
- The US, and the massive US military-industrial complex many despise, was essentially solely responsible for creating the internet (note: I am talking about the *internet*, not the world wide web, which itself would not have existed were it not for the internet)?
The UK was responsible for creation of the telephone, not the Internet, which itself would not have existed were it not for the telephone.
Your point?
Should the UK have the ultimate say in how phone numbers are dished out?
I see a lot of grousing in the linked discussion with people threatening to "leave and never come back". I'd wager almost everyone who is grousing uses Google, and this is exactly the same thing. Let's not forget that servers don't run on scotch mist and the bandwidth fairy certainly doesn't exist.
Someone needs to pay for this, and I don't see how relevant advertisements can detract from the site at all, in fact they will probably add to it a great deal.
If it was great big shiny flash banner adds with screeching canary gifs or something, I'd understand. The moaners need to put up, or shut up really.
We call those weekdays.
Oh! Didn't see the word rhyme there.
So far nobody has found a solution.
Use the same solution you do in the real world when a person or group starts spouting off nonsensical crap.
Ignore them.
P.S. stop relying on google so much, PageRank is obviously flawed if it can be so easily manipulated by spamtards.