I was really happy to see a shout-out to Westwood's version of the game. I remember getting the game returned multiple times since the box of CD's always had one or two scratched, eventually we opened like 4 and I picked ones that weren't.
For me, the game provided a bizarre element of spectatorship. You felt like you were playing a movie, rather than being the lead role in a game. Very Myst-like if you've never played it.
The crowbar is a joke on game design.
In a lot of FP games getting the user to orient themselves with the perspective & manipulation of the character was a big worry at first. It's vital to have the player forget about control sequences and "live" in the game. So they break it down into simple things to do. Making a box is easy, probably the easiest thing a 3D game can create. So you can pick up a box and move it around and get familiar with it.
Valve said screw boxes, we're getting crowbars.
Of course this is all speculation, but I would say it if I was their PR person.
While they certainly don't adhere to averaging a teams player-ranks I actually don't find the buffs to be too much of an offset. I would say some of the guns are broken and require buffs (snipers took a beating since beta), but both the M16 & Mp5 as starter guns is more than one ever needs to get enough points under their belts against better players. In general while this has an RPG element to the game, it's not a signficant advantage to prevent someone from getting progress.
Also, I have never seen someone lose points, (could maybe happen on FF gameplay but that comes after a few levels). If you want to just sit there at spawn anytime you're on a team that wins it will progress you to more guns.
The bottom line is we are not earning our salary wage after we go home. I don't think about how much money I'm not earning as I sleep, thinking if I went into work at night I could be a billionaire. Either they should adjust the mean salary down to a 24/7/365 distribution of dollars/hour or accept the fact that what you do on your own time is a completely subjective cost.
I had similar logic in college, after some estimations of cost I came on the number of $24 for one hour of class. This is how much I was paying to be there. So the next obvious step was since my $24 was already spent to determine how much worth the hour of class actually was. Usually somewhere less than $5 unless it was a review for a test. In the end my attendance plummeted. It's hard to look at such a short-sighted metric as the degree has had far greater return than the cost. More importantly, it was a cost already spent, I mistakenly assumed that the actual time I was spending there was a hidden cost above the $24. Really unless I worked instead of going to class I could only lose more money.
In terms of a saved game, unless you're planning on selling it to a friend who can't get past a level, there's limited earning potential and only a subjective worth to the player, by no means can this be salary based. I would pay loads of money for a save after beating really annoying parts of certain games that are otherwise good, but typically I have no problem restarting anything that's worth a replay (hopefully every game).
My thought is that I really care about 2 saves right now, out of all the games I've ever played. If saves on the whole were even equal value to the game and we somehow had to pay for the save's worth I just couldn't see myself paying twice for all the games I've bought.
The save file is important, but I look at them as temporary entities that you eventually throw away. It's like asking if a 3-Day DRM song is worth more than the stereo you bought to play it.
Let me know what I'm missing or how one could justify this value across a non-subjective basis. I don't think cost value works quite like earning potential (which is an agreed cost to your employer).
I like the topic, too bad the book doesn't seem worth anything. I started out as a Journalism major and after 2 years of that I realized how I was rewarded (straight A's) for writing BS papers 30 minutes before class that I knew were completely wrong and morally disagreeable. (I switched to CS after I realized what a joke the journalism field was.) As long as you are citing someone else for reference you can selectively choose anything to make such a bias "news" piece that it will be publically acceptable. General media isn't geared to inform objectively anymore. Capping newspapers to 8th grade reading level, selectively chosing sources, and lazy investigations about one side of the story because it's more accessible is a serious downfall. Don't even get me started on television news, somehow 30 minutes of random sound clips and bad b-roll keeps me informed? I don't think so.
The problem that I see in the media, that hits home to most/.ers, is a combination of zero accountability (mods), and crappy moderators when they are in place. I have a choice in which bias opinion I watch, I don't have a location to form my own opinion without a lot more work. Add to that the network ratings are counted in thousands and a single letter coming in to the news station from a field expert telling them they don't know jack... there doesn't seem to be any insentive to even make a correction these days.
Does anyone know of accountability actions for bad/misinformed/misleading journalism?
I really hate people who litter their fast food wrappers, don't maintain their cars leaking antifreeze/oil, talk on cellphones while half-driving endangering lives, drink too much and become a public nuisance, and a ton of other things. The bottom line is smoking in this country (US) is a publicly accepted scapegoat making comments like this politically correct. Posts like these are stereotyping all smokers, some of us are more considerate than others.
Smoking offers many benefits to those of us that do it. For example, smoking was the only reason I don't have my reoccuring migraines I've had since highschool, and a large part of me overcoming depression with its stress relieving and ease of accessibility for those old enough to make the concious choice to smoke. There's plenty of PR out there to state the risks of it, I should have the choice & right to smoke.
I don't tell people how to eat healthy, even though deaths in this country are higher for obecity related reasons than smoking. If you look at Japan more people smoke per capita yet have a much lower risk of cancer and heart disease than America.
I'm not a lobbyist, but I'm glad they exist because if you just spew back everything you're told on one side of the story things like the 2nd hand smoke risks continue to be aired even after the tests are disqualified by the supreme court. Not all of us are idiots and I'm constantly weighing costs and benefits of my choice to determine when smoking no longer suites my needs and the risks overcome the benefits.
I appreciate your concern for the environment, that is a respectable goal and I fully understand the impedance smokers generate on this end. However, there are much larger concerns related to industry drive and common things everyone does. Singling smokers out in this regard is naive at best. I should start a civil rights movement for smokers;).
I've always smoked unfiltered luckies. Unfiltered cigarettes offer the benefit of "disappearing" after they burn up, grind down, or disolve. But realistically without a filter there is more cigarette to burn when you don't put it out. So for everyone flicking them out their car window there is this extra couple centimeters of burnable product, where filtered smokers can get it a lot closer to the fiberglass and stop the flame after flicking it quicker. Unless of course you smoke with a roach clip, then people will be asking different questions.
So it's your call, more asthetically pleasing and less long-term pollutants lieing around, or added chance of burning mattresses taking out your internet.
I would like to think my cigarettes are better for the environment than filtered ones, but when I'm driving down the road I try to keep an eye out for dry grass.
I was not aware that I2 needed routing redundancies yet because it's not widely used. Once it's adopted by all means it's pretty bad to run it over a single point, but in reality the internet is still a best-effort system. Unfortunate yes, but until it approaches the usage of today we're not going to see the iternet2 networks to prevent single points of failure.
On a less serious note; somehow a burning mattress causing this doesn't leave much to my imagination on how this guy became homeless in the first place.
For a company who is reknowned for brutalizing industry standards it's humorous to find them believing the industry would adopt their bastardized version of the existing.
"Now we've been dealing with normal nosema for a while. Nosema weakens bees. Imagine if a dozen roaches crawled into your lungs and lived there, multiplying. You'd have trouble breathing, and so do the bees. Nosema leaves the bees barely able to crawl in some cases[...]"
So what you're saying is this fungus is a cigarette? I think I've found a much cheaper way to stop exercising.
Seriously, where will I get my requirements documents now? I'm a big fan of large ugly detailed presentations when it's the closest thing I get to an SDLC artifact;).
With Vista being incomplete and a high profile customer Microsoft is better off with this decision. Let's say they don't do it, they lose money. Wal-Mart already uses Linux, smoother transition that is easier to negotiate. MS can "upgrade" the support beyond red-hat...pauses for laughs...
With Vista being THE OS microsoft wants to get everyone on board for I feel they just weren't ready and it was either this or lose the deal to someone else. It's not like they're going to gain a whole lot of support from the informed community, but this does set precedence for international sales on those who don't want Windows and want Linux for government applications. Now you're not voilating policy but paying for something you already have, plus a little garuntee of the moon (ie support + uptime).
Everyone would love a Vista deal before it's ready, but MS Corp. isn't as stupid as some of their applications. Flexibility is required to stay on top.
My Highschool teacher started us out with 2 semesters of Pascal, 1 of C++ only using linear methods. Finally we switched to Object Oriented with C++ and an Independent study of VB. College started with Scheme, then Java for the comp sci intro classes. Now all of our algorithms classes and such are taught in C-C++. Pascal/fortran were the industry standard for intro classes. I believe only 2 universities teach Lisp/scheme and have them centered on the intro curriculum. If you really want to get the just of programming Linear languages teach an excellent use of syntax, methods of style, and a clear approach to problem-solving in a way a computer understands what is being used. Object oriented is (To me) so abstract that it is difficult to understand exactly what is going on when I first looked at it. If you really want to program there are two things that drive a successful programmer. 1: a goal as to what you're going to do with your programming knowledge. 2: Acceptable steps to get there without taking on something that's too advanced. Pascal worked well enough for me because it's a great language to start out with easy to build number-crunching problems. As the end of our Pascal days was introduced we started learning graphic implementations for use on artillery-games or simple animations. Here's where we noticed what a pain a linear approach is to build these as our code lengths approached a thousand lines of code. imho, I would take a good look at what she likes to do on a computer, and then attempt to clone it. Solitaire is a good program to start off with. You really only need to know read/writes and randoms. Graphics aren't necessary in any language as you can do ascii printouts of location and update functions to show the board. As she becomes more confident with her skills continue to recreate the Same game making it more and more user-friendly. This step allows her to change languages, approaches, and designs so that she can begin to understand the numerous variety of ways programming can solve the same problem. Sorry if this is reduntant to other posts, but it won't work unless you can create interest in something you're going to spend hours upon hours doing.
So i load up my/. as my homepage, take a look at the first headline, RP-What? Read up a bit, go: "Huh, that's interesting" and head off to my email site. Bam! i get pegged with this worm and my computer shuts down. For anyone else in the same boat as me, you can still download the patch using the infected computer by typing: services.msc there will be two services listed that are directly linked to this worm under the Remote Procedure Call heading, just look threw the list in the standard tab. You can by pass it by going into teh properties and changing the crash executions do "Do nothing" instead of restarting your computer. I was able to download the patch via the website and am now looking for a way to rid myself of this worm. Firewalls eh? I've heard of them, but then what else am I going to do in my spare time?
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For me, the game provided a bizarre element of spectatorship. You felt like you were playing a movie, rather than being the lead role in a game. Very Myst-like if you've never played it.
System 3C321 Major: Stellar Nursery, I am your father....
Stellar Nursery: NOOOOOO!!!!
System 3C321 Major: Come to the Event Horizon side, it is your density
The crowbar is a joke on game design. In a lot of FP games getting the user to orient themselves with the perspective & manipulation of the character was a big worry at first. It's vital to have the player forget about control sequences and "live" in the game. So they break it down into simple things to do. Making a box is easy, probably the easiest thing a 3D game can create. So you can pick up a box and move it around and get familiar with it. Valve said screw boxes, we're getting crowbars. Of course this is all speculation, but I would say it if I was their PR person.
I don't know why you're complaining, sounds like a stupid name anyways.
While they certainly don't adhere to averaging a teams player-ranks I actually don't find the buffs to be too much of an offset. I would say some of the guns are broken and require buffs (snipers took a beating since beta), but both the M16 & Mp5 as starter guns is more than one ever needs to get enough points under their belts against better players. In general while this has an RPG element to the game, it's not a signficant advantage to prevent someone from getting progress.
Also, I have never seen someone lose points, (could maybe happen on FF gameplay but that comes after a few levels). If you want to just sit there at spawn anytime you're on a team that wins it will progress you to more guns.
The bottom line is we are not earning our salary wage after we go home. I don't think about how much money I'm not earning as I sleep, thinking if I went into work at night I could be a billionaire. Either they should adjust the mean salary down to a 24/7/365 distribution of dollars/hour or accept the fact that what you do on your own time is a completely subjective cost. I had similar logic in college, after some estimations of cost I came on the number of $24 for one hour of class. This is how much I was paying to be there. So the next obvious step was since my $24 was already spent to determine how much worth the hour of class actually was. Usually somewhere less than $5 unless it was a review for a test. In the end my attendance plummeted. It's hard to look at such a short-sighted metric as the degree has had far greater return than the cost. More importantly, it was a cost already spent, I mistakenly assumed that the actual time I was spending there was a hidden cost above the $24. Really unless I worked instead of going to class I could only lose more money. In terms of a saved game, unless you're planning on selling it to a friend who can't get past a level, there's limited earning potential and only a subjective worth to the player, by no means can this be salary based. I would pay loads of money for a save after beating really annoying parts of certain games that are otherwise good, but typically I have no problem restarting anything that's worth a replay (hopefully every game). My thought is that I really care about 2 saves right now, out of all the games I've ever played. If saves on the whole were even equal value to the game and we somehow had to pay for the save's worth I just couldn't see myself paying twice for all the games I've bought. The save file is important, but I look at them as temporary entities that you eventually throw away. It's like asking if a 3-Day DRM song is worth more than the stereo you bought to play it. Let me know what I'm missing or how one could justify this value across a non-subjective basis. I don't think cost value works quite like earning potential (which is an agreed cost to your employer).
Makes the new DS3 rumble pack rather reduntant now doesn't it?
I like the topic, too bad the book doesn't seem worth anything. I started out as a Journalism major and after 2 years of that I realized how I was rewarded (straight A's) for writing BS papers 30 minutes before class that I knew were completely wrong and morally disagreeable. (I switched to CS after I realized what a joke the journalism field was.) As long as you are citing someone else for reference you can selectively choose anything to make such a bias "news" piece that it will be publically acceptable. General media isn't geared to inform objectively anymore. Capping newspapers to 8th grade reading level, selectively chosing sources, and lazy investigations about one side of the story because it's more accessible is a serious downfall. Don't even get me started on television news, somehow 30 minutes of random sound clips and bad b-roll keeps me informed? I don't think so. /.ers, is a combination of zero accountability (mods), and crappy moderators when they are in place. I have a choice in which bias opinion I watch, I don't have a location to form my own opinion without a lot more work. Add to that the network ratings are counted in thousands and a single letter coming in to the news station from a field expert telling them they don't know jack... there doesn't seem to be any insentive to even make a correction these days.
Does anyone know of accountability actions for bad/misinformed/misleading journalism?
The problem that I see in the media, that hits home to most
Click on the title and bring it up in a new window. It's pretty lame.
I really hate people who litter their fast food wrappers, don't maintain their cars leaking antifreeze/oil, talk on cellphones while half-driving endangering lives, drink too much and become a public nuisance, and a ton of other things. The bottom line is smoking in this country (US) is a publicly accepted scapegoat making comments like this politically correct. Posts like these are stereotyping all smokers, some of us are more considerate than others. ;).
Smoking offers many benefits to those of us that do it. For example, smoking was the only reason I don't have my reoccuring migraines I've had since highschool, and a large part of me overcoming depression with its stress relieving and ease of accessibility for those old enough to make the concious choice to smoke. There's plenty of PR out there to state the risks of it, I should have the choice & right to smoke.
I don't tell people how to eat healthy, even though deaths in this country are higher for obecity related reasons than smoking. If you look at Japan more people smoke per capita yet have a much lower risk of cancer and heart disease than America.
I'm not a lobbyist, but I'm glad they exist because if you just spew back everything you're told on one side of the story things like the 2nd hand smoke risks continue to be aired even after the tests are disqualified by the supreme court. Not all of us are idiots and I'm constantly weighing costs and benefits of my choice to determine when smoking no longer suites my needs and the risks overcome the benefits.
I appreciate your concern for the environment, that is a respectable goal and I fully understand the impedance smokers generate on this end. However, there are much larger concerns related to industry drive and common things everyone does. Singling smokers out in this regard is naive at best. I should start a civil rights movement for smokers
I've always smoked unfiltered luckies. Unfiltered cigarettes offer the benefit of "disappearing" after they burn up, grind down, or disolve. But realistically without a filter there is more cigarette to burn when you don't put it out. So for everyone flicking them out their car window there is this extra couple centimeters of burnable product, where filtered smokers can get it a lot closer to the fiberglass and stop the flame after flicking it quicker. Unless of course you smoke with a roach clip, then people will be asking different questions.
So it's your call, more asthetically pleasing and less long-term pollutants lieing around, or added chance of burning mattresses taking out your internet.
I would like to think my cigarettes are better for the environment than filtered ones, but when I'm driving down the road I try to keep an eye out for dry grass.
I was not aware that I2 needed routing redundancies yet because it's not widely used. Once it's adopted by all means it's pretty bad to run it over a single point, but in reality the internet is still a best-effort system. Unfortunate yes, but until it approaches the usage of today we're not going to see the iternet2 networks to prevent single points of failure. On a less serious note; somehow a burning mattress causing this doesn't leave much to my imagination on how this guy became homeless in the first place.
For a company who is reknowned for brutalizing industry standards it's humorous to find them believing the industry would adopt their bastardized version of the existing.
"Now we've been dealing with normal nosema for a while. Nosema weakens bees. Imagine if a dozen roaches crawled into your lungs and lived there, multiplying. You'd have trouble breathing, and so do the bees. Nosema leaves the bees barely able to crawl in some cases[...]" So what you're saying is this fungus is a cigarette? I think I've found a much cheaper way to stop exercising.
Seriously, where will I get my requirements documents now? I'm a big fan of large ugly detailed presentations when it's the closest thing I get to an SDLC artifact ;).
With Vista being incomplete and a high profile customer Microsoft is better off with this decision. Let's say they don't do it, they lose money. Wal-Mart already uses Linux, smoother transition that is easier to negotiate. MS can "upgrade" the support beyond red-hat ...pauses for laughs...
With Vista being THE OS microsoft wants to get everyone on board for I feel they just weren't ready and it was either this or lose the deal to someone else. It's not like they're going to gain a whole lot of support from the informed community, but this does set precedence for international sales on those who don't want Windows and want Linux for government applications. Now you're not voilating policy but paying for something you already have, plus a little garuntee of the moon (ie support + uptime).
Everyone would love a Vista deal before it's ready, but MS Corp. isn't as stupid as some of their applications. Flexibility is required to stay on top.
My Highschool teacher started us out with 2 semesters of Pascal, 1 of C++ only using linear methods. Finally we switched to Object Oriented with C++ and an Independent study of VB. College started with Scheme, then Java for the comp sci intro classes. Now all of our algorithms classes and such are taught in C-C++. Pascal/fortran were the industry standard for intro classes. I believe only 2 universities teach Lisp/scheme and have them centered on the intro curriculum. If you really want to get the just of programming Linear languages teach an excellent use of syntax, methods of style, and a clear approach to problem-solving in a way a computer understands what is being used. Object oriented is (To me) so abstract that it is difficult to understand exactly what is going on when I first looked at it. If you really want to program there are two things that drive a successful programmer. 1: a goal as to what you're going to do with your programming knowledge. 2: Acceptable steps to get there without taking on something that's too advanced. Pascal worked well enough for me because it's a great language to start out with easy to build number-crunching problems. As the end of our Pascal days was introduced we started learning graphic implementations for use on artillery-games or simple animations. Here's where we noticed what a pain a linear approach is to build these as our code lengths approached a thousand lines of code. imho, I would take a good look at what she likes to do on a computer, and then attempt to clone it. Solitaire is a good program to start off with. You really only need to know read/writes and randoms. Graphics aren't necessary in any language as you can do ascii printouts of location and update functions to show the board. As she becomes more confident with her skills continue to recreate the Same game making it more and more user-friendly. This step allows her to change languages, approaches, and designs so that she can begin to understand the numerous variety of ways programming can solve the same problem. Sorry if this is reduntant to other posts, but it won't work unless you can create interest in something you're going to spend hours upon hours doing.
lmao, and for anyone wanting to know where to type services.msc that would be the Run...button on your start menu. I'm running XP professional.
So i load up my /. as my homepage, take a look at the first headline, RP-What? Read up a bit, go: "Huh, that's interesting" and head off to my email site. Bam! i get pegged with this worm and my computer shuts down. For anyone else in the same boat as me, you can still download the patch using the infected computer by typing: services.msc there will be two services listed that are directly linked to this worm under the Remote Procedure Call heading, just look threw the list in the standard tab. You can by pass it by going into teh properties and changing the crash executions do "Do nothing" instead of restarting your computer. I was able to download the patch via the website and am now looking for a way to rid myself of this worm. Firewalls eh? I've heard of them, but then what else am I going to do in my spare time?