Before using computers, I have no signs of carpal tunnel, after using them repetitively for just one year, I got an advanced case of CTS, which i recieved treatment for months afterward... I was given one peice of advice from the doctor, which is to keep my hands and wrist level with eachother, since doing that, my CTS has remissed into nothingness.
I have several friends who blow glass, they are constnatly twisting a peice of glass in front of a torch, severall of them had been complaining about CT pains, and i noticed their wrist was bent on a 90 degree angle when twisting the glass, I told them about holding their wrist straight to prevent it, and they started doing so. They as well no longer have CTS pains.
Genetics etc may play a part, but repetative unnatural actions are definetly the main contributing factor, and this article saying it's not caused at all by those actions is complete BS. Flame my post if you want, but nothing will possibly change my first hand experience.
The biggest part of these games, and the highest value of attraction:
No games graphics will ever beat text only's games:
WHY - Becuase its not limited by your PC, by its programming, and by Your Graphics Card, only your MIND.
You get a general mental version of the world your in, and you can assume its more detailed then wandering the plains in EQ2, unless your imaginaionally inept.
My buddy was doing spec ops during the vietnam war, working with CIA operatives, of course they wernt uniformed, but when heading from a friendly area to a friendly US army platoon, one of the US friendlys opend fire with a SAW and 1 bullet skimmed his leg, tearing the whole thing off, granted in the middel of a forest, you cant tell who non uniformed people on your side are, but its teh same thing, its not always easy, or every time you play counter strike on a FF server, do you never shoot someone in an intense moment that they get in the way of a snipe or something...
It's not just that hes PRO mac, it's that hes taking a deragatory stance on other OS's.
EG: the people that work on linux stay up writting viruses for windows.
'Mac's are unworthy' and 'cost an arm and a leg and etcetcetc'....
I do agree microsoft deserves some credit in some aspects, but this guy is straight up trying to say its superior to everything else and everythign else sucks... BOOOOO TO THIS ARTICLE
It is relatively unacceptable for two branches to have differnt packages, but sometimes developmental needs have cause for it, although I can't really see why only the specific packages made differnt for each one would need it.
Anyways, I think its the way to go, when choosing a Linux OS, most people like to choose something open source and widely used, and especially, free. SuSe is a good OS and alot of people are likely to choose it as an open source alternative.
I think selling the relivant same OS, with a heavy support package is the way to go, becuase Open Source Hackers love the openness and freeness, and business's like they with paying for something, and being able to count on support for that, they wont have as much of the trouble of integeration and reform of their systems...
Yes, NIgeria's other big scams include Check and Order Fraud.
A big one is to order a large amount of products, and pay with a cashiers check that guess what, can be falcified and that nigerian bank sure isn't going to give you the money for.
If you go to the CIA Worldbook, youll notice that 70% of Nigeria's National Trade is Fraud. Thats a pretty large number, so once can assume, if business is coming from nigeria, its fraud.
Whoever wrote this is just what they claim to be, a gamer, and its their perspective, but they obviously have NO idea of what they are saying from a development standpoint.
1- AI's: AI's as mentioned in an erlier post, are very resource intensive, and hard to program, if they were so easy to have a perfect AI that could do everything most ideally in a situation, this guy would be complaining about the AI's in games being too good, and probably complaning about the superior AI robots that are inslaving the human race at the time due to their unexplicit ability to do everything perfectly.
2.Yes, we do need more variety in games, but I really dont think most people enjoy the THRILLER INTENSE ACTION of looking for sheltern on an island for months, I think the closest thing would be games like Myst, Riven, etc, and that style of game, does exsist. Not to mention, there are a number of medical, law related, etc, games where you are able to play a person in that role, with realistic detail, just becuase the 'gamer' that wrote that didnt bother to look for them dosen't mean they arn't out there.
3. Yes, this is a real valid and undisputable point, while I can't agree with the FF advertisment bashing, as they didnt say it was actual gameplay screenshots, and everyone should have been well aware its an FMV, games like doom3 show actual 'in game screenshots' that are really rendered not produced in real time, and on systems that cant possibly be held by a consumer, thus giving people the idea it will be much better then is, here I agree.
4. uhhh, he answered his own question of why they arn't readily avalible on the market, and I do have a small amount of import games that have alot of nudity or sexual content, again, just because he didnt bother to look dosent mean they don't exsist, and while yes, they are extremly rare due to lack of distribution AND demand.
5. Perhaps you have a valid point, I don't know becuase im not a girl, but i've never once heard a girl complain about that kind of thing, and I know an endless amount of girl gamers.... So we can leave this one up to the girls to decied...
6. Yes, we should make more use of hard drives, but since you have to BUY one for the ps2, everyone dosent have it, meaning it sholdnt be depended on. As far as save point location, it dosent matter how often or not you can save, they do it so that you have to go through a ceritant amount of gameplay, making you more dedicated to winning.... Maybe the developers dont want you to be able to respawn 10 feet from where you die, they are just being nice enough to make you not have to go through the whole level...
7." No load screens, we gamers demand they be banned! The Hardware can do anything without loading anything!" Then he will be complaining about the level size, textures, and amount of interactive objects being smaller/lower detailed becuase they couldn't be preloaded. It's alot easier to complain about a problem then it is to find a solution. This is a perfect example of how one can demand something without knoweldge of it, my 486 can show the next line of text without preloading it, and showing a loading screen while doing so, but if you want more, it takes more, common sense.
8. Half the complaint about cutscenes erlier, half person preffernce, as the writer says, that IS how john madden really is, so I think the game SHOULD realistically represent it.
9. Ok buddy, lets see you make one single full size level with an object blocking every single invisble path, with 100% realistic character control movement functionality, and better yet 'total immersion', I won't be the first to offer you a few MillionUSD$ for the technology.
10. Man, this guy is dense, he wnats every single object to be completly interactive? Again, you show me a techonlogy capable of this on present day systems, for every object in a massive enviornment, I wont be the first to offer you millions for it....Another example of how its easy to complain about something without
So they intend to blame the people hosting the.torrents? They going to stop 80,000 MIRC torrent distribution channels, especially when they start using encrypted filenames?
Lol, while my cat does walk across my keybaord while im typing alot, I was just in a hurry, as I usually am and am now, and dont think it necissary (perhaps not considering the analretentiveness of slashdotters when it comes to spelling grammer and punctuation...) and yeah...
OH Comeeee onnnn man.. You think any of the other sites slashdot links to dont collect advertising revenues?
Even if its 'not a worthwhile service' Its NOT costing you anything, its information being shared, even if hes doing it for profit it's not at the readers expense.
Why should slashdot not accept GOOD submissions just becuase someones collect advertising revenues? Its not Hurting the/. community, it's contributing to it no matter how you look at it.
Until your post I hadn't heard of or noticed anything about roland, but its clear by what you have to say that
The only problem I see is if hes directly plagerizing... Context etc, even if naming souces its still bad practice, but like you said, that's not what this is about.
"They are convinced the ratings dropped due to the show competing against other Trek re-runs."
Yes, becuase Enterprise was CRAP, and shows like TNG and DS9 were amazing, Spike TV's DS-9 and TNG ratings are higher then enterprises ended at, I would say mainly becuase EVERY Star trek fan i know DESPISES the enterprise series, and We are all pretty big star trek nerds (eg can name stardates and events corresponding)
2 drives stop working and you think thats bad luck?
In the past few years alone i've had atleast 8 drives stop working, including one exploding (while playing a game) the faceplate shooting off one, the cd inside SHATTERING into about 80 some odd VERY sharp jagged peices, which Jetknifed out of the drive and some even hit me)
It took me a year to figure out that touching a mouse or keybaord cord with a vacuum can fry the device, so I've also lost about 10 mice/Kb's that just suddenly stoped working and i couldnt figure out why (on multiple hardware setups)...
I realize the vacuum'd hardware is my own ignorance to common sense of the static generated by a vacuum, but the cd drives on differnt pcs is just pure bad luck:P
More like the stampede of/. lawyers now realizing they don't know every legal term and what surrounds it leading to the highlight of these comments: What?
to quote "it will never put a dent in Windows' mind share or market share"
Hasnt linux already largly DENTED windows mind and market share, how many governments moved to open source and nix from windows systems, those XX,000 Systems dont count as market share?
Linux wont ever replace windows but, your a fool to think windows will remain uneffected.
Im sure im attracting nothing by flames and negative moderation by saying this, but despite think geeks awsome stock, I've been greatly displeased to notice alot of their products sell for double the cost of the same item at almost any other location on the web.... (go ahead look;P )
I agree, If a company has capable staff, what it takes is a capable leader, if he can delegate tasks and handle everything with the staff under him through way of advisors, and he himself is capable of handling the end to end business. Its golden, and knowing alot about the field is just a bonus..
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Before using computers, I have no signs of carpal tunnel, after using them repetitively for just one year, I got an advanced case of CTS, which i recieved treatment for months afterward... I was given one peice of advice from the doctor, which is to keep my hands and wrist level with eachother, since doing that, my CTS has remissed into nothingness.
I have several friends who blow glass, they are constnatly twisting a peice of glass in front of a torch, severall of them had been complaining about CT pains, and i noticed their wrist was bent on a 90 degree angle when twisting the glass, I told them about holding their wrist straight to prevent it, and they started doing so. They as well no longer have CTS pains.
Genetics etc may play a part, but repetative unnatural actions are definetly the main contributing factor, and this article saying it's not caused at all by those actions is complete BS. Flame my post if you want, but nothing will possibly change my first hand experience.
The biggest part of these games, and the highest value of attraction:
No games graphics will ever beat text only's games:
WHY - Becuase its not limited by your PC, by its programming, and by Your Graphics Card, only your MIND.
You get a general mental version of the world your in, and you can assume its more detailed then wandering the plains in EQ2, unless your imaginaionally inept.
Many of my friends here in FL have gotten off similar charges with the exact same cliam.
My buddy was doing spec ops during the vietnam war, working with CIA operatives, of course they wernt uniformed, but when heading from a friendly area to a friendly US army platoon, one of the US friendlys opend fire with a SAW and 1 bullet skimmed his leg, tearing the whole thing off, granted in the middel of a forest, you cant tell who non uniformed people on your side are, but its teh same thing, its not always easy, or every time you play counter strike on a FF server, do you never shoot someone in an intense moment that they get in the way of a snipe or something...
It's not just that hes PRO mac, it's that hes taking a deragatory stance on other OS's.
EG: the people that work on linux stay up writting viruses for windows.
'Mac's are unworthy' and 'cost an arm and a leg and etcetcetc'....
I do agree microsoft deserves some credit in some aspects, but this guy is straight up trying to say its superior to everything else and everythign else sucks... BOOOOO TO THIS ARTICLE
It is relatively unacceptable for two branches to have differnt packages, but sometimes developmental needs have cause for it, although I can't really see why only the specific packages made differnt for each one would need it.
Anyways, I think its the way to go, when choosing a Linux OS, most people like to choose something open source and widely used, and especially, free. SuSe is a good OS and alot of people are likely to choose it as an open source alternative.
I think selling the relivant same OS, with a heavy support package is the way to go, becuase Open Source Hackers love the openness and freeness, and business's like they with paying for something, and being able to count on support for that, they wont have as much of the trouble of integeration and reform of their systems...
I literally just put one in the mail (fedex dropbox at grocery store) ;x
Yes, NIgeria's other big scams include Check and Order Fraud. A big one is to order a large amount of products, and pay with a cashiers check that guess what, can be falcified and that nigerian bank sure isn't going to give you the money for. If you go to the CIA Worldbook, youll notice that 70% of Nigeria's National Trade is Fraud. Thats a pretty large number, so once can assume, if business is coming from nigeria, its fraud.
Staistics state that 90% of statistics are made up on the spot -.^
Show me a 100$ card that can handle my workload... I'll give you the extra 400$...
Whoever wrote this is just what they claim to be, a gamer, and its their perspective, but they obviously have NO idea of what they are saying from a development standpoint.
1- AI's: AI's as mentioned in an erlier post, are very resource intensive, and hard to program, if they were so easy to have a perfect AI that could do everything most ideally in a situation, this guy would be complaining about the AI's in games being too good, and probably complaning about the superior AI robots that are inslaving the human race at the time due to their unexplicit ability to do everything perfectly.
2.Yes, we do need more variety in games, but I really dont think most people enjoy the THRILLER INTENSE ACTION of looking for sheltern on an island for months, I think the closest thing would be games like Myst, Riven, etc, and that style of game, does exsist. Not to mention, there are a number of medical, law related, etc, games where you are able to play a person in that role, with realistic detail, just becuase the 'gamer' that wrote that didnt bother to look for them dosen't mean they arn't out there.
3. Yes, this is a real valid and undisputable point, while I can't agree with the FF advertisment bashing, as they didnt say it was actual gameplay screenshots, and everyone should have been well aware its an FMV, games like doom3 show actual 'in game screenshots' that are really rendered not produced in real time, and on systems that cant possibly be held by a consumer, thus giving people the idea it will be much better then is, here I agree.
4. uhhh, he answered his own question of why they arn't readily avalible on the market, and I do have a small amount of import games that have alot of nudity or sexual content, again, just because he didnt bother to look dosent mean they don't exsist, and while yes, they are extremly rare due to lack of distribution AND demand.
5. Perhaps you have a valid point, I don't know becuase im not a girl, but i've never once heard a girl complain about that kind of thing, and I know an endless amount of girl gamers.... So we can leave this one up to the girls to decied...
6. Yes, we should make more use of hard drives, but since you have to BUY one for the ps2, everyone dosent have it, meaning it sholdnt be depended on. As far as save point location, it dosent matter how often or not you can save, they do it so that you have to go through a ceritant amount of gameplay, making you more dedicated to winning.... Maybe the developers dont want you to be able to respawn 10 feet from where you die, they are just being nice enough to make you not have to go through the whole level...
7." No load screens, we gamers demand they be banned! The Hardware can do anything without loading anything!" Then he will be complaining about the level size, textures, and amount of interactive objects being smaller/lower detailed becuase they couldn't be preloaded. It's alot easier to complain about a problem then it is to find a solution. This is a perfect example of how one can demand something without knoweldge of it, my 486 can show the next line of text without preloading it, and showing a loading screen while doing so, but if you want more, it takes more, common sense.
8. Half the complaint about cutscenes erlier, half person preffernce, as the writer says, that IS how john madden really is, so I think the game SHOULD realistically represent it.
9. Ok buddy, lets see you make one single full size level with an object blocking every single invisble path, with 100% realistic character control movement functionality, and better yet 'total immersion', I won't be the first to offer you a few MillionUSD$ for the technology.
10. Man, this guy is dense, he wnats every single object to be completly interactive? Again, you show me a techonlogy capable of this on present day systems, for every object in a massive enviornment, I wont be the first to offer you millions for it....Another example of how its easy to complain about something without
So they intend to blame the people hosting the .torrents? They going to stop 80,000 MIRC torrent distribution channels, especially when they start using encrypted filenames?
Wish I had mod poitns to +Humor mod this :D
And if you commit a crime, and turn yourself in, you only surrendered and are not 'Arrested' right?
/backhandslap
Being forced to resign IS being fired.
Lol, while my cat does walk across my keybaord while im typing alot, I was just in a hurry, as I usually am and am now, and dont think it necissary (perhaps not considering the analretentiveness of slashdotters when it comes to spelling grammer and punctuation...) and yeah...
A company giving up GNU and GPL source without a fight and arugign it dosent exisist or creating excuses like everyone else? Speechless.
OH Comeeee onnnn man..
/. community, it's contributing to it no matter how you look at it.
You think any of the other sites slashdot links to dont collect advertising revenues?
Even if its 'not a worthwhile service' Its NOT costing you anything, its information being shared, even if hes doing it for profit it's not at the readers expense.
Why should slashdot not accept GOOD submissions just becuase someones collect advertising revenues?
Its not Hurting the
Until your post I hadn't heard of or noticed anything about roland, but its clear by what you have to say that
The only problem I see is if hes directly plagerizing... Context etc, even if naming souces its still bad practice, but like you said, that's not what this is about.
"They are convinced the ratings dropped due to the show competing against other Trek re-runs."
Yes, becuase Enterprise was CRAP, and shows like TNG and DS9 were amazing, Spike TV's DS-9 and TNG ratings are higher then enterprises ended at, I would say mainly becuase EVERY Star trek fan i know DESPISES the enterprise series, and We are all pretty big star trek nerds (eg can name stardates and events corresponding)
2 drives stop working and you think thats bad luck?
:P
In the past few years alone i've had atleast 8 drives stop working, including one exploding (while playing a game) the faceplate shooting off one, the cd inside SHATTERING into about 80 some odd VERY sharp jagged peices, which Jetknifed out of the drive and some even hit me)
It took me a year to figure out that touching a mouse or keybaord cord with a vacuum can fry the device, so I've also lost about 10 mice/Kb's that just suddenly stoped working and i couldnt figure out why (on multiple hardware setups)...
I realize the vacuum'd hardware is my own ignorance to common sense of the static generated by a vacuum, but the cd drives on differnt pcs is just pure bad luck
More like the stampede of /. lawyers now realizing they don't know every legal term and what surrounds it leading to the highlight of these comments: What?
Well forgive me for the fact you havn't seen much of the corporate world.
to quote "it will never put a dent in Windows' mind share or market share"
Hasnt linux already largly DENTED windows mind and market share, how many governments moved to open source and nix from windows systems, those XX,000 Systems dont count as market share?
Linux wont ever replace windows but, your a fool to think windows will remain uneffected.
What do you mean USED to?
netsol is still the worst.
Im sure im attracting nothing by flames and negative moderation by saying this, but despite think geeks awsome stock, I've been greatly displeased to notice alot of their products sell for double the cost of the same item at almost any other location on the web.... (go ahead look ;P )
I agree, If a company has capable staff, what it takes is a capable leader, if he can delegate tasks and handle everything with the staff under him through way of advisors, and he himself is capable of handling the end to end business. Its golden, and knowing alot about the field is just a bonus..