Emacs is the way to go! And as a matter of fact, I wrote a Lisp Script that just creates the webpage for me!
It's pretty slick. See, in my client meetings, I record what they want, I then transfer the mp3 to the machine and the script listens to it and Viola! creates the website exactly the way the customer describes it! I then get a fat check and take off in the Ferrari with my porn star of the day and we shag like Tasmanian Devils - without the cancer - Poor Devils!
At least that's what I remember after I take these cool looking pills and downing them with Scotch while viewing porn....
For some time I've had this nagging doubt... WHY do so may people from English speaking countries use "Viola!"? Is it cheer ignorance that makes then write that instead of the french "Voila!"?
I mean if it is sarcasm directed at those who actually make that mistake, a sarcasm that has grown into common online usage, I find it funny. If it really is a mistake.. well, I find that sad. The "triumphant", "in your face" sounding remark just turns into something that is vaguely reminiscent of a young child that keeps biting his own tongue, trying to speak. LOL-worthy, if in a sad way.
I mean... Jeez! I am at a loss to conjure up the words that will allow me to voice how stupid this whole situation is, and how mind numbingly retard this guy's single neuron must have been years ago, before it died an agonizing death!
Are you on some bad crack or just living in your own little version of reality?
To me, what GP seems to be saying is that CBS is a corporation that exists for the sole purpose of making money. Let us suppose, even if for a moment, that whatever media CBS owns is seen as something to make money with, which is CBS's main goal.
If some dudes make a copy of their media and delivers it to the general public, CBS won't be getting as much money as they might otherwise.
We live amidst cut-throat capitalism. What matters most to a stockholder in this tanking economy? A cultural icon, or some money to fill his pockets with?
Because of course, a corporation's objective will be to deprive it's stockholders from some immediate financial gain, just to preserve a cultural icon.
Ah, here is someone who never played DOOM for the first time in his room at night, with no other light source than the CRT and with headphones making sure the first cacodemon that ever jumped him gave him a bloody fright.
My comment was focusing only on the novelty of the technique per se, as applied to games.
It does not mean it cannot be applied in an innovative way to the RTS genre (unfortunately, if I may add: not to take away credits from the original poster, but there are so many things like this that could be used to make games a lot better, and they seem to miss mainstream. perhaps his will be the one).
The notion of intelligent agents has been around for quite a few years.
Even I, 12 years ago at the University, had to implement a miserable little game where the A.I. was at a lower level than an all seeing, all knowing AI that makes decisions, each agent with it's set of "intelligent", adaptive rules.
So... how is this concept new (or NEWSworthy, for that matter)?
Then I'd say we must expect HDD manufacturers to go the way of the dodo WAY faster than the crisis itself would have caused them to go.
A manufacturer that pulls a stunt like that with MY gear gets a one way ticket to my NO-NO list.
Like with IBM and their damned DeathStars. They may have sold their HDD unit to Hitachi in an attempt to get rid of the bad rep (and bad results, I'd say), but that only made me also NOT buy Hitachi HDD now.
Cheers!
Why the fuck is this message's parent being modded insightful?
Seems to me it's obviously being ironic, like... people DO use that way of fact checking, but it's only cause they are fucking lazy/retarded, not because it is last century.
You think THAT's steep?
I live in Portugal, Europe, and our sales tax starts at 0% (vital medicines and some othe stuff), 5% and then for the VAST majority of stuff, a whooping 21% sales tax. Thats right, 21%.
By the way, if people elsewhere think they are paying dearly for fuel, just picture this... here in Portugal, the state charges a tax on oil derivatives (like fuel) and then charges a sales tax on both the real price AND the oil derivative tax, double taxing (taxing a tax). They also do the same stunt when people by cars.
So.. you really have it good on that account.
Hell, YEAH!
I still remember the first time I played Alone in the Dark, in a dark room at night.
Right at the beginning, a rude awakening by that hopping weirdo that jumped in through the window, and then finding out how to blow him away with the shotgun in the nick of time... Oh Yeah! Bring on GOOD games such as this one once more!
Actually, where I live in (Portugal) there is a default minimum speed for EVERY highway.
At the very most you may find traffic signs decerasing that even further.
There:)
And if my ISP says unlimited, I will demand unlimited. If a restaurant advertises "all you can eat", I'll bloody have my meal until I am satisfied or they run out of food (the former bring the most likely), and I will call the cops on them if they try to go back on their own word.
I see it like this: if you WANT to have a business, you must obey the law AND follow what you advertise to the letter (something that is actually mandatory by law, in my country: you advertise shit, you'd better do what you advertised or you are fucked). You fail to do one of those things you are not fit to run that specific business and should lose it.
Bloody hell, another guy trying to squeeze stuff into his own way of thinking. His sentence only makes sense if he is talking about the GENERAL population, not ONE specific individual, thus we may assume he meant the sense that was logical.
THe rule is that you USUALLY don't see people falling left and right on the street from diabetes and such crap. The whole abnormal health condition you described as example is fortunately only found in a MINORITY of the population.
Call me an ungrateful bastard, if you will, using other's people hard work and whining.
I work as software developer/analyst and would love to spit in microsoft's face by using linux for every darned thing that I do.
However, I don't. Why? I Don't give a rat's ass about the reasons, or who is to blame (CERTAINLY not everyday user who just wants...things to work).
Until games start working NATIVELY on linux (don't give me that emulation crap) and WIRELESS support is up to par with windows, I won't touch the thing. And I know lots of other people with the same mindset.
Face it... market forces don't give a damn about linux fanatics' idealism or wet dreams. And despite its' crappiness, for me Windows... just works. I am not some retard that will open every damned single email item without a thought, and don't run freaky crap without double checking it first. You say Linux does not have those problems... alright, and I and most people out there say it is a small price to pay for having things work on our systems and won't touch your pet OS in a serious fashion until the industry shapes it up ina away that is satisfying for most people.
This kind of stuff only serves to imprint on people's minds the impression that EVERY artist and EVERYONE in the music business is trying to leech the general public.
We already pay said levies here in Europe. I pay a levy each time i buy a CD to backup my photos, for instance. Who on this frigging earth gave the music people (and I mean studios, artists, etc: music people don't like to be bundled with studios, etc, like this, TOUGH LUCK; if most of them REALLY are all so piss poor they should have numbers to do something about it or STFU) any GODDAMN right to getting paid for this? I WOULDNT care if the artists were really getting compensated with this money, and I MOST CERTAINLY don't care the way things are now.
If they want to assume everyone is out to pirate their (in too many instances) miserable "art" then by Jove we ought to do as they want and start copying and distributing everything we can lay our hands on.
People say BUHU! but the artist doesn't get paid all the money he should until much later on. To that *I* say: TOUGH SHIT! Get your act together artists. You try or let other artists try to fuck with the public, and then complain the public fucks with you, HA!
By the way, in case you haven't noticed, I'm pissed at this crap (I DO buy CDs to backup photos, lol).
->> 4) It is not correct to call Brazil part of "Latin America". Brazilians are part of a very different culture than the Spanish-speaking countries. (Brazilians speak Portuguese.)
Actually, Portuguese language, along with several others, is heavilly based on latin. Thus we, portuguese, are actually one of the european people you can actually call "latins". If latin america is supposed to be the region where people speak languages that are based on latin, then brazil is MOST definitely in latin america, since what they speak in Brazil is derived from portuguese. No, whatever they tell people it is NOT portuguese, it is something I would call a quasi-bastardization of the portuguese language. It matters not whether you have a spanish or portuguese heritage, both are latin based.
->> 8) The Brazilian government is far from perfect, but is much less corrupt than the U.S. government. How many Iraqi civilians has the president of each country killed? George W. Bush: 1,000,000. Lula: 0. How many countries has each country invaded or bombed for oil or weapons or other profits since the end of the 2nd World War: United States: 24. Brazil: 0.
Though it is good to criticize that which is wrong, brazilians shouldn't throw TOO many stones before they tidy up their own place. I wonder why those in power were ellected a second time, after so many scandals.
Remember "mensalao"("big monthly allowance"), where the government bribed parliament members so they would vote what the government wanted. OR the "Bingo Scandal", where a minister's aide would extort and force money from gambling establishments, and hand those ill gotten gains to his party (the party that is actually still in power, re-elected after all this stuff took place). And to end this disgraceful list, the year after there was yet another case, where money fom the state-run post offices was diverted to bribe polititians.
To me it says a lot about the average brazillians sense of what is right.
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Emacs is the way to go! And as a matter of fact, I wrote a Lisp Script that just creates the webpage for me!
It's pretty slick. See, in my client meetings, I record what they want, I then transfer the mp3 to the machine and the script listens to it and Viola! creates the website exactly the way the customer describes it! I then get a fat check and take off in the Ferrari with my porn star of the day and we shag like Tasmanian Devils - without the cancer - Poor Devils!
At least that's what I remember after I take these cool looking pills and downing them with Scotch while viewing porn ....
For some time I've had this nagging doubt... WHY do so may people from English speaking countries use "Viola!"? Is it cheer ignorance that makes then write that instead of the french "Voila!"? I mean if it is sarcasm directed at those who actually make that mistake, a sarcasm that has grown into common online usage, I find it funny. If it really is a mistake.. well, I find that sad. The "triumphant", "in your face" sounding remark just turns into something that is vaguely reminiscent of a young child that keeps biting his own tongue, trying to speak. LOL-worthy, if in a sad way.
Am I the only one who read "China's buggery"?
WOOOOOOSH..... ?
I mean... Jeez! I am at a loss to conjure up the words that will allow me to voice how stupid this whole situation is, and how mind numbingly retard this guy's single neuron must have been years ago, before it died an agonizing death!
Hmm... weren't there some news, years back, concerning some sort of bacteria that ate oil, consuming it?
Would the resulting products be also quite nasty, or was it all an hoax?
Travian?
UUuuhh... another shiny browser based game... The cheer quantity of web based games with similar rules/mechanisms is just mind bogging.
For over a decade now there have been such games. Calling it Ultima doesn't make it better than all the other crapfest around.
They are defecating on the memories of those that were fond of the ultima franchise, and hoping to gain frm it, too.
Are you on some bad crack or just living in your own little version of reality?
To me, what GP seems to be saying is that CBS is a corporation that exists for the sole purpose of making money. Let us suppose, even if for a moment, that whatever media CBS owns is seen as something to make money with, which is CBS's main goal.
If some dudes make a copy of their media and delivers it to the general public, CBS won't be getting as much money as they might otherwise.
We live amidst cut-throat capitalism. What matters most to a stockholder in this tanking economy? A cultural icon, or some money to fill his pockets with?
Because of course, a corporation's objective will be to deprive it's stockholders from some immediate financial gain, just to preserve a cultural icon.
Ah, here is someone who never played DOOM for the first time in his room at night, with no other light source than the CRT and with headphones making sure the first cacodemon that ever jumped him gave him a bloody fright.
Indeed.
My comment was focusing only on the novelty of the technique per se, as applied to games.
It does not mean it cannot be applied in an innovative way to the RTS genre (unfortunately, if I may add: not to take away credits from the original poster, but there are so many things like this that could be used to make games a lot better, and they seem to miss mainstream. perhaps his will be the one).
The notion of intelligent agents has been around for quite a few years.
Even I, 12 years ago at the University, had to implement a miserable little game where the A.I. was at a lower level than an all seeing, all knowing AI that makes decisions, each agent with it's set of "intelligent", adaptive rules.
So... how is this concept new (or NEWSworthy, for that matter)?
Then I'd say we must expect HDD manufacturers to go the way of the dodo WAY faster than the crisis itself would have caused them to go.
A manufacturer that pulls a stunt like that with MY gear gets a one way ticket to my NO-NO list.
Like with IBM and their damned DeathStars. They may have sold their HDD unit to Hitachi in an attempt to get rid of the bad rep (and bad results, I'd say), but that only made me also NOT buy Hitachi HDD now. Cheers!
Amen to that! I also thought someone called Jason had been cooked... Silly, silly title...
Why the fuck is this message's parent being modded insightful? Seems to me it's obviously being ironic, like... people DO use that way of fact checking, but it's only cause they are fucking lazy/retarded, not because it is last century.
You think THAT's steep? I live in Portugal, Europe, and our sales tax starts at 0% (vital medicines and some othe stuff), 5% and then for the VAST majority of stuff, a whooping 21% sales tax. Thats right, 21%. By the way, if people elsewhere think they are paying dearly for fuel, just picture this... here in Portugal, the state charges a tax on oil derivatives (like fuel) and then charges a sales tax on both the real price AND the oil derivative tax, double taxing (taxing a tax). They also do the same stunt when people by cars. So.. you really have it good on that account.
There is always the chance the guy is joking... I mean, how dim-witted must one be to NOT realize the difference?
Hell, YEAH! I still remember the first time I played Alone in the Dark, in a dark room at night. Right at the beginning, a rude awakening by that hopping weirdo that jumped in through the window, and then finding out how to blow him away with the shotgun in the nick of time... Oh Yeah! Bring on GOOD games such as this one once more!
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
Actually, where I live in (Portugal) there is a default minimum speed for EVERY highway.
At the very most you may find traffic signs decerasing that even further.
There:)
And if my ISP says unlimited, I will demand unlimited. If a restaurant advertises "all you can eat", I'll bloody have my meal until I am satisfied or they run out of food (the former bring the most likely), and I will call the cops on them if they try to go back on their own word.
I see it like this: if you WANT to have a business, you must obey the law AND follow what you advertise to the letter (something that is actually mandatory by law, in my country: you advertise shit, you'd better do what you advertised or you are fucked). You fail to do one of those things you are not fit to run that specific business and should lose it.
Bloody hell, another guy trying to squeeze stuff into his own way of thinking. His sentence only makes sense if he is talking about the GENERAL population, not ONE specific individual, thus we may assume he meant the sense that was logical.
THe rule is that you USUALLY don't see people falling left and right on the street from diabetes and such crap. The whole abnormal health condition you described as example is fortunately only found in a MINORITY of the population.
So... care to give another try?
Call me an ungrateful bastard, if you will, using other's people hard work and whining.
I work as software developer/analyst and would love to spit in microsoft's face by using linux for every darned thing that I do.
However, I don't. Why? I Don't give a rat's ass about the reasons, or who is to blame (CERTAINLY not everyday user who just wants...things to work).
Until games start working NATIVELY on linux (don't give me that emulation crap) and WIRELESS support is up to par with windows, I won't touch the thing. And I know lots of other people with the same mindset.
Face it... market forces don't give a damn about linux fanatics' idealism or wet dreams. And despite its' crappiness, for me Windows... just works. I am not some retard that will open every damned single email item without a thought, and don't run freaky crap without double checking it first. You say Linux does not have those problems... alright, and I and most people out there say it is a small price to pay for having things work on our systems and won't touch your pet OS in a serious fashion until the industry shapes it up ina away that is satisfying for most people.
That said, keep on the good work... who knows?
This kind of stuff only serves to imprint on people's minds the impression that EVERY artist and EVERYONE in the music business is trying to leech the general public. We already pay said levies here in Europe. I pay a levy each time i buy a CD to backup my photos, for instance. Who on this frigging earth gave the music people (and I mean studios, artists, etc: music people don't like to be bundled with studios, etc, like this, TOUGH LUCK; if most of them REALLY are all so piss poor they should have numbers to do something about it or STFU) any GODDAMN right to getting paid for this? I WOULDNT care if the artists were really getting compensated with this money, and I MOST CERTAINLY don't care the way things are now. If they want to assume everyone is out to pirate their (in too many instances) miserable "art" then by Jove we ought to do as they want and start copying and distributing everything we can lay our hands on. People say BUHU! but the artist doesn't get paid all the money he should until much later on. To that *I* say: TOUGH SHIT! Get your act together artists. You try or let other artists try to fuck with the public, and then complain the public fucks with you, HA! By the way, in case you haven't noticed, I'm pissed at this crap (I DO buy CDs to backup photos, lol).
->> 4) It is not correct to call Brazil part of "Latin America". Brazilians are part of a very different culture than the Spanish-speaking countries. (Brazilians speak Portuguese.) Actually, Portuguese language, along with several others, is heavilly based on latin. Thus we, portuguese, are actually one of the european people you can actually call "latins". If latin america is supposed to be the region where people speak languages that are based on latin, then brazil is MOST definitely in latin america, since what they speak in Brazil is derived from portuguese. No, whatever they tell people it is NOT portuguese, it is something I would call a quasi-bastardization of the portuguese language. It matters not whether you have a spanish or portuguese heritage, both are latin based. ->> 8) The Brazilian government is far from perfect, but is much less corrupt than the U.S. government. How many Iraqi civilians has the president of each country killed? George W. Bush: 1,000,000. Lula: 0. How many countries has each country invaded or bombed for oil or weapons or other profits since the end of the 2nd World War: United States: 24. Brazil: 0. Though it is good to criticize that which is wrong, brazilians shouldn't throw TOO many stones before they tidy up their own place. I wonder why those in power were ellected a second time, after so many scandals. Remember "mensalao"("big monthly allowance"), where the government bribed parliament members so they would vote what the government wanted. OR the "Bingo Scandal", where a minister's aide would extort and force money from gambling establishments, and hand those ill gotten gains to his party (the party that is actually still in power, re-elected after all this stuff took place). And to end this disgraceful list, the year after there was yet another case, where money fom the state-run post offices was diverted to bribe polititians. To me it says a lot about the average brazillians sense of what is right.
THERE was a time when GOOD stories were told, and technology was used to push the story forward and special effects were not the stars per se.
5.- All of the above?
Billy boy! Open up that microsoft filled arse of yours and make room for my incoming army boot! WHAM!!