By the way, this is far from an argument for net neutrality.
If the carrier of the NZ to US fiber was somehow forced by law to allow all traffic through for free (the basic argument of net neutrality: eliminate tollbooths) then yes, it would all be much cheaper and we'd see unlimited data plans in poor old NZ.
Except we wouldn't have a fiber cable to the US anymore because there'd be no way to pay for it. Nobody would do it. Eventually, somehow, a third-rate scheme would guarantee absolute bottom-of-the-barrel international connectivity for everyone and no amount of fronting up with cash to your service provider can fix that.
Basic economics is made of win. Net neutrality is bullshit.
Asian countries and internet: same old shit, different locality.
Compared to national traffic very few Japanese clients venture outside of their national fibre loop. It's a language thing. The same situation exists in South Korea, Taiwan, etc.
Here in New Zealand the situation is the diametric opposite. We pay a premium for our internet access and have small, slow caps. Most of our content comes from the states, and we pay for it dearly. We did once have free national traffic available to residential users but this more or less died out as not many people found it particularly useful beyond file sharing.
The US is sort of balanced between the fact that most of their content is internal but your existing major network owners act like separate countries when it comes to interconnectivity, making your overall usage a little more expensive. Still, unlimited plans are pretty common in the US. They don't exist in NZ and Australia and they're a dead certainty in Asia.
Basic economics is not something to be poo-pooed away. Ridiculing the companies and people who helped build the internet we have today and criticising their opinions on its future development is a sure-fire way to fuck your credibility in the arse. I hope like hell nobody listens to this shit.
Sorry, here's the same post again with the paragraphs put back in.
Well, I don't have any. But some close friends of mine just opened a gaming cafe in a town small enough not to have one yet.
They put the cash in and got decent hardware while spending minimal amounts on the decor, just enough to clean it up.
Against my advice they franchised some software to manage it but the franchisor gave them a lot of help along the way. In this case the fees were paid off within the first three months but the quality of the setup was sometimes suspect (VMware virtual machine on linux running Windows NT running TurboSquidNT as the gateway. WTF?). I don't see how you couldn't do all the work yourself just a easily however.
The hours are long! It's hard, monotonous work and you don't get a lot of time to focus on your own gaming, but the cash is coming in and they're making a lot of money.
They're focusing on return customers and keeping them happy, doing things like all-night lock-ins to keep it interesting.
As for around here, there are dozens, literally dozens of crap quality net cafes in the area, but they're always full, mostly of the local asian population.
The moral: study the area you're opening. Are the cafes full? When are they full? What's the rent like? Is the area safe to hang out in? Is the cafe presentable? Work your ass off and it'll all work out just fine.
Well, I don't have any. But some close friends of mine just opened a gaming cafe in a town small enough not to have one yet.
They put the cash in and got decent hardware while spending minimal amounts on the decor, just enough to clean it up.
Against my advice they franchised some software to manage it but the franchisor gave them a lot of help along the way. In this case the fees were paid off within the first three months but the quality of the setup was sometimes suspect (VMware virtual machine on linux running Windows NT running TurboSquidNT as the gateway. WTF?). I don't see how you couldn't do all the work yourself just a easily however.
The hours are long! It's hard, monotonous work and you don't get a lot of time to focus on your own gaming, but the cash is coming in and they're making a lot of money.
They're focusing on return customers and keeping them happy, doing things like all-night lock-ins to keep it interesting.
As for around here, there are dozens, literally dozens of crap quality net cafes in the area, but they're always full, mostly of the local asian population.
The moral: study the area you're opening. Are the cafes full? When are they full? What's the rent like? Is the area safe to hang out in? Is the cafe presentable? Work your ass off and it'll all work out just fine.
...as did half the world. It wasn't a bad game. At the time there were very few four-player fighting games around, and it had some unique twists. The Wutang game that it became afterwards sucked a lot more than Thrill Kill.
Whenever zonk uses the same stupid word too many times in a row, you drink. Todays word is "essential".
Drink!
In other news, 3 minutes of proofreading could help us stay sober.
I was wondering? Why everything has to end in question marks? I bet it wasn't even a question?
Don't forget to pick up the milk on the way home?
If slashdot makes any money, it should invest some of it in real columnists and editors, not nerds who have mastered copy-and-paste. Oh, and tunnel vision. And amnesia.
Fuck it, you're right. Slashdot already has a team of editors highly trained in stupidity and repetition. And stupidity. Wait, make that: And stupidity?
Eh, me.:( I inherited my parents pillows when I moved out a decade ago and I've been too lazy to replace them. You know, they're comfy and they're all I've ever known.
I think those pillows are going on 30 years old now. Under the pillowcases they've gone from what I'm told was the original white to a very deep golden yellow. Yuck!
Serenity made me think of the worst Star Trek I'd seen, the most clumsy ones. That or Seaquest DSV. I don't have a lot of patient for either of those shows. This is basically tripe that you can't sit through unless you're drunk or your friends are already watching it.
At least Star Wars covers up the poor lot with some polished (if not deep) acting and proper cinematography.
You deserve some positive vertical moderation. I'm sick to fucking death of the firefly fag publically brainwashing each other about the quality of this crap.
Sounds like I want to rent the MacGyver: Too Hot For TV dvd.
Watch as he uses the nailfile attachment to reanimate's Pete's corpse long enough to relive those hotttt 80s moments from before the censors took over.
To me, intelligent posting represents an informed opinion.
Where as you opened your shithole and spouted some trolling crap you made up about it not being single player.
The game is fucking MP and SP, and is proudly proclaimed on their site.
Give them a break you no-hoper, they're a thousand times better than you.
Sorry, I missed something about.
RoR promises to be easy, but in reality it is really, really fucking hard to learn. The language used to describe the framework was pulled out of their asses ("we were bored with regular, recognised terms so we made up our own") and the structure promotes broad rather than deep. In OOP this is a sure sign that you're getting a swiss army knife and not a programming language.
The swiss army knife can do a lot of things, but it can't do anything it wasn't meant to.
Every time RoR is mentioned on slashdot RoR's hundered or so door-knockers get their code references, suits and start jamming their version of salvation down our throats.
So I tried RoR, and found two things:
1. It has a few really talented people heading a community of zero-talent idiots 2. It's another framework, with all the bullshit frameworks involve
None of the above should have been surprising. RoR promises to be easy but in reality frameworks are there for noobs to avoid the very basic step of learning OOP programming on their own.
If you thought you might be interested in Ruby on Rails, I suggest two courses of action:
1. Learn to use OOP in the language you've used until now. 2. Build your own framework. After all since in the end a framework is only an agreed coding style, the framework might as well be based around YOUR coding style.
I recently started teaching PHP (most fun thing I've ever done actually) and I've found a good use for frameworks. One of my class projects is for each student to develop their own. This is because the most effective framework for any one programmer is one they wrote. End of story.
You're kidding, right? Have you played on a VAC-enabled CS server? World of Warcraft? Battlefield 2? Quake fucking 3? ANYTHING released in the last four years? Anti-cheating technology is present in pretty much everything now, and if it isn't the developers can get on board with PunkBuster or CheatingDeath in short order.
All the games you mentioned were released five years ago, ya tard. Try using current technology to prove your assumptions.
As for your NWN experiences from back in the bad old days before there was colour and flying metal birds: well duh, how many online RPGs keep the character files on the client side now?
You're right. I checked up on her and found an interview she gave regarding it. She tries to make a compelling case without providing any evidence, and she sounds like a crackpot to boot.
I'm gonna have to fall back on calling old Larry a girlyboy and throw his lipstick in the bushes.
This movie looks like junk. Without even going into the "this is your typical shallow hollywood bullshit" line: the characters look goofy, the plot is lame and the overacting is atrocious. Any movie where the bad guy has no depth != a good movie.
I've hated every single fanboy flick to date with the exception of the well-thought-out spiderman flicks. I don't know why I keep making myself go to them.
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By the way, this is far from an argument for net neutrality.
If the carrier of the NZ to US fiber was somehow forced by law to allow all traffic through for free (the basic argument of net neutrality: eliminate tollbooths) then yes, it would all be much cheaper and we'd see unlimited data plans in poor old NZ.
Except we wouldn't have a fiber cable to the US anymore because there'd be no way to pay for it. Nobody would do it. Eventually, somehow, a third-rate scheme would guarantee absolute bottom-of-the-barrel international connectivity for everyone and no amount of fronting up with cash to your service provider can fix that.
Basic economics is made of win. Net neutrality is bullshit.
Asian countries and internet: same old shit, different locality.
Compared to national traffic very few Japanese clients venture outside of their national fibre loop. It's a language thing. The same situation exists in South Korea, Taiwan, etc.
Here in New Zealand the situation is the diametric opposite. We pay a premium for our internet access and have small, slow caps. Most of our content comes from the states, and we pay for it dearly. We did once have free national traffic available to residential users but this more or less died out as not many people found it particularly useful beyond file sharing.
The US is sort of balanced between the fact that most of their content is internal but your existing major network owners act like separate countries when it comes to interconnectivity, making your overall usage a little more expensive. Still, unlimited plans are pretty common in the US. They don't exist in NZ and Australia and they're a dead certainty in Asia.
Basic economics is not something to be poo-pooed away. Ridiculing the companies and people who helped build the internet we have today and criticising their opinions on its future development is a sure-fire way to fuck your credibility in the arse. I hope like hell nobody listens to this shit.
Net neutrality is bullshit.
Sorry, here's the same post again with the paragraphs put back in.
Well, I don't have any. But some close friends of mine just opened a gaming cafe in a town small enough not to have one yet.
They put the cash in and got decent hardware while spending minimal amounts on the decor, just enough to clean it up.
Against my advice they franchised some software to manage it but the franchisor gave them a lot of help along the way. In this case the fees were paid off within the first three months but the quality of the setup was sometimes suspect (VMware virtual machine on linux running Windows NT running TurboSquidNT as the gateway. WTF?). I don't see how you couldn't do all the work yourself just a easily however.
The hours are long! It's hard, monotonous work and you don't get a lot of time to focus on your own gaming, but the cash is coming in and they're making a lot of money.
They're focusing on return customers and keeping them happy, doing things like all-night lock-ins to keep it interesting.
As for around here, there are dozens, literally dozens of crap quality net cafes in the area, but they're always full, mostly of the local asian population.
The moral: study the area you're opening. Are the cafes full? When are they full? What's the rent like? Is the area safe to hang out in? Is the cafe presentable? Work your ass off and it'll all work out just fine.
Well, I don't have any. But some close friends of mine just opened a gaming cafe in a town small enough not to have one yet. They put the cash in and got decent hardware while spending minimal amounts on the decor, just enough to clean it up. Against my advice they franchised some software to manage it but the franchisor gave them a lot of help along the way. In this case the fees were paid off within the first three months but the quality of the setup was sometimes suspect (VMware virtual machine on linux running Windows NT running TurboSquidNT as the gateway. WTF?). I don't see how you couldn't do all the work yourself just a easily however. The hours are long! It's hard, monotonous work and you don't get a lot of time to focus on your own gaming, but the cash is coming in and they're making a lot of money. They're focusing on return customers and keeping them happy, doing things like all-night lock-ins to keep it interesting. As for around here, there are dozens, literally dozens of crap quality net cafes in the area, but they're always full, mostly of the local asian population. The moral: study the area you're opening. Are the cafes full? When are they full? What's the rent like? Is the area safe to hang out in? Is the cafe presentable? Work your ass off and it'll all work out just fine.
Put down a virtual coaster first.
...as did half the world. It wasn't a bad game. At the time there were very few four-player fighting games around, and it had some unique twists. The Wutang game that it became afterwards sucked a lot more than Thrill Kill.
Whenever zonk uses the same stupid word too many times in a row, you drink. Todays word is "essential". Drink! In other news, 3 minutes of proofreading could help us stay sober.
The golem market has already been cornered by the Slashdot employment policy.
I was wondering? Why everything has to end in question marks? I bet it wasn't even a question?
Don't forget to pick up the milk on the way home?
If slashdot makes any money, it should invest some of it in real columnists and editors, not nerds who have mastered copy-and-paste. Oh, and tunnel vision. And amnesia.
Fuck it, you're right. Slashdot already has a team of editors highly trained in stupidity and repetition. And stupidity. Wait, make that: And stupidity?
The barley pillows tend to get weevils. But I hear they keep your head cool.
Forget clean pillows - I want a self-cooling one so my head doesn't overheat at night.
Eh, me. :( I inherited my parents pillows when I moved out a decade ago and I've been too lazy to replace them. You know, they're comfy and they're all I've ever known.
I think those pillows are going on 30 years old now. Under the pillowcases they've gone from what I'm told was the original white to a very deep golden yellow. Yuck!
Serenity made me think of the worst Star Trek I'd seen, the most clumsy ones. That or Seaquest DSV. I don't have a lot of patient for either of those shows. This is basically tripe that you can't sit through unless you're drunk or your friends are already watching it. At least Star Wars covers up the poor lot with some polished (if not deep) acting and proper cinematography.
You deserve some positive vertical moderation. I'm sick to fucking death of the firefly fag publically brainwashing each other about the quality of this crap.
Extend yourselves you losers.
It's a freakin' awful movie. Are you people that starved for good entertainment?
Definitely not in the top ten. Whoever claimed that is an expert bullshitter.
Find some GOOD movies at an old Slashdot favourite: http://bigempire.com/filthy/
Sounds like I want to rent the MacGyver: Too Hot For TV dvd. Watch as he uses the nailfile attachment to reanimate's Pete's corpse long enough to relive those hotttt 80s moments from before the censors took over.
Now the excuses come out. Clearly you lost all hope of defending your precious opinion.
Fucking jackass.
To me, intelligent posting represents an informed opinion. Where as you opened your shithole and spouted some trolling crap you made up about it not being single player. The game is fucking MP and SP, and is proudly proclaimed on their site. Give them a break you no-hoper, they're a thousand times better than you.
Sorry, I missed something about. RoR promises to be easy, but in reality it is really, really fucking hard to learn. The language used to describe the framework was pulled out of their asses ("we were bored with regular, recognised terms so we made up our own") and the structure promotes broad rather than deep. In OOP this is a sure sign that you're getting a swiss army knife and not a programming language. The swiss army knife can do a lot of things, but it can't do anything it wasn't meant to.
Every time RoR is mentioned on slashdot RoR's hundered or so door-knockers get their code references, suits and start jamming their version of salvation down our throats.
So I tried RoR, and found two things:
1. It has a few really talented people heading a community of zero-talent idiots
2. It's another framework, with all the bullshit frameworks involve
None of the above should have been surprising. RoR promises to be easy but in reality frameworks are there for noobs to avoid the very basic step of learning OOP programming on their own.
If you thought you might be interested in Ruby on Rails, I suggest two courses of action:
1. Learn to use OOP in the language you've used until now.
2. Build your own framework. After all since in the end a framework is only an agreed coding style, the framework might as well be based around YOUR coding style.
I recently started teaching PHP (most fun thing I've ever done actually) and I've found a good use for frameworks. One of my class projects is for each student to develop their own. This is because the most effective framework for any one programmer is one they wrote. End of story.
You're kidding, right? Have you played on a VAC-enabled CS server? World of Warcraft? Battlefield 2? Quake fucking 3? ANYTHING released in the last four years? Anti-cheating technology is present in pretty much everything now, and if it isn't the developers can get on board with PunkBuster or CheatingDeath in short order.
All the games you mentioned were released five years ago, ya tard. Try using current technology to prove your assumptions.
As for your NWN experiences from back in the bad old days before there was colour and flying metal birds: well duh, how many online RPGs keep the character files on the client side now?
Go back to the old folks home, gramps.
Don't forget Solo.
You're right. I checked up on her and found an interview she gave regarding it. She tries to make a compelling case without providing any evidence, and she sounds like a crackpot to boot.
I'm gonna have to fall back on calling old Larry a girlyboy and throw his lipstick in the bushes.
You fiend. :(
Rented Bottle Rocket this weekend. I keep hearing it's good. Good like an oasis in the desert of crappy movies.
This movie looks like junk. Without even going into the "this is your typical shallow hollywood bullshit" line: the characters look goofy, the plot is lame and the overacting is atrocious. Any movie where the bad guy has no depth != a good movie.
I've hated every single fanboy flick to date with the exception of the well-thought-out spiderman flicks. I don't know why I keep making myself go to them.