Damn you. It's not really going to be that cool. But now I'm all excited. If you had just said that like a week before E3 that would have been fine. But now I have to wait a good long time for my disappointment.
See, this is why I just said they put time and effort into it, rather than saying that I think their controllers blow the competition away, overall. They were designed for smaller hands than the average American possesses, by the way.
Other/. comments, with articles pasted in. Numerous articles, actually. It makes sense, though, XBox isn't really that much ahead in the US, and MS doesn't seem too interested in its international performance.
The GameSpy people aren't to be trusted or listened to. They seem to enjoy the occassional hate mongering, calling universally loved games terribl and the like.
As for the joystick, I'd assume they'll stick with it. It IS good, and they put a lot of effort into controller design. Miyamoto himself designed the GC one. Over a period of about four months of experiment and testing, if I recall correctly.
I hate the numbers. I hate this "PS2" business already, now they're making a 3? Not that it's stupid or anything, from a commercial standpoint. But I prefer a more original name, as meaningless as it really is.
Halo is nothing. If you think Halo is good, you must have missed the last seven years of console FPS. Goldeneye, Pefect Dark, Timesplitters 2. All favorite games of mine, all far better than Halo. That's actually been my theory for a while now -- most of the big Halo fans I know are the XBox-only gamers, the ones who think they know all because they just got their first console! Bah. There's far better stuff out there. Honestly, I don't even like the XBox's current game selection, and wouldn't blow the cash on a console to play them-- especially when you look at only the XBox-exclusives.
Blizzard has NEVER been original. StarCraft was not original. It was an absolutely incredible game, and I actaully played a few games just last week, but it really just copied what had come before. Blizzard does not strive for originality, they strive for perfection. They do it amazingly well, I might add.
I use it for MY own games. So many great classics that XP just...won't run. Sniff. An old RPG called Anachronox will only run on 98, and I found the same (er...I think?) for X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.
For a while I was trying to use it exclusively, but eventually I couldn't take it anymore and now it's XP with a 98 dual boot. So now I can count the number of games I've tried that I just can't run at all on...three fingers. As opposed to having a pile of 50 or so (literally) if I didn't have 98.
I gotta offer that beginning programmers simply don't have a ton of code to reuse unless they avail themselves of open source.
Also, depending on what you mean by 'beginner,' they'll often have trouble finding what they need, or knowing what they should look for. It's a big, big world. Without experience, anybody simply will be floundering for a while.
Whether that relates at all to the discussion, I'm not sure.
Here's the problem, as I see it. If a person has a degree, that means they have obtained a certain set of skills that you can count on. A hobbyist, while they may be GREAT at some things, is liable to have holes -- sometimes nasty, gaping holes -- in their knowledge. If I were in charge of hiring I'd be more likely take the person with the degree, the person who is more likely to perform well in a wide variety of tasks. Not to say that I would never hire somebody based on experience, but I would need some kind of confirmation of their skills first.
It might not be useful, but it's the kind they want you writing at any place of business, isn't it? It's the kind that makes them money. You can't do that, you're just another paid non-worker.
It seems to me you just read those little Myth/Reality lines, not bothering to read the explanations. Particularly in the second, third, and fifth parts, though I see evidence of it throughout. I look at your post, and put it next to the article, and at times I just see no connection. Makes the whole thing rather meaningless to me, I'm afraid.
Your patch broke all my games! Bastard.
*Loves his interactive escape-from-reality software too much to switch. Sigh.*
I have a free partition just waiting for a Linux install, but It's since occurred to me that I never have the computer on for more than 20 minutes without loading up a game. How pathetic is that?
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It's too bad you never got to see them. The most shocking thing about seeing them fall on TV was thinking about what it felt like to be standing right in front of one, staring up, then thinking about being up on the roof of one, looking down, then thinking about being in either one of those places while it was crumbling. The legos cannot convey the sheer massiveness of one of those towers.
But hey, they're still damn big and impressive. And insane.
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Robot - A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
I know an Aibo is not, technically, a robot. But it's a...predecessor to true robots, I suppose, and the fact is there are a number of people (rich people, yeah) who would want to have some for sheer entertainment. More than five. A robot that could sing and dance or something. As impressive as that would be, I wouldn't like one, but there are people that might.
It has nothing to do with the discussion at large, here, but paiute said there was a market for at maximum five robots. That makes no sense at all.
I apologize for not explaining more fully in my previous post, I should have just waited until I had time.
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Or, you just put it on three or four wheels. It'll still do what you want. This isn't hard, people.
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More than five people bought Aibos. A single factory these days has more than five robots. WTF are you talking about?
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Better? Have you even USED Photoshop CS? It's like sex. Sex with pixels.
Damn you. It's not really going to be that cool. But now I'm all excited. If you had just said that like a week before E3 that would have been fine. But now I have to wait a good long time for my disappointment.
You go to hell!
See, this is why I just said they put time and effort into it, rather than saying that I think their controllers blow the competition away, overall. They were designed for smaller hands than the average American possesses, by the way.
Other /. comments, with articles pasted in. Numerous articles, actually. It makes sense, though, XBox isn't really that much ahead in the US, and MS doesn't seem too interested in its international performance.
The GameSpy people aren't to be trusted or listened to. They seem to enjoy the occassional hate mongering, calling universally loved games terribl and the like.
As for the joystick, I'd assume they'll stick with it. It IS good, and they put a lot of effort into controller design. Miyamoto himself designed the GC one. Over a period of about four months of experiment and testing, if I recall correctly.
I hate the numbers. I hate this "PS2" business already, now they're making a 3? Not that it's stupid or anything, from a commercial standpoint. But I prefer a more original name, as meaningless as it really is.
You could also compare Nintendo fans to *nix users, if you want to look at it that way.
Halo is nothing. If you think Halo is good, you must have missed the last seven years of console FPS. Goldeneye, Pefect Dark, Timesplitters 2. All favorite games of mine, all far better than Halo. That's actually been my theory for a while now -- most of the big Halo fans I know are the XBox-only gamers, the ones who think they know all because they just got their first console! Bah. There's far better stuff out there. Honestly, I don't even like the XBox's current game selection, and wouldn't blow the cash on a console to play them--
especially when you look at only the XBox-exclusives.
GameCube is number two in worldwide sales, and it's leaps ahead of XBox in profit, even in the US.
Blizzard has NEVER been original. StarCraft was not original. It was an absolutely incredible game, and I actaully played a few games just last week, but it really just copied what had come before. Blizzard does not strive for originality, they strive for perfection. They do it amazingly well, I might add.
Ah! One of TWO people, I think. ...It was just fun to watch...
Shows how much you know. Fake ones don't move like that. Gimme my $20.
I use it for MY own games. So many great classics that XP just...won't run. Sniff. An old RPG called Anachronox will only run on 98, and I found the same (er...I think?) for X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.
For a while I was trying to use it exclusively, but eventually I couldn't take it anymore and now it's XP with a 98 dual boot. So now I can count the number of games I've tried that I just can't run at all on...three fingers. As opposed to having a pile of 50 or so (literally) if I didn't have 98.
I gotta offer that beginning programmers simply don't have a ton of code to reuse unless they avail themselves of open source.
Also, depending on what you mean by 'beginner,' they'll often have trouble finding what they need, or knowing what they should look for. It's a big, big world. Without experience, anybody simply will be floundering for a while.
Whether that relates at all to the discussion, I'm not sure.
Here's the problem, as I see it. If a person has a degree, that means they have obtained a certain set of skills that you can count on. A hobbyist, while they may be GREAT at some things, is liable to have holes -- sometimes nasty, gaping holes -- in their knowledge. If I were in charge of hiring I'd be more likely take the person with the degree, the person who is more likely to perform well in a wide variety of tasks. Not to say that I would never hire somebody based on experience, but I would need some kind of confirmation of their skills first.
It might not be useful, but it's the kind they want you writing at any place of business, isn't it? It's the kind that makes them money. You can't do that, you're just another paid non-worker.
It seems to me you just read those little Myth/Reality lines, not bothering to read the explanations. Particularly in the second, third, and fifth parts, though I see evidence of it throughout. I look at your post, and put it next to the article, and at times I just see no connection. Makes the whole thing rather meaningless to me, I'm afraid.
Your patch broke all my games! Bastard. *Loves his interactive escape-from-reality software too much to switch. Sigh.* I have a free partition just waiting for a Linux install, but It's since occurred to me that I never have the computer on for more than 20 minutes without loading up a game. How pathetic is that?
I hate being stupid. Sigh.
It's too bad you never got to see them. The most shocking thing about seeing them fall on TV was thinking about what it felt like to be standing right in front of one, staring up, then thinking about being up on the roof of one, looking down, then thinking about being in either one of those places while it was crumbling. The legos cannot convey the sheer massiveness of one of those towers.
But hey, they're still damn big and impressive. And insane.
Robot - A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. I know an Aibo is not, technically, a robot. But it's a...predecessor to true robots, I suppose, and the fact is there are a number of people (rich people, yeah) who would want to have some for sheer entertainment. More than five. A robot that could sing and dance or something. As impressive as that would be, I wouldn't like one, but there are people that might. It has nothing to do with the discussion at large, here, but paiute said there was a market for at maximum five robots. That makes no sense at all. I apologize for not explaining more fully in my previous post, I should have just waited until I had time.
Or, you just put it on three or four wheels. It'll still do what you want. This isn't hard, people.
More than five people bought Aibos. A single factory these days has more than five robots. WTF are you talking about?
Yeah, agreed...if the DOS/9x implementations in XP are emulators, WINE sure as hell is.
Also, DOS function in XP is kinda crappy. I keep 98 on here BECAUSE it's basically MS-DOS, not despite it.
In closing, go away and write some code. If you can't do that, then just go away.
I write code. Still think you're an ignorant bastard. I'd justify that, but plenty of people have done it for me already.