Emmanuel Goldstein is the name that anyone who wants to appear to "question" or "shake up" popular culture out of their (obviously) idiotic and braindead stupor. It's a throwback to the novel 1984, which every high school student has read, and which most every college student believes was "really understood" only by them, and perhaps a small cabal of fellow college students. At our school alone I have seen no more than five candidates run under the moniker of Emmanuel Goldstein. Personally, it's difficult to force myself to seriously listen to anyone after they introduce themselves as Emmanuel Goldstein. But, you know, I try.
That's what I'm talking about! The more people outraged with Star Wars, the shorter line I have to wait in, the fewer pushing, elbowing creeps I have to contend with on opening night.:)
Yeah, that would really go along the lines of the other, mysterious Star Wars movie titles. I mean, The Empire Strikes Back, I wondered what that movie was going to be about for all of five minutes. And Return of the Jedi. Such mystique. Though, I agree that Balance of the Force would be a good title. But, so is what's being proposed (even if just a rumor). All Star Wars movie titles aim to condense the theme of the movie in no uncertain terms. The old movies did, I don't see why these should do differently just because we're now older and more jaded.
Mark my words, every whiny slashdotter who camped outside to get Episode I tickets (while rehearsing their "I'm disappointed and outraged" speeches) who now decries the phantom menace and sneers at people who are still Star Wars fans, whether on/. or off, will be camping outside the theater when this movie comes out.
Maybe because someone mouths that question or something similar every single time C# is brought up, regardless of the actual treatment in the piece itself. But, I agree, it's a little inappropriate to mod as Redundant. Personally, I would've moderated it as Offtopic, since it had nothing to do with the article, save for the fact that the article and the comment both mention C#.
Clever. I've never seen anyone try to paint Bill Clinton as a nazi/commie bastard before through the use of (dare i say) FUD. Just for the record, I think the FBI has been around a little longer than Bill Clinton. Maybe. Possibly.
Well, color me naive, but I don't think that most anime houses hire many science advisors.. And I tell you, I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if they did. I think Titan A.E., being essentially a kid's movie, would probably lose more from the introduction of hard science than it would gain. Though, I will agree with you on one thing; my one gripe about the movie is the fact we don't get to learn more about the enemy and Earth is blown up within the first 15 minutes or so.. I wish the movie had been a half-hour longer, ideally pre-invasion, setting the stage and introducing the enemy. They're PURE ENERGY, man.
It's strange. I agree with you on every point, on the fact that I see one movie a year that I don't find terrible, that almost every movie is a yawn-inducing, formulatic, braindead piece of crap. The only thing I see differently is that Titan A.E. *wasn't* formulatic. It was one of the only pure sparks of ingenuity and imagination I've seen in a long time. It didn't fufill the bottom line, in my opinion, particularly because it *wasn't* formulatic. It was a big risk, and its failure pretty much ensures that another such big risk won't be taken again for a long, long time. For those who complain about the talking animals, or the fact it's not gory enough, or the "mixing of visual mediums," maybe you're too old and jaded for the movie. Most of my favorite movies are children's movies (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Star Wars and Don Bluth's masterpiece The Secret of NIMH to name a few) particularly *because* they don't pander to the older, jaded, sneering 20somethings and aren't afraid to have a sense of imagination and adventure. The magic of Titan A.E. will be sorely missed, and it's tragic because it's something Hollywood needs a lot more of.
And while we're at it, let's shoot all children into the sun as well. Like Pokemon is any worse than Dragonball Z, or Sailor Moon, or any targeted-for-children anime. The point is, the show may be bad to we, jaded, older people, but we were all children at some point. Some people just kill the kid in them faster than others. I don't really see this as a particularly good thing. Though, now that I think about it, shooting all children into the sun would be alright with me..
Well, I've noticed that most ego problems women have (including but limited to their all-prevading belief in the absolute superiority of their own gender) are things which we feeble males are not allowed to call ego problems, for fear of being labeled all sorts of negative things. When you take those into account; however, most women are easily as egotistical as most men, especially in high Mach positions like, say, linux kernel development.
Well, just to make it clear for those of you who aren't, I'm referring to the concepts behind the product, as presented by the article. I could disclaim every comment I make by saying "That is, assuming what slashdot is reporting happens to be true" but I'd think that's assumed. I'll further disclaim it by saying *-* READERS PLEASE NOTE: This post is not meant to be construed in any way, shape or form as good constructive behavior. *-*
... and for those of you running DOS/Windows based boxen, all you need to do is run finger johnc@idsoftware.com and you get the.plan without going through Blue's terribly/.ed finger script...
(Little off topic, I know, but...) I can't comment on the quake source code, but the SDK source code that comes with quake3 is certainly far from beautiful. It's inconsistent, incoherent and at times purely irrational. Big, obscure important portions are left uncommented; meaningless and obvious stuff is commented all to hell; sometimes the comments make less sense than the actual source code itself! Sometimes he uses switch statements. Sometimes he uses tons of if/else statements. What's worst are these large, bizarre, obscure (uncommented!) optimizations. I've also noticed that when I code for quake3, I don't bother to be anything but sloppy - seems like a waste to make neat, orderly islands in a sea of chaos. Of course, I have no doubts that Carmack is ten times the coder I am, and can afford to be lazy and sloppy. But that's the problem; I can't! Developing for UT, based on my limited experience, has been a sheer pleasure. The code is neat and easily extendable, because it's object oriented. Quake3's code is C, for christ's sake, and UT still manages to run better on my old hardware.
(slightly more on topic) I certainly don't think that ID is at the forefront of ingenuity in the FPS realm, and I'm certainly not surprised that all the best mods are being developed for UT. But my friends love quake3, and I love them both, so our mod is gonna be done in quake3 after all. Kind of a shame; if we had developed it for UT, we might already be done.
(actually on topic) It's sad to see Paul go, though. He'll certainly be missed, though I'm sure we'll see him at another gaming company soon enough. Maybe Epic! Oooooh. Maybe Valve!
Saying that slashdot's spin is bad journalism makes the assumption that slashdot is in any way a journalistic site. Nothing about slashdot is real journalism, nor do they pretend it is. It's a rantfest/linkathon. A glorofied weblog/message board. It's never pretended to be anything more (except for maybe Jon Katz, and, well.. That's why they put the Exclude Story by Author feature into slashdot).
Well, I can personally say (and I hardly think I'm a unique case, or even a rare case, certainly bigger than 1%) that my album collection would be a lot bigger if it weren't for Napster. Besides, that's no justification for doing it. I know you didn't intend for it to sound like a justification - but many people believe that is a justification. This isn't just about the RIAA and their desire to control the distribution of music; this is about Metallica's right to control the distribution of their own music. Their right to distribute their own material as they like, as you put it.
Whenever someone challenges our 'consititutional right' to pirate anything we want from anyone, we come up with some intellectual gymnastics which somehow, in some vague way, attempts to justify our illegal activity. When that justification is blown out of the water, we close our ears and yell FUD as loud as we can.
"Downloading studio mp3s cuts into album sales." "No it doesn't." "Yes it does, here's proof." "WAHHHHHHHHH FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD!"
Of course albums being downloaded in mp3 hurts album sales. That's bonehead obvious. Pointing it out isn't FUD.
But, people are motivated to write open source software, and do write open source software. It isn't as if there's an academic debate about whether or not people would actually write open source software; they do, in abundance. There isn't a problem with open source software (it is doing just fine) so much as a problem with bigotry and fanaticism among the most visible proponents of open source software. Whenever the focus shifts from writing good software to attacking those who would dare to make a living or, dare I even mention, a profit from their toil, that's when the problem with open source software begins.
Slashdot Mirror
We wouldn't want the OSI supporting intellectual property laws, now, would we?
Emmanuel Goldstein is the name that anyone who wants to appear to "question" or "shake up" popular culture out of their (obviously) idiotic and braindead stupor. It's a throwback to the novel 1984, which every high school student has read, and which most every college student believes was "really understood" only by them, and perhaps a small cabal of fellow college students. At our school alone I have seen no more than five candidates run under the moniker of Emmanuel Goldstein. Personally, it's difficult to force myself to seriously listen to anyone after they introduce themselves as Emmanuel Goldstein. But, you know, I try.
Ironically, he was being sarcastic, and you didn't pick up on it. So, I'd wager to guess he knows the meaning of the word just fine.
That's what I'm talking about! The more people outraged with Star Wars, the shorter line I have to wait in, the fewer pushing, elbowing creeps I have to contend with on opening night. :)
Yeah, that would really go along the lines of the other, mysterious Star Wars movie titles. I mean, The Empire Strikes Back, I wondered what that movie was going to be about for all of five minutes. And Return of the Jedi. Such mystique. Though, I agree that Balance of the Force would be a good title. But, so is what's being proposed (even if just a rumor). All Star Wars movie titles aim to condense the theme of the movie in no uncertain terms. The old movies did, I don't see why these should do differently just because we're now older and more jaded.
Mark my words, every whiny slashdotter who camped outside to get Episode I tickets (while rehearsing their "I'm disappointed and outraged" speeches) who now decries the phantom menace and sneers at people who are still Star Wars fans, whether on /. or off, will be camping outside the theater when this movie comes out.
Maybe because someone mouths that question or something similar every single time C# is brought up, regardless of the actual treatment in the piece itself. But, I agree, it's a little inappropriate to mod as Redundant. Personally, I would've moderated it as Offtopic, since it had nothing to do with the article, save for the fact that the article and the comment both mention C#.
If I were a mac owner, and if Halo were to be on par with (cough cough) Myth, I sure wouldn't miss it. Besides, you could always buy an X-Box... :)
Clever. I've never seen anyone try to paint Bill Clinton as a nazi/commie bastard before through the use of (dare i say) FUD. Just for the record, I think the FBI has been around a little longer than Bill Clinton. Maybe. Possibly.
Why does working on commercial GBC games not make him a hacker?
Well, color me naive, but I don't think that most anime houses hire many science advisors.. And I tell you, I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if they did. I think Titan A.E., being essentially a kid's movie, would probably lose more from the introduction of hard science than it would gain. Though, I will agree with you on one thing; my one gripe about the movie is the fact we don't get to learn more about the enemy and Earth is blown up within the first 15 minutes or so.. I wish the movie had been a half-hour longer, ideally pre-invasion, setting the stage and introducing the enemy. They're PURE ENERGY, man.
It's strange. I agree with you on every point, on the fact that I see one movie a year that I don't find terrible, that almost every movie is a yawn-inducing, formulatic, braindead piece of crap. The only thing I see differently is that Titan A.E. *wasn't* formulatic. It was one of the only pure sparks of ingenuity and imagination I've seen in a long time. It didn't fufill the bottom line, in my opinion, particularly because it *wasn't* formulatic. It was a big risk, and its failure pretty much ensures that another such big risk won't be taken again for a long, long time. For those who complain about the talking animals, or the fact it's not gory enough, or the "mixing of visual mediums," maybe you're too old and jaded for the movie. Most of my favorite movies are children's movies (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Star Wars and Don Bluth's masterpiece The Secret of NIMH to name a few) particularly *because* they don't pander to the older, jaded, sneering 20somethings and aren't afraid to have a sense of imagination and adventure. The magic of Titan A.E. will be sorely missed, and it's tragic because it's something Hollywood needs a lot more of.
And while we're at it, let's shoot all children into the sun as well. Like Pokemon is any worse than Dragonball Z, or Sailor Moon, or any targeted-for-children anime. The point is, the show may be bad to we, jaded, older people, but we were all children at some point. Some people just kill the kid in them faster than others. I don't really see this as a particularly good thing. Though, now that I think about it, shooting all children into the sun would be alright with me..
Well, I've noticed that most ego problems women have (including but limited to their all-prevading belief in the absolute superiority of their own gender) are things which we feeble males are not allowed to call ego problems, for fear of being labeled all sorts of negative things. When you take those into account; however, most women are easily as egotistical as most men, especially in high Mach positions like, say, linux kernel development.
It's going to be called MICROSOFT GAME (halo edition).
C-Octothorpe!
Well, just to make it clear for those of you who aren't, I'm referring to the concepts behind the product, as presented by the article. I could disclaim every comment I make by saying "That is, assuming what slashdot is reporting happens to be true" but I'd think that's assumed. I'll further disclaim it by saying *-* READERS PLEASE NOTE: This post is not meant to be construed in any way, shape or form as good constructive behavior. *-*
Personally, I find it hard to believe that anyone besides Apple could "innovate" something this stupid. This invention reeks of Apple.
... and for those of you running DOS/Windows based boxen, all you need to do is run .plan without going through Blue's terribly /.ed finger script...
finger johnc@idsoftware.com
and you get the
(Little off topic, I know, but...) I can't comment on the quake source code, but the SDK source code that comes with quake3 is certainly far from beautiful. It's inconsistent, incoherent and at times purely irrational. Big, obscure important portions are left uncommented; meaningless and obvious stuff is commented all to hell; sometimes the comments make less sense than the actual source code itself! Sometimes he uses switch statements. Sometimes he uses tons of if/else statements. What's worst are these large, bizarre, obscure (uncommented!) optimizations. I've also noticed that when I code for quake3, I don't bother to be anything but sloppy - seems like a waste to make neat, orderly islands in a sea of chaos. Of course, I have no doubts that Carmack is ten times the coder I am, and can afford to be lazy and sloppy. But that's the problem; I can't! Developing for UT, based on my limited experience, has been a sheer pleasure. The code is neat and easily extendable, because it's object oriented. Quake3's code is C, for christ's sake, and UT still manages to run better on my old hardware.
(slightly more on topic) I certainly don't think that ID is at the forefront of ingenuity in the FPS realm, and I'm certainly not surprised that all the best mods are being developed for UT. But my friends love quake3, and I love them both, so our mod is gonna be done in quake3 after all. Kind of a shame; if we had developed it for UT, we might already be done.
(actually on topic) It's sad to see Paul go, though. He'll certainly be missed, though I'm sure we'll see him at another gaming company soon enough. Maybe Epic! Oooooh. Maybe Valve!
Saying that slashdot's spin is bad journalism makes the assumption that slashdot is in any way a journalistic site. Nothing about slashdot is real journalism, nor do they pretend it is. It's a rantfest/linkathon. A glorofied weblog/message board. It's never pretended to be anything more (except for maybe Jon Katz, and, well.. That's why they put the Exclude Story by Author feature into slashdot).
Not just Metallica's right, but any artist's right. Ah, what the hell.
Well, I can personally say (and I hardly think I'm a unique case, or even a rare case, certainly bigger than 1%) that my album collection would be a lot bigger if it weren't for Napster. Besides, that's no justification for doing it. I know you didn't intend for it to sound like a justification - but many people believe that is a justification. This isn't just about the RIAA and their desire to control the distribution of music; this is about Metallica's right to control the distribution of their own music. Their right to distribute their own material as they like, as you put it.
Whenever someone challenges our 'consititutional right' to pirate anything we want from anyone, we come up with some intellectual gymnastics which somehow, in some vague way, attempts to justify our illegal activity. When that justification is blown out of the water, we close our ears and yell FUD as loud as we can.
"Downloading studio mp3s cuts into album sales."
"No it doesn't."
"Yes it does, here's proof."
"WAHHHHHHHHH FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD!"
Of course albums being downloaded in mp3 hurts album sales. That's bonehead obvious. Pointing it out isn't FUD.
But, people are motivated to write open source software, and do write open source software. It isn't as if there's an academic debate about whether or not people would actually write open source software; they do, in abundance. There isn't a problem with open source software (it is doing just fine) so much as a problem with bigotry and fanaticism among the most visible proponents of open source software. Whenever the focus shifts from writing good software to attacking those who would dare to make a living or, dare I even mention, a profit from their toil, that's when the problem with open source software begins.