2. It's nearly impossible to defend "deviant" pornography without easily being labeled and therefore ignored or reviled by the public.
3. It makes the government look good in the eyes of the bible thumping sheeple that make up the voting public.
4. Pork. Hey, how else are the well-educated-but-utterly-unskilled friends and family of connected families supposed to get a well paying government job?
I listen to my Nomad Zen pretty much all day at my internship (2-3 days a week). I have no idea what's a non-damaging volume, but my volume is frequently set at "12", which is a bit less than half of the max volume.
The office where I intern isn't amazingly loud, but how do I know I'm not delivering a 90+Db shock to my ears?
Um, I'd say that "stupid" people have done a rather extraordinary job of breeding throughout the history of our species.
The only "stupid" people who didn't survive long ago that do survive now are those with mental retardation related to genetic diseases.
And I'd say a fair amount of those diseases cause mental retardation as a secondary effect (i.e. craniofacial diseases that stop the growth of the skull).
As much as people bitch about Valve, if they were to suddenly have to close up shop I would bet you any amount of money they'd remove the authorization aspect from steam in a heart beat and allow for independant master servers.
Why? Because now they aren't tied to a publisher that holds an iron fisted grip on their IP and code.
With Photoshop, it took me a good half hour to get familiar with the menu, option, tool positions, and the keyboard shortcuts I used the most.
Now, am I a Photoshop ninjitsu master capable of doing professional quality editing? Hell no. That has nothing to do with the positioning or layout of the tools themselves as long as they work. Being professionally capable with photoshop is knowing what values to put in where and what combination of filters, tools, and masks let you produce the desired effect.
Photoshop was intuitive and well organized for the most part.
Ditto for Paint Shop Pro, which while being nearly as powerful, had a markedly different interface outside of the fact they both used MDI. It took me even less time to learn how to use Paint Shop Pro.
Photoshop's interface is intuitive. Paint Shop Pro's interface is intuitive.
I tried using the GIMP (1.x and 2.x releases both) and went into it full well knowing I was going to have to learn another interface. I struggled mightily with the GIMP's odd menu layout, its clusterfuck of taskbar cluttering tool windows, and general lack of usability.
It's not learning a new tool, it's just the simple fact that Photoshop is a better one.
It would take a fair amount of writing (but less than writing your own engine from scratch), but you could potentially make just about any kind of game you wanted as long as the engine could handle what you wanted to render.
I could easily imagine someone making a isometric/topdown RPG like Freedom Force with the Q3 engine. Even though I doubt the Quake 3 engine could handle the wide-open spaces and poly counts, hell, someone could use it as the base engine for a MMORPG or something.
It's just the amount of additional coding and re-writing you want to do.
We'll probably just get a really bitchin' version of pong though. Having an engine is one thing, having artistic talent is another.
You suggest things that can't, won't, and never will happen.
I'm not defeatist or fatalistic, I'm realistic. I didn't vote for Bush, I don't buy gigantic gas guzzling vehicles, I recycle when it actually makes a difference (which is only the case for aluminum).
I don't suggest that the whole world suddenly needs to adopt a whole new philosophy. I don't make that suggestion and actually believe it'll happen. I don't focus on what everyone else needs to do instead of what I can and need to do.
Keep your amazingly asinine suggestion, I'm busy living....and arguing about things on the internet.
Yeah, the whole world is going to suddenly abandon consuming and find the comfortable medium where we can have both convenience and a healthy environment.
Both APIs have their merits and D3D's aren't all because of the ties to the OS.
People I know who work with both have things they really like and things they really hate about both of them. Even Caramack dislikes certain elements of OGL.
It's mostly just a matter of using the tool you're more familiar with or in the usual case, what's least expensive or time-consuming.
I would buy a Mini in a heartbeat if the onboard video was better.
The processor is plenty good enough, the 512MB RAM upgrade seems to have gotten even cheaper.
It's just the damn video card. If they threw a 128MB Radeon 9600 (the regular card with a different HSF design, or a mobility version) it would actually make a good game box.
Yeah yeah, I know, laugh. I think it would be cool to have a cheap, very tiny LAN box to play Quake 3 engine based games (since most of them have Mac ports) or Blizzard titles.
The speed boost it would give to the desktop wouldn't hurt either.
Let's never make another fucking game ever again because someone made something similar already!...nevermind you said you're enthralled with Ms. Pacman, which is a slightly different version of Pacman, and Bejeweled, which is yet another puzzle game in the vein of all that came before it.
Anyway, it's a combat rule that states that if someone with a blade attacks someone with a holstered gun, and is less than 27 feet away, they WILL cut the person with the gun.
Now, this doesn't mean the person with the blade won't keel over from having half a clip in him after cutting the guy with the gun, but unless the guy with the gun eyesockets the blade user or is carrying a VERY high calibur handgun, he IS going to get cut.
Also, unarmed combat is still extremely important in training for the Marines and other fighting units, and it focuses on disarming armed opponents.
You know why bullpup rifles/SMGs (bullpup means that the barrel is mostly inside of the gun instead of sticking out) are popular for room clearing? Ease of movement is one thing, but also because someone would have a hell of a time grabbing the barrel and directing fire away from themselves in close quarters!
They CAN assist in "copyright violation" and not get in trouble because IT'S NOT AGAINST SWEDISH LAW TO RUN A TRACKER, you fucking simp.
Now, you may just get your wish, because I could've sworn Sweden's copyright law was getting "updated" here in 2-3 months. I can't remember the source though.
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1. The FBI can actually catch pornographers.
2. It's nearly impossible to defend "deviant" pornography without easily being labeled and therefore ignored or reviled by the public.
3. It makes the government look good in the eyes of the bible thumping sheeple that make up the voting public.
4. Pork. Hey, how else are the well-educated-but-utterly-unskilled friends and family of connected families supposed to get a well paying government job?
This will be the last non-handheld console Nintendo ever produces.
I listen to my Nomad Zen pretty much all day at my internship (2-3 days a week). I have no idea what's a non-damaging volume, but my volume is frequently set at "12", which is a bit less than half of the max volume.
The office where I intern isn't amazingly loud, but how do I know I'm not delivering a 90+Db shock to my ears?
Um, I'd say that "stupid" people have done a rather extraordinary job of breeding throughout the history of our species.
The only "stupid" people who didn't survive long ago that do survive now are those with mental retardation related to genetic diseases.
And I'd say a fair amount of those diseases cause mental retardation as a secondary effect (i.e. craniofacial diseases that stop the growth of the skull).
Go fig.
As much as people bitch about Valve, if they were to suddenly have to close up shop I would bet you any amount of money they'd remove the authorization aspect from steam in a heart beat and allow for independant master servers. Why? Because now they aren't tied to a publisher that holds an iron fisted grip on their IP and code.
With Photoshop, it took me a good half hour to get familiar with the menu, option, tool positions, and the keyboard shortcuts I used the most.
Now, am I a Photoshop ninjitsu master capable of doing professional quality editing? Hell no. That has nothing to do with the positioning or layout of the tools themselves as long as they work. Being professionally capable with photoshop is knowing what values to put in where and what combination of filters, tools, and masks let you produce the desired effect.
Photoshop was intuitive and well organized for the most part.
Ditto for Paint Shop Pro, which while being nearly as powerful, had a markedly different interface outside of the fact they both used MDI. It took me even less time to learn how to use Paint Shop Pro.
Photoshop's interface is intuitive. Paint Shop Pro's interface is intuitive.
I tried using the GIMP (1.x and 2.x releases both) and went into it full well knowing I was going to have to learn another interface. I struggled mightily with the GIMP's odd menu layout, its clusterfuck of taskbar cluttering tool windows, and general lack of usability.
It's not learning a new tool, it's just the simple fact that Photoshop is a better one.
Besides the really, really stupid analogy, can you explain why a powerful program needs to have a complicated and unorganized interface?
When you make $40,000+ a month in ad/other revenues.
They're shills alright, but at least they're up front about it.
Fuck, I'd shill for money hats like that.
It would take a fair amount of writing (but less than writing your own engine from scratch), but you could potentially make just about any kind of game you wanted as long as the engine could handle what you wanted to render.
I could easily imagine someone making a isometric/topdown RPG like Freedom Force with the Q3 engine. Even though I doubt the Quake 3 engine could handle the wide-open spaces and poly counts, hell, someone could use it as the base engine for a MMORPG or something.
It's just the amount of additional coding and re-writing you want to do.
We'll probably just get a really bitchin' version of pong though. Having an engine is one thing, having artistic talent is another.
Human beings as individuals most definitely learn from their mistakes, it's this whole "society" thing where it gets complicated.
And platitudes aren't good learning tools.
Change is not always good I guess then, since the exchange of ideas eventually lead to this disaster you spoke of.
Maybe it would've been better if we had "not gotten anything done"?
P.S. Not to ruin your poetic closing or anything, but if I killed you, I could indeed take your ability exercise your opinion away.
Well, if we're going to end up living in a cave anyway, we may as well enjoy ourselves.
Oh wait, that's being fatalistic.
No, I did my research and decided that it was a good idea (and hey, Penn & Teller ended up agreeing with me, I'm all warm and fuzzy inside).
I didn't decide because Captain Planet told me it was good to recycle and that the power was mine.
And there you go telling me and the rest of the world what to do again. Seriously, go live your own life, not ours.
You suggest things that can't, won't, and never will happen.
...and arguing about things on the internet.
I'm not defeatist or fatalistic, I'm realistic.
I didn't vote for Bush,
I don't buy gigantic gas guzzling vehicles,
I recycle when it actually makes a difference (which is only the case for aluminum).
I don't suggest that the whole world suddenly needs to adopt a whole new philosophy.
I don't make that suggestion and actually believe it'll happen.
I don't focus on what everyone else needs to do instead of what I can and need to do.
Keep your amazingly asinine suggestion, I'm busy living.
Yeah, the whole world is going to suddenly abandon consuming and find the comfortable medium where we can have both convenience and a healthy environment.
This including third-world countries.
Oh, and in enough time to make a difference.
This is the part where you mod this post funny.
Both APIs have their merits and D3D's aren't all because of the ties to the OS.
People I know who work with both have things they really like and things they really hate about both of them. Even Caramack dislikes certain elements of OGL.
It's mostly just a matter of using the tool you're more familiar with or in the usual case, what's least expensive or time-consuming.
It was a good run anyway.
I would buy a Mini in a heartbeat if the onboard video was better.
The processor is plenty good enough, the 512MB RAM upgrade seems to have gotten even cheaper.
It's just the damn video card. If they threw a 128MB Radeon 9600 (the regular card with a different HSF design, or a mobility version) it would actually make a good game box.
Yeah yeah, I know, laugh. I think it would be cool to have a cheap, very tiny LAN box to play Quake 3 engine based games (since most of them have Mac ports) or Blizzard titles.
The speed boost it would give to the desktop wouldn't hurt either.
Because your argument is tired.
...nevermind you said you're enthralled with Ms. Pacman, which is a slightly different version of Pacman, and Bejeweled, which is yet another puzzle game in the vein of all that came before it.
Let's never make another fucking game ever again because someone made something similar already!
Go sit in the corner with your Atari.
Slashdot has so much fucking astroturf now it could host the next Superbowl.
It's nice to see that assholes aren't however.
I -Think- that's the name of it.
Anyway, it's a combat rule that states that if someone with a blade attacks someone with a holstered gun, and is less than 27 feet away, they WILL cut the person with the gun.
Now, this doesn't mean the person with the blade won't keel over from having half a clip in him after cutting the guy with the gun, but unless the guy with the gun eyesockets the blade user or is carrying a VERY high calibur handgun, he IS going to get cut.
Also, unarmed combat is still extremely important in training for the Marines and other fighting units, and it focuses on disarming armed opponents.
You know why bullpup rifles/SMGs (bullpup means that the barrel is mostly inside of the gun instead of sticking out) are popular for room clearing? Ease of movement is one thing, but also because someone would have a hell of a time grabbing the barrel and directing fire away from themselves in close quarters!
...On being the first retard to post that in this topic.
Because we sure haven't seen some idiot post it in EVERY FUCKING TOPIC that mentions RFID, Barcodes, Biometrics, National IDs, Passports, etc. etc.
They CAN assist in "copyright violation" and not get in trouble because IT'S NOT AGAINST SWEDISH LAW TO RUN A TRACKER, you fucking simp.
Now, you may just get your wish, because I could've sworn Sweden's copyright law was getting "updated" here in 2-3 months. I can't remember the source though.