"Only a master of Evil, Darth" "But I was going to go to Toshi station to pick up some power converters!" "Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
So if you're expecting better lines than those, don't show up to the movie. Not like Lucas needs your money anyway.
1) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it. 2) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it. 3) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it. 4) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it.
If you look at the trends, since more and more people are gaming, if the industry motivates much like Television, the future will be interesting indeed!
Firstly, the goverment will get more involved and start regulating much like TV is regulated, both for content and for delivery.
What this means is (and this fits with globalisation of an industry), standards will become more prevalent and eventually, although this will be painful, platforms with either be monopolised (unlikely with so much at stake for existing competitors), or they will unify to enable one game to run anywhere. It sounds odd but remember, Java and XML and other technologies are facilitating portability of applications. It's not inconcievable that in the future this will extend to gaming. Certainly OpenGL makes games relatively easy to shift around from one platform to another. The industry just needs to take it a few more steps.
What does this mean for existing players? It'll become a lot like the nVidia/ATI/AMD/Intel wars of today, where platforms that do the same thing vie desperately for market share by pretending to be so much better than the rest. So you get better framerates on XBox-XPSP3 than PS8 than Nintendo GameBoxCubeMaster 5.
Right, so you probably think bhuddists are absolutely crazy for becoming monks and spending their lives completely apart from other people?
Yet bhuddists are the most well centered and peacefully content people in the world. Why is this?
Because they choose to do what is easiest, what makes them most content.
Life is not "out there". Life is a journey. You decide how you wish to travel it. All you have to keep in mind is that you're on this journey right now. Don't waste it chasing the unattainable.
Why leave the house? Because you want to. To achieve an objective. What objective? Generally a self motivated objective to be more content. Bhuddists don't leave the house because they've already got it figured out. Evercrack players also seem to have it figured out, because they seem to really loooove whatever it is that they do. Might not work for you and me but you need to understand what makes people tick.
Elena aside, STALKER looks like it might be the designated "sleeper" hit for this year.
DooM3 looks graphically superior to well, everything, but from the alpha, the gameplay hasn't changed since the early 90's. I've played the run, gun, find the switch game before.
Half-Life 2 will probably have more playability despite being optimised exclusively for ATI cards (no particular reason beyond marketing sponsorship). It'll be a success assuming they don't dumb anything down for the console kiddies (DX2 anyone? Thanks console guys, thanks a lot).
STALKER on the other hand is about the only game I've heard of this year that has a really distinctive new premise. Let's hope for the best from the fresh blood in the market.
Interesting point, but surely, Intel will be running into physics problems way faster than AMD will, because Intel are running much closer to the raw speed edge.
Megahurtz myths aside, frequency is still frequency and there is an upper limit. The first one to hit the wall loses, by the way. So the frequency/performance aspect of intel processors is definately worth keeping in mind. This is why the Pentium-M is becoming the forefront processor-More IPC than the PIV architecture. Perhaps intel has hit the wall already?
Likewise, one could reason that many of the tricks that Intel are using to increase frequency could be applied to AMD's architectures in the future, giving AMD much more room for growth, as intel has already exhausted many of the available technologies.
Yes, exactly, thankyou. I was being a little flippant when I said "several". And I simply remarked on the whole weight thing because the original post used the term "tons" to describe quantity rather than mass.
Weight, by the way, and in case you're not sure, isn't purely a representation of mass. It's the vectored force that is the product of mass and the accelleration due to the attractive force of gravity. It's just represented in grammes instead of newtons.
"The UI really isn't up to standard. If you worked more on it Linux would be great." "Developing UI is hard. Let's not bother."
Nice riposte there. The ultimate excuse for not achieving the single most important thing in creating a total Linux revolution. The reason Bill Gates is in every home on every desktop. Here it is:
A lot of the reason you have a great link is because the US probably isn't trying to charge SK for both ingoing and outgoing traffic. Of course, as I said earlier, besides telstra.
I nominate the guy who gave us that great quote to go work on the front lines in Iraq or Afghanistan *right now*
Or maybe if we get an international perspective he can go work for an african warlord for the (short) remainder of his life.
Before he dies for whatever reason his wartime experiences have given him (bulletwounds, dysentry, suicide bomber), I would love to find out how he got along shaping his opinion on war. I would be interested to find out whether his opinion on war has changed since he first formed it playing computer games.
I mean some with tons of small interceptor & bomber ships, large/huge cruisers, stations, and so forth.
I suppose you could say that the Enterprise and the Reliant both weighed several tonnes, although still quite weightless in space. But I should say, two (2) spaceships playing pattycake in a nebula doesn't class as a "huge space battle" for the purposes of an article.
Definately, nonetheless, the defining space battle of the entire original set of movies, and the only one worth mentioning. Also the reason why II is the highest grossing trek movie ever.
For so long, console games have been on the rise because of percieved "higher revenues". Apparently games are harder to pirate on consoles. Maybe not anymore!
Hopefully this means that games companies will go back to the lower initial development and publishing costs of PC games. No proprietary disks, no proprietary development platforms! Give us some real quality again. More half-life, less Deus Ex 2! Maybe there's hope for OpenGL yet?
It's not like I have a problem with this or anything, but when 2 out of 10 posts on slashdot are from us west aussies there is definately something funny going on. Or these americans just act all tough but they sleep just like everyone else!
The reason US traffic (and most internet) costs are so high for Australian users, besides Telstra of course, is that US companies expect Australia to bear the cost of both incoming and outgoing traffic to the USA. This is standard US policy.
Thanks for coming along, we hope you enjoy your stay here. Unless you aren't american.
Hell, if I could download and watch any TV show I wanted to for free (Well, heh, let's pretend I don't already), and the shows provided on the fat bandwidth media company servers were all high quality, even if they had ads imbedded in them, I would do it that way. I wouldn't even skip most of the ads, I'd probably forget to.
The whole purpose of TV, as I understand, is for various companies to sell product to people by using TV shows as bait for forcing viewers to see advertisements. Now if I watch these ads, does it matter in what medium the adverts are provided to me?
Yes, but the Telstra example is different for two reasons:
Firstly, ISPs (and everyone else) despise Telstra already. Telstra is a monopoly however, so it's just like having God and the Devil in the same body. Just bend over and take it, resellers.
Of course the ACCC is working to put Telstra back in thier place, and Telstra really is afraid of the ACCC in general, so you need to ask why Telstra would do such a thing. Here's our second point. Telstra has seen the writing on the wall with regards to telephone over IP. Telstra makes $400-700M a year out of their telecommunications business. The more of that business that leaks to IP communications that they don't control, the more of that delicious multimillion dollar pie they lose in the long run. So the risk of a $1M/day fine for Telstra is bad, but losing that $700M moneytree is much, much worse.
Either way things will undoubtedly get better for the consumer once Telstra is in court with ACCC having a new one reamed for them.
You'd think so, but, just as in all things, there's a reason things are the way they are.
Mostly it relates back to the console-IQ demographic of gamers, who want to buy the nice shiny things on the shelves and don't know what the internet is for apart from possibly pr0n.
Publishers find that game sales are roughly proportional to shelfspace used by thier product in EB/whatever. Publishers find that by keeping good relations with retailers, they get more shelfspace and hence more unit sales. Completely ticking off the retailers is much like suicide. Would Enter the Matrix have sold much copy if it weren't for shelfspace and paid-for 5 star reviews?
Back in my day, before these idealfoods people made subdomains, I had fun on all the websites on the internet. I used to go to gov, mil, com, edu and sometimes org.
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Great lines like
"Only a master of Evil, Darth"
"But I was going to go to Toshi station to pick up some power converters!"
"Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
So if you're expecting better lines than those, don't show up to the movie. Not like Lucas needs your money anyway.
That's "someone set up us the bomb", you insensitive clod.
1) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it.
2) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it.
3) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it.
4) It's supposed to be pulp sci-fi. Deal with it.
Does that clear things up for you?
Where are my modpoints when I see flamebait like this? Sigh.
Nowhere did the parent imply that all germans are nazis.
It just so happens that Hitler is, in contemporary culture, one of the most popular satirical ranters there is.
Therefore, the parent simply implies it would be amusing to imagine Hitler ranting about Star Wars.
Please try and keep objective instead of going out of your way to put words in people's mouths to make yourself or someone else a victim of nothing.
If you look at the trends, since more and more people are gaming, if the industry motivates much like Television, the future will be interesting indeed!
Firstly, the goverment will get more involved and start regulating much like TV is regulated, both for content and for delivery.
What this means is (and this fits with globalisation of an industry), standards will become more prevalent and eventually, although this will be painful, platforms with either be monopolised (unlikely with so much at stake for existing competitors), or they will unify to enable one game to run anywhere. It sounds odd but remember, Java and XML and other technologies are facilitating portability of applications. It's not inconcievable that in the future this will extend to gaming. Certainly OpenGL makes games relatively easy to shift around from one platform to another. The industry just needs to take it a few more steps.
What does this mean for existing players? It'll become a lot like the nVidia/ATI/AMD/Intel wars of today, where platforms that do the same thing vie desperately for market share by pretending to be so much better than the rest. So you get better framerates on XBox-XPSP3 than PS8 than Nintendo GameBoxCubeMaster 5.
Maybe. Who knows?
Right, so you probably think bhuddists are absolutely crazy for becoming monks and spending their lives completely apart from other people?
Yet bhuddists are the most well centered and peacefully content people in the world. Why is this?
Because they choose to do what is easiest, what makes them most content.
Life is not "out there". Life is a journey. You decide how you wish to travel it. All you have to keep in mind is that you're on this journey right now. Don't waste it chasing the unattainable.
Why leave the house? Because you want to. To achieve an objective. What objective? Generally a self motivated objective to be more content. Bhuddists don't leave the house because they've already got it figured out. Evercrack players also seem to have it figured out, because they seem to really loooove whatever it is that they do. Might not work for you and me but you need to understand what makes people tick.
Elena aside, STALKER looks like it might be the designated "sleeper" hit for this year.
DooM3 looks graphically superior to well, everything, but from the alpha, the gameplay hasn't changed since the early 90's. I've played the run, gun, find the switch game before.
Half-Life 2 will probably have more playability despite being optimised exclusively for ATI cards (no particular reason beyond marketing sponsorship). It'll be a success assuming they don't dumb anything down for the console kiddies (DX2 anyone? Thanks console guys, thanks a lot).
STALKER on the other hand is about the only game I've heard of this year that has a really distinctive new premise. Let's hope for the best from the fresh blood in the market.
Interesting point, but surely, Intel will be running into physics problems way faster than AMD will, because Intel are running much closer to the raw speed edge.
Megahurtz myths aside, frequency is still frequency and there is an upper limit. The first one to hit the wall loses, by the way. So the frequency/performance aspect of intel processors is definately worth keeping in mind. This is why the Pentium-M is becoming the forefront processor-More IPC than the PIV architecture. Perhaps intel has hit the wall already?
Likewise, one could reason that many of the tricks that Intel are using to increase frequency could be applied to AMD's architectures in the future, giving AMD much more room for growth, as intel has already exhausted many of the available technologies.
Well thankfully in Australia, mod chips are legal. Hopefully Canada will go in the same direction.
But you know what? Until MS/Intel/AMD hits us all with proprietary Palladium borg implants, we won't need mod chips for PC's. Hooray!
Yes, exactly, thankyou. I was being a little flippant when I said "several". And I simply remarked on the whole weight thing because the original post used the term "tons" to describe quantity rather than mass.
Weight, by the way, and in case you're not sure, isn't purely a representation of mass. It's the vectored force that is the product of mass and the accelleration due to the attractive force of gravity. It's just represented in grammes instead of newtons.
Let's have a look at this argument then:
"The UI really isn't up to standard. If you worked more on it Linux would be great."
"Developing UI is hard. Let's not bother."
Nice riposte there. The ultimate excuse for not achieving the single most important thing in creating a total Linux revolution. The reason Bill Gates is in every home on every desktop. Here it is:
"It's too hard."
Bill Gates has won.
A lot of the reason you have a great link is because the US probably isn't trying to charge SK for both ingoing and outgoing traffic. Of course, as I said earlier, besides telstra.
I nominate the guy who gave us that great quote to go work on the front lines in Iraq or Afghanistan *right now*
Or maybe if we get an international perspective he can go work for an african warlord for the (short) remainder of his life.
Before he dies for whatever reason his wartime experiences have given him (bulletwounds, dysentry, suicide bomber), I would love to find out how he got along shaping his opinion on war. I would be interested to find out whether his opinion on war has changed since he first formed it playing computer games.
From the article:
I mean some with tons of small interceptor & bomber ships, large/huge cruisers, stations, and so forth.
I suppose you could say that the Enterprise and the Reliant both weighed several tonnes, although still quite weightless in space. But I should say, two (2) spaceships playing pattycake in a nebula doesn't class as a "huge space battle" for the purposes of an article.
Definately, nonetheless, the defining space battle of the entire original set of movies, and the only one worth mentioning. Also the reason why II is the highest grossing trek movie ever.
Now if hollywood is out of ideas, why aren't we seeing Last Starfighter remakes? That was a great story!
The pilot episode for DS9 and the opening sequences in First Contact had far more elaborate combat sequences in the Trekkie universe.
I also strongly recommend the new Battlestar Galactica.
This is great news.
For so long, console games have been on the rise because of percieved "higher revenues". Apparently games are harder to pirate on consoles. Maybe not anymore!
Hopefully this means that games companies will go back to the lower initial development and publishing costs of PC games. No proprietary disks, no proprietary development platforms! Give us some real quality again. More half-life, less Deus Ex 2! Maybe there's hope for OpenGL yet?
It's not like I have a problem with this or anything, but when 2 out of 10 posts on slashdot are from us west aussies there is definately something funny going on. Or these americans just act all tough but they sleep just like everyone else!
Hello, welcome to the internet.
The reason US traffic (and most internet) costs are so high for Australian users, besides Telstra of course, is that US companies expect Australia to bear the cost of both incoming and outgoing traffic to the USA. This is standard US policy.
Thanks for coming along, we hope you enjoy your stay here. Unless you aren't american.
Hell, if I could download and watch any TV show I wanted to for free (Well, heh, let's pretend I don't already), and the shows provided on the fat bandwidth media company servers were all high quality, even if they had ads imbedded in them, I would do it that way. I wouldn't even skip most of the ads, I'd probably forget to.
The whole purpose of TV, as I understand, is for various companies to sell product to people by using TV shows as bait for forcing viewers to see advertisements. Now if I watch these ads, does it matter in what medium the adverts are provided to me?
Yes, but the Telstra example is different for two reasons:
Firstly, ISPs (and everyone else) despise Telstra already. Telstra is a monopoly however, so it's just like having God and the Devil in the same body. Just bend over and take it, resellers.
Of course the ACCC is working to put Telstra back in thier place, and Telstra really is afraid of the ACCC in general, so you need to ask why Telstra would do such a thing. Here's our second point. Telstra has seen the writing on the wall with regards to telephone over IP. Telstra makes $400-700M a year out of their telecommunications business. The more of that business that leaks to IP communications that they don't control, the more of that delicious multimillion dollar pie they lose in the long run. So the risk of a $1M/day fine for Telstra is bad, but losing that $700M moneytree is much, much worse.
Either way things will undoubtedly get better for the consumer once Telstra is in court with ACCC having a new one reamed for them.
You'd think so, but, just as in all things, there's a reason things are the way they are.
Mostly it relates back to the console-IQ demographic of gamers, who want to buy the nice shiny things on the shelves and don't know what the internet is for apart from possibly pr0n.
Publishers find that game sales are roughly proportional to shelfspace used by thier product in EB/whatever. Publishers find that by keeping good relations with retailers, they get more shelfspace and hence more unit sales. Completely ticking off the retailers is much like suicide. Would Enter the Matrix have sold much copy if it weren't for shelfspace and paid-for 5 star reviews?
No, no, no, no, no. Never outsource marketing or sales ever.
I do not want my mailbox full of "Buy cheap xanax herbal daikatana doom3" thank you very much.
Back in my day, before these idealfoods people made subdomains, I had fun on all the websites on the internet. I used to go to gov, mil, com, edu and sometimes org.
You must have gone somewhere on the east coast. They're always a bit funny over there. I don't know what it is. Us sandgropers are much more eloquent.