No. I'm saying Stop Your Fucking Bitching You Wretches. Even if you don't buy the game, admit that it's a closer effort than the vast majority, and it happens to be a bankable, visible property to boot. Be thankful for once in your life.
Read TFA - this article is about unpaid contributions a la the Tim O'Reilly definition of Web 2.0 level 3. This guy's talking about contributions to communities like Youtube, Wikipedia, etc. He doesn't once mention any of the significant FOSS projects. He's talking about mass contributions. And maybe he's right in that respect, although given the number of folks who made their own payday by giving away their efforts initially, one would think he's more than a little out to lunch on that score as well.
Meanwhile, the FOSS movement can sidestep everything he's talking about for exactly the reasons that everyone here is espousing - the people who contribute to those projects are passionate about the work and tend to gain (in the long run, at least) as much from the effort as they could expect were they to sell their skills on the open market.
Don't mind the whooshing sound above your head, sir. Now if you'll step inside my tent, I have some oil from a number of famously secure slithering reptiles.
What exactly Should be on/., if not topics like machine intelligence? Maybe I'm missing your extremely subtle sarcasm, but if not maybe it's time to reevaluate what you think this site is actually for, because apparently your vision is somewhere well away from main body of users.
All the McCain/Harper supporters really need is a good dose of therapy!
Of course, fear is a healthy thing, a survival instinct if you will, so maybe the Obama/Layton supporters need to take a good look at their lives and realize they've been living a lie.
That leaves Canada with Stephane Dion, and the US with...the invisible man. Which is about the same thing, really.
Clearly what's happened is that the Middle East has disappeared and Israel is now adjacent to the Buddhist countries of Southeast Asia. So dog poop has become their biggest problem. Well, that and China's interest in their nuclear stockpile.
- Reputation system that actually matters (see Nerdposeur's post above)
- Specific focus on functionality to drive user behaviour patterns
- wiki approach to QnA
- focus on community-driven content.
- focus on keeping it free
Experts Exchange has maybe 2 of the above, and nobody is really doing it the way that this site is doing it. Listen to the Stack Overflow podcast to understand a lot more about what they're doing that makes this site significantly different from the "other" answer sites.
BSOD isn't the problem; driver crashes are. Even on Vista 32 bit on the desktop I have relatively frequent driver crashes with an Nvidia 8600 GTS card. I'm sure it's gotten better since, but I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop years ago and discovered that I couldn't update my driver at all. That line was their main source of laptop income at the time. It's good to know that they have a machine that works, but yours, in my personal experience, is an exceptional case.
It's obvious from the article that the reviewer didn't actually use the machines in question, and some of the choices are really questionable - he recommends a machine with Vista 64bit. Given the continued instability of a lot of 64 bit graphics drivers even on desktops, buying a laptop - where custom drivers tend to rule (and ruin) the day - with the OS seems like a massive waste of cash. I think this is a case of Reader Beware.
which is a qualified way to say "I didn't like this movie and feel like it's derivative, but I don't want internet trolls to tear my facts to pieces." And then there's Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven't been to RT before, let me introduce you: Every movie is simultaneously completely derivative and startlingly original, steadfastly boring and dangerously exciting, and a total rip off of some French movie you and I will never see.
I understand the urge to compare the thing. But if I have to search for a specific comparison, if it isn't in the top 10 results for the thing, then I can safely say that it is Not What I Was Talking About.
I've never heard it called "Star Wars with dragons" until right now. So that's not at all the same thing. These authors were working explicitly with well-known material precisely because that was what the audience loved to hear. Can't really do that in the draconian copyright scheme that envelops the creative output of the western world.
When we're talking about animals that were 100 feet long tip to tip and walked like an earthquake, I'm willing to accept "farking huge" as a coolness criterion.
We have birds and crocs now, both evolved descendants of these families. Only the cool ones died out, leaving us with the current underwhelming descendants and pretenders.
The basic notion that a "classic" can exist in today's society neglects to acknowledge that reuse of content has been a basic formula in "classic" art for centuries. Shakespeare's and Marlowe's plays took well-known stories and reinvented them for the "modern" (Victorian) audience. Everyone who wrote a book in the past millennium took a lot from Beowulf. Everyone who wrote an epic in the past 3 millennia or so took a lot from the storytellers collectively known as "Homer". Read Homer's originals versus Ovid's distillations versus any number of playwrights' comic and tragic riffs.
Of course, in the current copywrong environment, it's going to be impossible to preserve truly great artistic achievements in a living framework of re-imagination. That's what the whole fight is about, n'est-ce pas?
And if an alcoholic saw a brewer putting kegs in high schools, he'd bloody well have some choice words for the breweries, not to mention the school administrators. These guys aren't content with the level of pervasiveness of their games, so they're pushing it out to ever-more-intrusive platforms. I'm ok with folks wanting to play games on the train or whatever. I just think maybe it's well past time to recognize the absurdity and harm that can come of MMO developers trying to create omnipresent solutions.
I reread your post, and you know, I just can't let it go unanswered. You don't really understand the addictive nature of these games.
You sound like you're an addict, just looking for someone else to blame for your own lack of self-control.
You sound like you're trying to justify the addictive influence some of these guys are banking on. Don't do that. Game companies and tobacco companies are not inherently good organizations. They're inherently amoral ones, dutiful only to the dollar. An addict is partly to blame for his disease, but the addictive influence is also to blame, particularly in the case where the thing is engineered to induce a state of dependency.
Keeping in mind that you can't keep paying if you're so addicted you're out of a job, I would imagine they'd much rather build a casual MMO, if that's possible.
Punctuated content. You see any in the games out there right now? No. Thanks. They could make those games, but they don't because they don't see the dollar in it.
Your turn -- don't be intentionally stupid. In the immortal words of every mother, "If your friends all jumped off a cliff, would you?"
What does that have to do with anything? If none of my friends are addicts, that doesn't give me some magical protection from addiction when I smoke crack. You're confusing mob mentality
Or, if you play 10 hours a week, it only takes you twice as long to do the same things. Is that so horrible?
There are a lot of things you simply cannot do adequately in 10 hours a week, actually. Raiding. PvP. High-level instances. Crafting. All of these become exercises in futility when you're playing less than 20 hours a week in WoW, and let's not even talk about EQ - it's (or at least, it was) designed so that you have to invest ridiculous quantities of time and energy with several of your cohorts in order to simply gain levels.
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No. I'm saying Stop Your Fucking Bitching You Wretches. Even if you don't buy the game, admit that it's a closer effort than the vast majority, and it happens to be a bankable, visible property to boot. Be thankful for once in your life.
Read TFA - this article is about unpaid contributions a la the Tim O'Reilly definition of Web 2.0 level 3. This guy's talking about contributions to communities like Youtube, Wikipedia, etc. He doesn't once mention any of the significant FOSS projects. He's talking about mass contributions. And maybe he's right in that respect, although given the number of folks who made their own payday by giving away their efforts initially, one would think he's more than a little out to lunch on that score as well.
Meanwhile, the FOSS movement can sidestep everything he's talking about for exactly the reasons that everyone here is espousing - the people who contribute to those projects are passionate about the work and tend to gain (in the long run, at least) as much from the effort as they could expect were they to sell their skills on the open market.
Don't mind the whooshing sound above your head, sir. Now if you'll step inside my tent, I have some oil from a number of famously secure slithering reptiles.
If you actually read the article, it's not the roadster that's supposedly dying - it's their mass-production luxury sedan. So, yeah. As always, RTFA.
What exactly Should be on /., if not topics like machine intelligence? Maybe I'm missing your extremely subtle sarcasm, but if not maybe it's time to reevaluate what you think this site is actually for, because apparently your vision is somewhere well away from main body of users.
So basically it shuts down malware and buggy software. Holy fuck, somebody kill this thing - we're all out of a job if this catches on.
All the McCain/Harper supporters really need is a good dose of therapy!
Of course, fear is a healthy thing, a survival instinct if you will, so maybe the Obama/Layton supporters need to take a good look at their lives and realize they've been living a lie.
That leaves Canada with Stephane Dion, and the US with...the invisible man. Which is about the same thing, really.
Israel...previous life...
Clearly what's happened is that the Middle East has disappeared and Israel is now adjacent to the Buddhist countries of Southeast Asia. So dog poop has become their biggest problem. Well, that and China's interest in their nuclear stockpile.
In actual fact, the intention is to rub your nose in your dog's business. It works for the dog, after all.
- Reputation system that actually matters (see Nerdposeur's post above) - Specific focus on functionality to drive user behaviour patterns - wiki approach to QnA - focus on community-driven content. - focus on keeping it free Experts Exchange has maybe 2 of the above, and nobody is really doing it the way that this site is doing it. Listen to the Stack Overflow podcast to understand a lot more about what they're doing that makes this site significantly different from the "other" answer sites.
The first space janitor has been contracted to clean "several unspecified glass surfaces".
BSOD isn't the problem; driver crashes are. Even on Vista 32 bit on the desktop I have relatively frequent driver crashes with an Nvidia 8600 GTS card. I'm sure it's gotten better since, but I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop years ago and discovered that I couldn't update my driver at all. That line was their main source of laptop income at the time. It's good to know that they have a machine that works, but yours, in my personal experience, is an exceptional case.
It's obvious from the article that the reviewer didn't actually use the machines in question, and some of the choices are really questionable - he recommends a machine with Vista 64bit. Given the continued instability of a lot of 64 bit graphics drivers even on desktops, buying a laptop - where custom drivers tend to rule (and ruin) the day - with the OS seems like a massive waste of cash. I think this is a case of Reader Beware.
Common Sense Media called Eragon's dialogue long-winded and clichéd, with a plot "straight out of Star Wars by way of The Lord of the Rings, with bits of other great fantasies thrown in here and there".
which is a qualified way to say "I didn't like this movie and feel like it's derivative, but I don't want internet trolls to tear my facts to pieces." And then there's Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven't been to RT before, let me introduce you: Every movie is simultaneously completely derivative and startlingly original, steadfastly boring and dangerously exciting, and a total rip off of some French movie you and I will never see.
I understand the urge to compare the thing. But if I have to search for a specific comparison, if it isn't in the top 10 results for the thing, then I can safely say that it is Not What I Was Talking About.
I've never heard it called "Star Wars with dragons" until right now. So that's not at all the same thing. These authors were working explicitly with well-known material precisely because that was what the audience loved to hear. Can't really do that in the draconian copyright scheme that envelops the creative output of the western world.
Yeah, I always screw those two up. Thanks for the correction - maybe this time it'll stick.
When we're talking about animals that were 100 feet long tip to tip and walked like an earthquake, I'm willing to accept "farking huge" as a coolness criterion.
We have birds and crocs now, both evolved descendants of these families. Only the cool ones died out, leaving us with the current underwhelming descendants and pretenders.
The basic notion that a "classic" can exist in today's society neglects to acknowledge that reuse of content has been a basic formula in "classic" art for centuries. Shakespeare's and Marlowe's plays took well-known stories and reinvented them for the "modern" (Victorian) audience. Everyone who wrote a book in the past millennium took a lot from Beowulf. Everyone who wrote an epic in the past 3 millennia or so took a lot from the storytellers collectively known as "Homer". Read Homer's originals versus Ovid's distillations versus any number of playwrights' comic and tragic riffs.
Of course, in the current copywrong environment, it's going to be impossible to preserve truly great artistic achievements in a living framework of re-imagination. That's what the whole fight is about, n'est-ce pas?
There's still at least one of those lurking in the latest release - mine died last night.
Yes, yes, and exercise in general. All of them have been discussed as serious candidates for inclusion as diagnoses in medical diagnoses catalogues.
And if an alcoholic saw a brewer putting kegs in high schools, he'd bloody well have some choice words for the breweries, not to mention the school administrators. These guys aren't content with the level of pervasiveness of their games, so they're pushing it out to ever-more-intrusive platforms. I'm ok with folks wanting to play games on the train or whatever. I just think maybe it's well past time to recognize the absurdity and harm that can come of MMO developers trying to create omnipresent solutions.
I see where we're having a disconnect. You don't believe in non-physical addictions. You're wrong. I'm done here.
There'd be one big spot if that were the case. Sunstarfish, you understand.
You sound like you're an addict, just looking for someone else to blame for your own lack of self-control.
You sound like you're trying to justify the addictive influence some of these guys are banking on. Don't do that. Game companies and tobacco companies are not inherently good organizations. They're inherently amoral ones, dutiful only to the dollar. An addict is partly to blame for his disease, but the addictive influence is also to blame, particularly in the case where the thing is engineered to induce a state of dependency.
Keeping in mind that you can't keep paying if you're so addicted you're out of a job, I would imagine they'd much rather build a casual MMO, if that's possible.
Punctuated content. You see any in the games out there right now? No. Thanks. They could make those games, but they don't because they don't see the dollar in it.
Your turn -- don't be intentionally stupid. In the immortal words of every mother, "If your friends all jumped off a cliff, would you?"
What does that have to do with anything? If none of my friends are addicts, that doesn't give me some magical protection from addiction when I smoke crack. You're confusing mob mentality
Or, if you play 10 hours a week, it only takes you twice as long to do the same things. Is that so horrible?
There are a lot of things you simply cannot do adequately in 10 hours a week, actually. Raiding. PvP. High-level instances. Crafting. All of these become exercises in futility when you're playing less than 20 hours a week in WoW, and let's not even talk about EQ - it's (or at least, it was) designed so that you have to invest ridiculous quantities of time and energy with several of your cohorts in order to simply gain levels.