I've never seen anyone make that argument. I'd say the older games are often more fun and easier to get into for a few minutes, but they're not more immersive or anything.
I downloaded a 650 MB video from GameSpy (which was zipped for some crazy reason), only to unzip it and find out it was a Quicktime video with one of their crazy proprietary Sorenson video codecs.
So I didn't get a chance to watch said video. Sounds interesting, though. But keep in mind that Tresspasser had good physics as well =)
The guy you replied to made a valid point in saying that he knows nothing about you. Then you turn around and call him names and mock him for posting AC.
You're the one who posted in a "juvenile fashion."
I think what you're really getting at is XUL, an XML format for describing user interfaces. It's theoretically toolkit-independent and there are at Windows, Gtk, and Swing (why!?) implementations.
Oh, and Microsoft has already ripped off XUL =)
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One thing I've noticed is that I've stopped thinking "Wow, this is so much speed/space/power, that I'll never need more than this!" Like when I see huge new hard drives, I now think "400 GB is a lot of space, but I'll still fill it up with legally acquired movies eventually."
I still like to upgrade to newer and faster stuff, but it just doesn't seem as amazing as the first time I got a 500 MB hard drive and could fit an entire encyclopedia into a little metal box.
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Homer: Umm... I guess I'll take that one.
Salesman: Well, do you need a paperweight? 'Cause if you buy that machine, that's all you're going to have, an expensive paperweight.
Homer: Well, a paperweight would be nice, but what I really need is a computer. How about that one? [points to a second machine]
Salesman: That technology is three months old. Only suckers buy out-of-date machines. You're not a sucker, are you sir?
Homer: Heavens no!
Salesman: Oh good, because if you were, I'd have to ask you to leave the store.
Homer: I just need something to receive email.
Salesman: [whistles] You'll need a top-of-the-line machine for that. [shows Homer a top-of-the-budget machine] That's the same computer astronauts use to do their taxes.
Nice attempt at FUD, but once all of the Semantic Web technologies are in place, applications (analogous to an HTML editor) will be made that hide nearly all of the complexities of serializations and ontologies. Most of the Semantic Web's benefits will be realized under the hood for desktop users.
So the interface will be simple; the foundation is more sophisticated because it attempts solves a complex problem.
Besides, if you like Googling around to find reviews of products and then determining the credibility of the author based on the appearance of their name on other web sites, you can just keep doing that and ignore trust networks entirely. I mean, if you've got a lot of time to waste.
Anyone who can't understand a subject, verb, and object doesn't speak a language. I imagine those people are not getting a lot of use out of the Internet as it is.
So if Walt Disney is brought back to life (seeing as how his body is supposedly cryogenically frozen), is the 70-years stuff revoked or reset, or what? Will Mickey Mouse be pulled out of the public domain?
No kidding. The author suggests (actually he states it as a necessity) that someone interested in researching the economy in FFXI use character recognition (OCR, not game characters) to read off data from the player's screen.
As far as I can tell, it's just some student coming up with crazy ideas and no actual research has been done.
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I've never seen anyone make that argument. I'd say the older games are often more fun and easier to get into for a few minutes, but they're not more immersive or anything.
Please never speak of that company. As long as their advertising works, they're going to keep bombarding us with the worst commercials known to man.
My point is that I can easily access the tree structure from C/C++/Whatever language I want. No messing around with some Lisp subsystem.
Good points, but the abundance of small/fast/portable/free XML libraries certainly factors in to my decision =)
So where do attributes fit into the Lisp syntax?
Also, the model is what's important, not the serialization. XML's supposed to be machine-generated in most cases.
Actually, he used two parentheses: ()
I only replied because you stole my name. GIVE IT BACK!
Why must my sig be so true?
Something Awful? Informative? Nice work, DrMrLordX.
I downloaded a 650 MB video from GameSpy (which was zipped for some crazy reason), only to unzip it and find out it was a Quicktime video with one of their crazy proprietary Sorenson video codecs.
So I didn't get a chance to watch said video. Sounds interesting, though. But keep in mind that Tresspasser had good physics as well =)
The guy you replied to made a valid point in saying that he knows nothing about you. Then you turn around and call him names and mock him for posting AC.
You're the one who posted in a "juvenile fashion."
I think what you're really getting at is XUL, an XML format for describing user interfaces. It's theoretically toolkit-independent and there are at Windows, Gtk, and Swing (why!?) implementations.
Oh, and Microsoft has already ripped off XUL =)
One thing I've noticed is that I've stopped thinking "Wow, this is so much speed/space/power, that I'll never need more than this!" Like when I see huge new hard drives, I now think "400 GB is a lot of space, but I'll still fill it up with legally acquired movies eventually."
I still like to upgrade to newer and faster stuff, but it just doesn't seem as amazing as the first time I got a 500 MB hard drive and could fit an entire encyclopedia into a little metal box.
Homer: Umm ... I guess I'll take that one.
Salesman: Well, do you need a paperweight? 'Cause if you buy that machine, that's all you're going to have, an expensive paperweight.
Homer: Well, a paperweight would be nice, but what I really need is a computer. How about that one? [points to a second machine]
Salesman: That technology is three months old. Only suckers buy out-of-date machines. You're not a sucker, are you sir?
Homer: Heavens no!
Salesman: Oh good, because if you were, I'd have to ask you to leave the store.
Homer: I just need something to receive email.
Salesman: [whistles] You'll need a top-of-the-line machine for that. [shows Homer a top-of-the-budget machine] That's the same computer astronauts use to do their taxes.
Homer: I was an astronaut.
Salesman: Of course you were.
Except if you're into dramas, you'll probably end up liking anything because you've got too much time on your hands and nothing will bore you =)
Never heard that one, but that was good.
Completely unrelated one I heard last year: what did 50 Cent say to his grandmother after she gave him a sweater for Christmas?
"Gee, you knit?"
So did Snoop Dogg just popularize it or what? He was the first person I ever heard go overboard with it.
If there's a plugin to filter out that word (especially when used in this context), now would be a great time to point that out to me.
Apparently there's a bit of wigger room, as well. Do us all a favor and never say something like that again.
Nice attempt at FUD, but once all of the Semantic Web technologies are in place, applications (analogous to an HTML editor) will be made that hide nearly all of the complexities of serializations and ontologies. Most of the Semantic Web's benefits will be realized under the hood for desktop users.
So the interface will be simple; the foundation is more sophisticated because it attempts solves a complex problem.
Besides, if you like Googling around to find reviews of products and then determining the credibility of the author based on the appearance of their name on other web sites, you can just keep doing that and ignore trust networks entirely. I mean, if you've got a lot of time to waste.
Anyone who can't understand a subject, verb, and object doesn't speak a language. I imagine those people are not getting a lot of use out of the Internet as it is.
So if Walt Disney is brought back to life (seeing as how his body is supposedly cryogenically frozen), is the 70-years stuff revoked or reset, or what? Will Mickey Mouse be pulled out of the public domain?
Never mind, apparently I skimmed over the link to the actual research report that was cleverly titled "here".
I still think OCR was overkill, but I guess he claims to have done it.
No kidding. The author suggests (actually he states it as a necessity) that someone interested in researching the economy in FFXI use character recognition (OCR, not game characters) to read off data from the player's screen.
As far as I can tell, it's just some student coming up with crazy ideas and no actual research has been done.