The Mayan clock does not have a digit rollover then. Their calendar system can run until the year forty octillion without modification. The previous, uninhabited iteration of the world in Mayan mythology was destroyed by the Gods after its 13th baktun, and our own world's 13th baktun ends in 2012. The Mayans were quite comfortable with the idea of a 14th baktun though.
Tracing that back through to some original poster and then identifying that poster as legitimate or not is going to be difficult
You'd think that somewhere near the top of the list of "authorised users" would be "Our Own Goddamn YouTube channel". That part shouldn't have been difficult. That the group checking for infringement weren't aware of the legit YouTube channel, and didn't comprehend what embedding it meant, suggests that the group looking for infringements is on more of a "shoot first, don't ask questions" approach. We take it for granted that fair use is dead, but having a department seemingly set up to block all use is beyond a joke.
That said, many games only just barely worked in a token way without analogue sticks (FPSes, most of the racers, flight games), and there were some analogue-only titles. It didn't hold people back too badly.
"Names of the characters" and unrelated trivialities like the premise, the antagonist, the antagonist's "inside man", vehicles, and military structure. I doubt they could've called it "Space Squadron" and got away with it, really. They would've had countless gormless internet users raging at them for "shamelessly ripping off BSG and creating a piece of shit" or something.
Not exactly. Origins was originally being developed by Climax Studios' LA branch, who were unceremoniously sacked around the game's original release date amidst rumours that the project was falling apart. It was brought across to Climax's UK branch, reworked over about 18 months, and published. So I have to wonder if they'll do better with a cleaner slate.
It should be noted that "outside the T-Mobile US network" also includes T-Mobile UK, who permit tethering on two of their three "unlimited web" options. VOIP, which was being discussed above, is only permitted on the uppermost of the three.
I think if someone can figure out how to piss on the floor in a freefall environment with no architectural frame of reference for up and down, you've got no right to stop them.
Google trends doesn't tell you how many search results the topic got at a certain time, as the summary would suggest. Instead it lists the frequency with which people are searching for a particular keyword. So if loads of people suddenly start searching for a particular error code, it's a pretty good sign that the error code is appearing all over the place, not that people are simply talking about it more. However that Google Trends result shows searches for E74 following the same trend as searches for "xbox" and "rrod" so I suspect it's no more prevalent than any of the other errors.
From the sounds of things, I reckon the gateway was creating a web page for every transaction that included the card details, and those pages were not only unsecured and publicly viewable but indexable. They probably auto-deleted the pages after the transaction was completed but obviously not quick enough. GCache? It's probably all in the internet archive at this stage. It's not a Google issue, it's staggering security error on the part of the gateway that every internet crawler saw. No wonder the gateway's defunct.
Nintendo have been trumpeting the DSi Store as a WiiWare equivalent for the DS for ages, I don't see why someone would "leak" the fact that they're - gasp - getting people to develop games for it.
Okay, maybe "advanced" is a poor choice of words, given that 98% of it's still shit, but if nothing else storytelling in games has certainly diversified. It's not like nothing happened in game storytelling in the past decade, which was the unfortunate confusion being put forwards. Large-scale adventure storytelling went underground to a large extent, but it's still there if you look.
I'd question whether the disconnect is still as bad as it was, though. Silent Hill 2 is largely linear, but in the context of its story the player's role works to a disturbing degree. Portal also neatly sidestepped the idea of "interactive storytelling" by simply making the player and player character equally unwitting victims. And HL2 does things with emotion and tension that are just exemplary.
For one thing, I don't really consider Simon a rhythm-action title on account of it being a set of unstructured tones rather than actual music. For another, Parappa the Rappa is widely considered the origin of modern rhythm-action (and certainly set many of its tropes), so I don't think it's a stretch to say it "pretty much didn't exist" before then.
Quake 1 came out 13 years ago, most of what has come out since then isn't all that different.
I really don't believe so. There are whole genres of games around today that pretty much didn't exist 10 years ago. Rhythm action, for example, and that's not counting the recent phenomenon of instrument peripherals. There have been dramatic strides in how the traditional RPG should operate, in part due to cross-pollination from online RPGs where character automation for grinding becomes inevitable rather than simply desirable. Storytelling, from the sublime elegance of System Shock 2's logbooks to MGS4's split-screen-cut-scene absurdities, has advanced tremendously, to the point that using Gears of War II as its pinnicle sounds like a joke. The idea of "free roaming" or "role playing" as universal game features, rather than genres in themselves, has led to some fascinating experiments. Developers are starting to realise, once again, that even plot-driven games don't need to have ending conditions.
And that's just the games themselves. When you begin to consider gaming as a phenomenon, there have been unprecidented shifts, from the EVE developers flying in a 6-person gamer-elected council to organisational trivialities like Xbox Live and Steam.
Not to be mean, but from the examples you give there, I think that you've failed to really taste the last decade of gaming. GoW2 and WoW are not representative of what modern game design is capable of. They're certainly the pinnacle of their particular genre, in much the way that Quake was in its day, but they're not games that necessitate new review terminology or that people get into arguments over. They're "safe". Now, Nobi Nobi Boy, that's a game that will keep you bickering into the night.
You know what really killed VR's prospects as a game interface? You look like a total tosser wearing any kind of VR goggles. The worst possible off-in-his-own-world nerd stereotype brought to horrible life. The example quoted in the summary seems to think that not being enough of a tosser was the reason for failure. And let's not forget how you're inevitably going to get tased when you walk down the street "scouting out targets". Jesus.
Of course, I'm trivialising here, but that's my point. Any interesting effects from low-frequency EM require novel mechanisms that are still being looked for. It's the sort of process which requires "new chemistry" which isn't actually there yet. It's not something as simple as "resonant processes let the microwave do anything".
Especially bearing in mind the kind of places that need malaria prevention. Developing an anti-mosquito laser system would be prohibitively expensive for the few countries who could actually really need it, and that's before you think about purchasing and maintaining the damn things.
Well, that'd depend on whether the lasers follow the "golden rule". If they're overcooked, the acrylamide could lead to an increased cancer risk in small rodents. Field mice might prefer the crispy taste of flame-grilled grasshopper though.
True, there are plenty of perfectly good options, but it always bothered me that Apple didn't offer an official solution. It might be that they're sitting it out until the whole 4G thing is settled, of course. Historically Macbooks have supported the kinds of standards that hang around for a half-decade and if an HSDPA Macbook Pro is left by the wayside by WiMAX, that wouldn't really be true any more. And frankly, I think that using your existing iPhone as a 3G modem on your laptop is the kind of elegant solution Apple would get behind.
Slashdot Mirror
The Mayan clock does not have a digit rollover then. Their calendar system can run until the year forty octillion without modification. The previous, uninhabited iteration of the world in Mayan mythology was destroyed by the Gods after its 13th baktun, and our own world's 13th baktun ends in 2012. The Mayans were quite comfortable with the idea of a 14th baktun though.
And of course, presenting it as an IP rights issue as the AP have done makes it seem like AP have a god-given right to that extra cash.
Tracing that back through to some original poster and then identifying that poster as legitimate or not is going to be difficult
You'd think that somewhere near the top of the list of "authorised users" would be "Our Own Goddamn YouTube channel". That part shouldn't have been difficult. That the group checking for infringement weren't aware of the legit YouTube channel, and didn't comprehend what embedding it meant, suggests that the group looking for infringements is on more of a "shoot first, don't ask questions" approach. We take it for granted that fair use is dead, but having a department seemingly set up to block all use is beyond a joke.
I considered just referring to it as "That Which Shall Not Be Named", but I thought it was a better played straight.
That said, many games only just barely worked in a token way without analogue sticks (FPSes, most of the racers, flight games), and there were some analogue-only titles. It didn't hold people back too badly.
"Names of the characters" and unrelated trivialities like the premise, the antagonist, the antagonist's "inside man", vehicles, and military structure. I doubt they could've called it "Space Squadron" and got away with it, really. They would've had countless gormless internet users raging at them for "shamelessly ripping off BSG and creating a piece of shit" or something.
Not exactly. Origins was originally being developed by Climax Studios' LA branch, who were unceremoniously sacked around the game's original release date amidst rumours that the project was falling apart. It was brought across to Climax's UK branch, reworked over about 18 months, and published. So I have to wonder if they'll do better with a cleaner slate.
The place with the coal fire was the inspiration for the movie (hence in that film it's smoke, not fog, everywhere), but not the game.
Who says they didn't check it?
It should be noted that "outside the T-Mobile US network" also includes T-Mobile UK, who permit tethering on two of their three "unlimited web" options. VOIP, which was being discussed above, is only permitted on the uppermost of the three.
I think if someone can figure out how to piss on the floor in a freefall environment with no architectural frame of reference for up and down, you've got no right to stop them.
Google trends doesn't tell you how many search results the topic got at a certain time, as the summary would suggest. Instead it lists the frequency with which people are searching for a particular keyword. So if loads of people suddenly start searching for a particular error code, it's a pretty good sign that the error code is appearing all over the place, not that people are simply talking about it more. However that Google Trends result shows searches for E74 following the same trend as searches for "xbox" and "rrod" so I suspect it's no more prevalent than any of the other errors.
From the sounds of things, I reckon the gateway was creating a web page for every transaction that included the card details, and those pages were not only unsecured and publicly viewable but indexable. They probably auto-deleted the pages after the transaction was completed but obviously not quick enough. GCache? It's probably all in the internet archive at this stage. It's not a Google issue, it's staggering security error on the part of the gateway that every internet crawler saw. No wonder the gateway's defunct.
Nintendo have been trumpeting the DSi Store as a WiiWare equivalent for the DS for ages, I don't see why someone would "leak" the fact that they're - gasp - getting people to develop games for it.
A Batbussard ramscoop?
Okay, maybe "advanced" is a poor choice of words, given that 98% of it's still shit, but if nothing else storytelling in games has certainly diversified. It's not like nothing happened in game storytelling in the past decade, which was the unfortunate confusion being put forwards. Large-scale adventure storytelling went underground to a large extent, but it's still there if you look.
I'd question whether the disconnect is still as bad as it was, though. Silent Hill 2 is largely linear, but in the context of its story the player's role works to a disturbing degree. Portal also neatly sidestepped the idea of "interactive storytelling" by simply making the player and player character equally unwitting victims. And HL2 does things with emotion and tension that are just exemplary.
For one thing, I don't really consider Simon a rhythm-action title on account of it being a set of unstructured tones rather than actual music. For another, Parappa the Rappa is widely considered the origin of modern rhythm-action (and certainly set many of its tropes), so I don't think it's a stretch to say it "pretty much didn't exist" before then.
It's okay, though. Batman can breathe in space.
Quake 1 came out 13 years ago, most of what has come out since then isn't all that different.
I really don't believe so. There are whole genres of games around today that pretty much didn't exist 10 years ago. Rhythm action, for example, and that's not counting the recent phenomenon of instrument peripherals. There have been dramatic strides in how the traditional RPG should operate, in part due to cross-pollination from online RPGs where character automation for grinding becomes inevitable rather than simply desirable. Storytelling, from the sublime elegance of System Shock 2's logbooks to MGS4's split-screen-cut-scene absurdities, has advanced tremendously, to the point that using Gears of War II as its pinnicle sounds like a joke. The idea of "free roaming" or "role playing" as universal game features, rather than genres in themselves, has led to some fascinating experiments. Developers are starting to realise, once again, that even plot-driven games don't need to have ending conditions.
And that's just the games themselves. When you begin to consider gaming as a phenomenon, there have been unprecidented shifts, from the EVE developers flying in a 6-person gamer-elected council to organisational trivialities like Xbox Live and Steam.
Not to be mean, but from the examples you give there, I think that you've failed to really taste the last decade of gaming. GoW2 and WoW are not representative of what modern game design is capable of. They're certainly the pinnacle of their particular genre, in much the way that Quake was in its day, but they're not games that necessitate new review terminology or that people get into arguments over. They're "safe". Now, Nobi Nobi Boy, that's a game that will keep you bickering into the night.
You know what really killed VR's prospects as a game interface? You look like a total tosser wearing any kind of VR goggles. The worst possible off-in-his-own-world nerd stereotype brought to horrible life. The example quoted in the summary seems to think that not being enough of a tosser was the reason for failure. And let's not forget how you're inevitably going to get tased when you walk down the street "scouting out targets". Jesus.
Of course, I'm trivialising here, but that's my point. Any interesting effects from low-frequency EM require novel mechanisms that are still being looked for. It's the sort of process which requires "new chemistry" which isn't actually there yet. It's not something as simple as "resonant processes let the microwave do anything".
Especially bearing in mind the kind of places that need malaria prevention. Developing an anti-mosquito laser system would be prohibitively expensive for the few countries who could actually really need it, and that's before you think about purchasing and maintaining the damn things.
Well, that'd depend on whether the lasers follow the "golden rule". If they're overcooked, the acrylamide could lead to an increased cancer risk in small rodents. Field mice might prefer the crispy taste of flame-grilled grasshopper though.
No doubt, it'd have to be wired tethering. If only to help stave off the inevitable battery-flattening for a few minutes.
True, there are plenty of perfectly good options, but it always bothered me that Apple didn't offer an official solution. It might be that they're sitting it out until the whole 4G thing is settled, of course. Historically Macbooks have supported the kinds of standards that hang around for a half-decade and if an HSDPA Macbook Pro is left by the wayside by WiMAX, that wouldn't really be true any more. And frankly, I think that using your existing iPhone as a 3G modem on your laptop is the kind of elegant solution Apple would get behind.