It's reasonably playable now, but if you liked the other games, I really cannot recommend it. It's nothing like the other games. The story is just crap. It's dull. The Avatar is a prat. And don't start me about Raven.
Simply because predicting doom is a good way to get noticed. Then you can go to the lecture circuit and get paid a couple of thousand an hour to tell people how dangerous the Internet is and what steps they should take to make sure they don't get affected.
If the doom comes, everyone will think you are a visionary because you predicted it. But it doesn't come. No matter, because now a) everyone is relieved, and b) you can claim it was because you made people aware.
It's easy to indicate where this guy is wrong. He seems to think that a bug can be exploited that makes computers explode or something, so they can't get fixed. And that for all computers at the same time, no matter what software or software version they are running. It's all utter nonsense. Of course, most people get their idea on how computers work from Hollywood movies, and they know that Ryan Philippe is certainly able to hack the intraweb and blow up all computers all over the world at the same time before breakfast.
Imagine this: The world is cast into technological chaos. Who is to blame? That penguin guy Torvalds! He left a bug in Linux and now terrorists used it to blow us back into the dark ages!
Let's start a Paypal fund to build Linus a secret hideout on the North Pole, for when the mob comes to lynch him.
It's not meant as knee-jerk Bush-bashing. If anything, it is meant as knee-jerk politicians-bashing. With elections in sight, all politicians announce stuff for their effect and not because they really mean them or believe in them.
The point is that, even if Bush is serious in his desire to start up space exploration again, a manned mission to Mars is not the best way to go about it. Sending robots is much cheaper, and in many ways more effective. It's not as if placing one man on Mars is a huge step forward in, for instance, colonizing Mars.
Does Bush know this? No idea, but it doesn't matter for his speeches, because he will say what brings in votes, just like all the other politicians do so close to elections.
Having played the first five Tombraiders (although only the first to the very end), I can say that for me personally the problem with all the games except the first is that they are riddled with situations, which you can't skip, in which you die 9 times out of 10, unless you are a twitch gamer. I am sure there are many people who enjoy such game situations, but it goes to show that the first Tomraider has an appeal to a much wider public than the others. The loss of the lead designer for the first one may therefore very well be the explanation for the decline of the series.
It's just political. It's doubtful that Bush really thinks we should put a man on Mars, or even send a mission there. But doesn't it sound really patriotic? "The First Man On Mars Will Be An AMERICAN!" No sissy robots, which can't even cook or do the dishes. No, a real, honest-to-god, white American male. It's bound to get him some votes.
The point is that the idea behind the patent system is that someone can set up a business selling the practical implementation of an invention. The idea is not giving patent lawyers the ability to extort money from existing companies. IMHO, a patent should be declared null and void if the patent holder does not intend to set up a business selling his invention. Of course, I know of no lawyers that attempt to uphold the intention of the law.
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It's reasonably playable now, but if you liked the other games, I really cannot recommend it. It's nothing like the other games. The story is just crap. It's dull. The Avatar is a prat. And don't start me about Raven.
Looks absolutely gorgeous, though.
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I was thinking the same thing when I read this.
Why does this tripe get published?
Simply because predicting doom is a good way to get noticed. Then you can go to the lecture circuit and get paid a couple of thousand an hour to tell people how dangerous the Internet is and what steps they should take to make sure they don't get affected.
If the doom comes, everyone will think you are a visionary because you predicted it. But it doesn't come. No matter, because now a) everyone is relieved, and b) you can claim it was because you made people aware.
It's easy to indicate where this guy is wrong. He seems to think that a bug can be exploited that makes computers explode or something, so they can't get fixed. And that for all computers at the same time, no matter what software or software version they are running. It's all utter nonsense. Of course, most people get their idea on how computers work from Hollywood movies, and they know that Ryan Philippe is certainly able to hack the intraweb and blow up all computers all over the world at the same time before breakfast.
Imagine this: The world is cast into technological chaos. Who is to blame? That penguin guy Torvalds! He left a bug in Linux and now terrorists used it to blow us back into the dark ages!
Let's start a Paypal fund to build Linus a secret hideout on the North Pole, for when the mob comes to lynch him.
The point is that, even if Bush is serious in his desire to start up space exploration again, a manned mission to Mars is not the best way to go about it. Sending robots is much cheaper, and in many ways more effective. It's not as if placing one man on Mars is a huge step forward in, for instance, colonizing Mars.
Does Bush know this? No idea, but it doesn't matter for his speeches, because he will say what brings in votes, just like all the other politicians do so close to elections.
Incidentally, IANAA (I Am Not An American).
Having played the first five Tombraiders (although only the first to the very end), I can say that for me personally the problem with all the games except the first is that they are riddled with situations, which you can't skip, in which you die 9 times out of 10, unless you are a twitch gamer. I am sure there are many people who enjoy such game situations, but it goes to show that the first Tomraider has an appeal to a much wider public than the others. The loss of the lead designer for the first one may therefore very well be the explanation for the decline of the series.
It's just political. It's doubtful that Bush really thinks we should put a man on Mars, or even send a mission there. But doesn't it sound really patriotic? "The First Man On Mars Will Be An AMERICAN!" No sissy robots, which can't even cook or do the dishes. No, a real, honest-to-god, white American male. It's bound to get him some votes.
The point is that the idea behind the patent system is that someone can set up a business selling the practical implementation of an invention. The idea is not giving patent lawyers the ability to extort money from existing companies. IMHO, a patent should be declared null and void if the patent holder does not intend to set up a business selling his invention. Of course, I know of no lawyers that attempt to uphold the intention of the law.
...the USA is going to send a mission to Mars. It will allow SCO to claim license fees from the martians.