That point can't be emphasized enough. The difference between gaming on a Mac and a PC and the difference between their target markets is incredibly important. Your average Slashdotter will buy a game, get a message about needing to update a driver (download a patch, tweak a setting, stock up on magic smoke at the nerd store, etc.) and not only look at it as an excuse to tinker under the hood for an hour, but actually enjoy themselves the entire time. The typical Mac owner not only doesn't enjoy tinkering under the hood, they aren't even aware that such a thing is possible or that there's even a hood. Never underestimate the number of people who want their software to plug & play as reliably as a USB device. Also, the people who are attracted to Macs because of their ease of use are also the ones who are least likely to spend hours and hours learning how to play a twitchy shooter and most likely to enjoy a game they can pick up in five minutes and play in short bursts rather than devoting an entire weekend to it.
A platform like Steam that integrates neatly into an OSX desktop and makes buying and playing games as easy as a mouse click or two might not sell a million copies of the Orange Box, but I can easily see sales from the Big Fish Games catalog going up a few hundred percent in no time. People who are willing to spend $3,000 on a Mac that's outperformed by a $1,000 PC are exactly the ones I'd be aiming my $10 game at.
...required by the phone companies? You know, the ones that pretty much ended up being "Yeah, listen, I need all the numbers this brown guy called. He's with the Al Quakers or something. Who, me? FBI? Sure, whatever it takes."
I'd say it's more of a modern piece than ballet. Sure, they're moving on a nice straight line, but look at how the spherical lines of the costume diminish the human form. Notice the angular motion that never references the partner. If anything, I'd call it a descendant of Martha Graham or - even better - David Parsons. The subversion of what the human figure is expected to do is...
Umm... hang on. Isn't this nerdswholikedance.com?
Dammit! Wrong tab.
Hey, is that Ubuntu? How does that work? Compiled the new kernel yet? *walks away whistling*
No, no, that's *capturing* strippers. Motion capturing them is quite legal. You just have to ask really nicely before you try to stick the little green dots on them. Or so I hear. I've never even touched... er, met... umm, I mean *seen* a stripper. And I've never been within fifty yards of an elementary school in the... Hey, is that Ubuntu? You should show me how that works and stop reading this post before my parole off... mom gets here.
Just for the sake of accuracy, Rage is signed to Epic. The X-Factor dude is signed to Syco. Both labels are subdivisions of Sony/BMG, but unless Simon Cowell has stock options at Sony (which, I'll admit, is pretty damned likely) then this download campaign isn't necessarily "lining (his) pockets." Purchases of a RATM song may increase the value of a company in which he has an investment, but there's no money from the sale going straight to him.
The FCC mandates a maximum signal level - let's call it X - that represents the loudest audio that you're allowed to broadcast within the signal specs. Regular television, because it's not run by complete bastards, actually understands that if you have quiet parts of your show then when something gets loud it will actually provoke a response in the viewer. Therefore, they usually broadcast at.5X and save 1X for the absolutely most exciting parts. Commercials, however, are frequently made by complete bastards who just want to bash their message into your ear with all the subtlety of Van Helsing hammering a stake into Dracula's chest. They run their audio at 1X the *entire frigging time*, and that's why the commercial seems "loud." Is it louder than the show you were just watching? No. Is it maximum loud the entire time? Yes.
And now that I look up and read your post again, I realise that I've just said the exact same thing.
MAYBE I SHOULD DO IT AT MAXIMUM VOLUME SO THAT EVERYONE HEARS IT!
I'm personally of the opinion that showing M. Obama as a monkey is racially motivated
Does anyone know the original source of the image? Do we even know that it wasn't just the product of a bored/b/tard with a warezed copy of Photoshop who saw the picture of Obama and thought "I think I'll piss off some people today!"
Easy. Just pander to the people who a) don't drink, or b) pretend that they don't. "Sin taxes" are becoming increasingly popular among the holier-than-thou voting crowd who look at it as a way to get everyone else to pay a tax increase while they get off free because "it's bad for you! You deserve it!"
"First they came for the smokers, and I said nothing because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the McNuggets and suddenly I cared because ZOMG MY FREEDOM!"
The day that I go to the library and every book that I check out has a flyer for the local Viagra dealer between every page, then you better be damned sure I'm going to start complaining.
And I never said that *I'd* be doing the sodomy. I'm always making nachos during the half time show anyway.
1. How can you steal a service that's provided to you for free?
My internet service is not provided to me for free. I pay for it. I reserve the right to accept or reject advertising as I see fit. People who not only force advertising on me, but do it in a deceitful manner, deserve nothing more than forcible, unlubed sodomy during the half time show of the Super Bowl. Spammers are roaches and should be treated as such.
MySpace needs to die first. Facebook is still at least vaguely functional once you weed out all of the autospam from every person that you know who's playing "Mafia Wars" or "Bejeweled" or "Come Fist My Pony!" You still need a T1 to load the average MySpace page because it'll instantly start playing eleven T-Pain videos and loading three gigs of animated "Thanks 4 The Add!" and "Just Showin' Sum Luv!" gifs.
Seriously. Hit the power switch and go occupy yourself for a minute or so. Drink some coffee. Read some Baudelaire. Have some private time on the john making twosies. Whatever.
I know that it's a nice goal to aim for, but having Windows up and running in 2.3 seconds just isn't a reason to get all frothy and rabid for me. YMMV.
...of the schnittberichte article? I can get the basic gist of what's going on (blood textures, exploding heads, Nazi symbols and whatnot) but my German absolutely sucks and I know I'm missing a million things.
This has happened to pretty much every iteration of Wolfenstein *ever*. Almost every WWII game made has run afoul of various German laws in some form or another. Between their banhammer laws on anything remotely resembling Nazi iconography and the way they ratchet up the prohibition of pixelated violence every time they have an American-style school shooting, it's really a wonder that you can buy a single game over there that's any more graphic than cartoon bears throwing marshmallows at each other and then apologizing afterwards.
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That point can't be emphasized enough. The difference between gaming on a Mac and a PC and the difference between their target markets is incredibly important. Your average Slashdotter will buy a game, get a message about needing to update a driver (download a patch, tweak a setting, stock up on magic smoke at the nerd store, etc.) and not only look at it as an excuse to tinker under the hood for an hour, but actually enjoy themselves the entire time. The typical Mac owner not only doesn't enjoy tinkering under the hood, they aren't even aware that such a thing is possible or that there's even a hood. Never underestimate the number of people who want their software to plug & play as reliably as a USB device. Also, the people who are attracted to Macs because of their ease of use are also the ones who are least likely to spend hours and hours learning how to play a twitchy shooter and most likely to enjoy a game they can pick up in five minutes and play in short bursts rather than devoting an entire weekend to it.
A platform like Steam that integrates neatly into an OSX desktop and makes buying and playing games as easy as a mouse click or two might not sell a million copies of the Orange Box, but I can easily see sales from the Big Fish Games catalog going up a few hundred percent in no time. People who are willing to spend $3,000 on a Mac that's outperformed by a $1,000 PC are exactly the ones I'd be aiming my $10 game at.
...required by the phone companies? You know, the ones that pretty much ended up being "Yeah, listen, I need all the numbers this brown guy called. He's with the Al Quakers or something. Who, me? FBI? Sure, whatever it takes."
Yeah, the nicotine's only half the equation.
The other half is the whole physical act. I still can't concentrate properly if I'm not holding something in my hand.
I have the same problem, but it usually involves that "special" folder I have hidden on my hard drive.
Why do you hate hating America?
I'd say it's more of a modern piece than ballet. Sure, they're moving on a nice straight line, but look at how the spherical lines of the costume diminish the human form. Notice the angular motion that never references the partner. If anything, I'd call it a descendant of Martha Graham or - even better - David Parsons. The subversion of what the human figure is expected to do is...
Umm... hang on. Isn't this nerdswholikedance.com?
Dammit! Wrong tab.
Hey, is that Ubuntu? How does that work? Compiled the new kernel yet? *walks away whistling*
Pretty sure that's illegal in most states...
No, no, that's *capturing* strippers. Motion capturing them is quite legal. You just have to ask really nicely before you try to stick the little green dots on them. Or so I hear. I've never even touched... er, met... umm, I mean *seen* a stripper. And I've never been within fifty yards of an elementary school in the... Hey, is that Ubuntu? You should show me how that works and stop reading this post before my parole off... mom gets here.
Aww, dammit.
Just for the sake of accuracy, Rage is signed to Epic. The X-Factor dude is signed to Syco. Both labels are subdivisions of Sony/BMG, but unless Simon Cowell has stock options at Sony (which, I'll admit, is pretty damned likely) then this download campaign isn't necessarily "lining (his) pockets." Purchases of a RATM song may increase the value of a company in which he has an investment, but there's no money from the sale going straight to him.
The FCC mandates a maximum signal level - let's call it X - that represents the loudest audio that you're allowed to broadcast within the signal specs. Regular television, because it's not run by complete bastards, actually understands that if you have quiet parts of your show then when something gets loud it will actually provoke a response in the viewer. Therefore, they usually broadcast at .5X and save 1X for the absolutely most exciting parts. Commercials, however, are frequently made by complete bastards who just want to bash their message into your ear with all the subtlety of Van Helsing hammering a stake into Dracula's chest. They run their audio at 1X the *entire frigging time*, and that's why the commercial seems "loud." Is it louder than the show you were just watching? No. Is it maximum loud the entire time? Yes.
And now that I look up and read your post again, I realise that I've just said the exact same thing.
MAYBE I SHOULD DO IT AT MAXIMUM VOLUME SO THAT EVERYONE HEARS IT!
I'm personally of the opinion that showing M. Obama as a monkey is racially motivated
Does anyone know the original source of the image? Do we even know that it wasn't just the product of a bored /b/tard with a warezed copy of Photoshop who saw the picture of Obama and thought "I think I'll piss off some people today!"
More like an Airwolf Cluster Bomb.
Easy. Just pander to the people who a) don't drink, or b) pretend that they don't. "Sin taxes" are becoming increasingly popular among the holier-than-thou voting crowd who look at it as a way to get everyone else to pay a tax increase while they get off free because "it's bad for you! You deserve it!"
"First they came for the smokers, and I said nothing because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the McNuggets and suddenly I cared because ZOMG MY FREEDOM!"
You keep your filthy talk to yourself, mister!
mythtv website got /.ed it would seem.
So you're saying that the site is mything?
...if we could just start making a list of all the people who *didn't* come here to make the XX/XY joke.
Just as long as I get my nachos...
The day that I go to the library and every book that I check out has a flyer for the local Viagra dealer between every page, then you better be damned sure I'm going to start complaining.
And I never said that *I'd* be doing the sodomy. I'm always making nachos during the half time show anyway.
1. How can you steal a service that's provided to you for free?
My internet service is not provided to me for free. I pay for it. I reserve the right to accept or reject advertising as I see fit. People who not only force advertising on me, but do it in a deceitful manner, deserve nothing more than forcible, unlubed sodomy during the half time show of the Super Bowl. Spammers are roaches and should be treated as such.
MySpace needs to die first. Facebook is still at least vaguely functional once you weed out all of the autospam from every person that you know who's playing "Mafia Wars" or "Bejeweled" or "Come Fist My Pony!" You still need a T1 to load the average MySpace page because it'll instantly start playing eleven T-Pain videos and loading three gigs of animated "Thanks 4 The Add!" and "Just Showin' Sum Luv!" gifs.
It's open-source spelling.
I think it's about 14 gigabytes per hogshead, which averages out to eleven teraflops per cubic kilowatt.
Seriously. Hit the power switch and go occupy yourself for a minute or so. Drink some coffee. Read some Baudelaire. Have some private time on the john making twosies. Whatever.
I know that it's a nice goal to aim for, but having Windows up and running in 2.3 seconds just isn't a reason to get all frothy and rabid for me. YMMV.
...of the schnittberichte article? I can get the basic gist of what's going on (blood textures, exploding heads, Nazi symbols and whatnot) but my German absolutely sucks and I know I'm missing a million things.
This has happened to pretty much every iteration of Wolfenstein *ever*. Almost every WWII game made has run afoul of various German laws in some form or another. Between their banhammer laws on anything remotely resembling Nazi iconography and the way they ratchet up the prohibition of pixelated violence every time they have an American-style school shooting, it's really a wonder that you can buy a single game over there that's any more graphic than cartoon bears throwing marshmallows at each other and then apologizing afterwards.
Official notice. From this day forward, right angles are verboten. Enjoy your ellipses, damen und herren.
The telescope will send data via a dual-frequency acoustic transmission system.
A "two-tone" system, if you will.