And as for Nonfanboyism -- if this magazine is so nonbiased, why are the winners (other than Okami) pretty much the most hyped video game products available?
Because most good games have hype and the best games often have the most hype? These are gaming awards, not non-conformist awards so the presence of hype shouldn't prevent a game from receiving an award.
The only cognitive dissonance I see is you trying to use Bender's UI as a GUI. It's a keyboard UI for all practical purposes (and pretty much any 3d application's UI turns into a keyboard UI if you want to get stuff done fast, some even have an option to disable the GUI completely and use only hotkeys). Vim with 3d graphics. There are simpler interfaces, they usually belong to the 3d equivalent of notepad.
Puerto Rico. The only randomness in that game is the plantation availability and that is a relatively minor factor (especially when compared to e.g. the ressource rolls in a Settlers game).
Probably but those would not necessarily exhibit the same behaviour as the european ones. E.g. the duping trick might not work with a US passport in the same way.
I can confirm that. I think the GPL only covers the engine, not the game scripts or any of the art, audio, etc. You'd have the engine but AFAIK it's badly documented or partially closed source or something (people who used it couldn't figure out some parts). The game data would provide lots of examples to look at and materials to use for templates (so if you're e.g. a lone coder you can still implement your game idea with the existing graphics and sound to test the gameplay).
The Blender UI is unintuitive but not bad. It's fast and the way the mouse is used (many actions use two clicks instead of a drag) reduces the RSI risk.
Birth certificates aren't valid ID for anyone over 16 here. These are european passports so they'd do jack for getting you into the US and I think most people would consider it suspicious if you use a passport instead of your personal ID card to identify yourself for domestic matters (e.g. opening a bank account). The passport would also have to undergo at least some modification to make sure the biometric information matches the person planning to spoof your identity.
Let's not forget we are talking about Europe where many countries issue personal IDs and keep registries of all citizens at several levels with mandatory registration.
The EU neither encompasses all of Europe nor brings the member states into any kind of cultural conformity. Look at e.g. the freedom of press index the RSF releases, EU member states have a wide range of scores. Many police state stories originate from Airstrip One, not e.g. Norway.
We've had a wooden house on a public playground in my hometown. It stank of urine and alcohol. The sand areas often contained hidden treasures of the broken beer bottle variety too. Especially lovely near/in the crawlspace (which was a concrete sewer pipe).
I'm still a bit fuzzy on the facts but I seem to recall that raid being initiated because a disgruntled employee claimed they were using pirated software.
A possible issue I could see is preemptive multitasking, if the FPGA was treated as a per-process ressource it would need to be reconfigured each time the OS switches to another process and depending on the number of switches a second that could be disastrous for performance (though I have no idea what the switch times are on current OSes). If it's treated as a global ressource (i.e. the FPGA state is shared between all processes and the OS has to coordinate which one can use it) it could be unavailable when an interactive program needs it (especially videogames since those need to do 60 frames a second and having the FPGA unavailable for even 30ms could kill the performance).
No, that's only for home PCs. Most if not all embedded systems use RISC over CISC. x86 compatibles are CISC because x86 needs that, if they didn't run Windows and all the applications designed for home computers noone would use them.
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I was replying to a post that called Europe a police state, I didn't assign that label myself.
And as for Nonfanboyism -- if this magazine is so nonbiased, why are the winners (other than Okami) pretty much the most hyped video game products available?
Because most good games have hype and the best games often have the most hype? These are gaming awards, not non-conformist awards so the presence of hype shouldn't prevent a game from receiving an award.
There's a German version as well though I think it comes out a month later every time (costs only 4€, though).
The only cognitive dissonance I see is you trying to use Bender's UI as a GUI. It's a keyboard UI for all practical purposes (and pretty much any 3d application's UI turns into a keyboard UI if you want to get stuff done fast, some even have an option to disable the GUI completely and use only hotkeys). Vim with 3d graphics. There are simpler interfaces, they usually belong to the 3d equivalent of notepad.
Puerto Rico. The only randomness in that game is the plantation availability and that is a relatively minor factor (especially when compared to e.g. the ressource rolls in a Settlers game).
Depends on where you live I guess. In my area Wiis are easy to find and so was the 360 back when it launched.
Probably but those would not necessarily exhibit the same behaviour as the european ones. E.g. the duping trick might not work with a US passport in the same way.
Don't worry, there are no classes in Ryzom IIRC, it has four skill "trees" (combat, magic, crafting, mining) which you advance on individually.
I can confirm that. I think the GPL only covers the engine, not the game scripts or any of the art, audio, etc. You'd have the engine but AFAIK it's badly documented or partially closed source or something (people who used it couldn't figure out some parts). The game data would provide lots of examples to look at and materials to use for templates (so if you're e.g. a lone coder you can still implement your game idea with the existing graphics and sound to test the gameplay).
What is this change you want to undo?
The Blender UI is unintuitive but not bad. It's fast and the way the mouse is used (many actions use two clicks instead of a drag) reduces the RSI risk.
Birth certificates aren't valid ID for anyone over 16 here. These are european passports so they'd do jack for getting you into the US and I think most people would consider it suspicious if you use a passport instead of your personal ID card to identify yourself for domestic matters (e.g. opening a bank account). The passport would also have to undergo at least some modification to make sure the biometric information matches the person planning to spoof your identity.
Let's not forget we are talking about Europe where many countries issue personal IDs and keep registries of all citizens at several levels with mandatory registration.
Calling a continent a police state implies that all countries on that continent implement strict surveillance laws and such.
Of course, especially on sledgehammers. Nothing says fun like having a 5kg hammer tied to your wrists with a cable that's guaranteed not to break.
The EU neither encompasses all of Europe nor brings the member states into any kind of cultural conformity. Look at e.g. the freedom of press index the RSF releases, EU member states have a wide range of scores. Many police state stories originate from Airstrip One, not e.g. Norway.
We've had a wooden house on a public playground in my hometown. It stank of urine and alcohol. The sand areas often contained hidden treasures of the broken beer bottle variety too. Especially lovely near/in the crawlspace (which was a concrete sewer pipe).
I'm still a bit fuzzy on the facts but I seem to recall that raid being initiated because a disgruntled employee claimed they were using pirated software.
So, can we start bashing the RIAA now?
That was Soviet Germany. Prussia was mostly known as Poland at the time.
Europe isn't a state, it's a continent and unlike North America it has more than three countries. Which "state" are you talking about?
that Apple's codenames for the OS X versions sound like a German tank company's vehicle list? I mean, Leopard right after Tiger?
A possible issue I could see is preemptive multitasking, if the FPGA was treated as a per-process ressource it would need to be reconfigured each time the OS switches to another process and depending on the number of switches a second that could be disastrous for performance (though I have no idea what the switch times are on current OSes). If it's treated as a global ressource (i.e. the FPGA state is shared between all processes and the OS has to coordinate which one can use it) it could be unavailable when an interactive program needs it (especially videogames since those need to do 60 frames a second and having the FPGA unavailable for even 30ms could kill the performance).
No, that's only for home PCs. Most if not all embedded systems use RISC over CISC. x86 compatibles are CISC because x86 needs that, if they didn't run Windows and all the applications designed for home computers noone would use them.
So what's Castlevania DoS then? It has some 3d backgrounds. Sonic Rush? 3d characters on 2d stages except for boss fights.
4D games are great for confusing and impressing viewers.