Seriously, I'm not sure how anyone survives to the age of 50 there. But that just might be the discovery channel's "Australia's deadliest X" specials talking.
It's all about balance, people. I love my gaming time, but I don't give up food, sleep, work, etc. just to play my two MMORPGs (SWG and Eve Online). Maybe it's just that my games don't require 4 hour instances at the end game or maybe I just know when I'm tired, hungry, or have other commitments.
Sometimes you just have to say "Hey guys, I'm starving/tired/going to do something else for a while, see you later."
Is spyware acceptable to the public when it comes with a game, or has EA made a PR misstep?
It's only a big PR misstep if the general public is informed that this is a horrible idea. If it's just a couple of geeks muttering, it's not a problem at all (since most of/. hates EA already).
Therefore, I suggest telling all your friends that EA will be watching their every step online and they'll be open to identity theft. Come to think of it, would EA have pr0n ads in game if that's what your browsing history indicated? Now that would be hilarious.
"Billy! Why is there a naked lady in your game?!? Someone get me Jack Thompson on the phone, because it's time to sue!"
A nice "enter your root password to do this" prompt will not prevent stupid people from running malware on a Mac, especially if the malware says "enter your system password to install in secure mode" or something similar. Just because a system is inherently more secure does not mean stupid people can't screw it up.
With all the press about "Macs don't get viruses", your average user is likely to get a false sense of security when running things and might be more likely to try and run everything they run across, since it can't possibly do anything bad since they have a Mac.
I prefer building my own gaming rig and putting in the parts I want and upgrading when I please, how I please. And god knows any gaming rig I put together will be cheaper, both in the short and long run, than any advertised "gamer" or "power user" system, Mac or PC.
So now it's a MS program, so you can't block the ads using browser plug-ins? Damn, sign me up now! Now I can't even stop myself from being able to punch the monkey to win an X-box, no matter how hard I try!
Right on. Too much of my time was spent ADDing out while useless topics were discussed at length, when I could have simply read through the lecture notes/Powerpoint slides/book to get what I needed.
(Assuming an end of ESB conversion to the Dark Side)
Well, depending on whether Luke decided to side with Daddy, Palpy, or try and take over the galaxy himself, we could have seen some awesome Dark Side fights and elaborate superweapons being used indiscriminately.
Unfortunately, coming up with a game that allows these possibilties would take a hell of a lot of work and imaginiation, something that is lacking in big market games these days. But hey, as long as Luke gives up his life as a whiny hippy and there's no Ewoks, I'd be happy.
Yeah, it is the wave of the future, but biometric scanners need to be worked on a lot more before they come into common/important use. Most commercial scanners tend to have a significant amount of false positives/negatives and some of them can be easily tricked using simple means.
I'm attending Iowa State University, where Atanasoff made his computer. When I grew up in the 80s, any tech special I saw on TV or book I read preached "ENIAC was the first computer." But once I got to Iowa State, it was "Atanasoff made the first digital computer, and we have the court decision that says so!"
The thing is, there's tons of programmers out there to fill their place because it's been their dream to make computer games ever since they first touched a computer. So, if 50 people quit, there's another 250 people there to take their place.
In our senior design class, our professor had us do a paper on our career goals and said that about half the computer engineers in the class (100) had down "be a video game programmer" as their goal.
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Conspiracy to deplete mod point pool!
Seriously, I'm not sure how anyone survives to the age of 50 there. But that just might be the discovery channel's "Australia's deadliest X" specials talking.
Wow...Zonk, which drugs are you taking, and where did you get them?
+1, Obvious.
It's all about balance, people. I love my gaming time, but I don't give up food, sleep, work, etc. just to play my two MMORPGs (SWG and Eve Online). Maybe it's just that my games don't require 4 hour instances at the end game or maybe I just know when I'm tired, hungry, or have other commitments.
Sometimes you just have to say "Hey guys, I'm starving/tired/going to do something else for a while, see you later."
Is spyware acceptable to the public when it comes with a game, or has EA made a PR misstep?
It's only a big PR misstep if the general public is informed that this is a horrible idea. If it's just a couple of geeks muttering, it's not a problem at all (since most of /. hates EA already).
Therefore, I suggest telling all your friends that EA will be watching their every step online and they'll be open to identity theft. Come to think of it, would EA have pr0n ads in game if that's what your browsing history indicated? Now that would be hilarious.
"Billy! Why is there a naked lady in your game?!? Someone get me Jack Thompson on the phone, because it's time to sue!"
the power of prizes to accelerate progress
Hmm...In that case, I'm offering $1000 USD to the person or group that can find me the perfect girlfriend!
Actually, I've always considered MySpace more of an STD, acquired by those not smart enough to use protection.
"But I'm too low level to survive in the Real Life instance!"
Two words...Battlestar Galactica.
A nice "enter your root password to do this" prompt will not prevent stupid people from running malware on a Mac, especially if the malware says "enter your system password to install in secure mode" or something similar. Just because a system is inherently more secure does not mean stupid people can't screw it up.
With all the press about "Macs don't get viruses", your average user is likely to get a false sense of security when running things and might be more likely to try and run everything they run across, since it can't possibly do anything bad since they have a Mac.
Now I only have to look over my shoulder every few minutes instead of every thirty seconds!
I used to think that Sony the most evil tech company, but now I'm not quite sure they hold the crown any more.
I prefer building my own gaming rig and putting in the parts I want and upgrading when I please, how I please. And god knows any gaming rig I put together will be cheaper, both in the short and long run, than any advertised "gamer" or "power user" system, Mac or PC.
So now it's a MS program, so you can't block the ads using browser plug-ins? Damn, sign me up now! Now I can't even stop myself from being able to punch the monkey to win an X-box, no matter how hard I try!
Now what are the odds that this security-increasing effort manages to introduce some more fairly blatant security holes?
(Also, you forgot Chu in your list)
(Assuming an end of ESB conversion to the Dark Side)
Well, depending on whether Luke decided to side with Daddy, Palpy, or try and take over the galaxy himself, we could have seen some awesome Dark Side fights and elaborate superweapons being used indiscriminately.
Unfortunately, coming up with a game that allows these possibilties would take a hell of a lot of work and imaginiation, something that is lacking in big market games these days. But hey, as long as Luke gives up his life as a whiny hippy and there's no Ewoks, I'd be happy.
That is the sound of my childhood crying out as it is abused again and again.
Crazy theories one, regular theories a billion!
Burning e-books with offensive material isn't as satisfying as burning paper books that offend me!
Yeah, it is the wave of the future, but biometric scanners need to be worked on a lot more before they come into common/important use. Most commercial scanners tend to have a significant amount of false positives/negatives and some of them can be easily tricked using simple means.
Yeah...Saying you don't care about Star Wars is like saying you don't care whether you use *nix or Windows!
I'm attending Iowa State University, where Atanasoff made his computer. When I grew up in the 80s, any tech special I saw on TV or book I read preached "ENIAC was the first computer." But once I got to Iowa State, it was "Atanasoff made the first digital computer, and we have the court decision that says so!"
In our senior design class, our professor had us do a paper on our career goals and said that about half the computer engineers in the class (100) had down "be a video game programmer" as their goal.
And here's a distributed computing project to detect such gravity waves: http://www.physics2005.org/events/einsteinathome/