It's funny, but they actually DO do a reasonable job of making sure old games work. They just have to be actually old. Like, DOOM and X-Com.
When you grab those games, it comes with DosBox preconfigured for you, ready to play. Not that setting it up is the worst thing in the world, but it's terribly convenient to be able to just download them and play and not have to worry about it.
To be fair, villages were put to the torch and their peasants to the sword often when wars happened in medieval times. There was probably even less accountability because there was even less reliable information coming out of a battle.
Also, in regards to personality tests (and most psych tests in general), they're pretty easy to game to get whatever result you want, if you halfway know what you're doing.
They mostly depend on honesty on the behalf of the participant, and if you trust them to be honest, why would you bother testing them?
X3: Terran Conflict comes out in October while we're on the subject.
X3: The Reunion is an amazing and gorgeous elite style game, once you get over the steep learning curve. There are a tonne of sweet mods available, and in fact a lot of the mod makers were hired to work on Terran Conflict.
If you're at all interested in this sort of game, check it out. It's on Steam.
Errr... what does this have to do with anything being open source? I don't think a country not being included in a drop down is really that dependent on developer methodologies.
I wonder, how long it would take either Spirit or Opportunity to drive there from their present locations if something interesting was found? Longer than it would take to plan, design, build, launch, and land a rover right there, I imagine.
I think the benefit of hiring those in college on internship or fresh out is that they're cheap, eager to impress, and most importantly, you get first crack at them. So you can get these so called "superstar programmers" before they get hired off by some other company.
If you find it on your computer, you deserve it. You probably had or were in danger of becoming infected by the worm that exploited the vulnerability this was trying to fix. And I don't care if it's your computer or not, if you can't be trusted to keep it from polluting the Internet at large then someone will have to do it for you.
A well designed "white hat worm" could just sit and listen for a while until it got hit with a computer probing for the vulnerability and then infect and fix the computer that did the probing. Once it has fixed a certain number of computers, or a certain amount of time has elapsed, it removes itself.
A true joystick will also give you a third degree of movment, which is the thing I really don't like about gamepads. Makes it much harder to do space combat sims and mech warrior games with no twist/z-axis rotation. Analog shoulder buttons just aren't the same.
A few other games where you don't need the DVD in the drive:
Stardock's Galactic Civilization II, and their new Sins of a Solar Empire. In fact, there's no copy protection on the disk at all. And once you buy it you can download it from them whenever you want, even if you completely lose your DVD and serial number. As long as you still know your Stardock Account.
World In Conflict also lets you play without the DVD when you play in multiplayer only, which is quite nice.
In fact I found the $50 to be quite reasonable. Getting HL2 and episodes one and two along with TF2 for free was a nice bonus. But portal was worth the price of admission alone.
A game doesn't have to be long to be fun. It was tight with no wasted moments. A lot of games could be a lot better if they just cut out a lot of the crap that's just designed to make it take longer to finish.
I was at a talk one of the founders of Sandvine was giving at a conference a few weeks ago. I was sick at the time, and I couldn't really remember why the name sounded familiar until the very last question asked was about the RST packet forging. Up until then the guy was basically saying "We have really awesome QoS hardware, we throttle bandwidth so everyone is happy!"
I also noticed he was confusing the definition of Network Neutrality, whether intentionally or not. The very first question was about network neutrality, and he went on talking about how QoS is good for the internet in the long run.
They even had some crazy newspeak-sounding name for the division that came up with their internet-sabotaging hardware, too. Pretty shady company, honestly. I wish I had been feeling better/remembered who they were faster.
I certainly don't disagree with you or the GP, but it's important to keep in mind it's not just females they're doing it to. How many games feature males that aren't the stereotypical muscle-bound badass? It's stereotypes all around.
Yes, this won't solve all of our problems, but it's definitely a good thing to have. It makes it a lot easier to talk about what is excitatory and what is inhibitory if you have an base for how they're all connected.
You can always write "39.5 inches (about 1 meter)". It would be actually helpful to some people, unlike the comparison to excercise balls. This also has the advantage of slowly giving people an idea of how big units are in the metric system. Making your (hopefully) eventual change easier.
To be fair, you do actually get a lot of stuff before us. We're now about three episodes ahead in The Avatar because some network in Britian had a marathon, apparently. Also, in the past Stargate has gone for a break in North America, while it continues across the pond.
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Or, you know, they could just add WPA support.
It's funny, but they actually DO do a reasonable job of making sure old games work. They just have to be actually old. Like, DOOM and X-Com.
When you grab those games, it comes with DosBox preconfigured for you, ready to play. Not that setting it up is the worst thing in the world, but it's terribly convenient to be able to just download them and play and not have to worry about it.
Also, nice and cheap.
To be fair, villages were put to the torch and their peasants to the sword often when wars happened in medieval times. There was probably even less accountability because there was even less reliable information coming out of a battle.
If standing up for your principles was easy everyone would do it.
Also, in regards to personality tests (and most psych tests in general), they're pretty easy to game to get whatever result you want, if you halfway know what you're doing.
They mostly depend on honesty on the behalf of the participant, and if you trust them to be honest, why would you bother testing them?
X3: Terran Conflict comes out in October while we're on the subject.
X3: The Reunion is an amazing and gorgeous elite style game, once you get over the steep learning curve. There are a tonne of sweet mods available, and in fact a lot of the mod makers were hired to work on Terran Conflict.
If you're at all interested in this sort of game, check it out. It's on Steam.
Pythons are scary, they can bite, and have venom and stuff.
FUD. Pythons don't have any venom. You're just a shill for the precious gems industry.
Errr... what does this have to do with anything being open source? I don't think a country not being included in a drop down is really that dependent on developer methodologies.
This whole thing is pure FUD.
In the years it's been on Mars, Opportunity has only travelled about 11.6km. Spirt is about 7.5km. http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/traverse_maps.html
Exactly. What, should they NOT make a game that people obviously want to buy?
I disagree with a lot of the stuff EA has done, but The Sims is fine.
I think the benefit of hiring those in college on internship or fresh out is that they're cheap, eager to impress, and most importantly, you get first crack at them. So you can get these so called "superstar programmers" before they get hired off by some other company.
If you find it on your computer, you deserve it. You probably had or were in danger of becoming infected by the worm that exploited the vulnerability this was trying to fix. And I don't care if it's your computer or not, if you can't be trusted to keep it from polluting the Internet at large then someone will have to do it for you.
A well designed "white hat worm" could just sit and listen for a while until it got hit with a computer probing for the vulnerability and then infect and fix the computer that did the probing. Once it has fixed a certain number of computers, or a certain amount of time has elapsed, it removes itself.
Oh good, looks like Novell and IBM can acually get some money out of SCO now.
A true joystick will also give you a third degree of movment, which is the thing I really don't like about gamepads. Makes it much harder to do space combat sims and mech warrior games with no twist/z-axis rotation. Analog shoulder buttons just aren't the same.
A few other games where you don't need the DVD in the drive:
Stardock's Galactic Civilization II, and their new Sins of a Solar Empire. In fact, there's no copy protection on the disk at all. And once you buy it you can download it from them whenever you want, even if you completely lose your DVD and serial number. As long as you still know your Stardock Account.
World In Conflict also lets you play without the DVD when you play in multiplayer only, which is quite nice.
In fact I found the $50 to be quite reasonable. Getting HL2 and episodes one and two along with TF2 for free was a nice bonus. But portal was worth the price of admission alone.
A game doesn't have to be long to be fun. It was tight with no wasted moments. A lot of games could be a lot better if they just cut out a lot of the crap that's just designed to make it take longer to finish.
It's a mistake Sandvine encourages, actually.
I was at a talk one of the founders of Sandvine was giving at a conference a few weeks ago. I was sick at the time, and I couldn't really remember why the name sounded familiar until the very last question asked was about the RST packet forging. Up until then the guy was basically saying "We have really awesome QoS hardware, we throttle bandwidth so everyone is happy!"
I also noticed he was confusing the definition of Network Neutrality, whether intentionally or not. The very first question was about network neutrality, and he went on talking about how QoS is good for the internet in the long run.
They even had some crazy newspeak-sounding name for the division that came up with their internet-sabotaging hardware, too. Pretty shady company, honestly. I wish I had been feeling better/remembered who they were faster.
According to the second article both gold AND silver get the game for free tomorrow.
I certainly don't disagree with you or the GP, but it's important to keep in mind it's not just females they're doing it to. How many games feature males that aren't the stereotypical muscle-bound badass? It's stereotypes all around.
Seagulls? Ha, try this: http://www.windfiredesigns.com/timbofolio_pages/CursorKiteTalkGod.jpg
Seagulls? Ha, try this:
http://www.windfiredesigns.com/timbofolio_pages/CursorKiteTalkGod.jpg
Yes, this won't solve all of our problems, but it's definitely a good thing to have. It makes it a lot easier to talk about what is excitatory and what is inhibitory if you have an base for how they're all connected.
To be fair, you do actually get a lot of stuff before us. We're now about three episodes ahead in The Avatar because some network in Britian had a marathon, apparently. Also, in the past Stargate has gone for a break in North America, while it continues across the pond.
Thank you Internet.
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