Then you must have never seen any Eve Online, CoD, UT, Planetside, Warcraft, Team Fortress, Tribes, Halo, etc. videos online ever. 99.999% of them use Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries for their music.
Really? Since when does the 'population' use Twitter? I've been in IT since 2001 and even I stay clear of that medium. Take a step back outside your web 2.0 bubble and look around you at your family, when you're riding the train or the bus, or at the museum. The majority of people don't know what Twitter is, let alone what a hashtag is.
I agree with most of your points but you're simply using this as a thin veil to turn this into a partisan disagreement, just like every other political argument online. Thanks for polluting the Internet!
I fail to see the significance of this. It's just another town hall meeting, except the questions are being submitted via Twitter. That's newsworthy? There are plenty of more efficient methods of gathering questions. It's like that whole push-to-talk craze 10 years ago. "Hey, I got a great idea, full-duplex communication is nice, but half-duplex is even better!"
I can't believe your comment was modded +3 solely on the basis that you find the name Valador funny. It's really not that funny.
And "blowing space vehicles" ? What does that even mean?
Did you even read the wikipedia article you linked to (or the summary for that matter)? A cursory glance shows they're two very different technologies.
Holy hell, that seriously saved you time? Who in their right mind would watch 110 minutes (yes the videos really combine to total that long) of a reviewer's impressions? It would take me a couple minutes to start the download and still leave plenty of time to get a feel for the gameplay before the nearly two hours of youtube videos finish playing. There might even be a few (very few from what it sounds like) moments of enjoyment to be had playing the game instead of listening to that wanker's babbling.
That sounds like a lot of work. Simply download the PDF and select the text with your mouse and use copy/paste. Watch how easy it is (lifted from page 10):
Of course it would be easy to use this occasion to express a few platitudes:
opinions that we all share. Every day the Internet does indeed transform
the way in which people live, work, communicate, bond, play, enjoy
themselves, live and love. And indeed, the Internet is a powerful motor
for economic development, a mine of productivity and job-creation.
This exceptional space of technological innovation is indeed also a
source of individual initiatives, pioneers, trend-setters, inventors. And
the Internet does indeed create a wind of openness and democracy
wherever it is accessible. It offers those who use it possibilities for
communication and self-realization unparalleled in our history.
In contrast, those who actually know how to hack will proxy through a number of machines.
That's not hacking, neither in RMS terminology nor modern media terminology. That's simply basic unix admin skills coupled with some awareness of how to setup or use proxies.
Perhaps someone can set me straight, I've watched a few videos of Rage and it does not seem to be a "rail-shooter" at all. The player looked like he was free to move about in the x-y-z dimensions untethered. Am I missing something?
Stop being pedantic. The summary simply failed to quote the entire sentence from the linked article: "...but never before in actual photos from another spacecraft..."
Certainly I realize that. But there are many instances where developers have made fine games after not so fine games. Anyway, regarding HL, I suppose I should have added "IMHO" although I thought that bit was assumed. Because that was my honest regard from the game after having played it. I understand many, many, people feel otherwise including my family and friends!
"And I find it very interesting that the fact the HL series guides the player instead of leaving them utterly confused makes it a *worse* game in your eyes. "
Well, in my opinion it makes for a very linear and homogenized experience as I originally posted. While I don't advocate "utter confusion" I think a little mystery in a game tends to make the experience more enjoyable. Back in the Ultima days I remember making hand drawn maps. Should we return to those days? Certainly not. But a FPS that has been play-tested by focus groups for 6 months ad nauseam such that it felt like navigating through a Denny's placemate puzzle is not my idea of fun. Well, that's the other opposite of the extreme. It resulted in a game that was boring, bland and tasted like skim milk (IMHO).
Surely you're not advocating that more games is a worse thing? And even considering that, did you consider that some folk do not consider your aforementioned games to have been any fun?
ME was great, I grant you that. Modern Warfare? I thought I played my last rail shooter at the mall arcade many years ago. No thanks. Borderlands was a bit shitty as well, even with my mates on multiplayer. And I know I buck the crowd when I say I am not a huge fan of the HL series. Listen to the developer commentary for HL and you get a sense of how overly produced, homogenized, and bland the HL experience was meant to be. I recognized this during my play though. Every aspect was over-analyzed such that the player never got stuck and was always guided along by the right clue conveniently painted on the wall in the right space.
Will DNF be better? Who knows. But more choice certainly can not hurt.
In the submitter's defense, a CS degree from one university to the next can differ wildly (although to hold a M.S.. well.. maybe it was from Devry). My friend and I both entered the CS curriculum at different state schools. Mine was in the top tier, his wasn't. He learned how to program C++ his first year. I was told that we were expected to know the language in whatever course we were taking, and if not, to be able to learn it quickly enough to take the course. We weren't to be taught programming. We started with the CLR algorithms book our second semester along with linear algebra and all the other associated mathematics courses.
Later on I returned to school to finish my M.S. while I was employed with another, less prestigious, university because the tuition was free and the courses were within walking distance during work hours. The curriculum was incredibly easy. A favorite anecdote of mine is from my first graduate course I took there. Since I was used to the level of work required from my undergraduate education, I put in an incredible amount of time on my first project. Thinking it was still subpar and prepared to receive a failing grade, I was shocked when the professor handed back my graded assignment and whispered to me "nice job".
I don't know what Yaoi manga is either, but I assume you must be new to the Internet. Hypertext (aka hyperlinks, aka links) are used where users "can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence other references."
Can you image what the/. front page would look like if every obscure term was defined in verbose instead of using the web as it was designed?
Slashdot Mirror
But will the Chromebook help solve the subluxation crisis?
"I never even would have heard of this music..."
Then you must have never seen any Eve Online, CoD, UT, Planetside, Warcraft, Team Fortress, Tribes, Halo, etc. videos online ever. 99.999% of them use Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries for their music.
From el reg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/google_cans_11m_dot_co_dot_cc_sites/):
.co.cc sites from its results
By Kevin Murphy
Posted in Hosting, 6th July 2011 09:30 GMT
Google dumps all 11+ million
Agreed. It's like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd. However, my point was that your post really had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
If we were in the same room having a conversation and you said this to me I would roll my eyes.
Really? Since when does the 'population' use Twitter? I've been in IT since 2001 and even I stay clear of that medium. Take a step back outside your web 2.0 bubble and look around you at your family, when you're riding the train or the bus, or at the museum. The majority of people don't know what Twitter is, let alone what a hashtag is.
I agree with most of your points but you're simply using this as a thin veil to turn this into a partisan disagreement, just like every other political argument online. Thanks for polluting the Internet!
I fail to see the significance of this. It's just another town hall meeting, except the questions are being submitted via Twitter. That's newsworthy? There are plenty of more efficient methods of gathering questions. It's like that whole push-to-talk craze 10 years ago. "Hey, I got a great idea, full-duplex communication is nice, but half-duplex is even better!"
Sometimes an idea is stupid, even if it's novel.
You shouldn't be bothered. You've been trolled.
I think YHBT....
I can't believe your comment was modded +3 solely on the basis that you find the name Valador funny. It's really not that funny. And "blowing space vehicles" ? What does that even mean?
Did you even read the wikipedia article you linked to (or the summary for that matter)? A cursory glance shows they're two very different technologies.
Holy hell, that seriously saved you time? Who in their right mind would watch 110 minutes (yes the videos really combine to total that long) of a reviewer's impressions? It would take me a couple minutes to start the download and still leave plenty of time to get a feel for the gameplay before the nearly two hours of youtube videos finish playing. There might even be a few (very few from what it sounds like) moments of enjoyment to be had playing the game instead of listening to that wanker's babbling.
What if you opened it in an open source pdf reader like evince? You still couldn't copy or print? Just curious.
That sounds like a lot of work. Simply download the PDF and select the text with your mouse and use copy/paste. Watch how easy it is (lifted from page 10):
Of course it would be easy to use this occasion to express a few platitudes: opinions that we all share. Every day the Internet does indeed transform the way in which people live, work, communicate, bond, play, enjoy themselves, live and love. And indeed, the Internet is a powerful motor for economic development, a mine of productivity and job-creation. This exceptional space of technological innovation is indeed also a source of individual initiatives, pioneers, trend-setters, inventors. And the Internet does indeed create a wind of openness and democracy wherever it is accessible. It offers those who use it possibilities for communication and self-realization unparalleled in our history.
In contrast, those who actually know how to hack will proxy through a number of machines.
That's not hacking, neither in RMS terminology nor modern media terminology. That's simply basic unix admin skills coupled with some awareness of how to setup or use proxies.
Perhaps someone can set me straight, I've watched a few videos of Rage and it does not seem to be a "rail-shooter" at all. The player looked like he was free to move about in the x-y-z dimensions untethered. Am I missing something?
Stop being pedantic. The summary simply failed to quote the entire sentence from the linked article: "...but never before in actual photos from another spacecraft..."
1) How is it that school administrators had the time to look at this drek? Is this what we're paying them unhealthy sums of money to do?
Because it's there job? The videos were created and submitted for a school project.
Certainly I realize that. But there are many instances where developers have made fine games after not so fine games. Anyway, regarding HL, I suppose I should have added "IMHO" although I thought that bit was assumed. Because that was my honest regard from the game after having played it. I understand many, many, people feel otherwise including my family and friends!
"And I find it very interesting that the fact the HL series guides the player instead of leaving them utterly confused makes it a *worse* game in your eyes. "
Well, in my opinion it makes for a very linear and homogenized experience as I originally posted. While I don't advocate "utter confusion" I think a little mystery in a game tends to make the experience more enjoyable. Back in the Ultima days I remember making hand drawn maps. Should we return to those days? Certainly not. But a FPS that has been play-tested by focus groups for 6 months ad nauseam such that it felt like navigating through a Denny's placemate puzzle is not my idea of fun. Well, that's the other opposite of the extreme. It resulted in a game that was boring, bland and tasted like skim milk (IMHO).
Surely you're not advocating that more games is a worse thing? And even considering that, did you consider that some folk do not consider your aforementioned games to have been any fun?
ME was great, I grant you that. Modern Warfare? I thought I played my last rail shooter at the mall arcade many years ago. No thanks. Borderlands was a bit shitty as well, even with my mates on multiplayer. And I know I buck the crowd when I say I am not a huge fan of the HL series. Listen to the developer commentary for HL and you get a sense of how overly produced, homogenized, and bland the HL experience was meant to be. I recognized this during my play though. Every aspect was over-analyzed such that the player never got stuck and was always guided along by the right clue conveniently painted on the wall in the right space.
Will DNF be better? Who knows. But more choice certainly can not hurt.
Right. And The World Is Going To End On May 21, 2011. Oh wait, that passed. And nothing happened.
In the submitter's defense, a CS degree from one university to the next can differ wildly (although to hold a M.S.. well.. maybe it was from Devry). My friend and I both entered the CS curriculum at different state schools. Mine was in the top tier, his wasn't. He learned how to program C++ his first year. I was told that we were expected to know the language in whatever course we were taking, and if not, to be able to learn it quickly enough to take the course. We weren't to be taught programming. We started with the CLR algorithms book our second semester along with linear algebra and all the other associated mathematics courses.
Later on I returned to school to finish my M.S. while I was employed with another, less prestigious, university because the tuition was free and the courses were within walking distance during work hours. The curriculum was incredibly easy. A favorite anecdote of mine is from my first graduate course I took there. Since I was used to the level of work required from my undergraduate education, I put in an incredible amount of time on my first project. Thinking it was still subpar and prepared to receive a failing grade, I was shocked when the professor handed back my graded assignment and whispered to me "nice job".
The parent posted something that you disagree with and you advocate for his death? That sounds absurd to me too.
Translating a book shouldn't ban you from a country forever. Posting a comment on slashdot shouldn't sentence you to death.
I don't know what Yaoi manga is either, but I assume you must be new to the Internet. Hypertext (aka hyperlinks, aka links) are used where users "can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence other references."
/. front page would look like if every obscure term was defined in verbose instead of using the web as it was designed?
Can you image what the
Thanks. Good story.