NICE! im that old also! I remember playing sit-down pong in a candy store. My first comp was an apple][e. There used to be a game i really liked for it, hmmm it was called...SUNDOG! yes! have you ever played sundog? w00t that game was so good - came before wasteland i think.
Suffice it to say on my home network I have only one PC running windows (currently 22 running other OS's - BSD, Linux, Solaris, Irix, HPUX, AIX etc) and it is purely for games playing and does not have a connection to the outside world.
Omfg, purely for games but does not have connection, what games are these? no online play? how can you get pwned then? thats no fun. And did i read that right, currently 22 running other OS's
valve hasn't done that for it's 1998 game yet even nor doesn't really seem to be about to do it(nor are they exactly helpful with the many problems with hl1 keys people have, the open-a-shrinkwrapped-hl1/cs-copy-and-the-key-is-al ready-in-use kind of problems).
My brother had exactly this problem. He bought a copy of HL1 from a reputable vendor site, but from an individual. The box was shrinkwraped. The key didnt work, it was already in use. He sent emails to the person who sold the game and to valve. They actually both sent him new working keys in about 1 day.
I do exactly that. Im salaried and expected to put at least 40 or more hrs, i was actually told 50 minimum per week. My reply to this was and is, why? is the quality of my work lacking? Is there some reason? Is my work not geting done on time? As a salaried employee they shouldnt have to watch my time, whether I spend more or less as long as my projects are done and clean. I refuse to be treated in any other way (I dont have a family and I dont even have a cat), so i can get away with it maybee.
Indeed! Somtimes I play CS-Source thru 2 Crate cabs (18'sub 6" square mid horn, 4" octal high) with a crate 500w PA head (enough power for a 7000ft2 hall). You can FEEL the bullets... While this is extreamly fun, I actually prefer the stupid overpriced pc speakers with the 5.1 surround. When these are placed correctly you can hear which direction the footsteps are comming from. I still think headphones are the best though. Im sure the neighbors would agree.
MMO combat will be broken for quite some time. How can you provide a combat system with depth of design and provide multiple builds, like SWG, but also include balance between them in a rpg game? You definatly dont let the n00b's complaining dictate the changes! The mods to the system have to come from the experienced players! If you let the masses of (required-for-survival as the article states) nubbles decide the combat system, you almost ensure that a system of depth and balance will never evolve! You will always be nerfing and removing the wrong (skills/feats)to the tune of the nooblet whining.
To use a very popular game, Counter-Strike, as an example: Immagine if the CS team changed the game to suit it for players that have less than 6 months of FPS/CS experience. Result: The weapons and tactics the experienced players use that give the game depth are removed (AWP for example), and the game sucks.
I'll be busy vomiting from my over-exposure to advertising in general.
I agree, advertising (in any form) is sickening. What is really hard to believe is that the ads work. If they didnt they wouldnt be there.
The ads I dislike the most are the fear-based ads... three out of five children have been sexually solicited online, what about your kids? who are they talking to online? visit supergayads.org and find out. uh hum... i guess the thing to do is cook the stats and work on the publics fear, then profit! My god why am I working? I could be casting fear on the sheeple and getting rich!/rant
to tell people how to live? where does this right come from? I can understand bitching about the smokers stinking up a room or enclosed space, but I dont think we have any right to tell them or tax them on the basis that smoking is dangerous. Getting into your car in the morning and driving to work is the most dangerous thing you can do. True, you dont have to smoke, but you dont have to drive and polute the air either:p Id post some auto death statistics here but im too lazy.
It works fine, ive left it on for days at a time, had it for over a year now. Course ive never put anything in it except games, and no haxxs or mods either.
The only console ive had a prob with was a PS2 - I had one of the first versions - the one with seperate dvd and cd readers in it - one failed and it only read half of my games. Thats when Its time to take the failed console outside, set on fire, bash with large hammer, take pics and send to manufacturer. Wont get any lawyers rich but sure made me feel better:D
I played SWG from launch until a couple months ago.
2 major drawbacks that I have found playing are:
1.Players (customers) are not happy with their gameing experience (because they suxx) and rather than learn
how to play, whine constantly about getting owned and then the DEV's (in this case Sony) change the game and simplify it for the tards.
2.Errors in the code which allow for exploits of the combat system (which is understandable), but you then are at the mercy of the dev's timetables for fixing it (if its ever fixed at all). In a server-based rpg like NWN, the scripting and level design of the persistant worlds are done with their toolset and in C, so its easy to fix problems right away.
In fact, NWN is much better than SWG as far as gameplay, combat systems, and customization. Since there are huge persistant worlds out there for NWN does it really matter that you can only get 60 people on a server instead of 600?
I dont play SWG anymore - its total ass. NWN is far better IMHO and much less time consuming, I can play whenever I want and no monthly fee.
I remember sitting in a Borland Turbo Pascal class when I was about 14. The instructor always had us type the same paragraph for the first 15 minutes of class, which got really old. I could code basic by then and as soon as I figured out what arrays and procedures were, I wrote a little program that immitaded the GUI and typed the paragraph for me, haltingly and one char at a time (in case she walked by all I would have to do is tap at the keyboard and it would look like I was typing.) That class was very fun, and even more fun was always having the upper hand on the teacher! Gawd we always pwned her so bad. Wed do stupid stuff like makeing some graphcolormode_boobs_and nasty message, compile it to.exe, copy to her comp and call it out in the autoexec.bat file:D I miss that
Do you have a right to turn off a TV that is in a place that is not owned/managed by you whether public or private? No.
Does a buisness/private airport/etc. owner have the right to place an entire wall of TV's blaring re-runs of the 700club continuously in his/her facility? Yes.
Does a manager of a public utility/transportation/taxpayer_funded_thingy have the right to place an entire wall of TV's blaring cheap household cleaner ad's continuously in his/her facility? Yes.
Personally I despise advertising in almost any form, as It is an emotional tool designed to disrupt the logic of the weak minded long enough to help them spend their money. Good thing for me I dont have to watch TV. I wont turn it off for you though; and I could turn it off, oh yes. Duct tape over the IR or different codes/power_bit would not stop me if I wished to turn off a public TV. But the point is I would not turn off the TV in my own house if you wanted to watch it, why would you turn off a TV that someone may be watching? r00d!
Of course, the Sun (large fusion reactor you see in the daytime), actually powers everything. It makes the plants that you eat. It makes the plants that the animals eat that you eat. So then using this logic: no car (or anything else) is gasoline powered, its actually fusion powered, as another post says above this one. And how does fusion work? Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. It is the reaction in which two atoms of hydrogen combine together, or fuse, to form an atom of helium. In the process some of the mass of the hydrogen is converted into energy. SO! dude, im afraid the car is hydrogen powered after all, and so are you:p
However, the control panel is an interface to a device - a human being - not the end-point of the design, and designers need to be more careful to ensure that the fact a human being will be a part of the system is taken into account, at all stages of the design.
This is true, when we design OIT terminals here at the plant, we make sure the operators can understand the GUI. If its too complex or the on-screen buttons are too small to be pressed with gloves, for example, then we redesign. But I dont think that is a valid issue in AUDI's case, since they were building a sports car, and placed the gas and brake together to enhance driving. If the retards here press the gas and brake at the same time, then blame the car manufacturer for building a fast car with performance items on it, omfg its just too much. RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS! Icant ta ke it anymre
Gentlemen: Our personal freedoms and standard of living seem to be eroding away at an alarming rate. If we are to trade our personal freedom in the name of fighting terrorism, dosnt that make the government our oppresors? Is the removal of American liberty, from any source, including our own goverment acceptable to you? Please explain.
Here government tries to show an improvement in industrial jobs by proposing the reclassification of McDonalds employees to industrial workers. http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/067965.htm
What a fucking joke! And whos salary has gone up? Bah I know the only way to get a raise in Engineering is to leave:)
Growing up there were always two or three papers in our house, the SF Chronicle, a Swedish paper (in swedish from sweden) and a local paper. My father and I always were amazed at the news that is censored here. Sometimes he would have to actually try and corfirm the stories, as we just couldnt believe that our papers could be repressed in this fashion.
This being said I dont think Google is at fault here, other that being a large and evil corporation but that is a different matter. I mean Google is just a search engine. But I take comfort in the fact that the censors will never win, as they have already lost, and only a better idea can beat a good idea.
Hmmmm....If your going to give me advise, can you do it quickly?
Dude, you are soo cool! Im one of the nerds, and I just cant wait to go hang out with some l0ser band in some coffee shop with some durty l0sers talking some l0ser shit.
I dont care if you can hable espanole and sprechanzie deuche and write some code also! haha takes more than that to impress people around here llamas.
Of course Symantec is going to put out reports stating that attacks of some sort are on the rise. Its what they do. But as others have posted here, I dont see any stats. Most of the time these things are all marketing bs - I mean say that the total percentage of haxx0r crime has really dropped, but that the profit motivated atttacks have risen (even though the total crime has dropped!) - which will Symantec report to you? They will never say that Haxx0ring has declined. Will that make them money?
than buying from a store. I already dl my HL2, and while I can understand Sierra getting pissed about undermining their marketing strategy, tough shit. DL games and buying the key online is superior, removes the middle-man-sales-marketing-add-producing vampire and will lower costs for us.
No printing fees, no materials cost, limited add campaigns, no shipping fees, etc. and the result for us: get you one NOW and cheaper.
If you look at the alphabet, HAL is the previous letter from IBM. H(i)A(b)L(m) So, even after the coverup and clever name change, we can infer that HAL is really an IBM creation, and that it prob uses a ms os...
"Marketing and Technology NEVER can agree on anything"
I worked as an engineer for a large corporation and found this to be true. Sales/marketing and engineering were in disagreement about most things. Typically sales would sell schedules that were impossible to keep, largely because they really dont know what it takes to complete the tasks they are selling. If questioned, their answer was "Turn down a sale based on workload? IMPOSSIBLE! The answer is Overtime!!"-- Haha worked really well untill all the engineers walked out, I was the last one left and finally quit also. I just got tired like the rest of the engineers who covered up the horrible mistakes of the marketing division by making their disasters work, then watch them get the credit:) fuk that.
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NICE! im that old also! I remember playing sit-down pong in a candy store. My first comp was an apple][e. There used to be a game i really liked for it, hmmm it was called...SUNDOG! yes! have you ever played sundog? w00t that game was so good - came before wasteland i think.
Suffice it to say on my home network I have only one PC running windows (currently 22 running other OS's - BSD, Linux, Solaris, Irix, HPUX, AIX etc) and it is purely for games playing and does not have a connection to the outside world.
Omfg, purely for games but does not have connection, what games are these? no online play? how can you get pwned then? thats no fun. And did i read that right, currently 22 running other OS's
valve hasn't done that for it's 1998 game yet even nor doesn't really seem to be about to do it(nor are they exactly helpful with the many problems with hl1 keys people have, the open-a-shrinkwrapped-hl1/cs-copy-and-the-key-is-al ready-in-use kind of problems).
My brother had exactly this problem. He bought a copy of HL1 from a reputable vendor site, but from an individual. The box was shrinkwraped. The key didnt work, it was already in use. He sent emails to the person who sold the game and to valve. They actually both sent him new working keys in about 1 day.
I do exactly that. Im salaried and expected to put at least 40 or more hrs, i was actually told 50 minimum per week. My reply to this was and is, why? is the quality of my work lacking? Is there some reason? Is my work not geting done on time? As a salaried employee they shouldnt have to watch my time, whether I spend more or less as long as my projects are done and clean. I refuse to be treated in any other way (I dont have a family and I dont even have a cat), so i can get away with it maybee.
Indeed! Somtimes I play CS-Source thru 2 Crate cabs (18'sub 6" square mid horn, 4" octal high) with a crate 500w PA head (enough power for a 7000ft2 hall). You can FEEL the bullets... While this is extreamly fun, I actually prefer the stupid overpriced pc speakers with the 5.1 surround. When these are placed correctly you can hear which direction the footsteps are comming from. I still think headphones are the best though. Im sure the neighbors would agree.
MMO combat will be broken for quite some time. How can you provide a combat system with depth of design and provide multiple builds, like SWG, but also include balance between them in a rpg game? You definatly dont let the n00b's complaining dictate the changes! The mods to the system have to come from the experienced players! If you let the masses of (required-for-survival as the article states) nubbles decide the combat system, you almost ensure that a system of depth and balance will never evolve! You will always be nerfing and removing the wrong (skills/feats)to the tune of the nooblet whining.
To use a very popular game, Counter-Strike, as an example: Immagine if the CS team changed the game to suit it for players that have less than 6 months of FPS/CS experience. Result: The weapons and tactics the experienced players use that give the game depth are removed (AWP for example), and the game sucks.
I'll be busy vomiting from my over-exposure to advertising in general.
/rant
I agree, advertising (in any form) is sickening. What is really hard to believe is that the ads work. If they didnt they wouldnt be there.
The ads I dislike the most are the fear-based ads... three out of five children have been sexually solicited online, what about your kids? who are they talking to online? visit supergayads.org and find out. uh hum... i guess the thing to do is cook the stats and work on the publics fear, then profit! My god why am I working? I could be casting fear on the sheeple and getting rich!
to tell people how to live? where does this right come from? I can understand bitching about the smokers stinking up a room or enclosed space, but I dont think we have any right to tell them or tax them on the basis that smoking is dangerous. Getting into your car in the morning and driving to work is the most dangerous thing you can do. True, you dont have to smoke, but you dont have to drive and polute the air either :p Id post some auto death statistics here but im too lazy.
This thing is a good idea if it works correctly.
It works fine, ive left it on for days at a time, had it for over a year now. Course ive never put anything in it except games, and no haxxs or mods either.
:D
The only console ive had a prob with was a PS2 - I had one of the first versions - the one with seperate dvd and cd readers in it - one failed and it only read half of my games. Thats when Its time to take the failed console outside, set on fire, bash with large hammer, take pics and send to manufacturer. Wont get any lawyers rich but sure made me feel better
I played SWG from launch until a couple months ago.
2 major drawbacks that I have found playing are:
1.Players (customers) are not happy with their gameing experience (because they suxx) and rather than learn how to play, whine constantly about getting owned and then the DEV's (in this case Sony) change the game and simplify it for the tards.
2.Errors in the code which allow for exploits of the combat system (which is understandable), but you then are at the mercy of the dev's timetables for fixing it (if its ever fixed at all). In a server-based rpg like NWN, the scripting and level design of the persistant worlds are done with their toolset and in C, so its easy to fix problems right away.
In fact, NWN is much better than SWG as far as gameplay, combat systems, and customization. Since there are huge persistant worlds out there for NWN does it really matter that you can only get 60 people on a server instead of 600?
I dont play SWG anymore - its total ass. NWN is far better IMHO and much less time consuming, I can play whenever I want and no monthly fee.
I remember sitting in a Borland Turbo Pascal class when I was about 14. The instructor always had us type the same paragraph for the first 15 minutes of class, which got really old. I could code basic by then and as soon as I figured out what arrays and procedures were, I wrote a little program that immitaded the GUI and typed the paragraph for me, haltingly and one char at a time (in case she walked by all I would have to do is tap at the keyboard and it would look like I was typing.) That class was very fun, and even more fun was always having the upper hand on the teacher! Gawd we always pwned her so bad. Wed do stupid stuff like makeing some graphcolormode_boobs_and nasty message, compile it to .exe, copy to her comp and call it out in the autoexec.bat file :D I miss that
Do you have a right to turn off a TV that is in a place that is not owned/managed by you whether public or private? No.
/power_bit would not stop me if I wished to turn off a public TV. But the point is I would not turn off the TV in my own house if you wanted to watch it, why would you turn off a TV that someone may be watching? r00d!
Does a buisness/private airport/etc. owner have the right to place an entire wall of TV's blaring re-runs of the 700club continuously in his/her facility? Yes.
Does a manager of a public utility/transportation/taxpayer_funded_thingy have the right to place an entire wall of TV's blaring cheap household cleaner ad's continuously in his/her facility? Yes.
Personally I despise advertising in almost any form, as It is an emotional tool designed to disrupt the logic of the weak minded long enough to help them spend their money. Good thing for me I dont have to watch TV. I wont turn it off for you though; and I could turn it off, oh yes. Duct tape over the IR or different codes
Of course, the Sun (large fusion reactor you see in the daytime), actually powers everything. It makes the plants that you eat. It makes the plants that the animals eat that you eat. So then using this logic: no car (or anything else) is gasoline powered, its actually fusion powered, as another post says above this one. And how does fusion work? Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. It is the reaction in which two atoms of hydrogen combine together, or fuse, to form an atom of helium. In the process some of the mass of the hydrogen is converted into energy. :p
SO! dude, im afraid the car is hydrogen powered after all, and so are you
However, the control panel is an interface to a device - a human being - not the end-point of the design, and designers need to be more careful to ensure that the fact a human being will be a part of the system is taken into account, at all stages of the design.
This is true, when we design OIT terminals here at the plant, we make sure the operators can understand the GUI. If its too complex or the on-screen buttons are too small to be pressed with gloves, for example, then we redesign. But I dont think that is a valid issue in AUDI's case, since they were building a sports car, and placed the gas and brake together to enhance driving. If the retards here press the gas and brake at the same time, then blame the car manufacturer for building a fast car with performance items on it, omfg its just too much. RETARDS RETARDS RETARDS! Icant ta ke it anymre
This happened to me in a Comp USA store:
[CompUSA]"That'll be 120.00, may I have your phone number please?"
[Rawder]"What for?" *smiles*
[CompUSA]"Its part of the checkout."
[Rawder]"You mean you wont sell me this without me giving you my phone number?"
[CompUSA]"Well....no...you dont have to."
[Rawder]"Then the answer is no."
[CompUSA]"Would you like 100,000 free AOL minutes?"
[Rawder]"Id rather be killed, lady..."
September, CompUSA, Somewhere in Central California
Offtopic??? Oh no, I'm positive if you heated up Bill's ring you would see those words...
Ash nazg durbatulûk,
ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Gentlemen:
Our personal freedoms and standard of living seem to be eroding away at an alarming rate. If we are to trade our personal freedom in the name of fighting terrorism, dosnt that make the government our oppresors? Is the removal of American liberty, from any source, including our own goverment acceptable to you? Please explain.
Here government tries to show an improvement in industrial jobs by proposing the reclassification of McDonalds employees to industrial workers. http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/067965.htm :)
What a fucking joke! And whos salary has gone up? Bah I know the only way to get a raise in Engineering is to leave
Growing up there were always two or three papers in our house, the SF Chronicle, a Swedish paper (in swedish from sweden) and a local paper. My father and I always were amazed at the news that is censored here. Sometimes he would have to actually try and corfirm the stories, as we just couldnt believe that our papers could be repressed in this fashion.
This being said I dont think Google is at fault here, other that being a large and evil corporation but that is a different matter. I mean Google is just a search engine. But I take comfort in the fact that the censors will never win, as they have already lost, and only a better idea can beat a good idea.
Dude, you are soo cool! Im one of the nerds, and I just cant wait to go hang out with some l0ser band in some coffee shop with some durty l0sers talking some l0ser shit.
Of course Symantec is going to put out reports stating that attacks of some sort are on the rise. Its what they do. But as others have posted here, I dont see any stats. Most of the time these things are all marketing bs - I mean say that the total percentage of haxx0r crime has really dropped, but that the profit motivated atttacks have risen (even though the total crime has dropped!) - which will Symantec report to you? They will never say that Haxx0ring has declined. Will that make them money?
than buying from a store. I already dl my HL2, and while I can understand Sierra getting pissed about undermining their marketing strategy, tough shit. DL games and buying the key online is superior, removes the middle-man-sales-marketing-add-producing vampire and will lower costs for us. No printing fees, no materials cost, limited add campaigns, no shipping fees, etc. and the result for us: get you one NOW and cheaper.
here i can prove it.
If you look at the alphabet, HAL is the previous letter from IBM. H(i)A(b)L(m) So, even after the coverup and clever name change, we can infer that HAL is really an IBM creation, and that it prob uses a ms os...
"Marketing and Technology NEVER can agree on anything"
:) fuk that.
I worked as an engineer for a large corporation and found this to be true. Sales/marketing and engineering were in disagreement about most things. Typically sales would sell schedules that were impossible to keep, largely because they really dont know what it takes to complete the tasks they are selling. If questioned, their answer was "Turn down a sale based on workload? IMPOSSIBLE! The answer is Overtime!!"-- Haha worked really well untill all the engineers walked out, I was the last one left and finally quit also. I just got tired like the rest of the engineers who covered up the horrible mistakes of the marketing division by making their disasters work, then watch them get the credit