Absolutely behind you, a hundred percent - I'll never forget the adrenalin shakes I had after playing the first level on Nightmare mode...
Then my brother installed a patch that turned all the sounds into Monty Python sound-bites, so instead of background breathing and moaning, there would be occasional bouts of "Chicken... chicken!" and "I'll bite yer legs off!".
Why not make the commentary after the game is released, just as they do with movies? Hindsight is usually far clearer and more revealing than in-development rants and disputes. With all the online delivery solutions popping up now, this is a really obvious use.
Too late for anyone to read this, and I've no doubt there are a load of "Bullshit, just look at me/some famous guy" posts, but...
The Myers Briggs personality-type test (so often used in profiling people for managament) identifies the "ENFP" type or "Champion/Advocate" as being exceptionally good with people, while usually also having a curious propensity for maths, due to their intuitive tendency and ability to seek patterns and deeper understanding in all things. Since ENFPs account for about 3% of the population, this would seem to fly in the face of the article.
Just a thought. See here for a profile break-down.
In the UK, the original concept that covered what responsibilities a school had was called "In Loco Parentis" - in effect, the school was the "parent". They weren't a company who was looking after your baby - he/she was their baby.
So, anything that a parent could reasonably allow, the school could reasonably allow. Anything that would be neglectful for a parent to allow, just so with the school. It was a brilliant notion that prevented a lot of this idiocy, but the concept is being eroded by further and further defining the "responsibilities" of the school. It sounds like it's gone all the way already, in the US...
This problem applies across the board - not just government.
Basically, it's not a problem of "not understanding technology" - though that's a basic issue that needs adressing. The trouble is, trying to educate people who aren't interested. Politicians rarely need to know how it works, and almost never need to know why it works (and why it matters), because they don't get voted in for understanding issues, but for being popular.
You can educate someone who doesn't care about how to use a mouse, a PC, how to browse the internets, how to make a web-page, how the interets tubes work, what hacking is, how encryption works, what the hell DRM is about, etc etc etc, but you can't make him care. "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think". Until it makes a difference to their chances of staying in power, technological understanding will not penetrate the body politick. Not directly, anyway.
I've had this conversation with other people. Things will change, but not by changing those who are in power - it comes from changing who is in power. In big corporations and such, this has happened much more quickly. If your board doesn't understand the implications of technology, the company goes under - the board gets replaced with people who do understand. Not so in government. All you need to be successful in government is... to be popular. And you can set your own agenda, if you publicise enough. So technology doesn't get a look in.
Maybe, over time, we'll see the "generational shift" where everyone's grown up with technology and understand its implications, to the point where they can make (more) informed decisions, so even politicians have a clue what the debate is about. Trouble is, that always leaves politicians ten steps behind the times.
I'm not happy about the fact that some nut went that far out of his way - and maintained his unreasoning rage for the best part of an hour - that this could happen.
All events like this are bad in themselves... but the more it happens, the more people might stop and think for a second before they do their utmost to cut someone to shreds, safe behind the anonymity of the internets.
The attacker was clearly a dick, but then I've little doubt that the victim was too. No, it doesn't vindicate it, but it does give me a vicious, guilty little flinch of pleasure.
Note to flamers: the interweb is full of games for bored, vicious little pillocks. Don't play one-up in chat.
O...kaaaay. So. We have these alpha & beta cells who aren't doing what they're supposed to do - they're producing too much glucose (or not preventing the liver from doing so), so the body's natural insulin isn't enough. So, when that happens, it would be good if the "incretin" system kicked in to regulate these naughty cells - but DPP-4 normally stops the system doing that (to a degree). So, this Januvia stuff stops the DPP-4 that stops the incretin stopping the dysfunctional cells, meaning Januvia indirectly stops your these cells from producing too much glucose.
Procedurally-generated content is an amazing philosophy in gaming - whether for making fantastic textures fit on a pin-head (as in.kkrieger) or for making a game truly unique and customisable to the nth degree (as in Spore), the possibilities seem to be endless! It just means, sadly, decent programming and careful design from the start.
Which, it seems, is certainly not the norm among games developers these days.
Although, Max Payne's "cutscenes" did a lot for the feel and immersion of the story, I felt. But then they took even less space, so I guess that doesn't really refute the argument...
There have been a number of identified possible causes of autism, and most of them have been suggested as a result of correlations of this kind. The one that jumps immediately to mind is that of "unusual" maternal contact(?), but most of them come down to some indication that a lack of direct personal contact and interaction during the first 3 years increases the likelihood of autism.
Having a TV witch-hunt is not going to solve this (though it might solve a lot of other social ills IMO). If the cause really is something as nebulous as interpersonal contact, there will be no identifiable "cause" that can be excised from our children's lives. However, increasing the time we spend interacting with our children instead of sitting them in front of the goggle-box or Columbine-simulators (joke!) can only be a good thing. Pull this study to pieces if you will, but please at least accept the beneficial insights.
I appreciate what you're saying, but isn't "shoehorn all of our desktop applications into the browser" actually a new thing in itself? It offers portability, thin-clientiness and all sorts of other advantages that I'm sure Google et al will be happy to mention.
People like to innovate; it's what we do. Sometimes that means making something new entirely, sometimes it just means improving or adding functionality to something that already exists. That's not something worthy of negative criticism in itself.
If you'd care to continue your research beyond the first paragraph:
Anyone may create applications that read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems; Adobe holds a number of patents relating to the PDF format and claims that it is an open standard, licensing them on a royalty-free basis for use in developing software that complies with its PDF specification.
I bolded the sentences that clear this matter up.
Adobe holds the patents, but they'll license without royalties as long as you conform to the standard... and as long as they can't find a good reason not to. Of course, the minute they try to, the world will move to a free open format pretty quickly.
I don't know the details of the MS case - did MS do it without permission, maybe?
You don't care because you don't understand. Performance, cost and power consumption are directly affected by such things as clock-speed, cache, core integration, architecture etc, and different aspects offer different advantages for different uses.
If it were that easy to put a reliable figure on Performance, the Megahurtz shambles would never have happened.
It wasn't that good. AMD came out with an architecture which, in practical terms, was better designed, while Intel just kept trying to push the envelope with this very hot chip, and steadily lost market share as a result. Core2Duo is fantastic, relatively speaking, but it was a very long time coming...
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...with a working title of "Office Space".
You must be new here...
What, like... that strange meaty clattering sound as though a ballistic chair were hitting a peon?
Not meant as criticism, but: the word "exemplar" might be more appropriate.
Yeah, well, it was a link to an IIS server.
Then my brother installed a patch that turned all the sounds into Monty Python sound-bites, so instead of background breathing and moaning, there would be occasional bouts of "Chicken... chicken!" and "I'll bite yer legs off!".
Never was quite the same after that.
I don't go there anymore...
Why not make the commentary after the game is released, just as they do with movies? Hindsight is usually far clearer and more revealing than in-development rants and disputes. With all the online delivery solutions popping up now, this is a really obvious use.
Too late for anyone to read this, and I've no doubt there are a load of "Bullshit, just look at me/some famous guy" posts, but... The Myers Briggs personality-type test (so often used in profiling people for managament) identifies the "ENFP" type or "Champion/Advocate" as being exceptionally good with people, while usually also having a curious propensity for maths, due to their intuitive tendency and ability to seek patterns and deeper understanding in all things. Since ENFPs account for about 3% of the population, this would seem to fly in the face of the article. Just a thought. See here for a profile break-down.
So, anything that a parent could reasonably allow, the school could reasonably allow. Anything that would be neglectful for a parent to allow, just so with the school. It was a brilliant notion that prevented a lot of this idiocy, but the concept is being eroded by further and further defining the "responsibilities" of the school. It sounds like it's gone all the way already, in the US...
Basically, it's not a problem of "not understanding technology" - though that's a basic issue that needs adressing. The trouble is, trying to educate people who aren't interested. Politicians rarely need to know how it works, and almost never need to know why it works (and why it matters), because they don't get voted in for understanding issues, but for being popular.
You can educate someone who doesn't care about how to use a mouse, a PC, how to browse the internets, how to make a web-page, how the interets tubes work, what hacking is, how encryption works, what the hell DRM is about, etc etc etc, but you can't make him care. "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think". Until it makes a difference to their chances of staying in power, technological understanding will not penetrate the body politick. Not directly, anyway.
I've had this conversation with other people. Things will change, but not by changing those who are in power - it comes from changing who is in power. In big corporations and such, this has happened much more quickly. If your board doesn't understand the implications of technology, the company goes under - the board gets replaced with people who do understand. Not so in government. All you need to be successful in government is... to be popular. And you can set your own agenda, if you publicise enough. So technology doesn't get a look in.
Maybe, over time, we'll see the "generational shift" where everyone's grown up with technology and understand its implications, to the point where they can make (more) informed decisions, so even politicians have a clue what the debate is about. Trouble is, that always leaves politicians ten steps behind the times.
Solutions, anyone?
Well, I'm no more than an hour away then...
All events like this are bad in themselves... but the more it happens, the more people might stop and think for a second before they do their utmost to cut someone to shreds, safe behind the anonymity of the internets.
The attacker was clearly a dick, but then I've little doubt that the victim was too. No, it doesn't vindicate it, but it does give me a vicious, guilty little flinch of pleasure.
Note to flamers: the interweb is full of games for bored, vicious little pillocks. Don't play one-up in chat.
*faint*
As The Onion put it: I wish someone would do something about how fat I am.
What?
What, you mean... like a LAN-party?
Which, it seems, is certainly not the norm among games developers these days.
Although, Max Payne's "cutscenes" did a lot for the feel and immersion of the story, I felt. But then they took even less space, so I guess that doesn't really refute the argument...
Having a TV witch-hunt is not going to solve this (though it might solve a lot of other social ills IMO). If the cause really is something as nebulous as interpersonal contact, there will be no identifiable "cause" that can be excised from our children's lives. However, increasing the time we spend interacting with our children instead of sitting them in front of the goggle-box or Columbine-simulators (joke!) can only be a good thing. Pull this study to pieces if you will, but please at least accept the beneficial insights.
People like to innovate; it's what we do. Sometimes that means making something new entirely, sometimes it just means improving or adding functionality to something that already exists. That's not something worthy of negative criticism in itself.
Adobe holds the patents, but they'll license without royalties as long as you conform to the standard... and as long as they can't find a good reason not to. Of course, the minute they try to, the world will move to a free open format pretty quickly.
I don't know the details of the MS case - did MS do it without permission, maybe?
You don't care because you don't understand. Performance, cost and power consumption are directly affected by such things as clock-speed, cache, core integration, architecture etc, and different aspects offer different advantages for different uses.
If it were that easy to put a reliable figure on Performance, the Megahurtz shambles would never have happened.
It wasn't that good. AMD came out with an architecture which, in practical terms, was better designed, while Intel just kept trying to push the envelope with this very hot chip, and steadily lost market share as a result. Core2Duo is fantastic, relatively speaking, but it was a very long time coming...