... is going to come when we need to program computers to test humans for being machines. I know it's probably been written about in some forgotten sci-fi book somewhere, but what if we actually forgot that some of us weren't human and once we realized that mistake there was no way to tell who was artificial and who was the real deal. I guess that's not really much different than The Matrix, or Blade Runner, but still it would be an interesting twist to see how humanity could forget that they had made something like themselves.
Same problem here, but I cut the download page from I.E. (Didn't works, since I don't have activex or Java installed) and pasted it to I.E. and the Java applet was able to download it. Haven't they heard of bittorrent? Oh, right. If they used that they'd be admitting that open source software works. Still, I'm going to be nice and beta their software for them even thought Microsoft has often proven quite reluctant to provide anything (useful) to me for free.
on our hospital intraweb. We're doing a re-cap of the year and I happened to see something about our "Cyberknife" center. Low-and-behold, I log into/. to waste some... er... research a bit and here it is again! Pretty interesting stuff. Perhaps I can get a tour of the facility here some time.
Why do they need their passwords to track them? This makes me much less confident in the abilities of the trackers to do their jobs. What can they do with a password that they can't do without?
Those minor gameplay tweaks become major in big tourneys. The game is highly dependent on match-ups between characters, like for instance, Chun Li is good vs. Zangief, and O. Sagat is good vs. Chun Li. That's pretty much how tournaments go. you don't know who you're going to go up against, so you have to have decent knowledge of a good amount of characters in addition to your main character. making minor changes to only a few characters makes large sweeping changes to how the game ends up being played in tournaments for this reason. SF2ST is one of the most played tournament fighter in the world with multiple major tournaments happening yearly in the US and Japan with thousands of dollars at stake in each tourny.
You can do all that stuff, especially now with HDTVs. There's even HDMI ports directly on the video cards and they're not even all that expensive. It's easier than ever. Stereos have always been able to connect to PCs, given the right hardware. My soundcard has RCA jacks, so I can connect it to pretty much anything I want to. Of course, it's not really a consumer card, but it still sounds better and costs less than the so-called "high end" cards from Creative. Wireless devices are getting to the point to where you can potentially have your PC in the bedroom/office and play games on your television in the living room. This is one reason I'm really angry at consoles. They are badly suited for this sort of job that could be better implemented on a PC with the proper hardware. But there is still this prevailing mystification surrounding computers, which scares away a lot of consumers who would buy into something like this but are scared to because all they know about computers are blue-screens and crashes. It doesn't have to be like this, and in fact I'd take a good ole blue-screen over a red ring of death any day.
You can run a lot of decent, newer games on mid-range hardware these days. No, you probably can't crank out Crysis, but I play Rising Force Online full screen with moderate settings on an integrated ATI chipset when I'm at my dad's house.I can play all the source games at full framerate, max settings with no problems at all on my 1650 Pro on a Nvidia mobo chipset with a single core Athlon 2.2GHZ and 2GB RAM. I played the new James Bond game that just came out with everything turned up all the way on the same platform, anti-aliasing an all. You can play WoW on pretty much anything. In fact, I'm thinking of buying a Voodoo 5 5500 just to play it on an ancient legacy system. It's a hobby of mine, don't ask.
My point is that you don't need to go out and buy an expensive high-end system targeted specifically for gaming in order to play games, casually or seriously. Casual gamers can get by on their everyday systems, and serious gamers usually have specific titles in mind, so once they've acquired the hardware necessary to play those games they don't need to upgrade unless there is some other game they want to play, or if a significant upgrade is made available. Since Vista's requirements are so high, most people with that OS have a decent platform for playing some 3D games anyway. If you're casual, you probably don't need much else. The only people, in my experience, who I see purchase gaming machines from a mass manufacturer are those who's PCs are so full of start-up apps and malware that their blazing fast machines are burdened to the point of crawling when it comes time to play games. That's not typical of most real gamers.
Don't think in a limited way/. Sure it's pretty unlikely that a company could actually get through the organizational red tape and god forbid the budgeting to pull of something of that scale, but that doesn't make it so improbable that it will never be done. Those are the real reason nothing of this nature has been accomplished. Money,getting a publisher to be patient enough for it to be developed, and the fact that no one wants to see someone else finish an awesome quest that they can't copy and reap the same rewards of. Most people want to be in that same epic set that everyone else has. I have a much differing opinion personally, but I am in the minority. I'd much rather have one really good piece of unique loot in a really balanced game than a full set of carbon copy armor and a mimic blade in a game where gear gets you farther than your character cane.
Making player created content work isn't the problem. It's keeping all the asshats away from it that create PR/legal nightmares for your game. I was really surprised that Pirates of the Burning Sea let players upload their own pics for sails on their ships. I did expect to see more people flying under the banner of goatse. But the developers approve all the artwork. Kudos to them. It's a REALLY fun aspect to the game. Policing custom quests and other more hefty player-driven content would probably be a bit more difficult.
Woah oh oh... Nothing. Is free. At all. Ever. If this moves even a tiny % of people away from buying a mac or installing Linux then MS has made their profit.
Is actually laying off people as a result of the supposed economic crisis and yet still wasting away resources on Surface. We're wasting money on this crap because our new manager wants to be all "trendy" and make us look like some sort of cutting age IT outfit. I'd rather us keep on doing what we already do and have been highly profitable at instead of wasting time and money on this type of toy product and ruining people's lives in the process. There were some people who found out they were loosing their job by watching the evening news, but we still have enough money to buy and maintain electronic tables. Horrible.
Ah, so this is how they're going to do it. I saw something like this coming - and warned my friends and relatives about it, too - when the government suddenly started caring about illegal immigration. I've always contended that it was not illegal immigration, but "illegal" emigration that walls and border patrol agents will eventually be used to police. A wall can be used both to keep out and to keep in as well, and this simple fact has passed by the notice of many when discussing the immigration issue. It is a frightening thought, but not one that frightens me personally to inactivity.
"What if..." "what if..." "what if..." None of those are actual threats. None are any more incriminating than a shirt that reads "I shot the sheriff" in a location where a sheriff was indeed mysteriously shot.
I just think it would be an interesting scenario to have someone come into a tattoo parlor wanting to have a list of 11 different herbs and spices tattooed across his chest.
Each to their own. You basically just said that a game lacks depth because can get bored with it once you excel at it. While that can be true of any game, it is the difference between pros and amateurs. Those minuscule gains are exactly what a pro is out to achieve. They train every day bot to maintain their skill as well as to achieve an ever-higher degree of skill. I don't think any professional will ever say that his sport is "second nature." I'm sure some aspects of it may be reactionary, but any pro player who is mindlessly playing on trained instinct is going to get owned and loose his spot on the team/retire. I personally get bored with FPS games and I notice that I often die because I become conditioned to respond in certain ways. There's a lot of tournaments to make money and grow in popularity at, so I don't think there's absolutely nothing to show for one's effort. Is it worth the tradeoff of time spent honing one's skill? Perhaps. Perhaps not. but the same can be said of any activity. My boss spends gobs of time and money running marathons and I think that's really boring, but he gets great satisfaction upon completing a race. To him, a few seconds off his bike mile time is another success. Good for him. I have satisfaction knowing that I can recall 8 responses to a wake-up situation with my Urien and know each possible outcome of those 8 and how to exploit them to my advantage. Each to his own.
That's okay, silly. People who live in apartments can't afford housing or new cars, either! We'll have to stay with our old clunker gas guzzlers until the greedH^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^prices comes down on them. Or rather, until the market proves itself with fancier models that are less affordable and then starts to produce more affordable models. Because this really isn't about saving the environment, but rather sustaining a highly profitable industry that is very dependent on shutting out any competition. There ain't very much to cars, and anyone with enough money can make a good one, so they have to rely on bully tactics and "government standards" in order to stay in business. That didn't stop the foreign market, though.
Ever since I read Hong on the Range. Smellin Llewellyn was my favorite villan. He's basically an outlaw with a cybernetic nose implant that allows him to track anything with the faintest scent. Comes in pretty handy on the cyber-frontier. God I loved that book.
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... is going to come when we need to program computers to test humans for being machines. I know it's probably been written about in some forgotten sci-fi book somewhere, but what if we actually forgot that some of us weren't human and once we realized that mistake there was no way to tell who was artificial and who was the real deal. I guess that's not really much different than The Matrix, or Blade Runner, but still it would be an interesting twist to see how humanity could forget that they had made something like themselves.
Oh shit.
Back in my day, Sonny, we wrote our browsers in Assembler from scratch with the hex panel on the front of the machine!
I sure hope you banged her after you listened to her story. I know I would have.
I'm NEVER getting Alzheimer's!
sorry, meant to say I pasted the URL into firefox. Or some other browser. Wee!
Same problem here, but I cut the download page from I.E. (Didn't works, since I don't have activex or Java installed) and pasted it to I.E. and the Java applet was able to download it. Haven't they heard of bittorrent? Oh, right. If they used that they'd be admitting that open source software works. Still, I'm going to be nice and beta their software for them even thought Microsoft has often proven quite reluctant to provide anything (useful) to me for free.
The language in these articles is horrendous. You can tell, without it ever being stated outright, that a programmer wrote them!
Yeah, General Custard drinking from a dead dog's eye/nose would definitely be considered "wierd crap" in my book.
on our hospital intraweb. We're doing a re-cap of the year and I happened to see something about our "Cyberknife" center. Low-and-behold, I log into /. to waste some... er... research a bit and here it is again! Pretty interesting stuff. Perhaps I can get a tour of the facility here some time.
Why do they need their passwords to track them? This makes me much less confident in the abilities of the trackers to do their jobs. What can they do with a password that they can't do without?
Those minor gameplay tweaks become major in big tourneys. The game is highly dependent on match-ups between characters, like for instance, Chun Li is good vs. Zangief, and O. Sagat is good vs. Chun Li. That's pretty much how tournaments go. you don't know who you're going to go up against, so you have to have decent knowledge of a good amount of characters in addition to your main character. making minor changes to only a few characters makes large sweeping changes to how the game ends up being played in tournaments for this reason. SF2ST is one of the most played tournament fighter in the world with multiple major tournaments happening yearly in the US and Japan with thousands of dollars at stake in each tourny.
Forgot to mention that I could avoid both the BSOD and the RROD by running Linux, but that's ana rgument for a different day.
You can do all that stuff, especially now with HDTVs. There's even HDMI ports directly on the video cards and they're not even all that expensive. It's easier than ever. Stereos have always been able to connect to PCs, given the right hardware. My soundcard has RCA jacks, so I can connect it to pretty much anything I want to. Of course, it's not really a consumer card, but it still sounds better and costs less than the so-called "high end" cards from Creative. Wireless devices are getting to the point to where you can potentially have your PC in the bedroom/office and play games on your television in the living room. This is one reason I'm really angry at consoles. They are badly suited for this sort of job that could be better implemented on a PC with the proper hardware. But there is still this prevailing mystification surrounding computers, which scares away a lot of consumers who would buy into something like this but are scared to because all they know about computers are blue-screens and crashes. It doesn't have to be like this, and in fact I'd take a good ole blue-screen over a red ring of death any day.
You can run a lot of decent, newer games on mid-range hardware these days. No, you probably can't crank out Crysis, but I play Rising Force Online full screen with moderate settings on an integrated ATI chipset when I'm at my dad's house.I can play all the source games at full framerate, max settings with no problems at all on my 1650 Pro on a Nvidia mobo chipset with a single core Athlon 2.2GHZ and 2GB RAM. I played the new James Bond game that just came out with everything turned up all the way on the same platform, anti-aliasing an all. You can play WoW on pretty much anything. In fact, I'm thinking of buying a Voodoo 5 5500 just to play it on an ancient legacy system. It's a hobby of mine, don't ask.
My point is that you don't need to go out and buy an expensive high-end system targeted specifically for gaming in order to play games, casually or seriously. Casual gamers can get by on their everyday systems, and serious gamers usually have specific titles in mind, so once they've acquired the hardware necessary to play those games they don't need to upgrade unless there is some other game they want to play, or if a significant upgrade is made available. Since Vista's requirements are so high, most people with that OS have a decent platform for playing some 3D games anyway. If you're casual, you probably don't need much else. The only people, in my experience, who I see purchase gaming machines from a mass manufacturer are those who's PCs are so full of start-up apps and malware that their blazing fast machines are burdened to the point of crawling when it comes time to play games. That's not typical of most real gamers.
Don't think in a limited way/. Sure it's pretty unlikely that a company could actually get through the organizational red tape and god forbid the budgeting to pull of something of that scale, but that doesn't make it so improbable that it will never be done. Those are the real reason nothing of this nature has been accomplished. Money,getting a publisher to be patient enough for it to be developed, and the fact that no one wants to see someone else finish an awesome quest that they can't copy and reap the same rewards of. Most people want to be in that same epic set that everyone else has. I have a much differing opinion personally, but I am in the minority. I'd much rather have one really good piece of unique loot in a really balanced game than a full set of carbon copy armor and a mimic blade in a game where gear gets you farther than your character cane.
Making player created content work isn't the problem. It's keeping all the asshats away from it that create PR/legal nightmares for your game. I was really surprised that Pirates of the Burning Sea let players upload their own pics for sails on their ships. I did expect to see more people flying under the banner of goatse. But the developers approve all the artwork. Kudos to them. It's a REALLY fun aspect to the game. Policing custom quests and other more hefty player-driven content would probably be a bit more difficult.
Woah oh oh... Nothing. Is free. At all. Ever. If this moves even a tiny % of people away from buying a mac or installing Linux then MS has made their profit.
Is actually laying off people as a result of the supposed economic crisis and yet still wasting away resources on Surface. We're wasting money on this crap because our new manager wants to be all "trendy" and make us look like some sort of cutting age IT outfit. I'd rather us keep on doing what we already do and have been highly profitable at instead of wasting time and money on this type of toy product and ruining people's lives in the process. There were some people who found out they were loosing their job by watching the evening news, but we still have enough money to buy and maintain electronic tables. Horrible.
Ah, so this is how they're going to do it. I saw something like this coming - and warned my friends and relatives about it, too - when the government suddenly started caring about illegal immigration. I've always contended that it was not illegal immigration, but "illegal" emigration that walls and border patrol agents will eventually be used to police. A wall can be used both to keep out and to keep in as well, and this simple fact has passed by the notice of many when discussing the immigration issue. It is a frightening thought, but not one that frightens me personally to inactivity.
"What if..." "what if..." "what if..." None of those are actual threats. None are any more incriminating than a shirt that reads "I shot the sheriff" in a location where a sheriff was indeed mysteriously shot.
I just think it would be an interesting scenario to have someone come into a tattoo parlor wanting to have a list of 11 different herbs and spices tattooed across his chest.
Each to their own. You basically just said that a game lacks depth because can get bored with it once you excel at it. While that can be true of any game, it is the difference between pros and amateurs. Those minuscule gains are exactly what a pro is out to achieve. They train every day bot to maintain their skill as well as to achieve an ever-higher degree of skill. I don't think any professional will ever say that his sport is "second nature." I'm sure some aspects of it may be reactionary, but any pro player who is mindlessly playing on trained instinct is going to get owned and loose his spot on the team/retire. I personally get bored with FPS games and I notice that I often die because I become conditioned to respond in certain ways. There's a lot of tournaments to make money and grow in popularity at, so I don't think there's absolutely nothing to show for one's effort. Is it worth the tradeoff of time spent honing one's skill? Perhaps. Perhaps not. but the same can be said of any activity. My boss spends gobs of time and money running marathons and I think that's really boring, but he gets great satisfaction upon completing a race. To him, a few seconds off his bike mile time is another success. Good for him. I have satisfaction knowing that I can recall 8 responses to a wake-up situation with my Urien and know each possible outcome of those 8 and how to exploit them to my advantage. Each to his own.
That's okay, silly. People who live in apartments can't afford housing or new cars, either! We'll have to stay with our old clunker gas guzzlers until the greedH^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^prices comes down on them. Or rather, until the market proves itself with fancier models that are less affordable and then starts to produce more affordable models. Because this really isn't about saving the environment, but rather sustaining a highly profitable industry that is very dependent on shutting out any competition. There ain't very much to cars, and anyone with enough money can make a good one, so they have to rely on bully tactics and "government standards" in order to stay in business. That didn't stop the foreign market, though.
Ever since I read Hong on the Range. Smellin Llewellyn was my favorite villan. He's basically an outlaw with a cybernetic nose implant that allows him to track anything with the faintest scent. Comes in pretty handy on the cyber-frontier. God I loved that book.