or asserting the right to do things that they clearly have no right to do (note: saying you should have a right that you don't have is fine, saying you do have a right that you don't have is ignorant; this is the practice I'm referring to).
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
To paraphrase what I think he is saying is that I, nor you, nor the government actually can give or take away any type of rights at all. These are things that exist but cannot simply be handed out like physical things since they are given by either god or the natural order of the universe.
I can see it now: Bill Gates shows up at your front door, hands you a million dollars, and walks away. You run to your computer and submit the headline, "BILL GATES IS A TRESSPASSER."
Yes he is and I'll sue him for a lot more than 1 million dollars!
Terminal Server is still running a GUI on the server. In fact anything you run on Terminal Server uses the CPU cycles on the server and not your client. It just doesn't use more than 256 colors to transmit data to your client and you have the option to cache images to keep the bandwidth down.
If "GameD00d" does nothing but rip on/ignore every game EA makes, EA can respond by pulling their ads, and GameD00d takes a serious punch in the economic teeth.
That why one must suspect any newsource that makes most of its money by selling adds rather than subscriptions.
Could it actually be true that wile the hardcore gamers are leaving there is an influx of new gamers?
The problem I see with this is that the majority of anyone who was going to paly SWG has already played it.
Personally, I have never played it and all of a sudden I am not going to feel compelled to play it because it is more like an FPS. If I wanted to play an FPS I would play it online for free. Although, had I been a Star Wars fan/nut/Okatu I would have already at least given it a go to see what it was all about when it was originally release a few years ago. If someone did not like it then what makes it so that someone would like it now?
I'd speculate that the Star Wars craze isn't a craze must have thing like it was in the 80's. I don't think people are going to see a new add or box on the store shelf spontaneously go "OMG Star Wars Online! Must... buy... IT!!!"
If a statement reflects reality, it is true. If not it is false.
At the risk of being offtopic. Let me put forth a statment about reality...
"The sky is blue? True or false?"
Any logical person would say it is true.
But if I look out my window it is pitch black in the night sky. Is the statement not true? If I say, "The sky is black! Not blue!" but tomorrow morning I go outside and find that I mistaken.
The physical universe works in analog as far as I can tell rather than Boolean. We mearly process it in digital with 1 (true) or 0 (false) because that is easier for our minds to comprehend rather than to try to keep the entire pattern memorized.
If you wanted to bring computer science into this I could take a simple excel formula and get the same thing even though I reverse it: =if(A1=1, True, False) vs =if(A11, False, True)
Or even worse (inside Excel joke) I could have it =if(A1=1, False, True)
Nothing is absolute. Once you realize that you can get on with life.
Lust - I'm not sure how to articulate why this actually drives western progress, but I'm certain it's the keystone to all our social evolution.
Well... Considering how most CEOs and MBAs have trophy wives, I would consider that many people push for better technologies so they can get better stock options in order to flash the cash to bag the babe. Of course this is a more 20th century thing but I'm sure plenty of people in the 1700's had a bit of that on their mind.
I'm not sure first-person shooters would be the way to go, given comments in other threads about the 360. People who play FPS seem to want HD.
I dunno... A part of me wants to get the 360 because of it really good looking FPS games, but then I remind myself how they played on the old Xbox and then I fire up Unreal Tournament 2004 on my PC.
Most console controllers are too clunky for FPS at least for me. The DS pen actually feels pretty good for the Metroid demo and I'd to see how the Rev controller works out.
If only MS would support usb mouse and keyboards on the 360...
That is just scary. It is sad that a whistleblower, an advocate of truth, can be branded as "unpatriotic" for exposing a fraud. Once again nationalism and patriotism have overwealmed logic and common sense.
Advocate of truth is relative, because truth in itself is relative to what you believe the truth to be because truth is mearly interpetation of facts. Facts themselves don't change however.
Secondly, if the work does indeed lead to a better life for most of humanity then perhaps it should be given a bit more leeway even if the means are somewhat dubious.
After all, if cloning means I might see the end of disease, old age, and death in my life time then generally people would tend to favor their support to the one who claims to be able to do so over the one who is a naysayer. Even I would...
However dubious means usually don't lead to a successful end so it helps to be skeptical.
Multi-disk games are annoying, but they don't split your userbase into different camps, leaving developers wondered which base to shoot for.
That is more of a publisher question rather than a developer issue.
It would be a trivial task to make both a single HD disc and a mult-spanning disc set at the same time. Heck you could include both in the same package, but that might not be economical so they may sell seperate versions.
However, I think there would have to be a need for such a thing before they go that route. I don't think the Xbox360 has the power or development support to produce a game that needs 4 DVDs worth of content.
Of course I quit playing these games because in the end you are a slave to WoW, having to spend 20+ hours a week in instances to accumulate loot that in the end doesnt matter.
Kind of like my real life job. In the end after all the money I accumalate in life for putting up with the corporate world will mean nothing when I die. (unless of course the singularity happens in my life time)
More importantly, when you begin questioning someone's journalistic integrity, does that make you any better than the person you're accusing? The answer: no.
What? You mean, if we state that it appears that someone has a particular bias towards a certain product because we suspect they appear to be getting kick backs that we are no better than them?
Even if we have proof?
I would think that if had knowledge of such behavior that it would be in the best interest of everyone to know about this..
Furthermore, if the most popular MMO has most of the population of gamers (like WoW does), doesn't this hurt the industry?
It only hurts the developers pockets.
In theory, a 100,000 MMO vs a 1,000 MMO isn't much different for the player experience if they keep their population concentration on an even server load. Instead of the 100 servers the 100,000 MMO has the 1,000 player game just puts everyone on a single server.
On most MMORPGS, the most one can technically interact with is around 64 players at once at a given time without bandwidth and cpu lag (on most people's boxes and even that is pushing it...) and most groups range on average on the standard 8 players (more or less depending on the situation) and the only interaction you have for the rest of the night tend to be those players.
Don't forget server separation... If 50,000 players play on one server and 50,000 players play on another you are really only playing with 50,000 other players (sans their extra accounts)
Windows is a better platform for gaming than Linux or MacOS
Actually, from a developers standpoint, MacOS is the best choice because you generally know what the OS and hardware will always be. A Mac is closest thing in the computer world to a console. If you make a game that runs on Mac OS that year, you can generally assume most other Macs that run OS X will run it.
With Windows and Linux you basically have to guess what most people might be using for processor, motherboard, sound card, video drivers etc... Direct X, OpenGL, and windows APIs generally help this by making all things universal but problems do arise for end users when they have some pretty whacked specs or quirky video drivers.
However, from a publishers stanpoint, because of Mac OS small market penetration the Windows version makes more sense.
Perhaps the x86 systems will change that, but that is pure speculation.
Slashdot Mirror
-Thomas Jefferson
To paraphrase what I think he is saying is that I, nor you, nor the government actually can give or take away any type of rights at all. These are things that exist but cannot simply be handed out like physical things since they are given by either god or the natural order of the universe.
Rights are simply there.
even if the client is just sent a video stream (which is currently wildly impracticl) an aimbot can still scan for colors/patterns.
If an AI could do that, then I think we are past the point of caring about online cheaters.
I can see it now: Bill Gates shows up at your front door, hands you a million dollars, and walks away. You run to your computer and submit the headline, "BILL GATES IS A TRESSPASSER."
Yes he is and I'll sue him for a lot more than 1 million dollars!
I do most of my work via TS.
Terminal Server is still running a GUI on the server. In fact anything you run on Terminal Server uses the CPU cycles on the server and not your client. It just doesn't use more than 256 colors to transmit data to your client and you have the option to cache images to keep the bandwidth down.
Are you daft?
Have you no sense of humor?
It concluded that the subject was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry,
His version: 83% happy + 9% disgusted + 8% lost = 100%
Your suggestion: 83% happy + 9% disgusted + 6% fearful + 2% angry + 8 % lost = 108%
Maybe should just agree that the sig should be:
Those who can't do math, mod posts informative.
DUH! How about the one that hit Newton on the head?
You mean that crazy religious fanatic who meddled in alchemey?
Heck, he even helped a counterfeiter get sentenced to death as chief prosecutor who then hanged, drawn, and quartered.
That's pretty gruesome to me!
(I jest but even Newton's Life was rather gruesome if you consider how things were back then)
The year 2010, when a server is finally built that can withstand the full force exerted by "The Slashdot Effect".
Or to expand on Ray Kurzweil's theory about knowing when the singularity is upon us: "When you find 1 million emails in your inbox."
I will say: "We will know when the singularity is upon when the off the shelf standard home computer can withstand the 'The Slashdot Effect'."
If "GameD00d" does nothing but rip on/ignore every game EA makes, EA can respond by pulling their ads, and GameD00d takes a serious punch in the economic teeth.
That why one must suspect any newsource that makes most of its money by selling adds rather than subscriptions.
Oh wait...
Could it actually be true that wile the hardcore gamers are leaving there is an influx of new gamers?
The problem I see with this is that the majority of anyone who was going to paly SWG has already played it.
Personally, I have never played it and all of a sudden I am not going to feel compelled to play it because it is more like an FPS. If I wanted to play an FPS I would play it online for free. Although, had I been a Star Wars fan/nut/Okatu I would have already at least given it a go to see what it was all about when it was originally release a few years ago. If someone did not like it then what makes it so that someone would like it now?
I'd speculate that the Star Wars craze isn't a craze must have thing like it was in the 80's. I don't think people are going to see a new add or box on the store shelf spontaneously go "OMG Star Wars Online! Must... buy... IT!!!"
If a statement reflects reality, it is true. If not it is false.
At the risk of being offtopic. Let me put forth a statment about reality...
"The sky is blue? True or false?"
Any logical person would say it is true.
But if I look out my window it is pitch black in the night sky. Is the statement not true? If I say, "The sky is black! Not blue!" but tomorrow morning I go outside and find that I mistaken.
The physical universe works in analog as far as I can tell rather than Boolean. We mearly process it in digital with 1 (true) or 0 (false) because that is easier for our minds to comprehend rather than to try to keep the entire pattern memorized.
If you wanted to bring computer science into this I could take a simple excel formula and get the same thing even though I reverse it: =if(A1=1, True, False) vs =if(A11, False, True)
Or even worse (inside Excel joke) I could have it =if(A1=1, False, True)
Nothing is absolute. Once you realize that you can get on with life.
Prior to a few months ago, you could pay (gasp) and not have to put up with the banners.
Why would I want to do that when I've got IE?
Lust - I'm not sure how to articulate why this actually drives western progress, but I'm certain it's the keystone to all our social evolution.
Well... Considering how most CEOs and MBAs have trophy wives, I would consider that many people push for better technologies so they can get better stock options in order to flash the cash to bag the babe. Of course this is a more 20th century thing but I'm sure plenty of people in the 1700's had a bit of that on their mind.
Oh and don't forget the internet...
New technology being thought of in terms of how much you can make a child coerce its parent into buying cereal?
Don't worry, just give the kid a single dollar bill with an animated George Washington crying like a baby.
I'm not sure first-person shooters would be the way to go, given comments in other threads about the 360. People who play FPS seem to want HD.
I dunno... A part of me wants to get the 360 because of it really good looking FPS games, but then I remind myself how they played on the old Xbox and then I fire up Unreal Tournament 2004 on my PC.
Most console controllers are too clunky for FPS at least for me. The DS pen actually feels pretty good for the Metroid demo and I'd to see how the Rev controller works out.
If only MS would support usb mouse and keyboards on the 360...
That is just scary. It is sad that a whistleblower, an advocate of truth, can be branded as "unpatriotic" for exposing a fraud. Once again nationalism and patriotism have overwealmed logic and common sense.
Advocate of truth is relative, because truth in itself is relative to what you believe the truth to be because truth is mearly interpetation of facts. Facts themselves don't change however.
Secondly, if the work does indeed lead to a better life for most of humanity then perhaps it should be given a bit more leeway even if the means are somewhat dubious.
After all, if cloning means I might see the end of disease, old age, and death in my life time then generally people would tend to favor their support to the one who claims to be able to do so over the one who is a naysayer. Even I would...
However dubious means usually don't lead to a successful end so it helps to be skeptical.
Multi-disk games are annoying, but they don't split your userbase into different camps, leaving developers wondered which base to shoot for.
That is more of a publisher question rather than a developer issue.
It would be a trivial task to make both a single HD disc and a mult-spanning disc set at the same time. Heck you could include both in the same package, but that might not be economical so they may sell seperate versions.
However, I think there would have to be a need for such a thing before they go that route. I don't think the Xbox360 has the power or development support to produce a game that needs 4 DVDs worth of content.
Which one is more likely to grow links to goatse.cx between the time you cite it and the time your professor reviews your paper?
Lets just say I'm banned from using the color copier at my local college library.
Not even if you two are seriouly planning on flying planes into buildings or releasing sarin gas in a subway?
I think if one were planning such a thing, you would not discuss such matters over electronic means that could be tapped in such a blatant way.
Of course I quit playing these games because in the end you are a slave to WoW, having to spend 20+ hours a week in instances to accumulate loot that in the end doesnt matter.
Kind of like my real life job. In the end after all the money I accumalate in life for putting up with the corporate world will mean nothing when I die. (unless of course the singularity happens in my life time)
This problem can easily be addressed by means other than PvP.
But when they beg for their life, it is much more fun.
If you can stip the core game play down to "killing stuff to get to the next level", count me out.
This is why I played Ultima Online long after EQ was released... Until they fucked up UO to be more like EQ. Oh well...
What? You mean, if we state that it appears that someone has a particular bias towards a certain product because we suspect they appear to be getting kick backs that we are no better than them?
Even if we have proof?
I would think that if had knowledge of such behavior that it would be in the best interest of everyone to know about this..
Furthermore, if the most popular MMO has most of the population of gamers (like WoW does), doesn't this hurt the industry?
It only hurts the developers pockets.
In theory, a 100,000 MMO vs a 1,000 MMO isn't much different for the player experience if they keep their population concentration on an even server load. Instead of the 100 servers the 100,000 MMO has the 1,000 player game just puts everyone on a single server.
On most MMORPGS, the most one can technically interact with is around 64 players at once at a given time without bandwidth and cpu lag (on most people's boxes and even that is pushing it...) and most groups range on average on the standard 8 players (more or less depending on the situation) and the only interaction you have for the rest of the night tend to be those players.
Don't forget server separation... If 50,000 players play on one server and 50,000 players play on another you are really only playing with 50,000 other players (sans their extra accounts)
Windows is a better platform for gaming than Linux or MacOS
Actually, from a developers standpoint, MacOS is the best choice because you generally know what the OS and hardware will always be. A Mac is closest thing in the computer world to a console. If you make a game that runs on Mac OS that year, you can generally assume most other Macs that run OS X will run it.
With Windows and Linux you basically have to guess what most people might be using for processor, motherboard, sound card, video drivers etc... Direct X, OpenGL, and windows APIs generally help this by making all things universal but problems do arise for end users when they have some pretty whacked specs or quirky video drivers.
However, from a publishers stanpoint, because of Mac OS small market penetration the Windows version makes more sense.
Perhaps the x86 systems will change that, but that is pure speculation.