I dunno, but it sure would save the franchises from paying out million dollar contracts to players.
But seriously... I see this like I see the rest of professional sports... Not that really big of a deal. It's basically men (or women) moving a ball across of field to a certain point under a ruleset. Not that big of a deal and I don't really understands why people want to watch it rather than go out and do it themselves.
Of course thats why I enjoy playing video games instead of watching someone play because I'll be jumping up and down screaming "NO NO NO!! Pick up the Redeemer! It's right there you fool!!!"
But I think some people really enjoy the passive part of the medium and often I will enjoy watching friends play a game while cheering them on and giving them adivce. Although sometimes they would rather I would not...
While they may not admit it, France is very much a socialist country.
So is the US, but in different areas.
I'm not saying "Free Market Economy" is a myth, but the American economy has quite a bit of government control. Just ask Greenspan and the Federal Reserve... Or the IRS, Federal Trade Commision, or the hundreds of other government bodies devoted to regulating the US Economy.
A welfare state it is not... Although it tends to lean more towards business supporting through grants, corporation charters, tax breaks, federal loans, and bankruptcy protection than one that support free education, free healthcare, and various other things associated with welfare states.
Still... It's socialism by definition.
Now if you want to look at a Socialist Welfare State, then Norway is the best example. Of course they have free college education and healthcare and some of the highest standard of livings in the world, but being a wealthy oil producing nation with a small population helps with those kind of things.
The problem with DRM is that it does by machine rather than by person. It would be more fair and less prone to piracy if you identified which person can run a media file instead of which device the person can run it on.
Then the person could take the media to any device and could play it as long as he identified himself to the device.
I'm not sure how this would work, but it would be more fair than the current system. Perhaps a random encyrption key based off the users thumb print etc etc...
Are we not trying to control something which is not ment to be controled?
Humans weren't meant to control Bacteria with anti-biotics or create anti-viral vaccines.
Or find methods to generate electricity and how to fly... But we do it because it makes life more livable. Technology is responsible for 99% of what makes life today.
Oh my. There is a few things they have gotten the wrong words for:
"Microsoft has pledged to 'put the game back into Windows', admitting that its lack of investment in PC has been 'killing' the platform."
Let me fix that for you....
"Microsoft has pledged to 'put the incompatability back into Windows', admitting that its lack of investment in Windows Dependant Direct X hooks has been 'killing' the profit margins."
There we go. Don't worry! That could have happened to anyone.
Even if you deadlock all the doors to your house from the inside, you can always smash a window. You can also put bars on the windows, which can always be sawn off...
Although, there comes a point where it might be a tad easier to wait in the bushes and jump them when they've just unlocked the house door to get the newspaper.
He actually used the words "piss on Microsoft's grave".
For some reason I vaugley remember a disclosed memo from Bill Gate saying the same thing about Sun. Or maybe Oracle... It's been a while so my memory is foggy.
"Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack..."
In a basement in the Midwest...
Hacker1: According to the diagram we are supposed pull the firing pin without shifting it's center of gavity or otherwise the mercury will hit the electrodes on the C4. Hacker2: Ok. *click* *beep* *beep* *beep* Oh crap! You didn't say anything about a presure plate. Hacker1: Quick. Cut the wire to the right of the power supply. Hacker2: Ok. Oh double crap! Hacker1: What? Hacker2: There are two wires! Hacker1: Well just cut one for christ sakes! Hacker2: Here goes nothing! *clips* *beeping stops* *phew* Hacker1: Finally... No we put the rom chip here... *xbox starts spewing green smoke* Hacker2: Oh fark! *coughs* It the posion gas! Hacker1: *coughs* Does this mean we *coughs* voided the warranty?
As a matter of fact linux already mainstream in many areas, and for all we know, it may never replace Windows on a desktop.
Yeah. That is what OS X is for.;)
But seriously, I think the Linux desktop has come lightyears ahead of what it was in 2000 at least with my impression with Ubuntu. It still needs a great deal of polishing.
I'm thinking well have full prosthetic bodies by 2030's. Honda wants to have a robotic team to be able to beat a human team by 2050. I'll be in my 70's by then so I'd like to think of myself being around.
Still as far as selection goes, my neighbor is clearly the victor.
He'll still die... Just like you. In the end, both of you are equal in the end (unless we debate reincarnation and the afterlife, but speaking strictly in the "taking the most toys with you" concept). The problem is that society focuses on things like they are immortal or that the human race with remain socially and technologially the same for the next 10,000 years.
Well maybe it will, but in general it won't because in 2,000 years things will be done quite differently and if they aren't then man kind is doomed to an eventually life destroying event such as meteor impact, solar flare, or some type of even that isn't likley now but given 100,000 years or so it would be.
I'd like to give mankind the benefit of the doubt in hopes in that it will progress beyond it's sum of sexual reproduction. I'd like to hope this will happen in my life time and I'll end up with a synthetic brain and not having to worry about growing old and dying after 2080 or so...
If that were the case I'd say to hell with having kids because if I end up in a post human state then the whole being human and having offspring just seems like a silly point.
If not... Then I'm still going to die and I won't be around in 50,000 to debate these kinds of issues with whatever form of sentient life that is around. Putting kids through college or making them suffer the rigors of life is something I'm not interested in. I'm quite a selfish person and I'd be a horrible parent considering I'd tried to indoctrinate them in some sort of cult or tell them to leave me alone with I'm playing video games.
I'd wish many more people would realize that they don't make good parents and should have gotten a vasectomy years ago. That said... Some people make great parents and love their kids very much so, but it still won't matter in 50,000 years or so unless we figure out a solution to this death thing.
Sorry about that the insult. Everything you said was almost as if you had played the game and liked it and then as an attempted troll, pointed what was supposed to be positive as something negative.
It's as if you were complaining about the fact you had to run and jump in Mario Brothers game series as it were the "main positive feature" of the game.
Look. The game is retro and is supposed to look like that. I downloaded it on a whim one night and found myself really enjoying it to a point where I bought it. I really dig and miss the old C64 music and old games and this was almost like someone had taken that and brought it to the 21st century.
If you don't like it then that is fine. But it just seemed like you were bashing the game based of things that were the key features. (Hence me thinking you were just saying that to piss people off).
...or someone making fun of those who actually think like that.
1. # ALT+TAB to switch between units.
The unit are programs... It's the most logical thing to do. To terminate them is to hit Control+C just like you would in a Unix terminal. Oh my... A game that actually acts like a real world computer system.
2. Mouse Gestures only to create units. It's slow and thus counterproductive, RTS-nuts will hate it and I have to ask "why?".
I bet you don't use mouse gestures in other programs either. Like... Um... Firefox extensions? They are wonder things if you dig them. If you don't well... Go play WC3.
3. Navigation. WASD only + mouselook and up+down via QE or mousewheel, which works the wrong way around for me. Does the full version allow me to customze that? It's not hard to implement, you know?
I don't know. It's seemed so intuitive to me from playing all sorts of FPS games for the past 5 years that I never bothered looking to customize the game.
4. Graphics, or lack thereof. I could easily accept the bad graphics and models from a freeware game, but honestly, it looks butt-ugly. The Darwinians are sprites! Why exactly does this game require a 3D-Card?
Arrrgh... It's supposed to look like that. You know... Are you too young to remember Tron? Or maybe the first Lawnmower man movie? If I wanted something that didn't look like a throw back to a 1980's movie I would have bought Doom3 or something, but no... I found this very fun and "artsy" and actually did buy the full version.
5. The highly praised story. Er, excuse me? Story? The original Duke Nukem, Commander Keen and even Doom had more "story", their's usually filled more than one screen... Yeesh, if similar games usually have even less of it...
*hits head on desk* Obviously if you played the game all the way through (which you need to buy the full version) you'd would have noticed the really cool plot line of the evolution of the Dawinians and all the screens sometimes I sort of said to myself "I hope they hurry up with the cut scene story so I don't miss anything so I can hit pause and use the bathroom!" because it was that interesting on occasion.
I just don't know... Maybe the game is too deep for some people. Thats why I guess we seen copies of the same damn game every year by the same people with no innovation whatsoever. By chance do you like reality TV?
He is saying that "Because I am not unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods?" Thats a reasonable saying in the context of being familiar with gambling (btw the game with the highest chance of winning is craps if you ever studied that)
2 entries found for innumerate. innumerate Audio pronunciation of "innumerate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-nmr-t, -ny-) adj.
Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods. n.
A person who is unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.
Yet these pampered hypocrites have the gall to criticize me for driving a Jeep? Fuck them. Fuck them hard.
I'd have the gall to critize you, but I'm enjoying my gas milege with my 92 Honda Civic.
No but seriously... I hate the Liberals more than most, but I'd rather rich pretentious tree hungers in power bitching at me about driving and playing violent video games than right wing religious bastards hoping for the comming of christ who outlaw things I can do with my body and consenting adults and send our kids to die on a battle field for no good reason.
Seriously... I don't see any of the people you listing actually have policies than involved the killing of thousands of people.
They are both horrid choices for government, but one has "eviler" intentions than the other. I hope you recognize that.
Although, I figure it will take a war with China before the rest of America does.
Also, the intrusive rental/DRM systems like Steam are no doubt enhancing revenue by preventing all that piracy they were crying about,
DRM copy protection systems on games do not prevent piracy. It just annoys the people that buy legit copies... Unless they buy the copy and then download the crack.
For if they don't have an interest in this product, it will never come to fruition, regardless of its technical merit.
Oil companies are accutley aware that oil is a time limited cash cow.
Yes they are milking it, but they are also accutley aware that if they let oil run out before there is an alternative then all their billions of cash will only be a good stove warmer after the world's economies collapse making money worthless when people can't afford to bring them luxuries or even food to market.
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How long until there are televised Madden games?
I dunno, but it sure would save the franchises from paying out million dollar contracts to players.
But seriously... I see this like I see the rest of professional sports... Not that really big of a deal. It's basically men (or women) moving a ball across of field to a certain point under a ruleset. Not that big of a deal and I don't really understands why people want to watch it rather than go out and do it themselves.
Of course thats why I enjoy playing video games instead of watching someone play because I'll be jumping up and down screaming "NO NO NO!! Pick up the Redeemer! It's right there you fool!!!"
But I think some people really enjoy the passive part of the medium and often I will enjoy watching friends play a game while cheering them on and giving them adivce. Although sometimes they would rather I would not...
And you're recommending purchasing "select" gold, silver, and oil stocks?
No, I'd recommend canned foods, bottle water, and a shotgun...
While they may not admit it, France is very much a socialist country.
So is the US, but in different areas.
I'm not saying "Free Market Economy" is a myth, but the American economy has quite a bit of government control. Just ask Greenspan and the Federal Reserve... Or the IRS, Federal Trade Commision, or the hundreds of other government bodies devoted to regulating the US Economy.
A welfare state it is not... Although it tends to lean more towards business supporting through grants, corporation charters, tax breaks, federal loans, and bankruptcy protection than one that support free education, free healthcare, and various other things associated with welfare states.
Still... It's socialism by definition.
Now if you want to look at a Socialist Welfare State, then Norway is the best example. Of course they have free college education and healthcare and some of the highest standard of livings in the world, but being a wealthy oil producing nation with a small population helps with those kind of things.
He's still alive in the other universe where you're not a sicko..
Only if he was observed being a sicko. Otherwise the poor thing is in some sort of weird interdimensional limbo between life and death...
The problem with DRM is that it does by machine rather than by person. It would be more fair and less prone to piracy if you identified which person can run a media file instead of which device the person can run it on.
Then the person could take the media to any device and could play it as long as he identified himself to the device.
I'm not sure how this would work, but it would be more fair than the current system. Perhaps a random encyrption key based off the users thumb print etc etc...
Are we not trying to control something which is not ment to be controled?
Humans weren't meant to control Bacteria with anti-biotics or create anti-viral vaccines.
Or find methods to generate electricity and how to fly... But we do it because it makes life more livable. Technology is responsible for 99% of what makes life today.
Now just a way to power them up and use them. Any ideas
Well you could use body heat, but you don't want to know where you have to put that finger to get the most efficient heating.
Would you rather use GDI? Maybe the good ol' Microsoft Graphic Server? A graphic foundtion built on DirectX is a good thing.
Maybe OpenGL because maybe I don't own a computer that runs Windows anymore?
Let me fix that for you....
There we go. Don't worry! That could have happened to anyone.
Even if you deadlock all the doors to your house from the inside, you can always smash a window. You can also put bars on the windows, which can always be sawn off...
Although, there comes a point where it might be a tad easier to wait in the bushes and jump them when they've just unlocked the house door to get the newspaper.
He actually used the words "piss on Microsoft's grave".
For some reason I vaugley remember a disclosed memo from Bill Gate saying the same thing about Sun. Or maybe Oracle... It's been a while so my memory is foggy.
"Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack..."
In a basement in the Midwest...
Hacker1: According to the diagram we are supposed pull the firing pin without shifting it's center of gavity or otherwise the mercury will hit the electrodes on the C4.
Hacker2: Ok. *click* *beep* *beep* *beep* Oh crap! You didn't say anything about a presure plate.
Hacker1: Quick. Cut the wire to the right of the power supply.
Hacker2: Ok. Oh double crap!
Hacker1: What?
Hacker2: There are two wires!
Hacker1: Well just cut one for christ sakes!
Hacker2: Here goes nothing! *clips* *beeping stops* *phew*
Hacker1: Finally... No we put the rom chip here... *xbox starts spewing green smoke*
Hacker2: Oh fark! *coughs* It the posion gas!
Hacker1: *coughs* Does this mean we *coughs* voided the warranty?
As a matter of fact linux already mainstream in many areas, and for all we know, it may never replace Windows on a desktop.
;)
Yeah. That is what OS X is for.
But seriously, I think the Linux desktop has come lightyears ahead of what it was in 2000 at least with my impression with Ubuntu. It still needs a great deal of polishing.
I'm thinking well have full prosthetic bodies by 2030's. Honda wants to have a robotic team to be able to beat a human team by 2050. I'll be in my 70's by then so I'd like to think of myself being around.
Still as far as selection goes, my neighbor is clearly the victor.
He'll still die... Just like you. In the end, both of you are equal in the end (unless we debate reincarnation and the afterlife, but speaking strictly in the "taking the most toys with you" concept). The problem is that society focuses on things like they are immortal or that the human race with remain socially and technologially the same for the next 10,000 years.
Well maybe it will, but in general it won't because in 2,000 years things will be done quite differently and if they aren't then man kind is doomed to an eventually life destroying event such as meteor impact, solar flare, or some type of even that isn't likley now but given 100,000 years or so it would be.
I'd like to give mankind the benefit of the doubt in hopes in that it will progress beyond it's sum of sexual reproduction. I'd like to hope this will happen in my life time and I'll end up with a synthetic brain and not having to worry about growing old and dying after 2080 or so...
If that were the case I'd say to hell with having kids because if I end up in a post human state then the whole being human and having offspring just seems like a silly point.
If not... Then I'm still going to die and I won't be around in 50,000 to debate these kinds of issues with whatever form of sentient life that is around. Putting kids through college or making them suffer the rigors of life is something I'm not interested in. I'm quite a selfish person and I'd be a horrible parent considering I'd tried to indoctrinate them in some sort of cult or tell them to leave me alone with I'm playing video games.
I'd wish many more people would realize that they don't make good parents and should have gotten a vasectomy years ago. That said... Some people make great parents and love their kids very much so, but it still won't matter in 50,000 years or so unless we figure out a solution to this death thing.
Sorry about that the insult. Everything you said was almost as if you had played the game and liked it and then as an attempted troll, pointed what was supposed to be positive as something negative.
It's as if you were complaining about the fact you had to run and jump in Mario Brothers game series as it were the "main positive feature" of the game.
Look. The game is retro and is supposed to look like that. I downloaded it on a whim one night and found myself really enjoying it to a point where I bought it. I really dig and miss the old C64 music and old games and this was almost like someone had taken that and brought it to the 21st century.
If you don't like it then that is fine. But it just seemed like you were bashing the game based of things that were the key features. (Hence me thinking you were just saying that to piss people off).
...or someone making fun of those who actually think like that.
1. # ALT+TAB to switch between units.
The unit are programs... It's the most logical thing to do. To terminate them is to hit Control+C just like you would in a Unix terminal. Oh my... A game that actually acts like a real world computer system.
2. Mouse Gestures only to create units. It's slow and thus counterproductive, RTS-nuts will hate it and I have to ask "why?".
I bet you don't use mouse gestures in other programs either. Like... Um... Firefox extensions? They are wonder things if you dig them. If you don't well... Go play WC3.
3. Navigation. WASD only + mouselook and up+down via QE or mousewheel, which works the wrong way around for me. Does the full version allow me to customze that? It's not hard to implement, you know?
I don't know. It's seemed so intuitive to me from playing all sorts of FPS games for the past 5 years that I never bothered looking to customize the game.
4. Graphics, or lack thereof. I could easily accept the bad graphics and models from a freeware game, but honestly, it looks butt-ugly. The Darwinians are sprites! Why exactly does this game require a 3D-Card?
Arrrgh... It's supposed to look like that. You know... Are you too young to remember Tron? Or maybe the first Lawnmower man movie? If I wanted something that didn't look like a throw back to a 1980's movie I would have bought Doom3 or something, but no... I found this very fun and "artsy" and actually did buy the full version.
5. The highly praised story. Er, excuse me? Story? The original Duke Nukem, Commander Keen and even Doom had more "story", their's usually filled more than one screen... Yeesh, if similar games usually have even less of it...
*hits head on desk* Obviously if you played the game all the way through (which you need to buy the full version) you'd would have noticed the really cool plot line of the evolution of the Dawinians and all the screens sometimes I sort of said to myself "I hope they hurry up with the cut scene story so I don't miss anything so I can hit pause and use the bathroom!" because it was that interesting on occasion.
I just don't know... Maybe the game is too deep for some people. Thats why I guess we seen copies of the same damn game every year by the same people with no innovation whatsoever. By chance do you like reality TV?
Another purchase and another merger... When was the last time you heard of someone selling off or splitting up a company?
At this rate, we'll have one company that does everything by 2020.
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Because I'm not innumerate?
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Why is this a troll?
He is saying that "Because I am not unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods?" Thats a reasonable saying in the context of being familiar with gambling (btw the game with the highest chance of winning is craps if you ever studied that)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=innumera
2 entries found for innumerate.
innumerate Audio pronunciation of "innumerate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-nmr-t, -ny-)
adj.
Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.
n.
A person who is unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.
Who wants to sit on a computer and play games, when you can go and play them for real?
Don't forget the free booze, cheep hotel rooms, and hookers!
And if all else fails you can always eat the free bread at the resturant in the hotel lobby afterwards drinking water.
Yet these pampered hypocrites have the gall to criticize me for driving a Jeep? Fuck them. Fuck them hard.
I'd have the gall to critize you, but I'm enjoying my gas milege with my 92 Honda Civic.
No but seriously... I hate the Liberals more than most, but I'd rather rich pretentious tree hungers in power bitching at me about driving and playing violent video games than right wing religious bastards hoping for the comming of christ who outlaw things I can do with my body and consenting adults and send our kids to die on a battle field for no good reason.
Seriously... I don't see any of the people you listing actually have policies than involved the killing of thousands of people.
They are both horrid choices for government, but one has "eviler" intentions than the other. I hope you recognize that.
Although, I figure it will take a war with China before the rest of America does.
Also, the intrusive rental/DRM systems like Steam are no doubt enhancing revenue by preventing all that piracy they were crying about,
DRM copy protection systems on games do not prevent piracy. It just annoys the people that buy legit copies... Unless they buy the copy and then download the crack.
He does have a valid point. You shouldn't be able to make a post with all caps. Try it. It won't let you.
I had planned to lead a Miners Revolution on Mars in 2026. That and deformable terrain ;)
For if they don't have an interest in this product, it will never come to fruition, regardless of its technical merit.
Oil companies are accutley aware that oil is a time limited cash cow.
Yes they are milking it, but they are also accutley aware that if they let oil run out before there is an alternative then all their billions of cash will only be a good stove warmer after the world's economies collapse making money worthless when people can't afford to bring them luxuries or even food to market.