There must be a reason why these articles keep coming up, chief. I haven't bought a non-Nintendo game in years now. The last PS2 game I bought was Taito Drummaster. And while there have been a few other games for the PS2 that have been acceptable, nothing has spawned from the XBox that I've wanted to play, nor the XBox360. RPG's are fewer and fewer and less interesting than they were 10 years ago even. Something is missing from the game equation right now and a LOT of people feel the same way as I do. We're not all interested in Madden or FPS's, and for most, that's all we see being really offered on the new systems.
Ironically, I am taking the week to sit down and really figure out CSS because I'm sick of seeing the term everywhere and having ZERO clue of how to use it effectively.
Let me get this straight to begin with - I'm a designer, not a web expert. I use *gasp* Dreamweaver, although I know HTML just fine. It's a visual thing and I work better seeing the flow of the graphics, etc. directly on the page.
So my biggest beef is wanting to design non-framed pages where menu links will change without having to manually change them in each page.
I want you CSS people to respond to this: Tell me three reasons why CSS is the way to go (cleaner codes isn't a good reason for me, either).
If I'm paying $50 for a new game, I don't want to have to look at ads because EA or whoever found a new way to squeeze a few extra bucks out of their product. This just angers me.
Today's audience (uh huh) isn't listening at all - it's participating (uh huh, yeah). Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record (biggups to B.I.G.), the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical (what's up, foo'?). The record, not the remix (rica rica reeeemix), is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital (Inch'allah).
That's exactly what I was talking about. That "ying yang" thing will keep us in constant war with each other, but would actual chaos be if either good or evil ruled all?
Think about this, though... perhaps blogs are not necessarily sources for news, but the ways people debate what happens in the large media. Yes, the large media have fact checkers and such, but blogs act as a checks and balances to these news corporations. It also adds a voice that isn't necessarily there since really these news corps are only interested in audience and ratings, thereby focusing on popular rather than news worthy pieces.
Yes, you are an idiot to believe some bloggers words as truth. But you're also an idiot for believing everything you hear on the news. But if used properly, blogs can be beneficial, just as news corps are sometimes, too.
I know really nothing about any details of the open source vs. closed source debacle, nor do I want to, but I wanted to share this dream I had this weekend. I had a dream that the US was secretly attacking Japan because the Japanese were committed to an open source programming law that they passed and we were trying to tear them down. But it was a secret war, only in a few tech sectors of Japan, where they were burning buildings and such. It was a really weird dream, and I blame it on Slashdot.
If they could only extract the DNA of my Uncle Gene and make a clone of him, I could get back that $200 he owed me. Come on brainiacs, lets get some science going on and make me some cash! Bling bling!
PC gaming won't die... but face the facts, most games are made for consoles before PC versions come out. Few and far between MMO's and FPS make it worth it to have expensive computer gaming rigs, but when it comes down to it, I don't want to spend $2G on a new computer just to play a $30 game. The end.
If they switch all the porn sites over to this.xxx, I can finally go to sites like www.barelylegal.com without finding such gratuitous porn related material. God dammit, I'm just looking for marijuana legalization information!
Did you hear about the Toyota hybrid recall that kept stalling because its internal computer didn't know when to switch from electric to gas? Over 33 of them have been found at fault but almost 44,000 have been sold this year. That's not a recall, Ford is the king of recalls. Engine stalling vs. car blowing up. Your call.
Final Fantasy may be stinkers right now, but the true pinnacle of the game was Final Fantasy Tactics. With a pitiful sequel (which I was absolutely thrilled about at the time) on the GBA, Final Fantasy Tactics is the gold mine that if they put a little more sweat and elbow grease into would bring superb characters, awesome weapons and armors, and the best gameplay ever. From what I've heard, too, FFXII may be taking a tiny step in that direction, though. But I want to see an all out remake of FFT.
Slashdot Mirror
There must be a reason why these articles keep coming up, chief. I haven't bought a non-Nintendo game in years now. The last PS2 game I bought was Taito Drummaster. And while there have been a few other games for the PS2 that have been acceptable, nothing has spawned from the XBox that I've wanted to play, nor the XBox360. RPG's are fewer and fewer and less interesting than they were 10 years ago even. Something is missing from the game equation right now and a LOT of people feel the same way as I do. We're not all interested in Madden or FPS's, and for most, that's all we see being really offered on the new systems.
I don't think that was the point. Its a comparison, a simile of sorts.
http://gamesarefun.com/
*Sigh* This stuff is totally past me. I wish I knew someone who I could work with on some of this stuff.
Ironically, I am taking the week to sit down and really figure out CSS because I'm sick of seeing the term everywhere and having ZERO clue of how to use it effectively. Let me get this straight to begin with - I'm a designer, not a web expert. I use *gasp* Dreamweaver, although I know HTML just fine. It's a visual thing and I work better seeing the flow of the graphics, etc. directly on the page. So my biggest beef is wanting to design non-framed pages where menu links will change without having to manually change them in each page. I want you CSS people to respond to this: Tell me three reasons why CSS is the way to go (cleaner codes isn't a good reason for me, either).
If I'm paying $50 for a new game, I don't want to have to look at ads because EA or whoever found a new way to squeeze a few extra bucks out of their product. This just angers me.
Lots of ugly thieves getting face lifts and nose jobs.
Who woulda ever thought that by switching over to Intel chips that Apple could reduce the cost of its over-priced system?
Incoherent... content-free... sounds like sour grapes to me.
Today's audience (uh huh) isn't listening at all - it's participating (uh huh, yeah). Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record (biggups to B.I.G.), the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical (what's up, foo'?). The record, not the remix (rica rica reeeemix), is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital (Inch'allah).
That's exactly what I was talking about. That "ying yang" thing will keep us in constant war with each other, but would actual chaos be if either good or evil ruled all?
Am I the only person who doesn't see the Jedi belief system flawed? I could only imagine the devestation to the republic if this became popular.
Think about this, though... perhaps blogs are not necessarily sources for news, but the ways people debate what happens in the large media. Yes, the large media have fact checkers and such, but blogs act as a checks and balances to these news corporations. It also adds a voice that isn't necessarily there since really these news corps are only interested in audience and ratings, thereby focusing on popular rather than news worthy pieces. Yes, you are an idiot to believe some bloggers words as truth. But you're also an idiot for believing everything you hear on the news. But if used properly, blogs can be beneficial, just as news corps are sometimes, too.
I thought a Swamp Cooler was a can of Milluake Light?
[DT+MT]/3=DT+ST+MT-DST=Michelle Tanner... "You've got it, dude!"
Spamalot? It should be called Camelot!
I know really nothing about any details of the open source vs. closed source debacle, nor do I want to, but I wanted to share this dream I had this weekend. I had a dream that the US was secretly attacking Japan because the Japanese were committed to an open source programming law that they passed and we were trying to tear them down. But it was a secret war, only in a few tech sectors of Japan, where they were burning buildings and such. It was a really weird dream, and I blame it on Slashdot.
If they could only extract the DNA of my Uncle Gene and make a clone of him, I could get back that $200 he owed me. Come on brainiacs, lets get some science going on and make me some cash! Bling bling!
PC gaming won't die... but face the facts, most games are made for consoles before PC versions come out. Few and far between MMO's and FPS make it worth it to have expensive computer gaming rigs, but when it comes down to it, I don't want to spend $2G on a new computer just to play a $30 game. The end.
If they switch all the porn sites over to this .xxx, I can finally go to sites like www.barelylegal.com without finding such gratuitous porn related material. God dammit, I'm just looking for marijuana legalization information!
Did you hear about the Toyota hybrid recall that kept stalling because its internal computer didn't know when to switch from electric to gas? Over 33 of them have been found at fault but almost 44,000 have been sold this year. That's not a recall, Ford is the king of recalls. Engine stalling vs. car blowing up. Your call.
Final Fantasy may be stinkers right now, but the true pinnacle of the game was Final Fantasy Tactics. With a pitiful sequel (which I was absolutely thrilled about at the time) on the GBA, Final Fantasy Tactics is the gold mine that if they put a little more sweat and elbow grease into would bring superb characters, awesome weapons and armors, and the best gameplay ever. From what I've heard, too, FFXII may be taking a tiny step in that direction, though. But I want to see an all out remake of FFT.