Is this a sequel or a remake? Knowing how long fans of this have been waiting for, well, anything related to the game, maybe they'd appreciate either one--I dunno.
And humans, being illogical creatures, will for the most part say to themselves, "If I say yes, it's like saying that I believe in evolution," and answer based on that. I think very few people take poll as literally as poll designers would like to believe.
That most of _those_ people are selling herbs, homeopathic 'drugs,' and supplements--which people are buying. Folks just don't realize the value of science these days.
The fundamental problem with your argument is that you make the false assumption that art is a product. Traditionally speaking, except for commissioned works "art" is _not_ fundamentally a product that one expects to sell at a profit.
I spent a couple of months in the summer in California, and had many chances to ride around on a cheap bike in the Palo Alto/Menlo Park region. I have a lot of good memories of those excursions; I guess I should apologize: that part of SA was targeted at me specifically.
There is, of course, the argument that artists shouldn't necessarily expect to profit from their artistic works. Sure, artists have for ages worked on commission, but I think the concept of writing a book with the primary expectation of selling it for money is relatively new. Of course, publishing has always been expensive, meaning that there's always been money tied up in the process. Nowadays, though, we have the Internet, which is touted as a great way for artists to share their works (so long as they haven't given up the copyrights).
Is this similar to how gamma globulin injections function? All I really know about them is that they're proteins that somehow work to boost the immune system, providing some kind of temporary boost in immune function. Well, a peptide is just a short protein (kinda, right?) so isn't this something along the same lines, even if it (more than likely) works in a completely different way?
That headline could mean either that the Wii is succeeding in a market that is widening independent of the Wii, or that the Wii is having success in trying to widen the market.
"Nintendo's Wii may be succeeding in the widening game market." versus
"Nintendo's Wii may be succeeding in widening the game market."
... that people are very, very capable when it comes to ignoring the written word. You can send someone a reasonably sized, carefully worded, well thought-out block of text trying to explain something, trying to convey your goodwill, or whatever, and they will simply skim it, or not read it at all. You have no way of knowing if they looked at it or, if they read it, if they've understood it without asking futher questions with more emails, which may also get ignored. In a face-to-face conversation, it's usually somewhat easy to tell if someone is listening to you (and usually fairly quickly, at that), or if they've not understood something you've said.
Presenting your entire point doesn't work if the other person isn't paying attention or misunderstands something. Honestly, though, that's a problem for both media--only it's usually more obvious face-to-face.
Hey, if STALKER and Daikatana were both eventually released, DNF can be, too. I've heard that STALKER is actually not a bad game, either--just that it was way overpromised as far as features... kinda sounds like what they've admitted with DNF, come to think of it.
I know that I'll be buying the PC version of DNF no matter _how bad_ of a game it is. For one thing, it's Duke Nukem, and Duke Nukem 3D was just too good of a game for this not to follow in that tradition (I'm blindly hoping). Secondly, this thing has become an iconic piece of gaming legacy. I bought Daikatana (for $5) and even played a good bit of it. Daikatana had its moments, I'd say! Hearing Superfly cry like a little baby when I stumbled my dumb ass into a deathtrap gave me a pretty good laugh. I hold out _at least_ that much hope for DNF, whenever it comes out.
The "oops" on the NFL's part was, apparently, the NFL crossing a law professional, rather than the violation of the law in the first place?
That's very sad: we've gotten to the point where we're happy to settle with having a case where we have a reasonable chance of the crime _just being brought into public light._
Perhaps most shocking of all, the pencil graphite is conductive and could be used in any number of explosive devices where conductive elements are required.
Normally I don't double post, but as an American I feel it's my civic duty to apologize for the pun in that sentence. Though completely unintended on my part, I understand that the repercussions were still more unexpected by my victims and were, indeed, unwarranted.
The ordinary pencil is, in our modern America, a flagrant excess that cannot be tolerated. Pencils can be used to copy national secrets from one piece of paper to another, and leave no identifying marks of any kind on the documents that have been copied. Their sharp ends can be used to gouge; children can inflict grevious rubber burns upon one another using the rubber end. Perhaps most shocking of all, the pencil graphite is conductive and could be used in any number of explosive devices where conductive elements are required.
The Pencil manufacturing concerns of America, however, are resolved to work with the U.S. government to mitigate this crisis. Henceforth, all pencil purchases are tracked with a unique REAL ID-coordinated identifier. Authorized use of pencils will require a tiny microchip implanted under the skin of the right hand. A left-handed version of the chip is expected to be available before 2020--until then, pencil-using left-handed Americans will have to make the sacrifice of writing less legibly until the chip is available.
Although I believe hydrides to be very reactive (lithium aluminum hydride, anyone?), I think you'd have better luck transporting well-protected solids that are (even explosively) reactive than high-pressure tanks of a highly combustible gas.
Our (public) school didn't really have much in the way of walls. Most of the classrooms were similar to branching bronchioles around a central hub that consisted of the library or random office space depending on which floor you were on. Most of the walls for classrooms were made of metal temporary partitions with glass windows at the top. You could lean on these things and make them bend in, which meant that if you were in class when a large group of people went by, the work basically stopped for a few minutes.
We'd sometimes head into D.C. for "It's Academic" tournaments. We clashed at times with the actual, nominative "School Without Walls." I seem to remember them taunting us over the fact that they actually had permanent walls, but High School was a while ago and my memories of yesterday are already kinda fuzzy.
Maybe the cancer rate is going up in part because people are living longer, and therefore are dying of cancer instead of tuberculosis or lead poisoning or whatever?
If cancers are on average going up across _all age groups,_ then you might have a more appropriate correlation.
So unless it's _explicitly_ stated otherwise, if a company runs an ad for some product/service on their service/product, it's an implicit endorsement of whatever is stated in the ad? That somehow doesn't seem right.
They simply need to combine this new categorization with Live's matchmaking schema. They'll get rid of the software pirates by matching an appropriate ninja to go and kill them.
Seriously, what kind of rationale is that for leaving out a feature? If that's a _justified_ reason, then it means that the feature was all along just a gimmick to lure people in, like virtual reality (i.e. red lines) or force feedback or onboard memory expansion. Why would you want to say something like that to people? "Well, we can't dupe you dolts any longer with that candy, so we'll drop that for some new one like motion sensing." If it's _unjustified_ to dismiss it as last-gen, then you're dropping support for something that gamers might possibly want or like; if gamers don't like it or don't care about it, why not just say that? It's not like Sony would be admitting that they made a mistake since they didn't exactly pioneer the idea of controllers with rumble.
It's not really even right semantically. It's not like we have something better to replace it--you could argue that motion sensing and rumble aren't compatible and one would have to replace the other, but since they don't do the same thing it's not really a supersession of "last-gen" rumble with "next-gen" motion sensing. If we found some whiz-bang thing that would make for instance anisotropic filtering obsolete, THEN you could call anisotropic filtering a "last-generation" feature.
In this context, it just sounds like marketingspeak use of "generation."
It's interesting to look at how many of the above responses are lame/decent attempts at humor.
Is this because there's nothing in the article for us to all argue about, or because everyone thinks this is funny? What if herds of cattle started vanishing mysteriously out of fields, or cell colonies for research mysteriously all started to plate really poorly?
Maybe the topic just lends itself to jokes--I had to try pretty hard to not make a cattle abduction joke up there.
Slashdot Mirror
... am not going to make the obvious robot jokes.
Is this a sequel or a remake? Knowing how long fans of this have been waiting for, well, anything related to the game, maybe they'd appreciate either one--I dunno.
And humans, being illogical creatures, will for the most part say to themselves, "If I say yes, it's like saying that I believe in evolution," and answer based on that. I think very few people take poll as literally as poll designers would like to believe.
That most of _those_ people are selling herbs, homeopathic 'drugs,' and supplements--which people are buying. Folks just don't realize the value of science these days.
The fundamental problem with your argument is that you make the false assumption that art is a product. Traditionally speaking, except for commissioned works "art" is _not_ fundamentally a product that one expects to sell at a profit.
I spent a couple of months in the summer in California, and had many chances to ride around on a cheap bike in the Palo Alto/Menlo Park region. I have a lot of good memories of those excursions; I guess I should apologize: that part of SA was targeted at me specifically.
There is, of course, the argument that artists shouldn't necessarily expect to profit from their artistic works. Sure, artists have for ages worked on commission, but I think the concept of writing a book with the primary expectation of selling it for money is relatively new. Of course, publishing has always been expensive, meaning that there's always been money tied up in the process. Nowadays, though, we have the Internet, which is touted as a great way for artists to share their works (so long as they haven't given up the copyrights).
(Cue angry professional artists.)
Is this similar to how gamma globulin injections function? All I really know about them is that they're proteins that somehow work to boost the immune system, providing some kind of temporary boost in immune function. Well, a peptide is just a short protein (kinda, right?) so isn't this something along the same lines, even if it (more than likely) works in a completely different way?
That headline could mean either that the Wii is succeeding in a market that is widening independent of the Wii, or that the Wii is having success in trying to widen the market.
"Nintendo's Wii may be succeeding in the widening game market." versus
"Nintendo's Wii may be succeeding in widening the game market."
... that people are very, very capable when it comes to ignoring the written word. You can send someone a reasonably sized, carefully worded, well thought-out block of text trying to explain something, trying to convey your goodwill, or whatever, and they will simply skim it, or not read it at all. You have no way of knowing if they looked at it or, if they read it, if they've understood it without asking futher questions with more emails, which may also get ignored. In a face-to-face conversation, it's usually somewhat easy to tell if someone is listening to you (and usually fairly quickly, at that), or if they've not understood something you've said.
Presenting your entire point doesn't work if the other person isn't paying attention or misunderstands something. Honestly, though, that's a problem for both media--only it's usually more obvious face-to-face.
Hey, if STALKER and Daikatana were both eventually released, DNF can be, too. I've heard that STALKER is actually not a bad game, either--just that it was way overpromised as far as features... kinda sounds like what they've admitted with DNF, come to think of it.
I know that I'll be buying the PC version of DNF no matter _how bad_ of a game it is. For one thing, it's Duke Nukem, and Duke Nukem 3D was just too good of a game for this not to follow in that tradition (I'm blindly hoping). Secondly, this thing has become an iconic piece of gaming legacy. I bought Daikatana (for $5) and even played a good bit of it. Daikatana had its moments, I'd say! Hearing Superfly cry like a little baby when I stumbled my dumb ass into a deathtrap gave me a pretty good laugh. I hold out _at least_ that much hope for DNF, whenever it comes out.
The "oops" on the NFL's part was, apparently, the NFL crossing a law professional, rather than the violation of the law in the first place?
That's very sad: we've gotten to the point where we're happy to settle with having a case where we have a reasonable chance of the crime _just being brought into public light._
Perhaps most shocking of all, the pencil graphite is conductive and could be used in any number of explosive devices where conductive elements are required.
Normally I don't double post, but as an American I feel it's my civic duty to apologize for the pun in that sentence. Though completely unintended on my part, I understand that the repercussions were still more unexpected by my victims and were, indeed, unwarranted.
The ordinary pencil is, in our modern America, a flagrant excess that cannot be tolerated. Pencils can be used to copy national secrets from one piece of paper to another, and leave no identifying marks of any kind on the documents that have been copied. Their sharp ends can be used to gouge; children can inflict grevious rubber burns upon one another using the rubber end. Perhaps most shocking of all, the pencil graphite is conductive and could be used in any number of explosive devices where conductive elements are required.
The Pencil manufacturing concerns of America, however, are resolved to work with the U.S. government to mitigate this crisis. Henceforth, all pencil purchases are tracked with a unique REAL ID-coordinated identifier. Authorized use of pencils will require a tiny microchip implanted under the skin of the right hand. A left-handed version of the chip is expected to be available before 2020--until then, pencil-using left-handed Americans will have to make the sacrifice of writing less legibly until the chip is available.
Wow, I'm really bored today.
PC v. Windows matchmaking
Your idealism is showing.
Although I believe hydrides to be very reactive (lithium aluminum hydride, anyone?), I think you'd have better luck transporting well-protected solids that are (even explosively) reactive than high-pressure tanks of a highly combustible gas.
Is it just me, or did the summary say the same thing in three slightly different ways?
and freeze our asses off
Sorry! Dealbreaker right there. I'll just change residence to Cali and vote instead.
Our (public) school didn't really have much in the way of walls. Most of the classrooms were similar to branching bronchioles around a central hub that consisted of the library or random office space depending on which floor you were on. Most of the walls for classrooms were made of metal temporary partitions with glass windows at the top. You could lean on these things and make them bend in, which meant that if you were in class when a large group of people went by, the work basically stopped for a few minutes.
We'd sometimes head into D.C. for "It's Academic" tournaments. We clashed at times with the actual, nominative "School Without Walls." I seem to remember them taunting us over the fact that they actually had permanent walls, but High School was a while ago and my memories of yesterday are already kinda fuzzy.
Expections is a perfectly cromulent word.
Maybe the cancer rate is going up in part because people are living longer, and therefore are dying of cancer instead of tuberculosis or lead poisoning or whatever?
If cancers are on average going up across _all age groups,_ then you might have a more appropriate correlation.
So unless it's _explicitly_ stated otherwise, if a company runs an ad for some product/service on their service/product, it's an implicit endorsement of whatever is stated in the ad? That somehow doesn't seem right.
They simply need to combine this new categorization with Live's matchmaking schema. They'll get rid of the software pirates by matching an appropriate ninja to go and kill them.
What, like gameplay?
Seriously, what kind of rationale is that for leaving out a feature? If that's a _justified_ reason, then it means that the feature was all along just a gimmick to lure people in, like virtual reality (i.e. red lines) or force feedback or onboard memory expansion. Why would you want to say something like that to people? "Well, we can't dupe you dolts any longer with that candy, so we'll drop that for some new one like motion sensing." If it's _unjustified_ to dismiss it as last-gen, then you're dropping support for something that gamers might possibly want or like; if gamers don't like it or don't care about it, why not just say that? It's not like Sony would be admitting that they made a mistake since they didn't exactly pioneer the idea of controllers with rumble.
It's not really even right semantically. It's not like we have something better to replace it--you could argue that motion sensing and rumble aren't compatible and one would have to replace the other, but since they don't do the same thing it's not really a supersession of "last-gen" rumble with "next-gen" motion sensing. If we found some whiz-bang thing that would make for instance anisotropic filtering obsolete, THEN you could call anisotropic filtering a "last-generation" feature.
In this context, it just sounds like marketingspeak use of "generation."
It's interesting to look at how many of the above responses are lame/decent attempts at humor.
Is this because there's nothing in the article for us to all argue about, or because everyone thinks this is funny? What if herds of cattle started vanishing mysteriously out of fields, or cell colonies for research mysteriously all started to plate really poorly?
Maybe the topic just lends itself to jokes--I had to try pretty hard to not make a cattle abduction joke up there.