on some level it makes sense to post a broad general question like this on slashdot so the responses to said question can benefit the largest number of people but when the question gets this broad it begins to appear that there's no real query. the article seems to be "tell me about this software" not really what i'd expect, ask something specific.
seemed to be about equally persuasive. The internet has been a level playing feild (or close to one) for a long time which is what makes it so interesting, is net neutrality going to give the gov't license to unlevel it how they see fit or will the goverment protect us from the big nasty tel-cos?
can you suggest any reading on the kind of neuro chemistry you're talking about?
I've had enough congenital health troubles to not want to 'nuke by brain' and I only get one brain, i know enough not to want to fuck it up by messing with anphetamines and the like.
experience for PC? I've been looking casually for a simple flight sim ever since Red Baron II disappointed me, granted I haven't been looking too hard. Does anyone know of a solid flight sim that doesn't require 12 hours to learn how to fly the F/A18 on ala Jane's?
but what's the point? lyrics are copyrighted, and how useful is it to have "annotations" attachted to a song, and is it that hard to just listen to the lyrics isn't that why we have music in the first place?
just get an optimus keyboard, they have lots of OLEDs and it's touch sensitive since it's a keyboard.
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
oh, you may have to wait a little while for the release of this product, the prototype will be ready any day now...can't wait to use it to play DN Forever.
"most of the plot twists are not due to, as I like to describe it, "bullshit last-minute oh-my-god that's-impossible" moments."
the cylon fetus blood curing cancer was a stretch for me...but i still love the show to death.
what if you have a really common name? like John Smith, etc. how can a perspective emplyer ever hope to find the John Smith they're looking for with much accuracy?
in my experience, Mario Party is a great time, unless you think you're going to win, then the computer dicks you over with something random, and this isn't a mild dicking over, you get dicked over HARD, you think you're about to win, then you have no chance of coming in 3rd place, make for interesting gameplay.
more sense to try to sort of roll the traditional keyboard into that shape, so you're using the same fingers a different way? like have 3+ positions for each finger, so the bottom of the controller would have 3 buttons QAZ on one side and P:? on the other?
I agree with everything you've said there, and it's got me thinking about an increasingly thin line between "console" and "personal computer"
-the xbox 360 has capabilites as a media center pc and can play movies.
-one of the big pushes in the PS3 seems to be it's abilities as a blu-ray disc player.
-Consoles also have increasing capabilites online, I wouldn't be surpriesd to see a web browser realeased to the next gen consoles, the PSP has one and i think the PS2 had on that had limited popular appeal.
- it has been said the revolution will support DVI outputs to computer monitors
This seems to lead to game consoles (especially since they cost about as much as a cheap/mid range computer and offer better (at least initially) hardware that isn't expected to change over time like a computer's is.
so perhaps eventually buying a console will just be like buying an OEM computer that you plan on using primarily for gaming and surfing the internet.
I installed this software and i find myself already able to ignore the "take a break every 3 mintues" prompt, i think my ability to tune it out so quickly means it has limited usefulness perhaps...it's an interesting little program. and in case you care it seems to use about 12 megs of ram on my WinXP system.
I don't think there should ever be cross platform multiplayer, sure it segments things, but for good reason. Balance would be impossible in most genres. If i am on a PC, I am going to aim/move/play better or more accurately then someone with an XBox controller, using an optical mouse is faster then an analog stick. sure you can use an xbox controller in you computer with an adapter but no one i know has even considered doing this for anything but fighting games.
this doesn't exactly relate to RSI, but recently I find myself with sore eyes after using either my computer or reading for more then an hour or so at a time; i assume this is just eye strain? will going to an optomitrist or getting glasses help me? My vision is fine, if not good otehrwise, eyedrops don't seem to help so it isn't just dryness.
Alpha Centauri is one of my favorite games of all time. great game. I'm pissed i can't find the cd anywhere. there's also a linux port i beleive. i'm also about ot get back into Diablo II also.
That is an interesting comparison as the GTA games borrow very heavily from films. If you've played GTA II and Vice City there are large sections of plot, story, characters, episodes, and locations that are taken straight out of The Godfather films and Scarface. To an extent you could call GTA "Al Pachino: The video game."
GTA would not be as successful were it not for these blatant nods to popular films.
I find myself with the same predicament.
it might be nice to have something enjoyable to just hop into for a couple hours that doesn't have a steap learning curve or require the massive time commitment of a massive or require 9 years to load on my 1.7 ghz amd that's starting to feel more and more dated. Guess this is why I find myself tending toward playing older games whenever i find a few free hours to play games.
see this is why i use windows.
there are never security patches to install, just service packs which allow me to get new secutiry features like windows firewall. nothing beats windows security, and there's that helpful blue screen to tell me if something's gone wrong.
i didn't even have the whole game but i played the Dark ForcesII: Jedi Knight Demo for what felt like years. it was great. really long demo level too, especially when you're like 12. I love the Jedi Knight games, and i had X wing vs. Tie Fighter, which was also awesome.
any of you guys remember those lucas arts puzzle/adventure games based on sam and max or the Indian Jones movies? those were sweet.
when i played that game for a little while through the free trial in some of newb zones i hardly saw other players, ever. and the in game universe is so huge taht travel times are enormous and taht many players are spread out over a huge area. the game's learning curve was too steep for me, since i was just a casual player.
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on some level it makes sense to post a broad general question like this on slashdot so the responses to said question can benefit the largest number of people but when the question gets this broad it begins to appear that there's no real query. the article seems to be "tell me about this software" not really what i'd expect, ask something specific.
seemed to be about equally persuasive. The internet has been a level playing feild (or close to one) for a long time which is what makes it so interesting, is net neutrality going to give the gov't license to unlevel it how they see fit or will the goverment protect us from the big nasty tel-cos?
can you suggest any reading on the kind of neuro chemistry you're talking about?
I've had enough congenital health troubles to not want to 'nuke by brain' and I only get one brain, i know enough not to want to fuck it up by messing with anphetamines and the like.
experience for PC? I've been looking casually for a simple flight sim ever since Red Baron II disappointed me, granted I haven't been looking too hard. Does anyone know of a solid flight sim that doesn't require 12 hours to learn how to fly the F/A18 on ala Jane's?
but what's the point? lyrics are copyrighted, and how useful is it to have "annotations" attachted to a song, and is it that hard to just listen to the lyrics isn't that why we have music in the first place?
just get an optimus keyboard, they have lots of OLEDs and it's touch sensitive since it's a keyboard. http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/ oh, you may have to wait a little while for the release of this product, the prototype will be ready any day now...can't wait to use it to play DN Forever.
for a second life when i have a hard enough time paying for the first one?
"most of the plot twists are not due to, as I like to describe it, "bullshit last-minute oh-my-god that's-impossible" moments." the cylon fetus blood curing cancer was a stretch for me...but i still love the show to death.
what if you have a really common name? like John Smith, etc. how can a perspective emplyer ever hope to find the John Smith they're looking for with much accuracy?
in my experience, Mario Party is a great time, unless you think you're going to win, then the computer dicks you over with something random, and this isn't a mild dicking over, you get dicked over HARD, you think you're about to win, then you have no chance of coming in 3rd place, make for interesting gameplay.
more sense to try to sort of roll the traditional keyboard into that shape, so you're using the same fingers a different way? like have 3+ positions for each finger, so the bottom of the controller would have 3 buttons QAZ on one side and P:? on the other?
I agree with everything you've said there, and it's got me thinking about an increasingly thin line between "console" and "personal computer"
-the xbox 360 has capabilites as a media center pc and can play movies.
-one of the big pushes in the PS3 seems to be it's abilities as a blu-ray disc player.
-Consoles also have increasing capabilites online, I wouldn't be surpriesd to see a web browser realeased to the next gen consoles, the PSP has one and i think the PS2 had on that had limited popular appeal.
- it has been said the revolution will support DVI outputs to computer monitors
This seems to lead to game consoles (especially since they cost about as much as a cheap/mid range computer and offer better (at least initially) hardware that isn't expected to change over time like a computer's is.
so perhaps eventually buying a console will just be like buying an OEM computer that you plan on using primarily for gaming and surfing the internet.
I installed this software and i find myself already able to ignore the "take a break every 3 mintues" prompt, i think my ability to tune it out so quickly means it has limited usefulness perhaps...it's an interesting little program. and in case you care it seems to use about 12 megs of ram on my WinXP system.
I don't think there should ever be cross platform multiplayer, sure it segments things, but for good reason. Balance would be impossible in most genres. If i am on a PC, I am going to aim/move/play better or more accurately then someone with an XBox controller, using an optical mouse is faster then an analog stick. sure you can use an xbox controller in you computer with an adapter but no one i know has even considered doing this for anything but fighting games.
this doesn't exactly relate to RSI, but recently I find myself with sore eyes after using either my computer or reading for more then an hour or so at a time; i assume this is just eye strain? will going to an optomitrist or getting glasses help me? My vision is fine, if not good otehrwise, eyedrops don't seem to help so it isn't just dryness.
Alpha Centauri is one of my favorite games of all time. great game. I'm pissed i can't find the cd anywhere. there's also a linux port i beleive. i'm also about ot get back into Diablo II also.
whoops, i mean GTA III.
That is an interesting comparison as the GTA games borrow very heavily from films. If you've played GTA II and Vice City there are large sections of plot, story, characters, episodes, and locations that are taken straight out of The Godfather films and Scarface. To an extent you could call GTA "Al Pachino: The video game." GTA would not be as successful were it not for these blatant nods to popular films.
I find myself with the same predicament.
it might be nice to have something enjoyable to just hop into for a couple hours that doesn't have a steap learning curve or require the massive time commitment of a massive or require 9 years to load on my 1.7 ghz amd that's starting to feel more and more dated. Guess this is why I find myself tending toward playing older games whenever i find a few free hours to play games.
see this is why i use windows. there are never security patches to install, just service packs which allow me to get new secutiry features like windows firewall. nothing beats windows security, and there's that helpful blue screen to tell me if something's gone wrong.
luckily for me, i'm terrible at computer games so it will take me longer then 4-6 hours to complete the game once.
i'll give you my frist born child for a remake of sim copter. my faveorite game of all time. I'm the CEO of McDonnell Douglas.
i didn't even have the whole game but i played the Dark ForcesII: Jedi Knight Demo for what felt like years. it was great. really long demo level too, especially when you're like 12. I love the Jedi Knight games, and i had X wing vs. Tie Fighter, which was also awesome. any of you guys remember those lucas arts puzzle/adventure games based on sam and max or the Indian Jones movies? those were sweet.
wait, there are windows fanboys that read slashdot? i thought linux-zealot.com redirected to /.
when i played that game for a little while through the free trial in some of newb zones i hardly saw other players, ever. and the in game universe is so huge taht travel times are enormous and taht many players are spread out over a huge area. the game's learning curve was too steep for me, since i was just a casual player.