If you'd read the article, you would have realised that it's not "their game ported to console", they actually put some thought into design and gameplay to make it a workable concept.
If it works, it could strip PC games of one of the last genres that doesn't successfully translate to consoles; after that, who knows? Of course, nobody might be able to afford gaming systems by then...
Take a Dilbert cartoon and stick it on your office door and you're not violating copyright. Take a picture of your office door and put it on your homepage so that the same co-workers can see it, and you've violated copyright law, and since copyright law treats copying as such a rarified activity..
Your office door exposes the clip to a casual glance by perhaps twenty-five people. There are no limits to re-distribution through your web site.
And let's be honest here. It isn't the photo of your office door that gets posted to the web. It's a high-res scan of the strip itself.
Wait, you mean my office door isn't copyrighted? Gee, the story header had me so confused! I am going to be sued for "copying" your post?
I think the "golden age" of PC games would have to be the 1990s - when PC games were made for PC, not PC plus half a dozen consoles at the same time. Developers made games that they would have fun playing, not whatever (insert name of publisher here) told them to, and they'd be able to put in all the intricacies that made games fun and interesting. Console games were generally an entirely different affair - simplicity reigned because of the user interfaces and controls available (though doubtless someone will point out a decent exception to this).
These days, however, you've got games that try to be complex, but not too complex (or they won't be playable on consoles, which is where the publisher is making their money because they've overpriced to the point of encouraging piracy on the PC); and people are saying "screw that, if I want a PC game I'll play a PC game (old), if I want a console game I'll play a console game (old)"; people are seeing that the newer games, for the most part, suck, because they're either trying to add too many features, not enough features, or rehashing an old concept but badly. The old games did things (mostly) right, or at least better than the new ones have so they go back to them.
Sometimes, though, you get a new game which gets it right, but they're rare - Portal and Audiosurf as other people have already mentioned.
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How long do I have to grind "Piano" to level it, and will it earn me modifiers to DEX, INT, WIS or CON?
Go to the Whirlpool Broadband Choice Plan Search and have a play. Then compare with broadband access in <insert your country here>. The conclusions are left as an exercise for the reader.
Here's an extract for an advertisement for graduate positions at the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy:
Degree/disciplines:
Economics | Science | Public Policy | Law | Commerce | Arts | Social Science | Accounting
Nothing about Computer Science/IT or Engineering (Electronic, Telecommunications, Computer Systems, Software); they Just Don't Care about the technological issues. Granted, that was an ad for graduate positions, but it wouldn't surprise me if they don't have a single geek at the management/policy level either. Sadly that's the way most of the world is going; management is made up of people completely unrelated to the field they're managing (or have been out of it so long that they're completely disconnected from current issues).
From what I've heard from site owners and forum moderators who've dealt with them, even lawyers (or at least those spouting legalese) don't read the Terms of Service.
I saw someone re-install it on their machine (SP3) the other day and had their first application crash within the first minute. It also lacked drivers for their ethernet and wireless, but not the webcam. How exceedingly useful.
Not that I'm advocating Vista, but XP still has its fair share of bugs (the Linux dual-boot that the guy had worked fine)...
It requires some sort of seed (GPS data, location name) - so such an input set would be able to narrow down possible (known) locations for those photos. It's not going to give you a location result for somewhere it doesn't know about (yet).
Please, please, please Mozilla... don't start peddling Thunderbird to Firefox users in the update checks; or if you do, make sure it's -not selected- by default. That would be especially evil; one product should not magically try and install another product which is mostly unrelated (Photoshop installing 3DS Max?)...
This whole idea of 'choice overload' is so much drivel, IMHO. And, no, I'm not trying to flame here.
I saw an episode of Catalyst where they interviewed the people who wrote that paper, and gave a demonstration at a supermarket using jars of jam: people threw up their hands and said that there were too many to choose from. The results are definitely not bogus.
This was a pain in the ass, but kind of understandable. What really got on my nerves was hearing moron CS lecturers' tiresome anti-MS pro-Linux routines, all while forcing you to use Windows. We don't have a single Windows machine in our CS department. At the moment we've got Macs and Linux PCs, and prior to that (5 years ago?) we had Suns.
First of all, I am a student in Australia, and right now I am downloading Office 2007 Ultimate after shelving out $75 of my hard earned cash. This I think, is the first time I am directly paying for software in my life
... and you bought your own domain name?
I agree that for 90% of the time, OOo is fine feature-wise, and does the job. However in the Real World (TM), people ask that you hand in your CV in "word format", and they don't even accept PDFs (don't ask me why).
Don't accept PDFs, the ubiquitous "portable document format"? I don't want to work for them.
However, Jimmy Wales does retain final decision authority over Wikipedia, and has thrown his weight around in rewriting the history of the Wikipedia with respect to: a) the initial funding from Wales' company BOMIS, which published photos of women with dildos, or b) removing co-founder credit from Larry Sanger after Sanger left the project.
An article written in May suggested that OpenSUSE 10.1 combined with Xgl will perform better with lesser hardware requirements and wins on several other fronts too. Plus, you can probably run it on your MacBook.
Anyone who doesn't believe that ten companies own nearly all the media in the US is quite simply ignorant. Anyone who doesn't believe that those ten companies control the news such that their outlets don't report on news unfavorable to them is incredibly naive.
I'm afraid you've been misinformed. There's only one media company in the US.
I remember watching "Beyond 2000" many many years ago when they were talking about the initial development of ultra-thin lasers for high-density optical media. They discovered a really easy way to make a fine blue beam: shine a UV laser (cheap) through about 20 metres of optic fibre (also fairly cheap, and can be coiled up to save space), and hey presto! ultra-fine blue laser beam at low cost.
Funny that they're using specialised blue laser diodes and they're now discovering a lack of supply...
We resent that. Wikipedia is not run by homosexuals. It is run by homosexuals, transsexuals, Jews, Zionists, twelve-year-olds, chronic masturbators, and Aspies.
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If you'd read the article, you would have realised that it's not "their game ported to console", they actually put some thought into design and gameplay to make it a workable concept.
If it works, it could strip PC games of one of the last genres that doesn't successfully translate to consoles; after that, who knows? Of course, nobody might be able to afford gaming systems by then...
Take a Dilbert cartoon and stick it on your office door and you're not violating copyright. Take a picture of your office door and put it on your homepage so that the same co-workers can see it, and you've violated copyright law, and since copyright law treats copying as such a rarified activity. .
Your office door exposes the clip to a casual glance by perhaps twenty-five people. There are no limits to re-distribution through your web site.
And let's be honest here. It isn't the photo of your office door that gets posted to the web. It's a high-res scan of the strip itself.
Wait, you mean my office door isn't copyrighted? Gee, the story header had me so confused! I am going to be sued for "copying" your post?
I think the "golden age" of PC games would have to be the 1990s - when PC games were made for PC, not PC plus half a dozen consoles at the same time. Developers made games that they would have fun playing, not whatever (insert name of publisher here) told them to, and they'd be able to put in all the intricacies that made games fun and interesting. Console games were generally an entirely different affair - simplicity reigned because of the user interfaces and controls available (though doubtless someone will point out a decent exception to this). These days, however, you've got games that try to be complex, but not too complex (or they won't be playable on consoles, which is where the publisher is making their money because they've overpriced to the point of encouraging piracy on the PC); and people are saying "screw that, if I want a PC game I'll play a PC game (old), if I want a console game I'll play a console game (old)"; people are seeing that the newer games, for the most part, suck, because they're either trying to add too many features, not enough features, or rehashing an old concept but badly. The old games did things (mostly) right, or at least better than the new ones have so they go back to them.
Sometimes, though, you get a new game which gets it right, but they're rare - Portal and Audiosurf as other people have already mentioned.
How long do I have to grind "Piano" to level it, and will it earn me modifiers to DEX, INT, WIS or CON?
Go to the Whirlpool Broadband Choice Plan Search and have a play. Then compare with broadband access in <insert your country here>. The conclusions are left as an exercise for the reader.
Degree/disciplines:
Economics | Science | Public Policy | Law | Commerce | Arts | Social Science | Accounting
Nothing about Computer Science/IT or Engineering (Electronic, Telecommunications, Computer Systems, Software); they Just Don't Care about the technological issues. Granted, that was an ad for graduate positions, but it wouldn't surprise me if they don't have a single geek at the management/policy level either. Sadly that's the way most of the world is going; management is made up of people completely unrelated to the field they're managing (or have been out of it so long that they're completely disconnected from current issues).
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
(I'm aware that the original is allcaps, but the filter complains.)
From what I've heard from site owners and forum moderators who've dealt with them, even lawyers (or at least those spouting legalese) don't read the Terms of Service.
I saw someone re-install it on their machine (SP3) the other day and had their first application crash within the first minute. It also lacked drivers for their ethernet and wireless, but not the webcam. How exceedingly useful. Not that I'm advocating Vista, but XP still has its fair share of bugs (the Linux dual-boot that the guy had worked fine)...
It requires some sort of seed (GPS data, location name) - so such an input set would be able to narrow down possible (known) locations for those photos. It's not going to give you a location result for somewhere it doesn't know about (yet).
As a CS student, I have a job to look forward to when I graduate!
An article written in May suggested that OpenSUSE 10.1 combined with Xgl will perform better with lesser hardware requirements and wins on several other fronts too. Plus, you can probably run it on your MacBook.
I'm afraid you've been misinformed. There's only one media company in the US.
Subject to US Export restrictions. Funny thing is, they expired a few years ago...
I remember watching "Beyond 2000" many many years ago when they were talking about the initial development of ultra-thin lasers for high-density optical media. They discovered a really easy way to make a fine blue beam: shine a UV laser (cheap) through about 20 metres of optic fibre (also fairly cheap, and can be coiled up to save space), and hey presto! ultra-fine blue laser beam at low cost. Funny that they're using specialised blue laser diodes and they're now discovering a lack of supply...
MySpace passed /. in Alexa rank years ago.
Then again, Alexa's rankings probably aren't accurate based on the habits of your average Slashdotter...
We resent that. Wikipedia is not run by homosexuals. It is run by homosexuals, transsexuals, Jews, Zionists, twelve-year-olds, chronic masturbators, and Aspies.