Indeed! I always find it interesting to hear about the little things that go on behind the scenes of game development. Had no one jumped to these conclusions, I never would have known about this interesting Marlin Studios.
It's all in the spin. Rather than be a "supporter of video games" they'd be "defenders against government pork." It's the putrid magic of politics: transmuting actions and words!
Lawsuits? Surely any network-based buisness with a legal department worth a lick of salt would include provision in their terms and agreements of services that cover such instances of blackouts, loss of service, or even financial collapse of the company leaving addicts with their network device without a network.
I think that this would certainly be the most appropriate purpose of this: a place to give our condolences to the families and would like to add my own to this thread. God be with them all.
I dunno, I can't imagine a good TFC team without atleast a few snipers. As a major fan of the engineering class, I'm glad I'll be getting the PC version. Navigating the build menu(s) of the engineer probably won't be as easy on the 360. Unless the pace of TF2 is slower than TFC, I always found speedy turret placement, upgrade, and repair to be very important. I fear (ok, maybe relish) the possibility that 360 teams will be nearly all demos, heavies, spies, and pyros with maybe a few two soldiers, engineers, and scouts. Medics and snipers are likly to be unpopular with 360 controls, I think.
While the Mapcore post that first made the alert was made on April 1st, I have remained skeptical mostly because of the very generic nature of the naming systems. How easily could two different companies come up with nearly identical images called "grate7" or "fanblade." I dabble in texture making a little and, for me atleast, all water normal maps turn out nearly the same, so I don't think I see the HL2 connection. We do know the developers are fans of HL2, though, as they refer to it directly in the game. I am significantly less skeptical about the Doom3 connection, however, once I noticed a certain file entitled "hellgate1"
So the Higgs Boson is a theoretical particle which both the LHC and the Tevatron are trying to prove the existance of and determine its mass. It is important because it could be an elementary particle that could explain the origin of mass of other elementary particles and differentiate between the massless proton and the heavy W and Z Bosons, indicating where the differentiation between electromagnetism and weak force arises. Better understanding these fundamental forces could affect better understanding aspects of microstructures and the univ... Ah hell, I have no idea what this is all about! This one's over my head, I think I'll go back to Soviet Russia jokes now.
Most recently, I was reading through the Supreme Commander game readme text and at down toward the end, it had a little section of trivia. Fun silly little facts like who of the development team certain units or areas were named after or that the Cybrans were originally named the recyclers. That last tidbit was rather enlightening as it help me understand their naming system where all cybran-related objects contain an 'r' for the second letter of the filename.
C&C's dino level was kind of funny, though I don't remember if I've seen it or only heard of it anymore.
I completely agree, aside from my initial, sleep-deprived reading of your post as saying "I can hear interference from a landmine online when they're close." My cellphone is causes interference with my TV, my speakers, and even my alarm clock whenever it's near them. I also had a roommate once who needed both his cellphone and his alarm clock to wake him up, so he'd set the cellphone to go off and then the alarm clock shortly thereafter. The thing is, just before the cellphone would go off, burst of interference loud enough to wake me up would project from the alarm clock. Either the cellphones need to contact the network, or the alarm would bring itself out of standby to play the alarm, and in doing so automatically try contacting the network.
...and Corporations, Governments, Parents. I think it unfair to only metion religion when talking about 'human programming.' This isn't something that only certain organizations do; all people do it. There is a saying that says people are separated from animals by their desire to control their environment, in reality we are separated by our desire to control everything, including each other.
Even if it is manual, there's nothing that says each piece of DNA has to be extracted one at a time. It could be done enmass by taking 'millions of microbes,' shredding the cells and running them through some sort of filter or enzyme that removes the cellular material and leaves the DNA as atleast some fragmented wholes.
Sounds like this would be just the sort of thing to test out potential DNA snippits before we insert them into our GM foods. I'm all for more GM foods, but I wouldn't say no to a better method of testing. If we could raise large colonies of bacteria with the candidate DNA snippit and 'control' groups without the snippits, we could then use Metagenomics to track protien expressions in the GM colonies and watch for unwanted expressions as well by comparing them with the data gathered from the control colonies. Granted, it's a jump from using the DNA in bacteria to the plants and food themselves, but such a technique could be useful in refining the targeted DNA.
More buttons, knobs, and bring back switches! I wanna here the clack of my radio dial changing. I wanna here a clicking noise to tell me the volume's on but the channel's out. The sound of little keys eching out a slashdot post as I dri...
...that's odd, my car seems to be losing altitude. ALTITUDE!? AAAHHH...+++Carrier Dropped+++
But I'd rather have contact lens that change colors everytime I blink. It'd look really cool, but it'd probably be real distracting to people and retnal scans.
I am fully willing to accept that removing any segment of the population from their potential as such professionals will do this and would have agreed if this was what he was asserting. However, from his wording, he specifically indicates that the startups didn't show up because the university's quality was not high enough to provide fertile ground for seeding them. His apparent cause for the lack of quality is because of government intervention and a 'lack of Jews,' and it is this specific argument I disagree with, most specifically the second assertion. Where it that he said the exclusion of the Jews, or any other group their government repressed, is the cause of fewer startups then I would be inclined to agree. However, as it is stated, he instead ties them to the quality of the universities and from that to the startups, which I do not agree to.
Also, ask does Russia have universities with plenty of Jews. This article has a few quarky statements, but this one:
The case of Germany is a strange one. The Germans invented the modern university, and up till the 1930s theirs were the best in the world. Now they have none that stand out. As I was mulling this over, I found myself thinking: "I can understand why German universities declined in the 1930s, after they excluded Jews. But surely they should have bounced back by now." Then I realized: maybe not. There are few Jews left in Germany and most Jews I know would not want to move there. And if you took any great American university and removed the Jews, you'd have some pretty big gaps. So maybe it would be a lost cause trying to create a silicon valley in Germany, because you couldn't establish the level of university you'd need as a seed. Is just out and out questionable. To think Germany's silicon valley may have been doomed to fail because they do not have good enough universities is one thing. But suggesting that the lack of any one specific identity, like the Jews, has anything to do with the quality of the university is just ludicrous and, in my opinion, borderline racist. If he was trying to make some point of general exclusionary practices in the universities, I think he missed his mark. I cannot comment on his other statement of the German government 'evening out' the universities' quality, however, and I think it would do well to emphasize that point over the other and support it more clearly.
Why are all life support systems so temporary? Shouldn't there be some way to duplicate the process of the human body that transforms breathable air into exaust, but in the opposite direction? I could see something like that being very bulky and definatly not the next step, but perhaps the next leap should be towards an suit that maintains a balanced environment cycle by recycling human exausts.
Seeing as Stringer is the one making the 'we' quote, and Stringer is the CEO/chairman, I naturally attached 'we' to management and 'our people' to those they manage (assuming the engineers.) Hence my 'blame the engineer' conclusion.
There's more to the article than just an admission of the PS3's potential downfall, Sony also claims they had worked with IBM on electronic music distribution and could have had it out 5 years ahead of iTunes. But they failed to do so and, in classic bad management fasion, he blames the engineer(s):
"But we couldn't get our people to understand software. And we are a music company. They saw digital media, panicked and didn't like it." In the end Sony designed a closed music system that didn't work.
Ever one to promote the Blu-ray, Stringer also manages to point out Blu-Ray's 3-to-1 sell over HD-DVD, calling HD-DVD a "transition tech." One might see their blu-ray interests as having a hand in helping the decision to make the PS3 a luxury item, but the CEO doesn't mention any thing about the $600 stand-alone blu-ray player Sony is releasing this summer. This of course really means they wanted a luxury item, not just a trojan tech carrier.
Finally, I think I can see in the article the closest reasoning to why the PS3 is a Sony-tech catch all device:
"Each product category was its own 'silo.' PlayStation was a silo. All the divisions were in their own little worlds. There was no sharing of information between these divisions and little acknowledgement of software." What he did was to try and break down the silos with a program called "Sony United,." It sounds to me like Stringer's decision here could have atleast influenced the PS3 development decision. In a company that tries to engineer superior technology products, perhaps a good degree of separation is necessary to prevent the expensive bloating of some endevors.
Err, I seem to be confused about what the Internet2 is. I had thought it was merely a large, non-profit run, high-speed network among universities. I do not know of any major technical differences that evil organizations could take proprietary ownership and force everyone in the future to use it. What are these differences you seem to imply? How would they keep ahold of it? Really, how 'free by design' is the Internet1 anyways?
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Indeed! I always find it interesting to hear about the little things that go on behind the scenes of game development. Had no one jumped to these conclusions, I never would have known about this interesting Marlin Studios.
It's all in the spin. Rather than be a "supporter of video games" they'd be "defenders against government pork." It's the putrid magic of politics: transmuting actions and words!
Lawsuits? Surely any network-based buisness with a legal department worth a lick of salt would include provision in their terms and agreements of services that cover such instances of blackouts, loss of service, or even financial collapse of the company leaving addicts with their network device without a network.
I think that this would certainly be the most appropriate purpose of this: a place to give our condolences to the families and would like to add my own to this thread. God be with them all.
I dunno, I can't imagine a good TFC team without atleast a few snipers. As a major fan of the engineering class, I'm glad I'll be getting the PC version. Navigating the build menu(s) of the engineer probably won't be as easy on the 360. Unless the pace of TF2 is slower than TFC, I always found speedy turret placement, upgrade, and repair to be very important. I fear (ok, maybe relish) the possibility that 360 teams will be nearly all demos, heavies, spies, and pyros with maybe a few two soldiers, engineers, and scouts. Medics and snipers are likly to be unpopular with 360 controls, I think.
For Bill Gates only:
In Capitalist Russia, Windows launches you!
While the Mapcore post that first made the alert was made on April 1st, I have remained skeptical mostly because of the very generic nature of the naming systems. How easily could two different companies come up with nearly identical images called "grate7" or "fanblade." I dabble in texture making a little and, for me atleast, all water normal maps turn out nearly the same, so I don't think I see the HL2 connection. We do know the developers are fans of HL2, though, as they refer to it directly in the game. I am significantly less skeptical about the Doom3 connection, however, once I noticed a certain file entitled "hellgate1"
So the Higgs Boson is a theoretical particle which both the LHC and the Tevatron are trying to prove the existance of and determine its mass. It is important because it could be an elementary particle that could explain the origin of mass of other elementary particles and differentiate between the massless proton and the heavy W and Z Bosons, indicating where the differentiation between electromagnetism and weak force arises. Better understanding these fundamental forces could affect better understanding aspects of microstructures and the univ... Ah hell, I have no idea what this is all about! This one's over my head, I think I'll go back to Soviet Russia jokes now.
Most recently, I was reading through the Supreme Commander game readme text and at down toward the end, it had a little section of trivia. Fun silly little facts like who of the development team certain units or areas were named after or that the Cybrans were originally named the recyclers. That last tidbit was rather enlightening as it help me understand their naming system where all cybran-related objects contain an 'r' for the second letter of the filename.
C&C's dino level was kind of funny, though I don't remember if I've seen it or only heard of it anymore.
The best way to test any model is to start with the end points. How low does it score the New York Mets?
I completely agree, aside from my initial, sleep-deprived reading of your post as saying "I can hear interference from a landmine online when they're close." My cellphone is causes interference with my TV, my speakers, and even my alarm clock whenever it's near them. I also had a roommate once who needed both his cellphone and his alarm clock to wake him up, so he'd set the cellphone to go off and then the alarm clock shortly thereafter. The thing is, just before the cellphone would go off, burst of interference loud enough to wake me up would project from the alarm clock. Either the cellphones need to contact the network, or the alarm would bring itself out of standby to play the alarm, and in doing so automatically try contacting the network.
...and Corporations, Governments, Parents. I think it unfair to only metion religion when talking about 'human programming.' This isn't something that only certain organizations do; all people do it. There is a saying that says people are separated from animals by their desire to control their environment, in reality we are separated by our desire to control everything, including each other.
Sadly, Ford prototypes of this car proved only mildly successful.
Even if it is manual, there's nothing that says each piece of DNA has to be extracted one at a time. It could be done enmass by taking 'millions of microbes,' shredding the cells and running them through some sort of filter or enzyme that removes the cellular material and leaves the DNA as atleast some fragmented wholes.
Sounds like this would be just the sort of thing to test out potential DNA snippits before we insert them into our GM foods. I'm all for more GM foods, but I wouldn't say no to a better method of testing. If we could raise large colonies of bacteria with the candidate DNA snippit and 'control' groups without the snippits, we could then use Metagenomics to track protien expressions in the GM colonies and watch for unwanted expressions as well by comparing them with the data gathered from the control colonies. Granted, it's a jump from using the DNA in bacteria to the plants and food themselves, but such a technique could be useful in refining the targeted DNA.
More buttons, knobs, and bring back switches! I wanna here the clack of my radio dial changing. I wanna here a clicking noise to tell me the volume's on but the channel's out. The sound of little keys eching out a slashdot post as I dri...
...that's odd, my car seems to be losing altitude. ALTITUDE!? AAAHHH...+++Carrier Dropped+++
It celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord of a certain war which you are not a patriot if you cannot name.
But I'd rather have contact lens that change colors everytime I blink. It'd look really cool, but it'd probably be real distracting to people and retnal scans.
I am fully willing to accept that removing any segment of the population from their potential as such professionals will do this and would have agreed if this was what he was asserting. However, from his wording, he specifically indicates that the startups didn't show up because the university's quality was not high enough to provide fertile ground for seeding them. His apparent cause for the lack of quality is because of government intervention and a 'lack of Jews,' and it is this specific argument I disagree with, most specifically the second assertion. Where it that he said the exclusion of the Jews, or any other group their government repressed, is the cause of fewer startups then I would be inclined to agree. However, as it is stated, he instead ties them to the quality of the universities and from that to the startups, which I do not agree to.
Why are all life support systems so temporary? Shouldn't there be some way to duplicate the process of the human body that transforms breathable air into exaust, but in the opposite direction? I could see something like that being very bulky and definatly not the next step, but perhaps the next leap should be towards an suit that maintains a balanced environment cycle by recycling human exausts.
Seeing as Stringer is the one making the 'we' quote, and Stringer is the CEO/chairman, I naturally attached 'we' to management and 'our people' to those they manage (assuming the engineers.) Hence my 'blame the engineer' conclusion.
"But we couldn't get our people to understand software. And we are a music company. They saw digital media, panicked and didn't like it." In the end Sony designed a closed music system that didn't work.
Ever one to promote the Blu-ray, Stringer also manages to point out Blu-Ray's 3-to-1 sell over HD-DVD, calling HD-DVD a "transition tech." One might see their blu-ray interests as having a hand in helping the decision to make the PS3 a luxury item, but the CEO doesn't mention any thing about the $600 stand-alone blu-ray player Sony is releasing this summer. This of course really means they wanted a luxury item, not just a trojan tech carrier.
Finally, I think I can see in the article the closest reasoning to why the PS3 is a Sony-tech catch all device: "Each product category was its own 'silo.' PlayStation was a silo. All the divisions were in their own little worlds. There was no sharing of information between these divisions and little acknowledgement of software." What he did was to try and break down the silos with a program called "Sony United,."
It sounds to me like Stringer's decision here could have atleast influenced the PS3 development decision. In a company that tries to engineer superior technology products, perhaps a good degree of separation is necessary to prevent the expensive bloating of some endevors.
Idle hands are the devil's plaything. I would think the America's constant need to be entertained also factors into the amount of malware.
Err, I seem to be confused about what the Internet2 is. I had thought it was merely a large, non-profit run, high-speed network among universities. I do not know of any major technical differences that evil organizations could take proprietary ownership and force everyone in the future to use it. What are these differences you seem to imply? How would they keep ahold of it? Really, how 'free by design' is the Internet1 anyways?