I'm all for keeping kids from getting molested, but what the hell can you expect from one sided people that dont give a damn about the truth, they just care about how they think GTA and video games in general are the product of satanic cults...
Damn right it would, at least for the news companies anyway - if they featured articles like that about other news companies, people would (I hope) think "So what stops the one featuring the article from lying through their teeth?" then nobody would watch the news anymore, and so none of the networks would show their Doctor Phil or American Idol anymore, then people would go crazy and start killing each other, resulting in global war and the nuclear holocaust...
Forget all those theories about how the nuke holocaust will be triggered by Iran or North Korea - its more likely my theory happens lol...
I recently watched the Doom movie and saw one of the squad-mates playing a clunky assed version of a Gameboy Advance - and thought "If N-Gage ever HAD a future, the result would be that clunky ass GBA lookin thing" - hopefully 40 years in the future, technology will have advanced to the point a GBA can fit in a contact lense, not regress to the size of a full blown console...
pull out the old Atari 2600 and play some Combat or Freeway - or go even farther back and bug my uncle to dig out his Intellivision with the numb-thumb, stick the graphic key-card in the numbered controller and play Dungeons & Dragons - I'd have to remember to not shoot into the dark or my arrow might hit a wall and come back
How about making the damn recruiters/employers use the keywords that actually go with the job, accurate descriptions, and come up with a way to punish the recruiters/employers that spam 10 or 20 entries of the same post into the system just to make it seem more profitable and the field/industry is more popular than it really is...
Also, how about maybe having a "Powered by Google Maps/Earth" feature or whatever to make it easier to find out exactly where the company is - or if they are recruiting for a job on the West coast when its East coast or if its half way across the county - I'd sure as hell take a job 20 or 40 minutes away a lot sooner than a full hour or hour and a half (unless maybe the farther one paid a lot more)...
(not seriously, but in a proportional view of the way actions would escalate) they should be DoSing the shit out of Yahoo, and planning to make assasination raids on Gates's and Ballmer's penthouse offices...
Combined with those hydraulic leg braces that were posted a few months ago (the ones that let the user carry like an extra 200 lbs - for about 5 minutes), this will bring us one step closer to making Fallout style "Power Armor" a reality!
Do you think I wanna have to go buy an nVidia 7800 GT (I *eventually* plan on getting one) just to be able to run Windows and play games like Battlefield 2 on low graphics (which my machine handles fine with its builtin ATI Radeon 200 Xpress). And whereas currently you easilly use a single 7800 GT and put all graphics on high, if you run Vista, running high graphics would mean using dual 7800 GTs in SLI, which would mean I'd have to buy an SLI mobo (my current board has PCI-X, just not in SLI) and a new power supply to provide all that newly added requirement for extra juice... so from the sounds of that alone, no thanks, I'll stick with XP for now...
Dvorak or some other idiot that claims to be an expert in the tech field - and forget to mention that the time when they were actually an expert was 20 years ago when a proc any faster than 15 MHz cost thousands?
probly has something to do with MS way of writing shitty code, most of which you can bet was meant to be IE exclusive Visual Basic
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If you wanted to go as you said, from NY to Tokyo in 30min, you would have to be on AT LEAST a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjetscramjet as the average ICBMs built between the 60s and present would take (my guess) around 2 hours to make that trip.
Not to mention what the other posts responding to yours say, about how the rapid acceleration would create a high number of G forces
Even if you lived through the acceleration, a single trip would cost how many millions of dollars???
IMHO, Microsoft really screwed themselves over by launching too soon. The reason they did it was mostly to get a product out significantly sooner than Sony so they could get 1) people that owned nothing but the original XBox to buy a 360, 2) get the people that did no console research at all to buy a 360, and 3) so people with money to burn would have something to tide them over until the PS3 launch.
In order to get this signicifantly earlier (than the other next-gen consoles) launch date, they had no choice to sacrifice product quality of including vastly improved technologies - and the problem is Microsoft apparently (as the 360 launched this way) didnt give a damn about being worlds better than the current (PS2, Xbox) consoles.
These are the features and improvements I think are obvious MS ditched to get a 1st launch
1) They went with DVDs, which in the media market are becoming fastly outdated - they didnt even go with HD-DVDs, which wouldnt (as I understand it) required *nearly* the renovation of manufacturing facilities that BD-discs would have
2) IBM designed and made/is making the CPUs for all 3 next-gen console companies - Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo - and they have *very* apparently put much more of their company towards developing the Cell chip - which has other applications. MS did what Apple did with IBM, they wanted a good chip, but they wanted it for *JUST* desktop/PC gaming level applications - whereas IBM wants to build super high end supercomputer and server chips, which Sony's contract lets IBM do, produce a high end server level chip.
3) One of the hardware issues I had read about the 360 when it was in production - the software companies developing for the 360 had to *REQUEST* 512 megs of RAM to be put in the system - MS was gonna put a measley 256 in the 360! If virtually every PC game (made to run on the OS Microsoft made, mind you) has a minimum of 256 and a recommended of 512 RAM, wouldnt it apply to consoles also? When a system launches, it should hav *no* problem playing launch games, and then towards the end of that console's ability to provide an abundance of GPU and CPU power, the truly KILLER apps get released for it (note on the PS2, Killzone, the soon to be released "Black", ect) - If MS had launched the 360 with only 256 RAM, the 360 wouldnt have a chance in hell of this type of killer app developement, mostly because it wouldnt have had the power to get through the launch games, let alone the end-of-system-life killer apps.
But then again, those are *just* my personal thoughts on the 360...
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As to Red Faction - a good lot of enemy movements were scripted, yes, but the Geomod (destructable environments that you mentioned) kicked ass, you could roughly carve out a ramp/stairs out of a wall and get to odd ass places. Red Faction 2 however, was *very* sadly dissapointing - AI was improved yes, though 75% of it was still scripted, and worse yet than scripted AI was what it did to Geomod. In Red Faction 1, you could carve 20 feet into a cave wall - in Red Faction 2 (I only played the PS2 version of that one) you could only geomod very select parts of the world, namely 6 inch thick brick walls, limiting you to pretty much just making makeshift doors.
It wouldn't hurt for the graphics and physics engines to be made beforehand and sold to the company making the new game; the time has come when every game developer cannot afford to spend half its time writing out ultra-intricate physics and rendering engines for each game before making textures and models and THEN writing in the gameplay.
Which is why most PS3 FPS are scheduled to use the Unreal 3 engine...
My own opinion - ya its nice when a dev company has the time, money, and dedication to put out graphics and physics engines like in FEAR, BF2, or whatever your favorite ass kickin game engine is. However, like the parent post said, if all companies spent such time on proprietary gpaphics and physics engines, we'd be missing out on ALOT of good FPS storylines...
there were news articles up the week of Thanksgiving about how online purchases the workday after thanksgiving were expected to jump because people were waiting to order things on their workplace's broadband line.
this tells me one thing - lots of people wont pay for a connection when they can get what they need done on somebody else's network...
Patent offices now throw out anything even hinting of FTL travel and comms, which is what half his bullshit is claiming to be, if in fact he's "serious" about the whole gig of shit hes tryin to pull.
I wonder if the guy that submitted it did it cuz he realized how insanely funny the claims are, or if hes one of the morons who actually beleive more than the.03% of "news" headlines on p2p sites (only that last.03% has any chance of being real, and pops up like a month after it does here on/., cnet, or wired)...
and just like one of the new AMD FX 60s an SLI mobo, and dual SLI nVidia 7800 GTs, and probly still have enough for a couple hundred gig hard-drive - then even get one of the cheap Hauppage $50 tv tuners (got one o those tuners now)... but then again I'm a gamer freak, not a enterainment center freak...
iTunes and the iTunes Music Store? wouldnt it be an mp3 player product in order to rival the iPod line of products? (software rivals software, hardware rivals hardware...)
Hmmm... I guess they dont then here anymore - I just remember when I was younger going to places like Ace Hardware and them having the cans in the little wire cages where you had to have an employee come get it for you... So I guess either I remmeberd wrong (hell, thats 10 or 13 years ago...), or they never were and I've been spending too much time/.ing...
...when you can simply put one controller in each hand and start punching...
That doesnt sound like a new genre to me, more like just expanding and improving on current and old genres. Dont get me wrong, expanding and improving is obviously how video gaming continues to grow, but dont lable it as creating new genres when it isnt.
Not likely (shouldnt go through, anyway) to go through here in the US since prostitution is illegal here. How can you complain about what you are doing if its illegal in the first place? It would be like cocain smugglers trying to complain to the ATF (Alcohol Tabbaco & Firearms enforcement) that dead druggies in the morgue make the smugglers look bad.
I thought the US was protecting Taiwan - if I remember right, we sold em a few Aegis equiped destroyers back when the Chinese mainland govt was showing off the power of their naval fleet, firing rapid fire artillary rockets in the direction of Taiwan...
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I'm all for keeping kids from getting molested, but what the hell can you expect from one sided people that dont give a damn about the truth, they just care about how they think GTA and video games in general are the product of satanic cults...
Damn right it would, at least for the news companies anyway - if they featured articles like that about other news companies, people would (I hope) think "So what stops the one featuring the article from lying through their teeth?" then nobody would watch the news anymore, and so none of the networks would show their Doctor Phil or American Idol anymore, then people would go crazy and start killing each other, resulting in global war and the nuclear holocaust...
Forget all those theories about how the nuke holocaust will be triggered by Iran or North Korea - its more likely my theory happens lol...
I recently watched the Doom movie and saw one of the squad-mates playing a clunky assed version of a Gameboy Advance - and thought "If N-Gage ever HAD a future, the result would be that clunky ass GBA lookin thing" - hopefully 40 years in the future, technology will have advanced to the point a GBA can fit in a contact lense, not regress to the size of a full blown console...
pull out the old Atari 2600 and play some Combat or Freeway - or go even farther back and bug my uncle to dig out his Intellivision with the numb-thumb, stick the graphic key-card in the numbered controller and play Dungeons & Dragons - I'd have to remember to not shoot into the dark or my arrow might hit a wall and come back
Also, how about maybe having a "Powered by Google Maps/Earth" feature or whatever to make it easier to find out exactly where the company is - or if they are recruiting for a job on the West coast when its East coast or if its half way across the county - I'd sure as hell take a job 20 or 40 minutes away a lot sooner than a full hour or hour and a half (unless maybe the farther one paid a lot more)...
the only problem with this is the job search site would have to make a lot of tests for each field...
(not seriously, but in a proportional view of the way actions would escalate) they should be DoSing the shit out of Yahoo, and planning to make assasination raids on Gates's and Ballmer's penthouse offices...
Combined with those hydraulic leg braces that were posted a few months ago (the ones that let the user carry like an extra 200 lbs - for about 5 minutes), this will bring us one step closer to making Fallout style "Power Armor" a reality!
Do you think I wanna have to go buy an nVidia 7800 GT (I *eventually* plan on getting one) just to be able to run Windows and play games like Battlefield 2 on low graphics (which my machine handles fine with its builtin ATI Radeon 200 Xpress). And whereas currently you easilly use a single 7800 GT and put all graphics on high, if you run Vista, running high graphics would mean using dual 7800 GTs in SLI, which would mean I'd have to buy an SLI mobo (my current board has PCI-X, just not in SLI) and a new power supply to provide all that newly added requirement for extra juice... so from the sounds of that alone, no thanks, I'll stick with XP for now...
Dvorak or some other idiot that claims to be an expert in the tech field - and forget to mention that the time when they were actually an expert was 20 years ago when a proc any faster than 15 MHz cost thousands?
Just saw the "2.0" and assumed AJAX is somehow involved.
The hell with you guys, I'm gonna wait till Space Race XX is here!
(see Web 2.0 article and how many posts on "I'm waiting for Web X.0!")
probly has something to do with MS way of writing shitty code, most of which you can bet was meant to be IE exclusive Visual Basic
Not to mention what the other posts responding to yours say, about how the rapid acceleration would create a high number of G forces
Even if you lived through the acceleration, a single trip would cost how many millions of dollars???
In order to get this signicifantly earlier (than the other next-gen consoles) launch date, they had no choice to sacrifice product quality of including vastly improved technologies - and the problem is Microsoft apparently (as the 360 launched this way) didnt give a damn about being worlds better than the current (PS2, Xbox) consoles.
These are the features and improvements I think are obvious MS ditched to get a 1st launch
But then again, those are *just* my personal thoughts on the 360...As to Red Faction - a good lot of enemy movements were scripted, yes, but the Geomod (destructable environments that you mentioned) kicked ass, you could roughly carve out a ramp/stairs out of a wall and get to odd ass places. Red Faction 2 however, was *very* sadly dissapointing - AI was improved yes, though 75% of it was still scripted, and worse yet than scripted AI was what it did to Geomod. In Red Faction 1, you could carve 20 feet into a cave wall - in Red Faction 2 (I only played the PS2 version of that one) you could only geomod very select parts of the world, namely 6 inch thick brick walls, limiting you to pretty much just making makeshift doors.
Which is why most PS3 FPS are scheduled to use the Unreal 3 engine...
My own opinion - ya its nice when a dev company has the time, money, and dedication to put out graphics and physics engines like in FEAR, BF2, or whatever your favorite ass kickin game engine is. However, like the parent post said, if all companies spent such time on proprietary gpaphics and physics engines, we'd be missing out on ALOT of good FPS storylines...
this tells me one thing - lots of people wont pay for a connection when they can get what they need done on somebody else's network...
I wonder if the guy that submitted it did it cuz he realized how insanely funny the claims are, or if hes one of the morons who actually beleive more than the .03% of "news" headlines on p2p sites (only that last .03% has any chance of being real, and pops up like a month after it does here on /., cnet, or wired)...
and just like one of the new AMD FX 60s an SLI mobo, and dual SLI nVidia 7800 GTs, and probly still have enough for a couple hundred gig hard-drive - then even get one of the cheap Hauppage $50 tv tuners (got one o those tuners now)... but then again I'm a gamer freak, not a enterainment center freak...
iTunes and the iTunes Music Store? wouldnt it be an mp3 player product in order to rival the iPod line of products? (software rivals software, hardware rivals hardware...)
Hmmm... I guess they dont then here anymore - I just remember when I was younger going to places like Ace Hardware and them having the cans in the little wire cages where you had to have an employee come get it for you... So I guess either I remmeberd wrong (hell, thats 10 or 13 years ago...), or they never were and I've been spending too much time /.ing...
Spray cans are locked up in the US too... (just in case you dint know)
That doesnt sound like a new genre to me, more like just expanding and improving on current and old genres. Dont get me wrong, expanding and improving is obviously how video gaming continues to grow, but dont lable it as creating new genres when it isnt.
Not likely (shouldnt go through, anyway) to go through here in the US since prostitution is illegal here. How can you complain about what you are doing if its illegal in the first place? It would be like cocain smugglers trying to complain to the ATF (Alcohol Tabbaco & Firearms enforcement) that dead druggies in the morgue make the smugglers look bad.
I thought the US was protecting Taiwan - if I remember right, we sold em a few Aegis equiped destroyers back when the Chinese mainland govt was showing off the power of their naval fleet, firing rapid fire artillary rockets in the direction of Taiwan...