this severely adds to the fear aspect of it. especially in the first few minutes of Death Toll or the end-game of No Mercy. you never know when or where a smoker or hunter is going to come from, and unless all four of you are paying attention to save one another, you're thoroughly boned. on top of that, the sheer terror of coming up on a boomer when you're low on health and ammo, in a poorly defendable spot, and in panic you shoot it while it's close to you and get covered in bile, attracting the hordes - you hear the screams and can hardly see, panic sets in, you fire wildly into the crowd, half the time hitting other survivors.. that game scares the crap out of me.
I had the same experience with AVP2. The sound of those bastard xenomorphs breathings.. ticking... their light footsteps.. I've never been scared in a game like that before, never. You don't even see a single alien for the first 20 minutes of the game, and but you see the proof that they've been around and you can hear them. By the time you finally see one, you've been dreading the moment for so long you practically douse yourself.
AVP3, please.
except that the pennies will also be subject to the wind resistance of whatever speed you're traveling, so it'll be backwards throw + air acceleration. even so you're not looking to break windscreens - that's when people start suing and getting really pissed off.
i would think that scratches in the clearcoat or maybe a chip will be enough to make most people back off.
Wow - this is the most self-centered, ignorant, cowardly post I've ever read here. You've just rationalised away your responsibility to the rest of the world, look at that! Now it's not your problem anymore, cause hey, no-one helped you right? So why should you help anyone else? You say that helping is indicative of poor self-esteem. There was an article on/. a while back about the effects of Altruistic behaviour on the human brain, and you know what? It triggered the same pleasure centres of the brain that are tickled by eating chocolate or having sex. There are a massive number of reasons why someone might help another person. To have them in their debt, because they need something from them, or they might actually care about them. To say that helping someone is most often indicative of poor self-esteem is about as ignorant as the Donnie Darko theory of all actions being based around fear or love.
If I was heading towards a cliff and I didn't realise it, I'd want one of my friends to slap me across the face as hard as they can and scream "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO YOU GODDAMN RETARD". The people who don't do this, aren't your friends. They're just people who can stand to be around you.
I agree with the rest of your last paragraph, and yes volunteering and assisting are both very different. Recognising and learning to solve problems is a great skill and one that I'm glad my parents instilled in me, but letting someone drive off that cliff will probably kill them and the lesson of braking early will be lost altogether.
Any kind of blind belief, where faith never bends to reason, is evil, no matter if it's faith in Islam or Jesus Christ.
If you're going to take this firm a stance, I believe it's important to include science in this list. What we know as a scientific proof today could easily be disproven tomorrow, and has been many times.
If you know something to be true, and someone else says you're wrong, and they don't believe your reasoning, does that count as blind faith? To them it may appear so. If you know someone, hang out with them, do things, interact with them etc, then one day someone else says they don't exist, how do you react?
I disagree with the last two sentences of your post. It is impossible to have true freedom to believe in an idea without the freedom to share it. I don't demand that you believe as I do either. That said, I share my opinion and belief in exactly the same way you do. You say that unwavering belief is evil - do you then, based on your views, deal with things you see as evil? What would you do to protect yourself from something you perceive as evil?
You wait; 14 years from now, you'll look back at Crysis and wonder how you ever thought it looked remotely realistic.
The first time I saw the Crysis DX10 ultra detail screenshot I thought it was a photo. It took a closer inspection and looking at the URL to realise what it was. If you honestly saw Doom and wondered how games could get more realistic, you have problems.
Yeah, definitely. Crap like this encourages piracy. How easy is it to download a corporate SP1 cd that you can slipstream to SP2 and never have to worry about activation?
Very.
You flacid apologist!
Life's not fair. Sometimes people have things that are wrong with them to cause them to be incompatible certain environments. I moved from a capital city to a redneck city in the middle of nowhere when I was in the 8th grade. Nearly everyone there was a sexist, racist, homophobic wanker, and it sucked cause I was a city kid with.. y'know.. common sense. I was totally incompatible with that environment. But there was nothing I could do about it because that was normal there. No amount of stomping my feet was going to stop everone there from being a fuckhead. So I got the shit kicked out of me a lot, and it was generally a pretty messed up experience, but what's the moral of the story?
You should stay away from things that hurt you. The world does not exist to suit your needs. You exist in the world, find your own place in it rather than forcing other people to adapt for you.
Yeah, just like in that story the other day when the guy called the police because the Circuit City manager would not let him leave. After it turned out he had done nothing wrong, he was arrested for obstructing police.
Aside from anything else, there's another important factor at play here.
You're angry. Very angry. Anger is an emotion, so it follows that you're emotionally invested in this. The fact that you are emotionally invested in it means that this is not a business decision for you. It's not logical. It's emotional. Which makes you - *da-dadada* - a fanboy. And an anonymous trolling fanboy at that. The fact that this is so emotional for you invalidates almost everything you've said, because if this was a business decision, it wouldn't be aggravating you so much. But you're snappy, bitey, and insulting. You're fanboying, and accusing others of doing it in the process! Terrible.
Everyone else is discussing this based on facts, logic, and rational determination based on fact. But not you! You're all "blah blah punks spewing bullshit blah blah juevenille stupidity". You're super pissed. This isn't business talking. This is personal for you, you got too close, man. Your favourite console will never be your friend. No-one is taking you seriously, because you're either making this stuff up, or you're just too plain stupid to be able to tell business sense from emotional attachment to a console (which, I might add, is highly worrying).
My point wasn't to suggest that Vista was without fault. It was just to suggest my own experiences with a number of systems, including DX10 hardware. (weird that some folks took that to be bragging, when DX10 is the focus of the article here.)
Yeah, I know what you mean. It can get frustrating when people get on the FUD train and just bash everything because it's Microsoft, without actual experience to back it up. I'd love to be able to disable UAC but unfortunately, one girl I live with is a moron, and I feel like everything I can do to make this PC even the slightest bit safer is an absolute necessity. Although I think in the long term the best solution is going to be buying a wireless keyboard and mouse, and then hiding them. The most secure computer is one that users can't use!
It is so ugly that it often backfires: People are getting used to click "Yes!" every time when they do anything, so even if a webpage popups a windows saying you have to download an executable to continue, those "trained" people will click on "Yes" without even thinking. That's the root of all evil.
Tell me about it. You get asked questions so often when trying to do things you know are fine, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see people just hit yes. Remember the old security adage about it being a sliding bar from very usable and extremely insecure to totally secure and totally unusable? If you put too many locks on too many doors between where someone is and where they want to go regularly, they will start jamming the doors open.
Yeah.. problem is that you're not alone. Since moving to Vista:
I had to get a new mouse as my existing mouse would power the laser off for 5 seconds every minute or so
I can no longer play Freelancer as half the sound doesn't work
My Windows Home Server connector doesn't work (to be fair this is x64's problem, not all versions)
Media Centre Bigpond Movies doesn't work (I believe this may be x64 related also)
My ISO mounting program requires elevation to run
I've lost half of the controls for my sound card in the drivers
I can't use Winamp properly
..the list goes on. I consider myself to be above the level of the average user, and we've pulled that machine out in favour of an older MCE2005 box to drive the TV. Be aware that just because -you're- not having problems, doesn't mean everyone else isn't. The KKK are pretty friendly dudes, if you're a rich white guy.
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Perhaps so, but how do you hire a tech person to weed out the "puke learners" if you don't have one already?
I see this biting people often. I'm a networking contractor in my spare time so I often get called in by word of mouth to repair something for a company who has no IT guy because the IT guy was a moron and broke stuff and left them with no documentation.
I have seen one manager's test for whether or not the tech guy was nerdy enough for the job though. He asked who the proponent thought would win in a fight - Battlestar Galactica, or The Enterprise, and why.
The problem is more that you have to cram for those tests, if only because some questions have to be answered in a way most sane persons would never do. And most of the others make you remember stuff that in the unlikely event that you should ever need to know, you will have forgotten anyway
This is so ridiculously true. I took the first of my CCNP exams today (BCMSN) and even though I spent a long weekend last month building a fully-functional enterprise campus model network in my house consisting of 5x 3560's, 4x 2950's, 2x 3524's and a 2924, I still only passed by 1%. I clearly have a functional working knowledge of all the technologies in the exam, but they don't ask it in ways that you do have to troubleshoot or work out in the real world.
And a frustrating amount of it depends on the correct interpretation of the cleverly worded questions - I found several questions that were so ambiguous, they could've easily been interpreted in two different ways, resulting in two different answers. Unclear goals and requests, and some questions that covered material that isn't even in the topic list or the official exam certification guide.
Personally, I prefer to understand concepts and technologies, then apply that to an individual product, so details about what order the commands are configured in is something for [?] or [Tab] to figure out. I find it really difficult to do exams of this kind; tricky phrasing, ambiguous requests - why beat around the bush? Ask me clear questions and I'll give you clear answers.
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this severely adds to the fear aspect of it. especially in the first few minutes of Death Toll or the end-game of No Mercy. you never know when or where a smoker or hunter is going to come from, and unless all four of you are paying attention to save one another, you're thoroughly boned. on top of that, the sheer terror of coming up on a boomer when you're low on health and ammo, in a poorly defendable spot, and in panic you shoot it while it's close to you and get covered in bile, attracting the hordes - you hear the screams and can hardly see, panic sets in, you fire wildly into the crowd, half the time hitting other survivors .. that game scares the crap out of me.
I had the same experience with AVP2. The sound of those bastard xenomorphs breathings .. ticking ... their light footsteps .. I've never been scared in a game like that before, never. You don't even see a single alien for the first 20 minutes of the game, and but you see the proof that they've been around and you can hear them. By the time you finally see one, you've been dreading the moment for so long you practically douse yourself.
AVP3, please.
hahahh that was great
hahaha you win
except that the pennies will also be subject to the wind resistance of whatever speed you're traveling, so it'll be backwards throw + air acceleration. even so you're not looking to break windscreens - that's when people start suing and getting really pissed off.
i would think that scratches in the clearcoat or maybe a chip will be enough to make most people back off.
hahahaha well played
+1
Wow - this is the most self-centered, ignorant, cowardly post I've ever read here. You've just rationalised away your responsibility to the rest of the world, look at that! Now it's not your problem anymore, cause hey, no-one helped you right? So why should you help anyone else? You say that helping is indicative of poor self-esteem. There was an article on /. a while back about the effects of Altruistic behaviour on the human brain, and you know what? It triggered the same pleasure centres of the brain that are tickled by eating chocolate or having sex. There are a massive number of reasons why someone might help another person. To have them in their debt, because they need something from them, or they might actually care about them. To say that helping someone is most often indicative of poor self-esteem is about as ignorant as the Donnie Darko theory of all actions being based around fear or love.
If I was heading towards a cliff and I didn't realise it, I'd want one of my friends to slap me across the face as hard as they can and scream "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO YOU GODDAMN RETARD". The people who don't do this, aren't your friends. They're just people who can stand to be around you.
I agree with the rest of your last paragraph, and yes volunteering and assisting are both very different. Recognising and learning to solve problems is a great skill and one that I'm glad my parents instilled in me, but letting someone drive off that cliff will probably kill them and the lesson of braking early will be lost altogether.
Any kind of blind belief, where faith never bends to reason, is evil, no matter if it's faith in Islam or Jesus Christ.
If you're going to take this firm a stance, I believe it's important to include science in this list. What we know as a scientific proof today could easily be disproven tomorrow, and has been many times.
If you know something to be true, and someone else says you're wrong, and they don't believe your reasoning, does that count as blind faith? To them it may appear so. If you know someone, hang out with them, do things, interact with them etc, then one day someone else says they don't exist, how do you react?
I disagree with the last two sentences of your post. It is impossible to have true freedom to believe in an idea without the freedom to share it. I don't demand that you believe as I do either. That said, I share my opinion and belief in exactly the same way you do. You say that unwavering belief is evil - do you then, based on your views, deal with things you see as evil? What would you do to protect yourself from something you perceive as evil?
"great" xbox live failure?
whingexcore.
You wait; 14 years from now, you'll look back at Crysis and wonder how you ever thought it looked remotely realistic.
The first time I saw the Crysis DX10 ultra detail screenshot I thought it was a photo. It took a closer inspection and looking at the URL to realise what it was. If you honestly saw Doom and wondered how games could get more realistic, you have problems.Yeah, definitely. Crap like this encourages piracy. How easy is it to download a corporate SP1 cd that you can slipstream to SP2 and never have to worry about activation? Very.
I'd love to see a direct remake of Mechwarrior 1.
You flacid apologist! Life's not fair. Sometimes people have things that are wrong with them to cause them to be incompatible certain environments. I moved from a capital city to a redneck city in the middle of nowhere when I was in the 8th grade. Nearly everyone there was a sexist, racist, homophobic wanker, and it sucked cause I was a city kid with .. y'know .. common sense. I was totally incompatible with that environment. But there was nothing I could do about it because that was normal there. No amount of stomping my feet was going to stop everone there from being a fuckhead. So I got the shit kicked out of me a lot, and it was generally a pretty messed up experience, but what's the moral of the story?
You should stay away from things that hurt you. The world does not exist to suit your needs. You exist in the world, find your own place in it rather than forcing other people to adapt for you.
hahahahahahahhhahha hah ha hah hah hahahah
ahhhhhhhh thats the best thing i've read all day
Development for PS1 and PS2 were a goddamn nightmare too. Why should PS3 be any different?
Will linux users not be able to play against PC users either?
ummYeah, just like in that story the other day when the guy called the police because the Circuit City manager would not let him leave. After it turned out he had done nothing wrong, he was arrested for obstructing police.
Aside from anything else, there's another important factor at play here.
You're angry. Very angry. Anger is an emotion, so it follows that you're emotionally invested in this. The fact that you are emotionally invested in it means that this is not a business decision for you. It's not logical. It's emotional. Which makes you - *da-dadada* - a fanboy. And an anonymous trolling fanboy at that. The fact that this is so emotional for you invalidates almost everything you've said, because if this was a business decision, it wouldn't be aggravating you so much. But you're snappy, bitey, and insulting. You're fanboying, and accusing others of doing it in the process! Terrible.
Everyone else is discussing this based on facts, logic, and rational determination based on fact. But not you! You're all "blah blah punks spewing bullshit blah blah juevenille stupidity". You're super pissed. This isn't business talking. This is personal for you, you got too close, man. Your favourite console will never be your friend. No-one is taking you seriously, because you're either making this stuff up, or you're just too plain stupid to be able to tell business sense from emotional attachment to a console (which, I might add, is highly worrying).
My point wasn't to suggest that Vista was without fault. It was just to suggest my own experiences with a number of systems, including DX10 hardware. (weird that some folks took that to be bragging, when DX10 is the focus of the article here.)
Yeah, I know what you mean. It can get frustrating when people get on the FUD train and just bash everything because it's Microsoft, without actual experience to back it up. I'd love to be able to disable UAC but unfortunately, one girl I live with is a moron, and I feel like everything I can do to make this PC even the slightest bit safer is an absolute necessity. Although I think in the long term the best solution is going to be buying a wireless keyboard and mouse, and then hiding them. The most secure computer is one that users can't use!
It is so ugly that it often backfires: People are getting used to click "Yes!" every time when they do anything, so even if a webpage popups a windows saying you have to download an executable to continue, those "trained" people will click on "Yes" without even thinking. That's the root of all evil.
Tell me about it. You get asked questions so often when trying to do things you know are fine, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see people just hit yes. Remember the old security adage about it being a sliding bar from very usable and extremely insecure to totally secure and totally unusable? If you put too many locks on too many doors between where someone is and where they want to go regularly, they will start jamming the doors open.
Yeah .. problem is that you're not alone. Since moving to Vista:
..the list goes on. I consider myself to be above the level of the average user, and we've pulled that machine out in favour of an older MCE2005 box to drive the TV. Be aware that just because -you're- not having problems, doesn't mean everyone else isn't. The KKK are pretty friendly dudes, if you're a rich white guy.
Perhaps so, but how do you hire a tech person to weed out the "puke learners" if you don't have one already?
I see this biting people often. I'm a networking contractor in my spare time so I often get called in by word of mouth to repair something for a company who has no IT guy because the IT guy was a moron and broke stuff and left them with no documentation.
I have seen one manager's test for whether or not the tech guy was nerdy enough for the job though. He asked who the proponent thought would win in a fight - Battlestar Galactica, or The Enterprise, and why.
Funnily enough, it worked pretty well.
The problem is more that you have to cram for those tests, if only because some questions have to be answered in a way most sane persons would never do. And most of the others make you remember stuff that in the unlikely event that you should ever need to know, you will have forgotten anyway
This is so ridiculously true. I took the first of my CCNP exams today (BCMSN) and even though I spent a long weekend last month building a fully-functional enterprise campus model network in my house consisting of 5x 3560's, 4x 2950's, 2x 3524's and a 2924, I still only passed by 1%. I clearly have a functional working knowledge of all the technologies in the exam, but they don't ask it in ways that you do have to troubleshoot or work out in the real world.
And a frustrating amount of it depends on the correct interpretation of the cleverly worded questions - I found several questions that were so ambiguous, they could've easily been interpreted in two different ways, resulting in two different answers. Unclear goals and requests, and some questions that covered material that isn't even in the topic list or the official exam certification guide.
Personally, I prefer to understand concepts and technologies, then apply that to an individual product, so details about what order the commands are configured in is something for [?] or [Tab] to figure out. I find it really difficult to do exams of this kind; tricky phrasing, ambiguous requests - why beat around the bush? Ask me clear questions and I'll give you clear answers.
Frustrating! Now onto BSCI.