You openly admit that you monitor thousands of people's PC's without their consent and probably without their knowledge? I would be ashamed. Collected any good blackmail material yet?
I've been in the business for 20 years and heard all this before. We reached two conclusions:
Different players want different things; you can't please everybody (as the comments above show).
To make a successful commercial game, you must have both high quality graphics AND high quality gameplay. (High quality doesn't necessarily mean high-end graphics technology; it means aesthetically competent and suited to the game's setting.) A game with great gameplay and graphics weaknesses can survive, but it will have a tough time at first, until the word spreads. A game with great graphics and poor gameplay will have decent early sales, but these will drop off quickly as people discover the bugs or design errors in the gameplay.
If you must err on one side or the other, err on the side of gameplay. But you should make both as high-quality as you can.
Concerning graphics technology, that's down to audience. Hardware-oriented fanbois will drool over the latest gear and games that exploit it; adult women playing games on Yahoo during their coffee break will not. Decide who you are serving and what your game really needs first.
If you're an academic you share information so that it may be publicly debated and tested. This helps to find good work and expose bad work. It's how science and technology move forward.
If you're a spook, you take tons of government money, keep everything secret, and milk even bad ideas for as long as you can because there's no public debate over what you do. You may or may not move science and technology forward, but it doesn't matter because it's all in the name of National Security [cue heavenly choir].
You can't be both. He shouldn't have tried to be both. An academic doing secret work is a fraud.
I have to hand some guy outside a hotel dressed up in what looks like a Napoleonic cavalryman's uniform, a couple of bucks to wave his arm and blow a whistle for a taxi? What's up with that? Last time I didn't have the bills and handed the guy a 50c piece; he made sure that my taxi door wasn't closed properly after I got in.
New Zealand has no tipping. Instead they have this amazing concept called "paying their employees a living wage." I hate tipping. It's the modern-day expression of the master-serf relationship, without much in the way of privileges for the masters.
The item is reporting a Times article, along with some related links. The issue is a familiar one and the language perfectly grammatical. What's the problem?
And they don't need cellphone masts either. We put wildlife radio tracking collars on marine mammals, for God's sake. This is a well-understood technology with many variants for different applications -- I think we can find a way to use it on cattle in an open landscape.
Besides, the supermarket price of beef is too low anyway. It doesn't properly include beef's carbon or methane costs.
I'll tell you: it's only different because it's a reporter has been kidnapped. When it's a doctor, politician, priest, baby, nun, lawyer, businessman, girl, or oil worker, they smear it all over the front pages and milk it for all it's worth.
If the police or other authorities make a good, non-political case that a life is in danger and the public interest is not served by the release of the news, the reputable newspapers will go along until there is some resolution -- no matter WHO has been kidnapped. It happens all the time; you just don't know about it. God knows how many coalition soldiers are being held by the Taliban, and the news is kept quiet while we try to get them back.
Yet another reason why bloggers aren't journalists: bloggers only care about their own opinion.
The guys running NASA now are clearly not the guys who figured out how to rescue Apollo 13 in a matter of hours. Whoever designed the space shuttle are a load of overpaid useless wankers.
Pure science informs experimental science informs design engineers informs process engineers informs manufacture.
And along the way marketing gets involved and turns a beautiful idea into a pile of underperforming, overpriced crap with go-faster stripes painted on the side to make it look cool. And NASA gets involved and makes you change your sensible metric measurements into furlongs and hogsheads.
There is no longer any reason why ANYbody should be electrocuted in the bathtub. This technology is at least 20 years old, and probably much older than that.
Great. The Mars Climate Orbiter got fucked up and the space shuttle is a millstone around the necks of future spacefarers because NASA relied on mom-and-pop machine shops with antiquated gear and leftover bits and pieces from other space missions. Wonderful. No wonder it's such a dangerous kludge.
As for SI: it was an international standard long, LONG before 1960. Napoleon imposed it wherever he could, which meant the French Empire and other places he conquered, which was most of Europe. By 1900 most of the world's population was using what became the modern SI system.
The only reason this is even an issue is American economic hegemony. Anybody with half a brain can see that imperial units are stupid. Entertaining, but stupid.
There was NOT "significantly established manufacturing infrastructure" before Napoleon Bonaparte, unless you mean the occasional iron foundry.
There was NO fucking excuse for building the space shuttle in imperial units in the first place. It was a new machine.
Defending imperial units makes as much sense as defending pounds, shillings, and pence or measuring water consumption in Genoa hogsheads. It's all just bloody-minded sentimentality, the same attitude that keeps the UK using pounds instead of the vastly more convenient (and more stable) Euro.
For him it's about words on paper. And why shouldn't it be? He's one of the best writers of the 20th century, and words on paper have been his life. I love his work.
He hasn't yet seen the value in the Internet, but then much of its value is hidden behind mountains of dross, so it's not surprising. I'm willing to overlook that ignorance; it doesn't devalue anything he has done.
Nobody does creepy with words like Ray Bradbury. He is Edgar Allen Poe's Edgar Allen Poe.
Whistleblowers are usually protected by the law, and get support from the press and friendly politicians into the bargain.
This guys breached his employment contract and doesn't want to take the consequences. Incidentally, all he got was a reprimand. AND he wrote an article (therefore got paid) for the very same publication that outed him!
(Except with respect to your right to purchase alcohol -- a law is flagrant age discrimination.)
Kids get their records expunged. Adults don't. If you do it, live with it. If you can't live with it, get yourself declared incompetent on grounds of mental defect and live in a secure mental facility; you don't belong in society.
Being young is not a license to do any damn fool thing you like.
It's my machine. Nobody uses it but me. Why the hell would I ever run it in crippled mode? Freedom requires responsibility: fine. I'll take responsibility for what I install. I don't install dodgy software or software with viruses.
Quit treating the users like five-year-olds and let them do what they want with their own damn machines.
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Nice to know some folks read carefully. :-)
You openly admit that you monitor thousands of people's PC's without their consent and probably without their knowledge? I would be ashamed. Collected any good blackmail material yet?
If you must err on one side or the other, err on the side of gameplay. But you should make both as high-quality as you can.
Concerning graphics technology, that's down to audience. Hardware-oriented fanbois will drool over the latest gear and games that exploit it; adult women playing games on Yahoo during their coffee break will not. Decide who you are serving and what your game really needs first.
Get used to it or get out.
If you're an academic you share information so that it may be publicly debated and tested. This helps to find good work and expose bad work. It's how science and technology move forward.
If you're a spook, you take tons of government money, keep everything secret, and milk even bad ideas for as long as you can because there's no public debate over what you do. You may or may not move science and technology forward, but it doesn't matter because it's all in the name of National Security [cue heavenly choir].
You can't be both. He shouldn't have tried to be both. An academic doing secret work is a fraud.
I have to hand some guy outside a hotel dressed up in what looks like a Napoleonic cavalryman's uniform, a couple of bucks to wave his arm and blow a whistle for a taxi? What's up with that? Last time I didn't have the bills and handed the guy a 50c piece; he made sure that my taxi door wasn't closed properly after I got in.
New Zealand has no tipping. Instead they have this amazing concept called "paying their employees a living wage." I hate tipping. It's the modern-day expression of the master-serf relationship, without much in the way of privileges for the masters.
The item is reporting a Times article, along with some related links. The issue is a familiar one and the language perfectly grammatical. What's the problem?
And they don't need cellphone masts either. We put wildlife radio tracking collars on marine mammals, for God's sake. This is a well-understood technology with many variants for different applications -- I think we can find a way to use it on cattle in an open landscape.
Besides, the supermarket price of beef is too low anyway. It doesn't properly include beef's carbon or methane costs.
I'll tell you: it's only different because it's a reporter has been kidnapped. When it's a doctor, politician, priest, baby, nun, lawyer, businessman, girl, or oil worker, they smear it all over the front pages and milk it for all it's worth.
If the police or other authorities make a good, non-political case that a life is in danger and the public interest is not served by the release of the news, the reputable newspapers will go along until there is some resolution -- no matter WHO has been kidnapped. It happens all the time; you just don't know about it. God knows how many coalition soldiers are being held by the Taliban, and the news is kept quiet while we try to get them back.
Yet another reason why bloggers aren't journalists: bloggers only care about their own opinion.
Remind me again why this guy didn't go to the gallows? Oh, yes, rank hypocrisy, that's right.
The guys running NASA now are clearly not the guys who figured out how to rescue Apollo 13 in a matter of hours. Whoever designed the space shuttle are a load of overpaid useless wankers.
Oh, and regarding stuck knobs: WD-40.
Pure science informs experimental science informs design engineers informs process engineers informs manufacture.
And along the way marketing gets involved and turns a beautiful idea into a pile of underperforming, overpriced crap with go-faster stripes painted on the side to make it look cool. And NASA gets involved and makes you change your sensible metric measurements into furlongs and hogsheads.
There is no longer any reason why ANYbody should be electrocuted in the bathtub. This technology is at least 20 years old, and probably much older than that.
Great. The Mars Climate Orbiter got fucked up and the space shuttle is a millstone around the necks of future spacefarers because NASA relied on mom-and-pop machine shops with antiquated gear and leftover bits and pieces from other space missions. Wonderful. No wonder it's such a dangerous kludge.
As for SI: it was an international standard long, LONG before 1960. Napoleon imposed it wherever he could, which meant the French Empire and other places he conquered, which was most of Europe. By 1900 most of the world's population was using what became the modern SI system.
The only reason this is even an issue is American economic hegemony. Anybody with half a brain can see that imperial units are stupid. Entertaining, but stupid.
There was NOT "significantly established manufacturing infrastructure" before Napoleon Bonaparte, unless you mean the occasional iron foundry.
There was NO fucking excuse for building the space shuttle in imperial units in the first place. It was a new machine.
Defending imperial units makes as much sense as defending pounds, shillings, and pence or measuring water consumption in Genoa hogsheads. It's all just bloody-minded sentimentality, the same attitude that keeps the UK using pounds instead of the vastly more convenient (and more stable) Euro.
Whoops! Shouldn't have waved my arm in quite that way! Guess it was calibrated for a smaller operator. Bye, bye, Denver!
Compact fluorescents contain mercury, which is really fun to play with. No problem.
Trees store the carbon in the form of cellulose. When they die, the carbon goes back into the environment.
For him it's about words on paper. And why shouldn't it be? He's one of the best writers of the 20th century, and words on paper have been his life. I love his work.
He hasn't yet seen the value in the Internet, but then much of its value is hidden behind mountains of dross, so it's not surprising. I'm willing to overlook that ignorance; it doesn't devalue anything he has done.
Nobody does creepy with words like Ray Bradbury. He is Edgar Allen Poe's Edgar Allen Poe.
Whistleblowers are usually protected by the law, and get support from the press and friendly politicians into the bargain.
This guys breached his employment contract and doesn't want to take the consequences. Incidentally, all he got was a reprimand. AND he wrote an article (therefore got paid) for the very same publication that outed him!
(Except with respect to your right to purchase alcohol -- a law is flagrant age discrimination.)
Kids get their records expunged. Adults don't. If you do it, live with it. If you can't live with it, get yourself declared incompetent on grounds of mental defect and live in a secure mental facility; you don't belong in society.
Being young is not a license to do any damn fool thing you like.
Yes, duh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_bonnet_(pepper)
It's my machine. Nobody uses it but me. Why the hell would I ever run it in crippled mode? Freedom requires responsibility: fine. I'll take responsibility for what I install. I don't install dodgy software or software with viruses.
Quit treating the users like five-year-olds and let them do what they want with their own damn machines.
You eat vindaloo, you know it's going to be hot. You expect it, you get used to it.
If you really want to shock somebody, put a scotch bonnet in their chocolate cake.
Hitchcock knew this perfectly well. A whole movie of rising tension, and then suddenly, WHAM, a shocker image.
Same for gore in video games.
I forgot that the clock speed was faster than 1 MHz. Must have been thinking of my old KIM-1.