There's a slight double-standard in SL. Yes, scams inworld are illegal and prevented whenever possible. Yes, Linden Labs encourages real-world transactions through both the official Lindex currency exchange AND third-party groups. However, in their official disclaimers, they note that inworld L$ (Linden dollars) are of no value, and cannot be redeemed for cash in the event of data loss, error, etc. This is mostly just their way of covering their ass in case something goes wrong (which is unfortunately frequent), but it's definitely suspicious and one of the probably reasons the exchange rate hovers at around L$300 to $1.
You notice it's always "WE landed on the moon", but "the government" is fucking up things? "OUR team scored! Hooray!" at the start of the match, but "I can't believe THEY lost" at the end...?
Just an interesting observation. I call it "inclusive gain" and "exclusive loss".
Never heard of an empty grave? There's thousands of them, graves and tombstones for those lost at sea, eaten alive, and god knows what else. Frozen on Everest, never to be recovered? Yup, you guessed it.
I'm pretty sure Steve'll get a decent burial. I hope they take inflatable crocs to the funeral.:D
Flash can be useful. YouTube and Google Videos is a good starting point. Newgrounds for small, simple and amusing games and movies. (Albeit a lot are poor.) But as design for a full website - navigation and the like - it's just poor practice. Install AdBlock/Flashblock, and actually get the benefit of Flash without the downsides. It's only as harmful as JavaScript, and that's easy to work around with Firefox or any decent browser.
I'll refrain from PS3 bashing and jokes related to that conference for a moment...
As both a Sony employee and an individual, what do you think about all the negative publicity for PS3 so far? It's even reaching back to mainstream, non-gaming press. The PlayStation brand loyalty will only stretch so far. Nintendo learned that between the SNES and the N64.
Oddly, I find on a purely anecdotal level that people either go through hell and back with their PS2s or absolutely fine since they day they brought it. Me, I'm in the latter group - and I've never had any Sony product backfire or break under normal usage (yet). But I'm no Sony sympathiser - the mistakes they are making are stupid, high-profile, and guaranteed to screw them over unless they do something soon. PS3's price and castrated controller is just the jewel in their crown of mistakes.
I noticed that to - after saving DDTS to iTunes, only the title was immediately available. I wrote in Weird Al Yankovic, and assumed the album had the same title as the song:/
Unfortunately, I agree with you - it is a namespace clash. But the number of times I've had to deal with multiple definitions simultaneously, jeez... They've already chosen the name Pluton, and it's probably gonna stick. They should definitely have a backup, scientific definition. Pluton can be the layman's definition... Example: "He was present to present the present" is syntacticly valid, but "He was there to impart the gift" is many times more readable and sensible. So before the geologists get angry about Plutons on Plutons, they simply need to have a secondary word - Plutons on dwarf planets, as the IAU seem to be suggesting.
I think of it more like scope - the same noun (a variable, rather than a type) can be defined in two places. The only way I can think to illustrate this is pseudo-C style code...
field geology {
definition pluton = "A specific type of rock formation";//etc }
field astronomy {
definition pluton = "A specific type of planetoid under a specific mass";//etc }
A standard compiler (albeit one for defining fields and definitions) would have no issues with pluton being defined twice. The only time you get an issue is when a geo-astronomer tries to inherit both parent fields....
You mean Pocket Fighter, or one of the Puzzle Fighter games. Pocket Fighter rocked! SD (Super Deformed) versions of characters from Street Fighter, Red Earth and Darkstalkers/Vampire go head to head, knocking eachother senseless for Jewels.... weird game:3
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Yes, those Iraqi teenagers really need that anti-authority punk rock and metal right now...:'C
I accept your first two points. In the latter case, my point was simply there is an easier option with both stable software AND hardware, making it both a far easier and reliable developing experience, as well as a more reliable setup for the end-user. You're right that the PC platform is unstable because the hardware setup isn't predictable - but everyone knows that and takes that for granted nowadays. The real issue here is simply that if games companies switched to a standard Linux core for all their new games, they may as well make it a gaming OS - at which point you're better off making the hardware standard too.
Not all PC Gamers (like myself) have ultra-cutting-edge systems. Some of us know how quickly technology progresses, and know that a $3000 rig will be worth $300 in two years. I'm currently typing this on my "gaming laptop", and while I don't play the real CPU/GPU eating monsters like Civilisation 4, this thing handles Half-Life 2 and it's expansions like a charm. As you've noticed, I use said machine to go online. I also use it for work - Maxis, Microsoft Office, and Mozilla Firefox sitting side by side.
Also, since when is the entirety of Linux considered stable? Half the time the drivers are up in the air, and there's enough competition and conflict between various builds and organisations as to achieve bugger all on a standards level. If game companies started porting to a stable Linux core, they'd be porting to Wii - THAT has a Linux OS with Opera installed.
Flash is an awful development environment, albeit consistent compared to the Javascript issues between Mozilla, IE, and the others. Java is slow and clunky, if you're talking about the applet form. It's alright to make stuff in, but the fact that it almost universally sits inside a browser window invalidates your point about not using browsers. NeWS and and remote-PC applications, those I can agree with you on. Except the former would, like Linux and Mac, only be adopted by a niche and create even more diversity/compatibility issues (delete as suits your personal views). That leaves just remote-PC applications... perhaps Microsoft have something in the pipeline? Sounds dangerously profitable to me.:-/
AJAX will have to do for the time being. Fad or otherwise, at least it works... I've yet to have a problem with Google Maps, or any similar web-app.
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You're assuming first outta the gate wins. Compare Dreamcast to PS2.
You're thinking of Moon Hitler.
I think most Slashdotters live, breathe, browse and sleep in the same place - one cannot "retire" to your mother's basement if you never leave it. :3
There's a slight double-standard in SL. Yes, scams inworld are illegal and prevented whenever possible. Yes, Linden Labs encourages real-world transactions through both the official Lindex currency exchange AND third-party groups. However, in their official disclaimers, they note that inworld L$ (Linden dollars) are of no value, and cannot be redeemed for cash in the event of data loss, error, etc.
This is mostly just their way of covering their ass in case something goes wrong (which is unfortunately frequent), but it's definitely suspicious and one of the probably reasons the exchange rate hovers at around L$300 to $1.
You notice it's always "WE landed on the moon", but "the government" is fucking up things? "OUR team scored! Hooray!" at the start of the match, but "I can't believe THEY lost" at the end...?
Just an interesting observation. I call it "inclusive gain" and "exclusive loss".
Never heard of an empty grave? There's thousands of them, graves and tombstones for those lost at sea, eaten alive, and god knows what else. Frozen on Everest, never to be recovered? Yup, you guessed it.
:D
I'm pretty sure Steve'll get a decent burial. I hope they take inflatable crocs to the funeral.
Flash can be useful. YouTube and Google Videos is a good starting point. Newgrounds for small, simple and amusing games and movies. (Albeit a lot are poor.) But as design for a full website - navigation and the like - it's just poor practice.
Install AdBlock/Flashblock, and actually get the benefit of Flash without the downsides. It's only as harmful as JavaScript, and that's easy to work around with Firefox or any decent browser.
:s/MTV/MTV2/g
I'll refrain from PS3 bashing and jokes related to that conference for a moment...
As both a Sony employee and an individual, what do you think about all the negative publicity for PS3 so far? It's even reaching back to mainstream, non-gaming press. The PlayStation brand loyalty will only stretch so far. Nintendo learned that between the SNES and the N64.
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Oddly, I find on a purely anecdotal level that people either go through hell and back with their PS2s or absolutely fine since they day they brought it. Me, I'm in the latter group - and I've never had any Sony product backfire or break under normal usage (yet). But I'm no Sony sympathiser - the mistakes they are making are stupid, high-profile, and guaranteed to screw them over unless they do something soon. PS3's price and castrated controller is just the jewel in their crown of mistakes.
Hey, I happen to like Grand Theft Mortal Metal Kombat Auto Gear too >:o don't discriminate against GTMMKAG fans!
I noticed that to - after saving DDTS to iTunes, only the title was immediately available. I wrote in Weird Al Yankovic, and assumed the album had the same title as the song :/
Unfortunately, I agree with you - it is a namespace clash. But the number of times I've had to deal with multiple definitions simultaneously, jeez...
They've already chosen the name Pluton, and it's probably gonna stick. They should definitely have a backup, scientific definition. Pluton can be the layman's definition...
Example: "He was present to present the present" is syntacticly valid, but "He was there to impart the gift" is many times more readable and sensible. So before the geologists get angry about Plutons on Plutons, they simply need to have a secondary word - Plutons on dwarf planets, as the IAU seem to be suggesting.
succumbing to the venom
I thought it was from the venom and the simultaneous head-bleeding, myself...
Also, Hyrule Castle was unfair on Kirby :(
I think of it more like scope - the same noun (a variable, rather than a type) can be defined in two places. The only way I can think to illustrate this is pseudo-C style code...
//etc
//etc
field geology {
definition pluton = "A specific type of rock formation";
}
field astronomy {
definition pluton = "A specific type of planetoid under a specific mass";
}
A standard compiler (albeit one for defining fields and definitions) would have no issues with pluton being defined twice.
The only time you get an issue is when a geo-astronomer tries to inherit both parent fields....
You mean Pocket Fighter, or one of the Puzzle Fighter games. Pocket Fighter rocked! SD (Super Deformed) versions of characters from Street Fighter, Red Earth and Darkstalkers/Vampire go head to head, knocking eachother senseless for Jewels.... weird game :3
Yes, those Iraqi teenagers really need that anti-authority punk rock and metal right now... :'C
They said that six years ago.
They were wrong then.
Nintendo did try price-fixing in Europe once. That wasn't nice.
I accept your first two points.
In the latter case, my point was simply there is an easier option with both stable software AND hardware, making it both a far easier and reliable developing experience, as well as a more reliable setup for the end-user. You're right that the PC platform is unstable because the hardware setup isn't predictable - but everyone knows that and takes that for granted nowadays. The real issue here is simply that if games companies switched to a standard Linux core for all their new games, they may as well make it a gaming OS - at which point you're better off making the hardware standard too.
Not all PC Gamers (like myself) have ultra-cutting-edge systems. Some of us know how quickly technology progresses, and know that a $3000 rig will be worth $300 in two years. I'm currently typing this on my "gaming laptop", and while I don't play the real CPU/GPU eating monsters like Civilisation 4, this thing handles Half-Life 2 and it's expansions like a charm. As you've noticed, I use said machine to go online. I also use it for work - Maxis, Microsoft Office, and Mozilla Firefox sitting side by side.
Also, since when is the entirety of Linux considered stable? Half the time the drivers are up in the air, and there's enough competition and conflict between various builds and organisations as to achieve bugger all on a standards level. If game companies started porting to a stable Linux core, they'd be porting to Wii - THAT has a Linux OS with Opera installed.
Of course he was joking. If he was serious he would've said "verbificate".
Flash is an awful development environment, albeit consistent compared to the Javascript issues between Mozilla, IE, and the others. :-/
Java is slow and clunky, if you're talking about the applet form. It's alright to make stuff in, but the fact that it almost universally sits inside a browser window invalidates your point about not using browsers. NeWS and and remote-PC applications, those I can agree with you on. Except the former would, like Linux and Mac, only be adopted by a niche and create even more diversity/compatibility issues (delete as suits your personal views). That leaves just remote-PC applications... perhaps Microsoft have something in the pipeline? Sounds dangerously profitable to me.
AJAX will have to do for the time being. Fad or otherwise, at least it works... I've yet to have a problem with Google Maps, or any similar web-app.