In short, the problem is gamers, and the fact that most game programmers are gamers, so they crank out the kind of gamer-think crap that Wii buyers never wanted, and won't ever buy.
I've coined a new word:
Wiilitism: (noun) The tendency of those promoting the Nintendo Wii® game console to refer to the "casual gamer" as a special and elevated class, specifically as a superior class in comparison to the "hardcore gamer".
That's right, game programmers are the ones that design, produce, and market all games. But only the "hardcore" ones.
> Nintendo's made no secret of trying to attract "casual gamers"
Nor has Microsoft. I've been playing Carcassone and Eets when my poor eyeballs need a rest from a game of Space Giraffe. And of course there's always Hexic, but after racking up 50 or so hours on it, I'm a little bored of it. I'm pondering buying the full game of Zuma.
Nintendo has a way of just dropping a console out there and demanding everyone beat down their door for the privilege of writing for it. They did it for the N64 and repeated it for the Cube. At least they still have a lock on handhelds.
Having a single 2900 or 88000 is considered "mid-range" on the gamer scene these days. It's seriously out of whack -- not only is the upfront cost high, which I can deal with by waiting a bit, but the power consumptions on these things is outright insane, to the point where it gets really noticeable on the electric bill.
First thing I noticed was all the craggy rough textured natural look to the UT3 screenshot, compared to the aliasing on the pipes, buildings, and bridge in the Enemy Territory shot. The ET background had some extra mountain polygons, but otherwise didn't have the draw distance.
Crysis on the other hand is wow. But it's going to need more watts from my GPU than a hair dryer.
I don't much find "nosuchthingasgod" offensive, but I have a hard time believing any significant number of people actually tagged it that way. So Taco, coders, editors (hey, I guess I have faith in something after all), please do us a favor: whatever clever thing you're doing with tags that makes it other than a sheer "most tagged" metric, please just stop it. It's not working. Really, it isn't. Your doing tags "different" is making tags very much broken.
> Some people might not notice a few display artifacts due to video ram having one bit stuck at zero or one, but for swap that's not good.
Video RAM is used to store everything, including shader programs. Card makers don't like having their hardware getting a reputation for crashing peoples games when a shader divides by zero. Plus, RAM manufacturers make a commodity, they don't have a bin of "low grade flakey RAM that will just go into video cards". Well, maybe Acer does.
Of course if Spock knew why the move was illogical, then he would pursue it to the logical conclusion of the defeat of the one making the illogical move. Methinks Spock was actually employing a very logical meta-strategy of bluffing.
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Go is a game with "only" about 200 plausible positions for each turn, and let me assure you, the slightest error is more than enough to decide the outcome.
It's probably a fallacy of some kind to read anything truly quantitative into that statement, but if it's generally true, then that means the decision tree is actually a lot narrower than is immediately apparent. This is actually good news for a solution. All you have to do is try to duplicate the thought process that went into the pruning. I suspect we'll have the technology to pull it right out of the brain of a master player before we figure it out any other way, and that brings up interesting philosophical questions of whether it's really the computer winning...
Stones get removed when they are captured. However, cycles are in fact against the rules of Go.
One and two stone captures are quite common in go, but actual captures of larger groups are much rarer, since once both sides know how the exchange will end, it's a waste of moves to actually play it out when territory can be gained elsewhere. Still, the game tree does have to take the idea of removing stones into account.
Oh, we're in violent agreement here, I'd rather let the automation handle it. Hell, I think that would be a fine idea for freeways too, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Let's just say I'm happy waiting for a couple of decades after the beta test:)
I guess that makes me one of those old technology-distrusting codgers. I think they're really on to something.
> For instance, O'Reilly is really pretty liberal, at least in the more traditional sense of the word
Funny, I cannot picture Jefferson throwing around the word "treason" to describe his political opponents in every other speech. O'Reilly is basically just a sad old troll there to whip up the faithful, and has no credibility when it comes to actual reporting or analysis. But of course that's because all the other media outlets are full of godless traitorous liberals, right?
The FAA's Personal Aviation program mandates full automation. You take it to a pad, tell it where you want to go, and the rest is up to the flight control network to get you there.
Yeah, that software. I'll admit their requirements on avionics are top notch, but I'm not sure I want the clusterfuck that's been pretty much every replacement for the aging air traffic control system in charge of hurtling me to my destination.
Sorry, but I heard that argument last time Nader ran. There really *is* a difference, and I think at least for the next 20 years, it's just got to be about undoing the damage. I simply won't risk another 3 supreme court appointments by Karl Rove.
> but apparently you would vote for Stalin over Bush.
Despite the hyperbole, I guess some people don't quite get it. The point I was trying to make, farcically, is that just about everybody has a LONG way to go before becoming Bush.
The upside of this is that this also applies to most of the Republican candidates (but I'm not entirely sure about Mitt "double the size of Guantanamo" Romney). But then again, if they use the same kind of archeological digging into the Reagan and Nixon administrations that built Bush's cabinet, we're just about as screwed, aren't we?
Eclipse does a nice job at it. It has a search box at the top of the preferences gui, and it narrows down the items in the tree to those that contain your search item.
I'm all for text configs with good gui tools to back them. These days, that usually means XML, which ain't perfect, but it's good enough when I have decent editor support like emacs's nxml-mode. Microsoft seems to have gotten the message as well, and actually has moved a lot of configuration to text, especially in IIS
You know what? The remaining Kennedy clan could split up and go on a killing spree that would make Charles Manson blush, and I'd vote a straight blue ticket just to get that fucking Bush and his people out. Byrd could burn a fucking cross on the lawn of Kweisi Mfume and Hillary could burn down the West wing, but as long as I do my part to make your party of crooks as dead as the Whigs, I'll be happy.
That's the kind of partisan I've turned into. You can thank your Decider for that.
Speaking as a Democrat (I didn't used to be a partisan until dubya), I've watched this congress gain a Democrat majority, yet continue reauthorizing the war, continue the patriot act, reauthorize wiretapping...
Hell, I think the GOP is getting its way MORE often with the democrats in power -- at least before, they would threaten a filibuster (god wouldn't that have been great if the GOP did take the "nuclear option" they were talking about only to see it backfire one term later)
The OJ Verdict was by no means nullification, it was the proper verdict to come to after the reasonable doubt that the prosecution so expertly introduced.
A lawyer acquaintance of mine said "I've been doing criminal defense for almost 20 years, and that glove stunt was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen a prosecutor do."
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> I think the F-22 will be the last class of manned fighter we'll ever build.
There will be many more. Never underestimate the power of pork.
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You are aware that "gathering dust" is a figure of speech are you not?
In short, the problem is gamers, and the fact that most game programmers are gamers, so they crank out the kind of gamer-think crap that Wii buyers never wanted, and won't ever buy.
I've coined a new word:
Wiilitism: (noun) The tendency of those promoting the Nintendo Wii® game console to refer to the "casual gamer" as a special and elevated class, specifically as a superior class in comparison to the "hardcore gamer".
That's right, game programmers are the ones that design, produce, and market all games. But only the "hardcore" ones.
You don't count each mini-game individually when calculating a "massive game lineup". HTH.
> Nintendo's made no secret of trying to attract "casual gamers"
Nor has Microsoft. I've been playing Carcassone and Eets when my poor eyeballs need a rest from a game of Space Giraffe. And of course there's always Hexic, but after racking up 50 or so hours on it, I'm a little bored of it. I'm pondering buying the full game of Zuma.
Nintendo has a way of just dropping a console out there and demanding everyone beat down their door for the privilege of writing for it. They did it for the N64 and repeated it for the Cube. At least they still have a lock on handhelds.
Having a single 2900 or 88000 is considered "mid-range" on the gamer scene these days. It's seriously out of whack -- not only is the upfront cost high, which I can deal with by waiting a bit, but the power consumptions on these things is outright insane, to the point where it gets really noticeable on the electric bill.
First thing I noticed was all the craggy rough textured natural look to the UT3 screenshot, compared to the aliasing on the pipes, buildings, and bridge in the Enemy Territory shot. The ET background had some extra mountain polygons, but otherwise didn't have the draw distance.
Crysis on the other hand is wow. But it's going to need more watts from my GPU than a hair dryer.
I don't much find "nosuchthingasgod" offensive, but I have a hard time believing any significant number of people actually tagged it that way. So Taco, coders, editors (hey, I guess I have faith in something after all), please do us a favor: whatever clever thing you're doing with tags that makes it other than a sheer "most tagged" metric, please just stop it. It's not working. Really, it isn't. Your doing tags "different" is making tags very much broken.
EA gives Maxis quite a bit of free rein, and they're loath to kill off that golden goose. I should hope Bioware gets the same treatment.
Pandemic on the other hand is basically borg-fodder.
> Some people might not notice a few display artifacts due to video ram having one bit stuck at zero or one, but for swap that's not good.
Video RAM is used to store everything, including shader programs. Card makers don't like having their hardware getting a reputation for crashing peoples games when a shader divides by zero. Plus, RAM manufacturers make a commodity, they don't have a bin of "low grade flakey RAM that will just go into video cards". Well, maybe Acer does.
I think for a start that assuming a hard super-ko rule should be fine. Getting a human to understand the Ing rules is hard enough as it is ;)
Of course if Spock knew why the move was illogical, then he would pursue it to the logical conclusion of the defeat of the one making the illogical move. Methinks Spock was actually employing a very logical meta-strategy of bluffing.
Go is a game with "only" about 200 plausible positions for each turn, and let me assure you, the slightest error is more than enough to decide the outcome.
It's probably a fallacy of some kind to read anything truly quantitative into that statement, but if it's generally true, then that means the decision tree is actually a lot narrower than is immediately apparent. This is actually good news for a solution. All you have to do is try to duplicate the thought process that went into the pruning. I suspect we'll have the technology to pull it right out of the brain of a master player before we figure it out any other way, and that brings up interesting philosophical questions of whether it's really the computer winning...
Stones get removed when they are captured. However, cycles are in fact against the rules of Go.
One and two stone captures are quite common in go, but actual captures of larger groups are much rarer, since once both sides know how the exchange will end, it's a waste of moves to actually play it out when territory can be gained elsewhere. Still, the game tree does have to take the idea of removing stones into account.
Oh, we're in violent agreement here, I'd rather let the automation handle it. Hell, I think that would be a fine idea for freeways too, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Let's just say I'm happy waiting for a couple of decades after the beta test :)
I guess that makes me one of those old technology-distrusting codgers. I think they're really on to something.
> For instance, O'Reilly is really pretty liberal, at least in the more traditional sense of the word
Funny, I cannot picture Jefferson throwing around the word "treason" to describe his political opponents in every other speech. O'Reilly is basically just a sad old troll there to whip up the faithful, and has no credibility when it comes to actual reporting or analysis. But of course that's because all the other media outlets are full of godless traitorous liberals, right?
The FAA's Personal Aviation program mandates full automation. You take it to a pad, tell it where you want to go, and the rest is up to the flight control network to get you there.
Yeah, that software. I'll admit their requirements on avionics are top notch, but I'm not sure I want the clusterfuck that's been pretty much every replacement for the aging air traffic control system in charge of hurtling me to my destination.
Sorry, but I heard that argument last time Nader ran. There really *is* a difference, and I think at least for the next 20 years, it's just got to be about undoing the damage. I simply won't risk another 3 supreme court appointments by Karl Rove.
> but apparently you would vote for Stalin over Bush.
Despite the hyperbole, I guess some people don't quite get it. The point I was trying to make, farcically, is that just about everybody has a LONG way to go before becoming Bush.
The upside of this is that this also applies to most of the Republican candidates (but I'm not entirely sure about Mitt "double the size of Guantanamo" Romney). But then again, if they use the same kind of archeological digging into the Reagan and Nixon administrations that built Bush's cabinet, we're just about as screwed, aren't we?
> Does there need to be conflict and controversy?
Half of slashdot seems to validate their existence from it. Not excluding myself either -- I'm sorry to say I'm often drawn into it too.
We need some kind of pledge, or at least a maxim like "Is it worth it to be right if the argument itself is stupid?"
> How do you search a gui interface?
Eclipse does a nice job at it. It has a search box at the top of the preferences gui, and it narrows down the items in the tree to those that contain your search item.
I'm all for text configs with good gui tools to back them. These days, that usually means XML, which ain't perfect, but it's good enough when I have decent editor support like emacs's nxml-mode. Microsoft seems to have gotten the message as well, and actually has moved a lot of configuration to text, especially in IIS
Parent is a copy and paste troll. Check his history.
You know what? The remaining Kennedy clan could split up and go on a killing spree that would make Charles Manson blush, and I'd vote a straight blue ticket just to get that fucking Bush and his people out. Byrd could burn a fucking cross on the lawn of Kweisi Mfume and Hillary could burn down the West wing, but as long as I do my part to make your party of crooks as dead as the Whigs, I'll be happy.
That's the kind of partisan I've turned into. You can thank your Decider for that.
Speaking as a Democrat (I didn't used to be a partisan until dubya), I've watched this congress gain a Democrat majority, yet continue reauthorizing the war, continue the patriot act, reauthorize wiretapping...
Hell, I think the GOP is getting its way MORE often with the democrats in power -- at least before, they would threaten a filibuster (god wouldn't that have been great if the GOP did take the "nuclear option" they were talking about only to see it backfire one term later)
The OJ Verdict was by no means nullification, it was the proper verdict to come to after the reasonable doubt that the prosecution so expertly introduced.
A lawyer acquaintance of mine said "I've been doing criminal defense for almost 20 years, and that glove stunt was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen a prosecutor do."