People think that Steve Jobs is the great humanitarian, that he actually wants to help people.
They don't seem to realize that this is the man who told his friend Steve Wozniak that Atari had only given them $700 for Breakout rather than $5000 so that he would only have to pay Wozniak $350 rather than $2500 for his share. And this was his friend Do you really think he actually cares about some random Joe not having to put up with DRM?
I am in the same boat as you, in that this will only work if all cars are controlled. However, even then, what about deer/jogs/small children jumping out in the middle of the road? Can the computer respond to a non-computer fast enough? Radar? This will not only raise the price of vehicles significantly, but will also lead to a number of false positives, causing people's cars to randomly stop, sometimes at high speeds, causing a large number of crashes. Computers can't control physics.
The funniest/saddest/most ironic thing about those adverts is that when someone copies a dvd, they can remove it from the dvd without ruining the movie. Not that I've ever done so or been around someone who has done so. That would be illegal/immoral/unethical.
Do you really think that getting all these slashdotters together in the real world is healthy? I mean, online is one thing...but think of the children...
If you remove levels, chapters, parts, sections, and basically any other separator from games, you will also lose all story. How long can you do basically nothing in Grand Theft Auto until you start to get bored and wonder what else is to the world? I mean, if you don't want levels, you will basically just have a game where you run around doing a whole lot of nothing. And when that comes around, game designers will cease having to create 'living, breathing' worlds, and simply create a couple of blocks, fill it with prostitutes, and give you an arsenal of weaponry, and let you have at it. It will become boring very quickly. Levels are simply chapter dividers in stories. Removing them removes the story.
IMHO, there is no 'End of Levels' coming anytime soon. The open-ended design does not end levels, it just makes the transition more seemless. Even in 'sandbox games' such as Grand Theft Auto, Bully, and Morrowind, there is still definite breaks in the story, which can clearly be defined as levels. While it may not say, 'LEVEL 1: CLEARED" or something of that sort, it still has tougher enemies, more of them, and allows the player to reach new areas not previously available to them.
The day that there are no new levels in games is the day that storytelling in games ends.
Well, except for our President of course. He thinks sentences are too tough
When I first read that, I read it as sentences, the grammar version. I then realized that you meant it as sentences, the judicial kind. Then I realized that it made sense both ways.
I agree. And we need to stop these so-called 'Pokemon' animal-fighting simulators. I am willing to bet that Mr. Michael Vick first starting his dog-fighting career with a little animal named Pikachu. One day Pikachu, the next day, Lassie. When will it end?
But what about those who obsessively watch horror movies all the time? The idea would seem to be that they are attracted to human pain, suffering, and death. Many of these movies are quite gruesome and realistic in their showing of how the victims met their demise. Yet, shooting an obviously unreal person in a videogame is considered the immoral. Aren't they two sides of the same coin? One has a person deliberately shooting a fake person. The other has a person watching over and over a man being eaten alive. Is there a difference? Isn't there a moral implication over whether to watch the movie again? It would seem that seeing the man being eaten alive is enjoyable to the person...
The hard-line Christians question the ethics of cloning and the existence of dinosaurs, so how well would dinosaur cloning research go down?
Magnificently.
Not letting them escape. Here in Australia we're having enough problems dealing with cane toads, can you imagine having to deal with velociraptors?
It's okay. We can put them on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. Put up a lot of fences. We could even make it a tourist attraction. What could possibly go wrong?
Trying to tell them that everything they ever knew and loved is gone. They wouldn't know about the Soviet collapse or the World Wars, or that these days most large animals grow their children inside of them, how would they deal with that shock? Is it ethical? These dinosaurs have never even seen anything with hair before, how would they cope?
I believe Mel Gibson learned to cope when he woke up from that coma after all those years. One minute, he's a test pilot in 1939, and then the next minute, he's in 1992, and the love of his life has grown old and grey. He survived..well enough... You never know, maybe the cloned dino is actually in love with Nessie...
You make a very valid point. However, there is always the possibility that a cure for one type of cancer can trigger relevant research into curing other types of cancer. Once scientists are able to figure out why one type of cancer grows a certain way, and figure out a way to stop it, they can use their research to hopefully figure out ways to stop other sorts of cancer.
The town I grew up in had 7(and there were only 3000 people).
night clubs to go dancing
These are called barns.
friends within a reasonable driving distance
When I lived in the city, most friends in the area were about 15 minutes away, with the furthest being 30 minutes. When I lived in the small town, the furthest was 15 minutes away.
Food delivery... open stores at odd hours. All night grocery shopping.
I can remember my mother getting home late, and myself working on a project for school, and then realizing that I needed some materials for the project, which was due the next day. All that it took was a call to the variety/dimestore owner(whom everyone knew because the town only had 3000 people in it) who came and allowed us to get the needed materials and allowed us to write a check. There are some food delivery services available. Off the top of my head there is a chinese place that delivers, and the Dairy Queen(Hamburgers, if you haven't heard of the place) delivers as well. 30 minutes away, there is a 24 hour SuperWalmart that has all night grocery shopping.
Basically, living in the country means that there are plenty of things going on, but sometimes you have to make them happen yourself. If there is no store open, and you desperately need something, an open store is just a phone call away. However, if you haven't lived in the countryside, you won't understand, nor will you believe me.
And by the way, I don't hate the city. I actually live in a city currently while I go to school. Would I move back to the country? I wouldn't say no.
But gaining knowledge on something such as computers does give them more expertise on writing about computer technology than someone who went to school for journalism and then got a job at Wired Magazine.
You've seen his code? I think we have a problem here...
Gaining unauthorized access to code is a violation of the DCMA. Please turn yourself in to your local police station and await charges there. I believe the RIAA wants in on this one, too.
I think that the RIAA, since it allowed 'artists' such as Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and n'Sync to be played on the radio, nay, to even getting a contract, is the far worse crime to humanity.
I strongly suspect the NFL will continue asserting rights they don't have, putting the burden on the other guy to show their use is fair use.
This will, however, establish precedence. Therefore, if a similar case comes up, the defense attorneys can point to this case, assuming she wins, and use it to help their future case.
if the Almighty God has sent Jack down to save us from the heathens, personally I think we're fucked
Actually, if God sent Jack, I have this sinking feeling that Revelations is going to be pretty much a letdown... I mean, how many cases has Jack won? Or maybe this is just a ploy to get us to think that it will be a letdown. I can see it now, Jack ends up being one of the 4 Horsemen and wipes out all the gamers first. "That'll teach you for engaging in the Great Sin of Gaming."
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People think that Steve Jobs is the great humanitarian, that he actually wants to help people.
They don't seem to realize that this is the man who told his friend Steve Wozniak that Atari had only given them $700 for Breakout rather than $5000 so that he would only have to pay Wozniak $350 rather than $2500 for his share. And this was his friend Do you really think he actually cares about some random Joe not having to put up with DRM?
What a nice guy Jobs is.
I am in the same boat as you, in that this will only work if all cars are controlled. However, even then, what about deer/jogs/small children jumping out in the middle of the road? Can the computer respond to a non-computer fast enough? Radar? This will not only raise the price of vehicles significantly, but will also lead to a number of false positives, causing people's cars to randomly stop, sometimes at high speeds, causing a large number of crashes. Computers can't control physics.
The funniest/saddest/most ironic thing about those adverts is that when someone copies a dvd, they can remove it from the dvd without ruining the movie. Not that I've ever done so or been around someone who has done so. That would be illegal/immoral/unethical.
Do you really think that getting all these slashdotters together in the real world is healthy? I mean, online is one thing...but think of the children...
If you remove levels, chapters, parts, sections, and basically any other separator from games, you will also lose all story. How long can you do basically nothing in Grand Theft Auto until you start to get bored and wonder what else is to the world? I mean, if you don't want levels, you will basically just have a game where you run around doing a whole lot of nothing. And when that comes around, game designers will cease having to create 'living, breathing' worlds, and simply create a couple of blocks, fill it with prostitutes, and give you an arsenal of weaponry, and let you have at it. It will become boring very quickly. Levels are simply chapter dividers in stories. Removing them removes the story.
IMHO, there is no 'End of Levels' coming anytime soon. The open-ended design does not end levels, it just makes the transition more seemless. Even in 'sandbox games' such as Grand Theft Auto, Bully, and Morrowind, there is still definite breaks in the story, which can clearly be defined as levels. While it may not say, 'LEVEL 1: CLEARED" or something of that sort, it still has tougher enemies, more of them, and allows the player to reach new areas not previously available to them.
The day that there are no new levels in games is the day that storytelling in games ends.
Well, except for our President of course. He thinks sentences are too tough
When I first read that, I read it as sentences, the grammar version. I then realized that you meant it as sentences, the judicial kind. Then I realized that it made sense both ways.
I agree. And we need to stop these so-called 'Pokemon' animal-fighting simulators. I am willing to bet that Mr. Michael Vick first starting his dog-fighting career with a little animal named Pikachu. One day Pikachu, the next day, Lassie. When will it end?
Where did I make such a comparison?
Here:
By the same logic a rapist isn't a bad person if rape is legal in his country.
But what about those who obsessively watch horror movies all the time? The idea would seem to be that they are attracted to human pain, suffering, and death. Many of these movies are quite gruesome and realistic in their showing of how the victims met their demise. Yet, shooting an obviously unreal person in a videogame is considered the immoral. Aren't they two sides of the same coin? One has a person deliberately shooting a fake person. The other has a person watching over and over a man being eaten alive. Is there a difference? Isn't there a moral implication over whether to watch the movie again? It would seem that seeing the man being eaten alive is enjoyable to the person...
The hard-line Christians question the ethics of cloning and the existence of dinosaurs, so how well would dinosaur cloning research go down?
Magnificently.
Not letting them escape. Here in Australia we're having enough problems dealing with cane toads, can you imagine having to deal with velociraptors?
It's okay. We can put them on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. Put up a lot of fences. We could even make it a tourist attraction. What could possibly go wrong?
Trying to tell them that everything they ever knew and loved is gone. They wouldn't know about the Soviet collapse or the World Wars, or that these days most large animals grow their children inside of them, how would they deal with that shock? Is it ethical? These dinosaurs have never even seen anything with hair before, how would they cope?
I believe Mel Gibson learned to cope when he woke up from that coma after all those years. One minute, he's a test pilot in 1939, and then the next minute, he's in 1992, and the love of his life has grown old and grey. He survived..well enough... You never know, maybe the cloned dino is actually in love with Nessie...
You make a very valid point. However, there is always the possibility that a cure for one type of cancer can trigger relevant research into curing other types of cancer. Once scientists are able to figure out why one type of cancer grows a certain way, and figure out a way to stop it, they can use their research to hopefully figure out ways to stop other sorts of cancer.
Sorry to feed the troll...
indisputably. the safest cities in the countries are the ones were gun ownership is required.
Because Compton and Detroit are bastions of safety...
All I want to know is when will I achieve my childhood dream of owning my own triceratops. Parking pass? I don't need no stinkin' parking pass!
Actually, the beer is not twenty feet from you, its inside me, and I'm pretty sure you're not in my living room.
bars to go drinking in
The town I grew up in had 7(and there were only 3000 people).
night clubs to go dancing
These are called barns.
friends within a reasonable driving distance
When I lived in the city, most friends in the area were about 15 minutes away, with the furthest being 30 minutes. When I lived in the small town, the furthest was 15 minutes away.
Food delivery... open stores at odd hours. All night grocery shopping.
I can remember my mother getting home late, and myself working on a project for school, and then realizing that I needed some materials for the project, which was due the next day. All that it took was a call to the variety/dimestore owner(whom everyone knew because the town only had 3000 people in it) who came and allowed us to get the needed materials and allowed us to write a check. There are some food delivery services available. Off the top of my head there is a chinese place that delivers, and the Dairy Queen(Hamburgers, if you haven't heard of the place) delivers as well. 30 minutes away, there is a 24 hour SuperWalmart that has all night grocery shopping.
Basically, living in the country means that there are plenty of things going on, but sometimes you have to make them happen yourself. If there is no store open, and you desperately need something, an open store is just a phone call away. However, if you haven't lived in the countryside, you won't understand, nor will you believe me.
And by the way, I don't hate the city. I actually live in a city currently while I go to school. Would I move back to the country? I wouldn't say no.
Think of the children! Oh horror of horrors! Oh woe of woes! Where is Jack Thompson when you need him?!
But gaining knowledge on something such as computers does give them more expertise on writing about computer technology than someone who went to school for journalism and then got a job at Wired Magazine.
In Soviet Russia, pencils push you!
This is going to come back to haunt me in 20 years, I can feel it...
You've seen his code? I think we have a problem here...
Gaining unauthorized access to code is a violation of the DCMA. Please turn yourself in to your local police station and await charges there. I believe the RIAA wants in on this one, too.
I think that the RIAA, since it allowed 'artists' such as Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and n'Sync to be played on the radio, nay, to even getting a contract, is the far worse crime to humanity.
I strongly suspect the NFL will continue asserting rights they don't have, putting the burden on the other guy to show their use is fair use.
This will, however, establish precedence. Therefore, if a similar case comes up, the defense attorneys can point to this case, assuming she wins, and use it to help their future case.
if the Almighty God has sent Jack down to save us from the heathens, personally I think we're fucked
Actually, if God sent Jack, I have this sinking feeling that Revelations is going to be pretty much a letdown... I mean, how many cases has Jack won? Or maybe this is just a ploy to get us to think that it will be a letdown. I can see it now, Jack ends up being one of the 4 Horsemen and wipes out all the gamers first. "That'll teach you for engaging in the Great Sin of Gaming."
Just as long as you remember that Microsoft is a fscking monopoly.
Microsoft is the biggest company that uses fsck? Does the Unix community know this? I think the Justice Dept. should check into this...