What you are talking is quality of service. Ie - video stream first or http packets first. This is not an analogy to roads in correct form.
To relate it with net neutrality, it should be this way ; if roads had been regulated as the telcos want net to be, then ordinary citizens in commuter cars would need to pay different companies at every traffic light, and still the company would decide who would pass first, and discriminate people from another state on arbitrary 'commercial' grounds - like not being a 'regular' customer etc.
In this case the company that runs the road have the power to determine how it is used. There are established standards and NEUTRALITY laws that regulate roads so that you or nobody else gets discriminated.
In the case of internet, they are trying to prevent this neutrality. You cannot leave the control of the internet 'road', even the last mile, to local corporations. If you do, theyll do whatever they want with you.
This is not a matter of compatibility. Like, say, transform and lighting issue. It contributed much to gaming experience when it came up, and we had to acquire new cards with new directx to enjoy it. If something like that happens, and it requires vista, people will find other ways.
This is a too drastic and too obvious step for ms.
The gaming crowd would be unwilling to go out and get a new os for just a few new effects to go with games. As they wont, the card manufacturers will oblige with them, as well as game studios. You cant risk your customers for the sake of microsoft after a level of risk, as much money microsoft may give you to comply with new standards. Also soon emulators, peripherals, add on cards etc would pop up if dx10 includes that much goodies to go with, and still meet the market demand.
Those were the best years. Innovation, new ideas, great titles, content, gameplay were king. Star Control 2, Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantis, Aces Of Pacific, and many more.
But this time lucas is in it. And the reason that nge was done was because lucas have been very annoyed with the state of the game - it resembled anything but star wars, and sw fans were complaining. If they hadnt pressure lucas, and lucas sony, nge wouldnt happen.
They're going to combine to form some sort of mega-legal-robo-proctologist, and they're not going to stop until they get to the back of the SWGEMU team's teeth.
Its not the quality of code that counts for things such as these. These 'boyz' have had the power to reverse engineer something with their limited resources in a short notice of time. That definitely counts something.
At least they can be used to analyze already finished code, and debug or change it. Which is very important.
Even if playing for non-jedi, you could never had the star wars feeling.
Why ?
Because it was ALL ABOUT JEDI at that time. If people were not grinding for jedi, they were trying to get jedi bounties, or producing jedi items, or helping people do jedi quests etc and so on.
Game was ruined at the moment they announced it was possible now to become a jedi.
And even if we take the jedi thing out of the picture, the other professions were some ungodly grind too.
Say, you wanted to be a bounty hunter.
You could NEVER be an effective bounty hunter, if you did not ditch the heavy weapons branch of the bounty hunter tree, and get Carbine accuracy column from carbineer and pistol speed and accuracy columns from pistoleer.
Same went with almost all professions. No profession was able to do its job without getting in some other profession's sporadic trees first.
And even after that, the game was about grind. The grinding to master was a long one if you did not employ auto grinding, and when you did get to master, there was nothing to do with the mastery.
So they put forward the jedi concept. You HAD to MASTER ALMOST ALL professions to become a jedi, practically. Oh yes, some just hit the 2-3 random profs they needed and unlocked it quick, but for others it was practically mastering 22 out of 24 or so professions.
Nay. Swg was star wars in the first 4 months of its launch. It was all about anchorhead cantina then, the rebel people inside it, the atmosphere, it was real star wars.
Let me tell you what the prior state of the game was - it was GRINDING HELL.
Soe was MILKING the players by putting goals that is hard and far to reach constantly.
So that game was turned into a question of 'when, how, and where do i grind ?' - Nothing star wars.
The crowd that started the game in fall 2003 had already cancelled by then as the game had nothing star warsy left.
With nge, the "uber godmode" players, the powerplayers, Item sellers, sith wannabees (and they were a many of them) have lost their 'godly' status, as the grind was almost halted.
From what i understand, the poster of this article is just another biased powerplayer.
It is PLAIN stupid to come back from 8-hours long workday and KEEP ON WORKING IN A GAME THAT YOU PAY, instead of playing the 'feel' that you pay for.
Yugoslavia and somali were different things than the oil war.
Both were humanitarian missions in fact, no different from ww 2.
As for 'remove saddam', it was a geostrategical necessity, and was saddam still in power, u.s. troops would have to act in self defence, someplace, sometime sooner or later.
But 'occupy iraq for the sake of 4-5 midwest oil companies' has no relation to all subjects above. It is purely an exploitation of power, in expense of u.s. citizens.
It is generally better practice to post in places where someone hangs out - ie a community.
For example, if you are into gaming, and hang out in gaming board, it is definite that there are some places that gaming people start projects and seek out each other. You gotta find and post there.
Or as another example, if you are a web hoster, and been in various communities for a long time, people will recognize you and contact you when you post in the community boards. Webhosting talk for example have an active forum for hosting related projects, and even people come here to get developers for non-hosting projects.
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What you are talking is quality of service. Ie - video stream first or http packets first. This is not an analogy to roads in correct form.
To relate it with net neutrality, it should be this way ; if roads had been regulated as the telcos want net to be, then ordinary citizens in commuter cars would need to pay different companies at every traffic light, and still the company would decide who would pass first, and discriminate people from another state on arbitrary 'commercial' grounds - like not being a 'regular' customer etc.
In this case the company that runs the road have the power to determine how it is used. There are established standards and NEUTRALITY laws that regulate roads so that you or nobody else gets discriminated.
In the case of internet, they are trying to prevent this neutrality. You cannot leave the control of the internet 'road', even the last mile, to local corporations. If you do, theyll do whatever they want with you.
The fact is that red hat never shuts down linux installations by mistake.
Theyll know how to deal with this, youll see ...
Yea. And would that be so that the inqusition later turned on christians and most of their 'convictions' were for christians for crapola reasons too ?
They never had a reputation of being modern, up-to-date and ahead of their time anyway.
This is not a matter of compatibility. Like, say, transform and lighting issue. It contributed much to gaming experience when it came up, and we had to acquire new cards with new directx to enjoy it. If something like that happens, and it requires vista, people will find other ways.
This is a too drastic and too obvious step for ms.
The gaming crowd would be unwilling to go out and get a new os for just a few new effects to go with games. As they wont, the card manufacturers will oblige with them, as well as game studios. You cant risk your customers for the sake of microsoft after a level of risk, as much money microsoft may give you to comply with new standards. Also soon emulators, peripherals, add on cards etc would pop up if dx10 includes that much goodies to go with, and still meet the market demand.
So no vista.
Well, whether you grinded or not didnt matter when everyone around were grinding.
Expensive products that are forcibly sold, do not sell.
DDR was on the go, they said. RDRAM was the hype, they said. Yet in 6 months time all mobo manufacturers resumed ddr models.
Well, its not running, its playing. Long hours spent would go bust when the server closes down.
cool. i still play it through the original pc version through emus, despite uqm has options to emulate pc version in full.
All of these games i played, and still have.
What about Star Control 2 ? Did you miss it ?
By far, it is the BEST game i have ever played on the face of this world. And i played a many.
The major downside to that is being illegal.
Those were the best years. Innovation, new ideas, great titles, content, gameplay were king. Star Control 2, Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantis, Aces Of Pacific, and many more.
the planet ... I mean, go to mars or something.
But this time lucas is in it. And the reason that nge was done was because lucas have been very annoyed with the state of the game - it resembled anything but star wars, and sw fans were complaining. If they hadnt pressure lucas, and lucas sony, nge wouldnt happen.
Yea. And theyll lose publicity like hell.
They're going to combine to form some sort of mega-legal-robo-proctologist, and they're not going to stop until they get to the back of the SWGEMU team's teeth.
Its not the quality of code that counts for things such as these. These 'boyz' have had the power to reverse engineer something with their limited resources in a short notice of time. That definitely counts something.
At least they can be used to analyze already finished code, and debug or change it. Which is very important.
Even if playing for non-jedi, you could never had the star wars feeling.
Why ?
Because it was ALL ABOUT JEDI at that time. If people were not grinding for jedi, they were trying to get jedi bounties, or producing jedi items, or helping people do jedi quests etc and so on.
Game was ruined at the moment they announced it was possible now to become a jedi.
And even if we take the jedi thing out of the picture, the other professions were some ungodly grind too.
Say, you wanted to be a bounty hunter.
You could NEVER be an effective bounty hunter, if you did not ditch the heavy weapons branch of the bounty hunter tree, and get Carbine accuracy column from carbineer and pistol speed and accuracy columns from pistoleer.
Same went with almost all professions. No profession was able to do its job without getting in some other profession's sporadic trees first.
And even after that, the game was about grind. The grinding to master was a long one if you did not employ auto grinding, and when you did get to master, there was nothing to do with the mastery.
So they put forward the jedi concept. You HAD to MASTER ALMOST ALL professions to become a jedi, practically. Oh yes, some just hit the 2-3 random profs they needed and unlocked it quick, but for others it was practically mastering 22 out of 24 or so professions.
Nay. Swg was star wars in the first 4 months of its launch. It was all about anchorhead cantina then, the rebel people inside it, the atmosphere, it was real star wars.
Let me tell you what the prior state of the game was - it was GRINDING HELL.
Soe was MILKING the players by putting goals that is hard and far to reach constantly.
So that game was turned into a question of 'when, how, and where do i grind ?' - Nothing star wars.
The crowd that started the game in fall 2003 had already cancelled by then as the game had nothing star warsy left.
With nge, the "uber godmode" players, the powerplayers, Item sellers, sith wannabees (and they were a many of them) have lost their 'godly' status, as the grind was almost halted.
From what i understand, the poster of this article is just another biased powerplayer.
It is PLAIN stupid to come back from 8-hours long workday and KEEP ON WORKING IN A GAME THAT YOU PAY, instead of playing the 'feel' that you pay for.
Crap, in short. Star wars is way better now.
Yugoslavia and somali were different things than the oil war.
Both were humanitarian missions in fact, no different from ww 2.
As for 'remove saddam', it was a geostrategical necessity, and was saddam still in power, u.s. troops would have to act in self defence, someplace, sometime sooner or later.
But 'occupy iraq for the sake of 4-5 midwest oil companies' has no relation to all subjects above. It is purely an exploitation of power, in expense of u.s. citizens.
Therae sunnan beorthnan is comman to richan and pooran. Better now ? Ancient anglosakson
If it is the 'adult' understanding of the 50s, know that, it is out of fashion and practice already.
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Dull people showing to be more serious and strong than they were
It is generally better practice to post in places where someone hangs out - ie a community.
For example, if you are into gaming, and hang out in gaming board, it is definite that there are some places that gaming people start projects and seek out each other. You gotta find and post there.
Or as another example, if you are a web hoster, and been in various communities for a long time, people will recognize you and contact you when you post in the community boards. Webhosting talk for example have an active forum for hosting related projects, and even people come here to get developers for non-hosting projects.
So goes.