I mean, yeah, it's pretty and all, but he just glued the keycaps on with silicone adhesive. I'd put $10 down that if you actually -used- the keyboard that the keys'd be falling off within a month.
I agree with you, I was just pointing out the flaw in the obligatory car analogy.
I think procedural content generation is overra like that, then ok, maybe procedural is the way to go, but it's not going to replace talented artists ated. The kind of textures a machine can generate covers a fraction of the area that human-generated content does, and does it pretty poorly. If all you're looking for is something that tiles and looks "roboty" or somethingnytime soon.
disclaimer: gross generalizations dead ahead, take evasive action
> Hand-Built is better
I don't think this is true at all. Hand-built is better, sometimes, because of the degree of customization it allows, but factory/machine-made items tend to have a lower defect rate and tighter tolerances.
On one hand, I don't think this guy should be in jail. On the other hand, the anarchist "protestors" he's shielding are idiots and richly deserve whatever beatings they may receive.
Deaf people can pay attention to their surroundings as well as you or I can. Like I said, the law as-is is stupid - it shouldn't just address people who choose to walk into the street with headphones on - some of those people might actually be paying attention. It should address people (and we've both seen them) who are simply oblivious, for whatever reason - jogging and/or cycling zoned out listening to their ipod, texting, reading a book, whatever. There's stiff penalties for driving while deliberately insulating yourself from sensory input, why not less-stiff penalties for walking into the road like that?
meh, strike that. It's a stupid implementation of a decent idea. Walking around traffic while sensory isolated and/or immensely distracted should be illegal, not something specific like "wearing headphones," leaving it up to the police to interpret and enforce.
ok, everyone is falling all over themselves to point out how this is government handholding and if you're so monumentally beef-brained as to cross the street listening to an ipod then you should just die, etc. Great, sure, whatever.
Now how about the sad sack who kills this person when they dart out from between cars? Now, I've never actually killed anyone, and I doubt any significant portion of/. has either, but I understand it is an extremely traumatic event. If this law prevents someone from having to deal with that or worse, having to explain it to the small child who was in the car as well, it seems ok to me.
Why are comments pointing out the fact that corporations are entirely motivated by economics always moderated as insightful?
I mean no disrespect to ivan here, but the idea that decisions a large company makes are typically based on risk analysis, balancing potential profit and risk, is not exactly something that anyone should view as insightful.
There wasn't really anything to your argument either. A lot of assertions and the obligatory car analogy. MMOGs are pc-only (mostly) because console keyboards aren't widely available. I also deny that pc games "created" the market. I'd say Atari or Nintendo did, and those games were modeled after arcade consoles.
> Those of us who are PC gamers (and we are legion)
PC games are about 1/6th of the console market. It's still significant, but decreasingly so every day. Don't get me wrong, I'm a PC gamer too, but I don't have any illusions of it's importance in the grand scheme of things.
> But make no mistake that this immediately relegates the HALO franchise to irrelevancy with HUGE sections of the gaming community.
PC gamers are sort of notorious for upgrading at the drop of a hat. I think you're vastly underestimating the willingness of people to move to vista if there's something makes it worth their while to move.
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I mean, yeah, it's pretty and all, but he just glued the keycaps on with silicone adhesive. I'd put $10 down that if you actually -used- the keyboard that the keys'd be falling off within a month.
I agree with you, I was just pointing out the flaw in the obligatory car analogy.
I think procedural content generation is overra like that, then ok, maybe procedural is the way to go, but it's not going to replace talented artists ated. The kind of textures a machine can generate covers a fraction of the area that human-generated content does, and does it pretty poorly. If all you're looking for is something that tiles and looks "roboty" or somethingnytime soon.
disclaimer: gross generalizations dead ahead, take evasive action
> Hand-Built is better
I don't think this is true at all. Hand-built is better, sometimes, because of the degree of customization it allows, but factory/machine-made items tend to have a lower defect rate and tighter tolerances.
> Since when has China been so worried about the welfare of its citizens?
Since when has -any- country been so worried about the welfare of its citizen? Replace 'internet' with 'pot' and you're describing America.
yes, thank god something like this could never happen in America, right?
The ISP will likely match up an IP with an actual human, unless the poster went to more trouble to hide his tracks than most do.
> Until that day this can only end in tears. Frustrated tears of tortured gamers crying out for entertainment that doesn't suck.
So business as usual then, gotcha.
voted "Most Baffling Slashdot Comment of the Day", Feb 14 2007
mmmmmmmmmmmm, higher dimensional.
On one hand, I don't think this guy should be in jail. On the other hand, the anarchist "protestors" he's shielding are idiots and richly deserve whatever beatings they may receive.
Deaf people can pay attention to their surroundings as well as you or I can. Like I said, the law as-is is stupid - it shouldn't just address people who choose to walk into the street with headphones on - some of those people might actually be paying attention. It should address people (and we've both seen them) who are simply oblivious, for whatever reason - jogging and/or cycling zoned out listening to their ipod, texting, reading a book, whatever. There's stiff penalties for driving while deliberately insulating yourself from sensory input, why not less-stiff penalties for walking into the road like that?
> it seems ok to me.
meh, strike that. It's a stupid implementation of a decent idea. Walking around traffic while sensory isolated and/or immensely distracted should be illegal, not something specific like "wearing headphones," leaving it up to the police to interpret and enforce.
ok, everyone is falling all over themselves to point out how this is government handholding and if you're so monumentally beef-brained as to cross the street listening to an ipod then you should just die, etc. Great, sure, whatever.
/. has either, but I understand it is an extremely traumatic event. If this law prevents someone from having to deal with that or worse, having to explain it to the small child who was in the car as well, it seems ok to me.
Now how about the sad sack who kills this person when they dart out from between cars? Now, I've never actually killed anyone, and I doubt any significant portion of
Also, [insert GM-debuts-ipod-killer joke here].
just get a good, solid nokia phone and duct-tape it to a DS. Everyone wins.
Why are comments pointing out the fact that corporations are entirely motivated by economics always moderated as insightful?
I mean no disrespect to ivan here, but the idea that decisions a large company makes are typically based on risk analysis, balancing potential profit and risk, is not exactly something that anyone should view as insightful.
... and of course, I'm a dumbass and forgot the link :(
http://www.mobilevoodoo.com/power48.htm
palm + freeware = awesome hp48 emulator
I'd say Guile.
> So are filling a tank with gas compared with getting a bag of feed for the horse.
well, if it's ok to take as much time to refuel your car as it is to let a horse eat it's fill, then I guess we have no problems.
erm, the point was that the time frames can't become the same because:
we don't have the 10,000amp service at my house necessary to actually charge them at speed.
filling a gas tank and charging a battery are surprisingly different propositions.
your insightful arguments have totally won me over.
There wasn't really anything to your argument either. A lot of assertions and the obligatory car analogy. MMOGs are pc-only (mostly) because console keyboards aren't widely available. I also deny that pc games "created" the market. I'd say Atari or Nintendo did, and those games were modeled after arcade consoles.
> Don't worry, kids adapt to that quickly.
Are you actually advising me to let my kid play alone somewhere I know there's a bunch of broken bottles?
> Those of us who are PC gamers (and we are legion)
PC games are about 1/6th of the console market. It's still significant, but decreasingly so every day. Don't get me wrong, I'm a PC gamer too, but I don't have any illusions of it's importance in the grand scheme of things.
> But make no mistake that this immediately relegates the HALO franchise to irrelevancy with HUGE sections of the gaming community.
PC gamers are sort of notorious for upgrading at the drop of a hat. I think you're vastly underestimating the willingness of people to move to vista if there's something makes it worth their while to move.