our survival instincts are about as fundamental to us as it gets... no surprise really that it makes for compelling narratives. of the form life vs. environment ( vulcano etc.) and even more so when it applies to both sides... us vs. them. when it comes to games it's also a bit easier to model than romance... but i don't think games are all that more violent than movies, books etc. most played games are still stuff like tetris, the sims and sportsgames.
ad field ops being servants... in the original wolfenstein multiplayer the field op was actually called lieutenant and therefore of higher rank than the other soldiers. i think they only changed that in enemy territory because there were now ranks for all players and it wouldn't have fit in. (iirc afaik etc. )
i read the article (not that there was much to read) and noticed the Next link as well. no problem with them using what they know. it's a publicity stunt because their OS selection is sold as exciting news without any clue as to what special role OSX actually plays. It's just a general purpose OS... their software probably could run pretty much anywhere.
that's all it is if you ask me. can't imagine the OS used playing any role in such a setting. don't think the autonomous vehicle needs e.g. the new "strong desktop search tool"
running the following through everyones favourite spook-run search engine should give you an idea of the kind of thing i mean.
inconsistent site:www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
doesn't make bash useless or anything... it's just an area where i'd love to see something new. despite it's central role on linux systems bash is not something one could show off with.
i use linux exclusively and seldom touch closed source software but despite its oss flagship position i'm not much of an apache fan either. same goes for other big oss projects... bash is just as lacking. roxen... that's a nice webserver. still haven't found a better shell
silent no moving parts machine that boots into emailclient in 5 seconds or less.
my cellphone actually fits that... if they made a dockingstation for that with keyboard/mouse/display connectors... might be feasible.. or will be soon enough
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next-gen this, next-gen that... they sure tried to squeeze that in a lot.
it's also pretty meaningless... gaming technology
evolves all the time and just because those console marketing people want us to believe there is some huge quantum leap ahead doesnt mean there is any substance to it.
same evolutionary steps as before with the pc staying ahead in every area anyway (with the big exception of ease of use:/ )
why limit ourselves to morse code... with every phone having a camera we could take advantage of image recognition and send our sms via smoke signals or even semaphores
shameless plug: http://keye.phk.at/ would translate rather nicely to a dvd player + remote as it was written for mobile phones. we'd only need to cater to a higher resolution.
cheaper or not you pay for the hardware one way or the other.
and no matter how casual most people will need
at least email, web and wordprocessor anyway...
why then would i want get locked into a platform where a single vendor controlls every little aspect.
well i dont know a thing about windows update but with the linux update systems i know you usually download the whole package for every little change and that definitely uses more bandwidth than it ought to. guess it's a tradeoff between complexity (setup scripts in rpms etc.) and bandwidth cost.
thing is as soon as ms offers a "good enough" search
engine tightly coupled to their market dominating OS/Browser most common people will never get to know/forget there even are other search engines.
that is one thing that makes the id Engines a lot more attractive. old engines getting gpld means completely free games for total conversions. also of note is that their free download enemy-territory is modable. Urban Terror among others gets ported to it.
hypercard... ok but bash scripting ?? that's about the last thing i'd recommend the syntax is among the worst i've ever seen. it's inconsistent, needs spaces in strange places etc. if python is too complicated bash certainly isnt an option.
admittedly kinda offtopic but the following line from the movie page made me curious:
From a 1934 business-backed plot to install a military dictator in the White House (undone by the integrity of one U.S. Marine Corps General, Smedley Darlington Butler)...
never heard of that one... the wikipedia entry of that general doesnt mention the plot but google offers a few pages. pretty interesting.
well i'm no expert on this but all those downloads probably came from clients who were searching for their files based on checksum not on name. so all those people probably really wanted the stuff he renamed.... still a funny read. too bad it is (probably) based on wrong assumptions.
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our survival instincts are about as fundamental to us as it gets ... no surprise really that it makes for compelling narratives. ... us vs. them. ... but i don't think games are all that more violent than movies, books etc.
of the form life vs. environment ( vulcano etc.) and even more so when it applies to both sides
when it comes to games it's also a bit easier to model than romance
most played games are still stuff like tetris, the sims and sportsgames.
i'm afraid that has more to do with you getting old than with the quality of games.
ad field ops being servants ...
in the original wolfenstein multiplayer the field op was actually called lieutenant and therefore of higher rank than the other soldiers. i think they only changed that in enemy territory because there were now ranks for all players and it wouldn't have fit in. (iirc afaik etc. )
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i read the article (not that there was much to read) and noticed the Next link as well. ... their software probably could run pretty much anywhere.
no problem with them using what they know.
it's a publicity stunt because their OS selection is sold as exciting news without any clue as to what special role OSX actually plays.
It's just a general purpose OS
that's all it is if you ask me.
can't imagine the OS used playing any role in such a setting.
don't think the autonomous vehicle needs e.g. the
new "strong desktop search tool"
running the following through everyones favourite spook-run search engine should give you an idea of the kind of thing i mean.
... it's just an area where i'd love to see something new.
inconsistent site:www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
doesn't make bash useless or anything
despite it's central role on linux systems bash is not something one could show off with.
i use linux exclusively and seldom touch closed source software but despite its oss flagship position i'm not much of an apache fan either. ... bash is just as lacking. ... that's a nice webserver.
same goes for other big oss projects
roxen
still haven't found a better shell
silent no moving parts machine that boots into emailclient in 5 seconds or less.
... if they made a ... might be feasible .. or will be soon enough
my cellphone actually fits that
dockingstation for that with keyboard/mouse/display
connectors
commission junction:
By facilitating strategic relationships between advertisers and publishers, Commission Junction leverages its proven expertise in affiliate marketing, partner marketing and search marketing to drive measurable results for its clients.
ouch
next-gen this, next-gen that ... they sure tried to squeeze that in a lot.
it's also pretty meaningless ... gaming technology
evolves all the time and just because those console marketing people want us to believe there is some huge quantum leap ahead doesnt mean there is any substance to it.
same evolutionary steps as before with the pc staying ahead in every area anyway (with the big exception of ease of use :/ )
why limit ourselves to morse code ... with every phone having a camera we could take advantage of image recognition and send our sms via smoke signals or even semaphores
shameless plug:
http://keye.phk.at/ would translate rather nicely to a dvd player + remote as it was written for mobile phones. we'd only need to cater to a higher resolution.
get ready for the obvious answers ... price, no vendor lock in, valgrind
cheaper or not you pay for the hardware one way or the other. and no matter how casual most people will need at least email, web and wordprocessor anyway ...
why then would i want get locked into a platform where a single vendor controlls every little aspect.
well if those bad terrorists use copyright violation for funding the logical step is to abandon copyright -> no more money to be made.
i second that ... siemens kbpc e ... if you have wrist problems you need one
well i dont know a thing about windows update but with the linux update systems i know you usually download the whole package for every little change and that definitely uses more bandwidth than it ought to. guess it's a tradeoff between complexity (setup scripts in rpms etc.) and bandwidth cost.
thing is as soon as ms offers a "good enough" search engine tightly coupled to their market dominating OS/Browser most common people will never get to know/forget there even are other search engines.
gamasutras login can actually be avoided by simply
turning off javascript
not to forget x-ray googles!
that is one thing that makes the id Engines a lot more attractive. old engines getting gpld means
completely free games for total conversions.
also of note is that their free download enemy-territory is modable. Urban Terror among others gets ported to it.
hypercard ... ok
but bash scripting ??
that's about the last thing i'd recommend
the syntax is among the worst i've ever seen.
it's inconsistent, needs spaces in strange places
etc. if python is too complicated bash certainly isnt an option.
admittedly kinda offtopic but the following line from the movie page made me curious:
...
... the wikipedia entry
From a 1934 business-backed plot to install a military dictator in the White House (undone by the integrity of one U.S. Marine Corps General, Smedley Darlington Butler)
never heard of that one
of that general doesnt mention the plot but
google offers a few pages.
pretty interesting.
well i'm no expert on this but all those downloads probably came from clients who were searching for ... still a funny read. too bad it
their files based on checksum not on name.
so all those people probably really wanted the stuff he renamed.
is (probably) based on wrong assumptions.