Wow, someone hit the CAD program right after watching Minority Report, didn't they?
I toured a company (big web analytics company in Utah) awhile back and they showed us a NOC that was so impractically designed, I honestly thought it was fictional-- I actually told my co-workers, "I bet that's just for showing during tours, and the real NOC is in the basement somewhere." I wonder if the two or three guys who were staffing it were just shoved in there and told, "look busy! There's a tour coming through!"
Some crazies in Clearview, Washington (illegally) bulldozed a new AM radio tower, thinking it was giving them brain cancer or something. An AM radio tower. AM.
If AM radio caused brain cancer, you'd think we would have figured that out sometime in the last 80 years we've been using it. Crazy people. Maybe they thought NPR was going to broadcast hypnotic messages into their brains so they'd vote Democrat.
I guess it's because Flower has trophy support, but really...you can't store the trophy information locally and then transmit later?
At the risk of sounding smug, that's exactly what Xbox Live does when it can't connect for whatever reason. Next time it successfully logs in, it just syncs your Achievements with the server. (Which is kind of cool-- you can also see your PC game Achievements from the Xbox and vice-versa.)
Of course the entire concept of Achievements is completely useless, since the points don't get you anything, but at least it's implemented well.
Do you really need any more explanation than that? Did you ever see their software for the Connect music store? Terrible quality. Their software that ships with their camcorders? Thank God you can open those video files in something-- ANYTHING-- else.
The long and short is that Sony simple can not write good software. I've yet to see a Sony product with even half-decent software, for that matter.
This keeps happening over and over and over again.
I have to wonder why nobody ASKS PERMISSION BEFORE THE START MAKING THE DAMNED GAME! Seriously, are all these games made by morons? They *know* it's going to be shut down sooner or later, so either they need to get permission or make an original game. It's not hard.
The developers were forced into making this retarded browser ballot. Of course they're going to do the bare minimum level of effort. It's incredible how ignorant Slashdotters are of human nature.
Steam had a pricing error on their website. There's no place to report pricing errors. Submitting a ticket about the pricing error? No response at all from Valve-- completely ignored! Never once did they offer to give me the discounted price, or did they even fix the error on their website. This is the second time I've attempted to correct a pricing error on Steam, both attempts completely ignored.
I stand by what I said. You were just lucky, and the rare exception to the rule.
Yah but the parents wants the *censored* version, not the uncensored version. Finding a download of the uncensored version isn't really a big deal, since the game was uncensored in an official patch. His complaint is that Steam applied that patch which (according to him) "changed the character of the game" without asking permission.
First of all, that game is fucking boring, so additional blood and violence couldn't possibly do anything but improve it. I fell asleep during the first chapter, and the "sex scene" (which I guess you had censored?) looked more like a particularly lame collectible card game.
They claim that it was an opt-in update, but that is complete hogwash. There is no way I would have ever approved it.
So maybe somebody else in your household did, if you wife/girlfriend/whatever plays it also. Or you blindly clicked through the "yes ok" dialog box without reading it. That said, Steam is buggy as hell in a lot of ways, so I also wouldn't be surprised if it updated without asking your permission.
In any case, I still blame the game developer for not putting the censorship options in the game itself. There's no reason Steam, as the distributor, should ever have to deal with a problem like this... you should just be able to go to the Options menu and select "kid-safe" or whatever.
But, yah, Steam has no customer service. They won't even correct pricing errors when you point them out (which I've done on two occasions), which I'm pretty sure is probably illegal.
GP was an awful joke, but it was a legitimate attempt at a joke, unlike the mindnumbingly fucking tedious "memes" that are inexplicably modded up time and time again.
"Gives a whole new meaning to X" is one of those mindnumbingly fucking tedious memes.
72.54% of Windows users continue to use XP, so it is abundantly clear that the the market prefers XP to 7/Vista.
Wow, giant fallacy in your first sentence.
If you said, 72.54% of *new computer purchases in 2010* have XP installed, then you'd have a point. You'd also have a point if the upgrade to Windows 7 was free and trivially-easy.
As-is, though, you're just spouting nonsense. Do you think this site is full of jellybrains? Did you think we'd fall for that trick?
Your joke has actually sucked humor from surrounding, better, jokes. It's really that terrible. In fact, it's painful. Reading that "joke" was like having bowel surgery with no anesthesia.
Whatever extremely small amount of humor might have been gained had the parent post actually included the name "Polly" anywhere (it doesn't) would be instantly destroyed but that retarded "gives a whole new meaning to" template which hasn't been funny in approximately a decade.
As-is, the joke basically simplifies to: "The word 'cracker' has two different meanings! Hyuk!" Even the writers of Two and a Half Men would be ashamed of that line, had they written it.
Well, first of all, everybody using Steam should know going-in this one simple fact:
There is no customer service. Repeat it with me: Steam has no customer service.
Secondly, what the hell game are you talking about that somehow has a censored and an uncensored version that are completely different game installs? Do you live in Australia, and one was the AU version and the other the US version? In short, what the heck are you talking about?
The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of games let you set the censorship options after the game is installed-- there's only one version of the game, and no way for Steam to screw you over in this way. You must be either talking about the most mutant game ever, or live in a place that gets special kiddy-friendly versions (like AU.)
Please let me know what game you're talking about, where not only is the censored and uncensored version a completely different install, but switching from one to the other "changes the fundamental character of the game." It's not adding up for me right now.
I'll go a step further. I'm not buying this game. I'm not pirating this game. This game is not getting my money, my time, or my tactic approval.
Your "tactic approval?" Do you mean "tacit?"
Anyway, yah, I agree with you. I'm fucking sick and tired of PC gamers whining over DRM, or other choices by the publisher (for example, Modern Warfare 2's dedicated server thing), and yet going on to buy millions of copies and making it a best-seller.
Either there's an extremely small and extremely vocal cadre of gamers opposed to these things, but they don't represent the rest of us-- in which case that small group needs to shut the fuck up-- or PC gamers are life-long customers no matter what the fuck the game developers do-- in which case they all need to shut the fuck up, too.
Me, I prefer to play Xbox games, since the DRM actually works, they're well-tested, and there's no change the game can screw-up the important files on my computer. I voted with my wallet: I no longer buy PC games.
As long as Microsoft wants to enjoy the lucrative benefits of being a singular part of society's information infrastructure, society ought to have a say in how Microsoft is run.
Society already has a say. They can stop buying Windows.
The classic discussion interface has changed too, it's actually more buggy than the 2.0 one at this point since apparently Slashdot hasn't heard of "regression testing".
All of the following buggy screenshots were taken with discussion 1.0 turned on:
Anyway, the lesson learned here is that Slashdot is extremely buggy. All those images come from bug reports I've entered against it... very, very few of them have been fixed. (Maybe 2 or 3 of the entire lot? I'm too lazy to log into SourceForce, the worst bug tracking tool in the universe, to check.)
I submitted all those bugs in response to an editor who complained that I was griping about Slashdot without helping the project in any way. So I put in the bugs to help the project, and gasp shock amaze, Slashdot still sucks ass. Consider that a win for my side.
The other lesson learned here is don't bother to submit bug reports against Slashdot, like most open source projects they simply do not give a fuck about user-submitted bugs. Your time would be more productively spent smashing your forehead into a wall.
Except you save time using database stored procedures, since you can offload that work to DBAs (in most companies.) And stored procedures (mostly) solve this problem entirely... so I don't buy it, frankly.
No shit. I always update the firmware first thing when I get a new computer, or firmware-using device (like a wifi router.) I've never, ever had the device get "bricked," despite the scary warnings on the package. (I do take the basic precautions, like plugging in my laptop instead of using the battery, of course.)
Anyway, this is ridiculous. He makes it sound as if the entire IT field all agreed at a meeting that we were going to shun firmware updates. I guess I didn't get the memo, if that's the case.
No, it looks like somebody tried to rip-off Team Fortress 2 in the Unreal 1 engine. If your engine can't do curved surfaces properly, they could at least not make map designs that rely on them. (Look at the curved pipes, and the undoubtedly-supposed-to-be-round badge on the back wall.)
Look at this one, it's like Tron 2.0. What's that blocky white thing hovering in the air? Is that supposed to be a projectile of some sort?
5 years ago, these graphics might have looked awesome. Now the characters are ok (only because they are highly sylized, and because that style has been popularized by games like Crackdown, Team Fortress 2, etc), but the maps are pretty bad.
Here's what you're comparing it to, Unreal 2004. (The Unreal 2.0 engine. I'd like to remind you that the Unreal 2.0 engine has been superseded by Unreal 3.0 for, what, 3 years now?)
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Wow, someone hit the CAD program right after watching Minority Report, didn't they?
I toured a company (big web analytics company in Utah) awhile back and they showed us a NOC that was so impractically designed, I honestly thought it was fictional-- I actually told my co-workers, "I bet that's just for showing during tours, and the real NOC is in the basement somewhere." I wonder if the two or three guys who were staffing it were just shoved in there and told, "look busy! There's a tour coming through!"
C# is easier than Java, if only because it has a kick-ass IDE in Visual Studio and high-quality well-documented libraries.
Some crazies in Clearview, Washington (illegally) bulldozed a new AM radio tower, thinking it was giving them brain cancer or something. An AM radio tower. AM.
If AM radio caused brain cancer, you'd think we would have figured that out sometime in the last 80 years we've been using it. Crazy people. Maybe they thought NPR was going to broadcast hypnotic messages into their brains so they'd vote Democrat.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/20723839/detail.html
Oh wait it was sports radio. Maybe they have an intense hatred of... high school football? Hell, I dunno.
I guess it's because Flower has trophy support, but really...you can't store the trophy information locally and then transmit later?
At the risk of sounding smug, that's exactly what Xbox Live does when it can't connect for whatever reason. Next time it successfully logs in, it just syncs your Achievements with the server. (Which is kind of cool-- you can also see your PC game Achievements from the Xbox and vice-versa.)
Of course the entire concept of Achievements is completely useless, since the points don't get you anything, but at least it's implemented well.
If they've worked 8 years without releasing a game, I'd say they don't really deserve a lot of self-respect. :P
I know, I know, it's a hobby project. But let me be a jerk just this once, ok? Thanks.
It's software, written by Sony.
Do you really need any more explanation than that? Did you ever see their software for the Connect music store? Terrible quality. Their software that ships with their camcorders? Thank God you can open those video files in something-- ANYTHING-- else.
The long and short is that Sony simple can not write good software. I've yet to see a Sony product with even half-decent software, for that matter.
That's pretty petty compared to some of the other things we're mentioning. It sums up to, "I had to wait a couple more weeks to buy a mediocre game!"
I mean, I don't think Infogrames/Atari are saints, but they're probably my favorite publisher right now. (Or 2K Games, maybe, both are pretty good.)
In comparison, I refuse to even consider buying a game if it says "EA" on the package.
...they should lose it. Are they still actively marketing this game? Do they still sell it? Is there a new version in the works?
Yes, yes, no. (As far as I'm aware-- if there's a new version in the works, it's still unannounced.)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/10100/
Oh wow, and now I'm the jerk who didn't read the article.
Sorry. Mod me down please.
This keeps happening over and over and over again.
I have to wonder why nobody ASKS PERMISSION BEFORE THE START MAKING THE DAMNED GAME! Seriously, are all these games made by morons? They *know* it's going to be shut down sooner or later, so either they need to get permission or make an original game. It's not hard.
I have no sympathy.
The developers were forced into making this retarded browser ballot. Of course they're going to do the bare minimum level of effort. It's incredible how ignorant Slashdotters are of human nature.
http://blakeyrat.com/2008/12/steam-more-like-scam/
Steam had a pricing error on their website. There's no place to report pricing errors. Submitting a ticket about the pricing error? No response at all from Valve-- completely ignored! Never once did they offer to give me the discounted price, or did they even fix the error on their website. This is the second time I've attempted to correct a pricing error on Steam, both attempts completely ignored.
I stand by what I said. You were just lucky, and the rare exception to the rule.
Fuck, I lived in the US and I worked picking beans at 15. And that was much harder labor than assembling electronics. (Well, I assume...)
Yah but the parents wants the *censored* version, not the uncensored version. Finding a download of the uncensored version isn't really a big deal, since the game was uncensored in an official patch. His complaint is that Steam applied that patch which (according to him) "changed the character of the game" without asking permission.
First of all, that game is fucking boring, so additional blood and violence couldn't possibly do anything but improve it. I fell asleep during the first chapter, and the "sex scene" (which I guess you had censored?) looked more like a particularly lame collectible card game.
They claim that it was an opt-in update, but that is complete hogwash. There is no way I would have ever approved it.
So maybe somebody else in your household did, if you wife/girlfriend/whatever plays it also. Or you blindly clicked through the "yes ok" dialog box without reading it. That said, Steam is buggy as hell in a lot of ways, so I also wouldn't be surprised if it updated without asking your permission.
In any case, I still blame the game developer for not putting the censorship options in the game itself. There's no reason Steam, as the distributor, should ever have to deal with a problem like this... you should just be able to go to the Options menu and select "kid-safe" or whatever.
But, yah, Steam has no customer service. They won't even correct pricing errors when you point them out (which I've done on two occasions), which I'm pretty sure is probably illegal.
GP was an awful joke, but it was a legitimate attempt at a joke, unlike the mindnumbingly fucking tedious "memes" that are inexplicably modded up time and time again.
"Gives a whole new meaning to X" is one of those mindnumbingly fucking tedious memes.
72.54% of Windows users continue to use XP, so it is abundantly clear that the the market prefers XP to 7/Vista.
Wow, giant fallacy in your first sentence.
If you said, 72.54% of *new computer purchases in 2010* have XP installed, then you'd have a point. You'd also have a point if the upgrade to Windows 7 was free and trivially-easy.
As-is, though, you're just spouting nonsense. Do you think this site is full of jellybrains? Did you think we'd fall for that trick?
No. It doesn't.
Your joke has actually sucked humor from surrounding, better, jokes. It's really that terrible. In fact, it's painful. Reading that "joke" was like having bowel surgery with no anesthesia.
Whatever extremely small amount of humor might have been gained had the parent post actually included the name "Polly" anywhere (it doesn't) would be instantly destroyed but that retarded "gives a whole new meaning to" template which hasn't been funny in approximately a decade.
As-is, the joke basically simplifies to: "The word 'cracker' has two different meanings! Hyuk!" Even the writers of Two and a Half Men would be ashamed of that line, had they written it.
Well, first of all, everybody using Steam should know going-in this one simple fact:
There is no customer service. Repeat it with me: Steam has no customer service.
Secondly, what the hell game are you talking about that somehow has a censored and an uncensored version that are completely different game installs? Do you live in Australia, and one was the AU version and the other the US version? In short, what the heck are you talking about?
The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of games let you set the censorship options after the game is installed-- there's only one version of the game, and no way for Steam to screw you over in this way. You must be either talking about the most mutant game ever, or live in a place that gets special kiddy-friendly versions (like AU.)
Please let me know what game you're talking about, where not only is the censored and uncensored version a completely different install, but switching from one to the other "changes the fundamental character of the game." It's not adding up for me right now.
I'll go a step further. I'm not buying this game. I'm not pirating this game. This game is not getting my money, my time, or my tactic approval.
Your "tactic approval?" Do you mean "tacit?"
Anyway, yah, I agree with you. I'm fucking sick and tired of PC gamers whining over DRM, or other choices by the publisher (for example, Modern Warfare 2's dedicated server thing), and yet going on to buy millions of copies and making it a best-seller.
Either there's an extremely small and extremely vocal cadre of gamers opposed to these things, but they don't represent the rest of us-- in which case that small group needs to shut the fuck up-- or PC gamers are life-long customers no matter what the fuck the game developers do-- in which case they all need to shut the fuck up, too.
Me, I prefer to play Xbox games, since the DRM actually works, they're well-tested, and there's no change the game can screw-up the important files on my computer. I voted with my wallet: I no longer buy PC games.
As long as Microsoft wants to enjoy the lucrative benefits of being a singular part of society's information infrastructure, society ought to have a say in how Microsoft is run.
Society already has a say. They can stop buying Windows.
The classic discussion interface has changed too, it's actually more buggy than the 2.0 one at this point since apparently Slashdot hasn't heard of "regression testing".
All of the following buggy screenshots were taken with discussion 1.0 turned on:
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/cant_save_prefs.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/email_options.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/floating_div_corrupted.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/floating_div_font_size.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/people_modifiers_cutoff.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/post_headers.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/post_reply_buttons.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/reply_button_with_growths.png (My particular favorite, still unfixed-- looking at it right now as I post!)
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/sectional_options.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/section_collapsed.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/slashdot_idle_comments.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/slashdot_idle_template.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/slashdot_user_template.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/thread_outline.png
http://schend.net/images/screenshots/slashdot/weird_blue_oval.png
Anyway, the lesson learned here is that Slashdot is extremely buggy. All those images come from bug reports I've entered against it... very, very few of them have been fixed. (Maybe 2 or 3 of the entire lot? I'm too lazy to log into SourceForce, the worst bug tracking tool in the universe, to check.)
I submitted all those bugs in response to an editor who complained that I was griping about Slashdot without helping the project in any way. So I put in the bugs to help the project, and gasp shock amaze, Slashdot still sucks ass. Consider that a win for my side.
The other lesson learned here is don't bother to submit bug reports against Slashdot, like most open source projects they simply do not give a fuck about user-submitted bugs. Your time would be more productively spent smashing your forehead into a wall.
Except you save time using database stored procedures, since you can offload that work to DBAs (in most companies.) And stored procedures (mostly) solve this problem entirely... so I don't buy it, frankly.
No shit. I always update the firmware first thing when I get a new computer, or firmware-using device (like a wifi router.) I've never, ever had the device get "bricked," despite the scary warnings on the package. (I do take the basic precautions, like plugging in my laptop instead of using the battery, of course.)
Anyway, this is ridiculous. He makes it sound as if the entire IT field all agreed at a meeting that we were going to shun firmware updates. I guess I didn't get the memo, if that's the case.
http://www.warsow.net/media/0.5/1280px/06.jpg
THIS Warsaw?
No, it looks like somebody tried to rip-off Team Fortress 2 in the Unreal 1 engine. If your engine can't do curved surfaces properly, they could at least not make map designs that rely on them. (Look at the curved pipes, and the undoubtedly-supposed-to-be-round badge on the back wall.)
http://www.warsow.net/media/0.5/1280px/wdm19a.jpg
Look at this one, it's like Tron 2.0. What's that blocky white thing hovering in the air? Is that supposed to be a projectile of some sort?
5 years ago, these graphics might have looked awesome. Now the characters are ok (only because they are highly sylized, and because that style has been popularized by games like Crackdown, Team Fortress 2, etc), but the maps are pretty bad.
Here's what you're comparing it to, Unreal 2004. (The Unreal 2.0 engine. I'd like to remind you that the Unreal 2.0 engine has been superseded by Unreal 3.0 for, what, 3 years now?)
http://linux.softpedia.com/screenshots/Unreal-Tournament-2004_1.jpg
Look, the pipes are actually round!