You know that scene at the beginning of Space Oddessy: 2001, where the monkeys dispute over the water-pool? By screaming nonsense at each other? MTV recreated that here.
I didn't think either side made a compelling argument for the entire competition. I want my 20 minutes back.
Like was said in the other thread, it's not that this is anything new, especially to those of us with PC's and bittorrent. Except for those of us that, as a matter of principle, refuse to download content that the owner has not chosen to distribute.
There are a few of us, even on Slashdot. I am pleased to see Netflix present an alternative.
Someone did the math, and decided what they gain via steam activation is worth what they lose by alienating people like you.
I'm sure you can take great comfort in knowing that "it's nothing personal, it's just business". I agree that it sucks for you, but valve has some of the best games ever made to sweeten the medicine with.
If you intend to write a piece of software that doesn't work at all, then when it doesn't work it will be working. So in order for it to not work at all it will have to work. So, put the software in a box, with a 50% chance of it aborting, but you never know if it will work until you open the box.
Then, run it on a quantum computer. That should get what you're looking for.
IBM software will analyze the video and ultimately recognize suspicious behavior.... The challenge is going to be teaching computers to recognize the suspicious behavior,' said Smith. 'Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety.'" I'm going to make a ship that goes to the moon. The challenge will be in making a ship that can go to the moon. Once this is done this will be a very impressive ship in terms of transportation.
It radioed home information via a relay by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, reporting its activities for the day. Seriously guys, selling the Martians a package that phones home without their consent is not the route to good interstellar relations. Haven't we had enough media spectacles here at home to let us know not to do it on Mars?
I agree that wired LAN is more secure than WiFi. But can't you do some pretty scary signal reconstruction by reading electromagnetic noise coming off your network cable? It's my understanding that this can be done from X yards away, through walls, whatever.
Yeah, that moves your vulnerability away from the hobbyist tier and into the professional tier, but honestly, which one scares you more?
Guess you could always wrap your cable in tin-foil.
It's because games which are awesome tend to (coincidentally?) be M-rated. At least in some genres. FPS comes to mind.
I say that the industry is failing to exploit the biggest strength of a video game - on the fly decision making. Most games could support a variable level of sex, or gore, or profanity, or whatever without a lot of additional effort.
Yes, sometimes it's an integral part of the gameplay, but just as often it's not. I say that for every game where turning off decapitation would screw up all your combat animations, there's a game where you could load transparent textures in place of your blood splats, load alternate audio tracks for your dialog, and change rockets to gib people 0% of the time instead of 20% of the time.
Some people would say, "You want me to ship an entire set of alternate textures for every model in the game? That's going to double the amount of artwork on the disk!" No it won't. It would inflate the amount of artwork you have to create and ship, but you only have to create and alternate set of textures for a fraction of your game. Stone walkways and exit signs don't need an alternate texture set.
Note that today, the ESRB claims to rate your title on whatever ships on the disk, regardless of if it is accessible to the player or not (I'm looking at you, Rockstar). The rating system we have today would need to be adapted to accommodate variable levels of content.
They attain gigaflops and call it a supercomputer? I thought you had to at least reach terraflops these days...
From Wikipedia: Supercomputer
The speed of a supercomputer is generally measured in "FLOPS" (FLoating Point Operations Per Second), commonly used with an SI prefix such as tera-, combined into the shorthand "TFLOPS" (1012 FLOPS, pronounced teraflops), or peta-,combined into the shorthand "PFLOPS" (1015 FLOPS, pronounced petaflops.) It's not exactly a good quote, but looks to me like we're bumping the lower edge of the petaflop scale these days. Thats six decimal places people.
You can do this with a Dell even without a quarter. ...and I hate the freakin things. I'm tired of dealing with wonky multi-hinged plastic contraptions that try (and fail) to hold in expansion card blanks. I wish they would just pick a screw that will fit 80% of the Phillips head screwdrivers in existence, and use it.
On the other hand, using oversize hand-turn screws to hold the case onto the frame is great. Bonus points if you made your case so that I can remove a single panel over the motherboard instead of sliding the whole freaking chassis apart.
It's been demonstrated that you spend more money hooking up a generator to an exercise bike than you'll generate in electricity over the lifetime of the bike. The dance club thing could probably work though.
That's part of the reason why your attempt at trolling will never really hit it big on Slashdot. He's not trolling! He's not saying that your approach fails to fix the problem. He's not even saying that he doesn't like to type.
He's saying that someone afraid of their computer can't do it. And until Linux can be used by people afraid of their computer, it won't appeal to the majority of the desktop PC market.
Don't worry! My method will get them down in one piece. You wanted them alive? Oh, wait... I become increasingly convinced that setting out engineering requirements is just like bargaining with the devil. Yeah, that contract might protect you, but you better be really, really sure that it says what you think it says.
You asked for a save button? Okay, here you go. Wait, you wanted a functional save button? Too bad, pay up to rewrite the spec.
Since Halo 1 was released on the PC, I've been reading interviews with the Halo dev team guys saying that network Co-Op is going to have to wait a while because their networking code can't handle it. As I recall the explanation was that you get a lot of functionality very easily when you are assured that both players are on the same system.
Each of those articles also had intense speculation that network Co-Op is 'right around the corner'. First for Halo 1, then for Halo 2. I'm probably willing to say that this is the journalist putting words in their mouth, but after 4+ years of hearing the same thing I won't believe it until it ships.
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I withheld a Duke Nukem comment.
Sorry to repost, but I just finished the last clip, and I am so filled with rage that I have to post again saying how much of a waste of time this is.
Question: "Which game better integrates theme and gameplay: Adventure, or Street Fighter 2?"
Team one: "Adventure gives you...adventure. You have this, like, adventure. You get to have an adventure."
Team two: "Street fighter gives you fighting, in the street! You're fighting, in a street! And there is two of you!"
Both teams repeat themselves over and over until time runs out.
Why didn't I just give up and stop watching? Because I am an idiot.
You know that scene at the beginning of Space Oddessy: 2001, where the monkeys dispute over the water-pool? By screaming nonsense at each other? MTV recreated that here.
I didn't think either side made a compelling argument for the entire competition. I want my 20 minutes back.
I should have said that the PC version is delayed until 2008.
In 2008. (it's still delayed until 2008, right?)
There are a few of us, even on Slashdot. I am pleased to see Netflix present an alternative.
I call BS. Pandemic is already based in the US, and we don't see any of this happening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_Studios
Their games are pretty good too.
The swear words don't count.
...you won't find the Maxis name on anything anymore. Does Spore count?Someone did the math, and decided what they gain via steam activation is worth what they lose by alienating people like you.
I'm sure you can take great comfort in knowing that "it's nothing personal, it's just business". I agree that it sucks for you, but valve has some of the best games ever made to sweeten the medicine with.
Then, run it on a quantum computer. That should get what you're looking for.
I agree that wired LAN is more secure than WiFi. But can't you do some pretty scary signal reconstruction by reading electromagnetic noise coming off your network cable? It's my understanding that this can be done from X yards away, through walls, whatever.
Yeah, that moves your vulnerability away from the hobbyist tier and into the professional tier, but honestly, which one scares you more?
Guess you could always wrap your cable in tin-foil.
It's because games which are awesome tend to (coincidentally?) be M-rated. At least in some genres. FPS comes to mind.
I say that the industry is failing to exploit the biggest strength of a video game - on the fly decision making. Most games could support a variable level of sex, or gore, or profanity, or whatever without a lot of additional effort.
Yes, sometimes it's an integral part of the gameplay, but just as often it's not. I say that for every game where turning off decapitation would screw up all your combat animations, there's a game where you could load transparent textures in place of your blood splats, load alternate audio tracks for your dialog, and change rockets to gib people 0% of the time instead of 20% of the time.
Some people would say, "You want me to ship an entire set of alternate textures for every model in the game? That's going to double the amount of artwork on the disk!" No it won't. It would inflate the amount of artwork you have to create and ship, but you only have to create and alternate set of textures for a fraction of your game. Stone walkways and exit signs don't need an alternate texture set.
Note that today, the ESRB claims to rate your title on whatever ships on the disk, regardless of if it is accessible to the player or not (I'm looking at you, Rockstar). The rating system we have today would need to be adapted to accommodate variable levels of content.
If it's eavesdropping on the signals sent to your larynx, does that mean that you can't talk and drive at the same time?
Does it mean that saying "I left my keys at home" while driving on the sidewalk is going to send you hurtling into traffic?
From Wikipedia: Supercomputer The speed of a supercomputer is generally measured in "FLOPS" (FLoating Point Operations Per Second), commonly used with an SI prefix such as tera-, combined into the shorthand "TFLOPS" (1012 FLOPS, pronounced teraflops), or peta-,combined into the shorthand "PFLOPS" (1015 FLOPS, pronounced petaflops.) It's not exactly a good quote, but looks to me like we're bumping the lower edge of the petaflop scale these days. Thats six decimal places people.
When I was in college, I had no difficulties picking a major: Computer Science. I wanted Computer Science since I played video games at the age of 3.
I had a roommate who couldn't decide on a major, and in fact didn't have one until around his Junior Year
Some people know what they want to do when they turn 14, some people don't. I do not see the value of making the people who don't pick one anyway.
Ever look into non-EA emulated shards? Here's my favorite: http://www.game-master.net/
It's been demonstrated that you spend more money hooking up a generator to an exercise bike than you'll generate in electricity over the lifetime of the bike. The dance club thing could probably work though.
Why, Why, Why is this modded 'Informative'?
He's saying that someone afraid of their computer can't do it. And until Linux can be used by people afraid of their computer, it won't appeal to the majority of the desktop PC market.
You asked for a save button? Okay, here you go. Wait, you wanted a functional save button? Too bad, pay up to rewrite the spec.
Since Halo 1 was released on the PC, I've been reading interviews with the Halo dev team guys saying that network Co-Op is going to have to wait a while because their networking code can't handle it. As I recall the explanation was that you get a lot of functionality very easily when you are assured that both players are on the same system.
Each of those articles also had intense speculation that network Co-Op is 'right around the corner'. First for Halo 1, then for Halo 2. I'm probably willing to say that this is the journalist putting words in their mouth, but after 4+ years of hearing the same thing I won't believe it until it ships.