The fact people are playing WoW automatically removes the "random" part of "random groups of people". You are getting random groups of like-interested people, random groups of people willing to devote several hours a week to a game, random groups of people who think gnomes are really neat.
Steam makes it possible to buy 3-5 year old games for cheap. Best Buy doesn't designate any shelf space to games more than a couple years old. Some of us older gamers (cough, 40, cough) have lives, so we can't always get to the latest/greatest game until it has been out a couple of years. I just finished HL2, for example, and I'm halfway through Dragon Age. No rush to finish it before Dragon Age II, because I won't have time to play that one for a couple of years. By then, it'll be $19 on Steam.
A developer who designs their ingame M-16 to require you to pull the charging handle when loading another magazine is egregious. Worse yet, it doesn't make the game any more or less fun. If anything, it's simply wasted development time.
Yes, absolutely NONE of the 800,000+ people in the United States with Top Secret clearances are on slashdot. And of those none, none of them ever worked at or for the NSA. You sure got a good laugh out of my post, didn't ya?
Here's the problem. Unlike the iPod, where I can go to any electronics store and try one out, Zunes are always in a box, behind a glass case, or there's a fake one used for display. And since I don't know anybody who actually owns one, I've never been able to try one out.
You keep going on about Apple and features. I was involved with developing user training for the first gen iPhone and I can tell you, what features YOU want didn't make version one based on very careful market research and engineering tradeoffs.
It's not like Apple said, "nobody wants remote wipe so we aren't going to do it". Instead, they said, "we have X amount of schedule and Y amount of budget, so we have to decide what is more important to our target audience: a great iPod interface, or some dorky enterprise tools." And it's not like they just accidentally forgot to include copy/paste in the OS either--they practically invented copy/paste (they were the first to map them to their current keyboard shortcuts of command C and V, respectively).
In short, if you needed a business phone with enterprise features, you most likely already had a blackberry. If you wanted a consumer device that would suffice as a business phone (with limitations), then you might have bought an iPhone.
I'm normally not cynical. When it comes to straight numbers, though, most people are stupid (at least here in the US). There are more anti-intellectuals than there are intellectuals. Even if you are in the middle, there's a constant societal push for you to become anti-intellectual--especially in the current political environment. Hopefully this will be cyclical and I can get back to being my normal, not-so-cynical self soon.
Yes, but the missile only has to be on target once it gets there...the laser has to get on target and STAY on target for what appears to be a long time.
Positive. MacIIs could do 24-bit color (sorry about the 32-bit, got a bit overzealous) in 1987. We didn't go dual monitor until our IIfx in 1989, but that's close enough for my 40 year old memory.
I designed the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign logo using that computer!
I never said anything about EULAs. I merely state that if information is online, only a fool thinks it is safe.
You can put stuff on facebook and hope it doesn't get misused because they have good privacy in place, or you can NOT put stuff on facebook, which will never be compromised.
I choose to put stuff on facebook, because they do a 'good enough' job for my privacy tolerance levels. People who bitch about it are free to not use it.
Facebook used to be cool before they started screwing it up. I don't think it's users are stupid.
I do. The beauty of Facebook is it let's me know just how stupid my racist uncle really is, or how ignorant my young coworker is of the world, or just how insanely right wing nut job some of my friends really are.
(Personally I preferred painting with 4096 colours...)
No, the Apple II (not the Macintosh) was limited to 15 colors in low-res and 8 in hi-res. The Macintosh II, released in 1987, was capable of 24-bit color, which is something like millions of colors more than 15.
Yes, that expensively free MacPaint (queue the "MacOS tax" comments in 3...2...1...). Lacking in features? That usually happens with "free". It wasn't for another couple of years until Aldus Freehand and Adobe Photoshop 1.0 came out that MacPaint became suddenly "lacking in features".
I have no idea what a ZX-Spectrum is, but when I was in college and studying print design in 1988, everything was Mac based because it could do 32-bit color and dual monitor layout, while the IBM clones gave you the choice of mono-chromatic, or if you were lucky/rich, 8...not 8-bit...8.
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The fact people are playing WoW automatically removes the "random" part of "random groups of people". You are getting random groups of like-interested people, random groups of people willing to devote several hours a week to a game, random groups of people who think gnomes are really neat.
I always thought the bar at the bottom of WoW was the experience bar. Who would have known that it is the "Performance Metrics" bar!
I hear once you hit mid-management the gate to the Outlands opens and you can unlock an epic blackberry.
I have so many old games laying around that I never got around to reselling, nor do I ever play. I'm pretty sure I'm the norm.
Why wouldn't you just wait until you have time to play the game before buying it? Chances are it will be cheaper in a year or two.
Steam makes it possible to buy 3-5 year old games for cheap. Best Buy doesn't designate any shelf space to games more than a couple years old. Some of us older gamers (cough, 40, cough) have lives, so we can't always get to the latest/greatest game until it has been out a couple of years. I just finished HL2, for example, and I'm halfway through Dragon Age. No rush to finish it before Dragon Age II, because I won't have time to play that one for a couple of years. By then, it'll be $19 on Steam.
A developer who designs their ingame M-16 to require you to pull the charging handle when loading another magazine is egregious. Worse yet, it doesn't make the game any more or less fun. If anything, it's simply wasted development time.
There's nothing professional about drug trafficking? Interesting interpretation.
Doesn't sound like much fun, though, which is kind of the point of the article.
I played Marathon religiously but don't remember anything before that from Bungie.
The most fun guns are the most impossible/ridiculous ones. Gravity gun? Riiiiight...but sure is fun!
lol, you didn't work for them
Yes, absolutely NONE of the 800,000+ people in the United States with Top Secret clearances are on slashdot. And of those none, none of them ever worked at or for the NSA. You sure got a good laugh out of my post, didn't ya?
Have any of you Zune haters actually used them??
Here's the problem. Unlike the iPod, where I can go to any electronics store and try one out, Zunes are always in a box, behind a glass case, or there's a fake one used for display. And since I don't know anybody who actually owns one, I've never been able to try one out.
You keep going on about Apple and features. I was involved with developing user training for the first gen iPhone and I can tell you, what features YOU want didn't make version one based on very careful market research and engineering tradeoffs.
It's not like Apple said, "nobody wants remote wipe so we aren't going to do it". Instead, they said, "we have X amount of schedule and Y amount of budget, so we have to decide what is more important to our target audience: a great iPod interface, or some dorky enterprise tools." And it's not like they just accidentally forgot to include copy/paste in the OS either--they practically invented copy/paste (they were the first to map them to their current keyboard shortcuts of command C and V, respectively).
In short, if you needed a business phone with enterprise features, you most likely already had a blackberry. If you wanted a consumer device that would suffice as a business phone (with limitations), then you might have bought an iPhone.
I read playboy for the articles. Maybe I'll use this "safe for work" version for my porn?
I'm normally not cynical. When it comes to straight numbers, though, most people are stupid (at least here in the US). There are more anti-intellectuals than there are intellectuals. Even if you are in the middle, there's a constant societal push for you to become anti-intellectual--especially in the current political environment. Hopefully this will be cyclical and I can get back to being my normal, not-so-cynical self soon.
Well, for starters, I worked for the NSA in the past, so you go ahead and keep thinking your encrypted data is secure.
Oops, sorry..another conversation in this thread had me thinking 1987 Macs, not the 1984 versions.
Yes, but the missile only has to be on target once it gets there...the laser has to get on target and STAY on target for what appears to be a long time.
Positive. MacIIs could do 24-bit color (sorry about the 32-bit, got a bit overzealous) in 1987. We didn't go dual monitor until our IIfx in 1989, but that's close enough for my 40 year old memory.
I designed the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign logo using that computer!
I never said anything about EULAs. I merely state that if information is online, only a fool thinks it is safe.
You can put stuff on facebook and hope it doesn't get misused because they have good privacy in place, or you can NOT put stuff on facebook, which will never be compromised.
I choose to put stuff on facebook, because they do a 'good enough' job for my privacy tolerance levels. People who bitch about it are free to not use it.
I still ask why it must be unrealistic to assume FB (or any social networking site) to keep their promises.
The same reason it was unrealistic for me to think the VA would keep social security number private?
It's not the promise-breaking I'm worried about, it's the fact that no information that is online is secure, regardless of the promise.
Facebook used to be cool before they started screwing it up. I don't think it's users are stupid.
I do. The beauty of Facebook is it let's me know just how stupid my racist uncle really is, or how ignorant my young coworker is of the world, or just how insanely right wing nut job some of my friends really are.
Then there's this gem:
http://www.failbook.com/
(at work, it's blocked, so i can't remember if it's .org or .com)
I like the guy who was crowing about how he got lucky only for his mom to press the "like" button.
Yeah, they don't have the Internets or anything like that.
15 colours.
Which is 13 more than the Mac had.
(Personally I preferred painting with 4096 colours...)
No, the Apple II (not the Macintosh) was limited to 15 colors in low-res and 8 in hi-res. The Macintosh II, released in 1987, was capable of 24-bit color, which is something like millions of colors more than 15.
Yes, that expensively free MacPaint (queue the "MacOS tax" comments in 3...2...1...). Lacking in features? That usually happens with "free". It wasn't for another couple of years until Aldus Freehand and Adobe Photoshop 1.0 came out that MacPaint became suddenly "lacking in features".
I have no idea what a ZX-Spectrum is, but when I was in college and studying print design in 1988, everything was Mac based because it could do 32-bit color and dual monitor layout, while the IBM clones gave you the choice of mono-chromatic, or if you were lucky/rich, 8...not 8-bit...8.
Just looking at the interface--its amazing how many of the UI elements are STILL the industry standard.