Eye appealing is a fairly subjective thing. I also think that the couple small pictures on that site aren't really fair to judge it by
Well eye appealing is not necessarily a subjective thing, hence the golden ratio. That's why furniture is made in certain proportions with the decorative bits at certain places. Not that I'm saying that there is no personal preference at all involved but humans as a rule are programmed to find certain shapes visually appealing.
I can write a binary that when run by root will erase your entire system. And I can probably do so in under a minute. Somehow, I doubt it will ever hurt anyone. Anyone smart anyhow.
Damn, I'm impressed. I could probably kick out a binary to do the same but it would take me more than a minute just to write the ELF header, not to mention the object code source. Of course if you meant write a program I'd be suprised if it took someone a full minute to do this. I know what you meant just f'ing with you a little.
I know for some kids, it didn't work out as well, given the rash of school shootings a year or so ago. Can that be bleamed on video games?
You're assuming that the kids that participated in the shooting were the root cause (they are not blameless of course) but it's more likely that the kids that constantly picked on them and made their lives a lving hell were the cause. The ones that DIDN'T play games and had nothing better to do than torture other children.
I think his game was called "Kill the Jews". Maybe had he had some video games to vent some of his misplaced aggression we wouldn't have had the tragedy that we did during WWII.
I won't deny that there are some actors that can help you forget the other movies they are in, but it's not as simple as being a good actor, it's visual recognition more than anything else. You associate the appearance of an actor with certain movies and roles as much as, if not more than, anything else. Arnold S. will always be the Terminator, Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be Buffy, and Jim Carrey will always be an idiot.
Well, disregarding the fact that it's only a few seconds and they will be unrecognizable. It's a poor move to date a movie with a current fad in pop culture. In ten years people will hear this and think who? A tv show can generally get away with it because of the format, tv shows are contemporary by nature whereas a movie that locks itself into something like this is doomed.
These shitheads are just a short lived trend, not that that matters. Looking at past movies you can see that huge stars, from outside the movie industry generally seem to make the movie worse.
Personally, I'm happiest when a movie doesn't have any huge names at all you usually get a more enjoyable experience because the actors don't carry the baggage that someone you've seen in a number of movies does.
Uhh, GTA3, FFX, Onimusha, RE:Veronica, Silent Hill 2, THPS3, MGS2, that's seven I could go on, but I won't. There are easily more non-FPS games for PS2 thatn there are games total for the GC.
Not that I don't want a GC as well but your statement is without an ounce of truth.
Hey I've only see a playstation lock up once, shocked the hell out of me. I don't particularly care for the X-Box (and I don hate MS) but I've never seen it lock up, or heard of it from a reliable source. My NES and Genesis used to lock up, but never enough to cause a real problem.
Nintendo games as a general rule suck. Sorry it's the truth, not all of them but compare the great PSX games with the great Nintendo games (keep in mind I'm well past 12 years old which seems to be the target for Nintendo). Small list for Nintendo. It doesn't matter how "innovative" the design is, it's the games that matter. If I can play great games on a toaster I'll be happy.
I shouldn't say the suck, but single player games are pretty meagre for the Nintendo. The multiplayer games are incredible though, I have yet to find a game I can pop in for the PS2 that three or four people can all play and have fun with. Nintendo seems to excel with these.
Personally I like to have the PS2 so I can be anti-social and play FFX for hours on end, and have the Cube for a bunch of friends sitting around and beating the crap out of each other in Smash Brothers.
There is no "Digerati" - some sort of elite upper class who automatically understand complicated things (such as computers). This is pure bullshit. All human beings are born with the same basic level of intelligence. The difference is how it is used. Some of us choose to better ourselves, and so we work a little harder and try to learn things. Others... your so called "dispossed"... prefer to remain stupid because they are too lazy to put out any effort toward learning.
Yeah and all people are born with the same basic level of beauty and athletic ability. what a crock of shit. Some people are born more intelligent than other, some less. Some are born with a natural talent in certain areas. Engineering, math, art, whatever some people have it and some don't.
However, all that being said, there is no reason that the "dispossessed" will never understand is also a crock. There is no reason why (nearly) anyone could not learn to use a computer.
So what, get a tar ball don't get a package. You have to manually get in there to make Windows work as well. My CD-Writer worked out of the box for linux and took two hours to manually find/install the dll's needed under windows. My tv capture card STILL does not work under windows.
Secondly differing widget sets work no matter which desktop your using, I run koffice on my gnome desktop regularly. That is the point. It down't matter if every developer that comes down the pipe can work on a particular project, a greater percentage can thatn can jump in on a windows project.
Furthermore, you are crossing the, admittedly, blurry line between a newbie user and an experienced one. It's probably safe to say that NO newbie users are looking for database frontends.
No choice has absolutely no merits above choice. The standard Linix desktop will be able to meet Joe Blows needs, and that is where the desktop market lies. The fact that there are alternate choices for desktops has absolutely no bearing on that fact.
That is completely and utterly ridiculous nonsense.
Yes it would help to have a PRIMARY desktop that comes by default for new users, but you gain absolutely nothing by limiting choice. A small percentage of normal users become power users and will want to switch to a more powerful desktop, and a larger percentage of normal users think they are power users and will want to do the same. The argument that choice is going to prevent Linux from taking over the desktop.
All this being said real power users use the desktop for opening shells 90% of the time so it doesn't really matter anyway .
Well the government prints the money, and it is owned by them, I'm not sure it's an invasion of privacy, it's their property and they have the right to know who has possesion of it. You have a form of payment that is strictly anonymous... barter (we'll ignore registered property like vehicles) you don't have to use government issued currency you choose to.
Not that I particularly like the idea, just pointing out the facts.
For the most part it's not as much that a monopoly is a bad thing that stirs the complaints against MS as it is the combination of a monopoly with a low quality product.
Not to mention Sony certainly doesn't hold a monopoly on the console market. They put out a better product and the sales figures prove it. I expect to see the GameCube come along in sales over the next couple of months the games slated for future release look really good, and the $200 price tag is a huge incentive. I don't know what will happen to the XBox, there is a game or two that looks good, but not many.
I should also point out that your statements premise and conclusion are completely contrary to fact. The XBOX is MS's attempt to gain a foothold in the console market and if successful will eventually begin using their library of unfair business practices against the other players in the market. Thankfully MS rarely does things right and the XBOX will most likely be short lived.
I'm not going to get drawn into this holy war again, but Windows has problems duing installation as well. Newbies can't install Windows any more than they can install Linux. But they don't have to, thanks to MS strongarming vendors windows comes pre-installed. For a plug and play system Windows is pretty pathetic. I had to hunt all over for a driver for my USB CdWriter, Redhat 7.2 picked it up and installed it with no complaints and without me doing a thing. I didn't even have to pop in a manufacturer disk to install software and drivers.
It all boils down to the same thing time and time again. Windows is no more usable than Linux it is only more common. There are an infinite number of ways a UI could have been diesigned. It just so happens that poeple have had Windows crammed down their throats for so long that something different seems hard and un-intuitive.
Final Fantasy had a plot, it just takes more than the cursory look that the majority of audiences are willing to give, in the US at least. I really liked the move, and would have liked it if it was live action rather than CG.
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Eye appealing is a fairly subjective thing. I also think that the couple small pictures on that site aren't really fair to judge it by
Well eye appealing is not necessarily a subjective thing, hence the golden ratio. That's why furniture is made in certain proportions with the decorative bits at certain places. Not that I'm saying that there is no personal preference at all involved but humans as a rule are programmed to find certain shapes visually appealing.
Damn, I'm impressed. I could probably kick out a binary to do the same but it would take me more than a minute just to write the ELF header, not to mention the object code source. Of course if you meant write a program I'd be suprised if it took someone a full minute to do this. I know what you meant just f'ing with you a little.
Damn gotta hit preview, meant whole obviously.
Read the hole comment asshole it wasn't a joke.
Well yeah, personally at least given the choice, I'll take the blood every time.
You're assuming that the kids that participated in the shooting were the root cause (they are not blameless of course) but it's more likely that the kids that constantly picked on them and made their lives a lving hell were the cause. The ones that DIDN'T play games and had nothing better to do than torture other children.
I think his game was called "Kill the Jews". Maybe had he had some video games to vent some of his misplaced aggression we wouldn't have had the tragedy that we did during WWII.
I won't deny that there are some actors that can help you forget the other movies they are in, but it's not as simple as being a good actor, it's visual recognition more than anything else. You associate the appearance of an actor with certain movies and roles as much as, if not more than, anything else. Arnold S. will always be the Terminator, Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be Buffy, and Jim Carrey will always be an idiot.
Well, disregarding the fact that it's only a few seconds and they will be unrecognizable. It's a poor move to date a movie with a current fad in pop culture. In ten years people will hear this and think who? A tv show can generally get away with it because of the format, tv shows are contemporary by nature whereas a movie that locks itself into something like this is doomed.
These shitheads are just a short lived trend, not that that matters. Looking at past movies you can see that huge stars, from outside the movie industry generally seem to make the movie worse.
Personally, I'm happiest when a movie doesn't have any huge names at all you usually get a more enjoyable experience because the actors don't carry the baggage that someone you've seen in a number of movies does.
GTA is NOT a driving games, Oni is 3rd person, hence your ability to see the character from over his shoulder. So yeah they stay in my list.
Uhh, GTA3, FFX, Onimusha, RE:Veronica, Silent Hill 2, THPS3, MGS2, that's seven I could go on, but I won't. There are easily more non-FPS games for PS2 thatn there are games total for the GC.
Not that I don't want a GC as well but your statement is without an ounce of truth.
Hey I've only see a playstation lock up once, shocked the hell out of me. I don't particularly care for the X-Box (and I don hate MS) but I've never seen it lock up, or heard of it from a reliable source. My NES and Genesis used to lock up, but never enough to cause a real problem.
Nintendo games as a general rule suck. Sorry it's the truth, not all of them but compare the great PSX games with the great Nintendo games (keep in mind I'm well past 12 years old which seems to be the target for Nintendo). Small list for Nintendo. It doesn't matter how "innovative" the design is, it's the games that matter. If I can play great games on a toaster I'll be happy.
I shouldn't say the suck, but single player games are pretty meagre for the Nintendo. The multiplayer games are incredible though, I have yet to find a game I can pop in for the PS2 that three or four people can all play and have fun with. Nintendo seems to excel with these.
Personally I like to have the PS2 so I can be anti-social and play FFX for hours on end, and have the Cube for a bunch of friends sitting around and beating the crap out of each other in Smash Brothers.
Yeah and all people are born with the same basic level of beauty and athletic ability. what a crock of shit. Some people are born more intelligent than other, some less. Some are born with a natural talent in certain areas. Engineering, math, art, whatever some people have it and some don't.
However, all that being said, there is no reason that the "dispossessed" will never understand is also a crock. There is no reason why (nearly) anyone could not learn to use a computer.
So what, get a tar ball don't get a package. You have to manually get in there to make Windows work as well. My CD-Writer worked out of the box for linux and took two hours to manually find/install the dll's needed under windows. My tv capture card STILL does not work under windows.
Secondly differing widget sets work no matter which desktop your using, I run koffice on my gnome desktop regularly. That is the point. It down't matter if every developer that comes down the pipe can work on a particular project, a greater percentage can thatn can jump in on a windows project.
Furthermore, you are crossing the, admittedly, blurry line between a newbie user and an experienced one. It's probably safe to say that NO newbie users are looking for database frontends.
No choice has absolutely no merits above choice. The standard Linix desktop will be able to meet Joe Blows needs, and that is where the desktop market lies. The fact that there are alternate choices for desktops has absolutely no bearing on that fact.
That is completely and utterly ridiculous nonsense.
Yes it would help to have a PRIMARY desktop that comes by default for new users, but you gain absolutely nothing by limiting choice. A small percentage of normal users become power users and will want to switch to a more powerful desktop, and a larger percentage of normal users think they are power users and will want to do the same. The argument that choice is going to prevent Linux from taking over the desktop.
All this being said real power users use the desktop for opening shells 90% of the time so it doesn't really matter anyway .
I suspect you are right. You have the right to choose your economic vehichle.... *ahem* as long as you don't try and use it.
Sorry, not true, you don't own that currency, it is the property of the federal government. I don't like it either but that's the way it is.
Yeah that's not irony at all, coincidental maybe, but not ironic.
Well the government prints the money, and it is owned by them, I'm not sure it's an invasion of privacy, it's their property and they have the right to know who has possesion of it. You have a form of payment that is strictly anonymous... barter (we'll ignore registered property like vehicles) you don't have to use government issued currency you choose to.
Not that I particularly like the idea, just pointing out the facts.
If it's unreachable, it's not part of the net. Hence the word network. Therefore no part of the net is unreachable.
Not to mention Sony certainly doesn't hold a monopoly on the console market. They put out a better product and the sales figures prove it. I expect to see the GameCube come along in sales over the next couple of months the games slated for future release look really good, and the $200 price tag is a huge incentive. I don't know what will happen to the XBox, there is a game or two that looks good, but not many.
I should also point out that your statements premise and conclusion are completely contrary to fact. The XBOX is MS's attempt to gain a foothold in the console market and if successful will eventually begin using their library of unfair business practices against the other players in the market. Thankfully MS rarely does things right and the XBOX will most likely be short lived.
It all boils down to the same thing time and time again. Windows is no more usable than Linux it is only more common. There are an infinite number of ways a UI could have been diesigned. It just so happens that poeple have had Windows crammed down their throats for so long that something different seems hard and un-intuitive.
Like hell it did, the New York Dolls among others were around before any punks in Britain, you can have the mods but punk started here.
Final Fantasy had a plot, it just takes more than the cursory look that the majority of audiences are willing to give, in the US at least. I really liked the move, and would have liked it if it was live action rather than CG.