You know... the Only reason People used Windows was because of the apps (no serious games for Linux other than a selected few) and lock-in.
Now that games are becomming multi-platform and Steam and Source are comming to the Mac (and Linux! It somewhat runs already!) there will be no reason anyone would still use Windows.
And suddenly I can't for the life of me figure out why people defend MS and Windows and say it's so muc h more awesome...:S
The workflos (read speed) is much slower with the ribbon. You have to use the mouse more (read greater distance between buttons. You cannot devide the ribbon by 2. In other words you can't have some toolbars on the left (File, Edit, Help, etc) and others on the top. It takes up too much screen space.
if no protocol is defines (say "http://") then their browser uses the default search engine. Of course this is Google by default, but it is realy easily changeable. Chrome (not Chromium!) asks you what search engine you want to use on the firts run.
Adblock is freely available from the Google Chrome website fro christs sake. Even easylist and a more or less hidden option to turn ON Google text adds.
intiI _DO_ want less complex games. Games today are full of scripted, B-level grade story-injected gimmick back holes that suck your brain non-interactive awesomeness dull entertainment trash. Still following me?
OK. I want a game with a simple concept that focusses on mastering agility, reflexes, mathematical insight and insight related to time. Then later dress it up with a theme, story, whatever. But be sure to not tell the story (it was 100 b.c. and our great hero-... not wait... Scrap that shit!) but actually let it take place in that sort of setting and put the pre-lude that no die-hard oldschool gamer will ever care to read in the manual.
Okey... examples: Wipeout Pulse on the PSP. After a little while the grids are filled with gold, gold, gold, gold, gold and so forth. What am I playing instead? The original Wipeout for the PSx, bought through the PSN store (never played it before) and guess what game I prefer to play when I pick up my PSP? You guessed it: the original Wipeout. Why? Because it takes so much practise to master corners and turn-ins that it actually challenges me and I have yet to even complete (let alone win) the tournament on the slowest speed class.
Then for the FPS die-hards... The remake of GoldenEye 007 for the N64; GoldenEye: Source beta 4. No crosshairs, unless you press shift but it then comes with the penalty (yes, penalty; the gameplay mechanic that is totally forgotten in modern games) of slower movement. Red highlighting of campers, easy to pwn camper spots that you can easily throw a grenade in... etc. That challenges you to predict the spray, which is of course identical to each waepon. It doesn't matter if you find the body armor and get the uber-gun because if there's a pro in front of you he will actually kick your ass because it's the players that decide how the game plays, not the false gameplay mechanics that are 'balanced'. Fsck balanced! However if you pick up the Klobb then your ass will be kicked so you are chalanged to get the bigger gun. The game modes are also unlike the shitpile of FPS games. Instead of capture the flag and all that standards shit you'll actually play something new and interestingly difficult.
I can continue all day, but the above perfectly illustrates my point.
So get back to 1998 and give me something challanging instead and let me pwn if I master the input device and punish me for if I do not. Scrap balance, non-interactive scriptedf shit (the only thing that should be scripted are the openinbg and closing of doors.
The biggest joke of all games must be God of War (each version).
End of rant. Hopefully someone with an actuall passion for games instead of movies will take my rant as healthy advice and create something worthwile/classic that will not be forgotten just because the latest games have more shaders *ugh*
Walk through a forest, in pitch black darkness. Take out your cellphone and let the backlight shine into one of your eyes. Literally place your cellphone's screen onto your skin and look around with your left eye still open also (or the other way around).
I don't know why the hell this effect works, but it's some damn good nightvision! (or some kind of mindtrick that amplifies tiny differences in light).
"It's nice they've developed a way to transfer data at ridiculous speeds, but it does the average user no good as long as we're using mechanical hard drives." What's the problem with most humans? They always seem to want to only advance to the bare miminum required.
How about: "Yo guys, I got an idea!" -"Shoot" "How about making a cable that is so fast that we'll never have to think about the transfer speed anymore?" -"That'll be awesome!" ???
"'ll take a well supported, closed driver from a company that actually supports Linux than a driver from a company that just pays lip service to open source. If they were truly committed to open source why did they only release partial documentation and not the source code for their Catalyst driver?" Oh I don't know... DRM and patents?
Yeah, because we all know that serialisation can always be made parallel and ocupy the entire CPU command stream...... Or this is not the case and you don't know anything about computers in the first place.
Here's the thing; somebody that knows the terms GUI and IP and includes Visual Basic into it knows what computers are what OS's can do, but you must not educate anyone how to actually crack/circumvent security.
Given that one crystal represents one bit, it tells you (as this is research, you know...) that there can be 1.099.511.627.776 crystals per cm (density, much?).
Yeah I heared some retards keep saying that based on zero scientific reasoning, just like they did before. The earth should have already imploded/exploded/pole-shifted/climate-shifted a thousand times by now...
I suspect that Flash devs are working for a company and need to implement something for what the largest part of their market uses. Be it Flash, Silverlight or whatever else...
Oh whatever, I'm just mumlbing like an astro- errrr-, schizo on a bus...
PS: make it GPLv3 with the "all you patents are belong to the world" clause and Micorost can either not become compatible with OGG, or surrender their patents. Both would be awesome! =D
I don't see the problem, really... all we need is to lure people into using Linux, ship a user friendly OGG video editor (now in Ubuntu 10.04) and also some GUI widget that prompts the user "Do you want to install missing codecs from www.someh.264.site.com? (y/n)" Ok, Ok, Ok and we are compatible with h.264, but IE is not compatible with the rival OGG.
Problem solved... locked in product... Eventually this will happen...
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Also IE and the a lot of things else.
You know... the Only reason People used Windows was because of the apps (no serious games for Linux other than a selected few) and lock-in.
Now that games are becomming multi-platform and Steam and Source are comming to the Mac (and Linux! It somewhat runs already!) there will be no reason anyone would still use Windows.
And suddenly I can't for the life of me figure out why people defend MS and Windows and say it's so muc h more awesome... :S
The workflos (read speed) is much slower with the ribbon.
You have to use the mouse more (read greater distance between buttons.
You cannot devide the ribbon by 2. In other words you can't have some toolbars on the left (File, Edit, Help, etc) and others on the top.
It takes up too much screen space.
-Linux user
If YouTube would switch perma to HTML5 vid, the very second about 60% of the world is going to want to have it running.
It is not new: YouTube already stopped supporting IE6 and it is... not working anymore =D
It ships with Flash, but Flash will never become available for you iPod/iPhone/iPad... ever. Forget it...
if no protocol is defines (say "http://") then their browser uses the default search engine. Of course this is Google by default, but it is realy easily changeable. Chrome (not Chromium!) asks you what search engine you want to use on the firts run.
After a while this one bar gets adiciting!
Adblock is freely available from the Google Chrome website fro christs sake. Even easylist and a more or less hidden option to turn ON Google text adds.
You provide HTML5 for your Chrome, Apple does't support it. It is about to die and nobody uses Flash for anything serious but YouTube use...
Fsck you!
*Writing form Rekonq*
intiI _DO_ want less complex games. Games today are full of scripted, B-level grade story-injected gimmick back holes that suck your brain non-interactive awesomeness dull entertainment trash. Still following me?
OK. I want a game with a simple concept that focusses on mastering agility, reflexes, mathematical insight and insight related to time. Then later dress it up with a theme, story, whatever. But be sure to not tell the story (it was 100 b.c. and our great hero-... not wait... Scrap that shit!) but actually let it take place in that sort of setting and put the pre-lude that no die-hard oldschool gamer will ever care to read in the manual.
Okey... examples:
Wipeout Pulse on the PSP. After a little while the grids are filled with gold, gold, gold, gold, gold and so forth. What am I playing instead? The original Wipeout for the PSx, bought through the PSN store (never played it before) and guess what game I prefer to play when I pick up my PSP? You guessed it: the original Wipeout. Why? Because it takes so much practise to master corners and turn-ins that it actually challenges me and I have yet to even complete (let alone win) the tournament on the slowest speed class.
Then for the FPS die-hards... The remake of GoldenEye 007 for the N64; GoldenEye: Source beta 4. No crosshairs, unless you press shift but it then comes with the penalty (yes, penalty; the gameplay mechanic that is totally forgotten in modern games) of slower movement. Red highlighting of campers, easy to pwn camper spots that you can easily throw a grenade in... etc. That challenges you to predict the spray, which is of course identical to each waepon. It doesn't matter if you find the body armor and get the uber-gun because if there's a pro in front of you he will actually kick your ass because it's the players that decide how the game plays, not the false gameplay mechanics that are 'balanced'. Fsck balanced! However if you pick up the Klobb then your ass will be kicked so you are chalanged to get the bigger gun. The game modes are also unlike the shitpile of FPS games. Instead of capture the flag and all that standards shit you'll actually play something new and interestingly difficult.
I can continue all day, but the above perfectly illustrates my point.
So get back to 1998 and give me something challanging instead and let me pwn if I master the input device and punish me for if I do not. Scrap balance, non-interactive scriptedf shit (the only thing that should be scripted are the openinbg and closing of doors.
The biggest joke of all games must be God of War (each version).
End of rant. Hopefully someone with an actuall passion for games instead of movies will take my rant as healthy advice and create something worthwile/classic that will not be forgotten just because the latest games have more shaders *ugh*
Walk through a forest, in pitch black darkness. Take out your cellphone and let the backlight shine into one of your eyes. Literally place your cellphone's screen onto your skin and look around with your left eye still open also (or the other way around).
I don't know why the hell this effect works, but it's some damn good nightvision! (or some kind of mindtrick that amplifies tiny differences in light).
Always wondered why that happened.
Intel, in this case, doesn't seem to be doing that. So what's up with the /. comments that it is unnessecairy? (which was my point)
"It's nice they've developed a way to transfer data at ridiculous speeds, but it does the average user no good as long as we're using mechanical hard drives."
What's the problem with most humans? They always seem to want to only advance to the bare miminum required.
How about:
"Yo guys, I got an idea!"
-"Shoot"
"How about making a cable that is so fast that we'll never have to think about the transfer speed anymore?"
-"That'll be awesome!"
???
Gnome is for idiots, so he can keep that badge.
Make sure to take away his KDE, though...
"'ll take a well supported, closed driver from a company that actually supports Linux than a driver from a company that just pays lip service to open source. If they were truly committed to open source why did they only release partial documentation and not the source code for their Catalyst driver?"
Oh I don't know... DRM and patents?
Yeah, because we all know that serialisation can always be made parallel and ocupy the entire CPU command stream... ... Or this is not the case and you don't know anything about computers in the first place.
Excuse me moron, but how is doubling the transister count every two years in any way related to the Windows OS?
Yo! Who ate all of my fries?!
Here's the thing; somebody that knows the terms GUI and IP and includes Visual Basic into it knows what computers are what OS's can do, but you must not educate anyone how to actually crack/circumvent security.
I smell lawsuits...
Given that one crystal represents one bit, it tells you (as this is research, you know...) that there can be 1.099.511.627.776 crystals per cm (density, much?).
Hard drive industry? This is research... Given that each crystal is a bit, one terabits (one tera crystals) can be packed onto 1cm.
What's the problem?
Yeah I heared some retards keep saying that based on zero scientific reasoning, just like they did before. The earth should have already imploded/exploded/pole-shifted/climate-shifted a thousand times by now...
Rofl... just click "OK", which is perfect Windows user behavior xD
Also... where do you get your codecs from in Windows and how? That's ten times more complicated, fool -_-
I suspect that Flash devs are working for a company and need to implement something for what the largest part of their market uses. Be it Flash, Silverlight or whatever else...
Oh whatever, I'm just mumlbing like an astro- errrr-, schizo on a bus...
Who, of all companies, does NOT want that? How about a little history repeats itself course? Let's begin with Word and Excel... Continue (y/n)?
PS: make it GPLv3 with the "all you patents are belong to the world" clause and Micorost can either not become compatible with OGG, or surrender their patents. Both would be awesome! =D
I don't see the problem, really... all we need is to lure people into using Linux, ship a user friendly OGG video editor (now in Ubuntu 10.04) and also some GUI widget that prompts the user "Do you want to install missing codecs from www.someh.264.site.com? (y/n)" Ok, Ok, Ok and we are compatible with h.264, but IE is not compatible with the rival OGG.
Problem solved... locked in product... Eventually this will happen...