Everything that makes Windows 7 greater than Vista is what makes Kubuntu Kubuntu. In other words; a total KDE 4.x on Ubuntu Linux experience. So maybe you should switch over to Linux? -> http://www.kubuntu.org/
I am a privileged white male who's solely into females. But it's so funny that most people here think that they are sooooo smart and/. is intelligence league pur sang, while they can't even look beyond such simplistic things that shouldn't even matter if you are at least 1% intelligent. Oh well, if it's really true that most people think like that over here than the majority of/. must be fscking stupid...
To everybody in this thread: can we please stop putting people in boxes and categorise them? Everybody is an individual and what does it matter if someone like the color blue, red, green, boy or girls? Stop calling someone straight and gay. You're a person who just happens to be attracted to people of your own gender, the oppositye gender, both or neither. It is the year 2009 and by now one would expect people to be a little bit wiser, especialy on places like/..
That's because IBM was successful in changing their business. That's the entire point. The days of Windows are numbered and Microsoft has tried so hard to get into other markets and they failed repeatedly. MicroSoft Network, FAIL. Live Search, FAIL. Bing, FAIL. Music industry, FAIL. Zune, FAIL. Advertising, FAIL. And the list goes on and on.
The only thing they were 'succesful' with was their gaming console; the Xbox360. But the question is if that's something successful, because it's not really a healthy business for them. Selling consoles with loss, losing tons of money on warranty because they rushed the product (red rings of death). The only reason they are 'successful' is because Microsoft can afford it to lose a shitload of money.
They may be on top, sort of, with the Xbox360, but Microsoft can't make a living from that console. I don't even know if they are actually making profit with it today.
And software is like a 1 or a 0. Alive or dead. IBM products may have a software side, but it's all about solutions, services and hardware selling and renting. That's a big difference.
If Windows were to fail today, then Microsoft would be screwed. No other income to seriously support the company.
Yeah... exactly: Cheap to develop, but if you take your head out of your ass then you'll realise that the long term costs of supporting a Windows powered intranet costs a company much more on the long run and makes you work for a shorter time. Think it through...
Except for the fact that the Gnash is making the open source stomach health-compatible with the coke (flash) drink and Microsoft stearing a porting of the web sucks balls.
I'd rather have Adobe (teaming up with Google for FLOSS Chrome OS, releasing partial but critical spec to a dominant plugin on the web and choosing ODF for future Adobe documents) than Microsoft taking Adobe's place and being able to seriously fscking us all in the butt. Now think again...
More crap from MS that nobody cares about, that people will hate, that will lead to lock in, that will add nothing new, etc.
I am not the geeky/nerdy person that will throw parties whenever there's a new AmaroK release or something, but when Windows dies I will celebrate it with a party!
C'mon Microsoft Yes Man (C)(TM)(R). Mod me down. Make my day.
Well it's obviously that if you look down on very static characters that you move with your mouse that you don't really feel 'sucked in' into the game, or am I that wrong?:/
Skip to 1:00min, seriously ignore the intro, it's like the violence of a classical orchestra, but then Techno. At has a really dark, depressive and sad feeling to it. Always gives me chills down my spine.
This is where you epically fail. You don't understand it. If it is just noise with piledriver rythm then anybody would be able to make Techno that Techno lovers would like. But you can't, because you don't understand. Nobody would like your music because you can't distinguish bad Techno from awesome Techno, from a Techno perspective ofcourse;) So obviously no pun intended.
I don't agree. Immersive graphics are when you are racing a car around a track and see the world warp around you with motion blur to get a sence of speed, with post processing effects and alike.
It also helps when you have moving detailed grass that moves with the wind and real-time per-pixel-lightning instead of a two dimensional texture with 4x6 pixels. You need the believable factor also.
How about Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play, baby.
Plug-and-Play, baby hahaha!! Steve Ballmer is tha you? 8D
Anyway. I think your grandma just wants to plug in the usb cabel and have it work out of the box, like with Linux today, and all her other devices too, unlike with Winshit where you still have to download/insert the cd, double click on the.exe/.msi, press next next next, define the install folder, wait for 5 minutes to install, get useless backgrounds services, etc.
God no... The pain that was once Linux is now in Microsofts court....
X-Com isn't 3D, therefore no immersion. I was reffering to Crysis and MGS type of games.
Besides, should I play X-Com so much today, or should I have played it back in the day that graphics sucked balls? That's quite a difference. Maybe X-Com would have been a much better experience with immersive graphics. If X-Com was to be released today, would you even want to play it on a 8bit screen, or with the latest and greatest graphics card?
If you are on an island, and sneaking, laying in the grass and you are about to encounter your alien overlords in an invasion, then the realistic graphics are a must. It's all part of the experience. Nobody is going to care about your game if the aliens invasion is on a 8bit coloured gameboy.
If you are playing an adventure game Mario/Crash Bandicoot style then your obviously want to keep in basic and cartoony.
If you... bla bla bla you get the point; it dependss on the game you make. The graphics are nothing more than a visual presentation of what you are doing, and so the visual presentation should match the type of game you are playing.
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Everything that makes Windows 7 greater than Vista is what makes Kubuntu Kubuntu. In other words; a total KDE 4.x on Ubuntu Linux experience. So maybe you should switch over to Linux? -> http://www.kubuntu.org/
I am a privileged white male who's solely into females. But it's so funny that most people here think that they are sooooo smart and /. is intelligence league pur sang, while they can't even look beyond such simplistic things that shouldn't even matter if you are at least 1% intelligent. Oh well, if it's really true that most people think like that over here than the majority of /. must be fscking stupid...
It's funny that something like that is coming out of someones mouth who doesn't even dare to post even under his/her nickname...
YRO, intelligent people?
Reverse engineering.
To everybody in this thread: can we please stop putting people in boxes and categorise them? Everybody is an individual and what does it matter if someone like the color blue, red, green, boy or girls? Stop calling someone straight and gay. You're a person who just happens to be attracted to people of your own gender, the oppositye gender, both or neither. It is the year 2009 and by now one would expect people to be a little bit wiser, especialy on places like /..
That's because IBM was successful in changing their business. That's the entire point. The days of Windows are numbered and Microsoft has tried so hard to get into other markets and they failed repeatedly. MicroSoft Network, FAIL. Live Search, FAIL. Bing, FAIL. Music industry, FAIL. Zune, FAIL. Advertising, FAIL. And the list goes on and on.
The only thing they were 'succesful' with was their gaming console; the Xbox360. But the question is if that's something successful, because it's not really a healthy business for them. Selling consoles with loss, losing tons of money on warranty because they rushed the product (red rings of death). The only reason they are 'successful' is because Microsoft can afford it to lose a shitload of money.
They may be on top, sort of, with the Xbox360, but Microsoft can't make a living from that console. I don't even know if they are actually making profit with it today.
And software is like a 1 or a 0. Alive or dead. IBM products may have a software side, but it's all about solutions, services and hardware selling and renting. That's a big difference.
If Windows were to fail today, then Microsoft would be screwed. No other income to seriously support the company.
He has; countless hours at birthdays... Ah nice, having a beer, talking to someone and... "Hey V!NCENT can you fix my computer" *FSCK!*
Turning the pc on... 10 minuted to usefull desktop... sigh... ah ridden with crapwar... all overe the place... great reinstall EVERYTHING
FSCK....THAT....SHIT!!!
No we call that frustration. Computer rage, look it up on Google. Never ever had that with anything else then Windows. And that's not a lie...
Yeah... exactly: Cheap to develop, but if you take your head out of your ass then you'll realise that the long term costs of supporting a Windows powered intranet costs a company much more on the long run and makes you work for a shorter time. Think it through...
You probably never played a 3D flash game... Nothing new here...
Except for the fact that the Gnash is making the open source stomach health-compatible with the coke (flash) drink and Microsoft stearing a porting of the web sucks balls.
I'd rather have Adobe (teaming up with Google for FLOSS Chrome OS, releasing partial but critical spec to a dominant plugin on the web and choosing ODF for future Adobe documents) than Microsoft taking Adobe's place and being able to seriously fscking us all in the butt. Now think again...
Probably not... 5 years max before Microsoft will be screwed. I can back it up with serious arguments if you really want to hear them...
More crap from MS that nobody cares about, that people will hate, that will lead to lock in, that will add nothing new, etc.
I am not the geeky/nerdy person that will throw parties whenever there's a new AmaroK release or something, but when Windows dies I will celebrate it with a party!
C'mon Microsoft Yes Man (C)(TM)(R). Mod me down. Make my day.
Well it's obviously that if you look down on very static characters that you move with your mouse that you don't really feel 'sucked in' into the game, or am I that wrong? :/
And here's an example of harmony and melody in techno -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1tAdpNDCq4&feature=related
listen that one from the beginning.
Then you should realy listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ji50xcHL8E
Skip to 1:00min, seriously ignore the intro, it's like the violence of a classical orchestra, but then Techno. At has a really dark, depressive and sad feeling to it. Always gives me chills down my spine.
It's like Mozart goes Techno :)
This is where you epically fail. You don't understand it. If it is just noise with piledriver rythm then anybody would be able to make Techno that Techno lovers would like. But you can't, because you don't understand. Nobody would like your music because you can't distinguish bad Techno from awesome Techno, from a Techno perspective ofcourse ;) So obviously no pun intended.
I don't agree. Immersive graphics are when you are racing a car around a track and see the world warp around you with motion blur to get a sence of speed, with post processing effects and alike.
It also helps when you have moving detailed grass that moves with the wind and real-time per-pixel-lightning instead of a two dimensional texture with 4x6 pixels. You need the believable factor also.
How about Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play, baby.
Plug-and-Play, baby hahaha!! Steve Ballmer is tha you? 8D
Anyway. I think your grandma just wants to plug in the usb cabel and have it work out of the box, like with Linux today, and all her other devices too, unlike with Winshit where you still have to download/insert the cd, double click on the .exe/.msi, press next next next, define the install folder, wait for 5 minutes to install, get useless backgrounds services, etc.
God no... The pain that was once Linux is now in Microsofts court....
X-Com isn't 3D, therefore no immersion. I was reffering to Crysis and MGS type of games.
Besides, should I play X-Com so much today, or should I have played it back in the day that graphics sucked balls? That's quite a difference. Maybe X-Com would have been a much better experience with immersive graphics. If X-Com was to be released today, would you even want to play it on a 8bit screen, or with the latest and greatest graphics card?
If you are on an island, and sneaking, laying in the grass and you are about to encounter your alien overlords in an invasion, then the realistic graphics are a must. It's all part of the experience. Nobody is going to care about your game if the aliens invasion is on a 8bit coloured gameboy.
If you are playing an adventure game Mario/Crash Bandicoot style then your obviously want to keep in basic and cartoony.
If you... bla bla bla you get the point; it dependss on the game you make. The graphics are nothing more than a visual presentation of what you are doing, and so the visual presentation should match the type of game you are playing.
Fsck yes!
Mind the giant lasers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7Q4E66O7A
Of course this isn't the end of the internet radio. Just host a server in the EU and you're good to go.
Don't you just loooooove the internet? =D