Why do you not believe in God after all that he has done for you?
For very much the same reason you don't believe in Horus (Egyptian), Moloch (Hebrew god mentioned in the Old Testament), Aharu-Mazda (Zoroasterian dualism), Vishnu (Hinduism), Xenu (Scientology), Lugh (Celtic), Amaterasu (Shinto), Huehueteotl (Aztec god of fire) Coca Cola's white-bearded, red-dressed Santa Claus (Capitalism), that Elvis Presley still lives (Popculturalism), and that humans are derived from Martian DNA sent to Earth as they fled a geological cataclym that laid the planet bare (Sciencefictionism).
We simply do not think they exist, and live our lives without thinking about whether any of them exist.
Why are you only a 99% atheist? Why not go all the way?
I like how "tabbed browsing" sounds better than "multiple document interface" - you know, what it really is, and which fans of old Netscape and IE laughed derisely at Opera for using.
It's just you. Last time I checked, airline companies have no problems with someone carrying tax-free cask strength whiskey (60% ethanol) onto their planes - they even serve alcohol in glasses there! So a small bottle of, say, 20ccs 30% methanol used only to drip a few drops into a fuel cell would be no issue.
Instances are plain unnatural. As opposed to the lack of collision detection, the very concept of hitpoints, respawning, and that every quest giver gives the same quest to thousands of people?
"We congratulate J. Random Playah for bringing Van Cleef's Head no. 1,000,000!" quests are very unnatural.
MMORPGs and "unnatural" fit like hand in glove. Instances reduce spawn competition and hence helps the game aspect greatly.
The character killed in OotP was so mis-handled by the author, that the death scene lost all shock value.
It was more of a delayed shock value. Remember, the story is told from Harry's POV, and he was standing at a distance from where it happened, and thought for a time that he could be brought back, and the shock only hit him when he was told the death was irreversible.
All the Harry Potter novels are different in some ways; GoF is action over drama, OotP is drama over action. Should be interesting to see how they make it into a watchable movie.
Many sites that use ASP/ASP.Net checks for IE before sending client-side component code. In such cases the browser needs to pretend to be IE for the site to work properly.
Opera 8 added a file ua.ini where you can set specific servers to always get a given UA string, no matter what you usually use. So you can proudly identify as Opera to most sites, but still use e.g. Mozilla or MSIE on those specific sites.
It excels at a few genres of games, and sucks at the games consoles excel at. Can four players comfortably play socially in front of the same PC? No. Is the PC as easy to use as a console? No. Do most game manufacturers embrace the piracy-riddled, low-margin, high-dev-cost million-configurations PC market? No.
Also, the upgradeholism in the PC world means that your present PC will not necessarily run next year's games in a decent fashion unless you invest an amount equal to the cost of a console.
Why then do people buy consoles in addition to PCs?
For the same reasons they might buy a bicycle even if they have a car, or a microwave oven even if they have a normal one.
Different items have different uses.
Now you own two CPUs whose cycles go 99.9% unused, instead of just one.
What is the problem with that? Does every item you own need to be in use at all times? Do you e.g. own more than one book? More than one DVD? More than one game? Why?
It might shock you, but there are people posting to this very site who squander their resources by owning more than one PC!
Now you own two graphics cards, when you can only use one at a time.
This might come as a surprise to you, but people often own items that are not constantly in use. They can even turn them off!
And if you end up upgrading your PC to be able to play the next game you might end up with two graphics cards anyway, so the argument is somewhat moot.
general-purpose
is the key word here. Jack of all trades, master of none, have you heard that phrase? Applies to the PC as well.
See, your beloved PC's graphics card is an example of a special-purpose processor you have in addition to the general-purpose CPU. Why do you need it? Think it over.
convergence
is not a market success; people did not buy the Nokia n-Gage, because its combination of phone and handheld console made it worse in both categories than two dedicated devices. The so-called advantages of "convergence" did not outweigh the disadvantages of having a shitty phone plus a shitty console. The same goes for phone/PDA combos which are too large and bulky to be comfortable cell phones, and too limited in other ways to act as proper PDAs.
Simply put, there is an installed base of several hundred million users.
Others have pointed out that a small fraction of the installed PCs are "usable" for top-of-the-line gaming. I will also add that the PC market is rife with piracy (more than consoles), and the only genre which sees much sales on PCs are massive multiplayer games like World of Warcraft.
PC gaming will survive as long as people get addicted to those.
But the vast, vast majority of people using a tool like this are doing so because it shields their illegal activities.
Interesting. Do you feel the same about cash?
Paper money and coins are really just a low-tech anonymous payment system. It could be replaced tomorrow by debit cards, with every transaction logged and identified (buyer, seller, products)- for your security, of course.
If I have 20 Internet Explorer windows open, I can navigate between them using the Taskbar's "(20) Internet Explorer" collapsed button
Except that is not the default behavior, and most users don't check that box in the taskbar preferences, and end up with 20 tiny little buttons there.
Tabbed browsing is new language for MDI, which used to be popular in Windows. One could argue that the "fall" of MDI came with IE and Netscape, both applications ported over from the SDI world of X11.
emember, Live is now part of the system package, available to everyone for free.
A very limited Live Silver package is for free - you get game updates and can buy/sell on the "micromarket". For Live gameplay you need to upgrade to a paid subscription - like today's Live.
The number of ATMs, flight-info displays, and price-check terminals with BSODs these days is staggering.
Well, you need something to replace all those old Amigas used as info systems; theoretically running Scala but showing Workbench with the "Guru meditation error" window.
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Look how many people have been killed in a few years by fascists in worship of the state and racial purity
Well, they don't have that "Thou shalt not kill" commandment now do they?
Why do you not believe in God after all that he has done for you?
For very much the same reason you don't believe in Horus (Egyptian), Moloch (Hebrew god mentioned in the Old Testament), Aharu-Mazda (Zoroasterian dualism), Vishnu (Hinduism), Xenu (Scientology), Lugh (Celtic), Amaterasu (Shinto), Huehueteotl (Aztec god of fire) Coca Cola's white-bearded, red-dressed Santa Claus (Capitalism), that Elvis Presley still lives (Popculturalism), and that humans are derived from Martian DNA sent to Earth as they fled a geological cataclym that laid the planet bare (Sciencefictionism).
We simply do not think they exist, and live our lives without thinking about whether any of them exist.
Why are you only a 99% atheist? Why not go all the way?
I like how "tabbed browsing" sounds better than "multiple document interface" - you know, what it really is, and which fans of old Netscape and IE laughed derisely at Opera for using.
My, how thing change. Or rather, don't.
It's just you. Last time I checked, airline companies have no problems with someone carrying tax-free cask strength whiskey (60% ethanol) onto their planes - they even serve alcohol in glasses there! So a small bottle of, say, 20ccs 30% methanol used only to drip a few drops into a fuel cell would be no issue.
Instances are plain unnatural.
As opposed to the lack of collision detection, the very concept of hitpoints, respawning, and that every quest giver gives the same quest to thousands of people?
"We congratulate J. Random Playah for bringing Van Cleef's Head no. 1,000,000!" quests are very unnatural.
MMORPGs and "unnatural" fit like hand in glove. Instances reduce spawn competition and hence helps the game aspect greatly.
The fact is
Interesting choice of words given your article as a whole...
Yes, it's hard to realize that Antonin Dvorak, August Dvorak and John C. Dvorak were different people. After all, they have the same last name!
MySQL don't mind that - plus, they got SAP's DB, now called MaxDB.
Ah yes, that non-interactive pushed audiovisual medium full of ads they used in the last century.
*goes back to World of Warcraft, Nintendogs and streamed internet video*
Why not? After all, they demand royalties from people who sing "Happy Birthday" in a restaurant.
http://www.unhappybirthday.com/
The most important thing in the Java community by far is religion.
Actually all the "Java is not open source" whinging shows that the most important thing in the OSS community is religion.
If you dislike Sun's JVM then compile Java source to native code using the OSS GJC of the OSS GCC project. Or use one of the OSS VM implementations.
It's not like AT&T forces you to use their C++ compiler just because they invented the bloody language either, is it?
Welcome to the stage of history.
The character killed in OotP was so mis-handled by the author, that the death scene lost all shock value.
It was more of a delayed shock value. Remember, the story is told from Harry's POV, and he was standing at a distance from where it happened, and thought for a time that he could be brought back, and the shock only hit him when he was told the death was irreversible.
All the Harry Potter novels are different in some ways; GoF is action over drama, OotP is drama over action. Should be interesting to see how they make it into a watchable movie.
Many sites that use ASP/ASP.Net checks for IE before sending client-side component code. In such cases the browser needs to pretend to be IE for the site to work properly.
Opera 8 added a file ua.ini where you can set specific servers to always get a given UA string, no matter what you usually use. So you can proudly identify as Opera to most sites, but still use e.g. Mozilla or MSIE on those specific sites.
It excels at games
It excels at a few genres of games, and sucks at the games consoles excel at. Can four players comfortably play socially in front of the same PC? No. Is the PC as easy to use as a console? No. Do most game manufacturers embrace the piracy-riddled, low-margin, high-dev-cost million-configurations PC market? No.
Also, the upgradeholism in the PC world means that your present PC will not necessarily run next year's games in a decent fashion unless you invest an amount equal to the cost of a console.
Why then do people buy consoles in addition to PCs?
For the same reasons they might buy a bicycle even if they have a car, or a microwave oven even if they have a normal one.
Different items have different uses.
Now you own two CPUs whose cycles go 99.9% unused, instead of just one.
What is the problem with that? Does every item you own need to be in use at all times? Do you e.g. own more than one book? More than one DVD? More than one game? Why?
It might shock you, but there are people posting to this very site who squander their resources by owning more than one PC!
Now you own two graphics cards, when you can only use one at a time.
This might come as a surprise to you, but people often own items that are not constantly in use. They can even turn them off!
And if you end up upgrading your PC to be able to play the next game you might end up with two graphics cards anyway, so the argument is somewhat moot.
general-purpose
is the key word here. Jack of all trades, master of none, have you heard that phrase? Applies to the PC as well.
See, your beloved PC's graphics card is an example of a special-purpose processor you have in addition to the general-purpose CPU. Why do you need it? Think it over.
convergence
is not a market success; people did not buy the Nokia n-Gage, because its combination of phone and handheld console made it worse in both categories than two dedicated devices. The so-called advantages of "convergence" did not outweigh the disadvantages of having a shitty phone plus a shitty console. The same goes for phone/PDA combos which are too large and bulky to be comfortable cell phones, and too limited in other ways to act as proper PDAs.
No console currently sold has a controller better than the keyboard+trackball/mouse.
Those are good for some types of games, but SUCK for others, like platformers and fighting games. Not everyone like only strategy games and FPSes.
Simply put, there is an installed base of several hundred million users.
Others have pointed out that a small fraction of the installed PCs are "usable" for top-of-the-line gaming. I will also add that the PC market is rife with piracy (more than consoles), and the only genre which sees much sales on PCs are massive multiplayer games like World of Warcraft.
PC gaming will survive as long as people get addicted to those.
But the vast, vast majority of people using a tool like this are doing so because it shields their illegal activities.
Interesting. Do you feel the same about cash?
Paper money and coins are really just a low-tech anonymous payment system. It could be replaced tomorrow by debit cards, with every transaction logged and identified (buyer, seller, products)- for your security, of course.
Would that be acceptable?
If the odd-numbered curse holds
No, that was broken by no. 10, Nemesis (IMHO the preceding Insurrection is better).
A DS9 movie would rock. A new ST franchise with even more unknowns will not.
they like "write once, run everywhere"
Or "write once, run in Windows MSIE". Bastards.
Revolutionaries. At least they were back when they told United Fruit (and Batista) what to do, which was to do something that no longer involved Cuba.
If I have 20 Internet Explorer windows open, I can navigate between them using the Taskbar's "(20) Internet Explorer" collapsed button
Except that is not the default behavior, and most users don't check that box in the taskbar preferences, and end up with 20 tiny little buttons there.
Tabbed browsing is new language for MDI, which used to be popular in Windows. One could argue that the "fall" of MDI came with IE and Netscape, both applications ported over from the SDI world of X11.
emember, Live is now part of the system package, available to everyone for free.
A very limited Live Silver package is for free - you get game updates and can buy/sell on the "micromarket". For Live gameplay you need to upgrade to a paid subscription - like today's Live.
The number of ATMs, flight-info displays, and price-check terminals with BSODs these days is staggering.
Well, you need something to replace all those old Amigas used as info systems; theoretically running Scala but showing Workbench with the "Guru meditation error" window.
OS/2 is too stable to be laughed at like that.
And C is assembly language in fancy dress. C++ adds garish accessories to the dress-up.