there's little advantage to using a PC over a console for games. Other than the fact that PC users can download and run games released as free software, freeware, or shareware, produced by any developer with a copy of Windows and a copy of GCC? Consoles such as Wii are restricted to developers that are established businesses with actual office space (see warioworld.com for details), and the game cannot include copylefted free software because the console makers outright refuse to allow the developers to provide Installation Information. Microsofts freely downloadable dev tools and the freeware games / demo games on XBL prove you wrong. Sony are planning similar with the PS3 and no doubt Nintendo will follow suit.
Except consoles are becoming more like PC's. Don't most of the consoles have system updates now that are no different than updating video card drivers? No. In the most part, consoles system updates add functionality. PC system updates fix broken things - just look at the changelog for nVidia drivers, it's all about fixes for specific games and bugs.
Hmm, "The Orange Box" is $60 for consoles and $50 for PC (retail), so it looks like about a $10 premium per game for consoles. If we say a new console costs $400 and a new computer $1000, the PC doesn't "catch up" until I buy 60 games. I've never owned more than maybe 20 games for a given console, so I'd say you're wrong. Exactly. My console cost me £250. The graphics card on my PC cost me £250 2 years ago. The computer struggles with new games now so it looks like I'm looking at a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and yet another graphics card if I want DX10. In 4 years though, I'll still have only spent £250 on the console but the PC would have gone through at least 3 upgrades, including one complete system upgrade, just to be able to play new releases in 2012 as well as the 4 year old console can.
ha ha ha ha ha ha, oh you must be joking, or else not old enough to remember the old days.
There was a time when computers were expensive and not everyone was guaranteed to have a joystick. So devs put in keyboard controls...in action games. Which sucked, and even if you could control the game with a keyboard it wasn't optimal, or fun, or comfortable. Doom and Doom 2, arguably the landmark games for FPS are an excellent example of what you're on about. There was no mouse look and you had to have the ridiculous situation of shooting straight forwards at a target several levels above you and the shots actually hitting.
I saw on the Kubuntu pages the other day they are forking into 2 versions, one free ( 'with limited functionality') and a commercial version with 8.04. Is the parent Ubuntu heading that way too? It was certainly how Mandrake and Redhat went. Sucker people in for a couple of years with free versions then release payware ones with all the stuff you want on whilst releasing stripped out crippleware free versions.
What kind of problems are you talking about? What is "etc, etc"? You make it sound like there were masses upon masses of problems, but in my experience, so long as you aren't expecting it to be a 100% duplicate of Windows and use supported hardware, there isn't anything serious to complain about at all. Lets see. Broadcom BCM4306 supported? Yep, even in the kernel but it'll only run WPA-TKIP and not WPA-AES so that's me knackered unless I want to use WEP. Soundcard? Yep although if I do a soft reboot from Windows, I have no sound even though its fully recognised and there's no errors. Hard drive? Yeah..be stupid not to support PATA/SATA really however the support is broken cos I'm on a laptop so I can either click the drive to death or cook it, getting sod all battery life in the process.
It's good, this Linux thing.
I create plenty of content as well. I do it for the love of putting it out there in the hope that others will get some joy out of it or that it will create more time for some. Apparently, if it is really worthwhile content, society will reward me and I will live forever.
Shut up you greedy fuck and start smelling the shit your clearly shoveling. The difference between him and you though, is that he makes a living from it to pay taxes which ultimately provide the welfare cheques and food stamps you rely on to survive.
As someone who believes in copyright, you sir are a disgrace to it, need to grow up, and get a real job.
You want money? Sell your art. Want more? Make more art and sell it too. How the fuck does he sell more when people who want it have pirated it for free? Fuck me, you do a good job of showing that piracy makes you stupid.
After playing games on the PC since the days when Commander Keen was on the go, this is a conclusion I'm fast coming around to. I'm sick of patches - some basically being nearly as big as the data on the installation CD. I'm sick of downloading drivers to fix problems with games. I'm sick of forking out for hardware. For example, I've now got 2GB in my PC because Battlefield 2 really needs it. All my other games run fine with 1GB but not BF2.
So now I have a 360 and a PS3. My PC won't be getting anymore upgrades.
I've installed Linux on several friend's PCs who had never used a computer before (Mandriva 8 IIRC). None of them have had any trouble whatever using it. In fact, I get fewer "how do I" phone calls from them with Linux/KDE than I did when their new machines were running Windows.
So please stop spreading this this FUD. It's simply not true. Windows is NOT easier to use than Linux. One can only assume from that that all they do is browse the web, send emails, listen to a few MP3's and do a bit of typing.
I notice you said you installed which means you most likely did all the configuration thus making your comments about ease of use completely irrelevent.
I bet non of them could install any software that came as a downloadable tar.
Reminds me of the IRA who said they were a legitimate force fighting a war against the British then bitched and whined to the EU courts when the British Army carried out a strong of very successful ambushes on them using GPMGs (M60 equivalent) saying it was unfair.
It's not civil disobedience at all. It is outright theft, plain and simple. They do it because they think they can get away with it the same as 1 million people who drive in the UK without insurance (which is mandatory).
The point is that that there are only about 2 million broadband subscribers in the UK http://www.liquidzope.com/abc/2/4currentusage/currentstatebbd/view, You sure about that figure? It was two and a half times that amount THREE YEARS AGO BT alone have over 4 million users and Carphone Warehouse 2.5 million so I don't know how the fuck you got a figure of 2 million. Oh I see, you're a dumbass and using figures THAT ARE FIVE YEARS OUT OF DATE . Got anything a little more recent?
6 million people is about 10% of the total population. Maybe if such a large portion of its citizens want to do something it shouldn't be illegal. If the government were obeying the will of the people this shouldn't even be an issue. What a completely ridiculous comment. Going on that, shoplifting would be made legal and so would assault and all speed limits would be removed.
Would that be 10% of the WHOLE population (including oldies, sickies and kiddies)?
Sounds like it's time to change the law, not enforce it harder. There is no way theft, no matter how it is done, should be legalised.
1. You are lucky to see speeds like that. I have the same combination and I see speeds under 128Kbit under realistic conditions in the UK. It is very rare for the speed to go above 256K. In fact the only places I have seen it higher are non-UK networks. WTF are you drivelling on about? I'm on 3 Mobile broadband and get 300k+ in 3G areas and usually around 2Mbit in HDSPA areas. In fact, on an evening, "3" on HDSPA is FASTER than my 8Mbit ADSL which regularly drops down to just over 1Mbit.
You wanna get whatever problem you have fixed because your speeds are certainly not what I and a lot of people I know are experiencing.
Oh wait I didn't have a firewall, so now I have viruses and bots. Err, why? I've never experienced that in over 100 builds. And I guess you must be using one hell of a piss poor router. As for your last comment about Windows not being ready for the desktop, installations in the hundreds of millions proves you wrong.
Actually I'm not a noob. I've been in and out of Linux since RH 7.3. However, I would say that I actually think Linux is getting WORSE, not better for ease of use with many distros as distros try and do more and more out of the box.
Why would I need to install AV software before going on the net? Never done that yet, never had a virus, trojan or worm. And I don't care if MS and the Govt "spy on me". Never had to re-install a Windows installation either. The installation on my Sis-in-laws is now nearly 4 years old and ticking along nicely.
1. Mine did out of the box.
2. See 1)
3. I have a X-Fi...why don't I get all the functionality in Linux?
4. I have a Geforce 7800GT, I have to do that in Linux too.
5. I have a Hauppauge Nova TD USB DVB-T, it's not supported in Linux but Windows has drivers through Windows Update.
6. Have to in Linux as well.
7. Have to in Linux as well.
For those who are interested, and not the blind Linux fanbois, I downloaded in total over 1GB last night in various bits'n'bobs I needed to get.
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Exactly. My console cost me £250. The graphics card on my PC cost me £250 2 years ago. The computer struggles with new games now so it looks like I'm looking at a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and yet another graphics card if I want DX10. In 4 years though, I'll still have only spent £250 on the console but the PC would have gone through at least 3 upgrades, including one complete system upgrade, just to be able to play new releases in 2012 as well as the 4 year old console can.
There was a time when computers were expensive and not everyone was guaranteed to have a joystick. So devs put in keyboard controls...in action games. Which sucked, and even if you could control the game with a keyboard it wasn't optimal, or fun, or comfortable.
Doom and Doom 2, arguably the landmark games for FPS are an excellent example of what you're on about. There was no mouse look and you had to have the ridiculous situation of shooting straight forwards at a target several levels above you and the shots actually hitting.
It's good, this Linux thing.
Shut up you greedy fuck and start smelling the shit your clearly shoveling. The difference between him and you though, is that he makes a living from it to pay taxes which ultimately provide the welfare cheques and food stamps you rely on to survive.
You want money? Sell your art. Want more? Make more art and sell it too. How the fuck does he sell more when people who want it have pirated it for free? Fuck me, you do a good job of showing that piracy makes you stupid.
I just don't like paying for stuff and refuse to pay $50 for a game.
And here's the real reason why companies don't bother with Linux.
After playing games on the PC since the days when Commander Keen was on the go, this is a conclusion I'm fast coming around to. I'm sick of patches - some basically being nearly as big as the data on the installation CD. I'm sick of downloading drivers to fix problems with games. I'm sick of forking out for hardware. For example, I've now got 2GB in my PC because Battlefield 2 really needs it. All my other games run fine with 1GB but not BF2.
So now I have a 360 and a PS3. My PC won't be getting anymore upgrades.
Linux users are too busy spending time tweaking their boxes to have time to play games.
So please stop spreading this this FUD. It's simply not true. Windows is NOT easier to use than Linux. One can only assume from that that all they do is browse the web, send emails, listen to a few MP3's and do a bit of typing. I notice you said you installed which means you most likely did all the configuration thus making your comments about ease of use completely irrelevent. I bet non of them could install any software that came as a downloadable tar.
Reminds me of the IRA who said they were a legitimate force fighting a war against the British then bitched and whined to the EU courts when the British Army carried out a strong of very successful ambushes on them using GPMGs (M60 equivalent) saying it was unfair.
Woohoo...finally..
It's not civil disobedience at all. It is outright theft, plain and simple. They do it because they think they can get away with it the same as 1 million people who drive in the UK without insurance (which is mandatory).
The stupid moron who posted the figure of 2 million was using an article from May 2003 FFS. BT alone have over 4 million subscribers.
Still rather less than the 20Mbit connection I'm getting from Virgin right now though, for a similar price.
Can you stick your 20Mbit connection in your pocket and take it out with you? No.
Boy, you're dumb.
WTF are you drivelling on about? I'm on 3 Mobile broadband and get 300k+ in 3G areas and usually around 2Mbit in HDSPA areas. In fact, on an evening, "3" on HDSPA is FASTER than my 8Mbit ADSL which regularly drops down to just over 1Mbit.
You wanna get whatever problem you have fixed because your speeds are certainly not what I and a lot of people I know are experiencing.
Why would I need to install AV software before going on the net? Never done that yet, never had a virus, trojan or worm. And I don't care if MS and the Govt "spy on me". Never had to re-install a Windows installation either. The installation on my Sis-in-laws is now nearly 4 years old and ticking along nicely.
For those who are interested, and not the blind Linux fanbois, I downloaded in total over 1GB last night in various bits'n'bobs I needed to get.