Lucky you.
Google owed me over 200$ in the end of me dealing with them, and the answers I got from google, when I got any answers at all, were "sorry. We don't know the answer neither, but ask on the Android Developer forums" (which they don't monitor at all, and in this case it was an accounting problem... hardly a matter for the forums), "we're looking into it" (followed by complete silence for months, only broken after I sent a few more and more angry emails), and "sorry. our help system sent the mail to us, but you REALLY should contact this other branch of Google" (going back and forth between Google Checkout and Google Android support).
In the end I decided to just tell them to "fuck off" (literaly), and then to do something half-illegal to trick the system and get *MY* money. It took over a year.
I take it you never had to ask Google for support? It can take months until anyone answers your mail IF they even bother. And what you will get is generally just a canned answer pointing you to a FAQ you probably already read a few times. Replying to that generally results in a few more month waiting for a completely uncommited "We're looking into it", or worse "Please contact some other part of Google. It's not OUR problem". Google's user support sucks so hard, they should use it to fix the BP oil leak. I had to deal with them as a *paying* customer (Android Developers do pay a fee after all), and it was like talking to badly programmed chatbots running on a steam-powered difference engine.
Considering Gish (linux) has been very stable and bug-free for me so far, I'd say your comparison is just plain wrong. More making a building out of wood and bamboo, painting the bedroom walls in pinks with green dots and using revolving doors instead of plain old ones. It might not be pretty or stylish, but it's liveable.
You're completely right. I'll call you a upper-hemispherian from now on. I mean.. why stop at continents? You're an american, as much as someone from Sao Polo, Mexico City or Vancouver. Your extremely short sighted remark about "you", the Americans, winning (or not) the "cold war" is nation-centric to the least. Just cope with the fact that the USA aren't the navel of the world.
Well.. I know enought of the culture of the US to know that you're thankfully NOT representative of it. Woah... let me guess : proud member of the NRA, a few US flags on the walls along with pictures of Nixon, Reagan and both Bushs? You still believe that Iraq had WMDs and that it had anything to do with 9/11?
I didn't only meet many germans... I actually LIVED in the country for over 20 years. I'm also french. Allemand, German, aleman and Deutsch are exactly the same fucking word, in different languages. A bit like "Dipshit","Arschgeige", "Branleur" and "you" means the same, just in different languages (no... US-english, the one without the U in colours, is not what most people speak natively).
Never said anything about calling a "texan" a "californian", but reading and comprehension doesn't seem to be your forte
Anyway... weird that the Americans "get bent out of shape" to call US Citizens "US-Americans". But hey.. they're not important anyway. I highly doubt you REALLY went to 40 different countries. More like you went to 40 different offices or tourist resorts. There's no dicuting with arrogant self-centered nationalists anyway, I guess.
You know what? Germans don't say "americans" neither, they say "Amerikaner", except when they're talking exclusively of US Citizens, in which case they'll say "US-Amerikaner". No, you're not entitled to a whole continent, just because you feel like it.
"Aleman", "German", "Allemand" are exactly the same word, in different languages, and is akin to "texan"or "californian". Germans don't call themselves "the Europeans". If you're into bad comparisons, go to "Scottland", and tell them they are "English".
No. I think they just followed the example of US-americans chanting "God Bless America" and actually meaning God should bless the bit above the folks they are desperately trying to keep out and below the guys with the weird accent and the slightly better (imo) IP and copyright laws.
I live geographically in America but happily not in the USA, I guess I *AM* of that type. The correct term is US-American btw.
Back on topic, you might want to compare comparable data. Just take single states to compare them with single european (as in geographical Europe) countries with a similar population density. The USA don't fare all THAT bad, really.
You might want to try Arch Linux then. I got fed up with the half annual ritual myself, and moved to Arch. it's *not* very easy to setup, but if you follow the step by step instructions you should have a running stable system fast. And from then on : "rolling updates, baby!"
Well, as with every really new and fantastically revolutionary technology, there will be a time of trial, until the marketing monkeys find their bearings and the right thing to say in their advertisements.
Back in the days, when WE had 3D through, for example, nVidia Shutter Glasses (but of course it was by far not as good, or technically evolved or fucking exciting as THIS really new stupenduous technology), System Shock 2 and Thief 1 and 2 were a blast in 3D. The slow movements ensured that motion nausea didn't occur, and you had actually time to realize that what you were seeing up close (pipes, guards,...) had depth. Additionally it actually helped the gameplay.
Fast moving FPS's were another matter. First of all, most of the 3D depth you need is already provided by the motion itself, without any need for specialized hardware. Additionally, 3D works nicely when you have a limited visibility range but in an open world, any real 3D depth is lost after a not so great distance, as both eyes basically see the same thing. So it doesn't really help much at all, and at worst (someone just puts 3D Depth in, no matter how incongruous it is), it will probably create nausea and will just look stupid (as if you're playing with model sized stuff instead of real objects). 3rd person games were a hit and miss thing. some worked great ("Evolva" for example) and others worked less great. It really depends a lot on whether hte gameplay lends itself to being seen as "playing with small toys" or not.
Strategy and tactic games (be it RTS or turn based) will look great... exactly as if you were a god playing with toys, which should please fans of that genre (I'm not a fan, but I can understand the attraction)
Of course, that's really just me thinking aloud as if I had actually played in 3D in the late 90s/start of the 21st century using custom DirectX drivers provided with nVidia Shutter glasses I bought for 99.89 Deutschmark It's not like I've been there, done that
Somehow this sounds like some producers going "okay, so we had 45 minutes of commercials in the final, but after that people will KNOW how the show is going to end." "yeah yeah.. but check this out dawg! If we just tell them we'll add some extra answers, like "why is the sky blue" or "what about the birds and the bees" ! They all definitely fall for that, and we can add even more trailers and possibly even the "lost"-ized commercials on the DVD! Think of the dough, doode!"
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I tried watching Lost for 2 seasons, but somehow it didn't grab me at all. Compulsively watched all of LoM and A2A though, and I must concur that the finale on friday was absolutely brillant (and I'm an atheist... perhaps I'm not militant enough;). It all fits together, as far as I can see, pretty much EVERYTHING is explained (and details you overlooked during the shows but which actually pointed toward the resolution come back with a vengeance) , it's both a sad, a happy and a hopeful ending... Fantastic job by everyone involved.
If you're looking for a LOST type of show, just grab Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes (no.. please don't even bother with the painful american remake). Very similar in substance, much better writing and an amazingly good finale (well..T wo, if you count LoM's awesome ending).
Or if you want something "Heroes"-like that doesn't suck, just grab the first season of the british show "Misfits" which, despite its ludicrous story, is amazing.
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3. Having profit as a chief aim: a commercial book, not a scholarly tome.
You seriously don't put enough effort in narrowing down your definitions. What you really should have said is that :
A Commercial Game, in this context, is one which will only prove my point, but not yours. It doesn't fucking matter whether I'm using the word in its generally accepted use in this context (see def. further up). No matter what you answer, I'll just tell you that it's not "commercial", and probably will also point out that it's not a game, because I don't happen to like it. Oh, and the sky is green with pink smiley clouds.
Now.. if you had said that right at the start, I wouldn't have bothered with arguments and proofs.As you didn't, I'll just point out how utterly ignorant and stupid your statement is, and let the matter rest.
Btw. Lugaru kicks ass, but only if you don't mind the lack of eye candy and can cope with actual content... considering your previous comment, I guess that's hoping for too much.
Replying to myself, which, at this point, doesn't matter anyway : "commercial companies" and "consumer applications" are quite objective terms. Of course, Wovel can (and does) make them a more subjective matter. What he apparently meant to say was "Commercial Companies I deem worthy" and "Consumer Applications I deem good". There are not MANY commercial products for Linux, but they do exist. The (hopefully soon to be) release of the Steam Linux client might encourage developers to release more x-platform games. As for the incredibly high number of open source projects, and here we'll probably agree that a lot of those would not be commercially viable ( probably... when I see the "trial" stuff for windows and OSX at download.com, I really wonder) : how does it matter in regard to commercial applications, except that to be commercially viable the product MUST have a higher standard or offer something different than its opensource competitors?
True, there are not many, but the point was not whether there were three millions of them or only three. The original comment was "OSX is the most open platform any commercial software companies are writing consumer applications for.", which is voided, no matter how many commercial applications there are, as long as they exist.
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Lucky you. Google owed me over 200$ in the end of me dealing with them, and the answers I got from google, when I got any answers at all, were "sorry. We don't know the answer neither, but ask on the Android Developer forums" (which they don't monitor at all, and in this case it was an accounting problem ... hardly a matter for the forums), "we're looking into it" (followed by complete silence for months, only broken after I sent a few more and more angry emails), and "sorry. our help system sent the mail to us, but you REALLY should contact this other branch of Google" (going back and forth between Google Checkout and Google Android support).
In the end I decided to just tell them to "fuck off" (literaly), and then to do something half-illegal to trick the system and get *MY* money. It took over a year.
I take it you never had to ask Google for support? It can take months until anyone answers your mail IF they even bother. And what you will get is generally just a canned answer pointing you to a FAQ you probably already read a few times. Replying to that generally results in a few more month waiting for a completely uncommited "We're looking into it", or worse "Please contact some other part of Google. It's not OUR problem". Google's user support sucks so hard, they should use it to fix the BP oil leak. I had to deal with them as a *paying* customer (Android Developers do pay a fee after all), and it was like talking to badly programmed chatbots running on a steam-powered difference engine.
Considering Gish (linux) has been very stable and bug-free for me so far, I'd say your comparison is just plain wrong. More making a building out of wood and bamboo, painting the bedroom walls in pinks with green dots and using revolving doors instead of plain old ones. It might not be pretty or stylish, but it's liveable.
You're completely right. I'll call you a upper-hemispherian from now on. I mean .. why stop at continents? You're an american, as much as someone from Sao Polo, Mexico City or Vancouver. Your extremely short sighted remark about "you", the Americans, winning (or not) the "cold war" is nation-centric to the least. Just cope with the fact that the USA aren't the navel of the world.
Well .. I know enought of the culture of the US to know that you're thankfully NOT representative of it. Woah ... let me guess : proud member of the NRA, a few US flags on the walls along with pictures of Nixon, Reagan and both Bushs? You still believe that Iraq had WMDs and that it had anything to do with 9/11?
I didn't only meet many germans ... I actually LIVED in the country for over 20 years. I'm also french. Allemand, German, aleman and Deutsch are exactly the same fucking word, in different languages. A bit like "Dipshit","Arschgeige", "Branleur" and "you" means the same, just in different languages (no ... US-english, the one without the U in colours, is not what most people speak natively) .
Never said anything about calling a "texan" a "californian", but reading and comprehension doesn't seem to be your forte
Anyway ... weird that the Americans "get bent out of shape" to call US Citizens "US-Americans". But hey .. they're not important anyway. I highly doubt you REALLY went to 40 different countries. More like you went to 40 different offices or tourist resorts.
There's no dicuting with arrogant self-centered nationalists anyway, I guess.
besides ... at most TWO centuries, but then, you're probably of the faction who says everybody who writes "colour" with a "U" can't spell.
You know what? Germans don't say "americans" neither, they say "Amerikaner", except when they're talking exclusively of US Citizens, in which case they'll say "US-Amerikaner". No, you're not entitled to a whole continent, just because you feel like it.
"Aleman", "German", "Allemand" are exactly the same word, in different languages, and is akin to "texan"or "californian". Germans don't call themselves "the Europeans". If you're into bad comparisons, go to "Scottland", and tell them they are "English".
No. I think they just followed the example of US-americans chanting "God Bless America" and actually meaning God should bless the bit above the folks they are desperately trying to keep out and below the guys with the weird accent and the slightly better (imo) IP and copyright laws.
I live geographically in America but happily not in the USA, I guess I *AM* of that type. The correct term is US-American btw.
Back on topic, you might want to compare comparable data. Just take single states to compare them with single european (as in geographical Europe) countries with a similar population density. The USA don't fare all THAT bad, really.
You're right, in hindsight it wasn't very difficult to setup. It's just slightly more work than "pop in the CD and press install".
I don't think the /. site needs java actually.
You might want to try Arch Linux then. I got fed up with the half annual ritual myself, and moved to Arch. it's *not* very easy to setup, but if you follow the step by step instructions you should have a running stable system fast. And from then on : "rolling updates, baby!"
But at the same time it's one of the most critically acclaimed games ever made.
hmm .. metacritic ranks it at 21, three places below Peggle and nine below Braid. So it's not ranked badly, but ... is it worth killing a duck over it?
Battlezone? Is this some kind of ... aeh .. damn.. you win
Well, as with every really new and fantastically revolutionary technology, there will be a time of trial, until the marketing monkeys find their bearings and the right thing to say in their advertisements. Back in the days, when WE had 3D through, for example, nVidia Shutter Glasses (but of course it was by far not as good, or technically evolved or fucking exciting as THIS really new stupenduous technology), System Shock 2 and Thief 1 and 2 were a blast in 3D. The slow movements ensured that motion nausea didn't occur, and you had actually time to realize that what you were seeing up close (pipes, guards, ...) had depth. Additionally it actually helped the gameplay. ... exactly as if you were a god playing with toys, which should please fans of that genre (I'm not a fan, but I can understand the attraction)
Fast moving FPS's were another matter. First of all, most of the 3D depth you need is already provided by the motion itself, without any need for specialized hardware. Additionally, 3D works nicely when you have a limited visibility range but in an open world, any real 3D depth is lost after a not so great distance, as both eyes basically see the same thing. So it doesn't really help much at all, and at worst (someone just puts 3D Depth in, no matter how incongruous it is), it will probably create nausea and will just look stupid (as if you're playing with model sized stuff instead of real objects). 3rd person games were a hit and miss thing. some worked great ("Evolva" for example) and others worked less great. It really depends a lot on whether hte gameplay lends itself to being seen as "playing with small toys" or not.
Strategy and tactic games (be it RTS or turn based) will look great
Of course, that's really just me thinking aloud as if I had actually played in 3D in the late 90s/start of the 21st century using custom DirectX drivers provided with nVidia Shutter glasses I bought for 99.89 Deutschmark It's not like I've been there, done that
Kids today ... !
Doom? Is this some kind of Castle Wolfenstein clone?
Somehow this sounds like some producers going "okay, so we had 45 minutes of commercials in the final, but after that people will KNOW how the show is going to end." "yeah yeah .. but check this out dawg! If we just tell them we'll add some extra answers, like "why is the sky blue" or "what about the birds and the bees" ! They all definitely fall for that, and we can add even more trailers and possibly even the "lost"-ized commercials on the DVD! Think of the dough, doode!"
I tried watching Lost for 2 seasons, but somehow it didn't grab me at all. Compulsively watched all of LoM and A2A though, and I must concur that the finale on friday was absolutely brillant (and I'm an atheist ... perhaps I'm not militant enough;). It all fits together, as far as I can see, pretty much EVERYTHING is explained (and details you overlooked during the shows but which actually pointed toward the resolution come back with a vengeance) , it's both a sad, a happy and a hopeful ending ... Fantastic job by everyone involved.
If you're looking for a LOST type of show, just grab Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes (no .. please don't even bother with the painful american remake). Very similar in substance, much better writing and an amazingly good finale (well ..T wo, if you count LoM's awesome ending).
Or if you want something "Heroes"-like that doesn't suck, just grab the first season of the british show "Misfits" which, despite its ludicrous story, is amazing.
thankfully. It really was like being loaded.
3. Having profit as a chief aim: a commercial book, not a scholarly tome.
You seriously don't put enough effort in narrowing down your definitions. What you really should have said is that :
A Commercial Game, in this context, is one which will only prove my point, but not yours. It doesn't fucking matter whether I'm using the word in its generally accepted use in this context (see def. further up). No matter what you answer, I'll just tell you that it's not "commercial", and probably will also point out that it's not a game, because I don't happen to like it. Oh, and the sky is green with pink smiley clouds.
Now .. if you had said that right at the start, I wouldn't have bothered with arguments and proofs.As you didn't, I'll just point out how utterly ignorant and stupid your statement is, and let the matter rest.
Btw. Lugaru kicks ass, but only if you don't mind the lack of eye candy and can cope with actual content ... considering your previous comment, I guess that's hoping for too much.
So an overtly advertised secret booth? Sounds like MS alright ;)
Replying to myself, which, at this point, doesn't matter anyway : "commercial companies" and "consumer applications" are quite objective terms. Of course, Wovel can (and does) make them a more subjective matter. What he apparently meant to say was "Commercial Companies I deem worthy" and "Consumer Applications I deem good". There are not MANY commercial products for Linux, but they do exist. The (hopefully soon to be) release of the Steam Linux client might encourage developers to release more x-platform games. As for the incredibly high number of open source projects, and here we'll probably agree that a lot of those would not be commercially viable ( probably ... when I see the "trial" stuff for windows and OSX at download.com, I really wonder) : how does it matter in regard to commercial applications, except that to be commercially viable the product MUST have a higher standard or offer something different than its opensource competitors?
True, there are not many, but the point was not whether there were three millions of them or only three. The original comment was "OSX is the most open platform any commercial software companies are writing consumer applications for.", which is voided, no matter how many commercial applications there are, as long as they exist.
I did. dId you? that, for example. At thta point I'm not sure whether it's you or whoever let you out of trollville who should apologize. now shush.