I come from a FPS background, but I've gotten rather bored of them.
What I have discovered are a few games that remind me of Nintendo gameplay; fun, and a bit cartoony, but not violent.
I rather like Neverball. Balance the platform to roll the ball to pick up the coins. Level 12 is still kicking my butt.
There is, of course, Planet Penguin Racer. That game is just fun.
There are some other (what I see as) half done games that have the potential, but as with many large projects, interest in finishing seems to have waned.
I am fond of Vegastrike, although I do have my gripes.
It seems if I want violence, I need either an id game or a Japanese XP, as that is required for the stalker sims.... (does anyone else find some Japanese tastes to be questionable?)
Having only used Mac OS X once or twice, I can't comment on its daily usability. But I think that you should write a long form article on this and post it someplace. I think that your post would make great reading as a full blown rant. That it would cause spontaneous head explosions amongst the "I bought a Mac! I am so chic! I don't have to read!" Mac fanbase would be a cause of joy as well.
Having recently attempted to use Blender, I actually have to agree. I was only trying it out and I am not an artist at all, but just wanted to play a bit with it. Even after I finally gave up, I still had no idea how to move the camera around an object. Having played a little with Daz and a few others (none of which I thought were very intuitive), they are all more usable by a total novice than Blender. I actually was able to do something with them, even if not anything impressive.
I've hated the Gimp's interface ever since I first used it.
On the other hand, MakeHuman is pretty damn easy to play with, despite it being at 0.8.
In my experience, the average Windows user could not tell you what version of Windows it is that they use. If "Windows" did not appear everytime they got on the computer, I doubt they would know that they used Windows.
I bumped into something like you described. I was building a computer and went looking for a motherboard which supported more than four IDE devices. I found one that seemed like a dream come true: it had that and dual 100 M/b on board NICs and back up bios and the price was very very competetive. So I do my part; I read every review I can get my hands on. Each and everyone of them were glowing. The motherboard in question won several Editor's choice awards.
After it arrived, I was having a problem with random rebooting. I go looking for people with similar problems. And there are a lot of people having the same problem. Apparently, there was no problem if the computer had a then top of the line power supply which cost several hundred dollars. And all the review sites had used just such PSUs.
Now I go digging for bad reviews of a product. Someone somewhere out there has had a bad experience with it and I want to hear what they have to say.
There are far too many comments for this to ever get read, but I think you are correct.
I've seen statistics where the probability of a divorce shoots up when the wife makes more money than the husband. This is typically passed off by saying that women no longer need to stay in a marriage they find constricting as they have money of their own. While that is primarily just justify-what-women-do-at-all-costs, it does nothing to explain why it happens at all income levels. The modern western man finds himself in financial competition not just with his peers, but also with his spouse.
In the current Western climate, there are only two roles which are made available to males. Either you can be the asshole or the "nice guy". Romantic comedies are noteworthy being the purest expression of them in a cultural context. Women watch these and it isn't that they want the nice guy, otherwise they wouldn't finish last, but they want their overbearing jackasses to be a bit nicer. Those guys who actually perform the nice guy role are, of course, still girlfriend-less in the real world.
I didn't say that. What I said was that it has the software which it is intended to run. Whether the kids need other software is not something my comment addressed.
Had they not caught this, I'm not sure that Microsoft would be able to live it down for years. 'it just crashes.'
Then again, I'm not sure that would have mattered at all considering how flaky a lot of their previous releases have been and it didn't slow adoption down by much.
*I'm at work, trying to be brief and its been awhile since I've read MacIntyre, so if it is a bit jumbled, lacks depth and perhaps gets somethings wrong, it is certainly unintentional*
While reading the comments, I am reminded of some of Alaisdair MacIntyre's thoughts, primarily in After Virtue but also in some of his later works.
Insofar as the 'bias', 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' arguments go, as MacIntyre understands it, what there are are methods of understanding: rationalities. What modernity lacks is any shared rationality along whose lines we can argue and hope to come to a conclusion. While we still have the notion of reason as such, what we currently have, for the most part, are battling remenants of rationalities.
One time a group will use a utilitarian argument, another time a Kantian one and so on. The opposing group will throw out a Thomistic counter-argument, a utilitarian counter to the Kantian and so on; there is no method to discover the answer, just ways to arrive at conclusions already reached. As there is no way to come to a conclusion, mostly people just scream at each other, otherwise it is attempting manipulation, as is the case here with Google bombing. The hypocrisy comes in when one group cares about something an opponent did, but dismisses it when one of their own does the same.
There is no such thing as a neutral point of view; everyone sees things through their particular point of view. But that does not render all points of view equally valid, but you do have to have someplace from which to begin. What a rationality, in MacIntyre's view, aims at is to become fully adequate to its object, thus to represent the world in thought as it is in actuality. As new problems appear, the particular form of rationality shows itself by its adequacy in handling the problem.
As we have accepted that there is such a thing as being neutral, that which are perceived as deviating are labled bias. But the differing understandings are each rival claims to being the true and neutral point of view, thus anything which deviates is bias.
Perhaps it is simply time to admit that there is no such thing as the neutral point of view which is to say that the Enlightenment erred in that regard. Each rival perspective would then be able to pursue its own premises in the way that is most internally coherent with each having its own institutions and whatnot. Maybe someone could actually make some progress rationally rather than the dominant current method, manipulatively.
It works the other way around too. For example, I put XP MCE on a small partition. It has drivers for almost nothing in my laptop. So I had to do this constant reboot to get into Ubuntu, download the drivers and go back to XP and install them only to find that there was more stuff that was needed. A right pain in the butt. WAP still doesn't work at all in Windows.
Remember, that 6.06 is the Long Term release. If what you want is a working, solid release, then stick with it. Edgy is aimed at... well, being more on the cutting edge.
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I come from a FPS background, but I've gotten rather bored of them.
What I have discovered are a few games that remind me of Nintendo gameplay; fun, and a bit cartoony, but not violent.
I rather like Neverball. Balance the platform to roll the ball to pick up the coins. Level 12 is still kicking my butt.
There is, of course, Planet Penguin Racer. That game is just fun.
There are some other (what I see as) half done games that have the potential, but as with many large projects, interest in finishing seems to have waned.
I am fond of Vegastrike, although I do have my gripes.
It seems if I want violence, I need either an id game or a Japanese XP, as that is required for the stalker sims.... (does anyone else find some Japanese tastes to be questionable?)
"\dev\null"....
hahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahaha!!!!
They will have migrated to the I-mock-vista-because-it-has-absurd-hardware-requir ements-and-still-sucks-compared-to-beryl club.
Having only used Mac OS X once or twice, I can't comment on its daily usability. But I think that you should write a long form article on this and post it someplace. I think that your post would make great reading as a full blown rant. That it would cause spontaneous head explosions amongst the "I bought a Mac! I am so chic! I don't have to read!" Mac fanbase would be a cause of joy as well.
Having recently attempted to use Blender, I actually have to agree. I was only trying it out and I am not an artist at all, but just wanted to play a bit with it. Even after I finally gave up, I still had no idea how to move the camera around an object. Having played a little with Daz and a few others (none of which I thought were very intuitive), they are all more usable by a total novice than Blender. I actually was able to do something with them, even if not anything impressive.
I've hated the Gimp's interface ever since I first used it.
On the other hand, MakeHuman is pretty damn easy to play with, despite it being at 0.8.
In my experience, the average Windows user could not tell you what version of Windows it is that they use. If "Windows" did not appear everytime they got on the computer, I doubt they would know that they used Windows.
Hardware junkies want things to work... but just far faster and in ways that the manufacturer never conceived of as a possibility.
I bumped into something like you described. I was building a computer and went looking for a motherboard which supported more than four IDE devices. I found one that seemed like a dream come true: it had that and dual 100 M/b on board NICs and back up bios and the price was very very competetive. So I do my part; I read every review I can get my hands on. Each and everyone of them were glowing. The motherboard in question won several Editor's choice awards.
After it arrived, I was having a problem with random rebooting. I go looking for people with similar problems. And there are a lot of people having the same problem. Apparently, there was no problem if the computer had a then top of the line power supply which cost several hundred dollars. And all the review sites had used just such PSUs.
Now I go digging for bad reviews of a product. Someone somewhere out there has had a bad experience with it and I want to hear what they have to say.
Mac G4 Cube.
And example of Apple's flash over function for inflated price.
Actually, Chuck Norris is the reason we still have any testosterone. He makes up for the West Coast all by himself.
There are far too many comments for this to ever get read, but I think you are correct.
I've seen statistics where the probability of a divorce shoots up when the wife makes more money than the husband. This is typically passed off by saying that women no longer need to stay in a marriage they find constricting as they have money of their own. While that is primarily just justify-what-women-do-at-all-costs, it does nothing to explain why it happens at all income levels. The modern western man finds himself in financial competition not just with his peers, but also with his spouse.
In the current Western climate, there are only two roles which are made available to males. Either you can be the asshole or the "nice guy". Romantic comedies are noteworthy being the purest expression of them in a cultural context. Women watch these and it isn't that they want the nice guy, otherwise they wouldn't finish last, but they want their overbearing jackasses to be a bit nicer. Those guys who actually perform the nice guy role are, of course, still girlfriend-less in the real world.
I didn't say that. What I said was that it has the software which it is intended to run. Whether the kids need other software is not something my comment addressed.
"When you make people pony up for instant access to ads?"
No...
Must resist...
The urge... the URGE!!!
Can't.. hold... back... any... longer...
OMG P0n13Z!1!!
(Commentary: It is a sad indication of the quality of my life that I find this as amusing as I do.)
It seems to fall nearly into the category of an appliance. It will come with all the software which the thing is intended for, presumably.
Had they not caught this, I'm not sure that Microsoft would be able to live it down for years. 'it just crashes.'
Then again, I'm not sure that would have mattered at all considering how flaky a lot of their previous releases have been and it didn't slow adoption down by much.
"but who knows what is shilling and what is real these days?"
:(
Ain't that the sad truth
*I'm at work, trying to be brief and its been awhile since I've read MacIntyre, so if it is a bit jumbled, lacks depth and perhaps gets somethings wrong, it is certainly unintentional*
While reading the comments, I am reminded of some of Alaisdair MacIntyre's thoughts, primarily in After Virtue but also in some of his later works.
Insofar as the 'bias', 'neutrality' and 'objectivity' arguments go, as MacIntyre understands it, what there are are methods of understanding: rationalities. What modernity lacks is any shared rationality along whose lines we can argue and hope to come to a conclusion. While we still have the notion of reason as such, what we currently have, for the most part, are battling remenants of rationalities.
One time a group will use a utilitarian argument, another time a Kantian one and so on. The opposing group will throw out a Thomistic counter-argument, a utilitarian counter to the Kantian and so on; there is no method to discover the answer, just ways to arrive at conclusions already reached. As there is no way to come to a conclusion, mostly people just scream at each other, otherwise it is attempting manipulation, as is the case here with Google bombing. The hypocrisy comes in when one group cares about something an opponent did, but dismisses it when one of their own does the same.
There is no such thing as a neutral point of view; everyone sees things through their particular point of view. But that does not render all points of view equally valid, but you do have to have someplace from which to begin. What a rationality, in MacIntyre's view, aims at is to become fully adequate to its object, thus to represent the world in thought as it is in actuality. As new problems appear, the particular form of rationality shows itself by its adequacy in handling the problem.
As we have accepted that there is such a thing as being neutral, that which are perceived as deviating are labled bias. But the differing understandings are each rival claims to being the true and neutral point of view, thus anything which deviates is bias.
Perhaps it is simply time to admit that there is no such thing as the neutral point of view which is to say that the Enlightenment erred in that regard. Each rival perspective would then be able to pursue its own premises in the way that is most internally coherent with each having its own institutions and whatnot. Maybe someone could actually make some progress rationally rather than the dominant current method, manipulatively.
I believe this to be the case as well. It is still not as unusable as Yahoo was several years ago, but it is on the declining slope.
That's the dead easy I was referring to.
I have never had a problem with suspend though.
The keyring thing is goofy, as you said.
It works the other way around too. For example, I put XP MCE on a small partition. It has drivers for almost nothing in my laptop. So I had to do this constant reboot to get into Ubuntu, download the drivers and go back to XP and install them only to find that there was more stuff that was needed. A right pain in the butt. WAP still doesn't work at all in Windows.
:)
Remember, that 6.06 is the Long Term release. If what you want is a working, solid release, then stick with it. Edgy is aimed at... well, being more on the cutting edge.
Hope you are enjoying your Linux experience
If memory serves, 6.06.1 came with wpa_supplicant. It did not come with the nm-applet though, which makes it all brain dead easy.
Duplicate it and call it KaiserSuSe
I remember that... there was the "World Premiere" at QuakeCon 1998, I do believe. I think it was something done by the Ranger clan.
Did someone say ponies? ...
like omg! p0n13z!!1!!
(I have no idea why I think this is as funny as I do. Honestly.)
"That sedate vegetable who's too lazy to tie his own shoelace if you don't make him, on the other hand,..."
I was wondering why anyone would ever hire me. I certainly wouldn't. Now I know.
--posted at work, with work to do, but i get off in 10 minutes so I'm not going to do it.