I agree. I think more PC devs need to realise that people do like to play together in person too.
In fact for my next PC I'm going to do something like that and just give it loads of storage and just start dumping DVDs onto it as well as all my music, games, etc.
I do enjoy consoles but if you're willing to spend the cash the PC will always give a better over all experience.
Eclipse's UI isn't that bad but it's performance is rubbish. My only fear is that some how NetBeans will get killed in such a move despite being superior to Eclipse.
Yes you can. In fact Steam allows you to save your save games in their "cloud" which means you can play your game on any computer along with your save files on any computer.
Just as long as you don't have two instances running then your fine so if your computer blows up then you're covered.
No because it requires one board game just as video games that can be played together with one copy, amazingly, only require one copy.
With a board game though you only have one copy so you and your friend can't play them separately with other friends. But if you could let your friends install TF2, for example, then they'd have a fully working copy that allows them to play with anyone. If you could do that with a board game then the board game manufacturer would put limits on it.
You should have contacted customer services and they would have sorted it.
Someone managed to guess my old steam password (even despite it not being something incredibly stupid) and one particular time I tried to play I got a warning that my account was being used elsewhere. So I promptly changed my password and have had zero problems.
I'm sure this sort of thing happens a lot so they should lock the account to bring it to the attention of the owner without allowing the thief to do anything about it. It makes sense and it's easy to get fixed.
Most people that moan about Steam do so with their real intention being that they don't like that it's not as easy to steal games with systems like Steam. Oh well, if you don't wanna pay for it then you don't get to play it.
I guess cars should be as easy to fix as building a car out of Lego. Anything less and it's the automotive people protecting mechanic's jobs.
By making things easier means you're pushing all the technical knowledge on fewer people (ie the ones building the system) and when it all falls apart you have to rely on the smaller group of people to fix it and by doing so protects a limited set of jobs even more while leaving servers more vulnerable all because some tit thinks he should be able to run a server without having to read the instructions.
What is Microsoft leading in? It's not console sales. They're in second place over all but only by 6/7 million units. They're in 3rd place in Japan and their lead over Sony outside of the US is only like 1 million units and this is despite being cheaper, supposedly having a better selection of games and at least a 1 year lead.
Sony doesn't even have to try that hard to over take Microsoft in the next round. All they have to do is try harder in one market, the US, and if they take that Microsoft won't have a chance because quite frankly the rest of the world doesn't care for the cheap hardware and limited variety in software.
I don't think a 6/7 million unit lead is that big but for those that do, keep in mind Nintendo has at least a 6 million unit in every market over Microsoft.
The numbers just show that Americans will eat up Microsoft's second-rate crap but that's simply because their games are very limited and very Americanised which is why they struggle elsewhere.
It's amazing how many people repeat that BS from MS and Sony about how the Wii is something completely different to them and thus making Nintendo's monstrous lead invalid. They should be embarrassed that Nintendo can tape two Gamecube's together and beat the crap out of both Sony and MS.
The Wii isn't something different and it's not a toyota to MS's Ferrari. For starters in order for the 360 to be a Ferrari it shouldn't die just from looking at it funny and it should host the best selection of games rather than a very narrow selection of games featuring either WWII guys shooting each other in a first person view or homo-erotic space marines shooting each other in a first person view.
The Wii also has better peripheral suport and support for real keyboards by just plugging your existing USB keyboard rather than selling some ugly keyboard thing to attach to your controller.
Then when you look at the arcade version, that's not even a Toyota let alone a Ferrari. Which is also cheaper than the Wii which sort of ruins your joke about the Wii being the cheap option.:P
As much as Microsoft would like people to think they're in some higher league of gaming than the Wii and that they some how offer something Nintendo can't; they are wrong. Sure they can offer better graphics but at a higher price through actual financial costs and lack of innovation.
The fact is Nintendo's hardware runs like a Ferrari and will last while the 360 is the cheap Yugo option that will fall apart in 6 months.;)
Old vehicles might have had more steel in the body making them appear sturdier but the whole reason the Japanese kicked ass in the automotive area is because their newer cars were better all around including their life span.
Newer vehicles will last longer. Their only real downside is they're more complicated which makes it harder for any person to fix or mod their car and they're more likely to toss it to the side because of that rather than paying out for a mechanic.
MS actually does design good hardware most of the time.
The problem is that they were hell bent on being out the door first to reach 10 million units first and keep their machine cheaper than Sony and this is reflected in the quality of their console.
The idea of a bit of hardware completely controlled by themselves where they earn a licence fee off of each piece of software is MS' dream come true. So they've basically given the customer a shit deal in hopes that they could be number 1 and control console gaming.
This is why I'm glad the Wii totally creamed the 360 and the PS3 has caught up within the range of 6/7 million units. It just goes to show MS's place within gaming did come down to being early and people recognise Sony's better quality and Nintendo's innovation.
You're right but that doesn't mean the old generation isn't growing, rather than shrinking nor does it mean anyone wants something that's more complicated to operate their TV and DVD player or that can be taken out of the house rendering everyone else in the house remoteless and only a tard would pay hundreds for the functionality of an item that can be cheaper than a meal.
Your working under the assumption it would be that way.
People can be subject to drug tests and physicals before taking on a job already. If basically having a full medical check-up is readily available it would be silly to think that employers aren't going to want to see that.
Sure you can object but the job will go to someone else who doesn't object. I don't think it's that outrageous to think that most people wouldn't object to it either because it's quite apparent most people give out more information than they should about themselves and unfortunately have surrendered more rights to the government than they should have.
Shame this device won't detect when you're run over or shot...which may be more likely to happen with your newly found sense of invincibility from your monitoring hardware.
Or it's just a case of you hating Muslims fullstop.
Have you forgot about the Mexicans using rocket launchers on US buildings south of the border, heads showing up along road sides and various other fun bits to go along with the drug trade?
Mexicans just breed like cockroaches (thanks to their Catholic beliefs), drink too much (thanks to all the kids), and encourage modern day slave labour by working as illegal immigrants on tiny wages.
The US would probably shit itself at the price jump on certain items if it actually had to do things legally and pay a proper wage to citizens / legal immigrants. But hey, slave labour is fine if you don't put chains on them.
I forgot to add, I think this shows why Linux has a hard time. It's not what Linux can or can't do but what people think it can or can't do because they simply don't know and there is no marketing behind Linux.
If a company, like Ubuntu, could afford to advertise to the end-user then I think you'd see more growth. Even more so they copied Apple and had Ubuntu shops where you could buy your system and take it to be fixed.
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I agree. I think more PC devs need to realise that people do like to play together in person too.
In fact for my next PC I'm going to do something like that and just give it loads of storage and just start dumping DVDs onto it as well as all my music, games, etc.
I do enjoy consoles but if you're willing to spend the cash the PC will always give a better over all experience.
Eclipse's UI isn't that bad but it's performance is rubbish. My only fear is that some how NetBeans will get killed in such a move despite being superior to Eclipse.
He, unfortunately, almost has to let it happen as it'll probably be the best thing he's capable of doing aside from maybe getting a haircut.
Go back to MySpace and stay there until you learn how to speak better than a awful pop video.
Yeah because we know Valve has done a lot to fuck customers over through out the years unlike all other game companies.
I'm confident something is in place already and it'll be a matter of flipping a switch so yes he's probably quite capable of doing it.
Yes you can. In fact Steam allows you to save your save games in their "cloud" which means you can play your game on any computer along with your save files on any computer.
Just as long as you don't have two instances running then your fine so if your computer blows up then you're covered.
No because it requires one board game just as video games that can be played together with one copy, amazingly, only require one copy.
With a board game though you only have one copy so you and your friend can't play them separately with other friends. But if you could let your friends install TF2, for example, then they'd have a fully working copy that allows them to play with anyone. If you could do that with a board game then the board game manufacturer would put limits on it.
For a military man you sure QQ a lot.
You should have contacted customer services and they would have sorted it.
Someone managed to guess my old steam password (even despite it not being something incredibly stupid) and one particular time I tried to play I got a warning that my account was being used elsewhere. So I promptly changed my password and have had zero problems.
I'm sure this sort of thing happens a lot so they should lock the account to bring it to the attention of the owner without allowing the thief to do anything about it. It makes sense and it's easy to get fixed.
Most people that moan about Steam do so with their real intention being that they don't like that it's not as easy to steal games with systems like Steam. Oh well, if you don't wanna pay for it then you don't get to play it.
I guess cars should be as easy to fix as building a car out of Lego. Anything less and it's the automotive people protecting mechanic's jobs.
By making things easier means you're pushing all the technical knowledge on fewer people (ie the ones building the system) and when it all falls apart you have to rely on the smaller group of people to fix it and by doing so protects a limited set of jobs even more while leaving servers more vulnerable all because some tit thinks he should be able to run a server without having to read the instructions.
And we shouldn't encourage those sort of people to run servers.
What is Microsoft leading in? It's not console sales. They're in second place over all but only by 6/7 million units. They're in 3rd place in Japan and their lead over Sony outside of the US is only like 1 million units and this is despite being cheaper, supposedly having a better selection of games and at least a 1 year lead.
Sony doesn't even have to try that hard to over take Microsoft in the next round. All they have to do is try harder in one market, the US, and if they take that Microsoft won't have a chance because quite frankly the rest of the world doesn't care for the cheap hardware and limited variety in software.
I don't think a 6/7 million unit lead is that big but for those that do, keep in mind Nintendo has at least a 6 million unit in every market over Microsoft.
The numbers just show that Americans will eat up Microsoft's second-rate crap but that's simply because their games are very limited and very Americanised which is why they struggle elsewhere.
It's amazing how many people repeat that BS from MS and Sony about how the Wii is something completely different to them and thus making Nintendo's monstrous lead invalid. They should be embarrassed that Nintendo can tape two Gamecube's together and beat the crap out of both Sony and MS.
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The Wii isn't something different and it's not a toyota to MS's Ferrari. For starters in order for the 360 to be a Ferrari it shouldn't die just from looking at it funny and it should host the best selection of games rather than a very narrow selection of games featuring either WWII guys shooting each other in a first person view or homo-erotic space marines shooting each other in a first person view.
MS is losing the multimedia angle too especially with it looking like Netflix may come to the Wii. http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/21/netflix-headed-for-the-wii/
The Wii also has better peripheral suport and support for real keyboards by just plugging your existing USB keyboard rather than selling some ugly keyboard thing to attach to your controller.
Then when you look at the arcade version, that's not even a Toyota let alone a Ferrari. Which is also cheaper than the Wii which sort of ruins your joke about the Wii being the cheap option.
As much as Microsoft would like people to think they're in some higher league of gaming than the Wii and that they some how offer something Nintendo can't; they are wrong. Sure they can offer better graphics but at a higher price through actual financial costs and lack of innovation.
The fact is Nintendo's hardware runs like a Ferrari and will last while the 360 is the cheap Yugo option that will fall apart in 6 months.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Old vehicles might have had more steel in the body making them appear sturdier but the whole reason the Japanese kicked ass in the automotive area is because their newer cars were better all around including their life span.
Newer vehicles will last longer. Their only real downside is they're more complicated which makes it harder for any person to fix or mod their car and they're more likely to toss it to the side because of that rather than paying out for a mechanic.
Rubbish.
MS actually does design good hardware most of the time.
The problem is that they were hell bent on being out the door first to reach 10 million units first and keep their machine cheaper than Sony and this is reflected in the quality of their console.
The idea of a bit of hardware completely controlled by themselves where they earn a licence fee off of each piece of software is MS' dream come true. So they've basically given the customer a shit deal in hopes that they could be number 1 and control console gaming.
This is why I'm glad the Wii totally creamed the 360 and the PS3 has caught up within the range of 6/7 million units. It just goes to show MS's place within gaming did come down to being early and people recognise Sony's better quality and Nintendo's innovation.
Progression includes seeing which new ideas don't work and avoiding them. It's not just a case of taking on something purely because it's new.
You're right but that doesn't mean the old generation isn't growing, rather than shrinking nor does it mean anyone wants something that's more complicated to operate their TV and DVD player or that can be taken out of the house rendering everyone else in the house remoteless and only a tard would pay hundreds for the functionality of an item that can be cheaper than a meal.
There are a lot of people that won't buy a smart phone to operate all their devices.
Your working under the assumption it would be that way.
People can be subject to drug tests and physicals before taking on a job already. If basically having a full medical check-up is readily available it would be silly to think that employers aren't going to want to see that.
Sure you can object but the job will go to someone else who doesn't object. I don't think it's that outrageous to think that most people wouldn't object to it either because it's quite apparent most people give out more information than they should about themselves and unfortunately have surrendered more rights to the government than they should have.
And if you don't get a job because your boss doesn't like your body report then what?
Shame this device won't detect when you're run over or shot...which may be more likely to happen with your newly found sense of invincibility from your monitoring hardware.
I'm not sure the constant worry about the fluctuating read-out would help people.
Besides that's one more system to be abused and used as an excuse to exclude you from something.
Fix all the bugs and then you're sure you've fixed all the big bugs.
Or it's just a case of you hating Muslims fullstop.
Have you forgot about the Mexicans using rocket launchers on US buildings south of the border, heads showing up along road sides and various other fun bits to go along with the drug trade?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Mafia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surenos
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/220107mexicangangs.htm
Of course does this apply to all Mexicans? Of course not. Just as your silly beliefs about muslims do not apply to all muslims.
Mexicans just breed like cockroaches (thanks to their Catholic beliefs), drink too much (thanks to all the kids), and encourage modern day slave labour by working as illegal immigrants on tiny wages.
The US would probably shit itself at the price jump on certain items if it actually had to do things legally and pay a proper wage to citizens / legal immigrants. But hey, slave labour is fine if you don't put chains on them.
I forgot to add, I think this shows why Linux has a hard time. It's not what Linux can or can't do but what people think it can or can't do because they simply don't know and there is no marketing behind Linux.
If a company, like Ubuntu, could afford to advertise to the end-user then I think you'd see more growth. Even more so they copied Apple and had Ubuntu shops where you could buy your system and take it to be fixed.