Hardware specs aren't everything. What matters in the long run is the gaming experience as a whole, and that isn't limited by graphics or the presence of an "HDD". I mean, just look at the DS: it's really, really low-tech by today's standards, but games are still being made for it and it's a really innovative piece of hardware. I could name dozens of DS games I own that are awesome, and they don't require an HDD or HD output to function. Saying that the Wii isn't "modern" simply because of it's specifications; it's modern because of how you play games, like the DS. Shiny isn't always better, and some people want their game consoles to focus on, well, gaming, not trying to be everything at once. That's what Nintendo does best, unlike Microsoft/Sony, who only do gaming on the side of their regular business.
Oh, I forgot to say that the console will definitely support 1080p right out of the box. And the screen might not seem so nice at first, but think about it: it could provide screens for individual players in games! No more screen-watching in an FPS, no more wasted screen space for things like a map or inventory menu, or even emulating multiple copies of old games at the same time! I may be a dreamer and just saying what might not happen, but hey, it sounds awesome to me.
To summarize for the lazy, the controller may have a touch-screen, the system is more powerful than a PS3/360, and it looks like a modern version of an SNES. This is all just rumor and speculation though, so we'll have to wait and see. If the rumors are true, then I'm really excited! I used to play those Gamecube games where you connected GBAs to the controller ports so each player had his own screen, for games like Four Swords Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (which are both a BLAST to play with friends, btw). It was even useful in the occasional game like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Mega Man X Command Mission, and Pokemon Colosseum/XD, for example. This seems just like that awesome concept, but mixed with the DS and on a much more massive scale.
If these rumors are true (or aren't as awesome as it really is), then Nintendo shows, once again, that dedicated hardware can be much, much better than a PC for gaming.
PS: I'm no Nintendo fanboy; I just like them a lot more than the competition. I have a PS2 and might get a PSP/PS3 used sometime.
Download this file (right-click and "Save as"), and put it in your Jack Claw\Config folder. It should overwrite the original file, that's ok.
After that, keyboard & mouse should be enabled - pressing the left mouse button (or ESC) will proceed to the game.
Controls: WASD - Character movement Mouse - Claw movement Left Mouse Click - Press once to grab an object, press again to release Right Mouse Click - When holding an object, throws the object
Note: You can quit only by opening the console with the F8 key and writing "quit" there. We'll try to fix this shortly.
The entire point of the bundle was that it was a limited time offer. You can still buy the individual games for full price, but you won't get the earlier games if you buy this bundle, though the last one did give you the older bundle if you improved the average... Who knows about this one?
Sorry about that. No need to resort to trollish behavior... Even still, one example does not totally disprove a business model and anybody with a little common-sense (apparently not-so-common) should know that.
And you are now proof that this is a bad model. You were willing to pay $30 for DRMed versions of the game without the Linux version, but given the opportunity to get them DRM free and donate money to charity, you would have only paid $10. Personally, I'm not laughing.
That doesn't prove that this is a bad model. He only paid $10 because he already gave the developers money on Steam, and if he hadn't bought the Steam bundle he would have paid more for the Humble Indie Bundle. The model, last I checked, wasn't "re-buy games you already bought with no DRM" as you seem to suggest. The model is "buy a bunch of games together for whatever price you want and pick who the money goes to", in addition to them running on more platforms and without DRM now, unlike before. The only game in any of these three past bundles that I've bought was World of Goo, and that was during the "pay-what-you-want "birthday sale".
Yeah, I found the "twinview" issue on a lot of Linux games - indie or not.
Does anyone know of a way to lie to the games as to what the desktop dimensions are? I've used google before without much luck on the matter, but hopefully this crowd can point us in the right direction.
Yes, red and green were the original versions. However, Blue was released later in japan as a bug-fixing special release. America didn't get any re-releases besides Yellow because the original versions in America had the bugs of the Japanese version fixed.
Gnome 3 seems to encourage grouping windows by activity, rather than grouping windows by what application they belong to.
If you keep your windows all on the same workspace, you can switch between groups of windows in the same application. By "application groups", I mean, if you have multiple Firefox windows open and you switch to Firefox in Alt+Tab, all of the Firefox windows on that workspace are brought to focus. If I want to switch to my chat windows, I Alt+Tab to the "Empathy" group (IM program) and all of my Empathy windows are brought to focus. You can use it however you like; you're not forced to group your applications any particular way with GNOME 3:)
As much as I dislike uselessly high version numbers, their release plan looks rather impressive. If you didn't bother to click the article link, the development for each new version of Firefox will occur in a rather "layered" fashion. After initial development on Firefox 5 is finished in mozilla-central, work begins on the initial development for Firefox 6, and after that, 7. At the same time as 6 and 7 are being worked on in mozilla-central, Firefox 5 and 6, respectively, are moved to mozilla-experimental and worked on. While experimental work is being done on 6 and 7, Firefox is moved into "Beta" and Beta work begins on 5 and 6, respectively. It's much easier to understand if you look at the image I linked to, and it certainly looks impressive, though I am not quite sure how it will work out in the long run. Only time will tell, I guess.
Firefox Black/White would cause a lot of racism complaints though, so I'm not sure it would work out in the long run... Oh, and you forgot Firefox Green, the codename for the Beta versions;)
If you don't want some screensavers to appear, just uninstall/remove the ones that you don't like. Saying that GNOME considers the user the enemy is very trollish and ignorant, and his explanation of having screensavers "just work" is a valid design decision. Likening it to DRM is also illogical because you can work around it easily.
A consistent visual identity, like how Windows and Mac have one. In later releases they might add the option to move it back. Ask around on IRC for the designer/developer's opinions and insight, maybe file a bug report if they agree.
It's one button, just multiple names for it. The key is known as the Windows key, the Super key, the Meta key, and now with GNOME 3 the "Activities" key. If I had a three-button keyboard combo, I would have used +, not /
As of right now, you cannot move the panel to the bottom (nor is it ever planned but you never know). Write an extension that does that, if you'd like; GNOME 3 is extensible. And yes, you can add icons back to the desktop. If you actually read my blog post instead of responding with what you just admitted was everybody else's opinion, you would know that gnome-tweak-tool lets you have Nautilus manage the desktop once more as an option.
You do know how GNOME Shell works, right? Click the activities button or flick your mouse to the top left. The Windows key is just a keyboard shortcut to that.
You misread me: Alt+Tab changed application groups, while Alt+` changes applications within the same group, Say I have a web browser and an instant messenger open. Alt+Tabbing to one of them brings all of the windows in that group to focus. If I want a specific window in that group, I Alt+Tab to the group and press Alt+`.
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Here is the GNOME 3 Design History page. In short, they wanted to get rid of the hacked-together nature of GNOME 2 while innovating at the same time. They wanted a more integrated desktop that didn't get in your way, and for the most part it succeeds:)
You do realize that GNOME 3 has an extensive design history, yes? They did lots of usability testing, and just because the interface isn't exactly "familiar" does not instantly mean that they changed it for the sake of change. Please, do some research next time and read the GNOME Shell design documents.
showing the desktop when you move the mouse to the top right corner of the desktop
Correction: showing the activities overlay when you move the mouse to the top left corner of the desktop.
What I see is a new interface that's designed with the assumption that there's One True Way to configure a desktop and that there's no reason to let mere users decide for themselves how they want things to work
GNOME 3 is not perfect, neither is any DE. You do realize that it is configurable, yes? Because it doesn't provide every single configuration option in the world is no reason to dislike a desktop environment. Acting like GNOME 3 is not configurable or extensible whatsoever, which is contrary to the System Settings menu and the blog post I linked to, is just illogical and trollish. You know that there's Alt+Tab and a window list on the left of the activities menu, yes? Why are those so hard to use? I know that you have every right to switch to another desktop environment, but just keep in mind that GNOME 3 was just released today and has to have the bugs ironed out.
Unfortunately we live in the real world, where perfection is not quite so simple to attain. There's a reason why societies tend to propsper when they encourage diversity, and to stagnate when they enforce conformity -- and it's not because any committee has ever been able to identify the most efficient way to do everything.
Last I checked, there's lots of diversity in the GNU/Linux world. I don't see how diversity inside of one project itself can improve anything. GNOME 3 has a rather extensive and thorough design history and they've tried really hard to improve upon GNOME 2. The idea behind GNOME is that you shouldn't need configuration options in order to use your desktop; it should work best by default and the only options that need to be available are valid preferences. Every preference has a cost and only makes software more complex (in more than one sense). Every time I use KDE, it throws a myriad of options at my face that I clearly do not need and it feels like some kind of information overload. In this respect, I actually like how GNOME removes certain options over the years.
you have about three years before they start the next ground-up rewrite that will replace the interface you love with something you will almost certainly consider an unwieldy abomination, and you will suddenly find yourself begging for that bunch of configuration options.
That has already happened to me, and do you know what I did? Instead of complaining that what I was used to was gone, I actually try to get used to the new setup. Just because something worked fine years ago does not mean that it's still the most efficient thing around. "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'." -Henry Ford. It took a while for people to get used to automobiles, but in the long run they were much better. Horses even have advantages (less expensive, you can pet it, faster 'startup' times, etc.), but I'd pick an automobile over a horse any day. GNOME 3 is the exact same thing to me.
I would much rather have a desktop that only allowed the most efficient ways to do things than one that gave me a bunch of configuration options and told me to "figure it out for myself", in a sense. *cough cough*...
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Hardware specs aren't everything. What matters in the long run is the gaming experience as a whole, and that isn't limited by graphics or the presence of an "HDD". I mean, just look at the DS: it's really, really low-tech by today's standards, but games are still being made for it and it's a really innovative piece of hardware. I could name dozens of DS games I own that are awesome, and they don't require an HDD or HD output to function. Saying that the Wii isn't "modern" simply because of it's specifications; it's modern because of how you play games, like the DS. Shiny isn't always better, and some people want their game consoles to focus on, well, gaming, not trying to be everything at once. That's what Nintendo does best, unlike Microsoft/Sony, who only do gaming on the side of their regular business.
Oh, I forgot to say that the console will definitely support 1080p right out of the box. And the screen might not seem so nice at first, but think about it: it could provide screens for individual players in games! No more screen-watching in an FPS, no more wasted screen space for things like a map or inventory menu, or even emulating multiple copies of old games at the same time! I may be a dreamer and just saying what might not happen, but hey, it sounds awesome to me.
Here's a huge rumor-dump for the new Nintendo console which may or may not be announced at E3 (JSYK, all of this was reported before from other websites; this is just a compilation of the rumors).
To summarize for the lazy, the controller may have a touch-screen, the system is more powerful than a PS3/360, and it looks like a modern version of an SNES. This is all just rumor and speculation though, so we'll have to wait and see. If the rumors are true, then I'm really excited! I used to play those Gamecube games where you connected GBAs to the controller ports so each player had his own screen, for games like Four Swords Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (which are both a BLAST to play with friends, btw). It was even useful in the occasional game like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Mega Man X Command Mission, and Pokemon Colosseum/XD, for example. This seems just like that awesome concept, but mixed with the DS and on a much more massive scale.
If these rumors are true (or aren't as awesome as it really is), then Nintendo shows, once again, that dedicated hardware can be much, much better than a PC for gaming.
PS: I'm no Nintendo fanboy; I just like them a lot more than the competition. I have a PS2 and might get a PSP/PS3 used sometime.
You forgot CentOS, which is the same as RHEL without support costs (like Ubuntu). Without it, your summary seems rather biased.
Courtesy of @humble:
How to use Jack Claw without a 360 controller
Download this file (right-click and "Save as"), and put it in your Jack Claw\Config folder. It should overwrite the original file, that's ok.
After that, keyboard & mouse should be enabled - pressing the left mouse button (or ESC) will proceed to the game.
Controls:
WASD - Character movement
Mouse - Claw movement
Left Mouse Click - Press once to grab an object, press again to release
Right Mouse Click - When holding an object, throws the object
Note: You can quit only by opening the console with the F8 key and writing "quit" there. We'll try to fix this shortly.
The entire point of the bundle was that it was a limited time offer. You can still buy the individual games for full price, but you won't get the earlier games if you buy this bundle, though the last one did give you the older bundle if you improved the average... Who knows about this one?
Sorry about that. No need to resort to trollish behavior... Even still, one example does not totally disprove a business model and anybody with a little common-sense (apparently not-so-common) should know that.
And you are now proof that this is a bad model. You were willing to pay $30 for DRMed versions of the game without the Linux version, but given the opportunity to get them DRM free and donate money to charity, you would have only paid $10. Personally, I'm not laughing.
That doesn't prove that this is a bad model. He only paid $10 because he already gave the developers money on Steam, and if he hadn't bought the Steam bundle he would have paid more for the Humble Indie Bundle. The model, last I checked, wasn't "re-buy games you already bought with no DRM" as you seem to suggest. The model is "buy a bunch of games together for whatever price you want and pick who the money goes to", in addition to them running on more platforms and without DRM now, unlike before. The only game in any of these three past bundles that I've bought was World of Goo, and that was during the "pay-what-you-want "birthday sale".
Yeah, I found the "twinview" issue on a lot of Linux games - indie or not.
Does anyone know of a way to lie to the games as to what the desktop dimensions are? I've used google before without much luck on the matter, but hopefully this crowd can point us in the right direction.
Yet again, the Arch Wiki saves!
Yes, red and green were the original versions. However, Blue was released later in japan as a bug-fixing special release. America didn't get any re-releases besides Yellow because the original versions in America had the bugs of the Japanese version fixed.
Gnome 3 seems to encourage grouping windows by activity, rather than grouping windows by what application they belong to.
If you keep your windows all on the same workspace, you can switch between groups of windows in the same application. By "application groups", I mean, if you have multiple Firefox windows open and you switch to Firefox in Alt+Tab, all of the Firefox windows on that workspace are brought to focus. If I want to switch to my chat windows, I Alt+Tab to the "Empathy" group (IM program) and all of my Empathy windows are brought to focus. You can use it however you like; you're not forced to group your applications any particular way with GNOME 3 :)
As much as I dislike uselessly high version numbers, their release plan looks rather impressive. If you didn't bother to click the article link, the development for each new version of Firefox will occur in a rather "layered" fashion. After initial development on Firefox 5 is finished in mozilla-central, work begins on the initial development for Firefox 6, and after that, 7. At the same time as 6 and 7 are being worked on in mozilla-central, Firefox 5 and 6, respectively, are moved to mozilla-experimental and worked on. While experimental work is being done on 6 and 7, Firefox is moved into "Beta" and Beta work begins on 5 and 6, respectively. It's much easier to understand if you look at the image I linked to, and it certainly looks impressive, though I am not quite sure how it will work out in the long run. Only time will tell, I guess.
Firefox Black/White would cause a lot of racism complaints though, so I'm not sure it would work out in the long run... Oh, and you forgot Firefox Green, the codename for the Beta versions ;)
If you don't want some screensavers to appear, just uninstall/remove the ones that you don't like. Saying that GNOME considers the user the enemy is very trollish and ignorant, and his explanation of having screensavers "just work" is a valid design decision. Likening it to DRM is also illogical because you can work around it easily.
You minimize it to get it out of the way without closing it entirely.
Which is what dragging the window, Alt+Tab, Alt+`, and the Activities overlay are for.
A consistent visual identity, like how Windows and Mac have one. In later releases they might add the option to move it back. Ask around on IRC for the designer/developer's opinions and insight, maybe file a bug report if they agree.
It's one button, just multiple names for it. The key is known as the Windows key, the Super key, the Meta key, and now with GNOME 3 the "Activities" key. If I had a three-button keyboard combo, I would have used +, not /
As of right now, you cannot move the panel to the bottom (nor is it ever planned but you never know). Write an extension that does that, if you'd like; GNOME 3 is extensible. And yes, you can add icons back to the desktop. If you actually read my blog post instead of responding with what you just admitted was everybody else's opinion, you would know that gnome-tweak-tool lets you have Nautilus manage the desktop once more as an option.
You do know how GNOME Shell works, right? Click the activities button or flick your mouse to the top left. The Windows key is just a keyboard shortcut to that.
You misread me: Alt+Tab changed application groups, while Alt+` changes applications within the same group, Say I have a web browser and an instant messenger open. Alt+Tabbing to one of them brings all of the windows in that group to focus. If I want a specific window in that group, I Alt+Tab to the group and press Alt+`.
Here is the GNOME 3 Design History page. In short, they wanted to get rid of the hacked-together nature of GNOME 2 while innovating at the same time. They wanted a more integrated desktop that didn't get in your way, and for the most part it succeeds :)
You do realize that GNOME 3 has an extensive design history, yes? They did lots of usability testing, and just because the interface isn't exactly "familiar" does not instantly mean that they changed it for the sake of change. Please, do some research next time and read the GNOME Shell design documents.
showing the desktop when you move the mouse to the top right corner of the desktop
Correction: showing the activities overlay when you move the mouse to the top left corner of the desktop.
What I see is a new interface that's designed with the assumption that there's One True Way to configure a desktop and that there's no reason to let mere users decide for themselves how they want things to work
GNOME 3 is not perfect, neither is any DE. You do realize that it is configurable, yes? Because it doesn't provide every single configuration option in the world is no reason to dislike a desktop environment. Acting like GNOME 3 is not configurable or extensible whatsoever, which is contrary to the System Settings menu and the blog post I linked to, is just illogical and trollish. You know that there's Alt+Tab and a window list on the left of the activities menu, yes? Why are those so hard to use? I know that you have every right to switch to another desktop environment, but just keep in mind that GNOME 3 was just released today and has to have the bugs ironed out.
Unfortunately we live in the real world, where perfection is not quite so simple to attain. There's a reason why societies tend to propsper when they encourage diversity, and to stagnate when they enforce conformity -- and it's not because any committee has ever been able to identify the most efficient way to do everything.
Last I checked, there's lots of diversity in the GNU/Linux world. I don't see how diversity inside of one project itself can improve anything. GNOME 3 has a rather extensive and thorough design history and they've tried really hard to improve upon GNOME 2. The idea behind GNOME is that you shouldn't need configuration options in order to use your desktop; it should work best by default and the only options that need to be available are valid preferences. Every preference has a cost and only makes software more complex (in more than one sense). Every time I use KDE, it throws a myriad of options at my face that I clearly do not need and it feels like some kind of information overload. In this respect, I actually like how GNOME removes certain options over the years.
you have about three years before they start the next ground-up rewrite that will replace the interface you love with something you will almost certainly consider an unwieldy abomination, and you will suddenly find yourself begging for that bunch of configuration options.
That has already happened to me, and do you know what I did? Instead of complaining that what I was used to was gone, I actually try to get used to the new setup. Just because something worked fine years ago does not mean that it's still the most efficient thing around. "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'." -Henry Ford. It took a while for people to get used to automobiles, but in the long run they were much better. Horses even have advantages (less expensive, you can pet it, faster 'startup' times, etc.), but I'd pick an automobile over a horse any day. GNOME 3 is the exact same thing to me.
I would much rather have a desktop that only allowed the most efficient ways to do things than one that gave me a bunch of configuration options and told me to "figure it out for myself", in a sense. *cough cough*...