video games don't ever really break the fourth wall, as it were, because in games, there is no wall.
Ummm... Yes there is. Play the Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES (and Donkey Kong Land for the Game Boy) and you will find many, many fourth-wall breaking comments.
Not to mention video games, I mean seriously, there is a bit of a delay expected in translating from Japanese to English but from American English to British English? And most have to wait months for the game to come to Europe or vice versa.
I tend to think that addiction starts when it causes problems in your life.
Then video games are very rarely, if ever, addicting. Some people socialize in different ways, some people prefer to talk to people over the phone rather than in person, some people are the total opposite, still others prefer using text messages and e-mail. Just look at letters, today's video game and social network based society is nothing more than an extension of letters and telephones.
Can you see the potential downward spiral that could apply to this situation that is typically reserved for drug abuse?
No, no more than the invention of the US postal service and telephones have made us be addicted to them.
Why do people still listen to the media is beyond me. Every single year they come up with something that is either A) addicting and damaging to minds B) corrupting the family/children/society or C) is somehow harmful. Be it rock and roll, cell phones, video games, comic books, etc, the media always comes up with some "studies" to back them up while two months later showing studies that prove just the opposite is true, why haven't people realized that the media has cried wolf far too many times and just tune the crap out?
Expecting volunteers to carry 2/3 of the load for Fedora seems a bit much.
Ummm... How much of Firefox was coded by volunteers? Apache? Linux itself? I'm sure if you look at most OSS projects 1/3 being employed to work on it is a large amount compared to most.
The problem is OSS businesses are doing things the wrong way. Rather than do it Red Hat's and some business's way of adding in features in the community version they instead make the community version spartan and the paid one with support oozing with features, naturally this makes it a great target for some weekend coder to take that version and reverse-engineer or just get the source of the paid version and add it to the free version. Paid versions = Stable versions, community versions = unstable versions. Keep that in mind and your business will not have the community rebelling and forking your project every other month.
What I don't understand is why does Apple even have iTunes as a program. Honestly the most logical way of making an iPod would it would conform to USB mass storage device specs and could use whatever machine (OS X, Linux, Windows, BSD, etc) and have iTunes be a music store along with an optional player where the iTunes store is accessed via a web browser or via the iPod (in the case of the touch). And even then, why does Apple even care about people wanting to use the iPod without iTunes, its a small minority.
Well, the problem with Red Hat is it isn't as popular. Most people who know Linux know or at least have heard of Ubuntu, and know that it is easy to use, on the other hand Red Hat isn't as popular and so while there might be a small number of people who would only use it if it was based off of Red Hat, more people use Ubuntu than Red Hat and so it only is logical to base it off of Ubuntu.
I've been saying for years the same thing, every desktop OS should have av and anti-spyware protection built in.
No. I totally disagree. The OS should be out of the way and not mess with anything. The OS should be patched to a reasonable degree of security and be configured with permissions, limited user accounts and limited applications. Perhaps if this was some F/OSS project it might be ok to build into the OS with, but as MS has shown, they can't do security. They either overload the user with annoying messages at the slightest change (UAC) or totally ignore security (like pre-SP2 XP installs)
In the pre-Vista age perhaps, but with UAC and the paranoid level of dialogues in browsers needed to get anything done, Joe Sixpack is going to just click allow, even if that means he has to pay $300 to get his box repaired by the Geek Squad. The problem is, by increasing the amount of warnings, the less likely anyone is going to care about them.
So what do you think that the water your drinking is? Yep, more than likely its been pee a few times over, along with being dinosaur spit, and a whole lot of other things. Its called the water cycle.
Well, on just about every Mac I've seen, from corporate computers, to those of artists to those used at home, just about all the used software is from Apple or Adobe, with the exception of Office.
iTunes is overwhelmingly the most used media player, Safari for browsing, Photoshop for editing, etc. On the other hand on Windows computers, VLC or iTunes are the most popular media players, Firefox the browser (for anyone who knows much about computers), Photoshop or The GIMP for editing, etc.
Riiiight, because we all know that cops don't ever frame people. And that trials are always fair, and no on ever plants "evidence" or the media ends up influencing the trial. Not to mention on how all of society believes that everything that's illegal is really wrong *cough* drugs, copyright *cough*
But who is to say that they were justly put in jail? Heck, who even says that the laws they were charged under are fair, that the trial they got was fair, that the jury was unbiased towards them? We don't know that.
The problem is, this is MS. Most software installed is not MS software, unlike OS X where just about every app is made by Apple or Adobe. Just look at the disaster Windows update is, think about what they would do with this. Not to mention that this will attract about 3 other developers other than MS, and no doubt MS would charge to be part of this "elite network" which throws out any OSS project. Its a good idea, but the thing about Ballmer's MS is, they have some corporate crap stopping them from executing the good idea.
I really didn't consider it, but there would be a major market for an MMORPG for Android. Think about it, when you are waiting for a bus you can hop on to finish a quest, if you want you can receive alerts about your character at work and the keyboard would make typing messages easy. The only problem I see with all games for Android is all the phones that could (potentially) use it. For example, a phone with only a touch screen is going to demand a totally different form of input than a phone with both a touch screen and keyboard, as is a phone that is all buttons and no touch screen. And I can see this really being a limiting factor, does the Android marketplace allow you to "restrict" apps to certain phones or download different versions?
What I meant wasn't like nightly builds or anything, but you can expect Google's Chrome to have a more recent version of WebKit than Safari or MS's browser.
I know, but some of the people who are determined to hate Linux or OS X say that their bank, work, school, grandma won't work without Active X or that their bank, work, school, grandma won't render correctly with Firefox/Safari/Chrome.
In this second great browser wars there are 4 major battles:
Features
Standards compliance
Speed
Security
MS can get features and even standards compliance through proprietary means, on the other hand, security and speed depend on lots of people looking through the code. So in essence, without an open source rendering engine MS can't hope to win. On the other hand, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome have made great leaps because they have all of the above.
What is worse is they are wanting WebKit. I think if they manage to use it we will end up with 3-4 versions of WebKit in various forms of stability, freedom and standards compatability:
We will have KDE's WebKit which will be somewhat stable to very stable depending on the release.
We will have MS's Strange proprietary(ish) WebKit which will lag behind all other versions in compatibility and compliance while at the same time having all kinds of hacks to make Active X and other crap work.
We will have Apple's Quite Stable WebKit which will be about in the middle and very stable.
And we will also have Google's Bleeding-edge Beta WebKit which is the least stable out of all of them.
How can MS really adopt anything open source at this point? IE isn't just a part of Windows, IE practically *IS* Windows and having it being open source would make a valuable part of Windows open source which Ballmer hates with a passion. Take away IE and Active X and half the reason to use Windows goes away. And really, why use WebKit? Sure, its a decent rendering engine but no better than Gecko or the other OSS rendering engines. I really fear for WebKit if MS manages to use it, because rather than having WebKit we will have MS WebKit which is a highly modified version of an older release, Google's Bleeding Edge WebKit and Apple's Stable WebKit. And honestly, this is taking us back to Netscape Vs IE....
Yes, but look at the hour to price ratio. A CD is about an hour long, whereas a game is usually at least 30 hours if not more. A CD costs around $20 and a game around $50. The CD costs a whole lot more per hour than the game does.
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video games don't ever really break the fourth wall, as it were, because in games, there is no wall.
Ummm... Yes there is. Play the Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES (and Donkey Kong Land for the Game Boy) and you will find many, many fourth-wall breaking comments.
Not to mention video games, I mean seriously, there is a bit of a delay expected in translating from Japanese to English but from American English to British English? And most have to wait months for the game to come to Europe or vice versa.
I tend to think that addiction starts when it causes problems in your life.
Then video games are very rarely, if ever, addicting. Some people socialize in different ways, some people prefer to talk to people over the phone rather than in person, some people are the total opposite, still others prefer using text messages and e-mail. Just look at letters, today's video game and social network based society is nothing more than an extension of letters and telephones.
Can you see the potential downward spiral that could apply to this situation that is typically reserved for drug abuse?
No, no more than the invention of the US postal service and telephones have made us be addicted to them.
So, is this saying that they are not addicted or that they are addicted because of social issues?
Basically, they aren't addicted because of video games they just enjoy playing them.
Why do people still listen to the media is beyond me. Every single year they come up with something that is either A) addicting and damaging to minds B) corrupting the family/children/society or C) is somehow harmful. Be it rock and roll, cell phones, video games, comic books, etc, the media always comes up with some "studies" to back them up while two months later showing studies that prove just the opposite is true, why haven't people realized that the media has cried wolf far too many times and just tune the crap out?
Expecting volunteers to carry 2/3 of the load for Fedora seems a bit much.
Ummm... How much of Firefox was coded by volunteers? Apache? Linux itself? I'm sure if you look at most OSS projects 1/3 being employed to work on it is a large amount compared to most.
The problem is OSS businesses are doing things the wrong way. Rather than do it Red Hat's and some business's way of adding in features in the community version they instead make the community version spartan and the paid one with support oozing with features, naturally this makes it a great target for some weekend coder to take that version and reverse-engineer or just get the source of the paid version and add it to the free version. Paid versions = Stable versions, community versions = unstable versions. Keep that in mind and your business will not have the community rebelling and forking your project every other month.
What I don't understand is why does Apple even have iTunes as a program. Honestly the most logical way of making an iPod would it would conform to USB mass storage device specs and could use whatever machine (OS X, Linux, Windows, BSD, etc) and have iTunes be a music store along with an optional player where the iTunes store is accessed via a web browser or via the iPod (in the case of the touch). And even then, why does Apple even care about people wanting to use the iPod without iTunes, its a small minority.
Well, the problem with Red Hat is it isn't as popular. Most people who know Linux know or at least have heard of Ubuntu, and know that it is easy to use, on the other hand Red Hat isn't as popular and so while there might be a small number of people who would only use it if it was based off of Red Hat, more people use Ubuntu than Red Hat and so it only is logical to base it off of Ubuntu.
I've been saying for years the same thing, every desktop OS should have av and anti-spyware protection built in.
No. I totally disagree. The OS should be out of the way and not mess with anything. The OS should be patched to a reasonable degree of security and be configured with permissions, limited user accounts and limited applications. Perhaps if this was some F/OSS project it might be ok to build into the OS with, but as MS has shown, they can't do security. They either overload the user with annoying messages at the slightest change (UAC) or totally ignore security (like pre-SP2 XP installs)
In the pre-Vista age perhaps, but with UAC and the paranoid level of dialogues in browsers needed to get anything done, Joe Sixpack is going to just click allow, even if that means he has to pay $300 to get his box repaired by the Geek Squad. The problem is, by increasing the amount of warnings, the less likely anyone is going to care about them.
So what do you think that the water your drinking is? Yep, more than likely its been pee a few times over, along with being dinosaur spit, and a whole lot of other things. Its called the water cycle.
Wow, that was just odd... I just finished reading that and lo and behold someone on /. links to it.
What would be really funny would be if some guys in China tried to do a DoS attack to TPB... and it would DoS the government's (in essence) servers.
Well, on just about every Mac I've seen, from corporate computers, to those of artists to those used at home, just about all the used software is from Apple or Adobe, with the exception of Office.
iTunes is overwhelmingly the most used media player, Safari for browsing, Photoshop for editing, etc. On the other hand on Windows computers, VLC or iTunes are the most popular media players, Firefox the browser (for anyone who knows much about computers), Photoshop or The GIMP for editing, etc.
Riiiight, because we all know that cops don't ever frame people. And that trials are always fair, and no on ever plants "evidence" or the media ends up influencing the trial. Not to mention on how all of society believes that everything that's illegal is really wrong *cough* drugs, copyright *cough*
But who is to say that they were justly put in jail? Heck, who even says that the laws they were charged under are fair, that the trial they got was fair, that the jury was unbiased towards them? We don't know that.
The problem is, this is MS. Most software installed is not MS software, unlike OS X where just about every app is made by Apple or Adobe. Just look at the disaster Windows update is, think about what they would do with this. Not to mention that this will attract about 3 other developers other than MS, and no doubt MS would charge to be part of this "elite network" which throws out any OSS project. Its a good idea, but the thing about Ballmer's MS is, they have some corporate crap stopping them from executing the good idea.
I really didn't consider it, but there would be a major market for an MMORPG for Android. Think about it, when you are waiting for a bus you can hop on to finish a quest, if you want you can receive alerts about your character at work and the keyboard would make typing messages easy. The only problem I see with all games for Android is all the phones that could (potentially) use it. For example, a phone with only a touch screen is going to demand a totally different form of input than a phone with both a touch screen and keyboard, as is a phone that is all buttons and no touch screen. And I can see this really being a limiting factor, does the Android marketplace allow you to "restrict" apps to certain phones or download different versions?
What I meant wasn't like nightly builds or anything, but you can expect Google's Chrome to have a more recent version of WebKit than Safari or MS's browser.
I know, but some of the people who are determined to hate Linux or OS X say that their bank, work, school, grandma won't work without Active X or that their bank, work, school, grandma won't render correctly with Firefox/Safari/Chrome.
In this second great browser wars there are 4 major battles:
Features
Standards compliance
Speed
Security
MS can get features and even standards compliance through proprietary means, on the other hand, security and speed depend on lots of people looking through the code. So in essence, without an open source rendering engine MS can't hope to win. On the other hand, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome have made great leaps because they have all of the above.
What is worse is they are wanting WebKit. I think if they manage to use it we will end up with 3-4 versions of WebKit in various forms of stability, freedom and standards compatability:
We will have KDE's WebKit which will be somewhat stable to very stable depending on the release.
We will have MS's Strange proprietary(ish) WebKit which will lag behind all other versions in compatibility and compliance while at the same time having all kinds of hacks to make Active X and other crap work.
We will have Apple's Quite Stable WebKit which will be about in the middle and very stable.
And we will also have Google's Bleeding-edge Beta WebKit which is the least stable out of all of them.
How can MS really adopt anything open source at this point? IE isn't just a part of Windows, IE practically *IS* Windows and having it being open source would make a valuable part of Windows open source which Ballmer hates with a passion. Take away IE and Active X and half the reason to use Windows goes away. And really, why use WebKit? Sure, its a decent rendering engine but no better than Gecko or the other OSS rendering engines. I really fear for WebKit if MS manages to use it, because rather than having WebKit we will have MS WebKit which is a highly modified version of an older release, Google's Bleeding Edge WebKit and Apple's Stable WebKit. And honestly, this is taking us back to Netscape Vs IE....
Yes, but look at the hour to price ratio. A CD is about an hour long, whereas a game is usually at least 30 hours if not more. A CD costs around $20 and a game around $50. The CD costs a whole lot more per hour than the game does.