Yes. A "total flop" as you put it, with 36% of players on Steam using it. I guess 36% of players enjoy games with more crashes, less performance, more blue screens... am I missing anything here? You're probably better at this than I am. Give me some more baseless claims I can throw out there for good effect.
Yes. For years now people have wanted to rotate the calculator at a 45 degree angle. KDE 4 gives them the power to do just that. The KDE dev team: True leaders of vision.
Linux and Apple zealots out in full force on this one. You were incorrectly given a "troll" moderation.
Whatever OS is on top will face a security challenge of a magnitude those on the bottom can't really comprehend. They don't want to admit they are under the security blanket of obscurity and get very angry if you suggest their OS of choice would show it's weaknesses if it had the top position.
Applications Like Boxee are a chance for Linux to make major inroads to becoming more widespread.
How do you figure? This "Killer App" you speak of has Windows and OSX versions. There is little reason to use Linux. To add insult to injury, the Linux version is the one that lags behind in features and development. So where is the "Linux" advantage again?
Oh, right, MythTV. Are you serious? Do you think the average person wants to go through this much hastle just to watch TV? SQL Database required. That takes the cake right there.
It's not the biggest complaint, but it's the one that's easiest to point out because it requires the least amount of technical knowledge. You don't need to know any details to look and one screen and say, "Jesus Christ..... are they serious?" It's also representative of larger problems within the design of Linux and those who develop for it. That being, "Stupid choices win".
Registry cleaners or defragmentation tools, while seemingly useful, do not have any measurable effect on system speed. It's a great marketing pitch though.
$100 bucks? Made in China? I love the Chinese people, but given these two facts, I give it a good 3 weeks before the hinge breaks off. Newsflash kids: You get what you pay for.
More homework, more pre-recorded lectures, even higher tuition, and a professor who really doesn't have to do any teaching and can spend more time sleeping with students. Everybody wins.
The same happened with the Sega Saturm / Sony Playstation.
You aren't really going to compare a computer OS release to a video game console, are you? Oh.... you did. Well, besides being largely irrelevant, you forgot one huge reason for the failure of the Saturn:
BECAUSE SEGA FUCKED OVER "SEGA CD" AND "32X" OWNERS, HARD.
After these silicon coated turds, myself and others were done with Sega, pertinently.
A shame that Ubuntu or any other Linux distro doesn't include mscorefonts installed by default, or make similar efforts to give the user better looking fonts from the start.
Aye, you will be punished for expressing a negative opinion, no matter how prevalent, but you are certainly not alone. Ubuntu has a few strikes against it from the get go. The name "Ubuntu" and its doo-doo brown wallpaper, both a side effect of Mark Shuttleworth's African roots. Sorry, but most people picture Africa and imagine a starving child covered with flies, blood diamonds, and HIV. Stereotypes to be sure, but Africa just doesn't have enough positive attributes to make it fit for use in branding products.
Then you have Linux itself. While socially inept programmers are attracted to Linux development, highly talented and creative graphic artists are not. Dare I say they avoid Linux like the plague. It's simply not rewarding for them. Both Microsoft and Apple hire people with an eye for what looks good, and it shows. That, coupled with the fact that the majority of Linux users just don't care how bad it looks because they either run a server or spend 8 hours a day looking at terminal, IRC, and Emacs windows. For Christs sakes, you've still got people using Pine to read email purely for nostalgic reasons. They just don't care how bad it looks to anyone else.
Here's a wild and crazy idea. You could disable the Google Updater Service via Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services. I know.... I know.... radical, but it actually works. Imagine that.
There's no technical reason restricting Twitter from allowing 140 rather than 160 characters, unless there's an issue I am not aware of (perhaps one or more major mobile networks are broken and only allow 140 characters rather than 140 bytes?).
20 are reserved for the user name. The co-founder mentioned this during his interview on The Colbert nation.
Don't let him get to you. I have phantomfive flagged as a known troll, but he says things that makes Linux zealots happy. The problem is that to him, your claim makes Microsoft sound less evil, as if something worse was twisting their hand. That just just isn't going to sit very well with him. He views that as a mild defense of an entity he adamantly opposes with every breath in his body.
I bet he's citing one of many Devil Mountain Software's own crooked benchmarks using their (get this) XPNET
benchmarking software. Brilliant strategy, cause a big stir by using crazy controversial benchmarks and in turn pimp out their own software. Located in Florida, go figure.
What the fuck is wrong with you? If you have a 64-bit CPU, use the 64-bit version. It doesn't need to be any more complicated than that, unless you've skipped your medication and you've just GOT TO HAVE YOUR WAYYYY OMGFA!!!!!
First person shooters have never been and will probably never be a competitive aspect of opensource. The major reason is because they are extremely content-intensive, and the collaboration advantages open source has in creating code just don't apply to things that require sound and art studios.
No, the major reason is because it's a genre that's way past it's prime. Take ID Software's entire lineup of Doom and Quake games plus throw in the Unreal Tournament series and you've got over 15 years of quality games that have pretty much covered everything you'd want to do with a First Person Shooter. Most of us who played these games back when they were new have long since moved on to games like Half Life 2, Call of Duty, STALKER, and Fallout. The gamers moved onto greener pastures, and we aren't interested in re-polished turds.
Like it or not, the art of creating good games requires you understand your audience. By in large, if today's gamers want to play something that looks like it is 10 years old, they will play the authentic classics. As it has been said, Nexuiz not only looks dated, but brings nothing new to the table. Better luck next time.
Amen to that. First thing that caught my eye? The players legs do not move when firing. It's like the Ice Capades without the ice. If I recall Quake 1 had the same behavior, but you can excuse that because it was 1997. Regardless, the ugly models and animation makes the game play seem very hoakey.
As an avid Quake 3 players back in the day, these maps are OK and sport some more modern effects like HDR and Bloom, but overall are of lesser quality than the old Threewave CFT maps, which were a nice bonus to Quake 3 for the price of $0.00
Bottom line? With commercial games you not only get good quality, but better user generated content too.
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Yes. A "total flop" as you put it, with 36% of players on Steam using it. I guess 36% of players enjoy games with more crashes, less performance, more blue screens... am I missing anything here? You're probably better at this than I am. Give me some more baseless claims I can throw out there for good effect.
Yes. For years now people have wanted to rotate the calculator at a 45 degree angle. KDE 4 gives them the power to do just that. The KDE dev team: True leaders of vision.
I suppose there must be a place for them
If you had job you could download and print tax forms.
Install Linux
Most people still prefer a computer that is useful.
Linux and Apple zealots out in full force on this one. You were incorrectly given a "troll" moderation.
Whatever OS is on top will face a security challenge of a magnitude those on the bottom can't really comprehend. They don't want to admit they are under the security blanket of obscurity and get very angry if you suggest their OS of choice would show it's weaknesses if it had the top position.
Applications Like Boxee are a chance for Linux to make major inroads to becoming more widespread.
How do you figure? This "Killer App" you speak of has Windows and OSX versions. There is little reason to use Linux. To add insult to injury, the Linux version is the one that lags behind in features and development. So where is the "Linux" advantage again?
Oh, right, MythTV. Are you serious? Do you think the average person wants to go through this much hastle just to watch TV? SQL Database required. That takes the cake right there.
It's not the biggest complaint, but it's the one that's easiest to point out because it requires the least amount of technical knowledge. You don't need to know any details to look and one screen and say, "Jesus Christ..... are they serious?" It's also representative of larger problems within the design of Linux and those who develop for it. That being, "Stupid choices win".
Registry cleaners or defragmentation tools, while seemingly useful, do not have any measurable effect on system speed. It's a great marketing pitch though.
Sorry. You lost me at "Over on the PC World blog, Keir Thomas engages in some speculative thinking."
Just news, please.
Why don't you finish the rest of that quote?
...on EVERY piece of hardware that Windows works on with the same performance
You omitted that last part. The part that makes the statement valid. Thus making you look rather foolish.
$100 bucks? Made in China? I love the Chinese people, but given these two facts, I give it a good 3 weeks before the hinge breaks off. Newsflash kids: You get what you pay for.
Now, perhaps you are beginning to understand why XKCD links are also modded as funny. Originality and creativity are a low priority around here.
More homework, more pre-recorded lectures, even higher tuition, and a professor who really doesn't have to do any teaching and can spend more time sleeping with students. Everybody wins.
The same happened with the Sega Saturm / Sony Playstation.
You aren't really going to compare a computer OS release to a video game console, are you? Oh.... you did. Well, besides being largely irrelevant, you forgot one huge reason for the failure of the Saturn:
BECAUSE SEGA FUCKED OVER "SEGA CD" AND "32X" OWNERS, HARD.
After these silicon coated turds, myself and others were done with Sega, pertinently.
A shame that Ubuntu or any other Linux distro doesn't include mscorefonts installed by default, or make similar efforts to give the user better looking fonts from the start.
Aye, you will be punished for expressing a negative opinion, no matter how prevalent, but you are certainly not alone. Ubuntu has a few strikes against it from the get go. The name "Ubuntu" and its doo-doo brown wallpaper, both a side effect of Mark Shuttleworth's African roots. Sorry, but most people picture Africa and imagine a starving child covered with flies, blood diamonds, and HIV. Stereotypes to be sure, but Africa just doesn't have enough positive attributes to make it fit for use in branding products.
Then you have Linux itself. While socially inept programmers are attracted to Linux development, highly talented and creative graphic artists are not. Dare I say they avoid Linux like the plague. It's simply not rewarding for them. Both Microsoft and Apple hire people with an eye for what looks good, and it shows. That, coupled with the fact that the majority of Linux users just don't care how bad it looks because they either run a server or spend 8 hours a day looking at terminal, IRC, and Emacs windows. For Christs sakes, you've still got people using Pine to read email purely for nostalgic reasons. They just don't care how bad it looks to anyone else.
I think you missed this part:
inaccessible to the outside world
Flame on.
Here's a wild and crazy idea. You could disable the Google Updater Service via Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services. I know.... I know.... radical, but it actually works. Imagine that.
There's no technical reason restricting Twitter from allowing 140 rather than 160 characters, unless there's an issue I am not aware of (perhaps one or more major mobile networks are broken and only allow 140 characters rather than 140 bytes?).
20 are reserved for the user name. The co-founder mentioned this during his interview on The Colbert nation.
Don't let him get to you. I have phantomfive flagged as a known troll, but he says things that makes Linux zealots happy. The problem is that to him, your claim makes Microsoft sound less evil, as if something worse was twisting their hand. That just just isn't going to sit very well with him. He views that as a mild defense of an entity he adamantly opposes with every breath in his body.
Vendor Lock-in: A sinister sounding cop-out that roughly translates to: "Linux can't compete, so we'll blame the competition."
benchmarking software. Brilliant strategy, cause a big stir by using crazy controversial benchmarks and in turn pimp out their own software. Located in Florida, go figure.
What the fuck is wrong with you? If you have a 64-bit CPU, use the 64-bit version. It doesn't need to be any more complicated than that, unless you've skipped your medication and you've just GOT TO HAVE YOUR WAYYYY OMGFA!!!!!
First person shooters have never been and will probably never be a competitive aspect of opensource. The major reason is because they are extremely content-intensive, and the collaboration advantages open source has in creating code just don't apply to things that require sound and art studios.
No, the major reason is because it's a genre that's way past it's prime. Take ID Software's entire lineup of Doom and Quake games plus throw in the Unreal Tournament series and you've got over 15 years of quality games that have pretty much covered everything you'd want to do with a First Person Shooter. Most of us who played these games back when they were new have long since moved on to games like Half Life 2, Call of Duty, STALKER, and Fallout. The gamers moved onto greener pastures, and we aren't interested in re-polished turds.
Like it or not, the art of creating good games requires you understand your audience. By in large, if today's gamers want to play something that looks like it is 10 years old, they will play the authentic classics. As it has been said, Nexuiz not only looks dated, but brings nothing new to the table. Better luck next time.
Amen to that. First thing that caught my eye? The players legs do not move when firing. It's like the Ice Capades without the ice. If I recall Quake 1 had the same behavior, but you can excuse that because it was 1997. Regardless, the ugly models and animation makes the game play seem very hoakey.
As an avid Quake 3 players back in the day, these maps are OK and sport some more modern effects like HDR and Bloom, but overall are of lesser quality than the old Threewave CFT maps, which were a nice bonus to Quake 3 for the price of $0.00
Bottom line? With commercial games you not only get good quality, but better user generated content too.