I'm confused. So if I get a copy of Windows in Europe and do a full reinstall, how am I supposed to use my already-active internet connection to get Firefox?
> then we wanted to be able to preview documents without opening them.
Then we disabled this feature because it's stupid as hell. I don't want anyone looking over my shoulder at something just because I accidentally clicked on it with my touchpad.
> To keep costs down, the manufacturers shied away from pre-installing expensive Microsoft products and instead distributed Linux (and later various renditions of BSD and OpenSolaris too).
I believe that Microsoft pays manufacturers to put Windows on their machines. I don't think most of their profit has ever been from their OS, but rather from their add-ons like MS Word and such. Things people don't think they can live without.
I could be wrong, but I believe there was an article about that with regard to netbooks a while back.
The problem with this is that the "realistic stupidity" you're talking about isn't stupidity in the context of the game. It's stupidity in the context of the story of the game. When making an interesting game, that's not what people care about. People want an opponent who is interesting to fight within the context of the game. Anything else is essentially the game playing you for a fool.
Having played many fighting games, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of the Guilty Gear series in particular, I can safely state that this guy has no idea how people are trying to think in high-level gaming. Let me explain.
In high-level gameplay of things such as Guilty Gear, there are theoretically a huge number of choices that one could make at any given time. However, several of them are stupid as hell. Of those which aren't stupid as hell, there's a sort of weighted rock-paper-scissors game where you weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each move, along with whether or not your opponent should expect each move, given your previous gameplay.
Computer AI almost always chooses the safest move. Either that, or it deliberately chooses a bad move. Sure, this emulates bad play at lower levels of play, but that's when you can't even do a hadouken with 99.9% accuracy. People like that are bad at the game, and as you rise higher in skill you will stop making those mistakes.
For more information and better explanations than I could ever come up with, check out David Sirlin's website.
So how about that wikipedia article? Cheaper drives (which mgmt is sure to require) have 1,000 write cycles (assuming the worst). For certain high-traffic files, that means (assuming 30 writes in a day) a whole 33 days of use.
This is why most SSD manufacturers say you should leave a certain percentage of the memory as a backup.
I bet this is like the old ICQ service where you could run a shitty web server from your computer. Even though I wasn't even in high school at the time, it seemed like a huge security flaw. Extra points to the first hacker to exploit the flaws in this system to make a new botnet!
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I'm confused. So if I get a copy of Windows in Europe and do a full reinstall, how am I supposed to use my already-active internet connection to get Firefox?
Then you use a CRT monitor in your everyday life?
For an idea of about how big this will look, hold a post-it (3" across) 6.7 inches from your face.
> then we wanted to be able to preview documents without opening them.
Then we disabled this feature because it's stupid as hell. I don't want anyone looking over my shoulder at something just because I accidentally clicked on it with my touchpad.
> To keep costs down, the manufacturers shied away from pre-installing expensive Microsoft products and instead distributed Linux (and later various renditions of BSD and OpenSolaris too).
I believe that Microsoft pays manufacturers to put Windows on their machines. I don't think most of their profit has ever been from their OS, but rather from their add-ons like MS Word and such. Things people don't think they can live without.
I could be wrong, but I believe there was an article about that with regard to netbooks a while back.
1. Viruses cause spam.
2. Spam destroys the environment.
3. By transitivity, viruses destroy the environment.
This book is about how to destroy the environment!
http://xkcd.com/509/
The problem with this is that the "realistic stupidity" you're talking about isn't stupidity in the context of the game. It's stupidity in the context of the story of the game. When making an interesting game, that's not what people care about. People want an opponent who is interesting to fight within the context of the game. Anything else is essentially the game playing you for a fool.
Having played many fighting games, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of the Guilty Gear series in particular, I can safely state that this guy has no idea how people are trying to think in high-level gaming. Let me explain.
In high-level gameplay of things such as Guilty Gear, there are theoretically a huge number of choices that one could make at any given time. However, several of them are stupid as hell. Of those which aren't stupid as hell, there's a sort of weighted rock-paper-scissors game where you weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each move, along with whether or not your opponent should expect each move, given your previous gameplay.
Computer AI almost always chooses the safest move. Either that, or it deliberately chooses a bad move. Sure, this emulates bad play at lower levels of play, but that's when you can't even do a hadouken with 99.9% accuracy. People like that are bad at the game, and as you rise higher in skill you will stop making those mistakes.
For more information and better explanations than I could ever come up with, check out David Sirlin's website.
Haha, oh man. Linaxe carries with it an implementation of Pong at the bottom of the source code. So this wooden laptop runs pong.
I think we're somehow coming full-circle, here.
Also, seriously. How the hell did the grandparent get +5 insightful? It's a valid issue with SSD drives, because cheap ones die fast.
So how about that wikipedia article? Cheaper drives (which mgmt is sure to require) have 1,000 write cycles (assuming the worst). For certain high-traffic files, that means (assuming 30 writes in a day) a whole 33 days of use.
This is why most SSD manufacturers say you should leave a certain percentage of the memory as a backup.
I accidentally your entire hard drive, is this bad?
Thing is, a lot of more computer literate people understand the following workflow:
1. Have a task which needs done
2. Get a tool to do the task (Or choose one which you already have)
3. Use the tool to do the task.
Most people, however, are not computer-literate. They don't understand "Word Processor" but they do understand "Word" in reference to MS Word.
They do the following:
1. Have a task to do
2. Use the tool they know to do the task
The very idea that there are more word processors than MS Word still blows the mind of people like, say, my grandmother.
Well, given the quality of their software, they're obviously not programmers. They're carpenters.
I think it is that there are so many, so fast.
I bet this is like the old ICQ service where you could run a shitty web server from your computer. Even though I wasn't even in high school at the time, it seemed like a huge security flaw. Extra points to the first hacker to exploit the flaws in this system to make a new botnet!