They want to strangle that Korean StarCraft scene as much as they can by keeping their servers the only servers. I can't see South Korea adopting the new game anyway, but this is the nail in the coffin.
I don't know about anyone else's experiences, but it was that "Spawn" install that came with Diablo and StarCraft that made Blizzard at least two hundred dollars from people buying the game after some of the LAN parties I've been to.
Well, Windows 7 eliminates the choice between XP and Vista by giving us the best of both worlds and with a price cut on top, what's *not* to like?
I'll go out on a limb and say I don't like the new taskbar, but the rest is okay for a gaming machine, as you said. It's a hojillion times easier to install than XP, in any case.
As drivers stopped supporting Windows 2000, your choices become more and more limited. This is how Windows 7 will be forced into the marketplace as well, I'm sure.
I would also add the requirement of actually running GNOME through sane HCI guidelines (I don't care what your reasoning is, no dialog box should ever go "Are you sure? [No] [Yes]") and coming with paid support for media codecs in the box, but yes, the setup is the real killer.
Well, the codecs are already covered by OEMs. Dell's Ubuntu comes with DVD and media stuff out of the box, all paid for and licensed.
But that sort of HCI stuff is what I mean by polish. I'd say Ubuntu should fix the audio stuff, get the drivers all in order, and then have a few releases where all they do is fix hundreds of "paper cuts." The bug reports are filled with these sorts of small touches that could make a good product great.
Perhaps I'm just using the wrong distros. KDE 4.2 had fairly mediocre performance for me, on my 4 GB of RAM and Core 2 Duo. Whose implementation are you using?
But even then, the package managers for the distros should have been testing it and known it wasn't prime time. A lot of these packagers are KDE developers as well, so they would have seen these obscure mailing lists and posts.
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I agree. That was an excellent post.
tell M$ and others to remove the DRM crap that cripples most PC OSs
Which DRM crap is this?
"Please activate Windows 7 in three days or else this computer will self destruct." Ring any bells?
Yeah, but FOSS gaming is still better than what Wii gamers have.
Not everyone cares about graphics as much as you do, might I point out.
My point exactly, F/OSS gaming is so pathetic you actually put TuxRacer on the list.
Ha, your lame skewering of FOSS gaming is so terrible that you actually ignored the rest of the list.
When I run a Debian-installed Gnome on my 512 MB monster, it's completely usable. Maybe you're using the wrong distro?
They want to strangle that Korean StarCraft scene as much as they can by keeping their servers the only servers. I can't see South Korea adopting the new game anyway, but this is the nail in the coffin.
or they could just slow down the song, so you would still pay the same amount, but get far more music for your money.
At this point, if your plan was set into motion, it would take several hours before Thom Yorke is finished singing "What's that."
Game publishers have forgotten that punishing consumers does not increase profits.
I don't know about anyone else's experiences, but it was that "Spawn" install that came with Diablo and StarCraft that made Blizzard at least two hundred dollars from people buying the game after some of the LAN parties I've been to.
I bought it for it's fairly good pre-order price, but I probably won't install it for a year or so.
THIS COULD TAKE SEVERAL DAYS.
Windows 7 has Gentoo too, what more could you want?
Well, Windows 7 eliminates the choice between XP and Vista by giving us the best of both worlds and with a price cut on top, what's *not* to like?
I'll go out on a limb and say I don't like the new taskbar, but the rest is okay for a gaming machine, as you said. It's a hojillion times easier to install than XP, in any case.
No.
This is just yet another post telling you that you are stupid and have no idea what you're talking about. I'll skip the content.
And lastly, what about Dark Messiah? Did it become super popular? Well, no. But it didn't fail miserably and it wasn't riddled with bugs.
It was buggy as hell when it was released. They fixed it, but not quickly enough.
Who ever said this was a historically accurate RTS game anyway? I can just see you frothing at the mouth as you play God of War, I'm sure.
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Why did you upgrade to Vista in the first place?
No, it's true. The marketing worked this time. No need to "burn karma" or whatever.
As drivers stopped supporting Windows 2000, your choices become more and more limited. This is how Windows 7 will be forced into the marketplace as well, I'm sure.
Nah, that's Ubuntu.
I would also add the requirement of actually running GNOME through sane HCI guidelines (I don't care what your reasoning is, no dialog box should ever go "Are you sure? [No] [Yes]") and coming with paid support for media codecs in the box, but yes, the setup is the real killer.
Well, the codecs are already covered by OEMs. Dell's Ubuntu comes with DVD and media stuff out of the box, all paid for and licensed.
But that sort of HCI stuff is what I mean by polish. I'd say Ubuntu should fix the audio stuff, get the drivers all in order, and then have a few releases where all they do is fix hundreds of "paper cuts." The bug reports are filled with these sorts of small touches that could make a good product great.
Because they don't have to. A lot like Eve Online. They ended the binary compatibility because Wine worked fine.
Perhaps I'm just using the wrong distros. KDE 4.2 had fairly mediocre performance for me, on my 4 GB of RAM and Core 2 Duo. Whose implementation are you using?
But even then, the package managers for the distros should have been testing it and known it wasn't prime time. A lot of these packagers are KDE developers as well, so they would have seen these obscure mailing lists and posts.