However for the casual gamer (say someone who doesn't have the time required to develop the "Mad Skillz" needed to play these games) this is a godsend.
Or, you know, gamers that play games for "fun" rather than "frustrating difficulty spikes that aren't fun at all to ascend."
I'm waiting for the day we get to alternate mashing A and B to keep screaming at Goldstein for the Two Minute Hate. Keep pressing; you don't want to let the Thought Police think you're up to something...
I've been using 3.5's beta for a while (and I'm running the RC now). It's only slightly faster than 3.0, but it's not substantially slower than IE8 by any stretch of the imagination.
It's open source. If it doesn't conquer the world, massage your back and bake you cookies all at the same time, it was a failure. Don't you know how these things work?
Thanks to the Zero Attention Span Theater Generation we get vapid video games (as opposed to substantive ones of old) and 15 second "music videos". Now get off my lawn.
Don't blame it on the kids; they don't even have enough money to buy an iPhone these days (they're spending their cellphone bill, you know, talking and texting). It's everybody else who buys these $10 turds transformed into 0's and 1's that we should be complaining about.
the Wii's graphics are still more than capable, and the PS3/360 are, if anything, excessive.
Graphics are not just there for "looks." Oftentimes they can add to gameplay, and change it, make it move in ways we haven't considered before.
Just because you like the SNES graphics more doesn't mean the PlayStation wouldn't be valid. The added power brings more to the table for 3D than the SNES could ever do. I'd like to see you try to do Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, or Tomb Raider on the SNES, for example. Look at a game like Mass Effect, which use the increasing technology to make more believable characters and interesting worlds.
This smacks of "Nobody's going to need any more than 647KB of RAM" to me.
You misunderstood the parent. He means the original game in the Sands of Time series, which some people consider to include the much shittier Warrior Within and The Two Thrones.
the newer, overpriced machines languish on shelves for a couple years until everyone is ready.
That's the word, right there. Microsoft is still selling Xbox systems as a loss, but do you know why the keep doing it? Two reasons: mind share and software sales. Software is where the big bucks are. Price matters more here than anything else, for the consoles; it's the gateway "drug," so to speak. If you get them to buy the unit, chances are they'll buy the games (unless they're buying a PS3 for BluRay...snicker snicker).
Isn't it funny how, if you go back and look at the stats, the under-powered unit usually gets the better variety of software? PlayStation 1 and 2 were both the lowest common denominator, and they both did extraordinarily well compared to the superior (in some ways) Nintendo or Xbox offerings.
Hey, people smarter than me, the questioner is asking another question!
As far as I can tell, what he means is using the Ad-Hoc function in your wireless internet devices (if you have them and they are sufficiently powerful) which allows you to share files directly between computers or use internet-related programs such as, say, Instant Messaging, directly without outside internet interference.
A mesh network would chain-link all of the computers available so that you effectively create, in the most basic sense, an Internet without the Internet. Computers would pass messages up and down the network, jumping from ad-hoc to ad-hoc.
I'd say the majority is pretty happy about their government.
Happy enough to get the internet effectively shut down because of online revolts, sure.
Your weak ground is no better than the parent; you're both guessing in a fairly random fashion. You guys (and this entire Ask Slashdot discussion group) could use a great big [citation needed] over it. I wonder why you got Insightful, because I'm at an utter loss as to why such a claim that has no real basis in fact was considered better than yet another claim with at least the story to back its ideas up.
Mozilla could pay the decoder cap fee (maxes out a $5M/year next year) and allow as many people to download a H.264-enabled Firefox as they want, no?
I doubt Firefox is straight GPL, so including the decoder wouldn't get that licence up in arms, but I can't imagine Mozilla being too happy with the idea. Maybe IceWeasel will include the thing for us.
Some people prefer to shop for electronics close to where they buy their groceries
Those people are stupid. MP3 players are a very liquid online department and prices can fluxuate very dramatically. Unless you're looking at the clearance aisles or Apple's stuff, you will always get a better deal online. Actually, I take the Apple comment back - Amazon has them on sale.
Sure, physical displays are nice, but you can be paying nearly double if you're looking at something outside the Apple/Microsoft arena, if you're not smart.
THANK YOU for saying it. I mean, come on people, just go and browse Pitchfork Media's album reviews. Those guys may be a bunch of pricks sometimes but they know where the good stuff is.
Your example of different terminals in Ubuntu doesn't work well. Are you also suggesting that MS should include Windows Shell replacements as well (eg LiteStep)?
I think he means applications like Apt and Synaptic (the latter, I know, not terminal), which make it easy to download a browser without having one installed.
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However for the casual gamer (say someone who doesn't have the time required to develop the "Mad Skillz" needed to play these games) this is a godsend.
Or, you know, gamers that play games for "fun" rather than "frustrating difficulty spikes that aren't fun at all to ascend."
Really? Never got that from Slashdot before.
If anything, they're both idiots, and they should both lose money.
I'm waiting for the day we get to alternate mashing A and B to keep screaming at Goldstein for the Two Minute Hate. Keep pressing; you don't want to let the Thought Police think you're up to something...
I've been using 3.5's beta for a while (and I'm running the RC now). It's only slightly faster than 3.0, but it's not substantially slower than IE8 by any stretch of the imagination.
Maybe you need to steak your "about:config"?
Talk about focusing on the negatives...
It's open source. If it doesn't conquer the world, massage your back and bake you cookies all at the same time, it was a failure. Don't you know how these things work?
Thanks to the Zero Attention Span Theater Generation we get vapid video games (as opposed to substantive ones of old) and 15 second "music videos". Now get off my lawn.
Don't blame it on the kids; they don't even have enough money to buy an iPhone these days (they're spending their cellphone bill, you know, talking and texting). It's everybody else who buys these $10 turds transformed into 0's and 1's that we should be complaining about.
They could just keep the all-you-can-eat service and skip all the re-education crap.
That too.
the Wii's graphics are still more than capable, and the PS3/360 are, if anything, excessive.
Graphics are not just there for "looks." Oftentimes they can add to gameplay, and change it, make it move in ways we haven't considered before.
Just because you like the SNES graphics more doesn't mean the PlayStation wouldn't be valid. The added power brings more to the table for 3D than the SNES could ever do. I'd like to see you try to do Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, or Tomb Raider on the SNES, for example. Look at a game like Mass Effect, which use the increasing technology to make more believable characters and interesting worlds.
This smacks of "Nobody's going to need any more than 647KB of RAM" to me.
You misunderstood the parent. He means the original game in the Sands of Time series, which some people consider to include the much shittier Warrior Within and The Two Thrones.
the newer, overpriced machines languish on shelves for a couple years until everyone is ready.
That's the word, right there. Microsoft is still selling Xbox systems as a loss, but do you know why the keep doing it? Two reasons: mind share and software sales. Software is where the big bucks are. Price matters more here than anything else, for the consoles; it's the gateway "drug," so to speak. If you get them to buy the unit, chances are they'll buy the games (unless they're buying a PS3 for BluRay...snicker snicker).
Isn't it funny how, if you go back and look at the stats, the under-powered unit usually gets the better variety of software? PlayStation 1 and 2 were both the lowest common denominator, and they both did extraordinarily well compared to the superior (in some ways) Nintendo or Xbox offerings.
Hey, people smarter than me, the questioner is asking another question!
As far as I can tell, what he means is using the Ad-Hoc function in your wireless internet devices (if you have them and they are sufficiently powerful) which allows you to share files directly between computers or use internet-related programs such as, say, Instant Messaging, directly without outside internet interference.
A mesh network would chain-link all of the computers available so that you effectively create, in the most basic sense, an Internet without the Internet. Computers would pass messages up and down the network, jumping from ad-hoc to ad-hoc.
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1451421
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_network
"Troll" does not mean "I disagree," mods. Fix this post's modding post-haste.
I'd say the majority is pretty happy about their government.
Happy enough to get the internet effectively shut down because of online revolts, sure.
Your weak ground is no better than the parent; you're both guessing in a fairly random fashion. You guys (and this entire Ask Slashdot discussion group) could use a great big [citation needed] over it. I wonder why you got Insightful, because I'm at an utter loss as to why such a claim that has no real basis in fact was considered better than yet another claim with at least the story to back its ideas up.
Mozilla could pay the decoder cap fee (maxes out a $5M/year next year) and allow as many people to download a H.264-enabled Firefox as they want, no?
I doubt Firefox is straight GPL, so including the decoder wouldn't get that licence up in arms, but I can't imagine Mozilla being too happy with the idea. Maybe IceWeasel will include the thing for us.
Some people prefer to shop for electronics close to where they buy their groceries
Those people are stupid. MP3 players are a very liquid online department and prices can fluxuate very dramatically. Unless you're looking at the clearance aisles or Apple's stuff, you will always get a better deal online. Actually, I take the Apple comment back - Amazon has them on sale.
Sure, physical displays are nice, but you can be paying nearly double if you're looking at something outside the Apple/Microsoft arena, if you're not smart.
Sansa players all support ogg, thanks to firmware upgrades. Flac, too.
I rip to ogg when it's a CD I know I won't delete from my Sansa Clip. It actually sounds pretty damn good.
it takes a lot of *work* to find them.
Pitchfork Media. Love it.
Music on the radio these days is almost all total crap
Fixed that for you. Radios these days are filled with absolute garbage. Look beyond the radio for good stuff.
Why do you download crap?
THANK YOU for saying it. I mean, come on people, just go and browse Pitchfork Media's album reviews. Those guys may be a bunch of pricks sometimes but they know where the good stuff is.
It sure takes a while to get to the point.
At least the mods are listening for once.
Actually, Coke. I mean, real cocaine. Just sprinkle a bit over the laptop and boom, you've got condemning evidence.
Your example of different terminals in Ubuntu doesn't work well. Are you also suggesting that MS should include Windows Shell replacements as well (eg LiteStep)?
I think he means applications like Apt and Synaptic (the latter, I know, not terminal), which make it easy to download a browser without having one installed.