No real questions Mr. Shatner, just thank you for helping Mr. Roddenberry and the other actors giving me a chance to day dream about going places where no one has gone before when I was a kid and even to this day sometimes when life gets dull.
I can tell you why my money goes to Minecraft, it runs on Windows, MAC, and Linux. I don't see Skyrim going that route. Bethesda's only saving grace right now is all the stuff Carmak has given to the community with his older game engines and even that wasn't directly related to them since he did that before iD was a part of Bethesda.
I started out fixing faculty and staffs desktop computers while getting my BS in CS. Went to fixing student computers and doing some scripting on the side. Now I'm over three years in to full time work as a programmer doing PL/SQL, Java, and VS stuff for their enterprise systems at the university.
It's all in what you want and what is available. I moved up the ladder from being a student to a full time employee. I find I get my problem solving fix from helping others at a college campus. This has netted me some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and fudge on top of the pay and benefits. It's the little things that can make a job worth while.
I'm not interested in Diablo 3, unless I can play off and online like Diablo 1 or 2. I'll stick with Minecraft, at least the worlds are fresh when I put a new seed in and there's more seeds then I'll ever see in my life time. Bonus, Minecraft runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Thats where I'll put my money in to companies who produce things like that.
Microsoft done pulled an OS/2 on us.
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So really I can buy Windows 8 and have the OS/2 (Metro for today) interface and run the Program Manager (Win7 Desktop for today) for older Windows apps? I have this sick feeling my stomach from all the mobile stuff.
'Jensen Harris, director of program management for the Windows Experience. "Every screen needs to be touch. A monitor without touch feels dead."'
I applaud your efforts to make a more modular windows. I think it's a long time coming and I'm glad to see you move in a more compartmentalized direction.
One problem, you may argue all you want that my monitor is dead, however I would point out that I can at least read it. Unlike your touch screen, my monitor has none of the crud and filth that fingers put on keyboards and mice like your touch screen has. When you learn how to make a desktop interface, you may be installed on my hard drive. Until then you are dismissed like Gnome and Unity will be from my DESKTOP hard drive.
I fail to see the problem with civilian casualties in video games. They make things more fun and provide a nice outlet to go rage stomping. Mechwarrior had civilians in it for a short time and you could run around in the mech and stomp on them and hear them scream. World of Warcraft up until recently had most of their civilians in towns killable by players. Minecraft is coming out with civilians for their towns and supposedly they will be killable. Think of all the delicious death traps you could set for them in Minecraft once they put civilians in there.
That's what this whole TSA thing reminds me of only on a national level with invasive searches. The bonus in this article is the teacher is throwing in a bonus of legal action against the learner if they don't comply.
America is getting to be a frightening place to live these days. The sad part is it all most likely boils down to some jerk wanting to make a buck off everybody's fears.
I seriously hope someone forks Gnome 2.x. If I had the time and knowledge to work on something this big I'd do it but I don't. Till then I'm using Gnome 2.x till the 10.4 LTS runs it's course and then going to XFC. I didn't need this crap when KDE did the 3.x to the 4.x transition and I don't need it with Gnome either. Start a new project and leave the old one chugging along as it is if you want to play with touch screens. That way those of us who don't want that can live happily with our existing interfaces that just work.
On a side note, if you think Windows is stable for an interface look. They've already started talking about similar changes and had some early previews of the nightmare that is to be Windows 8. It's getting the touch screen makeover as well but at least they're keeping the Windows 7 look somewhat even though it'll be married to the Windows Phone 7 tile interface.
I;'ve been doing that with Champions Online myself. It's nice to be out of the sword and board fantasy games for a bit. Even still you can make sword and board characters in there. I do a lot of RP'n and I actually made a pretty decent looking Darkspear troll with their character creator. Best part is it can wear whatever I want it to wear regardless of progression. Same thing goes with my Forsaken warlock nemesis I built. Or I can just be the tight wearing costumed hero if I want.
Aside from progressing the character I like getting things that make my character look different from other characters. WoW didn't allow you to do that very well because by the next raid tier or expansion that fancy staff you really like for Character X was no good anymore and had to be tossed. I always said Orgimmar or Stormwind looked like the broken photocopier capitals of Azeroth.
Easy enough, I'll not be purchasing Diablo 3 especially since Diablo 1 and 2 work pretty nicely under Wine. Also has anyone ever attempted to come up with a good open sourced game thats Diablo like so when D1 and D2 do stop working from creep it'll be a nice replacement?
I actually have a Motorola Xoom I purchased a few months ago. So far most of everything I snagged seems to work fine. I've been sticking to the free apps for downloads. The only thing I really don't like about touch tablets is selecting URL links and copy/paste operations. Both are annoyingly more difficult then they would be with mouse/keyboard.
I'm trying to pick up on Android development now so I can make my own Battlemech editor and play sheet for my Xoom.
All those Silverlight apps need rewritten in HTML/CSS/Javascript. That means job security if you got good at programming in general and can pick up new things easy or had experience in HTML/CSS/Javascript before. What does it matter if it was done in Silverlight and now has to be converted to something else? Pick up or refresh yourself on the something else and keep getting paid.
Is really moving in a lousy direction these days with screen interfaces for desktop systems. It could get to a point where Apple may actually look more like a normal PC when compared everyone else.
Honestly if companies like Microsoft and Apple can't do without their great leaders then they need to sink forever in to the abyss. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs aren't going to live forever no matter how much money they have to get human parts to replace things like Jobs did. You can't even stick their heads in jars like Futurama did. Although I would be highly be amused if they ever did manage that one for real.
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New anti-stress feature, just yank really good on the big black cord out of the back of the computer box.
No real questions Mr. Shatner, just thank you for helping Mr. Roddenberry and the other actors giving me a chance to day dream about going places where no one has gone before when I was a kid and even to this day sometimes when life gets dull.
Not really since games like Minecraft run on the desktop or in the browser using Java.
I can tell you why my money goes to Minecraft, it runs on Windows, MAC, and Linux. I don't see Skyrim going that route. Bethesda's only saving grace right now is all the stuff Carmak has given to the community with his older game engines and even that wasn't directly related to them since he did that before iD was a part of Bethesda.
"I agree, although I've never heard that analogy for sex before."
That sounds like some sort of new peripheral. Is it plug and play and where can I get the drivers for it?
I started out fixing faculty and staffs desktop computers while getting my BS in CS. Went to fixing student computers and doing some scripting on the side. Now I'm over three years in to full time work as a programmer doing PL/SQL, Java, and VS stuff for their enterprise systems at the university.
It's all in what you want and what is available. I moved up the ladder from being a student to a full time employee. I find I get my problem solving fix from helping others at a college campus. This has netted me some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and fudge on top of the pay and benefits. It's the little things that can make a job worth while.
I'm not interested in Diablo 3, unless I can play off and online like Diablo 1 or 2. I'll stick with Minecraft, at least the worlds are fresh when I put a new seed in and there's more seeds then I'll ever see in my life time. Bonus, Minecraft runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Thats where I'll put my money in to companies who produce things like that.
So really I can buy Windows 8 and have the OS/2 (Metro for today) interface and run the Program Manager (Win7 Desktop for today) for older Windows apps? I have this sick feeling my stomach from all the mobile stuff.
'Jensen Harris, director of program management for the Windows Experience. "Every screen needs to be touch. A monitor without touch feels dead."'
I applaud your efforts to make a more modular windows. I think it's a long time coming and I'm glad to see you move in a more compartmentalized direction.
One problem, you may argue all you want that my monitor is dead, however I would point out that I can at least read it. Unlike your touch screen, my monitor has none of the crud and filth that fingers put on keyboards and mice like your touch screen has. When you learn how to make a desktop interface, you may be installed on my hard drive. Until then you are dismissed like Gnome and Unity will be from my DESKTOP hard drive.
Good day sir!
I fail to see the problem with civilian casualties in video games. They make things more fun and provide a nice outlet to go rage stomping. Mechwarrior had civilians in it for a short time and you could run around in the mech and stomp on them and hear them scream. World of Warcraft up until recently had most of their civilians in towns killable by players. Minecraft is coming out with civilians for their towns and supposedly they will be killable. Think of all the delicious death traps you could set for them in Minecraft once they put civilians in there.
http://cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm
That's what this whole TSA thing reminds me of only on a national level with invasive searches. The bonus in this article is the teacher is throwing in a bonus of legal action against the learner if they don't comply.
America is getting to be a frightening place to live these days. The sad part is it all most likely boils down to some jerk wanting to make a buck off everybody's fears.
Them denying it reminds me of Leslie Nelson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNOrp_83RU
I like her too, she actually looks believable. unlike most other glamor choices of lead actresses. She looks like she could fit the role perfectly.
There are other intelligent forms of life on the planet, some have spread all over the world.
http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2009/07/giant-ant-colony-takes-over-the-world.html
I seriously hope someone forks Gnome 2.x. If I had the time and knowledge to work on something this big I'd do it but I don't. Till then I'm using Gnome 2.x till the 10.4 LTS runs it's course and then going to XFC. I didn't need this crap when KDE did the 3.x to the 4.x transition and I don't need it with Gnome either. Start a new project and leave the old one chugging along as it is if you want to play with touch screens. That way those of us who don't want that can live happily with our existing interfaces that just work.
On a side note, if you think Windows is stable for an interface look. They've already started talking about similar changes and had some early previews of the nightmare that is to be Windows 8. It's getting the touch screen makeover as well but at least they're keeping the Windows 7 look somewhat even though it'll be married to the Windows Phone 7 tile interface.
I;'ve been doing that with Champions Online myself. It's nice to be out of the sword and board fantasy games for a bit. Even still you can make sword and board characters in there. I do a lot of RP'n and I actually made a pretty decent looking Darkspear troll with their character creator. Best part is it can wear whatever I want it to wear regardless of progression. Same thing goes with my Forsaken warlock nemesis I built. Or I can just be the tight wearing costumed hero if I want.
Aside from progressing the character I like getting things that make my character look different from other characters. WoW didn't allow you to do that very well because by the next raid tier or expansion that fancy staff you really like for Character X was no good anymore and had to be tossed. I always said Orgimmar or Stormwind looked like the broken photocopier capitals of Azeroth.
Easy enough, I'll not be purchasing Diablo 3 especially since Diablo 1 and 2 work pretty nicely under Wine. Also has anyone ever attempted to come up with a good open sourced game thats Diablo like so when D1 and D2 do stop working from creep it'll be a nice replacement?
* Public place
* Got permission
* Glorified art project
Seriously, what a waste of tax money.
I actually have a Motorola Xoom I purchased a few months ago. So far most of everything I snagged seems to work fine. I've been sticking to the free apps for downloads. The only thing I really don't like about touch tablets is selecting URL links and copy/paste operations. Both are annoyingly more difficult then they would be with mouse/keyboard.
I'm trying to pick up on Android development now so I can make my own Battlemech editor and play sheet for my Xoom.
"are other corporate psychopaths, it's hard to feel sympathy"
Allow me to appeal to your sense of charity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDC0qcf0kzE
Remember the money you give won't just save a life, it will save a lifestyle.
All those Silverlight apps need rewritten in HTML/CSS/Javascript. That means job security if you got good at programming in general and can pick up new things easy or had experience in HTML/CSS/Javascript before. What does it matter if it was done in Silverlight and now has to be converted to something else? Pick up or refresh yourself on the something else and keep getting paid.
Tried it on both Windows and Linux. Link isn't functional.
Is really moving in a lousy direction these days with screen interfaces for desktop systems. It could get to a point where Apple may actually look more like a normal PC when compared everyone else.
Honestly if companies like Microsoft and Apple can't do without their great leaders then they need to sink forever in to the abyss. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs aren't going to live forever no matter how much money they have to get human parts to replace things like Jobs did. You can't even stick their heads in jars like Futurama did. Although I would be highly be amused if they ever did manage that one for real.