I said "No" because you said "all" which we both know is an exaggeration.
Your opinion is different than mine that's fine, but in this case it doesn't make my opinion wrong or an exaggeration.
You know as well as I do, that there are far far more genre's out there than FPS's, RTS's and simulation...but that seems that those are the only genre's PC gamers want to talk about when it comes to controls.
Ok, great. It would have been nice if you followed that up with some examples, I'd like to hear about other genre's. Assassins Creed would be a good start, that might be better with a console controller, but I've never tried it with a keyboard and mouse and I only ever played the first one. I don't know what the genre is called these days Action Adventure? Third Person Adventure?
Sports games, ick, are better with a controller...I think... Don't remember the last time I played one. Racing games are better with a racing wheel and pedals over a simple controller, not sure if those exist for consoles (excluding the steering wheel controller attachment for the Wii).
I did know the PS2 supported USB keyboard & mouse, that's how I started out playing. I switched because my laptop has it built in and I found using the mouse, on top of being more responsive, was much more comfortable at my desk than trying to play off the arm of a chair or coffee table and I'm not tethered five feet from the console while playing on a 65" TV with cords running across the room. Now a days I suppose I'd use a wireless Keyboard and Mouse, but again, why it's already built into my laptop.
controller is thusly more skilled because it's more of a challenge, correct?
You're correct, they would be more skill full, but the fact is it's easier with mouse and keyboard because the mouse is a more accurate pointing tool. For FPS games it's like you're giving one person a hammer and the other a screw driver and asking who can drill in a one and a half inch Robinson head screw first. The right tool for the job is going to get it done. Your argument comes of as who's more skilled for doing things the hard way vs. who's smarter for using the right tool.
I'm way more of a JRPG fan and, like I said before, it's one of the genre's that does benefit from the simplicity of a controller, but I can still play them just as easy on a keyboard.
I think we might be arguing about two different things here. I said a PC is better because it supports all types of inputs making it the better over all for gaming, but you seem to be limiting the argument to keyboard & mouse vs. controller.
Which my PS3 is, I just haven't played FFXI on it because I preferred to play it on my laptop instead. Completely unrelated to our discussion, I just don't have to compete with my wife for the TV to play games on my laptop, and the original PS3 is a lead weight. Way to heavy to carry up and down stairs and setup on different TVs depending on if I want to use it as a game machine or a media server client.
I've told the story so many times now, I decided to shorten it. I was making snacks and hadn't realized he rented a BluRay. He put it in and there was a firmware update. I don't know if it was automatic or he clicked yes, I wasn't in the room, but the result was my console was updated.
YES, newer blurays require updated firmware on older model the PS3 in order to play. It's a dirty trick in my opinion. Right along with saying they wouldn't remove the other os, then removing it in an April 1st update.
But you're focusing in on the wrong issue, I bought the PS3 to use the other OS AND Play games AND watch blurays. That was the deal when I bought the system and that's what I gave them money for. Then I had to choose between the Other OS XOR the other features. Call it what you will, but when someone buys anything for a set of features it's expect there'll be access to those features over the lifetime of the product, not just until the company decides they don't want to support it anymore, especially after such a short time.
I could understand if it was say a 60 year old car and the company just didn't make do-hicky-ma-bobbers anymore. I'm not going to tell them to fire up the assembly lines to replace one broken part, but if they wait at the gas station until I have to fill up the tank and said "We're going to take either you're A/C or the gas pedal, your choice" that's a different story.
I'll admit I'm bitter about it. My solution is that I'm just not going to buy from that company anymore and will be vocal about what kind of business practices they use. That's my right as a consumer.
There's no question IMHO that PCs have the better controls for ALL games.
No.
Yes, that is my opinion. You can argue, but you don't get to dictate what I do and do not believe.
Have you
I've played plenty of RTS games with a controller back in the NES and SNES days, keyboard and mouse is superior. They don't seem to make very many RTS games for consoles these days, Hmmm I wonder why?
or are you just spouting what you think is true because you're one of those "PC Master Race" people.
I'm not one of those "PC Master Race" people, I have several consoles including an Ouya, PS, PS2, PS3, Wii, SNES, NES, XBox (original). I do find PC, especially a good laptop with an emulator is a better all-in-one solution, it's portable and has the mouse & keyboard or controller option, but I guess if your one of the console fanbois that wouldn't matter anyway.
You did know that Final Fantasy XI
I've played FFXI on both PS3 and PC. PC is far superior. On top of the keyboard being better than the controller for hot keys, the keyboard is pretty much essential for text chat, which I find better for communicating that a headset, but that's a different argument.
You know why PC FPS players like mice? Easy headshots
Yeah, they had to implement "assisted lock on" for console controllers in order for PC and console players to play together because a mouse was just too accurate when compared to a controller.
Those who bought device for Other OS didn't need to upgrade the firmware
Stop saying that, it wasn't an option. My PS3 was updated when my cousin put in a RENTED BluRay. I bought the PS3 for the Other OS along with the ability to play games AND watch BluRays. I paid more for it because of that and was later given the option to use Other OS exclusively XOR games and BluRays. I paid for all of the functionality. What was the PS3 slogan again? Oh yeah, "It only does everything!".
Oh you only bought that V8 car to drive? Well it's been two years so I guess we can replace the engine with V2. Guess you won't need the radio, air conditioner, power seats, windows, locks, etc... here's your soap box racer have fun.
In any case this isn't a which is better PS4 or XBone, this is a case of which isn't the worst and there is a third option. Just don't get either. Shows both companies we don't approve of any of their the anti-consumer behavior, whether it's removing features or DRM-lock-in-always-on-piece-of-shit.
The fact that you can use a regular console controller for a PC, or a mouse and keyboard means you get the best type of control for whatever type of game you want to play. There's no question IMHO that PCs have the better controls for ALL games. Ever tried play an RTS with a console controller? It doesn't work. FPS, keyboard and mouse beats console controller any day. MMORPG, I couldn't play without hot keys, keyboard and mouse wins. Simulator, too many controls for just a single controller.
Actually the only thing I can think of that console controllers are better than a keyboard and mouse for is a JRPG like old school Final Fantasy, that's not to say you can't play it with a keyboard and mouse, but in that case the controller is easier to just hold and repeatedly tap 'A'.
Actually if you look at how console controllers have evolved you'll see pretty quick they have to keep adding new buttons for all the actions that keep getting added to games, pretty soon it'll just be a keyboard-mouse combination you hold more comfortably.
You can also use standard console controller with them and carry them to another room if you have the portable kind. I have HDMI cables hanging off all my TV's so I can plug any one of by three laptops into a TV to watch movies, TV shows, Netflix, downloads, play games on a big screen, play music, look at photos, read a book (yes I've spent many a sick day sitting in bed reading books on my bed room TV that has my home media server in the closet. I don't even have to get out of bed to turn it on, it's always there.). My PCs also have emulators that give me backward compatibility with the PS, PS2, XBox (original, is that what we're calling it now? I'm unsure.), NES, SNES, N64, Game Cube, Saga and a bunch of other consoles.
The only advantages a console has over a PC is they're slightly cheaper, but I have to own a PC anyway since I can't do everything I want with just a console, and exclusive games, but I'm predicting with this gen of consoles (because they're all x86 based) most games will be available for both PS4 and XBOne as well as PC's. If not on release then eventually through an emulator.
I didn't say it was anti-feminism, nor that it wasn't offensive/nasty. I do think what people have been calling for is over the top. These are a bunch of kids away from home for the first time participating in a group activity. I remember my own frosh week, even if I didn't participate in a lot of things, and it's very easy to get caught up in the mob. Most people here were just having fun and just want to belong/make friends. I can't fault them for that. They are being punished by having to attend mandatory sensitivity training, which I think is fair.
The issue I see here is if you look at a lot of the earlier comments it's from obvious feminatzais calling out men for being so disgraceful, when there are obviously women taking part in the chant as well. It's stereotyping men in a negative light and shows the double standard extreme feminist try to force on boys/men while letting girls/women off the hook for equally bad behavior.
Another issue was with the "rape" of Rehtaeh Parsons. Rape in quotes because I have no doubt she didn't consent, but I wasn't there to witness so I can't know for sure. She went to a party with a friend got drunk and refused to leave when her friend wanted to go. Then she refused to leave when her friend brought her mother (friends mother, not Rehtaeh's) in to try and pull her out, at which point Rehtaeh was apparently already naked with "four" boys (number of boys varies based on who's telling the story). One of the boys Rehtaeh accused of participating came out later proving he wasn't even at the party that night. Then later on one of the boys had sex with Rehtaeh while another snapped a photo of them with Rehtaeh propping herself up in the window where she supposedly was throwing up while the boy had sex with her from behind. Rehtaeh didn't report the incident as a rape for a few weeks later when the pictures the boys took surfaced. So to me this seems like she might have regretted the sex after the fact when she was humiliated and was using the rape claim as a way to get back at them. She didn't even know who was involved and almost ruined the life of someone who wasn't even there. Don't get me wrong there was a lot of things going on here and a lot of people dropped the ball, but the way the story was played was the boys raped her, despite the everyone involved saying she didn't object.
So they couldn't get the boys on rape charges because there was no evidence of rape, despite there being a picture of the "rape" as it took place. Rehtaeh committed suicide and the media went on a blitz. After much public out cry the boys were charged with making and distributing child pornography. I would normally be against that since all parties involved were under age, but in this case they took pictures and distributed them in what I consider bad faith. So I'm glad punishment is being dealt for that.
What was parroted over and over was, "Well she was drunk and they boys should know not to have sex with a drunk girl.", but I'm kind of of the opinion that's saying boys have to be doubly responsible. It was Rehtaeh's decision to get drunk in the first place and the boys were obviously drunk as well. It was Rehtaeh's decision to stay at the party and by all accounts the boys never forced her to do anything, but the responsibility for what happened for some reason falls completely to them. The boys are being held more accountable because they're boys and should know better.
In the case where a man is physically forcing a women to have sex with him, or blackmailing her it's rape. In the case where a girl willingly gets drunk and/or doesn't explicitly say yes or no, I don't believe it is rape and a girl shouldn't be able to come back months or years later with rape accusations. Equal treatment means being held equally responsible.
It just seems to me "feminist" don't want equal treatment, they want to be treated equally when it's to their benefit and that is what's wrong with the current state of the feminist movement. For the most part women aren't being t
Well what can I say. You're mostly right, except for the part where you just patriot the talking points. You have no idea what my workplace is like, but you presume to throw me into the same category as a bunch of women haters. THAT is the true flaw of feminism. Just like men for the longest time categorized and discriminated against women all the sudden it's ok to categorize and discriminate against men. And I at least have no recourse to speak out because I don't have political correctness on my side.
I have a wife, daughter, mother, sisters and nieces. I treat them like humans and expect others to as well, there's no reason not to. In the workplace women, just like men, are competition. They aren't anymore dangerous on a professional level then other man are, but certainly I've seen women use sexual harassment as an excuse to have male competition fired or removed as an obstacle. If you believe it doesn't happen then you're foolish.
I don't speak for all men, I speak for myself and for the men I work directly with and for friends and good workers that have been let go because they said or did something that was considered offensive. Most of the women we work with are great and I normally I wouldn't think twice about chumming around with them like I do with my male co-workers. There's really only a couple women that we all know are "unstable", but the problem we have is they group up. I say something to "Jill" and at lunch they're sitting around chatting and before you know it one of the trouble makers is jumping around screaming that "Jill" was sexually harassed and they shouldn't stand for that kind of behavior. Sorry, but whether you want to believe it happens or not, it does.
Mixing men and women is dangerous, we have completely different ideas about what is acceptably and what isn't. Men and women are equal, but we're different on many levels, accept it.
There are also a number of stories I know from an all female residence at the university I went to where girls get a guy drunk at university part and take turns having sex with him when he's passed out. It's a frosh week hazing ritual of sorts, but it's not rape of course because guys don't get raped so afterwards they'll always make a joke of it and act macho, but essentially he has sex with multiple partners without his consent. I can see people laughing already saying to themselves, "yeah like he didn't want it."
I think it really degrades the seriousness of rape when people start throwing out false stats and claims.
I was having a facebook back and forth on objectification of women in advertising with an old friend of mine. I met her when she was doing her BA and I was in Com. Sci. She's getting a Psy. D. now and majoring in sociology, but specializing in women's studies. At some point in the conversation she told me 1 in 4 girls are raped at university. I assume she's the expert and was quite shocked because I work with a lot of women and had lots of female friends from when I was in university. Given the 1 in 4 stat I should know at least a dozen that have been raped. Female friends and co-workers aside because I didn't want to ask them about such an touchy topic, I have two sisters, a wife, sister in law, mother, step-mother, mother in law and a couple nieces (university age). Surely one of them would have been a victim or know someone that was a victim given that figure. Nope, when asked none of them know of or have any friends that were raped in university, that they know of anyway.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but when you throw a stat like that out there you should be able to back it up, but when I questioned the stat and asked if she knew anyone who was raped, she told me she didn't personally know anyone and most rapes go unreported. Well if they're unreported then how can you factor them into your stat. Easy, the number was extrapolated it from reported and confirmed rape victims, basically assumed X number of women aren't reporting rapes for every Y that do report them.
Then I told her this is why I think sociology is not a science, they make stuff up and can't repeat experiments with consistent results. I haven't heard from her since, but I completely understand why.
and would likely have been sent to jail for suggesting murder instead of rape with their chant
I seriously doubt that. If this had been about murder rather than rape it would have gone under the radar as a bunch of kids being stupid.
I know because 1) I live in HRM. Halifax, Nova Scotia is a university town with three major universities and a several community colleges located with in twenty minutes of each other. I see frosh events every September spill off campuses and in to downtown and have seen far worse than this be picked up as little more than an evening story on the local news. 2) I attended University at Dalhousie University, just one block away from St. Mary's, and saw frosh events get more out of hand than this without this kind of media coverage. 3) I saw and heard way worse at Queen University, in Kingston, Ontario when I dropped my brother off for his first year than I have ever seen in Halifax in the last 13 years. There were boys standing blind folded in front of residence in their underwear with their hands tied, and no I didn't find that shocking. What I do find shocking is how St. Mary's has made national news with a stupid ten second chant, while far worse is happening on other campuses across the country.
It doesn't make the chant right, but it certainly puts it into perspective, at least for me, that it's only "against the rules" because it's about violence against women. Even though there were more girls there participating then boys. Had it been about violence in general or murder no one would give a S*&$, I know because I've seen it first hand.
That's also the reason why many young women now automatically say "I'm not a feminist".
I posted an article in another response the the St. Mary's frosh week incident. When the girls were asked why they participated they said they weren't feminist so it didn't matter to them.
They don't want to be associated with the negative destructive effects that occur when an extremist walks into an office and all the sudden everyone's hiding under their desks for fear of being the next target. Men have to be extra careful and guarded when talking around female co-workers because we have no idea how they might react and what will be taken as offensive. The result is a lot of women are excluded from some conversations until the language has been vetted and we can be sure it won't set off the fire alarms.
Extreme feminism hurts women, I've seen it first hand and completely agree.
Case in point. St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Have a look at some of the outrage there. Drunk students during frosh week sang a chant that's been going on for a couple of years. "Young, Y = Your sister, O = Oh, so tight, U = Under age, N = No consent, G = Grab that ass, St. Mary's boys like them young".
The students that took part in the chant were sent for sensitivity training. It seems like everyone and their dog wanted these kids expelled and sent to jail for conspiracy to commit a criminal act. Anyone that says, it's a bunch of stupid drunk teens out on their own for the first time is met with accusations of being pedophiles and death threats.
Read the comment section, there are tons of people throwing outrage and expect the boys to be castrated, despite the fact that more than half of the participants were female.
Until you mentioned it I hadn't even considered the possibility that by putting the "start button" back in MS might be completely breaking code 3rd parties are using for their implementations of alternative menus. It'll be interesting to see if that's what happens. If they do break 3rd party menus there's going to be a hell of a lot of screaming on the interwebs from people who were only able to use Win8 because of the third party menus.
I didn't think it was possible, but I'm all the sudden even happier I don't use windows 8
It seems to be the running theme. All the computer science / programmers I know including the five out of eight women on my development team are quite easily able to say women in general are not interested in computers. Of the five women I work with none wanted to be programmers. Two of them have degrees, one in chemistry and another has a degree in ocean ecology. They all ended up as developers because they were naturally gifted and just kind of fell into the role.
They all agreed they originally had no interest in computers. Between the three women that do have kids, one has a daughter that's a specialized eye doctor, one has an electrical engineer and the other has a bus driver and a teen that works at McDonalds.
I find the woman with the electrical engineer particularly annoying; great programmer, terrible person. She's from India and talks incessantly about her son who's a doctor that moved out west and she hasn't seen or heard from in four years. Up until a year ago I'd never heard mention of her daughter. I've worked with her for nearly seven years now. The first time I heard about her daughter was when I went to her house to pick up some maple from a tree she had cut down. Her daughter was there cooking dinner. In polite small talk I asked her what she did and she told was an electrical engineer that worked on underwater autonomous vehicles (UAV) for the navy. I know it's probably a cultural thing, but her mother proceeded to berate her right in front of me an my wife for being such a disappointment. Apparently she was suppose to have been a doctor like her brother, but wasn't "smart enough".
I can only imagine what a huge disappointment my daughter will be to me if she's only smart enough to work for national defense designing complex electrical systems for robots. Sarcasm aside, that's probably the attitude that deters young girls from joining the technology industry.
I don't think there's anything wrong with encouraging them to try, but I don't see any point in blaming the issue on men when they just aren't interested.
My alma mater specifically set aside 10 seats every year for women wanting to get into Computer Science, but I only knew six girls for my entire five year university career that took advantage of that. Three of them (all in different years from me) changed after a year or so to the general science program because com. sci. just wasn't what they thought it was going to be. Three graduated, two of them are stay at home mom's now and the third I lost touch with.
The one I lost touch with was actually one of my best friends in university, but moved out west after. She was actually kind of a bitch to the other girls and always commented on how bad they made her look. I remember sitting with her one day over coffee in the com. sci. building. She very disdainfully looked at one of the other girls who was flirting and said, "Figures, All the guys are here to get their BScs and the girls are here for their Mrs."
Public transit is a very sub-par replacement for owning your own vehicle to go where you want when you want. The's a bus stop right across from my house, but it takes two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening commuting to work everyday by bus. It's fifteen minutes in the morning, fifteen minutes in the evening by car and there are a number of other inconveniences I don't have to deal with. Like not being allowed to take my coffee on the bus, spending an hour waiting for a bus that's suppose to come every fifteen minutes, not having dirty sick scummy rude people coughing and sneezing allover me everyday and whenever I decide to go for a longer trip to Ontario, North Carolina or the hour and a half drive to my in-laws I can come and go as I please.
Cabs are acceptable for a once in awhile thing, but are too expensive to use on a regular basis.
I think the GP is right. Reasoning is that if there's one accident where a human is killed the media will exploded with stories of how cars are coming to life and killing everyone that gets near them.
I can also imagine people who oppose driverless cars will be going to great expense to try and trip them up, causing accidents. There are some people, that no matter how extensive the evidence is that driverless cars kill fewer people by huge margins, are going to try and stop their adoption. So many people are killed by human error while driving it doesn't even make the news anymore, but I guarantee one driverless car accident will be international headlines. Like 3D printers being used to print guns. Forget the fact they can do anything else like printing organs, food or prototyping innovative ideas. OMG they print guns quick start the presses the masses must know of this injustice.
What I find interesting is I don't know anyone that actually uses MS support for office in the first place. The companies I've worked for have always used MS Office and paid for the support, but no one ever uses it. I can't see why it would be more or less expensive to use a free office alternative.
What kind of support would someone need that they'd have to pay for?
I use MS Office at work and Libre at home and do the same thing for both when I want to do something different and just Google around. No support or training cost involved.
Except it only picks you up at certian locations, drops you off at certian locations, you have to work around their schedule, (I don't know about your city) public transit takes ten times longer to get where you're going than driving you're own car and it never goes exactly where you want. In my city I'm better off walking to work, about an hour, over taking the bus, 3 hours mostly waiting fer connections.
That probably would be in their better interest. Seeing as the most common thing I've heard it called is the XBone, which isn't a misspelling just an awkward short form. I'm surprised their marketing department did think about that.
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Good call, I played Golden Eye with the Wii mote and nun-chuck for a while. It was fun, but I found it really sluggish.
I said "No" because you said "all" which we both know is an exaggeration.
Your opinion is different than mine that's fine, but in this case it doesn't make my opinion wrong or an exaggeration.
You know as well as I do, that there are far far more genre's out there than FPS's, RTS's and simulation...but that seems that those are the only genre's PC gamers want to talk about when it comes to controls.
Ok, great. It would have been nice if you followed that up with some examples, I'd like to hear about other genre's. Assassins Creed would be a good start, that might be better with a console controller, but I've never tried it with a keyboard and mouse and I only ever played the first one. I don't know what the genre is called these days Action Adventure? Third Person Adventure?
Sports games, ick, are better with a controller...I think... Don't remember the last time I played one. Racing games are better with a racing wheel and pedals over a simple controller, not sure if those exist for consoles (excluding the steering wheel controller attachment for the Wii).
I did know the PS2 supported USB keyboard & mouse, that's how I started out playing. I switched because my laptop has it built in and I found using the mouse, on top of being more responsive, was much more comfortable at my desk than trying to play off the arm of a chair or coffee table and I'm not tethered five feet from the console while playing on a 65" TV with cords running across the room. Now a days I suppose I'd use a wireless Keyboard and Mouse, but again, why it's already built into my laptop.
controller is thusly more skilled because it's more of a challenge, correct?
You're correct, they would be more skill full, but the fact is it's easier with mouse and keyboard because the mouse is a more accurate pointing tool. For FPS games it's like you're giving one person a hammer and the other a screw driver and asking who can drill in a one and a half inch Robinson head screw first. The right tool for the job is going to get it done. Your argument comes of as who's more skilled for doing things the hard way vs. who's smarter for using the right tool.
I'm way more of a JRPG fan and, like I said before, it's one of the genre's that does benefit from the simplicity of a controller, but I can still play them just as easy on a keyboard.
I think we might be arguing about two different things here. I said a PC is better because it supports all types of inputs making it the better over all for gaming, but you seem to be limiting the argument to keyboard & mouse vs. controller.
Which my PS3 is, I just haven't played FFXI on it because I preferred to play it on my laptop instead. Completely unrelated to our discussion, I just don't have to compete with my wife for the TV to play games on my laptop, and the original PS3 is a lead weight. Way to heavy to carry up and down stairs and setup on different TVs depending on if I want to use it as a game machine or a media server client.
I've told the story so many times now, I decided to shorten it. I was making snacks and hadn't realized he rented a BluRay. He put it in and there was a firmware update. I don't know if it was automatic or he clicked yes, I wasn't in the room, but the result was my console was updated.
YES, newer blurays require updated firmware on older model the PS3 in order to play. It's a dirty trick in my opinion. Right along with saying they wouldn't remove the other os, then removing it in an April 1st update.
But you're focusing in on the wrong issue, I bought the PS3 to use the other OS AND Play games AND watch blurays. That was the deal when I bought the system and that's what I gave them money for. Then I had to choose between the Other OS XOR the other features. Call it what you will, but when someone buys anything for a set of features it's expect there'll be access to those features over the lifetime of the product, not just until the company decides they don't want to support it anymore, especially after such a short time.
I could understand if it was say a 60 year old car and the company just didn't make do-hicky-ma-bobbers anymore. I'm not going to tell them to fire up the assembly lines to replace one broken part, but if they wait at the gas station until I have to fill up the tank and said "We're going to take either you're A/C or the gas pedal, your choice" that's a different story.
I'll admit I'm bitter about it. My solution is that I'm just not going to buy from that company anymore and will be vocal about what kind of business practices they use. That's my right as a consumer.
I've played FFXI on both PS3 and PC.
Sorry that was a typo. I've played FFXI on both PS2 and PC.
There's no question IMHO that PCs have the better controls for ALL games.
No.
Yes, that is my opinion. You can argue, but you don't get to dictate what I do and do not believe.
Have you
I've played plenty of RTS games with a controller back in the NES and SNES days, keyboard and mouse is superior. They don't seem to make very many RTS games for consoles these days, Hmmm I wonder why?
or are you just spouting what you think is true because you're one of those "PC Master Race" people.
I'm not one of those "PC Master Race" people, I have several consoles including an Ouya, PS, PS2, PS3, Wii, SNES, NES, XBox (original). I do find PC, especially a good laptop with an emulator is a better all-in-one solution, it's portable and has the mouse & keyboard or controller option, but I guess if your one of the console fanbois that wouldn't matter anyway.
You did know that Final Fantasy XI
I've played FFXI on both PS3 and PC. PC is far superior. On top of the keyboard being better than the controller for hot keys, the keyboard is pretty much essential for text chat, which I find better for communicating that a headset, but that's a different argument.
You know why PC FPS players like mice? Easy headshots
Yeah, they had to implement "assisted lock on" for console controllers in order for PC and console players to play together because a mouse was just too accurate when compared to a controller.
Sorry, but them's the facts.
Those who bought device for Other OS didn't need to upgrade the firmware
Stop saying that, it wasn't an option. My PS3 was updated when my cousin put in a RENTED BluRay. I bought the PS3 for the Other OS along with the ability to play games AND watch BluRays. I paid more for it because of that and was later given the option to use Other OS exclusively XOR games and BluRays. I paid for all of the functionality. What was the PS3 slogan again? Oh yeah, "It only does everything!".
Oh you only bought that V8 car to drive? Well it's been two years so I guess we can replace the engine with V2. Guess you won't need the radio, air conditioner, power seats, windows, locks, etc... here's your soap box racer have fun.
In any case this isn't a which is better PS4 or XBone, this is a case of which isn't the worst and there is a third option. Just don't get either. Shows both companies we don't approve of any of their the anti-consumer behavior, whether it's removing features or DRM-lock-in-always-on-piece-of-shit.
The fact that you can use a regular console controller for a PC, or a mouse and keyboard means you get the best type of control for whatever type of game you want to play. There's no question IMHO that PCs have the better controls for ALL games. Ever tried play an RTS with a console controller? It doesn't work. FPS, keyboard and mouse beats console controller any day. MMORPG, I couldn't play without hot keys, keyboard and mouse wins. Simulator, too many controls for just a single controller.
Actually the only thing I can think of that console controllers are better than a keyboard and mouse for is a JRPG like old school Final Fantasy, that's not to say you can't play it with a keyboard and mouse, but in that case the controller is easier to just hold and repeatedly tap 'A'.
Actually if you look at how console controllers have evolved you'll see pretty quick they have to keep adding new buttons for all the actions that keep getting added to games, pretty soon it'll just be a keyboard-mouse combination you hold more comfortably.
You can also use standard console controller with them and carry them to another room if you have the portable kind. I have HDMI cables hanging off all my TV's so I can plug any one of by three laptops into a TV to watch movies, TV shows, Netflix, downloads, play games on a big screen, play music, look at photos, read a book (yes I've spent many a sick day sitting in bed reading books on my bed room TV that has my home media server in the closet. I don't even have to get out of bed to turn it on, it's always there.). My PCs also have emulators that give me backward compatibility with the PS, PS2, XBox (original, is that what we're calling it now? I'm unsure.), NES, SNES, N64, Game Cube, Saga and a bunch of other consoles.
The only advantages a console has over a PC is they're slightly cheaper, but I have to own a PC anyway since I can't do everything I want with just a console, and exclusive games, but I'm predicting with this gen of consoles (because they're all x86 based) most games will be available for both PS4 and XBOne as well as PC's. If not on release then eventually through an emulator.
I didn't say it was anti-feminism, nor that it wasn't offensive/nasty. I do think what people have been calling for is over the top. These are a bunch of kids away from home for the first time participating in a group activity. I remember my own frosh week, even if I didn't participate in a lot of things, and it's very easy to get caught up in the mob. Most people here were just having fun and just want to belong/make friends. I can't fault them for that. They are being punished by having to attend mandatory sensitivity training, which I think is fair.
The issue I see here is if you look at a lot of the earlier comments it's from obvious feminatzais calling out men for being so disgraceful, when there are obviously women taking part in the chant as well. It's stereotyping men in a negative light and shows the double standard extreme feminist try to force on boys/men while letting girls/women off the hook for equally bad behavior.
Another issue was with the "rape" of Rehtaeh Parsons. Rape in quotes because I have no doubt she didn't consent, but I wasn't there to witness so I can't know for sure. She went to a party with a friend got drunk and refused to leave when her friend wanted to go. Then she refused to leave when her friend brought her mother (friends mother, not Rehtaeh's) in to try and pull her out, at which point Rehtaeh was apparently already naked with "four" boys (number of boys varies based on who's telling the story). One of the boys Rehtaeh accused of participating came out later proving he wasn't even at the party that night. Then later on one of the boys had sex with Rehtaeh while another snapped a photo of them with Rehtaeh propping herself up in the window where she supposedly was throwing up while the boy had sex with her from behind. Rehtaeh didn't report the incident as a rape for a few weeks later when the pictures the boys took surfaced. So to me this seems like she might have regretted the sex after the fact when she was humiliated and was using the rape claim as a way to get back at them. She didn't even know who was involved and almost ruined the life of someone who wasn't even there. Don't get me wrong there was a lot of things going on here and a lot of people dropped the ball, but the way the story was played was the boys raped her, despite the everyone involved saying she didn't object.
So they couldn't get the boys on rape charges because there was no evidence of rape, despite there being a picture of the "rape" as it took place. Rehtaeh committed suicide and the media went on a blitz. After much public out cry the boys were charged with making and distributing child pornography. I would normally be against that since all parties involved were under age, but in this case they took pictures and distributed them in what I consider bad faith. So I'm glad punishment is being dealt for that.
What was parroted over and over was, "Well she was drunk and they boys should know not to have sex with a drunk girl.", but I'm kind of of the opinion that's saying boys have to be doubly responsible. It was Rehtaeh's decision to get drunk in the first place and the boys were obviously drunk as well. It was Rehtaeh's decision to stay at the party and by all accounts the boys never forced her to do anything, but the responsibility for what happened for some reason falls completely to them. The boys are being held more accountable because they're boys and should know better.
In the case where a man is physically forcing a women to have sex with him, or blackmailing her it's rape. In the case where a girl willingly gets drunk and/or doesn't explicitly say yes or no, I don't believe it is rape and a girl shouldn't be able to come back months or years later with rape accusations. Equal treatment means being held equally responsible.
It just seems to me "feminist" don't want equal treatment, they want to be treated equally when it's to their benefit and that is what's wrong with the current state of the feminist movement. For the most part women aren't being t
Well what can I say. You're mostly right, except for the part where you just patriot the talking points. You have no idea what my workplace is like, but you presume to throw me into the same category as a bunch of women haters. THAT is the true flaw of feminism. Just like men for the longest time categorized and discriminated against women all the sudden it's ok to categorize and discriminate against men. And I at least have no recourse to speak out because I don't have political correctness on my side.
I have a wife, daughter, mother, sisters and nieces. I treat them like humans and expect others to as well, there's no reason not to. In the workplace women, just like men, are competition. They aren't anymore dangerous on a professional level then other man are, but certainly I've seen women use sexual harassment as an excuse to have male competition fired or removed as an obstacle. If you believe it doesn't happen then you're foolish.
I don't speak for all men, I speak for myself and for the men I work directly with and for friends and good workers that have been let go because they said or did something that was considered offensive. Most of the women we work with are great and I normally I wouldn't think twice about chumming around with them like I do with my male co-workers. There's really only a couple women that we all know are "unstable", but the problem we have is they group up. I say something to "Jill" and at lunch they're sitting around chatting and before you know it one of the trouble makers is jumping around screaming that "Jill" was sexually harassed and they shouldn't stand for that kind of behavior. Sorry, but whether you want to believe it happens or not, it does.
Mixing men and women is dangerous, we have completely different ideas about what is acceptably and what isn't. Men and women are equal, but we're different on many levels, accept it.
It is biologically possible and actually not difficult at all to rape a man.
From a very quick google.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013870/Robber-broke-hair-salon-beaten-black-belt-owner-kept-sex-slave-days--fed-Viagra.html
http://www.policymic.com/articles/33593/canadian-man-sexually-assaulted-by-four-women-showing-rape-goes-both-ways
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/06/chicago-woman-charged-with-raping-a-man-at-gunpoint-stealing-his-iphone/
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/07/four-women-wanted-in-alleged-sex-assault-of-19-year-old-man-in-downtown-toronto/
There are also a number of stories I know from an all female residence at the university I went to where girls get a guy drunk at university part and take turns having sex with him when he's passed out. It's a frosh week hazing ritual of sorts, but it's not rape of course because guys don't get raped so afterwards they'll always make a joke of it and act macho, but essentially he has sex with multiple partners without his consent. I can see people laughing already saying to themselves, "yeah like he didn't want it."
I think it really degrades the seriousness of rape when people start throwing out false stats and claims.
I was having a facebook back and forth on objectification of women in advertising with an old friend of mine. I met her when she was doing her BA and I was in Com. Sci. She's getting a Psy. D. now and majoring in sociology, but specializing in women's studies. At some point in the conversation she told me 1 in 4 girls are raped at university. I assume she's the expert and was quite shocked because I work with a lot of women and had lots of female friends from when I was in university. Given the 1 in 4 stat I should know at least a dozen that have been raped. Female friends and co-workers aside because I didn't want to ask them about such an touchy topic, I have two sisters, a wife, sister in law, mother, step-mother, mother in law and a couple nieces (university age). Surely one of them would have been a victim or know someone that was a victim given that figure. Nope, when asked none of them know of or have any friends that were raped in university, that they know of anyway.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but when you throw a stat like that out there you should be able to back it up, but when I questioned the stat and asked if she knew anyone who was raped, she told me she didn't personally know anyone and most rapes go unreported. Well if they're unreported then how can you factor them into your stat. Easy, the number was extrapolated it from reported and confirmed rape victims, basically assumed X number of women aren't reporting rapes for every Y that do report them.
Then I told her this is why I think sociology is not a science, they make stuff up and can't repeat experiments with consistent results. I haven't heard from her since, but I completely understand why.
and would likely have been sent to jail for suggesting murder instead of rape with their chant
I seriously doubt that. If this had been about murder rather than rape it would have gone under the radar as a bunch of kids being stupid.
I know because 1) I live in HRM. Halifax, Nova Scotia is a university town with three major universities and a several community colleges located with in twenty minutes of each other. I see frosh events every September spill off campuses and in to downtown and have seen far worse than this be picked up as little more than an evening story on the local news. 2) I attended University at Dalhousie University, just one block away from St. Mary's, and saw frosh events get more out of hand than this without this kind of media coverage. 3) I saw and heard way worse at Queen University, in Kingston, Ontario when I dropped my brother off for his first year than I have ever seen in Halifax in the last 13 years. There were boys standing blind folded in front of residence in their underwear with their hands tied, and no I didn't find that shocking. What I do find shocking is how St. Mary's has made national news with a stupid ten second chant, while far worse is happening on other campuses across the country.
It doesn't make the chant right, but it certainly puts it into perspective, at least for me, that it's only "against the rules" because it's about violence against women. Even though there were more girls there participating then boys. Had it been about violence in general or murder no one would give a S*&$, I know because I've seen it first hand.
That's also the reason why many young women now automatically say "I'm not a feminist".
I posted an article in another response the the St. Mary's frosh week incident. When the girls were asked why they participated they said they weren't feminist so it didn't matter to them.
They don't want to be associated with the negative destructive effects that occur when an extremist walks into an office and all the sudden everyone's hiding under their desks for fear of being the next target. Men have to be extra careful and guarded when talking around female co-workers because we have no idea how they might react and what will be taken as offensive. The result is a lot of women are excluded from some conversations until the language has been vetted and we can be sure it won't set off the fire alarms.
Extreme feminism hurts women, I've seen it first hand and completely agree.
Case in point. St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Have a look at some of the outrage there. Drunk students during frosh week sang a chant that's been going on for a couple of years. "Young, Y = Your sister, O = Oh, so tight, U = Under age, N = No consent, G = Grab that ass, St. Mary's boys like them young".
The students that took part in the chant were sent for sensitivity training. It seems like everyone and their dog wanted these kids expelled and sent to jail for conspiracy to commit a criminal act. Anyone that says, it's a bunch of stupid drunk teens out on their own for the first time is met with accusations of being pedophiles and death threats.
Read the comment section, there are tons of people throwing outrage and expect the boys to be castrated, despite the fact that more than half of the participants were female.
Until you mentioned it I hadn't even considered the possibility that by putting the "start button" back in MS might be completely breaking code 3rd parties are using for their implementations of alternative menus. It'll be interesting to see if that's what happens. If they do break 3rd party menus there's going to be a hell of a lot of screaming on the interwebs from people who were only able to use Win8 because of the third party menus.
I didn't think it was possible, but I'm all the sudden even happier I don't use windows 8
It seems to be the running theme. All the computer science / programmers I know including the five out of eight women on my development team are quite easily able to say women in general are not interested in computers. Of the five women I work with none wanted to be programmers. Two of them have degrees, one in chemistry and another has a degree in ocean ecology. They all ended up as developers because they were naturally gifted and just kind of fell into the role.
They all agreed they originally had no interest in computers. Between the three women that do have kids, one has a daughter that's a specialized eye doctor, one has an electrical engineer and the other has a bus driver and a teen that works at McDonalds.
I find the woman with the electrical engineer particularly annoying; great programmer, terrible person. She's from India and talks incessantly about her son who's a doctor that moved out west and she hasn't seen or heard from in four years. Up until a year ago I'd never heard mention of her daughter. I've worked with her for nearly seven years now. The first time I heard about her daughter was when I went to her house to pick up some maple from a tree she had cut down. Her daughter was there cooking dinner. In polite small talk I asked her what she did and she told was an electrical engineer that worked on underwater autonomous vehicles (UAV) for the navy. I know it's probably a cultural thing, but her mother proceeded to berate her right in front of me an my wife for being such a disappointment. Apparently she was suppose to have been a doctor like her brother, but wasn't "smart enough".
I can only imagine what a huge disappointment my daughter will be to me if she's only smart enough to work for national defense designing complex electrical systems for robots. Sarcasm aside, that's probably the attitude that deters young girls from joining the technology industry.
I'd actually suspect Fwipp was just trying to be funny by being ironic.
I don't think there's anything wrong with encouraging them to try, but I don't see any point in blaming the issue on men when they just aren't interested.
My alma mater specifically set aside 10 seats every year for women wanting to get into Computer Science, but I only knew six girls for my entire five year university career that took advantage of that. Three of them (all in different years from me) changed after a year or so to the general science program because com. sci. just wasn't what they thought it was going to be. Three graduated, two of them are stay at home mom's now and the third I lost touch with.
The one I lost touch with was actually one of my best friends in university, but moved out west after. She was actually kind of a bitch to the other girls and always commented on how bad they made her look. I remember sitting with her one day over coffee in the com. sci. building. She very disdainfully looked at one of the other girls who was flirting and said, "Figures, All the guys are here to get their BScs and the girls are here for their Mrs."
Public transit is a very sub-par replacement for owning your own vehicle to go where you want when you want. The's a bus stop right across from my house, but it takes two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening commuting to work everyday by bus. It's fifteen minutes in the morning, fifteen minutes in the evening by car and there are a number of other inconveniences I don't have to deal with. Like not being allowed to take my coffee on the bus, spending an hour waiting for a bus that's suppose to come every fifteen minutes, not having dirty sick scummy rude people coughing and sneezing allover me everyday and whenever I decide to go for a longer trip to Ontario, North Carolina or the hour and a half drive to my in-laws I can come and go as I please.
Cabs are acceptable for a once in awhile thing, but are too expensive to use on a regular basis.
I think the GP is right. Reasoning is that if there's one accident where a human is killed the media will exploded with stories of how cars are coming to life and killing everyone that gets near them.
I can also imagine people who oppose driverless cars will be going to great expense to try and trip them up, causing accidents. There are some people, that no matter how extensive the evidence is that driverless cars kill fewer people by huge margins, are going to try and stop their adoption. So many people are killed by human error while driving it doesn't even make the news anymore, but I guarantee one driverless car accident will be international headlines. Like 3D printers being used to print guns. Forget the fact they can do anything else like printing organs, food or prototyping innovative ideas. OMG they print guns quick start the presses the masses must know of this injustice.
What I find interesting is I don't know anyone that actually uses MS support for office in the first place. The companies I've worked for have always used MS Office and paid for the support, but no one ever uses it. I can't see why it would be more or less expensive to use a free office alternative.
What kind of support would someone need that they'd have to pay for?
I use MS Office at work and Libre at home and do the same thing for both when I want to do something different and just Google around. No support or training cost involved.
Except it only picks you up at certian locations, drops you off at certian locations, you have to work around their schedule, (I don't know about your city) public transit takes ten times longer to get where you're going than driving you're own car and it never goes exactly where you want. In my city I'm better off walking to work, about an hour, over taking the bus, 3 hours mostly waiting fer connections.
That probably would be in their better interest. Seeing as the most common thing I've heard it called is the XBone, which isn't a misspelling just an awkward short form. I'm surprised their marketing department did think about that.