With a console there is not need for that as the game runs fine with the hardware.
Real gamers build their systems because they have to.
Disclaimer: I am into both PC and console (Xbox) gaming. I bought the console because my wife refused to touch the PC games. Well she loves the Xbox, and hooking up 4 controllers to that bad boy and playing Maddens NFL 2003 while swilling beer with my peeps kicks total ass. Haven't tried the online service - I wonder if it sucks.
Social as in real people looking each other in the eye, conversing without a headset, and clapping each other on the back.
Humans sitting next to each other, remember that? That is what I meant by social.
BTW: There are various online services so one can play that way - and you can change the way the controllers work on many console games.
And I don't want to take anything away from anybody - I simply think that is the big appeal to console users (it was for me) - and I happen to like to game pads.
You are pretty much right. XP is pretty stable I don't have many problems with it - throw on a decent X server and PuTTy and there is no reason to have a Linux box on your desk (I write cross platform apps for a living).......unless you want a Linux box on your desk that is.
(Caveat: Office is, and always will be, an abomination.)
...isn't that there are bugs in Windows (plenty in FBSD and Linux and every other OS)...isn;t that they are a monopoly (IBM has a stranglehold on big iron that makes MS grasp of PC's look like a hug)....isn;t that they deploy a suite of back doors known as Office (nothing witty to insert here)...it is that they are driven by their marketing department.
this is and always will be the core of what Slashdot zealots hate about them.
I won;t even bother to check this for typos because it will be labeled as troll by Slashdot dweebs who refuse to grow up... simply because it doesn't deamonize a large American software company that did well.
Crap look at the big pitcure and see that all computers and software is/are cool. Jesus fucking christ have things degraded so far that the readers of a tech web site can't see that????
well, that is good advice to me (who has been writing software for 14 years) - but to the average computer user/enthusiast your advice is a bit unrealistic, not to mention somewhat affected.
Nothing like an arranged marriage, tolerated spousal abuse, and no labor laws......but then again, why bother talking to someone who is using the generosity of the greatest country on earth to undermine it?
I dunno about the ranting guy down below posting about terrorists and stuff - but Christ I wait for the day when American liberals wake up and punt all of you towel wearing bastards back to whence you came.
A bunch of software pirates complaining about illegal online activity!
Oh the irony! It is great! Way to go guys!
Ah well - I am a software developer - I pay for the software I use and expect people to pay for mine (well, my company's anyway) in return so that I can put food in my son's mouth.
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...Death by bunga-bunga!
Hmm?
We didn't have the "benefit" of WW2 bombing to inspire us to bury our wires: so much American wiring is exposed and vulnerable to weather.
Perversely, it is probably safe(r) from fire and flooding.
With a console there is not need for that as the game runs fine with the hardware.
Real gamers build their systems because they have to.
Disclaimer: I am into both PC and console (Xbox) gaming. I bought the console because my wife refused to touch the PC games. Well she loves the Xbox, and hooking up 4 controllers to that bad boy and playing Maddens NFL 2003 while swilling beer with my peeps kicks total ass. Haven't tried the online service - I wonder if it sucks.
He does have his PC connected to his HDTV... it just says XBox on the front.
Social as in real people looking each other in the eye, conversing without a headset, and clapping each other on the back.
Humans sitting next to each other, remember that? That is what I meant by social.
BTW: There are various online services so one can play that way - and you can change the way the controllers work on many console games.
And I don't want to take anything away from anybody - I simply think that is the big appeal to console users (it was for me) - and I happen to like to game pads.
Four people all sitting together laughing, playing, drinking beer, and sharing an evening TOGETHER in the living room.
That is a game - not sitting in your room playing against some guy on the other coast.
This aspect of console gaming is often overlooked - but critical when examining why they are pushing PC games to the curb.
You are pretty much right. XP is pretty stable I don't have many problems with it - throw on a decent X server and PuTTy and there is no reason to have a Linux box on your desk (I write cross platform apps for a living).... ...unless you want a Linux box on your desk that is.
(Caveat: Office is, and always will be, an abomination.)
...isn't that there are bugs in Windows (plenty in FBSD and Linux and every other OS) ...isn;t that they are a monopoly (IBM has a stranglehold on big iron that makes MS grasp of PC's look like a hug) ....isn;t that they deploy a suite of back doors known as Office (nothing witty to insert here) ...it is that they are driven by their marketing department.
this is and always will be the core of what Slashdot zealots hate about them.
I won;t even bother to check this for typos because it will be labeled as troll by Slashdot dweebs who refuse to grow up... simply because it doesn't deamonize a large American software company that did well.
Crap look at the big pitcure and see that all computers and software is/are cool. Jesus fucking christ have things degraded so far that the readers of a tech web site can't see that????
...to hell in a handbasket.
Way to go gramps - you nailed that one!
Don't like it, but they did.
By the time Linux is a threat to the MS juggernaut Microsoft will have fixed the numerous problems in their products - so why bother?
By submitting willingly I hope to be higher in the hivemind than you.
...atleast I would tend to think so.
But then again maybe not according to the stats...
- All your BMW and Mercedes cars
Fine - they are unrealiable: we are keeping the Japanese cars tho.
> The jet engines from your aircraft (invented by Sir Frank Whittle in Britain in 1945)
You can have the prototypes the he never managed to get working - took the Germans to do that, and the US to perfect them.
> All your nuclear weapons and X-Ray machines (since radioactivity was discovered by the French Marie Curie in the 19th century)
Yeah she really did a bang up job with that, eh?
> The ideas that the Wright Brothers stole from Leonardo Da Vinci (Italian)
OK here you have me - the wearable bat suits and cork screw helicopters powered by men walking around in circles are all yours.
For being sucessful.
God knows in the USA that has become a crime.
>> How many computer manufacturers are based in England, compared to the USA
I'd say the ratio is about 0:0
Where is all the FUD about that??
The more I read Slashdot, the more disgusted I am. A bunch of little Linux fans sniping at Microsoft every chance they get.
Christ get a life.
too bad it is a shit hole.
say hi to the Pagans.
well, that is good advice to me (who has been writing software for 14 years) - but to the average computer user/enthusiast your advice is a bit unrealistic, not to mention somewhat affected.
...then they wise up and move out west.
...but then again I could be wrong.
And come to think of it, I am.... because the organ would still have the donors DNA.
Oh well, it was a good point - for a few milliseconds. Damn! It didn't even last long enough for me to finish typing the subject line!
...and that alone icked the economy in the nutz. What do you think losing an entire city will do??
Nothing like an arranged marriage, tolerated spousal abuse, and no labor laws... ...but then again, why bother talking to someone who is using the generosity of the greatest country on earth to undermine it?
I dunno about the ranting guy down below posting about terrorists and stuff - but Christ I wait for the day when American liberals wake up and punt all of you towel wearing bastards back to whence you came.
Hey I'd love to be able to drink beer at work!
Sure.
Hint: WM_CLOSE.
A bunch of software pirates complaining about illegal online activity!
Oh the irony! It is great! Way to go guys!
Ah well - I am a software developer - I pay for the software I use and expect people to pay for mine (well, my company's anyway) in return so that I can put food in my son's mouth.