Thats easy. Windows 2000. Is it perfect? no, but..
- Full featured, advanced & modern OS - Extremely robust when properly configured - Compatible with nearly all desktop PC configurations - Easy to learn, easy to use, easy to customize - Easy to install - Software selection no other OS can even begin to approach.
I installed Win2k the week it was released (has it been three years already?). I'm a heavy duty professional user. On a daily basis I have Apache with PHP, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Kazaa Lite, MS Outlook, WinAmp & eDonkey all going at once, all day long. Sometimes I'm encoding audio/video in the background too, all the while uploading and downloading files from various servers.
Windows 2000 crashes exactly...never. Its super solid and reliable and it gets the job done.
Poor AC, these facts must be sandpaper to your ego, I know, but such is life when reality meets dogma.
Your thinking of another game. I forget what its called...Steel Battalion maybe. The game your thinking of is more of a sim with its full blown $200 controller & game.
MechAssault is also a mech game but its more arcade style. And let me tell you something: Its damn fun!
All the bitchin' and moaning I heard about how the Xbox controller was too big and how a fps like Halo would never work with a controller turned out to be wrong.
Halo worked great on the Xbox. It was smooth as silk and precise too. After coming off of UT on the PC, it was a bit of a clash but I soon got used to it. The Xbox controller itself is also very well designed, my hand never cramps after marathon bouts of MechAssault ( and I mean hours and hours).
I'd rather play Halo from my sofa than a PC based FPS from my desk with a mouse and KB.
And when Doom III is released for the Xbox, I will be!:)
I currently have three Xbox games I can go online with (Unreal, the great MotoGP and the even greater MechAssault). For the pleasure of playing these games for as much, and and as long I want, I get to pay the grand total of zero.
I also get my global buddy list.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but each PS2 game has its sign-up, its own registration, its own monthly bill? Is it also true that I'm playing with 56k'rs? Will I be able to talk to my friends outside of a game (Xbox Live 2.0)?
$50 a year is great damn deal if there ever was one.
I must disagree. The headset is far from cheap. The thing is really well designed, well build and feels solid.
When I'm not playing, my wife uses it as a headset for our cordless phone. It's already been dropped, squeezed and stepped on in a variety of ways. The headset is far from cheap. Props to MS.
How lame. An AC attributes a quote to the Governor of California overheard at a "private dinner" and it gets modded (+5). It's actually more revealing of the type of morons that frequent this great site than any thing the Gov. supposedly said.
I will answer no to all your questions. But if you want to edit or alter my movie, song, book and release it to the public, than you do have to ask my permission.
Most of the other posters replying to my original comment were arguing along the same lines. Yours is the most lucid so I'll reply to you.
Of course you have the right to experience art the way you wish but your examples were mostly not applicable.
I'll give you another example more in line with my argument.
Suppose that in the future all school books are distributed in an electronic manner. A seventh grade reading class is assigned to read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. Now the e-readers the student use to read this book are distributed by the schools. Suppose the e-readers have designed to "protect" the child from offensive words and passages.
Suddenly every occurance of "nigger" is replaced with "African American", passages deemed offensive by some school board are wholly replaced by their sanitized version.
As far the school-child is concerned, the filtered version is actually what Mark Twain wrote.
The medium is different but the principal stands. Only the content creator should have authority to alter or edit his work. But the viewer also has rights. He has the right to view or to not view the work.
I'll give you another example more in line with the present situation. What if DVD owners can one day download custom movie filters. What if a developer creates a skin filter. This filter will alter the skin tone of selected characters. Suddenly black actors are white and vice-versa. Good for a laugh maybe but still wrong.
We all know that nearly anything will be possible with a digital stream. A line has to be drawn.
By downloading a Windows program, it might be dependant on something else that I don't have.
I'm sorry dude. I don't know what your talking about, and sorry to say, I have a feeling that neither do you.
I must have downloaded/purchased hundrerds of Windows apps over the years and I have NEVER, let me say that again, NEVER found myself in a situation where I had to go "get" something to make that application run.
Forgive my ignorance, but is this "apt-get" a common task on the Linux desktop?
Believe me dude, I'm a computer pro. I develop for a living. I'm a big advocate of open-source, I like Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP on the servers but the Linux desktop is not ready for prime-time. Keep up the good work though:)
Furthermore, just trying hacking your xbox and then using the live service, you can't. I'm thankfull for that. Who wants cheaters online anyway? Thats one of the cools things about Xbox Live. You know no ones playing on a hacked, modded system.
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Sorry Dude,
But the Beatles are the Alpha and the Omega of modern rock music. They are, and will always be the blueprint.
You mean to say that if you've been doing something for years and years on a daily basis...it actually gets easier?
Holy Crap! No wonder my piano teacher always wanted me to practice. It all makes sense now.
Thats easy. Windows 2000. Is it perfect? no, but..
- Full featured, advanced & modern OS
- Extremely robust when properly configured
- Compatible with nearly all desktop PC configurations
- Easy to learn, easy to use, easy to customize
- Easy to install
- Software selection no other OS can even begin to approach.
Sorry to burst to bubble Anonymous Coward.
I installed Win2k the week it was released (has it been three years already?). I'm a heavy duty professional user. On a daily basis I have Apache with PHP, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Kazaa Lite, MS Outlook, WinAmp & eDonkey all going at once, all day long. Sometimes I'm encoding audio/video in the background too, all the while uploading and downloading files from various servers.
Windows 2000 crashes exactly...never. Its super solid and reliable and it gets the job done.
Poor AC, these facts must be sandpaper to your ego, I know, but such is life when reality meets dogma.
Sorry Dude,
Your thinking of another game. I forget what its called...Steel Battalion maybe. The game your thinking of is more of a sim with its full blown $200 controller & game.
MechAssault is also a mech game but its more arcade style. And let me tell you something: Its damn fun!
X-Box Live is the current vanguard of gaming. There is nothing like it.
Take MechAssault. A very fun, simple, deep arcade style Mech game. Playing online, from your sofa, against players around the world.
Since the release of MechAssault, we've freely downloaded four new Mechs, six new game types and about 5 new maps.
In short, its great and there is nothing on the console scene like it.
As this is how a 5 year old would behave.
You talk as if you something.
The Xbox Live service is a cheat-free zone.
I know musicians who can compose film scores on the computer but don't know a thing about setting up a midi/sequencer system themselves.
I know accountants who are stone cold Excel experts but barely know how to turn on their computer.
This is elitism pure and simple.
All the bitchin' and moaning I heard about how the Xbox controller was too big and how a fps like Halo would never work with a controller turned out to be wrong.
:)
Halo worked great on the Xbox. It was smooth as silk and precise too. After coming off of UT on the PC, it was a bit of a clash but I soon got used to it. The Xbox controller itself is also very well designed, my hand never cramps after marathon bouts of MechAssault ( and I mean hours and hours).
I'd rather play Halo from my sofa than a PC based FPS from my desk with a mouse and KB.
And when Doom III is released for the Xbox, I will be!
Your missing something big.
I currently have three Xbox games I can go online with (Unreal, the great MotoGP and the even greater MechAssault). For the pleasure of playing these games for as much, and and as long I want, I get to pay the grand total of zero.
I also get my global buddy list.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but each PS2 game has its sign-up, its own registration, its own monthly bill? Is it also true that I'm playing with 56k'rs? Will I be able to talk to my friends outside of a game (Xbox Live 2.0)?
$50 a year is great damn deal if there ever was one.
Gullible zealots beware! This post is complete crap.
MSN's popularity is completely based on changing the users homepage to MSN with each update
After three years of Win2K, IE and Windows Update, this has yet to happen to me.
Windows Update worked just fine on my Win2K box.
They even get a cheap little headset.
I must disagree. The headset is far from cheap. The thing is really well designed, well build and feels solid.
When I'm not playing, my wife uses it as a headset for our cordless phone. It's already been dropped, squeezed and stepped on in a variety of ways. The headset is far from cheap. Props to MS.
You, my friend, have obviously not played the great and extremely fun MechAssault.
but everything they send YOU your older version can't read
Nice try but it's not true. Microsoft has always provided free viewers for all their Office file formats.
Now you might not be able to edit those files, but thats a different argument and a far cry from your FUD.
How lame. An AC attributes a quote to the Governor of California overheard at a "private dinner" and it gets modded (+5). It's actually more revealing of the type of morons that frequent this great site than any thing the Gov. supposedly said.
I will answer no to all your questions. But if you want to edit or alter my movie, song, book and release it to the public, than you do have to ask my permission.
Most of the other posters replying to my original comment were arguing along the same lines. Yours is the most lucid so I'll reply to you.
Of course you have the right to experience art the way you wish but your examples were mostly not applicable.
I'll give you another example more in line with my argument.
Suppose that in the future all school books are distributed in an electronic manner. A seventh grade reading class is assigned to read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. Now the e-readers the student use to read this book are distributed by the schools. Suppose the e-readers have designed to "protect" the child from offensive words and passages.
Suddenly every occurance of "nigger" is replaced with "African American", passages deemed offensive by some school board are wholly replaced by their sanitized version.
As far the school-child is concerned, the filtered version is actually what Mark Twain wrote.
The medium is different but the principal stands. Only the content creator should have authority to alter or edit his work. But the viewer also has rights. He has the right to view or to not view the work.
I'll give you another example more in line with the present situation. What if DVD owners can one day download custom movie filters. What if a developer creates a skin filter. This filter will alter the skin tone of selected characters. Suddenly black actors are white and vice-versa. Good for a laugh maybe but still wrong.
We all know that nearly anything will be possible with a digital stream. A line has to be drawn.
This is the same principle as those folks who rent out edited DVD's so junior never lays his eyes on a female breast.
This is the same principle as those folks who would "colorize" a classic Black & White film to make it more appealing the general massses.
A artist should have a right to have his creation be experienced unaltered. Unless of course, the artist himself has made the alterations.
This is a simple case of artistic integrity. It is the directors name that scrolls on the screen at the end of the movie.
If you don't want to watch something, do what our president said to do "Turn off the on button"!
Of course, this is Slashdot, where people find a million and one reasons and rationalizations to cut, copy and paste the creative hard work of others.
Well, until Microsoft took it over, the Web was a very good multi-platform development environment....
Your post is a mediocre troll at best, but what is interesting is that it was moderated to (+5 insightful).
The Linuxites are out in-force tonight!
By downloading a Windows program, it might be dependant on something else that I don't have.
:)
I'm sorry dude. I don't know what your talking about, and sorry to say, I have a feeling that neither do you.
I must have downloaded/purchased hundrerds of Windows apps over the years and I have NEVER, let me say that again, NEVER found myself in a situation where I had to go "get" something to make that application run.
Forgive my ignorance, but is this "apt-get" a common task on the Linux desktop?
Believe me dude, I'm a computer pro. I develop for a living. I'm a big advocate of open-source, I like Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP on the servers but the Linux desktop is not ready for prime-time. Keep up the good work though
Furthermore, just trying hacking your xbox and then using the live service, you can't.
I'm thankfull for that. Who wants cheaters online anyway? Thats one of the cools things about Xbox Live. You know no ones playing on a hacked, modded system.
The XBox Live is revolutionary. I mean, to be able to play and to talk with others as your relaxing on your sofa is just too much fun.
Xbox Live has completely changed console gaming for me.
In the future, all consoles will have the capabilities that the Xbox has today. Props to the Microsoft Xbox team.
The points still remains. Yahoo! thinks PHP is capabale of doing the job.