I've found I get more electrolysis from grabbing two wires in a bucket.
Just because something SEEMS to be true by thought, doesn't make it so. "Is the world round We've been told enough times that we believe it's a sphere. But if tommorow proof came out that it's a complex shape, or a mobius strip (yes it too is a complex shape) I can ask myself this.
Besides which one big problem is that I can say that games help me, but I have no proof from this, I can say watching TV doesn't hurt me, but do you have actual proof you're not a little less intellegent then you were as a child.
I'm just asking if it's a sound theory, if it doesn't have any pretty obvious flaw (such as saying global warming is happening when not considering alternative theories, or what might happen with out such ecological phenomonia.) Or as a related issue, calling the Current rash of Hurricanes "global warming" when you realize it only applys in that they are chaotic weather phenomena and Global warming will also cause chaotic weather phenomena. Yet these theories are both herald as absolute fact by some people. It doesn't make them invalid, but it doesn't mean they are absolute fact, more like science fiction with potential application.
Does the book hold water. You speak of light reads, and I've read such books where if you don't want to think about it it makes sense. But as you apply the theory it falls apart. Is that what you are bringing up here, or are you saying more that the book doesn't go indepth enough but leaves the reader with a new perspective that is at least decently thought out to the point where if you bring it up, it can't be just torn down in a minute (by a thinking person of course, a zealot will try to tear down even the most obvious truthes in the world)?
It sounds like an interesting read, but I read enough fiction.
Backwards compatibility isn't the Issue, I respect Sony, I respect Nintendo (though wish they got a little more attention), Intel I find over priced but at least they are getting their act together.
However Microsoft isn't offering backwards compatibility. They are offering upgrades or such. It's a false compatibility. Backwards compatibility is great, and it should now be a standard, but doing this type of move isn't what it's about.
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ignorance.
Backwards compatibility is the ability to play the last gen games on the current gen systems, NOT to upgrade performance. You start adding little tweaks and stuff you start risking problems with the game. It's entirely possible that when everyone puts in their precious halo they will crash the compatibility engine, what a fine way to start the launch of a new system.
Sadly the fact is that Microsoft is trying to get people into the Xbox 360 for all the wrong reasons. They want people to play just Live enabled "mini" games, they want them for backwards compatibility, they want it to be the entertainment system.
Last I checked the PSX tried to do all of this and it didn't come to america. Why because that isn't a game system. Making two different console versions isn't a game system. Pushing stuff like this will only cause issues with compatibility. If not now later. Even if this works flawlessly every time, it wastes resources of the programmers, You can put a really bitching functionality in but it needs the Hard drive, now you decide if you exclude some gamers/versions of the console (and go against Microsoft's promises... as Microsoft has said this will not happen), Do you make it optional (thus making the optional hard drive now a way to divide people) and take more time making sure the game works fine on BOTH versions of the console, or do you exclude the idea all together.
The idea of variety is good to the consumer, but you have to realize testing will take longer if you try to utilize the optional hardware, it'll also be more expensive, you'll have to waste resources on making everyone compatible with BOTH systems, and it'll be a basic waste overall. Companies like EA constantly make games for multiple systems.. but they have the staff for it, Companies like Rockstar, or Insomniac don't really want to program for multiple systems at a time, some are willing to port.
Adding this functionality to Backwards compatibility just is the same as wasting resources and risking problems in which games will lose compatibility, or gamers will become disenfranchised.
A PSX game on the PS3 should play the same as it did on the PS2 and the PSX, If there's a way to avoid crashes or faster loading, great, but it should be essentially the same experience, this is the way it always is. If you want an updated version to be released sell a add on or a new game for 20 or 30 adding in the required functionality, you're fans will pay that money, MGS2 Proved that, Dynasty Warriors has proved that 2 times already and a third time is coming up, Rabid fans of FF7 has shown they will pay for a 3d updated versions if it came out, Zelda fans went crazy to get emulated sets of the series games. The money gained from this pays the cost of the changes and allows people to choose which experience to have.
Microsoft is going against the grain thinking it will make them different. Sony has proven they know their history, Nintendo of course remembers the SegaCD and Sega 32X debaticles and wouldn't try something like that. But Microsoft has easily put them into a place where they will get hurt.. and when, not if (though this is a long when, it can even be the gen after this) it happens it's going to be hard and probably stop it.
yeah I had tried Suse also (which was decent at the time) and Debian, which either was missing some header files, or just way way too hard to install. either way, Slackware is the one that made me feel that it was pretty easy.
The other one that worked well was Mandrake, but I didn't feel the appeal I had with Slackware. (Mandrake back then was good, but it is similar to RedHat now, very dumbed down desktop orriented, which allowed it to work on my computer, but I needed a bit more direct access to get into it.
It'd be with slackware, it's the one distro that I used in college that was stable, that didn't have a massive error out of the package (this one the age when RedHat came out with a distro where GCC was broken!!!)
I have to say slackware's name is perfect in a number of way, it's easy to get into, interesting to use, good to learn from, and good to modify how you want it to be modified.
Kudos I might actually have to get the new version and get my old linux box back on it's feet.
There's a couple people who I'm sure are buying GameCubes for Zelda or maybe a revolution for it which is some major purchases. I mean there's a decent amount of major games, right now, it's not rivaling Zelda, but I'm sure some people would be set with the 5-8 good games for the PS2 and skip buying a Gamecube for Zelda.
It's not really overlooked, as much as decided against. But Stil I want Zelda freaking now!!!
I AM kinglink, I run to sites that might get popular to register it. Though I don't use it for World of Warcraft (well that's part of my log in) I like to roleplay there, I would like to have the option to make that title there.
But it's not about that, I personally AM KingLink, that is my second name, and a more meaningful name because I personally chose it, I was originally Link and that was used all over the place so I upgraded to Kinglink and that's what it has been for years now.
I find that that name is my persona, it's a part of me. If I want my "royal" bearing it's KingLink, if I want my fun side, it's KingLink. If it's my business side it's my official name. I use this system on Gmail (I have three accounts, one with my full legal name, one with my abriviated name, and one with Kinglink which almost ALL mail goes to. the shortened name is full business, and my lengthed name hasn't been used yet but it'll probably have a use.
The whole thing is though that Kinglink is MORE important to me then my given name. Granted my Given name is what I use all the time in real life, but online, my persona for anyone who doesn't know me is "Link" or more formally "Kinglink" They don't know my name, most don't know where I live, most don't care and that's who I am online.
For my side note, I'm LinkHylia on daragon or what ever (I forget the name) for Wow and Dareth on Emerald Dream.
because people get bored waiting around. When a massive game hits in july it's always bought by many people but now we have a line up of about 10 games I probably would buy if it was over the 12 monthes, but they shove all the "quality" games here. RE4, I'm skipping again, Soul Calibur 3 I might get (now that I read about character creation), Ratchet Deadlocked which is my favorite series I'm only considering, Tony Hawk I'm skipping, Jak X which might have gotten attention in August, is getting overlooked now (and likely should be from what I heard).
Not to meantion the 360, and the 360 games that are getting PC ports will get mostly ignored by me now (though Oblviion will get picked up! YEAAA Elder Scrolls!)
Basically it's not just a shopping time, it's the console release time so everyone's working ultra hard at grabbing money and attention and I have to say it's gonna be a devistating season for some of the losers.
I have to say this year is probably the worst in recent time about pacing, the last couple has been a bit dull, but this year has been semi dull and all of a suddent just ran headfirst into a christmas holiday packed with games, but money will definatly run out before the end of the line for most fans and so many crap games are going to be picked up because of the confusion.
Imagine if they kept Zelda's date for this year at christmas, that game would have gotten overlooked by some people, I'm sorta glad they moved it to April now.
Let's be honest most people outside of the games industry are morons.
They believe Hot Coffee is horrendous and all. The fact is that code was NOT available in the retail package, a mod had to be used for it. There's about a million mods for Morrowind, each one can change the experience up from making it more mild, to making it M (the "real body" setup for instance adds nudity... There is a cat fighting mod, and others) This doesn't change the original rating of the game and it shouldn't! ESRB understands that code available in the pure form in the retail package is what they grade NOT the potential for mods.
If one was to do potential mods no game would be under a M because I bet if We wanted We could make a dildo, a hatchet and racial slurs in every game out there if I really wanted to. Sims 2? I can easily mess with that game, Morrowind? check. GTA? oh yeah. hell go back farther, Half-life? Never Winter Nights? Quake even? yeah, they are all modable to an extent and you can make them more mature.
But the point is this. The ESRB understands this, the only reason they upgraded this game's rating is because of the public outcry and pressure from Washington. However the ESRB also understands at least how the games work. If we want an independant group, we'll get either people like Jack Thompson, or people like those concerned mothers who actually have no knowledge about what their kids do. "Little johnie is learning about sex from GTA! Take two must be perverts" (If you can't find three errors in that sentance, then you must not know her kid's name is Jimmy, what a caring parent)
I also would welcome a traffic light system, however it needs to be clear and easy to understand like these games are, we get exactly the problems with the games on the back cover, but grading on those is better then generic M or It'd just let us know if I'm getting my daily recommended hard core violence fills.
Personally I don't care about ratings, I'm 24, so even when games get M I just sigh because I've seen too many gorefests that just had no substance, maybe if they put a score on it to say how fun it was I'd be interested, and by that I mean REAL fun not that magazine bullshit of "We like this game". But alas that's impossible (personally some of my favorite games are ones I can just enjoy the game casually like Ratchet and Clank, Katamari Damacy, and Shadows of the Colossus. GTA and morrowind are both up there as well.)
This magazine actually interests me for the first time. If an industry insider is allowed a letter to the editor, that's a major feat, normally most letter in this area are just bleh.
The letter does make sense, and it probably explains a bit more. But I have to believe the Garrotts also played dirty pool at the time, along with EA's staff. Doesn't mean either wins the arguement, but doesn't mean we should fault EA either.
We currently believe that EA are evil bastards, but that doesn't mean that's not how shit was done in the early 80s, look at Nintendos proactive strategies to making sure their game makers only made games for their own company. Nowerdays we all react and recoil from some practices but in the early 80s that was part of the legalese for the game industry. Just because time advances and methods drop out of style, morals change, and new info comes to light doesn't mean that it's reprehensable when they were used.
Hell the second half of the original article basically tell how the company's money line was screwed, and it doesn't look like it's EA's fault, hiring more people and taking on more responsibility is a risk, and they had monetary investments that failed fast. And that's probably the most damming.
But the letter itself is very interesting in a perspective of an 80s style executive at a game company, something most people don't get to see even today. (Gates and Balmer hide behind so many layer like an onion we'll never see their real face. Most other CEOs are hidden as well) So that in itself makes this very interesting.
Most people use words like Disbarrment, or Impeachment as vague threats, or jokes, not understanding the underlining factors to reach that level. But Jack Thompson has crossed that limit a while ago. He originally was a danger to gaming community, but now he's become a nut job who definatly is walking towards Disbarrment.
Kudos on seeing that it actually should be considered here. And Kudos Jack, for giving me my hourly comic relief.
Kudos the first interesting post I said, (though your subject is a bit misleading). BUt kudos you at least explain it in in a clear way.
That's not to say there's not a good amount of jokes here. But at least now I learned something.. Damm you slashdot! Trying to infect the internet with information!
You speak of User friendly, but again, most people are afraid of the command prompt (not me, I was brought up on a commedore where I wrote minor basic games, and a PC with DOS 5 to start or was it 4?)
Actually window's command prompt is still pretty powerful, you can work there and mess with the system directly with the right commands and level of access. (registering unregistering DLLs and such) But again this is high level. Most people I know who don't use computers regularly can't use Linux, they barely pass Window's start button at times (it's lucky that it says start, that's the giveaway) They believe IE is the internet itself. and that the web is also the internet and the mail isn't the internet. A daemon is just a demon who's grown up, a kernel is food, and recompile is... well they don't know the word.
Linux is defently more "nerd" friendly (no offense but I need to seperate the two categories, for I too am a nerd.) in that it allows you tons of power, and access, but for the average user (meaning one of those people who can't understand why Outlook isn't sending mail) Linux will scare the shit out of them.
As for Excel, it's hardly "user friendly" though it is more friendly then VI (which personally I never cared for, though Emacs always pleased me) and such, though open office has made great strides recently, and with a little more work can defenatly over take MS Office. (it still feels a bit... I don't know the word, brickish sounds right but makes no sense. Solid doesn't do it justice either, but It's from the Java code's somewhat poorer performance and the fact that it doesn't get recognized by Microsoft's "open with" dialog right out of the box..)
I would applaud the day when microsoft can offer the options of Linux while maintaining the same friendly interface for those who can't handle the indepth work. I'll applaud the same way that I would if Linux takes the true ease of use that Microsoft has, and makes it so you don't need the 10 ways to do everything, but an automated system where one can use it and ignore the potential problems.
I basically look for new virii, or sites known to have a couple, and download them. My system finds them before they are run. I just leave them on my computer waiting to see if they are found, It's not fool proof but it at least makes me realize if I make a mistake I'm safe. I try to grab ones that are listed in other's databases (Mcaffee, norton both have good databases and info for free). I personally use Etrust for my anti virus but I did the same with AVG before I switched (for free btw, that was a nice deal). I don't do it often though, but when ever I wonder if I'm just lucky (or safe) or if my AV is dead, I'll test it.
no one would take him up on it til november 2006. Then I'd write a simple text adventure with tons of violence. exactly as he stated...
And he'd be out 10,000 and I'd be out a week of my life.. Oh well just proof no matter what he says he can take it back with out injury... Nice to see from one of our coutntries lawyers.
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I can't wait to go to the Dungeon of Doom one more time. I suck at the game, but it's probably the best game I ever played
I've found I get more electrolysis from grabbing two wires in a bucket.
Just because something SEEMS to be true by thought, doesn't make it so. "Is the world round We've been told enough times that we believe it's a sphere. But if tommorow proof came out that it's a complex shape, or a mobius strip (yes it too is a complex shape) I can ask myself this.
Besides which one big problem is that I can say that games help me, but I have no proof from this, I can say watching TV doesn't hurt me, but do you have actual proof you're not a little less intellegent then you were as a child.
I'm just asking if it's a sound theory, if it doesn't have any pretty obvious flaw (such as saying global warming is happening when not considering alternative theories, or what might happen with out such ecological phenomonia.) Or as a related issue, calling the Current rash of Hurricanes "global warming" when you realize it only applys in that they are chaotic weather phenomena and Global warming will also cause chaotic weather phenomena. Yet these theories are both herald as absolute fact by some people. It doesn't make them invalid, but it doesn't mean they are absolute fact, more like science fiction with potential application.
Does the book hold water. You speak of light reads, and I've read such books where if you don't want to think about it it makes sense. But as you apply the theory it falls apart. Is that what you are bringing up here, or are you saying more that the book doesn't go indepth enough but leaves the reader with a new perspective that is at least decently thought out to the point where if you bring it up, it can't be just torn down in a minute (by a thinking person of course, a zealot will try to tear down even the most obvious truthes in the world)?
It sounds like an interesting read, but I read enough fiction.
texture smoothing is a generic upgrade, It's not focused on one game. These are going to be per diem game upgrades.
Nintendo has said they will give retro downloads, I've never heard upgraded graphics.. Honestly we don't know what their system will even be.
Backwards compatibility isn't the Issue, I respect Sony, I respect Nintendo (though wish they got a little more attention), Intel I find over priced but at least they are getting their act together.
However Microsoft isn't offering backwards compatibility. They are offering upgrades or such. It's a false compatibility. Backwards compatibility is great, and it should now be a standard, but doing this type of move isn't what it's about.
ignorance.
Backwards compatibility is the ability to play the last gen games on the current gen systems, NOT to upgrade performance. You start adding little tweaks and stuff you start risking problems with the game. It's entirely possible that when everyone puts in their precious halo they will crash the compatibility engine, what a fine way to start the launch of a new system.
Sadly the fact is that Microsoft is trying to get people into the Xbox 360 for all the wrong reasons. They want people to play just Live enabled "mini" games, they want them for backwards compatibility, they want it to be the entertainment system.
Last I checked the PSX tried to do all of this and it didn't come to america. Why because that isn't a game system. Making two different console versions isn't a game system. Pushing stuff like this will only cause issues with compatibility. If not now later. Even if this works flawlessly every time, it wastes resources of the programmers, You can put a really bitching functionality in but it needs the Hard drive, now you decide if you exclude some gamers/versions of the console (and go against Microsoft's promises... as Microsoft has said this will not happen), Do you make it optional (thus making the optional hard drive now a way to divide people) and take more time making sure the game works fine on BOTH versions of the console, or do you exclude the idea all together.
The idea of variety is good to the consumer, but you have to realize testing will take longer if you try to utilize the optional hardware, it'll also be more expensive, you'll have to waste resources on making everyone compatible with BOTH systems, and it'll be a basic waste overall. Companies like EA constantly make games for multiple systems.. but they have the staff for it, Companies like Rockstar, or Insomniac don't really want to program for multiple systems at a time, some are willing to port.
Adding this functionality to Backwards compatibility just is the same as wasting resources and risking problems in which games will lose compatibility, or gamers will become disenfranchised.
A PSX game on the PS3 should play the same as it did on the PS2 and the PSX, If there's a way to avoid crashes or faster loading, great, but it should be essentially the same experience, this is the way it always is. If you want an updated version to be released sell a add on or a new game for 20 or 30 adding in the required functionality, you're fans will pay that money, MGS2 Proved that, Dynasty Warriors has proved that 2 times already and a third time is coming up, Rabid fans of FF7 has shown they will pay for a 3d updated versions if it came out, Zelda fans went crazy to get emulated sets of the series games. The money gained from this pays the cost of the changes and allows people to choose which experience to have.
Microsoft is going against the grain thinking it will make them different. Sony has proven they know their history, Nintendo of course remembers the SegaCD and Sega 32X debaticles and wouldn't try something like that. But Microsoft has easily put them into a place where they will get hurt.. and when, not if (though this is a long when, it can even be the gen after this) it happens it's going to be hard and probably stop it.
yeah I had tried Suse also (which was decent at the time) and Debian, which either was missing some header files, or just way way too hard to install. either way, Slackware is the one that made me feel that it was pretty easy.
The other one that worked well was Mandrake, but I didn't feel the appeal I had with Slackware. (Mandrake back then was good, but it is similar to RedHat now, very dumbed down desktop orriented, which allowed it to work on my computer, but I needed a bit more direct access to get into it.
It'd be with slackware, it's the one distro that I used in college that was stable, that didn't have a massive error out of the package (this one the age when RedHat came out with a distro where GCC was broken!!!)
I have to say slackware's name is perfect in a number of way, it's easy to get into, interesting to use, good to learn from, and good to modify how you want it to be modified.
Kudos I might actually have to get the new version and get my old linux box back on it's feet.
There's a couple people who I'm sure are buying GameCubes for Zelda or maybe a revolution for it which is some major purchases. I mean there's a decent amount of major games, right now, it's not rivaling Zelda, but I'm sure some people would be set with the 5-8 good games for the PS2 and skip buying a Gamecube for Zelda.
It's not really overlooked, as much as decided against. But Stil I want Zelda freaking now!!!
I AM kinglink, I run to sites that might get popular to register it. Though I don't use it for World of Warcraft (well that's part of my log in) I like to roleplay there, I would like to have the option to make that title there.
But it's not about that, I personally AM KingLink, that is my second name, and a more meaningful name because I personally chose it, I was originally Link and that was used all over the place so I upgraded to Kinglink and that's what it has been for years now.
I find that that name is my persona, it's a part of me. If I want my "royal" bearing it's KingLink, if I want my fun side, it's KingLink. If it's my business side it's my official name. I use this system on Gmail (I have three accounts, one with my full legal name, one with my abriviated name, and one with Kinglink which almost ALL mail goes to. the shortened name is full business, and my lengthed name hasn't been used yet but it'll probably have a use.
The whole thing is though that Kinglink is MORE important to me then my given name. Granted my Given name is what I use all the time in real life, but online, my persona for anyone who doesn't know me is "Link" or more formally "Kinglink" They don't know my name, most don't know where I live, most don't care and that's who I am online.
For my side note, I'm LinkHylia on daragon or what ever (I forget the name) for Wow and Dareth on Emerald Dream.
Though even though people actually watch Spike, I'd advise against going.
It's a trap, trust me, snipers on the roof... blamed on Counter strike, Jack Thompson...
because people get bored waiting around. When a massive game hits in july it's always bought by many people but now we have a line up of about 10 games I probably would buy if it was over the 12 monthes, but they shove all the "quality" games here. RE4, I'm skipping again, Soul Calibur 3 I might get (now that I read about character creation), Ratchet Deadlocked which is my favorite series I'm only considering, Tony Hawk I'm skipping, Jak X which might have gotten attention in August, is getting overlooked now (and likely should be from what I heard).
Not to meantion the 360, and the 360 games that are getting PC ports will get mostly ignored by me now (though Oblviion will get picked up! YEAAA Elder Scrolls!)
Basically it's not just a shopping time, it's the console release time so everyone's working ultra hard at grabbing money and attention and I have to say it's gonna be a devistating season for some of the losers.
I have to say this year is probably the worst in recent time about pacing, the last couple has been a bit dull, but this year has been semi dull and all of a suddent just ran headfirst into a christmas holiday packed with games, but money will definatly run out before the end of the line for most fans and so many crap games are going to be picked up because of the confusion.
Imagine if they kept Zelda's date for this year at christmas, that game would have gotten overlooked by some people, I'm sorta glad they moved it to April now.
No wonder that movie made so little, everyone wanted to bittorrent it.
Wait what's this? Apparently this man was the only seeder and never had a single leecher on that torrent?
Never doubt the power of Afflick!
What you expected Microsoft to follow the industry standards of having problems after their wonderful work in the other standarized areas?
PHP is succeeding where C++, Basic, and Fortran failed too...... webpages.
Let's be honest most people outside of the games industry are morons.
They believe Hot Coffee is horrendous and all. The fact is that code was NOT available in the retail package, a mod had to be used for it. There's about a million mods for Morrowind, each one can change the experience up from making it more mild, to making it M (the "real body" setup for instance adds nudity... There is a cat fighting mod, and others) This doesn't change the original rating of the game and it shouldn't! ESRB understands that code available in the pure form in the retail package is what they grade NOT the potential for mods.
If one was to do potential mods no game would be under a M because I bet if We wanted We could make a dildo, a hatchet and racial slurs in every game out there if I really wanted to. Sims 2? I can easily mess with that game, Morrowind? check. GTA? oh yeah. hell go back farther, Half-life? Never Winter Nights? Quake even? yeah, they are all modable to an extent and you can make them more mature.
But the point is this. The ESRB understands this, the only reason they upgraded this game's rating is because of the public outcry and pressure from Washington. However the ESRB also understands at least how the games work. If we want an independant group, we'll get either people like Jack Thompson, or people like those concerned mothers who actually have no knowledge about what their kids do. "Little johnie is learning about sex from GTA! Take two must be perverts" (If you can't find three errors in that sentance, then you must not know her kid's name is Jimmy, what a caring parent)
I also would welcome a traffic light system, however it needs to be clear and easy to understand like these games are, we get exactly the problems with the games on the back cover, but grading on those is better then generic M or It'd just let us know if I'm getting my daily recommended hard core violence fills.
Personally I don't care about ratings, I'm 24, so even when games get M I just sigh because I've seen too many gorefests that just had no substance, maybe if they put a score on it to say how fun it was I'd be interested, and by that I mean REAL fun not that magazine bullshit of "We like this game". But alas that's impossible (personally some of my favorite games are ones I can just enjoy the game casually like Ratchet and Clank, Katamari Damacy, and Shadows of the Colossus. GTA and morrowind are both up there as well.)
This magazine actually interests me for the first time. If an industry insider is allowed a letter to the editor, that's a major feat, normally most letter in this area are just bleh.
The letter does make sense, and it probably explains a bit more. But I have to believe the Garrotts also played dirty pool at the time, along with EA's staff. Doesn't mean either wins the arguement, but doesn't mean we should fault EA either.
We currently believe that EA are evil bastards, but that doesn't mean that's not how shit was done in the early 80s, look at Nintendos proactive strategies to making sure their game makers only made games for their own company. Nowerdays we all react and recoil from some practices but in the early 80s that was part of the legalese for the game industry. Just because time advances and methods drop out of style, morals change, and new info comes to light doesn't mean that it's reprehensable when they were used.
Hell the second half of the original article basically tell how the company's money line was screwed, and it doesn't look like it's EA's fault, hiring more people and taking on more responsibility is a risk, and they had monetary investments that failed fast. And that's probably the most damming.
But the letter itself is very interesting in a perspective of an 80s style executive at a game company, something most people don't get to see even today. (Gates and Balmer hide behind so many layer like an onion we'll never see their real face. Most other CEOs are hidden as well) So that in itself makes this very interesting.
Most people use words like Disbarrment, or Impeachment as vague threats, or jokes, not understanding the underlining factors to reach that level. But Jack Thompson has crossed that limit a while ago. He originally was a danger to gaming community, but now he's become a nut job who definatly is walking towards Disbarrment.
Kudos on seeing that it actually should be considered here. And Kudos Jack, for giving me my hourly comic relief.
Kudos the first interesting post I said, (though your subject is a bit misleading). BUt kudos you at least explain it in in a clear way.
That's not to say there's not a good amount of jokes here. But at least now I learned something.. Damm you slashdot! Trying to infect the internet with information!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/jackdocument.gif Image from penny-arcade his letter.
Notice the website meantioned. www.pennyarcade.com Guess he's going to get the police to act with no proof. Nice try Jacky boy.
Well bad link but check this...t ory=6864
:) And this is one of the original gods of gaming.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?s
For every bad link, there's one good story
You speak of User friendly, but again, most people are afraid of the command prompt (not me, I was brought up on a commedore where I wrote minor basic games, and a PC with DOS 5 to start or was it 4?)
... I don't know the word, brickish sounds right but makes no sense. Solid doesn't do it justice either, but It's from the Java code's somewhat poorer performance and the fact that it doesn't get recognized by Microsoft's "open with" dialog right out of the box..)
Actually window's command prompt is still pretty powerful, you can work there and mess with the system directly with the right commands and level of access. (registering unregistering DLLs and such) But again this is high level. Most people I know who don't use computers regularly can't use Linux, they barely pass Window's start button at times (it's lucky that it says start, that's the giveaway) They believe IE is the internet itself. and that the web is also the internet and the mail isn't the internet. A daemon is just a demon who's grown up, a kernel is food, and recompile is... well they don't know the word.
Linux is defently more "nerd" friendly (no offense but I need to seperate the two categories, for I too am a nerd.) in that it allows you tons of power, and access, but for the average user (meaning one of those people who can't understand why Outlook isn't sending mail) Linux will scare the shit out of them.
As for Excel, it's hardly "user friendly" though it is more friendly then VI (which personally I never cared for, though Emacs always pleased me) and such, though open office has made great strides recently, and with a little more work can defenatly over take MS Office. (it still feels a bit
I would applaud the day when microsoft can offer the options of Linux while maintaining the same friendly interface for those who can't handle the indepth work. I'll applaud the same way that I would if Linux takes the true ease of use that Microsoft has, and makes it so you don't need the 10 ways to do everything, but an automated system where one can use it and ignore the potential problems.
I basically look for new virii, or sites known to have a couple, and download them. My system finds them before they are run. I just leave them on my computer waiting to see if they are found, It's not fool proof but it at least makes me realize if I make a mistake I'm safe. I try to grab ones that are listed in other's databases (Mcaffee, norton both have good databases and info for free). I personally use Etrust for my anti virus but I did the same with AVG before I switched (for free btw, that was a nice deal). I don't do it often though, but when ever I wonder if I'm just lucky (or safe) or if my AV is dead, I'll test it.
VERY nice, the text adventure community is still alive then.
"What is Grue"
no one would take him up on it til november 2006. Then I'd write a simple text adventure with tons of violence. exactly as he stated...
And he'd be out 10,000 and I'd be out a week of my life.. Oh well just proof no matter what he says he can take it back with out injury... Nice to see from one of our coutntries lawyers.