Everyone knows the MTV generation has a 15 second attention span and I haven't heard of an OS that can do much of anything usefull in 15 seconds. Certainly Windows can't.;)
Windows can crash in 15 seconds. That's the most useful thing I can think of right now.;)
OK, maybe he shouldn't have used the word 'outdated'. But it's a fact that not everybody in the world uses QWERTY, even if you forget Dvorak. For example, the French use AZERTY, the Germans use QWERTZ..., not to mention languages where the alphabet is not or partially derived from latin.
I like good graphics. I like FPS. I've never had a console except for the Atari 2600. But just a few weeks ago, after a long period playing MAME games, I started playing with console emulators, and even though I'm used to great 3D visuals and I never played those console games (so no nostalgia), I really like a game like Metroid, and a lot of other games from and before that period. Classics like Gyruss, Moon Cresta, Arkanoid, 1942, Time pilot, and many more : I still play them. They don't look or sound very good, compared with today's standards, and they have very simple concepts, but they are FUN.
Diablo II? I played it a few times, but I got bored with it very quickly. It's supposed to be an RPG - a ROLE PLAYING GAME - but all you do is go to a demon infested place, kill'em all, pick up weapons, treasures and potions. You become more powerful, the demons get stronger, blablabla.
Much better : Dungeon Master. It had everything Diablo II has, but it also had puzzles and a really good magic system : a series of symbols that you could combine to create a spell. The spell didn't work? Maybe it wasn't a real spell after all, or maybe you just weren't experienced enough. And how did you obtain a spell? Did you just obtain that knowledge by gaining a level? No. You had to find them in the dungeon, take hints from the potions you found, or just try a combination.
You say that the video game industry is thriving now more than ever before. Their budgets may be increasing, but not their output. You should find yourself some old Commodore 64 gaming mags. The amount of games that were released in one month - wow. And with so many games released, there was a lot more competition. So they were forced to make their games fun or watch their games gather dust on the shelves.
Well, enough ranting. All I've written here will be lost to those who have been blinded by graphics. And the rest of us will just MOVE "ZIG".
Here's another thing on how they can make more money : Suppose I have Excel with 5 formulas and you have Excel with 5 different formulas.
What happens if I email you an Excel sheet using my 5 formulas (which would certainly happen)? Either you'd have to pay a single charge for using 5 new formulas, or I get charged extra. Either way it means more money for Moneysoft. Almost like a tax.
oh man ! I thought that the goatsex man was vomit-inducing enough, but now you show us something worse : HANSON !!! People, please don't click on that link. You'll get nightmares !!! LOL
Raskin goes on to illustrate that a computer should be as easy to use as to start typing on a keyboard to open a word processor -- with no lost keystrokes, or to put a stylus to a tablet and start drawing in a graphics app.
And with a few simple presses on the arrow keys, you can start tetris and already have one block in the lower left corner. Or will it start sokoban? And God forbid if you even dare to touch your mouse, because suddenly you're in the middle of a quake deathmatch, no matter if the boss is looking at your screen at the time or not.
I can't resist a plug: come see me talk about Midgard, a kick-ass content management system.
Oh great ! I've always wondered how to manage ass-kickings ! Good job !;-)
You can be sure I'll be at the conference. But I have the feeling that this isn't what my girlfriend had in mind when she proposed to spend this weekend in Brussels. But hey : you've got to get your priorities straight. w00t
Well, the other thing they could've done is just release nothing until their new CD set (with the translation) is out (which I suspect will come somewhere around May 31,2001).
But they thought (maybe) that they shouldn't deny the normal users the chance to use this work for so long (as you can read further down, from the hand-translated faq, normal users are allowed to use it on any distro).
Can you be 100% sure that the other distro companies release everything as soon as it's finished, or could it be there's a small chance that they release it when they think it's a good time to release it, for whatever reason ?
There are also some closed source programs that run on linux like CorelDraw, Corel Photopaint (OK, they both use WINE, but they're officially linux soft), Photogenics.
And you also could use 3D tools to make something : POV, Blender, Houdini (never seen it, but I heard they made a linux version).
This could be a nice test for all the gfx soft out there in linux land (or is that a peninsula?).
I'm betting they'll install a coffee filter to make sure you can't surf to the sites of other coffee shops.
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But you don't seem to see the importance of the hacked Bass. This is a major breakthrough in DNA research !!!!
Just imagine : Today we can manipulate a...... eh... plastic?........ nevermind.
But on a serious note : my brother seemed to think that this was the ideal gift for me (what was he smoking?). So I'm stuck with one. So from my point of view this story has a higher priority than yours (btw I have a Plexwriter 12/10/32A, so your story does nothing but piss me off)
I can imagine that the slashdot editors might have similar experiences.
To the moderators : I already have a crappy plastic singing fish. Please don't humiliate me even more by modding me down:)
What idiot moderator gave this Score:1, Informative ??????
It's obvious that you didn't click on the link. And I would advice anyone NOT TO CLICK ON THAT LINK. This is worse than the goat stuff.
The AC and the moderator that modded this up should both be put against a wall and SHOT.
But as for the long, drawn-out parts. It truly is a different mindset today than it was then. Has anyone seen THX1138? Now there is another good example of beauty in vapid and rambling serial seeming non-sequiturs.
Or another movie with a slow pace : SOLARIS. I really liked that movie. There's going to be a remake (late 2001 - the irony). Will it be any good? Let's give it the benefit of doubt, however hard that is to do when you remind yourself that it's a Hollywood production being made in the MTV era.
This is a redundant argument, as very soon most Linux packages, Microsoft OSes, etc etc, will be distributed on DVD-ROM. 6G should be enough for a while.
That's already true for the SuSE Linux 7.0 professional distro : There are 6 CD's in the box, but also a DVD which should contain everything on the 6 CD's (I don't have a DVD drive, so I can't tell for sure)
And I like the fact that I have most of the things I want right here on my desk. I don't have to search for it, I don't have to worry about dependancy problems or whatever. Just a small note from a linux newbie.
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Must look really stupid when you try to enter ctrl-v. And don't even mention ctrl-alt-delete ....
No, it would sell a dozen copies and be found on millions of warez sites.
Only the Goatse man could make such a comment !
just when I wanted to enter the set : Natalie Portman, hot grits, petrified.
If someone gets through, please post the results.
It sounds like the new Radiohead album ;-)
Windows can crash in 15 seconds. That's the most useful thing I can think of right now.
OK, maybe he shouldn't have used the word 'outdated'. But it's a fact that not everybody in the world uses QWERTY, even if you forget Dvorak. For example, the French use AZERTY, the Germans use QWERTZ ..., not to mention languages where the alphabet is not or partially derived from latin.
If the GPL is Pac-Man, Microsoft is Dragon's Lair : Looks good but no gameplay. Every mistake makes you start all over, costing you a lot of money.
But on the other hand, the real news is that 8.6% of all new servers sold comes with Linux pre-installed.
This is in fact good news. Its only the spindoctoring in the Gartner study that makes it look either bad or not newsworthy.
Well, you can't paint it green and add racing stripes. That's a fashion crime !!!
Pictures may be nice, but seeing it in motion is ... WOW .... sweeeeet.
Diablo II? I played it a few times, but I got bored with it very quickly. It's supposed to be an RPG - a ROLE PLAYING GAME - but all you do is go to a demon infested place, kill'em all, pick up weapons, treasures and potions. You become more powerful, the demons get stronger, blablabla.
Much better : Dungeon Master. It had everything Diablo II has, but it also had puzzles and a really good magic system : a series of symbols that you could combine to create a spell. The spell didn't work? Maybe it wasn't a real spell after all, or maybe you just weren't experienced enough. And how did you obtain a spell? Did you just obtain that knowledge by gaining a level? No. You had to find them in the dungeon, take hints from the potions you found, or just try a combination.
You say that the video game industry is thriving now more than ever before. Their budgets may be increasing, but not their output. You should find yourself some old Commodore 64 gaming mags. The amount of games that were released in one month - wow. And with so many games released, there was a lot more competition. So they were forced to make their games fun or watch their games gather dust on the shelves.
Well, enough ranting. All I've written here will be lost to those who have been blinded by graphics. And the rest of us will just MOVE "ZIG".
Here's another thing on how they can make more money : Suppose I have Excel with 5 formulas and you have Excel with 5 different formulas.
What happens if I email you an Excel sheet using my 5 formulas (which would certainly happen)? Either you'd have to pay a single charge for using 5 new formulas, or I get charged extra. Either way it means more money for Moneysoft. Almost like a tax.
oh man ! I thought that the goatsex man was vomit-inducing enough, but now you show us something worse : HANSON !!! People, please don't click on that link. You'll get nightmares !!! LOL
And with a few simple presses on the arrow keys, you can start tetris and already have one block in the lower left corner. Or will it start sokoban? And God forbid if you even dare to touch your mouse, because suddenly you're in the middle of a quake deathmatch, no matter if the boss is looking at your screen at the time or not.
Oh great ! I've always wondered how to manage ass-kickings ! Good job ! ;-)
You can be sure I'll be at the conference. But I have the feeling that this isn't what my girlfriend had in mind when she proposed to spend this weekend in Brussels. But hey : you've got to get your priorities straight. w00t
But they thought (maybe) that they shouldn't deny the normal users the chance to use this work for so long (as you can read further down, from the hand-translated faq, normal users are allowed to use it on any distro).
Can you be 100% sure that the other distro companies release everything as soon as it's finished, or could it be there's a small chance that they release it when they think it's a good time to release it, for whatever reason ?
And you also could use 3D tools to make something : POV, Blender, Houdini (never seen it, but I heard they made a linux version).
This could be a nice test for all the gfx soft out there in linux land (or is that a peninsula?).
LOL. Then there must be a lot of tsatsiki on slashdot !!!!
I'm betting they'll install a coffee filter to make sure you can't surf to the sites of other coffee shops.
Just imagine : Today we can manipulate a ...... eh ... plastic? ........ nevermind.
But on a serious note : my brother seemed to think that this was the ideal gift for me (what was he smoking?). So I'm stuck with one. So from my point of view this story has a higher priority than yours (btw I have a Plexwriter 12/10/32A, so your story does nothing but piss me off)
I can imagine that the slashdot editors might have similar experiences.
To the moderators : I already have a crappy plastic singing fish. Please don't humiliate me even more by modding me down :)
What idiot moderator gave this Score:1, Informative ?????? It's obvious that you didn't click on the link. And I would advice anyone NOT TO CLICK ON THAT LINK. This is worse than the goat stuff. The AC and the moderator that modded this up should both be put against a wall and SHOT.
Or another movie with a slow pace : SOLARIS. I really liked that movie. There's going to be a remake (late 2001 - the irony). Will it be any good? Let's give it the benefit of doubt, however hard that is to do when you remind yourself that it's a Hollywood production being made in the MTV era.
It's so easy to break Hollywood-approved copy protections : just type OVERRIDE at the prompt (if I can believe Hollywood propaganda).
That's already true for the SuSE Linux 7.0 professional distro : There are 6 CD's in the box, but also a DVD which should contain everything on the 6 CD's (I don't have a DVD drive, so I can't tell for sure)
And I like the fact that I have most of the things I want right here on my desk. I don't have to search for it, I don't have to worry about dependancy problems or whatever. Just a small note from a linux newbie.