Win 7 has lots of good things. I'm using both (W7 & XP in a desktop) and so far I have been unable to install virtual desktops and some non standard mouse behavior in Win 7. That's my solution for lots and lots of applications in WinXP, I would totally hate a two line task bar.
nVidia GPU drivers are not good enough (old games and OpenGL issues), I'm using some old RC version, however this is not a fault of Win7 per se.
I also hate that the keyboard multimedia keys are no longer global.
I would not use anything else than Win7 in a laptop. However I think that my current desktop will remain in WinXP until I update my hardware.
Starship Troopers also seems nothing special to me. From Heinlein feel free to try 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and 'The Door into Summer'.
About Asimov, I would start with 'The end of Eternity' and then go with 'The Gods Themselves'. And the original Foundation trilogy.
I believe most Asimov novels are dry and soulless, but from time to time one of those makes you feel that he's really the cat's meow. I don't recommend Foundation sequels past the three main. Prequels are ok.
They will learn what dedicated servers are about when EA kills the server of their favourite game to push sales of the next version. No more multiplayer for them, in their $USD60 game.
But I think of a possible counterexample: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.
In the world of this novelette some technology exists that really can solve any problem. And life is generally peachy, only problem is boredom. In fact, it is also a world were resurrection is possible.
But the history is so far from being boring even with that premise that you really have to appreciate it. It can however be disturbing if you have some conservative world views.
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The writer of the article calls for better game violence.
If you can't respawn in another round, you can't call such software a game.
In fact, by your definition, there's no way any software can satisfy those two criteria, being a game, and being realistic, ever.
The writer of the article calls for better game violence.
Realistic or not, any software with that feature can't be called a game any more.
What's modern about that?
Pyramids didn't built themselves, you know.
In particular I do need Blizzard and iRacing games.
I also prefer Opera to Firefox.
That's just from the tip of my tongue, I guess there's more proprietary software that me and the company I work for needs.
Yours are totally fair points.
My personal criteria to define a particular cell phone as a smartphone is the existence of a publicly available SDK.
It is an arbitrary criteria because I exclude J2ME from the 'SDK' definition, but you can argue either way.
In this sense I'm sure that all cell phones will be smartphones in a couple years.
I have just seen that the article was written by the guys who wrote this toolkit.
So feel free to mod my other post as redundant.
I need to at least RTFS.
I can't say I do agree with you, but I don't disagree either. I think that this is one of the premises that only time can tell.
There's a C++ Web framework to test your premise with a high profile web project:
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
I really hope somebody uses it for something facebook-big and we hear about it.
Well, 'reto' meaning challenge in Spanish means rectum in Portuguese. :)
Just testing a word in Spanish you recently learned?
We say esse-kuh-elle.
No ass anywhere in that word.
Do you play with a gamepad or with a steering wheel with pedals and stick?
Denny Hamlin did win after training with a video game by papyrus:
http://www.gamespy.com/pc/nascar-racing-2003-season/712182p1.html
The programmer of papyrus is the same guy behind the new iRacing simulator.
However, I do agree that GT is not good enough compared with iRacing or the papyrus games.
No, but iRacing is an adequate sim for learning it.
You just need a Logitech G27 racing wheel.
It is actually a very expensive version of rFactor.
You can buy rFactor from here: http://www.rfactor.net/
IndyCar and Nascar drivers use http://www.iracing.com/
You can play both in your PC, not in a playstation.
It's the fault of GW for backing out of a good deal with the games development company.
Must pay the price for their arrogance.
I'm deleting the Warhammer demo from my Steam account.
That will show 'em!
I've had problems with Descent and other very old games with any driver newer than 182.50.
182.50 works right.
Precisely, good classic games seem to require XP. Specially because the nVidia version they work well with (182.50) doesn't exist for WinSeven.
Games are starting to not support XP, first I know is Shattered Horizon.
So I will probably keep my XP box as it is and a buy a new WinSeven box.
Win 7 has lots of good things. I'm using both (W7 & XP in a desktop) and so far I have been unable to install virtual desktops and some non standard mouse behavior in Win 7. That's my solution for lots and lots of applications in WinXP, I would totally hate a two line task bar.
nVidia GPU drivers are not good enough (old games and OpenGL issues), I'm using some old RC version, however this is not a fault of Win7 per se.
I also hate that the keyboard multimedia keys are no longer global.
I would not use anything else than Win7 in a laptop. However I think that my current desktop will remain in WinXP until I update my hardware.
Starship Troopers also seems nothing special to me. From Heinlein feel free to try 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and 'The Door into Summer'.
About Asimov, I would start with 'The end of Eternity' and then go with 'The Gods Themselves'. And the original Foundation trilogy.
I believe most Asimov novels are dry and soulless, but from time to time one of those makes you feel that he's really the cat's meow. I don't recommend Foundation sequels past the three main. Prequels are ok.
They will learn what dedicated servers are about when EA kills the server of their favourite game to push sales of the next version. No more multiplayer for them, in their $USD60 game.
Batman has much less hardware requirements than most recent games, while being a better game in a lot of aspects.
What about Heinlein?
I do agree with you in principle.
But I think of a possible counterexample: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.
In the world of this novelette some technology exists that really can solve any problem. And life is generally peachy, only problem is boredom. In fact, it is also a world were resurrection is possible.
But the history is so far from being boring even with that premise that you really have to appreciate it. It can however be disturbing if you have some conservative world views.
Machos like Mexicans with big mustaches and hats?
That is: too much political correctness.
The great Science Fiction writers where not afraid of imagine alternative societies, strange marriage rules, etc.
Today everything is so sterilized of any politically charged stuff that of course imagination is effectively blocked too.