So he's bashing other games and says his own is (unexpectedly) "special"?
And no, gaming haven't gone downhill. I've personally had a far more fun in Neverwinter Nights, Oblivion, Diablo, Guild Wars than I think I would ever have had in Space Invaders, King Kong, or Pong.
Agree.. I don't really understand this report. If near accidents seem so frequent they withhold a report, how can the average of actual accidents not increase? It really sounds like the number of cases is exaggerated by the article (maybe because it doesn't know what numbers they're talking about), the pilot that voiced his opinion, or something else...
Btw, maybe I should also add on my conclusion part from these things happening every now and then... And having tried distros now and then from since about Red Hat 5.
When Linux works and e.g. OpenOfficer fulfill your needs, and you don't need any Windows-only software, it's awesome, like running a non-hardware dependent OS X that's free and with an incredible community. Using Linux don't even need to imply giving up on a great user interface anymore. I honestly think there's no match anymore either in Windows Vista or OS X. Vista is really too "heavy", and tries to do too much at once out of the box, and OS X has problems I can't really see any open source fan can enjoy. I think it's even worse than Windows in the proprietary sense. People would start foam if MS started tieing their own hardware with Windows copies and get retailers to sell that crap, but at Apple, that's routine. Obvious advantages with hardware compatibility, but obvious disadvantages from a personal philosophy in how you want to use your computer.
The problem with Linux is however than if things break, or don't run, it can be the most weird problems to someone used to Windows. Like it not working well on a 1 year old graphics card. Now I'm not talking about what people whine about with Vista and Geforce 8's, but that you don't even get a picture from the X server on the live CD, even in VGA mode, if you have such a card.
So Linux IS unfortunately still very much "hit & miss" to me, and that's the #1 thing I'd like to see improve. The examples I gave depends a lot on hardware manufacturer support, but I could just as well have given software examples. For example, in the very latest KDE version (of the 3.5 branch), Konqueror's column icon view didn't even work with keyboard navigation. It skipped icons and jumped around. It works well in Windows, and Nautilus. This is a very very basic feature to me.
Agreed; Ubuntu 7.10 is working great for me, but I know another one who installed it on a laptop with a SATA DVD-ROM , and while the installer had absolutely no trouble reading from the disc and he have basically just toyed around with it a bit, now suddenly the device scd0 is in/etc/fstab, but can't be mounted anymore. I mean... As useless some may treat Windows, I haven't really heard of cases with DVD drives suddenly disappearing. Suggestions on the web were about disabling ACPI support, command-line editing, etc. But why do ACPI support need to be fiddled with in Linux (and no it didn't help anyway), but not in Windows? And so on... He said "what a typical weird Linux problem" when noticing what had happened, and I can't say I can blame him with a clear conscience.
The game experience is the same, the only difference is instead of seeing "Moca Mola" and "Nickers" adds you see the same ones your used to in real subways (Coca Cola and Snickers). Agreed, and I'm personally so tired of seeing games with "fake" ads. They're easily worse than real ones to me. It makes the game look cheap and detracts from the immersion, at least if the game is supposed to take place in our world. It's a bit like faking soccer player names just because the company couldn't get a proper license to use their real names.
If it has gotten to the point that ads are expected and feel 'right' in a video game, then the marketeers have won.
ADs are not 'right' in any context, especially when you are paying for the product. Why should all ads in subways mysteriously disappear 30 years in the future from subway stations? You need to answer this question with a very reasonable explanation before you claim someone has "won".
Does it say anywhere on the box, "WARNING: This game includes in-game advertising and requires live monitoring of computer information?" Or are there massive amounts of consumers that are going to be shocked to discover that their game requires adware? There's a big difference between "Hey, we warned you" and "Turn around and grab your ankles". You should really see this game to understand what kind of "adware" you're talking about here. It's not of the kind that affects your performance.
Second question: Anyone know how much this kind of live uploading of advertisements would affect online performance? It doesn't upload ads in the first place.
I think you have the concepts confused a bit. The monitoring is there to ease troubleshooting bugs and preventing cheats. The "adware" you're talking about is texture files that interact with your system as much as your JPG files are.
The NDA was recently removed, so people are free to post stuff on the game now. Maybe it would be a good idea for someone to post a screenshot of the ads here so people know what it's about. I can otherwise just recommend checking out the demo to form an own opinion. Personally I didn't find the ads intrusive at all, and they only appear in stations. I think they add to immersion, because the real world stations also have ads.
Hmm, I'm not sure I get this. Do you prefer untargeted marketing over targeted marketing?
I'm sure *I* prefer ads on computer retailers when being on Gmail rather than lady perfumes.
Sure, one can argue that it's not the *ads* you want, but I can tell you from first-hand experience that the ads in HGL doesn't seem intrusive. They're pretty tastefully done and doesn't stand out from the environment. I'd argue that they add to realism, a bit like how the ads in Bladerunner did.
So you get taxed for not supporting the music industry if you do support the music industry? And you don't get taxed for not supporting the musics industry if you don't support the music industry?
Yes, this makes perfect sense! Thanks for this proposal. I wholeheartedly support it. I can now much easier choose my proper action here and whether I should purchase legal music or not.
I started thinking why exactly a carrot, of all things, then the shape of said object and certain orifices that even males have came into mind and.. Well, I think I'll let the matter drop now and just back out!
I think there will be a future (that might be sooner than we think too given recent advances in the area), that we will start having to make the distinction between "natural genetics" and "artificial genetics". And obviously, the artificial ones will be patent encumbered to the teeth. It will probably move on to artificial bacteria etc that can also be patented, and before we know it, we'll be patenting life.:-/
Even if we won't create complex organisms on the human scale anytime soon, or even mice, the ramifications of someone having just a pretty small subset of genetics modified with the design patent protected, has to be a pretty awkward feeling to some bearers of such modifications. I wonder if any research have been done on this. Somehow I think that'll be downplayed -- how people actually want their own bodies to be like. After all, at least in the US, people still generally prefer to take off parts of the penis of newborn babies without asking for consent, or the baby even able to tell. If you know part of your body isn't natural, but your parents felt it was for the best of you in protecting from a disease, will you at all have a voice that will be listened to here?
For some reason, it can still be popular on various news sites and so on, so yes, people hence use it. I guess Real simply give them some irresistible deals, because surely they aren't stupid enough to willingly use that format? I can admit that the most modern Real formats are pretty good, but the standalone player and all that isn't.
The Consolas font is a phenomenal mono-spaced font, and I've been using it for a year or more. Yup, it's nice, and surely better than their former Courier New offering. But I still prefer Bitstream Vera Sans Mono with LCD subpixel rendering for my programming work.:-)
Anyway, this is good news, as if it's one good thing Microsoft tend to chug out, it's pretty good fonts, with the occasional black sheep like Comic Sans MS.:-S
. I think I can safely say that from a user perspective there aren't any major difference between Feisty and Gutsy besides the eye candy. We had a better install experience with 7.10 thanks to improved driver support.
Other than that, I'd rate things like NTFS-3g by default and everything that comes with GNOME 2.20 taken together as pretty major. Yes, neither of these are custom coded stuff for Ubuntu, but it will do a big difference to many novice users jumping on the train. And the Ubuntu stuff isn't too bad either, with new printer autoconfiguration, desktop searching, etc. And yes, these are very much from a user perspective.
We've just tried this one out as soon as it was released, and there was quite some differences in installation on our modern laptop hardware compared to 7.04 at least. Proprietary graphics driver installation couldn't really be much easier from what I can see -- besides by making it automatic, but I suppose there are reasons other than technological ones behind that.
After the few guided clicks to get that done, a reboot later and suddenly Compiz was also activated without any user actions needed. Hmm, so how do you configure those 3D effects then? No way we could find, but from reading an online computer magazine, we found out that the Compiz Config Settings Manager wasn't included. We installed that one, and it then integrated nicely into the Desktop Settings as a new "Custom effects" option. Why that one wasn't part of the distro by default is still unknown to us though. It seemed like an obvious choice to let the user customize the window effects?
Otherwise, I think Compiz didn't lag or anything even once when maximizing windows or rotating the desktop, etc, and this was on a laptop without a *that* hot graphics card. So we were impressed about how smooth the UI was. No interruptions from some service suddenly kicking in to work a bit like every user of Vista has no doubt grown used to take for granted by now with the SuperFetch, System Restore, Search Indexer etc services. They seem to kick in at the most inappropriate times -- not even when the computer is idle! Come on! Maybe Ubuntu's new desktop search indexer make it suffer too, but nothing we could see anyway.
After doing this, we unplugged the network card, and voila, it automatically discovered our WLAN. We didn't have to do anything, really.
So let's try open the (already mounted and ready) NTFS drive with Windows Vista on it? Oh, we can simply drag a file there now too -- cool! NTFS-3g apparently installed and ready.
We seemed to have to install Windows Media Audio support though and as we're still quite some Linux amateurs, we have still not got around that part as the work day is over. It's been fun experimenting though, and getting up to date with what a modern "desktop Linux" distro can offer. Looking at the feature list of Ubuntu 7.10, and summing that one up with the new features of GNOME 2.20 gives one a mighty impressive list of new features compared to just 6 months ago.
Linux desktop development (GNOME, KDE, desktop distros,...) really seem to be picking up some pace lately. And we're just months away from KDE 4. This is exciting times to follow for sure, and for the first time I'm starting to become a believer in "Linux on the desktop".
I have some pretty high demands of novice usability though, which makes me hesitate still as for some distros. E.g. SUSE Linux 10.3 had a few quirks on my home stationary computer. Its NVIDIA driver install having me to use the command prompt and special "SUSE for NVIDIA" instructions is unacceptable for amateur usage IMHO, although I finally got it done. It also even failed to install the distro to the hard drive the first time around, because it couldn't mount the SATA drive it had just formatted (??). A reboot, and then it could do it like it was no problem at all. *shrug* That also gave an early feeling of "still aimed for geeks" that I'd so much like it to see it move away from.
But back to Ubuntu 7.10 -- so far no problems here, and I was left with an excitement to play with it more after the day.:-)
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Take a look at that old man in the middle of this picture. Hell no! I'll keep my eyes on the girl to the far right, thankyouverymuch!:-)~~
It's already on Digg... And Reddit, and The Inq, and Wired!
But seriously, those guys may be stupid in the business model sense, but they are fully aware of networks like Usenet.:-p
It surprised me it took them so long to get started, but maybe it was just prioritized down because the big crowds use BitTorrent and other classic P2P apps.
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So it's again about a dangerous protocol, not a dangerous use of an application, or company policies allowing dangerous program use?
:-(
Well, e-mail has proven to be a pretty bad thing too. With e-mail, many things that shouldn't have leaked out to the public has.
I think things have even leaked out via HTTP.
So he's bashing other games and says his own is (unexpectedly) "special"?
And no, gaming haven't gone downhill. I've personally had a far more fun in Neverwinter Nights, Oblivion, Diablo, Guild Wars than I think I would ever have had in Space Invaders, King Kong, or Pong.
Agree.. I don't really understand this report. If near accidents seem so frequent they withhold a report, how can the average of actual accidents not increase? It really sounds like the number of cases is exaggerated by the article (maybe because it doesn't know what numbers they're talking about), the pilot that voiced his opinion, or something else...
Well, duh. ;-)
Seriously, I almost wish that we one day have some madman to try pull such an extortion off with some spacecraft.
Maybe I should be careful what I wish for, but come on, crimes need to be made funnier!
Btw, maybe I should also add on my conclusion part from these things happening every now and then... And having tried distros now and then from since about Red Hat 5.
When Linux works and e.g. OpenOfficer fulfill your needs, and you don't need any Windows-only software, it's awesome, like running a non-hardware dependent OS X that's free and with an incredible community. Using Linux don't even need to imply giving up on a great user interface anymore. I honestly think there's no match anymore either in Windows Vista or OS X. Vista is really too "heavy", and tries to do too much at once out of the box, and OS X has problems I can't really see any open source fan can enjoy. I think it's even worse than Windows in the proprietary sense. People would start foam if MS started tieing their own hardware with Windows copies and get retailers to sell that crap, but at Apple, that's routine. Obvious advantages with hardware compatibility, but obvious disadvantages from a personal philosophy in how you want to use your computer.
The problem with Linux is however than if things break, or don't run, it can be the most weird problems to someone used to Windows. Like it not working well on a 1 year old graphics card. Now I'm not talking about what people whine about with Vista and Geforce 8's, but that you don't even get a picture from the X server on the live CD, even in VGA mode, if you have such a card.
So Linux IS unfortunately still very much "hit & miss" to me, and that's the #1 thing I'd like to see improve. The examples I gave depends a lot on hardware manufacturer support, but I could just as well have given software examples. For example, in the very latest KDE version (of the 3.5 branch), Konqueror's column icon view didn't even work with keyboard navigation. It skipped icons and jumped around. It works well in Windows, and Nautilus. This is a very very basic feature to me.
Agreed; Ubuntu 7.10 is working great for me, but I know another one who installed it on a laptop with a SATA DVD-ROM , and while the installer had absolutely no trouble reading from the disc and he have basically just toyed around with it a bit, now suddenly the device scd0 is in /etc/fstab, but can't be mounted anymore. I mean... As useless some may treat Windows, I haven't really heard of cases with DVD drives suddenly disappearing. Suggestions on the web were about disabling ACPI support, command-line editing, etc. But why do ACPI support need to be fiddled with in Linux (and no it didn't help anyway), but not in Windows? And so on... He said "what a typical weird Linux problem" when noticing what had happened, and I can't say I can blame him with a clear conscience.
And I, Robert Anderson, think I'll take the pill with a swastika on it.
ADs are not 'right' in any context, especially when you are paying for the product. Why should all ads in subways mysteriously disappear 30 years in the future from subway stations?
You need to answer this question with a very reasonable explanation before you claim someone has "won".
I think you have the concepts confused a bit. The monitoring is there to ease troubleshooting bugs and preventing cheats. The "adware" you're talking about is texture files that interact with your system as much as your JPG files are.
The NDA was recently removed, so people are free to post stuff on the game now. Maybe it would be a good idea for someone to post a screenshot of the ads here so people know what it's about. I can otherwise just recommend checking out the demo to form an own opinion. Personally I didn't find the ads intrusive at all, and they only appear in stations. I think they add to immersion, because the real world stations also have ads.
Hmm, I'm not sure I get this. Do you prefer untargeted marketing over targeted marketing?
I'm sure *I* prefer ads on computer retailers when being on Gmail rather than lady perfumes.
Sure, one can argue that it's not the *ads* you want, but I can tell you from first-hand experience that the ads in HGL doesn't seem intrusive. They're pretty tastefully done and doesn't stand out from the environment. I'd argue that they add to realism, a bit like how the ads in Bladerunner did.
So you get taxed for not supporting the music industry if you do support the music industry?
And you don't get taxed for not supporting the musics industry if you don't support the music industry?
Yes, this makes perfect sense! Thanks for this proposal.
I wholeheartedly support it. I can now much easier choose my proper action here and whether I should purchase legal music or not.
I wonder if such grass would bear a particular intelligent shade of green?
I started thinking why exactly a carrot, of all things, then the shape of said object and certain orifices that even males have came into mind and.. Well, I think I'll let the matter drop now and just back out!
I think there will be a future (that might be sooner than we think too given recent advances in the area), that we will start having to make the distinction between "natural genetics" and "artificial genetics". And obviously, the artificial ones will be patent encumbered to the teeth. It will probably move on to artificial bacteria etc that can also be patented, and before we know it, we'll be patenting life. :-/
Even if we won't create complex organisms on the human scale anytime soon, or even mice, the ramifications of someone having just a pretty small subset of genetics modified with the design patent protected, has to be a pretty awkward feeling to some bearers of such modifications. I wonder if any research have been done on this. Somehow I think that'll be downplayed -- how people actually want their own bodies to be like. After all, at least in the US, people still generally prefer to take off parts of the penis of newborn babies without asking for consent, or the baby even able to tell. If you know part of your body isn't natural, but your parents felt it was for the best of you in protecting from a disease, will you at all have a voice that will be listened to here?
For some reason, it can still be popular on various news sites and so on, so yes, people hence use it. I guess Real simply give them some irresistible deals, because surely they aren't stupid enough to willingly use that format? I can admit that the most modern Real formats are pretty good, but the standalone player and all that isn't.
Anyway, this is good news, as if it's one good thing Microsoft tend to chug out, it's pretty good fonts, with the occasional black sheep like Comic Sans MS.
Hmm, I'm now convinced Windows 7 is not its real codename, but it's actually called Project Zombo over at Redmond.
I'm sad they didn't go for Horny Hare. :-(
Their chance to use the Horny adjective will only come once...
Other than that, I'd rate things like NTFS-3g by default and everything that comes with GNOME 2.20 taken together as pretty major. Yes, neither of these are custom coded stuff for Ubuntu, but it will do a big difference to many novice users jumping on the train. And the Ubuntu stuff isn't too bad either, with new printer autoconfiguration, desktop searching, etc. And yes, these are very much from a user perspective.
We've just tried this one out as soon as it was released, and there was quite some differences in installation on our modern laptop hardware compared to 7.04 at least. Proprietary graphics driver installation couldn't really be much easier from what I can see -- besides by making it automatic, but I suppose there are reasons other than technological ones behind that.
...) really seem to be picking up some pace lately. And we're just months away from KDE 4. This is exciting times to follow for sure, and for the first time I'm starting to become a believer in "Linux on the desktop".
:-)
After the few guided clicks to get that done, a reboot later and suddenly Compiz was also activated without any user actions needed. Hmm, so how do you configure those 3D effects then? No way we could find, but from reading an online computer magazine, we found out that the Compiz Config Settings Manager wasn't included. We installed that one, and it then integrated nicely into the Desktop Settings as a new "Custom effects" option. Why that one wasn't part of the distro by default is still unknown to us though. It seemed like an obvious choice to let the user customize the window effects?
Otherwise, I think Compiz didn't lag or anything even once when maximizing windows or rotating the desktop, etc, and this was on a laptop without a *that* hot graphics card. So we were impressed about how smooth the UI was. No interruptions from some service suddenly kicking in to work a bit like every user of Vista has no doubt grown used to take for granted by now with the SuperFetch, System Restore, Search Indexer etc services. They seem to kick in at the most inappropriate times -- not even when the computer is idle! Come on! Maybe Ubuntu's new desktop search indexer make it suffer too, but nothing we could see anyway.
After doing this, we unplugged the network card, and voila, it automatically discovered our WLAN. We didn't have to do anything, really.
So let's try open the (already mounted and ready) NTFS drive with Windows Vista on it? Oh, we can simply drag a file there now too -- cool! NTFS-3g apparently installed and ready.
We seemed to have to install Windows Media Audio support though and as we're still quite some Linux amateurs, we have still not got around that part as the work day is over. It's been fun experimenting though, and getting up to date with what a modern "desktop Linux" distro can offer. Looking at the feature list of Ubuntu 7.10, and summing that one up with the new features of GNOME 2.20 gives one a mighty impressive list of new features compared to just 6 months ago.
Linux desktop development (GNOME, KDE, desktop distros,
I have some pretty high demands of novice usability though, which makes me hesitate still as for some distros. E.g. SUSE Linux 10.3 had a few quirks on my home stationary computer. Its NVIDIA driver install having me to use the command prompt and special "SUSE for NVIDIA" instructions is unacceptable for amateur usage IMHO, although I finally got it done. It also even failed to install the distro to the hard drive the first time around, because it couldn't mount the SATA drive it had just formatted (??). A reboot, and then it could do it like it was no problem at all. *shrug* That also gave an early feeling of "still aimed for geeks" that I'd so much like it to see it move away from.
But back to Ubuntu 7.10 -- so far no problems here, and I was left with an excitement to play with it more after the day.
It's already on Digg... And Reddit, and The Inq, and Wired!
:-p
But seriously, those guys may be stupid in the business model sense, but they are fully aware of networks like Usenet.
It surprised me it took them so long to get started, but maybe it was just prioritized down because the big crowds use BitTorrent and other classic P2P apps.