and here's why. If theyre forced to put free space it will shake the industry whene verything settles down we won't like what we see. The OS developers will just find ways to race to smaller OSs. What I would anticipate is that they'll shuffle everything into downloads. Yeah your Windows OS is really tiny but it doesn't have drivers for anything but the start menu, mouse and keyboard.. want application support. Download that, want printer support, download that, want window support, download that.
It sounds silly now but we've seen worse things come to light.
I don't see a lot of games released here in which you get to play a Pakistani agent conducting ops in the states.
And you never will. They wouldn't let you make a game where the bad guys were taliban because you could play as the bad guys and shoot american soldiers. Quite frankly I Pakistan is completely justified in boycotting the game if only to send a message that "hey we're people and we love our country too and we ALSO get offended when you make games where you shoot us". We can all laugh and talk about how piracy makes this null but if the shoe were on the other foot it wouldn't be nearly as funny. I mean I don't play FPS but I find it kinda scary to think that they're making games where your tasked with assassinating sitting (or former) heads of state. It's a lot more offensive to my sensibilities than anonymous airport massacres
I suggest staying away from First person shooters. I mean Portal is a fine game and all but it's honestly not where I would start. I'd look for something co-op but with a degree of depth. We're not looking for Fire Emblem here but something a bit more than bejeweled. I'd suggest Plants vs Zombies or maybe Geometry Wars. The thing you have to remember with new gamers is that controls are flipping hard. You need a game with simple controls or long enough time to decide what to do which is why turn based games would be a plus but most turn-based games are old school so maybe something with an active battle system. Something kinda like the Penny-Arcade game. Bit.Trip, Jetpack Joyride those are games with simple controls that are easy to pick up. Unfortunately they can get a bit hard. Still start there, maybe try an adventure game like Walking Dead or Back to the Future. You're going to need something easy to get her interested in gaming before you can start to ramp her up on difficulty.
As you go try to show her a variety of games. It's been my experience that most girls like different games and than dudes. My ex used to love Baten Kaitos and just being able to say that gives me a bit of tumescence. But other girls have liked music games like Singstar, or lightgun games like House of the Dead: Overkill (dude that game almost got me laid once.. hugely recommend.
Also try to get something with a heavy cooperative element. Even if she sucks at lightgun games you can help out. Singing doesn't need to be 'defeated'. Co-op games tend to require you to work together. What you need with a new gamer is something that you can effectively take over without letting her know. Mario Galaxy let's you help Mario, and my Overkill partner wasn't all that great but she never knew and as we progressed i let her take over more and more holding back shots.
Borderlands is also a good co-op game if you want to branch her up. It does allow your greater game skill to supplement for her. You can protect her and let her grow as a gamer.
My girl used to be sick at Metroid Prime pinball those are pretty easy and fun games. heavy on intrinsic reward
Beat 'em 'ups like Castle Crashers or Scott Pilgrim are also great for this.
Try to avoid games where you depend on each other like Sports games because her lack of knowledge will drag you down and she'll feel bad. I really think Sands of Time is a fantastic game for a new gamer. It's very well done and it wants you to finish it.
Score attack games like Pac-Man CE DX can be really really fun and also play off classic games she's likely familiar with. Like those 'fake gamer girls' who talk about Super Mario Bros 1. But introduce higher level gaming concepts like faster speed, flashing colors, power ups, graphical fidelity.
A lot of my games were based on my PS3 trophy list but they're the types of games you should look for on the PC, look for things like Hoard which is competitive but not necessarily against each other.
Hit up the Indie spots. World of Goo for instance was a big hit with my sister.
well myspace was never as 'functional' as facebook. When FB came out it was bloody brilliant for actual social networking with your peers. Two things caused the downfall of Facebook (imo) first was when they opened it up to the public. Now obviously that was the first major boon in it's usage and is largely half the reason it's as popular as it is now. Still it ruined the platform as a means to socially network in a meaningful way. It introduced new socials pressures to accept people like your boss and your mother and such. The other major change was the introduction of apps. Which is the OTHER reason why Facebook is as popular as it is but again it completely shattered it's easy of use for it's original demographic.
Smarter business decisions as it turns out and I can't say I wouldn't have made them myself.. actually I probably wouldn't have and my 'facebook' would probably be eclipsed by the next big thing.
Yeah, it's "crappy". With over 1 billion active users every month.
What is it with neckbeards and their total inability to figure out the difference between "crappy" and "best social site ever made"?
here's a for instance. I was on facebook the other day because my Mom died. I wanted to send a message to my close friends, but it's been a long time since I was on facebook so I wanted to scan thru my friendslist and updates my "lists" so I could be sure I wasn't leaving people out or including people. It's like a bloody nightmare to edit your lists on Facebook. Took me 30 minutes to figure out how by accident because nothing is where you'd think it should be and when I DID find it there's no way to see your entire list of friends who aren't on the list. You have to know the name in order to add them. Say what you will about G+'s completely empty user base from a design standpoint it's practically a dream to be able to see the list of friends and drag them to any circle you want all from the circle's menu in your sidebar.
I can easily understand how Zuckerberg's sister accidentally let a family photo get shared to 'friends of friends' instead of just 'friends'.
AOL was popular too.
Many recreational users already have that much [half a million dollars] (or more) property.
I don't think so. The way pot destroys ambition, motivation, and self-discipline, and erodes intelligence, it is hardly a path to prosperity. For these reasons the vast majority of pot users are unable to make a living for themselves and thus depend on public assistance and petty crime to support themselves and their habit. Never mind they would be perfectly capable of supporting themselves were it not for their use of pot --- they would rather be stoned and live off the burden of others.
crikey. I'm against pot and even I think that's way too harse. "vast majority"? I mean seriously?
The government has never focused on recreational users. It's focused on the dealers. Recreational users are just targets of opportunity.
I think maybe that was the way it was supposed to be but jail populations might disagree with you. We have a very large problem with what is apparently prioritization on users. After all it's easier to catch users and when you have a clipboard showing you have so many drug related arrests you can ask Uncle Sam for that Drug War money.
There is a level of technological savvy that's vastly underestimated. There are TONs of people out there using AOL and Hotmail and stuff and these are your family. You can't just let them hang. Do your best to migrate them. Gmail will have a lot more security and it will let you import AOL. Heck lie, tell him you got mail from him so it's both of your accounts are hacked. Whatever it takes. I'm not trying to go full on Machiavellian but there's some validity to the thought: Ends justify the means.
Shame it's an online problem or you could just install teamviewer and clean it out yourself.
I find sometimes chicanery is the most efficient way to deal with these types of situations. Sorry.
basically yes. If you segregate everything business related. Run management thru a separate browser. Maybe make Opera your business browser if you're not already using it. Set to wipe on shut down or whatever. Then any privacy concerns should be minimized.
Building a respectable small business used to be so much harder and nowadays the only reason it's still a viable option for so many people IS because of social networking. You're going to have to use it even if only minimally as a point of contact. people will want to facebook you rather than email you. it's weird like that.
I realize it was I who brought up mobile devices first not you so I apologize for that tangent but while you do bring up a compelling argument for IMAP. Commute email. I'm again not sure how common it's usage is. Maybe it's just in my circle of people I don't know anyone who would be tech savy enough to use IMAP.
How do you think cell phones access these webmail accounts? IMAP perhaps?
good point. IMAP is used on cell phones but a) we're talking about the desktop where most people expect things to work faster than their phone. That IMAP loading delays that were tolerable on the cell phone don't work on desktops and b) I'm not sure IMAP is all that prevalent on the phone with again 'apps' being all the rage. I don't do email on my phone but I would expect that most email providers have an app like the Gmail app, or web-based interfaces. I guess I'd really need to do research to see what's most often used but those are all minor when weighed against point (a) that we're not talking about phone email but desktop email.
Yahoo never really got on the IMAP bandwagon. Now that I've figured out how to do that, I use a desktop mail tool for writing longer emails, more complex email with better formatting and for working offline. Way easier than working on my iPhone, and a way better experience than Yahoo's web UI.
Longer emails, complex email with better formatting and offline access. These are not the concerns of joe average. Just look at video games and how much of the gaming experience requires you to be online. That percentage is growing not shrinking. Being offline is a situation that most people in tech industry don't really consider when it comes to consumer use. Character limits really don't come into play with web-based email and the formatting of quotes, BIU, and hyperlinks are good enough for 98% of users. There's an argument to be made for business and those considerations but I don't see that for consumers.
The nerdrage at HumbleBundle is extremely undeserved. For the game it's a great deal on some a higher tier of games. For THQ it's a chance to get some of that Humble Bundle Developer money. All these bundles tend to make the developers more money than they lose pricing so low. You're not punishing anyone by skipping. I punish the industry more by refusing to buy Call of Duty.
My favorite part about the rage is how many people seem to think that Humble Bundle is a store. All this "I'll never shop here again" nonsense. It's not a store. They offer bundles from time to time, you buy or you don't buy. HB never had a mandate to serve linux only customers or a promise of DRM free games. Heck I remember the annoyance when some of the bundles don't come with steam codes (other bundle sites I think). If the beloved Steam DRM is really so offensive to you it's much easier to just not buy. You never had to buy every single bundle.
Seriously? With cell phones becoming so ubiquitous, that I keep hearing how they're going to kill all other gaming consoles, how on earth do you expect to justify to Joe Average user the need for a dedicated E-mail client? IMAP is cool and all but it's not as fast as gmail especially if you go to a not yours computer. As in for instance when you go to give a presentation in class that's stored in your email (saw it 2 weeks ago, such a rare show of technological competence I nearly cried)
I have a hard enough time getting people to send me emails instead of facebook messages. The only reason my sister uses Mail.app is because she has a hotmail account, hates the interface, sucks at change, and therefore hates gmail's interface too (it's different it sucks). Nevermind that it solves nearly every issue she has with email she just hates it and she probably read one of those "Google is secretly tracking every email FUD articles" so she got paranoid of google on top of that. I'm half sure the only reason she got on Mail.app in the first place was accidentally clicking it and then filling in the wizard prompts to get rid of the screen.
Without a chunk of the average user population, of course email clients are going stale. Unfortunately I don't see any way to get that chunk back. Unless facebook wants to convert their messaging to email boxes and not provide a web (or app) interface. Yeah and maybe Zuckerberg wants to literally piss away a few million bucks.
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and here's why. If theyre forced to put free space it will shake the industry whene verything settles down we won't like what we see. The OS developers will just find ways to race to smaller OSs. What I would anticipate is that they'll shuffle everything into downloads. Yeah your Windows OS is really tiny but it doesn't have drivers for anything but the start menu, mouse and keyboard.. want application support. Download that, want printer support, download that, want window support, download that. It sounds silly now but we've seen worse things come to light.
I don't see a lot of games released here in which you get to play a Pakistani agent conducting ops in the states.
And you never will. They wouldn't let you make a game where the bad guys were taliban because you could play as the bad guys and shoot american soldiers. Quite frankly I Pakistan is completely justified in boycotting the game if only to send a message that "hey we're people and we love our country too and we ALSO get offended when you make games where you shoot us". We can all laugh and talk about how piracy makes this null but if the shoe were on the other foot it wouldn't be nearly as funny. I mean I don't play FPS but I find it kinda scary to think that they're making games where your tasked with assassinating sitting (or former) heads of state. It's a lot more offensive to my sensibilities than anonymous airport massacres
so close.. you were so close to being a reasonable person that I disagreed with. Now you just sound like a tool. Didn't bother to read past this.
I suggest staying away from First person shooters. I mean Portal is a fine game and all but it's honestly not where I would start. I'd look for something co-op but with a degree of depth. We're not looking for Fire Emblem here but something a bit more than bejeweled. I'd suggest Plants vs Zombies or maybe Geometry Wars. The thing you have to remember with new gamers is that controls are flipping hard. You need a game with simple controls or long enough time to decide what to do which is why turn based games would be a plus but most turn-based games are old school so maybe something with an active battle system. Something kinda like the Penny-Arcade game. Bit.Trip, Jetpack Joyride those are games with simple controls that are easy to pick up. Unfortunately they can get a bit hard. Still start there, maybe try an adventure game like Walking Dead or Back to the Future. You're going to need something easy to get her interested in gaming before you can start to ramp her up on difficulty.
As you go try to show her a variety of games. It's been my experience that most girls like different games and than dudes. My ex used to love Baten Kaitos and just being able to say that gives me a bit of tumescence. But other girls have liked music games like Singstar, or lightgun games like House of the Dead: Overkill (dude that game almost got me laid once.. hugely recommend.
Also try to get something with a heavy cooperative element. Even if she sucks at lightgun games you can help out. Singing doesn't need to be 'defeated'. Co-op games tend to require you to work together. What you need with a new gamer is something that you can effectively take over without letting her know. Mario Galaxy let's you help Mario, and my Overkill partner wasn't all that great but she never knew and as we progressed i let her take over more and more holding back shots.
Borderlands is also a good co-op game if you want to branch her up. It does allow your greater game skill to supplement for her. You can protect her and let her grow as a gamer.
My girl used to be sick at Metroid Prime pinball those are pretty easy and fun games. heavy on intrinsic reward
Beat 'em 'ups like Castle Crashers or Scott Pilgrim are also great for this.
Try to avoid games where you depend on each other like Sports games because her lack of knowledge will drag you down and she'll feel bad. I really think Sands of Time is a fantastic game for a new gamer. It's very well done and it wants you to finish it.
Score attack games like Pac-Man CE DX can be really really fun and also play off classic games she's likely familiar with. Like those 'fake gamer girls' who talk about Super Mario Bros 1. But introduce higher level gaming concepts like faster speed, flashing colors, power ups, graphical fidelity.
A lot of my games were based on my PS3 trophy list but they're the types of games you should look for on the PC, look for things like Hoard which is competitive but not necessarily against each other.
Hit up the Indie spots. World of Goo for instance was a big hit with my sister.
it's a site.... where you find .... adventurous women *drops mic*
well myspace was never as 'functional' as facebook. When FB came out it was bloody brilliant for actual social networking with your peers. Two things caused the downfall of Facebook (imo) first was when they opened it up to the public. Now obviously that was the first major boon in it's usage and is largely half the reason it's as popular as it is now. Still it ruined the platform as a means to socially network in a meaningful way. It introduced new socials pressures to accept people like your boss and your mother and such. The other major change was the introduction of apps. Which is the OTHER reason why Facebook is as popular as it is but again it completely shattered it's easy of use for it's original demographic. Smarter business decisions as it turns out and I can't say I wouldn't have made them myself.. actually I probably wouldn't have and my 'facebook' would probably be eclipsed by the next big thing.
Yeah, it's "crappy". With over 1 billion active users every month.
What is it with neckbeards and their total inability to figure out the difference between "crappy" and "best social site ever made"?
here's a for instance. I was on facebook the other day because my Mom died. I wanted to send a message to my close friends, but it's been a long time since I was on facebook so I wanted to scan thru my friendslist and updates my "lists" so I could be sure I wasn't leaving people out or including people. It's like a bloody nightmare to edit your lists on Facebook. Took me 30 minutes to figure out how by accident because nothing is where you'd think it should be and when I DID find it there's no way to see your entire list of friends who aren't on the list. You have to know the name in order to add them. Say what you will about G+'s completely empty user base from a design standpoint it's practically a dream to be able to see the list of friends and drag them to any circle you want all from the circle's menu in your sidebar. I can easily understand how Zuckerberg's sister accidentally let a family photo get shared to 'friends of friends' instead of just 'friends'. AOL was popular too.
I don't think so. The way pot destroys ambition, motivation, and self-discipline, and erodes intelligence, it is hardly a path to prosperity. For these reasons the vast majority of pot users are unable to make a living for themselves and thus depend on public assistance and petty crime to support themselves and their habit. Never mind they would be perfectly capable of supporting themselves were it not for their use of pot --- they would rather be stoned and live off the burden of others.
crikey. I'm against pot and even I think that's way too harse. "vast majority"? I mean seriously?
The government has never focused on recreational users. It's focused on the dealers. Recreational users are just targets of opportunity.
I think maybe that was the way it was supposed to be but jail populations might disagree with you. We have a very large problem with what is apparently prioritization on users. After all it's easier to catch users and when you have a clipboard showing you have so many drug related arrests you can ask Uncle Sam for that Drug War money.
There is a level of technological savvy that's vastly underestimated. There are TONs of people out there using AOL and Hotmail and stuff and these are your family. You can't just let them hang. Do your best to migrate them. Gmail will have a lot more security and it will let you import AOL. Heck lie, tell him you got mail from him so it's both of your accounts are hacked. Whatever it takes. I'm not trying to go full on Machiavellian but there's some validity to the thought: Ends justify the means. Shame it's an online problem or you could just install teamviewer and clean it out yourself. I find sometimes chicanery is the most efficient way to deal with these types of situations. Sorry.
basically yes. If you segregate everything business related. Run management thru a separate browser. Maybe make Opera your business browser if you're not already using it. Set to wipe on shut down or whatever. Then any privacy concerns should be minimized. Building a respectable small business used to be so much harder and nowadays the only reason it's still a viable option for so many people IS because of social networking. You're going to have to use it even if only minimally as a point of contact. people will want to facebook you rather than email you. it's weird like that.
I realize it was I who brought up mobile devices first not you so I apologize for that tangent but while you do bring up a compelling argument for IMAP. Commute email. I'm again not sure how common it's usage is. Maybe it's just in my circle of people I don't know anyone who would be tech savy enough to use IMAP.
How do you think cell phones access these webmail accounts? IMAP perhaps?
good point. IMAP is used on cell phones but a) we're talking about the desktop where most people expect things to work faster than their phone. That IMAP loading delays that were tolerable on the cell phone don't work on desktops and b) I'm not sure IMAP is all that prevalent on the phone with again 'apps' being all the rage. I don't do email on my phone but I would expect that most email providers have an app like the Gmail app, or web-based interfaces. I guess I'd really need to do research to see what's most often used but those are all minor when weighed against point (a) that we're not talking about phone email but desktop email.
Yahoo never really got on the IMAP bandwagon. Now that I've figured out how to do that, I use a desktop mail tool for writing longer emails, more complex email with better formatting and for working offline. Way easier than working on my iPhone, and a way better experience than Yahoo's web UI.
Longer emails, complex email with better formatting and offline access. These are not the concerns of joe average. Just look at video games and how much of the gaming experience requires you to be online. That percentage is growing not shrinking. Being offline is a situation that most people in tech industry don't really consider when it comes to consumer use. Character limits really don't come into play with web-based email and the formatting of quotes, BIU, and hyperlinks are good enough for 98% of users. There's an argument to be made for business and those considerations but I don't see that for consumers.
The nerdrage at HumbleBundle is extremely undeserved. For the game it's a great deal on some a higher tier of games. For THQ it's a chance to get some of that Humble Bundle Developer money. All these bundles tend to make the developers more money than they lose pricing so low. You're not punishing anyone by skipping. I punish the industry more by refusing to buy Call of Duty. My favorite part about the rage is how many people seem to think that Humble Bundle is a store. All this "I'll never shop here again" nonsense. It's not a store. They offer bundles from time to time, you buy or you don't buy. HB never had a mandate to serve linux only customers or a promise of DRM free games. Heck I remember the annoyance when some of the bundles don't come with steam codes (other bundle sites I think). If the beloved Steam DRM is really so offensive to you it's much easier to just not buy. You never had to buy every single bundle.
Seriously? With cell phones becoming so ubiquitous, that I keep hearing how they're going to kill all other gaming consoles, how on earth do you expect to justify to Joe Average user the need for a dedicated E-mail client? IMAP is cool and all but it's not as fast as gmail especially if you go to a not yours computer. As in for instance when you go to give a presentation in class that's stored in your email (saw it 2 weeks ago, such a rare show of technological competence I nearly cried) I have a hard enough time getting people to send me emails instead of facebook messages. The only reason my sister uses Mail.app is because she has a hotmail account, hates the interface, sucks at change, and therefore hates gmail's interface too (it's different it sucks). Nevermind that it solves nearly every issue she has with email she just hates it and she probably read one of those "Google is secretly tracking every email FUD articles" so she got paranoid of google on top of that. I'm half sure the only reason she got on Mail.app in the first place was accidentally clicking it and then filling in the wizard prompts to get rid of the screen. Without a chunk of the average user population, of course email clients are going stale. Unfortunately I don't see any way to get that chunk back. Unless facebook wants to convert their messaging to email boxes and not provide a web (or app) interface. Yeah and maybe Zuckerberg wants to literally piss away a few million bucks.