i used to try to get jon katz removed too, but i gave up on that a long time ago. besides which i e-mailed back and forth with him, and while his articles may often be trite and silly.. he's a nice guy and much more intelligent in one-on-one conversation. kinda bizarre.
in any case,.. your personal attacks on me have no ground to stand on so i won't bother addressing them any more than that, and as far as american politics go, you can ignore them just by filtering out that single topic. if you bothered to read my post you'd have seen i suggested maybe giving kuro5hin its own topic so people can ignore it.
the purpose of my post, as i said before, was to try to improve the site. whether you agree or not is up to you, i really don't care.
...dave
apparently the moderators didn't :P
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oh well, that's ok,.. hopefully i'll see these posts in metamoderation and pay them back;)
i'll just do some karma whoring in later subjects today and get the karma back:P
...dave
i didn't say 'don't put this on' i said 'why is it here? i don't want to see this and i believe most readers don't either'... it is called constructive criticism in the hopes that the site will benefit from it.
who am i? i'm yo daddy.
no seriously, i'm a long-time reader, and highly intelligent trained baboon.
your post is the one that's unhelpful and off-topic:) (unconstructive is not a word, by the way.)
...dave
urgh, i hope that's just paranoia..
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'coz it would be really really sad if it were true,.. i'm thinking more along the 'malda & co. want to show unbiased they are by posting kuro5hin updates' line of thought.
the whole,.. the simplest explanation is probably the right one, thing.
...dave
in this thread did a good job of that already, read their posts.
true some podunk hick universities value sports over academics but what do you expect out of rednecks?
the fact is there are a/lot/ of great academic universities, and i work at one (which also happens to be known for football, but that's just because michigan is the state of champions.)
...dave
personally, i want stability. i don't like switching jobs all the time, i'm sick of it.
getting paid more and being able to work on your own terms is nice, though. hopefully you can be contracted so that either you get the benefits of the company you're working for, or the IS firm you're contracted through gives you some.
...dave
unions are totally unnecessary. if you are working for a company that is abusing you then leave it and find a better job. that is your way of fighting back. it's not like there are 500 of us at most companies, and the closing of one office is going to ruin a whole town. i am from and still live in michigan, so i know all about the auto workers and blah blah blah..
anyway, no, unionizing is not necessary. if your job sucks, leave it and find one that doesn't.
that's what i did, now my biggest gripe with my job is i get bored a lot.
...dave
i will attempt to go through this horrible piece of trash one bit at a time and tear it up...
An age-old theological debate has finally been resolved: Evil really does have a valuable place in the world.
no, it doesn't. hitler did a lot of good for germany's economy, does that mean he should be heralded as a great person? he tried to unite the world... that wasn't a Good Thing(tm), yet this article seems to thing Bilbo of the Gatespeople trying to unite the gaming world is just great..
Because last July, Beelzebub himself -- Bill Gates -- announced that Microsoft will spend half a billion dollars on marketing and sales for its new Xbox game console. Following that decree, he released 1,000 developer kits to game designers.
yeah, great.. whatever... next..
Two months earlier, Gates sent shock waves through the gaming community when it was revealed that he had ordered his minions to buy premier computer game studio Bungie Software, creator of the beloved Marathon and Myth series and one of the last independent studios to publish its own titles. Game-loving hobbits and elves could only shudder -- the dark shadow of software's Sauron was inexorably expanding its reach.
more like bungie sent shockwaves through the industry when they traded in their souls for a wad of cash. i've long since stopped being surprised when M$ buys any company that's willing to sell.
Indeed, the Chicago company thus sent in exodus to the rain-swept campus of Redmond, Wash., was but the latest to make the unholy alliance, joining Relic, Gas Powered Games, Ensemble Studios (creator of Age of Empires) and highly admired Wing Commander designer Chris Roberts, among others.
thus destroying the possibility that those studios would do anything interesting... i was looking forward to Dungeon Siege from GPG.. but... the possibility that it will be bug free, run on decent hardware, be innovative at ALL, those are all gone.. and it's a question whether it will come out for the PC at all now..
But it was good. It was very, very good. Gamers should rejoice.
WHY?!?! he never once in this entire article supports that statement. he provides no reason we should be glad that M$ is buying up game studios left and right..
I make this confession at great cost. I've resisted saying it for nearly six months. I didn't even bother attending Gates' unveiling of the Xbox, with its built-in DVD player and internal hard drive (a console first) at the Game Developers Conference in March. No, I was there to see Peter Molyneux, a genuine genius, not Gates, a lucre-obsessed, mediocre coder who'd lucked into some insanely fortuitous timing and software acquisitions to become the richest dandruff victim in human existence. What did I care about this game console of his, some ill-conceived also-ran muscling into an already crowded market?
back then apparently you hadn't been either roughed up in an alley or handed a wad of cash by some microsoft goon.. the console market IS over-crowded.. sega's certain demise is proof of that.
I even said as much three months later, between my fifth plate of lousy sushi and my sixth Sapporo, on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, slushily expounding to a cadre of pained-looking game industry executives, "Everyone who wants to own a console already owns one, and if they get a new one, it'll probably be Sony's PlayStation 2, which can play their old PlayStation games. And the PC gamers won't buy the Xbox because by the time it comes out -- who's going to wait until fall 2001, anyway? -- top-line PCs will be two, three times faster. So who the hell is left to get an Xbox, unless Gates starts giving them away?"
the last bit here is quite right.. by the time the x-box arrives, everyone who wants a new console will have a PSX2./everyone/.. what is not mentioned in this article (among feeble attempts to make the PSX2 look unpopular and slight mentions of complaints) is that EVERY FUCKING PLAYSTATION 2 WHICH IS BEING SHIPPED TO THE US HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLD.
The scales have now fallen from my eyes. In ways that seem all too painfully obvious, there is no option but to accept the coming of the Xbox, which is likely to devastate the market for cutting-edge PC games, not to mention its competitors, and gain a near monopoly on the console market, as surely as Microsoft has with the desktop operating system.
riiight,... if it's so obvious why don't you tell us? oh you need to blather on for four more pages.. i see. what is painfully obvious is M$ gained its desktop monopoly because it had no competition at the time.
the x-box is fighting an uphill battle.
just as msn did. look how wonderfully successful that has been!
This, however, is an unalloyed good. The power of the Xbox will unleash a renaissance of creativity and risk taking. Meanwhile, it will liberate gamers from the PC and the crack-addict lure of endless new peripherals and CPUs. All computer gamers, then, should welcome Gates' entrance into the market and start saving their money, not for a top-end PC, but for a $200 or $300 Xbox (when it arrives sometime next year) and a high-resolution TV -- all the while cordially reaching out to convince other gamers who might not yet be converted. Spread the gospel: This monopoly will be good for you.
and you will be able to build a PC with the same hardware (or better) that the X-box is made of for about the same price.:P whoopity doo! it's going to be a PIECE OF SHIT. it will be a STANDARD piece of shit, but it will still be one.
this whole talk about how making games for PCs is "confusing" for developers because they don't know what their audience will have is a load of crap. if they aim for the x-box's low specs, every PC at the time will be able to run it. sure you'll have to say 'fuck you' to all the people who can't understand OpenGL (or add support for other APIs) but them's the breaks. with the x-box you're saying "fuck you' to everyone who doesn't own an x-box!
i also find his insisting, basically ASSUMING that we will agree with his stupid opinion infuriating. this guy is a fucking moron.. but we will continue..
So how did I get here and why should you? The first push down the road to Microsoft love came last year, when a well-paid technical support representative for Sony told me to open my computer and blow on it.
ok first of all, that guy is getting paid $8/hour and doesn't give a shit. calling technical support is like banging a hammer against your computer. it is not going to help anything.
this guy claims to be knowledgeable and claims that his friends are, but anyone who is has no trouble getting games to run, sorry. i never have. never. ever. not even when i was twelve years old.
seriously, i think you have to be a moron to have problems with games nowadays. especially everquest, what the fuck? if you have some non-standard, POS video card of course it's not going to fucking work...
All I wanted to do was install and run Everquest, by no means the most technically demanding game on the market. And even while my PC easily met the minimum stated hardware requirements, the game simply refused to run. After the log-in screen, it would tantalizingly begin to load but, at the last minute, blink the Wintel equivalent of "Fuck you, pal" and unceremoniously crash back to the desktop.
this is a problem with windows, dumbass. and yet you are busy licking the shit out of bill gates' sphinctre throughout this entire article.. great.... you are a smart person.
The technical rep's e-mail response to my query for help was prompt, thorough -- and totally infuriating. It was a litany of annoyances, a laundry list of best-guess fixes, patches and workarounds: Reinstall the game; reinstall the 3-D graphics card drivers; go to the graphics card manufacturer's Web site and see if there's a more recent driver to download; turn the sound card off; buy more RAM; buy another graphics card; reinstall Windows system files. And the final one, the true clincher:
"If all else fails, you could take the case off your CPU and point a fan at the graphics card. That may seem crazy, but sometimes it works."
again, you called him, moron. if you can't get it to work on your own,.. how the fuck is some guy far far away getting paid $8/hour going to know how to fix your fucking computer for you over the phone? tech support is there as a comforting thing to idiots. it doesn't work most of the time unless you are just so stupid you're doing something that is obvious (like not plugging your computer in.)
Crazy, indeed -- and one clear reason why change is needed in the PC gaming world, change that only a Microsoft has the power to deliver.
yeah because it's their fucking OS that's broken, i am at the point of wanting to strangle this nimrod.
As "Erik," senior writer for Old Man Murray, a scabrously funny site for hardcore gamer and industry vets, puts it, "No normal person should have the patience to invest the 12 hours a day it takes to stay on top of making your PC, and especially your games, work. And this is why PC games are a mess. A lot of people I know who like games won't touch a PC. And again, they're not dummies. They're smart enough consumers to sense what a big, shitty headache PC gaming is and give it a wide, wide, wide, wide miss."
the fact that this guy thinks old man murray is hilarious is an indication of how stupid an inept he is.
OMM's humour is based on exaggeration, he is obviously taking things a little far in this quote... my computer is well over a year old.. i don't spend any time on it, have never had any trouble with it. it takes no effort to 'keep it working'.. unless you are throwing it out of a 2nd story window every day.
The problem, quite simply, is that PCs are impossible to design for.
really? is that so?
well, let's see now... hmm,.. no, i think maybe it's *windows* that's impossible to design for. if you want to make sure a game runs on/most/ people's computers you need to aim lower. the problem is, the gaming industry is in a mode where games are not expected to work when they're released, they are not tested enough. console games generally go through much more testing (and when they don't, they crash just like PC games,.. witness Gran Turismo 2 among many others for the PSX..)
"Probably something that most gamers don't understand is the difficulty of developing for the PC market," says Ken Levine, general manager at Irrational Games. "A large part of the time spent in testing a product involves endless cycles of figuring out why your character disappears on video card X or the sound crackles on sound card Y." Resolving these conflicts involves clawing through the operating system's guts, and the unique configurations of Compaq, Dell and the myriad other Wintel manufacturers.
that is because there is a lack of standards, and you dumbshits won't get behind one, forcing the card manufacturers to adopt it (or vice versa.) there is nothing inherently more difficult about programming for PCs, the industry is just in a mess right now because of the explosion it has gone through during the 90s, now you have tons of idiots in it who don't know what the fuck they are doing. john carmack is a/good/ hacker, he is heralded as a messiah because he's one of the very very few programmers in the gaming industry who's any good right now!
Eliminating these migraines costs time and money -- both of which could be better put to use focusing on the developer's main task: a compelling, creative, emotionally engaging game.
uhh these are separate roles, or should be, in a good company. you have testers and you have developers. and you have designers. the designers do not waste their time testing, and the testers do not come up with the plot. and the programmers fix the bugs and write the engine. DUH.
"Other than the huge amount of money that can be made," seethes Erik, "I have no idea why anyone bothers writing games for the PC. From an artistic standpoint, it's like making a movie knowing that every projector will be running at a different speed."
i get the distinct impression that this numbnuts has a game running behind and this is a good place for him to make excuses for his boss/investors.
that is the dumbest analogy i've heard in a really, really long time. a reel of film is static, a game doesn't need to be. games from 1982 might not run well on your p3, going a little fast, but that is because they did not anticipate people wanting to play those old games on fast machines... there is no excuse for that kind of bullshit anymore, the ways around it are well documented.
well i've already spent far too much time writing this, i have made just about every point that needs to be made. this article is a load of bullshit, the x-box is too little too late. a year behind the PSX2... everyone will already have one, and by that time will be awaiting the sequels to their new favourite games come christmas time, they won't be very interested in buying a new system.
...dave
in years and years, amazon wasn't so insane i think when it was made. so, i'm sure if the original author were to go back to the site the amazon crap would be removed.
i agree, i am very against frivolous patents and lawsuits but, if you read that site... *sigh* nevermind. i'm not gonna argue this:P
anyway,... uhmm i'm not a 'karma whore' but it sucks when you lose your +1 bonus 'coz you don't know that some moderators will mark you down to 1 just 'coz they feel like it..:)
...dave
that linux is easier to use that mac os. for a newbie or a person with a lazy brain who can't deal with an xterm, go with mac os... have a party..
as for me,... i/like/ xterms. i can get work done a LOT faster maneuvreing through one than i can through explorer or finder,.. that's for damn sure. i do not like graphical file managers, they are awkward and slow..(compare trying to highlight some files rather than typing a single line,.. when you type 90+ wpm (been a while so i can't say with authority an exact measurement), the typing is a lot quicker.)
anyway,... it's a matter of personal preferrence, but i know a/lot/ of people who think macos is very, very ugly.
you can make enlightenment look however you want, it needn't be ugly, and saying that it is is just ignorant.
...dave
being silly by typing things like that or taking the time to point it out? (and marking your post to 2 at that!)
look,.. maybe you don't have the disdain for MiKKKrosoft i do, but i really, truly hate them..it's the closest thing i have to a religion... do not tell me what i should or should not type. if it bothers you, that is a personal problem.
i am well aware of what a silly cliche it is, and that it is far from clever... that is part of the joke. if you don't get it, well i'm sorry, you need to relax.
next time you think 'hey i should tell this guy not to say/type X, Y and/or Z' slap yourself and don't do it.
...d4v3:P
*sigh*... it's not a matter of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'... M$ is advocating everyone move their existing (working or not) systems to Win2k, if they can't/won't/do not do the same themselves,... if you can't see the hypocrisy, and obvious proof that M$ claims about Windoze are false, i don't know what i can do to un-stupid you..
as far as saying Windoze and M$ and such,... *shrugs*.. why do i type 'w3rd'? it's silly..
...dave
By this logic Harley-Davidson should use their motorcycles to haul motorcycles to dealers instead of using big trucks
harley does not advertise that their bikes can tow things.
m$ makes claims that everyone should run some form of Windoze, for every possible situation.
that is the difference and the reason why this is a funny article (though as i said in another post, no revelation to those of us who have experience w/windoze and various forms of *nix.)
...dave
the point is they *should* have reason to move to windoze, or their product has no purpose. there's no way it can be cheaper than freebsd, so if it was merely equivallent, then it would be useless.
as it is, it is/inferior/! which is even sadder, but no surprise to me. i've known this for years.
...dave
but the obvious retort is you don't get to pick and choose there:P there's a level of convenience, which is unarguably a big deal.
the movie theatre actually loses in the field of convenience vs. downloading something online (assuming there was a community akin to napster/gnutella)... but like i said, i think the experience is so much better, people would still pay, the studios could still make their money,..
i know i would still go. especially if the prices dropped.
...dave
i recently had an argument w/my own father about how the patents are out of hand,.. he didn't seem to agree. i couldn't get it through his head that the record companies wouldn't collapse just because you can download songs for free...
he would switch it to movies and say who is going to go see movies at the theatre for $8 when you can see them at home for free on your computer?
and i said 'well the prices of tickets would come down, which is a good thing,... and no one's home system, no matter how good, can really compete with a 50' screen... '
there's gotta be some big changes soon.....:)
...dave
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i used to try to get jon katz removed too, but i gave up on that a long time ago. besides which i e-mailed back and forth with him, and while his articles may often be trite and silly.. he's a nice guy and much more intelligent in one-on-one conversation. kinda bizarre.
in any case,.. your personal attacks on me have no ground to stand on so i won't bother addressing them any more than that, and as far as american politics go, you can ignore them just by filtering out that single topic. if you bothered to read my post you'd have seen i suggested maybe giving kuro5hin its own topic so people can ignore it.
the purpose of my post, as i said before, was to try to improve the site. whether you agree or not is up to you, i really don't care.
...dave
oh well, that's ok,.. hopefully i'll see these posts in metamoderation and pay them back
i'll just do some karma whoring in later subjects today and get the karma back
...dave
i didn't say 'don't put this on' i said 'why is it here? i don't want to see this and i believe most readers don't either'... it is called constructive criticism in the hopes that the site will benefit from it.
who am i? i'm yo daddy.
no seriously, i'm a long-time reader, and highly intelligent trained baboon.
your post is the one that's unhelpful and off-topic
...dave
'coz it would be really really sad if it were true,.. i'm thinking more along the 'malda & co. want to show unbiased they are by posting kuro5hin updates' line of thought.
the whole,.. the simplest explanation is probably the right one, thing.
...dave
uhh try news.bbc.co.uk
kuro5hin == legitimate news?
hardly.
...dave
and over-compensated, so what?
the guy's point was we have no good academic universities and all american schools care about is sports. that is stupid.
you are also, apparently, stupid. i read all the posts, and most of them are stupid as well.
sorry, but, it has been explained to you enough, i am not repeating myself any more.
...dave
This isn't about crap employers
then...
Managers are appalled at the cost of IT staff and don't want to pay us what we're worth
you just described a crap employer.
i rest my case.
...dave
in this thread did a good job of that already, read their posts.
true some podunk hick universities value sports over academics but what do you expect out of rednecks?
the fact is there are a
...dave
and secondly, that
sorry, his points are that of an ignoramus.
personally, i want stability. i don't like switching jobs all the time, i'm sick of it.
getting paid more and being able to work on your own terms is nice, though. hopefully you can be contracted so that either you get the benefits of the company you're working for, or the IS firm you're contracted through gives you some.
...dave
unions are totally unnecessary. if you are working for a company that is abusing you then leave it and find a better job. that is your way of fighting back. it's not like there are 500 of us at most companies, and the closing of one office is going to ruin a whole town. i am from and still live in michigan, so i know all about the auto workers and blah blah blah..
anyway, no, unionizing is not necessary. if your job sucks, leave it and find one that doesn't.
that's what i did, now my biggest gripe with my job is i get bored a lot.
...dave
i will attempt to go through this horrible piece of trash one bit at a time and tear it up...
An age-old theological debate has finally been resolved: Evil really does have a valuable place in the world.
no, it doesn't. hitler did a lot of good for germany's economy, does that mean he should be heralded as a great person? he tried to unite the world... that wasn't a Good Thing(tm), yet this article seems to thing Bilbo of the Gatespeople trying to unite the gaming world is just great..
Because last July, Beelzebub himself -- Bill Gates -- announced that Microsoft will spend half a billion dollars on marketing and sales for its new Xbox game console. Following that decree, he released 1,000 developer kits to game designers.
yeah, great.. whatever... next..
Two months earlier, Gates sent shock waves through the gaming community when it was revealed that he had ordered his minions to buy premier computer game studio Bungie Software, creator of the beloved Marathon and Myth series and one of the last independent studios to publish its own titles. Game-loving hobbits and elves could only shudder -- the dark shadow of software's Sauron was inexorably expanding its reach.
more like bungie sent shockwaves through the industry when they traded in their souls for a wad of cash. i've long since stopped being surprised when M$ buys any company that's willing to sell.
Indeed, the Chicago company thus sent in exodus to the rain-swept campus of Redmond, Wash., was but the latest to make the unholy alliance, joining Relic, Gas Powered Games, Ensemble Studios (creator of Age of Empires) and highly admired Wing Commander designer Chris Roberts, among others.
thus destroying the possibility that those studios would do anything interesting... i was looking forward to Dungeon Siege from GPG.. but... the possibility that it will be bug free, run on decent hardware, be innovative at ALL, those are all gone.. and it's a question whether it will come out for the PC at all now..
But it was good. It was very, very good. Gamers should rejoice.
WHY?!?! he never once in this entire article supports that statement. he provides no reason we should be glad that M$ is buying up game studios left and right..
I make this confession at great cost. I've resisted saying it for nearly six months. I didn't even bother attending Gates' unveiling of the Xbox, with its built-in DVD player and internal hard drive (a console first) at the Game Developers Conference in March. No, I was there to see Peter Molyneux, a genuine genius, not Gates, a lucre-obsessed, mediocre coder who'd lucked into some insanely fortuitous timing and software acquisitions to become the richest dandruff victim in human existence. What did I care about this game console of his, some ill-conceived also-ran muscling into an already crowded market?
back then apparently you hadn't been either roughed up in an alley or handed a wad of cash by some microsoft goon.. the console market IS over-crowded.. sega's certain demise is proof of that.
I even said as much three months later, between my fifth plate of lousy sushi and my sixth Sapporo, on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, slushily expounding to a cadre of pained-looking game industry executives, "Everyone who wants to own a console already owns one, and if they get a new one, it'll probably be Sony's PlayStation 2, which can play their old PlayStation games. And the PC gamers won't buy the Xbox because by the time it comes out -- who's going to wait until fall 2001, anyway? -- top-line PCs will be two, three times faster. So who the hell is left to get an Xbox, unless Gates starts giving them away?"
the last bit here is quite right.. by the time the x-box arrives, everyone who wants a new console will have a PSX2.
The scales have now fallen from my eyes. In ways that seem all too painfully obvious, there is no option but to accept the coming of the Xbox, which is likely to devastate the market for cutting-edge PC games, not to mention its competitors, and gain a near monopoly on the console market, as surely as Microsoft has with the desktop operating system.
riiight,... if it's so obvious why don't you tell us? oh you need to blather on for four more pages.. i see. what is painfully obvious is M$ gained its desktop monopoly because it had no competition at the time.
the x-box is fighting an uphill battle.
just as msn did. look how wonderfully successful that has been!
This, however, is an unalloyed good. The power of the Xbox will unleash a renaissance of creativity and risk taking. Meanwhile, it will liberate gamers from the PC and the crack-addict lure of endless new peripherals and CPUs. All computer gamers, then, should welcome Gates' entrance into the market and start saving their money, not for a top-end PC, but for a $200 or $300 Xbox (when it arrives sometime next year) and a high-resolution TV -- all the while cordially reaching out to convince other gamers who might not yet be converted. Spread the gospel: This monopoly will be good for you.
and you will be able to build a PC with the same hardware (or better) that the X-box is made of for about the same price.
this whole talk about how making games for PCs is "confusing" for developers because they don't know what their audience will have is a load of crap. if they aim for the x-box's low specs, every PC at the time will be able to run it. sure you'll have to say 'fuck you' to all the people who can't understand OpenGL (or add support for other APIs) but them's the breaks. with the x-box you're saying "fuck you' to everyone who doesn't own an x-box!
i also find his insisting, basically ASSUMING that we will agree with his stupid opinion infuriating. this guy is a fucking moron.. but we will continue..
So how did I get here and why should you? The first push down the road to Microsoft love came last year, when a well-paid technical support representative for Sony told me to open my computer and blow on it.
ok first of all, that guy is getting paid $8/hour and doesn't give a shit. calling technical support is like banging a hammer against your computer. it is not going to help anything.
this guy claims to be knowledgeable and claims that his friends are, but anyone who is has no trouble getting games to run, sorry. i never have. never. ever. not even when i was twelve years old.
seriously, i think you have to be a moron to have problems with games nowadays. especially everquest, what the fuck? if you have some non-standard, POS video card of course it's not going to fucking work...
All I wanted to do was install and run Everquest, by no means the most technically demanding game on the market. And even while my PC easily met the minimum stated hardware requirements, the game simply refused to run. After the log-in screen, it would tantalizingly begin to load but, at the last minute, blink the Wintel equivalent of "Fuck you, pal" and unceremoniously crash back to the desktop.
this is a problem with windows, dumbass. and yet you are busy licking the shit out of bill gates' sphinctre throughout this entire article.. great.... you are a smart person.
The technical rep's e-mail response to my query for help was prompt, thorough -- and totally infuriating. It was a litany of annoyances, a laundry list of best-guess fixes, patches and workarounds: Reinstall the game; reinstall the 3-D graphics card drivers; go to the graphics card manufacturer's Web site and see if there's a more recent driver to download; turn the sound card off; buy more RAM; buy another graphics card; reinstall Windows system files. And the final one, the true clincher:
"If all else fails, you could take the case off your CPU and point a fan at the graphics card. That may seem crazy, but sometimes it works."
again, you called him, moron. if you can't get it to work on your own,.. how the fuck is some guy far far away getting paid $8/hour going to know how to fix your fucking computer for you over the phone? tech support is there as a comforting thing to idiots. it doesn't work most of the time unless you are just so stupid you're doing something that is obvious (like not plugging your computer in.)
Crazy, indeed -- and one clear reason why change is needed in the PC gaming world, change that only a Microsoft has the power to deliver.
yeah because it's their fucking OS that's broken, i am at the point of wanting to strangle this nimrod.
As "Erik," senior writer for Old Man Murray, a scabrously funny site for hardcore gamer and industry vets, puts it, "No normal person should have the patience to invest the 12 hours a day it takes to stay on top of making your PC, and especially your games, work. And this is why PC games are a mess. A lot of people I know who like games won't touch a PC. And again, they're not dummies. They're smart enough consumers to sense what a big, shitty headache PC gaming is and give it a wide, wide, wide, wide miss."
the fact that this guy thinks old man murray is hilarious is an indication of how stupid an inept he is.
OMM's humour is based on exaggeration, he is obviously taking things a little far in this quote... my computer is well over a year old.. i don't spend any time on it, have never had any trouble with it. it takes no effort to 'keep it working'.. unless you are throwing it out of a 2nd story window every day.
The problem, quite simply, is that PCs are impossible to design for.
really? is that so?
well, let's see now... hmm,.. no, i think maybe it's *windows* that's impossible to design for. if you want to make sure a game runs on
"Probably something that most gamers don't understand is the difficulty of developing for the PC market," says Ken Levine, general manager at Irrational Games. "A large part of the time spent in testing a product involves endless cycles of figuring out why your character disappears on video card X or the sound crackles on sound card Y." Resolving these conflicts involves clawing through the operating system's guts, and the unique configurations of Compaq, Dell and the myriad other Wintel manufacturers.
that is because there is a lack of standards, and you dumbshits won't get behind one, forcing the card manufacturers to adopt it (or vice versa.) there is nothing inherently more difficult about programming for PCs, the industry is just in a mess right now because of the explosion it has gone through during the 90s, now you have tons of idiots in it who don't know what the fuck they are doing. john carmack is a
Eliminating these migraines costs time and money -- both of which could be better put to use focusing on the developer's main task: a compelling, creative, emotionally engaging game.
uhh these are separate roles, or should be, in a good company. you have testers and you have developers. and you have designers. the designers do not waste their time testing, and the testers do not come up with the plot. and the programmers fix the bugs and write the engine. DUH.
"Other than the huge amount of money that can be made," seethes Erik, "I have no idea why anyone bothers writing games for the PC. From an artistic standpoint, it's like making a movie knowing that every projector will be running at a different speed."
i get the distinct impression that this numbnuts has a game running behind and this is a good place for him to make excuses for his boss/investors.
that is the dumbest analogy i've heard in a really, really long time. a reel of film is static, a game doesn't need to be. games from 1982 might not run well on your p3, going a little fast, but that is because they did not anticipate people wanting to play those old games on fast machines... there is no excuse for that kind of bullshit anymore, the ways around it are well documented.
well i've already spent far too much time writing this, i have made just about every point that needs to be made. this article is a load of bullshit, the x-box is too little too late. a year behind the PSX2... everyone will already have one, and by that time will be awaiting the sequels to their new favourite games come christmas time, they won't be very interested in buying a new system.
...dave
i can't even begin to go through all the reasons you are totally off-base here.
you don't even understand what the hell you're talking about! you got moderated down because you're blowing smoke out your ass.
...dave
wow you were behind the times man!
...dave
in years and years, amazon wasn't so insane i think when it was made. so, i'm sure if the original author were to go back to the site the amazon crap would be removed.
i agree, i am very against frivolous patents and lawsuits but, if you read that site... *sigh* nevermind. i'm not gonna argue this
anyway,... uhmm i'm not a 'karma whore' but it sucks when you lose your +1 bonus 'coz you don't know that some moderators will mark you down to 1 just 'coz they feel like it..
...dave
that linux is easier to use that mac os. for a newbie or a person with a lazy brain who can't deal with an xterm, go with mac os... have a party..
as for me,... i
anyway,... it's a matter of personal preferrence, but i know a
you can make enlightenment look however you want, it needn't be ugly, and saying that it is is just ignorant.
...dave
Actually, if the author knew what he was talking about, this would read "either it's good for the purpose it's serving or it's not."
that is essentially what i said, i phrased it different,... don't nitpick, twinkie. i like my phrasing better, anyway.
what is up with morons mis-reading my posts and trying to tell me i didn't say what i said? it's very annoying and happening a lot today..
...dave
too bad i wasn't talking about whether it is useful to M$ themselves!
DOH!
you fail! here's your dunce cap!
...dave
(hint: do not question the all-knowing, all-powerful dave.)
it hasn't been updated in a while i think but, it still has a lot of good info for those who do not realize the depths of bill gates' depravity..
boycott microsoft
...dave
p.s. don't abuse your +1 bonus, some moderators will punish you for it and you will lose karma..
just a hint.
being silly by typing things like that or taking the time to point it out? (and marking your post to 2 at that!)
look,.. maybe you don't have the disdain for MiKKKrosoft i do, but i really, truly hate them..it's the closest thing i have to a religion... do not tell me what i should or should not type. if it bothers you, that is a personal problem.
i am well aware of what a silly cliche it is, and that it is far from clever... that is part of the joke. if you don't get it, well i'm sorry, you need to relax.
next time you think 'hey i should tell this guy not to say/type X, Y and/or Z' slap yourself and don't do it.
...d4v3
*sigh*... it's not a matter of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'... M$ is advocating everyone move their existing (working or not) systems to Win2k, if they can't/won't/do not do the same themselves,... if you can't see the hypocrisy, and obvious proof that M$ claims about Windoze are false, i don't know what i can do to un-stupid you..
as far as saying Windoze and M$ and such,... *shrugs*.. why do i type 'w3rd'? it's silly..
...dave
By this logic Harley-Davidson should use their motorcycles to haul motorcycles to dealers instead of using big trucks
harley does not advertise that their bikes can tow things.
m$ makes claims that everyone should run some form of Windoze, for every possible situation.
that is the difference and the reason why this is a funny article (though as i said in another post, no revelation to those of us who have experience w/windoze and various forms of *nix.)
...dave
the point is they *should* have reason to move to windoze, or their product has no purpose. there's no way it can be cheaper than freebsd, so if it was merely equivallent, then it would be useless.
as it is, it is
...dave
but the obvious retort is you don't get to pick and choose there
the movie theatre actually loses in the field of convenience vs. downloading something online (assuming there was a community akin to napster/gnutella)... but like i said, i think the experience is so much better, people would still pay, the studios could still make their money,..
i know i would still go. especially if the prices dropped.
...dave
this doesn't seem so far off
http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpate
i recently had an argument w/my own father about how the patents are out of hand,.. he didn't seem to agree. i couldn't get it through his head that the record companies wouldn't collapse just because you can download songs for free...
he would switch it to movies and say who is going to go see movies at the theatre for $8 when you can see them at home for free on your computer?
and i said 'well the prices of tickets would come down, which is a good thing,... and no one's home system, no matter how good, can really compete with a 50' screen... '
there's gotta be some big changes soon.....
...dave