The typical "someone else will pay them" justification used by pirates. You don't deserve to have their music for free just because you hope someone else will buy a concert ticket.
Exactly. The article summary is dumb. "Evidence has been growing that Apple is developing a new gaming console." Uh, no, it hasn't. If anything, the evidence just says Apple is adding new app/game features on the iPhone and iPod.
I'm trying to figure out the punchline to your joke, and all I can surmise is that you just assumed that criticizing Bush in any way, no matter how vague or nonsensical, was enough for an instant +5.
By the way, how are you liking all the hope and change?
Congratulations to Microsoft on tying with the Nintendo Gamecube for last place in that iteration of the console wars and subsequently never making a profit.
Seriously, you cited tying with the Gamecube as a positive point?
If you've read developer comments, Microsoft does its versioning the way it does to try to combat incompatibilities with some poorly written applications that refuse to run if the major version number of the OS isn't in an assumed range.
You're nuts. Those were the days where you'd just reboot now and then to "clear it out" and try to prevent crashes, especially after playing games. 98 was more stable than 95, I'll grant you that.
Anytime Apple can control the applications, Apple makes you program in the painful language of Objective C or some other language that Apple deems as necessary but most programmers cry out in agony.
Objective-C is more pleasant to use than C++. The Cocoa APIs are just fantastic. When I read comments criticizing Objective-C, I genuinely can't think of a reason behind it. The only thing I can think of is that you think brackets are ugly, and that's something you get used to as quickly as you got used to curly braces when learning C. Literally, the language is C with classes and run-time messaging.
I think the iPhone is great for casual phone games, but the input isn't precise enough to topple a dedicated device like, say, the Nintendo DS and its d-pad and stylus. I think it's more important as a regular application platform.
This book just creeps me out. You know that it's going to be read by hardcore manga nerds--the guys who have gigabytes of anime/hentai movies, use big-eyed anime avatars on messageboards, fantasize about having a Japanese girlfriend, and so on.
I miss the period of time when The Sims had just come out, and it was such a neat toy to play with. It was more of an architecture and people simulator with a tongue-in-cheek, 1950s nuclear family tone, especially the music. The game began to morph into something else, with people roleplaying and storytelling. Websites started charging for access to their downloads. EA went overboard with the number of expansions, adding crazy stuff like robots and wizards. Even the music shifted into hip techno tracks as the game got huge in the mainstream.
They advertise the game now using Sims that look like teenyboppers out of an MTV reality show, and the clever 1950s tone of the original is gone. It's no longer a life simulator as much as it is a mass-appeal sandbox for user-created clothes and stupid machinima sitcoms, which bores me. I don't need a videogame to write my own stories. Guess I'm not a part of the core audience anymore.
Yes, it jumped the shark. WotLK has been a disappointment in PvE content and a complete failure in the PvP department. Patch quality has also gone down in the last few years, and I'm getting really tired of my pet getting stuck when running across uneven geometry (goddamn wooden beams) .
EQ was a bad example for you to use because people still play EQ. WoW gained its large subscription numbers because it's a braindead easy version of EQ, and that attracted a lot of people who never played MMOs before. Now that they and their friends have high level characters they invested a lot of time in, they closed-mindedly ignore better games because all they know is WoW.
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No, they haven't.
Idiocracy was a comedy. You know, where you laugh and don't take it seriously?
Ogg Vorbis, lol.
Absolutely nobody cares about Ogg Vorbis.
Who the fuck is Richard Garriott? Who the fuck is "General British?" What the fuck is going on?
The typical "someone else will pay them" justification used by pirates. You don't deserve to have their music for free just because you hope someone else will buy a concert ticket.
That's really stupid.
But that wouldn't generate stupid Apple rumors with no basis in reality.
Exactly. The article summary is dumb. "Evidence has been growing that Apple is developing a new gaming console." Uh, no, it hasn't. If anything, the evidence just says Apple is adding new app/game features on the iPhone and iPod.
I'm trying to figure out the punchline to your joke, and all I can surmise is that you just assumed that criticizing Bush in any way, no matter how vague or nonsensical, was enough for an instant +5.
By the way, how are you liking all the hope and change?
Sounds fantastic! Culture should stagnate and die just because leeches don't compensate the artists for their work!
The Dreamcast wasn't even sold after 2001. Try again.
FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights. I deserve someone else's work for free, just because.
But don't you dare violate the GPL! When that happens, copyright suddenly matters.
Congratulations to Microsoft on tying with the Nintendo Gamecube for last place in that iteration of the console wars and subsequently never making a profit.
Seriously, you cited tying with the Gamecube as a positive point?
If you've read developer comments, Microsoft does its versioning the way it does to try to combat incompatibilities with some poorly written applications that refuse to run if the major version number of the OS isn't in an assumed range.
You're nuts. Those were the days where you'd just reboot now and then to "clear it out" and try to prevent crashes, especially after playing games. 98 was more stable than 95, I'll grant you that.
Windows 2000 remains my favorite to this day.
Objective-C is more pleasant to use than C++. The Cocoa APIs are just fantastic. When I read comments criticizing Objective-C, I genuinely can't think of a reason behind it. The only thing I can think of is that you think brackets are ugly, and that's something you get used to as quickly as you got used to curly braces when learning C. Literally, the language is C with classes and run-time messaging.
I think the iPhone is great for casual phone games, but the input isn't precise enough to topple a dedicated device like, say, the Nintendo DS and its d-pad and stylus. I think it's more important as a regular application platform.
When they're drawn in the form of children's cartoons, yeah.
This book just creeps me out. You know that it's going to be read by hardcore manga nerds--the guys who have gigabytes of anime/hentai movies, use big-eyed anime avatars on messageboards, fantasize about having a Japanese girlfriend, and so on.
I miss the period of time when The Sims had just come out, and it was such a neat toy to play with. It was more of an architecture and people simulator with a tongue-in-cheek, 1950s nuclear family tone, especially the music. The game began to morph into something else, with people roleplaying and storytelling. Websites started charging for access to their downloads. EA went overboard with the number of expansions, adding crazy stuff like robots and wizards. Even the music shifted into hip techno tracks as the game got huge in the mainstream.
They advertise the game now using Sims that look like teenyboppers out of an MTV reality show, and the clever 1950s tone of the original is gone. It's no longer a life simulator as much as it is a mass-appeal sandbox for user-created clothes and stupid machinima sitcoms, which bores me. I don't need a videogame to write my own stories. Guess I'm not a part of the core audience anymore.
I love when people make up numbers. 99.9999%?!
If the economy was a factor, why is OS X usage so much higher than Linux?
This page has screenshots showing the difference. Many games were designed with NTSC artifacts in mind.
http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html
Apple already considered the Cell processor at the time and rejected it as being less effective than the PowerPC.
Yes, it jumped the shark. WotLK has been a disappointment in PvE content and a complete failure in the PvP department. Patch quality has also gone down in the last few years, and I'm getting really tired of my pet getting stuck when running across uneven geometry (goddamn wooden beams) .
EQ was a bad example for you to use because people still play EQ. WoW gained its large subscription numbers because it's a braindead easy version of EQ, and that attracted a lot of people who never played MMOs before. Now that they and their friends have high level characters they invested a lot of time in, they closed-mindedly ignore better games because all they know is WoW.
Five battlegrounds after five years. Sigh.