I would argue that casual gaming doesn't mean the end of hardcore gaming, but rather in the run will lead to more hardcore gamers.
People start casually and move to progressively more challenging games. Some of the people who were hardcore become casual as time constraints effect them more.
They compliment each other and aren't mutually exclusive, they go in cycles.
There is NOTHING about WOWs end game raiding that can be considered casual. To be successfully takes a huge time dedication, ditto on PVP.
I've been using adblock plus for years now, and I can count the times I needed to disable it or allow something through it because a item or site I wanted to use wasn't working.
Strangely, I'm user 4567 and it's the first time I've ever had a first post and I was so sure I wouldn't get a first post I didn't even note it as being first:)
I personally think that's a damn stupid threat for Intel to make. AMD is arguably the only company that is preventing Intel from being broken up as a monopoly... you don't threaten to bury your only competition when you're nearly a monopoly. The various governments around the world aren't appreciative of that type of behavior. Unless they would like to be broken into dozens of pieces.
I kinda agreed about Josh when I read the article... then I read some of this guys other stuff, about Tyler, and a few of his other articles.
Basically it boils down to he wants cogs in a machine at any cost.
Being different is fine, being a complete and total douche like Josh, no. Josh needed to revise his attitude and this guys needs to revise his also, unthinking cogs are useful in some situations, original thinkers are useful in some situations also.
So everyone goes back to viewing their tv shows with no ads from Pirate Bay. ~shrug~ people used Hulu on Boxee because it was easier even if the ads were a bit annoying, now that they've taken it away it'll just be status quo.
You have absolutely no ability to enforce anything since they can easily remove them from school grounds and work on them at their will. I would suggest you don't get to wild with your restrictions or you'll just make an income source for the geeks unlocking the non-geeks laptops for them.
I wrote programs and scripts to automate doing exactly that when I was in high school for the *schools* computers. You have zero hope of maintaining any kind of access control on laptops they take home.
Most of the businesses I've worked for I've pushed Debian as the distribution of choice. The biggest problem I see in mixed shops with Linux is often times there is no standardization on a single distribution. The one company I worked for had: Slackware, Gentoo, Redhat, SuSE, and some custom homebrew... I spent 3 months standardizing everything over to Debian. I built a standardized install manual, made sure we had a repository up to date with the latest drivers for special hardware, and setup all kinds of custom system status tracking with cacti and snmp. Management liked the new system setup so well that they eventually got rid of all the windows servers except two who ran custom software that our company's programmers wrote years ago and we lost the source code for.
Debian's free, the support is spectacular, it's package management is *excellent*, it's upgradable, it's easy to manage, and it doesn't install a lot of junk that is unneeded.
The music in the game was catchy too... an ear worm. Evil stuff I tell you. If I remember correctly the song was by European Sex Machine or something like that.
I can't take a breath... 'cause I'm seeing Mr Death.
7th Guest and 11th Hour (same series) were *great* games. I really enjoyed both! I have to agree with you on the Myst series of games, its less puzzle and more "find the 3 pixel space to click that does something"... which I don't consider to be a puzzle, I consider it tedious.
... the only puzzles I've heard gamers ever complain about are one of two types: "Jumping Puzzles" where missing a jump resets the mess, or things that just outright break the normal mechanics of the game-- eg: "Cheating Game".
A few examples come to mind:
Assassins Creed the mission out by the boat, where if you land in water it resets you back to the shore after a long load.
I forget what game it was, but to beat the end boss you had to move the controller to the second port on the system (ps1 if I remember correctly.) That's just out of context with the game and obnoxiously stupid.
Oh and as bonus annoyance-- games that pigeon hole you into a obviously completely retarded option that both you as a player would know is a bad idea and your character not having an iq of 12 would know is a horrible idea... but insists on doing it anyway and can't be avoided to advance the storyline.
... vista makes life harder for IT. Why the hell would we want it? XP is stable if not secure. Linux is secure and stable for those who don't need XP. Hell Macs are a world above XP too.
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I would argue that casual gaming doesn't mean the end of hardcore gaming, but rather in the run will lead to more hardcore gamers.
People start casually and move to progressively more challenging games. Some of the people who were hardcore become casual as time constraints effect them more.
They compliment each other and aren't mutually exclusive, they go in cycles.
There is NOTHING about WOWs end game raiding that can be considered casual. To be successfully takes a huge time dedication, ditto on PVP.
... if you opted in, it's safe to opt out. If you didn't opt in, opting out just tells the spammer that they have a live person at that address.
I did spam admin for many years back in the 90s, that was even the standard advice then.
If you want to end the spam for a bit, delete the account for a month or two or fake reject messages convincingly.
Does that mean I can get the 5gb a month plan and my bill will be $105? Somehow I doubt it.
Would be nice since they're raping their customers if they'd just go ahead and make the upload unlimited.
I'll pay metered *if* its burstable both ways. I won't pay metered for an upload speed of 1mb/s.
No, actually I was arguing the opposite, but managed to delete the "I've had to do this on one hand." part somehow while I was editing.
A very sad farewell to the man who made the internet usable again. RIP.
I've been using adblock plus for years now, and I can count the times I needed to disable it or allow something through it because a item or site I wanted to use wasn't working.
Awesome! I need to go grind.
Okay. Hey, a couple of us guys were wonderin', uh if we'd go family-style on her.
Oh hell, there goes the neighborhood.
Strangely, I'm user 4567 and it's the first time I've ever had a first post and I was so sure I wouldn't get a first post I didn't even note it as being first :)
Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like...
My IQ just dropped 20 points reading that.
What the hell.
I personally think that's a damn stupid threat for Intel to make. AMD is arguably the only company that is preventing Intel from being broken up as a monopoly... you don't threaten to bury your only competition when you're nearly a monopoly. The various governments around the world aren't appreciative of that type of behavior. Unless they would like to be broken into dozens of pieces.
I kinda agreed about Josh when I read the article... then I read some of this guys other stuff, about Tyler, and a few of his other articles.
Basically it boils down to he wants cogs in a machine at any cost.
Being different is fine, being a complete and total douche like Josh, no. Josh needed to revise his attitude and this guys needs to revise his also, unthinking cogs are useful in some situations, original thinkers are useful in some situations also.
At least he's making an effort to see how things work. Pity its ~10 years to late to retract his head from his ass.
So everyone goes back to viewing their tv shows with no ads from Pirate Bay. ~shrug~ people used Hulu on Boxee because it was easier even if the ads were a bit annoying, now that they've taken it away it'll just be status quo.
You have absolutely no ability to enforce anything since they can easily remove them from school grounds and work on them at their will. I would suggest you don't get to wild with your restrictions or you'll just make an income source for the geeks unlocking the non-geeks laptops for them.
I wrote programs and scripts to automate doing exactly that when I was in high school for the *schools* computers. You have zero hope of maintaining any kind of access control on laptops they take home.
... me not upgrading to IE 8 is pretty innocuous too!
... they just quit treating pirates better than the paying customers and get rid of drm totally?
Most of the businesses I've worked for I've pushed Debian as the distribution of choice. The biggest problem I see in mixed shops with Linux is often times there is no standardization on a single distribution. The one company I worked for had: Slackware, Gentoo, Redhat, SuSE, and some custom homebrew... I spent 3 months standardizing everything over to Debian. I built a standardized install manual, made sure we had a repository up to date with the latest drivers for special hardware, and setup all kinds of custom system status tracking with cacti and snmp. Management liked the new system setup so well that they eventually got rid of all the windows servers except two who ran custom software that our company's programmers wrote years ago and we lost the source code for.
Debian's free, the support is spectacular, it's package management is *excellent*, it's upgradable, it's easy to manage, and it doesn't install a lot of junk that is unneeded.
I *hate* rpm. It makes me crazy.
The music in the game was catchy too... an ear worm. Evil stuff I tell you. If I remember correctly the song was by European Sex Machine or something like that.
I can't take a breath... 'cause I'm seeing Mr Death.
7th Guest and 11th Hour (same series) were *great* games. I really enjoyed both! I have to agree with you on the Myst series of games, its less puzzle and more "find the 3 pixel space to click that does something"... which I don't consider to be a puzzle, I consider it tedious.
... the only puzzles I've heard gamers ever complain about are one of two types: "Jumping Puzzles" where missing a jump resets the mess, or things that just outright break the normal mechanics of the game-- eg: "Cheating Game".
A few examples come to mind:
Assassins Creed the mission out by the boat, where if you land in water it resets you back to the shore after a long load.
I forget what game it was, but to beat the end boss you had to move the controller to the second port on the system (ps1 if I remember correctly.) That's just out of context with the game and obnoxiously stupid.
Oh and as bonus annoyance-- games that pigeon hole you into a obviously completely retarded option that both you as a player would know is a bad idea and your character not having an iq of 12 would know is a horrible idea... but insists on doing it anyway and can't be avoided to advance the storyline.
... vista makes life harder for IT. Why the hell would we want it? XP is stable if not secure. Linux is secure and stable for those who don't need XP. Hell Macs are a world above XP too.