I would like to point out here that the storyline was the critical part of Half-Life's success as a singleplayer FPS, and if all it did was drop you into the second episode with a crowbar and tell you to bash up some headcrabs, it wouldn't be the same at all.
Nothing useful or fun?
Well, lets start by saying that loads of people are creating open source alternatives for your "useful" natively Windows platform tools, and if you want to say no fun, I would hazard a guess you have never been to linuxgames.com, or heard of Loki Games, who are doing a dandy job of porting the best games over to the Linux platform.
Heck, I've run Windows 2000 Server reliably for quite a while, and all my applications work great! Even with all the 'little features'. I was implying that if you keep layering these little features onto the graphical environment in heaps, eventually you are going to start to lose performance. Yeah, MS's COM and DCOM generally seem to work better.
I'm no MS-supporter, but, I'm not going to be close-minded and shun it away as a "crappy microsoft product". I quite enjoyed using it, and it gave me great up-time and server performance.
Good point; the more "little features" they add, the less of a low-end available platform it becomes for those who want to use a graphical environment.
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I would like to point out here that the storyline was the critical part of Half-Life's success as a singleplayer FPS, and if all it did was drop you into the second episode with a crowbar and tell you to bash up some headcrabs, it wouldn't be the same at all.
Any Final Fantasy game on the SNES console, and even FF7 have got some of the best stories in games that I have ever seen.
Nothing useful or fun? Well, lets start by saying that loads of people are creating open source alternatives for your "useful" natively Windows platform tools, and if you want to say no fun, I would hazard a guess you have never been to linuxgames.com, or heard of Loki Games, who are doing a dandy job of porting the best games over to the Linux platform.
Heck, I've run Windows 2000 Server reliably for quite a while, and all my applications work great! Even with all the 'little features'. I was implying that if you keep layering these little features onto the graphical environment in heaps, eventually you are going to start to lose performance. Yeah, MS's COM and DCOM generally seem to work better. I'm no MS-supporter, but, I'm not going to be close-minded and shun it away as a "crappy microsoft product". I quite enjoyed using it, and it gave me great up-time and server performance.
I work a bit with TI-92 assembler, and you haven't seen ugly until you've seen this baby.
Good point; the more "little features" they add, the less of a low-end available platform it becomes for those who want to use a graphical environment.
Just the little things adding up, such as this, will make open-source alternatives such as GNOME rise above Windows.. Muahahah!
In the most intimate of moments: Excuse me for a moment! Another one of those darned X-10 web cam advertisements just came to my mind!