Try reading what you reply to. He never said there was anything wrong with you wanting to play racing games. He didn't even say that those games shouldn't be made. And he never once said anything about puzzle games.
What he did was complain about how the gaming industry is unwilling to risk developing/publishing games that don't fit into established formulas or have the draw of something like a movie license deal.
Even if he were to get what he wants, it's no threat to you and your racing games - they are an established formula, so the industry execs already know that you and many others are out there ready to buy the next Midnight Club sequel so they'll keep right on making them even if they suddenly realize that there's money in publishing something different once in awhile too.
(By the way, that number following the title of your racing game, it's a clue that it's a sequel. and that's one of your clues that it's not innovating. It may be refining the gameplay and graphics, but it's still the basic formula of make the cars go fast, and the faster car wins)
What makes VCs get wary is when companies succeed and then expand their business into new markets, generating more revenue. Just like what makes companies evil is when they hire talented people and pay them well for doing their jobs.
There's no flamebait in the parent post. It's a perfectly reasonably statement of a perfectly reasonable viewpoint. I'd mod it back up myself, but I've already posted to this article.
Sounds like my old plan. What allowed me to improve on this was discovering Cookie button, a Firefox extension. Now I leave the default setting as reject all cookies and click the little button to allow those sites that need it (I think I have about 12 allowed, but I'm probably more conservative than most would be).
Along similar lines, NoScript does the same thing for javascript and most here probably already know about AdBlock and Filterset G (the best pre-made set of adblock filters I know of).
One great thing about using Knoppix is that you can Konqeror or Firefox open to the Gentoo handbook pretty much the whole time.
Oh, a tip in case it's not already a regular part of your toolkit: Screen is your friend during a Gentoo install (No matter whether you're using Knoppix or the Gentoo CD).
I installed Gentoo a few times, once from the 2004.1 CD, and several times using Knoppix. Overall, I found the Knoppix install to be a much better experience (Among other things, I had a nice, usable system the whole time).
There were a few little gotchas from what I remember, something about changing the location of/dev or something like that, but I seem to remember the instructions laid out the necessary changes pretty clearly, at least to my style of thinking.
It's just an unnecessary adjective added by marketroids.
All oxygen is beneficial. The stuff that this thing releases, in the same quantities as it consumes, as grandparent poster pointed out, is exactly as beneficial as the oxygen already in the air. They just wanted to make it sound better.
Turn OFF the crap TV/radio. The fact that it's free doesn't make it worth watching. Now keep it off until you don't find yourself justifying the existence of the advertisers (Try not to worry, they're doing just fine without your support).
Yep. and, oddly, Google News links to the same article from the headline "HP Propelling Linux Into Truly 'Big' Time". I'm guessing it's either a really stupid subscription redirect or they just moved the article (stupidly).
So, just to be clear, your "legit question" is "They have people whose names sound middle eastern to me, isn't that a sign that they're supporting terrorists?"
And you don't want to "stir up SH*T on/.," but you hope that anyone who doesn't see how "legit" your question is is in the next bombings.
These are the default settings, right? I'll bet the only reason the settings are that way on most of the machines is because that's how they came. If you had set up their machines with the simpler (classic?) menu, that's probably what you'd find on 95% of your user's machines. And you know what, they'd probably be more productive that way - nobody actually gains productivity because of the flashy little distractkions like animated menus and disappearing menu items.
Looking it over, and thinking about the splash page that seems to be what is actually linked, I'm now guessing this is just a badly written, paid ad from 1up.com.
OK, I made my last post before I RTFA. Now that I have read it, I don't know why anyone thought it was interesting enough to post here. All it is, really is a review of a 1985 C64/Apple ][ game, with a sidebar mentioning later games/products that are similar but more successful.
I know I'm not supposed to grumble about it, but I've submitted much more interesting stuff than this that got rejected.
No, it's in files downloaded with the client. Re-RTFA.
Here, I'll quote you a couple relevant sections:
"A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled." ...
"Boyd said BitTorrent was currently "overwhelmed" with multimedia files rigged with adware bundles, adding that the file sizes vary from 3MB to 175MB."
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Try reading what you reply to. He never said there was anything wrong with you wanting to play racing games. He didn't even say that those games shouldn't be made. And he never once said anything about puzzle games.
What he did was complain about how the gaming industry is unwilling to risk developing/publishing games that don't fit into established formulas or have the draw of something like a movie license deal.
Even if he were to get what he wants, it's no threat to you and your racing games - they are an established formula, so the industry execs already know that you and many others are out there ready to buy the next Midnight Club sequel so they'll keep right on making them even if they suddenly realize that there's money in publishing something different once in awhile too.
(By the way, that number following the title of your racing game, it's a clue that it's a sequel. and that's one of your clues that it's not innovating. It may be refining the gameplay and graphics, but it's still the basic formula of make the cars go fast, and the faster car wins)
The problem with text...
I can't actually tell if you were able to tell that i was attempting a sarcastic tone with my previous post. I completely agree with your posts.
You're not exactly an economics major, are you?
What makes VCs get wary is when companies succeed and then expand their business into new markets, generating more revenue. Just like what makes companies evil is when they hire talented people and pay them well for doing their jobs.
You should be yelling at advertisers for abusing your useful tool, not at users for protecting themselves from the abuse.
Someone from DoubleClick? Gator?
There's no flamebait in the parent post. It's a perfectly reasonably statement of a perfectly reasonable viewpoint. I'd mod it back up myself, but I've already posted to this article.
Sounds like my old plan. What allowed me to improve on this was discovering Cookie button, a Firefox extension. Now I leave the default setting as reject all cookies and click the little button to allow those sites that need it (I think I have about 12 allowed, but I'm probably more conservative than most would be).
Along similar lines, NoScript does the same thing for javascript and most here probably already know about AdBlock and Filterset G (the best pre-made set of adblock filters I know of).
No, we should boycott viewing the ads. I find Firefox's adblock extension to be very effective for this.
One great thing about using Knoppix is that you can Konqeror or Firefox open to the Gentoo handbook pretty much the whole time.
Oh, a tip in case it's not already a regular part of your toolkit: Screen is your friend during a Gentoo install (No matter whether you're using Knoppix or the Gentoo CD).
Good luck on the next install!
I installed Gentoo a few times, once from the 2004.1 CD, and several times using Knoppix. Overall, I found the Knoppix install to be a much better experience (Among other things, I had a nice, usable system the whole time).
/dev or something like that, but I seem to remember the instructions laid out the necessary changes pretty clearly, at least to my style of thinking.
There were a few little gotchas from what I remember, something about changing the location of
It's just an unnecessary adjective added by marketroids.
All oxygen is beneficial. The stuff that this thing releases, in the same quantities as it consumes, as grandparent poster pointed out, is exactly as beneficial as the oxygen already in the air. They just wanted to make it sound better.
Turn OFF the crap TV/radio. The fact that it's free doesn't make it worth watching. Now keep it off until you don't find yourself justifying the existence of the advertisers (Try not to worry, they're doing just fine without your support).
Maybe there's still hope for you...
The original article seems to be inaccessible on investors.com. I found the same article on Yahoo news.
Yep. and, oddly, Google News links to the same article from the headline "HP Propelling Linux Into Truly 'Big' Time". I'm guessing it's either a really stupid subscription redirect or they just moved the article (stupidly).
I haven't seen one here yet. Is possible it was an OnUnload from whatever site you went to before?
Well said.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't just posted to this discussion. Hopefully someone else will come along soon and do it.
Look here. More posters at the propaganda page
Really. I think many here are not realizing the implications that this post demonstrates.
So, just to be clear, your "legit question" is "They have people whose names sound middle eastern to me, isn't that a sign that they're supporting terrorists?"
/.," but you hope that anyone who doesn't see how "legit" your question is is in the next bombings.
And you don't want to "stir up SH*T on
Very nice.
These are the default settings, right? I'll bet the only reason the settings are that way on most of the machines is because that's how they came. If you had set up their machines with the simpler (classic?) menu, that's probably what you'd find on 95% of your user's machines. And you know what, they'd probably be more productive that way - nobody actually gains productivity because of the flashy little distractkions like animated menus and disappearing menu items.
Looking it over, and thinking about the splash page that seems to be what is actually linked, I'm now guessing this is just a badly written, paid ad from 1up.com.
OK, I made my last post before I RTFA. Now that I have read it, I don't know why anyone thought it was interesting enough to post here. All it is, really is a review of a 1985 C64/Apple ][ game, with a sidebar mentioning later games/products that are similar but more successful.
I know I'm not supposed to grumble about it, but I've submitted much more interesting stuff than this that got rejected.
The link given just leads to the main page at 1up. The actual article mentioned can be found here.
OK, maybe I'm dumb, but please explain to me the irony in your original post.
...or maybe you're calling people dumb for not seeing irony when it's actually you who doesn't know the meaning of the word?
No, it doesn't. As far as I could tell, there is no simple way to make middle click paste as it should.
No, it's in files downloaded with the client. Re-RTFA.
...
Here, I'll quote you a couple relevant sections:
"A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled."
"Boyd said BitTorrent was currently "overwhelmed" with multimedia files rigged with adware bundles, adding that the file sizes vary from 3MB to 175MB."