Not to mention that the best thing about consoles is that everybody is playing on the same machine. You don't have to worry about whether you have a good enough machine and how good the framerate will be on your machine when buying console games.
Yeah, life is swell as a lowest common denominator. Hassle free, outdated fun. Only you DO get framerate drops on modern games, don't you? Also texture popups, cramped environments, minimal detail, and shoddy AI. Consoles aren't just holding games back - they are actually making games WORSE as developers leave more and more game on the cutting room floor just to get the latest wizbang engine to run on half a fucking gig of shared memory. Awesome.
Okay, Mr Grumpy Curmudgeon. They may not have much value to YOU, but I could say the same thing about most businesses. The fact is those are both enormously popular services, and in the case of Twitter has actually had a significant impact on the way society communicates.
If you honestly can't tell the difference between the ASOP (open source), Google Apps (closed source), and the devices based on them (spectrum runs from Free through Tainted to Overtly Hostile), then hand in your geek card.
Take a pill, AC. another_twilight didn't say he liked it, or that he wouldn't do anything to stop it. For all you know he could planing a raid on the ISP as we speak. All the man did was state the facts. The people in charge right now, and for the foreseeable future ain't who you want it to be.
Applies to hard drives, CD's, DVDs and every other circular thing.
Okay, now go and look at every piece of storage media you've ever owned. In the data storage domain, disc and disk are clearly defined, mostly for branding/licensing purposes. IBM named Hard/Soft Disks (and thereafter all magnetic disks), and Phillips/Sony named Compact Discs (and thereafter all optical discs).
...and that at the end of the day their role is to facilitate my ability to do my job.
IT's role is to follow defined process (even when developing new processes!). Usually IT's processes align somewhat with facilitating your ability to do your job. Not always.
Also, what the business thinks you need to do your job properly vs. what you think you need for full facilitation effect is probably quite different. That happens to everybody. Especially IT workers.
A cynical person could be forgiven for guessing the coach's problem with a bird's-eye view of the game - it will expose that their super-secret strategy involves running a line of meatheads at the other team.
That is a fine etymological definition of library, but ever since Latin went out of style a library means 1) Collection of media (perhaps including, but certainly not limited to books), 2) The building or place where media collections are stored, 3) An organization responsible for collecting, maintaining, and providing access to media.
Not that maker spaces particularly fit any of those definitions without being generous, but to restrict libraries to "hording books" out of historical zeal seems a little shortsighted.
I don't think it is anything unique to gaming as such, just the effect of indulging yourself in a bit too much media.
I remember seeing a full moon after a marathon Buffy weekend and thinking "hmm, best stay indoors tonight", or my speech patterns changing after a couple of weeks of heavy BSG exposure.
There is nothing inconsistant about it, silly. The only reason the Free Market hasn't already solved the problem is there are too many privacy safeguards!
Hey, not joining in on the bashing here, but you do seem to be simply nit-picking bogaboga's post while ignoring the main point. Chevy cars are historically unreliable. Maybe they have the most amazing engineers in the world working there. Maybe. But who cares if the end product is crap?
Oh, the M35! That thing kicked so much ass. I bought a lot of 10 of them as-is on ebay a few years ago, hoping I could patch together a working phone - no such luck:(
You know, Distrowatch measures popularity based on number of searches for each distro on Distrowatch itself. They don't claim that number 1 on the list is actually the most popular distro.
Not to mention today's game engines and GPU's already push developers to spend more resources on creating assets and artwork then on developing the actual game.
Even if graphics cards could do realtime rendering of a truly lifelike gameworld, there would just not be enough development dollars going around to populate anything larger then a medium sized house.
Oh so you agree that the "year of the Linux desktop" stuff should be thrown in the bin...
Well, yeah? I thought we generally agreed that was a load of hyperbolic nonsense. As for the rest of your diatribe, did you actually read my comment? As in, actually comprehend it? Seems you went off in an entirely unrelated direction there friend.
You know, once people used the "Linux desktops should be more like mainstream OS's to appeal to mainstream users" shtick to argue for change. Now they use it to argue things should stay the same. Not that I particularly like the new shells myself, but I didn't buy the argument then, and I don't buy it now.
If you think the only point of being in the race is to win then of course this looks silly. But Mozilla ain't that kind of company. I'd argue that having a Free new mobile OS about can only be a good thing for the market, no matter what minuscule percentage they manage to capture - and I'd wager Mozilla feels the same way.
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Not to mention that the best thing about consoles is that everybody is playing on the same machine. You don't have to worry about whether you have a good enough machine and how good the framerate will be on your machine when buying console games.
Yeah, life is swell as a lowest common denominator. Hassle free, outdated fun. Only you DO get framerate drops on modern games, don't you? Also texture popups, cramped environments, minimal detail, and shoddy AI. Consoles aren't just holding games back - they are actually making games WORSE as developers leave more and more game on the cutting room floor just to get the latest wizbang engine to run on half a fucking gig of shared memory. Awesome.
Informative.
Who said anything about desktops? Intel's idea is to get x86 into the Android mobile device market. Not Android into the traditional x86 market.
WiFi? No GSM or 3G means no carrier, means no CarrierIQ.
Okay, Mr Grumpy Curmudgeon. They may not have much value to YOU, but I could say the same thing about most businesses. The fact is those are both enormously popular services, and in the case of Twitter has actually had a significant impact on the way society communicates.
I don't know... the whole "nukes as a deterrent" seems pretty suicidal in the scheme of things - I just don't think we've seen it play out yet.
If you honestly can't tell the difference between the ASOP (open source), Google Apps (closed source), and the devices based on them (spectrum runs from Free through Tainted to Overtly Hostile), then hand in your geek card.
Take a pill, AC. another_twilight didn't say he liked it, or that he wouldn't do anything to stop it. For all you know he could planing a raid on the ISP as we speak. All the man did was state the facts. The people in charge right now, and for the foreseeable future ain't who you want it to be.
Applies to hard drives, CD's, DVDs and every other circular thing.
Okay, now go and look at every piece of storage media you've ever owned. In the data storage domain, disc and disk are clearly defined, mostly for branding/licensing purposes. IBM named Hard/Soft Disks (and thereafter all magnetic disks), and Phillips/Sony named Compact Discs (and thereafter all optical discs).
...and that at the end of the day their role is to facilitate my ability to do my job.
IT's role is to follow defined process (even when developing new processes!). Usually IT's processes align somewhat with facilitating your ability to do your job. Not always.
Also, what the business thinks you need to do your job properly vs. what you think you need for full facilitation effect is probably quite different. That happens to everybody. Especially IT workers.
A cynical person could be forgiven for guessing the coach's problem with a bird's-eye view of the game - it will expose that their super-secret strategy involves running a line of meatheads at the other team.
I should mention that the VGA cable that was supplied with the monitor is the thickest one I have handled and I have seen a few.
I normally don't like to do this, but wow... that's what she said!
That is a fine etymological definition of library, but ever since Latin went out of style a library means 1) Collection of media (perhaps including, but certainly not limited to books), 2) The building or place where media collections are stored, 3) An organization responsible for collecting, maintaining, and providing access to media.
Not that maker spaces particularly fit any of those definitions without being generous, but to restrict libraries to "hording books" out of historical zeal seems a little shortsighted.
I don't think it is anything unique to gaming as such, just the effect of indulging yourself in a bit too much media.
I remember seeing a full moon after a marathon Buffy weekend and thinking "hmm, best stay indoors tonight", or my speech patterns changing after a couple of weeks of heavy BSG exposure.
Forget about the guys at the top...it's the hordes of young adults with stars in their eyes who suffer most from piracy.
That's like saying the people who suffer the most from abolishing sweatshops are the sweatshop workers. It's also a load of crap.
There is nothing inconsistant about it, silly. The only reason the Free Market hasn't already solved the problem is there are too many privacy safeguards!
Opinion presented as "truth" always smells like shit.
Only problem with this theory is that consumers need money to consume. Higher unemployment means less customers.
Hey, not joining in on the bashing here, but you do seem to be simply nit-picking bogaboga's post while ignoring the main point. Chevy cars are historically unreliable. Maybe they have the most amazing engineers in the world working there. Maybe. But who cares if the end product is crap?
Oh, the M35! That thing kicked so much ass. I bought a lot of 10 of them as-is on ebay a few years ago, hoping I could patch together a working phone - no such luck :(
You know, Distrowatch measures popularity based on number of searches for each distro on Distrowatch itself. They don't claim that number 1 on the list is actually the most popular distro.
Not to mention today's game engines and GPU's already push developers to spend more resources on creating assets and artwork then on developing the actual game.
Even if graphics cards could do realtime rendering of a truly lifelike gameworld, there would just not be enough development dollars going around to populate anything larger then a medium sized house.
Oh so you agree that the "year of the Linux desktop" stuff should be thrown in the bin...
Well, yeah? I thought we generally agreed that was a load of hyperbolic nonsense. As for the rest of your diatribe, did you actually read my comment? As in, actually comprehend it? Seems you went off in an entirely unrelated direction there friend.
You know, once people used the "Linux desktops should be more like mainstream OS's to appeal to mainstream users" shtick to argue for change. Now they use it to argue things should stay the same. Not that I particularly like the new shells myself, but I didn't buy the argument then, and I don't buy it now.
If you think the only point of being in the race is to win then of course this looks silly. But Mozilla ain't that kind of company. I'd argue that having a Free new mobile OS about can only be a good thing for the market, no matter what minuscule percentage they manage to capture - and I'd wager Mozilla feels the same way.