That was a thing with Limbaugh, attacking the appearance of women. To be expected of a man who keeps replacing his wives with younger wives every few years. But hey, he's all about traditional family values and the covenant of marriage, amirite?
In this analogy, what's the counterpart to platforms other than consoles?
Stop being so literal There is no analogy, that was only a for-instance of a career that might require a move.
I would if I knew how "relevant industry experience" and "financial stability" are measured.
Gonna throw a "best practices" reference in there too? You do have "some" idea what those mean, claiming you don't is just a distraction, a coping strategy to convince yourself of the rightness of your "axe to grind"
And if you truly don't know what it means, give it up, you're too disabled to achieve your dream. Sell your computer and be happy playing Tetris, on a SNES, on an SDTV, afterschool while babysitting.
If you don't want to do that, th en perhaps you should be learning Unity instead of focusing on SNES/NES/GBA/DS homebrew.
And by the way, you probably shouldn't cite Cracked as an authoritative source on your website It's a HUMOR site.
but the numbers still show PC gaming as easily above the Wii U and rivalling the other current-gen consoles.
Oh yes, I consider the PS4, Xbox ONe and PC to be the "Big Three". But Tepples, who at one time wanted to be a console developer, now has a grudge/axe against consoles because Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo just don't hand out devkits and contracts to everybody.
Just without the software to make it a worthwhile investment,
It still gets plenty of indies, and plenty of cross-buy stuff like the recent Day of the Tentacle. And there's been some "stealth" releases. Meaning games that get released WITHOUT much promotion so people might not know they even exist. An example of that is the Vita XCOM game which is Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within together with ALL the DLC. That's right, portable XCOM
even the support from its creator.
I really think it is just an SCEA issue. SCEA is so cautious with its marketing, they had trouble marketing the PSP too. They seem so afraid to market anything other than "manly brown shooters" to the "dudebro demographic" probably because they're thinking something like:. "If it wasn't for MIcrosofts sucess with the shooter-boys we'd have kicked their asses with the PS3 too, so lets focus as much marketing on that demographic to get them in our camp. We've already got the generalists, the japanophiles, the platformers and the quirky game players, we can ignore marketing to them"
Damn right, I mostly agree for the same reasons. I mean after all, how is VR going to work for Diablo, or say...a MOBA or a PC style MMORPG with lots of skill buttons.
I do think that VR headsets are going to take off for vehicle based games. You mentioned Mechwarrior, but I think that Flight games (whether space or atmospheric) would work well too.
And how many of those Windows 10 installs sit on desks at workplaces and don't play games at all.
And how many of those Win10 installs at homes don't play any games other than free facebook games, Solitaire or Minesweeper.
In contrast, EVERY console and portable is designed for games, that is their PRIMARY use. Not Office, Not Facebook, Not cat videos on Youtube, but GAMES. You're not going to buy a PS4 or Vita unless you want to BUY and play games on it.
As for handhelds, how far is PlayStation Vita behind Nintendo 3DS again?
Doesn't matter, it's still the best portable gaming machine for the buck. It's a better gaming machine than a 3DS, or phone or tablet.
But there needs to be a clear path for a budding developer to graduate from ease of use to power that doesn't involve moving to another state.
Why?
No Really why?
Why should Publishers cater to an "Edge Case" who doesn't want to move for career purposes. I mean after all if I want to be a chef in a 5-star restaurant in a big city...I might have to MOVE to a big city. If you have to relocate to have a career in your chosen field, then relocate. People do it all the time.
And there's always the option to collaborate on a project online, maybe as a contractor.
Or even the option to form one's OWN company right where you are.
There already IS a clear career path, you just don't want to do those things, you want everything handed to you without having to do anything.
Instead of complaining about how Nintendo or whatever doesn't just hand out dev kits and contracts to everyone with a dream, DO something.
What do you mean by that? MPEG4 IS a Codec, and it has the widest support.
Something simple and obvious like "a re-compressed DVD" is not an option it's capable of handling.
What do you mean by that? DVDs are ALREADY compressed MPEG2. If you want to recompress a DVD MPEG2 stream to MPEG4 you can do that. I've done it in Handbrake many many times.
MKV was created because Apple fanboys shriek at anyone the least bit creative and call them pirates.
MKV is a CONTAINER, not a Codec. In fact most MKV's are MPEG4 video And how is it "creative" for the Russian pirates who created MKV to use it for pirating US made media.
Non-apple devices all seem to be remarkably less lame when it comes to format support. This even includes h264 options.
MPEG4 has varying profile levels which describe the feature support. Baseline, Main, or High. You encode for the target device.
but it has something to do with "gamers are dead." Nope, guess gamers aren't dead. We're still right here where we've always been.
If so-called "gamers" actually read those articles instead of getting all butthurt and crying SJW, they'd have read what I read in those articles which was:
"Gamers as an exclusionary term is dead. Gamers aren't just 15-25 year old men playing shooters, and those young men and the industry as a whole needs to admit that."
You goddamned SJWs kept fucking insisting that a man (trans woman here--I know what I'm talking about, tranny please) in a mini-skirt two fucking sizes too small for HIM whose body language is and manner or speaking are utterly masculine has some fucking right to claim he's a woman. Is that fucking crossdresser you're trying to make me believe is a woman even on HRT?
You should know better than to doubt some OTHER transpersons internal identity based just on appearance. Would you have liked that if/when it happened to you? And tranny please, I'm also trans so I DO know what I'm talking about.
So, call me sexist, but I am no longer willing to teach introductory programming, Boolean algebra, and relational data to the cisfemale hunnies.
Why yes, you are sexist. And transpeople more than anyone should know better. What if MAC or Sephora had refused me service? What if Makeupalley insisted on my birth certificate before allowing me to register?
In the few programming classes I ever took, there were always women.
There is nothing I can fucking do to get a cisfemale hunny interested in learning this shit enough that she's willing to do shit like run through a Linux from Scratch just for the hell of it and the experience.
I think the Linuxchix would like to have a word with you.
You're citing two e-mail clients that have the same origin.
I am aware of that, I used Sylpheed before moving to Sylpheed-Claws. I also know that OTHER e-mail clients also have proper threading, though I'm not as familiar with them these days as I am with Claws-mail. IIRC most 'nix clients do, I'm know Kmail and Thunderbird do.
Webmail interfaces that support a threaded display are a rarity.
Hmmph, thats another reason why people should user a proper client and not their web browser. Gmail does have a "Conversation view", I don't know about Yahoo.
One of the drawbacks of using an XBMC/Kodi centric setup is you don't have the "mainstream video store" options.
[quote]and my smart TV don't support any of those things either.
Older model? Most "smart" TV's these days have Amazon or Vudu....or both. Some even have PSN/SEN. Can it do DLNA? And even if your TV doesn't have Amazon, Vudu or even DLNA, many blu-ray players do, not even taking into account game consoles.
Just sell me a damn.mkv file with H.264 video and DTS audio.
MP4 containers have wider device support than MKV. Sure the XBMC/Kodi crowd who watches on their PC uses it basically because the Russian/Eastern European pirates favor it (partly because of local bias) and then it caught on as being "more l33t", but MKV containers are not widely supported on consumer devices.
You're better off with MP4 containers with AAC audio, or AVCHD with AC3 or LPCM audio (m2ts) if you want surround sound
I don't want to watch movies on my computer monitor, I want to watch them on my TV. Kodi doesn't support their DRM, and there is no app for my smart TV.
So? Then use Amazon, Vudu or PSN/SEN. They have more movies anyway.
1) there appears to be no way to add GPG to Gmail,
There are TWO ways!
1. Use gmail via IMAP/POP3 with a proper desktop client with gpg support. Which is what people SHOULD be doing anyway. Claws-mail and Thunderbird with Enigmail can do this. You can also do this on phone/tablet with K9 mail and OpenKeychain/APG.
2. Mailvelope add-on, if for some reason you use a web browser to read gmail
Sylpheed? Is it 2004 again? I thought all the gaijin users of sylpheed had switched to the fork now known as claws-mail back in 2005. I'm a claws user myself.
They didn't take it away, they just don't offer it? What a pedantic prick. A feature that was there was taken away.
The PS3 and PS4 are not the same hardware. The feature was in the PS3, but the PS4 has never had it. Kind of like how the Vita doesn't have the PSP's RSS feature, or the ability to use the PSP's inline headset remote. (which was handy if you played music on the PSP) You can't take something "away" from a machine that never had it in the first place You may have expected the PS4 to have it, you may have "wanted" the PS4 to have it, but the information out there was clear that the PS4 wasn't going to have PlayTV in the first place.
Besides the PlayTV doesn't support the HD DVB-T2 standard anyway. But it does still work in the PS3, doesn't it? Maybe you should petition SCEE to do a new updated PlayTV unit? But I doubt they'll do it when more and more people are acquiring TV shows and whatnot over the internet on demand. Again, maybe you'll get some version of Playstation Vue sometime, that has Cloud DVR. I can't really use that since my ISP (the fastest one locally) is the Cable company and Vue would blow through my bandwidth cap right quick.
And your wording implies that the UK is not in Europe.
I've had experience with some UK folk online getting riled up if one refers to the UK as part of Europe. I learned to not refer to the UK as part of Europe because of that. No offense is intended.
Gaming configuration laptops don't cost $399. Oh sure, you
It can go to my mate's house.
That explains the console hostility. Hey "mate" the NES was better game machine than your Speccy and its crappy tape games that you bought the machine for, even if you told your Mum that you'd be doing homework on it.
Maybe you can get some budget laptop for $500, but that's no gaming laptop and for sure it's not going to game as well as a PS4. And doing HEAVY 3D gaming on a budget laptop is a prescription for early laptop death.
Oh, and it does all my work, contains all my movies,
Full HD movies? or XVID rips of DVDs from piratebay
There is no sufficiently compelling reason to do anything on a console
Sure there is, Windows sucks as an operating system and just because one "can" play games on it, doesn't mean that one should.
Even MMORPGs that are PC-only suffer from the backwash of consolitis design.
Non sequitor. If the MMO is PC only it is IMPOSSIBLE for it to be affected by consolitis. Any consolitis design is actually specific design decisions made by PC ONLY developers and the PC ONLY developers want it that way.
What you're complaining about is probably just User-Friendly design that appeals to more demographics than just neckbearded cape wearing D&D playing asperger-ish folk who were a higher proportion of the MMO market back when it was MUDS, MUSHES and Ultima Online.
And I say that as a D&D playing asperger-ish person.
Slashdot Mirror
What's with the wildly inaccurate and misleading titles on slashdot lately?
You Must Be New Here.
Well she didn't skip college, but......
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2...
That was a thing with Limbaugh, attacking the appearance of women. To be expected of a man who keeps replacing his wives with younger wives every few years. But hey, he's all about traditional family values and the covenant of marriage, amirite?
"I have to tighten up the graphics on level 3."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
America's princesses have Secret Service protection even after daddy leaves White House.
Only in the short term.
but a Democratic princess is safe.
Chelsea Clinton wasn't "safe" during her fathers term, did you forget?
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In this analogy, what's the counterpart to platforms other than consoles?
Stop being so literal There is no analogy, that was only a for-instance of a career that might require a move.
I would if I knew how "relevant industry experience" and "financial stability" are measured.
Gonna throw a "best practices" reference in there too? You do have "some" idea what those mean, claiming you don't is just a distraction, a coping strategy to convince yourself of the rightness of your "axe to grind"
And if you truly don't know what it means, give it up, you're too disabled to achieve your dream. Sell your computer and be happy playing Tetris, on a SNES, on an SDTV, afterschool while babysitting.
If you don't want to do that, th en perhaps you should be learning Unity instead of focusing on SNES/NES/GBA/DS homebrew.
And by the way, you probably shouldn't cite Cracked as an authoritative source on your website It's a HUMOR site.
but the numbers still show PC gaming as easily above the Wii U and rivalling the other current-gen consoles.
Oh yes, I consider the PS4, Xbox ONe and PC to be the "Big Three". But Tepples, who at one time wanted to be a console developer, now has a grudge/axe against consoles because Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo just don't hand out devkits and contracts to everybody.
Just without the software to make it a worthwhile investment,
It still gets plenty of indies, and plenty of cross-buy stuff like the recent Day of the Tentacle. And there's been some "stealth" releases. Meaning games that get released WITHOUT much promotion so people might not know they even exist. An example of that is the Vita XCOM game which is Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within together with ALL the DLC. That's right, portable XCOM
even the support from its creator.
I really think it is just an SCEA issue. SCEA is so cautious with its marketing, they had trouble marketing the PSP too. They seem so afraid to market anything other than "manly brown shooters" to the "dudebro demographic" probably because they're thinking something like:. "If it wasn't for MIcrosofts sucess with the shooter-boys we'd have kicked their asses with the PS3 too, so lets focus as much marketing on that demographic to get them in our camp. We've already got the generalists, the japanophiles, the platformers and the quirky game players, we can ignore marketing to them"
Damn right, I mostly agree for the same reasons. I mean after all, how is VR going to work for Diablo, or say...a MOBA or a PC style MMORPG with lots of skill buttons.
I do think that VR headsets are going to take off for vehicle based games. You mentioned Mechwarrior, but I think that Flight games (whether space or atmospheric) would work well too.
And how many of those Windows 10 installs sit on desks at workplaces and don't play games at all.
And how many of those Win10 installs at homes don't play any games other than free facebook games, Solitaire or Minesweeper.
In contrast, EVERY console and portable is designed for games, that is their PRIMARY use. Not Office, Not Facebook, Not cat videos on Youtube, but GAMES. You're not going to buy a PS4 or Vita unless you want to BUY and play games on it.
As for handhelds, how far is PlayStation Vita behind Nintendo 3DS again?
Doesn't matter, it's still the best portable gaming machine for the buck. It's a better gaming machine than a 3DS, or phone or tablet.
But there needs to be a clear path for a budding developer to graduate from ease of use to power that doesn't involve moving to another state.
Why?
No Really why?
Why should Publishers cater to an "Edge Case" who doesn't want to move for career purposes. I mean after all if I want to be a chef in a 5-star restaurant in a big city...I might have to MOVE to a big city. If you have to relocate to have a career in your chosen field, then relocate. People do it all the time.
And there's always the option to collaborate on a project online, maybe as a contractor.
Or even the option to form one's OWN company right where you are.
There already IS a clear career path, you just don't want to do those things, you want everything handed to you without having to do anything.
Instead of complaining about how Nintendo or whatever doesn't just hand out dev kits and contracts to everyone with a dream, DO something.
MP4 has inferior codec support.
What do you mean by that? MPEG4 IS a Codec, and it has the widest support.
Something simple and obvious like "a re-compressed DVD" is not an option it's capable of handling.
What do you mean by that? DVDs are ALREADY compressed MPEG2. If you want to recompress a DVD MPEG2 stream to MPEG4 you can do that. I've done it in Handbrake many many times.
MKV was created because Apple fanboys shriek at anyone the least bit creative and call them pirates.
MKV is a CONTAINER, not a Codec. In fact most MKV's are MPEG4 video And how is it "creative" for the Russian pirates who created MKV to use it for pirating US made media.
Non-apple devices all seem to be remarkably less lame when it comes to format support. This even includes h264 options.
MPEG4 has varying profile levels which describe the feature support. Baseline, Main, or High. You encode for the target device.
but it has something to do with "gamers are dead." Nope, guess gamers aren't dead. We're still right here where we've always been.
If so-called "gamers" actually read those articles instead of getting all butthurt and crying SJW, they'd have read what I read in those articles which was:
"Gamers as an exclusionary term is dead. Gamers aren't just 15-25 year old men playing shooters, and those young men and the industry as a whole needs to admit that."
You goddamned SJWs kept fucking insisting that a man (trans woman here--I know what I'm talking about, tranny please) in a mini-skirt two fucking sizes too small for HIM whose body language is and manner or speaking are utterly masculine has some fucking right to claim he's a woman. Is that fucking crossdresser you're trying to make me believe is a woman even on HRT?
You should know better than to doubt some OTHER transpersons internal identity based just on appearance. Would you have liked that if/when it happened to you? And tranny please, I'm also trans so I DO know what I'm talking about.
So, call me sexist, but I am no longer willing to teach introductory programming, Boolean algebra, and relational data to the cisfemale hunnies.
Why yes, you are sexist. And transpeople more than anyone should know better. What if MAC or Sephora had refused me service? What if Makeupalley insisted on my birth certificate before allowing me to register?
In the few programming classes I ever took, there were always women.
There is nothing I can fucking do to get a cisfemale hunny interested in learning this shit enough that she's willing to do shit like run through a Linux from Scratch just for the hell of it and the experience.
I think the Linuxchix would like to have a word with you.
http://www.linuxchix.org/
But perhaps if would be easier to get women involved in "learning this shit" if you didn't refer to them and objectify them as "cisfemale hunnies"
You're citing two e-mail clients that have the same origin.
I am aware of that, I used Sylpheed before moving to Sylpheed-Claws. I also know that OTHER e-mail clients also have proper threading, though I'm not as familiar with them these days as I am with Claws-mail. IIRC most 'nix clients do, I'm know Kmail and Thunderbird do.
Webmail interfaces that support a threaded display are a rarity.
Hmmph, thats another reason why people should user a proper client and not their web browser. Gmail does have a "Conversation view", I don't know about Yahoo.
Kodi
One of the drawbacks of using an XBMC/Kodi centric setup is you don't have the "mainstream video store" options.
[quote]and my smart TV don't support any of those things either.
Older model? Most "smart" TV's these days have Amazon or Vudu....or both. Some even have PSN/SEN. Can it do DLNA? And even if your TV doesn't have Amazon, Vudu or even DLNA, many blu-ray players do, not even taking into account game consoles.
Just sell me a damn .mkv file with H.264 video and DTS audio.
MP4 containers have wider device support than MKV. Sure the XBMC/Kodi crowd who watches on their PC uses it basically because the Russian/Eastern European pirates favor it (partly because of local bias) and then it caught on as being "more l33t", but MKV containers are not widely supported on consumer devices.
You're better off with MP4 containers with AAC audio, or AVCHD with AC3 or LPCM audio (m2ts) if you want surround sound
Well some people just want to watch a movie once, and that's pretty much the standard price across the various services.
http://store.steampowered.com/...
https://store.playstation.com/...
http://smile.amazon.com/Hunger...
http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!c...
https://play.google.com/store/...
I don't want to watch movies on my computer monitor, I want to watch them on my TV. Kodi doesn't support their DRM, and there is no app for my smart TV.
So? Then use Amazon, Vudu or PSN/SEN. They have more movies anyway.
3.99/4.99 is a fairly standard price amongst the services for a 48 hour rental. Go on, check PSN and Amazon and you'll see.
1) there appears to be no way to add GPG to Gmail,
There are TWO ways!
1. Use gmail via IMAP/POP3 with a proper desktop client with gpg support. Which is what people SHOULD be doing anyway. Claws-mail and Thunderbird with Enigmail can do this. You can also do this on phone/tablet with K9 mail and OpenKeychain/APG.
2. Mailvelope add-on, if for some reason you use a web browser to read gmail
The "composer" is the reason I always install SeaMonkey. Don't all email clients do threading properly, like sylpheed and Claws-mail do, now?
Sylpheed? Is it 2004 again? I thought all the gaijin users of sylpheed had switched to the fork now known as claws-mail back in 2005. I'm a claws user myself.
Automatic Updates will only download system updates, it waits for your confirmation to apply it, so the situation is not as you describe.
Game software updates ARE automatically applied.
They didn't take it away, they just don't offer it? What a pedantic prick. A feature that was there was taken away.
The PS3 and PS4 are not the same hardware. The feature was in the PS3, but the PS4 has never had it. Kind of like how the Vita doesn't have the PSP's RSS feature, or the ability to use the PSP's inline headset remote. (which was handy if you played music on the PSP) You can't take something "away" from a machine that never had it in the first place You may have expected the PS4 to have it, you may have "wanted" the PS4 to have it, but the information out there was clear that the PS4 wasn't going to have PlayTV in the first place.
Besides the PlayTV doesn't support the HD DVB-T2 standard anyway. But it does still work in the PS3, doesn't it? Maybe you should petition SCEE to do a new updated PlayTV unit? But I doubt they'll do it when more and more people are acquiring TV shows and whatnot over the internet on demand. Again, maybe you'll get some version of Playstation Vue sometime, that has Cloud DVR. I can't really use that since my ISP (the fastest one locally) is the Cable company and Vue would blow through my bandwidth cap right quick.
And your wording implies that the UK is not in Europe.
I've had experience with some UK folk online getting riled up if one refers to the UK as part of Europe. I learned to not refer to the UK as part of Europe because of that. No offense is intended.
Gaming configuration laptops don't cost $399. Oh sure, you
It can go to my mate's house.
That explains the console hostility. Hey "mate" the NES was better game machine than your Speccy and its crappy tape games that you bought the machine for, even if you told your Mum that you'd be doing homework on it.
Maybe you can get some budget laptop for $500, but that's no gaming laptop and for sure it's not going to game as well as a PS4. And doing HEAVY 3D gaming on a budget laptop is a prescription for early laptop death.
Oh, and it does all my work, contains all my movies,
Full HD movies? or XVID rips of DVDs from piratebay
There is no sufficiently compelling reason to do anything on a console
Sure there is, Windows sucks as an operating system and just because one "can" play games on it, doesn't mean that one should.
Even MMORPGs that are PC-only suffer from the backwash of consolitis design.
Non sequitor. If the MMO is PC only it is IMPOSSIBLE for it to be affected by consolitis. Any consolitis design is actually specific design decisions made by PC ONLY developers and the PC ONLY developers want it that way.
What you're complaining about is probably just User-Friendly design that appeals to more demographics than just neckbearded cape wearing D&D playing asperger-ish folk who were a higher proportion of the MMO market back when it was MUDS, MUSHES and Ultima Online.
And I say that as a D&D playing asperger-ish person.