I don't usually post on/. - i come here to read the humourous trolls and the poorly moderated comments (everyone should browse at -1 and make their own minds up who is talking sense).
Anyway reading this, there seems to be a lot of holier-than-thou comments, about the weak wills of people etc. But who is it hurting really?
Lets see, the economy? it is unproductive in that sense true, but people aren't cogs in a machine.
Their loved ones? well they may be ignoring them, but it's a free choice, if you'd rather play a game all night (after night) than play with your spouse, something isn't right with the relationship. Maybe in their game they meet people they would never talk to in regular everyday life.
Themselves? well, perhaps, in YOUR opinion, but quality of life is a relative and subjective thing, at the end of the day they are free to choose what makes them happy (see mr goatse.cx for proof that people enjoy many alternative recreational activities to extremely painful looking extremes).
It seems to me people are too quick to condemn others choices, we're all addicted to something, even if its just our/your way of life in general. i especially enjoyed the post further up putting down the gameaholic way of life that ended with a sig linking to free porn. Games may damage your eyesight eventually, but that bloke will go blind a lot sooner.
btw i quite intensely dislike rpg's myself, massively multiplayer or otherwise, all the trolls and goblins i need are right here on/. and only take 10 minutes of my time.
Indeed, that was the Amiga i remember, my old lowly A600 with a 1mb ram upgrade, and not even a HD. The Amiga was more than the hardware or OS, it was the scene.
In the UK mags like Amiga Format had massive circulations, they'd give away multimedia apps on the covers like Imagine 3D (the first 3d package i ever used), Octamed (4 channel sound sequencer), and sorts of PIM's and office apps. you'd see articles on the original Lightwave 3D and the video toaster, masterclasses for Deluxe Paint (the sphinx image that came with it still reminds me of the old amiga). Then you had the Public Domain repositories in the back; before any of us had the internet, people would submit their software and music demos to these places and you'd mail order the disks for 50p each.
That was the Amiga really, it is great that they're trying to get it back on people's desktops, but there's no significant demand anymore.
On a side note, when i got my first x86 a few years ago, i was incredibly gutted that the FDC's are incompatible and i couldn't/can't rescue my old amiga files from their floppy disks. IMHO the work they're doing would be better spent creating methods for Amiga users to continue using Amiga hardware and software on modern machines (Read: make me an amiga FDC pci card, port AmigaOS to native x86 and let me run my win32/ELF binaries in a modernised 32bit workbench GUI).
I'm actually a brit myself, I never knew we used a different definition of billion here (and there too it seems), in fact when I was at school doing physics and economics A-levels we were taught to use the 10^9 version.
Oh well, I expect it came over with McDonalds or something. Thanks for educating me on my own country's mathematical scales, heh.
It's probably not the best reason for my first/. post but it was a billionth, 10^-12 is a trillionth.
It would be more logical for a million millions to be a billion, because a thousand thousands is a million, but by that reasoning a thousand should be one hundred hundreds and not ten hundreds.
Anyway forgive the pedantic first user post but there's too much misinformation on/. already.
Oh and the "silly americans" comment makes me fearful you might be british, say it ain't so!
Slashdot Mirror
I don't usually post on /. - i come here to read the humourous trolls and the poorly moderated comments (everyone should browse at -1 and make their own minds up who is talking sense).
/. and only take 10 minutes of my time.
Anyway reading this, there seems to be a lot of holier-than-thou comments, about the weak wills of people etc. But who is it hurting really?
Lets see, the economy? it is unproductive in that sense true, but people aren't cogs in a machine.
Their loved ones? well they may be ignoring them, but it's a free choice, if you'd rather play a game all night (after night) than play with your spouse, something isn't right with the relationship. Maybe in their game they meet people they would never talk to in regular everyday life.
Themselves? well, perhaps, in YOUR opinion, but quality of life is a relative and subjective thing, at the end of the day they are free to choose what makes them happy (see mr goatse.cx for proof that people enjoy many alternative recreational activities to extremely painful looking extremes).
It seems to me people are too quick to condemn others choices, we're all addicted to something, even if its just our/your way of life in general. i especially enjoyed the post further up putting down the gameaholic way of life that ended with a sig linking to free porn. Games may damage your eyesight eventually, but that bloke will go blind a lot sooner.
btw i quite intensely dislike rpg's myself, massively multiplayer or otherwise, all the trolls and goblins i need are right here on
Indeed, that was the Amiga i remember, my old lowly A600 with a 1mb ram upgrade, and not even a HD. The Amiga was more than the hardware or OS, it was the scene.
;)
In the UK mags like Amiga Format had massive circulations, they'd give away multimedia apps on the covers like Imagine 3D (the first 3d package i ever used), Octamed (4 channel sound sequencer), and sorts of PIM's and office apps. you'd see articles on the original Lightwave 3D and the video toaster, masterclasses for Deluxe Paint (the sphinx image that came with it still reminds me of the old amiga). Then you had the Public Domain repositories in the back; before any of us had the internet, people would submit their software and music demos to these places and you'd mail order the disks for 50p each.
That was the Amiga really, it is great that they're trying to get it back on people's desktops, but there's no significant demand anymore.
On a side note, when i got my first x86 a few years ago, i was incredibly gutted that the FDC's are incompatible and i couldn't/can't rescue my old amiga files from their floppy disks. IMHO the work they're doing would be better spent creating methods for Amiga users to continue using Amiga hardware and software on modern machines (Read: make me an amiga FDC pci card, port AmigaOS to native x86 and let me run my win32/ELF binaries in a modernised 32bit workbench GUI).
Now, i'm off for a game of Skidmarks
Thanks for the welcome :)
I'm actually a brit myself, I never knew we used a different definition of billion here (and there too it seems), in fact when I was at school doing physics and economics A-levels we were taught to use the 10^9 version.
Oh well, I expect it came over with McDonalds or something. Thanks for educating me on my own country's mathematical scales, heh.
It's probably not the best reason for my first /. post but it was a billionth, 10^-12 is a trillionth.
It would be more logical for a million millions to be a billion, because a thousand thousands is a million, but by that reasoning a thousand should be one hundred hundreds and not ten hundreds.
Anyway forgive the pedantic first user post but there's too much misinformation on /. already.
Oh and the "silly americans" comment makes me fearful you might be british, say it ain't so!