Well, I am afraid to say that perfection is too high of standard to put any game.
This may be true for a PC game, which you can update fairly easily if something is caught. But you can't do that with console games until a hard drive or some other storage medium comes standard with every unit. Until that time it is to the benefit of the software companies to beta test their games as much as absolutely possible to get rid of simple things like this.
... does anyone else here think even with Microsoft taking some features out to speed up the release of Longhorn that they're going to end up delaying it a few more times anyway?
Some income is definitely better than no income, even if it's a shit job like at a gas station. I've been through that (albeit only for a few months), my credit cards are maxed, payments are starting to be missed, and I'd be in deeper shit than I am now if not for the fact that I went to a staffing agency and picked up temporary jobs at factories/etc to at least keep some money rolling in for the time being. The job market sucks but there's always a need for somebody with a pulse lower down the food chain.
And your daughter should have been able to file for some kind of financial aid. Institutional funds, student loans, grants, anything.
The Patriot Act is still in force and Microsoft is still in business, so maybe the/. effect only has limited results beyond just bringing web servers to their knees for a day or two.
This is all very interesting, and I'd love to run a similar test if I could get my hands on an "idiot user" as stated in the article for the amount of time it would take to load Linux and Windows just to watch them interact with the installers. But I'm going to call shenanigans on this line right here:
Case made, close the book -- hold on a second. This is another fatal flaw regarding comparisons. With Windows, you get an OS, a browser, email client, notepad application, and little else. Other applications may be added by the OEM (there's that magic OEM again), but the user generally has to acquire many additional applications to get a complete system that does everything he wants. By contrast, with my version of SUSE 9.0, I got 5 CDs with every application that I needed -- no trips to the computer store necessary.
Forget all the business about bottom lines and inferior closed-source products for a second. Microsoft spent years in court just for supplying a BROWSER with their operating system. What the hell kind of mess would they be in if they included alternative shells, office products, and other shit you see in some Linux distros?
Is Linux really there yet in terms of accessibility? Last thing I used was Redhat 9, but that was a few months ago so..
I guess what I'm really interested to see is what kind of hell a Linux tech support call from a 70 year old woman who just wants to e-mail her kids would be like - especially if it's going to involve going to the command line. And before anyone replies and says that tech support calls for a Linux system wouldn't be all that common because the system itself is so stable and secure... trust me, if anyone's going to find a way to break a computer, it's going to be the people who could care less about the OS as long as their e-mail is working. But you all already know that.;)
I'm not saying Windows is necessarily better than Linux, I think both have their strengths and I'm perfectly comfortable working in either environment. But from what I've seen so far I don't know if even a Linux For Dummies-style book is going to help get around the fact that the operating system itself still has awhile to go before it attains the user-friendliness of Windows.
So the guy who spoke at Defconf and argued for giving those attending the Republicats convention a hard time. So what?
Giving them a hard time? Telling the audience to 'fuck up their shit' is your idea of giving the RNC a hard time? Defacing and DOS'ing their websites? Harassing delegates? You have a pretty loose definition of giving them a hard time.
Joe Barr was there to report on the convention, not to advance his own beliefs on any of its subject matter. Whether he thinks Crimethinc should have been ejected or not is totally irrelevant to anything. The article he wrote wasn't for the op-ed section and it wasn't his personal blog, and was a professional enough to know that. Even then, it still doesn't matter what he thinks. He's not running the convention, is he? The decisions aren't his to make.
Crimethinc's rhetoric was inciting a increasingly hostile reaction from the audience and the convention's organizers were absolutely 100% correct to send 'goons' out there - not only to protect Crimethinc from getting his ass kicked, but also to tell the audience that they don't condone what Crimethinc is preaching so that it doesn't reflect badly on them. They were well within the right to do that.
Oh, and BTW - he wasn't 'thrown out'. RTFA some time, you might find it pretty interesting.
Questions were asked about what "going over the line" meant. Assclowns like Crimethinc are exactly what you'd want to point at and say "that's what I'm talking about." Disagreeing with the government (or even just Republicans) is one thing, but going around encouraging people to vandalize websites/etc is something else.
Jesus. No wonder he looked like he was expecting to be arrested.
Don't install Webshots, don't install Kazaa, don't install those 3d ladies that dance on your start menu, don't install Bonzi Buddy, and don't install those packages of 50000 emoticons for your Outlook Express.
An item listing on the second screen would be interesting too. Now instead of being able to pause in the middle of a fight to use some item, you have to get it done while the other guy's still advancing on you.
It doesn't matter how many different classes you have - because there are only four base classes - fighter, spellcaster, rogue, and crafter.
I don't know what games this guy's been playing, but I've never seen a crafter as a "base class" - only as an option that one of the other three base classes can take, given that the time and money are available to pursue it.
And then there are dorks like me who only bought a Gamecube for the express purpose of being able to play Gameboy Advance games on my TV. So far F-Zero GX is the only Gamecube game I own, but I have 8 or 9 GBA games.
Slashdot Mirror
....or yet identify a slashdot geek and advertise case mods, acne cream, video games, and dating services.
Or how about a new copy of 1984?
/ducks
Well, I am afraid to say that perfection is too high of standard to put any game.
This may be true for a PC game, which you can update fairly easily if something is caught. But you can't do that with console games until a hard drive or some other storage medium comes standard with every unit. Until that time it is to the benefit of the software companies to beta test their games as much as absolutely possible to get rid of simple things like this.
... does anyone else here think even with Microsoft taking some features out to speed up the release of Longhorn that they're going to end up delaying it a few more times anyway?
... that WinNuke doesn't work as well as it used to.
I just looked. Microsoft's running at 27 right now.
... a picture of the AOL guy beating a dead horse?
That's rad, I wonder how many of the submissions will be clones of Super Breakout!
Caution: you have entered a No Flashlight zone.
a lot more fair and balanced than some of the reviews we've seen so far Gee whiz, I didn't know Fox News reviewed video games!
Some income is definitely better than no income, even if it's a shit job like at a gas station. I've been through that (albeit only for a few months), my credit cards are maxed, payments are starting to be missed, and I'd be in deeper shit than I am now if not for the fact that I went to a staffing agency and picked up temporary jobs at factories/etc to at least keep some money rolling in for the time being. The job market sucks but there's always a need for somebody with a pulse lower down the food chain.
And your daughter should have been able to file for some kind of financial aid. Institutional funds, student loans, grants, anything.
The Patriot Act is still in force and Microsoft is still in business, so maybe the /. effect only has limited results beyond just bringing web servers to their knees for a day or two.
What if she can't get online to check her email because her modem drivers got nixed? Last time I loaded modem drivers that was done by command line.
This is all very interesting, and I'd love to run a similar test if I could get my hands on an "idiot user" as stated in the article for the amount of time it would take to load Linux and Windows just to watch them interact with the installers. But I'm going to call shenanigans on this line right here:
Case made, close the book -- hold on a second. This is another fatal flaw regarding comparisons. With Windows, you get an OS, a browser, email client, notepad application, and little else. Other applications may be added by the OEM (there's that magic OEM again), but the user generally has to acquire many additional applications to get a complete system that does everything he wants. By contrast, with my version of SUSE 9.0, I got 5 CDs with every application that I needed -- no trips to the computer store necessary.
Forget all the business about bottom lines and inferior closed-source products for a second. Microsoft spent years in court just for supplying a BROWSER with their operating system. What the hell kind of mess would they be in if they included alternative shells, office products, and other shit you see in some Linux distros?
Is Linux really there yet in terms of accessibility? Last thing I used was Redhat 9, but that was a few months ago so ..
I guess what I'm really interested to see is what kind of hell a Linux tech support call from a 70 year old woman who just wants to e-mail her kids would be like - especially if it's going to involve going to the command line. And before anyone replies and says that tech support calls for a Linux system wouldn't be all that common because the system itself is so stable and secure ... trust me, if anyone's going to find a way to break a computer, it's going to be the people who could care less about the OS as long as their e-mail is working. But you all already know that. ;)
I'm not saying Windows is necessarily better than Linux, I think both have their strengths and I'm perfectly comfortable working in either environment. But from what I've seen so far I don't know if even a Linux For Dummies-style book is going to help get around the fact that the operating system itself still has awhile to go before it attains the user-friendliness of Windows.
haha. GAME OVER MAN!
That's when hacktivism becomes vigilantism.
So the guy who spoke at Defconf and argued for giving those attending the Republicats convention a hard time. So what?
Giving them a hard time? Telling the audience to 'fuck up their shit' is your idea of giving the RNC a hard time? Defacing and DOS'ing their websites? Harassing delegates? You have a pretty loose definition of giving them a hard time.
Joe Barr was there to report on the convention, not to advance his own beliefs on any of its subject matter. Whether he thinks Crimethinc should have been ejected or not is totally irrelevant to anything. The article he wrote wasn't for the op-ed section and it wasn't his personal blog, and was a professional enough to know that. Even then, it still doesn't matter what he thinks. He's not running the convention, is he? The decisions aren't his to make.
Crimethinc's rhetoric was inciting a increasingly hostile reaction from the audience and the convention's organizers were absolutely 100% correct to send 'goons' out there - not only to protect Crimethinc from getting his ass kicked, but also to tell the audience that they don't condone what Crimethinc is preaching so that it doesn't reflect badly on them. They were well within the right to do that.
Oh, and BTW - he wasn't 'thrown out'. RTFA some time, you might find it pretty interesting.
Questions were asked about what "going over the line" meant. Assclowns like Crimethinc are exactly what you'd want to point at and say "that's what I'm talking about." Disagreeing with the government (or even just Republicans) is one thing, but going around encouraging people to vandalize websites/etc is something else.
Jesus. No wonder he looked like he was expecting to be arrested.
It's not just Firefox, I was having some trouble with Internet Explorer too.
Don't install Webshots, don't install Kazaa, don't install those 3d ladies that dance on your start menu, don't install Bonzi Buddy, and don't install those packages of 50000 emoticons for your Outlook Express.
... deliver their own punch lines.
Emulation fans were upset, with cries of copyright infringement.
An item listing on the second screen would be interesting too. Now instead of being able to pause in the middle of a fight to use some item, you have to get it done while the other guy's still advancing on you.
If it compiles, ship it?
It doesn't matter how many different classes you have - because there are only four base classes - fighter, spellcaster, rogue, and crafter.
I don't know what games this guy's been playing, but I've never seen a crafter as a "base class" - only as an option that one of the other three base classes can take, given that the time and money are available to pursue it.
And then there are dorks like me who only bought a Gamecube for the express purpose of being able to play Gameboy Advance games on my TV. So far F-Zero GX is the only Gamecube game I own, but I have 8 or 9 GBA games.