I upgraded from 7 to 8 a few weeks back, the first thing I noticed on booting after the install was that it hadn't demolished grub, and I could still boot into my operating systems.
Did other Windows versions before 8 leave the MBR intact on upgrade? I know I've done fresh installs alongside Linux before and have always had to jump through hoops to fix my bootloader, I was pleasantly surprised that an upgrade to 8 didn't do the same thing.
The problem with many pure sandbox games is that they are simply too open-ended. Left with so many possibilities, many players face a paradox of choice and oftentimes cease playing the game before they accomplish anything much. Effectively, there is no "game" to it. It's just a toy
It has rules and you play it => it's a game.
Just like tag, I've never heard anyone describe tag as a toy.
MMOs are NOT games, they are toys. There is NO WAY to WIN at a MMO.
Here's a question for you, how do you define "winning" in a game? Is it just seeing the credits roll?
I ask, because there are numerous games that follow a strikingly similar format to an MMO (namely wandering around completing defined quests - see Elder Scrolls, GTA etc) and which - aside from the credits sequence, would fit your description of "toy, not game."
Sure, you do The Big Thing that wraps up the story arc, but then the credits roll and you're back in the game, but of course "The Big Thing" you did involved all the same basic activities as the hundred+ other quests that took you to that point - aside from the cinematic and the credits sequence, there's nothing to differentiate it.
Also, was nethack not a game? I don't remember ever winning that. In fact, in the 8-bit days I seem to remember a lot of the games I played just got progressively tougher until you inevitably lost, what were they, if not games?
Well yeah, they're not going to be posting status updates informing the world of their shady goings-on, but it's a communications medium, "people who are cheating aren't going to post about it on facebook" does make sense as far as wall posts go, but outside of wall posts, they leave evidence on facebook the same way they do on their phones, in email, IM clients etc.
For the record, the shut down button is now in the Settings panel for some unknown reason.
I didn't know this, shutting down is very counterintuitive. Although you can also hit ctrl+alt+del and power off from the button in the... bottom right, I think?
The really frustrating part is that in Vista & Win7, they had made a ton of improvements to the start menu.
I miss the start menu too, and am not sure why they didn't include it in the desktop. For launching apps though it works much the same way as 7/Vista if you didn't notice already (this is not made clear) - just start typing when you're on the metro screen and it acts the same as typing into the "Search Programs and Files" box on the Win7 start menu.
So, whatever you're doing, if you want to open a command prompt for instance, you just hit the windows key and type "cmd"
I just looked on mine out of idle curiosity, after owning it from late September I'm sitting at about 30GB used, with almost no videos or music on it, and only a couple of hundred photos.
I most likely don't live in the "most people" category, though.
Now I ask of you: Is it plausible that a game as absurd as this would develop naturally by random chance out of other games? Ball games just changing into one another?
A salient point, also, if baseball evolved from (for example) cricket, why don't games of cricket turn into baseball any more?
You can't do extensive photo editing or programming on an iPad either.
Programming, no, but for photo editing start with Snapseed and Touch Retouch, maybe add in Photoshop or something along those lines if you want to play with layers.
Tablets aren't at all shabby for monkeying around with photos.
not once did anyone tell me that the bible is a literal documentary on events, but rather a collection of stories written after they happened (especially the old testament, which is basically cobbled together from bits of the torah, and some other things). I've also not met a single Christian who takes the bible literally (and I even went to Sunday school).
Of what spiritual use is a non-literal collection of stories, cobbled together from here and there?
While I'd love to blame an economic system for this, I feel the truth is more mundane: consumers are oblivious to what they are purchasing and are content to pay high prices for bad service.
I wouldn't say that accurately describes anybody I know. Just about everybody I associate with knows exactly what their smartphone does and how much they get screwed on data, but ridiculously limited packages are all that's available when it comes to mobile internet.
Imagine if even 25% of the new phone buyers took a look at these plans and said, "Wow, that's a terrible option. I'm going to roll back to my old Nokia flip-phone and wait for industry to get its act together."
So rather than having a device with all the features we want, but having a cap on bandwidth while we're away from a wireless hotspot. You're suggesting we revert to devices which do almost nothing of what we want, don't have wireless, and are basically useless for any kind of internet activity.
They keep buying overpriced cable, ridiculous cell phone plans, Nickelback, lies by politicians, McRibs, etc.
They should just go back to listening to the radio until the cable TV industry gets its act together. etc.
The problem is that the consumers will deny themselves nothing, and if it's a bad deal, they just pass the buck along to someone else.
It's not that consumers will deny themselves nothing, but that the bathwater is bad, and we realise throwing the baby out with it is a poor solution.
...this isn't really a case about reselling your car, but about whether private citizens can buy a bunch of stuff abroad and re-sell it here for profit because it's cheaper abroad.
And yet this is the core of how most companies operate these days. Buy cheap abroad (labour, manufacturing, components etc) and sell at home for profit.
It's sad that what has long been considered business as usual for companies is legally questionable for individuals.
To be fair, the ZX Spectrum and BBC both launched before (and cheaper than) the C64.
But yep, the PC and DOS/Windows were a joke to card-carrying geeks well into the 90s, they were office tools first and hideously bad multipurpose computing devices second.
In a perfect world there would be an Amiga on every desk today.
In terms of the universe, yep, we're pretty meaningless. In terms of other species, we're anything but.
Look at all the cool stuff we learned from different human cultures on this planet alone. Then think about how excited we get about the prospect of just finding simple bacteria on another planet. There's no way an alien species sufficiently advanced to be exploring our solar system would find a record of our history and think "meh, just humans, nothing worth seeing here"
There's a healthy middle ground between ego stroking, and the complete debasement of all of human history.
It doesn't make financial sense to target downloaders, with the people making copyright material available via bittorrent for instance, you can claim astronomical damages because that initial infringement results in exponentially more infringements.
The damages done by downloading alone are easily quantifiable, and they're so low it's not worth pulling the offenders into court. It's the difference between "200 people downloaded a track from the defendant, and went on to share that track with hundreds more each, so the defendant's action has caused us hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lost sales" and "the defendant downloaded our track without paying, this action cost us less than a buck"
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I upgraded from 7 to 8 a few weeks back, the first thing I noticed on booting after the install was that it hadn't demolished grub, and I could still boot into my operating systems.
Did other Windows versions before 8 leave the MBR intact on upgrade? I know I've done fresh installs alongside Linux before and have always had to jump through hoops to fix my bootloader, I was pleasantly surprised that an upgrade to 8 didn't do the same thing.
Also relevant given tools tend to disappear forever if you take your eyes off them for more than about 3 seconds.
You'd lose too much bone density on a round-trip to Saturn, you could make it there, sure, but you wouldn't be coming home.
The problem with many pure sandbox games is that they are simply too open-ended. Left with so many possibilities, many players face a paradox of choice and oftentimes cease playing the game before they accomplish anything much. Effectively, there is no "game" to it. It's just a toy
It has rules and you play it => it's a game.
Just like tag, I've never heard anyone describe tag as a toy.
MMOs are NOT games, they are toys. There is NO WAY to WIN at a MMO.
Here's a question for you, how do you define "winning" in a game? Is it just seeing the credits roll?
I ask, because there are numerous games that follow a strikingly similar format to an MMO (namely wandering around completing defined quests - see Elder Scrolls, GTA etc) and which - aside from the credits sequence, would fit your description of "toy, not game."
Sure, you do The Big Thing that wraps up the story arc, but then the credits roll and you're back in the game, but of course "The Big Thing" you did involved all the same basic activities as the hundred+ other quests that took you to that point - aside from the cinematic and the credits sequence, there's nothing to differentiate it.
Also, was nethack not a game? I don't remember ever winning that. In fact, in the 8-bit days I seem to remember a lot of the games I played just got progressively tougher until you inevitably lost, what were they, if not games?
Well yeah, they're not going to be posting status updates informing the world of their shady goings-on, but it's a communications medium, "people who are cheating aren't going to post about it on facebook" does make sense as far as wall posts go, but outside of wall posts, they leave evidence on facebook the same way they do on their phones, in email, IM clients etc.
Source: my ex-wife's affair.
How often do people upgrade the CPU without swapping the motherboard out?
By the time I'm looking at a CPU upgrade, the motherboard's redundant.
I'm sure there are a lot of things your boss could say to offend you that you wouldn't bat an eyelid at outside of a professional setting.
And just like that, Windows became just as much of a pain in the ass as Linux.
but in the consumer space it's slipping and slipping badly.
To be fair, they've got a solid set-top box in ~70 million living rooms.
For the record, the shut down button is now in the Settings panel for some unknown reason.
I didn't know this, shutting down is very counterintuitive. Although you can also hit ctrl+alt+del and power off from the button in the... bottom right, I think?
The really frustrating part is that in Vista & Win7, they had made a ton of improvements to the start menu.
I miss the start menu too, and am not sure why they didn't include it in the desktop. For launching apps though it works much the same way as 7/Vista if you didn't notice already (this is not made clear) - just start typing when you're on the metro screen and it acts the same as typing into the "Search Programs and Files" box on the Win7 start menu.
So, whatever you're doing, if you want to open a command prompt for instance, you just hit the windows key and type "cmd"
Also ignoring the fact AMD was still struggling to get on top of serious FP issues, and the 3DNow nonsense only helped so much.
I had a very similar setup back then, admiring the clarity of the visuals while yearning for a stable framerate was the order of the day.
Explain how if it's made trivially-easy for people to download and pirate the games, how their revenue stream benefits from this...
It's trivially easy for people to download and pirate games on Windows now.
ITT: Someone who calls up the manufacturer and asks them to replace products which have been damaged by rabbits.
I just looked on mine out of idle curiosity, after owning it from late September I'm sitting at about 30GB used, with almost no videos or music on it, and only a couple of hundred photos.
I most likely don't live in the "most people" category, though.
Now I ask of you: Is it plausible that a game as absurd as this would develop naturally by random chance out of other games? Ball games just changing into one another?
A salient point, also, if baseball evolved from (for example) cricket, why don't games of cricket turn into baseball any more?
You can't do extensive photo editing or programming on an iPad either.
Programming, no, but for photo editing start with Snapseed and Touch Retouch, maybe add in Photoshop or something along those lines if you want to play with layers.
Tablets aren't at all shabby for monkeying around with photos.
not once did anyone tell me that the bible is a literal documentary on events, but rather a collection of stories written after they happened (especially the old testament, which is basically cobbled together from bits of the torah, and some other things). I've also not met a single Christian who takes the bible literally (and I even went to Sunday school).
Of what spiritual use is a non-literal collection of stories, cobbled together from here and there?
Android's fanbase is a lot more fanatical than Apple's.
You have a cap, beyond which your connection will be heavily throttled, likely 1GB, 2 if you're lucky.
The word "unlimited" can safely be ignored, there's always a provider-imposed limit.
While I'd love to blame an economic system for this, I feel the truth is more mundane: consumers are oblivious to what they are purchasing and are content to pay high prices for bad service.
I wouldn't say that accurately describes anybody I know. Just about everybody I associate with knows exactly what their smartphone does and how much they get screwed on data, but ridiculously limited packages are all that's available when it comes to mobile internet.
Imagine if even 25% of the new phone buyers took a look at these plans and said, "Wow, that's a terrible option. I'm going to roll back to my old Nokia flip-phone and wait for industry to get its act together."
So rather than having a device with all the features we want, but having a cap on bandwidth while we're away from a wireless hotspot. You're suggesting we revert to devices which do almost nothing of what we want, don't have wireless, and are basically useless for any kind of internet activity.
They keep buying overpriced cable, ridiculous cell phone plans, Nickelback, lies by politicians, McRibs, etc.
They should just go back to listening to the radio until the cable TV industry gets its act together. etc.
The problem is that the consumers will deny themselves nothing, and if it's a bad deal, they just pass the buck along to someone else.
It's not that consumers will deny themselves nothing, but that the bathwater is bad, and we realise throwing the baby out with it is a poor solution.
...this isn't really a case about reselling your car, but about whether private citizens can buy a bunch of stuff abroad and re-sell it here for profit because it's cheaper abroad.
And yet this is the core of how most companies operate these days. Buy cheap abroad (labour, manufacturing, components etc) and sell at home for profit.
It's sad that what has long been considered business as usual for companies is legally questionable for individuals.
To be fair, the ZX Spectrum and BBC both launched before (and cheaper than) the C64.
But yep, the PC and DOS/Windows were a joke to card-carrying geeks well into the 90s, they were office tools first and hideously bad multipurpose computing devices second.
In a perfect world there would be an Amiga on every desk today.
In terms of the universe, yep, we're pretty meaningless. In terms of other species, we're anything but.
Look at all the cool stuff we learned from different human cultures on this planet alone. Then think about how excited we get about the prospect of just finding simple bacteria on another planet. There's no way an alien species sufficiently advanced to be exploring our solar system would find a record of our history and think "meh, just humans, nothing worth seeing here"
There's a healthy middle ground between ego stroking, and the complete debasement of all of human history.
It doesn't make financial sense to target downloaders, with the people making copyright material available via bittorrent for instance, you can claim astronomical damages because that initial infringement results in exponentially more infringements. The damages done by downloading alone are easily quantifiable, and they're so low it's not worth pulling the offenders into court. It's the difference between "200 people downloaded a track from the defendant, and went on to share that track with hundreds more each, so the defendant's action has caused us hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lost sales" and "the defendant downloaded our track without paying, this action cost us less than a buck"