If only CorelDraw, PhotoPaint, and Painter were available for Linux. CorelDraw is still my favourite vector package and I hate all of the ones available for Linux, especially because they're so gnome-ie. Xara might turn out good, though, even with the horrible GTK file dialogs.
And don't even get me started on the state and direction of GIMP these days.
Even that (as stupid as it sounds) is going to be better than what ends up as the "accepted" term, which clearly will be commentary podcast or codcast or something. Who idiot thought up "podcast" and how are we going to hold those responsible to account for spreading it? Dumbest-buzzword-ever.
Nintendo turned a profit on the cartridge hardware. If they'd allowed publishers to produce carts themseleves it would have lowered the prices on third party games.
And I think you mean "WERE". Load times were a clear advantage with cartridges, but they didn't enhance the games "graphically".
Have you played it? If it plays like the demo they shipped with Dragon Quest 8 it's going to be one of the worst games ever released. Maybe I'm just biased because I don't like the boring gameplay of most MMORPGs even when there are other people playing and the thought of spending 40 hours playing one by myself isn't very appealing. But I couldn't even get through the second demo (the first one lasts like 2 minutes) because after about 7 minutes I was falling asleep.
Sure Square's ATB (and FFX regression) combat systems have gotten stale, but this was a horrible, horrible move. Maybe if their stories were good enough to stand alone I might put up with it, but they're not.
The FFXII combat system is definitely not a good thing.
Phantasy Star 4 (like all the Phantasy Stars) was made by Sega, and it was released for Genesis. But your general point is still valid. I believe Chrono Trigger was 80$ when I bought it. There were a lot of 60-80$ games on SNES.
It's also arguable that the prices have gone up since then, though. Since Nintendo (and probably Sega too, though they don't have nearly the reputation for doing it) jacked up the prices on the cartridges. I believe it was reported that it cost like 20-30$ PER UNIT to publishers just for the hardware. A DVD game costs what, a dollar to print and package?
They're either way better than what we have or the basic tasks they do are breath in and breath out, on a tough day. I have yet to meet one who knew what they were talking about, on any subject. Especially the ones related to the products they are specifically supposed to be selling!
Would it even be copyright? If a copyright can't be infringed is it even a copyright?
I guess it's like that age old question, if there's a copy of Daikatana in the woods with a CD duplicator and...
OMFG!!! By publishing this information the media is helping the terrorists! How will we ever win the wars on terror like this? I'm offended! There are folks that want to kill people out there!!!
Well he states right in the interview what's wrong with EA games (in addition to the genre safety play you mentioned): "The trick to finishing any creative project on schedule is to ship whatever is done by a given date. This is what advertising agencies usually do with the commercials they create. Of course, no one remembers that it was on time after it fails miserably."
He'd have a point if commercials crashed or exhibited other show-stopping bugs and continued to be pushed out on deadline whether they were complete or not.
Inkscape uses the same GUI code on all systems. It was postulated in #inkscape that you are seeing the GTK-Wimp theme in Windows which could be causing some confusion.
No, I'm seeing the batshit insane gnome file dialogs on Linux. I'm not really sure wtf your post is meant to say but windows users don't have to put up with that crap and neither should I.
Does anyone know when they're going to fix this little problem of inkscape using gtk? Or at least the dialogs. I don't see why windows users should get native integration and users on Linux can't.
"At the end of 2005, the average price of DSL service was about $32 per month, roughly $9 less than cable, according to research firm IDC."
DSL is still more expensive than cable unless you have a landline already. Home telephone service is around 40$/month here, which would make DSL (assuming I could get 32$/month anyway, which seems low) that would put me at over 70$. Compared to cable which is under 60$ and comes with "free" basic cable, since there's no way not to pay for that too.
I've already got a cellphone and don't have any use for a landline. Maybe if the DSL providers were actually any better than comcast (local cable monopoly), but until they are it's not worth the extra cash.
We've got an elevator with only two floors like that around here. I've been saying for years that they should just have a big green button labeled "GO!".
Here's a hint: when playing card games, you're looking at the other people, and frequently talking about things.
When playing video games, you're just involved directly in the game with little to no social interaction.
Then you're playing the wrong games. Or more likely, not playing the right ones. Or most likely, not playing any at all. There are tons of multiplayer games that are either single screen or split screen that are a blast to play with friends and encourage a lot of social interaction. Some of them even require it.
I don't personally find playing online "social", and definitely not on public servers. But a buddy of mine plays online against his old roommates as a way of hanging out with them when he can't just pop down the street to hang out since they live two states away. Seems a whole lot more social than using the phone if you ask me, and I somehow doubt you'd label using the telephone "anti-social".
Here's a hint: you don't get it, just like most everyone else. Even (especially?) most of the kids who'd claim that they do.
The patent application predates Steam. Whether or not there was prior art for this patent I don't know (didn't read the patent, too boring), but Steam isn't among it.
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If only CorelDraw, PhotoPaint, and Painter were available for Linux. CorelDraw is still my favourite vector package and I hate all of the ones available for Linux, especially because they're so gnome-ie. Xara might turn out good, though, even with the horrible GTK file dialogs.
And don't even get me started on the state and direction of GIMP these days.
Even that (as stupid as it sounds) is going to be better than what ends up as the "accepted" term, which clearly will be commentary podcast or codcast or something. Who idiot thought up "podcast" and how are we going to hold those responsible to account for spreading it? Dumbest-buzzword-ever.
Yeah, that's a good point. I thought the Panasonic one launched at that price, but Wikipedia seems to think 700$. Either way, too much.
But does it require it to run on Linux?
I'm pretty sure 3DO launched at over 800$USD.
360 sales in the month of May * 3 = 663,000
PS2 sales in the month of May * 3 = 696,000
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Nintendo turned a profit on the cartridge hardware. If they'd allowed publishers to produce carts themseleves it would have lowered the prices on third party games.
And I think you mean "WERE". Load times were a clear advantage with cartridges, but they didn't enhance the games "graphically".
Have you played it? If it plays like the demo they shipped with Dragon Quest 8 it's going to be one of the worst games ever released. Maybe I'm just biased because I don't like the boring gameplay of most MMORPGs even when there are other people playing and the thought of spending 40 hours playing one by myself isn't very appealing. But I couldn't even get through the second demo (the first one lasts like 2 minutes) because after about 7 minutes I was falling asleep.
Sure Square's ATB (and FFX regression) combat systems have gotten stale, but this was a horrible, horrible move. Maybe if their stories were good enough to stand alone I might put up with it, but they're not.
The FFXII combat system is definitely not a good thing.
Phantasy Star 4 (like all the Phantasy Stars) was made by Sega, and it was released for Genesis. But your general point is still valid. I believe Chrono Trigger was 80$ when I bought it. There were a lot of 60-80$ games on SNES.
It's also arguable that the prices have gone up since then, though. Since Nintendo (and probably Sega too, though they don't have nearly the reputation for doing it) jacked up the prices on the cartridges. I believe it was reported that it cost like 20-30$ PER UNIT to publishers just for the hardware. A DVD game costs what, a dollar to print and package?
They're either way better than what we have or the basic tasks they do are breath in and breath out, on a tough day. I have yet to meet one who knew what they were talking about, on any subject. Especially the ones related to the products they are specifically supposed to be selling!
Would it even be copyright? If a copyright can't be infringed is it even a copyright? I guess it's like that age old question, if there's a copy of Daikatana in the woods with a CD duplicator and...
OMFG!!! By publishing this information the media is helping the terrorists! How will we ever win the wars on terror like this? I'm offended! There are folks that want to kill people out there!!!
"They just legalized copyright infringement."
It's not infringement if it's legal.
Well he states right in the interview what's wrong with EA games (in addition to the genre safety play you mentioned): "The trick to finishing any creative project on schedule is to ship whatever is done by a given date. This is what advertising agencies usually do with the commercials they create. Of course, no one remembers that it was on time after it fails miserably." He'd have a point if commercials crashed or exhibited other show-stopping bugs and continued to be pushed out on deadline whether they were complete or not.
Slackware dropped gnome. That's a big step in the right direction! Now if only Pat would drop emacs it would fit on one disc again...
Inkscape uses the same GUI code on all systems. It was postulated in #inkscape that you are seeing the GTK-Wimp theme in Windows which could be causing some confusion.
No, I'm seeing the batshit insane gnome file dialogs on Linux. I'm not really sure wtf your post is meant to say but windows users don't have to put up with that crap and neither should I.
Does anyone know when they're going to fix this little problem of inkscape using gtk? Or at least the dialogs. I don't see why windows users should get native integration and users on Linux can't.
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"At the end of 2005, the average price of DSL service was about $32 per month, roughly $9 less than cable, according to research firm IDC."
DSL is still more expensive than cable unless you have a landline already. Home telephone service is around 40$/month here, which would make DSL (assuming I could get 32$/month anyway, which seems low) that would put me at over 70$. Compared to cable which is under 60$ and comes with "free" basic cable, since there's no way not to pay for that too.
I've already got a cellphone and don't have any use for a landline. Maybe if the DSL providers were actually any better than comcast (local cable monopoly), but until they are it's not worth the extra cash.
We've got an elevator with only two floors like that around here. I've been saying for years that they should just have a big green button labeled "GO!".
Konqi only started smoking because of peer pressure from "Bob", and he can quite any time.
Then you're playing the wrong games. Or more likely, not playing the right ones. Or most likely, not playing any at all. There are tons of multiplayer games that are either single screen or split screen that are a blast to play with friends and encourage a lot of social interaction. Some of them even require it.
I don't personally find playing online "social", and definitely not on public servers. But a buddy of mine plays online against his old roommates as a way of hanging out with them when he can't just pop down the street to hang out since they live two states away. Seems a whole lot more social than using the phone if you ask me, and I somehow doubt you'd label using the telephone "anti-social".
Here's a hint: you don't get it, just like most everyone else. Even (especially?) most of the kids who'd claim that they do.
The patent application predates Steam. Whether or not there was prior art for this patent I don't know (didn't read the patent, too boring), but Steam isn't among it.