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Perhaps you could write yet another script called at startup that could find those dirty files and append their content into the main history file. I agree that this setup could be getting a little too much for what it does though, bash ought to have that kind of functionality by default.
A bit off topic here, but, about Autorun...
I never understood why MS is sticking to this way of doing things. I don't really want to go into the whole Mac vs PC thing, but OSX really nailed that I think. It's nice to have something that popups when you put a CDROM in the drive (for the average user anyway). But executing random code from a foreign media is of course terrible. So, in OSX, it's Finder (a bit like explorer) that pop ups, displaying the files on the CD. And since you can determine in advance the view style and the way the icon are arranged (and even put a coloured background) it *looks* just like the way you would expect, with a nice, big icon in the middle of the window, in order to install the software. No need to run arbitrary code. Autorun is just retared.
I doubt it's very hard to build a small app that simply replace your personal info with blanks (or fake info like joe.smith@hotmail.com). It's just metadata, right?
Dude! I think you are greatly exaggerating the geek stereotype here. Specs like that are for some very intensive stuff, like a rendering machine or something. The fact that you conveniently forgot to tell us what you are doing with this machine makes me believe that *you* are the supposed geek that just like to brag about their computer penis size^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspecs.
I'm a long time gentoo user and even I don't see the need to upgrade to a quad core, despite having to compile stuff all the time. It could go faster, but right now I think it's fast enough and so not worth the money to upgrade the mobo+RAM+CPU. I even do a bit of video compression and run some virtual machines. You know what? I'm still on a *single* core cpu! OMG I'm so un-l33t or whatever...
And 9TB of drive space? What are you storing anyway? I have quite few video and music and I'm still below 2TB, backups included.
I think you just made those up just to prove a point, dude. Laptops are just fine, save for the small screen and even then you can always hook your laptop to another one when at home.
And please stop using the term gay in a derogative way, it's just so very immature.
The parent said "making good playable games is less profitable than making lousy games with pretty graphics", I don't think he meant pitching old games from the 90s against what you find in the current generation.
World of Goo was an awesome game and its gameplay didn't seem dated, nor was there some feature you feel was missing. It still feels like a modern game, despite not being a polygon powerhouse.
Currently there is an obsession with triple A games in the industry that go way beyond my comprehension. Everything is hype with graphics, most of the time to the detriment of gameplay, scenario and (the biggest blunder of all) art direction. Because everything now as to be REALISTISTIC!
So back to the original point, no, I don't think it's piracy that prevent good game from seeing the light of the day. It just doesn't sell as much and therefore is too risky. And the gaming industry has severe allergy problem with risk.
Allo Stop was forced to cease arranging rides in Ontario (it continues to operate in Quebec) and was fined over $18,000, with $16,000 payable to the claimants who brought the case against it: intercity bus companies Voyageur Corp ($6,000), Greyhound Canada, and Trentway-Wagar ($10,000). Is it any wonder that they'd want any kind of competition brought to heel? The bus companies' arguments before the Board were accepted virtually wholesale over the arguments made by Allo Stop's lawyer.
Around the same time, the Board also ruled against now-defunct EcoRide, which had to pay $6,000 in costs to Greyhound and Trentway-Wagar. A January 2001 Toronto Star article about carpooling quoted EcoRide founder Alan Majer as saying, "It seems to be interpreted that ride sharing is illegal in Ontario." And so it remains.
No wonder you're surprised, everybody was when they first got a favourable ruling from the ontario court to shut down the operation of the very useful allo-stop (http://www.allostop.com/) service. It still exist in other part of canada, especially in Quebec. You just give them a phone call and say where you want to go. If they have someone going there, they hook you up the the driver. You paid a fee to allo-stop, and another to the driver. A Montreal-Quebec trip will only set you back 17$ last I recalled instead of 35$+ if you take the bus. I can't believed they can get away with 'unfair competition'. FUCK THEM!
without even the social interaction or plot that makes WoW or modern RPGs interesting
I'm not sure I can agree to that. What annoy me of the modern RPGs is that very few of them has a compelling story. There are always full of cliche and are told by in the worst way possible. Bad voice acting, silly and totally uninteresting dialogs, you are the chosen one, please save the universe, you must reunite the 7 crystals... etc.
I think I haven't played a real mature game yet. Sure there are full of 'M' games with blood and guns, but they are all very immature at their core.
Mind you, I play a lot of modern games. But I'm always unimpressed by how very few developer are actually trying to improve the medium, I feel like we are stuck in the middle age of gaming somehow.
So in a way, I think it's totally reasonable for people to like old school type of game, what they lack in complexity they gain in pure fun, and I'm pretty sure they will be part of every gaming generation.
The top box is where all your weapon will be. When you defeat a boss, you will gain the weapon of that boss. As for the items, just go to the shop, where you can buy them. You'll find descriptions there.
Pressing start is just to launch the game. You press select before that if you want a 2 players game (moves the cursor from "1 player" to "2 players" on screen in most games of that time).
Start and Select aren't part of the actual cheat code.
So instead of "add" they uses a "+". And that's why the user interface is "a piece of shit". I mean, I'm all for debating stuff, but come one dude, you can do better that I'm sure.
What are you talking about? In the last few years, some very noticeable work has been done in improving the desktop experience, and none of them are GUI only. you know about hal, dbus and udev? You know, the things that let you press the goddamn eject button of dvd drive and, *gasp*, opens the drive tray, even if said drive is mounted? Or notify you via the systray that you just have plug an usb thumb drive? All of that is 100% command line friendly. GNOME and KDE just integrate the functionality so you don't *have to* switch to command line for simple, day to day operation.
So...commercial developers can develop as long as they don't distribute. Boy, that's helpful/useful. About as helpful and useful as a kick in the nuts.:)
You know, we use an excel sheet to deal with localization of our games. Right now, we have to open the file, say yes to the little dialog box warning me of macros in the file, go to tool->run macro (or whatever), select the macro and press run. If we had an open source library that we could use in order to not to have to open excel everytimes we want to export the data, it would be very cool. So there, a commercial entity that don't need not distribute the tools while still being useful.
Lately I've been enjoying burst of gaming via rockband, GH, wii fit, the virtual console, some puzzle game like zack & wiki... etc. Games with deep characters and complex storyline are not always what I'm looking for. Bring on the mindless mouse clicking!
The storyline? You mean kill the big evil bad ass? And when that's done, kill the big evil bad ass' brother in an expansion pack? I loooove the Diablo series but the 'story' is a joke.
There are 10 million people willing to pay to play a game they already payed once for?
No, they don't. You don't have to buy the game at the store (witch gives you like 2 months free anyway), you just have to register on the WoW website and it will let you download the game with their torrent-like application.
I was planning to subscribe again to WoW when I heard that they increased the rate at witch you gain XP. Does it really make a difference? Or is it so minor that I wouldn't really notice?
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Perhaps you could write yet another script called at startup that could find those dirty files and append their content into the main history file. I agree that this setup could be getting a little too much for what it does though, bash ought to have that kind of functionality by default.
A bit off topic here, but, about Autorun...
I never understood why MS is sticking to this way of doing things. I don't really want to go into the whole Mac vs PC thing, but OSX really nailed that I think. It's nice to have something that popups when you put a CDROM in the drive (for the average user anyway). But executing random code from a foreign media is of course terrible. So, in OSX, it's Finder (a bit like explorer) that pop ups, displaying the files on the CD. And since you can determine in advance the view style and the way the icon are arranged (and even put a coloured background) it *looks* just like the way you would expect, with a nice, big icon in the middle of the window, in order to install the software. No need to run arbitrary code. Autorun is just retared.
I doubt it's very hard to build a small app that simply replace your personal info with blanks (or fake info like joe.smith@hotmail.com). It's just metadata, right?
Way to bail out of an argument...
Dude! I think you are greatly exaggerating the geek stereotype here. Specs like that are for some very intensive stuff, like a rendering machine or something. The fact that you conveniently forgot to tell us what you are doing with this machine makes me believe that *you* are the supposed geek that just like to brag about their computer penis size^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspecs.
I'm a long time gentoo user and even I don't see the need to upgrade to a quad core, despite having to compile stuff all the time. It could go faster, but right now I think it's fast enough and so not worth the money to upgrade the mobo+RAM+CPU. I even do a bit of video compression and run some virtual machines. You know what? I'm still on a *single* core cpu! OMG I'm so un-l33t or whatever...
And 9TB of drive space? What are you storing anyway? I have quite few video and music and I'm still below 2TB, backups included.
I think you just made those up just to prove a point, dude. Laptops are just fine, save for the small screen and even then you can always hook your laptop to another one when at home.
And please stop using the term gay in a derogative way, it's just so very immature.
The parent said "making good playable games is less profitable than making lousy games with pretty graphics", I don't think he meant pitching old games from the 90s against what you find in the current generation.
World of Goo was an awesome game and its gameplay didn't seem dated, nor was there some feature you feel was missing. It still feels like a modern game, despite not being a polygon powerhouse.
Currently there is an obsession with triple A games in the industry that go way beyond my comprehension. Everything is hype with graphics, most of the time to the detriment of gameplay, scenario and (the biggest blunder of all) art direction. Because everything now as to be REALISTISTIC!
So back to the original point, no, I don't think it's piracy that prevent good game from seeing the light of the day. It just doesn't sell as much and therefore is too risky. And the gaming industry has severe allergy problem with risk.
Allo Stop was forced to cease arranging rides in Ontario (it continues to operate in Quebec) and was fined over $18,000, with $16,000 payable to the claimants who brought the case against it: intercity bus companies Voyageur Corp ($6,000), Greyhound Canada, and Trentway-Wagar ($10,000). Is it any wonder that they'd want any kind of competition brought to heel? The bus companies' arguments before the Board were accepted virtually wholesale over the arguments made by Allo Stop's lawyer. Around the same time, the Board also ruled against now-defunct EcoRide, which had to pay $6,000 in costs to Greyhound and Trentway-Wagar. A January 2001 Toronto Star article about carpooling quoted EcoRide founder Alan Majer as saying, "It seems to be interpreted that ride sharing is illegal in Ontario." And so it remains.
Unbelievable what they can get away with...
No wonder you're surprised, everybody was when they first got a favourable ruling from the ontario court to shut down the operation of the very useful allo-stop (http://www.allostop.com/) service. It still exist in other part of canada, especially in Quebec. You just give them a phone call and say where you want to go. If they have someone going there, they hook you up the the driver. You paid a fee to allo-stop, and another to the driver. A Montreal-Quebec trip will only set you back 17$ last I recalled instead of 35$+ if you take the bus. I can't believed they can get away with 'unfair competition'. FUCK THEM!
without even the social interaction or plot that makes WoW or modern RPGs interesting
I'm not sure I can agree to that. What annoy me of the modern RPGs is that very few of them has a compelling story. There are always full of cliche and are told by in the worst way possible. Bad voice acting, silly and totally uninteresting dialogs, you are the chosen one, please save the universe, you must reunite the 7 crystals... etc.
I think I haven't played a real mature game yet. Sure there are full of 'M' games with blood and guns, but they are all very immature at their core.
Mind you, I play a lot of modern games. But I'm always unimpressed by how very few developer are actually trying to improve the medium, I feel like we are stuck in the middle age of gaming somehow.
So in a way, I think it's totally reasonable for people to like old school type of game, what they lack in complexity they gain in pure fun, and I'm pretty sure they will be part of every gaming generation.
Jump on the dog. You'll be able to reach higher grounds.
And I will add that the Wii and PS3 version are much more viable than the xbox360 one because of the terrible, terrible dpad of the 360 controller.
The top box is where all your weapon will be. When you defeat a boss, you will gain the weapon of that boss. As for the items, just go to the shop, where you can buy them. You'll find descriptions there.
Just clic on the 'cached' link on the google result page. then scroll down near the bottom of the page.
Pressing start is just to launch the game. You press select before that if you want a 2 players game (moves the cursor from "1 player" to "2 players" on screen in most games of that time).
Start and Select aren't part of the actual cheat code.
So instead of "add" they uses a "+". And that's why the user interface is "a piece of shit". I mean, I'm all for debating stuff, but come one dude, you can do better that I'm sure.
To be fair, you cannot find a 2.5 inch 500Gb drive for 69$, witch is the type the xbox uses.
What are you talking about? In the last few years, some very noticeable work has been done in improving the desktop experience, and none of them are GUI only. you know about hal, dbus and udev? You know, the things that let you press the goddamn eject button of dvd drive and, *gasp*, opens the drive tray, even if said drive is mounted? Or notify you via the systray that you just have plug an usb thumb drive? All of that is 100% command line friendly. GNOME and KDE just integrate the functionality so you don't *have to* switch to command line for simple, day to day operation.
So...commercial developers can develop as long as they don't distribute. Boy, that's helpful/useful. About as helpful and useful as a kick in the nuts. :)
You know, we use an excel sheet to deal with localization of our games. Right now, we have to open the file, say yes to the little dialog box warning me of macros in the file, go to tool->run macro (or whatever), select the macro and press run. If we had an open source library that we could use in order to not to have to open excel everytimes we want to export the data, it would be very cool. So there, a commercial entity that don't need not distribute the tools while still being useful.
People are more interested in deep characters...
Lately I've been enjoying burst of gaming via rockband, GH, wii fit, the virtual console, some puzzle game like zack & wiki... etc. Games with deep characters and complex storyline are not always what I'm looking for. Bring on the mindless mouse clicking!
The storyline? You mean kill the big evil bad ass? And when that's done, kill the big evil bad ass' brother in an expansion pack? I loooove the Diablo series but the 'story' is a joke.
Is the infamous airport disconnection issue finally been fixed?
What kind of retarded radio who is that?
You did 20 levels in a day and a half? Really?
you can level 1-60 in WoW now faster
I was planning to subscribe again to WoW when I heard that they increased the rate at witch you gain XP. Does it really make a difference? Or is it so minor that I wouldn't really notice?