When will I be able to build my own XBox? Build my own Playstation? Build my own Nintendo?
Oh, right, we're talking about consoles again, aren't we. There's a reason I don't buy them. I'm not a moron. I know how to pick my hardware and build a 1337 gaming rig without having some company pick it for me. Here's a thought: continue making classic consoles for the computer (hardware) illiterate gamers and let the rest of us just run the damn games on our PCs. Take your big companies and give the poor open source non profit emulator developers some official support. Then I can map my own controls to whatever controller I want. Then I can save my game whenever I want; despite circumstance. Give us more platform freedom and I'll buy your games!
Seriously, Napster and all clones such as Itunes (we can debate who cloned who later) who are trying to sell music online are ultimately doomed to failure. P2P is the new radio; free music, and will always be considered so from here on out. No P2P service will ever be as successful as Kazaa or oldschool Napster until they realize that the lure of their product is its freedom. Pay for it though voluntary subscription (such as slashdot) and/or ads like cable television and be done with it. Music et al will never be as ridiculously profitable as it once was. The days when we pay per album and/or song have rapidly come to a close and I'll be damned if I ever see them come back.
Fair comment. We may try to tone down the more abstract MMOG stories a bit in the future
Down boy! Chill out partner! I just spent three hours overseeing the extended use of my college's computer lab for a special occasion; a job most monotonous which facilitates rapid Slashdot reading. Before you start "toning down" these stories, you should know that of all today's stories, this is the only one I found interesting.
Uh, they sound like shit, and the evil RIAA is profiting from their CD sales? Just a thought. (I think it's more the former, actually, despite this being Slashdot.)
Troll! I'll bite. Linkin Park is one of the best mainstream bands I've ever listened to. Considering that I hate most mainstream bands and I love Linkin Park, that's quite a statement. Trust me there. They take the best out of punk rock, hardcore, techno, and rap and form something completely new and ever so skillfully done. You have to like or at least appreciate all of those forms of music to appreciate Linkin Park. Meaning, you have to be NotShallow(tm) to like them.
Subject says it all. I love games as much as the next man but the "good old days" of gaming had a lot more gems than today's bunch. Gaming wasn't as popular a thing back then. To sell a title, you had to put serious effort into it's gameplay, especially because graphics at the time were marginal. These days, teams of hundreds of people work on eye candy and very few develop the actual gameplay. Go beat FFX and look at the credits sometime and see how much manpower is used in each developmental aspect. I assure you graphics are most heavily focused on. Sure, some new games are works of art. But like punk rock, gaming is becoming mainstream. And when something cool becomes mainstream, it can deteriorate.
Hey we're talking about "Audioholics" here. If they're anything like my neighbor, then they probably equate the size of their penises with the cost of their stereo equipment.
Non profit organizations have no business going and buying expensive software like Windows. Unless they plan on using Warez, the obviously cheapest solution for an organization that probably won't have a lot of money lying around is to use Linux. Seems like common sence to me.
Well a situation like that happened to me. I have cable TV but no UPN channel. Call me a Trekkie nerd but I really like Star Trek Enterprise and I wanted to see the episodes. So Kazaa has supplied me with them. Maybe you can hook yourself up with the soccer finals via some form of P2P?
Thank you! Getting the answer to this question that's been buggin' me forever was so worth the offtopic and redundant moderations. Thank you again, I'll continue to go be a Linux newbie now.
The Linux Middle Click has been driving me nuts!! I hate trying to open a new tab by middle clicking a link in mozilla/konq and accidentally pasting a link and being taken off somehwere where I don't want to be. How can I disable the paste function of the Linux Middle Click?! It's my single biggest pet peeve with Linux.
Funny. I used to use Konqueror in Gnome. (I too hate Nautilus.) But then I just went back to KDE. I love Gnome's speed and overall good looks, but KDE has more features and configurability. So KDE's my env of choice. But the choice was hard to make.
Why spend a few thousand dollars on a gaming computer that will be obsolete in a year? Just plunk down $99-$250 for a gaming console. No more whirling of 15 case fans and sucking of A/C power like an SUV.
What a marvelous troll. Try this on for size, sir. When I buy, yes buy, my console games, I go to great lengths to rip the data onto my hard drive then play them using an emulator. Why? Becuase I'd rather play my console games on the PC than on the console. Here's what I can do on the PC that I can't do with the console:
1. I can map my own controls any way I want. 2. I can save my game any time I want and thus reload it at any point during the gameplay. 3. I can pause it at any time. Especially useful for when something extremely urgent in that place called "real life" comes and you're in the middle one of those spectacular FX scenes in a game such as FF9. Just hit escape in EPSXE and it's paused. Can't do that on the real playstation.
So, sir, computers are the future of gaming whether you choose to accept it or not.
Actually, I had my gaming start with the atari 2600. But I still consider the few short years of the SNES the golden age of gaming - the point where graphics, gameplay, music, and all the other aspects balanced perfectly.
I'll second this. I started with Atari and I still consider the SNES the all around best game platform that ever existed. The most good games on a single console were there. Truly the golden age. ZSNES keeps it alive for me even today. I've never stopped playing SNES. Gotta get my FF4/5/6, Secret of Mana, Super Metroid, etc in at least once every 6 months.
This article reads oh so similar to my rant on the same topic. But the last time I quoted my main points from my rant (which are nearly identical to this article) I got modded as flamebait! So my belief that console gaming is inferior to PC gaming goes from Slashdot flamebait to Slashdot article? How ironic. [/end_irony]
How is that comment informative when it's not even true? I just tried it on my Win2k box just to make sure that I wasn't going crazy. Maybe that happens in some versions of Windows, but definitely not in Win2k.
My biggest problem with it was that they turned PVP into an uberness-of-your-items game instead of a skill game. But I only played for PVP. The non PVPers seem to be having even more problems. Read the forums at Stratics.
In recent years in UO, the housing shortage has been all but eliminated. But now there's a whole set of new problems which ultimately forced me to let down my arms shortly after the last expansion.
As for EQ, I don't play it. Never have. But I hear similar complaints for many of my friends who do/did play it.
It seems like everyone agrees with me when I say the best MMORPGs were the originals in their first few years. Now the greats, most notably EQ and UO have deteriorated in veteran players' eyes and the new releases leave much to be desired. Not all is dim, however. I suppose a set of dismal releases makes the next great one that much more appealing to the fans.
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Reiserfs is GPLed, so they couldn't do that to the Free version without rewriting from scratch
You sure about that? Redhat is GPLed and it's sold in stores too. What's the difference?
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1. Artist makes music
2. (optional) Music made without a producer because technology is cheap now
3. Artist starts promotional website
4. Artist gets on the radio and on P2P services
5. Artist gets popular if he doesn't suck
6. Artist makes money because of his popularity through advertising
7. Profit!!!
Notice the lack of a ??? step? Notice there's no RIAA involved? Notice how this system works already with television?
When will I be able to build my own XBox? Build my own Playstation? Build my own Nintendo?
Oh, right, we're talking about consoles again, aren't we. There's a reason I don't buy them. I'm not a moron. I know how to pick my hardware and build a 1337 gaming rig without having some company pick it for me. Here's a thought: continue making classic consoles for the computer (hardware) illiterate gamers and let the rest of us just run the damn games on our PCs. Take your big companies and give the poor open source non profit emulator developers some official support. Then I can map my own controls to whatever controller I want. Then I can save my game whenever I want; despite circumstance. Give us more platform freedom and I'll buy your games!
Seriously, Napster and all clones such as Itunes (we can debate who cloned who later) who are trying to sell music online are ultimately doomed to failure. P2P is the new radio; free music, and will always be considered so from here on out. No P2P service will ever be as successful as Kazaa or oldschool Napster until they realize that the lure of their product is its freedom. Pay for it though voluntary subscription (such as slashdot) and/or ads like cable television and be done with it. Music et al will never be as ridiculously profitable as it once was. The days when we pay per album and/or song have rapidly come to a close and I'll be damned if I ever see them come back.
Subject says it all. I love games as much as the next man but the "good old days" of gaming had a lot more gems than today's bunch. Gaming wasn't as popular a thing back then. To sell a title, you had to put serious effort into it's gameplay, especially because graphics at the time were marginal. These days, teams of hundreds of people work on eye candy and very few develop the actual gameplay. Go beat FFX and look at the credits sometime and see how much manpower is used in each developmental aspect. I assure you graphics are most heavily focused on. Sure, some new games are works of art. But like punk rock, gaming is becoming mainstream. And when something cool becomes mainstream, it can deteriorate.
Hey we're talking about "Audioholics" here. If they're anything like my neighbor, then they probably equate the size of their penises with the cost of their stereo equipment.
Non profit organizations have no business going and buying expensive software like Windows. Unless they plan on using Warez, the obviously cheapest solution for an organization that probably won't have a lot of money lying around is to use Linux. Seems like common sence to me.
I pay for cable TV service. What's the difference between recording the episode on my VCR and downloading it off Kazaa?
Well a situation like that happened to me. I have cable TV but no UPN channel. Call me a Trekkie nerd but I really like Star Trek Enterprise and I wanted to see the episodes. So Kazaa has supplied me with them. Maybe you can hook yourself up with the soccer finals via some form of P2P?
Thanks for the info. I'll write it down. But I found a more immidiate solution. See my post history or look further down the thread.
Thank you! Getting the answer to this question that's been buggin' me forever was so worth the offtopic and redundant moderations. Thank you again, I'll continue to go be a Linux newbie now.
I'd prefer to just remap it if possible. Maybe remap it if possible. Mapping it to the contorl or alt key would be ideal.
The Linux Middle Click has been driving me nuts!! I hate trying to open a new tab by middle clicking a link in mozilla/konq and accidentally pasting a link and being taken off somehwere where I don't want to be. How can I disable the paste function of the Linux Middle Click?! It's my single biggest pet peeve with Linux.
Funny. I used to use Konqueror in Gnome. (I too hate Nautilus.) But then I just went back to KDE. I love Gnome's speed and overall good looks, but KDE has more features and configurability. So KDE's my env of choice. But the choice was hard to make.
1. I can map my own controls any way I want.
2. I can save my game any time I want and thus reload it at any point during the gameplay.
3. I can pause it at any time. Especially useful for when something extremely urgent in that place called "real life" comes and you're in the middle one of those spectacular FX scenes in a game such as FF9. Just hit escape in EPSXE and it's paused. Can't do that on the real playstation.
So, sir, computers are the future of gaming whether you choose to accept it or not.
This article reads oh so similar to my rant on the same topic. But the last time I quoted my main points from my rant (which are nearly identical to this article) I got modded as flamebait! So my belief that console gaming is inferior to PC gaming goes from Slashdot flamebait to Slashdot article? How ironic. [/end_irony]
How is that comment informative when it's not even true? I just tried it on my Win2k box just to make sure that I wasn't going crazy. Maybe that happens in some versions of Windows, but definitely not in Win2k.
My biggest problem with it was that they turned PVP into an uberness-of-your-items game instead of a skill game. But I only played for PVP. The non PVPers seem to be having even more problems. Read the forums at Stratics.
You can download the FF4 complete soundtrack (among others) here
You can download the Winamp plugin to play spc files here
You can download the XMMS plugin to play spc files here
Happy FF4 listening.
In recent years in UO, the housing shortage has been all but eliminated. But now there's a whole set of new problems which ultimately forced me to let down my arms shortly after the last expansion.
As for EQ, I don't play it. Never have. But I hear similar complaints for many of my friends who do/did play it.
It seems like everyone agrees with me when I say the best MMORPGs were the originals in their first few years. Now the greats, most notably EQ and UO have deteriorated in veteran players' eyes and the new releases leave much to be desired. Not all is dim, however. I suppose a set of dismal releases makes the next great one that much more appealing to the fans.