There is no guarentee in there, you pay for SA, if an upgrade comes out during the term you get it, if not that's life. Sure people will get pissed off, but that would be their fault, for getting sucked into SA, not MS's.
I've played it, and had I not I'd probably not be posting here at all. My biggest problem with it (after playing it) is they've used extreme violence to sell an incredibly shallow, repetitive, and overall boring game.
One point about your America Psycho comment that differentiates it, I think, from Manhunt/games in general. By reading (or watching)AP you are passively observing Batemans actions, so you're making moral observations throughout, but you aren't involved. Manhunt puts you in the position to actually carry out these acts, so now you are directly involved. And American Psycho is another piece of 'entertainment' that really need not exist. Easton Ellis I believe says there is some point he was trying to make, don't remember what, and that once you got that you could stop reading. Another interesting parallel between Easton Ellis and Rockstar is that they've both done other things that were arguably just as violent, but had humor and purpose (GTA and Glamorama), and whose existance could be justified.
Yeah, this game is like a gift to those that want to see games censored. And it's not the graphics that make it appalling('cause like all Rockstar titles, save MP, it looks like ass) it's the presentation, the lack of a story, and those filters that leave more to your imagination because the killing is kinda blurred. The whole thing just feels wrong. Rockstar probably couldn't outdo themselves here, except maybe releasing Manhunt 2: Rape and Kill (get and extra star for vaginal tears).
I don't advocate the censorship of Manhunt, but Manhunt is a crime against gaming by Rockstar. Manhunt contributes nothing to gaming, and gives Lion and Lamb type people ammunition, as Manhunt has no redeeming qualities. It's violence for violence sake, wrapped in a uninspired boring game. GTA had a sense of humor, almost cartoonish violence, and a fresh way of progressing through a game world. Manhunt is Rockstar arrogantly saying 'Hey we can sell any POS based on our brand, violence, and controversy', sadly they are probably right.
You'd almost have to have metadata to do that, or one hell of an advanced image processing thingy. Either one is going to be a massive undertaking, so I won't expect to see it on eBay anytime soon.
I talked to a guy at school that claimed to have done this, or something similar. He'd organized his collection, and then written a VB frontend to do searches for something like, blonde + shaved. I never actually saw it, but he claimed he was going to sell it on eBay.
I could be wrong on this, but I believe home doesn't even ask you to set up a user. It just sets up Administrator as the default account, with no password. I should know for sure, but it's been 6 weeks or so since I did a Home install, but at any rate I think that's how it works.
the 0.7 milestone, or a nightly? I generally use nightly builds, and occasionaly there is something broken in them, like a few weeks back my banking site would go back to the login page after I logged in, updated to that day's nightly and all was well. I'm also using the Windows version, so I suppose there could be issues with the Linux one that I don't see. I don't have any issues with Slashdot, the only site that gives me issues consistently is Gamespot.
Well that's why the benefits of this routine are pretty much a wash, you get the new patch routine and less security patch news hysteria, but the attack surface is potentially exposed longer, and if MS decides to break the routine it'll probably be bigger news than just releasing patches as they are ready was. All in all it's a lose-lose for MS and users both, and that's why I say push with opt-out is the way to go.
But that'd defeat the whole purpose of the patch schedule. I know a lot of people are anti patch pushing, but I think they should do just that, and give users the option to opt out of the push. But by default patches should just happen, and then admins can worry less about desktop deployment and focus on server patch deployment.
I'd recommend Firebird over Mozilla. While I still like Moz a lot I've started using Firebird 98% of the time, it integrates with Windows a bit better, it's faster, and the interface is simplier. And over the last year to year and a half almost every site seems to render correctly with Gecko based browsers, leaving only Windows Update and other ActiveX dependent sites needing IE. IE was a good browser in it's day, but MS has let it stagnate pretty much since 4.0. They're going to have to do more than just add pop-ip blocking for me to use it with any regularity again.
The benefit, at least for Microsoft, is that by making patches a routine(second Tuesday of the month) security patches are now a routine, and thus probably won't make news when they are released. This is also good for sysadmins in a way, because they can play for patch deployment, but I bet this system crumbles as soon as some flaw is wormed three weeks before the patch is scheduled for release.
Hey, I would like to see Linux on the desktop do well, but Sun showing up with a half assed makeover of Gnome isn't going to start a revolution. Lindows hasn't changed the world either, and they've been in Wal*Mart for a while now. Most Wal*Marts I've been in don't even stock PCs.
Bill Gates started college, although I don't know exactly how long he took to drop out. So he probably has *some* college education, just not a degree.
I'd guess nothing else is selling terribly well. I've been seriously considering an XBOX, but I'm having a hard time justifying it because I really don't see much I care about other than Halo. I already have a PS2, and a GCN, and other than Halo and the forthcoming Halo2 I don't see much else I'm excited about. And on top of that I just tried out the Halo demo on my laptop, and to my suprise it runs pretty well, even though it's only 2.4/256 with a Radeon 7500. So I'll probably just grab the PC version and wait for XBOX to drop some more..
Then there is Killzone supposedly coming for PS2 next year, and it looks like it could out Halo Halo.
It's not always a rural issue. My old apt couldn't do dialup beyond 28.8, and I couldn't get DSL, and I'm in a fairly suburban area. My current residence is DSL handicapped as well. I do have cable broadband access, but it seems weird that I can't get DSL. Earthlink told me it had something to do with the local loop being fiber instead of copper.
For me it's useless because I don't use my phone much, and thus if I wanted to change carriers keeping the current number wouldn't really matter. My contract with Cingular is up Sept04, but I doubt I will switch even though I'm not real happy with them. All the cell providers suck pretty much (I've had Bellsouth/Cingular, Sprint, AT&T, BellAtlantic/Verizon). I'll be happy when if/when someone comes along that pushed coverage and reliability rather than dumb features like internet, email, pictures, SMS... Cingular is gradually moving to GSM, and the coverage on that network sucks big time, no coverage (at least a year ago) more than 40 or so miles outside the city, and in the city it dropped continually. I sold my GSM phone on eBay and went back to a TDMA one, which drops fairly often, but at least works most places.
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I know nothing about graphics API stuff, but would moving a game written towards OpenGL take a while to port to DirectX? Does the XBOX use DirectX?
I'm not so pumped about Doom3. My prediction is as always id pushes technology but the gameplay is basically the same as the first Doom.
There is no guarentee in there, you pay for SA, if an upgrade comes out during the term you get it, if not that's life. Sure people will get pissed off, but that would be their fault, for getting sucked into SA, not MS's.
I've played it, and had I not I'd probably not be posting here at all. My biggest problem with it (after playing it) is they've used extreme violence to sell an incredibly shallow, repetitive, and overall boring game.
I'd say the area most crappy code resides is different in Windows and *NIX. Crappier behind the scenes code in Windows, crappier UI code in *NIX.
Funny doesn't improve karma, just visibility.
One point about your America Psycho comment that differentiates it, I think, from Manhunt/games in general. By reading (or watching)AP you are passively observing Batemans actions, so you're making moral observations throughout, but you aren't involved. Manhunt puts you in the position to actually carry out these acts, so now you are directly involved. And American Psycho is another piece of 'entertainment' that really need not exist. Easton Ellis I believe says there is some point he was trying to make, don't remember what, and that once you got that you could stop reading. Another interesting parallel between Easton Ellis and Rockstar is that they've both done other things that were arguably just as violent, but had humor and purpose (GTA and Glamorama), and whose existance could be justified.
Yeah, this game is like a gift to those that want to see games censored. And it's not the graphics that make it appalling('cause like all Rockstar titles, save MP, it looks like ass) it's the presentation, the lack of a story, and those filters that leave more to your imagination because the killing is kinda blurred. The whole thing just feels wrong. Rockstar probably couldn't outdo themselves here, except maybe releasing Manhunt 2: Rape and Kill (get and extra star for vaginal tears).
I don't advocate the censorship of Manhunt, but Manhunt is a crime against gaming by Rockstar. Manhunt contributes nothing to gaming, and gives Lion and Lamb type people ammunition, as Manhunt has no redeeming qualities. It's violence for violence sake, wrapped in a uninspired boring game. GTA had a sense of humor, almost cartoonish violence, and a fresh way of progressing through a game world. Manhunt is Rockstar arrogantly saying 'Hey we can sell any POS based on our brand, violence, and controversy', sadly they are probably right.
So you're just and indy nerd now.
You'd almost have to have metadata to do that, or one hell of an advanced image processing thingy. Either one is going to be a massive undertaking, so I won't expect to see it on eBay anytime soon.
I talked to a guy at school that claimed to have done this, or something similar. He'd organized his collection, and then written a VB frontend to do searches for something like, blonde + shaved. I never actually saw it, but he claimed he was going to sell it on eBay.
I could be wrong on this, but I believe home doesn't even ask you to set up a user. It just sets up Administrator as the default account, with no password. I should know for sure, but it's been 6 weeks or so since I did a Home install, but at any rate I think that's how it works.
Yes, it blocks /.s ip when clicking submit if you haven't already hit preview.
the 0.7 milestone, or a nightly? I generally use nightly builds, and occasionaly there is something broken in them, like a few weeks back my banking site would go back to the login page after I logged in, updated to that day's nightly and all was well. I'm also using the Windows version, so I suppose there could be issues with the Linux one that I don't see. I don't have any issues with Slashdot, the only site that gives me issues consistently is Gamespot.
Well that's why the benefits of this routine are pretty much a wash, you get the new patch routine and less security patch news hysteria, but the attack surface is potentially exposed longer, and if MS decides to break the routine it'll probably be bigger news than just releasing patches as they are ready was. All in all it's a lose-lose for MS and users both, and that's why I say push with opt-out is the way to go.
But that'd defeat the whole purpose of the patch schedule. I know a lot of people are anti patch pushing, but I think they should do just that, and give users the option to opt out of the push. But by default patches should just happen, and then admins can worry less about desktop deployment and focus on server patch deployment.
I'd recommend Firebird over Mozilla. While I still like Moz a lot I've started using Firebird 98% of the time, it integrates with Windows a bit better, it's faster, and the interface is simplier. And over the last year to year and a half almost every site seems to render correctly with Gecko based browsers, leaving only Windows Update and other ActiveX dependent sites needing IE. IE was a good browser in it's day, but MS has let it stagnate pretty much since 4.0. They're going to have to do more than just add pop-ip blocking for me to use it with any regularity again.
The benefit, at least for Microsoft, is that by making patches a routine(second Tuesday of the month) security patches are now a routine, and thus probably won't make news when they are released. This is also good for sysadmins in a way, because they can play for patch deployment, but I bet this system crumbles as soon as some flaw is wormed three weeks before the patch is scheduled for release.
Hey, I would like to see Linux on the desktop do well, but Sun showing up with a half assed makeover of Gnome isn't going to start a revolution. Lindows hasn't changed the world either, and they've been in Wal*Mart for a while now. Most Wal*Marts I've been in don't even stock PCs.
Yeah, I'm with you there. This isn't going to sell worth a shit, and what does sell will indeed be running Windows in short order.
Bill Gates started college, although I don't know exactly how long he took to drop out. So he probably has *some* college education, just not a degree.
I thought that also included those who can not manage administrate?
I'd guess nothing else is selling terribly well. I've been seriously considering an XBOX, but I'm having a hard time justifying it because I really don't see much I care about other than Halo. I already have a PS2, and a GCN, and other than Halo and the forthcoming Halo2 I don't see much else I'm excited about. And on top of that I just tried out the Halo demo on my laptop, and to my suprise it runs pretty well, even though it's only 2.4/256 with a Radeon 7500. So I'll probably just grab the PC version and wait for XBOX to drop some more..
Then there is Killzone supposedly coming for PS2 next year, and it looks like it could out Halo Halo.
It's not always a rural issue. My old apt couldn't do dialup beyond 28.8, and I couldn't get DSL, and I'm in a fairly suburban area. My current residence is DSL handicapped as well. I do have cable broadband access, but it seems weird that I can't get DSL. Earthlink told me it had something to do with the local loop being fiber instead of copper.
For me it's useless because I don't use my phone much, and thus if I wanted to change carriers keeping the current number wouldn't really matter. My contract with Cingular is up Sept04, but I doubt I will switch even though I'm not real happy with them. All the cell providers suck pretty much (I've had Bellsouth/Cingular, Sprint, AT&T, BellAtlantic/Verizon). I'll be happy when if/when someone comes along that pushed coverage and reliability rather than dumb features like internet, email, pictures, SMS... Cingular is gradually moving to GSM, and the coverage on that network sucks big time, no coverage (at least a year ago) more than 40 or so miles outside the city, and in the city it dropped continually. I sold my GSM phone on eBay and went back to a TDMA one, which drops fairly often, but at least works most places.