I don't know what Slashdot you are reading, but there are plenty +5 modded pro-piracy posts to every article even slightly related to video games. DRM is usually the justification. But there are those that says piracy help sales because people go out and buy it...or friends see them play it and but it, etc. There are those who do it because they think game companies charge too much. There are those who do it because they once bought a bad game. The more sane "buy it if you want to play it" mantra is generally not modded up as much here giving the impression that Slashdot is pro-piracy as long as you can come up with a weak excuse.
Yes, which doesn't apply in this case so it makes your point meaningless. Quite frankly, all you are saying is that good games make more money then bad ones. I don't think that point needs to be made.
No. Nerfs are an out-of-game concept when a game company (usually in the MMORPG genre) makes a character weaker by reducing its stats or effectiveness of its abilities (generally for balance issues). Debuffs are an in-game concept that is the opposite of buffs...a reduction in stats.
For example, if you were to die in WoW and choose to not rez at a graveyard, you would get rez sickness which is considered a debuff. No one would say, "Hey, I don't feel like running back, I'll just take the rez nerf." So the summary is using the term correctly and you are not.
2 words: bull shit. Anything on the Internet is vulnerable...anything! Closed or open source. Mass adoption just means there is something that hackers can focus on. It means that when they find a vulnerability it works on more machines since something is mass adopted. Is some code more secure than other code? Absolutely. But to say that mass adoption isn't a security risk is naive in the extreme.
Eh, that's a load of crap. Apple spews us with ads on how much safer it is than a PC daily with their misleading commercials. But then, when they approve something that runs on an Apple device that steals your data, it's ok?
If you are making the claim that you don't have to worry about viruses and bad people on Apple products, then you better not be sanctioning apps that do exactly that. If they let anyone put anything on the iPhone, this would be different. But since they force you to go through their approval methods, people are going to expect more from them. You can't let them have it both ways.
I am liberal and feel the same way that you do. You really don't get being liberal. It isn't about helping everyone so we feel better about ourselves. It is about treating people equally and doing things that are in the best interest for everyone. The idea of forcing game companies to cater to the disabled is not a liberal idea. It is a stupid idea. And by placing the liberal label on it you are politicizing an issue that isn't political. No liberal is running on a platform of forcing video games to comply to the ADA.
It's like me saying we should take the vote away from black people is a conservative idea. It's a stupid idea that I am sure you wouldn't want to associate yourself with. Even if some liberals agree on enforcing the ADA on video games or some conservatives agree that they don't want black people to vote. A stupid idea is just stupid and there is no need to label it.
Uhh, I am about as liberal as it gets for a Slashdotter and I don't think that is a liberal opinion. It's a stupid opinion. People with handicaps should have access to all the essential of living in our society. Video games are not one of them. If a game maker/hardware company wants to provide for people with disabilities, great, buy that product. If not, don't sue a company to force them to cater to your will. If we could do that I would sue Amazon so that they could also deliver groceries to my house. Damn that would be awesome.
And this is a problem why? Not everything has to be ported to Linux to be worthwhile. Them releasing it is a good thing. When something is only released on Linux, is that a fail too? The OS bias on this site is pathetic sometimes.
If you think about it, this is a good thing. Skynet will probably have some adobe products on it somewhere which we can use to hack in to it and disable it, thus saving us all. Adobe has been protecting us from skynet since its inception.
I started awhile ago with Chrome and never looked back. Rarely do I ever have an issue. The speed and how it maximizes the amount of screen space I get for my browser beats the pants off of anything else any browser has to offer.
It is hard to falsify because it isn't false. With a Mac you have specific hardware that your OS is going to run on. This makes it a lot easier to test and understand the whole system. With a PC, it isn't just all the different hardware, but all the different hardware combinations and their interactions that are the issue. Hardware/firmware/drivers all can be done just slightly different enough to make it a hard task. You can not falsify it, because it is obvious truth. You just wish it was false because you are heavily biased.
Now let's talk about stability. I do a lot of development on both Linux and Windows. Quite honestly I have no issues with XPs stability. I install it on all kinds of different hardware and it just works and stays up. I have worked a lot with Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE Linux and have had no end of trouble installing them. After hours of work, I am able to get around whatever issue it has and install it and then have to figure out why the sound doesn't work or issues like that. After all that, it is fairly stable, but not significantly more or less than XP. Of course, my experiences are anecdotal. But I find most other people like you don't even have anecdotal experience because you just don't have the opportunity to install OS's as much as I do. You just want to believe Unix is so much better because it isn't evil like MS.
But really, XP has been very stable and it is impressive considering all the different combinations of hardware it has to deal with.
Java != Javascript. Compiled languages, when done right, are always going to be faster than non-compiled languages. C will always be faster than Java (because you have more control and the compilers are still better).
If you think that if these rats escaped and reproduced that "we will be in for some hurting"...I think that is the very definition of paranoid. You are assuming that the better memory would make them either reproduce more or be more of a nuisance. But really, you would fight them in the same way and you have no proof that they would want to reproduce more. To get rid of them, you would put out poison food or traps. A longer memory isn't going do it much good when it eats poison and dies.
*rolls eyes* Let me explain the difference. Walmart rolls in to town. They shop the local mom and pop shops and reduce their prices as to drive those shops out of business. They can do this because they sell so many other things that they can make a profit on. Once the other shops shut down, they are free charge whatever they want. This has been their model.
When Google releases something for free, it stays free. They don't destroy a market and then start charging for it once they are the only ones left. And I don't even think they are actually destroying the competition.
So no, Google is not Walmart. Your comparison is stupid and incorrect.
Huh? Your argument doesn't make sense. You aren't comparing anything remotely similar. A PC can run any app that anyone writes (including gmail). The iPhone can only run sanctioned applications from their store.
You don't get it. The App Store really isn't the point. The iPhone is the point. It is an access to the Internet. But Apple only lets you run "approved applications" from the app store. Thus reducing our freedom of choice to run whatever we want. If Comcast only let you run their approved apps on the Internet, you would be freaking out. But Apple can do no wrong on Slashdot.
It's like a console vs. the PC. It doesn't have to be bad...it just is if every vendor locks us down like that. Thankfully, we do have a choice with Android. Otherwise, jailbreaking would be our only option.
The whole thing was dumb...it wasn't even a bare nipple...or if it was, she has star shaped nipples. And aren't we supposed to think of the children? Nipples aren't only things babies see every day, but they actually suck on them. How can this atrocity continue?
As to your point, it is fine to say the FCC shouldn't have the right to fine them. But what keeps them in check? Unless you believe it should be unregulated and people should be able to show whatever they want whenever they want. Like hardcore porn in primetime. Maybe you want that, but it isn't going to fly. If the FCC can't fine, then what is to keep anyone in check? Letting the market decide would probably have porn on every channel. That's fine if you want that, but again, unrealistic.
People who worship the "free market" are just as bad as people who want pure socialism. Either extreme is stupid and isn't realistic.
I really hate the stupid "hardcore" term. To me, hardcore gamers we created on the NES. Just because a game is rated M, doesn't make it hardcore. Quite frankly, it is more about the gamer than the games. And not all M rated games are bad. There are plenty of E and T rated games that are utter garbage.
You made a really good point. But no matter how good your point, there are people on here that are going to defend Nintendo at all costs from any criticism and get modded up for it.
Actually, if you are going to make a claim like "Jews play nerdy loser type roles", it's up to you to actually cite that. You are the one making the point. Back it up.
You remind me of some hick in the middle of the U.S.A. who has never stepped foot out of his town. Maybe you should travel to the U.S. sometime. You might realize we are all just people and aren't the stereotypes we are fed in the media.
But I guess the stereotype of the French is that you are all rude and arrogant. I guess you aren't really helping that stereotype.
I am with you. Seems like he has fallen victim to the American victim culture. No matter how good you have it, you are being persecuted. Bullying is a problem in school. I haven't had an issue with it as an adult.
Wow, you really read in to a lot of what he said to come up with your little rant. I think his point was more that companies should respect the people who actually produce work instead of the business/managerish folks who don't really produce anything. You put a lot of words in his mouth and then shot him down, which just makes you look like a douche.
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I don't know what Slashdot you are reading, but there are plenty +5 modded pro-piracy posts to every article even slightly related to video games. DRM is usually the justification. But there are those that says piracy help sales because people go out and buy it...or friends see them play it and but it, etc. There are those who do it because they think game companies charge too much. There are those who do it because they once bought a bad game. The more sane "buy it if you want to play it" mantra is generally not modded up as much here giving the impression that Slashdot is pro-piracy as long as you can come up with a weak excuse.
Yes, which doesn't apply in this case so it makes your point meaningless. Quite frankly, all you are saying is that good games make more money then bad ones. I don't think that point needs to be made.
Bah, Final Fantasy barely has cutscenes when compared to Xenosaga.
No. Nerfs are an out-of-game concept when a game company (usually in the MMORPG genre) makes a character weaker by reducing its stats or effectiveness of its abilities (generally for balance issues). Debuffs are an in-game concept that is the opposite of buffs...a reduction in stats.
For example, if you were to die in WoW and choose to not rez at a graveyard, you would get rez sickness which is considered a debuff. No one would say, "Hey, I don't feel like running back, I'll just take the rez nerf." So the summary is using the term correctly and you are not.
2 words: bull shit. Anything on the Internet is vulnerable...anything! Closed or open source. Mass adoption just means there is something that hackers can focus on. It means that when they find a vulnerability it works on more machines since something is mass adopted. Is some code more secure than other code? Absolutely. But to say that mass adoption isn't a security risk is naive in the extreme.
Eh, that's a load of crap. Apple spews us with ads on how much safer it is than a PC daily with their misleading commercials. But then, when they approve something that runs on an Apple device that steals your data, it's ok?
If you are making the claim that you don't have to worry about viruses and bad people on Apple products, then you better not be sanctioning apps that do exactly that. If they let anyone put anything on the iPhone, this would be different. But since they force you to go through their approval methods, people are going to expect more from them. You can't let them have it both ways.
I am liberal and feel the same way that you do. You really don't get being liberal. It isn't about helping everyone so we feel better about ourselves. It is about treating people equally and doing things that are in the best interest for everyone. The idea of forcing game companies to cater to the disabled is not a liberal idea. It is a stupid idea. And by placing the liberal label on it you are politicizing an issue that isn't political. No liberal is running on a platform of forcing video games to comply to the ADA.
It's like me saying we should take the vote away from black people is a conservative idea. It's a stupid idea that I am sure you wouldn't want to associate yourself with. Even if some liberals agree on enforcing the ADA on video games or some conservatives agree that they don't want black people to vote. A stupid idea is just stupid and there is no need to label it.
Uhh, I am about as liberal as it gets for a Slashdotter and I don't think that is a liberal opinion. It's a stupid opinion. People with handicaps should have access to all the essential of living in our society. Video games are not one of them. If a game maker/hardware company wants to provide for people with disabilities, great, buy that product. If not, don't sue a company to force them to cater to your will. If we could do that I would sue Amazon so that they could also deliver groceries to my house. Damn that would be awesome.
And this is a problem why? Not everything has to be ported to Linux to be worthwhile. Them releasing it is a good thing. When something is only released on Linux, is that a fail too? The OS bias on this site is pathetic sometimes.
If you think about it, this is a good thing. Skynet will probably have some adobe products on it somewhere which we can use to hack in to it and disable it, thus saving us all. Adobe has been protecting us from skynet since its inception.
I started awhile ago with Chrome and never looked back. Rarely do I ever have an issue. The speed and how it maximizes the amount of screen space I get for my browser beats the pants off of anything else any browser has to offer.
It is hard to falsify because it isn't false. With a Mac you have specific hardware that your OS is going to run on. This makes it a lot easier to test and understand the whole system. With a PC, it isn't just all the different hardware, but all the different hardware combinations and their interactions that are the issue. Hardware/firmware/drivers all can be done just slightly different enough to make it a hard task. You can not falsify it, because it is obvious truth. You just wish it was false because you are heavily biased.
Now let's talk about stability. I do a lot of development on both Linux and Windows. Quite honestly I have no issues with XPs stability. I install it on all kinds of different hardware and it just works and stays up. I have worked a lot with Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE Linux and have had no end of trouble installing them. After hours of work, I am able to get around whatever issue it has and install it and then have to figure out why the sound doesn't work or issues like that. After all that, it is fairly stable, but not significantly more or less than XP. Of course, my experiences are anecdotal. But I find most other people like you don't even have anecdotal experience because you just don't have the opportunity to install OS's as much as I do. You just want to believe Unix is so much better because it isn't evil like MS.
But really, XP has been very stable and it is impressive considering all the different combinations of hardware it has to deal with.
Java != Javascript. Compiled languages, when done right, are always going to be faster than non-compiled languages. C will always be faster than Java (because you have more control and the compilers are still better).
If you think that if these rats escaped and reproduced that "we will be in for some hurting"...I think that is the very definition of paranoid. You are assuming that the better memory would make them either reproduce more or be more of a nuisance. But really, you would fight them in the same way and you have no proof that they would want to reproduce more. To get rid of them, you would put out poison food or traps. A longer memory isn't going do it much good when it eats poison and dies.
*rolls eyes* Let me explain the difference. Walmart rolls in to town. They shop the local mom and pop shops and reduce their prices as to drive those shops out of business. They can do this because they sell so many other things that they can make a profit on. Once the other shops shut down, they are free charge whatever they want. This has been their model.
When Google releases something for free, it stays free. They don't destroy a market and then start charging for it once they are the only ones left. And I don't even think they are actually destroying the competition.
So no, Google is not Walmart. Your comparison is stupid and incorrect.
Huh? Your argument doesn't make sense. You aren't comparing anything remotely similar. A PC can run any app that anyone writes (including gmail). The iPhone can only run sanctioned applications from their store.
You don't get it. The App Store really isn't the point. The iPhone is the point. It is an access to the Internet. But Apple only lets you run "approved applications" from the app store. Thus reducing our freedom of choice to run whatever we want. If Comcast only let you run their approved apps on the Internet, you would be freaking out. But Apple can do no wrong on Slashdot.
It's like a console vs. the PC. It doesn't have to be bad...it just is if every vendor locks us down like that. Thankfully, we do have a choice with Android. Otherwise, jailbreaking would be our only option.
The whole thing was dumb...it wasn't even a bare nipple...or if it was, she has star shaped nipples. And aren't we supposed to think of the children? Nipples aren't only things babies see every day, but they actually suck on them. How can this atrocity continue?
As to your point, it is fine to say the FCC shouldn't have the right to fine them. But what keeps them in check? Unless you believe it should be unregulated and people should be able to show whatever they want whenever they want. Like hardcore porn in primetime. Maybe you want that, but it isn't going to fly. If the FCC can't fine, then what is to keep anyone in check? Letting the market decide would probably have porn on every channel. That's fine if you want that, but again, unrealistic.
People who worship the "free market" are just as bad as people who want pure socialism. Either extreme is stupid and isn't realistic.
Maybe your parents didn't love you.
I really hate the stupid "hardcore" term. To me, hardcore gamers we created on the NES. Just because a game is rated M, doesn't make it hardcore. Quite frankly, it is more about the gamer than the games. And not all M rated games are bad. There are plenty of E and T rated games that are utter garbage.
You made a really good point. But no matter how good your point, there are people on here that are going to defend Nintendo at all costs from any criticism and get modded up for it.
Actually, if you are going to make a claim like "Jews play nerdy loser type roles", it's up to you to actually cite that. You are the one making the point. Back it up.
You remind me of some hick in the middle of the U.S.A. who has never stepped foot out of his town. Maybe you should travel to the U.S. sometime. You might realize we are all just people and aren't the stereotypes we are fed in the media.
But I guess the stereotype of the French is that you are all rude and arrogant. I guess you aren't really helping that stereotype.
I am with you. Seems like he has fallen victim to the American victim culture. No matter how good you have it, you are being persecuted. Bullying is a problem in school. I haven't had an issue with it as an adult.
Wow, you really read in to a lot of what he said to come up with your little rant. I think his point was more that companies should respect the people who actually produce work instead of the business/managerish folks who don't really produce anything. You put a lot of words in his mouth and then shot him down, which just makes you look like a douche.