If you want to use Home, you don't need to buy anything. If you want to spend money on premium clothing/decor items, the feel free. Its $0.50 for almost every item, have fun.
I don't see a flaw with this in a BETA -- they don't know how many things people will pay for, or what price to make them, but its a good time to find out.
911 is also not the first call I'd necessarily make in all emergencies.
Also note: there's no comment about hacking this to prevent a teenage girl from making a call on her cell phone while an assailant is approaching her. If he simply carries a hacked set of keys with him, she's cut off.
As some dumbass;-) wrote above, you have no idea what you're talking about. Obviously the language of the text is beyond your reading ability and you should try some higher education to rectify that.
The text of the Bible is sometimes not easily understood in English since it has been translated through a couple intermediary languages (the Old Testament was translated to Greek and the entire Greek text is usually used as the authoritative source for modern English translations.
(Individual translations will also vary from each other depending on what the translator is trying to give you -- an easy read? or an accurate rendering? or perhaps a good flow of the poetry?)
PS, Historians don't have as hard a time with the Bible as you do -- its probably the most well-preserved and authoritative ancient source text we have.
Yeah, the lack of head-bob makes me motion sick in some games, whereas with the head-bob properly done, I'm more immersed and don't notice it happening at all.
Half life is a great example of how to get around limitations. Do a few things well, and the rest, make it obvious that you're not trying. HL's 'floating' sensation because of no head-bob drove me nuts though.
I turned the shadows off in Morrowind right away because of all the glitches. If you don't bother doing shadows, that's fine too.
I find it quite entertaining (relevant to your last paragraph) how self-proclaimed atheists will argue their poor Sunday School memories, and not high level biblical teaching.
Argue theology with a theologian? No, they're arguing theology with their memory of a housewife who taught her best out of a simplified storybook.
Christian-minded skepticism would sound a lot less idiotic (no offense to those of you who can't stand that), and something like:
Why do we think this might have happened? Because it might be possible. Do we have any proof of it? None whatsoever. Does it seem likely or probable? Not enough data. Could the moon have been spontaneously created by an infinitely powerful being instead? Sure.
You're talking to a guy who plays Nethack like an addict.
In the shooter/3rd person adventure market, a semi-realistic environment poorly rendered with bad lighting is going to be distractingly annoying.
If they move it down to cartoon for example, that's great (N64 Zeldas) so long as they're internally consistent.
Do I think the PS3's bowling game is an inherently better game than Wii bowling because of the high-end physics and graphics engines? No. Do I think it benefits from them? Yes.
PS, they're both motion controlled.
Do I think the animation work in some other modern unnamed video games is so bad that I want to cry? Yes.
I beg to differ. I've played games with quality animation and lighting, and games that sucked visually. If I can't get over how distractingly sucky the graphics are, and how poorly the voice acting matches the circumstances, I can't play through the game any more than I can watch a Uwe Boll film.
Graphics and other production qualities most definitely add value to a game. See Drake's Fortune for reference.
Its not as hard as you make it out to be, charge him $20 for the copy of Linux you have and tell him he has every right to give it out to others as well.
There's no limitation keeping you from charging for Linux, and if its cheaper, you helped him out anyway.
Interestingly, Microsoft got to where they are with the opposite approach -- open development, open APIs, no restrictions in most cases, just encourage people to write as much software as possible for their API.
Its the same effect as some game companies manage to enforce with their QA departments by licensing software development. "Saving should work like this", "profiles should work like this" and so on.
I actually *like* the effect, even though I'm a strong FOSS advocate and I think groups like Gnome and KDE should work harder at enforcing it for their packages.
There's room for a distro to rework the UI of its distributed software to work together well though. The nice part is, being OSS, the coding could be done if they wanted to. Apple, OTOH, doesn't have the right to re-write my software when it doesn't work properly on their platform, simply to discontinue it.
Guantanamo isn't for spies, or prisoners of war, the US Government doesn't want to give the people they pick up the rights of the latter, and they have better places to send the former.
Guantanamo has had to let huge percentages of its prisoner population go because they weren't terrorists. There's no proof that any of the rest will ever be convicted of anything either. Your problem is you believe the government and military are only torturing guilty people. By that logic, lets torture everyone in south-east LA, there's a higher percentage of real crime happening there per capita than Guantanamo.
Actually, Javascript requires loading every bit as much as Java does -- whether its embedded in the HTML or in JS files, the code is still downloaded and parsed by the browser. As larger and larger Web 2.0 applications are written, this is more and more of an issue.
There are times Javascript is a better solution (in place edit windows like Slashdot), and times Java would be a much better one (forms, games).
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As a "literary" critique, that's one of the worst-written Slashdot rants yet.
I gave up after two paragraphs of raving lunacy. You're clueless. And seemingly illiterate.
Whether people choose to pretend that betas are full services or not, Beta doesn't change meanings for the rest of us.
If you want to use Home, you don't need to buy anything. If you want to spend money on premium clothing/decor items, the feel free. Its $0.50 for almost every item, have fun.
I don't see a flaw with this in a BETA -- they don't know how many things people will pay for, or what price to make them, but its a good time to find out.
911 service is not available in all areas.
911 is also not the first call I'd necessarily make in all emergencies.
Also note: there's no comment about hacking this to prevent a teenage girl from making a call on her cell phone while an assailant is approaching her. If he simply carries a hacked set of keys with him, she's cut off.
As some dumbass ;-) wrote above, you have no idea what you're talking about. Obviously the language of the text is beyond your reading ability and you should try some higher education to rectify that.
The text of the Bible is sometimes not easily understood in English since it has been translated through a couple intermediary languages (the Old Testament was translated to Greek and the entire Greek text is usually used as the authoritative source for modern English translations.
(Individual translations will also vary from each other depending on what the translator is trying to give you -- an easy read? or an accurate rendering? or perhaps a good flow of the poetry?)
PS, Historians don't have as hard a time with the Bible as you do -- its probably the most well-preserved and authoritative ancient source text we have.
Yeah, the lack of head-bob makes me motion sick in some games, whereas with the head-bob properly done, I'm more immersed and don't notice it happening at all.
RAM errors.
Spontaneous bit flips change data in transit.
It also helps against errors in kernel code or malicious data injection attacks
Half life is a great example of how to get around limitations. Do a few things well, and the rest, make it obvious that you're not trying. HL's 'floating' sensation because of no head-bob drove me nuts though.
I turned the shadows off in Morrowind right away because of all the glitches. If you don't bother doing shadows, that's fine too.
Well said :)
I find it quite entertaining (relevant to your last paragraph) how self-proclaimed atheists will argue their poor Sunday School memories, and not high level biblical teaching.
Argue theology with a theologian? No, they're arguing theology with their memory of a housewife who taught her best out of a simplified storybook.
Unlike you, I play Gran Turismo and grew up playing Flight Sims. Lots of games can be both realistic and fun.
And the rich people with nanny services and daycare aren't necessarily spending more quality time with their kids either.
Christian-minded skepticism would sound a lot less idiotic (no offense to those of you who can't stand that), and something like:
Why do we think this might have happened? Because it might be possible. Do we have any proof of it? None whatsoever. Does it seem likely or probable? Not enough data. Could the moon have been spontaneously created by an infinitely powerful being instead? Sure.
You're talking to a guy who plays Nethack like an addict.
In the shooter/3rd person adventure market, a semi-realistic environment poorly rendered with bad lighting is going to be distractingly annoying.
If they move it down to cartoon for example, that's great (N64 Zeldas) so long as they're internally consistent.
Do I think the PS3's bowling game is an inherently better game than Wii bowling because of the high-end physics and graphics engines? No. Do I think it benefits from them? Yes.
PS, they're both motion controlled.
Do I think the animation work in some other modern unnamed video games is so bad that I want to cry? Yes.
Mankind appears to be made up primarily of sheep who'd rather follow than lead and blindly at that, so long as the story's good.
I beg to differ. I've played games with quality animation and lighting, and games that sucked visually. If I can't get over how distractingly sucky the graphics are, and how poorly the voice acting matches the circumstances, I can't play through the game any more than I can watch a Uwe Boll film.
Graphics and other production qualities most definitely add value to a game. See Drake's Fortune for reference.
The other person deserves mockery when they're an IT person. The person doing the mocking at no point claimed to be an IT person.
Its not as hard as you make it out to be, charge him $20 for the copy of Linux you have and tell him he has every right to give it out to others as well.
There's no limitation keeping you from charging for Linux, and if its cheaper, you helped him out anyway.
Interestingly, Microsoft got to where they are with the opposite approach -- open development, open APIs, no restrictions in most cases, just encourage people to write as much software as possible for their API.
Its the same effect as some game companies manage to enforce with their QA departments by licensing software development. "Saving should work like this", "profiles should work like this" and so on.
I actually *like* the effect, even though I'm a strong FOSS advocate and I think groups like Gnome and KDE should work harder at enforcing it for their packages.
There's room for a distro to rework the UI of its distributed software to work together well though. The nice part is, being OSS, the coding could be done if they wanted to. Apple, OTOH, doesn't have the right to re-write my software when it doesn't work properly on their platform, simply to discontinue it.
As opposed to:
import sys
if __name__ == "__main__":
print "Hello there."
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
print "You put %s on the command-line" % arg
Naw, he probably pulled it out seeing the crap people have written with his language.
Guantanamo isn't for spies, or prisoners of war, the US Government doesn't want to give the people they pick up the rights of the latter, and they have better places to send the former.
"suspected" terrorists.
Guantanamo has had to let huge percentages of its prisoner population go because they weren't terrorists. There's no proof that any of the rest will ever be convicted of anything either. Your problem is you believe the government and military are only torturing guilty people. By that logic, lets torture everyone in south-east LA, there's a higher percentage of real crime happening there per capita than Guantanamo.
It doesn't run any of my significant Java software, so its useless to me. But the release notes were fun to read.
Actually, Javascript requires loading every bit as much as Java does -- whether its embedded in the HTML or in JS files, the code is still downloaded and parsed by the browser. As larger and larger Web 2.0 applications are written, this is more and more of an issue.
There are times Javascript is a better solution (in place edit windows like Slashdot), and times Java would be a much better one (forms, games).