Is combat (damage) all there is to the game? Probably. It's because combat is so easy to code.
It's not easier to code than non-combat feature, it's just really harder to design (and, implicitly, balance). Just see what happened to Star Wars Galaxy in the long term. An item-based economy is much easier to build and keep balanced (by adding new items or selling overpriced ones from vendors, thus diminishing market-value) than a full-blown economy including 3-tiers professions (gathering, transforming, using).
Not impossible to do correctly, but really hard. Even our own real-world economy is flawed in many ways and have been exploited over time. Since most games are inspired by real-world concepts, and are much faster growing than them, the flaws are much more apparent... and much more harder to react to.
I don't think you should call them stupid. They made a design decision at first, then listened to the public and changed it 3 months after Leopard was out. And, as some AC has pointed (using less friendly words), Leopard has many features that, IMO, outweighs that one by a lot...
You know they actually fixed the dock folder problem, right? If you right click and check "Display as Folder", it shows as the icon of the folder itself. You can then choose the icon of the folder itself to fit your needs. It's been there since at least 10.5.2.
5 reasons a geek should buy Vista, off the top of my head: Hey we can all play that game...
7 reasons a geek should buy OSX, off the top of my head:
64-bit OS in all flavors, also works with 32-bits programs/drivers and older machines without 64-bit cpu.
Backup to DVD-R or CD-R since
Cheaper than Vista, VPN integrated for networks.
Time Machine. Much better than restore points.
Full consistent UI and spotlight. Press Command-Space, type in then name of the file or some meta-data you can set or the content of it, and you get it.
Full bash support from the ground up. Free developer tool-chain, with some tools (e.g. Dashcode or Quartz Composer) easy to use to the non-coder people.
Expose, Dashboard, Spaces, iWeb, iPhoto, etc etc. YMMV on the usefulness of those.
Support for Zeroconf (Bonjour), which is still not there on Vista.
I've been buying Macs for some times now, and haven't thrown a computer yet. All upgraded to Leopard and still fully functional in its full G4 glory.
I have a brick here that runs "Mortar OS". The OS doesn't support TCP/IP, or even a keyboard, mouse or display for what matters. I think it's probably the only secure OS in the world. No input, no exploit, right?
A laptop is not certified to run the space shuttle by itself. It's a completely different case to certify a laptop with OSX to work on some scientific experiment than to launch a life-saving mission in space using Ubuntu. I have yet to see a satellite powered by windows XP...
Maybe I told the story wrong. What I meant was that the only OS certified (not some piece of custom embedded software) to run the space-suits, shuttles, rockets, etc etc.
Did he really use Windows 98 to drive the ISS? I was more talking about the OS used for the embedded software on the shuttles, aircrafts and fighters, satellites and other stuff, not some laptop someone brought or OSX on iTouch or Symbian on cellphones.
Read the other reply to my post to see real life counter-example - I wasn't right either, but maybe you should learn to read what was meant rather than the first level.
it is so modular and low-level that the end result is as crappy as you want it to be, but not as VxWorks have made you crap it.
Say Wha?!
Client: "Hey, I wanna make a car" VxWorks: "Okay. Here's lego blocks. They are certified and been used by thousands of high-profile companies before you, so they are guaranteed a high level of quality." Client: "Hey, I've done my car, but it's crappy"
Whose fault is it?
(( PS: if you're talking about my english, I think it is correct, though it's not my native tongue ))
I sincerely wouldn't call VxWorks crappy... for instance, it's the only OS to have left the earth, which is something. For one who have worked with VxWorks, I can only say that it is so modular and low-level that the end result is as crappy as you want it to be, but not as VxWorks have made you crap it. You have to admit that Linksys crapped the Linux base version (without hacking) too;)
If you bought an iTouch, you wouldn't compare it to the Zune. Unless they make a Zune Touch (which they most likely will, knowing how microsoft innovate).
What's more, immutable types are intrinsically exception-safe, thread-safe and (normally) garbage collected (in C++ even more, when a String object is declared on stack and freed in its constructor). What's more, if using reference counting and copy-on-write, you have no slow down (most cases it's faster). Dunno why people haven't learn that yet...
I've been working with Cocoa/Objective-C for a while, and I'm starting to develop some of its habits in C++ (immutable strings, smart pointers, Copy-on-Write objects). I don't even need TLS most of the time.
And yet, here you are, reading my comment and answering to it. Don't read me wrong; I can get a few days (or even a week or two) without reading slashdot (done it in the past). But when I have nothing to do and an internet connection around, I pass sometimes here. Still sounds like an addiction (like the bar hangout if you will).
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It's not easier to code than non-combat feature, it's just really harder to design (and, implicitly, balance). Just see what happened to Star Wars Galaxy in the long term. An item-based economy is much easier to build and keep balanced (by adding new items or selling overpriced ones from vendors, thus diminishing market-value) than a full-blown economy including 3-tiers professions (gathering, transforming, using).
Not impossible to do correctly, but really hard. Even our own real-world economy is flawed in many ways and have been exploited over time. Since most games are inspired by real-world concepts, and are much faster growing than them, the flaws are much more apparent... and much more harder to react to.
Penny Arcade
Better?
I don't think you should call them stupid. They made a design decision at first, then listened to the public and changed it 3 months after Leopard was out. And, as some AC has pointed (using less friendly words), Leopard has many features that, IMO, outweighs that one by a lot...
Go flame away or learn to read. That topic has been answered a thousand of times. If you really had a Macbook, you'd know the answer for sure. Troll!
You know they actually fixed the dock folder problem, right? If you right click and check "Display as Folder", it shows as the icon of the folder itself. You can then choose the icon of the folder itself to fit your needs. It's been there since at least 10.5.2.
And if you say "just open a .reg I sent you", I'll happily answer "just copy/paste the command I gave you".
7 reasons a geek should buy OSX, off the top of my head:
- 64-bit OS in all flavors, also works with 32-bits programs/drivers and older machines without 64-bit cpu.
- Backup to DVD-R or CD-R since
- Cheaper than Vista, VPN integrated for networks.
- Time Machine. Much better than restore points.
- Full consistent UI and spotlight. Press Command-Space, type in then name of the file or some meta-data you can set or the content of it, and you get it.
- Full bash support from the ground up. Free developer tool-chain, with some tools (e.g. Dashcode or Quartz Composer) easy to use to the non-coder people.
- Expose, Dashboard, Spaces, iWeb, iPhoto, etc etc. YMMV on the usefulness of those.
- Support for Zeroconf (Bonjour), which is still not there on Vista.
I've been buying Macs for some times now, and haven't thrown a computer yet. All upgraded to Leopard and still fully functional in its full G4 glory.Please, don't feed the twitter-sockpuppets. This guy just want attention (that, and he's probably a Markov tool). Reputed troll around here.
I have a brick here that runs "Mortar OS". The OS doesn't support TCP/IP, or even a keyboard, mouse or display for what matters. I think it's probably the only secure OS in the world. No input, no exploit, right?
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
You've obviously never went to Canada, where 100$/month isn't near anything unlimited...
Maybe I told the story wrong. What I meant was that the only OS certified (not some piece of custom embedded software) to run the space-suits, shuttles, rockets, etc etc.
Read the other reply to my post to see real life counter-example - I wasn't right either, but maybe you should learn to read what was meant rather than the first level.
I have one running on Colossus. Not the computer, the greek statue...
it is so modular and low-level that the end result is as crappy as you want it to be, but not as VxWorks have made you crap it.
Say Wha?!
Client: "Hey, I wanna make a car"
VxWorks: "Okay. Here's lego blocks. They are certified and been used by thousands of high-profile companies before you, so they are guaranteed a high level of quality."
Client: "Hey, I've done my car, but it's crappy"
Whose fault is it?
(( PS: if you're talking about my english, I think it is correct, though it's not my native tongue ))
I sincerely wouldn't call VxWorks crappy... for instance, it's the only OS to have left the earth, which is something. For one who have worked with VxWorks, I can only say that it is so modular and low-level that the end result is as crappy as you want it to be, but not as VxWorks have made you crap it. You have to admit that Linksys crapped the Linux base version (without hacking) too ;)
That aside, try using your Zune with Linux/OSX...
and digg, reddit. Not slashdot though.
Damn. Thanks for solving all the bugs in my current project ;-)
I've been working with Cocoa/Objective-C for a while, and I'm starting to develop some of its habits in C++ (immutable strings, smart pointers, Copy-on-Write objects). I don't even need TLS most of the time.
Shouldn't it just be a revision in the source control? Just checkout -R ### and compile that...? (I sincerely don't know, using Adium here)
And yet, here you are, reading my comment and answering to it. Don't read me wrong; I can get a few days (or even a week or two) without reading slashdot (done it in the past). But when I have nothing to do and an internet connection around, I pass sometimes here. Still sounds like an addiction (like the bar hangout if you will).
This guy (the GP) merits karma... :) that's so funny it's insightful - are we becoming slashdot addicts?
And from time to time you'd have to muthafscka.
Mods, where is your sense of humor?