I've looked at their arguments. It's all contradicting horse shit. In the end, it ends up similar to young earth creationist bullshit, but with a scientific spin on it.
All you need is simple reasoning skills to see through their horse shit. It's not hard. I explained this very flat earth ideology to one of my less intelligent friends, what they believed, and so on. She could easily tell it was stupid bullshit and even gave reasons why.
I'm so glad you brought up the extra content in the box.
Man, did I love the days where the games you bought had full fledged postered maps all nicely folded into the box. The maps of the over all world, the beastiary, weapons and their stats, everything you needed to plan ahead. When I was playing the game, I was pouring over that information, building strategies on what I could do in the future when I got to those points. I'm an adult now, so I don't have that kind of time to read every little nook and cranny, but even so, I would still love to have that valuable information with my game. The box doesn't have to include everything, but a decent manual to get me along would be much appreciated.
I don't pirate your games. I've never ever played them. I have no intention to play your games. However, except in the rare instance where I don't try before I buy, ever potential game is treated the same.
As an indie, your biggest concern should be the price. Are you pricing your games accordingly? If I can spend $15 more on something done by a faceless corporation and in turn, receive a product of quality that is considerably higher, guess where my hard earned money is going?
Unless your game is exceptional, phenomenal, do not charge $20. I can guarantee your game isn't worth that much. At that rate, you are also scaring off potential legitimate customers too. $10 or $15 is a very good range.
Audiosurf is a good example of an indie game done correctly. The creator didn't go overboard. They kept their focus and kept the game small because of that. That gave him more time to create higher quality sound and graphics too. While it's all still simple, it's presented in a fashion that's just right. $10 is the sweet spot for that game. I might have bought it for $15 or even $20, it's that good of a game, but at $10, my mind screamed at me, telling me I had to buy the game.
Just keep these things in mind. Don't go to big with your games. Other areas of the games start to suffer in quality if you do. And just keep the price low. Simple high quality games even grab the attention of a hardcore gamer from time to time.
I know, replying to myself here, but I did do what's forbidden around here. I read the fucking article. These guys are god damn crack pots. The Earth is infinitely horizontal? Have they ever held a ball in their entire life? Do they have any sort of concept of perception?
What's even more irritating is that yes, they also believe the earth is circular, which sort of contradicts their infinitely horizontal theory. Someone important tell this dick-weeds to fuck off and stop breathing my precious air. I hereby decree that they are too stupid to function in a normal society.
I completely agree. There is no scientific basis for the "flat earth theory". None. Zero. Zilch. They can use whatever "scientific" (pseudo-science in this case) means they'd like, but that doesn't necessarily make it scientific. It is a proven fact that the Earth is round. So are other planets.
I wish people would stop calling cretins who pretend to use science as scientists. It soils the good name of science!
I clicked on the link to Soldak Entertainment inside the article. What do I find? A cheesy looking website.
It doesn't look too cluttered. It just looks like something a kid made back in 1995. Part of selling yourself or your company is presentation. If the website looks unpolished, what's the chance the average person will stay around? Make it look attractive and you'll keep a person interested, hopefully, a little longer to take a look around.
I've seen other indie developers websites and they put as much effort into their website as they did their game, and it clearly showed, good or bad. It just reinforces the point that a good presentation goes a long way to selling your product.
There are so many reasons to cut the W2-ties that it isn't funny. I can't understand why people put all their eggs in one employment basket.
Not every person has the means or capabilities to market themselves in such a way. Perhaps if you had more air on that high horse of yours, you'd be less dizzy and would be able to think more clearly. But perhaps the lack of oxygen is what makes you so successful?
The fact is, not every person has the drive or motivation to speed a good portion of their time doing research on how to run their own business and get all these deals. That *is* a lot of work. While their 9-5 W2 job might be boring, they can enjoy their evenings at home doing other things to relieve the stress, instead of worrying about their own personal business 24/7.
And I'm sure that somehow, to you, it sounds like a terrible thing. It honestly isn't. Your lifestyle suits you because you are a completely different person from the next person.
And look, a god damn fucking piece of trash continues more idiotic bullshit, in cowardly fashion. There's a reason to post as an AC, and trolling like some prepubescent twat wannabe isn't the reason.
Since you're too big of a fucking cunt rag to understand anything, I'll retype this in all caps so maybe, just maybe, a pathetic plebe such as yourself can understand this
YOU HAVE ONLY COMPLETED STORY MODE, NOT THE ENTIRE GAME. WHEN A GAME HAS MORE THAN STORY MODE AND YOU'VE ONLY PLAYED STORY MODE, YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE ENTIRE GAME. YOU HAVE ONLY PLAYED THE STORY MODE.
Did you ever stop and think that it's customary, tradition, to play the credits at the end of story mode? Playing the credits again or at all when beating the challenge portion of any game would see contrary to said tradition. If you were so god damn clueless, you would have realized this.
Now, man up, grow some balls, and suck my big fat jewish nigger cock, you worthless piece of shit.
It might run some applications just "fine", i.e. has some small system lag, but if you're using this for simple productivity, you still want a minimal amount of lag, if any.
Lag between what?
It won't lag between keystrokes. It won't lag when closing and opening files. Worst case, it'll lag when switching apps, though I still find that unlikely (there's not really enough local storage to give you much swap) -- so, worst case, I'll put my office suite and email on the Web, and use Firefox tabs.
People don't like waiting ten seconds for their programs to open. I call that "lag". In any productivity environment, you add ten seconds across any number of people and you have a lot of time where people are doing nothing. Those programs will probably run ok after they've loaded, but that's not what I was talking about.
Also, systems with hardware like that did lag between keystrokes quite often if you could type fast enough. I haven't seen that in a very long time.
But consider this: let's say you run a program that needs to communicate with something external to it. You need a laptop so you can take it from one work site to the next. Well guess what? Depending on what it's doing, that slow ass processor could greatly reduce the speed, whereas a faster processor would get the job done faster.
I find that a lot of companies don't know how the third party software that use operates. They know what it's useful and how to use it, but other factors involved? They're clueless.
Where I work, we have a BP programmer so we can program IC's. We were using an older PC on it for a while. Some IC's took a good five minutes to program. We upgraded to a PC that's considerably newer than that one, and boom, those chips that took 5 minutes now took 30 seconds. Same program, same BP station, different PC.
Like I said, those laptops aren't good for much. The AC is right, they practically are useless in this day and age.
Wrong again, but you can keep trolling if you like. You haven't "beat" or "completed" the entire game, like you try to make it sound. All you have done is finished the story portion.
When a game does have other modes, guess what? They too are a part of the game. Just because you'd rather be a jackass and arbitrarily decide what to consider a part of the game, and what not to, doesn't make it so.
But of course, you'd rather post as an AC. You're too much of a fucking karma whore and you're too afraid that if you had posted your real thoughts as your actual username, you'd be modded down.
Look, I just beat your puzzle game. Did I just win the Internets?
There's a reason for this. Depending on the battery, over charging can damage it. Some batteries just are not meant to be charged all the time. I always laugh at the people who need to charge their barely used cell phone every 3 days. Why? Because they've damaged the battery from doing that in the first place.
The fact is, you see this type of scheme in a lot of electronic equipment that do have batteries. It's not anything new. And it's certainly not uncommon.
Companies wouldn't have to do this if people would read their manuals, but most people don't. They just plug in and go.
I know a lot of people might disagree with you here, but here's one agreeing with you.
It might run some applications just "fine", i.e. has some small system lag, but if you're using this for simple productivity, you still want a minimal amount of lag, if any. I hear people at work all the time complaining about the crappy Dell's they use and how they operate slowly, and that's with considerably beefier hardware (in comparison).
I personally wouldn't pay $10 for a laptop like that. I do not need it to play the latest game, but I do not want to experience system lag while I have a few programs open. The average user probably feels the same way.
I actually have no clue where any of these websites are that allow you to download movies or what their terms are. So in the end, I guess this website they're planning can't be that bad as long as they list reasonable alternatives to the whole "piracy" thingy.
I don't think this will change my habits. I like to download a movie before I buy it or even go to see it in a theater. Remember, part of the theater experience is the comfortable seats with a large screen and surround sound. And, you know, the opportunity to do a chick in the back seats and get arrested for indecent exposure.
And what if the sink in the kitchen is broke and they go into your attic or bedroom? What does that have to do with fixing the sink in the kitchen? How about replacing a stove in the same area?
The person who feels shafted here feels that their database had nothing to do with the problem. I don't know enough about the nature of his problem to venture a guess if this is true, so I'm going to assume it is for now. If that's the case, do you think that gives them the right to go rifling through that and whatever else they please even though it's completely unrelated to the problem?
The problem here is that the hosting company was looking at something that was unrelated to their problem (so they assume). You can ask your landlord to fix your sink, and whatever is under it is your problem if you don't want them seeing it, but that doesn't give them the right to go into your bedroom and rifle through your underwear drawer.
My processor is slightly less beefier than yours, but I have twice the amount of RAM. I have two 500GB Baracuda's with 32MB of cache in a RAID 1. I can barely muster it under a minute without optimization.
So maybe it's not just a general statement of good hardware, but a really really really good processor.
I admit, my original statement was generalized, but it was generalized specifically because the general user will probably experience that.
Hmm... I can see your point. Nothing anywhere in their policies that you agreed state they have that right. And you also seem ok with it IF they suspect or even have proof that someone broke the agreement that both parties made.
Often times people will put private stuff on a server they rent/own and make the files/folder private so that they and a select few can only view the files. So what right does hosting company have to look at information that's private without my consent?
I think this goes beyond the "well I own it!". Guess what? When you rent out a house to other people, you don't have the right to snoop on your renter's. You can't just access their house whenever you please. There's an expectation of privacy and I think the same applies here.
My suggestion? Kindly tell them to fuck off and find another hosting company. I would suggest you make it public who this company is and what their practices are so the rest of us can avoid them too.
As you said, you have a beastly processor. Just because you're having a different experience than a lot of people doesn't make it nonsense.
This particular person had Vista boot up in a 1:40, and then XP boot up in 13 seconds on the same hardware.
Here's another person using two identical laptops side by side. XP boots faster than Vista, and Vista still takes over a minute to boot.
Now, if you weren't so incensed on telling me what I posted was rubbish, you would see that earlier I did mention that some people are able to get Vista to boot up faster. Also, you never mentioned whether you optimized your PC or not.
I'm not trying to troll you or flame you here. I just want you to realize that the average user will probably have a different experience from what you're having. And no, if you're here on Slashdot posting, you probably are not the average user.
For any person interested, boot-up times on Vista take about a minute, if you don't seriously optimize it. There's a bunch of videos on YouTube ranging from 30 some odd seconds to a little over a minute. The faster ones have a PC that's been seriously optimized.
Some people even went out of their way to show that XP would boot faster on hardware that was slightly slower (un-optimized, I assume).
From my personal experience, Vista does boot a lot slower than XP. No user, experienced or not, should have to deal with an OS that takes forever to load these days. The hardware we have is powerful enough.
Awesome, I've become a troll by making sensible arguments and defending someone. I hope no one takes a torch, acid, or ice towards me. Us trolls have all sorts of weaknesses.
You, and whoever modded your post as insightful, are missing a fundamental point - Comcast isn't using this as an opportunity to overall improve their service. They're using it as a PR stunt. While a few people might now get better service, what about the rest of us? I know my service still sucks. I know my neighbors service still sucks. The people I work with? Their service still sucks too.
Proactively trying to help customers who complain and may not call in or know of tools necessary to help themselves is only a baby step. They need to do more than that if they want to gain and keep a good image.
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They claim all movement is done in a circular motion, so that we never reach the end.
I've looked at their arguments. It's all contradicting horse shit. In the end, it ends up similar to young earth creationist bullshit, but with a scientific spin on it.
All you need is simple reasoning skills to see through their horse shit. It's not hard. I explained this very flat earth ideology to one of my less intelligent friends, what they believed, and so on. She could easily tell it was stupid bullshit and even gave reasons why.
I'm so glad you brought up the extra content in the box.
Man, did I love the days where the games you bought had full fledged postered maps all nicely folded into the box. The maps of the over all world, the beastiary, weapons and their stats, everything you needed to plan ahead. When I was playing the game, I was pouring over that information, building strategies on what I could do in the future when I got to those points. I'm an adult now, so I don't have that kind of time to read every little nook and cranny, but even so, I would still love to have that valuable information with my game. The box doesn't have to include everything, but a decent manual to get me along would be much appreciated.
I don't pirate your games. I've never ever played them. I have no intention to play your games. However, except in the rare instance where I don't try before I buy, ever potential game is treated the same.
As an indie, your biggest concern should be the price. Are you pricing your games accordingly? If I can spend $15 more on something done by a faceless corporation and in turn, receive a product of quality that is considerably higher, guess where my hard earned money is going?
Unless your game is exceptional, phenomenal, do not charge $20. I can guarantee your game isn't worth that much. At that rate, you are also scaring off potential legitimate customers too. $10 or $15 is a very good range.
Audiosurf is a good example of an indie game done correctly. The creator didn't go overboard. They kept their focus and kept the game small because of that. That gave him more time to create higher quality sound and graphics too. While it's all still simple, it's presented in a fashion that's just right. $10 is the sweet spot for that game. I might have bought it for $15 or even $20, it's that good of a game, but at $10, my mind screamed at me, telling me I had to buy the game.
Just keep these things in mind. Don't go to big with your games. Other areas of the games start to suffer in quality if you do. And just keep the price low. Simple high quality games even grab the attention of a hardcore gamer from time to time.
I know, replying to myself here, but I did do what's forbidden around here. I read the fucking article. These guys are god damn crack pots. The Earth is infinitely horizontal? Have they ever held a ball in their entire life? Do they have any sort of concept of perception?
What's even more irritating is that yes, they also believe the earth is circular, which sort of contradicts their infinitely horizontal theory. Someone important tell this dick-weeds to fuck off and stop breathing my precious air. I hereby decree that they are too stupid to function in a normal society.
I completely agree. There is no scientific basis for the "flat earth theory". None. Zero. Zilch. They can use whatever "scientific" (pseudo-science in this case) means they'd like, but that doesn't necessarily make it scientific. It is a proven fact that the Earth is round. So are other planets.
I wish people would stop calling cretins who pretend to use science as scientists. It soils the good name of science!
I clicked on the link to Soldak Entertainment inside the article. What do I find? A cheesy looking website.
It doesn't look too cluttered. It just looks like something a kid made back in 1995. Part of selling yourself or your company is presentation. If the website looks unpolished, what's the chance the average person will stay around? Make it look attractive and you'll keep a person interested, hopefully, a little longer to take a look around.
I've seen other indie developers websites and they put as much effort into their website as they did their game, and it clearly showed, good or bad. It just reinforces the point that a good presentation goes a long way to selling your product.
There are so many reasons to cut the W2-ties that it isn't funny. I can't understand why people put all their eggs in one employment basket.
Not every person has the means or capabilities to market themselves in such a way. Perhaps if you had more air on that high horse of yours, you'd be less dizzy and would be able to think more clearly. But perhaps the lack of oxygen is what makes you so successful?
The fact is, not every person has the drive or motivation to speed a good portion of their time doing research on how to run their own business and get all these deals. That *is* a lot of work. While their 9-5 W2 job might be boring, they can enjoy their evenings at home doing other things to relieve the stress, instead of worrying about their own personal business 24/7.
And I'm sure that somehow, to you, it sounds like a terrible thing. It honestly isn't. Your lifestyle suits you because you are a completely different person from the next person.
And look, a god damn fucking piece of trash continues more idiotic bullshit, in cowardly fashion. There's a reason to post as an AC, and trolling like some prepubescent twat wannabe isn't the reason.
Since you're too big of a fucking cunt rag to understand anything, I'll retype this in all caps so maybe, just maybe, a pathetic plebe such as yourself can understand this
YOU HAVE ONLY COMPLETED STORY MODE, NOT THE ENTIRE GAME. WHEN A GAME HAS MORE THAN STORY MODE AND YOU'VE ONLY PLAYED STORY MODE, YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE ENTIRE GAME. YOU HAVE ONLY PLAYED THE STORY MODE.
Did you ever stop and think that it's customary, tradition, to play the credits at the end of story mode? Playing the credits again or at all when beating the challenge portion of any game would see contrary to said tradition. If you were so god damn clueless, you would have realized this.
Now, man up, grow some balls, and suck my big fat jewish nigger cock, you worthless piece of shit.
It might run some applications just "fine", i.e. has some small system lag, but if you're using this for simple productivity, you still want a minimal amount of lag, if any.
Lag between what?
It won't lag between keystrokes. It won't lag when closing and opening files. Worst case, it'll lag when switching apps, though I still find that unlikely (there's not really enough local storage to give you much swap) -- so, worst case, I'll put my office suite and email on the Web, and use Firefox tabs.
People don't like waiting ten seconds for their programs to open. I call that "lag". In any productivity environment, you add ten seconds across any number of people and you have a lot of time where people are doing nothing. Those programs will probably run ok after they've loaded, but that's not what I was talking about.
Also, systems with hardware like that did lag between keystrokes quite often if you could type fast enough. I haven't seen that in a very long time.
But consider this: let's say you run a program that needs to communicate with something external to it. You need a laptop so you can take it from one work site to the next. Well guess what? Depending on what it's doing, that slow ass processor could greatly reduce the speed, whereas a faster processor would get the job done faster.
I find that a lot of companies don't know how the third party software that use operates. They know what it's useful and how to use it, but other factors involved? They're clueless.
Where I work, we have a BP programmer so we can program IC's. We were using an older PC on it for a while. Some IC's took a good five minutes to program. We upgraded to a PC that's considerably newer than that one, and boom, those chips that took 5 minutes now took 30 seconds. Same program, same BP station, different PC.
Like I said, those laptops aren't good for much. The AC is right, they practically are useless in this day and age.
Wrong again, but you can keep trolling if you like. You haven't "beat" or "completed" the entire game, like you try to make it sound. All you have done is finished the story portion.
When a game does have other modes, guess what? They too are a part of the game. Just because you'd rather be a jackass and arbitrarily decide what to consider a part of the game, and what not to, doesn't make it so.
But of course, you'd rather post as an AC. You're too much of a fucking karma whore and you're too afraid that if you had posted your real thoughts as your actual username, you'd be modded down.
Look, I just beat your puzzle game. Did I just win the Internets?
There's a reason for this. Depending on the battery, over charging can damage it. Some batteries just are not meant to be charged all the time. I always laugh at the people who need to charge their barely used cell phone every 3 days. Why? Because they've damaged the battery from doing that in the first place.
The fact is, you see this type of scheme in a lot of electronic equipment that do have batteries. It's not anything new. And it's certainly not uncommon.
Companies wouldn't have to do this if people would read their manuals, but most people don't. They just plug in and go.
Apparently you only played the story portion, not the challenge portion. Good job at playing only part of the game.
I know a lot of people might disagree with you here, but here's one agreeing with you.
It might run some applications just "fine", i.e. has some small system lag, but if you're using this for simple productivity, you still want a minimal amount of lag, if any. I hear people at work all the time complaining about the crappy Dell's they use and how they operate slowly, and that's with considerably beefier hardware (in comparison).
I personally wouldn't pay $10 for a laptop like that. I do not need it to play the latest game, but I do not want to experience system lag while I have a few programs open. The average user probably feels the same way.
I actually have no clue where any of these websites are that allow you to download movies or what their terms are. So in the end, I guess this website they're planning can't be that bad as long as they list reasonable alternatives to the whole "piracy" thingy.
I don't think this will change my habits. I like to download a movie before I buy it or even go to see it in a theater. Remember, part of the theater experience is the comfortable seats with a large screen and surround sound. And, you know, the opportunity to do a chick in the back seats and get arrested for indecent exposure.
Then what does he propose that we nuke? Each other? The whales? Martians?
And what if the sink in the kitchen is broke and they go into your attic or bedroom? What does that have to do with fixing the sink in the kitchen? How about replacing a stove in the same area?
The person who feels shafted here feels that their database had nothing to do with the problem. I don't know enough about the nature of his problem to venture a guess if this is true, so I'm going to assume it is for now. If that's the case, do you think that gives them the right to go rifling through that and whatever else they please even though it's completely unrelated to the problem?
The problem here is that the hosting company was looking at something that was unrelated to their problem (so they assume). You can ask your landlord to fix your sink, and whatever is under it is your problem if you don't want them seeing it, but that doesn't give them the right to go into your bedroom and rifle through your underwear drawer.
My processor is slightly less beefier than yours, but I have twice the amount of RAM. I have two 500GB Baracuda's with 32MB of cache in a RAID 1. I can barely muster it under a minute without optimization.
So maybe it's not just a general statement of good hardware, but a really really really good processor.
I admit, my original statement was generalized, but it was generalized specifically because the general user will probably experience that.
Hmm... I can see your point. Nothing anywhere in their policies that you agreed state they have that right. And you also seem ok with it IF they suspect or even have proof that someone broke the agreement that both parties made.
Often times people will put private stuff on a server they rent/own and make the files/folder private so that they and a select few can only view the files. So what right does hosting company have to look at information that's private without my consent?
I think this goes beyond the "well I own it!". Guess what? When you rent out a house to other people, you don't have the right to snoop on your renter's. You can't just access their house whenever you please. There's an expectation of privacy and I think the same applies here.
My suggestion? Kindly tell them to fuck off and find another hosting company. I would suggest you make it public who this company is and what their practices are so the rest of us can avoid them too.
As you said, you have a beastly processor. Just because you're having a different experience than a lot of people doesn't make it nonsense.
This particular person had Vista boot up in a 1:40, and then XP boot up in 13 seconds on the same hardware.
Here's another person using two identical laptops side by side. XP boots faster than Vista, and Vista still takes over a minute to boot.
Now, if you weren't so incensed on telling me what I posted was rubbish, you would see that earlier I did mention that some people are able to get Vista to boot up faster. Also, you never mentioned whether you optimized your PC or not.
I'm not trying to troll you or flame you here. I just want you to realize that the average user will probably have a different experience from what you're having. And no, if you're here on Slashdot posting, you probably are not the average user.
For any person interested, boot-up times on Vista take about a minute, if you don't seriously optimize it. There's a bunch of videos on YouTube ranging from 30 some odd seconds to a little over a minute. The faster ones have a PC that's been seriously optimized.
Some people even went out of their way to show that XP would boot faster on hardware that was slightly slower (un-optimized, I assume).
From my personal experience, Vista does boot a lot slower than XP. No user, experienced or not, should have to deal with an OS that takes forever to load these days. The hardware we have is powerful enough.
Awesome, I've become a troll by making sensible arguments and defending someone. I hope no one takes a torch, acid, or ice towards me. Us trolls have all sorts of weaknesses.
Calling a jerk, a jerk, is not trolling. Someone do this guy a favor and spend a mod point to put him back to positive.
You, and whoever modded your post as insightful, are missing a fundamental point - Comcast isn't using this as an opportunity to overall improve their service. They're using it as a PR stunt. While a few people might now get better service, what about the rest of us? I know my service still sucks. I know my neighbors service still sucks. The people I work with? Their service still sucks too.
Proactively trying to help customers who complain and may not call in or know of tools necessary to help themselves is only a baby step. They need to do more than that if they want to gain and keep a good image.