Don't forget how you don't have to worry about little shits running around with wall hacks, transparency exploits and other things that tend to happen in the PC gaming world within a few months of a game's release.
Oh and don't get me started on how so many PC releases are bugfests for their first few weeks or months. Nothing sucks more than downloading a demo, seeing it run so-so with promises of fixes before it goes gold, then buy the game and it not work at all without either a lot of dicking around with the drivers or waiting for a patch that fixes a compatibility issue with your particular hardware. God help you if the game vendor and the hardware folks start pointing fingers at each other instead of patching.
There's also the issue of PC games being stuck on the PC you installed it on. Your mention of DRM covers that, but you know, it's great to be able to pop out the DVD of any game I own and toss it into any friend's 360 and not have to worry about installing or affecting the 'security measures' of the product.
The list, with me, goes on to the social side of console gaming. Even with WoW being the dominant gaming force, I can't stand playing it. It's not fun to lose in PVP because someone else downloaded a script/mod that makes their character quicker at certain tasks than someone with the normal interface. I hate playing games where people are sitting around typing instead of actually playing. On the modern console, or 360 at least, every controller comes with a headset so if people are going to be talking, they'll likely be productive because they aren't keying away-- but speaking with their actual voice. They don't have to go download teamspeak, or whatever today's voice conference application is and switch back and forth between the game and the software when wanting to talk to someone else, and so on.
All this and if you go ahead and plunk down $200 for the new graphics card, there you are, sitting at the desk, using the same interface you use to browse the web, do your taxes, work, etc. It's just nice to sit on the sofa with a beer and relax to the hdtv and surround system instead of being hunched over a desk like folks already spend eight hours a day working at.
To me, technological bliss is where all computing is done on the laptop and all gaming is done on the console. Not very geek, but it interfaces with a real life a bit more than the old computer desk with a bunch of gear that heats up the room by 15 degrees and is loud enough to drown out a window fan.:)
Athiests believe the universe is a complete accident and that everything in the universe is random. This is a much better explanation of atheism: The natural condition of all humans at birth and prior to indoctrination in or self-invention of Theism.
Honestly, it seems there's a silent majority of agnostics out there who would rather be left alone regarding religious matters. I also suspect a lot of people who claim to be atheist are agnostic, because it's only natural to play with ideas over time and not be quite as resolute as most attempt to appear when posting on internet forums.
Don't you mean 'astronomy'? Astronomy is for people who study the science of the heavens, Astrology is the manipulation of bored housewives out of their money with 1-900 numbers and infomercials.
I doubt it. Not unless factories were destroyed, which doesn't seem to be a problem right now.
Gotta remember, China is socialist so disasters don't have as immediate an impact on pricing as, say, a plant in Texas getting destroyed. The government can step in and subsidize temporarily until things get back on track there.
For real, does anyone use this horrid IM service? If you have friends that do, remind them Microsoft runs it, then show them how to set up a AIM, Yahoo, or Gmail account. Then get them a simple client like gAIM.
All my non-geek friends are now cruising with gAIM and really happy.
It would be nice if this application worked a bit better before going for a 1.0 release. Even with all the windows DLLs in place, it still proves to be a very unpredictable program with poor results for about 90% of the executables out there.
I'm not knocking the wine project, but it seems to be a LONG ways off from the whole number version realm.
While this shit may sound good for some of you, I recently began doing research on a project to build water transportation using alternative energy.
Well guess what? One guy ownes ALL rights to the most common sense approaches, yet refuses to bring his product to market. Prior to my investigation, all my 'original' ideas have already been thought of , registered, and accepted. The only way I could move forward would be to pay someone who didn't do anything to help my work some money for every sale. That is, if he'd even respond to inquiries.
It gave me an edge for the future. If the system is going to be bound by such things, I am going to register every stupid thing I come across that hasn't been registered yet. If I can't invent without being stifled, why should anyone else?
If only I still had my original CDs. I'm stuck lugging around these bits on various backups until I get the mad money for a better solution. It's sadly near the bottom of my stack of to-dos which means I'll probably have disaster strike.
While working for a to remained unnamed web hosting provider, we had several sites get "slashdotted". Most often it was just a few hits, but at a time when the 250 other hosts on the box was getting hammered by the primetime bandwidth peak. A store application on another site would fail, taking all the sites on the same box and a thousand posters on/. would all pet their penii in unison about how/. took it down, meanwhile it was usually aunt betty placed an order and the system blew up just like it would have if nobody was hitting the site.
Well, as most folks know, the IT director isn't the most up-to-date on what's good reading when it comes to this stuff. Universally,/. gets a pass when browsing at the desk in engineering groups. I am just warning that with the recent influx of non-geek shit links to videos is going to change the site's image.
As mentioned before, there's no warning that you are going to a noisy link. I clicked it thinking I was going to actually see details of a hardware modification.
Go beat your weener or something, your frustration with stranger's opinions has reached it's peak so you might want to try relaxing by whatever means you can supply yourself with.
It would be one thing if the link denoted the fact that I was going to be clicking on a very noisey video link. I thought I was heading towards a technical site that explains what they did on a hardware level to do it. Not the lunacy I found.
I forgot to mention in my previous message that it's high time/. give up on the hip youtube linkage. Most of us read this shit at work and save the media filled garbage for a setting that allows for lots of bad audio and questionable content on the screen.
For years, if the boss walks by and sees/. on the screen, it's no big deal. If the boss comes by and sees two guys pressing buttons hardwired into a shitty synth, he won't be thinking I am staying up to date on the latest geek news that is pertinent, such as security articles, the latest drive technology and such.
But go ahead, if you want to turn this into fark and end up eventually blocked by the nanny proxies, keep at it.
Hot debate? I don't think the debate is so hot over whether this helps or hurts one's musical introduction. It's just a simple timing game. Only a few media boobs who like to repeat themselves over and over are the culprits behind your misinterpretation that there is actually a hot debate flaming over such things.
I play the keyboard and guitar. I don't think it's helped or hurt my playing in either. Just as Quake didn't make me any better or worse at hunting dove with a shotgun, or the countless hours of playing counter strike, my accuracy with my 7.62mm sport rifle never changed. It's a game, that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. The 'real thing' in all cases is completely different.
Yeah, I know it sounds bad, I used to keep them in the same fashion. I'd have everything sorted out all nice, but then I got a macbook and let itunes import my stuff. Of course, it did the crazy sorting and got everything set up in impossible to manage directories. This was fine, since all my original stuff was on the other system, raid5 and such. Well, as luck would have it I lost a drive and a spare on the same day due to a faulty PSU. Then a few days later, my position was eliminated and I had like 2 hours to get everything off the laptop-- thus copied the whole mess into one directory on one of my linux boxes. Being impatient, I just went and imported them with Rythmbox and Twonkymediaserver, which both work great since they use a db to store the file's locations. To cut down on resources, I finally just broke the directories off into chunk1 chunk2 and so on. To keep things maintained, I make sure everything has good id3 data so it doesn't matter how jumbled the files are as long as I've got some frontend to deal with them.
Yes, a far cry from the days of using mplayer on the command line. It was essential to keep everything organized very well back then, but modern technology has turned me into a file slob.
It's not like there isn't "ticking time bombs" everywhere. I say we try what we know how to do first, then you can have the starship enterprise show up and work it's miracles when it arrives.
It's funny how someone throwing around faith tends to get modded as +5 Insightful while anyone responding with common sense replies are getting modded as Offtopic.
It's just a bit of evidence towards how people who live by faith instead of reality like to shut out and keep others from seeing views that oppose theirs. On the other hand, people who don't bind themselves to faith aren't worried about folks with objecting views and just enjoy the conversation.
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Don't forget how you don't have to worry about little shits running around with wall hacks, transparency exploits and other things that tend to happen in the PC gaming world within a few months of a game's release.
:)
Oh and don't get me started on how so many PC releases are bugfests for their first few weeks or months. Nothing sucks more than downloading a demo, seeing it run so-so with promises of fixes before it goes gold, then buy the game and it not work at all without either a lot of dicking around with the drivers or waiting for a patch that fixes a compatibility issue with your particular hardware. God help you if the game vendor and the hardware folks start pointing fingers at each other instead of patching.
There's also the issue of PC games being stuck on the PC you installed it on. Your mention of DRM covers that, but you know, it's great to be able to pop out the DVD of any game I own and toss it into any friend's 360 and not have to worry about installing or affecting the 'security measures' of the product.
The list, with me, goes on to the social side of console gaming. Even with WoW being the dominant gaming force, I can't stand playing it. It's not fun to lose in PVP because someone else downloaded a script/mod that makes their character quicker at certain tasks than someone with the normal interface. I hate playing games where people are sitting around typing instead of actually playing. On the modern console, or 360 at least, every controller comes with a headset so if people are going to be talking, they'll likely be productive because they aren't keying away-- but speaking with their actual voice. They don't have to go download teamspeak, or whatever today's voice conference application is and switch back and forth between the game and the software when wanting to talk to someone else, and so on.
All this and if you go ahead and plunk down $200 for the new graphics card, there you are, sitting at the desk, using the same interface you use to browse the web, do your taxes, work, etc. It's just nice to sit on the sofa with a beer and relax to the hdtv and surround system instead of being hunched over a desk like folks already spend eight hours a day working at.
To me, technological bliss is where all computing is done on the laptop and all gaming is done on the console. Not very geek, but it interfaces with a real life a bit more than the old computer desk with a bunch of gear that heats up the room by 15 degrees and is loud enough to drown out a window fan.
I don't know, out of the 90ish people on my friends list on Xbox live, I only know of one person running their 360 on a SDTV.
If you've got $400 to blow on a console, you've probably managed your wealth well enough to already have an HDTV and surround system.
What if god was in my butt, then Einstein believed in God?
Keep smoking that dope, sparky.
The natural condition of all humans at birth and prior to indoctrination in or self-invention of Theism.
Honestly, it seems there's a silent majority of agnostics out there who would rather be left alone regarding religious matters. I also suspect a lot of people who claim to be atheist are agnostic, because it's only natural to play with ideas over time and not be quite as resolute as most attempt to appear when posting on internet forums.
Yeah, I agree with you. This guy is a fine example of why drugs are bad.
I'd be willing to put a dollar down and say he's vegetarian too.
Don't you mean 'astronomy'? Astronomy is for people who study the science of the heavens, Astrology is the manipulation of bored housewives out of their money with 1-900 numbers and infomercials.
I doubt it. Not unless factories were destroyed, which doesn't seem to be a problem right now.
Gotta remember, China is socialist so disasters don't have as immediate an impact on pricing as, say, a plant in Texas getting destroyed. The government can step in and subsidize temporarily until things get back on track there.
Has /. just become a general news site? What's this got to do with flailing on Microsoft or promoting Linux?
The lack of surprise and you not noticing so many close calls is an indication you are not paying as much attention as before.
Just because you 'feel' more aware or are doing something relaxing, this doesn't mean you are any safer. It's probably quite to the contrary.
For real, does anyone use this horrid IM service? If you have friends that do, remind them Microsoft runs it, then show them how to set up a AIM, Yahoo, or Gmail account. Then get them a simple client like gAIM.
All my non-geek friends are now cruising with gAIM and really happy.
It would be nice if this application worked a bit better before going for a 1.0 release. Even with all the windows DLLs in place, it still proves to be a very unpredictable program with poor results for about 90% of the executables out there.
I'm not knocking the wine project, but it seems to be a LONG ways off from the whole number version realm.
While this shit may sound good for some of you, I recently began doing research on a project to build water transportation using alternative energy.
Well guess what? One guy ownes ALL rights to the most common sense approaches, yet refuses to bring his product to market. Prior to my investigation, all my 'original' ideas have already been thought of , registered, and accepted. The only way I could move forward would be to pay someone who didn't do anything to help my work some money for every sale. That is, if he'd even respond to inquiries.
It gave me an edge for the future. If the system is going to be bound by such things, I am going to register every stupid thing I come across that hasn't been registered yet. If I can't invent without being stifled, why should anyone else?
If only I still had my original CDs. I'm stuck lugging around these bits on various backups until I get the mad money for a better solution. It's sadly near the bottom of my stack of to-dos which means I'll probably have disaster strike.
While working for a to remained unnamed web hosting provider, we had several sites get "slashdotted". Most often it was just a few hits, but at a time when the 250 other hosts on the box was getting hammered by the primetime bandwidth peak. A store application on another site would fail, taking all the sites on the same box and a thousand posters on /. would all pet their penii in unison about how /. took it down, meanwhile it was usually aunt betty placed an order and the system blew up just like it would have if nobody was hitting the site.
Well, as most folks know, the IT director isn't the most up-to-date on what's good reading when it comes to this stuff. Universally, /. gets a pass when browsing at the desk in engineering groups. I am just warning that with the recent influx of non-geek shit links to videos is going to change the site's image.
As mentioned before, there's no warning that you are going to a noisy link. I clicked it thinking I was going to actually see details of a hardware modification.
Go beat your weener or something, your frustration with stranger's opinions has reached it's peak so you might want to try relaxing by whatever means you can supply yourself with.
It would be one thing if the link denoted the fact that I was going to be clicking on a very noisey video link. I thought I was heading towards a technical site that explains what they did on a hardware level to do it. Not the lunacy I found.
I forgot to mention in my previous message that it's high time /. give up on the hip youtube linkage. Most of us read this shit at work and save the media filled garbage for a setting that allows for lots of bad audio and questionable content on the screen.
/. on the screen, it's no big deal. If the boss comes by and sees two guys pressing buttons hardwired into a shitty synth, he won't be thinking I am staying up to date on the latest geek news that is pertinent, such as security articles, the latest drive technology and such.
For years, if the boss walks by and sees
But go ahead, if you want to turn this into fark and end up eventually blocked by the nanny proxies, keep at it.
Hot debate? I don't think the debate is so hot over whether this helps or hurts one's musical introduction. It's just a simple timing game. Only a few media boobs who like to repeat themselves over and over are the culprits behind your misinterpretation that there is actually a hot debate flaming over such things.
I play the keyboard and guitar. I don't think it's helped or hurt my playing in either. Just as Quake didn't make me any better or worse at hunting dove with a shotgun, or the countless hours of playing counter strike, my accuracy with my 7.62mm sport rifle never changed. It's a game, that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. The 'real thing' in all cases is completely different.
Yeah, I know it sounds bad, I used to keep them in the same fashion. I'd have everything sorted out all nice, but then I got a macbook and let itunes import my stuff. Of course, it did the crazy sorting and got everything set up in impossible to manage directories. This was fine, since all my original stuff was on the other system, raid5 and such. Well, as luck would have it I lost a drive and a spare on the same day due to a faulty PSU. Then a few days later, my position was eliminated and I had like 2 hours to get everything off the laptop-- thus copied the whole mess into one directory on one of my linux boxes. Being impatient, I just went and imported them with Rythmbox and Twonkymediaserver, which both work great since they use a db to store the file's locations. To cut down on resources, I finally just broke the directories off into chunk1 chunk2 and so on. To keep things maintained, I make sure everything has good id3 data so it doesn't matter how jumbled the files are as long as I've got some frontend to deal with them.
Yes, a far cry from the days of using mplayer on the command line. It was essential to keep everything organized very well back then, but modern technology has turned me into a file slob.
That video has only had 3700 views since it was originally posted. If you are to believe /. has an 'effect' this is proof to the contrary.
It's not like there isn't "ticking time bombs" everywhere. I say we try what we know how to do first, then you can have the starship enterprise show up and work it's miracles when it arrives.
Obama hates you because you are white.
I think there's also a large number of democrats who supported the Patriot Act, but now say they don't because of it's lack of popularity.
Just like they wanted to go to war, but now they claim they never wanted to go.
When you start to call parties out, instead of individuals, you are only adding to the problem.
do this mean if i upgrade, i can actually perform 'ls' in my mp3 folder? it seems my computar do not like 8k files in one directory.
It's funny how someone throwing around faith tends to get modded as +5 Insightful while anyone responding with common sense replies are getting modded as Offtopic.
It's just a bit of evidence towards how people who live by faith instead of reality like to shut out and keep others from seeing views that oppose theirs. On the other hand, people who don't bind themselves to faith aren't worried about folks with objecting views and just enjoy the conversation.