Let's create a "let's create a new troll" troll! Maybe we could even create a new "let's create a new "let's create a new troll" troll".
Troll recursion - fun for young and old!
A DIY'er could buy a $150 video card when building the system and then upgrade to a different $150 card 18-24 months later and not miss out on any games. Been there, done that.
That also works perfectly well using a $100 card and upgrading every 30-36 months if you don't care about playing the later games on 1024x768 with 18 FPS. Been there, done that.
This is definitely true, but what are the PC things that they do? Surf the web, send email, and print their resume?
Edit 3D models, textures, sounds, game levels and scripts? That's all modding relevant stuff and some of the greatest games there are only great because they are modding platforms. Just think about the plethora of mods available for Half-Life, Quake III and the Unreal games. Would anyone care about HL if there weren't any mods for it? No, Sir.
Mods are a part of today's gaming culture and they just don't work without a full-fledged PC.
And why would anyone buy $1k-$2k gaming machine when their speciality $400 system can push more polys and has nearly the same rendering abilities, uses any peripheral you want, makes online gaming a breeze, isn't going to get you an email virus, and has a wider selection of games?
What economic sense does that make?
There are people who pay $50 to put a graphics accelerator into their box that's two generations behind the SOTA. Then they proceed to play current games at low resolutions with low framerates, which is completely acceptable for them. The really price conscious gamer will seriously consider spending more than $100 a year on hardware if he can play the same games without paying as much.
Until this year's Cebit I have used a Geforce 2 MX and I was happy with it. I only bought a FX5200 because the 2 MX will not cut it for the next-gen games. The FX will easily keep me playing until 2008.
Until 2008 I will probably spend about $50 - 150 on gaming-relevant hardware, including a new mainboard and CPU, which will also benefit the rest of the system. Until then, a console would be outdated, necessiting a new investment of at least $200. Which means less bang for my buck and no advantage except for better graphics, about which I don't care. The PSX looked good enough to be enjoyable.
So essentially a console is a much worse investment than PC components if you don't care about having the latest and greatest of geming technology.
Also, the PC offers me game-related functionality that a console doesn't. For example I can use UnrealEd to write my own extensions to most Unreal-based games. While this is possible on consoles I doubt that editing levels or large amounts of scripts works as well on a low-res display like an HDTV set as it does on a monitor.
For countries who have been around many hundreds of years longer than the US, 10 years is a ridiculously short term.
The Federal Republic of Germany has only been around since 1948.
Besides, adopting FOSS doesn't necessarily mean adopting it everywhere. We know that Linux performs well on servers, so it might be an idea to deploy Linux based servers instead of Windows based ones, for example.
Have you frequented any other website except/. for the last five years ?
Yes, for example css/edge, which shows some nifty (and sometimes even useful) things you can do with CSS. Note that most of this stuff requires clever use of broken CSS in order to work with IE, mainly because IE doesn't implement the not-quite-new CSS2 correctly.
Those smaller countries weren't capable of severely hurting the US economy by refusing to do any trade with it. They also weren't members of the NATO (most EU members are) - and if the USA would attack the government of one of their allies the rest of the NATO would probably get very uneasy about being in a military alliance with them.
And no, the USA can't afford a war with the rest of the NATO. No, nukes won't help either, we've got our own (in France and GB).
Pitchforks? Come on, Redmond is in the USA where you can get flamethrowers from vending machines! We'll just fly there and stock up on the way to Redmond.
Does anyone know whether any supermarket chain currently has subtactical nukes on sale?
True. They would risk further sanctions, including a total embargo on Microsoft products throughout Europe - or a court decision stating that Microsoft Europe is an illegal monopoly and has to be dissolved.
Trying to blackmail an entire continent into violating their own laws is an incredibly bad idea. They make the rules and if you piss them off enough they can just change the rules to shut you out of the market or otherwise hit you where it really hurts.
Actually, I'd like Microsoft to make such a move. Maybe they could so royally screw up that Windows is no longer distributed in the EU and we see EU-subsidized campaigns to put Linux on Joe Average's desktop. That way most of the IT world would be forced into Linux compatibility because Linux-incompatible products can't penetrate the European market.
It's just a dream but not an unpleasant one.
What's more important, are there going to be separate servers for the different communities? From the problems between the "USA" and "Terrorist" clans we can clearly see that split servers might be a good idea... Also, I've heard rumours about the "USA" clan trying to explore an area, called "Mars", which so far isn't available for the players. Maybe that's the second server?
Too bad no one's heard anything from the developer for the last 2000 years. Talk about a bad information policy...
"what if we use $OTHER_RIPPER to extract the audio as $NON_WMA_FILE to begin with?"
Does "thermonuclear weapon" ring a bell? The new CDs are made from a new and somewhat unstable tritium compound. If you attempt to copy the music using anything else but Windows Explorer the CD will heat up, reaching several million Kelvin after a few seconds, which is enough to set off sudden nuclear fusion in the Tritium part. The resulting explosion is somewhat small, but still large enough to devastate and slightly irradiate your desk and everything close to it.
Even more Trek Wars fun!
- Darth Khan
- Worf engages Luke Skywalker in a laser bathleth battle to the death
- Data becomes a Jedi Master
- Yoda vs. Kirk
- Yoda, Obi Wan and Mace Windu vs. Picard, Kirk and Janeway (gotta love time travel)
- Yoda becomes a Borg ("Futile, resistance is!")
- "Captain, if we reroute energy to the warp drive and remodulate the main deflector we could make the Kessel run in under ten parsecs!"
- Yoda, Windu, Obi Wan, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, Darth Revan, Darth Malak and every single fscking Jedi/Sith in the Expanded Universe vs. Q, because you can never have enough pointless violence in a movie
- The Jedi and the Sith team up to kill Berman in the most horrible way possible
Well, given that the computers still are (more or less) compatible to the original IBM PC no matter what IBM does, "IBM compatible" remains usable IMO.
Too bad that Mr. Pixels already declined. He got into an argument with with Lucas/Spielberg on how much SCUMM to use in the movie. Rumors say that after the argument he was all like use door
use Great Lexicon of Swearwords with famous directors
Pixels: "Go f**k yourself!" go to outside
use door
I haven't lost a close loved one and to be honest I didn't get the movie. Or, more precise, the movie didn't move me the slightest. It didn't make me think - it didn't even make me try to parse the ending. To me it was just a lot of somewhat pointless eyecandy.
But after reading this thread I think I know what the movie was supposed to do... And I think that it's a movie with a very specific target audience. I probably don't have the prerequisites to properly appreciate it. Maybe I will, later.
Yes. Not only will their Revolution be based on state-of-the-art microprocessor technology, it will also work without having to boot into Windows. Truly revolutionary.
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You mean, vi vs. EMACS? That certainly is a religious issue and there are lots of zealots on either side...
Hmm, I wonder which name that game should have... "Day of Deviet"? "EMACStrike"?
You're talking about Slime Forest Adventure. I tried it, but it's frustratingly hard.
Let's create a "let's create a new troll" troll! Maybe we could even create a new "let's create a new "let's create a new troll" troll".
Troll recursion - fun for young and old!
So you assume that the vast majority of gamers has never heard of Counterstrike? Yes, CS started out as a mod. Rocket Arena is another well-known mod.
Even if only few people know how to make a mod, many people know that they exist and many people use them.
A DIY'er could buy a $150 video card when building the system and then upgrade to a different $150 card 18-24 months later and not miss out on any games. Been there, done that.
That also works perfectly well using a $100 card and upgrading every 30-36 months if you don't care about playing the later games on 1024x768 with 18 FPS. Been there, done that.
This is definitely true, but what are the PC things that they do? Surf the web, send email, and print their resume?
Edit 3D models, textures, sounds, game levels and scripts? That's all modding relevant stuff and some of the greatest games there are only great because they are modding platforms. Just think about the plethora of mods available for Half-Life, Quake III and the Unreal games. Would anyone care about HL if there weren't any mods for it? No, Sir.
Mods are a part of today's gaming culture and they just don't work without a full-fledged PC.
And why would anyone buy $1k-$2k gaming machine when their speciality $400 system can push more polys and has nearly the same rendering abilities, uses any peripheral you want, makes online gaming a breeze, isn't going to get you an email virus, and has a wider selection of games?
What economic sense does that make?
There are people who pay $50 to put a graphics accelerator into their box that's two generations behind the SOTA. Then they proceed to play current games at low resolutions with low framerates, which is completely acceptable for them. The really price conscious gamer will seriously consider spending more than $100 a year on hardware if he can play the same games without paying as much.
Until this year's Cebit I have used a Geforce 2 MX and I was happy with it. I only bought a FX5200 because the 2 MX will not cut it for the next-gen games. The FX will easily keep me playing until 2008.
Until 2008 I will probably spend about $50 - 150 on gaming-relevant hardware, including a new mainboard and CPU, which will also benefit the rest of the system. Until then, a console would be outdated, necessiting a new investment of at least $200. Which means less bang for my buck and no advantage except for better graphics, about which I don't care. The PSX looked good enough to be enjoyable.
So essentially a console is a much worse investment than PC components if you don't care about having the latest and greatest of geming technology.
Also, the PC offers me game-related functionality that a console doesn't. For example I can use UnrealEd to write my own extensions to most Unreal-based games. While this is possible on consoles I doubt that editing levels or large amounts of scripts works as well on a low-res display like an HDTV set as it does on a monitor.
For countries who have been around many hundreds of years longer than the US, 10 years is a ridiculously short term.
The Federal Republic of Germany has only been around since 1948.
Besides, adopting FOSS doesn't necessarily mean adopting it everywhere. We know that Linux performs well on servers, so it might be an idea to deploy Linux based servers instead of Windows based ones, for example.
I hear that Office 12 will be almost fully XML 0.9 compatible. Maybe there will even be support for state-of-the-art technology like so-called "DTDs".
Now it's unrealistic that WW3 is going to be about Microsoft getting fined. But just wait until Clippit is elected as the next US president... ;)
Have you frequented any other website except /. for the last five years ?
Yes, for example css/edge, which shows some nifty (and sometimes even useful) things you can do with CSS. Note that most of this stuff requires clever use of broken CSS in order to work with IE, mainly because IE doesn't implement the not-quite-new CSS2 correctly.
Those smaller countries weren't capable of severely hurting the US economy by refusing to do any trade with it. They also weren't members of the NATO (most EU members are) - and if the USA would attack the government of one of their allies the rest of the NATO would probably get very uneasy about being in a military alliance with them.
And no, the USA can't afford a war with the rest of the NATO. No, nukes won't help either, we've got our own (in France and GB).
Pitchforks? Come on, Redmond is in the USA where you can get flamethrowers from vending machines! We'll just fly there and stock up on the way to Redmond.
Does anyone know whether any supermarket chain currently has subtactical nukes on sale?
True. They would risk further sanctions, including a total embargo on Microsoft products throughout Europe - or a court decision stating that Microsoft Europe is an illegal monopoly and has to be dissolved.
Trying to blackmail an entire continent into violating their own laws is an incredibly bad idea. They make the rules and if you piss them off enough they can just change the rules to shut you out of the market or otherwise hit you where it really hurts.
Actually, I'd like Microsoft to make such a move. Maybe they could so royally screw up that Windows is no longer distributed in the EU and we see EU-subsidized campaigns to put Linux on Joe Average's desktop. That way most of the IT world would be forced into Linux compatibility because Linux-incompatible products can't penetrate the European market.
It's just a dream but not an unpleasant one.
What's more important, are there going to be separate servers for the different communities? From the problems between the "USA" and "Terrorist" clans we can clearly see that split servers might be a good idea... Also, I've heard rumours about the "USA" clan trying to explore an area, called "Mars", which so far isn't available for the players. Maybe that's the second server?
Too bad no one's heard anything from the developer for the last 2000 years. Talk about a bad information policy...
"what if we use $OTHER_RIPPER to extract the audio as $NON_WMA_FILE to begin with?"
Does "thermonuclear weapon" ring a bell? The new CDs are made from a new and somewhat unstable tritium compound. If you attempt to copy the music using anything else but Windows Explorer the CD will heat up, reaching several million Kelvin after a few seconds, which is enough to set off sudden nuclear fusion in the Tritium part. The resulting explosion is somewhat small, but still large enough to devastate and slightly irradiate your desk and everything close to it.
Even more Trek Wars fun!
- Darth Khan
- Worf engages Luke Skywalker in a laser bathleth battle to the death
- Data becomes a Jedi Master
- Yoda vs. Kirk
- Yoda, Obi Wan and Mace Windu vs. Picard, Kirk and Janeway (gotta love time travel)
- Yoda becomes a Borg ("Futile, resistance is!")
- "Captain, if we reroute energy to the warp drive and remodulate the main deflector we could make the Kessel run in under ten parsecs!"
- Yoda, Windu, Obi Wan, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, Darth Revan, Darth Malak and every single fscking Jedi/Sith in the Expanded Universe vs. Q, because you can never have enough pointless violence in a movie
- The Jedi and the Sith team up to kill Berman in the most horrible way possible
Great idea, they could call it "Star Trek: Crisis on Infinite Enterprises"!
...Why does that sound strangely familiar?
Well, given that the computers still are (more or less) compatible to the original IBM PC no matter what IBM does, "IBM compatible" remains usable IMO.
Often I see people equating physical attayks with actual corporate aggressivenees and it's complete B.S.
If someone shoots your CEO it's a sad day but if you keep cool the net loss can be kept at a minimum.
A patent lawsuit, on the other hand, can bring a multi-million dollar project to a halt and possibly even make a hostile takeover possible.
See the difference?
Too bad that Mr. Pixels already declined. He got into an argument with with Lucas/Spielberg on how much SCUMM to use in the movie. Rumors say that after the argument he was all like
use door
use Great Lexicon of Swearwords with famous directors
Pixels: "Go f**k yourself!"
go to outside
use door
Johnny Knoxville. The character will be renamed into "Indiana Jackass".
I haven't lost a close loved one and to be honest I didn't get the movie. Or, more precise, the movie didn't move me the slightest. It didn't make me think - it didn't even make me try to parse the ending. To me it was just a lot of somewhat pointless eyecandy.
But after reading this thread I think I know what the movie was supposed to do... And I think that it's a movie with a very specific target audience. I probably don't have the prerequisites to properly appreciate it. Maybe I will, later.
Does Nintendo know about this?
Yes. Not only will their Revolution be based on state-of-the-art microprocessor technology, it will also work without having to boot into Windows. Truly revolutionary.
To remind us that you shouldn't overdo it with the MS bashing. Something in your brain might snap and then you start writing rubbish like TFA.
Seriously, even as an everything-as-long-as-it-isn't-Microsoft fanb^Wadvocate I'd give TFA a -5, Troll.