If I pay for a game, it damn better be a COMPLETE game. But these days, they sell incomplete games now and the missing parts later. DLC is nothing but a scam.
What a retarded comparison. DRM is about restricting what you can do with content and machines you own. Speed limits are about NOT KILLING PEOPLE. If you think they're the same, go have your head checked.
I had an Atari 2600, but I don't think its successors and most of its rivals made a dent here in Brazil, if they were released at all. I recall the market at the time was something like... 80% the 2600, 5% the Odyssey 2, perhaps 5% other consoles, and 10% home computers (including Apple II, TRS-80, MSX). Then again, that's some distant memories from a child's perception, and we were not particularly well-off, so I might have completely missed the "high end" part of the market.
I still think the Dreamcast controllers were the worst ever produced. Worse than the GameCube controllers, and worse than the N64 controllers.
Why? None of those is perfect, but they're not too bad either. The Playstation's controller, on the other hand, is a complete, intolerable piece of junk.
Customary/Imperial is regionally inconsistent; there are different miles, different ounces, different gallons. SI is consistent: a metre is a metre anywhere. A litre is a litre anywhere.
Let's do some conversions. If you are 1.70 metre tall, you are 170 centimetres tall. Easy peasy. But if you are 5 feet, 7 inches tall, you have to stop and do the math: 1 foot = 12 inches, therefore (12x5)+7= 67 inches tall. And it gets worse for long distances; the conversion ratios are a mess. 1 foot = 12 inches; 1 yard = 3 feet; 1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet. Just to mention a few, and I haven't touched weights or volumes yet.
Now check the SI: 1000 milimetres = 100 centimetres = 10 decimetre = 1 metre. A thousand metres make a kilometre. And a litre is a cubic decimetre. Powers of ten, always. It makes sense because it is designed to make sense!
And I'm not one to say "do things like everyone else does", but in this case it's a good point: pretty much the whole world uses the SI, so using a different system is a bit of a hindrance for international trade. Who else uses the old system? Liberia and Burma. Not the greatest business partners to you can find, really.
Gorillaz is a real band hiding behind cartoon characters; Miku is completely computer-made, even the voice (albeit sampled from a real voice actress). Also, Gorillaz's character design is far cooler!
I watched the keynote, and it was interesting (other than the iLife parts, that got really boring after a while). But it was cringe-inducing to see Jobs talk about how the Macbook weighs this much "pounds" and is these few "inches" thick. Why do people insist on using the primitive, unscientific Imperial measurements? GO METRIC ALREADY, YOU STUPID GRINGOS!
I mean the software isnt the best, the basic hardware is comparable to a PC's... Is there a reason I should consider Apple computers in the future... Will I get what I pay for, or will I pay for the privilege of being locked in a walled garden?
It's a bunch of stuff that just "clicks" on you, I guess.
First, the interface is far superior to everyone else's. When I use any other OS, or even some badly ported apps, it's clear that they got the design wrong -- not having a fixed menu bar, closing a window closes the whole application, dialog boxes with non-verb buttons. When you stop and think about it, Mac OS is designed in a way that just makes sense.
Second, it is a compromise between avoiding that cesspool of vulnerabilities called Windows, and still having a decent library of commercial software. Of course, unless you need "that one specific program", or you're a hardcore gamer, you can also give Linux a try. In fact, despite some rough edges, I think most users would be better off using it.
And, of course: Macs look good! You're not paying more just for the Apple logo, you're paying for something that looks good as a whole. Compare them to almost every PC out there: featureless black boxes, some with cheap-looking chrome details, and the worst of all, pointless neon lights. Hell, even back in the day of beige boxes, Apple's beige boxes looked better than everyone else's beige boxes.
The point of a hackintosh is to get some of these advantages without the disadvantage: Macs are quite overpriced (or underpowered, depending on your perspective). But in my case, it's worse: down here in Brazil, due to insane taxes and import tariffs, Macs cost twice as much as in the USA. Steve Jobs agrees, Brazil is nuts.
I gave up on Google when they changed their image search into something that works far worse in every possible way, provided no way to set the old style as default, and ignored all the angry users protesting in their support forums.
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If I pay for a game, it damn better be a COMPLETE game. But these days, they sell incomplete games now and the missing parts later. DLC is nothing but a scam.
Abolish copyright. Problem solved.
What a retarded comparison. DRM is about restricting what you can do with content and machines you own. Speed limits are about NOT KILLING PEOPLE. If you think they're the same, go have your head checked.
And that's why GPL is more free: it takes away your freedom to take away the freedom of the next person in the line.
I had an Atari 2600, but I don't think its successors and most of its rivals made a dent here in Brazil, if they were released at all. I recall the market at the time was something like... 80% the 2600, 5% the Odyssey 2, perhaps 5% other consoles, and 10% home computers (including Apple II, TRS-80, MSX). Then again, that's some distant memories from a child's perception, and we were not particularly well-off, so I might have completely missed the "high end" part of the market.
I still think the Dreamcast controllers were the worst ever produced. Worse than the GameCube controllers, and worse than the N64 controllers.
Why? None of those is perfect, but they're not too bad either. The Playstation's controller, on the other hand, is a complete, intolerable piece of junk.
Customary/Imperial is regionally inconsistent; there are different miles, different ounces, different gallons. SI is consistent: a metre is a metre anywhere. A litre is a litre anywhere.
Let's do some conversions. If you are 1.70 metre tall, you are 170 centimetres tall. Easy peasy. But if you are 5 feet, 7 inches tall, you have to stop and do the math: 1 foot = 12 inches, therefore (12x5)+7= 67 inches tall. And it gets worse for long distances; the conversion ratios are a mess. 1 foot = 12 inches; 1 yard = 3 feet; 1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet. Just to mention a few, and I haven't touched weights or volumes yet.
Now check the SI: 1000 milimetres = 100 centimetres = 10 decimetre = 1 metre. A thousand metres make a kilometre. And a litre is a cubic decimetre. Powers of ten, always. It makes sense because it is designed to make sense!
And I'm not one to say "do things like everyone else does", but in this case it's a good point: pretty much the whole world uses the SI, so using a different system is a bit of a hindrance for international trade. Who else uses the old system? Liberia and Burma. Not the greatest business partners to you can find, really.
Gorillaz is a real band hiding behind cartoon characters; Miku is completely computer-made, even the voice (albeit sampled from a real voice actress). Also, Gorillaz's character design is far cooler!
she'll always have a perfect voice
No, she never will. Watch the video: that thing is awful, almost painful to listen. It sounds like a little girl autotuned to hell and back again.
You forgot this: http://www.linuxmint.com/
I watched the keynote, and it was interesting (other than the iLife parts, that got really boring after a while). But it was cringe-inducing to see Jobs talk about how the Macbook weighs this much "pounds" and is these few "inches" thick. Why do people insist on using the primitive, unscientific Imperial measurements? GO METRIC ALREADY, YOU STUPID GRINGOS!
I mean the software isnt the best, the basic hardware is comparable to a PC's... Is there a reason I should consider Apple computers in the future... Will I get what I pay for, or will I pay for the privilege of being locked in a walled garden?
It's a bunch of stuff that just "clicks" on you, I guess.
First, the interface is far superior to everyone else's. When I use any other OS, or even some badly ported apps, it's clear that they got the design wrong -- not having a fixed menu bar, closing a window closes the whole application, dialog boxes with non-verb buttons. When you stop and think about it, Mac OS is designed in a way that just makes sense.
Second, it is a compromise between avoiding that cesspool of vulnerabilities called Windows, and still having a decent library of commercial software. Of course, unless you need "that one specific program", or you're a hardcore gamer, you can also give Linux a try. In fact, despite some rough edges, I think most users would be better off using it.
And, of course: Macs look good! You're not paying more just for the Apple logo, you're paying for something that looks good as a whole. Compare them to almost every PC out there: featureless black boxes, some with cheap-looking chrome details, and the worst of all, pointless neon lights. Hell, even back in the day of beige boxes, Apple's beige boxes looked better than everyone else's beige boxes.
The point of a hackintosh is to get some of these advantages without the disadvantage: Macs are quite overpriced (or underpowered, depending on your perspective). But in my case, it's worse: down here in Brazil, due to insane taxes and import tariffs, Macs cost twice as much as in the USA. Steve Jobs agrees, Brazil is nuts.
No, the correct MK code is ABACABB. More hints here.
Since they're Saturn's rings: "That's no moon... it's a PlayStation!"
I got wood...
Like this?
It stands for "restrictions".
Copyright: the freakish notion that culture shall be restricted, for the financial benefit of few, in detriment of many.
With accurate physics, the blocks wouldn't be floating in the first place.
I gave up on Google when they changed their image search into something that works far worse in every possible way, provided no way to set the old style as default, and ignored all the angry users protesting in their support forums.
Whoosh.
If you mean the parody of Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" called "Windows 95 Sucks", it was by Bob Rivers.
If you mean the parody of REM's "Losing My Religion" called "Losing My Connection", it was by Alan Zacher.
You mean crapware, not vaporware.
It was an important milestone in a commercial sense: it was not innovative, it was not even particularly good, but it sold INSANELY well.
Well, they did this.
Or Castlevania under emulation.