Re:Maybe in 10 more years I can watch it on Linux
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I think using one player (of your choice) to play all videos and music is better than downloading half a dozen seperate players.
Also, I don't think you have to download windows dlls. Or maybe they were included with EasyUbuntu. Anyways, it took me all of thirty seconds to install wm and qt support, and I haven't had it complain for more codecs since, while my husband with Windows has had to do codec hunts several times, and usually just gives up and watches the video on my computer when he gets a codec error.
I think that counts as better.
Re:Maybe in 10 more years I can watch it on Linux
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With how craptastic Youtube works on my Ubuntu box, they might as well make the 'leap forward' for all I care. The sound and video won't match up right and half the time it crashes firefox, so it's basically unwatchable.:(
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At least you probably will get a player. I'm on Linux/ppc and I suspect the chances of us getting a player are rather insanely low.
That's why we need free/open source flash. When Apple and Microsoft wouldn't support Linux for windows media/quicktime, we banded together and made it and now we can watch them in our choice of linux-based video players. We have to do the same thing for flash. No more taking whatever stale, half-baked left-overs Macromedia/Adobe want to give us. We will make our own, and it will be better than theirs.
It amazes me how many women have no idea what technology is set up in their own home. I do tech support, and I can't tell you how many times I've been stopped by a router or something that was password protected by her exboyfriend, and the woman didn't even know she had a router, let alone the password. Doing tech support over the phone is completely out of the with some women, because they have absolutely no clue what they have, at all. I'm sick of seeing women so damn helpless with their own technology. I'm sorry to rant at you, I thought the rest of your post was insightful, but I think you need to teach her how your stuff is set up. If you can cook for yourself when she's not home, she should be able to set up a new dvd player when you're not home.
Also, what counts as completion? I've got 100% in FFX-2, yet there's still a shitload of things I haven't done, including a 100 floor secret dungeon. When exactly should they stop? When the game company tells them to? Is that any better than just watching videos the game companies send them?
If they're 3 times as good. That's a pretty big if. There are some really good games now, and a lot of shitty games. That's how it's been every generation, and I don't imagine this one will be different. $70 is too much to pay for a game with such a high risk of it sucking.
Does that work with fiances, what is the pricing? I need more info...
No. Once you accept the ring, he no longer needs to impress you, and will promptly tell you that Ubuntu is the ugliest thing ever, and reinstall Windows. But you'll get your satifaction when he asks very dumb questions, like "why don't pdfs open anymore?" and you just tell him they work in Ubuntu and walk away.
Yeah, my husband was a great help last night when I whined that ndiswrapper was being a bitch. He still needs my help setting up Thunderbird to check his email. But, to be fair, I still can't figure out how to use speeddial on my cellphone.
I don't understand the shoe thing either. All of my "nice" shoes for work are $10-$20 thingies from Walmart or Payless or whatever. Why would people buy shoes with prices in the three or even four digit range? They're all strappy and look like they'ld break the first time you wear them anyways. I'd take anything tech related instead of the waste of money that is designer shoes.
That already happened with games. Porn games are shunned to, well, Japan, and all major game stores have policies against selling M games to minors.
The problem is that society, as a whole, still sees games as kid things, unlike movies. So the underpaid Walmart employee who would ask for ID for a DVD doesn't even think when a kid comes up with a violent game, and when parents find a knowledgeable employee who tries to explain, they don't even comprehend that a game could not be for kids.
The good news is, the new generation of parents have grown up with games, and understand them much better than the previous generations. Once the boomers are in retirement and gamers are in congress things will be better. Well, for gamers at least.
Almost nobody in the U.S., especially in metro areas, can rationally justify an SUV purchase.
Oh come on. I'll admit that many people probably didn't buy one for good reasons, but you can't say that almost nobody did.
My husband and I have a Honda Element, and it's wonderful. It get better gas mileage than the non-SUV vehicle it replaced (Ford F150) and it's more practical. Right now, it has our bikes in the back, so we can stop in the metroparks after work for some biking. When he goes and fixes cars on the weekends, he can fit all his tools in the Element (what he had orginally bought the Ford to do). Then, when it's full of grease from his tools and mud from our bikes, we can just hose it out because the interior is waterproof, and then we can fold back down the seats so our friends can fit in it. As much as I love my Camry, there's just many things we can do with the Element that another car can't do.
Now, the Element is different from most SUVs, and my husband and I are probably different from most SUV owners, but that just shows you can't put all SUV owners in one box.
Ratings, when done by the industry (like the ESRB) are not limits on freedom of speech, they are a tool for people who buy games. Consumers as a whole decided they wanted some form of ratings on games, and the industry provided it, like in any good capitalistic system. They're no substitute for comprehensive reviews, but they're a nice quick indication of what type of game something is.
I don't believe the earth is an intelligent entity in real life either, but I think we're thinking of Gaia in two different ways. I see it as a personification of the ecosystem, you think of it as a supernatural thing that just lives in the earth. Your idea of alien planet rejecting humans does sound pretty interesting.
I found FFX fun inspite of the story not because of it.
I'm the reverse. I really only played it for the story. The gameplay wasn't bad, but it wasn't special. Even FFVIII, though I hated the gamepley, I went through most of it because I wanted to see the story.
I'd actually like to see the reverse that the evil Mana/heart of the world is flourishing creating monsters and its your group's task to stop/kill off the evil heart of the world so that humans can continue to live peacefully in a hightech civilization.
If you kill the earth, humans die too. That's kinda the point. But that plot doesn't have to be used all the time, and it isn't. FFX didn't have mana/heart of the world. It just had Sin, which was killing people, not the planet. The only FFs that had the save nature concept was I, VII, and IX (maybe III, that's the only one I haven't played). There's stupider cliches they've used a lot more.
Or, you know, people with various complementary skills could collaborate directly with each other. Old pipey could be good for that too.
Couldn't this be described as people with different complementary skills collaborating? Ok, not directly face to face, but having a buddy who's good at programming doesn't seem like a good litmus test for being a good visual novel writer.
While this will definately create more noise, that just means we need good searching and rating tools. Once we have those, the situation would be a whole lot better than having only a small few get to write them at all. This is applicable to any creative media. More + ratings + good search engine = better.
Now, as for explicit sex... maybe those same parents think their kids aren't ready for that yet, especially in the context of so much violence.
I can understand that. But, in the game (without hot coffee), you can have sex with hookers, and then kill them for your money back. I think that might hurt their developing concepts of healthy sexuality. Also, the game lists "Strong Sexual Content" in the content description on the back. Wouldn't that raise a warning flag to a parent who is concerned about games having too much sex?
Of course, I'm talking about responsible parents, not the kind whose 14-year-old has free reign on the Internet and is going around hunting for porn or meeting "nice young men" on MySpace or that sort of thing...
But, if they don't have free reign on the internet, enough not to be able to find porn, couldn't the parents also prevent them from downloading the patch?
On the back of every game there are "content descriptors" to explain a little better what's in the game. GTA:San Andreas's (the M version) are:
Blood and Gore Intense Violence Strong Language Strong Sexual Content Use of Drugs
I think after reading that, the hot coffee scene wouldn't seem too out of line, even if it could be stumbled upon without installing a patch.
You're all right, but at the end of the day a parent needs to be able to make informed decisions to raise *their* child the way *they* want to and not leave the Internet to do it for them.
So why don't they just go and do that? How does fining Rockstar allow parents to monitor their kids on the internet?
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I think using one player (of your choice) to play all videos and music is better than downloading half a dozen seperate players.
Also, I don't think you have to download windows dlls. Or maybe they were included with EasyUbuntu. Anyways, it took me all of thirty seconds to install wm and qt support, and I haven't had it complain for more codecs since, while my husband with Windows has had to do codec hunts several times, and usually just gives up and watches the video on my computer when he gets a codec error.
I think that counts as better.
With how craptastic Youtube works on my Ubuntu box, they might as well make the 'leap forward' for all I care. The sound and video won't match up right and half the time it crashes firefox, so it's basically unwatchable. :(
Why shouldn't your wife know how it's set up?
It amazes me how many women have no idea what technology is set up in their own home. I do tech support, and I can't tell you how many times I've been stopped by a router or something that was password protected by her exboyfriend, and the woman didn't even know she had a router, let alone the password. Doing tech support over the phone is completely out of the with some women, because they have absolutely no clue what they have, at all. I'm sick of seeing women so damn helpless with their own technology. I'm sorry to rant at you, I thought the rest of your post was insightful, but I think you need to teach her how your stuff is set up. If you can cook for yourself when she's not home, she should be able to set up a new dvd player when you're not home.
Also, what counts as completion? I've got 100% in FFX-2, yet there's still a shitload of things I haven't done, including a 100 floor secret dungeon. When exactly should they stop? When the game company tells them to? Is that any better than just watching videos the game companies send them?
If they're 3 times as good. That's a pretty big if. There are some really good games now, and a lot of shitty games. That's how it's been every generation, and I don't imagine this one will be different. $70 is too much to pay for a game with such a high risk of it sucking.
What is the difference between the neighbor kid ripping your DVDs for you (for money) and the neighbor kid ripping your DVDs for you at Circuit city?
They are helping you copy your own stuff for your own use.
This would be like paying the neighbor kid to set your VCR to record, or rip your CDs to your computer. Except the neighbor kid works at Circuit City.
If it's legal for me to do something, why would it be illegal for me to pay someone to do something for me?
No. Once you accept the ring, he no longer needs to impress you, and will promptly tell you that Ubuntu is the ugliest thing ever, and reinstall Windows. But you'll get your satifaction when he asks very dumb questions, like "why don't pdfs open anymore?" and you just tell him they work in Ubuntu and walk away.
But think about all the games and the pretty pretty TV I could get with the money it would cost to get an impressive diamond?
Some of us are actually upgrading our boyfriends to Linux.
Yeah, my husband was a great help last night when I whined that ndiswrapper was being a bitch. He still needs my help setting up Thunderbird to check his email. But, to be fair, I still can't figure out how to use speeddial on my cellphone.
I'd take the iPod over the earrings. Of course, people will just tell me that makes me not "average". Whatever.
I don't understand the shoe thing either. All of my "nice" shoes for work are $10-$20 thingies from Walmart or Payless or whatever. Why would people buy shoes with prices in the three or even four digit range? They're all strappy and look like they'ld break the first time you wear them anyways. I'd take anything tech related instead of the waste of money that is designer shoes.
Speak for yourself. I want a Xbox 360 for my birthday. I can't frag people with a sparkly necklace.
That already happened with games. Porn games are shunned to, well, Japan, and all major game stores have policies against selling M games to minors.
The problem is that society, as a whole, still sees games as kid things, unlike movies. So the underpaid Walmart employee who would ask for ID for a DVD doesn't even think when a kid comes up with a violent game, and when parents find a knowledgeable employee who tries to explain, they don't even comprehend that a game could not be for kids.
The good news is, the new generation of parents have grown up with games, and understand them much better than the previous generations. Once the boomers are in retirement and gamers are in congress things will be better. Well, for gamers at least.
My husband and I have a Honda Element, and it's wonderful. It get better gas mileage than the non-SUV vehicle it replaced (Ford F150) and it's more practical. Right now, it has our bikes in the back, so we can stop in the metroparks after work for some biking. When he goes and fixes cars on the weekends, he can fit all his tools in the Element (what he had orginally bought the Ford to do). Then, when it's full of grease from his tools and mud from our bikes, we can just hose it out because the interior is waterproof, and then we can fold back down the seats so our friends can fit in it. As much as I love my Camry, there's just many things we can do with the Element that another car can't do.
Now, the Element is different from most SUVs, and my husband and I are probably different from most SUV owners, but that just shows you can't put all SUV owners in one box.
If you have enough kids that you could use a mini-van, then you either already have a "chick" or you don't have any time to find one.
Ratings, when done by the industry (like the ESRB) are not limits on freedom of speech, they are a tool for people who buy games. Consumers as a whole decided they wanted some form of ratings on games, and the industry provided it, like in any good capitalistic system. They're no substitute for comprehensive reviews, but they're a nice quick indication of what type of game something is.
I don't believe the earth is an intelligent entity in real life either, but I think we're thinking of Gaia in two different ways. I see it as a personification of the ecosystem, you think of it as a supernatural thing that just lives in the earth. Your idea of alien planet rejecting humans does sound pretty interesting.
If you kill the earth, humans die too. That's kinda the point. But that plot doesn't have to be used all the time, and it isn't. FFX didn't have mana/heart of the world. It just had Sin, which was killing people, not the planet. The only FFs that had the save nature concept was I, VII, and IX (maybe III, that's the only one I haven't played). There's stupider cliches they've used a lot more.
While this will definately create more noise, that just means we need good searching and rating tools. Once we have those, the situation would be a whole lot better than having only a small few get to write them at all. This is applicable to any creative media. More + ratings + good search engine = better.
But, if they don't have free reign on the internet, enough not to be able to find porn, couldn't the parents also prevent them from downloading the patch?
On the back of every game there are "content descriptors" to explain a little better what's in the game. GTA:San Andreas's (the M version) are:
Blood and Gore
Intense Violence
Strong Language
Strong Sexual Content
Use of Drugs
I think after reading that, the hot coffee scene wouldn't seem too out of line, even if it could be stumbled upon without installing a patch.