Not in a million years. It'd give me bad karma. Think of it, it used to belong to a spammer? It'd be like, every day when I'd get into that car I'd feel the aura of that spammer's presence in there. As I'd be trying to drive I'd be interrupted by random flashes in my mind, flashes of male enhancement, low mortgages, and free pornography. It'd be a nightmare. The car would haunt me for as long as I drove it. I'd be terrified to drive it but would have to. Friends would say, "hey, nice porsche." I, however, would think, "gods, you have NO idea what it's like...it's not easy having a porsche...that was once owned by a spammer."
What with this a nd the recent price drop, it's clear the Xbox as a platform is reaching the end of its life. M$ seems poised to release the Xbox 2 any day now. Or week, or month, or year. Whatever.
The state of the LDP itself....
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I've been to the LDP web site and have looked around at some of the documentation they've got there, and I appreciate what they're trying to do, but really, a lot of stuff on there is quite outdated. Many of the HOWTOs are a few years old and aren't really relevant. Maybe instead of looking at CSS to improve the presentation, they should improve the actual content...
I haven't tried either of these test releases for FC2; however, I installed FC1 not too long ago. I was relatively new to Linux and so I was looking for a nice distro that was easy to get started with. So I installed Fedora, and, er, wasn't all that impressed. It took about three times longer to load than the Windows XP I was dual-booting with, and the system was sluggish. The Gnome and KDE provided were extremely weird and nonstandard. KDE seemed broken in a few ways--some things, like having zoomable icons, simply did not work, and I didn't and don't know why. Gnome installs with a weird, nonstandard setup that looks exactly like KDE. Yeah, I know it's easy to fix, but it sure confused me at first--I was a newbie could see no apparent difference between the two environments:). Worse than that, though, was that the add/remove programs utility was badly broken and did not list, for example, rpms that you have installed manually--it only lists whether some of the stuff that comes with Fedora is installed. There was no mp3 support out of the box, there was no ntfs support out of the box, and a lot of things seemed buggy. up2date crashed every time I tried to use it. I came away from Fedora, in short, with an extremely poor impression of Linux--it was slower than my Windows setup, less stable, what the heck were those Linux people talking about? Then I installed Debian, which suits me better--it seems to be much less "heavy" with resources than Fedora, boots way way faster than Windows does, has a nice interface (aptitude) whereby I choose exactly what packages are installed, and, in general, seems a bit nicer. I'm not trying to troll or anything here, because, in general, I rather like redhat. I used redhat 7 some years ago (hadn't installed it myself; on a friend's PC) and enjoyed it, and Fedora is nice, too, but it's just not for me. I just hope that for Fedora Core 2 they fix some of the more problematic bugs and make the system run a bit more smoothly:)
I like Google precisely because it doesn't have creeping featuritis like Yahoo or portal sites. I go to google.com, I type something into the box there, bam, I find what I'm looking for. I don't need a personalized search! I don't need to search for images within Google news; I don't need five billion options on the main page telling me I can "personalize" Google. I just want simplicity.
I've played around with Froogle a little; it seems prety accurate. It used to give you bogus prices when you'd search for a given item, though; lately it's gotten better.
Haven't people installed linux onto the Xbox? Does it actually work well or is it more of a novelty sort of thing? $150 is pretty good for a linux box. The Xbox has like a 733mhz processor, right? So it shouldn't be too slow...and if it really does use pretty standard PC hardware, then it might work out all right. As opposed to the PS2, I mean, which has weird hardware specifically designed for running games.
Probably because if they let you, for example, save anywhere, then that would probably unbalance the game. They'd have to tweak a lot of things, and the game would perhaps end up being substantially different. It's not as though they shouldn't do that--they're probably just too lazy; they'd make the same amount of money even if they didn't improve the game for the PC.
But avant-garde films aren't the kind of film that is made using the same template, as it were, as another film, i.e. they aren't mainstream. I don't deny that those films exist, but they aren't the majority--heck, that's why they're called avant-garde. But, the point is, the majority of films aren't. Avant-garde, I mean. And I don't deny that if games standardize there will be what you might call "avant-garde games" but they still won't constitute the majority; "Games" in general, like movies, will end up stagnating.
Morrowind is, however, relatively buggy. That, actually, is a huge game-design issue: it seems developers are releasing a lot of games that, while good, contain serious bugs. Anyone remember the slowdown in Planescape Torment? Heck, even console games nowadays are buggy!
Then again, games are fundamentally different in nature from movies, aren't they? All movies provide the same sort of experience--you watch them and they're about real people, usually, in real situations--but the reason people play games (in general) is that they're different from one another--there are a lot of different genres of games, and even games in the same genre have completely different styles. If games standardize to using, say, one engine, then we'll end up with a lot of games that are extremely similar to one another and we'll sacrifice that variety.
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Not in a million years. It'd give me bad karma. Think of it, it used to belong to a spammer? It'd be like, every day when I'd get into that car I'd feel the aura of that spammer's presence in there. As I'd be trying to drive I'd be interrupted by random flashes in my mind, flashes of male enhancement, low mortgages, and free pornography. It'd be a nightmare. The car would haunt me for as long as I drove it. I'd be terrified to drive it but would have to. Friends would say, "hey, nice porsche." I, however, would think, "gods, you have NO idea what it's like...it's not easy having a porsche...that was once owned by a spammer."
What with this a nd the recent price drop, it's clear the Xbox as a platform is reaching the end of its life. M$ seems poised to release the Xbox 2 any day now. Or week, or month, or year. Whatever.
I've been to the LDP web site and have looked around at some of the documentation they've got there, and I appreciate what they're trying to do, but really, a lot of stuff on there is quite outdated. Many of the HOWTOs are a few years old and aren't really relevant. Maybe instead of looking at CSS to improve the presentation, they should improve the actual content...
Nah, I'm not telling them anything. I'm just saying FC1 is too bloated, and maybe too "friendly", for my tastes.
I haven't tried either of these test releases for FC2; however, I installed FC1 not too long ago. I was relatively new to Linux and so I was looking for a nice distro that was easy to get started with. So I installed Fedora, and, er, wasn't all that impressed. It took about three times longer to load than the Windows XP I was dual-booting with, and the system was sluggish. The Gnome and KDE provided were extremely weird and nonstandard. KDE seemed broken in a few ways--some things, like having zoomable icons, simply did not work, and I didn't and don't know why. Gnome installs with a weird, nonstandard setup that looks exactly like KDE. Yeah, I know it's easy to fix, but it sure confused me at first--I was a newbie could see no apparent difference between the two environments :). Worse than that, though, was that the add/remove programs utility was badly broken and did not list, for example, rpms that you have installed manually--it only lists whether some of the stuff that comes with Fedora is installed. There was no mp3 support out of the box, there was no ntfs support out of the box, and a lot of things seemed buggy. up2date crashed every time I tried to use it. I came away from Fedora, in short, with an extremely poor impression of Linux--it was slower than my Windows setup, less stable, what the heck were those Linux people talking about? Then I installed Debian, which suits me better--it seems to be much less "heavy" with resources than Fedora, boots way way faster than Windows does, has a nice interface (aptitude) whereby I choose exactly what packages are installed, and, in general, seems a bit nicer. I'm not trying to troll or anything here, because, in general, I rather like redhat. I used redhat 7 some years ago (hadn't installed it myself; on a friend's PC) and enjoyed it, and Fedora is nice, too, but it's just not for me. I just hope that for Fedora Core 2 they fix some of the more problematic bugs and make the system run a bit more smoothly :)
I like Google precisely because it doesn't have creeping featuritis like Yahoo or portal sites. I go to google.com, I type something into the box there, bam, I find what I'm looking for. I don't need a personalized search! I don't need to search for images within Google news; I don't need five billion options on the main page telling me I can "personalize" Google. I just want simplicity.
I've played around with Froogle a little; it seems prety accurate. It used to give you bogus prices when you'd search for a given item, though; lately it's gotten better.
Haven't people installed linux onto the Xbox? Does it actually work well or is it more of a novelty sort of thing? $150 is pretty good for a linux box. The Xbox has like a 733mhz processor, right? So it shouldn't be too slow...and if it really does use pretty standard PC hardware, then it might work out all right. As opposed to the PS2, I mean, which has weird hardware specifically designed for running games.
Probably because if they let you, for example, save anywhere, then that would probably unbalance the game. They'd have to tweak a lot of things, and the game would perhaps end up being substantially different. It's not as though they shouldn't do that--they're probably just too lazy; they'd make the same amount of money even if they didn't improve the game for the PC.
You should read this, assuming you haven't already. Pretty interesting stuff: http://www.insertcredit.com/features/journalism/in dex1.html
But avant-garde films aren't the kind of film that is made using the same template, as it were, as another film, i.e. they aren't mainstream. I don't deny that those films exist, but they aren't the majority--heck, that's why they're called avant-garde. But, the point is, the majority of films aren't. Avant-garde, I mean. And I don't deny that if games standardize there will be what you might call "avant-garde games" but they still won't constitute the majority; "Games" in general, like movies, will end up stagnating.
Morrowind is, however, relatively buggy. That, actually, is a huge game-design issue: it seems developers are releasing a lot of games that, while good, contain serious bugs. Anyone remember the slowdown in Planescape Torment? Heck, even console games nowadays are buggy!
Then again, games are fundamentally different in nature from movies, aren't they? All movies provide the same sort of experience--you watch them and they're about real people, usually, in real situations--but the reason people play games (in general) is that they're different from one another--there are a lot of different genres of games, and even games in the same genre have completely different styles. If games standardize to using, say, one engine, then we'll end up with a lot of games that are extremely similar to one another and we'll sacrifice that variety.