The truth of the matter is there are some programs for which simply no good alternatives available on linux.
That is why we have Wine.
Some people want to play half-life 2 without paying a monthly fee to cedega.
Why don't you just use the latest version of Wine, Cedega doesn't even work most of the time for me. Wine does.
People might also have alot of thier information locked in propietary formats.
Are you saying that there isn't Open-source software that can't read proprietary formats? I mean, it's not like OpenOffice.org can't open quite a few proprietary office suite formats, oh wait, it can.
If you want to boot any other OS on your Mac you don't need a hack like "Boot Camp". The only reason you need Boot Camp at all is because Windows doesn't support EFI natively.
Many Dells which use EFIs have been running Windows XP just fine. I think Apple's EFI firmware is to blame. Intel's EFI can boot Windows XP just fine. The reason why other EFIs have no problem booting Windows is because they have a 'legacy bios' support mode, which by the way is a open specification.
Takes Linux just as much time to shutdown as Windows (even a little more in some cases). The difference is, Linux shuts down the sound and graphics early, while Windows waits on them.
On my laptop:
Fresh install of Windows XP SP2: Hangs on 'closing network connections' for quite a while, the entire shutdown was timed to take (mm:ss), 02:14.
Fresh install of Mandriva Linux with SoS, PLF repositories: Shutting down the system from KDE. There was no visible hanging anywhere, it took (mm:ss) 00:11.
real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.
First, a great way to enjoy MMOs is to get all of your real life friends to play.
Gamers have 'real life' friends?
Then you have a strong alliance.
Did you know lots of people from Something Awful banded together on Eve to create the 'goon squad'? They'll probably crush any 'alliance' anyone has on Eve with the weakest ships in the game just for fun. I don't see how that helps the griefer problem.
Also, you're always garunteed a group because your friends will run with you even if they have already done whatever quest.
Assuming they don't have other things todo at that moment in 'real life'.
Second, just like how you wouldn't click a link that says "virus.exe" in AIM, don't fall for dumb scams.
Yeah, I'm sure if people knew they were 'dumb scams' they wouldn't be falling for it in the first place.
Have fun while playing video games, but don't take them so seriously.
Aren't RPGs by nature, supposed to be serious?
Treat "n00bs" the way you would want to be treated
The definition of a n00b is someone who isn't a newbie, but still behaves like that after a really long period. Well, if I were like that, I would like people to add me to 'ignore', then I don't embarass myself.
and Karma will look out for you.
Yeah, I guess your right, after all, Jesus's 'sacrifice' was to goto heaven.
Last quote got messed up it seems, *reposts the last paragraph the way it should be for clarity*
NPC's and the game system would be unaware of these ratings, ensuring not only that if someone wants to play alone they can (not denying service to a playing customer) but that the system could be portable across games; imagine if your good player reputation in a Fantasy MMO was visable when you're appling for a spot in an FPS clan... or if your message board Karma helped you get a group in a MMO...
Scripts in Second life never made use of it to my knowledge.
My ideal system would be an MMO with a 'Karma' system, where you could rate other players up or down, and the accumulated rating would be visable to other players, but not exactly who rated who up/down. various systems would expire or cancel ratings, with higher rated people getting more votes, along with long term account holders, or people noted by administrator for being helpful to others.
This was done in Second life part of a 'ratings' system. it got abused. You'd piss off a person, and they'd get all their friends and their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends to rate you down. No, it really doesn't work. People would get really upset over it, especially since at the time it effected their stipends (weekly pocket money).
I once rated someone's behaviour skills down for creating a sign that blocked traffic on a road (wouldn't you?). What happened was the guy started chasing me on Second life (I was really humored by the fact he was doing that, so I just teleported everywhere for fun), he finally manages to catch up with me, to rate me. He moderates all my options, behaviour (He never tried to contact me in IM which he could have), appearance (I've been told I look good), building skills (Many people are happy with my builds -- this guy didn't even see them) down, because I moderated him down for a legitimate reason.
Combined with a set of G-mail like invitation only servers, to prevent bulk accounts all shilling for each other, and a large enough player base that would overwhelm any small group shilling for themselves (but, if you can get enough people to work together to rank each other up, they wouldn't need to be ranked up, they could just play with each other) you may be able to build a community of people who are nice to random strangers for the long term reputation benifit.
At the time the ratings system existed for moderating people down, they required 10USD per account.
NPC's and the game system would be unaware of these ratings, ensuring not only that if someone wants to play alone they can (not denying service to a playing customer) but that the system could be portable across games; imagine if your good player reputation in a Fantasy MMO was visable when you're appling for a spot in an FPS clan... or if your message board Karma helped you get a group in a MMO...Scripts in Second life never made use of it to my knowledge.
What's with this blind faith in Nintendo? Their last two consoles have been decidedly mediocre. Decent hardware, patchy library. Why's is everyone convinced this run-through is going to be different?
I'm not a gamer, I don't own a billion consoles. The last console I got was one when I was under ten years of age, it was a present from my parents.
Over the years, I have seen the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube. Everytime I got a chance (rarely happened, and console gaming isn't really a interest to me) to play on one of these machines, I remember it being fun. Unlike my experiences with things like Final Fantasy Seven on the PlayStation, which I did try after I was begged into doing it.
I'm probably going to get a Wii, but I'm not going to get it without demoing it at the store first. I've never bought a console before, this would be the first time.
I see the X-box 360 as a rip off with the additional fees you would need to pay to actually use what I consider should be a free feature.. X-box live.
Why you might ask?
Paying to support a instant messaging service, a indexing server and something that provides my machine with URLs for updates that have been known to be a bit messy. Paying just so I can use a built in feature of games to play with others on-line.
PC games have been providing this for free for years. If expenses are really a issue, they could easily allow people to run their own services. Some of which no doubt will provide it for free. I'm all for supporting a company, but I don't want to support a company by paying for something I shouldn't have to.
There is the PS3, well, over the years. I've bought mp3 players from Sony that couldn't play MP3s. My parents have bought me various Sony products which have been total crap. I have heard so many issues about Sony hardware. Not to mention it's going to be the second most expensive console in history. Err, no thanks.
The quality of graphics I've seen so far for games (pictures I've seen in articles) I'm interested in being released for the Wii vs the x-box 360 I can't really tell the difference in graphics quality, probably because the game manufacturers aren't really taking advantage of all that extra power which I keep hearing about.
Personally, I have no faith in Nintendo anymore.
Why the hell do you use faith for making purchasing decisions? That's terrible logic.
Why should I get a Wii this November, and not expect to have to sell it a year later and buy a PS3 to actually do some gaming?
Don't get a Wii this November. You don't have to. You can just wait for the PS3 to come out and compare.
Money balls (they were decorated spheres) were created originally to keep people in a certain location for a party. They would pay people for just staying near it, since Second life at the time paid people for 'dwell' (having people on the land), people had wrote those money balls to automatically give people money depending on how many people there, calculating the proper dwell usage of the land and money given to the owner.
Camping chairs, these are a little worse, since they often didn't have any real purpose but making money (no fun, no creativity). People would create huge rooms with these chairs, people would get money for sitting on said chairs for hours and hours.
The owner of the establishment would also get money, since they're making money off dwell. This caused what I call, the 'zombie phenomenon'. You would have 30 people in a building, sitting on these things, with their heads moving around in circles. I imagine this circular movement was some mouse cursor moving program, to get around the idle kick off built into Second life.
The more people in the establishment, the more money people made, since dwell payments increased with more usage.
These devices still exist in Second life today. However they're more sparse because of Lindenlabs changing things around which prevented exploitation of the system this easily.
Now they are colorless, drab, dull, lifeless, plain, uncolorful. Furthermore, they embrace Intel's mainstream processing units which means that one can install Windows, Linux, GNU and FreeBSD on them.
This maybe of a surprise to you, but we could install Linux and FreeBSD on Macs when they were on PPC.
That's a crappy keyboard. Although I must say, I don't find a keyboard getting discolored annoying as much as a laptop (since it's cheap to replace such crappy keyboard, a laptop isn't).
> My friend has had a Dell laptop for a little over a year now and the hand rests have gone from a dark grey to a light grey. Why aren't we complaining to Dell about that?
That wasn't under three weeks first of all. Plus, here I am typing on a HP laptop that I've had, hell knows how many years. It's been abused a lot. The only ware I see is one of the sides that scrapes against the case it's in. Even then the scrapes didn't become visible until a year or so later.
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Why don't you just use the latest version of Wine, Cedega doesn't even work most of the time for me. Wine does.
Are you saying that there isn't Open-source software that can't read proprietary formats? I mean, it's not like OpenOffice.org can't open quite a few proprietary office suite formats, oh wait, it can.
On my laptop:
Fresh install of Windows XP SP2:
Hangs on 'closing network connections' for quite a while, the entire shutdown was timed to take (mm:ss), 02:14.
Fresh install of Mandriva Linux with SoS, PLF repositories:
Shutting down the system from KDE. There was no visible hanging anywhere, it took (mm:ss) 00:11.
Apple embracing open source? What?
Gamers have 'real life' friends?
Did you know lots of people from Something Awful banded together on Eve to create the 'goon squad'? They'll probably crush any 'alliance' anyone has on Eve with the weakest ships in the game just for fun. I don't see how that helps the griefer problem.
Assuming they don't have other things todo at that moment in 'real life'.
Yeah, I'm sure if people knew they were 'dumb scams' they wouldn't be falling for it in the first place.
Aren't RPGs by nature, supposed to be serious?
The definition of a n00b is someone who isn't a newbie, but still behaves like that after a really long period. Well, if I were like that, I would like people to add me to 'ignore', then I don't embarass myself.
Yeah, I guess your right, after all, Jesus's 'sacrifice' was to goto heaven.
Scripts in Second life never made use of it to my knowledge.
You're not going to reach many furs, since many of them are at AnthroCon right now.
I once rated someone's behaviour skills down for creating a sign that blocked traffic on a road (wouldn't you?). What happened was the guy started chasing me on Second life (I was really humored by the fact he was doing that, so I just teleported everywhere for fun), he finally manages to catch up with me, to rate me. He moderates all my options, behaviour (He never tried to contact me in IM which he could have), appearance (I've been told I look good), building skills (Many people are happy with my builds -- this guy didn't even see them) down, because I moderated him down for a legitimate reason.
At the time the ratings system existed for moderating people down, they required 10USD per account.
NPC's and the game system would be unaware of these ratings, ensuring not only that if someone wants to play alone they can (not denying service to a playing customer) but that the system could be portable across games; imagine if your good player reputation in a Fantasy MMO was visable when you're appling for a spot in an FPS clan... or if your message board Karma helped you get a group in a MMO...Scripts in Second life never made use of it to my knowledge.
Usually things I've seen in 'yardsales' are broken.
Over the years, I have seen the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube. Everytime I got a chance (rarely happened, and console gaming isn't really a interest to me) to play on one of these machines, I remember it being fun. Unlike my experiences with things like Final Fantasy Seven on the PlayStation, which I did try after I was begged into doing it.
I'm probably going to get a Wii, but I'm not going to get it without demoing it at the store first. I've never bought a console before, this would be the first time.
I see the X-box 360 as a rip off with the additional fees you would need to pay to actually use what I consider should be a free feature.. X-box live.
Why you might ask?
Paying to support a instant messaging service, a indexing server and something that provides my machine with URLs for updates that have been known to be a bit messy. Paying just so I can use a built in feature of games to play with others on-line.
PC games have been providing this for free for years. If expenses are really a issue, they could easily allow people to run their own services. Some of which no doubt will provide it for free. I'm all for supporting a company, but I don't want to support a company by paying for something I shouldn't have to.
There is the PS3, well, over the years. I've bought mp3 players from Sony that couldn't play MP3s. My parents have bought me various Sony products which have been total crap. I have heard so many issues about Sony hardware. Not to mention it's going to be the second most expensive console in history. Err, no thanks.
The quality of graphics I've seen so far for games (pictures I've seen in articles) I'm interested in being released for the Wii vs the x-box 360 I can't really tell the difference in graphics quality, probably because the game manufacturers aren't really taking advantage of all that extra power which I keep hearing about.
Why the hell do you use faith for making purchasing decisions? That's terrible logic.
Don't get a Wii this November. You don't have to. You can just wait for the PS3 to come out and compare.
Money balls (they were decorated spheres) were created originally to keep people in a certain location for a party. They would pay people for just staying near it, since Second life at the time paid people for 'dwell' (having people on the land), people had wrote those money balls to automatically give people money depending on how many people there, calculating the proper dwell usage of the land and money given to the owner.
Camping chairs, these are a little worse, since they often didn't have any real purpose but making money (no fun, no creativity). People would create huge rooms with these chairs, people would get money for sitting on said chairs for hours and hours.
The owner of the establishment would also get money, since they're making money off dwell. This caused what I call, the 'zombie phenomenon'. You would have 30 people in a building, sitting on these things, with their heads moving around in circles. I imagine this circular movement was some mouse cursor moving program, to get around the idle kick off built into Second life.
The more people in the establishment, the more money people made, since dwell payments increased with more usage.
These devices still exist in Second life today. However they're more sparse because of Lindenlabs changing things around which prevented exploitation of the system this easily.
I've been on my HP laptop for a few years, usually around 15 hours a day too. Hasn't happened here.
That's a crappy keyboard. Although I must say, I don't find a keyboard getting discolored annoying as much as a laptop (since it's cheap to replace such crappy keyboard, a laptop isn't).
Err, couldn't they just do something like this?
Just like everything else Apple does.
> My friend has had a Dell laptop for a little over a year now and the hand rests have gone from a dark grey to a light grey. Why aren't we complaining to Dell about that?
That wasn't under three weeks first of all. Plus, here I am typing on a HP laptop that I've had, hell knows how many years. It's been abused a lot. The only ware I see is one of the sides that scrapes against the case it's in. Even then the scrapes didn't become visible until a year or so later.