Neither of the factor is a must for a game to be a success. World of Warcraft for example. It has no story, weak characters and gameplay which been obsolete for about 10 years
Actually Wrath of the Lich King has brought in a lot of lore from the Warcraft universe. Its phasing system ensures that the quests you do actually affect the game world permanently (but only for you).
For example (without spoiling too much), as you complete quest chains in a certain zone, you're helping a certain faction take control of that zone. You recapture towns and gain new flight paths, but they're only available to you (until your friend gets to the same point in the quest). Also, the Wrathgate event was truly epic, and is something every player should complete.
Just because the gameplay is 10 years old doesn't mean it's bad, it means it's tried and true. I agree some of the questing and reputation grinding pre-WotLK is very tiresome and repetitive, but with the expansion Blizzard have brought in much more variety in the quests. There are less "kill 10 boars" quests and more "jump between high-flying dragons and fight their riders dragonback" quests.
Please ignore any of my previous statements if you already play WoW.
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I've never used KDevelop, because I only use Linux on my server (not for my desktop). Having said that, I do most of my development at work where I use what I'm given. After 5 years of Windows 2000 and 512mb ram, I just got upgraded to XP SP2 and 2gb. Yay for my stingy company.
And yes, I do 8 hours a day of Java and PL/SQL.:/
Yes I have used Visual Studio (admittedly, it was a couple of years ago), and it may have improved a lot since I last used it, but I'm simply stating my personal experiences. I'm using SharpDevelop at the moment for.NET stuff, and that's not bad (but not quite on par with VS/Eclipse/NetBeans).
IMO, the best autocomplete in any IDE I've used would have to be Eclipse. The amount of work it can do for you is ridiculous. NetBeans is pretty good too, but I find it to be a bit clunky at times.
You don't by any chance play on Proudmoore? It's sorta become the de facto gay realm. The Taint guild is so big they reached the guild member limit and have had to split into multiple guilds. I'm forever seeing guild names containing Taint or a derivative.
I remember when I first gave DC++ a shot, and I let it index most of the 3TB of stuff on my server (shareware and Linux distros, of course... *cough*).
Took a long time, and I ended up getting banned from the server because the admins thought I'd somehow hacked the client to report large numbers (for better ratios etc.)
You may argue this approach is even more "brain-dead", and there are good reasons to say so. However, consider this: a file manager is essentially a graphic shell that can fork-exec all kinds of executables, in an obscure way. With an old-skool shell you at least know what you are doing, but with a file manager too much dirt is hidden under the carpet. Which is better? I can't say.
Indeed, but my point is that the "double click the icon" functionality for opening documents is what grandma will be used to when you try to move her to Linux. If commonplace GUI functionality like that is missing or is more complex than just a double click, she's most likely going to say "this is too hard".
If the community wants to see Linux as a more competitive contender for the desktop marketplace, it needs to be idiot-proof. I know what I'm doing enough to handle it as a desktop OS, but there's no way I'd get either of my parents to use it, even though my Dad used to be a computer technician.
In fact, the only reason I'm not using Linux as my main OS is because I'm primarily a gamer, and I still think Wine just isn't quite there (for me at least). It's a brilliant piece of software, but unless a game is 100% working such that I wouldn't know I'm in Linux, "good enough" is not good enough. Having said that, "good enough" is good enough for many other Linux users, and that's fine by me.:)
Everyone is trying to mimic the brain-dead M$ Way.
Just think of the idea. You click on the icon (who knows what the picture would suggest) and the file path is passed to an "interpreter" (be it oowriter, emacs or python or ld.so) you may not know. This is a terrible idea to begin with.
So if you have, for example, the icon for an OpenOffice document on your desktop or displayed in a file browser, you would rather run OO from a menu and find the file from the open dialog? Common sense says otherwise.
If I see an icon representation of a document file, I'd like to be able to just open it and get to work with minimum fuss. Admittedly this can lead to abuse, but I'd hardly call the idea "brain-dead".
...it would be much the same as putting musical instruments on display but throwing away all the music
What an awful metaphor. Unlike old games that may become difficult to acquire, how the hell do you "throw away all the music"? You can still pick up an instrument and play whatever you want on it, existing or original. Also, there are few instruments that "become obsolete" like game systems.
So no, it wouldn't be "much the same" at all, actually.
Sometimes, I'm still blown away by the music in early 1990s LucasArts and Sierra games. *snip* Leisure Suit Larry 5... and so on.
I'm somewhat worried that you were paying that much attention to the music in LSL. Needed something to amuse you while trying to answer obscure American references for the "parental lockout"?;)
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You get a viola with it? Man those things are expensive! I'll stick to my guitar thanks.
I went to a Citrix presentation, where they showed us features of their Enterprise solutions. I must say that it worked flawlessly and I liked it, altough I am OSS fan. But final cost of Citrix solution is almost the same as Vmwares, if not higher.
F/OSS does not always mean "better", contrary to the beliefs of many slashdotters. As always, you need to weigh up the pros and cons before making your choice. What you've implied is a very sensible stance to take, and you should take cost and/or open source into consideration when making your decision, but just because you can modify a program's source code doesn't instantly make it a better product.
It seems Microsoft has finally gotten around to doing the second E in "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" (literally).
All they have to do now is to make the FF addon force all links to iexplore.exe, and there's your extinguish.
Whoever modded the parent offtopic, please read the entire post before you make false assumptions that it's out of context. I agree 100% with everything the parent has said, and if I had points I would have modded +1 Insightful.
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Neither of the factor is a must for a game to be a success. World of Warcraft for example. It has no story, weak characters and gameplay which been obsolete for about 10 years
Actually Wrath of the Lich King has brought in a lot of lore from the Warcraft universe. Its phasing system ensures that the quests you do actually affect the game world permanently (but only for you).
For example (without spoiling too much), as you complete quest chains in a certain zone, you're helping a certain faction take control of that zone. You recapture towns and gain new flight paths, but they're only available to you (until your friend gets to the same point in the quest). Also, the Wrathgate event was truly epic, and is something every player should complete.
Just because the gameplay is 10 years old doesn't mean it's bad, it means it's tried and true. I agree some of the questing and reputation grinding pre-WotLK is very tiresome and repetitive, but with the expansion Blizzard have brought in much more variety in the quests. There are less "kill 10 boars" quests and more "jump between high-flying dragons and fight their riders dragonback" quests.
Please ignore any of my previous statements if you already play WoW.
Please. Also known as ghost sharks makes a little more sense.
Wait, is that ghosts who became sharks, or sharks who became ghosts?
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Seems Netscape is not the only one?
Quick, someone notify Bruce Willis!
I've never used KDevelop, because I only use Linux on my server (not for my desktop). Having said that, I do most of my development at work where I use what I'm given. After 5 years of Windows 2000 and 512mb ram, I just got upgraded to XP SP2 and 2gb. Yay for my stingy company. :/
And yes, I do 8 hours a day of Java and PL/SQL.
Yes I have used Visual Studio (admittedly, it was a couple of years ago), and it may have improved a lot since I last used it, but I'm simply stating my personal experiences. I'm using SharpDevelop at the moment for .NET stuff, and that's not bad (but not quite on par with VS/Eclipse/NetBeans).
IMO, the best autocomplete in any IDE I've used would have to be Eclipse. The amount of work it can do for you is ridiculous. NetBeans is pretty good too, but I find it to be a bit clunky at times.
YMMV.
You don't by any chance play on Proudmoore? It's sorta become the de facto gay realm. The Taint guild is so big they reached the guild member limit and have had to split into multiple guilds. I'm forever seeing guild names containing Taint or a derivative.
I remember when I first gave DC++ a shot, and I let it index most of the 3TB of stuff on my server (shareware and Linux distros, of course... *cough*). Took a long time, and I ended up getting banned from the server because the admins thought I'd somehow hacked the client to report large numbers (for better ratios etc.)
Their loss. :)
Windowed mode is slow. That is all.
You may argue this approach is even more "brain-dead", and there are good reasons to say so. However, consider this: a file manager is essentially a graphic shell that can fork-exec all kinds of executables, in an obscure way. With an old-skool shell you at least know what you are doing, but with a file manager too much dirt is hidden under the carpet. Which is better? I can't say.
Indeed, but my point is that the "double click the icon" functionality for opening documents is what grandma will be used to when you try to move her to Linux. If commonplace GUI functionality like that is missing or is more complex than just a double click, she's most likely going to say "this is too hard".
If the community wants to see Linux as a more competitive contender for the desktop marketplace, it needs to be idiot-proof. I know what I'm doing enough to handle it as a desktop OS, but there's no way I'd get either of my parents to use it, even though my Dad used to be a computer technician.
In fact, the only reason I'm not using Linux as my main OS is because I'm primarily a gamer, and I still think Wine just isn't quite there (for me at least). It's a brilliant piece of software, but unless a game is 100% working such that I wouldn't know I'm in Linux, "good enough" is not good enough. Having said that, "good enough" is good enough for many other Linux users, and that's fine by me. :)
Everyone is trying to mimic the brain-dead M$ Way.
Just think of the idea. You click on the icon (who knows what the picture would suggest) and the file path is passed to an "interpreter" (be it oowriter, emacs or python or ld.so) you may not know. This is a terrible idea to begin with.
So if you have, for example, the icon for an OpenOffice document on your desktop or displayed in a file browser, you would rather run OO from a menu and find the file from the open dialog? Common sense says otherwise.
If I see an icon representation of a document file, I'd like to be able to just open it and get to work with minimum fuss. Admittedly this can lead to abuse, but I'd hardly call the idea "brain-dead".
Yeah I had a feeling metaphor was the wrong word, but I cbf looking it up.
I read that as "microcascades" and was expecting to see headcrabs in TFA. I was sorely disappointed. :(
...it would be much the same as putting musical instruments on display but throwing away all the music
What an awful metaphor. Unlike old games that may become difficult to acquire, how the hell do you "throw away all the music"? You can still pick up an instrument and play whatever you want on it, existing or original. Also, there are few instruments that "become obsolete" like game systems.
So no, it wouldn't be "much the same" at all, actually.
Sometimes, I'm still blown away by the music in early 1990s LucasArts and Sierra games. ... and so on.
*snip*
Leisure Suit Larry 5
I'm somewhat worried that you were paying that much attention to the music in LSL. Needed something to amuse you while trying to answer obscure American references for the "parental lockout"? ;)
Trivia: The turbo button/LED was actually to slow down the PC for clock cycle-based applications that ran too fast on modern PCs. See MoSlo for a software implementation. ;)
If it is damaged by disease or some toxic insult, it is possible for it to repair itself...
Hey liver, yo' momma's so fat, she's immortal!
WINE + SAMBA Well, at least it isn't VISTA
No, it's Wamba.
SD card slot, Microcontroller chip, Radio chip. Viola, low power, moderate bitrate and range wireless data storage device for $5. Development costs furnished by the Indian tax payers.
You get a viola with it? Man those things are expensive! I'll stick to my guitar thanks.
I went to a Citrix presentation, where they showed us features of their Enterprise solutions. I must say that it worked flawlessly and I liked it, altough I am OSS fan. But final cost of Citrix solution is almost the same as Vmwares, if not higher.
F/OSS does not always mean "better", contrary to the beliefs of many slashdotters. As always, you need to weigh up the pros and cons before making your choice. What you've implied is a very sensible stance to take, and you should take cost and/or open source into consideration when making your decision, but just because you can modify a program's source code doesn't instantly make it a better product.
Even better, you could Pig-Latinise them. Ailmay, Oxypray, Alidatorvay, and (my favourite) Irewallfay!
It seems Microsoft has finally gotten around to doing the second E in "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" (literally).
All they have to do now is to make the FF addon force all links to iexplore.exe, and there's your extinguish.
Whoever modded the parent offtopic, please read the entire post before you make false assumptions that it's out of context. I agree 100% with everything the parent has said, and if I had points I would have modded +1 Insightful.