It's not about my 2 vs. your 5.50... I'm talking about relative pricing... Here, gas was only a dollar a few years back, so I would assume yours was only about 3.75 back then too. Apparently self-centeredness is not only limited to the US.
This is very true...the puzzle and parlor game crowd (which I feel is a more appropriate term) doesn't really care to much about the games they are playing. They are just looking for a little quick and simple fun... Perhaps having a site where people could submit games they've found and then everyone could rate them would be useful, but a magazine (or magazine like site) would be worthless. These people are not "hardcore" no matter how you spin it.
The term hardcore seems to be in a phase of shift. Originally, when games weren't quite as popular, it was fairly easy to assume someone who spent lots of time and money playing video games was a "hardcore gamer". Now that the causal gamer market has exploded, this is no longer a valid metric. "Hardcore gamer" now tends to mean people who are conisours of gaming. People who play games because they are fun and of a high quality level rather than the latest marketing fad. The term "harcore gamer" is now more akin to the term "film buff".
the Mac(BSD if it's OS 10.x) should interact with a linux server much more easily than with a Windows server... Their heads wouldn't explode (not counting the mac guy, but he's not really part of the argument) if you told them how much money they are saving and then hold their hands during the transistion from Windows and MS Office to Linux and Open Office. Once setup properly it's really not that different for the end user.
Don't twist my words... you know what I meant;) That concept includes all your basic applications too (browser, media player, burning/ripping tools, etc), it's all basic stuff you need as opposed to an advanced accounting package that's specialized to your needs, or perhaps a videogame...that's when it's okay to charge, but the freedom aspect should always be there.
This is why your operating system should be free (both freedom & beer). It's one thing to charge for an application...but without an OS, that computer is just a worthless hunk of metal and plastic. It's your computer, you should have complete control over it, not Bill nor Steve. It's only enevitable that people will eventually realize that the needs outway the want$...
It was pretty good, but then again I'm not much of an FPS fan... Last FPS I really played before that was Quake 1... I perfer old-school style 2D platformers myself:)
"Two such chaperons are IGN Entertainment and Massive Inc."
Yeah...b/c having half the page splashed with the advertiser of the day really makes me want to read their site. Remember when the whole damn place had a red and yellow McDonalds theme? Thank God for flashblock!
Yeah, I mean pure text/command line/keyboard only is great if you're a programmer. But I need a mouse for doing art/graphics and it's much easier than having to tab 30 times till the correct hyperlink is selected in my browser...guess it just depends on what it is you're doing;)
I'm not being irrational. Let me give you an example. I am the sys admin for a small network at a university. I have made all the faculty in my dept. switch over to firefox, and some to thunderbird as well, and I don't have to go around once a week getting rid of viruses, spyware, and adware like I did when they were all using IE. They don't have installation privaleges on their accounts, yet somehow these things kept getting installed till I made them start using Firefox. That's what I call a "more secure" browser...
frightening??? I'm a big fan of open source, and i'm actually pretty amazed the number has been so small. It's just about the first open source program to really become popular and I think Mozilla's doing a damn find job of keeping up with the hax0rz...
" Oh, damn IE for being so insecure. Wait, this is about an Open Source browser---damn IE for being so insecure!"
There will never be such a thing as a 100% secure browser. It's all about which one is "more" secure... Even with the holes found in Firefox it's still many times safer than IE. Not only that, but these holes are usually patched in a matter of days, while with MS your lucky if it gets fixed in a few months.
it's actually nothing to do with malicious code...it's just that someone could make an easy fake site with frames... I'm sure there are some sites that legitimately use this feature with differnt parts of their site hosted on different servers...What's next? Ban sites that use offsite graphics?
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Well that goes without saying... it's really not that different from the reasons you can't patent a mathmatical equation or algorithm.
The developers benefit from having a quality OS for their own use...
It's not about my 2 vs. your 5.50... I'm talking about relative pricing... Here, gas was only a dollar a few years back, so I would assume yours was only about 3.75 back then too. Apparently self-centeredness is not only limited to the US.
This is very true...the puzzle and parlor game crowd (which I feel is a more appropriate term) doesn't really care to much about the games they are playing. They are just looking for a little quick and simple fun... Perhaps having a site where people could submit games they've found and then everyone could rate them would be useful, but a magazine (or magazine like site) would be worthless. These people are not "hardcore" no matter how you spin it.
The term hardcore seems to be in a phase of shift. Originally, when games weren't quite as popular, it was fairly easy to assume someone who spent lots of time and money playing video games was a "hardcore gamer". Now that the causal gamer market has exploded, this is no longer a valid metric. "Hardcore gamer" now tends to mean people who are conisours of gaming. People who play games because they are fun and of a high quality level rather than the latest marketing fad. The term "harcore gamer" is now more akin to the term "film buff".
I guess this is something new in Europe? Corporations have been taking advantage of the US government for decades now...
the Mac(BSD if it's OS 10.x) should interact with a linux server much more easily than with a Windows server... Their heads wouldn't explode (not counting the mac guy, but he's not really part of the argument) if you told them how much money they are saving and then hold their hands during the transistion from Windows and MS Office to Linux and Open Office. Once setup properly it's really not that different for the end user.
So your going with a flavor of BSD, other may go with a type of Linux...ease of use is relative.
Gas is a limited resource, software is not. But I do think $2 a gallon is pretty outrageous...
Food is a limited resource...software is not.
Don't twist my words... you know what I meant ;) That concept includes all your basic applications too (browser, media player, burning/ripping tools, etc), it's all basic stuff you need as opposed to an advanced accounting package that's specialized to your needs, or perhaps a videogame...that's when it's okay to charge, but the freedom aspect should always be there.
I second the motion ;)
That's why I browse at -1. The modderation system is broken. But don't talk about it or you'll get modded down.
This is why your operating system should be free (both freedom & beer). It's one thing to charge for an application...but without an OS, that computer is just a worthless hunk of metal and plastic. It's your computer, you should have complete control over it, not Bill nor Steve. It's only enevitable that people will eventually realize that the needs outway the want$...
It was pretty good, but then again I'm not much of an FPS fan... Last FPS I really played before that was Quake 1... I perfer old-school style 2D platformers myself :)
That's what a nice gamepad's for :P
"Two such chaperons are IGN Entertainment and Massive Inc."
Yeah...b/c having half the page splashed with the advertiser of the day really makes me want to read their site. Remember when the whole damn place had a red and yellow McDonalds theme? Thank God for flashblock!
Hmm....there's a nice thought....do away with the mouse in favor of a keyboard & touch-screen/pen setup :)
All hail gedit! :P
Yeah, I mean pure text/command line/keyboard only is great if you're a programmer. But I need a mouse for doing art/graphics and it's much easier than having to tab 30 times till the correct hyperlink is selected in my browser...guess it just depends on what it is you're doing ;)
You and I may have, but the other 99% of computer users probably haven't...
I'm not being irrational. Let me give you an example. I am the sys admin for a small network at a university. I have made all the faculty in my dept. switch over to firefox, and some to thunderbird as well, and I don't have to go around once a week getting rid of viruses, spyware, and adware like I did when they were all using IE. They don't have installation privaleges on their accounts, yet somehow these things kept getting installed till I made them start using Firefox. That's what I call a "more secure" browser...
frightening??? I'm a big fan of open source, and i'm actually pretty amazed the number has been so small. It's just about the first open source program to really become popular and I think Mozilla's doing a damn find job of keeping up with the hax0rz...
" Oh, damn IE for being so insecure. Wait, this is about an Open Source browser---damn IE for being so insecure!"
There will never be such a thing as a 100% secure browser. It's all about which one is "more" secure... Even with the holes found in Firefox it's still many times safer than IE. Not only that, but these holes are usually patched in a matter of days, while with MS your lucky if it gets fixed in a few months.
it's actually nothing to do with malicious code...it's just that someone could make an easy fake site with frames... I'm sure there are some sites that legitimately use this feature with differnt parts of their site hosted on different servers...What's next? Ban sites that use offsite graphics?