There's one issue with Linux game sales that I hope these publishers keep in mind. There are a lot of games that they're porting to Linux, where I already bought a copy of the game for Windows. If there had been a Linux version at the time, I would have bought that instead.
So I hope they don't get the wrong idea when I don't buy certain games. If in the future I know a game I want will be released on Linux within a reasonable time, I'll hold out.
This is the engine they are currently using for upcoming/current games, not the old one they used for the older games. What it should mean is that they would have linux version of the games when they have windows (and the various consoles).
It's not the government. These people have access to all the modern conveniences via their jobs. They have chosen not to learn anything about them which would be O.K. if it wasn't critical to their job performance.
Maybe it's time to have education requirements for senators, congresspeeps, Ambassadors and anyone who has to deal with laws or other countries. They would be required to keep up with what is going on in the world, tech, social and whatever. Anything less is just hurting us in this day & age, seeing as the world (tech wise, and whatever) moves faster then it did back when.
Oh ya, drug test those peeps also so they can see what it's like for us.
That's not true at all. The dollar has value. It has government backing, it has protection for consumers, it is globally recognized, and pretty stable. That is more valuable then gold.
That is more valuable then gold? No it's not.
When the US Government collapses, what is the value of the dollar then? Ya, nothing.
Some people like to contribute something to a site they visit frequently. For some, it is giving ad views. I had AdBlock disabled for this site for quite a while, however, I turned it back on when I first saw the beta.
If you don't click on those ads, having AdBlock disabled doesn't do shit to help the site.
I find it hard to believe that someone else mined a million coins (6% of the total), lost their private key, and never mentioned it on the internet after they became worth a billion dollars.
As long as I can remember (that includes Captain Kangaroo and the Watergate Hearings), I've known I'm going to die, and it's never worried me that much.
No, I don't want to die, but it's gonna happen whether I want it to or not, so no use getting my tits in a twist about something I can't prevent.
I have never been worried about dying. Honestly, I thought most people were mostly scared to die because of religious reasons.
While I'm not suicidal, I am looking forward to seeing what happens after I die.
I'm guessing either nothing happens, and I don't exist anymore, that I wake up hooked up to some simulation, or reincarnation (which doesn't mean I'm not in a simulation, I could be in a simulation that starts you over in another life.)
Either way, I have no control over it and it's going to happen, so I'm cool with it.
Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11. It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)
Because of DOpus on the Amiga, I own a copy of it on my windows. Very much used piece of software. In fact, probably the only piece of software I've used for over 20 years on various machines (and of course, various versions).
Maybe it is a problem that screen resolution and headmounted cameras can fix, but every time I get excited about VR, I think about how often I get to look at my computer screen TO THE EXCLUSION of the real world (never).
A full face headset is a 15 minute toy at best for me, because life is not generally set up for total immersion except in very rare situations.
I have a hard enough time finding a chance to play games without a pause button, I can't imagine how little time I would play one that requires you to don and remove a facemask in-between distractions.
I mean there are lonely otaku that could live in this thing, but the vast majority of people *even geeks* actually have to log into the real world more often than you'd think.
I know I know, games aren't geared toward old dudes with disposable income and kids and wives... but really, VR seems to have a deceptively small use-case
Ya, and cars when first made were slower then horses, guess they will never catch on, right?
I don't think it is the quality of the apps that drives people not to purchase the Android version - I think it is the nature of the buyer. Most of these Android tablets are low-end... people saving perhaps $50. Cost conscious people are not going to be the best customers for an app store. Yes, I know there are high-end Android devices. I'd wager that people who buy those end up making just as many app purchases as iPad buyers. I'd also wager that the number of high-end Android devices sold is not a terribly significant part of the market, yet probably accounts for all of the profit.
I recently bought myself my first tablet. Cheap, $150 10.1" screen, 1200x800 resolution. Works great. I didn't buy it for gaming, though I do some gaming on it, I didn't buy it for watching videos, though I probably will sometimes. I bought it for viewing comic books. Which is does very decently.
Will I buy apps? A few, I plan on purchasing, like ComicRack, and maybe an emulator or 2.
This will hold me over till they start making 12"+ tablets with higher resolutions. (yes, I know you can get 1080p tablets at 9" but seriously, I want more screen, not higher resolution in a smaller space.)
Actually the US had every right to invade Iraq. After the first Gulf War the cease fire conditions called for UN inspection of Iraq for chemical weapons. Saddam impeded the inspectors at every turn. He continuously sent fighters into the no flight zone also. Violations of the cease fire agreement were so numerous as to make it a joke. Look at it as simply a continuance of the original conflict.
Excuse me? If some big ass country was bullying me, I'd make what they were doing harder. Our invasion of Iraq was not only wrong, it destabilized the region into a big ass terrorist training area, something Saddam kept from happening.
And how many WMD's did we find? I know Bush said there were there, but how many did we find? Oh ya, None.
The biggest outrage of all of this is all the art and artifacts that got destroyed during this time, all that history lost.
Since the original agreement was not to sue and not to say something, and that got broken, nothing to keep him from taking them to court and suing over the original thing. Might even work to their favor. "Well your honor, they were going to pay us off, but then didn't when word of it got leaked out via facebook."
As for the daughter, she's 19, time for her to leave the nest and earn her own living.
Then they screwed up already by signing the agreement. I don't think it's realistic to have this kind of stuff happening in your family and then not telling you teenage kid the end result. I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that? So they should not have taken an agreement that had that kind of a clause in the first place.
Telling her wasn't the problem. Her telling everyone via Facebook is the problem.
I want a new drug One that won't make me sick One that won't make me crash my car Or make me feel three feet thick
I want a new drug One that won't hurt my head One that won't make my mouth too dry Or make my eyes too red
One that won't make me nervous Wonderin' what to do One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you When I'm alone with you
I want a new drug One that won't spill One that don't cost too much Or come in a pill
I want a new drug One that won't go away One that won't keep me up all night One that won't make me sleep all day
One that won't make me nervous Wonderin' what to do One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you When I'm alone with you I'm alone with you baby
I want a new drug One that does what it should One that won't make me feel too bad One that won't make me feel too good
I want a new drug One with no doubt One that won't make me talk too much Or make my face break out
One that won't make me nervous Wonderin' what to do One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you When I'm alone with you All alone with you All alone with you, yea, yea
Seriously. We're already living in a panopticon society, being recorded by the government and private business almost 24x7. Now we have a bunch of people OPENLY wearing cameras on their heads, recording our every moment in public too, whether we want it or not. I can understand a certain modicum of hostility. Granted, nobody should EVER be PHYSICALLY attacked. But the people behind Google Glass, as well as the users of the product need to understand that this product is going to be pushing people's buttons.
Do you own any electronic devices? Can you record all day on any of them with their batteries being how batteries are? Okay, take something as small as Google Glasses, who has a really fucking small battery, how fucking long do you think it can record? 1 hour, 2 tops? If you are lucky.
When I go outside, I expect that I am being recorded by something all the fucking time. It can be a store's security camera, it can be someone tourist with a camera/cell phone. Whatever, that is how it is now.
People want an excuse to be stupid and act like dicks, and currently Google Glasses is that excuse.
Wearing a short skirt isn't an invasion of other people's privacy. Pointing a camera at them is. If people make it clear they don't want a recording device pointing at them, and you persist, then you do indeed bear some responsibility if it results in a bad outcome for you.
So if you are wearing a short skirt and someone points a camera up it (upskirts, very popular on the web), who's fault is it? And if you don't wear underwear, then weren't you asking for it?
To extend this, I've known plenty of people who have lived in Asian countries (for at least a few years) but never really picked up the language. It's one of the advantages of being a native English speaker... you can go almost anywhere on Earth and find people that know enough English for you to live day-to-day life. The only things you really need to pick up are words and phrases with no direct translation.
On the other hand, I've met many many foreign types in America who don't bother to learn English, even though they live here now.
...I can understand that this might be a trade off that is worth paying - paid by the innocent people. I am far from convinced that this trade off is right or moral; but for the sake of this argument - I will accept it.
...: can anyone come up with a cost/benefit analysis, please ?
Yes, the cost to those innocents was way more then it was worth.
Bad guys are supposed to hurt the innocent, not the protectors.
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Wish I had mod points, I'd moderate you "informative".
You would if you made more interesting remarks than this.
Wish I had mod points, I'd moderate you "insightful".
I wish I had mod points, I'd moderate you "Underrated". Your comment has a je ne sais quoi.
I do have mod points and I would of modded you Funny, but I posted instead!
There's one issue with Linux game sales that I hope these publishers keep in mind. There are a lot of games that they're porting to Linux, where I already bought a copy of the game for Windows. If there had been a Linux version at the time, I would have bought that instead.
So I hope they don't get the wrong idea when I don't buy certain games. If in the future I know a game I want will be released on Linux within a reasonable time, I'll hold out.
This is the engine they are currently using for upcoming/current games, not the old one they used for the older games. What it should mean is that they would have linux version of the games when they have windows (and the various consoles).
But I agree with you about porting older games.
So, what do I need a 300GB, when I can go to Fry's and get 4TB drive and just plug it in?
storing stuff on hard drives is NOT backing up.
It's playing Russian roulette with your data.
It's not the government. These people have access to all the modern conveniences via their jobs. They have chosen not to learn anything about them which would be O.K. if it wasn't critical to their job performance.
Maybe it's time to have education requirements for senators, congresspeeps, Ambassadors and anyone who has to deal with laws or other countries. They would be required to keep up with what is going on in the world, tech, social and whatever. Anything less is just hurting us in this day & age, seeing as the world (tech wise, and whatever) moves faster then it did back when.
Oh ya, drug test those peeps also so they can see what it's like for us.
That's not true at all.
The dollar has value. It has government backing, it has protection for consumers, it is globally recognized, and pretty stable.
That is more valuable then gold.
That is more valuable then gold? No it's not.
When the US Government collapses, what is the value of the dollar then? Ya, nothing.
Gold's value doesn't drop when governments do.
Some people like to contribute something to a site they visit frequently. For some, it is giving ad views. I had AdBlock disabled for this site for quite a while, however, I turned it back on when I first saw the beta.
If you don't click on those ads, having AdBlock disabled doesn't do shit to help the site.
I find it hard to believe that someone else mined a million coins (6% of the total), lost their private key, and never mentioned it on the internet after they became worth a billion dollars.
Who would believe them?
about my death?
As long as I can remember (that includes Captain Kangaroo and the Watergate Hearings), I've known I'm going to die, and it's never worried me that much.
No, I don't want to die, but it's gonna happen whether I want it to or not, so no use getting my tits in a twist about something I can't prevent.
I have never been worried about dying. Honestly, I thought most people were mostly scared to die because of religious reasons.
While I'm not suicidal, I am looking forward to seeing what happens after I die.
I'm guessing either nothing happens, and I don't exist anymore, that I wake up hooked up to some simulation, or reincarnation (which doesn't mean I'm not in a simulation, I could be in a simulation that starts you over in another life.)
Either way, I have no control over it and it's going to happen, so I'm cool with it.
Yes, or the Bangles cover which is a damn fine version of the song, which was used in the film"Less than Zero" thus explaining the reference.
The song is called "A Hazy Shade of Winter"
Hawken & Path of Exile are pretty damn good too.
Marvel Heroes is very fun to play, and a better Diablo II/III clone then Diablo III and Path to Exile.
www.marvelheroes.com
Free to play, and you can get everything in the game as drops, 'cept for storage space. And I don't mind buying more storage space, the game is fun.
Can you play Pete Wisemans Klondike on it?
Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11.
It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)
Because of DOpus on the Amiga, I own a copy of it on my windows. Very much used piece of software. In fact, probably the only piece of software I've used for over 20 years on various machines (and of course, various versions).
Maybe it is a problem that screen resolution and headmounted cameras can fix, but every time I get excited about VR, I think about how often I get to look at my computer screen TO THE EXCLUSION of the real world (never).
A full face headset is a 15 minute toy at best for me, because life is not generally set up for total immersion except in very rare situations.
I have a hard enough time finding a chance to play games without a pause button, I can't imagine how little time I would play one that requires you to don and remove a facemask in-between distractions.
I mean there are lonely otaku that could live in this thing, but the vast majority of people *even geeks* actually have to log into the real world more often than you'd think.
I know I know, games aren't geared toward old dudes with disposable income and kids and wives... but really, VR seems to have a deceptively small use-case
Ya, and cars when first made were slower then horses, guess they will never catch on, right?
...
Ok the Kinetic is pretty innovating, hopefully we will not see the same misapplication of the innovation here.
Yes it is, if we are talking about putting a Video & Audio recording device in every living room for the NSA.
I don't think it is the quality of the apps that drives people not to purchase the Android version - I think it is the nature of the buyer. Most of these Android tablets are low-end... people saving perhaps $50. Cost conscious people are not going to be the best customers for an app store. Yes, I know there are high-end Android devices. I'd wager that people who buy those end up making just as many app purchases as iPad buyers. I'd also wager that the number of high-end Android devices sold is not a terribly significant part of the market, yet probably accounts for all of the profit.
I recently bought myself my first tablet. Cheap, $150 10.1" screen, 1200x800 resolution. Works great. I didn't buy it for gaming, though I do some gaming on it, I didn't buy it for watching videos, though I probably will sometimes. I bought it for viewing comic books. Which is does very decently.
Will I buy apps? A few, I plan on purchasing, like ComicRack, and maybe an emulator or 2.
This will hold me over till they start making 12"+ tablets with higher resolutions. (yes, I know you can get 1080p tablets at 9" but seriously, I want more screen, not higher resolution in a smaller space.)
Actually the US had every right to invade Iraq. After the first Gulf War the cease fire conditions called for UN inspection of Iraq for chemical weapons. Saddam impeded the inspectors at every turn. He continuously sent fighters into the no flight zone also. Violations of the cease fire agreement were so numerous as to make it a joke. Look at it as simply a continuance of the original conflict.
Excuse me? If some big ass country was bullying me, I'd make what they were doing harder. Our invasion of Iraq was not only wrong, it destabilized the region into a big ass terrorist training area, something Saddam kept from happening.
And how many WMD's did we find? I know Bush said there were there, but how many did we find? Oh ya, None.
The biggest outrage of all of this is all the art and artifacts that got destroyed during this time, all that history lost.
Since the original agreement was not to sue and not to say something, and that got broken, nothing to keep him from taking them to court and suing over the original thing. Might even work to their favor. "Well your honor, they were going to pay us off, but then didn't when word of it got leaked out via facebook."
As for the daughter, she's 19, time for her to leave the nest and earn her own living.
Then they screwed up already by signing the agreement. I don't think it's realistic to have this kind of stuff happening in your family and then not telling you teenage kid the end result. I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that? So they should not have taken an agreement that had that kind of a clause in the first place.
Telling her wasn't the problem. Her telling everyone via Facebook is the problem.
One at a time.
I want a new drug
One that won't make me sick
One that won't make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick
I want a new drug
One that won't hurt my head
One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red
One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
I want a new drug
One that won't spill
One that don't cost too much
Or come in a pill
I want a new drug
One that won't go away
One that won't keep me up all night
One that won't make me sleep all day
One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
I'm alone with you baby
I want a new drug
One that does what it should
One that won't make me feel too bad
One that won't make me feel too good
I want a new drug
One with no doubt
One that won't make me talk too much
Or make my face break out
One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
All alone with you
All alone with you, yea, yea
Seriously. We're already living in a panopticon society, being recorded by the government and private business almost 24x7.
Now we have a bunch of people OPENLY wearing cameras on their heads, recording our every moment in public too, whether we want it or not.
I can understand a certain modicum of hostility. Granted, nobody should EVER be PHYSICALLY attacked. But the people behind Google Glass, as well as the users of the product need to understand that this product is going to be pushing people's buttons.
Do you own any electronic devices? Can you record all day on any of them with their batteries being how batteries are? Okay, take something as small as Google Glasses, who has a really fucking small battery, how fucking long do you think it can record? 1 hour, 2 tops? If you are lucky.
When I go outside, I expect that I am being recorded by something all the fucking time. It can be a store's security camera, it can be someone tourist with a camera/cell phone. Whatever, that is how it is now.
People want an excuse to be stupid and act like dicks, and currently Google Glasses is that excuse.
Wearing a short skirt isn't an invasion of other people's privacy. Pointing a camera at them is. If people make it clear they don't want a recording device pointing at them, and you persist, then you do indeed bear some responsibility if it results in a bad outcome for you.
So if you are wearing a short skirt and someone points a camera up it (upskirts, very popular on the web), who's fault is it? And if you don't wear underwear, then weren't you asking for it?
To extend this, I've known plenty of people who have lived in Asian countries (for at least a few years) but never really picked up the language. It's one of the advantages of being a native English speaker... you can go almost anywhere on Earth and find people that know enough English for you to live day-to-day life. The only things you really need to pick up are words and phrases with no direct translation.
On the other hand, I've met many many foreign types in America who don't bother to learn English, even though they live here now.
... I might be more distracted while driving by a Big Mac or a cigarette than by an image out of my field of view on Glass. ...
Sounds to me like you are easily distracted if seeing a Big Mac or cigarette while driving distracts you.
There are no Pythons genus snakes in South America. The closet you get are the Eunectes, which includes the Anaconda.
The Anaconda don't want none unless you got root access, Hon.
Nice Sir Mix-a-lot. =)
...I can understand that this might be a trade off that is worth paying - paid by the innocent people. I am far from convinced that this trade off is right or moral; but for the sake of this argument - I will accept it.
...: can anyone come up with a cost/benefit analysis, please ?
Yes, the cost to those innocents was way more then it was worth.
Bad guys are supposed to hurt the innocent, not the protectors.