Well, there was an American McGee's Alice, but that wasn't as big of a seller as he had hoped.
For the uninitiated in gaming history (looking at you Waril) American McGee was an id Software employee for a long time. I think he was there from the beginning of Wolfenstein. If not, he was there by Doom.
I realize you were able to pick out some names from the history of gaming. And your list is good. I say John Carmack is on the same level as Will Wright and Sid Meier. As great and revolutionary as Half-Life and everything that has come from Valve Software, Gabe Newell owe's a lot to John C. (and subsequently, the creators of Counter-strike).
I'm surprised at the amount of surprise over this. If Apple had won the home and business computer market, there would be very little innovation in both hardware and software... only what Apple released. They have always had a completely closed system and this is the reason I prefer PCs over Macintosh/Apple.
At the time, my main concern was that I didn't have a choice in hardware. When you get a Mac, you can only buy Mac hardware and software. When you buy an IBM, Compaq, or a Dell you can put whatever graphics, sound, or harddrive inside. Most of the time, you did not have to buy an IBM hdd for and IBM PC. You could use a Compaq branded mouse and keyboard with a Dell PC.
Even now, when you buy an Apple computer, you have a little more flexibility inside the case, but it's still a closed system and Apple users will mostly go to the Apple store and buy an over-priced router because they've been trained that they have no choice.
Sure Halo is for Vista only, but when has anything like Terms of Service meant anything to the music listener, games player, whatever. If a person can't legally get what they really want, they will try it illegally, especially of the costs are non-prohibitive.
Note, I am not encouraging piracy, just looking at reality... non-regional movies can be obtained, DRM free music are easily found, games with password protection (80's-90's) and security measures are cracked and easily obtained by the average user. (Remember "Don't copy that floppy"?) So what's to stop them from downloading an exe patch that allows them to save $150 on a new OS they wouldn't be able to install properly anyway?
Taking that software (game) as it is, it was released for Vista only. Case closed.
You are making this sound like an absolute. [Warning: possible bad analogy approaching] Taking the music industry, just because a song is released with DRM attached, does that mean it can only be a DRM song?
More input options means that you need to buy more stuff instead of always being able to use the standard input. Not all game genres are great on a keyboard and/or mouse.
I completely agree. And I did say options. To be accurate, I should have said buttons. I would call it an equal shake for options. Any input device you can get for a console, one can be easily made for the PC (though, they are not always developed.) For every guitar for guitar hero/rock band one can point to the flight stick/steering wheels, for every footpad (DDR, track-and-field for NES), you could point to rudder controls and accelerator/brake pedals. I bought a joystick for NFSII:Underground for my PC, a person can hook a keyboard into an XBox or PS2/3.
The problem is that it would be Microsoft bells and whistles being added to the system. And we have a very critical eye when Microsoft does this. The reason is because it tends to block others. Also, Microsoft being the monopoly it is, can't favor one company's offerings over another without the other throwing a hissy fit.
Just imagine the problems and outcry if Microsoft created a fully featured product and bundled their own and third party fully featured products.
Anti-virus: They would likely choose Norton's or McAfee's product. We all know both of these programs are bloated pieces of crap that barely does the job well. (In actuality, the AV vendors in totality are having a tough time keeping up.) Grisoft: AVG, Comodo AV, ZoneAlarm and a dozen other security vendors would throw a fit as well as users of better software.
Productivity: Of course it would be MS Office. Just look at where Wordperfect is today and the hard road OpenOffice.org has to climb.
Video Editing software: There are a myriad of choices out there, but we'd probably get Windows Movie Maker... and it would be crap.
Yeah, it's a small list, but I don't have all day to write a treatise on this. Microsoft can't do what Apple (very closed system which would be in the same trouble if they were top dog) or Linux/Debian can, which is conglomerate the best software around.
The NES was ~$100 when it came out in the 1980's. The SuperNES and other consoles were pushing $150-$200. The Gamecube was $200, XBox and Playstation2 were $250-$350. Current gen consoles are $400-$600. You really think they are going to bring the price back down? Granted, when considering these numbers you have to adjust for inflation, but you will have to do that for all variables.
You really think more input options are a bad thing in gaming? Well, I suppose it depends on the type of gamer one is and the type of game being played. If I'm playing a first person shooter, less input buttons work, more is more effective. If I'm playing a real-time strategy, more inputs means faster cycling through screens, menus, options, resources handling, and unit handling. I agree that fewer inputs in a well designed game means an easier learning curve, but I posit that the more input options allows for more advanced, possibly more efficient handling of a game.
There are several very important advantages to PC gaming over the consoles.
User input. There are just more options.
Expandability. First person shooters, real-time strategy, role-playing, sims (flight, car, etc), and more all gain major replayability due to easy expandability. Granted, consoles are making huge inroads, but their systems are still pretty tightly closed with a high startup cost for starting development. (Still, consoles are starting to break-down this feature, too. Still, PCs have the greater advantage here.
Better hardware. You can always throw in a new (or extra) graphics card (relatively inexpensive) or more memory (cheap) in three years and bring your PC up to spec for the latest games. You have to buy a whole new console system at $400-$600 every three years.
I don't have Vista, otherwise I'd do this myself. Can someone tell us the result of the following test.
1. Take a large media file and copy it from one drive to another.
2. Rename said media file in the original location so that it does not appear like a video file.
3. Copy the renamed video file to the same drive.
4. Measure how long it takes to process both scenarios and report which took longer.
When OEMs were releasing their Windows XP computers with 128MB of RAM (256MB with SP2), I always said it was criminal. I repeat the sentiment with PCs being released with 512MB of RAM for Vista installed PCs. 512MB of RAM for Windows XP SP2 is only acceptable.
I'd also check out what Comodo is doing. Their free software is free for all, not just personal users (like Grisoft's AVG). They make their money off of web-site security certificates. I particularly like their firewall. It is very granular and allows you to create a myriad of rules based on software and/or ports.
From your quoted section, it sounds like Reznor and the rest had some major jam sessions recorded and produced it for release. Stuff like this is probably rarely recorded, and if so, even more rarely released. A lot of good music is lost like that, because it's not "polished" for the labels or it is only played in bars, clubs, etc.
There are a few groups out there, when they jam, it's better than most other's "polished" releases.
Gen. 3:17 - And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
So, they reject your card because you are supposedly dead and no commerce for you.
Anyway, the first thing I thought of when they said the supervisor needed sufficient proof is the picture of the now living deceased holding a paper with a current date just like Osama and other terrorists would have to do to prove their still bumping around some cave.
The right type of undershirt should keep you cool. Which type that is? I'm not sure. I've rarely had problems with my cotton-poly's in Kentucky's 90F/32C, 90%+ humidity, dog days of summer. Plus, it'll catch the sweat marks before your outer shirt does.
Please, if you have a hairy chest and button down shirt that is thin, wear an undershirt. I had an interview where the interviewer did this... it was distracting.
If the enemy is out "there" and you know where the friendlies are over "here", "here" and "here. Sending out a ping and getting a passive radar-like response from antennae would give you locations of those antennae. Just target the unknown locations that responded.
Of course, I'm thinking large field attacks and not a general city attack... though the idea can be modified to suite a localized area of a city.
What's a mountain of nukes and a missile defense system (which barely works) going to do for us, when we're gun shy to pull the trigger when a plane full of citizens flies into a tower? (I know, this is almost invoking a type of Godwin on my argument)
No matter how you look at it, the USA has become a major player in global defense. And, particularly now, if we pull troops home, the only place we will be attacked is at home (which is exactly what happened, see above, and note other attempts in the 90's to attack structures in the USA). I prefer to keep the enemies fighting on their own turf, blowing up their stuff, and not on ours.
Okay, true story. Here's the dream I had this morning.
I had been called in for an interview for a head football coach at a certain university and was hired. (I'm a software QA engineer by trade... I played football in high school as a freshman... why I would be hired, I have no idea.) Anyway, I decided to take it, because who wouldn't want a chance to try and be a football coach. Well, I was hired because they wanted to give a nobody, an unheard of, a chance to rebuild a pretty depleted team (like 20 guys were left for the entire team.)
Because I didn't think it would be full time I also interviewed for a tech job in the area and got it. Once I got to the school and started my first day, I realized being a head football coach was going to be full time and dropped the tech job. (Well, DUH! it's going to be a full time job.) After walking around campus, meeting the "team" and some of the other coaches, trying to figure out my essentials to get the job going, I woke up.
Yeah, I have no idea what it means. The university in question is a public state school in a state I will likely never live in.
The 25% of the hardware that isn't supported is usually top-of-the-line hardware that still barely works in MS Windows. Most of the hardware (greater than 75% in my un-knowledgeable estimation) released with Vista on it, will run Ubuntu without issue.
Of course, I will agree with the 5% of software. The average user, downloading that really cool software app, isn't going to recognize that an.exe is not going to work if they have Linux.
The major problem with MS Works is that its default save file is not MS Word compatible. I'm getting sick of finding Works on computers and no easy way to mass convert the 100 or so documents so that they can either use MS Word or OO.o.
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Well, there was an American McGee's Alice, but that wasn't as big of a seller as he had hoped.
For the uninitiated in gaming history (looking at you Waril) American McGee was an id Software employee for a long time. I think he was there from the beginning of Wolfenstein. If not, he was there by Doom.
I realize you were able to pick out some names from the history of gaming. And your list is good. I say John Carmack is on the same level as Will Wright and Sid Meier. As great and revolutionary as Half-Life and everything that has come from Valve Software, Gabe Newell owe's a lot to John C. (and subsequently, the creators of Counter-strike).
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I'm surprised at the amount of surprise over this. If Apple had won the home and business computer market, there would be very little innovation in both hardware and software... only what Apple released. They have always had a completely closed system and this is the reason I prefer PCs over Macintosh/Apple.
At the time, my main concern was that I didn't have a choice in hardware. When you get a Mac, you can only buy Mac hardware and software. When you buy an IBM, Compaq, or a Dell you can put whatever graphics, sound, or harddrive inside. Most of the time, you did not have to buy an IBM hdd for and IBM PC. You could use a Compaq branded mouse and keyboard with a Dell PC.
Even now, when you buy an Apple computer, you have a little more flexibility inside the case, but it's still a closed system and Apple users will mostly go to the Apple store and buy an over-priced router because they've been trained that they have no choice.
Sure Halo is for Vista only, but when has anything like Terms of Service meant anything to the music listener, games player, whatever. If a person can't legally get what they really want, they will try it illegally, especially of the costs are non-prohibitive.
Note, I am not encouraging piracy, just looking at reality... non-regional movies can be obtained, DRM free music are easily found, games with password protection (80's-90's) and security measures are cracked and easily obtained by the average user. (Remember "Don't copy that floppy"?) So what's to stop them from downloading an exe patch that allows them to save $150 on a new OS they wouldn't be able to install properly anyway?
Taking that software (game) as it is, it was released for Vista only. Case closed.
You are making this sound like an absolute. [Warning: possible bad analogy approaching] Taking the music industry, just because a song is released with DRM attached, does that mean it can only be a DRM song?
More input options means that you need to buy more stuff instead of always being able to use the standard input. Not all game genres are great on a keyboard and/or mouse.
I completely agree. And I did say options. To be accurate, I should have said buttons. I would call it an equal shake for options. Any input device you can get for a console, one can be easily made for the PC (though, they are not always developed.) For every guitar for guitar hero/rock band one can point to the flight stick/steering wheels, for every footpad (DDR, track-and-field for NES), you could point to rudder controls and accelerator/brake pedals. I bought a joystick for NFSII:Underground for my PC, a person can hook a keyboard into an XBox or PS2/3.
Just imagine the problems and outcry if Microsoft created a fully featured product and bundled their own and third party fully featured products.
- Anti-virus: They would likely choose Norton's or McAfee's product. We all know both of these programs are bloated pieces of crap that barely does the job well. (In actuality, the AV vendors in totality are having a tough time keeping up.) Grisoft: AVG, Comodo AV, ZoneAlarm and a dozen other security vendors would throw a fit as well as users of better software.
- Productivity: Of course it would be MS Office. Just look at where Wordperfect is today and the hard road OpenOffice.org has to climb.
- Video Editing software: There are a myriad of choices out there, but we'd probably get Windows Movie Maker... and it would be crap.
Yeah, it's a small list, but I don't have all day to write a treatise on this. Microsoft can't do what Apple (very closed system which would be in the same trouble if they were top dog) or Linux/Debian can, which is conglomerate the best software around.The NES was ~$100 when it came out in the 1980's. The SuperNES and other consoles were pushing $150-$200. The Gamecube was $200, XBox and Playstation2 were $250-$350. Current gen consoles are $400-$600. You really think they are going to bring the price back down? Granted, when considering these numbers you have to adjust for inflation, but you will have to do that for all variables.
You really think more input options are a bad thing in gaming? Well, I suppose it depends on the type of gamer one is and the type of game being played. If I'm playing a first person shooter, less input buttons work, more is more effective. If I'm playing a real-time strategy, more inputs means faster cycling through screens, menus, options, resources handling, and unit handling. I agree that fewer inputs in a well designed game means an easier learning curve, but I posit that the more input options allows for more advanced, possibly more efficient handling of a game.
I'm sorry, I can't understand your post. Everything was spelled properly and the grammar was mostly correct, as opposed to mostly incorrect.
I wouldn't say they are fake politicians... they are politicians. It just happens that politicians are also fake.
I don't have Vista, otherwise I'd do this myself. Can someone tell us the result of the following test.
1. Take a large media file and copy it from one drive to another.
2. Rename said media file in the original location so that it does not appear like a video file.
3. Copy the renamed video file to the same drive.
4. Measure how long it takes to process both scenarios and report which took longer.
When OEMs were releasing their Windows XP computers with 128MB of RAM (256MB with SP2), I always said it was criminal. I repeat the sentiment with PCs being released with 512MB of RAM for Vista installed PCs. 512MB of RAM for Windows XP SP2 is only acceptable.
I'd also check out what Comodo is doing. Their free software is free for all, not just personal users (like Grisoft's AVG). They make their money off of web-site security certificates. I particularly like their firewall. It is very granular and allows you to create a myriad of rules based on software and/or ports.
From your quoted section, it sounds like Reznor and the rest had some major jam sessions recorded and produced it for release. Stuff like this is probably rarely recorded, and if so, even more rarely released. A lot of good music is lost like that, because it's not "polished" for the labels or it is only played in bars, clubs, etc.
There are a few groups out there, when they jam, it's better than most other's "polished" releases.
Hmm, somebody here is too young to remember the $64,000 Pyramid game show.
Now get off my lawn... and all that.
Oh, I fail at scripture. That's Revelations 3:17
Anyway, the first thing I thought of when they said the supervisor needed sufficient proof is the picture of the now living deceased holding a paper with a current date just like Osama and other terrorists would have to do to prove their still bumping around some cave.
But did you know where he's going to take them?
The right type of undershirt should keep you cool. Which type that is? I'm not sure. I've rarely had problems with my cotton-poly's in Kentucky's 90F/32C, 90%+ humidity, dog days of summer. Plus, it'll catch the sweat marks before your outer shirt does.
Please, if you have a hairy chest and button down shirt that is thin, wear an undershirt. I had an interview where the interviewer did this... it was distracting.
If the enemy is out "there" and you know where the friendlies are over "here", "here" and "here. Sending out a ping and getting a passive radar-like response from antennae would give you locations of those antennae. Just target the unknown locations that responded.
Of course, I'm thinking large field attacks and not a general city attack... though the idea can be modified to suite a localized area of a city.
What's a mountain of nukes and a missile defense system (which barely works) going to do for us, when we're gun shy to pull the trigger when a plane full of citizens flies into a tower? (I know, this is almost invoking a type of Godwin on my argument)
No matter how you look at it, the USA has become a major player in global defense. And, particularly now, if we pull troops home, the only place we will be attacked is at home (which is exactly what happened, see above, and note other attempts in the 90's to attack structures in the USA). I prefer to keep the enemies fighting on their own turf, blowing up their stuff, and not on ours.
Very interesting. For me, sex was a non-skill until I got married.
Okay, true story. Here's the dream I had this morning.
I had been called in for an interview for a head football coach at a certain university and was hired. (I'm a software QA engineer by trade... I played football in high school as a freshman... why I would be hired, I have no idea.) Anyway, I decided to take it, because who wouldn't want a chance to try and be a football coach. Well, I was hired because they wanted to give a nobody, an unheard of, a chance to rebuild a pretty depleted team (like 20 guys were left for the entire team.)
Because I didn't think it would be full time I also interviewed for a tech job in the area and got it. Once I got to the school and started my first day, I realized being a head football coach was going to be full time and dropped the tech job. (Well, DUH! it's going to be a full time job.) After walking around campus, meeting the "team" and some of the other coaches, trying to figure out my essentials to get the job going, I woke up.
Yeah, I have no idea what it means. The university in question is a public state school in a state I will likely never live in.
The United States of Wal-mart, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, (your favorite "Evil-Company" name here), etc.
The 25% of the hardware that isn't supported is usually top-of-the-line hardware that still barely works in MS Windows. Most of the hardware (greater than 75% in my un-knowledgeable estimation) released with Vista on it, will run Ubuntu without issue.
.exe is not going to work if they have Linux.
Of course, I will agree with the 5% of software. The average user, downloading that really cool software app, isn't going to recognize that an
The major problem with MS Works is that its default save file is not MS Word compatible. I'm getting sick of finding Works on computers and no easy way to mass convert the 100 or so documents so that they can either use MS Word or OO.o.