YES. Look at some video games on older consoles. They looked GREAT, and had a nice athmosphere..... these games LOOK LIKE CRAP on a PC, because witht he high res, and monitor optimized (over TV/projector) image just looks fake/empty.
One example is Call of Duty 4, that looked really fake on my PC, and looks amazing on both 360 and PS3. Same with Resident evil, and hmm... a few others.
Chick flick : 700m avi pirate bay Good movie: DVD rental/1.3G avi
Good special effects movie: 4.3G single layer or dual layer DVD/ Amazon/Rental
Eye candy: (transformers, black hawk down, blue planet, etc etc): Blue Ray....
I am willing to buy, but how many times do you wathc a movie unless it is THAT GOOD ? Now how good is it that quality really matters a lot ? (e.g. GOOD+eyecandy)...
Few. And those few get on my shelves in a blue box, the rest gets here on DVD or through downloads...
Dunno... probably there are good machines running windows.
But I do not like windows, not because I am trendy, but because I want a fully operational UNIX system on my desktop. BSD, Linux, OSX are my choices, and of the three OSX integrates the better with the concept of a portable device that has a fully functional GUI with free/commercial applications of mature quality...
Well.... my last windows laptop takes like 4 minutes to came back to life, and several wifi disables until it reconnects to the net:)
Call me a mac zealot, but my MACbook sleeps immediately after closing the lid, can stay like this for more than 2 days, and comes back in less that 20 seconds, depending on what you run (I usually have thunderbird, firefox, terminals, synergy, and 5+ more things open and it is 15-20 seconds)....
Yeah.... a Windows laptop takes 2+ minutes to come back with XP, and a Vista laptop 5+ minutes to boot (new Compaq, NOTHING installed other than the standard crap).... yeye... you can get a faster one.... etc....
Anyways,... I am sure a Macbook air with very few things running can come back in less than 10 seconds....
Just my take on it... I love any flavour of unix......... especially if it runs on something with an apple logo and starts with an "i".....
Yeah... my iphone is faster too than my crap S60 nokia !!!
Huhh... heavy optics ? Please put video glasses into ebay and see how heavy those optics are really....... you can carry a lot of weight on your head, you just have to balance it....... so gyro, headphones, electronics go on the back, optics and lcd in the front...
I tried he Gravis head mounted ones 10+ years ago, and they weren't heavy, just the resolution sucked. Had gyros, audio and all.... I expected to have them all around 5 years ago... I was wrong.....shutters limit you to your screen...
Shutter glasses are cool, I loved them I had them, I enjoyed them and went to bed dizzy and half blinded by 50hz...
But really, why not head mounted LCDs? The technology is there, small led backlit LCDs are light and now they sport a decent resolution. A reasonably sized device could sport 1280x800 per eye. Even 1024 would be just great. Then WII-like gyros and other sensors. Slap a price of $500 on it per unit and if it works with my PS3 and at least 1 good FPS and one good driving game, I get it on day 1.
So back to shutter glasses..... cool... better than nothing, still this time I am not getting one, because I refuse to play on a pc lately.
The point of the post was, that while the xbox is a limited hardware, the whole experience of the xbox live system is really fun (for me).
However, that POS died on my, so I am here with a $500 dismantled box and peripherals, and 10 games ($600) as a waste. And I refuse to buy a piece of hardware that already died on me once because that is just stupid. I heard of people who have 2-4 xboxes, all which died.
On the other hand I took a quick view of other options, and mentioned that the WII does not interest me because my taste of games are not there. The thing is underpowered and can not run call of duty, GTA4 (just an example, I am not a GTA fan, even though I try every time, then get bored of it after a while) and/or support 16+ online shooters. I have limited time to play, so I prefer going online, shoot some people, then do my other things, not to play a story based game for 30+ hours. OK I finished metal gear solid and it took long, so there are exceptions, but like one a year.
Then I looked at the system I got when the POS died. It is the PS3. Superior design and quality. I know, that some people have things against sony, but I am happy with their amps and video components. I have a camera I use for diving from sony which also server the purpose, but it was the 1st and last sony camera I got. So I am not a Sony fanboy. I would also never buy a sony ericsson phone after I had one and it died on me..... (I have a Nokia I hate and an iPhone I love even though it lacks important functions)....
So even though I love this superior console, I do not like the online experience. The idea of giving a headset with XBL is great, because everyone has a headset that works and people use it. Sony's idea of allowing any bluetooth headset is great in theory, but most headsets are designed for phone applications, so they die after a few hours of actual talk time, and they let all the noise in. This is especially true with shooter games, and is rather annoying. There is also static, disconnects, all the bad stuff. Many people do not use a headset, making a tactical shooter -SHIT- of an experience.
Also XBL allows people to rate people, which takes care of team killing, offensive behavior and talk most of the time. PS3 lacks these, so you have to deal with assholes who cannot play, and so they go into a no-respawn 10 minute tactical game, and shoot you from the back at the spawn point and log off. Yes, this is annoying, and yes it happens on XBL, but then the person gets a bunch of bad reviews and it shows on his account......
anyway... it is 4am in the morning, I just could not sleep and saw all these responses...
Then again, I did not want to offend any WII owners, I wish I enjoyed my superior expensive box as much as people enjoy the cheaper, lower performance little white cubes.......
And sorry for the kiddie comment again. I play tactical team shooters almost exclusively, so anything else for me is in the kiddie category.
Oh... I am not a killing or military freak at all, I do not hunt or kill anything (I am in fact a vegan), it is just my competitive self that finds enjoyment in fighting in a team against an other set of people.
I would also play a real WWII plane combat sim if it existed and was as good as Chuck Yeager's sim back in the old days....... but it is all about locking a missile on someone from 10 kilometers in a jet, then hear beep beep for 2 minutes and see a distant explosion.. -> not fun...
I remember hosting lan parties at my house. We were playing anything and everything of the few that allowed to shoot each-other.
I also remember playing Quake and Counter Strike on a 56K modem.
Then remember playing on XBOX live with a bunch of strangers. Still community feeling and good laughs.
Then I go online (with the same games) on my PS3. It is worse that driving an ATV alone in the forest/desert (actually it is not bad, just a lonely activity).....
There are colorful cartoon-like characters in the game who collect coins which hang in the air, and you are bouncing of huge mushrooms and your enemies are evil turtles and other cartoon animals, plants and persons.
It is similar to a psychedelic dream, except is is presented in a generally bad resolution and a low but vivid color palette.
Metrois prime is the only game that made me think of getting a wii until I saw the resolution and the graphics detail, which almost surpassed my 2001 released PS2 console.
Let me guess, you are happy with your WII. I do not like it because none of the games I would play are released for it, and because I think the graphics it provides is shit. Also because I know myself, and know that I am better off with a controller and I hate people in my house and I do not like to share my screen with anyone for anything, especially if they are weaving around little white controllers and screaming in high pitch.
Then again. You like your WII and I am honestly happy for you. I tried to play a new game I bought yesterday on my super high-end console, and I realized, that I did not like it. I realized that I am bored of all the games and all of it, because the thing lacks that community feeling.
This post was about mostly that, that there is the WII I do not like, there is the XBOX that is a POS and dies (but has the best online system), and there is the superior PS3, but only a bunch of idiots play it who do not care to get a headset, so the online play is not any better than playing alone at home against you CPU opponent....
anyway, then again I did not want to offend anyone, you like whatever console you want and play whatever you want, and probably happier than I am with this expensive POS I hate to turn on lately.......
My XBOX 360 dis 4 months ago and I bought a PS3, re-purchased all 6-8 games I play (mostly FPS team games, GRAW, COD, RS).
How do I feel? I feel like using Linux: it is better than windows, but lacking stuff. PS3 is superior (like linux) but it is lacking a strong community feeling like xbox live. It is also lacking the sometimes needed, but sometimes hated strong core (assholes) who play 600 hours a month to be the best in certain games. These are the guys who sometimes hate, but the ones who give a strong core. It is like when I used to race bikes. Many people hated us, but so many respected us that we kept the sport up. Well.... this is something I am missing from ps3.
The system is superior, the blueray is SUPER-DUPER, but I go online, 4 out of 16 have a microphone, and then 2 start team killing.
Bottom line: I am not buying a xbox because it will die on me, I am not getting a wii because I do not want to host family parties (nor play mario #122 or other kiddie games), and I keep my PS3 to play once a week (I pkayed XBOX 4 times 2+ hors a week)......
Well, maybe I just keep all that money I spent on games and spend it on my motorbike, and if I really want to shoot at people I just go and play paintball....
Dunno.... really, just opened a game coming from amazon (grid) and I realized, that without a strong online backing (like XB LIVE, whic I [prapaid for a year) any console is as good as a brick.....
Still I am with this shiny piece of shit, and the other white crap (xbox) is on the floor disassembled with a red ring of death..... well.//... really I like games, but dunno where to go.....
Sony fanboy ? My siby canera developed a dead pixel after 2 weeks of diving (30+ meters, maybe one hard impacts). Local support SUCKS so much I never bothered to even try. While MS support is the WORST, and I use linux, than OSX (apple) for an operating system for the last 16 years) I rally wish anyone had such a cool service as xbox live.....
I guess... hmm dunno... can apple maybe make a console and make a service that costs but works, and then I do not have to rely on crap MS hw&sw and crap sony service?
OK I am complaining, but even being a gamer I am just trhinking of selling my ps3 and just forget about it till a quality console with a quality service comes along...
Well, I use Linux/Windows as my servers, and use a Mac mini/G5 as my development environment, and even though I do now own an SSD laptop I know it makes sense.
Uses less power and can be dropped. My laptop is a macbook (not pro) and I know it is overkill with what I do with it, so a macbook AIR would be just the right thing to do if it had the correct pricing with SSD. But it doesn't, at least not for me.
No optical drive, limited HDD? I do not really care. For my visits to clients (of web projects) could be done on a 5 year old crap (if it wasn't windows and had a battery live of 10 minutes) so for me an AIR would be just fine.
Ohh... does it makes sense on WINTEL? Do not know how Vista runs on an SSD and if you have any space on a 64GIG drive after installing VISTA. Not flaming, I really do not know.
I know, that if I had to travel more I would get an AIR with SSD, and it would perfectly satisfy my multimedia needs (just grab those 4-5 movies to HDD for the flight and you are set).
Just my 2c, but I am a (mostly web) developer, so all you sales people and myltimedia freaks might have a different viewpoint about the whole fuss.......
I had some friends (today respectable programmers, lawyers, etc..) who came to my lan party with small aliminium (aliminum for you d*mn americans) foil packs containing MDA (speed, meta-amhetmamine). They played Need For Speed and Quake a lot faster than they would normally, and when everyone was dead at 3am, they were pushing a 65th round and still be loud and happy.
No this is not a drug commercial, but this is a fact: some drugs enhance your reflexes, skill, libido, conciousness, imagination... etc.
Should I say "legalize it"? . No. I also had (educated) friends who got hooked on MDA, and were arrested in his own apartment kicking (hitting) the hell outta his stuff. But there is in fact reasonable and responsible drug use that should be considered by (non US) governments.
i.e. A joint makes you think and can be a positive thing. 2gms of MDA can kill all your braincells and make you a lunatic breaking stuff and kill people.
ahm.... I had a stressy day and had 2 cuba libres... whatever
Wow, that is copy protection. Guess what, my default screen is black. Even though OSX does not allow it, I just set a black gif (10x10 pixels) as the BG image.
I know, many of you like (just as me scuba pictures, cars, babes, bikes, nersy images, superheroes) but at the end I WANT TO SEE MY DAM ICONS, so the best is a black background.
OK, Working as a programmer in the sportsbetting industry today (kickoff day) is a bit stressy, and after coding 12 hours at my (8 hour a day) consulting job pretty much kicked my arse, and I drank some rum from the Dominican Repubic ( ie I am kinda drunk).....
Anyway, black BG is best, that is the ultimate oldscshool, and working in the *NIX environment this is the best you can set.
So does MS expect to scare people with this mean black BG ?
1. If ID started to make non-monster-future-horror, but still FPS games (like call of duty, battlefield), I would actually happy to see their products. They are innovative (technologically), but every time I am against monsters I just get likes "yeah right, cannot happen, and an other monster". While playing COD RS, GRAW, BF, I feel like the game was very real and something likely to happen anywhere tomorrow.
2. They are all 3d, still while 10 years ago I was playing on my 3D ( I mean 3D in space) shutter glasses on my CRT monitor (quake, NFS), today I am locked on a screen, with no options to have real 3D rendering (I mean one image for left eye, another for right eye). The technology is there, the resolution is there, so move it. I better play 1024x768 than full 1080P if it is stereo vision. I know My old PC can render it (at least in 800x600) and my PS3 caould render it even better.
So where is my 2-300-500 VR glasses. I won't think twice getting it, and all the FPS (no monsters please) and driving games for it. I know all those people who shell out $600 for a 360 or PS3 on release day would get it.
I would lie if I said, that this made me switch, and I definitely understand, that this is NOT the fault of the BRILLIANT group of people developing GPL apps and Linux itself.
However I remember this flash crap was one of the final ones that made me switch to OSX. The other one was X drivers and a wide-screen issue that caused my wide screen to 'shrink back' to 4:3 after every screen save.
Then again, I am not an OSX commercial, I am just saying that after almost 14 years of Linux usage I had to switch, as I spent more time fixing little stupid things instead of working. Then again, I am still using it on servers very happily, it is just the desktop where I retired it.
Argh,,, BTW I am a web (among many other things) developer, and that FF crash and flash thing was getting on my nerves. At the end I constantly had to have a windows machine running FF and IE to check the sites I was working on.
I have 30+ domains, and I have some catch-all's.... whatever@domain.com gets to me. Last week I had 12.000+ spam messages that is twelve thousand!
So I guess you what you are missing is in my mail box. BTW I am using spamassassin, which misses around 100 a day, and occassionally puts one legit mails into my SPAM mail or SPAM-MAYBE mail....
I know it is not a pissing contest, but I am sure I am not the one who immediately checked out how many song sou have on your playlist/itunes/music drive/music folder/you name it. That is what is left after giving away 300 casettes, and losing my complete music collection once 7 years ago (moved to an other Country, and the trusted ones kinda screwed it up and gave all my cds away thinging they were just old crap... crap )
I am not sharing these and of course I own them on CD/tape/vinyl/vhs/blueray/dvd, nintendo cartridges or zx 81 format C60 audio cassettes..... yeah...
"BTW, open differentials really suck for a RWD setup. If your BMW don't already have a POSI/limited slip one, make sure you get it. It will make a *BIG* difference."
Bimmer goes to wifey, I have my eye on a 90 240SX for a project car. I am just locking the diff up (I do not want to weld it, but if ebay has no good diff around $500 I just weld it)..... there are also other solutions which are reversible and they lock the diff. Then again this is for a fun ride, longer trips will happen with the BWM or the XYZ brand offroad we still have to find. I live in Costa Rica, and to get to cool becahes and places you need a 4x4 (nor the BMW nor the 240, but something like a 95ish Land rover)....
EV conversion: well, if the battery is there I want to have an EV Miata. Really light fun car, very suitable fo ev'n it. An other one I can imagine is the "hachi roku" AE 86 Toyota (Corolla) around 800Kilos (less if you throw seats, carpet, crap out) and it is RWD. Popular drift car, and that would be also a perfect EV conversion.
Do get me wrong, I like honda (only the bikes though), but I just hate FWD cars.
Now I am sure some of you will start ranting about how much safer an FWD car is, I still hope that there are/. people who will go back to logical reasoning as opposed to "safer because we can make it cheaper" car manufacturer propaganda.
There are a bunch of Miata (Mazda MX-5) electric projects, and I can understand it. Car people understand why all sports cars (real ones) are RWD, why BMW, Mercedes and (most?) Lexus cars are exclusively RWD, and why oversteer is a lot better than understeer, not even mentioning autox-ers and drifters who would not look at an FWD.
So why a Civic ? Really?
Just for the record, I drive an old (95) BMW, as I found that it was the only reasonably priced RWD car around here (besides Mercedes, which is just not my style ( I think most models are for old people who like comfortable big cars...)
I would better change it to a 86 toyota or Nissan 240 (RWD), then drive a brand new honda, toyota, or any FWD crap.
I have seen bash gurus who could cat a file into sed, then run a regexp then count the output lines...
Also many of these gurus could not check if a file existed, write a normal "if" comparing 2 variables, or write a script that w.g. found files at a place, ran grep on them, then depending on the output replaced strings in them, and created a diff directory.
Now these books are NOT JUST for these guys, and I am sure even if you are that 3133t hax0r bash guru you can still find something new in these books.
I am using bash since 92 (I know some since the 70's), and learn something new every week (at least) about bash or some pretty common UNIX command (grep, sed, bash sort, tar)......
I am programming PHP and ASP (most of the time) and do it on Mac/OSX machines, so even working on Wintel machines I still have the edge using my unix cli (just mount the SMB sucker, then run the good stuff).......
Then again, just my 2c, I just thought there were lot of bad critics here, and I though any book was a source for learning new. Or hey, just use google and "man", "man" (info) is your best friend under *NIX.....
Technically Staging is identical to production environment with the same amount of data. Testing has less powerful hardware, but many times just as much data to deal with.
BTW with our more or less 100GIG database we run tests on WAY slower machines than what the actual DB server is. We do not have staging or testing, but one environment where we mess around. Development is pretty much the same, but with smaller DBs...
I am happy you are happy. you know it is really subjective, and some guys told me my phone was sooooo much better than XYZ phone... Then someone asked me if I could help jailbreaking an iPhone..... Then I saw how Safari worked, how rtiting an SMS worked, and how writing a mail was jut WAY EASIER, than trying to do ANYTHING on my $600 Nokia.
Then someone asked me to write some "web app" for the iphone, that techinally paid for a phone (+$$). So I grabbed one, and I am still holding to it with a firm grip, and my nokia is in the shelf.
Then again, if you are happy with it, sure, be happy, but my e65 crashed left and right, was useless, hard to operate, and was a poor design overall....... so I switched and I am happy....
Usability really DOES matter. I am a tech, a prgorammer, a network admin, and when I say that some phones are a PAIN to operate, I hope that at least/. people agree.
I mean i love command line, I use bash, sed, mc, awk (and others BUT drag&drop)... and guess what.... it really feels like a root canal picking my Nokia up and do ANYTHING...
BTW OSX is the same. My wife hated to deal with Linux or Windows. I got her a Mac mini 2 years ago, and she barely asks my help with anything (other than upgrades, or if my print server/net dies..... Oh... when excel does refuse to do something.....
Not to be a Mac fanboy, but to be honest Apple knows how to make something user friendly...
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YES. Look at some video games on older consoles. They looked GREAT, and had a nice athmosphere..... these games LOOK LIKE CRAP on a PC, because witht he high res, and monitor optimized (over TV/projector) image just looks fake/empty.
One example is Call of Duty 4, that looked really fake on my PC, and looks amazing on both 360 and PS3. Same with Resident evil, and hmm ... a few others.
Agreed...
Chick flick : 700m avi pirate bay
Good movie: DVD rental/1.3G avi
Good special effects movie: 4.3G single layer or dual layer DVD/ Amazon/Rental
Eye candy: (transformers, black hawk down, blue planet, etc etc): Blue Ray ....
I am willing to buy, but how many times do you wathc a movie unless it is THAT GOOD ? Now how good is it that quality really matters a lot ? (e.g. GOOD+eyecandy) ...
Few. And those few get on my shelves in a blue box, the rest gets here on DVD or through downloads...
Dunno ... probably there are good machines running windows.
But I do not like windows, not because I am trendy, but because I want a fully operational UNIX system on my desktop. BSD, Linux, OSX are my choices, and of the three OSX integrates the better with the concept of a portable device that has a fully functional GUI with free/commercial applications of mature quality...
Well.... my last windows laptop takes like 4 minutes to came back to life, and several wifi disables until it reconnects to the net :)
Call me a mac zealot, but my MACbook sleeps immediately after closing the lid, can stay like this for more than 2 days, and comes back in less that 20 seconds, depending on what you run (I usually have thunderbird, firefox, terminals, synergy, and 5+ more things open and it is 15-20 seconds)....
Yeah .... a Windows laptop takes 2+ minutes to come back with XP, and a Vista laptop 5+ minutes to boot (new Compaq, NOTHING installed other than the standard crap) .... yeye ... you can get a faster one .... etc ....
Anyways ,... I am sure a Macbook air with very few things running can come back in less than 10 seconds ....
Just my take on it ... I love any flavour of unix ......... especially if it runs on something with an apple logo and starts with an "i" .....
Yeah ... my iphone is faster too than my crap S60 nokia !!!
Huhh ... heavy optics ? Please put video glasses into ebay and see how heavy those optics are really....... you can carry a lot of weight on your head, you just have to balance it ....... so gyro, headphones, electronics go on the back, optics and lcd in the front ...
I tried he Gravis head mounted ones 10+ years ago, and they weren't heavy, just the resolution sucked. Had gyros, audio and all.... I expected to have them all around 5 years ago ... I was wrong .... .shutters limit you to your screen ...
Shutter glasses are cool, I loved them I had them, I enjoyed them and went to bed dizzy and half blinded by 50hz ...
But really, why not head mounted LCDs? The technology is there, small led backlit LCDs are light and now they sport a decent resolution. A reasonably sized device could sport 1280x800 per eye. Even 1024 would be just great. Then WII-like gyros and other sensors. Slap a price of $500 on it per unit and if it works with my PS3 and at least 1 good FPS and one good driving game, I get it on day 1.
So back to shutter glasses ..... cool ... better than nothing, still this time I am not getting one, because I refuse to play on a pc lately.
The point of the post was, that while the xbox is a limited hardware, the whole experience of the xbox live system is really fun (for me).
However, that POS died on my, so I am here with a $500 dismantled box and peripherals, and 10 games ($600) as a waste. And I refuse to buy a piece of hardware that already died on me once because that is just stupid. I heard of people who have 2-4 xboxes, all which died.
On the other hand I took a quick view of other options, and mentioned that the WII does not interest me because my taste of games are not there. The thing is underpowered and can not run call of duty, GTA4 (just an example, I am not a GTA fan, even though I try every time, then get bored of it after a while) and/or support 16+ online shooters. I have limited time to play, so I prefer going online, shoot some people, then do my other things, not to play a story based game for 30+ hours. OK I finished metal gear solid and it took long, so there are exceptions, but like one a year.
Then I looked at the system I got when the POS died. It is the PS3. Superior design and quality. I know, that some people have things against sony, but I am happy with their amps and video components. I have a camera I use for diving from sony which also server the purpose, but it was the 1st and last sony camera I got. So I am not a Sony fanboy. I would also never buy a sony ericsson phone after I had one and it died on me..... (I have a Nokia I hate and an iPhone I love even though it lacks important functions) ....
So even though I love this superior console, I do not like the online experience. The idea of giving a headset with XBL is great, because everyone has a headset that works and people use it. Sony's idea of allowing any bluetooth headset is great in theory, but most headsets are designed for phone applications, so they die after a few hours of actual talk time, and they let all the noise in. This is especially true with shooter games, and is rather annoying. There is also static, disconnects, all the bad stuff.
Many people do not use a headset, making a tactical shooter -SHIT- of an experience.
Also XBL allows people to rate people, which takes care of team killing, offensive behavior and talk most of the time. PS3 lacks these, so you have to deal with assholes who cannot play, and so they go into a no-respawn 10 minute tactical game, and shoot you from the back at the spawn point and log off. Yes, this is annoying, and yes it happens on XBL, but then the person gets a bunch of bad reviews and it shows on his account......
anyway ... it is 4am in the morning, I just could not sleep and saw all these responses...
Then again, I did not want to offend any WII owners, I wish I enjoyed my superior expensive box as much as people enjoy the cheaper, lower performance little white cubes .......
And sorry for the kiddie comment again. I play tactical team shooters almost exclusively, so anything else for me is in the kiddie category.
Oh... I am not a killing or military freak at all, I do not hunt or kill anything (I am in fact a vegan), it is just my competitive self that finds enjoyment in fighting in a team against an other set of people.
I would also play a real WWII plane combat sim if it existed and was as good as Chuck Yeager's sim back in the old days....... but it is all about locking a missile on someone from 10 kilometers in a jet, then hear beep beep for 2 minutes and see a distant explosion .. -> not fun ...
I remember hosting lan parties at my house. We were playing anything and everything of the few that allowed to shoot each-other.
I also remember playing Quake and Counter Strike on a 56K modem.
Then remember playing on XBOX live with a bunch of strangers. Still community feeling and good laughs.
Then I go online (with the same games) on my PS3. It is worse that driving an ATV alone in the forest/desert (actually it is not bad, just a lonely activity).....
I define kiddie games like this:
There are colorful cartoon-like characters in the game who collect coins which hang in the air, and you are bouncing of huge mushrooms and your enemies are evil turtles and other cartoon animals, plants and persons.
It is similar to a psychedelic dream, except is is presented in a generally bad resolution and a low but vivid color palette.
Metrois prime is the only game that made me think of getting a wii until I saw the resolution and the graphics detail, which almost surpassed my 2001 released PS2 console.
Let me guess, you are happy with your WII. I do not like it because none of the games I would play are released for it, and because I think the graphics it provides is shit. Also because I know myself, and know that I am better off with a controller and I hate people in my house and I do not like to share my screen with anyone for anything, especially if they are weaving around little white controllers and screaming in high pitch.
Then again. You like your WII and I am honestly happy for you. I tried to play a new game I bought yesterday on my super high-end console, and I realized, that I did not like it. I realized that I am bored of all the games and all of it, because the thing lacks that community feeling.
This post was about mostly that, that there is the WII I do not like, there is the XBOX that is a POS and dies (but has the best online system), and there is the superior PS3, but only a bunch of idiots play it who do not care to get a headset, so the online play is not any better than playing alone at home against you CPU opponent ....
anyway, then again I did not want to offend anyone, you like whatever console you want and play whatever you want, and probably happier than I am with this expensive POS I hate to turn on lately.......
My XBOX 360 dis 4 months ago and I bought a PS3, re-purchased all 6-8 games I play (mostly FPS team games, GRAW, COD, RS).
How do I feel? I feel like using Linux: it is better than windows, but lacking stuff. PS3 is superior (like linux) but it is lacking a strong community feeling like xbox live. It is also lacking the sometimes needed, but sometimes hated strong core (assholes) who play 600 hours a month to be the best in certain games. These are the guys who sometimes hate, but the ones who give a strong core. It is like when I used to race bikes. Many people hated us, but so many respected us that we kept the sport up. Well .... this is something I am missing from ps3.
The system is superior, the blueray is SUPER-DUPER, but I go online, 4 out of 16 have a microphone, and then 2 start team killing.
Bottom line: I am not buying a xbox because it will die on me, I am not getting a wii because I do not want to host family parties (nor play mario #122 or other kiddie games), and I keep my PS3 to play once a week (I pkayed XBOX 4 times 2+ hors a week)......
Well, maybe I just keep all that money I spent on games and spend it on my motorbike, and if I really want to shoot at people I just go and play paintball....
Dunno .... really, just opened a game coming from amazon (grid) and I realized, that without a strong online backing (like XB LIVE, whic I [prapaid for a year) any console is as good as a brick .....
Still I am with this shiny piece of shit, and the other white crap (xbox) is on the floor disassembled with a red ring of death ..... well .//... really I like games, but dunno where to go .....
Sony fanboy ? My siby canera developed a dead pixel after 2 weeks of diving (30+ meters, maybe one hard impacts). Local support SUCKS so much I never bothered to even try. While MS support is the WORST, and I use linux, than OSX (apple) for an operating system for the last 16 years) I rally wish anyone had such a cool service as xbox live.....
I guess ... hmm dunno ... can apple maybe make a console and make a service that costs but works, and then I do not have to rely on crap MS hw&sw and crap sony service?
OK I am complaining, but even being a gamer I am just trhinking of selling my ps3 and just forget about it till a quality console with a quality service comes along...
Well, I use Linux/Windows as my servers, and use a Mac mini/G5 as my development environment, and even though I do now own an SSD laptop I know it makes sense.
Uses less power and can be dropped. My laptop is a macbook (not pro) and I know it is overkill with what I do with it, so a macbook AIR would be just the right thing to do if it had the correct pricing with SSD. But it doesn't, at least not for me.
No optical drive, limited HDD? I do not really care. For my visits to clients (of web projects) could be done on a 5 year old crap (if it wasn't windows and had a battery live of 10 minutes) so for me an AIR would be just fine.
Ohh... does it makes sense on WINTEL? Do not know how Vista runs on an SSD and if you have any space on a 64GIG drive after installing VISTA. Not flaming, I really do not know.
I know, that if I had to travel more I would get an AIR with SSD, and it would perfectly satisfy my multimedia needs (just grab those 4-5 movies to HDD for the flight and you are set).
Just my 2c, but I am a (mostly web) developer, so all you sales people and myltimedia freaks might have a different viewpoint about the whole fuss.......
I had some friends (today respectable programmers, lawyers, etc..) who came to my lan party with small aliminium (aliminum for you d*mn americans) foil packs containing MDA (speed, meta-amhetmamine). They played Need For Speed and Quake a lot faster than they would normally, and when everyone was dead at 3am, they were pushing a 65th round and still be loud and happy.
No this is not a drug commercial, but this is a fact: some drugs enhance your reflexes, skill, libido, conciousness, imagination ... etc.
Should I say "legalize it"? . No. I also had (educated) friends who got hooked on MDA, and were arrested in his own apartment kicking (hitting) the hell outta his stuff. But there is in fact reasonable and responsible drug use that should be considered by (non US) governments.
i.e. A joint makes you think and can be a positive thing. 2gms of MDA can kill all your braincells and make you a lunatic breaking stuff and kill people.
ahm .... I had a stressy day and had 2 cuba libres ... whatever
Wow, that is copy protection. Guess what, my default screen is black. Even though OSX does not allow it, I just set a black gif (10x10 pixels) as the BG image.
I know, many of you like (just as me scuba pictures, cars, babes, bikes, nersy images, superheroes) but at the end I WANT TO SEE MY DAM ICONS, so the best is a black background.
OK, Working as a programmer in the sportsbetting industry today (kickoff day) is a bit stressy, and after coding 12 hours at my (8 hour a day) consulting job pretty much kicked my arse, and I drank some rum from the Dominican Repubic ( ie I am kinda drunk).....
Anyway, black BG is best, that is the ultimate oldscshool, and working in the *NIX environment this is the best you can set.
So does MS expect to scare people with this mean black BG ?
1. If ID started to make non-monster-future-horror, but still FPS games (like call of duty, battlefield), I would actually happy to see their products. They are innovative (technologically), but every time I am against monsters I just get likes "yeah right, cannot happen, and an other monster". While playing COD RS, GRAW, BF, I feel like the game was very real and something likely to happen anywhere tomorrow.
2. They are all 3d, still while 10 years ago I was playing on my 3D ( I mean 3D in space) shutter glasses on my CRT monitor (quake, NFS), today I am locked on a screen, with no options to have real 3D rendering (I mean one image for left eye, another for right eye). The technology is there, the resolution is there, so move it.
I better play 1024x768 than full 1080P if it is stereo vision. I know My old PC can render it (at least in 800x600) and my PS3 caould render it even better.
So where is my 2-300-500 VR glasses. I won't think twice getting it, and all the FPS (no monsters please) and driving games for it. I know all those people who shell out $600 for a 360 or PS3 on release day would get it.
So why ???
I would lie if I said, that this made me switch, and I definitely understand, that this is NOT the fault of the BRILLIANT group of people developing GPL apps and Linux itself.
However I remember this flash crap was one of the final ones that made me switch to OSX. The other one was X drivers and a wide-screen issue that caused my wide screen to 'shrink back' to 4:3 after every screen save.
Then again, I am not an OSX commercial, I am just saying that after almost 14 years of Linux usage I had to switch, as I spent more time fixing little stupid things instead of working. Then again, I am still using it on servers very happily, it is just the desktop where I retired it.
Argh ,,, BTW I am a web (among many other things) developer, and that FF crash and flash thing was getting on my nerves. At the end I constantly had to have a windows machine running FF and IE to check the sites I was working on.
Just my 2c
I have 30+ domains, and I have some catch-all's.... whatever@domain.com gets to me. Last week I had 12.000+ spam messages that is twelve thousand!
So I guess you what you are missing is in my mail box. BTW I am using spamassassin, which misses around 100 a day, and occassionally puts one legit mails into my SPAM mail or SPAM-MAYBE mail ....
well.... I hate email now ... I really do.
I know it is not a pissing contest, but I am sure I am not the one who immediately checked out how many song sou have on your playlist/itunes/music drive/music folder/you name it. That is what is left after giving away 300 casettes, and losing my complete music collection once 7 years ago (moved to an other Country, and the trusted ones kinda screwed it up and gave all my cds away thinging they were just old crap ... crap )
I am not sharing these and of course I own them on CD/tape/vinyl/vhs/blueray/dvd, nintendo cartridges or zx 81 format C60 audio cassettes..... yeah ...
"BTW, open differentials really suck for a RWD setup. If your BMW don't already have a POSI/limited slip one, make sure you get it. It will make a *BIG* difference."
Bimmer goes to wifey, I have my eye on a 90 240SX for a project car. I am just locking the diff up (I do not want to weld it, but if ebay has no good diff around $500 I just weld it)..... there are also other solutions which are reversible and they lock the diff. Then again this is for a fun ride, longer trips will happen with the BWM or the XYZ brand offroad we still have to find. I live in Costa Rica, and to get to cool becahes and places you need a 4x4 (nor the BMW nor the 240, but something like a 95ish Land rover)....
EV conversion: well, if the battery is there I want to have an EV Miata. Really light fun car, very suitable fo ev'n it. An other one I can imagine is the "hachi roku" AE 86 Toyota (Corolla) around 800Kilos (less if you throw seats, carpet, crap out) and it is RWD. Popular drift car, and that would be also a perfect EV conversion.
hahaha :)
I just estimated the average response, that "OK big thing I am using it since 1902" ....
Did not check my facts either, I really meant "sh", but
"It was developed by Stephen Bourne, of AT&T Bell Laboratories, and was released in 1977 in the Version 7" [wikipedia.org] too ...
Do get me wrong, I like honda (only the bikes though), but I just hate FWD cars.
Now I am sure some of you will start ranting about how much safer an FWD car is, I still hope that there are /. people who will go back to logical reasoning as opposed to "safer because we can make it cheaper" car manufacturer propaganda.
There are a bunch of Miata (Mazda MX-5) electric projects, and I can understand it. Car people understand why all sports cars (real ones) are RWD, why BMW, Mercedes and (most?) Lexus cars are exclusively RWD, and why oversteer is a lot better than understeer, not even mentioning autox-ers and drifters who would not look at an FWD.
So why a Civic ? Really?
Just for the record, I drive an old (95) BMW, as I found that it was the only reasonably priced RWD car around here (besides Mercedes, which is just not my style ( I think most models are for old people who like comfortable big cars ...)
I would better change it to a 86 toyota or Nissan 240 (RWD), then drive a brand new honda, toyota, or any FWD crap.
I have seen bash gurus who could cat a file into sed, then run a regexp then count the output lines...
Also many of these gurus could not check if a file existed, write a normal "if" comparing 2 variables, or write a script that w.g. found files at a place, ran grep on them, then depending on the output replaced strings in them, and created a diff directory.
Now these books are NOT JUST for these guys, and I am sure even if you are that 3133t hax0r bash guru you can still find something new in these books.
I am using bash since 92 (I know some since the 70's), and learn something new every week (at least) about bash or some pretty common UNIX command (grep, sed, bash sort, tar)......
I am programming PHP and ASP (most of the time) and do it on Mac/OSX machines, so even working on Wintel machines I still have the edge using my unix cli (just mount the SMB sucker, then run the good stuff).......
Then again, just my 2c, I just thought there were lot of bad critics here, and I though any book was a source for learning new. Or hey, just use google and "man", "man" (info) is your best friend under *NIX.....
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "hello world\n";
I just made your five lines of code into 2. I won.
Dev, Testing, Staging, Prod ...
Technically Staging is identical to production environment with the same amount of data. Testing has less powerful hardware, but many times just as much data to deal with.
BTW with our more or less 100GIG database we run tests on WAY slower machines than what the actual DB server is. We do not have staging or testing, but one environment where we mess around. Development is pretty much the same, but with smaller DBs...
I am happy you are happy. you know it is really subjective, and some guys told me my phone was sooooo much better than XYZ phone... Then someone asked me if I could help jailbreaking an iPhone..... Then I saw how Safari worked, how rtiting an SMS worked, and how writing a mail was jut WAY EASIER, than trying to do ANYTHING on my $600 Nokia.
Then someone asked me to write some "web app" for the iphone, that techinally paid for a phone (+$$). So I grabbed one, and I am still holding to it with a firm grip, and my nokia is in the shelf.
Then again, if you are happy with it, sure, be happy, but my e65 crashed left and right, was useless, hard to operate, and was a poor design overall....... so I switched and I am happy....
Usability really DOES matter. I am a tech, a prgorammer, a network admin, and when I say that some phones are a PAIN to operate, I hope that at least /. people agree.
I mean i love command line, I use bash, sed, mc, awk (and others BUT drag&drop)... and guess what .... it really feels like a root canal picking my Nokia up and do ANYTHING ...
BTW OSX is the same. My wife hated to deal with Linux or Windows. I got her a Mac mini 2 years ago, and she barely asks my help with anything (other than upgrades, or if my print server/net dies..... Oh ... when excel does refuse to do something.....
Not to be a Mac fanboy, but to be honest Apple knows how to make something user friendly ...