I'd actually agree with that. The Borg were designed as this unstoppable juggernaut. They were something to always keep in fear at the edge of your thoughts, knowing that they weren't just waiting in the darkness, but that they were hunting you. Voyager turned them into bumbling incompetents, incapable of defending themselves from outside attack reliably, and even splintering apart inside their own collective.
Completely infeasible. It's not simple to get drivers from a different version of the Linux kernel to work, let alone from another operating system. The only successful example I know of is the use of ndiswrapper to get wireless drivers from Windows to work...
Heh. I'll take editing a few config files over stupid registry hacks to get stuff working. It took me 6 hours to figure out how to get Windows to accept a swapped motherboard. There was a lot of command-line and registry work, and a temporary swap back to the old hardware. In the same situation under Linux, I updated the drive locations in the grub config file, and it "just worked". Making the command-line harder to get to and use makes the computer "friendlier", perhaps, but you'll never get any real work done without it.
If they could run everything Linux can on Windows, why switch? Most people don't care about the openness of a system, or the internal workings. As long as it works...and if they're on Windows, which runs everything they want, why bother moving to something else, which *will* be more difficult to get support for?
My iPod Touch is several times more powerful than my first PC. I see no reason why it couldn't be used as a PC-level machine. Or maybe it would prove useful to treat it like a thin client, connecting to a central server?
whoop was making an ironic comment. He/she/it/they is/are saying that the "next step" is always the one that will *make* the pirates (every single one!) pay for the game properly, and that that's the only reasonable kind of thought to have.
An analog computer could be programmed...think of a line-following robot implemented with analog components. The line is the program, and output is varied by the "program" being input to the machine.
Oh...I just looked at the name of the file I downloaded, noted the company name, and found the font....although I've wasted immense amounts of time on simpler things than that...
Less complex? Probably not, but it's not comparable. You noted the more stressful environment. Something that I find refreshing about adventure games is the lack of pressure, and the fact that (in a well-written game, at least) the player is given all of the information and tools to solve the puzzle, rather than dealing with balky internet connections, unpredictable players, etc.
Very few rewards to solving a difficult puzzle? I feel much more satisfied solving a puzzle and being able to progress than I do gaining exp, gold, or an item. I play a game to have fun, not to get virtual "rewards". In a puzzle game, when I solve something, it's because the problem was real and I was able to solve it. In an MMO or whatever, when I get an item...why should I be happy? My character has one more item in their inentory, but "I" haven't really gained anything from it.
Paying for other peoples' education has a broader benefit than "my son might be a doctor". I can't imagine living in a country where the people weren't educated with at least a baseline level of facts. Education helps to eliminate ignorance (although, unfortunately, doesn't make it completely disappear), and I consider that to be a larger benefit than the tax money that I give up for someone else's education.
Most people don't work that way...they don't want to think if they don't have to. Based on my observation of human behavior, it's almost literally impossible to get them to do something that they don't care about (e.g. learning multiple word processors in order to see the patterns of use, rather than specific key strokes).
OK, granted there are a lot of Americans on this site, and we sometimes have a reputation of being ignorant of geography and other countries, but I think most people have heard of Portugal. I mean, for goodness sake...the *pope* gave you guys half a continent...
More like an unfettered athlete running next to other athletes doing a 3-legged race. The unfettered guy will obviously win, but there's very little stopping the other guys from untying themselves and being able to compete.
Consoles provide a stable, standard system for developers to write their games around. This is valuable since they don't have a moving target to hit. I'll agree that consoles are too restrictive though. I want a 500GB drive in my xbox, damnit!
I bought the PC version of Fallout 3 because I'm looking forward to a large mod community for that game. Until console manufacturers open up their system a bit more and allow for some modification of their games, PC will always have a major advantage in my mind (not to mention that I just blew a load of money on massively upgrading my PC and I need to justify the investment somehow!)
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I'd actually agree with that. The Borg were designed as this unstoppable juggernaut. They were something to always keep in fear at the edge of your thoughts, knowing that they weren't just waiting in the darkness, but that they were hunting you. Voyager turned them into bumbling incompetents, incapable of defending themselves from outside attack reliably, and even splintering apart inside their own collective.
Completely infeasible. It's not simple to get drivers from a different version of the Linux kernel to work, let alone from another operating system. The only successful example I know of is the use of ndiswrapper to get wireless drivers from Windows to work...
Webmail has replaced the e-mail client for most people. Meebo replaces MSN Messenger nicely.
Perfect...except that my laptop randomly froze on that release.
Heh. I'll take editing a few config files over stupid registry hacks to get stuff working. It took me 6 hours to figure out how to get Windows to accept a swapped motherboard. There was a lot of command-line and registry work, and a temporary swap back to the old hardware.
In the same situation under Linux, I updated the drive locations in the grub config file, and it "just worked".
Making the command-line harder to get to and use makes the computer "friendlier", perhaps, but you'll never get any real work done without it.
If they could run everything Linux can on Windows, why switch? Most people don't care about the openness of a system, or the internal workings. As long as it works...and if they're on Windows, which runs everything they want, why bother moving to something else, which *will* be more difficult to get support for?
My iPod Touch is several times more powerful than my first PC. I see no reason why it couldn't be used as a PC-level machine. Or maybe it would prove useful to treat it like a thin client, connecting to a central server?
whoop was making an ironic comment. He/she/it/they is/are saying that the "next step" is always the one that will *make* the pirates (every single one!) pay for the game properly, and that that's the only reasonable kind of thought to have.
Can they build me an omniscient multi-dimensional bird-book that gets me everything I want by causing it in the past?
Insightful? Really??
An analog computer could be programmed...think of a line-following robot implemented with analog components. The line is the program, and output is varied by the "program" being input to the machine.
Right....but it was done earlier in the thread anyhow.
Oh...I just looked at the name of the file I downloaded, noted the company name, and found the font....although I've wasted immense amounts of time on simpler things than that...
Nope, RAID 0 is striping the data evenly across at least 2 disks. JBOD is its own thing.
Less complex? Probably not, but it's not comparable. You noted the more stressful environment. Something that I find refreshing about adventure games is the lack of pressure, and the fact that (in a well-written game, at least) the player is given all of the information and tools to solve the puzzle, rather than dealing with balky internet connections, unpredictable players, etc.
Very few rewards to solving a difficult puzzle? I feel much more satisfied solving a puzzle and being able to progress than I do gaining exp, gold, or an item. I play a game to have fun, not to get virtual "rewards". In a puzzle game, when I solve something, it's because the problem was real and I was able to solve it. In an MMO or whatever, when I get an item...why should I be happy? My character has one more item in their inentory, but "I" haven't really gained anything from it.
I think you've missed the point of the joke. More succinctly: "whoosh".
Go into your profile settings, and tell it to leave out idle stories on the main page. Then stop complaining.
Paying for other peoples' education has a broader benefit than "my son might be a doctor". I can't imagine living in a country where the people weren't educated with at least a baseline level of facts. Education helps to eliminate ignorance (although, unfortunately, doesn't make it completely disappear), and I consider that to be a larger benefit than the tax money that I give up for someone else's education.
Most people don't work that way...they don't want to think if they don't have to. Based on my observation of human behavior, it's almost literally impossible to get them to do something that they don't care about (e.g. learning multiple word processors in order to see the patterns of use, rather than specific key strokes).
(a small country near Spain)
OK, granted there are a lot of Americans on this site, and we sometimes have a reputation of being ignorant of geography and other countries, but I think most people have heard of Portugal. I mean, for goodness sake...the *pope* gave you guys half a continent...
More like an unfettered athlete running next to other athletes doing a 3-legged race. The unfettered guy will obviously win, but there's very little stopping the other guys from untying themselves and being able to compete.
Consoles provide a stable, standard system for developers to write their games around. This is valuable since they don't have a moving target to hit. I'll agree that consoles are too restrictive though. I want a 500GB drive in my xbox, damnit!
I bought the PC version of Fallout 3 because I'm looking forward to a large mod community for that game. Until console manufacturers open up their system a bit more and allow for some modification of their games, PC will always have a major advantage in my mind (not to mention that I just blew a load of money on massively upgrading my PC and I need to justify the investment somehow!)
Oops...I wrote my post, then realized that you've already written one containing most of my information. I feel dumb now, for not reading ahead >_