I agree. I gave it a huge chance and tried to like it. but when I learned that they didnt throw in native support for CRT Widescreen TV's (I buy things to last and thats why I have a CRT TV.) Any who, Vista's MCE has this awesome feature to correct for CRT **Overdraw**, so I put a suggestion in to microsoft that they integrate this at the Operating system since it natively supported my Tv's 1080i and nvidia tech. Well, come the open release, they removed the feature from media center. I promised that all newer machines would run Windows 7, but after using it, I cant.
Breaking working stuff isnt a reason for me to buy it. Shocking, I know. (I wont get into the added steps to do anything either. XP is what I'll be stuck with, I guess.)
I think the oldest crap I have is a still in use HP LaserJet IIId purchased around the time when I was born, and an early 80's HP Pen Plotter that also still works.
I got my fiance an Eee PC and after fiddling with it for hours, I gave up and put XP on it. Sure, it was cool, and almost switched me over to nix' for good, but the touch pad drivers were glitchy and I dont have time to mess with that crap. My XP cd with drivers for the rest of my machines worked flawlessly, and I've left her alone on it since. StarOffice was garbage and wouldnt work on Samba shares (on my linux server none the less) so shared office spreadsheets were useless. I tried, and I wanted something free to wisk me away, and it almost did, but alas, I go to the platform that sucks less. (Windows still sucks, but its the less of the many evils out there.)
Funny that they rate Wisconsin as happy, coming from Minnesota, theres a distinct mindset of people here who, especially in customer service, are extremely grumpy and unsocial. Many times where help is abundant in Minnesota, no one will even bother looking up from their desk to help, greet, or in general, do their job here. Though I would agree, after hours, people are very happy, due to the Beer, Beer, and some more Beer. BEER!
Though I agree with this guy above, did you read that its virtual?
Though I agree, those of us out there with limited nix' under our belts would just be left in the dust when it comes to sync' and other crap. I'm sorry, but I dont have hours to compile drivers, every program that doesnt come in a package, and learn a whole new command like, hardware tools, a desktop (KDE 4 sucks hard in my opinion, back to 3!) etc etc.
For living in a smaller city (EAU CLAIRE, WI) and having charter as the only big speedy ISP around here, unless i fork money out for fiber, I'm not too dissatisfied with Charter. Really!
Low pings, no apparent throttling, and until i moved to the most densely populated area of town, I got 10mbps on my 10mbps line. True their techs are dumber than rocks - 99% of the time they fail, every time. I make them come out and tripple check everything before they leave, or I'm on the phone and driving 10 minutes to their office to fix it or kiss my ass goodbye.
Cant anyone give you a paper version of whats going on? I asked repeatedly for them to print out any changes "oh we cant do that" - what crap!
Their tv sucks, so hardcore, i cant even get into it. Lets put it this way - their DVR at their office locked up and crashed and wouldnt work again when they invited us to try it...
If I recall it was 5mb of storage, and the size of a refrige. I may only be 22, but I've seen plenty of pictures and my dad probably knows a thing or two about it growing up well within the birth of the digital era.
No Cartridge based CDROMs? I remember those as a kid even. Skipped a bunch of floppy formats, 5.25" Double pack disks that i recently tossed out. Where were the WORM disks and other fun optical medias that I didnt have as a kid, but read about and saw used in my highschool even!
I too have been a big online game buyer, though this will trash the used game market, and stop games from dropping in price when they've been out for a few years, wont it?
When in reality Linux is no more complicated than the next operating system, only in its mear unorganized state. It really lacks a uniformed structure for everything, basically making it "better and cooler" through pure obscurity. With dos you had simple commands like HELP and FIND and DEL and what not. with Linux its a whole new story with obscure crap like manpages (wtf) and vi who's interface makes little face-sense.
I'm sorry, I mean not to counter-troll, but I'm stating obvious things. Linux is made by a ton of people and most like to keep it "leet" by having "inside" commands that only "hackers" would know, at least thats the culture behind it. Now its more of a craped together mess, at least thats how KDE 4 appears. I'm sorry, but look around at KDE's sub projects, from KDE3 (clean, simple interfaces) to pure garbage eye-bleed. Which is why i abandoned it and probably why Linus has too. I'm mostly ashamed of the live boot feature, as this makes totally no sense. 100% overhead to install the operating system and lag and disparity of an optical drive (and hopes that the kernel is right) are the standard for most large distributions today. Its sick. I cant install it on the cheap, throw away hardware (pentium 4a,b,and c's) for teaching anymore, because the kernal panics and something minor is wrong. FAIL.
Firefox barks down this road now itself. Slow and crap-loaded, its not the browser i fell in love with in the betas. The speedy, minimalistic, do it right browser is now the "fuck ya'll" with obvious bugs and bloat to boot, along with destroying some of the best plug ins i've seen for anything. Open source is about as bad as the company I work for. They don't team up and listen to anyone. This is why Microsoft still dominates with windows. they may be beyond retarded like the rest of the world, but they LISTEN to those of us who try to help./rant
Did the world just turn over and forget about shareware? I remember far too many games that were shareware that were too irresistable to not buy. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Tyrian, Worms!
Its like a demo but better. And buying that game gave you freedom to do whatever you wanted, including copy it and play it on a lan, basically getting everyone hooked on it and them wanting their own copy too.
Far more people are buying these games. Back when say, Lightspeed came out, I'm sure hardly anyone got it. Compare that today when any joe blow can wander into basically any store (Even menards) and buy a friggen game. Discuss!
Every time I see a program say that its not compatable with this operating system I get a sick feeling. I've seen this error since Windows 95 and on every windows since. Esp on NT and NT server platforms (windows nt 4, 5, 6...)
Its the most pathetic way to judge an operating systems capability, and most cant figure that hey, a newer version of windows will come out and someone someday will use it - why not add a line of code to do "x version AND ABOVE" or just ignore it and assume win32 is win32?
I think it sucks because it fights you for everything. sucks more hardware, argue that its newer sure, but the features that it brings are more of the pain in the ass flavor than improvement. Fights me to change NIC ip's. Fights me to view my start menu (I hate scrolling i didnt work in 1999, why force us now, WINDOWS ME SUCKED) ! so what we end up with is something that takes longer to use and hits my machine harder than XP. For more money. I have two vista machines and hate both of them and have XP Pro on order. Just the time it takes me to accomplish a task by clicks has trippled for vista. They made simple tasks like changing screen resolution for say, laptops, HELL. Wireless networks need manual settings? HELL TO CHANGE. ETC. Its a sad story.
Pardon the wrong url, I've been reviewing every FLOSS game i can find and neglected to update it. not like the website is anything to look at. I'm sorry i'm so harsh, but dont follow in the failsteps that Tremulous did. A fun game for a while has broken the basic game it was built on - menus don't need to fight the user!
BloodFrontier
http://simutrans.sourceforge.net/
Number of players: Who cares
Version: -1 Alpha, it has to be.
Graphics: 3/5
Gameplay: 1/5
Interface: -10/5 EPIC FAIL
Stability: 1/5
Installer: -1/5
Multiplayer: 1/5
Sometimes when you make an installer, you just dont care about it. Perhaps this is it. It may
get a point for actually doing something, like drawing a cute screen, but thats only because it
its the bare naked nullsoft installer thus they get no points. They might as well give you a zip
file and call it a day, as thats about how impressive the installer is.
Note that the name is also stupid, but we wont concern ourselves with that.
The website is also uglier than a text file, and somehow manages to break every function a
website is supposed to have like HYPERLINKS and pictures. PICTURES!
GRAPHICS
The game looks like a strange combination of 50 peoples work. The level is a mix of VRML quality
polygons with some cool lighting effects, but the weapon seems like its coming out of your hat
or something, is that a weapon?!
Gameplay...
Loading up the game you're wisked into a quake "into" like level, okay. Interesting. But the
cube engine is so slow loading, well, we wont blame that. It has some funky interactive pannel
thing, or tries to. but its really just a pain in the ass excuse to not do a GUI right. Speaking
of that, opening the menu (you walk over the the central VRML ugly and hit e, at which point you
get presented with the worst interface I've ever seen. Text mode is friendlier. It looks more
like something Linus shit out after taco day and just too much beer. Maybe, maybe i'll figure
out how to change the game to higher settings. I think. Does it support this?
I tried to just connect to a server, Weird, no sound. I go to the server list and it said to update. Weird, assult cube handled this perfeclty. The game lags horribly. You have to change menus (they respond to mouse hover OR SOMETHING.) I cant get the resolution to change. I'm done before i convulse on the floor.
Alas i cant take the epic fail of its gui, thus This review is terminated.
I think its mearly the fact that most pop bands suck so bad that the only way they are good is through post editing of their 'music.' When was the last time you went to a good metallica show for example? I mean to not flame, but they don't sound as good as they do on CD, along with many, many other bands, and they dont put a good show on to make up for this.
I found all of my current music through piracy, and I happily go to their concerts and dish out money on merch, for both the band and the venue owner.
I've seen it done successfully, for a short time (a year, or two.) Even gaming on the machines is okay, as long as you make sure its done over lunch. Make it an event. Everyone goes and gets food and whatever, then have someone organize a quick game of CTF. I've also seen it done where the meeting room had a projector, and thus someone brought a N64 so we could be playing a game of mario cart or something. Against belief, it can work. I've been to an office both of these were employed.
1. dont waste money on this.
2. organize it and it will be more fun. Its fun to play against people, form little teams, and then jump back into work after kicking your cube buddy's ass.
Only problem is that if there are students with technology going the, places offer discounts for students. They verify the student by their school email, at the very least.
oh god not one of you again. I'd scream just go SAMBA on linux. or unix. or whatever. I cant wrap my head around M$ CALs and novel is trash no matter what color you paint it.
THIS. and the fact that they drove the coolest rental place out of my hometown - it had more scifi classics that no one has heard of that kicked arse. They also had the best pizza in the world and to top it off, they had a DS9 and Enterprise model hanging from the ceiling.
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I agree. I gave it a huge chance and tried to like it. but when I learned that they didnt throw in native support for CRT Widescreen TV's (I buy things to last and thats why I have a CRT TV.) Any who, Vista's MCE has this awesome feature to correct for CRT **Overdraw**, so I put a suggestion in to microsoft that they integrate this at the Operating system since it natively supported my Tv's 1080i and nvidia tech. Well, come the open release, they removed the feature from media center. I promised that all newer machines would run Windows 7, but after using it, I cant.
Breaking working stuff isnt a reason for me to buy it. Shocking, I know. (I wont get into the added steps to do anything either. XP is what I'll be stuck with, I guess.)
I think the oldest crap I have is a still in use HP LaserJet IIId purchased around the time when I was born, and an early 80's HP Pen Plotter that also still works.
I got my fiance an Eee PC and after fiddling with it for hours, I gave up and put XP on it. Sure, it was cool, and almost switched me over to nix' for good, but the touch pad drivers were glitchy and I dont have time to mess with that crap. My XP cd with drivers for the rest of my machines worked flawlessly, and I've left her alone on it since. StarOffice was garbage and wouldnt work on Samba shares (on my linux server none the less) so shared office spreadsheets were useless. I tried, and I wanted something free to wisk me away, and it almost did, but alas, I go to the platform that sucks less. (Windows still sucks, but its the less of the many evils out there.)
Writing the next Star Trek "nitpickers Guide to the galaxy?"
Funny that they rate Wisconsin as happy, coming from Minnesota, theres a distinct mindset of people here who, especially in customer service, are extremely grumpy and unsocial. Many times where help is abundant in Minnesota, no one will even bother looking up from their desk to help, greet, or in general, do their job here. Though I would agree, after hours, people are very happy, due to the Beer, Beer, and some more Beer.
BEER!
My school uses your firewalls and its totally garbage. The mail spam component is more broken than blackboard.
Though I agree with this guy above, did you read that its virtual?
Though I agree, those of us out there with limited nix' under our belts would just be left in the dust when it comes to sync' and other crap. I'm sorry, but I dont have hours to compile drivers, every program that doesnt come in a package, and learn a whole new command like, hardware tools, a desktop (KDE 4 sucks hard in my opinion, back to 3!) etc etc.
you mean the 5GB caps? I blow through those in about 2 days. Thank you netflix on demand!
For living in a smaller city (EAU CLAIRE, WI) and having charter as the only big speedy ISP around here, unless i fork money out for fiber, I'm not too dissatisfied with Charter. Really!
Low pings, no apparent throttling, and until i moved to the most densely populated area of town, I got 10mbps on my 10mbps line. True their techs are dumber than rocks - 99% of the time they fail, every time. I make them come out and tripple check everything before they leave, or I'm on the phone and driving 10 minutes to their office to fix it or kiss my ass goodbye.
Cant anyone give you a paper version of whats going on? I asked repeatedly for them to print out any changes "oh we cant do that" - what crap!
Their tv sucks, so hardcore, i cant even get into it. Lets put it this way - their DVR at their office locked up and crashed and wouldnt work again when they invited us to try it...
If I recall it was 5mb of storage, and the size of a refrige. I may only be 22, but I've seen plenty of pictures and my dad probably knows a thing or two about it growing up well within the birth of the digital era.
No Cartridge based CDROMs? I remember those as a kid even. Skipped a bunch of floppy formats, 5.25" Double pack disks that i recently tossed out. Where were the WORM disks and other fun optical medias that I didnt have as a kid, but read about and saw used in my highschool even!
Typical maximum pc :(
I too have been a big online game buyer, though this will trash the used game market, and stop games from dropping in price when they've been out for a few years, wont it?
Yeah, you just preach your leetness, troll.
When in reality Linux is no more complicated than the next operating system, only in its mear unorganized state. It really lacks a uniformed structure for everything, basically making it "better and cooler" through pure obscurity. With dos you had simple commands like HELP and FIND and DEL and what not. with Linux its a whole new story with obscure crap like manpages (wtf) and vi who's interface makes little face-sense.
I'm sorry, I mean not to counter-troll, but I'm stating obvious things. Linux is made by a ton of people and most like to keep it "leet" by having "inside" commands that only "hackers" would know, at least thats the culture behind it. Now its more of a craped together mess, at least thats how KDE 4 appears. I'm sorry, but look around at KDE's sub projects, from KDE3 (clean, simple interfaces) to pure garbage eye-bleed. Which is why i abandoned it and probably why Linus has too. I'm mostly ashamed of the live boot feature, as this makes totally no sense. 100% overhead to install the operating system and lag and disparity of an optical drive (and hopes that the kernel is right) are the standard for most large distributions today. Its sick. I cant install it on the cheap, throw away hardware (pentium 4a,b,and c's) for teaching anymore, because the kernal panics and something minor is wrong. FAIL.
Firefox barks down this road now itself. Slow and crap-loaded, its not the browser i fell in love with in the betas. The speedy, minimalistic, do it right browser is now the "fuck ya'll" with obvious bugs and bloat to boot, along with destroying some of the best plug ins i've seen for anything. Open source is about as bad as the company I work for. They don't team up and listen to anyone. This is why Microsoft still dominates with windows. they may be beyond retarded like the rest of the world, but they LISTEN to those of us who try to help. /rant
I just moved here a few years back, and its time I dont buy a fucking thing made here. PERIOD. And this governer is done. out! BURN HIM! /flame over.
Did the world just turn over and forget about shareware? I remember far too many games that were shareware that were too irresistable to not buy. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Tyrian, Worms!
Its like a demo but better. And buying that game gave you freedom to do whatever you wanted, including copy it and play it on a lan, basically getting everyone hooked on it and them wanting their own copy too.
Far more people are buying these games. Back when say, Lightspeed came out, I'm sure hardly anyone got it. Compare that today when any joe blow can wander into basically any store (Even menards) and buy a friggen game. Discuss!
Every time I see a program say that its not compatable with this operating system I get a sick feeling. I've seen this error since Windows 95 and on every windows since. Esp on NT and NT server platforms (windows nt 4, 5, 6...)
Its the most pathetic way to judge an operating systems capability, and most cant figure that hey, a newer version of windows will come out and someone someday will use it - why not add a line of code to do "x version AND ABOVE" or just ignore it and assume win32 is win32?
I think it sucks because it fights you for everything. sucks more hardware, argue that its newer sure, but the features that it brings are more of the pain in the ass flavor than improvement. Fights me to change NIC ip's. Fights me to view my start menu (I hate scrolling i didnt work in 1999, why force us now, WINDOWS ME SUCKED) ! so what we end up with is something that takes longer to use and hits my machine harder than XP. For more money. I have two vista machines and hate both of them and have XP Pro on order. Just the time it takes me to accomplish a task by clicks has trippled for vista. They made simple tasks like changing screen resolution for say, laptops, HELL. Wireless networks need manual settings? HELL TO CHANGE. ETC. Its a sad story.
Pardon the wrong url, I've been reviewing every FLOSS game i can find and neglected to update it. not like the website is anything to look at. I'm sorry i'm so harsh, but dont follow in the failsteps that Tremulous did. A fun game for a while has broken the basic game it was built on - menus don't need to fight the user!
BloodFrontier http://simutrans.sourceforge.net/ Number of players: Who cares Version: -1 Alpha, it has to be.
Graphics: 3/5 Gameplay: 1/5 Interface: -10/5 EPIC FAIL Stability: 1/5 Installer: -1/5 Multiplayer: 1/5 Sometimes when you make an installer, you just dont care about it. Perhaps this is it. It may get a point for actually doing something, like drawing a cute screen, but thats only because it its the bare naked nullsoft installer thus they get no points. They might as well give you a zip file and call it a day, as thats about how impressive the installer is. Note that the name is also stupid, but we wont concern ourselves with that. The website is also uglier than a text file, and somehow manages to break every function a website is supposed to have like HYPERLINKS and pictures. PICTURES! GRAPHICS The game looks like a strange combination of 50 peoples work. The level is a mix of VRML quality polygons with some cool lighting effects, but the weapon seems like its coming out of your hat or something, is that a weapon?! Gameplay... Loading up the game you're wisked into a quake "into" like level, okay. Interesting. But the cube engine is so slow loading, well, we wont blame that. It has some funky interactive pannel thing, or tries to. but its really just a pain in the ass excuse to not do a GUI right. Speaking of that, opening the menu (you walk over the the central VRML ugly and hit e, at which point you get presented with the worst interface I've ever seen. Text mode is friendlier. It looks more like something Linus shit out after taco day and just too much beer. Maybe, maybe i'll figure out how to change the game to higher settings. I think. Does it support this? I tried to just connect to a server, Weird, no sound. I go to the server list and it said to update. Weird, assult cube handled this perfeclty. The game lags horribly. You have to change menus (they respond to mouse hover OR SOMETHING.) I cant get the resolution to change. I'm done before i convulse on the floor. Alas i cant take the epic fail of its gui, thus This review is terminated.
I think its mearly the fact that most pop bands suck so bad that the only way they are good is through post editing of their 'music.' When was the last time you went to a good metallica show for example? I mean to not flame, but they don't sound as good as they do on CD, along with many, many other bands, and they dont put a good show on to make up for this. I found all of my current music through piracy, and I happily go to their concerts and dish out money on merch, for both the band and the venue owner.
I've seen it done successfully, for a short time (a year, or two.) Even gaming on the machines is okay, as long as you make sure its done over lunch. Make it an event. Everyone goes and gets food and whatever, then have someone organize a quick game of CTF. I've also seen it done where the meeting room had a projector, and thus someone brought a N64 so we could be playing a game of mario cart or something. Against belief, it can work. I've been to an office both of these were employed. 1. dont waste money on this. 2. organize it and it will be more fun. Its fun to play against people, form little teams, and then jump back into work after kicking your cube buddy's ass.
Only problem is that if there are students with technology going the, places offer discounts for students. They verify the student by their school email, at the very least.
oh god not one of you again. I'd scream just go SAMBA on linux. or unix. or whatever. I cant wrap my head around M$ CALs and novel is trash no matter what color you paint it.
THIS. and the fact that they drove the coolest rental place out of my hometown - it had more scifi classics that no one has heard of that kicked arse. They also had the best pizza in the world and to top it off, they had a DS9 and Enterprise model hanging from the ceiling.