Windows, which is really a great OS, gets such a bad rap because it's expected to run with every piece of hardware out there flawlessly.
Then it's not a good OS. It is the job of the operating system to abstract the hardware so applications can run on it hardware-agnostic.
The problem with windos is that it tries to do a million other things except the one thing an operating should do - be a stable and reliable platform for other stuff to build upon.
6) Unlockables suck! Unlockables can really lengthen the life of a game.
The point of the article was not about unlockables, but specifically about way too many parts of a game having to be "unlocked".
7) Downloading patches sucks. Would you rather they just leave it broken?
I guess they - like me - would like to have higher quality releases. Sure, software always has bugs. Damn, my own software is so full of them that I could probably pack them up and sell them as a standalone product. But "a few bugfixes" is not what many patches are about. There have been quite a few games over the past few years that were hardly playable without at least the first, and sometimes the second and third, patch.
Marketing pressure is to blame for that. You can easily see who drives a company when you look at the release cycles. If the company releases on the promised date, no matter how buggy it is, it's marketing driven. If the release date is moved back to actually finish the game, no matter the wasted marketing and fans crying, then it's technology driven. Me, I'd buy 3 games from a company I know for making good stuff before I buy one over-hyped but almost certainly buggy-beyond-hell crap.
8) Cutscenes are boring!
Not the point of the article at all. Please go and RTFA-Again
Three of the guys are from S2, the small company that made Savage.
For me, that means 2 things:
One, it's going to be a great game. Savage was the first FPS game in years that I really enjoyed.
Two, there is a fair chance that it'll be available for Linux, as they already have experience with Savage, and AFAIK they found out there that Linux users give more and higher quality feedback.
Parent is right. You've gotta get yourself into a silent area, a forest or other, every once in a while. It'll open your ears to the sheer amount of noise you are living in day by day.
I've become quite sensitive to noise over time. It is definitely a factor in my buying decisions now.
Yahoo has started throwing out advertisement that bypasses Firefox' popup blocker. Enough reason for me to not ever consider using any of their services.
Harsh? Possibly. But any company that uses technology that specifically circumvents a protection the user has in place has made it clear that it doesn't give a fuck about what the user (and potential customer) wants, so anyone dealing with them can assume that he'll be screwed over as soon as it fits their plans and bottom line.
No, thanks. I'll stay with Google, which so far has actually listend to what people demand.
One more thing you forgot to mention. Intelligent design is the hypothesis that SOMETHING created all of this.
One thing you forgot to mention is that ID has already been disproved in all its major points years ago. It's not even regarded as a scientific theory anymore. The simple fact that it's a random collection of nonsense is what destroyed it's standing within the scientific community, not it's xian limitation.
That and the Bush Pro-ID statement close the case for me. The US is a lost case, I suggest we're smarter than the marines and just nuke it out.
Damn. How do you live with so many damn fucking stupid morons all around you? I pity every american with an IQ above 10. You must be in constant pain just thinking about it.
If you don't want to move the hands between mouse and the keyboard, maybe the Touchstream Keyboard would've been useful for you. Unfortunately, they've gone out of business. What a shame. I own one, and it's a freaking cool idea even if I never quite got around to making it my primary keyboard.
Yeah, like support for the 2.6.12 kernel, which is not exactly new anymore, and despite claims to the opposite is still largely non-existent. There's a patch to at least compile the module, but it locks some systems (including mine) up.
As much as I dislike NVidia's close-mindedness, but their drivers at least work, work reliably, and with a fraction of the hassle.
Two thoughts. First, just the way you phrased that indicates that there are still lots of lawsuits involving noncompetes.
I know of some, yes. I wouldn't say there are lots. And the number of lawsuits doesn't say much. People sue over nonsense all the time.
Maybe the guy can convince a jury that he really didn't understand what he had signed, why he was being paid so much, and so on.
But that ain't the point. The clause should be (and over here has been often) struck down not because he didn't understand it, but simply because it is not a valid contract clause. You sign a contract, it has clauses, you follow clauses - that's all fine. Now the contract ends. So does its content. No more money, no more work, no more binding agreement. That's the argument. A contract can not bind you beyond the time it is valid.
...for people who understand that the medium follows the message. For some things, IM or SMS is great, but it sucks for longer text where you need a little time to think and include references. Mail is great for those, but it isn't as personal as a letter, and even though my snail-mail usage is maybe one letter a month, I do prefer love letters to love e-mails.
Same thing with the voice mediums - the phone is a great invention, but for some things I still prefer face-to-face talk. Again, saying "I love you" on the phone is nice, but saying it while deeply looking into someone's eyes is an entirely different kind of thing.
Seems the US is (again) as far behind in social issues as it is ahead in technology. Over here in Europe, non-compete clauses have been found to be unenforcable time and time again.
Not quite right, yali. The argument wasn't about the urge being diminished, but being channeled. It's not that the kids don't want to jack cars and drive them through town at 80mph at night, it's that they do it in the game instead of real life.
"The decision was made on Monday to pull the presentation because we wanted to make sure the research was fully baked."
In other words, the research was not even finished yet.
Nope, you mis-read that. The pulled it because Cisco didn't support it. It doesn't say the research wasn't complete, it said it was not "fully baked". Important difference.
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Windows, which is really a great OS, gets such a bad rap because it's expected to run with every piece of hardware out there flawlessly.
Then it's not a good OS. It is the job of the operating system to abstract the hardware so applications can run on it hardware-agnostic.
The problem with windos is that it tries to do a million other things except the one thing an operating should do - be a stable and reliable platform for other stuff to build upon.
6) Unlockables suck!
Unlockables can really lengthen the life of a game.
The point of the article was not about unlockables, but specifically about way too many parts of a game having to be "unlocked".
7) Downloading patches sucks.
Would you rather they just leave it broken?
I guess they - like me - would like to have higher quality releases.
Sure, software always has bugs. Damn, my own software is so full of them that I could probably pack them up and sell them as a standalone product.
But "a few bugfixes" is not what many patches are about. There have been quite a few games over the past few years that were hardly playable without at least the first, and sometimes the second and third, patch.
Marketing pressure is to blame for that. You can easily see who drives a company when you look at the release cycles. If the company releases on the promised date, no matter how buggy it is, it's marketing driven. If the release date is moved back to actually finish the game, no matter the wasted marketing and fans crying, then it's technology driven.
Me, I'd buy 3 games from a company I know for making good stuff before I buy one over-hyped but almost certainly buggy-beyond-hell crap.
8) Cutscenes are boring!
Not the point of the article at all. Please go and RTFA-Again
Three of the guys are from S2, the small company that made Savage.
For me, that means 2 things:
One, it's going to be a great game. Savage was the first FPS game in years that I really enjoyed.
Two, there is a fair chance that it'll be available for Linux, as they already have experience with Savage, and AFAIK they found out there that Linux users give more and higher quality feedback.
Parent is right. You've gotta get yourself into a silent area, a forest or other, every once in a while. It'll open your ears to the sheer amount of noise you are living in day by day.
I've become quite sensitive to noise over time. It is definitely a factor in my buying decisions now.
Yahoo has started throwing out advertisement that bypasses Firefox' popup blocker. Enough reason for me to not ever consider using any of their services.
Harsh? Possibly. But any company that uses technology that specifically circumvents a protection the user has in place has made it clear that it doesn't give a fuck about what the user (and potential customer) wants, so anyone dealing with them can assume that he'll be screwed over as soon as it fits their plans and bottom line.
No, thanks. I'll stay with Google, which so far has actually listend to what people demand.
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Hey, USians, why don't you snap the fuck out of it? You're getting on everyone's nerves.
No one was even close to the ease of use that Windows offered.
Can I get some of whatever you're smoking?
Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.'"
Just like windos. Except that Apple couldn't hide the cost in unfair and illegal monopoly deals with OEMs.
I want article moderation, please. For this one, -1 Flamebait wouldn't have been enough, but it would've been a start.
(10 minutes later) ISP Lawyer:"Call me first next time, this cop was yanking your chain."
That's the point. When you're a business, and the police comes calling, the first frigging thing you do is get your legal eagles involved.
Obviously, Rackspace is an incompetent company you shouldn't do business with.
You absolutely, utterly, completely miss the point.
The "who designed the designers" question is not part of the long, extensive, damning list of reasons why ID is nonsense.
Go and read the book I linked to.
I'm opening a collection to buy George a copy of
The Blind Watchmaker, where ID was essentially shafted long ago.
Uh, and maybe a collection to pay for someone reading it to him?
there are those who think the Earth is flat
Maybe, but the Flat Earth Society is actually a joke played on exactly the kind of dumb nutjobs like the ID people.
One more thing you forgot to mention. Intelligent design is the hypothesis that SOMETHING created all of this.
One thing you forgot to mention is that ID has already been disproved in all its major points years ago.
It's not even regarded as a scientific theory anymore. The simple fact that it's a random collection of nonsense is what destroyed it's standing within the scientific community, not it's xian limitation.
That and the Bush Pro-ID statement close the case for me. The US is a lost case, I suggest we're smarter than the marines and just nuke it out.
Damn. How do you live with so many damn fucking stupid morons all around you? I pity every american with an IQ above 10. You must be in constant pain just thinking about it.
If you don't want to move the hands between mouse and the keyboard, maybe the Touchstream Keyboard would've been useful for you. Unfortunately, they've gone out of business. What a shame. I own one, and it's a freaking cool idea even if I never quite got around to making it my primary keyboard.
Yeah, someone should point him to part of a dictionary where they explain what "how" means.
"Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone."
Right, they call it "portfolio management" or "marketing" instead, or use any other term for acceptable theft and trickery.
I've seen some - and worked in - a few perfectly legal businesses which had all the trappings of a scam operation, except that they weren't illegal.
"some stuff" ???
Yeah, like support for the 2.6.12 kernel, which is not exactly new anymore, and despite claims to the opposite is still largely non-existent. There's a patch to at least compile the module, but it locks some systems (including mine) up.
As much as I dislike NVidia's close-mindedness, but their drivers at least work, work reliably, and with a fraction of the hassle.
put the "open new" button right next to the "close" button, that'll make sense
At least it provides consistency - for the OS that puts the "Shutdown" option into the "Start" menu...
Two thoughts. First, just the way you phrased that indicates that there are still lots of lawsuits involving noncompetes.
I know of some, yes. I wouldn't say there are lots. And the number of lawsuits doesn't say much. People sue over nonsense all the time.
Maybe the guy can convince a jury that he really didn't understand what he had signed, why he was being paid so much, and so on.
But that ain't the point. The clause should be (and over here has been often) struck down not because he didn't understand it, but simply because it is not a valid contract clause. You sign a contract, it has clauses, you follow clauses - that's all fine. Now the contract ends. So does its content. No more money, no more work, no more binding agreement.
That's the argument. A contract can not bind you beyond the time it is valid.
...for people who understand that the medium follows the message. For some things, IM or SMS is great, but it sucks for longer text where you need a little time to think and include references. Mail is great for those, but it isn't as personal as a letter, and even though my snail-mail usage is maybe one letter a month, I do prefer love letters to love e-mails.
Same thing with the voice mediums - the phone is a great invention, but for some things I still prefer face-to-face talk. Again, saying "I love you" on the phone is nice, but saying it while deeply looking into someone's eyes is an entirely different kind of thing.
Seems the US is (again) as far behind in social issues as it is ahead in technology. Over here in Europe, non-compete clauses have been found to be unenforcable time and time again.
Americans are not the obedient kind of lemmings that the Germans were under Hitler.
Really?
(quote: "based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.")
Not quite right, yali. The argument wasn't about the urge being diminished, but being channeled. It's not that the kids don't want to jack cars and drive them through town at 80mph at night, it's that they do it in the game instead of real life.
It's got nothing to do with Freud.
My tendency towards violence has increased [...} ever since I took up a martial art.
[...]
I don't think I act on these urges, [...]
Do it. Just once. It'll teach you a valuable lesson. Many black belts have had their asses handed to them in street fights.
"The decision was made on Monday to pull the presentation because we wanted to make sure the research was fully baked."
In other words, the research was not even finished yet.
Nope, you mis-read that. The pulled it because Cisco didn't support it. It doesn't say the research wasn't complete, it said it was not "fully baked". Important difference.