I know you were kidding, but I gotta admit that some of your points...well...what's the old saying about there being a little truth in every joke?
I've always been a fan of "doing more with less". I've written some of my best music using an ancient Roland SC-50 Sound Canvas module despite having $xx,xxx racks of synths and keyboards at my fingertips; I *still* do my best creative writing with a fountain pen and velvety smooth cream-colored paper (that's creme-coloured for my friends on the other side of the pond); and I've done some of my best programming in assembly under DOS (I know I know; don't shoot me). All my code editors are set to green on black; not 80x24, but green on black all the same, with little in the way of visual adornment.
There is indeed such a concept as having too much of a good thing, although I admit that I'm happier compiling code on fast machines and using feature-rich (API- and toolkit-wise) languages.
Glad to see there are other people who love fallout as much as I do. Pity they cancelled #3 and never even got to do an online version. I have only three comfort games:
I'm with you on this. I've been using a PowerBook for the last three years and I still don't like the trackpad. Before that it was Thinkpads all the way back to when they first came out. There's nothing like the "LittleRedClit" (TM, pat. pend.):-)
I don't think that it's necessarily reasonable to expect Microsoft to go through and completely thoroughly analyze the code of every certified device driver to ensure that they're all playing nicely.
When I'm paying for the OS (and paying a lot for it) yes, yes I do.
You can't expect any sort of software to perform flawlessy right out of the gate, and this is a convenient way of monitoring a driver's reliability
That's why you have a beta period for the OS. That's exactly what Microsoft is supposed to be doing with their time and money. Perhaps they should be spending more of both. Oh wait, it's already been how many years and how many [m|b]illions of dollars?
I'm in software development, and no, I don't expect it all to work perfectly out of the gate. But they can certainly do far better than they have.
Besides doing more/better beta testing in the OS, they could offer some better incentives to the hardware vendors to improve their beta cycles. Perhaps even monetary incentives. With all the cash Microsoft is sitting on, they should be deploying it to making the OS better. Again, that's why we pay for that POS to begin with.
...[when] the iPod isn't as in-style as it is now, there will be a backlash of customers realizing that they paid for something they cannot easily use on "other" players
Which is why I stopped buying from iTunes once JHymn stopped working (although apparently you can install iTunes 5, open a new account, never upgrade the software, and JHymn will still work).
As a leftie, the opposite is true for me (pun intended). I have pretty bad handwriting, but I love doing calligraphy. On paper, my results aren't so good. But using a Wacom tablet in Corel Painter, Photoshop, etc., I achieve amazing results; the letters come out like they're supposed to, and everything looks like I imagined it should.
Same goes for basic drawing. My lines (and drawings) look much better when created with the Wacom instead of traditional media.
That said, when it comes to painting, I find there's no substitute for REAL watercolors.
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I know you were kidding, but I gotta admit that some of your points...well...what's the old saying about there being a little truth in every joke?
I've always been a fan of "doing more with less". I've written some of my best music using an ancient Roland SC-50 Sound Canvas module despite having $xx,xxx racks of synths and keyboards at my fingertips; I *still* do my best creative writing with a fountain pen and velvety smooth cream-colored paper (that's creme-coloured for my friends on the other side of the pond); and I've done some of my best programming in assembly under DOS (I know I know; don't shoot me). All my code editors are set to green on black; not 80x24, but green on black all the same, with little in the way of visual adornment.
There is indeed such a concept as having too much of a good thing, although I admit that I'm happier compiling code on fast machines and using feature-rich (API- and toolkit-wise) languages.
Linux rules, Windoze drools, so there!
Glad to see there are other people who love fallout as much as I do. Pity they cancelled #3 and never even got to do an online version. I have only three comfort games:
Fallout 2
Tropico
Wingnuts
I'm with you on this. I've been using a PowerBook for the last three years and I still don't like the trackpad. Before that it was Thinkpads all the way back to when they first came out. There's nothing like the "LittleRedClit" (TM, pat. pend.) :-)
That's because CdrTaco hasn't rewritten the comment entry system yet.
US AOL==SOL && UK AOL !EOL
It does indeed sir.
And to think I gave up modpoints for that.
I'd mod you up if I could.
That's why you have a beta period for the OS. That's exactly what Microsoft is supposed to be doing with their time and money. Perhaps they should be spending more of both. Oh wait, it's already been how many years and how many [m|b]illions of dollars?
I'm in software development, and no, I don't expect it all to work perfectly out of the gate. But they can certainly do far better than they have. Besides doing more/better beta testing in the OS, they could offer some better incentives to the hardware vendors to improve their beta cycles. Perhaps even monetary incentives. With all the cash Microsoft is sitting on, they should be deploying it to making the OS better. Again, that's why we pay for that POS to begin with.
"our monitors are sony! I want a panasonic monitor!!!!!"
Don't you mean Sorny and Panaphonic?
...[when] the iPod isn't as in-style as it is now, there will be a backlash of customers realizing that they paid for something they cannot easily use on "other" players
Which is why I stopped buying from iTunes once JHymn stopped working (although apparently you can install iTunes 5, open a new account, never upgrade the software, and JHymn will still work).
Hmmm...maybe I should just try that.
Anyone here have experience with a good isometric game engine in C, C++ or Java on Linux?
I'm not into sidescrollers or FPS, but I love isometric RPG and adventure games (even wrote one back in the day, and always itching to do so again).
Agreed. No digg. Ooops, wrong site.
> any of you so geeky you misread guitar as some graphical front end for tar? ;-)
No, but I always misread Hires rootbeer as hi-res rootbeer. Does that count?
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they want their article back. While we're at it, let's get Ric Romero right on this!
sheesh.
Thanks for that.
I'd mod you up if I could.
"Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice."
That would make a great sig.
oh wait...
As a leftie, the opposite is true for me (pun intended). I have pretty bad handwriting, but I love doing calligraphy. On paper, my results aren't so good. But using a Wacom tablet in Corel Painter, Photoshop, etc., I achieve amazing results; the letters come out like they're supposed to, and everything looks like I imagined it should.
Same goes for basic drawing. My lines (and drawings) look much better when created with the Wacom instead of traditional media.
That said, when it comes to painting, I find there's no substitute for REAL watercolors.
you mean pinkdotted
And it looks great. Nice job -- and good article too. Glad you fixed it.
Would have loved to read this, but your page breaks bigtime in Safari.