No, he/she/it doesn't get your point. To linux fanboys, everyone already knows that and therefore it isn't an issue that the rest of the world doesn't understand their OS. Then they proceede to bitch about the rest of the world not switching to their "superior" OS, without bothering to fix things that are a problem for the typical user, since they don't see those things as being problems in the first place.
Show me ONE flight sim for consoles that sold as well as ANY of the MS Flight Simulator series. Hell, show me one flight sim for consoles, period. They don't exist. The closest you can come are arcade shoot-em-ups that involve shooting from a plane, but there's NO emphasis on accuracy of the flight models, or physics, or anything else except making the explosions look good.
Same goes for racing simulations. Many arcade "racing" games, no real emphasis on being an accurate simulation. Sadly, in the case of racing simulations, the PC world has abandoned simulations for the most part as well.
I won't even get into the MMORPG issue, but again, no comparison. You're right though, some CRPGs are being ported to consoles. But it doesn't change the fact that they were, are, and will be available for the PC, and if not released before the console version, released at the same time.
Until the Wii came along, the ONLY place to find games the casual gamer liked was on the PC. The Wii may steal that market, it may not. Only time will tell there.
And as soon as they start allowing PC vs console gaming (I believe the 360 is planning on doing this via their Live service) the console world is going to get spanked as those that swear by FPSs on consoles find out that the PC truely does have the superior control system.
PC game popularity runs in cycles, almost exactly opposite console popularity. Every time a new round of consoles comes out, PC gaming drops off. After a year or two, it comes right back, as all the graphics whores realize that their precious console looks like shit compared to bleeding edge PC graphics, which kept moving, instead of becoming fixed when the console reached production. In the mean time, the PC faithful still keep buying and playing games, knowing that neither consoles or PC gaming is going away.
Because in the real world, which is made up mostly of people other than hardcore gamers, the Wii gets points for being "cute" and "simple" and "cheap". All of which I've heard said about the Wii, and none of which have I heard said about the 360 or the PS3.
Yeah, there are more games for the 360. Yeah, the 360 and the PS3 have better graphics. But you know what? To the average real-world person, those don't matter. Price, "cute" and "simple" matter.
I have no loyalty to any of the consoles. I don't own any of them, and have no plans to buy any of them anytime soon. Maybe in a couple years I'll pick one of each up when the Wii is $149, and the PS3 and 360 can be found for $299 or less -- I can afford to buy all of them them now, but console gaming simply isn't worth that much money to me given how much time I'd spend on it.
It took me about 14 months to get my main character up to level 60. Levels 1-15 happened in a weekend of about 9 hours of play across three days. Going from 58-60 took me 4 weeks, and about 20 hours of play.
However, aside from some instances and inside alliance cities (I play horde -- fewer annoying kids), I've explored everywhere on the first two continents, and had a lot of fun doing it.
And yes, I'm one of those that finds it completely amusing to run around a low level alliance area while NOT flagged for PvP, and have a bunch of high level alliance toons following me around waiting for me to act like an alliance member and start ganking players 30+ levels lower than me. Even better when you can get a small group together to do it. They start thinking they're going to be attacked, but they don't.
No, WoW gets that way in the drag from around 30 to 50 ish. Maybe not quite to 10 hours, but if you're running solo quests and grinding its not uncommon for a level to take 6+ hours, longer if, as you say, you explore a lot.
It looks like 60-70 will also be that way. Yeah, its nice you can pull 40k - 50k XP/hour solo, but when you have 500,000+ XP to the next level, its going to take a while.
If you listen to the bloggers, they are journalists. If you listen to "traditional" media, bloggers are not journalists.
THAT argument will be interesting to watch if and when it works its way through the court system. Unlike the SCO vs everyone-else arguments which are extremely boring, there will be good arguments from BOTH sides on the issue of whether blogging is journalism.
And some people prefer to play role playing games rather than shoot-'em-ups.
Those of us that like RP tend to stick to the RP servers, and those that want to treat it as a free-for-all-kill-or-be-killed-poor-substitution-f or-a-first-person-shooter can have the PvP servers. You like it, great, good for you. There are servers you'll be happy on that I wouldn't be. Likewise, the servers I enjoy you'd likely find terribly dull.
Don't see why you should be modded down. The tweakers don't like to RP. The people that play PvP don't like RP as much as non RP servers (although, yes, the RP PVP servers do get used).
So yeah, playskill may be a bit lower compared to other servers, but since thats not our focus, it doesn't bother us.
No shit sherlock. Thats the way it is at universities around here, which is what I wrote the first time. Perhaps you should have directed your explanation at someone who wasn't saying the same thing as you were.
If you're going to copy it verbatim, you still need to attribute it to the original, NOT claim it as your own. Otherwise, press release or not, it is still plagiarism.
DS Lites are NOT hard to find. Unless you want the colored ones. But the white ones are all over. In the midwest, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, EBGames/Gamestop ALL have plenty of the white DS Lites in stock. Target had a few black ones, and I haven't seen any of the pink ones.
Now, thats a variety of stores from KC MO, KC KS, St. Louis MO, Columbia MO, Springfield IL, Peoria IL, Urbana/Champaign IL, and Little Rock AR that I've personally been in in the last two weeks, at various times of day, and various days of the week. Either I've been damned lucky and been there on nintendo-delivery day every single time, or people are ignoring the "old and busted" white DS Lites in favor of the "new and shiney" black and pink ones.
For what its worth, there were only two stores that did NOT have PS3s on the shelves, and NO stores that had Wiis.
Just think, if MS had ALL of the desktop market, they could use their lack of documentation to ensure that those desktops only worked with MS servers, and thereby corner the entire server market as well.
Not that they would do anything like that.....oh, wait. Nevermind.
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Yay, modded flamebait.
Some SCO trolls must have mod points.
Back it up with proof, and quit hiding behind the anonymous coward.
Otherwise, you're just another SCO troll.
No, he/she/it doesn't get your point. To linux fanboys, everyone already knows that and therefore it isn't an issue that the rest of the world doesn't understand their OS. Then they proceede to bitch about the rest of the world not switching to their "superior" OS, without bothering to fix things that are a problem for the typical user, since they don't see those things as being problems in the first place.
Show me ONE flight sim for consoles that sold as well as ANY of the MS Flight Simulator series. Hell, show me one flight sim for consoles, period. They don't exist. The closest you can come are arcade shoot-em-ups that involve shooting from a plane, but there's NO emphasis on accuracy of the flight models, or physics, or anything else except making the explosions look good.
Same goes for racing simulations. Many arcade "racing" games, no real emphasis on being an accurate simulation. Sadly, in the case of racing simulations, the PC world has abandoned simulations for the most part as well.
I won't even get into the MMORPG issue, but again, no comparison. You're right though, some CRPGs are being ported to consoles. But it doesn't change the fact that they were, are, and will be available for the PC, and if not released before the console version, released at the same time.
Until the Wii came along, the ONLY place to find games the casual gamer liked was on the PC. The Wii may steal that market, it may not. Only time will tell there.
And as soon as they start allowing PC vs console gaming (I believe the 360 is planning on doing this via their Live service) the console world is going to get spanked as those that swear by FPSs on consoles find out that the PC truely does have the superior control system.
PC game popularity runs in cycles, almost exactly opposite console popularity. Every time a new round of consoles comes out, PC gaming drops off. After a year or two, it comes right back, as all the graphics whores realize that their precious console looks like shit compared to bleeding edge PC graphics, which kept moving, instead of becoming fixed when the console reached production. In the mean time, the PC faithful still keep buying and playing games, knowing that neither consoles or PC gaming is going away.
Because in the real world, which is made up mostly of people other than hardcore gamers, the Wii gets points for being "cute" and "simple" and "cheap". All of which I've heard said about the Wii, and none of which have I heard said about the 360 or the PS3.
Yeah, there are more games for the 360. Yeah, the 360 and the PS3 have better graphics. But you know what? To the average real-world person, those don't matter. Price, "cute" and "simple" matter.
I have no loyalty to any of the consoles. I don't own any of them, and have no plans to buy any of them anytime soon. Maybe in a couple years I'll pick one of each up when the Wii is $149, and the PS3 and 360 can be found for $299 or less -- I can afford to buy all of them them now, but console gaming simply isn't worth that much money to me given how much time I'd spend on it.
I don't have any room to talk.
It took me about 14 months to get my main character up to level 60. Levels 1-15 happened in a weekend of about 9 hours of play across three days. Going from 58-60 took me 4 weeks, and about 20 hours of play.
However, aside from some instances and inside alliance cities (I play horde -- fewer annoying kids), I've explored everywhere on the first two continents, and had a lot of fun doing it.
And yes, I'm one of those that finds it completely amusing to run around a low level alliance area while NOT flagged for PvP, and have a bunch of high level alliance toons following me around waiting for me to act like an alliance member and start ganking players 30+ levels lower than me. Even better when you can get a small group together to do it. They start thinking they're going to be attacked, but they don't.
No, WoW gets that way in the drag from around 30 to 50 ish. Maybe not quite to 10 hours, but if you're running solo quests and grinding its not uncommon for a level to take 6+ hours, longer if, as you say, you explore a lot.
It looks like 60-70 will also be that way. Yeah, its nice you can pull 40k - 50k XP/hour solo, but when you have 500,000+ XP to the next level, its going to take a while.
Nope. All it takes is to piss off someone with mod points who happens to disagree with you.
:)
The problem is, if I wanted to only hear opinions I agreed with, I'd just talk to myself.
If you listen to the bloggers, they are journalists. If you listen to "traditional" media, bloggers are not journalists.
THAT argument will be interesting to watch if and when it works its way through the court system. Unlike the SCO vs everyone-else arguments which are extremely boring, there will be good arguments from BOTH sides on the issue of whether blogging is journalism.
He who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer.
So by "taking care of herself" I'm going to assume you're referring to her hiring a lawyer.
Rep-Rap The open-source rapid prototyping system.
And some people prefer to play role playing games rather than shoot-'em-ups.
f or-a-first-person-shooter can have the PvP servers. You like it, great, good for you. There are servers you'll be happy on that I wouldn't be. Likewise, the servers I enjoy you'd likely find terribly dull.
Those of us that like RP tend to stick to the RP servers, and those that want to treat it as a free-for-all-kill-or-be-killed-poor-substitution-
Neither is inherently better than the other.
has been doing this for a while.
Don't see why you should be modded down. The tweakers don't like to RP. The people that play PvP don't like RP as much as non RP servers (although, yes, the RP PVP servers do get used).
So yeah, playskill may be a bit lower compared to other servers, but since thats not our focus, it doesn't bother us.
Play on a non-pvp roleplaying server then.
Of course, the 13 year olds don't LIKE non-pvp roleplaying servers, so they tend to stay away as well, making it even better for the rest of us.
Well, what do you know, I learned something today.
Thanks for the links!
The alternative, is to just put corn syrup in drinking water and force everyone to drink it.
The soda industry has already done this. Find one soda, aside from dr. pepper made in one place in texas, that uses sugar instead of corn syrup.
No shit sherlock. Thats the way it is at universities around here, which is what I wrote the first time. Perhaps you should have directed your explanation at someone who wasn't saying the same thing as you were.
Not like that at any school I've been to.
Now, around here it IS fairly common for clauses specifying ownership of IP to be present for faculty and research staff, but not for students.
I saw that, I just was pointing out that you can't just point to a google definition of press release to try to justify what you did.
If you're going to copy it verbatim, you still need to attribute it to the original, NOT claim it as your own. Otherwise, press release or not, it is still plagiarism.
Job travel...I just stop in to see if any place happens to have a Wii.
Its either that or sit in the hotel room drinking beer and posting to slashdot. And we all know how well drinking and posting works.
DS Lites are NOT hard to find. Unless you want the colored ones. But the white ones are all over. In the midwest, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, EBGames/Gamestop ALL have plenty of the white DS Lites in stock. Target had a few black ones, and I haven't seen any of the pink ones.
Now, thats a variety of stores from KC MO, KC KS, St. Louis MO, Columbia MO, Springfield IL, Peoria IL, Urbana/Champaign IL, and Little Rock AR that I've personally been in in the last two weeks, at various times of day, and various days of the week. Either I've been damned lucky and been there on nintendo-delivery day every single time, or people are ignoring the "old and busted" white DS Lites in favor of the "new and shiney" black and pink ones.
For what its worth, there were only two stores that did NOT have PS3s on the shelves, and NO stores that had Wiis.
it means I quit getting pestered about buying AOL's "service" every time I run in to BB for anything.
Granted, I only shop there if I can't wait 3-5 days for shipping, but its still damned annoying.
The other 10%
Just think, if MS had ALL of the desktop market, they could use their lack of documentation to ensure that those desktops only worked with MS servers, and thereby corner the entire server market as well.
Not that they would do anything like that.....oh, wait. Nevermind.