Considering how bad AOL sucked, I'd say they are doing a good job.
Anyway, I agree with you. It WOULD be better to get what we pay for than all that other BS. I guess I've just succumbed to the realization, that will never happen.
Once they find out customers interested in games are expecting enough bandwidth to actually play games, this "great new thing" will crumple into some crappy site with a bunch of flash based card games and links to overpriced rent-a-games. AT&T, et al, need to focus on increasing the amount of bandwidth they can provide customers -- at least to what they advertise -- so their customers can stop being pissed about shoddy connectivity.
The first ISP to provide free time on a good MMO and the bandwidth to enjoy it as part of the service just gets my respect.
C# isn't a scripting language. You clearly don't know what a scripting language is to make such a laughable statement.
Anything that is not compiled before being distributed is a scripting language in my book. So, yes, I guess I don't know because I choose not to be that specific.
Because no C/C++ application is accompanied by extra baggage? I guess I must be dreaming every time I download one of them and have to download 5-10+ megs of dependencies when I apt-get one.
Agreed. C/C++ applications that require additional libraries to run are annoying. However, having a JIT to keep up to date AND additional libraries is even more so.
Note: I dislike Java just the same. You.NET lover/hater's can have your war. I'm happy to be one of those that happens (dis)like everything in one way or another.
I'm very concerned about the implications physical interfaces will have on future geeks. If game controllers evolve to the point where the user is running, jumping, swinging their arms, etc... gamers will start to develop physical attributes not conducive to the geek culture. Take for instance the young and unawares teen who plays first person shooters for two hours per day. That amount of physical activity would leave the poor individual thin and buff. A person in that condition would NEVER fit in with a crowd of today's geeks. I say ban these devices before any harm can be done!
The most positive description I could give a C# "application" is quick and dirty. I put application in quotes because calling something written in a scripting language anything other than a script, IMHO, is annoying. The fact that the script needs to be accompanied by so much extra baggage, mono, it can not be considered small or lean. When the extra baggage becomes small or lean then you might convince me your "application" is too.
I completely agree with you pointing out c/c++ applications can be bloated and memory-hungry. One of the worst C++ applications ever built comes to mind. The Windows desktop.
So pirating is Karma's way of getting revenge on all of those producers that would have used marketing to chump people into giving up hard earned money for inferior products?
Please don't give them ideas like that! It is bad enough insurance companies found a way to force everyone to give them money. We don't need anyone else.
The reason we decided to create our own IP was based on the fact that we have R. A. Salvatore and Todd McFarlane as our visionaries. -- Steve Danuser, Senior Game Designer for 38 Studios.
Me thinks that was just a nice way of saying, "naner! naner!".
There is an ever growing number of schools going to 1 to 1 programs (each student with a laptop). The biggest issues confronting the schools that have made the switch is bandwidth. Students tend not to do things to destroy laptops they are going to use all year. If the telco's would run fiber to schools, then branch it out to area households, the biggest problem would go away and the telco's could profit from it.
The parent post isn't insightful it is fact. Hospitals are too greedy to spend money on IT infrastructure and too greedy to help people without absolute proof of getting paid. The hospital should be forced to provide free medical care to the public for 365 days.
In the technology business, the guy with the money buys up the talent to kill his competition. It was that way before IBM displaced Rand McNally. Microsoft turned it into a sledgehammer. Google headed down that path. Yahoo! said "what up with do no evil beothes?". So, folks made a pact of sorts not to do it.
I didn't think anyone was equating the devices to full blown laptops. Does anyone really want to work on a document on that small of a device? I'd have to be really jones'n to make an edit.
ouch. sounds like someone is a little upset with buggy games. maybe this route of bringing out games will cause that first patch to come out when the "real" game arrives.
Agreed but I would take it a step further. Each client should, by default, have the option to allow or deny content according to the clients attached to the wave. For instance, if 3 people are on a wave (persons a, b, and c) and another joins (d) users a, b, and c should individually receive a message "do you want to accept content from d" and an additional message "do you want to allow d to see your content" or a single message with the two messages and a checkbox for each. Also, user d should have the option of what content should be seen/visible to the other users attached to the wave on a per user basis. This would eliminate the potential of a spammer or troll to abuse a wave.
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He said it suggested that jurors didn't believe Thomas-Rasset's denials of illegal file-sharing, and that they were angry with her.
The prosecution successfully created personal feelings towards the defendant in the jury?
I bought my zebra here.
trying to emulate AOL from 15 years ago
Considering how bad AOL sucked, I'd say they are doing a good job.
Anyway, I agree with you. It WOULD be better to get what we pay for than all that other BS. I guess I've just succumbed to the realization, that will never happen.
Once they find out customers interested in games are expecting enough bandwidth to actually play games, this "great new thing" will crumple into some crappy site with a bunch of flash based card games and links to overpriced rent-a-games. AT&T, et al, need to focus on increasing the amount of bandwidth they can provide customers -- at least to what they advertise -- so their customers can stop being pissed about shoddy connectivity.
The first ISP to provide free time on a good MMO and the bandwidth to enjoy it as part of the service just gets my respect.
C# isn't a scripting language. You clearly don't know what a scripting language is to make such a laughable statement.
Anything that is not compiled before being distributed is a scripting language in my book. So, yes, I guess I don't know because I choose not to be that specific.
Because no C/C++ application is accompanied by extra baggage? I guess I must be dreaming every time I download one of them and have to download 5-10+ megs of dependencies when I apt-get one.
Agreed. C/C++ applications that require additional libraries to run are annoying. However, having a JIT to keep up to date AND additional libraries is even more so.
Note: I dislike Java just the same. You .NET lover/hater's can have your war. I'm happy to be one of those that happens (dis)like everything in one way or another.
yes. i call java a scripting language too.
I'm very concerned about the implications physical interfaces will have on future geeks. If game controllers evolve to the point where the user is running, jumping, swinging their arms, etc... gamers will start to develop physical attributes not conducive to the geek culture. Take for instance the young and unawares teen who plays first person shooters for two hours per day. That amount of physical activity would leave the poor individual thin and buff. A person in that condition would NEVER fit in with a crowd of today's geeks. I say ban these devices before any harm can be done!
The most positive description I could give a C# "application" is quick and dirty. I put application in quotes because calling something written in a scripting language anything other than a script, IMHO, is annoying. The fact that the script needs to be accompanied by so much extra baggage, mono, it can not be considered small or lean. When the extra baggage becomes small or lean then you might convince me your "application" is too.
I completely agree with you pointing out c/c++ applications can be bloated and memory-hungry. One of the worst C++ applications ever built comes to mind. The Windows desktop.
So pirating is Karma's way of getting revenge on all of those producers that would have used marketing to chump people into giving up hard earned money for inferior products?
I LIKE IT!
Please don't give them ideas like that! It is bad enough insurance companies found a way to force everyone to give them money. We don't need anyone else.
Does never being caught blowing anyone in public count as a positive in the Republican party? If so then that should be added.
It would do the same amount of damage as the year 2000 bug.
lol. Nice grumpy old man post but you forgot the "when I was young" part.
the sober battle-tested pilot sitting up front
The reason we decided to create our own IP was based on the fact that we have R. A. Salvatore and Todd McFarlane as our visionaries. -- Steve Danuser, Senior Game Designer for 38 Studios.
Me thinks that was just a nice way of saying, "naner! naner!".
There is an ever growing number of schools going to 1 to 1 programs (each student with a laptop). The biggest issues confronting the schools that have made the switch is bandwidth. Students tend not to do things to destroy laptops they are going to use all year. If the telco's would run fiber to schools, then branch it out to area households, the biggest problem would go away and the telco's could profit from it.
My ex-girl friend told me once that the 7" ones where difficult to find.
The parent post isn't insightful it is fact. Hospitals are too greedy to spend money on IT infrastructure and too greedy to help people without absolute proof of getting paid. The hospital should be forced to provide free medical care to the public for 365 days.
In the technology business, the guy with the money buys up the talent to kill his competition. It was that way before IBM displaced Rand McNally. Microsoft turned it into a sledgehammer. Google headed down that path. Yahoo! said "what up with do no evil beothes?". So, folks made a pact of sorts not to do it.
That was the argument to like Microsoft and hate IBM.
I didn't think anyone was equating the devices to full blown laptops. Does anyone really want to work on a document on that small of a device? I'd have to be really jones'n to make an edit.
Like Dos.
If the administrators at those small companies see a way to improve the software then give those improvements back then that should be enough.
ouch. sounds like someone is a little upset with buggy games. maybe this route of bringing out games will cause that first patch to come out when the "real" game arrives.
Agreed but I would take it a step further. Each client should, by default, have the option to allow or deny content according to the clients attached to the wave. For instance, if 3 people are on a wave (persons a, b, and c) and another joins (d) users a, b, and c should individually receive a message "do you want to accept content from d" and an additional message "do you want to allow d to see your content" or a single message with the two messages and a checkbox for each. Also, user d should have the option of what content should be seen/visible to the other users attached to the wave on a per user basis. This would eliminate the potential of a spammer or troll to abuse a wave.