Agreed, in the old games progressing to the next stage/level was a pain in the ass. In Wow on the other hand, one could bend all their energies into leveling as quickly as possible, and I guess that could be "Nintendo Hard" in it's own way. But you can just as easily take play in a relaxed casual manner, and simply progress slower, only losing out on getting the shiny items ASAP.
Casual AND Hardcore, my mind reels.:)
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What pray tell is ignorant about buying games in a legit fashion? On the other hand I think I prefer posts like yours to the self righteous ones who loudly claim since they buy every single game they pirate, therefore piracy is totally moral.
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Piracy on the DS may be cheap, but piracy on the PSP is more or less FREE. Well, minus the flash card, but eh.
No, to pirate on the PSP you need to do some pretty nonlayman modification to your machine. It gets much easier if you know someone who's already done the deed, or if you buy one of those piracy kits online, but even with step by step tutorials online, the whole process not something a layperson would be comfortable doing.
Is there a particular reason you doubt Japan's numbers? Seems to me a comprehensive education system, plus a large social focus on education could easily get the numbers they use.
Hmm, I chose Japanese because it was on my mind at the time. I am aware Chinese is considered one of if not THE most hardest languages to learn.
Both Koreas teach hanja, but unlike Japan who uses kanji in everyday life, I almost never encountered hanja when I lived there. Truth be told, it feels like we're clinging to Chinese characters like the "west" clings to Latin (mostly for sentimental reasons), but I'm Korean-American, and my knowledge on that is limited.
Perhaps "dumb peasant" was a bit much, but it is true King Sejong created the writing system to increase literacy amongst the common people. I suppose my bias of shorts comes from watching historic dramas that has the literate elite denigrate the then new writing system. Hell, even the kids show that did a historical segment depicted the commoners as not too bright.
On the other hand Japanese of one of hardest languages to read due to the large number of kanji one has to learn, yet their literacy rates rival say... Korea who uses an alphabet system which was designed for the sake of the dumb peasants.
On the other, other hand China did implement a simplified writing system to increase literacy, but I'm of the opinion simple education will work just fine.
Ah, but we must be more specific then that. Do you copy files in order to sample them and see what you want to buy, or do you copy files because it's cheaper and easier then buying them? While the former is arguably a legit use of piracy, the latter is functionally no different than stealing. Sure there's no loss of materials in either, but in the second example you're refusing to compensate an artist for entertaining you which not only discourages production, but is an assholish move.
What fallacy? It's not the year of Linux. An anon saying he hates Linux means as much as some anon saying he hates Windows/Mac/Unix/whatever. And stating I use Linux, is pointless. SO fucking what if you use Linux, the reasons anon doesn't use/like Linux hasn't gone away.
This is just speculation on my part, but S. Korea is home to OhMyNews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohmynews) A major online newspaper who's articles are contributed mostly by it's readers. Think/. only more general, and with actual editing. So on that vein, it doesn't surpise me that blogs are taken more seriously.
It would be of mild interest to see if the results would've been different if say the tweenbot was simply a moving box, or if it was a giant hand giving the finger. We already know cute is a factor in how we identify and help people/things.
I was incredulous, not in a "high and mighty," mood but my post could've been interpreted that way I suppose. I apologize. Still, assholish, or not, I'm sure you'd agree responding aggressively to an angry comment only creates more drama. The way I saw it, I wasn't trying to be an ass, but you were. Had I more of a temper, this would've devolved into a useless flamewar. Patience, and benefit of the doubt, they REALLY work.
Back on topic, when did I blame Linux for the issues Asus had? In my very first post I said: "Course this wasn't the fault of Linux, but the specific distribution."
Assuming they had a basic grasp of things, what would've changed? The linux installation can't be modified by the salesperson. He/she could say "please don't blame Linux, it's Asus's fault," but what on Earth would that accomplish?
The geeky moderates who've no real bias towards an OS tend to blame drivers (or hardware) if there're BSOD like problem on both Linux and Windows. However, your average John Doe doesn't know about drivers and will blame the OS (or hardware) for any out of the box problem he/she has whether it's Window, Linux, Mac, or what have you.
Your experience is irrelevant because not all Linux distros are equal. Ubuntu is a good OS that works with most anything, the Asus laptop in question did not come with that. Commentors mentioned a badly done Xandros distro. From what I've read here, even Ubuntu would've needed some extra drivers and tweaks to run decent on the Asus Eee PCs.
Incidentaly, lose the attitude. Right or wrong, you've a better chance of making someone give a rat's ass about your POV if you're polite. You mentioned wanting to get rid of misconceptions? Then you'd better lose the agression.
YOUR laptop with Linux worked, therefore the salesperson's Linux laptop should also have worked? Are you new here? You should know that many early Linux laptops had really crappy distros, that just didn't work, and required people to install something else (Hell people mention that in this very discussion). Luckily we seem to be past that point, but the question remains. How on Earth are your experiences relevant? It is not.
I bother reading comments here since I have an interest in Linux adoption, same as you I'm guessing.
Perhaps you didn't notice I didn't attack the actual data in the two articles. You might've also missed me praising the second article GP posted. My reason for attacking the Carla Schroeder article is only due to her ungodly sloppy prose. Please read things more carefully in the future, and/or grow a thicker skin.
Clear headed? I'm sorry, but while the second link was written competently, the Carla Schroeder article read like it was done by someone with the maturity of a ten year old. If you have something important to say, you don't go on another tiresome rant about the evils of Microsoft, you immediately state the facts and site your sources. Then maybe go on the mandatory Microsoft rant. What she wrote read like someone in the throes of a massive hategasm, who occasionally collected herself enough to say something relevant. Just horrible writing in a nutshell...
I can't believe you actually read the post you're responding to with any concentration. Sales guy saw that the Linux installation couldn't get wireless working, that's not "seamless," that's several definitions of cheap. Course this wasn't the fault of Linux, but the specific distribution. Still, what the hell was so hard to understand about the perception? Laymen will blame the OS if a basic function doesn't work.
Also, why the hell did you bring up your HP Mini? The GP was talking about how crappy distros in Netbooks probably hurt adoption. How is your personal success story of custom installing a distro story relevant here?
Actually, there are cards that work on the DSi. http://www.dsiflashcard.com/ I'd still wait until there're cards that can mimic the DSi only and works better on DSi cartridges.
Then why watch them? You want to be able to talk about the latest movie? You enjoy MS3TKing them? It gives an excuse for a group of friends to gather? You're simply a masochist? Help me out here.
Buddhism is a tricky thing to classify I think. I mean in its most basic form I'd say it's more of a way of life, or a philosophy. Course there's plenty of mysticism in Buddhism depending on where you go, and at least some sects of Chinese Buddhism incorporate their old polytheistic faith, and make Buddha another deity. Even w/o all that, I think your basic Buddhist is more agnostic than atheist. Buddhism doesn't seem to care whether or not a deity exists, but simply think it's an irrelevant data in reaching enlightenment. I guess this is part of the reason why Buddhism can vary so wildly from place to place.
Oh this'll be fun. Islam thinks its sister faiths are "corrupted by man", Christians think most everyone else is going to hell, everyone else thinks Hinduism is just strange, etc, and now some nations want to eliminate religious criticism?...Is this some bizarre atheist plot to get rid of religion?
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Agreed, in the old games progressing to the next stage/level was a pain in the ass. In Wow on the other hand, one could bend all their energies into leveling as quickly as possible, and I guess that could be "Nintendo Hard" in it's own way. But you can just as easily take play in a relaxed casual manner, and simply progress slower, only losing out on getting the shiny items ASAP.
Casual AND Hardcore, my mind reels. :)
What pray tell is ignorant about buying games in a legit fashion? On the other hand I think I prefer posts like yours to the self righteous ones who loudly claim since they buy every single game they pirate, therefore piracy is totally moral.
Piracy on the DS may be cheap, but piracy on the PSP is more or less FREE. Well, minus the flash card, but eh.
No, to pirate on the PSP you need to do some pretty nonlayman modification to your machine. It gets much easier if you know someone who's already done the deed, or if you buy one of those piracy kits online, but even with step by step tutorials online, the whole process not something a layperson would be comfortable doing.
While such a story could be interesting, I'm thinking such a thing would be more at home in a novel than a game.
Is there a particular reason you doubt Japan's numbers? Seems to me a comprehensive education system, plus a large social focus on education could easily get the numbers they use.
Hmm, I chose Japanese because it was on my mind at the time. I am aware Chinese is considered one of if not THE most hardest languages to learn.
Both Koreas teach hanja, but unlike Japan who uses kanji in everyday life, I almost never encountered hanja when I lived there. Truth be told, it feels like we're clinging to Chinese characters like the "west" clings to Latin (mostly for sentimental reasons), but I'm Korean-American, and my knowledge on that is limited.
Perhaps "dumb peasant" was a bit much, but it is true King Sejong created the writing system to increase literacy amongst the common people. I suppose my bias of shorts comes from watching historic dramas that has the literate elite denigrate the then new writing system. Hell, even the kids show that did a historical segment depicted the commoners as not too bright.
On the other hand Japanese of one of hardest languages to read due to the large number of kanji one has to learn, yet their literacy rates rival say... Korea who uses an alphabet system which was designed for the sake of the dumb peasants.
On the other, other hand China did implement a simplified writing system to increase literacy, but I'm of the opinion simple education will work just fine.
Ah, but we must be more specific then that. Do you copy files in order to sample them and see what you want to buy, or do you copy files because it's cheaper and easier then buying them? While the former is arguably a legit use of piracy, the latter is functionally no different than stealing. Sure there's no loss of materials in either, but in the second example you're refusing to compensate an artist for entertaining you which not only discourages production, but is an assholish move.
However, that isn't demonstrated with one person saying "I use linux." PitaBred's post was worthless.
What fallacy? It's not the year of Linux. An anon saying he hates Linux means as much as some anon saying he hates Windows/Mac/Unix/whatever. And stating I use Linux, is pointless. SO fucking what if you use Linux, the reasons anon doesn't use/like Linux hasn't gone away.
This is just speculation on my part, but S. Korea is home to OhMyNews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohmynews) A major online newspaper who's articles are contributed mostly by it's readers. Think /. only more general, and with actual editing. So on that vein, it doesn't surpise me that blogs are taken more seriously.
It would be of mild interest to see if the results would've been different if say the tweenbot was simply a moving box, or if it was a giant hand giving the finger. We already know cute is a factor in how we identify and help people/things.
I was incredulous, not in a "high and mighty," mood but my post could've been interpreted that way I suppose. I apologize. Still, assholish, or not, I'm sure you'd agree responding aggressively to an angry comment only creates more drama. The way I saw it, I wasn't trying to be an ass, but you were. Had I more of a temper, this would've devolved into a useless flamewar. Patience, and benefit of the doubt, they REALLY work.
Back on topic, when did I blame Linux for the issues Asus had? In my very first post I said: "Course this wasn't the fault of Linux, but the specific distribution."
Assuming they had a basic grasp of things, what would've changed? The linux installation can't be modified by the salesperson. He/she could say "please don't blame Linux, it's Asus's fault," but what on Earth would that accomplish?
The geeky moderates who've no real bias towards an OS tend to blame drivers (or hardware) if there're BSOD like problem on both Linux and Windows. However, your average John Doe doesn't know about drivers and will blame the OS (or hardware) for any out of the box problem he/she has whether it's Window, Linux, Mac, or what have you.
Your experience is irrelevant because not all Linux distros are equal. Ubuntu is a good OS that works with most anything, the Asus laptop in question did not come with that. Commentors mentioned a badly done Xandros distro. From what I've read here, even Ubuntu would've needed some extra drivers and tweaks to run decent on the Asus Eee PCs.
Incidentaly, lose the attitude. Right or wrong, you've a better chance of making someone give a rat's ass about your POV if you're polite. You mentioned wanting to get rid of misconceptions? Then you'd better lose the agression.
YOUR laptop with Linux worked, therefore the salesperson's Linux laptop should also have worked? Are you new here? You should know that many early Linux laptops had really crappy distros, that just didn't work, and required people to install something else (Hell people mention that in this very discussion). Luckily we seem to be past that point, but the question remains. How on Earth are your experiences relevant? It is not.
I bother reading comments here since I have an interest in Linux adoption, same as you I'm guessing.
Perhaps you didn't notice I didn't attack the actual data in the two articles. You might've also missed me praising the second article GP posted. My reason for attacking the Carla Schroeder article is only due to her ungodly sloppy prose. Please read things more carefully in the future, and/or grow a thicker skin.
Clear headed? I'm sorry, but while the second link was written competently, the Carla Schroeder article read like it was done by someone with the maturity of a ten year old. If you have something important to say, you don't go on another tiresome rant about the evils of Microsoft, you immediately state the facts and site your sources. Then maybe go on the mandatory Microsoft rant. What she wrote read like someone in the throes of a massive hategasm, who occasionally collected herself enough to say something relevant. Just horrible writing in a nutshell...
I can't believe you actually read the post you're responding to with any concentration. Sales guy saw that the Linux installation couldn't get wireless working, that's not "seamless," that's several definitions of cheap. Course this wasn't the fault of Linux, but the specific distribution. Still, what the hell was so hard to understand about the perception? Laymen will blame the OS if a basic function doesn't work.
Also, why the hell did you bring up your HP Mini? The GP was talking about how crappy distros in Netbooks probably hurt adoption. How is your personal success story of custom installing a distro story relevant here?
Actually, there are cards that work on the DSi. http://www.dsiflashcard.com/ I'd still wait until there're cards that can mimic the DSi only and works better on DSi cartridges.
Then why watch them? You want to be able to talk about the latest movie? You enjoy MS3TKing them? It gives an excuse for a group of friends to gather? You're simply a masochist? Help me out here.
Buddhism is a tricky thing to classify I think. I mean in its most basic form I'd say it's more of a way of life, or a philosophy. Course there's plenty of mysticism in Buddhism depending on where you go, and at least some sects of Chinese Buddhism incorporate their old polytheistic faith, and make Buddha another deity. Even w/o all that, I think your basic Buddhist is more agnostic than atheist. Buddhism doesn't seem to care whether or not a deity exists, but simply think it's an irrelevant data in reaching enlightenment. I guess this is part of the reason why Buddhism can vary so wildly from place to place.
There are Atheist (non-god believing) religions.
Ayup, but how many people count them when we talk about atheists?
Oh this'll be fun. Islam thinks its sister faiths are "corrupted by man", Christians think most everyone else is going to hell, everyone else thinks Hinduism is just strange, etc, and now some nations want to eliminate religious criticism? ...Is this some bizarre atheist plot to get rid of religion?
Stop sex by cramming people into prison? Methinks your joke needs a wee bit of tweaking. : )