"delivering great products to console and PC gamers around the world."
how about not handcuffing your customers, not calling them thieves and unloading DRM crippled crap on them.
frankly hl2 is one of the worst games of all time.
what? you say that i've never played the game?
true.
but as steam is inseperable from hl2, then my opinion stands.
legally and out of the box, steam is as part of hl2 as the engine and physics.
i was looking forward to this game (and i'm not even a fan of HL) but they lost me as a customer when they combined it with that DRM bullshit.
of course, there are millions of immature games who look passed all the hurdles they have to jump and ask permission from valve just to play the game that they legally bought.
online distribution is a great idea... in theory. the online distribution of hl2 is pure garbage. it is intentionally crippled and i do not spend money on junk.
once you sell a product you do not have any say in what a customer does with it afterwards. (don't bring up copyright infringement because that's handled by the law, they don't get to dictate anything above that).
one can only hope this doesn't hold true as a trend. it is very unfortunate that people aren't educated enough about their rights (yes, commerce and related issues are a right) to stand up and just say no.
the software industry never learns from the past. the 80's with its endless list of floppy crippling and user frustrations.
and listening to a language that i don't understand simply makes no sense to me to do if i can help it.
i'd rather not read a movie but instead concentrate on what's going on. only elitist "otaco"s would say otherwise. (yes it is intentional, as a way of disparaging your views:)
most of the japanese cartoons are pretty much crap and here's the kicker: IMO.
most of them i find stupid/ridiculous on some level or another. a few i can tolerate long enough to get through it. there are way too many that are sickeningly cute and i don't just mean the actual drawings.
the right tool for the job means (and i'll use an equal sign to further emphasize it) = that regardless of how many arm processors you have in one system it won't run windows games.
for me, in order to play games on my highly powerful computer, requires that i use windows and an x86 cpu. it makes no sense for me to use another machines just for games, which sort of defeats the purpose.
how well do arms compress video? edit digital pictures? frankly, to have a single machine to do all of these tasks and many others, is a benefit to me. i don't have infinite space in my home nor do i have the money to buy multiple machines to accomplish these tasks.
get what i'm saying?
i NEVER use the web, check email or do anything else which could run on low power (electricity and otherwise). yes. i am disparaging it. i wouldn't have if you weren't so stubborn and keep missing the point.
what you want is a world in which arm processors are immensely more ubiquitous and high powered machines are relegated to scientists and researchers. get real.
hundreds of millions of people want to just browse and email and nothing else. ! I ! am not one of them. and neither are hundreds of millions more.
you turned this into an argument where there was none.
low powered machines are great for what they offer but not for what they don't offer.
you keep bringing up the issue of power requirements as if it's a real burden to most people. it is nothing of the sort. it amounts to 50-60 bucks a year. people spend more than that on floss and mints.
perhaps you know something i don't know... like maybe soon lots of P03er plants will go offline, there is no concern over power issues. what happened in california will in no way be alleviated even if everyone in the state only used arm processor based computers.
not everything has the source so you can run it on different archs. there are many commercial/proprietary software like games, which will never run. and no, consoles are not the remedy because pc gaming is simply superior.
well since you reread my original comment... then you would know that i wasn't talking about anything other than what i said. which is to say that if you want to buy a computer today, it makes no sense to buy anything other than an amd cpu based on athlon64. i have no objections to people using low power chips if that suits them and for most low cpu usage tasks, it is actually preferable.
but i do a lot more than just text processing etc on my computer. it is simply not possible to replace my system with a single or multiple low power, low performance processors. and that includes a great many other people in my position.
but why settle on arm? there are x86 low power chips such as the amd geode, via etc.
i could have sworn ARM was owned by intel.... cause i'd rather gnaw my arm off than give a penny to intel.
and what programs does she now run on her new system?
i guess you did tell her that she'd have to buy all the new programs from scratch (minus Free sw). not to mention that many programs (but some equivalents) are not available on the new one.
it's feasible for some people to switch systems but many people don't need or want to.
i've been virus and spyware/malware/crapware free since i've been using a computer (and i used to run unpatched too).
so clearly, it's the user that's at fault. the OS/machine certainly takes some blame but people need more education regardless of the short term successes or failures.
basically, what you're saying is that interactive fiction = ideal "rpg".
the problem with that is, that in the last 20 years or so, the gameplay , namely combat has been the focus of games. and to deviate from that is to make your "game" less of a game and more interactive fiction.
IF might be fun once in a while but the real meat of games is in the repititive actions, e.g. comabt. if that part of a game does not hold a persons interest, then the rest ultimately doesn't matter, even if you just play through to discover the plot and story underneath.
so what i'm trying to say (badly at that) is that any game needs the "meat" to have the most focus when being developed. that is what customers use the most in a game. it needs to hold your interest and be fun/enjoyable to play. too many games have decent stories and interesting potential only to have the actual core of the game be crap to spend time with.
it was a total "failure" because microsoft went after it and killed it.
i don't know if it was brought up in the antitrust trial but it should have been.
it was a great OS, featuring many things that to this day many os's don't have and other that do tout it as though they're the best things since sliced bread.
with just a few years of maturing it would have been serious competition to linux, windows, mac and unix.
to this day, i haven't seen any OS that had the massive multithreading (read immense support for SMP) throughout the entire system.
that in 1998 you could open up 20-30 video windows and run them all SMOOTHLY on a p2 400. (something the 3-4 ghz cell proc. is boasting of doing though it was just a "demo")
frankly, it had a ton of potential. all these OS's of the past, including linux and unix are pretty much encumbered with slow multimedia relative to the absolute potential of the hardware.
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i was just being an "intentional" jerk in order to bring about a point.
some people just don't like subtitles and one of those people is me.
i've often heard those people we're talking about basically bite the head off people who claim they listen to "dubs" and like it better etc etc.
i mean come on.
"way too many"
in the logic class you took, it apparently means 100%.
and cite a few more "exceptions". i can always use the list to find the better picks out there.
"delivering great products to console and PC gamers around the world."
how about not handcuffing your customers, not calling them thieves and unloading DRM crippled crap on them.
frankly hl2 is one of the worst games of all time.
what? you say that i've never played the game?
true.
but as steam is inseperable from hl2, then my opinion stands.
legally and out of the box, steam is as part of hl2 as the engine and physics.
i was looking forward to this game (and i'm not even a fan of HL) but they lost me as a customer when they combined it with that DRM bullshit.
of course, there are millions of immature games who look passed all the hurdles they have to jump and ask permission from valve just to play the game that they legally bought.
online distribution is a great idea... in theory. the online distribution of hl2 is pure garbage. it is intentionally crippled and i do not spend money on junk.
once you sell a product you do not have any say in
what a customer does with it afterwards. (don't bring up copyright infringement because that's handled by the law, they don't get to dictate anything above that).
one can only hope this doesn't hold true as a trend. it is very unfortunate that people aren't educated enough about their rights (yes, commerce and related issues are a right) to stand up and just say no.
the software industry never learns from the past. the 80's with its endless list of floppy crippling and user frustrations.
YOU should really know better.
:)
subtitles just plain suck.
and listening to a language that i don't understand simply makes no sense to me to do if i can help it.
i'd rather not read a movie but instead concentrate on what's going on. only elitist "otaco"s would say otherwise. (yes it is intentional, as a way of disparaging your views
if you can read and write japanese, good for you.
most of the world can't.
no.
:)
most of the japanese cartoons are pretty much crap and here's the kicker: IMO.
most of them i find stupid/ridiculous on some level or another. a few i can tolerate long enough to get through it. there are way too many that are sickeningly cute and i don't just mean the actual drawings.
and they're cartoons
get over it.
i didn't say i disagreed with you.
the right tool for the job means (and i'll use an equal sign to further emphasize it) = that regardless of how many arm processors you have in one system it won't run windows games.
for me, in order to play games on my highly powerful computer, requires that i use windows and an x86 cpu. it makes no sense for me to use another machines just for games, which sort of defeats the purpose.
how well do arms compress video? edit digital pictures? frankly, to have a single machine to do all of these tasks and many others, is a benefit to me. i don't have infinite space in my home nor do i have the money to buy multiple machines to accomplish these tasks.
get what i'm saying?
i NEVER use the web, check email or do anything else which could run on low power (electricity and otherwise). yes. i am disparaging it. i wouldn't have if you weren't so stubborn and keep missing the point.
what you want is a world in which arm processors are immensely more ubiquitous and high powered machines are relegated to scientists and researchers. get real.
hundreds of millions of people want to just browse and email and nothing else. ! I ! am not one of them. and neither are hundreds of millions more.
you turned this into an argument where there was none.
low powered machines are great for what they offer but not for what they don't offer.
you keep bringing up the issue of power requirements as if it's a real burden to most people. it is nothing of the sort. it amounts to 50-60 bucks a year. people spend more than that on floss and mints.
perhaps you know something i don't know... like maybe soon lots of P03er plants will go offline, there is no concern over power issues. what happened in california will in no way be alleviated even if everyone in the state only used arm processor based computers.
not everything has the source so you can run it on different archs. there are many commercial/proprietary software like games, which will never run. and no, consoles are not the remedy because pc gaming is simply superior.
use what you like. and let me use what i like.
well since you reread my original comment... then you would know that i wasn't talking about anything other than what i said. which is to say that if you want to buy a computer today, it makes no sense to buy anything other than an amd cpu based on athlon64. i have no objections to people using low power chips if that suits them and for most low cpu usage tasks, it is actually preferable.
but i do a lot more than just text processing etc on my computer. it is simply not possible to replace my system with a single or multiple low power, low performance processors. and that includes a great many other people in my position.
but why settle on arm? there are x86 low power chips such as the amd geode, via etc.
i could have sworn ARM was owned by intel.... cause i'd rather gnaw my arm off than give a penny to intel.
the right tool for the right job.
bringing up hanlons razor in regards to posting duplicate stories...
somehow everyone instinctively knows it couldn't possibly be in error...
i wonder where those buggers went...
and what programs does she now run on her new system?
i guess you did tell her that she'd have to buy all the new programs from scratch (minus Free sw). not to mention that many programs (but some equivalents) are not available on the new one.
it's feasible for some people to switch systems but many people don't need or want to.
i've been virus and spyware/malware/crapware free since i've been using a computer (and i used to run unpatched too).
so clearly, it's the user that's at fault. the OS/machine certainly takes some blame but people need more education regardless of the short term successes or failures.
as a matter of fact, it would be you for pointing it out and me for pointing out your pointing it out.
glad we cleared that up.
notice i said fastest x86 cpu.
and besides, what kind of software would/could you run on an arm that would be useful for everyday tasks that ordinary people run?
if you want to reduce your software choices dramatically, that's your prerogative.
and you didn't even begin to address my questions/comments.
basically, what you're saying is that interactive fiction = ideal "rpg".
the problem with that is, that in the last 20 years or so, the gameplay , namely combat has been the focus of games. and to deviate from that is to make your "game" less of a game and more interactive fiction.
IF might be fun once in a while but the real meat of games is in the repititive actions, e.g. comabt. if that part of a game does not hold a persons interest, then the rest ultimately doesn't matter, even if you just play through to discover the plot and story underneath.
so what i'm trying to say (badly at that) is that any game needs the "meat" to have the most focus when being developed. that is what customers use the most in a game. it needs to hold your interest and be fun/enjoyable to play. too many games have decent stories and interesting potential only to have the actual core of the game be crap to spend time with.
now if only the content of the GTA series wasn't massively offensive and disgusting, i, an rpg-enjoyer, might actually try it.
now, i don't really mind playing the "bad guys" but in this specific case, it turns my stomach.
but we all have our own individual tastes.
i've never timed my standby to desktop before but i just did... 5 seconds.
i can only dream of an OS that !boots! in 5 seconds. hell even Beos took 15 secs.
i would still call that instantaneous.
your mileage may vary.
other than the fact that amd64 is the fastest x86 cpu for 32bit programs (and 64bit but thats not really relavent).
not to mention that xp64 support is abysmal in comparison.
yeah, yuppy idiots.
no, sleep has been reliable for me and others for quite a while, at least since win2k.
buggy device drivers usually are the culprit or the device physically not in compliance with acpi.
it was a total "failure" because microsoft went after it and killed it.
i don't know if it was brought up in the antitrust trial but it should have been.
it was a great OS, featuring many things that to this day many os's don't have and other that do tout it as though they're the best things since sliced bread.
with just a few years of maturing it would have been serious competition to linux, windows, mac and unix.
to this day, i haven't seen any OS that had the massive multithreading (read immense support for SMP) throughout the entire system.
that in 1998 you could open up 20-30 video windows and run them all SMOOTHLY on a p2 400. (something the 3-4 ghz cell proc. is boasting of doing though it was just a "demo")
frankly, it had a ton of potential. all these OS's of the past, including linux and unix are pretty much encumbered with slow multimedia relative to the absolute potential of the hardware.
anyway..
Lifetime
Propoganda for Women.
any clueful woman will say "stay away from those DRM crippled dvr devices and use mythtv."
no person likes to pay for the priveledge of being screwed over.
except this round, they haven't come close to "humiliating" PCs.
frankly, as long as consoles are DRM-crippled, they cannot even hope to compete with PCs on any level.
people would never knowingly buy a computer that is crippled to only do what its true owners want (i.e. not you).
PCs will be around loooong after the crooked console business is bankrupt.
the price of ink cartridges will skyrocket...
just a hunch
well thankfully, developers don't price the games, the middle-men aka publishers do.
of the reasonable copyright laws.
hmm, reasonable and copyright is an oxymoron.
dark physics and unified matter?
only dickheads laugh at others misfortunes.
thankfully you're not a dickhead...