Pretty well, actually, far better than a gamepad, though from what I hear an Arcade stick is best.
The only genres where KB+M are decididedly worse are flight sims, racing sims, space sims and sports games, and for the first three even gamepads suck compared to a proper, dedicated controller.
For Flight and Driving sims at least, there's an expectation from the community itself that if you're gonna play competitively you'll invest serious ($100+) money in serious gear and that if you don't, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Kinda like playing an FPS on a monitor that does 800x600 max, for example.
Try doing tech support sometimes. Your view of Windows is tainted by your own proficiency with it but I assure you: the average person cannot use Windows, and no, you can't be said to know how to use Windows with a malware-filled machine any more than somebody whose car is full of bumps and signs of crashes can be said to know how to drive.
Let me put it this way: if making WebM the defacto video standard worldwide is like sending a man to Mars, then tearing down software patents in the US is like sending a man to Alpha Centauri.
For someone that argues so behemently about choosing your battles carefully, I don't think you've considered the alternatives well enough.
You probably wouldn't by virtue of the size of the segments in question. If you were to post corrected versions of the whole page however, yeah I do expect you to get convicted of copyright infringement.
If the kind of interactivity described here, that the fact that design of item B is dependent upon the design of item A, in and of itself makes it subject to the license of A as a derivative product . . ..
Emphasis mine. Now, IANAL but as far as I understand it, copyright in the "design" world works a lot different than it does in programming. Take the Eiffel Tower for instance, the mere fact that the light pattern on it is itself under copyright is enough to make your nighttime photo of the tower an infringement of copyright and make you liable by the company that owns said lights.
Given that I can see how a WordPress template, which depends upon the basic layout of WordPress itself, could fall under its copyright. It may not, and I hope it doesn't since that kind of copyright is even worse than we've got now, but I don't think it's as clear cut as you believe.
When he says that "guns are tools for professionals" he means they're designed for the needs of professionals, not that only professionals use them.
Compare them with mid-grade dSLR cameras for instance. In spite of the fact that they drop all the "frills" of low-end cameras and add a few improvements that'd only confuse your average consumer but are a necessity for the working professional, they *still* sell like hot bread to rich morons worldwide. Are they professionals? hell no, they're only morons who wasted over a thousand dollars on a machine they cannot handle just to stroke their own ego. But that doesn't change the fact that the tools themselves are meant for professionals.
The only good thing is that, as annoying as the rich-stupid-and-proud dSLR owners are, at least they're not dangerous to themselves or others, as your average gun-nut is.
The devs behind Men of War (one of, if not *the* most realistic RTS in existence) had a similar problem when it came to implementing WW2-era tanks for multiplayer matches. Do you know how they solved it? simple, rather than cripple the German tanks to unrealistic levels, they simply allowed the Allies to field more at the same time: simple, elegant and it *worked*.
Would it work in an FPS? dunno. But I believe it does show that making both sides mere reskins of one another isn't the only solution for balancing a game.
I don't "get" the hate for Crysis. I've played the original Crysis through three times and Warhead twice, and have always found it highly enjoyable.
Well, it's simple. Most people have different taste, and many didn't like it. When coupled with the fact that the overwhelming majority of people who *did* like it name the graphics as their #1 reason, well, I can't say the hatred is entirely undeserved.
Personally I understand, though not share your impression of Crysis. I had a similar impression of Far Cry 2, a game that is *also* hated by many gamers though, not being as "OMG shiny" as Crysis, it doesn't have nearly the same amount of fans. Why did I like FC2 and not Crysis? probably just different taste;)
Ogg is not an "excellent product", by any means. Also, no one cares about it.
It was for a long time the best codec for low-bitrate encoding until WMA stepped up its efforts and beat it. And even so it remains an excellent codec, one with very widespread availability thanks to its use on Wikipedia and various game engines among others. Meanwhile FLAC is unquestionably the best and most popular lossless codec in existence, so even if we allowed for a second your poor argument against Ogg, with FLAC there's really no excuse whatsoever.
And WebKit, while derived from KHTML way back when, really is Apple's. Sorry.
Some projects are worthwhile, this smells of things like "ReactOS", i.e. something I would never use.
But fortunately, the Open Source community comprises a lot more people than just you.
I would suggest to the people on this project to go contribute to open source projects that would get people to even have an inclination of using a LINUX desktop.
And I would suggest *you* to go contribute to those projects if you want to see them succeed.
When I first visited Linux Hater, I thought I was dealing with extreme ignorance. But it quickly became apparent that he/she is actually an expert authority on software in general and Linux in particular.
Try reading it sober then.
Just to handpick an example, in his post about Ogg he rants about Vorbis the codec before quoting an article discussing Ogg the container. That's not a mistake a first-year CS student would make, let alone an "expert authority" on Software and/or Linux, nor a mistake a 14-years user of Linux would've ignored.
Will KDE software run on gnome? Will gnome software run on KDE?
Yes, though simply giving it a try would've answered your question in about two seconds.
Is the difference just cosmetic?
Depends on how anal you are about "integration" and "consistency", but if you come from Windows then yes, it's merely cosmetic.
Will a given piece of software run on all distros, or only some?
Depends on how anal you are about the meaning of "run". For instance, I can run Paint.NET seamlessly on Windows 7 but need to install the.NET runtime beforehand on XP, can I say I can "run" it in both of them? if so, then yes you can run everything on all distros, and if not then, well, you can't.
Is the installation different for each distro?
Obviously. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever to expect any different.
The reply to this is not to say, "well, then, just open it in Open Office." It may look similar to its version in Word, it may not. When Open Office looks exactly like Word 2007+, and works exactly the same way as well, then you can ask your question again.
When Word 2010 looks exactly like Word 2007 you can ask that question again.
How about people who have used Outlook for years in an office environment?
May God have mercy on their souls.
You've obviously not dealt with people for whom moving a icon from one place on the desktop to another results in complaints that "my Windows is broken," usually followed by, "I can't do my work until it's fixed."
I have, with an axe, though some recommend a shotgun. Seriously, anybody *that* incompetent already went to work to another field after the XP->Vista and Office 2003->2007 UI switch, and newly-born idiots can be safely ignored for being a tiny minority of the overall workforce.
If you're going to include practical concerns, then you should take into account differences in GDP as well. Sure it's easier to give everybody broadband when your country is just a tiny island rather than spanning a continent-wide territory, but it's also far easier when you make over $46k per capita rather than $3.6k like China or $8k for Brazil.
And if I want good gameplay I'll go out and play a sport.
Sorry, but I *hate* that "read a book" phrase. Gaming is what it is due to the relationship between all its components, it's not merely about gameplay just as it's not merely about graphics or storytelling.
One of the major hurdles gaming as an entertainment medium needs to overcome before it is taken as seriously as movies, theater and such by more than its major demographic is the pandering to the immature teenage obsession with sex and violence.
Two words: "Twilight" and "Transformers".
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Really? in my experience nearly all mentions of Wine are along the lines of "hey, it's fairly hit-or-miss but perhaps Wine can help you, give it a try" rather than "use Wine, it can run every Windows app flawlessly!". Hell, even Wine's own website states that it doesn't run everything so where you got the hype from I have no idea.
And in Wine's favor, my experience with them have been that nearly all apps either work out-of-the-box or don't at all. The ones that work-but-require-a-day-of-editing-config-files are more of a rarity that can be safely ignored by normal people since that issue will most likely be fixed by next version anyways. And if you absolutely *need* some specific app right here right now, well, you should've used VirtualBox to begin with.
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Pretty well, actually, far better than a gamepad, though from what I hear an Arcade stick is best.
The only genres where KB+M are decididedly worse are flight sims, racing sims, space sims and sports games, and for the first three even gamepads suck compared to a proper, dedicated controller.
For Flight and Driving sims at least, there's an expectation from the community itself that if you're gonna play competitively you'll invest serious ($100+) money in serious gear and that if you don't, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Kinda like playing an FPS on a monitor that does 800x600 max, for example.
Try doing tech support sometimes. Your view of Windows is tainted by your own proficiency with it but I assure you: the average person cannot use Windows, and no, you can't be said to know how to use Windows with a malware-filled machine any more than somebody whose car is full of bumps and signs of crashes can be said to know how to drive.
Let me put it this way: if making WebM the defacto video standard worldwide is like sending a man to Mars, then tearing down software patents in the US is like sending a man to Alpha Centauri.
For someone that argues so behemently about choosing your battles carefully, I don't think you've considered the alternatives well enough.
Some. Not all, not most, and most certainly not people who are just starting to learn how to program.
You probably wouldn't by virtue of the size of the segments in question. If you were to post corrected versions of the whole page however, yeah I do expect you to get convicted of copyright infringement.
But IANAL and all that.
If the kind of interactivity described here, that the fact that design of item B is dependent upon the design of item A, in and of itself makes it subject to the license of A as a derivative product . . . .
Emphasis mine. Now, IANAL but as far as I understand it, copyright in the "design" world works a lot different than it does in programming. Take the Eiffel Tower for instance, the mere fact that the light pattern on it is itself under copyright is enough to make your nighttime photo of the tower an infringement of copyright and make you liable by the company that owns said lights.
Given that I can see how a WordPress template, which depends upon the basic layout of WordPress itself, could fall under its copyright. It may not, and I hope it doesn't since that kind of copyright is even worse than we've got now, but I don't think it's as clear cut as you believe.
If the alternative is having *nobody* reviewing it, yeah I do.
When he says that "guns are tools for professionals" he means they're designed for the needs of professionals, not that only professionals use them.
Compare them with mid-grade dSLR cameras for instance. In spite of the fact that they drop all the "frills" of low-end cameras and add a few improvements that'd only confuse your average consumer but are a necessity for the working professional, they *still* sell like hot bread to rich morons worldwide. Are they professionals? hell no, they're only morons who wasted over a thousand dollars on a machine they cannot handle just to stroke their own ego. But that doesn't change the fact that the tools themselves are meant for professionals.
The only good thing is that, as annoying as the rich-stupid-and-proud dSLR owners are, at least they're not dangerous to themselves or others, as your average gun-nut is.
The devs behind Men of War (one of, if not *the* most realistic RTS in existence) had a similar problem when it came to implementing WW2-era tanks for multiplayer matches. Do you know how they solved it? simple, rather than cripple the German tanks to unrealistic levels, they simply allowed the Allies to field more at the same time: simple, elegant and it *worked*.
Would it work in an FPS? dunno. But I believe it does show that making both sides mere reskins of one another isn't the only solution for balancing a game.
Try the Rainbow Six (non-Vegas) series then, the ArmA series and Red Orchestra, you'll probably like them.
I don't "get" the hate for Crysis. I've played the original Crysis through three times and Warhead twice, and have always found it highly enjoyable.
Well, it's simple. Most people have different taste, and many didn't like it. When coupled with the fact that the overwhelming majority of people who *did* like it name the graphics as their #1 reason, well, I can't say the hatred is entirely undeserved.
Personally I understand, though not share your impression of Crysis. I had a similar impression of Far Cry 2, a game that is *also* hated by many gamers though, not being as "OMG shiny" as Crysis, it doesn't have nearly the same amount of fans. Why did I like FC2 and not Crysis? probably just different taste ;)
You're right, sorry about that, I meant Vorbis the audio codec rather than Ogg the container.
Ogg is not an "excellent product", by any means. Also, no one cares about it.
It was for a long time the best codec for low-bitrate encoding until WMA stepped up its efforts and beat it. And even so it remains an excellent codec, one with very widespread availability thanks to its use on Wikipedia and various game engines among others. Meanwhile FLAC is unquestionably the best and most popular lossless codec in existence, so even if we allowed for a second your poor argument against Ogg, with FLAC there's really no excuse whatsoever.
And WebKit, while derived from KHTML way back when, really is Apple's. Sorry.
Sorry but no, it really isn't.
Some projects are worthwhile, this smells of things like "ReactOS", i.e. something I would never use.
But fortunately, the Open Source community comprises a lot more people than just you.
I would suggest to the people on this project to go contribute to open source projects that would get people to even have an inclination of using a LINUX desktop.
And I would suggest *you* to go contribute to those projects if you want to see them succeed.
Apple just wants the best products and doesn't want to have to depend on others to get them, and Flash is the opposite of both of those things.
And proof of it is their excellent support for Ogg and FLAC on their products. Oh, wait.
Heck, their biggest competitor in their fastest-growing market is basing their entire web experience on Apple's browser engine
Apple's? me thinks you were a bit too generous with the kool-aid this morning.
And it's people like you that ensure Windows will never be safer than a wet paper bag.
When I first visited Linux Hater, I thought I was dealing with extreme ignorance. But it quickly became apparent that he/she is actually an expert authority on software in general and Linux in particular.
Try reading it sober then.
Just to handpick an example, in his post about Ogg he rants about Vorbis the codec before quoting an article discussing Ogg the container. That's not a mistake a first-year CS student would make, let alone an "expert authority" on Software and/or Linux, nor a mistake a 14-years user of Linux would've ignored.
Had he been sober, of course ;)
Will KDE software run on gnome? Will gnome software run on KDE?
Yes, though simply giving it a try would've answered your question in about two seconds.
Is the difference just cosmetic?
Depends on how anal you are about "integration" and "consistency", but if you come from Windows then yes, it's merely cosmetic.
Will a given piece of software run on all distros, or only some?
Depends on how anal you are about the meaning of "run". For instance, I can run Paint.NET seamlessly on Windows 7 but need to install the .NET runtime beforehand on XP, can I say I can "run" it in both of them? if so, then yes you can run everything on all distros, and if not then, well, you can't.
Is the installation different for each distro?
Obviously. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever to expect any different.
The reply to this is not to say, "well, then, just open it in Open Office." It may look similar to its version in Word, it may not. When Open Office looks exactly like Word 2007+, and works exactly the same way as well, then you can ask your question again.
When Word 2010 looks exactly like Word 2007 you can ask that question again.
How about people who have used Outlook for years in an office environment?
May God have mercy on their souls.
You've obviously not dealt with people for whom moving a icon from one place on the desktop to another results in complaints that "my Windows is broken," usually followed by, "I can't do my work until it's fixed."
I have, with an axe, though some recommend a shotgun. Seriously, anybody *that* incompetent already went to work to another field after the XP->Vista and Office 2003->2007 UI switch, and newly-born idiots can be safely ignored for being a tiny minority of the overall workforce.
If you're going to include practical concerns, then you should take into account differences in GDP as well. Sure it's easier to give everybody broadband when your country is just a tiny island rather than spanning a continent-wide territory, but it's also far easier when you make over $46k per capita rather than $3.6k like China or $8k for Brazil.
And if I want good gameplay I'll go out and play a sport.
Sorry, but I *hate* that "read a book" phrase. Gaming is what it is due to the relationship between all its components, it's not merely about gameplay just as it's not merely about graphics or storytelling.
One of the major hurdles gaming as an entertainment medium needs to overcome before it is taken as seriously as movies, theater and such by more than its major demographic is the pandering to the immature teenage obsession with sex and violence.
Two words: "Twilight" and "Transformers".
Really? in my experience nearly all mentions of Wine are along the lines of "hey, it's fairly hit-or-miss but perhaps Wine can help you, give it a try" rather than "use Wine, it can run every Windows app flawlessly!". Hell, even Wine's own website states that it doesn't run everything so where you got the hype from I have no idea.
And in Wine's favor, my experience with them have been that nearly all apps either work out-of-the-box or don't at all. The ones that work-but-require-a-day-of-editing-config-files are more of a rarity that can be safely ignored by normal people since that issue will most likely be fixed by next version anyways. And if you absolutely *need* some specific app right here right now, well, you should've used VirtualBox to begin with.
And XP isn't bad, as long as you don't try to run anything that uses DirectX10 and weren't planning on using more than 2 GBs of RAM.
All OSes have areas they're weak in, and my personal opinion is that Windows 7's are a *lot* easier to deal with than XP's.