Don't generalize, I never wished for such a thing. I just wanted and want to have fun period, all my friends and I are gamers since the 80s. And most of us find the current game generation to be horrid outside of indie gaming or rare gems.
If anything games are becoming more like computer games overall. Traditional console RPGs look more like MMOs now, games require patching and even have DRM...a few quirks introduced by lazy companies that do lazy ports don't make "consolitis".
I can do without the microwhatever, but after all the time I spent tagging and getting the routine of tagging new bookmarks, I am not going to enjoy this. Fortunately there seems to be some vocal support for them. Same with places queries, they are quite powerful and helped me organize my bookmarks a lot... If there's anyone with a minimal of "influence" (AKA his/her opinion won't be disregarded as null), please step in and help preventing the browser from being directly wired to the cloud, as many mozilla people is suggesting. They can't axe tags because of sync. (I am not making this up unfortunately, check the bugzilla links in the article and how some suggest the whole bookmark system to rely on web services).
It is an open thing, if there are no more female contributors is simply because they are not interested...What is the specific reason this is a problem? As far as I am concerned wikipedians could be genderless robots. It is not a private company where governments or other organizations can enforce gender parity. There is no need to, simply. If females want to edit wikipedia just let them and that's all. If they don't want...well, I don't want either, it sounds like a boring thing to do, so I understand.
Someone check this out to see the quality of this closed code! Code quality is often a excuse for commercial software to sell VS OSS, and I am interested on how "higher" the quality of this stuff is.
The European magpie ("pica pica") also recognizes itself on mirrors, can use tools, design crude strategies and memorize a human's appearance, even holding a grudge (like other corvidae). Yet people considers them pests or "stupid air-shitting birds". I will consider dolphins (one of the few species that is proven to kill for sport/pleasure), stupid water-shitting fish. If dolphins could peck on crops you can bet nobody would like them, no matter how great their fish brain is.
Indeed, I am a/m/ regular, that's like a gentleman's club in comparison to the rest of the site./b/ is a craphole and only enjoyed by regulars there, IMO. Would be better if it was more comedy and less grotesque imagery or such.
Sure, it's a noble goal, but how does a completely free kernel benefit users if at all? (or even worse). That "freedom" is only noticeable in licensing and stuff, and unless the user is extremely self-conscious about copyright laws, it'll offer a diluted, incomplete experience. What means that user will bounce back to Win/Mac after trying linux and seeing how many devices don't work without binary drivers.
Seriously, they want to become more niche or satisfy users? I really can't tell.
'They are doing the right thing to seek it out. I wonder what it would be like if more people could implement their own ideas.'"
This. I've met people with great concepts but extremely afraid of doing the coding parts, or art, or whatever. It bothers me. I have what I consider good ideas, and people I talk to seems to agree to some extent, but I found out that unless I made them, nobody would. Having the idea and bringing it to execution is perfection.
But the bugs and annoyances in effect exist since 4.5 beta. It's really annoying. Stuff like gtk icons vanishing at *random* from the systray, odd focus issues (many apps never focus text input by default, making a quick "open program and search" take more steps than it should) and annoyances with the notification system, and plasma can randomly eat a lot of RAM for no apparent reason, even without using any plasmoid. Kwin's effects aiming for usability (such as zoom and present windows) still haven't had a single tweak, the former being impossible to use with the mouse (I have a hand handicap, compiz supports it, but I require kwin's window settings) and the later still being unable to present windows using proper spacing (a 4x4 grid has a lot of empty space and minuscule windows, no matter your settings). Krusader (now an official part of KDE) still hasn't fixed the "run every program you double-click into $HOME/Documents" bug, because no one takes care of the kdelibs bug causing it. A filemanager that can't run double-clicked apps in 2010. Please.
KDE4 has been having a long story of tiny annoyances being left unfixed. This is the reason people is so divided about it. On one hand you have a lot of almost exclusive things that are incredibly good. Things that save time, things that you can set up to your tastes. GOOD things. On the other hand you have a lot of tiny annoyances, strange little bugs, and decisions like starting Akonadi just because you placed a clock in your panel. The network manager app still does nothing here, forcing me to use the gtk version. It's been in this state for a couple years at least. They really need to start reading the brainstorm pages, fix little bugs and try to do something like Ubuntu's papercuts. They can't focus a full release on polishing only the fetish of the moment.
Wow, after such a long delay since 4.5 I expected...something else. 4.5 was a specially troubling release for me, and I see no indication of the introduced misbehaviors being fixed...I'll go cry in a corner.
Basement dwellers are usually considered scum in social circles. No matter how intelligent they actually are, the "nerd" or "mom's basement-dweller" is considered stupid because of their failing/failed social interactions. The only difference between a cat and a nerd is that cats are cute and fuzzy. A cat will only aim to please itself or survive by itself. Under that comparison, for a cat, you are the mom. Once in a while the cat will go out and meet other nerds (possibly LARPing under the starry sky) and occasionally, due to cats being a society of nerds, one of them will score and if you own a female cat...well, you got grandsons and granddaughters. I wonder how the internets will look like if basement dwellers were cute. Photos with cute macros and motivational posters applied to nerds worldwide. Nerds as icons. Every girl wanting a nerd near her bed. Cats are creatures that, if being human, would self-diagnose themselves with Asperger's and waste their day grinding MMOs and sleeping near a steady supply of food.
Now seriously. I dislike cats as pets. And even so when I see a cat doing something cute I can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, fully knowing they are egotistic creatures that don't give a damn about you in general terms. Many humans must be hardwired to like cats for some reason. Must be the shape or the movement or something.
However, note that varying races of cats and dogs have different personality patterns. So of course your mileage may vary.
Many games nowadays are nowhere as engaging as old ones. Sounds like an old guy's rant, but it's simply true. I find myself revisiting classics like Gunstar Heroes and Super Mario World really often. Since the 32-bit era I find myself playing mostly roguelike games, pokemon (say what you want about the cute critters but the game has substance, ideal for a portable title), and indie stuff like Spelunky, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft, or "japanese-indie"(doujin) games such as Touhou (ignore the animu fanboys and you get solid arcade gameplay). Oh and Doom, still fun after all this time. I'd take it over yet another "real war" game anytime.
Most games you find today are pretty much graphics. That's it. Some are only fun for a few hours and they might stop being fun before the climax, which is pretty sad, as the game ends up unfinished or becoming a "pending task". Not to mention the "cash-in" games with bad graphics and bad gameplay that resemble Flash games and are the "casual" crap people dislikes so much, yet have solid sales.
It's not that we became old or our tastes became more refined. It's just that now top-class games are as engaging as mediocre games of the past. I don't blame bad developers or anything, though. I blame "people in suits" (corporate drones, such as marketing or sales people) dictating what is done (and . I find the old games, often made by a dozen or less people, have more "free will" than games of now, as well. Perhaps bigger teams make the experience less engaging as the idea is "diluted" from so many hands working on it?
It's not that I am a grumpy old gamer either. While I enjoy and even love 2D aesthetics, I can still appreciate games from the previous generation, but this one (marked by DRM, draconian usage laws, overly expensive consoles for their worth, flash games becoming a common marketable title, consoles with download-only stuff (PSPgo)) is...bland. Feels like instead of games we are getting test programs for cloud distribution and DRM systems. And crap like deprecating "playing with friends" (In the same room, with some beers, having fun) in favor of "playing with 'friends'" (random online people who might or might not be a 13yo). Example? Starcraft 2. The game might kick ass but you remember LAN partying the original? Yeah, welcome to the future.
Indie is the future for me. (Although I can criticize indie games for sharing the same damn "Alien Hominid" type of designs. Didn't you cringe when Eversion HD got some of that, and it looked completely out of place? Yeah, that. Now notice how many indie games share the very same style.)
The opposite happens often as well, though. Hater's gonna hate, but fanboy is going to whiteknight over everything as well. I personally have nothing against Apple, but I can't afford their products, and you can't go anywhere without hearing Apple this Apple that since the iphone came out. Sure it might be relevant tech news but it's getting monothematic.
Every day there's Apple related news in almost every technology news source I visit. I am really tired of them. I can't afford an Apple product, I don't want to keep getting "convinced" about it.
With news sites doing the advertising for them I am not even sure they need to actually try to take over the internets.
Am I the only one thinking that suit is incredibly cool? It's not even "decorated" but I think it looks flashier without. I mean, I watched and liked Iron Man, and seeing the prototype compared to Iron Man's armor, made the prototype look way cooler. Attack some weapons on the shoulders and you got pure scifi material!
Oh, my bad! Yes of course Lua is slower than C, that's undeniable. I just develop games, to be honest, didn't really find interest on "the desktop". C/C++ + Lua is a really speedy combo allowing for great realtime stuff. I heard a lot of Haskell evangelism too...dunno if it's fanboyism or fact, though.
Considering how badly poultry is handled (and killed) compared to cows and piggies, this means breeding huge batches of chickens, let them develop physical injuries while trapped in a small box with 1000 other chickens, share space with dead chickens no one is taking care of, and get killed while being skinned alive. Exactly the same as the "for food" poultry industry. I am no PETA guy, but the treatment of birds by farmers and laborers is remarkably cruel. From the designers of the cages (filthy and lacking hygiene, stacking as many birds as possible in a tiny space, allowing dead birds to just rot there with MEAT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION) to the laborers (who abuse birds during handling, smashing them around, hitting them just because they had a bad day, crushing and kicking them when putting 20 in a minuscule cage, etc.) and the chemicals used (even seen mutant chicken chicks? I have, and it's really sad) The minimal hygiene you find in those places is because of inspections and such, and to avoid shipping poisoned meat. Imagine how much worse it's got to be when a factory is not using them for food. The way they will be fattened is likely to be similar to how ducks and gooses get their livers ready for use in foie-gras. Check it around, it's not nice. Foie-gras farms are the bird equivalent of Hellraiser, with pierced throats and deformed organs. I worked at a poultry farm for a while. It's hellish. I can't eat any form of poultry anymore. (while still cruel, life for beef and pork is practically luxurious in comparison.)
I disagree. I code in Lua extensively and never found it behind Python or Perl in terms of speed. I'd even say it's actually faster. Never did any serious benchmarks, but doing a procedurally generated world using Lua code, with a list of materials and complex items to populate dungeons, it's really really fast with Lua. Same with AI code and "actor states", control handling and projectile control. I have this program that runs 64 AIs, every one in it's own sandbox, one Lua state at a time (reportedly the "sub-optimal" way to handle Lua) and I get little to no latency every frame. Whereas python chokes under similar code (not bashing python at all, I love it and works much better for desktop apps). Oh my computer is terrible by the way, no modern game runs on it, but my own stuff filled with sub-optimal Lua runs pretty well.
I got some strange...thing in my hands that makes moving them very painful, mostly the fingers. Drawing became difficult since then, and I can't really use my left hand (same condition) or anything...it's a massive delay in my projects. Since this started I lost more and more interest on doing anything, since it's just painful and unrewarding.
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Don't generalize, I never wished for such a thing.
I just wanted and want to have fun period, all my friends and I are gamers since the 80s. And most of us find the current game generation to be horrid outside of indie gaming or rare gems.
If anything games are becoming more like computer games overall. Traditional console RPGs look more like MMOs now, games require patching and even have DRM...a few quirks introduced by lazy companies that do lazy ports don't make "consolitis".
What worries me more about the strange shift in numbering, is that they are planning to axe a number of features to favor sync.
(Source: http://decafbad.com/blog/2011/02/06/pay-phones-and-firefox-features/comment-page-1#comment-467395 )
I can do without the microwhatever, but after all the time I spent tagging and getting the routine of tagging new bookmarks, I am not going to enjoy this. Fortunately there seems to be some vocal support for them.
Same with places queries, they are quite powerful and helped me organize my bookmarks a lot...
If there's anyone with a minimal of "influence" (AKA his/her opinion won't be disregarded as null), please step in and help preventing the browser from being directly wired to the cloud, as many mozilla people is suggesting. They can't axe tags because of sync. (I am not making this up unfortunately, check the bugzilla links in the article and how some suggest the whole bookmark system to rely on web services).
It is an open thing, if there are no more female contributors is simply because they are not interested...What is the specific reason this is a problem?
As far as I am concerned wikipedians could be genderless robots. It is not a private company where governments or other organizations can enforce gender parity. There is no need to, simply. If females want to edit wikipedia just let them and that's all. If they don't want...well, I don't want either, it sounds like a boring thing to do, so I understand.
I just want to be this kid's best friend. So I can say "My best friend is a robot".
Someone check this out to see the quality of this closed code!
Code quality is often a excuse for commercial software to sell VS OSS, and I am interested on how "higher" the quality of this stuff is.
"That's no moon"
The European magpie ("pica pica") also recognizes itself on mirrors, can use tools, design crude strategies and memorize a human's appearance, even holding a grudge (like other corvidae). Yet people considers them pests or "stupid air-shitting birds".
I will consider dolphins (one of the few species that is proven to kill for sport/pleasure), stupid water-shitting fish.
If dolphins could peck on crops you can bet nobody would like them, no matter how great their fish brain is.
Indeed, I am a /m/ regular, that's like a gentleman's club in comparison to the rest of the site. /b/ is a craphole and only enjoyed by regulars there, IMO. Would be better if it was more comedy and less grotesque imagery or such.
Sure, it's a noble goal, but how does a completely free kernel benefit users if at all? (or even worse).
That "freedom" is only noticeable in licensing and stuff, and unless the user is extremely self-conscious about copyright laws, it'll offer a diluted, incomplete experience. What means that user will bounce back to Win/Mac after trying linux and seeing how many devices don't work without binary drivers.
Seriously, they want to become more niche or satisfy users? I really can't tell.
Stop derailing my attempts at discussion you internet person!
'They are doing the right thing to seek it out. I wonder what it would be like if more people could implement their own ideas.'"
This. I've met people with great concepts but extremely afraid of doing the coding parts, or art, or whatever. It bothers me.
I have what I consider good ideas, and people I talk to seems to agree to some extent, but I found out that unless I made them, nobody would.
Having the idea and bringing it to execution is perfection.
Anyone remembers the Nokia N-gage? 'nuff said.
Why Bill? Didn't he retire?
Perhaps more can be read on the fact that you want to feed Bill Gates your seed, though...*cough*
But the bugs and annoyances in effect exist since 4.5 beta. It's really annoying.
Stuff like gtk icons vanishing at *random* from the systray, odd focus issues (many apps never focus text input by default, making a quick "open program and search" take more steps than it should) and annoyances with the notification system, and plasma can randomly eat a lot of RAM for no apparent reason, even without using any plasmoid.
Kwin's effects aiming for usability (such as zoom and present windows) still haven't had a single tweak, the former being impossible to use with the mouse (I have a hand handicap, compiz supports it, but I require kwin's window settings) and the later still being unable to present windows using proper spacing (a 4x4 grid has a lot of empty space and minuscule windows, no matter your settings).
Krusader (now an official part of KDE) still hasn't fixed the "run every program you double-click into $HOME/Documents" bug, because no one takes care of the kdelibs bug causing it. A filemanager that can't run double-clicked apps in 2010. Please.
KDE4 has been having a long story of tiny annoyances being left unfixed. This is the reason people is so divided about it. On one hand you have a lot of almost exclusive things that are incredibly good. Things that save time, things that you can set up to your tastes. GOOD things.
On the other hand you have a lot of tiny annoyances, strange little bugs, and decisions like starting Akonadi just because you placed a clock in your panel. The network manager app still does nothing here, forcing me to use the gtk version. It's been in this state for a couple years at least.
They really need to start reading the brainstorm pages, fix little bugs and try to do something like Ubuntu's papercuts. They can't focus a full release on polishing only the fetish of the moment.
Wow, after such a long delay since 4.5 I expected...something else. 4.5 was a specially troubling release for me, and I see no indication of the introduced misbehaviors being fixed...I'll go cry in a corner.
Basement dwellers are usually considered scum in social circles. No matter how intelligent they actually are, the "nerd" or "mom's basement-dweller" is considered stupid because of their failing/failed social interactions.
The only difference between a cat and a nerd is that cats are cute and fuzzy. A cat will only aim to please itself or survive by itself. Under that comparison, for a cat, you are the mom. Once in a while the cat will go out and meet other nerds (possibly LARPing under the starry sky) and occasionally, due to cats being a society of nerds, one of them will score and if you own a female cat...well, you got grandsons and granddaughters.
I wonder how the internets will look like if basement dwellers were cute. Photos with cute macros and motivational posters applied to nerds worldwide.
Nerds as icons. Every girl wanting a nerd near her bed.
Cats are creatures that, if being human, would self-diagnose themselves with Asperger's and waste their day grinding MMOs and sleeping near a steady supply of food.
Now seriously. I dislike cats as pets. And even so when I see a cat doing something cute I can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, fully knowing they are egotistic creatures that don't give a damn about you in general terms. Many humans must be hardwired to like cats for some reason. Must be the shape or the movement or something.
However, note that varying races of cats and dogs have different personality patterns. So of course your mileage may vary.
Many games nowadays are nowhere as engaging as old ones.
Sounds like an old guy's rant, but it's simply true. I find myself revisiting classics like Gunstar Heroes and Super Mario World really often.
Since the 32-bit era I find myself playing mostly roguelike games, pokemon (say what you want about the cute critters but the game has substance, ideal for a portable title), and indie stuff like Spelunky, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft, or "japanese-indie"(doujin) games such as Touhou (ignore the animu fanboys and you get solid arcade gameplay). Oh and Doom, still fun after all this time. I'd take it over yet another "real war" game anytime.
Most games you find today are pretty much graphics. That's it. Some are only fun for a few hours and they might stop being fun before the climax, which is pretty sad, as the game ends up unfinished or becoming a "pending task". Not to mention the "cash-in" games with bad graphics and bad gameplay that resemble Flash games and are the "casual" crap people dislikes so much, yet have solid sales.
It's not that we became old or our tastes became more refined. It's just that now top-class games are as engaging as mediocre games of the past. I don't blame bad developers or anything, though. I blame "people in suits" (corporate drones, such as marketing or sales people) dictating what is done (and . I find the old games, often made by a dozen or less people, have more "free will" than games of now, as well. Perhaps bigger teams make the experience less engaging as the idea is "diluted" from so many hands working on it?
It's not that I am a grumpy old gamer either. While I enjoy and even love 2D aesthetics, I can still appreciate games from the previous generation, but this one (marked by DRM, draconian usage laws, overly expensive consoles for their worth, flash games becoming a common marketable title, consoles with download-only stuff (PSPgo)) is...bland. Feels like instead of games we are getting test programs for cloud distribution and DRM systems. And crap like deprecating "playing with friends" (In the same room, with some beers, having fun) in favor of "playing with 'friends'" (random online people who might or might not be a 13yo). Example? Starcraft 2. The game might kick ass but you remember LAN partying the original? Yeah, welcome to the future.
Indie is the future for me. (Although I can criticize indie games for sharing the same damn "Alien Hominid" type of designs. Didn't you cringe when Eversion HD got some of that, and it looked completely out of place? Yeah, that. Now notice how many indie games share the very same style.)
The opposite happens often as well, though. Hater's gonna hate, but fanboy is going to whiteknight over everything as well.
I personally have nothing against Apple, but I can't afford their products, and you can't go anywhere without hearing Apple this Apple that since the iphone came out. Sure it might be relevant tech news but it's getting monothematic.
Every day there's Apple related news in almost every technology news source I visit. I am really tired of them. I can't afford an Apple product, I don't want to keep getting "convinced" about it.
With news sites doing the advertising for them I am not even sure they need to actually try to take over the internets.
Am I the only one thinking that suit is incredibly cool? It's not even "decorated" but I think it looks flashier without.
I mean, I watched and liked Iron Man, and seeing the prototype compared to Iron Man's armor, made the prototype look way cooler. Attack some weapons on the shoulders and you got pure scifi material!
Oh, my bad! Yes of course Lua is slower than C, that's undeniable.
I just develop games, to be honest, didn't really find interest on "the desktop". C/C++ + Lua is a really speedy combo allowing for great realtime stuff.
I heard a lot of Haskell evangelism too...dunno if it's fanboyism or fact, though.
Considering how badly poultry is handled (and killed) compared to cows and piggies, this means breeding huge batches of chickens, let them develop physical injuries while trapped in a small box with 1000 other chickens, share space with dead chickens no one is taking care of, and get killed while being skinned alive. Exactly the same as the "for food" poultry industry.
I am no PETA guy, but the treatment of birds by farmers and laborers is remarkably cruel. From the designers of the cages (filthy and lacking hygiene, stacking as many birds as possible in a tiny space, allowing dead birds to just rot there with MEAT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION) to the laborers (who abuse birds during handling, smashing them around, hitting them just because they had a bad day, crushing and kicking them when putting 20 in a minuscule cage, etc.) and the chemicals used (even seen mutant chicken chicks? I have, and it's really sad)
The minimal hygiene you find in those places is because of inspections and such, and to avoid shipping poisoned meat. Imagine how much worse it's got to be when a factory is not using them for food.
The way they will be fattened is likely to be similar to how ducks and gooses get their livers ready for use in foie-gras. Check it around, it's not nice. Foie-gras farms are the bird equivalent of Hellraiser, with pierced throats and deformed organs.
I worked at a poultry farm for a while. It's hellish. I can't eat any form of poultry anymore. (while still cruel, life for beef and pork is practically luxurious in comparison.)
I disagree. I code in Lua extensively and never found it behind Python or Perl in terms of speed. I'd even say it's actually faster.
Never did any serious benchmarks, but doing a procedurally generated world using Lua code, with a list of materials and complex items to populate dungeons, it's really really fast with Lua. Same with AI code and "actor states", control handling and projectile control. I have this program that runs 64 AIs, every one in it's own sandbox, one Lua state at a time (reportedly the "sub-optimal" way to handle Lua) and I get little to no latency every frame. Whereas python chokes under similar code (not bashing python at all, I love it and works much better for desktop apps). Oh my computer is terrible by the way, no modern game runs on it, but my own stuff filled with sub-optimal Lua runs pretty well.
I got some strange...thing in my hands that makes moving them very painful, mostly the fingers. Drawing became difficult since then, and I can't really use my left hand (same condition) or anything...it's a massive delay in my projects.
Since this started I lost more and more interest on doing anything, since it's just painful and unrewarding.