Other than Halo and Diues Ex 2 (neither of which has gotten glowing reviews on the PC side of things), how many XBox games have been ported to Windows? Oh, yeah. Tetris Worlds. Other than that?
I bought an Xbox because I was tired of the whole "New Game Breaks Shit" and "This Upgrade Will Break Old Games Shit" that I've suffered through for the last ten years of PC gaming. I'm tired of a new game needing the newest drivers and those nice new drivers hosing my older software. I'm tired of having my existing library die because a new sound card, video card, motherboard or RAM upgrade.
Every one of my old DreamCast games still works. Every one of my old PlayStation (one) games still works. Most of my PC games from that era are dead.
It could be worse that Bob and Clippy. It could think that you're gay (or straight if you are gay) and automatically sign you up for some VERY incompatible dates.
Never, and I mean NEVAR!!!!1 use psersonal property at work (save your clothes, of course). My job strictly forbids bringing in outsode technology for work. No laptops, no PCs, no privately owned backup systems, no cell phones, no PDAs, nothing. It's either owned by my employer or it stays home.
If having alerts sent to you is so important find a solution that abides by this rule. The most obvious is to get your employer to pony up teh money for a company owned pager for you to recieve alerts on. This will satisfy their desire to make sure you aren't goofing off on your cell phone and it will allow you to get the alerts you need.
A little thought and less "OMFG! I'm being oppressed!" and you might have gotten to that conclusion on your own.
Why? Because outside of the small, hardcore fanbase, no one gives a damn about the Amiga anymore. To most of the planet it's like the Gravis Ultra Sound: dead and forgotten.
The RIAA isn't perfect and it does eat the lion's share of aernings from CD sales. But for most artists it's the only way to get exposure and seed money to make albums. If there is a monetary battle with the RIAA it's not between you and the RIAA, no matter what you think. It's between the signed artists and the RIAA.
If the artist gets $1.00 for each CD sold (and I'm guessing, I don't know how bad it really is) and the RIAA eats the rest it is not fait to the artist to distribute his/her/their work without any compensation just to "stick it to the Man, man!". They got a raw deal, and you screwing them doesn't make it any better.
It's not your age that's the problem. It's how long you've been playing video games. The first games you play tend to be the ones you remember as being the best because you were just starting out in computer games and everything is still new and novel.
Here's a few old-school examples: When I started in games id Software's Wolfenstein 3D was in full stride and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Then came DOOM. For me DOOM was one of the best games ever made, with Wolf3D being among the other top ten contenders.
A year or so later ROTT came out. Technically it was somewhere between Wolf3D and DOOM and a LOT of people who were just getting into gaming thought it was the best thing around. I thought it was crap (and I still do). Was it crap? Objectively, no. Subjectively? For me it was.
Nothing in the FPS world interested me much until Quake 1 came out and we all got real 3D. Since Quake 1 it's mostly been refinements and prettier environs. Nothing has wow'd me like Quake 1 except for Half-Life and that wasn't because of the graphics.
Are these new FPS games (and I use these example because these are what I play) not well done? Are they bilge? Do they suck? Some do, but many are very well made games. They just don't dazzle me anymore because I've been there and seen that. Now there are just more colors and rounder asses on the women.
It's very hard to recapture the wonder you felt when you first started playing games.
I worked for a company that used Gateways exclusively. Why? Becuase the boss bought one and wanted her work computer to be exactly the same as her home computer. They were terrible. Over-priced hunks of crap. We had more problems with them than I care to remember.
And then there was that one E-Machine we bought as a PC-based FAX center. What a disaster that was!
Most people who get porn on the Internet wouldn't dream of going into an adult bookstore. Especially in the more conservative parts of the country. Your next door neighbors don't know that you download porn from vegansluts.com, but they know if you stop by the Manhandler adult bookstore.
The correct quote is: Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katharina: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katharina: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
Actually, it's the Capitalist claim that property ownsers should be compensated for the use of their property, no matter what kind it is. It's the Socialist idea that everything should be shared and what belongs to you also belongs to me.
That's not the fault of the size of the install. That's a fault in the design of the software itself. If an OS had a hard drive footprint of 4megabytes and was slow as dog snot in Antarctica it wouldn't be better than an OS with a 1.5GB hard drive footprint that was as fast as greased lightning.
Doesn't really matter. Professional level rendering isn't done in hardware, anyway. It's all software based. You get much better results in siftware. Hardware rendering is only good for games and other real-time rendering systems.
At best a drive might have 5% to 10% of its "real" space set aside for bad sector remapping. There is no way in hell that any drive manufacturer os going to provide 100% bad sector remapping. They would go broke.
And the drive punch that turned a 720K DSDD 3.5" floppy into a 1.44M DSHD 3.5" floppy. That one worked most of the time. Unless you actually cared about preserving the data on your punched disks.
Other than the ancient 8bit Atari machines, there has been only ONE console that was backwards compatible. One. And with Sony's lackluster showing of opening day titles it was needed.
But, really, who cares if next gen systems are compatible with current systems? Owning an XBox2 will not suddenly make your XBox explode. You can still play your old XBox games on your XBox, your old CameCube games on your old GameCube, your old PS/PS2 games on your PS2, you old GameSlave games on your GameSlave.
It's not that Joe Average doesn't care, he/she doesn't know he/she should care! They trust their computer. The idea that malware can hijack their systems is alien to them. The fault is not the end user. The fault is with MicroSoft's default security settings leaving thier PCs as wide open as Goaste.Cx's bunghole, along with sinking Internet Explorer's tenticles deep into the core of the OS.
Simply setting IE to not autoinstall software over the net, or REQUIRING an Administrator password to install said software (a-la Mac OSX and some modern Linux distros) would reduce this crap by a large extent.
Don't blame the user for what is the fault of the creator. Is a car driver at fault if the car he/she is driving was shipped with defective brakes?
For you, maybe not. But for 90% of the people on line, email is why they got online in the first place and it is the primary reason they continue to get online. And that is what nakes a "killer app".
And people said the same thing about electricity. Sure, it's neet and it makes these bulb things glow, but how will it heat my house, cook my food, suck dirt from my rugs, chill my milk, etc...
Producing the energy is just the first step. If this does actually work you can bet your testicles that someone will figure out a way to harvest the energy.
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Other than Halo and Diues Ex 2 (neither of which has gotten glowing reviews on the PC side of things), how many XBox games have been ported to Windows? Oh, yeah. Tetris Worlds. Other than that?
I bought an Xbox because I was tired of the whole "New Game Breaks Shit" and "This Upgrade Will Break Old Games Shit" that I've suffered through for the last ten years of PC gaming. I'm tired of a new game needing the newest drivers and those nice new drivers hosing my older software. I'm tired of having my existing library die because a new sound card, video card, motherboard or RAM upgrade.
Every one of my old DreamCast games still works. Every one of my old PlayStation (one) games still works. Most of my PC games from that era are dead.
It could be worse that Bob and Clippy. It could think that you're gay (or straight if you are gay) and automatically sign you up for some VERY incompatible dates.
And your death will feed many worms. That doesn't make the tragedy of you death any less painful.
But I feel compelled to respond.
Never, and I mean NEVAR!!!!1 use psersonal property at work (save your clothes, of course). My job strictly forbids bringing in outsode technology for work. No laptops, no PCs, no privately owned backup systems, no cell phones, no PDAs, nothing. It's either owned by my employer or it stays home.
If having alerts sent to you is so important find a solution that abides by this rule. The most obvious is to get your employer to pony up teh money for a company owned pager for you to recieve alerts on. This will satisfy their desire to make sure you aren't goofing off on your cell phone and it will allow you to get the alerts you need.
A little thought and less "OMFG! I'm being oppressed!" and you might have gotten to that conclusion on your own.
Why? Because outside of the small, hardcore fanbase, no one gives a damn about the Amiga anymore. To most of the planet it's like the Gravis Ultra Sound: dead and forgotten.
The RIAA isn't perfect and it does eat the lion's share of aernings from CD sales. But for most artists it's the only way to get exposure and seed money to make albums. If there is a monetary battle with the RIAA it's not between you and the RIAA, no matter what you think. It's between the signed artists and the RIAA.
If the artist gets $1.00 for each CD sold (and I'm guessing, I don't know how bad it really is) and the RIAA eats the rest it is not fait to the artist to distribute his/her/their work without any compensation just to "stick it to the Man, man!". They got a raw deal, and you screwing them doesn't make it any better.
It's not your age that's the problem. It's how long you've been playing video games. The first games you play tend to be the ones you remember as being the best because you were just starting out in computer games and everything is still new and novel.
Here's a few old-school examples:
When I started in games id Software's Wolfenstein 3D was in full stride and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Then came DOOM. For me DOOM was one of the best games ever made, with Wolf3D being among the other top ten contenders.
A year or so later ROTT came out. Technically it was somewhere between Wolf3D and DOOM and a LOT of people who were just getting into gaming thought it was the best thing around. I thought it was crap (and I still do). Was it crap? Objectively, no. Subjectively? For me it was.
Nothing in the FPS world interested me much until Quake 1 came out and we all got real 3D. Since Quake 1 it's mostly been refinements and prettier environs. Nothing has wow'd me like Quake 1 except for Half-Life and that wasn't because of the graphics.
Are these new FPS games (and I use these example because these are what I play) not well done? Are they bilge? Do they suck? Some do, but many are very well made games. They just don't dazzle me anymore because I've been there and seen that. Now there are just more colors and rounder asses on the women.
It's very hard to recapture the wonder you felt when you first started playing games.
I worked for a company that used Gateways exclusively. Why? Becuase the boss bought one and wanted her work computer to be exactly the same as her home computer. They were terrible. Over-priced hunks of crap. We had more problems with them than I care to remember.
And then there was that one E-Machine we bought as a PC-based FAX center. What a disaster that was!
Not everyone is a programmer. Matter of fact, most people aren't programmers.
Most people who get porn on the Internet wouldn't dream of going into an adult bookstore. Especially in the more conservative parts of the country. Your next door neighbors don't know that you download porn from vegansluts.com, but they know if you stop by the Manhandler adult bookstore.
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
Katharina: In his tongue.
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katharina: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
I am a huge nerd.
Somehow I think that Apple is smarter than that. It's not that hard to know which IP subnets originate outside the USA.
Actually, it's the Capitalist claim that property ownsers should be compensated for the use of their property, no matter what kind it is. It's the Socialist idea that everything should be shared and what belongs to you also belongs to me.
That's not the fault of the size of the install. That's a fault in the design of the software itself. If an OS had a hard drive footprint of 4megabytes and was slow as dog snot in Antarctica it wouldn't be better than an OS with a 1.5GB hard drive footprint that was as fast as greased lightning.
Doesn't really matter. Professional level rendering isn't done in hardware, anyway. It's all software based. You get much better results in siftware. Hardware rendering is only good for games and other real-time rendering systems.
Holy crap! You mean I bought a workstation? Damnit! All I wanted was a desktop computer!
At best a drive might have 5% to 10% of its "real" space set aside for bad sector remapping. There is no way in hell that any drive manufacturer os going to provide 100% bad sector remapping. They would go broke.
This is utter BS. Pure and simple.
And the drive punch that turned a 720K DSDD 3.5" floppy into a 1.44M DSHD 3.5" floppy. That one worked most of the time. Unless you actually cared about preserving the data on your punched disks.
I miss my 520ST.
That doesn't always work. My mom runs Netscape 7 and she still managed to get a virus.
Other than the ancient 8bit Atari machines, there has been only ONE console that was backwards compatible. One. And with Sony's lackluster showing of opening day titles it was needed.
But, really, who cares if next gen systems are compatible with current systems? Owning an XBox2 will not suddenly make your XBox explode. You can still play your old XBox games on your XBox, your old CameCube games on your old GameCube, your old PS/PS2 games on your PS2, you old GameSlave games on your GameSlave.
It's not that Joe Average doesn't care, he/she doesn't know he/she should care! They trust their computer. The idea that malware can hijack their systems is alien to them. The fault is not the end user. The fault is with MicroSoft's default security settings leaving thier PCs as wide open as Goaste.Cx's bunghole, along with sinking Internet Explorer's tenticles deep into the core of the OS.
Simply setting IE to not autoinstall software over the net, or REQUIRING an Administrator password to install said software (a-la Mac OSX and some modern Linux distros) would reduce this crap by a large extent.
Don't blame the user for what is the fault of the creator. Is a car driver at fault if the car he/she is driving was shipped with defective brakes?
If The Bat! hat an OSX version I'd still be using it. I used The Bat! for years. It is my favorite Windows email client.
For you, maybe not. But for 90% of the people on line, email is why they got online in the first place and it is the primary reason they continue to get online. And that is what nakes a "killer app".
And people said the same thing about electricity. Sure, it's neet and it makes these bulb things glow, but how will it heat my house, cook my food, suck dirt from my rugs, chill my milk, etc...
Producing the energy is just the first step. If this does actually work you can bet your testicles that someone will figure out a way to harvest the energy.
You've never been to DogNoses.Com, have you?