Ah, but Samba suddenly doesn't matter. One, Microsoft's shared system isn't going to change much further. Two, if it does--Novell's got Microsoft already on their side. They'll presumably know the changes.
Also--what, these days, is really improved by enhancing the GNU tools? A better
ls
? About the only thing I can think of is improvements to
Exactly. But to win under those conditions in Fallout, you have to use your noodle. You have to think. Puzzle-solve. Do things other than randomly cack enemies. Even if you play a no-sphere game of FFX, you're still doing the exact same thing someone with eight billion levels is doing--you're just doing it with a slightly different set of conditions, whereas in Fallout it becomes a whole new game.
(It's also interesting to note that if you do go grinding in Fallout, it's considerably more entertaining than hitting X through menus in Final Fantasy.)
Newsflash: it's possible to beat FFX without using the sphere grid (read: leveling up) once.
I played FFX (friend's copy, I'd never buy another Square game). I am aware. Yet grinding levels is what is always suggested when things get hard.
Take your xenophobia and shove it.
Xenophobia? Yeah, because I just hate them Japs! I only own a PS2! I only have games such as Soul Calibur, Tekken, Suikoden (I-III; anything newer's a joke), and Resident Evil. I'm not saying that all Japanese RPGs are bad. I'm saying that drooling Americans will play anything, instead of spending their money on games that are worth it.
A professor of mine (and a Canadian liberal, surprisingly enough, to boot) said it best recently: "Americans, as a whole, are overly critical toward themselves--and look at everybody else in the world through rose-colored glasses."
Guess what, numbnuts? Just because it says Final Fantasy on the box doesn't mean it doesn't suck. (Examples: X-2, FFXI.) The horse of Final Fantasy is officially dead, despite Square's attempts to flog more and more out of it. But of course I'm xenophobic for thinking that Final Fantasy sucks. The idea that I have a bit more taste than to play RPGs that are the gaming equivalent of oatmeal is, of course, impossible.
Personally, I think the end was worth any boss frustration, but that's just me.
Yes, it is just you (and the other legions of people who'll play any bad Japanese RPG they can). The fact that you had to run circles around a save point to level up is a joke.
I'll let you in on a secret: It's possible to beat a real RPG like Fallout at level 1.
I played both of the games as soon as I could lay my hands on them after release. I still play them today. And when I look at that interview, I shudder. Even Fallout 1 was filled with those kinds of jokes that he refers to! Those are a large part of what make the game good. Oh, wait...they had a good set of designers and writers. Betheseda doesn't, that's for sure (and for the record, Morrowind and Oblivion both suck when compared to Daggerfall).
I knew it was doomed the second I heard it was going to be in 3D, but really--do you have to be obvious about screwing it into the ground? Why not just make it a goddamned MMO while you're at it?
Any "improvements to the core of the browser" will be folded back into Firefox if they're any good, no? So what, then, will make NS9 better than Firefox?
Maine's government "sucks no more or less" than others? Really now! Let's see.
$41 million on leasing shitty Apple laptops for middle schoolers (why do middle schoolers need my tax money for laptops?). Baldacci cozying up to Venezuela for cheap heating oil. Jacking the tax on cigarettes by fifty percent (yeah, we really need $3 per pack in cigarette taxes). Selling $400 million of lottery revenues to an investor for $250 million because his goddamn retarded policies (and those of his mental-midget predecessor) have left the state way deep in the hole.
Yeah, Baldacci and his administration don't suck at all. They don't even get the benefit of bitching about an opposing party in the state government.
Waterville. Wells. Ahahaha. That's good. "Trailer" is even better. Self-hatred's a bitch, ain't it?
Face it, Democrat. Your boys in Augusta have screwed the pooch, and you're doing as much damage control as the goddamn Republicans in Washington. You lose.
Following that same logic, what was the point of making a new, seperate browser [Firefox] instead of joining forces with IE development and just distributing a re-branded IE with a new theme a couple pre-installed ActiveX plugins?
Uh...security (the IE model is broken), speed, cross-platform compatibility...
1) Do it better
Reality check: Nutscrape is a holding company these days, owned by AOL. Do you really think AOL can do jack to do things better than the Mozilla crew? If they could, would they be using the Firefox codebase? I think not.
2) Do it with more features (or better features)
You're joking, right? "More features" including, as the "futurist" Ms. Serriere mentioned above, "integration with our social news system"? Face it, dude. Netscape 9 is yet another advertibrowser.
3) Take advantage of an existing piece of the market (such as the thousands of professors that would love to finally upgrade from Netscape 4)
I'm pretty sure just about all of those professors have upgraded either to Netscape 6 (the last worthwhile release), Mozilla/Seamonkey, or Firefox. Or maybe something even better.
Your choice to use decrepit crap hinders only you. CSS is an accepted W3C standard, and while I like the W3C as little as the next guy, complaining that Slashdot doesn't keep backward compatibility with ten-year-old browsers is like me complaining that I can't find any leaded gasoline in the States anymore.
"Of course Netscape 9 will be better than Netscape 8"? Oh, right, like Netscape 7 was loads better than Netscape 6. I didn't think it could get worse than Netscape 7. Then came Netscape 8. Boy, was I wrong!
You say the newest edition of the abortion is "integrated with [y]our social news system"? What a joke! A browser shouldn't be integrated with one single website anywhere. That's not the bloody point of a web browser. A browser is a method of serving web pages to an end user, not to increase a company's advertising ratings. Do you think anyone would use Netscape if they didn't know better?
I doubt there's one feature in Netscape that both a) doesn't suck, and b) wasn't created by someone else. Nutscrape 8 was a joke, and to be honest I severely doubt that anyone Netscape has in-house can do anything that Firefox hasn't already done without sucking.
You're outmoded. The web passed you by quite some time ago, and trying to make a quick buck off people doesn't work so well anymore. And just for fun, Ms. Serriere, let's take a look at your little news portal (with all your image/ad sources blocked, thank you very much).
"She believes in a gorgeous technologically morphable future." And you're a futurist too! Well, hell, let me just genuflect right here!
Er...as it is, Nutscrape is a rebranded Mozilla browser (yes, yes, I am aware that Netscape begat Mozilla--the tides have turned, these days, and the only things Netscape includes that Mozilla doesn't are things like WeatherBug). None of the old Netscape devs are still there.
OK, and how many people use Windows 95 these days?
Right, thought not. You get no points for comparing Linux to an operating system released over a decade ago. Sorry.
(I'm a Linux user--typing this on my Kubuntu laptop, in fact--but this sort of crap gets on my nerves. Compare to TODAY, not to 1995.)
As for control panel--it's not that hard to use. In the past few years it's gotten very rare for me to have to walk someone through Control Panel; most people can figure it out themselves quite quickly. And kcontrol isn't up to that level yet.
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Dunno if I'd call Publisher a monopoly. In my experience, professionals, and even nonprofessionals, use PageMaker or the like.
Also--what, these days, is really improved by enhancing the GNU tools? A better ? About the only thing I can think of is improvements to that might matter to a distro.
I bow to superior knowledge of male pseudomammary sacks.
Exactly. But to win under those conditions in Fallout, you have to use your noodle. You have to think. Puzzle-solve. Do things other than randomly cack enemies. Even if you play a no-sphere game of FFX, you're still doing the exact same thing someone with eight billion levels is doing--you're just doing it with a slightly different set of conditions, whereas in Fallout it becomes a whole new game.
(It's also interesting to note that if you do go grinding in Fallout, it's considerably more entertaining than hitting X through menus in Final Fantasy.)
Newsflash: it's possible to beat FFX without using the sphere grid (read: leveling up) once.
I played FFX (friend's copy, I'd never buy another Square game). I am aware. Yet grinding levels is what is always suggested when things get hard.
Take your xenophobia and shove it.
Xenophobia? Yeah, because I just hate them Japs! I only own a PS2! I only have games such as Soul Calibur, Tekken, Suikoden (I-III; anything newer's a joke), and Resident Evil. I'm not saying that all Japanese RPGs are bad. I'm saying that drooling Americans will play anything, instead of spending their money on games that are worth it.
A professor of mine (and a Canadian liberal, surprisingly enough, to boot) said it best recently: "Americans, as a whole, are overly critical toward themselves--and look at everybody else in the world through rose-colored glasses."
Guess what, numbnuts? Just because it says Final Fantasy on the box doesn't mean it doesn't suck. (Examples: X-2, FFXI.) The horse of Final Fantasy is officially dead, despite Square's attempts to flog more and more out of it. But of course I'm xenophobic for thinking that Final Fantasy sucks. The idea that I have a bit more taste than to play RPGs that are the gaming equivalent of oatmeal is, of course, impossible.
You had to pick off the missiles as they closed if you wanted any chance to win that one. That one was rough.
Then again, I used to MAKE ridiculously hard maps just to see how far I could get (T/I against wave after wave of Top Ace X-Wings...).
Personally, I think the end was worth any boss frustration, but that's just me.
Yes, it is just you (and the other legions of people who'll play any bad Japanese RPG they can). The fact that you had to run circles around a save point to level up is a joke.
I'll let you in on a secret: It's possible to beat a real RPG like Fallout at level 1.
Except for all the GPL2 software that's already out there.
from the do-i-look-anything-like-a-girl-to-you-bill dept.
Manboobs.
...how screwed Fallout 3 is.
I played both of the games as soon as I could lay my hands on them after release. I still play them today. And when I look at that interview, I shudder. Even Fallout 1 was filled with those kinds of jokes that he refers to! Those are a large part of what make the game good. Oh, wait...they had a good set of designers and writers. Betheseda doesn't, that's for sure (and for the record, Morrowind and Oblivion both suck when compared to Daggerfall).
I knew it was doomed the second I heard it was going to be in 3D, but really--do you have to be obvious about screwing it into the ground? Why not just make it a goddamned MMO while you're at it?
Any "improvements to the core of the browser" will be folded back into Firefox if they're any good, no? So what, then, will make NS9 better than Firefox?
Aw, how cute. The troll speaks.
Maine's government "sucks no more or less" than others? Really now! Let's see.
$41 million on leasing shitty Apple laptops for middle schoolers (why do middle schoolers need my tax money for laptops?). Baldacci cozying up to Venezuela for cheap heating oil. Jacking the tax on cigarettes by fifty percent (yeah, we really need $3 per pack in cigarette taxes). Selling $400 million of lottery revenues to an investor for $250 million because his goddamn retarded policies (and those of his mental-midget predecessor) have left the state way deep in the hole.
Yeah, Baldacci and his administration don't suck at all. They don't even get the benefit of bitching about an opposing party in the state government.
Waterville. Wells. Ahahaha. That's good. "Trailer" is even better. Self-hatred's a bitch, ain't it?
Face it, Democrat. Your boys in Augusta have screwed the pooch, and you're doing as much damage control as the goddamn Republicans in Washington. You lose.
Following that same logic, what was the point of making a new, seperate browser [Firefox] instead of joining forces with IE development and just distributing a re-branded IE with a new theme a couple pre-installed ActiveX plugins?
Uh...security (the IE model is broken), speed, cross-platform compatibility...
1) Do it better
Reality check: Nutscrape is a holding company these days, owned by AOL. Do you really think AOL can do jack to do things better than the Mozilla crew? If they could, would they be using the Firefox codebase? I think not.
2) Do it with more features (or better features)
You're joking, right? "More features" including, as the "futurist" Ms. Serriere mentioned above, "integration with our social news system"? Face it, dude. Netscape 9 is yet another advertibrowser.
3) Take advantage of an existing piece of the market (such as the thousands of professors that would love to finally upgrade from Netscape 4)
I'm pretty sure just about all of those professors have upgraded either to Netscape 6 (the last worthwhile release), Mozilla/Seamonkey, or Firefox. Or maybe something even better.
Use a modern browser. Simple as that.
Your choice to use decrepit crap hinders only you. CSS is an accepted W3C standard, and while I like the W3C as little as the next guy, complaining that Slashdot doesn't keep backward compatibility with ten-year-old browsers is like me complaining that I can't find any leaded gasoline in the States anymore.
They're rejecting it because it means the thieves in the State House lose another incremental little bit of their power and authority.
They need to be dragged out into the street and shot for the mess of new taxes and shitty welfare services they're shoving down our necks up here.
(Yes, I live in Maine. I go to university with the governor's nephew--he's almost as much of a turd as the governor himself.)
"Of course Netscape 9 will be better than Netscape 8"? Oh, right, like Netscape 7 was loads better than Netscape 6. I didn't think it could get worse than Netscape 7. Then came Netscape 8. Boy, was I wrong!
You say the newest edition of the abortion is "integrated with [y]our social news system"? What a joke! A browser shouldn't be integrated with one single website anywhere. That's not the bloody point of a web browser. A browser is a method of serving web pages to an end user, not to increase a company's advertising ratings. Do you think anyone would use Netscape if they didn't know better?
I doubt there's one feature in Netscape that both a) doesn't suck, and b) wasn't created by someone else. Nutscrape 8 was a joke, and to be honest I severely doubt that anyone Netscape has in-house can do anything that Firefox hasn't already done without sucking.
You're outmoded. The web passed you by quite some time ago, and trying to make a quick buck off people doesn't work so well anymore. And just for fun, Ms. Serriere, let's take a look at your little news portal (with all your image/ad sources blocked, thank you very much).
"She believes in a gorgeous technologically morphable future." And you're a futurist too! Well, hell, let me just genuflect right here!
God, I hate PR flacks.
Er...as it is, Nutscrape is a rebranded Mozilla browser (yes, yes, I am aware that Netscape begat Mozilla--the tides have turned, these days, and the only things Netscape includes that Mozilla doesn't are things like WeatherBug). None of the old Netscape devs are still there.
Netscape needs to die in a fire.
.NET blows Java out of the water. Which is in itself not a huge feat.
The Wii isn't worth the money if you game seriously at all. $5 per virtual console game? I can download and emulate them for free...
Those "occasional crashes" manage to HARD FREEZE my Linux machine. It won't respond to anything, even the Dark Secret Incantations, to unwedge it.
The Linux client is abhorrent.
Unfortunately, the Linux client sucks and is often broken. They put one guy on it, and they don't accept source patches from outside.
Their GPLing of the source is a joke, because you can't use a modified client on the main grid.
I had to know what autoexec.ini was on windows 95
OK, and how many people use Windows 95 these days?
Right, thought not. You get no points for comparing Linux to an operating system released over a decade ago. Sorry.
(I'm a Linux user--typing this on my Kubuntu laptop, in fact--but this sort of crap gets on my nerves. Compare to TODAY, not to 1995.)
As for control panel--it's not that hard to use. In the past few years it's gotten very rare for me to have to walk someone through Control Panel; most people can figure it out themselves quite quickly. And kcontrol isn't up to that level yet.
That's not what normal people call "easy."
Up your medication.
Agreed entirely. They're essentially the same damn thing under different names, and any differences are a joke.
And the grandparent got thumped by a 4-digit ID poster. Splat.