The irony here being that I'm browsing slashdot in a browser window around 1200 pixels wide on a 2560x1440 monitor. The rest of my screen is being used for other stuff, and I still get vertical web pages (that are easier to read).
I need to full-screen my browser for photo sites and for forums that don't know how to line-wrap a long URL when someone pastes one in. Almost nothing else.
Maybe you know people with poor eyesight or something.
It's socially irresponsible cunts like you that are causing all the problems here.
Just do the world a favour and castrate yourself. I'm not into child abuse so don't mutilate your children too, but do consider getting them sterilised.
I'm fucked off with being told to save the fucking planet and the environment and with getting charged stupid fucking green taxes, when I'm doing the responsible thing and avoiding overpopulating the planet and consuming far more resources than those needed to support my own pitiful lifespan.
It's not as though all these twats trying to save the planet are really thinking about it anyway. The sun's going to explode and take the planet with it. If you're serious about saving it then start investing in some form of planetary shield and/or a star system scale propulsion drive. Until then, fuck you and your selfish fucking family.
Sorry, the bar in graphics quality is set to "as good as my computer can manage". I have games that already reach that bar. A new game with shinier prettier graphics isn't going to raise the bar, it may just get run at lower settings.
I'm also just not a graphics whore. Dwarf Fortress absolutely rocks, with its text based graphics. Crysis 2 is a boring piece of shit despite its prettiness. If I want 'pretty' I'll go to Dead End Games and admire the artistry. When I'm playing computer games I want gameplay.
Speaking of gameplay, your 'free2play' perception is frankly flawed. TF2 wouldn't have a large community if it was shit. The people playing Planetside 2 can mostly afford any game they choose, and many do buy lots of games. The utter stupidity of linking community size to cost is demonstrated by the MMO market, where several million people pay several hundred dollars each to play games and by World of Tanks where many people choose to pay money to a company providing a great game instead of playing for free as they so easily could.
Aside from that, those were merely examples of large online communities. BF4 may have a community, but it's one of many. It's not the only place to go to find people online to play with. I'm not missing out by choosing not to join that community.
Regarding Egosoft, X3 Reunion ran with no problems for me. X3:TC was on Steam, and that makes it accessible, available and playable. Frankly I don't give a shit about people that pirate computer games. I perceive them as being the same group of people that buy computer games, not least because I've never met one that doesn't. Egosoft clearly aren't going out of business, they released an entire version of their latest game for free to previous customers as a stopgap while they developed a whole new game engine.
I'm still just not seeing why I'm missing out so terribly by choosing not to give EA my money and by playing games other than BF4. I'm sure it's a great game, but life is short and there are a lot of other great games out there. Shit, I haven't even bought Skyrim yet.
Content : BF4 has relatively little content. It's a multiplayer game. I own a hundred games with more content. Graphics: Big fat shrug. Wait a couple of years, buy year old games on Steam, run them on hardware better than was available when they were released. Graphics are pretty but gameplay is king. Speaking of which, Gameplay: I want BF4 and it's only for the gameplay. But then again.. there are so many other FPS options out there. It's good, but it's not unique. Community: It's nice to play online games against adults. I'm lazy, I'm old, I can't be arsed with the kiddies. So the BF4 community isn't necessarily going to appeal. Anyway, there's a TF2 community, fuck knows how many MMO communities, a mature and established Planetside 2 community..
X Rebirth gets released soon. That's going to be an exceedingly good game, with astonishing graphics, enough content that I'm going to end up having to rely on community support just to access it all, and it'll build on an existing community that collaborates and communicates. The developers are also engaged with that community, support the mod scene and continue to support previous games in the series.
Egosoft are going to get my money. EA are not. I'm not the one missing out here.
Without disagreeing with you on the dangers of mobile phone use, could I point out that murdering someone with a fork while driving is at a minimum going to distract you and on the whole doesn't sound terribly safe.
You can't. The DRM has worked; we haven't got the full game. In fact, it's worked so fucking well that we haven't got any of the game, because why waste money on that poisoned malware when there are exceedingly good games being sold by companies that actually want our money.
I steal the light from the sky. I steal the oxygen from the air. I steal the electric impulses used by your brain to interpret this sentence.
Fuck you. You're getting none of it back. I need it to fund my acquisition of the next non-free product, good or service that I'm not going to pay for.
I'm not going to steal it, because IT'S NOT THEFT.
What if I don't recognise that right? Why should a creator have that choice?
The moment the creator lets someone else hear their music, see their picture, touch their sculpture, they've released it. Why should it not now be available for all?
Try and answer without using commercial arguments.
I do badly desire their products. The Battlefield series - flawed as at times it is - has had some of the finest computer gaming known to mankind in it.
Sadly their inability to just let me buy and play the game means that I'm not buying it, and I wont play it.
Fuck it, I have 20 games on Steam that I haven't played yet. I'll go play one of them instead..
The courts wont do what the Prime Minister tells them to do. They'll apply the law.
Then everyone will share the news on Twitter anyway so it'll be pretty fucking pointless, following which the courts will acknowledge that the information is in the public domain and the newspapers will publish it.
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Ok, maybe I'm a manager.
Cloud services shutting down is interesting. What happens to their data is interesting. The whole SaaS market has been changing throughout the lifetime of the Internet, and it's interesting.
How fucking techy do you want? Aren't you interested in the very different approaches to cloud software, from IaaS (Infrastructure), PaaS, IaaS (integration), SaaS, etc. The different models offered by Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce. The complexities and legalities of hosting your data externally, and the architectural complications arising from use of multiple cloud solutions combined with in-house systems? The trade-offs between remote execution and local control?
This may not be your particular brand of 'techy' but trust me, there's a fuck of a lot going on here. And one of the major cloud services providers shutting down a service is very interesting, both for the 'why' and the 'how'.
The question you need answering about software roadmaps is less about the feature set they're adding - that'll depend on demands from the biggest customers and an element of strategy - but the areas of focus for the company.
Salesforce will be developing the primary force.com platform, so a reasonable question is 'how are you integrating do.com, are you looking to expand it or migrate the customers, what are your plans for..'
You're right that specific feature sets can and will change, but the future of the entire platform should be possible to determine..
Why do you care about thermals? I care about framerate, visual quality, and noise.
I care about thermals because they directly influence noise and also because I have a lovely warm house and don't want my computer to catch fire.
My computer causes almost the same noise as my TV while I'm gaming. It can only do that because the fans aren't working very hard, which is because.. well, thermals matter.
Given I have games that can drop below 60fps on a gtx780 at 2560x1440 I dread to imagine trying to push three times that resolution through.
Frankly $100 isn't a massive difference (relative to the other $3k my PC cost) and I prefer Nvidia for the driver support so I wouldn't have gone with the ATI card even if it had been available when I purchased, but I'm glad that ATI are still progressing and preventing Nvidia from stagnating too.
Ok. Stop mocking and tell me: Why is share price relevant, except as a relative measure?
As an absolute measure it's totally pointless. £12 for a share. So fucking what. HOW MANY SHARES ARE THERE?
If there's one share, the company is worth £12. Suddenly a share price of £14bn sounds reasonable. If there are 400 billion shares than £12 feels a tad excessive.
It's a meaningless measure. Or do I sound like a politician using common sense, logic, financial nous and a background in writing portfolio management software. You decide.
Do you not see him throwing away his money on projects all the time like Kickstarter and such?
You appear to be bitching about the fact that Persson is using his money to provide financial backing to other developers in a way that doesn't get him a share of their success?
How dare he! Anybody would think he values the games, not the money.
Without going to a wiki, try to play the game. How are you suposed to even know you're meant to PUCH A TREE to break a block? How do you know you're meant to press "E" to open your inventory and then put that block of wood into the four-square bit to turn it into wood and THEN put those four bits of wood on those four spots to make a crafting bench with then you can build an axe. After putting it down. And how do you know how to make an axe? What sensible person would think that a wooden axe would chop wood? Then we get into all the other recipies. So minecraft is shit. So you need to watch someone else play to find out how the hell you're supposed to play (or read a wiki. But that's reading, so natch)
And yet Dwarf Fortress makes nothing like the cash that Minecraft does, and is far more fucking impenetrable.
Nothing you've highlighted explains the success of Minecraft as opposed to a dozen other games. If anything its accessibility (aided by Youtube tutorials or not) combined with the raw creative capability it offers is what's led to its success. People can play, create, share.
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The irony here being that I'm browsing slashdot in a browser window around 1200 pixels wide on a 2560x1440 monitor. The rest of my screen is being used for other stuff, and I still get vertical web pages (that are easier to read).
I need to full-screen my browser for photo sites and for forums that don't know how to line-wrap a long URL when someone pastes one in. Almost nothing else.
Maybe you know people with poor eyesight or something.
Yeah, spotted that at the time. Wasn't sober enough to care :)
It's socially irresponsible cunts like you that are causing all the problems here.
Just do the world a favour and castrate yourself. I'm not into child abuse so don't mutilate your children too, but do consider getting them sterilised.
I'm fucked off with being told to save the fucking planet and the environment and with getting charged stupid fucking green taxes, when I'm doing the responsible thing and avoiding overpopulating the planet and consuming far more resources than those needed to support my own pitiful lifespan.
It's not as though all these twats trying to save the planet are really thinking about it anyway. The sun's going to explode and take the planet with it. If you're serious about saving it then start investing in some form of planetary shield and/or a star system scale propulsion drive. Until then, fuck you and your selfish fucking family.
I thought he covered that adequately under "day long readability".
Sorry, the bar in graphics quality is set to "as good as my computer can manage". I have games that already reach that bar. A new game with shinier prettier graphics isn't going to raise the bar, it may just get run at lower settings.
I'm also just not a graphics whore. Dwarf Fortress absolutely rocks, with its text based graphics. Crysis 2 is a boring piece of shit despite its prettiness. If I want 'pretty' I'll go to Dead End Games and admire the artistry. When I'm playing computer games I want gameplay.
Speaking of gameplay, your 'free2play' perception is frankly flawed. TF2 wouldn't have a large community if it was shit. The people playing Planetside 2 can mostly afford any game they choose, and many do buy lots of games. The utter stupidity of linking community size to cost is demonstrated by the MMO market, where several million people pay several hundred dollars each to play games and by World of Tanks where many people choose to pay money to a company providing a great game instead of playing for free as they so easily could.
Aside from that, those were merely examples of large online communities. BF4 may have a community, but it's one of many. It's not the only place to go to find people online to play with. I'm not missing out by choosing not to join that community.
Regarding Egosoft, X3 Reunion ran with no problems for me. X3:TC was on Steam, and that makes it accessible, available and playable. Frankly I don't give a shit about people that pirate computer games. I perceive them as being the same group of people that buy computer games, not least because I've never met one that doesn't. Egosoft clearly aren't going out of business, they released an entire version of their latest game for free to previous customers as a stopgap while they developed a whole new game engine.
I'm still just not seeing why I'm missing out so terribly by choosing not to give EA my money and by playing games other than BF4. I'm sure it's a great game, but life is short and there are a lot of other great games out there. Shit, I haven't even bought Skyrim yet.
Content : BF4 has relatively little content. It's a multiplayer game. I own a hundred games with more content.
Graphics: Big fat shrug. Wait a couple of years, buy year old games on Steam, run them on hardware better than was available when they were released. Graphics are pretty but gameplay is king. Speaking of which,
Gameplay: I want BF4 and it's only for the gameplay. But then again.. there are so many other FPS options out there. It's good, but it's not unique.
Community: It's nice to play online games against adults. I'm lazy, I'm old, I can't be arsed with the kiddies. So the BF4 community isn't necessarily going to appeal. Anyway, there's a TF2 community, fuck knows how many MMO communities, a mature and established Planetside 2 community..
X Rebirth gets released soon. That's going to be an exceedingly good game, with astonishing graphics, enough content that I'm going to end up having to rely on community support just to access it all, and it'll build on an existing community that collaborates and communicates. The developers are also engaged with that community, support the mod scene and continue to support previous games in the series.
Egosoft are going to get my money. EA are not. I'm not the one missing out here.
"why should I believe you instead of this respected police officer?"
To which the answer in the UK could be "plebgate" or (for me), "Hillsborough".
Any judge that tells me the police are more credible than me gets the joy of doing me for contempt of court a few seconds later.
Most humans can afford one. More to the point, it's important to them too: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/05/qa-skipping-lunch-to-afford-a-mobile-phone-in-africa/
Half the people in Africa had a mobile phone a year ago. Not many places out there poorer than that.
Without disagreeing with you on the dangers of mobile phone use, could I point out that murdering someone with a fork while driving is at a minimum going to distract you and on the whole doesn't sound terribly safe.
if you're going to shoot, you shoot to kill.
Given the hit rates of American police personnel using firearms, aiming to fucking hit would be a great start.
Show me the battlelog of my friends and I.
You can't. The DRM has worked; we haven't got the full game. In fact, it's worked so fucking well that we haven't got any of the game, because why waste money on that poisoned malware when there are exceedingly good games being sold by companies that actually want our money.
Fuck EA, and fuck Dice for selling out to them.
I steal the light from the sky. I steal the oxygen from the air. I steal the electric impulses used by your brain to interpret this sentence.
Fuck you. You're getting none of it back. I need it to fund my acquisition of the next non-free product, good or service that I'm not going to pay for.
I'm not going to steal it, because IT'S NOT THEFT.
What if I don't recognise that right? Why should a creator have that choice?
The moment the creator lets someone else hear their music, see their picture, touch their sculpture, they've released it. Why should it not now be available for all?
Try and answer without using commercial arguments.
I do badly desire their products. The Battlefield series - flawed as at times it is - has had some of the finest computer gaming known to mankind in it.
Sadly their inability to just let me buy and play the game means that I'm not buying it, and I wont play it.
Fuck it, I have 20 games on Steam that I haven't played yet. I'll go play one of them instead..
Aye, but "Six and a bit foot fascist" doesn't have the same ring to it.
I'm all for googlebombing Cameron with Six Foot Fascist.
The courts wont do what the Prime Minister tells them to do. They'll apply the law.
Then everyone will share the news on Twitter anyway so it'll be pretty fucking pointless, following which the courts will acknowledge that the information is in the public domain and the newspapers will publish it.
Ok, maybe I'm a manager.
Cloud services shutting down is interesting. What happens to their data is interesting. The whole SaaS market has been changing throughout the lifetime of the Internet, and it's interesting.
How fucking techy do you want? Aren't you interested in the very different approaches to cloud software, from IaaS (Infrastructure), PaaS, IaaS (integration), SaaS, etc. The different models offered by Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce. The complexities and legalities of hosting your data externally, and the architectural complications arising from use of multiple cloud solutions combined with in-house systems? The trade-offs between remote execution and local control?
This may not be your particular brand of 'techy' but trust me, there's a fuck of a lot going on here. And one of the major cloud services providers shutting down a service is very interesting, both for the 'why' and the 'how'.
The question you need answering about software roadmaps is less about the feature set they're adding - that'll depend on demands from the biggest customers and an element of strategy - but the areas of focus for the company.
Salesforce will be developing the primary force.com platform, so a reasonable question is 'how are you integrating do.com, are you looking to expand it or migrate the customers, what are your plans for ..'
You're right that specific feature sets can and will change, but the future of the entire platform should be possible to determine..
Why do you care about thermals? I care about framerate, visual quality, and noise.
I care about thermals because they directly influence noise and also because I have a lovely warm house and don't want my computer to catch fire.
My computer causes almost the same noise as my TV while I'm gaming. It can only do that because the fans aren't working very hard, which is because.. well, thermals matter.
Given I have games that can drop below 60fps on a gtx780 at 2560x1440 I dread to imagine trying to push three times that resolution through.
Frankly $100 isn't a massive difference (relative to the other $3k my PC cost) and I prefer Nvidia for the driver support so I wouldn't have gone with the ATI card even if it had been available when I purchased, but I'm glad that ATI are still progressing and preventing Nvidia from stagnating too.
Ok. Stop mocking and tell me: Why is share price relevant, except as a relative measure?
As an absolute measure it's totally pointless. £12 for a share. So fucking what. HOW MANY SHARES ARE THERE?
If there's one share, the company is worth £12. Suddenly a share price of £14bn sounds reasonable. If there are 400 billion shares than £12 feels a tad excessive.
It's a meaningless measure. Or do I sound like a politician using common sense, logic, financial nous and a background in writing portfolio management software. You decide.
Yeah, touch typing lets me write the bugfix to the universal constants while thinking about what to have for breakfast.
Can't be perfect _every_ time.
In snail mail, it did.
Maybe you just aren't old enough.
Do you not see him throwing away his money on projects all the time like Kickstarter and such?
You appear to be bitching about the fact that Persson is using his money to provide financial backing to other developers in a way that doesn't get him a share of their success?
How dare he! Anybody would think he values the games, not the money.
You fuckwit.
Without going to a wiki, try to play the game. How are you suposed to even know you're meant to PUCH A TREE to break a block? How do you know you're meant to press "E" to open your inventory and then put that block of wood into the four-square bit to turn it into wood and THEN put those four bits of wood on those four spots to make a crafting bench with then you can build an axe. After putting it down. And how do you know how to make an axe? What sensible person would think that a wooden axe would chop wood? Then we get into all the other recipies. So minecraft is shit. So you need to watch someone else play to find out how the hell you're supposed to play (or read a wiki. But that's reading, so natch)
And yet Dwarf Fortress makes nothing like the cash that Minecraft does, and is far more fucking impenetrable.
Nothing you've highlighted explains the success of Minecraft as opposed to a dozen other games. If anything its accessibility (aided by Youtube tutorials or not) combined with the raw creative capability it offers is what's led to its success. People can play, create, share.
They like that.