Apple made a terrible choice in its partner, and seems incapable of realizing the potential of the iPhone.
Which is pretty amazing considering that they designed and built the thing. The iPhone could have been much more than just a phone, but of course they had to fuck things up.
Vista is fucking horrible. It's slow, cumbersome, difficult to use and lacking in software and hardware support. I came in contact with Vista when setting up a new Fujitsu Siemens laptop my mother bought. Some messageboard said that installing XP on it is difficult due to driver issues, but some day I'm going to try.
When I was on anti-depressants I acted in a way that, in retrospect, wasn't natural for me. I did some very weird things and occasionally embarrased myself, which is something that I don't like to do. What the fuck was I thinking back then? And was it really caused by anti-depressants, or have I simply changed? I don't know, but I'm now very wary of any artificial means of making yourself happy or less depressed. Besides, this technology doesn't address the root cause of why someone is depressed. I suppose it's useful to someone who's really badly depressed, but personally I wouldn't want to try it.
I had to set up a Vista laptop recently, and it was a horrible experience. It's very slow and difficult to use, and it has poor software support. The User Access Control (or whatever it's called) is the best feature ever, and it took me a while to figure out how to turn it off. It would ask me for confirmation when I renamed a file I had made. At one point it started prompting me before I had even finished typing the new file name.
When the day comes that I'm forced to switch to Vista, I'm going to use it for gaming only and use Linux for everything else. I'm currently not familiar with Linux at all, which is why I'm getting Ubuntu when the new version is released next month. I don't even want to imagine what kind of a steaming pile of donkey shit Microsoft's next OS will be.
I think the bottom line is that a lot of people who don't play games, but do pay attention to art, don't want to imagine that they're not trained to appreciate a particular art form. Better to deny its potential as being art at all.
If Ebert had only watched a couple of movies in his lifetime, I doubt he would find any artistic merit in them, or understand them at all. As the Level Up article says:
It soon becomes clear that Musgrove's experiment, though well-intentioned, was doomed to failure because Dirda doesn't play games regularly enough to be familiar with their vocabulary, their mechanics, their systems.
When I finally have to migrate to Vista, I'm probably going to use it for gaming only and do everything else with Linux (which I haven't really used before). I set up my mother's Vista laptop recently, and it was a real pain the ass. Vista is strictly designed for newbies and casual users.
Why do games have to be innovative just for the sake of being innovative?
There are small, incremental "innovations" and improvements made all the time. It's kind of hard to constantly come up with an entirely new genre or a game that's unlike anything that's ever been made before (which doesn't even guarantee that the game is any good). But so what? Isn't it enough that a game is simply fun and well-made?
When I first heard about the moral choice of the game I assumed that you can either harvest the Little Sisters for ADAM or leave them alone and get no ADAM at all, thus making the game more difficult. It doesn't sound like much of a moral choice when you still get ADAM by helping them.
The main reason why I have now designated Azureus as bloatware is the inclusion of Vuze.
And by the way, I'm not talking about programming or CPU saturation issues, I'm talking about the general feel of the program, what dependencies it has and how smoothly it appears to run. Azureus definitely feels bloated, while uTorrent does not (the fact that it's just one small.exe also helps with that).
Scientology serves as the "Reductio ad absurdum" for all religion. This may explain why so many feel so uncomfortable about it.
The Church of Scientology is a ruthless criminal organization. That's why people feel uncomfortable about it. Don't try to make this issue a part of some childish anti-religion agenda.
Yeah, I looked at your post history after I saw someone mod you flamebait for pointing out that not all music is composed by one person. Shit like this is exactly why Slashdot's system needs to be overhauled. Rogue moderators need to be held accountable for their actions and stripped of mod points if necessary, or even banned entirely.
I find a lot of new music by listening to Shoutcast, the same way I found new music when I listened to "normal" radio. Most channels play a certain genre or style of music, and not a random mix of everything as you seem to expect. SomaFM's Drone Zone, for example, only plays ambient, so you won't be hearing any "popular" music there.
Hexic HD has insanely difficult achievements. Only the most dedicated and talented players will get them. I gave up, there's no way I can ever do them.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter has ridiculous achievements. Three of them require you to be the best GRAW player in the entire world! One achievement requires you to host 1000 multiplayer games.
I don't know if Microsoft enforces any standards for the achievements, but if they don't then they should start doing so.
instead of trying to 'secure' this and 'secure' that; why not address the heart of the islamic world's grievance with the West? "islamic" terrorists have only surfaced about 55 years ago. hmmmm....what happened 55 years ago?
I'm not nihilistic, I'm just aware of the fact that it's ridiculous to claim that you know anything for certain when it comes to the history of Israel & Palestine.
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Which is pretty amazing considering that they designed and built the thing. The iPhone could have been much more than just a phone, but of course they had to fuck things up.
Vista is fucking horrible. It's slow, cumbersome, difficult to use and lacking in software and hardware support. I came in contact with Vista when setting up a new Fujitsu Siemens laptop my mother bought. Some messageboard said that installing XP on it is difficult due to driver issues, but some day I'm going to try.
I don't have BD, it was just a phase that ended years ago. My mood is constant.
Eh?
I just love it when people equate chocolate with anti-depressants, drugs and alhocohol. They're totally the same thing.
When I was on anti-depressants I acted in a way that, in retrospect, wasn't natural for me. I did some very weird things and occasionally embarrased myself, which is something that I don't like to do. What the fuck was I thinking back then? And was it really caused by anti-depressants, or have I simply changed? I don't know, but I'm now very wary of any artificial means of making yourself happy or less depressed. Besides, this technology doesn't address the root cause of why someone is depressed. I suppose it's useful to someone who's really badly depressed, but personally I wouldn't want to try it.
I had to set up a Vista laptop recently, and it was a horrible experience. It's very slow and difficult to use, and it has poor software support. The User Access Control (or whatever it's called) is the best feature ever, and it took me a while to figure out how to turn it off. It would ask me for confirmation when I renamed a file I had made. At one point it started prompting me before I had even finished typing the new file name.
When the day comes that I'm forced to switch to Vista, I'm going to use it for gaming only and use Linux for everything else. I'm currently not familiar with Linux at all, which is why I'm getting Ubuntu when the new version is released next month. I don't even want to imagine what kind of a steaming pile of donkey shit Microsoft's next OS will be.
If I had a girlfriend (hahaha) I sure as hell wouldn't be hanging around on Slashdot.
If Ebert had only watched a couple of movies in his lifetime, I doubt he would find any artistic merit in them, or understand them at all. As the Level Up article says:
When I finally have to migrate to Vista, I'm probably going to use it for gaming only and do everything else with Linux (which I haven't really used before). I set up my mother's Vista laptop recently, and it was a real pain the ass. Vista is strictly designed for newbies and casual users.
Why do games have to be innovative just for the sake of being innovative?
There are small, incremental "innovations" and improvements made all the time. It's kind of hard to constantly come up with an entirely new genre or a game that's unlike anything that's ever been made before (which doesn't even guarantee that the game is any good). But so what? Isn't it enough that a game is simply fun and well-made?
When I first heard about the moral choice of the game I assumed that you can either harvest the Little Sisters for ADAM or leave them alone and get no ADAM at all, thus making the game more difficult. It doesn't sound like much of a moral choice when you still get ADAM by helping them.
I haven't played the game yet.
I didn't have a choice when I installed, and when I updated an older version it immediately displayed Vuze even though it said it wouldn't.
I've had enough of Azureus.
The main reason why I have now designated Azureus as bloatware is the inclusion of Vuze.
.exe also helps with that).
And by the way, I'm not talking about programming or CPU saturation issues, I'm talking about the general feel of the program, what dependencies it has and how smoothly it appears to run. Azureus definitely feels bloated, while uTorrent does not (the fact that it's just one small
uTorrent is pretty nice, yeah. I wish more developers would follow its example (I'm looking at you, bloatware piece of shit Azureus).
Guild Wars is probably the "cleanest" game I've seen. It only has one executable, one data file and one temporary file. It also works quite smoothly.
The Church of Scientology is a ruthless criminal organization. That's why people feel uncomfortable about it. Don't try to make this issue a part of some childish anti-religion agenda.
I don't remember seeing the meta-moderation "invitation" for a while.
Yeah, I looked at your post history after I saw someone mod you flamebait for pointing out that not all music is composed by one person. Shit like this is exactly why Slashdot's system needs to be overhauled. Rogue moderators need to be held accountable for their actions and stripped of mod points if necessary, or even banned entirely.
I find a lot of new music by listening to Shoutcast, the same way I found new music when I listened to "normal" radio. Most channels play a certain genre or style of music, and not a random mix of everything as you seem to expect. SomaFM's Drone Zone, for example, only plays ambient, so you won't be hearing any "popular" music there.
Hexic HD has insanely difficult achievements. Only the most dedicated and talented players will get them. I gave up, there's no way I can ever do them.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter has ridiculous achievements. Three of them require you to be the best GRAW player in the entire world! One achievement requires you to host 1000 multiplayer games.
I don't know if Microsoft enforces any standards for the achievements, but if they don't then they should start doing so.
Why are they called freight tunnels? They seem to be far too small for transporting things.
I am fully aware of that.
I guess Islam was also invented 55 years ago, then.
Brilliant argument.
Jihad was not invented 55 years ago.
I'm not nihilistic, I'm just aware of the fact that it's ridiculous to claim that you know anything for certain when it comes to the history of Israel & Palestine.