Dude... have you actually played any of those? I applaud the efforst of those teams, and I admit that many of them have potential, but they aren't even on par with a lot of the 3rd party hl (let alone hl2) mods in terms of graphics and playability... and that bar is pretty damned low.
That said, I agree that the Linux gaming scene isn't all doom and gloom, Battle for Wesnoth in particular is a great game and one of my favorites on any platform, but the FPS offerings are definitely on the weak side.
Of course, one can always just run Steam via Wine. Source is unstable, but DoD runs like a champ.
But... what happens if they actually DO IT? Disproving one of humanities eldest and most important mathematical precepts would just be the start of the revolution...
"But there's no way to compare old games with worse graphics to black and white movies. Black and white movies have real benefits over color movies, technical, e.g. contrast range, and cinematic. People perceive pictures differently when they're black and white."
I'm pretty sure that the GP was talking about the rash of B&W classics that are being re-made in color. Generally speaking, older black and whites have no technical benefits over modern color (due to improvements in film technology) and if the artistic benefits were to outweigh the value of color the remake would likely be shot in monochrome as well (or post-produced into it, as the case may be).
I think your (and probably the GP's) analogy fits more with special effects than it does with color mode. The only inherent difference between a movie with poor special effects and a movie with great special effects is just that, but there are to this day plenty of movies being made in black and white.
And actually wanting to get somewhere isn't a valid reason to drive? I thought the entire purpose of cars and roads were to get people quickly from point A to point B. I think if most people wanted to sit in the car and not get anywhere, they'd not bother even starting the engine.
If you want to drive below the speed limit then that's fine, but you're just being an inconsiderate ass if you let traffic pile up behind you. Pull over and let the people behind you go at the pace they wish to drive.
There are a lot of perfectly valid reasons to drive below the speed limit, and there are also perfectly valid reasons not to. But you're either lying or stupid if you think you're some kind of saint for driving slower than everyone else and being the "victim" of people who just want to get where they're going as soon as they can. Either pull over or move to Vermont (where at least you'll fit right in), but stop bitching about people who don't want to cater to your fear of actually going.
Yeah, not to mention that the advent of mp3 players and decent portable speakers means anyone who drops $1.25 into a jukebox to listen to whatever shitty music it has in rotation is a tool.
Hmm... do I want to pay through my nose to listen to Journey, or should I just whip out my cell phone and crank some Black Flag? Gee, this is a toughie...
"When was the last time that anyone checked every file on a CD when it's say, a windows restore? Yeah. Nice job dipshit. Think before you talk. What human actually knows every file that's supposed to be on there?"
How else do you think this stuff could have been found? Magic?
I dunno... maybe the guy responsible for figuring out what the hell is supposed to go on there in the first place would know. Last I checked, Microsoft only hired humans for work outside of the legal department. More importantly, nobody would need to know off the top of their head, since they could just check against a list... or even better they could write a short script to do it for them.
It wouldn't make sense except that, once they have an article they can slap links to it on the articles of things which are vaguely similar and people actually care about. Perhaps nobody will stumble across your crappy band's article on it's own, but if you then list your band as being heavily influenced by, say Bad Religion, people reading that article might find you.
Of course, what this doesn't explain is why it's anything more than a nuisance, let alone why Wikipedia moderators are getting delete happy.
"In the US you can get it heard over and over as long as you have money to pay your lawyers."
No, you can't. A higher court is able, upon the filing of an appeal, to deny the request on the grounds that no appeal is justified, and if a case manages to hit the Supreme Court there are no further appeals to be made (unless they send it back for retrial and there are appeals attached to that... which is extremely unlikely). It's more than twice, but there's a definite upper limit to how many appeals can be heard in US courts.
It must if you're handicapped in some way. Have stairs? You must hate people in wheelchairs. Music shop? Deaf-hater! In fact, if you make, own, sell, use, enjoy or support anything that requires so much as remaining conscious you are discriminating against disabled people and are a terrible evil human being.
"So Microsoft can't just bring the "I'm a PC" character out to defend himself, because that just reinforces the negative message. "I am not a boring nerd!" ** yawn **. They have to bring out the "I am a Mac" guy out and make him look like a total ass. Make him a pretentious airhead who spends all his time talking about how cool he is while "I am a PC" is quietly getting the job done."
"The ad would be better just showing all the cool things you can do with a Windows PC, which is the point. They still need a hook, but it couldn't be hard to come up with a better one than, "You probably think I'm boring, but I'm not as boring as you think.""
Mac: hey PC, check out my shiny new iPod Nano... IT'S CURVED OMG!!!1 PC: Uh, yeah, that's great... I'm actually kind of busy, you know, working. It's that thing that makes me able to buy stuff for myself, not just have my parents or anonymous internet strangers who only know me through my webcam show buy them for me. Mac:... PC: Yeah, I just went there.
Mac: Hey PC, what's up. PC: Oh, not much I'm just helping to set up a home file and print server. Mac: You know, a mac genius could do that for you, plus set up a wireless network, transfer your files, update your system, bathe your cat... PC: Yeah, probably, but so could any of the millions of people out there working as travelling PC techs... and they charge less. Mac: That sounds like an awful lot of work PC, wouldn't it just be easier to have us do it all for you? PC: yeah, let me just drive 6 hours to the nearest Apple store so I can pay triple for all the parts and set something up. You just hold your breath and wait for me.
Mac: Hey PC, I've heard that vista blows goats. PC: Yeah, I guess. Whatever. Mac: what? No gripe? No Argument? what's wrong? PC: STFU, you're getting me fragged you twat. I don't give a shit if you don't play video games, just go away.
Mac: How's it going PC? PC: Friggin' sweet! Mac: Hey... you're not PC... PC: Of course I am, I just decided to go for a new look, how do you like the makeover? Mac: Well the sweater and Birkenstocks are pretty cool, but I'm not sure how I like the beard... PC: Hey, different strokes you know... that's what this is all about anyway, I went Linux! Mac: Isn't that, like, hard? PC: Oh, so THAT'S why you have that stupid hair cut... Mac: Huh? PC: You must be stuck in 1996.
Maybe MS won't do that last one, but they probably should do the others.
You're both wrong (and I guess both right, but I prefer everyone being wrong). Both sides wanted some things to be strongly protected and others strongly deregulated, and it just so happened that a lot of these things were opposite to the wishes of the other.
The south absolutely did not want to see things deregulated with regard to domestic trade and law, to the point that prior to the Civil War they were willing to override the rights of other states and force them to legalize slavery (see: Missouri, California) in order to maintain a balance which would keep their internationally unpopular status quo; they also didn't want to see the north increase imports of food and raw materials from elsewhere. On the other hand, they wanted better access to European goods and markets so that they could increase exports and decrease expenses.
The north, on the other hand, liked the idea of the south being forced to buy their manufactured goods and didn't want to compete with Europe for goods from the south, but did want to be able to increase imports of food and materials from Europe and elsewhere. As in, everything they wanted the south didn't, and vice versa.
No one side was more in favor of protectionism or free trade, both sides were more in favor their best interests and were more than a little hypocritical about it.
One of the great ironies is that the south only really wanted slavery because it allowed them to be competitive with more modernized farming techniques, but it was actually quite a bit less efficient. After the Civil War and abolition the south actually became much more profitable because they started to use less labor intensive and ultimately less expensive techniques and started to invest in heavy equipment rather than slaves. The north also became more profitable because the Civil War seriously advanced northern industrial facilities and technology, leaving them in perfect position to manufacture the huge amount of product required by the modernizing south and the expanding railroads. The bloodshed and destruction of the Civil War accomplished nothing that could not have been arranged by both sides simply cooperating and thinking it through (with the possible exception of rebuilding Atlanta as a modern southern metropolis).
The IOC or Chicago 2016 should hire this kid. He's clearly quicker than their people, and if he's getting an MBA he's probably qualified to do _something_ in their organization (like "supervise" a project completely outside his realm of competence). Make one of the conditions of his ludicrously high contract payments that he surrenders the domain, everybody wins (except for people who want the Olympics to be about something other than corruption and greed, but that's already a lost cause).
"In fact, I would argue that people who offer honest, if sometimes harsh, criticism do so because they care about America and hate to see how bad things are going. Shouldn't a good friend try to shout some sense into your stupid head when he thinks you are acting like an idiot and hurting yourself and others around you?"
I wouldn't either, but since there is an enormous movement to read the Bible in the most literal sense possible (well, except the parts where it says to be kind and generous, that the wealthy are essentially doomed to hell, that killing is wrong and that we are all equally sinful; those are a little fuzzier...) which has formulated a very well known consensus view of what the Bible says, i feel it's valid to argue against that view and ignore most others for this purpose.
The main point, on which we seem to agree, is that one can (pretty easily) interpret the Bible in such a way that evolution does not contradict it at all, though a not insignificant people refuse to do so for whatever reason.
Yeah, that's why I learned Spanish. Wouldn't want to be left out when English speakers stop being the majority.
I might not expect the natives to bend over backwards and learn my language if I were to live in a place where english is not the dominant language, but I think it's within reason to expect they won't try to lynch or deport me either.
"Go look up 'deceleration' and how it applies to exit lanes and try again. And yet again you're making a judgmental comment about me even though you were never there. I'm not a slow driver. I'm a very average driver. But you couldn't possibly know that without being there, could you? Nope, you're just another internet asshole who thinks all-caps self-righteous judgmental snark is warranted."
All I'm judging is your whining. I'd also guess you're a shitty driver, but that's just playing the odds and I'm not actually assuming it's the case. Now STFU, internet asshole who thinks your anecdote somehow makes you a better person than anyone who doesn't give a shit about you.
"You also seem to think that everything you don't like is a conspiracy to steal your money never mind the fact that there is probably a good reason for the low limit; why don't you ASK the local roads department? I'm sure they'd explain to you if you did. And you know what? You won't get a ticket if you don't break the law."
Um, no, that's actually a well known tactic in small towns. It's impolite to bring up, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to loom at town records and see that 75%+ of speeding ticket revenue comes from people who live out of town and figure out that can't possibly be coincidence. Since you love inane anecdotes so much... I used to live in a town with 50 mph roads and 35 mph speed limits, no residents actually drove 35, because everything was at least 30 minutes away and there just wasn't any reason to drive that slowly (although above 50 it does begin to get unsafe). While living there, I was issued 2 written warnings and a verbal BY THE SAME OFFICER (there were only 3, and he was the only full timer, so not as unlikely as it might seem), but never received a speeding ticket. Years later, after visiting family there, I was again pulled over for going 50 in a 35 and got a $200 ticket. The only thing that changed was my address (yes, it was still the same cop). Moral of the story, the town where I used to live has less than 200 residents and a couple miles of state highway running through it; speeding tickets are a staple source of town revenue and it's an open secret at best. I don't THINK this is a conspiracy to steal my money, I KNOW it is because the town basically admits to it.
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Erm, that was "Superbawls XXX".
Strangely similar, but still *slightly* different.
"FPSes:
* Nexuiz
* OpenArena
* Tremulous
* Warsow
* Sauerbraten
* Alien Arena"
Dude... have you actually played any of those? I applaud the efforst of those teams, and I admit that many of them have potential, but they aren't even on par with a lot of the 3rd party hl (let alone hl2) mods in terms of graphics and playability... and that bar is pretty damned low.
That said, I agree that the Linux gaming scene isn't all doom and gloom, Battle for Wesnoth in particular is a great game and one of my favorites on any platform, but the FPS offerings are definitely on the weak side.
Of course, one can always just run Steam via Wine. Source is unstable, but DoD runs like a champ.
But... what happens if they actually DO IT? Disproving one of humanities eldest and most important mathematical precepts would just be the start of the revolution...
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!1111111
"But there's no way to compare old games with worse graphics to black and white movies. Black and white movies have real benefits over color movies, technical, e.g. contrast range, and cinematic. People perceive pictures differently when they're black and white."
I'm pretty sure that the GP was talking about the rash of B&W classics that are being re-made in color. Generally speaking, older black and whites have no technical benefits over modern color (due to improvements in film technology) and if the artistic benefits were to outweigh the value of color the remake would likely be shot in monochrome as well (or post-produced into it, as the case may be).
I think your (and probably the GP's) analogy fits more with special effects than it does with color mode. The only inherent difference between a movie with poor special effects and a movie with great special effects is just that, but there are to this day plenty of movies being made in black and white.
And actually wanting to get somewhere isn't a valid reason to drive? I thought the entire purpose of cars and roads were to get people quickly from point A to point B. I think if most people wanted to sit in the car and not get anywhere, they'd not bother even starting the engine.
If you want to drive below the speed limit then that's fine, but you're just being an inconsiderate ass if you let traffic pile up behind you. Pull over and let the people behind you go at the pace they wish to drive.
There are a lot of perfectly valid reasons to drive below the speed limit, and there are also perfectly valid reasons not to. But you're either lying or stupid if you think you're some kind of saint for driving slower than everyone else and being the "victim" of people who just want to get where they're going as soon as they can. Either pull over or move to Vermont (where at least you'll fit right in), but stop bitching about people who don't want to cater to your fear of actually going.
Yeah, not to mention that the advent of mp3 players and decent portable speakers means anyone who drops $1.25 into a jukebox to listen to whatever shitty music it has in rotation is a tool.
Hmm... do I want to pay through my nose to listen to Journey, or should I just whip out my cell phone and crank some Black Flag? Gee, this is a toughie...
Well, no, but sometimes you're just stuck with what you get.
"a damn dumbass"
Much like a normal dumbass, but going to hell.
I live in the Vatican, you insensitive clod!
Disclaimer: I don't actually live in the Vatican.
All statements are false, especially this one.
"When was the last time that anyone checked every file on a CD when it's say, a windows restore? Yeah. Nice job dipshit. Think before you talk. What human actually knows every file that's supposed to be on there?"
How else do you think this stuff could have been found? Magic?
I dunno... maybe the guy responsible for figuring out what the hell is supposed to go on there in the first place would know. Last I checked, Microsoft only hired humans for work outside of the legal department. More importantly, nobody would need to know off the top of their head, since they could just check against a list... or even better they could write a short script to do it for them.
It wouldn't make sense except that, once they have an article they can slap links to it on the articles of things which are vaguely similar and people actually care about. Perhaps nobody will stumble across your crappy band's article on it's own, but if you then list your band as being heavily influenced by, say Bad Religion, people reading that article might find you.
Of course, what this doesn't explain is why it's anything more than a nuisance, let alone why Wikipedia moderators are getting delete happy.
"In the US you can get it heard over and over as long as you have money to pay your lawyers."
No, you can't. A higher court is able, upon the filing of an appeal, to deny the request on the grounds that no appeal is justified, and if a case manages to hit the Supreme Court there are no further appeals to be made (unless they send it back for retrial and there are appeals attached to that... which is extremely unlikely). It's more than twice, but there's a definite upper limit to how many appeals can be heard in US courts.
"Must everything cater to everyone?"
It must if you're handicapped in some way. Have stairs? You must hate people in wheelchairs. Music shop? Deaf-hater! In fact, if you make, own, sell, use, enjoy or support anything that requires so much as remaining conscious you are discriminating against disabled people and are a terrible evil human being.
"So Microsoft can't just bring the "I'm a PC" character out to defend himself, because that just reinforces the negative message. "I am not a boring nerd!" ** yawn **. They have to bring out the "I am a Mac" guy out and make him look like a total ass. Make him a pretentious airhead who spends all his time talking about how cool he is while "I am a PC" is quietly getting the job done."
"The ad would be better just showing all the cool things you can do with a Windows PC, which is the point. They still need a hook, but it couldn't be hard to come up with a better one than, "You probably think I'm boring, but I'm not as boring as you think.""
Mac: hey PC, check out my shiny new iPod Nano... IT'S CURVED OMG!!!1 ...
PC: Uh, yeah, that's great... I'm actually kind of busy, you know, working. It's that thing that makes me able to buy stuff for myself, not just have my parents or anonymous internet strangers who only know me through my webcam show buy them for me.
Mac:
PC: Yeah, I just went there.
Mac: Hey PC, what's up.
PC: Oh, not much I'm just helping to set up a home file and print server.
Mac: You know, a mac genius could do that for you, plus set up a wireless network, transfer your files, update your system, bathe your cat...
PC: Yeah, probably, but so could any of the millions of people out there working as travelling PC techs... and they charge less.
Mac: That sounds like an awful lot of work PC, wouldn't it just be easier to have us do it all for you?
PC: yeah, let me just drive 6 hours to the nearest Apple store so I can pay triple for all the parts and set something up. You just hold your breath and wait for me.
Mac: Hey PC, I've heard that vista blows goats.
PC: Yeah, I guess. Whatever.
Mac: what? No gripe? No Argument? what's wrong?
PC: STFU, you're getting me fragged you twat. I don't give a shit if you don't play video games, just go away.
Mac: How's it going PC?
PC: Friggin' sweet!
Mac: Hey... you're not PC...
PC: Of course I am, I just decided to go for a new look, how do you like the makeover?
Mac: Well the sweater and Birkenstocks are pretty cool, but I'm not sure how I like the beard...
PC: Hey, different strokes you know... that's what this is all about anyway, I went Linux!
Mac: Isn't that, like, hard?
PC: Oh, so THAT'S why you have that stupid hair cut...
Mac: Huh?
PC: You must be stuck in 1996.
Maybe MS won't do that last one, but they probably should do the others.
"the representation wasn't any more absurd that the right-wing characterization"
Did you really expect the impossible?
Aye, the mates be mates, the wenches be mates, and the children be tax agents!
You're both wrong (and I guess both right, but I prefer everyone being wrong). Both sides wanted some things to be strongly protected and others strongly deregulated, and it just so happened that a lot of these things were opposite to the wishes of the other.
The south absolutely did not want to see things deregulated with regard to domestic trade and law, to the point that prior to the Civil War they were willing to override the rights of other states and force them to legalize slavery (see: Missouri, California) in order to maintain a balance which would keep their internationally unpopular status quo; they also didn't want to see the north increase imports of food and raw materials from elsewhere. On the other hand, they wanted better access to European goods and markets so that they could increase exports and decrease expenses.
The north, on the other hand, liked the idea of the south being forced to buy their manufactured goods and didn't want to compete with Europe for goods from the south, but did want to be able to increase imports of food and materials from Europe and elsewhere. As in, everything they wanted the south didn't, and vice versa.
No one side was more in favor of protectionism or free trade, both sides were more in favor their best interests and were more than a little hypocritical about it.
One of the great ironies is that the south only really wanted slavery because it allowed them to be competitive with more modernized farming techniques, but it was actually quite a bit less efficient. After the Civil War and abolition the south actually became much more profitable because they started to use less labor intensive and ultimately less expensive techniques and started to invest in heavy equipment rather than slaves. The north also became more profitable because the Civil War seriously advanced northern industrial facilities and technology, leaving them in perfect position to manufacture the huge amount of product required by the modernizing south and the expanding railroads. The bloodshed and destruction of the Civil War accomplished nothing that could not have been arranged by both sides simply cooperating and thinking it through (with the possible exception of rebuilding Atlanta as a modern southern metropolis).
Good catch AC, thanks. I tinkered with my settings a couple of days ago, must have screwed it up then.
The IOC or Chicago 2016 should hire this kid. He's clearly quicker than their people, and if he's getting an MBA he's probably qualified to do _something_ in their organization (like "supervise" a project completely outside his realm of competence). Make one of the conditions of his ludicrously high contract payments that he surrenders the domain, everybody wins (except for people who want the Olympics to be about something other than corruption and greed, but that's already a lost cause).
Yeah, Escher was a lousy fucking architect.
"In fact, I would argue that people who offer honest, if sometimes harsh, criticism do so because they care about America and hate to see how bad things are going. Shouldn't a good friend try to shout some sense into your stupid head when he thinks you are acting like an idiot and hurting yourself and others around you?"
That sounds like terrorist talk to me...
-GWB
"I wouldn't divide it as cleanly as that."
I wouldn't either, but since there is an enormous movement to read the Bible in the most literal sense possible (well, except the parts where it says to be kind and generous, that the wealthy are essentially doomed to hell, that killing is wrong and that we are all equally sinful; those are a little fuzzier...) which has formulated a very well known consensus view of what the Bible says, i feel it's valid to argue against that view and ignore most others for this purpose.
The main point, on which we seem to agree, is that one can (pretty easily) interpret the Bible in such a way that evolution does not contradict it at all, though a not insignificant people refuse to do so for whatever reason.
Yeah, that's why I learned Spanish. Wouldn't want to be left out when English speakers stop being the majority.
I might not expect the natives to bend over backwards and learn my language if I were to live in a place where english is not the dominant language, but I think it's within reason to expect they won't try to lynch or deport me either.
"Go look up 'deceleration' and how it applies to exit lanes and try again. And yet again you're making a judgmental comment about me even though you were never there. I'm not a slow driver. I'm a very average driver. But you couldn't possibly know that without being there, could you? Nope, you're just another internet asshole who thinks all-caps self-righteous judgmental snark is warranted."
All I'm judging is your whining. I'd also guess you're a shitty driver, but that's just playing the odds and I'm not actually assuming it's the case. Now STFU, internet asshole who thinks your anecdote somehow makes you a better person than anyone who doesn't give a shit about you.
"You also seem to think that everything you don't like is a conspiracy to steal your money never mind the fact that there is probably a good reason for the low limit; why don't you ASK the local roads department? I'm sure they'd explain to you if you did. And you know what? You won't get a ticket if you don't break the law."
Um, no, that's actually a well known tactic in small towns. It's impolite to bring up, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to loom at town records and see that 75%+ of speeding ticket revenue comes from people who live out of town and figure out that can't possibly be coincidence. Since you love inane anecdotes so much... I used to live in a town with 50 mph roads and 35 mph speed limits, no residents actually drove 35, because everything was at least 30 minutes away and there just wasn't any reason to drive that slowly (although above 50 it does begin to get unsafe). While living there, I was issued 2 written warnings and a verbal BY THE SAME OFFICER (there were only 3, and he was the only full timer, so not as unlikely as it might seem), but never received a speeding ticket. Years later, after visiting family there, I was again pulled over for going 50 in a 35 and got a $200 ticket. The only thing that changed was my address (yes, it was still the same cop). Moral of the story, the town where I used to live has less than 200 residents and a couple miles of state highway running through it; speeding tickets are a staple source of town revenue and it's an open secret at best. I don't THINK this is a conspiracy to steal my money, I KNOW it is because the town basically admits to it.