Thanks for the link, I almost stabbed my monitor after a few seconds of that guy. I love your signature by the way. Too bad all my comments now get moded Off Topic or I'd spend more time here. I guess the idiots at Digg have finally begun to develop a slightly better sense of humor than the idiots here on Slashdot. Ewww.
Wait a minute, you limited network usage for gamers in favor of academic users? Sounds like a pretty shitty school if you ask me. Everyone knows that school networks are for three things:
1) Downloading music and movies illegally. 2) Downloading pr0n. 3) Playing games, even crappy ones like Halo 3.
As you can clearly see homework and research are not on the list...
I'm not going to tell you which one to go with because most of their merits have already been covered, but I will say this: you should not simply choose Micro$oft because you're already using a lot of their technologies. Look at the actual merits of each and choose that way - not by which company has a stronger death grip on certain markets.
Yeah, maybe instead of suing poor American college students and extraditing Australians for copyright infringement the powers that be should be concentrating on the massive state sponsored piracy in China.
It's pretty easily to screw with people who don't make any money, the problem is that ultimately, even if they win, they'll just make the FOSS developer community really pissed and determined to circumvent their patents or blatantly defy them. And like I said, if it were just the US, maybe, but that's not going to work with the entire planet.
Absolutely, and ultimately Microsoft is screwed either way. Either they attack FOSS and lose, or they don't attack and FOSS they lose anyway. There's no way they can win this fight - no matter how many lawsuits they file and how many open source projects they try to attack.
If FOSS were somehow limited to the US, maybe they could hire enough lawyers to mount an offensive. But with the extremely strong chunks of the community around the world they literally have no chance. At best they can just fuck things up and make themselves look even more "evil" than they already do.
After about 20 minutes of trying to teach my Mom to play Roger Clemen's MVP Baseball on my NES my brother and I gave up and she concluded that video games were annoying and unproductive, but ok. Thank God for that.
Fascinating, companies that do creative work should take note and think about high ceilings for creative office spaces in the future. On the other hand, looks like the detail oriented rank and file will always be stuck in Dilbert Land.
Am I the only one that hates randomly generated maps? I know the concept is becoming popular, and I certainly don't like campers any more than the next guy, but I find it really just not fun to play on a map that constantly changes.
The more things change the more they stay the same. The human race is suffering from new forms of the same problems it has had for thousands of years, you can't expect communication protocols to do too much better.
I just don't see a compelling reason to upgrade to Vista. I already have Mac OS X and Windows XP, why should I buy a new version of Windows when I can already play games on XP and work on OS X? I realize that at some point I'm going to need to upgrade because Windows-only developers will leave XP behind, but still. That won't be for a while.
Most of the games I play are classics at this point anyway, unless Blizzard's new game requires Vista I think I'll be ok:).
I agree that operating systems should be robust enough to deal with the dumbs, but I really don't buy that end users are responsible for OS flaws. A casual look around the internet will show that OS users voice their concerns, a lot. The problem is that there are really only three operating systems, and two of them are more about making money than anything else. Linux has its own issues as a result of being developed by the open source community, but at least the people who use it often have more a direct effect on its development.
I still play Diablo II, and I have to say that I've seen a pattern of unreasonable behavior on Blizzard's part. Preventing cheating is one thing, but who defines cheating? They do, and their definition is pretty much "regardless of whether the program is completely harmless and improves a crappy aspect of our game, it's still cheating if it allows a player to play our game in any way that wasn't determined solely by us." The one that really gets to me is the map thing for Diablo II. For the love of God, nobody that still plays Diablo II enjoys exploring the same levels over and over and over again.
I'm also not a big fan of their anti-cheating tactics, and I applaud these people for circumventing them, even if it may have been for a bad cause.
It's all about diversity! If everyone has the same exact program running under the same exact OS with the same exact security flaw one blackhat can ruin millions of people's day with one little hack. Nature knows how important diversity is, hell, economic systems are supposed to know it too. It's unfortunate that Microsoft continues to be allowed to operate as an illegal monopoly based in the United States.
That's really not true for everyone. Personally I tried it and it's just not the same. I guess I spent too many of the best years of my life playing NES but the net result is that it's just not the same playing those games with anything but the original controllers. I definitely won't miss trying to get the cartridges to correctly connect to the console.
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Thanks for the link, I almost stabbed my monitor after a few seconds of that guy. I love your signature by the way. Too bad all my comments now get moded Off Topic or I'd spend more time here. I guess the idiots at Digg have finally begun to develop a slightly better sense of humor than the idiots here on Slashdot. Ewww.
Wait a minute, you limited network usage for gamers in favor of academic users? Sounds like a pretty shitty school if you ask me. Everyone knows that school networks are for three things:
1) Downloading music and movies illegally.
2) Downloading pr0n.
3) Playing games, even crappy ones like Halo 3.
As you can clearly see homework and research are not on the list...
If that paperclip where a person I'd shoot him in the fooking head.
Instead of rigging the election the old fashioned way they could just hire a bunch of pickpockets.
Call me when you can vote by drinking a certain number of beers, lol.
I'm not going to tell you which one to go with because most of their merits have already been covered, but I will say this: you should not simply choose Micro$oft because you're already using a lot of their technologies. Look at the actual merits of each and choose that way - not by which company has a stronger death grip on certain markets.
Yeah, maybe instead of suing poor American college students and extraditing Australians for copyright infringement the powers that be should be concentrating on the massive state sponsored piracy in China.
It's pretty easily to screw with people who don't make any money, the problem is that ultimately, even if they win, they'll just make the FOSS developer community really pissed and determined to circumvent their patents or blatantly defy them. And like I said, if it were just the US, maybe, but that's not going to work with the entire planet.
Absolutely, and ultimately Microsoft is screwed either way. Either they attack FOSS and lose, or they don't attack and FOSS they lose anyway. There's no way they can win this fight - no matter how many lawsuits they file and how many open source projects they try to attack.
If FOSS were somehow limited to the US, maybe they could hire enough lawyers to mount an offensive. But with the extremely strong chunks of the community around the world they literally have no chance. At best they can just fuck things up and make themselves look even more "evil" than they already do.
After about 20 minutes of trying to teach my Mom to play Roger Clemen's MVP Baseball on my NES my brother and I gave up and she concluded that video games were annoying and unproductive, but ok. Thank God for that.
Fascinating, companies that do creative work should take note and think about high ceilings for creative office spaces in the future. On the other hand, looks like the detail oriented rank and file will always be stuck in Dilbert Land.
Am I the only one that hates randomly generated maps? I know the concept is becoming popular, and I certainly don't like campers any more than the next guy, but I find it really just not fun to play on a map that constantly changes.
The more things change the more they stay the same. The human race is suffering from new forms of the same problems it has had for thousands of years, you can't expect communication protocols to do too much better.
I just don't see a compelling reason to upgrade to Vista. I already have Mac OS X and Windows XP, why should I buy a new version of Windows when I can already play games on XP and work on OS X? I realize that at some point I'm going to need to upgrade because Windows-only developers will leave XP behind, but still. That won't be for a while.
:).
Most of the games I play are classics at this point anyway, unless Blizzard's new game requires Vista I think I'll be ok
I agree that operating systems should be robust enough to deal with the dumbs, but I really don't buy that end users are responsible for OS flaws. A casual look around the internet will show that OS users voice their concerns, a lot. The problem is that there are really only three operating systems, and two of them are more about making money than anything else. Linux has its own issues as a result of being developed by the open source community, but at least the people who use it often have more a direct effect on its development.
I'm appalled that this massive breach of our nation's finest law is being blamed on the good men and women of the legal profession. /sarcasm
Unfortunately it seems my sarcasm is always mistaken for trolling on slashdot. Still, not as badly as Digg.
I can't wait for the spidey sense to kill an unarmed civilian. Oh wait, we don't need advanced technology for that.
I still play Diablo II, and I have to say that I've seen a pattern of unreasonable behavior on Blizzard's part. Preventing cheating is one thing, but who defines cheating? They do, and their definition is pretty much "regardless of whether the program is completely harmless and improves a crappy aspect of our game, it's still cheating if it allows a player to play our game in any way that wasn't determined solely by us." The one that really gets to me is the map thing for Diablo II. For the love of God, nobody that still plays Diablo II enjoys exploring the same levels over and over and over again.
I'm also not a big fan of their anti-cheating tactics, and I applaud these people for circumventing them, even if it may have been for a bad cause.
You're my hero. But seriously, you'd think the location of this vault might just be forgotten during the APOCALYPSE.
Good for them. When you give in to pressure from big business to censor you lose all of your credibility.
It's all about diversity! If everyone has the same exact program running under the same exact OS with the same exact security flaw one blackhat can ruin millions of people's day with one little hack. Nature knows how important diversity is, hell, economic systems are supposed to know it too. It's unfortunate that Microsoft continues to be allowed to operate as an illegal monopoly based in the United States.
Great, I'll just hop in my flying solar powered car and drive over to Wal-Mart to pick up that realistic robot cat I always wanted.
Who needs futuresight when you can just lock up everyone who doesn't seem likely to grow up to become a societal drone?
That's really not true for everyone. Personally I tried it and it's just not the same. I guess I spent too many of the best years of my life playing NES but the net result is that it's just not the same playing those games with anything but the original controllers. I definitely won't miss trying to get the cartridges to correctly connect to the console.