Well, for the same reason that good beer sells and a bad one doesn't. Or for the same reason a good and not expensive car sells well and a bad one doesn't. Really, the same laws of economy that rule anything else do äpply to games as well.
And when they'll realize that Open Spouce is not a panacea or the Holy Grail, and that it creates other problems, not more or less than "Closed Source", just different.... Open Source is more and more like the new ".com" these days.
Clippy was a very smart way of showing the user about features that weren't so known for the avarega user. The problem with clippy and other avatars was that it was:
1) A bit silly for the non average user (but it could be turned off anyway)
2) It could be annoying (again, it could always been turned off)
3) It had some kind of a bad timing, showing sometimes a feature that was not related with the action the user was doing, This got better with the time....
Anyway, Clippy is not THAT hated than the average slashdummer thinks, but it's a good thing that he's dead now anyway.
Sure, what's next, Vista is the principal factor of the Global Warning. You know,/. is sometimes funny. So many smart people and at the same time so many idiots reunited in the same place... People are SOOOO DESPERATE trying to make their point abd to demonstrate their holy theories: Apple=God, Linuxxx-Holy spirit, MS= Devil that they are willing to repeat lies and stupid theories just to get that internal confirmation that they so much need like a drug... It's just not so funny anymore.../, is just like yellow press but only even more stupid... and PREDICTABLE.... A cancer.
Unfortunatly (?) driver support is the leat of the problems the Linuzzzz community has to face. Solving this may be a little step forward, but don't expect miracles.
Not always. Not if this is a closed solution. Being a true executable Activex is more powerful than any other solution could ever be, so many companies just use it as a first hand solution for internal use. Why do they need cross browser support? To be politically correct? Well, fuck that!
Just another user that fears a word. ActiveX is no more than a simple executable, like your webbrowser, your notepad.exe or your stupid vi. The difference is that this execvutable is running in the webbrowser address space. Normally that should not be a problem if the user and the creator have security in mind. Don't fear a word.
Making something "new and innovative" is not enough sometimes. History shows many cases of companies that have changed a winning formula for some "new fresh ideas" with catastrophic results.
That said, WoW is a great game. Million of people (including me) love it, so the expectations for the "next big thing" from Blizzard will be just too big, I think.... Changing the winning formula could be a big misstake. Look at Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It changed the way a HoMM game should have been with the result of users don't buying it. The next version V, came back somehow to the roots. The sales were just again better...
The studio is hyped as "a multimedia, audio, video and graphic giant for enthusiasts and professionals" but browsing the pack of programs distributed with the distro I have nothing more to say that: Are you sure that this is for the pro? I mean, graphic pro-men use Photoshop, that is the only graphi program that can work with really big images (and it does it well). Try opening a 56 GB image with GIMP and watch it paifully die.
Animation guys use Maya, WheelBuck or something similar, but there is NOTHING of similar quality here (or freeware or OS for that matter).
Ok call me a troll if you want, but DON*T TELL ME for fuck sakes that this is for the pro.
I've seen a limited demo (prototype??) in Stockholms Apple office and I'm not even remotly impressed. Yes, it's pretty, but where are the brains? It's like a pretty blond bimbo that impresses you at first but after you married her, you rather expend the whole day talking to your cat.
This is not so terrible as the HORRIBLE AND STUPIDLY DESIGNED Mighty(???) Mouse, but almost.... Anyway, people will buy it. People are easily blinded by futility.
It doesn't matters that much. Good said. Not that the words of a regular person like this overrated one (Linuzzz something) means a thing, but that is the scence of the problem. DMR may be good for some, bad for some others. In the end of the day, there is not black or white, but a lot of colors there inbetween.
For the same reason you need to install Firefox 2. Or the last Open Office, or the last
1) Ribbon, ribbon, ribbon, ribbon, ribbon RIBBON!!!!!! There is no single UI control more revolutionary than this. I mean, it's a really great control to improve your performance and believe me, you won't miss menus or toolbars. The development of this interface was a product of YEARS of planning and user testing, and it shines.
2) Want to see how a change will affect your document without changing it? Just put your mouse over a document skin or formatting and the document will temporarly "apply" the changes for you. The formatting will reverse to normal when your mouse is out of the area.
3)The new contextual spelling checker.
4)Building Blocks. Great time saver
That's only from the op of my head, but of course if you are a average slashdotter MS could add *real gold* toolbars and you won't like it, so...
It's easy, in many cases it's not so har to understand. We use a lot of Photoshop at work. When you find us a package that does the same that Photoshop (please don't dare proposing me GIMP, don't make me laugh) then we will change be it OS or not. We don't care. AutoCad is used by our reactor designers. Don't try to push anything else to them. They have tried, believe me. And we pay gladly 8000 USD per licens... And so on... The philosophy and puritanism of OS=good and hip, commercial = bad and pest is not relevant...
There is no "asolute best" in the world, sonny. What is good for one think, is not so good for other things. There is white and black but there is a whole spectrum of colors there inbetween. You'll grow up and will surely understand, don't worry. Windows is not "best" nor is Linux and even less the much imperfect OsX... They are all good and bad for certain things.
There is also a reason why Windows, Photoshop, Visual Studio, Premiere, Office, Maya, AutoCad are also popular even if they cost A LOT. Have you been thinking about that? OS is not the holy grail. There are a lot of underfeatured are mediocre OS applications that sadly are overrated just for being that.
One of open source's most touted benefits is its price. Download the software, install it--and don't pay a penny. That's the theory. But to a surprising number of companies, the price tag--or lack of one--is irrelevant. Believe it or not but in my university there are no problems to choose software. We are not looking the philosofical part of the questin (this is OS, this is not). We literally don't care for that. We look at what does the job best. And we buy and use it. And don't care for the price.
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Well, for the same reason that good beer sells and a bad one doesn't. Or for the same reason a good and not expensive car sells well and a bad one doesn't. Really, the same laws of economy that rule anything else do äpply to games as well.
And when they'll realize that Open Spouce is not a panacea or the Holy Grail, and that it creates other problems, not more or less than "Closed Source", just different.... Open Source is more and more like the new ".com" these days.
1) A bit silly for the non average user (but it could be turned off anyway)
2) It could be annoying (again, it could always been turned off)
3) It had some kind of a bad timing, showing sometimes a feature that was not related with the action the user was doing, This got better with the time....
Anyway, Clippy is not THAT hated than the average slashdummer thinks, but it's a good thing that he's dead now anyway.
Did I miss something?
Sure, what's next, Vista is the principal factor of the Global Warning. You know, /. is sometimes funny. So many smart people and at the same time so many idiots reunited in the same place... People are SOOOO DESPERATE trying to make their point abd to demonstrate their holy theories: Apple=God, Linuxxx-Holy spirit, MS= Devil that they are willing to repeat lies and stupid theories just to get that internal confirmation that they so much need like a drug... It's just not so funny anymore... /, is just like yellow press but only even more stupid... and PREDICTABLE.... A cancer.
Let's everybody migrate to Linuzzzzzzzzzz now. It sure has better gaming support
Oh, lets label every M$ as trolls then...
Pray tell me, how the hell is the above a troll?
Unfortunatly (?) driver support is the leat of the problems the Linuzzzz community has to face. Solving this may be a little step forward, but don't expect miracles.
There are 2 types of OS: the "normal" one and the discriminatory one. So anybody but Microsoft can use this "Clos...Open Source" project?
Not always. Not if this is a closed solution. Being a true executable Activex is more powerful than any other solution could ever be, so many companies just use it as a first hand solution for internal use. Why do they need cross browser support? To be politically correct? Well, fuck that!
Just another user that fears a word. ActiveX is no more than a simple executable, like your webbrowser, your notepad.exe or your stupid vi. The difference is that this execvutable is running in the webbrowser address space. Normally that should not be a problem if the user and the creator have security in mind. Don't fear a word.
That said, WoW is a great game. Million of people (including me) love it, so the expectations for the "next big thing" from Blizzard will be just too big, I think.... Changing the winning formula could be a big misstake. Look at Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It changed the way a HoMM game should have been with the result of users don't buying it. The next version V, came back somehow to the roots. The sales were just again better...
So now, Microsoft should form it's own Commitee of Standards. Just to be fair, don't y'all agree?
Animation guys use Maya, WheelBuck or something similar, but there is NOTHING of similar quality here (or freeware or OS for that matter).
Ok call me a troll if you want, but DON*T TELL ME for fuck sakes that this is for the pro.
And I don't care if you mod me down for this. Cry babies.
This is not so terrible as the HORRIBLE AND STUPIDLY DESIGNED Mighty(???) Mouse, but almost.... Anyway, people will buy it. People are easily blinded by futility.
It doesn't matters that much. Good said. Not that the words of a regular person like this overrated one (Linuzzz something) means a thing, but that is the scence of the problem. DMR may be good for some, bad for some others. In the end of the day, there is not black or white, but a lot of colors there inbetween.
Really? What are you using to play your WMV? Your toaster?
2) Want to see how a change will affect your document without changing it? Just put your mouse over a document skin or formatting and the document will temporarly "apply" the changes for you. The formatting will reverse to normal when your mouse is out of the area.
3)The new contextual spelling checker.
4)Building Blocks. Great time saver That's only from the op of my head, but of course if you are a average slashdotter MS could add *real gold* toolbars and you won't like it, so...
Nah... Is there anything worse than Apple fanboys?
It's easy, in many cases it's not so har to understand. We use a lot of Photoshop at work. When you find us a package that does the same that Photoshop (please don't dare proposing me GIMP, don't make me laugh) then we will change be it OS or not. We don't care. AutoCad is used by our reactor designers. Don't try to push anything else to them. They have tried, believe me. And we pay gladly 8000 USD per licens... And so on... The philosophy and puritanism of OS=good and hip, commercial = bad and pest is not relevant...
There is no "asolute best" in the world, sonny. What is good for one think, is not so good for other things. There is white and black but there is a whole spectrum of colors there inbetween. You'll grow up and will surely understand, don't worry. Windows is not "best" nor is Linux and even less the much imperfect OsX... They are all good and bad for certain things.
There is also a reason why Windows, Photoshop, Visual Studio, Premiere, Office, Maya, AutoCad are also popular even if they cost A LOT. Have you been thinking about that? OS is not the holy grail. There are a lot of underfeatured are mediocre OS applications that sadly are overrated just for being that.
One of open source's most touted benefits is its price. Download the software, install it--and don't pay a penny. That's the theory. But to a surprising number of companies, the price tag--or lack of one--is irrelevant. Believe it or not but in my university there are no problems to choose software. We are not looking the philosofical part of the questin (this is OS, this is not). We literally don't care for that. We look at what does the job best. And we buy and use it. And don't care for the price.