Have you tried RealBasic? It's not VB, it's closer to Java than any flavor of Basic from the past. In fact, I wouldn't mind at all if they changed the name... but try it before you knock it.
It's a lot like Visual Basic, except: 1) Portable to MacOS and Linux 2) Easier to just jump in and write apps with 3) Produces apps with no DLL dependencies.
Give it a try, you might find it meets your needs.
I'm with you, and I especially love it when the "how-tos" don't cover basics:
1) Where to type stuff in. Sure it's obvious to the Linux guru that "ndiswrapper -i" goes into the terminal and that "192.168.1.1" goes into the IP address field, but if I'm not an expert, I have no clue.
2) They tell you to use a path that's wrong. I've had this one more than once... on the ndiswrapper one, for instance, it tells me to place the Windows driver on my desktop, then use a root terminal to type in "ndiswrapper -i ~/desktop/windows_driver"... that's great, but that uses the desktop belonging to *ROOT* not to me, because it's a root terminal! Again, that's probably obvious to the Linux guru, but it stumped me for a half hour. (And, BTW, if you have to type in a path at all, WRITE A GUI PEOPLE! Why does Knoppix have a GUI (albeit a terrible one) for ndiswrapper but Ubuntu doesn't? Criminy, how irritating.)
3) What to do for common errors. When I tried the above, I got some error like "cp: Failed, file does not exist." Well, I know now in retrospect that it's because I was telling it to look in the wrong desktop folder, but the How-To didn't have any explaination of that error. (And no, I don't know that "cp" means "file copy." And again, if you're looking for reasons why people hate Linux, how about the obvious: If "cp" runs into an error, why doesn't it tell you WHICH FILE has the error? I mean, duh!)
4) Also covering the basics would be nice. I know now that "ndiswrapper" is a program that can "translate" (somehow) Windows networking drivers into Linux drivers, but the how-to didn't tell me that, I had to glean it after the fact.
Lindows created a legal DVD player application or library for Linux, I believe... so it does exist. Distributing it along with free installs might be an issue, though, as the DVD licensing is per-user... (I may be wrong, though.)
Or not buy a game console, and own BOTH a Mac and PC... there's nothing in the Mac that will make your PC stop functioning, and vice versa. The whole "switch" mentality is stupid when you can run both.
Just FYI, there are several secrets in Serious Sam that require rocket-jumping (for instance, the powerups up the rim of the 'exploding frog room' about a third of the way through the game.) You can be assured at least some of the Serious Sam level designers knew about rocket jumping.
"People on Slashdot" are not the same as "people." Perhaps 0.5% of the people who buy an Xbox are even aware that it *can* be run Linux (and I'm sure less than 5% even know what Linux is.)
If it increases the quality of peripherals, I'm all for it. My only question is: When can I pre-order a Xbox 360?
So because a lot of third party Windows developers do a shitty job, suddenly Windows doesn't have permissions? Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.
What's stupid is that they're missing Safari/KHTML browsers. Safari right now has the #3 slot behind Firefox, and ahead of Netscape. In addition, it's the system default web browser for MacOS, so almost all Mac users are using it. (Just like almost all Windows users are using IE because it's the system default; it doesn't help that Firefox on Mac sucks ass.)
I have no idea what a Basselope is, but the movie Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) has two speeches almost exactly like this one, one about a doomsday device, the second about very deep mineshafts that could allow people to survive the doomsday device.
1) I bet DDR Ultramix gets ported quickly, since it's a non-demanding game. (It doesn't challenge the Xbox hardware in any way; even the 3D dancing characters are simplistic.)
2) The Xbox 360 will quickly get DDR, or other dance games, because they sell really well and are popular at parties.
3) Even if the above don't happen, you still own your existing Xbox, right? It's not like the Xbox 360 will magically make it disappear.
Duh. Same reason I'd consider buying a PS2 despite not owning a PS1... there's some games that slipped me by on PS1 (since I didn't have one) that I could play with a PS2. If somebody wanted to play Halo, but never got around to buying a Xbox, you could buy a Xbox 360 and be pretty certain that Halo will run well on it.
Now, if you're after a less popular game (to use the example in the article, Panzer Dragoon Orta, an excellent rail-shoorter), you might run into problems-- in that case, check the list of compatible games before purchase.
Ok, this is posted at +5 insightful, but what does this post have to do about the article whatsoever? It doesn't even address the prediction that the PS3 may be delayed, it's just a nice little "hey, I like Nintendo" explaination. That's great, but what is it doing in this discussion? it doesn't even mention the Xbox 360.
Many PC games already generate HD-quality displays.
A few Xbox games already do 720p or 1080i, and nearly *all* Xbox games do 480p.
(The only Xbox game that runs in 480i that I know of is Metal Slug... because my TV doesn't support 480i and 480p on the same video input that means I get only gibberish on the screen for the Metal Slug demo. I wonder how many sales they lost because they made their game incompatible with so many TVs...)
"Is the Xbox 360 going to flop? Of course it's going to flop! This is Slashdot and the product is manufactured by Microsoft, so regardless of how many people buy it, we're going to declare it flopped anyway. After all, almost everyone here on Slashdot considers the original Xbox a flop despite exceeding Microsoft's sales estimates by a good margin."
I think I'm more qualified. I've thought about writing more software than anybody's ever actually written!
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It has an average rating of 93%. Maybe you personally didn't like it, but with a rating that high you can't deny it's one of the best games this console generation.
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The game treats your headset microphone like a real-life walkie-talking. So if you talk into it without holding the 'transmit' button, everybody standing close to you will hear what you're saying. To talk to everybody on your team at once, you need to press the transmit button first.
It's a great idea, and works tremendously in practice... It's really handy, when you're in a warthog or other vehicle, to be able to talk to just your vehicle-mates without cluttering up the team channel. The only problem is that there's not enough tutorial, so you frequently get people chattering when they're invading an enemy base (giving away their position), or talking without hitting 'transmit' and then wondering why other teammates didn't hear them. Of course, you can't do anything about people who don't read the manual.
So, yeah, a cough can give away your position. So can using the radio when you're trying to sneak up on somebody.
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Whoa, you're dissing Ubisoft? Did you play Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Did you play Beyond Good and Evil? Ubisoft put out some of the best games this console generation.
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It doesn't really matter if you'll pay or not, what matters is that the majority of people will pay. I know everybody loves to live in this Slashdot fantasy world, but considering how long games have been at $50, and our current rate of inflation, they *should* be selling for something like $65 by now... the price has been going down every year because of inflation.
Your post kind of points out exactly why they've been at $50 for so long... there's a psychological thing there, I think.
But seriously: Don't be the old man sitting on the side of the road shouting out, "in my day we paid a nickel for a hamburger and we got a free milkshake in a golden collector's cup!" Seriously. Meditate on the fact that, as time passes, prices will change.
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Have you tried RealBasic? It's not VB, it's closer to Java than any flavor of Basic from the past. In fact, I wouldn't mind at all if they changed the name... but try it before you knock it.
You could try them out on RealBasic: http://www.realbasic.com/
It's a lot like Visual Basic, except:
1) Portable to MacOS and Linux
2) Easier to just jump in and write apps with
3) Produces apps with no DLL dependencies.
Give it a try, you might find it meets your needs.
I'm with you, and I especially love it when the "how-tos" don't cover basics:
1) Where to type stuff in. Sure it's obvious to the Linux guru that "ndiswrapper -i" goes into the terminal and that "192.168.1.1" goes into the IP address field, but if I'm not an expert, I have no clue.
2) They tell you to use a path that's wrong. I've had this one more than once... on the ndiswrapper one, for instance, it tells me to place the Windows driver on my desktop, then use a root terminal to type in "ndiswrapper -i ~/desktop/windows_driver"... that's great, but that uses the desktop belonging to *ROOT* not to me, because it's a root terminal! Again, that's probably obvious to the Linux guru, but it stumped me for a half hour. (And, BTW, if you have to type in a path at all, WRITE A GUI PEOPLE! Why does Knoppix have a GUI (albeit a terrible one) for ndiswrapper but Ubuntu doesn't? Criminy, how irritating.)
3) What to do for common errors. When I tried the above, I got some error like "cp: Failed, file does not exist." Well, I know now in retrospect that it's because I was telling it to look in the wrong desktop folder, but the How-To didn't have any explaination of that error. (And no, I don't know that "cp" means "file copy." And again, if you're looking for reasons why people hate Linux, how about the obvious: If "cp" runs into an error, why doesn't it tell you WHICH FILE has the error? I mean, duh!)
4) Also covering the basics would be nice. I know now that "ndiswrapper" is a program that can "translate" (somehow) Windows networking drivers into Linux drivers, but the how-to didn't tell me that, I had to glean it after the fact.
Lindows created a legal DVD player application or library for Linux, I believe... so it does exist. Distributing it along with free installs might be an issue, though, as the DVD licensing is per-user... (I may be wrong, though.)
Or not buy a game console, and own BOTH a Mac and PC... there's nothing in the Mac that will make your PC stop functioning, and vice versa. The whole "switch" mentality is stupid when you can run both.
Just FYI, there are several secrets in Serious Sam that require rocket-jumping (for instance, the powerups up the rim of the 'exploding frog room' about a third of the way through the game.) You can be assured at least some of the Serious Sam level designers knew about rocket jumping.
"People on Slashdot" are not the same as "people." Perhaps 0.5% of the people who buy an Xbox are even aware that it *can* be run Linux (and I'm sure less than 5% even know what Linux is.)
If it increases the quality of peripherals, I'm all for it. My only question is: When can I pre-order a Xbox 360?
So... yes? No? How does this answer the question?
Hell, I don't even know what a mux is.
So because a lot of third party Windows developers do a shitty job, suddenly Windows doesn't have permissions? Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.
Uh, in what way does Windows not have "an inherent sense of privileges?" It has since version NT 3.5 or so... but go ahead and spread your FUD.
Not to mention he just kind of assumes I'm using an OS that knows what a .exe file is... my Mac just kind of sat there and stared at it. Alas.
Hey submitter: You're an idiot. There, I said it.
What's stupid is that they're missing Safari/KHTML browsers. Safari right now has the #3 slot behind Firefox, and ahead of Netscape. In addition, it's the system default web browser for MacOS, so almost all Mac users are using it. (Just like almost all Windows users are using IE because it's the system default; it doesn't help that Firefox on Mac sucks ass.)
I have no idea what a Basselope is, but the movie Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) has two speeches almost exactly like this one, one about a doomsday device, the second about very deep mineshafts that could allow people to survive the doomsday device.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
1) I bet DDR Ultramix gets ported quickly, since it's a non-demanding game. (It doesn't challenge the Xbox hardware in any way; even the 3D dancing characters are simplistic.)
2) The Xbox 360 will quickly get DDR, or other dance games, because they sell really well and are popular at parties.
3) Even if the above don't happen, you still own your existing Xbox, right? It's not like the Xbox 360 will magically make it disappear.
Duh. Same reason I'd consider buying a PS2 despite not owning a PS1... there's some games that slipped me by on PS1 (since I didn't have one) that I could play with a PS2. If somebody wanted to play Halo, but never got around to buying a Xbox, you could buy a Xbox 360 and be pretty certain that Halo will run well on it.
Now, if you're after a less popular game (to use the example in the article, Panzer Dragoon Orta, an excellent rail-shoorter), you might run into problems-- in that case, check the list of compatible games before purchase.
Ok, this is posted at +5 insightful, but what does this post have to do about the article whatsoever? It doesn't even address the prediction that the PS3 may be delayed, it's just a nice little "hey, I like Nintendo" explaination. That's great, but what is it doing in this discussion? it doesn't even mention the Xbox 360.
Many PC games already generate HD-quality displays.
A few Xbox games already do 720p or 1080i, and nearly *all* Xbox games do 480p.
(The only Xbox game that runs in 480i that I know of is Metal Slug... because my TV doesn't support 480i and 480p on the same video input that means I get only gibberish on the screen for the Metal Slug demo. I wonder how many sales they lost because they made their game incompatible with so many TVs...)
"Is the Xbox 360 going to flop? Of course it's going to flop! This is Slashdot and the product is manufactured by Microsoft, so regardless of how many people buy it, we're going to declare it flopped anyway. After all, almost everyone here on Slashdot considers the original Xbox a flop despite exceeding Microsoft's sales estimates by a good margin."
I think I'm more qualified. I've thought about writing more software than anybody's ever actually written!
It has an average rating of 93%. Maybe you personally didn't like it, but with a rating that high you can't deny it's one of the best games this console generation.
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The game treats your headset microphone like a real-life walkie-talking. So if you talk into it without holding the 'transmit' button, everybody standing close to you will hear what you're saying. To talk to everybody on your team at once, you need to press the transmit button first.
It's a great idea, and works tremendously in practice... It's really handy, when you're in a warthog or other vehicle, to be able to talk to just your vehicle-mates without cluttering up the team channel. The only problem is that there's not enough tutorial, so you frequently get people chattering when they're invading an enemy base (giving away their position), or talking without hitting 'transmit' and then wondering why other teammates didn't hear them. Of course, you can't do anything about people who don't read the manual.
So, yeah, a cough can give away your position. So can using the radio when you're trying to sneak up on somebody.
Whoa, you're dissing Ubisoft? Did you play Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Did you play Beyond Good and Evil? Ubisoft put out some of the best games this console generation.
It doesn't really matter if you'll pay or not, what matters is that the majority of people will pay. I know everybody loves to live in this Slashdot fantasy world, but considering how long games have been at $50, and our current rate of inflation, they *should* be selling for something like $65 by now... the price has been going down every year because of inflation.
Your post kind of points out exactly why they've been at $50 for so long... there's a psychological thing there, I think.
But seriously: Don't be the old man sitting on the side of the road shouting out, "in my day we paid a nickel for a hamburger and we got a free milkshake in a golden collector's cup!" Seriously. Meditate on the fact that, as time passes, prices will change.
And hamburgers were $.50! And you could buy a Ford with two bits-- and the gas was free for life!
News flash: Prices change over time, grandpa.
*whoosh!*
Did you look up as that joke passed directly over your head? Or did you not notice it at all?