And another thing that pisses me off to no end in Windows is permissions. I have to be logged in as administrator to install the simplest of applications. WTF!? Whereas in Linux, I just get what I want and run (or sometimes compile and then run) the binary.
Right-click Setup.exe (or whatever), choose "Run As..." and type in your administrative password. Same thing as using SUDO to install software in Linux.
You might have valid complaints there, I don't use Linux enough to judge. But that particular complaint is moot.
In any case, nobody uses batch files anymore, they use Windows Scripting Host.
Don't. Those games suck ass. The only way to find the correct clue is by randomly clicking on every single pixel until you happen to find the right pixel that reveals the clue. Gameplay is entirely nonsensical. (For instance, you have a *portable* film projector and you play it on a wall, and in the film a man points to a safe hidden in the wall... but the film projector is *PORTABLE!* That clue makes no sense.)
At the time I played it, the website holding the clue for the safe combination (you find it on a slip of paper) was a 404 error, meaning the game was unwinnable because the guy's website was broken!
In short, piece of crap games. Don't even come close to comparing to what's commercially available.)
I've always wondered why the image is always distorted images which are hard to read on speckled backgrounds?
Why not just show the picture of an object, like an apple or something, and ask the user to type in what it is? I mean, you could have a few hundred of these and it would be nearly impossible for an automated system to guess. (You have a few hundred different items, and like 5-10 images of each item.) I dunno, seems easier to me, but I don't write web software.
I do, too. I show that by going to the store and *buying* adventure games when they come out.
The problem with these people who run around screaming "the adventure genre is dead!" is that I would wager none of them own a copy of The Longest Journey, or Syberia, or Syberia II, or Crystal Key or any of the adventure games that have come out in the last 5 years.
You know why companies don't make as many adventure games as they used to? Because people like the ones complaining about it here don't go to the store and buy them when they come out! Why would anyone make a game nobody buys?
Anyway, the sooner these complainers figure out that adventure games are still *there* and go buy them instead of making up crap about none of them existing anymore, we'll all be better off.
I bought a copy of Windows XP Upgrade from Staples just a few months ago. To upgrade my legal copy of Windows 2000 Pro that I bought from CompUSA when it came out.
Does that answer your question?
(BTW, most stores don't put the actual product on the shelves for $300 software, they just put up empty boxes then fetch the actual product from a back room when you bring it up to the register. That might be why you never see any missing from the shelves. Of course, there is also this thing called "restrocking"... I hear some stores do that.)
There's an inside joke with me and my brother. We make reference to USB->PS/2 adapters exploding. We've actually devised plans to use them as weapons of mass destruction.
You guys need to discover video games or sports or something *bad.*
Actually, that's not entirely true since there are a few games that are-- Counter-Strike, for instance-- but they are few and far-between.
Most games, like MechAssault, Crimson Skies, etc, when you say "create a new game," your XBox is just telling the server to allocate some resources to it. The game is hosted from the XBox Live servers.
Yeah, but, uh, I can't tell you how many "vegetarians" I know who "only eat fish" or "only eat chicken breast" or "only eat seafoods."
Uh, vegetarian is vegetarian. If you have a moral objection to eating a cow, why wouldn't that same objection apply to a shrimp or a salmon or a chicken?
Nothing against you personally, it's just that there are so many fake vegetarians out there who only do it to be trendy that it gets hard to take any vegetarians seriously. And then there's Maddox's point which is that basically anything you do to survive is going to kill some animal somewhere.
Yes, but to Apple's credit, every version of OS X has been faster than the last. 10.0.0 was a dog, 10.1 was acceptably usable, 10.2 was actually usable, and 10.3 is relatively quite perky... but, as you said, still a bit slower than Windows XP. Hopefully, 10.4 will nip this in the bud and catch up with all the other OSes out there.
Read what the grandparent said about Apple again. X11 in MacOS X looks like crap despite Apple's best efforts... if *Apple* can't get X11 to look good, nobody can.
Uh, just this week both Full Spectrum Warrior and Chronicles of Riddick were released as XBox Exclusives. Look at their ratings. XBox is stronger now than it's ever been.
XSN games were put on hold for a single year as part of the deal with EA to get EA to use Live instead of wanting to use their own game servers. It was a good move on Microsoft's fault... Microsoft needs EA to take advantage of all the XBox's features more than it needs a little bit of sales from some sports games. In addition, everyone agrees that the *concept* of XSN is brilliant, it's just the execution that needs work. XBox games can be patched, remember? These issues will be fixed.
Another XBox? Uh, not only is XBox2 already mostly designed, but the dev kits have already been distributed to some of the game development houses. I can quite safely assure you that another XBox is a certainty.
Uh. This list is pretty questionable. Isn't Aleph One just a game engine used to play Marathon level files? It doesn't ship with the level files, so it can hardly be called a 'video game.'... it's just the engine.
"Anagramarama?" That'll pull in the crowds.
For some reason, Return To Castle Wolfenstein is listed while the stand-alone expansion Enemy Territory is not. Both are stand-alone games, right? Why one and not the other?
"Troubles (or Tales) of Middle Earth"... they don't know the name of their own game? It reminds me of the MST3K movie where the beginning credits said "the brain that wouldn't die" and the ending credits says "the head that wouldn't die."
Why are little dinky freeware and shareware games listed along with commercial games like Unreal Tournament 2004? I hardly think that "Xeyes" can compete with SimCity 3000.
Don't bother with that Software History website linked to in the article. There's very little content, and it seems to be mostly a placeholder and a place for people to give them donations.
As far as I can tell, it has absolutely zero content about Visicalc, and I have no idea why it was linked to in the first place.
Uh, I've never had to use a mouse driver on MacOS X to use a Microsoft optical mouse. At work I plug a "wheel mouse optical 1.1a" into my iBook all the time and its never done anything other than just work.
They blanked that on Adult Swim. "Great zombie _____" I was pissed, especially since Fox *didn't* blank it when they showed it *early in the evening!* So Fox, a *broadcast* network plays this phrase at 7:30 PM, and Cartoon Network a *cable* network blanks it at, what, 11:30 PM? That makes no damn sense.
The key component of the NES system is the MOS 6502 CPU. This is the main processor where the game's code is executed. This CPU was very popular in the 1980's where it was used in some of the first personal computers including the Commodore 64, Apple II, and the Atari systems.
I thought that was hilarious, but most others I've spoken to have completely missed the joke, even if they did see the "6502" number.
You'll be disappointed. Once you've turned off the eye-candy in XP it runs noticably faster than Windows 2000 (with all the eye-candy turned off, of course.)
Seriously. Set XP up with the Classic theme, turn off all the menu fading and mouse shadowing and such (Start:Control Panel:System:Advanced:Performance and click away) and you'll have about the fastest GUI that's capable of running on that hardware. If that's not good enough for you, then you're just kind of up a creek without a paddle.
Well, you'd start by contacting the owners of the property, duh. The Atari brand name belongs to the company that used to be known as "Infogrames" and, I would wager, all the characters, sounds, whatnot also belong to them. Contact their legal department and ask about it.
Or you could do what Aqua Teen Hunger Force did with the Mooninites characters. They were Atari-like without actually being any characters from any specific games. The sound effects associated with them were from very very obscure games.
Try the new Defender for XBox and PS2 (and maybe Gamecube)... it's a lot easier. Of course, it's also structured like a modern game, with 'bosses' to beat and an end.
That's why you need a Macintosh with a "Command" key used for executing commands and *nothing else.*
I'm going into fanboy mode here, but Apple really knew what they were doing when they designed their keyboard. They realized that the mouse was too slow to select menu options all the time and that keyboard shortcuts would be needed and, since they were designing a keyboard from scratch, they had the ability to add an entire key dedicated to nothing but keyboard shortcuts! At the same time, they could keep the 'control' key (used to talk to software in terminals), the 'option' key (which exposed different options... for instance, holding down the menu without "option" might show "Find Files..." and with "option" might show "Find Invisible Files...")
The Apple keyboard also has both a "Enter" key and a "Return" key... "Return" adds a new line to the text field, like on a typewriter, and "Enter" enters data into the computer. At the time, I suppose no one figured out the reason behind this, but it's perfect for modern applications like AOL Instant Messenger (where you can type a message with carriage returns, then hit another key to send it without leaving the keyboard.)
What really cheeses me off is that Microsoft had a chance to fix this situation when they released the Windows 95 keyboard. Instead of a "Windows Key" they could have added a universal shortcut key and started putting some pressure on software developers to use it. But, oh well... missed chance.
Could you show me a press release from the US Army that stated that America's Army is *not* a recruitment tool? Uh, hello! Of course it is, otherwise why would they make it? The Army has never said otherwise.
Two-facedness my ass.
Look, if you don't want to play the game, you can play Tribes 2 or Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, both also free. I'm sure there are good free games I'm missing as well.
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And another thing that pisses me off to no end in Windows is permissions. I have to be logged in as administrator to install the simplest of applications. WTF!? Whereas in Linux, I just get what I want and run (or sometimes compile and then run) the binary.
Right-click Setup.exe (or whatever), choose "Run As..." and type in your administrative password. Same thing as using SUDO to install software in Linux.
You might have valid complaints there, I don't use Linux enough to judge. But that particular complaint is moot.
In any case, nobody uses batch files anymore, they use Windows Scripting Host.
Don't. Those games suck ass. The only way to find the correct clue is by randomly clicking on every single pixel until you happen to find the right pixel that reveals the clue. Gameplay is entirely nonsensical. (For instance, you have a *portable* film projector and you play it on a wall, and in the film a man points to a safe hidden in the wall... but the film projector is *PORTABLE!* That clue makes no sense.)
At the time I played it, the website holding the clue for the safe combination (you find it on a slip of paper) was a 404 error, meaning the game was unwinnable because the guy's website was broken!
In short, piece of crap games. Don't even come close to comparing to what's commercially available.)
Well, I guess you just didn't get your job application in on time then, huh?
Personally, I didn't like the first Zelda either and I haven't finished it. I much prefer Zelda II for NES and the SNES version.
I've always wondered why the image is always distorted images which are hard to read on speckled backgrounds?
Why not just show the picture of an object, like an apple or something, and ask the user to type in what it is? I mean, you could have a few hundred of these and it would be nearly impossible for an automated system to guess. (You have a few hundred different items, and like 5-10 images of each item.) I dunno, seems easier to me, but I don't write web software.
I do, too. I show that by going to the store and *buying* adventure games when they come out.
The problem with these people who run around screaming "the adventure genre is dead!" is that I would wager none of them own a copy of The Longest Journey, or Syberia, or Syberia II, or Crystal Key or any of the adventure games that have come out in the last 5 years.
You know why companies don't make as many adventure games as they used to? Because people like the ones complaining about it here don't go to the store and buy them when they come out! Why would anyone make a game nobody buys?
Anyway, the sooner these complainers figure out that adventure games are still *there* and go buy them instead of making up crap about none of them existing anymore, we'll all be better off.
I bought a copy of Windows XP Upgrade from Staples just a few months ago. To upgrade my legal copy of Windows 2000 Pro that I bought from CompUSA when it came out.
Does that answer your question?
(BTW, most stores don't put the actual product on the shelves for $300 software, they just put up empty boxes then fetch the actual product from a back room when you bring it up to the register. That might be why you never see any missing from the shelves. Of course, there is also this thing called "restrocking"... I hear some stores do that.)
There's an inside joke with me and my brother. We make reference to USB->PS/2 adapters exploding. We've actually devised plans to use them as weapons of mass destruction.
You guys need to discover video games or sports or something *bad.*
Well, at least he's honest.
Uh. XBox Live isn't peer-to-peer at all.
Actually, that's not entirely true since there are a few games that are-- Counter-Strike, for instance-- but they are few and far-between.
Most games, like MechAssault, Crimson Skies, etc, when you say "create a new game," your XBox is just telling the server to allocate some resources to it. The game is hosted from the XBox Live servers.
Yeah, but, uh, I can't tell you how many "vegetarians" I know who "only eat fish" or "only eat chicken breast" or "only eat seafoods."
Uh, vegetarian is vegetarian. If you have a moral objection to eating a cow, why wouldn't that same objection apply to a shrimp or a salmon or a chicken?
Nothing against you personally, it's just that there are so many fake vegetarians out there who only do it to be trendy that it gets hard to take any vegetarians seriously. And then there's Maddox's point which is that basically anything you do to survive is going to kill some animal somewhere.
Yes, but to Apple's credit, every version of OS X has been faster than the last. 10.0.0 was a dog, 10.1 was acceptably usable, 10.2 was actually usable, and 10.3 is relatively quite perky... but, as you said, still a bit slower than Windows XP. Hopefully, 10.4 will nip this in the bud and catch up with all the other OSes out there.
Read what the grandparent said about Apple again. X11 in MacOS X looks like crap despite Apple's best efforts... if *Apple* can't get X11 to look good, nobody can.
Uh, just this week both Full Spectrum Warrior and Chronicles of Riddick were released as XBox Exclusives. Look at their ratings. XBox is stronger now than it's ever been.
XSN games were put on hold for a single year as part of the deal with EA to get EA to use Live instead of wanting to use their own game servers. It was a good move on Microsoft's fault... Microsoft needs EA to take advantage of all the XBox's features more than it needs a little bit of sales from some sports games. In addition, everyone agrees that the *concept* of XSN is brilliant, it's just the execution that needs work. XBox games can be patched, remember? These issues will be fixed.
Another XBox? Uh, not only is XBox2 already mostly designed, but the dev kits have already been distributed to some of the game development houses. I can quite safely assure you that another XBox is a certainty.
Uh. This list is pretty questionable. Isn't Aleph One just a game engine used to play Marathon level files? It doesn't ship with the level files, so it can hardly be called a 'video game.'... it's just the engine.
"Anagramarama?" That'll pull in the crowds.
For some reason, Return To Castle Wolfenstein is listed while the stand-alone expansion Enemy Territory is not. Both are stand-alone games, right? Why one and not the other?
"Troubles (or Tales) of Middle Earth"... they don't know the name of their own game? It reminds me of the MST3K movie where the beginning credits said "the brain that wouldn't die" and the ending credits says "the head that wouldn't die."
Why are little dinky freeware and shareware games listed along with commercial games like Unreal Tournament 2004? I hardly think that "Xeyes" can compete with SimCity 3000.
What's interesting is that it doesn't actually save any time, it just means that they do more, and different kinds, or financial reports.
Don't bother with that Software History website linked to in the article. There's very little content, and it seems to be mostly a placeholder and a place for people to give them donations.
As far as I can tell, it has absolutely zero content about Visicalc, and I have no idea why it was linked to in the first place.
Uh, I've never had to use a mouse driver on MacOS X to use a Microsoft optical mouse. At work I plug a "wheel mouse optical 1.1a" into my iBook all the time and its never done anything other than just work.
They blanked that on Adult Swim. "Great zombie _____" I was pissed, especially since Fox *didn't* blank it when they showed it *early in the evening!* So Fox, a *broadcast* network plays this phrase at 7:30 PM, and Cartoon Network a *cable* network blanks it at, what, 11:30 PM? That makes no damn sense.
I guess it's due to the FCC's new enforcement.
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I thought that was hilarious, but most others I've spoken to have completely missed the joke, even if they did see the "6502" number.
You'll be disappointed. Once you've turned off the eye-candy in XP it runs noticably faster than Windows 2000 (with all the eye-candy turned off, of course.)
Seriously. Set XP up with the Classic theme, turn off all the menu fading and mouse shadowing and such (Start:Control Panel:System:Advanced:Performance and click away) and you'll have about the fastest GUI that's capable of running on that hardware. If that's not good enough for you, then you're just kind of up a creek without a paddle.
I tell you, I'm in Washington State and I have no damn clue what "shit of a stick" means. Maybe it's fast, maybe it's slow... you got me.
Well, you'd start by contacting the owners of the property, duh. The Atari brand name belongs to the company that used to be known as "Infogrames" and, I would wager, all the characters, sounds, whatnot also belong to them. Contact their legal department and ask about it.
Or you could do what Aqua Teen Hunger Force did with the Mooninites characters. They were Atari-like without actually being any characters from any specific games. The sound effects associated with them were from very very obscure games.
Try the new Defender for XBox and PS2 (and maybe Gamecube)... it's a lot easier. Of course, it's also structured like a modern game, with 'bosses' to beat and an end.
That's why you need a Macintosh with a "Command" key used for executing commands and *nothing else.*
I'm going into fanboy mode here, but Apple really knew what they were doing when they designed their keyboard. They realized that the mouse was too slow to select menu options all the time and that keyboard shortcuts would be needed and, since they were designing a keyboard from scratch, they had the ability to add an entire key dedicated to nothing but keyboard shortcuts! At the same time, they could keep the 'control' key (used to talk to software in terminals), the 'option' key (which exposed different options... for instance, holding down the menu without "option" might show "Find Files..." and with "option" might show "Find Invisible Files...")
The Apple keyboard also has both a "Enter" key and a "Return" key... "Return" adds a new line to the text field, like on a typewriter, and "Enter" enters data into the computer. At the time, I suppose no one figured out the reason behind this, but it's perfect for modern applications like AOL Instant Messenger (where you can type a message with carriage returns, then hit another key to send it without leaving the keyboard.)
What really cheeses me off is that Microsoft had a chance to fix this situation when they released the Windows 95 keyboard. Instead of a "Windows Key" they could have added a universal shortcut key and started putting some pressure on software developers to use it. But, oh well... missed chance.
Two-facedness?
Could you show me a press release from the US Army that stated that America's Army is *not* a recruitment tool? Uh, hello! Of course it is, otherwise why would they make it? The Army has never said otherwise.
Two-facedness my ass.
Look, if you don't want to play the game, you can play Tribes 2 or Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, both also free. I'm sure there are good free games I'm missing as well.