But it's also nowhere near as good as deserving $1 Billion in sales. Like I said in a later post in this thread, I enjoyed the hell out of playing both of them, but I think people play it up too much. There are far more deserving games for this level of recognition (Muramasa: The Demon Blade being just one such example), but that will never happen.
For all of its intensity and depiction of war, why does the MW series control like Quake?
I loved both Modern Warfare 1 and 2, don't get me wrong...but IMO the buzz surrounding them is way over the top. They were good games that broke some new ground in terms of intensity, but when you get down to it they were still shooting galleries wrapped up in a fancy package.
I think Ben Kuchera said it best at the end of a recent Ars article: "Modern Warfare 2 can be a fun game. The single-player is short, but intense. It's not a $1 billion game in our opinion, however, and the precedents set by its release and success aren't pointing towards good things for the industry. Of course, after selling all those games, why should Activision care?"
Doesn't fight? Obviously, you haven't spent a week in our house. We fight a lot...and it's always over something stupid. Sometimes, one or the other person will instigate it for no reason at all. Why do we do this, you may wonder? Because we both have horrible tempers and we know it. By picking fights about the little things, we are able to expel any pent up energy. To an outsider, we fight on an almost daily basis. That isn't really true though...we get rid of tension and anger WITH each other, not AT each other.
If something important happens or one of us screws up, we don't argue about it. We will either go off on our own until we have both calmed down, or if we have the ability to do so, we calmly talk it over right then and there. Getting angry and "fighting" over the stupid stuff keeps us grounded...being calm and not fighting when something major happens allows us to constructively deal with it.
One of the primary reasons I think she is perfect isn't because of what is right with her, but because her imperfections are the same as mine. Being able to grow and become a better person is a lot easier when you both have to grow in the same direction, know what I mean?
So your making that broad of an assumption based solely on my age and the story of how I met the woman I'm going to marry? Sounds like you are the naive one.
You know what? It doesn't matter. We know. That's all I care about.
Do you still find the same women attractive as you did 10 years ago, and is there just one such person?
I certainly do...we met in high school back in 1999 (I was class of 2002, she of '03). Love at a distance sort of thing. Unfortunately, one or the other of us were always dating someone, so there was never an opportune time to get together...we have been friends off and on since we met, but never got together. A bit over two years ago, I suffered navicular fractures in both of my wrists. She happend to randomly call me (hadn't seen each other in around 6 months) and came over to help me out. We both happend to be single.
True, but some things truly don't matter if they get out in the open. My own website linked in my sig is a perfect example of that...while I log activities on my site through statcounter.com and can view any visitor's IP and system specs, their information isn't "public" unless they leave a comment (and then the only information public is what they write.)
A lot of information out there doesn't need to be protected, and other than my own traffic logs, there is nothing on my site that would warrent the cost and time associated with using encryption. If I were running a bank or a store, then absolutely everything if you were logged in would be encrypted...but for people like me, encryption is a waste of resources.
I recall one of the "Top 10 most useless products from CES" to be such a thing for the iPhone.
Not sure how that could be considered "useless"...I used to use something similar for my old Palm Pilot M100 back in the day to take notes in school (my handwriting skills have always been on a 1st grade level), and I found that to be extremely useful. It folded up small enough to fit in my back pocket, so carrying it between classes wasn't a big deal at all.
I would imagine that, while a very niche product, a keyboard could be useful for business purposes with an iPhone for folks that don't want to bring their laptop with them to a meeting.
I'll admit, while I love having a QWERTY phone (HTC Ozone) for on the go internet and emails, I still miss using a keypad for texting. In my days with a keypad, we didn't use none of that fancy shmancy T9 malarky...by gum, we did everything one letter at a time!
The only way I would be ok with this is if they either split the competition into qwerty and non-qwerty (as you implied) or just get rid of numberpads.
Personally, I think they should just have two seperate competitions...but honestly, I don't really care all that much:-)
I don't know for sure, but chances are an older version of one of the development addons you were using didn't want to play nice with the others...that'd be my best guess. Again, the frequency of the timestamps (especially the first one you showed) would lead me to believe something crazy was going down. Even if it were memory related, it would take longer than a minute or two for Firefox to bloat up to the point of crashing (and if you were trying to reopen 30+ tabs at once...well, then what'd you expect)
I can't RTFA at work due to filters...can anyone tell me if they are comparing the new record with a QWERTY to the old record with a numberpad? I have no problem with people using a QWERTY for a texting competition, but I think it's a bit unfair to compare it to the speed set by using a numberpad (again, if that's what they did)
Numbers mean nothing without context....although the close proximity of the timestamps (especially on 7/27) would indicate something really screwy was going on that involved more than just the core Firefox software.
I don't know what problems the other poster was talking about, but for a several month period up until the last two updates, Firefox was crashing on me basically every night, unattended, with near 100% CPU usage and hugely bloating memory. Furthermore, if I tried to restart it, and it found that one of my plugins needed updating, it wouldn't attempt to restore the previous set of tabs that it was displaying when it crashed. Hugely annoying. I suspect it was some weird interaction with the Zimbra web app. Still, FireFox shouldn't crash like that, no matter what an app is doing.
I have trouble believing this. Firefox was causing you that many problems on a daily basis...yet you continued to use it for several months?::sniff sniff:: I smell bullshit.
Oh, and for the record: the two ubuntu 9.10 systems I run Firefox 3.5.x on? One is an Athlon 64 3000+ single core system (HTPC), and the other is a Dell Mini 9. If I was going to have stability issues with Firefox, I'm sure at least one of those two would have it.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying that in own personal experience (and, apparently, a lot of other people on this board's experience), I haven't found anything remotely close to what is being claimed.
Did you read the crash reports? They are automatically generated. Are you saying they didn't happen?
People also have pictures of iPhones literally catching on fire or even exploading. That doesn't mean the millions of iPhones out there are bombs in disguise.
Did you consider that maybe your use of a browser is lighter than that of others?
I use 11 addons, and tend to have anywhere from 10-30 tabs open at a time in TWO different browser windows at a time (closer to 10 if general browsing, closer to 30 if I'm working on my website).
If anything, my use of Firefox is HEAVIER than most (or on par with "power users", many of whom on this board also report experiencing none of the issues you have mentioned).
Considering I'm running a relatively week Athlon X2 5400+ and 4 gb of DDR2800 Corsair XMS memory, I should be experiencing the problems you describe left and right...but lo and behold, I don't.
I keep HEARING about all these serious problems, but the five computes in my household using Firefox 3.5x (two of them Ubuntu 9.10, three of them Windows XP SP3) haven't SHOWN me any of these problems.
These posts keep talking about how there are major problems with Firefox, and they keep getting worse...yet I haven't experienced nor do I know anyone in my relatively large nerd circle who has experienced what is being described after the release of 3.5.
I have seen you post this ANY time Firefox has been mentioned for the past couple of weeks, cut and paste style. You are either a shill of some sort, or forced to do this because of one of your clients. Either way, you aren't wanted here.
Whoa, wait a minute...are you insinuating that there are no active marijuana activist groups that are politically active?
...and I just realized how poorly that was written. Still, you get my point...there are a huge number of marijuana activist groups who work full-time on this issue.
Again, two minutes and Google will show you the way.
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...wow. Egg on my face.
No exaggeration or sarcasm. That really is embarrassing, lol -_-;;
No, but I expect a game that nets $1 Billion to do at least something that has never been done before. Something.
When a first person shooter that brings nothing new to the table sells 4.7 Million copies on its first day, yet a game like Muramasa: The Demon Blade sells under 200,000 copies over the course of 3-4 months, there is something seriously wrong with the culture.
But it's also nowhere near as good as deserving $1 Billion in sales. Like I said in a later post in this thread, I enjoyed the hell out of playing both of them, but I think people play it up too much. There are far more deserving games for this level of recognition (Muramasa: The Demon Blade being just one such example), but that will never happen.
For all of its intensity and depiction of war, why does the MW series control like Quake?
I loved both Modern Warfare 1 and 2, don't get me wrong...but IMO the buzz surrounding them is way over the top. They were good games that broke some new ground in terms of intensity, but when you get down to it they were still shooting galleries wrapped up in a fancy package.
I think Ben Kuchera said it best at the end of a recent Ars article: "Modern Warfare 2 can be a fun game. The single-player is short, but intense. It's not a $1 billion game in our opinion, however, and the precedents set by its release and success aren't pointing towards good things for the industry. Of course, after selling all those games, why should Activision care?"
Doesn't fight? Obviously, you haven't spent a week in our house. We fight a lot...and it's always over something stupid. Sometimes, one or the other person will instigate it for no reason at all. Why do we do this, you may wonder? Because we both have horrible tempers and we know it. By picking fights about the little things, we are able to expel any pent up energy. To an outsider, we fight on an almost daily basis. That isn't really true though...we get rid of tension and anger WITH each other, not AT each other.
If something important happens or one of us screws up, we don't argue about it. We will either go off on our own until we have both calmed down, or if we have the ability to do so, we calmly talk it over right then and there. Getting angry and "fighting" over the stupid stuff keeps us grounded...being calm and not fighting when something major happens allows us to constructively deal with it.
One of the primary reasons I think she is perfect isn't because of what is right with her, but because her imperfections are the same as mine. Being able to grow and become a better person is a lot easier when you both have to grow in the same direction, know what I mean?
augh, you're, not your.
So your making that broad of an assumption based solely on my age and the story of how I met the woman I'm going to marry? Sounds like you are the naive one.
You know what? It doesn't matter. We know. That's all I care about.
Do you still find the same women attractive as you did 10 years ago, and is there just one such person?
I certainly do...we met in high school back in 1999 (I was class of 2002, she of '03). Love at a distance sort of thing. Unfortunately, one or the other of us were always dating someone, so there was never an opportune time to get together...we have been friends off and on since we met, but never got together. A bit over two years ago, I suffered navicular fractures in both of my wrists. She happend to randomly call me (hadn't seen each other in around 6 months) and came over to help me out. We both happend to be single.
We're now engaged :-)
True, but some things truly don't matter if they get out in the open. My own website linked in my sig is a perfect example of that...while I log activities on my site through statcounter.com and can view any visitor's IP and system specs, their information isn't "public" unless they leave a comment (and then the only information public is what they write.)
A lot of information out there doesn't need to be protected, and other than my own traffic logs, there is nothing on my site that would warrent the cost and time associated with using encryption. If I were running a bank or a store, then absolutely everything if you were logged in would be encrypted...but for people like me, encryption is a waste of resources.
While I don't agree with everything you said, that was too good of a rant to be posted AC. Well done.
I recall one of the "Top 10 most useless products from CES" to be such a thing for the iPhone.
Not sure how that could be considered "useless"...I used to use something similar for my old Palm Pilot M100 back in the day to take notes in school (my handwriting skills have always been on a 1st grade level), and I found that to be extremely useful. It folded up small enough to fit in my back pocket, so carrying it between classes wasn't a big deal at all.
I would imagine that, while a very niche product, a keyboard could be useful for business purposes with an iPhone for folks that don't want to bring their laptop with them to a meeting.
I'll admit, while I love having a QWERTY phone (HTC Ozone) for on the go internet and emails, I still miss using a keypad for texting. In my days with a keypad, we didn't use none of that fancy shmancy T9 malarky...by gum, we did everything one letter at a time!
He's a phony! A big fat phony!
The only way I would be ok with this is if they either split the competition into qwerty and non-qwerty (as you implied) or just get rid of numberpads.
Personally, I think they should just have two seperate competitions...but honestly, I don't really care all that much :-)
I don't know for sure, but chances are an older version of one of the development addons you were using didn't want to play nice with the others...that'd be my best guess. Again, the frequency of the timestamps (especially the first one you showed) would lead me to believe something crazy was going down. Even if it were memory related, it would take longer than a minute or two for Firefox to bloat up to the point of crashing (and if you were trying to reopen 30+ tabs at once...well, then what'd you expect)
I can't RTFA at work due to filters...can anyone tell me if they are comparing the new record with a QWERTY to the old record with a numberpad? I have no problem with people using a QWERTY for a texting competition, but I think it's a bit unfair to compare it to the speed set by using a numberpad (again, if that's what they did)
System specs/# of tabs open/addons?
Numbers mean nothing without context....although the close proximity of the timestamps (especially on 7/27) would indicate something really screwy was going on that involved more than just the core Firefox software.
I believe they are either seriously misguided or a horrible liar.
ZING!
Mod parent up! Super informative post...I knew they were stretched across many projects, I didn't realize it was THAT many -_-;;
I don't know what problems the other poster was talking about, but for a several month period up until the last two updates, Firefox was crashing on me basically every night, unattended, with near 100% CPU usage and hugely bloating memory. Furthermore, if I tried to restart it, and it found that one of my plugins needed updating, it wouldn't attempt to restore the previous set of tabs that it was displaying when it crashed. Hugely annoying. I suspect it was some weird interaction with the Zimbra web app. Still, FireFox shouldn't crash like that, no matter what an app is doing.
I have trouble believing this. Firefox was causing you that many problems on a daily basis...yet you continued to use it for several months? ::sniff sniff:: I smell bullshit.
Not only is it week, it's also weak!
Oh, and for the record: the two ubuntu 9.10 systems I run Firefox 3.5.x on? One is an Athlon 64 3000+ single core system (HTPC), and the other is a Dell Mini 9. If I was going to have stability issues with Firefox, I'm sure at least one of those two would have it.
You don't have the problem, so it doesn't exist?
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying that in own personal experience (and, apparently, a lot of other people on this board's experience), I haven't found anything remotely close to what is being claimed.
Did you read the crash reports? They are automatically generated. Are you saying they didn't happen?
People also have pictures of iPhones literally catching on fire or even exploading. That doesn't mean the millions of iPhones out there are bombs in disguise.
Did you consider that maybe your use of a browser is lighter than that of others?
I use 11 addons, and tend to have anywhere from 10-30 tabs open at a time in TWO different browser windows at a time (closer to 10 if general browsing, closer to 30 if I'm working on my website).
If anything, my use of Firefox is HEAVIER than most (or on par with "power users", many of whom on this board also report experiencing none of the issues you have mentioned).
Considering I'm running a relatively week Athlon X2 5400+ and 4 gb of DDR2800 Corsair XMS memory, I should be experiencing the problems you describe left and right...but lo and behold, I don't.
I keep HEARING about all these serious problems, but the five computes in my household using Firefox 3.5x (two of them Ubuntu 9.10, three of them Windows XP SP3) haven't SHOWN me any of these problems.
These posts keep talking about how there are major problems with Firefox, and they keep getting worse...yet I haven't experienced nor do I know anyone in my relatively large nerd circle who has experienced what is being described after the release of 3.5.
It sounds like paid shill bullshit to me.
I have seen you post this ANY time Firefox has been mentioned for the past couple of weeks, cut and paste style. You are either a shill of some sort, or forced to do this because of one of your clients. Either way, you aren't wanted here.
Whoa, wait a minute...are you insinuating that there are no active marijuana activist groups that are politically active?
...and I just realized how poorly that was written. Still, you get my point...there are a huge number of marijuana activist groups who work full-time on this issue.
Again, two minutes and Google will show you the way.