Is it really fair to give them a ZERO though? It's their lowest score they ever gave anyone, and the reason is because they don't know what Nintendo is doing.
The big problem with ads on dvds that you purchase, is that the ads themselves become completely out of date soon after your purchase. A person's dvd collection may have hours of trailers for movies that everyone has otherwise forgotten!
One thing, is that someone coming from a computer or engineering background will hesitate to have "just unplug it" as a good suggestion, due to the possibility of interrupting the process causing a catastrophic failure.
Well the simple answer is that they rely a lot on printing proofs and such. Color-corrected monitors do sometimes help as well (although they're not accurate).
You're never going to get exactly the same view on a monitor anyway even if it was CMYK, due to the simple fact monitors are lit.
I like using free software, but I agree, that absurd forced-freedom thing is so hypocritical I wonder how they get along in real life. What also bugs me, is the "Well if you want it, CODE IT YOURSELF" thing. Somehow it's worse actually having a often-requested and vitally important feature then it is having the potential ability to add it yourself (even if you aren't a coder)
GIMP's a graphics program for people that don't really need graphics programs. Nobody really wants to fess up to that.
This is precisely the mindset that lead to Gimp being so.. gimped in the first place. People in one industry, making the program, say, "They say they want this, but I don't think they do" and then refuse to implement it.
Why do you think the Gimp interface is so terrible?
If anything, those 'upper level skills' make a game get older quicker, at least for 90% of the gamers who never bother to learn such skills. It's called Team Fortress, not Grenade Jumping Fortress, it shouldn't be the sole determination of skill level.
Skills like conc jumping don't reward skill, they reward A skill, and there's a significant difference that people who are clamoring for these things (and bunny hopping, etc) back.
A skill like Conc jumping basically splits the entire scout community into people who conc jump and people who don't. If you're a good conc jumper, and suck at EVERY other part of being a scout, you're still a better scout then the best player who can't conc jump. This basically means if you don't want to conc jump you're SOL. Your skill as a player ceases to matter in any meaningful way, until you master conc jumping.
This is horrible gameplay design and balance, and I say Kudos to valve for having the guts to get rid of it.
It's like Wavedashing in Smash and Snaking in Mario Kart. They draw a hard line right down the middle, across which there is no skill comparison. They're all ultimately shallower games for having them.
Is it just me, or does it seem a little off that they have different fonts for replacing Arial and Helvetica, given that Arial was a replacement for Helvetica?
An email can be as big as around 10 mb.. 10mb * 13 million emails, is 130 million megabytes. Which is about 127 thousand gigabytes.. or 127 terabytes, per month!
I'm one guy. The code I'm building is at the limit, in that if I also had to prepare the code for open sourcing I'd never get anything done. I feel like this 'freedom' movement is going to crush me.
If it was about freedom, it wouldn't force me to open my code just because I linked someone else's code without making any changes because it's suddenly a 'derivative work' as a whole. I should be allowed to choose what I'm going to do with my own intellectual property without signing it over to the community at large.
the GPL isn't about freedom, it's just a different set of restrictions on what you can do.
They put their prices higher than the MSRP, and then lower it to the MSRP calling it a 'savings' but sometimes they don't even do that, charging $90 for a $70 game.
We have a situation where prior art isn't related enough for, but it is related enough that you can sue products the same technology that came out after the patent was issued?
IntelliSense pre-2000 isn't infringing, but 2000 on is? How does this make sense?
I thought the whole issue with net neutrality was being charged more for premium access based on content.
Even if it's through different companies, you're still paying more for equal access to that content through this scheme. "pay more for Net Neutrality" is an oxymoron!
It's only for OEMS and stuff- it's for new OS installs, not for ones that are already there. In fact its' pointless on systems that already are installed because they already have working keys.
The goal is even worse than that.. sports companies, for instance, want pay-per-hear-about. They've claimed copyright on stats and descriptions of events, before.
1. Demos are advertisements. Paying for advertisements is stupid. 2. The biggest exclusive demo they have isn't exclusive if you have a Japanese account set up (Eternal Sonata- if you D/L the Trusty Bell demo it comes out Eternal Sonata when you play it) 3. Exclusive demos existed as a way to get you to buy the magazine, before. Now you're just paying for the demo?
Plus, a copy of a song is not intellectual property, the song itself is. You are not taking their rights to the song. You're going against those rights, but you dont gain any rights to the song when you download it.
Okay, "plain old text" apparently doesnt mean what It's supposed to mean.
If you look at the docs and stuff, there's just so many stupid things.. like there now being no semantic replacement for <u> like there is with <i> and <b>, and the stupid rules involving <ul>s not being allowed in <p>s. And the worst part, and I don't know if this is w3c's fault, but using & for html entities is inexcusably broken. URLs have already had & reserved for years, and now you suddenly can't use a & in a link.
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Is it really fair to give them a ZERO though? It's their lowest score they ever gave anyone, and the reason is because they don't know what Nintendo is doing.
The big problem with ads on dvds that you purchase, is that the ads themselves become completely out of date soon after your purchase. A person's dvd collection may have hours of trailers for movies that everyone has otherwise forgotten!
At least TV ads change.
I've seen these at Fortinos grocery stores. These aren't Walmart products, they're just a product that you can buy at Walmart.
One thing, is that someone coming from a computer or engineering background will hesitate to have "just unplug it" as a good suggestion, due to the possibility of interrupting the process causing a catastrophic failure.
The issue here is that "byte" is not an SI unit, but "mega" "kilo" etc are SI prefixes.
It is actually probably NEVER technically correct to say "Gigabyte", in any context.
Well the simple answer is that they rely a lot on printing proofs and such. Color-corrected monitors do sometimes help as well (although they're not accurate).
You're never going to get exactly the same view on a monitor anyway even if it was CMYK, due to the simple fact monitors are lit.
I like using free software, but I agree, that absurd forced-freedom thing is so hypocritical I wonder how they get along in real life. What also bugs me, is the "Well if you want it, CODE IT YOURSELF" thing. Somehow it's worse actually having a often-requested and vitally important feature then it is having the potential ability to add it yourself (even if you aren't a coder)
GIMP's a graphics program for people that don't really need graphics programs. Nobody really wants to fess up to that.
This is precisely the mindset that lead to Gimp being so.. gimped in the first place. People in one industry, making the program, say, "They say they want this, but I don't think they do" and then refuse to implement it.
Why do you think the Gimp interface is so terrible?
If anything, those 'upper level skills' make a game get older quicker, at least for 90% of the gamers who never bother to learn such skills. It's called Team Fortress, not Grenade Jumping Fortress, it shouldn't be the sole determination of skill level.
Skills like conc jumping don't reward skill, they reward A skill, and there's a significant difference that people who are clamoring for these things (and bunny hopping, etc) back.
A skill like Conc jumping basically splits the entire scout community into people who conc jump and people who don't. If you're a good conc jumper, and suck at EVERY other part of being a scout, you're still a better scout then the best player who can't conc jump. This basically means if you don't want to conc jump you're SOL. Your skill as a player ceases to matter in any meaningful way, until you master conc jumping.
This is horrible gameplay design and balance, and I say Kudos to valve for having the guts to get rid of it.
It's like Wavedashing in Smash and Snaking in Mario Kart. They draw a hard line right down the middle, across which there is no skill comparison. They're all ultimately shallower games for having them.
Is it just me, or does it seem a little off that they have different fonts for replacing Arial and Helvetica, given that Arial was a replacement for Helvetica?
Although the "Black Box" no longer exists, if you buy over steam you can give your HL2 and HL2:Ep1 to someone else.
An email can be as big as around 10 mb..
10mb * 13 million emails, is 130 million megabytes. Which is about 127 thousand gigabytes.. or 127 terabytes, per month!
Works for me!
I'm one guy. The code I'm building is at the limit, in that if I also had to prepare the code for open sourcing I'd never get anything done. I feel like this 'freedom' movement is going to crush me.
If it was about freedom, it wouldn't force me to open my code just because I linked someone else's code without making any changes because it's suddenly a 'derivative work' as a whole. I should be allowed to choose what I'm going to do with my own intellectual property without signing it over to the community at large.
the GPL isn't about freedom, it's just a different set of restrictions on what you can do.
the Video game prices are extraordinarily high at HMV. Look at these:t ails.do?sku=12014571 000320014
http://www.hmv.ca/hmvcaweb/en_CA/displayProductDe
http://www.hmv.ca/hmvcaweb/en_CA/navigate.do?ctx=
They put their prices higher than the MSRP, and then lower it to the MSRP calling it a 'savings' but sometimes they don't even do that, charging $90 for a $70 game.
The situation it's supposed to be is that you patent the ALGORITHM.
But that's really been forgotten at this point
[blockquote]My first three computers (circa 1992, 95, and 98) .... This all changed about 8-20 years ago [/blockquote]
So, it was good between 92 and 98, but bad between 87 and 99?
We have a situation where prior art isn't related enough for, but it is related enough that you can sue products the same technology that came out after the patent was issued?
IntelliSense pre-2000 isn't infringing, but 2000 on is? How does this make sense?
I thought the whole issue with net neutrality was being charged more for premium access based on content.
Even if it's through different companies, you're still paying more for equal access to that content through this scheme. "pay more for Net Neutrality" is an oxymoron!
It's only for OEMS and stuff- it's for new OS installs, not for ones that are already there. In fact its' pointless on systems that already are installed because they already have working keys.
The goal is even worse than that.. sports companies, for instance, want pay-per-hear-about. They've claimed copyright on stats and descriptions of events, before.
1. Demos are advertisements. Paying for advertisements is stupid.
2. The biggest exclusive demo they have isn't exclusive if you have a Japanese account set up (Eternal Sonata- if you D/L the Trusty Bell demo it comes out Eternal Sonata when you play it)
3. Exclusive demos existed as a way to get you to buy the magazine, before. Now you're just paying for the demo?
Taking and copying are different things.
Plus, a copy of a song is not intellectual property, the song itself is. You are not taking their rights to the song. You're going against those rights, but you dont gain any rights to the song when you download it.
Okay, "plain old text" apparently doesnt mean what It's supposed to mean.
If you look at the docs and stuff, there's just so many stupid things.. like there now being no semantic replacement for <u> like there is with <i> and <b>, and the stupid rules involving <ul>s not being allowed in <p>s. And the worst part, and I don't know if this is w3c's fault, but using & for html entities is inexcusably broken. URLs have already had & reserved for years, and now you suddenly can't use a & in a link.