It's a matter of transparency. People frequently use a web browser to transmit sensitive information, such as banking and tax information. As long as the source code is open, it is subject to scrutiny, and therefore far less likely to do suspicious things with your personal information.
I myself doubt that any browser behaves that way, but there are a lot of people who are paranoid about the internet, and I don't see their concerns as particularly invalid.
Why is it that 24 hours after the crash happened, we're now hearing about how the servers were down 24 hours ago?
The REAL news: According to the download counter, Firefox has long surpassed their stated goal of 1.5 million downloads, and is now over 6.5 million. This is cause for frontpage news, not the stupid server crash.
Actually, it's likely just a less developed Vista driver, like most performance problems people report with Vista (and by report, I mean actually experience and document, not the random anti-Vista FUD it's so popular to spout these days.)
and while they support DX10, who needs that when games under the wonderful OS Vista run twice as slow than they do on XP? That would be a good point, if it were true.
Where do people get this vaporware crap from? Games with development times of five years or so are far from uncommon. Duke Nukem Forever and TF2 both deserved the title. So why do so many people mistakenly apply it to Spore?
There's still plenty of art, including full-page art. By extraneous, I meant all of the brownish full-page background art that would have black text printed in front of it, for easy non-readability.
They have large type, a lot of whitespace, and hell of a lot of repetition and iteration through trivial variants. The type is the same size, the white space is where all of the unnecessary extraneous artwork was before, and the repetition makes it ten times easier to find a given rule.
So are the experiences of the couple thousand people on the internet who actually *have* had problems, and then the millions of people after them who actually have no experience at all, but like to bleat out the same phrases bleated into them.
Ahem... and anyway, I didn't say anything about my experience proving anything. But based on the fact that the internet is abuzz with Vista problems that I have found to be mostly fabricated or exaggerated, I am willing to bet most problems reported with 10.5 are also fabricated and exaggerated.
Since my experience with Vista has had none of the issues that the Slashdot parade continues to bitch about, I think I'm willing to give 10.5 the benefit of the doubt.
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It's a matter of transparency. People frequently use a web browser to transmit sensitive information, such as banking and tax information. As long as the source code is open, it is subject to scrutiny, and therefore far less likely to do suspicious things with your personal information.
I myself doubt that any browser behaves that way, but there are a lot of people who are paranoid about the internet, and I don't see their concerns as particularly invalid.
Why is it that 24 hours after the crash happened, we're now hearing about how the servers were down 24 hours ago?
The REAL news: According to the download counter, Firefox has long surpassed their stated goal of 1.5 million downloads, and is now over 6.5 million. This is cause for frontpage news, not the stupid server crash.
What 10 million mark? Their stated goal was 1.5 million, and now they're over 6. They've well-surpassed their mark.
You can always tell someone who has never tried to game on Vista by comments like this.
Their who?
People still use RealPlayer?
Actually, it's likely just a less developed Vista driver, like most performance problems people report with Vista (and by report, I mean actually experience and document, not the random anti-Vista FUD it's so popular to spout these days.)
Only you can prevent FUD!
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Yeah, and Spore isn't the same as Oblivion. Have you seen screenshots?
Yeah, a two year delay, bringing the dev time up to 5 years. Which makes it heavily delayed and nowhere near the level of vaporware.
I've played Oblivion and Half-Life 2 Episode 2 on Vista with 1 gig of RAM. You don't know what you're talking about.
Where do people get this vaporware crap from? Games with development times of five years or so are far from uncommon. Duke Nukem Forever and TF2 both deserved the title. So why do so many people mistakenly apply it to Spore?
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There's still plenty of art, including full-page art. By extraneous, I meant all of the brownish full-page background art that would have black text printed in front of it, for easy non-readability.
It only takes one to mod you down to zero, friend.
So are the experiences of the couple thousand people on the internet who actually *have* had problems, and then the millions of people after them who actually have no experience at all, but like to bleat out the same phrases bleated into them.
Ahem... and anyway, I didn't say anything about my experience proving anything. But based on the fact that the internet is abuzz with Vista problems that I have found to be mostly fabricated or exaggerated, I am willing to bet most problems reported with 10.5 are also fabricated and exaggerated.
Both of those two started development post-Warcraft 3. Where the hell do they get the vaporware label from?
I have it on fairly good authority that Bioshock has no replay value.
From an interview with myself about 6 months ago (roughly when I finished the game...)
Hmm, I'm done. Ok, let's try starting over.... plane crashes... submarine, and... nope, I'm bored. *turns game off*
Since my experience with Vista has had none of the issues that the Slashdot parade continues to bitch about, I think I'm willing to give 10.5 the benefit of the doubt.
I thought it was funny. Unfortunately, I'm not the one with mod points.
What the hell are you talking about? RTFA
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