With all the radioactivity going on down there, it doesn't surprise me that there might be plenty of hot spots to make people think twice about the mantle theory.
Are you joking? There aren't many arcades these days that have games that will play for less than a dollar. Most racing games are up to two dollars these days. Plus, most arcade games are time-based so you pretty much always get the same play time. Pinball actually allows a good player to survive for a while and offers replays.
Arcade games became the same trash as home gaming. People play them for the sake of playing them, rather than reaching a goal (like longer play time or a highscore). They stopped being about skill.
Since pinball started using flippers, the games were always about skill, even if the politicians didn't see it that way. The problem with pinball is that the machines are still made out of wood, cardboard, and plastic, so you'll be hard pressed to find a game that actually plays the way it's supposed to work.
If Apple hadn't balked, nobody would have noticed. There's only one bad Apple, here.
God forbid NYC would hold some kind of massive easter-egg hunt and make the logo temporarily multi-colored. How would Apple react to "infringement" on a logo that has been retired?
Man, it's hard enough to fill those little cups with urine, but now they want a cup full of spit? They'd better have a good, stimulating magazine to help with that, like Texas Chili Monthly.
It's interesting how a lot of people here are discussing the hardware.
The reason why consoles succeed is because of the software. So long as the content is there, the hardware really isn't important. I despise the Wii, but that underpowered, overdressed (and less reliable than we are led to be believe) contraption proves the point perfectly. While Sony and Microsoft have gotten into the e-penis war just like the PC community, Nintendo went with... "unusual" software, and is now walking away with billions in revenue. Lesson learned?
The 360 is hailed by many as having the best software lineup of any next-gen console, but sales of the PS3 have been catching up to the 360 very quickly. Why? Wasn't the PS3 a piece of expensive junk with no games just a few months ago? There's a lot of factors involved, but the summary is that Sony is far better at making exclusive games than Microsoft, and their 1st and 2nd-party titles are looking to be much more interesting than all the 3rd-party 360 games that will also be available on the PS3, the PC, and practically every other architecture.
Well, except for the Mac. Maybe Apple would have a shot at those titles, too, if they actually gave a s**t about games.
I bet it sells by the truckload if it's UV reactive!
Seriously, it's just another toy for people with too much money. Anyone concerned about power usage should just get a slightly less powerful chip.
Besides, the sterling engine is the wrong direction for regenerative power, and the extra complexity of the unit probably just impedes airflow, making the chip run hotter or the fan work harder. That hardly improves efficiency.
The problem isn't that IE is broken. The problem is that there is no good methodology for finding issues in the HTML/CSS you're writing. With so much complaining about standards compliance these days, why don't any browsers, including the self-applauding open-source versions, include a developer panel that TELLS you when something is broken?
That's the problem with markup and scripting languages. People learn how to use them by looking at other people's code, and they never realize that what they're doing is wrong. Compilers will give you warnings. Web browsers stay silent and try to fix your code for you. That might be fine for everyday users, but it is a major disservice to web developers.
Every web browser I've seen is designed from the ground up to display web pages, not author them. Even Firefox requires you to install 3rd-party tools just to give you a visual indicator whether the browser is running in strict mode or not, and you can pretty much forget about tracing parsing errors, broken comments, mismatched tags, missing tags, and so on. Opera is good at debugging Javascript, and will show you pages as if they were on a mobile phone or PDA, but it still doesn't have a built-in author mode for HTML/CSS. The Firefox error console has improved regarding Javascript and CSS, but it still mostly complains about silly things like empty CSS fields. The Firefox error console doesn't even have a hotkey.
I feel that Microsoft is under a lot of pressure not to crack down on strict rendering due to the massive amount of broken code. When the old Netscape was around, it had boatloads of rendering issues just like IE (and it crashed constantly to boot). In my opinion, nobody is really concerned about fixing the actual problem: providing proper authoring tools. Regular people don't need to look at cryptic error messages all day, but if I'm a developer, I'd like to have an option I can enable that will slap me upside the head when I do something stupid.
Now, if IE doesn't know that -22px != 0px, then Microsoft deserves the slap upside the head.
I also don't think they considered that DVD drives generate heat, so putting and OEM-style DVD unit directly over a low-profile GPU heat sink wasn't too bright. Meanwhile, there's plenty of empty space in the corners of the box.
I understand software companies aren't particularly good at making hardware, but really...
I'd be happier if Apple introduced keyboards with media keys. How about function keys that aren't microscopic? How about keys that aren't Chicklets given that they want $1500 for the machine?
Ah, the sacrifices we have to make in the name of style.
Illustrator 6 on the Mac used to probe your Mac network for duplicate instances of itself. I'd rather an application on someone else's computer on the network not try to find out what software I'm using on my machine, but then, MacOS was such crap that it allowed applications to do such things in the first place.
This is also why I don't like the idea of "always on" broadband connections. I shouldn't need a full firewall to shut off net access to a specific program.
Note to anti-virus companies: ask the user what to do, instead of automatically deleting files you don't own. I stopped using all anti-virus software on my Windows machine because of rubbish like this.
Yeah, the file requester/browser is horribly slow, and has been since 2.0. It doesn't really matter how fast your computer is if the GUI is stuck in a loop.
Also, how hard is it to add resume download support to the download manager? If I've downloaded 80% of a 500MB file, and it gets stuck, and the server supports resume download, I don't see why I should have to start over again.
Custom shortcuts, anyone?
I've never understood why Ctrl-I and Ctrl-Shift-I weren't reversed. Confusing the usefulness of inverting colors vs inverting the selection is the QWERTY vs Dvorak of Photoshop shortcuts.
I, for one, would like to use my trackball to pan and zoom around images, rather than wait for the developers to add dedicated support for some overpriced gimmick hardware. Half the capabilities of my tablet aren't being utilized, already.
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Why didn't they go to 32 bit? That way you could see through the monitor, too.
With all the radioactivity going on down there, it doesn't surprise me that there might be plenty of hot spots to make people think twice about the mantle theory.
Are you joking? There aren't many arcades these days that have games that will play for less than a dollar. Most racing games are up to two dollars these days. Plus, most arcade games are time-based so you pretty much always get the same play time. Pinball actually allows a good player to survive for a while and offers replays.
Arcade games became the same trash as home gaming. People play them for the sake of playing them, rather than reaching a goal (like longer play time or a highscore). They stopped being about skill.
Since pinball started using flippers, the games were always about skill, even if the politicians didn't see it that way. The problem with pinball is that the machines are still made out of wood, cardboard, and plastic, so you'll be hard pressed to find a game that actually plays the way it's supposed to work.
I love these far-thrown theories.
If Apple hadn't balked, nobody would have noticed. There's only one bad Apple, here.
God forbid NYC would hold some kind of massive easter-egg hunt and make the logo temporarily multi-colored. How would Apple react to "infringement" on a logo that has been retired?
Man, it's hard enough to fill those little cups with urine, but now they want a cup full of spit? They'd better have a good, stimulating magazine to help with that, like Texas Chili Monthly.
It's interesting how a lot of people here are discussing the hardware.
The reason why consoles succeed is because of the software. So long as the content is there, the hardware really isn't important. I despise the Wii, but that underpowered, overdressed (and less reliable than we are led to be believe) contraption proves the point perfectly. While Sony and Microsoft have gotten into the e-penis war just like the PC community, Nintendo went with... "unusual" software, and is now walking away with billions in revenue. Lesson learned?
The 360 is hailed by many as having the best software lineup of any next-gen console, but sales of the PS3 have been catching up to the 360 very quickly. Why? Wasn't the PS3 a piece of expensive junk with no games just a few months ago? There's a lot of factors involved, but the summary is that Sony is far better at making exclusive games than Microsoft, and their 1st and 2nd-party titles are looking to be much more interesting than all the 3rd-party 360 games that will also be available on the PS3, the PC, and practically every other architecture.
Well, except for the Mac. Maybe Apple would have a shot at those titles, too, if they actually gave a s**t about games.
I bet it sells by the truckload if it's UV reactive!
Seriously, it's just another toy for people with too much money. Anyone concerned about power usage should just get a slightly less powerful chip.
Besides, the sterling engine is the wrong direction for regenerative power, and the extra complexity of the unit probably just impedes airflow, making the chip run hotter or the fan work harder. That hardly improves efficiency.
I'd prefer companies focus on decent vector graphics for applications before trying to move directly to ray tracing for games.
Really, nothing pushes hardware, er... harder, than games. Application GUI implementation is still in the stone age, even on mobile devices.
Probably a stupid question, but why was it needed to make a 2nd revision of this kind of license? :)
$45 billion ought to be enough for everybody.
The problem isn't that IE is broken. The problem is that there is no good methodology for finding issues in the HTML/CSS you're writing. With so much complaining about standards compliance these days, why don't any browsers, including the self-applauding open-source versions, include a developer panel that TELLS you when something is broken?
That's the problem with markup and scripting languages. People learn how to use them by looking at other people's code, and they never realize that what they're doing is wrong. Compilers will give you warnings. Web browsers stay silent and try to fix your code for you. That might be fine for everyday users, but it is a major disservice to web developers.
Every web browser I've seen is designed from the ground up to display web pages, not author them. Even Firefox requires you to install 3rd-party tools just to give you a visual indicator whether the browser is running in strict mode or not, and you can pretty much forget about tracing parsing errors, broken comments, mismatched tags, missing tags, and so on. Opera is good at debugging Javascript, and will show you pages as if they were on a mobile phone or PDA, but it still doesn't have a built-in author mode for HTML/CSS. The Firefox error console has improved regarding Javascript and CSS, but it still mostly complains about silly things like empty CSS fields. The Firefox error console doesn't even have a hotkey.
I feel that Microsoft is under a lot of pressure not to crack down on strict rendering due to the massive amount of broken code. When the old Netscape was around, it had boatloads of rendering issues just like IE (and it crashed constantly to boot). In my opinion, nobody is really concerned about fixing the actual problem: providing proper authoring tools. Regular people don't need to look at cryptic error messages all day, but if I'm a developer, I'd like to have an option I can enable that will slap me upside the head when I do something stupid.
Now, if IE doesn't know that -22px != 0px, then Microsoft deserves the slap upside the head.
I also don't think they considered that DVD drives generate heat, so putting and OEM-style DVD unit directly over a low-profile GPU heat sink wasn't too bright. Meanwhile, there's plenty of empty space in the corners of the box. I understand software companies aren't particularly good at making hardware, but really...
Another nickel-and-dime strategy! Those work very well in the hardware market because, you know, hardware isn't just an end to a means, like software.
I'd be happier if Apple introduced keyboards with media keys. How about function keys that aren't microscopic? How about keys that aren't Chicklets given that they want $1500 for the machine? Ah, the sacrifices we have to make in the name of style.
My Clubs. Let me show you them.
Illustrator 6 on the Mac used to probe your Mac network for duplicate instances of itself. I'd rather an application on someone else's computer on the network not try to find out what software I'm using on my machine, but then, MacOS was such crap that it allowed applications to do such things in the first place.
This is also why I don't like the idea of "always on" broadband connections. I shouldn't need a full firewall to shut off net access to a specific program.
Note to anti-virus companies: ask the user what to do, instead of automatically deleting files you don't own. I stopped using all anti-virus software on my Windows machine because of rubbish like this.
Yeah, the file requester/browser is horribly slow, and has been since 2.0. It doesn't really matter how fast your computer is if the GUI is stuck in a loop. Also, how hard is it to add resume download support to the download manager? If I've downloaded 80% of a 500MB file, and it gets stuck, and the server supports resume download, I don't see why I should have to start over again.
Custom shortcuts, anyone? I've never understood why Ctrl-I and Ctrl-Shift-I weren't reversed. Confusing the usefulness of inverting colors vs inverting the selection is the QWERTY vs Dvorak of Photoshop shortcuts. I, for one, would like to use my trackball to pan and zoom around images, rather than wait for the developers to add dedicated support for some overpriced gimmick hardware. Half the capabilities of my tablet aren't being utilized, already.
I'm still using 5.5 most of the time because I didn't like the last major overhaul with 6.0.