Thanks for not telling me a single thing I don't already know. Did you read the post that I was answering, which asked how to close all IE windows together quickly? How would not forcing XP to group the windows help this answer?
Also, in rereading my post, I don't see any evidence of me lacking the understanding, or asking for the clarification of IE's single vs multi-instance behavior. Anyway, that's enough time wasted on this thread.
From my experience back from when karma actually showed up as numbers, each moderation counts positively or negatively against you individually. So, in the case of that post, the funny and insightful moderations add +1, but the overrated ones take -1 away. HTH.
Well, in XP, where it groups the windows together on the task bar, you can right-click the taskbar and select "Close Group". That would be equivalent to what you would like even if there is no browser command for it. I personally like that the browser windows are not all tied together, because if one of them crashes (yes, software programs do crash sometimes, MS or otherwise), it doesn't take down other instances of IE.
Thanks for the link, that's a really good write-up about online petitions. I've signed a few in my life, but in my defense, some of them seemed to have worked. For example, the several about Family Guy did bring the series back for a little bit, and another may have helped in getting it released on DVD. Oh, also the Japanese track on the Princess Mononoke DVD was also going to be not included by Disney until the huge petition response, from what I heard.
Did you happen to read the article? Because I read your post, and I can tell that you didn't. The Gamespy editorial talks about exactly the opposite, that good games sometimes don't sell well, for a variety of factors such as marketing. I don't understand why you are calling shitty or average two of the best games of last year, as judged by many editors and lists. I can't personally vouch for Prince of Persia, as I haven't gotten around to picking that one up yet, but Beyond Good & Evil is definitely great - I'm making my way through it now.
And "increases purchase price of games"? That is so... trollish. Games have been at $50 for as long as I can remember, and Ubisoft actualy dropped the price for BG&E to $20 after poor sales. I ended up getting it for $15 with a coupon from Best Buy. For those of you considering getting it, $20 is a very good value for this game.
Heard around here? Damn, that sounds pretty reputable and solid to me. Now I'm off to spread that rumor as fact on all future Half-Life 2 related articles. I know I can count on you to join me.
I don't have a link with the exact wording as proof that attach rate does not include bundled games, but I am just using common sense, as Microsoft started ringing the church tower bells about how great their attach rate was very soon after the console was released, back when no games were bundled.
Yes, you're right that Xbox currently includes the 2 games you mentioned, but I believe they're on the same disk, so if you're counting those as 2, then the Zelda disk with Gamecube should count as 5, since it includes Legend of Zelda, Adventure of Link, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and Legend of Zelda: The Windmaker.
Well, since all consoles will be backwards-compatible...
As the other poster noticed, you really don't keep up, do you? According to what we currently know about Xbox 2, "backwards compatibility is out of the question". Thanks for playing.
Can you back that up with any facts or quotes? The last thing I heard, they were hiring for a code project Xenon, which is where people got that name, but it has been specifically said that dev kits cannot be shipped until the hardware is further determined, which it has not been, at least publically.
Wrong, bundled games don't count towards the "software sold with system" number that Microsoft always touts, since the user is not actually buying them, but getting them for free. Instead, it refers to the actual $50 spent for each additional game at the time of the console purchase. In my case, that would have been 3 - Project Gotham Racing, Dead or Alive, and of course Halo.
I also don't know where you got your "highest number of games bundled with any system" notion. It originally was not bundled with any games, and at one point or another had either 1 or 2 games bundled with it, which is not that high. If I were to recommend a bundle, the Sega GT Racer and Jet Set Radio seems to be the best.
I think people will continue to treat that event as fact for the foreseeable future, since it was not initially corrected when reported. I have kind of given up on telling people that Groening was joking, especially as I am not a big fan of the Fox News agenda.
Given his tone during the rest of the interview, and the fact that such an Easter egg would have been found and removed a long time ago, after the employee that made it was fired, I am relatively sure he was joking. Just to be sure, a quick Google search turned up nothing.
I don't really see how you'd be screwing them, though. Just because you respect your rights? Surely both they and their managers know that the bag checking is optional, so if you're one of the consumers who realizes this as well, I don't think the employee performing the check would be penalized. But still, it sounds like you're doing the right thing in your situation.
I don't want to argue definitions, but there is nothing that says censorship has to be absolute, or that it has to originate from the government in order to be considered censorship. Just because there is another source for something, does not mean that censorship has not occurred. If I buy a magazine, and, before handing it to you, use a black marker to blot out sentences I find offensive, then I have performed censorship, even though the government was not involved and even though you could theoretically buy the magazine elsewhere. And when we happen to be talking about a massive retailer, and not me, then this issue is even more troubling. Obviously not for you though.
I don't see any problem with your solution. Except, you know, variable product weight, cart weight because of rust, pressure applied by customer on the cart, paper circulars left in the cart by other customers, having to constantly tune these super precise scales, asking customers to take their small children out of the cart seat in order to get the right measurement,... Hmm, I guess I do see some problems after all.
Are you for real? So if Newsweek magazine prints an editorial that's disparaging of Walmart, should there also be a separate edition printed just for that store that omits that editorial? What happened in that case is clear censorship, and Walmart has demonstrated time and time again that they will cater to the lowest common denominator by banning a Goo Goo Dolls CD because of a supposedly offensive cover and, more recently, Maxim magazine and its clones, because of a single customer complaint.
If you don't understand that when a store that is the main source of goods for many American consumers uses its influence to ban or alter a recording that is only indirectly critical of that store, censorship has occurred, then you don't understand the meaning of the word.
If you're offended about getting stopped at the exit to have your purchase and receipt examined, then show your displeasure and, most importantly, don't submit to it. According to most state laws, from what I understand, the store has no right to examine your purchases unless there is strong suspicion that you have actually stolen something. That means that when you're submitting to this embarassment and delay, you're actually doing so voluntarily. I always refuse to have my bags examined by just walking out, and there is nothing they can do about it. Don't be a sheep.
Because any company that wants to make it easy and convenient for its customers to forego physical media and accept its online-only distribution model should not force its customers to copy registry keys or anything else like that. The games should be tied to a subscriber + machine, so if I want to move game X to a new machine and I am still the same subscriber, it just stops working on the old machine. This one tale of how RealArcade makes this a pain or impossible is enough to convince me to never try their model, but it's not like I had a lot of interest and faith in it before.
That is wrong on just so many levels. So not only are you suggesting ruining the original game CD by writing on it, but you're also throwing away the original sleeve with the serial number that may be required to prove ownership? I don't think so.
It is very dangerous to understand Nintendo. It has been profitable games company for a long time. - David Cole, DFC Intelligence
It's puzzling how BBC could mess up this quote underneath the picture, when they get it right in the actual body of the article (where it says "underestimate" instead of "understand"). All they had to do was copy and paste!
Well, you can tell he's not too bright by the way he claims that the original Child's Play challenge was written on Penny Arcade by an "unidentified author", when every single post on that site has either Gabe or Tycho's name and face right next to it.
I think that since of most of us have no intention of even considering to buy this product, you have nothing to worry about - provided it ever even materializes, you should have no problem downloading either Cinderella's Dollhouse or The Bible: A Multimedia Experience on a lonely Friday night.
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Surely you meant that backwards? Possessive would require the use of an apostrophe, whereas the contraction would not.
Thanks for not telling me a single thing I don't already know. Did you read the post that I was answering, which asked how to close all IE windows together quickly? How would not forcing XP to group the windows help this answer?
Also, in rereading my post, I don't see any evidence of me lacking the understanding, or asking for the clarification of IE's single vs multi-instance behavior. Anyway, that's enough time wasted on this thread.
From my experience back from when karma actually showed up as numbers, each moderation counts positively or negatively against you individually. So, in the case of that post, the funny and insightful moderations add +1, but the overrated ones take -1 away. HTH.
Well, in XP, where it groups the windows together on the task bar, you can right-click the taskbar and select "Close Group". That would be equivalent to what you would like even if there is no browser command for it. I personally like that the browser windows are not all tied together, because if one of them crashes (yes, software programs do crash sometimes, MS or otherwise), it doesn't take down other instances of IE.
Thanks for the link, that's a really good write-up about online petitions. I've signed a few in my life, but in my defense, some of them seemed to have worked. For example, the several about Family Guy did bring the series back for a little bit, and another may have helped in getting it released on DVD. Oh, also the Japanese track on the Princess Mononoke DVD was also going to be not included by Disney until the huge petition response, from what I heard.
Annoying, wasn't it? Here is the link to the full article that I saw in that Google search though.
I was going to moderate your post as Insightful, but unfortunately that would be violating the very rule you seek to establish. Sorry!
Did you happen to read the article? Because I read your post, and I can tell that you didn't. The Gamespy editorial talks about exactly the opposite, that good games sometimes don't sell well, for a variety of factors such as marketing. I don't understand why you are calling shitty or average two of the best games of last year, as judged by many editors and lists. I can't personally vouch for Prince of Persia, as I haven't gotten around to picking that one up yet, but Beyond Good & Evil is definitely great - I'm making my way through it now.
... trollish. Games have been at $50 for as long as I can remember, and Ubisoft actualy dropped the price for BG&E to $20 after poor sales. I ended up getting it for $15 with a coupon from Best Buy. For those of you considering getting it, $20 is a very good value for this game.
And "increases purchase price of games"? That is so
Heard around here? Damn, that sounds pretty reputable and solid to me. Now I'm off to spread that rumor as fact on all future Half-Life 2 related articles. I know I can count on you to join me.
I don't have a link with the exact wording as proof that attach rate does not include bundled games, but I am just using common sense, as Microsoft started ringing the church tower bells about how great their attach rate was very soon after the console was released, back when no games were bundled.
Yes, you're right that Xbox currently includes the 2 games you mentioned, but I believe they're on the same disk, so if you're counting those as 2, then the Zelda disk with Gamecube should count as 5, since it includes Legend of Zelda, Adventure of Link, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and Legend of Zelda: The Windmaker.
Well, since all consoles will be backwards-compatible ...
As the other poster noticed, you really don't keep up, do you? According to what we currently know about Xbox 2, "backwards compatibility is out of the question". Thanks for playing.
Can you back that up with any facts or quotes? The last thing I heard, they were hiring for a code project Xenon, which is where people got that name, but it has been specifically said that dev kits cannot be shipped until the hardware is further determined, which it has not been, at least publically.
Wrong, bundled games don't count towards the "software sold with system" number that Microsoft always touts, since the user is not actually buying them, but getting them for free. Instead, it refers to the actual $50 spent for each additional game at the time of the console purchase. In my case, that would have been 3 - Project Gotham Racing, Dead or Alive, and of course Halo.
I also don't know where you got your "highest number of games bundled with any system" notion. It originally was not bundled with any games, and at one point or another had either 1 or 2 games bundled with it, which is not that high. If I were to recommend a bundle, the Sega GT Racer and Jet Set Radio seems to be the best.
I think people will continue to treat that event as fact for the foreseeable future, since it was not initially corrected when reported. I have kind of given up on telling people that Groening was joking, especially as I am not a big fan of the Fox News agenda.
Given his tone during the rest of the interview, and the fact that such an Easter egg would have been found and removed a long time ago, after the employee that made it was fired, I am relatively sure he was joking. Just to be sure, a quick Google search turned up nothing.
I don't really see how you'd be screwing them, though. Just because you respect your rights? Surely both they and their managers know that the bag checking is optional, so if you're one of the consumers who realizes this as well, I don't think the employee performing the check would be penalized. But still, it sounds like you're doing the right thing in your situation.
I don't want to argue definitions, but there is nothing that says censorship has to be absolute, or that it has to originate from the government in order to be considered censorship. Just because there is another source for something, does not mean that censorship has not occurred. If I buy a magazine, and, before handing it to you, use a black marker to blot out sentences I find offensive, then I have performed censorship, even though the government was not involved and even though you could theoretically buy the magazine elsewhere. And when we happen to be talking about a massive retailer, and not me, then this issue is even more troubling. Obviously not for you though.
I don't see any problem with your solution. Except, you know, variable product weight, cart weight because of rust, pressure applied by customer on the cart, paper circulars left in the cart by other customers, having to constantly tune these super precise scales, asking customers to take their small children out of the cart seat in order to get the right measurement, ... Hmm, I guess I do see some problems after all.
Are you for real? So if Newsweek magazine prints an editorial that's disparaging of Walmart, should there also be a separate edition printed just for that store that omits that editorial? What happened in that case is clear censorship, and Walmart has demonstrated time and time again that they will cater to the lowest common denominator by banning a Goo Goo Dolls CD because of a supposedly offensive cover and, more recently, Maxim magazine and its clones, because of a single customer complaint.
If you don't understand that when a store that is the main source of goods for many American consumers uses its influence to ban or alter a recording that is only indirectly critical of that store, censorship has occurred, then you don't understand the meaning of the word.
If you're offended about getting stopped at the exit to have your purchase and receipt examined, then show your displeasure and, most importantly, don't submit to it. According to most state laws, from what I understand, the store has no right to examine your purchases unless there is strong suspicion that you have actually stolen something. That means that when you're submitting to this embarassment and delay, you're actually doing so voluntarily. I always refuse to have my bags examined by just walking out, and there is nothing they can do about it. Don't be a sheep.
Because any company that wants to make it easy and convenient for its customers to forego physical media and accept its online-only distribution model should not force its customers to copy registry keys or anything else like that. The games should be tied to a subscriber + machine, so if I want to move game X to a new machine and I am still the same subscriber, it just stops working on the old machine. This one tale of how RealArcade makes this a pain or impossible is enough to convince me to never try their model, but it's not like I had a lot of interest and faith in it before.
That is wrong on just so many levels. So not only are you suggesting ruining the original game CD by writing on it, but you're also throwing away the original sleeve with the serial number that may be required to prove ownership? I don't think so.
It is very dangerous to understand Nintendo. It has been profitable games company for a long time. - David Cole, DFC Intelligence
It's puzzling how BBC could mess up this quote underneath the picture, when they get it right in the actual body of the article (where it says "underestimate" instead of "understand"). All they had to do was copy and paste!
Well, you can tell he's not too bright by the way he claims that the original Child's Play challenge was written on Penny Arcade by an "unidentified author", when every single post on that site has either Gabe or Tycho's name and face right next to it.
I think that since of most of us have no intention of even considering to buy this product, you have nothing to worry about - provided it ever even materializes, you should have no problem downloading either Cinderella's Dollhouse or The Bible: A Multimedia Experience on a lonely Friday night.