Mozilla has been the only serious standards advocating competitor to Microsoft and Firefox over the last four years has almost single-handedly revived the standards-based Web. Isn't that a slight exaggeration?
Opera has been active for just as long, and these days Safari has a thing or two to contribute as well. There are others on top of that, but the point is that your statement comes off as being somewhat arrogant.
From Operas desktopteam blog:
Today we reached a 100% pass rate for the first time! There are some remaining issues yet to be fixed, but we hope to have those sorted out shortly.
We will release a technical preview version on labs.opera.com within the next week or so. The current Opera betas/snapshots have been in testing for quite a while, and some of the additions needed for ACID3 compliance would delay the release of that branch for further regression testing etc. They've chosen to not include a few of those fixes for the soon-to-be-released 9.5 and rather include those in a build that'll receive much more thorough testing for changes introduced by those compliance related additions.
Well, the issue here is that what "everyone else" thinks is wrong. LINUX IS THE KERNEL. Period. End of story. We-ell, language is a living, breathing, evolving thing see. Do you refuse to use the term Xeroxing, except when making paper copies using a machine developed by Xerox?
If the entire world outside of the Linux kernel developers are referring to the entire distro when they say Linux, refusing to acknowledge this won't do anyone any good. It certainly won't work in favor of broader Linux adoption and acceptance.
I doubt you'll be able to educate the world, so you might as well get with the hip new lingo.
I'd pay serious money to get my hands on the level editors for this tech - but I don't think my salary will stretch to a ID license fee. Or you could just buy Rage, where their development studio with all the tools are included:)
Games have been trickling out since most of the game producers are of the wait-and-see variety.
The Wii's success was soon evident to everyone though and most of the large game makers jumped on the bandwageon. However since games aren't produced in an instant, you'll see an avalanche of games released for the Wii, starting late '07, but mostly throughout, and towards the end of, '08.
Out of all SciFi, baring Serenity, B5 is the best. But Technomages, prophets with flashes from the future and even time travel are used as storyline crutches. The whole mystery aspect of B5 is overblown and abused, the show would be much better if it was toned down. "The passing of the techno mages" trilogy by Jeanne Cavelos does a lot to both explain and enhance the mystery around the techno mages.
I too felt that there was a little too much magic and not enough SciFi surrounding the techno mages before I read those. Afterwards though, my feeling that most things in the b5-universe does have an explanation is stronger than ever. Within reason of course:)
Overall I'm extremely happy with the level of explanation versus mystery the show provides, but it does take quite a while before some of the layers of mystery are peeled away for the viewer. Usually though, that provides even more awe at the lack of understanding we still have for quite a lot of things in the world. Just the way I like it.
Are you sure you clicked the "Babylon 5 - The lost tales"-tab and viewed the correct trailer? I didn't find the effects particularely cheesy there, I'm sorry if you did.
On the other hand, B5 always had to survive on a shoe string budget. One quoted number was that it at most for one episode, B5 got about 25% of what it cost to produce one Star Trek episode. With that in mind, I'm quite impressed with what they accomplished.
I always admired the designs and ideas of B5 and thought them to be inventive, ingenious and on the whole quite beautiful. Even if you're of course often more aware that you're watching CG, mostly due to the restrictive budget from what I can tell.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
Most of what you see in B5 is explained along the way in one way or another, some isn't. The future is an interesting place don't you think?
There are many kinds of SciFi that aren't strict, *hard* SciFi. The writer has chosen his path, and it's your choice to stop watching if you find it unbearable.
If you don't find B5 unbearable, then just sit back and enjoy in the knowledge that there are things out there, bigger and more complex than our current understanding of science and the universe.
Even with two transmitters, it doesn't sound too prone to break downs, this could be a not-too-costly winner.
MIMO isn't exactly news though, but it's of course interesting to see it being used in this context.
I wonder how long this new found bandwidth will be enough, as we tend to expand usage right along side available resources at a disturbingly linear rate.
The drum beat of progress pushes development to it's limits, but at the same time hinders some forms of research or real world tests of computation theory, for all save the few chip makers dominating the market currently.
Fragmentation in software leads to fragmentation in doctumentation.
Instead of a few common choices, there's often a vast amount of software with varying degrees of popularity to choose from in open source country. Since your livelyhood isn't dependant on keeping every last customer around, there's also a tendency to break backwards compatibility more often than one would otherwise see, which again leads to documentation being slightly harder.
I think the big difference is that it's far easier to get documentation going once you hit critical mass with your software. Something less projects due when there's always several almost equal choices to make from and no commercial company forcing you to do the documentation dirty work.
Because we're not claiming people are documenting commercial software in their spare time now are we?
The *point* of this debate is that a lot of people do not want choice at all.
I'd wager most in fact do not. My parents for instance do not.
Also you can argue semantics all day. People can't suddenly use linux due to a lifetime of MacOS or Windows usage. All the products you listed can be used without any further training. Different gas doesn't in any sane universe compare to a different OS. It's x86 so therefor it's compatible? Come on, we're arguing from the point of a user here, mostly, since the vast majority of people are users after all, not developers. Although in fact a lot of developers aren't too fond of fragmentation either. And they're the type of people that often take the time to make the rational choice that'll best benefit them if they can.
Stop trying to act superior, start applying some common sense, instead of just trying to out argue.
In my opinion and experience, steam might have, perhaps, succeeded in becoming the program it was supposed to be when it launched sometime during the second half of 2006.
It was bugridden and slow for the loooongest time. I've had modem users try to use the damn thing for years. It would need constant re-downloads, lost games, corrupt databases, corrupt data, lag, god damn insane resource hogs in both the CPU and memory areas. And only during 2007 has it stopped annoying the hell out of me on a regular basis with messing up constantly.
So maybe it's getting there, but if this hadn't been valve, it sure as hell would have failed miserably long ago. The execution was beyond horrible. It looks though as their size has enabled them not to have their failure put a nail in the coffin of downloadable software purchases, which is really nice of course.
This is exactly why people are so over the top praising serenity. Half of it is honest to god true feelings, the other half needs to evangelize a bit since most of the world missed out and will probably miss out on the fantastic piece of Sci-Fi that was Firefly.
The movie was barely marketed and the first season of the show was killed half way through. Don't tell me that the show was given a fair chance by any means. Especially considering the DVD sales are still going strong four years after. It's sad and it's even heartbreaking to consider what could have been but was ended prematurely.
It all warrants a bit of fanboyism if you ask me. If not for them, there'd never be anything made in that, or a lot of other universes, ever again.
I think what was implied here was that you're not about to see fantastic sums of money. You'll be compensated for a sum of money based on what your losses might have been. The punitive damages are a lot lower here than they are in the US. When you separate the punitive damages from the actual compensation for loss of income etc, the sums are much more equal between the countries. Which would make sense.
You might not be able to bancrupt anyone who ever made a mistake, which has it's charm, but I think you would still mostly get what you deserved. I think I prefer it this way rather than having to spend most of our time and resources better spent elsewhere, trying anything possible not to get sued.
Not to not do bad, mind you, just not to get sued. Thats a sad state of affairs.
The broken home statement is bugging me more than a little.
I've seen plenty of people in this discussion blaming the fact the parents were divorced for messing up the kid, or at least making it into a significant factor. If you in fact check crime rate and tendency to end up in wellfare dependency, and a few more things I've forgotten at the moment, as a measurement for the "happiness" in children, it would seem that kids benefitted more from people who weren't functioning as a couple to split up rather than stay together and make life miserable for everyone. Happiness is a tricky quality to measure though and going with your gut is completely ridiculus most of the time, but still..
Now I know that wasn't really the essence of your argument which I mostly agreed with, I just wanted(/needed?) to nitpick a bit.
Finally, the foolish duo that installed these devices were filmed an hour into the incident watching the BPD and bomb squad in their investigation and decided to remain silent for several hours, allowing the situation to continue to snowball out of control.
I'm not sure I'd step up.
In an atmosphere where even suspected un-american tendencies can lead to immediate retraction of civil rights and liberties, I might just cut'n'run as fast as I could if I ever though I'd be suspected of something like this.
Sticking around to argue your case might be the honorable way to deal with these things, but lately it doesn't seem to go to well for those that do over there. So thanks but no thanks, but I have a train to catch.
Now, if they'd only speak out about a possible Wii version, or even a port of GH.
I've been going back and forth between trying to wait out a decision and feeling forced to buy a 2nd console to enjoy this game. Some clarity would be greatly appreciated.
Capitalism is a very nice theory, but I can't help but think that it only works if everyone that competes in this market is competing on equal terms.
If you create something someone never hears about, how is it supposed to compete?
If you create something that has initial problems that leaves a very bad reputation, you fix these problems but no one hears about it, how can it compete?
If you create something utterly fantastic, but you only get 50% of the way there, then you run out of cash or is shut down by changes in law, policy or something else governing your region of operation, how is that fair competition?
Granted, given an inifinite amount of time, I'm sure something else will pop up that serves the same purpose as all these temporarily lost opportunities, but I don't have an inifinite amount of time. Nor do I feel like wasting more time and resources than we have to.
"The market has spoken" is just simply no excuse or explanation i see fitting anywhere near the suggested open sourcing of an mmorpg. Especially when everyone involved is chipping in on their own terms. You might not want to contribute, which is fine, but I don't see your reason to weigh in with your opinion and condemn those that do.
The point of the game, I imagine, is to be able to swing the wiimote *while* keeping it in your hand.
I seriously think this was just an oversight from the developers, how much more does really a slightly thicker strap cost? Virtually nothing.
I don't believe nintendo imagined people sweaty-palmed gamers throwing their wiimote as hard as the humanly could without *any* concern for being able to keep it in their hand. I know I wouldn't.
How often to you get a tennis racket or a baseball bat in the face from some overexcited sportster? Well maybe not you, but have you ever heard of it happening?
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I would have little difficulty duplicating this experiment. (YIAAS)
Could you please do so and let us know how it went? My inner sceptic wouldn't quite be silenced, but he'd pipe down for a few minutes at least.
Opera has been active for just as long, and these days Safari has a thing or two to contribute as well. There are others on top of that, but the point is that your statement comes off as being somewhat arrogant.
We will release a technical preview version on labs.opera.com within the next week or so. The current Opera betas/snapshots have been in testing for quite a while, and some of the additions needed for ACID3 compliance would delay the release of that branch for further regression testing etc. They've chosen to not include a few of those fixes for the soon-to-be-released 9.5 and rather include those in a build that'll receive much more thorough testing for changes introduced by those compliance related additions.
Seems sensible to me.
..or maybe he wants his movies unblockbusterized and displayed in all their originally intended glory?
That right there would be quite the dealbreaker for me.
I agree wholeheartedly. What on earth is so mindless about this "eco-babble" ?
Do you refuse to use the term Xeroxing, except when making paper copies using a machine developed by Xerox?
If the entire world outside of the Linux kernel developers are referring to the entire distro when they say Linux, refusing to acknowledge this won't do anyone any good. It certainly won't work in favor of broader Linux adoption and acceptance.
I doubt you'll be able to educate the world, so you might as well get with the hip new lingo.
As mentioned here: http://download.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_idtec
I wouldn't be too surprised to see the level technology appear as as free download as well down the road.
Games have been trickling out since most of the game producers are of the wait-and-see variety.
b lishers-shift-from-sony-to-nintendo-271785.php
The Wii's success was soon evident to everyone though and most of the large game makers jumped on the bandwageon. However since games aren't produced in an instant, you'll see an avalanche of games released for the Wii, starting late '07, but mostly throughout, and towards the end of, '08.
News is surfacing that some companies are shifting focus from Sony to Nintendo entirely:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/the-tide/big-japanese-pu
My guess is that this'll keep happening unless/until the PS3 somehow manages to pick it sales up significantly and reach some form of critical mass.
I too felt that there was a little too much magic and not enough SciFi surrounding the techno mages before I read those. Afterwards though, my feeling that most things in the b5-universe does have an explanation is stronger than ever. Within reason of course
Overall I'm extremely happy with the level of explanation versus mystery the show provides, but it does take quite a while before some of the layers of mystery are peeled away for the viewer. Usually though, that provides even more awe at the lack of understanding we still have for quite a lot of things in the world. Just the way I like it.
Are you sure you clicked the "Babylon 5 - The lost tales"-tab and viewed the correct trailer?
I didn't find the effects particularely cheesy there, I'm sorry if you did.
On the other hand, B5 always had to survive on a shoe string budget. One quoted number was that it at most for one episode, B5 got about 25% of what it cost to produce one Star Trek episode. With that in mind, I'm quite impressed with what they accomplished.
I always admired the designs and ideas of B5 and thought them to be inventive, ingenious and on the whole quite beautiful. Even if you're of course often more aware that you're watching CG, mostly due to the restrictive budget from what I can tell.
Most of what you see in B5 is explained along the way in one way or another, some isn't. The future is an interesting place don't you think?
There are many kinds of SciFi that aren't strict, *hard* SciFi. The writer has chosen his path, and it's your choice to stop watching if you find it unbearable.
If you don't find B5 unbearable, then just sit back and enjoy in the knowledge that there are things out there, bigger and more complex than our current understanding of science and the universe.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html
Interesting reading.
Even with two transmitters, it doesn't sound too prone to break downs, this could be a not-too-costly winner.
MIMO isn't exactly news though, but it's of course interesting to see it being used in this context.
I wonder how long this new found bandwidth will be enough, as we tend to expand usage right along side available resources at a disturbingly linear rate.
I suppose it does both.
The drum beat of progress pushes development to it's limits, but at the same time hinders some forms of research or real world tests of computation theory, for all save the few chip makers dominating the market currently.
Fragmentation in software leads to fragmentation in doctumentation.
Instead of a few common choices, there's often a vast amount of software with varying degrees of popularity to choose from in open source country. Since your livelyhood isn't dependant on keeping every last customer around, there's also a tendency to break backwards compatibility more often than one would otherwise see, which again leads to documentation being slightly harder.
I think the big difference is that it's far easier to get documentation going once you hit critical mass with your software. Something less projects due when there's always several almost equal choices to make from and no commercial company forcing you to do the documentation dirty work.
Because we're not claiming people are documenting commercial software in their spare time now are we?
The *point* of this debate is that a lot of people do not want choice at all.
I'd wager most in fact do not.
My parents for instance do not.
Also you can argue semantics all day. People can't suddenly use linux due to a lifetime of MacOS or Windows usage. All the products you listed can be used without any further training. Different gas doesn't in any sane universe compare to a different OS. It's x86 so therefor it's compatible?
Come on, we're arguing from the point of a user here, mostly, since the vast majority of people are users after all, not developers. Although in fact a lot of developers aren't too fond of fragmentation either. And they're the type of people that often take the time to make the rational choice that'll best benefit them if they can.
Stop trying to act superior, start applying some common sense, instead of just trying to out argue.
In my opinion and experience, steam might have, perhaps, succeeded in becoming the program it was supposed to be when it launched sometime during the second half of 2006.
It was bugridden and slow for the loooongest time. I've had modem users try to use the damn thing for years. It would need constant re-downloads, lost games, corrupt databases, corrupt data, lag, god damn insane resource hogs in both the CPU and memory areas. And only during 2007 has it stopped annoying the hell out of me on a regular basis with messing up constantly.
So maybe it's getting there, but if this hadn't been valve, it sure as hell would have failed miserably long ago. The execution was beyond horrible. It looks though as their size has enabled them not to have their failure put a nail in the coffin of downloadable software purchases, which is really nice of course.
This is exactly why people are so over the top praising serenity. Half of it is honest to god true feelings, the other half needs to evangelize a bit since most of the world missed out and will probably miss out on the fantastic piece of Sci-Fi that was Firefly.
The movie was barely marketed and the first season of the show was killed half way through. Don't tell me that the show was given a fair chance by any means. Especially considering the DVD sales are still going strong four years after. It's sad and it's even heartbreaking to consider what could have been but was ended prematurely.
It all warrants a bit of fanboyism if you ask me. If not for them, there'd never be anything made in that, or a lot of other universes, ever again.
I think what was implied here was that you're not about to see fantastic sums of money. You'll be compensated for a sum of money based on what your losses might have been. The punitive damages are a lot lower here than they are in the US. When you separate the punitive damages from the actual compensation for loss of income etc, the sums are much more equal between the countries. Which would make sense.
You might not be able to bancrupt anyone who ever made a mistake, which has it's charm, but I think you would still mostly get what you deserved. I think I prefer it this way rather than having to spend most of our time and resources better spent elsewhere, trying anything possible not to get sued.
Not to not do bad, mind you, just not to get sued. Thats a sad state of affairs.
The broken home statement is bugging me more than a little.
I've seen plenty of people in this discussion blaming the fact the parents were divorced for messing up the kid, or at least making it into a significant factor. If you in fact check crime rate and tendency to end up in wellfare dependency, and a few more things I've forgotten at the moment, as a measurement for the "happiness" in children, it would seem that kids benefitted more from people who weren't functioning as a couple to split up rather than stay together and make life miserable for everyone. Happiness is a tricky quality to measure though and going with your gut is completely ridiculus most of the time, but still..
Now I know that wasn't really the essence of your argument which I mostly agreed with, I just wanted(/needed?) to nitpick a bit.
I'm not sure I'd step up.
In an atmosphere where even suspected un-american tendencies can lead to immediate retraction of civil rights and liberties, I might just cut'n'run as fast as I could if I ever though I'd be suspected of something like this.
Sticking around to argue your case might be the honorable way to deal with these things, but lately it doesn't seem to go to well for those that do over there. So thanks but no thanks, but I have a train to catch.
Now, if they'd only speak out about a possible Wii version, or even a port of GH.
I've been going back and forth between trying to wait out a decision and feeling forced to buy a 2nd console to enjoy this game.
Some clarity would be greatly appreciated.
The "market" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Capitalism is a very nice theory, but I can't help but think that it only works if everyone that competes in this market is competing on equal terms.
If you create something someone never hears about, how is it supposed to compete?
If you create something that has initial problems that leaves a very bad reputation, you fix these problems but no one hears about it, how can it compete?
If you create something utterly fantastic, but you only get 50% of the way there, then you run out of cash or is shut down by changes in law, policy or something else governing your region of operation, how is that fair competition?
Granted, given an inifinite amount of time, I'm sure something else will pop up that serves the same purpose as all these temporarily lost opportunities, but I don't have an inifinite amount of time. Nor do I feel like wasting more time and resources than we have to.
"The market has spoken" is just simply no excuse or explanation i see fitting anywhere near the suggested open sourcing of an mmorpg. Especially when everyone involved is chipping in on their own terms. You might not want to contribute, which is fine, but I don't see your reason to weigh in with your opinion and condemn those that do.
A bunch of the more popular menues work quite well in Opera if you update them to the latest version.
Some of the older versions serve up very strange content to Opera that's not needed, or even has an outright block.
There's no problem finding compatible and updated, decent looking/working menues if you really do try.
The point of the game, I imagine, is to be able to swing the wiimote *while* keeping it in your hand.
I seriously think this was just an oversight from the developers, how much more does really a slightly thicker strap cost? Virtually nothing.
I don't believe nintendo imagined people sweaty-palmed gamers throwing their wiimote as hard as the humanly could without *any* concern for being able to keep it in their hand. I know I wouldn't.
How often to you get a tennis racket or a baseball bat in the face from some overexcited sportster? Well maybe not you, but have you ever heard of it happening?