I don't believe he said what you think he said. Konqueror is fine for an everyday web browser; Mozilla is as feature-rich as one could imagine, including reading mail and news as well as using IRC. Believe it or not, some people like that.
He didn't say one is better than the other; for what they were intended for, they're both excellent. Nonetheless, they *are* in different leagues -- to further the analogy, Konqueror is a flyweight to Mozilla's super heavyweight. Saying that the Konqueror coders have created an equivalent to Mozilla is pure fallacy.
As a sidenote, the interfaces are even more up to opinion than the rest of the features -- I, personally, find Konqueror to be quite ugly compared to Mozilla. However, that's just my opinion, and has no place in a qualitative comparison of the browsers.
This is completely offtopic, but -- not necessarily. If somebody mods a comment as "Underrated," it'd be bumped up to +2 with no something-or-other beside it.
And you're misinterpreting what I said. Actually parenting and teaching are fine things. Physical abuse as a form of punishment is not. In fact, I disagree with the general idea of punishment; children should not be taught, "Don't do this or you'll be hurt." Rather, it's more effective to show them *why* doing something is wrong.
And you could at least not post as an Anonymous Coward. I'm not entirely sure whether your post is a troll or not; your rather juvenile last line, "You make me sick," indicates it might be. If you've got such a weak stomach that hearing an opinion you disagree with makes you sick, you need some professional help. If it is a troll, however, it's a rather poorly constructed one.
Sure thing. When he plays a practical joke, abuse him and make him resentful towards you so that next time he'll know to cover his tracks better. At least, I know that when *I* was a little kid, whenever I got in trouble for something, the lesson learned was that I should concentrate more on covering my tracks.
On an only slightly related note, this reminds me of an incident my sister got in while she was in high school. Y'see, I was on good terms with the vice principal at the time, although he didn't know her. One day she and a friend of hers got in a fight, and my sister passed a rather nasty note to her friend in class. Naturally, this friend reported it, and my sister got sent to the office. She got to see the vice principal, who, upon seeing her name, asked if she was my sister, and she answered truthfully. Know what the vice principal said?
"Next time, tell her in person rather than sending a note. It's harder to prove you did it." And then he let her go.
ff8 is probably the only one in the series where the battles take any actual strategy.
They didn't for me. Just draw 100 of every new spell you find, junction it to boost whatever stat you want at the moment, and then proceed to tear enemies apart. At the beginning of the game all you have to do is summon GF's over and over and over. By the end, Squall's normal attacks were doing 3000+ damage, so all I had to do was just use normal attacks constantly.
In fact, I would daresay that FF8's system has a horrible flaw in that enemies get stronger as you level up; in fact, I found that many enemies improve at a faster rate than you do, meaning that it's now *bad* to level up. And that's added to the fact that it always takes 1000 XP to go up a level; with a bit of time and patience, you could be at level 100 right at the beginning of the game, because enemies there give about as much experience as you can get at the end of the game.
You're making a fairly astounding leap of logic, there. Yes, playing video games is pointless -- so? Does something *have* to have a point?
I know that there's really no point in playing any kind of game. But nonetheless, they provide an amusing way to pass the time and relax, so I play them.
By your same logic -- all you're doing by posting to Slashdot is moving around electrons in a computer and over cables. For that matter, everything on your hard drive is nothing by data stored in memory locations. What's the point of it?
I prefer UT primarily because I'm not terribly fond of pure deathmatch, and that's really where Quake 3 shines. I prefer team-based games -- CTF is good, but my favorites are Assault and Domination.
My roommate also prefers UT to Quake 3 -- his primary reason is that the running speed in Q3 is fast enough to give him vertigo. Yeah, it may not matter much to you or me, but I'm sure he prefers games that don't make him nauseous.
Also, could you explain to me why you don't like UT? Your statement doesn't make much sense to me -- if I recall correctly, there's something like 12 weapons, if you include the chainsaw (which, AFAIK, can only be gotten through a mutator). Personally, I think that overall the weapons are fairly well-balanced -- naturally some are simply better than others, otherwise you wouldn't have any incentive to get a different weapon. Nonetheless, I've known people who considered themselves masters of particular weapons, and they didn't have any problem fight people with "superior" weapons.
Just out of curiousity, what other console RPG experiences have you had? I love console RPGs, but I loathe FF7. (to any FF7-lovers: I'm not looking for a fight, just stating my opinion.;-p)
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All subsequent Square adventures were based exactly on the FF2 engine
I will assume you mean FF4, as the actual FF2's engine was closer to the SaGa line of games than the following FFs.
In either case, though -- you're wrong. Mind you, all subsequent FFs were obviously highly influenced by FF4, but FF is far from Square's only franchise -- let's not forget the SaGa and Seiken Densetsu series, as well as Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears, to name a few, all of which are about as far as you can get from Final Fantasy. (and just for those who don't know -- although the SaGa games never caught on in America, they've enjoyed a good bit of success in Japan. There are, AFAIK, 8 games in the series, all of which have wildly varying battle systems based upon similar concepts)
Gaming, particularly RPG's, is about evolution and inspiration and new fight engines
Could you explain what you mean by "new fight engines"? Looking at the realm of console RPGs, most series tend to have very similar combat engines. Also, I'm not an expert on PC RPGs, but I would daresay that series are more likely to keep the same engine than console RPGs -- take a look at Might and Magic, for example, or the Baldur's Gate/Torment/Icewind Dale games.
Pen and paper RPGs are much harder to compare to, since they rarely spawn "sequels" -- about the closest thing I can think of is the three editions of Dungeons and Dragons, and each one obviously is highly influenced by the previous. Let's not forget the White Wolf games (Vampire/Werewolf/Changeling/Hunter/etc), which, as far as I can tell, essentially use the exact same combat systems.
Go to Control Panel/System/Advanced. Click on the "Error reporting" button in the lower right. Click on the radio button that says "Disable error reporting." Enjoy. ^_^
Did you actually even look at dictionary.com? Stick in "piracy." I quote:
2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.
While we're on the subject of subverting words, according to dictionary.com, I can't seem to find any meaning in your use of "cocked-up". "Cocked-up", in fact, does not actually appear, but it appears that "cocked" can mean:
(transitive)
1. To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing.
2. To set (a device, such as a camera shutter) in a position ready for use.
3. To tilt or turn up or to one side, usually in a jaunty or alert manner: cocked an eyebrow in response to a silly question.
4. To raise in preparation to throw or hit: cocked the bat before swinging at the pitch.
(intransitive)
1. To set the hammer of a firearm in a position ready for firing.
2. To turn or stick up.
3. To strut; swagger.
Now, applying a bit of logic, one might deduce that you're cocking something in an upward motion, so perhaps you're using the second intransitive definition? But Merriam-Webster certainly isn't turning anything upwards..
Er, wait -- would you happen to subverting a word?
(In case anybody missed it, my point here is that although the historical definition of "pirate" may not be one who breaks copyrights, it has been accepted as thus in the common English vocabulary; if you don't believe it means that, that's fine, but you're not speaking common English)
I don't know what version of the English language you're speaking, but according to Merriam-Webster, piracy can be defined as "the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright." Just because you can't accept a definition doesn't mean that's not the way it is.
Just out of curiousity, would you please justify your statement about Opera being three years behind Mozilla? What features does it lack? Out of those, which do you actually use?
In my opinion, it could be said that Opera is *ahead* of Mozilla. It had tabbed browsing first, and it does it better. It also had mouse gestures first -- and to even enable them in Mozilla, you have to get a plugin. It's much, much faster. I've yet to see any page Mozilla can render that Opera can't. There's a single window for *all* file transfers, so if I have 10+ transfers going at once, they don't squish everything else in the taskbar. Granted, Opera's built-in newsreader, e-mail, and ICQ clients are very simplistic, but I'd rather they not be complex; I'll use other programs designed just for that purpose, thank you. And as you've said, Mozilla doesn't have ICQ integrated yet, either.
But anyways, that's just my opinion. What's yours?
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Then what's the point of allowing logged-in users to post anonymously? I don't know about you, but I chose to post AC when I know my opinion is unpopular and it will be modded down. Many other people do, too -- and they have perfectly valid, logical reasons, but you'll never notice as long as you only read what the moderators tell you is good.
I believe he was referring to the fact that Microsoft is being forced to remove the JVM, but many people are spreading the FUD that they're removing it just so they can push.NET. Or something like that.
Just out of curiousity, have you actually watched both? Sure, Atlantis is a bit unoriginal, but I'd say it's far more heavily influenced by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Nadia seems to be heavily influenced by that, too, but not to the extent of Atlantis. Nonetheless, I find the idea of the creators of Atlantis being unfamiliar with Nadia to be completely plausible.
(As a note, you got the titles wrong, too: they're just "Atlantis" and "Nadia: the Secret of Blue Water")
if people didn't stick to things they didn't like at first, we wouldn't have coffee, cigarettes, etc.
While you have a valid point, I don't think coffee and cigarettes are the best examples. I don't like either, but really, even if you do like them -- can you say the world would be a worse place without them? Particularly smoking -- most smokers I know will freely admit they wish they had never started. People smoke not because it's good for them, but because of the addictive drugs in cigarettes.
Actually, no, there are other clients that support SPA. I'm rather fond of Calypso, myself. (At least, there's an option for SPA in the server settings; I've never found a server that used it, myself)
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I don't believe he said what you think he said. Konqueror is fine for an everyday web browser; Mozilla is as feature-rich as one could imagine, including reading mail and news as well as using IRC. Believe it or not, some people like that.
He didn't say one is better than the other; for what they were intended for, they're both excellent. Nonetheless, they *are* in different leagues -- to further the analogy, Konqueror is a flyweight to Mozilla's super heavyweight. Saying that the Konqueror coders have created an equivalent to Mozilla is pure fallacy.
As a sidenote, the interfaces are even more up to opinion than the rest of the features -- I, personally, find Konqueror to be quite ugly compared to Mozilla. However, that's just my opinion, and has no place in a qualitative comparison of the browsers.
This is completely offtopic, but -- not necessarily. If somebody mods a comment as "Underrated," it'd be bumped up to +2 with no something-or-other beside it.
And you're misinterpreting what I said. Actually parenting and teaching are fine things. Physical abuse as a form of punishment is not. In fact, I disagree with the general idea of punishment; children should not be taught, "Don't do this or you'll be hurt." Rather, it's more effective to show them *why* doing something is wrong.
And you could at least not post as an Anonymous Coward. I'm not entirely sure whether your post is a troll or not; your rather juvenile last line, "You make me sick," indicates it might be. If you've got such a weak stomach that hearing an opinion you disagree with makes you sick, you need some professional help. If it is a troll, however, it's a rather poorly constructed one.
He said "Santa," not "Christmas."
Sure thing. When he plays a practical joke, abuse him and make him resentful towards you so that next time he'll know to cover his tracks better. At least, I know that when *I* was a little kid, whenever I got in trouble for something, the lesson learned was that I should concentrate more on covering my tracks.
On an only slightly related note, this reminds me of an incident my sister got in while she was in high school. Y'see, I was on good terms with the vice principal at the time, although he didn't know her. One day she and a friend of hers got in a fight, and my sister passed a rather nasty note to her friend in class. Naturally, this friend reported it, and my sister got sent to the office. She got to see the vice principal, who, upon seeing her name, asked if she was my sister, and she answered truthfully. Know what the vice principal said?
"Next time, tell her in person rather than sending a note. It's harder to prove you did it." And then he let her go.
He (or she) likely means one for the e-mail client.
ff8 is probably the only one in the series where the battles take any actual strategy.
They didn't for me. Just draw 100 of every new spell you find, junction it to boost whatever stat you want at the moment, and then proceed to tear enemies apart. At the beginning of the game all you have to do is summon GF's over and over and over. By the end, Squall's normal attacks were doing 3000+ damage, so all I had to do was just use normal attacks constantly.
In fact, I would daresay that FF8's system has a horrible flaw in that enemies get stronger as you level up; in fact, I found that many enemies improve at a faster rate than you do, meaning that it's now *bad* to level up. And that's added to the fact that it always takes 1000 XP to go up a level; with a bit of time and patience, you could be at level 100 right at the beginning of the game, because enemies there give about as much experience as you can get at the end of the game.
You're making a fairly astounding leap of logic, there. Yes, playing video games is pointless -- so? Does something *have* to have a point?
I know that there's really no point in playing any kind of game. But nonetheless, they provide an amusing way to pass the time and relax, so I play them.
By your same logic -- all you're doing by posting to Slashdot is moving around electrons in a computer and over cables. For that matter, everything on your hard drive is nothing by data stored in memory locations. What's the point of it?
Have you never played an Atari 2600 game before? That's about as beautiful as they get.
I prefer UT primarily because I'm not terribly fond of pure deathmatch, and that's really where Quake 3 shines. I prefer team-based games -- CTF is good, but my favorites are Assault and Domination.
My roommate also prefers UT to Quake 3 -- his primary reason is that the running speed in Q3 is fast enough to give him vertigo. Yeah, it may not matter much to you or me, but I'm sure he prefers games that don't make him nauseous.
Also, could you explain to me why you don't like UT? Your statement doesn't make much sense to me -- if I recall correctly, there's something like 12 weapons, if you include the chainsaw (which, AFAIK, can only be gotten through a mutator). Personally, I think that overall the weapons are fairly well-balanced -- naturally some are simply better than others, otherwise you wouldn't have any incentive to get a different weapon. Nonetheless, I've known people who considered themselves masters of particular weapons, and they didn't have any problem fight people with "superior" weapons.
Just out of curiousity, what other console RPG experiences have you had? I love console RPGs, but I loathe FF7. (to any FF7-lovers: I'm not looking for a fight, just stating my opinion. ;-p)
All subsequent Square adventures were based exactly on the FF2 engine
I will assume you mean FF4, as the actual FF2's engine was closer to the SaGa line of games than the following FFs.
In either case, though -- you're wrong. Mind you, all subsequent FFs were obviously highly influenced by FF4, but FF is far from Square's only franchise -- let's not forget the SaGa and Seiken Densetsu series, as well as Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears, to name a few, all of which are about as far as you can get from Final Fantasy. (and just for those who don't know -- although the SaGa games never caught on in America, they've enjoyed a good bit of success in Japan. There are, AFAIK, 8 games in the series, all of which have wildly varying battle systems based upon similar concepts)
Gaming, particularly RPG's, is about evolution and inspiration and new fight engines
Could you explain what you mean by "new fight engines"? Looking at the realm of console RPGs, most series tend to have very similar combat engines. Also, I'm not an expert on PC RPGs, but I would daresay that series are more likely to keep the same engine than console RPGs -- take a look at Might and Magic, for example, or the Baldur's Gate/Torment/Icewind Dale games.
Pen and paper RPGs are much harder to compare to, since they rarely spawn "sequels" -- about the closest thing I can think of is the three editions of Dungeons and Dragons, and each one obviously is highly influenced by the previous. Let's not forget the White Wolf games (Vampire/Werewolf/Changeling/Hunter/etc), which, as far as I can tell, essentially use the exact same combat systems.
So... Can you present any examples?
If the experiments are not able to produce creatures that demonstrate free will, emotions and feelings, and other characteristically human qualities
;-p
In my opinion, anybody who thinks animals don't have free will, emotions, and feelings has never owned (read: be owned by) cats.
Go to Control Panel/System/Advanced. Click on the "Error reporting" button in the lower right. Click on the radio button that says "Disable error reporting." Enjoy. ^_^
Did you actually even look at dictionary.com? Stick in "piracy." I quote:
2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.
While we're on the subject of subverting words, according to dictionary.com, I can't seem to find any meaning in your use of "cocked-up". "Cocked-up", in fact, does not actually appear, but it appears that "cocked" can mean:
(transitive)
1. To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing.
2. To set (a device, such as a camera shutter) in a position ready for use.
3. To tilt or turn up or to one side, usually in a jaunty or alert manner: cocked an eyebrow in response to a silly question.
4. To raise in preparation to throw or hit: cocked the bat before swinging at the pitch.
(intransitive)
1. To set the hammer of a firearm in a position ready for firing.
2. To turn or stick up.
3. To strut; swagger.
Now, applying a bit of logic, one might deduce that you're cocking something in an upward motion, so perhaps you're using the second intransitive definition? But Merriam-Webster certainly isn't turning anything upwards..
Er, wait -- would you happen to subverting a word?
(In case anybody missed it, my point here is that although the historical definition of "pirate" may not be one who breaks copyrights, it has been accepted as thus in the common English vocabulary; if you don't believe it means that, that's fine, but you're not speaking common English)
I don't know what version of the English language you're speaking, but according to Merriam-Webster, piracy can be defined as "the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright." Just because you can't accept a definition doesn't mean that's not the way it is.
Oh, it was put there by the submitter? Whew. For a moment I was starting to panic...
Erm... No, it's not. Or am I the only one still getting a 404?
Just out of curiousity, would you please justify your statement about Opera being three years behind Mozilla? What features does it lack? Out of those, which do you actually use?
In my opinion, it could be said that Opera is *ahead* of Mozilla. It had tabbed browsing first, and it does it better. It also had mouse gestures first -- and to even enable them in Mozilla, you have to get a plugin. It's much, much faster. I've yet to see any page Mozilla can render that Opera can't. There's a single window for *all* file transfers, so if I have 10+ transfers going at once, they don't squish everything else in the taskbar. Granted, Opera's built-in newsreader, e-mail, and ICQ clients are very simplistic, but I'd rather they not be complex; I'll use other programs designed just for that purpose, thank you. And as you've said, Mozilla doesn't have ICQ integrated yet, either.
But anyways, that's just my opinion. What's yours?
Then what's the point of allowing logged-in users to post anonymously? I don't know about you, but I chose to post AC when I know my opinion is unpopular and it will be modded down. Many other people do, too -- and they have perfectly valid, logical reasons, but you'll never notice as long as you only read what the moderators tell you is good.
I believe he was referring to the fact that Microsoft is being forced to remove the JVM, but many people are spreading the FUD that they're removing it just so they can push .NET. Or something like that.
I now know that Katz lives in some alternate dimension unto his own.
Wait, does this mean -- if you kill one Katz, the rest get stronger?!
(As a note, you got the titles wrong, too: they're just "Atlantis" and "Nadia: the Secret of Blue Water")
While you have a valid point, I don't think coffee and cigarettes are the best examples. I don't like either, but really, even if you do like them -- can you say the world would be a worse place without them? Particularly smoking -- most smokers I know will freely admit they wish they had never started. People smoke not because it's good for them, but because of the addictive drugs in cigarettes.
Actually, no, there are other clients that support SPA. I'm rather fond of Calypso, myself. (At least, there's an option for SPA in the server settings; I've never found a server that used it, myself)