Optifine gets regularly updated for the latest mod supported version which shouldn't be that far behind at the moment as it's been a while since 1.8's base release. The reason why most servers are still 1.7 at the moment is because 1.8 actually makes it near impossible for some existing mods to be updated. Mojang changed the way models are coded so that they have to be supplied by JSON for every possible state that includes a reference to the texture used. Consequently, any mod that used a single model for multiple blocks and just changed the texture now has to have a model file for every single possible combination of that model. The vanilla game's fire block has 20+ JSON files just to manage it's various states of setting blocks on fire. Then there were mods like Carpenter's Blocks that gave various model shapes and then applied the texture dynamically based on the texture of the block you used on it, including blocks from other mods. That's pretty much impossible now.
In some of these states, anyone undergoing gender reassignment as they make it incredibly hard, if not impossible to change your details on your legal ID from male to female or vice versa and so they are likely to be turned away for not having matching details.
I think you might notice how quickly your phone battery would drain if it was stream camera footage constantly. Same with tablets. Desktops work even when a web cam isn't plugged in. Laptops are a valid concern but these days there mostly just going to get either a) someone sitting in an office working or b) blackness because it's shut.
If it's like the Kinect, power will come directly from the XBox itself through a modified USB socket. Also, the XBox One is stated to not work without the Kinect 2.0 connected, even though you can supposedly turn the Kinect off... yeah... I totally trust that it's not doing anything >_>
The Mozilla tag in most UAs is a compatibility tag for the Mozilla rendering engine and in the case of IE, is a leftover from it's fight against Netscape. So in reality, it's never spoofed Firefox. Everything just spoofs Netscape.
Chrome was specifically written for ICS (Possibly Honeycomb but that was a pointless release anyway). It makes use of elements added by ICS that aren't available in Gingerbread and they weren't going to backport those elements when the whole point of Android was that you should of been able to update it for a lot longer than manufacturers actually bothered doing it. It's this reason I got a Nexus after having the original Galaxy and only being able to get Gingerbread when Honeycomb came out and then getting no other updates.
If you're running Gingerbread, you'll probably be able to find a Jelly Bean rom to use that isn't reliant on your phone manufacturers whims. If that's not an option, I'm sorry. You'll just have to make do until youcan upgrade:/
Ones I've seen this work with: Both 2011 and 2012's THQ bundles, 2012's SEGA bundle, the Potato Pack, the Valve Complete pack (Award during the Portal 2 ARG, even allowed you to send the copy of Portal 2 in it to a friend) and all the various 4 pack bundles.
On top of what you have already suggested, there's most of the racing genre (though I'm still annoyed at Criterion for not having local multiplayer in Burnout Paradise), most of the sports genre, the Rock Band series, Uncharted, Gears of War, Halo, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, etc. Resistance doesn't have standard local multiplayer from what I can tell but it does have local co-op.
That's some major series to have missed there.
Is it? Browsers are the only application I know that decided the 'document' controls should be inside the tab. Every other application we use with tab support puts the controls above the tabs. The reason Chrome did it differently was purely to save space but it doesn't make it any more or less intuitive that tabs below. Some people even prefer tabs to the side as that make the page a more vertical space on widescreen monitors. What is intuitive to one person may not be intuitive to another.
Videos that get the ad banners usually have them for one of two reasons.
There was copyrighted material detected in the video and the agreement that YouTube have with the copyright holder requires them to pay for the video so that do this through the advertising at the beginning of the video.
The video is published by a YouTube content creator and pays them for content creation. I know that there is almost always adverts at the start of TotalBiscuit's and the Yogcast's videos for instance yet there are videos in my favourites lists that never have an advert show up.
Or you could use the start menu's search tool to skip some of the clicking by going Start > enter 'account' > click 'Change Your Password'
Or you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del and click 'Change a password'.
I could make Linux look like the complicated one too by picking the longest route but in reality, for most people, there wont be a difference in the speed they could achieve something one vs. the other if they had equivalent knowledge of those OSes.
Well, Windows (at least Vista and 7) sees user stuff as being in C:\users\[username]\
Programs are in C:\Program Files (admittedly this on x64 Windows this and ‘Program Files (x86)’ can confuse people). Although I do get annoyed at applications that default to installing outside this folder only to find that the same app on other OS's adheres to the folder conventions of that OS >_<.
The documents folder is a bit of an oddity as on XP it’s name was relative to which user was logged in (It was seen as My Documents or [username]’s Documents). Now though it’s just ‘Documents’. And the registry has always been a massive pain in the backside.
Speaking of confusing folders and Windows though, I still get confused about which is which when it comes to System, System32 and SysWOW64. Logic should say that they are the 16bit, 32bit and 64bit stuff respectively but no... SysWOW64 is for the 32 bit stuff and System32 is for the 64 bit stuff o_O
(Note: I know why the Windows folders are the way they are. That doesn't make it any less confusing)
They can compile it in less than 3Gb of RAM, just not with PGO. Chrome can't compile with PGO either and it's highly unlikely that many other large scale applications use PGO.
Of course Steam is going to have lots of 64 bit OS users. Lots of gamers will have/be upgrading to an i5 or i7 at the moment to make the most out of CPU intensive games and no matter whether you build it yourself or buy prebuilt, you'd want Win 7 64bit so you can make the most of that processor and the 8Gb of RAM you put in (because what's another £15 on the price).
Most Firefox users on the other hand probably don't play games on a PC outside of browser based games or solataire, or are using a netbook, or are using their PC at work where IT have probably bought the cheapest thing available from HP at the time of the last upgrade.
At least since 7.0, Firefox installs in the users local profile by default (AppData/local). I presume you can change it to work off the roaming profile instead but I've never needed to so haven't looked it up.
As a web developer who's currently in the process of building a complex B2B website, I can safely say you do not need to maintain 4 versions of any website. If you start with a good foundation (reset browser CSS, output clean XHTML1, use a JS library like prototype or jquery), you will find you almost never come across a browser specific problem and when you do, it's usually a minor adjustment to a CSS property to achieve the same output without triggering a bug. For example: using margin on child elements rather than padding on the parent element.
You can even use the HTML5 layout tags, such as header, footer, aside, section, etc., now in all browsers as long as you set their CSS display type to block before using them. This is because browsers will accept the tag and create an element with no definition for it, treating them like a CSS-less DIV tag, leaving you to do it in CSS.
Also, I'm yet to find much in the way of incompatibility between the browsers in regards to HTML. Yes, there is the Codec issue but that was an issue as soon as the idea of a video tag was thought of. If they accept the standard most use today it will lock people out of being able to implement the video tag (Mozilla for instance but also a lot of smaller browser developers) and in terms of the actual implementation of the tag itself, it is fairly well defined but now needs a decision to be made about codec support.
CSS is a little more browser specific at the moment but that is mainly because the W3C wants to see potential implementations of a CSS3 feature before they agree on a standard way of writing it (I believe they need at least two different implementations). Things like box-shadow and border-radius are close to a finished standard because Mozilla and Webkit wrote very similar implementations that work very well. Gradients on the other hand are still a mess as Mozilla and Webkit have differing ideas on possible implementations as well as whether to support RGBA in gradients and where in CSS to support gradients (currently it's only supported as a replacement for background-image). However, these are features that people can add to their site if they really want to experiment with them (they are progressive enhancements so don't cause problems in browsers that don't support them) but are generally suggested not to.
Although the main games are completely separate stories there are actually 2 consistent settings in the FF universe. There is the MMO setting (Giants, Elves, Cat People and their various backgrounds) and the Ivalice setting (Rabbit people, Sky Pirates, Lizard People, etc). Admittedly, by switching world but maintaining setting all FFXIV actually has is some races but no real background. Ivalice (used in Vagrant Story, FFTactics, FFTactics Advanced and FF12) has a lot more background and I personally think is the better setting.
FF11 was before WoW, I went from the European beta for FF11 (after US release and well after the Japanese release) to the US WoW beta so I'm certain of the timing.
As for WoW's bugs, the thing is, the bugs were in terms of balance or abilities not working correctly, things that felt minor in comparison to FFXI's client repeatedly crashing, PlayOnline refusing to download an update from the server it had just connected to to check if there was an update. So yes, WoW was buggy, but you only noticed once you hit level 30+ whereas most other MMOs of the time (and FFXIV now) are buggy as hell before you even get into the game, so first impressions are much worse than for WoW.
The server doesn't even have a copy of the world map. Just some collision data so it can make occasional checks on a players location to make sure they are not out of bounds. It does however contain all the spawn points for enemies, npcs and some doodads (some are static and only the sparkle effect is controlled server side) and buildings (used for phasing purposes).
Stats are handled server side, as are all combat and spell actions (Mage Blink being another thing that uses the server's collision detection rather than the client's)
However, as of the Cataclysm installer, if you are playing while not completely installed a server does send you the data required for any model or map chunk requested specifically by the client (because it doesn't have a local copy) so any future public servers would have to break the streaming installer as the request would still be sent to the Blizzard servers. Which likely wont respond due to not using a valid account.
How would you or the author of the addon have any idea whether the addon will work with any future update?
From what work I've done with Firefox addons (fixing one I was using after the author stopped supporting it), you can set a range of versions your addon supports but the vast majority of authors don't support versions that don't exist yet because they have no idea what Mozilla might need to change. These same authors generally check their code with the beta builds (and some with the nightly builds) and when THEY are happy that it works they'll bump up the version support and post an update.
Considering how much addons can change Firefox, I'd rather have it this way than what you are suggesting. Especially as I have had up to date addons break the entire UI before where the author had missed checking something like 'does it work if [X] toolbar isn't visible?'.
As for you Netscape comment, is it Netscape's problem that the website coder hasn't updated his code for the latest version? No. It's the website coder's problem and if he doesn't fix it people will go elsewhere. The same is true for addons.
Addons breaking on updates is due to one of three things. Either the author is still fixing the addon for the latest update (as it's just a small tweak if nothing is actually broken), the addon is no longer developed or you are using a nightly, in which case the author hasn't even had the chance to test their own addon yet, let alone fix it.
None of this is Mozilla's responsibility, nor should it be.
So what about those of us who have had set our names on RealID already (when Blizzard stated the information would only be shared with friends) and are now required to provide paperwork to Blizzard for any kind of name change on the account?
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Optifine gets regularly updated for the latest mod supported version which shouldn't be that far behind at the moment as it's been a while since 1.8's base release. The reason why most servers are still 1.7 at the moment is because 1.8 actually makes it near impossible for some existing mods to be updated. Mojang changed the way models are coded so that they have to be supplied by JSON for every possible state that includes a reference to the texture used. Consequently, any mod that used a single model for multiple blocks and just changed the texture now has to have a model file for every single possible combination of that model. The vanilla game's fire block has 20+ JSON files just to manage it's various states of setting blocks on fire. Then there were mods like Carpenter's Blocks that gave various model shapes and then applied the texture dynamically based on the texture of the block you used on it, including blocks from other mods. That's pretty much impossible now.
In some of these states, anyone undergoing gender reassignment as they make it incredibly hard, if not impossible to change your details on your legal ID from male to female or vice versa and so they are likely to be turned away for not having matching details.
I think you might notice how quickly your phone battery would drain if it was stream camera footage constantly. Same with tablets. Desktops work even when a web cam isn't plugged in. Laptops are a valid concern but these days there mostly just going to get either a) someone sitting in an office working or b) blackness because it's shut.
If it's like the Kinect, power will come directly from the XBox itself through a modified USB socket. Also, the XBox One is stated to not work without the Kinect 2.0 connected, even though you can supposedly turn the Kinect off... yeah... I totally trust that it's not doing anything >_>
The Mozilla tag in most UAs is a compatibility tag for the Mozilla rendering engine and in the case of IE, is a leftover from it's fight against Netscape. So in reality, it's never spoofed Firefox. Everything just spoofs Netscape.
Chrome was specifically written for ICS (Possibly Honeycomb but that was a pointless release anyway). It makes use of elements added by ICS that aren't available in Gingerbread and they weren't going to backport those elements when the whole point of Android was that you should of been able to update it for a lot longer than manufacturers actually bothered doing it. It's this reason I got a Nexus after having the original Galaxy and only being able to get Gingerbread when Honeycomb came out and then getting no other updates.
If you're running Gingerbread, you'll probably be able to find a Jelly Bean rom to use that isn't reliant on your phone manufacturers whims. If that's not an option, I'm sorry. You'll just have to make do until youcan upgrade :/
Ones I've seen this work with: Both 2011 and 2012's THQ bundles, 2012's SEGA bundle, the Potato Pack, the Valve Complete pack (Award during the Portal 2 ARG, even allowed you to send the copy of Portal 2 in it to a friend) and all the various 4 pack bundles.
Can you trade in Skyrim 360 or PS3? Yes.
How long do you think that'll last with consoles?
Also, in regards to your first paragraph about settings. Usually, a game will default to low settings for one of two reasons:
I've not had a game on PC in the past 4 years that has defaulted to low but then I have a currently very typical Intel CPU + nVidia GPU combo.
On top of what you have already suggested, there's most of the racing genre (though I'm still annoyed at Criterion for not having local multiplayer in Burnout Paradise), most of the sports genre, the Rock Band series, Uncharted, Gears of War, Halo, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, etc. Resistance doesn't have standard local multiplayer from what I can tell but it does have local co-op. That's some major series to have missed there.
Is it? Browsers are the only application I know that decided the 'document' controls should be inside the tab. Every other application we use with tab support puts the controls above the tabs. The reason Chrome did it differently was purely to save space but it doesn't make it any more or less intuitive that tabs below. Some people even prefer tabs to the side as that make the page a more vertical space on widescreen monitors. What is intuitive to one person may not be intuitive to another.
Videos that get the ad banners usually have them for one of two reasons.
These days Netbeans and Eclipse/Zend Studio are the most commonly used PHP IDEs as well as far as I'm aware.
Or you could use the start menu's search tool to skip some of the clicking by going Start > enter 'account' > click 'Change Your Password'
Or you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del and click 'Change a password'.
I could make Linux look like the complicated one too by picking the longest route but in reality, for most people, there wont be a difference in the speed they could achieve something one vs. the other if they had equivalent knowledge of those OSes.
Well, Windows (at least Vista and 7) sees user stuff as being in C:\users\[username]\ Programs are in C:\Program Files (admittedly this on x64 Windows this and ‘Program Files (x86)’ can confuse people). Although I do get annoyed at applications that default to installing outside this folder only to find that the same app on other OS's adheres to the folder conventions of that OS >_<.
The documents folder is a bit of an oddity as on XP it’s name was relative to which user was logged in (It was seen as My Documents or [username]’s Documents). Now though it’s just ‘Documents’. And the registry has always been a massive pain in the backside.
Speaking of confusing folders and Windows though, I still get confused about which is which when it comes to System, System32 and SysWOW64. Logic should say that they are the 16bit, 32bit and 64bit stuff respectively but no... SysWOW64 is for the 32 bit stuff and System32 is for the 64 bit stuff o_O
(Note: I know why the Windows folders are the way they are. That doesn't make it any less confusing)
They can compile it in less than 3Gb of RAM, just not with PGO. Chrome can't compile with PGO either and it's highly unlikely that many other large scale applications use PGO.
And?...
Of course Steam is going to have lots of 64 bit OS users. Lots of gamers will have/be upgrading to an i5 or i7 at the moment to make the most out of CPU intensive games and no matter whether you build it yourself or buy prebuilt, you'd want Win 7 64bit so you can make the most of that processor and the 8Gb of RAM you put in (because what's another £15 on the price).
Most Firefox users on the other hand probably don't play games on a PC outside of browser based games or solataire, or are using a netbook, or are using their PC at work where IT have probably bought the cheapest thing available from HP at the time of the last upgrade.
At least since 7.0, Firefox installs in the users local profile by default (AppData/local). I presume you can change it to work off the roaming profile instead but I've never needed to so haven't looked it up.
As a web developer who's currently in the process of building a complex B2B website, I can safely say you do not need to maintain 4 versions of any website. If you start with a good foundation (reset browser CSS, output clean XHTML1, use a JS library like prototype or jquery), you will find you almost never come across a browser specific problem and when you do, it's usually a minor adjustment to a CSS property to achieve the same output without triggering a bug. For example: using margin on child elements rather than padding on the parent element.
You can even use the HTML5 layout tags, such as header, footer, aside, section, etc., now in all browsers as long as you set their CSS display type to block before using them. This is because browsers will accept the tag and create an element with no definition for it, treating them like a CSS-less DIV tag, leaving you to do it in CSS.
Also, I'm yet to find much in the way of incompatibility between the browsers in regards to HTML. Yes, there is the Codec issue but that was an issue as soon as the idea of a video tag was thought of. If they accept the standard most use today it will lock people out of being able to implement the video tag (Mozilla for instance but also a lot of smaller browser developers) and in terms of the actual implementation of the tag itself, it is fairly well defined but now needs a decision to be made about codec support.
CSS is a little more browser specific at the moment but that is mainly because the W3C wants to see potential implementations of a CSS3 feature before they agree on a standard way of writing it (I believe they need at least two different implementations). Things like box-shadow and border-radius are close to a finished standard because Mozilla and Webkit wrote very similar implementations that work very well. Gradients on the other hand are still a mess as Mozilla and Webkit have differing ideas on possible implementations as well as whether to support RGBA in gradients and where in CSS to support gradients (currently it's only supported as a replacement for background-image). However, these are features that people can add to their site if they really want to experiment with them (they are progressive enhancements so don't cause problems in browsers that don't support them) but are generally suggested not to.
Although the main games are completely separate stories there are actually 2 consistent settings in the FF universe. There is the MMO setting (Giants, Elves, Cat People and their various backgrounds) and the Ivalice setting (Rabbit people, Sky Pirates, Lizard People, etc). Admittedly, by switching world but maintaining setting all FFXIV actually has is some races but no real background. Ivalice (used in Vagrant Story, FFTactics, FFTactics Advanced and FF12) has a lot more background and I personally think is the better setting.
FF11 was before WoW, I went from the European beta for FF11 (after US release and well after the Japanese release) to the US WoW beta so I'm certain of the timing. As for WoW's bugs, the thing is, the bugs were in terms of balance or abilities not working correctly, things that felt minor in comparison to FFXI's client repeatedly crashing, PlayOnline refusing to download an update from the server it had just connected to to check if there was an update. So yes, WoW was buggy, but you only noticed once you hit level 30+ whereas most other MMOs of the time (and FFXIV now) are buggy as hell before you even get into the game, so first impressions are much worse than for WoW.
The server doesn't even have a copy of the world map. Just some collision data so it can make occasional checks on a players location to make sure they are not out of bounds. It does however contain all the spawn points for enemies, npcs and some doodads (some are static and only the sparkle effect is controlled server side) and buildings (used for phasing purposes).
Stats are handled server side, as are all combat and spell actions (Mage Blink being another thing that uses the server's collision detection rather than the client's)
However, as of the Cataclysm installer, if you are playing while not completely installed a server does send you the data required for any model or map chunk requested specifically by the client (because it doesn't have a local copy) so any future public servers would have to break the streaming installer as the request would still be sent to the Blizzard servers. Which likely wont respond due to not using a valid account.
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How would you or the author of the addon have any idea whether the addon will work with any future update?
From what work I've done with Firefox addons (fixing one I was using after the author stopped supporting it), you can set a range of versions your addon supports but the vast majority of authors don't support versions that don't exist yet because they have no idea what Mozilla might need to change. These same authors generally check their code with the beta builds (and some with the nightly builds) and when THEY are happy that it works they'll bump up the version support and post an update.
Considering how much addons can change Firefox, I'd rather have it this way than what you are suggesting. Especially as I have had up to date addons break the entire UI before where the author had missed checking something like 'does it work if [X] toolbar isn't visible?'.
As for you Netscape comment, is it Netscape's problem that the website coder hasn't updated his code for the latest version? No. It's the website coder's problem and if he doesn't fix it people will go elsewhere. The same is true for addons.
Addons breaking on updates is due to one of three things. Either the author is still fixing the addon for the latest update (as it's just a small tweak if nothing is actually broken), the addon is no longer developed or you are using a nightly, in which case the author hasn't even had the chance to test their own addon yet, let alone fix it.
None of this is Mozilla's responsibility, nor should it be.
So what about those of us who have had set our names on RealID already (when Blizzard stated the information would only be shared with friends) and are now required to provide paperwork to Blizzard for any kind of name change on the account?