. For the worst of the worst games (i.e. Custer's Revenge) I was thinking that the screenshot shows a cowboy shooting to the left an Indian to the right. But... the explanation is about pr0n. LOL....
I think we'll see a lot more MMORPGS come out, some come and go, because people want to interact with other human beings, not a bot, not a macro, not a program. I find a great sense of teamwork having 4-5 other humans from around the world,
*some* people - I find it a nuisance having to depend on others to before I can do things...
If there are addicts, then they are to blame for their addiction, pure and simple. The harsh fact is that they withdrew from the real world because they *wanted* to.
Except society generally doesn't accept that people become addicts - perhaps its something about humanism? Are there people addicted to EverQuest. Sure. Is it Sony's fault? No.
Are there people addicted to drugs? Sure. Is it the fault who the dealer? Naa, people chose to buy that, their own fault. Of course they may rob the rest of us.. ah.. THAT is why society goes after certain kinds of addiction, not because it has a humane view. I should have known.
What is more, the frustrations he describes about going through hoards of lower level monsterw with no reward, and frequent boss monsters with little or no reward is exactly in line with it as well. Far from lessening the players motivation, it strengthens it.
That would depend on the player, wouldn't it ? I tried EQ for a couple of weeks and found it supremly boring, something that goes on forever without any real kind of reward - (and getting a spell is not what i'd consider a reward)
Also, tools-> internet options-> general-> accessibility, then check "ignore font sizes specified in web pages" allows the 'text size' option in the view menu to work in IE 5.5
BUT it still uses the line spacing specified by the stylesheet! (one of the types, i think its px, can't remember off hand) Ie, the text ends up on top of each other.
I don't bookmark the bad sites (perhaps i should), but the front page of www.fox.com is an example of this, tick disable stylesheets, and change font size and you can see they still use a preset line spacing - its not that bad here, but some pages are totally unreadable.
You grow up. And use more precision in your sig. By your own statment the problem is not use, but misuse, of the stylesheets.
Oh yes, that'll work: "Use stylesheets properly" - who the hell is going to think "Oh yeah, I'm completely lame - all my stylesheets suck!" - everbody would think they are doing it wright. No, the current is better, it starts discussion and sometimes people actually learn something.
If I'm doing pages where I have side column text that is navigation oriented and the center is an article (which most have), I have the side text a fixed width font that is legible and the center text be something that is resizable
There is not ONE webmaster who would say "I have a side text in a font that is not legible"
Oh oh, now slashdot has done it - the linked to the newspaper Politikken - previously the danish newspapers have been after danish sites who liked to them. They said it was leeching on their work, and threathened court action - the small sites buckled down in fear then...
In Danish the word for a crown and for the currency is the same, though they don't mean the same. ie, its incorrect to call the currny crown, its Kroner (and not ment to be translated)
Style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser's "change font size" button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40. Respect the user's preferences and let them resize text as needed. Also, specify font sizes in relative terms -- not as an absolute number of pixels.
Damn it yes! Stop using absolute font sizes - use RELATIVE font sizes - lame web designers.
Yes, by all means - ignore accepted, documented, open standards in favor of some piece of crap software produced by a corrupt power-mad monopoly - that will make things so much better. What a load of crap.
Grow up kid, you are not the center of the universe.
Most webmasters (>90%) don't use stylesheets as they were intended, namely as a relative definition. They define all fonts as ABSOLUTE sizes, if you do that the font size can't be adjusted in Microsoft Internet Explorer - ie, if your sight, like mine, isn't 20/20 it can be hard to read a lot of pages. If they had designed them with just a little bit of care, and used relative font sizes instead, they would be scalable and readable. If you tell that to the webmasters they either don't know what you are talking about or tell you to get lost (in varying degrees of politeness)
>>but there are far to many serious sites where you MUST use MSIE or go away.
>Sorry, but these are not serious sites.
Depends on your definition of serious i guess, they know that 99% of their visitors use MSIE and the remainder are geeks and nerds and not that important to them.
Going away from such sites, after a well-worded letter to the webmaster and anyone else in the domain you can find, via whois if nothing else) is the onlycorrect action.
Which is all an amusing time wasting hobby, that doesn't change much.
I wouldn't be surprised that IE 7.0 will include controls to tightly control pop-over/pop-under ads, given that these ads do tend to hog system resources and slow the WWW surfing experience.
I may sound heartless here, but when people bitch about these ads, I feel little sympathy. There are other browsers (and products in general) out there that actually are built to protect the user. Yet people won't try anything new. Those who act like sheep shouldn't be suprised when they're lead to slaughter
Which is well and fine if you are some kid looking for porn, but there are far to many serious sites where you MUST use MSIE or go away.
Slashdot Mirror
It would have been filled with robots, lasers and naked babes ;o)
you'd be violating the terms of the current license
Except where are these so calle d'licenses' valid? Lawyers say they are not valid here in europe.
But more interesting that you
I'll be in my bunk!
. For the worst of the worst games (i.e. Custer's Revenge) I was thinking that the screenshot shows a cowboy shooting to the left an Indian to the right. But... the explanation is about pr0n. LOL....
Wanna try it?
I think we'll see a lot more MMORPGS come out, some come and go, because people want to interact with other human beings, not a bot, not a macro, not a program. I find a great sense of teamwork having 4-5 other humans from around the world,
*some* people - I find it a nuisance having to depend on others to before I can do things...
Yeah...good read. Of course, Diablo was doing it six years ago.
Thank you, now read it again and pay attention. Diablo never did this.
If there are addicts, then they are to blame for their addiction, pure and simple. The harsh fact is that they withdrew from the real world because they *wanted* to.
Except society generally doesn't accept that people become addicts - perhaps its something about humanism?
Are there people addicted to EverQuest. Sure. Is it Sony's fault? No.
Are there people addicted to drugs? Sure. Is it the fault who the dealer? Naa, people chose to buy that, their own fault. Of course they may rob the rest of us.. ah.. THAT is why society goes after certain kinds of addiction, not because it has a humane view. I should have known.
What is more, the frustrations he describes about going through hoards of lower level monsterw with no reward, and frequent boss monsters with little or no reward is exactly in line with it as well. Far from lessening the players motivation, it strengthens it.
That would depend on the player, wouldn't it ? I tried EQ for a couple of weeks and found it supremly boring, something that goes on forever without any real kind of reward - (and getting a spell is not what i'd consider a reward)
Welcome to Reality. I hope you enjoy your stay.
He doesn't! Why do you think he started playing Everquest in the first place?
Get a life
Also, tools-> internet options-> general-> accessibility, then check "ignore font sizes specified in web pages" allows the 'text size' option in the view menu to work in IE 5.5
BUT it still uses the line spacing specified by the stylesheet! (one of the types, i think its px, can't remember off hand) Ie, the text ends up on top of each other.
I don't bookmark the bad sites (perhaps i should), but the front page of www.fox.com is an example of this, tick disable stylesheets, and change font size and you can see they still use a preset line spacing - its not that bad here, but some pages are totally unreadable.
...we get quicktime codecs for Windows Media player!
You grow up. And use more precision in your sig. By your own statment the problem is not use, but misuse, of the stylesheets.
Oh yes, that'll work: "Use stylesheets properly" - who the hell is going to think "Oh yeah, I'm completely lame - all my stylesheets suck!" - everbody would think they are doing it wright. No, the current is better, it starts discussion and sometimes people actually learn something.
If I'm doing pages where I have side column text that is navigation oriented and the center is an article (which most have), I have the side text a fixed width font that is legible and the center text be something that is resizable
There is not ONE webmaster who would say "I have a side text in a font that is not legible"
Oh oh, now slashdot has done it - the linked to the newspaper Politikken - previously the danish newspapers have been after danish sites who liked to them. They said it was leeching on their work, and threathened court action - the small sites buckled down in fear then...
In Danish the word for a crown and for the currency is the same, though they don't mean the same. ie, its incorrect to call the currny crown, its Kroner (and not ment to be translated)
Style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser's "change font size" button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40.
Respect the user's preferences and let them resize text as needed. Also, specify font sizes in relative terms -- not as an absolute number of pixels.
Damn it yes! Stop using absolute font sizes - use RELATIVE font sizes - lame web designers.
Yes, by all means - ignore accepted, documented, open standards in favor of some piece of crap software produced by a corrupt power-mad monopoly - that will make things so much better. What a load of crap.
Grow up kid, you are not the center of the universe.
Most webmasters (>90%) don't use stylesheets as they were intended, namely as a relative definition. They define all fonts as ABSOLUTE sizes, if you do that the font size can't be adjusted in Microsoft Internet Explorer - ie, if your sight, like mine, isn't 20/20 it can be hard to read a lot of pages. If they had designed them with just a little bit of care, and used relative font sizes instead, they would be scalable and readable. If you tell that to the webmasters they either don't know what you are talking about or tell you to get lost (in varying degrees of politeness)
Kazaalite works just fine. Why switch?
Yeah, the authorities love it too, its soo easy to find your IP number and slap a fine on you.
All well and fine, but what do I do about "7th Legion"? It seems to require Direct X 5 and the graphics look weird under Direct anything else...
>>but there are far to many serious sites where you MUST use MSIE or go away.
>Sorry, but these are not serious sites.
Depends on your definition of serious i guess, they know that 99% of their visitors use MSIE and the remainder are geeks and nerds and not that important to them.
Going away from such sites, after a well-worded letter to the webmaster and anyone else in the domain you can find, via whois if nothing else) is the onlycorrect action.
Which is all an amusing time wasting hobby, that doesn't change much.
I wouldn't be surprised that IE 7.0 will include controls to tightly control pop-over/pop-under ads, given that these ads do tend to hog system resources and slow the WWW surfing experience.
I would.
I may sound heartless here, but when people bitch about these ads, I feel little sympathy. There are other browsers (and products in general) out there that actually are built to protect the user. Yet people won't try anything new. Those who act like sheep shouldn't be suprised when they're lead to slaughter
Which is well and fine if you are some kid looking for porn, but there are far to many serious sites where you MUST use MSIE or go away.
To my knowledge they have removed certain bundled components, not hacked the program. The individual use could remove them on his own (if he knew how)