The ability to chose your install location in Google Earth (you can in the pro version, not in the free version)
and it can't find your browser if it isn't called iexplorer.exe and is located in the usual places.
And etc etc.
I suppose its clever they have made this embeddable thing, but I think they should have created a Google Earth URL a long time ago, people just could link to a place on earth in a link instead of forcing people to host a kml file.
... that he had found Elvis alive and well, that he had adopted a unicorn and started trade negotiations with alpha centuri 5 (during which he realized the moon really is made of cheese)
None of them have yet understood that it has to be good in ALL aspects - not just the game play (though that helps!) but also details, for instance they NEED an interface which can be customized as much as Wow can - no way in hell I'll ever go back to a game where i can't increase the font to readability (not being a 16 year old with hawk eyes) - and most players will have something they say is important and Blizzard has just about catered for all of it. WoW has been designed to be less hard on old computers, none of the new ones are - the freaks will upgrade perhaps, but the millions will stay with a program that works on their machine.
Blizzard are just waiting for the two others to poke their head out of the bushes and then they'll chop them off.
Age of Conan may have asked for payment for 700000 licenses (you can't sell something which the payee does not own) but most of them will leave in droves when the next Warcraft expansion comes out later this year.
Conan will be lucky if he has 70000 barbarians to play with in a year.
Of course flash is still an abomination making it difficult for many people to use the web (try making most fonts larger to read them, or have such sites read out by voice software)
"Describing the effects as 'average' is a bit of an exaggeration - they were absolutely terrible.
Actually the effects were "state of the art". Just that they were nearly 30 years ago."
Yes they were state of the art 30 years before they made the series.
15 year old Star Trek had better effects, but then it has always seemed to me that BBC's special effects has always been really really really really lousy. Its only lately when they could afford to buy a computer and hire some render guy that some of it actually comes close to looking good.
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So you are saying they are not evil by mistake but by design?
When you download the rubbish Google installs an update, and an update service
Wow, guess the days of Google as a friend is well and truly over.
The ability to chose your install location in Google Earth (you can in the pro version, not in the free version)
and it can't find your browser if it isn't called iexplorer.exe and is located in the usual places.
And etc etc.
I suppose its clever they have made this embeddable thing, but I think they should have created a Google Earth URL a long time ago, people just could link to a place on earth in a link instead of forcing people to host a kml file.
It doesn't prevent the industry from trying over and over though.
"I don't want to call you a liar, "
Sure you do - you just did. Now get back to Redmond guy.
What code in dell motherboards?
... that he had found Elvis alive and well, that he had adopted a unicorn and started trade negotiations with alpha centuri 5 (during which he realized the moon really is made of cheese)
And Google will win, since they are not promoting crime.
I'll wait for the crack.
when lawyers claim copyright violation! So Copyright is a bigger threat than terrorists!
Good thinking adam. You could post some comments in your journal, we could keep an eye on that :)
I'd be ten times as sick if I started to write it down!
(And I'm not really sure G$$gle is my friend any longer, more like an acquaintance of some value)
You play other things, you have other hobbies - its not a question of having time - its a question of you choosing other things to spend your time on.
But it'll still take them forever to do it - that's also Blizzard
None of them have yet understood that it has to be good in ALL aspects - not just the game play (though that helps!) but also details, for instance they NEED an interface which can be customized as much as Wow can - no way in hell I'll ever go back to a game where i can't increase the font to readability (not being a 16 year old with hawk eyes) - and most players will have something they say is important and Blizzard has just about catered for all of it. WoW has been designed to be less hard on old computers, none of the new ones are - the freaks will upgrade perhaps, but the millions will stay with a program that works on their machine.
Blizzard are just waiting for the two others to poke their head out of the bushes and then they'll chop them off.
Age of Conan may have asked for payment for 700000 licenses (you can't sell something which the payee does not own) but most of them will leave in droves when the next Warcraft expansion comes out later this year.
Conan will be lucky if he has 70000 barbarians to play with in a year.
High precision lawsuits incoming ;)
Its also completely boring to most people. Dirty water! Enough already.
No I didn't.
... they think Silverlight is a threat.
Of course flash is still an abomination making it difficult for many people to use the web (try making most fonts larger to read them, or have such sites read out by voice software)
"Did you even watch the last season of BSG?"
Hell no, stupid amoral evil creeps in a sick environment. When i started rooting for the cylons to blow up the ship I quit!
"Describing the effects as 'average' is a bit of an exaggeration - they were absolutely terrible.
Actually the effects were "state of the art". Just that they were nearly 30 years ago."
Yes they were state of the art 30 years before they made the series.
15 year old Star Trek had better effects, but then it has always seemed to me that BBC's special effects has always been really really really really lousy. Its only lately when they could afford to buy a computer and hire some render guy that some of it actually comes close to looking good.
Yeah, tell me if he tells you :)
No more "activation" - I doubt Microsoft has the moral fiber to disable activation in their last patch.
Its a leaf in the forest.
Obviously i have flash disabled.
So "obviously" i can't even see their website.
Good work there.