OSX blows chunks period. It does what it does well because it's a "we don't have an option for that" operating system. The dock is only good for those who don't use it much - anyone who uses a lot of programs regularly needs something better.
Personally, I think Launchy is where it's at. Sure it's command line but it's fast, flexible, and easy.
Exactly - use X-Forwarded-For in ModifyHeaders to change the IP address - makes it look like you're using a proxy. Doesn't work with Hulu but does work with mtvservices and BBC for me.
I'd be one of them. Search box = new tab search show results, address bar = same tab I'm feeling lucky search. It's key functionality for me. What I'll probably have to do is install dozens of extensions to mash the UI back into something less annoying.
I'm right there with you. I'm sticking with FF3.6.x until end of life then off to Opera it is. I could care less about rapid release but the UI issues make FF4+ more of an annoyance than anything.
I don't know about the firmware but I went through a linksys router every 2-3 months on average - never longer than 9 months. D-Link didn't fair much better, Belkin was the same - couldn't handle the load.
I'd HIGHLY recommend http://www.routerboard.com/ - they're more expensive, ugly, and you need to build them yourself. With all that comes the most power, stability, and simple upgrade path combined with diagnostic firmware designed for ISPs for when something is causing trouble on your network. We were having all kinds of trouble with our internet, even after we unplugged our D-Link router. Our ISP sent us one of these, worked better than anything I've ever had before. We were able to figure out that it was a bad WAN port on our D-Link which was screwing up our radio transmitter (which is why it was still borked after removing the router from the equation)
Yes, because everything that flows across these so called "illegal sites" is copyrighted material and is illegal in every use. I'm not kidding myself that there's also a lot of copyright infringement going on but there's perfectly legitimate courses of actions those companies can take to get restitution. Their problem is that it's expensive, time consuming, and hard to prove in court so they want freedoms curtailed instead. I don't know how many times I could have taken various companies/corporations to court and won over their actions but of course it's too expensive, time consuming, and hard to prove in court for me.
More than that applications scale down to the lowest common connection speed. If that becomes 1Gbps then they could make some seriously amazing apps!
It's all for not though, greedy ISPs and their data caps make speeds irrelevant (as I sit on a 2Mbps connection which can only average 0.063Mbps due to extremely low data caps).
While platform specific, those numbers do give an indication of purchasing behaviour. The phone based market is slightly different in that the initial cost for these games is usually very low and the focus is on much smaller bits of content (a handful of levels for Angry Birds as an example). A $1 "microtransaction" purchase on a $2.99 game will result in much higher % of income for the software houses even if the purchasing patterns are similar to those found on a specific platform. There will obviously be differences between the two as the console market is far different than the phone market in terms of the types of customers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers are only 5-10% different in terms of % of adoption of a specific DLC.
Gears of War - absolutely huge title, ~71.5% of 360 gamers have started it. Yet only ~18.6% of those who have it also started the 'Hidden Fronts' DLC.
M*cro-transactions are also a bit of a red-herring. They often are able to rack up large dollar values but there's very little information as to whether there's large scale adoption overall or whether a small group of people are spending an inordinately large amount on a single title. Take Age of Empires Online as an example, using the same data set ~2.2% players have started the game. ~16.4% of those have started the 'Greek' premium pack ($20), ~6.2% the 'Egyptian' premium pack ($20) and ~0.2% the 'Crete' booster pack ($10).
Disclaimer: these numbers will be somewhat skewed as some may have purchase the game or DLC but never 'started' it ie: earned an achievement in it. And is also skewed to those who go after achievements. Sample size, 154,336. Sourice: http://www.trueachievements.com/
My favourite to date is Age of Empires Online. Shows you all this "great" content you're missing (forcing some of it to stay in your few inventory slots) and tells you exactly which thing you need to buy to "unlock" it. Better yet, they create achievements which require the purchase of this content to provide further "incentive" to purchase.
When looking at the content provided vs previous AoEs, AoE:O will actually cost about $400 for the same content and all the content will disappear once the servers are shut off (game requires an always online connection and is an RTS with a persistent city which is nothing more than window dressing). Previously you could pop in your disc and play any time.
$eason Passes are my personal favourite in the latest m*cro-transaction world where it's a fixed price for 6 months of content that's yours forever! (forever meaning until they shut off the servers a few years from now). They give a % of savings associated with it - unfortunately they can pretty much release anything they want and put any price on it to fulfill that obligation. Announced content could be delayed and replaced with anything they deem appropriate.
How there aren't consumer protection laws against this sort of thing I'll never understand.
That's a great idea. I'd add to that, not to treat them like idiots - it's amazing at what a second grader can understand. I know I was amazed with the stuff my nephew came out with.
I know so many offices which tried the upgrade to Office 2007 and reverted to 2003 due to the ongoing productivity loss.
Ribbons don't make sense because the human brain likes patterns. The 2003 style was a clear pattern, each button was the same size, groupings of similar typed commands where closely grouped with spaces on each side and the most commonly used buttons were on either end of the interface. Ribbons are various colours/shapes/sizes in each program and have little to no patterning other than the buttons they think you'll use the most are big.
Ribbons just look like jumbled clutter to me - they get closed immediately.
I don't know a single user that fits that "typical" though I'm sure they exist in droves.
The users I know
1) 50+ tabs open at all times the browser never gets shut down unless there's a problem. This is the type of person who uses tabs as a way of storing what they'd like to read at some point or are doing research and need to draw from a lot of sources. They typically know search engines well enough to use them but not well enough to find the same thing twice.
2) One tab only, they could switch to Netscape Navigator and be just fine
3) Hammers youtube constantly. Browser based games (ie: heavy flash/java use). These are usually kids
4) Opens/closes tabs fast an furiously - rarely ever uses the back/forward button instead would rather open a new tab and redownload it. Doesn't shut down the browser because it takes too long to load. Geeks mostly.
The issue isn't his use-case - the browser should be subjected to severe test cases like that to look for bugs that may go unnoticed in standard usage tests but inevitably affect those users as well.
The limitation should always be the hardware, never the software.
I regularly hit 1.4-1.6gb RAM usage with as few as 3 tabs open and that generally causes my system to become unstable and results in a shutdown of Firefox. I guarantee part of it is extensions but I see similar behaviour in machines without extensions. I've also seen the CPU bugs where it hits 100% and stays there. Typically these days it's been taking 25% even after all tabs have been closed. I still experience crashes without talkback, hang-ups that require a process kill, and an endless number of "invalid" flags on my bug reports despite jumping through every hoop they ask of me.
Futurepower is dead on with the triage responses and what they really mean.
Yes, because she's so likely to know that IV was the abbreviation of luppiter (Jupiter) and is believed to have been left off Roman clocks because of it. Knowing this fact she actively chose to use the clock-face format as not to offend Jupiter.
Or
They're not roman numerals and they're just marks on the wall which likely represent numbers in a code.
She doesn't tug on the pipes she triggers a secret panel located up and left of the section of wall with the code on it. She was sitting there thinking about the code and finally solved it.
I'm not positive about the code but it looks similar to either a form of Nihilist transformation, some sort of remainder based calculation with substitutions (akin to RSA just simplified), or a grid map of the room and there's a significance to the underlined 2 and 4. Cryptography is not my strong suit though...
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OSX blows chunks period. It does what it does well because it's a "we don't have an option for that" operating system. The dock is only good for those who don't use it much - anyone who uses a lot of programs regularly needs something better.
Personally, I think Launchy is where it's at. Sure it's command line but it's fast, flexible, and easy.
Exactly - use X-Forwarded-For in ModifyHeaders to change the IP address - makes it look like you're using a proxy. Doesn't work with Hulu but does work with mtvservices and BBC for me.
uhh you don't need a VPS to watch BBC. ModifyHeaders extension in Firefox works just fine.
I'd be one of them. Search box = new tab search show results, address bar = same tab I'm feeling lucky search. It's key functionality for me. What I'll probably have to do is install dozens of extensions to mash the UI back into something less annoying.
I'm right there with you. I'm sticking with FF3.6.x until end of life then off to Opera it is. I could care less about rapid release but the UI issues make FF4+ more of an annoyance than anything.
What's a Firefox 6? I only know of Firefox 3.6.23 /s
I don't know about the firmware but I went through a linksys router every 2-3 months on average - never longer than 9 months. D-Link didn't fair much better, Belkin was the same - couldn't handle the load.
I'd HIGHLY recommend http://www.routerboard.com/ - they're more expensive, ugly, and you need to build them yourself. With all that comes the most power, stability, and simple upgrade path combined with diagnostic firmware designed for ISPs for when something is causing trouble on your network. We were having all kinds of trouble with our internet, even after we unplugged our D-Link router. Our ISP sent us one of these, worked better than anything I've ever had before. We were able to figure out that it was a bad WAN port on our D-Link which was screwing up our radio transmitter (which is why it was still borked after removing the router from the equation)
Yes, because everything that flows across these so called "illegal sites" is copyrighted material and is illegal in every use. I'm not kidding myself that there's also a lot of copyright infringement going on but there's perfectly legitimate courses of actions those companies can take to get restitution. Their problem is that it's expensive, time consuming, and hard to prove in court so they want freedoms curtailed instead. I don't know how many times I could have taken various companies/corporations to court and won over their actions but of course it's too expensive, time consuming, and hard to prove in court for me.
It's in development. It's called Carmageddon: Reincarnation
*Pulls out Carmageddon, Quarantine, etc* and starts killing civilians... ooo and I get stuff for it too!
[waits a bit]
Nope, no grappling with reality, no murderous feelings... a little nostalgia maybe... and I really want them to re-make Quarantine.
More than that applications scale down to the lowest common connection speed. If that becomes 1Gbps then they could make some seriously amazing apps!
It's all for not though, greedy ISPs and their data caps make speeds irrelevant (as I sit on a 2Mbps connection which can only average 0.063Mbps due to extremely low data caps).
While platform specific, those numbers do give an indication of purchasing behaviour. The phone based market is slightly different in that the initial cost for these games is usually very low and the focus is on much smaller bits of content (a handful of levels for Angry Birds as an example). A $1 "microtransaction" purchase on a $2.99 game will result in much higher % of income for the software houses even if the purchasing patterns are similar to those found on a specific platform. There will obviously be differences between the two as the console market is far different than the phone market in terms of the types of customers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers are only 5-10% different in terms of % of adoption of a specific DLC.
Here's an example of what I mean:
Gears of War - absolutely huge title, ~71.5% of 360 gamers have started it. Yet only ~18.6% of those who have it also started the 'Hidden Fronts' DLC.
M*cro-transactions are also a bit of a red-herring. They often are able to rack up large dollar values but there's very little information as to whether there's large scale adoption overall or whether a small group of people are spending an inordinately large amount on a single title. Take Age of Empires Online as an example, using the same data set ~2.2% players have started the game. ~16.4% of those have started the 'Greek' premium pack ($20), ~6.2% the 'Egyptian' premium pack ($20) and ~0.2% the 'Crete' booster pack ($10).
Disclaimer: these numbers will be somewhat skewed as some may have purchase the game or DLC but never 'started' it ie: earned an achievement in it. And is also skewed to those who go after achievements. Sample size, 154,336. Sourice: http://www.trueachievements.com/
DLC sales are tiny in comparison to game sales.
My favourite to date is Age of Empires Online. Shows you all this "great" content you're missing (forcing some of it to stay in your few inventory slots) and tells you exactly which thing you need to buy to "unlock" it. Better yet, they create achievements which require the purchase of this content to provide further "incentive" to purchase.
When looking at the content provided vs previous AoEs, AoE:O will actually cost about $400 for the same content and all the content will disappear once the servers are shut off (game requires an always online connection and is an RTS with a persistent city which is nothing more than window dressing). Previously you could pop in your disc and play any time.
$eason Passes are my personal favourite in the latest m*cro-transaction world where it's a fixed price for 6 months of content that's yours forever! (forever meaning until they shut off the servers a few years from now). They give a % of savings associated with it - unfortunately they can pretty much release anything they want and put any price on it to fulfill that obligation. Announced content could be delayed and replaced with anything they deem appropriate.
How there aren't consumer protection laws against this sort of thing I'll never understand.
That's a great idea. I'd add to that, not to treat them like idiots - it's amazing at what a second grader can understand. I know I was amazed with the stuff my nephew came out with.
I know so many offices which tried the upgrade to Office 2007 and reverted to 2003 due to the ongoing productivity loss.
Ribbons don't make sense because the human brain likes patterns. The 2003 style was a clear pattern, each button was the same size, groupings of similar typed commands where closely grouped with spaces on each side and the most commonly used buttons were on either end of the interface. Ribbons are various colours/shapes/sizes in each program and have little to no patterning other than the buttons they think you'll use the most are big.
Ribbons just look like jumbled clutter to me - they get closed immediately.
I don't know a single user that fits that "typical" though I'm sure they exist in droves.
The users I know
1) 50+ tabs open at all times the browser never gets shut down unless there's a problem. This is the type of person who uses tabs as a way of storing what they'd like to read at some point or are doing research and need to draw from a lot of sources. They typically know search engines well enough to use them but not well enough to find the same thing twice.
2) One tab only, they could switch to Netscape Navigator and be just fine
3) Hammers youtube constantly. Browser based games (ie: heavy flash/java use). These are usually kids
4) Opens/closes tabs fast an furiously - rarely ever uses the back/forward button instead would rather open a new tab and redownload it. Doesn't shut down the browser because it takes too long to load. Geeks mostly.
#2 is the only one Firefox does well.
The issue isn't his use-case - the browser should be subjected to severe test cases like that to look for bugs that may go unnoticed in standard usage tests but inevitably affect those users as well.
The limitation should always be the hardware, never the software.
I regularly hit 1.4-1.6gb RAM usage with as few as 3 tabs open and that generally causes my system to become unstable and results in a shutdown of Firefox. I guarantee part of it is extensions but I see similar behaviour in machines without extensions. I've also seen the CPU bugs where it hits 100% and stays there. Typically these days it's been taking 25% even after all tabs have been closed. I still experience crashes without talkback, hang-ups that require a process kill, and an endless number of "invalid" flags on my bug reports despite jumping through every hoop they ask of me.
Futurepower is dead on with the triage responses and what they really mean.
the data were not faked... really?
Nope,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilist_cipher
Yes, because she's so likely to know that IV was the abbreviation of luppiter (Jupiter) and is believed to have been left off Roman clocks because of it. Knowing this fact she actively chose to use the clock-face format as not to offend Jupiter.
Or
They're not roman numerals and they're just marks on the wall which likely represent numbers in a code.
They aren't Roman numerals - IIII would be expressed as IV if that were the case.
She doesn't tug on the pipes she triggers a secret panel located up and left of the section of wall with the code on it. She was sitting there thinking about the code and finally solved it.
I'm not positive about the code but it looks similar to either a form of Nihilist transformation, some sort of remainder based calculation with substitutions (akin to RSA just simplified), or a grid map of the room and there's a significance to the underlined 2 and 4. Cryptography is not my strong suit though...