Long lines I can track just fine... Moving too a new line takes me a bunch of seconds, because if I don't follow carefully what I'm doing I mix all the lines up in a random order and confusion results. Still nowhere near the pain of trying to read black text on a white background. But its up there.
Even compact mode is horribly verbose and wasteful of available space. Way too much white space. The insanity inducingly narrow content design is made twice as bad by a massive 2nd column eating into much of the sparse space given for content. The old design was already irritating for only featuring 4 or 5 articles per scroll. The new brings this down too 2. Turning browsing into a terrible scrolling finger chore.
I would like to point out that all such racist stereotyping is unacceptable. Regardless weather you employ "cute" usage of quotation marks around proper nouns or not.
At no point should it be acceptable that/anybodies/ ethnic or racial background be a synonym for 'criminal'
(please don't mod me deep beneath the abyss... This needs to be said)
I've run a Lord of the Rings Online guild website with forum for many years.
Eventually I set the first input field on the registration page to a combo box for players to enter the class of their character. The first and default entry is 'Scammer'... Any restration attempts that choose this get auto banned. Not had a single piece of forum spam ever since.
Probably the same person who decided that any weapon more elaborate than a kitchen knife, can be legally classed as a weapon of mass destruction. Or terrorism now being most of the way thru a transition to being able to be determined at the prosecutors descretion for a simple, non-issue pubic order offense. Where currently going thru in the uk. Is a law to make saying anything that/may/ offend or cause offense to anybody else. A public order offense. Dissagreeing with a politician would count. As the politician/could/ be offended. And as a public figure is seen as needing the most protection.
All this put together. The UK is only a few steps from any kind of dissent or political activism. Regardless how soft and gentle. Can arbitrarily become a crime of terrorism, at somebody elses discretion. Without any checks or balances once the T law is invoked.
This is why I installed Debian on my Galaxy S3 as its primary OS.
Sure, it took a whie to sourcebuild a local repo. Compiled to take full advantage of the S3 hardware.... Looking at a 200-300% performance boost vs the standard packages in the Deb7 armhf repo... So worth the trouble is looking to do serious work without eating the battery.
This resulted from trying to use the device for serious computing tasks. And spending more time being driven insane by figuring how to work round android limitations than actually achiving a thing, Cyanogens installed in a chroot. Incase of the odd chance I may one day have to make a phone call (never happened yet)
Pretty much this. There are a lot of people after a good emulator experience. Not to mention all the fun, novel indie gems that will be excluded from xbox by ms publishing stratergy.
People who want to play Clone of Duty 46 will get an xbox.... People looking for fun, novel experiences that dont cost the earth will get an Ouya. The real thing that will determine the ultimate fate of the Ouya are not technical specs, or even the dross of noobie coders cracking their teeth. It will most likely come down to the management of its online store. And ability to easily distinguish said indie wonders from the fart app wannabies.
It would. If the article were not about Xbox and Playstation.
An article focused on Vita and DS sales vs IOS would be more relevant. Given these are all mobile devices competing for space in the backpack.
The real problem is that a locked down consumption device the size and cost of a comparably specced gaming machine simply is not relevent to todays world.
Not unless a radical new battery technology becomes ubiquitous first. People would notice when their devices are bled dry in the time it takes to find what they want on the site.
Which might have been the case back in the 90's. Back then I had an Ericson unit that needed the time and date resetting if the battery was removed. The only reason numbers were safe is because they were saved to the sim card itself.
But nowadays it's all saved to an internal flash part.
They reduce the difficulty to compensate. I'd imagion those cheap bluetooth pad you can buy off ebay introduce latency too.
IMHO, the only realistic way to get a close to genuine NES experience is with attaching physical controlls somewhere. It's USB latency, but still a hair ahead of Bluetooth latency.
I've had one of these since they were released in Europe last December. I'm not sure whats with all the hate. Out of the small army of handheld Android based gaming devices now on the market. It's the nicest by far.
It has to be the best handheld gaming experience I've had in my life. It's also the only tablet form device I've found a pleasurable experience to use.
Using emulators, it can comfortably run everything from the PS1 backwards with perfect speed. Emulators are where it really shines. If your aim is to relive endless rounds of Sonic the Hedghog of PS1 era rpg's. Then it could'nt be more perfect.
Not tried it with anything actualy android based yet. Purely because there are no games on the Android market that excite me when compared to the 3 decades of retro gaming classics at my fingertips.
If your handy with a soldering iron. The battery is a 15min job to fix too. Excuse my gushing. It's not often I'm so happy with a modern tech purchase.
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I guess its a personal thing.
Long lines I can track just fine... Moving too a new line takes me a bunch of seconds, because if I don't follow carefully what I'm doing I mix all the lines up in a random order and confusion results. Still nowhere near the pain of trying to read black text on a white background. But its up there.
Very much this.
Even compact mode is horribly verbose and wasteful of available space.
Way too much white space. The insanity inducingly narrow content design is made twice as bad by a massive 2nd column eating into much of the sparse space given for content.
The old design was already irritating for only featuring 4 or 5 articles per scroll. The new brings this down too 2. Turning browsing into a terrible scrolling finger chore.
Myself being a Rromani Traveller.
I would like to point out that all such racist stereotyping is unacceptable. Regardless weather you employ "cute" usage of quotation marks around proper nouns or not.
At no point should it be acceptable that /anybodies/ ethnic or racial background be a synonym for 'criminal'
(please don't mod me deep beneath the abyss... This needs to be said)
And its not dangerous at all for testicles.
Even though they're sat on, bounced around on. etc.
And what science is there to demonstrate that planetary orbits and spacetime concepts required to support such things would work in a 4d universe.
It would likely be some comletely inconcievable order of who knows what operating there,
I've found 100% success with a unique solution.
I've run a Lord of the Rings Online guild website with forum for many years.
Eventually I set the first input field on the registration page to a combo box for players to enter the class of their character. ... Any restration attempts that choose this get auto banned.
The first and default entry is 'Scammer'
Not had a single piece of forum spam ever since.
Probably the same person who decided that any weapon more elaborate than a kitchen knife, can be legally classed as a weapon of mass destruction. /may/ offend or cause offense to anybody else. A public order offense. Dissagreeing with a politician would count. As the politician /could/ be offended. And as a public figure is seen as needing the most protection.
Or terrorism now being most of the way thru a transition to being able to be determined at the prosecutors descretion for a simple, non-issue pubic order offense. Where currently going thru in the uk. Is a law to make saying anything that
All this put together. The UK is only a few steps from any kind of dissent or political activism. Regardless how soft and gentle. Can arbitrarily become a crime of terrorism, at somebody elses discretion. Without any checks or balances once the T law is invoked.
Only if it includes the original Turn to Page 6 copy protection and none of the copies include the manual.
This is why I installed Debian on my Galaxy S3 as its primary OS.
Sure, it took a whie to sourcebuild a local repo. Compiled to take full advantage of the S3 hardware.... Looking at a 200-300% performance boost vs the standard packages in the Deb7 armhf repo... So worth the trouble is looking to do serious work without eating the battery.
This resulted from trying to use the device for serious computing tasks. And spending more time being driven insane by figuring how to work round android limitations than actually achiving a thing, Cyanogens installed in a chroot. Incase of the odd chance I may one day have to make a phone call (never happened yet)
Just add a bluetooth keyboard and your rolling
Pretty much this.
There are a lot of people after a good emulator experience.
Not to mention all the fun, novel indie gems that will be excluded from xbox by ms publishing stratergy.
People who want to play Clone of Duty 46 will get an xbox.... People looking for fun, novel experiences that dont cost the earth will get an Ouya.
The real thing that will determine the ultimate fate of the Ouya are not technical specs, or even the dross of noobie coders cracking their teeth. It will most likely come down to the management of its online store. And ability to easily distinguish said indie wonders from the fart app wannabies.
Is that allowing for the 90% thats either Ocean, Jungle or Ice?
It would. If the article were not about Xbox and Playstation.
An article focused on Vita and DS sales vs IOS would be more relevant. Given these are all mobile devices competing for space in the backpack.
The real problem is that a locked down consumption device the size and cost of a comparably specced gaming machine simply is not relevent to todays world.
Sup Dawg. I heard you like planes. So I put a plane in your plane, so you can fly while you fly.
Not unless a radical new battery technology becomes ubiquitous first.
People would notice when their devices are bled dry in the time it takes to find what they want on the site.
I'd imagion the level of developer worth 30k, also has the smarts to >/dev/null the taxibility of their income.
...Like a connectivity requirement only accessible to a minority fraction of your target demographic.
Except its the current thats more dangerous in this situation than the voltage.
As the early Nintendo days can attest.
I think economic growth is a very poor metric for longterm success of any society.
Your evolving the fitness of the society based on a concept of infinite growth in a finite system.
It's closer to Schizophrenia than progress.
Thats why you should only buy cheap chineese import batteries.
Because they watch the watchers.
Which might have been the case back in the 90's.
Back then I had an Ericson unit that needed the time and date resetting if the battery was removed.
The only reason numbers were safe is because they were saved to the sim card itself.
But nowadays it's all saved to an internal flash part.
Fortunately I am rendered immune by never having heard a single song or artist that was listed.
I went by the instructions in this post here http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=2792&p=22293#p22293
Getting 6 hours usage under typical loads is realistic.
But does depend on the actual replacement and how hard the device is working.
They reduce the difficulty to compensate.
I'd imagion those cheap bluetooth pad you can buy off ebay introduce latency too.
IMHO, the only realistic way to get a close to genuine NES experience is with attaching physical controlls somewhere.
It's USB latency, but still a hair ahead of Bluetooth latency.
I've had one of these since they were released in Europe last December.
I'm not sure whats with all the hate.
Out of the small army of handheld Android based gaming devices now on the market. It's the nicest by far.
It has to be the best handheld gaming experience I've had in my life.
It's also the only tablet form device I've found a pleasurable experience to use.
Using emulators, it can comfortably run everything from the PS1 backwards with perfect speed.
Emulators are where it really shines. If your aim is to relive endless rounds of Sonic the Hedghog of PS1 era rpg's. Then it could'nt be more perfect.
Not tried it with anything actualy android based yet. Purely because there are no games on the Android market that excite me when compared to the 3 decades of retro gaming classics at my fingertips.
If your handy with a soldering iron. The battery is a 15min job to fix too.
Excuse my gushing. It's not often I'm so happy with a modern tech purchase.