Selecting pictures or movies out of a directory is something I (and I imagine many other people) do all the time. As for your search example, I think most people just use a decent text editor that has that funcionality built in, without relying on arcane command line commands. Textmate has find in project, jEdit has hypersearch and all sorts of options, even SCiTE does find in directory.
I'd like to see you select the correct jpeg out of a directory of 500 without an icon preview.
Using a GUI also takes less learning and less mental effort. I'd be intersted to see actual timed comparisons of the two as well, I've read that command line users often think they are being quicker than GUI users, but acutally aren't because of the way the brain senses time.
I don't think I've ever noticed the AI cheat in AW:DS. Are you sure it wasn't using some other method to get money, like combining units? I think some of the COs have cheaper unit costs or powers that give them more cash, as well. It would be a shame if it did cheat, as otherwise the AI is pretty good.
To add another couple of anecdotes in an attempt to create some evidence, I know a bunch of Brit students who did the second year of their degrees at UNC and described it as being about two years behind, somewhere around A-level standard. Also, IIRC, the people on my degree course (Chem Eng) who did a year in the States had to do a lot of catch-up courses once they got back.
I've seen a lot of field archers drawing the string back to their cheek or ear, as it's can be easier to sight on a small or moving target at an unknown range like that. In fact, looking at some screenshots, Link seems to pull the bow to somewhere around his ear.
I've never wished for winter to come round more quickly before. Mario Galaxies, Zelda, Wii Sports and Metroid Prime 3 have me convinced this is probably the first console I will buy on launch day. Hopefully we'll see Pikmin 3 and Smash Brothers in mid 2007. Although, knowing Nintendo Europe, I'll probably have to wait until 2007 for a PAL Wii.
Come off it, he continued to access the poorly secured systems for two years without alerting anyone. He accessed military computers, looking for secret files until he got caught, with no apparent intention of reporting anything. What did he expect - a pat on the back and a box of chocolates?
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Agreed, Textmate is the only editor I use now, after years of cycling through everything from Vi(m), (X)Emacs, xedit, gedit, SCiTE to jEdit. Projects, snippets and completion, type-ahead find for filename completion, it has everything. The only annoyance is the slow performance of large projects on network volumes, but that should be fixed in the next version.
GNU are trying to do that with HURD. Of course, they've been trying for decades and haven't really acheived anything. According to the Wikipedia page, it seems to have taken them 15 years to get Hello World running.
Is the $60 (£50 here in the UK inc VAT!) price point really not affecting their sales as they claim? I don't own an XBox360, but I have a reasonable gaming budget and there is no way I'd pay that much for a game.
Exactly: they seem to think that because lots of people are buying consoles, mobile phone games will sell as well. But the market for mobile phone games is virtually the inverse of the 'gamer' market.
The main reason for their failure will always be the controls, IMHO. Phone keypads will never be good for gaming - even Snake on the old black and white Nokias was pushing the limits of controllability. The N-Gage, a mobile phone specifically designed for games, still had seriously crappy controls compared to the far cheaper GBA.
While it is true that there are much cheaper prices online, I have been finding recently that high street shops (UK) are catching up. I have bought several things recently for the same price or cheaper as online in a local department store, with a two year guarantee.
American food producers favour appearance over everything else, which is why they have a lot more additives in their food. Things like tomatoes in the US look fantastic but actually taste very bland.
Just to clear things up, which Linux GUI are you comparing to? KDE and GNOME are nowhere near OS X for appearance or stability, XFCE is uglier and has fewer features, and I can't imagine you're talking about any of the *boxes.
(post written from an Intel iMac which is more stable, easier to use, less buggy and faster than any of the Linux boxes I've had over the years)
I would imagine it's just a "Yes, we have the most important productivity app in the world too". I think for a lot of people in Apple's target market, no Office means no sale.
Please someone tell me this is a joke. Nintendo can't really be going from a memorable name like Revolution to something as stupid and ambiguous as "Wii". Do they not have a single English speaking person on their staff who could tell them how stupid that sounds?
I paid £15 for Let it Bleed like the muppet I was...
what's easier than popping a CD in the drive and typing "abcde" on the command line and letting it get on with it. It's even easier on Windows/MacOS: I can just stick the disk in and come back when I hear the "rip completed" sound. I guess that is a fairly minor point, especially given the download time for iTunes.
The problem I found with CDs was that they would gradually spread out around the house until I could never find what I wanted.
For me, I buy almost all my music on iTunes because:
- For most music, iTunes is significantly cheaper. Even for older music, often the classic albums from a band on CD are quite expensive - It's instant. I used to buy a lot of CDs at a cheap chain called Fopp, on iTunes I get generally lower prices without the hassle of searching the racks and fighting through the rows of students - It's easy to search and browse - I only listen to the music played from iPod or computer anyway - I don't have to store redundant plastic disks - I don't have to bother ripping the music - In extensive personal testing, I can't tell the difference between 128kpbs AAC and a CD
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Selecting pictures or movies out of a directory is something I (and I imagine many other people) do all the time. As for your search example, I think most people just use a decent text editor that has that funcionality built in, without relying on arcane command line commands. Textmate has find in project, jEdit has hypersearch and all sorts of options, even SCiTE does find in directory.
I'd like to see you select the correct jpeg out of a directory of 500 without an icon preview.
Using a GUI also takes less learning and less mental effort. I'd be intersted to see actual timed comparisons of the two as well, I've read that command line users often think they are being quicker than GUI users, but acutally aren't because of the way the brain senses time.
I don't think I've ever noticed the AI cheat in AW:DS. Are you sure it wasn't using some other method to get money, like combining units? I think some of the COs have cheaper unit costs or powers that give them more cash, as well. It would be a shame if it did cheat, as otherwise the AI is pretty good.
To add another couple of anecdotes in an attempt to create some evidence, I know a bunch of Brit students who did the second year of their degrees at UNC and described it as being about two years behind, somewhere around A-level standard.
Also, IIRC, the people on my degree course (Chem Eng) who did a year in the States had to do a lot of catch-up courses once they got back.
I've seen a lot of field archers drawing the string back to their cheek or ear, as it's can be easier to sight on a small or moving target at an unknown range like that. In fact, looking at some screenshots, Link seems to pull the bow to somewhere around his ear.
I've never wished for winter to come round more quickly before. Mario Galaxies, Zelda, Wii Sports and Metroid Prime 3 have me convinced this is probably the first console I will buy on launch day. Hopefully we'll see Pikmin 3 and Smash Brothers in mid 2007.
Although, knowing Nintendo Europe, I'll probably have to wait until 2007 for a PAL Wii.
Come off it, he continued to access the poorly secured systems for two years without alerting anyone. He accessed military computers, looking for secret files until he got caught, with no apparent intention of reporting anything. What did he expect - a pat on the back and a box of chocolates?
Agreed, Textmate is the only editor I use now, after years of cycling through everything from Vi(m), (X)Emacs, xedit, gedit, SCiTE to jEdit. Projects, snippets and completion, type-ahead find for filename completion, it has everything. The only annoyance is the slow performance of large projects on network volumes, but that should be fixed in the next version.
GNU are trying to do that with HURD. Of course, they've been trying for decades and haven't really acheived anything. According to the Wikipedia page, it seems to have taken them 15 years to get Hello World running.
Is the $60 (£50 here in the UK inc VAT!) price point really not affecting their sales as they claim? I don't own an XBox360, but I have a reasonable gaming budget and there is no way I'd pay that much for a game.
More like "scrub hands with scouring pad and bleach before going near iPod/PSP/DS Lite"
It's the name for the main commercial street in a UK town (Wikipedia article).
Exactly: they seem to think that because lots of people are buying consoles, mobile phone games will sell as well. But the market for mobile phone games is virtually the inverse of the 'gamer' market.
The main reason for their failure will always be the controls, IMHO. Phone keypads will never be good for gaming - even Snake on the old black and white Nokias was pushing the limits of controllability. The N-Gage, a mobile phone specifically designed for games, still had seriously crappy controls compared to the far cheaper GBA.
While it is true that there are much cheaper prices online, I have been finding recently that high street shops (UK) are catching up. I have bought several things recently for the same price or cheaper as online in a local department store, with a two year guarantee.
You can get to the supermarket, pick up a week's shopping, queue, pay for it and get home in 30 minutes? Do you live in an Asda or something?
American food producers favour appearance over everything else, which is why they have a lot more additives in their food. Things like tomatoes in the US look fantastic but actually taste very bland.
AFAIK, there is actually no legal right to take bank holidays off, it's just (like most things in Britain) a tradition.
Just to clear things up, which Linux GUI are you comparing to? KDE and GNOME are nowhere near OS X for appearance or stability, XFCE is uglier and has fewer features, and I can't imagine you're talking about any of the *boxes.
(post written from an Intel iMac which is more stable, easier to use, less buggy and faster than any of the Linux boxes I've had over the years)
I would imagine it's just a "Yes, we have the most important productivity app in the world too". I think for a lot of people in Apple's target market, no Office means no sale.
That's only because the awfulness of the name paled in comparison to the true awfulness of the film itself.
Evolution is still fairly buggy, even compared to Outlook. I found it always used to hang if the network connection went down, as well.
Isn't it best to choose a name that people can at least pronounce? Is that Wii as in Why, Wee or W2?
Please someone tell me this is a joke. Nintendo can't really be going from a memorable name like Revolution to something as stupid and ambiguous as "Wii". Do they not have a single English speaking person on their staff who could tell them how stupid that sounds?
I paid £15 for Let it Bleed like the muppet I was...
what's easier than popping a CD in the drive and typing "abcde" on the command line and letting it get on with it.
It's even easier on Windows/MacOS: I can just stick the disk in and come back when I hear the "rip completed" sound. I guess that is a fairly minor point, especially given the download time for iTunes.
The problem I found with CDs was that they would gradually spread out around the house until I could never find what I wanted.
For me, I buy almost all my music on iTunes because:
- For most music, iTunes is significantly cheaper. Even for older music, often the classic albums from a band on CD are quite expensive
- It's instant. I used to buy a lot of CDs at a cheap chain called Fopp, on iTunes I get generally lower prices without the hassle of searching the racks and fighting through the rows of students
- It's easy to search and browse
- I only listen to the music played from iPod or computer anyway
- I don't have to store redundant plastic disks
- I don't have to bother ripping the music
- In extensive personal testing, I can't tell the difference between 128kpbs AAC and a CD