True, but anime/game titles aimed at little kids tend not to follow proper Japanese grammar. Then again, it's trendy to break grammar conventions in English too for marketing reasons: "Think different" and "You've got mail" spring to mind.
And Babelfish is only good for entertainment value in translating Asian text.
Yeah, Google solicits criticism and bug reports during their interminable beta periods. I was mainly drawing attention to the whining that pervades blogs and discussion boards because people rely on a beta service for functionality. When something goes wrong, of course, people shrug and say "it's beta, what do you expect?"
I've heard that the story involves you rolling up things to appease fans (because Everybody Loves Katamari Damacy) instead of to replace the stars/moon in the sky.
Early movies have suggested that actual gameplay is very very similar to the original.
P.S. Please write some bullshit article in Wired explaining that Google maps can "never come out of beta" for some legal reason. that worked flawlessly for Google News.
"...and users now have the ability to use some new snazzy rich text formatting features including fonts, bullets, colors, and highlighting. "
Geez...just what we need. Email should be plain text...you are just wasting bandwith with all the rich text crap.
Geez...thought it was bad enough with trying to get idiots using MS Outlook to quit putting crappy wallpaper on their emails...not to mention the other stuff. You get a 2 line email, that is like 1.5MB+ in size with all the formatting crap, dancing images....etc.
Good news! Google has automatically opted you in to this valuable new feature! You can opt out by mucking around inside the about:config screen.
If any other company besides Google had opted you into such a bandwidth-sucking feature with no end-user-friendly way to disable it, Slashdot discussions would have been unwaveringly negative.
Wow. It's almost like different groups of people are allowed to express different opinions.
Fox Broadcasting, for example, has aired "Cops" for the last 15+ years. That's a show basically designed to glorify law enforcement by showing what real cops do. More recently they aired tons of "World's Wildest Police Chases" shows that all end with Sgt. John Bunnell spouting some catch phrase about how crime doesn't pay. At the same time, some of their comedy shows (particularly The Simpsons) include police-officer characters that are very stupid.
Hey, a TV network is creating a diverse portfolio of shows that do not all parrot the company line. Someone call Jon Stewart quick!
Three of the levels have "Eternal" modes. If you get your katamari up to a certain size, you unlock "Eternal mode" where you can play the level for as long as you like.
I forget the exact figures needed to unlock Eternal modes, but it's something like 600m on Make the Moon. Once you've rolled up EVERYTHING, there's a theoretical maximum size of about 900m on that level.
Out of those 4,513,561 people, how many of them have logged in successfully more than once in the last N days? Google doesn't make a distinction between "user" and "active user," so your numerical comparison is about as valid as AIM's claim that they have 400 million users in their system.
As a US internet user, I sort of expect Google's sites to work well in my country. To Americans, Orkut is dead and its US users (all X million of them) don't log in any more.
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod mini, he proudly declared that nobody actually uses flash-based MP3 players; everyone who buys them "just sticks them in a drawer."
Less than a year later, Apple unveiled a player with the same feature set as 2002's Creativo MuVo. It was hailed as a great new product by Steve Jobs and the Apple faithful.
I for one cannot wait until Apple invents the two-button mouse.
Orkut is pretty much dead. It is without question the least-reliable, worst-maintained, most-ignored beta that Google has ever released. The interface doesn't even have anything to suggest it's a Google property other than the "in association with Google" tag at the bottom, which is non-evil-speak for "a Google employee wrote this, so we own it."
Orkut is a very poor Friendster clone that has had server problems from day one. The only reason why it gets any press is because of the small-print "association with Google."
Lisandro: You and your "second mouse button." Apple Zealot: What about it? Lisandro: Oh, nothing. It's cute. We have five. generic-man: Th... thousand. Lisandro: Yes, five thousand. generic-man: Don't question it! Apple Zealot: Oh, really? Well I only see one. Lisandro: Well that sounds like a personal problem.
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Why in the hell do you need an RSS aggregator in your web browser? That's almost as preposterous as needing a mail client or an HTML editor bundled in. A web browser is great at viewing documents; let an RSS reader wrap around the browser, not the other way around.
It's not surprising that Safari 2.0 (in the developer builds) crashes even more than Safari 1.2 does. I'd like to see them fix the horrible reliability of Safari before bolting on useless features.
Even Google doesn't care about Usenet any more. Search for any topic and you'll see tons of Google Groups (not Usenet groups) interleaved with the Usenet results.
Google has therefore "embraced and extended" Usenet. Is that good thing?
It does? I have procmail set up to filter mail into dozens of mailboxes, and Mail.app (in OSX 10.3.8) only ever alerts me of new mail when a message hits my Inbox. It checks for mail in other folders when I start up (that's what "synchronize automatically" does) and when I right-click a folder and choose "Synchronize 'Account.'" When it does a synchronization, there's no way for me to tell that I have new mail without scrolling through the complete folder list. It's so bad, I need a third-party utility just to tell me when I have new messages.
Thunderbird, on the other hand, insists that I have hundreds of new messages (according to the icon badge) every time I start it up. It also routinely flashes the "new mail alert" when I have no new mail. Some of the bugs concerning Mozilla Mail's new mail behavior are years old, and Mozilla developers don't care. Therefore, I don't care either.
I downloaded Skype. It took me about five minutes, and it was free. I don't give a shit about (a listing of all the acronyms/abbreviations/insert pendantic wankering about the aforementioned two that you mentioned):
SIP, IAX, NAT, UDP, ILBC, TANSTAAFL, OSS, FWD, POTS, VOIP
Skype works. Skype has a remarkably mature and usable client for Mac OS X, as opposed to all the OSS/FLOSS/FOSS/GNU/shit solutions that use hideous X11-based clients for the sake of "interoperability."
You remind me of a man who tried to explain why AOL would make a bad Internet Service Provider in 1992. You'll be as successful as he was in convincing people to move off Skype as soon as, say, 2017 rolls around.
If you're going to reply, don't "quote" every line of my message so you can make a smarmy comment as if we were conversing using our mouths. I wouldn't ever do that.
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True, but anime/game titles aimed at little kids tend not to follow proper Japanese grammar. Then again, it's trendy to break grammar conventions in English too for marketing reasons: "Think different" and "You've got mail" spring to mind.
And Babelfish is only good for entertainment value in translating Asian text.
It was coined by the gentleman who runs Jerkcity (not safe for work). Jerkcity characters tend not to mince words.
Yeah, Google solicits criticism and bug reports during their interminable beta periods. I was mainly drawing attention to the whining that pervades blogs and discussion boards because people rely on a beta service for functionality. When something goes wrong, of course, people shrug and say "it's beta, what do you expect?"
I've heard that the story involves you rolling up things to appease fans (because Everybody Loves Katamari Damacy) instead of to replace the stars/moon in the sky.
Early movies have suggested that actual gameplay is very very similar to the original.
P.S. Please write some bullshit article in Wired explaining that Google maps can "never come out of beta" for some legal reason. that worked flawlessly for Google News.
Dear rest of world,
Hi this is Google
Our software is in beta
Please do not criticize it until we say you can
Sincerely,
Google
I for one welcome our new Windows Portable Media Centercasting bloggers of tomorrow.
What will all those wealthy upper-middle-class-yuppie-gadget-whoring political wonks come up with next? Segwaycasting?
At many of the stores near me (in the US) I see # used as an abbreviation for pound. For example: "2# CARROTS $1.19" on my receipt.
Good post. I agree.
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"...and users now have the ability to use some new snazzy rich text formatting features including fonts, bullets, colors, and highlighting. "
Geez...just what we need. Email should be plain text...you are just wasting bandwith with all the rich text crap.
Geez...thought it was bad enough with trying to get idiots using MS Outlook to quit putting crappy wallpaper on their emails...not to mention the other stuff. You get a 2 line email, that is like 1.5MB+ in size with all the formatting crap, dancing images....etc.
Yes, in America. If you outsource all the child-rearing to India, you can get a child educated and reared for only $3,000.
Good news! Google has automatically opted you in to this valuable new feature! You can opt out by mucking around inside the about:config screen.
If any other company besides Google had opted you into such a bandwidth-sucking feature with no end-user-friendly way to disable it, Slashdot discussions would have been unwaveringly negative.
Wow. It's almost like different groups of people are allowed to express different opinions.
Fox Broadcasting, for example, has aired "Cops" for the last 15+ years. That's a show basically designed to glorify law enforcement by showing what real cops do. More recently they aired tons of "World's Wildest Police Chases" shows that all end with Sgt. John Bunnell spouting some catch phrase about how crime doesn't pay. At the same time, some of their comedy shows (particularly The Simpsons) include police-officer characters that are very stupid.
Hey, a TV network is creating a diverse portfolio of shows that do not all parrot the company line. Someone call Jon Stewart quick!
Three of the levels have "Eternal" modes. If you get your katamari up to a certain size, you unlock "Eternal mode" where you can play the level for as long as you like.
I forget the exact figures needed to unlock Eternal modes, but it's something like 600m on Make the Moon. Once you've rolled up EVERYTHING, there's a theoretical maximum size of about 900m on that level.
Domo-kun is a children's TV show character. The joke doesn't have anything to do with "fanboy," but rather with this well-known mangling of this image (safe for work).
Orkut was created by (and named after) a Google employee. Therefore, if Orkut's employment agreement is enforceable, Google does own the Orkut site.
Out of those 4,513,561 people, how many of them have logged in successfully more than once in the last N days? Google doesn't make a distinction between "user" and "active user," so your numerical comparison is about as valid as AIM's claim that they have 400 million users in their system.
As a US internet user, I sort of expect Google's sites to work well in my country. To Americans, Orkut is dead and its US users (all X million of them) don't log in any more.
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod mini, he proudly declared that nobody actually uses flash-based MP3 players; everyone who buys them "just sticks them in a drawer."
Less than a year later, Apple unveiled a player with the same feature set as 2002's Creativo MuVo. It was hailed as a great new product by Steve Jobs and the Apple faithful.
I for one cannot wait until Apple invents the two-button mouse.
Orkut is pretty much dead. It is without question the least-reliable, worst-maintained, most-ignored beta that Google has ever released. The interface doesn't even have anything to suggest it's a Google property other than the "in association with Google" tag at the bottom, which is non-evil-speak for "a Google employee wrote this, so we own it."
Orkut is a very poor Friendster clone that has had server problems from day one. The only reason why it gets any press is because of the small-print "association with Google."
Lisandro: You and your "second mouse button."
Apple Zealot: What about it?
Lisandro: Oh, nothing. It's cute. We have five.
generic-man: Th... thousand.
Lisandro: Yes, five thousand.
generic-man: Don't question it!
Apple Zealot: Oh, really? Well I only see one.
Lisandro: Well that sounds like a personal problem.
(Adapted from this Aqua Teen Hunger Force quote.)
Why in the hell do you need an RSS aggregator in your web browser? That's almost as preposterous as needing a mail client or an HTML editor bundled in. A web browser is great at viewing documents; let an RSS reader wrap around the browser, not the other way around.
It's not surprising that Safari 2.0 (in the developer builds) crashes even more than Safari 1.2 does. I'd like to see them fix the horrible reliability of Safari before bolting on useless features.
Holy crap, dude. I'm not reading all that.
Even Google doesn't care about Usenet any more. Search for any topic and you'll see tons of Google Groups (not Usenet groups) interleaved with the Usenet results.
Google has therefore "embraced and extended" Usenet. Is that good thing?
It does? I have procmail set up to filter mail into dozens of mailboxes, and Mail.app (in OSX 10.3.8) only ever alerts me of new mail when a message hits my Inbox. It checks for mail in other folders when I start up (that's what "synchronize automatically" does) and when I right-click a folder and choose "Synchronize 'Account.'" When it does a synchronization, there's no way for me to tell that I have new mail without scrolling through the complete folder list. It's so bad, I need a third-party utility just to tell me when I have new messages.
Thunderbird, on the other hand, insists that I have hundreds of new messages (according to the icon badge) every time I start it up. It also routinely flashes the "new mail alert" when I have no new mail. Some of the bugs concerning Mozilla Mail's new mail behavior are years old, and Mozilla developers don't care. Therefore, I don't care either.
Jabber is better than AIM and Jabber supports XMPP, JZM, LKQ, WPSX, and VKM. Guess which one has 100 million users.
I downloaded Skype. It took me about five minutes, and it was free. I don't give a shit about (a listing of all the acronyms/abbreviations/insert pendantic wankering about the aforementioned two that you mentioned):
SIP, IAX, NAT, UDP, ILBC, TANSTAAFL, OSS, FWD, POTS, VOIP
Skype works. Skype has a remarkably mature and usable client for Mac OS X, as opposed to all the OSS/FLOSS/FOSS/GNU/shit solutions that use hideous X11-based clients for the sake of "interoperability."
You remind me of a man who tried to explain why AOL would make a bad Internet Service Provider in 1992. You'll be as successful as he was in convincing people to move off Skype as soon as, say, 2017 rolls around.
If you're going to reply, don't "quote" every line of my message so you can make a smarmy comment as if we were conversing using our mouths. I wouldn't ever do that.