Strangely, only the American retail price for Katamari Damacy was $20. The Japanese original retailed for about 4000 yen (about $38), a discount from the normal 6980 yen price (about $66) (really) for new games. It's now available in a best sellers edition for about 2400 yen, bringing it closer to the American retail price.
In fact, Katamari Damacy now costs less in Japan than the Katamari Damacy Soundtrack CD, which amazon.co.jp will sell you for about 2900 yen or $28 American.
I agreed with the ad and so did all the people in the OS/2 mailing lists and FidoNet echoes. Most reviewers praised OS/2 in comparison reviews, although they compared it directly to Windows NT (which is the more appropriate competitor, in my opinion). However, superior marketing beats superior product. The fact that every OEM (including IBM) bundled Windows didn't help OS/2's case any. Whether or not that was legal/moral doesn't make much of a difference to me any more.
In 1995, IBM took out a four-page ad in the New York Times the day Windows 95 came out. It read, to start, "Pay No Attention to the OS Behind the Curtain." In four pages of graphics and text, IBM pointed out how OS/2 was so much better than Windows 95 would ever be.
Being a big OS/2 advocate at the time (really) I was overjoyed by the ad. Microsoft never formally refuted the ad, and we all know how successful OS/2 would go on to be in the marketplace.
Funny, since before I owned a Mac, all the Mac-heads I knew jumped all over Intel for not handling floating point numbers correctly in some old Pentiums.
There is no such thing as a W3C spec. All they have is recommendations, such as the candidate recommendation for CSS 2.1. There is no way to flawlessly implement the "spec" as you call it, since the recommendations are purposefully vague and all-inclusive.
In the case of the above page, you'd have to write a special style sheet for Safari if you wanted it to render correctly.
Valid CSS doesn't necessarily look good, and good-looking CSS isn't necessarily valid. The recommendations (not requirements, not standards, but recommendations) are so vague that no browser could ever do a perfect implementation of them.
style of discourse just seems pompous and USENET-troll-like to me. I don't like it, and I don't like your reply. Don't even bother quoting my words if you're just going to skewer them like that.
Self-correcting systems will work as long as you have enough participants.
Low-lifes have turned thousands of pages on wikis, blogs, and other such collaborative instruments into link farms and troll fests. Not every site has enough collective free time to weed out the bad from the good.
Let's say I walked into the library and marked up their encyclopedias with red ink (making legitimate corrections, in my opinion). Would you consider that credible?
Having a bunch of self-proclaimed "experts" write the encyclopedia (or the news, god forbid) is a commendable hobby. I just wouldn't believe a word of it until it passes through some kind of editorial review. "A bunch of people on the Internet think it's good" does not constitute an editorial review.
Wikipedia can be exploited for all sorts of reasons -- to make a political statement, to self-aggrandize, and to impart personal bias (whether intentionally or otherwise) in lightly-trafficked areas. This article explores just how successful one troll can be in disrupting the flow of things for a while -- and how the entire world can witness it.
Wikipedia, which allows anyone to contribute articles about any topic without any sort of editorial control, was the "victim" of a man who contributed an article about himself.
Because Wikipedia employs no editors and instead relies on anonymous users to police itself, this was allowed to grow into a "war" according to the title.
I can't believe Wikipedia still considers itself a credible source of anything if crap like this is newsworthy.
I said fast user switching, not "change to different virtual console log in as another user then run startx with a different display that you choose sequentially then use hotkeys to change between X servers."
Windows Key + L, then a mouse click. Enter a password. Done.
I ran su on my Linux box. All I got was a prompt with a # at the end of it. When does su start a new graphical shell?
I guess I should have done CTRL+ALT+F3, log in as root, then run startx with a display of:1 then used CTRL+ALT+F7 and CTRL+ALT+F8 to switch back and forth.
In conclusion, the Windows way (Windows Key + L) and the Mac OS X way (select from drop-down menu) are much easier than Linux or other UNIX-like operating systems.
Google Desktop Search was aimed at everyone running Windows, like all of Google's standalone programs (whether developed in-house or bought from another vendor).
Around here, "everyone" includes people running Linux, Mac OS X, and any other operating system you can name.
Besides, I didn't see you complaining when Google released a toolbar for Internet Explorer only -- Firefox and Opera had to develop their own toolbars to search Google.
When I was a freshman a few years ago, there were people lining up around the block to give me a credit card (and a free t-shirt) with a really low limit and few questions asked.
I'm pretty sure you have to be a U.S. citizen to get one of those free credit cards, but still it seems awfully easy to get a card in college.
Sprint uses CDMA, which is the dominant technology in much of Asia (and will be until 3G takes over, if it does). I don't know how popular Nextel's iDEN is outside the Americas, though.
Are you serious? Take a look at the number of reviews posted by fanboys on EB and Amazon.com -- people who post a 5-star review of a product that hasn't even shipped yet, people who post a 5-star review solely to cancel out someone else's 3-star review, and so on.
On many review sites, voting becomes an act of advocacy, which basically means that everyone's shouting at each other. I'd rather read a few professional reviews than a thousand shouted blurbs.
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Strangely, only the American retail price for Katamari Damacy was $20. The Japanese original retailed for about 4000 yen (about $38), a discount from the normal 6980 yen price (about $66) (really) for new games. It's now available in a best sellers edition for about 2400 yen, bringing it closer to the American retail price.
In fact, Katamari Damacy now costs less in Japan than the Katamari Damacy Soundtrack CD, which amazon.co.jp will sell you for about 2900 yen or $28 American.
Because if everyone just spams Firefox links everywhere, Firefox will be seen as the browser version of those MovableType spammers pushing prescription drugs.
:)
Frankly, when I'm buying my prescription drugs online, I'd rather not be bothered by advertisements for a web browser.
Go to your local library and borrow a copy of the August 23, 1995 New York Times on microfilm. It's in there somewhere.
Back in '95, nobody bothered to scan the ad in. To download a four-full-broadsheet-page image would have tied up your average modem for hours.
And it's already been ruined by pranksters making stamps of various unsavory characters.
I agreed with the ad and so did all the people in the OS/2 mailing lists and FidoNet echoes. Most reviewers praised OS/2 in comparison reviews, although they compared it directly to Windows NT (which is the more appropriate competitor, in my opinion). However, superior marketing beats superior product. The fact that every OEM (including IBM) bundled Windows didn't help OS/2's case any. Whether or not that was legal/moral doesn't make much of a difference to me any more.
In 1995, IBM took out a four-page ad in the New York Times the day Windows 95 came out. It read, to start, "Pay No Attention to the OS Behind the Curtain." In four pages of graphics and text, IBM pointed out how OS/2 was so much better than Windows 95 would ever be.
Being a big OS/2 advocate at the time (really) I was overjoyed by the ad. Microsoft never formally refuted the ad, and we all know how successful OS/2 would go on to be in the marketplace.
I got the same result on my 12" PowerBook.
Funny, since before I owned a Mac, all the Mac-heads I knew jumped all over Intel for not handling floating point numbers correctly in some old Pentiums.
There is no such thing as a W3C spec. All they have is recommendations, such as the candidate recommendation for CSS 2.1. There is no way to flawlessly implement the "spec" as you call it, since the recommendations are purposefully vague and all-inclusive.
In the case of the above page, you'd have to write a special style sheet for Safari if you wanted it to render correctly.
Valid CSS doesn't necessarily look good, and good-looking CSS isn't necessarily valid. The recommendations (not requirements, not standards, but recommendations) are so vague that no browser could ever do a perfect implementation of them.
style of discourse just seems pompous and USENET-troll-like to me. I don't like it, and I don't like your reply. Don't even bother quoting my words if you're just going to skewer them like that.
Pulitzer nothing -- I think Michael has his eyes on a Bloggy !
Self-correcting systems will work as long as you have enough participants.
Low-lifes have turned thousands of pages on wikis, blogs, and other such collaborative instruments into link farms and troll fests. Not every site has enough collective free time to weed out the bad from the good.
Let's say I walked into the library and marked up their encyclopedias with red ink (making legitimate corrections, in my opinion). Would you consider that credible?
Having a bunch of self-proclaimed "experts" write the encyclopedia (or the news, god forbid) is a commendable hobby. I just wouldn't believe a word of it until it passes through some kind of editorial review. "A bunch of people on the Internet think it's good" does not constitute an editorial review.
Wikipedia can be exploited for all sorts of reasons -- to make a political statement, to self-aggrandize, and to impart personal bias (whether intentionally or otherwise) in lightly-trafficked areas. This article explores just how successful one troll can be in disrupting the flow of things for a while -- and how the entire world can witness it.
If you stop listening to someone when they misspell a word, what are you doing on Slashdot? You should have tuned out years ago.
Wikipedia, which allows anyone to contribute articles about any topic without any sort of editorial control, was the "victim" of a man who contributed an article about himself.
Because Wikipedia employs no editors and instead relies on anonymous users to police itself, this was allowed to grow into a "war" according to the title.
I can't believe Wikipedia still considers itself a credible source of anything if crap like this is newsworthy.
You know, it's just as easy to write Firefox-specific HTML as it is to write IE-specific HTML.
If Firefox takes any foothold in the market, I expect to see a lot more shitty HTML that won't render properly in, say, KHTML-based browsers like Safari.
I said fast user switching, not "change to different virtual console log in as another user then run startx with a different display that you choose sequentially then use hotkeys to change between X servers."
Windows Key + L, then a mouse click. Enter a password. Done.
I ran su on my Linux box. All I got was a prompt with a # at the end of it. When does su start a new graphical shell?
:1 then used CTRL+ALT+F7 and CTRL+ALT+F8 to switch back and forth.
I guess I should have done CTRL+ALT+F3, log in as root, then run startx with a display of
In conclusion, the Windows way (Windows Key + L) and the Mac OS X way (select from drop-down menu) are much easier than Linux or other UNIX-like operating systems.
As opposed to Apple innovation, which has touted such advanced features as
Fast User Switching, just two years after Windows XP introduced it.
Video conferencing, which Microsoft introduced years ago with NetMeeting.
File extensions, once they realized that not everyone on the Internet uses a Mac.
Support for zip files in Finder without the need for third-party shareware, years after Microsoft supported them in Windows ME.
Mac OS X has many useful features, but don't start claiming that Apple only innovates and Microsoft only copies. Nobody's hands are clean there.
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Google Desktop Search was aimed at everyone
Google Desktop Search was aimed at everyone running Windows, like all of Google's standalone programs (whether developed in-house or bought from another vendor).
Around here, "everyone" includes people running Linux, Mac OS X, and any other operating system you can name.
Besides, I didn't see you complaining when Google released a toolbar for Internet Explorer only -- Firefox and Opera had to develop their own toolbars to search Google.
When I was a freshman a few years ago, there were people lining up around the block to give me a credit card (and a free t-shirt) with a really low limit and few questions asked.
I'm pretty sure you have to be a U.S. citizen to get one of those free credit cards, but still it seems awfully easy to get a card in college.
Sorry. In the future, I'd like to contact you before I post a comment. What's your email address?
Yes, it is. Let's boycott a company forever because they made one PR mistake.
Taking your ideology to heart, I'm going to start boycotting Slashdot because of that godawful Slashdot Cruiser they raffled off.
Sprint uses CDMA, which is the dominant technology in much of Asia (and will be until 3G takes over, if it does). I don't know how popular Nextel's iDEN is outside the Americas, though.
Are you serious? Take a look at the number of reviews posted by fanboys on EB and Amazon.com -- people who post a 5-star review of a product that hasn't even shipped yet, people who post a 5-star review solely to cancel out someone else's 3-star review, and so on.
On many review sites, voting becomes an act of advocacy, which basically means that everyone's shouting at each other. I'd rather read a few professional reviews than a thousand shouted blurbs.