Does anybody else find those little pop-up ads that appear when you hover over the green double-underlined text to be about the shittest invention ever?
Those in the article seem to be from someone called ContentLink, but I've also seen them done by IntelliTXT. Their idea of context is usually so wrong as to be laughable. For example, in that article, the sentence "Technically speaking, they were able to coat peripheral atoms near the peak with nitrogen, making it a one atom-thick, tough protective paint job" has _nitrogen_ offering to inflate my car tyres with nitrogen, and _job_ offering a job search.
I am going to test the beta out over the weekend but I am currently of the mind that it is buggy bloatware and not something I would trust my f[i]les to but I am open minded enough to accept problems under the fact that it is a beta release and is not supposed to be anything near a proper release candidate.
It has been labeled bloatware long before Longhorn/Vista existed.
As for me, I enjoyed this game, but it really was way too short. [...] I really thought this game was missing was a set of super-tough levels [...] I think I had to hit Gamefaqs for less than 3 secret exits, and maybe a half-dozen TOTAL of the star coins
I wonder how much you yourself are to blame here. Maybe those 3 secret exits or half-dozen star coins might have been the super-tough, 10-20 life eating levels you were hoping for.
I recently looked up how to get a particular star on M64DS, got it easily and then moved on. How long would it've taken me to find it myself? I don't know. Couldn't help feeling like I'd cheated, though.
We all sit here bemoaning the lack of gameplay in today's games, and harping back to the days of yore when things were so much better, but I wonder how many of us are bringing it on ourselves by being too willing to let someone else do the hard work for us.
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Sony's memory stick is the antithesis of that, well, you may be able to do something similar only *if* all your products are sony but Uh, what asshole buys a Sony PC?
That would be me. And you know what? The fucker doesn't read memory sticks properly. It started out losing the port but would find it after a reboot, and then just refused to see them all the time after a while.
I've since bought an "Advent" PC (UK PCWorld cheapo) which reads them fine, and also found the other day that my Dell laptop reads them no trouble either.
I have no idea what Sony thought they were doing by making a laptop with a Memory Stick slot which was so flakey in reading them, but that coupled with some of their more recent fiascos has me avoiding their stuff like the plague now.
Seems easy with a movie, 'cos all you have to do is sit in front of it for 2 hours and watch - but with a game, you have to play it for god knows how long, be sufficiently good at it to be able to play through everything, and be aware of 3rd-party mods that don't appear until after the game's release.
Maybe the ratings boards need to be able to demand all the assets from a game, and be able to slap a hefty fine on the developers for failing to disclose information. Maybe, to help with that, they should ask the developers what rating they think it should get, too.
FTFS: The content causing the ESRB to change the rating involves more detailed depictions of blood and gore than were considered in the original rating[...]
You think that was just a cover-up (no pun intended)?
I'm actually coming round to his POV on the GNU/Linux thing (X/Linux, KDE/Linux notwithstanding) - GNU was there first, they do still have a way to go, and "Linux distros" do use a lot of GNU stuff. OTOH, of course, there's nothing in the GPL that says you have to call the software a particular name, so he's kinda SOL on that.
Reading his reasoning behind the "Java trap" makes me chuckle, though. His main argument there seems to be that the Free Software implementations can't keep up with the proprietary ones, and therefore people should stop using the proprietary implementations. Surely the whole reason they're behind is that they waited until the Java gained traction before starting up on a Free version. If it hadn't had that traction, then it wouldn't have been worth doing a Free implementation in the first place.
I don't need to use my minutes every month, they never expire (assuming i buy $15 of airtime every 3 months
You're in the US, right? Wonder if it's the same deal in Canada - expiry of your credit bugs the shit out of with Rogers.
When I went back to the UK a month or so ago, I signed up for a pay-as-you-go with Orange. Free to connect, with my existing GSM phone, and the 5 GBP of credit I put on there will still be there when I go back in a year or 2.
You might want to try Aaron Rogers's tutorial as a starting point. Links there to getting homebrew devkits and WiFiMe.
I haven't actually got any further than downloading a devkit yet, but I'm off to my local wifi card emporium tonight to try and get a WiFiMe-compatible card.
Quite right too - You can't just cut her Maj's head up like that. I belive (no doubt someone will correct me) that it may actually be classed as treason in the UK.
That's also why those machines that make stamped widgets out of 1c pieces (dunno what they're called, but there's one in the Calgary Tower) tell you to deposit a US 1c piece and not a Canadian one.
Not distracting people with a manual transmission is a Good Thing. [...]We don't need to add a shift lever and clutch pedal to the mix. I, for one, will not be sorry to see the day when all manufacturers decide to completely quit building passenger vehicles with a manual transmission.
Interesting you should say that. I've driven a manual transmission for 16+ years (since starting to drive) and shifting comes completely naturally to me.
On the occasion that I drive an automatic, I tend to spend a lot of time wondering what's happening with the transmission (mostly "how am I going to get it to accelerate now?") and feeling the little jump that comes with a gear change (I'd know it was going to happen in a manual gearbox, 'cos I'd be initiating it).
Add to that the fact that I can't use the gears to help me slow down (meaning I can only apply the brakes to slow down, which I don't really like when driving on snow and ice) makes me a lot less comfortable driving an auto.
This is a proposed new guideline. Don't take it seriously yet!!
If you, or something you are responsible for, is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, somebody else will do it soon enough. Let them do it.
Note that this guideline is not intended to discourage people who have articles about themselves or their works from contributing to those articles in the interests of accuracy and fairness.
JW didn't edit the page until over a year after it was created, so not really against the guideline, either.
First, when someone buys 'non-trivial' portions of your shares, they may actually own you. But if they don't, or even if they do, they don't depend on you at all for 'funding.'
You might want to re-read what LordZardoz said. Regardless of who owns a stake in whom, developers generally rely on publishers for funding (of projects).
There are a ton of stories out there about how developers get short on cash and have to go crawling to their publisher for more, typically having to give up rights (or royalties) to their games in return.
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Does anybody else find those little pop-up ads that appear when you hover over the green double-underlined text to be about the shittest invention ever?
Those in the article seem to be from someone called ContentLink, but I've also seen them done by IntelliTXT. Their idea of context is usually so wrong as to be laughable. For example, in that article, the sentence "Technically speaking, they were able to coat peripheral atoms near the peak with nitrogen, making it a one atom-thick, tough protective paint job" has _nitrogen_ offering to inflate my car tyres with nitrogen, and _job_ offering a job search.
Stop the madness!
I purchased it not knowing the lack of hackability that the v5 brought, so I'm well pleased too.
You realise that this article is about Vista Beta 2, right? Which has just been released? And is a 3.2GB download?
Besides that, this thread was addressing the issue of Windows being labeled bloatware.
No, it was about Windows Vista being labeled bloatware. The comment at the top of this thread said:
It has been labeled bloatware long before Longhorn/Vista existed.
So?
And this thread is about the new version of Windows, Vista, which does not.
Why do people keep saying that Windows is bloatware? It still fits on one CD, which is more than can be said for most common linux distributions.
Where can I get one of these 3.2GB CDs of which you speak?
And then the profits of the corporations who charge you $fee per SMS are taxed again.
As for me, I enjoyed this game, but it really was way too short. [...] I really thought this game was missing was a set of super-tough levels [...] I think I had to hit Gamefaqs for less than 3 secret exits, and maybe a half-dozen TOTAL of the star coins
I wonder how much you yourself are to blame here. Maybe those 3 secret exits or half-dozen star coins might have been the super-tough, 10-20 life eating levels you were hoping for.
I recently looked up how to get a particular star on M64DS, got it easily and then moved on. How long would it've taken me to find it myself? I don't know. Couldn't help feeling like I'd cheated, though.
We all sit here bemoaning the lack of gameplay in today's games, and harping back to the days of yore when things were so much better, but I wonder how many of us are bringing it on ourselves by being too willing to let someone else do the hard work for us.
Sony's memory stick is the antithesis of that, well, you may be able to do something similar only *if* all your products are sony but Uh, what asshole buys a Sony PC?
That would be me. And you know what? The fucker doesn't read memory sticks properly. It started out losing the port but would find it after a reboot, and then just refused to see them all the time after a while.
I've since bought an "Advent" PC (UK PCWorld cheapo) which reads them fine, and also found the other day that my Dell laptop reads them no trouble either.
I have no idea what Sony thought they were doing by making a laptop with a Memory Stick slot which was so flakey in reading them, but that coupled with some of their more recent fiascos has me avoiding their stuff like the plague now.
How would you fix it, then?
Seems easy with a movie, 'cos all you have to do is sit in front of it for 2 hours and watch - but with a game, you have to play it for god knows how long, be sufficiently good at it to be able to play through everything, and be aware of 3rd-party mods that don't appear until after the game's release.
Maybe the ratings boards need to be able to demand all the assets from a game, and be able to slap a hefty fine on the developers for failing to disclose information. Maybe, to help with that, they should ask the developers what rating they think it should get, too.
FTFS: The content causing the ESRB to change the rating involves more detailed depictions of blood and gore than were considered in the original rating[...]
You think that was just a cover-up (no pun intended)?
FTFA:
He said the group [...] found more then 7,000 typo-domains.
Priceless.
Perhaps you mean "there are other free solutions"?
Perhaps he means "researchers don't come for free".
I'm actually coming round to his POV on the GNU/Linux thing (X/Linux, KDE/Linux notwithstanding) - GNU was there first, they do still have a way to go, and "Linux distros" do use a lot of GNU stuff. OTOH, of course, there's nothing in the GPL that says you have to call the software a particular name, so he's kinda SOL on that.
Reading his reasoning behind the "Java trap" makes me chuckle, though. His main argument there seems to be that the Free Software implementations can't keep up with the proprietary ones, and therefore people should stop using the proprietary implementations. Surely the whole reason they're behind is that they waited until the Java gained traction before starting up on a Free version. If it hadn't had that traction, then it wouldn't have been worth doing a Free implementation in the first place.
> I don't need to use my minutes every month, they never
expire (assuming i buy $15 of airtime every 3 months
You're in the US, right? Wonder if it's the same deal in Canada
There we go - Expires after 120 days in Canada. Guess I'll be moving to Virgin, then!
Chris.
I don't need to use my minutes every month, they never expire (assuming i buy $15 of airtime every 3 months
You're in the US, right? Wonder if it's the same deal in Canada - expiry of your credit bugs the shit out of with Rogers.
When I went back to the UK a month or so ago, I signed up for a pay-as-you-go with Orange. Free to connect, with my existing GSM phone, and the 5 GBP of credit I put on there will still be there when I go back in a year or 2.
My hearing probably isn't what it should be but the last thing I'd consider doing is suing the product makers.
:)
written as the sweet sounds of Slayer fill my office...
So, what, you're suing Slayer, then?
Based on this screenshot I'm really looking forward to Medal of Honor: Airborne.
No doubt we'll find out later that that's just from a cutscene and the in-game graphics will end up being the usual low-detail FPS garbage, though.
I hadn't seen Okami before reading this story, and the trailer was a bit slow to download - so I made a torrent for it.
Looks like a pretty cool game, but then I like cel-shaded stuff. Wish I knew WTF flossie was on about in the trailer tho.
You might want to try Aaron Rogers's tutorial as a starting point. Links there to getting homebrew devkits and WiFiMe.
I haven't actually got any further than downloading a devkit yet, but I'm off to my local wifi card emporium tonight to try and get a WiFiMe-compatible card.
Quite right too - You can't just cut her Maj's head up like that. I belive (no doubt someone will correct me) that it may actually be classed as treason in the UK.
That's also why those machines that make stamped widgets out of 1c pieces (dunno what they're called, but there's one in the Calgary Tower) tell you to deposit a US 1c piece and not a Canadian one.
Not distracting people with a manual transmission is a Good Thing. [...]We don't need to add a shift lever and clutch pedal to the mix. I, for one, will not be sorry to see the day when all manufacturers decide to completely quit building passenger vehicles with a manual transmission.
Interesting you should say that. I've driven a manual transmission for 16+ years (since starting to drive) and shifting comes completely naturally to me.
On the occasion that I drive an automatic, I tend to spend a lot of time wondering what's happening with the transmission (mostly "how am I going to get it to accelerate now?") and feeling the little jump that comes with a gear change (I'd know it was going to happen in a manual gearbox, 'cos I'd be initiating it).
Add to that the fact that I can't use the gears to help me slow down (meaning I can only apply the brakes to slow down, which I don't really like when driving on snow and ice) makes me a lot less comfortable driving an auto.
First, it's a guideline, not a policy.
Also, the first revision of the Autobiography page states:
This is a proposed new guideline. Don't take it seriously yet!!
If you, or something you are responsible for, is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, somebody else will do it soon enough. Let them do it.
Note that this guideline is not intended to discourage people who have articles about themselves or their works from contributing to those articles in the interests of accuracy and fairness.
JW didn't edit the page until over a year after it was created, so not really against the guideline, either.
So when I re-read the very next paragraph of MBraynard's post, I notice the point that IPOing would help out with the situation I'm rabbiting about.
I should get back to doing that other thing.
First, when someone buys 'non-trivial' portions of your shares, they may actually own you. But if they don't, or even if they do, they don't depend on you at all for 'funding.'
You might want to re-read what LordZardoz said. Regardless of who owns a stake in whom, developers generally rely on publishers for funding (of projects).
There are a ton of stories out there about how developers get short on cash and have to go crawling to their publisher for more, typically having to give up rights (or royalties) to their games in return.
Take a look at their actual applications and you will see that they are, indeed, platform-dependent.
... They all work nicely for me in Firefox.
Apologies, when I said content I was thinking in terms of Maps, Local, Mail, Groups,
If you're talking about something like Earth or Desktop which are, AFAIK, Windows-only, how would buying Opera help?