Lots of fun copyrighted content. full episodes of the state, aeon flux, etc Nice & searchable subscriptions to keywords. I just wish it would default sort by most recently added LOTS of obscure 80s content LOTS of obscure 80s music videos Nice user interaction tools Groups!
Downs: WAY too much anime crap on there - I swear 70% is anime footage. Way too much 'crap' footage like teenagers lip syncing to some rap song. make it friends only Searches for keyword stuff eventually lead to more anime crap They are cracking down on copyrighted stuff - I got an email from "DCMA" when i posted a conan o'brien clip on there. It's now gone. The speed of downloading videos is throttled to be less than realtime. You have to instantly hit pause when the page loads, then hit play when it's done sometimes, even if you have ahead-buffer loaded, it stops for 5-10 seconds and resumes playing. Only happens on certain videos No more videos allowed that are 12+ minutes.
The one thing that irritates me about slashcode is the "slow down cowboy!" with that mandatory waiting period before you can reply. If my karma's high enough, it's a good assumption that I'm not going to post nonsense, and that in fact I have something to say with a quicker response time. Slashcode apparently thinks otherwise. I don't liek the fact when I have something to say, I have to wait x amount of minutes before posting it.
It also discourages meaningful, brief replies if the time between "reply" and "submit" is too short. Does the firefox extension fix that problem?
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Friendster is reportedly up for sale: 5 dollars. Google will pay someone to take Orkut off their hands, in Brazilian currency too!
Have you checked out the other questions they typically ask on an episode? It goes back further than that. You would have to have been living in France during the 1700s to get some of those dang questions right.
The one time I have to use IE instead of Firefox is for one trivial feature at my bank's website. Is it an IE-only function of the bank's software? No.
It's the "print just this frame" function. My bank's website has a frame layout, and on the lower frame, it shows all my transactions. It's over a secure connection. In IE I can right click and choose to print just this frame(I think that's how it goes), and boom, it prints out my bank statement and I balance the checkbook.
If I try this in firefox, it insists on reloading the individual frame, and appears to do a reload of the frame. The bank's webapp doesn't like that, and gives me an error message.
But at least I can use most of the functionality of my bank's website in Firefox. I can't use the "today" button to type in today's date while paying bills.
After reading this summary(not TFA) and another summary of the new things for PSP(GPS, eye toy, and several other non-game-related things), I am questioning the proejct managers at sony. And so the dance of the developers versus marketers begins.
It is obvious they are eager to stuff as many non-video-game related features and now buzzwords(Linux, DRM, Cell,Blu-Ray etc) into this mystical console. Gee, and we wonder why there are so many delays. With every new feature they want to stuff in,it's going to just add to the delays(development, research, testing, etc) when MS has already released the 360. Please tell me the PS3 is going to have AJAX support and RSS feeds, please! And of course, any at-launch PS3 titles won't fully harness the power of the console, not until the developers get totally familiar with it.
The video games aspect of the PS3 seems to be almost silenced due to the hype of other things. But you know what? Go ahead, since it seems to be driving prices of PS2 games down, so I can pick them up for cheap and enjoy them.
What if God himself made a console even he could not get out the door & make games for? Well, we know the title of that console: Playstation 3. The consumers are that dog waiting at the train station in Japan for its owner(PS3) to arrive.
Yes, if they could make a FPS or a MMORPG that would invove killing off the fake spammer myspace accoutns(and actually delete said accounts), sign me up.
Did they learn from the mistake Atari made 2 decades ago? I think the story was that they made more ET modules than there were sold Atari 2600s. Some marketing guy thought every family would buy one copy for the home, and another copy for their ski resort. Of course, with the 1980s, I doubt many people had their own ski resorts, with dust-gathering copies of Atari 2600 games inside.
-google video: I'm still not impressed, and neither is the market.
Youtube is now beating them, IMO. Youtube has a lot more interesting content(entire episodes of "The state", rare music videos, etc), a tag system like last.fm, more than 1 way to search, and a community system built in that's not hard to use. Google video is rather lacking in their site. I could spend hours sifting through the youtube content bin.
I'd imagine this type of thing would deter more women to play games than anything else
I could be wrong though, I know when my girlfriend played Battlefield 2 she was all about flirting with the other team to get them to type more than play. We'd win nearly every round.
I agree completely. We have a summary zonk may(or may not have written), and then we have to read a freakin blogger's view of the article. Oh, and somewhere buried in there is the original editorial. Yay for meta-crap!
If blogs are going to be the unnecessary middleman of typewritten content(like intrusive ads), then let's just forget about logs.
But I never had really any faith in Zonk's story reporting.
Are you referring to that non-nullsoft made Winamp 3?(think that was the one) Oh wow did I love that user experience. You exit & go back in, and the last song you were on was deselected in favor of the first song. And the list went on and on. It was quite possibly the sorriest version of Winamp ever made.
Team Fortress Classic used menus(engineering functions, stealth costumes, etc) activated w/ the right mouse button, IIRC. That wasn't too clumsy. Mind you, you are usually building sentry guns not in the crossfire.
I remember seeing a job posting for LucasArts for Quality Assurance. It was rather small(40K?) and I believe it was in California. Needless to say I wasn't chomping at the bit to work THERE.
So what's the average salary of QA people in video games? Do they make more than the janitors?:)
I once got a call from caller id 911-999-9999 or something beginning with 911(obviously bogus). It was a prerecorded messsage alerting me of a snow emergency. Not even sure how they got my number, but it was unprofessional to leave that bogus #.
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Lots of fun copyrighted content. full episodes of the state, aeon flux, etc
Nice & searchable
subscriptions to keywords. I just wish it would default sort by most recently added
LOTS of obscure 80s content
LOTS of obscure 80s music videos
Nice user interaction tools
Groups!
Downs:
WAY too much anime crap on there - I swear 70% is anime footage.
Way too much 'crap' footage like teenagers lip syncing to some rap song. make it friends only
Searches for keyword stuff eventually lead to more anime crap
They are cracking down on copyrighted stuff - I got an email from "DCMA" when i posted a conan o'brien clip on there. It's now gone.
The speed of downloading videos is throttled to be less than realtime. You have to instantly hit pause when the page loads, then hit play when it's done
sometimes, even if you have ahead-buffer loaded, it stops for 5-10 seconds and resumes playing. Only happens on certain videos
No more videos allowed that are 12+ minutes.
Youtube is addicting, plain and smiple.
Will there be a sequel featuring The Secret City?
IIRC Secret City was this guy who dressed like Joel Hodgson's MST3K uniform and showed you how to draw 3/4 perspective buildings, etc.
The one thing that irritates me about slashcode is the "slow down cowboy!" with that mandatory waiting period before you can reply. If my karma's high enough, it's a good assumption that I'm not going to post nonsense, and that in fact I have something to say with a quicker response time. Slashcode apparently thinks otherwise. I don't liek the fact when I have something to say, I have to wait x amount of minutes before posting it.
It also discourages meaningful, brief replies if the time between "reply" and "submit" is too short. Does the firefox extension fix that problem?
Friendster is reportedly up for sale: 5 dollars.
Google will pay someone to take Orkut off their hands, in Brazilian currency too!
I do! I guess it's back to downloading freely (and worry free) from BBS's!
Yes, and now we can call those BBSes over VIOP! We could come full circle.
Have you checked out the other questions they typically ask on an episode? It goes back further than that. You would have to have been living in France during the 1700s to get some of those dang questions right.
Ford claims 20000 Horse & Buggy migration win.
Segway claims 3 bicycle migration win.
.....that makes games fun to play?
The one time I have to use IE instead of Firefox is for one trivial feature at my bank's website.
Is it an IE-only function of the bank's software? No.
It's the "print just this frame" function. My bank's website has a frame layout, and on the lower frame, it shows all my transactions. It's over a secure connection. In IE I can right click and choose to print just this frame(I think that's how it goes), and boom, it prints out my bank statement and I balance the checkbook.
If I try this in firefox, it insists on reloading the individual frame, and appears to do a reload of the frame. The bank's webapp doesn't like that, and gives me an error message.
But at least I can use most of the functionality of my bank's website in Firefox. I can't use the "today" button to type in today's date while paying bills.
Given the, uh, budget constraints of most pr0n shoots, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting. We're lucky they switched from super 8 cameras to video.
I see it as unlucky. When it switched from film to video, production costs(and values) dropped, and the quality dropped even further.
I can't wait to shop with Google Base at PriceRitePhoto!
Literal english commands, just like you described would be great for tech support. No more fuss & muss with exact syntax.
After reading this summary(not TFA) and another summary of the new things for PSP(GPS, eye toy, and several other non-game-related things), I am questioning the proejct managers at sony. And so the dance of the developers versus marketers begins.
It is obvious they are eager to stuff as many non-video-game related features and now buzzwords(Linux, DRM, Cell,Blu-Ray etc) into this mystical console. Gee, and we wonder why there are so many delays. With every new feature they want to stuff in,it's going to just add to the delays(development, research, testing, etc) when MS has already released the 360. Please tell me the PS3 is going to have AJAX support and RSS feeds, please! And of course, any at-launch PS3 titles won't fully harness the power of the console, not until the developers get totally familiar with it.
The video games aspect of the PS3 seems to be almost silenced due to the hype of other things. But you know what? Go ahead, since it seems to be driving prices of PS2 games down, so I can pick them up for cheap and enjoy them.
What if God himself made a console even he could not get out the door & make games for? Well, we know the title of that console: Playstation 3. The consumers are that dog waiting at the train station in Japan for its owner(PS3) to arrive.
Yes, if they could make a FPS or a MMORPG that would invove killing off the fake spammer myspace accoutns(and actually delete said accounts), sign me up.
Mind telling us, even just a wiki link or something in the summary, what the heck EFI is?
It's stupid to assume site that everyone knows what EFI is. Too many dizzying acronyms.
Did they learn from the mistake Atari made 2 decades ago? I think the story was that they made more ET modules than there were sold Atari 2600s. Some marketing guy thought every family would buy one copy for the home, and another copy for their ski resort. Of course, with the 1980s, I doubt many people had their own ski resorts, with dust-gathering copies of Atari 2600 games inside.
-google video: I'm still not impressed, and neither is the market.
Youtube is now beating them, IMO. Youtube has a lot more interesting content(entire episodes of "The state", rare music videos, etc), a tag system like last.fm, more than 1 way to search, and a community system built in that's not hard to use. Google video is rather lacking in their site. I could spend hours sifting through the youtube content bin.
Is this a new trend started by Roland Piquepalle?
He's the guy who made that pocket fisherman and that rotisserie thing, right?
*infomercial mode on*
Hey, you know what I need? A way to consolidate all the fark/metafilter/etc websites into a single website database!
I'd imagine this type of thing would deter more women to play games than anything else
I could be wrong though, I know when my girlfriend played Battlefield 2 she was all about flirting with the other team to get them to type more than play. We'd win nearly every round.
*sigh*
I agree completely. We have a summary zonk may(or may not have written), and then we have to read a freakin blogger's view of the article. Oh, and somewhere buried in there is the original editorial. Yay for meta-crap!
If blogs are going to be the unnecessary middleman of typewritten content(like intrusive ads), then let's just forget about logs.
But I never had really any faith in Zonk's story reporting.
Are you referring to that non-nullsoft made Winamp 3?(think that was the one) Oh wow did I love that user experience. You exit & go back in, and the last song you were on was deselected in favor of the first song. And the list went on and on. It was quite possibly the sorriest version of Winamp ever made.
Team Fortress Classic used menus(engineering functions, stealth costumes, etc) activated w/ the right mouse button, IIRC. That wasn't too clumsy. Mind you, you are usually building sentry guns not in the crossfire.
...is the PS3. Yes, this will have TWICE the delays with its new marketing and rumor engine. Capable of thousands of speculations a second!
(it's a joke kids, someday that PS3 will come out).
/didnt' RTFA
:)
I remember seeing a job posting for LucasArts for Quality Assurance. It was rather small(40K?) and I believe it was in California. Needless to say I wasn't chomping at the bit to work THERE.
So what's the average salary of QA people in video games? Do they make more than the janitors?
I once got a call from caller id 911-999-9999 or something beginning with 911(obviously bogus). It was a prerecorded messsage alerting me of a snow emergency. Not even sure how they got my number, but it was unprofessional to leave that bogus #.
They could have just left the snow plow hotline.