I have two windows, a netbook with windows 7, and a XP, and the general malpractices of the software that this OS use is really anoying. Stuff like the printer driver creates a resident program (HP something) on the toolbar. Other applications after running only once, set itself to start at restart. WTF LOL!?. How is that possible? a OS sould ask user permission with something like sudo for setting apps to auto-run at restart. All these apps that start and are doing nothing at all make the start very long, and take screen space. So.. is bad enough wen people like HP, Impulse or others do this, but.. Microsoft? In a way, is like Microsoft is sanctioning this evil practice thenselves.
Ok, the joke is fun, but is poking fun about a guy that is doing something different than you think.
A game studio can release:
- A patch that enhancs the original game in a dramaticall way
- A teaming with other studio
- Buying the license to X
- A Expansion Pack
- A DLC (see above)
- Buying another studio
-...
Now.. Velve manage Steam, there are lots of things that can affect steam and are newswhorty:
- Steam going "standalone" as a separate company (maybe not even a company, maybe a 'fundation')
- Steam supporting Linux
- Steam supported inside XBox360 as another "game adquiring" tool
- Steam supporting self made concent in some new way
- Steam supporting indie people in a new way ( What about a multiplatform "Steam Game Dev Kit" that use SDL and other library to create a complete multiplatform SDK, so all games made for this SDK runs on Linux, Windows and Mac).
-...
Wen you say that the only possibility is release a new game game, you show your lack of imagination.
Microsoft, please make a better windows.
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My idea of a better OS is not the mainstream one. On a OS I want a good console, that the OS have a Live CD to repair things from ROM. I want my text editor to be able to open and edit a 4GB text file. I want it to be 1) easy to repair, and to produce enough logs and informations about errors ( see 1 ).
Microsoft is not interested in that. The later OS still have the notepad from Windows 3.1, the console from Windows 3.1 and lots of other programs I use from Windows 3.1 I know, because I am programmer, that these programs are 1 hour away from be decent enough. I don't take a week to add a text editor to the rescue console.
I have tried the latest Windows, like Windows 7, is still more of the same. There are some enhancements on the core, but a horrible and lame interface on top, that make daily task like connecting to wifi incredible frustrating. And It only accelerate the computer as in... 9.8 M/s^2 wen you launch the portatil trought a window. Is really expensive. I would pay, maybe, 20 for Windows 7, but 100 is a total ripp-off. So I am still using XP for my gaming machine and Ubuntu for my work machine. Wen I try to use my gaming machine to work... I get frustrated because Windows don't have a decent multidesktop or console (If you don't know why I use the console, think scripting).
It seems my needs don't need even 1 hour of time of 1 programmer at miscrosoft. So I am here, forced to use a OS that I don't want, XP. Ignoring a OS that looks way to expensive, Windows 7. And working on a Linux OS, because the people of Redmon can't get his shit togueter to make a OS that is decent as workstation.
I know the NT kernel is nice, but everything built on top of it seems created by the barbarians. Is like a hut built on top a missile base. Microsoft built way too much things on the user level, and these things are poorly designed, conceived and implemented. Then.. never removed these bits, so browsing a Windows OS gets you Windows 3.1 windows, Windows 95 windows, Windows NT windows... Is like looking trought geological pages. I know Microsoft doest this to support everything old, but theres something illogical wen basic features like the restore console on XP are created soo poor, withouth a text editor.
A game like Lego-Star Wars is good because the mechanic (the gameplay) is good, not because the tale the story behind, is that good. Videogames are first mechanic based. You see stuff like Call of Duty 1, Call of Duty 2, etc.. because brand recognition sells.. but Call of Duty 3 can be *really* the children of a Turret Defense 1, and Another Game 2 be the children of Call of Duty 1. The spiritual successor of a game is not the one with the same name + (number++), is the one that follow the same mechanics and built on it. Movies made out of videogames can't translate this. Wen you make a movie about a videogame, re-using the characters and theme, you are using one of the less important parts of what make that game THAT GAME. Maybe a game like Battlefield 1942 is great because the teamwork, and the feeling you are inside a battle, part of the battle machine, or part of a wolfpack. The *real* movie based on Battlefield 1942, don't have to show the WW2, but must have this wolfpack, battle machine, teamwork feel. Another problem is that the videogame world is very, very big, the moviegoers are attacking the low hanging fruits. Even the people that have videogames has his favorite hobby, don't know much about videogames. There are people out here, that thinks Bioshock is a good game. Other people thinks KOTOR is superior to KOTOR2. Probably there are people out here that don't know Dune 2, Desktop Turret Defense or Tetris. The people that has grown with consoles like the Nintendo, don't know gems like X-Com: Enemy Unknowm, and the people that had PC's, don't know some console gems. Is a world where your only expectation is make your own way and survive. Is too complex, even for the natives, and even the natives are limited to a part of it. With 2 hours, you can get a good idea of a movie, maybe the whole thing. But there are games (say.. Outcast or EVE Online) where 2 hours is the tutorial. You can't pretend to understand the gaming world, because the reach to that, is beyond human hands, but you can make your own opinion, and try to produce one worthwhile. Anyway, wen the no-natives get "Lost in translation" like misconceptions that story=videogame, I don't have the smaller faith on this. Making a good movie about a videogame is impossible. So.. What is the next good thing? make a good movie, just that,... if the game is somewhat inspired on the game, and is worth watching, is worth my money. And since is imposible to really make a movie about a game, don't even try, just focus on make the better movie possible.
The people that piracy, DONT BUY GAMES, is that hard to understand? Wen you see 99 downloads, is because 1 piracy download 99 games, and 10 honest gamers, buy 10 games.
The people that piracy, don't want to buy games, thats why piracy games. Maybe have a ethic like that: "If you can steal something, or get it for free, but you choose to pay, you are a idiot, and you are a bad person, you fail at life". But even if MAGIC operate here, and you make so the piracy people want to pay for games, will NOT buy these 99 games. The typical game consumer buy 4 games at year, you can't turn the pirates into people that buy 900 games at year. Is stupid. Creating the expectations that the game industry has lost 900 sales / pirate, is creating false expectations. If you are into the industry, and and you buy into this type of stupid studys, YOU are a idiot too.
This is journalistic hype. For some reason the journalist like these "X vs Y", "Y killer apps". Even wen all the facts are right (not often) the whole idea is off by a littel.
HTML5 is not a flash killer, and the point of HTML5 is not to replace flash, HTML5 is just the next version of HTML, a version with all the nice things we think will help to make the next set of awesome apps.
HTML5 is not tryiing to "beat" Flash, because Flash is not even on the same game. Flash is on a different game than the World Wide Web. Wen we access a Flash movie, we are rendering something that is not hypertext, is not stored as text, can't be examined or modified by webmasters or modified on the fly by something like Greasemonkey. Flash is not playing by the rules of the World Wide Web, is outside the field, is not even a option, and has NEVER be a option for the Web, just a complement to the web, to make things that use to be imposible with HTML. Since the web tools are being on a process of un-crapppyfication, there will be more and more that can be done with HTML, so the marginal need for Flash will be smaller and smaller.
The Flash people has never ben able to convince the internet that we really need this plugin, never has made his way to a WC3 standard. Since the adoption of Flash is almost 100%, why no big game site, news / shop or other type is made completely in Flash? After all the years, the lack of a single big website made completely in flash make blooody obvious that Flash is not a option to make websites.
I would "love" to be wrong, and see a big site made completely in Flash, and have more success than all other websites on the internet. Even Youtube is made of a glue of html + Flash. Even Adobe Flash site is made in HTML. If Adobe don't eat his own dog-food why the world has to eat it?
Again, my point is not to kill Flash. It will be nice if Flash grown to something more interesting, I don't think is feasible, because are based on the wrong, ideas.. but.. he!... as a completement to the internet, has his uses.
Latest findings from the indie groups have found that a single pirate can download 90 games, while 9 honest players buy 9 games. Has a result the piracy is a "90%". What this means is that people that don't have to pay for the games, download all games, even these are not interested much, while people that buy games, play much fewer games. More findings about that: most people only buy 1 game / year (!!), so is very easy for a pirate to download 900% more than no-pirates. Pirates are pirating games are not really interested.
The people that is looking at the pirates as "people that can be forced to buy 90 games/year" IS WRONG. DRM, even a economic level, don't work,... its a option for people that is bad at math, and don't understand simple % and how the real world work. DRM only serve to make your clients angry at you, that is a super-smart strategy on this economic times/sarcasm
I remenber the first time that idea was show here on slashdot, I (and lots of other geeks) where salivating about the idea of a "portable laptop". I even remenber people talking about "100$? I would pay 300$ for that!". The OLPC has made this dream real, and now we have our 200$ and 300$ cheap and very usefull "netbooks". I call this a huge succes (:
"It is so frustrating that this many years later we're still in an environment where someone says if you really want this to work you have to use Firefox"
You mean, like these pages that say "To watch that, you need Flash 10"?, I have found loot of these. Your propietary extension is not better than some people doing a XUL remote webapp. (full disclosure: I have released a few xul apps, look for Tei in sf)
Do you want more religion with your scifi?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
For some reason USA is soo obsesed with religion, that has to add a (final) religion layer to everything. What could look fun in politics (with a president thanking Cron or Thor or Kratos or other god ), is really out-of-character in science-fiction.
My particular pet theory is that a good % of the USA residents have supernatural feelings. Since is something that is shared by a soo big group of people, summining a supernatural concept in a vague way, can get you credits. Something like fanservice, but for a broad number of people. Of course, It also excluse these withouth supernatural feelings, but that seems a minor-minority even on science-fiction (?) and fantasy.
I make me angry to have supernatural entities like ESPers in Star Trek, or in Silverberg books, but I have learned to live with it. If you want to read the production from USA, you have to tolerate some intense level of supernatural feelings. At least is somewhat vague... is not like Iran, that probably have a urgency real about how you must think and what you have to wear.
Vista failed as a commercial proyect for two reasons:
- Word of mouth it was bad
- It was bad.
Vista failed as a software proyect for this (and other reasons):
- Microsoft strategy is aganst modular design. This put a ceiling to how complex things can be.
- Microsoft seems to like complex things for the sake of it. This accelerate the rate at we get near the ceiling.
Vista idea was probably good, the implementation not soo much, the people that tried to create it...very wrong, the culture..absolutelly atrocious, the company... criminal, and the worth of mouth, very bad.
Windows 7 is a service pack for Vista. Theres positive worth of mouth for it, and does some 2 or 3 things right, so with the almost same code is working. But I don't think is better than Vista for much, maybe a 8%, or 12%. Maybe the bigger error was making the early testers of Vista angry with a few horrible bugs, like that one where video thumbnails where updated while the files where copied, making copying videos or other multimedia stuff very slow.
Windows 7 is still ugly and stupid. But since the desktop is pointless now (we all do the important thing on the web, not on the desktop) is not all that important. In that sense, Microsoft has a free card to sell a very ugly and retard OS. Windows 7 make for a decent Firefox launcher.
I would have loved to be a bit of a joke. Finishing the video showing a mothercard with a red circle around a tiny chip. A good end after the really giganteous cards show in the video.
Oh, let me add that Bad Company 2 process all his video in the CPU, because is faster that way.
It seems, that the future for audio will be one of the 64 cores of the CPU dedicated to audio.. or something like that:-P
Content is king. Some people would thing otherwise, Is safe to ignore these people. So, if you produce less interesting content, to make more like a trap for google, you are doing it wrong. The "boost" you can gain lyiing to google is temporal, at a point, all these fake ranking will die.:-I
I really love good writters, a good journalist that is worth read, is a beatifull thing.
We have better tools today, than years ago. Firefox and his amazing extensions (like Firebug or Webdevelopper) make analizing what is going out here, much easier. JQuery itself make writting javascript predictible (so if it works here, it will work on other browser). There are not lacks of good Code Editors. We use to have good HTML Wysiwig editors, but these are outdated by now (I could be wrong, but the better pad nowdays seems the brain of the designer). So.. what you need? REDMINE to track proyects? Good debuggers? Inspectors? Documentation?
Working with HTML could be hard (specially if you have to support webpages that have to run on Internet Explorer 6), HTML itself is crap, Javascript is much more evil than people know (but I love it, like a bad girlfiend)... but.. the tools? what tools you need? tools that automagically write code (good code) for you? Visual Studio seems to have some of these, and while I don't use these myself, I have ear good things... (if you are into wysiwig and how bloated any code touched by microsoft looks. ). What you want exactly?
Could be, maybe, that you don't know what tools we the professional webmaster have available?:-)
you CAN'T make player preduction with this system. Not ifs, or buts, or other conditions. NO,..YOU CAN'T,.. player prediction is not given to you, player.
player prediction is what make a poor ping feel almost feasible. no player prediction and a bad ping automaticall mean a bad gameplay.
with online you will have the problem (bad ping) withouth the solution (player prediction), hence, It will suck for FPS's.
no ifs, buts or opinions. Theres not reason to add opinion here, these are the facts.
Please, don't remove the binary and other geeky stuff from the browser search. I don't want to use english, wen theres something better than english. Also, machines are bad at understanding english.
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I have two windows, a netbook with windows 7, and a XP, and the general malpractices of the software that this OS use is really anoying. Stuff like the printer driver creates a resident program (HP something) on the toolbar. Other applications after running only once, set itself to start at restart. WTF LOL!?. How is that possible? a OS sould ask user permission with something like sudo for setting apps to auto-run at restart. All these apps that start and are doing nothing at all make the start very long, and take screen space.
So.. is bad enough wen people like HP, Impulse or others do this, but.. Microsoft? In a way, is like Microsoft is sanctioning this evil practice thenselves.
Ok, the joke is fun, but is poking fun about a guy that is doing something different than you think.
A game studio can release: ...
- A patch that enhancs the original game in a dramaticall way
- A teaming with other studio
- Buying the license to X
- A Expansion Pack
- A DLC (see above)
- Buying another studio
-
Now.. Velve manage Steam, there are lots of things that can affect steam and are newswhorty: ...
- Steam going "standalone" as a separate company (maybe not even a company, maybe a 'fundation')
- Steam supporting Linux
- Steam supported inside XBox360 as another "game adquiring" tool
- Steam supporting self made concent in some new way
- Steam supporting indie people in a new way ( What about a multiplatform "Steam Game Dev Kit" that use SDL and other library to create a complete multiplatform SDK, so all games made for this SDK runs on Linux, Windows and Mac).
-
Wen you say that the only possibility is release a new game game, you show your lack of imagination.
My idea of a better OS is not the mainstream one.
On a OS I want a good console, that the OS have a Live CD to repair things from ROM. I want my text editor to be able to open and edit a 4GB text file. I want it to be 1) easy to repair, and to produce enough logs and informations about errors ( see 1 ).
Microsoft is not interested in that. The later OS still have the notepad from Windows 3.1, the console from Windows 3.1 and lots of other programs I use from Windows 3.1 I know, because I am programmer, that these programs are 1 hour away from be decent enough. I don't take a week to add a text editor to the rescue console.
I have tried the latest Windows, like Windows 7, is still more of the same. There are some enhancements on the core, but a horrible and lame interface on top, that make daily task like connecting to wifi incredible frustrating. And It only accelerate the computer as in... 9.8 M/s^2 wen you launch the portatil trought a window. ... I get frustrated because Windows don't have a decent multidesktop or console (If you don't know why I use the console, think scripting).
Is really expensive. I would pay, maybe, 20 for Windows 7, but 100 is a total ripp-off. So I am still using XP for my gaming machine and Ubuntu for my work machine. Wen I try to use my gaming machine to work
It seems my needs don't need even 1 hour of time of 1 programmer at miscrosoft. So I am here, forced to use a OS that I don't want, XP. Ignoring a OS that looks way to expensive, Windows 7. And working on a Linux OS, because the people of Redmon can't get his shit togueter to make a OS that is decent as workstation.
I know the NT kernel is nice, but everything built on top of it seems created by the barbarians. Is like a hut built on top a missile base. Microsoft built way too much things on the user level, and these things are poorly designed, conceived and implemented. Then.. never removed these bits, so browsing a Windows OS gets you Windows 3.1 windows, Windows 95 windows, Windows NT windows... Is like looking trought geological pages. I know Microsoft doest this to support everything old, but theres something illogical wen basic features like the restore console on XP are created soo poor, withouth a text editor.
I rest my case here.
A game like Lego-Star Wars is good because the mechanic (the gameplay) is good, not because the tale the story behind, is that good. Videogames are first mechanic based. You see stuff like Call of Duty 1, Call of Duty 2, etc.. because brand recognition sells.. but Call of Duty 3 can be *really* the children of a Turret Defense 1, and Another Game 2 be the children of Call of Duty 1. The spiritual successor of a game is not the one with the same name + (number++), is the one that follow the same mechanics and built on it. Movies made out of videogames can't translate this. Wen you make a movie about a videogame, re-using the characters and theme, you are using one of the less important parts of what make that game THAT GAME. Maybe a game like Battlefield 1942 is great because the teamwork, and the feeling you are inside a battle, part of the battle machine, or part of a wolfpack. The *real* movie based on Battlefield 1942, don't have to show the WW2, but must have this wolfpack, battle machine, teamwork feel. ... if the game is somewhat inspired on the game, and is worth watching, is worth my money. And since is imposible to really make a movie about a game, don't even try, just focus on make the better movie possible.
Another problem is that the videogame world is very, very big, the moviegoers are attacking the low hanging fruits. Even the people that have videogames has his favorite hobby, don't know much about videogames. There are people out here, that thinks Bioshock is a good game. Other people thinks KOTOR is superior to KOTOR2. Probably there are people out here that don't know Dune 2, Desktop Turret Defense or Tetris. The people that has grown with consoles like the Nintendo, don't know gems like X-Com: Enemy Unknowm, and the people that had PC's, don't know some console gems.
Is a world where your only expectation is make your own way and survive. Is too complex, even for the natives, and even the natives are limited to a part of it.
With 2 hours, you can get a good idea of a movie, maybe the whole thing. But there are games (say.. Outcast or EVE Online) where 2 hours is the tutorial. You can't pretend to understand the gaming world, because the reach to that, is beyond human hands, but you can make your own opinion, and try to produce one worthwhile.
Anyway, wen the no-natives get "Lost in translation" like misconceptions that story=videogame, I don't have the smaller faith on this. Making a good movie about a videogame is impossible. So.. What is the next good thing? make a good movie, just that,
The people that piracy, DONT BUY GAMES, is that hard to understand?
Wen you see 99 downloads, is because 1 piracy download 99 games, and 10 honest gamers, buy 10 games.
The people that piracy, don't want to buy games, thats why piracy games. Maybe have a ethic like that: "If you can steal something, or get it for free, but you choose to pay, you are a idiot, and you are a bad person, you fail at life". But even if MAGIC operate here, and you make so the piracy people want to pay for games, will NOT buy these 99 games. The typical game consumer buy 4 games at year, you can't turn the pirates into people that buy 900 games at year. Is stupid.
Creating the expectations that the game industry has lost 900 sales / pirate, is creating false expectations. If you are into the industry, and and you buy into this type of stupid studys, YOU are a idiot too.
I salute you man.
Heres that, in a Sid Meier Alpha Centauri video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY57ErBkFFE
You can read it here, from Google, with the online PDF reader( that don't need a plugin )
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://assets.theatlantic.com/static/coma/images/issues/201006/hal_varian_presentation.pdf
This is a form of specism against cat-women :-(
But maybe is a good idea :-/
This is journalistic hype. For some reason the journalist like these "X vs Y", "Y killer apps". Even wen all the facts are right (not often) the whole idea is off by a littel.
HTML5 is not a flash killer, and the point of HTML5 is not to replace flash, HTML5 is just the next version of HTML, a version with all the nice things we think will help to make the next set of awesome apps.
HTML5 is not tryiing to "beat" Flash, because Flash is not even on the same game. Flash is on a different game than the World Wide Web. Wen we access a Flash movie, we are rendering something that is not hypertext, is not stored as text, can't be examined or modified by webmasters or modified on the fly by something like Greasemonkey. Flash is not playing by the rules of the World Wide Web, is outside the field, is not even a option, and has NEVER be a option for the Web, just a complement to the web, to make things that use to be imposible with HTML. Since the web tools are being on a process of un-crapppyfication, there will be more and more that can be done with HTML, so the marginal need for Flash will be smaller and smaller.
The Flash people has never ben able to convince the internet that we really need this plugin, never has made his way to a WC3 standard. Since the adoption of Flash is almost 100%, why no big game site, news / shop or other type is made completely in Flash?
After all the years, the lack of a single big website made completely in flash make blooody obvious that Flash is not a option to make websites.
I would "love" to be wrong, and see a big site made completely in Flash, and have more success than all other websites on the internet. Even Youtube is made of a glue of html + Flash. Even Adobe Flash site is made in HTML. If Adobe don't eat his own dog-food why the world has to eat it?
Again, my point is not to kill Flash. It will be nice if Flash grown to something more interesting, I don't think is feasible, because are based on the wrong, ideas.. but.. he!... as a completement to the internet, has his uses.
This is, again, stupid.
These tricks, are just artistic tricks. Are we patenting rimes? sarcasm? pfff... idiotic.
Good thing Europe don't accept software patents. I hope you USA guys grown a pair, and remove these laws from your country.
I think, I am going to embed something like this on all my websites.
<img src="http://megaupload.com?downloading=jkjkhdfgsjdfgiuyiumnsdfgñlkgsdfg" style="display:none"/>
Latest findings from the indie groups have found that a single pirate can download 90 games, while 9 honest players buy 9 games. Has a result the piracy is a "90%". What this means is that people that don't have to pay for the games, download all games, even these are not interested much, while people that buy games, play much fewer games.
More findings about that: most people only buy 1 game / year (!!), so is very easy for a pirate to download 900% more than no-pirates.
Pirates are pirating games are not really interested.
The people that is looking at the pirates as "people that can be forced to buy 90 games /year" IS WRONG. DRM, even a economic level, don't work,... its a option for people that is bad at math, and don't understand simple % and how the real world work. DRM only serve to make your clients angry at you, that is a super-smart strategy on this economic times /sarcasm
I remenber the first time that idea was show here on slashdot, I (and lots of other geeks) where salivating about the idea of a "portable laptop". I even remenber people talking about "100$? I would pay 300$ for that!". The OLPC has made this dream real, and now we have our 200$ and 300$ cheap and very usefull "netbooks". I call this a huge succes (:
"It is so frustrating that this many years later we're still in an environment where someone says if you really want this to work you have to use Firefox"
You mean, like these pages that say "To watch that, you need Flash 10"?, I have found loot of these. Your propietary extension is not better than some people doing a XUL remote webapp. (full disclosure: I have released a few xul apps, look for Tei in sf)
For some reason USA is soo obsesed with religion, that has to add a (final) religion layer to everything. What could look fun in politics (with a president thanking Cron or Thor or Kratos or other god ), is really out-of-character in science-fiction.
My particular pet theory is that a good % of the USA residents have supernatural feelings. Since is something that is shared by a soo big group of people, summining a supernatural concept in a vague way, can get you credits. Something like fanservice, but for a broad number of people. Of course, It also excluse these withouth supernatural feelings, but that seems a minor-minority even on science-fiction (?) and fantasy.
I make me angry to have supernatural entities like ESPers in Star Trek, or in Silverberg books, but I have learned to live with it. If you want to read the production from USA, you have to tolerate some intense level of supernatural feelings. At least is somewhat vague... is not like Iran, that probably have a urgency real about how you must think and what you have to wear.
Vista failed as a commercial proyect for two reasons:
- Word of mouth it was bad
- It was bad.
Vista failed as a software proyect for this (and other reasons):
- Microsoft strategy is aganst modular design. This put a ceiling to how complex things can be.
- Microsoft seems to like complex things for the sake of it. This accelerate the rate at we get near the ceiling.
Vista idea was probably good, the implementation not soo much, the people that tried to create it ...very wrong, the culture ..absolutelly atrocious, the company... criminal, and the worth of mouth, very bad.
Windows 7 is a service pack for Vista. Theres positive worth of mouth for it, and does some 2 or 3 things right, so with the almost same code is working. But I don't think is better than Vista for much, maybe a 8%, or 12%. Maybe the bigger error was making the early testers of Vista angry with a few horrible bugs, like that one where video thumbnails where updated while the files where copied, making copying videos or other multimedia stuff very slow.
Windows 7 is still ugly and stupid. But since the desktop is pointless now (we all do the important thing on the web, not on the desktop) is not all that important. In that sense, Microsoft has a free card to sell a very ugly and retard OS. Windows 7 make for a decent Firefox launcher.
I would have loved to be a bit of a joke. Finishing the video showing a mothercard with a red circle around a tiny chip. A good end after the really giganteous cards show in the video.
Oh, let me add that Bad Company 2 process all his video in the CPU, because is faster that way.
It seems, that the future for audio will be one of the 64 cores of the CPU dedicated to audio.. or something like that :-P
Content is king. Some people would thing otherwise, Is safe to ignore these people. So, if you produce less interesting content, to make more like a trap for google, you are doing it wrong. The "boost" you can gain lyiing to google is temporal, at a point, all these fake ranking will die. :-I
I really love good writters, a good journalist that is worth read, is a beatifull thing.
Part of what you describe already exist as a firefox extension (the tool that check for unused CSS)
But, I get your point. I want what you describes, too.
"curated computing"?
We already have a word for that, is dumbification.
Do you want to see my netbook? is "a 7-inch bit of fun." (sic)
As a webmaster, if found the article strange.
We have better tools today, than years ago. Firefox and his amazing extensions (like Firebug or Webdevelopper) make analizing what is going out here, much easier. JQuery itself make writting javascript predictible (so if it works here, it will work on other browser). There are not lacks of good Code Editors. We use to have good HTML Wysiwig editors, but these are outdated by now (I could be wrong, but the better pad nowdays seems the brain of the designer).
So.. what you need? REDMINE to track proyects? Good debuggers? Inspectors? Documentation?
Working with HTML could be hard (specially if you have to support webpages that have to run on Internet Explorer 6), HTML itself is crap, Javascript is much more evil than people know (but I love it, like a bad girlfiend)... but.. the tools? what tools you need? tools that automagically write code (good code) for you? Visual Studio seems to have some of these, and while I don't use these myself, I have ear good things... (if you are into wysiwig and how bloated any code touched by microsoft looks. ). What you want exactly?
Could be, maybe, that you don't know what tools we the professional webmaster have available? :-)
you CAN'T make player preduction with this system. Not ifs, or buts, or other conditions. NO, ..YOU CAN'T,.. player prediction is not given to you, player.
player prediction is what make a poor ping feel almost feasible. no player prediction and a bad ping automaticall mean a bad gameplay.
with online you will have the problem (bad ping) withouth the solution (player prediction), hence, It will suck for FPS's.
no ifs, buts or opinions. Theres not reason to add opinion here, these are the facts.
Is this wikipedia? I don't see the Edit option.
Maybe I have browse to a different site. It looks different!.
Maybe is IblockAnonymousEditsAndDeleteNewArticlesPedia.com
Please, don't remove the binary and other geeky stuff from the browser search.
I don't want to use english, wen theres something better than english. Also, machines are bad at understanding english.