So let me see if I get this straight... Yahoo, a multi-billion dollar monster of a company, is doing badly? Google surely doesn't want to be a multi-billion dollar company like Yahoo?
Also, when was Yahoo ever big on searches? They were a catalog, not a search engine. Remember how they used Google for their searches?
"Actually, the real problem with Opera is that it tries to support both W3 DOM standards as well as IE's crazy broken stuff"
As does Firefox...
"So, if because IE is broken in some regard and you check for a certain DOM element or function existence to see if it's IE (and act accordingly), Opera, in its attempt to emulate IE, ends up being broken by the hack."
I rarely see this being a problem on real web sites. Most of the time they are sniffing for Opera and sending it stuff from back in the 6.x days when it didn't have proper DOM support. Opera's problem isn't that it supports IE stuff (Firefox does too), but that it used to have crappy DOM support until v7.
"Opera Software a tiny 230-person company? Uh................. Compared to Mozilla, which was / is freeware?"
You are forgetting that Opera is, and has always been, independent and has had to stand on its own. Mozilla, on the other hand, has gotten donations from Sun, IBM, Nokia, Google, etc. Google (and IBM and others?) even pays people to work on Mozilla products. Ben Goodger works for Google, remember.
But Opera hasn't receives donations from Google, IBM, Sun, Nokia and other huge corporations. The search deal is one thing - it's a business deal. But Mozilla got pure donations, even from AOL. Opera could never rely on donations, but had to sell an actual product to customers.
Heck, Google even pays people to work on Mozilla (Ben Goodger?), and I think IBM and several other major companies do as well.
The searches aren't relevant. The sugar daddies are the likes of Sun, Nokia, IBM, and so on, who donated millions to Mozilla. And of course AOL which put a lot of money into the project initially. Opera has not been able to rely on donations from other companies.
What you are basically saying is: "They need to succeed, or they will fail."
No shit, Einstein;)
Considering the success of the DS, the Revolution is likely to break out of the profitable niche Nintendo is currently operating in. Yes, a profitable niche. You don't need to be #1 to make money, as proven by Nintendo and others, such as Apple. But I believe that the Revolution, like the DS, will attract new players, expanding the market, and making Nintendo truckloads of money on the process.
"Now since Microsoft and Quite a few other American companies use and promote DRM how did it become only Sony's ?"
Because they were caught installing spyware and rootkits on their customers' PCs.
In addition, they tried to lie and deny, but the evidence was overwhelming, and they responded by basically going "if people don't know that there's spyware on their computers it won't hurt them".
They screwed up big time, and the consequences are that I and many others will point out Sony's spyware fiasco as often as possible, to prevent people from buying their potentially spyware infected products.
Hmm, interesting! Did I miss something, then? I could have sworn that there were several things that were unlocked by playing through God mode. When do all those other things unlock then?
They aren't making money because they are evil anyway. Turning evil just happens to people every now and then, and it seems that the managers in this company think they can do whatever they want to. Sony wasn't even hated a lot before they started doing evil things like installing spyware and rootkits on their customers' PCs.
Keep playing. I really loved the game, as a package. Great graphics, great sound, great gameplay. It was really satisfying to do combat.
But I am kind of pissed off at the game. I played on Normal difficulty or whatever, but it turns out that to unlock the juicy extras you will have to play through the game in God mode!
Yeah, it's a great game, but when I'm done I'm done! I couldn't even find any codes or cheats to unlock the God mode extras. I did start out doing it in God mode, but man, I've been through all this already, and all God mode does is to make everything take longer to do.
"The new nintendo is not that much faster than the older model."
Uh, says who?
Some developers claimed that their alpha dev kits were "only" three times faster than the GameCube, but what does that mean, and who says that this is the case for the finished Revolution hardware?
"There are essentially 3 game types that just play better on the PC: FPS, RTS, and MMORPG. (There used to also be flight sims, but that genre seems to have atrophied). I just can't see any of those genres working as well on consoles as on PC."
Have you considered the Nintendo Revolution, though? I can see how FPS games would work well with that controller. Even RTS. And why not MMORPG?
I totaly agree with you. Statements like these make the article look like it was written by some clueless moron who just wanted to write something bad to attract attention:
"The new-generation consoles look best when plugged into high-definition TV sets"
Uh, Nintendo Revolution? Ever heard of that?!
"And the cost of the new gaming systems continues to rise."
"How hard is it, really, to type "www.apple.com"?"
Hard in the way that I will have lots of problems, such as sites blocking my Mac browser, and games not being available for Mac, or if they are, they are hideously expensive. And other problems that appear because you are using something the majority has never touched.
One problem with your comment about what islamic organizations officially say or do is that they often do something completely different behind closed doors. To the world, they have one way of speaking, and the "correct" opinions. But when they talk amongst themselves, they will often say the exact opposite. They speak with forked tongues, so to speak.
You were trying to surf over a slow mobile connection, though. Nintendo DS uses WiFi.
You can't even compare the PSP browser to Opera. It's called Netfront, and it's known to be crappy and run out of memory in situations Opera handles perfectly.
Opera is probably faster because it's coded more efficiently. That doesn't mean taking shortcuts. It means optimizing things. And that's necessary since it uses the same engine on mobile devices and desktop PCs, which it has for quite a few years.
On the other hand, Firefox is a PC browser, and Gecko has to be squeezed and stripped down to fit on mobile devices since it, unlike Opera, was not written with those in mind.
Just because you have found a couple of bugs doesn't mean that the fact that Opera is faster than Firefox is caused by "shortcuts" in general.
But hey, I wouldn't expect a foaming at the mouth Firefox fanboy to admit to spreading FUD and lies about other browsers anyway. I'm just exposing you as the Firefox troll that you are.
Minimo requires far too much memory. They are aiming for 32-64 MB once it has been optimized properly. That's a heck of a lot more than Opera needs in order to run.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but Gecko is definitely not on part with Presto when it comes to memory usage. Mozilla's mobile browser Minimo will require something like 10-15 times the amount of memory that Opera does (Minimo is aiming for 32 to 64)!
Well unfortunately Minimo is still "Maximo" as far as memory and resource usage is concerned:( And even when finalized it will require 10-15 times more memory than Opera (at least that's what the Minimo devs are saying)...
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Also, when was Yahoo ever big on searches? They were a catalog, not a search engine. Remember how they used Google for their searches?
If Opera supports both the IE way and the W3C way, why don't you stick to W3C stuff and ignore the IE stuff in Opera?
Also, as I said, Firefox will not do the W3C way only. Far from it. It supports plenty of non-standard extensions.
Heck, Google even pays people to work on Mozilla (Ben Goodger?), and I think IBM and several other major companies do as well.
The searches aren't relevant. The sugar daddies are the likes of Sun, Nokia, IBM, and so on, who donated millions to Mozilla. And of course AOL which put a lot of money into the project initially. Opera has not been able to rely on donations from other companies.
No shit, Einstein ;)
Considering the success of the DS, the Revolution is likely to break out of the profitable niche Nintendo is currently operating in. Yes, a profitable niche. You don't need to be #1 to make money, as proven by Nintendo and others, such as Apple. But I believe that the Revolution, like the DS, will attract new players, expanding the market, and making Nintendo truckloads of money on the process.
In addition, they tried to lie and deny, but the evidence was overwhelming, and they responded by basically going "if people don't know that there's spyware on their computers it won't hurt them".
They screwed up big time, and the consequences are that I and many others will point out Sony's spyware fiasco as often as possible, to prevent people from buying their potentially spyware infected products.
Hmm, interesting! Did I miss something, then? I could have sworn that there were several things that were unlocked by playing through God mode. When do all those other things unlock then?
They aren't making money because they are evil anyway. Turning evil just happens to people every now and then, and it seems that the managers in this company think they can do whatever they want to. Sony wasn't even hated a lot before they started doing evil things like installing spyware and rootkits on their customers' PCs.
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Keep playing. I really loved the game, as a package. Great graphics, great sound, great gameplay. It was really satisfying to do combat.
But I am kind of pissed off at the game. I played on Normal difficulty or whatever, but it turns out that to unlock the juicy extras you will have to play through the game in God mode!
Yeah, it's a great game, but when I'm done I'm done! I couldn't even find any codes or cheats to unlock the God mode extras. I did start out doing it in God mode, but man, I've been through all this already, and all God mode does is to make everything take longer to do.
Sigh.
Wooooosh! That was the sound of... never mind.
Some developers claimed that their alpha dev kits were "only" three times faster than the GameCube, but what does that mean, and who says that this is the case for the finished Revolution hardware?
What other markets would end-users buy gearboxes from?
One problem with your comment about what islamic organizations officially say or do is that they often do something completely different behind closed doors. To the world, they have one way of speaking, and the "correct" opinions. But when they talk amongst themselves, they will often say the exact opposite. They speak with forked tongues, so to speak.
You were spreading FUD against a free and open source competitor, simple as that.
You can't even compare the PSP browser to Opera. It's called Netfront, and it's known to be crappy and run out of memory in situations Opera handles perfectly.
On the other hand, Firefox is a PC browser, and Gecko has to be squeezed and stripped down to fit on mobile devices since it, unlike Opera, was not written with those in mind.
Just because you have found a couple of bugs doesn't mean that the fact that Opera is faster than Firefox is caused by "shortcuts" in general.
But hey, I wouldn't expect a foaming at the mouth Firefox fanboy to admit to spreading FUD and lies about other browsers anyway. I'm just exposing you as the Firefox troll that you are.
Minimo requires far too much memory. They are aiming for 32-64 MB once it has been optimized properly. That's a heck of a lot more than Opera needs in order to run.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but Gecko is definitely not on part with Presto when it comes to memory usage. Mozilla's mobile browser Minimo will require something like 10-15 times the amount of memory that Opera does (Minimo is aiming for 32 to 64)!
Well unfortunately Minimo is still "Maximo" as far as memory and resource usage is concerned :( And even when finalized it will require 10-15 times more memory than Opera (at least that's what the Minimo devs are saying)...