The search results themselves seem fine so the search algorithm looks to be, at least to me, acceptable. But the search results list itself is horrible. There's no scrollbar to speak of, so there's no way to quickly drag up and down through the list. Use the buttons on the right to go up and down by clicking (or dragging for autoscroll), or your scroll wheel, but that's it.
Might be nitpicking, but then again just because you CAN do fancy interface crap like this doesn't mean you SHOULD, especially when it affects the usability.
GTA3 was great, but so was Vice City. It had a period (the 80's) that it could capture, in terms of clothing, music, cars, etc. San Andreas was the one that was the least enticing in terms of an innovative setting. It had some interesting apsects to the gameplay itself sure, but the overall setting wasn't one worth buying the game for.
I think they should have sat on the franchise after VC, until they could come up with a more interesting concept or setting.
I can't imagine true physics in a Mario game. Wait, maybe I can.
Mario tries to jump over a fence, but his foot catches. Small splinters of wood are torn from the wood as he comes tumbling over the fence. He tries to brace himself for the fall, but breaks his arm. Game over.
Or, he tries to buttstomp some shroom and ends up with an impacted vertebrae and shattered pelvis.
... how about some NEXT GENERATION games? The 360 is turning out to be a great classic game machine, it's just unfortunate that's not what it was designed for.
"A lot of people following this story in the media and investors... are really focusing on the tree and are not stepping back and looking at the forest. To date, only 5 per cent of (music) sales have migrated digitally. We are in the very, very early days of this."
Yeah, and if you keep making jabs at the sole provider of your technology, you might find yourself watching from the sidelines. Or, you might have to get in bed with RealNetworks, which is basically the same thing.
As it stands, the major selling point Blue-Ray has is its increased resolution, which as I understand it, most people, if any, don't have the tvs to support it.
Yet.
Keep in mind most people didn't have TVs that could show DVDs to their fullest potential when DVDs came out. Not saying everyone can now, but the percentage definitely isn't as low.
"I don't have a good way of judging quality or long-term reliability, so I'm looking at all brands," he said. "And nowadays I believe that most companies have got the quality and technology up to a good level or they wouldn't be in business."
There's the core problem: lack of buyer knowledge, or at least the lack of motivation for buyers to do some proper research before making a purchase. THAT is why these companies are doing business.
When I went to buy a new high def TV, I did research into the technologies available first, then looked at what manufacturers were doing a good job in the technology of my own choice. I eventually settled on a DLP from Samsung, not only because of the quality of the television but also the fact that I wasn't having to sell a kidney to buy it. It was a good balance for me, and not every salesperson will make that choice properly for you.
Part of that decision also was that lesser known brands may or may not be around if say the cheap TV I got from them breaks in a year. The company's support could be unproven, or nonexistent if the company itself fails to prosper. In essence, think of your wallet now and in the future.
Anyway, it worked for me at least, and didn't take a whole lot of time. I did some Googling, talked to some folks at various electronics places including customers and salespersons, and made my own decision about what would satisfy my own requirements.
Sure it will, if they have to worry about read speeds and what not. I'd like to hope that at least one developer is going to try for streaming levels off the disk to remove or reduce load times. Kind of hard to optimize your game based on non-specs.
There's even a new use for a design element we've seen elsewhere: the application of the Prince of Persia time-rewind to the racing genre.
What's the "new use"? Oh wait, there isn't one: it's a direct ripoff. Please don't try to sugarcoat at all what is an obvious grab at existing genre money.
Just to correct, they're no longer charging that tariff on iPods in Canada. In fact, Apple was offering refunds at one point for iPod buyers who shelled out during the time the tariff was in place.
Let me just open up another seal of the apocalypse by pointing out that the majority of comments on this story is bashing Sony for attempting to compete with a Microsoft product and service. Competition's good, right?:)
Customers using the service as it was advertised to them? Yeah, I could see how that would get folks shaking in their boots. So for years we've been paying for a "rich broadband experience", and now that we actually can get it, they go "oh frack, our nice comfy profit margins!!"?
Industry analysts have gone on about how expensive the components will be
I agree, but by extension they've made assumptions about how much the end cost will be of the completed product. They can cover their asses by saying they're only making assumptions, but the PR damage is done. Tell the teeming masses that the components add up to 800 bucks and they start to freak out about having to shell out that much, potentially.
I'm not saying it's better not knowing, but Sony executives would probably disagree with me on that given how these assumptions hurt the perceptions of their final product.
In the end, since the reading public in general won't stop reacting to speculative writing, and analysts won't stick a sock in it because their names get published on every gaming blog along with their wild speculations, where are we then? I suppose the only thing we can do as consumers is wait until real information and product is released and judge them on their own actual merits.
That's because Sony has over-promised on what the PS3 will offer.
You mean, like everyone does with consoles? The 360 is being sold at a loss as well, and a fairly large loss. And I'm not going to even get into the current offerings of games and services. This is nothing new to the console hardware scene, and is not a unique issue to Sony.
Again, it's all about pulling numbers out of hats at this point until the MSRP gets announced. Until then, I take everyone's opinion on the pricing with a large grain of salt.
That's funny, because no price has ever been announced by Sony. I love how industry, market, and armchair analysts continue to go on about how expensive it will be, when it might not necessarily be so.
Doesn't anyone design pages to be light on bandwidth? Christ, I did a quick basic page and the resulting source code it sent to my browser contained well over 500 lines of stylesheet, browser tweaks, and other stuff, resulting in 12k of source in total. All for a title and a bit of hello worldy text.
Is it just me, or is the generated source possibly trying too hard?
Just a thought. I myself am a fairly minimalist person when it comes to web design, both from the design itself and the underlying source code.
Or, God forbid, something new and refreshingly original. You know, something Hollywood has been lacking? Lord of the Rings proved he's a super duper director, let him loose on something other than a remake.
Nah, the only enemy he hasn't defeated yet is: time. He'll be whisked away to a modern-day Liberty City, where Kratos must fight rival gangs through dozens of missions in order to rule the underworld. He'll be able to jack cars, slash tires from a distance with his blades, throw opponents for miles, and use any one of a few dozen melee weapons and guns while he evades police.
Which is great for covering your own site, but doesn't stop Google from finding it on that person's site that takes the photos and puts them up. In the case of Perfect 10, say someone has a gallery up of Perfect 10 photos they'd found. Google Search will still find them there if the site's indexed.
Slashdot Mirror
The search results themselves seem fine so the search algorithm looks to be, at least to me, acceptable. But the search results list itself is horrible. There's no scrollbar to speak of, so there's no way to quickly drag up and down through the list. Use the buttons on the right to go up and down by clicking (or dragging for autoscroll), or your scroll wheel, but that's it.
Might be nitpicking, but then again just because you CAN do fancy interface crap like this doesn't mean you SHOULD, especially when it affects the usability.
For those who had no damn clue what HLTV was: linky :)
GTA3 was great, but so was Vice City. It had a period (the 80's) that it could capture, in terms of clothing, music, cars, etc. San Andreas was the one that was the least enticing in terms of an innovative setting. It had some interesting apsects to the gameplay itself sure, but the overall setting wasn't one worth buying the game for.
I think they should have sat on the franchise after VC, until they could come up with a more interesting concept or setting.
I can't imagine true physics in a Mario game. Wait, maybe I can.
Mario tries to jump over a fence, but his foot catches. Small splinters of wood are torn from the wood as he comes tumbling over the fence. He tries to brace himself for the fall, but breaks his arm. Game over.
Or, he tries to buttstomp some shroom and ends up with an impacted vertebrae and shattered pelvis.
Viral marketing at its best. :)
Because by having a screenshot like that out there, it garnered an immense amount of attention. Mission successful.
... how about some NEXT GENERATION games? The 360 is turning out to be a great classic game machine, it's just unfortunate that's not what it was designed for.
"A lot of people following this story in the media and investors ... are really focusing on the tree and are not stepping back and looking at the forest. To date, only 5 per cent of (music) sales have migrated digitally. We are in the very, very early days of this."
Yeah, and if you keep making jabs at the sole provider of your technology, you might find yourself watching from the sidelines. Or, you might have to get in bed with RealNetworks, which is basically the same thing.
Sounds like Microsoft's Office advertising campaign is working well.
As it stands, the major selling point Blue-Ray has is its increased resolution, which as I understand it, most people, if any, don't have the tvs to support it.
Yet.
Keep in mind most people didn't have TVs that could show DVDs to their fullest potential when DVDs came out. Not saying everyone can now, but the percentage definitely isn't as low.
"I don't have a good way of judging quality or long-term reliability, so I'm looking at all brands," he said. "And nowadays I believe that most companies have got the quality and technology up to a good level or they wouldn't be in business."
There's the core problem: lack of buyer knowledge, or at least the lack of motivation for buyers to do some proper research before making a purchase. THAT is why these companies are doing business.
When I went to buy a new high def TV, I did research into the technologies available first, then looked at what manufacturers were doing a good job in the technology of my own choice. I eventually settled on a DLP from Samsung, not only because of the quality of the television but also the fact that I wasn't having to sell a kidney to buy it. It was a good balance for me, and not every salesperson will make that choice properly for you.
Part of that decision also was that lesser known brands may or may not be around if say the cheap TV I got from them breaks in a year. The company's support could be unproven, or nonexistent if the company itself fails to prosper. In essence, think of your wallet now and in the future.
Anyway, it worked for me at least, and didn't take a whole lot of time. I did some Googling, talked to some folks at various electronics places including customers and salespersons, and made my own decision about what would satisfy my own requirements.
Sure it will, if they have to worry about read speeds and what not. I'd like to hope that at least one developer is going to try for streaming levels off the disk to remove or reduce load times. Kind of hard to optimize your game based on non-specs.
There's even a new use for a design element we've seen elsewhere: the application of the Prince of Persia time-rewind to the racing genre.
What's the "new use"? Oh wait, there isn't one: it's a direct ripoff. Please don't try to sugarcoat at all what is an obvious grab at existing genre money.
After all, how would you like to make a game where you're not even sure of the finalized specs of the media you're intended to store it on?
That's a great reaction, one I think most folks will share. Does posting it here on Slashdot matter? How will it make a difference at all?
Does anyone know who to contact in order to get our views voiced PROPERLY?
Just to correct, they're no longer charging that tariff on iPods in Canada. In fact, Apple was offering refunds at one point for iPod buyers who shelled out during the time the tariff was in place.
See here for more information.
Let me just open up another seal of the apocalypse by pointing out that the majority of comments on this story is bashing Sony for attempting to compete with a Microsoft product and service. Competition's good, right? :)
Customers using the service as it was advertised to them? Yeah, I could see how that would get folks shaking in their boots. So for years we've been paying for a "rich broadband experience", and now that we actually can get it, they go "oh frack, our nice comfy profit margins!!"?
Industry analysts have gone on about how expensive the components will be
I agree, but by extension they've made assumptions about how much the end cost will be of the completed product. They can cover their asses by saying they're only making assumptions, but the PR damage is done. Tell the teeming masses that the components add up to 800 bucks and they start to freak out about having to shell out that much, potentially.
I'm not saying it's better not knowing, but Sony executives would probably disagree with me on that given how these assumptions hurt the perceptions of their final product.
In the end, since the reading public in general won't stop reacting to speculative writing, and analysts won't stick a sock in it because their names get published on every gaming blog along with their wild speculations, where are we then? I suppose the only thing we can do as consumers is wait until real information and product is released and judge them on their own actual merits.
That's because Sony has over-promised on what the PS3 will offer.
You mean, like everyone does with consoles? The 360 is being sold at a loss as well, and a fairly large loss. And I'm not going to even get into the current offerings of games and services. This is nothing new to the console hardware scene, and is not a unique issue to Sony.
Again, it's all about pulling numbers out of hats at this point until the MSRP gets announced. Until then, I take everyone's opinion on the pricing with a large grain of salt.
PS3's price continues to rise.
That's funny, because no price has ever been announced by Sony. I love how industry, market, and armchair analysts continue to go on about how expensive it will be, when it might not necessarily be so.
Doesn't anyone design pages to be light on bandwidth? Christ, I did a quick basic page and the resulting source code it sent to my browser contained well over 500 lines of stylesheet, browser tweaks, and other stuff, resulting in 12k of source in total. All for a title and a bit of hello worldy text.
Is it just me, or is the generated source possibly trying too hard?
Just a thought. I myself am a fairly minimalist person when it comes to web design, both from the design itself and the underlying source code.
Or, God forbid, something new and refreshingly original. You know, something Hollywood has been lacking? Lord of the Rings proved he's a super duper director, let him loose on something other than a remake.
Nah, the only enemy he hasn't defeated yet is: time. He'll be whisked away to a modern-day Liberty City, where Kratos must fight rival gangs through dozens of missions in order to rule the underworld. He'll be able to jack cars, slash tires from a distance with his blades, throw opponents for miles, and use any one of a few dozen melee weapons and guns while he evades police.
I'd buy it.
Which is great for covering your own site, but doesn't stop Google from finding it on that person's site that takes the photos and puts them up. In the case of Perfect 10, say someone has a gallery up of Perfect 10 photos they'd found. Google Search will still find them there if the site's indexed.