Well that's most definitely your opinion, thanks to the internet we all get to share ours, I disagree good sir, very much - and so be it, glad you enjoyed it
but at least I have yet to hear anyone, even fanboys, proclaim it to be the best FPS of all time.
Are we using the same internet? I'm not sure that we are,...?
I have mod points but rather than spend them modding you up, I just have to post how much I agree.
Halo is without any doubt in my mind, the most over-rated game of all time, it's an 'ok' shooter with a fairly limp story and a main character with absoloutely and utterly no soul or 'coolness' at all, yet is promoted (and somehow loved) as some awesome hero character, frankly I don't know if I played and finished the same game as other gamers.
Certainly not a crap game but it's in no way as good as it's touted to be, to this day it eludes me. Now Kratos,... that is a main character I can understand the love for, that guy sweats nuts and bolts, eats rocks, plows his women a minimum two at a time and 'wrecks that shit' in general - good times.
Apologies, it looks like the original picture which I linked has been removed, I'm sure the Windows 7 images are floating out there somewhere or have been linked in another thread here.
Either way it was the explorer view, essentially identical and as convolouted as Vistas one:/
Since you've been using Windows for so long, clarify for me if you share the same experience with explorer? Do you find that with mapped network and optical drives, that essentially the 'pauses and hangs' or nuances of the OS's seem essentially identical (in some regards) to previous versions? Almost down to the millisecond, it honestly feels like the same code to me.
I don't like to blow my own horn (ok I do) but really, that might be good for jimmy and billy smith and perhaps mom but that interface does not bring enough data into my eyes / brain fast enough, it looks convolouted and confusing.
My issues with Vista are usability and logic. I realise some users don't care about the finer details but ultimately I do feel there are enough smart users out there who simply won't put up with such a 'fluffy' and unpleasant interface.
I can not bring the data into my brain quick enough, things are not in logical places, things are messy and convoluted, some things take longer to do and some bugs have been introduced into explorer while old ones remain (what!) Example, opening explorer with mapped network drives and cd-roms / dvd-roms IS STILL GOD - DAMNED @#%ING SLOW (sorry) Why, why is it slow in 2008? Not only is it slow, it's almost precisely and utterly slow as it always was back in 1998 with Win 98 and 95. I am thoroughly and utterly convinced the morons at Microsoft have simply used the same piece of explorer code since day 1, it has NOT been re-written from scratch. As a very very heavy explorer user, I can simply 'feel' it. I know it sounds ridiculous but that's how it is.
Why is it, that they don't simply cache what was previously located on previously mapped network / dvd drives and then in a seperate thread or process then poll these drives, while maintaining a completely consistent user interface, in the background? Take note that I'm not a coder and I apologise for speaking of which I don't understand but from my base level of knowledge, is this not possible?!
It feels sluggish, just as it did under XP and frankly that's not good enough, it needs an entire overhaul.
While I'm at it, I'm a dork, I mean I'm a tech here, you'know - I'm not even smart or good at user interface design, I have an opinion and I haven't been to university but I mean I feel as if *I* could do a better job. To get to my point on this, the 'up arrow' has been removed from explorer. This was a quick and simple button which took you one level higher in the folder view. Ok that's fine Vista does that with breadcrums, but the breadcrumb physical location on the explorer interface could be anywhere - depending on the length of the path you're looking at. In a maximised window of explorer, the green 'up' arrow is _ALWAYS_ consistent and that means simplicity, logic and convienience, why is this so god-damned hard?
This also applies to the 'folders' button which takes a 'single window' explorer view of a folder and it's contents and converts it into a 'full explorer' view of said folder AND the folders to the left of it in the entire tree view. It's a simple button but good jesus it's convienient and easy and helps me navigate quicker to get things done faster. I want my computer performance and my slow hands / brain hampering me, not a stupid interface.
Futhermore again,..... I find that folder 'behaviour' and explorer behaviour is not consistent, you click a folder and sometimes it does X sometimes it does Y, sometimes a view does refresh, other times not. Windows XP however is simple, easy, fast - and yes to clarify I *was* one of the XP whiners back when it first came out, for about 6 months but I adopted it. In XP, they added classic view which was as good as 2000 or better and virtually identical to boot (not so for Vista classic) furthermore the primary concerns were performance, driver etc in XP, patchable and fixable. In Vista however, (I
There are several factors causing this.
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Bad Signs For Blu-ray
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Disclaimer: I own a PS3 and originally 'hated' blue-ray, I am now a convert.
The factors influencing this are many, for one the crazy deals on discs are (to my knowledge) not as good as they were during the war, competition makes for good bargains. Also the economy is going down the gurgler, while it may not be disctinctively apparent to all people, things are slowly but surely changing, as well as media attention to the bottom dollar and credit debt, people are slowly (and finally!) becoming aware that blowing money is not smart. I also believe blu-ray does not offer a vastly superior experience to DVD, it's superior in my mind, no questions asked but it requires (IMHO) at least a 42" HD television and ideally 50" or more to truely gain the benefits of the format.
Ultimately I am quite confident blu-ray will succeed however. I do not, in any way want OR believe that downloadable movies will win (yet). The facts of the matter are that until very high speed internet is as common as a power socket in the wall, internationally - it simply won't occur. Blu ray is a minor upgrade to DVD and it's currently too pricey but I do however believe, much like the HD TV sets required, it will slowly but surely be adopted as simply a replacement for existing 'broken' DVD players or as an upgrade, 'maybe one day' - it's not a "MUST HAVE" that DVD clearly was.
Sony (and the other companies involved with blu-ray) simply need to be patient, much like the PS3, this is going to be a long term investment which eventually pays off. In 5 years time DVD may be 40% of the market, in 10 years time I believe it'll be 75% or 90% of the market, long time to make their money back but it will become (again IMHO) the final optical disc format. In a full 10 years time, when (if) the economy and technology get over the large bump we're about to face, then and only then may downloadable movies truely replace a simple, easy piece of plastic. Note: this piece of plastic can be sold anywhere, Kmart Texas, Safeway Sydney, Airport Singapore and it'll work anywhere you have the infrastructure to play it (television, blu-ray player) Downloadable stuff requires an internet connected device which is authorised to be on the internet (ISP) to speak with a server that's authorised to download the content (account on server) - setting this up internationally, with all the movie houses and their laws, copyright crap, region coding rubbish and release date bullshit is going to be a nightmare, it will happen but this alone will cause blu-ray to go well.
So to summarise, blu-ray will dominate but it's going to be a very slow process and I do believe ultimately profitable.
3gb a day is more than enough for me, if that was about half the cost and 2/3 the bandwidth it'd seriously be worth considering to replace my standard ADSL internet connection.
I am a bit of a gun nut myself, although I don't live in the UK I love bigass sniper weapons like the 50cal. The only exposure I get to these cool weapons is through youtube, I don't have access to them (and honestly, I don't really think I care that I don't have access)
That's fairly extreme censorship and I doubt it's going to solve their problems to be honest.
Are you people that sad and angry that you'll complain about a ONE TIME eula popping up when opening the application? Really now? This is a big deal / problem how exactly? Good lord, it's a EULA not a fricking activation window.
I'm assuming if they claim it's gigabit then surely it's exactly 500mbit a second in real world use, right? Just like 802.11g is almost exactly half what it claims.
The gameplay was so 'arcadey' - it felt like a Wii game. I mean cmon - the guys force powers at the START of the game were strong as the emperor, the light saber is taking 5 hits to kill a trooper (huh?) I mean it LOOKS cool and would play cool for kids but I always preffered the more serious stuff.
I always preferred X-Wing or Tie Fighter compared to X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (the 'arcadey' one):/ Not fun, if the demo was the LAST level of the game, well - maybe awesome but the start, nope.
Something is wrong with your PC then. I love FF and have no interest in chrome without all the addons FF provides. That being said chrome was insanely fast, really, really fast - easily the fastest web browser I've ever seen, including clean instealls of FF1 / 1.5 / 2 and 3.
Cockroach eating contest? Good lord what has this world come to, that's repulsive.
That being said, god knows how many regular german roaches I've accidentally eaten >:( little bastards will not leave my apartment. I kid you not, I was heating food just last weekend gone and one was walking on the inside of the microwave on the walls, seriously.
I realise the UK is a fairly small country compared to the US, Canada and Australia but even in the UK is it possible to put fibre to every or even most homes? It just seems mind-boggingly expensive.
I don't mean to be draconian or a spoilsport but I guess I'm getting older, the world doesn't work how we want it all the time, economics come in to play here. My two questions about this situation is, what is happening with ADSL, considering it works over standard copper lines, it's still in my mind a fascinating and brilliant technology, considering we only had dial up only 10 short years ago here in Australia. Are there plans to further increase the speed of ADSL technology? Huge fat fibre to the exchange is quite feasable then ADSL off that doesn't seem that prohibitively expensive yet potentially still quite fast. (for ref: I'm in Australia and on ADSL 2+ speeds, I sync at 15mbit and get about 1.5mb a second, sadly a 20 / 40gb a month limit (peak, offpeak) so it's useless to thrash it but it is quite snappy)
Second question is, what does South Korea, Japan, Sweden do? most of us know they have some huge links in those places, 100mbit is quite common to the home. My question is how and what technology, can we learn from them? Surely they don't have fibre to each home, is it similar to DSL? is it cable, or sadly is it fibre to each home?
Final point, 28billion actually doesn't sound _that_ expensive in this day and age, considering what single road projects can cost councils and countries, it really seems kind of cheap to be honest.
I love firefox but I really do tire of the performance sometimes, especially when one tab misbehaves and the others lock up with it. There should be a seperate process per tab, I had a quad core CPU sitting 3 cores idle while FF is locked up on a single tab:/
Also there's some bugs with flash embedded video and being able to change tabs with control tab, the 'focus' becomes lost from up the top. I've tried to demonstrate it in this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLk0MBSxb-A but it's fairly poorly done and difficult to explain. (I'm sure the majority of the readers here will get it though, ultimately the long story short is control tab and control shift tab, for hardcore keyboard users can not always be consistently relied on, due to some kind of focusing problem specifically on sites with embedded content)
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Google Turns 10
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Bullshit, as long as I've been using the web nothing comes close to googles search quality. Ok perhaps they aren't our saviour or something like that but no other search engine even came close to such precise and exact results.
I can type in exactly what I want and I get it 99% of the time (and I mean 99%) Try that with Live search even today and it spits back all kind of ridiculous shit, you have to wonder what on earth it's thinking.
The Xbox version has the filtering code included, the Wii port does not, why I don't know as it should be about as powerful as an Xbox 1 anyhow as far as I know. I was under the impression the Wii code was a port of the latest standard build, which does include said filters, perhaps not.
Really? Really, you're going to grammer nazi someone in 2008? Seriously? I mean, I'll do it for these dipshits who say 'legos' 'for cheap' or 'anyways' but for abysmal?
1. of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great. 2. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
You're not another one of the Wii defence force, are you?
ScummVM on Xbox filters - on my 50" plasma via component (unsure if it scales to 720 / 1080 but my Xbox 1 can do it and XBMC does) ScummVM on the Wii, same TV, component also, sharp as hell pixels as all the superhawk, super sample, eagle 5x or whatever the heck they are, are not implimented.
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but it's a fun game with an excellent story,
Well that's most definitely your opinion, thanks to the internet we all get to share ours, I disagree good sir, very much - and so be it, glad you enjoyed it
but at least I have yet to hear anyone, even fanboys, proclaim it to be the best FPS of all time.
Are we using the same internet? I'm not sure that we are,...?
I have mod points but rather than spend them modding you up, I just have to post how much I agree.
Halo is without any doubt in my mind, the most over-rated game of all time, it's an 'ok' shooter with a fairly limp story and a main character with absoloutely and utterly no soul or 'coolness' at all, yet is promoted (and somehow loved) as some awesome hero character, frankly I don't know if I played and finished the same game as other gamers.
Certainly not a crap game but it's in no way as good as it's touted to be, to this day it eludes me.
Now Kratos,... that is a main character I can understand the love for, that guy sweats nuts and bolts, eats rocks, plows his women a minimum two at a time and 'wrecks that shit' in general - good times.
Apologies, it looks like the original picture which I linked has been removed, I'm sure the Windows 7 images are floating out there somewhere or have been linked in another thread here.
Either way it was the explorer view, essentially identical and as convolouted as Vistas one :/
Since you've been using Windows for so long, clarify for me if you share the same experience with explorer?
Do you find that with mapped network and optical drives, that essentially the 'pauses and hangs' or nuances of the OS's seem essentially identical (in some regards) to previous versions? Almost down to the millisecond, it honestly feels like the same code to me.
Look at this?
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/09/win7/Computer-menu1.png
I don't like to blow my own horn (ok I do) but really, that might be good for jimmy and billy smith and perhaps mom but that interface does not bring enough data into my eyes / brain fast enough, it looks convolouted and confusing.
I'd like to re-post for the 1000'th time why I don't like Vista (read if you like, but you don't have to)
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737
(note, one or two small mistakes in there but mostly correct)
My issues with Vista are usability and logic.
I realise some users don't care about the finer details but ultimately I do feel there are enough smart users out there who simply won't put up with such a 'fluffy' and unpleasant interface.
I can not bring the data into my brain quick enough, things are not in logical places, things are messy and convoluted, some things take longer to do and some bugs have been introduced into explorer while old ones remain (what!)
Example, opening explorer with mapped network drives and cd-roms / dvd-roms IS STILL GOD - DAMNED @#%ING SLOW (sorry)
Why, why is it slow in 2008?
Not only is it slow, it's almost precisely and utterly slow as it always was back in 1998 with Win 98 and 95.
I am thoroughly and utterly convinced the morons at Microsoft have simply used the same piece of explorer code since day 1, it has NOT been re-written from scratch.
As a very very heavy explorer user, I can simply 'feel' it. I know it sounds ridiculous but that's how it is.
Why is it, that they don't simply cache what was previously located on previously mapped network / dvd drives and then in a seperate thread or process then poll these drives, while maintaining a completely consistent user interface, in the background?
Take note that I'm not a coder and I apologise for speaking of which I don't understand but from my base level of knowledge, is this not possible?!
It feels sluggish, just as it did under XP and frankly that's not good enough, it needs an entire overhaul.
While I'm at it, I'm a dork, I mean I'm a tech here, you'know - I'm not even smart or good at user interface design, I have an opinion and I haven't been to university but I mean I feel as if *I* could do a better job.
To get to my point on this, the 'up arrow' has been removed from explorer.
This was a quick and simple button which took you one level higher in the folder view.
Ok that's fine Vista does that with breadcrums, but the breadcrumb physical location on the explorer interface could be anywhere - depending on the length of the path you're looking at.
In a maximised window of explorer, the green 'up' arrow is _ALWAYS_ consistent and that means simplicity, logic and convienience, why is this so god-damned hard?
This also applies to the 'folders' button which takes a 'single window' explorer view of a folder and it's contents and converts it into a 'full explorer' view of said folder AND the folders to the left of it in the entire tree view. It's a simple button but good jesus it's convienient and easy and helps me navigate quicker to get things done faster.
I want my computer performance and my slow hands / brain hampering me, not a stupid interface.
Futhermore again,..... I find that folder 'behaviour' and explorer behaviour is not consistent, you click a folder and sometimes it does X sometimes it does Y, sometimes a view does refresh, other times not.
Windows XP however is simple, easy, fast - and yes to clarify I *was* one of the XP whiners back when it first came out, for about 6 months but I adopted it.
In XP, they added classic view which was as good as 2000 or better and virtually identical to boot (not so for Vista classic) furthermore the primary concerns were performance, driver etc in XP, patchable and fixable.
In Vista however, (I
Disclaimer: I own a PS3 and originally 'hated' blue-ray, I am now a convert.
The factors influencing this are many, for one the crazy deals on discs are (to my knowledge) not as good as they were during the war, competition makes for good bargains.
Also the economy is going down the gurgler, while it may not be disctinctively apparent to all people, things are slowly but surely changing, as well as media attention to the bottom dollar and credit debt, people are slowly (and finally!) becoming aware that blowing money is not smart.
I also believe blu-ray does not offer a vastly superior experience to DVD, it's superior in my mind, no questions asked but it requires (IMHO) at least a 42" HD television and ideally 50" or more to truely gain the benefits of the format.
Ultimately I am quite confident blu-ray will succeed however.
I do not, in any way want OR believe that downloadable movies will win (yet). The facts of the matter are that until very high speed internet is as common as a power socket in the wall, internationally - it simply won't occur.
Blu ray is a minor upgrade to DVD and it's currently too pricey but I do however believe, much like the HD TV sets required, it will slowly but surely be adopted as simply a replacement for existing 'broken' DVD players or as an upgrade, 'maybe one day' - it's not a "MUST HAVE" that DVD clearly was.
Sony (and the other companies involved with blu-ray) simply need to be patient, much like the PS3, this is going to be a long term investment which eventually pays off.
In 5 years time DVD may be 40% of the market, in 10 years time I believe it'll be 75% or 90% of the market, long time to make their money back but it will become (again IMHO) the final optical disc format.
In a full 10 years time, when (if) the economy and technology get over the large bump we're about to face, then and only then may downloadable movies truely replace a simple, easy piece of plastic.
Note: this piece of plastic can be sold anywhere, Kmart Texas, Safeway Sydney, Airport Singapore and it'll work anywhere you have the infrastructure to play it (television, blu-ray player)
Downloadable stuff requires an internet connected device which is authorised to be on the internet (ISP) to speak with a server that's authorised to download the content (account on server) - setting this up internationally, with all the movie houses and their laws, copyright crap, region coding rubbish and release date bullshit is going to be a nightmare, it will happen but this alone will cause blu-ray to go well.
So to summarise, blu-ray will dominate but it's going to be a very slow process and I do believe ultimately profitable.
3gb a day is more than enough for me, if that was about half the cost and 2/3 the bandwidth it'd seriously be worth considering to replace my standard ADSL internet connection.
I am a bit of a gun nut myself, although I don't live in the UK I love bigass sniper weapons like the 50cal.
The only exposure I get to these cool weapons is through youtube, I don't have access to them (and honestly, I don't really think I care that I don't have access)
That's fairly extreme censorship and I doubt it's going to solve their problems to be honest.
You need +15 modding >:(
So so pissed off that Sony blocked XBMC on linux with the PS3 (they closed the GPU loophole)
May I direct you to this post please...
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=967445&cid=25046659
Why can't we vote for just one post per subject to be a +6 or post of the thread?
Here's your contender right here.
Everyone else here is debating the relative merits of going with Iceweasel or other forks/browsers. You're the only one complaining.
I see you haven't looked over the posts clearly, no matter - perhaps you can try again and get back to me.
Are you people that sad and angry that you'll complain about a ONE TIME eula popping up when opening the application?
Really now? This is a big deal / problem how exactly? Good lord, it's a EULA not a fricking activation window.
Ridiculous.
I'm assuming if they claim it's gigabit then surely it's exactly 500mbit a second in real world use, right?
Just like 802.11g is almost exactly half what it claims.
The gameplay was so 'arcadey' - it felt like a Wii game.
I mean cmon - the guys force powers at the START of the game were strong as the emperor, the light saber is taking 5 hits to kill a trooper (huh?)
I mean it LOOKS cool and would play cool for kids but I always preffered the more serious stuff.
I always preferred X-Wing or Tie Fighter compared to X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (the 'arcadey' one) :/
Not fun, if the demo was the LAST level of the game, well - maybe awesome but the start, nope.
Something is wrong with your PC then.
I love FF and have no interest in chrome without all the addons FF provides.
That being said chrome was insanely fast, really, really fast - easily the fastest web browser I've ever seen, including clean instealls of FF1 / 1.5 / 2 and 3.
Cockroach eating contest? Good lord what has this world come to, that's repulsive.
That being said, god knows how many regular german roaches I've accidentally eaten >:( little bastards will not leave my apartment.
I kid you not, I was heating food just last weekend gone and one was walking on the inside of the microwave on the walls, seriously.
I realise the UK is a fairly small country compared to the US, Canada and Australia but even in the UK is it possible to put fibre to every or even most homes?
It just seems mind-boggingly expensive.
I don't mean to be draconian or a spoilsport but I guess I'm getting older, the world doesn't work how we want it all the time, economics come in to play here.
My two questions about this situation is, what is happening with ADSL, considering it works over standard copper lines, it's still in my mind a fascinating and brilliant technology, considering we only had dial up only 10 short years ago here in Australia.
Are there plans to further increase the speed of ADSL technology?
Huge fat fibre to the exchange is quite feasable then ADSL off that doesn't seem that prohibitively expensive yet potentially still quite fast.
(for ref: I'm in Australia and on ADSL 2+ speeds, I sync at 15mbit and get about 1.5mb a second, sadly a 20 / 40gb a month limit (peak, offpeak) so it's useless to thrash it but it is quite snappy)
Second question is, what does South Korea, Japan, Sweden do? most of us know they have some huge links in those places, 100mbit is quite common to the home.
My question is how and what technology, can we learn from them?
Surely they don't have fibre to each home, is it similar to DSL? is it cable, or sadly is it fibre to each home?
Final point, 28billion actually doesn't sound _that_ expensive in this day and age, considering what single road projects can cost councils and countries, it really seems kind of cheap to be honest.
THIS IS WHAT SUPER ADVENTURE CLUB ACTUALLY BELIEVES.
(Anyone who says Southpark is just a crass, shock show honestly just don't 'get it' - one of the cleverest shows in years)
I love firefox but I really do tire of the performance sometimes, especially when one tab misbehaves and the others lock up with it. :/
There should be a seperate process per tab, I had a quad core CPU sitting 3 cores idle while FF is locked up on a single tab
Also there's some bugs with flash embedded video and being able to change tabs with control tab, the 'focus' becomes lost from up the top.
I've tried to demonstrate it in this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLk0MBSxb-A but it's fairly poorly done and difficult to explain.
(I'm sure the majority of the readers here will get it though, ultimately the long story short is control tab and control shift tab, for hardcore keyboard users can not always be consistently relied on, due to some kind of focusing problem specifically on sites with embedded content)
Bullshit, as long as I've been using the web nothing comes close to googles search quality.
Ok perhaps they aren't our saviour or something like that but no other search engine even came close to such precise and exact results.
I can type in exactly what I want and I get it 99% of the time (and I mean 99%)
Try that with Live search even today and it spits back all kind of ridiculous shit, you have to wonder what on earth it's thinking.
Dude I'm trying to REMEMBER my sexual encounters not forget them - eek.
The Xbox version has the filtering code included, the Wii port does not, why I don't know as it should be about as powerful as an Xbox 1 anyhow as far as I know.
I was under the impression the Wii code was a port of the latest standard build, which does include said filters, perhaps not.
Really?
Really, you're going to grammer nazi someone in 2008? Seriously?
I mean, I'll do it for these dipshits who say 'legos' 'for cheap' or 'anyways' but for abysmal?
1. of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great.
2. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
You're not another one of the Wii defence force, are you?
ScummVM on Xbox filters - on my 50" plasma via component (unsure if it scales to 720 / 1080 but my Xbox 1 can do it and XBMC does)
ScummVM on the Wii, same TV, component also, sharp as hell pixels as all the superhawk, super sample, eagle 5x or whatever the heck they are, are not implimented.