IMHO I think the reason females don't seem to be as involved in games is because the games are nothing like what they're looking for. In Tomb Raider for example, Lara has to shoot everyone by herself, with not much in the way of storyline. I think games with more interaction (Especially Multiplayer Co Operative games) would be better for women. Also a good storyline is helpful. My sister loves playing Final Fantasy X, which is a great game once you get started. It has a deep storyline, males and females are fairly equal in fighting abilities, and it's not completely mindless.
I personally think games that aren't just look, shoot, shoot again, die, would be more popular among female gamers.
If you really want to measure it's ability to render tables, use the Gimp to export an 800 * 600 image into html file format. This is where each cell is 1 pixel high and 1 pixel wide. Inside each cell must by "img src=spacer.gif" where spacer.gif is a transperant, 1px * 1px gif file. This will take a long time to render on both browsers. I can't be bothered booting into windows so I can't test it with IE, anybody else want to try?
I feel the same way. I have a PC, which runs Mandrake 9.0
Because Mandrake comes with no decent games, I bought a PS2... Now I can play my games easily, without worrying about hard drive space.
I don't know about others but I bought a console so I could play games away from my PC, not so I can use it as a PC away from my PC, that would be pointless, and a waste of money.
You also need games. Any house that has somebody under the age of 18 (Most anyway) will by Windows because it runs all the mainstream games their friends play. Yes wine could solve this, but it would be good if the developers released linux versions of games.
It would be ideal to not have wine at all, we have office applications, browsers and all those things, made in linux that don't need an emulator. The only big thing missing is mainstream games. We have equivelants of everything else.
I emailed them, and you can actually go right on through without paying (According to their support team) But they still should at least have a "I don't want to donate, but I want the software" button.
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IMHO I think the reason females don't seem to be as involved in games is because the games are nothing like what they're looking for. In Tomb Raider for example, Lara has to shoot everyone by herself, with not much in the way of storyline. I think games with more interaction (Especially Multiplayer Co Operative games) would be better for women. Also a good storyline is helpful. My sister loves playing Final Fantasy X, which is a great game once you get started. It has a deep storyline, males and females are fairly equal in fighting abilities, and it's not completely mindless.
I personally think games that aren't just look, shoot, shoot again, die, would be more popular among female gamers.
If you really want to measure it's ability to render tables, use the Gimp to export an 800 * 600 image into html file format. This is where each cell is 1 pixel high and 1 pixel wide. Inside each cell must by "img src=spacer.gif" where spacer.gif is a transperant, 1px * 1px gif file. This will take a long time to render on both browsers. I can't be bothered booting into windows so I can't test it with IE, anybody else want to try?
Because Mandrake comes with no decent games, I bought a PS2... Now I can play my games easily, without worrying about hard drive space.
I don't know about others but I bought a console so I could play games away from my PC, not so I can use it as a PC away from my PC, that would be pointless, and a waste of money.
Uncheck the "open unrequested windows" checkbox. Warning: this will stop popups other than adds (Polls etc)
You also need games. Any house that has somebody under the age of 18 (Most anyway) will by Windows because it runs all the mainstream games their friends play. Yes wine could solve this, but it would be good if the developers released linux versions of games. It would be ideal to not have wine at all, we have office applications, browsers and all those things, made in linux that don't need an emulator. The only big thing missing is mainstream games. We have equivelants of everything else.
I emailed them, and you can actually go right on through without paying (According to their support team)
But they still should at least have a "I don't want to donate, but I want the software" button.