rigid spelling is a relativly new concept and relativly centered on English.
I am just saying that calling poor spelling an erosion of culture is inaccurate and ill informed, since historically spelling "errors" are more prevalent than "correct" spelling.
I would be willing to say that the average txt-speak tweenager knows "proper" english better than the average person who complains about txt-speak knows how to write txt-speak.
I work for a bank so we don't do box software, but our patches have to meet FTC standards and Federal bank standards.
It is uncommon, but not unheard of to have an 8 hour fix. In cases of customer data vulnerability, legislation has been made such that if we are aware of a problem, we have an automatic injunction against us continuing to do business unless the problem is resolved. So when we have a security flaw, our bank stops working untill it is fixed. So yeah 48 hours would have people fired for sure.
Compliance/security are the only two things that can spark a release with less than 72 hours notice though.
Apple is breaking new ground, but this seems planted squarely in the past.
Name one thing an iPhone does that my 3 year old treo does not do. You can't, because the iPhone has prettier, smoother, more friendly interface that does LESS than 3 or even 5 year old phones.
I am not arguing that android is revolutionary, but I am arguing that the iPhone is not.
Optical media always has and always will suck. Solid state is the only reasonable media for a handheld device. I think it's short sighted and quite stupid to expect people to carry giant, slow loading UMDs.
I keep 4 DS games in my WALLET at all times, I keep my DS Lite in my pocket and the outside gets scratched to hell, but of course since the clamshell design protects the screens, the device is still as playable as the day I got it. Somehow I doubt the PSP would hold up to the abuse I dish out to the DS Lite daily.
I know this is an old dead thread, but incase your were curious: we deal with a hodgepodge of media based small community/county run web pages. written by bubba and his brother who knows 'puters or simply the lowest bidder. We deal with community mapping resources such as development planning. Ever horrid out dated, inefficient format you can think of we have... and yes that includes things like those "3d" quicktime models.
that was my point, all the other stuff is already broken on windows and protected by patents so it can remain broken... break the last straw (Adobe Flash) then we can kill t3h Windows.
can I join your fan club? My first thought was "Under the antartic cap of course" but I think the gulf is the best cosmo-conspiracy theory yet. (an no I am not being sarcastic)
if an app (especially one that should be very simple) does not function in a reasonable way in its default configuration, it is not ready for prime time. Sure you and I can keep QTTask from calling home and restarting every time you sneeze, taking over formats it can't use, auto updating, etc etc, but the average user cannot/will not.
At work:
iTunes runs in the sys tray for my users, constantly tries to dial home, but it's blocked... so somehow it takes up 20% of the cpu all the time. Of course we block installs and it is against company policy, but there will always be enterprising users willing to Eff up their machines. Quicktime happens to hijack a bajillion extensions, including ones it DOES NOT SUPPORT. The Tiff format, for example is an image format owned by adobe, which Quicktime hijacks. The tiff specification allows for MULTI PAGE images, the Quicktime viewer does not. This is particularly frustrating to users who must install quicktime to view certain web pages, but also must view tiff documents which meet the tiff spec.
Reader is a bloated piece of crap... the best way to get it to work is to disable 90% of the stuff that it is installed with (by manually deleting 20+ plug-in files). Even then for a program that shows a Tiff image with markup it loads incredibly slow, is (auto)updated WAY too frequently(um did the spec change? no? then wtfkfcbbq are you adding new "features" for???), and it consumes a strangly high amount of memory, and crashes a little too often for a business environment.
At home:
If you have ever tried to use Quicktime to view an MOV file on a win32 machine, I am amazed that you have not had issues. Besides not being able to drag the window around or resize it properly, pause/skip/rewind feature does not work, the slider bar for the video position rarely works, videos are slow, it leaves an artifact in your sys tray for no discernable reason, which it likes to feed into your registry so you will always have QTTask running and attempting to call home/maintain the file association hijack.
I have no problem with Flash really, especially as compared to the others, but that was the intention of my post... The others are broken in similar ways and I am surprised that they have not broken flash yet.
home users will not/cannot scour the internets for the good alternatives. I believe that if you took the tools they are locked in to and runed them on one platform, they would be forced to a new platform.
I was wondering if there was a way to make Flash, Quicktime, and PDFs work WORSE than they already do... the answer: Obviously you should bundle them together.
Imagine an app that takes over ALL file extensions on every windows box, makes it impossible to look at any image, any document, and any web page!
I always thought that the fact that iTunes/Quicktime basically destroy windows PCs was a calculated move. I could never understand why Adobe Reader had a simmilar effect. If you could do the same to Flash it would be the last nail in the coffin for the home user of Windows. Since he who controls flash controls the civilian entertain-web, I would be surprised if there was not a google, MS, Apple bidding war for them. I am actually suprised it hasn't happened yet.
There has been nothing in the past that I have though had the power to kill Windows for the home user than a version of flash that plain does not work right on the PC, like Reader and Quicktime before it.
True gamers have never liked titles like The Sims or Spore because they don't have an end goal. You actually have to be creative in these games to enjoy them; it has little to do with "involved skill".
So this precludes MMORPG players from being hardcore gamers? little/No skill required, no end goal?? I will not argue that sims and spore aren't really for hardcore gamers, but I take issue with your definition because it excludes the biggest and arguably most hard core game market.
I guess I am an avid gamer, but aparently not a hardcore one (all of my free time is spent on games, but not all of my money). I own aprox 500 Console games, my annual budget for console games is probably in the $400-$500 range. In other words, I play games when the price is right and I own many games from many generations. I bought a Wii and about 5 games, and I will probably not buy more till next year. I still have never owned an Xbox of any kind and do not have a PS3. The games I really want to play are still being released for PS2 and the new ones I care about are on the Wii. I bought a PS2 years after the fact, for GTA3 games. From what I read about GTA4 they have scaled back the flexability of gameplay in order to make it prettier, so it will probably not make me buy one of the 2 graphics machines out.
The Wii is revolutionary, admit it or not, it is.
No game, no system, no genre has been able to solve my biggest obsticle to gaming: Wife Aggro. The Wii solves this readily. My wife, my 2 year old son, my dad, my friends, we can all play Wii.
Last generation Nintendo was the only one of the big 3 to turn a profit on day 1 and day 500. They will continue to churn out their profit slowly and steadily like they always do. MS and Sony will continue to feed money into the advertising machine untill they turn a profit.
Turning 1 billion dollars into 1.2 billion dollars is not nearly as impressibe as turning 200 million dollars into 400 million dollars in my opinion, even though the end result is pretty much the same. But then again shiny things like HD Graphics don't really get my motor rolling.
Ok so the ESRB is at fault because it makes faulty ratings, and WorstBuy is at fault because they do not enforce the aforementioned faulty ratings? Which is it, do they need to be enforced or are they invalid?
Their C/O in my area is full, so no DSL and no FIOS for new subscribers in my rich area of california. WTFBBQ I can go online and order each service, and it takes 45 days for them to say... oops no broadband for you. So maybe instead of offering a product that is 20x what you currently offer in most areas, howabout you take the money from the people already fighting to pay their 60/month.
"z0mg I can't wait". The synic in me says: Sucks that there is no such thing as an arcade game anymore, only $1 ride on pieces of crap.
I would so love to pump quarters into this game... but I will have to settle for sitting on my couch throwing out dragon punches.
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rigid spelling is a relativly new concept and relativly centered on English.
I am just saying that calling poor spelling an erosion of culture is inaccurate and ill informed, since historically spelling "errors" are more prevalent than "correct" spelling.
I would be willing to say that the average txt-speak tweenager knows "proper" english better than the average person who complains about txt-speak knows how to write txt-speak.
I work for a bank so we don't do box software, but our patches have to meet FTC standards and Federal bank standards.
It is uncommon, but not unheard of to have an 8 hour fix. In cases of customer data vulnerability, legislation has been made such that if we are aware of a problem, we have an automatic injunction against us continuing to do business unless the problem is resolved. So when we have a security flaw, our bank stops working untill it is fixed. So yeah 48 hours would have people fired for sure.
Compliance/security are the only two things that can spark a release with less than 72 hours notice though.
Apple is breaking new ground, but this seems planted squarely in the past.
Name one thing an iPhone does that my 3 year old treo does not do. You can't, because the iPhone has prettier, smoother, more friendly interface that does LESS than 3 or even 5 year old phones.
I am not arguing that android is revolutionary, but I am arguing that the iPhone is not.
how could we have not connected the dots?!?! Oh yeah that's right, hindsight is a bit easier than foresight.
Optical media always has and always will suck. Solid state is the only reasonable media for a handheld device. I think it's short sighted and quite stupid to expect people to carry giant, slow loading UMDs.
I keep 4 DS games in my WALLET at all times, I keep my DS Lite in my pocket and the outside gets scratched to hell, but of course since the clamshell design protects the screens, the device is still as playable as the day I got it. Somehow I doubt the PSP would hold up to the abuse I dish out to the DS Lite daily.
I know this is an old dead thread, but incase your were curious: we deal with a hodgepodge of media based small community/county run web pages. written by bubba and his brother who knows 'puters or simply the lowest bidder. We deal with community mapping resources such as development planning. Ever horrid out dated, inefficient format you can think of we have... and yes that includes things like those "3d" quicktime models.
that was my point, all the other stuff is already broken on windows and protected by patents so it can remain broken... break the last straw (Adobe Flash) then we can kill t3h Windows.
can I join your fan club? My first thought was "Under the antartic cap of course" but I think the gulf is the best cosmo-conspiracy theory yet. (an no I am not being sarcastic)
if an app (especially one that should be very simple) does not function in a reasonable way in its default configuration, it is not ready for prime time. Sure you and I can keep QTTask from calling home and restarting every time you sneeze, taking over formats it can't use, auto updating, etc etc, but the average user cannot/will not.
At work:
iTunes runs in the sys tray for my users, constantly tries to dial home, but it's blocked... so somehow it takes up 20% of the cpu all the time. Of course we block installs and it is against company policy, but there will always be enterprising users willing to Eff up their machines. Quicktime happens to hijack a bajillion extensions, including ones it DOES NOT SUPPORT. The Tiff format, for example is an image format owned by adobe, which Quicktime hijacks. The tiff specification allows for MULTI PAGE images, the Quicktime viewer does not. This is particularly frustrating to users who must install quicktime to view certain web pages, but also must view tiff documents which meet the tiff spec.
Reader is a bloated piece of crap... the best way to get it to work is to disable 90% of the stuff that it is installed with (by manually deleting 20+ plug-in files). Even then for a program that shows a Tiff image with markup it loads incredibly slow, is (auto)updated WAY too frequently(um did the spec change? no? then wtfkfcbbq are you adding new "features" for???), and it consumes a strangly high amount of memory, and crashes a little too often for a business environment.
At home: If you have ever tried to use Quicktime to view an MOV file on a win32 machine, I am amazed that you have not had issues. Besides not being able to drag the window around or resize it properly, pause/skip/rewind feature does not work, the slider bar for the video position rarely works, videos are slow, it leaves an artifact in your sys tray for no discernable reason, which it likes to feed into your registry so you will always have QTTask running and attempting to call home/maintain the file association hijack.
I have no problem with Flash really, especially as compared to the others, but that was the intention of my post... The others are broken in similar ways and I am surprised that they have not broken flash yet.
home users will not/cannot scour the internets for the good alternatives. I believe that if you took the tools they are locked in to and runed them on one platform, they would be forced to a new platform.
I was wondering if there was a way to make Flash, Quicktime, and PDFs work WORSE than they already do... the answer: Obviously you should bundle them together.
Imagine an app that takes over ALL file extensions on every windows box, makes it impossible to look at any image, any document, and any web page!
I always thought that the fact that iTunes/Quicktime basically destroy windows PCs was a calculated move. I could never understand why Adobe Reader had a simmilar effect. If you could do the same to Flash it would be the last nail in the coffin for the home user of Windows. Since he who controls flash controls the civilian entertain-web, I would be surprised if there was not a google, MS, Apple bidding war for them. I am actually suprised it hasn't happened yet.
There has been nothing in the past that I have though had the power to kill Windows for the home user than a version of flash that plain does not work right on the PC, like Reader and Quicktime before it.
I wasn't around back then, but I'm pretty sure facism has a proven track record in germany.
True gamers have never liked titles like The Sims or Spore because they don't have an end goal. You actually have to be creative in these games to enjoy them; it has little to do with "involved skill".
So this precludes MMORPG players from being hardcore gamers? little/No skill required, no end goal?? I will not argue that sims and spore aren't really for hardcore gamers, but I take issue with your definition because it excludes the biggest and arguably most hard core game market.
I guess I am an avid gamer, but aparently not a hardcore one (all of my free time is spent on games, but not all of my money). I own aprox 500 Console games, my annual budget for console games is probably in the $400-$500 range. In other words, I play games when the price is right and I own many games from many generations. I bought a Wii and about 5 games, and I will probably not buy more till next year. I still have never owned an Xbox of any kind and do not have a PS3. The games I really want to play are still being released for PS2 and the new ones I care about are on the Wii. I bought a PS2 years after the fact, for GTA3 games. From what I read about GTA4 they have scaled back the flexability of gameplay in order to make it prettier, so it will probably not make me buy one of the 2 graphics machines out.
The Wii is revolutionary, admit it or not, it is.
No game, no system, no genre has been able to solve my biggest obsticle to gaming: Wife Aggro. The Wii solves this readily. My wife, my 2 year old son, my dad, my friends, we can all play Wii.
Last generation Nintendo was the only one of the big 3 to turn a profit on day 1 and day 500. They will continue to churn out their profit slowly and steadily like they always do. MS and Sony will continue to feed money into the advertising machine untill they turn a profit.
Turning 1 billion dollars into 1.2 billion dollars is not nearly as impressibe as turning 200 million dollars into 400 million dollars in my opinion, even though the end result is pretty much the same. But then again shiny things like HD Graphics don't really get my motor rolling.
Ok so the ESRB is at fault because it makes faulty ratings, and WorstBuy is at fault because they do not enforce the aforementioned faulty ratings? Which is it, do they need to be enforced or are they invalid?
crap, did anyone go check the zoning laws for the inter-galactic freeway?
also herd all of the housecats from the infected households into a small enclosure just to prove that herding cats is easier than herding zombies.
you can be sure that there is a human behind this
Crap it figured out how to spread FUD on slashdot! LIES! LIES!
There is no fate, and there is no spoon
just wait till it realizes that humans are the ones doing the probing.
Their C/O in my area is full, so no DSL and no FIOS for new subscribers in my rich area of california. WTFBBQ I can go online and order each service, and it takes 45 days for them to say... oops no broadband for you. So maybe instead of offering a product that is 20x what you currently offer in most areas, howabout you take the money from the people already fighting to pay their 60/month.
they even have Television and real life Tie-ins! but unfortunatly the end-boss Chris Hansen is pretty tough.
what a Creep
fortunatly the market can usually solve problems faster than the government can create them.
"z0mg I can't wait". The synic in me says: Sucks that there is no such thing as an arcade game anymore, only $1 ride on pieces of crap. I would so love to pump quarters into this game... but I will have to settle for sitting on my couch throwing out dragon punches.