I'd offer to sell you mine, but I lost half of that detachable battery case that came in two pieces for replacing the batteries.
Would have been a great system if they'd made it a little more comfortable to hold and gotten the power consumption down to something reasonable. I was never a huge fan of Genesis, but somehow the games seemed better when they were portable.
Actually, all the evidence so far has seemed to show that people who are "lifting" all the "tunes" actually BUY more of it than the people who don't. Or maybe they're all just a bunch of whining bitches because they're making more money than they've ever made in the past.
It seems like he'd be less biased if he didn't assume that the windows way of doing things was somehow the correct way of doing things.
I think the ubuntu devs have done a very good job, in that respect, of copying the windows/mac philosophy of usability. Just like with those two platforms it is very easy to use as long as you want to do what the developers want you to do with it in the way they want you to do it. Too bad none of them ever take into account speed or comfort when designing their systems.
And never attribute to incompetence what is clearly not. Diebold makes TONS of other electronic transaction machines (include, probably, your bank's ATM machines) and they don't have these kinds of problems. Perhaps they do it on purpose to give them a cover of incompetence. Perhaps it really is incompetence on the part of the guy they get to write this stuff since whoever is hiring him doesn't care if he's incompetent because they're going to fool with the results anyway and it will only add cover for them.
But CLEARLY this kind of stuff is not because Diebold isn't capable of doing it properly. It's because they explicitly don't want to do it properly.
If we're going to have electronic voting machines, and I don't think that we should (not even optical scan), they should be developed, owned, and maintained by the government. Period.
Madden uses them well if you ignore the pointer functionality, which is VERY difficult to do since you have to use the pointer to select plays. This is one of the most idiotic design decisions I've ever seen. There are more than enough buttons between the remote and nunchuk to select plays in the classic Madden style, making you point at them just makes it slow and annoying.
It isn't helped by the fact that the pointer isn't adjustable in any way and doesn't provide a built-in offset so you have to point DIRECTLY AT the "sensor bar" in order to point at the middle of the screen. It feels similar to what happens on the Wii menu when you sit WAY too close to the screen. This makes changing players excruciating without pointing off screen and using the cycle method, which only goes in one direction since they don't have the second button to reverse cycle as is used on other platforms. I have no idea how Madden got out of test with these issues, which occur regardless of distance from the television. It's the primary reason I played like two games and haven't picked it up since.
The two-on-two mode (that doesn't use the pointer at all) is quite fun however (if you've got the controllers and friends around for it), as the motion-based features are quite enjoyable and work really well.
Additionally, from the article: "I've wondered for a while why Microsoft doesn't just include Word 97 or one of the other out-of-support-lifetime versions of Word as an installable freebie with Windows."
I think we can all agree this guy's opinion is worthless if he's too stupid to realize that microsoft only makes significant amounts of money off of two products and even then only by locking people in to them. Word 97 is still way more than most people need and would kill probably 90% of the ms office revenue if it were given away.
In either case, both windows and Ubuntu suck. Ubuntu has the advantage of an admirable aim (easy to use Linux), they just fail at the implementation.
Interregnum? Really? If that's the case you might want to clean up your writing BEFORE pressing submit. It reflects poorly on King Steve when you're so sloppy.
Six years ago I paid $40 for 6mbit with AT&T and now it's $60 with Comcast, and only recently got back up to 6mbit download. The service is also down FAR more often (one outage in the 4 years or so with AT&T/@Home for less time than the call to tech support took, vs 3-6 a year with Comcast) and the customer service reps are all jackasses.
My cable costs me $20 more than it did 6 years ago, though it's been the same price for the past two years. They also charge installation now (100$, yikes!) that used to be free.
It also used to come with free basic cable but not any more. I don't know where this OP is living, but I can only assume it's not in America.
Maybe when we get people running the government who care more about governing than packing all the departments with cronies we'll have a chance. But even then I still wouldn't bet on it.
How come you recommend StarOffice over OpenOffice.org? On the Sun payroll or is there something you actual like better about it, other than the support which you don't seem to have much use for from your post?
The point is that it is about choice. No one is taking away your ability to choose to use something as crappy as IE. They're taking the ability of all the rest of us to choose not to use it.
Too bad at $1.30/song it's WAY cheaper to buy the CD and it'll sound a lot better. Even if you only want one or two tracks you can probably get the CD used for about the same price.
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You know what happens when you assume, right? You make an ass out of Benton and Valerie.
I'd offer to sell you mine, but I lost half of that detachable battery case that came in two pieces for replacing the batteries.
Would have been a great system if they'd made it a little more comfortable to hold and gotten the power consumption down to something reasonable. I was never a huge fan of Genesis, but somehow the games seemed better when they were portable.
The longer one.
Actually, all the evidence so far has seemed to show that people who are "lifting" all the "tunes" actually BUY more of it than the people who don't. Or maybe they're all just a bunch of whining bitches because they're making more money than they've ever made in the past.
It seems like he'd be less biased if he didn't assume that the windows way of doing things was somehow the correct way of doing things.
I think the ubuntu devs have done a very good job, in that respect, of copying the windows/mac philosophy of usability. Just like with those two platforms it is very easy to use as long as you want to do what the developers want you to do with it in the way they want you to do it. Too bad none of them ever take into account speed or comfort when designing their systems.
And never attribute to incompetence what is clearly not. Diebold makes TONS of other electronic transaction machines (include, probably, your bank's ATM machines) and they don't have these kinds of problems. Perhaps they do it on purpose to give them a cover of incompetence. Perhaps it really is incompetence on the part of the guy they get to write this stuff since whoever is hiring him doesn't care if he's incompetent because they're going to fool with the results anyway and it will only add cover for them.
But CLEARLY this kind of stuff is not because Diebold isn't capable of doing it properly. It's because they explicitly don't want to do it properly.
If we're going to have electronic voting machines, and I don't think that we should (not even optical scan), they should be developed, owned, and maintained by the government. Period.
Don't you worry about microsoft, let me worry about blank.
Madden uses them well if you ignore the pointer functionality, which is VERY difficult to do since you have to use the pointer to select plays. This is one of the most idiotic design decisions I've ever seen. There are more than enough buttons between the remote and nunchuk to select plays in the classic Madden style, making you point at them just makes it slow and annoying.
It isn't helped by the fact that the pointer isn't adjustable in any way and doesn't provide a built-in offset so you have to point DIRECTLY AT the "sensor bar" in order to point at the middle of the screen. It feels similar to what happens on the Wii menu when you sit WAY too close to the screen. This makes changing players excruciating without pointing off screen and using the cycle method, which only goes in one direction since they don't have the second button to reverse cycle as is used on other platforms. I have no idea how Madden got out of test with these issues, which occur regardless of distance from the television. It's the primary reason I played like two games and haven't picked it up since.
The two-on-two mode (that doesn't use the pointer at all) is quite fun however (if you've got the controllers and friends around for it), as the motion-based features are quite enjoyable and work really well.
Additionally, from the article: "I've wondered for a while why Microsoft doesn't just include Word 97 or one of the other out-of-support-lifetime versions of Word as an installable freebie with Windows."
I think we can all agree this guy's opinion is worthless if he's too stupid to realize that microsoft only makes significant amounts of money off of two products and even then only by locking people in to them. Word 97 is still way more than most people need and would kill probably 90% of the ms office revenue if it were given away.
In either case, both windows and Ubuntu suck. Ubuntu has the advantage of an admirable aim (easy to use Linux), they just fail at the implementation.
But what's the internet?
Interregnum? Really? If that's the case you might want to clean up your writing BEFORE pressing submit. It reflects poorly on King Steve when you're so sloppy.
Is it a monster truck or like a triple trailer semi? Oooh I hope it's a firetruck!
What's a shunt?
Six years ago I paid $40 for 6mbit with AT&T and now it's $60 with Comcast, and only recently got back up to 6mbit download. The service is also down FAR more often (one outage in the 4 years or so with AT&T/@Home for less time than the call to tech support took, vs 3-6 a year with Comcast) and the customer service reps are all jackasses.
That or selling access to the zombie botnet.
My cable costs me $20 more than it did 6 years ago, though it's been the same price for the past two years. They also charge installation now (100$, yikes!) that used to be free.
It also used to come with free basic cable but not any more. I don't know where this OP is living, but I can only assume it's not in America.
If congress passes a law making it legal to produce and sell cars that are unsafe I blame the government.
Maybe when we get people running the government who care more about governing than packing all the departments with cronies we'll have a chance. But even then I still wouldn't bet on it.
Does that include a decent text editor yet?
How come you recommend StarOffice over OpenOffice.org? On the Sun payroll or is there something you actual like better about it, other than the support which you don't seem to have much use for from your post?
The point is that it is about choice. No one is taking away your ability to choose to use something as crappy as IE. They're taking the ability of all the rest of us to choose not to use it.
You can buy a used CD on Half.com for 3$ shipped. Please invest in a dictionary and look up the definition of "about."
And you can buy almost ANY CD used for under $10.
Too bad at $1.30/song it's WAY cheaper to buy the CD and it'll sound a lot better. Even if you only want one or two tracks you can probably get the CD used for about the same price.
Following Walmart might be difficult for EB/GS, I'm pretty sure they still pay minimum wage...
People don't ask because they know what the answer is and don't bother. That's why I've given up on the public library.