Interface. If using crappy interfaces doesn't bother you, I guess that's fine. But I've been using computers for way too long to deal with crap when I don't have to. This is the primary reason I don't use windows, mac, gnome, or anything else similar. As the application that I use most I don't think it's at all unreasonable to be particular about the functioning of a web browser.
These are the features I can't really do without, though I run a few other extensions that I could live without but are somewhat useful (and not listed below):
- Mouse gesture, which should have been built-in a LONG time ago. - aspell, will be irrelevent if I ever upgrade to Firefox2, which isn't looking likely any time soon. - Menu Editor, because the interface clutter is annoying and wastes my screen space. - SessionSaver, again this should have been built-in a long, long time ago. - All-in-One sidebar, this is basically similar to Opera's sidebar and removes a lot of popping up windows (which I hate) and generally streamlines the interface. I'm using a very old version of it because I don't like the changes that were made after 0.5.6. - Tab Clicking Options, because the default way of dealing with tabs in Firefox is ridiculous. - Adblock and Flashblock, obviously.
You assume too much. Like, for starters, that Firefox isn't missing features that are basically impossible to implement as an extension without decreasing performance significantly. A clean copy of Firefox is real fast and smooth, but it's not useable.
Konqueror is neither viable as a renderer or as a web browser. Which is too bad, because I'd really like to see it be an option. It doesn't render properly most pages that I use regularly (this is not an exaggeration). It's rather feature incomplete as a full web browser, and where it has the features they feel flaky. It suffers a lot from the microsoft-copying lunacy of trying to shoehorn a web browser and file browser into a single application. I don't really use Konq as a file browser (gui file browsing isn't very useful for me) it hurts a lot as a web browser from this duality. And then everything about it just feels flaky.
So yes, Konqueror is an alternative. It is not however viable for every day use and very likely never will be.
What MP3s?! Where would kids even buy MP3s from if they did have credit cards? A few bands sell MP3 downloads of their music, but that's about it. All the major online music stores sell DRM'd AAC (itms) or DRM'd WMA (everyone else). I know that these kids are all ignorant enough to not even know there is a difference, let alone what that difference is, but everyone here on/. should know the difference and understand why it is an important distinction.
I don't think you understood what I said. I asked if it mattered because there is no choice in using extensions. Out of the box Firefox isn't even useable as an everyday browser. The stock configuration is ridiculous and can't be adequately changed without extensions. Don't even get me started on the bad (chrome) and worse (gtk2) options for file dialogs on Linux.
So again, if you missed the point (again!), Firefox isn't a useable browser without extensions and if some necessary extensions significantly decrease performance these features should be built in, which surely would run better than as an extension.
If you want step-by-step instructions, just start up Firefox and see the clunky, backwards, and outdated interface. Firefox 2 doesn't seem to be fixing any of these problems, and looks to be making many of them much worse. Too bad it's still the best browser on Linux, due to Opera's weird graphical issues with KDE, and more importantly its annoying habit of crashing on my bank's website.
Does it matter? Stock Firefox needs at least half a dozen extensions just to get the basic functionality it should come with by default.
And for the record, close button on tabs (or even the single one on the tab bar that Firefox has been shipping with) is a needless waste of space. When I ran the Firefox2 Beta I didn't even see an option to turn it off, and there definitely wasn't one built into Firefox 1.x.
I have yet to play any M-rated game that has language worse (if you're a prick who thinks words can be "bad") than I've heard out of the mouths of five-year-olds. They're just words, grow up, America!
Not sure where you're getting your ideas about how much it would cost to produce a single "episode", but you've got to remember that the majority of development cost on episodic games is going to be up front. All the engine work, all the recurring graphics, sound effects, music, etc will have to be made for release in the first installment. The opportunity for savings on development will come from reusing these resources in addition to the added revenue from charging more than the standard $50 for the whole series, even if each episode is cheaper than that individually.
Here's an idea for the people developing video games: Make shorter games that are better.
You'd think, but I seriously doubt that's true. Same as I'd think that everyone in the video industry would know that taking a pan-and-scan video, cropping off the top and bottom, and selling it as "widescreen" is never a good idea, but that is clearly not the case either.
But a vote for a Democrat IS a vote for wolves eating me so I will hold my nose and go vote a straight Republican ticket in November.
Why are people like you such cowards? Maybe it's because you're so stupid as to think there is ANYTHING "rational" about fear. You have a far greater chance of being killed in a car crash than ever being involved in a terrorist attack but I don't see you claiming it's "rational" to stop the use of cars by invading Iraq, which incidentally has more to do with cars that it did with terrorism.
Grow a pair or get the fuck out of my country, bitch. Getting a clue wouldn't hurt either.
What's funny is that Squaresoft's non-FF games were way better on PSX than their FF games. Parasite Eve, Bushido Blade, Vagrant Story, and Threads of Fate were all better than the PSX Final Fantasies, particularly FF7 which is easily the worst game in the series since Famicom/NES.
Couldn't agree more. I hope apple wins and all the "podcasters" boycott apple in protest so that we'll never have to hear or see the term "podcast" used again. Now that's something I think we can all enjoy!
I've always gotten my pre-ordered systems on launch day without problems. But this was before the 360 launch that taught all the game shop employees that it's cool and profittable to take pre-order systems for themselves and sell them on ebay. I'm so happy that Nintendo decided not to actually make their system affordable since now I don't have to worry about it.
I can't believe that what they're doing actually requires Link to be right-handed. I don't see how it has any relation to what hand you hold the controller in. It's neither first person nor what all the kids are calling "1-to-1" control, so who cares? Really, if people didn't feel right with the controls not in the same hand as the character appears to be holding them in, how hard is it really to switch? In previous 3D Zelda games we've all used our left hand to aim Link's weapons anyway.
Cheaper doesn't mean it's reasonably priced. It's totally possible for both to cost too much, and they both do. It's absolutely as big of a deal as I make it, because I'm not buying a Wii due to the price. I'm almost a complete "casual" gamer these days. I buy maybe 3 or 4 games a year, almost never at initial pricing. Wii is well out of the range that I'd be willing to pay for it and Nintendo is going to throw away a lot of sales because of that. Whether or not it'll hurt them, who knows, but they're nuts of they think this is some how "mass market" pricing or going to draw in the "casual" or "lapsed" gamer. I'll also go way out on a limb here and predict that people don't give a fuck about viewing pictures on their game console or about having their game console show them weather forecasts.
Because I said after tax, which is 8.6% here. That's $463.65, which is closer to $500 than $400. This is WITHOUT A REAL GAME TO PLAY. That's not affordable. And give me a fucking break about it's "cheaper than ps3." No fucking shit it's cheaper than ps3, which everyone agrees is so far from reasonably priced as to be insane. Just because ps3 is LESS affordable and more ridiculously priced doesn't somehow make Wii a good deal. Both are priced too much. The difference is that ps3 at is costing sony an insane amount of money to produce that Wii isn't costing Nintendo. I'd rather pay $60 for a game and get a reasonable price on the console and controllers.
Which completely fails for multiplayer. I used to be a pretty hardcore game player but I neither have the time or interest in it anymore. Just about all of the games I play now are local multiplayer, often with at least three players. None of my friends are going to be buying Wii (or any other new console) any time soon, which leaves it up to me to furnish controllers enough for everyone to play. At $60 a pop (for the "standard" controller set) that's really way out of my price range, putting a complete Wii set (after tax) at almost $500 and only having Wii Sports to play on it.
The GP is absolutely right. With the nunchaku being sold as an addon developers can not assume people will have them, at least not for the multiplayer component. This is going to cut out quite a few genres regardless of how creative developers turn out to be, and I have my doubts from the general lack of innovation in most games using conventional controllers with a million buttons (I'm thinking of the horrible ports of EA sports games particularly).
Nintendo has a real opportunity to have the best multiplayer console in history with Wii and I think they're blowing it with the pricing. The $250 for the base unit already seems pretty greedy for what is basically higher clocked versions of hardware that's over 5 years old but the controller prices are what's breaking the deal for me. I was totally stoked about getting a Wii (I've been awaiting the GameCube followup for at least 3 years) until they announced the price. Now I'll probably get one sometime down the road, but it's going to have to be a lot cheaper and probably will have to wait until they're bundling it with two controllers and maybe a game.
Looks like Nintendo may have turned me into one of the "lapsed" gamers they're trying to bring back and all because of a boneheaded, unnecessary pricing model.
I should probably add that the single player offers on Wii don't interest me in the least. Especially Zelda. Even if I were completely convinced that it wouldn't be anything like the 3D Zelda formula from the last two consoles (that I am very tired of) who has time to play a 20+ hour game, to say nothing of 75+? I guess it's lucky for Nintendo that their competition is even worse at catering to a mass market audience, but then again that's why they think they can get away with this sort of thing in the first place.
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Interface. If using crappy interfaces doesn't bother you, I guess that's fine. But I've been using computers for way too long to deal with crap when I don't have to. This is the primary reason I don't use windows, mac, gnome, or anything else similar. As the application that I use most I don't think it's at all unreasonable to be particular about the functioning of a web browser.
These are the features I can't really do without, though I run a few other extensions that I could live without but are somewhat useful (and not listed below):
- Mouse gesture, which should have been built-in a LONG time ago.
- aspell, will be irrelevent if I ever upgrade to Firefox2, which isn't looking likely any time soon.
- Menu Editor, because the interface clutter is annoying and wastes my screen space.
- SessionSaver, again this should have been built-in a long, long time ago.
- All-in-One sidebar, this is basically similar to Opera's sidebar and removes a lot of popping up windows (which I hate) and generally streamlines the interface. I'm using a very old version of it because I don't like the changes that were made after 0.5.6.
- Tab Clicking Options, because the default way of dealing with tabs in Firefox is ridiculous.
- Adblock and Flashblock, obviously.
So I guess I low-balled a bit at half a dozen.
You assume too much. Like, for starters, that Firefox isn't missing features that are basically impossible to implement as an extension without decreasing performance significantly. A clean copy of Firefox is real fast and smooth, but it's not useable.
Konqueror is neither viable as a renderer or as a web browser. Which is too bad, because I'd really like to see it be an option. It doesn't render properly most pages that I use regularly (this is not an exaggeration). It's rather feature incomplete as a full web browser, and where it has the features they feel flaky. It suffers a lot from the microsoft-copying lunacy of trying to shoehorn a web browser and file browser into a single application. I don't really use Konq as a file browser (gui file browsing isn't very useful for me) it hurts a lot as a web browser from this duality. And then everything about it just feels flaky.
So yes, Konqueror is an alternative. It is not however viable for every day use and very likely never will be.
What MP3s?! Where would kids even buy MP3s from if they did have credit cards? A few bands sell MP3 downloads of their music, but that's about it. All the major online music stores sell DRM'd AAC (itms) or DRM'd WMA (everyone else). I know that these kids are all ignorant enough to not even know there is a difference, let alone what that difference is, but everyone here on /. should know the difference and understand why it is an important distinction.
I don't think you understood what I said. I asked if it mattered because there is no choice in using extensions. Out of the box Firefox isn't even useable as an everyday browser. The stock configuration is ridiculous and can't be adequately changed without extensions. Don't even get me started on the bad (chrome) and worse (gtk2) options for file dialogs on Linux.
So again, if you missed the point (again!), Firefox isn't a useable browser without extensions and if some necessary extensions significantly decrease performance these features should be built in, which surely would run better than as an extension.
If you want step-by-step instructions, just start up Firefox and see the clunky, backwards, and outdated interface. Firefox 2 doesn't seem to be fixing any of these problems, and looks to be making many of them much worse. Too bad it's still the best browser on Linux, due to Opera's weird graphical issues with KDE, and more importantly its annoying habit of crashing on my bank's website.
Does it matter? Stock Firefox needs at least half a dozen extensions just to get the basic functionality it should come with by default.
And for the record, close button on tabs (or even the single one on the tab bar that Firefox has been shipping with) is a needless waste of space. When I ran the Firefox2 Beta I didn't even see an option to turn it off, and there definitely wasn't one built into Firefox 1.x.
Even if he eventually does one there's no way it'll be any time soon. He's working on at least two other films right now.
I hated Fable. A lot. That's all I've got to say about that.
I have yet to play any M-rated game that has language worse (if you're a prick who thinks words can be "bad") than I've heard out of the mouths of five-year-olds. They're just words, grow up, America!
Games are all about sound and packaging, baby! Advertising with screenshots just ruins the experience.
GP probably meant that buying EA games is always a gamble.
Not sure where you're getting your ideas about how much it would cost to produce a single "episode", but you've got to remember that the majority of development cost on episodic games is going to be up front. All the engine work, all the recurring graphics, sound effects, music, etc will have to be made for release in the first installment. The opportunity for savings on development will come from reusing these resources in addition to the added revenue from charging more than the standard $50 for the whole series, even if each episode is cheaper than that individually.
Here's an idea for the people developing video games: Make shorter games that are better.
Exactly. If he were at a public university the students would be the employers AND the customers.
You'd think, but I seriously doubt that's true. Same as I'd think that everyone in the video industry would know that taking a pan-and-scan video, cropping off the top and bottom, and selling it as "widescreen" is never a good idea, but that is clearly not the case either.
But a vote for a Democrat IS a vote for wolves eating me so I will hold my nose and go vote a straight Republican ticket in November.
Why are people like you such cowards? Maybe it's because you're so stupid as to think there is ANYTHING "rational" about fear. You have a far greater chance of being killed in a car crash than ever being involved in a terrorist attack but I don't see you claiming it's "rational" to stop the use of cars by invading Iraq, which incidentally has more to do with cars that it did with terrorism.
Grow a pair or get the fuck out of my country, bitch. Getting a clue wouldn't hurt either.
What's funny is that Squaresoft's non-FF games were way better on PSX than their FF games. Parasite Eve, Bushido Blade, Vagrant Story, and Threads of Fate were all better than the PSX Final Fantasies, particularly FF7 which is easily the worst game in the series since Famicom/NES.
Couldn't agree more. I hope apple wins and all the "podcasters" boycott apple in protest so that we'll never have to hear or see the term "podcast" used again. Now that's something I think we can all enjoy!
So when's the IE audit? I can't wait!
I've always gotten my pre-ordered systems on launch day without problems. But this was before the 360 launch that taught all the game shop employees that it's cool and profittable to take pre-order systems for themselves and sell them on ebay. I'm so happy that Nintendo decided not to actually make their system affordable since now I don't have to worry about it.
I can't believe it! They put GoldenEye on there and didn't even mention the "500MHz drives"!!!!!
"Golden reputation"? I think you're missing the sarcasm when people say "Apple Quality(tm)".
I can't believe that what they're doing actually requires Link to be right-handed. I don't see how it has any relation to what hand you hold the controller in. It's neither first person nor what all the kids are calling "1-to-1" control, so who cares? Really, if people didn't feel right with the controls not in the same hand as the character appears to be holding them in, how hard is it really to switch? In previous 3D Zelda games we've all used our left hand to aim Link's weapons anyway.
Cheaper doesn't mean it's reasonably priced. It's totally possible for both to cost too much, and they both do. It's absolutely as big of a deal as I make it, because I'm not buying a Wii due to the price. I'm almost a complete "casual" gamer these days. I buy maybe 3 or 4 games a year, almost never at initial pricing. Wii is well out of the range that I'd be willing to pay for it and Nintendo is going to throw away a lot of sales because of that. Whether or not it'll hurt them, who knows, but they're nuts of they think this is some how "mass market" pricing or going to draw in the "casual" or "lapsed" gamer. I'll also go way out on a limb here and predict that people don't give a fuck about viewing pictures on their game console or about having their game console show them weather forecasts.
Because I said after tax, which is 8.6% here. That's $463.65, which is closer to $500 than $400. This is WITHOUT A REAL GAME TO PLAY. That's not affordable. And give me a fucking break about it's "cheaper than ps3." No fucking shit it's cheaper than ps3, which everyone agrees is so far from reasonably priced as to be insane. Just because ps3 is LESS affordable and more ridiculously priced doesn't somehow make Wii a good deal. Both are priced too much. The difference is that ps3 at is costing sony an insane amount of money to produce that Wii isn't costing Nintendo. I'd rather pay $60 for a game and get a reasonable price on the console and controllers.
Which completely fails for multiplayer. I used to be a pretty hardcore game player but I neither have the time or interest in it anymore. Just about all of the games I play now are local multiplayer, often with at least three players. None of my friends are going to be buying Wii (or any other new console) any time soon, which leaves it up to me to furnish controllers enough for everyone to play. At $60 a pop (for the "standard" controller set) that's really way out of my price range, putting a complete Wii set (after tax) at almost $500 and only having Wii Sports to play on it.
The GP is absolutely right. With the nunchaku being sold as an addon developers can not assume people will have them, at least not for the multiplayer component. This is going to cut out quite a few genres regardless of how creative developers turn out to be, and I have my doubts from the general lack of innovation in most games using conventional controllers with a million buttons (I'm thinking of the horrible ports of EA sports games particularly).
Nintendo has a real opportunity to have the best multiplayer console in history with Wii and I think they're blowing it with the pricing. The $250 for the base unit already seems pretty greedy for what is basically higher clocked versions of hardware that's over 5 years old but the controller prices are what's breaking the deal for me. I was totally stoked about getting a Wii (I've been awaiting the GameCube followup for at least 3 years) until they announced the price. Now I'll probably get one sometime down the road, but it's going to have to be a lot cheaper and probably will have to wait until they're bundling it with two controllers and maybe a game.
Looks like Nintendo may have turned me into one of the "lapsed" gamers they're trying to bring back and all because of a boneheaded, unnecessary pricing model.
I should probably add that the single player offers on Wii don't interest me in the least. Especially Zelda. Even if I were completely convinced that it wouldn't be anything like the 3D Zelda formula from the last two consoles (that I am very tired of) who has time to play a 20+ hour game, to say nothing of 75+? I guess it's lucky for Nintendo that their competition is even worse at catering to a mass market audience, but then again that's why they think they can get away with this sort of thing in the first place.