Whaat? I always assumed GG was given out to a select few just to get feedback. So Google Glass is still experimental, is a solution looking for a problem, has a high chance of being suddenly dropped by Google if it doesn't take off, and people still are willing to pay $1500 for it? Holy Crap! I thought Apple's fanboys were insane!
1. it was way too dark At times, but having something jump out of the darkness , even though I knew it was going to happen as soon as I opened the door or picked up something, made me have to change my shorts more often than any other game I played. I remember playing it in with the lights off and somehow a CD case fell off my desk onto the hardwood floor. I hit the roof! Then, another time my GF walks silently behind me and puts her hand on my shoulder as I am sneaking around a dark corridor. OMG, I think I jumped so high that both of us required a change of underwear after that.
2. The gameplay was repetitive. Isn't every game? From Pacman to Mortal Combat to to COD 14, or whatever they are at now, to Bioshock Infinite, once you get over the initial 'WOW, that's so cool to swing thru the city on your skyhook', each level of the game plays the same as the one before. Yes, it was walk into the room, lights go out, monsters come out, you shoot them, repeat. It was repetitive, but I never got tired of it.
3. The story wasn't very exciting It's a FPS, what did you expect? You go in. You shoot monsters or bad guys, and kill the boss at the end.
A game doesn't have to be revolutionary to be fun.
Exactly! There are no reason for mobile sites to exist nowadays. Most mobile sites are so horrendously designed that they end up looking like Gopher sites during the pre-www days. It's not like Desktop sites are designed to make full use of a 2560x1440 monitor anyways; content fills only 30-50% of the screen width-just right for mobile devices. Just fix the sites to all controls work in mobile safari or chrome and be done with it.
Oh jeez, you really need to stop looking at Google through your Android-colored glasses! Google was a cool tech company a decade ago when they came up with products that benefited the users, namely an email product that offered 1GB of space free when others gave you 20MB, and of course search. Since then they've morphed from a tech to an advertising and data-mining company, and all of their products reflect this. Google:"Do you want to sign up for G+" or "Do you want to use your real name on Youtube?" User:clicks NO Google:"OK, we'll ask you later"
Do No Evil hasn't existed at Google for a decade, if it ever did.
Strange that you never heard of Levar Burton. Maybe you would prefer the opinions of current headline making celebs such as Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, or Kanye West?
I question how honest someone is being to themselves when they say that they are going bald or are bald and yet state it has not affected them. I've been bald for since the 90's. Do I worry about being bald? No. Am I aware I am bald? Every day.
I have no guilt about money being spent on 'unbalding' research. We're not talking about cosmetic surgery or injections, but instead returning something that has been lost to me.
To all the people, bald or hairy, that think going bald is no big deal. If the world was a fair place then yes, having no hair would not matter, and neither would other superficial things, but we don't reside in some fairy-tale realm. Unfortunately we have to deal with the real world and deal with real people that judge you on you appearance which includes height, body weight, the clothes you wear, swagger, body decorations like tattoos an piercings, and of course YOUR HAIR!
Baldness adds years to your age. I'm not talking about shaved heads. I mean being bald and still letting your hair grow at the back and sides. 5-10 year easily gets added on. Thankfully shaved-heads have been an acceptable style for the past 20 years. Unfortunately not everyone can shave their head and still look good. Many men have Charlie Brown heads. As much as women say they find bald men sexy, those women are few and far between, and the bald men they are attracted to are usually 'larger than life' men like movie stars. In the real world the majority of women consider balding men unattractive.
Everyone knows that baldness is very emotionally debilitating, but it also affects you physically. -You're colder in the winter because of the lack of hair thus less insulation. Sometimes I even have to wear a hat or toque indoors. I find hats uncomfortable. Debilitating no, but it is annoying. -the sun quickly cooks your cranium in the summer because there's no hair to insulate you from the sun's rays. Wear a hat you say? Well hat's make it worse if you shave your head because the hat forms an air-tight seal with your shaven head, preventing any air circulation underneath your hat. It's either shade or a bandanna or put up with the sun beaming down on the cranium for us baldies. -Hair acts as a cushion your head when you bang your head on something. Hair also has sensory functionality and warns you when something is about to touch it. When you have a chrome-dome, that sensory function is gone. Don't believe me? Hold your hand out and slowly move it towards your head and you hair will pick up and feel your hand while it is still inches away. -Hair hides stuff on your head. I have numerous acne scars on the back of my head that make me feel uncomfortable if others see. A coworker recently had a tumor removed from her brain. They went in through the upper back of her skull. Her scar is not visible because she has thick long flowing hair which hides the scar. That scar would be visible from thirty feet away on my shaved head.
Those above items will seem trivial to many, but they are things I have to be conscious of and work around at times. You don't realize what a full head of hair does for you until it's gone.
It seems most designers use the mottos 'thin is in', 'flat as a mat', 'white means bright', 'tiny font is what they want' and 'hooray for grey' as a framework when creating UI's nowadays.
What really scares me is that these not-so-great UI design ideas from IOS7 will continue to creep into OSX.
Changing wallpaper on an iPad 3 takes anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. For comparison, wallpaper changes are pretty much instant on an iPad1 in IOS 5.1.1.
Oh yes, I don't find the IOS7 popups as irritating as the 'bounce once and leave OK and Cancel button are disabled-wait 2 seconds-do a second bounce-now enable the OK and Cancel buttons to allow the user to press one' popups from IOS6 and before.
You pretty much make the point why the XBone should be avoided when you said "It won't prevent me from playing as often as I like as long as the servers are always working..."
I'm happy to pay $100 more for the new Kinect I'm not! $100 just so I can wave my hand to switch channels?
So noble and courageous of you to come forward and speak out about your horrible medical condition.
If I had essentially unlimited wealth and didn't have to work another day in my life, or in Larry's case, a hundred lifetimes, if could pay for any medical procedure out of my pocket, and if could pay for an army of lawyers with my yearly dinner money, I wouldn't care what people knew about me either.
If all she does is "simple web browsing, email, light photo sharing but no heavy editing, and other simple tasks" then a tablet would fit her needs perfectly, as long as she also gets a keyboard for it. Those virtual keyboards become an act of miserable frustration if you need to type anything more than a couple short sentences.
....it was certainly much more fun, innovative, imaginative, and technological advances were made in leaps and bounds back then. The internet is far more useful nowadays, but it's like the magic and excitement is gone. It's become toned-down, it's become a utility,and utilities are boring.
Remember when: -the first time you heard about a new application called RealAudio that would allow you to stream audio from a remote server, even over a dialup connection? No more waiting to download the entire clip. This new streaming thing was frikking amazing! -the first time you went to 'The William Shatner sing-along page'? -you heard about an audio file format called mp3 that could hold an entire song in in a few MB's instead of a few dozen? 3MB per file vs 20 or 30MB and still have the same quality! That was amazing! -WinNuke was the worst thing someone could do to your computer, and you weren't sent to jail for using it. There was no constant threat about getting malware, trojans, or viruses from websites. -Doubleclick did not exist? Sites did not collect and retain and sell your browsing habits. -the term 'hacker' did not hold any negative connotation? -Flash sites were new, amazing, and didn't use 100% of your CPU? -chat rooms and web forums were TROLL-FREE? People were actually nice and considerate to each other! -one of the first online multiplayer game you played was Descent thru KALI? -you could actually get a refund for software? -you regularly browsed Rotten.com?
....coffee is good for us again? Or maybe at least until next week, when the media sensationalizes some stupid study that shows drinking ten or more cups of coffee a day increases our 1 in 10^8 chance of developing some condition by 10%.
Or episode 3-that one was hardly a a masterpiece. As powerful as the Jedi were portrayed in previous films, episode three finally revealed that Han wasn't joking when he said 'Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side", and it contained lines that included "youngins", "you were our chosen one", and the fan favorite "Noooooooooooooooooooooo!"
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Whaat? I always assumed GG was given out to a select few just to get feedback. So Google Glass is still experimental, is a solution looking for a problem, has a high chance of being suddenly dropped by Google if it doesn't take off, and people still are willing to pay $1500 for it?
Holy Crap! I thought Apple's fanboys were insane!
1. it was way too dark
At times, but having something jump out of the darkness , even though I knew it was going to happen as soon as I opened the door or picked up something, made me have to change my shorts more often than any other game I played. I remember playing it in with the lights off and somehow a CD case fell off my desk onto the hardwood floor. I hit the roof! Then, another time my GF walks silently behind me and puts her hand on my shoulder as I am sneaking around a dark corridor. OMG, I think I jumped so high that both of us required a change of underwear after that.
2. The gameplay was repetitive.
Isn't every game? From Pacman to Mortal Combat to to COD 14, or whatever they are at now, to Bioshock Infinite, once you get over the initial 'WOW, that's so cool to swing thru the city on your skyhook', each level of the game plays the same as the one before. Yes, it was walk into the room, lights go out, monsters come out, you shoot them, repeat. It was repetitive, but I never got tired of it.
3. The story wasn't very exciting
It's a FPS, what did you expect? You go in. You shoot monsters or bad guys, and kill the boss at the end.
A game doesn't have to be revolutionary to be fun.
'Cue the Google apologists' you mean.
Exactly! There are no reason for mobile sites to exist nowadays. Most mobile sites are so horrendously designed that they end up looking like Gopher sites during the pre-www days. It's not like Desktop sites are designed to make full use of a 2560x1440 monitor anyways; content fills only 30-50% of the screen width-just right for mobile devices. Just fix the sites to all controls work in mobile safari or chrome and be done with it.
Oh jeez, you really need to stop looking at Google through your Android-colored glasses!
Google was a cool tech company a decade ago when they came up with products that benefited the users, namely an email product that offered 1GB of space free when others gave you 20MB, and of course search. Since then they've morphed from a tech to an advertising and data-mining company, and all of their products reflect this.
Google:"Do you want to sign up for G+" or "Do you want to use your real name on Youtube?"
User:clicks NO
Google:"OK, we'll ask you later"
Do No Evil hasn't existed at Google for a decade, if it ever did.
Strange that you never heard of Levar Burton. Maybe you would prefer the opinions of current headline making celebs such as Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, or Kanye West?
It's surprising how well the CGI and other FX hold up today.
"The enemy can not push a button if you disable his hand. MEDIC!"
I question how honest someone is being to themselves when they say that they are going bald or are bald and yet state it has not affected them. I've been bald for since the 90's. Do I worry about being bald? No. Am I aware I am bald? Every day.
I have no guilt about money being spent on 'unbalding' research. We're not talking about cosmetic surgery or injections, but instead returning something that has been lost to me.
To all the people, bald or hairy, that think going bald is no big deal. If the world was a fair place then yes, having no hair would not matter, and neither would other superficial things, but we don't reside in some fairy-tale realm. Unfortunately we have to deal with the real world and deal with real people that judge you on you appearance which includes height, body weight, the clothes you wear, swagger, body decorations like tattoos an piercings, and of course YOUR HAIR!
Baldness adds years to your age. I'm not talking about shaved heads. I mean being bald and still letting your hair grow at the back and sides. 5-10 year easily gets added on.
Thankfully shaved-heads have been an acceptable style for the past 20 years. Unfortunately not everyone can shave their head and still look good. Many men have Charlie Brown heads.
As much as women say they find bald men sexy, those women are few and far between, and the bald men they are attracted to are usually 'larger than life' men like movie stars. In the real world the majority of women consider balding men unattractive.
Everyone knows that baldness is very emotionally debilitating, but it also affects you physically.
-You're colder in the winter because of the lack of hair thus less insulation. Sometimes I even have to wear a hat or toque indoors. I find hats uncomfortable. Debilitating no, but it is annoying.
-the sun quickly cooks your cranium in the summer because there's no hair to insulate you from the sun's rays. Wear a hat you say? Well hat's make it worse if you shave your head because the hat forms an air-tight seal with your shaven head, preventing any air circulation underneath your hat. It's either shade or a bandanna or put up with the sun beaming down on the cranium for us baldies.
-Hair acts as a cushion your head when you bang your head on something. Hair also has sensory functionality and warns you when something is about to touch it. When you have a chrome-dome, that sensory function is gone. Don't believe me? Hold your hand out and slowly move it towards your head and you hair will pick up and feel your hand while it is still inches away.
-Hair hides stuff on your head. I have numerous acne scars on the back of my head that make me feel uncomfortable if others see. A coworker recently had a tumor removed from her brain. They went in through the upper back of her skull. Her scar is not visible because she has thick long flowing hair which hides the scar. That scar would be visible from thirty feet away on my shaved head.
Those above items will seem trivial to many, but they are things I have to be conscious of and work around at times. You don't realize what a full head of hair does for you until it's gone.
It seems most designers use the mottos 'thin is in', 'flat as a mat', 'white means bright', 'tiny font is what they want' and 'hooray for grey' as a framework when creating UI's nowadays.
What really scares me is that these not-so-great UI design ideas from IOS7 will continue to creep into OSX.
Changing wallpaper on an iPad 3 takes anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. For comparison, wallpaper changes are pretty much instant on an iPad1 in IOS 5.1.1.
Oh yes, I don't find the IOS7 popups as irritating as the 'bounce once and leave OK and Cancel button are disabled-wait 2 seconds-do a second bounce-now enable the OK and Cancel buttons to allow the user to press one' popups from IOS6 and before.
You pretty much make the point why the XBone should be avoided when you said "It won't prevent me from playing as often as I like as long as the servers are always working..."
I'm happy to pay $100 more for the new Kinect
I'm not! $100 just so I can wave my hand to switch channels?
So noble and courageous of you to come forward and speak out about your horrible medical condition.
If I had essentially unlimited wealth and didn't have to work another day in my life, or in Larry's case, a hundred lifetimes, if could pay for any medical procedure out of my pocket, and if could pay for an army of lawyers with my yearly dinner money, I wouldn't care what people knew about me either.
Oh geez, Windows could be easily crapped up,in,and out by background applications for a decade before iTunes came out.
I hate apple products as much as the next guy...
Hey! I'm the next guy and I happen to like Apple products. You're looking for the previous guy. He's the one who detests everything Apple.
I wish I could mod this up to 50:Sensible.
Noone is forcing these people to buy the new xbox. Dont buy it. Simple concept, isnt it?
OMG, there's going to be KAOS!
she got fired for rocking the boar.
Now is that the same thing as 'porking'?
If all she does is "simple web browsing, email, light photo sharing but no heavy editing, and other simple tasks" then a tablet would fit her needs perfectly, as long as she also gets a keyboard for it. Those virtual keyboards become an act of miserable frustration if you need to type anything more than a couple short sentences.
....it was certainly much more fun, innovative, imaginative, and technological advances were made in leaps and bounds back then. The internet is far more useful nowadays, but it's like the magic and excitement is gone. It's become toned-down, it's become a utility,and utilities are boring.
Remember when:
-the first time you heard about a new application called RealAudio that would allow you to stream audio from a remote server, even over a dialup connection? No more waiting to download the entire clip. This new streaming thing was frikking amazing!
-the first time you went to 'The William Shatner sing-along page'?
-you heard about an audio file format called mp3 that could hold an entire song in in a few MB's instead of a few dozen? 3MB per file vs 20 or 30MB and still have the same quality! That was amazing!
-WinNuke was the worst thing someone could do to your computer, and you weren't sent to jail for using it. There was no constant threat about getting malware, trojans, or viruses from websites.
-Doubleclick did not exist? Sites did not collect and retain and sell your browsing habits.
-the term 'hacker' did not hold any negative connotation?
-Flash sites were new, amazing, and didn't use 100% of your CPU?
-chat rooms and web forums were TROLL-FREE? People were actually nice and considerate to each other!
-one of the first online multiplayer game you played was Descent thru KALI?
-you could actually get a refund for software?
-you regularly browsed Rotten.com?
....coffee is good for us again? Or maybe at least until next week, when the media sensationalizes some stupid study that shows drinking ten or more cups of coffee a day increases our 1 in 10^8 chance of developing some condition by 10%.
it couldn't be worse than episodes 1 and 2.
Or episode 3-that one was hardly a a masterpiece.
As powerful as the Jedi were portrayed in previous films, episode three finally revealed that Han wasn't joking when he said 'Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side", and it contained lines that included "youngins", "you were our chosen one", and the fan favorite "Noooooooooooooooooooooo!"
IANAV, but I would guess that a 30cm bore hole wouldn't have much of an effect on a magma chamber that is miles wide.
OMG so many of these posts are hilarious. Well done people! I haven't laughed like this on SD for ages.
This is horrible, but thankfully the culprits didn't get access to our Strategic Reserves for Poutine, Kraft Dinner, butter tarts, and bagged milk.