Fuck you mods and your troll bullshit./. is owned by a company that has a stake in FOSS. It would be like ars being owned by a company with a stake in HD-DVD and posting any story about blu-ray in a negative light (back when there was a format war).
Every fucking headline or story about MS is painted in a bad way, and I'd say about half the stories deserve a retraction as can be seen in the threads. Other stories like this aren't even fucking news. And the headline is sensational. It's not news for nerds. It's news for nerds with a major bias.
Right. There's a thing called a droid. And a thing called a Nexus one. You should try either of them before writing that. Oh, they happen to be the only phones (as of now) running 2.0+
A droid and an iPhone have similar hardware except the droid screen blows the iPhone screen out of the water. It isn't in close. And the Nexus one has superior hardware in almost every way.
I know very well what it does. The problem is when poorly written summaries or articles that imply that the phone doesn't support it. Saying, "the default browser will now support it" is a much better, and accurate, way to phrase it.
The voice searching is better integrated with android. The free turn by turn navigation is better then the $100 version on the iPhone. It can do multitasking. It doesn't lock you out of basic system functionality.
And the android market is booming and going to pass apple's in total apps pretty soon. Not that I really care. There's already an "app for that' on both marketplaces. The once difference is there's things android will let you do that apple won't. So really, there's an "app for that" applies better to android.
Not sure where you opinion came from, but it's not reality.
We didn't "already pay for it". That's just your imaginary viewpoint based on your presupposed biases to justify your deplorable behavior.
Re:I actually kind of miss the old combat system
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ME1 gave you a Bioware style RPG with Guns...in space. Which is a lightly itemized (but still itemized), dialog driven quasi turn-based RPG.
ME2 has to have pissed off a lot of the traditional RPG guys though. Like I'm wondering if RPG-guy did the review, came back with a 7 or 8, company said "no way, we're not pissing off Bioware and EA, let's have SIMS-guy do the review". I really do like it, (an 8's a good score), but really, it's a movie not an RPG or a even a great shooter.
Re:I actually kind of miss the old combat system
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Review: Mass Effect 2
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I actually believe something like this (or the reverse of this) has happened with Mass Effect 2. I just can't fathom how this game has gotten the reviews it's gotten. For the 360 there are 42 reviews at gamerankings with the avg score over a 96, and not a single one below a 90.
I can understand some or many reviews like that. But seriously, the game has very slow combat, annoying ammo problems, incredibly lacking skill/ability trees, horribly tedious resource gathering (that's basically forced on you to get upgrades for your stuff), and almost all missions are very brief compared to ME1 and other games. With it's dumbed down RPG system, lack of loot almost altogether, and subpar shooter mechanics, I can't imagine that in all those people that reviewed no one thought it less then a 90. Some, sure. All? No.
I like it. I think it's an 8. But the flaws I point out are echoed by a lot of players. So how in this case are all the reviewers in agreement with just nothing but glowing praise and incredible reviews when the player based isn't, especially since what they changed surly should have pissed off the hardcore RPG players that surly must do a lot of the reviews?
I did every single side mission I could find, got to level 27 by the end, and a decent amount of resource gathering, and it clocked in about 22 hours for me.
Replay value is limited though. So much much of the game is the cinematography and story which is pretty much static no matter what you do. A game like Borderlands, which has far better gameplay but much worse presentation, has more replay value to me because the shooter/rpg aspects are more indepth and the archtypes play much different.
If you're on the fence, don't buy this game. Rent (360), or borrow (PC). You should get about 20 hours of it. But the replay value is small.
There is no depth to the combat system, the characters skills and abilities.
It's a glorious interactive movie. The ending (last few missions, a couple of hours worth) perhaps the best ending of a game ever. Some parts are annoying. The ammo system is horrible. Very few equipment upgrades. Scanning for resources is incredibly tedious and repetitive.
Worth playing for the theatrics of it all. But not a real "game" at heart. Also, I wonder how the reviews for this thing are all 9+'s. It's one of the highest rated games ever. Which leaves me suspicious (EA is behind it after all) because the faults in the gameplay are enough that *some* professional reviewers couldn't have loved it as much as they claimed.
This is the most scaled back, hand-held *game* I can remember. It's basically an interactive movie. a monkey tied to a chair could *beat* the game without playing the first and never feel lost.
I'd bet you the iPad won't be a huge commercial success. It's not just geeks that are missing the point here. Most people other then Steve Jobs and your wife seem to be missing the point. That's a lot of money to fork over for a device that won't find a lot of use.
No multitouch like the droid doesn't have multitouch (the droid certainly does support multitouch)? The default browser doesn't (other browers and apps on the device do) and it's up to each app to support it.
My experience, which is mine and only mine and so can't speak for anyone else, was that volunteering tech time was overwhelming.
I volunteered to do the web programming and graphics a few years back for a small organization. The thing it's just like work. There are deadlines, pressure, unrealistic requirements, the whole deal. And just like real tech work, it's not easy to hit the ground running on day one as there's a learning curve to how they work and operate. It's not something that's easily broken up in 4 hour casual chunks just when you want to do it.
I'd say just do habitat for humanity or send money or something. But don't try and be a network admin for a week somewhere. It wouldn't be fun to have you totally screw up their firewall on your last day before heading back to your job. Send them money so they can contract local services where someone is doing it as their job.
Oh, I see your problem. It's that you're stupid. If someone likes the iPhone better, of course buy it. It does a few things better then the Droid in my opinion. But that overall "choice" of the phone is not relevant to the discussion of locked development vs open development (open as in less control, not as in FOSS).
Apple being very controlling on applications and furthermore what functionality the applications may have is the discussion. Not what overall phone someone likes better.
I'm talking about options of what runs on the phone, not the phone itself. As a tech-friendly person it *should* be assumed that you're capable of choosing between apps and clicking a button to install it. If we're talking about someone that is not so tech-friendly then yes, a phone that "just works" vs a phone that "just works but has more options" has less meaning.
Actually, it's in "you didn't read the fucking post". Apple's control over their development and market restricts apps and it's noticeable. Good example? Apple pulled Google voice from the store because the phone already made calls and had voicemail. That many like Google voice better didn't matter. And it's not just google stuff. SMS, virtual keyboards, etc... The Android market is open and full of stuff that competes with default pieces of the Android OS.
That Apple is free to do what they want, and that you and your grandma love it, isn't an issue. But as a geek it should be important to you that you have options. I don't care if the options are closed sourced pay apps or not. Notice the OP here said "real development".
I don't agree. It's more of the Droid hardware and the OS, as well as the nice and cheaper Eris. If you haven't used one. Even if you think the iPhone is still better, at least I think any honest man would say it comes down to personal taste now. Where as before the Droid the iPhone being better then anything else on the market was a case that could be subjectively made.
Actually, if you're a geek it should be important to you. The open issue isn't a Free as in Beer, or Free as in Speech issue. At least not to me. It's that the open platform lets you do things with the Android phone that the Apple won't let you do with the iPhone. Yeah, there's an app for that. Except for the things that Apple doesn't want you to do. Then they don't allow an app for that in their store. Google isn't doing the same with Android phones and their marketplace.
Or perhaps they were aware that for the first time since the iPhone came out there's a legit competitor for it's market. Now, not everyone likes the Droid better. But some do. I myself did. A friend got one around Thanksgiving and I was blown away. I thought it a better device compared to the iPhones I used (quite frequently). The next iPhone might be better to me. The Nexus One might top the Droid. But right now I consider the Droid the best smartphone on the market. It does nearly everything I want that the iPhone does but better. The Nav system out of the box was something the iPhone can't touch even paying TomTom $100 (since the Google one is much better IMO). Add in that I live in a place where AT&T sucks, and it's a no brainer to me. I do need Audible support at sometime but for now I can work around that. Also, I don't really need to talk and surf the web at the same time, but it wouldn't hurt. But the free nav, the *much* better screen, the louder speaker, the replaceable battery, the open platform (this isn't a FOSS issue, it's a "I don't need to jailbreak it to do some cool crap with it"), it works as a USB storage device out the box as well, etc... just far outweighed the areas the iPhone had the leg up.
And typically when something doesn't suck word of mouth gets it around. I haven't had a single iPhone owner that wasn't impressed with the Droid. It's not like the HTC Touch which is just a decent phone with some crappy mobile web features. This is like the iPhone, a true portable multimedia device running a great and easy to use OS.
Now that there's legit competition for the iPhone in the form of the Droid (and most likely the Nexus One as well) obviously Apple needs to improve their product offering. The amount of info in this rumor is about a sneeze worth.
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Fuck you mods and your troll bullshit. /. is owned by a company that has a stake in FOSS. It would be like ars being owned by a company with a stake in HD-DVD and posting any story about blu-ray in a negative light (back when there was a format war).
Every fucking headline or story about MS is painted in a bad way, and I'd say about half the stories deserve a retraction as can be seen in the threads. Other stories like this aren't even fucking news. And the headline is sensational. It's not news for nerds. It's news for nerds with a major bias.
It was just found a month ago and they are fixing it now. Of course, you are right. But in this case, you are not right.
ms bash?
A bug no one knew about is being patched a month after it's found. WTG ms?
News for nerds? Or news for those that line your coffers?
Right. There's a thing called a droid. And a thing called a Nexus one. You should try either of them before writing that. Oh, they happen to be the only phones (as of now) running 2.0+
A droid and an iPhone have similar hardware except the droid screen blows the iPhone screen out of the water. It isn't in close. And the Nexus one has superior hardware in almost every way.
I know very well what it does. The problem is when poorly written summaries or articles that imply that the phone doesn't support it. Saying, "the default browser will now support it" is a much better, and accurate, way to phrase it.
FYI
The voice searching is better integrated with android. The free turn by turn navigation is better then the $100 version on the iPhone. It can do multitasking. It doesn't lock you out of basic system functionality.
And the android market is booming and going to pass apple's in total apps pretty soon. Not that I really care. There's already an "app for that' on both marketplaces. The once difference is there's things android will let you do that apple won't. So really, there's an "app for that" applies better to android.
Not sure where you opinion came from, but it's not reality.
doesn't support multitouch? Should I stop doing it then?
Wow. I never new that. So how does it move then? Happy thoughts?
We didn't "already pay for it". That's just your imaginary viewpoint based on your presupposed biases to justify your deplorable behavior.
ME1 gave you a Bioware style RPG with Guns...in space. Which is a lightly itemized (but still itemized), dialog driven quasi turn-based RPG.
ME2 has to have pissed off a lot of the traditional RPG guys though. Like I'm wondering if RPG-guy did the review, came back with a 7 or 8, company said "no way, we're not pissing off Bioware and EA, let's have SIMS-guy do the review". I really do like it, (an 8's a good score), but really, it's a movie not an RPG or a even a great shooter.
I actually believe something like this (or the reverse of this) has happened with Mass Effect 2. I just can't fathom how this game has gotten the reviews it's gotten. For the 360 there are 42 reviews at gamerankings with the avg score over a 96, and not a single one below a 90.
I can understand some or many reviews like that. But seriously, the game has very slow combat, annoying ammo problems, incredibly lacking skill/ability trees, horribly tedious resource gathering (that's basically forced on you to get upgrades for your stuff), and almost all missions are very brief compared to ME1 and other games. With it's dumbed down RPG system, lack of loot almost altogether, and subpar shooter mechanics, I can't imagine that in all those people that reviewed no one thought it less then a 90. Some, sure. All? No.
I like it. I think it's an 8. But the flaws I point out are echoed by a lot of players. So how in this case are all the reviewers in agreement with just nothing but glowing praise and incredible reviews when the player based isn't, especially since what they changed surly should have pissed off the hardcore RPG players that surly must do a lot of the reviews?
I did every single side mission I could find, got to level 27 by the end, and a decent amount of resource gathering, and it clocked in about 22 hours for me.
Replay value is limited though. So much much of the game is the cinematography and story which is pretty much static no matter what you do. A game like Borderlands, which has far better gameplay but much worse presentation, has more replay value to me because the shooter/rpg aspects are more indepth and the archtypes play much different.
If you're on the fence, don't buy this game. Rent (360), or borrow (PC). You should get about 20 hours of it. But the replay value is small.
There is no depth to the combat system, the characters skills and abilities.
It's a glorious interactive movie. The ending (last few missions, a couple of hours worth) perhaps the best ending of a game ever. Some parts are annoying. The ammo system is horrible. Very few equipment upgrades. Scanning for resources is incredibly tedious and repetitive.
Worth playing for the theatrics of it all. But not a real "game" at heart. Also, I wonder how the reviews for this thing are all 9+'s. It's one of the highest rated games ever. Which leaves me suspicious (EA is behind it after all) because the faults in the gameplay are enough that *some* professional reviewers couldn't have loved it as much as they claimed.
This is the most scaled back, hand-held *game* I can remember. It's basically an interactive movie. a monkey tied to a chair could *beat* the game without playing the first and never feel lost.
I'd bet you the iPad won't be a huge commercial success. It's not just geeks that are missing the point here. Most people other then Steve Jobs and your wife seem to be missing the point. That's a lot of money to fork over for a device that won't find a lot of use.
No multitouch like the droid doesn't have multitouch (the droid certainly does support multitouch)? The default browser doesn't (other browers and apps on the device do) and it's up to each app to support it.
Or, in this case, is there really no multitouch?
My experience, which is mine and only mine and so can't speak for anyone else, was that volunteering tech time was overwhelming.
I volunteered to do the web programming and graphics a few years back for a small organization. The thing it's just like work. There are deadlines, pressure, unrealistic requirements, the whole deal. And just like real tech work, it's not easy to hit the ground running on day one as there's a learning curve to how they work and operate. It's not something that's easily broken up in 4 hour casual chunks just when you want to do it.
I'd say just do habitat for humanity or send money or something. But don't try and be a network admin for a week somewhere. It wouldn't be fun to have you totally screw up their firewall on your last day before heading back to your job. Send them money so they can contract local services where someone is doing it as their job.
Oh, I see your problem. It's that you're stupid. If someone likes the iPhone better, of course buy it. It does a few things better then the Droid in my opinion. But that overall "choice" of the phone is not relevant to the discussion of locked development vs open development (open as in less control, not as in FOSS).
Apple being very controlling on applications and furthermore what functionality the applications may have is the discussion. Not what overall phone someone likes better.
I'm talking about options of what runs on the phone, not the phone itself. As a tech-friendly person it *should* be assumed that you're capable of choosing between apps and clicking a button to install it. If we're talking about someone that is not so tech-friendly then yes, a phone that "just works" vs a phone that "just works but has more options" has less meaning.
Actually, it's in "you didn't read the fucking post". Apple's control over their development and market restricts apps and it's noticeable. Good example? Apple pulled Google voice from the store because the phone already made calls and had voicemail. That many like Google voice better didn't matter. And it's not just google stuff. SMS, virtual keyboards, etc... The Android market is open and full of stuff that competes with default pieces of the Android OS.
That Apple is free to do what they want, and that you and your grandma love it, isn't an issue. But as a geek it should be important to you that you have options. I don't care if the options are closed sourced pay apps or not. Notice the OP here said "real development".
I don't agree. It's more of the Droid hardware and the OS, as well as the nice and cheaper Eris. If you haven't used one. Even if you think the iPhone is still better, at least I think any honest man would say it comes down to personal taste now. Where as before the Droid the iPhone being better then anything else on the market was a case that could be subjectively made.
Actually, if you're a geek it should be important to you. The open issue isn't a Free as in Beer, or Free as in Speech issue. At least not to me. It's that the open platform lets you do things with the Android phone that the Apple won't let you do with the iPhone. Yeah, there's an app for that. Except for the things that Apple doesn't want you to do. Then they don't allow an app for that in their store. Google isn't doing the same with Android phones and their marketplace.
Or perhaps they were aware that for the first time since the iPhone came out there's a legit competitor for it's market. Now, not everyone likes the Droid better. But some do. I myself did. A friend got one around Thanksgiving and I was blown away. I thought it a better device compared to the iPhones I used (quite frequently). The next iPhone might be better to me. The Nexus One might top the Droid. But right now I consider the Droid the best smartphone on the market. It does nearly everything I want that the iPhone does but better. The Nav system out of the box was something the iPhone can't touch even paying TomTom $100 (since the Google one is much better IMO). Add in that I live in a place where AT&T sucks, and it's a no brainer to me. I do need Audible support at sometime but for now I can work around that. Also, I don't really need to talk and surf the web at the same time, but it wouldn't hurt. But the free nav, the *much* better screen, the louder speaker, the replaceable battery, the open platform (this isn't a FOSS issue, it's a "I don't need to jailbreak it to do some cool crap with it"), it works as a USB storage device out the box as well, etc... just far outweighed the areas the iPhone had the leg up.
And typically when something doesn't suck word of mouth gets it around. I haven't had a single iPhone owner that wasn't impressed with the Droid. It's not like the HTC Touch which is just a decent phone with some crappy mobile web features. This is like the iPhone, a true portable multimedia device running a great and easy to use OS.
Now that there's legit competition for the iPhone in the form of the Droid (and most likely the Nexus One as well) obviously Apple needs to improve their product offering. The amount of info in this rumor is about a sneeze worth.
Can you show me where the "Prescribe Meds" button on Yahoo Answers is?