Instead of coralizing the link or otherwise using a service that's designed to mirror a page and handle huge load, you just sent all of your traffic to the Web Archive Project, and used a freaking PDF to boot. Thanks for killing off a useful service for your damn article.
Rather useless little thing. System 5 is mistakenly called System 4 (there was no 4), and a IIgs screenshot becomes "System 5". System 7 shows up here as "System 6", and System 7.5 (it's even in the damn screenshot!) is now "System 7"
This asshat has no clue what he's posting. Check out the other links people have posted for real GUI histories.
And that depends very heavily on what type of groups you work with. Do they make it seem like work/obligation/pressure, or is it still fun and truly social? I would guess this would be very guild-dependent.
And I will admit I'm not level 60 yet, so perhaps on end-game I don't know what I'm talking about.
Anything, if taken to extremes, can become an addiction. It is true that MMORPG's (World of Warcraft being far and away the more successful) encourage this. You have monthly fees that (aside from paying for the infrastructure, bandwidth, etc) entice you to play to justify the ongoing and mounting expense. Grouping makes sure you show up at given times, etc. The random rewards of epic loot in advanced dungeons is similar to random reward studies (which show it's the most powerful form of behavior shaping - see slot machines). You have to set limits on it just like anything else, whether it's drinking or TV.
However, there are some differences here to other addictions. There is no physical addiction, and hardly any psychological one. You can put it down, and other than mild obsession (what's going on in Azeroth?), it has no ill effects. Hell, you can discontinue your account, and they keep all of your character info, so you can completely unplug, and return at some point in the future when you're interested again, much like an offline game. There's also a limit - you may play a lot to reach level 60, but then you do stop. Sure, you can join raids, get gear, but the drive to constantly improve falls away (other games, like Disgaea, are far, far worse in this regard).
The most important difference is that if handled well, it can be a positive social tool. I play, but only with people I know in real life. That way we can talk about other things and it allows a set time for us to get together, without having to drive out to each other (I live over an hour away from many of them, and that's just suburban sprawl!).
Wow, you got an insightful mod for using an aphorism, since nothing else you posted makes any sense. VirtualPC was cancelled because it has two major competitors (one available now, one entrenched elsewhere). If they wanted to kick Apple to the floor, they would cancel Office. Cancelling VBA from Office makes no significant difference, even in a corporate environment.
I've never really underderstood Transgaming's focus on cross platform gaming.
For the game developers, the cost of Cider is minimal, and they instantly get a much larger market, without the usual low demand due to porting times. For TransGaming, the revenues from Cider are likely significant. For Apple, they get a shot at one of the last markets they're very weak in. For end users, they get games much faster.
It's ridiculous that they defend IE by claiming "no pages seem horribly messed up." Clearly the author is not a web developer
Nor are users. Agreed that is sucks hard for us, but end users just don't care about Microsoft's shitty support for standards; they just want the web page to look right and work. Thankfully I almost never see sites that don't support Firefox and Safari these days.
Will Internet Explorer 7 run on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4? If not, then MSIE7 won't be "95% of web users"...
Okay, so only 85% of the market. With Microsoft dropping all support for those platforms, they essentially don't matter. You're talking OS's that are at best six years old.
And with Nintendo going with Opera for both the Nintendo DS and the Wii, Opera's marketshare might soon explode beyond 1-2%.
Yeah, maybe to 2.5%. How many people do you really think are going to do web browsing from their game system? I'll be interested to br proven wrong (I certainly was about the DS vs PSP), but I'll bet damn few, especially compared with the hordes of people on PC's. It won't even be a blip.
Until you're confronted with a web site that overrides your text preferences and scales the font either way down or way too huge. I've yet to see a site where I did want to scale images (which I imagine would be pretty ugly, unless the extension is doing fancy bicubic interpolation on every image on the page).
Oh, so I'm a troll because I don't see a reason for Microsoft to support Wine, Cedega, and ReactOS? These projects are not their customers, and actively trying to woo away those customers. Yet Microsoft is supposed to happily support them?
How about BuyAMouseFucktard? The only Macs that include a mouse are laptops, and NO ONE is playing an FPS on a trackpad. So the choice of mouse is entirely up to you - the Mac will support as many buttons and such as you throw at it. If you bought a 1-button mouse, that was your decision.
What I'd really love to see is a port to Palm OS or Windows Mobile, so I could use it on a Treo. Does anyone have the background in mobile platforms to say how feasible such a thing would be (especially the PalmOS, with it's antiquated and hacked/extended design).
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However, Microsoft and other upgrades are binaries, and installable by end users. Telling a normal user to download source code,./configure, make, make install (and you better hope nothing broke in the autoconf) doesn't cut it. Downloading a nightly binary, that would be acceptable (see the WebKit project for a great example).
This is particularly egregious in projects that never release final binaries except once a blue moon. It's even better when CVS is down, as SourceForge was for a while last month, and FFMpeg is as of this post...
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite out all require adapters (sold separately, of course).
Yes, because they use a single mini-DVI connector on the case. I personally find it more convenient than the full-size DVI connector on my MacBook Pro.
Ha! Great in theory, but just [b]TRY[/b] to replace the Finder completely, the Dock, or Spotlight. Good luck. They should be easily replaceable (and this was the original vision in the Rhapsody Design documents), but they aren't in practice. It's still very much cathedral style, just like Windows (in that respect, anyway).
I won't argue with a good coupon. However, unless they offer that every day (and I know Dell is famous for near constant couponage), I stand by the prices. I did include the $200 special they had today; without that the prices are only a hundred bucks apart.
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The days of free-flowing porn, put up by bunches of amateurs with no web design experience, and not a pay site in sight!
Instead of coralizing the link or otherwise using a service that's designed to mirror a page and handle huge load, you just sent all of your traffic to the Web Archive Project, and used a freaking PDF to boot. Thanks for killing off a useful service for your damn article.
Rather useless little thing. System 5 is mistakenly called System 4 (there was no 4), and a IIgs screenshot becomes "System 5". System 7 shows up here as "System 6", and System 7.5 (it's even in the damn screenshot!) is now "System 7"
This asshat has no clue what he's posting. Check out the other links people have posted for real GUI histories.
And that depends very heavily on what type of groups you work with. Do they make it seem like work/obligation/pressure, or is it still fun and truly social? I would guess this would be very guild-dependent.
And I will admit I'm not level 60 yet, so perhaps on end-game I don't know what I'm talking about.
Anything, if taken to extremes, can become an addiction. It is true that MMORPG's (World of Warcraft being far and away the more successful) encourage this. You have monthly fees that (aside from paying for the infrastructure, bandwidth, etc) entice you to play to justify the ongoing and mounting expense. Grouping makes sure you show up at given times, etc. The random rewards of epic loot in advanced dungeons is similar to random reward studies (which show it's the most powerful form of behavior shaping - see slot machines). You have to set limits on it just like anything else, whether it's drinking or TV.
However, there are some differences here to other addictions. There is no physical addiction, and hardly any psychological one. You can put it down, and other than mild obsession (what's going on in Azeroth?), it has no ill effects. Hell, you can discontinue your account, and they keep all of your character info, so you can completely unplug, and return at some point in the future when you're interested again, much like an offline game. There's also a limit - you may play a lot to reach level 60, but then you do stop. Sure, you can join raids, get gear, but the drive to constantly improve falls away (other games, like Disgaea, are far, far worse in this regard).
The most important difference is that if handled well, it can be a positive social tool. I play, but only with people I know in real life. That way we can talk about other things and it allows a set time for us to get together, without having to drive out to each other (I live over an hour away from many of them, and that's just suburban sprawl!).
Mostly, this is a lot of fuss over nothing.
Wow, you got an insightful mod for using an aphorism, since nothing else you posted makes any sense. VirtualPC was cancelled because it has two major competitors (one available now, one entrenched elsewhere). If they wanted to kick Apple to the floor, they would cancel Office. Cancelling VBA from Office makes no significant difference, even in a corporate environment.
I've never really underderstood Transgaming's focus on cross platform gaming.
For the game developers, the cost of Cider is minimal, and they instantly get a much larger market, without the usual low demand due to porting times.
For TransGaming, the revenues from Cider are likely significant.
For Apple, they get a shot at one of the last markets they're very weak in.
For end users, they get games much faster.
This is just a win-win-win-win all around.
Ha - I've seen this bull before. I'm not going to go through the whole configuration again, but I'm pretty sure it still stands.
Depends on your laptop - they are pin-compatible, but most laptops solder the processor to save space.
It's ridiculous that they defend IE by claiming "no pages seem horribly messed up." Clearly the author is not a web developer
Nor are users. Agreed that is sucks hard for us, but end users just don't care about Microsoft's shitty support for standards; they just want the web page to look right and work. Thankfully I almost never see sites that don't support Firefox and Safari these days.
Will Internet Explorer 7 run on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4? If not, then MSIE7 won't be "95% of web users"...
Okay, so only 85% of the market. With Microsoft dropping all support for those platforms, they essentially don't matter. You're talking OS's that are at best six years old.
And with Nintendo going with Opera for both the Nintendo DS and the Wii, Opera's marketshare might soon explode beyond 1-2%.
Yeah, maybe to 2.5%. How many people do you really think are going to do web browsing from their game system? I'll be interested to br proven wrong (I certainly was about the DS vs PSP), but I'll bet damn few, especially compared with the hordes of people on PC's. It won't even be a blip.
zooming the text only makes no sense IMO
Until you're confronted with a web site that overrides your text preferences and scales the font either way down or way too huge. I've yet to see a site where I did want to scale images (which I imagine would be pretty ugly, unless the extension is doing fancy bicubic interpolation on every image on the page).
Oh, so I'm a troll because I don't see a reason for Microsoft to support Wine, Cedega, and ReactOS? These projects are not their customers, and actively trying to woo away those customers. Yet Microsoft is supposed to happily support them?
It's not going to be a popular opinion, but why should Microsoft be supporting such stacks at all?
anywhere near being comparable
Yes, all of the others you mentioned actually exist.
I can't understand why companies willfully lock themselves into a Fisher-Price platform just because all the kiddies use it.
Question, meet answer.
How about iCantPlayFPSWithOneMouseButton
How about BuyAMouseFucktard? The only Macs that include a mouse are laptops, and NO ONE is playing an FPS on a trackpad. So the choice of mouse is entirely up to you - the Mac will support as many buttons and such as you throw at it. If you bought a 1-button mouse, that was your decision.
What I'd really love to see is a port to Palm OS or Windows Mobile, so I could use it on a Treo. Does anyone have the background in mobile platforms to say how feasible such a thing would be (especially the PalmOS, with it's antiquated and hacked/extended design).
However, Microsoft and other upgrades are binaries, and installable by end users. Telling a normal user to download source code, ./configure, make, make install (and you better hope nothing broke in the autoconf) doesn't cut it. Downloading a nightly binary, that would be acceptable (see the WebKit project for a great example).
This is particularly egregious in projects that never release final binaries except once a blue moon. It's even better when CVS is down, as SourceForge was for a while last month, and FFMpeg is as of this post...
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite out all require adapters (sold separately, of course).
Yes, because they use a single mini-DVI connector on the case. I personally find it more convenient than the full-size DVI connector on my MacBook Pro.
Ha! Great in theory, but just [b]TRY[/b] to replace the Finder completely, the Dock, or Spotlight. Good luck. They should be easily replaceable (and this was the original vision in the Rhapsody Design documents), but they aren't in practice. It's still very much cathedral style, just like Windows (in that respect, anyway).
working code will give you experience that will point to better and cleaner ways to do the task you originally set out to acomplish.
And working code will prevent you in most cases from ever revsiting the design.
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It doesn't matter how much this is debunked, people keep spewing "overpriced".
I was omitting that deliberately. It seemed too obvious. :)
I won't argue with a good coupon. However, unless they offer that every day (and I know Dell is famous for near constant couponage), I stand by the prices. I did include the $200 special they had today; without that the prices are only a hundred bucks apart.