I'll get me an x-box and one of these too I'm sure.
You've stated the problem with your attitude right there in that sentence. You're already planning to buy one of these HomeStations, just because of the brand attached to it. All you've seen is a one page article, the picture could be phony, the quotes could be phony, but it seems you don't care.
That's the real problem with Microsoft being "tied into just about everything." People are willing to buy, buy, buy, based solely on brand-name and not quality or comparison. Name one other industry (if you can still call Microsoft a one-industry company) where you can get away with that? Will Ford ever make microwaves? Will AT&T ever make vacuums?
A woman holding a baby gets on a bus. The bus driver looks at them and says, "Damn, That's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!"
In a huff the woman slams her money into the farebox and goes to the rear of the bus. The man seated next to her sees she's agitated and asks what's wrong.
"The bus driver insulted me!" she fumes.
"That's outrageous!" says the man. "He's a public servant and shouldn't be insulting passengers."
"You 're right!" the woman says. "I think I'll go up there and give him a piece of my mind!"
"That's a good idea," says the man. "Here, I'll hold your monkey."
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Not to mention that most all games released for the Xbox will at some time or another be released for your regular ol' PC. An Xbox is like buying a PC you can't upgrade.
You want to know what sucks? I can spend days with one Mozilla process with no crashes or hiccups at all, but the SECOND I'm showing someone something or someone is at my machine for a couple seconds, it crashes, leading them to think of the utter shittiness of other browsers, not to mention operating systems.
I could not agree more with your points as to why MS is successful and why linux/open-source remains fringe. You're diagnosis is accurate, but:
-It almost seems as though the open source community needs a seasoned and very smart benevolent dictator to say what is ok and what is not. This is exactly what will NEVER happen. This whole "movement" started because hackers hate authority, hate being told what to use, and would rather start over a hundred times than help to fix something.
I can't stand it when people say they like diversity in the desktop; they feel that having umpteen desktop environments is beneficial. How the fuck is that remotely true? Everyone's doing they're own thing, re-implementing the news client, the browser, the text editor, etc. Meanwhile, in the centralized command hierarchies of the non-free world (yes, I mean Microsoft), orders are handed down from the top (the top consists of smart people with a goal and a plan) and people spend their work days improving shit, instead of re-inventing because they don't like the leader of so-and-so project, or they don't like the other toolkits, or they'd rather do it in XYZ language.
And why the hell shouldn't centralized hierarchies be more successful? It's how civilization (and it's industries) has operated for centuries. Instead, the "movement" has dozens of toolkits, dozens of desktops, dozens of architectures - one for each ego out there.
For Christ's sake, shouldn't there be a consistent way for an app to, e.g., open a web browser to a certain URL? Sorry, no-can-do. Every app does it differently... sigh. Enough to drive you nuts.
Will we ever have the "benevolant dictator" you speak of? Not while there's ego's to be fed...
I really never noticed any of the points you mentioned, after whatching all 3 movies umpteen times each. Could it be that the original 3 were movies that were more than the sum of their (bad) parts? I mean, the stories were simple to follow. The good/bad polarity of light/dark sides of the force was absolute, easy enough for all us 4 year olds to understand at the time. And IMO, the special effects played a HUGE part as well.
All these attributes served to make the original series stand out in all our minds, not to mention our young, impressionable minds at the time. (E.g., in my mind, Transformers will always be the greatest cartoon of all time, even though I can barely sit through the non-sensical episodes now.)
No matter how much Ep1 sucked my ass, I'll still go see Ep2. The entire star wars brand has so much damn momentum now, it doesn't matter if the next one was just footage of a bear taking a shit in the woods; it would still break box office records, morons would still buy stupid plastic toys like there was no tomorrow, and Lucas would hemorage even more money.
You'll go see it, I'll go see it, we'll all try to get opening night tickets.
(Note: I read the "scriptment" (which was a generalization and organization of all the ep2 story rumors and leakages) on theforce.net before it was taken down. Sounded like a bunch of crap to me, aside from maybe Yoda getting into a lightsaber duel.)
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The kicker can now take up less than the full screen. The default is not to have a handle on the left, making good use of Fitt's law; slam the mouse to the lower left and you are *sure* to get the Start Menu when you click.
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I notice things like that. But if they decided to do that, why the hell didn't they do the opposite: on maximized windows, slamming the mouse to the upper right should land you a click a away from the "X" for closing the window, but it doesnt. Every time, I have to look after "slamming" and move the mouse slightly down, and left. Not smart design.
I think the JonKatz random bullshittery is there just to generate some hits; I notice that all his stories have a lot of replies/comments (perhaps because he's so insanely ridiculous?)
Personally, I turned his ass off in my/. prefs a long time ago. I'm a lot happier ever since.
It should further be noted that no one is the authority on this, and every damn gaming publication pulls this "Top X Games" shit to generate some hits/magazine purchases.
Go play SpaceWar or Pong, and then go play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization. Chances are you'll have a LOT more fun playing the latter.
I think the point of the original poster was a game's popularity during it's time. Comparing two different era games side-by-side is not conclusive at all in terms of popularity. Whether or not the list endeavors to measure popularity or just "quality" is not clear though...
Couldn't agree more. Almost any "Top X games EVER!!!" list always includeds SMB3 towards the very top, if not #1. I mean, they made a movie about the game (not a story based off the game, mind you). THATS popularity.
The original Zelda needs to be higher as well. As for Pac Man, if you're going to include it for popularity, you have to include Galaga.:)
aside from The Simpsons, it's probably the funniest show on the air.
If you like the simpsons, and funny shows, do yourself a favor and watch The Family Guy. I mean, damn, how can a show be this funny every week? The dad and the baby have pretty much stolen the whole show, but you can run a show off those two characters alone. You can catch most of the third season so far on newsgroups too.
I don't know how many people are fans of the show, but I fear not enough people for Fox to keep it on the air...
This looks cool, but I'd like to have more granular control over javascript opening windows. In particular, I'd like to only dissallow Window.open calls when they are hooked up to BODY's event handlers (mainly, ONLOAD, and ONUNLOAD, which are the main one's used to trigger those damn popups).
(PS:
I have Mozilla 0.9.2 installed right now, and it's way slower... Really? On my machine, Mozilla takes less time to startup, and less time to load pages... I'll put up with the extra bloat that it does have for the best site rendering on *nix.)
I'd ask him if he remembered when he sold out to such a degree. Everyone expects some product tie-ins, no matter what movie comes out. That's just a result of our impulse-buying society. But Star Wars has gone too far, and if the "going far" scale was circular, it has done a couple laps around "too far." I mean, I could find star wars toilet paper if I tried hard enough. I wouldn't care about all this (since I'm not Joe Drive-300-miles-to-get-X-toy) but since the last movie was such a piece of shit, it leads me (and others) to believe that $$$ comes before telling a good story now, in Lucas' world.
Unfortunately, the Star Wars brand has such momentum now in the global psyche that you can almost gaurantee that the next two movies will be even more whored out to any company that thinks the logo will sell more cereal, mouse-pads, books, dildo's, whatever... I'll watch the movies, but that's it.
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I'll get me an x-box and one of these too I'm sure.
You've stated the problem with your attitude right there in that sentence. You're already planning to buy one of these HomeStations, just because of the brand attached to it. All you've seen is a one page article, the picture could be phony, the quotes could be phony, but it seems you don't care.
That's the real problem with Microsoft being "tied into just about everything." People are willing to buy, buy, buy, based solely on brand-name and not quality or comparison. Name one other industry (if you can still call Microsoft a one-industry company) where you can get away with that? Will Ford ever make microwaves? Will AT&T ever make vacuums?
A woman holding a baby gets on a bus. The bus driver looks at them and says, "Damn, That's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!"
In a huff the woman slams her money into the farebox and goes to the rear of the bus. The man seated next to her sees she's agitated and asks what's wrong.
"The bus driver insulted me!" she fumes.
"That's outrageous!" says the man. "He's a public servant and shouldn't be insulting passengers."
"You 're right!" the woman says. "I think I'll go up there and give him a piece of my mind!"
"That's a good idea," says the man. "Here, I'll hold your monkey."
s/IE/cocaine
e.g., it's good now, but in the long run, you'll be fucked.
Not to mention that most all games released for the Xbox will at some time or another be released for your regular ol' PC. An Xbox is like buying a PC you can't upgrade.
You want to know what sucks? I can spend days with one Mozilla process with no crashes or hiccups at all, but the SECOND I'm showing someone something or someone is at my machine for a couple seconds, it crashes, leading them to think of the utter shittiness of other browsers, not to mention operating systems.
I think I'll open a bug on this.
I could not agree more with your points as to why MS is successful and why linux/open-source remains fringe. You're diagnosis is accurate, but:
-It almost seems as though the open source community needs a seasoned and very smart benevolent dictator to say what is ok and what is not.
This is exactly what will NEVER happen. This whole "movement" started because hackers hate authority, hate being told what to use, and would rather start over a hundred times than help to fix something.
I can't stand it when people say they like diversity in the desktop; they feel that having umpteen desktop environments is beneficial. How the fuck is that remotely true? Everyone's doing they're own thing, re-implementing the news client, the browser, the text editor, etc. Meanwhile, in the centralized command hierarchies of the non-free world (yes, I mean Microsoft), orders are handed down from the top (the top consists of smart people with a goal and a plan) and people spend their work days improving shit, instead of re-inventing because they don't like the leader of so-and-so project, or they don't like the other toolkits, or they'd rather do it in XYZ language.
And why the hell shouldn't centralized hierarchies be more successful? It's how civilization (and it's industries) has operated for centuries. Instead, the "movement" has dozens of toolkits, dozens of desktops, dozens of architectures - one for each ego out there.
For Christ's sake, shouldn't there be a consistent way for an app to, e.g., open a web browser to a certain URL? Sorry, no-can-do. Every app does it differently... sigh. Enough to drive you nuts.
Will we ever have the "benevolant dictator" you speak of? Not while there's ego's to be fed...
I really never noticed any of the points you mentioned, after whatching all 3 movies umpteen times each. Could it be that the original 3 were movies that were more than the sum of their (bad) parts? I mean, the stories were simple to follow. The good/bad polarity of light/dark sides of the force was absolute, easy enough for all us 4 year olds to understand at the time. And IMO, the special effects played a HUGE part as well.
All these attributes served to make the original series stand out in all our minds, not to mention our young, impressionable minds at the time. (E.g., in my mind, Transformers will always be the greatest cartoon of all time, even though I can barely sit through the non-sensical episodes now.)
No matter how much Ep1 sucked my ass, I'll still go see Ep2. The entire star wars brand has so much damn momentum now, it doesn't matter if the next one was just footage of a bear taking a shit in the woods; it would still break box office records, morons would still buy stupid plastic toys like there was no tomorrow, and Lucas would hemorage even more money.
You'll go see it, I'll go see it, we'll all try to get opening night tickets.
(Note: I read the "scriptment" (which was a generalization and organization of all the ep2 story rumors and leakages) on theforce.net before it was taken down. Sounded like a bunch of crap to me, aside from maybe Yoda getting into a lightsaber duel.)
The kicker can now take up less than the full screen. The default is not to have a handle on the left, making good use of Fitt's law; slam the mouse to the lower left and you are *sure* to get the Start Menu when you click.
<pick mode=nit>
I notice things like that. But if they decided to do that, why the hell didn't they do the opposite: on maximized windows, slamming the mouse to the upper right should land you a click a away from the "X" for closing the window, but it doesnt. Every time, I have to look after "slamming" and move the mouse slightly down, and left. Not smart design.
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I think the JonKatz random bullshittery is there just to generate some hits; I notice that all his stories have a lot of replies/comments (perhaps because he's so insanely ridiculous?)
/. prefs a long time ago. I'm a lot happier ever since.
Personally, I turned his ass off in my
It should further be noted that no one is the authority on this, and every damn gaming publication pulls this "Top X Games" shit to generate some hits/magazine purchases.
Go play SpaceWar or Pong, and then go play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization. Chances are you'll have a LOT more fun playing the latter.
I think the point of the original poster was a game's popularity during it's time. Comparing two different era games side-by-side is not conclusive at all in terms of popularity. Whether or not the list endeavors to measure popularity or just "quality" is not clear though...
1) Super Mario 3.
:)
2) Pac Man.
Couldn't agree more. Almost any "Top X games EVER!!!" list always includeds SMB3 towards the very top, if not #1. I mean, they made a movie about the game (not a story based off the game, mind you). THATS popularity.
The original Zelda needs to be higher as well. As for Pac Man, if you're going to include it for popularity, you have to include Galaga.
aside from The Simpsons, it's probably the funniest show on the air.
If you like the simpsons, and funny shows, do yourself a favor and watch The Family Guy. I mean, damn, how can a show be this funny every week? The dad and the baby have pretty much stolen the whole show, but you can run a show off those two characters alone. You can catch most of the third season so far on newsgroups too.
I don't know how many people are fans of the show, but I fear not enough people for Fox to keep it on the air...
Can this be verified by using, e.g., konqueror and comparing load times when using the different browser identification strings?
It's like saying that by throwin the dice more and more maybe you'll find a pattern.
Actually, I know the pattern there: I lose all my money.
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It will be a year later than the regular gamecube.
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I've reserved the console and that exact game. can't wait... GT3 will tide me over till then though. :)
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This looks cool, but I'd like to have more granular control over javascript opening windows. In particular, I'd like to only dissallow Window.open calls when they are hooked up to BODY's event handlers (mainly, ONLOAD, and ONUNLOAD, which are the main one's used to trigger those damn popups).
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Now, if they'll just get AA fonts
Just a note that the Qt-port of mozilla already anti-aliases fonts. The port is not nearly usable yet, but if you want to try it:
http://www.linux.ucla.edu/~dimator/qt-mozilla/
(PS:
I have Mozilla 0.9.2 installed right now, and it's way slower...
Really? On my machine, Mozilla takes less time to startup, and less time to load pages... I'll put up with the extra bloat that it does have for the best site rendering on *nix.)
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I'd ask him if he remembered when he sold out to such a degree. Everyone expects some product tie-ins, no matter what movie comes out. That's just a result of our impulse-buying society. But Star Wars has gone too far, and if the "going far" scale was circular, it has done a couple laps around "too far." I mean, I could find star wars toilet paper if I tried hard enough. I wouldn't care about all this (since I'm not Joe Drive-300-miles-to-get-X-toy) but since the last movie was such a piece of shit, it leads me (and others) to believe that $$$ comes before telling a good story now, in Lucas' world.
Unfortunately, the Star Wars brand has such momentum now in the global psyche that you can almost gaurantee that the next two movies will be even more whored out to any company that thinks the logo will sell more cereal, mouse-pads, books, dildo's, whatever... I'll watch the movies, but that's it.
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Well, I was going to post a favorite, but it's kind of hard. (pun intended?)
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Seriously. I love when OOG posts, he should do so more often.
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Exactly! In addition, I need semi-automatic weapons to defend my home and my family!
(please note my sarcasm)
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God, Denise Richards is a terrible actress....
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