Yah, since it's interface is completely customizable, you can't really say that. If you think it looks messy, download/create a new theme. (Themes go beyond colour schemes and button graphics. Opera themes customize menus, panel placement, keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, etc.)
Sorry to sound like an Opera rep, it's just that this is one of the features that makes me like it more than Moz. My setup looks like something I wrote from scratch; nothing like the default.
I know they want to avoid bloat, but programs like Opera prove that you can have tons of features without using tons of memory. I don't like having to fish around for dozens of plugins to get the base functionality of a competing application. Is there a branch, like Firefox, that specializes in including everything rather than trimming it down?
How can you compare theraputic cloning to Nazzism? That's an obvious attempt to play off of the world's hatred for them to trick people into supporting your belief. Kind of like when politicians call each other Hitler, but a little more subtle.
Besides, what's more reminiscent of Nazi policy: killing unthinking organic tissue, or stifling technology/science/culture?
That site only carries 99min and lower CDRs, but I'm pretty sure there are retailers selling gigabyte CDs that are especially tailored for overburning.
In the ET review they are surprised to find keyboard shortcuts work with Moz, Epiphany, FF, etc; not just IE. I was impressed with that, too, I would expect Google to let the minority toil away without such advanced features,
However, it looks like they don't support all browsers after all: as seen here at their site. I'm browsing on Opera, so I get this message: 'Gmail does not currently support your browser.'. I wouldn't at all be surprised if they ended up supporting it after the beta, however. As the review noted, a lot of expected features (such as sigs and virus scanning) were left out in this early version.
DVD drives are not yet as ubiquitous as CD drives. For a backup of critical data, I'd want to be able to read it at as many places as possible. For that, I'd say a CD is your best bet. That doesn't always matter, though.
I've come to trust PA for game review and commentary, so here is a link to their review of the game here.
Gabe makes a point to say that it will be hard to find in stores. I do remember people complaining that Disgea was impossible to find. I haven't been to a game store since its release, so I'm curious to know if he is right. Has anyone been able, or not been able to find it?
We talk to much here on/. about companies like SCO trying to dig themselves out of the red by suing for money. I don't know anything at all about this case, but I'm wondering if this is happening here. I live in Rochester, where Kodak is our largest employer, and all we ever hear about is Kodak losing money, closing divisions, and outsourcing labor.
I'm always appalled when the RIAA steals money from 12 year olds to try and keep from dying. Yet now that it may be (probably not, I trust that they have a ligitamate case) happening to a company that employs many of my friends, I'm rooting for them.
I'm not the first to say this, I know, but I can't belive anyone would say that. To many of us, 'good old fasioned parenting' is in conflict with out beliefs. For instance, my parents raised me without a bedtime, something their parents would find apauling. My grandparents' parents would often physically discipline them, something the whole family line now finds apauling. Your riteous creed may be the way to take your family, by I don't have a problem with what that mother said. Unless the kid has gone on a killing spree since she said that, it oviously hasn't created a problem. Why keep the kid from having fun?
Personally, I do hate GTA. I find it repetative and not at all fun. I mention that so I don't come across as a rabid GTA fanboy.
I just got my apt-get on, looks like the latest version in testing is 48MB. I don't know what kind of compression or what not is involved, but ~50MB is a lot when you only have 700MB to work with.
I think the point is to make a free Windows. The idea is having a free way to run Windows applications perfectly, the copycat interface is probably just a way to attract those farmiliar with Windows who do not wish to pay for it. Aso, Wine Is Not an Emulator...
KOffice is a relatively large package. Why include it when most are going to use OpenOffice, which is included, anyway? It's a waste of space, which is at a serious premium on any LiveCD. I support the decision, though I have nothing against KOffice.
As studios work harder and harder to provide an immersive graphical environment, production costs skyrocket. Take Shenmue, a game that continues to amaze me with the complexity of its world. You can pick up and examine detailed objects from dishes in Ryu's kitchen to toys bought from vending machines. There was rarely a purpose for this, just an added touch of realism. Features like these helped to make it one of my favourite games, but they also helped to make the creation cost some $70 million (statistics vary)!
As technology advances and visuals on that scale become expected by the consumers, only the richest companies will be able to produce games. This will limit the number of titles being put out, and eliminate smaller studios completely (we see this happening every day).
My hope is that simple, but not ugly, graphics will become a more popular style. Colourful, cartoony designs made of large shapes, and the like. Artistic environments will replace realistic ones. There are plenty of great games that have skirted high production costs by limiting graphical prospects. Chu Chu Rocket, which I was just playing, did that. The graphics do no more than they need to, and as a result, I'm sure it was an affordable game to produce.
I wouldn't want some great puzzler to be rejected by a publisher who doesn't want to spend the money to bump map the scales on its dinasaurs.
I don't see why they don't do this. I understand that they don't want the majority of their apps on Linux, as doing that would take away incentive to buy a Mac. However, as proven when they ported it to Windows, iTunes needs as large of a user base as it can get. How could Apple be hurt by expaning said user base to a community that loves digital music, and has gone as far as to hack their way into iTMS goodness? Personally, I just want to be able to run such a great media player natively...
I live nearbye in Rochester and I never saw a bottle with it. I don't drink Pepsi regularly, but I probably had a dozen or so bottles in the time the offer went on. I don't really care, I wouldn't have used it anyway.
Well, the bandwith point is good. 90% of the bandwith being for P2P sounds a bit high, but lets go with that figure. How much of that is from illegal music? At 3-4MB a song, they don't make that much of a dent even when being downloaded by the thousands. It seems more likely to me that it is from mainly larger file transfers. Kids downloading software (not always warez), videos (not always bootlegs), encyclopedia length PDFs and other eBook type things, etc. If they were to block network access to P2Ps, students might not be able to get those files necessary to their schooling. Imagine some kid who wants to download Debian, some 12 discs, to increase his productivity, but can't and is forced to use lesser sotware on his current Windows install (Linux has some good math/science/writing/etc. software that college students rely on). There are HTML mirrors for that, so its not the best example, but I'm sure you see what I mean.
'Preventing' music trasnfers seems to hurt the people who don't share as much as the people that do. Be it funding being cut to more important things, or blocking access to legal files. It might be cheapest to subsidize the bandwith payments with money saved from trying to stop file sharing.
Actually, it would be cheaper to do neither. The U of Rochester, up here, is doing that, and they are under constant criticism for the program. People tend not to like money being spent on music for others (Windows users who live on campus) as opposed to their education, after they had paid for the latter. I don't see why a University is liable for the actions taking place over its network anyway... Make the students agree not to do it, so you can't be blamed, and let the RIAA hang them if they do.
That would be great! A site where we could all review varios stores and manufacturers! We could call it Reseller ratings, or something...
http://www.resellerratings.com/
FMV? Who uses FMVs these days? Developers are starting to use cinemas using the in-game graphics engine en masse, now. From what I understand, this uses a _lot_ less space, which makes sense. In the PSX days, FMVs were useful because the games themselves were low-res and low-polly. That's not true anymore; quite the opposite. Since there is no compressed video involved, and all the modeling is the same as it is when you're playing, it looks better, too. A good example of this technique is Metroid Prime, whose cinemas look much ebtter than any FMV I've ever seen.
That's a cool thought, but I doubt it will work. I'm sure Google will only allow access to the account for one person at a time. I wouldn't be surprised if only a certain number of IP adressess could log in during a certain period of time, too.
This is true. The local one I was in was all but baren, too. The non-technical I talk to, however, seem to feel comforted by having a local store like that. I suppose it gives the impression of customer service that you get when buying from the local car dealer, as opposed to a used car ad in the newspaper (which I would equate to buying from CompUSA, or whatever). Couldn't have helped too much, though, eh?
I may get soem of this wrong, but apparently the series is so popular in Japan, the government mandated that it only be released on weekends. This was because hundreds of thousands of kids would skip school to buy it, when it came out on weekdays.
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Yah, since it's interface is completely customizable, you can't really say that. If you think it looks messy, download/create a new theme. (Themes go beyond colour schemes and button graphics. Opera themes customize menus, panel placement, keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, etc.)
Sorry to sound like an Opera rep, it's just that this is one of the features that makes me like it more than Moz. My setup looks like something I wrote from scratch; nothing like the default.
I know they want to avoid bloat, but programs like Opera prove that you can have tons of features without using tons of memory. I don't like having to fish around for dozens of plugins to get the base functionality of a competing application. Is there a branch, like Firefox, that specializes in including everything rather than trimming it down?
How can you compare theraputic cloning to Nazzism? That's an obvious attempt to play off of the world's hatred for them to trick people into supporting your belief. Kind of like when politicians call each other Hitler, but a little more subtle.
Besides, what's more reminiscent of Nazi policy: killing unthinking organic tissue, or stifling technology/science/culture?
Here are some CDRs larger than 700MB.
That site only carries 99min and lower CDRs, but I'm pretty sure there are retailers selling gigabyte CDs that are especially tailored for overburning.
In the ET review they are surprised to find keyboard shortcuts work with Moz, Epiphany, FF, etc; not just IE. I was impressed with that, too, I would expect Google to let the minority toil away without such advanced features,
However, it looks like they don't support all browsers after all: as seen here at their site. I'm browsing on Opera, so I get this message: 'Gmail does not currently support your browser.'. I wouldn't at all be surprised if they ended up supporting it after the beta, however. As the review noted, a lot of expected features (such as sigs and virus scanning) were left out in this early version.
DVD drives are not yet as ubiquitous as CD drives. For a backup of critical data, I'd want to be able to read it at as many places as possible. For that, I'd say a CD is your best bet. That doesn't always matter, though.
I've come to trust PA for game review and commentary, so here is a link to their review of the game here.
Gabe makes a point to say that it will be hard to find in stores. I do remember people complaining that Disgea was impossible to find. I haven't been to a game store since its release, so I'm curious to know if he is right. Has anyone been able, or not been able to find it?
We talk to much here on /. about companies like SCO trying to dig themselves out of the red by suing for money. I don't know anything at all about this case, but I'm wondering if this is happening here. I live in Rochester, where Kodak is our largest employer, and all we ever hear about is Kodak losing money, closing divisions, and outsourcing labor.
I'm always appalled when the RIAA steals money from 12 year olds to try and keep from dying. Yet now that it may be (probably not, I trust that they have a ligitamate case) happening to a company that employs many of my friends, I'm rooting for them.
I'm not the first to say this, I know, but I can't belive anyone would say that. To many of us, 'good old fasioned parenting' is in conflict with out beliefs. For instance, my parents raised me without a bedtime, something their parents would find apauling. My grandparents' parents would often physically discipline them, something the whole family line now finds apauling. Your riteous creed may be the way to take your family, by I don't have a problem with what that mother said. Unless the kid has gone on a killing spree since she said that, it oviously hasn't created a problem. Why keep the kid from having fun?
Personally, I do hate GTA. I find it repetative and not at all fun. I mention that so I don't come across as a rabid GTA fanboy.
Let me issue a retraction, I think I misread it. The actual size may be just over 10MB+dependancies.
I just got my apt-get on, looks like the latest version in testing is 48MB. I don't know what kind of compression or what not is involved, but ~50MB is a lot when you only have 700MB to work with.
I think the point is to make a free Windows. The idea is having a free way to run Windows applications perfectly, the copycat interface is probably just a way to attract those farmiliar with Windows who do not wish to pay for it. Aso, Wine Is Not an Emulator...
KOffice is a relatively large package. Why include it when most are going to use OpenOffice, which is included, anyway? It's a waste of space, which is at a serious premium on any LiveCD. I support the decision, though I have nothing against KOffice.
As studios work harder and harder to provide an immersive graphical environment, production costs skyrocket. Take Shenmue, a game that continues to amaze me with the complexity of its world. You can pick up and examine detailed objects from dishes in Ryu's kitchen to toys bought from vending machines. There was rarely a purpose for this, just an added touch of realism. Features like these helped to make it one of my favourite games, but they also helped to make the creation cost some $70 million (statistics vary)!
As technology advances and visuals on that scale become expected by the consumers, only the richest companies will be able to produce games. This will limit the number of titles being put out, and eliminate smaller studios completely (we see this happening every day).
My hope is that simple, but not ugly, graphics will become a more popular style. Colourful, cartoony designs made of large shapes, and the like. Artistic environments will replace realistic ones. There are plenty of great games that have skirted high production costs by limiting graphical prospects. Chu Chu Rocket, which I was just playing, did that. The graphics do no more than they need to, and as a result, I'm sure it was an affordable game to produce.
I wouldn't want some great puzzler to be rejected by a publisher who doesn't want to spend the money to bump map the scales on its dinasaurs.
I don't see why they don't do this. I understand that they don't want the majority of their apps on Linux, as doing that would take away incentive to buy a Mac. However, as proven when they ported it to Windows, iTunes needs as large of a user base as it can get. How could Apple be hurt by expaning said user base to a community that loves digital music, and has gone as far as to hack their way into iTMS goodness? Personally, I just want to be able to run such a great media player natively...
I live nearbye in Rochester and I never saw a bottle with it. I don't drink Pepsi regularly, but I probably had a dozen or so bottles in the time the offer went on. I don't really care, I wouldn't have used it anyway.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards /6afa/
Well, the bandwith point is good. 90% of the bandwith being for P2P sounds a bit high, but lets go with that figure. How much of that is from illegal music? At 3-4MB a song, they don't make that much of a dent even when being downloaded by the thousands. It seems more likely to me that it is from mainly larger file transfers. Kids downloading software (not always warez), videos (not always bootlegs), encyclopedia length PDFs and other eBook type things, etc. If they were to block network access to P2Ps, students might not be able to get those files necessary to their schooling. Imagine some kid who wants to download Debian, some 12 discs, to increase his productivity, but can't and is forced to use lesser sotware on his current Windows install (Linux has some good math/science/writing/etc. software that college students rely on). There are HTML mirrors for that, so its not the best example, but I'm sure you see what I mean.
'Preventing' music trasnfers seems to hurt the people who don't share as much as the people that do. Be it funding being cut to more important things, or blocking access to legal files. It might be cheapest to subsidize the bandwith payments with money saved from trying to stop file sharing.
Actually, it would be cheaper to do neither. The U of Rochester, up here, is doing that, and they are under constant criticism for the program. People tend not to like money being spent on music for others (Windows users who live on campus) as opposed to their education, after they had paid for the latter. I don't see why a University is liable for the actions taking place over its network anyway... Make the students agree not to do it, so you can't be blamed, and let the RIAA hang them if they do.
That would be great! A site where we could all review varios stores and manufacturers! We could call it Reseller ratings, or something... http://www.resellerratings.com/
FMV? Who uses FMVs these days? Developers are starting to use cinemas using the in-game graphics engine en masse, now. From what I understand, this uses a _lot_ less space, which makes sense. In the PSX days, FMVs were useful because the games themselves were low-res and low-polly. That's not true anymore; quite the opposite. Since there is no compressed video involved, and all the modeling is the same as it is when you're playing, it looks better, too. A good example of this technique is Metroid Prime, whose cinemas look much ebtter than any FMV I've ever seen.
That's a cool thought, but I doubt it will work. I'm sure Google will only allow access to the account for one person at a time. I wouldn't be surprised if only a certain number of IP adressess could log in during a certain period of time, too.
This is true. The local one I was in was all but baren, too. The non-technical I talk to, however, seem to feel comforted by having a local store like that. I suppose it gives the impression of customer service that you get when buying from the local car dealer, as opposed to a used car ad in the newspaper (which I would equate to buying from CompUSA, or whatever). Couldn't have helped too much, though, eh?
In SC3K it was 2050, don't know about the others...
I may get soem of this wrong, but apparently the series is so popular in Japan, the government mandated that it only be released on weekends. This was because hundreds of thousands of kids would skip school to buy it, when it came out on weekdays.