Well, the Nintendo DSi just launched a few weeks ago and for now it's only available in Japan.
I don't know if it will be enough to change global stats (even by 1%) once the DSi is released world-wide, but the fact is, Opera is available on a lot more platforms than anything else at the moment.
So you're right that, on paper at least, Opera doesn't have a huge marketshare. But then again I wonder how many of those Safari users are on Windows/OS X vs iPhone/iPod touch.
All I'm saying is, it's not that much trouble to also test in Opera since as you say it's not that much different than Firefox and Safari. The problem, as usual, comes from Redmond.
Yes, PC used to mean "Personal Computer", but with all the marketing from Microsoft and Apple, PC might as well be as generic as "computer running Windows". Regular people are now using computers, so a lot of the "technical details" are lost on the masses.
If you ask someone what they use to drive around, I guess most of them will not say "a car/a truck", but the brand/model of their car/truck. I suppose the same is now true of computers. You either have a Mac, a Dell, an HP (or "something you built yourself").
Opera is available as a download for the Wii (and was free for quite a long time), as a cart for the Nintendo DS (discontinued, but still) and as a built-in app/download (not sure which) for the new Nintendo DSi.
If anything, Opera is the fourth on what should be the "top four".
I downloaded the demo for World of Goo. And yes, it's a really good puzzle game. The unique style and the excellent gameplay, IMHO, puts it in the same "legendary games" as Lemmings, etc.
2D Boy did it right: - the game itself is excellent (nice style, great music, good graphics, excellent interface, good coding (relative to game speed, no crashes/bugs so far), etc) - Available on more than Windows, for a change (I have a Mac mini) - no DRM (don't treat your customers like criminals) - really decent price for a videogame (20$US)
Now, could I pirate it? With no DRM, it would be extremely easy. However, they are asking an honnest price for an excellent game. And on top of that they don't treat you like a criminal if I buy the game (no DRM), so how in the hell could someone with a good conscience pirate WoG?
I don't have cash for games right now, but when I do, WoG is at the top of my list. That, and I'm getting tired of trying to get OCD on the levels included in the demo.
Even if we take for granted that: - hard drives will never increase in capacity - the price of a 1TB drive will never drop
Add to that the following assumptions: - a hard drive never lasts more than 1 year - we need to be in RAID 1 (two drives) to be safe
That's 235$ CAD per drive, multiplied by two drives per year, multiplied by 50 years: 23 500$ CAD.
I'll assume your 18 000$ InPhase drive price is in US$, which means it would cost me 22 000$CAD for the drive alone without any InPhase disks.
So, it's either shell out 22 220$ CAD right now for an InPhase drive and a single 1TB disk, or spread out 23 500$ CAD over 50 years.
And since drive capacity keeps increasing while prices keep dropping, not to mention the unknown factor of still being able to buy InPhase disks in 50 years, I'll take the (currently magnetic) hard drives in RAID 1 option, thank you very much.
I can buy an external USB2, Firewire 400 and eSATA 1TB drive at Costco, today, for 235$ CAD. How much are those puny 0.3TB holographic disks, and how fast and reliable are they?
Well of course. With no worker unions, government bureaucracy or international laws to get in the way, they have it easier than your average law-abiding citizens and companies.
You should have seen her face when I tried to introduce myself by saying "Hi. My name is underscore-underscore-underscore-underscore-underscore-underscore. I couldn't help noticing your beautiful smile.:-) What's your name?"
Instead, the music industry is now hoping to find growth from a variety of other revenue streams it has not always had access to...
How about just releasing everything world-wide, at the same time, instead of a handful of countries, or different dates for only a selected few countries? I don't care about your contracts and agreements, you're the ones who did that in the first place. It's your mess, clean it up. Your market is the whole planet, take advantage of this "new" fact.
And that goes not only for music but for movies and TV shows too.
[trying to teach Clouseau an English accent] Dialect Instructor: I would like to buy a hamburger. Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I would like to buy a "damburgen". Dialect Instructor: I would like to buy a ham-bur-ger. Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I would like to buy a "damburgen". Dialect Instructor: I would like to buy a hamburger! Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I would like to buy a "damburgen"!
[Cutaway to a group of soldiers in Vietnam, and Peter, dressed as a clown, follows them.] Peter: You're all stupid. See, they're gonna be looking for army guys.
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I think I just wooshed all over myself.
That should have been:
"Except in the USA and UK, where you'd be freezing to death."
Only in the USA and UK. Everywhere else, you'd be too hot to call it living.
As a Canadian, I'd have to say: yes.
It's fucking freezing out there!
Well, the Nintendo DSi just launched a few weeks ago and for now it's only available in Japan.
I don't know if it will be enough to change global stats (even by 1%) once the DSi is released world-wide, but the fact is, Opera is available on a lot more platforms than anything else at the moment.
So you're right that, on paper at least, Opera doesn't have a huge marketshare. But then again I wonder how many of those Safari users are on Windows/OS X vs iPhone/iPod touch.
All I'm saying is, it's not that much trouble to also test in Opera since as you say it's not that much different than Firefox and Safari. The problem, as usual, comes from Redmond.
Yes, PC used to mean "Personal Computer", but with all the marketing from Microsoft and Apple, PC might as well be as generic as "computer running Windows". Regular people are now using computers, so a lot of the "technical details" are lost on the masses.
If you ask someone what they use to drive around, I guess most of them will not say "a car/a truck", but the brand/model of their car/truck. I suppose the same is now true of computers. You either have a Mac, a Dell, an HP (or "something you built yourself").
Opera is available as a download for the Wii (and was free for quite a long time), as a cart for the Nintendo DS (discontinued, but still) and as a built-in app/download (not sure which) for the new Nintendo DSi.
If anything, Opera is the fourth on what should be the "top four".
I downloaded the demo for World of Goo. And yes, it's a really good puzzle game. The unique style and the excellent gameplay, IMHO, puts it in the same "legendary games" as Lemmings, etc.
2D Boy did it right:
- the game itself is excellent (nice style, great music, good graphics, excellent interface, good coding (relative to game speed, no crashes/bugs so far), etc)
- Available on more than Windows, for a change (I have a Mac mini)
- no DRM (don't treat your customers like criminals)
- really decent price for a videogame (20$US)
Now, could I pirate it? With no DRM, it would be extremely easy. However, they are asking an honnest price for an excellent game. And on top of that they don't treat you like a criminal if I buy the game (no DRM), so how in the hell could someone with a good conscience pirate WoG?
I don't have cash for games right now, but when I do, WoG is at the top of my list. That, and I'm getting tired of trying to get OCD on the levels included in the demo.
Not sure if it fits the bill, but TextWrangler has a lot of features.
I don't know how it works in the USA, but here in Canada we don't measure electricity in gallons.
In that context, then yes I do see how that would be a huge advantage.
I was looking at this as an average /. reader, as you say.
Even if we take for granted that:
- hard drives will never increase in capacity
- the price of a 1TB drive will never drop
Add to that the following assumptions:
- a hard drive never lasts more than 1 year
- we need to be in RAID 1 (two drives) to be safe
That's 235$ CAD per drive, multiplied by two drives per year, multiplied by 50 years: 23 500$ CAD.
I'll assume your 18 000$ InPhase drive price is in US$, which means it would cost me 22 000$CAD for the drive alone without any InPhase disks.
So, it's either shell out 22 220$ CAD right now for an InPhase drive and a single 1TB disk, or spread out 23 500$ CAD over 50 years.
And since drive capacity keeps increasing while prices keep dropping, not to mention the unknown factor of still being able to buy InPhase disks in 50 years, I'll take the (currently magnetic) hard drives in RAID 1 option, thank you very much.
I think you meant "on an ISA card".
The end of SATA? Dude I'm still using parallel IDE hard drives over here, and some are over FireWire 400 or USB 2.0.
In any case, Firewire 1600 and Firewire 3200 are just around the corner.
I can buy an external USB2, Firewire 400 and eSATA 1TB drive at Costco, today, for 235$ CAD. How much are those puny 0.3TB holographic disks, and how fast and reliable are they?
I bet he's not an AOL either.
Well of course. With no worker unions, government bureaucracy or international laws to get in the way, they have it easier than your average law-abiding citizens and companies.
Thanks a lot, buddy.
You should have seen her face when I tried to introduce myself by saying "Hi. My name is underscore-underscore-underscore-underscore-underscore-underscore. I couldn't help noticing your beautiful smile. :-) What's your name?"
Forget your fancy-schmancy abacus, I'm looking for another flat rock. Have you seen any?
How about just releasing everything world-wide, at the same time, instead of a handful of countries, or different dates for only a selected few countries? I don't care about your contracts and agreements, you're the ones who did that in the first place. It's your mess, clean it up. Your market is the whole planet, take advantage of this "new" fact.
And that goes not only for music but for movies and TV shows too.
Godamn slashdot can't even get UTF-8 right.
That should have been:
Je pense que vous voulez dire "arrêter", pas "arretêr".
Je pense que vous voulez dire "arrÃter", pas "arretÃr".
[trying to teach Clouseau an English accent]
Dialect Instructor: I would like to buy a hamburger.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I would like to buy a "damburgen".
Dialect Instructor: I would like to buy a ham-bur-ger.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I would like to buy a "damburgen".
Dialect Instructor: I would like to buy a hamburger!
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I would like to buy a "damburgen"!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
[Cutaway to a group of soldiers in Vietnam, and Peter, dressed as a clown, follows them.]
Peter: You're all stupid. See, they're gonna be looking for army guys.
FYI, Firehose also looks like crap when using Safari 3 on Mac OS X on a 1280x1024 display, so the problem isn't your laptop nor Firefox.