FireFox lacks the wonderful Mozilla ability to simply type text into the URL bar, hit the up key and then enter, and run a Google search.
Nope, doesn't lack it at all. You can configure the URL to do a google search directly. No need to up arrow at all, just type text then enter.
Default as mentioned is to do a "I feel lucky" so it goes straight to the first page, but if you change the URL in the about:config customise optons, it goes to the search results.
Windows XP struggles on a 1.2ghz Celeron with 128MB RAM, and I know this because we have several of both systems.
Whoa, have to really disagree here. I ran XP Pro for months with 128MB on a Celeron 300 overclocked to 450. Ran just fine.
Now, it did require lots of tweaking. Turned off all the fat in the system especially animated menus etc, use classic folders and start menu, and so forth. Made sure only the barebones services were running, killed things like system restore, automatic indexing etc.
Um, you seem to be missing one thing however - how is that more fun?
I don't want a developer to spend precious time on making the newspaper blow realistically, or each brick to break differently. That's stuff that 99.9% of the audience will never even notice.
Reality is *boring*. Movies learned this a long time ago, which is why every single car accident blows up in a massive explosion, rather than just dents a bit when hit.
Spend your time thinking about how to make things more fun, not more realistic. Gameplay is king.
Yeah. That would tend to be (wait for it!) Disney.
I know it's fun to bash Di$ney, but that's untrue in this case. All of Disney's videos come up with "Coming Soon", and a "Press *Menu* to skip" sign in the corner. Only their first few disks were unskippable, and they changed immediately after the initial complaints.
It's the other companies that are still doing it. Die Another Day (MGM I believe) was a disk that was unskippable.
Met him at the West Coast Computer show in Vancouver demoing Thunderscan around '86 or so, and he had the exact same green shirt on that I was wearing.
The man is a Geek God. Turning a printer into a scanner? Sheer genius.
I know it's in to bash it, but I guess you just had to be there. Lineups around the block, waiting a couple of hours before you could get into the theatre, theatre literally packed down to the last seat filled, the most raucous and boisterous applause I've ever heard. An incredible payoff after an extremely enjoyable and fun movie.
It's just not the same in the 20 screen multiplex world.
...of contacting your customers. Every day I get so many fake emails trying to get my paypal, ebay, banking info etc, that I no longer even look at it. All correspondence that appears to be from them simply gets binned. Even the legitimate ones, because they're indistinguishable from the fakes.
'Course, it was a bug, and it accidentally kept setting the game to Easy.
Sounds like a lot of work for nothing to me. Just give the user enough difficulty levels so that they can set it to what they need. I've played a few games where even Easy mode was too hard, and Impossible mode was anything but.
I placed 320 orders from them since 2002 (you can check your entire order history!), and probably RMA'd about 50 items (out of over a thousand) without even a single problem. They're not perfect, but that's pretty close.
Great. Now if only the bastards would start shipping to Canada.
No kidding. I just went there to look, never been there before. Had no problem with it refusing me in Firebird on XP, but when I clicked on an album I got an unbelievable dogs breakfast. Bits of the page all over the place, pretty much totally unreadable.
...since the purpose was to conduct a "tracking study". From a rough count here, it's clear customer reaction is 95% negative. And that's with many of us being actually *unaffected* by this.
These guys sound like the brilliant types who decided that I could afford to spend a dollar or two a month to visit my favourite websites. "Anybody can afford that" they say. The bozos forget however, that I visit *hundreds* of different sites a month. And suddenly my "easily afforded" monthly bill for web page subscriptions is upwards of $200 a month.
The reality of the situation is that I simply stopped visiting those pages asking for subscription fees. Just like I'll stop visiting any pages who use these new ads.
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Um, yeah. Calling a dj a musician is like calling my mother a programmer because she installed Linux.
Without the actual artist, the dj has nothing.
Not to mention Celine Dion and Anne Murray.
Eschew verbosity.
Great book. Lousy movie. Decent browser name.
Nope, doesn't lack it at all. You can configure the URL to do a google search directly. No need to up arrow at all, just type text then enter.
Default as mentioned is to do a "I feel lucky" so it goes straight to the first page, but if you change the URL in the about:config customise optons, it goes to the search results.
Coming soon (heh heh) Leisure Suit Larry(TM) Magna Cum Laude
If you go to the downloads section, there's a trailer.
An absolute pile of crap of course.
Whoa, have to really disagree here. I ran XP Pro for months with 128MB on a Celeron 300 overclocked to 450. Ran just fine.
Now, it did require lots of tweaking. Turned off all the fat in the system especially animated menus etc, use classic folders and start menu, and so forth. Made sure only the barebones services were running, killed things like system restore, automatic indexing etc.
I don't want a developer to spend precious time on making the newspaper blow realistically, or each brick to break differently. That's stuff that 99.9% of the audience will never even notice.
Reality is *boring*. Movies learned this a long time ago, which is why every single car accident blows up in a massive explosion, rather than just dents a bit when hit.
Spend your time thinking about how to make things more fun, not more realistic. Gameplay is king.
No fancy graphics, no stirring soundtrack needed.
I know it's fun to bash Di$ney, but that's untrue in this case. All of Disney's videos come up with "Coming Soon", and a "Press *Menu* to skip" sign in the corner. Only their first few disks were unskippable, and they changed immediately after the initial complaints.
It's the other companies that are still doing it. Die Another Day (MGM I believe) was a disk that was unskippable.
I found that interview a complete waste of time.
Nice try. Thunderscan was out before the Amiga even *existed*. 1984 conference with Bill Atkinson
The man is a Geek God. Turning a printer into a scanner? Sheer genius.
It's just not the same in the 20 screen multiplex world.
Maybe it's just a ploy so Liz can lop off Bill's head.
(glances lovingly at his 20 year old box of Ultima IV for the Apple IIe)
No. It's been six moves, five cities during that time, and I've never regretted it.
Now, my 20+ years of Nibble, Computer Gaming World, Dr. Dobbs, PC Magazine etc, that's another story.
Until we all start signing our emails with PGP.
Anybody who was able to get the 50 page article know why doing the horizontal bop is bad?
Well, at least she was an educated crack whore.
Sounds like a lot of work for nothing to me. Just give the user enough difficulty levels so that they can set it to what they need. I've played a few games where even Easy mode was too hard, and Impossible mode was anything but.
Great. Now if only the bastards would start shipping to Canada.
You are a gentleman and a scholar kind sir.
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These guys sound like the brilliant types who decided that I could afford to spend a dollar or two a month to visit my favourite websites. "Anybody can afford that" they say. The bozos forget however, that I visit *hundreds* of different sites a month. And suddenly my "easily afforded" monthly bill for web page subscriptions is upwards of $200 a month.
The reality of the situation is that I simply stopped visiting those pages asking for subscription fees. Just like I'll stop visiting any pages who use these new ads.