I don't think this actually works, as what gets sent on these multiple choices is the number of the choice you select, and the order of choices presented is always different (so grabbing the submitted form data wouldn be worthless)
What I think is needed is that irritating technology which stops you taking screenshots of protected video files but implemented as a common security features in browsers. Although I suppose it is possible that a good plugin and a poor browser might circumvent this?
While that is true, and does cost less. Those kind of games don't offer everyone long term amusement (attension spans, different upbringings, specific like for fast paced games and eye candy)
I personally have probably spent more time on the expensive eye candy interactive movie type game you speak of than the general no cost time fillers and board game type things.
Some people also like to marvel at scenery and get into a storyline as they play a game. I personally get bored of games that are very simmilar on all levels and have no real progression pretty quickly.
I think what I'm trying to say is different entertainment for different people and one form isn't nesisarily superior to the other.
Hell yeah, in fact for me, downloading music I havn't heard before must account for about 70% of the music Ive downloaded in total. The reason being, its the safest way (financially. till you get sued) to try new music.
I _almost_ switched from firefox to opera, as firefox can be a little clunky on rendering some pages (gets slowed right down by a few sites) and the ram usage is crazy.
But the thing that dragged me back to firefox was that in opera the mouse gestures were utterly poor, even after I changed to a custom set of gestures that took me about 10 minutes to figure out. It wouldn't always recognise a gesture, my gesture that was supposed to close tabs wouldn't always work, of my gestures for next/previous tab only 1 would ever work.
In short the firefox 'all-in-one-gestures' extension works a lot more reliably and the Opera gestures were hell (for me at least)
Actually I also mentioned FLAC, which is for even more serious audiophiles.
I believe ogg has reasonable usage now, hell I even occasionally see downloads of music in ogg.
You arn't wrong that mp3 is the most used, but what harm would it do apple to inlclude some support?
Oh yeah, I own an iaudio m3l and frankly if you actually bother to research what your buying you can easily get something that kicks the shit out of an ipod in features.
(I'll admit the ipod scroll wheel is a faster and more intuitive interface however)
The ipod plays a few select audio formats, looks pretty and has a intuitive user interface that people like. Those are what it does well.
I disagree that it is an especially good device at playing compressed (or uncompressed) audio because most of its competition covers the same audio formats + ogg and some have FLAC support on top.
In fact for PLAYING AUDIO the ipod is pretty much an underdog, it just has an agreeable look to it and interface.
Efficiency might technically be worked out by fuel consumption and distance traveled, but another thing I believe that comes into it is how useful the distance traveled is.
How much of the flight takes a pterosaur directly toward its destination using air currents, and how often would a pterosaur get to where you want it to go?:P
but seriosuly, can you take a very efficient straight line route using air currents?
I'd say that the thing to blame is that, as a majority, the public has poor taste and likes unorigional things (maybe they are unorigional because the majority of people don't like them?)
Of course the games devs are going to try and hit a large an audience as they can.
What happens when a game has some new ideas or isn't part of an already popular videogame or movie franchise?
Normally it doesn't sell, the majority of people don't give it a second look.
A reasonably example game I can think of to illustarate this is a game called 'Beyond Good and Evil' which had some very nice art, it was fun to play and introduced some less linear things like taking photos of animal species and letting you collect pearls by mostly whatever means you saw fit.
It even had a pretty involving story in my opinion.
I bet most people have never seen of or heard of the game, but they did get the new Sims 2 addon pack or the next gta game.
The people to blame are both consumers and the companies who are unwilling to make games that appeal to people who want something origional/interesting about the games they play.
ISPs must be largely to blame for most people having sucky upload rates. Maybe if we're lucky once bittorrent has become big as a commercial distribution tool ISPs will recognise the demand for upstream bandwidth and adapt services to fit.
The more idiot friendly a peer to peer protocol is made, the more idiots you get. Yay now we get more people who care nothing about seeding and all about the getting!
While somewhat true, isnt hd-dvd a cheaper format (big plus) and also stores a lot more data than a DVD. How much do you think the porn industry really want to give away on a single disk?
It seems most consumers perfer blu-ray, including me. But I just wanted to offer an alternate viewpoint to your argument.
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You're pretty close, but ASCII is pretty limited. I'd say UTF-8.
Very insightful, in fact its information repeated from the second page of TFA.
What I think is needed is that irritating technology which stops you taking screenshots of protected video files but implemented as a common security features in browsers. Although I suppose it is possible that a good plugin and a poor browser might circumvent this?
I personally have probably spent more time on the expensive eye candy interactive movie type game you speak of than the general no cost time fillers and board game type things.
Some people also like to marvel at scenery and get into a storyline as they play a game. I personally get bored of games that are very simmilar on all levels and have no real progression pretty quickly.
I think what I'm trying to say is different entertainment for different people and one form isn't nesisarily superior to the other.
Hell yeah, in fact for me, downloading music I havn't heard before must account for about 70% of the music Ive downloaded in total. The reason being, its the safest way (financially. till you get sued) to try new music.
If I carved my data into a stone tablet at the same data density a cd is burned/pressed surely a CD would last longer.
I _almost_ switched from firefox to opera, as firefox can be a little clunky on rendering some pages (gets slowed right down by a few sites) and the ram usage is crazy.
But the thing that dragged me back to firefox was that in opera the mouse gestures were utterly poor, even after I changed to a custom set of gestures that took me about 10 minutes to figure out. It wouldn't always recognise a gesture, my gesture that was supposed to close tabs wouldn't always work, of my gestures for next/previous tab only 1 would ever work.
In short the firefox 'all-in-one-gestures' extension works a lot more reliably and the Opera gestures were hell (for me at least)
Hey, if thats the case then maybe we should use the amount google pay Mozilla to calculate the REAL firefox usage statistics! ;-)
Actually I also mentioned FLAC, which is for even more serious audiophiles. I believe ogg has reasonable usage now, hell I even occasionally see downloads of music in ogg. You arn't wrong that mp3 is the most used, but what harm would it do apple to inlclude some support? Oh yeah, I own an iaudio m3l and frankly if you actually bother to research what your buying you can easily get something that kicks the shit out of an ipod in features. (I'll admit the ipod scroll wheel is a faster and more intuitive interface however)
The ipod plays a few select audio formats, looks pretty and has a intuitive user interface that people like. Those are what it does well. I disagree that it is an especially good device at playing compressed (or uncompressed) audio because most of its competition covers the same audio formats + ogg and some have FLAC support on top. In fact for PLAYING AUDIO the ipod is pretty much an underdog, it just has an agreeable look to it and interface.
maybe google personal search could be made to search all the sections of google you are interested from the main page anyway.
Better seperation and marking of different types of indexed data can only be a good thing.
Agreed, while not a tech show it might appealto some of the gaming slashdot crowd. Its a brilliant sattire.
How much of the flight takes a pterosaur directly toward its destination using air currents, and how often would a pterosaur get to where you want it to go? :P
but seriosuly, can you take a very efficient straight line route using air currents?
Of course the games devs are going to try and hit a large an audience as they can.
What happens when a game has some new ideas or isn't part of an already popular videogame or movie franchise?
Normally it doesn't sell, the majority of people don't give it a second look.
A reasonably example game I can think of to illustarate this is a game called 'Beyond Good and Evil' which had some very nice art, it was fun to play and introduced some less linear things like taking photos of animal species and letting you collect pearls by mostly whatever means you saw fit.
It even had a pretty involving story in my opinion.
I bet most people have never seen of or heard of the game, but they did get the new Sims 2 addon pack or the next gta game.
The people to blame are both consumers and the companies who are unwilling to make games that appeal to people who want something origional/interesting about the games they play.
Some ISPs even charge you EXTRA to get a static address.
This isn't even a troll, the idiots that thought this up should be repeatedly kicked in the groin.
Of course I'm not really expecting it by shouldn't the model make rarely bought tracks cost $0.30 or something?
Actually I don't really like any of the ultra popular tasteless rubbish that would likely get a price hike anyway.
In fact a nice firefox extension would be to mute the browser (possibly on toggle)
Is this name 'DReaM' a joke? it seems so fitting. :-)
phsh that would be expecting too much probably.
Although it is almost heart-warming to see the number of people who are stumped at opening and/or forwarding a port or so. :-)
Other content that more or less relies on peer seeding will probably be at a loss though.
The more idiot friendly a peer to peer protocol is made, the more idiots you get. Yay now we get more people who care nothing about seeding and all about the getting!
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5. Profit!
While somewhat true, isnt hd-dvd a cheaper format (big plus) and also stores a lot more data than a DVD. How much do you think the porn industry really want to give away on a single disk?
It seems most consumers perfer blu-ray, including me. But I just wanted to offer an alternate viewpoint to your argument.
With a 1GB capacity its slow, but not as horrible as using USB 1.1 on a decently sized serious mp3 player.