This isn't a troll, I'd really like someone to explain it to me. The only advantage I see is the user-created extensions. Other than that, Firefox just seems like Netscape with more bugs.
I like your "Screw the users, we'll remake the Internet however we want and they damn well better thanks us for not giving them the features they want" strategy.
And I bet they've been sitting on the bugtracker for months. The developers seem to do a good job of fixing stuff once a way has been found to exploit it, but not before.
I meant innovation among consoles, I realize the PC has had lots of stuff. Thanks for pointing out about the game.com, though. I actually own a Dreamcast, but I didn't think the shoulder buttons were actually analog. Come to think about it, has any game besides Super Monkey Ball actually used the analog shoulder buttons? As for the PS2, I'm going to go out on a limb and say no way. You'd have to be pretty accurate to push those buttons down in various degrees.
Maybe not much in their games' subjects, but why reinvent something when you can just improve it?
Some of their hardware innovations (feel free to rip me a new one if I'm wrong):
First analog controller (N64)
First "rumble" feature (N64)
First touchscreen (DS)
First analog shoulder buttons (Gamecube)
In addition, I think Super Mario 64 pretty much invented the whole "go from the main world into various sub-worlds and collect something shiny" theme used so often in modern platformers.
Agreed. Google is popular for its simplicity. There's a very real danger of them getting lazy and losing the crown. Most of my site's traffic comes from Yahoo!, and if I'm looking for images, I'll probably try the multimedia search at Lycos or Altavista before Google.
Advice to Google: Improve the image search and expand it to include other file types. Make the Google API more useful and promote it to web developers. Google Groups could use some work, too.
"What relies on your mouse? Well, gdm and X. So, you edit the X files or run Xconfigurator or some other tool. Gdm doesn't care about your new mouse."
I'd love to if I had known that those files existed, where they were located, and how to edit them.
"What relies on your video card? Well, X. So you install the corrext X server and configure it."
As far as I can tell, my distribution isn't up to date enough to be able to use my card. The only way to find out would be to keep installing until I've gone through them all.
I consider myself an above average computer user, but here are some problems I've had in the past:
Problem 1: I bought a new mouse. Linux Solution: Reinstall Linux. Windows Solution: Taken care of automatically.
Problem 2: I bought a new video card. Linux Solution: Download latest version and reinstall Linux. Windows Solution: Taken care of automatically.
Now, I'm there was some other way to solve those problems in Linux, but I didn't feel like buying a book to figure them out. Linux simply needs to be more intuitive when it comes to the interface. Even when the users aren't intimidated by the command prompt, they'll be confused by the bizarre program names.
I've never gone to so much trouble to play a game before Shenmue II. I bought the game from England and a memory card from China so I could convert my saved game, plus that stupid boot disk.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sitting in a computer lab spouting off witty one-liners right now.
I also throw money at strippers before using my shrink gun on them. (You know what I mean! No jokes!)
Yes, Canada is so different than America. (/me rolls his eyes in a generally northern direction.)
No one country has a monopoly on stupid.
This isn't a troll, I'd really like someone to explain it to me. The only advantage I see is the user-created extensions. Other than that, Firefox just seems like Netscape with more bugs.
I like your "Screw the users, we'll remake the Internet however we want and they damn well better thanks us for not giving them the features they want" strategy.
Very true. I run a small forum and MSNBot has accounted for 600 megabytes of traffic this month. MSN and Yahoo both get me more hits than Google, too.
You idiot, everyone knows boobs are written like this: (.Y.)
And I bet they've been sitting on the bugtracker for months. The developers seem to do a good job of fixing stuff once a way has been found to exploit it, but not before.
I also seem to remember Wired mentioning that the Internet Movie Database uses perl.
I meant innovation among consoles, I realize the PC has had lots of stuff. Thanks for pointing out about the game.com, though. I actually own a Dreamcast, but I didn't think the shoulder buttons were actually analog. Come to think about it, has any game besides Super Monkey Ball actually used the analog shoulder buttons? As for the PS2, I'm going to go out on a limb and say no way. You'd have to be pretty accurate to push those buttons down in various degrees.
Some of their hardware innovations (feel free to rip me a new one if I'm wrong):
In addition, I think Super Mario 64 pretty much invented the whole "go from the main world into various sub-worlds and collect something shiny" theme used so often in modern platformers.
"Would you like it if an artist made fun of your pens and call you and your friends BIC people?"
Spoken like a true Papermate dork.
By comparison, Macromedia Director Pro is $100 (educational), with the full suite for only 150.
Hey boss, instead of that useful thing you wanted me to buy, I scooped a turd off the side of the road and we saved $150!
Give me a break. So it wasn't technically illegal. Their main purpose was still to encourage illegal downloads.
For every Linux ISO, there were probably 30 bootleg movies.
In Shadows of the Empire for N64, one of the challenge points that you had to collect was also shaped like Max's head.
And at least Windows will let you play single player for 30 days.
The website mentioned in the last article (http://www.epowerplayer.com/) seems to be alive and well, and not even trying to be secretive.
If (hypothetically) one were to (accidentally) look through the stolen source code, they might notice many comments mentioning Quake.
Agreed. Google is popular for its simplicity. There's a very real danger of them getting lazy and losing the crown. Most of my site's traffic comes from Yahoo!, and if I'm looking for images, I'll probably try the multimedia search at Lycos or Altavista before Google.
Advice to Google: Improve the image search and expand it to include other file types. Make the Google API more useful and promote it to web developers. Google Groups could use some work, too.
Guess what? Sharing a last name does not make you a terrorist. It's a big family. I even heard that Osama's niece is a pop music singer in the UK.
I wouldn't mind being able to run Final Cut Pro.
"What relies on your mouse? Well, gdm and X. So, you edit the X files or run Xconfigurator or some other tool. Gdm doesn't care about your new mouse."
I'd love to if I had known that those files existed, where they were located, and how to edit them.
"What relies on your video card? Well, X. So you install the corrext X server and configure it."
As far as I can tell, my distribution isn't up to date enough to be able to use my card. The only way to find out would be to keep installing until I've gone through them all.
I consider myself an above average computer user, but here are some problems I've had in the past:
Problem 1: I bought a new mouse.
Linux Solution: Reinstall Linux.
Windows Solution: Taken care of automatically.
Problem 2: I bought a new video card.
Linux Solution: Download latest version and reinstall Linux.
Windows Solution: Taken care of automatically.
Now, I'm there was some other way to solve those problems in Linux, but I didn't feel like buying a book to figure them out. Linux simply needs to be more intuitive when it comes to the interface. Even when the users aren't intimidated by the command prompt, they'll be confused by the bizarre program names.
Because it's all snow and only a couple of creatures? And wouldn't Coruscant just flat-out murder my framerate?
...And then remember when all the crazed fanboys realized they were wrong and that The Wind Waker looked great? I do.
Moral: Never question Shigeru Miyamoto (apologies to anyone who likes spelling)
I've never gone to so much trouble to play a game before Shenmue II. I bought the game from England and a memory card from China so I could convert my saved game, plus that stupid boot disk.