Much agreed. Q3A stayed relevant for years; to this day, you can still find servers with people lining up to play some deathmatch. There's good reason for it.
You CAN extend Opera, it's just most of the time it's not really needed. Opera offers a whole lot of functionality without the need for thrid-party plugins, that most of the time aren't cross-platform compatible
My advice? Give it a fair try. Download it, and stick with it for, say, a week - it's free (as in beer, no ads or whatever) for desktop users. The UI is, IMHO, the best Opera has to offer, but it takes a bit to get accostumed to. Once you do, though, you just can't go back.
Question is, does Opera do these features better or will Firefox?
It does. I like Firefox a lot, but i'm not blind - every single feature that it's available in both and works better in Opera. With a fraction of the memory usage, and much faster to boot. Much more stable too - i only had Opera hangning on me a couple of times (both on Windows and Linux) - when it happens, it promptly apologizes and offers you to open the windows you were browsing at the moment of the crash. Priceless!
Also, Oprera has a shitload of functionality not available on FF or not needing extensions (gesture browsing, searches in the url bar, etc...). Those are the reasons it has been my main browser of choice for years now.
It's not a Windows solution, but PXES is an incredible linux-based thin client solution. It's used in my workplace and we never had an issue with it. You can pretty much recycle any old computer you have laying arround, create a bootdisk and off you go.
Just make sure the server machine has enough memory, and it just works. No hassles.
Come on, i like laughing at Dvorak as much as everyone else, but he made some damn good points in that particular article. I know i'm not the only one not excited over game/console announcements anymore, just because they're more of the same. But hey, the graphics are nice!
I don't think I've ever seen a law enforcement show out of the USA where violating due process lead to innocents being screwed over but the reality is it happens all the time (weasel words, I don't know for sure but I'm guessing it's >0).
Check out The Shield - it's not as good as it could, but it deals with the issue of corruption in the police in a very interesting way.
MP3 (as an audio format) took off very fast in the computer world - at that time, there was simply nothing else comparable. Once consumer electronics started supporting the format, it was only a matter of time until prices dropped and MP3 earned the adoption it has today.
This is a perfect example of the problem with BSD licencing. Under the various BSD licences, its perfectly OK to take a piece of code and sell it, either modified or exactly as found, without in any way recognising or contrubuting to the project.
It is NOT a problem with the license. It's the way it is, and if it doesn't suit you, you shouldn't be developing software under the BSD license at all - there's a number of open source licenses to choose from. You can even write your own one and set your terms.
Expecting financial contributions for useful projects such as OpenBSD/OpenSSH is more than reasonable - one could even argue about the moral obligation of large companies using (and sometimes even depending on) OSS software developed by third parties. Demanding cash just because companies followed to the letter the license that came with your software though, is plain insane. If the OpenBSD folks need some cash, i'm sorry to say this, they'll need to come with another buisness strategy.
Seriously. I wouldn't beleive it if haven't seen it with my own eyes...
"Directly from first impressions (as you can undoubtedly, see for yourselves), the Everglide s-500 seems to have been built with gaming purpose in mind from the very beginning. In fact, they are a product of new technological advances, such as the worlds first bio-cellulose membrane used to supply instantaneous audio response in the speaker driver. This membrane is said to be by the company, faster than most conventional speaker drivers found in traditional headphones, making the Everglide s-500 optimized for millisecond feedback to provide optimum gaming audio response."
Blah blah blah. And then they crown it with:
"Cons:
* Suffers from lack of Bass
* Not that loud
* Very long cable gets in the way
* No volume control on headphones
* High Price Tag"
So, it's a poor headphone, but it's for gaaaaaaaamers, so they give it an 8.1 / 10. Give me a goddamn break. People, for $100 you can buy yourself a kickass set of headphones, that won't only be well suited for playing games but for enjoying music aswell. It won't have a "proffesional gamer" stamp, but if anything, you can claim to be different. And not a retard.
I had a minidisc walkman for yeats until i grew tired of it and ended up selling it. It's a shame - i loved its size, battery life (11+ hs on a single rechargeable AA!) and sound quality, but having to reencode everything to ATRAC3, at 1x speed, over an analog line got annoying quick, even though the sound quality never suffered.
By the time Sony came up with the NetMD line, you could purchase a solid state or HD-based MP3 player with more capacity, cheaper and simpler to use. It was a no-brainer. Like you said, they jumped on the MP3 bandwagon too late, trying to force their own standards into the consumers. But that's the usual story with Sony...
There is a trend indeed; MP3 players are here to stay, but not in the iPod format, IMHO. iPods are a niche market, like it or not - i'm willing to bet that, worldwide, the most popular type of MP3 player are the USB stick one. The ones not tied to an online music service, that's it. Where you can listen to your music regardless of where you got it from (and yes, that includes pirating. Not unlike copying tapes).
I have a 512mb MSI one which i'm in love with - i just plug it, copy the music (ripped from CD) i want to listen and i'm ready to go.
You mentioned the Walkman. MP3 players are replacing Walkmans and such, but, again, not in the iPod format. It would be like buying a Walkman that only plays Sony-branded tapes. And actually, they already did that. It was called Minidisc, and the DRM it used was so intrusive that it ended up killing the format.
Indeed. Not only that - if there's a decay in the number of CDs sold and shipped, blame it on the poor quality music that record labels have been pushing the last 5 years and its price. Why would someone buy a CD to listen to a hit single when you can download from eMule (or buy the track from iTunes) and not be stuck with an overpriced CD when you grow tired of it?
CDs, like it or not, are still alive and kicking, mainly because they are mostly hassleless to use, are long lasting, players can be bought for nearly nothing and the audio quality is excellent (i hear a HiFi nut crying in the corner...) - most certainly good enough for the casual user.
The author is trying to posit an implied (but untrue) connection between previews allowing mediocre games to sell and all games 'sucking.' Mediocre stuff sells in every entertainment industry that exists -- if only the best games sold then the market would be too risky to enter
I was going to say the very same, but you sumed it up nicely. That previews are basically sold to magazines and media (giving them a shiny cover story in return for a favorable review) is nothing to go into shock about - like it or not, it's how it's always been, since the ZZap!64 days. Happens in music, happens in movies. Why should we be surprised? Hell, why is this even a story?
But, implying that it has an impact on the quality of games is far fetched, to say the least. Why most games suck these days is matter for a much longer discussion - blaming it on kiss-ass previews is way too simplistic, and, for a so-called journalist (Second Life, eh?), borderline irresponsible.
The way i see it, this story is nothing more than an excuse to announce this new "Preview Ho of the Month" thing, in order to get more readers. Yay for bloggers.
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First reply! Yaaay!
If I say "George Bush is an alien," should he undergo a medical examination specifically to prove that he is human?
:)
You would be right. And yes, taking him under the knife would be perfectly reasonable. You can never be too sure
Much agreed. Q3A stayed relevant for years; to this day, you can still find servers with people lining up to play some deathmatch. There's good reason for it.
Glad to hear you liked it! Just passing the torch... :)
You CAN extend Opera, it's just most of the time it's not really needed. Opera offers a whole lot of functionality without the need for thrid-party plugins, that most of the time aren't cross-platform compatible
Thanks for the heads up! :) I gotta get my hands on that beta...
Not AdBlock per se, but you can achieve the same functionality.
My advice? Give it a fair try. Download it, and stick with it for, say, a week - it's free (as in beer, no ads or whatever) for desktop users. The UI is, IMHO, the best Opera has to offer, but it takes a bit to get accostumed to. Once you do, though, you just can't go back.
Question is, does Opera do these features better or will Firefox?
It does. I like Firefox a lot, but i'm not blind - every single feature that it's available in both and works better in Opera. With a fraction of the memory usage, and much faster to boot. Much more stable too - i only had Opera hangning on me a couple of times (both on Windows and Linux) - when it happens, it promptly apologizes and offers you to open the windows you were browsing at the moment of the crash. Priceless!
Also, Oprera has a shitload of functionality not available on FF or not needing extensions (gesture browsing, searches in the url bar, etc...). Those are the reasons it has been my main browser of choice for years now.
It's not a Windows solution, but PXES is an incredible linux-based thin client solution. It's used in my workplace and we never had an issue with it. You can pretty much recycle any old computer you have laying arround, create a bootdisk and off you go.
Just make sure the server machine has enough memory, and it just works. No hassles.
Come on, i like laughing at Dvorak as much as everyone else, but he made some damn good points in that particular article. I know i'm not the only one not excited over game/console announcements anymore, just because they're more of the same. But hey, the graphics are nice!
I don't think I've ever seen a law enforcement show out of the USA where violating due process lead to innocents being screwed over but the reality is it happens all the time (weasel words, I don't know for sure but I'm guessing it's >0).
Check out The Shield - it's not as good as it could, but it deals with the issue of corruption in the police in a very interesting way.
MP3 (as an audio format) took off very fast in the computer world - at that time, there was simply nothing else comparable. Once consumer electronics started supporting the format, it was only a matter of time until prices dropped and MP3 earned the adoption it has today.
THANK YOU. Glad to see we have some spare common sense arround here.
You could release a side scrolling version of Duke Nukem (a la Duke Nukem II) that I would play given a good story line and fun puzzle-solving levels.
You like mean Manhattan Proyect?. That was a great 2D scroller (sporting 3D graphics) with an old school feel that sadly was dismissed by many.
Dupe articles with identical links? Meh. Bring it on. When are we getting dupes with identical summaries?
Have you ever seen either?
This is a perfect example of the problem with BSD licencing. Under the various BSD licences, its perfectly OK to take a piece of code and sell it, either modified or exactly as found, without in any way recognising or contrubuting to the project.
It is NOT a problem with the license. It's the way it is, and if it doesn't suit you, you shouldn't be developing software under the BSD license at all - there's a number of open source licenses to choose from. You can even write your own one and set your terms.
Expecting financial contributions for useful projects such as OpenBSD/OpenSSH is more than reasonable - one could even argue about the moral obligation of large companies using (and sometimes even depending on) OSS software developed by third parties. Demanding cash just because companies followed to the letter the license that came with your software though, is plain insane. If the OpenBSD folks need some cash, i'm sorry to say this, they'll need to come with another buisness strategy.
Seriously. I wouldn't beleive it if haven't seen it with my own eyes...
"Directly from first impressions (as you can undoubtedly, see for yourselves), the Everglide s-500 seems to have been built with gaming purpose in mind from the very beginning. In fact, they are a product of new technological advances, such as the worlds first bio-cellulose membrane used to supply instantaneous audio response in the speaker driver. This membrane is said to be by the company, faster than most conventional speaker drivers found in traditional headphones, making the Everglide s-500 optimized for millisecond feedback to provide optimum gaming audio response."
Blah blah blah. And then they crown it with:
"Cons:
* Suffers from lack of Bass
* Not that loud
* Very long cable gets in the way
* No volume control on headphones
* High Price Tag"
So, it's a poor headphone, but it's for gaaaaaaaamers, so they give it an 8.1 / 10. Give me a goddamn break. People, for $100 you can buy yourself a kickass set of headphones, that won't only be well suited for playing games but for enjoying music aswell. It won't have a "proffesional gamer" stamp, but if anything, you can claim to be different. And not a retard.
I had a minidisc walkman for yeats until i grew tired of it and ended up selling it. It's a shame - i loved its size, battery life (11+ hs on a single rechargeable AA!) and sound quality, but having to reencode everything to ATRAC3, at 1x speed, over an analog line got annoying quick, even though the sound quality never suffered.
By the time Sony came up with the NetMD line, you could purchase a solid state or HD-based MP3 player with more capacity, cheaper and simpler to use. It was a no-brainer. Like you said, they jumped on the MP3 bandwagon too late, trying to force their own standards into the consumers. But that's the usual story with Sony...
There is a trend indeed; MP3 players are here to stay, but not in the iPod format, IMHO. iPods are a niche market, like it or not - i'm willing to bet that, worldwide, the most popular type of MP3 player are the USB stick one. The ones not tied to an online music service, that's it. Where you can listen to your music regardless of where you got it from (and yes, that includes pirating. Not unlike copying tapes).
I have a 512mb MSI one which i'm in love with - i just plug it, copy the music (ripped from CD) i want to listen and i'm ready to go.
You mentioned the Walkman. MP3 players are replacing Walkmans and such, but, again, not in the iPod format. It would be like buying a Walkman that only plays Sony-branded tapes. And actually, they already did that. It was called Minidisc, and the DRM it used was so intrusive that it ended up killing the format.
Finally, someone had the balls to say it :)
Indeed. Not only that - if there's a decay in the number of CDs sold and shipped, blame it on the poor quality music that record labels have been pushing the last 5 years and its price. Why would someone buy a CD to listen to a hit single when you can download from eMule (or buy the track from iTunes) and not be stuck with an overpriced CD when you grow tired of it?
CDs, like it or not, are still alive and kicking, mainly because they are mostly hassleless to use, are long lasting, players can be bought for nearly nothing and the audio quality is excellent (i hear a HiFi nut crying in the corner...) - most certainly good enough for the casual user.
Has anyone asked themselves why ADHD and other disorders are unknown in the Arab or [black] African worlds?
Have a better one: how came 7 out of 10 posts here are personal stories of being diagnosed with ADHD?
The author is trying to posit an implied (but untrue) connection between previews allowing mediocre games to sell and all games 'sucking.' Mediocre stuff sells in every entertainment industry that exists -- if only the best games sold then the market would be too risky to enter
I was going to say the very same, but you sumed it up nicely. That previews are basically sold to magazines and media (giving them a shiny cover story in return for a favorable review) is nothing to go into shock about - like it or not, it's how it's always been, since the ZZap!64 days. Happens in music, happens in movies. Why should we be surprised? Hell, why is this even a story?
But, implying that it has an impact on the quality of games is far fetched, to say the least. Why most games suck these days is matter for a much longer discussion - blaming it on kiss-ass previews is way too simplistic, and, for a so-called journalist (Second Life, eh?), borderline irresponsible.
The way i see it, this story is nothing more than an excuse to announce this new "Preview Ho of the Month" thing, in order to get more readers. Yay for bloggers.
Crap. What about 12345? That's the combination of my damn luggage!