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...seeing how the MTV audience usually devours everything that is spoon-fed to them.
People are falling less and less for the hype, and that's a good thing - besides asthetical differences, there's nothing really different with the current-gen console systems and the one that's soon to be unveiled to us. IMHO, Nintendo is the only one coming with something remotely interesting.
This car has been on an "almost ready for production" state since i have memory - i recall reading on Popular Science about it and how it would revolutionize transport when i was a kid!
So, are they selling these days? The site's a bit vague about this... and the one mentioned in the article is a prototype - a working prototype, yes, but still.
Meanwhile, the retail chain EBGames has announced that it has presold it's allotment of 360 consoles. From the article: "We are currently sold out of our popular Xbox 360 bundles... Check back frequently for more opportunities to pre-order an Xbox 360."
This is it. I can't wait a week or two for my shiny new game console... farewell, cruel world!
Exactly. Can we dispense with the conspiracy theories? It's a bug, and it will be patched soon enough knowing how the Firefox developers work. It's software; it always have bugs.
Because the page is delivering broken CSS stylesheets (i presume); ctrl+f5 forces a reload of everything including CSS data, which looks like does the trick.
Personally, the only game that managed to scare me shitless was System Shock 2. That game was excellent in many levels, and one was its superb atmosphere.
This is just not true and Symantec deserves to be taken to task for this.
Why? I mean, i agree with you, but they didn't lie. From TFA:
"According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied". Eighteen of these were classified as high severity.
"During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," according to the report."
I know IE is much a more insecure browser (mainly because of the number of ways it allows spyware to get in), but read what they said; 25 vulnerabilities is nothing to sneeze at. They found more than they did on IE, and stated that fact.
Now, don't get me wrong; i know the Mozilla guys will have these fixed ASAP, in contrast with the way it usually is with IE, but whining to Symantec because they stated what they found is not very mature. The Firefox crew should focus on what they do best and drop the name calling.
Mozilla has reacted to the Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
So, the evil masterminds at Symantec are out to destroy the image of the sacred FireFox! BOOOO!
Come on, give me a break - it's software, it will have bugs. It's never perfect, deal with it, and focus on the good points of FireFox, which does have a lot more than IE for that matter. This is downright whining.
Very, very well said. For fuck's sake, mod this guy up. $400 for a console? I don't care if the average gamer age has been going up over the years, it's still a LOT of money. Not to mention the shit about "premium content" in games.
Microsoft would still have to answer to its shareholders in addition to their employees. But, yes, i agree: if only for the amount of cash in the bank, people who think Microsoft will dissapear overnight are deluding themselves.
It was. All of those drives don't let you deal with the MD-Audio media and MD-Data discs instead, which are quite more expensive and not cross-compatible. There's not a single consumer device that lets you read and write MD-Audio discs with your PC. NetMD players come close, but you're still tied to a hardware ATRAC3 encoding/decoding and propietary software/protocols.
It's also interesting to see a link to an old PC World article comparing MiniDisc to Betamax... i guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Sadly, it doesn't mean a thing. As long as people continue to buy copy-protected CDs, region-encoded DVDs and other DRMed media, they will continue using it.
It's as simple as that; if they feel it might be benefitial to their buisness and consumers put up with it, it will be there. That it might annoy consumers who have deal with that shit with media they bought legally is of little consequence.
That's the sound of a millon retarded Nintendo-bashing-fanboys hushing at the same time:) Ahh so sweet..
You've got to handle it to Nintendo... this looks sweet. I don't even like consoles, and i'm dying to try it. The posibilities are endless, and this cemented my opinion of Nintendo being the only company doing something interesting this days in the console market (along with the DS).
I mean, isn't the point of HDR to make lightning more realistic? Check this out... seems like they make granite walls out of polished chrome in the HL2 world.
Personally I like to change my O/S and its components as little as possible (at least not until I can see a marked gain in functionality), and when I do I like everything to still work like before. I also have a fundamental objection to redoing the compiling work (which does cost electricity, genereates heat, wear and tear, etc) over and over again for very little reason. OK for some packages I really need, never for Gnome/KDE or even the kernel if I can help it.
Which is perfectly fine. I'm not trying to plug Gentoo here, even while i like the distro a lot - i just wanted to mention that source-based distros offer the possibility of a 64-bit userland today, even when a lot of "classic" distros doesn't. You can have a Linux system running a 64-bits kernel with 64-bits applications today if you wish so, and source-based distros is a way.
Are you retarded? It makes it a non-issue because AS OF TODAY, a lot of distros don't have the choice to build 64-bits systems with 64-bits binaries. Sheeze.
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...seeing how the MTV audience usually devours everything that is spoon-fed to them.
People are falling less and less for the hype, and that's a good thing - besides asthetical differences, there's nothing really different with the current-gen console systems and the one that's soon to be unveiled to us. IMHO, Nintendo is the only one coming with something remotely interesting.
This car has been on an "almost ready for production" state since i have memory - i recall reading on Popular Science about it and how it would revolutionize transport when i was a kid! So, are they selling these days? The site's a bit vague about this... and the one mentioned in the article is a prototype - a working prototype, yes, but still.
Something big is about to happen. Yeah, a publicity campaign. Don't get caugth in the hype!
Meanwhile, the retail chain EBGames has announced that it has presold it's allotment of 360 consoles. From the article: "We are currently sold out of our popular Xbox 360 bundles ... Check back frequently for more opportunities to pre-order an Xbox 360."
This is it. I can't wait a week or two for my shiny new game console... farewell, cruel world!
Exactly. Can we dispense with the conspiracy theories? It's a bug, and it will be patched soon enough knowing how the Firefox developers work. It's software; it always have bugs.
Gamespot had a great article about the development of Daikatana, and pretty much resumes why the game ended being as bad as it was. Great read.
Because the page is delivering broken CSS stylesheets (i presume); ctrl+f5 forces a reload of everything including CSS data, which looks like does the trick.
Work ain't done until they found a circle in it!
Personally, the only game that managed to scare me shitless was System Shock 2. That game was excellent in many levels, and one was its superb atmosphere.
:)
Never cried with a game though
This is just not true and Symantec deserves to be taken to task for this.
Why? I mean, i agree with you, but they didn't lie. From TFA:
"According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied". Eighteen of these were classified as high severity.
"During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," according to the report."
I know IE is much a more insecure browser (mainly because of the number of ways it allows spyware to get in), but read what they said; 25 vulnerabilities is nothing to sneeze at. They found more than they did on IE, and stated that fact.
Now, don't get me wrong; i know the Mozilla guys will have these fixed ASAP, in contrast with the way it usually is with IE, but whining to Symantec because they stated what they found is not very mature. The Firefox crew should focus on what they do best and drop the name calling.
Seriously, guys, grow up already...
Mozilla has reacted to the Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
So, the evil masterminds at Symantec are out to destroy the image of the sacred FireFox! BOOOO!
Come on, give me a break - it's software, it will have bugs. It's never perfect, deal with it, and focus on the good points of FireFox, which does have a lot more than IE for that matter. This is downright whining.
Very, very well said. For fuck's sake, mod this guy up. $400 for a console? I don't care if the average gamer age has been going up over the years, it's still a LOT of money. Not to mention the shit about "premium content" in games.
Microsoft would still have to answer to its shareholders in addition to their employees. But, yes, i agree: if only for the amount of cash in the bank, people who think Microsoft will dissapear overnight are deluding themselves.
It was. All of those drives don't let you deal with the MD-Audio media and MD-Data discs instead, which are quite more expensive and not cross-compatible. There's not a single consumer device that lets you read and write MD-Audio discs with your PC. NetMD players come close, but you're still tied to a hardware ATRAC3 encoding/decoding and propietary software/protocols.
It's also interesting to see a link to an old PC World article comparing MiniDisc to Betamax... i guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
No, you can't...... yet
Take my word for it; you'll be able to buy a Minidisc drive for your PC before that happens. Don't wait standing.
Sadly, it doesn't mean a thing. As long as people continue to buy copy-protected CDs, region-encoded DVDs and other DRMed media, they will continue using it.
It's as simple as that; if they feel it might be benefitial to their buisness and consumers put up with it, it will be there. That it might annoy consumers who have deal with that shit with media they bought legally is of little consequence.
I have to agree. This is an opinion piece, not news.
That's the sound of a millon retarded Nintendo-bashing-fanboys hushing at the same time :) Ahh so sweet..
You've got to handle it to Nintendo... this looks sweet. I don't even like consoles, and i'm dying to try it. The posibilities are endless, and this cemented my opinion of Nintendo being the only company doing something interesting this days in the console market (along with the DS).
I mean, isn't the point of HDR to make lightning more realistic? Check this out... seems like they make granite walls out of polished chrome in the HL2 world.
There is a God after all...
Touché! Good one :)
Personally I like to change my O/S and its components as little as possible (at least not until I can see a marked gain in functionality), and when I do I like everything to still work like before. I also have a fundamental objection to redoing the compiling work (which does cost electricity, genereates heat, wear and tear, etc) over and over again for very little reason. OK for some packages I really need, never for Gnome/KDE or even the kernel if I can help it.
Which is perfectly fine. I'm not trying to plug Gentoo here, even while i like the distro a lot - i just wanted to mention that source-based distros offer the possibility of a 64-bit userland today, even when a lot of "classic" distros doesn't. You can have a Linux system running a 64-bits kernel with 64-bits applications today if you wish so, and source-based distros is a way.
Are you retarded? It makes it a non-issue because AS OF TODAY, a lot of distros don't have the choice to build 64-bits systems with 64-bits binaries. Sheeze.
Nice "l33t" speak, by the way.
Hey! I use Gentoo, you insensitive clod! :)