You make some valid points. But what makes Xbox Live for me is the friends list. I can just login, see what my friends are playing and decide to join them if I want. Most of the time that negates the need for a specific serer playing a specific map, since you can choose in custom games, and so on. Voice communication is built right in to boot, so you don't have to run separate programs like Ventrillo, get everyone on board and setup servers for that.
I generally don't like playing with random people I don't know, hence the friends list is really nice. You don't have to like Xbox Live, I do, and plenty of others do. It doesn't negate online pc gaming.
You can look at it the other way: since the time XP has been released, Microsoft has been working on Vista and making improvements to it. So the time Gnome has been playing catchup is time Vista has been using to move ahead.
The Nintendo service is...awful. I can't choose to play with someone on my friends list. If 4 of us want to play together online, we'll just have to search at the same time, hope to God it gets all 4 of us (most of the time it'll only catch 3), and that no one else in any of our friends list is searching at the same time. Its taken me and my friends over half an hour to get into a game, only for it to drop one of us halfway through. Lovely.
OMG! YOU HAVE HARMED MY VISION OF ISLAM! I WILL KEEL YOU! AND YOUR DOG! I WILL KICK YOUR DOG!
Anyway...there's nothing wrong with looking at the past, the problem is most Muslims are still living in the past. Get off your sorry asses, stop blaming the West for all your problems and fix things. Ya, the West maybe screwing things up a bit but you're letting them!
IE7's start page, as has been for ages, is msn.com. There is a search bar ala Opera and Firefox on the top right which defaults to MSN search, but guess what? You can change it to Google (the option is builtin).
Heh, I know what you mean. To be honest, your first example really bugs me. If your too lazy to code your site so it works fine in Opera, fine, just let me access it and suffer your laziness. However, if you're just blocking Opera outright, then...well...screw you and your site.
Well, it depends on the game really. I for one know I'll be buying Twilight Princess before reading any reviews. I wait on most other games, but there are certain titles that I know I'll love regardless of the reviews.
Consoles can handle it though. The 360 is loading high res textures comparable to ones found on PC games, and some games even manage not to have loading screens in between levels.
PC games are easy to install nowadays? Since when? Some of the major titles like Half-Life 2 and Battlefield 2 had issues at launch, sometimes game-crashing. To be honest, I really don't understand why games need to be installed on acomputer: if I have a fast enough DVD drive, things should load off the bloody DVD, no? I've seen games do it before (Tomb Raider comes to mind), I don't understand why most games don't do it, especially since most games require you to have the disc in to play anyway.
Just because a game is a sequel doesn't make it not good. Just because you don't care about that shit mean no one does. Get off your high horse, will ya? I'm quite looking forward to playing GRAW and Oblivion.
And forget GarageBand, give Elektroplankton a rent at least. Its quite fun.
Subscription has different meanings. I subscribe to Cable TV, meaning as long as I pay for it, I can watch TV as long as I want (ie, like Yahoo Music Engine). I also subscribe to a magazine, meaning as long as I pay it up every year, I get magazines delivered to my house every month (ie, like this).
Actually this is a good point. What would happen to these video clips that they keep online? I quite like what Comedy Central does in putting up the funny clips online, and I can't imagine them staying up now that they're selling the whole show online...so...who knows.
I'm actually looking forward to office 12 because of this. I've tried the beta and the UI is wonderful. Its completely different from any of the current offerings, yet I managed to find everything. MS really went back to the drawing board on this one and thought it through.
Not only can you turn it off, but a window pops up the first time you run IE7 completely explaining the feature, what happens, and asks whether you want to turn it off or on. It isn't on by default, as you make it sound to be.
While you have a point about the fact that Nintendo's released god knows how many Mario games, you can't deny two things:
1) In general, they do try to add new things to the sequels (ie, the vacuum element in Luigi's Mansion and the water squirter thing in Mario Sunshine), and that the games generally stand well on their own.
2) At the same time, they do release other non-franchise titles, aka Nintendogs, Elektroplankton, Odama, and so on.
Not every game a company makes has to be 'innovative'. Some can just build on previous franchises or ideas, and their's nothing wrong in that.
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I generally don't like playing with random people I don't know, hence the friends list is really nice. You don't have to like Xbox Live, I do, and plenty of others do. It doesn't negate online pc gaming.
When did I ever say anything about money?
Except that Halo 2's online play is far easier to get into in terms of functionality and interface than anything found on the PC to this day.
*coughoperacough*. Us Opera fanboys get no love I tells ya! No love!
You can look at it the other way: since the time XP has been released, Microsoft has been working on Vista and making improvements to it. So the time Gnome has been playing catchup is time Vista has been using to move ahead.
The Nintendo service is...awful. I can't choose to play with someone on my friends list. If 4 of us want to play together online, we'll just have to search at the same time, hope to God it gets all 4 of us (most of the time it'll only catch 3), and that no one else in any of our friends list is searching at the same time. Its taken me and my friends over half an hour to get into a game, only for it to drop one of us halfway through. Lovely.
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Sony does not manufacture RAM. If they did, my VAIO would not have RAM made by Hynix, which merged with LG and is not owned by Sony.
So...stop spouting Sony fanboy nonsense. Kthxbai.
Nintendo would license it from the Blu-Ray Disc Association, not from Sony. For all intents and purposes, almost any company can get a license.
Anyway...there's nothing wrong with looking at the past, the problem is most Muslims are still living in the past. Get off your sorry asses, stop blaming the West for all your problems and fix things. Ya, the West maybe screwing things up a bit but you're letting them!
IE7's start page, as has been for ages, is msn.com. There is a search bar ala Opera and Firefox on the top right which defaults to MSN search, but guess what? You can change it to Google (the option is builtin).
Heh, I know what you mean. To be honest, your first example really bugs me. If your too lazy to code your site so it works fine in Opera, fine, just let me access it and suffer your laziness. However, if you're just blocking Opera outright, then...well...screw you and your site.
Well, it depends on the game really. I for one know I'll be buying Twilight Princess before reading any reviews. I wait on most other games, but there are certain titles that I know I'll love regardless of the reviews.
I love the variant: "ADD stands for Attention Deficit LETS GO RIDE BIKES!"
Consoles can handle it though. The 360 is loading high res textures comparable to ones found on PC games, and some games even manage not to have loading screens in between levels.
PC games are easy to install nowadays? Since when? Some of the major titles like Half-Life 2 and Battlefield 2 had issues at launch, sometimes game-crashing. To be honest, I really don't understand why games need to be installed on acomputer: if I have a fast enough DVD drive, things should load off the bloody DVD, no? I've seen games do it before (Tomb Raider comes to mind), I don't understand why most games don't do it, especially since most games require you to have the disc in to play anyway.
Just because a game is a sequel doesn't make it not good. Just because you don't care about that shit mean no one does. Get off your high horse, will ya? I'm quite looking forward to playing GRAW and Oblivion.
And forget GarageBand, give Elektroplankton a rent at least. Its quite fun.
We're lucky, in Canada CTV (which you can pickup OTA) airs the Daily Show/Colbert Report an hour after its on the Comedy Network,
Subscription has different meanings. I subscribe to Cable TV, meaning as long as I pay for it, I can watch TV as long as I want (ie, like Yahoo Music Engine). I also subscribe to a magazine, meaning as long as I pay it up every year, I get magazines delivered to my house every month (ie, like this).
Actually this is a good point. What would happen to these video clips that they keep online? I quite like what Comedy Central does in putting up the funny clips online, and I can't imagine them staying up now that they're selling the whole show online...so...who knows.
Is it safe to assume you're using Opera 9 preview? Because its not working on my default installation of Opera 8.52
I'm actually looking forward to office 12 because of this. I've tried the beta and the UI is wonderful. Its completely different from any of the current offerings, yet I managed to find everything. MS really went back to the drawing board on this one and thought it through.
Not only can you turn it off, but a window pops up the first time you run IE7 completely explaining the feature, what happens, and asks whether you want to turn it off or on. It isn't on by default, as you make it sound to be.
1) In general, they do try to add new things to the sequels (ie, the vacuum element in Luigi's Mansion and the water squirter thing in Mario Sunshine), and that the games generally stand well on their own.
2) At the same time, they do release other non-franchise titles, aka Nintendogs, Elektroplankton, Odama, and so on.
Not every game a company makes has to be 'innovative'. Some can just build on previous franchises or ideas, and their's nothing wrong in that.
I know you were probably joking, but I'm bored. :p
It's important to note I find the term extremely stupid.
And then she filed for divorce the day after, right?