it's filled with creatures, textures and buildings that could be seamlessly exchanged with any other 3D boy-mass game
This could also read: "it's filled with sprites of creatures and buildings that could be seamlessly exchanged with any other 2D boy-mass game", and you can apply the same complaint to 2D games in general.
Why does this guy get a lot of posts on Slashdot when all he does is whine about stupid things?
"We allow publishers to opt out of Google News but most publishers want to be included because they believe it is a benefit to them and to their readers," Google spokesman Steve Langdon said of the AFP lawsuit.
So...if they didn't like it, they could have opted out...
The game multiplayer aspect of the game has a few bugs in it, and Bungie has been working for months on ways to fix those bugs without totally ruining gameplay. Why not quietly update their buggy product, give you a few new maps and multiplayer modes, and make YOU carry the costs?
Of course this is going to start a whole bunch of people discussing whether Bungie (or MS) should release products that aren't finished, or are "Buggy."
Just a point: why do people always assume that Halo 2 was rushed out of the door completely buggy? The game played absolutely fine. The ending was an unfortunate design decision. If you watched the CE DVD, you'd know they had plenty of time from September to launch for bug-testing. The game was delayed from it's August release date to November. It's not like Microsoft was forcing Bungee to come out with the game or suffer death.
And just to emphasize: the multiplayer aspect of the game was completely fine at launch. There were no game destroying bugs. It was fun, it's not like the game crashed every ten minutes, or connections kept on dropping. As with every piece of software, from OS X to Windows to Firefox to Linux, people find bugs and exploit them. Company does everything possible to fix said bugs. Which Bungie is working on.
it is Sony Ericsson bragging what their engineers are cabable of creating
Any student/person with a simple knowledge of robotics and microstamps can do this, albeit it'll be harder to get it to work off a phone. Just pointing out that this isn't all that amazing;)
Actually, there's a mod out there for Max Payne 2 that lets you play in FPS mode. While obviously a bit buggy and awkard, with a little bit of fine tuning it would have been awesome. I only tested the beta versiom, so it could have been improved, so I don't think that game would require THAT much modification.
Actually the one thing that bugs me about the Powerbook keyboard is the labelling. Keys like shift, ctrl and alt/option are just labelled with text, but most of the time when they're mentioned in OS X, they just use the symbols for them...and it takes me a while to remember which is which.
If you were new to the Mac you wouldn't need to be looking for hidden directories
I needed to find out where PHP was installed. And where the root document of the webserver is. I'm not familiar with linux, so I didn't know it was in whatever directory Linux uses, so I needed to hunt for it. Can't hunt if files are invisible.
And why should that be the default? It's not turned on by default on Windows.
I never said they need to be shown by default; there needs to be a setting where you can show them. You can find that easily in Windows, in OS X the only way I've ever been able to do it is to either run a custom Apple script, or use applications like Cocktail that do it.
Oh, and it's "their". If you're gonna correct people, at least do it right. Oh, wait. Sorry, it should be "If you are going to...", I forgot we're on the internet and you can't be lax on your language here. Oops!
Using "Go to folder..." assumes you know what you're looking for. If you're new to Mac, how does that help? And having to download programs that do things that should be default to the OS? I use cocktail to show hidden files in finder. I'm not saying Windows is perfect, but OS X isn't perfect either, as many people seem to think it is. And so what if I configure Windows to hide the Mac files? They're still there. They still don't need to be there, and there's no way of disabling that.
Oh, and the word you want to use is "it's" not "its."... why is it that so often Window's users can't spell?
Why is it that most Windows haters spell MS as M$? For fuck's sake dickwad, I'm not here to spell things properly. Ist nto lkei I wsa t4lk|ng l|k3 th|s, so get a fucking life and stop spell checking for people on Slashdot. If you want completely perfect English, go read a newspaper or a book.
And yes, I have a powerbook, so I've used OS X; it would nice if you don't assume things. And guess what? There's only one button there. So, I often have to use the annoying control modifier since I tend to not have a mouse available.
And the Dock is not a taskbar. They're completely different things. With the taskbar, without any need for extra buttons or clicks, I can immediately see every window I have open. With the Dock, all I see is a little arrow that says "dreamweaver" is open, with no idea how many windows within it. Or Safari, etc.
Oh, and if you see the Alto you'll see many things that made it into the first Mac. Big deal. Companies get ideas from each other.
It's an efficient, easy-to-use and elegant task-switching UI.
Sure, its way better, but its no way near as efficient and easy to use as a good old fashioned task bar. And I said hackneyed to illustrate Apple/Steve Jobs refusal to admit mistakes of not incorporating a taskbar into their OS, just as they still insist on using one button mice.
And what do the.x releases entail? The biggest one is Expose, which is a hackneyed attempt at overcoming the uselessness of the Dock. The next biggest thing is Spotlight, which Microsoft has already released for free for there OS.
And OS X creates.DS_Store files in every directory. Even shared Windows drives on the network, which you can't disable. Oh, and you have to download applications to unhide hidden directories in Finder, or use the terminal which requires knowledge of UNIX commands.
Besides, compare the OS X updates, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, to Windows SP upgrades, which are free, and are equivalent in terms of functionality upgrades. But MS gives em out for free, Apple charges full price.
Good luck on that. Apple has a habbit of forcing you to pay for OS updates to get updates to their free software like Safari/iTunes/Mail. Which can be annoying since the OS updates are never worth the asking price, and the updates to the free software are important security updates, or required to use your iPod.
Well...that's like saying you're not the one who typed that document, because technically MS Word/Open Office is taking the keystrokes and doing it for you. Or you didn't design that website because, gosh darn, Photoshop did all the work! eBay basically provides a software application so that you can auction off your product, and they take a share of the money.
I see immediate warning signs in both. Both rely on outside technology (Java/JavaScript/Flash), which the user not have installed, or has it disabled. So any web developer would still do all the background checking on the server-side scripting language he's coding in.
No matter what the 'winner' is, people will still be running older browsers that don't support the new technology. So, as a 'just in case' scenario, application developers will still be using whatever programming language they're coding in to do the verification and whatever it is they need in the background. Unless I'm missing a magical thing that XForms, XAML and Web Forms 2.0 would be doing?
There are games that are truly great, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Kart, Wario Wares, SSM Bros. All of these games present 'original' gameplay that's really fun. But who here would even have given these gems a second look if they didn't have the Mario license slapped onto them?
Here's a new one: it's called Windows. Using M$ and Windoze just makes you sound like a bitter pale geek living in his parents basement. As for Apple's products that don't require 2 button mice, clearly you haven't used Apple's own Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack, Shake or DVD Studio Pro. Not to mention programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, any 3D app or so on, all of which would be a nightmare to use without contextualized menus.
I own a Powerbook, and I use it constantly. That doesn't mean that there aren't things about it that I don't like. There's also things that I don't like about my PC.
Question: has anyone here ever met a 'productive' person that has trouble with a two button mouse?
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The ones released on Thursday were pretty much sold out. But sony had a second shipment sent out to stores by Saturday.
This could also read: "it's filled with sprites of creatures and buildings that could be seamlessly exchanged with any other 2D boy-mass game", and you can apply the same complaint to 2D games in general.
Why does this guy get a lot of posts on Slashdot when all he does is whine about stupid things?
So...if they didn't like it, they could have opted out...
Just a point: why do people always assume that Halo 2 was rushed out of the door completely buggy? The game played absolutely fine. The ending was an unfortunate design decision. If you watched the CE DVD, you'd know they had plenty of time from September to launch for bug-testing. The game was delayed from it's August release date to November. It's not like Microsoft was forcing Bungee to come out with the game or suffer death.
And just to emphasize: the multiplayer aspect of the game was completely fine at launch. There were no game destroying bugs. It was fun, it's not like the game crashed every ten minutes, or connections kept on dropping. As with every piece of software, from OS X to Windows to Firefox to Linux, people find bugs and exploit them. Company does everything possible to fix said bugs. Which Bungie is working on.
Any student/person with a simple knowledge of robotics and microstamps can do this, albeit it'll be harder to get it to work off a phone. Just pointing out that this isn't all that amazing ;)
Actually, there's a mod out there for Max Payne 2 that lets you play in FPS mode. While obviously a bit buggy and awkard, with a little bit of fine tuning it would have been awesome. I only tested the beta versiom, so it could have been improved, so I don't think that game would require THAT much modification.
Wow. Where do you get your informative, objective articles about games? It sure as heck ain't from any of the magazines out there now! :p
Oh. And I'm quite intereted in your endeavour. Haven't had the chance to read it yet, but will do soon.
Actually the one thing that bugs me about the Powerbook keyboard is the labelling. Keys like shift, ctrl and alt/option are just labelled with text, but most of the time when they're mentioned in OS X, they just use the symbols for them...and it takes me a while to remember which is which.
I needed to find out where PHP was installed. And where the root document of the webserver is. I'm not familiar with linux, so I didn't know it was in whatever directory Linux uses, so I needed to hunt for it. Can't hunt if files are invisible. And why should that be the default? It's not turned on by default on Windows.
I never said they need to be shown by default; there needs to be a setting where you can show them. You can find that easily in Windows, in OS X the only way I've ever been able to do it is to either run a custom Apple script, or use applications like Cocktail that do it.
Oh, and it's "their". If you're gonna correct people, at least do it right. Oh, wait. Sorry, it should be "If you are going to ...", I forgot we're on the internet and you can't be lax on your language here. Oops!
Using "Go to folder..." assumes you know what you're looking for. If you're new to Mac, how does that help? And having to download programs that do things that should be default to the OS? I use cocktail to show hidden files in finder. I'm not saying Windows is perfect, but OS X isn't perfect either, as many people seem to think it is. And so what if I configure Windows to hide the Mac files? They're still there. They still don't need to be there, and there's no way of disabling that.
Why is it that most Windows haters spell MS as M$? For fuck's sake dickwad, I'm not here to spell things properly. Ist nto lkei I wsa t4lk|ng l|k3 th|s, so get a fucking life and stop spell checking for people on Slashdot. If you want completely perfect English, go read a newspaper or a book.
And yes, I have a powerbook, so I've used OS X; it would nice if you don't assume things. And guess what? There's only one button there. So, I often have to use the annoying control modifier since I tend to not have a mouse available.
And the Dock is not a taskbar. They're completely different things. With the taskbar, without any need for extra buttons or clicks, I can immediately see every window I have open. With the Dock, all I see is a little arrow that says "dreamweaver" is open, with no idea how many windows within it. Or Safari, etc.
Oh, and if you see the Alto you'll see many things that made it into the first Mac. Big deal. Companies get ideas from each other.
Sure, its way better, but its no way near as efficient and easy to use as a good old fashioned task bar. And I said hackneyed to illustrate Apple/Steve Jobs refusal to admit mistakes of not incorporating a taskbar into their OS, just as they still insist on using one button mice.
And what do the .x releases entail? The biggest one is Expose, which is a hackneyed attempt at overcoming the uselessness of the Dock. The next biggest thing is Spotlight, which Microsoft has already released for free for there OS.
Besides, compare the OS X updates, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, to Windows SP upgrades, which are free, and are equivalent in terms of functionality upgrades. But MS gives em out for free, Apple charges full price.
Good luck on that. Apple has a habbit of forcing you to pay for OS updates to get updates to their free software like Safari/iTunes/Mail. Which can be annoying since the OS updates are never worth the asking price, and the updates to the free software are important security updates, or required to use your iPod.
Well...that's like saying you're not the one who typed that document, because technically MS Word/Open Office is taking the keystrokes and doing it for you. Or you didn't design that website because, gosh darn, Photoshop did all the work! eBay basically provides a software application so that you can auction off your product, and they take a share of the money.
I recall playing invisible basketball with my friend on a webcam. There were plenty of other games. This was done years ago.
Emphasis on the 'or compatible'. Worked absolutely fine in Opera.
I see immediate warning signs in both. Both rely on outside technology (Java/JavaScript/Flash), which the user not have installed, or has it disabled. So any web developer would still do all the background checking on the server-side scripting language he's coding in.
No matter what the 'winner' is, people will still be running older browsers that don't support the new technology. So, as a 'just in case' scenario, application developers will still be using whatever programming language they're coding in to do the verification and whatever it is they need in the background. Unless I'm missing a magical thing that XForms, XAML and Web Forms 2.0 would be doing?
There are games that are truly great, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Kart, Wario Wares, SSM Bros. All of these games present 'original' gameplay that's really fun. But who here would even have given these gems a second look if they didn't have the Mario license slapped onto them?
You didn't just equate 2-buttons on a mouse to a dictatorship, did you? And for God's sake it's MS Windows.
Here's a new one: it's called Windows. Using M$ and Windoze just makes you sound like a bitter pale geek living in his parents basement. As for Apple's products that don't require 2 button mice, clearly you haven't used Apple's own Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack, Shake or DVD Studio Pro. Not to mention programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, any 3D app or so on, all of which would be a nightmare to use without contextualized menus.
Question: has anyone here ever met a 'productive' person that has trouble with a two button mouse?