I just spent a good half hour browsing through some sections of that site, giggling to all the silly dialogs that programmers put in (Notepad's "Out Of Memory" error brings back horrid memories). But what I'm wondering, where's the "Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue..." error?:)
Of course that isn't to say Linux programs aren't guilty of those things either. A big gripe I have with Netscape and GIMP (and I think other GTK progs too - not too sure) is when I'm saving a file - whenever I click on a directory in the file selector, the filename in the Save As dialog gets overwritten with the directory name. This means I either manually type in the directory name or cut out the file name and paste it in afterwards. In Windows it doesn't do this and it's one of the few things about Windows I like:)
This comparison could be taken further by the fact that Sony does not produce its own games (unlike Sega & Nintendo). Sony relies on 3rd party developers for its PSX library.
How can this be related back to Microsoft? You be the judge *grin*
And besides, doesn't anyone play games for fun anymore? People I see here are arguing about "which have the best graphics chip" or "which is faster". Phooey I say, it's the games, that'll make this machine (or any machine for that matter) and will make me buy it.
The main reason the SNES was such a big hit was because it had an incredible, varied array of titles. Now, with the N64, Nintendo completely shut-out 3rd party developers with it's high licensing and production costs. Look what happened to them.
I believe that many developers ran to Sony because games were cheaper to make and therefore less risky had it bombed.
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*groans* Your Australian accents were sooo lame!
Nate sounded like Ringo Starr narrating Thomas the Tank Engine...
:)
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Cool! Now we can be like Sid from Toy Story!
*whips out magnifying glass*
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I just spent a good half hour browsing through some sections of that site, giggling to all the silly dialogs that programmers put in (Notepad's "Out Of Memory" error brings back horrid memories). But what I'm wondering, where's the "Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue..." error? :)
:)
Of course that isn't to say Linux programs aren't guilty of those things either. A big gripe I have with Netscape and GIMP (and I think other GTK progs too - not too sure) is when I'm saving a file - whenever I click on a directory in the file selector, the filename in the Save As dialog gets overwritten with the directory name. This means I either manually type in the directory name or cut out the file name and paste it in afterwards. In Windows it doesn't do this and it's one of the few things about Windows I like
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How can this be related back to Microsoft? You be the judge *grin*
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And besides, doesn't anyone play games for fun anymore? People I see here are arguing about "which have the best graphics chip" or "which is faster". Phooey I say, it's the games, that'll make this machine (or any machine for that matter) and will make me buy it.
The main reason the SNES was such a big hit was because it had an incredible, varied array of titles. Now, with the N64, Nintendo completely shut-out 3rd party developers with it's high licensing and production costs. Look what happened to them.
I believe that many developers ran to Sony because games were cheaper to make and therefore less risky had it bombed.
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