From what I understand (never actually used it myself), Opera's adblock features are pretty weak compared to Firefox add-ons like adblock plus. And I doubt it comes with the ability to rip videos from YouTube built in, or the features of a dozen other Firefox add-ons I use regularly.
The title doesn't make this very clear. Aside from capitalizing the name, you would never know that was actually the name of the add-on. GP was right, it should have been named in the summary.
The big problems with developing games on the cheap isn't that you can't afford all the "pretty pictures," it's that you can't afford the *promotion*. I would be willing to bet that modern A-list games spend almost as much these days on marketing as they do on raw development. If you can't afford that kind of money for advertising, promotion, hype, press junkets, etc. then you're most likely not going to be making much money (if any at all). That's all well and good if you're a small indie, doing small games. But you're not going to make the next Gears of War, Halo, or World of Warcraft on a small budget. Even if you could make a great FPS or MMO without all the pretty pictures (and it has been done), it's not going to sell in those kind of numbers at $50-$60 a pop if no one has heard about it.
It's funny to me that so many most of these artists and rebels like to bad-mouth the music industry after they hit it big. But, it's strange, I never once hear them complain when they're nobodies and a big studio shows up to give them a contract and a check. Oh yeah, it's easy to shoot your mouth off now that you're famous. But what about back when you were a club band? What about all those years when the studio was paying your bills before you had even hit it big, when there was a very good chance that you wouldn't even MAKE it big? The studio took a chance on your then and helped promote you, helped MAKE you big. Now it's all-too-easy to forget the risk they took on you back then and the work they did to promote you.
So now when these bands can can take their fame for granted they want to go indie, release their new albums on their website, and start saying that they don't NEED those evil studios after all. But without those evil studios, no one would even give a shit about their albums or concerts. Most of them would still be just another indie club band, like thousands of others who never got signed.
Yeah, it's easy to be generous when you're already in a mansion.
For those who like this sort of thing, you might want to read up on Project Excelsior. Men have been doing those edge-of-space dives since the 60's. As part of that project, Joseph Kittinger jumped from 102,800 ft. Pretty amazing accomplishment for 1960 to even get up that high, much less jump from there.
If this tank probe thing crashes back to earth, it could reek havoc. What are you going to do then, send some sort of cyborg superman to attach it to a skycrane and detonate a nuclear bomb beside it to destroy it?
Obviously, the Jap 5th-columnists have already gotten to you. They've brainwashed you into thinking Atari and Microsoft are Japanese. There is no help for you now, I'm afraid. Soon you'll be worshiping Hirohito and crashing your plane into one of our destroyers. You won't even like the taste of apple pie by then.
See THE HORROR of Sony's control freaks in 3-D! Witness the heavy hand of DRM in its FULL GLORY! Experience the fear of another PS3 feature being pulled in ALL ITS DEPTH! Watch as the Japanese come RIGHT OUT IN THE THEATER to take over your console industry!
It's nothing but lies designed to obscure the fact that Barak Hussein Obama is a Muslim terrorist who wants to entrance our children with commie healthcare. The sooner he goes back to his hometown in Kenya the better.
And my facts are just fine. Bill O'Reilly told me so.
Boxing is by far the most useful thing a kid can learn. Unfortunately, it's been out of vogue for decades. You can find a karate school on every street corner, but in a lot of places it's almost impossible to find a good boxing gym. Unfortunately, AFAICT, Karate is pretty much useless for real-world street fighting. I saw a kid get the crap kicked out of him once (almost put in the hospital) because some Tae Kwon Do instructor had told him he could handle himself.
In my old high school, even making eye contact with the wrong person could get you stabbed. Social skills help in some schools, but not in the kind that some of us get stuck in.
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From what I understand (never actually used it myself), Opera's adblock features are pretty weak compared to Firefox add-ons like adblock plus. And I doubt it comes with the ability to rip videos from YouTube built in, or the features of a dozen other Firefox add-ons I use regularly.
The title doesn't make this very clear. Aside from capitalizing the name, you would never know that was actually the name of the add-on. GP was right, it should have been named in the summary.
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Crazed gunman shooting up local mall...We'll tell you where after these messages for our sponsors.
"But I want to be know for my acting skills"
"Just take off your shirt and shut up, Mr. Pattinson"
That's not true! That's I M P O S S I B L E!
You look like you're trying to throw your Natal out the window. Would you like me to help?
Riker better have a beard
The big problems with developing games on the cheap isn't that you can't afford all the "pretty pictures," it's that you can't afford the *promotion*. I would be willing to bet that modern A-list games spend almost as much these days on marketing as they do on raw development. If you can't afford that kind of money for advertising, promotion, hype, press junkets, etc. then you're most likely not going to be making much money (if any at all). That's all well and good if you're a small indie, doing small games. But you're not going to make the next Gears of War, Halo, or World of Warcraft on a small budget. Even if you could make a great FPS or MMO without all the pretty pictures (and it has been done), it's not going to sell in those kind of numbers at $50-$60 a pop if no one has heard about it.
Darn, I was hoping he was gay. He was just poured into that shirt!
It's funny to me that so many most of these artists and rebels like to bad-mouth the music industry after they hit it big. But, it's strange, I never once hear them complain when they're nobodies and a big studio shows up to give them a contract and a check. Oh yeah, it's easy to shoot your mouth off now that you're famous. But what about back when you were a club band? What about all those years when the studio was paying your bills before you had even hit it big, when there was a very good chance that you wouldn't even MAKE it big? The studio took a chance on your then and helped promote you, helped MAKE you big. Now it's all-too-easy to forget the risk they took on you back then and the work they did to promote you.
So now when these bands can can take their fame for granted they want to go indie, release their new albums on their website, and start saying that they don't NEED those evil studios after all. But without those evil studios, no one would even give a shit about their albums or concerts. Most of them would still be just another indie club band, like thousands of others who never got signed.
Yeah, it's easy to be generous when you're already in a mansion.
For those who like this sort of thing, you might want to read up on Project Excelsior. Men have been doing those edge-of-space dives since the 60's. As part of that project, Joseph Kittinger jumped from 102,800 ft. Pretty amazing accomplishment for 1960 to even get up that high, much less jump from there.
The MS spy has a counterpart at Apple too. He's doing the same kind of spying, only he's more smug and pretentious about it.
If this tank probe thing crashes back to earth, it could reek havoc. What are you going to do then, send some sort of cyborg superman to attach it to a skycrane and detonate a nuclear bomb beside it to destroy it?
Those aren't zombies, they're black people. And please stop shooting them.
Obviously, the Jap 5th-columnists have already gotten to you. They've brainwashed you into thinking Atari and Microsoft are Japanese. There is no help for you now, I'm afraid. Soon you'll be worshiping Hirohito and crashing your plane into one of our destroyers. You won't even like the taste of apple pie by then.
For some reason I just got a headache.
If (customersPayMore) Sony += money;
See THE HORROR of Sony's control freaks in 3-D!
Witness the heavy hand of DRM in its FULL GLORY!
Experience the fear of another PS3 feature being pulled in ALL ITS DEPTH!
Watch as the Japanese come RIGHT OUT IN THE THEATER to take over your console industry!
It's nothing but lies designed to obscure the fact that Barak Hussein Obama is a Muslim terrorist who wants to entrance our children with commie healthcare. The sooner he goes back to his hometown in Kenya the better.
And my facts are just fine. Bill O'Reilly told me so.
If you were American, you would know that we already do that for *all* students.
Boxing is by far the most useful thing a kid can learn. Unfortunately, it's been out of vogue for decades. You can find a karate school on every street corner, but in a lot of places it's almost impossible to find a good boxing gym. Unfortunately, AFAICT, Karate is pretty much useless for real-world street fighting. I saw a kid get the crap kicked out of him once (almost put in the hospital) because some Tae Kwon Do instructor had told him he could handle himself.
In my old high school, even making eye contact with the wrong person could get you stabbed. Social skills help in some schools, but not in the kind that some of us get stuck in.
Yeah, but it's an *Apple* rubber band.
Just avoid jacking it in that way