This is not a MMORPG or an expert system. It's a web browser. It's supposed to be one of the simplest pieces of software on a computer. If a new user can't start it up and figure pretty much everything out in about 5 minutes, it's a design fail.
Throw in a promise from NASA that we'll return to the moon soon and Mars shortly thereafter, and include a computer animation mock-up, and I'll believe whatever you say!
Oh fucking wonderful, now I have to memorize 20 keyboard shortcut combos because Mozilla thinks Chrome is awesome for saving 50 pixels of screen space.
That's fine, until you actually need to *use* something in the menu. Then you have to screw around forever trying to figure out how to do something that takes about two seconds with a standard menu bar. I'll put up with 50 pixels of "wasted" screen space to avoid that kind of hassle, thank you very much.
Having to memorize keyboard shortcuts to do anything is for shit. That kind of crap went out in the 90's, along with command line interfaces and DOS. If your design is so minimalist that a user has to remember keyboard combos to do anything, then you've designed a shitty GUI, end of story.
I had a friend using Chrome and one day he was at his networked printer and asked me to print out a webpage for him. I couldn't even figure out how to get Chrome to print. When I asked him, he admitted that he had memorized the hotkey combo for printing because he couldn't figure it out either. A default config where you can't even print without either reconfiguring the interface or hitting the right hotkey combo is a pretty piss-poor design, no matter how pretty it looks.
Today this will be restricted to "premium content." Tomorrow it will be required for multiplayer. The next day it will be required to even play the game at all.
I've already got an idea to create a text-only MMORPG. I mean, without the graphics, the overhead will be cheaper and we won't have to charge people to play. It's a simple but elegant idea, and you all have me to thank for it. It could really take off too, if everyone else follows my lead. You can thank me for the idea later.
It's amazing the extremes some politicans will go to to cover up affairs from their wives. "You see honey, I spend all weekend with...uh...ALIENS!" In other news, Ilyumzhinov is also planning a hiking trip this weekend on the Appalachian Trail--where his cellphone won't work, so don't even bother calling.
Is it a sin if I download this? I mean a lot of Catholics use birth control, right? So will I be excommunicated from the Apple store for this? Will I be forced to commune with infidel Windows users? I'm conflicted here.
It was based on earlier drafts of the script (if this book is to be believed). It's funny to remember that back then almost every major movie had a novelization. Before the mid-80's, it was the closest thing to home video that most people could afford. I don't see many novelizations anymore. I guess they've fallen out of favor now that you can own a copy of the actual movie in your home.
It may not make sense, but for me there is a sense with the console that I'm getting the same experience as everyone else out there, that I'm not missing out on anything. With the PC, if I wasn't running a game at the highest settings, it felt like I was getting a sub-par experience. I knew that someone out there with a better rig was getting the best experience out of the game and I wasn't. It's real easy to fall into that kind of mentality in the PC world (I knew a *lot* of other guys who were pretty much constantly upgrading). It becomes a chase where you never really get the mechanical rabbit.
That's true, providing you're okay with turning the sliders down for new games more and more each year. When you're a truly obsessive gamer, there is no way you're going to do that for very long. And every new game ups the ante a little more, until you find yourself almost buying a new rig every year. Not going back there, thanks.
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I wish more console games in the Xbox Live Marketplace, PSN, etc. would/could do charity stuff like this. A lot of us have went over to console gaming and just don't game on our PC's anymore. I would love to be able to participate, but so many things like this are PC-only--and I am NEVER going back to the "Gotta upgrade my video card...gotta upgrade my CPU...gotta get more memory...now I gotta upgrade my video card again..." mess I was in back in the 90's.
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Well, looks like our boys are going back to Vietnam.
I still maintain that videogames are just propaganda funded by the world's crate builders and suppliers.
This is not a MMORPG or an expert system. It's a web browser. It's supposed to be one of the simplest pieces of software on a computer. If a new user can't start it up and figure pretty much everything out in about 5 minutes, it's a design fail.
Throw in a promise from NASA that we'll return to the moon soon and Mars shortly thereafter, and include a computer animation mock-up, and I'll believe whatever you say!
Oh fucking wonderful, now I have to memorize 20 keyboard shortcut combos because Mozilla thinks Chrome is awesome for saving 50 pixels of screen space.
That's fine, until you actually need to *use* something in the menu. Then you have to screw around forever trying to figure out how to do something that takes about two seconds with a standard menu bar. I'll put up with 50 pixels of "wasted" screen space to avoid that kind of hassle, thank you very much.
Having to memorize keyboard shortcuts to do anything is for shit. That kind of crap went out in the 90's, along with command line interfaces and DOS. If your design is so minimalist that a user has to remember keyboard combos to do anything, then you've designed a shitty GUI, end of story.
I had a friend using Chrome and one day he was at his networked printer and asked me to print out a webpage for him. I couldn't even figure out how to get Chrome to print. When I asked him, he admitted that he had memorized the hotkey combo for printing because he couldn't figure it out either. A default config where you can't even print without either reconfiguring the interface or hitting the right hotkey combo is a pretty piss-poor design, no matter how pretty it looks.
Today this will be restricted to "premium content." Tomorrow it will be required for multiplayer. The next day it will be required to even play the game at all.
First of all, am I the only one who hates Chrome's interface? But that's just window dressing, the real question is will it support H264/HTML5?
You owe me a new microwave, wiseass!
I've already got an idea to create a text-only MMORPG. I mean, without the graphics, the overhead will be cheaper and we won't have to charge people to play. It's a simple but elegant idea, and you all have me to thank for it. It could really take off too, if everyone else follows my lead. You can thank me for the idea later.
Especially if it's McFly's hair.
If I'm going to dream, it's going to be of my marriage to Natalie Portman...not of aliens abducting some loser in Russia.
Mr. President, we must not allow an alien abduction gap!
Maybe the aliens are causing this rash of sex addiction that's spreading among rich, famous males.
And you wonder why Jenny left you.
It's amazing the extremes some politicans will go to to cover up affairs from their wives. "You see honey, I spend all weekend with...uh...ALIENS!" In other news, Ilyumzhinov is also planning a hiking trip this weekend on the Appalachian Trail--where his cellphone won't work, so don't even bother calling.
Is it a sin if I download this? I mean a lot of Catholics use birth control, right? So will I be excommunicated from the Apple store for this? Will I be forced to commune with infidel Windows users? I'm conflicted here.
It was based on earlier drafts of the script (if this book is to be believed). It's funny to remember that back then almost every major movie had a novelization. Before the mid-80's, it was the closest thing to home video that most people could afford. I don't see many novelizations anymore. I guess they've fallen out of favor now that you can own a copy of the actual movie in your home.
It may not make sense, but for me there is a sense with the console that I'm getting the same experience as everyone else out there, that I'm not missing out on anything. With the PC, if I wasn't running a game at the highest settings, it felt like I was getting a sub-par experience. I knew that someone out there with a better rig was getting the best experience out of the game and I wasn't. It's real easy to fall into that kind of mentality in the PC world (I knew a *lot* of other guys who were pretty much constantly upgrading). It becomes a chase where you never really get the mechanical rabbit.
That's true, providing you're okay with turning the sliders down for new games more and more each year. When you're a truly obsessive gamer, there is no way you're going to do that for very long. And every new game ups the ante a little more, until you find yourself almost buying a new rig every year. Not going back there, thanks.
I wish more console games in the Xbox Live Marketplace, PSN, etc. would/could do charity stuff like this. A lot of us have went over to console gaming and just don't game on our PC's anymore. I would love to be able to participate, but so many things like this are PC-only--and I am NEVER going back to the "Gotta upgrade my video card...gotta upgrade my CPU...gotta get more memory...now I gotta upgrade my video card again..." mess I was in back in the 90's.
Damn, I lost another monocle.
It's the government. It took them that long to get all the paperwork done.