"$7 is absurd. What does giving permission to copy a few music files cost Sony? Nothing."
Since, you know, Sony BMG didn't lose any customers to this scandal. And they didn't lose any sales to people who are getting a free album or three. And there aren't enough people out there who buy Sony BMG CDs that would multiply up seven dollars to the tens of thousands of dollars range. And they're not losing any money at all to the amount of work they have to put into enforcing this plan they have.
You seriously need to do something about this superiority complex. Your "ideas" about "freedom" are laughable. I was going to pick them apart but I figure they're/you're not worth it.
Crawl back under a rock and keep telling yourself how awesome you are.
Opera does have quite extensive extension capabilities today. User Javascipt is one such example. This is something we first used when we made the Bork version of Opera. We have later added this as a user feature and there are already more than 100 scripts available from the developer community. You can find a lot on userjs.org. Many of these script are very powerful.
Our concern with regards to extensions has been security and general usability. We have seen the number of security issues Microsoft has struggled with and many of them have been related to the APIs between the different applications. However, we do see a demand and we do tend to listen to demands from our users.
So, they're looking into it. Might happen, might not, don't know, we're thinking.
It's less an issue of someone, somewhere, knowing where you are at some time. It's more of an issue of the fact of where you are is in a single stream of data all the time.
If it's okay to take pictures of people who run red lights with automatic cameras, then it's okay to keep those cameras on at all time, then it's okay to install new cameras all over, then it's okay to track people and flag them for investigation if they deviate from normal patterns, then it's okay to preemptively arrest them if they display patterns normal to people about to commit a crime... are you ready for the knock on the door at two in the morning, announcing the men who say you need to be detained based on information only they can have access to? You might think this is overly paranoid, nothing like this could actually happen. You might also be a fool.
Something else: this information is obviously insecure. If you're okay with the government knowing all this, are you okay with the local criminal organization(s) knowing all of this? Do you think it's actually possible to perfectly secure any data?
(by the way, whoever modded parent flamebait is a jerk)
Heh. Also, anyone who has taken even the most basic of sociology classes knows that it is not that simple, that you can't just toss it away like that.
"Anyone who has both sons and daughters knows they are different, no matter how hard you try to androgenize them."
Yup. Boys have those little sticky-out parts and girls don't. Parents are flat-out biased about their babies depending on their gender (both that of the baby and that of the parent). I don't have a link to the study (home on break) but there was a study done where new parents were asked to judge various aspects of their new babies. Male children were reported by the parents (especially the male parents) to be more alert, larger, firmer, more active... and the female ones less so, when in fact an impartial judgement done by hospital staff showed that there was no significant difference in the actual statistics of the babies.
Genetic differences, eh? Maybe we're just not capable of truly raising children free of any gender stereotyping, and also incapable of knowing that we're doing it.
I'm no expert, but I would hazard a guess that the overall effect of a cell heated by the sun might be a little bit less than that of a power plant that burns things. Although it could be similar I guess, considering the power output of photovoltaic cells, but you still have to consider emissions.
You mention that the enemies aren't too varied... I personally think this is more than made up for by the AI and fight area designs (and how they interact differently to shape the fights). Plus, the soldiers more or less count as several different enemy types that simply use the same model since as you said they don't all carry the same gun, and therefore are different beasts to fight indeed. The cloaking assassins were an interesting addition as well, especially because the area they first appear in is mostly devoid of other threats, just creepy things like hearing them run around in the ceilings. (In fact, those might be some of my favorite monster-types I've seen in a video game [not that I'm incredibly experienced...])
Also, melee combat is another one of those things I would add to your list that other devs simply need to rip off.
"I mean they spent a lot of cash on brainwashing you to dislike France because they wouldn't join your half cocked crusade, they might be upset at the waste of their money!"
Believe it or not, people were nonsensically bashing France long before that.
We can be dumbasses with or without our government helping us, kthx, stay in your own country.
Personally, the only reasons I would own a console are a) if they didn't release some uber-game for the PC, or my computer wouldn't be able to run it for years, and b) consoles just work, in general. You don't get crash bugs because you don't have the right version of video card drivers. You don't lose all the music in the game because you have an unsupported sound card. I've only EVER seen two consoles fail, my roommate's Gamecube for some bug in the specific one he owned (mine never did that), and that was with only one game, and then one time with my old dreamcast, when I fell through the floor in one part of Sonic Adventure.
However, PCs tend to be much more moddable, so it usually balances out. Stuff doesn't crash and explode often enough for it to be a problem for me, and I've never gotten hardware that just randomly didn't work with something (except when the linux kernel driver for my mobo sound stopped working, but that got fixed eventually...)
This is less of a rule and more of a guideline, but, people who have no idea what they are doing will usually somehow manage to do what you didn't think was possible if they have any power over the system at all.
You can't simultaneously say it is harder to install than firefox AND say that it doesn't have any features Firefox doesn't have. To get 75% of Opera's features in Firefox, you have to install an extension. And unless you already know exactly what extensions you already want, this process takes time (and is annoying as heck, in my opinion).
If you actually want to know what features Opera brings, visit http://opera.com/features/ and look around a bit. Nobody really cares enough (I hope) to waste their time recompiling a list for you.
For me, it really just boils down to the philosophies behind them. Use Firefox if you really care that much about everything being open source or fiddling with your browser. Use Opera if you really don't care and just want something that works with advanced features.
Uh, movies aren't a terribly objective thing. It's all about whether one enjoys it or not.
I figure that guy simply has run into the same thing I have far too often: many people say a movie sucks, I see the movie, I love it. I stopped paying attention to anyone who says things about movies I haven't seen- this guy decided movie critics didn't know what they were doing.
I don't like some laws. That doesn't make lawmakers/lawyers/whatever WRONG. I like some movies that get all-negative reviews. That makes the reviewers, while still not really wrong, not entirely right, and totally useless.
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"The story is interesting, but it isn't what makes the game fun."
I disagree. Often, half or more of the fun of many of the single-player games I've played, and a couple of the multiplayer ones, is the story/flavor. Counterstrike and Unreal not so much... Half-Life and Half-Life 2, definitely storyline. World of Warcraft, definitely flavor (although supplemented by community[same with Guild Wars, only with community/storyline{yay, nested parenthesis things!}]). System Shock 2, that was most of the point of the game... same with Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy. Pretty much every RPG ever.
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WTF? You're not allowed to reply to posts accusing someone of being Hitler. Didn't you read the rules of the Internet?
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Just be careful, if you don't realign your field harmonics and vent the gauss magnetic field sources once in a while, it could blow up!
Cue the Monty Python references.
Easy, you sell your characters on ebay.
"$7 is absurd. What does giving permission to copy a few music files cost Sony? Nothing."
Since, you know, Sony BMG didn't lose any customers to this scandal. And they didn't lose any sales to people who are getting a free album or three. And there aren't enough people out there who buy Sony BMG CDs that would multiply up seven dollars to the tens of thousands of dollars range. And they're not losing any money at all to the amount of work they have to put into enforcing this plan they have.
"Virtual property has no actual real world value. Yes, you can sell it to anyone foolish enough to pay for it..."
Ah, so many meatspace items/services I could apply this to...
I just spent forever trying to get Windows out of my hard drive, and now they want to sell me more? Yeah, right.
"...keep rockets firing at his head 24x7."
Feet. You fire rockets at the feet, so if you miss, it still hurts. Duh.
You seriously need to do something about this superiority complex. Your "ideas" about "freedom" are laughable. I was going to pick them apart but I figure they're/you're not worth it.
Crawl back under a rock and keep telling yourself how awesome you are.
The perfect thing to do if we ever find out all human life is doomed in five years. Blow up teh moons!!
Jon von Tetzchner:
Opera does have quite extensive extension capabilities today. User Javascipt is one such example. This is something we first used when we made the Bork version of Opera. We have later added this as a user feature and there are already more than 100 scripts available from the developer community. You can find a lot on userjs.org. Many of these script are very powerful.
Our concern with regards to extensions has been security and general usability. We have seen the number of security issues Microsoft has struggled with and many of them have been related to the APIs between the different applications. However, we do see a demand and we do tend to listen to demands from our users.
So, they're looking into it. Might happen, might not, don't know, we're thinking.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html
U.S. 297,835,838
World 6,489,060,591
297,835,838 / 6,489,060,591 = 0.04
(ps, whoa, a "no karma bonus" button...)
It's less an issue of someone, somewhere, knowing where you are at some time. It's more of an issue of the fact of where you are is in a single stream of data all the time.
If it's okay to take pictures of people who run red lights with automatic cameras, then it's okay to keep those cameras on at all time, then it's okay to install new cameras all over, then it's okay to track people and flag them for investigation if they deviate from normal patterns, then it's okay to preemptively arrest them if they display patterns normal to people about to commit a crime... are you ready for the knock on the door at two in the morning, announcing the men who say you need to be detained based on information only they can have access to? You might think this is overly paranoid, nothing like this could actually happen. You might also be a fool.
Something else: this information is obviously insecure. If you're okay with the government knowing all this, are you okay with the local criminal organization(s) knowing all of this? Do you think it's actually possible to perfectly secure any data?
(by the way, whoever modded parent flamebait is a jerk)
Heh. Also, anyone who has taken even the most basic of sociology classes knows that it is not that simple, that you can't just toss it away like that.
"Anyone who has both sons and daughters knows they are different, no matter how hard you try to androgenize them."
Yup. Boys have those little sticky-out parts and girls don't. Parents are flat-out biased about their babies depending on their gender (both that of the baby and that of the parent). I don't have a link to the study (home on break) but there was a study done where new parents were asked to judge various aspects of their new babies. Male children were reported by the parents (especially the male parents) to be more alert, larger, firmer, more active... and the female ones less so, when in fact an impartial judgement done by hospital staff showed that there was no significant difference in the actual statistics of the babies.
Genetic differences, eh? Maybe we're just not capable of truly raising children free of any gender stereotyping, and also incapable of knowing that we're doing it.
I'm no expert, but I would hazard a guess that the overall effect of a cell heated by the sun might be a little bit less than that of a power plant that burns things. Although it could be similar I guess, considering the power output of photovoltaic cells, but you still have to consider emissions.
High latency = slow
HTH, HAND
You mention that the enemies aren't too varied... I personally think this is more than made up for by the AI and fight area designs (and how they interact differently to shape the fights). Plus, the soldiers more or less count as several different enemy types that simply use the same model since as you said they don't all carry the same gun, and therefore are different beasts to fight indeed. The cloaking assassins were an interesting addition as well, especially because the area they first appear in is mostly devoid of other threats, just creepy things like hearing them run around in the ceilings. (In fact, those might be some of my favorite monster-types I've seen in a video game [not that I'm incredibly experienced...])
Also, melee combat is another one of those things I would add to your list that other devs simply need to rip off.
"I mean they spent a lot of cash on brainwashing you to dislike France because they wouldn't join your half cocked crusade, they might be upset at the waste of their money!"
Believe it or not, people were nonsensically bashing France long before that.
We can be dumbasses with or without our government helping us, kthx, stay in your own country.
Personally, the only reasons I would own a console are a) if they didn't release some uber-game for the PC, or my computer wouldn't be able to run it for years, and b) consoles just work, in general. You don't get crash bugs because you don't have the right version of video card drivers. You don't lose all the music in the game because you have an unsupported sound card. I've only EVER seen two consoles fail, my roommate's Gamecube for some bug in the specific one he owned (mine never did that), and that was with only one game, and then one time with my old dreamcast, when I fell through the floor in one part of Sonic Adventure.
However, PCs tend to be much more moddable, so it usually balances out. Stuff doesn't crash and explode often enough for it to be a problem for me, and I've never gotten hardware that just randomly didn't work with something (except when the linux kernel driver for my mobo sound stopped working, but that got fixed eventually...)
This is less of a rule and more of a guideline, but, people who have no idea what they are doing will usually somehow manage to do what you didn't think was possible if they have any power over the system at all.
You can't simultaneously say it is harder to install than firefox AND say that it doesn't have any features Firefox doesn't have. To get 75% of Opera's features in Firefox, you have to install an extension. And unless you already know exactly what extensions you already want, this process takes time (and is annoying as heck, in my opinion).
If you actually want to know what features Opera brings, visit http://opera.com/features/ and look around a bit. Nobody really cares enough (I hope) to waste their time recompiling a list for you.
For me, it really just boils down to the philosophies behind them. Use Firefox if you really care that much about everything being open source or fiddling with your browser. Use Opera if you really don't care and just want something that works with advanced features.
Uh, movies aren't a terribly objective thing. It's all about whether one enjoys it or not.
I figure that guy simply has run into the same thing I have far too often: many people say a movie sucks, I see the movie, I love it. I stopped paying attention to anyone who says things about movies I haven't seen- this guy decided movie critics didn't know what they were doing.
I don't like some laws. That doesn't make lawmakers/lawyers/whatever WRONG. I like some movies that get all-negative reviews. That makes the reviewers, while still not really wrong, not entirely right, and totally useless.
It wasn't all that bad.
(opinion parries and counters opinion!)
"The story is interesting, but it isn't what makes the game fun."
I disagree. Often, half or more of the fun of many of the single-player games I've played, and a couple of the multiplayer ones, is the story/flavor. Counterstrike and Unreal not so much... Half-Life and Half-Life 2, definitely storyline. World of Warcraft, definitely flavor (although supplemented by community[same with Guild Wars, only with community/storyline{yay, nested parenthesis things!}]). System Shock 2, that was most of the point of the game... same with Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy. Pretty much every RPG ever.
WTF? You're not allowed to reply to posts accusing someone of being Hitler. Didn't you read the rules of the Internet?
It is, however, quite a unique bookend, paperweight, or CD/DVD case, as well as quite a conversation piece.