It's the same thing as password maker, but in a bookmark. The Opera/IE version requires it to connect to the web to retrieve some javascript, due to a URL length limitation apparently, but the firefox version does not have this issue. I see in a later post you are trying to convert the javascript version of passwordmaker to a plugin, but perhaps a bookmarklet or even turning this into a plugin would be easier.
So your fear is that Google will destroy all other search engines, including Microsoft's, and then start charging for their services and applications?
Google is not refusing to display ads from other vendors. They are not even refusing to display other vendors' ads above their own. (AOL Video sometimes appears above Google Video when you search for video. AOL is having a massive ad campaign for their video service right now.) Google is simply the most obvious way to search for Google apps and services, and people use click on those links when they come up.
Yes, having the first link on a search is a fairly self-sustaining thing. If you're first, you will tend to stay first. But that's always been true and companies have always taken advantage of that.
Nice. I see this as further proof that the links are still based on popularity, and not necessarily dollars-paid. AOL has been advertising their video service on TV lately. It's possible that many people decided to see what it's about, and temporarily flooded Google with searches for 'video' and AOL was the link that got the click. After the brief buzz about nothing, it went back to normal and people are clicking on Google Video again.
I agree. And we've seen no proof that Google refuses to put others first. All we've seen is a TON of businesses unwilling to put that kind of cash into advertising on Google. If a business paid enough, I'm sure they could get first place, even over Google apps.
Also, if you go on Google and search for 'maps'... I think there's a pretty darned good chance you are looking for 'Google Maps', and not someone else's. There's every reason to believe that Google's apps are #1 on their search engine because people are actually looking for them when they search on Google.
I just thought I'd note that the parent DOES actually mean '2x more' and not '2x as'. This is rare these days, and I think it should be marked on a calendar or something.
Yours wasn't made of Kryptonite, either, apparently.
I'm only 29, and when I was about your age, we moved my mother's 36" CRT. It took 2 of us and we had a HELL of a time moving it from the living room, through the sliding glass door in the living, to the pickup truck right outside. It's like 20 feet, maybe.
I now have a 37" LCD in my house. I could actually move it by myself if I really wanted to. Family's close enough by that I've never actually done so, though.
I realize that there's a fair weight difference between 32" and 36" CRT, but not enough that I would EVER considering moving one by myself.
Actually, I meant without a rebate... and yeah, most of the cheap ones play divx now. I was amazed when I saw the first one. Now I'm disgusted whenever I find one that didn't bother.
$70? Try $40 man. $40 DVD players can be found at almost any electronics store now. (Not that I buy the cheapest ones... I like features.)
As for VHS hardware quality... DVD players (even the $40 ones) FAR beat the VHS player quality and have for quite some time. I'd even go as far as to say that really OLD VHS players were a lot better quality than what we have today. I still remember when my parents replaced the old top-loading VCR with a new front-load model, because we'd had that old one for SO long. The new one lasted less than 2 years, if I remember right. And every one since hasn't lasted more than that. (Including the dvd/vcr combo I bought my Mom last Christmas. Dead in 6 months of almost no use.)
I think the disparity in quality is for a simple reason: DVD parts are easier to make and don't need maintenance. Sure, they MAKE dvd cleaners... But they aren't necessary, unlike VCR cleaners were.
Isn't that kind of the point? Things in the foreground SHOULD block view of things in the background when simulating 3D. If it was all transparent, that'd be... weird. Not un-useful, just weird.
You're right and wrong. People HAVE been most impressed with Wii Sports, which came with the console. But they DO follow the lineup of games. It just so happens that the 'tech demo' of a game that came with the Wii is so impressive that all other titles, on any system, pale in comparison right now.
I've seen a lot of people (including myself) state their reason for not buying a PS3 as 'no worthwhile games.' The PS3 racing game I saw looked like something my computer could have handled 5 years ago. (Complete with triangle-shaped dust particles.) The Wii racing game (Excite Truck) is a little hard to control at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's tons of fun. The track actually alters while you are driving. There are quite a few different ways to earn 'stars' which are the real score for the race. (Bonus stars for first place.) And the graphics on the Wii were almost as good as the PS3 racing game.
I looked at the ps3 coming lineup and could find nothing I want. The only title that may give me pause will be Final Fantasy, but since FF12 and I didn't get along, probably not even that.
On the Wii, however, there's already a few I want including Wario Ware, WiiPlay, and Super Mario Galaxy.
Not that there haven't been disappointments on the Wii. Red Steel, Elebits, Avatar. They just don't overshadow the successes.
This got modded funny, but I don't think it's so far off the mark... Change it just a bit...
Hunter: "Oh man, you're so dead. Right in my crosshairs!" Prey: "Oh shit!" Hunter: "OOH! Mountain Dew... Hmm... After this round, I think I'll go grab one from the fridge." **blam**
The ad DID help increase the 'need' for the product, just like ads are supposed to do. Nobody sees a Mountain Dew ad on TV and immediately rushes to the store for that and only that. They put it on their list and get it later. Or they remember it first when they are shopping for 'soda'. Etc etc.
It doesn't even have to be a major brand. "Cola X... WTF is that?" is the same thing you think when you see an ad for it on TV, and it's what you'd think in-game. And next time you see it for sale, you think "Oh yeah, I saw the ad for that in Game Z." And maybe you buy it, since they obviously had the marketing to pay for an ad campaign.
Advertising isn't a simple thing, and that's why so many don't understand it. Including marketers.
I've done that. Mine is not even close to accurate. The best I can get is if I put the bar right under the edge of the display. At that point, 2 inches top and bottom are not considered screen and pointing at those areas is 'off screen' to the wiimote.
The Wiimote does not calibrate for the size of the TV, so it -cannot- be accurate on all TVs. Apparently somewhere around 33" is about right.
I suspect this would not be nearly so annoying if my TV was smaller than that, as you tend to overshoot when you are excited. But having to restrict my motions instead is annoying.
I'm still hoping for an OS update that adds calibration for TV size. I think that would fix most of the problems I have with the Wiimote.
I dunno about 'every' game, but I would bet they intend to release a lot of them over the next few years. They're smart enough to know that if they release them all at once, even though they could, they wouldn't sell nearly as many of each of them.
As for the controllers... I fully expect to see Nintendo sell 'retro' controllers that look and feel exactly like the originals for all the Virtual Console systems, maybe even the Sega ones. As soon as they see vintage controllers selling on EBay for stupid amounts of money, they'll get the idea and it'll happen.
That's interesting, but a few things come to mind:
USB is a standard, and that's not part of it. I've never seen a port like that. I've never seen a device that uses a port like that. I've never seen a hub that has ports like that. There are 2 different ports there. USB is as awesome as it is because all of the ports are the same. Would it REALLY have been so hard for them to put both 5v and 12v on the same plug, especially considering that all the molex connectors have that anyhow?
The last one is my biggest concern. It also concerns the second-to-last, as making a hub do the 12v and 5v would require 2 usb cords and that's just stupid.
Interesting, though. Like power-over-ethernet to run your electric razor. Geeky and neat, but useless.
If it was only JS and Java that were that close, I could agree with you. But you can take the same philosophy and program C, PHP, and other languages, too. The syntax is similar because C proved it worked well, and the others used it also. Java and Javascript are only alike in that they were designed by people who had experienced C.
I'm sure C was influenced by previous languages as well. (Other than the obvious predecessors, of course.)
"Arguing for the sake of arguing...got nothing better to do today?"
One could say the same for you, since you didn't bother to read the original context in which 'java' and 'javascript' were mentioned. I'll save you the trouble. It says "java, javascript and affiliated stuff", as if java and javascript are affiliated to each other. If they weren't, it would be hard to have 'affiliated stuff' with the pair of them.
While I agree that USB is probably not the best, it is currently a widely desired option. Plus, is there anything that states there cannot be a second power adapter that is optional? I can see Apple (stealing my idea and) making desk chargers (cradles) that use the second power adapter hookup to do the charging, since navigating a phone onto a desk-charger usb connector is never fun. And I will thank them when they steal that idea.
Oddly enough, it was just the other day I looked at my Palm and was pissed that the charger connector was right next to the usb (proprietary) connector, instead of being part of it, so I couldn't charge it off the data cable instead of having to plug in the block, too.
I completely disagree. Obviously, Flash is not a language any more than JPG or PNG is a language. It's a container. ActionScript is the language that Flash uses.
As for Java, that's like writing a plugin for a browser for COBOL and then claiming it's one of the few languages that can render directly in a browser.
Because the discussion was about javascript and you just threw java in there, and even suggested it was related: "java, javascript and affiliated stuff"
You might as well have thrown cobol in, since they are just as much 'affiliated' as javascript and java are.
Trade association, yes. Non-profit? Nope. I can find nothing that says that.
It's just an association of businesses working together to further their profits. So the businesses are the 'shareholders' instead. You claim they wanted this, and I'm sure some of them were looking for ways to cut the costs... But every gamer in the US (and possibly the world) considers it to be THE game event of the year. Answers.com even says it "was considered the industry's most important annual event." http://www.answers.com/topic/entertainment-softwar e-association
Scaling it back a bit was probably in order. Destroying it completely was amazingly stupid.
Do you suppose that they collectively decided to be that stupid? Or maybe there was a single man at the head of that movement, a man who just happened to be running the ESA at that time... Maybe their president?
And maybe those companies, even after they agreed to his oh-so-persuasive arguments, figured out what a monumental mistake had been made. And maybe they needed a scapegoat so they could sleep at night with their mistake.
In the end, all that matters is that the biggest mistake in the entire history of the ESA, a mistake the eclipses everything else they've done, was done on his watch. He's responsible.
You do realize this is Slashdot, right? Where people usually don't even RTFS before posting? I'll admit, it's got less fact-finding than most of my posts, but then... Dropping E3 was such an amazingly stupid move, I don't feel the need to verify anything. Saying 'no' to money is not a real smart thing for a business to do. The only company I've ever heard of getting away with it is Google. (Microsoft COULD do it, if a tiger could change its stripes.)
I somehow doubt he's leaving completely of his own free will. He was president while they went from hosting the biggest entertainment expo on the planet and raking in tons of cash to hosting a small, very private almost-nothing expo that nobody cares about. Oh, and he pissed off almost every gamer world-wide.
If I was an investor in that company, I'd be screaming for his head. (I don't know if they even have investors, but when there's enough pissed-off people, it's all the same in the end.)
IANAL, but from what I remember, it's illegal to make a decision that will knowingly hurt the stockholders like that. I hope for his sake, and the rest of the company, that they do NOT have stockholders.
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Have you seen this? http://labs.zarate.org/passwd/
It's the same thing as password maker, but in a bookmark. The Opera/IE version requires it to connect to the web to retrieve some javascript, due to a URL length limitation apparently, but the firefox version does not have this issue. I see in a later post you are trying to convert the javascript version of passwordmaker to a plugin, but perhaps a bookmarklet or even turning this into a plugin would be easier.
So your fear is that Google will destroy all other search engines, including Microsoft's, and then start charging for their services and applications?
Google is not refusing to display ads from other vendors. They are not even refusing to display other vendors' ads above their own. (AOL Video sometimes appears above Google Video when you search for video. AOL is having a massive ad campaign for their video service right now.) Google is simply the most obvious way to search for Google apps and services, and people use click on those links when they come up.
Yes, having the first link on a search is a fairly self-sustaining thing. If you're first, you will tend to stay first. But that's always been true and companies have always taken advantage of that.
Nice. I see this as further proof that the links are still based on popularity, and not necessarily dollars-paid. AOL has been advertising their video service on TV lately. It's possible that many people decided to see what it's about, and temporarily flooded Google with searches for 'video' and AOL was the link that got the click. After the brief buzz about nothing, it went back to normal and people are clicking on Google Video again.
I agree. And we've seen no proof that Google refuses to put others first. All we've seen is a TON of businesses unwilling to put that kind of cash into advertising on Google. If a business paid enough, I'm sure they could get first place, even over Google apps.
Also, if you go on Google and search for 'maps'... I think there's a pretty darned good chance you are looking for 'Google Maps', and not someone else's. There's every reason to believe that Google's apps are #1 on their search engine because people are actually looking for them when they search on Google.
I just thought I'd note that the parent DOES actually mean '2x more' and not '2x as'. This is rare these days, and I think it should be marked on a calendar or something.
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According to this link, a CRT uses 3x as much electricity in a year as an LCD. Which is, of course, the same as saying '2x more'.
Yours wasn't made of Kryptonite, either, apparently.
I'm only 29, and when I was about your age, we moved my mother's 36" CRT. It took 2 of us and we had a HELL of a time moving it from the living room, through the sliding glass door in the living, to the pickup truck right outside. It's like 20 feet, maybe.
I now have a 37" LCD in my house. I could actually move it by myself if I really wanted to. Family's close enough by that I've never actually done so, though.
I realize that there's a fair weight difference between 32" and 36" CRT, but not enough that I would EVER considering moving one by myself.
Actually, I meant without a rebate... and yeah, most of the cheap ones play divx now. I was amazed when I saw the first one. Now I'm disgusted whenever I find one that didn't bother.
$70? Try $40 man. $40 DVD players can be found at almost any electronics store now. (Not that I buy the cheapest ones... I like features.)
As for VHS hardware quality... DVD players (even the $40 ones) FAR beat the VHS player quality and have for quite some time. I'd even go as far as to say that really OLD VHS players were a lot better quality than what we have today. I still remember when my parents replaced the old top-loading VCR with a new front-load model, because we'd had that old one for SO long. The new one lasted less than 2 years, if I remember right. And every one since hasn't lasted more than that. (Including the dvd/vcr combo I bought my Mom last Christmas. Dead in 6 months of almost no use.)
I think the disparity in quality is for a simple reason: DVD parts are easier to make and don't need maintenance. Sure, they MAKE dvd cleaners... But they aren't necessary, unlike VCR cleaners were.
I can't imagine how you managed to get modded off-topic when posting about your own stuff. -sigh-
As for the system... Wow. That's quite a setup to try to survive digg/fark/slashdot. I hope it makes it.
Also, I'm glad you were able to use the publicity on this to benefit a worthwhile cause as well. Good thinking there.
Isn't that kind of the point? Things in the foreground SHOULD block view of things in the background when simulating 3D. If it was all transparent, that'd be... weird. Not un-useful, just weird.
You're right and wrong. People HAVE been most impressed with Wii Sports, which came with the console. But they DO follow the lineup of games. It just so happens that the 'tech demo' of a game that came with the Wii is so impressive that all other titles, on any system, pale in comparison right now.
I've seen a lot of people (including myself) state their reason for not buying a PS3 as 'no worthwhile games.' The PS3 racing game I saw looked like something my computer could have handled 5 years ago. (Complete with triangle-shaped dust particles.) The Wii racing game (Excite Truck) is a little hard to control at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's tons of fun. The track actually alters while you are driving. There are quite a few different ways to earn 'stars' which are the real score for the race. (Bonus stars for first place.) And the graphics on the Wii were almost as good as the PS3 racing game.
I looked at the ps3 coming lineup and could find nothing I want. The only title that may give me pause will be Final Fantasy, but since FF12 and I didn't get along, probably not even that.
On the Wii, however, there's already a few I want including Wario Ware, WiiPlay, and Super Mario Galaxy.
Not that there haven't been disappointments on the Wii. Red Steel, Elebits, Avatar. They just don't overshadow the successes.
This got modded funny, but I don't think it's so far off the mark... Change it just a bit...
Hunter: "Oh man, you're so dead. Right in my crosshairs!"
Prey: "Oh shit!"
Hunter: "OOH! Mountain Dew... Hmm... After this round, I think I'll go grab one from the fridge." **blam**
The ad DID help increase the 'need' for the product, just like ads are supposed to do. Nobody sees a Mountain Dew ad on TV and immediately rushes to the store for that and only that. They put it on their list and get it later. Or they remember it first when they are shopping for 'soda'. Etc etc.
It doesn't even have to be a major brand. "Cola X... WTF is that?" is the same thing you think when you see an ad for it on TV, and it's what you'd think in-game. And next time you see it for sale, you think "Oh yeah, I saw the ad for that in Game Z." And maybe you buy it, since they obviously had the marketing to pay for an ad campaign.
Advertising isn't a simple thing, and that's why so many don't understand it. Including marketers.
I've done that. Mine is not even close to accurate. The best I can get is if I put the bar right under the edge of the display. At that point, 2 inches top and bottom are not considered screen and pointing at those areas is 'off screen' to the wiimote.
The Wiimote does not calibrate for the size of the TV, so it -cannot- be accurate on all TVs. Apparently somewhere around 33" is about right.
I suspect this would not be nearly so annoying if my TV was smaller than that, as you tend to overshoot when you are excited. But having to restrict my motions instead is annoying.
I'm still hoping for an OS update that adds calibration for TV size. I think that would fix most of the problems I have with the Wiimote.
I dunno about 'every' game, but I would bet they intend to release a lot of them over the next few years. They're smart enough to know that if they release them all at once, even though they could, they wouldn't sell nearly as many of each of them.
As for the controllers... I fully expect to see Nintendo sell 'retro' controllers that look and feel exactly like the originals for all the Virtual Console systems, maybe even the Sega ones. As soon as they see vintage controllers selling on EBay for stupid amounts of money, they'll get the idea and it'll happen.
That's interesting, but a few things come to mind:
USB is a standard, and that's not part of it.
I've never seen a port like that.
I've never seen a device that uses a port like that.
I've never seen a hub that has ports like that.
There are 2 different ports there. USB is as awesome as it is because all of the ports are the same. Would it REALLY have been so hard for them to put both 5v and 12v on the same plug, especially considering that all the molex connectors have that anyhow?
The last one is my biggest concern. It also concerns the second-to-last, as making a hub do the 12v and 5v would require 2 usb cords and that's just stupid.
Interesting, though. Like power-over-ethernet to run your electric razor. Geeky and neat, but useless.
If it was only JS and Java that were that close, I could agree with you. But you can take the same philosophy and program C, PHP, and other languages, too. The syntax is similar because C proved it worked well, and the others used it also. Java and Javascript are only alike in that they were designed by people who had experienced C.
I'm sure C was influenced by previous languages as well. (Other than the obvious predecessors, of course.)
"Arguing for the sake of arguing...got nothing better to do today?"
One could say the same for you, since you didn't bother to read the original context in which 'java' and 'javascript' were mentioned. I'll save you the trouble. It says "java, javascript and affiliated stuff", as if java and javascript are affiliated to each other. If they weren't, it would be hard to have 'affiliated stuff' with the pair of them.
Nah, because it'll sell like hotcakes no matter when it's released. Sad, but true.
I think maybe some of your 'exclusives' aren't so exclusive.
SingStar PS2
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/sing/
Oh, and 'Unitled' is vaporware. Shouldn't even bother listing it until it's got a name. There's too big a chance it'll never make it.
While I agree that USB is probably not the best, it is currently a widely desired option. Plus, is there anything that states there cannot be a second power adapter that is optional? I can see Apple (stealing my idea and) making desk chargers (cradles) that use the second power adapter hookup to do the charging, since navigating a phone onto a desk-charger usb connector is never fun. And I will thank them when they steal that idea.
Oddly enough, it was just the other day I looked at my Palm and was pissed that the charger connector was right next to the usb (proprietary) connector, instead of being part of it, so I couldn't charge it off the data cable instead of having to plug in the block, too.
I completely disagree. Obviously, Flash is not a language any more than JPG or PNG is a language. It's a container. ActionScript is the language that Flash uses.
As for Java, that's like writing a plugin for a browser for COBOL and then claiming it's one of the few languages that can render directly in a browser.
Javascript is native to the browser. Java is not.
Because the discussion was about javascript and you just threw java in there, and even suggested it was related: "java, javascript and affiliated stuff"
You might as well have thrown cobol in, since they are just as much 'affiliated' as javascript and java are.
Trade association, yes. Non-profit? Nope. I can find nothing that says that.
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It's just an association of businesses working together to further their profits. So the businesses are the 'shareholders' instead. You claim they wanted this, and I'm sure some of them were looking for ways to cut the costs... But every gamer in the US (and possibly the world) considers it to be THE game event of the year. Answers.com even says it "was considered the industry's most important annual event." http://www.answers.com/topic/entertainment-softwa
Scaling it back a bit was probably in order. Destroying it completely was amazingly stupid.
Do you suppose that they collectively decided to be that stupid? Or maybe there was a single man at the head of that movement, a man who just happened to be running the ESA at that time... Maybe their president?
And maybe those companies, even after they agreed to his oh-so-persuasive arguments, figured out what a monumental mistake had been made. And maybe they needed a scapegoat so they could sleep at night with their mistake.
In the end, all that matters is that the biggest mistake in the entire history of the ESA, a mistake the eclipses everything else they've done, was done on his watch. He's responsible.
You do realize this is Slashdot, right? Where people usually don't even RTFS before posting? I'll admit, it's got less fact-finding than most of my posts, but then... Dropping E3 was such an amazingly stupid move, I don't feel the need to verify anything. Saying 'no' to money is not a real smart thing for a business to do. The only company I've ever heard of getting away with it is Google. (Microsoft COULD do it, if a tiger could change its stripes.)
I somehow doubt he's leaving completely of his own free will. He was president while they went from hosting the biggest entertainment expo on the planet and raking in tons of cash to hosting a small, very private almost-nothing expo that nobody cares about. Oh, and he pissed off almost every gamer world-wide.
If I was an investor in that company, I'd be screaming for his head. (I don't know if they even have investors, but when there's enough pissed-off people, it's all the same in the end.)
IANAL, but from what I remember, it's illegal to make a decision that will knowingly hurt the stockholders like that. I hope for his sake, and the rest of the company, that they do NOT have stockholders.