The more I hear about this test, the more annoyed I become with it. Sure, correct rendering is important, but the number of hours wasted to make this one little corner-case example work in the various browsers would probably be better spent improving CSS in general, rather than focusing on a super-specific example. I would rather a browser rendered most of CSS pretty correctly, rather than the 1% used here completely correctly.
I just realized how ridiculous this discussion is compared to announcements about Debian delays. Ubuntu delayed? "YES YES YES!". Debian delayed? "Haha they're teh dum lol"
The comparison is even better when looking at features. Ubuntu's current release already has most of the cool new goodies available (GNOME 2.12, Beagle, etc), and the next release will be out before Vista. On the other hand, Vista keeps cutting features (no EFI booting, no super-duper WinFS, etc), and it will likely take the next one or two releases AFTER Vista to get all that stuff.
Unreal Tournament was more popular than Q3A and that's just in FPS games.
I knew some coward would bring this up. Just because you liked one better does not mean that the other wasn't a big hit.
And for the record, get your dates straight. Q3A was released a year after Half-Life, so each's popularity peak would be exclusive of the other. None of the Railroad Tycoon nor The Sims would intersect in this manner either.
This is exactly why I always install a Linux bootloader on the Linux partition. Never install a bootloader like GRUB or LILO on the master boot record for the whole drive.
I have never had problems using GRUB to boot various flavors of Linux, as well as dual-booting them with Windows (XP). The difference in my case is that I always searched or asked someone "does this installer set up dual-booting correctly?". When the answer was no, I tried something else.
On the other hand, bugs happen. But saying that it is the fault of GRUB, LILO, or whatever program happened to fail on you is not fair. It creates the impression that certain programs are inferior when the reality is that all programs have problems.
Not saying I think it's a good bill, but you're delibreately mischaracterizing it to make some denigrating portrayal of Tennesseeans.
Oh really? If you are so certain, then put forth a logically sound argument that there is absolutely no other reason as to why I would post that comment.
Can you kill someone with a DVD? It's a hell of a lot harder than a gun. Just because I don't spend 20 paragraphs detailing my exact opinions on something does not give you free license to assume what you think I mean. Perhaps you should ASK FOR CLARIFICATIONS instead of assuming what I mean, based on whatever cynical biases you have.
I should've been more explicit. I'm not anti-gun. What I was trying to point out is that videogames are much less dangerous than nearly any weapon. They're also less dangerous than a lot of the other things people use in their houses, jobs, or (non-game) hobbies.
This is what I was thinking as well. I find it somwhat contradictary that at the end he says "I just worry about kernel bugs" after going off on little idiosyncracies of the first draft of something, and they'll likely change before the final.
I dont want a philospy. Just free software that everyone can use with the least amount of restrictions.
This is a contradiction.
GPL gives freedom to the user at the expensive of the corporations.
Wrong. If you have to see it this way, then at least go full circle and cover the situations where it "gives freedom" to corporations at the "expense" of users.
2. A Luther figure must arise who, prior to converting to a 'reformed' faith beats himself with whips, sleeps on cold stone in discomfort and crawls over glass.
Games like SoC, with "tweaks" like this article suggests, remind me that the current generation of video game platforms is going to be dying in a pre-mature, Microsoft-driven, death.
Fixed. And if you think I'm hating on Microsoft, you may be right, but maybe you should go look at some historical console releases first. Specifically the time between PS1 to PS2 or Famicom to Super Famicom. Both were over six years, compared to four (!) for Xbox to 360.
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This is the great thing about software patents. Change three words and voila, a new patent.
The more I hear about this test, the more annoyed I become with it. Sure, correct rendering is important, but the number of hours wasted to make this one little corner-case example work in the various browsers would probably be better spent improving CSS in general, rather than focusing on a super-specific example. I would rather a browser rendered most of CSS pretty correctly, rather than the 1% used here completely correctly.
Your plethora of references never ceases to amaze.
Hmm, maybe slashdot could advertise "On Demand" DDoS?
"tens" means ten times some other number.
I just realized how ridiculous this discussion is compared to announcements about Debian delays. Ubuntu delayed? "YES YES YES!". Debian delayed? "Haha they're teh dum lol"
On the contrary my friend, PLD Linux is made by Poles in Poland, so they definitely have the whole thing covered.
The comparison is even better when looking at features. Ubuntu's current release already has most of the cool new goodies available (GNOME 2.12, Beagle, etc), and the next release will be out before Vista. On the other hand, Vista keeps cutting features (no EFI booting, no super-duper WinFS, etc), and it will likely take the next one or two releases AFTER Vista to get all that stuff.
I knew some coward would bring this up. Just because you liked one better does not mean that the other wasn't a big hit.
And for the record, get your dates straight. Q3A was released a year after Half-Life, so each's popularity peak would be exclusive of the other. None of the Railroad Tycoon nor The Sims would intersect in this manner either.
What about .2 tens of millions? Or 20 tens of millions?
I have never had problems using GRUB to boot various flavors of Linux, as well as dual-booting them with Windows (XP). The difference in my case is that I always searched or asked someone "does this installer set up dual-booting correctly?". When the answer was no, I tried something else.
On the other hand, bugs happen. But saying that it is the fault of GRUB, LILO, or whatever program happened to fail on you is not fair. It creates the impression that certain programs are inferior when the reality is that all programs have problems.
Quake III could definitely be considered "most popular" at some point during its release.
Oh really? If you are so certain, then put forth a logically sound argument that there is absolutely no other reason as to why I would post that comment.
Can you kill someone with a DVD? It's a hell of a lot harder than a gun. Just because I don't spend 20 paragraphs detailing my exact opinions on something does not give you free license to assume what you think I mean. Perhaps you should ASK FOR CLARIFICATIONS instead of assuming what I mean, based on whatever cynical biases you have.
I should've been more explicit. I'm not anti-gun. What I was trying to point out is that videogames are much less dangerous than nearly any weapon. They're also less dangerous than a lot of the other things people use in their houses, jobs, or (non-game) hobbies.
Guns? OK! Simulation of guns? NO!
Aw man, it's not that expensive.
This is what I was thinking as well. I find it somwhat contradictary that at the end he says "I just worry about kernel bugs" after going off on little idiosyncracies of the first draft of something, and they'll likely change before the final.
This is a contradiction.
GPL gives freedom to the user at the expensive of the corporations.
Wrong. If you have to see it this way, then at least go full circle and cover the situations where it "gives freedom" to corporations at the "expense" of users.
Oh really? Then why is your post espousing a specific philosophical/political approach to licensing?
Or, he could use Windows.
So if I'm really a Lutheran, what does GPL3 make me?
OoT could've been done in 2D. Sure, it would've been a bit different, but not all that much.
Fixed. And if you think I'm hating on Microsoft, you may be right, but maybe you should go look at some historical console releases first. Specifically the time between PS1 to PS2 or Famicom to Super Famicom. Both were over six years, compared to four (!) for Xbox to 360.
You have evidence that polygons truly make a game "different"? I didn't think so.