I completely understand your position but it's also one that has turned IE6 into an unstoppable zombie juggernaut. The "if you can do work on it, why upgrade" mentality has held back the web for some 12 years. Staying up to date with frequent tech refreshes can have a performance boost in the workplace and avoids a forced upgrade for all office equipment. A 5 year old pentium D with 2GB of RAM running XP will not tear the fuck out of a 60MB PSD file, nor will it gracefully handle a large AI file. It also can't install IE9, which means HTML5 cannot be widely adopted until the majority of the business world drops winXP.
The Phoenix lander directly sampled water ice in shallow Martian soil on July 31, 2008 and while there may not be petroleum on Mars, I don't see how that makes it any less worthy colonizing.
It's stands to reason that if you can get people to survive, even thrive in such a harsh environment as Mars, that those lessons and technology created to sustain life there would have immediate long term uses back here on earth.
The bits were in TRON:Legacy. They were on the fireplace mantel in Kevin's hide out. Both Kevin and CLU have scenes with them.
Also Kevin didn't hate CLU, he hated himself for creating CLU. CLU did exactly what he was supposed to do (create the perfect system) and Kevin was both impressed by and respected him for doing it so well. Kevin saw in the end that you can't create perfection (CLU), it creates itself (Quorra and Sam).
That's because any good web developer will check to see how their sites work in IE9 and then return to their browser of choice. Your average consumer is not going to try the beta, nor will many people stick with a beta indefinitely until it's released. I have Firefox 4 installed on my computer but I only use it to check out major updates to the beta; otherwise I'm using Firefox 3.6 or the latest version of Chrome.
This article is pretty irrelevant in regards to how well IE9 will do once it launches.
I know a lot of companies that want IE6 and only IE6. You might as well be asking them to change religions when you suggest upgrading to Firefox or Chrome.
What's more likely is there are a lot of developers making sure their sites are ready for IE9 considering the bulk of web users are now IE6 or IE8. IE7 was mostly cannibalized by IE8 and I'm sure IE8 will suffer the same fate with IE9.
To me it sounds like a shitty Last.FM clone that's harder to use and has a smaller user base. The fact that you need to access it through iTunes 10 makes it all the worse.
The God Delusion is a terrible book. I wish people would stop recommending it so highly as it's mostly Dawkins pushing his personal views with the same fury and single mindedness as your average religious zealot. Maybe you enjoy his butt hurt whining for 12+ chapters but I got bored of his one dimensional thinking pretty fast.
Instead I would much more highly recommend Guns, Germs and Steel as it doesn't even bother with the God question but succintely deals with it as a minor event that occurs in all societies when they reach a certain population density. Gods and Religions allow a ruling class to control the masses and extract more tribute, which is essential when societies grow to a large enough size. There's nothing more to it than that.
I don't know about that... it's more akin to contracting a musician to create a song suiting your needs rather than something which is mass distributed. There's a lot more time invested in this and if a couple of designs take 4 - 16 hours to do, and you get paid a whole $265, you'd be better off being a garbage man.
I don't think this is sustainable and only really viable as a secondary income or portfolio builder for designers.
"Through "Steam Play", the Mac client will allow players who have already purchased compatible products in the Windows version to re-download the Mac versions at no cost, allowing them to continue to play the game on the other platform. The Steam Cloud will be cross-platform compatible. Multiplayer games are also cross-compatible, allowing Windows and Mac players to play with each other."
Honestly... steam's DRM is pretty unobtrusive. I had my concerns too, but the service is just too damn convenient.
I wish there were better channels to handle disputes as I would hate to lose all my games and have no recourse, but otherwise it's one of the best implementations of DRM I've ever seen. It's so convenient and affordable that I have a very hard time buying anything that's not on Steam.
Tribes is the most under appreciated and under rated game of all time. It never ceases to amaze me how far ahead that game was. All FPS these days incorporate something that Tribes did 12 years ago.
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Out of curiosity, why would you use the scroll wheel to change a value? Most values like transparency or opacity can be quickly changed by hitting numbers on the keyboard. I'd much rather hit 5 to set the opacity of my brush to 50% rather than scroll half way through the spinner. To each their own but if you're using Photoshop all day, using a scroll wheel to change values seems terribly inefficient.
I expect there to be a large backlash with this game. Everyone I know that got it, didn't like it. Especially the PC players. The next Modern Warfare game will likely do half the numbers of this one, if not less.
I'm curious what America's response would be to their people being demonized. I'd love to see a game set in Iraq or Vietnam where America invades your country, kills your people and attempts to rest control of your homeland away from you. Or how about a game focused on WWII's war between Japan and America that ends with 2 of your cities being vaporized?
I would love to see games from a different perspective. It would be refreshing. That and it would generate a lot of amusingly ironic commentary from Americans.
"The researchers in the story ignored all the signs from the last ten years which point to strength training being the most important part of a regimen designed to reduce fat. When you do cardio (especially that slow, "fat-burning" cardio), you burn a few calories, and when you step off the machine, you're done."
I run marathons in the summer and do strength training in the winter. Without a doubt I can say marathon training burns far more calories than strength training ever will. I actually bulk up and put on fat when I do strength training. Marathon training on the other hand presents me with the challenge of trying to keep weight on, but that's to be expected when you burn through ~3,000 calories in an afternoon.
There was enough competing interests in this movie and a dark enough premise that you could never really tell what way the movie would go. It didn't exactly end happily, even though some good came out in the end. I loved seeing that exo-skeleton going on a rampage. I don't even recall seeing an exo-skeleton in a movie in a long long time, and definitely not one so well done or neatly integrated into the plot. To me that whole sequence rounded out the film nicely and gave the lead character something to channel all his discontent and rage into.
No movie is perfect, but I don't remember the last time a sci-fi movie gave me that much to think about. It's something I'd like to see more of.
I think Harmonix's ultimate goal was to turn that 10 year learning curve with a real instrument into a 2 or 3 year learning curve. It's hard to build and sell something like that, so while it might be possible in the future I think we have a long way to go before it's feasible.
Activision especially has been milking this market for a while with new Guitar Hero packages yearly. Harmonix seems to be much more focused on quality vs quantity and also focused more on DLC than retail goods. In the end I think Activision is going to be hit the hardest by this as they've been pushing new instruments and Guitar Hero games yearly. There's only so many times people will upgrade their plastic instruments before the market is saturated.
Plus, there's also the fact that you can go out and buy a real guitar for twice the price of one of these sets and develop a real skill with a real instrument that if properly maintained will last a life time.
"If you hire a good developer your site should work for all browsers. It's not fucking rocket science."
It's not for most modern browsers, but I'm pretty sure I could have put a rocket in orbit with all the time I've wasted supporting IE6 and it's "creative" standards compliance.
I've started buying all my games off Steam for precisely this reason. I've picked up:
Left 4 Dead for $45. I've played it a lot but wasn't worth the money considering L4D2 is right around the corner and L4D lacks content.
Empire: Total War for $25. I haven't played it much but it was definitely worth the $25.
Dawn of War II for $25 and I've played it a lot, probably worth more than $25 which means I'll be much more likely to pick up an expansion should it come along.
Fallout 3 for $40. This game gets a lot of mileage, so it's worth the money imo. The DLC, not so much.
I've actually stopped buying games for my Wii because I don't want to shell out $50 for something I may or may not like. There are a lot of games out there and price is the biggest deterrent from trying something new unfortunately and Steam seems to be the only place to get new games at reasonable prices.
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I completely understand your position but it's also one that has turned IE6 into an unstoppable zombie juggernaut. The "if you can do work on it, why upgrade" mentality has held back the web for some 12 years. Staying up to date with frequent tech refreshes can have a performance boost in the workplace and avoids a forced upgrade for all office equipment. A 5 year old pentium D with 2GB of RAM running XP will not tear the fuck out of a 60MB PSD file, nor will it gracefully handle a large AI file. It also can't install IE9, which means HTML5 cannot be widely adopted until the majority of the business world drops winXP.
The Phoenix lander directly sampled water ice in shallow Martian soil on July 31, 2008 and while there may not be petroleum on Mars, I don't see how that makes it any less worthy colonizing.
It's stands to reason that if you can get people to survive, even thrive in such a harsh environment as Mars, that those lessons and technology created to sustain life there would have immediate long term uses back here on earth.
The bits were in TRON:Legacy. They were on the fireplace mantel in Kevin's hide out. Both Kevin and CLU have scenes with them.
Also Kevin didn't hate CLU, he hated himself for creating CLU. CLU did exactly what he was supposed to do (create the perfect system) and Kevin was both impressed by and respected him for doing it so well. Kevin saw in the end that you can't create perfection (CLU), it creates itself (Quorra and Sam).
A different company, Hi-Rez, bought the Tribes IP and is planning to release a Tribes MMO called Tribes:Universe.
Neither really look like they will be anything close to what made Tribes 1/Tribes 2 (classic) great though.
That's because any good web developer will check to see how their sites work in IE9 and then return to their browser of choice. Your average consumer is not going to try the beta, nor will many people stick with a beta indefinitely until it's released. I have Firefox 4 installed on my computer but I only use it to check out major updates to the beta; otherwise I'm using Firefox 3.6 or the latest version of Chrome.
This article is pretty irrelevant in regards to how well IE9 will do once it launches.
I was thinking the same thing, but considering the high praise it's receiving from movie critics, there is apparently good reason to see this movie.
I know a lot of companies that want IE6 and only IE6. You might as well be asking them to change religions when you suggest upgrading to Firefox or Chrome.
What's more likely is there are a lot of developers making sure their sites are ready for IE9 considering the bulk of web users are now IE6 or IE8. IE7 was mostly cannibalized by IE8 and I'm sure IE8 will suffer the same fate with IE9.
To me it sounds like a shitty Last.FM clone that's harder to use and has a smaller user base. The fact that you need to access it through iTunes 10 makes it all the worse.
The God Delusion is a terrible book. I wish people would stop recommending it so highly as it's mostly Dawkins pushing his personal views with the same fury and single mindedness as your average religious zealot. Maybe you enjoy his butt hurt whining for 12+ chapters but I got bored of his one dimensional thinking pretty fast.
Instead I would much more highly recommend Guns, Germs and Steel as it doesn't even bother with the God question but succintely deals with it as a minor event that occurs in all societies when they reach a certain population density. Gods and Religions allow a ruling class to control the masses and extract more tribute, which is essential when societies grow to a large enough size. There's nothing more to it than that.
I don't know about that... it's more akin to contracting a musician to create a song suiting your needs rather than something which is mass distributed. There's a lot more time invested in this and if a couple of designs take 4 - 16 hours to do, and you get paid a whole $265, you'd be better off being a garbage man. I don't think this is sustainable and only really viable as a secondary income or portfolio builder for designers.
I don't know if AT&T works like this but for Bell Canada if you buy a new phone and talk on it for more than 30 minutes, you can't return it.
According to shacknews:
"Through "Steam Play", the Mac client will allow players who have already purchased compatible products in the Windows version to re-download the Mac versions at no cost, allowing them to continue to play the game on the other platform. The Steam Cloud will be cross-platform compatible. Multiplayer games are also cross-compatible, allowing Windows and Mac players to play with each other."
Honestly... steam's DRM is pretty unobtrusive. I had my concerns too, but the service is just too damn convenient.
I wish there were better channels to handle disputes as I would hate to lose all my games and have no recourse, but otherwise it's one of the best implementations of DRM I've ever seen. It's so convenient and affordable that I have a very hard time buying anything that's not on Steam.
Who cares? It will save trees and that's worth a hell of a lot more than saving a few dollars on a game.
Tribes is the most under appreciated and under rated game of all time. It never ceases to amaze me how far ahead that game was. All FPS these days incorporate something that Tribes did 12 years ago.
Out of curiosity, why would you use the scroll wheel to change a value? Most values like transparency or opacity can be quickly changed by hitting numbers on the keyboard. I'd much rather hit 5 to set the opacity of my brush to 50% rather than scroll half way through the spinner. To each their own but if you're using Photoshop all day, using a scroll wheel to change values seems terribly inefficient.
I expect there to be a large backlash with this game. Everyone I know that got it, didn't like it. Especially the PC players. The next Modern Warfare game will likely do half the numbers of this one, if not less.
The EU already banned the import of seal products. Canada's response was to put seal meat on parliament's cafeteria menu.
It's moments like that which make me proud to be a Canadian.
I'm curious what America's response would be to their people being demonized. I'd love to see a game set in Iraq or Vietnam where America invades your country, kills your people and attempts to rest control of your homeland away from you. Or how about a game focused on WWII's war between Japan and America that ends with 2 of your cities being vaporized?
I would love to see games from a different perspective. It would be refreshing. That and it would generate a lot of amusingly ironic commentary from Americans.
"The researchers in the story ignored all the signs from the last ten years which point to strength training being the most important part of a regimen designed to reduce fat. When you do cardio (especially that slow, "fat-burning" cardio), you burn a few calories, and when you step off the machine, you're done."
I run marathons in the summer and do strength training in the winter. Without a doubt I can say marathon training burns far more calories than strength training ever will. I actually bulk up and put on fat when I do strength training. Marathon training on the other hand presents me with the challenge of trying to keep weight on, but that's to be expected when you burn through ~3,000 calories in an afternoon.
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There was enough competing interests in this movie and a dark enough premise that you could never really tell what way the movie would go. It didn't exactly end happily, even though some good came out in the end. I loved seeing that exo-skeleton going on a rampage. I don't even recall seeing an exo-skeleton in a movie in a long long time, and definitely not one so well done or neatly integrated into the plot. To me that whole sequence rounded out the film nicely and gave the lead character something to channel all his discontent and rage into.
No movie is perfect, but I don't remember the last time a sci-fi movie gave me that much to think about. It's something I'd like to see more of.
I think Harmonix's ultimate goal was to turn that 10 year learning curve with a real instrument into a 2 or 3 year learning curve. It's hard to build and sell something like that, so while it might be possible in the future I think we have a long way to go before it's feasible.
Activision especially has been milking this market for a while with new Guitar Hero packages yearly. Harmonix seems to be much more focused on quality vs quantity and also focused more on DLC than retail goods. In the end I think Activision is going to be hit the hardest by this as they've been pushing new instruments and Guitar Hero games yearly. There's only so many times people will upgrade their plastic instruments before the market is saturated.
Plus, there's also the fact that you can go out and buy a real guitar for twice the price of one of these sets and develop a real skill with a real instrument that if properly maintained will last a life time.
"If you hire a good developer your site should work for all browsers. It's not fucking rocket science."
It's not for most modern browsers, but I'm pretty sure I could have put a rocket in orbit with all the time I've wasted supporting IE6 and it's "creative" standards compliance.
I've started buying all my games off Steam for precisely this reason. I've picked up:
I've actually stopped buying games for my Wii because I don't want to shell out $50 for something I may or may not like. There are a lot of games out there and price is the biggest deterrent from trying something new unfortunately and Steam seems to be the only place to get new games at reasonable prices.