Have you ever USED Picasa? It's an APPLICATION (not a WEB application) that runs on your desktop and helps you organize and perform basic edits/adjustments to your images. It also has the added feature (after Google bought it a couple years ago) of allowing users to easily upload pictures to their blogspot or e-mail it through GMail (not sure about the GMail feature as I haven't tried the latest version, but I seem to remember hearing about this). It's got an awesome GUI, but other than that (and the Google specific tie-ins) it doesn't do much more than other photo organizing apps already available in Linux.
Still, this is a decent start. I'd be more excited about them porting the desktop search (as long as I can still disable the sharing of info. to Google).
While I think it'd be great if developers/publishers opened up the games even MORE to the player community to allow them to personalize the game more... I also think it'd be EXTREMELY BAD for any game to rely primarily on player generated content. Why should I shill out $50-60 for a game where I have to create the actual meat of it (or other players)? I already spend my work time programming, and my hobby writing stories, why would I spend my leisure/relaxing/fun time making content for a game when I won't even own the content due to the restrictive EULA of most games? I just want to sit down and enjoy a game, preferrably with an immersive storyline. Maybe they should just save their budget by not trying to make THE MOST REALISTIC GRAPHICS POSSIBLE--just "realistic enough" or "not an eyesore" is good enough for me. Katamari doesn't have the best graphics, but that's an INCREDIBLE game. Graphics don't make the game, CONTENT makes the game. If they ship games with little to no content (just pretty graphics and tools to create the game of your choosing), why bother buying it? I really don't get it...
This is only for their personalized searches though. It doesn't include searches you conduct through Google.com while logged in to your Google account--only searches you conduct through their personalized search page. It's a step in the right direction at least. Although if their privacy policy works like their GMail privacy policy, than deleting your search history won't remove it from THEIR servers--just from your view of their information...
I'm not seeing this option... I go to Google, click 'My Account' (while logged in). I can edit my password (and security question), edit my name, delete ALL account info., or delete my gmail service. Nothing about search history and such... I'm in the US, where were you that you had those options?
One of them was Zelda though. Zelda sequels are quality and actually ADD VALUE to both the genre and the franchise. Plus, it's THE BEST franchise out there (both by meta-game rankings and my own personal experience). Ocarina of Time (sort of a sequel to other Zelda games, but like many of them taking its own path) is THE BEST rated game of all time--and a game I have 3 copies of (1 for N64, 1 on the collector's disc, and 1 that came with my pre-order of Windwaker). Rip on the other games all you want, but Zelda is like the Holy Grail of video games...
While I agree that blanket statements are mental laziness... can you actually name a GOOD reality TV show? One or two seasons of Survivor were OK, POSSIBLY good, but that still leaves more than half of the seasons as mediocre (at best)--that type of track record doesn't exactly make me think its good... Most of the other reality TV shows are just total crap. If you want good TV, watch LOST, where there's an ACTUAL storyline and not just people being their normal dumb selves. If I want to watch people being dumb, I'd just walk around the mall.
Price tag was $1 Trillion... althought it appears that was very much overinflated figure. I don't have time to Google enough to find the exact amount, but this must've been where I got the $1 Trillion from (as that's what I've always heard about it's cost).
Considering Reagan spent over $1 TRILLION on this system already... I would rather just have the $1 Trillion back... The USSR fell because of this whole arms race thing--it's nothing but a whole in a pocket that keeps getting larger and draining more money. The ONLY people who win an arms race are the arms dealers/manufacturers.
We should have killed this project before it began--when some of the lead scientists said that they didn't think this would be effective.
And that is precisely what happened with Sega... They had told Sammy they weren't interested in selling to them (they WERE interested in selling, but not to Sammy...) so Sammy bought the controlling shares and forced Sega to do thing their way by placing Sammy people on Sega's Board of Directors. There are Gamasutra articles about this, but I don't have time to find them as I'm at work...
I stand corrected then. My mistake (although Sammy Corporation and Sammy Studios are the same thing--I just wasn't sure about the country). Thanks for pointing that out though. The point still stands though that Nintendo is a privately held company and isn't susceptible to hostile takeovers (by foreign or national investors), whereas other companies (Sega for one) are/were public and are susceptible to whatever type of takeover a person (or investment group) has enough money to foot the bill for.
While I agree wholeheartedly (as does Nintendo's history) that they would never sell out so easily to a Western company... Let us not forget that Sega (a Japanese company) DID succumb to a hostile takeover by Sammy Studios, which if memory serves me is an American company. That, of course, was after Sega had suddenly backed out of talks with Sammy and apparently insulted their board, so Sammy just bought enough stock to make Sega their own... The difference with Nintendo is that it isn't a publicly traded company.
Earthbound is one of my favorite RPGs of all time. While gameplay-wise it may not be that innovative, the quirkiness of the story and the characters made a unique and memorable experience. Since RPGs (to me) are more about the story and characters any way, this is definitely on my list of must haves... Too bad it'll probably be quite a wait before the translated version.
as long as you'll eventually be able to boot OS X, Linux, and Windows. When you can boot all major OSs (and the more fringe ones like Solaris and BSD) from one machine, then you know the route to go is to buy an Apple--no other manufacturer will allow you to do that. Apple considers themselves a hardware company, and having the choice of any and all OSs (and creating a multi-partition/multi-drive system that gives you all the ones you need/want to use for your various computing needs) will certainly help make them a very popular computer hardware company. I know I'm in for a laptop once this whole booting mess is solved (I might buy one before, but I don't have the disposable income to experiment with it and possibly fry my machine...) I wanted a machine with OS X any way for testing/graphics/video stuff (nothing heavy that needs a lot of power, just some lighter editing/graphic creation), but being able to use it for gaming (Windows) and having my friend Linux on it will sweeten the deal. If it turns out to be impossible to dual boot (which I doubt will be the case) then I'll just get the mac mini as it's cheap enough...
that Steve Jobs has also officially been given a seat on the board of directors. This means that he POTENTIALLY has more clout in persuading Disney to release more of their content to become iTunes exclusive downloads. It would also be interesting to see if he can convince them to release movies in iTunes music store AT THE SAME time as the theatrical release. I'm not saying it's very likely, but it would be nice (as long as they up the resolution of the videos they sell on iTunes...)
Ok, great, so we can't break the Intel Mac by putting Windows on it because just attempting to infect it with that viral disease of an operating system breaks the Mac. What about installing Linux? Yes, I know OS X has all the benefits of Unix with a prettier GUI and all that nice stuff (and I really do think it's the best OS on the market right now)... But I like to have MULTIPLE FLAVORS of Unix based systems on my computer... I know they also stated that you couldn't boot from Grub or LILO. So does that mean no Linux either?
I wanted to get one and quadruple boot it with OS X, Ubuntu, Linspire, and Windows (yes, it's a viral OS, but I do play SOME games, and occasionaly for testing I need Windows).
Guess I'll just wait until the 12" notebooks come out and just get that for OS X (although, by then it'll probably be hacked), but I have a desktop that's powerful enough--I just need a laptop for mobility, so smaller/less powerful is better for me.
While I agree wholeheartedly that spyware authors should be eliminated in the most lethal of manners... Maybe next time you try removing spyware, you should unplug your computer from the net;-). Can't repair itself if it can't redownload the files. I also recommend going into the computer in safe mode, so only the essential processes will be running. But if you REALLY want to fix your computer, just remove Windows and install Linux or BSD--or go buy yourself a Mac.
Some things IE may render "correctly", but things like tables I've found that Firefox and other browsers (Konqueror, Safari, Opera, etc.) handle in a fairly consistent manner, whereas IE seems to break the formatting. And that's just basic HTML. My experience has been that the alternative browsers tend to follow the rules of HTML better than IE, which tends to break formatting--especially when comparing to what you see in a popular web page designer called Macromedia Dreamweaver.
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If it was any company other than Microsoft, which constantly releases crappy software, then they wouldn't want the early version leaked so as not to give it a bad reputation before it comes out--considering early versions always have major bugs in them that are supposed to/should be removed before the final release. However, some people may use a piece of software that isn't ready for release yet, try it out and run into one of those major bugs and then decide the software is crap and tell everybody they know (when the actual release comes out) about their experience and how crappy the product is. Again though, for Internet Explorer, it doesn't matter because everybody that would be in the techological know (and would know about the leak) would already know IE is crap, so any issues they find with it wouldn't effect their assessment of it being crap.
But, like the parent says, if they don't license the technology to other STORES but DO license it to other PLAYERS than Apple will have a potential monopoly for downloadable music. That way they can tell the music industry what price they want to sell them for... of course the prices may rise any way as Apple may decide to get greedy themselves... Any way, it won't happen because Apple is a "hardware company" and they want to sell hardware. From what I've seen the iPod has been a great marketing tool that is not only getting them great press, but is also leading to more sales of their computers than in the past. When I see just as many Apples as I do Intel/AMD laptops in a college classroom then that tells you where the future is headed...
Nope, that's what I had thought too because of all the press about the impending demise of their alliance. However, you'll note that the latest Pixar movie, Cars is being released by Disney.
You are correct, and I stand corrected. "Scary" thing is though that in 20-75 years, I may end up being correct because as enough people use the term incorrectly dictionaries will be revised to match the new meaning. Such is the evolution of language. When LOL gets in all major dictionaries, then we know the end is near...
I wouldn't say that's because of Apple though... I think Sony has the problem that their consumer electronics division has been faltering lately and they install rootkits in music that earn them months of bad press. For a brand, such as Sony, that in recent years has run off of marketing hype alone because they make somewhat inferior products; bad press is a very bad thing.
You can do this without any software on a Windoze machine. Just set the audio to record the 'Stereo Mix' or on Creative sound cards 'What you hear'. On M-Audio sound cards it's a slightly more difficult process, but works all the same. You just record the digital signals that are being sent to your speakers. Just make sure to turn off any other program that could produce noises during the recording process. Oh, and of course use Audacity (although you could use the crappy Sound Recorder--just to make the "not needing any additional program" thing true--although everybody should have Audacity anyway) for the recording because that way you can also edit out any machine noise. Nice and easy.
Trillian is easier to get the "average user" to embrace than GAIM. I've shown and let my less technical friends try out both products, but the majority of them end up deciding they like Trillian better. I don't really care which one they use as long as they aren't using the resource hungry AIM.
I'd like to recommend SlySoft AnyDVD. When you want to run a DVD w/o a region or w/o CSS, just start up AnyDVD and you're free to backup your DVD or watch it region free. It's a nice and compact and works like a nice little hack around the system. Only con is that it's not free/open source (sells for like $20-30).
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Have you ever USED Picasa? It's an APPLICATION (not a WEB application) that runs on your desktop and helps you organize and perform basic edits/adjustments to your images. It also has the added feature (after Google bought it a couple years ago) of allowing users to easily upload pictures to their blogspot or e-mail it through GMail (not sure about the GMail feature as I haven't tried the latest version, but I seem to remember hearing about this). It's got an awesome GUI, but other than that (and the Google specific tie-ins) it doesn't do much more than other photo organizing apps already available in Linux.
Still, this is a decent start. I'd be more excited about them porting the desktop search (as long as I can still disable the sharing of info. to Google).
While I think it'd be great if developers/publishers opened up the games even MORE to the player community to allow them to personalize the game more... I also think it'd be EXTREMELY BAD for any game to rely primarily on player generated content. Why should I shill out $50-60 for a game where I have to create the actual meat of it (or other players)? I already spend my work time programming, and my hobby writing stories, why would I spend my leisure/relaxing/fun time making content for a game when I won't even own the content due to the restrictive EULA of most games? I just want to sit down and enjoy a game, preferrably with an immersive storyline. Maybe they should just save their budget by not trying to make THE MOST REALISTIC GRAPHICS POSSIBLE--just "realistic enough" or "not an eyesore" is good enough for me. Katamari doesn't have the best graphics, but that's an INCREDIBLE game. Graphics don't make the game, CONTENT makes the game. If they ship games with little to no content (just pretty graphics and tools to create the game of your choosing), why bother buying it? I really don't get it...
This is only for their personalized searches though. It doesn't include searches you conduct through Google.com while logged in to your Google account--only searches you conduct through their personalized search page. It's a step in the right direction at least. Although if their privacy policy works like their GMail privacy policy, than deleting your search history won't remove it from THEIR servers--just from your view of their information...
I'm not seeing this option... I go to Google, click 'My Account' (while logged in). I can edit my password (and security question), edit my name, delete ALL account info., or delete my gmail service. Nothing about search history and such... I'm in the US, where were you that you had those options?
One of them was Zelda though. Zelda sequels are quality and actually ADD VALUE to both the genre and the franchise. Plus, it's THE BEST franchise out there (both by meta-game rankings and my own personal experience). Ocarina of Time (sort of a sequel to other Zelda games, but like many of them taking its own path) is THE BEST rated game of all time--and a game I have 3 copies of (1 for N64, 1 on the collector's disc, and 1 that came with my pre-order of Windwaker). Rip on the other games all you want, but Zelda is like the Holy Grail of video games...
While I agree that blanket statements are mental laziness... can you actually name a GOOD reality TV show? One or two seasons of Survivor were OK, POSSIBLY good, but that still leaves more than half of the seasons as mediocre (at best)--that type of track record doesn't exactly make me think its good... Most of the other reality TV shows are just total crap. If you want good TV, watch LOST, where there's an ACTUAL storyline and not just people being their normal dumb selves. If I want to watch people being dumb, I'd just walk around the mall.
Price tag was $1 Trillion... althought it appears that was very much overinflated figure. I don't have time to Google enough to find the exact amount, but this must've been where I got the $1 Trillion from (as that's what I've always heard about it's cost).
Considering Reagan spent over $1 TRILLION on this system already... I would rather just have the $1 Trillion back... The USSR fell because of this whole arms race thing--it's nothing but a whole in a pocket that keeps getting larger and draining more money. The ONLY people who win an arms race are the arms dealers/manufacturers.
We should have killed this project before it began--when some of the lead scientists said that they didn't think this would be effective.
And that is precisely what happened with Sega... They had told Sammy they weren't interested in selling to them (they WERE interested in selling, but not to Sammy...) so Sammy bought the controlling shares and forced Sega to do thing their way by placing Sammy people on Sega's Board of Directors. There are Gamasutra articles about this, but I don't have time to find them as I'm at work...
I stand corrected then. My mistake (although Sammy Corporation and Sammy Studios are the same thing--I just wasn't sure about the country). Thanks for pointing that out though. The point still stands though that Nintendo is a privately held company and isn't susceptible to hostile takeovers (by foreign or national investors), whereas other companies (Sega for one) are/were public and are susceptible to whatever type of takeover a person (or investment group) has enough money to foot the bill for.
While I agree wholeheartedly (as does Nintendo's history) that they would never sell out so easily to a Western company... Let us not forget that Sega (a Japanese company) DID succumb to a hostile takeover by Sammy Studios, which if memory serves me is an American company. That, of course, was after Sega had suddenly backed out of talks with Sammy and apparently insulted their board, so Sammy just bought enough stock to make Sega their own... The difference with Nintendo is that it isn't a publicly traded company.
Earthbound is one of my favorite RPGs of all time. While gameplay-wise it may not be that innovative, the quirkiness of the story and the characters made a unique and memorable experience. Since RPGs (to me) are more about the story and characters any way, this is definitely on my list of must haves... Too bad it'll probably be quite a wait before the translated version.
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as long as you'll eventually be able to boot OS X, Linux, and Windows. When you can boot all major OSs (and the more fringe ones like Solaris and BSD) from one machine, then you know the route to go is to buy an Apple--no other manufacturer will allow you to do that. Apple considers themselves a hardware company, and having the choice of any and all OSs (and creating a multi-partition/multi-drive system that gives you all the ones you need/want to use for your various computing needs) will certainly help make them a very popular computer hardware company. I know I'm in for a laptop once this whole booting mess is solved (I might buy one before, but I don't have the disposable income to experiment with it and possibly fry my machine...) I wanted a machine with OS X any way for testing/graphics/video stuff (nothing heavy that needs a lot of power, just some lighter editing/graphic creation), but being able to use it for gaming (Windows) and having my friend Linux on it will sweeten the deal. If it turns out to be impossible to dual boot (which I doubt will be the case) then I'll just get the mac mini as it's cheap enough...
that Steve Jobs has also officially been given a seat on the board of directors. This means that he POTENTIALLY has more clout in persuading Disney to release more of their content to become iTunes exclusive downloads. It would also be interesting to see if he can convince them to release movies in iTunes music store AT THE SAME time as the theatrical release. I'm not saying it's very likely, but it would be nice (as long as they up the resolution of the videos they sell on iTunes...)
Ok, great, so we can't break the Intel Mac by putting Windows on it because just attempting to infect it with that viral disease of an operating system breaks the Mac. What about installing Linux? Yes, I know OS X has all the benefits of Unix with a prettier GUI and all that nice stuff (and I really do think it's the best OS on the market right now)... But I like to have MULTIPLE FLAVORS of Unix based systems on my computer... I know they also stated that you couldn't boot from Grub or LILO. So does that mean no Linux either? I wanted to get one and quadruple boot it with OS X, Ubuntu, Linspire, and Windows (yes, it's a viral OS, but I do play SOME games, and occasionaly for testing I need Windows). Guess I'll just wait until the 12" notebooks come out and just get that for OS X (although, by then it'll probably be hacked), but I have a desktop that's powerful enough--I just need a laptop for mobility, so smaller/less powerful is better for me.
While I agree wholeheartedly that spyware authors should be eliminated in the most lethal of manners... Maybe next time you try removing spyware, you should unplug your computer from the net ;-). Can't repair itself if it can't redownload the files. I also recommend going into the computer in safe mode, so only the essential processes will be running. But if you REALLY want to fix your computer, just remove Windows and install Linux or BSD--or go buy yourself a Mac.
Some things IE may render "correctly", but things like tables I've found that Firefox and other browsers (Konqueror, Safari, Opera, etc.) handle in a fairly consistent manner, whereas IE seems to break the formatting. And that's just basic HTML. My experience has been that the alternative browsers tend to follow the rules of HTML better than IE, which tends to break formatting--especially when comparing to what you see in a popular web page designer called Macromedia Dreamweaver.
If it was any company other than Microsoft, which constantly releases crappy software, then they wouldn't want the early version leaked so as not to give it a bad reputation before it comes out--considering early versions always have major bugs in them that are supposed to/should be removed before the final release. However, some people may use a piece of software that isn't ready for release yet, try it out and run into one of those major bugs and then decide the software is crap and tell everybody they know (when the actual release comes out) about their experience and how crappy the product is. Again though, for Internet Explorer, it doesn't matter because everybody that would be in the techological know (and would know about the leak) would already know IE is crap, so any issues they find with it wouldn't effect their assessment of it being crap.
But, like the parent says, if they don't license the technology to other STORES but DO license it to other PLAYERS than Apple will have a potential monopoly for downloadable music. That way they can tell the music industry what price they want to sell them for... of course the prices may rise any way as Apple may decide to get greedy themselves... Any way, it won't happen because Apple is a "hardware company" and they want to sell hardware. From what I've seen the iPod has been a great marketing tool that is not only getting them great press, but is also leading to more sales of their computers than in the past. When I see just as many Apples as I do Intel/AMD laptops in a college classroom then that tells you where the future is headed...
Nope, that's what I had thought too because of all the press about the impending demise of their alliance. However, you'll note that the latest Pixar movie, Cars is being released by Disney.
You are correct, and I stand corrected. "Scary" thing is though that in 20-75 years, I may end up being correct because as enough people use the term incorrectly dictionaries will be revised to match the new meaning. Such is the evolution of language. When LOL gets in all major dictionaries, then we know the end is near...
I wouldn't say that's because of Apple though... I think Sony has the problem that their consumer electronics division has been faltering lately and they install rootkits in music that earn them months of bad press. For a brand, such as Sony, that in recent years has run off of marketing hype alone because they make somewhat inferior products; bad press is a very bad thing.
You can do this without any software on a Windoze machine. Just set the audio to record the 'Stereo Mix' or on Creative sound cards 'What you hear'. On M-Audio sound cards it's a slightly more difficult process, but works all the same. You just record the digital signals that are being sent to your speakers. Just make sure to turn off any other program that could produce noises during the recording process. Oh, and of course use Audacity (although you could use the crappy Sound Recorder--just to make the "not needing any additional program" thing true--although everybody should have Audacity anyway) for the recording because that way you can also edit out any machine noise. Nice and easy.
Trillian is easier to get the "average user" to embrace than GAIM. I've shown and let my less technical friends try out both products, but the majority of them end up deciding they like Trillian better. I don't really care which one they use as long as they aren't using the resource hungry AIM.
I'd like to recommend SlySoft AnyDVD. When you want to run a DVD w/o a region or w/o CSS, just start up AnyDVD and you're free to backup your DVD or watch it region free. It's a nice and compact and works like a nice little hack around the system. Only con is that it's not free/open source (sells for like $20-30).