"I'm pretty sure that sentence stands alone for anyone but an Opera fanboy."
I don't deny being an Opera fanboy. However, I stand by my question. "So?" I'd remind you and the original poster that we're currently using an ad-supported site to have this discussion. So do you have an actual rebuttal or should I just point at you and say "FireFox fanboy!!!" and assume victory?
"When the cake was opened, the Firefox team found it was not quiet finished and full of bugs."
The FireFox team decided to return the favor and make them a cake to congratulate them on their recent release of Internet Explorer 7. It is expected to be completed in about four years and have some of the same details in the icing that Opera's cake had already.
"I think we all need to send a polite letter to Mr. Yankovic that we cannot purchase his music because of his distributor. With any luck, that will add a semi-important figure to the cause."
At the very least, it'd let Sony know (albeit indirectly) why their sales went down. If there was a massive boycott of Sony products and they had no idea WHY it happened, they'd blame piracy. Honestly, I'm a little worried about a broad boycott. How would they know it's actually a boycott and not a shift in the economy or some bs?
I think the message is more important than the actual loss in sales. It'd be interesting if a bunch of Weird Al CDs were mailed back to Sony with a note saying "This is the last product of yours we're buiying." Imagine people running around saying "Argh, why are we getting all these Weird Al CD's back?"
Although, after typing this, I hate the idea of making Al a sore-spot with the company. It's not HIS fault...
"Different Continent. Not that interesting he didn't travel over here."
According to you, his story has been widely mis-interpreted. It is interesting that he didn't submit a clarification, considering that his words have been mentioned in this article. There's this little thing called the internet they could have used to co-ordinate that.
"Well actually it does, as noted previously."
Nope, it doesn't. "Prepare to be shocked though: we don't really like it all that much." That's difficult to misinterpret. They didn't use phrases like "learn to live with it" because it earned high-marks.
In any event, the article you linked to may have a clarification you'll be interested in.
What's more, when I first got my hands on the controller at E3, I hated the feel of the controller. It felt cheap and poorly made, and pulling on the L2 and R2 buttons felt like your fingers would go completely through the shell of the peripheral.
Boy, when you pull your ass away from your ears, this really sounds familiar. I'm willing to bet that Matt had one of these E3 controllers instead of the final one. However, since you've been unwilling to explore this possibility, I think what happened was you clicked the link, did a Ctrl + F for "flimsy", didn't find a hit, posted about how Zonk's biasing articles, didn't notice there was a page 2, got called on it, and are on the defensive.
"Which just goes to show exactly what I said based on the original story - the controller feels a lot like the PS2 controller, and thus the reviewers in that story were dissapointed it had not changed more."
A. Different author. Interesting that the guy who wrote the original article didn't comment in the new one.
B. These reviewers had more time with it. Heck, for all we know, Matt had an earlier controller. It is implied that they didn't have a release unit.
It doesn't go to show anything that you've put forward. You can spin it all you like, but the original review of the controller wasn't very positive. Sorry. It's good that they've had more time and they feel better about it now (or they recieved a newer model), but that doesn't mean massive amounts of people misread what was originally stated. You have to look a little too hard to find the diamond in the rough, so to speak.
Slashdot may be having a little too much fun pointing out Sony's mis-steps, that doesn't mean every negative story about Sony is some Zonk-tainted fabrication.
This came up for me because I have a TabletPC that doesn't have an optical drive. I needed to reinstall Windows so I took the drive out, hooked it up via USB, and copied the install files over.
Question: Suppose you use FDE to encrypt your disk, then your laptop dies. Is it possible to hook it up to another machine via USB enclosure and recover the data?
(I apologize for my ignorance, I've never looked into disk encryption before.)
"Do Firefox fan boys get a nickel everytime they defend firefox?"
What's sad is you'd think by now, after several exploits in FF have been uncovered, even FireFox fan boys would realize "oh, yeah, writing a browser's reallying f'n hard".
"Funny that people complain about EA and their sports games being unoriginal, but Nintendo has a tendancy to use the same characters with a slightly different plot and no one criticizes them for a lack of innovation in games."
I love when this argument comes up. Heh.
Compare SMB 1, 2, and 3 to Sonic 1, 2, and 3. Superficially they're very similar, but play-wise, you have to totally re-adjust to play any of those three games. Try playing Mario 3 then go back to Mario 1. Ouch. The original Sonic trilogy felt like a few expansion levels were added. Blah blah blah.
You're confusing the terms sequel and franchise. You cannot do that if you wish to understand what has made Nintendo consistently successful over the years.
"By that metric, Nintendo has already won. They're going to sell the Wii with actual markup, rather than taking a loss like Sony and Microsoft, and all signs point to stock shortage."
Well... no.. it's not as simple as that. If Nintendo builds 6 million machines and only sells 2 million, they'll lose money. They'll also have to recoup all the money they spent on developing and marketing the machine.
I'm just being needlessly nitpicky, though. 'Success' would have to be defined. The GameCube was successful. It sold 20+ million machines and it made Nintendo a healthy profit. I have a harder time calling the XBOX successful. It didn't make Microsoft money, but they still had an impressive user base. The CD-I though...
"Is it Smallville, Kansas? Because, uh, if it is, that's no ordinary meteorite..."
A friend of mine put a sample of the meteor in a blender then drank it. Now she's the most popular girl in school! I tried it but pftbbtb, I can only talk to bugs and some flannel wearin hick won't leave me alone.
"Photoshop, which The GIMP is intended to replace, is not for drawing either."
Yes, it is, actually.
"It's a professional attitude with the understanding of the difference between all the tools at your disposal."
Right. Your heart is in the right place, but the example's completely wrong. Drawing and image manipuluation are part of the same process. We're talking about a drill with several drillbits here, not a hammer and a spark plug. When you draw a line between image manipulation and drawing, you might as well be saying "You can use a standard head on this drill but if you want Phillips, you'll need to run to the neighbor's and borrow his." This is the sort of head-up-butt mentality that'll kill apps like the GIMP. Just because a programmer sees a difference between two techniques doesn't mean he's right about whether they should be seperated along that line. It's the users who determine that. Don't satisfy the users, don't grow your userbase. Simple.
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"I'm pretty sure that sentence stands alone for anyone but an Opera fanboy."
I don't deny being an Opera fanboy. However, I stand by my question. "So?" I'd remind you and the original poster that we're currently using an ad-supported site to have this discussion. So do you have an actual rebuttal or should I just point at you and say "FireFox fanboy!!!" and assume victory?
"But for much of this time it was adware."
So?
"... is spelled V I S T A" ... even though SP3 will come out after Vista's released, just like 2K's SP4 came after XP etc.
Not informative, sorry.
"If it wasn't for the Firefox team, we'd all still be stuck with IE6..."
Stuck? Nah. Opera's been around all this time.
"When the cake was opened, the Firefox team found it was not quiet finished and full of bugs."
The FireFox team decided to return the favor and make them a cake to congratulate them on their recent release of Internet Explorer 7. It is expected to be completed in about four years and have some of the same details in the icing that Opera's cake had already.
"Why do you assume that Slashdot is pro-open-source? I've seen a LOT of pro-Microsoft toadies on this site."
"Pro-Microsoft Toadies" are usually people who post AFTER they read the article.
"I think we all need to send a polite letter to Mr. Yankovic that we cannot purchase his music because of his distributor. With any luck, that will add a semi-important figure to the cause."
At the very least, it'd let Sony know (albeit indirectly) why their sales went down. If there was a massive boycott of Sony products and they had no idea WHY it happened, they'd blame piracy. Honestly, I'm a little worried about a broad boycott. How would they know it's actually a boycott and not a shift in the economy or some bs?
I think the message is more important than the actual loss in sales. It'd be interesting if a bunch of Weird Al CDs were mailed back to Sony with a note saying "This is the last product of yours we're buiying." Imagine people running around saying "Argh, why are we getting all these Weird Al CD's back?"
Although, after typing this, I hate the idea of making Al a sore-spot with the company. It's not HIS fault...
Blah. I don't have a perfect solution. Sorry.
According to you, his story has been widely mis-interpreted. It is interesting that he didn't submit a clarification, considering that his words have been mentioned in this article. There's this little thing called the internet they could have used to co-ordinate that.
"Well actually it does, as noted previously."
Nope, it doesn't. "Prepare to be shocked though: we don't really like it all that much." That's difficult to misinterpret. They didn't use phrases like "learn to live with it" because it earned high-marks.
In any event, the article you linked to may have a clarification you'll be interested in.
Boy, when you pull your ass away from your ears, this really sounds familiar. I'm willing to bet that Matt had one of these E3 controllers instead of the final one. However, since you've been unwilling to explore this possibility, I think what happened was you clicked the link, did a Ctrl + F for "flimsy", didn't find a hit, posted about how Zonk's biasing articles, didn't notice there was a page 2, got called on it, and are on the defensive.
"Try listening with less ass in your ears."
Then stop shouting!
Wah oh. Sony killed Lik Sang. I don't know about you, but that made the Sony controller feel cheap and plasticky to me! ;)
"Which just goes to show exactly what I said based on the original story - the controller feels a lot like the PS2 controller, and thus the reviewers in that story were dissapointed it had not changed more."
A. Different author. Interesting that the guy who wrote the original article didn't comment in the new one.
B. These reviewers had more time with it. Heck, for all we know, Matt had an earlier controller. It is implied that they didn't have a release unit.
It doesn't go to show anything that you've put forward. You can spin it all you like, but the original review of the controller wasn't very positive. Sorry. It's good that they've had more time and they feel better about it now (or they recieved a newer model), but that doesn't mean massive amounts of people misread what was originally stated. You have to look a little too hard to find the diamond in the rough, so to speak.
Slashdot may be having a little too much fun pointing out Sony's mis-steps, that doesn't mean every negative story about Sony is some Zonk-tainted fabrication.
"Why do you assume that pro Open Source equates with anti-Microsoft"
The Bill Gates of Borg icon for this story?
"...if the OS wasn't such an open door this wouldn't be possible."
If they had better QC in place, this wouldn't have happened. *Nix (including OSX) aren't 100% secure and never will be.
Something un-HD related. :P
This came up for me because I have a TabletPC that doesn't have an optical drive. I needed to reinstall Windows so I took the drive out, hooked it up via USB, and copied the install files over.
Question: Suppose you use FDE to encrypt your disk, then your laptop dies. Is it possible to hook it up to another machine via USB enclosure and recover the data?
(I apologize for my ignorance, I've never looked into disk encryption before.)
"Because you still have the problem of opening that big external display in the economy-class airplane seat. :-)"
I had problems opening a 12" laptop in an economy-class airplane seat.
"So now they shaft Intel and AMD."
Insightful?
"Next time, remember to remove the lens cover. All your images are black!"
Not for me. I have ClearTypeTM on!!
"Do Firefox fan boys get a nickel everytime they defend firefox?"
What's sad is you'd think by now, after several exploits in FF have been uncovered, even FireFox fan boys would realize "oh, yeah, writing a browser's reallying f'n hard".
"Funny that people complain about EA and their sports games being unoriginal, but Nintendo has a tendancy to use the same characters with a slightly different plot and no one criticizes them for a lack of innovation in games."
I love when this argument comes up. Heh.
Compare SMB 1, 2, and 3 to Sonic 1, 2, and 3. Superficially they're very similar, but play-wise, you have to totally re-adjust to play any of those three games. Try playing Mario 3 then go back to Mario 1. Ouch. The original Sonic trilogy felt like a few expansion levels were added. Blah blah blah.
You're confusing the terms sequel and franchise. You cannot do that if you wish to understand what has made Nintendo consistently successful over the years.
"By that metric, Nintendo has already won. They're going to sell the Wii with actual markup, rather than taking a loss like Sony and Microsoft, and all signs point to stock shortage."
Well... no.. it's not as simple as that. If Nintendo builds 6 million machines and only sells 2 million, they'll lose money. They'll also have to recoup all the money they spent on developing and marketing the machine.
I'm just being needlessly nitpicky, though. 'Success' would have to be defined. The GameCube was successful. It sold 20+ million machines and it made Nintendo a healthy profit. I have a harder time calling the XBOX successful. It didn't make Microsoft money, but they still had an impressive user base. The CD-I though...
"Is it Smallville, Kansas? Because, uh, if it is, that's no ordinary meteorite..."
A friend of mine put a sample of the meteor in a blender then drank it. Now she's the most popular girl in school! I tried it but pftbbtb, I can only talk to bugs and some flannel wearin hick won't leave me alone.
"Photoshop, which The GIMP is intended to replace, is not for drawing either."
Yes, it is, actually.
"It's a professional attitude with the understanding of the difference between all the tools at your disposal."
Right. Your heart is in the right place, but the example's completely wrong. Drawing and image manipuluation are part of the same process. We're talking about a drill with several drillbits here, not a hammer and a spark plug. When you draw a line between image manipulation and drawing, you might as well be saying "You can use a standard head on this drill but if you want Phillips, you'll need to run to the neighbor's and borrow his." This is the sort of head-up-butt mentality that'll kill apps like the GIMP. Just because a programmer sees a difference between two techniques doesn't mean he's right about whether they should be seperated along that line. It's the users who determine that. Don't satisfy the users, don't grow your userbase. Simple.
"When you're posting your Sony flames, just think of the irony in Slashdot posters arguing that we don't need a new technology."
That's a nice little over-simplification. Let me clarify that for you: "I don't need to spend $600 for that new technology."
The bitching about Blu-Ray is over the price. I'm not anti-Sony, I'm just not impressed with what $500-$600 buys me.
"No, the correct answer is, you want to draw, then go use a drawing program."
Go tell a VFX artist that.