Halo anyone? I wouldn't say crap, but it certainly did nothing new and doesn't deserve the lavishing of praise it ended up receiving from every reviewer everywhere.
A world where games like Beyond Good & Evil and Psychonauts are ignored and Halo is applauded is, in my mind, a topsy-turvy one.
If you installed Half-Life to any folder other than the default ('C:\Sierra\HalfLife\' if I'm not mistaken), uninstalling would remove the Half-Life folder and the folder directly above it in the tree.
So, if you installed it to C:\HL\, you kissed goodbye to a good chunk of your C drive when you uninstalled it.
Fixed in the first patch, but still cause for enough annoyance.
So, the reason that MP3 players don't play OGG is because Microsoft temporarily put restrictions on devices that can play WMA?
That doesn't make any sense.
1) WMA isn't MP3. 2) The license never went any further than planning (hence the 'no-harm-no-foul' ruling)
So please explain: how did restrictions on a completely separate proprietary format (WMA) that were never enforced prevent companies that license the MP3 format from adding OGG support?
The general opinion of many of the Brits I've known has been: "if France is for it, there's got to be something wrong with it." Do you blame us? France don't particularly have a history of winning things.;)
Why don't you try looking where I told you? And yes, clearly I'm a shill because I actually understand how this works and you seem to be stuck on the premise that online stores work exactly the same as real ones do.
I suggest you get your much-needed education from someone willing to tolerate your shitty attitude.
That doesn't have to happen, and you need to take this from someone who has worked in an exclusively online bookstore.
When you give shipping expectation dates, you don't give the customer the earliest possible date - that leads to disaster when something goes wrong. You give them a reasonable expectation of when the package is going to be delivered which they can accept or not. That gives you time from order completion to dispatch to prioritise depending on the level of business each customer provides. As long as you don't exceed the expectations, then it works out fine.
I wouldn't be surprised (in fact, the opposite, I would be suprised if this wasn't the case) that Amazon have realised they have some extra time between order completion expected dispatch and want to fill that by improving service for their better customers.
Why do you care, as long as they adhere to the date they've given you?
They've given you an expectation of service, and they're pretty good at sticking to it in my experience - if you don't like that, then don't shop there, though it's mystifying why you wouldn't like it.
Customers to Amazon aren't in a line, so that's a bad analogy.
If you have 10 people waiting for products that need to be shifted in 5 days time, and you move 2 of those guys forward to two days, all you're doing is changing the order in which you deal with those 10 customer's orders. The other 8 will still have the orders shipped by the later date.
they'll slow orders to customers who are not predicted to order in the future. Or perhaps that they'll ship orders faster to regular customers and the service to new/occasional customers will be exactly the same?
Also note that if you reserve the right to define your own market, Apple has 100% worldwide market share for "mobile phones with more than 2GB of RAM." It's not in that market. iPhone has more than 2GB of physical storage, but then so does the N95 and any other phone with a hard drive or which can take 4Gb memory cards. The iPhone actually has somewhere between 76 and 128 megabytes of RAM.
Don't feed the troll. Anybody who starts out a comment with "I like to think...", and then goes on to slam you for saying, "I suspect...", is either consciously trolling or obviously not worthy of your time. Might even be a mildly effective bot. Fair enough, my choice of wording was slightly off. If I'd started off that sentence with 'Maybe' instead 'I think', then perhaps the point would be better made. Too many people here accuse others of some fairly heinous things, and then hide behind "I suspect" and "I think" and "IMHO" so that it makes it harder to argue against them. The fact that neither you nor the GP bothered responding to my actual point in the end actually reinforces that viewpoint, don't you think?
Also, allow me to laugh at the hypocrisy of someone calling me troll, and then attempting to insult me in the very same comment. Poor form.
You make a good point, but there are other reasons why I don't think it's possible.
I think the main point I disagree with on a repeated basis is the assertion that the moderating system is somehow being 'gamed' by Microsoft. Seeing as modpoints are given relatively rarely, and if your moderations are repeatedly meta-moderated down you don't get modpoints again, anybody habitually trying to bury comments denigrating Microsoft will see their resources dwindle very, very quickly.
That leaves shilling by posting, and... well, this site is run by people who would dearly love to have such a huge weapon against Microsoft as a revelation like this would be. If a large number of Washington-based IPs were really posting repeated FUD, attacking Linux advocates and moderating pro-Linux posts down, I'm pretty sure we would have heard about it by now.
As the ISO fiasco shows, deception of that fashion is incredibly hard to hide. Unfortunately they do keep trying, which is really unfortunate. But people here and in other places do it right back, and to pretend that because they pay for it that it's somehow more wrong than the lying and misrepresentation that goes on regularly here is... well, two-faced.
Seeing as the ratings are a guideline not a law, and it's up to parents to enforce the guidelines they want to enforce, I am going to have to join in the calls of 'So what?'
The only way to sort out this out would be for people to stop assuming that games are for kids - but who knows when that's going to be.
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For me, it was less about the gameplay and more about the story - YMMV, of course.
A world where games like Beyond Good & Evil and Psychonauts are ignored and Halo is applauded is, in my mind, a topsy-turvy one.
Half-Life 1 had an issue similar to this.
If you installed Half-Life to any folder other than the default ('C:\Sierra\HalfLife\' if I'm not mistaken), uninstalling would remove the Half-Life folder and the folder directly above it in the tree.
So, if you installed it to C:\HL\, you kissed goodbye to a good chunk of your C drive when you uninstalled it.
Fixed in the first patch, but still cause for enough annoyance.
Or, and here's a crazy idea, maybe he's telling the truth and 'we all know' karma isn't actually that important?
God dammit, I only just got the cottonwool and KY out of my hair from last time.
So, the reason that MP3 players don't play OGG is because Microsoft temporarily put restrictions on devices that can play WMA?
That doesn't make any sense.
1) WMA isn't MP3.
2) The license never went any further than planning (hence the 'no-harm-no-foul' ruling)
So please explain: how did restrictions on a completely separate proprietary format (WMA) that were never enforced prevent companies that license the MP3 format from adding OGG support?
I don't know... if I hurl a brick at someone they often end up unconscious...
...
You know, theoretically. I don't actually go around throwing bricks at people! That would be crazy!
*coughs a little*
*runs away*
Wow. Is English your first language? I sincerely hope not.
"Earning the final place" =/= "Earning last place".
It merely means there was one spot left in the list and Vista got it.
Actually, they're just not ranked at all.
I'd suggest both of you read the article, then take a timeout in a corner somewhere.
Seriously though - you're right, the article is an interesting read and the summary is, let's be honest, completely misleading.
They could also install Paint.NET on Windows, which is free and I much prefer.
Never been one for the 'separate window for everything' layout of Gimp.
Seriously, this is old.
Why don't you try looking where I told you? And yes, clearly I'm a shill because I actually understand how this works and you seem to be stuck on the premise that online stores work exactly the same as real ones do.
I suggest you get your much-needed education from someone willing to tolerate your shitty attitude.
I'm not sure whether you're just trolling now or not, but I'll continue.
There's an explanation above that I've written of how this could work very simply without worsening service for 'non-prioritised' customers.
Please read it.
That doesn't have to happen, and you need to take this from someone who has worked in an exclusively online bookstore.
When you give shipping expectation dates, you don't give the customer the earliest possible date - that leads to disaster when something goes wrong. You give them a reasonable expectation of when the package is going to be delivered which they can accept or not. That gives you time from order completion to dispatch to prioritise depending on the level of business each customer provides. As long as you don't exceed the expectations, then it works out fine.
I wouldn't be surprised (in fact, the opposite, I would be suprised if this wasn't the case) that Amazon have realised they have some extra time between order completion expected dispatch and want to fill that by improving service for their better customers.
Why do you care, as long as they adhere to the date they've given you?
They've given you an expectation of service, and they're pretty good at sticking to it in my experience - if you don't like that, then don't shop there, though it's mystifying why you wouldn't like it.
No it's not, because a line implies that the customers have to be served one after another.
If Amazon only have one guy doing all their picking, then he must be incredible.
Customers to Amazon aren't in a line, so that's a bad analogy.
If you have 10 people waiting for products that need to be shifted in 5 days time, and you move 2 of those guys forward to two days, all you're doing is changing the order in which you deal with those 10 customer's orders. The other 8 will still have the orders shipped by the later date.
Neither is particularly soon.
Also, allow me to laugh at the hypocrisy of someone calling me troll, and then attempting to insult me in the very same comment. Poor form.
You make a good point, but there are other reasons why I don't think it's possible.
I think the main point I disagree with on a repeated basis is the assertion that the moderating system is somehow being 'gamed' by Microsoft. Seeing as modpoints are given relatively rarely, and if your moderations are repeatedly meta-moderated down you don't get modpoints again, anybody habitually trying to bury comments denigrating Microsoft will see their resources dwindle very, very quickly.
That leaves shilling by posting, and... well, this site is run by people who would dearly love to have such a huge weapon against Microsoft as a revelation like this would be. If a large number of Washington-based IPs were really posting repeated FUD, attacking Linux advocates and moderating pro-Linux posts down, I'm pretty sure we would have heard about it by now.
As the ISO fiasco shows, deception of that fashion is incredibly hard to hide. Unfortunately they do keep trying, which is really unfortunate. But people here and in other places do it right back, and to pretend that because they pay for it that it's somehow more wrong than the lying and misrepresentation that goes on regularly here is... well, two-faced.
Seeing as the ratings are a guideline not a law, and it's up to parents to enforce the guidelines they want to enforce, I am going to have to join in the calls of 'So what?'
The only way to sort out this out would be for people to stop assuming that games are for kids - but who knows when that's going to be.