Heh, well, paper maybe doesn't lie, but paper also doesn't choose the president. The Electoral College does. If you're worried about corruption/compromising in the system, there's probably enough nodes between the paper and the EC to worry about that you shouldn't feel safe just because you're marking paper rather than pressing a touch screen.
Well, in that case the best version of Street Fighter was TNMT: Tournament Fighters:-P in my opinion, anyway.
But Street Fighter II is a good mention for sure.
Some might argue that both SFII and KI were arcade games, but as they were part of the SNES game library they definitely added to its appeal and its "greatness."
I was way into KI. Also before it there was far less of an emphasis on combos in 2D fighters. KI also set standards for graphics and music. You might not like the graphics personally, but technically they were very good, on par with DKC since Rare used the same technique.
For me it would be N64, followed by SNES, followed by NES, but all 3 being close.
IMO the two *best-made games ever* are Ocarina and SM64. They're the games that I judge all others against in all sorts of respects.
The N64 was to me the silver age of gaming. You had the best Zelda/Mario games ever, IMO the best Mario Kart, a revolution in console FPS games with Goldeneye, the first Smash Bros, etc. 3D gaming at its most memorable and finest. Many games on the N64 are yet to be outdone in their respective genres.
The SNES was the golden age. Link to the Past, Super Mario World, DKC and DKC2 setting new standards in side-scrolling platformers, Killer Instinct revolutionizing fighting games, Super Mario Kart popularizing a new genre, Final Fantasy III (VI in Japan), Super Metroid, the Super Star Wars games, the list goes on and on. The SNES had so many good games to play every year it's scary.
NES did so much for console gaming it's hard to put it in scope. With Super Mario Bros. it took things to a whole new level right away. Add the Zelda games, Gradius shootemups, co-op Ninja Turtles games, Metroid, the Castlevanias, the Ninja Gaidens, and you are talking about a system with the predecessors to the majority of franchises anyone cares about.
In any case the 15 seconds is an exaggeration. Someone said 5-10 earlier and someone then decided to call that "15." In any case to say something is *possible* on an OS doesn't mean it's broken, I don't care what that something is. If you can configure an OS to take three days to copy a file it doesn't mean the OS is "broken," it means you can configure it to take three days to copy a file. If under a normal configuration it takes a reasonable amount of time then whatever it's otherwise capable of is of no consequence.
You might be on to something there. The paper airplane market isn't really discussed much among bigwigs on Wall Street but I think they're just unaware of the next big thing. And by big thing, I of course mean something inappropriate.
Why would I have Canadian bills in the first place if I didn't, you know, get them in exchange for some other currency or actually live in Canada? Batman would have figured this out already!
10 cents? d00d this is CANADIA we're talking about, it's more like 3 cents. In fact Canadian "dollars" are so worthless I've recently been making paper airplanes out of the Canadian bills I have and throwing them out a window to see how far they fly. Not very far, but I'm not that great at making paper airplanes.
Are you trying to make a point? This isn't about "placing blame," it's about configuring a machine to get good performance. Cooperation.
You can configure almost any software for poor performance. Whether or not it's easy to configure it for good performance is another matter, but even if it's not easy it doesn't mean the machine is, in your words, "broken." Vista in particular is, by most standards, easy to configure for good performance. I had no trouble.
I've had no performance issues, and I run full-blown Aero with all the bells and whistles (though I have a nice video card which I'm sure helps).
I turned off UAC myself, and I don't miss it hehe.
As for the nice search that Vista gives you, I *think* Google Desktop gives you the same. Indexes your files, lets you search your comp quickly. You can download that for XP.
Regarding your Maple and Eclipse issues, I haven't used my Vista machine for any maths or Java development (just Perl/PHP for hobby web stuff) so I have no input there, but given that Vista's not very widespread in the IT world I'm not surprised Eclipse hasn't been quite 'on the ball' with it.
I pretty much *am* using an off-the-shelf brand name computer (HP) with Vista. The only cleanup I've done is turn off HP's "advisor" software or whatever, and turn off UAC. The rest is the same as the way it was when I first turned it on. I don't see the 5-10 seconds to delete a file... hmm although now that you mention it, I think maybe at some point I used to! Don't remember why that was, but besides what I've already mentioned I did nothing to the machine in terms of removing installed components, etc. The problem did go away quite some time ago, though....
I've used XP for a long time on comparable hardware and I haven't noticed the Vista machine running any slower despite my running even more resource-intensive apps than I used to, or still do, on XP. Honestly I'm willing to bet that if I replaced Vista with XP on the one machine of mine that runs it I wouldn't notice any significant performance gain, if any at all. The only "speed" issues I could benefit from addressing (i.e. get more done) are caused by other limiting factors, such as the read/write speed of my external HDs, the USB connection to them, etc.
What the? How the heck does it take 5-10 sec to delete a file? You must be running something really wonky there. I have a comparable machine (3 gb of RAM, quad-processor CPU) and it takes, um, a fraction of a second? The same time I'm used to having it take. You need to run some maintenance on your machine to get it to run the way it's supposed to...
Wow I like how your utter lack of any insight whatsoever got modded insighful.
If you have a powerful enough machine then Vista's advantages remain while by far most of its disadvantages disappear. And by "powerful enough" I mean a $900 HP you could have picked up at a retail store 6 months ago. Nothing crazy.
You can upgrade for DX10, a better UI and search functionality, smarter resource management when you do have a lot of apps open, a FAR better multimedia experience if you're into watching movies or TV on your comp, actually good tablet (as in, Wacom) integration, etc.
If for now you're running into driver issues on Vista because of some hardware peripherals you want to keep using, then I can understand sticking with XP even when you get a new machine. But otherwise, you really shouldn't run into any deal-breakers as long as your machine has enough RAM (2-4 gigs), and RAM is cheap.
And when/if it does break, they *add the meta tag to force the browser to render in whatever worked best.* That's the whole point, locking it into a browser version. But to default to IE7 is arbitrary and bizarre to me. Maybe the guys who coded for IE6 have hairier chests on average, so why doesn't it default to IE6?
I don't mind the approach, I think it's a good one. What I do mind is having pages that don't lock themselves into a browser version by leaving out the meta tag *BEING LOCKED INTO IE7's RENDERING ENGINE BY IE8* anyway. It makes zero sense.
"Tool - Loud Noises.mp3" and it is his attempt to make music from his power tools... That sounds cool do you know a torrent or P2P server where I can get this mp3?
Fair enough, but then they need to think about the fact that right now, if you DO NOT explicitly state that you want IE8 to render pages as IE8, the pages will be rendered in IE7 mode. That's INSANE!
Not breaking the web is a good idea, but if they really want *progress* they will need to make it so that if the meta tag is not included, the browser renders using its own [latest] engine, not the arbitrary IE7. Just thinking about that hurts my brain.
I'd still buy it. I'm on my second one now, and even though I had to spend a bit of time without one (no worries, I have a Cube, PS2, gaming PC, DS, and original Xbox), the gaming experience I've had on it so far has made it well worth it. Simply put, the games are good and the system is easy to use and the controllers are fantastic. The failure rate is high, but it hasn't cost me enough to annoy me yet.
Now my $3000 laptop from two years ago, that made 3 or 4 trips back for warranty repair and as soon as the warranty expired it quite literally collapsed under its own weight like a massive star. That's a purchase I really regretted, hah.
Hehe, yeah... Scarecrow has always been all about his "fear toxin" I guess. The Naked Gun reference is a bit more random because the movie's full title is "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"
1) The UE3 engine as far as I know gives you a choice -- load times or texture pop-in. As bothersome as the texture pop-in is, I think I prefer it over load times. So it was a design choice, and I'm not sure it's a bad one. Some people prefer one way, some prefer the other.
2) The items are sorted according to Level from what I could tell. The VIIs, then the VIs, then the Vs, etc. That roughly corresponded to price if you were Buying/Selling. Also, folks that ran into inventory size issues kept waaaay too many upgrades. Upgrade your guns, dump everything else. The game isn't so hard that you need to re-mod weapons to fight synths vs organics really. The worst part about item management is that you have to go to each teammate's locker to equip them with stuff while you're on the Normandy. You have to know what they're all equipped with in order to know that what you're seeing in the Normandy's item shop is better/worse. All you have to compare with as you shop is what's on Shepard.
3) The Mako controls are a bit wonky, and the extreme monotony of the gameplay with it was disappointing. It's actually not as loose as the Warthog but it sometimes really hates turning and that's not a good thing if you're geing shot at by Collossuses or Armatures.
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Heh, well, paper maybe doesn't lie, but paper also doesn't choose the president. The Electoral College does. If you're worried about corruption/compromising in the system, there's probably enough nodes between the paper and the EC to worry about that you shouldn't feel safe just because you're marking paper rather than pressing a touch screen.
Well, in that case the best version of Street Fighter was TNMT: Tournament Fighters :-P in my opinion, anyway.
But Street Fighter II is a good mention for sure.
Some might argue that both SFII and KI were arcade games, but as they were part of the SNES game library they definitely added to its appeal and its "greatness."
I was way into KI. Also before it there was far less of an emphasis on combos in 2D fighters. KI also set standards for graphics and music. You might not like the graphics personally, but technically they were very good, on par with DKC since Rare used the same technique.
For me it would be N64, followed by SNES, followed by NES, but all 3 being close.
IMO the two *best-made games ever* are Ocarina and SM64. They're the games that I judge all others against in all sorts of respects.
The N64 was to me the silver age of gaming. You had the best Zelda/Mario games ever, IMO the best Mario Kart, a revolution in console FPS games with Goldeneye, the first Smash Bros, etc. 3D gaming at its most memorable and finest. Many games on the N64 are yet to be outdone in their respective genres.
The SNES was the golden age. Link to the Past, Super Mario World, DKC and DKC2 setting new standards in side-scrolling platformers, Killer Instinct revolutionizing fighting games, Super Mario Kart popularizing a new genre, Final Fantasy III (VI in Japan), Super Metroid, the Super Star Wars games, the list goes on and on. The SNES had so many good games to play every year it's scary.
NES did so much for console gaming it's hard to put it in scope. With Super Mario Bros. it took things to a whole new level right away. Add the Zelda games, Gradius shootemups, co-op Ninja Turtles games, Metroid, the Castlevanias, the Ninja Gaidens, and you are talking about a system with the predecessors to the majority of franchises anyone cares about.
In any case the 15 seconds is an exaggeration. Someone said 5-10 earlier and someone then decided to call that "15." In any case to say something is *possible* on an OS doesn't mean it's broken, I don't care what that something is. If you can configure an OS to take three days to copy a file it doesn't mean the OS is "broken," it means you can configure it to take three days to copy a file. If under a normal configuration it takes a reasonable amount of time then whatever it's otherwise capable of is of no consequence.
You might be on to something there. The paper airplane market isn't really discussed much among bigwigs on Wall Street but I think they're just unaware of the next big thing. And by big thing, I of course mean something inappropriate.
I don't believe you!1!!1onelouder!
Why would I have Canadian bills in the first place if I didn't, you know, get them in exchange for some other currency or actually live in Canada? Batman would have figured this out already!
:rolleyes: learn to read sarcasm.
- A guy with a "sense of humor"
10 cents? d00d this is CANADIA we're talking about, it's more like 3 cents. In fact Canadian "dollars" are so worthless I've recently been making paper airplanes out of the Canadian bills I have and throwing them out a window to see how far they fly. Not very far, but I'm not that great at making paper airplanes.
It's probably MAX_INT.
My Apple comp00tar will just upload a virus wirelessly to them and they will all shut down! I've seen it done!
Are you trying to make a point? This isn't about "placing blame," it's about configuring a machine to get good performance. Cooperation.
You can configure almost any software for poor performance. Whether or not it's easy to configure it for good performance is another matter, but even if it's not easy it doesn't mean the machine is, in your words, "broken." Vista in particular is, by most standards, easy to configure for good performance. I had no trouble.
I've had no performance issues, and I run full-blown Aero with all the bells and whistles (though I have a nice video card which I'm sure helps).
I turned off UAC myself, and I don't miss it hehe.
As for the nice search that Vista gives you, I *think* Google Desktop gives you the same. Indexes your files, lets you search your comp quickly. You can download that for XP.
Regarding your Maple and Eclipse issues, I haven't used my Vista machine for any maths or Java development (just Perl/PHP for hobby web stuff) so I have no input there, but given that Vista's not very widespread in the IT world I'm not surprised Eclipse hasn't been quite 'on the ball' with it.
I pretty much *am* using an off-the-shelf brand name computer (HP) with Vista. The only cleanup I've done is turn off HP's "advisor" software or whatever, and turn off UAC. The rest is the same as the way it was when I first turned it on. I don't see the 5-10 seconds to delete a file... hmm although now that you mention it, I think maybe at some point I used to! Don't remember why that was, but besides what I've already mentioned I did nothing to the machine in terms of removing installed components, etc. The problem did go away quite some time ago, though....
I've used XP for a long time on comparable hardware and I haven't noticed the Vista machine running any slower despite my running even more resource-intensive apps than I used to, or still do, on XP. Honestly I'm willing to bet that if I replaced Vista with XP on the one machine of mine that runs it I wouldn't notice any significant performance gain, if any at all. The only "speed" issues I could benefit from addressing (i.e. get more done) are caused by other limiting factors, such as the read/write speed of my external HDs, the USB connection to them, etc.
What the? How the heck does it take 5-10 sec to delete a file? You must be running something really wonky there. I have a comparable machine (3 gb of RAM, quad-processor CPU) and it takes, um, a fraction of a second? The same time I'm used to having it take. You need to run some maintenance on your machine to get it to run the way it's supposed to...
Wow I like how your utter lack of any insight whatsoever got modded insighful.
If you have a powerful enough machine then Vista's advantages remain while by far most of its disadvantages disappear. And by "powerful enough" I mean a $900 HP you could have picked up at a retail store 6 months ago. Nothing crazy.
You can upgrade for DX10, a better UI and search functionality, smarter resource management when you do have a lot of apps open, a FAR better multimedia experience if you're into watching movies or TV on your comp, actually good tablet (as in, Wacom) integration, etc.
If for now you're running into driver issues on Vista because of some hardware peripherals you want to keep using, then I can understand sticking with XP even when you get a new machine. But otherwise, you really shouldn't run into any deal-breakers as long as your machine has enough RAM (2-4 gigs), and RAM is cheap.
Oh great another one of those "pompous asses" we keep hearing about :-P
And when/if it does break, they *add the meta tag to force the browser to render in whatever worked best.* That's the whole point, locking it into a browser version. But to default to IE7 is arbitrary and bizarre to me. Maybe the guys who coded for IE6 have hairier chests on average, so why doesn't it default to IE6?
I don't mind the approach, I think it's a good one. What I do mind is having pages that don't lock themselves into a browser version by leaving out the meta tag *BEING LOCKED INTO IE7's RENDERING ENGINE BY IE8* anyway. It makes zero sense.
Fair enough, but then they need to think about the fact that right now, if you DO NOT explicitly state that you want IE8 to render pages as IE8, the pages will be rendered in IE7 mode. That's INSANE!
Not breaking the web is a good idea, but if they really want *progress* they will need to make it so that if the meta tag is not included, the browser renders using its own [latest] engine, not the arbitrary IE7. Just thinking about that hurts my brain.
I'd still buy it. I'm on my second one now, and even though I had to spend a bit of time without one (no worries, I have a Cube, PS2, gaming PC, DS, and original Xbox), the gaming experience I've had on it so far has made it well worth it. Simply put, the games are good and the system is easy to use and the controllers are fantastic. The failure rate is high, but it hasn't cost me enough to annoy me yet.
Now my $3000 laptop from two years ago, that made 3 or 4 trips back for warranty repair and as soon as the warranty expired it quite literally collapsed under its own weight like a massive star. That's a purchase I really regretted, hah.
Hehe, yeah... Scarecrow has always been all about his "fear toxin" I guess. The Naked Gun reference is a bit more random because the movie's full title is "Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear"
Looks like *someone* has seen Naked Gun 2 1/2 way too many times.
Hmmmm...
1) The UE3 engine as far as I know gives you a choice -- load times or texture pop-in. As bothersome as the texture pop-in is, I think I prefer it over load times. So it was a design choice, and I'm not sure it's a bad one. Some people prefer one way, some prefer the other.
2) The items are sorted according to Level from what I could tell. The VIIs, then the VIs, then the Vs, etc. That roughly corresponded to price if you were Buying/Selling. Also, folks that ran into inventory size issues kept waaaay too many upgrades. Upgrade your guns, dump everything else. The game isn't so hard that you need to re-mod weapons to fight synths vs organics really. The worst part about item management is that you have to go to each teammate's locker to equip them with stuff while you're on the Normandy. You have to know what they're all equipped with in order to know that what you're seeing in the Normandy's item shop is better/worse. All you have to compare with as you shop is what's on Shepard.
3) The Mako controls are a bit wonky, and the extreme monotony of the gameplay with it was disappointing. It's actually not as loose as the Warthog but it sometimes really hates turning and that's not a good thing if you're geing shot at by Collossuses or Armatures.