Does the game throw any nasty surprises at you, like how the first title *took the creature away* from me just as I had gotten it acting somewhat useful? I spend hours on this damn creature, advance to the next level, and suddenly it's gone and they expect you to spend hours and hours conquering towns just to get the creature back. Screw that, it's easier to turn off the game and play something else.
*ahem* But it was a serious question, as that was my major reason for hating the first game. Does it throw any nasty curveballs like that at you?
recent version with drastically cut functionality and a "workflow"-like interface).
I think you're even being unfair by saying it has "drastically cut functionality." It has the same layers, the same filters, the same plug-ins, the same Save For Web, and a ton of other "professional" Photoshop features. What it lacks are the features used for professional printing (color separations, and such) and anybody using Photoshop Elements for its intended purpose will never need those anyway.
I think Photoshop Elements it the best value for your money on the software shelf today, by far.
I bet there are more copies of embedded Windows 2000 doing "real work" at this point than copies of DOS doing "real work." I think you're full of crap.
Windows XP activation takes about 10 seconds to do. It's not anti-consumer... at least, not nearly as much as a DVD format that doesn't allow ripping to HD *at all*. HD DVD had provisions for that, Blu-ray doesn't.
Aquaman can control GODZILLA. Batman and Spiderman wouldn't have to be in the sea, Aquaman could just have Godzilla eat New York and Gotham respectively.
Although you bring up an interesting point... can Aquaman control sea creatures, even if they can walk on dry land? He should experiment on frogs first, before tackling Godzilla.
Once I came up with a superhero hierarchy and came to the conclusion that, all things considered, Aquaman would win. To wit:
Even the most powerful superhero can't kill Godzilla. Godzilla might not be able to stomp the Hulk, but it's not like the Hulk could do anything to Godzilla anyway. Superman might be able to fly through Godzilla and make a hole, but Godzilla heals really quick and he couldn't kill him altogether. So why is Aquaman the most powerful superhero?
Because Aquaman can telepathically control sea creatures, and Godzilla lives in the sea. QED.
The hood of my PT Cruiser isn't welded shut, but getting at the innards of the engine is so difficult it might as well be. To replace the battery, you have to come up from the bottom and squeeze it through the wheel-well somehow...
Point is, the hood of modern cars is basically just fluid fillers.
I actually think a trackball is much better for FPS games. More gamers should give trackballs a try before they give the old "mouse is superior" line... there are good alternatives to mouses out there.
But I think the point is that there's also a wide array of keys you can hit on the keyboard with your left hand. At least as many keys close to your fingers as buttons on an Xbox controller, plus the two mouse buttons and the scrollwheel, it just gives you more access to more inputs at once.
Actually, the first thing "she" says was "but will it get them off their tractors?" The "but will it play in Peoria" comment was a later response. I'm such a dork that I actually got out the DVD and watched the episode after posting that.
*ahem* But the point applies. Television networks basically constantly underestimate their audience. And when the rare show that *doesn't* underestimate them slides through, it's almost always grossly popular... look at X-Files, or Lost, or even the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone. Is there anybody in America who doesn't like the Twilight Zone?
Do you watch Futurama? Did you see the episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television?" Do you remember the robots that ran the big broadcasting corporation? (Not sure if I remember this entirely right) One was responsible for rehashing old shows, the second was responsible for rolling a dice to decide on the new TV trend, and the third was dedicated to underestimating people.
That third robot is the reason they remake British shows for US television. For some reason, US networks think they viewers can't handle a mild British accent, or won't relate to exclaimations like, "Gordon Bennett!" But they're wrong, and because they're wrong, US networks are missing potentially millions of dollars a year.
I'm a big fan of Red Dwarf, and every single person I've shown it too, even (frankly) the dumbest, most American, friend I have, has loved the show. American reviewers have said that it's possibly the greatest science fiction show ever.
To sum up: Networks remake the shows because they *wrongly* think that American audiences want that.
Apu is from India, smartguy. It's not as far from Saudi Arabia as the US is, but it's not all that close either, and the cultures are not similar at all.
And then there's the 50,000 other times I get called because Bob lost his spreadsheet by deleting the file. "Well, I had it right here on the screen, I didn't think I needed the file!"
Sorry. Rebooting to upgrade is a lot easier than recovering deleted data.
An OS that is graphical wastes resources in a clustered environment. It wastes CPU in managing it; it wastes electricity in powering it and adds to the total BTU output that raises A/C costs.
I buy CPU cycles, I don't buy electricity or BTU output.
Ok, I'm sorry, out of your three ideas, 2 of them are stupid.
Case-sensitivity in a filesystem is about the dumbest idea in Unix, if not *the* dumbest idea. It's a pain in the ass for *everyone*, and I've lived my entire live and have never, and likely *will* never, find an application that uses the files "farmdata.dat" and "FarmData.dat" at the same time to store two different things. The only way most people cope with this stupid idea is to just make all their filenames all lowercase.
Next, allow deletion of files that are in use? Why? What possible practical use could this have? This is the kind of thing that it's great for one border case that's waaay waaay out there on the edge, but for all the central cases it's a pain in the ass. It's just asking for users to lose data.
I'm just posting this to let you know, officially, that I think your story is utter BS. And even if he did *mention* it didn't have a GUI, do you expect me to believe that he went on about it for a full half hour? Or that you would just give up selling your idea because of it and let him go? I don't buy it.
However, an app like, I dunno, "Bass Clef" or something might be useful.;)
But I want more is a replacement for Excel to go along with Pages and Keynote. With, uh, "Numbers", I could do everything on my Mac without giving a dime to Microsoft.
Ah, thanks. That link is about 30 times more informative than the one in the article. I'm also glad to see that they're scheduling more time for the Mac port, since (IMO) that's the weakest link of the product right now. Honestly, I'd be entirely happy if Firefox fit the OS X Aqua theme better, and if it made use of the OS X-native spell checker.
Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising."
In what way? There's absolutely nothing on the linked page about Firefox 2 or Firefox 3 (presumably what Firefox two-thirds means) except a single codename: "The Ocho." Are you saying that this codename is promising? Or did the submitter of the article not even read the link he pasted in there?
Do you know of a single site that uses SVG? Hell, I've been on the web for years, and I don't think I'm even entirely sure what SVG is... it's either a vector static image format, or a Flash replacement. Or maybe something else.
In short, who gives a crap whether Opera supports some technology nobody uses?
Hm. Mine has all of those except the fourth one. It also uses the radio time signal (or whatever) to set its own clock, which is actually why I bought it... I got sick of Daylight Saving Time catching me off-guard every single goddamned year, and this clock takes care of that automatically.
But in general, you're right... there's a lot they could do with bedside clock radios that they aren't doing or aren't doing right. And even with a decent little CPU in there and a red LED display, it's not like they'd be more than $30-40 bucks... hell, you can get a scientific calculator for $40 that does ten times more than this hypothetical alarm clock would.
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Does the game throw any nasty surprises at you, like how the first title *took the creature away* from me just as I had gotten it acting somewhat useful? I spend hours on this damn creature, advance to the next level, and suddenly it's gone and they expect you to spend hours and hours conquering towns just to get the creature back. Screw that, it's easier to turn off the game and play something else.
*ahem* But it was a serious question, as that was my major reason for hating the first game. Does it throw any nasty curveballs like that at you?
recent version with drastically cut functionality and a "workflow"-like interface).
I think you're even being unfair by saying it has "drastically cut functionality." It has the same layers, the same filters, the same plug-ins, the same Save For Web, and a ton of other "professional" Photoshop features. What it lacks are the features used for professional printing (color separations, and such) and anybody using Photoshop Elements for its intended purpose will never need those anyway.
I think Photoshop Elements it the best value for your money on the software shelf today, by far.
I bet there are more copies of embedded Windows 2000 doing "real work" at this point than copies of DOS doing "real work." I think you're full of crap.
Windows XP activation takes about 10 seconds to do. It's not anti-consumer... at least, not nearly as much as a DVD format that doesn't allow ripping to HD *at all*. HD DVD had provisions for that, Blu-ray doesn't.
Aquaman can control GODZILLA. Batman and Spiderman wouldn't have to be in the sea, Aquaman could just have Godzilla eat New York and Gotham respectively.
Although you bring up an interesting point... can Aquaman control sea creatures, even if they can walk on dry land? He should experiment on frogs first, before tackling Godzilla.
Once I came up with a superhero hierarchy and came to the conclusion that, all things considered, Aquaman would win. To wit:
Even the most powerful superhero can't kill Godzilla. Godzilla might not be able to stomp the Hulk, but it's not like the Hulk could do anything to Godzilla anyway. Superman might be able to fly through Godzilla and make a hole, but Godzilla heals really quick and he couldn't kill him altogether. So why is Aquaman the most powerful superhero?
Because Aquaman can telepathically control sea creatures, and Godzilla lives in the sea. QED.
The hood of my PT Cruiser isn't welded shut, but getting at the innards of the engine is so difficult it might as well be. To replace the battery, you have to come up from the bottom and squeeze it through the wheel-well somehow...
Point is, the hood of modern cars is basically just fluid fillers.
I actually think a trackball is much better for FPS games. More gamers should give trackballs a try before they give the old "mouse is superior" line... there are good alternatives to mouses out there.
But I think the point is that there's also a wide array of keys you can hit on the keyboard with your left hand. At least as many keys close to your fingers as buttons on an Xbox controller, plus the two mouse buttons and the scrollwheel, it just gives you more access to more inputs at once.
Actually, the first thing "she" says was "but will it get them off their tractors?" The "but will it play in Peoria" comment was a later response. I'm such a dork that I actually got out the DVD and watched the episode after posting that.
*ahem* But the point applies. Television networks basically constantly underestimate their audience. And when the rare show that *doesn't* underestimate them slides through, it's almost always grossly popular... look at X-Files, or Lost, or even the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone. Is there anybody in America who doesn't like the Twilight Zone?
Do you watch Futurama? Did you see the episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television?" Do you remember the robots that ran the big broadcasting corporation? (Not sure if I remember this entirely right) One was responsible for rehashing old shows, the second was responsible for rolling a dice to decide on the new TV trend, and the third was dedicated to underestimating people.
That third robot is the reason they remake British shows for US television. For some reason, US networks think they viewers can't handle a mild British accent, or won't relate to exclaimations like, "Gordon Bennett!" But they're wrong, and because they're wrong, US networks are missing potentially millions of dollars a year.
I'm a big fan of Red Dwarf, and every single person I've shown it too, even (frankly) the dumbest, most American, friend I have, has loved the show. American reviewers have said that it's possibly the greatest science fiction show ever.
To sum up: Networks remake the shows because they *wrongly* think that American audiences want that.
Apu is from India, smartguy. It's not as far from Saudi Arabia as the US is, but it's not all that close either, and the cultures are not similar at all.
And then there's the 50,000 other times I get called because Bob lost his spreadsheet by deleting the file. "Well, I had it right here on the screen, I didn't think I needed the file!"
Sorry. Rebooting to upgrade is a lot easier than recovering deleted data.
An OS that is graphical wastes resources in a clustered environment. It wastes CPU in managing it; it wastes electricity in powering it and adds to the total BTU output that raises A/C costs.
I buy CPU cycles, I don't buy electricity or BTU output.
Ok, I'm sorry, out of your three ideas, 2 of them are stupid.
Case-sensitivity in a filesystem is about the dumbest idea in Unix, if not *the* dumbest idea. It's a pain in the ass for *everyone*, and I've lived my entire live and have never, and likely *will* never, find an application that uses the files "farmdata.dat" and "FarmData.dat" at the same time to store two different things. The only way most people cope with this stupid idea is to just make all their filenames all lowercase.
Next, allow deletion of files that are in use? Why? What possible practical use could this have? This is the kind of thing that it's great for one border case that's waaay waaay out there on the edge, but for all the central cases it's a pain in the ass. It's just asking for users to lose data.
I'm just posting this to let you know, officially, that I think your story is utter BS. And even if he did *mention* it didn't have a GUI, do you expect me to believe that he went on about it for a full half hour? Or that you would just give up selling your idea because of it and let him go? I don't buy it.
Did a MP3 playlist bite you as a child?
That's great, but I use Safari, so no luck. Oh well.
How do I get a job as analyst? I can make up random BS with the best of them... is there some kind of school youhave to go to?
Ok, first of all:
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Please God, Apple, DO NOT RELEASE NOTES: http://lotus.com/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/note
However, an app like, I dunno, "Bass Clef" or something might be useful.
But I want more is a replacement for Excel to go along with Pages and Keynote. With, uh, "Numbers", I could do everything on my Mac without giving a dime to Microsoft.
Ah, thanks. That link is about 30 times more informative than the one in the article. I'm also glad to see that they're scheduling more time for the Mac port, since (IMO) that's the weakest link of the product right now. Honestly, I'd be entirely happy if Firefox fit the OS X Aqua theme better, and if it made use of the OS X-native spell checker.
Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising."
In what way? There's absolutely nothing on the linked page about Firefox 2 or Firefox 3 (presumably what Firefox two-thirds means) except a single codename: "The Ocho." Are you saying that this codename is promising? Or did the submitter of the article not even read the link he pasted in there?
Do you know of a single site that uses SVG? Hell, I've been on the web for years, and I don't think I'm even entirely sure what SVG is... it's either a vector static image format, or a Flash replacement. Or maybe something else.
In short, who gives a crap whether Opera supports some technology nobody uses?
They have the technology. It will be better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.
The cost: $6 million.
Hm. Mine has all of those except the fourth one. It also uses the radio time signal (or whatever) to set its own clock, which is actually why I bought it... I got sick of Daylight Saving Time catching me off-guard every single goddamned year, and this clock takes care of that automatically.
But in general, you're right... there's a lot they could do with bedside clock radios that they aren't doing or aren't doing right. And even with a decent little CPU in there and a red LED display, it's not like they'd be more than $30-40 bucks... hell, you can get a scientific calculator for $40 that does ten times more than this hypothetical alarm clock would.
Yes, but why *ban* it? Why not just... not contribute money to it?
That would be like me saying I don't like coffee so I'm going to ban Starbucks.