Most people who buy (or pirate) Photoshop would be able to get along just fine with Photoshop Elements. It's much cheaper, only $90 US, does all the Photoshop filters, has the Save For Web feature, etc. It doesn't do color seperations, so it's not as useful for print.
Because it's Slashdot. Nintendo is the best game company ever on Slashdot. Nintendo is the Linux of the games section... everything is ALWAYS better on Nintendo! Don't you know? Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo! People also throw out the word "innovate" a lot. Innovate Nintendo, Nintendo innovation, innovative Nintendo, you know that whole drill. Nintendo is best! Buy Nintendo!
It seems to me that the movie industry, haveing been made an offer it couldn't refuse (from the US gov't back in the '20s) set up self regulation: Films get rated, distributors won't screen X, unrated or (often) NC-17 films.
Uhm. So has the games industry... what the heck do you think the ESRB *does* exactly?
The problem is that video games are being harassed by lawmakers *despite* having set up a mature self-regulation system, and movies (for instance) are not. Novels, which can be extremely disturbing and violent (see: American Psycho) have never had a self-regulation system, and they're entirely ignored by politicians and the press. Why? THAT is the issue.
Uh. Game emulation sites offering ROMs for download are blatantly illegal... if this guy's out to protect the gaming industry, don't you think he'd also be fighting piracy?
I mean, duh. There's no real difference between what he was doing then and what he's doing now.
It's a lot easier to sort a spreadsheet. "I need a printer port on the third floor closet in building D" Sort-> By Building, then By Floor -> Poof, there's your answer.
Nah, the Logitech Wireless Xbox controller is the best for me. The size is somewhere between the Xbox "Duke" (i.e. large) controller and the Controller-S.
The "Duke" XBox controller isn't nearly as bad as every gaming site says it is, though. I find it quite usable for extended periods... what's really stupid is that they got such a bad rap that nobody makes them anymore, so if you prefer the "Duke" controller, you can't go out and buy a new one, you just have to hope one's up on Ebay. (And yes, there are people who like them and refuse to use anything else... my boss, for example, spent $60 on Ebay for a "Duke" controller after his broke.)
Uh, so movies and TV have the same problem. That doesn't really change the point at all. If it's a problem, it's a problem regardless of who else has the same problem... and it would sure make the art of producing video games look a lot better if they "solved" it before Hollywood did, wouldn't it?
It's like the people who say that Linux has crappy printer support, and some guy always chimes in and yells out, "well so does Windows!" as if that were relevant to the issue in some way.
Part of the solution is simple. In all games where you play as a protagonist, make it possible to choose between a male or female skin. That's it. Doom 3 would have been a lot less sexist if you could play as a female marine... and why couldn't you? The dialog in the game never refers to "he" or "she," and the plot doesn't hinge on you being male, so why didn't the developers of Doom 3 provide a choice? The game's basically a ripoff of Alien/Aliens, and those movies had strong female protagonists.
(Given, the answer is probably that the game sucked all around, but it's just an example... even great games, like System Shock 2, have the same problem in the same situation.)
A good example would be Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, where you could choose to play as either a male "Alex" or a female "Alex." Most RPGs are good examples, also, as the majority give you the option to create a male or female character.
But why didn't Deus Ex? What was their excuse? Too lazy to record some additional dialog? Not enough time to make a single female skin? How about Counter-Strike?
So somebody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a GM car? It seems to be that the "opt-in" would be buying the car with On-Star in the first place, if you don't want On-Star.
I doubt they're purposely breaking things, I bet the APIs were just being worked on and it caused enough changes that older compiled software crashes and burns. Remember, it's a rather early beta, it's not a commercial release-- they're allowed to change the interfaces around.
I'm happy with my LIDE 20 from Canon. It's not high-res, but it's teeny and powered from the USB cable so you can easily store it when you're not using it. It's also lasted a lot longer than the old scanner I had (a HP 3400 that died after only a year.)
Uh, I think you mean Chronicles of Riddick turned the tide against stupid movie tie-in games. At least, it's a hell of a lot better than Spider-Man 2 (and a ton better than the movie Chronicles of Riddick, for that matter.) Not to say that Spider-Man 2 was bad, but Chronicles of Riddick was better and came out earlier.
Until somebody tries to actually SWITCH TASKS. Even if it works correctly, which obviously it doesn't all the time, it's still a bad idea to take a keyboard shortcut that's owned by the OS and has a rigidly defined use and make it do something else entirely.
How do you switch out of the game, for that matter, if you can't use alt-tab?
This is Slashdot. They'd love Nintendo even if the Revolution turned out to be nothing but a huge cow turd in the box. You'd see stories about how Nintendo's cow turd based technology, while it can't out-dazzle the competition, is much more fun for the consumer with games like, "Don't Step On The Turd!" and "Dungball."
This exact same post appears every time there's a discussion about games. It's not "interesting" any longer, I'm sorry... now it's inane.
Look, there is this phenomenon called "nostalgia." It's the tendency of people to remember the good games and forget the bad ones. You point out games like X-Com, Sam and Max, what do these games have in common? They're all top tier games. The top tier games right now, the ones that'll be remembered in ten years, are just as good, and there's just as many of them!
Look, when you think back to the movie season of 1998, do you think "The Avengers" or do you think "Saving Private Ryan?" The bad movies are forgotten, the good ones aren't. That's nostalgia. The quality of games hasn't changed, I can guarantee it.
I think Safari might have been more convincing. After all, Windows users *can* use IE when they need to, but Macintosh users have three choices: Opera, Firefox, and Safari. Since Safari is the system default browser, that's what 95% of Mac users use. I would wager most sites redesigned after IE for Mac was discontinued to keep their Mac-using customers. I could be wrong, of course.
go to about:config and set the "browser.xul.error_pages.enabled" setting to true.
Somebody else answered this, but you have to type "about:config" in the URL bar, hit enter to load the page, and scroll down (or search) to find the option named: "browser.xul.error_pages.enabled"... set it to True instead of the default False.
But again, I believe this should be True by default. The dialogs are less useful and more distracting.
You can set Firefox to use error pages instead of error dialogs, which resolves that problem... but I have no clue why error pages aren't the default. (It seems like a no-brainer to me. You can't reload a site that fails from the dialog, and half the time I can't even remember what link I clicked was the broken one. The error page solves this by having a nice 'reload' button at the bottom.)
Safari is a *bit* better, in that it doesn't show the error dialog until you select the tab with the error, but it still doesn't make it easy to reload the page like Firefox-with-error-pages does.
The same goes with computers. Your example, of an "instance", I consider not that bad... How do you phrase that better? "GAIM is already running"? Since such errors usually happen when you have a ghost process, I suspect most users would find that even more frustrating (I know how my grandfather would react - "God damn it, if I already had it running I wouldn't have tried to start it, you worthless pile of (stream of obscenties ommitted)").
Uh, why wouldn't it just bring the already-running instance to the front and un-hide its main window so that people can see that it's running and then not give an error dialog at all? You know, like MacOS X does?
You might be right that users should be expected to learn some computer terms, but the GAIM example is still a bad one. If people click the GAIM icon, they want to see a GAIM window appear, not an error dialog-- regardless of how clearly it's worded.
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Well, that's a switch.
99% of the games on the Xbox come out on the PC first
Does it even bother you that you just typed a blatant lie, easily disproved by even a few seconds of research?
And for the record, Apple did try a game console. It was called the Pippen.
Most people who buy (or pirate) Photoshop would be able to get along just fine with Photoshop Elements. It's much cheaper, only $90 US, does all the Photoshop filters, has the Save For Web feature, etc. It doesn't do color seperations, so it's not as useful for print.
Slashdot also mods you down if you point out how biased they are towards Nintendo in a comical fashion. Apparently.
CrazyJim is crazy. Like, seriously. Look at his website, or his posting history.
Because it's Slashdot. Nintendo is the best game company ever on Slashdot. Nintendo is the Linux of the games section... everything is ALWAYS better on Nintendo! Don't you know? Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo! People also throw out the word "innovate" a lot. Innovate Nintendo, Nintendo innovation, innovative Nintendo, you know that whole drill. Nintendo is best! Buy Nintendo!
It seems to me that the movie industry, haveing been made an offer it couldn't refuse (from the US gov't back in the '20s) set up self regulation: Films get rated, distributors won't screen X, unrated or (often) NC-17 films.
Uhm. So has the games industry... what the heck do you think the ESRB *does* exactly?
The problem is that video games are being harassed by lawmakers *despite* having set up a mature self-regulation system, and movies (for instance) are not. Novels, which can be extremely disturbing and violent (see: American Psycho) have never had a self-regulation system, and they're entirely ignored by politicians and the press. Why? THAT is the issue.
Uh. Game emulation sites offering ROMs for download are blatantly illegal... if this guy's out to protect the gaming industry, don't you think he'd also be fighting piracy?
I mean, duh. There's no real difference between what he was doing then and what he's doing now.
It's a lot easier to sort a spreadsheet. "I need a printer port on the third floor closet in building D" Sort-> By Building, then By Floor -> Poof, there's your answer.
Nah, the Logitech Wireless Xbox controller is the best for me. The size is somewhere between the Xbox "Duke" (i.e. large) controller and the Controller-S.
The "Duke" XBox controller isn't nearly as bad as every gaming site says it is, though. I find it quite usable for extended periods... what's really stupid is that they got such a bad rap that nobody makes them anymore, so if you prefer the "Duke" controller, you can't go out and buy a new one, you just have to hope one's up on Ebay. (And yes, there are people who like them and refuse to use anything else... my boss, for example, spent $60 on Ebay for a "Duke" controller after his broke.)
Uh, so movies and TV have the same problem. That doesn't really change the point at all. If it's a problem, it's a problem regardless of who else has the same problem... and it would sure make the art of producing video games look a lot better if they "solved" it before Hollywood did, wouldn't it?
It's like the people who say that Linux has crappy printer support, and some guy always chimes in and yells out, "well so does Windows!" as if that were relevant to the issue in some way.
Part of the solution is simple. In all games where you play as a protagonist, make it possible to choose between a male or female skin. That's it. Doom 3 would have been a lot less sexist if you could play as a female marine... and why couldn't you? The dialog in the game never refers to "he" or "she," and the plot doesn't hinge on you being male, so why didn't the developers of Doom 3 provide a choice? The game's basically a ripoff of Alien/Aliens, and those movies had strong female protagonists.
(Given, the answer is probably that the game sucked all around, but it's just an example... even great games, like System Shock 2, have the same problem in the same situation.)
A good example would be Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, where you could choose to play as either a male "Alex" or a female "Alex." Most RPGs are good examples, also, as the majority give you the option to create a male or female character.
But why didn't Deus Ex? What was their excuse? Too lazy to record some additional dialog? Not enough time to make a single female skin? How about Counter-Strike?
So somebody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a GM car? It seems to be that the "opt-in" would be buying the car with On-Star in the first place, if you don't want On-Star.
I doubt they're purposely breaking things, I bet the APIs were just being worked on and it caused enough changes that older compiled software crashes and burns. Remember, it's a rather early beta, it's not a commercial release-- they're allowed to change the interfaces around.
Yikes! Thanks for the tip... how can I disable these processes? My log files are huge.
I'm happy with my LIDE 20 from Canon. It's not high-res, but it's teeny and powered from the USB cable so you can easily store it when you're not using it. It's also lasted a lot longer than the old scanner I had (a HP 3400 that died after only a year.)
Uh, I think you mean Chronicles of Riddick turned the tide against stupid movie tie-in games. At least, it's a hell of a lot better than Spider-Man 2 (and a ton better than the movie Chronicles of Riddick, for that matter.) Not to say that Spider-Man 2 was bad, but Chronicles of Riddick was better and came out earlier.
That's why you should use a UPS, even if you don't care about your computers going off during a power outage.
Until somebody tries to actually SWITCH TASKS. Even if it works correctly, which obviously it doesn't all the time, it's still a bad idea to take a keyboard shortcut that's owned by the OS and has a rigidly defined use and make it do something else entirely.
How do you switch out of the game, for that matter, if you can't use alt-tab?
This is Slashdot. They'd love Nintendo even if the Revolution turned out to be nothing but a huge cow turd in the box. You'd see stories about how Nintendo's cow turd based technology, while it can't out-dazzle the competition, is much more fun for the consumer with games like, "Don't Step On The Turd!" and "Dungball."
This exact same post appears every time there's a discussion about games. It's not "interesting" any longer, I'm sorry... now it's inane.
Look, there is this phenomenon called "nostalgia." It's the tendency of people to remember the good games and forget the bad ones. You point out games like X-Com, Sam and Max, what do these games have in common? They're all top tier games. The top tier games right now, the ones that'll be remembered in ten years, are just as good, and there's just as many of them!
Look, when you think back to the movie season of 1998, do you think "The Avengers" or do you think "Saving Private Ryan?" The bad movies are forgotten, the good ones aren't. That's nostalgia. The quality of games hasn't changed, I can guarantee it.
I think Safari might have been more convincing. After all, Windows users *can* use IE when they need to, but Macintosh users have three choices: Opera, Firefox, and Safari. Since Safari is the system default browser, that's what 95% of Mac users use. I would wager most sites redesigned after IE for Mac was discontinued to keep their Mac-using customers. I could be wrong, of course.
go to about:config and set the "browser.xul.error_pages.enabled" setting to true.
Somebody else answered this, but you have to type "about:config" in the URL bar, hit enter to load the page, and scroll down (or search) to find the option named: "browser.xul.error_pages.enabled"... set it to True instead of the default False.
But again, I believe this should be True by default. The dialogs are less useful and more distracting.
You can set Firefox to use error pages instead of error dialogs, which resolves that problem... but I have no clue why error pages aren't the default. (It seems like a no-brainer to me. You can't reload a site that fails from the dialog, and half the time I can't even remember what link I clicked was the broken one. The error page solves this by having a nice 'reload' button at the bottom.)
Safari is a *bit* better, in that it doesn't show the error dialog until you select the tab with the error, but it still doesn't make it easy to reload the page like Firefox-with-error-pages does.
The same goes with computers. Your example, of an "instance", I consider not that bad... How do you phrase that better? "GAIM is already running"? Since such errors usually happen when you have a ghost process, I suspect most users would find that even more frustrating (I know how my grandfather would react - "God damn it, if I already had it running I wouldn't have tried to start it, you worthless pile of (stream of obscenties ommitted)").
Uh, why wouldn't it just bring the already-running instance to the front and un-hide its main window so that people can see that it's running and then not give an error dialog at all? You know, like MacOS X does?
You might be right that users should be expected to learn some computer terms, but the GAIM example is still a bad one. If people click the GAIM icon, they want to see a GAIM window appear, not an error dialog-- regardless of how clearly it's worded.