Because there is no way to tell if an article is "good". There is no version freeze tag. One who has no knowledge about a subject cannot be sure that the content is not totally wrong.
It could be easily worked around with some kind of "stable version" tag, to get the lastest certified version, or to get a specific link about a version used in a publication. A "stable only" option in search would be really great. The only issue with such a system is to get a really neutral authority.
Man, I don't know what kind of jerks you met but where I live, english speakers who, at least, try to speak french are respected. French is damn hard to pronounce for foreign people, because of its *flat* stressing. People can joke about your terrible accent, of course, but you deserve respect.
Let's add the supercomputer possibilities to those blurry and widely underused (or doomed to become underused) features such as DVR, blu ray, backward compatibility and computer likeness. Oh wait... grid computing was already done. Nevermind, they will surely find something else to add to the PS3 soup.
Yeah, this is exactly my point. How could they not figure out that? It is not exactly rocket science that western people are more likely to enjoy western songs.
They have the games engines, they have a widespread market and... they have problems. It could be that they do not want to pay for already existing music. Most Bemani games features mostly Bemani artists which is probably cheaper than licences.
Still, that's quite a lack of vision.
Disclaimer: it's no troll, it really happened to me.
I had this achy pinky because of emacs... All those Ctrl key sequences had a really negative impact on my left pinky. And, when I switched to vi, it disapeared. It's probably because most sequences use both hands on vi.
When I had to use Eclipse for some java project, I started to alternate between the both control keys and to push the left one, not with the tip of the finger but with the joint. I had no problem so far for years.
Now that Rock Band is bound to arrive soon, I am questioning more than ever the international marketing choices of Konami. I mean than Konami already did every rythm that Rock Band will regroup but still, did not have a clue on how to penetrate the american and european markets. Are they totally dumb?
Guitar Freaks has existed for years, and because of its japanise-ish (though nice) tracklist, they never exported it. Same goes for Drummania which definitely rocks. And how about the karaoke thingy? They had these all and discarded the foreign markets.
I guess that some Konami executives must be currently in a mass sepukku movement.
They have all these great franchises but are absolutely unable to exploit these correctly outside Japan.
Well... as long as I can buy those Bemani games, I do not really care. Long live Bemani, hail Beatmania, and all these other venerable but high quality franchises.
I know this feeling. I did not want to butcher a clean existing article with additional content; I created a separate article whose content would have been merged later. Two days later, my article disappeared. Great. Seems like it's better to make some ugly modifications.
In the end, I dropped the idea of this article of a comprehensive table of all manic shooters... Quite the opposite of encouraging diversification of knowledge, isn't it?
I prefer the original Monthy Python stuff. Well, it's on youtube but it's too illegal to drop the link here...
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I totally agree. I bought Final Fantasy 12 the month it was released. I haven't played it much. Why? While I could play continuously for many hours when I was a student, now that I work, my gaming time is more restricted. Yeah, I know the "don't save whenever you want" paradigm of the FF, but I never felt it was as annoying as now. I cannot play it for twenty minutes then stop, only because I cannot choose when I save and I cannot be sure I will be allowed to save my game when I need. Yeah, it breaks the game flow, players can exploit the save, blah blah blah...
I'm still trying to figure out why I shouldn't be allowed to play a japanese style RPG only 20 minutes in a row. And please, realize than even FF4 to FF5 on GBA have quick save. If a GBA can quick save, why a PS2 could not? I don't care if it takes a whole memory card as long as I can have the damn instant save.
Dear game creators, please take in account that most gamers are not kids any more and that they have a life. Even a half assed save like in the 360 version of Oblivion is far better than nothing, at least I can save whenever I want, though the character will not spawn exactly at the same place on load.
AFAIK there is at least java integration. I found about this when I was searching for a simple open document spreadsheet parser to extract, replace data from cells. Somehow, it feels like VB6/Office integration (sorry, I have no recent experience of this).
On the ag side, we can see similar happening. For thousands of years, farmers saved their seed, even "shared" with others, so they could replicate food growing tech. Now we are seeing massive use of patented seed, where you can't save it legally, you must buy a new batch every year from the bigagco. Either that or the seed itself is DRMed, it will never breed true or will self destruct after one use-the "terminator technology" that they *really* want. What's next, the big companies will charge you per vegetable? Grow a tomato plant from their patented and DRMed seed, and you'll be required to send in a licensing fee per tomato produced? Only one tomato per seed is legal, the others are illegal copies? It already happens. Those pseudo sterile seeds reproduce (nature hacked the DRM) and the farmers get sued for illegal use of their crops. The worst is that even wind contaminated farmers have been sued, and lost.
Best sounding? The bundled earbuds are a piece of crap and, until the 5.5 ones, the ipods were not even gapless. And what about the infamous vbr skipping bug of the older ones? Sure, it has improved, and these sound great with good earbuds or a headset but it is not the.
I think, the selling points were and are still the design and the UI. It's just great, easy to use, nice looking. Mp3 players had horrific UIs, these text only ugly with wacky menus, definitely not what you little sister would use.
Apple invented the usable mp3 player.
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The provider does not even has to sell it. Don't forget that we are in the golden leak-age.
Because there is no way to tell if an article is "good". There is no version freeze tag. One who has no knowledge about a subject cannot be sure that the content is not totally wrong.
It could be easily worked around with some kind of "stable version" tag, to get the lastest certified version, or to get a specific link about a version used in a publication. A "stable only" option in search would be really great. The only issue with such a system is to get a really neutral authority.
Man, I don't know what kind of jerks you met but where I live, english speakers who, at least, try to speak french are respected.
French is damn hard to pronounce for foreign people, because of its *flat* stressing. People can joke about your terrible accent, of course, but you deserve respect.
Well they reinvented java.
Just joking. I've already built java guis faster and more responsive than native ones.
Just like the mood box in "Do androïds dream of electric sheeps?".
I for one welcome our fundamentally apathic and artificially moody overlords.
Am I the only one who feels a vaporware smell? Tiny details, huge promises.
Shhhhhhhh!
Let's add the supercomputer possibilities to those blurry and widely underused (or doomed to become underused) features such as DVR, blu ray, backward compatibility and computer likeness. Oh wait... grid computing was already done. Nevermind, they will surely find something else to add to the PS3 soup.
These are import arcade machines, not localized ones.
Your "pause save" is what FF3 to FF6 on GBA do. It is an auto-erased-on-load quick save.
I totally agree, this is the best compromise so far.
Next gen DRMs: "Now, in your brain, temporary music with protected non skippable ads... Ad workaround detected, disabling display."
Yeah, this is exactly my point. How could they not figure out that? It is not exactly rocket science that western people are more likely to enjoy western songs.
They have the games engines, they have a widespread market and... they have problems. It could be that they do not want to pay for already existing music. Most Bemani games features mostly Bemani artists which is probably cheaper than licences.
Still, that's quite a lack of vision.
Disclaimer: it's no troll, it really happened to me.
I had this achy pinky because of emacs... All those Ctrl key sequences had a really negative impact on my left pinky. And, when I switched to vi, it disapeared. It's probably because most sequences use both hands on vi.
When I had to use Eclipse for some java project, I started to alternate between the both control keys and to push the left one, not with the tip of the finger but with the joint. I had no problem so far for years.
Now that Rock Band is bound to arrive soon, I am questioning more than ever the international marketing choices of Konami. I mean than Konami already did every rythm that Rock Band will regroup but still, did not have a clue on how to penetrate the american and european markets. Are they totally dumb?
Guitar Freaks has existed for years, and because of its japanise-ish (though nice) tracklist, they never exported it. Same goes for Drummania which definitely rocks. And how about the karaoke thingy? They had these all and discarded the foreign markets.
I guess that some Konami executives must be currently in a mass sepukku movement.
They have all these great franchises but are absolutely unable to exploit these correctly outside Japan.
Well... as long as I can buy those Bemani games, I do not really care. Long live Bemani, hail Beatmania, and all these other venerable but high quality franchises.
I, for one, welcome our fast industrializing and even faster coughing chinese overlords.
I know this feeling. I did not want to butcher a clean existing article with additional content; I created a separate article whose content would have been merged later. Two days later, my article disappeared. Great. Seems like it's better to make some ugly modifications.
In the end, I dropped the idea of this article of a comprehensive table of all manic shooters... Quite the opposite of encouraging diversification of knowledge, isn't it?
I prefer the original Monthy Python stuff. Well, it's on youtube but it's too illegal to drop the link here...
I totally agree. I bought Final Fantasy 12 the month it was released. I haven't played it much. Why? While I could play continuously for many hours when I was a student, now that I work, my gaming time is more restricted. Yeah, I know the "don't save whenever you want" paradigm of the FF, but I never felt it was as annoying as now. I cannot play it for twenty minutes then stop, only because I cannot choose when I save and I cannot be sure I will be allowed to save my game when I need. Yeah, it breaks the game flow, players can exploit the save, blah blah blah...
I'm still trying to figure out why I shouldn't be allowed to play a japanese style RPG only 20 minutes in a row. And please, realize than even FF4 to FF5 on GBA have quick save. If a GBA can quick save, why a PS2 could not? I don't care if it takes a whole memory card as long as I can have the damn instant save.
Dear game creators, please take in account that most gamers are not kids any more and that they have a life. Even a half assed save like in the 360 version of Oblivion is far better than nothing, at least I can save whenever I want, though the character will not spawn exactly at the same place on load.
AFAIK there is at least java integration. I found about this when I was searching for a simple open document spreadsheet parser to extract, replace data from cells. Somehow, it feels like VB6/Office integration (sorry, I have no recent experience of this).
Ooops.
Best sounding? The bundled earbuds are a piece of crap and, until the 5.5 ones, the ipods were not even gapless. And what about the infamous vbr skipping bug of the older ones? Sure, it has improved, and these sound great with good earbuds or a headset but it is not the. I think, the selling points were and are still the design and the UI. It's just great, easy to use, nice looking. Mp3 players had horrific UIs, these text only ugly with wacky menus, definitely not what you little sister would use.
Apple invented the usable mp3 player.
Coming soon, e-vote and wifi e-paper trail. It's time for high tech chameleon votes.
You are on slashdot, dude. We always carry desperately condoms, just in case... a case that never happens.