The great part about that business is a recession can sometimes help their market, as gamers look to save a few bucks any way possible.
I'm always looking to save some bucks, as the money I can spend on games each year is limited due to the lack of a job. However, I don't do it by buying used games. I wait for the price to go down, and for promotions.
Ever since I got a Wii, and am planning to buy a DS Lite, I've been buying lots of games at half the price or even less as older games for those systems I haven't picked up have dropped in price. Buying used from the local equivalent of GameStop would in most cases actually cost me more money. At best the used game is the same price as that of a new copy in another store, and of course I'm still buying the new copy then.
Chrono Trigger doesn't have meaningful choices, though. Its alternate endings are gotten by beating the final boss earlier than you should. Most endings don't make sense.
Nope, it doesn't have multi-threaded UI. Do you really think it's possible in the first place? Only one thread is allowed to be attached to the UI on most (all?) platforms.
Those developers use SeaMonkey because it's more stable and doesn't pander to clueless end-users.
My deep appreciation is also given for the bonus points scored as well that the word period preceded it's synonymously named punctuation mark in the previous sentence.
I know that sounds like a tall order, but when you think about it, there are only really three that have to be taken into account, Windows, Mac and linux ( well kde and gnome ).
ALL of this could have been solved by having the HTML spec provide a #include tag that would tell the browser to fetch that file eg: but no one seems to like that idea anymore then they likes framsets or iframes
It's called Server-Side Includes (SSI).
It is time to create and application shell that is specifically designed do just run applications of some specification.
The only thing I like of the new interface is the ability to click a comment link and have it appear inline. However, this behaviour isn't predictable. When I'm logged in, it's the old behaviour again, and recently I don't have to be logged in anymore for it not to work. I can't seem to control this behaviour through the confusing preferences either.
The same behaviour applies to replying. I never know what I'm going to get. I prefer the old reply code, as with that I can easily log in on the same page.
in my house its usually on cartoon network or the news and its just been sitting there playing while we are online, gaming, or doing things around the house.
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we dont want to have to pick a show to watch, we just want them all playing on their own and we can either sit down and watch if were interested at that moment or not.
Well then, get on writing efficient code that'll decode HD video on a 900mhz processor. Don't tell me that is something "normal users" don't want, video on PCs is exploding and people are all about a higher res better looking picture.
Actually, if sales and popular opinion are anything to go by, people aren't that big on HD. DVD is good enough for them.
I get real tired of this whining about "Programmers aren't efficient," thing, as though the be-all, end-all of coding should be the smallest program possible. No, it shouldn't, computers are getting more powerful, we should use that power.
This is a classic response to people who want programmers to write efficient code. Nowhere did the grandparent claim that the efficient code should not use the available power. It definitely should. The problem is that often when this is done, it tends to bog down the rest of the program because they're being inefficient.
For school, I used IntelliJ 6.x as the IDE to develop in Java. A couple years later I had to upgrade to IntelliJ 7.x. The program became much slower, in part because the new version demanded more RAM than I had on my laptop. The teacher explained that this is because it can do more.
Okay, it can do more, but if I'm not using these extra features, why does it have to bog down all the rest? It doesn't make sense.
Generating really optimized code often means generating code that is difficult to work with. I mean in the extreme, you go for assembly language.
It doesn't have to be difficult to work with, and going assembly is certainly not the solution. But using managed code is not a solution either. Those are particularly wasteful. Yes, it does matter!
Faster response. Computers have gotten MUCH faster at user response. The goal is that users should never have to wait on their system, ever, for anything. The computer should be waiting on the human, not the other way around. We keep getting closer and closer.
We were already there. The problem is the x86 architecture with its IRQs that waste the CPU's time, bogging the system down. This is a legacy that we still have to deal with today. The PowerPC architecture, however, never had to deal with this.
Video is the same. There is really no need to ever capture more than 1080p for home use, the human eye simply can't perceive any quality improvements on screen sizes that are realistic for the home.
Except that there wasn't ever any need for 1080p for many things either. You need a TV bigger than 32" to see the difference. And then there's the fact that not everything gains from being HD. Things with lots of special effects, like sci-fi, gain a lot. But soap series? Not much.
There's another fad on the horizon already, and it's called Super Hi-Vision.
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I thought most big open source projects review patches first. Mozilla does, for example.
You got the site wrong (even though it does redirect). Turn in your geek card.
I'm always looking to save some bucks, as the money I can spend on games each year is limited due to the lack of a job. However, I don't do it by buying used games. I wait for the price to go down, and for promotions.
Ever since I got a Wii, and am planning to buy a DS Lite, I've been buying lots of games at half the price or even less as older games for those systems I haven't picked up have dropped in price. Buying used from the local equivalent of GameStop would in most cases actually cost me more money. At best the used game is the same price as that of a new copy in another store, and of course I'm still buying the new copy then.
Really? Wow. It's fine at the moment, though.
What I'm wondering is why my comment was modded +5 Funny. Is it because it's controversial among the GNU/Linux loving fanboys or something?
Windows 32-bit has been able to address more than 4 GB of RAM for at least a decade now. You just weren't licensed to use it.
Bullshit. I didn't agree to anything by sending them a HTTP GET request.
And then you have SeaMonkey, the best of both worlds!
Chrono Trigger doesn't have meaningful choices, though. Its alternate endings are gotten by beating the final boss earlier than you should. Most endings don't make sense.
Despite that, still a great game.
Star Ocean: Till The End of Time is actually the third Star Ocean game.
Nope, it doesn't have multi-threaded UI. Do you really think it's possible in the first place? Only one thread is allowed to be attached to the UI on most (all?) platforms.
Those developers use SeaMonkey because it's more stable and doesn't pander to clueless end-users.
A sizeable chunk of the core Mozilla developers don't use Firefox. They use the superior SeaMonkey.
I looked again. I even did a Find on your comment. But I can't find where you abused it again. :(
Any language can be as "write-only" as you like. It's not really a property of the language itself.
Troll.
Poser. You abused the apostrophe!
BeOS/Haiku? BSD? Solaris? iPhone? etc.
It's called Server-Side Includes (SSI).
Like Java? We know how that went.
No, the iframe element is not a valid element in HTML 4.01 Strict.
What bit you to use old-style JavaScript escape trick from 1998 in 2009? No web browser is going to interpret a script element as content today.
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The only thing I like of the new interface is the ability to click a comment link and have it appear inline. However, this behaviour isn't predictable. When I'm logged in, it's the old behaviour again, and recently I don't have to be logged in anymore for it not to work. I can't seem to control this behaviour through the confusing preferences either.
The same behaviour applies to replying. I never know what I'm going to get. I prefer the old reply code, as with that I can easily log in on the same page.
What a waste of electricity.
You have a point, but mine still stands. If I'm not using them, the program shouldn't suddenly be sluggish. That's bad programming.
The reality, however, is that if you don't upgrade, you don't get support, and bugs you might encounter will never be fixed.
Actually, if sales and popular opinion are anything to go by, people aren't that big on HD. DVD is good enough for them.
This is a classic response to people who want programmers to write efficient code. Nowhere did the grandparent claim that the efficient code should not use the available power. It definitely should. The problem is that often when this is done, it tends to bog down the rest of the program because they're being inefficient.
For school, I used IntelliJ 6.x as the IDE to develop in Java. A couple years later I had to upgrade to IntelliJ 7.x. The program became much slower, in part because the new version demanded more RAM than I had on my laptop. The teacher explained that this is because it can do more.
Okay, it can do more, but if I'm not using these extra features, why does it have to bog down all the rest? It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't have to be difficult to work with, and going assembly is certainly not the solution. But using managed code is not a solution either. Those are particularly wasteful. Yes, it does matter!
We were already there. The problem is the x86 architecture with its IRQs that waste the CPU's time, bogging the system down. This is a legacy that we still have to deal with today. The PowerPC architecture, however, never had to deal with this.
Except that there wasn't ever any need for 1080p for many things either. You need a TV bigger than 32" to see the difference. And then there's the fact that not everything gains from being HD. Things with lots of special effects, like sci-fi, gain a lot. But soap series? Not much.
There's another fad on the horizon already, and it's called Super Hi-Vision.
Those people have bigger problems than which web browser version they're using. :)