Well, it depends. Around here, there's a particularly obnoxious light at a T-intersection with both a side street and some light rail tracks. The light is permanently red and only turns green when you are near it, going pretty slowly (50 km/h, I think), a tram isn't coming and the side street is also red. So... it's totally unpredictable.
It can't connect to the servers, and all the side effects I've experienced is having ti wait an ungodly amount of time for the login box (where you can choose to go offline) to appear. I've never actually been kicked out of offline mode. Though, as I said, not being able to even enter it has happened a few times.
Either you're recalling outdated info, or you don't recall correctly. Last year, I spent an entire two week vacation using offline mode without an Internet connection. It does require an Internet connection when it detected updates on the previous run, though, and that's pretty annoying.
That's funny... scenarios 1 and 2 apply to me, and yet I've never had that kind of problem with offline mode. Not being able to use it when Steam has to update sucks, though.
Which is not surprising, given that it's one of the few good games I've ever played for the Wii. The rest of the games... they use the gimmicky controls and then, after five minutes of playing, you get bored. Wii Sports is actually a game, not a controller showcase.
Dude... STALKER? Seriously? The game's _hideous_. The controls feel like you are controlling a forklift instead of a guy and I like games where there's some sort of feedback when you hit enemies... you know... so YOU KNOW YOU HIT THEM! Man, even Wolfenstein 3D had this...
I know the story is in "Your Rights Online" (the most horribly stretched category on/., btw), but nowhere do the title or the summary mention software.
The only people that turn their noses up to anything without a clutch are either poor or worried about their penis size. Personally I don't care. Automatic is much more convenient but there's not wrong with driving a manual either. There are a lot more important things, as far as I'm concerned, on a car. The only place where I'd say automatic is a must in in congested cities. I just can't be bothered to with shifting and using a clutch to move a few feet.
Although I agree with your general sentiment, I won't as far as you're going. Being in Europe, I've only seen maybe five automatic cars in my life, all the ones I've been in had problems. Either lurching around on gear changes, or shifting REALLY slowly, or over-revving the engine, you name it. Every single implementation of an automatic I've ever seen was bad, which doesn't make the concept bad. Since driving a manual is really not that hard or bothersome (even in traffic), I'd prefer getting one over an auto, for the moment.
For racers, though, being able to control gear shifts is a must. You don't want to throw the car's weight around while you're already pushing it to the limit on a corner.
Wait... what? Where is this most of Europe you speak of? 'Cause I've certainly never seen 380 V anything anywhere from Portugal to Italy. Never even heard about it, either.
This is a very confused post. Actually, modern sports car transmissions are still usually manual, and the automatic ones tend to be Direct-Shift Gearboxes. Unlike a tiptronic transmission, which is just a normal automatic transmission that responds to your shifts (unless you ask it to do something really stupid), a DSG is much more similar to a manual transmission under the hood, in spite of supporting automatic gear changes.
Exactly. That is, for instance, what Hidden Path Entertainment are doing for Defense Grid: The Awakening*. They've released the game, and now a free DLC*, and they'll release a paid DLC nearly two years after the original. It's like an expansion pack, only "on the internet", so it's novel, somehow.:)
* Seriously, people, go check the demo out. It doesn't really do the game justice, but it's all one can (legally) get for free. Yes, I'm shilling for them, but that's just because I've gotten 100+ hours of entertainment for €5.:D
** Stupidly named Borderlands. What were they thinking?
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Well, it depends. Around here, there's a particularly obnoxious light at a T-intersection with both a side street and some light rail tracks. The light is permanently red and only turns green when you are near it, going pretty slowly (50 km/h, I think), a tram isn't coming and the side street is also red. So... it's totally unpredictable.
Yet. You're overstressing at least your knee joints.
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That's easy! Firefox! 2.x to 3.x really was quite an improvement.
The evidence for Steam on Linux is very thin, at best.
It can't connect to the servers, and all the side effects I've experienced is having ti wait an ungodly amount of time for the login box (where you can choose to go offline) to appear. I've never actually been kicked out of offline mode. Though, as I said, not being able to even enter it has happened a few times.
Either you're recalling outdated info, or you don't recall correctly. Last year, I spent an entire two week vacation using offline mode without an Internet connection. It does require an Internet connection when it detected updates on the previous run, though, and that's pretty annoying.
That's funny... scenarios 1 and 2 apply to me, and yet I've never had that kind of problem with offline mode. Not being able to use it when Steam has to update sucks, though.
Which is not surprising, given that it's one of the few good games I've ever played for the Wii. The rest of the games... they use the gimmicky controls and then, after five minutes of playing, you get bored. Wii Sports is actually a game, not a controller showcase.
It can be argued it was done in Metal Gear Solid, too.
Are you sure you aren't mixing up UK gallons with US gallons there?
I think you'll have a hard time finding a level that doesn't use even a single of the original game assets.
Obviously, the right link is this one.
Oh, they just need a nice jingle and all will be well. Something like this will do nicely. :)
...and that's exactly what about half the people do.
In case you haven't noticed by now, I'm Portuguese.
And now the question everyone asked themselves, but not you: what the hell is a livestock breeder doing on Slashdot? :)
I did play the game... for about two hours. It was so unbearably bad I stopped.
Dude... STALKER? Seriously? The game's _hideous_. The controls feel like you are controlling a forklift instead of a guy and I like games where there's some sort of feedback when you hit enemies... you know... so YOU KNOW YOU HIT THEM! Man, even Wolfenstein 3D had this...
I know the story is in "Your Rights Online" (the most horribly stretched category on /., btw), but nowhere do the title or the summary mention software.
Although I agree with your general sentiment, I won't as far as you're going. Being in Europe, I've only seen maybe five automatic cars in my life, all the ones I've been in had problems. Either lurching around on gear changes, or shifting REALLY slowly, or over-revving the engine, you name it. Every single implementation of an automatic I've ever seen was bad, which doesn't make the concept bad. Since driving a manual is really not that hard or bothersome (even in traffic), I'd prefer getting one over an auto, for the moment.
For racers, though, being able to control gear shifts is a must. You don't want to throw the car's weight around while you're already pushing it to the limit on a corner.
Wait... what? Where is this most of Europe you speak of? 'Cause I've certainly never seen 380 V anything anywhere from Portugal to Italy. Never even heard about it, either.
This is a very confused post. Actually, modern sports car transmissions are still usually manual, and the automatic ones tend to be Direct-Shift Gearboxes. Unlike a tiptronic transmission, which is just a normal automatic transmission that responds to your shifts (unless you ask it to do something really stupid), a DSG is much more similar to a manual transmission under the hood, in spite of supporting automatic gear changes.
Um... not that your point is invalid because of this, but you really should look at a map to see where Norway is.
Exactly. That is, for instance, what Hidden Path Entertainment are doing for Defense Grid: The Awakening*. They've released the game, and now a free DLC*, and they'll release a paid DLC nearly two years after the original. It's like an expansion pack, only "on the internet", so it's novel, somehow. :)
* Seriously, people, go check the demo out. It doesn't really do the game justice, but it's all one can (legally) get for free. Yes, I'm shilling for them, but that's just because I've gotten 100+ hours of entertainment for €5. :D
** Stupidly named Borderlands. What were they thinking?