It's all part of today's get-rich-quick society. Nobody wants to work anymore, they want a scheme that extracts money from others and puts it into their pockets with no effort at all.
Can't they just rob banks like honest people do ? It's not *that* hard and it pays well with very little work. Worked fine for Goldman Sachs.
Why do we want to be dragged as ourselves into the game enviornment????
Still, I can't wait to try their new RPG, Microsoft Office, I hear it's awesome. The PHB textures are unparalleled (unless you have a multi-CPU license of course).
because it's actually an americans vs. the world thing - everyone outside america says "films" not "movies", yes, films are called films because they were once on celluloid film, but that's not why people call them films *now* anymore than why people call gays it's because film/means/ movie to non-americans.
And yet those whacky americans still call digital text files "ebooks" when clearly they have nothing to do with a bunch of cellulose pages stuck together. So obviously the proper term for digital movie files should be "efilms".
70/65 mm (the images are stored on 65mm with audio tracks on the side) film isn't widely used for projection. It was pretty much limited to the Imax-style of theatres which were the ones that switched to digital first. It has sometimes been used for filming but the cost is prohibitive, especially when compared to the current high definition cameras. 35mm remains the main medium for film (movie) diffusion to theatres at the moment. Until digital formats finally overtake it one of these days.
It's been a long time since I relied on a demo to give me a good feeling for the game.
Many developers/publishers never release a demo of any kind.
And the demos that do get released are frequently not representative of the finished product. They'll focus on a single map or level that's been polished to perfection...
Sometimes it's even the other way round. In the case of Arma2 (an example I know of, there might be others), the demo has a number of problems that have been long since fixed in the final game. It does show what the game is like but certainly not how it handles.
They should update it but apparently haven't gotten around to doing it (small company and limited resources apparently).
That was the point actually, you did get the very good analogy. People will ask for refunds on games when there is nothing actually wrong with the game itself; the problem lies in their environment at home or in the way that they installed it.
Yes and no. An example here, I used to have a 7950 GX2 nvidia card which couldn't run "Dark Messiah of Might an Magic" (a medieval fantastic FPS) with the framerate typically in the single digits. Other bits of hardware in the same range or lower ran it fine, but the same trouble was had by a vocal minority. There clearly was some kind of incompatibility between that card and the game. The rest of the environment was fairly clean since all that partition is ever used for is for a few Steam games. Once I upgraded the machine and switched to another video card, everything worked fine. I didn't ask for a refund, I waited since I knew I'd eventually change the display hardware.
When I recently got Arma2 (battlefield simulation), I knew it would be buggy. I also knew that Bohemia Interactive (the makers of that title) stand behind their products for years with patches and refinements. In that case there also were major hardware incompatibility problems (being ironed out, now it runs fine). With that game, some machines ran it fine, others had major performance issues. It wasn't clearly related to hardware performance or to the environment.
In those two cases, one problem wasn't fixable (because the studio wasn't interested) and it wasn't really clear whether it was the software's side that was at fault, the other was clearly software and subsequently fixed by the developer.
I don't typically ask for refunds on software since I typically know what I get (and do my work mostly with FOSS in Unixy systems), but deciding where a problem comes from isn't easy. Current systems are just too complicated. On an Apple II you could just know pretty much all there was to know about all of the hardware and software. On a current machine, between all the embedded software, the innumerable bits of any current OS, many of which are closed and all the specialised chips... it just isn't possible any more.
...and somewhat naive to attempt a border crossing from Egypt with a Syrian stamp in her passport.
And vice versa. It's customary for people who travel to not have their passports stamped in Israel so that it's easier for them to travel to other countries in the area (they are used to it and just leave an extra page in the passport for the duration of the stay). And Israel was kind of nice too (visited lots of archeological stes). The amount of racism there is staggering though.
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them?
But if you play them you might scratch them, or get dust on them !
Any serious audiophile knows you must never get a disc out of its sleeve. It must remain in timeless perfection to be admired by like minded individuals (wearing gloves), possibly drooling a bit, while extolling the virtues of gold plated power cables.
That's different. Under United States law, reproduction involves making a "copy", or fixing a work into a tangible medium. The flash memory of a camera phone is deemed a tangible medium, and a brain is not.
This has been demonstrated by opening the craniums of several **AA execs and finding them empty, hence the intangible brain ruling.
4.2.2.2 and their ilk are free and non-redirecting. You can use 4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.4 4.2.2.5 or 4.2.2.6
They are run by L-3 and sitting on major backbones, and the ip addresses are pooled, so that you will likely get a server that is geographically near you when you use one of those addresses.
But with Google you don't have to use those complicated numbers any more. It's all much more simple. All you have to use is dns.google.com Much simpler to remember.
If it doesn't work, it's because it's still in beta. Just try again.
It makes perfect sense. They have no idea how to do it or the answers to those questions, so they are asking for current database experts to propose a solution.
Well, in that case I think they should dedicate the airwaves to either : - white noise so that we can generate random numbers - wireless networking
Oh, and regarding database, I think mauve has the most RAM.
Yes, I meant TLD's not webistes. (sic) I wasn't aware that.con wasn't a valid TLD . And.og was meant to be a joke.
Which makes your comment worthwhile how, exactly ? Please refrain if you have no idea what you're talking about or take a minute to use your search engine of choice to see what the hell it is that people are talking about. As a rule geographic TLDs match the two letter country codes (as defined by ISO, see ISO-3166-1, relevant table is "alpha 2") most of the time. See the handy table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Officially_assigned_code_elements or http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ for the real (internet-related) thing.
I'm not an internet expert, [...]
You don't say... But that's not a handicap. We all start that way, and then we learn (if we are so inclined).
A mutex is a way of controlling access to a shared resource. Imagine you have a car with one key. If you and your sibling both want to use the car for the night, the key is the mutex. Whoever gets the key first gets to use the car until they put the key back.
Some people with actual life-threatening problems don't survive this phase. Doesn't bother Scientology a bit, though.
It doesn't bother them *if* their mark lives long enough to sign the cheques. Otherwise they know they're wasting valuable time. The COS isn't a charity.
My understanding was that earlier this year Microsoft fired most of the guys in Aces Studios (who build MSFS and ESP) and killed off the MS Flight Simulator franchise. Very confused. I'm going to have to do some googling tonight.
It's because it has been shown that most soldiers used Solitaire to prep for battle and that further investments were unnecessary.
Breweries do a pretty good job of maintaining a clean environment for the yeast to do its job, and they've never needed robots for that purpose.
That's because yeast doesn't like it when other micro organisms tries to come on its turf. And yeast can get nasty.
The best way to keep the nasties away isn't to keep a clean room. It's to keep friendly germs around to do the job for you. That's why (for example) completely sterilised cheese is stupid.
I really think universities are doing their graduates a disservice by educating them in the safe, comfortable confines of Java if they don't also teach them C.
Bah, Java is passé. We do everything in Logo nowadays.
I fully agree... I'd love a netbook but the keyboards are too small for me. Now, on 12.1" and 13" laptops, the keyboard is full-size and it's easy to type. If they could do this double-screen trick on a 12.1" laptop they'd have a real winner, I think...
12.1 is a great form factor for a laptop. It's large enough that it's quite usable and compact enough that it's easy to lug around. This model is useless, especially with the tiny vertical resolution. It kind of reminds me of my old Sony Picturebook. The 1024×480 was painful at times even if the tiny machine was lots of fun.
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It's all part of today's get-rich-quick society. Nobody wants to work anymore, they want a scheme that extracts money from others and puts it into their pockets with no effort at all.
Can't they just rob banks like honest people do ? It's not *that* hard and it pays well with very little work. Worked fine for Goldman Sachs.
Why do we want to be dragged as ourselves into the game enviornment????
Still, I can't wait to try their new RPG, Microsoft Office, I hear it's awesome. The PHB textures are unparalleled (unless you have a multi-CPU license of course).
because it's actually an americans vs. the world thing - everyone outside america says "films" not "movies", yes, films are called films because they were once on celluloid film, but that's not why people call them films *now* anymore than why people call gays it's because film /means/ movie to non-americans.
And yet those whacky americans still call digital text files "ebooks" when clearly they have nothing to do with a bunch of cellulose pages stuck together.
So obviously the proper term for digital movie files should be "efilms".
You could have put 70mm film in there too.
70/65 mm (the images are stored on 65mm with audio tracks on the side) film isn't widely used for projection. It was pretty much limited to the Imax-style of theatres which were the ones that switched to digital first. It has sometimes been used for filming but the cost is prohibitive, especially when compared to the current high definition cameras.
35mm remains the main medium for film (movie) diffusion to theatres at the moment. Until digital formats finally overtake it one of these days.
It's been a long time since I relied on a demo to give me a good feeling for the game.
Many developers/publishers never release a demo of any kind.
And the demos that do get released are frequently not representative of the finished product. They'll focus on a single map or level that's been polished to perfection...
Sometimes it's even the other way round. In the case of Arma2 (an example I know of, there might be others), the demo has a number of problems that have been long since fixed in the final game. It does show what the game is like but certainly not how it handles.
They should update it but apparently haven't gotten around to doing it (small company and limited resources apparently).
That was the point actually, you did get the very good analogy. People will ask for refunds on games when there is nothing actually wrong with the game itself; the problem lies in their environment at home or in the way that they installed it.
Yes and no. An example here, I used to have a 7950 GX2 nvidia card which couldn't run "Dark Messiah of Might an Magic" (a medieval fantastic FPS) with the framerate typically in the single digits. Other bits of hardware in the same range or lower ran it fine, but the same trouble was had by a vocal minority. There clearly was some kind of incompatibility between that card and the game. The rest of the environment was fairly clean since all that partition is ever used for is for a few Steam games.
Once I upgraded the machine and switched to another video card, everything worked fine.
I didn't ask for a refund, I waited since I knew I'd eventually change the display hardware.
When I recently got Arma2 (battlefield simulation), I knew it would be buggy. I also knew that Bohemia Interactive (the makers of that title) stand behind their products for years with patches and refinements.
In that case there also were major hardware incompatibility problems (being ironed out, now it runs fine).
With that game, some machines ran it fine, others had major performance issues. It wasn't clearly related to hardware performance or to the environment.
In those two cases, one problem wasn't fixable (because the studio wasn't interested) and it wasn't really clear whether it was the software's side that was at fault, the other was clearly software and subsequently fixed by the developer.
I don't typically ask for refunds on software since I typically know what I get (and do my work mostly with FOSS in Unixy systems), but deciding where a problem comes from isn't easy. Current systems are just too complicated. On an Apple II you could just know pretty much all there was to know about all of the hardware and software. On a current machine, between all the embedded software, the innumerable bits of any current OS, many of which are closed and all the specialised chips... it just isn't possible any more.
On Slashdot, we understand that there are not tiny people living inside of the computer, doing your bidding.
How do you explain the pancake slot on the macbooks then ?
And vice versa. It's customary for people who travel to not have their passports stamped in Israel so that it's easier for them to travel to other countries in the area (they are used to it and just leave an extra page in the passport for the duration of the stay).
And Israel was kind of nice too (visited lots of archeological stes). The amount of racism there is staggering though.
Maybe they should stop taking two martini lunches and doing coke in the back of stretch limos with starlets
If this kind of thing stopped, nobody would want to work in Hollywood.
I tried to warn him but he was making $20/hr and didn't want to believe it could be a scam.
So is he getting along with his cell-mates ?
This proves nothing of any use, since the first probe was done in the UK, and the more recent one in Australia.
Sure it does. It shows a disturbing trend among the people of the Commonwealth.
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them?
But if you play them you might scratch them, or get dust on them !
Any serious audiophile knows you must never get a disc out of its sleeve. It must remain in timeless perfection to be admired by like minded individuals (wearing gloves), possibly drooling a bit, while extolling the virtues of gold plated power cables.
Virtualization is hip. Somebody at your management will be swayed.
Virtualisation is so last year, it's all in the cloud now.
Where is my cloud phone ?
That's different. Under United States law, reproduction involves making a "copy", or fixing a work into a tangible medium. The flash memory of a camera phone is deemed a tangible medium, and a brain is not.
This has been demonstrated by opening the craniums of several **AA execs and finding them empty, hence the intangible brain ruling.
4.2.2.2 and their ilk are free and non-redirecting. You can use 4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.4 4.2.2.5 or 4.2.2.6
They are run by L-3 and sitting on major backbones, and the ip addresses are pooled, so that you will likely get a server that is geographically near you when you use one of those addresses.
But with Google you don't have to use those complicated numbers any more. It's all much more simple. All you have to use is
dns.google.com
Much simpler to remember.
If it doesn't work, it's because it's still in beta. Just try again.
It makes perfect sense. They have no idea how to do it or the answers to those questions, so they are asking for current database experts to propose a solution.
Well, in that case I think they should dedicate the airwaves to either :
- white noise so that we can generate random numbers
- wireless networking
Oh, and regarding database, I think mauve has the most RAM.
I typed "Ctrl+Enter" and nothing happened.
I want my money back !
Yes, I meant TLD's not webistes. (sic) I wasn't aware that .con wasn't a valid TLD . And .og was meant to be a joke.
Which makes your comment worthwhile how, exactly ? Please refrain if you have no idea what you're talking about or take a minute to use your search engine of choice to see what the hell it is that people are talking about. As a rule geographic TLDs match the two letter country codes (as defined by ISO, see ISO-3166-1, relevant table is "alpha 2") most of the time.
See the handy table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Officially_assigned_code_elements or http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ for the real (internet-related) thing.
I'm not an internet expert, [...]
You don't say...
But that's not a handicap. We all start that way, and then we learn (if we are so inclined).
A mutex is a way of controlling access to a shared resource. Imagine you have a car with one key. If you and your sibling both want to use the car for the night, the key is the mutex. Whoever gets the key first gets to use the car until they put the key back.
But, wait, don't cars come with two keys ?
Now I'm confused.
Some people with actual life-threatening problems don't survive this phase. Doesn't bother Scientology a bit, though.
It doesn't bother them *if* their mark lives long enough to sign the cheques. Otherwise they know they're wasting valuable time.
The COS isn't a charity.
My understanding was that earlier this year Microsoft fired most of the guys in Aces Studios (who build MSFS and ESP) and killed off the MS Flight Simulator franchise. Very confused. I'm going to have to do some googling tonight.
It's because it has been shown that most soldiers used Solitaire to prep for battle and that further investments were unnecessary.
Breweries do a pretty good job of maintaining a clean environment for the yeast to do its job, and they've never needed robots for that purpose.
That's because yeast doesn't like it when other micro organisms tries to come on its turf. And yeast can get nasty.
The best way to keep the nasties away isn't to keep a clean room. It's to keep friendly germs around to do the job for you. That's why (for example) completely sterilised cheese is stupid.
Cattle are one of the most successful species on the planet. Why? Because, they threw their lot in with humans.
No they didn't.
You could say a species like cats (or just, maybe, dogs) may have, but cattle certainly didn't have their say in the matter.
I really think universities are doing their graduates a disservice by educating them in the safe, comfortable confines of Java if they don't also teach them C.
Bah, Java is passé. We do everything in Logo nowadays.
PUT :page ON TURTLE
SEND TURTLE ON NETWORK
Go turtle ! You can do it !
I fully agree... I'd love a netbook but the keyboards are too small for me. Now, on 12.1" and 13" laptops, the keyboard is full-size and it's easy to type. If they could do this double-screen trick on a 12.1" laptop they'd have a real winner, I think...
12.1 is a great form factor for a laptop. It's large enough that it's quite usable and compact enough that it's easy to lug around.
This model is useless, especially with the tiny vertical resolution.
It kind of reminds me of my old Sony Picturebook. The 1024×480 was painful at times even if the tiny machine was lots of fun.