Win+M - minimise all windows Win+Shift+M - restore minimised windows Win+R - Run Win+L - Lock screen/change user Win+left/right - moves the window to the left/right of the screen - useful if you've got more than one monitor and can't drag it to the edge (win7). Win+down/up - minimises/maximises a window (win 7) Win+typing a word+enter - Runs a program. Massively quicker than scanning the start menu by eye (vista + 7).
There are plenty of uses for the Windows key. In fact Windows 7 introduces a load of new uses which makes the button what it should be - a dedicated button for operating system/window managing functions. Sure its position can be annoying as you can hit it when trying to hit ctrl, especially when gaming but you can always disable the left windows key and use the right one if that's what you want.
You might not use your winkey but I certainly use mine. Hur hur hur.
Oh my, that evil Julian Assange. If he hadn't revealed that American politicians were horribly corrupt, the populace would've just voted for the right guy and the incumbent wouldn't have had to blatantly rig the elections to stay in power, causing mass rioting. It's all Assange's fault for not allowing the American populace to remain in blissful ignorance of just how corrupt and screwed up their political system is. The corrupt, vote-rigging politicians bear no responsibility for it whatsoever.
Seriously, though - did you really just blame Assange and Wikileaks for that?
Of course you can't really compare the two - it's not like the American people are going to rise up and protest their government. That would be...unpatriotic.
I agree with you on the left windows key. Very annoying, especially as a gamer. However, all those keys do come in useful if you're ever without a mouse.
As for multiplayer? What a failure of an idea. Only some games need it and even most of those fail. Adding multiplayer into every game will just fragment the playerbase even more. We've seen what happens with most multiplayer games, already. At best, people play them for about a month or two. Then when you decide to try and play it, you're the only person on the PLANET trying to play multiplayer.
Not always true. I've been playing Day of Defeat: Source for five years now and there is still a decent number of servers around. In fact the original Day of Defeat is 10 years old this year and is still popular. Generally speaking if a game is really good then people will carry on playing it. Hell you can still play Quake 1 online if you want.
Meanwhile, it'll continue to detract from the quality of the single player.
True, this is often the case - see Call of Duty for example. Their games used to have single player missions that would take more than a single evening to complete.
These guys are damned determine to misunderstand gaming and ruin it. Sometimes a great single player experience is all you want.
All you want, maybe. Sometimes a great multiplayer experience is all I want. Not always. But sometimes.
Oh - and multiplayer *local* on the same screen? Hell no. You go play on your OWN screen. I like my big giant screen without the image being deformed or squashed. I don't care how big it is, I still want it for myself. I hate split screen and never ever ever would use it.
Wow. Are you just resentful because you don't have any friends? Sometimes people come to my house that like playing games. Should I say "No, either you watch or you go home and play from there"? No! We both sit in the same room, play the same game and have a laugh together. Yeah you get a bit less screen but it's more fun! Me and my old flatmate played Call of Duty Nazi Zombies to death on split-screen mode. I played it a bit in online multiplayer mode and even though there was twice as many players and we got twice as far in terms of levels, it wasn't as fun as having someone else in the room enjoying it too - shouting at each other and taking turns to reload because there are so many zombies coming at you. I'd be happy to see more games like this. It used to be that every game would have a two player option - even if it wasn't particularly great (I'm looking at you Luigi). Consoles like the NES were designed for a couple (or more) people to have fun together. Now it's just you, sat alone in your living room, not even talking on a headset.
Anyway, I digress. This is just another pointless Slashdot "One True Way of Gaming" article. Different people like different things. Some people like multiplater, some singleplayer. Some both. Personally I just like good games, be they single player, multiplayer or whatever. I wouldn't want a multiplayer Just Cause 2 just as I wouldn't want a Singleplayer Team Fortress.........actually that would work. Cooperative Half Life 1 remake? Fuck yes.
Yes, when it comes to drugs, CJ is a fine upstanding citizen. At one point in the game he even goes to a crack house and beats up the occupants with a baseball bat.
I never noticed the innuendo in the name "Solid Snake" before
Really?
Not even after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater? Seriously, I don't know if it is MGS series or just the English translations but they are full of innuendo.
"There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber"
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Great plan. As long as you're not using too much power on your USB devices, that is...
Not really. If they're being sold second hand then the publisher isn't getting any money for them. If the publisher isn't getting any money for the copies that are being legally sold then why shouldn't there be a free version available? I guess you could argue that it would devalue the copies that do exist but I'd say that's a pretty weak argument.
True, although it was on sale when I bought it so the loss was minimal.
Rockstar lose out over all anyway. I could have paid 8 times what I did for GTA:IV on their latest release, APB but I chose not to. I've been playing a 100% LEGITIMATE NOT PIRATED AT ALL HONESTLY copy of GTA:SA instead.
I tried re-installing GTA:IV a couple of days ago. I couldn't get past the activation part despite having bought the game legitimately on Steam. Not a huge loss - I've got plenty of games made by people that want me to play them - I just played one of those instead.
You don't need a net connection if you put Steam into offline mode.
A few months back I had a dodgy internet connection that would only work occasionally and even when it did the signal strength was pitiful (computer on 2nd floor, router on ground). I played Left 4 Dead 2 quite a bit while offline.
The problem for me was when my computer got a connection for long enough to start downloading an update but not long enough finish downloading. I was then unable to play left 4 Dead until the download had completed - which took about a month as my connection was terrible. I don't see why it can't keep the game playable until the download has finished.
Peter Gibbons: [Explaining the plan] Alright so when the sub routine combines the sandwich it uses all these extra chunks of ham that just get sliced off. So we simplified the whole thing, we round them all down and drop the remainder into a fridge we bought. Joanna: [Confused] So you're stealing? Peter Gibbons: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a crumb here. And over time they add up to a lot. Joanna: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of sandwiches, right? Peter Gibbons: Yeah. Joanna: Right. It's not yours? Peter Gibbons: Well it becomes ours. Joanna: How is that not stealing? Peter Gibbons: [pauses] I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
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Win+M - minimise all windows
Win+Shift+M - restore minimised windows
Win+R - Run
Win+L - Lock screen/change user
Win+left/right - moves the window to the left/right of the screen - useful if you've got more than one monitor and can't drag it to the edge (win7).
Win+down/up - minimises/maximises a window (win 7)
Win+typing a word+enter - Runs a program. Massively quicker than scanning the start menu by eye (vista + 7).
There are plenty of uses for the Windows key. In fact Windows 7 introduces a load of new uses which makes the button what it should be - a dedicated button for operating system/window managing functions. Sure its position can be annoying as you can hit it when trying to hit ctrl, especially when gaming but you can always disable the left windows key and use the right one if that's what you want.
You might not use your winkey but I certainly use mine. Hur hur hur.
Doesn't sticky keys do this in windows?
It was a wiki of leaks. Get it?
ftfy
Hmmm...I wonder what happens if I....
Oh my, that evil Julian Assange. If he hadn't revealed that American politicians were horribly corrupt, the populace would've just voted for the right guy and the incumbent wouldn't have had to blatantly rig the elections to stay in power, causing mass rioting. It's all Assange's fault for not allowing the American populace to remain in blissful ignorance of just how corrupt and screwed up their political system is. The corrupt, vote-rigging politicians bear no responsibility for it whatsoever.
Seriously, though - did you really just blame Assange and Wikileaks for that?
Of course you can't really compare the two - it's not like the American people are going to rise up and protest their government. That would be...unpatriotic.
DO NOT WANT any more games from EA.
DO NOT CARE what they have to say.
I agree with you on the left windows key. Very annoying, especially as a gamer. However, all those keys do come in useful if you're ever without a mouse.
As for multiplayer? What a failure of an idea. Only some games need it and even most of those fail. Adding multiplayer into every game will just fragment the playerbase even more. We've seen what happens with most multiplayer games, already. At best, people play them for about a month or two. Then when you decide to try and play it, you're the only person on the PLANET trying to play multiplayer.
Not always true. I've been playing Day of Defeat: Source for five years now and there is still a decent number of servers around. In fact the original Day of Defeat is 10 years old this year and is still popular. Generally speaking if a game is really good then people will carry on playing it. Hell you can still play Quake 1 online if you want.
Meanwhile, it'll continue to detract from the quality of the single player.
True, this is often the case - see Call of Duty for example. Their games used to have single player missions that would take more than a single evening to complete.
These guys are damned determine to misunderstand gaming and ruin it. Sometimes a great single player experience is all you want.
All you want, maybe. Sometimes a great multiplayer experience is all I want. Not always. But sometimes.
Oh - and multiplayer *local* on the same screen? Hell no. You go play on your OWN screen. I like my big giant screen without the image being deformed or squashed. I don't care how big it is, I still want it for myself. I hate split screen and never ever ever would use it.
Wow. Are you just resentful because you don't have any friends? Sometimes people come to my house that like playing games. Should I say "No, either you watch or you go home and play from there"? No! We both sit in the same room, play the same game and have a laugh together. Yeah you get a bit less screen but it's more fun! Me and my old flatmate played Call of Duty Nazi Zombies to death on split-screen mode. I played it a bit in online multiplayer mode and even though there was twice as many players and we got twice as far in terms of levels, it wasn't as fun as having someone else in the room enjoying it too - shouting at each other and taking turns to reload because there are so many zombies coming at you. I'd be happy to see more games like this. It used to be that every game would have a two player option - even if it wasn't particularly great (I'm looking at you Luigi). Consoles like the NES were designed for a couple (or more) people to have fun together. Now it's just you, sat alone in your living room, not even talking on a headset.
Anyway, I digress. This is just another pointless Slashdot "One True Way of Gaming" article. Different people like different things. Some people like multiplater, some singleplayer. Some both. Personally I just like good games, be they single player, multiplayer or whatever. I wouldn't want a multiplayer Just Cause 2 just as I wouldn't want a Singleplayer Team Fortress.........actually that would work. Cooperative Half Life 1 remake? Fuck yes.
Yes, when it comes to drugs, CJ is a fine upstanding citizen. At one point in the game he even goes to a crack house and beats up the occupants with a baseball bat.
I never noticed the innuendo in the name "Solid Snake" before
Really?
Not even after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater? Seriously, I don't know if it is MGS series or just the English translations but they are full of innuendo.
"There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber"
Great plan. As long as you're not using too much power on your USB devices, that is...
Not really. If they're being sold second hand then the publisher isn't getting any money for them. If the publisher isn't getting any money for the copies that are being legally sold then why shouldn't there be a free version available? I guess you could argue that it would devalue the copies that do exist but I'd say that's a pretty weak argument.
True, although it was on sale when I bought it so the loss was minimal.
Rockstar lose out over all anyway. I could have paid 8 times what I did for GTA:IV on their latest release, APB but I chose not to. I've been playing a 100% LEGITIMATE NOT PIRATED AT ALL HONESTLY copy of GTA:SA instead.
"Put tab A in slot B..."
It is fair and consistent. The US Government is free to publish whatever they find about Wikileaks.
He turned himself in. I guess we could make all the rapists and child molesters turn them selves in as well but I'm not sure how we'd do it.
He's just arresting.
An Anonymous Coward and the Daily Mail agree? That's me convinced!
The daily mail will give you cancer.
I tried re-installing GTA:IV a couple of days ago. I couldn't get past the activation part despite having bought the game legitimately on Steam. Not a huge loss - I've got plenty of games made by people that want me to play them - I just played one of those instead.
You don't need a net connection if you put Steam into offline mode.
A few months back I had a dodgy internet connection that would only work occasionally and even when it did the signal strength was pitiful (computer on 2nd floor, router on ground). I played Left 4 Dead 2 quite a bit while offline.
The problem for me was when my computer got a connection for long enough to start downloading an update but not long enough finish downloading. I was then unable to play left 4 Dead until the download had completed - which took about a month as my connection was terrible. I don't see why it can't keep the game playable until the download has finished.
Subjectively I think you missed the point.
Peter Gibbons: [Explaining the plan] Alright so when the sub routine combines the sandwich it uses all these extra chunks of ham that just get sliced off. So we simplified the whole thing, we round them all down and drop the remainder into a fridge we bought.
Joanna: [Confused] So you're stealing?
Peter Gibbons: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a crumb here. And over time they add up to a lot.
Joanna: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of sandwiches, right?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Right. It's not yours?
Peter Gibbons: Well it becomes ours.
Joanna: How is that not stealing?
Peter Gibbons: [pauses] I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
I'm not sure of the answer but I think it involves a system of bells and the phrase "ram a lamb a ding dong".
8. Spam. Cans and cans of the stuff. Flowing into your house.