I don't care where the spam is comming from, I don't want it! I get about 15-20 spams a day and it's driven me to abandon e-mail. My friends and I have a contest even to see who can accumulate the most spam per day! It's like opening your mailbox (real mailbox) and finding nothing but flyers, unwanted magazines, catalogues and chain letters. The day that spam becomes outlawed worldwide, and it all stops is the day I will be most happy.
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your mail client"
I have yet to see a first post that contains anything worthwile to read. Perhaps the first post should invariably be omitted when these message boards are created. ... Just my insane rambling for ya.
My belief is that printed manuals should be included for some things, but not for others. For instance, an online manual for a CD-rom drive on a CD is basically useless and pointless. As well, as many other things. It's almost as bad as "Keyboard Error: Press F1 to continue".
For games, online manuals are fine. Reference cards are a nice bonus, and I DO like a manual, but it's not neccesary. If you want an example of a great setup for manuals and schtuff, look at any of the Heroes of Might and Magic games. A manual with anything you'd ever want, reference cards for everything, and a few other things. And if you are going for online manuals, go HTML. I hate PDF!
If this technology becomes mainstream, I'm never using windows again... Who knows what micro$oft could be doing with my mind!
Buttanyways, I think this is very cool. To be able to type along without using my aching carpral tunneled hands (and i'm only 16!) and just thinking what I want to do would be a lotta fun. Perhaps if they were to include some sort of tiny screen, this could become the future of wearable computing... Note to self: Get one of these things as soon as they come out.
Again, we may very well have a case of too little too late. Every time game companies delay this long, the game is often rotten and outdated (considering the technology that's been aging as the game was being "perfected"). I'll download the *shudder* huge demo at some point and try it out, but I doubt that it's all it was cut out to be. I mean, once a game is delayed for more than a year, what's the point anymore!? oy.
Heck, the roman numerals worked for Megaman! But then they got all out of sync with the rest of the universe...I mean, really how much IS 2X? Speaking of which, what about that old arcade game, Street Fighter? Or, should I say "Street Fighter Extreme Turbo Alpha Gamma Maximum"? Don't you just hate marketers that name their projects like that? I mean, who are they trying to reach, 133+ H4X0r$ or something?!?! And even the hardware marketers are getting into it...I mean, who builds a voodoo rage extreme ultra? Speaking of marketers, Micro$oft should start naming their new releases with instead of 2000, the 2-digit date format...that way, you could call it windows 00! That's all it's good for! But then again, I shouldn't bash it...It makes less tech support trouble for us geeks because it lets computer illiterate users able to simply operate their boxes, so... Wait, where was I going with this article? Oh hell, I've had too much caffine and now I can't even send my train of thought down straight tracks! DERAILMENT! Note to self: stop going to Starbucks before posting to slashdot.
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Yeah, well as they say:
Scruu...Yuu.
Damned annonymous cowards...always flaming us people proud enough to show our true identity. Ooooh, if I had my deathray, you'd get such a zapping!
I don't care where the spam is comming from, I don't want it! I get about 15-20 spams a day and it's driven me to abandon e-mail. My friends and I have a contest even to see who can accumulate the most spam per day!
It's like opening your mailbox (real mailbox) and finding nothing but flyers, unwanted magazines, catalogues and chain letters. The day that spam becomes outlawed worldwide, and it all stops is the day I will be most happy.
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your mail client"
I have yet to see a first post that contains anything worthwile to read. Perhaps the first post should invariably be omitted when these message boards are created.
...
Just my insane rambling for ya.
My belief is that printed manuals should be included for some things, but not for others. For instance, an online manual for a CD-rom drive on a CD is basically useless and pointless. As well, as many other things. It's almost as bad as "Keyboard Error: Press F1 to continue".
For games, online manuals are fine. Reference cards are a nice bonus, and I DO like a manual, but it's not neccesary. If you want an example of a great setup for manuals and schtuff, look at any of the Heroes of Might and Magic games. A manual with anything you'd ever want, reference cards for everything, and a few other things.
And if you are going for online manuals, go HTML. I hate PDF!
A followup after I've now played the game...
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It sucks.
Methinks someone does not understand the meaning of the word JOKE. When will people every learn?
If this technology becomes mainstream, I'm never using windows again...
Who knows what micro$oft could be doing with my mind!
Buttanyways, I think this is very cool. To be able to type along without using my aching carpral tunneled hands (and i'm only 16!) and just thinking what I want to do would be a lotta fun. Perhaps if they were to include some sort of tiny screen, this could become the future of wearable computing...
Note to self: Get one of these things as soon as they come out.
Again, we may very well have a case of too little too late. Every time game companies delay this long, the game is often rotten and outdated (considering the technology that's been aging as the game was being "perfected"). I'll download the *shudder* huge demo at some point and try it out, but I doubt that it's all it was cut out to be. I mean, once a game is delayed for more than a year, what's the point anymore!? oy.
Perhaps...but what about determining if Al Gore is actually organic?
Heck, the roman numerals worked for Megaman! But then they got all out of sync with the rest of the universe...I mean, really how much IS 2X? Speaking of which, what about that old arcade game, Street Fighter? Or, should I say "Street Fighter Extreme Turbo Alpha Gamma Maximum"? Don't you just hate marketers that name their projects like that? I mean, who are they trying to reach, 133+ H4X0r$ or something?!?! And even the hardware marketers are getting into it...I mean, who builds a voodoo rage extreme ultra? Speaking of marketers, Micro$oft should start naming their new releases with instead of 2000, the 2-digit date format...that way, you could call it windows 00! That's all it's good for! But then again, I shouldn't bash it...It makes less tech support trouble for us geeks because it lets computer illiterate users able to simply operate their boxes, so... Wait, where was I going with this article? Oh hell, I've had too much caffine and now I can't even send my train of thought down straight tracks! DERAILMENT! Note to self: stop going to Starbucks before posting to slashdot.