Somewhere between 2 and 4 would suit me just fine. I remember the good old days playing 4 way split screen Goldeneye on the N64 with low resolution TVs and it worked well enough for a good time to be had by all.
It is easier to distribute an application as source and hope that more advanced users add it to the community section (assuming there is one) of the particular distro than it is to build a separate package for every distro out there. It's also far easier to turn a source distribution into a binary distribution than it is to turn a binary distribution into a source distribution. These developers just want to work on their app, not support a bunch of distros.
But my ISP comes with a free* VoIP account with a DID (Direct In-Dial) number. Claiming to offer nothing in the way of addons isn't the best way to go.
* There are some fees for making long distance calls
you dont need an internet connection when you like to play singleplayer games.
But you need it to post on Slashdot in between single player sessions, check emails, download patches to fix bugs found while playing single player games, connect to the activation servers for a lot of the modern single player games etc. Shame on you fellow Slashdotter for suggesting that one does not require the internet.
And you can use it for other things than just games. Plus, you still need at least some kind of machine to connect to OnLive, which you haven't factored in that cost.
I bought Mount & Blade, Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Torchlight all for $5 each on Steam. $20 for several hundred hours of gameplay. Best $20 I've ever spent.
I got about 10-15 hours tops out of Torchlight before it got boring grinding on the pointless random quests that spawn after defeating the main boss. There's only so much grinding one can do on a single player RPG.
As for odd letters, some political party programmer needs a course in logic. Just because my brother and sister live at the same address and share a last name, they are not Mr and Mrs.
Had you replaced WA with Tasmania, I would have disagreed with you right there.
KDE gives you a far more useful dialog which offers you the chance to rename the file or skip that individual file
Funny, I just did a bunch of copying earlier and I got the option to skip the individual file or create a copy with a different name. And yes, it was on Windows (7). It even showed some of the properties of the file and a thumbnail of the movie. If you are going to criticise Windows like that, at least specify what version you are talking about.
Sorry, but whatever fantasies you may have that the NZ police are limited to strong language and stern looks
They also have batons, pepper spray and more recently tasers. There is an armed offenders squad (a rudimentary equivalent to SWAT) and certain higher ranking officers can carry a gun in a locked compartment in their car, but the typical police officer does not carry a gun.
Wouldn't it be possible to set up a server on the user's own machine, and just have the game connect to 127.0.0.1?
Did you even read the post you replied to? khellendros just explained why it would be extremely difficult to write an implementation of the server to run on the local machine.
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Somewhere between 2 and 4 would suit me just fine. I remember the good old days playing 4 way split screen Goldeneye on the N64 with low resolution TVs and it worked well enough for a good time to be had by all.
It is easier to distribute an application as source and hope that more advanced users add it to the community section (assuming there is one) of the particular distro than it is to build a separate package for every distro out there. It's also far easier to turn a source distribution into a binary distribution than it is to turn a binary distribution into a source distribution. These developers just want to work on their app, not support a bunch of distros.
Next question: WTF is RTFM? ;)
A troll moderation? Seriously? I am in fact a Kiwi, and I honestly didn't know that the livestock population was going through a shakedown.
Before irrigation, starvation was a social problem. Technology solved it.
Solved it? There are still a lot of people dying from starvation every day.
They don't need to block every https site.
They do if they just block all encrypted traffic (which has nothing to do with blacklisting URLs), which is where this thread originated.
As any Kiwi could tell you, sheep numbers are plummeting with the dairy boom. 32 million sheep and 5.8 million dairy cows in 2009.
As a Kiwi, I wasn't aware of that. Not all of us obsess over the sheep population.
and nothing but the internet
But my ISP comes with a free* VoIP account with a DID (Direct In-Dial) number. Claiming to offer nothing in the way of addons isn't the best way to go.
* There are some fees for making long distance calls
You could have just ignored it in both cases and the difference between the two scenarios would still be the same.
you dont need an internet connection when you like to play singleplayer games.
But you need it to post on Slashdot in between single player sessions, check emails, download patches to fix bugs found while playing single player games, connect to the activation servers for a lot of the modern single player games etc. Shame on you fellow Slashdotter for suggesting that one does not require the internet.
Per month, that's only $2.50 cheaper than OnLive.
And you can use it for other things than just games. Plus, you still need at least some kind of machine to connect to OnLive, which you haven't factored in that cost.
With insane DRM you get to pay the higher cost of "buying" the game, and you still don't actually own anything.
And with OnLive you get to pay the higher cost of "buying" the game after already paying a monthly fee.
I bought Mount & Blade, Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Torchlight all for $5 each on Steam. $20 for several hundred hours of gameplay. Best $20 I've ever spent.
I got about 10-15 hours tops out of Torchlight before it got boring grinding on the pointless random quests that spawn after defeating the main boss. There's only so much grinding one can do on a single player RPG.
They use it in their backend systems, not as an E-Voting system. Every time I went to vote it was still a process of applying ink to dead trees.
If they are a Slacker, they should be using Slackware.
As for odd letters, some political party programmer needs a course in logic. Just because my brother and sister live at the same address and share a last name, they are not Mr and Mrs.
Had you replaced WA with Tasmania, I would have disagreed with you right there.
There are plenty more Adolfs out there other than the infamous Hitler...
KDE gives you a far more useful dialog which offers you the chance to rename the file or skip that individual file
Funny, I just did a bunch of copying earlier and I got the option to skip the individual file or create a copy with a different name. And yes, it was on Windows (7). It even showed some of the properties of the file and a thumbnail of the movie. If you are going to criticise Windows like that, at least specify what version you are talking about.
That being said, I use KDE on my laptop.
Sorry, but whatever fantasies you may have that the NZ police are limited to strong language and stern looks
They also have batons, pepper spray and more recently tasers. There is an armed offenders squad (a rudimentary equivalent to SWAT) and certain higher ranking officers can carry a gun in a locked compartment in their car, but the typical police officer does not carry a gun.
Make no mistake. You were a suspect in a murder case, until cleared.
I was? Who did I allegedly kill?
Who says police in my country are given guns and/or the discretion to use lethal force?
This isn't the first time the police have lied.
If a stock browser less than three years old can't render it, it isn't the web. If it isn't the web, we don't code for it.
That sounds a bit like a chicken and the egg problem. If we don't currently support it, we won't ever support it.
I'm sure for $600/mo they are providing more than one camera.
Wouldn't it be possible to set up a server on the user's own machine, and just have the game connect to 127.0.0.1?
Did you even read the post you replied to? khellendros just explained why it would be extremely difficult to write an implementation of the server to run on the local machine.