Did any of these people, or I, start a long bloody war or burn anyone?
Can you explain to me how, exactly, sharing a belief with criminals who live far away or lived hundreds of years ago and who I never met makes me one?
If you like yoghurt and so did Hitler, can I reproach you for that? (I know, I know, Godwin.)
See Mersenne, who I mentioned in my previous post. He was a friend and defender of Galileo, mentioned by the OP. Galileo was persecuted by the inquisition, but defended by this theologian. Does it really make sense to stereotype them all into evil monsters? I don't think so.
You fanatic atheists are just as bad, if not worse, than fanatic religious believers. Your baseless hatred and uninformed blunders don't lend you a lot of credibility, you know?
True scientists are open minded. Fortunately for the world, both the people you mentioned and the people I mentioned were not like you.
If you read my post more carefully, you may notice it mentions USERS.
See, if I write a CMS for (let's say) a microchip factory, there is going to be a LOT less people using IE6 than if I make a website for, for example, a gardening store. In this second case, all my client cares about is that his users, who are his source of income, cannot view the website properly without taking action to change their browser first, and they will consider the website "broken".
The real problem here is that people doing the right thing may lose touch with part of their customer base.
But it's none of my business anyway, because I do NOT write nonstandard websites or IE6 hacks;) I'd refuse the client.
I'm a web developer and I'm already doing that. However, people from certain areas of business may have the majority of their users still visiting through IE6. When that happens, your only choices are either to support IE6 or not to work for that client.
Also, sorry for double posting, but remember that the previous Monkey Island games are divided in self-contained "chapters", usually each being an island or ship. I think this makes conversion to episode format easy, although admittedly I'd also prefer to have just one full game...
All the people who used to work on these great games left LucasArts. I very much prefer to have a game developed by people with experience and emotional attachment to the previous ones. Also, it looks like this has been in the works for a while.
I'm not that crazy about Sam and Max in first place, and it's a different game, with different expectations and scheduled differently. Wasn't the new episodic game made for GameTap? I know from my experience with Uru Live that GameTap demands speed above everything and that can result in rushed work...
One of the original designers, the original composer and a few other members of the original team, plus the voice cast from games 3 and 4, are in this game's development team.
Even if you are not connected to the internet, you should not use IP addresses that are not reserved for local networks. However, since they own the space, they can do whatever they want with it.
It's still a huge waste, though. A single/8 could provide enough addresses for the entire population of my country to have a computer connected to the internet... And there would still be millions left over.
Personally, I think Stallman exaggerates; that is not the issue.
Regardless of what wikipedia has accomplished, both the people in the foundation and many of its high-ranked users are anything but open-minded. And, though I do not have a wikipedia account, I say this as a frequent visitor (at least once a day) who *loves* wikipedia. I'm just sorry about many things I regularly see when browsing through it and some things I hear about it.
Thank you, I do use that version. Although I tend to change depending on my needs, I'm currently quite happy with keeping up with the Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/), which has Homecinema in it.
I don't remember the entire version history of MPC off the top of my head, but in the latest MPC Homecinema you can go to the options dialog and change the default font for SRTs, as well as the subtitle spacing. Note that some embedded subtitle streams may contain font information, in which case the problems are the encoder's (or subber's) fault.
I also think Bender's Game is good, it has plenty of memorable moments. I'm not saying it's better than the first seasons as a whole, but it's at least better than the less memorable episodes.
Go to Preferences > Index and disable Beta Index (should be the first checkbox). I've had mine disabled for a long time and I never see any significant changes to the UI I know and love.
They say that just to be on the safe side. Everything I order from them arrives before the *beginning* of the predicted arrival period. So if they say "estimated delivery in 2 or 3 weeks", it arrives in one. Or earlier. I've had orders arrive in a mere 2 working days (ordered sunday, shipped monday and was here wednesday morning).
I usually order from their UK department from another country in europe, but I've ordered from the US in the past. The only time an order ever arrived past their estimated delivery period (it was coming from the US) they refunded me. If they're going to do that, it makes sense from a business standpoint to have broad estimated delivery periods.
Well, yes, it's action-adventure. Can't it be an action-adventure platformer AND good?;)
It's a Tim Schaffer game. You play it for the awesome humor and absent minded insanity that made the Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango so enjoyable. Do NOT expect item-based puzzles, it's rather more collection-based (with platformer-style fights and boss fights spread through it, as well as character control based challenges).
Note that I'm a huge fan of Schaffer's, so I'm not exactly neutral.
An advice: Psychonauts is a masterpiece, but don't be discouraged by the somewhat lengthy training part (3 levels, with 1 plot level simultaneously) and play until the end. The six real psychic missions are very well made and (almost always) very funny.
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Did any of these people, or I, start a long bloody war or burn anyone?
Can you explain to me how, exactly, sharing a belief with criminals who live far away or lived hundreds of years ago and who I never met makes me one?
If you like yoghurt and so did Hitler, can I reproach you for that? (I know, I know, Godwin.)
See Mersenne, who I mentioned in my previous post. He was a friend and defender of Galileo, mentioned by the OP. Galileo was persecuted by the inquisition, but defended by this theologian. Does it really make sense to stereotype them all into evil monsters? I don't think so.
Marin Mersenne
Gregor Mendel
Julius Nieuwland
Georges Lemaitre
You fanatic atheists are just as bad, if not worse, than fanatic religious believers. Your baseless hatred and uninformed blunders don't lend you a lot of credibility, you know?
True scientists are open minded. Fortunately for the world, both the people you mentioned and the people I mentioned were not like you.
If you read my post more carefully, you may notice it mentions USERS.
See, if I write a CMS for (let's say) a microchip factory, there is going to be a LOT less people using IE6 than if I make a website for, for example, a gardening store. In this second case, all my client cares about is that his users, who are his source of income, cannot view the website properly without taking action to change their browser first, and they will consider the website "broken".
The real problem here is that people doing the right thing may lose touch with part of their customer base.
But it's none of my business anyway, because I do NOT write nonstandard websites or IE6 hacks ;) I'd refuse the client.
I'm a web developer and I'm already doing that. However, people from certain areas of business may have the majority of their users still visiting through IE6. When that happens, your only choices are either to support IE6 or not to work for that client.
Nay, both games will ALSO be released on the good old PC.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition-coming-to-xbla-pc/
http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210601/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition-first-look
*I* am. Maybe you meant to reply to Mr. Nice Gui?
Also, sorry for double posting, but remember that the previous Monkey Island games are divided in self-contained "chapters", usually each being an island or ship. I think this makes conversion to episode format easy, although admittedly I'd also prefer to have just one full game...
All the people who used to work on these great games left LucasArts. I very much prefer to have a game developed by people with experience and emotional attachment to the previous ones. Also, it looks like this has been in the works for a while.
I'm not that crazy about Sam and Max in first place, and it's a different game, with different expectations and scheduled differently. Wasn't the new episodic game made for GameTap? I know from my experience with Uru Live that GameTap demands speed above everything and that can result in rushed work...
One of the original designers, the original composer and a few other members of the original team, plus the voice cast from games 3 and 4, are in this game's development team.
I'm hopeful.
Because they own all of those...
Even if you are not connected to the internet, you should not use IP addresses that are not reserved for local networks. However, since they own the space, they can do whatever they want with it.
It's still a huge waste, though. A single /8 could provide enough addresses for the entire population of my country to have a computer connected to the internet... And there would still be millions left over.
Yeah, they should give up their second lives and get first lives.
Then they could spend them here on Slashdot like the rest of us.
Personally, I think Stallman exaggerates; that is not the issue.
Regardless of what wikipedia has accomplished, both the people in the foundation and many of its high-ranked users are anything but open-minded. And, though I do not have a wikipedia account, I say this as a frequent visitor (at least once a day) who *loves* wikipedia. I'm just sorry about many things I regularly see when browsing through it and some things I hear about it.
Am I the only one who laughed after reading this?
Media Player Classic is not Windows Media Player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic
Thank you, I do use that version. Although I tend to change depending on my needs, I'm currently quite happy with keeping up with the Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/), which has Homecinema in it.
I don't remember the entire version history of MPC off the top of my head, but in the latest MPC Homecinema you can go to the options dialog and change the default font for SRTs, as well as the subtitle spacing. Note that some embedded subtitle streams may contain font information, in which case the problems are the encoder's (or subber's) fault.
I'm a Windows user. I prefer Media Player Classic to VLC. It just works better for me.
I also think Bender's Game is good, it has plenty of memorable moments. I'm not saying it's better than the first seasons as a whole, but it's at least better than the less memorable episodes.
Are you sure? Flagfox says the IPs are swedish.
They did have backups in other countries the last time they were shut down though.
Go to Preferences > Index and disable Beta Index (should be the first checkbox). I've had mine disabled for a long time and I never see any significant changes to the UI I know and love.
Idle is still green though :P
Apologies, just posting to undo a bad moderation I accidentally made.
They say that just to be on the safe side. Everything I order from them arrives before the *beginning* of the predicted arrival period. So if they say "estimated delivery in 2 or 3 weeks", it arrives in one. Or earlier. I've had orders arrive in a mere 2 working days (ordered sunday, shipped monday and was here wednesday morning).
I usually order from their UK department from another country in europe, but I've ordered from the US in the past. The only time an order ever arrived past their estimated delivery period (it was coming from the US) they refunded me. If they're going to do that, it makes sense from a business standpoint to have broad estimated delivery periods.
Well, yes, it's action-adventure. Can't it be an action-adventure platformer AND good? ;)
It's a Tim Schaffer game. You play it for the awesome humor and absent minded insanity that made the Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango so enjoyable. Do NOT expect item-based puzzles, it's rather more collection-based (with platformer-style fights and boss fights spread through it, as well as character control based challenges).
Note that I'm a huge fan of Schaffer's, so I'm not exactly neutral.
An advice: Psychonauts is a masterpiece, but don't be discouraged by the somewhat lengthy training part (3 levels, with 1 plot level simultaneously) and play until the end. The six real psychic missions are very well made and (almost always) very funny.
Tim Schaffer's studio Double Fine is working on Brütal Legend, you may be interested:
http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/projects
Also try Psychonauts. It's free on Gametap until the end of the year, so if you hurry...