Not inventive? You've got to be kidding me. I love it that there's 9 classes each with it's own weaknesses and strengths. That's different from most FPS'es I know.
And the graphics are fantastic. The cartoonesque atmosphere is a lot more fun than a realistic one would be.
The grenades were removed because of very valid reasons, like the stupid spamming at the beginning of every map. Too bad they had to include critical hits which ruins the game for me in a completely other way
Really, I don't understand what you want. You want innovation but at the same time you're mad at Valve because they didn't copy stuff from the old Team Fortress? That's pretty contradictory. And don't forget that a bad economy is not good for innovation, companies are more likely to stay with the old tried and true methods, because it's those which bring in the big bucks.
No, the moon could very well be in orbit. Do you know what tidally locked means? It means the same side of the satellite is always facing the planet and likewise the same side of the planet always faces the sun. Someone standing on the sattelite and looking up will of course see different views of the planet, and someone standing on the planet will of course see the star from all sides. But it won't move from it's location in the sky.
A laptop doing typical work should only need to access the drive every few minutes, batching up writes to conserve energy. If Ubuntu insists upon pathological behaviour because, like many things Unix, it can't shake off its "server heritage", it is up to Ubuntu to say "please, hard drive, act like you're in a desktop".
Well, that's exactly the point. Ubuntu uses the HDD too little and because the HDD is manufactured for Windows-stupid defaults, it gets trashed in Linux AND (notice the AND) in newer, more efficient version of Windows. This is solely the manufacturer's fault, you should not blame Ubuntu, Windows, FreeBSD, whatever for it. And what are complaining about now? Ubuntu is the first to fix it. I'm glad I only use Vista for some stupid College program.
It's anticompetitive because it doesn't run on Mac PPC, Linux and FreeBSD? RFTS. And I doubt it'll force Adobe to improve. And those W3C idiots will never do something worthwhile. They had something great going with Canvas but I don't think a lot will come of that. Too bad.
I detect five AP's here, mostly from my neighbours and I still have a really good connection with my own wireless router. I haven't had a problem with interference at all, even when other PC's working in the same channel.
All the AP's occupy another channel (except 6), so the four channels I see are 1, 4, 6 and 9. My own AP is also in 6. So I guess the best solution is to spread them.
Also, and I don't know wether I could work, but you could use channel 64 ( 5.32 GHz ). Most likely, nobody is using that one but maybe your router will not support that. I know mine does.
I don't think so. This was completely voluntary. The tracking is disabled by default. They could very easily track everything at the repository servers, but they're not doing that because that would harm your privacy.
"System" (in the upper left corner) --> "Help & Support". Right before me, I see off-line support.
What's on the top of the page? "Common questions", including a link "Connecting to the Internet". This leads me to a convenient page, explaining how to connect to the Internet in a lot of ways, like ADSL, Wireless, PPPoE, 56k modems.
So no, there is no magic internet CD but with only a tiny bit of effort, she could have solved her problems on her own.
ANd if she couldn't do this, which is acceptable, she could have asked someone in her class to do this, I mean in college, there has to be someone who uses Ubuntu or at least possesses the problem-solving skill of a 10 year old.
That's absolutely not rare. Until now, I have used three different printers with Ubuntu (yes "only" three, I don't go out every day looking for printers to test and I seldom have to print something). And all three worked plug-and-play which is more than I can say for Windows.
I guess a good rule is: "If it works out of the box: Hurray! Else, you need a geek and you could be fucked (not by the geek).".
Emacs wouldn't be hidden in the "Office" menu, but more likely in the "Programming" section. And if she would open it, she would probably realize that's not what she was looking for and close it.
I mean, if she couldn't understand that she was looking for "Word processor" then I don't think she would have passed the class in the first place. And what do you think she would have done if Vista had been installed on the laptop? Vista doesn't come with an office suite. And all the buttons are in a different place than on XP. Panic, panic, panic, let's call the news? No, she would have asked the person using the brain cell in the family to "fix" it for her.
Then tell me what does not Just Work. If you're so daft that you can't even figure out to clock on Applications->Office->Word processor, then you should consider an elementary computer class, with no matter which OS. Even OS X is harder, you have to navigate the Dock first.
Remember, this is not someone who installed Ubuntu, Dell did that for her.
I'd like to see a kernel that could do things like coping with new drivers without a reboot, and even find a way to "move things over" to a new kernel before shutting down the old one instead of having to reboot for that. I'm sure it's possible somehow, to be able to "hot swap" everything running on top of the old kernel to the new one, somehow. The expectations for creativity need to be raised higher. ^^
Vegetarianism torture? How so? It worked out pretty good so far for me.
I don't know what you mean by body type, but I do know that practically everybody can life as healthy from a vegetarian diet as from a meat including diet, or even more so. Veganism on the other hand.
..., but right now Mac has over three times the users.
To be honest, I doubt it. Anecdotal evidence is worth nothing of course but I personally know 11 people using Linux and only two Mac users.
Apart from the ubiquitous iPod's, Apple isn't really known here in Europe. There are no ads on the TV and at least as far as I know, the elitism of MacHeads is really looked down upon.
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Then what happens if Linux takes over the desktop?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aDL78iMCdOzk
I for one, would like Apple to go down together with Steve Jobs just to prove a DRM-and-FOSS related point with one of my former classmates.
Not inventive? You've got to be kidding me. I love it that there's 9 classes each with it's own weaknesses and strengths. That's different from most FPS'es I know.
And the graphics are fantastic. The cartoonesque atmosphere is a lot more fun than a realistic one would be.
The grenades were removed because of very valid reasons, like the stupid spamming at the beginning of every map. Too bad they had to include critical hits which ruins the game for me in a completely other way
Really, I don't understand what you want. You want innovation but at the same time you're mad at Valve because they didn't copy stuff from the old Team Fortress? That's pretty contradictory. And don't forget that a bad economy is not good for innovation, companies are more likely to stay with the old tried and true methods, because it's those which bring in the big bucks.
The keyword here is multiple. It should be an interesting variation on the theme to collect multiple flags (briefcases, floppy disks, whatever...).
That's exactly my point. I'm personifying one of those nutty creationists who refute evolution and say that we were intelligently designed.
The worm initially spread to systems unpatched against MS08-067, but has since 'evolved
It hasn't evolved. This is clearly Intelligent Design and anyone denying this is a godless heathen!
No, the moon could very well be in orbit.
Do you know what tidally locked means? It means the same side of the satellite is always facing the planet and likewise the same side of the planet always faces the sun. Someone standing on the sattelite and looking up will of course see different views of the planet, and someone standing on the planet will of course see the star from all sides. But it won't move from it's location in the sky.
Yes he did. He made a refrigerator.
A laptop doing typical work should only need to access the drive every few minutes, batching up writes to conserve energy. If Ubuntu insists upon pathological behaviour because, like many things Unix, it can't shake off its "server heritage", it is up to Ubuntu to say "please, hard drive, act like you're in a desktop".
Well, that's exactly the point. Ubuntu uses the HDD too little and because the HDD is manufactured for Windows-stupid defaults, it gets trashed in Linux AND (notice the AND) in newer, more efficient version of Windows. This is solely the manufacturer's fault, you should not blame Ubuntu, Windows, FreeBSD, whatever for it. And what are complaining about now? Ubuntu is the first to fix it. I'm glad I only use Vista for some stupid College program.
That means that unless Microsoft fixes this even AFTER Canonical has fixed it, you're hard-drive is still being abused in Windows.
No, you just fed a troll. You're actually supposed to starve them to death.
It's anticompetitive because it doesn't run on Mac PPC, Linux and FreeBSD? RFTS.
And I doubt it'll force Adobe to improve. And those W3C idiots will never do something worthwhile. They had something great going with Canvas but I don't think a lot will come of that. Too bad.
And you're posting this on Slashdot.
Preaching to the choir much?
I detect five AP's here, mostly from my neighbours and I still have a really good connection with my own wireless router. I haven't had a problem with interference at all, even when other PC's working in the same channel.
All the AP's occupy another channel (except 6), so the four channels I see are 1, 4, 6 and 9. My own AP is also in 6. So I guess the best solution is to spread them.
Also, and I don't know wether I could work, but you could use channel 64 ( 5.32 GHz ). Most likely, nobody is using that one but maybe your router will not support that. I know mine does.
Remember the broken private key generator?
I don't think so. This was completely voluntary. The tracking is disabled by default.
They could very easily track everything at the repository servers, but they're not doing that because that would harm your privacy.
Nonsense, Windows implemented a good TCP/IP stack long ago. In fact, some think it could have been the BSD stack.
What's on the top of the page? "Common questions", including a link "Connecting to the Internet". This leads me to a convenient page, explaining how to connect to the Internet in a lot of ways, like ADSL, Wireless, PPPoE, 56k modems.
So no, there is no magic internet CD but with only a tiny bit of effort, she could have solved her problems on her own.
ANd if she couldn't do this, which is acceptable, she could have asked someone in her class to do this, I mean in college, there has to be someone who uses Ubuntu or at least possesses the problem-solving skill of a 10 year old.
That's absolutely not rare. Until now, I have used three different printers with Ubuntu (yes "only" three, I don't go out every day looking for printers to test and I seldom have to print something). And all three worked plug-and-play which is more than I can say for Windows.
I guess a good rule is: "If it works out of the box: Hurray! Else, you need a geek and you could be fucked (not by the geek).".
Emacs wouldn't be hidden in the "Office" menu, but more likely in the "Programming" section. And if she would open it, she would probably realize that's not what she was looking for and close it.
I mean, if she couldn't understand that she was looking for "Word processor" then I don't think she would have passed the class in the first place. And what do you think she would have done if Vista had been installed on the laptop? Vista doesn't come with an office suite. And all the buttons are in a different place than on XP. Panic, panic, panic, let's call the news? No, she would have asked the person using the brain cell in the family to "fix" it for her.
Gawd, not this again.
Then tell me what does not Just Work. If you're so daft that you can't even figure out to clock on Applications->Office->Word processor, then you should consider an elementary computer class, with no matter which OS. Even OS X is harder, you have to navigate the Dock first.
Remember, this is not someone who installed Ubuntu, Dell did that for her.
I'd like to see a kernel that could do things like coping with new drivers without a reboot, and even find a way to "move things over" to a new kernel before shutting down the old one instead of having to reboot for that. I'm sure it's possible somehow, to be able to "hot swap" everything running on top of the old kernel to the new one, somehow. The expectations for creativity need to be raised higher. ^^
Ever heard of kexec?
Vegetarianism torture? How so? It worked out pretty good so far for me.
I don't know what you mean by body type, but I do know that practically everybody can life as healthy from a vegetarian diet as from a meat including diet, or even more so. Veganism on the other hand.
I think a lot of slashdotters, including me anyways, would love the monotony. No fancy surprises, always knowing exactly what to do. Paradise!
..., but right now Mac has over three times the users.
To be honest, I doubt it. Anecdotal evidence is worth nothing of course but I personally know 11 people using Linux and only two Mac users.
Apart from the ubiquitous iPod's, Apple isn't really known here in Europe. There are no ads on the TV and at least as far as I know, the elitism of MacHeads is really looked down upon.