Do you honestly think that Slashdot would listen if they said they couldn't handle the load? I don't believe they ever have before. Slashdot doesn't care if it burns somebody's little web server to the ground -- the editors know that any site they link to will be ground to a halt, but they do it anyway, without asking for permission or linking to a cached page of it. That's why it's abuse.
You seem to be under some misconceptions. Port 110 is used by POP3, a protocol for receiving mail. Port 25 is used for SMTP, which is what all programs use to send mail. There are some firewalls (such as those at college campuses) that only allow certain ports inbound; for example, at my old college, some of the few ports they allowed were 20 through 25. So the natural thing to do is to set up any filesharing program to listen to those ports; however, when you try connecting to anybody else on port 25, ZoneAlarm automatically thinks that you're trying to connect to an SMTP server to send mail, even if that's not what you're really doing.
You have to keep in mind that back when ZSNES was first being developed, computers weren't fast enough to emulate a SNES properly. I recall first using ZSNES on a Pentium 2, 300 MHz; not top-of-the-line, but a pretty good computer for the time. As far as I can recall, there weren't any SNES emulators that would run games at full speed, but ZSNES came pretty close; SNES 9x was more accurate, but also considerably slower unless most of the features were disabled.
It's interesting that you say that, because in my own anecdotal experience, the people who love FF7 usually hadn't played any other FF games before they played that one. Personally, I've also been playing FF games since FF1 came out in the US, and FF7 is my least favorite; I thought that FFX was the best FF game since 6, although I also enjoyed 9 (and 8, but not as much). I haven't played enough of X-2 to form an opinion on it, but I have friends who have been playing since the early days and they've enjoyed it.
The point is that it's all a matter of personal opinion. As you say, they're not catering to the exact same people with each new game they release -- otherwise they'd just be making the same game over and over again. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.
Actually, it could be done pretty much the same way as it's handled on Macintosh keyboards -- put a little modifier button on their that changes the click to a ctrl-click when it's held down. You don't really need to use it that often, anyway.
I don't think you understand what the "Use Personalized Menus" option does. The only thing it does is automatically hide menu items that haven't been used in an arbitrary amount of time. Each user can still have their own set of menu items -- in fact, at my workplace, the "Use Personalized Menus" option has been disabled as part of the company's domain's group policy, and the only effect is that users are no longer confused by disappearing items.
It's amusing to note that you're using a UNIX-shell style variable -- $WINDOWS -- in a question where "People who don't use Windows" is the obvious answer. What you're looking for on a Windows platform is %SYSTEMROOT%\Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\W av .
In Final Fantasy XI, there was actually a pretty sizable outcry when it was announced that marriages would be male-female only, especially since there are two races that only have one playable gender.
Square-Enix has done nothing about it, though. You'd think that a non-American company would be a little less rigid about such issues...
Oh, constantly. Other than sex, you typically also have at least your character's race (human, elf, dwarf, etc.) and class (fighter, wizard, thief, etc.), and you can't throw a rock into a MMORPG community without hitting somebody who thinks that their particular choice is at a disadvantage.
That's arguable... I'm a poor-to-average human player, but I can play evenly against the best Go program. This isn't one of those games that a brute-force algorithm can solve.;-)
Except that many people consider SaGa Frontier to be one of the most innovative games Square has created since the SNES days. I, for example, enjoyed it quite a bit -- but then, I also liked FFX and couldn't stand FFVII. Just because somebody's opinion differs from yours does not make them stupid.
How does it fit the definition? Here's the first definition:
"a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning."
That doesn't work. Microsoft definitely said what they meant to say. So, here's the second:
"a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated (Richard Kain). b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic."
Microsoft has a tradition of insulting competitors for their lack of interoperability. No surprise there. They also have a tradition of not licensing out their own proprietary formats. So, that's also not a surprise. There's no incongruity here.
It is hypocritical for them to insult Apple for not licensing iPod functionality while they use ActiveX, but not ironic. It would've been ironic if they created their own portable music player and tried to license it to Real, and Real replied that they weren't interested.
In particular, for some reason the game initially detected my card as having 64 MB of RAM, but I have 128 -- I noticed a huge improvement after manually setting the appropriate values for 128 MB. Sometimes messing with the options in the video menu will reset the values, though, so make sure to make a backup of your config file after you've got it working nicely.
Keep in mind that ATI's cards are known for their weak OpenGL support. I have a GeForce FX 5700, and with a little bit of tweaking, I can run Doom 3 at 1024x768 in high detail at a constant 60fps, and I haven't seen it drop below 30 fps. I have an Athlon XP 2200 and 512 MB of RAM, so it's not like the rest of my computer is incredible, either. I wouldn't be surprised if a GF 5200 could run it acceptably on medium settings.
You appear to have missed the point; it's not that he doesn't want to play with the CD in, but that the game won't run with Daemon Tools active. I doubt that a No-CD crack also removes the part of the executable that checks to see if Daemon Tools is running.
No, that's a misinterpretation. The port runs, but they don't have a publisher for it at the moment, and they want to do more optimization on it anyway.
The same applies to Mac OS X, only less so. For instance, some applications use that brushed metal look, and some don't.
And, believe it or not, there are guidelines about what kind of applications should use the brushed metal look. Read this: Brushed Metal Windows
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines are very extensive. It's a good idea to read them before you do any development on a Mac -- otherwise your app will undoubtedly come out feeling "strange" to users.
But you see, the CPU manufacturers do have to purchase memory, and that gets factored in to the price of the CPU. CPU cache memory is very expensive compared to DRAM.
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Out of curiosity, what UNIX man page would I go to to learn how to write a GUI "hello world" program in that environment?
If your servers can't handle the load, say so.
Do you honestly think that Slashdot would listen if they said they couldn't handle the load? I don't believe they ever have before. Slashdot doesn't care if it burns somebody's little web server to the ground -- the editors know that any site they link to will be ground to a halt, but they do it anyway, without asking for permission or linking to a cached page of it. That's why it's abuse.
You seem to be under some misconceptions. Port 110 is used by POP3, a protocol for receiving mail. Port 25 is used for SMTP, which is what all programs use to send mail. There are some firewalls (such as those at college campuses) that only allow certain ports inbound; for example, at my old college, some of the few ports they allowed were 20 through 25. So the natural thing to do is to set up any filesharing program to listen to those ports; however, when you try connecting to anybody else on port 25, ZoneAlarm automatically thinks that you're trying to connect to an SMTP server to send mail, even if that's not what you're really doing.
You have to keep in mind that back when ZSNES was first being developed, computers weren't fast enough to emulate a SNES properly. I recall first using ZSNES on a Pentium 2, 300 MHz; not top-of-the-line, but a pretty good computer for the time. As far as I can recall, there weren't any SNES emulators that would run games at full speed, but ZSNES came pretty close; SNES 9x was more accurate, but also considerably slower unless most of the features were disabled.
It's interesting that you say that, because in my own anecdotal experience, the people who love FF7 usually hadn't played any other FF games before they played that one. Personally, I've also been playing FF games since FF1 came out in the US, and FF7 is my least favorite; I thought that FFX was the best FF game since 6, although I also enjoyed 9 (and 8, but not as much). I haven't played enough of X-2 to form an opinion on it, but I have friends who have been playing since the early days and they've enjoyed it.
The point is that it's all a matter of personal opinion. As you say, they're not catering to the exact same people with each new game they release -- otherwise they'd just be making the same game over and over again. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it's crap.
Actually, it could be done pretty much the same way as it's handled on Macintosh keyboards -- put a little modifier button on their that changes the click to a ctrl-click when it's held down. You don't really need to use it that often, anyway.
I don't think you understand what the "Use Personalized Menus" option does. The only thing it does is automatically hide menu items that haven't been used in an arbitrary amount of time. Each user can still have their own set of menu items -- in fact, at my workplace, the "Use Personalized Menus" option has been disabled as part of the company's domain's group policy, and the only effect is that users are no longer confused by disappearing items.
It's amusing to note that you're using a UNIX-shell style variable -- $WINDOWS -- in a question where "People who don't use Windows" is the obvious answer. What you're looking for on a Windows platform is %SYSTEMROOT%\Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\W av .
I didn't vote for another four years of this. Why do I deserve it?
While same-sex marriages are certainly not universally accepted, the majority of moral arguments against them stem from Christrian roots.
Personal attacks aren't a good way to make a convincing argument.
In Final Fantasy XI, there was actually a pretty sizable outcry when it was announced that marriages would be male-female only, especially since there are two races that only have one playable gender.
Square-Enix has done nothing about it, though. You'd think that a non-American company would be a little less rigid about such issues...
Oh, constantly. Other than sex, you typically also have at least your character's race (human, elf, dwarf, etc.) and class (fighter, wizard, thief, etc.), and you can't throw a rock into a MMORPG community without hitting somebody who thinks that their particular choice is at a disadvantage.
That's arguable... I'm a poor-to-average human player, but I can play evenly against the best Go program. This isn't one of those games that a brute-force algorithm can solve. ;-)
Except that many people consider SaGa Frontier to be one of the most innovative games Square has created since the SNES days. I, for example, enjoyed it quite a bit -- but then, I also liked FFX and couldn't stand FFVII. Just because somebody's opinion differs from yours does not make them stupid.
How does it fit the definition? Here's the first definition:
"a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning."
That doesn't work. Microsoft definitely said what they meant to say. So, here's the second:
"a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated (Richard Kain).
b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic."
Microsoft has a tradition of insulting competitors for their lack of interoperability. No surprise there. They also have a tradition of not licensing out their own proprietary formats. So, that's also not a surprise. There's no incongruity here.
(kind of ironic when ActiveX is required to use the site)
No. Here is the definition of irony.
It is hypocritical for them to insult Apple for not licensing iPod functionality while they use ActiveX, but not ironic. It would've been ironic if they created their own portable music player and tried to license it to Real, and Real replied that they weren't interested.
some good tweaking information, too. That'll teach me to read more carefully when I use the preview option. :-p
Here's a web page that has soom good tweaking information:t weakd3/ t m
http://www.viperlair.com/articles/howto/software/
And another page that has a list of recommended settings based on how much RAM your card has:
http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FPSVisuals.h
In particular, for some reason the game initially detected my card as having 64 MB of RAM, but I have 128 -- I noticed a huge improvement after manually setting the appropriate values for 128 MB. Sometimes messing with the options in the video menu will reset the values, though, so make sure to make a backup of your config file after you've got it working nicely.
Keep in mind that ATI's cards are known for their weak OpenGL support. I have a GeForce FX 5700, and with a little bit of tweaking, I can run Doom 3 at 1024x768 in high detail at a constant 60fps, and I haven't seen it drop below 30 fps. I have an Athlon XP 2200 and 512 MB of RAM, so it's not like the rest of my computer is incredible, either. I wouldn't be surprised if a GF 5200 could run it acceptably on medium settings.
You appear to have missed the point; it's not that he doesn't want to play with the CD in, but that the game won't run with Daemon Tools active. I doubt that a No-CD crack also removes the part of the executable that checks to see if Daemon Tools is running.
No, I'm sure he means 7.5. Of course, 7.54 is out by now.
No, that's a misinterpretation. The port runs, but they don't have a publisher for it at the moment, and they want to do more optimization on it anyway.
The same applies to Mac OS X, only less so. For instance, some applications use that brushed metal look, and some don't.
And, believe it or not, there are guidelines about what kind of applications should use the brushed metal look. Read this: Brushed Metal Windows
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines are very extensive. It's a good idea to read them before you do any development on a Mac -- otherwise your app will undoubtedly come out feeling "strange" to users.
But you see, the CPU manufacturers do have to purchase memory, and that gets factored in to the price of the CPU. CPU cache memory is very expensive compared to DRAM.
Are you sure? How do you know your window manager's process hasn't been replaced with one that's had a backdoor hacked into it?