AS far as I'm aware, the only thing they have for Moodle is a Windows Live Plugin, that lets you do Windows Live Searches and have some sort of MSN Messnger functionality.
This isn't Microsoft caring about GPL or whatever, it's about a small project that gives them more hooks into more websites. It gives people learning to use the web in a formal environment MORE Microsoft.
- Dragonforce: Through the Fire and the Flames - Jimi Hendrix: Fire - Kings of Leon: Sex on Fire - Prodigy: Fire Starter - Jerry Lee Lewis: Great balls of fire - Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water
the only option I can find that would resemble what you're saying disables ALL font rendering other than the fonts you've chosen above (IE, ones you already have on your system). I tested it with a custom page, using Georgia, and it displayed it as Arial. When I reenabled the box it rendered properly.
AFAIK there is no option to stop fonts from being downloaded, and unchecking this option may not stop them being downloaded at all
If we're talking about redirects, it would be quite easy to generate a 404 page that would redirect you to the Wikipedia page, either through a link or as a straight redirect. Or, if you can, use.htaccess and set up redirect rules there (it's the way wikipedia works anyway AFAIK, it just means adding more rules to your existing one)
Among the updates Source has had: (from the Source Engine Wikipedia page Half-life 2: Episode 1 added High Dynamic Range lighting (pretty major) which was then able to be copied across all other source games (like Counter-strike source) The Orange Box added a new Soft Particle system Left 4 Dead added new shadow routines for more realistic bump-mapping and rendering routines for rendering large numbers of enemies (Zombies in this case)
a good movement system on it's own does not make a good PvP system
yes, a bad movement system can break PvP... but so can unbalanced classes, unintended exploits, poor network code and a myriad of other things. the GGP said that Asherons call had the best engine because it's PvP was the best due to the movement code. He mentioned nothing of the game itself, gave no indication as to WHY it was better (i think there's a sibling post later that has an example) The movement system could quite easilly have made it impossible to properly PvE, or the network code could have been laggy and horrible, the basic UI could have been unresponsive and unwieldy.
Just because the movment system worked for one part of the game, doesn't automatically make it the best engine.
Source isn't really that good. Or rather, it's Graphics aren't that good... and that won't make for a lovely 'next gen' video
I love Source, it's piss-easy to create content for, and there are shitload of 3rd party applications to speed up creation (Packrat, VTFEdit, and Milkshape from goldSRC - although Milkshape tended to SLOW creation at times:D)
You get Source-only modeling tools in the shape of XSI Softimage, for free, which is awesome.
Things like this is why Source is the biggest Modding platform ever, but that's also hurting it slightly in the main stream. All these amatuers creating sub-standard mods are giving Source a bad image (I can think of no mods that live up to Valves standards) and one of the few Commercial Source games released - Vampire Bloodlines - was riddled with bugs, and made a right mess of the lauded Source Facial Animation system leaving us well within the uncanny valley.
Sin: Episodes was slightly better, and completly ignored (just as Sin 1 was overshadowed by the original Half-life) and all their dev team left for other jobs leaving the whole thing in limbo.
Three of the most popular online games have been made in Source (Counter Strike Source, TF2 and L4D) and one of the most innovative and fun games in recent times (Portal) - most have been made by teams that started independant but became part of Valve.
The curse of Source - Merge with Valve or Fail miserably.
Imo, PvP is considered Content, and has nothing to do with the engine.
A Game engine focuses on things like the underlying game mechanics (movement, physics etc), graphics rendering (Including, but not limited to Shader language, Character animation system, the basic UI handlers and texture engine) network handling and whatever scripting language is used to create content.
Things that come under "Content" are all the things that are put on top of an engine to make a game. IE Combat, interacting with NPCs, Menu systems, Inventory systems, weapons. Most of which is done through whatever scripting language the engine uses (In the case of Unreal it's the UnrealED application and it's scripting language. In the case of Source, it's a mixture of many things, mainly Map-based Entities created through Hammer and C#/C++ if you're changing game mechanics)
Having never played Asherons Call, I can't comment on the gameplay, but a good movement system on it's own does not make a good PvP system.
You seem to be making the case that if you want to LAN you also want to Pirate games, which simply isn't the case.
There are people, like me, who are much worse off than you internet wise, and, hell, much worse off than me...
My backup storage is on DVD/Memory Stick My email is on the web, and I expect that something Internet based be on the Internet. My home network is not accessible outside because I don't need it everywhere I don't own a printer at home I own one computer I own one computer I own one computer I own one computer and it's on Wifi, because my socket is in another room and I'm not getting a 20m cable just to plug my box in
Not only that, but I regularly unplug my box (which is a midi-tower, and quite light) and take it up to my friends house so we can LAN together. We play things like Left 4 Dead, which while requiring Steam, CAN be played without a net connection active. We play old C&C games and Starcraft 1. Unreal Tournament, both classic and the newest one, SWAT 4 and various Half-life mods.
There's a difference between keeping progress at one point in time and maintaining some form of safety net.I don't mind games companies assuming I have an Internet connection, but I do mind them assuming I'll always have it up (LAN parties happen, outages happen, and if one does, I don't want my box to be limp and lifeless because of it - this goes for things like web-based office apps too)
I don't mind having to authenticate with a central server - ONCE. Or indeed, whenever I play online. Just let me LAN!
Bill Nye ruined his standing with me when he appeared on an episode of Stargate Atlantis...
now I do like that show, but it was one of those 'lets see how many geek references we can get in one show while completly ignoring the story' episodes. And Nye just felt like such a limp wristed numpty, like he KNEW it was shit and didn't care.
I've known a few kids who want to get into science after seeing the new Star Trek film, but I don't know how long that's going to last (you know, like all those kids who wanted to be archeologists after watching Jurassic Park or Indiana Jones)
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What if they're not peas... but infact Nuts... or indeed, beans. We need more research into them before we go classifying them definitly
Who could forget this Gem based on the W3D engine
"From Nazi's to Namibia" would work
although, I'm not sure where Far Cry 2 is set, Namibia certainly looks the part
Kan jeg spørre deg om litt hjelp? Jeg trenger en engelsk-norsk ordbok. Jeg forlanger å få snakke med den fem fem to diesel toget!
AS far as I'm aware, the only thing they have for Moodle is a Windows Live Plugin, that lets you do Windows Live Searches and have some sort of MSN Messnger functionality.
This isn't Microsoft caring about GPL or whatever, it's about a small project that gives them more hooks into more websites. It gives people learning to use the web in a formal environment MORE Microsoft.
- Dragonforce: Through the Fire and the Flames
- Jimi Hendrix: Fire
- Kings of Leon: Sex on Fire
- Prodigy: Fire Starter
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Great balls of fire
- Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water
I could go on all day :D
Is that the one where you can clearly see Neil Armstrong sticking the finger up as he decends from the Lander?
O R'lyeh?
Ya. R'lyeh.
Everyone download NoScript Pronto!
the only option I can find that would resemble what you're saying disables ALL font rendering other than the fonts you've chosen above (IE, ones you already have on your system). I tested it with a custom page, using Georgia, and it displayed it as Arial. When I reenabled the box it rendered properly.
AFAIK there is no option to stop fonts from being downloaded, and unchecking this option may not stop them being downloaded at all
Holy hell, did you know they made a 13-episode Animated Series of Spaceballs? :O
The shuttle will be lucky if they hit Plaid...
If we're talking about redirects, it would be quite easy to generate a 404 page that would redirect you to the Wikipedia page, either through a link or as a straight redirect. Or, if you can, use .htaccess and set up redirect rules there (it's the way wikipedia works anyway AFAIK, it just means adding more rules to your existing one)
A well written Javascript Bookmarklet will do the job too. You likely don't even need Greasemonkey, and it can be made cross-browser
This is the guy
you must be new here :)
Honestly, this seems like another human rights abuse... people should have the right to choose if they want to go through shock therapy!
but did we really require the big pic there?
Among the updates Source has had: (from the Source Engine Wikipedia page
Half-life 2: Episode 1 added High Dynamic Range lighting (pretty major) which was then able to be copied across all other source games (like Counter-strike source)
The Orange Box added a new Soft Particle system
Left 4 Dead added new shadow routines for more realistic bump-mapping and rendering routines for rendering large numbers of enemies (Zombies in this case)
My mistake, I'm just so used to putting C++/C# next to each other :P
yes, a bad movement system can break PvP... but so can unbalanced classes, unintended exploits, poor network code and a myriad of other things. the GGP said that Asherons call had the best engine because it's PvP was the best due to the movement code. He mentioned nothing of the game itself, gave no indication as to WHY it was better (i think there's a sibling post later that has an example)
The movement system could quite easilly have made it impossible to properly PvE, or the network code could have been laggy and horrible, the basic UI could have been unresponsive and unwieldy.
Just because the movment system worked for one part of the game, doesn't automatically make it the best engine.
Source isn't really that good. Or rather, it's Graphics aren't that good... and that won't make for a lovely 'next gen' video
I love Source, it's piss-easy to create content for, and there are shitload of 3rd party applications to speed up creation (Packrat, VTFEdit, and Milkshape from goldSRC - although Milkshape tended to SLOW creation at times :D)
You get Source-only modeling tools in the shape of XSI Softimage, for free, which is awesome.
Things like this is why Source is the biggest Modding platform ever, but that's also hurting it slightly in the main stream. All these amatuers creating sub-standard mods are giving Source a bad image (I can think of no mods that live up to Valves standards) and one of the few Commercial Source games released - Vampire Bloodlines - was riddled with bugs, and made a right mess of the lauded Source Facial Animation system leaving us well within the uncanny valley.
Sin: Episodes was slightly better, and completly ignored (just as Sin 1 was overshadowed by the original Half-life) and all their dev team left for other jobs leaving the whole thing in limbo.
Three of the most popular online games have been made in Source (Counter Strike Source, TF2 and L4D) and one of the most innovative and fun games in recent times (Portal) - most have been made by teams that started independant but became part of Valve.
The curse of Source - Merge with Valve or Fail miserably.
Imo, PvP is considered Content, and has nothing to do with the engine.
A Game engine focuses on things like the underlying game mechanics (movement, physics etc), graphics rendering (Including, but not limited to Shader language, Character animation system, the basic UI handlers and texture engine) network handling and whatever scripting language is used to create content.
Things that come under "Content" are all the things that are put on top of an engine to make a game. IE Combat, interacting with NPCs, Menu systems, Inventory systems, weapons. Most of which is done through whatever scripting language the engine uses (In the case of Unreal it's the UnrealED application and it's scripting language. In the case of Source, it's a mixture of many things, mainly Map-based Entities created through Hammer and C#/C++ if you're changing game mechanics)
Having never played Asherons Call, I can't comment on the gameplay, but a good movement system on it's own does not make a good PvP system.
Tiber Septim...
therefore, by association, he is Captain Picard...
and Ebeneezer Scrooge :S
You seem to be making the case that if you want to LAN you also want to Pirate games, which simply isn't the case.
There are people, like me, who are much worse off than you internet wise, and, hell, much worse off than me...
My backup storage is on DVD/Memory Stick
My email is on the web, and I expect that something Internet based be on the Internet.
My home network is not accessible outside because I don't need it everywhere
I don't own a printer at home
I own one computer
I own one computer
I own one computer
I own one computer and it's on Wifi, because my socket is in another room and I'm not getting a 20m cable just to plug my box in
Not only that, but I regularly unplug my box (which is a midi-tower, and quite light) and take it up to my friends house so we can LAN together. We play things like Left 4 Dead, which while requiring Steam, CAN be played without a net connection active. We play old C&C games and Starcraft 1. Unreal Tournament, both classic and the newest one, SWAT 4 and various Half-life mods.
There's a difference between keeping progress at one point in time and maintaining some form of safety net.I don't mind games companies assuming I have an Internet connection, but I do mind them assuming I'll always have it up (LAN parties happen, outages happen, and if one does, I don't want my box to be limp and lifeless because of it - this goes for things like web-based office apps too)
I don't mind having to authenticate with a central server - ONCE. Or indeed, whenever I play online. Just let me LAN!
Bill Nye ruined his standing with me when he appeared on an episode of Stargate Atlantis...
now I do like that show, but it was one of those 'lets see how many geek references we can get in one show while completly ignoring the story' episodes. And Nye just felt like such a limp wristed numpty, like he KNEW it was shit and didn't care.
I've known a few kids who want to get into science after seeing the new Star Trek film, but I don't know how long that's going to last (you know, like all those kids who wanted to be archeologists after watching Jurassic Park or Indiana Jones)
Back we go then to HTTP based web forms...