I've mirrored the important parts of the page here (minus their banners and decoration images -- I'm only running off of a 256k up DSL here, so be kind -- cast member portraits are all still intact.
For games, I don't think there's any question. You need the printed manual. In many cases your machine is locked down with the running game paused when you need to refer to the manual. Reading a PDF or other online document would mean quitting out of the game. And who wants to do that? If you took the time to refer to the manual at that point in the game, you're obviously too into it to quit out then.
And even if you can ALT-TAB out, do you really want to try that in 'doze and risk crashing your game, or at least slowing it down when you alt-tab back? I couldn't begin to count the number of times I paused Baldur's Gate to refer to the manual for some statistical or other data, for example. Having to alt-tab to a web browser would have made playing the game suck, and caused me to have to reboot at least twice as often as I otherwise would have had to.
This is irresponsible. Now those of us who really care and who have thus been following this game all along (and who consequently already knew about this) won't stand a chance of actually getting in on the closed beta, seeing as how the sign-up, once it comes out, will now be/.'ed by many people with only moderate interest who will through their sheer numbers manage to get most of the 1000 spots.
The pool of tester applicants will now increase by an order of magnitude or so, thereby reducing the chances of getting in for those of us who really care by a factor of ten. Thanks a lot.
Slashdot Mirror
I have the important parts of the page mirrored here:
http://mcc.ddts.net/www.trektoday.com/news/110501_ 01.html
I've mirrored the important parts of the page here (minus their banners and decoration images -- I'm only running off of a 256k up DSL here, so be kind -- cast member portraits are all still intact.
http://mcc.ddts.net/www.trektoday.com/news/110501_ 01.html
For games, I don't think there's any question. You need the printed manual. In many cases your machine is locked down with the running game paused when you need to refer to the manual. Reading a PDF or other online document would mean quitting out of the game. And who wants to do that? If you took the time to refer to the manual at that point in the game, you're obviously too into it to quit out then.
And even if you can ALT-TAB out, do you really want to try that in 'doze and risk crashing your game, or at least slowing it down when you alt-tab back? I couldn't begin to count the number of times I paused Baldur's Gate to refer to the manual for some statistical or other data, for example. Having to alt-tab to a web browser would have made playing the game suck, and caused me to have to reboot at least twice as often as I otherwise would have had to.
This is irresponsible. Now those of us who really care and who have thus been following this game all along (and who consequently already knew about this) won't stand a chance of actually getting in on the closed beta, seeing as how the sign-up, once it comes out, will now be /.'ed by many people with only moderate interest who will through their sheer numbers manage to get most of the 1000 spots.
The pool of tester applicants will now increase by an order of magnitude or so, thereby reducing the chances of getting in for those of us who really care by a factor of ten. Thanks a lot.
I have an HTML version available on my box here.
I've mirrored an HTML copy here:
/findfact.html
http://campbell.penguinpowered.com
I've mirrored an HTML copy here:
/findfact.html
http://campbell.penguinpowered.com
I've mirrored a copy here:
/findfact.html
http://campbell.penguinpowered.com
I've mirrored a copy here:
/findfact.html
http://campbell.penguinpowered.com
I've mirrored a copy here: http://campbell.penguinpowered.com /findfact.html