That entire left panel isn't there most of the time. Most of the time, you have your top bar and your active window (of which there are four showing on the right).
Hopefully BioWare will have co-op capital ship combat where multiple players are on a single ship who can fire turbo lasers, missile turrets, repair engines, shields, etc.
Be careful what you ask for. Your "etc." could translate to Jar-Jar Binks...
You're misparsing it - he wants to be able to fire: turbo lasers missile turrets repair engines (whatever those are!) shields (to defend your allies, of course!) AND Jar Jar Binks.
I think most fans would welcome the opportunity to jettison him.
Exactly - for my first computer (about a week and 7 years ago), I made explicitly sure to buy a 64-bit processor - it was the future! I didn't want to be left out when the entire computing world caught up to 64 bit computing.
7 years later we're still waiting for developers to catch on *cough* *Adobe.*
$172 a seat is expensive for a process that will benefit each employee for six years? If you make about $20 an hour (about $40k a year), one day's salary is $160. And while you're ignoring the cost of labor/work hours, you're also ignoring the benefits of the new OS.
I'd personally rather have Windows 7 on my machine and an extra gig of RAM than one extra vacation day every six years, but I suppose some companies think differently.
A mouse? No, you have a mouse instead of a right analog stick. Instead of the left analog stick that allows you to walk or run at different speeds in more than eight directions, you have WASD, and maybe a sprint or crouch key.
I'll take being able to walk where I want regardless of where I am facing over being able to play "click on their heads" any day.
Did you miss the part where OpenCL and DirectCompute run on both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards, and that AMD is promoting an open industry standard instead of a proprietary vendor-specific API?
Because I know it was really obvious, and sort of the entire point of the article, but it really sounds like you did.
Sure, Ogg theora *works* on a jailbroken iPhone. But it's dog slow, because it's not hardware accelerated. That's not something you can fix with a firmware update.
AC: Nah, this guy didn't screw up. He (LSD-OBS) replied to you (AC) because he (LSD-OBS) was agreeing with you (AC). That's why he said 'Yup.' Because he (LSD-OBS) was agreeing with you (AC).
When replying to a post, many people (present company included) use the word 'you' to refer to the person they are replying to. Having exhausted the second-person, use of third-person pronouns (such as he, her, or it) are used to refer to third parties. In this case, LSD-OBS' use of the word 'he' indicated that he found the author's (Zed Shaw's) sweeping generalizations strange.
Honestly, I am a little concerned that you are getting so worked up over this.
My problem with advertising in games isn't that I am fundamentally opposed to it - in fact, if it can make producing games more lucrative or cheaper for me, I'm all for it.
The problem is when you get two or three companies sponsoring an entire in-game world, and every other billboard is displaying the exact same advertisement. That breaks my immersion much faster than a made up product. But, it costs time and money to negotiate these deals, so it is much easier to get two big advertisers than the twenty or thirty that would make for added realism.
If advertisers and game producers didn't have to deal with negotiating a new deal each time, I imagine the diversity of in-game ads would go way up. Perhaps there is a business opportunity to be found here.
He never said nor suggested that Microsoft as a whole is your ally.
"I merely happen to have a different perspective on Microsoft than he has. I know that there are great people working for the company, and I know many people inside Microsoft that are steering the company towards being a community citizen. I have blogged about this for the last few years.
At the end of the day, we both want to see free software succeed. But Richard, instead of opening new fronts to promote his causes, attacks his own allies for not being replicas of himself."
He suggested that either himself, or Microsoft, or both, was his "ally."
No. He said that Richard Stallman attacks his allies. The very next sentence of TFA reads: To him, ridiculous statements like Linus "does not believe in Freedom" are somewhat normal. He is clearly referring to Linus Torvalds as Richard Stallman's ally.
Please don't deliberately misinterpret people that you don't agree with.
All this means is that Apple decided to use a chip that happened to support wireless 802.11N communication. Maybe it was a planned feature, but it got cut. Maybe it was just cheaper or easier to work with than other offerings.
Apple will not enable this at some point down the road, just as they won't activate the bluetooth chip inside older Ipod Touches. What _will_ happen is next year, they will sell a new model with the same chips, but this time with the necessary software support and bill it as a new compelling feature.
Please don't use this method. You are not creating an evenly distributed d8. From all 36 possible outcomes of 2d6, your "mod" d8 comes out like this:
1 - 5 times; 2 thru 6 - 4 times each; 7 - 5 times; 8 - 6 times. You COULD use some kind of conversion table, but even then you would need to throw away 4 of the 36 combinations to make it work.
(If you're furious with nerd rage right now: I'm kidding. If you're not furious: don't try this at home.)
Obligatory car analogy:
If you owned a rental car company, would you outfit your fleet with a self-destruct procedure that could be initiated remotely?
It's stuff like this that means we just might be alive 100 or 150 years from now. Just have to get some more vital organ replacements, and we'll be golden...
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That entire left panel isn't there most of the time. Most of the time, you have your top bar and your active window (of which there are four showing on the right).
They would sue you in a heartbeat if they thought they could make a dollar from it. Don't let them get away with hypocrisy.
Be careful what you ask for. Your "etc." could translate to Jar-Jar Binks...
You're misparsing it - he wants to be able to fire:
turbo lasers
missile turrets
repair engines (whatever those are!)
shields (to defend your allies, of course!)
AND
Jar Jar Binks.
I think most fans would welcome the opportunity to jettison him.
Honestly, I don't know whether this is the Uncanny Valley manifesting, but that kid just creeps me out.
Exactly - for my first computer (about a week and 7 years ago), I made explicitly sure to buy a 64-bit processor - it was the future! I didn't want to be left out when the entire computing world caught up to 64 bit computing.
7 years later we're still waiting for developers to catch on *cough* *Adobe.*
What, having an internal compass isn't helpful when you migrate hundreds of miles twice a year?
TFS says that they come preinstalled with the variant colloquially known as Windows XP Home.
$172 a seat is expensive for a process that will benefit each employee for six years? If you make about $20 an hour (about $40k a year), one day's salary is $160. And while you're ignoring the cost of labor/work hours, you're also ignoring the benefits of the new OS.
I'd personally rather have Windows 7 on my machine and an extra gig of RAM than one extra vacation day every six years, but I suppose some companies think differently.
I think you mean the American nuclear industry. Otherwise, there might be a few residents of Chernobyl who would like to have a word with you.
A mouse? No, you have a mouse instead of a right analog stick. Instead of the left analog stick that allows you to walk or run at different speeds in more than eight directions, you have WASD, and maybe a sprint or crouch key.
I'll take being able to walk where I want regardless of where I am facing over being able to play "click on their heads" any day.
Did you miss the part where OpenCL and DirectCompute run on both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards, and that AMD is promoting an open industry standard instead of a proprietary vendor-specific API?
Because I know it was really obvious, and sort of the entire point of the article, but it really sounds like you did.
The first time you see the IE icon, you say, "Oh, what's that?" You read "Internet Explorer," and say "This looks like what I want."
The _next_ time you want to use IE, you're not reading forty different desktop texts to see what they do. You simply look for the icon.
Sure, Ogg theora *works* on a jailbroken iPhone. But it's dog slow, because it's not hardware accelerated. That's not something you can fix with a firmware update.
... somehow, I expect that my previous post will fall on deaf ears.
AC: Nah, this guy didn't screw up. He (LSD-OBS) replied to you (AC) because he (LSD-OBS) was agreeing with you (AC). That's why he said 'Yup.' Because he (LSD-OBS) was agreeing with you (AC). When replying to a post, many people (present company included) use the word 'you' to refer to the person they are replying to. Having exhausted the second-person, use of third-person pronouns (such as he, her, or it) are used to refer to third parties. In this case, LSD-OBS' use of the word 'he' indicated that he found the author's (Zed Shaw's) sweeping generalizations strange. Honestly, I am a little concerned that you are getting so worked up over this.
There is currently only a Windows release and no clear answer in their FAQs whether there would be Linux/Solaris releases.
The main page at gwan.com :
It also means that G-WAN will be (much) faster on Linux and Solaris.
Sounds like the person writing the summary didn't bother to read the pages that they linked.
My problem with advertising in games isn't that I am fundamentally opposed to it - in fact, if it can make producing games more lucrative or cheaper for me, I'm all for it. The problem is when you get two or three companies sponsoring an entire in-game world, and every other billboard is displaying the exact same advertisement. That breaks my immersion much faster than a made up product. But, it costs time and money to negotiate these deals, so it is much easier to get two big advertisers than the twenty or thirty that would make for added realism. If advertisers and game producers didn't have to deal with negotiating a new deal each time, I imagine the diversity of in-game ads would go way up. Perhaps there is a business opportunity to be found here.
He never said nor suggested that Microsoft as a whole is your ally.
"I merely happen to have a different perspective on Microsoft than he has. I know that there are great people working for the company, and I know many people inside Microsoft that are steering the company towards being a community citizen. I have blogged about this for the last few years.
At the end of the day, we both want to see free software succeed. But Richard, instead of opening new fronts to promote his causes, attacks his own allies for not being replicas of himself."
He suggested that either himself, or Microsoft, or both, was his "ally."
No. He said that Richard Stallman attacks his allies. The very next sentence of TFA reads: To him, ridiculous statements like Linus "does not believe in Freedom" are somewhat normal. He is clearly referring to Linus Torvalds as Richard Stallman's ally.
Please don't deliberately misinterpret people that you don't agree with.
'This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take.'
They have friends, much less family?
would
Don't worry, they're just speaking hypothetically.
Oh, really? I am mistaken then, thanks for the information.
All this means is that Apple decided to use a chip that happened to support wireless 802.11N communication. Maybe it was a planned feature, but it got cut. Maybe it was just cheaper or easier to work with than other offerings. Apple will not enable this at some point down the road, just as they won't activate the bluetooth chip inside older Ipod Touches. What _will_ happen is next year, they will sell a new model with the same chips, but this time with the necessary software support and bill it as a new compelling feature.
Your spouse, be it a king or a queen, will also point you into various directions over the course of the game.
Yeah, but I bet your "spouse" won't be able to be a same-sex ruler, and will be about as useful as Superfly.
Why do you say that? I was perfectly able to play as and marry a woman in Fable II.
Please don't use this method. You are not creating an evenly distributed d8. From all 36 possible outcomes of 2d6, your "mod" d8 comes out like this: 1 - 5 times; 2 thru 6 - 4 times each; 7 - 5 times; 8 - 6 times. You COULD use some kind of conversion table, but even then you would need to throw away 4 of the 36 combinations to make it work.
(If you're furious with nerd rage right now: I'm kidding. If you're not furious: don't try this at home.)
Whoooosh.
Obligatory car analogy: If you owned a rental car company, would you outfit your fleet with a self-destruct procedure that could be initiated remotely?
It's stuff like this that means we just might be alive 100 or 150 years from now. Just have to get some more vital organ replacements, and we'll be golden...