I gave up on binders because they seem to damage CDs once the plastic in them starts to age and harden. It's usually subtle "pin-holes" in the disc when held up to the light, and it doesn't always audibly affect the sound, but it's still extremely disappointing. My collection is too big and represents too much cash outlay over time to risk it.
I still make a lot of use of CDs, but always burned ones. I keep the original in its jewel case on the shelf.
I remember MP3s. They made a nice way to conveniently transport your music until they were first replaced by better lossy formats, and then made obsolete by lossless formats that take advantage of the abundance of cheap storage.
I'm very unhappy with this situation. I really preferred portability of my game saves over trophies. I don't really play online so I could care less about that aspect of it.
I can name a few: 1. Speed. Vista is mind-numbingly slow. I cannot comprehend why it requires so much disk activity to do anything
I really have to agree with this. I had used Vista on my laptop for a little over a year, then I switched to Ubuntu last January and hadn't touched Vista since then, although I had used 7 on some of my family's computers. I did a Vista reinstall for a friend, and it really struck me how damn slow Vista is, even with a fresh install, when compared to Ubuntu or 7. UAC on 7 is tolerable, but it's a huge annoyance on Vista and I ended up turning it off partway through the install procedure.
I had forgotten how much Vista sucked until I had the chance to use it again. It really is that bad!
Last week I decided to give the "hide comment scores" option a try, and I have to say I really like. You spend more time actually reading what people say, rather than blazing over the comments that weren't modded up.
If you are running Windows, you are already implicitly agreeing to trust MS, so why not trust their AV program? It's free and integrates unobtrusively into your system. It seems like the most sensible free choice.
Rare took this approach in the Banjo Kazooie games back on the N64. The characters had gibberish noises that played while their text scrolled.
I'd like to know why this technique was used on Civilization: Revolutions. It's absolutely terrible. Surely there is enough room on a Blu-ray for real dialog.
To continue the voting analogy, it takes 20 percent to force a roll-call vote in the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.
I just recently learned about that practice. It's rather disturbing to think every little detail is recorded when you go to court for a traffic ticket, but no record is kept of who voted for what in our Legislature unless 20% of them agree to allow it.
It's not surprising they rarely do roll-call. By not keeping records, they can claim to have voted in whatever manner the group they are currently speaking to finds most acceptable... a very useful tool for each and every one of them.
How is that similar? Was Rockstar charging $5 for access to Hot Coffee?
Hot Coffee was lazy QA, letting naughty demo code slip into the retail release. It could have even been an intentional easter egg to stir up controversy. This is just a money grab.
There's a horizontal scrollbar right under the "Tell Me More" buttons. It actually shows all 7 of the minor browsers, not 5 randomly chosen ones as stated in TFA.
Most people consider good and bad to be two extremes of a straight line. I see them as opposing points on a circle. If you go too far one way there is a chance that you will end up where you didn't mean to be. The best place is somewhere in the middle, IMHO. No, its not a perfect view, but what is?
Sounds similar to the concept of the Yin-Yang, although that's dealing with much more than just good and bad. I feel it ranks among the most sophisticated ways of seeing the world.
Indeed. People have a strong psychological bias against doing something for a token reward such as this. Tests have shown that people would rather do a task for free than for a small amount of money. Working for free can be rationalized as being nice and doing a favor, but how can you rationalize doing something for $2? It just makes a person feel cheap and undervalued.
2010 Camry base price: $19,595 - most expensive trim starts at $26,400 2010 Prius base price: $22,800 - most expensive trim starts at $28,070
Even a fully optioned Prius couldn't be described as expensive by new car standards. The price difference isn't enough to expect it would impact the type of owners very much... they fall in the same price range.
And I remember when Ford made the Escort XR3i. That was in the 1980s, I believe, which clearly precedes Apple's use of the letter "i".
The most obvious automotive example would be BMW, you has appended an "i" for "injected" after (almost) all of their models for a very long time. The first BMW to use a 3digit + i name was the 520i in 1972.
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I gave up on binders because they seem to damage CDs once the plastic in them starts to age and harden. It's usually subtle "pin-holes" in the disc when held up to the light, and it doesn't always audibly affect the sound, but it's still extremely disappointing. My collection is too big and represents too much cash outlay over time to risk it.
I still make a lot of use of CDs, but always burned ones. I keep the original in its jewel case on the shelf.
I remember MP3s. They made a nice way to conveniently transport your music until they were first replaced by better lossy formats, and then made obsolete by lossless formats that take advantage of the abundance of cheap storage.
I'm very unhappy with this situation. I really preferred portability of my game saves over trophies. I don't really play online so I could care less about that aspect of it.
It's "genuine" only if WAT says it is. Whether you paid for it or not is irrelevant.
Like so:
1: NT 3.1
2: NT 3.5
3: NT 3.51
4: NT 4
5: Win 2000
6: Win XP
7: Win Vista
8: Win 7
To reiterate, XP has extended support until 2014. Windows 2000 support just recently ended.
As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise/products/windows-7/end-of-support.aspx
I can name a few:
1. Speed. Vista is mind-numbingly slow. I cannot comprehend why it requires so much disk activity to do anything
I really have to agree with this. I had used Vista on my laptop for a little over a year, then I switched to Ubuntu last January and hadn't touched Vista since then, although I had used 7 on some of my family's computers. I did a Vista reinstall for a friend, and it really struck me how damn slow Vista is, even with a fresh install, when compared to Ubuntu or 7. UAC on 7 is tolerable, but it's a huge annoyance on Vista and I ended up turning it off partway through the install procedure.
I had forgotten how much Vista sucked until I had the chance to use it again. It really is that bad!
I happen to enjoy the shriek of my Ferrari, you insensitive clod!
Last week I decided to give the "hide comment scores" option a try, and I have to say I really like. You spend more time actually reading what people say, rather than blazing over the comments that weren't modded up.
If you are running Windows, you are already implicitly agreeing to trust MS, so why not trust their AV program? It's free and integrates unobtrusively into your system. It seems like the most sensible free choice.
Why would we need that explained to us? We're all 1337 here at /, you n00b. :)
That's why Final Fantasy X had decent voice acting.
You're joking, right? The VA on that game was so embarrassing I hesitated to initiatie a cutscene whenever someone else was around.
Rare took this approach in the Banjo Kazooie games back on the N64. The characters had gibberish noises that played while their text scrolled.
I'd like to know why this technique was used on Civilization: Revolutions. It's absolutely terrible. Surely there is enough room on a Blu-ray for real dialog.
To continue the voting analogy, it takes 20 percent to force a roll-call vote in the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.
I just recently learned about that practice. It's rather disturbing to think every little detail is recorded when you go to court for a traffic ticket, but no record is kept of who voted for what in our Legislature unless 20% of them agree to allow it.
It's not surprising they rarely do roll-call. By not keeping records, they can claim to have voted in whatever manner the group they are currently speaking to finds most acceptable... a very useful tool for each and every one of them.
It could be worse... they could have been Scientologists rather than Jedi.
Sweden and Norway have actually been united as one country at various times in the past.
This story makes me wonder... does anyone know why /. is a .org and not a .com?
How is that similar? Was Rockstar charging $5 for access to Hot Coffee?
Hot Coffee was lazy QA, letting naughty demo code slip into the retail release. It could have even been an intentional easter egg to stir up controversy. This is just a money grab.
RE5's Versus mode was also DLC already on the game disc... buy the DLC and you get a ~100KB download to unlock what's already there.
I think it's bullshit.
There's a horizontal scrollbar right under the "Tell Me More" buttons. It actually shows all 7 of the minor browsers, not 5 randomly chosen ones as stated in TFA.
Most people consider good and bad to be two extremes of a straight line. I see them as opposing points on a circle. If you go too far one way there is a chance that you will end up where you didn't mean to be. The best place is somewhere in the middle, IMHO. No, its not a perfect view, but what is?
Sounds similar to the concept of the Yin-Yang, although that's dealing with much more than just good and bad. I feel it ranks among the most sophisticated ways of seeing the world.
Indeed. People have a strong psychological bias against doing something for a token reward such as this. Tests have shown that people would rather do a task for free than for a small amount of money. Working for free can be rationalized as being nice and doing a favor, but how can you rationalize doing something for $2? It just makes a person feel cheap and undervalued.
2010 Camry base price: $19,595 - most expensive trim starts at $26,400
2010 Prius base price: $22,800 - most expensive trim starts at $28,070
Even a fully optioned Prius couldn't be described as expensive by new car standards. The price difference isn't enough to expect it would impact the type of owners very much... they fall in the same price range.
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And I remember when Ford made the Escort XR3i. That was in the 1980s, I believe, which clearly precedes Apple's use of the letter "i".
The most obvious automotive example would be BMW, you has appended an "i" for "injected" after (almost) all of their models for a very long time. The first BMW to use a 3digit + i name was the 520i in 1972.