Statistical monitoring "service"... what are you talking about? You are asked whether or not you want to participate in Popularity Contest, which is just data collection about what apps you use the most.
The "one release" with the screen dimming bug was 8.10... short memory?
Actually, this tends to be a problem only in WWII FPS games. Any WWII turn based strategy game I can think of will let you be Nazi Germany and kick some ass if you want to. Germany had all sorts of crazy projects for tanks and planes during the war, and these are often included as usable units in later campaigns.
Such is the mystique of those "secret" Nazi weapons (a plot used in many movies) that even games picked up on it. Iron Storm for Sega Saturn featured a battle between Germany and Japan over India as the final stage of the "victorious" campaign. If you were playing as Japan, the AI Germans would have an extremely powerful UFO unit that would decimate other airplanes with frickin' lasers and had a decent cannon attack against ground units. The game otherwise featured on realistic units, but the designers just wanted to stick that in there...
Unfortunately, if get to that stage as the Germans yourself, you don't get any UFO...
Anyway, I prefer to to have the choice to play any side... not just the "good guys".
In the UK you can pass your test in an automatic car, but then you aren't allowed to drive a stick (what we call 'manual gearbox'). You need to take your test in a manual gearbox car to be allowed to drive manual+auto.
We should do this in the US, actually.
Drive-by-wire? No thanks! And all those wusses complaining about failing power steering! Sheesh, grow some muscles!
Actually, manual and power assisted steering boxes use very different gearings. There is less torque multiplication (lower numerical gearing) in a assisted box... because it's "assisted" and doesn't normally need it. A car with non functioning power steering will need much more effort than a car with manual steering because the gearing is wider. Vehicle weight over the front tires and the front tire width has a big effect, as well.
An example would be the manual steering in my father's 1955 Stuebaker versus the 1984 BMW 318i I drove which had power steering but would leak out all its fluid in a day or so (so I always drove it empty). The BMW took a lot of effort, the Studebaker much less so.
The same basic problem occurs for automatic drivers first using a manual. Your left foot is "retarded" and it takes some time before you have the muscle control to use the clutch smoothly.
After having learned to drive a stick, but currently driving an automatic, I've taken to left foot braking in give my left foot something to do.
Mostly people have not, as that car lineup sold poorly and was replaced with the much less sporting Scion tC.
Toyota's current lineup (in the US, at least) is easily their most boring ever. If their FT-86 project actually produces a car you can buy, that may change a bit.
Honda is similarly bereft of sporty vehicles right now.
I use FF 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it behaves exactly as the grandparent describes. In fact, loading a tab with a/. story in it sometimes takes so long that compiz grays out the whole FF window in the same way that Windows tags a window title with (Not Responding).
Whatever the cause of this behavior, it is definitely annoying.
Some of us would like to preserve the illusion that our government isn't totally at the beck and call of corporate interests. This sort of astroturfing is exactly what makes people cynical, when individual citizens are roped in to parroting the lines of the place they work for.
Perhaps they won't check to see if you have done their bidding, but what if they did? What if it turns out that was a job requirement buried somewhere in that huge contract you signed when you started your job?
The current lobbying system is bad enough, we don't need to make it even worse by blurring the line between the opinions of individuals and that of corporations.
That sounds sensible, but in today's greed filled corporate world where no amount of profit can be enough, this is dire. If you aren't growing more and more, you have failed totally. Competition, inflation... there are lots of things you have to outrun.
A speaker is usually just a passive device that reacts to the load it is fed. There are some nice speakers that have a protection system, typically for the tweeter.
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Xubuntu is the lightweight one, not Kubuntu. Why are you mentioning Win98? Hardly comparable in capability or stability.
Maybe you're trolling.
Statistical monitoring "service"... what are you talking about? You are asked whether or not you want to participate in Popularity Contest, which is just data collection about what apps you use the most.
The "one release" with the screen dimming bug was 8.10... short memory?
Actually, this tends to be a problem only in WWII FPS games. Any WWII turn based strategy game I can think of will let you be Nazi Germany and kick some ass if you want to. Germany had all sorts of crazy projects for tanks and planes during the war, and these are often included as usable units in later campaigns.
Such is the mystique of those "secret" Nazi weapons (a plot used in many movies) that even games picked up on it. Iron Storm for Sega Saturn featured a battle between Germany and Japan over India as the final stage of the "victorious" campaign. If you were playing as Japan, the AI Germans would have an extremely powerful UFO unit that would decimate other airplanes with frickin' lasers and had a decent cannon attack against ground units. The game otherwise featured on realistic units, but the designers just wanted to stick that in there...
Unfortunately, if get to that stage as the Germans yourself, you don't get any UFO...
Anyway, I prefer to to have the choice to play any side... not just the "good guys".
high-definition DVDs
Maybe they mean HD-DVD or Blu-ray.
You've been downmodded because psychology isn't one of the acceptable subjects to delve into on /. Safer to stick to computers, I guess.
Real pirates also have access to private trackers.
What's that you say, the laws of my living room don't apply in another country?
You get to post from the living room? I have to post from my parent's basement... :(
It is a really nice shirt... and I bought it back when the dollar was a bit stronger.
That would be something that should be considered when you purchase an iPod.
First Snow Leopard, tomorrow Windows 7, new Ubuntu, now this... its like their cycles are all coming together.
So in a week or so, all of our OSs will have a terrible case of PMS? Yikes!
I say they should make a porno, actually. Who doesn't want to do what sex on other planets will be like?
Granted, many of us here on /. don't even know what sex on this planet is like... :)
In the UK you can pass your test in an automatic car, but then you aren't allowed to drive a stick (what we call 'manual gearbox'). You need to take your test in a manual gearbox car to be allowed to drive manual+auto.
We should do this in the US, actually.
Drive-by-wire? No thanks! And all those wusses complaining about failing power steering! Sheesh, grow some muscles!
Actually, manual and power assisted steering boxes use very different gearings. There is less torque multiplication (lower numerical gearing) in a assisted box... because it's "assisted" and doesn't normally need it. A car with non functioning power steering will need much more effort than a car with manual steering because the gearing is wider. Vehicle weight over the front tires and the front tire width has a big effect, as well.
An example would be the manual steering in my father's 1955 Stuebaker versus the 1984 BMW 318i I drove which had power steering but would leak out all its fluid in a day or so (so I always drove it empty). The BMW took a lot of effort, the Studebaker much less so.
The same basic problem occurs for automatic drivers first using a manual. Your left foot is "retarded" and it takes some time before you have the muscle control to use the clutch smoothly.
After having learned to drive a stick, but currently driving an automatic, I've taken to left foot braking in give my left foot something to do.
You've never driven a 6 speed Celica
Mostly people have not, as that car lineup sold poorly and was replaced with the much less sporting Scion tC.
Toyota's current lineup (in the US, at least) is easily their most boring ever. If their FT-86 project actually produces a car you can buy, that may change a bit.
Honda is similarly bereft of sporty vehicles right now.
You must be new here.
I use FF 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it behaves exactly as the grandparent describes. In fact, loading a tab with a /. story in it sometimes takes so long that compiz grays out the whole FF window in the same way that Windows tags a window title with (Not Responding).
Whatever the cause of this behavior, it is definitely annoying.
I see you are using Windows 7... :)
Indeed, I was being sarcastic. Shoulda used the tag... :)
Some of us would like to preserve the illusion that our government isn't totally at the beck and call of corporate interests. This sort of astroturfing is exactly what makes people cynical, when individual citizens are roped in to parroting the lines of the place they work for.
Perhaps they won't check to see if you have done their bidding, but what if they did? What if it turns out that was a job requirement buried somewhere in that huge contract you signed when you started your job?
The current lobbying system is bad enough, we don't need to make it even worse by blurring the line between the opinions of individuals and that of corporations.
Fuck The Fuck Yeah?
You must be new here.
That sounds sensible, but in today's greed filled corporate world where no amount of profit can be enough, this is dire. If you aren't growing more and more, you have failed totally. Competition, inflation... there are lots of things you have to outrun.
A speaker is usually just a passive device that reacts to the load it is fed. There are some nice speakers that have a protection system, typically for the tweeter.
I admire his principles, but this is a little ridiculous.
This problem was very blatant in Civilization: Revolution. I quickly lost interest in the higher difficulties because of this.
Terrible rubberbanding in racing games? NFS: Carbon, NFS: Most Wanted, and Midnight Club 2 and 3 come to mind... god, that could be so irritating.
NFS: Pro Street managed to be do a much better job of it... haven't played Undercover.