To add to this - The java client on the site is shitty - use the one from Pachos.
That being said - It is beta. You have to click constantly to move (there's no waypoint finding), but building and crafting on it is great. The community is awesome too - we started playing with a friend and some nice guy who owned an awesome farm picked us up there and said we can have his food and other items whenever we want to. We started building our own farm next to his. Friend already went to sleep but I continued some. Later I wandered to travel the lakes and rivers with my boat to look for grapes so I could make wine - Stopped at some guys grape farm and went there to steal some, but I had to break his wall first which takes a lot of time. But I was desperate as it was the only place I could get grape seeds from. Suddenly he came with his boat and I had to flee fast.
if it required a password, like sudo does. It does not, so it has no ability to protect.
This is because you are yourself running as admin account. If you set up normal user account, UAC will require you to type in admin password to continue.
However, what you describe is mostly fault of existing software and drivers. MS had to either 1) bring in the new security features 2) maintain support for old programs. I say they chose the better option. They redefined their driver model in Vista and that's the reason why there wasn't so many drivers for older hardware available upon launch. But Vista was out for a few years and Win7 uses the same model, so companies had more time to do their drivers now.
Disclaimer: I still use Vista on my desktop because moving everything to Win7 is a lot of work and it works a lot better than XP.
It absolutely does not nag you about everything - the only reason you might think this is because you have got used running everything in Windows without asking you permission for admin level tasks.
Vista was mostly looked badly because they introduced new security features. Features that linux zealots always yell about, like proper admin/multiple user control, securing files and directories and so on.
The fact is, people had got used to everything being simple. When MS did add these new security features (as needed now a days), they got called about. I already see the replies mentioning how the UAC is bad and nuisance for user, so i preemptively answer here - It's a lot better than Linux's su and sudo alternatives. With su you give full control over the root account, with sudo you need to write it every time you require root account. UAC is actually a lot better than what there is available for linux, in desktop use (in command line/server use it pwns).
Win7 is more popular now because people have got used to these features. Stupid sheep is, well, stupid and have to take generation to get used to it.
Linux (and actually all recent Windows, Mac OS X, Linux distros) use the very same technology. Linux did this really early too. I don't know the full story about intelligent RAM usage, but first time I saw it being used was on linux servers. And if you do compare it to the past "demand and receive, fully" memory model, it's a lot better.
This is in the case you need to free like 1GB of normal RAM. Other than like Photoshop and games don't need that much. But anyway, it has to be zeroed out for security, and so that other apps cannot randomly get data from other apps.
Besides the technical points, 30ms to free that RAM is really low. You wont even notice that.
Though SuperFetch is a little less aggressive in Windows 7, it will still use a substantial amount of memory—but with an important proviso. The OS will only use memory for cache when there is no other demand for that memory.
I really wonder when people will get this. In the earlier thread I saw people commenting that Windows 95 didn't need so much memory and so on..
To state it again. This is not RAM memory you need, use or have purpose for. IF you do need it, it is zeroed-out and free'd to application in like 30ms (one frame in usual FPS games).
If you have fast memory, do use it to it's full extend.
But does it have to have certain open times every day?
I buy my hot spices & sauces from a company that is basically ran by 3 guys who are doing it aside from their actual work. They do own warehouse, but if you want to pick up from there instead their posting it, they have two such times a week (mondays and thursdays, at 3pm). I went there once to pick up since they're near me, but remember it's a specialized store importing stuff overseas and mostly selling online, because there just isn't so many people to buy those things nearby. And since they're doing it in their past-time (one of the reasons why I've always tried to support them!), they have no possibility to have someone sitting there for nothing 8 hours a day.
Bonjour is just as bad. It scans your LAN constantly, takes A LOT resources and provides nothing good. And it's installed without asking you along any Adobe product.
Well, most of the EU countries actually have better income and hence higher prices too. I don't really know how they manage that, but it seems like it's a good model compared to US's.
Exactly, and you have to remember that every individual country in the in the EU is still, well, their own country. They have great interest in looking after taxes and different languages create even more problems, and not even starting on that international money transfers are even easier to spot for taxing agencies. I really don't think it's about taxes - USA with its states could be so, but EU really is completely different system.
Living in a EU country and while lately I've been happy with EU's decisions, this is just bullshit. Not just because of eBay, but because there are several online stores in my country too that only have a website and warehouse. This includes the online stores that sell at lower price than you can find in stores and specialized stores like funny items and hot spices, hot sauces and specialized stores that import oversears and sell here.
Some of the items you can't just on normal stores. This is bullshit.
If they blocked access to all games in the account (including single player games) for cheating in multiplayer servers they could get quite legal troubles for it. It's far safer for them to just block access to VAC servers.
What Vavle is really trying to do with crying about cheaters is create another excuse (along with piracy) to completely abandon the PC platform altogether and just make console games, like everyone else is slowly doing.
Oh that must be it! It makes perfect sense to abandon the largest online games distribution platform on the planet that's literally making them billions!
Valve has explicitly stated they don't allow reports of cheaters. And how could they, since they have no actual data of their own on it? Proof like screenshot is easy to fake and unreserved VAC ban to someone with tons of games in their Steam account is going to hurt.
That's why I hoped they would had continued the talks with Blockland's creator. It's just a one man project (with lots of content made by community too), so it has its certain amateurish look, but the game mechanics are great.
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To add to this - The java client on the site is shitty - use the one from Pachos.
That being said - It is beta. You have to click constantly to move (there's no waypoint finding), but building and crafting on it is great. The community is awesome too - we started playing with a friend and some nice guy who owned an awesome farm picked us up there and said we can have his food and other items whenever we want to. We started building our own farm next to his. Friend already went to sleep but I continued some. Later I wandered to travel the lakes and rivers with my boat to look for grapes so I could make wine - Stopped at some guys grape farm and went there to steal some, but I had to break his wall first which takes a lot of time. But I was desperate as it was the only place I could get grape seeds from. Suddenly he came with his boat and I had to flee fast.
Here's a Wiki and some guides and info for the game.
And if you go stealing or pillaging other peoples places, remember that it's permadeath and theres also boars around :)
http://www.havenandhearth.com/portal/
Still in beta but it has many things UO also had (building things, crafting, general freedom).
if it required a password, like sudo does. It does not, so it has no ability to protect.
This is because you are yourself running as admin account. If you set up normal user account, UAC will require you to type in admin password to continue.
However, what you describe is mostly fault of existing software and drivers. MS had to either 1) bring in the new security features 2) maintain support for old programs. I say they chose the better option. They redefined their driver model in Vista and that's the reason why there wasn't so many drivers for older hardware available upon launch. But Vista was out for a few years and Win7 uses the same model, so companies had more time to do their drivers now.
Disclaimer: I still use Vista on my desktop because moving everything to Win7 is a lot of work and it works a lot better than XP.
It absolutely does not nag you about everything - the only reason you might think this is because you have got used running everything in Windows without asking you permission for admin level tasks.
Vista was mostly looked badly because they introduced new security features. Features that linux zealots always yell about, like proper admin/multiple user control, securing files and directories and so on.
The fact is, people had got used to everything being simple. When MS did add these new security features (as needed now a days), they got called about. I already see the replies mentioning how the UAC is bad and nuisance for user, so i preemptively answer here - It's a lot better than Linux's su and sudo alternatives. With su you give full control over the root account, with sudo you need to write it every time you require root account. UAC is actually a lot better than what there is available for linux, in desktop use (in command line/server use it pwns).
Win7 is more popular now because people have got used to these features. Stupid sheep is, well, stupid and have to take generation to get used to it.
This is completely offtopic, but you seem to come with this message in every thread so I answer you one time here - I am from sweden, not uk.
Linux (and actually all recent Windows, Mac OS X, Linux distros) use the very same technology. Linux did this really early too. I don't know the full story about intelligent RAM usage, but first time I saw it being used was on linux servers. And if you do compare it to the past "demand and receive, fully" memory model, it's a lot better.
This is in the case you need to free like 1GB of normal RAM. Other than like Photoshop and games don't need that much. But anyway, it has to be zeroed out for security, and so that other apps cannot randomly get data from other apps.
Besides the technical points, 30ms to free that RAM is really low. You wont even notice that.
Though SuperFetch is a little less aggressive in Windows 7, it will still use a substantial amount of memory—but with an important proviso. The OS will only use memory for cache when there is no other demand for that memory.
I really wonder when people will get this. In the earlier thread I saw people commenting that Windows 95 didn't need so much memory and so on..
To state it again. This is not RAM memory you need, use or have purpose for. IF you do need it, it is zeroed-out and free'd to application in like 30ms (one frame in usual FPS games).
If you have fast memory, do use it to it's full extend.
But does it have to have certain open times every day?
I buy my hot spices & sauces from a company that is basically ran by 3 guys who are doing it aside from their actual work. They do own warehouse, but if you want to pick up from there instead their posting it, they have two such times a week (mondays and thursdays, at 3pm). I went there once to pick up since they're near me, but remember it's a specialized store importing stuff overseas and mostly selling online, because there just isn't so many people to buy those things nearby. And since they're doing it in their past-time (one of the reasons why I've always tried to support them!), they have no possibility to have someone sitting there for nothing 8 hours a day.
All fine in that case, but I would never put iTunes on my computer, but still I've had it for long time before I few weeks ago had to hack it away.
Bonjour is just as bad. It scans your LAN constantly, takes A LOT resources and provides nothing good. And it's installed without asking you along any Adobe product.
Well, most of the EU countries actually have better income and hence higher prices too. I don't really know how they manage that, but it seems like it's a good model compared to US's.
Exactly, and you have to remember that every individual country in the in the EU is still, well, their own country. They have great interest in looking after taxes and different languages create even more problems, and not even starting on that international money transfers are even easier to spot for taxing agencies. I really don't think it's about taxes - USA with its states could be so, but EU really is completely different system.
Living in a EU country and while lately I've been happy with EU's decisions, this is just bullshit. Not just because of eBay, but because there are several online stores in my country too that only have a website and warehouse. This includes the online stores that sell at lower price than you can find in stores and specialized stores like funny items and hot spices, hot sauces and specialized stores that import oversears and sell here.
Some of the items you can't just on normal stores. This is bullshit.
He seems to have some experience on the gmail team at least, he was an intern there when Google started developing it.
If they blocked access to all games in the account (including single player games) for cheating in multiplayer servers they could get quite legal troubles for it. It's far safer for them to just block access to VAC servers.
What Vavle is really trying to do with crying about cheaters is create another excuse (along with piracy) to completely abandon the PC platform altogether and just make console games, like everyone else is slowly doing.
Oh that must be it! It makes perfect sense to abandon the largest online games distribution platform on the planet that's literally making them billions!
Valve has explicitly stated they don't allow reports of cheaters. And how could they, since they have no actual data of their own on it? Proof like screenshot is easy to fake and unreserved VAC ban to someone with tons of games in their Steam account is going to hurt.
You can actually do that in Civ 4 too, they become closer than allies to you. If you attack someone, they will attack too.
Not sure if it's in the base game, but with the expansions at least.
Europe probably, Lego is a Danish company after all. Maybe there's some equivalent site for US/Canada.
In this case several years, this Lego MMO's first release date was in 2008 :-p
That's why I hoped they would had continued the talks with Blockland's creator. It's just a one man project (with lots of content made by community too), so it has its certain amateurish look, but the game mechanics are great.
Seems you can at least order via Lego site. Actually now I'm wanting to order that Lego Giant Box :)
They also have some Lego Digital Designer where you can build the design on computer and possibly order the needed pieces.
But I agree, I'd rather get some good set of basic pieces than some of those pre-designed packages. They most likely make good money for Lego tho.