One issue here in the UK is that ebooks attract a VAT charge of 20% whereas printed books do not, so even if the publisher does set the ebook price lower the compulsory VAT charge pushes it back up again.
When the prices are very close it's a toss-up as to which format to buy. With a physical book you get all the experience that goes with it plus you are able to easily lend/give or even resell the book once done. With the ebook you get to keep that book forever and it takes up absolutely no space in my already crowded room.
The linked article says that this is a drama 'based on real life events'. I'm not really sure this can be classified as a documentary. I'm sure we've all seen films supposedly based on real life events and know how believable they tend to be...
I'd urge everyone to give Parchment a try:-http://code.google.com/p/parchment/
Parchment is a project dedicated to running IF games in your browser, and it does so wonderfully. You can even SAVE your progress, and it gives you a bookmarkable URL you can use to resume your game at a later date. That page tells you how to get any Zcode game playable on Parchment, and the page below has links to loads of IF games that have already been made available.
I'd recommend giving Curses a go, although maybe not if you are completely new to IF.
I remember reading a while ago that Steam was going to also act as a repository for saved games, so you could in effect backup your saves automatically.
Did this ever get implemented? I cannot find anything about it on the Steam pages.
...which roughly translated means don't stand around jabbering when your life is in mortal danger
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I find the main MSN clients Offline Message mechanism very handy when I want to ping a message over to a friend and be sure they get it the next time they login.
The car was priced at 3000, but another person walked up to it and offered the salesman 3100. You countered with 3200, they countered with 3300 and so on until the price is at 6000 at which point the other bidder gives up.
Once you have paid then you find out the other bidder was actually the manager of the car lot, and so was in league with the salesperson.
That is analogous to shill bidding and in that case I think most people would be angry.
It's not that you paid more than you were willing to, its that you paid more than you *had* to, since the price was artificially inflated by a bidder who was secretly involved with the seller, and had no actual intention of buying the product.
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Well, they 'allegedly' both need a certain white chemical to survive.....
... they used Kickstarter to fund their new site?
One issue here in the UK is that ebooks attract a VAT charge of 20% whereas printed books do not, so even if the publisher does set the ebook price lower the compulsory VAT charge pushes it back up again.
When the prices are very close it's a toss-up as to which format to buy. With a physical book you get all the experience that goes with it plus you are able to easily lend/give or even resell the book once done. With the ebook you get to keep that book forever and it takes up absolutely no space in my already crowded room.
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Seriously, it's they're. That just looks sloppy.
Give trolls a taste of they are misery...?
'their' is correct in this case, as in a taste of the medicine owned by the trolls.
They did target their audience. After all, they just got some free advice from geeks on how to better target their audience.
The linked article says that this is a drama 'based on real life events'. I'm not really sure this can be classified as a documentary. I'm sure we've all seen films supposedly based on real life events and know how believable they tend to be...
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If you do buy it direct from 2D Boy you can register your copy within Steam with the CD-Key and then get all the benefits of having the Steam version.
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I guess The Little Shop Of Horrors is out for you too.
I'd urge everyone to give Parchment a try :-http://code.google.com/p/parchment/
Parchment is a project dedicated to running IF games in your browser, and it does so wonderfully. You can even SAVE your progress, and it gives you a bookmarkable URL you can use to resume your game at a later date. That page tells you how to get any Zcode game playable on Parchment, and the page below has links to loads of IF games that have already been made available.
I'd recommend giving Curses a go, although maybe not if you are completely new to IF.
http://parchment.toolness.com/
Couple it with something like Allwaysync Portable to synchronise the USB stick when it is plugged in and it should work fine.
If our backup provider is subpoenaed they can give all my data to whoever they want, it's just a meaningless binary blob.
Not if they give it to Morris O'Brian! He knows the secret back door codes into Blowfish and can decrypt in in a minute!
That might just be the demo. There isn't any exit sequence in the full game, or at least there isn't for me on the Steam version.
It does, it just debits them from your account like normal.
I is.
RIP Douglas Adams.
I remember reading a while ago that Steam was going to also act as a repository for saved games, so you could in effect backup your saves automatically.
Did this ever get implemented? I cannot find anything about it on the Steam pages.
You could dodge in UT99, which was triggered by a double-tap.
It wasn't enabled by default though so lots of players missed it.
Right, time to rename my file to NOTcreditcards.txt . That'll fox them!
You could easily use something like 'Open DNS' to do something like this.
Topless Wii....
http://snipurl.com/1v3lf
It's not safe for work, unless you work in a topless bar...
Surely a janitor wouldn't want people to throw cake. It'd make too much mess.
...which roughly translated means don't stand around jabbering when your life is in mortal danger
I find the main MSN clients Offline Message mechanism very handy when I want to ping a message over to a friend and be sure they get it the next time they login.
Does this new release suport this? GAIM 2 didn't.
Ok, imagine this:-
The car was priced at 3000, but another person walked up to it and offered the salesman 3100. You countered with 3200, they countered with 3300 and so on until the price is at 6000 at which point the other bidder gives up.
Once you have paid then you find out the other bidder was actually the manager of the car lot, and so was in league with the salesperson.
That is analogous to shill bidding and in that case I think most people would be angry.
It's not that you paid more than you were willing to, its that you paid more than you *had* to, since the price was artificially inflated by a bidder who was secretly involved with the seller, and had no actual intention of buying the product.
I think they first did That Mitchell And Webb Sound, a program on BBC Radio 4.