I have the Windows steam - Mac ought to be similar. There's an option (per game) that you can find by right-clicking on a game's name, and selecting Properties - then go to the Updates tab and make sure it says 'Do not automatically update this game' instead of 'Always keep this game up to date' - do this for every game you have installed, then when you start steam next time it should allow offline mode to work, without that 'needs to be online to update' message appearing. I don't know if this works for every Steam game, but it seems to works for every Steam game i have (eg: portal, halflife 2, popcap ones). If you want to update a game sometime, turn the option back on for that game (and maybe restart steam at this point?) - then turn it back off and restart steam again after any updates have completed. A little annoying, but this has worked for me without any problem.
Aussie Customs officer: Do you have any illegal porn?
British tourist: I did not know you still need do illegal things to get in here!
I heard of a newly arrived British tourist replying similarly when asked whether he had a criminal record. Apparently he was replying to a customs officer who was having a bad day, as he soon found himself on his way back to the UK. In other words, DON'T SAY THIS! It may not be as funny as you think.
Yes, the device is a fail at doing things it was never designed for. Most devices are. My pencil, for instance, is an epic fail when my toilet gets clogged.
The inverse is true for me. If I really like the content (a movie or song I love), I just can't stand to watch or listen to it at low quality. Just the other day I was listening to Bowie's "Life on Mars?", my favorite Bowie song, but it was an MP3 sampled at 96 kbps and the compression was so obnoxious I had to stop listening. On the other hand if I'm watching some idiotic YouTube video for a quick laugh, I could care less how nice it looks.
Maybe that's because you are used to listening to a non-compressed version of that song, and are comparing this crap version to the proper good version you know? Whereas with the youtube video, that's all there is - there is no better version, so there's no problem. At least that's how it is for me - I listen to a lot of 'bootleg' recordings, some of which are pretty raw (and some of which sound awesome, by the way), but if this is the only version of a particular song by that band or whatever, then you are listening to the best version of that song, although your ears may take a short while to accustom to the poor sound quality.
I'm with you - if I hear a poorly compressed MP3 of a song I like, I can't stand it (unless that's all there is).
Aw come on, let's be brutally honest here - GG of any commonwealth country is a ceremonial position. Your job, such as it is, is to go around and do photo ops and shit like that. You're the Queen's representative, and she has no power or responsibilities, so Shatner will have even less.
This is actually a pretty good choice. As a Canadian, I'm more than happy for Kirk to be the guy schmoozing on behalf of my country.
Not quite true - do a search for what the GG did in Australia in 1975.
Actually... it's more like saying that the person who built your house (that YOU own) says that he doesn't want OJ Simpson in the house that YOU own. And actively stops you from having him as a guest.
Your analogy is ludicrous. How would you explain away not having Flash functionality?
Help me out with this OJ Simpson analogy - is he driving a car?
I'm halfway (possibly further through, who knows) a Civ4 game - max world size, 16 civs, and it's a to-the-death game. My alliance (started with 7 civs, now down to 4) has been at war with the other alliance (was 6 now 4) for about 300 years (18 months on and off in real time), with no end in sight. There's really only one significant enemy in the other alliance, the rest can be safely ignored.
I long ago gave up on a quick victory, so for the last 100 years or so, I have concentrated on bombing the crap out a city with about 20 bombers, immediately following that up with an attack by 20 or 30 tanks, and hopefully eventually take the city. Of course, you need to give other reachable cities similar treatment regularly, just to keep them manageable. I haven't actually succeeded in capturing a city for at least 50 years though, as whenever I get ready for a sustained bombing-and-tanking campaign on a city, the enemy send a pile of units towards me, so I then have to divert the bombers and tanks to crushing these constant raids. I keep softening up his cities though, in preparation.
I had some outpost cities on another continent, but the place was just too rocky and arid, so I gave up sending reinforcements to them, and abandoned them to their fate probably 150 years ago. They're still there, though, hanging on.
I have all the techs but haven't gone nuclear - I still feel that I can eventually wear the other guys down.
All the while, I keep churning out missionaries or whatever they're called, along with spies etc, just because they're cheap, set-and-forget, and they may make some small difference in the long run.
Anyway, the point I'm making is that I really need to finish this game before number 5 comes out.
Something like this happened for real - the band Black Sabbath wanted a Stonehenge-style stage set for their 1983/84 tour, but someone got confused between imperial and metric measurements (I don't know, maybe they used metres instead of feet) and they ended up with a Stonehenge replica much larger than the original (and too large to fit in most venues). From what I could figure out, they still have it in a (big) warehouse somewhere. And apparently this was the inspiration for the Spinal Tap Stonehenge bit.
Use different browsers for different purposes.
For example, use Google Chrome for your porn browsing, and then Firefox for your legit browsing.
In other words... Don't cross the streams!!
Or you can do what I do, which is an extension of the above - use some sort of virtual desktop manager thingy (but keep it's very existence hidden, of course), then you can have your normal stuff in Firefox on the main screen, and have your other stuff in Chrome on the secret second screen... just be ready to flick screens at a moment's notice.
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When I'm viewing porn, the cursor will just be going all over the place.
The price ends up so low because there is no demand - the steering wheel is on the wrong side.
"Another Brick In The Wall" needs kazoos. Lots of kazoos.
I have the Windows steam - Mac ought to be similar. There's an option (per game) that you can find by right-clicking on a game's name, and selecting Properties - then go to the Updates tab and make sure it says 'Do not automatically update this game' instead of 'Always keep this game up to date' - do this for every game you have installed, then when you start steam next time it should allow offline mode to work, without that 'needs to be online to update' message appearing. I don't know if this works for every Steam game, but it seems to works for every Steam game i have (eg: portal, halflife 2, popcap ones). If you want to update a game sometime, turn the option back on for that game (and maybe restart steam at this point?) - then turn it back off and restart steam again after any updates have completed. A little annoying, but this has worked for me without any problem.
Aussie Customs officer: Do you have any illegal porn? British tourist: I did not know you still need do illegal things to get in here!
I heard of a newly arrived British tourist replying similarly when asked whether he had a criminal record. Apparently he was replying to a customs officer who was having a bad day, as he soon found himself on his way back to the UK. In other words, DON'T SAY THIS! It may not be as funny as you think.
Ah, just like CDs that last forever. Good to know.
Yes, the device is a fail at doing things it was never designed for. Most devices are. My pencil, for instance, is an epic fail when my toilet gets clogged.
Not mine.
The inverse is true for me. If I really like the content (a movie or song I love), I just can't stand to watch or listen to it at low quality. Just the other day I was listening to Bowie's "Life on Mars?", my favorite Bowie song, but it was an MP3 sampled at 96 kbps and the compression was so obnoxious I had to stop listening. On the other hand if I'm watching some idiotic YouTube video for a quick laugh, I could care less how nice it looks.
Maybe that's because you are used to listening to a non-compressed version of that song, and are comparing this crap version to the proper good version you know? Whereas with the youtube video, that's all there is - there is no better version, so there's no problem. At least that's how it is for me - I listen to a lot of 'bootleg' recordings, some of which are pretty raw (and some of which sound awesome, by the way), but if this is the only version of a particular song by that band or whatever, then you are listening to the best version of that song, although your ears may take a short while to accustom to the poor sound quality. I'm with you - if I hear a poorly compressed MP3 of a song I like, I can't stand it (unless that's all there is).
Shitterton, England. (Apparently their town sign kept going missing, so now they have a big new immovable one, made of stone.)
Does this get us any closer to hands-free web browsing?
Aw come on, let's be brutally honest here - GG of any commonwealth country is a ceremonial position. Your job, such as it is, is to go around and do photo ops and shit like that. You're the Queen's representative, and she has no power or responsibilities, so Shatner will have even less. This is actually a pretty good choice. As a Canadian, I'm more than happy for Kirk to be the guy schmoozing on behalf of my country.
Not quite true - do a search for what the GG did in Australia in 1975.
... I'm more concerned about the girth.
Actually... it's more like saying that the person who built your house (that YOU own) says that he doesn't want OJ Simpson in the house that YOU own. And actively stops you from having him as a guest. Your analogy is ludicrous. How would you explain away not having Flash functionality?
Help me out with this OJ Simpson analogy - is he driving a car?
We must have had 20 different ways to get to goatse.cx.
I didn't need 20 different ways. I just had it bookmarked for quick and easy viewing.
Deakin is right over my back fence - they could have invited me over to their little dinner party. Snobs.
I'm halfway (possibly further through, who knows) a Civ4 game - max world size, 16 civs, and it's a to-the-death game. My alliance (started with 7 civs, now down to 4) has been at war with the other alliance (was 6 now 4) for about 300 years (18 months on and off in real time), with no end in sight. There's really only one significant enemy in the other alliance, the rest can be safely ignored.
I long ago gave up on a quick victory, so for the last 100 years or so, I have concentrated on bombing the crap out a city with about 20 bombers, immediately following that up with an attack by 20 or 30 tanks, and hopefully eventually take the city. Of course, you need to give other reachable cities similar treatment regularly, just to keep them manageable. I haven't actually succeeded in capturing a city for at least 50 years though, as whenever I get ready for a sustained bombing-and-tanking campaign on a city, the enemy send a pile of units towards me, so I then have to divert the bombers and tanks to crushing these constant raids. I keep softening up his cities though, in preparation.
I had some outpost cities on another continent, but the place was just too rocky and arid, so I gave up sending reinforcements to them, and abandoned them to their fate probably 150 years ago. They're still there, though, hanging on.
I have all the techs but haven't gone nuclear - I still feel that I can eventually wear the other guys down.
All the while, I keep churning out missionaries or whatever they're called, along with spies etc, just because they're cheap, set-and-forget, and they may make some small difference in the long run.
Anyway, the point I'm making is that I really need to finish this game before number 5 comes out.
I DID marry her - now I play Farmville to block out the pain of my ruined life.
The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered.
I'm sure that the "artificial" meat will cost a third of traditional meats.
Why charge a third when you could charge two thirds? It's still cheaper...
Finally, the HHGG in your pocket.
Does it come with a towel, or do I need to provide my own?
Seeing as there's no images, I doubt you'd need a towel, or tissues, or anything like that really.
Something like this happened for real - the band Black Sabbath wanted a Stonehenge-style stage set for their 1983/84 tour, but someone got confused between imperial and metric measurements (I don't know, maybe they used metres instead of feet) and they ended up with a Stonehenge replica much larger than the original (and too large to fit in most venues). From what I could figure out, they still have it in a (big) warehouse somewhere. And apparently this was the inspiration for the Spinal Tap Stonehenge bit.
Use different browsers for different purposes. For example, use Google Chrome for your porn browsing, and then Firefox for your legit browsing. In other words... Don't cross the streams!!
Or you can do what I do, which is an extension of the above - use some sort of virtual desktop manager thingy (but keep it's very existence hidden, of course), then you can have your normal stuff in Firefox on the main screen, and have your other stuff in Chrome on the secret second screen... just be ready to flick screens at a moment's notice.
I need it to be able to run System Shock - I've been trying for a while, and damned if I can get it going any other way.
Have you seen the 'butcher' cover? I don't think that's the sort of thing Microsoft would do.