It's fun watching the magazines talk about that. When it came out, everyone was entranced, and they gave it amazing ratings. Then, for about 5 years afterwards, it became the in thing to bash it, even to where they would apologize for the good reviews. Nowadays they'll admit they liked it, but bashed it afterwards.
Arcanum and TOEE suffered both from one very simple thing. TO BLOODY BIG.
Actually, that's my wife is still playing it. She's finished it 5 times or so. She's even done the so-called "God's Quest". For her, it's like Morrowwind - she'll eventually finish the main story, but let's enjoy and wander around the world first. If you skip all the side stuff, it goes rather quickly.
Oh, and there's a new TOEE patch, you might want to take a look. My problem with the game is that it's too slow, it takes too long to get to a "wow" point.
Loot: I understand completely. Some NWN modules deal with it better than others. Right now my 30th level monk has dual Kama, one of which does 3D10, the other is Vorpal 18. I've got 3 different sets of Monk "armor", two sets of Gauntlets, two sets of bracers, three sets of boots, and a really nice cloak to aid my "hide" skill. The OC wasn't great about it, but the two expansions had some good stuff. And again, check out some third-party modules. We just got done with MTS2, which wound up with a ton of useful loot.
It is a lot of harder to get software working than work faster than before.
"there's no denying the fact that Jaguar is better than Mac OS X 10.1 in every important way. It's faster overall[...]" -- Ars Technica
"I am hard-pressed to find any part of the user interface that does not feel noticeably faster in Panther than it does in Jaguar." -- Ars Technica
"For over three years now, Mac OS X has gotten faster with every release -- and not just 'faster in the experience of most end users', but faster on the same hardware." --Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/panther/macosx -10.3-5.html)
Depends. I've put Bazooka and Search & Destroy on several peoples machines after they complain how slow their machine is, all the popups for no reason, etc, etc. They don't know it's spyware, but the descriptions are pretty easy to diagnose.
And of course my coworkers, who for some reason all use IE. They're probably the worst about it, or maybe I just expect more from IT pros. MS blinders? (Sorry, guys)
"more than 90% of the Internet users out there aren't aware or concerned with IE vulnerabilities."
That's odd. At least every week I have someone mention some new spyware or popup they run into, and how do I deal with it. Many of them are now quite happily running Mozilla or Firefox.
And the problem with viewing people's sites isn't my problem, it's the site's. If it doesn't work, I go elsewhere. And my bank's site works just fine with Moz.
"AirPort Express gives you no way to see what song, or play list, is currently playing, and no way to change the music.[...]Apple hints that it will be addressing this problem in a future version or via some kind of add-on product"
Any bets? You could do a wi-fi remote (with LCD to see what's playing), but I'm hoping they'll use that USB port for something... like a video out.
Someone releases a new product hoping you'll buy it, not continually updating an old product in the hopes you'll never need to spend money with them again.
Yeah- like Half-Life. Or Neverwinter. Or Doom. Oh, wait...
We already know Toshiba is making them, they just got dumb and leaked the news before Steve did. Just like when ATI leaked info in advance on one of the cards. (One difference: while Steve didn't mention the ATI, it was still available via the web site)
Or is this a way to make the iPods appear cheaper, since there's no $500 one? Now, the apparent difference between a Windows-type Media Device (which, say, sells for $600) and an iPod is $200, not $100.
They'll probably be listed tomorrow, just not mentioned by Steve.
Oh, and one other thing people. THEY'RE NOT CHEAPER! There's still no $200 iPod. They just did a size rev. Instead of being 5/10/15 for 299/399/499, now it'll probably be 20/40/60 for 299/399/499. More for the same price, but the prices haven't dropped.
It's the principal of the thing. Don't let them stop publishing demos - they will, because it costs them money. Remember Unreal 2? No demo... until later. They wouldn't have made one if the sales had been great - they weren't, so they were forced to release one. I don't buy games without trying a demo.
You can do this in Mox, but not Firefox (that I'm aware of). What I do is find several sites that infrequently update, then tell it to check every day. I'd love it to, when I start Moz in the morning, tell me which of my sites have updated. I'll once-a-month hit a site. The current way seems hackneyed, but I have no better way to describe it.
How about an option to open javascripted newwindows in a new tab? Lots of sights have slideshows that want to spawn a window - if you middle-click on them, the tab is empty.
Hell, an easy way to save movies just shown - the page info doesn't seem to save "media" or "embed" objects.
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To be honest, I wouldn't call that shaky-cam. Aside from 5 seconds or so, it's stable. I've seen much worse lately.
Looks like he hit block several times during a slo-mo kick. Is that impressive? The crowd went wild, but how accurate does the timing have to be?
I mean, I want to play with The Computer. The Computer is my friend. Isn't he your friend too, citizen?
It's fun watching the magazines talk about that. When it came out, everyone was entranced, and they gave it amazing ratings. Then, for about 5 years afterwards, it became the in thing to bash it, even to where they would apologize for the good reviews. Nowadays they'll admit they liked it, but bashed it afterwards.
Arcanum and TOEE suffered both from one very simple thing. TO BLOODY BIG.
Actually, that's my wife is still playing it. She's finished it 5 times or so. She's even done the so-called "God's Quest". For her, it's like Morrowwind - she'll eventually finish the main story, but let's enjoy and wander around the world first. If you skip all the side stuff, it goes rather quickly.
Oh, and there's a new TOEE patch, you might want to take a look. My problem with the game is that it's too slow, it takes too long to get to a "wow" point.
Loot: I understand completely. Some NWN modules deal with it better than others. Right now my 30th level monk has dual Kama, one of which does 3D10, the other is Vorpal 18. I've got 3 different sets of Monk "armor", two sets of Gauntlets, two sets of bracers, three sets of boots, and a really nice cloak to aid my "hide" skill. The OC wasn't great about it, but the two expansions had some good stuff. And again, check out some third-party modules. We just got done with MTS2, which wound up with a ton of useful loot.
Depends. I've put Bazooka and Search & Destroy on several peoples machines after they complain how slow their machine is, all the popups for no reason, etc, etc. They don't know it's spyware, but the descriptions are pretty easy to diagnose.
And of course my coworkers, who for some reason all use IE. They're probably the worst about it, or maybe I just expect more from IT pros. MS blinders? (Sorry, guys)
I built a machine yesterday. Went to WindowsUpdate, got current.
Today, the machine comes in. For grins, I run WindowsUpdate. FOUR CRITICAL PATCHES. WTF?
"more than 90% of the Internet users out there aren't aware or concerned with IE vulnerabilities."
That's odd. At least every week I have someone mention some new spyware or popup they run into, and how do I deal with it. Many of them are now quite happily running Mozilla or Firefox.
And the problem with viewing people's sites isn't my problem, it's the site's. If it doesn't work, I go elsewhere. And my bank's site works just fine with Moz.
And an interesting quote from Mossberg:
Any bets? You could do a wi-fi remote (with LCD to see what's playing), but I'm hoping they'll use that USB port for something... like a video out.
Someone releases a new product hoping you'll buy it, not continually updating an old product in the hopes you'll never need to spend money with them again.
Yeah- like Half-Life. Or Neverwinter. Or Doom.
Oh, wait...
We already know Toshiba is making them, they just got dumb and leaked the news before Steve did. Just like when ATI leaked info in advance on one of the cards. (One difference: while Steve didn't mention the ATI, it was still available via the web site)
Or is this a way to make the iPods appear cheaper, since there's no $500 one? Now, the apparent difference between a Windows-type Media Device (which, say, sells for $600) and an iPod is $200, not $100.
They'll probably be listed tomorrow, just not mentioned by Steve.
Oh, and one other thing people. THEY'RE NOT CHEAPER! There's still no $200 iPod. They just did a size rev. Instead of being 5/10/15 for 299/399/499, now it'll probably be 20/40/60 for 299/399/499. More for the same price, but the prices haven't dropped.
*ROFL* Yeah! They've been photoshopped. Look in the reflection... the photo was taken in Germany.
*ROFL*
Yup - bad design. Instead of scroll wheel & buttons, it's a moded button. The first one is absolutely intuitive. This one isn't.
Hopefully the price drop will bring down the price of the old ones - I was debating whether to wait, this decides me... I get the old-style.
I use ThumbsPlus - very good at categorizing, and will integrate with (at least) SQL Server. (Yes, windows only, etc, etc...)
It's the principal of the thing. Don't let them stop publishing demos - they will, because it costs them money. Remember Unreal 2? No demo... until later. They wouldn't have made one if the sales had been great - they weren't, so they were forced to release one. I don't buy games without trying a demo.
You can do this in Mox, but not Firefox (that I'm aware of). What I do is find several sites that infrequently update, then tell it to check every day. I'd love it to, when I start Moz in the morning, tell me which of my sites have updated. I'll once-a-month hit a site. The current way seems hackneyed, but I have no better way to describe it.
How about an option to open javascripted newwindows in a new tab? Lots of sights have slideshows that want to spawn a window - if you middle-click on them, the tab is empty.
Hell, an easy way to save movies just shown - the page info doesn't seem to save "media" or "embed" objects.
It's over two days. THAT'S what's significant. They lost 1% in TWO DAYS.
I feel safe, though... my 98 box is still immune.
Happens every time this subject is mentioned on slashdot. Somebody decides to write the "bug-free code", and inevitably gets it wrong.
But what they should have noticed on my invoice was that I had a 300W power supply and that I needed more.
Why? I'm running an Athlon 1.4 (aka 1700), Geforce 3, PCI NIC, PCI Audio, CD-RW, and 4 drives. If a 300 can power all that, you should be fine.
(But yes, my next machine will have 450 or so as well - I want a bigger RAID)
Mind linking us to where we can buy mp3 players for $10 each? I'd love to buy a bunch, at that price.
"endless Matrix apologists"? Aside from me and 2 or 3 other people, it's pretty much ONLY Matrix-bashers in this thread.