So have I and the strange thing is I have never seen a BSOD in Vista. To be fair, they were all caused by drivers (Nvidia in my case) and not the OS. I haven't seen a crash in months, so I am sticking to the driver version that I am currently running.
I wasn't referring to a single instance in Doom. Players were confronted with these choices throughout the game, whether it be weapons, health, ammo, etc.
And I am with you. A nice, new, shiny weapon was too much of a temptation to pass up.
I read something about games a while back (I don't remember where) in regards to risk versus reward. As you say, there is a balance to be struck to make a game challenging but not unfair or mindless.
Doom did this well where you would come into a pitch black room with a weapon sitting right in the middle, in the only lit section. Obviously it's a trap, but is it worth springing that trap for the weapon? Smash TV is another game that I think of as a good example, with the prizes appearing everywhere but the hordes of enemies are too.
They pretty much are. Some of these exploits have existed since the original id Tech 3 engine, from which Modern Warfare 3's engine is originally based. I've been using Luigi's proof of concept tools to do testing on old id Tech 3 engine games that I used to host servers on for years. With his advice I was able to work around certain problems, but not all of them.
I am not sure how bad the vulnerabilities have become, but back then it was generally buffer overflow exploits that allowed player clients to be crashed, servers to be crashed or even the master server to be crashed. There weren't any exploits that I would consider critical, but they were highly annoying.
eBooks have those too, you know. Even better, eBook ToC and indexes can be linked directly to the material that they reference.
Physical bookmarks
How many physical bookmarks can you realistically stuff into a paper book though? With an eBook, I can create as many as I need.
Pages are numbered, you know.
Pick up a book and instantly open it to, say, page 392 without having to flip through a bunch of pages looking for the right one. With an eBook, I can type in "392" and have the page up right away.
Music isn't as consuming as a book. You can jump around a bunch of music at random, listening to different artists and songs, and thus the "music library" makes more sense. A single book is more linear and even if you read several books at once, it takes time and you don't need more than a handful of books.
That is only true if you're reading novels and only if you still haven't finished it. It takes me only a couple of hours to read most novels, so spontaneously deciding what to read next is that much more convenient. And what about reference books like a dictionary or programming manual? Do you read those cover to cover or do you use them to find specific information on demand?
Also, those handful of books are still going to take up more space and weigh a lot more than my thin and light eBook reader.
Like what, a fucking hugeass television? I'd rather line my walls with books, thanks.
That is one possibility. Or perhaps furniture. Or exercise space. Or paintings. Or computers. Or a piano. Or plants. Or an aquarium. Or storage. Or your kid's stuff. Or any number of things that one might want to use the space for.
You also conveniently skipped over those who may not have the space in the first place.
You would need to go on one longass trip to need to carry enough books for it to be an inconvenience.
Again, it is a matter of choice and convenience. Spend time selecting the few books I can physically carry with me or just grab my reader and be able to read and reference what I want, when I want. In addition, every paper book that I pack means that much less space and weight for other things. I travel frequently, often times internationally, and love being able to have my books with me.
I don't either because I can take care of my books. I have ancient fucking books that look almost as good as the day they were printed, and they are well read.
Unless you have every one of your books encased in mylar or something, there is little you can do to prevent page yellowing. With paper books you have to make a decision as to whether or not you want to keep them in pristine condition or if you want to be able to highlight passages and jot down notes. With an eBook, none of those are issues.
Books are too important to entrust them in fragile little devices controlled by others.
Book are important, which is one reason I prefer eBooks. With paper books, even a spilled drink or dirty hands can destroy them. If anything ever happens to my reader, no problem. I've all of my books backed up on my PC and online.
And I don't know which readers you've seen, but I've used a number of different brands/models and none of them are controlled by anyone other than the owner of the device. My nook handles both DRM and non-DRM books in multiple formats. I can even root it if I want to customize it, but I haven't felt a need nor urge to do that because it handles everything so well.
I don't get people's fascination with these crappy little things that won't even let you leaf through a book
Why would I want to leaf through a book when I can perform an instantaneous search, jump directly to any bookmark or instantly open a book at any page?
or do any of the number of things that make dead trees so much more valuable than digital ink.
Such as?
"But I can carry around hundreds of books in my purse/backpack!" Good for you. Now read all those books at once. You can't? Oh, then what's the point of doing so?
The same point as being able to carry around more music than you can listen to in one sitting. Choice and convenience. If I get an urge to read something, I can pop it right up. If I need to reference something, I can pop that right up too.
Are you homeless and unable to store books anywhere? No?
No, but some of us live in apartments, studios or houses that are not large enough to fit an entire library and some of us have room but want to use that space for better purposes. Also, as stated above, there is the issue of convenience. If I am going on a trip somewhere, I don't have to spend time picking out the books I want to take, I can just grab my reader and have everything available when I want it and if it's not on my reader, I can easily download it.
eBooks have many benefits over paper books aside from what I've already said. You never have to worry about yellowing pages, faded ink or annotations/writing/highlighting on pages. eBooks allow you to change font sizes, font styles and zoom pages. eBooks never disintegrate with age and you can easily keep backups if anything happens to your reader. eBooks can be lent or given to other people, anywhere in the world, at any time without any concern about them damaging or returning your property.
The only "benefit" of paper books is that they are human powered instead of battery powered, which is a dubious advantage when you have battery life measured in weeks or months.
It's probably due to the much larger library of games available for Windows. Mac and Linux users will pay more because they don't have much of a selection to begin with.
Are you really writing each page manually? That should all be pulled from a database and generated on the fly. It takes little to no additional effort to accommodate all users once you have a server side framework or a few scripts in place.
Perhaps in a child's definition of the term. Once a person has grown up, they suddenly realise how wrong they were about many things, this being one of them. Possessions cannot make someone cool. "Coolness", or charm and social ability, is not gained by owning a pair of overpriced sneakers.
If your site breaks because the client doesn't have JavaScript enabled, then you are doing it wrong. The site should gracefully degrade so that anyone can use it.
It's similar to the people who really, really want to waste USD $150 on a pair of Air Jordans. Most of them aren't going to buy them for playing basketball, they buy them because of the brand name and because of the perception that it will somehow make them cooler.
Very much the same thing when it comes to Apple products. Most of the people buying them don't understand what the specs, features and limitations mean for them. The only thing they know is the brand and the belief that it will somehow make them hip.
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The last time that I'm aware of a console manufacturer releasing a slim console after their next-gen console shipped was the Atari 2600 Jr,
Under fifty bucks!
So have I and the strange thing is I have never seen a BSOD in Vista. To be fair, they were all caused by drivers (Nvidia in my case) and not the OS. I haven't seen a crash in months, so I am sticking to the driver version that I am currently running.
I wasn't referring to a single instance in Doom. Players were confronted with these choices throughout the game, whether it be weapons, health, ammo, etc.
And I am with you. A nice, new, shiny weapon was too much of a temptation to pass up.
Smash TV gives entertainment for quarters. Slot machines give nothing.
I read something about games a while back (I don't remember where) in regards to risk versus reward. As you say, there is a balance to be struck to make a game challenging but not unfair or mindless.
Doom did this well where you would come into a pitch black room with a weapon sitting right in the middle, in the only lit section. Obviously it's a trap, but is it worth springing that trap for the weapon? Smash TV is another game that I think of as a good example, with the prizes appearing everywhere but the hordes of enemies are too.
And I thought those old Motorola Aura phones were expensive.
Price is just another choice offered by Android.
They pretty much are. Some of these exploits have existed since the original id Tech 3 engine, from which Modern Warfare 3's engine is originally based. I've been using Luigi's proof of concept tools to do testing on old id Tech 3 engine games that I used to host servers on for years. With his advice I was able to work around certain problems, but not all of them.
I am not sure how bad the vulnerabilities have become, but back then it was generally buffer overflow exploits that allowed player clients to be crashed, servers to be crashed or even the master server to be crashed. There weren't any exploits that I would consider critical, but they were highly annoying.
I am not a Toshiba fan either, but just for future reference if you ever need to know what kind of hardware is in a machine, run PC Wizard or Speccy.
As Kent was riding home one night, he wondered why his bike’s headlight, meant to illuminate the road ahead of him, was mounted on the handlebars.
Headlights are NOT meant to illuminate the road, not even in cars. They are meant so that OTHER PEOPLE can see you.
An index/ToC.
eBooks have those too, you know. Even better, eBook ToC and indexes can be linked directly to the material that they reference.
Physical bookmarks
How many physical bookmarks can you realistically stuff into a paper book though? With an eBook, I can create as many as I need.
Pages are numbered, you know.
Pick up a book and instantly open it to, say, page 392 without having to flip through a bunch of pages looking for the right one. With an eBook, I can type in "392" and have the page up right away.
Music isn't as consuming as a book. You can jump around a bunch of music at random, listening to different artists and songs, and thus the "music library" makes more sense. A single book is more linear and even if you read several books at once, it takes time and you don't need more than a handful of books.
That is only true if you're reading novels and only if you still haven't finished it. It takes me only a couple of hours to read most novels, so spontaneously deciding what to read next is that much more convenient. And what about reference books like a dictionary or programming manual? Do you read those cover to cover or do you use them to find specific information on demand?
Also, those handful of books are still going to take up more space and weigh a lot more than my thin and light eBook reader.
Like what, a fucking hugeass television? I'd rather line my walls with books, thanks.
That is one possibility. Or perhaps furniture. Or exercise space. Or paintings. Or computers. Or a piano. Or plants. Or an aquarium. Or storage. Or your kid's stuff. Or any number of things that one might want to use the space for.
You also conveniently skipped over those who may not have the space in the first place.
You would need to go on one longass trip to need to carry enough books for it to be an inconvenience.
Again, it is a matter of choice and convenience. Spend time selecting the few books I can physically carry with me or just grab my reader and be able to read and reference what I want, when I want. In addition, every paper book that I pack means that much less space and weight for other things. I travel frequently, often times internationally, and love being able to have my books with me.
I don't either because I can take care of my books. I have ancient fucking books that look almost as good as the day they were printed, and they are well read.
Unless you have every one of your books encased in mylar or something, there is little you can do to prevent page yellowing. With paper books you have to make a decision as to whether or not you want to keep them in pristine condition or if you want to be able to highlight passages and jot down notes. With an eBook, none of those are issues.
Books are too important to entrust them in fragile little devices controlled by others.
Book are important, which is one reason I prefer eBooks. With paper books, even a spilled drink or dirty hands can destroy them. If anything ever happens to my reader, no problem. I've all of my books backed up on my PC and online.
And I don't know which readers you've seen, but I've used a number of different brands/models and none of them are controlled by anyone other than the owner of the device. My nook handles both DRM and non-DRM books in multiple formats. I can even root it if I want to customize it, but I haven't felt a need nor urge to do that because it handles everything so well.
I don't get people's fascination with these crappy little things that won't even let you leaf through a book
Why would I want to leaf through a book when I can perform an instantaneous search, jump directly to any bookmark or instantly open a book at any page?
or do any of the number of things that make dead trees so much more valuable than digital ink.
Such as?
"But I can carry around hundreds of books in my purse/backpack!" Good for you. Now read all those books at once. You can't? Oh, then what's the point of doing so?
The same point as being able to carry around more music than you can listen to in one sitting. Choice and convenience. If I get an urge to read something, I can pop it right up. If I need to reference something, I can pop that right up too.
Are you homeless and unable to store books anywhere? No?
No, but some of us live in apartments, studios or houses that are not large enough to fit an entire library and some of us have room but want to use that space for better purposes. Also, as stated above, there is the issue of convenience. If I am going on a trip somewhere, I don't have to spend time picking out the books I want to take, I can just grab my reader and have everything available when I want it and if it's not on my reader, I can easily download it.
eBooks have many benefits over paper books aside from what I've already said. You never have to worry about yellowing pages, faded ink or annotations/writing/highlighting on pages. eBooks allow you to change font sizes, font styles and zoom pages. eBooks never disintegrate with age and you can easily keep backups if anything happens to your reader. eBooks can be lent or given to other people, anywhere in the world, at any time without any concern about them damaging or returning your property.
The only "benefit" of paper books is that they are human powered instead of battery powered, which is a dubious advantage when you have battery life measured in weeks or months.
It's probably due to the much larger library of games available for Windows. Mac and Linux users will pay more because they don't have much of a selection to begin with.
With these books, there is no such OS limitation.
Or spend almost double that and get a 64GB drive
I am still holding out for the 128GB drives to come down a little more.
That Bart Channing guy did a great job on the video.
Tally Hawk?
Cut out eyes from picture of person's face and hold in front of your face. Blink when required.
These are the low resolution, front facing web cams doing facial recognition. I doubt they will discern one set of eyes from another.
Are you really writing each page manually? That should all be pulled from a database and generated on the fly. It takes little to no additional effort to accommodate all users once you have a server side framework or a few scripts in place.
I would say it's more akin to someone sending you an HTML formatted email without an option for a plain text version.
And I never claimed that it did. What's popular isn't always good.
Perhaps in a child's definition of the term. Once a person has grown up, they suddenly realise how wrong they were about many things, this being one of them. Possessions cannot make someone cool. "Coolness", or charm and social ability, is not gained by owning a pair of overpriced sneakers.
If your site breaks because the client doesn't have JavaScript enabled, then you are doing it wrong. The site should gracefully degrade so that anyone can use it.
It's similar to the people who really, really want to waste USD $150 on a pair of Air Jordans. Most of them aren't going to buy them for playing basketball, they buy them because of the brand name and because of the perception that it will somehow make them cooler.
Very much the same thing when it comes to Apple products. Most of the people buying them don't understand what the specs, features and limitations mean for them. The only thing they know is the brand and the belief that it will somehow make them hip.
I was asking because XDA has a ton of ROMs for Android devices. I see a few ICS ROMs for the Galaxy Tab here if you want to give it a shot.
I'm running of the XDA development ICS ROMs on my phone and it works great.
I'll agree with you on racing games, but Freelancer implemented keyboard and mouse flight VERY well. Better than any joystick.