I think MS made a huge mistake selling Access Software which they bought for its Links Golf game. They sold it to Take Two in '04 and it's basically been laid to rest by them.
Looking at the PC golf scene now is a pitiful exercise in frustration. EA quit making PC versions of Tiger Woods golf after the '08 version. Golf gamers only have console versions for now where if MS had kept the Links franchise alive I suspect it would be dominating right now.
EA does have Tiger Woods Online which runs from a plugin to your web browser but they did what many companies do and released it from beta long before it was a real product. A quick look at the forums for TWO pretty much tells the story: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/forums/show/3732.page
ROTT had jumppads and hilarious taunts as I recall. The ballbat was great. I still recall playing modem 1v1 and commenting to my friend how SMALL the other player was even when he was close.
This is just so ridiculous it has to be a frame or a setup.
Read a news article earlier about a guy in the Midwest that went to the post office to pick up a package and got arrested because it was 7lbs. of pot. So now we can mail illegal stuff to people we hate and get them arrested and ruined for life? Also, there's an article on Fark today that links to a newpaper report about a guy who had his wallet stolen, years later is seems a registered sex offender was using his identity. Now the guy is F'ed because the police cannot remove the alias from the real offender because "the concern is that if authorities delete the alias, the criminal could go back to using it again." The guy is now getting arrested for not registering as a sex offender.
Is law enforcement and people in general really this stupid?
Any more I find network latency to be alot more important to me than the actual throughput of my connection. Being able to use my remote service software without as much lag is proving to be more useful to me than being able to download all the porn on the internet at 20 Mbps. I am quite happy with my current provider for that.
Thank you for saying this. I constantly tell people here that their speed doesn't mean crap if their latency, or real speed, is bad.
They look at me like I'm on crack.
Packet loss is another issue and it's ruining my Netflix streaming fun.
The feature still seems to be available - so you can set an image if you want, but I guess they won't be providing you with one of their own picked images as a default.
Well, there's this little pesky document called the Constitution. Banning texting on the road would be about as Constitutional as a federal ban on violence against women..... I am pretty sure that would fall outside the bounds of the Commerce Clause.....
BS! Remember, driving is not a right. It's a privilege. That's how they get around the Bill of Rights when they setup drunk driver roadblocks. Also, if they can pass crap like the Patriot Act, they can pretty much do anything they want until we, the people, fire them.
Aaaaand, that's only private from the general public. Even if you update Facebook only on your own time, with your own equipment, on your own network, there's a chance that your employer can see your full profile anyway... and your mom's profile, and your dog's profile. There have been posts on/. in the past from people who said that a P.I. license and a little money shoved to FB for a special "fraud detection" account will allow HR departments full access to anyone's profile pages and photo albums. I don't know if it's true, but it's one of the only ways beyond ads that I could see FB monetizing all the data.
Could easily test this with some fake accounts? I've always assumed the same thing as you.
...every video or home theater forum is filled to the brim with complaints about all brands of bluray players and how they wont play many discs or have other showstopper issues. This is a great idea, make them even more unreliable.
DVD quality has been very good the last several years and I am more than happy with it. My bluray player sits gathering dust. I hated waiting for it to load and it ran so hot I was terrified it might cause a fire. The Samsung engineers knew this and set it to power off after 40 minutes of pausing. It annoyed me so much I went out and bought a $60 upscaling DVD player and never looked back.
Its funny how the Google hype is driving so much talk about something like DNS, a service which probably 95% of non-tech people don't know exists. Most people wouldn't care about DNS normally, but since its Google it must be something to get excited about. I doubt really that any significant number of people will switch to using 8.8.8.8, but I worry that if they do, one of the the original goals for DNS will be lost. That its distributed.
Just ask yourself one question, if you don't trust your internet provider enough to do DNS correctly, should you trust them at all?
No, I can't trust my ISP's DNS servers and I know this from experience. Unfortunately, in my area, there are no alternatives.
Getting banned by crybabies is why I refuse to play team games anymore. I'll stick with my hour or 2 of QW or Q3 dm a week, thank you. Sure, there is some crying, but the herd mentality is beyond my ability to cope.
Dude, go easy on Malc. Did you see his user ID? He must be like 60 years old. Don't forget, he probably finds computers confusing, and has his some explain email to him. And he thinks that the "internet" is inside his computer. So be nice to the old folks. Seriously though, I think you missed his point, namely the line "to each his own."
While some people get a kick out of making fun of old people, EVERYONE eventually realizes sooner or later that growing old is a privilege, not a right. For you, I'm guessing later.
What eventually made me dump Vista was not the performance, or UAC, but the behaviour of parts of the OS, especially SearchFilterHost. SearchFilterHost's behaviour looked (and probably still looks) like malware. I assumed for a long time the system was infected, but no virus or malware detection ever turned up anything.
Why not simply turn off indexing?
I have used alternatives to Microsoft's always crappy search engines for years.
Wow, great memories. I was just discussing reviving the "Descent genre" with a friend several weeks ago. I was never into the WW2 combat type team games and it seems there is room for a Descent-type game in this modern era. I still play the Painkeep mod for Quakeworld daily, I could see myself playing and updated and moddable Descent 3 the same way.
I guess it's out of the question for the source code to Descent 3 being released so the amateur community could make a go of it?
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I think MS made a huge mistake selling Access Software which they bought for its Links Golf game. They sold it to Take Two in '04 and it's basically been laid to rest by them.
Looking at the PC golf scene now is a pitiful exercise in frustration. EA quit making PC versions of Tiger Woods golf after the '08 version. Golf gamers only have console versions for now where if MS had kept the Links franchise alive I suspect it would be dominating right now.
EA does have Tiger Woods Online which runs from a plugin to your web browser but they did what many companies do and released it from beta long before it was a real product. A quick look at the forums for TWO pretty much tells the story: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/forums/show/3732.page
Just wait till you see Doom 2. 7x 720k floppy disks? No game after Doom come close in making a truly awesome rocket launcher, imo.
Doom2 was the start of an overused greedy "re-label it and sell it again" era.
Doom and Doom2 were exactly the same engine except in Doom2 they gave you a double barreled shotgun and a few new monsters.
ROTT had jumppads and hilarious taunts as I recall. The ballbat was great. I still recall playing modem 1v1 and commenting to my friend how SMALL the other player was even when he was close.
How do you know it'll only be security updates? How do you know a keylogger won't sneak in there, undetected?
How do you know that isn't happening several times a day anyway? You could have thousands of keyloggers on your machine by now.
It all began with John Romero trying to make himself out to be a rockstar instead of a game designer.
The fad caught on. Now people realize they are just geeks.
This is just so ridiculous it has to be a frame or a setup.
Read a news article earlier about a guy in the Midwest that went to the post office to pick up a package and got arrested because it was 7lbs. of pot. So now we can mail illegal stuff to people we hate and get them arrested and ruined for life? Also, there's an article on Fark today that links to a newpaper report about a guy who had his wallet stolen, years later is seems a registered sex offender was using his identity. Now the guy is F'ed because the police cannot remove the alias from the real offender because "the concern is that if authorities delete the alias, the criminal could go back to using it again." The guy is now getting arrested for not registering as a sex offender.
Is law enforcement and people in general really this stupid?
http://www.king5.com/home/Innocent-man-may-be-linked-to-sex-offender-for-rest-of-his-life-98943394.html
In other news, people login to the most notorious torrent site around. Film at 11.
Any more I find network latency to be alot more important to me than the actual throughput of my connection. Being able to use my remote service software without as much lag is proving to be more useful to me than being able to download all the porn on the internet at 20 Mbps. I am quite happy with my current provider for that.
Thank you for saying this. I constantly tell people here that their speed doesn't mean crap if their latency, or real speed, is bad. They look at me like I'm on crack. Packet loss is another issue and it's ruining my Netflix streaming fun.
The feature still seems to be available - so you can set an image if you want, but I guess they won't be providing you with one of their own picked images as a default.
It's been available for several weeks.
Hate to mention this but the "$4000 television" is now worth about $150-$250. I have a 7 yr old Sammy DLP, same boat.
Airline pilots could never afford an iPad.
Why not everybody?
Well, there's this little pesky document called the Constitution. Banning texting on the road would be about as Constitutional as a federal ban on violence against women..... I am pretty sure that would fall outside the bounds of the Commerce Clause.....
BS! Remember, driving is not a right. It's a privilege. That's how they get around the Bill of Rights when they setup drunk driver roadblocks. Also, if they can pass crap like the Patriot Act, they can pretty much do anything they want until we, the people, fire them.
Aaaaand, that's only private from the general public. Even if you update Facebook only on your own time, with your own equipment, on your own network, there's a chance that your employer can see your full profile anyway... and your mom's profile, and your dog's profile. There have been posts on /. in the past from people who said that a P.I. license and a little money shoved to FB for a special "fraud detection" account will allow HR departments full access to anyone's profile pages and photo albums. I don't know if it's true, but it's one of the only ways beyond ads that I could see FB monetizing all the data.
Could easily test this with some fake accounts? I've always assumed the same thing as you.
Well now! Nice post! Couldn't have said it better myself.
But are they providing information with the intent to facilitate copyright infringement? Intent matters.
In which countries?
More like a GED.
...every video or home theater forum is filled to the brim with complaints about all brands of bluray players and how they wont play many discs or have other showstopper issues. This is a great idea, make them even more unreliable.
DVD quality has been very good the last several years and I am more than happy with it. My bluray player sits gathering dust. I hated waiting for it to load and it ran so hot I was terrified it might cause a fire. The Samsung engineers knew this and set it to power off after 40 minutes of pausing. It annoyed me so much I went out and bought a $60 upscaling DVD player and never looked back.
Suck it bluray, I hope you die a quick death.
Its funny how the Google hype is driving so much talk about something like DNS, a service which probably 95% of non-tech people don't know exists. Most people
wouldn't care about DNS normally, but since its Google it must be something to get excited about. I doubt really that any significant number of people will
switch to using 8.8.8.8, but I worry that if they do, one of the the original goals for DNS will be lost. That its distributed.
Just ask yourself one question, if you don't trust your internet provider enough to do DNS correctly, should you trust them at all?
No, I can't trust my ISP's DNS servers and I know this from experience. Unfortunately, in my area, there are no alternatives.
Now what?
Getting banned by crybabies is why I refuse to play team games anymore. I'll stick with my hour or 2 of QW or Q3 dm a week, thank you. Sure, there is some crying, but the herd mentality is beyond my ability to cope.
Dude, go easy on Malc. Did you see his user ID? He must be like 60 years old. Don't forget, he probably finds computers confusing, and has his some explain email to him. And he thinks that the "internet" is inside his computer. So be nice to the old folks. Seriously though, I think you missed his point, namely the line "to each his own."
While some people get a kick out of making fun of old people, EVERYONE eventually realizes sooner or later that growing old is a privilege, not a right. For you, I'm guessing later.
-signed: "like 50 years old"
What eventually made me dump Vista was not the performance, or UAC, but the behaviour of parts of the OS, especially SearchFilterHost. SearchFilterHost's behaviour looked (and probably still looks) like malware. I assumed for a long time the system was infected, but no virus or malware detection ever turned up anything.
Why not simply turn off indexing?
I have used alternatives to Microsoft's always crappy search engines for years.
So, where can we post?
What use is this story unless we can all enjoy the Texas tough guys coming after us!
It kills me how people declare themselves experts.
Tons of shills. Go say something bad about a Samsung product you are dissatisfied with and you will see what I mean.
Wow, great memories. I was just discussing reviving the "Descent genre" with a friend several weeks ago. I was never into the WW2 combat type team games and it seems there is room for a Descent-type game in this modern era. I still play the Painkeep mod for Quakeworld daily, I could see myself playing and updated and moddable Descent 3 the same way.
I guess it's out of the question for the source code to Descent 3 being released so the amateur community could make a go of it?