Wow, I think that's the first time I've done a spelling/grammar flame on Slashdot and the other guy didn't get annoyed and defensive and look like an idiot.
Well, outside of slashdot user-base ( the users of slashdot are primarily composed of higher educated, much more computer skilled users, whom, can do more with there computers in a day than most people in a week ) the SysRq key is a key of use. as for the rest of 99.44% of people it's a non-issue
Anyway, most of the users of slashdot would know to custom build there own developmental workstation platform and would order that specific type of keyboard.
it's wonderful to see that the users here battle it out for keyboard layout preferences.
heck if I was a manufactureR of anything related to computers, I would first spend a month researching slashdot just to find idea's and trying to fill them.
The spelling and grammar mistakes are intentional, right? Some kind of ironic trollbait in a post talking about the well educated Slashdot userbase?
The actual mission editor is comparable to NWN, actually not as good iirc.
What's different is the integration - your mission goes into a global list available to everyone playing CoH with no installation required. There's an in-game feedback mechanism, a rating scheme etc.
I'd be interested to know how many hundreds of thousands of times the most popular AE missions have been played, and compare that to the most popular NWN modules (a stat that obviously doesn't exist but you get the idea)
And for $200.00 using one of the ASUS netboxes it costs $200.00 has HDMI does 1080p and has NO DRM plus internal storage and no limitations from where my media sources come from.
Can you dumb it down a bit for me, are you referring to the Asus eee box?
Every year or so I think about building a htpc box, but I don't keep up-to-date on that niche.
It would be interesting to know how many people buy a Kindle and put other stuff on there compared to those who completely succumb to the Amazon cool-aid and do all their shopping there.
I'm guessing most users are not techie enough to do anything but buy from the Amazon store, but obviously I have no data.
I'm sure that's why Amazon tracks those numbers, but the article uses the 3.1 times figure to justify their claim that "consumers who purchase an e-reader buy more books than those who stick with traditional bound volumes".
I didn't word my initial comment well, when I say local chains I meant e.g. driving to my local Barnes & Noble/Borders/whatever. I know that Amazon is growing at those guys' expense, but they still sell a helluva lot of books.
There's a 5GB ebook archive on the Pirate Bay with thousands of ebooks all RARed up, it's easier to download the whole thing and just extract the ones you're interested in.
Comparing ebooks to physical book sales is obviously stupid, because Amazon can't track how many physical books I bought at local chains, or the used shop downtown.
Microsoft's strength is that it puts a lot of time and money into the study of clerical work - productivity in the office.
I dunno, Office is ridiculously entrenched. I think they could have reworked Word to require vi style modal editing commands and everyone would still have bent over and upgraded.
I mean what are you going to buy instead? WordPerfect?
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That sounds SO much easier then driving a car.
I didn't think the Stardock games needed the Stardock client running when you play the game?
(I'd check but it's been a few months since I played GalCiv and I deleted it just the other day to save space.)
The average TV is much bigger then the average monitor.
The next study will involve rust monsters and gelatinous cubes.
replicate the actor down to the pours
pores?
Wow, I think that's the first time I've done a spelling/grammar flame on Slashdot and the other guy didn't get annoyed and defensive and look like an idiot.
2 thumbs up.
Unjust?
Relax, it's just slashdot.
Well, outside of slashdot user-base ( the users of slashdot are primarily composed of higher educated, much more computer skilled users, whom, can do more with there computers in a day than most people in a week ) the SysRq key is a key of use. as for the rest of 99.44% of people it's a non-issue
Anyway, most of the users of slashdot would know to custom build there own developmental workstation platform and would order that specific type of keyboard.
it's wonderful to see that the users here battle it out for keyboard layout preferences.
heck if I was a manufactureR of anything related to computers, I would first spend a month researching slashdot just to find idea's and trying to fill them.
The spelling and grammar mistakes are intentional, right? Some kind of ironic trollbait in a post talking about the well educated Slashdot userbase?
The engine is limited, so the quests pretty much have to take that form.
You can still have clever or funny stories within that framework.
The actual mission editor is comparable to NWN, actually not as good iirc.
What's different is the integration - your mission goes into a global list available to everyone playing CoH with no installation required. There's an in-game feedback mechanism, a rating scheme etc.
I'd be interested to know how many hundreds of thousands of times the most popular AE missions have been played, and compare that to the most popular NWN modules (a stat that obviously doesn't exist but you get the idea)
And then they nerfed the worst of the AE abuses and people are running real missions and task forces again.
The cycle of MMO continues.
So I can watch Youtube videos of hockey fights.
The Canadian Best Buy website has at least 3 dozen PC + monitor bundles between $400 and $900, throw in another $50 for a printer.
I expect the US dollar would go even further.
The margins on this stuff are razor thin, or even a bunch of jerks like Best Buy wouldn't be resorting to bundling crapware for a measly $5/unit.
$1K for a PC? What decade are you from?
The margins on PCs are ridiculously thin.
That's why manufacturers have resorted to bundling crapware, and now apparently retailers as well.
Maybe, but that little chart is in Flash.
And for $200.00 using one of the ASUS netboxes it costs $200.00 has HDMI does 1080p and has NO DRM plus internal storage and no limitations from where my media sources come from.
Can you dumb it down a bit for me, are you referring to the Asus eee box?
Every year or so I think about building a htpc box, but I don't keep up-to-date on that niche.
It would be interesting to know how many people buy a Kindle and put other stuff on there compared to those who completely succumb to the Amazon cool-aid and do all their shopping there.
I'm guessing most users are not techie enough to do anything but buy from the Amazon store, but obviously I have no data.
I'm sure that's why Amazon tracks those numbers, but the article uses the 3.1 times figure to justify their claim that "consumers who purchase an e-reader buy more books than those who stick with traditional bound volumes".
I didn't word my initial comment well, when I say local chains I meant e.g. driving to my local Barnes & Noble/Borders/whatever. I know that Amazon is growing at those guys' expense, but they still sell a helluva lot of books.
There's a 5GB ebook archive on the Pirate Bay with thousands of ebooks all RARed up, it's easier to download the whole thing and just extract the ones you're interested in.
Or so they tell me...
Comparing ebooks to physical book sales is obviously stupid, because Amazon can't track how many physical books I bought at local chains, or the used shop downtown.
Microsoft's strength is that it puts a lot of time and money into the study of clerical work - productivity in the office.
I dunno, Office is ridiculously entrenched. I think they could have reworked Word to require vi style modal editing commands and everyone would still have bent over and upgraded.
I mean what are you going to buy instead? WordPerfect?
Yes, I've often wished it was even harder for people to read and edit each other's word processing documents.
Or in other words, the IT becomes "single point of failure." While PC can run without any infrastructure or IT involvement.
Eh?
Without email, files on the network, network printers, whatever corporate apps you have, internet... what good is that PC?
That's pretty sweet, the first thing I'd do is install a Commodore 64 emulator.