and too bad it was never used in hl2 to enable creativity in the player. never, not once. every time the player just has to do something envisioned before.
I put up with online ads as long as they follow these rules:
--No flash. This is because flash ads are usually really sparkly and annoying as hell. Some advertisers have also started putting text ads in flash because it allows them to spawn popups, bypassing blockers. --No cookies. If your ad agency thinks they need to track me, both your cookies and images will be blocked.
... Further compouding this is the fact that the just ended Q2 is typically Apple's weakest of the 4 quarters...
Yeah, I was wondering about this too. Apple beating projections for the post-christmas quarter would seem to be a sign that they're doing pretty well right now...
as one is supposed to get the brand into new markets
Wait, you mean BOTH, right? Microsoft is still trying to horn in on the console business, although I'd say they did a fair job for a first console (losing money on hardware and huge advertising budgets don't hurt, either).
It's because of the US idiocy about corporate profits. If companies would stop focusing on quarterly earnings and bullshit like selling $ARBITRARY_NUMBER of $PRODUCT, maybe, um, I dunno where I'm going with this, but it's definitely an annoying thing about investing and business here.
And a computer store that I went to over spring break (that carries Macs) said they sell out what they get in very quickly. (My grandpa got the last one:))
The XP default scheme, though quite bold, is not pastel. (It's more like Fisher Price.:P)
I remember reading on a helldesk board where some guy didn't know what version of Windows he was running, so he just said "the one that looks like Legos".
Xbox LAN parties are more popular than for other consoles (at least where I live)
This is a given. The XBOX is the only current-gen console that has/had a (standard) networking port since day 1. (Yes, I know some PS2 games used Firewire for networking, and yes, I know they now ship with ethernet)
George Orwell, meet American business. American business, meet Mr. Orwell.
What makes this scary is that content companies are increasingly pushing "all-in-one" ISP/cable type deals. When your internet service comes from AOL/Time/Warner or Comcast, it's only a matter of time before the content end of their conglomerate dictates policy for the "services" end.
Nah, just think about what Automator really is. It's shell-style pipes and scripting in a graphical environment. I'm hoping that for the PHB-types who actually have a little drive to learn new things (yeah, I know, oxymoron, but anyway) can either whip up a little script to do whatever (or maybe have the IT guy do it so he doesn't have to walk them through it twice a week).
Seeing as how everyone in the city is paying for it already,
WTF? Not everyone in Minneapolis has internet access that they pay for. There are quite a few low-income and recent immigrants that I know who don't exactly have internet access at home/that they pay for
a show on mtv would be just one way, them pulling all the strings and saying whatever they want of the device - without the possibility for anyone to ask questions about it.
Intel's brains are divided up among way too many incompatible irrelevent architectures.
Just to get it out of the way, I'm neither an AMD or Intel troll. So here goes...
Intel can afford to divide its brains up more than AMD because it is such a huge company, much bigger than AMD. And they aren't supporting that many architectures. They have IA-64 (itanium), NetBurst (P4), and the Pentium Pro (Pentium Pro thru P3, and the P-M). I think they are going to start phasing out Netburst (and maybe itanium), so they would be back to one main architecture.
That would be... awesome. PvP arenas and huge online tourneys to get cool weapons, and an evolving game that adds new dimensions to your strategy as you progress would be so cool in an MMO with a fighting engine. Specialization could be very cool too...
And back in the 1960's, a newspaper editorial would've been written as follows:
Seriously, though. While I'm not a fan of racism by any means, I'm a little unhappy with the fact that a lot of civil rights advocates use strongly charged statements like this one in their arguments.
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and too bad it was never used in hl2 to enable creativity in the player. never, not once. every time the player just has to do something envisioned before.
Really?
So stealth mode is supposed to go down like this, right?:
....
Windows H4xx04: OMG wut wuz dat?
Windows H4xx04-2: ya i got hit to
OS X H4x04: OMG PWNED1111
Did anyone else notice the "My Computer" icon? Eww
Yeah, but the icon is a picture of Tux in front of an iMac, so that evens it out.
But, mister, I just never played FF4 :P
I thought ATB came from Chrono Trigger...
I put up with online ads as long as they follow these rules:
--No flash. This is because flash ads are usually really sparkly and annoying as hell. Some advertisers have also started putting text ads in flash because it allows them to spawn popups, bypassing blockers.
--No cookies. If your ad agency thinks they need to track me, both your cookies and images will be blocked.
... Further compouding this is the fact that the just ended Q2 is typically Apple's weakest of the 4 quarters...
Yeah, I was wondering about this too. Apple beating projections for the post-christmas quarter would seem to be a sign that they're doing pretty well right now...
as one is supposed to get the brand into new markets
Wait, you mean BOTH, right? Microsoft is still trying to horn in on the console business, although I'd say they did a fair job for a first console (losing money on hardware and huge advertising budgets don't hurt, either).
It's because of the US idiocy about corporate profits. If companies would stop focusing on quarterly earnings and bullshit like selling $ARBITRARY_NUMBER of $PRODUCT, maybe, um, I dunno where I'm going with this, but it's definitely an annoying thing about investing and business here.
And a computer store that I went to over spring break (that carries Macs) said they sell out what they get in very quickly. (My grandpa got the last one :))
The XP default scheme, though quite bold, is not pastel. (It's more like Fisher Price. :P)
I remember reading on a helldesk board where some guy didn't know what version of Windows he was running, so he just said "the one that looks like Legos".
Xbox LAN parties are more popular than for other consoles (at least where I live)
This is a given. The XBOX is the only current-gen console that has/had a (standard) networking port since day 1. (Yes, I know some PS2 games used Firewire for networking, and yes, I know they now ship with ethernet)
Now these same industries, who tried their damndest to ban the technology completely, are embracing it.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Some Gandhi
George Orwell, meet American business. American business, meet Mr. Orwell.
What makes this scary is that content companies are increasingly pushing "all-in-one" ISP/cable type deals. When your internet service comes from AOL/Time/Warner or Comcast, it's only a matter of time before the content end of their conglomerate dictates policy for the "services" end.
Leaving them with an old antiquated nearly extinct instruction set :P
Yeah, Intel paid very heavily for backwards-compatability that nobody really cares about anymore. x86 should've been mass-genocided a LONG time ago.
Nah, just think about what Automator really is. It's shell-style pipes and scripting in a graphical environment. I'm hoping that for the PHB-types who actually have a little drive to learn new things (yeah, I know, oxymoron, but anyway) can either whip up a little script to do whatever (or maybe have the IT guy do it so he doesn't have to walk them through it twice a week).
Seeing as how everyone in the city is paying for it already,
WTF? Not everyone in Minneapolis has internet access that they pay for. There are quite a few low-income and recent immigrants that I know who don't exactly have internet access at home/that they pay for
Ever hear the joke: "Perhaps there's a reason the wind is always blowing north in Iowa... Minnesota sucks!"
So since the wind blows south constantly in Minnesota, there's some kind of wind black hole on the border?!?!?
It is the same case for Andrew Morton.
I was under the impression that AM had his own scripts and didn't use BK...
a show on mtv would be just one way, them pulling all the strings and saying whatever they want of the device - without the possibility for anyone to ask questions about it.
Just like cable news channels!
Intel's brains are divided up among way too many incompatible irrelevent architectures.
Just to get it out of the way, I'm neither an AMD or Intel troll. So here goes...
Intel can afford to divide its brains up more than AMD because it is such a huge company, much bigger than AMD. And they aren't supporting that many architectures. They have IA-64 (itanium), NetBurst (P4), and the Pentium Pro (Pentium Pro thru P3, and the P-M). I think they are going to start phasing out Netburst (and maybe itanium), so they would be back to one main architecture.
That would be ... awesome. PvP arenas and huge online tourneys to get cool weapons, and an evolving game that adds new dimensions to your strategy as you progress would be so cool in an MMO with a fighting engine. Specialization could be very cool too...
And back in the 1960's, a newspaper editorial would've been written as follows:
Seriously, though. While I'm not a fan of racism by any means, I'm a little unhappy with the fact that a lot of civil rights advocates use strongly charged statements like this one in their arguments.
No Soldier shall, in time of peace ... nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
With the new laws, no searches or seizures are unreasonable.
That's for the judicial system to decide. (not that I'm confident about it)
Sounds like Starship Troopers