Nah seriously, I agree that it's hard to take someone saying stuff like "viruses are a feature in.Net, but Java has security built in" seriously.:-P If it's anything McNealy offer his company, it's bad PR for his childish comments.
This reminds me I should give Sam & Max another go... I always get stuck at a special point in that game. lol.. I need to complete it to be able to follow the story in Sam & Max 2.:-)
Didn't even play Full Throttle, but I saw it and it looked cool. I'd better pick it up at some abandonware site...
2. Beat 'Em Up They are right (at least!). RIP. We'll miss you (i loved double dragon).
And Golden Axe:-) And Moonstone:-)
1. Graphic Adventure They are right again. Why did Graphic adventures died? I really really enjoid Maniac MAnsion, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island (I II & III)...
Agreed - even if MI 4 sucked a bit more than the previous in the series, I still enjoyed it simply because it was a friggin' adventure game! Grr... If there isn't a big enough audience for these games, it would surprise me. Or are even people of ages 18+ completely obsessed with Warcraft III and Counterstrike these days. Arrgh!
I never got to play Maniac Mansion that much, but I did play DOTT, MI1 & MI2, even some Larry and Police Quest games. Also Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2. And the great Grim Fandango of course -- wow, that was a *good* game!
lol, anyone remember those... More often than not B/W horrible graphics, but you still felt a sense of achievement when having stripped a girl completely. I wonder what would happen today if such a game was released?
Sports Games
I mean the specific genre like Summer Gammes, Winter Games, etc. Where you have to wiggle your joystick as fast as you can. Talk about hardware destroyer!
What angers me is that graphical adventures are so uncommon these days... Especially Grim Fandango was easily the game of the year to me, better than most movies I've seen lately even! Everything from the character personalities to the unique setting and music. A true masterpiece..
Good job. These reactions will encourage other game companies to do their best in supporting a gaming platform that's in minority.
Oh...
Fuck you for cleaning your room and not keeping track of your stuff.
And Bioware shouldn't be fucked for the copy protection. They have nothing to say about it, only Infogrames. I'm sure Bioware complained about it as well, since they also had CD breaking and becoming coasters too... I guess they finally got an approval from their publisher to remove it in a patch.
True, i guess i just don't like the atmosphere created within NWN.
Yes, I agree about this. I never liked the atmosphere of NWN as much as the one of the BG games. I should have liked the 3D mode since it's more immersive than looking down on your party like some God, so I'm not quite sure what's missing... Perhaps it's because you don't control a party anymore and even are restricted to a single summoned creature (why!?). There are "henchemen", but these are controlled by a limited AI. That makes you feel kinda in the built-in campaign and other campaigns played in single player mode. Even in single player, I wish to control a party since I think that was how D&D was meant to be played. Of course that's hard to do in a real-time RPG like NWN (which might, btw, be another reason to why I don't like it as much).
Also, I like the spell casting chant sounds in the Infinity Engine games (BG etc) much more than the ones in NWN.:-)
And, much like id Software, Blizzard is offering visitors to play an on-line demo of their old puzzle game "The Lost Vikings".
Perhaps it's just a coincidence, or it might be a trend...:-)
And I can't do anything else than smile at the fact that Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast was never made. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that the same guys are responsible for that game as Duke Nukem Forever aka DNF aka Did Not Finish.
lol, thanks for the links.:-) "Mystery meat navigation", hehe... Never knew there was even a term for that. That proves the problem is common...
No, I'm not blind or has other physical challenges with this -- perhaps I was using "accessibility" in the wrong way. English is not my mother tongue...:-/ With poor accessibility I meant "generally hard to find your way in the page". Mostly due to webmaster forgetting about a logical site layout in their Quest for Graphical Excellence, where even basic elements such as links are hidden behind symbols.
Don't take me wrong -- I like beautiful web pages, but I think the greater the site is in scope, the more important it is with a logical layout.
And I also agree that a good web designer shouldn't forget/ignore people with disabilities since these might actually make out a greater portion of the audience than one might think.
I don't have much against Flash today with the major browsers supporting it. My biggest gripe with those web designers is that they know how to do pretty layouts, but not how to balance the layout with accessibility. Often, they don't even seem to have the slightest clue, and I'm not exaggerating.
I have seen countless Flash sites with, instead of text links, illogical symbols with no text to be seen. Where you have to guess where links take you. I know there's a GUI Hall of Shame somewhere on the internet, but is there a Flash site hall of shame? Or another site where certain sites using "state of the art" technology get some bashing they deserve.
I don't really know why it is like this. Web designers should really know how to make accessible sites because a large majority probably agrees that looks are less important than finding out how to navigate a web site.
Of course, not only Flash sites have strange designs, but it seems to help a great deal. Perhaps Flash simply gives incompetent designers too much power, and it's very obvious to the user?
"Once valid, the document can be saved as XML in two ways. The default is to create WordML, which preserves Word's styles and formatting in an XML name-space that's separate from the one bound to the schema-controlled data. You can optionally save through an XSLT transformation which, in a publish-to-the-Web scenario, could translate WordML formatting into HTML/CSS formatting. Alternatively, if you tick the Save as Data option, you can instead save just the raw XML data. In that case, you can bind one or more XSLT stylesheets to the document, each of which can generate WordML styles and formatting."
People manually running these bosses often take up just as much time, and can do them in the same amount of time, so that arguement is completely moot.
No, since you can't play when at work or at sleep, when hanging around with your girl/boyfriend, when watching TV, etc. Blizzard probably never designed Battle.net for players playing the game 24/7 day after day -- that would be insane from a hardware perspective. Well, now they can...
It puts LEGITIMATE items back on the market, instead of hacked and duped ones.
No, not *instead*, because it doesn't *remove* hacked and duped ones. What bots do is to *add* more botted items to the market along with the hacked and duped ones that previously were there, something many don't like since they skew the in-game economy even more.
1. They increase the server load, since Blizzard never intended people to be able to play the game 24/7. In practice, this is often seen as increased game creation queues.
2. The bots decrease the item value and skews the game economy. This would be no problem if players ran the bot on the Open Realms this game has to offer, but since they're usually used on the Closed/"Secure" Realms to harvest items that should normally take a lot of patience to find (and therefore be rare), many legit players not using bots are affected. Simply because the very rare items non bot users have found is suddenly not worth as much anymore in in-game trades. Bots inflate the item values.
What surprises me, is that there are so many bot users that seem to find using the best items this game has to offer as the best part of the game. Personally, I find the process of earning the items through some effort the best part. Without any effort put in the game, I would feel no accomplishment whatsoever and no pride about finally getting some "uber item", but I suppose bot users still do, even if their computer play for them while they sleep.
That makes sense, since I guess the extra fan (the one that makes NOISE) only kicks in when the temperature pass some threshold. Preventing the temperature to rise in the first place should do the trick. Thanks for the tip:-)
Another annoying thing with my fan is that when the loud fan starts, sometimes it doesn't stop even if the temperature sensors clearly show something like 30 degrees celsius! What's up with that?? The only think that works to silence it, is a reboot. Grr! Must be some low-level BIOS / motherboard bug or something...
Slashdot Mirror
"Intel doesn't think that we'll be ready for mainstream 64-bit computing until 2007"
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Intel doesn't believe they've had time to replace the desktop computer market with 64-bit processors until 2007...?
http://news.com.com/2100-1012-993226.html
.Net, but Java has security built in" seriously. :-P If it's anything McNealy offer his company, it's bad PR for his childish comments.
Nah seriously, I agree that it's hard to take someone saying stuff like "viruses are a feature in
This reminds me I should give Sam & Max another go... I always get stuck at a special point in that game. lol.. I need to complete it to be able to follow the story in Sam & Max 2. :-)
Didn't even play Full Throttle, but I saw it and it looked cool. I'd better pick it up at some abandonware site...
2. Beat 'Em Up
:-) :-)
They are right (at least!). RIP. We'll miss you (i loved double dragon).
And Golden Axe
And Moonstone
1. Graphic Adventure
They are right again. Why did Graphic adventures died? I really really enjoid Maniac MAnsion, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island (I II & III)...
Agreed - even if MI 4 sucked a bit more than the previous in the series, I still enjoyed it simply because it was a friggin' adventure game! Grr... If there isn't a big enough audience for these games, it would surprise me. Or are even people of ages 18+ completely obsessed with Warcraft III and Counterstrike these days. Arrgh!
I never got to play Maniac Mansion that much, but I did play DOTT, MI1 & MI2, even some Larry and Police Quest games. Also Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2. And the great Grim Fandango of course -- wow, that was a *good* game!
Strip Poker & Other Sex Games
lol, anyone remember those... More often than not B/W horrible graphics, but you still felt a sense of achievement when having stripped a girl completely. I wonder what would happen today if such a game was released?
Sports Games
I mean the specific genre like Summer Gammes, Winter Games, etc. Where you have to wiggle your joystick as fast as you can. Talk about hardware destroyer!
What angers me is that graphical adventures are so uncommon these days... Especially Grim Fandango was easily the game of the year to me, better than most movies I've seen lately even! Everything from the character personalities to the unique setting and music. A true masterpiece..
Good job. These reactions will encourage other game companies to do their best in supporting a gaming platform that's in minority.
Oh...
Fuck you for cleaning your room and not keeping track of your stuff.
And Bioware shouldn't be fucked for the copy protection. They have nothing to say about it, only Infogrames. I'm sure Bioware complained about it as well, since they also had CD breaking and becoming coasters too... I guess they finally got an approval from their publisher to remove it in a patch.
Not if they had playable Linux clients... Perhaps they had, but no sound system implemented and very limited gameplay in various ways.
They can have a playable Linux version *with* show stopping issues.
True, i guess i just don't like the atmosphere created within NWN.
:-)
Yes, I agree about this. I never liked the atmosphere of NWN as much as the one of the BG games. I should have liked the 3D mode since it's more immersive than looking down on your party like some God, so I'm not quite sure what's missing... Perhaps it's because you don't control a party anymore and even are restricted to a single summoned creature (why!?). There are "henchemen", but these are controlled by a limited AI. That makes you feel kinda in the built-in campaign and other campaigns played in single player mode. Even in single player, I wish to control a party since I think that was how D&D was meant to be played. Of course that's hard to do in a real-time RPG like NWN (which might, btw, be another reason to why I don't like it as much).
Also, I like the spell casting chant sounds in the Infinity Engine games (BG etc) much more than the ones in NWN.
I read the topic, and after reading the beginning "krezel says: So I've been drooling..." I didn't know if I should continue. :-O
Seems like id Software isn't alone in reviving their old games...
:-)
Blizzard Classic Arcade
And, much like id Software, Blizzard is offering visitors to play an on-line demo of their old puzzle game "The Lost Vikings".
Perhaps it's just a coincidence, or it might be a trend...
And I can't do anything else than smile at the fact that Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast was never made. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that the same guys are responsible for that game as Duke Nukem Forever aka DNF aka Did Not Finish.
lol, thanks for the links. :-) "Mystery meat navigation", hehe... Never knew there was even a term for that. That proves the problem is common...
:-/ With poor accessibility I meant "generally hard to find your way in the page". Mostly due to webmaster forgetting about a logical site layout in their Quest for Graphical Excellence, where even basic elements such as links are hidden behind symbols.
No, I'm not blind or has other physical challenges with this -- perhaps I was using "accessibility" in the wrong way. English is not my mother tongue...
Don't take me wrong -- I like beautiful web pages, but I think the greater the site is in scope, the more important it is with a logical layout.
And I also agree that a good web designer shouldn't forget/ignore people with disabilities since these might actually make out a greater portion of the audience than one might think.
I don't have much against Flash today with the major browsers supporting it. My biggest gripe with those web designers is that they know how to do pretty layouts, but not how to balance the layout with accessibility. Often, they don't even seem to have the slightest clue, and I'm not exaggerating.
I have seen countless Flash sites with, instead of text links, illogical symbols with no text to be seen. Where you have to guess where links take you. I know there's a GUI Hall of Shame somewhere on the internet, but is there a Flash site hall of shame? Or another site where certain sites using "state of the art" technology get some bashing they deserve.
I don't really know why it is like this. Web designers should really know how to make accessible sites because a large majority probably agrees that looks are less important than finding out how to navigate a web site.
Of course, not only Flash sites have strange designs, but it seems to help a great deal. Perhaps Flash simply gives incompetent designers too much power, and it's very obvious to the user?
ROFL! This was a funny thread :-D
Their computer hardware is lightyears better than it was when Diablo II first came out
How do you know that? I have noticed increased game queues since bots became common.
There are far less players + bots active now then there was then.
Far less? How many less then, since you seem to know...?
What on earth are you talking about???
InfoWorld also writes about Office 2003 and the new XML features:
An excerpt...
"Once valid, the document can be saved as XML in two ways. The default is to create WordML, which preserves Word's styles and formatting in an XML name-space that's separate from the one bound to the schema-controlled data. You can optionally save through an XSLT transformation which, in a publish-to-the-Web scenario, could translate WordML formatting into HTML/CSS formatting. Alternatively, if you tick the Save as Data option, you can instead save just the raw XML data. In that case, you can bind one or more XSLT stylesheets to the document, each of which can generate WordML styles and formatting."
Thanks for explaining! Now, please mod the parent up. :-)
People manually running these bosses often take up just as much time, and can do them in the same amount of time, so that arguement is completely moot.
No, since you can't play when at work or at sleep, when hanging around with your girl/boyfriend, when watching TV, etc. Blizzard probably never designed Battle.net for players playing the game 24/7 day after day -- that would be insane from a hardware perspective. Well, now they can...
Heh, I just wish people "enjoyed" bots on the Open Realm aka the only proper home of 3rd party software designed for Diablo II.
It puts LEGITIMATE items back on the market, instead of hacked and duped ones.
No, not *instead*, because it doesn't *remove* hacked and duped ones. What bots do is to *add* more botted items to the market along with the hacked and duped ones that previously were there, something many don't like since they skew the in-game economy even more.
1. They increase the server load, since Blizzard never intended people to be able to play the game 24/7. In practice, this is often seen as increased game creation queues.
2. The bots decrease the item value and skews the game economy. This would be no problem if players ran the bot on the Open Realms this game has to offer, but since they're usually used on the Closed/"Secure" Realms to harvest items that should normally take a lot of patience to find (and therefore be rare), many legit players not using bots are affected. Simply because the very rare items non bot users have found is suddenly not worth as much anymore in in-game trades. Bots inflate the item values.
What surprises me, is that there are so many bot users that seem to find using the best items this game has to offer as the best part of the game. Personally, I find the process of earning the items through some effort the best part. Without any effort put in the game, I would feel no accomplishment whatsoever and no pride about finally getting some "uber item", but I suppose bot users still do, even if their computer play for them while they sleep.
Well, since the majority of the US residents voted for Gore, I suppose the upside will win. :-P
I don't get it...
So you can "shrink" windows by increasing the "distance" to them? But you can resize windows already...
So you can layer the windows on top of each other? You can do that already -- with transparency too, if that's preferred...
Why use a 3D OS? Do you actually work faster in it, or what?
That makes sense, since I guess the extra fan (the one that makes NOISE) only kicks in when the temperature pass some threshold. Preventing the temperature to rise in the first place should do the trick. Thanks for the tip :-)
Another annoying thing with my fan is that when the loud fan starts, sometimes it doesn't stop even if the temperature sensors clearly show something like 30 degrees celsius! What's up with that?? The only think that works to silence it, is a reboot. Grr! Must be some low-level BIOS / motherboard bug or something...