I use it all the time on Windows systems: Win-E, Win-F, Win-R, Win-D, Win-Up-Enter-Enter (shutdown). And you don't need the mouse to get back to what you were doing, just Esc, Alt-tab will do it. Of course, since I now switch between Mac OS X and Windows, I do hit it a lot more by mistake now...
Wifi is fairly common these days, I've found that in most houses I'm within range of at least one network. According to my Airport, there are five within range of me at the moment.
Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS has a "find players of the same rank as me" setting in its WiFi mode, so I guess Nintendo could implement something like that with the Wii. I still lose all the time in MP:H, anyway, though.
and maybe 4-5 hours in one shot, every other weekend
4-5 hours gaming in one go? That's a fairly long time, I can't remember the last time I gamed for that long in one sitting.
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IIRC, you can see the face pretty clearly in Metroid Prime during the lift 'loading' screens or if you fire a charge beam at a wall right in front of you.
I've gone the same way: I've given up entirely on running a game PC, instead using an iMac for work and a GC&PS2 for games. It's simpler, the games are higher quality and I haven't had to worry about a game not running on my hardware. It's also meant I play a much larger range of game genres, rather than being so tied to FPS/RTS.
I've been finding game reviews increasingly irrelevant. I still like Edge's, but sites like Gamespot and IGN are generally pretty useless for figuring out whether a game is fun or not. I often go by the internet community's response: frequently random forum posters make far more insightful points than reviewers.
About five years ago I was generally in favour of limited invasion of privacy like ID cards, CCTV etc. The level of craziness coming from Labour in the area has pushed me into the privacy nut camp. Their current behaviour just seems like the Labour equivalent of Thatcher's last years.
Just as another data point, in the UK I pay £11/month for landline rental and £11.50/month for my mobile, which includes 100 minutes, 20 text messages and 1mb data.
Also, a few years ago Apple could have offered a seriously better UI experience over existing phones. These days, manufacturers like Sony-Erriccson seem to be getting their UI acts together, so Apple would have to come up with something seriously magical to differentiate themselves.
I recently replaced my crappy HP Laserjet 1000 with a Samsung ML-2251N and I've been very pleased with it. It's got an ethernet port, web configuration interface, Bonjour support and the output quality and speed are high. It seems to cost around $200 now.
I haven't had any problem with plus.net in the past three years - connection speed has always been good, tech support reasonably helpful (not just reading from a script) and I've had maybe 12 hours downtime total in those three years, mostly late at night back when they did a round of network upgrades.
They give you a static IP and don't mind if you run a mail/web server on it - my local website was Slashdotted, maxing out my upstream bandwidth for a couple of days and they didn't complain.
But then, I was with Demon before them, so maybe I've just had my standards permanently lowered.
Who would people suggest as an alternative UK ISP if Plus.net's quality is dropping?
Get the best of both worlds - telecommute from a cheap area to a job in an expensive area. Works for me, and means I might actually be able to afford to buy a house before I retire.
You're using Stargate as an example of *good* TV? That formulaic, badly acted series based on a film that was even worse? Wow, I think the problem might be your taste and not the movies.
Because it destroys the purpose of the word: why bother to have a word that means "Although what follows is unlikely, it is exactly what I mean without metaphor" if it also can be taken as the reverse?
/ don't get me started on infer and imply// is a crotchety grammar nazi// oops, wrong website
Indeed, his inability to understand the meaning of simple English words does make me wonder what he's doing making legislation for the most powerful country in the world.
I can't really see a purpose for the Q1. With a 2.5 hour battery life (probably more like 2hrs in real usage) it's no good as a media player and it's too big to be a PDA. It's not going to replace a laptop without an add on keyboard and stand, which would make it even harder to carry around and increases the price further.
Because you're playing a game which is so boring you'll pay money to skip parts of it. If a single player game had a large dull section in the middle, no one would play it - why is WoW different?
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I use it all the time on Windows systems: Win-E, Win-F, Win-R, Win-D, Win-Up-Enter-Enter (shutdown). And you don't need the mouse to get back to what you were doing, just Esc, Alt-tab will do it.
Of course, since I now switch between Mac OS X and Windows, I do hit it a lot more by mistake now...
Wifi is fairly common these days, I've found that in most houses I'm within range of at least one network. According to my Airport, there are five within range of me at the moment.
Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS has a "find players of the same rank as me" setting in its WiFi mode, so I guess Nintendo could implement something like that with the Wii. I still lose all the time in MP:H, anyway, though.
and maybe 4-5 hours in one shot, every other weekend
4-5 hours gaming in one go? That's a fairly long time, I can't remember the last time I gamed for that long in one sitting.
IIRC, you can see the face pretty clearly in Metroid Prime during the lift 'loading' screens or if you fire a charge beam at a wall right in front of you.
Not all sequels are bad: what about Pikmin 2 or RE4?
I've gone the same way: I've given up entirely on running a game PC, instead using an iMac for work and a GC&PS2 for games. It's simpler, the games are higher quality and I haven't had to worry about a game not running on my hardware. It's also meant I play a much larger range of game genres, rather than being so tied to FPS/RTS.
That's what ultimately gives a game a great score - how impressive is it?
While I think that is unfortunately probably true for the review score, the question the gamers want answered is "how fun is it?"
I've been finding game reviews increasingly irrelevant. I still like Edge's, but sites like Gamespot and IGN are generally pretty useless for figuring out whether a game is fun or not. I often go by the internet community's response: frequently random forum posters make far more insightful points than reviewers.
About five years ago I was generally in favour of limited invasion of privacy like ID cards, CCTV etc. The level of craziness coming from Labour in the area has pushed me into the privacy nut camp. Their current behaviour just seems like the Labour equivalent of Thatcher's last years.
Just as another data point, in the UK I pay £11/month for landline rental and £11.50/month for my mobile, which includes 100 minutes, 20 text messages and 1mb data.
Also, a few years ago Apple could have offered a seriously better UI experience over existing phones. These days, manufacturers like Sony-Erriccson seem to be getting their UI acts together, so Apple would have to come up with something seriously magical to differentiate themselves.
I recently replaced my crappy HP Laserjet 1000 with a Samsung ML-2251N and I've been very pleased with it. It's got an ethernet port, web configuration interface, Bonjour support and the output quality and speed are high. It seems to cost around $200 now.
I haven't had any problem with plus.net in the past three years - connection speed has always been good, tech support reasonably helpful (not just reading from a script) and I've had maybe 12 hours downtime total in those three years, mostly late at night back when they did a round of network upgrades.
They give you a static IP and don't mind if you run a mail/web server on it - my local website was Slashdotted, maxing out my upstream bandwidth for a couple of days and they didn't complain.
But then, I was with Demon before them, so maybe I've just had my standards permanently lowered.
Who would people suggest as an alternative UK ISP if Plus.net's quality is dropping?
Additionally, stores are required to give the total (minimum) cost of the phone over the contract period.
I wish they'd do that over here (UK). So many people seem to fall for those "half price line rental for three months" tricks etc.
Get the best of both worlds - telecommute from a cheap area to a job in an expensive area. Works for me, and means I might actually be able to afford to buy a house before I retire.
Serenity (haven't seen Firefly) is virtually the definition of a fluff movie.
You're using Stargate as an example of *good* TV? That formulaic, badly acted series based on a film that was even worse? Wow, I think the problem might be your taste and not the movies.
Because it destroys the purpose of the word: why bother to have a word that means "Although what follows is unlikely, it is exactly what I mean without metaphor" if it also can be taken as the reverse?
// is a crotchety grammar nazi // oops, wrong website
/ don't get me started on infer and imply
There's a bit of a difference between modification over time and the complete reversal of meaning in this case, though.
"Social networking sites such as MySpace and chat rooms have allowed sexual predators to sneak into homes and solicit kids,"
Does anyone have any figures for how many kids have actually been solicited compared to those who are molested by family etc?
Indeed, his inability to understand the meaning of simple English words does make me wonder what he's doing making legislation for the most powerful country in the world.
I can't really see a purpose for the Q1. With a 2.5 hour battery life (probably more like 2hrs in real usage) it's no good as a media player and it's too big to be a PDA. It's not going to replace a laptop without an add on keyboard and stand, which would make it even harder to carry around and increases the price further.
How about making success in the game dependent on skill rather than amount of time spent playing?
Because you're playing a game which is so boring you'll pay money to skip parts of it. If a single player game had a large dull section in the middle, no one would play it - why is WoW different?