actually, as far as rogues go there's pretty much only the 21/8/22 spec if you want to be viable at pvp. that keeps you from getting a lot of the useful skills unless you decide to go down the sword rogue path. And the other responses are not from me, just the first. And for the record I'm not undead.
As a rogue, all I have to say is that he should be putting up his freakin paranoia pet and dotting folks and casting hellfire on a whim. rogues would stay away from him. I certainly would. It's that whole thing: would I rather kill the easy target or the hard target. with his paranoia pet and random pbae attacks I'd rather go for the shaman over near him. Also I'm not sure why he keeps saying shaman rule the BG: I rarely think twice before killing a shaman. easy target.
I actually did quite decently, and only lagged a couple of times in a couple of the completely full zones where we were all sitting in the same place hitting the 31 mobs marching through town.
but then you would have missed out on the huge columns of them marching through town, which was really impressive for those of us who COULD still play the game...
Like these. It was really cool, especialyl when they were killing trainers and task force people.
that's quite an excellent set of photos you've put into your car. I noticed there was some mention of the IBus interface and it led me into a yahoo groups forum about the same subject. I would very much like to replace the crap UI that came with my 2003 M3 - seeing as that's what I enjoy doing most - and thanks to your message here I'm definitely going to look into doing it further. Do you know if anyone has ever re-used the LCD & buttons that come with the builtin nav package or not?
I have never been inspired to sit on a motorcycle before, except possibly by the Robotech Cyclones. I wonder how long it will be until someone licenses and produces those;)
This is why the japanese should build up a military. We'd have mechs walking around and defending tokyo from alien invasions in no time. Except they'd have to be piloted by children who were finicky and subject to teen angst.
Oddly enough, I've never heard anyone call her 'Kathy' before. That's possibly because her name is 'Kathleen' - please if you're going to troll, do it right.
segmentation faults do not equate to giving someone control over your computer. loading data segments as code segments does. I know, I've been trolled, but I couldn't help it.
I'd like to point out that each claim in the patent application is something that they claim to have rights over. You do NOT - yes, that's emphasis on the word not - have to infringe on every claim to be infringing on their patent. Just one of them. Now, looking at the patent, let's go over each and every one of the claims.
1. Method for presenting multiple virtual desktops in a single graphical user interface formed on a display of a computer system, the display having a first periphery and a second periphery, the method comprising: receiving an indication from a user to preview the multiple virtual desktops; and displaying multiple panes occupying at least the first periphery of the display, each pane containing a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are proportionally less than the dimensions of a corresponding full-size virtual desktop, each scaled virtual desktop being displayed with one or more scaled application windows if the corresponding full-size virtual desktop has one or more corresponding application windows that are active.
To me, this sounds like the user triggers an action indicating that they want to see pagers. I think that we can safely say enlightenment could do this.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second periphery has an area less than the first periphery but sufficient for containing a taskbar.
Sure. Resize the resulting windows. We could do that
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of receiving an indication from the user to animate the presentation of the multiple panes on the display, the multiple virtual desktops including a current full-size virtual desktop in the view of the user, the dimensions of the current full-size virtual desktop being progressively shrunken to the dimensions of the corresponding scaled virtual desktop in one of the multiple panes when the method receives the indication from the user to preview the multiple virtual desktops.
Sure, we could do that too. And drag em all around and play with them at the same time.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising an act of receiving an indication from the user to select one scaled virtual desktop from the scaled virtual desktops in the multiple panes, the dimensions of the one scaled virtual desktop being progressively grown to the dimensions of the corresponding full-size virtual desktop, which is defined as the current full-size virtual desktop in the view of the user.
The wording of this is a bit loose, and their first hint of something potentially enforcable if they were to clean up their wording. except that we could do this also, it just would have looked in a different fashion than the way it is described.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of displaying a preview button so that the user may select the preview button to allow the method to receive the indication from the user to preview the multiple virtual desktops.
Sure. We could do this. You could have assigned a button, a hotkey, a mouseover action, whatever you wanted to make this go.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of displaying one or more quick switch buttons so that the user may select a quick switch button to switch to a full-size virtual desktop associated with the quick switch button.
Ditto as the response to claim 5.
7. Computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions of performing a method for presenting multiple virtual desktops in a single graphical user interface formed on a display of a computer system, the display having a first periphery and a second periphery, the method comprising: receiving an indication from a user to preview the multiple virtual desktops; and displaying multiple panes occupying at least the first periphery of the display, each pane containing a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are proportionally less than the dimensions of a corresponding full-size virtual desktop
The beauty of these games is the open-ended aspect. The fact that you are only tangently being driven through a multi-pronged story, and that you can jump into any of a number of plotlines at your convenience, or just run around wreaking havoc.
Both of the titles in the GTA3 line have been an immense amount of fun thus far, and I'll be right there to pick up the 3rd in the series.
I wasn't saying they had enough to qualify for a patent, I was saying that they were attempting to be more specific than what was pointed out. Not that they had a chance.
not only could you make the pagers take up 1/4 of your screen, you could make them appear and disappear on request.
If you'll read the patent itself it doesn't appear to limit itself to what was implemented within windows, either. That's the joy of patents, they are supposed to cover alternative ways you could implement it to block competitors also.
enlightenment supported these features back in 97 / 98. I'm trying to find a copy of the SuSE CD that was being handed out at linux expo (the donnie barnes one, not the IGN one) by bodo & co so we can have some documented proof, not just timestamps on a computer.
Oddly enough, we implemented pagers with virtual previews of the windows on multiple desktops in enlightenment in about 1997. And the thing that I find HIGHLY ironic is that it was CmdrTaco (yes, of/.) that submitted the patches to do it. I'll search for an exact date shortly, but I believe it was in late 1997.
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actually, as far as rogues go there's pretty much only the 21/8/22 spec if you want to be viable at pvp. that keeps you from getting a lot of the useful skills unless you decide to go down the sword rogue path. And the other responses are not from me, just the first. And for the record I'm not undead.
As a rogue, all I have to say is that he should be putting up his freakin paranoia pet and dotting folks and casting hellfire on a whim. rogues would stay away from him. I certainly would. It's that whole thing: would I rather kill the easy target or the hard target. with his paranoia pet and random pbae attacks I'd rather go for the shaman over near him. Also I'm not sure why he keeps saying shaman rule the BG: I rarely think twice before killing a shaman. easy target.
unfortunately that's music videos, which is the crappy part (IMO) of launch. the radio streams are where launch really shines.
2) not all of rob's friends have low user ids.
3) put down the crack pipe.
except that even when using film when blowing something up you end up having to do interpolation. film has a resolution, too ;)
I actually did quite decently, and only lagged a couple of times in a couple of the completely full zones where we were all sitting in the same place hitting the 31 mobs marching through town.
Like these. It was really cool, especialyl when they were killing trainers and task force people.
My favorite is this one which shows how big the ships were compared to, say, really tall buildings.
Great game, I'm going to enjoy playing it live, also.
haha now based off that comment I had to go watch it. And I blame you, solely.
I think you should have also requested shoe size and mother's maiden name.
that's quite an excellent set of photos you've put into your car. I noticed there was some mention of the IBus interface and it led me into a yahoo groups forum about the same subject. I would very much like to replace the crap UI that came with my 2003 M3 - seeing as that's what I enjoy doing most - and thanks to your message here I'm definitely going to look into doing it further. Do you know if anyone has ever re-used the LCD & buttons that come with the builtin nav package or not?
This is why the japanese should build up a military. We'd have mechs walking around and defending tokyo from alien invasions in no time. Except they'd have to be piloted by children who were finicky and subject to teen angst.
Oddly enough, I've never heard anyone call her 'Kathy' before. That's possibly because her name is 'Kathleen' - please if you're going to troll, do it right.
although to actually answer the question, it is nice to go for walks outside of the house, and you do need a change of scenery every so often.
obviously Java is being designed using eXtreme Programming.
segmentation faults do not equate to giving someone control over your computer. loading data segments as code segments does. I know, I've been trolled, but I couldn't help it.
If you were going to mention anything about 'shovel ware' the least you could do would be to talk about the classic, "Dig-Dug"
1. Method for presenting multiple virtual desktops in a single graphical user interface formed on a display of a computer system, the display having a first periphery and a second periphery, the method comprising: receiving an indication from a user to preview the multiple virtual desktops; and displaying multiple panes occupying at least the first periphery of the display, each pane containing a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are proportionally less than the dimensions of a corresponding full-size virtual desktop, each scaled virtual desktop being displayed with one or more scaled application windows if the corresponding full-size virtual desktop has one or more corresponding application windows that are active.
To me, this sounds like the user triggers an action indicating that they want to see pagers. I think that we can safely say enlightenment could do this.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second periphery has an area less than the first periphery but sufficient for containing a taskbar.
Sure. Resize the resulting windows. We could do that
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of receiving an indication from the user to animate the presentation of the multiple panes on the display, the multiple virtual desktops including a current full-size virtual desktop in the view of the user, the dimensions of the current full-size virtual desktop being progressively shrunken to the dimensions of the corresponding scaled virtual desktop in one of the multiple panes when the method receives the indication from the user to preview the multiple virtual desktops.
Sure, we could do that too. And drag em all around and play with them at the same time.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising an act of receiving an indication from the user to select one scaled virtual desktop from the scaled virtual desktops in the multiple panes, the dimensions of the one scaled virtual desktop being progressively grown to the dimensions of the corresponding full-size virtual desktop, which is defined as the current full-size virtual desktop in the view of the user.
The wording of this is a bit loose, and their first hint of something potentially enforcable if they were to clean up their wording. except that we could do this also, it just would have looked in a different fashion than the way it is described.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of displaying a preview button so that the user may select the preview button to allow the method to receive the indication from the user to preview the multiple virtual desktops.
Sure. We could do this. You could have assigned a button, a hotkey, a mouseover action, whatever you wanted to make this go.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising an act of displaying one or more quick switch buttons so that the user may select a quick switch button to switch to a full-size virtual desktop associated with the quick switch button.
Ditto as the response to claim 5.
7. Computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions of performing a method for presenting multiple virtual desktops in a single graphical user interface formed on a display of a computer system, the display having a first periphery and a second periphery, the method comprising: receiving an indication from a user to preview the multiple virtual desktops; and displaying multiple panes occupying at least the first periphery of the display, each pane containing a scaled virtual desktop having dimensions that are proportionally less than the dimensions of a corresponding full-size virtual desktop
Both of the titles in the GTA3 line have been an immense amount of fun thus far, and I'll be right there to pick up the 3rd in the series.
I wasn't saying they had enough to qualify for a patent, I was saying that they were attempting to be more specific than what was pointed out. Not that they had a chance.
If you'll read the patent itself it doesn't appear to limit itself to what was implemented within windows, either. That's the joy of patents, they are supposed to cover alternative ways you could implement it to block competitors also.
the patent is a lot more specific than just desktop pagers. that's the point of the matter :)
enlightenment supported these features back in 97 / 98. I'm trying to find a copy of the SuSE CD that was being handed out at linux expo (the donnie barnes one, not the IGN one) by bodo & co so we can have some documented proof, not just timestamps on a computer.
Just a thought.
Just my 2 cents.