Now that we're well beyond using hand-drawn sprites, I wish we saw more games (are there any?) that didn't just have 4 or 5 basic types that were all clones of each other, but ones where enemies or bystanders come in a wider variety of body types and other variations...
Isn't Half-Life 2 supposed to be going to do this? I'm sure they were saying something about all the scientists looking different.
Name one 'involved' gameplay element they removed? What enjoyable or involving gameplay has been removed from a game to accomodate consoles?
Easy. They totally removed the element of searching through files, datapads, and emails to find logons, passwords, and bank account details. I found that one of the most immersive aspects of the original. But you can't exactly type in a login name and password with a gamepad - I believe that's actually one of the things that made it so difficult for them to port DX1 to consoles - so that whole aspect of the game had to go.
what if I select text in openoffice, and press ctrl+c, then try to paste it into vi, which doesn't understand the RTF, or whatever openoffice uses.
Well, I just tried this on Windows - copied some formatted text from OpenOffice.org, opened an RXVT window, loaded Vim, entered edit mode, and clicked my middle mouse button.
Bingo - text appears in Vim, with formatting removed. In other words, copy + paste has "just worked".
If Windows can manage this, I'd think it can't be beyond the wit of man to get it working in X.
Um, maybe the fact that so many people want it means that it *isn't* such a rarely altered setting?
Maybe the fact that both Windows and MacOS make it very easy to change resolution and colour depth might be taken as a hint that usability experts agree that it's worth making it easy?
Just because this is the way Windows works doesn't make it bad, either.
Seriously though, it's a pity that Beagle seems to have been lost for good. Mars Express may have proved the existance of water but Beagle would have been able to prove the existance of life.
Let's keep our finger's crossed that it eventually is found safe and sound and is still able to carry out its mission.
I think frankly we're going to have to give up on Beagle. It's a pity, but at least it's not a terribly expensive loss. It would be a greater setback if something turns out to be seriously wrong with Spirit as well, or if Opportunity doesn't land safely; I hope I speak for the majority of Europeans when I say I hope the American landers are both able to carry out their missions successfully.
I haven't seen anyone note yet that in 2002 NASA discovered the exact same.
No, they didn't. They demonstrated that it was very likely that water was present; the press at the time obviously played that up as "we've found water", but it was not proven. As recently as two or three months ago I remember reading articles about how what they found might not actually be water at all.
What the European mission has now done is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the hydrogen Nasa found is, as we thought, contained in water.
This is not pointless duplication of effort - it's a perfect example of two space agencies producing complementary work and building on each others' successes to further human knowledge.
And it's a crying shame that idiots in America and Europe alike - I'm speaking in general terms, not at you specifically - feel compelled to put down the other side's efforts and hype up their own.
This is science, not sport - everyone's on the same side here.
I don't know how to do it in Japanese, but you can certainly write Perl in Chinese. It should be possible to modify that module to permit compilation of the works of Basho...
Well, the government is now firmly into regulating what happens in the tech industry, and doing what they do best- making uninformed decisions which no intelligent person would make. An making sure you comply with those decisions.
This is the future! Hope you like it.
Um, maybe you'd like to wait for the government actually to do something bad before you start saying "I told you so"?
Great. It appears you're only interested in communicating with Americans, though; as far as I'm concerned, "hawtmayled0tcawm" represents something like "hortmail.corm", and I'm a native English speaker - I dread to think what a Chinese or Russian would make of it, however good their command of English.
Besides, most email entry routines will reject your "address", because even the ones that don't bother with proper validation generally at least make sure there's an @ in there.
How long can these things actually stay up? Presumably the solar energy during the day is used to recharge the batteries, but I don't imagine they'll last forever.
This is the internet. You are allowed to say "ass."
While I feel sorry for the poor animal, I think it might be more painful if he actually attacked the offender. It might be easier, too, given that motor vehicles have replaced beasts of burden in most parts of the world these days.
Except that if you can crack it, you can be pretty certain someone else can too. And what if they opt for the milion dollars, and the encryption method is written off as a failure?
IE definitely doesn't prevent opening.exe files. Neither does Firebird, but it does give you a little "this is your own fault" speech first:-/
This is not true.
IE doesn't prevent opening.exe files, but it does give you a little "this is your own fault" speech first. Firebird does not permit you to open a.exe file, it forces you to save it to your hard disk instead.
I'm not sure how this is supposed to do anything other than force you to jump through hoops to run the.exe files you *do* want to run, but someone obviously thinks it's a good idea.
Regardless of whether you call the bombing of Dresden a war crime, genocide, an atrocity, a massacre, or just a sound tactical decision - it happened. For that reason, I hope the site when it becomes accessible does contain pictures of it, if they exist.
Because it is important that the horrors of war be documented; not as records of "atrocities" or "necessary evils", but merely as an illustration of what we are all capable of when we fail to resolve our differences peacefully. There is little to be gained by pointing fingers of blame; but there is much to be lost if we do not strive to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
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Now that we're well beyond using hand-drawn sprites, I wish we saw more games (are there any?) that didn't just have 4 or 5 basic types that were all clones of each other, but ones where enemies or bystanders come in a wider variety of body types and other variations...
Isn't Half-Life 2 supposed to be going to do this? I'm sure they were saying something about all the scientists looking different.
Name one 'involved' gameplay element they removed? What enjoyable or involving gameplay has been removed from a game to accomodate consoles?
Easy. They totally removed the element of searching through files, datapads, and emails to find logons, passwords, and bank account details. I found that one of the most immersive aspects of the original. But you can't exactly type in a login name and password with a gamepad - I believe that's actually one of the things that made it so difficult for them to port DX1 to consoles - so that whole aspect of the game had to go.
what if I select text in openoffice, and press ctrl+c, then try to paste it into vi, which doesn't understand the RTF, or whatever openoffice uses.
Well, I just tried this on Windows - copied some formatted text from OpenOffice.org, opened an RXVT window, loaded Vim, entered edit mode, and clicked my middle mouse button.
Bingo - text appears in Vim, with formatting removed. In other words, copy + paste has "just worked".
If Windows can manage this, I'd think it can't be beyond the wit of man to get it working in X.
Um, maybe the fact that so many people want it means that it *isn't* such a rarely altered setting?
Maybe the fact that both Windows and MacOS make it very easy to change resolution and colour depth might be taken as a hint that usability experts agree that it's worth making it easy?
Just because this is the way Windows works doesn't make it bad, either.
Seriously though, it's a pity that Beagle seems to have been lost for good. Mars Express may have proved the existance of water but Beagle would have been able to prove the existance of life.
Let's keep our finger's crossed that it eventually is found safe and sound and is still able to carry out its mission.
I think frankly we're going to have to give up on Beagle. It's a pity, but at least it's not a terribly expensive loss. It would be a greater setback if something turns out to be seriously wrong with Spirit as well, or if Opportunity doesn't land safely; I hope I speak for the majority of Europeans when I say I hope the American landers are both able to carry out their missions successfully.
I haven't seen anyone note yet that in 2002 NASA discovered the exact same.
No, they didn't. They demonstrated that it was very likely that water was present; the press at the time obviously played that up as "we've found water", but it was not proven. As recently as two or three months ago I remember reading articles about how what they found might not actually be water at all.
What the European mission has now done is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the hydrogen Nasa found is, as we thought, contained in water.
This is not pointless duplication of effort - it's a perfect example of two space agencies producing complementary work and building on each others' successes to further human knowledge.
And it's a crying shame that idiots in America and Europe alike - I'm speaking in general terms, not at you specifically - feel compelled to put down the other side's efforts and hype up their own.
This is science, not sport - everyone's on the same side here.
sometimes seventeen
syllables ain't enough to
express a complete
Idea? So write a waka,
Get fourteen more syllables.
I don't know how to do it in Japanese, but you can certainly write Perl in Chinese. It should be possible to modify that module to permit compilation of the works of Basho...
C, C++, Perl?
Either slow or insecure.
Use ML instead.
Forget ActivePerl
I want a proper Bash prompt
Cygwin is my friend
Internet Explorer is part of Windows; tar is part of Linux.
Don't believe me? Try to buy Windows without buying Internet Explorer. Try to install Linux without installing tar.
I think that's a fair test of what is and isn't part of the OS.
Just a thought.
A FPS with front and rear views.
It's been done - System Shock featured a rear-view gizmo. It wasn't very useful. (And it wasn't dual-head, of course.)
kay_a_sonofjohn_atuh_hawtmayled0tcawm_(first_word_ letter_second_word_letter_switchfifthandthird_word _getridof_of_restofaddress_is_phoenetic)
Great. It appears you're only interested in communicating with Americans, though; as far as I'm concerned, "hawtmayled0tcawm" represents something like "hortmail.corm", and I'm a native English speaker - I dread to think what a Chinese or Russian would make of it, however good their command of English.
Besides, most email entry routines will reject your "address", because even the ones that don't bother with proper validation generally at least make sure there's an @ in there.
Not to mention the PR standpoint. I don't think PETA would be very happy with the chimp idea, but SCO execs...?
How long can these things actually stay up? Presumably the solar energy during the day is used to recharge the batteries, but I don't imagine they'll last forever.
Scale2x? No thanks. Try hq2x - I haven't seen another filter to touch it yet.
This is the internet. You are allowed to say "ass."
While I feel sorry for the poor animal, I think it might be more painful if he actually attacked the offender. It might be easier, too, given that motor vehicles have replaced beasts of burden in most parts of the world these days.
Deep down, the part that really matters is how does it work at the BASH level. There's where it's heart truly beats Linux.
Really? I spend a fair part of every day in bash, but I wouldn't say the heart of my machine beats Linux...
haeleth@Cynewulf ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 Cynewulf 1.5.6(0.108/3/2) 2004-01-19 00:43 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
You finished Repton 2?! Impressive stuff... I can't imagine more than a handful of people can make that claim.
Mind you, we only made it through Repton 3 with liberal use of a Replay chip... ^^;
Except that if you can crack it, you can be pretty certain someone else can too. And what if they opt for the milion dollars, and the encryption method is written off as a failure?
Oops, you just lost a million dollars.
IE definitely doesn't prevent opening .exe files. Neither does Firebird, but it does give you a little "this is your own fault" speech first :-/
.exe files, but it does give you a little "this is your own fault" speech first. Firebird does not permit you to open a .exe file, it forces you to save it to your hard disk instead.
.exe files you *do* want to run, but someone obviously thinks it's a good idea.
This is not true.
IE doesn't prevent opening
I'm not sure how this is supposed to do anything other than force you to jump through hoops to run the
I mean, Mike Rowe is his name, is that a trademark violation?
I'll put it this way. If your real name is Ronald McDonald, I wouldn't advise opening a restaurant.
Regardless of whether you call the bombing of Dresden a war crime, genocide, an atrocity, a massacre, or just a sound tactical decision - it happened. For that reason, I hope the site when it becomes accessible does contain pictures of it, if they exist.
Because it is important that the horrors of war be documented; not as records of "atrocities" or "necessary evils", but merely as an illustration of what we are all capable of when we fail to resolve our differences peacefully. There is little to be gained by pointing fingers of blame; but there is much to be lost if we do not strive to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.