The interface is minimal and well designed, and it's exactly what I'm looking for...
except that it crashed twice on me in 5 minutes. Once because I tried to browse a drive (that could be because it had to talk to explorer) and again because I tried to use the skin manager (visual basic error).
So it's not flawless either. But it's not a final product nor is it purported to be. For now I'll stick to explorer, but I think I'll be checking Geoshell every week or two just to check on progress:)
The "original" AvP set on the planet Ryushi was a great read, and would make a great movie, if they followed it exactly... but even the similar script that was floating around was too bastardized to do it justice.
I took my car into the dealership for the "warranty service" crap, and while I was waiting one of the staff came up and asked me if I was "Mike Boyle"...
I responded that I had been but not for a while (name change two years ago). He thought I was just being an ass and left. When my car WAS ready I talked to the guy at the counter and found that there was another customer in that day with the same name as I had previously. When I showed him proof of the name change, it gave him a chuckle.
If I'd only been willing to pay for the service on the other guys car I could have left with it using my old ID:)
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Goodbye, Dolly
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I thought shepherds were very loving animals...
Ooooooooh!
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Goodbye, Dolly
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Dolly was a double ewe, An ex ewe, since she's dead, She'd aged somewhat imperfectly, But still tastes great with bread.
Well, being known as Sexygal wouldn't hurt... A lot of people call me Cruci because my given name is way too common around here. But what about people like Hotslut13 or MyBallsAreHuge? Where does it stop for them? Oh, the horror!:)
No, I'm insinuating that girls avoid going to school with drunk and partying GEEKS:) Not that there's anything wrong with geeks, in fact quite the opposite. But convince a 19 year old woman of that.
Maybe the ones at Waterloo were put off by the drunken naked guys running laps around their residence? My old roommates had lots of stories involving quantities of alcohol and stupidity. What woman would want to be exposed to drunken, horny, engineers on a nightly basis? (If you have an answer to that, there are people on here willing to pay for the answer.)
But that's what the page file is, a swap file on the hard drive where it stores the contents of RAM.
If I've got 512 meg of RAM, and less than 256 of that is being utilized there's no reason for Windows to swap the contents of memory to the HD, but it does anyway. *sob*
Windows will still write to the pagefile even if you have RAM to spare.
For example, my machine with 512 meg of RAM has an OS footprint of about 89 meg with XP installed. That leaves me with over 400 meg of physical RAM free. But when I run a game that uses up 100 meg of that RAM, 60 meg ends up in the page file. There's no good reason for it to do so that I know of, but it happens anyway. I almost never hit the limit of my physical RAM but I'm still stuck with that page file and the thrashing that goes with it.
I've found that turning it off in Windows performance settings can get a temporary boost but long before I hit the ceiling I start getting "low on memory" errors. If the OS would utilize the RAM to its full potential first, I'd be much happier. Otherwise why do I have 512 meg in my machine?
The problem with making The Sims an Online game...
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The Sims franchise has been made successful by a demographic of people that want a simple game where they interact with little people under their own control. It's not really a social game. It's more like an advanced game of Solitaire. There are the few that bought it that want the social experience added to the game, but many are content with the "anti-social" aspect of having your own world, with your own people, and no one else to intrude and take the fun out of it. Games like Team Fortress, Counter Strike, the team variants of UT and Q3, are all social games with an established base of organized groups. The Sims community probably wasn't ready for the jump yet. Given time, they may. Then again, maybe they should have eased them into it by letting people create small dedicated world servers for their friends to Sim on, building a social structure that way before implementing it as massively multiplayer.
It didnt sound like it was targeting Slashdot readers... more like the people who are suing McDonalds because they're fat... or peple who sue tobacco companies for giving them cancer (we've known that smoking is bad for 30 years already, so it's personal choice)...
Then again... I might have gotten laid a lot more if I didn't play video games. Someone get me Johnny Cochrane and William Kuntsler! (Dig him up if you have to!)
Slashdot Mirror
I just installed Geoshell 4.9.2.
:)
The interface is minimal and well designed, and it's exactly what I'm looking for...
except that it crashed twice on me in 5 minutes. Once because I tried to browse a drive (that could be because it had to talk to explorer) and again because I tried to use the skin manager (visual basic error).
So it's not flawless either. But it's not a final product nor is it purported to be. For now I'll stick to explorer, but I think I'll be checking Geoshell every week or two just to check on progress
The "original" AvP set on the planet Ryushi was a great read, and would make a great movie, if they followed it exactly... but even the similar script that was floating around was too bastardized to do it justice.
Is there a Moore's law for lag?
Can't wait for advertisers to distort the hell out of this. In the middle of your favorite show's climax, oops, popup!
Grrr.
Should I call you Bald or Wookie? :)
It's weird what you can run into...
:)
I took my car into the dealership for the "warranty service" crap, and while I was waiting one of the staff came up and asked me if I was "Mike Boyle"...
I responded that I had been but not for a while (name change two years ago). He thought I was just being an ass and left. When my car WAS ready I talked to the guy at the counter and found that there was another customer in that day with the same name as I had previously. When I showed him proof of the name change, it gave him a chuckle.
If I'd only been willing to pay for the service on the other guys car I could have left with it using my old ID
I thought shepherds were very loving animals...
Ooooooooh!
Dolly was a double ewe,
An ex ewe, since she's dead,
She'd aged somewhat imperfectly,
But still tastes great with bread.
At least it wasn't the 'Redneck Guide to Sex'....
then I would have had to post:
"Are you awake yet, sis?"
Well, being known as Sexygal wouldn't hurt... A lot of people call me Cruci because my given name is way too common around here. :)
But what about people like Hotslut13 or MyBallsAreHuge? Where does it stop for them? Oh, the horror!
I thought it was "Scream and I'll kill you"...
No, I'm insinuating that girls avoid going to school with drunk and partying GEEKS :) Not that there's anything wrong with geeks, in fact quite the opposite. But convince a 19 year old woman of that.
Maybe the ones at Waterloo were put off by the drunken naked guys running laps around their residence?
My old roommates had lots of stories involving quantities of alcohol and stupidity. What woman would want to be exposed to drunken, horny, engineers on a nightly basis? (If you have an answer to that, there are people on here willing to pay for the answer.)
So he pissed off the whole country of France....
:)
What are they going to do, surrender?
But that's what the page file is, a swap file on the hard drive where it stores the contents of RAM.
If I've got 512 meg of RAM, and less than 256 of that is being utilized there's no reason for Windows to swap the contents of memory to the HD, but it does anyway. *sob*
Windows will still write to the pagefile even if you have RAM to spare.
For example, my machine with 512 meg of RAM has an OS footprint of about 89 meg with XP installed. That leaves me with over 400 meg of physical RAM free. But when I run a game that uses up 100 meg of that RAM, 60 meg ends up in the page file. There's no good reason for it to do so that I know of, but it happens anyway. I almost never hit the limit of my physical RAM but I'm still stuck with that page file and the thrashing that goes with it.
I've found that turning it off in Windows performance settings can get a temporary boost but long before I hit the ceiling I start getting "low on memory" errors. If the OS would utilize the RAM to its full potential first, I'd be much happier. Otherwise why do I have 512 meg in my machine?
Heh, from the new disaster menu on the simcity website:
1) Tornado
2) Godzilla
3) Fire
4) Flooding
5) Slashdotting
Same here.
Once that burning plastic smell fills the house it just becomes second nature to check the oven every time you turn it on.
Here's the Slashdot article and the original at Ars Technica.
The Sims franchise has been made successful by a demographic of people that want a simple game where they interact with little people under their own control. It's not really a social game. It's more like an advanced game of Solitaire. There are the few that bought it that want the social experience added to the game, but many are content with the "anti-social" aspect of having your own world, with your own people, and no one else to intrude and take the fun out of it.
Games like Team Fortress, Counter Strike, the team variants of UT and Q3, are all social games with an established base of organized groups. The Sims community probably wasn't ready for the jump yet. Given time, they may.
Then again, maybe they should have eased them into it by letting people create small dedicated world servers for their friends to Sim on, building a social structure that way before implementing it as massively multiplayer.
Time will tell.
Linux's home of tomorrow does have a bathroom... you just need the permissions to use it.
If we Slashdot them, they'll surrender!
It didnt sound like it was targeting Slashdot readers... more like the people who are suing McDonalds because they're fat... or peple who sue tobacco companies for giving them cancer (we've known that smoking is bad for 30 years already, so it's personal choice)...
Then again... I might have gotten laid a lot more if I didn't play video games. Someone get me Johnny Cochrane and William Kuntsler! (Dig him up if you have to!)
According to a friend in NY he's been carded for buying the follwing:
a) a boxcutter
b) spraypaint
c) a permanent marker
'Land of the free' my ass.
He'd never say that about the Irish! They don't have enough oil to steal. :)