Aside from Loque, who had perfect aim in UT99. The cool thing was each bot had different variables and you could adjust all of them, including how perfect their aim was.
The inability to change from ASWD to ESDF (or whatever) is REALLY lame. I don't get why people insist on moving their left hand over one key when they play games. Stop underestimating your pinky, people!
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Unfortunately for Google (and Adobe, and Xerox) what they want people to do doesn't matter. Fortunately for the Google and Adobe, when people talk about "googling" or "photoshopping" they are still usually using their products. Unlike the large number of people making xeroxes on their Canon copier.
"The scientists say that the handful of terrestrial halophiles -- species that can tolerate high salinity -- descended from ancestors that first evolved in purer waters. Based on what we know about Earth, they say that it's difficult to imagine life arising in acidic, oxidizing brines like those inferred for ancient Mars."
Looks like it is just very unlikely with what we know.
UAC works fine if you are not running on an administrator account. I've had it on for months and just get prompted for my admin credentials when you would expect to -- just like in OSX. The problem is everybody is so used to running as admin on windows, and by default that's how it dumps you out of setup. It really does work though.
UAC is broken. It slows down your system, bothers you far too often. If you've seen the Mac advert slagging off Vista security - well, it really is that bad.
I keep seeing this complaint but the problem is not UAC itself, it's that by default they STILL make you the admin when you set up the computer. If you run as a regular user and have a seperate admin account that you don't log into -- it only prompts you when you try to change global settings or run software that needs to write to program files or something similar. When I first installed Vista, it was annoying until I switched over to using a regular user. I don't see UAC at all anymore, unless I'm expecting it from one of the above activities.
Really, how different is this from traditional sports? You're watching people compete in a game you enjoy who are better than you are, and that makes it exciting. As to if it has a mass-market appeal, that is harder to say. There are a lot of video games out there as compared to how many different professional sports there are, so it has to come down to a few popular games to get mass penetration.
Keep in mind many professional sports have rules tailored to make the game exciting for fans. I totally expect a successful video game to do the same eventually.
Because those activities have to be done in person, and it makes it easy to verify they are or are not of age (fake IDs of course causing some problems). This means they are actually enforcible. On the net, there is no real way to duplicate that age verification.
Your ideas are interesting, but it sounds like you're proposing techniques that are free-as-in-beer, but not at all free-as-in-speech. If my only way of distributing video is to go through You-Tube's proprietary server-side software, then clearly that's not an OSS approach. There isn't anything stopping you from hosting them yourself, is there? YouTube is not the only site on the web.
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3 Liandri Core, and UT99 in general. I played sooo many hours of this back in college.
I still load up UT99 once in a while and destroy bots on Deck and Liandri for a couple of hours.
Aside from Loque, who had perfect aim in UT99. The cool thing was each bot had different variables and you could adjust all of them, including how perfect their aim was.
The inability to change from ASWD to ESDF (or whatever) is REALLY lame. I don't get why people insist on moving their left hand over one key when they play games. Stop underestimating your pinky, people!
Unfortunately for Google (and Adobe, and Xerox) what they want people to do doesn't matter. Fortunately for the Google and Adobe, when people talk about "googling" or "photoshopping" they are still usually using their products. Unlike the large number of people making xeroxes on their Canon copier.
Possibly because ramping up production rates is expensive, for little to no increase in sales?
Granite contains Uranium. Get a geiger counter and test the nearest granite countertop and be amazed!
Of course, it's not *dangerous*, but it is definitely radioactive.
"The scientists say that the handful of terrestrial halophiles -- species that can tolerate high salinity -- descended from ancestors that first evolved in purer waters. Based on what we know about Earth, they say that it's difficult to imagine life arising in acidic, oxidizing brines like those inferred for ancient Mars."
Looks like it is just very unlikely with what we know.
Yeah I concur, doesn't look like it's MMO at all. This is more like Halo for free than Planetside.
And also begs the question...
No, it raises the question. =P
Yes, probably, definitely, doubtful.
They have added so much more grind to WoW since launch that 'lack of grind' can no longer be used as a description for the game.
no it's an 'access' fee. individual emergency calls are free.
Verizon doesn't 'allow' you to use a SIM card because they use CDMA phones, which don't use SIM cards.
UAC works fine if you are not running on an administrator account. I've had it on for months and just get prompted for my admin credentials when you would expect to -- just like in OSX. The problem is everybody is so used to running as admin on windows, and by default that's how it dumps you out of setup. It really does work though.
There are still ads on the internet? I sometimes forget, until I have to open up IE.
he has since 1997 -- even though he gave it to himself
UAC is broken. It slows down your system, bothers you far too often. If you've seen the Mac advert slagging off Vista security - well, it really is that bad.
I keep seeing this complaint but the problem is not UAC itself, it's that by default they STILL make you the admin when you set up the computer. If you run as a regular user and have a seperate admin account that you don't log into -- it only prompts you when you try to change global settings or run software that needs to write to program files or something similar. When I first installed Vista, it was annoying until I switched over to using a regular user. I don't see UAC at all anymore, unless I'm expecting it from one of the above activities.
Actually, yesterday it was worse. The forum population during mid-day seems to be quite high.
This is why on all "important" documents you print the whole page with a yellow overlay. Or you just don't replace the yellow ink cartridge.
They already made a game out of it!
Really, how different is this from traditional sports? You're watching people compete in a game you enjoy who are better than you are, and that makes it exciting. As to if it has a mass-market appeal, that is harder to say. There are a lot of video games out there as compared to how many different professional sports there are, so it has to come down to a few popular games to get mass penetration.
Keep in mind many professional sports have rules tailored to make the game exciting for fans. I totally expect a successful video game to do the same eventually.
the show makes it into the HTML headers every time you load a slashdot page too
Because those activities have to be done in person, and it makes it easy to verify they are or are not of age (fake IDs of course causing some problems). This means they are actually enforcible. On the net, there is no real way to duplicate that age verification.
If your friend has not talked to Microsoft yet, have him do it ASAP. I read that for some things they are replacing consoles past the warranty.