Despite the odd use of the word "official" in the title, this is very much a "read strings in the binary and saw the word 'Linux'" type release. It just means that Valve has been messing around with it, and certainly does not mean that there has been any official announcement from anybody yet. I would like to get my hopes up, but this is pretty much the same story they posted 2 years ago, and I can't help but to notice that nothing materialized from Valve on the Linux front in that time.
The problem is that a lot of official Linux ports are just the game running in Cedega! Since the Source engine is derived from an engine that has been ported to Linux natively however, I would be surprised if Valve went that route instead of just providing a native client.
I have Verizon FIOS Cable and Verzion disables all output ports all the time. They also disable all of the inputs, even the anynet port because they hate people with HTCs. Won't everybody just do this now? In fact I've never had a cable company that enabled any of the ports on their boxes (although I've only had Cox and Comcast), so maybe this is just more common in other parts of the country. It's always kinda sad to see a USB or IEE1394 port, try it out, and discover that it's not even electrically active. I was wondering why STB manufacturers even bothered.
I'm surprised even by the assumption that all jailbreakers are pirates. A lot of them just want to enable tethering, or a carrier unlock (hello T-Mobile), or ssh.
GameFly disks come in a largish stiff cardboard packet that does not bend. Netflix disks come in similarly sized paper envelopes that do bend around the corners. Netflix mailings are relatively easy to stuff into a small mailbox because they literally have a footprint the size of a DVD (small). GameFly's mailings are not nearly as flexible, so again it does not surprise me that USPS is questioning why kind of research GameFly conducted to determine that this package was the most appropriate.
Is this true? I remember stories from back when Netflix was new on the scene about how they worked closely with the USPS to come up with packaging that was both cost efficient and resulted in the lowest amount of breakage. They started out with thick and tough cardboard sleeves but ended up dropping them as they were not as good as the simple paper envelopes that Netflix uses today.
It shocks me that a rival company, started well after Netflix was established, would not shamelessly steal their current envelope design and instead would steal an early beta design that didn't work out. At the very least, they could have worked with the USPS to refine their packaging in the same way Netflix did.
Another great example of this is After the Sunset. In this one, one of the protagonists poses as a filthy bum and pretends to wash the cars windshield while it is stopped at a light. This was a ruse such that they could read the VIN with a fancy scanner hidden inside of the squeegee. The person then sent the VIN via a text message to her accomplice who was then able to take complete and utter remote control of the car, from steering to gear to windows and door locks and even the radio using only the VIN.
The worst part? They did the same ridiculous trick twice in the same movie. OTOH, this was the least of this movie's sins.
I wouldn't count on anything Sony says until it is released and actually works. They're pretty bad about making vaporware announcement and/or overselling capabilities.
Given how consoles have caught up with computers in terms of their visual and complexity capabilities
That made me laugh. Consoles have caught up with PC graphics alright, PC graphics from 6 years ago. Even suggesting they could hold a candle to a modern PC is laughable.
One area that we're seeing PCs move more towards is actual 3D gaming, with special glasses and everything. The next generation consoles might be able to do that, but the current generation is SOL. Unless 3D TVs take off in a big way, I doubt the next generation will support it either. It's a shame too, because from a technical standpoint the graphics card already has all of the information it needs to create a 3D scene, it's really just a problem with the output device.
Wasn't that the book rights? Way back when nobody took Webcomics seriously they basically signed away their rights to a scuzzy publisher and paid him to start publishing. He then took the money and fled to the Alaska wilderness or something and then promised to sue them if they ever tried to do something with their IP. Basically IP blackmail. After several years of court battles they got the rights back and that's when they partnered up with Dark Horse for the current books.
Of course I can't help but to notice that they appear to be a few books behind again. I'm wondering if something soured in their deal with Dark Horse? Also, the videogame sequels were canceled due to poor sales of the second game.
The worst part: It still IS floppy. If you take the clamshell off of a 3.5" disk, you'll discover a floppy mylar substrate with the magnetic coating. That's the floppy of a floppy disk. Hard Disks use aluminum platters instead.
Yep, the first thing I do whenever I install Windows on one of my machines is to drag the taskbar over to the left edge of the screen. Not only does this leave me more vertical room for my documents, but it also makes the buttons much more readable when I have dozens of windows (terminals) open. Plus, the start menu cascades down so nicely when it starts in the top left corner.
Harm is not just physical, it can also be psychological. And in this case, by violating the terms laid out by the informed consent agreement, they did cause psychological harm.
Wait, so if a scientist discovers a result you might not like, they should just not publish and lie to you to avoid causing psychological hardship? Isn't this pretty much the opposite of what an ethical scientist would do? Sometimes the facts may not be what you want to hear, but that doesn't mean they should be hidden from you.
I don't understand why they could just do what Creationists do and just ignore any facts that don't conform to their preconceived worldview? Why make such a big fuss about it?
I have not seen a decent printed manual for a game in about 10 years now. Sometimes they've got some nice fluff or stories, but as the writeup mentioned, in-game tutorials work a lot better. Having the instructions only printed in the manual is an anachronism in this day and age. Manual designers know that too, since most are at best anemic these days.
When you download games from Steam you don't get the manual either. It's only an issue if you're attempting to play very old games like the original X-COM. Even then, the manuals are often available as a PDF.
The real reason IE6 is still around is much simpler: It came with the OS (XP) when people bought their machines and a great many people simply never upgrade (or patch) their machines. A lot of them are stuck on slow dialup lines too, which makes something like Windows Update a hilarious nonstarter. It would take literally all week to patch up a base XP install over a modem, especially since they both a cheap and crappy PC and it's been completely loaded down with trojans.
Aluminum makes for crappy armor. Just ask the people inside of a Bradley AFV. Presumably you could retool this for working with harder metals, but armor tends to have very specific requirements that would likely make it impossible to machine like this.
Unless you just want some replica medieval style armor for SCA events or something.
Frankly, bad reviews like that smell a lot like trolling. Someone is trying to make people angry and have them post counter-reviews just because they think its fun. An asshole is still an asshole be it on the Usenet, in the Youtube comments section, or on an Amazon book review.
Just out of curiosity, does your cruise control have an "accelerate" button that bumps you up a couple of mph on a tap? If so, what happens when you tap that button while underway? In most cruise control systems, that button is also the "resume" button, which will attempt to get you back up to the last set speed, flooring the accelerator if you're currently doing 45 and the last speed was 65 or something. That said, it still won't do anything if you're doing less than 30, but it can be surprising to hit what you think is the set button and have the cruise control suddenly floor it.
Wouldn't that be a safety problem since the second thing you do when making an emergency stopping maneuver in an automatic is to slam the car into neutral so your brakes aren't fighting the engine? That's the reason people take driving classes, so they practice emergency maneuvers enough to make the actions instinctive when you only have a fraction of a second to react on the real road. It can save lives, not to mention property. If the car is actively resisting your efforts then that's a bigger problem than I originally thought.
OTOH, I could see an argument that because the Prius is a hybrid, putting the car in neutral would only disengage the gas engine, you could still be fighting the electric motors (which are very torquey at the low end) if there has been some sort of complete systems failure.
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The City of Heroes port uses Cedega for one.
Despite the odd use of the word "official" in the title, this is very much a "read strings in the binary and saw the word 'Linux'" type release. It just means that Valve has been messing around with it, and certainly does not mean that there has been any official announcement from anybody yet. I would like to get my hopes up, but this is pretty much the same story they posted 2 years ago, and I can't help but to notice that nothing materialized from Valve on the Linux front in that time.
The problem is that a lot of official Linux ports are just the game running in Cedega! Since the Source engine is derived from an engine that has been ported to Linux natively however, I would be surprised if Valve went that route instead of just providing a native client.
In fact they do. It's not clear why Scroogle has such a hard on for screen scraping.
Because it didn't turn out to be relevant?
I have Verizon FIOS Cable and Verzion disables all output ports all the time. They also disable all of the inputs, even the anynet port because they hate people with HTCs. Won't everybody just do this now? In fact I've never had a cable company that enabled any of the ports on their boxes (although I've only had Cox and Comcast), so maybe this is just more common in other parts of the country. It's always kinda sad to see a USB or IEE1394 port, try it out, and discover that it's not even electrically active. I was wondering why STB manufacturers even bothered.
I'm surprised even by the assumption that all jailbreakers are pirates. A lot of them just want to enable tethering, or a carrier unlock (hello T-Mobile), or ssh.
Is this true? I remember stories from back when Netflix was new on the scene about how they worked closely with the USPS to come up with packaging that was both cost efficient and resulted in the lowest amount of breakage. They started out with thick and tough cardboard sleeves but ended up dropping them as they were not as good as the simple paper envelopes that Netflix uses today.
It shocks me that a rival company, started well after Netflix was established, would not shamelessly steal their current envelope design and instead would steal an early beta design that didn't work out. At the very least, they could have worked with the USPS to refine their packaging in the same way Netflix did.
I'm thinking that a filter would do a reverse DNS lookup on every connection.
The reasoning I heard at the time was that they didn't want to create a "red light district on the internet".
Yeah, it didn't make any sense to me either.
Another great example of this is After the Sunset. In this one, one of the protagonists poses as a filthy bum and pretends to wash the cars windshield while it is stopped at a light. This was a ruse such that they could read the VIN with a fancy scanner hidden inside of the squeegee. The person then sent the VIN via a text message to her accomplice who was then able to take complete and utter remote control of the car, from steering to gear to windows and door locks and even the radio using only the VIN.
The worst part? They did the same ridiculous trick twice in the same movie. OTOH, this was the least of this movie's sins.
I wouldn't count on anything Sony says until it is released and actually works. They're pretty bad about making vaporware announcement and/or overselling capabilities.
That made me laugh. Consoles have caught up with PC graphics alright, PC graphics from 6 years ago. Even suggesting they could hold a candle to a modern PC is laughable.
One area that we're seeing PCs move more towards is actual 3D gaming, with special glasses and everything. The next generation consoles might be able to do that, but the current generation is SOL. Unless 3D TVs take off in a big way, I doubt the next generation will support it either. It's a shame too, because from a technical standpoint the graphics card already has all of the information it needs to create a 3D scene, it's really just a problem with the output device.
Wasn't that the book rights? Way back when nobody took Webcomics seriously they basically signed away their rights to a scuzzy publisher and paid him to start publishing. He then took the money and fled to the Alaska wilderness or something and then promised to sue them if they ever tried to do something with their IP. Basically IP blackmail. After several years of court battles they got the rights back and that's when they partnered up with Dark Horse for the current books.
Of course I can't help but to notice that they appear to be a few books behind again. I'm wondering if something soured in their deal with Dark Horse? Also, the videogame sequels were canceled due to poor sales of the second game.
The worst part: It still IS floppy. If you take the clamshell off of a 3.5" disk, you'll discover a floppy mylar substrate with the magnetic coating. That's the floppy of a floppy disk. Hard Disks use aluminum platters instead.
Yep, the first thing I do whenever I install Windows on one of my machines is to drag the taskbar over to the left edge of the screen. Not only does this leave me more vertical room for my documents, but it also makes the buttons much more readable when I have dozens of windows (terminals) open. Plus, the start menu cascades down so nicely when it starts in the top left corner.
Wait, so if a scientist discovers a result you might not like, they should just not publish and lie to you to avoid causing psychological hardship? Isn't this pretty much the opposite of what an ethical scientist would do? Sometimes the facts may not be what you want to hear, but that doesn't mean they should be hidden from you.
I don't understand why they could just do what Creationists do and just ignore any facts that don't conform to their preconceived worldview? Why make such a big fuss about it?
I have not seen a decent printed manual for a game in about 10 years now. Sometimes they've got some nice fluff or stories, but as the writeup mentioned, in-game tutorials work a lot better. Having the instructions only printed in the manual is an anachronism in this day and age. Manual designers know that too, since most are at best anemic these days. When you download games from Steam you don't get the manual either. It's only an issue if you're attempting to play very old games like the original X-COM. Even then, the manuals are often available as a PDF.
The real reason IE6 is still around is much simpler: It came with the OS (XP) when people bought their machines and a great many people simply never upgrade (or patch) their machines. A lot of them are stuck on slow dialup lines too, which makes something like Windows Update a hilarious nonstarter. It would take literally all week to patch up a base XP install over a modem, especially since they both a cheap and crappy PC and it's been completely loaded down with trojans.
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Aluminum makes for crappy armor. Just ask the people inside of a Bradley AFV. Presumably you could retool this for working with harder metals, but armor tends to have very specific requirements that would likely make it impossible to machine like this. Unless you just want some replica medieval style armor for SCA events or something.
It's only a matter of time before they start integrating gravitational hyper-crystals into the design.
Frankly, bad reviews like that smell a lot like trolling. Someone is trying to make people angry and have them post counter-reviews just because they think its fun. An asshole is still an asshole be it on the Usenet, in the Youtube comments section, or on an Amazon book review.
Just out of curiosity, does your cruise control have an "accelerate" button that bumps you up a couple of mph on a tap? If so, what happens when you tap that button while underway? In most cruise control systems, that button is also the "resume" button, which will attempt to get you back up to the last set speed, flooring the accelerator if you're currently doing 45 and the last speed was 65 or something. That said, it still won't do anything if you're doing less than 30, but it can be surprising to hit what you think is the set button and have the cruise control suddenly floor it.
Wouldn't that be a safety problem since the second thing you do when making an emergency stopping maneuver in an automatic is to slam the car into neutral so your brakes aren't fighting the engine? That's the reason people take driving classes, so they practice emergency maneuvers enough to make the actions instinctive when you only have a fraction of a second to react on the real road. It can save lives, not to mention property. If the car is actively resisting your efforts then that's a bigger problem than I originally thought.
OTOH, I could see an argument that because the Prius is a hybrid, putting the car in neutral would only disengage the gas engine, you could still be fighting the electric motors (which are very torquey at the low end) if there has been some sort of complete systems failure.