No, but we're all listening to it on our iPods. Care to join us in the 21st century?
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Might the fact that no-one wears a wearable computer be because no-one needs to? We all carry mobile phones, and are thus available at all times. Some of us have mobiles with calendars, to-do items and so on. We're connected.
Others use PDAs, which give them computing powers beyond the dreams of those who languish in the nineties. We can now emulate elderly computers on a handheld
Wearable computers... we carry them in our pockets.
Anyone read Greg Egan's quarantine? It's basically the same idea, except Egan's book is a work of fiction. Somehow it's a whole lot more plausible, based on the idea of changing one tiny, tiny quantum event.
So, the creator of Lara Croft left after the first game? The first, largely unsuccessful game? And since then a whole franchise has been built up based around a name, surely?
The whole point being that the Lara Croft franchise, as it were, is built around the game as it now stands, a game that has built upon not only Tomb Raider 1 (Why bother?), Tomb Raider II (Better, but no cigar), through Tomb Raider 3, 4 and 5 (Now we're talking) and the getting-into-it Tomb Raider 6 and successors.
This poor guy, bless 'im, has invented a name and a concept, both of which, unfortunately were claimed by Miner Willy back in eighty-something when he decided to explore the Central Cavern. Since then, his concept has been taken on to the lara-esque heights we now survey. Golden awards for jumping the boat too early, anyone?
Not in Deus Ex - if you've played the original you'll be well aware that the game is far less about action and shooting that careful, thought-out strategy and the use of off-the-wall problem solving techniques.
I'm still having a right old problem with Duriel. Battle my way through that bastard tomb, get through the gateway and whoomph... dead. Since I figured every Mac Diablo fan in the universe is reading this, what am I doing wrong? Help! diablo@xwiz.co.uk
You have a point - the click-click-click - but I stlll enjoy it and so do many others. We should concentrate on the good points; Blizzard are still supporting, even for Mac OS X, and, most importantly, my Sorceress can still cast a bloody good Frost Nova even when expose is doing its thing...
Exactly - there's the laziness factor. I'd much rather just move my index finger than move my index finger and the mouse. And since the scroll wheel operates as a third button you can always click and drag if you want to. It's all about ease of use - why navigate to a scroll arrow when you can use the wheel and scroll from anywhere in the window?
I have a friend who has a three button mouse; no scroll wheel. I find myself sitting there stroking the middle button like some sort of pervert.
The scroll wheel makes life so much easier - just checking through/. this morning I used it at least as often as the left mouse button. Why on earth would anyone want to get rid of it, particularly when you can click it as well?
The E2 Great Grand Book Lotto is just getting underway. Okay, it's a temporary thing, it's on a pretty small scale and the organiser clearly states that the administration is horrendous, but the idea is great.
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No, but we're all listening to it on our iPods. Care to join us in the 21st century?
Might the fact that no-one wears a wearable computer be because no-one needs to? We all carry mobile phones, and are thus available at all times. Some of us have mobiles with calendars, to-do items and so on. We're connected.
Others use PDAs, which give them computing powers beyond the dreams of those who languish in the nineties. We can now emulate elderly computers on a handheld
Wearable computers... we carry them in our pockets.
Anyone read Greg Egan's quarantine? It's basically the same idea, except Egan's book is a work of fiction. Somehow it's a whole lot more plausible, based on the idea of changing one tiny, tiny quantum event.
Delightful as the concept of illusive symptoms are, being pedantic I reckon they're probably elusive.
So, the creator of Lara Croft left after the first game? The first, largely unsuccessful game? And since then a whole franchise has been built up based around a name, surely?
The whole point being that the Lara Croft franchise, as it were, is built around the game as it now stands, a game that has built upon not only Tomb Raider 1 (Why bother?), Tomb Raider II (Better, but no cigar), through Tomb Raider 3, 4 and 5 (Now we're talking) and the getting-into-it Tomb Raider 6 and successors.
This poor guy, bless 'im, has invented a name and a concept, both of which, unfortunately were claimed by Miner Willy back in eighty-something when he decided to explore the Central Cavern. Since then, his concept has been taken on to the lara-esque heights we now survey. Golden awards for jumping the boat too early, anyone?
Not in Deus Ex - if you've played the original you'll be well aware that the game is far less about action and shooting that careful, thought-out strategy and the use of off-the-wall problem solving techniques.
I'm still having a right old problem with Duriel. Battle my way through that bastard tomb, get through the gateway and whoomph... dead. Since I figured every Mac Diablo fan in the universe is reading this, what am I doing wrong? Help! diablo@xwiz.co.uk
You have a point - the click-click-click - but I stlll enjoy it and so do many others. We should concentrate on the good points; Blizzard are still supporting, even for Mac OS X, and, most importantly, my Sorceress can still cast a bloody good Frost Nova even when expose is doing its thing...
Exactly - there's the laziness factor. I'd much rather just move my index finger than move my index finger and the mouse. And since the scroll wheel operates as a third button you can always click and drag if you want to. It's all about ease of use - why navigate to a scroll arrow when you can use the wheel and scroll from anywhere in the window?
I have a friend who has a three button mouse; no scroll wheel. I find myself sitting there stroking the middle button like some sort of pervert.
The scroll wheel makes life so much easier - just checking through /. this morning I used it at least as often as the left mouse button. Why on earth would anyone want to get rid of it, particularly when you can click it as well?
The E2 Great Grand Book Lotto is just getting underway. Okay, it's a temporary thing, it's on a pretty small scale and the organiser clearly states that the administration is horrendous, but the idea is great.