I'd love powershell if it had some tab completion worth a damn.
The standard cycle-through tab completion is completely useless especially due to powershell's object oriented nature. And while I found an extension that provides dropdown menus instead it's a fscking disaster, slow, crash-prone, doesn't find half the interesting stuff (i.e. commands in the path, it doesn't even expand pi to ping) and worst of all that stupid dropdown provides a lot less options on the screen at the same time as bash's multi-column list.
Most people I've met seem to use powershell more as a scripting language than as an interactive shell and I think the lack of proper tab completion is part of the problem (because it can save you learing all the commands and options. e.g. you don't have to remember if it was apt-get remove or erase or delete or whatever; bash can tell you) even though those Windows guys who are using it don't even understand the problem as they've never used a proper shell before =)
The enemy AI can only see you over long distances if they happen to look in your direction through either binoculars or a scope and if you can't see them they can't see you, even through bushes.
I only managed to play Crysis for a short time before the lack of immersion killed it for me and the enemy targeting AI was the main problem.
Patrol boats can see you through 20m of underbrush and will fire at you with gyro-stabilized sniper machine guns. It's ridiculous. Yes, they will only fire at you if they can "see" you but 1cm^2 of exposed suit is enough.
Do a short test. You wear a black suit and sit in a dense forest. Your friend wears neon red and stands in the middle of an empty field. Even if there's a clear line of sight between you two, chances are you can see him and he can't see you.
The guards are even worse. They won't see you when they look at you while you stand in the middle of the road a few meters in front of them but fire an unsilenced gun and every guard within 5 miles suddenly has pinpoint accurate knowledge of your position.
Crysis is a POS, it's pretty but the gameplay is grade A crap. MGS managed to have a believable AI for stealth gameplay more than 10 years ago. It's sad that Crytek burned through $30m for this joke.
Perhaps you can get around the restriction by using a fake address and getting a credit card from the right country (perhaps not, the iPhone store is ip-locked). But if you have to resort to shady tactics anyway why not go all the way and get it for 1/10th the hassle from a tracker of your choice?
Please fix your plugin backend. I hate Adobe's crappy flash plugin, too. On Linux it makes Firefox almost unusable imho.
But only Firefox.
Somehow Konqueror and Opera manage to survive the crash* of one measly plugin while the great and mighty Firefox goes down in flames.
*Chrome's allegedly designed to do so, too. Although the one time I tried it shortly after release it almost immediately crashed when, you guessed it, Flash decided to take the day off
MS moved Application Data and Local Settings to AppData/Local and AppData/Roaming (or vice versa? I could never distinguish between the two).
I assume the old locations are meant to be links to the new ones but they are borked in the public beta (oh noes, a inconsequential bug in a beta version! Damn you Micro$oft!!!!111).
It was just a joke. Because of BoB's nice acronym and because your post read that way.
I don't play Eve and I'm not involved enough into the intricacies of gameplay to decide whether you're right or not. Unlike a lot of other ppl here I love reading about Eve's huge scams, backstabbings and defections, though. If I'm ever gonna play a MMOG Eve's definitely at the top of my list. =)
There's no denying that the Treaty of Versailles was extremely punishing to Germany, and that was obviously a factor.
Don't forget the part where they then didn't stop Germany, especially when Hitler started to scrap the military parts. You can argue whether the French idea of keeping the Germans down was workable (it doesn't work too well for Israel which is a lot more determined and they are doing it with a people that's not larger than their own) in the long term but they didn't even try.
However, a huge point of Hitler's propaganda was that the Jews (among others) had sabotaged the war effort and thus caused Germany to lose. One thing that helped this was the fact that enemy troops never touched their soil, and so he was able to make the impression that Germany was strong enough to repel the invaders and continue the war had they been given the chance.
The "im Felde unbesiegt" slogan certainly had a nice ring but betrayal-at-home theories can work whether or not your country was occupied. The connection to the Jews was all spin anyway, so it didn't really depend on facts. Had Germany been occupied they'd just have used another argument. Kinda like Life of Brian and his inability to convince his followers that he's not the Messiah.
I don't want to dispute that it did have a big influence in real life, but I don't think that in an alternate reality where just this part was changed things would develop all that differently.
After Germany surrendered in 1918 the French wrote the Versailles treaty which was punishing to the point of being ridiculous (the reparations were scheduled to finally be paid of in 1984). But then when later on Germany said screw you, they didn't enforce them. The combination is just mindblowing.
Try doing something similar with a dog and look what it will do to you.
OTOH after WWII, despite the fact that this time Germany's guilt was a lot more grave, neither the US nor the USSR tried to exact revenge and, of course, the fact that there was a common enemy helped.
There is no technical reason why Windows can't ship without a browser or engine and leave it to OEMs to pick the browser and plug-in engine they desire. This is quite different from end users getting a computer without a browser pre-installed, which no one (outside of the clueless) has suggested.
This was btw. the whole point of Windows without WMP, too. Of course, MS also sold it at retail and then told every news outlet and its dog how the silly Commission forced them to sell a product no one wanted.
Looking at some of the posts on every article like this one, a lot of people swallowed MS's marketing bullshit hook, line and sinker.
Yes, I know that Nepomuk means "Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge" as stated in the article.
John of Nepomuk is considered the first martyr of the Seal of the Confessional, a patron against calumnies and, because of the manner of his death, a protector from floods.
patron against calumnies sounds good for this kind of project. And he protects us from syn floods.
I'm glad that they don't prefix everything with K though.
NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations.
A quick look at their webpage would have told you that it's not a KDE project. KDE just has the first usable (kinda) implementation.
But hey, this is slashdot. If we used google before posting what would people do with all their mod-points.
Don't forget Wing Commander 3+4. They are as close to being true "interactive movies" (in a positive way) as nothing else. Well, perhaps with the exception of Metal Gear Solid, but WC3 did it in '94 and you can blow up a whole planet instead of fighting oversized Aibos. =)
It's a vicious circle. Easy piracy and stupid people saving $25 on their PC by using onboard graphics means PC games sell less. Publishers then treat PC gamers like second class citizens and PC releases have gotten more and more crappy.
I've bought every single game I've played for more than an hour but even I often get it off the net first because I wanna know whether the games actually playable and because the pirated versions often run better and contain less malware.
Yes, I see it now, they nefariously support Psystar with the goal to allow OSX to run on all PCs so that they can make tons of money by no longer selling Windows with every new PC... Oh wait.
I wonder what MS's gonna do next? Release all their Xbox games for the PS3 to hurt Nintendo?
Typical American imperialistic thinking that you immediatly assume they're talking about baseball.
If you'd ever tried to use any of France's public services you'd have known that the French have enormous experience when it comes to strikes.
Btw., the Italians are even more happy to strike for any reason at all so the idea that you'd be out after just three strikes would be preposterous. Instead, they make you an offer you can't refuse.
Yeah but the chances of them working are about as high as those of the TSA actually stopping a terrorist attack thanks to its new powers. Many of the new drugs increase average life expectancy by a few *days* compared to regular chemo for the cancers they're specialized for. Similarily there is a non-zero chance that a terrorist might just be a 70 year old grandma who hides an explosive in his.33l water bottle and travels under the name "Ted Kennedy".
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The standard cycle-through tab completion is completely useless especially due to powershell's object oriented nature. And while I found an extension that provides dropdown menus instead it's a fscking disaster, slow, crash-prone, doesn't find half the interesting stuff (i.e. commands in the path, it doesn't even expand pi to ping) and worst of all that stupid dropdown provides a lot less options on the screen at the same time as bash's multi-column list.
Most people I've met seem to use powershell more as a scripting language than as an interactive shell and I think the lack of proper tab completion is part of the problem (because it can save you learing all the commands and options. e.g. you don't have to remember if it was apt-get remove or erase or delete or whatever; bash can tell you) even though those Windows guys who are using it don't even understand the problem as they've never used a proper shell before =)
asus does it with the Eeeeeeeee-Keyboard, the touchscreen's even an LCD.
No, it's not.
The enemy AI can only see you over long distances if they happen to look in your direction through either binoculars or a scope and if you can't see them they can't see you, even through bushes.
I only managed to play Crysis for a short time before the lack of immersion killed it for me and the enemy targeting AI was the main problem.
Do a short test. You wear a black suit and sit in a dense forest. Your friend wears neon red and stands in the middle of an empty field. Even if there's a clear line of sight between you two, chances are you can see him and he can't see you.
Crysis is a POS, it's pretty but the gameplay is grade A crap. MGS managed to have a believable AI for stealth gameplay more than 10 years ago. It's sad that Crytek burned through $30m for this joke.
Perhaps you can get around the restriction by using a fake address and getting a credit card from the right country (perhaps not, the iPhone store is ip-locked). But if you have to resort to shady tactics anyway why not go all the way and get it for 1/10th the hassle from a tracker of your choice?
Because for even more moderators flamebait indicates "I'm full of it".
But only Firefox. Somehow Konqueror and Opera manage to survive the crash* of one measly plugin while the great and mighty Firefox goes down in flames.
*Chrome's allegedly designed to do so, too. Although the one time I tried it shortly after release it almost immediately crashed when, you guessed it, Flash decided to take the day off
I assume the old locations are meant to be links to the new ones but they are borked in the public beta (oh noes, a inconsequential bug in a beta version! Damn you Micro$oft!!!!111).
Good to see that in the time of bleeding edge releases-every-6-months distros there's still a choice that actually allows you to get work done.
No?
Yes.
Why? Who here's gonna notice?
I don't play Eve and I'm not involved enough into the intricacies of gameplay to decide whether you're right or not. Unlike a lot of other ppl here I love reading about Eve's huge scams, backstabbings and defections, though. If I'm ever gonna play a MMOG Eve's definitely at the top of my list. =)
Ladies and Gentlemen, this conflict now has its own official Baghdad BoB.
Don't forget the part where they then didn't stop Germany, especially when Hitler started to scrap the military parts. You can argue whether the French idea of keeping the Germans down was workable (it doesn't work too well for Israel which is a lot more determined and they are doing it with a people that's not larger than their own) in the long term but they didn't even try.
However, a huge point of Hitler's propaganda was that the Jews (among others) had sabotaged the war effort and thus caused Germany to lose. One thing that helped this was the fact that enemy troops never touched their soil, and so he was able to make the impression that Germany was strong enough to repel the invaders and continue the war had they been given the chance.
The "im Felde unbesiegt" slogan certainly had a nice ring but betrayal-at-home theories can work whether or not your country was occupied. The connection to the Jews was all spin anyway, so it didn't really depend on facts. Had Germany been occupied they'd just have used another argument. Kinda like Life of Brian and his inability to convince his followers that he's not the Messiah.
I don't want to dispute that it did have a big influence in real life, but I don't think that in an alternate reality where just this part was changed things would develop all that differently.
After Germany surrendered in 1918 the French wrote the Versailles treaty which was punishing to the point of being ridiculous (the reparations were scheduled to finally be paid of in 1984). But then when later on Germany said screw you, they didn't enforce them. The combination is just mindblowing.
Try doing something similar with a dog and look what it will do to you.
OTOH after WWII, despite the fact that this time Germany's guilt was a lot more grave, neither the US nor the USSR tried to exact revenge and, of course, the fact that there was a common enemy helped.
On a related note, the original 10 reasons were crap, but I, too, don't expect that netcraft will confirm Gnome's demise anytime soon.
There is no technical reason why Windows can't ship without a browser or engine and leave it to OEMs to pick the browser and plug-in engine they desire. This is quite different from end users getting a computer without a browser pre-installed, which no one (outside of the clueless) has suggested.
This was btw. the whole point of Windows without WMP, too. Of course, MS also sold it at retail and then told every news outlet and its dog how the silly Commission forced them to sell a product no one wanted.
Looking at some of the posts on every article like this one, a lot of people swallowed MS's marketing bullshit hook, line and sinker.
Perhaps if you're from SE Asia. Space Ship One goes more or less 100km straight up and then straight down. Some people commute more in a day.
John of Nepomuk is considered the first martyr of the Seal of the Confessional, a patron against calumnies and, because of the manner of his death, a protector from floods.
patron against calumnies sounds good for this kind of project. And he protects us from syn floods.
I'm glad that they don't prefix everything with K though.
NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations.
A quick look at their webpage would have told you that it's not a KDE project. KDE just has the first usable (kinda) implementation.
But hey, this is slashdot. If we used google before posting what would people do with all their mod-points.
Don't forget Wing Commander 3+4. They are as close to being true "interactive movies" (in a positive way) as nothing else. Well, perhaps with the exception of Metal Gear Solid, but WC3 did it in '94 and you can blow up a whole planet instead of fighting oversized Aibos. =)
I've bought every single game I've played for more than an hour but even I often get it off the net first because I wanna know whether the games actually playable and because the pirated versions often run better and contain less malware.
I wonder what MS's gonna do next? Release all their Xbox games for the PS3 to hurt Nintendo?
If you'd ever tried to use any of France's public services you'd have known that the French have enormous experience when it comes to strikes.
Btw., the Italians are even more happy to strike for any reason at all so the idea that you'd be out after just three strikes would be preposterous. Instead, they make you an offer you can't refuse.
McCain isn't the antichrist.
Palin is.
Reminds me of the Asimov short story where they expose a Nazi spy because he's the only one who knows the full lyrics. =)
Yeah but the chances of them working are about as high as those of the TSA actually stopping a terrorist attack thanks to its new powers. Many of the new drugs increase average life expectancy by a few *days* compared to regular chemo for the cancers they're specialized for. Similarily there is a non-zero chance that a terrorist might just be a 70 year old grandma who hides an explosive in his .33l water bottle and travels under the name "Ted Kennedy".