A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. New climate, recreational facilities...
So, you came to see "Stunning Gunfights and Brilliant Martial Arts" (violence is good) but instead got a "Huge Primal Orgy" (sex is bad). But you're really disappointed due to lack of "Philisophical Values" (we needs guns...lots of guns)?
Isn't the Liberty Alliance set up as opt in. "Would you like to link your Subversive Citizen login with your Suppressive Government login? If so, please enter both login ID's and passwords below." Reading the docs, I didn't get the impression your accounts would be linked unless you clued the system in.
How many Final Fantasy's do you see on the gamecube or xbox? No one bitches at Square, do they?
Good points above. The one thing I would say that is different is Square did not also produce the console. Perhaps Microsoft is planning to "cut off the air supply" for Sony and Nintendo. While they can't completely cut it off anytime soon, they can sure squeeze a bit, and get more air for their own gasping platform to take hold.
Perfectly acceptable business practices, but I tend to take a more paranoid view that this is the first steps in a new game of monopoly for them.
The guy from Penny Arcade got an Acer tablet. He said he likes it, but misses the ability to use keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop. I tried the Alias Sketchbook on my PC, and the menu system is a bit better for that sort of thing. Do these things take USB keyboards? I would use one if I had the option to attach a keyboard sometimes (and the $$$ to buy one)
Amen to that. I was just thinking about that last night. Java was pretty rough when it first came out, but they were trying to avoid a lot of pitfalls from languages before. It's come a long way, with a lot of clean up. And then, after all of that birthing pain, an almost exact clone of the language comes out...in record time, no less! Innovative!
Especially since, if future versions of Word do not support this format, we'll be in the same boat as we are now: inability to reliably share documents with Word users.
Hopefully every other word processor will support it, and turn the tables.
If George is so anal..do you think he had a hand in these new Phantom Menace DVD adds which enquire "Who Da Man? Yo Da Man!" Good God they are sooo cheesy.
I just got Lightwave 7.5, after having used Imagine. One thing I thought I'd add to your post, is that the 7.5 package includes both the Mac OS X and Windows versions. So far, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. I like Maya but find Lightwave more affordable (and somewhat more intuitive)
Using java.awt.robot (since jdk 1.3), you can send native events(keyboard and mouse) to the system. Of course, you're driving blind.
It's hard to record actions, because java apps can only listen to the mouse/keyboard so long as the java app has focus. There may be a way to tap into the native event queue, maybe via native code and JNI.
I can't tell for sure, but under the Investement Protection section of their "Introduction", they state:
"To protect existing hardware investments, support will continue to be provided for the 68000-based Palm OS platform, including such improvements as support for high-density displays."
It seems aimed more @ developers and "licensees" than consumer, so it's not clear.
I hope that everyone who keeps saying they'll boycott blizzard and never buy/play their games again sticks to it.
A lot of people seem to think they are entitled to free service. "battle.net is a right, not a privilege! I spent my $50, I should play free until the end of time!"
I'm sure they all own legitimate copies...but all the contempt seems aimed at blizzard instead of the parasites that use bnetd to steal the games and play for free (not even a $50 investment!). Morality seems skewed here.
I think we need to take a trip back to 80's, where every video game cost a quarter at the arcade. that's 200 games of starcraft, or whatever. if you've played more than that..cough up.
I agree with you. It seems in many ways Blizzards popularity is becoming too much of a burden, what with the 1000's of people who play their games. Even if you please the majority of that group, there's always subgroups to piss off. Now, if they'd sucked from the beginning, maybe we wouldn't be having all these conversations now. Oh well.:-)
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A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. New climate, recreational facilities...
So, you came to see "Stunning Gunfights and Brilliant Martial Arts" (violence is good) but instead got a "Huge Primal Orgy" (sex is bad).
But you're really disappointed due to lack of "Philisophical Values" (we needs guns...lots of guns)?
this is funny to me
My sentiments exactly. I feel bad, but if I'm not going to buy an XBox, I'm not going to support them getting into theaters either.
Isn't the Liberty Alliance set up as opt in. "Would you like to link your Subversive Citizen login with your Suppressive Government login? If so, please enter both login ID's and passwords below." Reading the docs, I didn't get the impression your accounts would be linked unless you clued the system in.
How many Final Fantasy's do you see on the gamecube or xbox? No one bitches at Square, do they?
Good points above. The one thing I would say that is different is Square did not also produce the console. Perhaps Microsoft is planning to "cut off the air supply" for Sony and Nintendo. While they can't completely cut it off anytime soon, they can sure squeeze a bit, and get more air for their own gasping platform to take hold.
Perfectly acceptable business practices, but I tend to take a more paranoid view that this is the first steps in a new game of monopoly for them.
This person has the technical clue and geek thinking abilities of a small piece of cheese, and they did just fine - MMMmmmm...cheeese.
The guy from Penny Arcade got an Acer tablet. He said he likes it, but misses the ability to use keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop. I tried the Alias Sketchbook on my PC, and the menu system is a bit better for that sort of thing.
Do these things take USB keyboards? I would use one if I had the option to attach a keyboard sometimes (and the $$$ to buy one)
Amen to that. I was just thinking about that last night. Java was pretty rough when it first came out, but they were trying to avoid a lot of pitfalls from languages before.
It's come a long way, with a lot of clean up. And then, after all of that birthing pain, an almost exact clone of the language comes out...in record time, no less! Innovative!
Especially since, if future versions of Word do not support this format, we'll be in the same boat as we are now: inability to reliably share documents with Word users.
Hopefully every other word processor will support it, and turn the tables.
If George is so anal..do you think he had a hand in these new Phantom Menace DVD adds which enquire "Who Da Man? Yo Da Man!"
Good God they are sooo cheesy.
I just got Lightwave 7.5, after having used Imagine. One thing I thought I'd add to your post, is that the 7.5 package includes both the Mac OS X and Windows versions.
So far, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. I like Maya but find Lightwave more affordable (and somewhat more intuitive)
Using java.awt.robot (since jdk 1.3), you can send native events(keyboard and mouse) to the system. Of course, you're driving blind. It's hard to record actions, because java apps can only listen to the mouse/keyboard so long as the java app has focus. There may be a way to tap into the native event queue, maybe via native code and JNI.
I hope that everyone who keeps saying they'll boycott blizzard and never buy/play their games again sticks to it.
A lot of people seem to think they are entitled to free service. "battle.net is a right, not a privilege! I spent my $50, I should play free until the end of time!"
I'm sure they all own legitimate copies...but all the contempt seems aimed at blizzard instead of the parasites that use bnetd to steal the games and play for free (not even a $50 investment!). Morality seems skewed here.
I think we need to take a trip back to 80's, where every video game cost a quarter at the arcade. that's 200 games of starcraft, or whatever. if you've played more than that..cough up.
I agree with you. It seems in many ways Blizzards popularity is becoming too much of a burden, what with the 1000's of people who play their games. Even if you please the majority of that group, there's always subgroups to piss off. Now, if they'd sucked from the beginning, maybe we wouldn't be having all these conversations now. Oh well. :-)
(not implying that they suck now)