A feature mentioned in a recent slashdot story states (and checked) that for every autocomplete (URL or just an edit box), you can use shift-delete to remove that entry.
That can remove your giggle, if it really was a mistake.
That's very true, and it gets even funnier than that!
I haven't checked, but i'm pretty sure it will go like I say. Consider the following: A big enough room which is very well lit, except for a circle of darkness in the middle. You character stands inside that circle, in a way the "light meter" states complete darkness. Now consider an enemy looking there. A human will certainly see the silhouette of your character, yet the in game AI will probably not see you.
I'm not sure if the AIs already see the shadows of the chars, but I believe that actually is already implemented.
Now about the camo pattern, that's something which is very difficult to implement on the PC. The only way I can think of to simulate this realistically is to have a world view rendered for each AI, and then computer vision algorithms. Ofcourse this is an overkill, but I can't think of a better way. Maybe approximate this with a low detail (from various aspects) render and use simple algorithms to state things like "the area where my enemy is is blurry, so I will ignore it".
I believe there are people way smarter than me and they will implement very nice algorithms which I can't even comprehend with my currenty knowledge.
This is also the case in Splinter Cell that the grandparent mentioned. You have a visibility indicator. Moreover, in all 3 games, you are either always in 3rd person or can switch. When you look at yourself in 3rd, you can see "how well you blend". Moreover, in Thief3, you CAN see you body if you look down, so u can really see how you blend, in 1st person.
The standard argument. Make a difference between camping and ambushing. What everyone hates is that a stupid newbie is sitting in the damn BEGINNING of the map or some deserted place on the map, waiting for someone to come kill them. Making it so that it's common to see THEM hiding, for 3 mins and the people on the other just go to search for him.
I know no one who plays HL:OF, HL:CG online. All other except for CS:CZ can be played with the old HL engine because they are MODs which are freely downloadable and run on the HL engine, not standalone.
Why would someone pay 10$/month for a list of games you can play on the good old HL you bought for 50$ some 5 years ago?
Is that some sort of counter point to what I said?
What is I said is "in most cases". Have I ever said that Japanese people aren't like that aswell? Take a look on the world, almost everyone is shallow. The minority, which isn't too small and which me and you and most slashdot readers are a part of, do know what's good art, be it Japanese, American or I_don't_care_where art. I for example like Anime cuz it's different, in many ways than western TV, making it interesting. Ofcourse I know that a lot of anime really sucks, but these shows don't get to be subbed, so people don't see it. Just think about the amount of BAD TV there is in the world, then take only the GOOD shows. Even if this number is 10% of the shows, you still get a fair amount of material to watch.
This type of games is a new thing for westerners, that I hope u can agree with, so it's reasonable that the first imports will be stuff that sells well, regardless if it's "good" or not. It is known that sex sells => at least at start games that are based mostly around sex will sell more. Sure, if the fanbase for these type of games, and for the better, story-driven-not-only-sex games fanbase gets big enough, so an importer can find it cost efficient, it might become as popular as it is in Japan.
Ofcourse I know the "massive amounts of really bizzare dating-sim esque porn". It sells. I like those games aswell, but I can't really consider them very art-full. A small percent of the games really ARE good, regardless of the sex scenes.
A few problems... The "good ones" usually: 1. Very popular in Japan and so licensing costs are very high, meaning no US company will risk it. 2. Include some objectional material such as underage sex. 3. Many of the "good ones" are those that actually have interesting stories and it's known that in most cases, western customers prefer a straight to the point experience and don't care to get involved with the story. 4. The games are usually pricy, as other games are.
Anyways, I hope it'll work out for them and I really hope they keep the games in the original dub and just sub it for westerners.
Actually that's much more correct than what you meant.
The origin of the word "Firewall" isn't a wall made of fire, but rather a wall that can block fire. Like "blast door" isn't a door that blasts everyone that tries to pass it, but rather a door that can withstand blasts.
Therefore a "freedom wall" is a wall that blocks freedom.
Heh.. I don't like posting links to my own posts (actually I do, lol) but here's a pretty extensive post about features that come or don't come by default in Mozilla and Firefox specifically.
Mod me down for self-linkage if you want, but I know it helped at least one Firefox newbie go from "this firefox thing is nice" to "woah! this program rocks!"
I've been using most of those features for a quite a while now.
Most important are FindAsYouType and the Keywords. I've made keywords for: google, google i'm feeling lucky, dictionary.com, acronymfinder, urbandictionary, wikipedia and goole images. It's very nice to write something like "img pr0n" and get many pics or "wiki slashdot" to get these precious pieces of information. Some sites don't have a simple way to search them so for now I they don't have keywords:.
The autocomplete deletion thingy is new for me. I've checked and it works both for URLs completed in the URL bar and for standard autocomplete textboxes.
Not only that, but they state in the hebrew article that they system uses advanced software to lower the effects of metal in the way of the beam, so that it can be used through steel-hardened cement walls and still give a decent picture.
I wanted to reply to this in the main thread, but this place seems the best.
There are a couple of very nice features in Mozilla and Firefox which are OFF by default or not installed by default.
I will talk about Firefox since that is the browser I use:
1. Options -> Web Features -> Enable Java Script -> Advanced. Here you should disable everything except for the last. Not disabling them allows sites to move your windows around and mess with your status bar (for example to hide link targets). You don't want this.
2. Advanced -> Accessability -> Find as you type. Enable, but DON'T enable "for links only".
3. Advanced -> Accessability -> Browsing. Autoscrolling and Smoothscrolling. Autoscrolling makes the middle button scroll like in IE, I prefer it OFF, as middle button for me is gestures (explained later). Smoothscrolling makes the scrolling supposedly smoothing, in my eyes its horrible, keep this OFF.
4. Type in the url bar the word about:config . This will open a very strong way to edit options which don't appear in the menus. Type to search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and set it to false. This option, if set to "true" makes clicking the middle mouse button in a place other than edit box try to load the text in the clipboard as a URL. I find this annoying. Off by default on windows, on by default on linux.
5. Options -> Web features -> Block Popups. Exactly what you think it is. It works flawlessly.
Some useful functions: 1. Tabbed browsing. This is obvious. Middle button to open links in new tabs. ctrl-pgup/pgdn to go through them with keyboard (if you don't wanna move to the mouse all the time). ctrl-w to close a tab.
2. Find as you type. Very simple, click on the page to focus it, now start typing something your want to search for. It'll hightlight the first occurance of the string, then u click another letter and it'll go on in the search. To go the next result, click f3, like in every other program that has searching.
3. Right click on the menu area -> customize. Allows you to customize the appearance of your browser in terms of buttons. There isn't much what to customize right now, but potentially various extensions will be able to dock like this.
4. Fullscreen. With f11 you move to full screen mode, incase you want to read a long site or view an image more clearly.
Useful extensions: 1. Mouse Gestures. To get here. For best results, set the button to the middle button. Very useful gestures are the obvious prev,next,close tab. And also "open all links hovered on in new tabs".
2. Pie menus, from the same location as above. This changes your standard menu into a pie shaped menu, to minimize the length you need to move your mouse to reach a function. Set to right mouse button. Many people don't like this one, as it takes a while to get used to, but I can't live without it!
3. Statusbar Download Manager. Get from here. By far the best solution for a download manager. It places a non-obstructive line above the status bar which shows your downloads, with progress meters and simple interaction. When the bar is empty, it hides itself. Much better than the built in download manager.
4. Keyconfig. To get from here. It allows to use set up the key bindings in a simpler way than editing config files. I don't use it for much, except for one thing. For some reason, on windows, Mozilla/Firefox binds backspace to return to the previous page. This is very annoying if you click it by mistake when not in a edit box, or when using FindAsYouType. Set backspace to do nothing.
5. Tabbrowser extensions. Get from here. This gives the tab browser MUCH more power than by default. It allows you to customize it more than you need. I use it for these
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Did I say anything about the XBox?!
Have fun with the XBox.
My grudge was cuz it won't be available for MY favorite gaming platform which is the PC.
A simple google brings up this.
So there is going to be coop, but XBox only (WHY?!?!!?!).
A feature mentioned in a recent slashdot story states (and checked) that for every autocomplete (URL or just an edit box), you can use shift-delete to remove that entry.
That can remove your giggle, if it really was a mistake.
That's very true, and it gets even funnier than that!
I haven't checked, but i'm pretty sure it will go like I say. Consider the following:
A big enough room which is very well lit, except for a circle of darkness in the middle. You character stands inside that circle, in a way the "light meter" states complete darkness. Now consider an enemy looking there. A human will certainly see the silhouette of your character, yet the in game AI will probably not see you.
I'm not sure if the AIs already see the shadows of the chars, but I believe that actually is already implemented.
Now about the camo pattern, that's something which is very difficult to implement on the PC.
The only way I can think of to simulate this realistically is to have a world view rendered for each AI, and then computer vision algorithms. Ofcourse this is an overkill, but I can't think of a better way. Maybe approximate this with a low detail (from various aspects) render and use simple algorithms to state things like "the area where my enemy is is blurry, so I will ignore it".
I believe there are people way smarter than me and they will implement very nice algorithms which I can't even comprehend with my currenty knowledge.
This is also the case in Splinter Cell that the grandparent mentioned.
You have a visibility indicator. Moreover, in all 3 games, you are either always in 3rd person or can switch. When you look at yourself in 3rd, you can see "how well you blend".
Moreover, in Thief3, you CAN see you body if you look down, so u can really see how you blend, in 1st person.
The standard argument.
Make a difference between camping and ambushing.
What everyone hates is that a stupid newbie is sitting in the damn BEGINNING of the map or some deserted place on the map, waiting for someone to come kill them. Making it so that it's common to see THEM hiding, for 3 mins and the people on the other just go to search for him.
Ofcourse they innovated!
Look on some of their great actually ORIGINAL (I think) ideas:
1. Microsoft Bob.
2. Clippy.
Awesome.
Firefox has a BUILT-IN google search bar and ability to customize your toolbars.
And how the hell can you browse without TabbedBrowsing?
I know no one who plays HL:OF, HL:CG online. All other except for CS:CZ can be played with the old HL engine because they are MODs which are freely downloadable and run on the HL engine, not standalone.
Why would someone pay 10$/month for a list of games you can play on the good old HL you bought for 50$ some 5 years ago?
That's because you set the gesture button RightClick instead of MiddleClick.
MiddleButton, on page is useful only for "open link in tab", I have the mouse gestures bound to middle button.
RightMenu = ContextMenu is naturally mapped to the RadialContext PieMenu.
Is that some sort of counter point to what I said?
What is I said is "in most cases". Have I ever said that Japanese people aren't like that aswell?
Take a look on the world, almost everyone is shallow. The minority, which isn't too small and which me and you and most slashdot readers are a part of, do know what's good art, be it Japanese, American or I_don't_care_where art.
I for example like Anime cuz it's different, in many ways than western TV, making it interesting. Ofcourse I know that a lot of anime really sucks, but these shows don't get to be subbed, so people don't see it. Just think about the amount of BAD TV there is in the world, then take only the GOOD shows. Even if this number is 10% of the shows, you still get a fair amount of material to watch.
This type of games is a new thing for westerners, that I hope u can agree with, so it's reasonable that the first imports will be stuff that sells well, regardless if it's "good" or not. It is known that sex sells => at least at start games that are based mostly around sex will sell more.
Sure, if the fanbase for these type of games, and for the better, story-driven-not-only-sex games fanbase gets big enough, so an importer can find it cost efficient, it might become as popular as it is in Japan.
Ofcourse I know the "massive amounts of really bizzare dating-sim esque porn". It sells. I like those games aswell, but I can't really consider them very art-full. A small percent of the games really ARE good, regardless of the sex scenes.
Grues probably not, but vampire girls, robot-maids, alien girls, catgirls, explicitly underage girls, certainly yes.
A few problems...
The "good ones" usually:
1. Very popular in Japan and so licensing costs are very high, meaning no US company will risk it.
2. Include some objectional material such as underage sex.
3. Many of the "good ones" are those that actually have interesting stories and it's known that in most cases, western customers prefer a straight to the point experience and don't care to get involved with the story.
4. The games are usually pricy, as other games are.
Anyways, I hope it'll work out for them and I really hope they keep the games in the original dub and just sub it for westerners.
Name MS Internet Explorer "Web Browser"
The parent is going for a "funny" moderation.
Why not name it like "My Computer" and just call it "My Exploits"
The Japanese word for marriage is "kekkon"... kan't get more K than that ;)
I have karma to burn, must first post atleast once in my life!!
Actually that's much more correct than what you meant.
The origin of the word "Firewall" isn't a wall made of fire, but rather a wall that can block fire. Like "blast door" isn't a door that blasts everyone that tries to pass it, but rather a door that can withstand blasts.
Therefore a "freedom wall" is a wall that blocks freedom.
Heh.. I don't like posting links to my own posts (actually I do, lol) but here's a pretty extensive post about features that come or don't come by default in Mozilla and Firefox specifically.
Mod me down for self-linkage if you want, but I know it helped at least one Firefox newbie go from "this firefox thing is nice" to "woah! this program rocks!"
I've been using most of those features for a quite a while now.
:.
Most important are FindAsYouType and the Keywords.
I've made keywords for:
google, google i'm feeling lucky, dictionary.com, acronymfinder, urbandictionary, wikipedia and goole images.
It's very nice to write something like "img pr0n" and get many pics or "wiki slashdot" to get these precious pieces of information.
Some sites don't have a simple way to search them so for now I they don't have keywords
The autocomplete deletion thingy is new for me. I've checked and it works both for URLs completed in the URL bar and for standard autocomplete textboxes.
Not only that, but they state in the hebrew article that they system uses advanced software to lower the effects of metal in the way of the beam, so that it can be used through steel-hardened cement walls and still give a decent picture.
I wanted to reply to this in the main thread, but this place seems the best.
There are a couple of very nice features in Mozilla and Firefox which are OFF by default or not installed by default.
I will talk about Firefox since that is the browser I use:
1. Options -> Web Features -> Enable Java Script -> Advanced.
Here you should disable everything except for the last. Not disabling them allows sites to move your windows around and mess with your status bar (for example to hide link targets). You don't want this.
2. Advanced -> Accessability -> Find as you type. Enable, but DON'T enable "for links only".
3. Advanced -> Accessability -> Browsing.
Autoscrolling and Smoothscrolling. Autoscrolling makes the middle button scroll like in IE, I prefer it OFF, as middle button for me is gestures (explained later). Smoothscrolling makes the scrolling supposedly smoothing, in my eyes its horrible, keep this OFF.
4. Type in the url bar the word about:config . This will open a very strong way to edit options which don't appear in the menus. Type to search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and set it to false. This option, if set to "true" makes clicking the middle mouse button in a place other than edit box try to load the text in the clipboard as a URL. I find this annoying. Off by default on windows, on by default on linux.
5. Options -> Web features -> Block Popups. Exactly what you think it is. It works flawlessly.
Some useful functions:
1. Tabbed browsing. This is obvious. Middle button to open links in new tabs. ctrl-pgup/pgdn to go through them with keyboard (if you don't wanna move to the mouse all the time). ctrl-w to close a tab.
2. Find as you type. Very simple, click on the page to focus it, now start typing something your want to search for. It'll hightlight the first occurance of the string, then u click another letter and it'll go on in the search. To go the next result, click f3, like in every other program that has searching.
3. Right click on the menu area -> customize. Allows you to customize the appearance of your browser in terms of buttons. There isn't much what to customize right now, but potentially various extensions will be able to dock like this.
4. Fullscreen. With f11 you move to full screen mode, incase you want to read a long site or view an image more clearly.
Useful extensions:
1. Mouse Gestures. To get here. For best results, set the button to the middle button. Very useful gestures are the obvious prev,next,close tab. And also "open all links hovered on in new tabs".
2. Pie menus, from the same location as above. This changes your standard menu into a pie shaped menu, to minimize the length you need to move your mouse to reach a function. Set to right mouse button. Many people don't like this one, as it takes a while to get used to, but I can't live without it!
3. Statusbar Download Manager. Get from here.
By far the best solution for a download manager. It places a non-obstructive line above the status bar which shows your downloads, with progress meters and simple interaction. When the bar is empty, it hides itself. Much better than the built in download manager.
4. Keyconfig. To get from here.
It allows to use set up the key bindings in a simpler way than editing config files. I don't use it for much, except for one thing. For some reason, on windows, Mozilla/Firefox binds backspace to return to the previous page. This is very annoying if you click it by mistake when not in a edit box, or when using FindAsYouType. Set backspace to do nothing.
5. Tabbrowser extensions. Get from here.
This gives the tab browser MUCH more power than by default. It allows you to customize it more than you need. I use it for these
just before the last sentence I have thought about that aswell....
isn't it possible to run daemon-tools thru wine or something?
please try "miserable failure"
It works both on google AND on this joke msn thingy...
5. What is this thing that is flying around always misses... it needs a nice name... miss miss.... missle! ... I wonder if it will be friends with me?
...silence...
6.
6. Me kill whoever I need to pay rent to.