The free version is playable right from the same page you looked at with the rollercoaster cars. It is playable within your web browser.
Really, it's not too hard to figure out. You place blocks and build you world, with or without people. Imagine LEGO but with many people, monsters, and animals and you'll have an idea.
If you don't want to play it, do a search on YouTube. Plenty of more examples.
The game is amazing. It is the ultimate sandboxy type game to have come out. Some of the structures people have made has been mindblowing. 1:2 replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A? Complete with crew quarters, compartments, etc. AWESOME.
Flash runs just fine on my mac without any of these slowness issue, and none of this crashing FUD. It is stable, it works, and it's required on pretty much every major web site out there. If it's really causing your system to crap itself, you might want to consider reinstalling the OS, because the problem is probably your system rather than Flash. It behaves itself just fine on my iMac and on my Dell with Vista. I have NEVER seen it crash a browser since it was release nearly a decade ago.
Can anyone confirm that this would work on the iPad? I mean, any HTML5 compliant browser should be able to run this shouldn't it? The iPhone/ITouch? (Granted a slide show).. Just curious.
Because it looks like they're doing something. There has to be a name for what this is called, but it seems most people who are put in a position like this tend to make laws for the sake of doing something. If the world was 100% full of peace and happiness, you can bet those in charge would not sit there and keep it that way. They would feel useless, and thus, start making laws that, if anything, makes them look like they're being busy. It happens everywhere.
People keep parroting how Flash is a nightmare, it's slow, buggy, crashes their browser. I've own a Mac with OSX since the day the iMac G5 came out, and I have never had a single instance of Flash misbehaving. I've used Flash on my PC almost since the day it came out a decade ago, again, never had a single issue. The only time I have ever noticed that a web site was even using Flash was when it required a newer version that I had installed and it prompted me to upgrade. That's it. Even if it WERE buggy, so what? I have PLENTY of buggy iTouch apps that freeze up, or just dont function properly. It's not Apples job to keep something like this off their devices, let users choose to install it or not.
All this negative talk about Flash makes me wonder if everyone has it confused with Java.
If you're trying to read textbooks on your iPad, your eyes may hate you. Try using a device with e-ink. I find it ridiculous that companies are trying to sell non-eink devices as e-readers.
"Apple, not having sufficient influence on any related market"
I believe they're the top pick in the smartphone market right now. One which is very dependent on browsers. Locking out a browser would probably be the same thing as Microsoft not allowing browsers on their machines, or saying that IE was "integrated" into Windows. I believe they were forced to allow choice, and to make IE standalone.
I'll probably avoid this then. I enjoy a good story now and then, but I prefer it to be way at the bottom of everything else in the game. I want it to just guide me, not be at the forefront, otherwise once I get past two hours into a game and it's nothing but story story story, it becomes like watching the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy all in one sitting. No thank you. I must be getting too old for games. I used to be able to devote hour after hour to games, and all I want now are quick and easy 10 hour RPGs that are more like playing a spreadsheet with some story below it all.
I don't suppose you remember the Apple Newton tablet PC back from the 90s do you? Is this an example of Apple waiting around for others to run into issues and then come back later to release a product? I agree with everything you after that, but your first paragraph is typical anti-Apple fanboy ranting that is completely ignorant on the subject.
They really wont. Flash has cemented itself already. It's like saying the iPod wont be a premier mp3 player. Flash just is. If a device like the tablet will not run flash that also in turns allows sites like Netflix, Lala, Hulu, etc.. Basically any standard site that everyone can access from their $500 PC and laptops, and cant access on a $700 device that is basically built for couch surfing it will be a dud.
As much as people love/hate Flash. It is 100% needed. I don't use the browser on my touch simply because 90% of the sites just aren't functional these days without flash support of some kind.
I think they are assuming the OS will be the same that is on the current Touches. That it wont be using an "open" OSX install, it will be somewhat closed and using an Apple Store like the Touch.
This is exactly it. They want people to pay $100 a month for useless, locked in plans. Phone deals like they used to do with land lines in the past will come back again, more money for them. If the FCC forces them to offer $10/mo plans with no extra fees, then sure, but somehow I doubt AT&T wants that.
You had your own range of pets that did all the roles. Tank, Offtank, DPS, crowd control.
You had a huge line of DPS spells that stacked on nearly everything. Letting you do absurd amounts of damage.
You had crowd control spells that had their different advantages and disadvantages. The best being the snare line. Most importantly these allowed your DPS to syncronize with your own escape mechanics that not many classes had.
You could play dead, so when you/party did screw up you could just say "see ya" and not die.
You could rez with exp restore. So when you/party did screw up, you could help people out.
The class was the most enjoyable class I've ever played in an MMO. It was overpowered, yes, but the utility spells just put the class on top. Jack of all trades, master of all.
I still don't see how this is different.
Microsoft wasn't saying what the vendors could do with Linux. They were just saying if they chose to install it, they couldn't sell machines with Windows. The vendors were still able to do whatever they wanted, it was their choice. It was Microsofts choice of them not selling Microsofts software. To quote you: "Copyright law allows you to tell people what they can do with _your_ software." which is what Microsoft was doing, wasn't it? I bet Apple would have no problem selling OSX via Psystar if they were on Apple branded machines.
How is it any different?
Wasn't the whole Microsoft thing getting fined because Microsoft were telling vendors they couldn't sell their OS if those vendors also sold Linux on the same machines? How is this any different with Apple telling vendors they can't sell OSX on machines? The judge is saying Apple can sell their OS on only their machines, while telling Microsoft they can't?
Almost every new album these days is being released in LP format side by side with their CD counterparts. You would be very hard pressed to find DVD-A of pretty much anything. At least, at walk-in stores. I can walk into my Best Buy and pick between both formats for the latest releases, yet the DVD-A is almost always absent. If you go online and look for the latest you probably wont find DVD-A available there, either.
Yep, push applications were huge in the early, mid, and late 90s. I forget exactly what it was called, but there was an application that let you subscribe to pretty much everything. News, music, pictures, pretty much everything except video. Video back then wasnt something people on modems really did much of.
A look at the wayback machine to 1993 and onward of Tucows might shed some light on it.
Oh sure, there are a few gems out there, but good god.. You have to wade through THOUSANDS of crappy useless apps. Not only that, but everyone seems to think 0.99 is a great price to sell an app that does nothing. Oh hey, sticking advertisements into it? Yeah, that gets your application deleted pretty quick, too!
Wake up people, if you wouldn't do this for an app on your Mac/PC, don't do it for the iPhone/iPod.
I didn't care much for the other SG series. Everytime I tried watching them, it was just too cheese. This comes from someone who loved LEXX. I think the fact that the people on board were not over the top cliches is what kept me watching this episode. It started out seeming to be just that, with the basement dwelling computer nerd and all, but when the episode went on, he wasn't much of a nerd at all, and seems like a normal guy along for the ride. It was surprised because I kept expecting him to pull a Wesley Crusher and save the world or something. It never happened. Despite the glaringly obvious plot hole of using the damn floaty ball to push the door button instead of letting some politician sacrifice himself (Another plot hole!).
Anyways, I enjoyed the cast, I enjoyed the unknown, I like that no one knows much about anything and they get to ride this ship on the other side of the universe. I just don't want the cheese. I don't want to see Mr. McBigHead Egyptian guy. I don't want to see much of McGyver. I just want to see a solid cast explore the unknown that I can grow to love. Maybe they'll find an android somewhere along the way....
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He doesn't need advertising, the game has been selling like crazy, and keeps realtime stats on his web page.
Valve flew him out to look into working with him because the game is so good.
"crappy game" - yeah... Have you played it? I have, and it's awesome. I haven't touched Starcraft 2 since I bought it. It blows everything away.
The free version is playable right from the same page you looked at with the rollercoaster cars. It is playable within your web browser.
Really, it's not too hard to figure out. You place blocks and build you world, with or without people. Imagine LEGO but with many people, monsters, and animals and you'll have an idea.
If you don't want to play it, do a search on YouTube. Plenty of more examples.
The game is amazing. It is the ultimate sandboxy type game to have come out. Some of the structures people have made has been mindblowing. 1:2 replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A? Complete with crew quarters, compartments, etc. AWESOME.
Flash runs just fine on my mac without any of these slowness issue, and none of this crashing FUD. It is stable, it works, and it's required on pretty much every major web site out there. If it's really causing your system to crap itself, you might want to consider reinstalling the OS, because the problem is probably your system rather than Flash. It behaves itself just fine on my iMac and on my Dell with Vista. I have NEVER seen it crash a browser since it was release nearly a decade ago.
Can anyone confirm that this would work on the iPad? I mean, any HTML5 compliant browser should be able to run this shouldn't it? The iPhone/ITouch? (Granted a slide show) .. Just curious.
I can't seem to find too much info, their site says it rivals E-Ink, which would be really cool if true.
Anyone? Anyone? If you're going to be reading that much with a screen, you pretty much need the equivalent of E-Ink.
Because it looks like they're doing something. There has to be a name for what this is called, but it seems most people who are put in a position like this tend to make laws for the sake of doing something. If the world was 100% full of peace and happiness, you can bet those in charge would not sit there and keep it that way. They would feel useless, and thus, start making laws that, if anything, makes them look like they're being busy. It happens everywhere.
People keep parroting how Flash is a nightmare, it's slow, buggy, crashes their browser. I've own a Mac with OSX since the day the iMac G5 came out, and I have never had a single instance of Flash misbehaving. I've used Flash on my PC almost since the day it came out a decade ago, again, never had a single issue. The only time I have ever noticed that a web site was even using Flash was when it required a newer version that I had installed and it prompted me to upgrade. That's it. Even if it WERE buggy, so what? I have PLENTY of buggy iTouch apps that freeze up, or just dont function properly. It's not Apples job to keep something like this off their devices, let users choose to install it or not.
All this negative talk about Flash makes me wonder if everyone has it confused with Java.
Nice troll.
If you're trying to read textbooks on your iPad, your eyes may hate you. Try using a device with e-ink. I find it ridiculous that companies are trying to sell non-eink devices as e-readers.
"Apple, not having sufficient influence on any related market" I believe they're the top pick in the smartphone market right now. One which is very dependent on browsers. Locking out a browser would probably be the same thing as Microsoft not allowing browsers on their machines, or saying that IE was "integrated" into Windows. I believe they were forced to allow choice, and to make IE standalone.
I'll probably avoid this then. I enjoy a good story now and then, but I prefer it to be way at the bottom of everything else in the game. I want it to just guide me, not be at the forefront, otherwise once I get past two hours into a game and it's nothing but story story story, it becomes like watching the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy all in one sitting. No thank you. I must be getting too old for games. I used to be able to devote hour after hour to games, and all I want now are quick and easy 10 hour RPGs that are more like playing a spreadsheet with some story below it all.
I don't suppose you remember the Apple Newton tablet PC back from the 90s do you? Is this an example of Apple waiting around for others to run into issues and then come back later to release a product? I agree with everything you after that, but your first paragraph is typical anti-Apple fanboy ranting that is completely ignorant on the subject.
They really wont. Flash has cemented itself already. It's like saying the iPod wont be a premier mp3 player. Flash just is. If a device like the tablet will not run flash that also in turns allows sites like Netflix, Lala, Hulu, etc .. Basically any standard site that everyone can access from their $500 PC and laptops, and cant access on a $700 device that is basically built for couch surfing it will be a dud.
As much as people love/hate Flash. It is 100% needed. I don't use the browser on my touch simply because 90% of the sites just aren't functional these days without flash support of some kind.
Until someone jailbreaks it, that is.
This is exactly it. They want people to pay $100 a month for useless, locked in plans. Phone deals like they used to do with land lines in the past will come back again, more money for them. If the FCC forces them to offer $10/mo plans with no extra fees, then sure, but somehow I doubt AT&T wants that.
You had a huge line of DPS spells that stacked on nearly everything. Letting you do absurd amounts of damage.
You had crowd control spells that had their different advantages and disadvantages. The best being the snare line. Most importantly these allowed your DPS to syncronize with your own escape mechanics that not many classes had.
You could play dead, so when you/party did screw up you could just say "see ya" and not die.
You could rez with exp restore. So when you/party did screw up, you could help people out.
The class was the most enjoyable class I've ever played in an MMO. It was overpowered, yes, but the utility spells just put the class on top. Jack of all trades, master of all.
Companies that have been convicted of anti-trust violations have different laws applied to them. This is a newsflash from 1930.
At this point in time that I was referring to, Microsoft was not yet convicted of anti-trust violations.
I still don't see how this is different. Microsoft wasn't saying what the vendors could do with Linux. They were just saying if they chose to install it, they couldn't sell machines with Windows. The vendors were still able to do whatever they wanted, it was their choice. It was Microsofts choice of them not selling Microsofts software. To quote you: "Copyright law allows you to tell people what they can do with _your_ software." which is what Microsoft was doing, wasn't it? I bet Apple would have no problem selling OSX via Psystar if they were on Apple branded machines. How is it any different?
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Almost every new album these days is being released in LP format side by side with their CD counterparts. You would be very hard pressed to find DVD-A of pretty much anything. At least, at walk-in stores. I can walk into my Best Buy and pick between both formats for the latest releases, yet the DVD-A is almost always absent. If you go online and look for the latest you probably wont find DVD-A available there, either.
PointCast Network is what it was. It was pretty awesome back then! 1992.
Yep, push applications were huge in the early, mid, and late 90s. I forget exactly what it was called, but there was an application that let you subscribe to pretty much everything. News, music, pictures, pretty much everything except video. Video back then wasnt something people on modems really did much of. A look at the wayback machine to 1993 and onward of Tucows might shed some light on it.
Wake up people, if you wouldn't do this for an app on your Mac/PC, don't do it for the iPhone/iPod.
Anyways, I enjoyed the cast, I enjoyed the unknown, I like that no one knows much about anything and they get to ride this ship on the other side of the universe. I just don't want the cheese. I don't want to see Mr. McBigHead Egyptian guy. I don't want to see much of McGyver. I just want to see a solid cast explore the unknown that I can grow to love. Maybe they'll find an android somewhere along the way....