Gnu screen? It's for neckbearded, suspender wearing, curmudgeonly *nix grognards who still think that X is a fad and that it will never take off. They use screen to play nethack over telnet with vi keybindings for movement, run compiles, chat on IRC using irssi, IM using finch with jabber protocol only, twitter using ttytter, and browse the net with lynx.
Non-neckbearded non-grognards would just use mrxvt tabs, because frankly, it has gnu screen beat on ease of use hand down.
Right in front of me was the nursing graduates. 97% female. They have no such programs for males, and nobody considers this a "problem". They consider it a choice of men to not go into nursing.
Actually there are programs to encourage men to go into nursing. Men don't though, do you know why? Same reason women don't get into computer science: cultural conditioning.
On a subtle and not so subtle level men and women are taught from a very early age that certain things are "boy things" and certain things are "girl things"
"Hey there son, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be a nurse"
"Wouldn't you rather be a pilot, fireman or engineer? Nursing's for women."
Assassins Creed is a multiplatform game, it's not specifically any platform's shit, just like Dragon Age, which is also multiplatform. Perhaps instead of blaming the console, you should blame the game itself or simply decide that some games aren't to your taste but others are.
Sony does, though it's up to the developer if they implement it. Surprisingly, more PS2 FPS's than PS3 FPS's support mouse aiming, and one such game, Deus Ex, does not mention such support anywhere on the box or in the manual. One good thing is that any game that uses the PS3's on screen keyboard for entering text (like Oblivion does for naming spells and items) also supports USB (or bluetooth) keyboard input.
Mods are fine, but you know what happens. Some folks buy games, mod them and then play that game pretty much exclusively and buy no other games for 5 years. Game developers make no money from those people.
Besides, there comes a point when there's plenty of content in the main game itself and that it doesn't "need" mods to extend gameplay. Sure, a competitve FPS can use more maps, but really, how much more stuff does Fallout 3 and Oblivion need. I put 189 hours into Fallout 3 and still didn't go everywhere. Some of us adults with lives want to finish games in a reasonable timespan.
That used to be the case, but now since they have bulit in storage, they can patch them too. That's also encouraging developers to ship now and patch later even on the consolesm and I'm not happy about that.
Now normally, I often agree with your comments, but when it comes to GNU info, I can't stand the thing. It's damnably non-intuitive. Whenever I see "the full documentation for this application is in the info page", I just shudder.
Some folks are also mentioning apropos, which is good, but you have to know it exists before you can use it. Though if memory serves me correctly, some distros have some information pop up when you use "help" on the command line. I know at least some Red Hat/Fedora/RHEL distros do.
The worst things about FFXI are the in-game economy and the conformist nature of the heavily Japanese player base. They've calculated the "perfect" class setups and perfect equipment for perfect XP so if you don't want to play the perfect setup or have perfect equipment, you're out of luck. For example, you can't play your WHM as "battle cleric" even if the WHM has weapons and skills designed to do that. You're supposed to sit in back and heal, and god help you if you have RDM as your secondary class and not BLM. Neither can you go out and kill less powerful enemies for more loot (but less XP per kill) like Quadav in the mines instead of goblins and lizards in the dunes, because you're supposed to fight "reds" for maximum XP per kill even if you have to rest between every fight. So you'd end up with lots of XP to gain levels but no loot to sell to buy the stuff you're suppsed to have at your new level. So then you had to go back to lower level areas and grind money solo. Not fun.
Unlike in EQOA where level grinding actually earned you money too.
It's possible to encounter Mirelurks in Fallout 3 before you have good enough equipment to face them. Without a good short range weapon, or high VATS, you're sunk. It would be even worse if he didn't know to shoot them in the face and about how their charge attack hides their face. Mirelurks probably kill more characters than Deathclaws do, kind of like how the various ants in Nethack are high up on the killer list.
Maybe it was time for Blizzard to, you know, actually hire some more people rather than work their staff to exhaustion. Maybe then they could do a sequel to a hit game in 1 or 2 years, like console developers do. Oh wait, Blizzard originally WAS a console developer
How many times do I have to post this. Installing and booting into Linux on the Fat PS3 is a function fully supported by Sony, the option is right there in the System menu.
Take Folding@Home for example. While the GPU clients are very powerful, they are limited in the kinds of work units they can do. The PS3, however, while being less powerful is much more versatile in the kinds of work units it can do well.
The hack to put Remote Desktop in Premium doesn't seem to affect anything else adversely. I think you're limited to 16bit color when connecting though, at least I was so limited connecting from Linux, because the hack doesn't install the settings options that lets you use full color.
True, they have their impressions and experiences, but SL changes very very quickly. In SL a certain place or person can be the hottest thing ever and then 3 months later they can be a face/place in the crowd again.
SL also works much better than it did when I first started using it back in July of 2006.
SL users tend to clump, what we call the "Green Dot phenomenon" What you need to do is search for a community within SL that interests you and then hang out there. Keep the mini-map up and look for clumps of green dots. The event listings can also help, educational and art/literary events especially. That leads to meeting people who can introduce you to interesting places and things to do.
While in early SL you could only teleport to "telehubs" and teleporting cost L$, SL has free direct teleporting anywhere for years now. You can even TP directly to a search result. SL search works better too than it used to, if you know how to use it.
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And for historical perspective:
When I joined SL in July of 2006 the # of folks logged in averaged between 5000 to 7000, so there's 10x as many people logged in to SL now.
Gnu screen? It's for neckbearded, suspender wearing, curmudgeonly *nix grognards who still think that X is a fad and that it will never take off. They use screen to play nethack over telnet with vi keybindings for movement, run compiles, chat on IRC using irssi, IM using finch with jabber protocol only, twitter using ttytter, and browse the net with lynx.
Non-neckbearded non-grognards would just use mrxvt tabs, because frankly, it has gnu screen beat on ease of use hand down.
Actually there are programs to encourage men to go into nursing. Men don't though, do you know why? Same reason women don't get into computer science: cultural conditioning.
On a subtle and not so subtle level men and women are taught from a very early age that certain things are "boy things" and certain things are "girl things"
"Hey there son, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be a nurse"
"Wouldn't you rather be a pilot, fireman or engineer? Nursing's for women."
Some of them are still running though. All the SOCOM ones are up, as is EQOA. Last I checked the Champions of Norrath servers were up too.
Assassins Creed is a multiplatform game, it's not specifically any platform's shit, just like Dragon Age, which is also multiplatform. Perhaps instead of blaming the console, you should blame the game itself or simply decide that some games aren't to your taste but others are.
Sony does, though it's up to the developer if they implement it. Surprisingly, more PS2 FPS's than PS3 FPS's support mouse aiming, and one such game, Deus Ex, does not mention such support anywhere on the box or in the manual. One good thing is that any game that uses the PS3's on screen keyboard for entering text (like Oblivion does for naming spells and items) also supports USB (or bluetooth) keyboard input.
Mods are fine, but you know what happens. Some folks buy games, mod them and then play that game pretty much exclusively and buy no other games for 5 years. Game developers make no money from those people.
Besides, there comes a point when there's plenty of content in the main game itself and that it doesn't "need" mods to extend gameplay. Sure, a competitve FPS can use more maps, but really, how much more stuff does Fallout 3 and Oblivion need. I put 189 hours into Fallout 3 and still didn't go everywhere. Some of us adults with lives want to finish games in a reasonable timespan.
Ditto, but the game was also released on the N64.
That used to be the case, but now since they have bulit in storage, they can patch them too. That's also encouraging developers to ship now and patch later even on the consolesm and I'm not happy about that.
Now normally, I often agree with your comments, but when it comes to GNU info, I can't stand the thing. It's damnably non-intuitive. Whenever I see "the full documentation for this application is in the info page", I just shudder.
Some folks are also mentioning apropos, which is good, but you have to know it exists before you can use it. Though if memory serves me correctly, some distros have some information pop up when you use "help" on the command line. I know at least some Red Hat/Fedora/RHEL distros do.
Thanks for bringing up cataracts. I'm 42 and I have them.
The worst things about FFXI are the in-game economy and the conformist nature of the heavily Japanese player base. They've calculated the "perfect" class setups and perfect equipment for perfect XP so if you don't want to play the perfect setup or have perfect equipment, you're out of luck. For example, you can't play your WHM as "battle cleric" even if the WHM has weapons and skills designed to do that. You're supposed to sit in back and heal, and god help you if you have RDM as your secondary class and not BLM. Neither can you go out and kill less powerful enemies for more loot (but less XP per kill) like Quadav in the mines instead of goblins and lizards in the dunes, because you're supposed to fight "reds" for maximum XP per kill even if you have to rest between every fight. So you'd end up with lots of XP to gain levels but no loot to sell to buy the stuff you're suppsed to have at your new level. So then you had to go back to lower level areas and grind money solo. Not fun.
Unlike in EQOA where level grinding actually earned you money too.
It's possible to encounter Mirelurks in Fallout 3 before you have good enough equipment to face them. Without a good short range weapon, or high VATS, you're sunk. It would be even worse if he didn't know to shoot them in the face and about how their charge attack hides their face. Mirelurks probably kill more characters than Deathclaws do, kind of like how the various ants in Nethack are high up on the killer list.
Yahtzee! He's a little PC and shooter centric for my taste, but yeah. His reviews of Oblvion and Fallout 3 are spot on, still fun games though.
EGM is back again, that's a good thing, though it's not as great as it was from say 1993 - 2003 or so.
Maybe it was time for Blizzard to, you know, actually hire some more people rather than work their staff to exhaustion. Maybe then they could do a sequel to a hit game in 1 or 2 years, like console developers do. Oh wait, Blizzard originally WAS a console developer
How many times do I have to post this. Installing and booting into Linux on the Fat PS3 is a function fully supported by Sony, the option is right there in the System menu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_the_PlayStation_3
When I got my PS3 last year, I had Linux installed on it within 24 hours.
Take Folding@Home for example. While the GPU clients are very powerful, they are limited in the kinds of work units they can do. The PS3, however, while being less powerful is much more versatile in the kinds of work units it can do well.
Dwarf Fortress is binary only and there are no PPC Linux binaries.
The hack to put Remote Desktop in Premium doesn't seem to affect anything else adversely. I think you're limited to 16bit color when connecting though, at least I was so limited connecting from Linux, because the hack doesn't install the settings options that lets you use full color.
All PSP models except the original 1000 series have Skype capability.
100 years ago was 1909. They had telephones and telegraph and radio was a recent invention.
A 1000 years ago, they still had written correspondence and couriers, at least between learned (the clergy) and wealthy people.
True, they have their impressions and experiences, but SL changes very very quickly. In SL a certain place or person can be the hottest thing ever and then 3 months later they can be a face/place in the crowd again.
SL also works much better than it did when I first started using it back in July of 2006.
SL users tend to clump, what we call the "Green Dot phenomenon" What you need to do is search for a community within SL that interests you and then hang out there. Keep the mini-map up and look for clumps of green dots. The event listings can also help, educational and art/literary events especially. That leads to meeting people who can introduce you to interesting places and things to do.
While in early SL you could only teleport to "telehubs" and teleporting cost L$, SL has free direct teleporting anywhere for years now. You can even TP directly to a search result. SL search works better too than it used to, if you know how to use it.