And the OP is using emacs 22.foo, so some of those might not work! I know M-x visual-line-mode RET won't work on the emacs 21.foo in YDL6.1, just tested it.
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You know, average people who just want to edit some text now and then find the very concept of putting your own personal text editor's configuration files in a version control system to be very...how shall I say it..not quite how average people think.
Putting source code or collaborative project in into a version control system...smart.
Putting your text editors configuration files that one usually sets and forgets into version control.....not quite sane.
Re:Decent text editor still not included right?
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Because it includes an "Eliza style bot" that acts like a Rogerian therapist, that's why.
For standard def stuff, Japan is NTSC. For HD, Japan uses ISDB not the DVB that Europe uses. ATSC was designed for the US, we have large amounts of rural area, ATSC is designed with that in mind.
Yes, the UK has some developers, but not as many as the US, or that other major video game making NTSC country.... Japan. You know, the nation that's home to Nintendo and Sony? The language thing doesn't help either, the NTSC territories have large populations with the same language so basically you do a Japanese version, an English version for US/Canada and a Spanish version. How many languages are there in PAL territory. Lets see, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Irish Gaelic, Dutch, Italian, German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, all those languages in the bits of Yugoslavia.....that doesn't even cover Africa.
Fonts could be a problem even back in the days of the PSone. I own a PSone game, Darkstone, where the fonts are very hard to read if you use composite and not S-Video. Of course, lots of folks said the game was too annoying to play without the PS2's fast loading feature. The two PS2 Hot Shot Golf games have similar issues with some of the smaller typefaces used in the display.
Perhaps you should convince your governments to switch to the NTSC/ATSC standard used in the countries that develop and manufacture the majority of the games. Unless you do so, you PAL folks are always going to be second class citizens video game wise.
The funny thing is, Blizzard got it's start as a console developer named "Silicon and Synapse". I wonder what in their mindset changed that they don't do console games anymore. They don't even encourage ports! IIRC the last Blizzard console gamew that I'm aware of were the PSone ports of Diablo and Warcraft 2 and the N64 port of Starcraft. They never got around to porting or allowing someone to port Diablo 2. Of course, Diablo 2 isn't as pretty as all those Snowblind engine based Diablo clones are on the PS2 that came out just after.
I didn't mean an actual joystick. I mean hold the left half of a Dual Shock style controller in your left hand, the mouse on your right, use the Dual Shock's stick to move, the mouse to aim. The D-pad is used as additional buttons, for things like turning on a flashlight
FPS engines don't support instant dynamic content and instant scriptability for objects while actually being in-world. SL does, and that's why it looks the way it looks. Actual games can get away with preset and fixed content in a level, SL doesn't work that way.
I've been in SL since July 19th of 2006 (yep, it's my Rezday) and I've only seen flying dongs...once....at that one specific incident regarding Anshe Chung.
One thing you could try is to not use the d-pad to move, but the stick and use the D-pad as additional buttons. More practice would mean you could take your thumb off the stick and use the D-Pad to use a function and switch back very very quickly. Don't forget the fact that you've got an L3 button on the stick too.
I love mouse and dual-shock controls in the PSone and PS2 games that support it. In fact, I recommend the method constantly on Slashdot.
"Dumbed down" isn't a good way to say it, simplified is more accurate. And when it comes to UI, simpler is better. Okay, so you don't like Fallout 3's interface on the PC, so why don't you play it with a gamepad as the gods intended. Then you can flip between the "pages" of the pipboy quickly with the shoulder buttons and d-pad.
With the PC I can switch between work tasks, games, email, browser, listen to music and stream films to the television in the other room, all simultaneously. With the console you can only play games from a very limited library.
Snort. I wouldn't exactly call the entire PS1 and PS2 and PS3 libraries combined limited, that's more games than I can ever play. Besides I can also do other kinds of tasks, e-mail, browser, etc on my PS3.
Yes, some people do have a keyboard for their console, but they are probably the large minority. I'm not even sure if any consoles actually support mice for normal console use (this does not include turning your PS3 into a home PC).
While I did have a PS2 with a Linux install and have Linux on my PS3, I've kept a keyboard and mouse constantly connected to my PS2 (starting in 2002) and now my PS3. Why keep them connected in GameOS? For the games that support them. Most online games support keyboard chat, and have done so since 2002, and there are a few games with mouse support. Also you can control the PS3's GameOS functions entirely with mouse and keyboard if you want. I wish SCEA would figure out to do USB mouse emulation of the PSone mouse for PSone games.
I agree, the worst thing about FFXI was the Japan inspired conformism in the player base, which spread to the non-Japanese players too eventually. "You're level foo and don't have a Hat of Foo? No group for you!" "You're playing a Hume WHM with RDM as subclass and not a Taru-Taru WHM with BLM as the kami intended? No group for you!" "You want to play your WHM as a Western style Battle Cleric because you're a Hume with a Hammer, instead of being a "Staff Chick" as the kami intended WHM to be? No group for you!"
I tried and tried telling people that doing things the "optimized conformist way some crazy Japanese min-maxer had figured out" was less fun. Sure, fighting "Very Hard" enemies, with those super optimized builds would give you "perfect" XP but it just wasn't fun, and it was harder than if you fought level appropriate mobs. And if you fought level appropriate mobs, you'd actually make more money. Instead of Goblins in the Dunes, fight Quadav in the Mines. You'll rip though them so fast and they'll drop tons of stuff. And there will be less chance of a damned add or an accident killing the party.
As I said, using EQOA speak, "You're better off fighting hordes of dark blues for safer XP and more loot, than a tiny number of reds"
Jefferson wasn't writing for the common people, since literacy rates were so low, he was writing for other people like him. Wealthy members of the land owning class.
Universal education didn't exist till the late 19th century. My father, born in 1927, tells me that back when he was young it was common for older boys to be years behind their age level in class because they had been taken out of school to help on farms, though he says that sort of thing became less common as the years went by. In part due to mechanization and also in part due to US industry and government needing as many educated people as it could get.
People aren't dumber, it's just nowadays it's more than just the socio-economic elite who are getting educations, and getting pressured to go further than their ancestors were. In the old days no one cared if the kid of a sharecropper didn't have an education because for many people, those kinds of people didn't matter. They could just do the same job their parents did.
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Ha, I was just playing with it too. Gave me a good laugh today. Thanks. Here's a conversation I just had with it:
You start it up with M-x doctor (that's alt+x doctor to us mundanes). It's one of the few emacs commands I remember.
[code]Emacs? Hah! I would appreciate it if you would continue.[/code]
I don't use emacs
[code]Are you sure?[/code]
Ha, great response.
And the OP is using emacs 22.foo, so some of those might not work! I know M-x visual-line-mode RET won't work on the emacs 21.foo in YDL6.1, just tested it.
You know, average people who just want to edit some text now and then find the very concept of putting your own personal text editor's configuration files in a version control system to be very...how shall I say it..not quite how average people think.
Putting source code or collaborative project in into a version control system...smart.
Putting your text editors configuration files that one usually sets and forgets into version control.....not quite sane.
Because it includes an "Eliza style bot" that acts like a Rogerian therapist, that's why.
I take it you've played MegaMek? That's not too bad.
For standard def stuff, Japan is NTSC. For HD, Japan uses ISDB not the DVB that Europe uses. ATSC was designed for the US, we have large amounts of rural area, ATSC is designed with that in mind.
Yes, the UK has some developers, but not as many as the US, or that other major video game making NTSC country.... Japan. You know, the nation that's home to Nintendo and Sony? The language thing doesn't help either, the NTSC territories have large populations with the same language so basically you do a Japanese version, an English version for US/Canada and a Spanish version. How many languages are there in PAL territory. Lets see, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Irish Gaelic, Dutch, Italian, German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, all those languages in the bits of Yugoslavia.....that doesn't even cover Africa.
I think you're confusing coaxial connections for watching television shows, which can be HD, vs coaxial connections for playing games, which aren't.
Fonts could be a problem even back in the days of the PSone. I own a PSone game, Darkstone, where the fonts are very hard to read if you use composite and not S-Video. Of course, lots of folks said the game was too annoying to play without the PS2's fast loading feature. The two PS2 Hot Shot Golf games have similar issues with some of the smaller typefaces used in the display.
Perhaps you should convince your governments to switch to the NTSC/ATSC standard used in the countries that develop and manufacture the majority of the games. Unless you do so, you PAL folks are always going to be second class citizens video game wise.
Not anymore. The PS3 and Wii have built in browsers with Flash capability.
You did know that C&C: Red Alert 3 IS a console game, as is the original C&C and Red Alert.
The funny thing is, Blizzard got it's start as a console developer named "Silicon and Synapse". I wonder what in their mindset changed that they don't do console games anymore. They don't even encourage ports! IIRC the last Blizzard console gamew that I'm aware of were the PSone ports of Diablo and Warcraft 2 and the N64 port of Starcraft. They never got around to porting or allowing someone to port Diablo 2. Of course, Diablo 2 isn't as pretty as all those Snowblind engine based Diablo clones are on the PS2 that came out just after.
I didn't mean an actual joystick. I mean hold the left half of a Dual Shock style controller in your left hand, the mouse on your right, use the Dual Shock's stick to move, the mouse to aim. The D-pad is used as additional buttons, for things like turning on a flashlight
FPS engines don't support instant dynamic content and instant scriptability for objects while actually being in-world. SL does, and that's why it looks the way it looks. Actual games can get away with preset and fixed content in a level, SL doesn't work that way.
I've been in SL since July 19th of 2006 (yep, it's my Rezday) and I've only seen flying dongs...once....at that one specific incident regarding Anshe Chung.
In other words, you want mouse and analog stick. It works very well. Easiest way to compare it is to play the PS2 ports of Deus Ex or Half Life.
Why do you use your entire arm to move the mouse? Shouldn't you just be using the lower arm or wrist and hand?
Sure you can, imagine the d-pad or stick moves an arrow cursor, and a button acts as left mouse button in the exact same click/drag way.
"Ready and waiting" "Affirmative."
One thing you could try is to not use the d-pad to move, but the stick and use the D-pad as additional buttons. More practice would mean you could take your thumb off the stick and use the D-Pad to use a function and switch back very very quickly. Don't forget the fact that you've got an L3 button on the stick too.
I love mouse and dual-shock controls in the PSone and PS2 games that support it. In fact, I recommend the method constantly on Slashdot.
"Dumbed down" isn't a good way to say it, simplified is more accurate. And when it comes to UI, simpler is better. Okay, so you don't like Fallout 3's interface on the PC, so why don't you play it with a gamepad as the gods intended. Then you can flip between the "pages" of the pipboy quickly with the shoulder buttons and d-pad.
Snort. I wouldn't exactly call the entire PS1 and PS2 and PS3 libraries combined limited, that's more games than I can ever play. Besides I can also do other kinds of tasks, e-mail, browser, etc on my PS3.
While I did have a PS2 with a Linux install and have Linux on my PS3, I've kept a keyboard and mouse constantly connected to my PS2 (starting in 2002) and now my PS3. Why keep them connected in GameOS? For the games that support them. Most online games support keyboard chat, and have done so since 2002, and there are a few games with mouse support. Also you can control the PS3's GameOS functions entirely with mouse and keyboard if you want. I wish SCEA would figure out to do USB mouse emulation of the PSone mouse for PSone games.
I agree, the worst thing about FFXI was the Japan inspired conformism in the player base, which spread to the non-Japanese players too eventually. "You're level foo and don't have a Hat of Foo? No group for you!" "You're playing a Hume WHM with RDM as subclass and not a Taru-Taru WHM with BLM as the kami intended? No group for you!" "You want to play your WHM as a Western style Battle Cleric because you're a Hume with a Hammer, instead of being a "Staff Chick" as the kami intended WHM to be? No group for you!"
I tried and tried telling people that doing things the "optimized conformist way some crazy Japanese min-maxer had figured out" was less fun. Sure, fighting "Very Hard" enemies, with those super optimized builds would give you "perfect" XP but it just wasn't fun, and it was harder than if you fought level appropriate mobs. And if you fought level appropriate mobs, you'd actually make more money. Instead of Goblins in the Dunes, fight Quadav in the Mines. You'll rip though them so fast and they'll drop tons of stuff. And there will be less chance of a damned add or an accident killing the party.
As I said, using EQOA speak, "You're better off fighting hordes of dark blues for safer XP and more loot, than a tiny number of reds"
Jefferson wasn't writing for the common people, since literacy rates were so low, he was writing for other people like him. Wealthy members of the land owning class.
Universal education didn't exist till the late 19th century. My father, born in 1927, tells me that back when he was young it was common for older boys to be years behind their age level in class because they had been taken out of school to help on farms, though he says that sort of thing became less common as the years went by. In part due to mechanization and also in part due to US industry and government needing as many educated people as it could get.
People aren't dumber, it's just nowadays it's more than just the socio-economic elite who are getting educations, and getting pressured to go further than their ancestors were. In the old days no one cared if the kid of a sharecropper didn't have an education because for many people, those kinds of people didn't matter. They could just do the same job their parents did.
Nowadays, that sort of thing isn't tolerated.