You probably have simulated middle click on press of both mouse buttons -- Try it in a text editor and see if it pastes. Pasting a url into firefox will load it, and I guess / parsed into the url for it.
The engine itself could be used for a variety of things, and is easily modded. That kind of power has many practical uses though, like GoogleEarth-style mapping on your phone (specificly refering to the full 3d mapped areas).
". My brother used to just click that whenever I'd get a decent advantage on him (almost always), and this misfeature has discouraged quite a few I know from playing at all."
Heres the thing about console games and lans; They can get away with that kind of feature because it's implied that anyone abusing it is going to get a beat down. Sybling or not, you're supposed to smack whoever does that. (Or my personal favorite revenge, wait until they get up to get something to drink, grab their controller and hold the stick slightly to the side and hold L+R and hit Z, re-centers the stick so that when you let go its slightly drifting. Took my sister a long time to realise why f-zero was so hard.)
What would really be nice is a "Tetris mastermix" or whatever marketing speak for a game with all the major tetris games nintendo has made. I used to love tetris&drmario for the snes (Especially mixed match mode, where you had to compete in both tetris gametypes and dr mario to win), but that was a while ago. How about a dr mario/classic tetris/tetris attack/tetrisphere/warios woods/whatever else they throw in there?
I don't think the markets good enough for a single puzzle game to really sell well on a console, but One Puzzle Game To Rule Them All would be well worth the price. I imagine the controller would lend itself well to those games too--Gyro controlled tetris pieces would be fun.
Yeah, and I could get better at hammering in nails with a screwdriver, but use the right tool for the job. I'd take on any console gamer in a their console + gamepad vs my computer +keyboard & high end gaming mouse on ANY game(that isn't set to autoaim for the console users, like all console games do).
It's a shame the only system that came close to allowing cross-platform multiplayer like that was the dreamcast.
Theres really no competition between a 1600dpi mouse on a 14" mousepad and a 3/4ths of an inch high analog stick, and thats just for aiming.
[Reference to irony of plagerizing a site thats nothing but people plagerizing comedians and other old jokes by adding their irc nicks where appropriate]
He specificly mentioned when alttabbing between games. As someone with dual monitors, I know how much pain there is in trying to switch between a game and typing into an im window on the other monitor, when in reality it should be a simple context switch but instead involves redrawing everything, a resolution switch, some disk swapping, etc.
You don't need 100%, just filtering out all the sites that don't would be enough. You wouldn't just be filtering out though, by seperating blogs you'd be able to do a specific blog-only search if you wanted to find public opinion on an issue, which would give people a reason to try to purposely include themselfs in the blog-search.
Would be especially nice if they had an aggregate search so that I could see clearly marked blogs next to usent posts next to news results next to normal www results.
Anything ran on Wordpress, Movable type, or a preselected list of bloggy domains. (blogger, xanga, blogs.myspace, etc). Its not all inclusive, but its enough of a filter to save some time. Theres also certain things you can look for to really speed things up, like trackback stuff.
I don't read blogs or work in the search engine field, but google does both, I'm sure they have better means of doing this
". Also they should be much more vocal about the possible dangers that come with using the knowledge they helped to gain."
That just brings more attention to it though. 'With great knowledge comes great responsibility', 'There is no knowledge that is not power', etc. Insight is a double edged sword, and everyone has different ethics about it. Theres no 'right answer', just a bunch of opinions.
"The reasoning behind computer-generated child porn is #1. It creates a demand..."
Actually I think a better defense of it would be that it makes law enforcements job easier. How are the supposed to tell the difference between a good render (or more likely photoshop copy&paste) and the real thing? Leaving it legal just makes it easier to defend.
Not that I'm saying I'm for the law, I think its silly, if they're going to legislate it should be based on marketing/perception of the porn itself-- Eg, if someone is pre-pubecent (whether rendered or doctored or whatever), then its illegal. If someone doesn't(and it violates no other law), then its legal, even if shes actually underage(Ever watch a traci lords porn that wasn't traci I love you? Congrats, you're a pedo by most peoples standards!)
"You only have to release your private key if a third-party build of the software will not run without being signed by that key."
Whos to say what will or will not run? They give all their code back, but their hardware is not even close to related to the GPL. You can run every mod to the software you want on your own hardware just fine, but to just let anyone run their own forks on their hardware is far past the scope of the software license. It sounds like a good idea, but it would really lead to a state we don't want to have for the next 10+ years. Requiring signed executables is a good security practice and keeps people from flashing their devices into paperweights, if they were required to open their keys nobody would even use them so it becomes a nonissue. Why would you bother to check a signature if anyone could sign it? It just sounds like rms is being pissy and trying to get his ball back cause someone is playing a better game with it than he was.
Everyones covered the no aspect, but there is one thing I miss about dialup: I could see if my connection was being accessed, and if my RX or TX light went solid and I wasn't using my connection, I could just flip a switch and stop whatever was happening.
Really though, broadband is worth far more than that minor feature, even if now all I have is a useless 'data' light thats constantly lit or blinking.
"then they must have another method of solving these equations"
Past experience? I don't think that a labrat knows a thing about physics or circuitry design, but if every time he hits the button he gets knocked across the room, he'll quickly learn to not hit the button.
We've got much bigger and more powerful brains so we're more capable of "just understanding" stuff from past experience. I still remember learning how to throw a football, purely from experience of what works vs what didn't. I didn't know why spiraling it made it fly straight, I just know that it did, so thats how I threw it. Thats the beauty of sciences..They exist to explain what happens, but you don't have to understand them to use them or for them to occur. What difference does it make if you think lightning is god punishing you or an ionized beam of air with a current going through it? We might find one more accurate than the other now, but in the end you both know its bright, loud, and can cause destruction.
Whenever they first started trying to crosspromote with e-sports sites. Actually according to the files still on my disk.. c:\xfire_beta_installer_8509.exe - Jan 25 2003
I suppose I'll give the new one a try, but judging by the screenshots it still looks like your standard "i'm too cool to actually fit into the rest of your desktop" app.
i'm using the OS that supports my hardware and software, newbernutter.
I can name dozens of stuff that won't run on linux without emulation, and plenty that won't run with it. Try the same for linux, where most apps compile fine natively, or under cygwin, or if not run at near real speed under colinux.
Xfire would be nice if it was open, or at least had a better client. Their client is a huge resource hog which is a no-no for something thats supposed to run while gaming. It also lacks voicechat, which would be the true killer app(and kill ventrilo, hopefully).
Something that could easily group voicechat into games, and even into teams inside the game (since its packetsniffing anyways) would really be useful, no more sitting on vent in the middle of a scrim and having people ask "so what are you doing?"
I've met plenty of immature >20 year olds, and plenty of mature 18 year olds. You can victimize people at any age, you don't magicly gain insight after a specific birthday or even time period, if anything you learn from your/your friends experiences. Plenty of college girls still think that if they send nudes to a guy she likes that he'll 1) like her back and want to be with her and 2)/wont/ send it to everyone on the internet.
Why is it 'kiddie porn' when theres nothing sexual going on? Is that still exploitation? Why is it not illegal to directly market to kids and exploit them that way?
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Teh Hammre is classic.
Except for games that need precision input, like First person shooters, or games that need lots of hotkeys like real time strategies.
The genre/ideal platform breakdown is really like this:
PC: MMORPG, FPS, RTS
Handheld: Puzzle, sidescroller
Console: Sports, Racing, Platformer
With some somewhat acceptable crossover on each.
You probably have simulated middle click on press of both mouse buttons -- Try it in a text editor and see if it pastes.
Pasting a url into firefox will load it, and I guess / parsed into the url for it.
I Can't drink POSSIBLE beers!
"If I create a video and I don't want it shown somewhere, then I should have the right to dictate that."
If I create a drinking fountain and I don't want certain races drinking from it, then I should have the right to dictate that.
Since when did descrimination become okay?
The engine itself could be used for a variety of things, and is easily modded. That kind of power has many practical uses though, like GoogleEarth-style mapping on your phone (specificly refering to the full 3d mapped areas).
No, it means don't bring a butter knife to a gun fight, and don't have olympic swimming races in the kiddie pools.
". My brother used to just click that whenever I'd get a decent advantage on him (almost always), and this misfeature has discouraged quite a few I know from playing at all."
Heres the thing about console games and lans; They can get away with that kind of feature because it's implied that anyone abusing it is going to get a beat down. Sybling or not, you're supposed to smack whoever does that. (Or my personal favorite revenge, wait until they get up to get something to drink, grab their controller and hold the stick slightly to the side and hold L+R and hit Z, re-centers the stick so that when you let go its slightly drifting. Took my sister a long time to realise why f-zero was so hard.)
What would really be nice is a "Tetris mastermix" or whatever marketing speak for a game with all the major tetris games nintendo has made. I used to love tetris&drmario for the snes (Especially mixed match mode, where you had to compete in both tetris gametypes and dr mario to win), but that was a while ago. How about a dr mario/classic tetris/tetris attack/tetrisphere/warios woods/whatever else they throw in there?
I don't think the markets good enough for a single puzzle game to really sell well on a console, but One Puzzle Game To Rule Them All would be well worth the price. I imagine the controller would lend itself well to those games too--Gyro controlled tetris pieces would be fun.
Yeah, and I could get better at hammering in nails with a screwdriver, but use the right tool for the job.
I'd take on any console gamer in a their console + gamepad vs my computer +keyboard & high end gaming mouse on ANY game(that isn't set to autoaim for the console users, like all console games do).
It's a shame the only system that came close to allowing cross-platform multiplayer like that was the dreamcast.
Theres really no competition between a 1600dpi mouse on a 14" mousepad and a 3/4ths of an inch high analog stick, and thats just for aiming.
[Reference to irony of plagerizing a site thats nothing but people plagerizing comedians and other old jokes by adding their irc nicks where appropriate]
He specificly mentioned when alttabbing between games. As someone with dual monitors, I know how much pain there is in trying to switch between a game and typing into an im window on the other monitor, when in reality it should be a simple context switch but instead involves redrawing everything, a resolution switch, some disk swapping, etc.
You don't need 100%, just filtering out all the sites that don't would be enough. You wouldn't just be filtering out though, by seperating blogs you'd be able to do a specific blog-only search if you wanted to find public opinion on an issue, which would give people a reason to try to purposely include themselfs in the blog-search.
Would be especially nice if they had an aggregate search so that I could see clearly marked blogs next to usent posts next to news results next to normal www results.
Anything ran on Wordpress, Movable type, or a preselected list of bloggy domains. (blogger, xanga, blogs.myspace, etc).
Its not all inclusive, but its enough of a filter to save some time. Theres also certain things you can look for to really speed things up, like trackback stuff.
I don't read blogs or work in the search engine field, but google does both, I'm sure they have better means of doing this
". Also they should be much more vocal about the possible dangers that come with using the knowledge they helped to gain."
That just brings more attention to it though. 'With great knowledge comes great responsibility', 'There is no knowledge that is not power', etc. Insight is a double edged sword, and everyone has different ethics about it. Theres no 'right answer', just a bunch of opinions.
"The reasoning behind computer-generated child porn is #1. It creates a demand..."
Actually I think a better defense of it would be that it makes law enforcements job easier. How are the supposed to tell the difference between a good render (or more likely photoshop copy&paste) and the real thing? Leaving it legal just makes it easier to defend.
Not that I'm saying I'm for the law, I think its silly, if they're going to legislate it should be based on marketing/perception of the porn itself-- Eg, if someone is pre-pubecent (whether rendered or doctored or whatever), then its illegal. If someone doesn't(and it violates no other law), then its legal, even if shes actually underage(Ever watch a traci lords porn that wasn't traci I love you? Congrats, you're a pedo by most peoples standards!)
"You only have to release your private key if a third-party build of the software will not run without being signed by that key."
Whos to say what will or will not run? They give all their code back, but their hardware is not even close to related to the GPL. You can run every mod to the software you want on your own hardware just fine, but to just let anyone run their own forks on their hardware is far past the scope of the software license. It sounds like a good idea, but it would really lead to a state we don't want to have for the next 10+ years. Requiring signed executables is a good security practice and keeps people from flashing their devices into paperweights, if they were required to open their keys nobody would even use them so it becomes a nonissue. Why would you bother to check a signature if anyone could sign it? It just sounds like rms is being pissy and trying to get his ball back cause someone is playing a better game with it than he was.
It also makes it really easy to automaticly prune off the spamtag when selling it on lists of emails. Only good for honest uses like mailinglists.
Everyones covered the no aspect, but there is one thing I miss about dialup: I could see if my connection was being accessed, and if my RX or TX light went solid and I wasn't using my connection, I could just flip a switch and stop whatever was happening.
Really though, broadband is worth far more than that minor feature, even if now all I have is a useless 'data' light thats constantly lit or blinking.
"then they must have another method of solving these equations"
Past experience? I don't think that a labrat knows a thing about physics or circuitry design, but if every time he hits the button he gets knocked across the room, he'll quickly learn to not hit the button.
We've got much bigger and more powerful brains so we're more capable of "just understanding" stuff from past experience. I still remember learning how to throw a football, purely from experience of what works vs what didn't. I didn't know why spiraling it made it fly straight, I just know that it did, so thats how I threw it. Thats the beauty of sciences..They exist to explain what happens, but you don't have to understand them to use them or for them to occur. What difference does it make if you think lightning is god punishing you or an ionized beam of air with a current going through it? We might find one more accurate than the other now, but in the end you both know its bright, loud, and can cause destruction.
Whenever they first started trying to crosspromote with e-sports sites. Actually according to the files still on my disk..
c:\xfire_beta_installer_8509.exe - Jan 25 2003
I suppose I'll give the new one a try, but judging by the screenshots it still looks like your standard "i'm too cool to actually fit into the rest of your desktop" app.
i'm using the OS that supports my hardware and software, newbernutter.
I can name dozens of stuff that won't run on linux without emulation, and plenty that won't run with it. Try the same for linux, where most apps compile fine natively, or under cygwin, or if not run at near real speed under colinux.
nt.
It takes just as much time to close the tab as it does to right click and click "View this page in IE Tab". YMMV
Xfire would be nice if it was open, or at least had a better client. Their client is a huge resource hog which is a no-no for something thats supposed to run while gaming. It also lacks voicechat, which would be the true killer app(and kill ventrilo, hopefully).
Something that could easily group voicechat into games, and even into teams inside the game (since its packetsniffing anyways) would really be useful, no more sitting on vent in the middle of a scrim and having people ask "so what are you doing?"
I've met plenty of immature >20 year olds, and plenty of mature 18 year olds. /wont/ send it to everyone on the internet.
You can victimize people at any age, you don't magicly gain insight after a specific birthday or even time period, if anything you learn from your/your friends experiences. Plenty of college girls still think that if they send nudes to a guy she likes that he'll 1) like her back and want to be with her and 2)
Why is it 'kiddie porn' when theres nothing sexual going on? Is that still exploitation?
Why is it not illegal to directly market to kids and exploit them that way?