that's absolute bullshit, my current new windows install has about 4 missing drivers till i bother tracking down my motherboard disc, EVERY SINGLE REQUIRED DRIVER downloaded from the ubuntu repo for my dual boot linux partition and on all 3 linux installs in my house. the only thing that is stopping me from running ubuntu only with no issues is native versions of blizzard and valve games.
actually i'm getting to like the DCMA, it's a lot more of a double edged sword than the people who were lobbying for it thought. sure, you get a take down notice and you're boned if you're not rich and right and don't take it down immediately, however if you do take it down immediately 50 other people immediately put it back up and they have to go through the whole process again. gives the lawyers something to do too.
hey, if you think you can do better maybe you should have had a crack at it? also you may have noticed that he was paying more respect to the code than trying to get the thing to go as fast as possible, so indirectly he was doing exactly what you want:)
I think he expects everyone to start moving towards a pay microsoft for training in order to get your MCPDDDDDDD or your microsoft certified veterinary surgeon.
Furthermore, for all its failures, the academic environment does TEACH the students the skills they will need to acquire to be able to interpret primary data on their own, which is a far more important role, compared to teaching the students facts.
cool, so we put up with multiple years of wank to learn something that could be taught in a couple of weeks, sounds like an awesome idea.
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Tin Man, How Can I Ever Thank You (GIF)
Prey Fish Turns Predator (this one isn't too bad actually, i was shocked it wasn't an animated gif)
20 Classic Opening Lines In Books
heh, i remember those days, i used to use both browsers, when one crashed i switched to the other. I got about equal usage. sure it may have had better support for html 4 etc but back then that was basically irrelevant, what you really wanted was a browser you could use for more than 20 minutes.
to be fair, i think they're ripping everyone off. getting an acceptable deal at the end of a draconian contract that puts you multiple hundred thousand dollars in debt is not cool.
oh i know it is good, but nowhere near required, more than 95% of your shots will be in front of you. In quake there is more quick turn shoot from the hip stuff but it's still a lot lower than the forward facing shots.
i'm pretty sure robotron would be about 50 times easier if you moved with the keyboard and shot with the mouse... sure i'd rather play with dual joysticks but that doesn't mean they're better.
that's pretty much flat out wrong, mice are more precise, period. if you cap the max turn speed it will do almost nothing to the most powerful part of it, which is the ability to move the sight 5 millimetres to the left and cap someone in the face. gross mouse controls are irrelevant, how often do you need to instantly shoot directly behind you? besides, you could essentially make a joystick turn as fast as you want, it would just exacerbate the issues with them.
you're right, i've always fucking hated steve colley (that bastard). also just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad, live and let live: that's my motto. No wait, it's "when you question your training, you only train yourself in asking questions", forget i said anything.
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everyone buys software, but to be honest i'd say mac users with jailbroken iphones steal more software than anywone else
not believing in DRM and not believing that i should get games for free/developers need to eat is not the same thing
yeah, you can run them all with wine, i just got sick of the slowdowns
that's absolute bullshit, my current new windows install has about 4 missing drivers till i bother tracking down my motherboard disc, EVERY SINGLE REQUIRED DRIVER downloaded from the ubuntu repo for my dual boot linux partition and on all 3 linux installs in my house. the only thing that is stopping me from running ubuntu only with no issues is native versions of blizzard and valve games.
actually i'm getting to like the DCMA, it's a lot more of a double edged sword than the people who were lobbying for it thought. sure, you get a take down notice and you're boned if you're not rich and right and don't take it down immediately, however if you do take it down immediately 50 other people immediately put it back up and they have to go through the whole process again. gives the lawyers something to do too.
i'd make one correction there, it makes a lot of high skilled jobs and a lot of high wage jobs and a smattering of high skilled - high wage jobs
hey, if you think you can do better maybe you should have had a crack at it? also you may have noticed that he was paying more respect to the code than trying to get the thing to go as fast as possible, so indirectly he was doing exactly what you want :)
I think he expects everyone to start moving towards a pay microsoft for training in order to get your MCPDDDDDDD or your microsoft certified veterinary surgeon.
Furthermore, for all its failures, the academic environment does TEACH the students the skills they will need to acquire to be able to interpret primary data on their own, which is a far more important role, compared to teaching the students facts.
cool, so we put up with multiple years of wank to learn something that could be taught in a couple of weeks, sounds like an awesome idea.
as long as other browsers have a big enough market share that MS has to continue play nice and follow standards it's not even that important.
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3 Best Performances by Paul Rudd
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Tin Man, How Can I Ever Thank You (GIF)
Prey Fish Turns Predator (this one isn't too bad actually, i was shocked it wasn't an animated gif)
20 Classic Opening Lines In Books
etc etc etc, they can keep this shit tbh
heh, i remember those days, i used to use both browsers, when one crashed i switched to the other. I got about equal usage. sure it may have had better support for html 4 etc but back then that was basically irrelevant, what you really wanted was a browser you could use for more than 20 minutes.
their primary goal should be to make money, you don't really know that it is though
ignoring possible the possible patent issues, as long as you stay away from windows forms there's nothing really tying you to windows if you use C#.
to be fair, i think they're ripping everyone off. getting an acceptable deal at the end of a draconian contract that puts you multiple hundred thousand dollars in debt is not cool.
RAMBUS are patent trolls.... WHO KNEW? maybe someone should have tried to slap them harder after their last debacle
oh i know it is good, but nowhere near required, more than 95% of your shots will be in front of you. In quake there is more quick turn shoot from the hip stuff but it's still a lot lower than the forward facing shots.
meh, i downloaded grid wars, mouse & keyboard is *way* easier http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm
i'm pretty sure robotron would be about 50 times easier if you moved with the keyboard and shot with the mouse... sure i'd rather play with dual joysticks but that doesn't mean they're better.
that's pretty much flat out wrong, mice are more precise, period. if you cap the max turn speed it will do almost nothing to the most powerful part of it, which is the ability to move the sight 5 millimetres to the left and cap someone in the face. gross mouse controls are irrelevant, how often do you need to instantly shoot directly behind you? besides, you could essentially make a joystick turn as fast as you want, it would just exacerbate the issues with them.
none, microsoft have expressly forbid mouse support in xbox games
you're right, i've always fucking hated steve colley (that bastard). also just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad, live and let live: that's my motto. No wait, it's "when you question your training, you only train yourself in asking questions", forget i said anything.
i found it interesting, i might actually go download it now
it doesn't really have a massive excess of skilled labor tho, so stay school kids!
most of the ones i've met work hard for not much money and were just normal people. Maybe you've generated your own stereotype?