Seriously, if I'd reveiewed Psychonauts for the PS2, you'd have some serious down marks for the load times, particularly for the store just outside the starting area. It's two small rooms! It doesn't need 30 second load times in each direction! Geez, did you let the development team for Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly do your loading code?
However, in response to the great-gandparent, that's still an average of more than one service pack a year from the time Windows 2000 was launched worldwide on February 17, 2000 to the time the last service pack (4) was released.
What little of King's Quest 8 that I played was terrible. It DID use an FPS-style interface, and sucked because of it.
On another topic, LucasArts drove Monkey Island into the ground with Escape from Monkey Island... at least with the PC version.
Seriously, eschewing the point-n-click adventure game interface (that LucasArts pioneered in the late 80s) in favor of weird keyboard controls in order to navigate still 3D environments...?
Yes, I'm aware that Grim Fandango actually introduced this control scheme, but Grim Fandango wasn't a sequel to 3 point-n-click adventure games, either.
1. Announce to everyone that you own UNIX. Make sure to grab a lot of media attention. 2. Sue IBM for stealing your code. Make sure to grab a lot of media attention. 3. Sell off stocks after everyone else buys, but before anyone realizes that you don't actually have any evidence that IBM stole code. 4. Profit!
I would hope that Apple's keyboard, mouse, and webcam drivers for Windows are user-mode drivers, which can be run as unsigned under all versions of Vista.
I'd be more concerned about the drivers that can't run as user-mode drivers, such as video and audio.
The technical introduction to Unicode states "The Unicode Standard defines three encoding forms that allow the same data to be transmitted in a byte, word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or 32-bits per code unit)."
You'll notice that only the first is listed as byte? That's because a word as they have defined it is two bytes long. Two bytes is, of course, more than one byte, thus the term "multi-byte." The UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM FAQ has a nice table with the minimum and maximum bytes/character that each encoding takes.
(For reference, the Unicode standard refers to the full size of a character as a "code unit" or "code value," rather than a byte.)
And if UTF-8 is not eventually supported natively by Ruby, then the Rails implementation will still be needed. The rest of the internet is not going to drop UTF-8 just because Ruby does not support it.
This slide, from a presentation given by the Ruby's author, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, indicates upcoming support for UTF-8.
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Servers are not the place for bleeding tech. Servers are the place for stability.
That is, unless you really dislike your customers that much, be they actual customers or other divisions in your business.
I imagine the load times are a lot lower for systems that have a hard drive.
The PS2 version read everything from the DVD.
To be honest, I haven't played through to the end of the game. The load times annoyed me too much, and I shelved the game.
Reduce load times.
Seriously, if I'd reveiewed Psychonauts for the PS2, you'd have some serious down marks for the load times, particularly for the store just outside the starting area. It's two small rooms! It doesn't need 30 second load times in each direction! Geez, did you let the development team for Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly do your loading code?
That's sad, because part of a court's purpose is to uphold our freedoms.
OK.
However, in response to the great-gandparent, that's still an average of more than one service pack a year from the time Windows 2000 was launched worldwide on February 17, 2000 to the time the last service pack (4) was released.
Maybe I'm wrong, but didn't Windows 2000 hit SP4 by late 2002?
What little of King's Quest 8 that I played was terrible. It DID use an FPS-style interface, and sucked because of it.
On another topic, LucasArts drove Monkey Island into the ground with Escape from Monkey Island... at least with the PC version.
Seriously, eschewing the point-n-click adventure game interface (that LucasArts pioneered in the late 80s) in favor of weird keyboard controls in order to navigate still 3D environments...?
Yes, I'm aware that Grim Fandango actually introduced this control scheme, but Grim Fandango wasn't a sequel to 3 point-n-click adventure games, either.
Is that why Korea can't upgrade to Vista... it doesn't play Starcraft correctly?
Oh well, I guess that means they have to wait for the Vista enabling patch.
I forgot to include my sources for that:
Behind the scenes -- from Mark Reinholds Blog.
Sun didn't want to delay the launch of Java 6, so it's Java 7 that's open source.
It was XP. I remember having the same problem with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5, even though it worked fine in Windows 2000.
Yes, because Macworld is not the place to talk about Macintoshes.
Wait a minute...
Actually, it is AT&T again. They've already rolled out advertisements for the name change.
1. Announce to everyone that you own UNIX. Make sure to grab a lot of media attention.
2. Sue IBM for stealing your code. Make sure to grab a lot of media attention.
3. Sell off stocks after everyone else buys, but before anyone realizes that you don't actually have any evidence that IBM stole code.
4. Profit!
I would hope that Apple's keyboard, mouse, and webcam drivers for Windows are user-mode drivers, which can be run as unsigned under all versions of Vista.
I'd be more concerned about the drivers that can't run as user-mode drivers, such as video and audio.
Why not just get Office for OSX? Granted, it doesn't have Outlook (it has Entourage instead), but that's not necessarily a bad thing...
I could have sworn I saw FIPS around before 1999.
My personal preference is Pictures/Christmas Trip 2006
Yes, that's only 2 directories deep. Yet, it describes exactly what they are in the order that I'll be looking for them.
It really depends on the task at hand; I used to sort my college classes by year/semester/class
I forgot to change Awesome to Aweful. Oops.
Windows Has Awesome Things
That Help E-diots
Foul Up Computers, 'K?
UCS-2 was a bad example, as it has been phased out in favor of UTF-16.
The technical introduction to Unicode states "The Unicode Standard defines three encoding forms that allow the same data to be transmitted in a byte, word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or 32-bits per code unit)."
You'll notice that only the first is listed as byte? That's because a word as they have defined it is two bytes long. Two bytes is, of course, more than one byte, thus the term "multi-byte." The UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM FAQ has a nice table with the minimum and maximum bytes/character that each encoding takes.
(For reference, the Unicode standard refers to the full size of a character as a "code unit" or "code value," rather than a byte.)
This slide, from a presentation given by the Ruby's author, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, indicates upcoming support for UTF-8.
Hear, hear! I know that feeling very well.
P.S. Did you know that VGMusic.com turned 10 years old at the end of 2006?