OO has a Windows option to preload some bits. The difference is it mentions this and asks you if you want to do it where as MS Office just shoves some bit into your startup folder.
Last time I checked, the Windows version of OO installs this by default. I remember having to go to its system tray icon and toggling the Load at Startup option (or something named similarly to that), because I don't want it running at startup.
or save straight to PDF from my OpenOffice Writer,
You know, you can do that with Office 2007 as well, by downloading a plugin.
That plugin was originally built in to Office, but Adobe threatened to file anti-trust complaints over it (yes, Adobe threatened to file an anti-trust suit over what is now a published ISO standard. I'm not making that last bit up).
In designing CustomTF, I've gone back and forth on hitscan weapons. In a certain sense, they're too good. It's simply too easy to headshot someone with a sniper rifle in TF from a half mile away. If there's no cover, then a game simple degenerates into a sniper fest. Which is boring. So I've tweaked sniper damage a half-dozen times, and basically set it at a point where you can one-shot anyone with less than red armor and full health, and two shots will kill anyone. You can buy (expensive) upgrades to your sniper rifle to be able to one-shot 200/100s, but this might leave you weak yourself on speed or armor, which is kinda the point. Defensively, people can pick up kevlar armor to halve damage from snipers, which helps break up sniper domination of games, but again, it's somewhat expensive.
I don't know about CustomTF, but I know Valve changed the mechanics for Sniper for TF2.
Keeping in mind that TF2 did away with armor, a headshot can kill the lower health classes in one hit. However, unless you wait for the sniper rifle's charge meter to get to full, even a headshot's not going to kill an overhealed* Heavy. Oh, and even a body shot will kill the lower health classes if your charge meter is full.
Granted, it takes something like 5 seconds (zoomed in) to charge the sniper rifle. And of course, your field of view is limited when you're zoomed in; zooming out makes the charge meter reset back to 0.
i.e. you make a really easy target for spies and other snipers when zoomed in, and for soldiers/demomen to a lesser extent. Particularly with the Soldier's newer, faster rocket launcher (called the Direct Hit).
*Overhealing may be new to TF2 as well. Basically, a medic can heal a target to 150% health, which would be 450 on a Heavy (300 + 150).
MS has a clear support policy. Maybe you like Apple's 3 year support policy better than Microsoft's 10 year 7/3 policy?
I know I do, considering how bad 10-year-old Microsoft operating systems are.
Yes, it would be nice if they'd finally kill support for ME. Actually, haven't they? I was under the impression Windows ME came out in late 1999, which would mean it's no longer supported.
Seriously, though, XP is 8 years old now (late 2001 to late 2009).
The concept of MicroSoft's "support" policy is murky at best. IE6 was embedded into my version of Windows XP. Yet repeated attempts to get them to fix problems with it go unanswered. So what's the point of extending XP's support cycle if they aren't going to fix problems with it?
Odd, I recall Microsoft releasing IE7 and IE8 for XP. It's your problem if you choose not to install the new versions.
I'm suddenly reminded of a scene an early Simpsons season. It goes something like this.
Homer searches through the couch, while looking for a dropped peanut. He finds a bunch of stuff including a $20 bill. Homer Simpson: Awww... 20 dollars!? I wanted a peanut. Homer's brain: 20 dollars can buy many peanuts! Homer Simpson: Explain how! Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Homer Simpson: Woo hoo!
So... why not exchange those donations for goods and services?
Challenge: Bet most of you under 20s couldn't write a full app for anything useful in less than 20k. (And no cheating by copying any of the archive stuff, like the 9-liners amongst others.)
Is using standard library functions considered cheating? Or more specifically, standard functions from libc?
Not that it matters to me, I'm not in the correct age group for your challenge, since I'm 30 now.
If you're going to get into this, I'm going to point out that the PC version of Team Fortress 2 has:
- 1960s Evil Genius motif (including Intelligence Briefcases as CTF flags) - Witty banter (each of the 9 classes has their own unique personality and voice clips) - The Announcer. No, seriously, the announcer is hilarious. Then again, it's Ellen McLain, who also voiced GLaDOS. - Critical hits - Domination (5 kills on an enemy who hasn't killed you) voice clips (ex. "May I borrow your ear piece? 'This is Scout, rainbows make me cry, over!'" -- TF2 Spy domination over Scout, one of several) - Revenge (Kill someone dominating you) voice clips (ex. "I'm back, dummy!" -- TF2 Scout getting a revenge kill) - Animated Taunts with voice clips - Death Freezecams to make the animated taunts even more humiliating - Animated Taunt-kills (for that extra-special humiliation) for 7 of the 9 classes (Engineer hasn't had his update yet, and Medic has a taunt-self-heal instead of a taunt-kill) - Payload game type. Basically, a variation on the capture the point style map. A slow-moving object must be pushed down a track past control points to capture them. Also comes in the two-cart (Payload Race) variety.
Class specific: - Achievement-unlockable items (except the Soldier Gunboats and all (27? 29?) Hats) - Scout's double-jump. No other class is gonna do that! - Scout's double-effectiveness at capturing points/moving the bomb cart. - Scout's The Sandman baseball bat. Its baseball disorients enemies it hits (they can move around, but not use weapons/items), or stuns them completely from max distance. - Scout's Bonk Energy Drink, which makes you invulnerable for 10 seconds, but slows you down for an additional 10 when it wears off. - Soldier's Gunboats, which makes rocket-jumps do less damage. - Soldier's Buff Banner, which gives nearby allies mini-crits with their weapons. - Soldier's Equalizer pick-axe that makes you run faster and hit harder the less health you have. - Soldier's Direct Hit rocket launcher. Does critical damage to enemies in the air. - Pyro's Flamethrowers. The normal Flamethrower sets people on fire and has an airblast that can reflect rockets, reflect arrows, reflect baseballs, reflect jars of piss, and put out burning teammates. The Backburner sets people on fire and always does critical hits from behind. - Pyro's Flare gun, to set enemies on fire from a distance. - Pyro's Axtinguisher, an ax that does extra damage to enemies that are on fire. - Demoman's Pipe Bombs. With the Sticky Bomb Launcher, you can set 8 bombs and explode them all at once. With the Scottish Resistance, you can set up to 14 bombs and detonate whichever group you're currently looking towards. - Demoman's Chargin' Targe shield, which lets you charge at enemies. Also reduces the damage you take from fire and blast damage. - Demoman's cursed sword, the Eyelander, which gives you more health and speed the more people you decapitate with it. Any kill with this weapon decapitates. - Heavy's Minigun (Sascha). Does damage continuously in a cone in front of you. - Heavy's Natascha Minigun. Similar to Sascha, but it does 25% less damage and slows enemies by 50%. - Heavy's Sandvich. Heals you back to full health, or you can throw it out for someone else to eat. Grabbing a medkit while at full health gives you your Sandvich back. - Heavy's Killer Gloves of Boxing (KGB). Does critical hits for 5 seconds after you kill someone with it. - Engineer's upgradeable Teleporters - Engineer's upgradeable Sentry Guns - Engineer's upgradeable ammo/health Dispenser - Engineer's Wrench. Normal Wrench allows you to strike friendly structures to build them faster, repair them, or upgrade them. The PDQ Wrench (Coming soon) builds structures at twice the speed, but can't repair or upgrade them. Poor Engineer hasn't had his update yet, so his other two new items aren't yet known. - Medic's Healing
I would love to have seen a comparison of DNF with other games that took over a decade to create.
I can think of at least one game that took a decade, but ended up being a success (Team Fortress 2). Then again, Valve also had other money streams coming in, such as from Half-Life 2.
mod_php has never integrated into Apache nearly as deep as mod_perl did. That is, lower level Apache APIs are not exposed to PHP. Using mod_php is an acceptable replacement for CGIs, but mod_perl does a lot more than that. That means taking over the entire server life cycle handlers to the point where, in Apache2, you can implement (say) a Gopher server if you want.
And that's why mod_perl is a hack, while mod_php is just a module.
The CLI is, of course, both multi-platform and multi-language, even thought it was designed around the Windows platform. So is the JVM, even though it was designed around the Java language.
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Last time I checked, the Windows version of OO installs this by default. I remember having to go to its system tray icon and toggling the Load at Startup option (or something named similarly to that), because I don't want it running at startup.
You know, you can do that with Office 2007 as well, by downloading a plugin.
That plugin was originally built in to Office, but Adobe threatened to file anti-trust complaints over it (yes, Adobe threatened to file an anti-trust suit over what is now a published ISO standard. I'm not making that last bit up).
I think you misspelled BSD there.
Linux Fanbois would be reliable, open, but require everyone to share everything with them.
I'd mod you up, but I don't do the whole mod thing any more.
Hello, I'm a Mac.
And I'm a PC.
... wait, you already know where I'm going with this.
With realistic games, "the only winning move is not to play."
Give me my unrealistic games any day.
I don't know about CustomTF, but I know Valve changed the mechanics for Sniper for TF2.
Keeping in mind that TF2 did away with armor, a headshot can kill the lower health classes in one hit. However, unless you wait for the sniper rifle's charge meter to get to full, even a headshot's not going to kill an overhealed* Heavy. Oh, and even a body shot will kill the lower health classes if your charge meter is full.
Granted, it takes something like 5 seconds (zoomed in) to charge the sniper rifle. And of course, your field of view is limited when you're zoomed in; zooming out makes the charge meter reset back to 0.
i.e. you make a really easy target for spies and other snipers when zoomed in, and for soldiers/demomen to a lesser extent. Particularly with the Soldier's newer, faster rocket launcher (called the Direct Hit).
*Overhealing may be new to TF2 as well. Basically, a medic can heal a target to 150% health, which would be 450 on a Heavy (300 + 150).
The most unrealistic online FPS game I can think of right now is Team Fortress 2.
But damn is it fun!
I can't, because then Google Native Client wouldn't run on it.
It looks like you're writing a letter!
Google Docs is a great tool for collaboratively writing documents. Tell me more!
Strangely enough, Windows will let you format NTFS drives with 512-byte allocation units (as well as 1k and 2k). I guess this option will have to go.
Maybe it already did. It's been a while since I formatted an NTFS drive after Windows itself was installed.
Yes, it would be nice if they'd finally kill support for ME. Actually, haven't they? I was under the impression Windows ME came out in late 1999, which would mean it's no longer supported.
Seriously, though, XP is 8 years old now (late 2001 to late 2009).
Odd, I recall Microsoft releasing IE7 and IE8 for XP. It's your problem if you choose not to install the new versions.
As strange as it may seem, there actually is precedence for 8-bit bytes... in Currency of all places.
The Spanish Milled Dollar was often split into eight pieces to make change. Hence the term "Pieces of Eight."
However, for whatever reason, those were often termed bits in the US. So, there were 8 bits to the Spanish Milled Dollar.
And two bits made up a quarter-dollar, hence the "Shave and a hair cut... two bits!" routine.
Couldn't they just as easily run a DHCP server and do the same thing?
That is, assuming addresses are being set via DHCP.
I'm suddenly reminded of a scene an early Simpsons season. It goes something like this.
Homer searches through the couch, while looking for a dropped peanut. He finds a bunch of stuff including a $20 bill. ... 20 dollars!? I wanted a peanut.
Homer Simpson: Awww
Homer's brain: 20 dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer Simpson: Explain how!
Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Homer Simpson: Woo hoo!
So... why not exchange those donations for goods and services?
I don't do the whole mod thing any more. Having said that, I think this deserves to be modded up.
Is using standard library functions considered cheating? Or more specifically, standard functions from libc?
Not that it matters to me, I'm not in the correct age group for your challenge, since I'm 30 now.
How dare you insult Electronic Arts that way!
Oh wait, you meant some other company? I seem to recall a few that continue working on their games for years afterwords, such as Blizzard and Valve.
If you're going to get into this, I'm going to point out that the PC version of Team Fortress 2 has:
- 1960s Evil Genius motif (including Intelligence Briefcases as CTF flags)
- Witty banter (each of the 9 classes has their own unique personality and voice clips)
- The Announcer. No, seriously, the announcer is hilarious. Then again, it's Ellen McLain, who also voiced GLaDOS.
- Critical hits
- Domination (5 kills on an enemy who hasn't killed you) voice clips (ex. "May I borrow your ear piece? 'This is Scout, rainbows make me cry, over!'" -- TF2 Spy domination over Scout, one of several)
- Revenge (Kill someone dominating you) voice clips (ex. "I'm back, dummy!" -- TF2 Scout getting a revenge kill)
- Animated Taunts with voice clips
- Death Freezecams to make the animated taunts even more humiliating
- Animated Taunt-kills (for that extra-special humiliation) for 7 of the 9 classes (Engineer hasn't had his update yet, and Medic has a taunt-self-heal instead of a taunt-kill)
- Payload game type. Basically, a variation on the capture the point style map. A slow-moving object must be pushed down a track past control points to capture them. Also comes in the two-cart (Payload Race) variety.
Class specific:
- Achievement-unlockable items (except the Soldier Gunboats and all (27? 29?) Hats)
- Scout's double-jump. No other class is gonna do that!
- Scout's double-effectiveness at capturing points/moving the bomb cart.
- Scout's The Sandman baseball bat. Its baseball disorients enemies it hits (they can move around, but not use weapons/items), or stuns them completely from max distance.
- Scout's Bonk Energy Drink, which makes you invulnerable for 10 seconds, but slows you down for an additional 10 when it wears off.
- Soldier's Gunboats, which makes rocket-jumps do less damage.
- Soldier's Buff Banner, which gives nearby allies mini-crits with their weapons.
- Soldier's Equalizer pick-axe that makes you run faster and hit harder the less health you have.
- Soldier's Direct Hit rocket launcher. Does critical damage to enemies in the air.
- Pyro's Flamethrowers. The normal Flamethrower sets people on fire and has an airblast that can reflect rockets, reflect arrows, reflect baseballs, reflect jars of piss, and put out burning teammates. The Backburner sets people on fire and always does critical hits from behind.
- Pyro's Flare gun, to set enemies on fire from a distance.
- Pyro's Axtinguisher, an ax that does extra damage to enemies that are on fire.
- Demoman's Pipe Bombs. With the Sticky Bomb Launcher, you can set 8 bombs and explode them all at once. With the Scottish Resistance, you can set up to 14 bombs and detonate whichever group you're currently looking towards.
- Demoman's Chargin' Targe shield, which lets you charge at enemies. Also reduces the damage you take from fire and blast damage.
- Demoman's cursed sword, the Eyelander, which gives you more health and speed the more people you decapitate with it. Any kill with this weapon decapitates.
- Heavy's Minigun (Sascha). Does damage continuously in a cone in front of you.
- Heavy's Natascha Minigun. Similar to Sascha, but it does 25% less damage and slows enemies by 50%.
- Heavy's Sandvich. Heals you back to full health, or you can throw it out for someone else to eat. Grabbing a medkit while at full health gives you your Sandvich back.
- Heavy's Killer Gloves of Boxing (KGB). Does critical hits for 5 seconds after you kill someone with it.
- Engineer's upgradeable Teleporters
- Engineer's upgradeable Sentry Guns
- Engineer's upgradeable ammo/health Dispenser
- Engineer's Wrench. Normal Wrench allows you to strike friendly structures to build them faster, repair them, or upgrade them. The PDQ Wrench (Coming soon) builds structures at twice the speed, but can't repair or upgrade them.
Poor Engineer hasn't had his update yet, so his other two new items aren't yet known.
- Medic's Healing
I would love to have seen a comparison of DNF with other games that took over a decade to create.
I can think of at least one game that took a decade, but ended up being a success (Team Fortress 2). Then again, Valve also had other money streams coming in, such as from Half-Life 2.
Yes, the complete OS is GNU GNU/Hurd.
And that's why mod_perl is a hack, while mod_php is just a module.
Fixed that for you.
Before you argue the part I added, please see System.IO.DriveInfo.
What do you have against the Apache Interactive Data Sorter and the Filament Loader Unit libraries?