If you're having lag due to a lousy system, then you should just turn some effects off. My system is awful and can't run most new games, but after turning TF2 down to low quality textures and making it play in 800x600 resolution, it's not lagging a single bit. Sure, I don't get the best graphics possible (I've seen the ultra-high-awesome-quality-pictures floating around, and yes I'm drooling), but the game still looks really nice.
So, in my experience, this game scales really well and it's still enjoyable even if your computer generally sucks. Just don't expect to run it with the highest settings.:)
Oh, and about it tarnishing TFC's memory. TFC has been tarnishing the old Quake TF memory for years and people still play it. TF2 is, for me, much closer to the experience I had when playing old Quake TF. Sure, there are no grenades, adapt. This is a fun game, I loved old Quake TF, I totally -hated- what TFC turned it into, and now I'm finally home again, feels awesome:)
I actually went from wow to MxO for not so long ago, and even though people told me that MxO wasn't good and that I should just keep playing wow (which I've grown tired of a long time ago...with all of the raging morons what not..). Though I didnt listen (since MxO is old and cheap nowadays anyway) and figured that I'd give it a shot. Now I'm hooked.
My first surprise was that the MxO community isn't only newbie-friendly, it welcomes them warmly. I had plenty of level capped friendly people standing by the place that new characters spawns as asking me if I needed any help, if the tutorial was enough or if I wanted something explained. Then they told me that I was welcome to give them a shout if I ever had any problems, or if I needed a guild (crew/faction as it is called in the game). I've never seen anything like this in any other MMORPG.
The game itself is quite good. I love the matrix - all of the movies - so for me it's a dream come true. Just jumping from roof to roof is quite an experience (though you'll have to get to level 10 to do that, which isn't the hardest thing to do though). Though the combat system is different from other games. Usually either you love it or you hate it. It's not that easy to understand at the first glance, but it contains a lot of tactics...which I like. If you don't like the combat system though, the game is not going to be that fun...since let's face it, you're going to do a lot of combat. The game has a lot of story in in, which I really like (I never really liked the lack of story, or story progress, in wow), it progresses quite nicely and new episodes are being added on monthly I believe (I might have misunderstood the release schedule though, but I read monthly somewhere).
There are a few downsides though. Even though the game is old, it comes with it's share of bugs. And I'm sad to say that it doesn't seem to run as smooth on my system as wow did. The devs actually post at the forum though, and usually actually admits when they've fucked something up. It's nice to see the dev say "oops, I destroyed the entire world, we'll have to fix this before we release the patch" instead of a marketing guy going "well, the patch has been delayed due to quality concerns. Getting responses to tickets and such from GM's is much more easy than in WoW (where you might have to wait for 3-4 days before you get a standard unhelpful response), and the GM's seem competent and friendly (and I haven't seen any sign of any standard responses yet).
The hacker and coder classes aren't as powerful as the operative classes. This is probably because most players play operative (the "fighters") and would be quite mad if they couldnt take down the coders or hackers in a one on one... But there are players who say that this is merely a myth and that it's just harder to play a hacker or a coder and that if you learn how to play you're going to be just as good and so on...I think you get the picture.
All in all, it cost me 10 euro when I found it in my local game shop. It's really worth testing it if you're interested in it. I mean, that's two pizzas...maximum... I liked it and I'm satisfied with making a switch from WoW to MxO (there's also a good RP community, something I never found in WoW), though MxO is probably not for everyone. I say, try it. It's well worth 10 euro to try it:)
Now, I am not sure if this works for Yahoo since I dont use that myself...but it works for MSN/ICQ/AIM in any case. If you go to Tools->Privacy you can set privacy for the separate accounts. I have mine set on "Allow only the users below" and then almost anyone on my buddy list. It is possible to set this to "Allow only users on my buddy list" and then you should be set, there's plenty of ways to configure it so you dont need to be disturbed by HoneyBunnies:)
And in coding, either you type the long headline-esque boring text in COBOL or some other evil language, or you pick up LISP and create a program that writes itself with some clever macros.
Thinking outside the box is very much applicable in programming, you just have to stop thinking that programming have to equal C/C++ and such awful languages. Join the LISP-camp and see the light and art in programming!:D Parenthesises are good for you.
how about support for actually utilizing HyperThreading? Not that I've cared to upgrade to XP, all of those clippy-clones and playmobil-themes has made me scared of that system.
It seems as if everyone and his brother is writing books supporting standards-compliant Web design with XHTML and CSS.
So if that is the case, then why the heck doesn't more people do it? I mean, if we assume that people learn to code webpages from books, why do they buy the old shitty books and code their pages with godawful font-tags and something that closely resembles MS-Word-HTML?
However, new music will come out. Not to mention, you'll find "new old music" everyday.
I'd most certainly keep subscribing for more than 2 months, even though the first months would be downloading-craze-filled.
As long as I could keep the songs after Ive cancelled my subscription, if I choose to do so in the future, I'd most likely subscribe to a service like this for a long time. This type of subscriptionbased downloading has been what Ive been looking for all along since the "buy your music over the net"-thing started. Too bad that it's still not exactly what I want, but its the closest bet yet. Too bad that they'll use MS DRM scheme, that totally ruined their chance of having me try it out:P
You dont get this do you? What we are going to see is not sims watching TV, showering and making coffee. It's seeing sims "WooHoo", and sims can "WooHoo" time after time after time after time as long as you make them do it in the jacuzzi.
So basically, EA is going to make a tv show where people are going to have mad sex in a jacuzzi nonstop. Who wouldnt want to see that?
The reason why links is requiring X is that you've got "+X" in your USE flags and that links has a graphical mode which is a real X-application and shows images and all of that fun stuff. Just emerge links with 'USE="-X" emerge links' and you wont have to compile X to compile links. I mean, its not like you actually need the graphical links.
I have a different experience. My brother got NFS:Underground (PS2) for christmas and promptly played it til death. Our cats, wild as ever, ran into the PS2 causing it to fall to the floor while the game was playing causing a scratch so huge that the game would not play anymore. This was within 24 hours of getting the game. Suffice to say, he was quite sad...
So we called EA when xmas holidays was over and told them what happened, they told us to just mail everything in to them (cd, case, manuals and so on) and they'd send us a new one free of charge. So we did that, and though it took 3 weeks for it to get here, EA did replace the game totally free of charge (not counting the postage of course).
The guy submitting this was "BigMan". The author of the review is "BigMan". The keyboard type looks exactly the same as the one that you can buy on thinkgeek (www.thinkgeek.com). "Plz click the images". Iono, I want my reviews to at least use real english. Otherwise the review was quite well written, seriously though...if you take the time to write a decent review why destroy it by going "plz click image" and coming off like a script kiddie?
Thats it. Im moving to NZ. No more of this "if this and that happens, Im moving to the last free country, russia"-shit, now it's New Zealand. NZ here I come!
Right now it is too hard to make a GUI application that runs on 2 or 3 platforms and looks as sharp as a native Windows app on Windows. It needs to be easier to write such a program using a platform independent API than the Win32 API in order to get more "real" programs on Linux.
I always tend to wonder what is wrong with Java? You get a nice gui api that's well documented and looks slick that works on any platform with a VM.
In your way of thinking, the poem has to compile in a human mind too. The compilation then being that the person in question understands it. Just as the majority of humans probably didnt understand that poem, so the majority of computers wont understand random code. However, thanks to drunk and sleepless people like the designers of whitespace that someone pointed out earlier, some computers do understand it.
Will they interpret it as you meant it? Who knows! Heck, they might. But who says that a human would interpret your poem as you meant it?
Easy solution for Red hats "bloatedness"?
Gentoo: as much as you feel like compiling
Debian: as many apt-get packages that you can remember the names of
Slackware: as many freshmeat.org/sourceforge.net projects that you feel like shaking a stick at.
Oh go troll somewhere else. That's not even a good troll. Sure KDE is great, but the same with Gnome. I take GTK apps over QT apps anyday, however that is a taste question from my side.
IMHO, KDE and Gnome are equally good. It's a taste issue. My taste is more Gnomeish, your taste might be more KDE'ish. It still doesn't mean that one of them is better than the other.
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If you're having lag due to a lousy system, then you should just turn some effects off. My system is awful and can't run most new games, but after turning TF2 down to low quality textures and making it play in 800x600 resolution, it's not lagging a single bit. Sure, I don't get the best graphics possible (I've seen the ultra-high-awesome-quality-pictures floating around, and yes I'm drooling), but the game still looks really nice.
:)
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So, in my experience, this game scales really well and it's still enjoyable even if your computer generally sucks. Just don't expect to run it with the highest settings.
Oh, and about it tarnishing TFC's memory. TFC has been tarnishing the old Quake TF memory for years and people still play it. TF2 is, for me, much closer to the experience I had when playing old Quake TF. Sure, there are no grenades, adapt. This is a fun game, I loved old Quake TF, I totally -hated- what TFC turned it into, and now I'm finally home again, feels awesome
Portal still rocks though.
What games allows you to use your DS and your Wii together?
You, my friend, win 3 intrawebs. Please apply at your local intraweb office to get your price.
I actually went from wow to MxO for not so long ago, and even though people told me that MxO wasn't good and that I should just keep playing wow (which I've grown tired of a long time ago...with all of the raging morons what not..). Though I didnt listen (since MxO is old and cheap nowadays anyway) and figured that I'd give it a shot. Now I'm hooked.
:)
My first surprise was that the MxO community isn't only newbie-friendly, it welcomes them warmly. I had plenty of level capped friendly people standing by the place that new characters spawns as asking me if I needed any help, if the tutorial was enough or if I wanted something explained. Then they told me that I was welcome to give them a shout if I ever had any problems, or if I needed a guild (crew/faction as it is called in the game). I've never seen anything like this in any other MMORPG.
The game itself is quite good. I love the matrix - all of the movies - so for me it's a dream come true. Just jumping from roof to roof is quite an experience (though you'll have to get to level 10 to do that, which isn't the hardest thing to do though). Though the combat system is different from other games. Usually either you love it or you hate it. It's not that easy to understand at the first glance, but it contains a lot of tactics...which I like. If you don't like the combat system though, the game is not going to be that fun...since let's face it, you're going to do a lot of combat. The game has a lot of story in in, which I really like (I never really liked the lack of story, or story progress, in wow), it progresses quite nicely and new episodes are being added on monthly I believe (I might have misunderstood the release schedule though, but I read monthly somewhere).
There are a few downsides though. Even though the game is old, it comes with it's share of bugs. And I'm sad to say that it doesn't seem to run as smooth on my system as wow did. The devs actually post at the forum though, and usually actually admits when they've fucked something up. It's nice to see the dev say "oops, I destroyed the entire world, we'll have to fix this before we release the patch" instead of a marketing guy going "well, the patch has been delayed due to quality concerns. Getting responses to tickets and such from GM's is much more easy than in WoW (where you might have to wait for 3-4 days before you get a standard unhelpful response), and the GM's seem competent and friendly (and I haven't seen any sign of any standard responses yet).
The hacker and coder classes aren't as powerful as the operative classes. This is probably because most players play operative (the "fighters") and would be quite mad if they couldnt take down the coders or hackers in a one on one... But there are players who say that this is merely a myth and that it's just harder to play a hacker or a coder and that if you learn how to play you're going to be just as good and so on...I think you get the picture.
All in all, it cost me 10 euro when I found it in my local game shop. It's really worth testing it if you're interested in it. I mean, that's two pizzas...maximum... I liked it and I'm satisfied with making a switch from WoW to MxO (there's also a good RP community, something I never found in WoW), though MxO is probably not for everyone. I say, try it. It's well worth 10 euro to try it
Now, I am not sure if this works for Yahoo since I dont use that myself...but it works for MSN/ICQ/AIM in any case. If you go to Tools->Privacy you can set privacy for the separate accounts. I have mine set on "Allow only the users below" and then almost anyone on my buddy list. It is possible to set this to "Allow only users on my buddy list" and then you should be set, there's plenty of ways to configure it so you dont need to be disturbed by HoneyBunnies :)
And in coding, either you type the long headline-esque boring text in COBOL or some other evil language, or you pick up LISP and create a program that writes itself with some clever macros.
:D Parenthesises are good for you.
Thinking outside the box is very much applicable in programming, you just have to stop thinking that programming have to equal C/C++ and such awful languages. Join the LISP-camp and see the light and art in programming!
how about support for actually utilizing HyperThreading? Not that I've cared to upgrade to XP, all of those clippy-clones and playmobil-themes has made me scared of that system.
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So if that is the case, then why the heck doesn't more people do it? I mean, if we assume that people learn to code webpages from books, why do they buy the old shitty books and code their pages with godawful font-tags and something that closely resembles MS-Word-HTML?
With that said, XHTML and CSS is love.
However, new music will come out.
:P
Not to mention, you'll find "new old music" everyday.
I'd most certainly keep subscribing for more than 2 months, even though the first months would be downloading-craze-filled.
As long as I could keep the songs after Ive cancelled my subscription, if I choose to do so in the future, I'd most likely subscribe to a service like this for a long time. This type of subscriptionbased downloading has been what Ive been looking for all along since the "buy your music over the net"-thing started. Too bad that it's still not exactly what I want, but its the closest bet yet. Too bad that they'll use MS DRM scheme, that totally ruined their chance of having me try it out
You dont get this do you?
What we are going to see is not sims watching TV, showering and making coffee. It's seeing sims "WooHoo", and sims can "WooHoo" time after time after time after time as long as you make them do it in the jacuzzi.
So basically, EA is going to make a tv show where people are going to have mad sex in a jacuzzi nonstop. Who wouldnt want to see that?
The reason why links is requiring X is that you've got "+X" in your USE flags and that links has a graphical mode which is a real X-application and shows images and all of that fun stuff. Just emerge links with 'USE="-X" emerge links' and you wont have to compile X to compile links. I mean, its not like you actually need the graphical links.
Oh, and what's so wrong about lynx?!
I cant help but wonder how many skateboard sites has gotten that notice on the word "grind"....
I have a different experience. My brother got NFS:Underground (PS2) for christmas and promptly played it til death. Our cats, wild as ever, ran into the PS2 causing it to fall to the floor while the game was playing causing a scratch so huge that the game would not play anymore. This was within 24 hours of getting the game. Suffice to say, he was quite sad...
So we called EA when xmas holidays was over and told them what happened, they told us to just mail everything in to them (cd, case, manuals and so on) and they'd send us a new one free of charge. So we did that, and though it took 3 weeks for it to get here, EA did replace the game totally free of charge (not counting the postage of course).
Dance dance revolution!
The guy submitting this was "BigMan". The author of the review is "BigMan". The keyboard type looks exactly the same as the one that you can buy on thinkgeek (www.thinkgeek.com). "Plz click the images". Iono, I want my reviews to at least use real english. Otherwise the review was quite well written, seriously though...if you take the time to write a decent review why destroy it by going "plz click image" and coming off like a script kiddie?
Thats it. Im moving to NZ. No more of this "if this and that happens, Im moving to the last free country, russia"-shit, now it's New Zealand. NZ here I come!
how about if we'd de-legalize corporate lobbying?
Sometimes I wish that I had modpoints.
I've been screaming and shouting my throat off for a keyboard that's like the old good ones. The new ones just won't cut it.
I always tend to wonder what is wrong with Java? You get a nice gui api that's well documented and looks slick that works on any platform with a VM.
You assume that the program have to compile.
In your way of thinking, the poem has to compile in a human mind too. The compilation then being that the person in question understands it.
Just as the majority of humans probably didnt understand that poem, so the majority of computers wont understand random code. However, thanks to drunk and sleepless people like the designers of whitespace that someone pointed out earlier, some computers do understand it.
Will they interpret it as you meant it? Who knows! Heck, they might. But who says that a human would interpret your poem as you meant it?
Poetry, 1
Coding, 1
It's a tie!
Easy solution for Red hats "bloatedness"? Gentoo: as much as you feel like compiling Debian: as many apt-get packages that you can remember the names of Slackware: as many freshmeat.org/sourceforge.net projects that you feel like shaking a stick at.
Ok, who the heck is Mandrake the magician? Has anyone even heard of him? Enlighten me someone please!
Oh, and please please please don't let "Mandrake" change name to "Man--"....
FireFOX is an install now actually.
Oh go troll somewhere else. That's not even a good troll.
;)
Sure KDE is great, but the same with Gnome. I take GTK apps over QT apps anyday, however that is a taste question from my side.
IMHO, KDE and Gnome are equally good. It's a taste issue. My taste is more Gnomeish, your taste might be more KDE'ish. It still doesn't mean that one of them is better than the other.
Especially since XFCE4 is best