Well for me, it certainly did ask to install, as it does with every update. Following that, though, it repeatedly popped up a "5 minutes and we're rebooting to install the update" warning, despite cancelling it each time. Got very annoying, as I had no desire to reboot yet.
Stranger though, was that Windows Update (the main website) told me I had to download the latest version of the updater. The description for it described all the things that the latest updater had (auto updates, this and that), but the title of the update was "Windows Genuine Advantage...", and the filesize was rather small. They clearly misrepresented it. It wasn't the notifier, and I think it was only the portion of WGA which is used to verify XP for Windows Update, but it's still strange.
It seems like a good idea, however the cynical side of me also wonders that if in addition text messaging the owner of the vehicle when the payment is about to expire, it might also be text messaging the parking enforcement officer for the area to keep an eye out in areas with lots of meters that are expiring at the same time so they know where to concentrate their "efforts"...
If they're doing this, chances are the meters are already wired, and probably already doing just this. That's regardless of whether you subscribe to the phone payment service.
Indeedy. Just listen to Coast to Coast AM for awhile. The most closed minded people are often the ones who preach about how they're the most open-minded.
I never got why the Daskeyboard was so "popular". One could pay slightly less for a proper IBM Model M buckling spring keyboard (or a clone of one), like they sell here or here.
Sounds bad for your health then, having to avoid MRIs as much as possible. People will do some strange things to differentiate themselves from everyone else.
They're pretty dissimiliar games. Final Fantasy 7 is pretty linear, has turn-based combat and a more traditional leveling system. Oblivion is mostly non-linear, has real-time psuedo-FPS style combat, and has a less traditional skill based leveling system. Comparing the two is almost like comparing Command and Conquer to Civilization because "they're both strategy games".
Except that it doesn't have a 16MB/s L1 cache. It has 16MB/s read speed for the cell SPEs to read the GPU's memory, which is something that you rarely if ever have to do in games.
I dislike Sony as much as the next guy, but come on:P
No. No no no. If your framerate is above your monitor's refresh rate, you will not see any more frames. That's it. The refresh rate is the hard limit to the visible framerate (it's refreshes per second, and since each refresh shows one frame, it is essentially your monitor's maximum framerate). If you turn off vsync, the video card will start spewing out a lot of frames, but you won't see a framerate any higher than you monitor's. It's a placebo.
Now, IIRC Doom 3 is locked at 60fps, even if your monitor has a higher refresh rate than 60hz. Still, even if you could uncap it, if you monitor was 85hz you wouldn't be able to see any framerate about 85fps. That's the principle I was talking about.
It sounds like a relatively obvious next step. People have been speculating about Google putting out an Office competitor for quite some time, and making it collaborative is not much of a stretch.
Half-life 2 is the only game I've ever felt motion sick with (only during the watercraft sequence, which is the common place for it), and I was playing with a CRT at the time. I wouldn't doubt that it's the 75 degree field of view though.
Was that sarcastic? Hz is a measurement of something/seconds. In the case of video cards, that would be Frames or Refreshes/Second, and in monitors Refreshes/Second. If you have a game running at 120 Frames/second, but the monitor only has a 60hz refresh rate, the monitor's refresh rate is essentially the limit on your FPS. It doesn't matter if you turn vsync off, though doing so will let the video card spew more frames to the monitor than it can handles (leading to tearing and a higher FPS measurement than you can see).
- The graphics in Resident Evil 4 were considered better on Gamecube than on any other platform. The graphics rivaled even the best of PC games like HL2 and Doom 3. The Gamecube was NOT a weak system, it's potential was just rarely reached.
Okay, now that might just be a bit of hyperbole on your part. Sure, said games were definately at the top for that generation of consoles, but they weren't HL2 or Doom 3 level; even when running those two games on my two year old desktop PC with its 9800 Pro. Not that that's unexpected or bad or anything, but I'm just saying.
Apparently, the Gameboy Advance is up to the tast of generating Sudoku puzzles. The DS shouldn't have a hard time at all.
(I thought could have sworn there was a homebrew Sudoku puzzle generator for the DS, but I can only find ones with premade puzzles. Someone please point to one if I'm incorrect)
It helps with my own, but that's probably only because it has no intake fan, nor very much room for one. The only air intake is from three small (1cm thick, 5cm wide) slits at the front. This wasn't a gaming case, though, which is clear from the PC's frequent overheating.
I would disagree, mainly because of the music and videos that tend to be embedded into myspace pages. The grammar and spelling are also beyond anything previous.
Horrific website design should be added to the lists of schizophrenia symptoms. I don't know why it is, and I hate making broad and offensive generalizations like this, but it seems to be so.
The Sims: create your own little family then watch them grow
Spore: create your own little creature then watch it grow and conquer the universe
That doesn't sound too hard to fit into a sound byte. Think of commercials for other games like Oblivion; none of them do complete justice to the concept behind the game, but they present something compelling enough that the viewer wants to look into the game.
Marketing will figure out a better way of getting the idea across, of course. Most people I know of don't get their games based on TV commercials and the like anyways. The Sims is the #1 selling PC game and I can't recall a single commercial for it. It is largely word of mouth, and considering how many people already know about Spore, it's not going to have a problem there. Not that advertising will be an issue, with the amount of money EA is going to throw behind the game.
More than anything, they were just trying to nix a good chunk of Nintendo's hype. That's pretty obvious, but it would have been a better strategy if they'd done it earlier before the Revolution/Wii began to be solidified in people's brains (ie. pre-E3 2006).
It doesn't sound that hard to get. The cell phase has you moving around almost as in a classic 2D fighter (though with "melee" attacks rather than ranged ones, by the sounds of it). The next phase is an odd diablo/sims mix. The ones after that mesh Simcity, Populous, and some RTS/Civ mechanics, with the depth increasing as the stage does.
With the complexity gradually building, it doesn't sound that hard to grasp. You got from a video what users would probably normally understand after several hours of playing up to the final stage.
What could Nintendo have patented? I'm pretty sure they have patents on the position sensor thingamajig that you place above the television, but the Sony's method seems strictly to be using accelerometers. Accelerometers are nothing new, and have been used before in game controllers.
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Well for me, it certainly did ask to install, as it does with every update. Following that, though, it repeatedly popped up a "5 minutes and we're rebooting to install the update" warning, despite cancelling it each time. Got very annoying, as I had no desire to reboot yet.
Stranger though, was that Windows Update (the main website) told me I had to download the latest version of the updater. The description for it described all the things that the latest updater had (auto updates, this and that), but the title of the update was "Windows Genuine Advantage...", and the filesize was rather small. They clearly misrepresented it. It wasn't the notifier, and I think it was only the portion of WGA which is used to verify XP for Windows Update, but it's still strange.
If they're doing this, chances are the meters are already wired, and probably already doing just this. That's regardless of whether you subscribe to the phone payment service.
Better yet: pseudo-portable
Indeedy. Just listen to Coast to Coast AM for awhile. The most closed minded people are often the ones who preach about how they're the most open-minded.
I never got why the Daskeyboard was so "popular". One could pay slightly less for a proper IBM Model M buckling spring keyboard (or a clone of one), like they sell here or here.
Sounds bad for your health then, having to avoid MRIs as much as possible. People will do some strange things to differentiate themselves from everyone else.
So, what happens when you get too close to another rare earth magnet? I would expect bad things.
They're pretty dissimiliar games. Final Fantasy 7 is pretty linear, has turn-based combat and a more traditional leveling system. Oblivion is mostly non-linear, has real-time psuedo-FPS style combat, and has a less traditional skill based leveling system. Comparing the two is almost like comparing Command and Conquer to Civilization because "they're both strategy games".
No, I havn't RTFA, and don't intend to.
Except that it doesn't have a 16MB/s L1 cache. It has 16MB/s read speed for the cell SPEs to read the GPU's memory, which is something that you rarely if ever have to do in games.
:P
I dislike Sony as much as the next guy, but come on
This is what illegal drugs will do to you. Just say no!
No. No no no. If your framerate is above your monitor's refresh rate, you will not see any more frames. That's it. The refresh rate is the hard limit to the visible framerate (it's refreshes per second, and since each refresh shows one frame, it is essentially your monitor's maximum framerate). If you turn off vsync, the video card will start spewing out a lot of frames, but you won't see a framerate any higher than you monitor's. It's a placebo.
Now, IIRC Doom 3 is locked at 60fps, even if your monitor has a higher refresh rate than 60hz. Still, even if you could uncap it, if you monitor was 85hz you wouldn't be able to see any framerate about 85fps. That's the principle I was talking about.
It sounds like a relatively obvious next step. People have been speculating about Google putting out an Office competitor for quite some time, and making it collaborative is not much of a stretch.
Half-life 2 is the only game I've ever felt motion sick with (only during the watercraft sequence, which is the common place for it), and I was playing with a CRT at the time. I wouldn't doubt that it's the 75 degree field of view though.
Was that sarcastic? Hz is a measurement of something/seconds. In the case of video cards, that would be Frames or Refreshes/Second, and in monitors Refreshes/Second. If you have a game running at 120 Frames/second, but the monitor only has a 60hz refresh rate, the monitor's refresh rate is essentially the limit on your FPS. It doesn't matter if you turn vsync off, though doing so will let the video card spew more frames to the monitor than it can handles (leading to tearing and a higher FPS measurement than you can see).
- The graphics in Resident Evil 4 were considered better on Gamecube than on any other platform. The graphics rivaled even the best of PC games like HL2 and Doom 3. The Gamecube was NOT a weak system, it's potential was just rarely reached.
Okay, now that might just be a bit of hyperbole on your part. Sure, said games were definately at the top for that generation of consoles, but they weren't HL2 or Doom 3 level; even when running those two games on my two year old desktop PC with its 9800 Pro. Not that that's unexpected or bad or anything, but I'm just saying.
American news makes far more sense if you watch it as though it was a comedy.
At least, this is how it seems to me as a Canadian. We get Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and a few local news broadcasts from our satellite TV provider.
I meant "task", not "tast". Curse my lazy skipping of the preview button.
Apparently, the Gameboy Advance is up to the tast of generating Sudoku puzzles. The DS shouldn't have a hard time at all.
(I thought could have sworn there was a homebrew Sudoku puzzle generator for the DS, but I can only find ones with premade puzzles. Someone please point to one if I'm incorrect)
It helps with my own, but that's probably only because it has no intake fan, nor very much room for one. The only air intake is from three small (1cm thick, 5cm wide) slits at the front. This wasn't a gaming case, though, which is clear from the PC's frequent overheating.
I would disagree, mainly because of the music and videos that tend to be embedded into myspace pages. The grammar and spelling are also beyond anything previous.
Horrific website design should be added to the lists of schizophrenia symptoms. I don't know why it is, and I hate making broad and offensive generalizations like this, but it seems to be so.
The Sims: create your own little family then watch them grow
Spore: create your own little creature then watch it grow and conquer the universe
That doesn't sound too hard to fit into a sound byte. Think of commercials for other games like Oblivion; none of them do complete justice to the concept behind the game, but they present something compelling enough that the viewer wants to look into the game.
Marketing will figure out a better way of getting the idea across, of course. Most people I know of don't get their games based on TV commercials and the like anyways. The Sims is the #1 selling PC game and I can't recall a single commercial for it. It is largely word of mouth, and considering how many people already know about Spore, it's not going to have a problem there. Not that advertising will be an issue, with the amount of money EA is going to throw behind the game.
More than anything, they were just trying to nix a good chunk of Nintendo's hype. That's pretty obvious, but it would have been a better strategy if they'd done it earlier before the Revolution/Wii began to be solidified in people's brains (ie. pre-E3 2006).
It doesn't sound that hard to get. The cell phase has you moving around almost as in a classic 2D fighter (though with "melee" attacks rather than ranged ones, by the sounds of it). The next phase is an odd diablo/sims mix. The ones after that mesh Simcity, Populous, and some RTS/Civ mechanics, with the depth increasing as the stage does.
With the complexity gradually building, it doesn't sound that hard to grasp. You got from a video what users would probably normally understand after several hours of playing up to the final stage.
What could Nintendo have patented? I'm pretty sure they have patents on the position sensor thingamajig that you place above the television, but the Sony's method seems strictly to be using accelerometers. Accelerometers are nothing new, and have been used before in game controllers.