Well, here are a few of my favorites for such occasions:
Manhunt F.E.A.R. Postal (all of them) and of course, DEFCON.
I didn't think of FEAR until I saw another poster mention it, but now I realize how satisfying it actually was to grab the shotgun and blast the fucking clones away.
>I have 2003 (11.0), and it is pretty slow even on a recent machine
If by recent you mean more than five year old, then maybe. I'm running it on a 600Mhz P3 laptop with 192 megs of ram, and can't say I have any performance problems with daily tasks. Of course, I'm not performing complex mathematical operations on 65536-row excel sheets, but then, neither do most users.
I don't have any references handy, but I remember seeing somewhere (so it's a fact!) that the average toilet bowl isn't very dirty, for the reasons you mention, sterility of urine, and because it's cleaned regularly.
There are already a few Ricoh cameras which can connect to a GPS device (bluetooth or serial, I assume) so this is a pretty stupid way to get GPS info on photos. I can't find the official product page, but here's a random link: Caplio 500SE B/W. I don't have one so I don't really know how exactly they work, but I'd guess better than this hack.
Calm down people, it's just a stupid (console) game.
This may, or may not, be a good thing. Of course, having any relation to Sony automatically implies it's something horrible and evil, but there are a lot of ways this can improve the game overall.
I'd gladly throw out all the ricer cars from the latest NFS game if it meant I could have more McLaren and Ferrari cars, or that I could save a few bucks. This would also show the devs which cars are in most demand, encouraging them to make more of those. Now, this last point could be negative for me if everybody drove riced out civics, but whatever. GTR2 seems to have all the official FIA championship tracks (and a few variations), but being able to drive on a local race track could be worth a buck or two.
No, I won't buy it, and I also won't get a PS3 or any other console, but it'll be interesting to see how this works out. Maybe it'll suck and be the first and last game to try this, or maybe it'll be the best thing since sliced bread.
In addition to Lego Star Wars, another game handles it in a rather original way: Prey. You can die, but when you do you appear in a mini-game where you shoot souls (or something) with your bow to restore your health. Unless you're completely incompetent with the mouse, you'll be put right back into action with as many HPs as you managed to restore. This method manages to punish you a little with the mini game (you want to kick ass, not play duckhunt) while keeping you in the game and playing, instead of looking for the latest savegame in the menu.
Yes, yes, and yes. If they don't want to deal with s/o, than they shouldn't have to. It's possible to argue about that forever, so let's just narrow down the scope to this particular issue. It's BULLSHIT. Can a deaf-mute person complain about not being able to order a pizza over the phone?
I'm not sure I completely understand you. The ISS might've cost $10000/lb to send there, but its value depends much more on what it can be used for rather than on its initial costs. I could send a 5 ton ball of solid shit into orbit but I doubt anybody would be willing to pay even $100 for it.
By licensing software under the GPL, it guarantees that the software cannot be used in other non-GPL projects (give or take a license)
That != freedom. Not for the users (can't have this or that bundled), not for the developers (can't use modified GPL code without complications), and not for the software itself (can't be part of something it may want to be).
If I'm ever going to release any open-source software, it'll be either in public domain or, if I'm too greedy, BSD.
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>$130 for a laptop and mouse?
130 bucks for a laptop is actually a great deal, especially if it's not as fugly as the linux laptop in the same price category.
Well, here are a few of my favorites for such occasions:
Manhunt
F.E.A.R.
Postal (all of them)
and of course, DEFCON.
I didn't think of FEAR until I saw another poster mention it, but now I realize how satisfying it actually was to grab the shotgun and blast the fucking clones away.
>I have 2003 (11.0), and it is pretty slow even on a recent machine
If by recent you mean more than five year old, then maybe. I'm running it on a 600Mhz P3 laptop with 192 megs of ram, and can't say I have any performance problems with daily tasks. Of course, I'm not performing complex mathematical operations on 65536-row excel sheets, but then, neither do most users.
>it says 4x4, it's an expression, not math, it's time to get over it :)
To me, as a perl coder, 4x4 means 4444.
Poor overall performance ... abysmal memory performance*, ... okay peak power use (just okay), it still comes in several times that of the X2s when idle
Ah, and best of all, "And I write that not as an AMD fanboy".
You need to pull AMD's dick out of your mouth and try again. If this was a troll attempt, congratulations, you got me to reply.
* - memory bandwidth and latency is still behind X2s, but I know you don't really care about those "facts"
>Did anybody else initially read that headline as "A Fat Man's Take on Vista"?
/me runs for cover
No, bud I did read it as "A Mac Fag's take on Vista".
What's that shower thing you talk about?
I don't have any references handy, but I remember seeing somewhere (so it's a fact!) that the average toilet bowl isn't very dirty, for the reasons you mention, sterility of urine, and because it's cleaned regularly.
>I've been waiting for this game since April - it looks like it's going to a lot of fun.
;-) Also, multiplayer is implimented pretty well and is very fun, either playing on the same team or against each other.
It is
There are already a few Ricoh cameras which can connect to a GPS device (bluetooth or serial, I assume) so this is a pretty stupid way to get GPS info on photos. I can't find the official product page, but here's a random link: Caplio 500SE B/W. I don't have one so I don't really know how exactly they work, but I'd guess better than this hack.
Calm down people, it's just a stupid (console) game.
This may, or may not, be a good thing. Of course, having any relation to Sony automatically implies it's something horrible and evil, but there are a lot of ways this can improve the game overall.
I'd gladly throw out all the ricer cars from the latest NFS game if it meant I could have more McLaren and Ferrari cars, or that I could save a few bucks. This would also show the devs which cars are in most demand, encouraging them to make more of those. Now, this last point could be negative for me if everybody drove riced out civics, but whatever. GTR2 seems to have all the official FIA championship tracks (and a few variations), but being able to drive on a local race track could be worth a buck or two.
No, I won't buy it, and I also won't get a PS3 or any other console, but it'll be interesting to see how this works out. Maybe it'll suck and be the first and last game to try this, or maybe it'll be the best thing since sliced bread.
Republican posters will ruin it for everyone.
>No, tomorrow its Snakes on a Chip!
And the day after tomorrow it's Apostrophes on a motherfucking Chip!
And for that, they should take some of your stuff.
why not post these:
Linux Kernel SMBFS CHRoot Security Restriction Bypass
Linux Kernel SCTP Multiple Remote Denial of Service
Apple Mac OS X KExtLoad Format String Weakness
Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handler Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability
>Incredibly tasteless at a time like this.
Welcome to the Interweb!
Today is your lucky day, here are the FHM pics.
;-|
I'm pretty sure they used to have even more pics though
>It would be good to come up with (and make public) an algorithm for determining a sentence.
Here's a prototype:
perl -e "$s = int(rand(99)); print qq(You are hereby sentenced to $s years of imprisonment\n)"
This code is released under the BSD license, feel free to deploy it as-is or modify to fit your needs.
In addition to Lego Star Wars, another game handles it in a rather original way: Prey. You can die, but when you do you appear in a mini-game where you shoot souls (or something) with your bow to restore your health. Unless you're completely incompetent with the mouse, you'll be put right back into action with as many HPs as you managed to restore. This method manages to punish you a little with the mini game (you want to kick ass, not play duckhunt) while keeping you in the game and playing, instead of looking for the latest savegame in the menu.
>we love new iPods.
;-)
Speak for yourself, apple boy!
Aaanyway, if Brushed Metal hears about the new interface, he's gonna be really fucking mad.
Yes, yes, and yes. If they don't want to deal with s/o, than they shouldn't have to. It's possible to argue about that forever, so let's just narrow down the scope to this particular issue. It's BULLSHIT. Can a deaf-mute person complain about not being able to order a pizza over the phone?
> I'll wait for Apple. It'll be a more elegant solution anyway.
Of course. It'll feature brushed metal and light-gray to white gradients.
I'm not sure I completely understand you. The ISS might've cost $10000/lb to send there, but its value depends much more on what it can be used for rather than on its initial costs. I could send a 5 ton ball of solid shit into orbit but I doubt anybody would be willing to pay even $100 for it.
Oh, I see... so now they're looking for volunteers for their sex-offender list on slashdot?
however Firefox 3.0 should pass the acid test because a lot of work has been done on the rendering engine (Gecko 1.9).
Yes, and Internet Explorer 8 should also pass the test because a lot of work is being done on the rendering engine (Trident VI).
That != freedom. Not for the users (can't have this or that bundled), not for the developers (can't use modified GPL code without complications), and not for the software itself (can't be part of something it may want to be).
If I'm ever going to release any open-source software, it'll be either in public domain or, if I'm too greedy, BSD.