It does exactly the same thing as you're describing; It suspends the game, same as on the DS. I do that whenever I need to head off to something and need to put the DS away for a bit. That's different then saving the game at a particular point. Suspending it doesn't do anything to store the status and let you go back to a save point if your party dies. It just lets you continue from the point at which you're dying.
Imagine a world... where ghosts stand between you and your favorite food... where blue is the only safe color... Imagine... Pac-Man World. Directed by Uwe Boll.
(I know it's early, but I swear, "Bionic Commando: Rearmed" was "Bionic Commando: Reamed." Now that would be an odd game.)
I agree it's about immersion, but even decent stories can be ruined by a lack of auto-save. My wife gave me Final Fantasy IX for the DS (Yeah, yeah. Insert "wife-giving-me-final-fantasy" joke here *grin*) and while I enjoy it, the fact that death happens so damn often is annoying. It's tough to get into a game when one member of your party dies at the beginning of a battle, which leads to two dying which leads to a wipe, to use WoW parlance. I find myself heading back out of a dungeon after a couple of battles to make sure my party gains and saves experience, rather than dying (or, heading out of the dungeon to use the "tent" (aka heal/rest feature)) as saving isn't an allowed option inside of the dungeon. It got to the point where I set the game aside for a bit because of the frustration level.
Frankly, people said the same thing about IBM during their "decline" in the '80s. IBM was "the one" - the old saying was "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" and only with the rise of MS did the word "IBM" get swapped for "Microsoft." And yet IBM is still a player in the research and sales areas. Last year they held the record for most U.S. patents earned in one year. They seem to meet or beat projected profit each year. And, most importantly, they still have continuous revenue from annual maintenance, etc. from overseas governments and NGOs. As one of the posters below states, MS spends a ton on research and like IBM will find ways to capitalize on that research, even the OS goes away...
Not sure to which component you're refering. We buy extensively from Amazon.com (can't vouch for.ca, etc.) and the only time it takes weeks is when using one of the business storefronts you mention. We are Amazon Prime members and so two-day shipping is free (or somesuch. Whatever it gives us seems to be worth the annual fee.) Stuff from Amazon itself arrives in two business days (sometimes less, depending on when the order is placed) unless they specifically say it will take longer, in which case, if you're ordering multiple items, in which case at checkout they tell you that you have option to ship as things become available.
Combined with the lack of cable card support and a decent Tivo-like DVR application (remember when the rumor mill was abuzz with talk that Apple would buy Tivo?) and AppleTV is still very much a niche-market device. Get both of those features and it's a contender to replace cable boxes (right now I'm stuck with Verizon's and IMO it sucks) and break out into something really useful. If it takes countless articles on how to turn it into more of a home entertainment platform, then Apple isn't using the thing to its full potential...
Not that I'm doubting the validity of each side of these comments, but an interesting way to get a "documented" account of which is easier might be to reach out to PCMag (which has become less overtly biased over the past number of years. Or, maybe even better, WSJ's Mossberg, or whomever the/. community can decide on - well, so much for this idea *grin*) and get them to try an Ubuntu vs. Windows scenario with real-world relatives. That could, if the article is done properly, give the reasons and examples of the successes and failures of each (and be honest, there will be successes and failures on each side.)
Not to nitpick, but the comment, "It literally breaks by itself" isn't true, IMO. Third-party components in patches, etc. are most often the blame. Or malware. But that hardly constitutes breaking by itself. Especially in terms of "literally" doing so. I'm far from a fan of the OS, being a huge Mac fanboy (I have one Vista box in the house so I can see what the fuss is about. The other six are Macs and an Ubuntu file server for backups) but the statement isn't accurate.
All that said, I concur with using Ubuntu. Much more user friendly for the elderly or those less computer adept.
While I haven't reviewed abstracts for conferences, I have reviewed them as part of my IEEE membership in the Computing Society. While there are some lax reviewers (I'm guessing that happens in all groups which accept papers, but I can only speak to the one to which I belong) the majority of peer review is quite tight, with what I would imagine are such a number of comments that the author might feel daunted in making changes.
Respectfully, I'm not sure that's an entirely fair comment without a slight addition: "but none of them comes near the old classics IMO." Don't get me wrong: I'm amazed that I like a game like Assassin's Creed (or even WoW) but I'm still pissed off that I can't find an emulator for the last Monkey Island game. I think the issue is the expectations of today's gamer might be different than ours is. While we may enjoy today's games (oh Lord I sound old. You kids with your long hair, Rock and Roll and Quake! Get off my flying mount!) we do so with a gaming experience that was built upon the types of games with which we "grew up." Compare that to a gamer who's experience with Wolfenstein was when it went 3-D, instead of flat and with lousy sound cards that made it tough to understand the guard saying, "Halt! Alles Pass?". To them, the games are great... certainly compared to that crap dad played.
When I was a kid (30'ish years ago) my brother and I would go to the arcade, primarly to watch the older kids play games (I was terrible at them, so it was interesting to watch.) There were a handful that always struck me as the most interesting and those were the ones with the unique interfaces: Centipede and Missle Command, because of the trackball, Tempest because of scrolling wheel (which reminded me of Pong) and some kind of crossbow game where the player grabbed a replica crossbow. But there was one other, and to this day I have yet to find anyone who doesn't think I'm nuts when I describe it: It was an adventure game with multiple players with multiple classes where the players used a keyboard (one of the membrane ones, like the second generation Speak & Spell.) I always thought it odd that a play-for-quarters game would be so complicated that it required its players to actually have that many selections so as to have a way of actually completing the game (don't ask me to describe what was on the screen. I was too short to actually see it:)) To this day, I don't think I've seen another like it, without actually transitioning to a PC.
Amen. 1Password is great (and seems to keep coming up at discount prices at Maczot, MUPromo, etc.) Now, the iPhone version seems to need work. And by "needs work" I mean "I can't seem to figure out the damn thing;)
Is there any way to run it through the test (or Safari/Camino/Whatever through the test while it uses 1Password?
That reminds me of a comedian I heard once talking about earthquakes and California. He couldn't understand the whole "The Big One" thing. If there's an earthquake and a brick falls off of a building, hits you on the head and kills you, that's The Big One.
> Especially one that clearly has no therapeutic benefit to the patient.
I don't know about that. It may not be the healthiest stress reliever, but for a lot of people plinking away at cans, targets, skeet, etc. is something that helps them relax.
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My bad. I meant IV. Which can also stand for the type of coffee drip I seem to need this morning :)
> Wiping out lets you keep all items and XP you've earned, but costs you 50% of your money.
... ;)
Take out the word "items" and it sounds like my divorce
It does exactly the same thing as you're describing; It suspends the game, same as on the DS. I do that whenever I need to head off to something and need to put the DS away for a bit. That's different then saving the game at a particular point. Suspending it doesn't do anything to store the status and let you go back to a save point if your party dies. It just lets you continue from the point at which you're dying.
Imagine a world ... where ghosts stand between you and your favorite food ... where blue is the only safe color... Imagine ... Pac-Man World. Directed by Uwe Boll.
(I know it's early, but I swear, "Bionic Commando: Rearmed" was "Bionic Commando: Reamed." Now that would be an odd game.)
I agree it's about immersion, but even decent stories can be ruined by a lack of auto-save. My wife gave me Final Fantasy IX for the DS (Yeah, yeah. Insert "wife-giving-me-final-fantasy" joke here *grin*) and while I enjoy it, the fact that death happens so damn often is annoying. It's tough to get into a game when one member of your party dies at the beginning of a battle, which leads to two dying which leads to a wipe, to use WoW parlance. I find myself heading back out of a dungeon after a couple of battles to make sure my party gains and saves experience, rather than dying (or, heading out of the dungeon to use the "tent" (aka heal/rest feature)) as saving isn't an allowed option inside of the dungeon. It got to the point where I set the game aside for a bit because of the frustration level.
" like they have done here."
;)
"Your comment has been submited." doesn't count as quicksave
Frankly, people said the same thing about IBM during their "decline" in the '80s. IBM was "the one" - the old saying was "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" and only with the rise of MS did the word "IBM" get swapped for "Microsoft." And yet IBM is still a player in the research and sales areas. Last year they held the record for most U.S. patents earned in one year. They seem to meet or beat projected profit each year. And, most importantly, they still have continuous revenue from annual maintenance, etc. from overseas governments and NGOs. As one of the posters below states, MS spends a ton on research and like IBM will find ways to capitalize on that research, even the OS goes away...
Not sure to which component you're refering. We buy extensively from Amazon.com (can't vouch for .ca, etc.) and the only time it takes weeks is when using one of the business storefronts you mention. We are Amazon Prime members and so two-day shipping is free (or somesuch. Whatever it gives us seems to be worth the annual fee.) Stuff from Amazon itself arrives in two business days (sometimes less, depending on when the order is placed) unless they specifically say it will take longer, in which case, if you're ordering multiple items, in which case at checkout they tell you that you have option to ship as things become available.
Combined with the lack of cable card support and a decent Tivo-like DVR application (remember when the rumor mill was abuzz with talk that Apple would buy Tivo?) and AppleTV is still very much a niche-market device. Get both of those features and it's a contender to replace cable boxes (right now I'm stuck with Verizon's and IMO it sucks) and break out into something really useful. If it takes countless articles on how to turn it into more of a home entertainment platform, then Apple isn't using the thing to its full potential...
"didn't give a shit if he screwed college babes"
So when it was Monica Lewinsky then you gave a shit? *grin*
Not that I'm doubting the validity of each side of these comments, but an interesting way to get a "documented" account of which is easier might be to reach out to PCMag (which has become less overtly biased over the past number of years. Or, maybe even better, WSJ's Mossberg, or whomever the /. community can decide on - well, so much for this idea *grin*) and get them to try an Ubuntu vs. Windows scenario with real-world relatives. That could, if the article is done properly, give the reasons and examples of the successes and failures of each (and be honest, there will be successes and failures on each side.)
Not to nitpick, but the comment, "It literally breaks by itself" isn't true, IMO. Third-party components in patches, etc. are most often the blame. Or malware. But that hardly constitutes breaking by itself. Especially in terms of "literally" doing so. I'm far from a fan of the OS, being a huge Mac fanboy (I have one Vista box in the house so I can see what the fuss is about. The other six are Macs and an Ubuntu file server for backups) but the statement isn't accurate.
All that said, I concur with using Ubuntu. Much more user friendly for the elderly or those less computer adept.
While I haven't reviewed abstracts for conferences, I have reviewed them as part of my IEEE membership in the Computing Society. While there are some lax reviewers (I'm guessing that happens in all groups which accept papers, but I can only speak to the one to which I belong) the majority of peer review is quite tight, with what I would imagine are such a number of comments that the author might feel daunted in making changes.
What the hell was that? Mattel's "My First Summary"?
Respectfully, I'm not sure that's an entirely fair comment without a slight addition: "but none of them comes near the old classics IMO." Don't get me wrong: I'm amazed that I like a game like Assassin's Creed (or even WoW) but I'm still pissed off that I can't find an emulator for the last Monkey Island game. I think the issue is the expectations of today's gamer might be different than ours is. While we may enjoy today's games (oh Lord I sound old. You kids with your long hair, Rock and Roll and Quake! Get off my flying mount!) we do so with a gaming experience that was built upon the types of games with which we "grew up." Compare that to a gamer who's experience with Wolfenstein was when it went 3-D, instead of flat and with lousy sound cards that made it tough to understand the guard saying, "Halt! Alles Pass?". To them, the games are great ... certainly compared to that crap dad played.
I guess that's what a liberal-arts major gets for throwing a comment into a technical discussion: I hadn't even thought of that :)
Why not drop an amplifier between the two parts? That way you're not syncing the cable to another piece of cable. Rather to a device in the middle?
>This was my exact reaction, so it is not off topic
[citation needed]
Holy crap Comboman, That's it!! Thanks :)
When I was a kid (30'ish years ago) my brother and I would go to the arcade, primarly to watch the older kids play games (I was terrible at them, so it was interesting to watch.) There were a handful that always struck me as the most interesting and those were the ones with the unique interfaces: Centipede and Missle Command, because of the trackball, Tempest because of scrolling wheel (which reminded me of Pong) and some kind of crossbow game where the player grabbed a replica crossbow. But there was one other, and to this day I have yet to find anyone who doesn't think I'm nuts when I describe it: It was an adventure game with multiple players with multiple classes where the players used a keyboard (one of the membrane ones, like the second generation Speak & Spell.) I always thought it odd that a play-for-quarters game would be so complicated that it required its players to actually have that many selections so as to have a way of actually completing the game (don't ask me to describe what was on the screen. I was too short to actually see it :)) To this day, I don't think I've seen another like it, without actually transitioning to a PC.
Alas, poor Yorick, I certainly hope not!
Amen. 1Password is great (and seems to keep coming up at discount prices at Maczot, MUPromo, etc.) Now, the iPhone version seems to need work. And by "needs work" I mean "I can't seem to figure out the damn thing ;)
Is there any way to run it through the test (or Safari/Camino/Whatever through the test while it uses 1Password?
That's a very valid point and I appreciate your sharing it. Now that you've done so...
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That reminds me of a comedian I heard once talking about earthquakes and California. He couldn't understand the whole "The Big One" thing. If there's an earthquake and a brick falls off of a building, hits you on the head and kills you, that's The Big One.
> Especially one that clearly has no therapeutic benefit to the patient.
I don't know about that. It may not be the healthiest stress reliever, but for a lot of people plinking away at cans, targets, skeet, etc. is something that helps them relax.