The Underdogs runs a pretty exhaustive list of indie games, here is their list of RPGs. Unfortunately, there are a hell of a lot of rogue clones (which is great if that's what you're into) but not so much graphically pleasing stuff.
So, reading the article it seems that this patch is merely turning the power savings mode on by default. How many people will just turn it back off straight away?
There is no word on whether this is going to be marked as a critical update, or whether machines that are not running WGA will be able to update.
I too was on the tube when this all happened, and can confirm the above.
I was on the central line eastbound going from oxford circus at about 09:20, and there was an announcement that due to a suspect package Bank and one other station was closed. On the next stop the driver then announced that the whole underground system was closed to a power failure and asked everybody to leave the station immediately.
Afterwards, found that my mobile did not work at all. I walked back to victoria station to try and catch a train home and found it closed off. One of the policemen there said that the mobile network had been closed in london (hence a lot of people using phone boxes), and that all public services were cancelled.
I managed to then walk down to clapham junction and catch a train home from there.
I had to take java as part of my degree and from what I saw, making any halfway decent GUI involved giving your soul to satan. Maybe it's better now, but the mere act of creating and making a usable button involved more steps than lazy programmers like me are willing to follow.
Slightly offtopic, but hugely amusing nonetheless. A friend of mine once woke up with no memory of the previous night's happenings to find a temporary traffic light in his front room. He still doesn't know how it got there or where he got it from.
This is happening with the human genome. A lovely little thing that just happens to make us, well, *[b]us[/b]* is being patented. This has been widely reported in new scientist.
Although the laws regarding it have been toughened up, a huge number have already been granted. Whether companies have the right to patent what makes us unique has not been asked.
Noctis (http://anywherebb.com/noctis.html) is less than 1mb but lets the player explore a whole galaxy. It's an interesting game where you have total freedom to fly anywhere and do anything. No fighting, just exploration.
...had numerous references to the player, the game itself, the developers (lionhead studios), and even south park. Ingame the player has a good and an evil conscience, and the two constantly bicker.
Some of the more amusing conversations between the two occur when you don't touch the keyboard for a while. Here are some samples:
Good conscience: "Jeez, our Boss is inactive. Let's rock from side to side." Evil conscience: "Maybe we can tip over the monitor!" Good: "No, you red fool. We're part of the conscience. We're inside our god's head!" Evil: "Okay. Let's rock and tip over the Boss's mind!" Good: "Hmm. You are the weirdest demon I've ever shared a skull with."
---
Good: "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B" Evil: "Brain." Good: "Yes." Evil: "OK. I spy with my evil eye, something beginning with S" Good: "Skull." Evil: "Yeah." Good: "I spy with my little..." Evil: "Shuddup! Sorry. I just can't take it any more. Skull, brain, brain skull.")
Good: "You're right. We should get out more."
Just like most records, they will eventually reach a limit - there must be a size beyond which a hard drive would be simply impossible. Although, to preempt any shenanigans Guinness would really need to need to define "hard drive" and provide criteria for something to be called such.
This is always the case where companies push their agenda as far as they think they can get away with it. Sometimes they overstep the line, as in the case of the old microsoft passport EULA [in parent's URL] and there is an outrage. Sometimes though, they quietly get away with it and nobody notices.
The only real way to do something about it is to email whomever at Okrut and complain, stating that you will not sign up if the legalese is not revised, or (as I will be doing) to avoid it altogether.
Sadly though, most people that sign up (hey cool, I can have a network of friends.. wow!) will not bother to even read the EULA.
If it were discovered that it was North Korea, Syria, or any other nation currently on US's private hate list was performing this research (even if the research was being performed IN the country, unsupported by government funding) then that country would have been bombed, "freed", and had it's land cut into strips and sold to the highest bidder by now.
Sadly, since this is papa US with the research, nothing can go wrong. This will only be used for catching nasty evil TERRORISTS intent on stealing your FREEDOMS.
If it were discovered that North Korea, Iran, Syria or any country not currently "in" with the US was performing such research, they'd have been bombed, denounced and had their land divided up and sold to the highest bidder by now.
Since it's papa US though, nothing can or will go wrong. This potentially lethal research will never be used for anything apart from stopping nasty TERRORISTS from destroying your FREEDOMS.
As far as I am aware, a EULA is a legal contract and all the parties involved have to be named. Call me sceptical, but I have serious doubts about a virus writer giving out his real name in a EULA.
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The Underdogs runs a pretty exhaustive list of indie games, here is their list of RPGs. Unfortunately, there are a hell of a lot of rogue clones (which is great if that's what you're into) but not so much graphically pleasing stuff.
Who uses Windows for performance?
The same people that play the latest and greatest games?
So, reading the article it seems that this patch is merely turning the power savings mode on by default. How many people will just turn it back off straight away?
There is no word on whether this is going to be marked as a critical update, or whether machines that are not running WGA will be able to update.
I am curious as to what conversion rate they are using between the USD and the GBP. According to the XE UCC, 299 USD is equivalent to 158.548 GBP.
In that case it would probably be cheaper to buy the thing from a US website and have it shipped over to the UK.
I too was on the tube when this all happened, and can confirm the above.
I was on the central line eastbound going from oxford circus at about 09:20, and there was an announcement that due to a suspect package Bank and one other station was closed. On the next stop the driver then announced that the whole underground system was closed to a power failure and asked everybody to leave the station immediately.
Afterwards, found that my mobile did not work at all. I walked back to victoria station to try and catch a train home and found it closed off. One of the policemen there said that the mobile network had been closed in london (hence a lot of people using phone boxes), and that all public services were cancelled.
I managed to then walk down to clapham junction and catch a train home from there.
I had to take java as part of my degree and from what I saw, making any halfway decent GUI involved giving your soul to satan. Maybe it's better now, but the mere act of creating and making a usable button involved more steps than lazy programmers like me are willing to follow.
..until you get mugged by the pizza delivery man.
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I presume that what he means is that if you put even an infinitesimal amount of gas into it, it will go for an infinite distance.
Slightly offtopic, but hugely amusing nonetheless. A friend of mine once woke up with no memory of the previous night's happenings to find a temporary traffic light in his front room. He still doesn't know how it got there or where he got it from.
This is happening with the human genome. A lovely little thing that just happens to make us, well, *[b]us[/b]* is being patented. This has been widely reported in new scientist.
Although the laws regarding it have been toughened up, a huge number have already been granted. Whether companies have the right to patent what makes us unique has not been asked.
Noctis (http://anywherebb.com/noctis.html) is less than 1mb but lets the player explore a whole galaxy. It's an interesting game where you have total freedom to fly anywhere and do anything. No fighting, just exploration.
...had numerous references to the player, the game itself, the developers (lionhead studios), and even south park. Ingame the player has a good and an evil conscience, and the two constantly bicker.
Some of the more amusing conversations between the two occur when you don't touch the keyboard for a while. Here are some samples:
Good conscience: "Jeez, our Boss is inactive. Let's rock from side to side."
Evil conscience: "Maybe we can tip over the monitor!"
Good: "No, you red fool. We're part of the conscience. We're inside our god's head!"
Evil: "Okay. Let's rock and tip over the Boss's mind!"
Good: "Hmm. You are the weirdest demon I've ever shared a skull with."
---
Good: "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B"
Evil: "Brain."
Good: "Yes."
Evil: "OK. I spy with my evil eye, something beginning with S"
Good: "Skull."
Evil: "Yeah."
Good: "I spy with my little..."
Evil: "Shuddup! Sorry. I just can't take it any more. Skull, brain, brain skull.") Good: "You're right. We should get out more."
...relatedly, http://bash.org/?106579
Just like most records, they will eventually reach a limit - there must be a size beyond which a hard drive would be simply impossible. Although, to preempt any shenanigans Guinness would really need to need to define "hard drive" and provide criteria for something to be called such.
This is always the case where companies push their agenda as far as they think they can get away with it. Sometimes they overstep the line, as in the case of the old microsoft passport EULA [in parent's URL] and there is an outrage. Sometimes though, they quietly get away with it and nobody notices. The only real way to do something about it is to email whomever at Okrut and complain, stating that you will not sign up if the legalese is not revised, or (as I will be doing) to avoid it altogether. Sadly though, most people that sign up (hey cool, I can have a network of friends .. wow!) will not bother to even read the EULA.
If it were discovered that it was North Korea, Syria, or any other nation currently on US's private hate list was performing this research (even if the research was being performed IN the country, unsupported by government funding) then that country would have been bombed, "freed", and had it's land cut into strips and sold to the highest bidder by now.
Sadly, since this is papa US with the research, nothing can go wrong. This will only be used for catching nasty evil TERRORISTS intent on stealing your FREEDOMS.
If it were discovered that North Korea, Iran, Syria or any country not currently "in" with the US was performing such research, they'd have been bombed, denounced and had their land divided up and sold to the highest bidder by now. Since it's papa US though, nothing can or will go wrong. This potentially lethal research will never be used for anything apart from stopping nasty TERRORISTS from destroying your FREEDOMS.
As far as I am aware, a EULA is a legal contract and all the parties involved have to be named. Call me sceptical, but I have serious doubts about a virus writer giving out his real name in a EULA.