Text needs to be looked over and watched for vandalism, and for any project (and content in the project) you need to have a clear and definite purpose.
Wouldn't it be better to somehow flag it as unverified than to flat out delete it. "here's some info, it might be wrong, dig deeper if you to rely on this being true" is better than "no results found - did you mean CompletelyUnrelatedTopic"
I disagree. If Bioshock was more limiting in resources such as health, ammo, money and respawn chambers (despite having a save anywhere feature) it might have encouraged tactical thinking beyond "Equip Wrench, and Hit the "R Trigger" until you win". This makes for an incredibly boring experience which unfortunately is how the game is designed.
If you choose to play a game in a boring manner is it really anyones fault but your own? just because it's possible to play it in such a boring way doesnt mean it's the only way to play it
I like the concept of putting in challenge-based side quests in otherwise story-based games.
the thing I find about challenge gamers though, is that they're very gung-ho about finishing games. "do I need to complete this quest to win? no, well fuck it, I'm not doing it." whereas story gamers want to have the full experience, they want to know as much about the story as they can find out. optional challenge quests are missed by challenge gamers and generally frustrate story gamers
it's been 15 years and they still have no product, only a string of lawsuits. I dont care if it's a valid patent or not, it's being used to do little more than stifle innovation and that's wrong.
why the hell do they use such a retarded versioning scheme? every single 2.x release is going to start 2.0.0.x, and then the next planned release is 3.x, whats the point in the.0.0? one zero i could understand, but having two and NEVER incrementing either is silly
well sure, I could buy it via mail order, and be charged as much in postage as I am for the dvd, and have to wait 10-15 days for the fucking thing to get here, while people in the states drop by their local shop and pick it up for half as much and watch it tonight. sounds fantastic, let me just bend over and grab my toes for the corporations while I'm at it
thanks for the offer, but no thanks. I'm fully aware I could import it myself from umpteen different sites but it's an unnecessary hassle. companies who make their customers jump through hoops end up losing customers.
I downloaded it too, but I live in Australia. they dont even have a release date set here (region 4) yet. stupid media companies and they archaic "regions". if you dont want to sell it to me when it comes out, dont expect me to buy it a year later when you decide my region can finally have it.
I've got a Powerbook, a MacBook and a Hackintosh (965p/nvidia/pc_efi), all running leopard. I havent seen a crash yet. It's fun to sensationalize when you're having problems; but assuming that everyone else is having them too, and making comparisons to vista just makes you look like a fool. perhaps Olivers ram has gone bad or something?
Microsoft learned this by trying to lockdown windows and that failed.
I'll admit I've never really used vista for more than a few minutes, but from all reports they learnt absolutely nothing from trying to lock down XP. I keep hearing people complaining how now even VLK copies of vista require activation (or some on-site server?). I'm not taking a swipe at your post btw; I just thought that was an odd statement in contrast with what I've heard others say.
see, you played it on it's target platform and could understand it's limitations were because of the platform. the PC version is truly identical to the xbox version right down to having to use the keyboard to make many of the menu selections (even though you have a mouse pointer on the screen, for some reason clicking it doesnt do anything). There were a lot of downright stupid design decisions, stuff that could have been rectified in a mornings programming, but they opted to just do everything the xbox way. people who tried to play it on PC were left bitterly disappointed that they completely ignored all the stuff that made the first one great and gave them an xbox game on their pc.
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you're only thinking in two dimensions. the intersection of two spheres is a circle
my mum (who's not at all technical) finds gmail usable; and all I did was give her an invite. At the time I was living in the UK and she was at home in Australia, so it's not because I showed her how to use it; it's just clear, simple and intuitive. I'd say odds are pretty good that you're flat-out wrong and most people would have no problems at all using it.
so what you're basically saying is your proposed solution wont work when tinyurl's servers are down (ie. the user cant get to the linked page), so it's not really a solution then, is it?
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This could be a big problem if billions of different links are unreachable at a given time.
I really like the second design on that page, but the blog of one of the user interface design guys suggests that the final theme may look significantly different from all of those. sounds like they want to make firefox look native, but recognizable as firefox on every platform. I'm undecided which way I think would turn out better
I think the only way it could work without tinyurl's servers being up would be to cache their entire database. if you think people are bitching about firefox's memory use now, wait until they see THAT plugin
the biggest problem with a silent pc (no cpu/gpu fans at least) is the amount of noise that hdd's generate and the fact there's not much you can do about them. I've got a quite case that has rubber grommets that hdds sit on but it doesnt help with the whine. admittedly I've got some pretty old drives in my case, so it would probably be a bit quieter if they were replaced. I'm looking forward to the day i can afford a decent sized solid state drive to boot off and then have a NAS device off in a cupboard somewhere mounted via gigabit ethernet.
passively cooled desktop cards are not particularly uncommon (so long as you arent wanting the top of the line uber-gaming rig) for example in the 30 seconds i spent looking at an online store i found this and this, both of which are 8600 GT series cards. there didnt seem to be any 8800 series cards, but it wouldnt suprise me to see them later in on, once even faster 8xxxx series cards come out (8900? i dunno if its in the works)
If you saw a car in the street with unlocked doors and the key in the ignition, would you assume it was there for random people to take joyriding ?
no, but i certainly wouldnt feel sorry for the owner if someone did take it for a spin since they were too dumb or ignorant to learn about the locks on their vehicle.
Massive thanks to you for mentioning Perian and NicePlayer. I'd not heard of either of them before so I grabbed them to try them out. I've been using niceplayer for the last few days now, and it's fantastic. I think VLC may no longer be my primary video playing software.
Now I dont suppose you know of an equally great music player that isnt itunes? There's often stuff I want to listen to but dont want littering my library. I use VLC for this, but it's by no means perfect
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it's been 15 years and they still have no product, only a string of lawsuits. I dont care if it's a valid patent or not, it's being used to do little more than stifle innovation and that's wrong.
why the hell do they use such a retarded versioning scheme? every single 2.x release is going to start 2.0.0.x, and then the next planned release is 3.x, whats the point in the .0.0? one zero i could understand, but having two and NEVER incrementing either is silly
well sure, I could buy it via mail order, and be charged as much in postage as I am for the dvd, and have to wait 10-15 days for the fucking thing to get here, while people in the states drop by their local shop and pick it up for half as much and watch it tonight. sounds fantastic, let me just bend over and grab my toes for the corporations while I'm at it
thanks for the offer, but no thanks. I'm fully aware I could import it myself from umpteen different sites but it's an unnecessary hassle. companies who make their customers jump through hoops end up losing customers.
I downloaded it too, but I live in Australia. they dont even have a release date set here (region 4) yet. stupid media companies and they archaic "regions". if you dont want to sell it to me when it comes out, dont expect me to buy it a year later when you decide my region can finally have it.
I've got a Powerbook, a MacBook and a Hackintosh (965p/nvidia/pc_efi), all running leopard. I havent seen a crash yet. It's fun to sensationalize when you're having problems; but assuming that everyone else is having them too, and making comparisons to vista just makes you look like a fool. perhaps Olivers ram has gone bad or something?
see, you played it on it's target platform and could understand it's limitations were because of the platform. the PC version is truly identical to the xbox version right down to having to use the keyboard to make many of the menu selections (even though you have a mouse pointer on the screen, for some reason clicking it doesnt do anything). There were a lot of downright stupid design decisions, stuff that could have been rectified in a mornings programming, but they opted to just do everything the xbox way. people who tried to play it on PC were left bitterly disappointed that they completely ignored all the stuff that made the first one great and gave them an xbox game on their pc.
you're only thinking in two dimensions. the intersection of two spheres is a circle
my mum (who's not at all technical) finds gmail usable; and all I did was give her an invite. At the time I was living in the UK and she was at home in Australia, so it's not because I showed her how to use it; it's just clear, simple and intuitive. I'd say odds are pretty good that you're flat-out wrong and most people would have no problems at all using it.
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I really like the second design on that page, but the blog of one of the user interface design guys suggests that the final theme may look significantly different from all of those. sounds like they want to make firefox look native, but recognizable as firefox on every platform. I'm undecided which way I think would turn out better
I think the only way it could work without tinyurl's servers being up would be to cache their entire database. if you think people are bitching about firefox's memory use now, wait until they see THAT plugin
the biggest problem with a silent pc (no cpu/gpu fans at least) is the amount of noise that hdd's generate and the fact there's not much you can do about them. I've got a quite case that has rubber grommets that hdds sit on but it doesnt help with the whine. admittedly I've got some pretty old drives in my case, so it would probably be a bit quieter if they were replaced. I'm looking forward to the day i can afford a decent sized solid state drive to boot off and then have a NAS device off in a cupboard somewhere mounted via gigabit ethernet.
passively cooled desktop cards are not particularly uncommon (so long as you arent wanting the top of the line uber-gaming rig) for example in the 30 seconds i spent looking at an online store i found this and this, both of which are 8600 GT series cards. there didnt seem to be any 8800 series cards, but it wouldnt suprise me to see them later in on, once even faster 8xxxx series cards come out (8900? i dunno if its in the works)
Massive thanks to you for mentioning Perian and NicePlayer. I'd not heard of either of them before so I grabbed them to try them out. I've been using niceplayer for the last few days now, and it's fantastic. I think VLC may no longer be my primary video playing software.
Now I dont suppose you know of an equally great music player that isnt itunes? There's often stuff I want to listen to but dont want littering my library. I use VLC for this, but it's by no means perfect
i think you mean effluent :P
yeah, you got me. X1