"(as it cools it contracts, when you melt it, it expands. think frozen water)"
Because, with water, the density of it as a solid is less than the density of it as a liquid. That's why freezing water in something will cause the little peak hill in the middle, or shatter the container from the extra pressure. It's also why ice floats.
So, frozen water contracts when it melts and expands when it freezes -- the opposite of what you're trying to get to;)
If we were stuck with a widget-based implementation, I'd have to upgrade my X server every time Xlib, GTK+, WxWindows, QT, Motif, Lesstif, etc, changed. That's stupid.
What's not stupid is using the existing protocol, which is fast (it ran well on 10 mhz SPARC machines 15 years ago!), efficient, and easy to compress for slower links.
This troll isn't saying anything, just attaching the mispelling to the name. And gullible moderators are falling for it again and again!
People, try to read the contents of the post before you moderate. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's insightful -- it just means you don't understand it. Maybe because it's info, or maybe because it's random garbage like this parent post.
The real Gnome/KDE clipboard (controlled by ctrl+c/x/v), and the X11 text DnD buffer (controlled by select + middle clirk). While most things you ever do will be easy with the X11 DnD, replacing a specific selection, etc, is fewer steps with a clipboard ala Gnome/KDE. Unfortunately for Gnome, they will blindly copy text from the DnD buffer over the real clipboard contents most of the time.
Once you understand the difference between the clipboard and plain text DnD, you'll see why both are important. Especially since you just can't highlight a part of a picture and middle-click it into a new window in The Gimp.
You'd see this is a troll of Eric S. Ray R N ord. I can see how in some fonts, the rn would look like an m, but I would hope that most moderators would look past the (incorrect) name and see the (incorrect) facts presented.
1) DDR Max 2 is very much a version designed to appeal to more people.
Why? It contains many licenced songs not present in any other DDR game. Songs like Dirty Vegas. In addition, Max 2 in North America has complete music videos in the background, rather than the random prerendered sequences that tend to be with the Japanese songs (try out DDR Extreme JP import to see what I mean). DDR Max 2 is a very unique release; while the gameplay mechanics and some songs are shared with Ultramix, the licencing and music videos make it a very unique release in the series.
2) GTA. "Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack (PS2/Xbox)"
They are specifically mentioning the double pack as a good gateway game, because for the low price of 59 or 69$ CDN, you get both 3D releases in one package (3 + VC). The double pack's on the PS2, and they mention it. They're trying to keep the list to top 10 gateway games of the moment, which restricts it to the past 12 months. The double pack was released in these past 12 months. Plus, unless you're someone who lives in a cave, you know there's a GTA for PC, even if you didn't get a shiny double pack with enchanced radiosity ala the Xbox version.
"I do think the portrayal of Haitians in GTA:Vice City is quite unecessary and in bad taste,"
This statement proves you have not played the game. Does this make you qualified to make an informed decision about the situation? No, it does not. All it means is that you can make in incorrect statement based on heresay and get modded up for it, because the moderators also haven't taken the time to research the issue.
It's not a crime to have a wrong opinion, but there are laws against slander and libel. I think Take2 Interactive should look into those against the people who instigated the actions that lead people like you, dear misguided comment poster, to such an in incorrect and charged feeling towards the producers of the game.
At an EB, your money is always your money. You can cancel your preorder at any time. If you have a receipt or identification, it's a couple steps for the till monkey, a signature from you, and you get your money back.
Software, Etc's not in Canada, probably because of business practices like you mention. Chances are, though, that all you need to do is produce ID and say you want your money back.
But not just that, a whopping 3 moderators also didn't even read the summary!
"This last one would also work in reverse, meaning hams, airplanes, or the military keying up their radios could take out large areas of internet service (with airplanes, potentially over several hundred miles)."
No planes dropping from the sky, just no internet service if you live near a radio wave source because of interference!
Really, how do you people use a browser if you can't read?
".. no more rentals from video stores, no used games market, no lending games to friends, less upgradeable computers, pay-as-you-play software subscriptions, and other consumer-unfriendly changes."
All of these sound like changes that affect the PC side of gaming more than anything else. With rumblings of retailers no longer carrying PC games, and weaker overall sales, this doesn't really surprise me. Most PC games aren't that good, with only a couple of excellent games a year. With console games, there are usually an average of a couple of excellent games a month.
The only major difference aside from the price on eBay vs. EB is that EB will take back any used game that doesn't work. The policy is pretty flexible because (as you know) they don't really do anything to the games beyond slapping on a price tag.
This does ignore some of the other sides of the equation, though. I tried to sell my Steel Battalion on eBay and got a non-paying high bidder who stalled me long enough that the next highest bidder wasn't interested anymore. eBay still charged me 20$ for selling it, even though I'd not made a penny (in fact, I was even worse off, because I bought the strategy guide I said I'd throw in if bidding went over 200$ USD). I have no such risk when I trade games in at EB -- they're going to give me something the moment I walk through their doors.
Plus, there are a lot of new titles there that can be had for considerably better prices than other stores. EB clears off its shelf space regularly for new product, something other chains (such as Toys'R'Us, which still has Einhander new for 70$ CDN) don't do.
If you're willing to shop around, you can find better deals. EB proves that most people don't care to shop around much on used game prices -- otherwise they wouldn't sell so much volume;)
Thanks to the grounding of the shuttle fleet, those poor astronauts have been stuck up there. This is pretty worrying, too, since they had that odd noise that led to a pressure drop.
Well, let's see:
mod_perl, mod_php, mod_jk (for your Tomcat servlet container needs), mod_speling, easy integration with Squid, easy integration with khttpd, boat loads of documentation everywhere + experience people who can help you, the fact that the tiny little SOHO cable connections are easily saturated by Apache on a 486, the fact that most people's extra machines are around the 500-700Mhz range now, etc.
Essentially, Apache is too well featured, too easy to setup, too easy to get help for, and does its job well enough for most people. If that wasn't true, people would take the time to switch (witness how unpopular NCSA HTTPD is now!).
As for completely bug free, you can't say that. Don't even try.
Last year, if you walked into an EB and grabbed their new release binder, you'd find they had release dates for Duke Nukem Forever and Team Fortress 2.
This was around the time when they had a release date of June 6th, 2003 for Halo 2.
After a couple of months passed, the dates for DNF and TF2 were deleted (they had probably sat at June 6th, 2003 for a looong time), and Halo 2 was moved to April 1st, 2004. Fable used to be listed as January 16th, 2004 -- it's not coming out anytime soon, either.
Unfortunately for the gaming public, EB doesn't have any way to signal that they don't have a relatively firm release date for an item. The closest they get is when they have a release date with a 0$ price on it. Anything else could be firm in stone, or entirely hypothetical -- it's just there to generate preorders so thay have an idea of what the demand for the game is going to be, and thus how to ship things. After all, EB's entire profit structure is based around carrying the minimum number of each title in order to maximize the number of different titles they can carry (thus beating the crap out of Wal*Mart for selection).
Microsoft has been very serious about building up this image about how bad-asses use the XBox. Their XSN Sports lineup shows this to a T: "dominate anyone, anywhere, at any time" (with online stats updates, challence notifications, etc).
The big, black box with a whole word of competition where you destroy opponents and feast on their still-beating hearts is what Xbox Live! and the Xbox has been advertised as for over 2 years now. To neuter that seems silly.
Or, perhaps, MS has realized that Nintendo's made a lot of headway being accesible to all age groups, not just white males age 18-35.
If you were playing games written for a 386-SX25 on a blazingly fast 486-75 (which slowed to 25), because their asm timing loops didn't take into account variable clock speed.
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"When your healty... they are called laptop..."
Ill be sure to mispell my post so its moderated up!
"(as it cools it contracts, when you melt it, it expands. think frozen water)"
;)
Because, with water, the density of it as a solid is less than the density of it as a liquid. That's why freezing water in something will cause the little peak hill in the middle, or shatter the container from the extra pressure. It's also why ice floats.
So, frozen water contracts when it melts and expands when it freezes -- the opposite of what you're trying to get to
If we were stuck with a widget-based implementation, I'd have to upgrade my X server every time Xlib, GTK+, WxWindows, QT, Motif, Lesstif, etc, changed. That's stupid.
What's not stupid is using the existing protocol, which is fast (it ran well on 10 mhz SPARC machines 15 years ago!), efficient, and easy to compress for slower links.
This troll isn't saying anything, just attaching the mispelling to the name. And gullible moderators are falling for it again and again!
People, try to read the contents of the post before you moderate. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's insightful -- it just means you don't understand it. Maybe because it's info, or maybe because it's random garbage like this parent post.
The real Gnome/KDE clipboard (controlled by ctrl+c/x/v), and the X11 text DnD buffer (controlled by select + middle clirk). While most things you ever do will be easy with the X11 DnD, replacing a specific selection, etc, is fewer steps with a clipboard ala Gnome/KDE. Unfortunately for Gnome, they will blindly copy text from the DnD buffer over the real clipboard contents most of the time.
Once you understand the difference between the clipboard and plain text DnD, you'll see why both are important. Especially since you just can't highlight a part of a picture and middle-click it into a new window in The Gimp.
You'd see this is a troll of Eric S. Ray R N ord. I can see how in some fonts, the rn would look like an m, but I would hope that most moderators would look past the (incorrect) name and see the (incorrect) facts presented.
Tra la la.
It hasn't fallen far enough. This past year is the year of lying about Linux. It's made them lots of money.
Both your points (GTA, DDR) are easily explained.
1) DDR Max 2 is very much a version designed to appeal to more people.
Why? It contains many licenced songs not present in any other DDR game. Songs like Dirty Vegas. In addition, Max 2 in North America has complete music videos in the background, rather than the random prerendered sequences that tend to be with the Japanese songs (try out DDR Extreme JP import to see what I mean). DDR Max 2 is a very unique release; while the gameplay mechanics and some songs are shared with Ultramix, the licencing and music videos make it a very unique release in the series.
2) GTA.
"Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack (PS2/Xbox)"
They are specifically mentioning the double pack as a good gateway game, because for the low price of 59 or 69$ CDN, you get both 3D releases in one package (3 + VC). The double pack's on the PS2, and they mention it. They're trying to keep the list to top 10 gateway games of the moment, which restricts it to the past 12 months. The double pack was released in these past 12 months. Plus, unless you're someone who lives in a cave, you know there's a GTA for PC, even if you didn't get a shiny double pack with enchanced radiosity ala the Xbox version.
The best compression PNG can get is not JPEGed, since PNG is not a lossy encoding!
"I do think the portrayal of Haitians in GTA:Vice City is quite unecessary and in bad taste,"
This statement proves you have not played the game. Does this make you qualified to make an informed decision about the situation? No, it does not. All it means is that you can make in incorrect statement based on heresay and get modded up for it, because the moderators also haven't taken the time to research the issue.
It's not a crime to have a wrong opinion, but there are laws against slander and libel. I think Take2 Interactive should look into those against the people who instigated the actions that lead people like you, dear misguided comment poster, to such an in incorrect and charged feeling towards the producers of the game.
Leaves me very skilled to attack?
Do you know what adept means?
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
At an EB, your money is always your money. You can cancel your preorder at any time. If you have a receipt or identification, it's a couple steps for the till monkey, a signature from you, and you get your money back.
Software, Etc's not in Canada, probably because of business practices like you mention. Chances are, though, that all you need to do is produce ID and say you want your money back.
But not just that, a whopping 3 moderators also didn't even read the summary!
"This last one would also work in reverse, meaning hams, airplanes, or the military keying up their radios could take out large areas of internet service (with airplanes, potentially over several hundred miles)."
No planes dropping from the sky, just no internet service if you live near a radio wave source because of interference!
Really, how do you people use a browser if you can't read?
Did he have insurance to cover it? Did insurance pay out, even though it was being held in evidence?
Yet Another Mirror, but this one has thumbnails so you don't have to rape by bandwidth quite so much
".. no more rentals from video stores, no used games market, no lending games to friends, less upgradeable computers, pay-as-you-play software subscriptions, and other consumer-unfriendly changes."
All of these sound like changes that affect the PC side of gaming more than anything else. With rumblings of retailers no longer carrying PC games, and weaker overall sales, this doesn't really surprise me. Most PC games aren't that good, with only a couple of excellent games a year. With console games, there are usually an average of a couple of excellent games a month.
"Or what happens if it desensitizes soldiers to the point that their slight paranoia turns to burning down whole villages? "
Did you ever watch the movie Platoon? That stuff already happened. The US has no moral high ground when it comes to crimes of war.
Install procmail between your MTA and the delivery agent, and have procmail send email through a filter that strips HTML. I use stripmime.pl.
Then, what you receive is only the plaintext part.
The only major difference aside from the price on eBay vs. EB is that EB will take back any used game that doesn't work. The policy is pretty flexible because (as you know) they don't really do anything to the games beyond slapping on a price tag.
;)
This does ignore some of the other sides of the equation, though. I tried to sell my Steel Battalion on eBay and got a non-paying high bidder who stalled me long enough that the next highest bidder wasn't interested anymore. eBay still charged me 20$ for selling it, even though I'd not made a penny (in fact, I was even worse off, because I bought the strategy guide I said I'd throw in if bidding went over 200$ USD). I have no such risk when I trade games in at EB -- they're going to give me something the moment I walk through their doors.
Plus, there are a lot of new titles there that can be had for considerably better prices than other stores. EB clears off its shelf space regularly for new product, something other chains (such as Toys'R'Us, which still has Einhander new for 70$ CDN) don't do.
If you're willing to shop around, you can find better deals. EB proves that most people don't care to shop around much on used game prices -- otherwise they wouldn't sell so much volume
Thanks to the grounding of the shuttle fleet, those poor astronauts have been stuck up there. This is pretty worrying, too, since they had that odd noise that led to a pressure drop.
Well, let's see:
mod_perl, mod_php, mod_jk (for your Tomcat servlet container needs), mod_speling, easy integration with Squid, easy integration with khttpd, boat loads of documentation everywhere + experience people who can help you, the fact that the tiny little SOHO cable connections are easily saturated by Apache on a 486, the fact that most people's extra machines are around the 500-700Mhz range now, etc.
Essentially, Apache is too well featured, too easy to setup, too easy to get help for, and does its job well enough for most people. If that wasn't true, people would take the time to switch (witness how unpopular NCSA HTTPD is now!).
As for completely bug free, you can't say that. Don't even try.
Boku wa tatakau hito desu. Bigu roboto de ikimasho!
(Lit: How much is that? I am a fighter pilot. I'm going by big robot!)
Last year, if you walked into an EB and grabbed their new release binder, you'd find they had release dates for Duke Nukem Forever and Team Fortress 2.
This was around the time when they had a release date of June 6th, 2003 for Halo 2.
After a couple of months passed, the dates for DNF and TF2 were deleted (they had probably sat at June 6th, 2003 for a looong time), and Halo 2 was moved to April 1st, 2004. Fable used to be listed as January 16th, 2004 -- it's not coming out anytime soon, either.
Unfortunately for the gaming public, EB doesn't have any way to signal that they don't have a relatively firm release date for an item. The closest they get is when they have a release date with a 0$ price on it. Anything else could be firm in stone, or entirely hypothetical -- it's just there to generate preorders so thay have an idea of what the demand for the game is going to be, and thus how to ship things. After all, EB's entire profit structure is based around carrying the minimum number of each title in order to maximize the number of different titles they can carry (thus beating the crap out of Wal*Mart for selection).
Microsoft has been very serious about building up this image about how bad-asses use the XBox. Their XSN Sports lineup shows this to a T: "dominate anyone, anywhere, at any time" (with online stats updates, challence notifications, etc).
The big, black box with a whole word of competition where you destroy opponents and feast on their still-beating hearts is what Xbox Live! and the Xbox has been advertised as for over 2 years now. To neuter that seems silly.
Or, perhaps, MS has realized that Nintendo's made a lot of headway being accesible to all age groups, not just white males age 18-35.
If you were playing games written for a 386-SX25 on a blazingly fast 486-75 (which slowed to 25), because their asm timing loops didn't take into account variable clock speed.