One of the problems you can have with RT, though, is spurious BS requests that clog up the pipeline. If you aren't careful, you can end up looking like you're sandbagging, when really those 5 month old tickets are all pipe dreams from a particularly obnoxious user who you can't simply deny, but you can't afford to comply with either. (You know the type: My browser is too taupe, please make it more mauve, signed: your boss)
Something I've read recently (in the pro/anti PDF discussions) is that there's a modern version of PDF that actually supports reflow, and is supposedly better than HTML because it can include the desired fonts in the document, supports automatic hyphenation, kerning and all the stuff that get the graphic designer types excited that HTML doesn't do so well. I've never seen this sort of PDF, and I'm not sure that's what the majority of people are clamoring for when they ask for a device that can read PDFs, but supposedly it's out there.
The thing that I've noticed is that while there are chunks of linearity (escape from the prison! Go through this dungeon!), there are a lot of sections of the game where you aren't obliged to do anything in particular. Go hunt some minibosses. Explore the land. Find new equipment. Go down this side quest chain. Etc etc etc. You _can_ just plow through from point A to point B and ram along with the story, but even with only 20 hours in, I have a bunch of things to do on the side when I want a diversion from the story.
Plus, there are reminders of where you want to go next in the story, which is nice for getting yourself back on track after fiddling around in the desert for a while. Some might complain that this tells you where you need to go next, but to this older gamer, the stuff I've noticed has been places that your character would _know_ without wandering aimlessly around their hometown trying to find their old friend Dalan's place.
Is it as open-ended as Oblivion? I don't know, really - that's an awfully high mark. But is it as godforsakenly linear as FFX? Not so far.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised this hasn't turned into an ADA issue yet. I'm not deaf, but I like captioning so I don't have to fight with the volume to catch the quieter parts as well as the loud parts.
It's probably expecting too much to get video _and_ captioning data on a 320x240 screen that's only what, 2.5" diagonal? But certainly on the PC.
Yeah, I used to go to GenCon annually when I was a teen in the early 90's because it was local and convenient and good clean nerdy fun. A few years back (last year in Milwaukee? Year before?) I went with my wife and stepson and good lord, it was CardCon. If it wasn't a CCG, you didn't see it. That added to the change in venue from the crusty old Mecca to the Midwest Express Expo Center and eeeyugh.
Yeah, the lack of backlight is the killer for me. I wouldn't mind an eBook system that does better outdoors when I'm on vacation and want a nice page turner on the beach (my Palm Tungsten is only just barely legible in direct sunlight), but honestly, I use my PDA at night before going to bed a _lot_ more, and the ability for my wife and I to read in the dark without disturbing each other has been a godsend.
Actually, all of the first responders I know have incredibly black senses of humor about the shit they get dragged into day in and day out. Probably helps them keep their sanity, though.
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Yes they will. You will get beaten again and AGAIN until you know JUST how long you plan to spend at the "doctor's" office (wink wink). It will go down in your PERMANENT RECORD. Ahem.
But you see - consumers, especially the ones in the overclocking camp, are mindless sheep. So if they see that Brand X overclocks more than brand Y in a "shootout" by some site with links to 18 different retailers selling both brand X and Brand Y, obviously Brand X is _worth_ the $50 price hike.
(Of course, I think that if you're buying for a "known" overclock, you are probably best parted with your money before you put some godawful wing on your car..)
Yeah, I haven't ever had too much trouble checking out at the Apple Store around here, but then I'm not an idiot like EVERYONE ELSE in line. Apparently these people can't ask the other Apple Geeks floating around the store, so they grab a $20 dowhicket and go to the counter and ask them how OSX prioritizes the color blue over the color yellow. Instead of shuffling the line killer to a handy expert, the register biscuit answers or goes to fetch someone or otherwise hangs up the line for a solid 5 minute discussion of, I dunno, proper polishes to use on your iBook or appropriate use of copyrighted material in your iMovie productions or just SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Probably the slowest I've been in line was when I was purchasing a new iBook and got surprised by some promo or other they were running for double memory or whatever and the register biscuit had to go scrounge some up.
If you can't tell, I'd kill for a self-checkout option at the apple store.
Well, I'll admit that was completely talking out of my ass - I know they die when you least expect it, and usually when the manufacturer has given up on that line unless if you're using enterprise-level UPSes, but that's different. But it seemed like we went through APS 2200's at least every other year, possibly sooner, at my last job.
Smartass answer: You mean you don't use your UPSes to arc weld during thunderstorms? Sheesh, what has this world come to.
I'm torn on the magic fan control Apple uses. On the one hand, it's cool, on the other hand, great honking toggles are a lot of fun, too. It's my only little bit of case bling, heh.
I think the answer is as simple as noting that most people don't run their CPUs to 100% load 24/7. So I can slow down 2 of my case fans (noisy-ass 90mm's in my case) when my computer is idling and surfing the web, and spin them up when I fire up a game. My 120mm rear exhaust is quiet enough (and generally moves enough air) to cool the machine most of the time.
UPS.. Those nice guys in brown, aren't they? But yeah, It'd be nice if a) ATA's came with a built in battery backup and b) UPSes didn't die every 18 months or so.
That is, if I remember correctly, something the content generator has control over, whether to embed the fonts or pull equivalent fonts from the host system. (helvetica clone at 9pt fitting this bounding box. Check!)
The usual file size versus portability concerns as postscript.
You're _totally_ taking your life into your own hands by not having a telegraph line hooked up, you know. Everyone should be taught SOS in grade school.
Related, though, do you know how long a cheap (I think it was $20, maybe less) UPS will power a wireless base station and cable modem and VOIP ATA? I've never found out, it's never died during any extended outages around here.
And (anecdote time!), having worked for SBC Long Distance, POTS isn't really frickin' reliable either. I remember having massive LD outages lasting a reasonable amount of time (8+ hours), even though you'd think the network would be.. Well, more redundant than it is.
Doubly so when you're trying to call the middle-of-freaking-nowhere India and wonder why it sounds funny, must be SBC's problem. (Never sounded like this with AT&T. Of course, AT&T charged us 10 times as much per minute. "You get what you pay for" isn't a cliche outside of the US, maybe.)
Fun job for about 4 months, then it turns into a living hell as you realize everyone is a complete idiot.
Is that still true now that we have SLIC huts and CO extensions and all that noise? Sure, the CO will be chugging away on diesel generators from hell, but will people who are fed off of those puppies be SOL?
Nah, you still gotta deal with random keyboard variations. I'm very specific to my model M, typing on keyboards in mexico feels highly odd because of the weird enter key and | key positions, among others. (Well, at the "internet access station" at the resort last year, anyway. Might've just been an unusual import dealiebob.)
What ended up killing FFXI for me, though, was that by level 36 (monk) was that I needed to set aside at least 5 hours per "levelling" session. An hour LFP, an hour getting everyone to the camp, an hour figuring out who the asshat was in the PT (and other general meshing issues - who doesn't run around with food, who doesn't have oils/powders, etc), and 2 whole hours of experience time! This wasn't bad when I was working 2nd shift and could spend all morning playing, but evenings just didn't work out.
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One of the problems you can have with RT, though, is spurious BS requests that clog up the pipeline. If you aren't careful, you can end up looking like you're sandbagging, when really those 5 month old tickets are all pipe dreams from a particularly obnoxious user who you can't simply deny, but you can't afford to comply with either. (You know the type: My browser is too taupe, please make it more mauve, signed: your boss)
The sheer amount of ignorance on this forum has been STAGGERING. What the hell is wrong with you people?
(steadfastly ignores the UID) Ah, you must be new here!
Something I've read recently (in the pro/anti PDF discussions) is that there's a modern version of PDF that actually supports reflow, and is supposedly better than HTML because it can include the desired fonts in the document, supports automatic hyphenation, kerning and all the stuff that get the graphic designer types excited that HTML doesn't do so well. I've never seen this sort of PDF, and I'm not sure that's what the majority of people are clamoring for when they ask for a device that can read PDFs, but supposedly it's out there.
The thing that I've noticed is that while there are chunks of linearity (escape from the prison! Go through this dungeon!), there are a lot of sections of the game where you aren't obliged to do anything in particular. Go hunt some minibosses. Explore the land. Find new equipment. Go down this side quest chain. Etc etc etc. You _can_ just plow through from point A to point B and ram along with the story, but even with only 20 hours in, I have a bunch of things to do on the side when I want a diversion from the story.
Plus, there are reminders of where you want to go next in the story, which is nice for getting yourself back on track after fiddling around in the desert for a while. Some might complain that this tells you where you need to go next, but to this older gamer, the stuff I've noticed has been places that your character would _know_ without wandering aimlessly around their hometown trying to find their old friend Dalan's place.
Is it as open-ended as Oblivion? I don't know, really - that's an awfully high mark. But is it as godforsakenly linear as FFX? Not so far.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised this hasn't turned into an ADA issue yet. I'm not deaf, but I like captioning so I don't have to fight with the volume to catch the quieter parts as well as the loud parts.
It's probably expecting too much to get video _and_ captioning data on a 320x240 screen that's only what, 2.5" diagonal? But certainly on the PC.
Yeah, I used to go to GenCon annually when I was a teen in the early 90's because it was local and convenient and good clean nerdy fun. A few years back (last year in Milwaukee? Year before?) I went with my wife and stepson and good lord, it was CardCon. If it wasn't a CCG, you didn't see it. That added to the change in venue from the crusty old Mecca to the Midwest Express Expo Center and eeeyugh.
Yeah, the lack of backlight is the killer for me. I wouldn't mind an eBook system that does better outdoors when I'm on vacation and want a nice page turner on the beach (my Palm Tungsten is only just barely legible in direct sunlight), but honestly, I use my PDA at night before going to bed a _lot_ more, and the ability for my wife and I to read in the dark without disturbing each other has been a godsend.
Actually, all of the first responders I know have incredibly black senses of humor about the shit they get dragged into day in and day out. Probably helps them keep their sanity, though.
Ah, but have you tried the _veal_?
Will this be an MMOarrrrrrrPG?
Yes they will. You will get beaten again and AGAIN until you know JUST how long you plan to spend at the "doctor's" office (wink wink). It will go down in your PERMANENT RECORD. Ahem.
But you see - consumers, especially the ones in the overclocking camp, are mindless sheep. So if they see that Brand X overclocks more than brand Y in a "shootout" by some site with links to 18 different retailers selling both brand X and Brand Y, obviously Brand X is _worth_ the $50 price hike.
(Of course, I think that if you're buying for a "known" overclock, you are probably best parted with your money before you put some godawful wing on your car..)
Yes, but in your country, the conservatives are probably what we'd consider liberals in the good old US of A.
Yeah, I haven't ever had too much trouble checking out at the Apple Store around here, but then I'm not an idiot like EVERYONE ELSE in line. Apparently these people can't ask the other Apple Geeks floating around the store, so they grab a $20 dowhicket and go to the counter and ask them how OSX prioritizes the color blue over the color yellow. Instead of shuffling the line killer to a handy expert, the register biscuit answers or goes to fetch someone or otherwise hangs up the line for a solid 5 minute discussion of, I dunno, proper polishes to use on your iBook or appropriate use of copyrighted material in your iMovie productions or just SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Probably the slowest I've been in line was when I was purchasing a new iBook and got surprised by some promo or other they were running for double memory or whatever and the register biscuit had to go scrounge some up.
If you can't tell, I'd kill for a self-checkout option at the apple store.
Stop being smart on slashdot - it's against the charter or something.
Well, I'll admit that was completely talking out of my ass - I know they die when you least expect it, and usually when the manufacturer has given up on that line unless if you're using enterprise-level UPSes, but that's different. But it seemed like we went through APS 2200's at least every other year, possibly sooner, at my last job.
Smartass answer: You mean you don't use your UPSes to arc weld during thunderstorms? Sheesh, what has this world come to.
I'm torn on the magic fan control Apple uses. On the one hand, it's cool, on the other hand, great honking toggles are a lot of fun, too. It's my only little bit of case bling, heh.
I think the answer is as simple as noting that most people don't run their CPUs to 100% load 24/7. So I can slow down 2 of my case fans (noisy-ass 90mm's in my case) when my computer is idling and surfing the web, and spin them up when I fire up a game. My 120mm rear exhaust is quiet enough (and generally moves enough air) to cool the machine most of the time.
UPS.. Those nice guys in brown, aren't they? But yeah, It'd be nice if a) ATA's came with a built in battery backup and b) UPSes didn't die every 18 months or so.
That is, if I remember correctly, something the content generator has control over, whether to embed the fonts or pull equivalent fonts from the host system. (helvetica clone at 9pt fitting this bounding box. Check!)
The usual file size versus portability concerns as postscript.
You're _totally_ taking your life into your own hands by not having a telegraph line hooked up, you know. Everyone should be taught SOS in grade school.
Related, though, do you know how long a cheap (I think it was $20, maybe less) UPS will power a wireless base station and cable modem and VOIP ATA? I've never found out, it's never died during any extended outages around here.
And (anecdote time!), having worked for SBC Long Distance, POTS isn't really frickin' reliable either. I remember having massive LD outages lasting a reasonable amount of time (8+ hours), even though you'd think the network would be.. Well, more redundant than it is.
Doubly so when you're trying to call the middle-of-freaking-nowhere India and wonder why it sounds funny, must be SBC's problem. (Never sounded like this with AT&T. Of course, AT&T charged us 10 times as much per minute. "You get what you pay for" isn't a cliche outside of the US, maybe.)
Fun job for about 4 months, then it turns into a living hell as you realize everyone is a complete idiot.
Is that still true now that we have SLIC huts and CO extensions and all that noise? Sure, the CO will be chugging away on diesel generators from hell, but will people who are fed off of those puppies be SOL?
Nah, you still gotta deal with random keyboard variations. I'm very specific to my model M, typing on keyboards in mexico feels highly odd because of the weird enter key and | key positions, among others. (Well, at the "internet access station" at the resort last year, anyway. Might've just been an unusual import dealiebob.)
What ended up killing FFXI for me, though, was that by level 36 (monk) was that I needed to set aside at least 5 hours per "levelling" session. An hour LFP, an hour getting everyone to the camp, an hour figuring out who the asshat was in the PT (and other general meshing issues - who doesn't run around with food, who doesn't have oils/powders, etc), and 2 whole hours of experience time! This wasn't bad when I was working 2nd shift and could spend all morning playing, but evenings just didn't work out.
Ugh. I'm firmly in the keep 'em short camp.