I too have experienced more bugs and crashes with each new 'update' released. Although I'm no where near going back to IE yet, if crashes are happening now, surely security holes appearing are round the corner?
Agreed. It is simply too much hassle for one to change instant messaging networks like that. Changing my e-mail to GMail was bad enough, but telling everybody to add your new contact name, or worse, telling them to download a client so they can chat to you exclusively is just out of the question for me.
from being a beta tester of the full game, that it totally rocks. Storyline, graphics, gameplay are all excellent. Download the demo now and then pre-order it!
For those who are wondering: it is a unique RTS, hard to explain, download the demo and you'll find out;)
Yeah they were good except for one thing: grenades.
They threw them at the first side of enemy or just within the first few seconds of the round at the wall which resulted in either a) the bots death or b) the bots death and lots of others being harmed/killed due to FF being on.
They weren't very good followers either. Saw an enemy go round a corner and say "I've lost him". Sometimes it would just degrade down to a simple cat and mouse game at which time I would kill the bots in a fury!
No they're not O.o
Where in God's name did you hear that?
Anyway ontopic I haven't been following this story, at all, but from what I can see they say they own Linux? HAH!
This is true. In once certain post I remember Taylor Sherman (VALVe employee) said that some number of fake CD-keys had been tried and multiple attempts of credit card fraud, so they log nearly everything, even CD-keys that were invalid and failed. Can't find the post unfortunately - must have been pruned.
I do agree that they should be punished, and besides, they did agree that VALVe had the right to disable their account for any reason upon making a Steam account.
Although the X-Box is very good on the hardware side, and currently rivals PC technology (well almost, maybe its a year behind). However, if you take into account technology is constantly improving. You want to keep up right? So you must improve your current stuff.
Comparison: PC - shutdown, take off case, remove old hardware, insert new hardware, reboot. Its easy to do, and you only require minimum technical knowledge to do so especially if you read the instruction manual.
X-Box (and other consoles for that matter) - Everything already inserted and ready (could be nice for technology idiots but some of us like that kind of stuff), you have to pay for a new console (a couple of hundred), more space taken up (lets face it, the X-Box is no lightweight) with the old console and the new one.
I'm just trying to highlight the differences between upgrading and the advantages of doing so on both PC and console. Personally, the PC will always be better than any console.
You're probably right. Has anybody else noticed everyone seems to be blaming their problems on computers these days? Think about it, homework not due in: computer died, kid kills other kids: played too much doom, music sales drop: file-swapping
I'm glad this is the case. Anything that may slightly deter the record companies from more copy protection, and making them lose money for charging ridculous prices for tunes is good too. I hope the song writers do get double pay, some of them out there definitely deserve it!
I've seen so-called "adapative AI" before. I can't remember what the games which utilised it were called but what I think they did, is take your score and increase or decrease the AI's skill accordingly. Although in SC:PT I think this might be actual in game, instead of calculating between levels. Either way, I don't think its that hard. For programmers, not me.
This doesn't apply to me since I don't have Linux...yet. I plan to get a Knoppix cd, after all, it was on a PCFormat that came a while ago, if only I could find it. Although I know nothing about Linux, so some links to some beginner sites could be useful =\.
Also, is Linux more secure than Windows, because I hear a fair amount of Linux security holes more than Windows, or maybe I'm just not perceptive enough.
I kinda drifted through the article swiftly =\. Replace all the things about thinking and stuff with saying. eg:I can say whatever the hell etc. you get the picture. Thank you!
I can think whatever the hell I like, and he can't stop me. If I'm having bad and naughty thoughts considered "heresy", he doesn't know I'm having them and neither does anybody else, so why should he be bothered? Also, some thoughts my considered "heresy" by him but not by others.
My thoughts, my life! Who's with me?!
I see your point, but free stuff makes people like the product, unless the said product is crap, in which case he will know this and just give up. However, if the product is good and useful, people will donate. Its a fact of life, you see it everywhere like here and here.
Both those sites give something for nothing, and they manage to make a living perfectly well.
I really don't see whats so hard to understand about OSS. It's free and its meant to be distributed and you can edit it, but you've got to give credit to whoever made the orginial version. It's that simple. Well probably NOT that simple, I'm no OSS guru, but I think it's like that...
Thats a surprsingly short time. For me it is much longer (probably), since I have a crappy computer. It depeneds on what equipment you have, and your skill using computers, for example, if you had a computer with all the top of the range equipment it would have hardly any problems. Apart from the pop-ups, but they take mere seconds to destroy. And about forced to update MSN Messenger, thats just lies, you aren't forced to, and you can still chat to people who have upgraded. Rather an unfair experiment IMHO.
Not if it downloads it using the open command. I presume the download is small so it would not be long until it downloaded and opened itself automatically. By then when the user realised the download was taking place it would be too late. But as people say it's harmless so I'm not worried.
I got this DVD devoted to that COG advert free after a movie at WB. It was good watching the full thing then watching the making;). Theres also another section where it tells you all the parts as its going through the ad. Pretty good since it's free =).
Let me get this straight. Solar powered planes? How would this work in say a flight from London to America? It takes about a day in which the sun goes down. What will happen when the sun goes down? Will it crash? Will it run on reserve batteries? I'm not the world's most intelligent person, but I'm wondering how this will catch on...
From my experience simple games are often the best. Games don't have to have amazingly good graphics, as long as it has good gameplay value its good. Take for example the game "Uplink". Hacking simulator, totally original and all 2D! Throughly enjoyable!
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I guess that makes it ok for people purchasing blank media for completely legitimate uses to get charged extra for other people's piracy?
I wonder if you (and others) would accept the apology if it were Microsoft instead of Google...
I too have experienced more bugs and crashes with each new 'update' released. Although I'm no where near going back to IE yet, if crashes are happening now, surely security holes appearing are round the corner?
Agreed. It is simply too much hassle for one to change instant messaging networks like that. Changing my e-mail to GMail was bad enough, but telling everybody to add your new contact name, or worse, telling them to download a client so they can chat to you exclusively is just out of the question for me.
from being a beta tester of the full game, that it totally rocks. Storyline, graphics, gameplay are all excellent. Download the demo now and then pre-order it! For those who are wondering: it is a unique RTS, hard to explain, download the demo and you'll find out ;)
Yeah they were good except for one thing: grenades. They threw them at the first side of enemy or just within the first few seconds of the round at the wall which resulted in either a) the bots death or b) the bots death and lots of others being harmed/killed due to FF being on. They weren't very good followers either. Saw an enemy go round a corner and say "I've lost him". Sometimes it would just degrade down to a simple cat and mouse game at which time I would kill the bots in a fury!
Oh... well I certainly dont do games and other activities on that ratio.. perhaps probably the opposite :x
How many gamers did the person study anyay?
No they're not O.o Where in God's name did you hear that? Anyway ontopic I haven't been following this story, at all, but from what I can see they say they own Linux? HAH!
This is true. In once certain post I remember Taylor Sherman (VALVe employee) said that some number of fake CD-keys had been tried and multiple attempts of credit card fraud, so they log nearly everything, even CD-keys that were invalid and failed. Can't find the post unfortunately - must have been pruned.
I do agree that they should be punished, and besides, they did agree that VALVe had the right to disable their account for any reason upon making a Steam account.
Another reason to jump on the "GAMES ARE MAKING OUR KIDS INTO PHYCHOPATHS" bandwagon. Damn them all!
Although the X-Box is very good on the hardware side, and currently rivals PC technology (well almost, maybe its a year behind). However, if you take into account technology is constantly improving. You want to keep up right? So you must improve your current stuff.
Comparison: PC - shutdown, take off case, remove old hardware, insert new hardware, reboot. Its easy to do, and you only require minimum technical knowledge to do so especially if you read the instruction manual.
X-Box (and other consoles for that matter) - Everything already inserted and ready (could be nice for technology idiots but some of us like that kind of stuff), you have to pay for a new console (a couple of hundred), more space taken up (lets face it, the X-Box is no lightweight) with the old console and the new one.
I'm just trying to highlight the differences between upgrading and the advantages of doing so on both PC and console. Personally, the PC will always be better than any console.
You're probably right. Has anybody else noticed everyone seems to be blaming their problems on computers these days? Think about it, homework not due in: computer died, kid kills other kids: played too much doom, music sales drop: file-swapping
I'm glad this is the case. Anything that may slightly deter the record companies from more copy protection, and making them lose money for charging ridculous prices for tunes is good too. I hope the song writers do get double pay, some of them out there definitely deserve it!
I've seen so-called "adapative AI" before. I can't remember what the games which utilised it were called but what I think they did, is take your score and increase or decrease the AI's skill accordingly. Although in SC:PT I think this might be actual in game, instead of calculating between levels. Either way, I don't think its that hard. For programmers, not me.
This doesn't apply to me since I don't have Linux...yet. I plan to get a Knoppix cd, after all, it was on a PCFormat that came a while ago, if only I could find it. Although I know nothing about Linux, so some links to some beginner sites could be useful =\.
Also, is Linux more secure than Windows, because I hear a fair amount of Linux security holes more than Windows, or maybe I'm just not perceptive enough.
Fortunately, I am in the UK, and although it does happen here, not nearly as often ^^;
I kinda drifted through the article swiftly =\. Replace all the things about thinking and stuff with saying. eg:I can say whatever the hell etc. you get the picture. Thank you!
I can think whatever the hell I like, and he can't stop me. If I'm having bad and naughty thoughts considered "heresy", he doesn't know I'm having them and neither does anybody else, so why should he be bothered? Also, some thoughts my considered "heresy" by him but not by others.
My thoughts, my life! Who's with me?!
I see your point, but free stuff makes people like the product, unless the said product is crap, in which case he will know this and just give up. However, if the product is good and useful, people will donate. Its a fact of life, you see it everywhere like here and here. Both those sites give something for nothing, and they manage to make a living perfectly well.
I really don't see whats so hard to understand about OSS. It's free and its meant to be distributed and you can edit it, but you've got to give credit to whoever made the orginial version. It's that simple. Well probably NOT that simple, I'm no OSS guru, but I think it's like that...
Thats a surprsingly short time. For me it is much longer (probably), since I have a crappy computer. It depeneds on what equipment you have, and your skill using computers, for example, if you had a computer with all the top of the range equipment it would have hardly any problems. Apart from the pop-ups, but they take mere seconds to destroy. And about forced to update MSN Messenger, thats just lies, you aren't forced to, and you can still chat to people who have upgraded. Rather an unfair experiment IMHO.
Not if it downloads it using the open command. I presume the download is small so it would not be long until it downloaded and opened itself automatically. By then when the user realised the download was taking place it would be too late. But as people say it's harmless so I'm not worried.
I got this DVD devoted to that COG advert free after a movie at WB. It was good watching the full thing then watching the making ;). Theres also another section where it tells you all the parts as its going through the ad. Pretty good since it's free =).
Let me get this straight. Solar powered planes? How would this work in say a flight from London to America? It takes about a day in which the sun goes down. What will happen when the sun goes down? Will it crash? Will it run on reserve batteries? I'm not the world's most intelligent person, but I'm wondering how this will catch on...
From my experience simple games are often the best. Games don't have to have amazingly good graphics, as long as it has good gameplay value its good. Take for example the game "Uplink". Hacking simulator, totally original and all 2D! Throughly enjoyable!