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Halo 2 Goes Gold
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That has almost nothing to do with Halo and everything to do with the fact that a dad likes spending time with his son. The only thing Halo achieved was having multiplayer.
You get points for murdering people in gruesome ways, with weapons like "the plastic bag", with which you strangle, snap necks, and break noses - all in a live-motion cutscene EVERY TIME you kill.
There's not really anything unique or new about that. It sounds like you just didn't like the presentation of the game, which is fair enough. It doesn't come across that well.
Personally the only thing I found disturbing about Manhunt was what a crap game it was!
in my experience (admittedly, not particularly extensive) the difficulty of installing linux on a laptop over installing it on a regular PC nowadays is negligible
The trouble doesn't come when installing, and yes distros like SUSE etc. should pick up most if not all of the hardware.
Where the trouble arises is stuff like *) noticing your fan comes on more often than it does in Windows *) noticing that you can suspend from the console, but not from X *) noticing that you can suspend, but when you resume your screen is sometimes black, or garbled *) having to unload/reload drivers like usb, eth0 because otherwise they crash *) noticing that when you put your laptop into an ACPI sleep state, it only lasts for about an hour rather than the several it should last for *) difficulty installing BIOS updates that usually require Windows and/or a floppy drive, requiring you to extract the image, get the.bin, burn it onto a CD etc *) Discover that if you just leave your laptop on and walk away, it'll lockup instead of sleeping properly etc. etc. Yes, you may not have had any of these problems, but so many people do.
It's all these little things that happen during use, none of them complete showstoppers most of the time, but all of them time consuming and a total pain. The worst thing is that in my experience, it doesn't get better or more consistent. Buy a new laptop? Get ready for a whole new set of inconsistencies, lockups, script-writing, guessing, cursing etc. I'm on the linux-thinkpad mailing list, and honestly some of the messages are quite comical - people trying one thing, reverting to another, all the guess work and finger-crossing, it's a mess. It sucks.
So, if HP can get a totally smooth Linux setup out of the box, not just installation but in regular use too, then that would be welcome.
Thanks for sharing the good news. There aren't enough high quality games focused on the single player as it is. You want multiplayer, go play all the rest.
I decided that the only thing to do was not to worry[3], and leave it in the hands of God.
I think God had prepared me for this moment quite well;
There was definitely a difference between the way my Christian and non-Christian friends took the news. In general, the Christians took it very well - not getting upset, and promising to pray for me.
I had so many visitors, it was a real blessing
we talked for a while and he read Psalm 23. As I listened, I understood again just how much God cared about me
I'm really, really glad he made it through, he sounds like a great guy, but how on earth do people convince themselves, how do they literally trick themselves into believing this kind of stuff? It just makes me feel uneasy... weird man, weird. Well, I guess it worked for him and that's what counts.
Live your life as if you are going to be dead tomorrow.
Okay that makes sense. Here is my plan for every day of the rest of my life:
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast 8am - midday: make funeral arrangements afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc. night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast 8am - midday: make funeral arrangements afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc. night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast 8am - midday: make funeral arrangements afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc. night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast 8am - midday: make funeral arrangements afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc. night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast 8am - midday: make funeral arrangements afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc. night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast 8am - midday: make funeral arrangements afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc. night: go look at the stars, or something...
Since when does the name of an app have to reflect what it does? What the hell is 'Mozilla Firefox' meant to be? It doesn't matter what it is called, but the K is ugly.
I can answer those. I do turn off the dog using TweakUI, and I turn off CD burning as well, using gpedit.msc (you gotta admit the CD burning is superflous and pretty poor). You cannot turn off thumbnails (unlike in 2000 where you can unregister the thumbnail dll to prevent them showing at all). Inevitably XP will forget your folder view settings at some stage, plus I use samba which doesn't deal too well with Thumbs.db.
Et cetera. XP sucks and SP2 is the catalyst to go.
Yeah, you've really gotta set it up properly. I used my mother's computer a while back and found that somehow some ad/spyware had been installed. She must have clicked 'ok' to install something from a webpage. So I just removed the links to IE and installed Firefox, replaced the desktop and quicklaunch icons in the same positions, didn't tell her, and sure enough it was fine for a few days. But two things I forgot: 1) to turn off popup-blocking, so she couldn't see her online banking which shows in a popup and 2) to install Flash, so next time I used it I found like 10 flash7installer.exe's on the desktop that she'd tried to get working.
I haven't looked into SP2 in great detail but it seems like what it adds is more of what I hated about XP when I first moved to it from Windows 2000. You know, all the little extra things like a stupid animated dog when you search, CD burning, thumbnail view you can't seem to turn off, etc. I've tweaked XP back down to the point where it is basically 2000 again, but now I have to have more stupid dialogs like 'Help protect your PC' and 'this website might require a plugin'. I don't want to be told that my PC is 'not protected' even though it damn well is. Ugh. Fuck Windows. I've always thought Windows 2000 was the epitome of MS OSs after seeing and using XP... but I think instead of going back to 2K I might just move to Linux full-time, if I can swallow it. Sigh. I can't believe that in this day and age there isn't an OS out there that really suits me. Fucking Windows. I'm not going to install SP2. SP2 highlights what is wrong with Windows and how it isn't compatible with me anymore. Goodbye.
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That has almost nothing to do with Halo and everything to do with the fact that a dad likes spending time with his son. The only thing Halo achieved was having multiplayer.
Care to share why...
At least you didn't use the words 'Aunt Tillie'.
smaller than many of Microsoft's IE updates have been
Name them.
I think you pulled that out of your ass.
Maybe if you add together all the small IE updates, it totals more than 4mb at Windows Update.
But anyway, I'm sure your post was 'Insightful'.
Drinking your own champagne doesn't taste all that great y'know.
You get points for murdering people in gruesome ways, with weapons like "the plastic bag", with which you strangle, snap necks, and break noses - all in a live-motion cutscene EVERY TIME you kill.
There's not really anything unique or new about that. It sounds like you just didn't like the presentation of the game, which is fair enough. It doesn't come across that well.
Personally the only thing I found disturbing about Manhunt was what a crap game it was!
in my experience (admittedly, not particularly extensive) the difficulty of installing linux on a laptop over installing it on a regular PC nowadays is negligible
.bin, burn it onto a CD etc *) Discover that if you just leave your laptop on and walk away, it'll lockup instead of sleeping properly etc. etc. Yes, you may not have had any of these problems, but so many people do.
The trouble doesn't come when installing, and yes distros like SUSE etc. should pick up most if not all of the hardware.
Where the trouble arises is stuff like *) noticing your fan comes on more often than it does in Windows *) noticing that you can suspend from the console, but not from X *) noticing that you can suspend, but when you resume your screen is sometimes black, or garbled *) having to unload/reload drivers like usb, eth0 because otherwise they crash *) noticing that when you put your laptop into an ACPI sleep state, it only lasts for about an hour rather than the several it should last for *) difficulty installing BIOS updates that usually require Windows and/or a floppy drive, requiring you to extract the image, get the
It's all these little things that happen during use, none of them complete showstoppers most of the time, but all of them time consuming and a total pain. The worst thing is that in my experience, it doesn't get better or more consistent. Buy a new laptop? Get ready for a whole new set of inconsistencies, lockups, script-writing, guessing, cursing etc. I'm on the linux-thinkpad mailing list, and honestly some of the messages are quite comical - people trying one thing, reverting to another, all the guess work and finger-crossing, it's a mess. It sucks.
So, if HP can get a totally smooth Linux setup out of the box, not just installation but in regular use too, then that would be welcome.
It's Doom 1 with better graphics.
I wish. It's gonna be slower and probably more boring with less replay value. But yes, a high quality single player experience all the same.
Thanks for sharing the good news. There aren't enough high quality games focused on the single player as it is. You want multiplayer, go play all the rest.
Same with my ThinkPad R50. Actually, got about 9 hours when new, about 8 hours now... gets worse and worse of course.
From his page:
I decided that the only thing to do was not to worry[3], and leave it in the hands of God.
I think God had prepared me for this moment quite well;
There was definitely a difference between the way my Christian and non-Christian friends took the news. In general, the Christians took it very well - not getting upset, and promising to pray for me.
I had so many visitors, it was a real blessing
we talked for a while and he read Psalm 23. As I listened, I understood again just how much God cared about me
I'm really, really glad he made it through, he sounds like a great guy, but how on earth do people convince themselves, how do they literally trick themselves into believing this kind of stuff? It just makes me feel uneasy... weird man, weird. Well, I guess it worked for him and that's what counts.
a rock solid server that takes a licking and keeps on ticking
Dude!
Just bear this in mind...
Live your life as if you are going to be dead tomorrow.
...
Okay that makes sense. Here is my plan for every day of the rest of my life:
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast
8am - midday: make funeral arrangements
afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc.
night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast
8am - midday: make funeral arrangements
afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc.
night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast
8am - midday: make funeral arrangements
afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc.
night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast
8am - midday: make funeral arrangements
afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc.
night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast
8am - midday: make funeral arrangements
afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc.
night: go look at the stars, or something
7am: wake up, eat an enormous breakfast
8am - midday: make funeral arrangements
afternoon: give away my cds, computer etc.
night: go look at the stars, or something
"Oh, well, we have one too"
Every person/company who has ever made a website has said this.
The story has nothing to do with IBM
Yes it does, the story is about hard drive warranties, and IBM had a poor record a while ago which involved a lot of warranty repair/replacement.
a warranty wouldn't have helped him with the data loss
That's the point, genius.
Ain't that the truth. Why is this flamebait?
Why drink it at all?
You have hardware problems.
Yes I'm sure Linux on the same machine works fine, but with Windows you have hardware problems. I have a machine like that too.
If all your hardware is supported by Windows and the drivers are okay you'll likely never see a BSOD.
So for most people with ordinary computers, yes, it is a thing of the past.
What kind of shoddy operating system makes it possible for a badly behaved app to bring *everything* crashing down?
I can do this with linux in various ways, and again they mostly relate to hardware stuffing up when something runs. Nothing's perfect.
How else can you kick-start development that might have slowed down or lost its focus?
Such as?
Since when does the name of an app have to reflect what it does? What the hell is 'Mozilla Firefox' meant to be? It doesn't matter what it is called, but the K is ugly.
I can answer those. I do turn off the dog using TweakUI, and I turn off CD burning as well, using gpedit.msc (you gotta admit the CD burning is superflous and pretty poor). You cannot turn off thumbnails (unlike in 2000 where you can unregister the thumbnail dll to prevent them showing at all). Inevitably XP will forget your folder view settings at some stage, plus I use samba which doesn't deal too well with Thumbs.db.
Et cetera. XP sucks and SP2 is the catalyst to go.
I'm sure this slashdotting will produce a lot of useful ideas and insightful comments.
:-/
Yeah, just like this one did
Yeah, you've really gotta set it up properly. I used my mother's computer a while back and found that somehow some ad/spyware had been installed. She must have clicked 'ok' to install something from a webpage. So I just removed the links to IE and installed Firefox, replaced the desktop and quicklaunch icons in the same positions, didn't tell her, and sure enough it was fine for a few days. But two things I forgot: 1) to turn off popup-blocking, so she couldn't see her online banking which shows in a popup and 2) to install Flash, so next time I used it I found like 10 flash7installer.exe's on the desktop that she'd tried to get working.
I haven't looked into SP2 in great detail but it seems like what it adds is more of what I hated about XP when I first moved to it from Windows 2000. You know, all the little extra things like a stupid animated dog when you search, CD burning, thumbnail view you can't seem to turn off, etc. I've tweaked XP back down to the point where it is basically 2000 again, but now I have to have more stupid dialogs like 'Help protect your PC' and 'this website might require a plugin'. I don't want to be told that my PC is 'not protected' even though it damn well is. Ugh. Fuck Windows. I've always thought Windows 2000 was the epitome of MS OSs after seeing and using XP... but I think instead of going back to 2K I might just move to Linux full-time, if I can swallow it. Sigh. I can't believe that in this day and age there isn't an OS out there that really suits me. Fucking Windows. I'm not going to install SP2. SP2 highlights what is wrong with Windows and how it isn't compatible with me anymore. Goodbye.