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Keyword: Weapons. It's really doubtful anything new involving weapons and combat can be invented anymore. There are quite a few fields that could still create an original game. Quite a few might involve combat as an element, but I doubt any good combat-based game can be made anymore.
Following the grandparent post, these items aren't illegal by law for sale for minors. So does their corporate policy state what is an age-restricted item (outside of these required by law), as well?
Both Microsoft and Sony trying to push players playing -only- their format, will be left out in the cold and 3rd party "multisystem" player manufacturers will get most of the cake. Another blow to PS3:)
But if the designer presents you with a $180,000 bill for three hammock installed in the main deck, the idea starts feeling unsafe. For said designer. Who then has still check to sue you for not getting paid for installing said hammocks.
Most of emails with "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG", "No, we won't give you another million over planned budget" and "What the hell were you thinking while installing that thing?!"
Not "oldest". Just CURRENT, official release. I don't give a shit if it's in alpha, beta, pre-, whiteboard, head of developer or in a cargo ship in transport from Taiwan. If the production quality software available for purchase, or in case of free software, download from the 'stable' directory, doesn't have a feature, it can't claim it has it.
No, no, no! You don't understand! It HAS full support. I also have a quad-CPU computer. One CPU is in plugged into the motherboard and three others are used as decoration of the case... You can't argue my computer doesn't have 4 processors, can you?:D
Importing, editing, then exporting an ODF file again in the new office may be just as much of a feat as getting my computer to perform computations using all of its CPUs. (sounds like the documents get imported as "images", that is you can do with them about as much as with a JPEG in Word...)
Ah, so it's in beta stage yet? Oh, I needed it about 3 years ago. Now I'm not going to switch to beta software if I have tried and true final versions that work, and did so 3 years ago too.
Metric on the other hand was regected out of misguided nationalism, and those who spread the above are considered blatant liars in former eastern bloc. Soviet Union at least didn't lie about the GOST standard non-compatibile with the rest of the world, different railway width and retaining cyrillic. That was done for military reasons, to make invasion and use of their equipment harder for the potential enemy.
except that document had about a hundred of pictures besides that, and LaTeX sux at making a good mixed text-picture layout. Either you go for fully-automatic layout which is great for books with equations, some figures and mostly uniform layout, and then LaTeX rules, or you start messing by making the layout fixed in places, attaching pics to paragraphs, corners and sides of pages, trying to keep a paragraph plus its related figure within a single page, and then LaTeX suddenly starts to suck a big time. Sure it -can- do this all. It's just very bad at it. If the paper was just text+equations, I'd go for LaTeX any day.
no, no, no. MSIE FULLY supports PNG. Just the same way as 486SX FULLY supports floating point operations of 486DX. It is in there, the code exists, but the external hooks are either unavailable or broken or so obscure that you can't use them.
I've got the Black&White game off some warez site. I have it on the harddrive. Now if I only had the password for the RAR file:)
You can do both in MS Office. The text entry is just disabled by default. And I spent about a hour in various menu options, preference dialogs and help pages that go bump in the night trying to find the option that enables this feature, but I miserably failed.
Try writing equations that take up half a page in MS Word. Example with a simple one: z=sqrt(x^2+y^2)/2
Equations in MS Word: Click 'basic' tab. Click "=". Click box left from "=". Type "y". Click fraction icon. Click box above fraction line. Click root tab. Click root symbol. Click below the inserted root symbol. Click "basic" tab. Click "+". Click left to "+". Click "upper index". In respective boxes type "x" and "2". Click right to "+". Repeat with "y" and "2". Click below the fraction bar. Type "2".
Same thing in OOo: Click textual entry box. Type: "z = { sqrt{ {x^2}+{y^2} } over {2} }" Click on the document.
They can just create enough caveats and special properties in the -internal- Office document structure that export to ODF will simply break the documents, or require painstakingly cautious convertion to some primitives. PNG IS supported in MSIE 6.0 fully, including alpha channel, but the implementation is so much pain in the neck for developers to implement in webpages, that they simply don't bother. (you need to create a style sheet including MSIE's 'filter' CSS extensions, and apply an 'alpha' filter to the image.)
Same can happen here - want to save ODF? Here's the microsoft way:
Pick "plugins" menu. Open "plugin manager". Open "active plugins tab". Check checkbox by "ODF exporter plugin". Click OK. pick "export" menu. click "export to plugin". Are you sure you want to export the document to a plugin? Some document properties may be lost in the process." Click yes. "Plugin export wizard". "List of available plugins". Click ODF exporter. Click next. "What would you like to do with the file after export? Save to file, Send by Mail, Copy to Clipboard, Paste as new document" Pick "Save to file". Click Next. "Where would you like to have the file saved?" - file selector. Pick file destination. "Warning! Plugins contain 3rd party software which may append viruses and malware to your documents! Are you sure to proceed?" Click yes. "The chosen plugin is covered by the following license:" (textarea - GNU). Do you agree? Pick "yes", click Next. "MS Office is ready to export your document to a plugin. Click Finish to begin the export process." Click Finish. A progressbar appears while the open source plugin actually processes the file. A moment later a requester "You have successfuly exported the document to a plugin. Click OK to return to MS Office."
I mostly agree. The reasons might not have been so black-and-white (hostility, greed for expansion, military defeat) but you're probably mostly right. I was arguing one single sentence: They'd be NOWHERE if the US and the rest of the west stopped buying their oil. They had built empires without oil and likely they are still capable to do it. The moment the world switches away from fossil fuels (military reasons completely aside), middle east won't suddenly become a hellhole.
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Keyword: Weapons.
It's really doubtful anything new involving weapons and combat can be invented anymore.
There are quite a few fields that could still create an original game. Quite a few might involve combat as an element, but I doubt any good combat-based game can be made anymore.
Not really :P Remember NES? It ruled the market.
THEY SELL M-RATED GAMES???
(heh, I thought that was why so many publishers avoid the 'M' rating like hell!)
Answer to your question: here.
How does that activity hurt you?
(yup, at last a relevant way to link that site.)
Following the grandparent post, these items aren't illegal by law for sale for minors. So does their corporate policy state what is an age-restricted item (outside of these required by law), as well?
Both Microsoft and Sony trying to push players playing -only- their format, will be left out in the cold and 3rd party "multisystem" player manufacturers will get most of the cake. :)
Another blow to PS3
But if the designer presents you with a $180,000 bill for three hammock installed in the main deck, the idea starts feeling unsafe. For said designer. Who then has still check to sue you for not getting paid for installing said hammocks.
Most of emails with "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG", "No, we won't give you another million over planned budget" and "What the hell were you thinking while installing that thing?!"
Not "oldest". Just CURRENT, official release. I don't give a shit if it's in alpha, beta, pre-, whiteboard, head of developer or in a cargo ship in transport from Taiwan. If the production quality software available for purchase, or in case of free software, download from the 'stable' directory, doesn't have a feature, it can't claim it has it.
No, no, no! You don't understand! It HAS full support. I also have a quad-CPU computer. One CPU is in plugged into the motherboard and three others are used as decoration of the case... You can't argue my computer doesn't have 4 processors, can you? :D
Importing, editing, then exporting an ODF file again in the new office may be just as much of a feat as getting my computer to perform computations using all of its CPUs.
(sounds like the documents get imported as "images", that is you can do with them about as much as with a JPEG in Word...)
Ah, so it's in beta stage yet? Oh, I needed it about 3 years ago. Now I'm not going to switch to beta software if I have tried and true final versions that work, and did so 3 years ago too.
Not at all. I spent a hour looking for that editor. I failed. I bet this is a component you need to purchase separately.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Google ["devicename" manual]
Results: "Almost new, manual included".
Google ["history of place"]
Results: "paperback"
Google ["map of non-us_place"]
Results: "pre-WWII map replicas"
Google: ["replacement_part"]
Results: device, replacement_part damaged/missing.
Google: ["buy item"]
Results: Finished auctions: item.
Google: ["repair device"]
Results: device, needs repair.
Google: ["genuine item"]
Results: Looks like genuine item.
I say, be done with this spam. Move it to the far end of the listing and show only if specifically I append +ebay in search.
Metric on the other hand was regected out of misguided nationalism,
and those who spread the above are considered blatant liars in former eastern bloc.
Soviet Union at least didn't lie about the GOST standard non-compatibile with the rest of the world, different railway width and retaining cyrillic. That was done for military reasons, to make invasion and use of their equipment harder for the potential enemy.
except that document had about a hundred of pictures besides that, and LaTeX sux at making a good mixed text-picture layout.
Either you go for fully-automatic layout which is great for books with equations, some figures and mostly uniform layout, and then LaTeX rules, or you start messing by making the layout fixed in places, attaching pics to paragraphs, corners and sides of pages, trying to keep a paragraph plus its related figure within a single page, and then LaTeX suddenly starts to suck a big time. Sure it -can- do this all. It's just very bad at it. If the paper was just text+equations, I'd go for LaTeX any day.
no, no, no. MSIE FULLY supports PNG. Just the same way as 486SX FULLY supports floating point operations of 486DX. It is in there, the code exists, but the external hooks are either unavailable or broken or so obscure that you can't use them.
:)
I've got the Black&White game off some warez site. I have it on the harddrive. Now if I only had the password for the RAR file
You can do both in MS Office. The text entry is just disabled by default. And I spent about a hour in various menu options, preference dialogs and help pages that go bump in the night trying to find the option that enables this feature, but I miserably failed.
Try writing equations that take up half a page in MS Word. Example with a simple one: z=sqrt(x^2+y^2)/2
Equations in MS Word: Click 'basic' tab. Click "=". Click box left from "=". Type "y". Click fraction icon. Click box above fraction line. Click root tab. Click root symbol. Click below the inserted root symbol. Click "basic" tab. Click "+". Click left to "+". Click "upper index". In respective boxes type "x" and "2". Click right to "+". Repeat with "y" and "2". Click below the fraction bar. Type "2".
Same thing in OOo: Click textual entry box. Type: "z = { sqrt{ {x^2}+{y^2} } over {2} }" Click on the document.
They can just create enough caveats and special properties in the -internal- Office document structure that export to ODF will simply break the documents, or require painstakingly cautious convertion to some primitives. PNG IS supported in MSIE 6.0 fully, including alpha channel, but the implementation is so much pain in the neck for developers to implement in webpages, that they simply don't bother. (you need to create a style sheet including MSIE's 'filter' CSS extensions, and apply an 'alpha' filter to the image.)
Same can happen here - want to save ODF? Here's the microsoft way:
Pick "plugins" menu.
Open "plugin manager".
Open "active plugins tab".
Check checkbox by "ODF exporter plugin".
Click OK.
pick "export" menu.
click "export to plugin".
Are you sure you want to export the document to a plugin? Some document properties may be lost in the process." Click yes.
"Plugin export wizard".
"List of available plugins". Click ODF exporter.
Click next.
"What would you like to do with the file after export? Save to file, Send by Mail, Copy to Clipboard, Paste as new document" Pick "Save to file". Click Next.
"Where would you like to have the file saved?" - file selector. Pick file destination.
"Warning! Plugins contain 3rd party software which may append viruses and malware to your documents! Are you sure to proceed?" Click yes.
"The chosen plugin is covered by the following license:" (textarea - GNU). Do you agree? Pick "yes", click Next.
"MS Office is ready to export your document to a plugin. Click Finish to begin the export process." Click Finish.
A progressbar appears while the open source plugin actually processes the file. A moment later a requester "You have successfuly exported the document to a plugin. Click OK to return to MS Office."
Loading ODF document could look very similar.
I bet it will be just as useful as PNG alpha channel in MSIE.
By the same reasoning it's a bullet that's dangerous, not the gun...
I mostly agree. The reasons might not have been so black-and-white (hostility, greed for expansion, military defeat) but you're probably mostly right. I was arguing one single sentence: They'd be NOWHERE if the US and the rest of the west stopped buying their oil. They had built empires without oil and likely they are still capable to do it. The moment the world switches away from fossil fuels (military reasons completely aside), middle east won't suddenly become a hellhole.
$1.4E9 doesn't have that ring to the name...
Microsoft needs to pay 1.4 gigadollars fine?
It is being investigated. There was an article on this subject on Slashdot very recently.