I used Firefox too, got 90% (I said one was fraud when the site claimed legit).
I still call Unfair on that though.
Never enter personal details or financial details by following a link in an email. NEVER. Use a book mark and check the url.
Seriously, if you are using where the link takes you as the hint there are some easy ways to fool you still. From nearly right domains, to the whole bankdomain/blah@phishdomain trick. (I.E blocks that one now I have been told, really screws things up for when that one was used legitimately though).
Maybe its Firefox is better at protecting from Phishing? I never liked how IE would let the page put whatever it liked in the status bar, made it all but impossible to verify a link.
The one on most pda's isn't powerful enough and doesn't have quite the right timings to do consumer electronics properly. (it can do it, but the result is dissapointing, has a range of something like 5 feet).
There was a linux pda (the agenda?) that did have consumer IR in it as well as the normal inter-device IR. Much cheaper, still a touch screen but grey scale. Other than that, much the same.
Been keeping my eye out for a cheap second hand one but haven't seen it yet.
Normally I am not so pedantic but the poster repeatedly misrepresented what is happening in entanglement.
4 times in the post it was said that the particles teleport or communicate, they don't.
Its more like the particles are using the same day planner to decide what to do next.
Think of it like to processes running the same code. if they have the same inputs, they will have the same outputs. It doesn't mean they communicate or teleport.
The reason it bugs me so much when people talk as if the particles interact after they have been entangled is it leads someone sooner or later to start asking why we can't use that to beat the speed of light for communication, or a dozen other things that have nothing to do with entanglement.
Actually I have Far Cry on the PC. Payed more for the video card than an an XBox, and it doesn't look _that_ much better. Of course thats because I didn't shell out for a new CPU at the same time. (currently have AMD 1700+, radeon 9800 XT, 700+MB ram). Waiting to see how Half-life looks before I shell out for a new CPU.
Yes, the PC will always look better, out perform, and do more than a console.
Great grandparent (i.e. obeythefist again) has a good point, (well several of them). It will always come down to what is "good enough".
I will concede that it is possible that rather than the console taking over the pc, it might just be that my standards are slipping.
Gameplay:
The gameplay felt exactly like Thief I and II. Sneaking around, black jacking people, taking stuff, etc. It was great. The AI was "alright" (better than Deus Ex II, but could have been better). The funny conversations you overhear, the shadows (it was the first game I played where shadows actually MATTERED).
Um, so the demo isn't a good indication of the game? I played the demo, and that wasn't what I liked about Thief 2. In Thief 2 I could do the mission in any order I liked. In the demo, I felt I was being led by the nose, doors shut behind me never to open again, and generally I was only presented with one even slightly viable path
Of course the demo was the training mission, so I could be mistaken. However I will need to hear something very convincing that the game isn't linear play before I fork out my money for it. For me Thief was about Stratagy, working out how to approach a situation, not just how the developer approached the situation.
Please let me know if the demo isn't a good indication of the gameplay
Because of the differences in controls and displays some game genres are better on the PC and some game genres are better on consoles. Anything with lots of information on the screen like a Civilization or a Master of Orion, RTS games like Warcraft 3 and first person shooters are all PC genres.
Except that the PC is soon to loose this advantage as well. As TV's get to be higher resolution more an more games like Warcarft 4 and FPS will move to the consoles. I don't think Mater of Orion is at risk, but it will become a smaller, and smaller market.
Also given innovations on the consols, displays are getting less cluttered. (Say, Riddick, which has very little clutter at all, Metroid Prime, a fantastically easy interface, etc).
Glad to see you still mentioned HL2 (I pre-ordered with the video card) and Doom3, but I think these will be the last major PC only games in this genre. Why spend $X on a video card, $Y on memory and $Z on a CPU to upgrade and play the games, when you can just spend $Z for a new console?
And how is what he doing different from what you are doing.
I read the thread too, I didn't see anything to back up your statements. Can you reference research papers? scientific studies? are the independent?
If not, then you are doing exactly what you accuse others of doing.
Theres a word for people like you. Starts with a H.
Just get insurance for the items you carry. doesn't cost that much. That way if you do get mugged, you can just hand the goods over knowing they will be replaced, (ok, maybe not the data, but do backups, etc).
And as for all the people saying carry a gun? Oh yeah, lets make a bad situation worse why don't we? Lets make a simple theft into a homicide...
I will never live in a country that gives out permits for carrying a hidden weapon.
My problem is trust on two sides.
Already mentioned is the facts that you need to trust people not to use the content they render on their machines for their own projects.
But also, you need to trust they won't send you back bad data. Putting in a 1 frame penguin in the crowd of Shrek 2 might be missed until it shows on screen eh? imagin if a group of people decided to try and add their own content into the rendering pipeline.
Also, as already mentioned, there is a HUGE amount of data and software required to render any scene, and I don't think I would want my source files sent to random peoples computers.
A game can be very difficult to beat, but as long as failure is still fun to play then its not frustrating.
For example, Far Cry (with the difficulty set up) gives you multiple approaches. You failed and have to do a section again? no problem, just try a different approach, a different path, different weapons, timings, etc.
Fire warrior on the other hand wasn't as hard, but a lot more frustrating. Oh, you failed, well I am going to take you back way to this point back here.. the bet where its easy for 5 minutes before you get to the challenge again. Oh, and its completely linear, there is nothing differnt for you to do and really, all the weapons are the same anyway. You just have to be luckier (or twitch better)
I find the two games a good compare, as they are both FPS games with a check point system, the good and the bad (in gameplay) is almost pure challenge v.s. frustration. Although I would be the first to point out that 'choices' is not the only thing that makes a challenge. If repeating the same thing over and over again is still fun, then its ok. it just wasn't fun in firewarrior.
The day when they don't make 'difficult' games any more because they can't be bothered telling the difference between challenge and frustration, is the day I stop buying games.
The point wasn't that he didn't want to know about his computer, the point was he didn't want to HAVE TO KNOW.
I had the same problem. Most other systems will say, "Oh, I think these configuration settings would be nice, but if you don't agree, set them here" with more help information only if I ask for it.
Debian says "Nup, I am a dumb piece of shit that is going to make you answer every dumb question I think of. And even if you know what is happening already, too bad, I am going to show you that information again.
Oh, and I don't use debian. but I reserve the right to complain. Why? because the heading is about reviewing distros, which means telling people about them so they can avoid the hell of the Debian installer. E.G. I am complaining about it to save other people the pain of using it.:)
I just want to say this is a good idea. Hardware makers seem to like to put 100's of icons on their packaging. This will to a lot to make people aware of what OS means (not just us, other people who buy hardware) and certainly will make it much easier to vote with our money.
If the icon was backed up by the FSF or some other suitable organisation then I know I will be using it as a decision factor when buying hardware.
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I used Firefox too, got 90% (I said one was fraud when the site claimed legit).
I still call Unfair on that though.
Never enter personal details or financial details by following a link in an email. NEVER. Use a book mark and check the url.
Seriously, if you are using where the link takes you as the hint there are some easy ways to fool you still. From nearly right domains, to the whole bankdomain/blah@phishdomain trick. (I.E blocks that one now I have been told, really screws things up for when that one was used legitimately though).
Maybe its Firefox is better at protecting from Phishing? I never liked how IE would let the page put whatever it liked in the status bar, made it all but impossible to verify a link.
Problem is there are two kinds of IR.
The one on most pda's isn't powerful enough and doesn't have quite the right timings to do consumer electronics properly. (it can do it, but the result is dissapointing, has a range of something like 5 feet).
There was a linux pda (the agenda?) that did have consumer IR in it as well as the normal inter-device IR. Much cheaper, still a touch screen but grey scale. Other than that, much the same.
Been keeping my eye out for a cheap second hand one but haven't seen it yet.
Sounds more to me like you want a language filter on your inbox.
e.g.
I understand (check the following boxes)
l33t
English (US)
English (UK)
so that when someone 'spams' you, you won't be presented with the email unless you turn your langauge filter off.
I don't see any reason to simply block people from the community or separate communities simply because you can't press 'next'.
Normally I am not so pedantic but the poster repeatedly misrepresented what is happening in entanglement.
4 times in the post it was said that the particles teleport or communicate, they don't.
Its more like the particles are using the same day planner to decide what to do next.
Think of it like to processes running the same code. if they have the same inputs, they will have the same outputs. It doesn't mean they communicate or teleport.
The reason it bugs me so much when people talk as if the particles interact after they have been entangled is it leads someone sooner or later to start asking why we can't use that to beat the speed of light for communication, or a dozen other things that have nothing to do with entanglement.
Actually I have Far Cry on the PC. Payed more for the video card than an an XBox, and it doesn't look _that_ much better. Of course thats because I didn't shell out for a new CPU at the same time. (currently have AMD 1700+, radeon 9800 XT, 700+MB ram). Waiting to see how Half-life looks before I shell out for a new CPU.
Yes, the PC will always look better, out perform, and do more than a console.
Great grandparent (i.e. obeythefist again) has a good point, (well several of them). It will always come down to what is "good enough". I will concede that it is possible that rather than the console taking over the pc, it might just be that my standards are slipping.
Gameplay:
The gameplay felt exactly like Thief I and II. Sneaking around, black jacking people, taking stuff, etc. It was great. The AI was "alright" (better than Deus Ex II, but could have been better). The funny conversations you overhear, the shadows (it was the first game I played where shadows actually MATTERED).
Um, so the demo isn't a good indication of the game? I played the demo, and that wasn't what I liked about Thief 2. In Thief 2 I could do the mission in any order I liked. In the demo, I felt I was being led by the nose, doors shut behind me never to open again, and generally I was only presented with one even slightly viable path
Of course the demo was the training mission, so I could be mistaken. However I will need to hear something very convincing that the game isn't linear play before I fork out my money for it. For me Thief was about Stratagy, working out how to approach a situation, not just how the developer approached the situation.
Please let me know if the demo isn't a good indication of the gameplay
Because of the differences in controls and displays some game genres are better on the PC and some game genres are better on consoles. Anything with lots of information on the screen like a Civilization or a Master of Orion, RTS games like Warcraft 3 and first person shooters are all PC genres.
Except that the PC is soon to loose this advantage as well. As TV's get to be higher resolution more an more games like Warcarft 4 and FPS will move to the consoles. I don't think Mater of Orion is at risk, but it will become a smaller, and smaller market.
Also given innovations on the consols, displays are getting less cluttered. (Say, Riddick, which has very little clutter at all, Metroid Prime, a fantastically easy interface, etc).
Glad to see you still mentioned HL2 (I pre-ordered with the video card) and Doom3, but I think these will be the last major PC only games in this genre. Why spend $X on a video card, $Y on memory and $Z on a CPU to upgrade and play the games, when you can just spend $Z for a new console?
http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/erist38.htm
And how is what he doing different from what you are doing. I read the thread too, I didn't see anything to back up your statements. Can you reference research papers? scientific studies? are the independent? If not, then you are doing exactly what you accuse others of doing. Theres a word for people like you. Starts with a H.
Just get insurance for the items you carry. doesn't cost that much. That way if you do get mugged, you can just hand the goods over knowing they will be replaced, (ok, maybe not the data, but do backups, etc). And as for all the people saying carry a gun? Oh yeah, lets make a bad situation worse why don't we? Lets make a simple theft into a homicide... I will never live in a country that gives out permits for carrying a hidden weapon.
My problem is trust on two sides. Already mentioned is the facts that you need to trust people not to use the content they render on their machines for their own projects. But also, you need to trust they won't send you back bad data. Putting in a 1 frame penguin in the crowd of Shrek 2 might be missed until it shows on screen eh? imagin if a group of people decided to try and add their own content into the rendering pipeline. Also, as already mentioned, there is a HUGE amount of data and software required to render any scene, and I don't think I would want my source files sent to random peoples computers.
Although a great many are too frustrating.
A game can be very difficult to beat, but as long as failure is still fun to play then its not frustrating.
For example, Far Cry (with the difficulty set up) gives you multiple approaches. You failed and have to do a section again? no problem, just try a different approach, a different path, different weapons, timings, etc.
Fire warrior on the other hand wasn't as hard, but a lot more frustrating. Oh, you failed, well I am going to take you back way to this point back here.. the bet where its easy for 5 minutes before you get to the challenge again. Oh, and its completely linear, there is nothing differnt for you to do and really, all the weapons are the same anyway. You just have to be luckier (or twitch better)
I find the two games a good compare, as they are both FPS games with a check point system, the good and the bad (in gameplay) is almost pure challenge v.s. frustration. Although I would be the first to point out that 'choices' is not the only thing that makes a challenge. If repeating the same thing over and over again is still fun, then its ok. it just wasn't fun in firewarrior.
The day when they don't make 'difficult' games any more because they can't be bothered telling the difference between challenge and frustration, is the day I stop buying games.
The point wasn't that he didn't want to know about his computer, the point was he didn't want to HAVE TO KNOW.
I had the same problem. Most other systems will say, "Oh, I think these configuration settings would be nice, but if you don't agree, set them here" with more help information only if I ask for it.
Debian says "Nup, I am a dumb piece of shit that is going to make you answer every dumb question I think of. And even if you know what is happening already, too bad, I am going to show you that information again.
Oh, and I don't use debian. but I reserve the right to complain. Why? because the heading is about reviewing distros, which means telling people about them so they can avoid the hell of the Debian installer. E.G. I am complaining about it to save other people the pain of using it. :)
I just want to say this is a good idea. Hardware makers seem to like to put 100's of icons on their packaging. This will to a lot to make people aware of what OS means (not just us, other people who buy hardware) and certainly will make it much easier to vote with our money. If the icon was backed up by the FSF or some other suitable organisation then I know I will be using it as a decision factor when buying hardware.