It makes a lot of sense to give away TF2 for free to make the community larger. The larger the TF2 community gets, the better the sales for TF3 will be, whenever that is.
Hey, it worked for Portal. I missed the boat and never played Portal until I got myself a free copy from Steam the week they were giving it out. Result? I loved it and shelled out $50 for Portal 2 when it came out.
"Our old POTS (landline telephone) provider, Bell, has now mostly gone to pushing satellite TV, Cell Phone, and DSL. Sure they still offer regular phone lines, but from their commercials, you wouldn't know it. "
So you can't buy anything you haven't seen in a commercial?
Not only does Bell offer land lines, but resellers like TekSavvy offer POTS and DSL over the same land lines for cheaper. I pay $60 a month after tax for POTS and 5MB DSL (100GB cap).
Did anyone else find the multi-perspective really annoying due to the flickering effect of constantly changing images when scrolling?
I don't think having the perspective view really enhances our understanding of the scene. In reality, it's just going to increase the bandwidth necessary to run this app.
It would be nice if there was an option, at least, to turn multi-perspective off and just see a blended mosaic of straight-on views.
So where is Gracenote going to get this big old database of lyrics? Are they going to use a web-crawler like other databases use to poach the lyrics off the 'net? Are they going to hire 10,000 people in India to listen to every song ever recorded and try to figure out what's being said? I highly doubt that record companies have got databases they'll sell.
Trust me, cops are plenty likely to be hanging around coffee joints.
Up here in Canada, our 24-hour Tim Hortons are some of the safest places to be in the middle of the night because of the dedicated police monitoring. All it costs Timmy is pennies for the free coffee and donuts that they get.
It makes sense that smoking pot helps him out. If he's having trouble calming down, pot will definitely help with that. And it makes sense that pot doesn't help you out any. Pot makes a lot of people more introverted and socially awkward, so of course it's going to affect your autism.
Marijuana isn't a miracle drug to cure whatever ails you, but it has its uses.
I really hope the data from the latest Mars probe gets included in this when it starts sending back pictures.
Equipped with the most powerful telescopic camera yet sent to a foreign world, the craft, known as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is expected to photograph the Red Planet in unprecedented detail.
Its onboard optics can spot an object "as small as a kitchen table" on the surface as it cruises 300 kilometres overhead, said Robert Lock, the lead mission planner.
Let me be the first to say "cooooooool." We're gonna see a pile of little craters, cracks, busted probes, missile silos and little green men mooning the satelite!
What about cockroaches, crocodiles and sharks?
These things have been around in their present forms for a really really long time. If these things have attained a form that is perfect for their environment, pretty much every random mutation won't provide a survival advantage. They probably won't change again until the oceans heat up 20 degreens or a shark grows a laser beam on its head.
As far as human evolution goes, it's terribly unreasonable to assume that we've attained a form perfect for our environment. A larger brain is one of the biggest things that can provide a survival advantage in our world, and I expect them to keep getting bigger. We might even get less nerdy if it continues to be such a hindrance to breeding.
A lot of brand names become generic names for products. That doesn't mean they dominate the market, though. Do you buy Kleenex(tm) or some other brand?
The problem with emergency patches is that they usually don't undergo the same quality assurance testing that regular releases do. Sure, they could, but QA is expensive. If something has a low vulnerability but it might increase the risk of failures, it should be put off until the next scheduled release.
You're stealing intellectual property using Pandora the hard way.
Just go into %temp%\plugtmp-1\ and rename "access-N" to "songname.mp3"
The highest-numbered access file is the song next to play, so the current one is N-1.
Yeah. And the computers at work can run text games just fine on their 4MB video cards, and the boss just sees a prompt, not your dazzling mental imagery. All you've got to do is keep the text-comprehension anger at bay and you're all set.
*pretends to get back to work after a brief/. break*
"Personally, I don't want to log and search my AIM conversations. Most of that is quick chat or non-sense."
Well, exactly. Most my my chats are complete crap I'll never look at again. Thing is, there are important bits like phone numbers and links and things that people send me that I would like to refence again, and a good search tool would be very handy indeed.
Come to think of it, most of the content of the Web is nonsense that I never want to look at. Why bother searching it?
Of course China is paving the way for green transportation. Having enormous populations in congested cities with low average incomes is a great motivation to produce cheap transportation.
I suppose this group will become the first to claim land for itself on Mars. They can't claim it as an appropriation by claim of sovereignty for Russia, but if it's a private mission they should be able to claim it for themselves, or Fox-Media-Rocket-Corp or whoever.
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Disappointing use of ambiguous significant figures. And why use the dollar sign if you're going to write "dollars" anyway?
It's probably better to write either "410 megadollars (US)." Or use "0.4 gigadollars (US)" if you don't consider M$US10 to be significant.
It makes a lot of sense to give away TF2 for free to make the community larger. The larger the TF2 community gets, the better the sales for TF3 will be, whenever that is.
Hey, it worked for Portal. I missed the boat and never played Portal until I got myself a free copy from Steam the week they were giving it out. Result? I loved it and shelled out $50 for Portal 2 when it came out.
Valve has got some smart marketing people.
"Our old POTS (landline telephone) provider, Bell, has now mostly gone to pushing satellite TV, Cell Phone, and DSL. Sure they still offer regular phone lines, but from their commercials, you wouldn't know it. "
So you can't buy anything you haven't seen in a commercial?
Not only does Bell offer land lines, but resellers like TekSavvy offer POTS and DSL over the same land lines for cheaper. I pay $60 a month after tax for POTS and 5MB DSL (100GB cap).
If this trend continues, Android will have 100% of the market in just over 8 years!
I love linear extrapolation.
Did anyone else find the multi-perspective really annoying due to the flickering effect of constantly changing images when scrolling?
I don't think having the perspective view really enhances our understanding of the scene. In reality, it's just going to increase the bandwidth necessary to run this app.
It would be nice if there was an option, at least, to turn multi-perspective off and just see a blended mosaic of straight-on views.
So where is Gracenote going to get this big old database of lyrics? Are they going to use a web-crawler like other databases use to poach the lyrics off the 'net? Are they going to hire 10,000 people in India to listen to every song ever recorded and try to figure out what's being said? I highly doubt that record companies have got databases they'll sell.
Trust me, cops are plenty likely to be hanging around coffee joints.
Up here in Canada, our 24-hour Tim Hortons are some of the safest places to be in the middle of the night because of the dedicated police monitoring. All it costs Timmy is pennies for the free coffee and donuts that they get.
It makes sense that smoking pot helps him out. If he's having trouble calming down, pot will definitely help with that. And it makes sense that pot doesn't help you out any. Pot makes a lot of people more introverted and socially awkward, so of course it's going to affect your autism.
Marijuana isn't a miracle drug to cure whatever ails you, but it has its uses.
I really hope the data from the latest Mars probe gets included in this when it starts sending back pictures.
Equipped with the most powerful telescopic camera yet sent to a foreign world, the craft, known as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is expected to photograph the Red Planet in unprecedented detail.
Its onboard optics can spot an object "as small as a kitchen table" on the surface as it cruises 300 kilometres overhead, said Robert Lock, the lead mission planner.
Let me be the first to say "cooooooool." We're gonna see a pile of little craters, cracks, busted probes, missile silos and little green men mooning the satelite!
What about cockroaches, crocodiles and sharks? These things have been around in their present forms for a really really long time. If these things have attained a form that is perfect for their environment, pretty much every random mutation won't provide a survival advantage. They probably won't change again until the oceans heat up 20 degreens or a shark grows a laser beam on its head. As far as human evolution goes, it's terribly unreasonable to assume that we've attained a form perfect for our environment. A larger brain is one of the biggest things that can provide a survival advantage in our world, and I expect them to keep getting bigger. We might even get less nerdy if it continues to be such a hindrance to breeding.
A few examples, courtesy of Cecil at The Straight Dope:
AstroTurf, Baggies, Band-Aid, Beer Nuts, Breathalyzer, Brillo Pads, Dacron, Dumpster, Frisbee, Hi-Liter, Hula-Hoop, Jacuzzi, Jeep, Jell-O, Jockey Shorts, Kitty Litter, Kleenex, Laundromat, Liquid Paper, Magic Marker, Muzak, Novocain, Ping-Pong, Play-Doh, Popsicle, Post-it Note, Q-Tip, Realtor, Rollerblade, Scotch Tape, Scrabble, Seeing Eye (dog), Sheetrock, Slim Jim, Styrofoam, Super glue, Technicolor, Teflon, TelePrompTer, Vaseline, Velcro, and Walkman.
Since when is a link to Wikipedia considered informative? I have an idea!
Here's some more information about Duke Nukem Forever, from Google
The problem with emergency patches is that they usually don't undergo the same quality assurance testing that regular releases do. Sure, they could, but QA is expensive. If something has a low vulnerability but it might increase the risk of failures, it should be put off until the next scheduled release.
You're stealing intellectual property using Pandora the hard way. Just go into %temp%\plugtmp-1\ and rename "access-N" to "songname.mp3" The highest-numbered access file is the song next to play, so the current one is N-1.
Yeah. And the computers at work can run text games just fine on their 4MB video cards, and the boss just sees a prompt, not your dazzling mental imagery. All you've got to do is keep the text-comprehension anger at bay and you're all set. *pretends to get back to work after a brief /. break*
You could still buy or steal the thing. You'd just have to buy/steal a finger with it.
No, but more is almost always cheaper. It's an open market, which means the most efficient get the richest.
"Personally, I don't want to log and search my AIM conversations. Most of that is quick chat or non-sense."
Well, exactly. Most my my chats are complete crap I'll never look at again. Thing is, there are important bits like phone numbers and links and things that people send me that I would like to refence again, and a good search tool would be very handy indeed.
Come to think of it, most of the content of the Web is nonsense that I never want to look at. Why bother searching it?
That's true, the energy isn't free.
But a power plant, even a coal-powered one, is far more efficient than a gas engine, especially the older engines typical in China.
Of course China is paving the way for green transportation. Having enormous populations in congested cities with low average incomes is a great motivation to produce cheap transportation.
Okay, Dan, I'm only gonna sing this one more time.
If you want it to be possessive, it's just "ITS." But if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "IT-APOSTROPHE-S"
...scalawag!
Geeze.. You drop any incongruence reference to open-source on here and it's modded a funny joke, eh?
...Nah, I'm not even gonna try for one.
Wouldn't it be much cheaper to hire the homeless or students to take the prints?
Is it a witch's brew?
I suppose this group will become the first to claim land for itself on Mars. They can't claim it as an appropriation by claim of sovereignty for Russia, but if it's a private mission they should be able to claim it for themselves, or Fox-Media-Rocket-Corp or whoever.
The Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space says nothing about non-state missions, unfortunately. I'm not even sure the rules apply to entities not parties to the treaty.
Is there a doctor of law in the building?