True here as well. Me and my friends are all ~25, and one of us owns a PS2, because it came with his cell phone for free.
We game a lot, PC only, ET, Doom3, HL2, CS, WoW, NWN, whatever. I wouldn't even think about buying a console, it just doesn't appeal to me at all.
I totally do not even feel as if I am in the target audience for these consoles.
Consoles are advertised like kickass devices which will make you have a good time, and yes, there is a new GTA clone on them.
Everything I heard from E3 was shiny graphics, how fast the PS3/Xbox360 is and whatnot.
The good games (IMHO) were Oblivion and ET: Quake Wars, and those are not the typical console games and kinda didn't get that much time in the media.
Hevn't tried it with Harry Potter, so just guesswork, but with the Serenity Trailer, I found that the Fullscreen version at Apple's website (that redirects you to a "I have iTunes / I do not have iTunes" page) can somehow be intercepted (don't know exactly, check the sources of the links) to give you an.xml file (not hidden, really ends in.xml). That one clearly contains the link to the real.mov file.
So basically you are saying HL2DM is fine because not as many ppl will play it at the torunament, so Steam will not be as big an annoyance as if much more people were trying out CS:S? Kinda makes sense, just not what you implied by your first post.
Ahm, your wording now seems to imply that you do not know that Quake IV is a sequel to Quake 2, not Quake III Arena, meaning its focus is on a single player campaign with the theme and setting from Quake 2 (Stroggos).
Somewhere some Raven dude said they would include a multiplayer mode that tried to recapture Q3As feeling - haven't heard more on that though lately.
This really is just great. I really ANAL, but didn't Claria / Gator sue some anti-spyware company about being (rightfully, in my book) listed among the bad software? So couldn't the Mozilla Foundation just fight back like this? Ok, they probably do not have the money, but this just smells like misuse of a monopoly if this is really true...
Uh, had something like that myself. Back then, I decided to upgrade my system from a P200 to I think it was a K6-2-450 or so. I drove to a friend's friend who had a compuzter business, got a new Gigabyte motherboard and a CPU and Ram, and went home again and began to swap the parts. This wasn't the first machine I had built, but the new machine would not even turn on, nothing. Reassembled everything, still nothing. Well, it was still only 5 PM or something, so I drove back to the shop, and put the whole PC on his desk. He looks at it, plugs it in, still nothing, unscrews all screws holding the mother board in places, takes it in his hands and lifts it out of the case. As soon as it was outside the case, the fans started running, and the machine booted. He quickly lowered it again, and it turned off. It wasn' toughing anything, no metal of the case, nothing, just the cables and his hands. We tried that several times, and then he asked me if it was ok if he gave me a new case and a new motherboard, since he found this interesting and wanted to study it. Never asked again, though...
I don't know, but when the last Slashdot article about MSN Search came up, I tried it out just to see what the fuzz was about. And one thing immediately struck me: the site's URL is to complicated. I mean, compare www.google.com to search.msn.com - there isn't even a 'www' in MSN's URL (and I don't mean that as funny, Joe Sixpack usually adds a 'www' to any URL thrown at him because 'that is how the internet works').
I guess it is the same with this as it is with "The Internet" (you know, the blue "e" on the Windows desktop launching IE) or "computers" (these TV like things where you can write letters with this Windows thing on it and a harddisk under the desk). "Google" today is already a synonym to searching on the web, and just by being superior in the results alone will not be enough to dethrone Google (and we are not even sure yet if MSN will be better).
I don't know, I never tested Xandros myself, but please tell me they do not use a Wine'd Internet Explorer as the main browser, instead of say Konqueror, Firefox, Mozilla or galeon. Or might the table on page 8 of the report be slightly flawed, like the rest of the article? Talking about the ease of use of installing software on linux here, the call for antivirus software onlinux as a necessity for everyon with linux viruses being as rare as you-name-it (yet), the statement that none of the linux distros keep the installed software up to date (the last Suse I installed sure did), etc...
Hm, at our University here in Germany (some 20.000 students), on almost all machines Mozilla 1.7 is installed, except on those to old to run anything better than Netscape 4.7. Some departments' IT dudes are also rolling out Firefox, but ours (I administer the dep. of history) is not - our users already had to make that horrible big step from Netscape 4.7 to Mozilla. Now to get them to use Firefox! Gasp! THese are historians, not techies, they are lost when the icons are one pixel bigger or smaller...
Not entirely wrong. For one thing, you can add a comma-separated list of relations, so you could do a rel="nofollow,next" (and it is left up to you if that makes sense) if you wanted, and coupled together with the fact that the W3C allows for new values for rel in anchors and links, this is quite a nifty idea.
In addition to what I worite there, I think your point is moot entirely, since using "nofollow" is recommended for links that visitors add in a blog, guestbook or forum. That's usually not links that are the "next" document anyway, right?
So construct your blog headers the regular way, and modify the posting function that it adds a rel="nofollow" to all links inside user submitted posts.
Not entirely wrong. For one thing, you can add a comma-separated list of relations, so you could do a rel="nofollow,next" (and it is left up to you if that makes sense) if you wanted, and coupled together with the fact that the W3C allows for new values for rel in anchors and links, this is quite a nifty idea.
I can just agree with this. One major show stopper for me was if the game designers left out the possibility to invert the mouse in first person shooters. I mean, heck, maybe they all play with non-inverted mouse settings, but I guess some large part of the target audiience does (like more than 10 percent or so). If the "invert mouse" option was not present on the config menu (of the demo...), I would neot buy the game, infact, that upon finding out about this, I would exit the game and uninstall it, no matter how good the reviews.
I purchased Morrowind III Bethesda Softworks and it took me 3 months just to get to a point where I could create a character without the game causing me to get the BSOD thanks to an illegal call to my video driver. I was not alone in this problem. How hard it is to tell people that your game isn't compatible with the NVIDIA chipset?
Apart from the fact that the game is Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, I purchased it close to release day (don't know exactly how close, but I just took one of the Collectors editions from the shelf, so they were not sold out or something), so I started playing it with no patches applied. On My Nvidia GF4. With no BSODs. Ever. I am not saying you are lying, but neither were Bethesda, because Morrowind clearly is compatible with Nvidia cards. Maybe not with all cards or driver revisions, but I never had problems, nor my buddies, who all have Nvidia cards, and not all the same kind or brand.
Plus there are indeed game reviews that mention flaws in game, check reviews for Unreal II, for example, or other not so well received titles. Not all of them are bad, because some are probably really bought, but if a game is bad, you usually have no problem figuring this out if you read more than one review.
I do not know about the USA, but in Germany, even if the PC has some sealing sticker over the screws on the back, opening the case for "typical maintenance" like adding ram or something and thereby breaking this seal is not breaking the warranty. If the systems fails after that, you better bring it back in its the original state or the OEM will just tell you it is the added part's fault, but the warranty in itself is not void.
How long have you been in Germany exactly? Have you ever tried the beaches in the north? Sure, it is not exactly the Caribbean here, but then you cannot really expect that here, or in Denmark, or Great Britain, or other northern european countries with access to the sea. We do have beaches almost along our entire coastline and a lot of tourism in that region.
You fail to realize that not everybody wants tropical heat for a vacation, sometimes, just having a beach (you know, sand, the ocean) is sufficient. I rather go on vacation in the north, if only to escape the unwashed masses on the beaches of the "in"-locations.
There are several classes for TFT displays which precisely state how many defective pixels the display may have. The ISO standard for this is 13406-2. Most displays sold today do not belong to the no-dead-pixel-at-all class, so customers cannot whine. It usually clearly states on the box somewhere with the other technical data to which class a certain modell belongs.
Filezilla is a great FTP client which is currently being rewritten from scratch, though. The point is to use wxWidgets to make it run on all supported platforms, but for now it is Win32 only. I use it everyday, ditched SmartFTP for it. Never looked back.
And there also is a FileZilla server, I use it on several small machines as well (no up/down quotas afair, so no use for the mp3 server dudes).
Some other freeware I would recommend is Xnview. A fast image viewer with lotsa formats known. Not open source, but good nonetheless. Also available on Linux, though I never tried that version.
I do not see why this is moderated as Funny, since I see it exactly the same way. While it sucks that I have to wait, I have the feeiling that the servers will be even smoother for the european launch. I have to admit, though, that I found the open beta with 500.000 accounts to be very smooth already...
Well, true. We are connected via the Gigabitnetz of the DFN (check dfn.de), but I cannot find any info on the excct config of our net access. I would ghave to go to some part where I know they have a chart about that hanging on the wall. For me, it is sufficient to know that transfers from and to the internet can go as high as my NIC allows (well, that and the switch and cables...)
I had read that as well, but at least here in Germany with a German retail version and a Steam download, it did not work.
I bought the silver package via Steam, and a friend of mine bought the regular retail edition here in a store. When he found out about the DVD check he was quite pissed, since he had already contemplated buying via my credit card off Steam. We just have had to wait till Valve unbanned my card (they ban it for further purchases from Steam after a successful purchase for security reasons, and you have to use a web form to re-enable it). He was impatient, did not care for the goodies as much or whatever, he decided to go retail.
Just today we tried it all. He uninstalled and redownloaded CS:S (we are on a T1 in our office and the admins), he ftp'ed all the files from my machine, same thing - still a cd check. He manually searched for registry keys, all clear, no luck.
So, we really wanted to know now, and he logged in on my machine. Remember: my machine had never seen a HL1 or HL2 CD/DVD in its life, only Steam and downloads and my account. He entered his account information, waited a second, double-clicked CS:S in the games list, and was asked to instert a disc.
So they actually do have some way of tracking if you have to have a disc in the drive, I am still urging him to contact Valve about it, maybe they have something to say. They always said if you redownloaded it would be no problem.
Is this really want you are telling me? That I can only really use an application if I put it on a separate virtual desktop and not anywhere I want it to? This is pretty much a foot shooting by the Gimp developers, because telling other people they are too stupid to use Gimp because unlike every other app on this planet it only works well if you change your whole way to work is a sure way that this people will not use Gimp.
Gimp is a royal pita to use for everyone except those who have used it for ages. Everyone else wants a better UI. Well. I for one hope Krita will be any good when it comes out, so I am not stuck with PS.
Well, checked it at home now, still don't have that option. Gonna download the new version now and try it with a spanking new profile, but I still find it a little weird that you have the option (even if not fully functional), and here it is not even showing up. IMAP as well? Or POP3?
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True here as well. Me and my friends are all ~25, and one of us owns a PS2, because it came with his cell phone for free. We game a lot, PC only, ET, Doom3, HL2, CS, WoW, NWN, whatever. I wouldn't even think about buying a console, it just doesn't appeal to me at all.
I totally do not even feel as if I am in the target audience for these consoles. Consoles are advertised like kickass devices which will make you have a good time, and yes, there is a new GTA clone on them. Everything I heard from E3 was shiny graphics, how fast the PS3/Xbox360 is and whatnot. The good games (IMHO) were Oblivion and ET: Quake Wars, and those are not the typical console games and kinda didn't get that much time in the media.
Hevn't tried it with Harry Potter, so just guesswork, but with the Serenity Trailer, I found that the Fullscreen version at Apple's website (that redirects you to a "I have iTunes / I do not have iTunes" page) can somehow be intercepted (don't know exactly, check the sources of the links) to give you an .xml file (not hidden, really ends in .xml). That one clearly contains the link to the real .mov file.
So basically you are saying HL2DM is fine because not as many ppl will play it at the torunament, so Steam will not be as big an annoyance as if much more people were trying out CS:S? Kinda makes sense, just not what you implied by your first post.
But then there will be Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, if you'd check your link again. So it cannot be about Steam...
Ahm, your wording now seems to imply that you do not know that Quake IV is a sequel to Quake 2, not Quake III Arena, meaning its focus is on a single player campaign with the theme and setting from Quake 2 (Stroggos).
Somewhere some Raven dude said they would include a multiplayer mode that tried to recapture Q3As feeling - haven't heard more on that though lately.
This really is just great. I really ANAL, but didn't Claria / Gator sue some anti-spyware company about being (rightfully, in my book) listed among the bad software? So couldn't the Mozilla Foundation just fight back like this? Ok, they probably do not have the money, but this just smells like misuse of a monopoly if this is really true...
Thanks for the clearly worded and thought-out response, I copied it verbatim into their "article feedback" form.
I don't really see this is funny, though it is worded as such. For me, this is Insightful, in a bitter way. Bitter.
Uh, had something like that myself. Back then, I decided to upgrade my system from a P200 to I think it was a K6-2-450 or so. I drove to a friend's friend who had a compuzter business, got a new Gigabyte motherboard and a CPU and Ram, and went home again and began to swap the parts. This wasn't the first machine I had built, but the new machine would not even turn on, nothing. Reassembled everything, still nothing. Well, it was still only 5 PM or something, so I drove back to the shop, and put the whole PC on his desk. He looks at it, plugs it in, still nothing, unscrews all screws holding the mother board in places, takes it in his hands and lifts it out of the case. As soon as it was outside the case, the fans started running, and the machine booted. He quickly lowered it again, and it turned off. It wasn' toughing anything, no metal of the case, nothing, just the cables and his hands. We tried that several times, and then he asked me if it was ok if he gave me a new case and a new motherboard, since he found this interesting and wanted to study it. Never asked again, though...
I don't know, but when the last Slashdot article about MSN Search came up, I tried it out just to see what the fuzz was about. And one thing immediately struck me: the site's URL is to complicated. I mean, compare www.google.com to search.msn.com - there isn't even a 'www' in MSN's URL (and I don't mean that as funny, Joe Sixpack usually adds a 'www' to any URL thrown at him because 'that is how the internet works').
I guess it is the same with this as it is with "The Internet" (you know, the blue "e" on the Windows desktop launching IE) or "computers" (these TV like things where you can write letters with this Windows thing on it and a harddisk under the desk). "Google" today is already a synonym to searching on the web, and just by being superior in the results alone will not be enough to dethrone Google (and we are not even sure yet if MSN will be better).
I don't know, I never tested Xandros myself, but please tell me they do not use a Wine'd Internet Explorer as the main browser, instead of say Konqueror, Firefox, Mozilla or galeon. Or might the table on page 8 of the report be slightly flawed, like the rest of the article? Talking about the ease of use of installing software on linux here, the call for antivirus software onlinux as a necessity for everyon with linux viruses being as rare as you-name-it (yet), the statement that none of the linux distros keep the installed software up to date (the last Suse I installed sure did), etc...
Well researched article, I'd say.
Hm, at our University here in Germany (some 20.000 students), on almost all machines Mozilla 1.7 is installed, except on those to old to run anything better than Netscape 4.7. Some departments' IT dudes are also rolling out Firefox, but ours (I administer the dep. of history) is not - our users already had to make that horrible big step from Netscape 4.7 to Mozilla. Now to get them to use Firefox! Gasp! THese are historians, not techies, they are lost when the icons are one pixel bigger or smaller...
Not entirely wrong. For one thing, you can add a comma-separated list of relations, so you could do a rel="nofollow,next" (and it is left up to you if that makes sense) if you wanted, and coupled together with the fact that the W3C allows for new values for rel in anchors and links, this is quite a nifty idea.
In addition to what I worite there, I think your point is moot entirely, since using "nofollow" is recommended for links that visitors add in a blog, guestbook or forum. That's usually not links that are the "next" document anyway, right? So construct your blog headers the regular way, and modify the posting function that it adds a rel="nofollow" to all links inside user submitted posts.
Not entirely wrong. For one thing, you can add a comma-separated list of relations, so you could do a rel="nofollow,next" (and it is left up to you if that makes sense) if you wanted, and coupled together with the fact that the W3C allows for new values for rel in anchors and links, this is quite a nifty idea.
I can just agree with this. One major show stopper for me was if the game designers left out the possibility to invert the mouse in first person shooters. I mean, heck, maybe they all play with non-inverted mouse settings, but I guess some large part of the target audiience does (like more than 10 percent or so). If the "invert mouse" option was not present on the config menu (of the demo...), I would neot buy the game, infact, that upon finding out about this, I would exit the game and uninstall it, no matter how good the reviews.
I purchased Morrowind III Bethesda Softworks and it took me 3 months just to get to a point where I could create a character without the game causing me to get the BSOD thanks to an illegal call to my video driver. I was not alone in this problem. How hard it is to tell people that your game isn't compatible with the NVIDIA chipset?
Apart from the fact that the game is Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, I purchased it close to release day (don't know exactly how close, but I just took one of the Collectors editions from the shelf, so they were not sold out or something), so I started playing it with no patches applied. On My Nvidia GF4. With no BSODs. Ever. I am not saying you are lying, but neither were Bethesda, because Morrowind clearly is compatible with Nvidia cards. Maybe not with all cards or driver revisions, but I never had problems, nor my buddies, who all have Nvidia cards, and not all the same kind or brand.
Plus there are indeed game reviews that mention flaws in game, check reviews for Unreal II, for example, or other not so well received titles. Not all of them are bad, because some are probably really bought, but if a game is bad, you usually have no problem figuring this out if you read more than one review.
I do not know about the USA, but in Germany, even if the PC has some sealing sticker over the screws on the back, opening the case for "typical maintenance" like adding ram or something and thereby breaking this seal is not breaking the warranty. If the systems fails after that, you better bring it back in its the original state or the OEM will just tell you it is the added part's fault, but the warranty in itself is not void.
How long have you been in Germany exactly? Have you ever tried the beaches in the north? Sure, it is not exactly the Caribbean here, but then you cannot really expect that here, or in Denmark, or Great Britain, or other northern european countries with access to the sea. We do have beaches almost along our entire coastline and a lot of tourism in that region.
You fail to realize that not everybody wants tropical heat for a vacation, sometimes, just having a beach (you know, sand, the ocean) is sufficient. I rather go on vacation in the north, if only to escape the unwashed masses on the beaches of the "in"-locations.
There are several classes for TFT displays which precisely state how many defective pixels the display may have. The ISO standard for this is 13406-2. Most displays sold today do not belong to the no-dead-pixel-at-all class, so customers cannot whine. It usually clearly states on the box somewhere with the other technical data to which class a certain modell belongs.
So no unfair business tactics at all.
Filezilla is a great FTP client which is currently being rewritten from scratch, though. The point is to use wxWidgets to make it run on all supported platforms, but for now it is Win32 only. I use it everyday, ditched SmartFTP for it. Never looked back.
And there also is a FileZilla server, I use it on several small machines as well (no up/down quotas afair, so no use for the mp3 server dudes).
Some other freeware I would recommend is Xnview. A fast image viewer with lotsa formats known. Not open source, but good nonetheless. Also available on Linux, though I never tried that version.
I do not see why this is moderated as Funny, since I see it exactly the same way. While it sucks that I have to wait, I have the feeiling that the servers will be even smoother for the european launch. I have to admit, though, that I found the open beta with 500.000 accounts to be very smooth already...
Well, true. We are connected via the Gigabitnetz of the DFN (check dfn.de), but I cannot find any info on the excct config of our net access. I would ghave to go to some part where I know they have a chart about that hanging on the wall. For me, it is sufficient to know that transfers from and to the internet can go as high as my NIC allows (well, that and the switch and cables...)
I had read that as well, but at least here in Germany with a German retail version and a Steam download, it did not work.
I bought the silver package via Steam, and a friend of mine bought the regular retail edition here in a store. When he found out about the DVD check he was quite pissed, since he had already contemplated buying via my credit card off Steam. We just have had to wait till Valve unbanned my card (they ban it for further purchases from Steam after a successful purchase for security reasons, and you have to use a web form to re-enable it). He was impatient, did not care for the goodies as much or whatever, he decided to go retail.
Just today we tried it all. He uninstalled and redownloaded CS:S (we are on a T1 in our office and the admins), he ftp'ed all the files from my machine, same thing - still a cd check. He manually searched for registry keys, all clear, no luck.
So, we really wanted to know now, and he logged in on my machine. Remember: my machine had never seen a HL1 or HL2 CD/DVD in its life, only Steam and downloads and my account. He entered his account information, waited a second, double-clicked CS:S in the games list, and was asked to instert a disc.
So they actually do have some way of tracking if you have to have a disc in the drive, I am still urging him to contact Valve about it, maybe they have something to say. They always said if you redownloaded it would be no problem.
Replies like these always make me wonder "why?"
Is this really want you are telling me? That I can only really use an application if I put it on a separate virtual desktop and not anywhere I want it to? This is pretty much a foot shooting by the Gimp developers, because telling other people they are too stupid to use Gimp because unlike every other app on this planet it only works well if you change your whole way to work is a sure way that this people will not use Gimp.
Gimp is a royal pita to use for everyone except those who have used it for ages. Everyone else wants a better UI. Well. I for one hope Krita will be any good when it comes out, so I am not stuck with PS.
Well, checked it at home now, still don't have that option. Gonna download the new version now and try it with a spanking new profile, but I still find it a little weird that you have the option (even if not fully functional), and here it is not even showing up. IMAP as well? Or POP3?