Trickle gives alot of mixed results, sometimes I find it doesn't work at all, other times it works brilliantly. It's fairly clever how it works but will no work with statically linked files (doesn't think mean prelink is thrown out the door?)
Out of all the little tools I've come across for windows the one I miss the most on other computers is strokeit http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
"StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor."
I do pretty much everything using gestures now, closing windows, minimizing, starting explorer, changing song in winamp..... I get really frustrated when the computer doesn't have it install, guess it's kinda a double edged sword.
A few games I've played (Eternal Darkness) used the rumble feature to get around the limitations of their camera (Eternal Darkness was an early gamecube game originally designed for N64, its a great play). When something important was near you but hidden due to the camera angle the controller vibrated.
It was a great feature and made the game alot less frustrating.
So this article is a few hours old and my responce will probably not be seen by anyone but hey why not i got a spare minute to rant.
The problem I have with Microsoft/Windows is not that they include their software with the OS but the fact that no one (this includes others not just microsoft) do not seem to be getting together to make a standard COM interface. By COM interface I do not mean where buttons go etc, but they way the component (in this case a media player) is controlled/embedded used by other software. If all players were based on one interface then anywhere a player is used it should be able to be substituted with another, ie embed a media player into a webpage and instead of having WMP popup you get your favourite player.
Ofcourse this would not be perfect as not all players would support the same file formats etc, but it would be a great start, removing WMP from windows achieves nothing (although given the choice it is still the version of windows I would buy). This goes for Internet Explorer too, they use Internet Explorer in all sorts of things, they embed it in their help programs, in office in explorer. If it was truely component based then firefox could be used in all those situations.
I admit its not likely what Microsoft want to do, they love to say our product is so tightly integrated that it cannot be removed, but adding one more layer of abstraction so that other things can be used as a replacement would fix all that.
It would also enforce more standards, Microsoft would not be able to rely on the browser they use being IE.
I understand people complaining about the clothing in the game and i think penny-arcades new comment puts it fairly well. Some of the ass shots etc really weren't needed, however i dont see why people complain so much about the "You bitch!" comment. It's not exactly foul language or anything and she did just cut his face, i dont think anyone in his position would have come up with something nice to say back.
I dont see how anyone enjoyed the sword fighting in the original game, like i said earlier all you end up doing is using counter attack alot, meaning you block until they almost hit you and then hit e to retrieve them immediately. This one is slightly different admittedly i used counter alot to start with but later on find it doesn't work so well and actually have to use more advanced techniques.
The repetition is alittle annoying, however i didn't find that annoying till later in the game rather then doing similar areas in different time periods. The levels themselves are alot more complex and well put together then the ones in SoT, having different paths through the same level depending what time/direction you're going i thought was kinda nice.
Also i like the story in this one, it's not told anywhere near as well as in the first one, but thinking about it the first one didn't have the greatest story during the game but the ending twist was just so good it reflects well on the whole game.
I think people are complaining too much about this game, so there's a few things people dont like about it but the gameplay is still amazing and worth the money for the game.
yeah gentoo takes a bit more work to setup then other distros around, but i guess you could use the binary packages (most gentoo users compile everything and i mean everything from source) probably wouldn't take too long.
Before I start, I'll admit I haven't finished this game, however I fully plan to I just like to have my games last alittle longer then one day playing (ie i limit myself to x hours and day and actually do something else for a while).
Combat is repetitive?, are you saying it wasn't in SoT? If I remember right there were basically only a couple types of monsters in the first, meaning that you either did a wall jump attack to knock them down and kill them in a total of 2 hits, or you could counter/jump over them and kill them in maybe 3 hits?
To be honest I got sick of how boring the fighting was in the first one, once you could counter/wall jump attack you didn't need any other skills at all.
This new games fighting system, while not perfect is a great improvement, sure it's harder but overall it seems like a better fighting system. Something i have noticed is that they blend the fighting/jumping puzzles more which means you dont get 20+ monsters in one room then jump for a while then kill another 20+ monsters. The boss fights are another welcome addition to the game.
Story wise I haven't decided yet, like i said I'm not finished and I know there are a few cool twists coming up (even if at least one of them was spoilt by a model loading bug). The story in the first one was actually quite simple but it was told extremely well, the prince is funny and likeable. This one seems to have a more involved story but not be told as well.
Alot of people seem to put this game down due to the new look of the prince, am I the only one to actually like it more? well except the crap that said during battle.
In no way am i saying this is a perfect game, the first in my opinion was alot more polished and I can't think of anyone that ran into bugs (which i certainlly cant say for this one) I think it could have done with another month or so to hopefully catch most the major problems and maybe fix a few little bits (like lack of speech during one cut scene?) but overall seems like a very good game.
So this change will happen with 2005.0 comes out? as it will pretty much effect everyone using gentoo, i wonder what will happen to those of us with 2.6 installed already.
Does this mean i should be able to get a program/script soon to download updates automatically to a directory on my linux serveer for distribution at my pleasure? or can i get that already. Basically I'm just wanting a way to download the new updates for certain versions of windows, then maybe some form of notification that i have a new update sitting around.
This is mostly to help with servicing alot of customer PCs
Gentoo users should make sure they know about this its called deltup, basically a script for portage that grabs xdelta patches instead of downloading the entire file again. It seems to save me alot of bw anyway.
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Trickle gives alot of mixed results, sometimes I find it doesn't work at all, other times it works brilliantly. It's fairly clever how it works but will no work with statically linked files (doesn't think mean prelink is thrown out the door?)
Out of all the little tools I've come across for windows the one I miss the most on other computers is strokeit http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ "StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor." I do pretty much everything using gestures now, closing windows, minimizing, starting explorer, changing song in winamp..... I get really frustrated when the computer doesn't have it install, guess it's kinda a double edged sword.
Anyone else think it would be funny if the next big worm (or any malware) changed IE to report itself to sites as firefox?
Well maybe you should come inside and talk to some guys then
It was a great feature and made the game alot less frustrating.
The problem I have with Microsoft/Windows is not that they include their software with the OS but the fact that no one (this includes others not just microsoft) do not seem to be getting together to make a standard COM interface. By COM interface I do not mean where buttons go etc, but they way the component (in this case a media player) is controlled/embedded used by other software. If all players were based on one interface then anywhere a player is used it should be able to be substituted with another, ie embed a media player into a webpage and instead of having WMP popup you get your favourite player.
Ofcourse this would not be perfect as not all players would support the same file formats etc, but it would be a great start, removing WMP from windows achieves nothing (although given the choice it is still the version of windows I would buy). This goes for Internet Explorer too, they use Internet Explorer in all sorts of things, they embed it in their help programs, in office in explorer. If it was truely component based then firefox could be used in all those situations.
I admit its not likely what Microsoft want to do, they love to say our product is so tightly integrated that it cannot be removed, but adding one more layer of abstraction so that other things can be used as a replacement would fix all that.
It would also enforce more standards, Microsoft would not be able to rely on the browser they use being IE.
meh I've ranted on too long already.
I understand people complaining about the clothing in the game and i think penny-arcades new comment puts it fairly well. Some of the ass shots etc really weren't needed, however i dont see why people complain so much about the "You bitch!" comment. It's not exactly foul language or anything and she did just cut his face, i dont think anyone in his position would have come up with something nice to say back. I dont see how anyone enjoyed the sword fighting in the original game, like i said earlier all you end up doing is using counter attack alot, meaning you block until they almost hit you and then hit e to retrieve them immediately. This one is slightly different admittedly i used counter alot to start with but later on find it doesn't work so well and actually have to use more advanced techniques. The repetition is alittle annoying, however i didn't find that annoying till later in the game rather then doing similar areas in different time periods. The levels themselves are alot more complex and well put together then the ones in SoT, having different paths through the same level depending what time/direction you're going i thought was kinda nice. Also i like the story in this one, it's not told anywhere near as well as in the first one, but thinking about it the first one didn't have the greatest story during the game but the ending twist was just so good it reflects well on the whole game. I think people are complaining too much about this game, so there's a few things people dont like about it but the gameplay is still amazing and worth the money for the game.
yeah gentoo takes a bit more work to setup then other distros around, but i guess you could use the binary packages (most gentoo users compile everything and i mean everything from source) probably wouldn't take too long.
last i checked gentoo doesn't do that, and i'm sure alot of others don't either. Although i would have expected debian not to.
Combat is repetitive?, are you saying it wasn't in SoT? If I remember right there were basically only a couple types of monsters in the first, meaning that you either did a wall jump attack to knock them down and kill them in a total of 2 hits, or you could counter/jump over them and kill them in maybe 3 hits?
To be honest I got sick of how boring the fighting was in the first one, once you could counter/wall jump attack you didn't need any other skills at all.
This new games fighting system, while not perfect is a great improvement, sure it's harder but overall it seems like a better fighting system. Something i have noticed is that they blend the fighting/jumping puzzles more which means you dont get 20+ monsters in one room then jump for a while then kill another 20+ monsters. The boss fights are another welcome addition to the game.
Story wise I haven't decided yet, like i said I'm not finished and I know there are a few cool twists coming up (even if at least one of them was spoilt by a model loading bug). The story in the first one was actually quite simple but it was told extremely well, the prince is funny and likeable. This one seems to have a more involved story but not be told as well.
Alot of people seem to put this game down due to the new look of the prince, am I the only one to actually like it more? well except the crap that said during battle.
In no way am i saying this is a perfect game, the first in my opinion was alot more polished and I can't think of anyone that ran into bugs (which i certainlly cant say for this one) I think it could have done with another month or so to hopefully catch most the major problems and maybe fix a few little bits (like lack of speech during one cut scene?) but overall seems like a very good game.
So this change will happen with 2005.0 comes out? as it will pretty much effect everyone using gentoo, i wonder what will happen to those of us with 2.6 installed already.
pppfffft, my 286 can do it faster...
Does this mean i should be able to get a program/script soon to download updates automatically to a directory on my linux serveer for distribution at my pleasure? or can i get that already. Basically I'm just wanting a way to download the new updates for certain versions of windows, then maybe some form of notification that i have a new update sitting around. This is mostly to help with servicing alot of customer PCs
Gentoo users should make sure they know about this its called deltup, basically a script for portage that grabs xdelta patches instead of downloading the entire file again. It seems to save me alot of bw anyway.