I can't stand the N64 controller for any sort of FPS, and thus, I can't stand Goldeneye. I abhor the default method used for looking up and down. Admittedly its better if its set for one thing on the analog and one thing on the C-pad, but the whole thing is just an exercise in futility. Play it for more than 10 minutes and your left thumb will tell you to stop.
The only reason I find that people like Goldeneye so much is because of nostalgia. Nobody has ever been able to justify it to me satisfactorily beyond that.
Reverse chronology is a problem? Would you rather have to scroll through vast amounts of forum topics or emails or what have you to get to the most recent ones? No. I think chronological listing is a far worse option for such a thing.
Perhaps you should be arguing for a choice, not forcing forward chronology upon others.
Unless you're talking about within the forum topics themselves, in that case, that's plain strange, and I see where you're coming from!
I'm so surprised nobody's mentioned The Hichiker's Guide. This is exactly the way Ford explained things to Arthur just before they were able to flag down the Heart of Gold. "Its like a puzzle. Things can only fit one way" or something along those lines.
And I don't see why you people have such a hard time comprehending this. It doesn't mean that you would be invisible and imphysical, it just means that what has happened, will happen, because it already happened.
Who says Dell has to use a variety of hardware? They could serve as a sort of OEM, put the Apple logo on in addition to their own, to show who made it. Sort of like how HP does iPods.
The problem as numerous others have mentioned, is that the BSA number doesn't take into account freeware, twice. The influence of freeware increases their numbers on two occassions. First, in determining the average number of programs on a computer, and second, they do not factor in freeware in the average price of software. If the first problem was alleviated, the second would become irrelevant, but as it stands now, both are compounding to create terribly inaccurate numbers.
No, they're data points. Notice how at the end the line dips downward and then right back up, at an angle, not at a curve. If they weren't data points, they wouldn't do that. If they aren't data points, than its a gross misrepresentation, because any sane person will assume they are, for the reasons that they are points, and the reason I outlined above.
Are you talking about liscencing as the replies you've already garnered have assumed, or with regards to whether it will actually run? I'm running Windows XP Pro, and it thinks this computer has 4 processors, with no problem. By "Regular" do you mean Home? By the time Quad chips will be out, Longhorn ought to be anway, meaning it would be a good thing for Microsoft, AMD's new chips would drive sales for its new OS (as opposed to just getting a nice old XP Home, which may or may not support that many threads).
Definitely. The processor may sell the system to a business, but to get real performance, the whole of secondary storage, and even primary storage, need to be improved.
Not just because of their politics, but in the games they publish and create too. I tend to play Command and Conquer Generals with my friends over the internet service they provide. Its the worst net-coded RTS I've played in a while. What other game has "mismatches" where "synchronizaton data has been lost" and it won't even bother trying to resynchronize? What other game has disconnections completely randomly, not to do with a connection at all, when it should simply be connecting the clients to the server.
Now this game won't even run. I get an error that memory cannot be read. I checked to see if it was my video card (which isn't on the supported list, but is better than most of them, its an ATI FireGL X1), but the memory address it gave was not one assigned to the card. The other issue is, does it support multiproccessing? I've got 2 with hyperthreading, meaning the OS thinks there's 4, could that be causing the problem?
And if you read the readme, there's so much they don't support and don't seem to plan on supporting. Its like a big "fuck you" to anyone without standard and new hardware. How hard is it to support game-port joysticks? Seems like a decent programmer could put that in in about a day. They use DirectInput, after all, it doesn't seem like that would be a challenge. I won't be buying this game, and I'll continue to try and avoid EA games in the future. They've got such a terrible track record, they dont deserve my money.
What about the hundreds of EA et al. employees who have to work under constant crunch-time?
Its getting harder to get a job as a software designer, the hours are getting longer, and the pay isn't seeming to compensate for the lack of life outside the job many of them are purportedly undergoing. Such a situation seems like where a union would be very important for the designer. When it gets to the point that a software programmer can't keep up with life outside of work, its time for change. (Disclaimer: IANA Software Designer.)
Maybe it seems straightforward to you, but that's not actually how it works. It belongs to the author(s), however the general public is allowed to license the code without paying or notifying, provided they follow the instructions. They don't own it, they're just allowed to use it. Its like saying, I have a bicycle, its mine, but its alright if you use it, provided you don't tell people its your own.
The majority of the simple words are precisely German... I don't see why you wouldn't think it was German if you weren't a fluent speaker. One would tend to assume that the vocabulary was just things they didn't know.
Thats true. From what we see of hardware these days, things don't get much more accurate than 90nm processes, and something as complex as this would need much more fine construction. Its possible to create something on the scale of 800 nm, but it wouldn't be something that could be mass produced. (They'd probably want to rescue the little bot for re-use...)
I know exactly what you're talking about. I had a Microsoft wireless mouse (utter crap) for a while. The bit about clicks (and scrollwheel) is definitely true. Sometimes I'd pick up the mouse to scroll through something, but it didn't work, because I was holding it in the air. Very strange.
Why would HD raise costs? PC games are generally cheaper to produce, correct? PC games are usually made to show on resolutions upwards of 1024x768. Whats the resolution on HD? Last I checked, that was it.
Another arguement against that. Most graphic designers create high-definition work, then scale it down to have the correct amount of polygons or resolution. They don't work with the level they want to appear in the game all the time.
Honestly I don't see what the big issue is. Yes, it takes more processing power, but to code is as simple as giving the GPU different instructions, if the XBOX is anything like a computer (which it is).
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I can't stand the N64 controller for any sort of FPS, and thus, I can't stand Goldeneye. I abhor the default method used for looking up and down. Admittedly its better if its set for one thing on the analog and one thing on the C-pad, but the whole thing is just an exercise in futility. Play it for more than 10 minutes and your left thumb will tell you to stop.
The only reason I find that people like Goldeneye so much is because of nostalgia. Nobody has ever been able to justify it to me satisfactorily beyond that.
Halo auto-aims, they just hide it really well.
Reverse chronology is a problem? Would you rather have to scroll through vast amounts of forum topics or emails or what have you to get to the most recent ones? No. I think chronological listing is a far worse option for such a thing.
Perhaps you should be arguing for a choice, not forcing forward chronology upon others.
Unless you're talking about within the forum topics themselves, in that case, that's plain strange, and I see where you're coming from!
I'm so surprised nobody's mentioned The Hichiker's Guide. This is exactly the way Ford explained things to Arthur just before they were able to flag down the Heart of Gold. "Its like a puzzle. Things can only fit one way" or something along those lines.
And I don't see why you people have such a hard time comprehending this. It doesn't mean that you would be invisible and imphysical, it just means that what has happened, will happen, because it already happened.
I like your analogy, but its more like, how long is an hour? If you took 8760 of them, side by side, you'd have a year.
Who says Dell has to use a variety of hardware? They could serve as a sort of OEM, put the Apple logo on in addition to their own, to show who made it. Sort of like how HP does iPods.
I agree. What kind of measurement is that? amount of boxes divided by subscribers in hundreds, divided by subscribers in millions? It makes no sense.
Except that 3 is irrelevant, for the fact that the flight path looks like this: http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gcmap?PATH=jfk-tyo (thanks to an earlier poster).
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" meal "Feeling Lucky" meal or maybe just plain "Lucky" meal seems to fit the bill as well.
The problem as numerous others have mentioned, is that the BSA number doesn't take into account freeware, twice. The influence of freeware increases their numbers on two occassions. First, in determining the average number of programs on a computer, and second, they do not factor in freeware in the average price of software. If the first problem was alleviated, the second would become irrelevant, but as it stands now, both are compounding to create terribly inaccurate numbers.
No, they're data points. Notice how at the end the line dips downward and then right back up, at an angle, not at a curve. If they weren't data points, they wouldn't do that. If they aren't data points, than its a gross misrepresentation, because any sane person will assume they are, for the reasons that they are points, and the reason I outlined above.
Are you talking about liscencing as the replies you've already garnered have assumed, or with regards to whether it will actually run? I'm running Windows XP Pro, and it thinks this computer has 4 processors, with no problem. By "Regular" do you mean Home? By the time Quad chips will be out, Longhorn ought to be anway, meaning it would be a good thing for Microsoft, AMD's new chips would drive sales for its new OS (as opposed to just getting a nice old XP Home, which may or may not support that many threads).
Definitely. The processor may sell the system to a business, but to get real performance, the whole of secondary storage, and even primary storage, need to be improved.
Not just because of their politics, but in the games they publish and create too. I tend to play Command and Conquer Generals with my friends over the internet service they provide. Its the worst net-coded RTS I've played in a while. What other game has "mismatches" where "synchronizaton data has been lost" and it won't even bother trying to resynchronize? What other game has disconnections completely randomly, not to do with a connection at all, when it should simply be connecting the clients to the server.
Now this game won't even run. I get an error that memory cannot be read. I checked to see if it was my video card (which isn't on the supported list, but is better than most of them, its an ATI FireGL X1), but the memory address it gave was not one assigned to the card. The other issue is, does it support multiproccessing? I've got 2 with hyperthreading, meaning the OS thinks there's 4, could that be causing the problem?
And if you read the readme, there's so much they don't support and don't seem to plan on supporting. Its like a big "fuck you" to anyone without standard and new hardware. How hard is it to support game-port joysticks? Seems like a decent programmer could put that in in about a day. They use DirectInput, after all, it doesn't seem like that would be a challenge. I won't be buying this game, and I'll continue to try and avoid EA games in the future. They've got such a terrible track record, they dont deserve my money.
http://elitetorrents.org/
Looks like its either them trying to garner support for bittorrent, or they actually got shut down criminally.
What about the hundreds of EA et al. employees who have to work under constant crunch-time?
Its getting harder to get a job as a software designer, the hours are getting longer, and the pay isn't seeming to compensate for the lack of life outside the job many of them are purportedly undergoing. Such a situation seems like where a union would be very important for the designer. When it gets to the point that a software programmer can't keep up with life outside of work, its time for change. (Disclaimer: IANA Software Designer.)
Maybe it seems straightforward to you, but that's not actually how it works. It belongs to the author(s), however the general public is allowed to license the code without paying or notifying, provided they follow the instructions. They don't own it, they're just allowed to use it. Its like saying, I have a bicycle, its mine, but its alright if you use it, provided you don't tell people its your own.
The majority of the simple words are precisely German... I don't see why you wouldn't think it was German if you weren't a fluent speaker. One would tend to assume that the vocabulary was just things they didn't know.
95% of people in the US are dumb enough to vote based on whether they ticked of D or R on their voter registrations.
Q: Do you believe aliens exist? A: Yes, we get them from Mexico all the time.
Thats true. From what we see of hardware these days, things don't get much more accurate than 90nm processes, and something as complex as this would need much more fine construction. Its possible to create something on the scale of 800 nm, but it wouldn't be something that could be mass produced. (They'd probably want to rescue the little bot for re-use...)
Apparently the rules of grammar don't apply either. :-P
I know exactly what you're talking about. I had a Microsoft wireless mouse (utter crap) for a while. The bit about clicks (and scrollwheel) is definitely true. Sometimes I'd pick up the mouse to scroll through something, but it didn't work, because I was holding it in the air. Very strange.
It doesn't take an uber-nerd to unlock some things in RivaTuner.
Why would HD raise costs? PC games are generally cheaper to produce, correct? PC games are usually made to show on resolutions upwards of 1024x768. Whats the resolution on HD? Last I checked, that was it. Another arguement against that. Most graphic designers create high-definition work, then scale it down to have the correct amount of polygons or resolution. They don't work with the level they want to appear in the game all the time. Honestly I don't see what the big issue is. Yes, it takes more processing power, but to code is as simple as giving the GPU different instructions, if the XBOX is anything like a computer (which it is).