I'll flat out admit that the game has quite an interesting story - I beat Halo 1 and I've put a few hours into Halo 2.
But revolutionary? Not at all. The controls are pretty much identical to any number of other console FPS's, and the graphics, while certainly decent, aren't as good as any modern PC shooter - or even quite a few other XBox and Gamecube games - even if we're talking about Halo 2.
I'm not saying it's not a good game series, but I do fail to see what it brought to market that hadn't been done before.
All I can figure is that enough people hadn't seen multiplayer in that style on a console, so it felt new.
It is a decent game series - one with a great story - but it doesn't come anywhere near deserving of the acclaim it seems to get. Obviously just my opinion, of course...
True, but then, Nautilus isn't a web browser, and it's pretty easy to run Gnome without running it - just change your session info.
I would argue that taking an admin that was equally familiar with both Linux/w Gnome and Windows, it would take far less time to run Gnome without Nautilus and remove it than it would to remove Explorer from Windows.
I know I could do both, but it would literally take me less that 5 minutes to set up Gnome that way. Also, I have no idea which Windows apps would still expect the IE HTML rendering engine to be there - I'd break quite a few things in Windows.
ATI is getting better recently - in fact, they just released a new driver today.
Also, there is considerable progress being made on the open source driver for ATI Radeon class cards - even things based on the R350 cards will have decent support through this soon (well, eventually, anyway).
A few months ago Ion Storm said that the release of a map editor for Thief III was forthcoming. This is vital to a large number of people; Thief I and II have had dozens of individual fan made levels that are actually higher quality than most commercial games - as well as several campaigns.
An editor for Thief III would drastically lengthen the games' shelf life, but with the studio closed, I suppose the chances are slim...
It's unfortunate - the latest expansion for Thief II (T2X - Shadows of the Metal Age) just hit beta, and will be released shortly - years after the original game came out. The Thief community is one of the most productive out there, and it'd be a shame for Eidos to ignore that. With a Thief III editor, it wouldn't suprise me to see people still making maps in 2010.
Actually, after really looking at IDN, I'm no longer sure it's even a good thing; obviously people would like names in their own language, but there are other attempts to do it which might be better.
And that's what he said - if you go to Nautilus and open the location "applications:///", that's the root of the applications menu. You can then navigate it just like files and folders.
Note, this works fine in 2.8 (and I think all the way back to 2.4), but I have heard that 2.10 handles menus a different way. I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure.
And of course, compositing is turned off by default, and it's developers are actively working to fix the few problems it has (only one that comes to mind right now is the Flash plugin).
No, the square button problem affects every PSP produced everywhere - 4,700 people felt it was bad enough to actually send it in.
I would also point out that Sony has flat out stated they aren't fixing it.
Definitely. I set up a fairly complex email system for the last ISP I worked at - three mail gateways to handle the incoming load and filter it, then one real mail server that only customers could access.
We had full filtering for incoming mail - be it incoming from the outside world or from our customers - and applied different rules for different IP blocks.
This allowed us to automatically monitor customers; if they, say, tried to send X messages in 10 minutes, we'd get a beep and could check the mail in queue, make sure it was legit. Also did automatic blocking for obvious spam senders - either by amounts or faked headers.
It wasn't difficult to set up, and didn't really take much to admin - one full time employee dedicated to mail and a few other IT items would be enough. And this was for a 50,000 user ISP - not bigtime, but certainly not tiny.
Or the bots could ignore that, and just send out with the default mail settings - most users would have OE set to remember password, so no real gain there.
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They're not insanely expensive comparatively - you can beat the price online, but in most Walmart, CompUSA, and BestBuy stores, the cheapest players never get below $59 - I know: I was looking for a 128MB one this christmas for my mom. And at those stores, you can't get below $89 for comparable features.
Yeah, you and I can buy online and get one a bit cheaper - but just a bit. I think the price point - especially for the 512MB - is quite nearly perfect.
Okay, fine, if you want to do it that way. Wine does emulate the Win32 api in the sense that any replacement will have to imitate it.
American Heritage Dictionary aside, I think there is a significant difference between the reimplementation of an API and the emulation of a complete windows system.
I have very little problem with calling the government of North Korea evil.
The country and the people themselves, no, of course not, but their leader is the closest thing to a true Bondian villain the world has seen in a long time - all the stranger (and to me, more frightening) as he's known to really like Bond movies.
If you'd ever tried to show a parent or grandparent how to use their new combined DVD player/Dolby receiver, you'd realise that there are a huge number of people out there that absolutely want a DVD player with 1 button.
Actually, sometimes small ones are the ones that do it right. Certainly, the one I work for does.
Think about it - small ISPs have to fight for their customers any way they can - any way that they can add value to the service, they will.
We are very good about preventing spam from ever coming from our network, and we provide very extensive spam reporting and blocking services for our customers - because if we don't, they'll go somewhere else.
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But revolutionary? Not at all. The controls are pretty much identical to any number of other console FPS's, and the graphics, while certainly decent, aren't as good as any modern PC shooter - or even quite a few other XBox and Gamecube games - even if we're talking about Halo 2.
I'm not saying it's not a good game series, but I do fail to see what it brought to market that hadn't been done before.
All I can figure is that enough people hadn't seen multiplayer in that style on a console, so it felt new.
It is a decent game series - one with a great story - but it doesn't come anywhere near deserving of the acclaim it seems to get. Obviously just my opinion, of course...
Of course, in Austin, the independent shops would just do it anyway and not ever really bother to let the city know about it.
I would argue that taking an admin that was equally familiar with both Linux/w Gnome and Windows, it would take far less time to run Gnome without Nautilus and remove it than it would to remove Explorer from Windows.
I know I could do both, but it would literally take me less that 5 minutes to set up Gnome that way. Also, I have no idea which Windows apps would still expect the IE HTML rendering engine to be there - I'd break quite a few things in Windows.
Are you using Wine, or Cedega?
Check the various mailing list archives on Freedesktop - it's actually quite impressive how fast some of this is coming along.
Also, there is considerable progress being made on the open source driver for ATI Radeon class cards - even things based on the R350 cards will have decent support through this soon (well, eventually, anyway).
An editor for Thief III would drastically lengthen the games' shelf life, but with the studio closed, I suppose the chances are slim...
It's unfortunate - the latest expansion for Thief II (T2X - Shadows of the Metal Age) just hit beta, and will be released shortly - years after the original game came out. The Thief community is one of the most productive out there, and it'd be a shame for Eidos to ignore that. With a Thief III editor, it wouldn't suprise me to see people still making maps in 2010.
Actually, after really looking at IDN, I'm no longer sure it's even a good thing; obviously people would like names in their own language, but there are other attempts to do it which might be better.
IDN support is probably a good thing - we just need a way to show the user the difference between URLs if international characters are used.
And that's what he said - if you go to Nautilus and open the location "applications:///", that's the root of the applications menu. You can then navigate it just like files and folders. Note, this works fine in 2.8 (and I think all the way back to 2.4), but I have heard that 2.10 handles menus a different way. I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure.
And of course, compositing is turned off by default, and it's developers are actively working to fix the few problems it has (only one that comes to mind right now is the Flash plugin).
And that is why I hate PDF - at least for most of the things it's used for, there are far better ways to do it.
It doesn't help that Adobe's Acrobat reader is absolutely terrible.
No, the square button problem affects every PSP produced everywhere - 4,700 people felt it was bad enough to actually send it in. I would also point out that Sony has flat out stated they aren't fixing it.
It wasn't difficult to set up, and didn't really take much to admin - one full time employee dedicated to mail and a few other IT items would be enough. And this was for a 50,000 user ISP - not bigtime, but certainly not tiny.
Trust me, I've set it up.
Or the bots could ignore that, and just send out with the default mail settings - most users would have OE set to remember password, so no real gain there.
Yeah, you and I can buy online and get one a bit cheaper - but just a bit. I think the price point - especially for the 512MB - is quite nearly perfect.
American Heritage Dictionary aside, I think there is a significant difference between the reimplementation of an API and the emulation of a complete windows system.
The country and the people themselves, no, of course not, but their leader is the closest thing to a true Bondian villain the world has seen in a long time - all the stranger (and to me, more frightening) as he's known to really like Bond movies.
If you'd ever tried to show a parent or grandparent how to use their new combined DVD player/Dolby receiver, you'd realise that there are a huge number of people out there that absolutely want a DVD player with 1 button.
Wine isn't an emulator. It's a reimplementation of the win32 api. This is not a hard concept.
Think small software company that comes out with the next Winamp - or an independant game company with the next Bejeweled. There are tons of uses.
Think about it - small ISPs have to fight for their customers any way they can - any way that they can add value to the service, they will.
We are very good about preventing spam from ever coming from our network, and we provide very extensive spam reporting and blocking services for our customers - because if we don't, they'll go somewhere else.
Please explain to me where the conflict of interest lies. I'm having trouble finding it.
Well, to a degree - if you don't enable the fancy shadows, it's not terribly bad.