Windows XP even has a powertoy that allows you to have vitual desktops, and has had such for quite some time, at least two years I think...
I fear I wouldn't count that as a + for WXP, the Virtual Desktop powertoy blows, really, especially compared to Linux' virtual desktops. It's slow, it's unreliable, it sometimes makes apps unresponsive, and it's a pain to use overall.
Their earphones are "not too crappy" at best, you can get much better 'phones from others (AKG or Sennheiser for example, and maybe Koss if you don't care about sound quality but want a lot of bass)
They basically redid the whole controlling thing, because E3 demo only had static moves triggered by your movements (forward thrust, diagonal slash,... and so on) and that was considered crappy by all standards considering the flexibility of the wiimote.
So the Red Steel team got back to work to make swordfights fully free-movement instead of static triggered.
Well that's the revamp part I was the most interrested in at least, dunno if they redid anything else.
Not every game is only a crappy patch of a game getting released every year. "gaming the way it is" means gaming using a controller, not a remote. Gaming using buttons, not motion sensing.
Ok so that would be "gaming with buttons but not a stylus", "gaming with buttons but no vibration", "gaming with buttons but no analog pad", or "gaming with buttons but no more than 8 and god forbid you could use a free-movement controller like a mouse". Sorry mate, but your "gaming the way it is" is dead already, that's the thing called innovation.
Gaming with a compelling story, high production values, and controls that are not overly simplified
...is completely orthogonal to the actual controller.
it is going to change
Flash news, gaming has been changing for the last 30 years or so.
and threten to kill it with something that I and others aren't interested in.
If you're not interrested by the Wii's or the DS' innovations... don't buy it. If you get enough people not to buy it it'll just die down by itself.
""" is for multiline strings (' and " only accept one-line strings or antislash linebreak escapers), literal python strings are rawstrings and created by prefixing any string (be it ', " or """) by the "r" character (as in r"this is a raw strings" "but this is not).
Oblivion PC has an almost identical interface to Morrowind
Either you've never played Morrowind or you need better spectacles.
Both the interface and the whole game feeling are extremely dumbed down, awkward to use with keyboard & mouse and just not taking advantage of PC's interfaces (input and output alike).
Oblivion is prettier and much "fuller" than Morrowind (as in you don't have huge empty spaces), but boy does the Xbox360ification suck compared to Morrowind...
"like gaming the way it is"? as in "like crappy near-updates of something that's already been done hundreds of times"? Holly hell, and there I was thinking that gaming was "liking fun and original games to actually... well... have fun..."
Fun thing is how Capcom still somehow managed to release a (graphically) magnificient Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube...
I thing the truth is much closer to "we can't be bothered to optimize the game for each of the 3 consoles, so we're counting on raw power to make up for it, and the Wii has a lower raw unused power".
Yeah! Just like they did with the DS as opposed to the PSP! DS has lower quality graphics and the games are therefore crapola!
Oh wait...
Look dude, Nintendo is not hurting anything and especially not "gaming as we know it" (not the one I know and care about anyway), if anything they're trying to go back to the roots: fun games with an original style/gameplay/.... As in... not genericCarRace241384, myAmericanFootball5486311 or badlyRealizedFirstPlayerShooterWithAmazingerGraphi cs.
They don't care about hardcores, and their idiot fanbase doesn't realize it.
Hope you got your 10bucks for astroturfing, but last time I checked the only thing you could do by waving your PSP around was ruining the shit out of it.
Oh, and hardcore players don't care about graphics, they care about playing fun games. The only ones who care about graphics above anything else are teenagers and immature young adults.
Last, but not least, even if they somehow managed to antagonize the "hardcore (nintendo) players", the casual and non-gamers market are so much bigger it wouldn't matter even if they lost all of the hardcore market.
The Wii games we've seen so far are almost painful to look at
That's super duper cool. Guess what? It's the same for the DS/PSP match, the DS graphics are at a much lower level.
And you know what? No one cares, because the DS actually has fun games as in games that are actually games and not crappy PS2 ports, and by seeing the Raving Rabbids trailers I'm pretty sure that Rayman 4: Raving Rabbids will fucking rule.
Along with all the 1st party titles (Super Mario Galaxy, Legend of Zelda, SSB,...)
Remember, Sam&Max Hit the Road was already ugly when it was released, and it's one of the games quite a few people are still in love with.
Well Opterons badly lose against equivalently-priced Woodcrests (from the benches we've seen up until now), but the impressive HyperTransport links and the way they open it (custom 'drop in' chips for HT motherboard) will keep it extremely interresting. Plus the aforementioned HTT links make Opterons architectures much easier to scale up.
They've turned away from it since the Prescott deep-frier fiasco, it's "just" that they didn't have any chip available and had to get back to the drawing board to build new chips (the Core2) from the Pentium-M and P-III architectures.
Uh? If he's proving that the right stole the election and is prepared to stole the next one, how the hell is it not an honest title?
What kind of title would you like to see? "How the right may have been bad boys but may also not have been bad boys, I'm not really sure"?
Are you for "fair and balanced information coverage" too? As in "let's lie our asses of or downgrade the facts so that the far right doesn't attack us for being "unfair"?
Flash news for you... reality is neither fair nor balanced, and nor ar facts. If information should be anything, it's not "fair and balanced" which is utter and complete stupidity, anything should be objective which is a wholly different concept. One that the neocons don't really like too.
You do realize that just policing your kids into eating what you want to force them to eat isn't going to teach them to eat healthy food and diets right?
And you do realize that they'll take every occasion they can to do everything you forbid them to do just because they now can right?
And you do also realize that as soon as they'll be ever so slightly independant they're going to stuff themselves full of junk food just to get back what they couldn't get earlier (because they never understood why they shouldn't have it since you never actually taught them)
In a world, I hope you realize that this behaviour is NOT a solution, it's not even monkey patching, it's merely a short-view short-term retarded decision, the type of which is overly common these days in the western world.
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In under 2 hours, which was the limit to get Samus to remove her suit.
Oh god, thanks a lot, seems awesome
I fear I wouldn't count that as a + for WXP, the Virtual Desktop powertoy blows, really, especially compared to Linux' virtual desktops. It's slow, it's unreliable, it sometimes makes apps unresponsive, and it's a pain to use overall.
Failed, Time Machine is a per-file backup and versioning for every single user file.
The only things that "have it" are fully journaling filesystems and full-blown version control systems (think Subversion).
System Restore doesn't come even close.
Their earphones are "not too crappy" at best, you can get much better 'phones from others (AKG or Sennheiser for example, and maybe Koss if you don't care about sound quality but want a lot of bass)
Rayman 4: Raving Rabbids.
Period.
They basically redid the whole controlling thing, because E3 demo only had static moves triggered by your movements (forward thrust, diagonal slash, ... and so on) and that was considered crappy by all standards considering the flexibility of the wiimote.
So the Red Steel team got back to work to make swordfights fully free-movement instead of static triggered.
Well that's the revamp part I was the most interrested in at least, dunno if they redid anything else.
Ok so that would be "gaming with buttons but not a stylus", "gaming with buttons but no vibration", "gaming with buttons but no analog pad", or "gaming with buttons but no more than 8 and god forbid you could use a free-movement controller like a mouse". Sorry mate, but your "gaming the way it is" is dead already, that's the thing called innovation.
...is completely orthogonal to the actual controller.
Flash news, gaming has been changing for the last 30 years or so.
If you're not interrested by the Wii's or the DS' innovations... don't buy it. If you get enough people not to buy it it'll just die down by itself.
That'll allow us to see who wants what.
... that make up for the lack of high-quality useful first-party packages.
Actually, Python's literal strings are NOT """
.""" is for multiline strings (' and " only accept one-line strings or antislash linebreak escapers), literal python strings are rawstrings and created by prefixing any string (be it ', " or """) by the "r" character (as in r"this is a raw strings" "but this is not).
Your introduction to OOL was in Java? Boy, must that have sucked, java's probably the most static and limiting OO language out there...
Either you've never played Morrowind or you need better spectacles.
Both the interface and the whole game feeling are extremely dumbed down, awkward to use with keyboard & mouse and just not taking advantage of PC's interfaces (input and output alike).
Oblivion is prettier and much "fuller" than Morrowind (as in you don't have huge empty spaces), but boy does the Xbox360ification suck compared to Morrowind...
Thou shall remember that all 3 of the next gen consoles will have online services and connectivity (up to permanent for Wii's Connect24).
"like gaming the way it is"? as in "like crappy near-updates of something that's already been done hundreds of times"? Holly hell, and there I was thinking that gaming was "liking fun and original games to actually... well... have fun..."
Fun thing is how Capcom still somehow managed to release a (graphically) magnificient Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube...
I thing the truth is much closer to "we can't be bothered to optimize the game for each of the 3 consoles, so we're counting on raw power to make up for it, and the Wii has a lower raw unused power".
Yeah! Just like they did with the DS as opposed to the PSP! DS has lower quality graphics and the games are therefore crapola!
Oh wait...
Look dude, Nintendo is not hurting anything and especially not "gaming as we know it" (not the one I know and care about anyway), if anything they're trying to go back to the roots: fun games with an original style/gameplay/.... As in... not genericCarRace241384, myAmericanFootball5486311 or badlyRealizedFirstPlayerShooterWithAmazingerGraphi cs.
Oh, and hardcore players don't care about graphics, they care about playing fun games. The only ones who care about graphics above anything else are teenagers and immature young adults.
Last, but not least, even if they somehow managed to antagonize the "hardcore (nintendo) players", the casual and non-gamers market are so much bigger it wouldn't matter even if they lost all of the hardcore market.
That's super duper cool. Guess what? It's the same for the DS/PSP match, the DS graphics are at a much lower level.
And you know what? No one cares, because the DS actually has fun games as in games that are actually games and not crappy PS2 ports, and by seeing the Raving Rabbids trailers I'm pretty sure that Rayman 4: Raving Rabbids will fucking rule.
Along with all the 1st party titles (Super Mario Galaxy, Legend of Zelda, SSB, ...)
Remember, Sam&Max Hit the Road was already ugly when it was released, and it's one of the games quite a few people are still in love with.
The fact that they also got frigging locked in a cell for 2h, DNA sampled and mugshot maybe?
Well the C3 is ok when you need very low power draw/heat production and you don't care that much about performances.
Well Opterons badly lose against equivalently-priced Woodcrests (from the benches we've seen up until now), but the impressive HyperTransport links and the way they open it (custom 'drop in' chips for HT motherboard) will keep it extremely interresting. Plus the aforementioned HTT links make Opterons architectures much easier to scale up.
They've turned away from it since the Prescott deep-frier fiasco, it's "just" that they didn't have any chip available and had to get back to the drawing board to build new chips (the Core2) from the Pentium-M and P-III architectures.
Uh? If he's proving that the right stole the election and is prepared to stole the next one, how the hell is it not an honest title?
What kind of title would you like to see? "How the right may have been bad boys but may also not have been bad boys, I'm not really sure"?
Are you for "fair and balanced information coverage" too? As in "let's lie our asses of or downgrade the facts so that the far right doesn't attack us for being "unfair"?
Flash news for you... reality is neither fair nor balanced, and nor ar facts. If information should be anything, it's not "fair and balanced" which is utter and complete stupidity, anything should be objective which is a wholly different concept. One that the neocons don't really like too.
Well, reality has a well known and documented liberal bias, and therefore shouldn't be trusted.
The 2004 elections were perfectly legit, just look it up in your gut. I did, and my gut tells me that there was no cheating whatsoever.
You do realize that just policing your kids into eating what you want to force them to eat isn't going to teach them to eat healthy food and diets right?
And you do realize that they'll take every occasion they can to do everything you forbid them to do just because they now can right?
And you do also realize that as soon as they'll be ever so slightly independant they're going to stuff themselves full of junk food just to get back what they couldn't get earlier (because they never understood why they shouldn't have it since you never actually taught them)
In a world, I hope you realize that this behaviour is NOT a solution, it's not even monkey patching, it's merely a short-view short-term retarded decision, the type of which is overly common these days in the western world.