How the F%$^ can this be a problem? A file copy is a simple operation. Spoken like someone who has never had to implement a multiple-file copy in a GUI. There are many non-trivialities involved. (Pop quiz: How do you calculate the remaining time? How do you handle infinitely recursing soft links?)
That's not to say that Microsoft didn't fuck this one up, but it's certainly not as simple an operation as you might think.
Maybe it's as good as Adobe PDF's redaction feature, and anyone can unredact the document? Yes, because pieces of paper are much like digital files. You can just switch them to select mode and drag the paragraphs around.
And risk getting stuck later because I didn't conserve enough ammo in the earlier fights? Due to the fact that there is pervasive save, I can't trust the game designers to have made sure this will not happen - they may just be expecting me to re-load if I get stuck.
You only now noticed the "compare prices on" links that have been in ever story for years now, and that are nearly always incredibly inappropriate and hilarious?
Right, don't bother trying to make the actual GAME more interesting. Cripple the save function so the game appears more dynamic..... You know, pervasive saving in games is a fairly recent development. You speak as if it was a basic principle of all games that has to be removed, instead of being something added to a game.
For me, pervasive saving in PC games is what turned me off most of the platform. It changes the gameplay from a smooth flow to a chopped-up sequence of obsessive re-loads to get through the next fight as well as possible.
I guess I must be unclear on what ReadyBoost is, then. That hasn't stopped a thousand slashdotters before you from claiming that Linux can totally do it too, either, so don't feel too bad about it.
The piece of paper looks a lot like a receipt printed on a thermo printer. That paper will turn black at temperatures lower than boiling water, much less fire. Looks like the li-ion batter failed and got hot, but never caught on fire. Had it done so, he'd be wearing a lot more bandages.
That is a plain and simple lie, spread by anti-enviromentalist interest groups.
DDT is in widespread use against malaria all over the world right now. Everybody agrees that this is a good thing.
What is banned is the agricultural use of DDT - dumping huge amounts of it on crops. This is banned not only because it creates enviromental problems, but alos because it breeds DDT-resistant mosquitoes, allowing malaria to spread unchecked.
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That's not to say that Microsoft didn't fuck this one up, but it's certainly not as simple an operation as you might think.
I did look it up. 'Speech or writing loosely characterized as "snidely derisive."' That's what it was.
And while a sufficiently permissive definition of "sarcasm" might include that statement, it really was nothing remotely like good sarcasm.
Guy don't know how to write Wright right.
Yeeees, and these games are designed to be played as such, and do not have pervasive saving. Your point?
And risk getting stuck later because I didn't conserve enough ammo in the earlier fights? Due to the fact that there is pervasive save, I can't trust the game designers to have made sure this will not happen - they may just be expecting me to re-load if I get stuck.
You only now noticed the "compare prices on" links that have been in ever story for years now, and that are nearly always incredibly inappropriate and hilarious?
For me, pervasive saving in PC games is what turned me off most of the platform. It changes the gameplay from a smooth flow to a chopped-up sequence of obsessive re-loads to get through the next fight as well as possible.
Put it on http://code.google.com/p/xee/issues/list, or I'll forget about it.
Strangely enough, I can't fix bugs through telepathy, so how about reporting it first?
Without time, it's pretty hard to experience anything.
Of course, it's kind of hard to tell how that would actually work out, as we still don't really understand time.
That's not what "spacelike" means. Quantum mechanics takes place in Lorenzian space, with one timelike and three spacelike dimensions.
Deconvolutions still work on JPEG images, you know. You lose some information, but certainly nowhere near all of it.
So deconvolutions don't exist, now?
Yes. Vista supports this.
The piece of paper looks a lot like a receipt printed on a thermo printer. That paper will turn black at temperatures lower than boiling water, much less fire. Looks like the li-ion batter failed and got hot, but never caught on fire. Had it done so, he'd be wearing a lot more bandages.
Most rich people would value their time far higher than most poor people, you know.
So lower prices do not help poor people at all, because rich people always automatically get first picks, is that what you're saying?
Oh, and even better: http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_internet/wallpaper/
These maps are neither very useful, nor very pretty. The data visualization methods are a total joke.
Now, this is a map of the internet:
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_internet/index.php
Too bad it costs an arm and a leg.
Thanks, Linux clipboard. That link was supposed to go to http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.asp.
No, it's well known that they stopped because they reached hell.
That is a plain and simple lie, spread by anti-enviromentalist interest groups.
DDT is in widespread use against malaria all over the world right now. Everybody agrees that this is a good thing.
What is banned is the agricultural use of DDT - dumping huge amounts of it on crops. This is banned not only because it creates enviromental problems, but alos because it breeds DDT-resistant mosquitoes, allowing malaria to spread unchecked.
Stop spreading this lie.
Yes, well, that misleading term was apparently also invented by the blogger, because it appears nowhere in the Microsoft press release.