Personally my only dream is to live forever, might get boring sometimes but I want to see how everything plays out (see the end off everything, whether everything ends one thing at a time or all at once).
I am willing to bet google would have more gmail users if they made it possible to make a new account at will. It isnt hard to get a gmail account if you dont have one, but it isnt easy either. You need to know someone who have one or go to one of the websites offering accounts (most people dont know about these). I dont think you can really say how well accepted Gmail, based on people using it, is due to this.
While I understand what you mean and I too have gotten rather annoyed at times when I ran around exloring a big places and I run into monsters all the time, I think the Random Encounters are vital to FF games and the way you play them and I would never wish them away.
In the newer games the have made No-Encounter abillities you can activate if you so desire anyways, so there is a way to get around it. For example the GF diablos in FFVIII has Half-Encounter and later No-Encounter and you can get weapons with these abillities in FX awswell (don't remember FFIX well enough to comment here though).
I don't want them to remove the wait in fights system, I hate the new fast ones where you have to button mash your way through the menus to get that powerfull spell 5 menus in, and I like long shiney attacks under summons and the like. If they ever were to remove that from the games I would stop playing them. I think they should make both options available and afaik they did so in FFX (might be my mind messing with me tho). And nooooo i love random encounters, why would you remove those?:,(
You can disable all those warnings in Controls, don't rememeber where exactly, but my windows XP has run without ANY warning popups appearing for more then 3 years.
I personally like XP more then the older windows versions after all the stupid userhelp stuff has been removed...
While his way of writing it may be stupid, he does have a point and I fail to see, how that becomes less true by him knowing someone who died from this.
IMO his post isnt insensitive in any way. I think it is you that have the problem here and you might want to talk to someone about it. It is people like you with that hypersensitive feelings towards stuff that ruin our world on all levels.
Heh same here, never had virus or spyware (except tracking cookies), run without any kind of protection. I just got my first spammails a few weeks back on my gmail account and they get filtered...
The funny thing is i download everything i think might be fun or usefull, dont have problems with installing "untrused" stuff or anything like that, and i give the same mail to every site i visit.
I scan my comp for virus and spyware every 1-2 months so it isnt because i havent noticed something hiding on here...
I don't know about other countries, but in Denmark we have been able to borrow tons of games from the libraries for many years, they have every game you can think of on all platforms (excluding games like WoW, EQ and the like for opvious reasons). So refering to my subject, is this new?
I was on a tour of the Danish Headquarters of Lego last year, the speaker there told us that they felt the same way about it and wanted to return to the basics. Just last week i heard in the news that they are actually making money again due to their returning to the basics. So would say they ahve already done this, dunno if its visible all over the world yet, but atleast around here they are selling good again.
I agree i personally hate the fact that while searchingfor something i hit tons of blogs about it before finding what i am looking for. Personally i think of the blogs as a kind of spam that spreads through searchengines, in the meaning that they spam the search output due to the fact that they speak of so many things that one page can be hit by many, many keywords.
I gotta disagree with you i have seen them many times, and i still think that they are by far the greatest movies made yet.
I just think it sad how they afterwards have done everything they can to pump all the money the possibly can, out of the Star Wars name.
Hehe well one of these comp's does have a problem with the CPU overheating i dont have the device drivers for the motherboard installed on an of three , guess why: Windows crash before i can install anything. The rest of the hardware is fine as i have assembled the comp personally and i always check these things and i know what stuff has problems.
plz take your stupid solutions somewhere else.
*mumbles* god i hate these morons who think they know better about everything.
I agree with you i personally like Win98 very much, but hate Win95 i cant get that system to function the way it should. I have had no problems with SP2 personally. But i dont like the amounts of pop-ups the SP2 upgraded system generates about all sort of stuff that dosnt really matter. I have therefore turned these features off.
I know Windows runs on many more PC's then Linux or Mac i too have more Windows running comps then Mac, but i still have more truoble with the individual windows comp then the Linux ones. I also have the feeling that when something goes wrong on the Windows i always have to format the system (have that problem with Mac's aswell) it seems like it wont clear it self out, the way it should. Where as linux does exactly what you tell i to do and dont go around in the system changing a whole bunch of stuff that you didnt tell it to change. But that is just my experience of it ofcaurse;)
I agree Windows is not directly unstable, but it does do somethings that can cause it to install incorrectly or destroy itself without outside interference.
I know there is no Hardware problems with computers that have these problems and i am not a computer idoit i fully know what i am doing and even if i didnt it is very har dto screw up an Windows install, it has be screwed up by the installprogram itself often or the hardware, but in the aforementtioned cases the install worked and produced a reasonably stable Windows install the second time around telling me the installer fucked up while installing.
Windows also have many more problems handling 3rd party programs then other OSes i have never had as much trouble getting an OS to run on low end systems as i have with Windows as it needs a shitload of RAM to function correctly...
All in all IMHO windows does handle most programs very poorly and is best fitted for running in a closed system where nothing can get near it, and even then it still crashes more then other OSes.
Hehe according to you Windows installs does not screw up randomly, i must say seeing as how you say you have been in charge of 150 system i think you are lucky. Personally i only own 17 computers, where 4 are Mac's, 3 runs Linux Fedora Core 3, 2 Runs pure DOS and the rest runs Win98 and XP. Three times now i have formatted a computer and reinstalled Windows where it the first i booted it up afterwards, fucked up and destroyed the system, so i had to reinstall once more, how do you explain this if Windows systems do not randomly screw up??
Btw i have never tried this with anything but Windows and it applies to both Win9X and XP...
You may flame me for saying this but i really like the steam network, i personally bought Half-life 2 in retail and had some troubles getting it to work (took 4 hours). Still i think the steam network works and is a great way to store your games and have access to them from anywhere. I do have one thing that worries me and that is when valve decides to shutdown the steam servers or remove some games, those games will then be unplayable without some sort of release from valve or some sort of crack. Also i feel sorry for those people that would like to play HL2, who dosnt have internet access, i think valve should have done something for those people.
Summary: IMO the steam network is a good idea but HL2 should be able to run without it like the original HL.
hehe true, i but still there must be errors in the system i don't believe it can be totally free of errors and these errors will be found if enough people try to find them. But Linux is open-source and therefore everyone can find these errors and correct them, whereas the Windows people most likely are not continually searching for errors in the code and therefore only responds to errors already found and exploited by others.
I agree with you totally but i just think Linux has a better chance versus these things as there are so many devs to fix it and they have a real interest in fixing it.
Linux has security holes like any other system, there is just a ton of people to fix the wrongs and users have alot more control over what happens on the system, therefore we wont see the same probs on linux.
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Personally my only dream is to live forever, might get boring sometimes but I want to see how everything plays out (see the end off everything, whether everything ends one thing at a time or all at once).
I am willing to bet google would have more gmail users if they made it possible to make a new account at will. It isnt hard to get a gmail account if you dont have one, but it isnt easy either. You need to know someone who have one or go to one of the websites offering accounts (most people dont know about these). I dont think you can really say how well accepted Gmail, based on people using it, is due to this.
You mocked his faith in the practicality of knocking down the church.
It is, it's Doctor Evil that wants "Sharks with freaking laser beams attached to their heads"...
While I understand what you mean and I too have gotten rather annoyed at times when I ran around exloring a big places and I run into monsters all the time, I think the Random Encounters are vital to FF games and the way you play them and I would never wish them away.
In the newer games the have made No-Encounter abillities you can activate if you so desire anyways, so there is a way to get around it. For example the GF diablos in FFVIII has Half-Encounter and later No-Encounter and you can get weapons with these abillities in FX awswell (don't remember FFIX well enough to comment here though).
I don't want them to remove the wait in fights system, I hate the new fast ones where you have to button mash your way through the menus to get that powerfull spell 5 menus in, and I like long shiney attacks under summons and the like. If they ever were to remove that from the games I would stop playing them. I think they should make both options available and afaik they did so in FFX (might be my mind messing with me tho). And nooooo i love random encounters, why would you remove those? :,(
You can disable all those warnings in Controls, don't rememeber where exactly, but my windows XP has run without ANY warning popups appearing for more then 3 years.
I personally like XP more then the older windows versions after all the stupid userhelp stuff has been removed...
While his way of writing it may be stupid, he does have a point and I fail to see, how that becomes less true by him knowing someone who died from this.
IMO his post isnt insensitive in any way. I think it is you that have the problem here and you might want to talk to someone about it. It is people like you with that hypersensitive feelings towards stuff that ruin our world on all levels.
Heh same here, never had virus or spyware (except tracking cookies), run without any kind of protection. I just got my first spammails a few weeks back on my gmail account and they get filtered... The funny thing is i download everything i think might be fun or usefull, dont have problems with installing "untrused" stuff or anything like that, and i give the same mail to every site i visit. I scan my comp for virus and spyware every 1-2 months so it isnt because i havent noticed something hiding on here...
I don't know about other countries, but in Denmark we have been able to borrow tons of games from the libraries for many years, they have every game you can think of on all platforms (excluding games like WoW, EQ and the like for opvious reasons). So refering to my subject, is this new?
Yes, it adds it by default BUT you can just turn that off in setttings...
I was on a tour of the Danish Headquarters of Lego last year, the speaker there told us that they felt the same way about it and wanted to return to the basics. Just last week i heard in the news that they are actually making money again due to their returning to the basics. So would say they ahve already done this, dunno if its visible all over the world yet, but atleast around here they are selling good again.
What is this? i must see it!! i only know of Red Dwarf which sound close to it.
Not all countries have juries some countries only use judges in trials.
I agree i personally hate the fact that while searchingfor something i hit tons of blogs about it before finding what i am looking for. Personally i think of the blogs as a kind of spam that spreads through searchengines, in the meaning that they spam the search output due to the fact that they speak of so many things that one page can be hit by many, many keywords.
I gotta disagree with you i have seen them many times, and i still think that they are by far the greatest movies made yet. I just think it sad how they afterwards have done everything they can to pump all the money the possibly can, out of the Star Wars name.
Hehe well one of these comp's does have a problem with the CPU overheating i dont have the device drivers for the motherboard installed on an of three , guess why: Windows crash before i can install anything. The rest of the hardware is fine as i have assembled the comp personally and i always check these things and i know what stuff has problems.
plz take your stupid solutions somewhere else.
*mumbles* god i hate these morons who think they know better about everything.
I agree with you i personally like Win98 very much, but hate Win95 i cant get that system to function the way it should. I have had no problems with SP2 personally. But i dont like the amounts of pop-ups the SP2 upgraded system generates about all sort of stuff that dosnt really matter. I have therefore turned these features off.
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I know Windows runs on many more PC's then Linux or Mac i too have more Windows running comps then Mac, but i still have more truoble with the individual windows comp then the Linux ones. I also have the feeling that when something goes wrong on the Windows i always have to format the system (have that problem with Mac's aswell) it seems like it wont clear it self out, the way it should. Where as linux does exactly what you tell i to do and dont go around in the system changing a whole bunch of stuff that you didnt tell it to change. But that is just my experience of it ofcaurse
I agree Windows is not directly unstable, but it does do somethings that can cause it to install incorrectly or destroy itself without outside interference.
I know there is no Hardware problems with computers that have these problems and i am not a computer idoit i fully know what i am doing and even if i didnt it is very har dto screw up an Windows install, it has be screwed up by the installprogram itself often or the hardware, but in the aforementtioned cases the install worked and produced a reasonably stable Windows install the second time around telling me the installer fucked up while installing.
Windows also have many more problems handling 3rd party programs then other OSes i have never had as much trouble getting an OS to run on low end systems as i have with Windows as it needs a shitload of RAM to function correctly...
All in all IMHO windows does handle most programs very poorly and is best fitted for running in a closed system where nothing can get near it, and even then it still crashes more then other OSes.
I agree there seems to be quite a few companies that are making commercial versions of linux...
Hehe according to you Windows installs does not screw up randomly, i must say seeing as how you say you have been in charge of 150 system i think you are lucky. Personally i only own 17 computers, where 4 are Mac's, 3 runs Linux Fedora Core 3, 2 Runs pure DOS and the rest runs Win98 and XP. Three times now i have formatted a computer and reinstalled Windows where it the first i booted it up afterwards, fucked up and destroyed the system, so i had to reinstall once more, how do you explain this if Windows systems do not randomly screw up?? Btw i have never tried this with anything but Windows and it applies to both Win9X and XP...
You may flame me for saying this but i really like the steam network, i personally bought Half-life 2 in retail and had some troubles getting it to work (took 4 hours).
Still i think the steam network works and is a great way to store your games and have access to them from anywhere. I do have one thing that worries me and that is when valve decides to shutdown the steam servers or remove some games, those games will then be unplayable without some sort of release from valve or some sort of crack. Also i feel sorry for those people that would like to play HL2, who dosnt have internet access, i think valve should have done something for those people.
Summary: IMO the steam network is a good idea but HL2 should be able to run without it like the original HL.
hehe true, i but still there must be errors in the system i don't believe it can be totally free of errors and these errors will be found if enough people try to find them. But Linux is open-source and therefore everyone can find these errors and correct them, whereas the Windows people most likely are not continually searching for errors in the code and therefore only responds to errors already found and exploited by others.
I agree with you totally but i just think Linux has a better chance versus these things as there are so many devs to fix it and they have a real interest in fixing it.
Linux has security holes like any other system, there is just a ton of people to fix the wrongs and users have alot more control over what happens on the system, therefore we wont see the same probs on linux.