Toshiba made a laptop with a detachable keyboard? When? I've always wished somebody would do that, and now to find that its already been done and abandoned... is devastating. Well, not really, but its annoying. What model is it?
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What are virtual folders in this context? Can I finally create a 'folder' that shows an aggregate of the content of several actual directories (sort of like a SUBST if it allowed multiple targets)? I've always wished I could do that, since I have some directories which should logically be together, but span several partitions/hard disks.
Is that used game full refund policy only for the loyalty card program, or is it a general store policy? It sounds like a decent policy. Is there any cost for the loyalty card program?
I purposefully keep my dominant (left) eye shut whenever I'm just by myself reading a monitor or whatnot, just to control that. Without 'exercising' it, the right gets really wandery and goes all nuts. Sometimes if I notice that I'm only seeing the left side of my nose I'll check it and find out its fixated on some random shiny thing off to the side and not watching what I'm doing at all.
Now the really annoying thing is that I'm extremely right-handed, and extremely left-eyed. This makes my aim terrible with anything one handed (guns, rubber bands, baseballs, etc). I've sort of learned to shoot with the left, and I can write block (but not script) with it, but I still can't convince it to throw correctly, and I don't trust it with knives.
So I'm constantly consciously using my right eye to look at things and my left hand to do things, in an effort to somehow create balance between my hands and eyes. Some days its ok, some days its not.
I might actually consider getting something like this 'eyebud' (although not for an iPod) to use as a HUD of sorts on the right eye. It would keep the eye trained, and would not be dominant in my vision unless I wanted it to be.
There's a lot more to this than online versus offline, especially since we're discussing consoles.
Personally, I love multiplayer games where everyone can be in the same room. Anything split-screen or same-screen, or even small 6-8 person LAN games. I hate games with random online morons though (I prefer the morons I know). With a few exceptions for hotseat PC games (Worms, SMAC), consoles have been the only reliable source of small-scale multiplayer without gathering up a LAN. I'm really hoping that MS/Sony/whoever keep that in mind as they move into the next console generation, and don't hurt the small-scale side of things in favor of pandering to the large-scale market who would be better off with a PC anyway.
Just for a dumb example, compare Halo to Halo 2... Halo 2 added some nice new game mechanics and some nice new weapons, but it was more or less ruined for small-scale multiplayer due to its awful maps, which with a few exceptions were far too large. And the maps didn't really seem to have as good of a flow to them, either. I don't understand why they couldn't have just left the Halo maps in there too especially Damnation and Hang Em High. Granted I haven't bothered to renew my Live subscription and grab the map pack, there may be some good stuff there. It just bugs me that they threw out so much that was right about Halo, and re-tooled the whole thing for Live.
I've moved on to to Timesplitters: Future Perfect for a multiplayer FPS, which is a tremendously good split-screen game. For single player FPS games, I tend to prefer strange ones anyway, like Breakdown, Maken X, or Oddworld Stranger's Wrath... most of them just aren't too interesting anymore, especially on the PC.
Some other really good multiplayer games, in no particular order: Gradius V Mobile Light Force 2 (Castle Shikigami) / Castle Shikigami 2 Neo Contra Hunter the Reckoning: Redeemer Soul Calibur 2 Dead or Alive 2: Ultimate Gauntlet: Dark Legacy Champions of Norrath 2 Stubbs the Zombie Propeller Arena Culdcept Gladius
I've got a Monsoon (in a Pontiac though) and it sounds great. I haven't seen Bose car equipment, but I did have one of their wave radio/cd players once, and it was decidedly underwhelming. I gave it to my grandmother since she always wanted one, and she loves it.
I don't think that the Dreamcast was intended as a prototype xbox (though I agree that it became one, and I'm curious if MS paid Sega in any way for many aspects of the xbox design). I don't think that the partnership with MS had anything to do with its failure. Many newer arcade boards run some form of embedded Windows now anyway.
What killed the Dreamcast in the US was a few things from what I can tell: lack of customer confidence in Sega's prior systems, lack of Sega marketing, bastard pre-emptive marketing by Sony (the bastards), and rabid idiots who liked the Playstation 1 (why?) and wouldn't go near it.
I still have one, its a terrific console, and I regret its passing, but it would be foolish to blame MS for its failure.
I dunno, they took away my great-uncle's license permanently after he drove into the post office for the second time.
And if you ever have any sort of blackout causing a crash, especially if its NOT epilepsy, your license is toast. There's no process, no court, and no defense: DMV just does it.
I loved that game, a shame the sequels were total crap. Myself and a few others still call out point values on pedestrians and livestock while driving around, though we've restrained ourselves from mashing any.
Get some Koss TD/80s, they're really cheap, sound OK, fairly lightweight, and they're built like tanks. I walked around with them a few years ago when I briefly had an MP3 player. Now I just leave them at work for listening to music.
It did have an immersive universe, and it seemed sort of cool at first, but it totally failed to hold my interest for more than about 4 hours. I've still got it though, maybe I'll finish it some day. I've been playing Skygunner a lot lately, which has to be just about the best PS2 game I've ever played. As for 2005 games, I think Stubbs the Zombie should be on that lame list somewhere. It was awesome.
Not completely random. It and Diablo 1 had 'tiles' for areas that were randomly combined to form levels. Some (parts of) levels only had 1 tile and only formed in one way. There weren't many of these in Diablo: the Butcher's Lair, the underground river, and the early-game quest for a set of armor that always appeared in the same hallway (can't think of what it was). Diablo 2 had a lot more fixed levels, particularly near the ends of its acts, and a lot of its more random areas were huge outdoor areas, which lost a lot of the impact of the random generation. They were both fun Gauntlet knockoffs though, especially 2.
Yea, I've been wearing some sort of newer really thin plastic for about two years now, though I recall having some shifting even with the older, thicker plastics. I've never tried glass lenses, which is good since I'd be short a few eyes by now if I had. I didn't realize they refracted colors at different rates, though that does explain a lot. Thanks for the info!
At 1920x1200 is there even a visible effect from antialiasing? I have to get real close to a monitor to see it at 1280x1024, so why even bother if your resolution is that high?
The differences in color change rates... that's a bit over my head, but does it explain why certain colors shift sideways more than others when I watch them out of my peripheral vision? Real objects don't do it, but any projected-light image separates by color into slightly different offset images when I watch it from the side. Its sort of cool to rotate my head 180 degrees while watching something sometimes, just to watch the colors move around, but I've never understood why it happens.
Something tells me that if you're worried about your company's stock price, you aren't going to be having any trouble feeding your family any time soon.
And there are more responsible ways to dispose of lawyers than firing them. I swear those things need to come with an MSDS or something.
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Toshiba made a laptop with a detachable keyboard? When? I've always wished somebody would do that, and now to find that its already been done and abandoned... is devastating. Well, not really, but its annoying. What model is it?
Salting apples? Weirdest thing I've heard today. Granted it's still fairly early.
What are virtual folders in this context? Can I finally create a 'folder' that shows an aggregate of the content of several actual directories (sort of like a SUBST if it allowed multiple targets)? I've always wished I could do that, since I have some directories which should logically be together, but span several partitions/hard disks.
Is that used game full refund policy only for the loyalty card program, or is it a general store policy? It sounds like a decent policy. Is there any cost for the loyalty card program?
As long as nobody grabs their antennae or tries to put one on a plate, we should be safe!
A random, fitting quote that I saw the other day:
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
I don't know for certain who said it since the place where I saw it didn't directly attribute it, but odds are it was Susan Sontag.
I purposefully keep my dominant (left) eye shut whenever I'm just by myself reading a monitor or whatnot, just to control that. Without 'exercising' it, the right gets really wandery and goes all nuts. Sometimes if I notice that I'm only seeing the left side of my nose I'll check it and find out its fixated on some random shiny thing off to the side and not watching what I'm doing at all.
Now the really annoying thing is that I'm extremely right-handed, and extremely left-eyed. This makes my aim terrible with anything one handed (guns, rubber bands, baseballs, etc). I've sort of learned to shoot with the left, and I can write block (but not script) with it, but I still can't convince it to throw correctly, and I don't trust it with knives.
So I'm constantly consciously using my right eye to look at things and my left hand to do things, in an effort to somehow create balance between my hands and eyes. Some days its ok, some days its not.
I might actually consider getting something like this 'eyebud' (although not for an iPod) to use as a HUD of sorts on the right eye. It would keep the eye trained, and would not be dominant in my vision unless I wanted it to be.
There's a lot more to this than online versus offline, especially since we're discussing consoles.
Personally, I love multiplayer games where everyone can be in the same room. Anything split-screen or same-screen, or even small 6-8 person LAN games. I hate games with random online morons though (I prefer the morons I know). With a few exceptions for hotseat PC games (Worms, SMAC), consoles have been the only reliable source of small-scale multiplayer without gathering up a LAN. I'm really hoping that MS/Sony/whoever keep that in mind as they move into the next console generation, and don't hurt the small-scale side of things in favor of pandering to the large-scale market who would be better off with a PC anyway.
Just for a dumb example, compare Halo to Halo 2... Halo 2 added some nice new game mechanics and some nice new weapons, but it was more or less ruined for small-scale multiplayer due to its awful maps, which with a few exceptions were far too large. And the maps didn't really seem to have as good of a flow to them, either. I don't understand why they couldn't have just left the Halo maps in there too especially Damnation and Hang Em High. Granted I haven't bothered to renew my Live subscription and grab the map pack, there may be some good stuff there. It just bugs me that they threw out so much that was right about Halo, and re-tooled the whole thing for Live.
I've moved on to to Timesplitters: Future Perfect for a multiplayer FPS, which is a tremendously good split-screen game. For single player FPS games, I tend to prefer strange ones anyway, like Breakdown, Maken X, or Oddworld Stranger's Wrath... most of them just aren't too interesting anymore, especially on the PC.
Some other really good multiplayer games, in no particular order:
Gradius V
Mobile Light Force 2 (Castle Shikigami) / Castle Shikigami 2
Neo Contra
Hunter the Reckoning: Redeemer
Soul Calibur 2
Dead or Alive 2: Ultimate
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
Champions of Norrath 2
Stubbs the Zombie
Propeller Arena
Culdcept
Gladius
It doesn't like rar files either, though it has no problem with remarkably similar yar files.
I've got a Monsoon (in a Pontiac though) and it sounds great. I haven't seen Bose car equipment, but I did have one of their wave radio/cd players once, and it was decidedly underwhelming. I gave it to my grandmother since she always wanted one, and she loves it.
I don't think that the Dreamcast was intended as a prototype xbox (though I agree that it became one, and I'm curious if MS paid Sega in any way for many aspects of the xbox design). I don't think that the partnership with MS had anything to do with its failure. Many newer arcade boards run some form of embedded Windows now anyway.
What killed the Dreamcast in the US was a few things from what I can tell: lack of customer confidence in Sega's prior systems, lack of Sega marketing, bastard pre-emptive marketing by Sony (the bastards), and rabid idiots who liked the Playstation 1 (why?) and wouldn't go near it.
I still have one, its a terrific console, and I regret its passing, but it would be foolish to blame MS for its failure.
I dunno, they took away my great-uncle's license permanently after he drove into the post office for the second time.
And if you ever have any sort of blackout causing a crash, especially if its NOT epilepsy, your license is toast. There's no process, no court, and no defense: DMV just does it.
I loved that game, a shame the sequels were total crap. Myself and a few others still call out point values on pedestrians and livestock while driving around, though we've restrained ourselves from mashing any.
Get some Koss TD/80s, they're really cheap, sound OK, fairly lightweight, and they're built like tanks. I walked around with them a few years ago when I briefly had an MP3 player. Now I just leave them at work for listening to music.
Dude, I'm gonna dig through my suitcase full of wires and crap and see if I still have some earbuds, I wanna try this!
If by 'safe' you mean 'dead', then sure.
I'm willing to bet that the sickly old bastard died a few years ago.
WMP 10 can accelerate, at least for MP3s. 1.4x, 2x, and 5x. 1.4 and 2 are still listenable, 5 is fast forward.
Not that this would make me listen to a 'podcast', I'd rather stick splinters under my fingernails.
It did have an immersive universe, and it seemed sort of cool at first, but it totally failed to hold my interest for more than about 4 hours. I've still got it though, maybe I'll finish it some day. I've been playing Skygunner a lot lately, which has to be just about the best PS2 game I've ever played. As for 2005 games, I think Stubbs the Zombie should be on that lame list somewhere. It was awesome.
Not completely random. It and Diablo 1 had 'tiles' for areas that were randomly combined to form levels. Some (parts of) levels only had 1 tile and only formed in one way. There weren't many of these in Diablo: the Butcher's Lair, the underground river, and the early-game quest for a set of armor that always appeared in the same hallway (can't think of what it was). Diablo 2 had a lot more fixed levels, particularly near the ends of its acts, and a lot of its more random areas were huge outdoor areas, which lost a lot of the impact of the random generation. They were both fun Gauntlet knockoffs though, especially 2.
The xbox keeps it (and other 'dashboard' settings) on the hard disc.
Yea, I've been wearing some sort of newer really thin plastic for about two years now, though I recall having some shifting even with the older, thicker plastics. I've never tried glass lenses, which is good since I'd be short a few eyes by now if I had. I didn't realize they refracted colors at different rates, though that does explain a lot. Thanks for the info!
At 1920x1200 is there even a visible effect from antialiasing? I have to get real close to a monitor to see it at 1280x1024, so why even bother if your resolution is that high?
The differences in color change rates... that's a bit over my head, but does it explain why certain colors shift sideways more than others when I watch them out of my peripheral vision? Real objects don't do it, but any projected-light image separates by color into slightly different offset images when I watch it from the side. Its sort of cool to rotate my head 180 degrees while watching something sometimes, just to watch the colors move around, but I've never understood why it happens.
My dad used to try and do that to me with coin flips:
"Heads I win, tails you lose!"
Fortunately, I'm slightly less stupid than he thinks I am.
Something tells me that if you're worried about your company's stock price, you aren't going to be having any trouble feeding your family any time soon.
And there are more responsible ways to dispose of lawyers than firing them. I swear those things need to come with an MSDS or something.