blame Ion Storm doing Deus Ex 2 for the Xbox when the PS2 would have been a better home for it. USB ports, so they wouldn't have had to change the controls at all
this sort of proves his point. the xbox can have keyboard and mouse controls too, the point being that no-one knows/cares.
another important factor is the location of the device. where is your console? its in the fron room, you sit on the sofa and play. where do you put your mouse and keyboard? on the coffee table? welcome to back pain. the PC in most peoples homes is set up for this stuff, and consoles arent.
Under XP this works too, you get a file called 'appname1.scp' this too can then be dragged back into applications.
this is brilliant. i never knew i could do this. thank you. now, who do i talk to to get firefox to support this?
i have the orange SPV C500 smartphone. i installed betaplayer and a 512MB miniSD card, and i use it to watch last nights news (captured on my homebrew DVR) on my tube ride in every morning. its bloody great.
yes, smartphone, homebrew DVR etc sounds ultra geeky, but now its set up the capturing etc etc is all automatic. all i have to do is click a few buttons before i get in the shower in the morning and it transfers the video to the phone over bluetooth. im very happy with the video quality, i have used the device to watch a few movies even.
i dont think i could be bothered to carry a seperate device about with me for video, but snice i have the phone on me anyway, its pretty much perfect.
tokyo marui have a range of low powered electric guns which are pretty decent for kids. they still require eye protection (of bloody course), however you are unlikely to be looking at any major injuries. they have a selection of caricature assault rifles which are obviously toys, and a couple of pistols which are not caricatures and likely to get you shot by armed police if you aren't careful..
also, if you are a keen airsofter, or have just a passing interest in the sport, please support UK airsofters by signing this petition. The government is looking to ban the sale of imitation firearms, which will essentially be the death of the sport in the UK.
of course, when i leave, i am unlikely to be able to keep the PDA, so the tracking will have to end there. still, should the government want to exterminate all tourists within the boundaries of graceland, you are right. there would be no hiding in cupboards.
is a CD worse for the enviroment than a floppy? what with all the plastic casing, i would have thought a spindle of CDs was cheaper (enviromentally) than the equivalent number of floppies.
to be honest, this won't change. learning to adjust your work to the bias of the person who will read it is an important skill. it helped me through university, and continues to help me now at work.
for example; i am currently trying to get my manager to buy a new server. i want it because i can make it do cool stuff (activesync my email to my mobile, free up an old box for m0n0wall and have a proper firewall etc etc) but my report is all about improved workflow, enhanced security, greater capacity for expansion. he isn't interested in m0n0wall, he is interested in cost/benefit.
tailor your work to the reader. dont think 'its not fair, i should be able to write what i believe', instead think 'i am manipulating you because i am smarter and better'.
retard, its a cheap way of utilising the wireless features of the Revolution. not everyone wants CAT5 running around their home, this is a nice easy way to wirelessly hook up your revolution to the internet if you dont already have a wireless AP.
In other news, it has been revealed that Super Mario refuses to obey many laws of physics! In the real world it is not possible to jump many times your own height, however Super Mario completely disregards this.
investigations into witchcraft, drug abuse and anilmal cruelty are ongoing.
there is a GODDAMN GREAT arcade game which uses motion sensors and a standard light gun to calculate your position in this way. i think its called police 24/7, and has a sequel, and it is the best fun its possible to have in an arcade, although it kills your ankles and thighs after about ten minutes.
be nice if you could do it at home, but you would need (1) huge screen and (1) giant sensor array cage box thing.
there are two ways of entering japanese on a keyboard;
*using a standard latin keyboard and 'romaji' - for example 'k' and 'a' to type 'ka'
*using a keyboard with japanese characters overlaid - find the 'ka' key and press it once
i honestly cannot remember how my japanese phone deal with texting - its was somethin i did without thinking about - but i think each 'row' of the japanese alphabet (ie: consonant, then all the vowels - ka ki ku ke ko, ha hi hu he ho) had a key, and you would press it up to 5 times to choose the letter. there were a few modifier keys to chose 'combination' letters 'kyo' 'ryu' etc.
the beauty of japanese is as the post above puts it - the kanji are mostly 2 letter combinations to express a noun. combine this with fairly simple grammar structures, and you have a language which is not only easy to enter, but doesnt use many characters either, meaning its easy to keep within your limit.
disclaimer: i have forgotten a lot, there are people on/. far wiser in these matters than i, who may post a more educational response.
in REALISTIC conditions a bike is often faster than a car. i guarantee i can get across london on my bike faster than you can in a car. even a taxi using the bus lanes.
anyway, to fill this post with non-bragging content; was the kid using T9 or just mashing the buttons? the FA doesnt say. Either way, my phone is dead portable, it would ruin its appeal if i had to carry a 93 year old man and his morse machine around too...
how will dual core assist you when you receive an instant message? is the second core sentient and able to respond to the person messaging you as if you had responded yourself?
and if so, how sentient is it? can i hook a few up at work and go home? or is the author just desperately scraping the bottom of the barrel for really stupid examples? whats the you say? another ULTIMATE GAMING PC article that is just a load of crap? how can this be?
thats right. people are nostalgic for a game that they wouldn't ever have enjoyed without the nostalgia factor. of course, when it first came out, there wasnt any nostalgia. oh god im caught in some sort of insane temporal loop! which came first, the nostalgia or the game? my mind... its.. its.. MELTING!
Apparently Bob Kane felt that '.. Forever' was the closest movie to his comics, he didnt like the first two as they were too dark. I seem to recall seeing an interview with him and thinking he was a bit of a dick, although I wouldn't have been very old, and was probably all bent out of shape over the stupid wobbly batmobile and general crappiness of 'Forever'.
i used to work in a gamestore (in london) and the cube got way more screen time on our huge plasma than the other two. mostly because a lot of the games are perfect for shopwork - you can easily drop monkey ball and serve a customer, and more importantly the customer can pretty much instantly pick up what is going on and how to do it, here have a go, oh look you bought a gamecube.
and frankly, if some dopey girl/guy/mum (much MUCH more often its a mum) comes in looking to buy stuff for someone else, you appraise pretty quickly if this is a BIG PURCHASE for them, or if they are minted and dont care. if its a big purchase, my personal attitude was to tell them to come back with the intended recipient - no surprise is better than a ruined surprise. or offer them some sort of (totally against official policy) return, 'come back at this time when i am on and i will sort you out' type thing. if they are minted, flog the super ultra package with 25 games that noone wants or will ever play because Hey! its SUPER VALUE TASTIC.
retail companies have mystery shoppers all the time - as an employee you are often suspicious that you are being played by one of these. at that level, just not liking your manager can make all the difference. anyone who cmoes in and starts asking questions that dont fit their profile ('clueless' people suddenly talking about polygons for instance) is a likely candidate for this, and if you dont get on with the chief, here is a perfect oppotunity to stitch him right up.
overall, working in a dedicated games store is pretty damn fun. customers almost always respect you and you get to know your regulars, it can be a good laugh chatting to the kids after school or that one guy who comes in and actually knows something about PC games. its probably one of the best retail experiences there is, and most of the people i worked with were very clued up, and would go to all sorts of lengths to help a genuine customer.
also you get mad MAD psychos (peckham knows what i am talking about) who threaten to rip your face off because you won't give them £2 off motoGP 2. they can be fun.
clearly the guy is talking about driver support, not bus preference. apparently you were flailed at birth with USB cabling, and thus despise it, but that doesnt really improve linux driver support for wacky consumer electronics does it? calm yourself down, and read the actual post.
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this sort of proves his point. the xbox can have keyboard and mouse controls too, the point being that no-one knows/cares.
another important factor is the location of the device. where is your console? its in the fron room, you sit on the sofa and play. where do you put your mouse and keyboard? on the coffee table? welcome to back pain. the PC in most peoples homes is set up for this stuff, and consoles arent.
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children will be prohibited from using their eyes or hands until the age of 18. it is, after all, the only way for them to grow up safely.
Under XP this works too, you get a file called 'appname1.scp' this too can then be dragged back into applications. this is brilliant. i never knew i could do this. thank you. now, who do i talk to to get firefox to support this?
yes, smartphone, homebrew DVR etc sounds ultra geeky, but now its set up the capturing etc etc is all automatic. all i have to do is click a few buttons before i get in the shower in the morning and it transfers the video to the phone over bluetooth. im very happy with the video quality, i have used the device to watch a few movies even.
i dont think i could be bothered to carry a seperate device about with me for video, but snice i have the phone on me anyway, its pretty much perfect.
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also, if you are a keen airsofter, or have just a passing interest in the sport, please support UK airsofters by signing this petition. The government is looking to ban the sale of imitation firearms, which will essentially be the death of the sport in the UK.
http://www.saveairsoft.org/
of course, when i leave, i am unlikely to be able to keep the PDA, so the tracking will have to end there. still, should the government want to exterminate all tourists within the boundaries of graceland, you are right. there would be no hiding in cupboards.
thank goodness i learned to shoot.
i have no idea, but speaking as a layman..
for example; i am currently trying to get my manager to buy a new server. i want it because i can make it do cool stuff (activesync my email to my mobile, free up an old box for m0n0wall and have a proper firewall etc etc) but my report is all about improved workflow, enhanced security, greater capacity for expansion. he isn't interested in m0n0wall, he is interested in cost/benefit.
tailor your work to the reader. dont think 'its not fair, i should be able to write what i believe', instead think 'i am manipulating you because i am smarter and better'.
retard, its a cheap way of utilising the wireless features of the Revolution. not everyone wants CAT5 running around their home, this is a nice easy way to wirelessly hook up your revolution to the internet if you dont already have a wireless AP.
investigations into witchcraft, drug abuse and anilmal cruelty are ongoing.
actually, 51% of americans stand up perfectly to the media's representation.
yeah, where the hell is this game? it looks fun, why can't i buy it? namco you cretins.
be nice if you could do it at home, but you would need (1) huge screen and (1) giant sensor array cage box thing.
you make a nice living, and yet you are at work for 15 hours a day? time to adjust your values there old chap.
there are two ways of entering japanese on a keyboard; *using a standard latin keyboard and 'romaji' - for example 'k' and 'a' to type 'ka' *using a keyboard with japanese characters overlaid - find the 'ka' key and press it once i honestly cannot remember how my japanese phone deal with texting - its was somethin i did without thinking about - but i think each 'row' of the japanese alphabet (ie: consonant, then all the vowels - ka ki ku ke ko, ha hi hu he ho) had a key, and you would press it up to 5 times to choose the letter. there were a few modifier keys to chose 'combination' letters 'kyo' 'ryu' etc. the beauty of japanese is as the post above puts it - the kanji are mostly 2 letter combinations to express a noun. combine this with fairly simple grammar structures, and you have a language which is not only easy to enter, but doesnt use many characters either, meaning its easy to keep within your limit. disclaimer: i have forgotten a lot, there are people on /. far wiser in these matters than i, who may post a more educational response.
in REALISTIC conditions a bike is often faster than a car. i guarantee i can get across london on my bike faster than you can in a car. even a taxi using the bus lanes. anyway, to fill this post with non-bragging content; was the kid using T9 or just mashing the buttons? the FA doesnt say. Either way, my phone is dead portable, it would ruin its appeal if i had to carry a 93 year old man and his morse machine around too...
and if so, how sentient is it? can i hook a few up at work and go home? or is the author just desperately scraping the bottom of the barrel for really stupid examples? whats the you say? another ULTIMATE GAMING PC article that is just a load of crap? how can this be?
you suck, goldeneye is awesome.
Apparently Bob Kane felt that '.. Forever' was the closest movie to his comics, he didnt like the first two as they were too dark. I seem to recall seeing an interview with him and thinking he was a bit of a dick, although I wouldn't have been very old, and was probably all bent out of shape over the stupid wobbly batmobile and general crappiness of 'Forever'.
..errr, nothing to see here, move along, move along..
bear hunting skills... computer hacking skills...
and frankly, if some dopey girl/guy/mum (much MUCH more often its a mum) comes in looking to buy stuff for someone else, you appraise pretty quickly if this is a BIG PURCHASE for them, or if they are minted and dont care. if its a big purchase, my personal attitude was to tell them to come back with the intended recipient - no surprise is better than a ruined surprise. or offer them some sort of (totally against official policy) return, 'come back at this time when i am on and i will sort you out' type thing. if they are minted, flog the super ultra package with 25 games that noone wants or will ever play because Hey! its SUPER VALUE TASTIC.
retail companies have mystery shoppers all the time - as an employee you are often suspicious that you are being played by one of these. at that level, just not liking your manager can make all the difference. anyone who cmoes in and starts asking questions that dont fit their profile ('clueless' people suddenly talking about polygons for instance) is a likely candidate for this, and if you dont get on with the chief, here is a perfect oppotunity to stitch him right up.
overall, working in a dedicated games store is pretty damn fun. customers almost always respect you and you get to know your regulars, it can be a good laugh chatting to the kids after school or that one guy who comes in and actually knows something about PC games. its probably one of the best retail experiences there is, and most of the people i worked with were very clued up, and would go to all sorts of lengths to help a genuine customer.
also you get mad MAD psychos (peckham knows what i am talking about) who threaten to rip your face off because you won't give them £2 off motoGP 2. they can be fun.
clearly the guy is talking about driver support, not bus preference. apparently you were flailed at birth with USB cabling, and thus despise it, but that doesnt really improve linux driver support for wacky consumer electronics does it? calm yourself down, and read the actual post.