i put FF on my sisters PC a while back, and after the initial 'what are you doing? why are you changing it? its just the internet, oh why do you have to break everything?' etc etc sulk she is now happy as a fish in beer, as firefox has 'completely reinvented the internet, with the tabs and the, omg its just brilliant'.
once people give it a chance and get to know how it works, they start to get on just fine with it. i've had a similar, if slightly less hysterical, reaction at work, where all but one of my staff are very happy with it. big sell here? the forecast fox extension, god they love it.
Here in the UK, support for these devices at the small business level is absolutely shit. i work at a small company, and we often have people out of the office, so we picked up a few blackberries for them.
unfortunately, because we only have three, we are unable to get our network provider to allow us to use anything more spohisticated than the 'Mail connector' which is an UNSIGNED activeX control which you have to download and it pushes the mail from the desktop to the device. you cant access old mail with it, only what you receive when the Mail COnnector is running.
once the contract is up we will be binning them and getting windows mobiles to replace them - it might be more MS vendor lockin, but at least it does what i want it to do. our network provider si Vodafone, so if you are considering getting a small number of Blackberries, i woul explore other providors - they may be no better (o2 are certainly Fuckign Abysmal at everything they do - unlikely to be any better at this.)
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yep, apparently ass-sucking is a big draw in scat.
i said apparently, goddammit, stop pointing at me.
oh dear, i have been modded troll. i was actually being facetious calling you a monkey, i didn't mean any offence.
my point was, that we are talking about emulating a DS on a PSP, and whether the technology can handle it or not, there are actual physical boundaries which prevent this from ever working well. the case/dpad etc are different, they can be emulated, however the touchscreen is an essential element of the device. ergo, what is the point in arguing about the megahertz?
its like trying to emulate a yoghurt - it might look right, but you still cant eat it.
whats dead exciting about your policy, is that once employees realise they are being monitored by the facists in this way, they are probably hundreds of times more likely to try and stich you up by handing out confidential data to whoever they please. i know i would.
you should trust your employees, and if you cant then you shouldnt be employing them. i hope you have disabled the ability to use USB mass storage drives on your PCs, and disabled CD booting and BIOS access on all your machines, because otherwise some savvy employee is probably selling you out right now, while you get all bent out of shape over what someone thinks of their boss.
i always loved the complete lack of consequences. they blow up this peace loving planet, and its not mentioned in Empire or Jedi at all. you would have thought this might inspire people to join the Alliance, or at least have something to say about it later on, but no, Moff tarkin DESTROYS A PLANET, and no-one really cares.
try 'Boiling Point'. its bugged to f*ck, to the point of being almost unplayable, but this is what it is trying to do. hopefully the patch should fix a great deal of this, but even if it doesnt, you should buy it just to point out ot the industry that this is what we want, and this is what we will buy.
yeah im currently negotiating some sort of deal with satan so i can play and enjoy boiling point. seems to be the only way. gotta love atari for releasing it in that state. apparently the euro patch is out this week which should fix some of the bigger problems, although im holding out for lucifer personally.
mod parent and grandparent up please, both posted AC
It looks to me that MS are 'locking you in' with improved features and capabilities - their licensing of the formats seems to be perfectly fair and reasonable to me.
i'm not a shill*, this just seems like a really good move to me. leverage what is good about Office, rather than leveraging a monopoly position.
*Hey, if you're a cop you have to tell me right? Right?
works really well, and i can bind any old arbitrary button or even macro. plus i can command the camera on the phone to take a photo from the other side of the world if i want, god knows why though.
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putting the resolution up means you can turn the AA down. AA is a way of making low resolutions look nicer by reducing the jagged edges. by putting the resolution up, you are reducing the effect of jagged edges and therefore have no need to Anti aliase.
i played my way through halflife2, on my 17" Hyundai Q17, at 1280x024, with all graphics set to high, on a Radeon 9500Pro, and it was fine. try putting the resolution up and the AA down, see if you can spot any difference - i bet you won't.
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some games have a rolling quicksave - your four most recent quicksaves are all available to you. then, if you save yourself in some horrenduos position, you simply go back one step and continue from there.
i like quicksave a lot, it means i can fire up the game, start from exactly where i left off, and stop when and whereever the hell i feel like. checkpoints make me feel like i am trapped into a game until i find the next goddamn checkpoint.
being able to quicksave means i dont have the frustration of having to kill th same guy again and again because i didnt manage to kill the guy after him. personally, if i have no quicksave, i generally end up using an infinite health or something because i dont enjoy doing the same thing again and again. yes, it sounds totally pathetic (you arent h4rdc0r3 enough for gamez!) but i dont get any pleasre out of doing the same thing again and again and again, particularly with incrediably linear games like halflife 2. far cry, i was happy to do the same bits repeatedly, because i could look around, find a new way to do things that would work.
The question at hand, is how to deal with the problem of armed criminals on an airplane
is this really the question at hand? really? i mean, how many flights take place each day, and how many of them are hijacked?
more people's lives would be saved if we diverted some of this anti-terrorism money into things like drug rehabilitation, providing clean drinking water, improving car safety, all that hippie crap. seems like a bit of a stupid way to burn cash, seeing nudie people in airports.
i believe battlefield 2 will have these sort of features, with the ability to elect a 'commander' to organise operations, call in atillery strikes etc. looks like they have done a fairly dedent job of it, check it out
i actually have the yoda of this side of the force. i change his 'WORD' shortcut to 'WINWORD' and put it on print view, and he is thanking me for the incrediable new word processor i found him, its *so* much better than 'normal word'!! EVEN THOUGH IT HAS THE SAME ICON. the guy has mastered the power of stupid, and now uses it for evil.
i thought one of the reasons mcvoy wasn't happy with the linux movement using his software was that it was costing him $500'000 in support costs. by his own reasoning his software must be fucking dogshit.
...instead of emotion engine 2, or emotion engine extreme, or whatever their amazingly creative marketing people could come up with...
Hysteria Engine? i'd buy that.
i love my media keys more than life itself. winamp lets you bind all the crap ones to more useful stuff (browser refresh became toggle shuffle for instance) and i swear i would probably cut all my fingers off and go and live in a cave rather than use a keyboard without them.
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once people give it a chance and get to know how it works, they start to get on just fine with it. i've had a similar, if slightly less hysterical, reaction at work, where all but one of my staff are very happy with it. big sell here? the forecast fox extension, god they love it.
unfortunately, because we only have three, we are unable to get our network provider to allow us to use anything more spohisticated than the 'Mail connector' which is an UNSIGNED activeX control which you have to download and it pushes the mail from the desktop to the device. you cant access old mail with it, only what you receive when the Mail COnnector is running.
once the contract is up we will be binning them and getting windows mobiles to replace them - it might be more MS vendor lockin, but at least it does what i want it to do. our network provider si Vodafone, so if you are considering getting a small number of Blackberries, i woul explore other providors - they may be no better (o2 are certainly Fuckign Abysmal at everything they do - unlikely to be any better at this.)
i said apparently, goddammit, stop pointing at me.
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my point was, that we are talking about emulating a DS on a PSP, and whether the technology can handle it or not, there are actual physical boundaries which prevent this from ever working well. the case/dpad etc are different, they can be emulated, however the touchscreen is an essential element of the device. ergo, what is the point in arguing about the megahertz?
its like trying to emulate a yoghurt - it might look right, but you still cant eat it.
Check out GTR - http://www.simbin.com/games/ - thats a pretty realistic physics model in there.
How you gonna emulate that touchscreen, wizard boy? magical megagigauberhertz sooper dooper imaginary surface trickery? or are you being a monkey?
you should trust your employees, and if you cant then you shouldnt be employing them. i hope you have disabled the ability to use USB mass storage drives on your PCs, and disabled CD booting and BIOS access on all your machines, because otherwise some savvy employee is probably selling you out right now, while you get all bent out of shape over what someone thinks of their boss.
vader was english too, sort of - the actor who played vader was Dave Prowse, an english bloke. James Earl Jones did the voice though.
i always loved the complete lack of consequences. they blow up this peace loving planet, and its not mentioned in Empire or Jedi at all. you would have thought this might inspire people to join the Alliance, or at least have something to say about it later on, but no, Moff tarkin DESTROYS A PLANET, and no-one really cares.
try 'Boiling Point'. its bugged to f*ck, to the point of being almost unplayable, but this is what it is trying to do. hopefully the patch should fix a great deal of this, but even if it doesnt, you should buy it just to point out ot the industry that this is what we want, and this is what we will buy.
yeah im currently negotiating some sort of deal with satan so i can play and enjoy boiling point. seems to be the only way. gotta love atari for releasing it in that state. apparently the euro patch is out this week which should fix some of the bigger problems, although im holding out for lucifer personally.
It looks to me that MS are 'locking you in' with improved features and capabilities - their licensing of the formats seems to be perfectly fair and reasonable to me.
i'm not a shill*, this just seems like a really good move to me. leverage what is good about Office, rather than leveraging a monopoly position.
*Hey, if you're a cop you have to tell me right? Right?
actually, 'an' can also appear before consonants, when they are silent. take, for instance, 'an honour'.
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works really well, and i can bind any old arbitrary button or even macro. plus i can command the camera on the phone to take a photo from the other side of the world if i want, god knows why though.
i played my way through halflife2, on my 17" Hyundai Q17, at 1280x024, with all graphics set to high, on a Radeon 9500Pro, and it was fine. try putting the resolution up and the AA down, see if you can spot any difference - i bet you won't.
i like quicksave a lot, it means i can fire up the game, start from exactly where i left off, and stop when and whereever the hell i feel like. checkpoints make me feel like i am trapped into a game until i find the next goddamn checkpoint.
being able to quicksave means i dont have the frustration of having to kill th same guy again and again because i didnt manage to kill the guy after him. personally, if i have no quicksave, i generally end up using an infinite health or something because i dont enjoy doing the same thing again and again. yes, it sounds totally pathetic (you arent h4rdc0r3 enough for gamez!) but i dont get any pleasre out of doing the same thing again and again and again, particularly with incrediably linear games like halflife 2. far cry, i was happy to do the same bits repeatedly, because i could look around, find a new way to do things that would work.
is this really the question at hand? really? i mean, how many flights take place each day, and how many of them are hijacked?
more people's lives would be saved if we diverted some of this anti-terrorism money into things like drug rehabilitation, providing clean drinking water, improving car safety, all that hippie crap. seems like a bit of a stupid way to burn cash, seeing nudie people in airports.
http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battle field2/us/home.jsp
yep. and going from 'dark room where i cant really see' to 'exploding palatial heaven of light' is pretty dramatic is it not?
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try it, it might keep them quiet for a while.
what a cockbite.
...instead of emotion engine 2, or emotion engine extreme, or whatever their amazingly creative marketing people could come up with... Hysteria Engine? i'd buy that.
i love my media keys more than life itself. winamp lets you bind all the crap ones to more useful stuff (browser refresh became toggle shuffle for instance) and i swear i would probably cut all my fingers off and go and live in a cave rather than use a keyboard without them.
wait. are you Larry or Sergei?