I can't really be the only gamer who detests MMORPGs, can I? I love my PC and console RPGs to death (or at least, to ending credits roll) but I really can't stand anything more MMORPGish than Cyber Nations. Every so often I'll try a new one on the urging of some friend with an account, and every time beyond the initial character creation it just stops being fun for me.
Should I be pleased that he answered my question and did so reasonably, or disappointed that that particular beloved gripe of mine now has a reasonable answer from Himself floating around?
Here's a useless trick for free online backups I used to pull when doing fresh installs back in the late 80s/early 90s..
I would get myself one of the ubiquitous AOL trial diskettes. (I'm dating myself referring to diskettes, but it's OK, I'm a cheap date.) I'd sign up for the freebie, and use the five screen names they'd give you to email myself zip files of everything important. I think the mailbox limit was two megs or five megs or something per screenname, but that was okay since I was mostly backing up zipped text files, some JPEGs, and a few smaller apps off what wa usually a 20-50 meg hard drive.
I'd then do my clean install of Windows, reinstall AOL, get my mail, and cancel the accounts.
If I needed more space, there was always Compuserve, Prodigy, and GEnie as well. This never stopped working, and I did it at least once a year for ages. Later, when these services offered a few megs of FTP/Web space, that added even more room to exploit.
I imagine this would still work today if you were desperate, but thanks to the services in TFA and rewritable CDs/DVDs it's not really an issue anymore.
If this transition goes anywhere near as well as that time the US Government resolved to convert the US to the metric system in the 1970s, then... well, we'll all have a lot more time to play solitaire.
After reading all that, I suddenly have a new appreciation for our mod point system. Maybe Massachusetts should have submitted their request to "Ask Slashdot."
Too true, and my neighbors with the Linksys could have the courtesy to bring some of that wonderful-smelling beef stew out to their bushes now and then.
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Very true. Besides the intangible benefits of having the "real" book, with computer stuff it's always nice to have some hard copy reference material. There will always come a time when the problem you need to fix is keeping you from getting onto the damned Internet to find the fix for your problem.
With my normally running Skype and/or gaim, I've already got all that functionality. I love Firefox and all, but I really see no need to use my web browser as yet another 3rd-party non-free VOIP app.
Would it be so much better if they made up a meaningless word like "Democrat" or "Republican," rather than one that actually has something to do with who they are and what they stand for, and immediately evokes a vivid image in any listener's mind regardless of said listener's own politics?
They want to pay you to write something for them, not the world. An SCO employee releasing their source/SCO's "intellectual property" may well get you fired and sued.
Flicking the mouse around never felt comfortable as an FPS controller to me, so after the keyboard-controlled goodness of Doom and its brethren I mostly drifted away from FPSes. To me, this looks like just the thing to get me back into them.
[blah blah] device [yack yack] less elegant [blah] traditional neural implant [yadda yadda yadda] system [hoodlihoo] goings on [fa fa fa] "bookmark" [yackety schmackety] feed you information [gweh] QR codes [ra ra ra] object recognition; [oy oy oy] augmented aural reality [zazoo zazoo] passing glance.
Sweet crackers, it's too early in the morning. Couldn't we have an RIAA story? At least I can spell "RIAA" at 7AM.
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I can't really be the only gamer who detests MMORPGs, can I? I love my PC and console RPGs to death (or at least, to ending credits roll) but I really can't stand anything more MMORPGish than Cyber Nations. Every so often I'll try a new one on the urging of some friend with an account, and every time beyond the initial character creation it just stops being fun for me.
To be fair, that's only because he lopped some grumbling off the end.
Should I be pleased that he answered my question and did so reasonably, or disappointed that that particular beloved gripe of mine now has a reasonable answer from Himself floating around?
Here's a useless trick for free online backups I used to pull when doing fresh installs back in the late 80s/early 90s..
I would get myself one of the ubiquitous AOL trial diskettes. (I'm dating myself referring to diskettes, but it's OK, I'm a cheap date.) I'd sign up for the freebie, and use the five screen names they'd give you to email myself zip files of everything important. I think the mailbox limit was two megs or five megs or something per screenname, but that was okay since I was mostly backing up zipped text files, some JPEGs, and a few smaller apps off what wa usually a 20-50 meg hard drive.
I'd then do my clean install of Windows, reinstall AOL, get my mail, and cancel the accounts.
If I needed more space, there was always Compuserve, Prodigy, and GEnie as well. This never stopped working, and I did it at least once a year for ages. Later, when these services offered a few megs of FTP/Web space, that added even more room to exploit.
I imagine this would still work today if you were desperate, but thanks to the services in TFA and rewritable CDs/DVDs it's not really an issue anymore.
For more info, visit the battery manufacturer's website.
If this transition goes anywhere near as well as that time the US Government resolved to convert the US to the metric system in the 1970s, then... well, we'll all have a lot more time to play solitaire.
After reading all that, I suddenly have a new appreciation for our mod point system. Maybe Massachusetts should have submitted their request to "Ask Slashdot."
Or as sysadmins might say, the fault lies in the keyboard-chair interface.
Turning leaked information back into a secret, that's the HARD bit.
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Too true, and my neighbors with the Linksys could have the courtesy to bring some of that wonderful-smelling beef stew out to their bushes now and then.
Very true. Besides the intangible benefits of having the "real" book, with computer stuff it's always nice to have some hard copy reference material. There will always come a time when the problem you need to fix is keeping you from getting onto the damned Internet to find the fix for your problem.
With my normally running Skype and/or gaim, I've already got all that functionality. I love Firefox and all, but I really see no need to use my web browser as yet another 3rd-party non-free VOIP app.
Would it be so much better if they made up a meaningless word like "Democrat" or "Republican," rather than one that actually has something to do with who they are and what they stand for, and immediately evokes a vivid image in any listener's mind regardless of said listener's own politics?
They want to pay you to write something for them, not the world. An SCO employee releasing their source/SCO's "intellectual property" may well get you fired and sued.
..an exploding beowulf cluster of these things!
Flicking the mouse around never felt comfortable as an FPS controller to me, so after the keyboard-controlled goodness of Doom and its brethren I mostly drifted away from FPSes. To me, this looks like just the thing to get me back into them.
Actually, my personal page looks equally good in any browser, with the power switched off and a good book in front of the screen.
..that page looks a lot better in Firefox.