There is a giant frustration with fantasy authors that just can't seem to close a story. Tolkien got it right: create 3-4 main books, then a couple supplemental. Jordan couldn't do it in >12 books, and George R.R. Martin seems to be heading in the same direction.
My biggest regret has been using steam lately to purchase a few games (including Empire Total War which requires it). I remember the days of loaning games to other people, finding out about genres you otherwise wouldn't play. Now you can't even sell your used PC games anymore. When games didn't require a nagware/adware internet check to play a single player game. Now you have to investigate if games come with additional rootkits (Securerom/TAGES) before you buy them. When games came with extras like huge detailed manuals (Baldurs Gate II) which now require you to buy the "collectors edition" if you want any extras.
The big publishers took all the fun out of buying games and I will not mourn their loss.
I pay $29 but then I guess I'm not a phone whore and only need 200 minutes/month. It does make sense though, the stretch of I10 going from Phoenix to Los Angeles (where nothing but desert stretches for miles) is probably the length of Finland itself.
Unless the people retesting are the same ones who submitted it in the first place (either via ghost writers, sham corporations, etc). Then it becomes like artificial sweeteners, where you have a mountain of evidence stating that it is safe (from the corporations, or people funded by the industry) and some research stating that it isn't safe, and the end result is people are confused and no one knows what to really believe.
To be fair prices have decreased. Now you can get a lot of CDs at Best Buy or Walmart for $9, and I remember the going price at the Wherehouse used to be $17. Still, $1 a song is ludicrous, I think the allofmp3 model had it right, ~$0.32 a song. Even $0.50 a song is reasonable if the artists gets a good portion. I would probably pay $1 a song if the entire amount went to the artist.
I bought the first Velvet Revolver CD, which installed a rootkit on the computer to prevent you from doing anything other than listening to some shitty WMA files. After that I swore I would never buy a CD again, and I haven't. You only screw me once. So until we have no DRM and a perpetual license (buy the music once, have the rights to any format) I'm done playing their game.
You are correct, all the research that comes out of neuro and social psychology is completely worthless as it isn't real science, despite the fact that it actually has everything you mentioned. But don't let facts stop your baseless accusations.
Or, to put things in perspective, windows 7 adds additional features and security with minimal overhead. The performance differences were what, ~5% compared to a nearly 10 year old OS? I'm sure windows 98 is faster than windows 7, and if that sounds like a ridiculous comparison, I find it ridiculous that people would actually prefer to use XP over 7.
Really? I think I pretty much own my AT&T Tilt, since my contract expired I am under no obligations to any cell company. And not only did I load a custom version of windows mobile on it (that I made via tools on xda developers) I can install any software I want on it with no-one to tell me differently. In addition, Spb makes shell programs to fix the horrible UI of win mobile, so the phone is actually a pleasure to use. The only thing that I am apparently missing out on is all the cool new apps that are iphone only.
I don't pay for data since Wifi is everywhere where I live, so my bill is the same as any other phone.
I just installed Windows 7 RTM and went to install flash for IE8 (for steam) and Adobe installed a download manager just to install flash. Are they retarded or something? I wish I could ditch Adobe flash for an alternative. I'm already 100% free of Apple software, it would be nice to coup de grace Adobe from my system as well.
I would argue the opposite, that perhaps the NES (or, to stretch it, perhaps the SNES) is the best "control scheme" for MOST games. Any action you want to do is confined to only a few buttons. Compare this to Fable on the Xbox, which in my opinion the controls were a complete mess due to the complexity. Having a hundred functions tied to a hundred keys is useless because only the extremely hard-core will remember them. However, I will agree that for RTS there is no substitute for a mouse and keyboard.
For me it isn't that I'm lazy, it is that: 1) The motion controls don't work well 2) Most games use motion control when a button press makes more sense
Default install of VLC, video is incredibly blocky compared to WMP, GOM Player, or J River Media Center. This is for nearly any video I throw at it, it looks better in any other player. What gives? VLC: http://imgur.com/o5HbC.png WMP: http://imgur.com/hjmaF.png
Except clamwin/av has notoriously bad detection rates. I don't know why it keeps appearing on slashdot.
"In the 1 - 21 June 2008 test performed by Virus.gr, ClamWin version 0.93 detected 54.68% of all threats and ranked 37th out of 49 products tested; the best scored over 99%.[7]"
Because before the FDA I could grow my own poppies for pain, brew my own ephedra tea for sinus infections and use whatever the earth gave me for whatever I desire. Take chamomile tea. According to you, the FDA (or someone) would have to prove it is safe and effective to be sold, essentially meaning that it would disappear overnight as no one would spend the money to do that. Its a slippery slope from being able to grow and use my own medicine to Equilibrium, where I have to take my government mandated dose every day and nothing else is available.
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There is a giant frustration with fantasy authors that just can't seem to close a story. Tolkien got it right: create 3-4 main books, then a couple supplemental. Jordan couldn't do it in >12 books, and George R.R. Martin seems to be heading in the same direction.
My biggest regret has been using steam lately to purchase a few games (including Empire Total War which requires it). I remember the days of loaning games to other people, finding out about genres you otherwise wouldn't play. Now you can't even sell your used PC games anymore. When games didn't require a nagware/adware internet check to play a single player game. Now you have to investigate if games come with additional rootkits (Securerom/TAGES) before you buy them. When games came with extras like huge detailed manuals (Baldurs Gate II) which now require you to buy the "collectors edition" if you want any extras.
The big publishers took all the fun out of buying games and I will not mourn their loss.
...plus free mobile to mobile and nights and weekends, which the prepaid plans do not have (that I am aware of).
length and width depend on the perspective :)
Hence the word probably...and finland is about ~200 miles E->W, the same direction as the I10, if you would have spent five seconds looking it up.
I pay $29 but then I guess I'm not a phone whore and only need 200 minutes/month. It does make sense though, the stretch of I10 going from Phoenix to Los Angeles (where nothing but desert stretches for miles) is probably the length of Finland itself.
Unless the people retesting are the same ones who submitted it in the first place (either via ghost writers, sham corporations, etc). Then it becomes like artificial sweeteners, where you have a mountain of evidence stating that it is safe (from the corporations, or people funded by the industry) and some research stating that it isn't safe, and the end result is people are confused and no one knows what to really believe.
Yep 60% total load on a core2duo 6400. 1080p video uses less than that so I don't know what the hell they are doing.
Thanks RIAA.
I refuse to give up culture just because it is a one-sided deal.
To be fair prices have decreased. Now you can get a lot of CDs at Best Buy or Walmart for $9, and I remember the going price at the Wherehouse used to be $17. Still, $1 a song is ludicrous, I think the allofmp3 model had it right, ~$0.32 a song. Even $0.50 a song is reasonable if the artists gets a good portion. I would probably pay $1 a song if the entire amount went to the artist.
I bought the first Velvet Revolver CD, which installed a rootkit on the computer to prevent you from doing anything other than listening to some shitty WMA files. After that I swore I would never buy a CD again, and I haven't. You only screw me once. So until we have no DRM and a perpetual license (buy the music once, have the rights to any format) I'm done playing their game.
You are correct, all the research that comes out of neuro and social psychology is completely worthless as it isn't real science, despite the fact that it actually has everything you mentioned. But don't let facts stop your baseless accusations.
Or, to put things in perspective, windows 7 adds additional features and security with minimal overhead. The performance differences were what, ~5% compared to a nearly 10 year old OS? I'm sure windows 98 is faster than windows 7, and if that sounds like a ridiculous comparison, I find it ridiculous that people would actually prefer to use XP over 7.
Really? I think I pretty much own my AT&T Tilt, since my contract expired I am under no obligations to any cell company. And not only did I load a custom version of windows mobile on it (that I made via tools on xda developers) I can install any software I want on it with no-one to tell me differently. In addition, Spb makes shell programs to fix the horrible UI of win mobile, so the phone is actually a pleasure to use. The only thing that I am apparently missing out on is all the cool new apps that are iphone only.
I don't pay for data since Wifi is everywhere where I live, so my bill is the same as any other phone.
I just installed Windows 7 RTM and went to install flash for IE8 (for steam) and Adobe installed a download manager just to install flash. Are they retarded or something? I wish I could ditch Adobe flash for an alternative. I'm already 100% free of Apple software, it would be nice to coup de grace Adobe from my system as well.
IIRC the spells required you to hold down one of the trigger buttons while trying to remember which spell you have mapped to which button.
I would argue the opposite, that perhaps the NES (or, to stretch it, perhaps the SNES) is the best "control scheme" for MOST games. Any action you want to do is confined to only a few buttons. Compare this to Fable on the Xbox, which in my opinion the controls were a complete mess due to the complexity. Having a hundred functions tied to a hundred keys is useless because only the extremely hard-core will remember them. However, I will agree that for RTS there is no substitute for a mouse and keyboard.
My $60 asus motherboardboard I bought 3 years ago came with 10 sata ports.
Wow, I'm ashamed to be a geek, you fixed my problem! Thanks!
For me it isn't that I'm lazy, it is that: 1) The motion controls don't work well 2) Most games use motion control when a button press makes more sense
Default install of VLC, video is incredibly blocky compared to WMP, GOM Player, or J River Media Center. This is for nearly any video I throw at it, it looks better in any other player. What gives?
VLC: http://imgur.com/o5HbC.png
WMP: http://imgur.com/hjmaF.png
Except clamwin/av has notoriously bad detection rates. I don't know why it keeps appearing on slashdot.
"In the 1 - 21 June 2008 test performed by Virus.gr, ClamWin version 0.93 detected 54.68% of all threats and ranked 37th out of 49 products tested; the best scored over 99%.[7]"
Because people will download and install anything? Even OSX was hit recently with people pirating the iwork suite.
Because before the FDA I could grow my own poppies for pain, brew my own ephedra tea for sinus infections and use whatever the earth gave me for whatever I desire. Take chamomile tea. According to you, the FDA (or someone) would have to prove it is safe and effective to be sold, essentially meaning that it would disappear overnight as no one would spend the money to do that. Its a slippery slope from being able to grow and use my own medicine to Equilibrium, where I have to take my government mandated dose every day and nothing else is available.