The terms and conditions attached to that 'challenge' rendered it impossible to claim... My personal experience of Starforce hasn't been pleasant and, as such, I won't buy any games infected by that crapware. I'm also happy to direct friends away from Starforce-polluted titles, and encourage them not to support companies which use this method of copy-protection. I'm a fan of the Resident Evil series and it would have been great to see it running on a PC, but Ubisoft will almost certainly use Starforce to 'protect' these releases so it looks like I won't be buying the PC version of RE4.
They definitely do their research to make sure that they know everything than can about your background before they trust you. ...yet they give you a polygraph test? Those things have a less rigorously-tested scientific background than Intelligent Design!
Chrome was written in Java, and playing that would turn most gamers off Java for life: it was slow and buggy, and it didn't help that the game was utter crap. I believe a sequel has been released but I've no idea if that was written in Java too.
Would that be what's known as 'Capitol punishment'?
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Pragmatist possibly, even idealist, but Socialist? Absolutely not. Even assuming you're another American who doesn't know the difference between Communism and Socialism would still mean your assertion is wrong.
Sounds like a show made for young farmers... I hope it isn't; I'd like to see a show where two teams compete to upgrade the engine on their cow, racing the beast to prove their engineering prowess.
Actually, Fuji S2 Pro cameras have been exhibiting CCD failure, something I only found out when a friend of mine had this happen to her main camera. There's a database of affected serial numbers at the dpreview.com forum (IIRC), and Fuji appear to be repairing cameras with this problem for free (my friend received an invoice reading 0.00UKP).
Fuji have also published some info at their web site.
Count me in for another player who dislikes that silly reverse fly-by; what was wrong with the old loading screen? The three-way cut-up on the new loading screen is crap too. I still like the game, though another week or two of play-testing (using *real* players, not test-lab monkeys) would have given them more chance to polish the game.
It's because Blizzard no longer exist as anything other than a name: they were absorbed by the expanding blob of mediocrity known as Vivendi Universal and most of the original Blizzard team left or were sacked. Blizzard North were recently 'streamlined' too and, as such, also no longer exist. VU are worse than EA, if you can believe that. A bunch of the original Blizzard people are working on 'Hellgate: London', a game which should be well worth a look when it gets released. BTW, it was VU masquerading as Blizzard who closed-down bnetd. And Blizzcon? A poor attempt at creating the same kind of fanboys that Quake attracted. The only consolation is that the cost of the tickets should ensure it goes down like a lead balloon. Given the nature of the Blizzard development studio these days, Diablo III (unannounced but certain to be released) will be rubbish, the same line of rubbish as Interplay created with Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. (Still bitter about Van Buren/Fallout 3? You bet)
A late friend of mine used to say "no highs, no lows; it must be Bose". My own hearing was already deteriorating before I bought an iPod, mainly due to my own stupidity when playing in a band in my college years, so I was in no position to argue.
I suspect the 'mod' will be similar to the patch for the European version of Fallout 2. The original (US) F2 had kids running around the post-nuclear wasteland along with the adults; the European version did not, so some kind soul packaged-up the missing files and allowed people to download them so they could play the game as originally intended. I believe the censors objected to the player being able to kill children, though they were never required to do so to progress in the game.
HP have made disastrous decision after disastrous decision lately and will head down the Great Crapper of the Universe in short-order, unless they can hire a manager who *doesn't* think like you.
Not aimed for the face? Where else should a pepper-spray be aimed for it to be effective? I suspect it would burn like hell if it was shot up your backside but most people wear clothing outdoors.
...where do we draw the line?
Halfway between his ears, from the top of his skull then straight down through his groin. With a LightSabre(tm, and speeled korrectly).
As a licence-payer I've partially paid for that performance and am therefore entitled to listen to it. The BBC aren't giving away anyone else's performance of this music, nor are they preventing anyone else listening to other performances; there may be a small cost involved but there was here too (the licence fee) and, as part-owner, I have no problem with sharing this work with others.
You can spin this a hundred ways and each time the guy comes out as a whining prat, and in very few of those does he even have a prayer of winning a court case. Still, people will insist on using the legal system as a kind of lottery...
And a 'restaurant funded by tax money'? I'd like to see proof of that, cynic that I am.
As far as they're concerned they *are* fighting a legitimate war and, while people continue to die from the actions of these lunatics, the Geneva Convention's definition of 'legitimace combatants' is somewhat irrelevant.
John Stalker was interviewed during one of the news broadcasts and, just before being cut off, he stated that these bombs were in all probability planted by people already in the country; the subtext, as I read it, was that ID cards would not have prevented this atrocity. Very interesting that he should make that statement given that, as you say, Clarke/Blair are *bound* to use these bombings as a reason why we need the useless (for us) things. I'm disheartened by the Shadow Home Secretary's statement that "the Opposition will stand behind the Government's choices" (paraphrased), implying that they would support any draconian measure the Government concoct. What interesting times we live in.:|
I'm a relatively experienced Linux user, and a soon-to-be former Gentoo user. The reason I ditched it? Too much temptation to fiddle with things that work so you can get them to work 'better'. I've broken (and fixed) various essential and non-essential parts of the installation but I'm giving up and installing SUSE later this week. As one of the other replies mentioned there's little real-world performance advantage gained on a modern desktop machine, but if it makes people happy...
This is true; I still have a bunch of old LPs in storage and on the rear of the sleeve was a small boxout containing the phrase "home taping is killing music". It didn't, of course, and neither will this decade's bogeyman, the MP3.
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The word already exists: 'hearsay'.
Go here and head to the download section; the author of Tyrian released it as freeware a while ago.
The terms and conditions attached to that 'challenge' rendered it impossible to claim...
My personal experience of Starforce hasn't been pleasant and, as such, I won't buy any games infected by that crapware. I'm also happy to direct friends away from Starforce-polluted titles, and encourage them not to support companies which use this method of copy-protection.
I'm a fan of the Resident Evil series and it would have been great to see it running on a PC, but Ubisoft will almost certainly use Starforce to 'protect' these releases so it looks like I won't be buying the PC version of RE4.
They definitely do their research to make sure that they know everything than can about your background before they trust you.
...yet they give you a polygraph test? Those things have a less rigorously-tested scientific background than Intelligent Design!
And while you're there take a look at the pictures of Superman; apparently he's auditioning for a part in the Village Superpeople.
Chrome was written in Java, and playing that would turn most gamers off Java for life: it was slow and buggy, and it didn't help that the game was utter crap. I believe a sequel has been released but I've no idea if that was written in Java too.
Would that be what's known as 'Capitol punishment'?
Pragmatist possibly, even idealist, but Socialist? Absolutely not. Even assuming you're another American who doesn't know the difference between Communism and Socialism would still mean your assertion is wrong.
Sounds like a show made for young farmers...
I hope it isn't; I'd like to see a show where two teams compete to upgrade the engine on their cow, racing the beast to prove their engineering prowess.
Actually, Fuji S2 Pro cameras have been exhibiting CCD failure, something I only found out when a friend of mine had this happen to her main camera. There's a database of affected serial numbers at the dpreview.com forum (IIRC), and Fuji appear to be repairing cameras with this problem for free (my friend received an invoice reading 0.00UKP).
Fuji have also published some info at their web site.
Count me in for another player who dislikes that silly reverse fly-by; what was wrong with the old loading screen? The three-way cut-up on the new loading screen is crap too.
I still like the game, though another week or two of play-testing (using *real* players, not test-lab monkeys) would have given them more chance to polish the game.
It's because Blizzard no longer exist as anything other than a name: they were absorbed by the expanding blob of mediocrity known as Vivendi Universal and most of the original Blizzard team left or were sacked. Blizzard North were recently 'streamlined' too and, as such, also no longer exist. VU are worse than EA, if you can believe that.
A bunch of the original Blizzard people are working on 'Hellgate: London', a game which should be well worth a look when it gets released.
BTW, it was VU masquerading as Blizzard who closed-down bnetd. And Blizzcon? A poor attempt at creating the same kind of fanboys that Quake attracted. The only consolation is that the cost of the tickets should ensure it goes down like a lead balloon.
Given the nature of the Blizzard development studio these days, Diablo III (unannounced but certain to be released) will be rubbish, the same line of rubbish as Interplay created with Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
(Still bitter about Van Buren/Fallout 3? You bet)
A late friend of mine used to say "no highs, no lows; it must be Bose". My own hearing was already deteriorating before I bought an iPod, mainly due to my own stupidity when playing in a band in my college years, so I was in no position to argue.
And you were doing so well until that last paragraph...
I suspect the 'mod' will be similar to the patch for the European version of Fallout 2. The original (US) F2 had kids running around the post-nuclear wasteland along with the adults; the European version did not, so some kind soul packaged-up the missing files and allowed people to download them so they could play the game as originally intended. I believe the censors objected to the player being able to kill children, though they were never required to do so to progress in the game.
...so SALT is roughly equal to Keck One or Two...
And no-one's made any joke about a pair of kecks? I'm grossly disappointed in the level of schoolboy humour at this site.
HP have made disastrous decision after disastrous decision lately and will head down the Great Crapper of the Universe in short-order, unless they can hire a manager who *doesn't* think like you.
Not aimed for the face? Where else should a pepper-spray be aimed for it to be effective? I suspect it would burn like hell if it was shot up your backside but most people wear clothing outdoors.
A variant of OS/2 is still being sold (eComStation) so I doubt IBM would be able to open the source...
...where do we draw the line?
Halfway between his ears, from the top of his skull then straight down through his groin. With a LightSabre(tm, and speeled korrectly).
As a licence-payer I've partially paid for that performance and am therefore entitled to listen to it. The BBC aren't giving away anyone else's performance of this music, nor are they preventing anyone else listening to other performances; there may be a small cost involved but there was here too (the licence fee) and, as part-owner, I have no problem with sharing this work with others.
You can spin this a hundred ways and each time the guy comes out as a whining prat, and in very few of those does he even have a prayer of winning a court case. Still, people will insist on using the legal system as a kind of lottery...
And a 'restaurant funded by tax money'? I'd like to see proof of that, cynic that I am.
I was thinking more along the lines of .septic-tank but that's a lot of typing in the URL bar.
As far as they're concerned they *are* fighting a legitimate war and, while people continue to die from the actions of these lunatics, the Geneva Convention's definition of 'legitimace combatants' is somewhat irrelevant.
John Stalker was interviewed during one of the news broadcasts and, just before being cut off, he stated that these bombs were in all probability planted by people already in the country; the subtext, as I read it, was that ID cards would not have prevented this atrocity. Very interesting that he should make that statement given that, as you say, Clarke/Blair are *bound* to use these bombings as a reason why we need the useless (for us) things. I'm disheartened by the Shadow Home Secretary's statement that "the Opposition will stand behind the Government's choices" (paraphrased), implying that they would support any draconian measure the Government concoct. :|
What interesting times we live in.
I'm a relatively experienced Linux user, and a soon-to-be former Gentoo user. The reason I ditched it? Too much temptation to fiddle with things that work so you can get them to work 'better'. I've broken (and fixed) various essential and non-essential parts of the installation but I'm giving up and installing SUSE later this week.
As one of the other replies mentioned there's little real-world performance advantage gained on a modern desktop machine, but if it makes people happy...
This is true; I still have a bunch of old LPs in storage and on the rear of the sleeve was a small boxout containing the phrase "home taping is killing music". It didn't, of course, and neither will this decade's bogeyman, the MP3.