And spelling fail. I blame the remains of the White Russian in the glass before me, for noticing the red squiggly line under errect (Correct spelling being 'erect') in Firefox after hitting submit.
Note to self: use the 'PREVIEW' button next time...
Agreed. But it WOULD provide a wonderful base of recruits if the software functions the same - recruit those who do well. (They do track success/failure rates)
If you already have Jaunty, download the ISO. System->Administration->USB Startup Disk Creator
Point at ISO, point at USB stick. Demand it Make It So.
If you don't have Jaunty, use unetbootin as suggested by others. (Or, boot ISO in a virtual machine, if you have access to USB devices via your VM solution)
In Left4Dead they finally added it as a video option. Windowed No Border. (The other Source games you can set it to windowed, then add the '-noborder' option to the shortcut/steam entry launch settings - EXCEPT Counter-Strike:Source - old engine version) - then hitting the start button isn't so bad. (Requires a little more resources, so if you're on a low-end box, it's not so great) - but works well, and lets me scroll over to my second display (browser, IMs, whatnot) without having to wait for the game to come back up.
Subsidies? I know here in the US, after the 2001.09.11 attack, we helped out the airlines - and I know some not insignificant portion of their expenses (airports and associated structures, staff, etc) isn't paid by the airlines, but by the local community (taxes, surcharges on flights, or state/federal gov't) - I don't know how much of rail is funded that way.
Also, air travel is much more "common" and thus they have the benefits of the economies of scale. (Millions versus hundreds of thousands of passengers daily, or maybe an even greater variance between the two)
Get more people to ride the train, the price will (most likely) come down over time.
Yes, but so far most of them don't gain anything by going past 2 cores. (Meaning the games run just fine on high settings on dual-cores) - the exception I know of is Grand Theft Auto 4, but that's considered by many to be a horrible port from the console.
Left4Dead, Unreal Tournament 3 - both run just fine on my AMD Dual-core 2.5GHz CPU; paired with an HD4850. In fact, even hosting a L4D match I don't peg the CPU past about 85%, and that's with settings turned way up - I won't be upgrading for awhile yet.
Actually, when I was in school (Graduated high school in 2003) I had a "Word Processing and Spreadsheets" class - We did both with Apple's ClarisWorks AND with Microsoft Office, so we learned the concepts of spreadsheets, formulas, paragraph layouts etc - not how to make a pie chart with Office 2000 Professional.
We were taught the concepts, then shown how to do it on two of the (then) major products of the time.
The inputs on consoles require a 'dumbed down interface' for some genres of games. -Flight sims -RTSes -FPSes
Yes, there are examples of games that work 'well' in those categories on consoles.
Also, where's the mod support, the level editor, and the SDK for the consoles? You buy the game, that's it. There's nothing more.
I buy a game for the PC (Say, anything made by Valve) - I get the SDK and level editor, free, with it. I can now take that base game (say Half-Life) and create a WWII shooter from it. Oh wait, they did that. It's called Day of Defeat, and Valve thought it was so awesome they hired the development team.
So buy PCs that can auto-turn on (most of my home-built ones can; via the BIOS) - and have them start up 5, 10, 15 or whatever minutes before the workday begins.
1) Install Steam 2) Exit Steam (Can't have it running while you copy over) 3) Copy 'Steam\steamapps' 4) Launch Steam; log into account. 5) Profit (via entertainment, not $$$)
Epic, I've bought all the previous Unreal games, and run them on both Windows and Linux - Unreal Tournament 3 is the last game I'll be buying.
-16 months after launch, and we STILL do not have our promised "launch timeframe" Linux client. -You built in a kill-switch into Gears of War (Nasty nasty DRM, I avoid like the plague)
Don't worry, I won't pirate it either. If it's not worth my money, it's not worth my time.
Republic Commando had great potential for squad-based multi-player. The single-player was incredibly fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed it - although being a very scripted, linear path reduced replayability quite a bit. But all the time I played through it, I was expecting this awesome multi-player combat, but it ended up being a typical Deathmatch/CTF, except with Star Wars weapons.
Much potential...but, like most games these days, the developers/publishers failed to take advantage of the opportunity they had.
I've previously worked for one of the large tech support companies, fixing machines etc.
Castle Cops was one of the resources when you found a particularly nasty infection, that you'd know would be a good resource - so when it turned up in Google searches, you'd hit it. Mind you, we did our stuff remote - so we had to be extra careful about how we fixed things. (Pilot project and all that, panned out apparently, then outsourced - wheeee!) I'm not terribly surprised they didn't try to fund any of these, since they were very stingy despite us being a massive profit center. (Hence the outsourcing)
Anyway, back on topic.
Seems sorta like someone wanted him to do it as quietly, and quickly, as possible. With significant motive. What would Microsoft have to gain by this resource being shut down? I'm not sure. But I do know the spammers/malware writes would have something to gain...perhaps the economy tanking combined with the right offer, and he decided to switch allegiances for the payoff?
Because for those of us who've chosen Linux as our 'workstation' OS, having to maintain (albeit minutely) a second OS (install, AV/Firewall as much needed for gaming, hardware drivers, etc) simply for a game or 5, becomes a chore. I usually leave chat or web-browsing windows up on my gaming machine (Still running windows because the hassles are too many) but if it were a one-time setup (not every time a new major patch comes out) I'd switch to Linux on the second machine too.
On that note, anyone know where/how we should send this message?
I WAS looking forward to purchasing this game. I've got all of the previous GTA series games on the shelf behind me, purchased legitimately. Cracked some of them, so that I could play them on my laptop while on break at college and leaving the CD/DVD at home, and safe. (Hint: The disc checks only serve to piss people off)
There is a significant portion of the population that avoids piracy. We like having a real copy, it's just we don't want to risk it. So, we do an install, and at that point want to put the disc away, for safe-keeping. We don't want to risk scratching it or breaking it, or even worse - losing it. I have an old game from a decade ago now (Star Trek: Birth of the Federation) published by Microprose. They no longer exist, absorbed by I think Atari. (Doing a Google search shows the brand went through several transactions) If this game required a phone-home to install, I would pretty much be hosed.
I still play the game. To keep the disc safe, I made a disc image, or an ISO, of it. This way I can install it and play anytime I want, without risking the CD.
Rockstar, from now until you realize the mistake you've made here by choosing to implement not just copy protection, but a very draconian, check-in-needed copy protection, I won't be purchasing any of your future titles. Don't worry, I won't pirate them either.
Rockstar, I'm taking my ball, and I'm gonna go play with someone else.
I only had the Grub Error 17 issue - which was a quick 5-minute fix. Well-documented, too.
A total non-techie might've been confused by it, but once I found the info I had no problems running it.
So yeah, Dell did a pretty good job. (Thats why I ordered the Ubuntu-loaded - to throw my weight behind it, and that's what was going to go on this box anyway, the old laptop's LCD was starting to go)
Actually, the first Ubuntu-loaded laptops worked (and still work) great - I bought and am typing this on an Inspiron E1505N - all the hardware worked out of the box, except for 3D video. (Intel still had a binary blob for the wireless, but was working on releasing an Open Source driver)
There was one glitch with updating the kernel, though...but that was the only hiccup in the whole process.
Yes, adding the feature to the core of Firefox would be nice...but if they did that for all the 'nice features' it'd have too much bloat. Hence, extensions.
Check out 'NoScript' - it does what you want. By default, no pages get to run scripts. You approve on a per-domain basis (so say, Slashdot is running some google code on the page - you'll have both domains as choices - allow, temporarily allow (which is handy when you don't recog the domain) or block, and don't tell me again.
From what I remember, after that people were liking how cool the systems ran. There also were some obvious ways to check your system, to identify which it was. (I think this was aimed at those getting potential refurbs from the RRoD)
I'm going to burn the mod points I used on this thread. It just begs for it.
Oh COME ON!! You know they won't teach the important stuff, like how to defend against a goatse attack.... OH COME ON!! Defending against a goatse attack is impossible. Like the US securing its borders...
Well...there is one way, but it first requires to be subjected to goatse repeatedly by way of insightful posts making links to what would appear to be more useful information. Oh wait, that's how I was made immune to the goatse attack.
Slashdot Mirror
And spelling fail. I blame the remains of the White Russian in the glass before me, for noticing the red squiggly line under errect (Correct spelling being 'erect') in Firefox after hitting submit.
Note to self: use the 'PREVIEW' button next time...
Goatse is capable of destroying anything standing errect before it.
HA!
Agreed. But it WOULD provide a wonderful base of recruits if the software functions the same - recruit those who do well. (They do track success/failure rates)
If you already have Jaunty, download the ISO. System->Administration->USB Startup Disk Creator
Point at ISO, point at USB stick. Demand it Make It So.
If you don't have Jaunty, use unetbootin as suggested by others. (Or, boot ISO in a virtual machine, if you have access to USB devices via your VM solution)
In Left4Dead they finally added it as a video option. Windowed No Border. (The other Source games you can set it to windowed, then add the '-noborder' option to the shortcut/steam entry launch settings - EXCEPT Counter-Strike:Source - old engine version) - then hitting the start button isn't so bad. (Requires a little more resources, so if you're on a low-end box, it's not so great) - but works well, and lets me scroll over to my second display (browser, IMs, whatnot) without having to wait for the game to come back up.
I bought the first Ubuntu-loaded laptop from Dell, Inspiron E1505N - N is basically their "No OS/Non-Windows."
Two stickers:
-Intel Centrino Duo
-n SERIES
No 'Windows' stickers.
(Does have the Windows key)
Bought June 2007.
Subsidies? I know here in the US, after the 2001.09.11 attack, we helped out the airlines - and I know some not insignificant portion of their expenses (airports and associated structures, staff, etc) isn't paid by the airlines, but by the local community (taxes, surcharges on flights, or state/federal gov't) - I don't know how much of rail is funded that way.
Also, air travel is much more "common" and thus they have the benefits of the economies of scale. (Millions versus hundreds of thousands of passengers daily, or maybe an even greater variance between the two)
Get more people to ride the train, the price will (most likely) come down over time.
Yes, but so far most of them don't gain anything by going past 2 cores. (Meaning the games run just fine on high settings on dual-cores) - the exception I know of is Grand Theft Auto 4, but that's considered by many to be a horrible port from the console.
Left4Dead, Unreal Tournament 3 - both run just fine on my AMD Dual-core 2.5GHz CPU; paired with an HD4850. In fact, even hosting a L4D match I don't peg the CPU past about 85%, and that's with settings turned way up - I won't be upgrading for awhile yet.
Actually, when I was in school (Graduated high school in 2003) I had a "Word Processing and Spreadsheets" class - We did both with Apple's ClarisWorks AND with Microsoft Office, so we learned the concepts of spreadsheets, formulas, paragraph layouts etc - not how to make a pie chart with Office 2000 Professional.
We were taught the concepts, then shown how to do it on two of the (then) major products of the time.
It is just you.
The inputs on consoles require a 'dumbed down interface' for some genres of games.
-Flight sims
-RTSes
-FPSes
Yes, there are examples of games that work 'well' in those categories on consoles.
Also, where's the mod support, the level editor, and the SDK for the consoles? You buy the game, that's it. There's nothing more.
I buy a game for the PC (Say, anything made by Valve) - I get the SDK and level editor, free, with it. I can now take that base game (say Half-Life) and create a WWII shooter from it. Oh wait, they did that. It's called Day of Defeat, and Valve thought it was so awesome they hired the development team.
PC gaming isn't going anywhere.
Agreed. I don't know what I'm going to do when my v1 dies. I don't care for the v2 at all.
So buy PCs that can auto-turn on (most of my home-built ones can; via the BIOS) - and have them start up 5, 10, 15 or whatever minutes before the workday begins.
1) Install Steam
2) Exit Steam (Can't have it running while you copy over)
3) Copy 'Steam\steamapps'
4) Launch Steam; log into account.
5) Profit (via entertainment, not $$$)
Epic, I've bought all the previous Unreal games, and run them on both Windows and Linux - Unreal Tournament 3 is the last game I'll be buying.
-16 months after launch, and we STILL do not have our promised "launch timeframe" Linux client.
-You built in a kill-switch into Gears of War (Nasty nasty DRM, I avoid like the plague)
Don't worry, I won't pirate it either. If it's not worth my money, it's not worth my time.
Republic Commando had great potential for squad-based multi-player. The single-player was incredibly fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed it - although being a very scripted, linear path reduced replayability quite a bit. But all the time I played through it, I was expecting this awesome multi-player combat, but it ended up being a typical Deathmatch/CTF, except with Star Wars weapons.
Much potential...but, like most games these days, the developers/publishers failed to take advantage of the opportunity they had.
Battlefront II is quite fun.
I've previously worked for one of the large tech support companies, fixing machines etc.
Castle Cops was one of the resources when you found a particularly nasty infection, that you'd know would be a good resource - so when it turned up in Google searches, you'd hit it. Mind you, we did our stuff remote - so we had to be extra careful about how we fixed things. (Pilot project and all that, panned out apparently, then outsourced - wheeee!) I'm not terribly surprised they didn't try to fund any of these, since they were very stingy despite us being a massive profit center. (Hence the outsourcing)
Anyway, back on topic.
Seems sorta like someone wanted him to do it as quietly, and quickly, as possible. With significant motive. What would Microsoft have to gain by this resource being shut down? I'm not sure. But I do know the spammers/malware writes would have something to gain...perhaps the economy tanking combined with the right offer, and he decided to switch allegiances for the payoff?
I don't know. But this sure seems fishy to me.
Because for those of us who've chosen Linux as our 'workstation' OS, having to maintain (albeit minutely) a second OS (install, AV/Firewall as much needed for gaming, hardware drivers, etc) simply for a game or 5, becomes a chore. I usually leave chat or web-browsing windows up on my gaming machine (Still running windows because the hassles are too many) but if it were a one-time setup (not every time a new major patch comes out) I'd switch to Linux on the second machine too.
Why buy a PC when a 'net appliance' will do?
On that note, anyone know where/how we should send this message?
I WAS looking forward to purchasing this game. I've got all of the previous GTA series games on the shelf behind me, purchased legitimately. Cracked some of them, so that I could play them on my laptop while on break at college and leaving the CD/DVD at home, and safe. (Hint: The disc checks only serve to piss people off)
There is a significant portion of the population that avoids piracy. We like having a real copy, it's just we don't want to risk it. So, we do an install, and at that point want to put the disc away, for safe-keeping. We don't want to risk scratching it or breaking it, or even worse - losing it. I have an old game from a decade ago now (Star Trek: Birth of the Federation) published by Microprose. They no longer exist, absorbed by I think Atari. (Doing a Google search shows the brand went through several transactions) If this game required a phone-home to install, I would pretty much be hosed.
I still play the game. To keep the disc safe, I made a disc image, or an ISO, of it. This way I can install it and play anytime I want, without risking the CD.
Rockstar, from now until you realize the mistake you've made here by choosing to implement not just copy protection, but a very draconian, check-in-needed copy protection, I won't be purchasing any of your future titles. Don't worry, I won't pirate them either.
Rockstar, I'm taking my ball, and I'm gonna go play with someone else.
...
That might be true. I have a 2 year old.
Hmmm. Not even a Pelican Case would be guaranteed against that.
http://pelican.com/support/guarantee.php
"...This guarantee does not cover shark bite, bear attack or damage caused by children under five."
Here's the 'Dell Linux Wiki' on the subject:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Wiki_Main_Page
Here's a list of the issues had with 7.04:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.04
I only had the Grub Error 17 issue - which was a quick 5-minute fix. Well-documented, too.
A total non-techie might've been confused by it, but once I found the info I had no problems running it.
So yeah, Dell did a pretty good job. (Thats why I ordered the Ubuntu-loaded - to throw my weight behind it, and that's what was going to go on this box anyway, the old laptop's LCD was starting to go)
Actually, the first Ubuntu-loaded laptops worked (and still work) great - I bought and am typing this on an Inspiron E1505N - all the hardware worked out of the box, except for 3D video. (Intel still had a binary blob for the wireless, but was working on releasing an Open Source driver)
There was one glitch with updating the kernel, though...but that was the only hiccup in the whole process.
Yes, adding the feature to the core of Firefox would be nice...but if they did that for all the 'nice features' it'd have too much bloat. Hence, extensions.
Check out 'NoScript' - it does what you want. By default, no pages get to run scripts. You approve on a per-domain basis (so say, Slashdot is running some google code on the page - you'll have both domains as choices - allow, temporarily allow (which is handy when you don't recog the domain) or block, and don't tell me again.
http://noscript.net/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
I run it on all my installs of Firefox...this combined with AdBlock & Flashblock make for a very controlled and friendly surfing experience.
Microsoft already switched to 65nm parts from the original 90nm parts quite awhile back.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Xbox+360+goes+65nm
From what I remember, after that people were liking how cool the systems ran. There also were some obvious ways to check your system, to identify which it was. (I think this was aimed at those getting potential refurbs from the RRoD)
http://xkcd.com/327/
:D
'Nuff said
Well...there is one way, but it first requires to be subjected to goatse repeatedly by way of insightful posts making links to what would appear to be more useful information. Oh wait, that's how I was made immune to the goatse attack.
Curse you, Slashdot, for this circle of pain!