Have you played the older Metroids? The problem with MP2 is in how they destroyed the presentation, I think, even as they innovated. The first Prime had this retro feel to it, they preserved all of the old enemies, it was reflected in the music, and they made sure to trap you in plenty of rooms with giant bosses. The first thing I noticed about MP2, other than the cheesy story, was how the music just wasn't the same, and the nostalgia effect was gone.. I hope they don't keep butchering the presentation with the successor, I need my fix!
Yeah, seriously eh? Take note, people, you do not know just how much free software exists if you've only seen the stuff that runs on Windows. This from someone who only switched about a year ago.
Don't assume that just because you can't find a good FOSS app running on Windows that the type of app you're looking for doesn't exist, there's a lot of free stuff that only runs on *nix.
no it wouldn't, what good is a precisely controllable wand, sword, or bow when you're going to be at sea for the next 2 hours? I guess you have a point though, hehe..
In all seriousness though, I enjoyed WW a bit, but it was way too easy to beat, and way too much time sailing everywhere. Now, Metroid Prime, THAT was fun... Omega Pirate, Ridley, then Metroid Prime, good boss fighting fun..
WinRAR is far from free, you'd do better to recommend 7-zip. However, if you read the original post, your recommendation is far from suitable. The poster wants to be able to select a bunch of files, turn a knob, flip a switch, burn a bunch of DVDs consecutively, and have all his files on them uncompressed. At best, wasting 30GB of hard disk space to create split archives for the purpose of easy burning to DVD can be considered a dirty hack at best, it would take too long, and would leave the files compressed, which the OP didn't want either. Bonus to you for also throwing in a proprietary data wrapper (RAR), you insensitive clod!
It's the graphics vendors' faults though! The games run fine, but the video drivers hold performance back to some noticeable extent. That's not stopping me from sticking with the platform though, only money could convince me to use windows.. (as in, making a living off of it, if I were to have no other choice)
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could you not sense the dripping sarcasm before commenting? Maybe you should have clicked on his link as well.. Though I guess technically, you're right..
I think people need to start comparing virus software to spam. Would anyone think of it as being a good idea to use signature detection on spam? I know I'm sort of comparing apples and oranges here, but for crying out loud, you don't need to solve the halting problem in order to figure out approximately whether a certain chunk of code is useful or malicious. The hardest pieces of code to flag would be useful AND malicious, but still, look at the great results we've seen fighting spam using algorithms that know nothing about language - maybe some of that can help with virus detection.
How about this? And from this article on the UX180P: "The machine runs Windows XP Professional, service pack 2 (no Tablet OS for Sony, they seem allergic)".
Flamebait? Take a look at this/.article. How about thisthis article on the UX180P: "The machine runs Windows XP Professional, service pack 2 (no Tablet OS for Sony, they seem allergic)".
That last point was weak, but I think I've made enough of a case here: Sony makes cool hardware, and then they screw it up with the software that they ship with. If anyone is being flamebait, it's them.
I don't understand how they can compare this to the 770. The 770 has a SIP client, Mylo has a Skype client. That right there tells me what kind of device that's gonna be. Besides, Sony has a trend, make pretty hardware, and then alienate customers by treating them to shitty software.. steer clear, just stear way clear..
You seem confused about the timeline surrounding many security patches. The way it goes is they (Microsoft or whoever the vendor is) find an exploit, release a fix, and then people look at the patch to figure out what exploit they were fixing. That's why exploits become a big deal after a patch is released.
Do your research before posting, fastest card != highest model number. The 8500 is most definitely the faster card.
I'd also like to reply to the gf post, saying that the 8500 is the highest card that is properly supported in Linux is just plain wrong. This is from a full time Linux user with a mobility 9600. Not as good performance as windows, but it's supported. So, I'm sure ATI has some cards that work under Xorg and are faster than a 965. Not that I like using fglrx; I actually plan on switching to radeon within the next 4 months.
I agree, the vast amount of distributions are entitled to co-exist, and focus on whatever they want, but that also doesn't preclude some of them from focusing on compatibility for ISVs, pretty much what LSB is supposed to help with. And if I recall from my vague knowledge of the LSB, it does cover packaging, by saying that LSB software is packaged as an RPM, or a subset of RPM, I forget. So something like Debian can comply with that by supporting alien.
Eh, well, I think it's a misuse of the word, for the purpose of euphemising the fact that you refuse to support more than a few different platforms. I just don't like euphemisms I guess, hehe..
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Have you played the older Metroids? The problem with MP2 is in how they destroyed the presentation, I think, even as they innovated. The first Prime had this retro feel to it, they preserved all of the old enemies, it was reflected in the music, and they made sure to trap you in plenty of rooms with giant bosses. The first thing I noticed about MP2, other than the cheesy story, was how the music just wasn't the same, and the nostalgia effect was gone.. I hope they don't keep butchering the presentation with the successor, I need my fix!
Yeah, seriously eh? Take note, people, you do not know just how much free software exists if you've only seen the stuff that runs on Windows. This from someone who only switched about a year ago.
Don't assume that just because you can't find a good FOSS app running on Windows that the type of app you're looking for doesn't exist, there's a lot of free stuff that only runs on *nix.
If a piece of software is responsible for a competitive advantage, it makes sense for Google to refrain from sharing it.
no it wouldn't, what good is a precisely controllable wand, sword, or bow when you're going to be at sea for the next 2 hours? I guess you have a point though, hehe.. In all seriousness though, I enjoyed WW a bit, but it was way too easy to beat, and way too much time sailing everywhere. Now, Metroid Prime, THAT was fun... Omega Pirate, Ridley, then Metroid Prime, good boss fighting fun..
WinRAR is far from free, you'd do better to recommend 7-zip. However, if you read the original post, your recommendation is far from suitable. The poster wants to be able to select a bunch of files, turn a knob, flip a switch, burn a bunch of DVDs consecutively, and have all his files on them uncompressed. At best, wasting 30GB of hard disk space to create split archives for the purpose of easy burning to DVD can be considered a dirty hack at best, it would take too long, and would leave the files compressed, which the OP didn't want either. Bonus to you for also throwing in a proprietary data wrapper (RAR), you insensitive clod!
Don't feed the troll, hehe, that person can't be serious
Yes! The Daily WTF for the win! And that was the perfect comment to mention it in response to..
It's the graphics vendors' faults though! The games run fine, but the video drivers hold performance back to some noticeable extent. That's not stopping me from sticking with the platform though, only money could convince me to use windows.. (as in, making a living off of it, if I were to have no other choice)
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I might add that if you follow the above instructions, you also may have to worry about cookies... not sure.
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but that's like encrypted spam, somewhat.. not really, I guess, since the reader knows it's been obfuscated, but they don't with an exe.
could you not sense the dripping sarcasm before commenting? Maybe you should have clicked on his link as well.. Though I guess technically, you're right..
I think people need to start comparing virus software to spam. Would anyone think of it as being a good idea to use signature detection on spam? I know I'm sort of comparing apples and oranges here, but for crying out loud, you don't need to solve the halting problem in order to figure out approximately whether a certain chunk of code is useful or malicious. The hardest pieces of code to flag would be useful AND malicious, but still, look at the great results we've seen fighting spam using algorithms that know nothing about language - maybe some of that can help with virus detection.
He only mentioned compile cause he's a gentoo user... if you're a newb, you don't use gentoo, problem solved.
I'm pretty sure Ctrl+[ is Esc in Vi.. but I've only ever used vim, so I could be wrong.
How about this? And from this article on the UX180P: "The machine runs Windows XP Professional, service pack 2 (no Tablet OS for Sony, they seem allergic)".
Forgot to hit preview.
Flamebait? Take a look at this /.article. How about thisthis article on the UX180P: "The machine runs Windows XP Professional, service pack 2 (no Tablet OS for Sony, they seem allergic)".
That last point was weak, but I think I've made enough of a case here: Sony makes cool hardware, and then they screw it up with the software that they ship with. If anyone is being flamebait, it's them.
I don't understand how they can compare this to the 770. The 770 has a SIP client, Mylo has a Skype client. That right there tells me what kind of device that's gonna be. Besides, Sony has a trend, make pretty hardware, and then alienate customers by treating them to shitty software.. steer clear, just stear way clear..
CoralCDN link to save their bandwidth
You seem confused about the timeline surrounding many security patches. The way it goes is they (Microsoft or whoever the vendor is) find an exploit, release a fix, and then people look at the patch to figure out what exploit they were fixing. That's why exploits become a big deal after a patch is released.
Do your research before posting, fastest card != highest model number. The 8500 is most definitely the faster card. I'd also like to reply to the gf post, saying that the 8500 is the highest card that is properly supported in Linux is just plain wrong. This is from a full time Linux user with a mobility 9600. Not as good performance as windows, but it's supported. So, I'm sure ATI has some cards that work under Xorg and are faster than a 965. Not that I like using fglrx; I actually plan on switching to radeon within the next 4 months.
I agree, the vast amount of distributions are entitled to co-exist, and focus on whatever they want, but that also doesn't preclude some of them from focusing on compatibility for ISVs, pretty much what LSB is supposed to help with. And if I recall from my vague knowledge of the LSB, it does cover packaging, by saying that LSB software is packaged as an RPM, or a subset of RPM, I forget. So something like Debian can comply with that by supporting alien.
Eh, well, I think it's a misuse of the word, for the purpose of euphemising the fact that you refuse to support more than a few different platforms. I just don't like euphemisms I guess, hehe..
But you just admitted that it's wrong!
That's not standardization, it's exclusion.
don't give up if wikipedia doesn't work.. GIYF