The dynamic pricing system can be turned off on a per-server basis, anyway (naturally, this was announced hours *after* the competitive community got its collective knickers in a twist) -- mp_dynamicpricing 0.
Auto patching is nice. What isn't nice is the way the favourites system doesn't work in CS:S. Maybe it does work for others and I have to delete a few files (like when Condition Zero refused to work at all).
Actually, the AWP's gone slightly cheaper. Probably because on quite a large amount of public servers the AWP is banned and you can't buy it. And Valve are using this data to calculate its new price, so it goes cheaper.
They do gather sales data on pistols, and they are put into their own section. But the Desert Eagle is the only pistol worth buying, since the USP/Glock (which you start with for no cost) is sufficient that you wouldn't want to spend $500 dollars on the other pistols. As a result, the deagle is the most-bought pistol and shoots right up to $930 from $650. The other pistols have gone down in cost, but not by a lot (yet).
I don't like the way they're going about this. I'd prefer they offered deals including cheaper upgrade paths rather than just not tell people about Leopard in order to increase 2006 sales. Buy our stuff now, and get a damn cheap upgrade later! I assume it's easy to actually upgrade from one to the other relatively painlessly;)
Ha! Haha! Hahahahahaa! No:(
It's too goddamn complicated, and completely unrelated to most Indo-European languages, being a Finno-Ugric language:( http://dict.sztaki.hu/ provides a good dictionary with lots of phrases in, but that's all I've found.
InPhase and Hitachi Maxell have been discussing what form a consumer version of the technology might take. One possibility that has been mentioned is a disc around the size of a postage stamp, which would probably hold about 75-100GB.
I haven't heard of any programs that follow Winlogon's example, and I have seen a lot which haven't, which is a shame. In the case of firewalls and unsigned driver warnings this is pretty serious no matter what user displays a GUI on the user's desktop, since the offending program can still just simulate a click of "Okay", or "Allow".
A better way, perhaps, would be to place an alert on the user's desktop, then once it is clicked, create a secure desktop which is owned by SYSTEM and can't be accessed by programs on the user's desktop–à la Winlogon.
How is that different from the redirection that already takes place now? I think it's better -- you don't have to wait for the server to serve up a redirect, and you can probably remove pings with user scripts.
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I'd still prefer an oodleplex of oodleplexes.
You think clicking a link is bad? I ticked the "Remember Me" checkbox first. With a pen.
Thanks, I'll go check that out :-)
The dynamic pricing system can be turned off on a per-server basis, anyway (naturally, this was announced hours *after* the competitive community got its collective knickers in a twist) -- mp_dynamicpricing 0. Auto patching is nice. What isn't nice is the way the favourites system doesn't work in CS:S. Maybe it does work for others and I have to delete a few files (like when Condition Zero refused to work at all).
Definitely food for thought :)
Actually, the AWP's gone slightly cheaper. Probably because on quite a large amount of public servers the AWP is banned and you can't buy it. And Valve are using this data to calculate its new price, so it goes cheaper.
Like this?
They do gather sales data on pistols, and they are put into their own section. But the Desert Eagle is the only pistol worth buying, since the USP/Glock (which you start with for no cost) is sufficient that you wouldn't want to spend $500 dollars on the other pistols. As a result, the deagle is the most-bought pistol and shoots right up to $930 from $650. The other pistols have gone down in cost, but not by a lot (yet).
Yeah, somebody needs to tell this guy that nobody actually reads the articles.
And now you will get advertisements about tinfoil hats! :-)
Umm... which of the 5 thousand links is the article?
I don't like the way they're going about this. I'd prefer they offered deals including cheaper upgrade paths rather than just not tell people about Leopard in order to increase 2006 sales. Buy our stuff now, and get a damn cheap upgrade later! I assume it's easy to actually upgrade from one to the other relatively painlessly ;)
Hmm... I'm British and my family, friends and I have always used pants to mean trousers. Maybe it's those from down south who say it? :o
Brings back memories. :)
Ha! Haha! Hahahahahaa! No :(
It's too goddamn complicated, and completely unrelated to most Indo-European languages, being a Finno-Ugric language :( http://dict.sztaki.hu/ provides a good dictionary with lots of phrases in, but that's all I've found.
I tend to send and receive a relatively large amount of emails with embedded images and very little accompanying text.
You're completely right. The moon is obviously a giant server, I can't believe nobody's realised!
Funnily enough, Internet Explorer actually warns you when an untrusted site links to a trusted one. I don't know of any other browsers which do this :)
Yes. By the way, I've stolen your blog and made it white-on-white for extra unreadability.
I haven't heard of any programs that follow Winlogon's example, and I have seen a lot which haven't, which is a shame. In the case of firewalls and unsigned driver warnings this is pretty serious no matter what user displays a GUI on the user's desktop, since the offending program can still just simulate a click of "Okay", or "Allow".
A better way, perhaps, would be to place an alert on the user's desktop, then once it is clicked, create a secure desktop which is owned by SYSTEM and can't be accessed by programs on the user's desktop–à la Winlogon.
It's not going to happen in Firefox 2, but maybe Firefox 3. A development branch (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Reflow_Refactoring) already passes the Acid2 test (http://flickr.com/photos/dbaron/126886608/), but needs more work.
How is that different from the redirection that already takes place now? I think it's better -- you don't have to wait for the server to serve up a redirect, and you can probably remove pings with user scripts.
So call Microsoft and get a new one. I'm sure you're supposed to be able to do that :)