If you'd ever played the game you'd know its definitely not and RPG. There's no more role-playing involved in Zelda than the games where you're a plumber with an appetite for mushrooms trying to save a princess, that scientist dude that pushed that rock into the thing and aliens came out, or a World War II soldier trying to kill some communists.
Where to begin? Right off the bat they misspelled razor. Now for the serious ones. First of all when the battery is low, the phone beeps/vibrates like crazy, screaming for help, and killing itself in the process.
Next, if you want to silence the phone quickly with it still closed, you have to push and hold the volume down button on the outside for like 3 seconds. That will take you into volume style mode, then you press a second button to cycle through the modes. Finally to lock in your choice you press the volume down button again. Also I should note plugging the phone into the charger nullifies all the hard work you've just done and puts the phone in the loudest possible mode. A lot more of a pain in the ass than my old LG phone where I could reach in my pocket, hold the volume down button for a few seconds and it would give a short vibrate to let you know its in vibrate mode.
Also there seems to be a mystery button on the right outside of the phone that doesn't really do anything besides beep when you press it.
Finally, god forbid you miss a call, the phone beeps and vibrates relentlessly until you go in like 3 menu layers deep and 'dismiss' the call.
Incidentally none of these behaviors are customizeable at all.
So now, thinking about playing an RPG just makes me tired. I'm tired of starting a new game and being a loser. I'm tired of running the same errands to prove myself.
Perhaps its time you considered another genre then. That's the point of RPGs, starting your character out as a loser and building and developing them as you would yourself in your character's situation. Granted, some games provide a better experience than others and today's RPG's time to complete are in the magnitude of a few weeks as opposed to afternoon, but like I said, if all of your statements above are true, it doesn't really sound like you're looking for an RPG at all.
You'd sneer and leave the resaurant without paying what you owe.
No. I've paid what I owe. They decide what I owe and they inform me of this on the bill. If they decide poorly, that's their problem not mine. Customer service related businesses have a system that helps them give you, the customer a pleasant experience. You are paying for it, you DO deserve it. When you correct their mistakes for them and tip shitty waiters/waitresses because you feel bad for them, you're breaking that system and ultimately hurting their business.
Amen. My girlfriend and I just found the first Lego Star Wars for PS2 for $15 used the other day and can't put it down. I have a Gamecube as well, and Zelda aside, I've never paid more then $15 each for any of the games I have for it.
Why not just type yahoo in the address bar, and hit Ctrl+Enter? IE and Firefox both append http://www./ and.com to the beginning and end when you do a Ctrl+Enter on any word in the address bar. With Firefox, Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add.org instead of.com.
Yeah, I'm from western Pennsylvania. Normally we're snow-covered for 5 months out of the year, but so far we've had two dustings that haven't lasted more than 3 days. Our temperatures have also not even been cold enough to allow the ground to totally freeze like it usually does in October.
No snow for Halloween, we were happy. No snow for Thanksgiving, weirded out, but pleased. No snow for Christmas, just depressing. Then on the 5th of January (when we're usually buried under a foot of snow) it was 67 degrees. I never thought I'd grill hamburgs and hot dogs in January.
If its this warm now, I'm really not looking forward to the heat this summer.
Wow, you definitely hit the nail on the head there. If you don't know what you're doing, either get some training, or stay the hell away from it and stop your bitching.
My concern would be that some sort of hardware failure will necessitate a software upgrade at some point in the next 5 years, especially with a laptop. I know you mentioned liking that the Win2k license is transferable so you could transfer it to new hardware, but good luck finding drivers for your new touch pad, or even display device that still support an EOL'd operating system.
I guess to answer your question as to how to keep Windows 2000 running for the next 5 years? Very carefully.
It all depends what FPS the content was created at. If you're talking video games, its 'content' is created procedurally by a GPU at as many FPS as it can crank out. If you've got a movie that was shot at 30 FPS, viewing it at 60 FPS will cause each source frame to be displayed on the tv for 2 frames (or cycles, or whatever you want to call it). Even though the FPS on a tv is higher, it depends on the FPS of the content you're displaying.
An example would be if in one frame of a 30 FPS source, my hand is on the left side of your screen. My hand moves so quickly to the right so that in the next frame it appears on the right side of the screen. So one frame has my hand at the left, then the very next has my hand at the right. Even if you view it at 100000 FPS (impossible, I know, but stay with me) there would be 50000 frames showing my hand at the left, followed by 50000 frames with my hand at the right. Even though you raise the FPS, there are still no frames that exist with my hand anywhere in between left and right. Unless 60 FPS TVs are able to interpolate between the two, there's just nothing available to show during the 'extra' frame so it stays the same.
When it comes down to it, a movie is still a finite amount of pictures shown in rapid succession (mainly 30 of them per second). Even though a TV can be capable of displaying twice that many in a second, it's not capable of 'making stuff up' to show you every other frame. So I guess I'm trying to say its the content, not the TV that determines the 'smoothness'.
Performance: I have 2 gigs of ram on my laptops. Why do I need to have 200 megs swapped out? Why does a newly loading program need to write out to swap as it is loading? Since the first version of windows, there has been a starfield screensaver. When it runs, every few seconds or so, you can see it hiccup. All of the stars stop momentarily. What is going on that prevents the computer from running so smoothly even decades later with incredibly more powerful processors?
Amen to that. And what the hell is up with the random program hangs? I'm not talking about the irrecoverable ones where the program has to close, I'm talking when Word or Excel just becomes unresponsive for like 20 seconds, no disk activity, just processor usage through the roof. I'm not an operating systems guru or anything, but what the hell is it doing (not involving disk access) that takes a 3.8Ghz processor 20 seconds to work through?
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If you'd ever played the game you'd know its definitely not and RPG. There's no more role-playing involved in Zelda than the games where you're a plumber with an appetite for mushrooms trying to save a princess, that scientist dude that pushed that rock into the thing and aliens came out, or a World War II soldier trying to kill some communists.
By function, do you mean accuse me of piracy and refuse to let me log in?
Where to begin? Right off the bat they misspelled razor. Now for the serious ones. First of all when the battery is low, the phone beeps/vibrates like crazy, screaming for help, and killing itself in the process.
Next, if you want to silence the phone quickly with it still closed, you have to push and hold the volume down button on the outside for like 3 seconds. That will take you into volume style mode, then you press a second button to cycle through the modes. Finally to lock in your choice you press the volume down button again. Also I should note plugging the phone into the charger nullifies all the hard work you've just done and puts the phone in the loudest possible mode. A lot more of a pain in the ass than my old LG phone where I could reach in my pocket, hold the volume down button for a few seconds and it would give a short vibrate to let you know its in vibrate mode.
Also there seems to be a mystery button on the right outside of the phone that doesn't really do anything besides beep when you press it.
Finally, god forbid you miss a call, the phone beeps and vibrates relentlessly until you go in like 3 menu layers deep and 'dismiss' the call.
Incidentally none of these behaviors are customizeable at all.
Is there anyone here who actually allows content from *.doubleclick.* to their PCs?
You'd never have any problems cooling server rooms.
Who would have thought running DVR software on a Linux platform would require knowledge of Linux?
Seriously. If this jackass had legs to stand on, I might take him seriously.
Because, yeah, I store all my potential copyright-infringing materials on my public web server.
So now, thinking about playing an RPG just makes me tired. I'm tired of starting a new game and being a loser. I'm tired of running the same errands to prove myself.
Perhaps its time you considered another genre then. That's the point of RPGs, starting your character out as a loser and building and developing them as you would yourself in your character's situation. Granted, some games provide a better experience than others and today's RPG's time to complete are in the magnitude of a few weeks as opposed to afternoon, but like I said, if all of your statements above are true, it doesn't really sound like you're looking for an RPG at all.
You'd sneer and leave the resaurant without paying what you owe.
No. I've paid what I owe. They decide what I owe and they inform me of this on the bill. If they decide poorly, that's their problem not mine. Customer service related businesses have a system that helps them give you, the customer a pleasant experience. You are paying for it, you DO deserve it. When you correct their mistakes for them and tip shitty waiters/waitresses because you feel bad for them, you're breaking that system and ultimately hurting their business.
So if we switch to a third person view we'll be ok then?
Companies benefit from piracy everyday when someone pirates a product and likes it so much they actually go out and buy it.
Google just happens to be making millions of dollars and some lawyer thinks he can prove it's shady and wants to get a cut.
Amen. My girlfriend and I just found the first Lego Star Wars for PS2 for $15 used the other day and can't put it down. I have a Gamecube as well, and Zelda aside, I've never paid more then $15 each for any of the games I have for it.
I personally ignore them. I'll trust my doctor over a TV commercial any day. If he thinks I need some drug, he'll suggest or prescribe it.
Why not just type yahoo in the address bar, and hit Ctrl+Enter? IE and Firefox both append http://www./ and .com to the beginning and end when you do a Ctrl+Enter on any word in the address bar. With Firefox, Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add .org instead of .com.
to put those goddamn red bars, ugly-ass counterproductive menus and shit all through the phone's GUI?
(Frustrated razr v3m owner.)
I'll be able to get my damn sound card to work in Linux.
Mountain Dew and a cigarette of course.
Yeah, I'm from western Pennsylvania. Normally we're snow-covered for 5 months out of the year, but so far we've had two dustings that haven't lasted more than 3 days. Our temperatures have also not even been cold enough to allow the ground to totally freeze like it usually does in October.
No snow for Halloween, we were happy. No snow for Thanksgiving, weirded out, but pleased. No snow for Christmas, just depressing. Then on the 5th of January (when we're usually buried under a foot of snow) it was 67 degrees. I never thought I'd grill hamburgs and hot dogs in January.
If its this warm now, I'm really not looking forward to the heat this summer.
Wow, you definitely hit the nail on the head there. If you don't know what you're doing, either get some training, or stay the hell away from it and stop your bitching.
My concern would be that some sort of hardware failure will necessitate a software upgrade at some point in the next 5 years, especially with a laptop. I know you mentioned liking that the Win2k license is transferable so you could transfer it to new hardware, but good luck finding drivers for your new touch pad, or even display device that still support an EOL'd operating system.
I guess to answer your question as to how to keep Windows 2000 running for the next 5 years? Very carefully.
It all depends what FPS the content was created at. If you're talking video games, its 'content' is created procedurally by a GPU at as many FPS as it can crank out. If you've got a movie that was shot at 30 FPS, viewing it at 60 FPS will cause each source frame to be displayed on the tv for 2 frames (or cycles, or whatever you want to call it). Even though the FPS on a tv is higher, it depends on the FPS of the content you're displaying.
An example would be if in one frame of a 30 FPS source, my hand is on the left side of your screen. My hand moves so quickly to the right so that in the next frame it appears on the right side of the screen. So one frame has my hand at the left, then the very next has my hand at the right. Even if you view it at 100000 FPS (impossible, I know, but stay with me) there would be 50000 frames showing my hand at the left, followed by 50000 frames with my hand at the right. Even though you raise the FPS, there are still no frames that exist with my hand anywhere in between left and right. Unless 60 FPS TVs are able to interpolate between the two, there's just nothing available to show during the 'extra' frame so it stays the same.
When it comes down to it, a movie is still a finite amount of pictures shown in rapid succession (mainly 30 of them per second). Even though a TV can be capable of displaying twice that many in a second, it's not capable of 'making stuff up' to show you every other frame. So I guess I'm trying to say its the content, not the TV that determines the 'smoothness'.
Yes they will, and you know they will, or you wouldn't have had to put such powerful hardware to make it cost $600.
Amen to that. And what the hell is up with the random program hangs? I'm not talking about the irrecoverable ones where the program has to close, I'm talking when Word or Excel just becomes unresponsive for like 20 seconds, no disk activity, just processor usage through the roof. I'm not an operating systems guru or anything, but what the hell is it doing (not involving disk access) that takes a 3.8Ghz processor 20 seconds to work through?
and posting anonymously to piss people off would be one of those?