On a note I forgot, I'm sure the only time this will happen is when we start colonising other planets on a large scale, and universal time becomes necesary as converting local time becomes awkward - although then we'll probably see a metric time too.
I fully agree - and have been saying this for some time.
The reality is though, it's very hard to get people to give up an old thing and move onto the new - look at the metric system in the UK, it's been mandated as the official thing for some time, and it's still not completely overtaken the imperial (even if only for road signs - another thing I argue, why are we not using both metric and imperial units on signs we are putting up now? It's insane to expect it to happen all at once, so why not start using dual system signs, then when most signs have both on, replace the last few and swap over, then start using metric only).
On a side note, if you want this functionality now, there is a firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere. It's a simple thing that pushes you onto SSL versions of sites (and now allows you to turn it off for individual sites quickly if it breaks something - as with google not allowing image searches over SSL).
The difference is KDE are doing it the right way - it's a choice, not a forced feature. If you want to run in a tablet-suited mode, you go for it. But you don't *have* to.
I run KDE mainly because it's the only thing that supports my triple monitor setup. But it's also really wel done. It allows for stuff like a vertical taskbar that works well (Unity's is horrible, Gnome forces it to be wide and have text instead of just icons, KDE does it right, and supports the 'pin to taskbar' thing that windows does) - this is something that took me a while to get used to, but really is worth it. With widescreen monitors, vertical space is at a premium. I used to run the linux-traditional taskbar on top, but taskbar on left is definitely a much better solution, and KDE supports it well. With Gnome 3 - they have removed your ability to even move the taskbar (or the thing that replaced it). Not to mention gnome 3 refuses to run on many drivers, and multi-monitor setups.
KDE really does work nicely, it has a lot of good features built in, and it's a lot nicer than it used to be. I hated KDE 3.x, but 4.6 is the best desktop I can find, and I was lucky to be forced to use it.
I believe BioWare keep the stats for this kind of thing, they had some crazy stat where someone had played ME2 50-odd times since it had been launched - and this was a bit back. That's serious replay value. I've played through about 3 times myself.
I can definitely remember hearing of a couple of games that did it. IIRC Alan Wake was one, which just did a story recap at each chapter, but there was another game which did it dynamically, showing you events it thought were important from your last playthrough, but I can't remember what it was, I remember hearing about it at the time though.
That isn't censorship though. I'm against anyone who would consider censorship as a legitimate option. he did not stand up and say he was against doing this - meaning he clearly doesn't support my interests. That is not censorship, I'm not locking anyone away who discusses it, I'm not killing them, I'm not not allowing them to discuss it. I'm simply saying anyone who thinks that it could be a good idea clearly doesn't agree with my views, and I would not vote for them.
It's not censorship as it's not blocking that discussion. If he cares about my vote, he'll not support it, if he doesn't (or cares less about it than his views, or whatever) then he will.
Censorship is not disallowing an action. Censorship is disallowing discussion. People are free to discuss anything, whether or not it is wrong or not, and free to vote any way they wish on an issue. I may pass a law saying that something is illegal, but as long as there is no censorship and freedom of speech, you can always disucss, protest, and make your view clear on the issue without reprisals.
Just because you are not in power doesn't mean you are censored.
Of course people can talk about it. I'm not saying David Cameron should be arrested for this - I'm saying it means I don't want to vote for him in future, because he condones this kind of thing.
Saying I disagree with something, saying I believe someone should have never considered it as an option is not saying they can not do those things. It's saying I don't support them, and will not vote for people who do. That is the essense of democracy.
Even considering the fact it could be the right thing to do is wrong.
I'm English, and I strongly believe that any sort of censorship is wrong - with any censorship, you loose democracy. End of story.
They have claimed they can make animation work - although how well is another question. As to lighting, right at the end, they showed a far improved lighting setup they claim to have just got working.
Yup, Mine is a 2 card setup. Two nVidia 210s (each has a DVI, VGA and HDMI out, I use DVI and HDMI with an HDMI->DVI cable on one card, DVI on the other). My suggestion is to swap to KDE - it supports that kind of setup happily, and I am actually impressed with how far KDE has come, I remember trying it when it was 4.0.x, now it just feels a lot more polished.
Also ugly as sin and horrible to use. I tried it a while back when Gnome stopped supporting my triple monitor setup, couldn't stand it. I ended up going to KDE.
You say you could make a mistake - only as easily as you could with any other account.
There is a reason those circle setting exist, they allow you to do what you want in an easier way.
Fair enough if you don't want that public, although given all anyone could gain from that is that you have a google plus account, I don't see it's a problem - and why would google provide that? They want people to be public, that's the point of the service.
As the owner of a Squier, I'd like to point out to can play Rock Band and a real guitar - the squier is a real guitar, and RB3 has pro mode. Rocksmith might be decent, we don't know, but I can personally vouch for pro mode in RB3 being fun, not too hard to get into, and it's playing real music once you get to expert difficulty.
What happened was the day Harmonix left, so did all the innovation. Apart from the setlist of Guitar Hero 3, nothing good came from the Guitar Hero camp after that.
Rock Band, on the other hand, has gone from strength to strength - RB3 is a truly excellent game, full of features and with a really good business model. If you want an example of DLC being done right, look here.
Personally, I'd rather not see Guitar Hero come back. As much as competition is good, Harmonix have done more without competition than GH ever did. I've spent a lot of money on Rock Band, and I feel every penny was worth it. The pro modes are amazing (I'm one of around 1500 Squier owners outside the USA), the game is, in general, very good - and they are doing the exact opposite of what Guitar Hero did. They made a polished, well made game with lots of features, and are not releasing a sequel any time soon - RB3 is here to stay for some time, and they are continuing to support it with DLC. They are one of the few studios, alongside Valve and a few others, who I truly feel are doing what they believe is good for the games, not just their wallets (fortunately the two seem to go hand in hand).
Harmonix have done really well with Dance Central too - which I hear is also a great game, although not really my kind of thing.
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On a note I forgot, I'm sure the only time this will happen is when we start colonising other planets on a large scale, and universal time becomes necesary as converting local time becomes awkward - although then we'll probably see a metric time too.
But noon and midnight can still mean those things - they just don't have to mean 12am and 12pm any more.
I fully agree - and have been saying this for some time.
The reality is though, it's very hard to get people to give up an old thing and move onto the new - look at the metric system in the UK, it's been mandated as the official thing for some time, and it's still not completely overtaken the imperial (even if only for road signs - another thing I argue, why are we not using both metric and imperial units on signs we are putting up now? It's insane to expect it to happen all at once, so why not start using dual system signs, then when most signs have both on, replace the last few and swap over, then start using metric only).
On a side note, if you want this functionality now, there is a firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere. It's a simple thing that pushes you onto SSL versions of sites (and now allows you to turn it off for individual sites quickly if it breaks something - as with google not allowing image searches over SSL).
Copying and pasting a link from a website is not a secure act. It's quite possible to inject text into a copy-and-pasted link without even using Javascript.
The difference is KDE are doing it the right way - it's a choice, not a forced feature. If you want to run in a tablet-suited mode, you go for it. But you don't *have* to.
True that.
I run KDE mainly because it's the only thing that supports my triple monitor setup. But it's also really wel done. It allows for stuff like a vertical taskbar that works well (Unity's is horrible, Gnome forces it to be wide and have text instead of just icons, KDE does it right, and supports the 'pin to taskbar' thing that windows does) - this is something that took me a while to get used to, but really is worth it. With widescreen monitors, vertical space is at a premium. I used to run the linux-traditional taskbar on top, but taskbar on left is definitely a much better solution, and KDE supports it well. With Gnome 3 - they have removed your ability to even move the taskbar (or the thing that replaced it). Not to mention gnome 3 refuses to run on many drivers, and multi-monitor setups.
KDE really does work nicely, it has a lot of good features built in, and it's a lot nicer than it used to be. I hated KDE 3.x, but 4.6 is the best desktop I can find, and I was lucky to be forced to use it.
I wonder what classes as skipping. It could be fast readers, or people skipping text they have read on a previous playthrough.
I believe BioWare keep the stats for this kind of thing, they had some crazy stat where someone had played ME2 50-odd times since it had been launched - and this was a bit back. That's serious replay value. I've played through about 3 times myself.
I can definitely remember hearing of a couple of games that did it. IIRC Alan Wake was one, which just did a story recap at each chapter, but there was another game which did it dynamically, showing you events it thought were important from your last playthrough, but I can't remember what it was, I remember hearing about it at the time though.
That isn't censorship though. I'm against anyone who would consider censorship as a legitimate option. he did not stand up and say he was against doing this - meaning he clearly doesn't support my interests. That is not censorship, I'm not locking anyone away who discusses it, I'm not killing them, I'm not not allowing them to discuss it. I'm simply saying anyone who thinks that it could be a good idea clearly doesn't agree with my views, and I would not vote for them.
It's not censorship as it's not blocking that discussion. If he cares about my vote, he'll not support it, if he doesn't (or cares less about it than his views, or whatever) then he will.
Censorship is not disallowing an action. Censorship is disallowing discussion. People are free to discuss anything, whether or not it is wrong or not, and free to vote any way they wish on an issue. I may pass a law saying that something is illegal, but as long as there is no censorship and freedom of speech, you can always disucss, protest, and make your view clear on the issue without reprisals.
Just because you are not in power doesn't mean you are censored.
Of course people can talk about it. I'm not saying David Cameron should be arrested for this - I'm saying it means I don't want to vote for him in future, because he condones this kind of thing.
Saying I disagree with something, saying I believe someone should have never considered it as an option is not saying they can not do those things. It's saying I don't support them, and will not vote for people who do. That is the essense of democracy.
Even considering the fact it could be the right thing to do is wrong.
I'm English, and I strongly believe that any sort of censorship is wrong - with any censorship, you loose democracy. End of story.
They have claimed they can make animation work - although how well is another question. As to lighting, right at the end, they showed a far improved lighting setup they claim to have just got working.
Yup, Mine is a 2 card setup. Two nVidia 210s (each has a DVI, VGA and HDMI out, I use DVI and HDMI with an HDMI->DVI cable on one card, DVI on the other). My suggestion is to swap to KDE - it supports that kind of setup happily, and I am actually impressed with how far KDE has come, I remember trying it when it was 4.0.x, now it just feels a lot more polished.
They have started to discourage it, I believe. I've noticed it less and less.
Also ugly as sin and horrible to use. I tried it a while back when Gnome stopped supporting my triple monitor setup, couldn't stand it. I ended up going to KDE.
Same situation here. I gues to run Gnome, switched when Gnome 3 couldn't handle my triple monitor set up. Now using KDE and liking it a lot.
You say you could make a mistake - only as easily as you could with any other account. There is a reason those circle setting exist, they allow you to do what you want in an easier way.
Fair enough if you don't want that public, although given all anyone could gain from that is that you have a google plus account, I don't see it's a problem - and why would google provide that? They want people to be public, that's the point of the service.
You can have a profile where only your name is visible to the public, you can fine-tune every other aspect as to who can see it.
http://www.fender.com/en-GB/promos/2010/rockband3 Fender agree with me, and they should know.
As the owner of a Squier, I'd like to point out to can play Rock Band and a real guitar - the squier is a real guitar, and RB3 has pro mode. Rocksmith might be decent, we don't know, but I can personally vouch for pro mode in RB3 being fun, not too hard to get into, and it's playing real music once you get to expert difficulty.
What happened was the day Harmonix left, so did all the innovation. Apart from the setlist of Guitar Hero 3, nothing good came from the Guitar Hero camp after that.
Rock Band, on the other hand, has gone from strength to strength - RB3 is a truly excellent game, full of features and with a really good business model. If you want an example of DLC being done right, look here.
Personally, I'd rather not see Guitar Hero come back. As much as competition is good, Harmonix have done more without competition than GH ever did. I've spent a lot of money on Rock Band, and I feel every penny was worth it. The pro modes are amazing (I'm one of around 1500 Squier owners outside the USA), the game is, in general, very good - and they are doing the exact opposite of what Guitar Hero did. They made a polished, well made game with lots of features, and are not releasing a sequel any time soon - RB3 is here to stay for some time, and they are continuing to support it with DLC. They are one of the few studios, alongside Valve and a few others, who I truly feel are doing what they believe is good for the games, not just their wallets (fortunately the two seem to go hand in hand).
Harmonix have done really well with Dance Central too - which I hear is also a great game, although not really my kind of thing.