Also, PCs have USB ports and can support gamepads. I wish publishers would stop assuming that PC = keyboard+mouse and make games that support whatever input the player wants to use.
The thing is that they already do. I haven't played any game recently (that also has a console version) that doesn't have gamepad support in the PC version.
That's what I thought, too, but I registered without paying anything (I didn't have a credit card at the time so I couldn't have). Maybe they've changed it now, that was a year or two ago.
You don't need an add-on, Firefox has that feature built-in.
However, that's not the same as the feature talked about here - which is that if something in a webpage causes the browser to crash, it won't - the tab will simply close and reopen. Which is faster than a complete reload of the browser.
Maybe you have some odd troublemaking extension, but I haven't had a single crash on this machine since I installed FF3 and about 10 extensions a couple of weeks ago, and I don't remember ever having a crash that I could suspect an extension for. In my experience plug-ins are the biggest cause of crashes (on Win32 and Linux anyway), specifically Java and QuickTime, though Flash likes to do it too once in a while.
(24 opened tabs, 8 extensions, been running 5 hours and gone through hundreds of now-closed tabs - barely 200 MB RAM usage; not that I really care, since that's about 6% of my total memory)
The WoW European open beta was exactly the same thing - it began about 10 days before the release of the game (and ended with the release). Served as a demo to me (and I imagine everyone else).
Well, any two similar pictures can get that effect if you focus on them as though they are one. I occasionally use it to cheat on "Find the 10 differences" puzzles, but I don't really see much more use for it.:)
My native language uses the Cyrillic alphabet but I can still read it easily. Now, granted, the Cyrillic alphabet is much closer to the Latin alphabet than the Chinese one is. But I think it's probably more a matter of how much exposure you've had to the language, how well you know it, how often you use it, etc.
No it's not. The Corsairs saying it is (very likely) in reference to the Warcraft II cheat code. Which, I'm guessing, is a reference to something else.
Well, GP didn't even mention the word "Linux" - he simply cited a statistic that showed Vista is not doing good in comparison with XP.
And besides, you have to remember that Vista took these 15% from XP, not from Linux. This is not newly-taken market share. It is simply a newer version of the same thing. In fact, it shows that only 15% of people upgraded to it, the remaining didn't think the price (or whatever else) was worth it. And since MS is cutting off support and sales of XP, this means these people have nothing from the Windows line to switch to in a few years (unless MS is a bit quicker about Windows 7 and it isn't as much a failure as Vista), and will have to look for an alternative, be it Linux, OS X, or anything else.
While I certainly don't claim using Gmail for backup is a smart thing to do, can you point out where in the ToS this is stated, as I looked through it and see no mention of either restriction?
Sharp Develop is a shitty ripoff of Visual Studio, because it is a shitty ripoff of Visual Studio.
Woah, I'm convinced!
On a more serious note, if you wish to be taken seriously you should actually respond to the person you're replying to, addressing their statements specifically, not restating general claims and ignoring anything you may disagree with.
And that ruling says that it's illegal to use Glider with WoW, but that doesn't mean that Glider in itself (or possessing it, or distributing it if it's open source) is illegal.
Bad form replying to myself but I realize you meant something else and my comment was irrelevant. In that case, I agree, it's an improvement, provided they don't mess it up like Opera did. And if there is a small delay for the switcher appearing - I don't want it blinking while I'm just switching to the next tab.
But then the window switcher in Window blinks, so I guess I'm already used to that.
About time applications started catching up. Nothing more stupid than having 5 tabs open and to go to the previous one you had open you need to rotate through all of them.
You could already do that - Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes back one tab. Just as Alt+Shift+Tab goes back when switching windows.
It should be noted that using ' makes it search only in links rather than any text - a very useful feature to quickly navigate pages. Just press ', type a few letters of the link you want to open and press enter.
Pressing / results in a normal search, a la Ctrl+F.
Maybe if you actually read what the author said...
9. Program Caching
Currently, Vista caches commonly used software into RAM so that it launches faster. The main problem with this approach is that it confuses users into thinking Vista is using several hundred MB of RAM just for itself. A simple toolbar notification stating âVista is caching your programs to improve speed. Click here for more informationâ(TM), would end all the confusion.
(Granted, this is a completely stupid feature request...)
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Linux is the name of the kernel itself. It would be redundant to specify it additionally. Complete systems including the kernel and applications are commonly called distributions.
OTOH, a lot of people (somewhat wrongly) refer to the entire distros as "Linux", and this is where your confusion comes from.
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Also, PCs have USB ports and can support gamepads. I wish publishers would stop assuming that PC = keyboard+mouse and make games that support whatever input the player wants to use.
The thing is that they already do. I haven't played any game recently (that also has a console version) that doesn't have gamepad support in the PC version.
That's what I thought, too, but I registered without paying anything (I didn't have a credit card at the time so I couldn't have). Maybe they've changed it now, that was a year or two ago.
You don't need an add-on, Firefox has that feature built-in.
However, that's not the same as the feature talked about here - which is that if something in a webpage causes the browser to crash, it won't - the tab will simply close and reopen. Which is faster than a complete reload of the browser.
Maybe you have some odd troublemaking extension, but I haven't had a single crash on this machine since I installed FF3 and about 10 extensions a couple of weeks ago, and I don't remember ever having a crash that I could suspect an extension for. In my experience plug-ins are the biggest cause of crashes (on Win32 and Linux anyway), specifically Java and QuickTime, though Flash likes to do it too once in a while.
I simply registered an account and whenever it doesn't show the replies I just log in.
(In case you actually need the answers on that page, the replier pointed the person asking to this page: http://www.emoreau.com/Entries/Articles/2006/04/The-Treeview-control.aspx)
Looks like someone hasn't upgraded to 3 yet.
(24 opened tabs, 8 extensions, been running 5 hours and gone through hundreds of now-closed tabs - barely 200 MB RAM usage; not that I really care, since that's about 6% of my total memory)
The WoW European open beta was exactly the same thing - it began about 10 days before the release of the game (and ended with the release). Served as a demo to me (and I imagine everyone else).
Well, any two similar pictures can get that effect if you focus on them as though they are one. I occasionally use it to cheat on "Find the 10 differences" puzzles, but I don't really see much more use for it. :)
My native language uses the Cyrillic alphabet but I can still read it easily. Now, granted, the Cyrillic alphabet is much closer to the Latin alphabet than the Chinese one is. But I think it's probably more a matter of how much exposure you've had to the language, how well you know it, how often you use it, etc.
Well, it does say "A man drove from Dallas to Phoenix."
No it's not. The Corsairs saying it is (very likely) in reference to the Warcraft II cheat code. Which, I'm guessing, is a reference to something else.
Well, GP didn't even mention the word "Linux" - he simply cited a statistic that showed Vista is not doing good in comparison with XP.
And besides, you have to remember that Vista took these 15% from XP, not from Linux. This is not newly-taken market share. It is simply a newer version of the same thing. In fact, it shows that only 15% of people upgraded to it, the remaining didn't think the price (or whatever else) was worth it. And since MS is cutting off support and sales of XP, this means these people have nothing from the Windows line to switch to in a few years (unless MS is a bit quicker about Windows 7 and it isn't as much a failure as Vista), and will have to look for an alternative, be it Linux, OS X, or anything else.
While I certainly don't claim using Gmail for backup is a smart thing to do, can you point out where in the ToS this is stated, as I looked through it and see no mention of either restriction?
Sharp Develop is a shitty ripoff of Visual Studio, because it is a shitty ripoff of Visual Studio.
Woah, I'm convinced!
On a more serious note, if you wish to be taken seriously you should actually respond to the person you're replying to, addressing their statements specifically, not restating general claims and ignoring anything you may disagree with.
And that ruling says that it's illegal to use Glider with WoW, but that doesn't mean that Glider in itself (or possessing it, or distributing it if it's open source) is illegal.
(Disclaimer: IANAL)
That should be AuthenticAMD, not GenuineAMD.
But that would be expecting editors to actually, you know, edit.
Bad form replying to myself but I realize you meant something else and my comment was irrelevant. In that case, I agree, it's an improvement, provided they don't mess it up like Opera did. And if there is a small delay for the switcher appearing - I don't want it blinking while I'm just switching to the next tab.
But then the window switcher in Window blinks, so I guess I'm already used to that.
About time applications started catching up. Nothing more stupid than having 5 tabs open and to go to the previous one you had open you need to rotate through all of them.
You could already do that - Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes back one tab. Just as Alt+Shift+Tab goes back when switching windows.
Hopefully just a hash of it.
If it has branches, surely you would be better off using a tree-view.
Except that it's not, only the rendering engine is. Which the GP mentioned, btw:
and with Safari it isn't impossible due to WebKit being OSS, but as for the UI, that is proprietary.
As I understand it, that is what the Logitech MX Air does. Haven't tried it though (and with that price I can see why it's not very popular).
It should be noted that using ' makes it search only in links rather than any text - a very useful feature to quickly navigate pages. Just press ', type a few letters of the link you want to open and press enter.
Pressing / results in a normal search, a la Ctrl+F.
9. Program Caching
Currently, Vista caches commonly used software into RAM so that it launches faster. The main problem with this approach is that it confuses users into thinking Vista is using several hundred MB of RAM just for itself. A simple toolbar notification stating âVista is caching your programs to improve speed. Click here for more informationâ(TM), would end all the confusion.
(Granted, this is a completely stupid feature request...)
Linux is the name of the kernel itself. It would be redundant to specify it additionally. Complete systems including the kernel and applications are commonly called distributions.
OTOH, a lot of people (somewhat wrongly) refer to the entire distros as "Linux", and this is where your confusion comes from.