If a minor UI change like this really is that much of an impact on your productivity, then maybe working with computers is just not for you. Things change all the time. You're not working the same way you were 5 years ago, which is different from 10 years ago, which is different from 20 years ago. People adjust to that an carry on, or try to stick with what they're used to in vain and get left behind.
I'm not saying every time something changes, there is progress. I'm not saying every change is really an improvement. But people should be able to adjust to almost any change in computing without too much of a fuss, because things just change. That's just how it is, how it has been and how it will be.
Exactly. I never ever use the minimize function. What I do use are the functions to hide windows and I don't need a button in the top of the window for that.
Why don't you download them from gog.com instead? You can get either the original + Creatures 2 for $6 or Creatures 3 for $6. And (imho) the greatest plus: you can play them right away!
The only camera a 15 year old owns is probably his/her phone, which they also use to upload the photo directly to Facebook. Unless the photos on the phone are kept there and the user specifically syncs it with his/her PC, there is no local copy.
Most games for iOS include high-resolution textures which are loaded when you run it on an iPhone4 or an iPad and lower-resolution textures when the game runs on an iPhone 3G(S) or iPod Touch. New games will surely make use of the power of the new iPad2 and will simply scale down to run on the iPad1 or any other iOS device.
I'm sorry, you are right. Anyhow, KQ3 is imho the only game in the series worth remaking. Everything from 5 on is fine as it was released and part 1, 2 and 4 are not that interesting to play anyway. KQ3 really stands out in terms of storyline and gameplay, so its awesome that AGD released this new version today.
Yeah, especially considering that KQ3 uses the oldest tech in the series (16 colors, sound from the PC speaker, no mouse). KQ1 and 2 were released with the same engine, but remakes made by Sierra were released in the '90ies to bring the game up-to-date with the tech of the time. KQ4 was released with a new engine, supporting sound and mouse right from the start. But KQ3 was left behind. No remake, no update, nothing.
Such a shame, because KQ3 is really *really* good. I wonder why Sierra have released remakes of KQ1 and 2, but not part 3. Anyhow, this remake looks great and I look forward to playing through the game one more time. I think it's awesome.
If I open a topic at a large forum and Google for it 15 mins later, the result is shown on the first page. I imagine the same goes for new stories in Slashdot: you can find them using Google almost instantly after they're published.
I don't think Bing comes even close to what Google is doing.
Plus that running Windows on an Atom is already unbelievably slow. Doesn't sound like a Tablet running Windows will be a lot of fun if the performance will be sort of like that.
Inside the emulator, dynamic translation can easily get 50-75% of native speed.
But we're talking about running a full desktop OS + applications on a little ARM-based CPU. Those things are slow to begin with... so only getting 50% to 75% of native speed would be terrible to work with. It would really be like running Windows 7 on a Pentium II.
Apple got away with virtualizing and emulating the old architecture and shipping the new architecture because the new architecture was faster. But this transition on the other hand is from a faster to a slower platform. You can't emulate x86 on ARM with any decent performance.
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It does sound weird, but it simply boils down to this: chess is a lot easier for computers than it is for humans and Jeopardy is a lot easier for humans than it is for computers.
And another example of how terribly broken the US patent system is. Maybe this time things will change. Until then I support every patent troll out there.
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If a minor UI change like this really is that much of an impact on your productivity, then maybe working with computers is just not for you. Things change all the time. You're not working the same way you were 5 years ago, which is different from 10 years ago, which is different from 20 years ago. People adjust to that an carry on, or try to stick with what they're used to in vain and get left behind.
I'm not saying every time something changes, there is progress. I'm not saying every change is really an improvement. But people should be able to adjust to almost any change in computing without too much of a fuss, because things just change. That's just how it is, how it has been and how it will be.
Exactly. I never ever use the minimize function. What I do use are the functions to hide windows and I don't need a button in the top of the window for that.
Why don't you download them from gog.com instead? You can get either the original + Creatures 2 for $6 or Creatures 3 for $6. And (imho) the greatest plus: you can play them right away!
The only camera a 15 year old owns is probably his/her phone, which they also use to upload the photo directly to Facebook. Unless the photos on the phone are kept there and the user specifically syncs it with his/her PC, there is no local copy.
Most games for iOS include high-resolution textures which are loaded when you run it on an iPhone4 or an iPad and lower-resolution textures when the game runs on an iPhone 3G(S) or iPod Touch. New games will surely make use of the power of the new iPad2 and will simply scale down to run on the iPad1 or any other iOS device.
I don't think iOS4.3 will slow the iPad 1 down that much. iOS6 will do that for sure, iOS5 maybe, but 4.3? Nah.
Yes.
I'm sorry, you are right. Anyhow, KQ3 is imho the only game in the series worth remaking. Everything from 5 on is fine as it was released and part 1, 2 and 4 are not that interesting to play anyway. KQ3 really stands out in terms of storyline and gameplay, so its awesome that AGD released this new version today.
They changed this process a bit in the remake, so you don't kill yourself every time you make a typo.
Yeah, especially considering that KQ3 uses the oldest tech in the series (16 colors, sound from the PC speaker, no mouse). KQ1 and 2 were released with the same engine, but remakes made by Sierra were released in the '90ies to bring the game up-to-date with the tech of the time. KQ4 was released with a new engine, supporting sound and mouse right from the start. But KQ3 was left behind. No remake, no update, nothing.
Such a shame, because KQ3 is really *really* good. I wonder why Sierra have released remakes of KQ1 and 2, but not part 3. Anyhow, this remake looks great and I look forward to playing through the game one more time. I think it's awesome.
I took down Microsoft.com using Slashdot.org's obsolescence. How cool is that.
Is a billion dollar high enough a fine for you?
This is the current website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/
development work began about 18 months ago
18 months to build this seems an awful lot, doesn't it? Ubuntu has released 3 versions in such a period!
I do think however that Jobs' ideas of what Apple should do to stay in the lead are a lot clearer now than the first time he was in charge.
If I open a topic at a large forum and Google for it 15 mins later, the result is shown on the first page. I imagine the same goes for new stories in Slashdot: you can find them using Google almost instantly after they're published.
I don't think Bing comes even close to what Google is doing.
What then?
Then you press the on/off button, which is not the home button.
I made a game for this, but it's not in the gallery :'(
Plus that running Windows on an Atom is already unbelievably slow. Doesn't sound like a Tablet running Windows will be a lot of fun if the performance will be sort of like that.
Inside the emulator, dynamic translation can easily get 50-75% of native speed.
But we're talking about running a full desktop OS + applications on a little ARM-based CPU. Those things are slow to begin with... so only getting 50% to 75% of native speed would be terrible to work with. It would really be like running Windows 7 on a Pentium II.
Just a recompile should take Adobe about a year though.
Apple got away with virtualizing and emulating the old architecture and shipping the new architecture because the new architecture was faster. But this transition on the other hand is from a faster to a slower platform. You can't emulate x86 on ARM with any decent performance.
It does sound weird, but it simply boils down to this: chess is a lot easier for computers than it is for humans and Jeopardy is a lot easier for humans than it is for computers.
And another example of how terribly broken the US patent system is. Maybe this time things will change. Until then I support every patent troll out there.
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