Mario taught me that it's OK to take shrooms. Pac-Mac told me I gotta munch as many pills as possible before the ghosts get me. And lastly EVE taught me that no matter how big a guy is, I can always bring 200 of my friends and kill him.
What if I want to play on a laptop on the go? What if my internet connection is down? What if I don't have/want an internet connection?
So they're doing this because of pirated games. Right... You know, they're just legitimizing cracking their own games. Unless the actual game is HOSTED on their servers, just using the net to substitute the countless "CD protection" methods is pretty damn lame.
Another thing, just while I'm at it. I think a better option than locking people down using a multitude of creative methods - make them want to pay for stuff. MMOGs have accomplished that. I spent at least 15-25 USD a month for the last 2-3 years on those.
More like about "screw the BS, here's a quality product."
While I do admire a lot of FOSS projects (for instance Firefox, Adium, Python) I also find that a lot of them just don't stack up to Apple in terms of features.
For instance from the perspective of a graphic designer. OS X has probably the best font smoothing I've seen on any screen. I cringe when I have to use Windows at work. X11 doesn't compare either.
What if I bring a new fancy printer to my ad agency office (or whatever workplace that uses macs)? I know I don't have to go machine by machine and install fancy drivers - because they're all there. I never once had to install any printer drivers on any OS X system. (There's probably an exception if we're talking about highly specialized printers, but I have no experience with those)
Even as a "standard" user. I know my digital camera can just hook up to the computer with "that cable" and I can download pictures to "that program" and do fancy stuff with them with a drag and drop interface or even make pretty websites mom can visit with this iWeb thing. I don't like iWeb, but I've seen a lot of people using it and all they know is some word processing.
Even the more advanced users have something for them. Just last night I quickly created a python script to take text from the command line arguments, string them together and put them in title caps. I made that into a service using automator (call it via shell script) and used System Preferences to bind it to Ctrl-Shift-T. So now whenever I select text and do that keystroke, I get text in title caps.
Speaking of this Automator thing, I wish I could use it at work. I have an excel report I have to prepare on a daily basis for several clients. I made a script at home that I can drag a file on to and it attaches that file to an email, types my standard greeting, puts the correct addresses and puts the date in the subject line. I end up doing that manually at work simply because Outlook/Excel suck at this stuff.
Actually, if my corp's ERP system ran on a Mac, I'd probably bring my laptop... Or maybe I'll virtualize it?
when we realize that a character we kinda like (Apple) goes against a character we mostly love (Google) because it turns out IT'S ACTUALLY A FUCKIN' CYLON SYMPATHIZER, YOU GUYS! (Microsoft)
I participated in the closed beta and feel this review scores as quite accurate. I want to add several things though. First is, combat (both space and ground) feels very active and involved, much more so than most of the MMOG genre and definitely scores high in my book. I wasn't expecting much from ground missions, but they are absolutely great.
The missions all have stories. Some better than others, but overall the stories tied into the missions really well. You hardly ever got "kill ten rats". Even exploration missions can be interesting. I found a planet somewhere with carnivorous plants and had to spot them all so I can use the data.
Speaking of missions: auto grouping is really a wonderful thing! I got to meet a lot of new folks that way.
The game is also very customizable, and will be very good for RP.
But I'll just say this: the closed beta definitely FELT like a beta. I couldn't play the open one yet due to my internet connection at home not working until the phone company can be assed to send a technician, but I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing the open beta.
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I'm at work, where I have a P4 winXP machine.
AND I'M PROUD OF IT.
Consumers will be furious when they find out there are GIRLS working there!
fyi they're hackers on steroids. The KKK of the internet, O'reily said so himself and they're very srs business.
Relevant video is relevant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
I think they really recognized one of the strengths of their game(s).
Sounds great, Blizz!
it will include a single-window mode where the user can dock toolbar windows
Kind of like Inkscape?
and switch between images via tabs.
Kind of like PS?
Great to have either way, though.
VPN's, simulataneous running of 3rd party apps and SDK's are certainly not of interest to 90% of Apple's target audience.
For THIS product, they certainly don't.
Mario taught me that it's OK to take shrooms.
Pac-Mac told me I gotta munch as many pills as possible before the ghosts get me.
And lastly EVE taught me that no matter how big a guy is, I can always bring 200 of my friends and kill him.
Makes me think of that girl Ruby I tied to the train tracks once.
It actually scales better than just "within reason": yellowpages, scribd, hulu, github, odeo, jango.
For a second I read that as "django" and began to weep.
Self dentistry is a perfectly viable option.
"Researchers believe the technique could be available to general dentistry in three to five years."
COME ON, guys, my appointment is on the 22nd. Hurry!
yet another reason to hate mankind.
You all suck.
Ugh.
"Guys, ODF is totalt hyggligt."
Have you considered Gubuntu? It's a flavor of Ubuntu that aims at the more Google oriented crowd by changing the default search engine to Google.
What if I want to play on a laptop on the go? What if my internet connection is down? What if I don't have/want an internet connection?
So they're doing this because of pirated games. Right... You know, they're just legitimizing cracking their own games. Unless the actual game is HOSTED on their servers, just using the net to substitute the countless "CD protection" methods is pretty damn lame.
Another thing, just while I'm at it. I think a better option than locking people down using a multitude of creative methods - make them want to pay for stuff. MMOGs have accomplished that. I spent at least 15-25 USD a month for the last 2-3 years on those.
Ubisoft, wtf?
"Exterminate" repeated politely with an English accent by a monocle-wearing robot.
More like about "screw the BS, here's a quality product."
While I do admire a lot of FOSS projects (for instance Firefox, Adium, Python) I also find that a lot of them just don't stack up to Apple in terms of features.
For instance from the perspective of a graphic designer. OS X has probably the best font smoothing I've seen on any screen. I cringe when I have to use Windows at work. X11 doesn't compare either.
What if I bring a new fancy printer to my ad agency office (or whatever workplace that uses macs)? I know I don't have to go machine by machine and install fancy drivers - because they're all there. I never once had to install any printer drivers on any OS X system. (There's probably an exception if we're talking about highly specialized printers, but I have no experience with those)
Even as a "standard" user. I know my digital camera can just hook up to the computer with "that cable" and I can download pictures to "that program" and do fancy stuff with them with a drag and drop interface or even make pretty websites mom can visit with this iWeb thing. I don't like iWeb, but I've seen a lot of people using it and all they know is some word processing.
Even the more advanced users have something for them. Just last night I quickly created a python script to take text from the command line arguments, string them together and put them in title caps. I made that into a service using automator (call it via shell script) and used System Preferences to bind it to Ctrl-Shift-T. So now whenever I select text and do that keystroke, I get text in title caps.
Speaking of this Automator thing, I wish I could use it at work. I have an excel report I have to prepare on a daily basis for several clients. I made a script at home that I can drag a file on to and it attaches that file to an email, types my standard greeting, puts the correct addresses and puts the date in the subject line. I end up doing that manually at work simply because Outlook/Excel suck at this stuff.
Actually, if my corp's ERP system ran on a Mac, I'd probably bring my laptop... Or maybe I'll virtualize it?
And I feel myself slowly being trained into ASKING for the info rather than experimenting and have your own observation in things.
Don't know how to put it in better words.
Me neither. Can anyone think of a good way?
when we realize that a character we kinda like (Apple) goes against a character we mostly love (Google) because it turns out IT'S ACTUALLY A FUCKIN' CYLON SYMPATHIZER, YOU GUYS! (Microsoft)
I would open up my books and find out whether clerics can indeed be atheist or not
but alas I'm at work.
You're off the hook... THIS TIME!...
I have a portable keyboard (Typing of the Dead style) and I type all my emails while running marathons.
Just fyi.
Blasphemy! You are but a fool to think D&D can be played on computers in the same manly manner.
That's what I was referring to.
... nobody wants to play D&D with me now that we have video games (THANKS FOR NOTHING, PONG). :( does /. want to play?
I participated in the closed beta and feel this review scores as quite accurate. I want to add several things though. First is, combat (both space and ground) feels very active and involved, much more so than most of the MMOG genre and definitely scores high in my book. I wasn't expecting much from ground missions, but they are absolutely great.
The missions all have stories. Some better than others, but overall the stories tied into the missions really well. You hardly ever got "kill ten rats". Even exploration missions can be interesting. I found a planet somewhere with carnivorous plants and had to spot them all so I can use the data.
Speaking of missions: auto grouping is really a wonderful thing! I got to meet a lot of new folks that way.
The game is also very customizable, and will be very good for RP.
But I'll just say this: the closed beta definitely FELT like a beta. I couldn't play the open one yet due to my internet connection at home not working until the phone company can be assed to send a technician, but I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing the open beta.
This game scores real high in my book.