Sure, but their character has always been as full of holes as their cheese.
Actually I think a friend from primary+high school was Swiss. He was pretty cool. Must be the exception that proves the rule, or some other strange turn of phrase.
I personally am not convinced of this. I think the gratuitous UI weirdness in 7, and the inability to turn off some of the unwanted new features, makes it worse than Vista. For instance, why would you want your quicklaunch icons to move around all over the taskbar every time you open or close a window? To me that's a usability disaster.
I certainly thought it was a ridiculous premise at first but after using it for a while it did indeed seem to work fine. It can be tweaked to function closer to the original taskbar, in any case.
The most surprising thing to me about 7 is that it was actually a pleasure to use - which is great news for me as a PC gamer. Hell, on my laptop it runs about as fast as my ubuntu installation did without the unfortunately high probability of me changing a config file somewhere and screwing it up royally. I really should stop messing with things necessary for my computer's operation without proper instruction.
Frankly, the Wii has great potential, but has been squandered by developers in favour of sloppy ports or bad games as quick cash grabs. There's few good games on it.
Besides, don't take the stance of everyone else on this issue. They're morons. This is not "M$ IS TEH EVIL, THEY AR MONOPOLY!!!". They're locking out UNAUTHORISED storage units. This does not mean third-party, this means the chinese ripoffs and stuff that have a tendency to be faulty anyway. Properly licensed third-party storage units will still work fine. The 360 is still a great platform.
I'll admit I don't know how it'll affect people with homemade hard drive setups, but that's a non-issue for the majority of people. Yeah, the official hard drives are a complete ripoff. Think it's bad in the US? With our dollar so high, Australians have to pay nearly 33% more for the same crap, which isn't that bad compared to the games themselves which retail at 200% of the US price.
I'm talking about 7-year-old hardware here. Modern hardware runs it absolutely fine with all the bells and whistles. My laptop that caused me to change my opinion of Vista from cautious optimism to NEEEERD RAAAEGE runs like a dream on 7, it's like I got a new one.
The only reason it's not getting panned as a resource hog is that Vista only ran well on almost "bleeding edge" hardware, and 2.5 years later that's "hey it runs well on a couple year old sytem."
Runs smoothly (with aero etc off of course) on my 7-year-old barebones computer I never got around to throwing away, and on my gaming PC it runs just as fast as linux did. Well, it feels as fast, anyway.
I rather like it, myself. It's got the very few features I liked about vista (sound mixer!:D) and some of the UI improvements are pretty nifty! But then again I'm a gamer so I need a windows-based PC, so I suppose I'd be a bit biased.
And I'm pretty sure CSIRO's experiments on puppies!
I can make shit up too. Fuck off, they deserve to be paid for their contribution to technology today. CSIRO has made some amazing developments and licensing their discoveries is an excellent way to get more funding, as long as they're not charging absurd amounts.
1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing stealth aircraft that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulence it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft.
Harvest Moon games to me are like "Just five more minutes before I go to bed," followed by a "Why is it December?"
The one I go back and play most is the SNES version. I love it to bits.
In fact I think I'll go and play it now so I can spend the next few hours riding a virtual horse thus leaving me without enough time to sleep so I'm too exhausted to go and ride an actual horse tomorrow. I think I'll name him Clopsy.
It is of course illegal to import RC content and besides, I shouldn't have to run through hoops. Someone put Atkinson in a nursing home where he belongs, thanks.
Because it's bloated as all hell and only runs decently on the 64-bit version. I'm writing this from a high performance gaming computer I built last week which has an OEM copy of Vista installed for the sole reason of getting the free upgrade to 7. It's bad enough without the crap that vendors pile onto their computers.
Vista has it's high points, for example I really like the volume mixer (a feature I've long wished for in XP), but the general bulk of it all outweighs the positives. Windows 7 on the other hand ran fantastically from the first build I had access to and I absolutely love it. It actually ran faster and smoother than my Ubuntu install!
I want to point out that I started using Vista without any preconceptions, and slowly grew to hate it from day to day use.
Sounds like a good way to kill, just about everything one would use for entertainment on the web, streaming videos, games, etc etc
Welcome to the rest of the world, we don't have unlimited net. Which is exactly why cloud gaming like OnLive seems pretty stupid to me outside of the US.
Y'know, here in Australia, new games go up to, according to the exchange rate, NINETY FIVE US DOLLARS. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK, SERIOUSLY. If I could pick up new games for 45-60USD I would be a happy gamer.
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It's ok guys, false alarm, war isn't evil, some guy on the internet said so in a vague roundabout fashion.
Sure, but their character has always been as full of holes as their cheese.
Actually I think a friend from primary+high school was Swiss. He was pretty cool. Must be the exception that proves the rule, or some other strange turn of phrase.
Never trusted 'em, myself, what with their knives, and their cheeses.
I personally have never heard of this "Tap-Fu". None of my friends have heard of it. There are NO reviews for it on the Australian App Store.
I can therefore only conclude that the game is not worth buying and therefore I won't even bother to pirate it to check it out.
FWIW, my iPhone is jailbroken with installous on it and I have bought EVERY app I pirated first and didn't uninstall within a minute.
With any luck. :P
I personally am not convinced of this. I think the gratuitous UI weirdness in 7, and the inability to turn off some of the unwanted new features, makes it worse than Vista. For instance, why would you want your quicklaunch icons to move around all over the taskbar every time you open or close a window? To me that's a usability disaster.
I certainly thought it was a ridiculous premise at first but after using it for a while it did indeed seem to work fine. It can be tweaked to function closer to the original taskbar, in any case.
The most surprising thing to me about 7 is that it was actually a pleasure to use - which is great news for me as a PC gamer. Hell, on my laptop it runs about as fast as my ubuntu installation did without the unfortunately high probability of me changing a config file somewhere and screwing it up royally. I really should stop messing with things necessary for my computer's operation without proper instruction.
Frankly, the Wii has great potential, but has been squandered by developers in favour of sloppy ports or bad games as quick cash grabs. There's few good games on it.
Besides, don't take the stance of everyone else on this issue. They're morons. This is not "M$ IS TEH EVIL, THEY AR MONOPOLY!!!". They're locking out UNAUTHORISED storage units. This does not mean third-party, this means the chinese ripoffs and stuff that have a tendency to be faulty anyway. Properly licensed third-party storage units will still work fine. The 360 is still a great platform.
I'll admit I don't know how it'll affect people with homemade hard drive setups, but that's a non-issue for the majority of people. Yeah, the official hard drives are a complete ripoff. Think it's bad in the US? With our dollar so high, Australians have to pay nearly 33% more for the same crap, which isn't that bad compared to the games themselves which retail at 200% of the US price.
I'm talking about 7-year-old hardware here. Modern hardware runs it absolutely fine with all the bells and whistles. My laptop that caused me to change my opinion of Vista from cautious optimism to NEEEERD RAAAEGE runs like a dream on 7, it's like I got a new one.
the standard IR blocker does not cover this, as pointing a TV remote at your camera will show)
Oh wow, I didn't know this, that's nifty. Purple lights! Woo!
That'd be a horrible pirate copy. The video would go black every few seconds.
The only reason it's not getting panned as a resource hog is that Vista only ran well on almost "bleeding edge" hardware, and 2.5 years later that's "hey it runs well on a couple year old sytem."
Runs smoothly (with aero etc off of course) on my 7-year-old barebones computer I never got around to throwing away, and on my gaming PC it runs just as fast as linux did. Well, it feels as fast, anyway.
:D) and some of the UI improvements are pretty nifty! But then again I'm a gamer so I need a windows-based PC, so I suppose I'd be a bit biased.
I rather like it, myself. It's got the very few features I liked about vista (sound mixer!
And I'm pretty sure CSIRO's experiments on puppies!
I can make shit up too. Fuck off, they deserve to be paid for their contribution to technology today. CSIRO has made some amazing developments and licensing their discoveries is an excellent way to get more funding, as long as they're not charging absurd amounts.
Hahaha oh wow. Thanks for reinforcing stereotypes. :D
1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing stealth aircraft that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulence it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft.
Harvest Moon games to me are like "Just five more minutes before I go to bed," followed by a "Why is it December?"
The one I go back and play most is the SNES version. I love it to bits.
In fact I think I'll go and play it now so I can spend the next few hours riding a virtual horse thus leaving me without enough time to sleep so I'm too exhausted to go and ride an actual horse tomorrow. I think I'll name him Clopsy.
...who silently screamed on reading that headline.
I'm pretty sure I've had that nightmare before.
Fair enough and I might do that, but I still shouldn't have to. >:(
If I can't be bothered I won't be pirating it, I'll just give it a miss entirely and stick with L4D.
It is of course illegal to import RC content and besides, I shouldn't have to run through hoops. Someone put Atkinson in a nursing home where he belongs, thanks.
Found hiding in the closet after director came home early?
...New headline. Bin Laden comes out of the closet! Hee hee.
Because it's bloated as all hell and only runs decently on the 64-bit version. I'm writing this from a high performance gaming computer I built last week which has an OEM copy of Vista installed for the sole reason of getting the free upgrade to 7. It's bad enough without the crap that vendors pile onto their computers.
Vista has it's high points, for example I really like the volume mixer (a feature I've long wished for in XP), but the general bulk of it all outweighs the positives. Windows 7 on the other hand ran fantastically from the first build I had access to and I absolutely love it. It actually ran faster and smoother than my Ubuntu install!
I want to point out that I started using Vista without any preconceptions, and slowly grew to hate it from day to day use.
Sounds like a good way to kill, just about everything one would use for entertainment on the web, streaming videos, games, etc etc
Welcome to the rest of the world, we don't have unlimited net. Which is exactly why cloud gaming like OnLive seems pretty stupid to me outside of the US.
USD$60 is a reasonably fair price for games. I would pay it happily and indeed I do on steam for PC Games.
Now somebody explain to me why games in Australia cost up to USD$95.
Y'know, here in Australia, new games go up to, according to the exchange rate, NINETY FIVE US DOLLARS. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK, SERIOUSLY. If I could pick up new games for 45-60USD I would be a happy gamer.
Hey! Monkey Island was and still is fun. Office 2007 is not. :P
They should take the MS job, they'll have more money to spend on their beloved overpriced Apple products.