Marathon and System Shock 2 both scared the crap out of me, and both were much, much, much superior games to Doom 3. So yeah, you're a sissy (Aliens vs. Predator? Wuss.) But if you had admitted to crying during System Shock 2, I'd be hugging you and saying, "ssh, I understand."
Don't forget that you're wearing an environment suit and, when you go onto the surface you have 1 minute of air before you suffocate. THE HELL!? I can hold my breath longer than 1 minute, easy, and surely the suit would have SOME air in it when you started. That was dumber than the flashlight issue, IMO, but both were dumb.
Sir Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners? Fred Kwan: Sure, they're like three years old. Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS. Fred Kwan: You lost me.
That seems like a nice, sensible answer, at least for the popular games that came form a publisher that's still around and has the appropriate deals with Microsoft to distribute the patches. It also assumes the code will run with a recompile and some testing, something we all know just ain't so in the real world.
Microsoft has stated many times that it's not going to be 100% compatible with ALL games and that, at first, it will only be select popular titles. So not only is it a sensible answer, but it also means that Microsoft is fulfilling every promise they've made about backwards compatibility.
Let's see... Spybot doesn't report it as spyware. Ad-Aware doesn't report it as spyware. Symantec doesn't report it as spyware, McAfee doesn't report it as spyware.
Maybe in some weird parallel universe you inhabit, Media Player is spyware, but it isn't here on our Earth.
Because you don't agree with him, suddenly he's AstroTurfMan? Come on, how about at least trying to see things from his point of view?
For instance, what anti-spyware program out there for Windows is better than MS AntiSpyware? Spybot's certainly passable, but it misses more than MS' does and it definately isn't easy-to-use. Ad-Aware is easy-to-use, but it misses more than both MS' and Spybot. All the other ones (that aren't scams from spyware companies) are costly...
Sorry, that leaves MS AntiSpyware as the best option right now. AstroTurf or not, the original poster was telling the truth, and I agree with him completely.
Because it can't be used to SPY on a user, duh. It removes *spy*ware.
Microsoft's Remote Desktop logs out the original user before allowing the remote user to connect. While the remote user could potentially look in the original user's files (assuming they had the correct password and all that), it would be pretty obvious that they'd been in there rummaging around.
RealVNC, on the other hand, lets somebody connect at any arbitrary time with no visual indication that they're connected. The remote user can then look at your actions *as* you're using your computer, and you'd be none the wiser.
Of course you blindly hate Microsoft, but Microsoft Anti-Spyware makes the right call here.
Single-user era? What the hell? Windows has had good multi-user support since Windows NT 4. Their previous generation of "pro" OS, Windows 2000, had support, and their current "home" and "pro" OS, Windows XP, has even better support.
I guess it's ok to spread FUD on Slashdot.org if it's against Microsoft.
How do they plan to get these recompiled games out to customers without charging them for a new copy, they haven't said.
The most popular games will have re-compiled binaries available on the HD. (After all, the executable is only a very small fraction of the space taken up by the game... a 40GB HD can probably easily hold the recombiled binaries for a hundred games or more.)
The less popular games will be patchable via Xbox Live. (So you don't waste HD space on games only a "few" people, relatively speaking, own.)
I'm sorry, your question has a "duh" answer. The HD is required for backwards compatibility; where the hell do you *think* they'll be stored? Duh!
Just posting to say I agree with your post 100%. People complain abou the duped articles on Slashdot and, at the same time, moderators are constantly modding up articles that are (for all practical purposes) just as duped!
the ESRB isn't actually about allowing gamers to be informed about their purchases, or about allowing parents to responsibly monitor and regulate the video game usage of their children. Those things are just halfhearted side effects. The ESRB is about feeding and indulging hysteria and media hype concerning video games. With this goal in mind, of course, the ability to mod a game to unlock or insert porn becomes very much the ESRB's business.
Realistically, you have two choices in this matter:
1) The ESRB can rate games 2) The US Government can rate games
Which do you prefer?
Having every game be unrated isn't an option for a bunch of different reasons: people don't have time to research every purchase to that level, games that initially appear fine for kids (Conker) may later on have objectionable content, etc.
Personally, I think the ESRB is doing a good job, and I think it's doing a much BETTER job than the MPAA does rating movies. (How the hell did Scary Movie, with a scene where a man is killed by a penis being jabbed into his skull, get an 'R' rating!?)
The ESRB doesn't feed media hype, in fact they do the exact opposite: they're the ones lobbying *against* government laws about video game content. (Like the recent restriction on video games that Washington State was trying to pass.)
Sadly, this joke could have been funny if you had said: "this gives new meaning to the phrase 'Dennis the Menace'" But the meaning of the comic strip is the same as always: boring crap.
Ok, I can't speak for Ubuntu or Linux in general, but:
Unlike Windows where no sound hardware is autodetected.
is a BLATENT LIE! Just yesterday I plugged a Soundblaster 128 (sound hardware) into a Windows box and booted it up. It took about 45 seconds for Windows to detect it, install the correct drivers, and start playing nice beep sounds.
If you're going to lie about things, at least make them slightly convincing.
I dunno, there's stuff you can explain that I haven't figured out yet.
For instance, how do you get Firefox to display a page of recent RSS entries? How do I open the "home page" the Live Bookmark came from without adding another pointless bookmark to the menu? How do I get Firefox to track which Live Bookmarks I've already read and which I haven't?
"don't want to use a bloated desktop" is an entirely different reason from "can't control things with scripts." If you meant the latter, you should have said the latter.
I do have magnify off, that's not the problem. The problem is that the Dock thinks you're trying to "dock" the icon you're dragging, so it moves the trashcan out of the way to make room for it... then when you move the icon down to where the trashcan went, the trashcan moved back where it was and you miss it again. (This effect is most noticable when you have the dock anchored and not centered.) It does this even though I've used OS X for years without ever "docking" a single icon, but throwing thousands of icons away.
Considering a HUGE proportion of those questions made no damn sense, had typos that would make them un-parsable to a computer, or have answers that are either ambiguous or plain wrong... yes, that's what I think.
The idea might have merit, but I doubt that dataset does.
So a project you started in 2000 is only useful after reading a book by Michael Spivey that isn't being released until September 2005?
Well, you've convinced me!... that you're a looney.
Seriously, though, you've been compiling these "mindpixels" for five years, and not yet have you found an actual use for the information? You can't even type out a quick example on a web forum?
Tell me the truth, Mindpixel, is this all just a huge prank? Seriously... do you even believe your own babble there? Do you seriously think that this collection of "facts" are going to be useful to any body for any purpose?
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but they're pretty damn slow on my DSL connection. It usually ends up uploading the file 2-3 times before I get an entire downloaded copy... it really makes me feel like I'm getting ripped-off when I use bittorrent.
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What is a "BRDF?" Please define your acronyms.
Marathon and System Shock 2 both scared the crap out of me, and both were much, much, much superior games to Doom 3. So yeah, you're a sissy (Aliens vs. Predator? Wuss.) But if you had admitted to crying during System Shock 2, I'd be hugging you and saying, "ssh, I understand."
Don't forget that you're wearing an environment suit and, when you go onto the surface you have 1 minute of air before you suffocate. THE HELL!? I can hold my breath longer than 1 minute, easy, and surely the suit would have SOME air in it when you started. That was dumber than the flashlight issue, IMO, but both were dumb.
Sir Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners?
Fred Kwan: Sure, they're like three years old.
Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS.
Fred Kwan: You lost me.
The fact remains that by default remote desktop is enabled on the computer and the firewall of xp let's anyone connect to the p.c.
Wrong.
Since your very first point is wrong, I don't think I'll bother reading the rest of what you typed.
That seems like a nice, sensible answer, at least for the popular games that came form a publisher that's still around and has the appropriate deals with Microsoft to distribute the patches. It also assumes the code will run with a recompile and some testing, something we all know just ain't so in the real world.
Microsoft has stated many times that it's not going to be 100% compatible with ALL games and that, at first, it will only be select popular titles. So not only is it a sensible answer, but it also means that Microsoft is fulfilling every promise they've made about backwards compatibility.
How is Media Player spyware?
Let's see... Spybot doesn't report it as spyware. Ad-Aware doesn't report it as spyware. Symantec doesn't report it as spyware, McAfee doesn't report it as spyware.
Maybe in some weird parallel universe you inhabit, Media Player is spyware, but it isn't here on our Earth.
Because you don't agree with him, suddenly he's AstroTurfMan? Come on, how about at least trying to see things from his point of view?
For instance, what anti-spyware program out there for Windows is better than MS AntiSpyware? Spybot's certainly passable, but it misses more than MS' does and it definately isn't easy-to-use. Ad-Aware is easy-to-use, but it misses more than both MS' and Spybot. All the other ones (that aren't scams from spyware companies) are costly...
Sorry, that leaves MS AntiSpyware as the best option right now. AstroTurf or not, the original poster was telling the truth, and I agree with him completely.
Because it can't be used to SPY on a user, duh. It removes *spy*ware.
Microsoft's Remote Desktop logs out the original user before allowing the remote user to connect. While the remote user could potentially look in the original user's files (assuming they had the correct password and all that), it would be pretty obvious that they'd been in there rummaging around.
RealVNC, on the other hand, lets somebody connect at any arbitrary time with no visual indication that they're connected. The remote user can then look at your actions *as* you're using your computer, and you'd be none the wiser.
Of course you blindly hate Microsoft, but Microsoft Anti-Spyware makes the right call here.
Single-user era? What the hell? Windows has had good multi-user support since Windows NT 4. Their previous generation of "pro" OS, Windows 2000, had support, and their current "home" and "pro" OS, Windows XP, has even better support.
I guess it's ok to spread FUD on Slashdot.org if it's against Microsoft.
How do they plan to get these recompiled games out to customers without charging them for a new copy, they haven't said.
The most popular games will have re-compiled binaries available on the HD. (After all, the executable is only a very small fraction of the space taken up by the game... a 40GB HD can probably easily hold the recombiled binaries for a hundred games or more.)
The less popular games will be patchable via Xbox Live. (So you don't waste HD space on games only a "few" people, relatively speaking, own.)
I'm sorry, your question has a "duh" answer. The HD is required for backwards compatibility; where the hell do you *think* they'll be stored? Duh!
Just posting to say I agree with your post 100%. People complain abou the duped articles on Slashdot and, at the same time, moderators are constantly modding up articles that are (for all practical purposes) just as duped!
the ESRB isn't actually about allowing gamers to be informed about their purchases, or about allowing parents to responsibly monitor and regulate the video game usage of their children. Those things are just halfhearted side effects. The ESRB is about feeding and indulging hysteria and media hype concerning video games. With this goal in mind, of course, the ability to mod a game to unlock or insert porn becomes very much the ESRB's business.
Realistically, you have two choices in this matter:
1) The ESRB can rate games
2) The US Government can rate games
Which do you prefer?
Having every game be unrated isn't an option for a bunch of different reasons: people don't have time to research every purchase to that level, games that initially appear fine for kids (Conker) may later on have objectionable content, etc.
Personally, I think the ESRB is doing a good job, and I think it's doing a much BETTER job than the MPAA does rating movies. (How the hell did Scary Movie, with a scene where a man is killed by a penis being jabbed into his skull, get an 'R' rating!?)
The ESRB doesn't feed media hype, in fact they do the exact opposite: they're the ones lobbying *against* government laws about video game content. (Like the recent restriction on video games that Washington State was trying to pass.)
Play Halo 2, then come back and tell me that with a straight face.
No.
Sadly, this joke could have been funny if you had said: "this gives new meaning to the phrase 'Dennis the Menace'" But the meaning of the comic strip is the same as always: boring crap.
Ok, I can't speak for Ubuntu or Linux in general, but:
Unlike Windows where no sound hardware is autodetected.
is a BLATENT LIE! Just yesterday I plugged a Soundblaster 128 (sound hardware) into a Windows box and booted it up. It took about 45 seconds for Windows to detect it, install the correct drivers, and start playing nice beep sounds.
If you're going to lie about things, at least make them slightly convincing.
All gibberish. What are you actually *saying*? It sounds like the rant at timecube.com.
I dunno, there's stuff you can explain that I haven't figured out yet.
For instance, how do you get Firefox to display a page of recent RSS entries? How do I open the "home page" the Live Bookmark came from without adding another pointless bookmark to the menu? How do I get Firefox to track which Live Bookmarks I've already read and which I haven't?
"don't want to use a bloated desktop" is an entirely different reason from "can't control things with scripts." If you meant the latter, you should have said the latter.
I do have magnify off, that's not the problem. The problem is that the Dock thinks you're trying to "dock" the icon you're dragging, so it moves the trashcan out of the way to make room for it... then when you move the icon down to where the trashcan went, the trashcan moved back where it was and you miss it again. (This effect is most noticable when you have the dock anchored and not centered.) It does this even though I've used OS X for years without ever "docking" a single icon, but throwing thousands of icons away.
Considering a HUGE proportion of those questions made no damn sense, had typos that would make them un-parsable to a computer, or have answers that are either ambiguous or plain wrong... yes, that's what I think.
The idea might have merit, but I doubt that dataset does.
So a project you started in 2000 is only useful after reading a book by Michael Spivey that isn't being released until September 2005?
... that you're a looney.
Well, you've convinced me!
Seriously, though, you've been compiling these "mindpixels" for five years, and not yet have you found an actual use for the information? You can't even type out a quick example on a web forum?
Tell me the truth, Mindpixel, is this all just a huge prank? Seriously... do you even believe your own babble there? Do you seriously think that this collection of "facts" are going to be useful to any body for any purpose?
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but they're pretty damn slow on my DSL connection. It usually ends up uploading the file 2-3 times before I get an entire downloaded copy... it really makes me feel like I'm getting ripped-off when I use bittorrent.
Wow, no matter what the topic, you have to go figure out a way to get Bush-bashing in it, don't you? Brilliant.