I always enjoyed the human female skins in Neverwinter Nights... as long as the camera was zoomed out (the way you normally played), the model was attractive and moved realistically, etc. But when you zoomed in, suddenly she had all these crows feet on her face and looked 90 years old... it was almost surreal-weird. I guess the developers either did it on purpose as some kind of joke, or just assumed nobody would zoom in that far and didn't fix a bug.
You're not really advancing the "sensitive male cause" here by linking that as the first comment. Neither are the moderators who modded it up. (And come on, guys, hasn't everyone seen it a dozen times already anyway?)
The only Space Shuttle with a cargo bay large enough to hold Hubble was Columbia. No longer an option.
To use any of the other shuttles would require major, major structural modifications to them-- probably more expensive than just repairing it and leaving them there. And, as another poster pointed out, shuttles aren't designed to land with cargo, so more modification would be needed to bulk up the landing gear and drag chutes.
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It also doesn't use the OS X spellchecker in text fields. If it did, I'd never have to use Safari for things like, hmm, this forum post for instance.
I can't really answer that as my wimpiest machine is 640 MB and I don't notice is being TOO bloated on it... it sure sucks up a lot of RAM in Windows, though.
What annoys me the most is that Firefox text fields don't support the built-in OS X spell checker. Oh, and that when tabbed browsing is turned on, the default is for Firefox to display an error message in a dialog (and leave a blank tab) instead of to put the error message in the tab where you can try reloading the page. I know you can tweak that in about:config, but it should be default when in tabbed browsing. (I have no problem with error dialogs in non-tabbed browsing mode.)
I know I shouldn't admit this, but I think that Geico commercial is about the funniest thing I've ever seen. Both because the request is so stupid, and because the Geico ad executive talks in that awkward deadpan voice.
I also love the Starburst commercial where the lumberjacks are eating trees, because it reminds me of a Pokey Comic. Yes, off topic.
It confuses me now when I read walkthroughs of cross-platform games. I was reading a walkthrough of Whiplash and the author for whatever reasons described the controls by the buttons you press, the function. (i.e. he'd type "push the square button," not "push the jump button.") As an Xbox owner, that was pretty damned confusing until I figured it out.
But did you write the author of the article and point of the inaccuracies? The problem with reading the article, then giving up and coming here to comment instead, is that the people who read the article in print won't ever get to see the feedback you just left-- unless by some miracle the author happens upon this Slashdot page and reads all the comments, then decides to publish some.
Wouldn't it be better to point out these inaccuracies in email to the author of the article so when he publishes his reader mail, other readers will see them?
For that to happen, at some point some Linux software company would have to cough up the dough for *legal* MP3 and DVD codecs. It's been, what, 8 years since DVDs came out and not a single Linux software company has ever paid for the license... good luck with that.
No, I work at a hospital as you might have gleaned. We keep normal corporate hours. We don't get Flag Day off, we don't get Columbus Day off. Would be nice if we did.
Uh, from reading the review, it sounds like the RadioShark would be able to do this. I don't know what level of precision the time shifting uses, but from the screenshots it looks like you can shift it only a few seconds back if you're careful with your mouse.
Or you can hit pause, wait 3 seconds, then hit resume. That should do it, also.
There's a new technology some US stations are using called "HD Radio" (like HD TV I guess,) which supposedly broadcasts digital CD-quality sound along with the type of information you're talking about: song titles, albums, artists, name of the DJ, show name, etc.
Problem is, a reciever for it costs $800. YIKES! I'll just buy an iPod and a FM transmitter for that price.
No 107.7 The End in Seattle? The station that discovered Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Presidents of the United States of America? The station with the best DJs and least advertising on the west coast?
But you have a million 107.8 stations in Europe... why would I want to record local shows on my favorite station when I could listen to 107.8 in Prague? (I hope the radio you sell has a LONG antenna...)
I agree. If you get inside your characters mind, you'll realize that they don't know that they're "nerfed" (I hate that term). They don't even know what "level" and "experience" they are... those are all concepts outside of the In Character world of the game.
And since very few people understand that, that's why all *true* RP games are MUDs. (Where the players can more easily be trained to tell the difference between In Character constructs and Out Of Character constructs.)
Other replies have said that it's definately World of Warcraft. But pretty much all the games out there now have Gnomes, and all of them have psuedo-Tolkien-sounding city names.
Try working in the public sector. Our management is so afraid that the public will see us getting a perk (and then vote down the next levy because 'those Hospital guys did a river cruise!') that the best we get is ice cream once a quarter.
I don't see any reason that Word Processors and Page Layout programs should be different applications-- and I think the Microsoft Word and Apple's Pages team agrees.
As far as software goes, Word Processing isn't really all that complex... and since 99.9% of people will immediately lay out their page after typing it, why not combine the two?
Last time I used OpenOffice it didn't have revision tracking... or at least I couldn't figure out how to use it. In addition, it couldn't open Word files which had revision tracking data, producing only a garbled mess.
Maybe it's because nobody, apart from Slashdot, really cares if something is free software or not? Even if they use Firefox, they probably don't know or care that they could look at the source code if they wanted.
Well, they're compiling everything now with that new compiler that supposedly prevents/eliminates buffer overflow errors. (I believe all of Windows XP SP2 was compiled with this compiler.) So that will help quite a bit.
As for other types of security problems, I don't know enough to say.
The firewall was on by default even in the first release of Windows XP *if* you told XP during setup you were a DSL/Cable customer. If you told XP you were connecting through a LAN, it didn't turn on the firewall (assuming that the LAN administrator already had a good one running, apparently.)
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I always enjoyed the human female skins in Neverwinter Nights... as long as the camera was zoomed out (the way you normally played), the model was attractive and moved realistically, etc. But when you zoomed in, suddenly she had all these crows feet on her face and looked 90 years old... it was almost surreal-weird. I guess the developers either did it on purpose as some kind of joke, or just assumed nobody would zoom in that far and didn't fix a bug.
You're not really advancing the "sensitive male cause" here by linking that as the first comment. Neither are the moderators who modded it up. (And come on, guys, hasn't everyone seen it a dozen times already anyway?)
The only Space Shuttle with a cargo bay large enough to hold Hubble was Columbia. No longer an option.
To use any of the other shuttles would require major, major structural modifications to them-- probably more expensive than just repairing it and leaving them there. And, as another poster pointed out, shuttles aren't designed to land with cargo, so more modification would be needed to bulk up the landing gear and drag chutes.
It also doesn't use the OS X spellchecker in text fields. If it did, I'd never have to use Safari for things like, hmm, this forum post for instance.
I can't really answer that as my wimpiest machine is 640 MB and I don't notice is being TOO bloated on it... it sure sucks up a lot of RAM in Windows, though.
What annoys me the most is that Firefox text fields don't support the built-in OS X spell checker. Oh, and that when tabbed browsing is turned on, the default is for Firefox to display an error message in a dialog (and leave a blank tab) instead of to put the error message in the tab where you can try reloading the page. I know you can tweak that in about:config, but it should be default when in tabbed browsing. (I have no problem with error dialogs in non-tabbed browsing mode.)
I know I shouldn't admit this, but I think that Geico commercial is about the funniest thing I've ever seen. Both because the request is so stupid, and because the Geico ad executive talks in that awkward deadpan voice.
I also love the Starburst commercial where the lumberjacks are eating trees, because it reminds me of a Pokey Comic. Yes, off topic.
It confuses me now when I read walkthroughs of cross-platform games. I was reading a walkthrough of Whiplash and the author for whatever reasons described the controls by the buttons you press, the function. (i.e. he'd type "push the square button," not "push the jump button.") As an Xbox owner, that was pretty damned confusing until I figured it out.
I'm genuinely curious here, not trolling...
But did you write the author of the article and point of the inaccuracies? The problem with reading the article, then giving up and coming here to comment instead, is that the people who read the article in print won't ever get to see the feedback you just left-- unless by some miracle the author happens upon this Slashdot page and reads all the comments, then decides to publish some.
Wouldn't it be better to point out these inaccuracies in email to the author of the article so when he publishes his reader mail, other readers will see them?
For that to happen, at some point some Linux software company would have to cough up the dough for *legal* MP3 and DVD codecs. It's been, what, 8 years since DVDs came out and not a single Linux software company has ever paid for the license... good luck with that.
How about people just type stuff, hit "go," and it works?
No, I work at a hospital as you might have gleaned. We keep normal corporate hours. We don't get Flag Day off, we don't get Columbus Day off. Would be nice if we did.
Uh, from reading the review, it sounds like the RadioShark would be able to do this. I don't know what level of precision the time shifting uses, but from the screenshots it looks like you can shift it only a few seconds back if you're careful with your mouse.
Or you can hit pause, wait 3 seconds, then hit resume. That should do it, also.
There's a new technology some US stations are using called "HD Radio" (like HD TV I guess,) which supposedly broadcasts digital CD-quality sound along with the type of information you're talking about: song titles, albums, artists, name of the DJ, show name, etc.
Problem is, a reciever for it costs $800. YIKES! I'll just buy an iPod and a FM transmitter for that price.
No 107.7 The End in Seattle? The station that discovered Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Presidents of the United States of America? The station with the best DJs and least advertising on the west coast?
But you have a million 107.8 stations in Europe... why would I want to record local shows on my favorite station when I could listen to 107.8 in Prague? (I hope the radio you sell has a LONG antenna...)
I agree. If you get inside your characters mind, you'll realize that they don't know that they're "nerfed" (I hate that term). They don't even know what "level" and "experience" they are... those are all concepts outside of the In Character world of the game.
And since very few people understand that, that's why all *true* RP games are MUDs. (Where the players can more easily be trained to tell the difference between In Character constructs and Out Of Character constructs.)
I love Slashdot "reporting."
Other replies have said that it's definately World of Warcraft. But pretty much all the games out there now have Gnomes, and all of them have psuedo-Tolkien-sounding city names.
Try working in the public sector. Our management is so afraid that the public will see us getting a perk (and then vote down the next levy because 'those Hospital guys did a river cruise!') that the best we get is ice cream once a quarter.
It sucks.
Well, now it's rephrased. Amazing.
Yeah and it had a guy who carried two swords, and the swords had ROCKETS IN THE HANDLES! OH MY GOD I'M EXPLODING WITH AWESOME!
Not changed. Google's image search is basically a Google 404 error search. Something like 75% of the results it comes up with are 404 errors.
I don't see any reason that Word Processors and Page Layout programs should be different applications-- and I think the Microsoft Word and Apple's Pages team agrees.
As far as software goes, Word Processing isn't really all that complex... and since 99.9% of people will immediately lay out their page after typing it, why not combine the two?
Last time I used OpenOffice it didn't have revision tracking... or at least I couldn't figure out how to use it. In addition, it couldn't open Word files which had revision tracking data, producing only a garbled mess.
Maybe it's because nobody, apart from Slashdot, really cares if something is free software or not? Even if they use Firefox, they probably don't know or care that they could look at the source code if they wanted.
Well, they're compiling everything now with that new compiler that supposedly prevents/eliminates buffer overflow errors. (I believe all of Windows XP SP2 was compiled with this compiler.) So that will help quite a bit.
As for other types of security problems, I don't know enough to say.
The firewall was on by default even in the first release of Windows XP *if* you told XP during setup you were a DSL/Cable customer. If you told XP you were connecting through a LAN, it didn't turn on the firewall (assuming that the LAN administrator already had a good one running, apparently.)