Now back to Bloodrayne 2... I've figured out the combo where you whip them into the fireplace, but I don't have the angle right to throw them into the elk antlers where they get impaled...
Especially stupid since both OS X 10.3 and Windows XP support.zip natively and StuffIt is equally available on both platforms.
I mean, I have no problem with them giving the user an option of which format they want, but to imply that StuffIt *only* runs on MacOS or that.zip *only* applies to Windows... that's just stupid. Either that, or their webmaster is stuck in 1998 where that distinction might make sense...
It could encourage others to mod their XBox. Modding your XBox and playing before the Nov. 9th release isn't hard, you know, especially if you have a buddy who's already gone through the process.
If you don't own an XBox, in what way are you Bungie's customer?
Look, piracy is a pain in the ass for everyone. Do you think I want some jackass to spoil the story for me because they have no respect for the effort Bungie put forth to create the game? Of course not. I would rather see them hanging from a lamppost.
At least the Valve code leak was 1) not playable, and 2) did an (arguable) public service by revealing that the game was nowhere near completion. This leak is just some asshole.
Bungie is Microsoft, but they are as independent as well. Microsoft doesn't really interfere with what they do, and Bungie doesn't really get involved with anything outside of what they do. At least, that was the situation around the release of the first HALO.
Yeah, well, we use it because... well, we've always used it. So we have some applications that require it, and switching would be very expensive. Besides, Lotus Notes wasn't AS terrible in the 4.x days. Still bad, just more tolerable.
I agree with you entirely. I think this sequel is going to be missing the aspects that made the original so great. (And when I say the original, I mean *all* the original games... PoP, PoP 2, and Sands of Time all focused on the puzzles over the combat, and all had a tightly integrated storyline that moved the game along nicely.)
Why would they get rid of Farah? Both as a love interest and as a gameplay element, Farah was pretty much what MADE the first game work. Farah was the mouse in the first PoP, but evolved to its logical conclusion. (Now, given how the story works, yeah it makes sense that Farah herself would not be in the second game, but does the Prince have any similar companion? All the previews I've seen give me the impression that he goes it alone.)
Lotus Notes is a combination Email, Calendar, Contact application like Microsoft Outlook/Exchange. Instead of keeping emails and other data in a nice sensible format, Notes puts everything inside of various databases... for example, each user has their own file (blakey_rat.mail) that is a database containing your email and dates.
The GOOD thing about this is that the database engine is powerful enough that you can do more with Notes/Domino than just email. For instance, where I work we have our set of policies and procedures in a Notes database that all email users can connect to and view.
The BAD thing about it is that Lotus Notes is the worst piece of shit software I've ever used in my life. It stores everything server side EXCEPT the address book, which will bite you in the ass the first time you move a user from one computer to the other. The GUI doesn't use ANY Windows conventions, MacOS conventions, or Linux conventions, and basically looks and behaves like something an alien would design after spending one week on earth. It's wildly inconsistant. (In some text fields, the mouse scroll wheel will scroll a page at a time; in others, it'll scroll a line at a time; and in others the scrollwheel does nothing at all.)
Some of the things it does seem designed SPECIFICALLY so that users lose data. (For instance, if you recieve a Word file in an attachment, you can 'open' it from a contextual menu. This lets you edit the file and save it, which is great... what is NOT great is that it doesn't move the file outside of the temp folder when editing, so Notes deletes it when it's done with the email. I've had like twenty users lose data that way. There seems to be no way to disable the 'edit' contextual menu item.)
And that's not even mentioning how HUGE, SLOW and BLOATED the application is. God forbid you minimize the Notes client and then want to write an email! Be prepared for several *minutes* of disk-thrashing before the GUI is responsive again.
In short, Notes is a piece of shit. AVOID if possible.
That is the most inane post I have ever seen in my life. Seriously. I congratulate you. Not only did you utterly waste my time it took to read that, but you managed to get modded up so that most others will also utterly waste their time reading it.
What about the heavily anticipated XBox CRPG Sudeki?
Man, the game looked awesome from all the previews. But whoever did the voice acting needs to be shot, and I'm not even making that up. It's more than painful. Every review of the game mentions the terrible voicework. The game would have been about 3 times better with only subtitles. You have to skip all the cutscenes and ignore all the dialog just to manage to get through the whole thing without vomiting all over your couch--- it's that bad!
Another point, although implicit in what you said:
6) MacOS X users will *not* use the X11 version unless they're converted from the Linux/Unix world. I look at pretty much any X11 app and I puke from the crappy interfaces because I've been using MacOS since version 7. Most Mac users are the same way. You can't say "well, it runs in X11 and that's good enough" because it's not.
I think this is also the reason that OO.org's big flaw is how it handles Microsoft Word revision tracking. Any Word document I open that's had revision tracking on loses pretty much all the revisions except the last one, and I think that's a limitation of how OO.org handles such things. But I admit I don't know a lot about it, and I don't use it on a day-to-day basis (mostly because it mangles revision tracking.;)
I find it funny how this site always has the same discussion though:
OO.org is good enough to replace Office! No it's not. Well, why not? I haven't even encountered a document it can't import! Then you don't work somewhere that uses revision tracking or VB scripts.
Hah. You know you've already lost if a huge tech news sites links to your product using the name of your main rival!
Seriously, though, who's in charge of the linking around here? Linking the word "iPod" to a device that is certainly NOT an iPod is going to screw up Google sooner or later.
Try that today when you're at the 16-plex with 3000 other people on a Friday night, staffed with 16 year-olds who don't really give a shit what your problems are.
Don't be an asshole! Have you TRIED? I usher at a theater in 2001, a brand-new, just-opened theater and yes it was staffed with young people but, you know what? We ALWAYS would note where people expecting calls were sitting, and we would ALWAYS enter the theater if they got a call and tell them about it. You say the statement above but, and be honest, have you TRIED it?
If your attitude to the staff of the theater is anything like your attitude in this post, then it's no wonder they won't help you!
The first movie I saw where that REALLY hit home was The Abyss. Now I know some people don't think it's all that great a movie, but when I was a young teenager and sitting in that theater and you're surrounded by the ocean, under the ocean, and it's just amazing. And I don't care what other people think of the movie, the fight sequence between the two mini-subs is the most amazing action sequence I've ever seen.
Fortunately, this was before cell phones were popular and there were no distractions.
A technology to automatically switch the phone into silent mode would require the cooperation of all the phone makers to install the circuit in their phones, PLUS it wouldn't work with existing phones which will be around years from now, PLUS you always end up with the situation where maybe one of the companies refuses to put the circuit in, or makes it so it can be easily turned off.
Jammers work right now this instant, not 5 years from now maybe.
I was a theater usher in 2001 and I did this all the time for people. They were always polite about it, and I was always polite to them... you don't realize how BORING it is to be an usher when all the movies are going. It's like 10 minutes of work between features, then 1:30 of sweeping before the features let out. I'd MUCH rather go fetch people in theaters than sweep the halls. Plus, sometimes I got tipped.
I like how people always fall for that same troll, every single time it's posted. Come on, people, you honestly haven't seen that text before marked as 'troll?'
I don't want to spend 10 hours setting up my PC to emulate Super Smash Bros (not even a current-gen game!), going to find N64-to-USB controller adaptors, certainly not in even store on the block, hooking up your computer to the TV, having to MOVE your computer into the living room and have it stick out like a sore thumb atop your nice entertainment center, having to slide your 200lb TV around to get at the s-video port, having to buy a video card with s-video out and get drivers... yikes!
All that to play Smash Bros? You're fucking nuts, man. Sure you CAN do it, but hell, my XBox is there all the time... playing a 4-player XBox game involves unravelling a few controller cords, hitting TV/Video twice, then sitting back.
Now, wait a minute. Ok, let's assume the XBox 2 has no backwards compatibility, a likely scenario.
The XBox 1 has a network port and a HD, good display hardware, good sound hardware, and a decently powerful CPU. Just because the XBox 2 is released does not mean the XBox 1 has reached it's end of life! Heck, look at the new services that Microsoft is adding to XBox Live... they're adding MSN/PopCap games like Bejeweled you can play online with others, they've added voicemail and chat (without requiring a game in the drive) to Live. Heck, at $150, you could just use it as an Internet phone! It's not much more expensive than other offerings in that area.
With an itsy bit of re-designing, the XBox could be re-released as highly functional PVR that also happens to be able to play games, or Microsoft could actually put out some good media center software for it.
In short, just because the XBox 2 is coming does not mean the XBox 1 is end-of-life.
I'm not sure you could say that the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube have trumped the Playstation and XBox respectively.
Well, XBox might be arguable, but there's no way you can realistically consider the Nintendo 64 more successful than the Playstation. And the XBox just does so much *more* than the Gamecube does, you know?
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Now back to Bloodrayne 2... I've figured out the combo where you whip them into the fireplace, but I don't have the angle right to throw them into the elk antlers where they get impaled...
Especially stupid since both OS X 10.3 and Windows XP support .zip natively and StuffIt is equally available on both platforms.
.zip *only* applies to Windows... that's just stupid. Either that, or their webmaster is stuck in 1998 where that distinction might make sense...
I mean, I have no problem with them giving the user an option of which format they want, but to imply that StuffIt *only* runs on MacOS or that
It could encourage others to mod their XBox. Modding your XBox and playing before the Nov. 9th release isn't hard, you know, especially if you have a buddy who's already gone through the process.
If you don't own an XBox, in what way are you Bungie's customer?
Look, piracy is a pain in the ass for everyone. Do you think I want some jackass to spoil the story for me because they have no respect for the effort Bungie put forth to create the game? Of course not. I would rather see them hanging from a lamppost.
At least the Valve code leak was 1) not playable, and 2) did an (arguable) public service by revealing that the game was nowhere near completion. This leak is just some asshole.
Bungie is Microsoft, but they are as independent as well. Microsoft doesn't really interfere with what they do, and Bungie doesn't really get involved with anything outside of what they do. At least, that was the situation around the release of the first HALO.
Yeah, well, we use it because... well, we've always used it. So we have some applications that require it, and switching would be very expensive. Besides, Lotus Notes wasn't AS terrible in the 4.x days. Still bad, just more tolerable.
I agree with you entirely. I think this sequel is going to be missing the aspects that made the original so great. (And when I say the original, I mean *all* the original games... PoP, PoP 2, and Sands of Time all focused on the puzzles over the combat, and all had a tightly integrated storyline that moved the game along nicely.)
Why would they get rid of Farah? Both as a love interest and as a gameplay element, Farah was pretty much what MADE the first game work. Farah was the mouse in the first PoP, but evolved to its logical conclusion. (Now, given how the story works, yeah it makes sense that Farah herself would not be in the second game, but does the Prince have any similar companion? All the previews I've seen give me the impression that he goes it alone.)
Anyway. I'll wait for the reviews.
Let me guess, you've never used Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes is a combination Email, Calendar, Contact application like Microsoft Outlook/Exchange. Instead of keeping emails and other data in a nice sensible format, Notes puts everything inside of various databases... for example, each user has their own file (blakey_rat.mail) that is a database containing your email and dates.
The GOOD thing about this is that the database engine is powerful enough that you can do more with Notes/Domino than just email. For instance, where I work we have our set of policies and procedures in a Notes database that all email users can connect to and view.
The BAD thing about it is that Lotus Notes is the worst piece of shit software I've ever used in my life. It stores everything server side EXCEPT the address book, which will bite you in the ass the first time you move a user from one computer to the other. The GUI doesn't use ANY Windows conventions, MacOS conventions, or Linux conventions, and basically looks and behaves like something an alien would design after spending one week on earth. It's wildly inconsistant. (In some text fields, the mouse scroll wheel will scroll a page at a time; in others, it'll scroll a line at a time; and in others the scrollwheel does nothing at all.)
Some of the things it does seem designed SPECIFICALLY so that users lose data. (For instance, if you recieve a Word file in an attachment, you can 'open' it from a contextual menu. This lets you edit the file and save it, which is great... what is NOT great is that it doesn't move the file outside of the temp folder when editing, so Notes deletes it when it's done with the email. I've had like twenty users lose data that way. There seems to be no way to disable the 'edit' contextual menu item.)
And that's not even mentioning how HUGE, SLOW and BLOATED the application is. God forbid you minimize the Notes client and then want to write an email! Be prepared for several *minutes* of disk-thrashing before the GUI is responsive again.
In short, Notes is a piece of shit. AVOID if possible.
That is the most inane post I have ever seen in my life. Seriously. I congratulate you. Not only did you utterly waste my time it took to read that, but you managed to get modded up so that most others will also utterly waste their time reading it.
So this means I can surf with NO hands on the keyboard? Think of the possibilities.
...
Yeah!
No, can't think of any...
What about the heavily anticipated XBox CRPG Sudeki?
Man, the game looked awesome from all the previews. But whoever did the voice acting needs to be shot, and I'm not even making that up. It's more than painful. Every review of the game mentions the terrible voicework. The game would have been about 3 times better with only subtitles. You have to skip all the cutscenes and ignore all the dialog just to manage to get through the whole thing without vomiting all over your couch--- it's that bad!
Another point, although implicit in what you said:
6) MacOS X users will *not* use the X11 version unless they're converted from the Linux/Unix world. I look at pretty much any X11 app and I puke from the crappy interfaces because I've been using MacOS since version 7. Most Mac users are the same way. You can't say "well, it runs in X11 and that's good enough" because it's not.
I think this is also the reason that OO.org's big flaw is how it handles Microsoft Word revision tracking. Any Word document I open that's had revision tracking on loses pretty much all the revisions except the last one, and I think that's a limitation of how OO.org handles such things. But I admit I don't know a lot about it, and I don't use it on a day-to-day basis (mostly because it mangles revision tracking. ;)
I find it funny how this site always has the same discussion though:
OO.org is good enough to replace Office!
No it's not.
Well, why not? I haven't even encountered a document it can't import!
Then you don't work somewhere that uses revision tracking or VB scripts.
Hah. You know you've already lost if a huge tech news sites links to your product using the name of your main rival!
Seriously, though, who's in charge of the linking around here? Linking the word "iPod" to a device that is certainly NOT an iPod is going to screw up Google sooner or later.
No, because my PC is not in the living room, and I'm sure as hell not going to move it there. It's a completely different situation.
Try that today when you're at the 16-plex with 3000 other people on a Friday night, staffed with 16 year-olds who don't really give a shit what your problems are.
Don't be an asshole! Have you TRIED? I usher at a theater in 2001, a brand-new, just-opened theater and yes it was staffed with young people but, you know what? We ALWAYS would note where people expecting calls were sitting, and we would ALWAYS enter the theater if they got a call and tell them about it. You say the statement above but, and be honest, have you TRIED it?
If your attitude to the staff of the theater is anything like your attitude in this post, then it's no wonder they won't help you!
The first movie I saw where that REALLY hit home was The Abyss. Now I know some people don't think it's all that great a movie, but when I was a young teenager and sitting in that theater and you're surrounded by the ocean, under the ocean, and it's just amazing. And I don't care what other people think of the movie, the fight sequence between the two mini-subs is the most amazing action sequence I've ever seen.
Fortunately, this was before cell phones were popular and there were no distractions.
The difference is that a jammer works *now*.
A technology to automatically switch the phone into silent mode would require the cooperation of all the phone makers to install the circuit in their phones, PLUS it wouldn't work with existing phones which will be around years from now, PLUS you always end up with the situation where maybe one of the companies refuses to put the circuit in, or makes it so it can be easily turned off.
Jammers work right now this instant, not 5 years from now maybe.
I was a theater usher in 2001 and I did this all the time for people. They were always polite about it, and I was always polite to them... you don't realize how BORING it is to be an usher when all the movies are going. It's like 10 minutes of work between features, then 1:30 of sweeping before the features let out. I'd MUCH rather go fetch people in theaters than sweep the halls. Plus, sometimes I got tipped.
Sure. Sounds like a plan.
There are ads like that in the US, also. One has a catchy theme-song:
"It's inconsiderate cell-phone-man! So inappropriate!"
And shows him answering phones during his own wedding, at funerals, during church, during a first date, etc.
I like how people always fall for that same troll, every single time it's posted. Come on, people, you honestly haven't seen that text before marked as 'troll?'
Insightful? Did Slashdot import a bunch of chimps to do moderation or something?
Yeah, but look at the effort you went through!
I don't want to spend 10 hours setting up my PC to emulate Super Smash Bros (not even a current-gen game!), going to find N64-to-USB controller adaptors, certainly not in even store on the block, hooking up your computer to the TV, having to MOVE your computer into the living room and have it stick out like a sore thumb atop your nice entertainment center, having to slide your 200lb TV around to get at the s-video port, having to buy a video card with s-video out and get drivers... yikes!
All that to play Smash Bros? You're fucking nuts, man. Sure you CAN do it, but hell, my XBox is there all the time... playing a 4-player XBox game involves unravelling a few controller cords, hitting TV/Video twice, then sitting back.
Now, wait a minute. Ok, let's assume the XBox 2 has no backwards compatibility, a likely scenario.
The XBox 1 has a network port and a HD, good display hardware, good sound hardware, and a decently powerful CPU. Just because the XBox 2 is released does not mean the XBox 1 has reached it's end of life! Heck, look at the new services that Microsoft is adding to XBox Live... they're adding MSN/PopCap games like Bejeweled you can play online with others, they've added voicemail and chat (without requiring a game in the drive) to Live. Heck, at $150, you could just use it as an Internet phone! It's not much more expensive than other offerings in that area.
With an itsy bit of re-designing, the XBox could be re-released as highly functional PVR that also happens to be able to play games, or Microsoft could actually put out some good media center software for it.
In short, just because the XBox 2 is coming does not mean the XBox 1 is end-of-life.
I'm not sure you could say that the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube have trumped the Playstation and XBox respectively.
Well, XBox might be arguable, but there's no way you can realistically consider the Nintendo 64 more successful than the Playstation. And the XBox just does so much *more* than the Gamecube does, you know?