jeeva

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by jeeva 11y ago
>It's kind of how if everyone is allowed to cheat to pass an exam, the ones that don't want to cheat (even if the exam is so hard that they could fail) would be seen as fools (and arguably would be fools for taking the chance t
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by jeeva 11y ago
It's equal opportunity, at the very least. To my mind that _is_ more fair. ...but I disagree with the idea of doping up the entire competing body, for what it's worth.
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by jeeva 11y ago
Yep - Surface is running full-fat Windows on an Intel Atom processor. No restrictions, there.
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by jeeva 11y ago
Neocron was the last game/MMO I remember that I remember handing over hard-earned items to community-trusted folk for repair / construction. ...I do miss that sort of thing.
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by jeeva 11y ago
I seem to remember this being in the book "The Sphere", though I might be wrong. I actually always thought that it was something rarely-used-but-possible. The overlap between close-to-current sci-fi and real life in my brain is oc
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by jeeva 11y ago
It amuses me that the article states that it's only available in bundles, not on-own - then has a screenshot showing it being available.
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by jeeva 11y ago
Fantastic sales that generally happened more than two months after release, to be fair. I realise, of course, that it was released on other platforms before then. But it seems a little odd to pick on a two month old release. (Actually not q
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by jeeva 11y ago
If you've not run it at all, contacting Steam support (yes, painful) has apparently got a fairly good chance of getting you refunded. (Also you only get one refund / one refund per $lengthy_period)
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by jeeva 11y ago
Perhaps they mean Apple's design?
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by jeeva 11y ago
>If lone hobbyists can improve a game so much, can you imagine if a studio of 5-10 could make a viable living from modding? If this was viable, you'd think that studios would consider paying small teams to continue patching and gene
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by jeeva 12y ago
Yeah, I always see this sort of comment and worry that I'm the only person using guys/dude/folks as a catch-all. Quickly Googling seems to indicate that it's not set in stone, at least.
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by jeeva 12y ago
Speaking from a helpdesk perspective, user-caused breakages are rarely by design .
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by jeeva 12y ago
Just flicking between the two - either I'm completely tone deaf, or I just don't get what you mean. He says "everybody get up"? Is that what you mean?
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by jeeva 12y ago
Daemon, and the follow up Freedom(tm) are a few fantastic books. Don't be fooled by the start - it seems like a bit of a clichéd cop procedural, but rapidly evolves to an interesting glance at near-future sci-fi and augmented reality.
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by jeeva 12y ago
Let's be a little honest, though - this is a spectacular rebrand for 8.2, along with large user-visible changes (not forcing Metro) and some cool backend stuff. A lot of this stuff was originally going to be in the second service pack
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by jeeva 12y ago
The quote reminds me of the 'hairy arm' idea, which I quite enjoy. A quick Google gave me this: http://www.1099.com/c/co/in/insanity006.html
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by jeeva 12y ago
I'd rather hope that no lawsuit for a word as ambiguous as "Messenger" would ever make it past the laugh test... ...but I'm regularly disappointed.
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by jeeva 12y ago
As a question, what kind of percentage discount are you getting for this data exchange?
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by jeeva 12y ago
"Microsoft Studios includes 343 Industries, Turn 10 Studios, and Lionhead Studios just to name a few." Ouch.