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). Bah.The idea of buying a game and playing it RIGHT NOW seems outdated. Buy from Steam and spend the same amount of time downloading the game in the first placeYeah, but what surprised me was: I was playing an offline game, why couldn't they just let me play the game right away, download the update on the background and then ask me to install it later? Or at the very least, have an option for "do you want to upgrade right now"? Honestly, I've always been a fan of steam since I've first found out about it until now, and I think it really has the power to revolutionize the way we buy games, but I'm really disappointed with this experience-cranioscopical (July 16, 2011, 10:45 AM)
Good luck getting a response from Steam support, any queries of mine have gone unanswered.I hope not! I'll wait a few days and then activate amazon's support, as I know they are pretty efficient in these matters. (I'm just trying to avoid it as steam's solution would be instantaneous, whereas amazon would steal me even more time)-cranioscopical (July 16, 2011, 10:45 AM)
](playing off laser) Lazar, as in Lazarus: Popular back-from-the-dead guy in the bible.You guys really are exceeding yourselves, there's not even an ice cube's chance in hell I'd ever get that one-Stoic Joker (July 05, 2011, 11:07 AM)
Additionally, I get a distinct 'the user is an idiot' feeling from the website; if they go to the website, nobody wants to waste 3s staring at a logo, then eventually figuring hey I have to scroll down despite having a gigantic screen that I got to minimize the need to scroll. Websites are intended to supply information; yours just gets in the way of its purpose in the same way those MPAA 'do not steal', FBI etc screens on a movie get in the way of what the (in that case legit!) user wants to do: watch their movie. The current website seems designed as if it were a presentation: because when someone is talking alongside sheets, you don't want tons of texts, and you have distinct screens to go with subjects.I had a similar feeling. Even thought the site shows that you have knowledge and taste to make a good-looking and polished site, it *must* be to-the-point, and I feel that first screen in particular may make you lose potential clients. In particular, had I not known that the site actually had content, for example if I got there from a software listing site's "developer website" link, I would have left when I saw the first screen, thinking it was still in development and the entry screen was a placeholder for the new site.-worstje (June 29, 2011, 07:01 AM)
the question is.. do they need to be made to select?As a computer user, I'd say yes. I expect these shortcuts to work in all programs and I'm very used to using them. Even in mac, it was one of the first shortcuts I've learned to use and I really miss them when working in the console and in vim.-mouser (June 25, 2011, 10:59 PM)
Actually, now that I've seen app's WOT profile, I think my post should refer app and not mouserescape his sight because his cat distracts him-jgpaiva (June 21, 2011, 06:04 AM)
That must be one skillful cat to distract mouser even for a split second. Hurray for the cat then.-eleman (June 21, 2011, 06:07 AM)
So, hurray for app's cat ]
Found out that Truecrypt can't encrypt the OSX boot drive (like it can for Windows), and that FileVault (OSX's Home folder encryption system) is buggy and not as secure as one may be lead to believe.You do *not* want to activate FileVault-wreckedcarzz (June 18, 2011, 09:04 PM)
Glad to know that!FWIW, my Asus EeePC 1005HA-P (netbook I bought back in 09 because my then-primary laptop's screen broke off) has all those features, including the "extra ones," built in. And the "clicker" is one button, but does both left and right click.I don't know how it works on your Asus, but my sister has one from 2008 with some of these features and the gestures are terribly inaccurate and keep triggering stuff you are not doing, I even had to disable them. From what I understand, what Apple did with their touchpad was replace it with something like the iphone surface, so it's a much more accurate and truly multi touch surface which actually does what you want it to do. If you ever have the opportunity, you should try it to see the difference.-wreckedcarzz (June 12, 2011, 07:37 PM)
They disable right click by default .... WTF !!!From what I know, the logic behind it is that the right mouse click "hides" options. So, they force the developers to make interfaces where the right mouse click is used as least as possible.-Carol Haynes (June 12, 2011, 05:22 AM)
One of my pet hates with Macs is the mouse/mousepad. I particularly hate that you can't tap the mousepad to click - my bottom is more ergonomic than thatActually, that's not true (at least not in the recent macs). The touchpads do pretty much everything that PC laptops do (form "tap to click" to "tap and drag" to drag/select) and wayyyy more (two fingers to scroll, pinch, rotate and if you install BetterTouchTool, you can customize a ton of gestures using several fingers and stuff like that). And all that way more smoothly that I've seen in any PC.-Carol Haynes (June 12, 2011, 05:22 AM)
I despise having one damn mouse button.Actually, they may have given up on that-wreckedcarzz (June 11, 2011, 11:09 PM)
The recent versions (my imac a macbook are from 2009) all have right-click, even though you have to enable it in the "control panel", since it is disabled by default 
