> The most insidious I've found is some games have a 60 minute trial period. 
> You'll be happily playing the game and Bang! you're kicked out at 1 hour 
> with a message saying "You can continue playing if you pay up, NOW."

A lot of mobile phones I've seen recently have game demos that run for 
*seconds*, not minutes!

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scott wrote:

> 
> A lot of mobile phones I've seen recently have game demos that run for 
> *seconds*, not minutes!
> 

How can you form an impression of a game in seconds of gameplay?

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>> A lot of mobile phones I've seen recently have game demos that run for 
>> *seconds*, not minutes!
> 
> How can you form an impression of a game in seconds of gameplay?

It's a game for a mobile phone. How good can it possibly be?

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> It's a game for a mobile phone. How good can it possibly be?

I dunno, I've spent hours playing the 3D golf game that came on my phone. 
And even back in the days of black and white low resolution screens, I 
played the snake game and that bantumi???? game for ages.  You don't always 
need a multi-GHz CPU and 100W GPU to run a good game.

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scott wrote:
>> It's a game for a mobile phone. How good can it possibly be?
> 
> I dunno, I've spent hours playing the 3D golf game that came on my 
> phone. And even back in the days of black and white low resolution 
> screens, I played the snake game and that bantumi???? game for ages.  
> You don't always need a multi-GHz CPU and 100W GPU to run a good game.

What do you mean "back in the days"?

Well anyway, my new phone's Soduku kept me busy for all of about 3 
minutes, and then I got fed up of the awkward controls and tiny display.

Games don't have to be complex to be fun. (Tetris, anyone?) They *do* 
however need to be sufficiently devoid of irritating features like being 
hard to control or hard to see.

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And lo on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:40:09 +0100, Eero Ahonen  
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> did spake, saying:

> Invisible wrote:
>>  Even so, you would think there would have to be some kind of *cause*  
>> for this. The broken drive has been tried on another machine and found  
>> to not work there either. However, the person made a comment about a  
>> second USB drive having recently failed in exactly the same way. This  
>> makes me rather suspicious...
>>
>
> She might be removing[1] them without removing[2] them.
>
> [1] Physically
> [2] By the eject -command

But I thought the default option on XP was to allow that. Even if she had  
physically removed it the next time it was plugged in it would complain  
and ask if you wanted to run chkdsk.

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Invisible wrote:

> What do you mean "back in the days"?


An old Nokia color screen phone I had had some sort of platform-style 
game that was pretty addicting, controls made sense, too.

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Phil Cook wrote:
> 
> But I thought the default option on XP was to allow that. Even if she 
> had physically removed it the next time it was plugged in it would 
> complain and ask if you wanted to run chkdsk.
> 

Allowing it is theoretically possible, yes. If the filesystem is running 
synced, you can remove the USB-drive from the computer when there is no 
visual indication of usage of the USB-drive (this might be the default 
on XP, yes). If the filesystem is not running synced, the devices really 
needs to be ejected, since rest of the data will be written at the 
eject. Anyway, if you remove the drive from the computer when the 
computer is writing on it, you will have at least something corrupted - 
no matter if the drive is synced (and you have visual indication on 
screen) or not.

In easy language: if there's copying going on oslt, *DO NOT* remove the 
drive.

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Invisible wrote:
> Games don't have to be complex to be fun. (Tetris, anyone?) They *do*
> however need to be sufficiently devoid of irritating features like being
> hard to control or hard to see.

Agreed. Wonder why some phones come with games like golf (HUH??) instead of
snake or tetris or something like that.

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> >>  Even so, you would think there would have to be some kind of *cause*
> >> for this. The broken drive has been tried on another machine and found
> >> to not work there either. However, the person made a comment about a
> >> second USB drive having recently failed in exactly the same way. This
> >> makes me rather suspicious...
> >>
> >
> > She might be removing[1] them without removing[2] them.
> >
> > [1] Physically
> > [2] By the eject -command
>
> But I thought the default option on XP was to allow that. Even if she had
> physically removed it the next time it was plugged in it would complain
> and ask if you wanted to run chkdsk.



use frequently, takes up to 15 minutes to save a file to a USB drive! And then
more than often the file is unreadable afterwards.


file onto the hard drive first, and then use a file manager to copy it to the
USB drive.

I think the problem with data recovery is that things have gotten too
sophisticated, especially with USB.

Back in the days I used a data recovery software which was non OS specific, you
simply burnt in onto a CD (or was it a floppy!) and it would boot up your PC
and show -everything- that was written on any disk, including deleted data and
ghost traces of data which had been moved physically. All you had to do was to
specify the disk you wanted to recover from and a healthy disk you wanted to
recover it to. I used it once to save data from a badly crashed hard drive with
around 75% success. All I had to do was to borrow (or buy) an extra hard drive
and copy to it.

The problem now is, when booting up on such an non OS specific software, to my

programs would still probably do the trick. So, unless you want to pay somebody
a lot of money to recover your data, using USB drives (small sticks or bigger
drives) for backups may not be a great idea.


card reader more than once made the stick unreadable and then the system told me
it was unformatted and I lost every single photo! By merely inserting the stick
everything was gone. There was nothing I could do about it. Very annoying!

Hildur

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