[quote user="MiffTheFox"]Riven was the best Myst game, and that was published by Brøderbund (under the name Red Orb).[/quote]And when Red Orb and Brøderbund went belly-up, the guys that bought them from The Learning Company were Ubisoft, who (still!) publish Myst and Riven to this day.

You have 374 "subscriptions" directly associated with your account (full games you have "paid" for and can install, in addition to whatever else you currently have installed.) If you add any games you've played but are not subscribed to (demos, tools, et cetera), that brings the total to 399. If you add any games you ...

[quote user="Ragnax"][quote user="dkf"][quote user="Ragnax"]SQLite was on its way out[/quote]In favor of what?[/quote]I already wrote; I'm not sure. I just remember SQLite being pulled out. Though if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the logical alternative is IndexedDB.[/quote]What's being pulled out is ...

[quote user="DrPepper"]Binaries on windows? Again, you shouldn't care, you don't own these.[/quote]I imagine he should care because he's likely the one going to get stuck between the people using/managing the product ("Where's that Windows support?") and the researchers ("Screw you, I'm going on ...

[quote user="spamcourt"][quote user="SamC"]Adobe Reader[/quote]Try Sumatra PDF. It's less than 5MB, and also opens ePub, Mobi, XPS, DjVu, CHM, CBZ and CBR.[/quote]Try pdf.js. It's less than 1MB, and isn't made by crazy Eastern Europeans. Plus, it's been built into Firefox since February.

[quote user="Serpentes"]Query = "SELECT M.MID, MT, S, SF, SA," Query = Query & "SUM(CASE WHEN (ST = 2 AND SB = " & AU(0,0) & ") THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)," Query = Query & "SUM(CASE WHEN (ST = 11 AND SB = " & AU(0,0) & ") THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)," Query = Query & ...

[quote user="Ben L."][quote user="blakeyrat"]server tried to take a screenshot[/quote]what I but what[/quote]One feature of PunkBuster is server-side rendering of what you "should" see, followed by commanding the client to take a screenshot of what you "can" see, and comparing the two for differences. So if ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"]DOM is just one of the many libraries JavaScript can access. That's like saying if I download Twitterizer third-party library for C#, the guy who wrote Twitterizer "designed" C#... it's complete nonsense. I'm not being a pedantic dickweed, other than pointing out that 1) words have ...

Not to mention that you could just change the less-than-or-equal test in the while condition to be a strictly-less-than test, which gets rid of the need for an if statement or break statement entirely.

[quote user="dhromed"]32- versus 64-bit java does not appear to grant any performance benefits. I haven't compared framerates, but the difference is insignificant, if any.[/quote]It's not a framerate-related performance benefit, it's a "look at all the stuff I can load!" performance benefit. 32-bit apps are capped ...