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I see spoiled little shits everywhere that were never taught anything because their parents decided that their little shits were somehow "entitled" more than the rest of the world and, even worse, decided to make their kids believe that shit.

I just have one link for these people...
Beat Your Kids!!

The question is why?

Granted, not everything can make it into the film, but these were, for me, very memorable parts of the book. If they're being cut just to extend the battles or add new ones (ala Warg Riders in TT) I'll be disappointed.

Oh well. At least it won't be as bad as Matrix Revolutions. To quote Jon Stewart, that movie blows. ;)

I think it was made after they read this kind tip of Mr. Maddox.

I can't wait until Maddox gives this thing the sort of treatment he gave the Segway. =]

How to Render the Segway Obsolete

I can't wait until Maddox gives this thing the sort of treatment he gave the Segway. =]

How to Render the Segway Obsolete

Nah, those are old school now.

http//maddox.xmission.com

Your post sounds like a Maddox article. Heh heh.

have you seen Maddox's take on the whole Extreme Marketing

have you seen Maddox's take on the whole Extreme Marketing

Damn...is the current trend in trendy videogame journalism just to be a retard and tell the common man that he's stupid for being the common man?

"Oh, I'm too wussy to actually play a game through to completion, but it's not my fault, it's the game companies...just make shorter games so I can see the ending."

I've got a picture for this guy.

You shell out 50 clams for a game. I.e. more than 5 times the amount for the smaller, omre enjoyable chunks of entertainment that are known as movies. 15 times the cost of a magazine and infinite more times than regular TV.

But you know what we REALLY need? The ability to pay a whole lot more for less entertainment. Honestly, who wouldn't be against that aside from people who don't eat their lead paint cereal with their bowl of mercury?

You know the best way to get rid of pompous fools like these? Visit real game websites that don't try and talk down to you because you can't be avant-garde if you're not arrogant. Lump these guys into the list of sites that you block, along with the fools at Insert Credit.

Don't purport to tell anyone else what to do? I'm pretending to tell someone else what to do? What does that even mean? Remove "purport to" from your sentence and you begin to make a little sense. A little. Of course I'm gonna tell people what to do. Thats what you were doing with your own post and thats what we as humans do. I'll agree that this guy does a much better job of it than me, but I won't pretend that eating vegetables is somehow less bad than eating cows. If you believe its murder to kill animals where do you draw the line? I draw it at humans. Veggy people may draw it at bacteria but I'm here to (purport to? nope doesn't work in this case either) tell them they are wrong, the line is at humans, except in the case of a plane crash in the mountains or a ship lost at sea, then the line is drawn by drawing straws.

Obligatory explanatory link

TIGCC.

TIGCC is based on GCC 3.2 but cross-compiles for TI-89/92+/Voyage 200 calculators. It includes a mostly complete C library, plus a TIOS syscall library and some graphics functions.

I don't think I've used the math features of my TI-89 since my last physics class, but I've been happily hacking away as late as this past week. Some of the stuff I've done is here, including a 3D maze game a la Wolfenstein 3D (but with no shooting, yet).

Gamedev.net has a TON of resources relating to game development, including a giant reference section which points to a lot of information about anything game-related.

Related to your question, a good compromise between low-level OpenGL and a full game engine (or even a commercial one here) would be GLUT. Instead of giving a piss-poor explanation of what the GLUT library is all about, I'll just point you to their FAQ. For sound there is OpenAL or the ubiquitous FMOD.

Depending on what you're looking for, a library probably is out there just waiting for you to find it. Instead of asking very general questions like this, I highly recommend you check out a little search engine called Google to find libraries or engines that suit your specific needs. Cheers!

"If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?"

Some people already offer this service.. Looks like you have some competition.

When I hear the word extreme in an advertising campaign, I think of this. God bless Maddox.

Of course, this is my favorite page on his site

XTREME MARKETING

they must be reading maddox's site

I get between 37 and 40 miles to the gallon (depending on AC usage). The Prius under the same conditions may approach 44 to 46? And at almost twice the cost of the Echo.

With rough calculations, that's 80 gallons of gas you could have saved in one year, or over $160 at todays prices.

Finally, I would be shocked to hear that you spent only $11,000 on a new Echo.

frob

I like huge balls

Beat your kids

Maybe it was posted by this guy.

Why Maddox is better than your kids

State firmly and clearly, "My ancestors didn't scratch, claw, and battle their way to the top of the food chain so that I had to force myself to exist on salad."

Say, "See these?" point at your canine teeth and finish with, "2 million years of evolution developed these. They're for RIPPING AND TEARING FLESH. Who am I to tell the Earth Mother, Gaia, that she fucked up in her evolutionary plans?"

Point them to Maddox's Guiltless Grill. This one is chock full of goodies.

The liver is the largest organ in your body. It's primary digestive function is to secrete bile (whis is stored in the gall bladder until needed) to digest animal fat. Hell, the next largest is the stomach, and stomach acid digests whole proteins mainly. So the 2 largest organs in the digestive system are designed to digest animals. The partial proteins of plant matter are digested later in the small and large intestines by enzymes released by the pancreas. So, we're designed mainly to digest animals and the parts that take care of the plants are the same parts that hold our sh*t until we can find a toilet.

(my personal favorite...) "Ok, you win, I'll make you a deal. I'll eat vegan and nothing but vegan ... but you gotta indulge me. We are reaching a compromise here. I'm trying you're way, you try mine. As long as I eat vegan, you MUST eat at least 1/8 pound of pig (either ham, bacon, or sausage) and some form of egg derived substance with your breakfast. Lunch involves something made from cow ... at least 1/8th pound ... sometimes 1/4 pound. Dinner is a rotating option of cow, chicken, turkey, pig, (rarely seafood), deer or other wild game, or lamb (rarely). Veal, steak, or hamburger is especially common and encouraged. No tofu is allowed. No 'exotic' veggies, either, like kale, alfalfa, sprouts. Just peas, carrots, celery, corn, and green beans. Salad is the SIDE dish and shall be proportioned as such. Every sandwich/sub/potato/salad you eat mush have cheese and bacon on it. Do we have a deal?" Rattle that off fast (like an announcer stating the 'fine print' on a comercial for a contest) and look real serious. I've had o

For those who have somehow managed to avoid these fools, Vegans are a group of new-age diet gurus who tell everyone who will listen that they are evil for eating meat. While there are many reasons to reduce the amount of meat in your diet, morality is not among them. Also, most "vegans" kill animals passively too. The real vegans who actually believe their own hype all grow their own food and are all rail-thin from malnourishment. If you meet a vibrant, glowing person who tries to sell you on a vegan diet, they're killing animals somewhere.

Tombraider 2: horny teenage males.

2f2f: ugh, just read what maddox wrote about fake fast cars snotty kids waste their daddy's cash on and the replys he gets from said individuals who fit this movies targeted demographic.

And get iRate over the overuse of 'i' in marketing. I find it annoying to the X-Treme.

Have you ever been to Japan? I never saw any anime on late night TV. Afterschool and primetime, yes. Everyone I talked to regarded anime as strictly for kids and I-don't-want-to-grow-up types.

Is it fair or even legal?

That's why it's important to shop around. Where I live, XMission.com (my ISP) has several options. With a DSL account I'm allowed burstable quota of 3 GB/week each way, and DSL has 640k/256k up/down. Other options allow 4 GB/week for $25, or more amounts for fairly cheap. Also, DSL accounts have a fixed IP address, no server restrictions, and no bandwith accounting on Sat/Sun or from midnight to 7 AM.

It really pays to shop around for Internet access. You might have to pay a little bit for a high-quality ISP, but it's well worth the money.

frob

Kexec is a patch that allows you to reboot a kernel from another kernel that is likely to be a part of later 2.5/2.6 kernels. It's maintained by Eric Biederman and can be downloaded here.

LWN has a brief article about kexec here

Solution

He gets free fetuses AND the ability to sell people's personal info! Come on!!!!

That's all just further evidence: Christopher Reeve is an asshole.

maddox, creator of The Best Page In The Universe, released a great article regarding the XBox about a year ago, check it out here.

Well, here's a start:

Secret Police

And here's a longer explanation:

Direct quotes on "blood atonement"

I'm sure there's more. I guess your ancestors' dissent was negligible.

Windows version

Really, the right to reply is no big deal. Check out the hate mail section onthis guy's site. It doesn't seem to affect him at all.

Not official, but try this one:

torrent

I've seen popsicle sticks give less wooden performances.

http://maddox.xmission.com/matrix2.html. First point. Enough said.

love everything about my XBOX, especially the warning in the manual against letting it fall and maiming small children ^_^

Be mindfull of your cat too, young Padowan.

For the most part, that was true: most people never did get close; the ones who went over tended to go 'way over, and we'd send 'em bills for a thousand dollars (no lie). But have you ever dealt with anyone handed a thousand-dollar bandwidth bill? My sympathies if you have.

This is silly. There are ISPs who are dealing with this problem just fine. I use Xmission and I am an admitted P2P user.

1. 12GB per month limit, and extra bandwidth costs $10 a pop.
2. You're warned when you're about to go over the limit and then your connection is throttled after that to prevent extreme-overusage.
3. They have easy to use tools for checking on your usage.
4. UNMETERED usage from midnight to 7:00am. It certainly encourages me to do all my downloading at that time.

Instead of treating their customers as enemies, they treat them AS CUSTOMERS. They don't send surprise $1000 bills and snicker in the background when the customer calls to complain. They NICELY inform the customer of the problem. Customers who are aware of their usage, are willing to pay extra and/or appreciate the "heads-up" about their over-usage. Customers who are not aware of their usage get the chance to find the problem.

The result of this geek-friendly ISPs efforts is that it is one the most popular ISPs in Utah. Every "computer guy" in the state tells his friends that XMission the is coolest ISP out there.

They're solving the bandwidth problem by nicely EDUCATING their customers, not berating them for their ignorance. People just don't know that internet usage is a mix between their electricity or water bill and their phone bill. Once they understand how the system works, they become much less of a problem.

The internet is new, and just like phones, it is going to take 10 or 20 years before people really understand how it works. Give them time, and stop sending $1000 bills. The customer is not the enemy.

That's nice to hear, Dan. I'm glad that you are well.

I hope you have a nice day! :-)

That's nice to hear, Dan. I'm glad that you are well.

I hope you have a nice day! :-)

That's nice to hear, Dan. I'm glad that you are well.

I hope you have a nice day! :-)

Anyone want to play UT1999 GotY GOLD edition with me until then?

Some other artist has thought about that

have you been reading this ?

you ripped that idea off of maddox! And everything he says is so much funnier than the way you say it!!!

no offence mate, its just true. Can't believe you got modded +5 for that!!!!

...All browsers are named after cars.

Microsoft/Ford Explorer

Apple/GMC Safari

Netscape/Lincoln Navigator

Omni Group/DodgeOmni[web]

iCab... not even going to bother. I'm hoping you'll see the connection.

My point?

The Mozilla group is making a Big Mistake with the upcoming changes.

Point one: not naming their browser after a car. People want to see their browsers named after cars. If Microsoft does it, it HAS to have been researched on the market.

Two: People want to see monolithic browsers using up resources like there's no tomorrow. With every major browser out there named after either an SUV, a minivan or a sporty pickup-type-car, gas guzzling is a must-have feature in a browser.

Therefore, I proclaim Mozilla's 1.5 efforts flawed, and doomed, like BSD.