Yah, my IIIxe and PPK fill the niche of the laptop I don't have - writing.
Actually, I just converted some html and css files to docs, and I'm going to try to do some coding on my Palm on the train. Now all I need is a full-featured browser for the Palm and I'm set....
Please take this up with Mr. Terry Pratchett. I quoted it for the sentiment, not the grammar. If not for the character limit, I would have attributed it, too.
I love how the knee-jerk scariness of these things jumps exponentially when the word "nuclear" is present. I realize it's justified, ate least in this case, but I still find it amusing.
Heh, sorry. Only a year on the school online paper staff, and I'm speaking editing shorthand. WC means "word choice." I don't think that's a good verb to apply to protests.
My first thought: "What does this Dmitry guy have against running?"
I had to read the blurb to fully understand that. Come on, headline common sense. It should tell you clearly what the story is about. If I had a red pen, I'd circle the word "running" and scrawl "WC?"
You have a point. Solutions: either get real patient, and as another poster pointed out, think out every move, or start doing the savefile copying thing. (I went through a savefile copy phase, and accumulated 20megs of archived savegames, before it turned sour. I don't know why, but it just felt weird. I was cheating, after all.)
I do the patience thing these days. I don't do much 'puter gaming at all, so my nethack sessions are far between but intense. I die a lot. But I manage to learn a lot, too.
The game, as a whole, works for some people. For others, it doesn't. *shrug*
Though I have nothing against it as a game, and indeed admire it, I find myself occasionally referring to Diablo as "rogue/nethack for people with short attention spans."
Thank you, yes, I do know the characters (having read the whole series will do that for you). Which is why when I first heard of the format, that's what I thought of.
Thing is, these are people who are theoretically vey sensitive and perceptive about such things. They didn't try to include John A. Consumer in the study.
I think the experts raise some valid points in the end of the article about poor sound quality not necessarily being excusable. But then, I'm a musician, so I may have different views on the matter.
And, wow, I had always wondered whether "Vorbis" was a Discworld reference. Cute. I thought "Ogg" might be, too, but I guess not.
I just started reading Stephen Baxter's Manifold: time, which is about... um... well, it's kind of complicated. But the main character is a failed-astronaut space nut who launches his own spaceships (one manned by a squid, one manned by him) for his own exploration. The year is 2010, and most governmental space programs have fallen into disrepair.
It just reminded me a lot of these private launch types.
First thing I saw in this story was "Duke Nukem." In the Duke mindset, I totally misinterpreted the line "they'll give you some other booty, too".
Urk. Thanks, but a baseball cap or whatever will do just fine.
On a different note, who wants to help me write a game called Earl Eatem? I think it would make millions.
-J
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Instead of mounting pickups or mics on the instruments, you could use an electric cello, electric violin, etc. You'd need a keyboard amp to handle the range of the cello, but it'd work....
But if they could, that'd be one awesome string quartet.
Hey, why not? Electrify the instruments (it can be done, with great results), maybe slap some distortion pedals on... wow. I wish I still played the cello now....
I'd be rather easy to identify - I've found that I have a sort of nervous tic with my mouse. One of Windows 9x's more annoying bugs is that it will, every once in a while, become absolutely convinced that the user is clicking the right button when she is, in fact, clicking the left button. The way to end this is simple enough: right-click on something. Everything becomes happy once more.
But I have found that I have a tendency to right-click everything, often before I left-click it - the desktop, window bars, web page bodies... soemtimes I play with it, clicking closer to or further from the screen's edge to get the context-menu to behave differently. It's a nervous habit. It rarely causes problems (well, it certainly causes them in PuTTY), and it generally staves off the right-click bug. It is, I suppose, harmless.
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Heheh. Wow, if I ever have a son, I'm naming him Luminiferous Aether. I hope my hypothetical wife doesn't mind.
-jA friend of mine recently asked me which one - "aether" or "ether" - is the better spelling. We eventually decided that either one was acceptable.
-jYah, my IIIxe and PPK fill the niche of the laptop I don't have - writing.
Actually, I just converted some html and css files to docs, and I'm going to try to do some coding on my Palm on the train. Now all I need is a full-featured browser for the Palm and I'm set....
But isn't the keyboard great? Wheee.
-jPlease take this up with Mr. Terry Pratchett. I quoted it for the sentiment, not the grammar. If not for the character limit, I would have attributed it, too.
-jI think that makes it even scarier.
-jI love how the knee-jerk scariness of these things jumps exponentially when the word "nuclear" is present. I realize it's justified, ate least in this case, but I still find it amusing.
-jNow that would be cool. Enough of these civil disturbances, let's protest with marathons! Bikeathons! Kayakathons!
I think I need to go lie down.
-jHeh, sorry. Only a year on the school online paper staff, and I'm speaking editing shorthand. WC means "word choice." I don't think that's a good verb to apply to protests.
-jDmitry Protests Running
My first thought: "What does this Dmitry guy have against running?"
I had to read the blurb to fully understand that. Come on, headline common sense. It should tell you clearly what the story is about. If I had a red pen, I'd circle the word "running" and scrawl "WC?"
I'll stop bitching offtopic now.
-jYou have a point. Solutions: either get real patient, and as another poster pointed out, think out every move, or start doing the savefile copying thing. (I went through a savefile copy phase, and accumulated 20megs of archived savegames, before it turned sour. I don't know why, but it just felt weird. I was cheating, after all.)
I do the patience thing these days. I don't do much 'puter gaming at all, so my nethack sessions are far between but intense. I die a lot. But I manage to learn a lot, too.
The game, as a whole, works for some people. For others, it doesn't. *shrug*
-jThough I have nothing against it as a game, and indeed admire it, I find myself occasionally referring to Diablo as "rogue/nethack for people with short attention spans."
Yeah, I play NetHack in text mode.
-jCosmos 1's ride into sub-orbital flight came hitched to a modified intercontinental ballistic missile.
"ST: First Contact" and Zefram Cochrane, anyone?
Maybe the Vulcans will pick this one up.
-jAren't we also on a mission from God?
I just read Planet of the Paes. There's a cool solar sail in that.
Yes, I concur. Vorbis was rather important. Villains generally are. He was also, to an extent, symbolic.
Thank you, yes, I do know the characters (having read the whole series will do that for you). Which is why when I first heard of the format, that's what I thought of.
Thing is, these are people who are theoretically vey sensitive and perceptive about such things. They didn't try to include John A. Consumer in the study.
I think the experts raise some valid points in the end of the article about poor sound quality not necessarily being excusable. But then, I'm a musician, so I may have different views on the matter.
And, wow, I had always wondered whether "Vorbis" was a Discworld reference. Cute. I thought "Ogg" might be, too, but I guess not.
I just started reading Stephen Baxter's Manifold: time , which is about... um... well, it's kind of complicated. But the main character is a failed-astronaut space nut who launches his own spaceships (one manned by a squid, one manned by him) for his own exploration. The year is 2010, and most governmental space programs have fallen into disrepair.
It just reminded me a lot of these private launch types.
And it's a very good book.
-J
First thing I saw in this story was "Duke Nukem." In the Duke mindset, I totally misinterpreted the line "they'll give you some other booty, too".
Urk. Thanks, but a baseball cap or whatever will do just fine.
On a different note, who wants to help me write a game called Earl Eatem? I think it would make millions.
-J
Instead of mounting pickups or mics on the instruments, you could use an electric cello, electric violin, etc. You'd need a keyboard amp to handle the range of the cello, but it'd work....
-J
But if they could, that'd be one awesome string quartet.
Hey, why not? Electrify the instruments (it can be done, with great results), maybe slap some distortion pedals on... wow. I wish I still played the cello now....
-J
Hmm, see also this column in the Washington Post.
-J
How's that?
-J
I'd be rather easy to identify - I've found that I have a sort of nervous tic with my mouse. One of Windows 9x's more annoying bugs is that it will, every once in a while, become absolutely convinced that the user is clicking the right button when she is, in fact, clicking the left button. The way to end this is simple enough: right-click on something. Everything becomes happy once more.
But I have found that I have a tendency to right-click everything, often before I left-click it - the desktop, window bars, web page bodies... soemtimes I play with it, clicking closer to or further from the screen's edge to get the context-menu to behave differently. It's a nervous habit. It rarely causes problems (well, it certainly causes them in PuTTY), and it generally staves off the right-click bug. It is, I suppose, harmless.
Oh, and I can't do it on a Mac. Cursèd Macs.
-J
what happens to Netscape?
Netscape 4.x? Hopefully it dies and is no longer packaged with stuff.
Netscape 6... hopefully it becomes much better, tightens up, etc, so that it's good enough that people would rather use it then IE.
This is, of course, all in my own little idealistic world free of monopolies and other bad things. Well, I can dream, can't I?
-J
Get it right, Hemos - The Truth shall make ye fret!
-J