Problem I have with the "Sierra Classics" is that when the game pops up and asks "What color is... on page...?" and the manual is in low res black and white. I don't know how many of them I've tried and had to keep running the program until I guessed right.
Want a reason why every game manufacturer is going for pretty polygons? Castlevania: Symphony of the Night wasn't as big as it should have been because people passed it over because it was 2D and "2D games are old" (yes, every gamer that deserves the title wants to pummel these people). Although I never had the cash to plunk down to buy it, I did play it with my cousin on his PSX and it has the chance to be the last truely great 2D game. Even RPGs have gone 3D, and they're the ones who need it the least!
Last time I fired up a Final Fantasy game was FF5, I've been playing FF5 a lot more (30 hours on the current game) than I ever did FF8 (3 hours total). Why? FF8 is a light show, FF5 is a game.
From the people I've talked to many want a new Metroid, however most say that if the new Metroid is 3D they won't even bother to look at the box. Too many game manufacturers are ruining perfectly good series by turning them into light shows and not concentrating on game play... and they're making money because of it.
One TV censoring scheme that someone tried out managed to make "Dick Van Dyke" get masked "Jerk Van Gay".
If you wanna protect your kids from something you must participate, currently computers lack the parenting skills neccessary to serve as a babysitter or other child care service.
Even though I am against software piracy, I am for abandonware. Which puts me in a situation where I want it but cannot morally get it. I have an old 386SX25 laptop with 4MB ram that Win3.1 would work great on (for playing DOS games and solitaire). However in the local places I have looked there is not a single vendor with a legal copy for sale, at least not at a reasonable price and/or w/o a "must buy with a new system" clause to support the OEM contract. Currently it sports Win95 that I have a spare license for.
I think ID software has the right idea with Doom, after it's "dead", GPL it. NES ROM sites have the same situation: they want it but can't get it by other means. Where else can you find Defender for the Atari 2600?
Almost noone tries to make a catalog of old software for historical records. Books have libraries, software has lawyers.
It seems to me the leaking caused the Apple Cube to get much more publicity that it would have any other way (short of going door to door showing it off). Car manufacturer's claim to be against spy photos even when during an interview a representitive for an automaker said that if there was no longer anyone getting spy shots that they'd probably hire someone to spy on themselves.
Well, now that I got this page censored for mentioning bomb making. Wouldn't the Manhattan Project be censored even though it might just be one of the most signifigant events in this century?
Also if "porn" was blocked wouldn't the homepages of the filter sites be blocked because they state that they block "porn"?
...The article doesn't state that "Linux is the worst operating system ever", just the worst of the ones that he compared (NT and unices). If he had compared Win9x systems even more bugs would've been found. The "ever" portion would have hard competition with all the OS'es created in the '80s. I believe the point of the article is "linux isn't perfect".
Why do I get the feeling that the market for this CPU is going to be largely based on buyers who will pay the $990 for the CPU and nosebleed prices for the RDRAM in the name of raw speed yet will never think about getting a U2W or Ultra160 setup because "it's expensive"?
At the risk of getting this marked redundant, I find the difference between glitter and gold is often missed when Joe Bob sees a kid on a computer. I've heard of people being suspended for running a defrag, I've heard of people that were considered good at computers because they can install a desktop theme and run a Diablo crack.
Is this right? No, but if you're not into computers you just don't know any better. Many people see computers as "magical devices" and refuse to attempt to understand how they work and many are even down right terrified of them. To these people doing things quickly is impressive (ie.: running a back orifice and pokeing into someone's computer) while doing something that takes a while makes it seem like you're not sure of what you're doing. (ie.: setting up a linux firewall)
But yes, the "kiddee" label is because noone in thier right mind would call them mature, regardless of age.
Well, I believe we've seen Napster trying to defend it's trademark before. On The Offspring's site ( http://www.offspring.com ) they started to sell "unofficial" Napster merchandice because the band is publically pro-Napster and wanted to show thier support. Napster's response: sue the Offspring for trademark infringment.
The settlement involved Napster merchandice being Official in turn all profits from The Offspring's sale are being donated to a charity.
Debian is mentioned at the bottom, but there are no numbers nor is there really any useful comments other than "two years is too long between releases" regarding Debian.
I wouldn't say that he was squatting in the least, he was using the domain for a purpose that made sense. Should a religion be able to sue because the soccer (futbol) team used thier trademark? This was a case of the anti-squatting laws being used not for what they intended.
From my experience with telco industry is alot like Win9x, the large base that it's on is pretty much proprietary, noone cares how it works (except for people that build stuff for it or have too much free time). However there is a very opensource top level interface that everyone and thier brother has tinkered with. It's been that way since the Carterfone decision and the breakup of AT&T and ma Bell (even though bells like SBC are buying other bells like Pacific Bell now). The only thing that really needs to be changed to change the whole infrastructure is the lowest levels.
Currently online gaming just doesn't intrest me, Diablo is playable on a 26.4k dialup. That is provided you spend the 9 months learning to sift through the cheaters, PKKs, and moochers. I used battle.net for some 6 months and I only played 3 good games while getting PKed 12 times. Somehow a good game has been left out in the cold while people download cracks (they don't even do them themselves). I'm beginning to wonder if the dreamcast's online functionality could be a very good thing.
I think many independant news sites will continue to thrive as long as they continue to focus on thier core and don't go too mainstream (where huge rules). For example, there is a few sites that cater primarily to overclockers, they will continue to thrive as long as they continue to keep up on overclocking news. I
Many people claim that $OS is the perfect OS.... Well, it isn't. I use Win95 for my main system because quite frankly, it is the best OS for what I want to do with my system (namely games). When I went to setup a small router to allow multiple computers to share an internet connection, I never even looked at setting up a Win95 box to do that, *nix was odviously a better choice, so it's running a small linux based distribution built to be a router and nothing else. Works great, I never have any problems with either system. I've personally got fedup with zealots that claim $object is better than $all_other_objects in everything.
I find that the best programs are ones that can be used stock without any problems by nearly everyone while having a slew of features (like skins) for the advanced user to mess around with until his/her heart is content. Pegasus Mail has a good balence there, albeit isn't an example of a skinable program. Pegasus mail has a cute little wizard that sets up the email client for 90% of the users but has an option set that even MS outlook can't surpass (and this one has useful options). Too many options can ruin a program if noone can get the basic idea of the program without major help, snd in this case your program better be powerful enough to make up for the confusion. I've met people that pass up a program because it doesn't do exactly what he wants to do exactly how he wants to do it (read: didn't want to learn anything new). Now this sounds like it's a problem with the user; well look at all the people on WebTV because a PC is more confusion than they are willing to handle. Large market isn't it?
I'm a former reg on thier #computer* forum, on 4/12 it's definatly going to be a ghost town or kiddee chat (it's well on it's way there now). Nearly all of the regs have found another home on various IRC servers because either they can't use the other clients, they won't use the other clients (I've tried, perfectly understandable), or noone they want to chat with is gonna use the other clients. I've been chatting there for a couple years now and it's almost like watching your home burn down. At least we've already built and christened a new home.
What I would like to see more of is a link (in raw text form) on the front page of the website that clicking it will lead to a text only version of the site, this kind of a sub-site doesn't neccessarily have to look good as a blind person wouldn't be able to see it anyways but would allow greater accessability and a no frills option for people with slow connections, physical limitations, or software limitations while would make the main site difficult or unusable. If this became a standard practice there'd be less complaints about sites not being "lynx friendly" or people just going to another site because that one is taking too long to load (as text-only loads very quickly even on slow connections). Text only versions should not be overly expensive to produce.
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Problem I have with the "Sierra Classics" is that when the game pops up and asks "What color is ... on page ...?" and the manual is in low res black and white. I don't know how many of them I've tried and had to keep running the program until I guessed right.
Want a reason why every game manufacturer is going for pretty polygons? Castlevania: Symphony of the Night wasn't as big as it should have been because people passed it over because it was 2D and "2D games are old" (yes, every gamer that deserves the title wants to pummel these people). Although I never had the cash to plunk down to buy it, I did play it with my cousin on his PSX and it has the chance to be the last truely great 2D game. Even RPGs have gone 3D, and they're the ones who need it the least!
Last time I fired up a Final Fantasy game was FF5, I've been playing FF5 a lot more (30 hours on the current game) than I ever did FF8 (3 hours total). Why? FF8 is a light show, FF5 is a game.
From the people I've talked to many want a new Metroid, however most say that if the new Metroid is 3D they won't even bother to look at the box. Too many game manufacturers are ruining perfectly good series by turning them into light shows and not concentrating on game play... and they're making money because of it.
One TV censoring scheme that someone tried out managed to make "Dick Van Dyke" get masked "Jerk Van Gay". If you wanna protect your kids from something you must participate, currently computers lack the parenting skills neccessary to serve as a babysitter or other child care service.
I am not saying that I do take it, I just wish it was legal to do so. If I did take it I'd have Win3.1 on my lappy and not Win95.
Even though I am against software piracy, I am for abandonware. Which puts me in a situation where I want it but cannot morally get it. I have an old 386SX25 laptop with 4MB ram that Win3.1 would work great on (for playing DOS games and solitaire). However in the local places I have looked there is not a single vendor with a legal copy for sale, at least not at a reasonable price and/or w/o a "must buy with a new system" clause to support the OEM contract. Currently it sports Win95 that I have a spare license for.
I think ID software has the right idea with Doom, after it's "dead", GPL it. NES ROM sites have the same situation: they want it but can't get it by other means. Where else can you find Defender for the Atari 2600?
Almost noone tries to make a catalog of old software for historical records. Books have libraries, software has lawyers.
It seems to me the leaking caused the Apple Cube to get much more publicity that it would have any other way (short of going door to door showing it off). Car manufacturer's claim to be against spy photos even when during an interview a representitive for an automaker said that if there was no longer anyone getting spy shots that they'd probably hire someone to spy on themselves.
It's publicity, Apple shouldn't fight it.
Well, now that I got this page censored for mentioning bomb making. Wouldn't the Manhattan Project be censored even though it might just be one of the most signifigant events in this century?
Also if "porn" was blocked wouldn't the homepages of the filter sites be blocked because they state that they block "porn"?
...The article doesn't state that "Linux is the worst operating system ever", just the worst of the ones that he compared (NT and unices). If he had compared Win9x systems even more bugs would've been found. The "ever" portion would have hard competition with all the OS'es created in the '80s. I believe the point of the article is "linux isn't perfect".
Why do I get the feeling that the market for this CPU is going to be largely based on buyers who will pay the $990 for the CPU and nosebleed prices for the RDRAM in the name of raw speed yet will never think about getting a U2W or Ultra160 setup because "it's expensive"?
At the risk of getting this marked redundant, I find the difference between glitter and gold is often missed when Joe Bob sees a kid on a computer. I've heard of people being suspended for running a defrag, I've heard of people that were considered good at computers because they can install a desktop theme and run a Diablo crack.
Is this right? No, but if you're not into computers you just don't know any better. Many people see computers as "magical devices" and refuse to attempt to understand how they work and many are even down right terrified of them. To these people doing things quickly is impressive (ie.: running a back orifice and pokeing into someone's computer) while doing something that takes a while makes it seem like you're not sure of what you're doing. (ie.: setting up a linux firewall)
But yes, the "kiddee" label is because noone in thier right mind would call them mature, regardless of age.
Well, I believe we've seen Napster trying to defend it's trademark before. On The Offspring's site ( http://www.offspring.com ) they started to sell "unofficial" Napster merchandice because the band is publically pro-Napster and wanted to show thier support. Napster's response: sue the Offspring for trademark infringment.
The settlement involved Napster merchandice being Official in turn all profits from The Offspring's sale are being donated to a charity.
Debian is mentioned at the bottom, but there are no numbers nor is there really any useful comments other than "two years is too long between releases" regarding Debian.
Note: I had explicetly stated "except people who build stuff for it or have too much free time".
I wouldn't say that he was squatting in the least, he was using the domain for a purpose that made sense. Should a religion be able to sue because the soccer (futbol) team used thier trademark? This was a case of the anti-squatting laws being used not for what they intended.
From my experience with telco industry is alot like Win9x, the large base that it's on is pretty much proprietary, noone cares how it works (except for people that build stuff for it or have too much free time). However there is a very opensource top level interface that everyone and thier brother has tinkered with. It's been that way since the Carterfone decision and the breakup of AT&T and ma Bell (even though bells like SBC are buying other bells like Pacific Bell now). The only thing that really needs to be changed to change the whole infrastructure is the lowest levels.
Currently online gaming just doesn't intrest me, Diablo is playable on a 26.4k dialup. That is provided you spend the 9 months learning to sift through the cheaters, PKKs, and moochers. I used battle.net for some 6 months and I only played 3 good games while getting PKed 12 times. Somehow a good game has been left out in the cold while people download cracks (they don't even do them themselves). I'm beginning to wonder if the dreamcast's online functionality could be a very good thing.
I think many independant news sites will continue to thrive as long as they continue to focus on thier core and don't go too mainstream (where huge rules). For example, there is a few sites that cater primarily to overclockers, they will continue to thrive as long as they continue to keep up on overclocking news. I
Many people claim that $OS is the perfect OS.... Well, it isn't. I use Win95 for my main system because quite frankly, it is the best OS for what I want to do with my system (namely games). When I went to setup a small router to allow multiple computers to share an internet connection, I never even looked at setting up a Win95 box to do that, *nix was odviously a better choice, so it's running a small linux based distribution built to be a router and nothing else. Works great, I never have any problems with either system. I've personally got fedup with zealots that claim $object is better than $all_other_objects in everything.
I find that the best programs are ones that can be used stock without any problems by nearly everyone while having a slew of features (like skins) for the advanced user to mess around with until his/her heart is content. Pegasus Mail has a good balence there, albeit isn't an example of a skinable program. Pegasus mail has a cute little wizard that sets up the email client for 90% of the users but has an option set that even MS outlook can't surpass (and this one has useful options). Too many options can ruin a program if noone can get the basic idea of the program without major help, snd in this case your program better be powerful enough to make up for the confusion. I've met people that pass up a program because it doesn't do exactly what he wants to do exactly how he wants to do it (read: didn't want to learn anything new). Now this sounds like it's a problem with the user; well look at all the people on WebTV because a PC is more confusion than they are willing to handle. Large market isn't it?
I started using TC when I connected on ther internet. They had a nice big link on infoseek.
I'm a former reg on thier #computer* forum, on 4/12 it's definatly going to be a ghost town or kiddee chat (it's well on it's way there now). Nearly all of the regs have found another home on various IRC servers because either they can't use the other clients, they won't use the other clients (I've tried, perfectly understandable), or noone they want to chat with is gonna use the other clients. I've been chatting there for a couple years now and it's almost like watching your home burn down. At least we've already built and christened a new home.
What I would like to see more of is a link (in raw text form) on the front page of the website that clicking it will lead to a text only version of the site, this kind of a sub-site doesn't neccessarily have to look good as a blind person wouldn't be able to see it anyways but would allow greater accessability and a no frills option for people with slow connections, physical limitations, or software limitations while would make the main site difficult or unusable. If this became a standard practice there'd be less complaints about sites not being "lynx friendly" or people just going to another site because that one is taking too long to load (as text-only loads very quickly even on slow connections). Text only versions should not be overly expensive to produce.
I perfer much music, they tend to play music
These shows are a great way to discern fact from fiction. Everything they say is fiction.