I just can *not* believe that all you guys are not discussing the huge way in which this story is dubious.
come on! cellular service lost in the andes? drinking alcohol for warmth? recharging batteries by sticking them in snow? utter lack of names, locations, references?
I call bullshit! what the hell is going on with CNN?
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it's hard to name a first of genre anyway... I played Command HQ for hours with my pal over a modem connection, and we had some epic late night games (that were usually brutally interrupted by his father finding out he was not in bed and at the computer in the middle of the night!) and eventually moved on to Global Conquest.
Only bad point about Command HQ is that sometimes, when an unit defeated an other in extremis, both players might see a different outcome on their screens... like on my computer my unit wins, and on the other computer it lost. When this happens towards the end of a critical battle, the games quickly became completely desynched and we had to stop. Too bad Dan bunten's games always had those little annoying bugs!
Still, he/she was a brilliant designer and undoubtedly influenced many of the people who made the genre become as big as it became a few years after.
Apparently you don't know jack about the shows you are talking about. A large part of Cowboy Bebop, and this is very true of episodes 4 and 5, is not just about violence, it's about TERRORISM. If Cartoon Network is pulling it off the air, that's why.
You are ignoring the fact that about 2000 years after some guy was nailed to a tree for saying how good it would be to be nice to people for a change, and 5 minutes before the earth was destroyed, some girl somebody had a brilliant idea about the meaning of life and how everybody could be happy forever etc etc... Don't you think that the experiment actually *worked*?
the goolgothingies probably were the neanderthals or something, something happened and *they* got extinct finally.
Can't believe that you could ramble on for such a long message and miss this.
A radio station here (quebec city, CHOI) tried to convince (petitions etc) videotron into not letting global put their ads on the CBS (or whatever) channel two years ago, and didn't manage it. They even had videotron people in the studio one morning, that was interesting. They organize a special event for the superbowl since then, in a large Universite Laval hall, where you can go watch the superbowl with the ads etc but I don't know where they get their feed from. Oh well. Evolution will catch up with the CRTC someday I guess, just give em time....
...coz I'm in Canada and my bloody cable company replaces all the ads with crummy random boring local ads!! grr! I'm missing half the show! At least I got to see a Powerbook G4 add that I hadn't seen yet, but still!
And it's called the Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander.
Take the claw, add 3 shift buttons (for a little bit of that chording action), make it USB, plus give it joystick-like capability... and U got something that beats the claw hands down.
nah they havent been/.ed, they were already almost unreachable around 1pm eastern. I don't know wether that is due to increased traffic caused by the Mac OS X beta review (which was posted early in the morning or last night) or some other reason. Maybe some mac zealots are DDOSing ars coz they say that Mac OS X beta is buggy?:-)
It's silly that they didn't even checked the freezing point of fluorinert before their first attempt... reminds me of the guys who wrapped their whole computers in a 2mm thick plastic bag, includint CPÜ and heatsink, then poured liquid nitrogen on the plastic which turned brittle as hell... I want to see non-halfbaked non-destructive mad overclocking for once!
The screenshots Tom made are misleading. There certainly is more quality loss to DivX than what the pretty Trinity shot seems to imply.
Things get real blurry in fast-moving scenes and pans, and while DivX is cool for pirating purposes, I certainly don't see why someone who owns the movie would want to do that.
If you care for my subjective evaluation (and are able to get the idea), compressing a DVD to DivX to fit on one CD is to video what compressing an audio CD to 96 kbps MP3. Certainly "acceptable" to enjoy the music, but there won't be a single second when you won't be able to tell that this is really DivX.
just a quick observation: hardware MP3 support (whatever real benefit it brings) is one of the selling points on a certain variation of Creative's SBLive card... Maybe this has something to do with it...
Censorship and strongarm tactics sucks. RIAA must know they're fighting a losing battle if they're playing dirty like this.
The "Agricultural Age" changed the way that food was produced.
The "Industrial Age" changed the way industrial products were produced.
The "Information Age" has not changed the way industrial products are produced.
Actually I would make that:
The "Agricultural Age" changed the way that food was produced.
The "Industrial Age" changed the way food and industrial products were produced.
The industrial age has definitely changed the way food was produced, bought, and eaten. It has revolutionized agrigulture, at least in 1st and 2nd world countries, and ushered the era of Kraft Dinner, fast food, pepsi-cola, and pizza hut. hell, 90% of what you find on the shelves of your grocery store is a tribute to the industrial age.
and finally
The "Information Age" has begun to change the way industrial products are produced.
efficient managing, automation... We are only at the beginning. As for food production, well, I don't know yet, and of course you are totally right on information production and distribution.
The world is changing. We live in a wonderful age of change and promise for everyone. This revolution is still young no matter if you think it 20 or 50 years old (or 150, the age of telegraph, but that's stretching it a bit I think), and the best is yet to come.
Information is more and more often synonymous with wealth, and from that one can only conclude that as information gets moving more and more freely, quickly and easily, so will wealth, and maybe that is what the new information age is going to bring us in 50 or 100 years, a better distribution of wealth among the people?
MacOS 7 was superior to Windows 95/98 in just about every way imaginable
It is indeed hardly imaginable that a modern OS wouldn't be able to allot more than a trickle of CPU time to an application that is put in the background, or would crash on UI-based deadlocks coz you're switching windows and pressing buttons too fast. As for the rest of the superiority, well... I don't feel like going into that right now:-)
The polar bears of the Quebec city zoological gardens must be the saddest bears, polar or otherwise, in the whole world. They live in a pathetic white-painted concrete hole, and do nothing all day but stand around, neurotically shaking their heads from left to right over and over and over. A most disheartening sight indeed.
If you saw these wretched things you would probably forget about KDE and Gnome for a few minutes too.
I have actually owned and used one of these for a few months now and really like it, especially for Quakin. The high precision of optical really helps for sniper-type gameplay:-)
Also, I have heard people complaining about optical mice not being good for Quake all over the place... Truly I don't see why. The mice will lose tracking if I move it in excess of abouyt 1 foot/second speed, but really this *never* happens in Quake.
This debate really hacks me up... It's old news that the noisier/.ers seem to be all over how hackers should be called crackers etc... afaik this is not the first time some people have wanted to shove a new name down the throat of [whatever u call them], I remember that a fashionable word was "spiders" several years ago, before that word finally settled in the use it has today...
As long as hackers will call themselves hackers, what chance do you have of getting the new name adopted? Why doesn't the hacker-as-in-code-hacker-not-malicious-hacker community, which seems to be well represented on/., agree on a new name for *themselves*?
At the very least you would stand a better chance if you didn't choose a name that didn't have a well established meaning in the hacker-as-in-malicious community, where "cracking" means disabling copy protection / manual lookup passwords in commercial programs... But I guess it's not well seen to show respect for anyone who is not showing the slashdotically-correct behaviors and opinions.
I know nothing of what I wrote here is be new, but don't blame me, blame/. for stiring up this old story every several weeks... This is not a defense or apology of what hackers-as-in-malicious do, I consider myself a hacker-as-in-code-hacker and my point is that this whole this-is-my-name-find-yourself-another thing is so pointless!
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come on! cellular service lost in the andes? drinking alcohol for warmth? recharging batteries by sticking them in snow? utter lack of names, locations, references?
I call bullshit! what the hell is going on with CNN?
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Only bad point about Command HQ is that sometimes, when an unit defeated an other in extremis, both players might see a different outcome on their screens... like on my computer my unit wins, and on the other computer it lost. When this happens towards the end of a critical battle, the games quickly became completely desynched and we had to stop. Too bad Dan bunten's games always had those little annoying bugs!
Still, he/she was a brilliant designer and undoubtedly influenced many of the people who made the genre become as big as it became a few years after.
No, he really, really means Mena Suvari.
Apparently you don't know jack about the shows you are talking about. A large part of Cowboy Bebop, and this is very true of episodes 4 and 5, is not just about violence, it's about TERRORISM. If Cartoon Network is pulling it off the air, that's why.
the goolgothingies probably were the neanderthals or something, something happened and *they* got extinct finally.
Can't believe that you could ramble on for such a long message and miss this.
...but really he's just on an intergalactic cruise. *sigh* this must be thursday.
A radio station here (quebec city, CHOI) tried to convince (petitions etc) videotron into not letting global put their ads on the CBS (or whatever) channel two years ago, and didn't manage it. They even had videotron people in the studio one morning, that was interesting. They organize a special event for the superbowl since then, in a large Universite Laval hall, where you can go watch the superbowl with the ads etc but I don't know where they get their feed from. Oh well. Evolution will catch up with the CRTC someday I guess, just give em time....
...coz I'm in Canada and my bloody cable company replaces all the ads with crummy random boring local ads!! grr! I'm missing half the show! At least I got to see a Powerbook G4 add that I hadn't seen yet, but still!
geez, rtfm if you can't install the module, coz the gf2mx works great with X.
Take the claw, add 3 shift buttons (for a little bit of that chording action), make it USB, plus give it joystick-like capability... and U got something that beats the claw hands down.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/hardware/sidewin der/devices/SComm/default.htm
CmdrTaco realy can't type his links
the Ars servers have been very hard to reach all through the day, it started long before the /. even
nah they havent been /.ed, they were already almost unreachable around 1pm eastern. I don't know wether that is due to increased traffic caused by the Mac OS X beta review (which was posted early in the morning or last night) or some other reason. Maybe some mac zealots are DDOSing ars coz they say that Mac OS X beta is buggy? :-)
It's silly that they didn't even checked the freezing point of fluorinert before their first attempt... reminds me of the guys who wrapped their whole computers in a 2mm thick plastic bag, includint CPÜ and heatsink, then poured liquid nitrogen on the plastic which turned brittle as hell... I want to see non-halfbaked non-destructive mad overclocking for once!
yeah, and I encode my mp3s at 56kbps coz hey, in the silent parts between the tunes, you cannot tell the difference at all.
DVD->Divx is to video what mp3/256kbps -> mp3/96kbps would be to audio.
How bout that :-)
Things get real blurry in fast-moving scenes and pans, and while DivX is cool for pirating purposes, I certainly don't see why someone who owns the movie would want to do that.
If you care for my subjective evaluation (and are able to get the idea), compressing a DVD to DivX to fit on one CD is to video what compressing an audio CD to 96 kbps MP3. Certainly "acceptable" to enjoy the music, but there won't be a single second when you won't be able to tell that this is really DivX.
no make that, you got *the* point :-)
just a quick observation: hardware MP3 support (whatever real benefit it brings) is one of the selling points on a certain variation of Creative's SBLive card... Maybe this has something to do with it... Censorship and strongarm tactics sucks. RIAA must know they're fighting a losing battle if they're playing dirty like this.
The "Industrial Age" changed the way industrial products were produced.
The "Information Age" has not changed the way industrial products are produced.
Actually I would make that:
The "Agricultural Age" changed the way that food was produced.
The "Industrial Age" changed the way food and industrial products were produced.
The industrial age has definitely changed the way food was produced, bought, and eaten. It has revolutionized agrigulture, at least in 1st and 2nd world countries, and ushered the era of Kraft Dinner, fast food, pepsi-cola, and pizza hut. hell, 90% of what you find on the shelves of your grocery store is a tribute to the industrial age.
and finally
The "Information Age" has begun to change the way industrial products are produced.
efficient managing, automation... We are only at the beginning. As for food production, well, I don't know yet, and of course you are totally right on information production and distribution.
The world is changing. We live in a wonderful age of change and promise for everyone. This revolution is still young no matter if you think it 20 or 50 years old (or 150, the age of telegraph, but that's stretching it a bit I think), and the best is yet to come.
Information is more and more often synonymous with wealth, and from that one can only conclude that as information gets moving more and more freely, quickly and easily, so will wealth, and maybe that is what the new information age is going to bring us in 50 or 100 years, a better distribution of wealth among the people?
It is indeed hardly imaginable that a modern OS wouldn't be able to allot more than a trickle of CPU time to an application that is put in the background, or would crash on UI-based deadlocks coz you're switching windows and pressing buttons too fast. As for the rest of the superiority, well... I don't feel like going into that right now :-)
If you saw these wretched things you would probably forget about KDE and Gnome for a few minutes too.
Also, I have heard people complaining about optical mice not being good for Quake all over the place... Truly I don't see why. The mice will lose tracking if I move it in excess of abouyt 1 foot/second speed, but really this *never* happens in Quake.
Am I alone thinking this?
As long as hackers will call themselves hackers, what chance do you have of getting the new name adopted? Why doesn't the hacker-as-in-code-hacker-not-malicious-hacker community, which seems to be well represented on /., agree on a new name for *themselves*?
At the very least you would stand a better chance if you didn't choose a name that didn't have a well established meaning in the hacker-as-in-malicious community, where "cracking" means disabling copy protection / manual lookup passwords in commercial programs... But I guess it's not well seen to show respect for anyone who is not showing the slashdotically-correct behaviors and opinions.
I know nothing of what I wrote here is be new, but don't blame me, blame /. for stiring up this old story every several weeks... This is not a defense or apology of what hackers-as-in-malicious do, I consider myself a hacker-as-in-code-hacker and my point is that this whole this-is-my-name-find-yourself-another thing is so pointless!