You might be able to implement a web service to expose only the logic of the application rather than the database itself. Authentication is provided by the web service, I believe. More info on security can be found here
- Destroying asteroids hurtling towards the ground - Restarting the stopped core of the Earth - Eliminating alien motherships - Fulfilling your wish that all living humans were Australian - Canceling global warming with nuclear winter - Glorifying postal workers - Providing a low cost alternative to quarantine (can use vacuum bomb as well) - Spurring endless moral debates
I think the probable outcome depicted in the movie was one of the destruction of civilization (or at least the portion contained in Kansas.) Who the aggressor was seemed absurdly irrelevant to characters facing the suffering and death of the aftermath. Given the murkiness and debate which surrounds historical events in this world, I'm sure the survivors in a world where all the records had been incinerated would point their bony, irradiated fingers at each other and be convinced the other was responsible for the war.
Go Nintendo. I'm a big fan of the SNES and Gameboy Zelda's. This looks like what they should have done to begin with: They transferred those games stylistically into the hypothetical third dimension. The scene where all the enemies fall off the cliff is something everyone complains about because it supposedly makes the game like a roadrunner cartoon, but if you look at it closer you'll realize it has the exact same timing and everything of the animation of things falling off cliffs in the SNES/GB games.
Further, as other people pointed out, it's different. I personally don't want a console with a crapload of vanilla, wannabe games all identical in style. Let's take TV for example. The Simpsons is a great show. I'll state that as an objective uncontradictable fact. Imagine if every show looked like the simpsons. Flipping through the channels, you'd see Everyone Loves Raymond, Oprah, Star Trek all with yellow people. The evening news animated feverishy each night by unfortunate Koreans. This would be crap, I think you'll agree. So hooray for diversity. (Now I've attracted the ire of the right-wingers in the crowd)
It speaks volumes about how conditioned the videogame market is now to their crappy Playstation crap which is churned out every day. Now, there's some great games for PS, dont get me wrong, but... metric assloads of clones, too. The fact that people are so resistant to something new worries me, but I guess its expected.
Along that vein, I was disappointed with Mario Sunshine. It didn't seem very creative. But then, its hard to tell because they didnt show us much of it, but what's he wearing on his back? Is it the vaccuum cleaner that Luigi has in Luigi's Mansion?? Hmmmm.
Actually, I think the black color was specified as translucency, (which would explain it) but I didn't actually check the file. At any rate, they seem to be mixing in really hideous colors together. Green start button with a blue taskbar and red buttons on the windows?? Is this Romper Room?
I think OS X's default blue and grey is really non-offensive and a good choice. And I have no real problem with previous versions of Windows colors, though I'm really sick of the default greenish aqua background that people never ever change. I was happy to see the wonderful gradient in Win98 -- great prettiness.
Oh well, I think the issue is somewhat moot given that XP is going to have skins... I guess time to invest in those RAM companies.
All in all, XP seems potentially prettier than 20th century Windows, but it is in no way near the quality of OS X.
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I don't think 386's were the issue at the time. 386's were pretty old. They came out in 1927 and Hitler used them to trim his moustache as he bombed Stalingrad. Clearly the issue was that Windows 95 wouldn't run on a 486 properly without 3 mules and a large block of granite. And forget the Pentium 1, whose numeric qualifier I've converted to Arabic in honor of the Pentium IV.
I would be impressed with a new version of Windows that ran on a 286. It would probably be able to play a mean game of Keen! I'm not sure how useful that would be as I've already submitted to the bum-kicking upgrade, update, upchuck, reboot, repair, repeat cycle and gotten myself a newfangled 450mhz machine, which I've tried dearly to hang in there for the last four years. I can see why the system requirements for OS X have been increased, but if there is no technical reason it can't run on a 1994 era PowerMac, they shouldn't restrict people from trying and suffering. I remember programs back in the good old days would arbitrarily stop and say "You don't have a 486SX-33, you have a 486-SX-32! You don't have enough power to play Solitaire! GO buy a new computer!" when you started them up, and I always wondered why. Stupid Packard Bell.
There was no point to that comment. You are dumber for having read it. This isn't a sig either.
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You might be able to implement a web service to expose only the logic of the application rather than the database itself. Authentication is provided by the web service, I believe. More info on security can be found here
To the contrary! Nukes may be used for:
- Destroying asteroids hurtling towards the ground
- Restarting the stopped core of the Earth
- Eliminating alien motherships
- Fulfilling your wish that all living humans were Australian
- Canceling global warming with nuclear winter
- Glorifying postal workers
- Providing a low cost alternative to quarantine (can use vacuum bomb as well)
- Spurring endless moral debates
I think the probable outcome depicted in the movie was one of the destruction of civilization (or at least the portion contained in Kansas.) Who the aggressor was seemed absurdly irrelevant to characters facing the suffering and death of the aftermath. Given the murkiness and debate which surrounds historical events in this world, I'm sure the survivors in a world where all the records had been incinerated would point their bony, irradiated fingers at each other and be convinced the other was responsible for the war.
Go Nintendo. I'm a big fan of the SNES and Gameboy Zelda's. This looks like what they should have done to begin with: They transferred those games stylistically into the hypothetical third dimension. The scene where all the enemies fall off the cliff is something everyone complains about because it supposedly makes the game like a roadrunner cartoon, but if you look at it closer you'll realize it has the exact same timing and everything of the animation of things falling off cliffs in the SNES/GB games.
Further, as other people pointed out, it's different. I personally don't want a console with a crapload of vanilla, wannabe games all identical in style. Let's take TV for example. The Simpsons is a great show. I'll state that as an objective uncontradictable fact. Imagine if every show looked like the simpsons. Flipping through the channels, you'd see Everyone Loves Raymond, Oprah, Star Trek all with yellow people. The evening news animated feverishy each night by unfortunate Koreans. This would be crap, I think you'll agree. So hooray for diversity. (Now I've attracted the ire of the right-wingers in the crowd)
It speaks volumes about how conditioned the videogame market is now to their crappy Playstation crap which is churned out every day. Now, there's some great games for PS, dont get me wrong, but... metric assloads of clones, too. The fact that people are so resistant to something new worries me, but I guess its expected.
Along that vein, I was disappointed with Mario Sunshine. It didn't seem very creative. But then, its hard to tell because they didnt show us much of it, but what's he wearing on his back? Is it the vaccuum cleaner that Luigi has in Luigi's Mansion?? Hmmmm.
Actually, I think the black color was specified as translucency, (which would explain it) but I didn't actually check the file. At any rate, they seem to be mixing in really hideous colors together. Green start button with a blue taskbar and red buttons on the windows?? Is this Romper Room?
I think OS X's default blue and grey is really non-offensive and a good choice. And I have no real problem with previous versions of Windows colors, though I'm really sick of the default greenish aqua background that people never ever change. I was happy to see the wonderful gradient in Win98 -- great prettiness.
Oh well, I think the issue is somewhat moot given that XP is going to have skins... I guess time to invest in those RAM companies.
All in all, XP seems potentially prettier than 20th century Windows, but it is in no way near the quality of OS X.
> I don't think 386's were the issue at the time. 386's were pretty old. They came out in 1927 and Hitler used them to trim his moustache as he bombed Stalingrad. Clearly the issue was that Windows 95 wouldn't run on a 486 properly without 3 mules and a large block of granite. And forget the Pentium 1, whose numeric qualifier I've converted to Arabic in honor of the Pentium IV. I would be impressed with a new version of Windows that ran on a 286. It would probably be able to play a mean game of Keen! I'm not sure how useful that would be as I've already submitted to the bum-kicking upgrade, update, upchuck, reboot, repair, repeat cycle and gotten myself a newfangled 450mhz machine, which I've tried dearly to hang in there for the last four years. I can see why the system requirements for OS X have been increased, but if there is no technical reason it can't run on a 1994 era PowerMac, they shouldn't restrict people from trying and suffering. I remember programs back in the good old days would arbitrarily stop and say "You don't have a 486SX-33, you have a 486-SX-32! You don't have enough power to play Solitaire! GO buy a new computer!" when you started them up, and I always wondered why. Stupid Packard Bell. There was no point to that comment. You are dumber for having read it. This isn't a sig either.