Tomorrow morning I ship off to U.S. Army basic training.
This interested me because I get an entire year of schooling dealing with radios and electronics, they pay me to go to school, they pay off all my school loans, and my entire contract is only 4 years.
I'm a typical geeky computer programmer, so this should be very interesting. Goodnight!
Back in the DOS days, I'd stare at the spectrograph in Cubic Player while playing all those neat Purple Motion tunes (I still play them, just in XMMS now)
I always wondered if it would be possible to do the opposite of a spectrograph.. take an image and convert it to a sound... I guess it is!
It is possible to make the argument that the 'plot' and 'characters' in video games are only there to sell which is really just a board game: Push the right keys in the right order at the right time, and you win.
Just because you take some free speech -- and I'm not just talking music, artwork and gore; I mean also the written word such as in interactive fiction -- and add a push-the-button interface, it does not undermine the aspects of the work that make it free speech in the first place.
Perhaps this judge would like to try playing through 'Curses.' Judge Limbaugh, can you read and write?
Way to go chrisd! I think it's hilarious... A bunch of geeks sobbing and weeping about their favorite TV program. I've never even seen the stupid show, so I don't care.
I joined the Army and I leave for basic training on May 15th, so I have to get in shape. I've been running, doing pushups and pullups, and in the last week I've been swimming every day.
I had to take swimming lessons, because I didn't know what I was doing. It took a few days to get used to the breathing, but now it's not very hard. Now I think it's the absolute best and funnest workout that there is.
Before I started swimming, I could run two miles in about 0:17:22. But after swimming all week, just yesterday I ran two miles in 0:16:16, and it was EASY. Swimming is a miracle workout.
I'm not even sure what Halestorm was supposed to do, but here's my guess at such a system.
Wether the repository is distributed or central, all the repository should do is swallow and spit out data for authorized users of an account without looking at the format. The authentication at this level could be a password entered by the user, or stored in a device.
All of the encryption would be done by the user in the form of a software program, hardware dongle, or whatever is most convenient to the user. The type of and strength of encryption would be up to the user.
Then whenever some kind of service needs personal info, the user can plug in their dongle or enter log into their client program, see which information the service needs, and authorize it's transmission over a secure connection.
I guess this would work with credit card numbers, medical records, whatever. It would keep the user in the middle of every transaction.
If you were looking for a place to store your VCD collection, this wouldn't be it.
I agree. For the most dramatic example, look at the original NES games, compared to the last few produced NES games. It was a completely different console. Nintendo still seems to be using the KISS principle here, leaving a wide-open space for programmers to work in.
The only issue is wether or not these new consoles will be around for the 10-15 years that the NES was.
The Super Nintendo is listed (1991: SNES) but the best console in all time -- the one that dug console gaming out of it's grave and shocked it back into life -- is missing from the list. The NES!
That would have been good, and easy to implement. There are a lot of formats that are much better than mod now.
The last time I paid attention to the formats,.XM and.IT were the most advanced. XM has 32 channels I think. IT has 64 tracker channels (?) with 256 internal channels, overlapping sounds in a single channel, panning envelopes, pitch envelopes, filter envelopes etc...
The only problem is that players often have some bug that messes up your favorite track.
That used to be the case, but I'm afraid it's above my head. My poor self can't afford a four year degree right now and my maths education doesn't beyond "Intro to Calculus" so I'll probably settle for some much crappier programming position (if I can find one)
I'm the kind of guy who never uses a weekend for anything but studying (a nerd) and I don't plan to "settle down".. ever. So my lifestyle fits the game programming regiment, I just don't have the damn creds.
On the clipboard issue, the way it should really be implemented is how it is laid out on OpenDesktop. The Cut/Copy/Paste functions use one clipboard, while the select/middle-click functions use another.
The problem is that Mozilla and a lot of other programs (Opera comes to mind) don't do it this way.
And perhaps the "standard" should be changed so that an initial click on a text field which results in selecting the entire field should not be considered a "copy" because it is usually a change of keyboard focus, not intended as selection.
As long as there's at least some aural feedback.
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Perhaps the "click-boing" of a Model M could be played with every sucessful keystroke.
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I'm not sure why this is "funny" rather than "insightful", a SNES would be a lot of bang for your buck if you havn't played any of the games before. But I'm biased; I get more play out of my NES than my N64.
I don't got one. I can't stand computers making noise at me.
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I forgot to mention, "Adventure of Lolo 3" is the most difficult puzzle game I've found for the NES or any system (Lolo 1 and 2 are easy). Maybe you'd like to give it a try.
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I agree. Kinda. My favorite games are NES games just because I can get them so cheap. And there are a lot of Super Nintendo games I really like, but everything got kinda dull after that.
If you like sokoban, the most challenging iteration is "Boxxle 2" for Game Boy. It has lots of levels and they are all extremely difficult.
Out Of This World could be considered impressionist, because you can see the "brush strokes"
In order for a game to be dada, the programmer would have to ignore the current state of computer game graphics, and that doesn't make money.
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I wish they had decided to use qt instead of gtk
I believe this would have meant either paying Trolltech or releasing Gobe under the GPL. It's likely that neither option would have worked for them, so they chose GTK.
There have been attempts to get PayPal user's information. Quite a while ago somebody set up a site called PayPaI.com (note the capital I) and sent out spams that linked to the site. the site looked just like PayPal with a place to type your username and password.
I had the same experience, but it was with Quake. I had just got a sound blaster 16 (high tech!) and I was playing late at night alone in my apartment with my headphones on. It was the first time I had ever heard the zombies make that nasal moaning sound, only I didn't quite know what it was because I couldn't see any of them around (they were on the other side of a wall or something). totally freaked me out.
And there's still a command prompt which looks, acts, and smells a lot like DOS.
In fact, I had to use it on my sister's XP machine to FTP a file last week. Hi-tech!
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Really? Ew. I hate typing stuff like THIS without caps-lock.
I have been meaning to try putting Ctrl there, but it seems like doing C-a like that would be weird. You'd have to move your whole hand over one-off from home row? Or maybe I'm missing the point.
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You just need a new purse to put it in that will let people know what kind of man you are.
Tomorrow morning I ship off to U.S. Army basic training.
This interested me because I get an entire year of schooling dealing with radios and electronics, they pay me to go to school, they pay off all my school loans, and my entire contract is only 4 years.
I'm a typical geeky computer programmer, so this should be very interesting. Goodnight!
Back in the DOS days, I'd stare at the spectrograph in Cubic Player while playing all those neat Purple Motion tunes (I still play them, just in XMMS now)
I always wondered if it would be possible to do the opposite of a spectrograph.. take an image and convert it to a sound... I guess it is!
It is possible to make the argument that the 'plot' and 'characters' in video games are only there to sell which is really just a board game: Push the right keys in the right order at the right time, and you win.
Just because you take some free speech -- and I'm not just talking music, artwork and gore; I mean also the written word such as in interactive fiction -- and add a push-the-button interface, it does not undermine the aspects of the work that make it free speech in the first place.
Perhaps this judge would like to try playing through 'Curses.' Judge Limbaugh, can you read and write?
I stopped visiting t.o when other t.o users would post screenshots of their IRC sessions while talking smack about my themes.
Yeah, I'm bullied easily. But there is such a thing as constructive criticism.
Way to go chrisd! I think it's hilarious... A bunch of geeks sobbing and weeping about their favorite TV program. I've never even seen the stupid show, so I don't care.
P.S. At the end of Titanic, the boat sinks.
*smell of burning karma*
I joined the Army and I leave for basic training on May 15th, so I have to get in shape. I've been running, doing pushups and pullups, and in the last week I've been swimming every day.
I had to take swimming lessons, because I didn't know what I was doing. It took a few days to get used to the breathing, but now it's not very hard. Now I think it's the absolute best and funnest workout that there is.
Before I started swimming, I could run two miles in about 0:17:22. But after swimming all week, just yesterday I ran two miles in 0:16:16, and it was EASY. Swimming is a miracle workout.
Are you doing this by hand or something?
That sounds like more than enough time for your prospects to find and download your competitor's products.
Really, when stuff like that takes too long, I spot it in my inbox later, but think "Oh, that, well, I don't really need it now."
I'm not even sure what Halestorm was supposed to do, but here's my guess at such a system.
Wether the repository is distributed or central, all the repository should do is swallow and spit out data for authorized users of an account without looking at the format. The authentication at this level could be a password entered by the user, or stored in a device.
All of the encryption would be done by the user in the form of a software program, hardware dongle, or whatever is most convenient to the user. The type of and strength of encryption would be up to the user.
Then whenever some kind of service needs personal info, the user can plug in their dongle or enter log into their client program, see which information the service needs, and authorize it's transmission over a secure connection.
I guess this would work with credit card numbers, medical records, whatever. It would keep the user in the middle of every transaction.
If you were looking for a place to store your VCD collection, this wouldn't be it.
I agree. For the most dramatic example, look at the original NES games, compared to the last few produced NES games. It was a completely different console. Nintendo still seems to be using the KISS principle here, leaving a wide-open space for programmers to work in.
The only issue is wether or not these new consoles will be around for the 10-15 years that the NES was.
The Super Nintendo is listed (1991: SNES) but the best console in all time -- the one that dug console gaming out of it's grave and shocked it back into life -- is missing from the list. The NES!
That would have been good, and easy to implement. There are a lot of formats that are much better than mod now.
.XM and .IT were the most advanced. XM has 32 channels I think. IT has 64 tracker channels (?) with 256 internal channels, overlapping sounds in a single channel, panning envelopes, pitch envelopes, filter envelopes etc...
The last time I paid attention to the formats,
The only problem is that players often have some bug that messes up your favorite track.
That used to be the case, but I'm afraid it's above my head. My poor self can't afford a four year degree right now and my maths education doesn't beyond "Intro to Calculus" so I'll probably settle for some much crappier programming position (if I can find one)
.. ever. So my lifestyle fits the game programming regiment, I just don't have the damn creds.
I'm the kind of guy who never uses a weekend for anything but studying (a nerd) and I don't plan to "settle down"
On the clipboard issue, the way it should really be implemented is how it is laid out on OpenDesktop. The Cut/Copy/Paste functions use one clipboard, while the select/middle-click functions use another.
The problem is that Mozilla and a lot of other programs (Opera comes to mind) don't do it this way.
And perhaps the "standard" should be changed so that an initial click on a text field which results in selecting the entire field should not be considered a "copy" because it is usually a change of keyboard focus, not intended as selection.
Perhaps the "click-boing" of a Model M could be played with every sucessful keystroke.
I'm not sure why this is "funny" rather than "insightful", a SNES would be a lot of bang for your buck if you havn't played any of the games before. But I'm biased; I get more play out of my NES than my N64.
I don't got one. I can't stand computers making noise at me.
I forgot to mention, "Adventure of Lolo 3" is the most difficult puzzle game I've found for the NES or any system (Lolo 1 and 2 are easy). Maybe you'd like to give it a try.
I agree. Kinda. My favorite games are NES games just because I can get them so cheap. And there are a lot of Super Nintendo games I really like, but everything got kinda dull after that.
If you like sokoban, the most challenging iteration is "Boxxle 2" for Game Boy. It has lots of levels and they are all extremely difficult.
Out Of This World could be considered impressionist, because you can see the "brush strokes"
In order for a game to be dada, the programmer would have to ignore the current state of computer game graphics, and that doesn't make money.
There have been attempts to get PayPal user's information. Quite a while ago somebody set up a site called PayPaI.com (note the capital I) and sent out spams that linked to the site. the site looked just like PayPal with a place to type your username and password.
I had the same experience, but it was with Quake. I had just got a sound blaster 16 (high tech!) and I was playing late at night alone in my apartment with my headphones on. It was the first time I had ever heard the zombies make that nasal moaning sound, only I didn't quite know what it was because I couldn't see any of them around (they were on the other side of a wall or something). totally freaked me out.
And there's still a command prompt which looks, acts, and smells a lot like DOS.
In fact, I had to use it on my sister's XP machine to FTP a file last week. Hi-tech!
Really? Ew. I hate typing stuff like THIS without caps-lock.
I have been meaning to try putting Ctrl there, but it seems like doing C-a like that would be weird. You'd have to move your whole hand over one-off from home row? Or maybe I'm missing the point.