but wasn't Glide open source? and wasn't it quite easy to use (better than what was available when it was launched)? --
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Lord Omlette
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so here goes: my journey through Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Calibur. Great, great game! Eh, but I'm lazy, so you have to read it from the bottom up. And it might not work too well in Netscape 4.x, but it works ok in Netscape 6. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
What about all the Linux GUIs vs BeOS' open sourced Tracker and Deskbar? Since BeOS open sourced those, what has been the effect on Linux GUIs? Not much, I think. (Other than the fact that all non-windows 2D GUIs tend to look alot like MacOS interfaces...)
So I submit that Open Sourcing all of BeOS would have little to no effect on Linux. Assuming of course that all the proprietary technology that Be, Inc. licensed from other companies would be available for Open Sourcing... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Let's see. The economy may be ready to take a nosedive, but not soon. And the consoles from the big three (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft) are all backed by companies (N,S,M) with shitloads of money. These consoles have good games on them. These consoles take zero effort to set up, and no one has to configure any drivers for them or worry about the DirectX version.
In the end, I guess it's fun to discuss, but it's one of those idiot statements: Five years from now, everyone will be looking at the web through VRML, because virtual reality allows you to truly interact with the web. And: Usenet will collapse under the weight of AOL and spam! Uh-huh. Right. Go ahead and worry about it, meanwhile, I'll play Ogre Battle 64, and Shenmue, and Perfect Dark, and Soul Calibur, and oh hells yeah I'm looking forward to Phantasy Star Online, Metal Gear Solid, Eternal Darkness, etc. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but this one definitely deserves it. nothing wrong with a compromise, and both sides are working on improving themselves. --
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Lord Omlette
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"Gamers are the new artists, visionaries, and story-tellers of our time, sparked by astonishingly inventive new technologies like the PS 2."
Do you mean the game programmers? How are the gamers the story tellers?
In Ogre Battle 64, there are multiple ways of going through the game, and your choices affect the rest of the game. I posted to my webpage everything that happened to me in the game, even the fact that I got the worst ending possible. In that way, I am a storyteller of sorts. If I write a walkthrough for Dragon Warrior IV (hypothetically) I'm a storyteller. But if you play through something fairly linear (Final Fantasy VII), you're just a participant, not a storyteller. You're not giving the developers the artistic credit they deserve...
Oh yeah, people who write battle reports for games (battlereports.com) are good storytellers. I mean, some of them go through elaborate lengths to write up entertaining brs, even though each and every one is played on Lost Temple *ahem*, the flash, the animation, the music, the wording all come together to make entertaining story telling.
So gamers are storytellers of sorts, but you're not giving the developers enough credit, and you could have used more examples.
Chill in a bnet chat room for a while. You'll see why I take offense to the stereotype that gamers are smart. Be careful there =) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
if they upgrade the development tools, maybe they don't have to worry about backwards compatibility and developers can just recompile another build for the new system? if you know something's better, why bother supporting the old way when you know it's gonna be slower and resources are limited? (eg, I think MS designs by Moore's law... but handhelds don't have a 18 month half-life...) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they'll probably sue them anyway if there patent is something like, "compressed audio"... you know, something nice and general... --
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Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
my friend goes to Harvey Mudd College... He tells me that because of a contract the school has with the power company, the campus is brown-outed from 5-6pm to 7-9pm every night. talk about suckage...
btw, in global history course, i was taught that water usage is something like 10% residential, 20% agricultural, and 70% industrial. is that similar to electrical usage? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Germany, Japan... and the US... It'd be dominated by maybe three countries, but suddenly I'm feeling Olympic Battlebots!!! *ahem* --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
no really: what sports did you care about in the olympics and why? is it because you like the sport (and can play it yourself or watch it on the telly or support local teams, etc) or because your country was in it (other countries exist only to be made fun of by u.s. broadcasters)?
we're all geeks, maybe we should be focusing on pgl or cyberathelete competitions or something... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
does anyone follow the 'Latin Explosion' that's going on in united states of america right now? in something like 50 years, it will be the first time that the majority ethnicity of a country will change through peaceful means. (caucasian to latino/hispanic)
sure, english may be the majority of the web now, and chinese may be the future, but at some point, america is going to be mostly spanish speaking... so don't worry about spanish disappearing. not anytime soon anyway. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Re:I am in fact a developer, here's my resume
on
Netscape 6 Vs. 4.7x
·
· Score: 1
"It's just that I maintain high standards and I like to encourage others to do so as well."
+5 just isn't enough for how high that statement should be moderated. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the same # of people who hit a website hit a gopher site, would the gopher server have a better chance of surviving being slashdotted? maybe slashdot could mirror sites on gopher, then point to the gopher link... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
what if all book reviews were only for a book that the reviewer thought was good, and if it's bad, it's also posted, but not on the front page, on the side. you know? i know the capability is there, and thank you for telling us to avoid it, but um... i'm at work, and i'm bored, and i need more happy thoughts, ya know? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
how else are they supposed to prevent piracy? think back to the release of starcraft and the fiasco that resulted when windows & netscape registration data was sent to blizzard everytime you tried logging on but couldn't because 'someone was using your cd key'. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
there was no rampant flaming, advantages and disadvantages of all three were pointed out, there was no cussing, and a clear winner (which had better be the OS favored by the reader) was not declared.
what was the point? btw, for fun, you should have thrown in MacOS X review in. supposedly every is bitching about the eye candy going stale eventually, but some reviewers are starting to say it isn't eye candy, it just attracts your attention to what's relevant. hm... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
but wasn't Glide open source? and wasn't it quite easy to use (better than what was available when it was launched)?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
so here goes: my journey through Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Calibur. Great, great game! Eh, but I'm lazy, so you have to read it from the bottom up. And it might not work too well in Netscape 4.x, but it works ok in Netscape 6.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
What about all the Linux GUIs vs BeOS' open sourced Tracker and Deskbar? Since BeOS open sourced those, what has been the effect on Linux GUIs? Not much, I think. (Other than the fact that all non-windows 2D GUIs tend to look alot like MacOS interfaces...)
So I submit that Open Sourcing all of BeOS would have little to no effect on Linux. Assuming of course that all the proprietary technology that Be, Inc. licensed from other companies would be available for Open Sourcing...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
if you get bored, see if you can get that bad boy going on BeOS =)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
point
yes, please make the al gore crack
point
nice =)
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
in IE? that's not exactly anywhere...
unless you believe the browser war is over and ie won, hm...
but there has to be an easier way than to run an os in your browser, right?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Let's see. The economy may be ready to take a nosedive, but not soon. And the consoles from the big three (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft) are all backed by companies (N,S,M) with shitloads of money. These consoles have good games on them. These consoles take zero effort to set up, and no one has to configure any drivers for them or worry about the DirectX version.
In the end, I guess it's fun to discuss, but it's one of those idiot statements: Five years from now, everyone will be looking at the web through VRML, because virtual reality allows you to truly interact with the web. And: Usenet will collapse under the weight of AOL and spam! Uh-huh. Right. Go ahead and worry about it, meanwhile, I'll play Ogre Battle 64, and Shenmue, and Perfect Dark, and Soul Calibur, and oh hells yeah I'm looking forward to Phantasy Star Online, Metal Gear Solid, Eternal Darkness, etc.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but this one definitely deserves it. nothing wrong with a compromise, and both sides are working on improving themselves.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"Gamers are the new artists, visionaries, and story-tellers of our time, sparked by astonishingly inventive new technologies like the PS 2."
Do you mean the game programmers? How are the gamers the story tellers?
In Ogre Battle 64, there are multiple ways of going through the game, and your choices affect the rest of the game. I posted to my webpage everything that happened to me in the game, even the fact that I got the worst ending possible. In that way, I am a storyteller of sorts. If I write a walkthrough for Dragon Warrior IV (hypothetically) I'm a storyteller. But if you play through something fairly linear (Final Fantasy VII), you're just a participant, not a storyteller. You're not giving the developers the artistic credit they deserve...
Oh yeah, people who write battle reports for games (battlereports.com) are good storytellers. I mean, some of them go through elaborate lengths to write up entertaining brs, even though each and every one is played on Lost Temple *ahem*, the flash, the animation, the music, the wording all come together to make entertaining story telling.
So gamers are storytellers of sorts, but you're not giving the developers enough credit, and you could have used more examples.
Chill in a bnet chat room for a while. You'll see why I take offense to the stereotype that gamers are smart. Be careful there =)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
if they upgrade the development tools, maybe they don't have to worry about backwards compatibility and developers can just recompile another build for the new system? if you know something's better, why bother supporting the old way when you know it's gonna be slower and resources are limited? (eg, I think MS designs by Moore's law... but handhelds don't have a 18 month half-life...)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
put it under both...
they'll probably sue them anyway if there patent is something like, "compressed audio"... you know, something nice and general...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Only at dc.ign.com: a comparison.
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
is here. link = http://www.gamespy.com/comics/november00/dork4/
- -
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
my friend goes to Harvey Mudd College... He tells me that because of a contract the school has with the power company, the campus is brown-outed from 5-6pm to 7-9pm every night. talk about suckage...
btw, in global history course, i was taught that water usage is something like 10% residential, 20% agricultural, and 70% industrial. is that similar to electrical usage?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"Considering all 3 are still vapor, it'll be even more interesting to read an article like this in a year, and compare it to this."
This would make one hell of a slashback...
But all three are in beta now, will they actually be released in a year, or will they still be in beta? Hm...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Germany, Japan... and the US... It'd be dominated by maybe three countries, but suddenly I'm feeling Olympic Battlebots!!! *ahem*
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
no really: what sports did you care about in the olympics and why? is it because you like the sport (and can play it yourself or watch it on the telly or support local teams, etc) or because your country was in it (other countries exist only to be made fun of by u.s. broadcasters)?
we're all geeks, maybe we should be focusing on pgl or cyberathelete competitions or something...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
does anyone follow the 'Latin Explosion' that's going on in united states of america right now? in something like 50 years, it will be the first time that the majority ethnicity of a country will change through peaceful means. (caucasian to latino/hispanic)
sure, english may be the majority of the web now, and chinese may be the future, but at some point, america is going to be mostly spanish speaking... so don't worry about spanish disappearing. not anytime soon anyway.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"It's just that I maintain high standards and I like to encourage others to do so as well."
+5 just isn't enough for how high that statement should be moderated.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the same # of people who hit a website hit a gopher site, would the gopher server have a better chance of surviving being slashdotted? maybe slashdot could mirror sites on gopher, then point to the gopher link...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
what if all book reviews were only for a book that the reviewer thought was good, and if it's bad, it's also posted, but not on the front page, on the side. you know? i know the capability is there, and thank you for telling us to avoid it, but um... i'm at work, and i'm bored, and i need more happy thoughts, ya know?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
how else are they supposed to prevent piracy? think back to the release of starcraft and the fiasco that resulted when windows & netscape registration data was sent to blizzard everytime you tried logging on but couldn't because 'someone was using your cd key'.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
there was no rampant flaming, advantages and disadvantages of all three were pointed out, there was no cussing, and a clear winner (which had better be the OS favored by the reader) was not declared.
what was the point? btw, for fun, you should have thrown in MacOS X review in. supposedly every is bitching about the eye candy going stale eventually, but some reviewers are starting to say it isn't eye candy, it just attracts your attention to what's relevant. hm...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the GENETIC JACKHAMMER!
*ahem*
wrong guy...
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
God bless the WTO...
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057