touche =) I'm hoping today's America will fare better than yesterday's, but I'm guessing you and I both know better... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
but Taiwan is in a defense contract with America. They get invaded by China over Uncle Sam's Dead Body...
I'm willing to consider the possibility that the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was a hack, but what most slashdotters again seem not to care about is the fact that US CIA was heavily underbudgeted [sp] in terms of Ground Human Intelligence. Hence no one noticed years-outdated maps. The intended target was missed by a few blocks. After the fact, the possibility was raised that the Chinese journalists were spying on NATO, but again, since so few slashdotters care about NATO nations, I guess that's not an issue either.
I'll shut up now... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
What are you trying to say? Suggest a new type of literature that would have benefitted from the e-book model as opposed to a print medium? And if you don't think much of e-books in general, then hey, you have the entire web to choose from. I'm sure it can't be that hard to save a webpage for view (text-only) on a palm-pilot.
Um... Who got the book? I don't read Stephen King but one of my friends tried to get the book and he couldn't... Another of my friends only got the book because he signed up for some PDF mailing list somewhere. More importantly, if new distribution methods are supposed to provide us with more entertaining, um, entertainment, who downloaded the short story expecting to enjoy it, but didn't? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
it's sorta like the guy before said. If EFF is gonna be a geek lobby for stuff, then EFF needs the power to get geeks to say, "Ok, Wednesday, no geeks go to work... Watch the stock market plummet. Watch politicians fumble over each other as they try to lick our boots." When the EFF gets that sort of power, we'll have a political voice. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I dunno, I see MP3z as a good way to for my friend (http://www.mp3.com/eviladam/) to distribute music. If I listen to music and like it enough, I'll buy it to let the publisher know I liked what that artist did. I check out alot of independent MP3z too... But I don't go d/ling with the intent of stealing. The artist worked hard and deserved some compensation, right?
But if Germans want to ban Mariah Carey that much, fuck it, let them! She sucks. =) -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Ahh... my bad, I meant the Final Fantasies BEFORE 7 & 8... They were freaking awesome, CGI not necessary... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Most advertisers want users to click through before they start giving money to the site owner... If you can circumvent that, then advertising as a revenue model works great! BTW, Windows users check out adsubtract.com when you don't want to deal with banner ads. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Sorry, wasn't exactly thinking straight this morning... I'm not saying "ooh, look at the silly x-box" althought it looks like I said that. Microsoft is now a major player. But they will NOT dominate. Truth is, I've spent most of this morning flipping through msdn trying to find developer materials... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Are you smoking crack? PSX2 isn't just about the PSX2, it handles playstation games as well. No matter how many games the PC has, the PSX2 will more than enough to compete. Nintendo, the same people who brought us Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Kirby and Metroid are NOT going to sit on their laurels. Even if Microsoft corners the game market with the X-Box, they're still gonna have one hell of a time trying to put Nintendo 6 feet under.
BeOS 5 will be released soon for free. Don't know about you but I most def will be programming games for it. I know Loki isn't about to stop porting games to Linux. I know people will continue to code games for the Mac because "Steve Jobs is God" (how cute, the Almighty thinks different).
Haven't seen any mention of it yet, but an uber-WinCE handheld is supposed to come out soon to compete with the Game Boy. Microsoft thinks they can compete with a handheld that has Pokémon on it. Yeah right. They also have to compete with Bandai's Wonderswan (not in the US yet) and the Neo Geo Pocket Color and the Palm Pilot as well. Since I'm not European, I know nothing of this Psion thingee, but I doubt it doesn't support some sort of gaming. Ok.
I realize your panicked post was just to gain karma, and I realize DirectX will allow alot of people to develop for the X-Box, but please: Microsoft will NOT corner the gaming market, not if they handle things with the same skill they used to "corner" the handheld market with WinCE. Will a Win2k core keep the machine from Blue Screening? With a goddamned harddrive, how long until we start seeing Virii on this system? (erf, ignore that last, I don't even know what's possible with the Dreamcast or PSX2 peripherals.)
More questons: Will Blizzard code for the X-Box? Will Bungie? Will Square? Will Capcom? Who are the awesome 2nd and 3rd parties that will make Microsoft stand out?
Erf, I'll shut up now... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Nintendo is no stranger to lawsuits, with all the suits they win they'd have no problem paying off the ones they lose. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
1. Dreamcast had a buttload of problems when it launched, both hardware & software. The US launch saw resolutions to problems on both sides. We got the goods good because we were patient. 2. Anyone who owned a Playstation before model #(I forget, but I'm sure someone will help me out here) will remember all the problems the PSX had with overheating, scratching cds, and the laser breaking, etc. And look at it now: the very model of what a gaming console should be?
Erf, I'll shut up now -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
>> It's a far cry from FFIII on my NES. FF3 on the nes (or FF6 on the SNES, ah hell, any FF anywhere) is still an interactive game... I dunno if a non-interactive movie, no matter how good the CG, can match an interactive experience where we're feeling what our little avatars are feeling... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I think it's great to see how when two parties have a problem (the public vs the evil something), two people actually go together to talk about how to resolve it. As opposed to the usual slashdot way, (these people suck, flame them in the forums), this is kind of nice...
I don't know if it'll do anything, but it's still kind of nice.
Erf, I'll shut up now... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I do feel a need to chime in... The title of the article was inflammatory, the summary was highly misleading... I don't care if you guys just went through an IPO, no smoking pot while posting news goddammit! -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
You know, other than First Person shooters in general, I can't think of any that's as technically dissected as Starcraft... So I can say with honesty, if everyone on my campus was playing Brood War over the Lan, it still wouldn't take up as much bandwidth as a half dozen people downloading 128-bit four minute songs off napster...
Eh, who am I kidding? Everyone wants to play Nox, not BW... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I know Python is a good language for what it's capable of, but I always thought it was more a prototype/testing script language... What is its role in a Game Design/Architecture book? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I wouldn't mind if my College (Snevets Institute of Technology) would ban Napster... Trying to do work that involves the Net is now close to impossible since the network is almost always completely clogged...
If it was up to me, I'd throw in another connection or something and limit Napster to a few machines or something. I dunno, I just feel frustrated that our 'state-of-the-art' network doesn't work for jack when 200 people are using Napster simultaneously.
Eh, I'll shut up now -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I agree, but if they could just move things along a wee bit faster... I'm sure everyone here has at one point or another had to deal with the legal system's inefficiencies... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
that cyberspace episode involving that AI that had gotten loose and at the end the girl disappears into cyberspace?
Just like la Femme Nikita, X-Files may be a good show, but anytime they do anything computer related, it sucks... Damn Hollywood. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Let's follow the russian nightly news lead and have naked women featured predominantly in our newspapers! Hopefully the quality of newspapers will deteriorate to the quality which Katz describes and they'll stop killing trees...
and stuff... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Do you hate seeing free utilities because some people somewhere might make interesting utilties in graphical form that keep people right where they are? If you're really for free software it doesn't matter what OS it's for, does it? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Just because it's open source doesn't mean it necessarily has to be for some flavor of Unix... I mean, I'm sure there's open source projects for Windows out there somewhere... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
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touche =) I'm hoping today's America will fare better than yesterday's, but I'm guessing you and I both know better...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
but Taiwan is in a defense contract with America. They get invaded by China over Uncle Sam's Dead Body...
I'm willing to consider the possibility that the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was a hack, but what most slashdotters again seem not to care about is the fact that US CIA was heavily underbudgeted [sp] in terms of Ground Human Intelligence. Hence no one noticed years-outdated maps. The intended target was missed by a few blocks. After the fact, the possibility was raised that the Chinese journalists were spying on NATO, but again, since so few slashdotters care about NATO nations, I guess that's not an issue either.
I'll shut up now...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
What are you trying to say? Suggest a new type of literature that would have benefitted from the e-book model as opposed to a print medium? And if you don't think much of e-books in general, then hey, you have the entire web to choose from. I'm sure it can't be that hard to save a webpage for view (text-only) on a palm-pilot.
Um... Who got the book? I don't read Stephen King but one of my friends tried to get the book and he couldn't... Another of my friends only got the book because he signed up for some PDF mailing list somewhere. More importantly, if new distribution methods are supposed to provide us with more entertaining, um, entertainment, who downloaded the short story expecting to enjoy it, but didn't?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
it's sorta like the guy before said. If EFF is gonna be a geek lobby for stuff, then EFF needs the power to get geeks to say, "Ok, Wednesday, no geeks go to work... Watch the stock market plummet. Watch politicians fumble over each other as they try to lick our boots." When the EFF gets that sort of power, we'll have a political voice.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I dunno, I see MP3z as a good way to for my friend (http://www.mp3.com/eviladam/) to distribute music. If I listen to music and like it enough, I'll buy it to let the publisher know I liked what that artist did. I check out alot of independent MP3z too... But I don't go d/ling with the intent of stealing. The artist worked hard and deserved some compensation, right?
But if Germans want to ban Mariah Carey that much, fuck it, let them! She sucks. =)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Forgive my ignorance in, uh, all things...
How is the Cooper Union a Free Online University? TIA
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Ahh... my bad, I meant the Final Fantasies BEFORE 7 & 8... They were freaking awesome, CGI not necessary...
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Most advertisers want users to click through before they start giving money to the site owner... If you can circumvent that, then advertising as a revenue model works great! BTW, Windows users check out adsubtract.com when you don't want to deal with banner ads.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Check out Evil Adam (http://www.mp3.com/eviladam/) if you like Heavy Industrial or Video Game music.
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Sorry, wasn't exactly thinking straight this morning... I'm not saying "ooh, look at the silly x-box" althought it looks like I said that. Microsoft is now a major player. But they will NOT dominate. Truth is, I've spent most of this morning flipping through msdn trying to find developer materials...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Are you smoking crack? PSX2 isn't just about the PSX2, it handles playstation games as well. No matter how many games the PC has, the PSX2 will more than enough to compete. Nintendo, the same people who brought us Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Kirby and Metroid are NOT going to sit on their laurels. Even if Microsoft corners the game market with the X-Box, they're still gonna have one hell of a time trying to put Nintendo 6 feet under.
BeOS 5 will be released soon for free. Don't know about you but I most def will be programming games for it. I know Loki isn't about to stop porting games to Linux. I know people will continue to code games for the Mac because "Steve Jobs is God" (how cute, the Almighty thinks different).
Haven't seen any mention of it yet, but an uber-WinCE handheld is supposed to come out soon to compete with the Game Boy. Microsoft thinks they can compete with a handheld that has Pokémon on it. Yeah right. They also have to compete with Bandai's Wonderswan (not in the US yet) and the Neo Geo Pocket Color and the Palm Pilot as well. Since I'm not European, I know nothing of this Psion thingee, but I doubt it doesn't support some sort of gaming. Ok.
I realize your panicked post was just to gain karma, and I realize DirectX will allow alot of people to develop for the X-Box, but please: Microsoft will NOT corner the gaming market, not if they handle things with the same skill they used to "corner" the handheld market with WinCE. Will a Win2k core keep the machine from Blue Screening? With a goddamned harddrive, how long until we start seeing Virii on this system? (erf, ignore that last, I don't even know what's possible with the Dreamcast or PSX2 peripherals.)
More questons: Will Blizzard code for the X-Box? Will Bungie? Will Square? Will Capcom? Who are the awesome 2nd and 3rd parties that will make Microsoft stand out?
Erf, I'll shut up now...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Nintendo is no stranger to lawsuits, with all the suits they win they'd have no problem paying off the ones they lose.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
1. Dreamcast had a buttload of problems when it launched, both hardware & software. The US launch saw resolutions to problems on both sides. We got the goods good because we were patient.
2. Anyone who owned a Playstation before model #(I forget, but I'm sure someone will help me out here) will remember all the problems the PSX had with overheating, scratching cds, and the laser breaking, etc. And look at it now: the very model of what a gaming console should be?
Erf, I'll shut up now
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
>> It's a far cry from FFIII on my NES. FF3 on the nes (or FF6 on the SNES, ah hell, any FF anywhere) is still an interactive game... I dunno if a non-interactive movie, no matter how good the CG, can match an interactive experience where we're feeling what our little avatars are feeling...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I think it's great to see how when two parties have a problem (the public vs the evil something), two people actually go together to talk about how to resolve it. As opposed to the usual slashdot way, (these people suck, flame them in the forums), this is kind of nice...
I don't know if it'll do anything, but it's still kind of nice.
Erf, I'll shut up now...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I do feel a need to chime in... The title of the article was inflammatory, the summary was highly misleading... I don't care if you guys just went through an IPO, no smoking pot while posting news goddammit!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
You know, other than First Person shooters in general, I can't think of any that's as technically dissected as Starcraft... So I can say with honesty, if everyone on my campus was playing Brood War over the Lan, it still wouldn't take up as much bandwidth as a half dozen people downloading 128-bit four minute songs off napster...
Eh, who am I kidding? Everyone wants to play Nox, not BW...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I know Python is a good language for what it's capable of, but I always thought it was more a prototype/testing script language... What is its role in a Game Design/Architecture book?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I wouldn't mind if my College (Snevets Institute of Technology) would ban Napster... Trying to do work that involves the Net is now close to impossible since the network is almost always completely clogged...
If it was up to me, I'd throw in another connection or something and limit Napster to a few machines or something. I dunno, I just feel frustrated that our 'state-of-the-art' network doesn't work for jack when 200 people are using Napster simultaneously.
Eh, I'll shut up now
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I agree, but if they could just move things along a wee bit faster... I'm sure everyone here has at one point or another had to deal with the legal system's inefficiencies...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
that cyberspace episode involving that AI that had gotten loose and at the end the girl disappears into cyberspace?
Just like la Femme Nikita, X-Files may be a good show, but anytime they do anything computer related, it sucks... Damn Hollywood.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Let's follow the russian nightly news lead and have naked women featured predominantly in our newspapers! Hopefully the quality of newspapers will deteriorate to the quality which Katz describes and they'll stop killing trees...
and stuff...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Do you hate seeing free utilities because some people somewhere might make interesting utilties in graphical form that keep people right where they are? If you're really for free software it doesn't matter what OS it's for, does it?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Just because it's open source doesn't mean it necessarily has to be for some flavor of Unix... I mean, I'm sure there's open source projects for Windows out there somewhere...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
You're just like me ^^
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu