I check www.electoral-vote.com every morning, and I was wondering why it was so slow this morning. SLASHDOT! Andrew Tanenbaum is a person that gives to society. Yes the world would be a better place if it had more Andrew Tanenbaums.
Actually, now that you mention it, I did get past San Andreas. I had their order switch in my memory. I remember seeing 3 separate areas. The last one was Vice City and everything looked old and rusty. It must have been Vice City that I never passed.
Yeah, it was great that you could actually play through the game by selling stolen cars. It is called Grand Theft AUTO. The Super Bike was like riding a missile. Pure speed, pure health hazard.
I see no problem with that. There was nothing wrong with the original gameplay. Would you refuse to play tetris with better graphics or chess with better graphics, etc? If the game isn't broke, don't fix it.
You would have figured that they would point out that the first GTA released in 1997 included Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas all in the same game. Most gamers who even played the first GTA when it was released never got past Liberty City. I personally never got past San Andreas. The original GTA was far more difficult than GTA3, mainly do to the fact that messing up a mission was a far bigger set back in GTA. You couldn't just do the mission over again, and it would also reset your score multiplier making even harder to raise enough money to get to the next city.
While I never played GTA2, I played GTA when it was first released in late 1997, early 1998. I loved it, wondered why nobody else was playing it, and wondered why the critics gave it a thumbs down. Motorcycles, multiplayer, and many other features were cut for GTA3, yet most gamers were first introduced to the series with GTA3... and most have no sense of the series history.
I have even heard and read reviews were people claim that GTA3:VC was not as good as GTA3 because GTA3 was new, revolutionary, experimental, etc... while GTA3:VC was too much like GTA3. Well, I hate to point this out, but GTA3 is allot like the original GTA. Sure the presentation had improved ALLOT, but other than that, very little had changed.
In my opinion, each entry in the series has its benefits. My favorite so far is GTA3:VC because it has the best presentation out of all 3, and you don't feel like a loser by the end of the game... you feel like a kingpin!
Elite and Sid Meier's Pirates! are other examples of early non-linear video games that EVERY gamer should play. Yes they are both still fun to play today. Elite is even a true 3D game, with 3D graphics, physics, and world! Considering that the game was made in the early 80s for the NES and BBC Micro, that says something about programming skills.
The Atari 2600 scene has seen lots of activity in game development recently. They even go as far as to mint actual carts with labels, manuals, and boxes for their games. Even better, they tend to do the labels and packaging in the same style as the late 1970s Atari games. You can buy these games from sites like Atari Age.
Another company, VG Wiz provides cart minting services, and even has a NES flash cart under development. Tototek recently made flash development carts for various old console systems: Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Turbo Graphics 16, and even the SNES. These carts are great for playing ROMs on the actual console system.
Hopefully Grand Theftendo sees a similar fate as the Atari 2600 homebrews, and gets minted to an actual cart with PCB, plastic enclosure, label, manual, and box. The NES scene has been needing some full fledged fan developed games for a long time now.
P2P is not dead, and it is not hiding. Look at Bittorrent, which is repeatidly used for legitimate uses: Linux ISOs, game demos, etc. Those are all out in the open. As far as copyright infringement uses go, they are also out in the open and have their own frickin website for god's sake!
In this election, there is a clear winner and a clear loser. Hell, I switched parties just for this election!
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I voted early last week. Why would you risk waiting until the last second to vote? Who knows what could go wrong. You could get sick, your car could break down, you could accidentally go to the wrong polling location, etc...
Funny thing is that on the second day of early voting, the polling location that I went to had a 30 minute wait!!! In 2000, on election day, there was no wait whatsoever! I think this year there is going to be a HUGE voter turnout. I am not sure who it is going to favor, but it is an interesting phenomenon.
What is a "cyber terrorist"? Is this a new phrase coined to describe a type of computer user that somebody doesn't like? "Terrorist" literally means "Somebody that I don't like".
You are absolutely correct. I have a modded Xbox, but I never bought a Mod-chip because only an idiot would pay $50+ for something that can be done for free without a mod-chip. Oh, and I don't use my modded Xbox to pirate games. The very very few Xbox games that I worth playing, I buy. I modded for XBox Media Center, which actually makes the XBox worth owning.
Otherwise I would have abought a PS2, which has the same games, with shittier graphics.
Hey, I already use Fedora Core 2 as my sole desktop. I already realize that it has enough to satisfy the average user. However, Nautilus is still a piece of junk, but it is improving.
I have played the GTA series since the original was released for DOS in 1998. Most people don't realize this, but the game has been basically the same thing since the original GTA. The basic formula has not changed at all with one exception (multiplayer), only the presentation has improved.
The graphics and sound have dramatically improved, multiplayer has been dropped, and the game has been split and sold in separate chunks... yes the first GTA had Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas all in one!
Most people probably never got past Liberty City in the original game, so it was wise to split them up... oh and creating content for the GTA3 series is allot harder than doing so for the GTA1 series.
It really bothers me how much gamers and critics ignored the first GTA. Critics bagged it as a gimmic and gamers ignored it. Hell, the Gamespot reviewer of GTA3: San Andreas even goes as far as to say
the concept of a multiplayer mode in GTA is pretty mind-blowing
when multiplayer has been in GTA since 1998. Just imagine if movie critics were this ignorant of history. "The concept of a non-linear storyline in a movie is pretty mind-blowing"! Yup, they would be laughed at. I guess the game industry still has allot of growing up to do.
I know this because I have used Mozilla since version 1. I currently use it as my only browser on Linux. The bug where a form can have its focus stolen by another tab happens accidentally all the time, and it is really annoying and has been really annoying from some time now. Any Mozilla user has to have come into contact with it, so why has it not been fixed yet?
The other more general problem of one tab being able to open a dialog box while viewing another tab is also a problem. Pop-ups of any kind should be isolated to the tab they originated from. Tabs should "contain" the page they have open as well as all pop-ups and dialogs the page generates. This would prevent the spoofing demonstrated AND it should make web browsing far more structured and organized for the user. It would effectively add a heirarchy to browsing, as new windows and dialogs generated in a tab are only displayed when that tab is selected and furthermore they are "contained" within the tab's main pane.
I will be surprised if the form focus bug hasn't been bug reported several times over already. The tab dialog/pop-up bug has been complained about, but I could see it not be formalized as a bug report as it is somewhat consistent with modern desktops like Windows. Still, it is a problem and a "tab containment" design should be used instead of the current design.
Forcing people to vote is the worst idea I have ever heard of. If you want somebody to make a good decision, it should be one that they want to make, not a decision they are forced to make. People that don't want to vote tend to be least informed and least interested in seeing a positive outcome to the election.
You mean I can pay $80 to get the same functionality I have had for almost a year now with the free XBMC, with one exception: I have to go out and purchase XP MCE to run on the backend? Pathetic. Give me the free XBMC on a software modded XBox, plus an old PC running Linux on the backend. A far less expensive solution, and one that I have been using now for almost a year.
Microsoft, this is too little too late and too costly.
Who cares what type of CPU it uses. The point is that it does the job. Hell, if it happened to use a 486, it wouldn't make any difference to me, if it accomplished the task. If you really think that you can put together a PC for $130 that accomplishes the same thing as XBMC, then be my guest.
You can get a new XBox for $130, and do a software based mod for free (yes mod chip not required). Then you can install the opensource XBox Media Center, and you have all of the same functionality as this device. Even better, once Microsoft drops the price of their XBox to $99, to compete with the new PSTwo from Sony, you can have, again, the same functionality for $99!
Not only that, but XBox Media Center is opensource, actively developed, and there are constantly free updates. There are even plugins that suport a frontend for a backend MythTV server. So you can add TiVo like functionality on your fileserver, and make use of it on your TV.
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802.11b on a voting machine? What is stopping a wardriving hacker from taking over the election!
I check www.electoral-vote.com every morning, and I was wondering why it was so slow this morning. SLASHDOT! Andrew Tanenbaum is a person that gives to society. Yes the world would be a better place if it had more Andrew Tanenbaums.
GTA3 has a camera angle that is the traditional pulled out overhead view of the original GTA.
Actually, now that you mention it, I did get past San Andreas. I had their order switch in my memory. I remember seeing 3 separate areas. The last one was Vice City and everything looked old and rusty. It must have been Vice City that I never passed.
Yeah, it was great that you could actually play through the game by selling stolen cars. It is called Grand Theft AUTO. The Super Bike was like riding a missile. Pure speed, pure health hazard.
I see no problem with that. There was nothing wrong with the original gameplay. Would you refuse to play tetris with better graphics or chess with better graphics, etc? If the game isn't broke, don't fix it.
You would have figured that they would point out that the first GTA released in 1997 included Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas all in the same game. Most gamers who even played the first GTA when it was released never got past Liberty City. I personally never got past San Andreas. The original GTA was far more difficult than GTA3, mainly do to the fact that messing up a mission was a far bigger set back in GTA. You couldn't just do the mission over again, and it would also reset your score multiplier making even harder to raise enough money to get to the next city.
While I never played GTA2, I played GTA when it was first released in late 1997, early 1998. I loved it, wondered why nobody else was playing it, and wondered why the critics gave it a thumbs down. Motorcycles, multiplayer, and many other features were cut for GTA3, yet most gamers were first introduced to the series with GTA3... and most have no sense of the series history.
I have even heard and read reviews were people claim that GTA3:VC was not as good as GTA3 because GTA3 was new, revolutionary, experimental, etc... while GTA3:VC was too much like GTA3. Well, I hate to point this out, but GTA3 is allot like the original GTA. Sure the presentation had improved ALLOT, but other than that, very little had changed.
In my opinion, each entry in the series has its benefits. My favorite so far is GTA3:VC because it has the best presentation out of all 3, and you don't feel like a loser by the end of the game... you feel like a kingpin!
Elite and Sid Meier's Pirates! are other examples of early non-linear video games that EVERY gamer should play. Yes they are both still fun to play today. Elite is even a true 3D game, with 3D graphics, physics, and world! Considering that the game was made in the early 80s for the NES and BBC Micro, that says something about programming skills.
The Atari 2600 scene has seen lots of activity in game development recently. They even go as far as to mint actual carts with labels, manuals, and boxes for their games. Even better, they tend to do the labels and packaging in the same style as the late 1970s Atari games. You can buy these games from sites like Atari Age.
Another company, VG Wiz provides cart minting services, and even has a NES flash cart under development. Tototek recently made flash development carts for various old console systems: Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Turbo Graphics 16, and even the SNES. These carts are great for playing ROMs on the actual console system.
Hopefully Grand Theftendo sees a similar fate as the Atari 2600 homebrews, and gets minted to an actual cart with PCB, plastic enclosure, label, manual, and box. The NES scene has been needing some full fledged fan developed games for a long time now.
P2P is not dead, and it is not hiding. Look at Bittorrent, which is repeatidly used for legitimate uses: Linux ISOs, game demos, etc. Those are all out in the open. As far as copyright infringement uses go, they are also out in the open and have their own frickin website for god's sake!
In this election, there is a clear winner and a clear loser. Hell, I switched parties just for this election!
I voted early last week. Why would you risk waiting until the last second to vote? Who knows what could go wrong. You could get sick, your car could break down, you could accidentally go to the wrong polling location, etc...
Funny thing is that on the second day of early voting, the polling location that I went to had a 30 minute wait!!! In 2000, on election day, there was no wait whatsoever! I think this year there is going to be a HUGE voter turnout. I am not sure who it is going to favor, but it is an interesting phenomenon.
What is a "cyber terrorist"? Is this a new phrase coined to describe a type of computer user that somebody doesn't like? "Terrorist" literally means "Somebody that I don't like".
You are absolutely correct. I have a modded Xbox, but I never bought a Mod-chip because only an idiot would pay $50+ for something that can be done for free without a mod-chip. Oh, and I don't use my modded Xbox to pirate games. The very very few Xbox games that I worth playing, I buy. I modded for XBox Media Center, which actually makes the XBox worth owning.
Otherwise I would have abought a PS2, which has the same games, with shittier graphics.
Hey, I already use Fedora Core 2 as my sole desktop. I already realize that it has enough to satisfy the average user. However, Nautilus is still a piece of junk, but it is improving.
The graphics and sound have dramatically improved, multiplayer has been dropped, and the game has been split and sold in separate chunks... yes the first GTA had Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas all in one!
Most people probably never got past Liberty City in the original game, so it was wise to split them up... oh and creating content for the GTA3 series is allot harder than doing so for the GTA1 series.
It really bothers me how much gamers and critics ignored the first GTA. Critics bagged it as a gimmic and gamers ignored it. Hell, the Gamespot reviewer of GTA3: San Andreas even goes as far as to say
when multiplayer has been in GTA since 1998. Just imagine if movie critics were this ignorant of history. "The concept of a non-linear storyline in a movie is pretty mind-blowing"! Yup, they would be laughed at. I guess the game industry still has allot of growing up to do.
Most users need a web browser, email client, instant message client, an office suite, a music player, and a movie player.
It is already available via BitTorrent on http://www.suprnova.org/
I know this because I have used Mozilla since version 1. I currently use it as my only browser on Linux. The bug where a form can have its focus stolen by another tab happens accidentally all the time, and it is really annoying and has been really annoying from some time now. Any Mozilla user has to have come into contact with it, so why has it not been fixed yet?
The other more general problem of one tab being able to open a dialog box while viewing another tab is also a problem. Pop-ups of any kind should be isolated to the tab they originated from. Tabs should "contain" the page they have open as well as all pop-ups and dialogs the page generates. This would prevent the spoofing demonstrated AND it should make web browsing far more structured and organized for the user. It would effectively add a heirarchy to browsing, as new windows and dialogs generated in a tab are only displayed when that tab is selected and furthermore they are "contained" within the tab's main pane.
I will be surprised if the form focus bug hasn't been bug reported several times over already. The tab dialog/pop-up bug has been complained about, but I could see it not be formalized as a bug report as it is somewhat consistent with modern desktops like Windows. Still, it is a problem and a "tab containment" design should be used instead of the current design.
Forcing people to vote is the worst idea I have ever heard of. If you want somebody to make a good decision, it should be one that they want to make, not a decision they are forced to make. People that don't want to vote tend to be least informed and least interested in seeing a positive outcome to the election.
India's recent election wasn't without problems. Why do people use this as an example, when simple searches show that they too had voting issues?
You mean I can pay $80 to get the same functionality I have had for almost a year now with the free XBMC, with one exception: I have to go out and purchase XP MCE to run on the backend? Pathetic. Give me the free XBMC on a software modded XBox, plus an old PC running Linux on the backend. A far less expensive solution, and one that I have been using now for almost a year.
Microsoft, this is too little too late and too costly.
It is called "Google". Learn how to use it. Now, what boggles my mind is how your post got rated as "+5 Insightful".
Who cares what type of CPU it uses. The point is that it does the job. Hell, if it happened to use a 486, it wouldn't make any difference to me, if it accomplished the task. If you really think that you can put together a PC for $130 that accomplishes the same thing as XBMC, then be my guest.
You can get a new XBox for $130, and do a software based mod for free (yes mod chip not required). Then you can install the opensource XBox Media Center, and you have all of the same functionality as this device. Even better, once Microsoft drops the price of their XBox to $99, to compete with the new PSTwo from Sony, you can have, again, the same functionality for $99!
Not only that, but XBox Media Center is opensource, actively developed, and there are constantly free updates. There are even plugins that suport a frontend for a backend MythTV server. So you can add TiVo like functionality on your fileserver, and make use of it on your TV.