And I don't believe I would have owned the song in a useful and perpetual way anyway, without breaking the encryption code. I want to be able to listen to my music on whatever device I want, no matter what OS it's running.
That's a good point. I have a Mac and I haven't yet pawned off my iPod for food money, so I guess I'm their ideal customer.:-) It worked perfectly for me and is as perpetual as I need it to be. But if you don't have all Apple gear or you're a Linux user, etc, then I can see where this would be more of a problem.
..but I am entirely uninterested in NOT owning my music. I like Apple's model a lot. And, thanks to Pepsi, I've even bought some songs from them now and it works wonderfully. If I had a job, I'd probably be buying music from them on a regular song-by-song basis. But I don't. So for now, I use bottle caps with codes that my girlfriend gives me.:-)
So my guess is that behind the first one will be some intergalactic refugees running from the ship behind the second one which is loaded with intergalactic cops with kill-o-zap ray guns on their hips and a blinking red/blue light on the outside of the ship.
In order to save the helpless refugees stuck in an endless race for freedom, followers here on earth will help stick it to the man by committing suicide just in time so that as their souls rise towards the heavens, the cop ship will pass overhead and the souls will re-materialize on board their ship so that they can possess their bodies and crash the cop-mobile into earth and allow the refugees to get away.
The refugees, forever grateful towards the helpful earth citizens, will continue on their merry way and will not need to blow the earth up like they had planned (they were hoping that large chunks of earth would smash into the perusing police force and allow them to get away).
He said that has they filmed some of the Golden Gate bridge for their new game the FBI called and wanted to know what they were doing! That's amazing!
I guess someone thought they looked suspicious and turned in their license plate number. But still... You'd think that if you wanted to scope out the bridge you could, ya know, just drive over it and take pictures out the back window with a digital camera or something. Or play like a tourist. Does the FBI call all those people, too?
I'm not so much outraged or anything as I am amazed that they can have enough resources to even bother with it. I mean, what if they weren't able to get ahold of them with a simple phone call? Would they have dispatched a team to go check up on these guys? What if it was a rental car or something? How far will they go based on one phoned in tip? There's a lot of bored and paranoid people in the world. Does the FBI respond to EVERYTHING that gets called in--no matter how small?
Ok, I know it has nothing to do with the interview (which is awesome). Oh well.:-)
Well, this news may or may not be a hoax. However, I have personally had problems with a couple stores and their security devices crop up suddenly in the last few months. I tracked it as far as my wallet. Nothing had changed about my wallet's configuration. It had the same credit cards, id, etc. Suddenly I ran into a problem where I was setting off some security gates when going into or out of a couple of stores in the city where my girlfriend goes to school. So, after some trial and error, I eventually tracked it to my wallet (I tried going through each time I visited her and took one item at a time out of my pockets.. cell phone, loose change, gave her my car keys and had her walk in before me, etc. until eventually I got rid of the wallet and the problem went away--which presents a problem when you want to go to the store to buy something...).
So anyway, there might be something to this although it could be related to the partially conductive ink on newer bills. I haven't bothered to track it any farther (as to specific money arrangements) as I've grown tired of the murderous looks I get from other customers as I walk through and the alarm sounds. (Oddly, the employees never seem to care...)
While I don't have all these features implemented or anything, this is kind of what I'm going for in my JiggleScript project (which is very early development, of course). Check it out if you're into this sort of thing.:-)
I remember back in 1998 when email was still pretty useful and not so spam-filled. And how ICQ wasn't entirely bogged down in crap and was still mostly just a messenger. What happened to those services?
This is a much better idea than GameSpy's somewhat elitist approach. This just uses raw numbers to determine the best games instead of some wishy-washy "I think my friends liked this one a lot" kind of thing.
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So what's the maximum warp on this sucker? Does it fly around the room and assimilate other systems that are nearby? I'd be a little skittish about leaving it plugged into the network...
Pencil and paper and whiteboard and markers tend to work pretty darned well, really. And the best part is, they're general-purpose!
If you're getting bored with the design you can always start drawing little tanks and army dudes that come in from the side of the wall and take over the board. As they unleash massive eraser bombs and red splatter attacks it gives you time to think up something better.
I know of no automated software package that has this kind of useful and constructive feedback system...
Very cool! I mean, what else is there to say about it? Doing something like this for a dead platform doesn't make much economic sense and it certainly doesn't push the technology envelope. But dang it, it's cool anyway.
It costs me per kilobyte to use anything that accesses the web on my phone. So I don't. They can give me unlimited night and weekends to anywhere in the country, but if I try to access Google they try to take both my arms and one of my legs.
This might explain why few people use WAP.... Use it once and after you get the bill you are no longer able to push the buttons on your phone...
But a good idea, I guess. I'm kind of surprised they didn't get into the anti-virus biz a long time ago. Maybe they felt it would be an admission of weakness or something.
I've heard of this battery problem for awhile now. Which generation does it affect most or is this something that's basically across the board? I have one of the slimmer iPods (perhaps second gen?) with the all-touch interface (no physical moving buttons or anything). I hope it keeps working as well as it has been...
I like reading about behind the scenes stuff after games are released. Its just so cool. I want to be involved in that. It seems like working on games is sort of like a wild-west thing. It isn't obvious what will work or how best to do anything so you have to play it by ear a lot. Shoot from the hip. Stuff like that. I dunno.. it just excites me in some strange adventurous sort of way.
Maybe because I've never worked in the games industry....:-)
Do the artists have any say in any of this sort of thing? For instance, is it likely Eminem told his people to go after Apple or are his people going after Apple regardless if he likes it or not?
I don't think knowing assembly language is required to become a good programmer, but a good programmer should learn how the computer works at that level at some point in their life. And that's the key. Assembly language isn't a bad way to learn that, but it isn't the only way. And, in many respects, it isn't really the best way, either.
See, I'm sort of tore. I like this idea since I feel most programmers these days are sorely lacking in the fundamentals. However there are advantages to starting higher. One major advantage I can think of is that when you start so low level, there are certain ideas that may never occur to you. Certain ways of solving problems won't come up because you "know" how the computer works and therefore adapt your thinking to it and seeing things very narrowly. I believe that we should be working towards adapting the computer to us instead. And when students start out learning at higher and higher levels, they start thinking higher and higher level and see connections from their "low level" beginnings to a higher level ideal without being bogged down in the little details. I think that would help drive innovation.
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A promotion path for the Iowa Nasal Rangers? Cool!
And I don't believe I would have owned the song in a useful and perpetual way anyway, without breaking the encryption code. I want to be able to listen to my music on whatever device I want, no matter what OS it's running.
:-) It worked perfectly for me and is as perpetual as I need it to be. But if you don't have all Apple gear or you're a Linux user, etc, then I can see where this would be more of a problem.
That's a good point. I have a Mac and I haven't yet pawned off my iPod for food money, so I guess I'm their ideal customer.
..but I am entirely uninterested in NOT owning my music. I like Apple's model a lot. And, thanks to Pepsi, I've even bought some songs from them now and it works wonderfully. If I had a job, I'd probably be buying music from them on a regular song-by-song basis. But I don't. So for now, I use bottle caps with codes that my girlfriend gives me. :-)
You're gonna slashdot NASA TV now, dammit! I fully expect my satellite feed to start stuttering and flashing to black in a few minutes...
So my guess is that behind the first one will be some intergalactic refugees running from the ship behind the second one which is loaded with intergalactic cops with kill-o-zap ray guns on their hips and a blinking red/blue light on the outside of the ship.
In order to save the helpless refugees stuck in an endless race for freedom, followers here on earth will help stick it to the man by committing suicide just in time so that as their souls rise towards the heavens, the cop ship will pass overhead and the souls will re-materialize on board their ship so that they can possess their bodies and crash the cop-mobile into earth and allow the refugees to get away.
The refugees, forever grateful towards the helpful earth citizens, will continue on their merry way and will not need to blow the earth up like they had planned (they were hoping that large chunks of earth would smash into the perusing police force and allow them to get away).
He said that has they filmed some of the Golden Gate bridge for their new game the FBI called and wanted to know what they were doing! That's amazing!
:-)
I guess someone thought they looked suspicious and turned in their license plate number. But still... You'd think that if you wanted to scope out the bridge you could, ya know, just drive over it and take pictures out the back window with a digital camera or something. Or play like a tourist. Does the FBI call all those people, too?
I'm not so much outraged or anything as I am amazed that they can have enough resources to even bother with it. I mean, what if they weren't able to get ahold of them with a simple phone call? Would they have dispatched a team to go check up on these guys? What if it was a rental car or something? How far will they go based on one phoned in tip? There's a lot of bored and paranoid people in the world. Does the FBI respond to EVERYTHING that gets called in--no matter how small?
Ok, I know it has nothing to do with the interview (which is awesome). Oh well.
Well, this news may or may not be a hoax. However, I have personally had problems with a couple stores and their security devices crop up suddenly in the last few months. I tracked it as far as my wallet. Nothing had changed about my wallet's configuration. It had the same credit cards, id, etc. Suddenly I ran into a problem where I was setting off some security gates when going into or out of a couple of stores in the city where my girlfriend goes to school. So, after some trial and error, I eventually tracked it to my wallet (I tried going through each time I visited her and took one item at a time out of my pockets.. cell phone, loose change, gave her my car keys and had her walk in before me, etc. until eventually I got rid of the wallet and the problem went away--which presents a problem when you want to go to the store to buy something...).
So anyway, there might be something to this although it could be related to the partially conductive ink on newer bills. I haven't bothered to track it any farther (as to specific money arrangements) as I've grown tired of the murderous looks I get from other customers as I walk through and the alarm sounds. (Oddly, the employees never seem to care...)
While I don't have all these features implemented or anything, this is kind of what I'm going for in my JiggleScript project (which is very early development, of course). Check it out if you're into this sort of thing. :-)
I remember back in 1998 when email was still pretty useful and not so spam-filled. And how ICQ wasn't entirely bogged down in crap and was still mostly just a messenger. What happened to those services?
I guess I'm going to have to find someone selling tiny little prisms now so I can build myself a new lock-pick set...
This is a much better idea than GameSpy's somewhat elitist approach. This just uses raw numbers to determine the best games instead of some wishy-washy "I think my friends liked this one a lot" kind of thing.
So what's the maximum warp on this sucker? Does it fly around the room and assimilate other systems that are nearby? I'd be a little skittish about leaving it plugged into the network...
Pencil and paper and whiteboard and markers tend to work pretty darned well, really. And the best part is, they're general-purpose!
If you're getting bored with the design you can always start drawing little tanks and army dudes that come in from the side of the wall and take over the board. As they unleash massive eraser bombs and red splatter attacks it gives you time to think up something better.
I know of no automated software package that has this kind of useful and constructive feedback system...
Very cool! I mean, what else is there to say about it? Doing something like this for a dead platform doesn't make much economic sense and it certainly doesn't push the technology envelope. But dang it, it's cool anyway.
It costs me per kilobyte to use anything that accesses the web on my phone. So I don't. They can give me unlimited night and weekends to anywhere in the country, but if I try to access Google they try to take both my arms and one of my legs.
This might explain why few people use WAP.... Use it once and after you get the bill you are no longer able to push the buttons on your phone...
Wow! I remember that now that you mention it. Geez.. My memory sucks and I'm only... wait.. how old am I again?
But a good idea, I guess. I'm kind of surprised they didn't get into the anti-virus biz a long time ago. Maybe they felt it would be an admission of weakness or something.
I've heard of this battery problem for awhile now. Which generation does it affect most or is this something that's basically across the board? I have one of the slimmer iPods (perhaps second gen?) with the all-touch interface (no physical moving buttons or anything). I hope it keeps working as well as it has been...
Dude... That's awesome!!
I once painstakingly hacked a rotating fiber-optic Christmas tree and removed the parts that made it rotate. Does that count?
I like reading about behind the scenes stuff after games are released. Its just so cool. I want to be involved in that. It seems like working on games is sort of like a wild-west thing. It isn't obvious what will work or how best to do anything so you have to play it by ear a lot. Shoot from the hip. Stuff like that. I dunno.. it just excites me in some strange adventurous sort of way.
:-)
Maybe because I've never worked in the games industry....
Do the artists have any say in any of this sort of thing? For instance, is it likely Eminem told his people to go after Apple or are his people going after Apple regardless if he likes it or not?
Well, no doubt fossil fuels are used somewhere along the lines, but this makes it sound pretty simple and mostly biological.
I don't think knowing assembly language is required to become a good programmer, but a good programmer should learn how the computer works at that level at some point in their life. And that's the key. Assembly language isn't a bad way to learn that, but it isn't the only way. And, in many respects, it isn't really the best way, either.
See, I'm sort of tore. I like this idea since I feel most programmers these days are sorely lacking in the fundamentals. However there are advantages to starting higher. One major advantage I can think of is that when you start so low level, there are certain ideas that may never occur to you. Certain ways of solving problems won't come up because you "know" how the computer works and therefore adapt your thinking to it and seeing things very narrowly. I believe that we should be working towards adapting the computer to us instead. And when students start out learning at higher and higher levels, they start thinking higher and higher level and see connections from their "low level" beginnings to a higher level ideal without being bogged down in the little details. I think that would help drive innovation.
Maybe not so out of print as I thought. :-)