In the Four Swords part of the GBA zelda game color is very important. All my brothers have some color deficiency but not me. Its nearly impossible to play that game with them because defeating the enemy bosses requires cooperation based on color. There are things like hit the red side of the monster if you are red or green side if you are green in order to damage it. This isn't too bad except that one of the monsters will only display a color of your partner and you have to tell him which of four to hit. The rest show up grey. Its bad enough that the color of the tunics is the only way to tell your character apart. Then they tie beating the game to something that 13% of males are handicapped in. One last color point to the game. You can play with up to three other people but can't pick which color you get. The first 2 colors used? Red and green.
I had to laugh when you said Mono and.NET were 2nd generation virtual machines. Fashions in the software world come and go and come back again. People were experimenting with virtual machines before I was born (Close to 30 years). Hell you can even see this trend in VB. VB 1.0 ran under DOS and Windows. The DOS version actually compiled to machine code. Then MS bought up the company and refocused only on windows in interpreted mode. Yep versions 2 through 4 ran only as interpreted. It wasn't until 5 came out that we got to compile our code to machine code again. 2 versions later and its back to compiling to a byte code. I can't tell you what generation the current crop of VMs are but its certainly more than 2 or 3. I hightly doubt that the JVM and.NET VMs are all that different. The JVM is really just more specialized to Java where as.NET is supposed to be more broadly targeted to any language. In practice its only good for your language of choice if your language of choice can somehow be coerced into a static type safe object oriented paradigm.
I host my own email server on a dsl line. Currently I use phpgroupware for webmail access but its development has gone kind of stagnant lately. What other packages do people use? I'm upgrading the server OS and thought I might check out a few alternatives. I know I can do a freshmeat search but I want to know what is active and popular.
You say that cargo pants are out but Levis makes a docker pants with hidden cargo pockets. There are 2 pockets, 2 back pockets, 2 hidden thigh pockets that zip on the side and a third pocket hidden in the right front regular pocket. They are pretty decent pants. I've been wearing them for months and I still surprise some of my coworkers when they see me pull my pda out of one of the thigh pockets.
Actually I don't think there is anything wrong with the ideas in his post. Its the way he tried to convey the ideas. An example: There are polite ways to describe someones african lineage and many impolite ways. Pave Low chose an impolite way to convey his message. Of course somebody should mod this whole thread off topic but I guess it doesn't really matter when the story is this old.
I think your tone is rather inflamatory. Calling readers slashbots and talking about circle jerks is not something normally done in polite conversation. You could have easily rephrased your post in such a way as to get positive moderations but you chose not to. Deal with it.
The US Olympic commitee has ordered Nebraska Wesleyan University to stop using the name Rat Olympics in their annual behavioral learning rat competition because it infringes on their name. Seems to me that name olympics far preceeds even this countries founding. The USOC has gone too far yet again.
Heh. For the same reason you use a computer instead of a trained monkey. Less crap to clean up and it doesn't talk back. At least if it does you can unplug it.:-)
If you get your pay docked for coming in late shouldn't you get extra pay for coming in early? I doubt this guy asking the question gets extra pay for clocking in at 7:29. I bet he doesn't even get verbal praise for doing it more than 3 times in a quarter. There lies an inequity. His company wants to have its cake and eat it too. Its my experience that if you want to be a good manager you try to operate fairly. If you have to give people more work then you should try to make it so that they don't have to do something else.
Whats really bad is that this guy posts this same drivel over and over and people eat it up. Check his posting history. You'll see that all his comments are the same thing. He does a nice job of making his template fit the current topic and then it devolves into a *BSD troll of some sort. I hope I get the chance to metamoderate the guys who gave Karmaw[hore]arrior an insightful mod.
I was going to reply back to you with a yes on that guy and a no on this one but I got to thinking about it more. In life shit happens. I don't sue my mutual fund company b/c my fund values plummet. I might if I could prove some kind of gross negligence. In most normal circumstances there is a risk associated with the stock market and to play you have to accept that risk. If that guy wants to risk the well being of his family by playing a game, he has to accept the risk involved. My brother is studying to become a lawyer. If you want to make him rich then everytime somebody around you screws up and harms you no matter how much or how little, go sue that person for whatever you can get. I think this guy is out of line but I think that game company should have tried to work with him. Now they both end up looking like jerks.
I see people here saying he invested his time and money into the game and lost it. I totally disagree. When you make an investement you are placing resources somewhere that they will grow into something better for you. This guy didn't do that. He spent some money and time playing a game. It was pure entertainment, nothing more. Now he has paid for a service. That service has failed to live up to his expectations. If you have a magazine subscription and the magazine takes a direction you don't like do you sue them? No. You either don't renew your subscription and move on or you cancel it right away and ask for the rest of your money back. Yes the company shouldn't have ignored him but when they gave him the brush off he should have packed up and left.
From your post history it looks like you accidentally used the wrong account to post such a troll. Or maybe you are reactivating an old troll account? I've been around here long enough to remember the hot grits and petrified Natalie Portman trolls. They were funny for a while. It was a short while though...
I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip! I always get a smile on my face when Europeans talk about driving far on a vacation. Or when they come here to the states and think everything is so close together. The look on their faces can be pretty funny when you tell them its a fifteen hour drive to Florida or a drive out west will take them a couple days. 2400 miles was a little more than half the distance we drove on a trip to Montana last year. It was nice though when I stayed in England a few years back that you could get to just about anywhere in 4 hours or so from London. That and being able to take a train there was even cooler. I'd trade that for all the cheese curd signs we saw in Wisconsin.:-)
I don't get it this guy is spending 7 hours a day diverting himself playing a game. Then he turns around says his life sucks and he has no money. If he spent that 7 hours a day in the real world improving himself he just might make a decent living and not live life hand to mouth. Though I can't say I'm terribly impressed with the guy. He ran a internet pc store and failed miserably then decides to flee reality. Unfortunately for him reality is catching up and now he decides he should flee to Las Vegas. He'll wind up in the same situation he is in now just a different city. And you know what? He'll probably still be playing AO when he should be improving his situation. Call this flamebait if you want its just what I have seen time and time again.
I have an old dreamcast laying around that I would love to do some of these things with but I lack the broadband adapter. I suspect many people out there are in the same boat. Is there some other hack out there that slaps a network card onto this thing or am I just out of luck?
I agree with you on the form factor. I love the size of my sp. I don't even care much about the lack of a headphone jack. But if I already had a gba would I throw it out and spend 100.00 on the sp? I doubt it. I'm just not that hardcore. For me the biggest feature is the front light. Adding that to the gba brings it close enough to the sp for me.
Yeah buy an afterburner kit and save yourself 75.00 (price of new sp - afterburner). If you aren't sure of your skills then get one from a guy who will also do the modding for you. You'll probably still be ahead by about 50$. I've installed 2 and the people I did it for had them for about a year. I think when they saw it afterward they wished they had bought the kit sooner. Also Lik Sang sells premodded cases in lots of colors if you don't mind soldering but are afraid of cutting your case a bit.
I signed it specifically because Jeode on the PocketPC is nowhere near adequate. Its not a PocketPC native app. Rather it was designed for the old CE devices that were wider than tall and have window borders. An app I wrote for the Zaurus looks wretched on iPaqs. I wish this story would get on the main page but then it would probably be filled with Java is too slow posts and nothing really relavant to getting a good VM on PocketPC platforms. Sun will really miss out on an opportunity if.Net CF takes the lions share of easy PocketPC development.
I would avoid them both until Palm OS 6 comes out with the multitasking ability it sorely lacks. Also 6 will be the first code that incorporates things from the Be engineers. At that point I will probably switch back to Palm. For now I seem to alternate between my iPaq and my Zaurus. I like the windows integration of the iPaq better than the Z but I like the interface and keyboard of the Z more than the iPaq.
SyQuest was far from indestructable. A place I worked at had about 30 of them that all bit the big one due to the click death syndrome. It seems that SyQuest drives had the same problem as zip drives did. BTW the place absolutely needed the data off of the discs so they sent them to one of those places that recover data from crashed hard drives. They were able to get most of the data off the discs but it cost them in the thousands.
I have to second the nomination for the afterburner. Its literally night and day. I have and sp and two of my brothers have the original. We recently installed the afterburner kits into them and couldn't be more pleased. If you are fearful of a soldering iron or dremel tool there are installers out there that for around 45.00 will mod your gba for you. Also Lik Sang I believe sells cases pre cut for afterburner kits. So for the cost of a new game or so you can have a playable gba.
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Those aren't axe heads. Those are pictures of our alien creators beaming us down to earth from their ships. Duh!
In the Four Swords part of the GBA zelda game color is very important. All my brothers have some color deficiency but not me. Its nearly impossible to play that game with them because defeating the enemy bosses requires cooperation based on color. There are things like hit the red side of the monster if you are red or green side if you are green in order to damage it. This isn't too bad except that one of the monsters will only display a color of your partner and you have to tell him which of four to hit. The rest show up grey. Its bad enough that the color of the tunics is the only way to tell your character apart. Then they tie beating the game to something that 13% of males are handicapped in. One last color point to the game. You can play with up to three other people but can't pick which color you get. The first 2 colors used? Red and green.
I had to laugh when you said Mono and .NET were 2nd generation virtual machines. Fashions in the software world come and go and come back again. People were experimenting with virtual machines before I was born (Close to 30 years). Hell you can even see this trend in VB. VB 1.0 ran under DOS and Windows. The DOS version actually compiled to machine code. Then MS bought up the company and refocused only on windows in interpreted mode. Yep versions 2 through 4 ran only as interpreted. It wasn't until 5 came out that we got to compile our code to machine code again. 2 versions later and its back to compiling to a byte code. I can't tell you what generation the current crop of VMs are but its certainly more than 2 or 3. I hightly doubt that the JVM and .NET VMs are all that different. The JVM is really just more specialized to Java where as .NET is supposed to be more broadly targeted to any language. In practice its only good for your language of choice if your language of choice can somehow be coerced into a static type safe object oriented paradigm.
I host my own email server on a dsl line. Currently I use phpgroupware for webmail access but its development has gone kind of stagnant lately. What other packages do people use? I'm upgrading the server OS and thought I might check out a few alternatives. I know I can do a freshmeat search but I want to know what is active and popular.
You say that cargo pants are out but Levis makes a docker pants with hidden cargo pockets. There are 2 pockets, 2 back pockets, 2 hidden thigh pockets that zip on the side and a third pocket hidden in the right front regular pocket. They are pretty decent pants. I've been wearing them for months and I still surprise some of my coworkers when they see me pull my pda out of one of the thigh pockets.
Actually I don't think there is anything wrong with the ideas in his post. Its the way he tried to convey the ideas. An example: There are polite ways to describe someones african lineage and many impolite ways. Pave Low chose an impolite way to convey his message. Of course somebody should mod this whole thread off topic but I guess it doesn't really matter when the story is this old.
I think your tone is rather inflamatory. Calling readers slashbots and talking about circle jerks is not something normally done in polite conversation. You could have easily rephrased your post in such a way as to get positive moderations but you chose not to. Deal with it.
The US Olympic commitee has ordered Nebraska Wesleyan University to stop using the name Rat Olympics in their annual behavioral learning rat competition because it infringes on their name. Seems to me that name olympics far preceeds even this countries founding. The USOC has gone too far yet again.
Heh. For the same reason you use a computer instead of a trained monkey. Less crap to clean up and it doesn't talk back. At least if it does you can unplug it. :-)
If you get your pay docked for coming in late shouldn't you get extra pay for coming in early? I doubt this guy asking the question gets extra pay for clocking in at 7:29. I bet he doesn't even get verbal praise for doing it more than 3 times in a quarter. There lies an inequity. His company wants to have its cake and eat it too. Its my experience that if you want to be a good manager you try to operate fairly. If you have to give people more work then you should try to make it so that they don't have to do something else.
Whats really bad is that this guy posts this same drivel over and over and people eat it up. Check his posting history. You'll see that all his comments are the same thing. He does a nice job of making his template fit the current topic and then it devolves into a *BSD troll of some sort. I hope I get the chance to metamoderate the guys who gave Karmaw[hore]arrior an insightful mod.
In some resturaunts if it falls on the floor it just gets deep fried for a few seconds. I think you can deep fry just about anything...
I think the address is 1 Microsoft Way
I was going to reply back to you with a yes on that guy and a no on this one but I got to thinking about it more. In life shit happens. I don't sue my mutual fund company b/c my fund values plummet. I might if I could prove some kind of gross negligence. In most normal circumstances there is a risk associated with the stock market and to play you have to accept that risk. If that guy wants to risk the well being of his family by playing a game, he has to accept the risk involved. My brother is studying to become a lawyer. If you want to make him rich then everytime somebody around you screws up and harms you no matter how much or how little, go sue that person for whatever you can get. I think this guy is out of line but I think that game company should have tried to work with him. Now they both end up looking like jerks.
I see people here saying he invested his time and money into the game and lost it. I totally disagree. When you make an investement you are placing resources somewhere that they will grow into something better for you. This guy didn't do that. He spent some money and time playing a game. It was pure entertainment, nothing more.
Now he has paid for a service. That service has failed to live up to his expectations. If you have a magazine subscription and the magazine takes a direction you don't like do you sue them? No. You either don't renew your subscription and move on or you cancel it right away and ask for the rest of your money back. Yes the company shouldn't have ignored him but when they gave him the brush off he should have packed up and left.
From your post history it looks like you accidentally used the wrong account to post such a troll. Or maybe you are reactivating an old troll account? I've been around here long enough to remember the hot grits and petrified Natalie Portman trolls. They were funny for a while. It was a short while though...
I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip! :-)
I always get a smile on my face when Europeans talk about driving far on a vacation. Or when they come here to the states and think everything is so close together. The look on their faces can be pretty funny when you tell them its a fifteen hour drive to Florida or a drive out west will take them a couple days. 2400 miles was a little more than half the distance we drove on a trip to Montana last year. It was nice though when I stayed in England a few years back that you could get to just about anywhere in 4 hours or so from London. That and being able to take a train there was even cooler. I'd trade that for all the cheese curd signs we saw in Wisconsin.
I don't get it this guy is spending 7 hours a day diverting himself playing a game. Then he turns around says his life sucks and he has no money. If he spent that 7 hours a day in the real world improving himself he just might make a decent living and not live life hand to mouth. Though I can't say I'm terribly impressed with the guy. He ran a internet pc store and failed miserably then decides to flee reality. Unfortunately for him reality is catching up and now he decides he should flee to Las Vegas. He'll wind up in the same situation he is in now just a different city. And you know what? He'll probably still be playing AO when he should be improving his situation.
Call this flamebait if you want its just what I have seen time and time again.
I have an old dreamcast laying around that I would love to do some of these things with but I lack the broadband adapter. I suspect many people out there are in the same boat. Is there some other hack out there that slaps a network card onto this thing or am I just out of luck?
I agree with you on the form factor. I love the size of my sp. I don't even care much about the lack of a headphone jack. But if I already had a gba would I throw it out and spend 100.00 on the sp? I doubt it. I'm just not that hardcore. For me the biggest feature is the front light. Adding that to the gba brings it close enough to the sp for me.
Yeah buy an afterburner kit and save yourself 75.00 (price of new sp - afterburner). If you aren't sure of your skills then get one from a guy who will also do the modding for you. You'll probably still be ahead by about 50$. I've installed 2 and the people I did it for had them for about a year. I think when they saw it afterward they wished they had bought the kit sooner. Also Lik Sang sells premodded cases in lots of colors if you don't mind soldering but are afraid of cutting your case a bit.
I signed it specifically because Jeode on the PocketPC is nowhere near adequate. Its not a PocketPC native app. Rather it was designed for the old CE devices that were wider than tall and have window borders. An app I wrote for the Zaurus looks wretched on iPaqs. I wish this story would get on the main page but then it would probably be filled with Java is too slow posts and nothing really relavant to getting a good VM on PocketPC platforms. Sun will really miss out on an opportunity if .Net CF takes the lions share of easy PocketPC development.
I would avoid them both until Palm OS 6 comes out with the multitasking ability it sorely lacks. Also 6 will be the first code that incorporates things from the Be engineers. At that point I will probably switch back to Palm. For now I seem to alternate between my iPaq and my Zaurus. I like the windows integration of the iPaq better than the Z but I like the interface and keyboard of the Z more than the iPaq.
SyQuest was far from indestructable. A place I worked at had about 30 of them that all bit the big one due to the click death syndrome. It seems that SyQuest drives had the same problem as zip drives did. BTW the place absolutely needed the data off of the discs so they sent them to one of those places that recover data from crashed hard drives. They were able to get most of the data off the discs but it cost them in the thousands.
I have to second the nomination for the afterburner. Its literally night and day. I have and sp and two of my brothers have the original. We recently installed the afterburner kits into them and couldn't be more pleased. If you are fearful of a soldering iron or dremel tool there are installers out there that for around 45.00 will mod your gba for you. Also Lik Sang I believe sells cases pre cut for afterburner kits. So for the cost of a new game or so you can have a playable gba.