I also liked HoMM IV better than III. Three was a lot of fun, but I thought IV was a definite improvement to the way it played. I tried the demo of V, but between it being a retread of III and running slowly on my old hardware it didn't interest me at all.
Amen. Find your personal itch and scratch it. In my case, many moons ago, I had spent all my money on a shiny new Apple//e computer -- but didn't have money for software. I needed to write papers for school (I was a senior in high school at the time), so I wrote an editor in the BASIC that came with the machine. It was a really lame editor, but it got the job done. After that I wrote a database manager, again because I needed one. Then I wrote a clone of the game Lunar Lander just for the hell of it.
Find something you want done, and do it. Don't worry about whether or not anyone else will see it. Like web-comics? Write a screen-scraper that downloads your favorites and mails them to you. Like porn? Ditto. Play paper-and-pencil role-playing games? Write a character generation program, or a combat program. Reinvent the wheel -- write something to unpack zip files, for example. Just write something.
They need to call one of those chip-and-crack auto glass replacement people that I hear on the radio all the time. They come out to your workplace to do the job, and best of all, you only pay the insurance deductible!
Or just write "none" where it asks for accounts. I don't have any accounts on social networking or other sites. Hell, I don't even have a Slashdot account. You can all testify to that, right?
The first netbooks were largely adopted by geeks, who like Linux. Then some people who were born and raised on Windows looked at the machines and thought they were pretty cool; too bad they didn't run Windows. The manufacturers looked at which OS had the biggest market. It's not a hard decision, and doesn't require any goofy back-alley coercion.
Or, this was the manufacturers' plan all along. They wanted Windows, MS priced it too high. So they brought out the first generation with Linux, knowing Microsoft would freak and drop the price to almost nothing.
Either one works for me. Yeah, I'm sure MS was there pushing the manufacturers, but overall I'm pretty sure it's a case of you can't rape the willing.
Is there any way to get usage statistics out of the SSD itself? Specifically, I want to query the drive for the number of erase cycles each physical block of flash has been subjected to, verify failures, etc. This should be quite different from the logical block usage at the file-system level, so I don't expect standard HDD tools to give an accurate picture of the drive's health.
I got back to class and sat down again, Ms Galvez warmly welcoming me back. I unpacked the school's standard-issue machine and got back into classroom mode. The SchoolBooks were the snitchiest technology of them all, logging every keystroke, watching all the network traffic for suspicious keywords, counting every click, keeping track of every fleeting thought you put out over the net. We'd gotten them in my junior year, and it only took a couple months for the shininess to wear off. Once people figured out that these "free" laptops worked for the man -- and showed a never-ending parade of obnoxious ads to boot -- they suddenly started to feel very heavy and burdensome.
In particular: Removing it may lower your house resale value. Keep it in place.
Amen! It would be a major problem to sell a house that's not wired for POTS. Even if you don't intend to sell anytime soon, things happen. You don't want to do anything irreversible.
Bear in mind that most home phone wiring (at least in my experience, in the midwestern USA) has just a few runs; all the jacks in each run are daisy-chained together. This is not particularly useful for something like eithernet. Also, the wires are generally not run in conduit. They're probably just threaded through holes in the studs and stapled in place. That's going to make them hard as hell to remove, anyway.
About the good only use I can see is to wire your stereo into the system and use the phone jacks as speaker connections. I'm sure audiophiles would cringe at the suggestion, but it might work well enough for most people. Or it might not; the amp might not like a bunch of speakers wired in parallel to a single connector. Give it a try and tell us how it goes!
Changed? Into what?
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As the preface points out, these are not necessarily best-selling games, innovative games, or novel games, but rather titles that, 'in their own special way changed videogames forever.'
Just for the record... If a game is not immensely popular, not innovative, and not novel, how can it "change videogames forever"?
Lets hope they can bring the price down to 'every man'. 400 for a kindle is pretty steep for a lot people, even during the best of times.
Let's hope they publish in some standard non-DRM'd format, like Baen does. That way it won't matter whether or not you buy their reader; you'll be able to read the book on any moderately capable piece of hardware.
This isn't mean to be a flame, because as a fellow parent (of toddlers, no less) I understand that it can be an extremely stressful and fear-inducing thing to lose track of your child. But I agree with the parent: get some perspective on things by waiting for a bit before subjecting your daughter to Big-Brother-like monitoring.
As another parent, I agree with the above. In fact, I've been in a similar situation. When one of my boys was in kindergarten or first grade, he got on the right bus but didn't get off at his stop. He ended up riding the whole route and back to the bus depot. After a few semi-panicky calls around the school district we tracked him down and retrieved him.
But this isn't a new problem. It's been around as long a school buses have been. The good news is that kids, even kindergartners, learn within a week or so which is the right bus, and where the right stop is. It's a transient issue.
Teach your child what to do when lost. Stick a note with your phone number in her jacket or backpack or whatever she carries daily. Teach her to ask for help when she needs it. This will help her in practically every "lost child" situation, short of deliberate abduction.
If you're really worried then yeah, you can get trackers. Cell phone providers usually offer this service, and there are some companies providing non-phone tracking devices. Even if you're a "tin-foil-hat wearing engineer" I'd say one of the services is the way to go. Get it, use it for a couple years until your daughter is old enough to trust on her own, and get rid of it.
We want this device to be in your TV, your stereo system, your DVD player.
im in ur stereo, sharing ur tun3z!
Seriously, what's the novelty here? This sort of thing has been available for a long time. Maybe not pre-packaged into a wall plug, but certainly small enough that they could have been. Is it just that this one is pre-made and relatively cheap?
Yeah, Privoxy is a pain to set up and maintain for ad-blocking use. I use it, but would rather use AdBlock if it was available on all the browsers I use. At least with Privoxy, I only have to configure it once.
My big problem with Chrome and Privoxy is that Chrome (as of the 1.x series, haven't tried 2.x yet) uses the same "Internet Properties" as Internet Explorer. You can't change one without affecting the other. Worse, there's no simple way to toggle proxies on the fly. Something like FoxyProxy would be a big help.
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I also liked HoMM IV better than III. Three was a lot of fun, but I thought IV was a definite improvement to the way it played. I tried the demo of V, but between it being a retread of III and running slowly on my old hardware it didn't interest me at all.
"Click here to see how your tax dollars are spent."
* click *
"See? $18 million! Wanna see it again?"
And a towel. Never forget the towel.
Amen. Find your personal itch and scratch it. In my case, many moons ago, I had spent all my money on a shiny new Apple //e computer -- but didn't have money for software. I needed to write papers for school (I was a senior in high school at the time), so I wrote an editor in the BASIC that came with the machine. It was a really lame editor, but it got the job done. After that I wrote a database manager, again because I needed one. Then I wrote a clone of the game Lunar Lander just for the hell of it.
Find something you want done, and do it. Don't worry about whether or not anyone else will see it. Like web-comics? Write a screen-scraper that downloads your favorites and mails them to you. Like porn? Ditto. Play paper-and-pencil role-playing games? Write a character generation program, or a combat program. Reinvent the wheel -- write something to unpack zip files, for example. Just write something.
Fixed that for ya!
It's a holy book, and a vibrator! O come all ye faithful!
They need to call one of those chip-and-crack auto glass replacement people that I hear on the radio all the time. They come out to your workplace to do the job, and best of all, you only pay the insurance deductible!
Unless they happen to drop some "red matter" down the hole. In that case, we are so screwed!
FTFY. HTH.
But is it fun?
Or just write "none" where it asks for accounts. I don't have any accounts on social networking or other sites. Hell, I don't even have a Slashdot account. You can all testify to that, right?
The first netbooks were largely adopted by geeks, who like Linux. Then some people who were born and raised on Windows looked at the machines and thought they were pretty cool; too bad they didn't run Windows. The manufacturers looked at which OS had the biggest market. It's not a hard decision, and doesn't require any goofy back-alley coercion.
Or, this was the manufacturers' plan all along. They wanted Windows, MS priced it too high. So they brought out the first generation with Linux, knowing Microsoft would freak and drop the price to almost nothing.
Either one works for me. Yeah, I'm sure MS was there pushing the manufacturers, but overall I'm pretty sure it's a case of you can't rape the willing.
Not a problem. Now, your passwords, please?
Is there any way to get usage statistics out of the SSD itself? Specifically, I want to query the drive for the number of erase cycles each physical block of flash has been subjected to, verify failures, etc. This should be quite different from the logical block usage at the file-system level, so I don't expect standard HDD tools to give an accurate picture of the drive's health.
As foreseen by Cory Doctorow in Little Brother !
Gotta run! I'm late for Harajuku Fun Madness!
Amen! It would be a major problem to sell a house that's not wired for POTS. Even if you don't intend to sell anytime soon, things happen. You don't want to do anything irreversible.
Bear in mind that most home phone wiring (at least in my experience, in the midwestern USA) has just a few runs; all the jacks in each run are daisy-chained together. This is not particularly useful for something like eithernet. Also, the wires are generally not run in conduit. They're probably just threaded through holes in the studs and stapled in place. That's going to make them hard as hell to remove, anyway.
About the good only use I can see is to wire your stereo into the system and use the phone jacks as speaker connections. I'm sure audiophiles would cringe at the suggestion, but it might work well enough for most people. Or it might not; the amp might not like a bunch of speakers wired in parallel to a single connector. Give it a try and tell us how it goes!
Just for the record... If a game is not immensely popular, not innovative, and not novel, how can it "change videogames forever"?
Let's hope they publish in some standard non-DRM'd format, like Baen does. That way it won't matter whether or not you buy their reader; you'll be able to read the book on any moderately capable piece of hardware.
As another parent, I agree with the above. In fact, I've been in a similar situation. When one of my boys was in kindergarten or first grade, he got on the right bus but didn't get off at his stop. He ended up riding the whole route and back to the bus depot. After a few semi-panicky calls around the school district we tracked him down and retrieved him.
But this isn't a new problem. It's been around as long a school buses have been. The good news is that kids, even kindergartners, learn within a week or so which is the right bus, and where the right stop is. It's a transient issue.
Teach your child what to do when lost. Stick a note with your phone number in her jacket or backpack or whatever she carries daily. Teach her to ask for help when she needs it. This will help her in practically every "lost child" situation, short of deliberate abduction.
If you're really worried then yeah, you can get trackers. Cell phone providers usually offer this service, and there are some companies providing non-phone tracking devices. Even if you're a "tin-foil-hat wearing engineer" I'd say one of the services is the way to go. Get it, use it for a couple years until your daughter is old enough to trust on her own, and get rid of it.
Mod +1, Old Geeky Reference
im in ur stereo, sharing ur tun3z!
Seriously, what's the novelty here? This sort of thing has been available for a long time. Maybe not pre-packaged into a wall plug, but certainly small enough that they could have been. Is it just that this one is pre-made and relatively cheap?
The real test would be to remove AdBlock again after a few months, and see if he notices.
Yeah, Privoxy is a pain to set up and maintain for ad-blocking use. I use it, but would rather use AdBlock if it was available on all the browsers I use. At least with Privoxy, I only have to configure it once.
My big problem with Chrome and Privoxy is that Chrome (as of the 1.x series, haven't tried 2.x yet) uses the same "Internet Properties" as Internet Explorer. You can't change one without affecting the other. Worse, there's no simple way to toggle proxies on the fly. Something like FoxyProxy would be a big help.
That's right. People should be required to enter their 1024-bit PGP key by hand every time they make a transaction.
Nah, that's good and scientific.
Religious: "According to my faith, that shouldn't be there. So it's not. la-La-LA, I can't HEAR YOU!"
Scientific: "According to my theory, that shouldn't be there. But it is. So what's wrong with my theory?"
There's not necessarily a conflict between "shouldn't be" and "unexpected". It's "unexpected" because it "shouldn't be".