I don't know about all this "construction", but Racing Destruction Set for the C64 rocked. You built your track, gave it gravity characteristics, and then loaded up your car with oil slicks, land mines, etc., and proceeded to bomb the crap out your opponents. This guy is currently working on a 3D version for the PC. Of course, he also rewrote the C64 version of Bruce Lee, the Best C64 Game Of All Time...
Get Unknown Pleasures. Get Closer. Feel where they were coming from. Discover how and why they had to become New Order. Get way into New Order and learn where most of this "electronica" crap came from in the first place. Discover they ripped off most of what they knew from Kraftwerk. Buy yourself a copy of Breakin' and laugh because you recognize the song he's dancing with the broom to. Stumble across the early history of the Musique Concrete movement. Realize that people were doing much more interesting stuff way before modern computers even existed.
Grow into a holier-than-thou "I was listening to techno before techno was cool" curmudgeon.
And, if y'all are looking for more info, check out "No Strings Attached: The Inside Story of Jim Henson's Creature Shop" (ISBN:0-02-862008-9) which has a very short chapter about the things they were doing c. 1996-7 with their "CG" team. And I quote:
"Now, though, using a fast Silicon Graphics box working on a simplified model of the creature and at the relatively coarse resolution of a TV screen and low polygon creatures, the control signals from the puppeteers can be interpreted fast enough by intelligent computer models for them to appear live on screen. A simple video link from the movie camera allows the actors, puppeteers and director to see the scene more or less as it will appear in the final version. The final footage would be a high polygon creature rendered at film resolution."
But it's a fun book to flip through. *Lots* of pictures of everything, and even a small chunk of The Dark Crystal storyboard.
I had always been under the impression that.org was actually reserved for non-profits.
You were wrong. As was I, until I read the RFC referenced above.
To wit:
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
.ORG should be, more accurately,.MISC. But then it wouldn't bet a TLA TLD anymore:).
The only competition is the Mac version, 'Nifty Telnet-SSH'.
AFAICT, NiftyTelnet only does SSH1. Which sucks, because MacSSH (fc2 anyway; I just found out fc3 was out!) hasn't been real reliable on my Quadra 840AV. And it only does SSH2.
I think the problem is bigger and more widespread than just this screenshot. I have never seen an open-source style game that didn't look like a pile of crap.
You'll have the satisfaction of knowing that your visor has a real function, whereas Mr. Spock's visor was a just cheap prop made necessary by the constraints of a low production budget.
This solution provides security, and makes you look way 1337 to boot!
Make sure the snoop isn't pointing his equipment at your tin foil hat, though.
There is the problem, for many GPL'd products that I want to incorporate into mine, I'd be willing to pay a reasonable fee to be able to use commercially. But the GPL stops me from doing this...
Then track down the owner of the copyright and ask to purchase a commercial license. You can release your software under multiple licenses, you know.
The answer? AOL should switch to CD-RWs, or even multi-session CD-Rs.
I GOT ONE OF THESE!
It came in one of their DVD cases and had a banner across the top that led me to believe it was a CD-RW, but alas, it was merely a CD-R with about 200MB free.
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U-force. It didn't suck quite as bad as the power glove.
I don't know about all this "construction", but Racing Destruction Set for the C64 rocked. You built your track, gave it gravity characteristics, and then loaded up your car with oil slicks, land mines, etc., and proceeded to bomb the crap out your opponents. This guy is currently working on a 3D version for the PC. Of course, he also rewrote the C64 version of Bruce Lee, the Best C64 Game Of All Time...
"You've got questions, we've got batteries."
Get Unknown Pleasures. Get Closer. Feel where they were coming from. Discover how and why they had to become New Order. Get way into New Order and learn where most of this "electronica" crap came from in the first place. Discover they ripped off most of what they knew from Kraftwerk. Buy yourself a copy of Breakin' and laugh because you recognize the song he's dancing with the broom to. Stumble across the early history of the Musique Concrete movement. Realize that people were doing much more interesting stuff way before modern computers even existed.
Grow into a holier-than-thou "I was listening to techno before techno was cool" curmudgeon.
Beowolf Cluster of Natalie Portmans pouring Hot Grits Down All Your Base Are Belong To Us
from the I'm-not-sponsoring-the-bill-with-my-name-on-it dept.
Nobody asks: So I've got another bill to get through the House. What does Slashdot want in this one?
If it never fell apart, they could never sell you a new one.
The Set Decoration Is Not Amused.
Shocked, shocked, I tell you! Actors aren't the characters they play?
Next you'll tell me there's no Santa Claus...
But I wouldn't fake it for Maura Tierney
:)
And, if y'all are looking for more info, check out "No Strings Attached: The Inside Story of Jim Henson's Creature Shop" (ISBN:0-02-862008-9) which has a very short chapter about the things they were doing c. 1996-7 with their "CG" team. And I quote:
"Now, though, using a fast Silicon Graphics box working on a simplified model of the creature and at the relatively coarse resolution of a TV screen and low polygon creatures, the control signals from the puppeteers can be interpreted fast enough by intelligent computer models for them to appear live on screen. A simple video link from the movie camera allows the actors, puppeteers and director to see the scene more or less as it will appear in the final version. The final footage would be a high polygon creature rendered at film resolution."
But it's a fun book to flip through. *Lots* of pictures of everything, and even a small chunk of The Dark Crystal storyboard.
I understand it's a typo, but you can get high-res sound from a low-res image. Mac only, AFAICT, but neat stuff.
You were wrong. As was I, until I read the RFC referenced above.
To wit:
.ORG should be, more accurately, .MISC. But then it wouldn't bet a TLA TLD anymore :).
Yeah, but then again, some of us had some rather disturbing sigs back in the USENET auction days.
Man I miss my TurboExpress :(
God Bless Google .
Youuu, on the other hand, be a professionul speelchekker.
AFAICT, NiftyTelnet only does SSH1. Which sucks, because MacSSH (fc2 anyway; I just found out fc3 was out!) hasn't been real reliable on my Quadra 840AV. And it only does SSH2.
And C3PO and R2D2 forgot they were built by Darth Vader.
Then you haven't seen Falcon's Eye (Screenshots here).
And, at the heart of it all, it really is nethack!
Man, the way things are going, MS might be better off resurrecting OpenDoc or something.
I GOT ONE OF THESE!
It came in one of their DVD cases and had a banner across the top that led me to believe it was a CD-RW, but alas, it was merely a CD-R with about 200MB free.
Darnit, and here I thought you were talking about Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere.