I actually liked the original Duke games - a solid platformer. I was disappointed at the 3d translation - I was hoping of a more "3d platformer" game - something more like American McGee's Alice with a better combat system. Or Tomb Raider with real strafe keys. Instead, we got Doom but with a better engine and the worlds worst bunny-hopping.
Well, a very expensive mounting system could be designed - after all, the cost of getting it into place is a lot anyways. Making the Hubble accessible to the ISS would be a good thing - even if only by space walk. Perhaps there could be some way to keep them close to each other, though not directly attached? The hubble would have to be held at a long length to prevent EM produced by the ISS from messing it up. Still, given the long time until the next space telescope is ready, it might be worthwhile. At worst, the Hubble has reduced (but not nullified) usefulness and can still be used to obvserve our local space neighborhood.
Yeah, I saw that headline and wonderde "Yahoo? Are they still around? I thought they went out with VR and the word 'Cyber'". They were the archetype of a dotcom company.
Amen. Half the reason to buy something this small is for the mobility it allows - I would love something like that to take to LAN parties. Make a model with a 9600 - hell, you can downgrade the main CPU if you have to to put that in there - and I'll be interested.
I mean, think: LAN partiers are probably the people who move their desktop PCs around the most - other people who want a mobile PC get a laptop. So, why is it so hard to find small form-factor gamer PCs? With LCD's now, the monitor is no longer the big space-hog when it comes to moving the gear out - its the friggin case, which is mostly empty space - but if you look for a nice small cube or rack mount, inevitably you find that it has a POS onboard video adn no AGP slot.
My problem with Andromeda was the lack of a crew. Personally, one of the things I liked about DS9 and TNG was that they both had extremely large casts of characters. Not just the bridge crew, but peripheral characters too. That's what I was hoping for in Voyager - they've got a small enough crew to actually represent a substantial fraction of the characters, plus they've got an interesting set-up (the whole maqui(sp?) vs federation thing) to keep character dynamics interesting. Neither of those things happened - the factionism died, and the only characters that mattered were the bridge crew (as always). Whats worse, the "random redshirt" deaths killed something like over half of the crew, if you did the math.
If they were going to do a "rebuilding the empire" I'd want them to have an army with which to do so - something more like Macross - a full-fledged city in space with a substantial armnament of fighters and other smaller vehicles.
Voyager was good before? IMHO, aside from a few isolated good episodes, it was a poor poor series - the actors didn't hold a candle to the TNG, or even DS9 actors, and the plots were horrible. Also, the total lack of any story continuity kinda makes it dull for us faithful fans.
And countersue them for gross incompetence in making it ass-backwards from every other system - phone numbers are msd-lsd, ip addys are msB-lsB, folders, etc. Everything goes big-to-small except friggin' domains. Remember that old plan to bridge phone numbers into the DNS system? It would have been a hundred times easier if it was the other way around.
Whoever modded above parent flamebait is a cum-guzzling whore. A Slashdotter actually apologizes for something (once in a millenium occurence) and somebody mods them flamebait.
And my fiancee is applying for teachers college. She's a mathy, loves it, and its good at it, and wants to teach kids math. Anybody who doesn't think that's a laudable goal is a fucktard.
Now, to be fair, while I'm certain that you and those you've worked with are excellent programmers and engineers, I have also worked in a business that employed a lot of foreign coders from all over the world. Scandinavians, Asians, Russians, and the locals. I worked with several Chinese workers who were very difficult. It wasn't just a linguistic barrier - it was a general attitude that micromanagement is the accepted norm. None of them had any scientific education outside of the pure confines of their field, and none of them showed any initiative except for the occasional beaurocratic power struggle.
No this is not racism - there were a variety of other persons at the business that were also difficult to work with for various reasons. It was just that the mainland-Chinese workers all had the same specific problems. I have no problems with the principle of hiring workers from all over the world - and I don't believe the problems with the programmers there was one of race. It has just been my personal experience that the Chinese educational system does not produce the best programmers.
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I know. I heard about this technology about 2 years back and that was the first thing I thought of.
Still, I'm really happy that they've gotten this far with the technology. When I last heard it was only done in small rooms.
The only thing is that you have to realize your limitations - you can do anything that doesn't alter the location of the player, or move the real-world walls around.
So, to do Doom and Quake, its fine - its just that the player has to walk to the respawn point to respawn (the mechanics of this would be tricky to make gameplay good).
IMHO, Unreal Tournament CTF would be the best. Interesting weapons, the game is designed for the slower pace of real-life, and its an all around solid FPS. No cloaking or X-Loc tho.
Of course, for blind people - subtitles suck. My brother tells me of watching Star Trek 6 with a friend and his friend wondering about all the Klingon dialogue. He didn't even know subtitles existed.
Yeah. Actually, the article makes a good point - as OO.org, KDE, and Moz get more bloated, is there still effort being made on low-resource desktop linux software?
And notice I say desktop. I know there are tons of useful servers you can make out of old boxen - but what if you just want a machine to plug into your TV set to run ZDoom and GLTron or watch Homestar anims?
I've tried running a recent RedHat distro and it puts the screws even to a 2GHz machine. Is there any way I can get that level of ease-of-use onto an old PII or K6-II?
Actually, I don't have a source for this, but some geological studies have revealed that natural fission reactions happen. I've read of evidence of one that occurred at surface level a few million years ago. They must be commonplace underground.
Umm, all the links in the site in your sig don't seem to work. I'm using Firebird 0.6. I assume its your site, given the conversation.
Now, I could take this opportunity to suggust something about how maby the reason your losing your job is 'cause you can't make a decent website. But I won't.
Well, perhaps for a limited network a taxed e-mail system would be good. Just don't make it e-mail - make it a proprietary system, and charge $0.01 per message. To keep the system demonstrating that the cost is to discourage spam and not for personal gain, make the company non-profit based and donate all extra to charity (say, fighting cancer).
Then, get corporates to sign-up for your paymail system. Your paymail account will always contain only relevant messages - no stupid forwards, no wasteful crap, no spam, unless someone decides its worth it.
Leave public e-mail alone - just make a second structure. Hell, for interoperability's sake, make it even run on standard IMAP (with your revenue from the mails, this should be affordable) - but it only accepts mail from other paymail servers.
But the idea of applying this to general e-mail is preposterous. It is unimplementable (webmail systems) ignores the internationality of the internet, and is just stupid. Besides that - it would do nothing to quell the swell of non-email spam (net sends, IM spam, etc).
Umm, I'm not positive, as I'm just doing this from first principles (hydrogen is one baryon, helium is 4) but I'm pretty sure helium weighs 4x as much as hydrogen.
Not to mention the fact that it feels like they just got the damn thing working. I mean come on, the thing was supposed to be originally launched back in '86. When did it finally start working? And now they're saying its already dead?
Your right - XP just reboots instantly, rather than bothering the user with pesky error messages. No, I'm not kidding, that's actually what it does in a critical failure. Confused the hell out of me first time it happened - I thought my powersupply was dying.
An interesting article about how x-windows sucks. I'd love to see that article up here as a slashdot article just to see the bizarre comments it'd garner.
Whoever modded this offtopic is retarded. Second life is the closest thing to a real-world implementation of Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" Metaverse, from which those references come.
The emphasis on swordplay strongly suggests that this was not coincidental. I haven't closely followed "Second Life" but were the designers at all directly influenced by Snow Crash?
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I actually liked the original Duke games - a solid platformer. I was disappointed at the 3d translation - I was hoping of a more "3d platformer" game - something more like American McGee's Alice with a better combat system. Or Tomb Raider with real strafe keys. Instead, we got Doom but with a better engine and the worlds worst bunny-hopping.
Lets not forget Total Annihilation 2. There's another toasted title we'll miss (but then, some of us didn't have high expectations).
Well, a very expensive mounting system could be designed - after all, the cost of getting it into place is a lot anyways. Making the Hubble accessible to the ISS would be a good thing - even if only by space walk. Perhaps there could be some way to keep them close to each other, though not directly attached? The hubble would have to be held at a long length to prevent EM produced by the ISS from messing it up. Still, given the long time until the next space telescope is ready, it might be worthwhile. At worst, the Hubble has reduced (but not nullified) usefulness and can still be used to obvserve our local space neighborhood.
Yeah, I saw that headline and wonderde "Yahoo? Are they still around? I thought they went out with VR and the word 'Cyber'". They were the archetype of a dotcom company.
Ah, dopey me, Google is your friend. There's a model called the SS51G that has an AGP slot. I wish I knew about this before Christmas.
Amen. Half the reason to buy something this small is for the mobility it allows - I would love something like that to take to LAN parties. Make a model with a 9600 - hell, you can downgrade the main CPU if you have to to put that in there - and I'll be interested.
I mean, think: LAN partiers are probably the people who move their desktop PCs around the most - other people who want a mobile PC get a laptop. So, why is it so hard to find small form-factor gamer PCs? With LCD's now, the monitor is no longer the big space-hog when it comes to moving the gear out - its the friggin case, which is mostly empty space - but if you look for a nice small cube or rack mount, inevitably you find that it has a POS onboard video adn no AGP slot.
My problem with Andromeda was the lack of a crew. Personally, one of the things I liked about DS9 and TNG was that they both had extremely large casts of characters. Not just the bridge crew, but peripheral characters too. That's what I was hoping for in Voyager - they've got a small enough crew to actually represent a substantial fraction of the characters, plus they've got an interesting set-up (the whole maqui(sp?) vs federation thing) to keep character dynamics interesting. Neither of those things happened - the factionism died, and the only characters that mattered were the bridge crew (as always). Whats worse, the "random redshirt" deaths killed something like over half of the crew, if you did the math.
If they were going to do a "rebuilding the empire" I'd want them to have an army with which to do so - something more like Macross - a full-fledged city in space with a substantial armnament of fighters and other smaller vehicles.
Voyager was good before? IMHO, aside from a few isolated good episodes, it was a poor poor series - the actors didn't hold a candle to the TNG, or even DS9 actors, and the plots were horrible. Also, the total lack of any story continuity kinda makes it dull for us faithful fans.
And countersue them for gross incompetence in making it ass-backwards from every other system - phone numbers are msd-lsd, ip addys are msB-lsB, folders, etc. Everything goes big-to-small except friggin' domains. Remember that old plan to bridge phone numbers into the DNS system? It would have been a hundred times easier if it was the other way around.
Whoever modded above parent flamebait is a cum-guzzling whore. A Slashdotter actually apologizes for something (once in a millenium occurence) and somebody mods them flamebait.
And my fiancee is applying for teachers college. She's a mathy, loves it, and its good at it, and wants to teach kids math. Anybody who doesn't think that's a laudable goal is a fucktard.
Now, to be fair, while I'm certain that you and those you've worked with are excellent programmers and engineers, I have also worked in a business that employed a lot of foreign coders from all over the world. Scandinavians, Asians, Russians, and the locals. I worked with several Chinese workers who were very difficult. It wasn't just a linguistic barrier - it was a general attitude that micromanagement is the accepted norm. None of them had any scientific education outside of the pure confines of their field, and none of them showed any initiative except for the occasional beaurocratic power struggle.
No this is not racism - there were a variety of other persons at the business that were also difficult to work with for various reasons. It was just that the mainland-Chinese workers all had the same specific problems. I have no problems with the principle of hiring workers from all over the world - and I don't believe the problems with the programmers there was one of race. It has just been my personal experience that the Chinese educational system does not produce the best programmers.
I know. I heard about this technology about 2 years back and that was the first thing I thought of.
Still, I'm really happy that they've gotten this far with the technology. When I last heard it was only done in small rooms.
The only thing is that you have to realize your limitations - you can do anything that doesn't alter the location of the player, or move the real-world walls around.
So, to do Doom and Quake, its fine - its just that the player has to walk to the respawn point to respawn (the mechanics of this would be tricky to make gameplay good).
IMHO, Unreal Tournament CTF would be the best. Interesting weapons, the game is designed for the slower pace of real-life, and its an all around solid FPS. No cloaking or X-Loc tho.
Funny, I always thought it should be pronounced "Sexy" /Spider Robinson
Of course, for blind people - subtitles suck. My brother tells me of watching Star Trek 6 with a friend and his friend wondering about all the Klingon dialogue. He didn't even know subtitles existed.
Yeah. Actually, the article makes a good point - as OO.org, KDE, and Moz get more bloated, is there still effort being made on low-resource desktop linux software?
And notice I say desktop. I know there are tons of useful servers you can make out of old boxen - but what if you just want a machine to plug into your TV set to run ZDoom and GLTron or watch Homestar anims?
I've tried running a recent RedHat distro and it puts the screws even to a 2GHz machine. Is there any way I can get that level of ease-of-use onto an old PII or K6-II?
Actually, I don't have a source for this, but some geological studies have revealed that natural fission reactions happen. I've read of evidence of one that occurred at surface level a few million years ago. They must be commonplace underground.
Well, being a Python geek, near as I can tell it takes a simple, refined scripting language and API and complicates the fuck out of it.
Not a fan of stackless.
Umm, all the links in the site in your sig don't seem to work. I'm using Firebird 0.6. I assume its your site, given the conversation.
Now, I could take this opportunity to suggust something about how maby the reason your losing your job is 'cause you can't make a decent website. But I won't.
Well, perhaps for a limited network a taxed e-mail system would be good. Just don't make it e-mail - make it a proprietary system, and charge $0.01 per message. To keep the system demonstrating that the cost is to discourage spam and not for personal gain, make the company non-profit based and donate all extra to charity (say, fighting cancer).
Then, get corporates to sign-up for your paymail system. Your paymail account will always contain only relevant messages - no stupid forwards, no wasteful crap, no spam, unless someone decides its worth it.
Leave public e-mail alone - just make a second structure. Hell, for interoperability's sake, make it even run on standard IMAP (with your revenue from the mails, this should be affordable) - but it only accepts mail from other paymail servers.
But the idea of applying this to general e-mail is preposterous. It is unimplementable (webmail systems) ignores the internationality of the internet, and is just stupid. Besides that - it would do nothing to quell the swell of non-email spam (net sends, IM spam, etc).
Bah! forgot that noble gasses are monatomic. Damn. Note to self: stick to compeng, let the chems do their cem things.
Umm, I'm not positive, as I'm just doing this from first principles (hydrogen is one baryon, helium is 4) but I'm pretty sure helium weighs 4x as much as hydrogen.
Not to mention the fact that it feels like they just got the damn thing working. I mean come on, the thing was supposed to be originally launched back in '86. When did it finally start working? And now they're saying its already dead?
Your right - XP just reboots instantly, rather than bothering the user with pesky error messages. No, I'm not kidding, that's actually what it does in a critical failure. Confused the hell out of me first time it happened - I thought my powersupply was dying.
Well, searching for "windows sucks" on MSN there were some proper anti-ms sites, but one I found funny was...
this
An interesting article about how x-windows sucks. I'd love to see that article up here as a slashdot article just to see the bizarre comments it'd garner.
Whoever modded this offtopic is retarded. Second life is the closest thing to a real-world implementation of Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" Metaverse, from which those references come.
The emphasis on swordplay strongly suggests that this was not coincidental. I haven't closely followed "Second Life" but were the designers at all directly influenced by Snow Crash?