When Atari fanbois complain about '84 being the "dark age of video games" and suchlike, do you wonder WTF they are talking about? The worst years for Atari games were some of the best years for C64 games.
Imho, none of these are solutions - they all require behaviour on the part of the user to be polite. The opposite approach should've been default. A venue should be able to mark themselves as "quiet" or "silent" by having a "venue flag broadcasting device".
The phone would then enter either a "vibrate only" or "pager/SMS only" mode. Doctors and other emergency service personnel could, in turn, get this feature overridden by their provider if they can show need.
Parents, on the other hand, could still recieve text messages and voicemail, allowing them to excuse themselves to return the call.
This stuff, in general, should've been designed into the GSM standard a long time ago.
Old earth creationism is perfectly compatible with Darwinean (or otherwise guided) evolution. The old-Earth creationists are in the position to argue that God created the Earth and the primordial soup, and then guided the evolution of all life. That would be consistent with the fossil record and would not require redesigning the biology curriculum.
Yep - looking ot over, I can see the obvious direction this is going - outsourcing the arbitration to India.
Come on, you can hire a hundred legal clerks in India to search through your precidents for the price of one here! I'm looking forward to seeing guys in the ragged remains of three piece suits standing on the streets holding "will file divorce proceedings for food" signs.
Insaniquarium's significance can't be understated - it's one of the best PopCap titles, and among the most original I've ever seen in the hyper-derivative webgame field. Very solid game there. That's worth getting the plugin for.
Actually, I'd be very surprised if the Libertarians would have an ideological leg to stand on when bitching about this sort of thing. Unless your telco guaranteed to you somewhere in their sixty-gazillion line contract that they would not sell your info, then they're free to do so in the Libertarian mindset.
Or what? Government should make regulations and laws on telcos? Doesn't that infringe on the liberty of telcos? I mean, what if joe public throws together a voip system with discount rates in exchange for letting him wiretap you? You want to ruin his business? He's the American entrepeneur!
You can't just be Libertarian on issues that only hurt people that you don't care about.
Wow. That's the most spectacular line of bullshit I've ever seen. You know what character development takes? One good writer. You know what a solid FPS or racing game takes? A massive staff of modellers, engine developers, etc. Face it "character development" doesn't matter one iota to the development time. At worst, it means adding a few more scripted animations. Big whoop - like most modern FPS games don't have those.
You say that now, but what if your boss fired you for the stuff you post on Slashdot on your own time at home?
If I want to dress up in crotchless chaps and run down the street and get arrested for lewd behaviour, that has nothing to do with my professional standing. My boss, teacher, professional union, etc.'s business is my performance on the job and on their campus, in whatever position our relationship is.
They're not my family, and not my government. They don't get to tell me what I do on my own time. If I say something that offends them on my own time, they can either take me to court or fuck off.
No, Nolan Bushnell already has a better plan for bars - he's trying to bring back the oldschool cocktail cabinets in a new, modern form. Iirc, his models just use trackballs instead of touchscreens.
Don't be silly. Such people are perfectly capable of doing both. Face it, anybody who works in the entertainment industry knows where to get an 8-ball and a hooker and not much else.
Speaking of Words, you notice the inverse relationship? Word, Excel, Windows... MS turns dictionary words into trademarks, while their competators do the opposite.
And of course Microsoft's enemies will be talked about - that's what Microsoft does, they fight. They move into an industry with established technology companies with the expressed purpose of taking it over by dumping wads of development cash into it and making their product tightly interoperable with the rest of the MS family. Microsoft moving into a new niche is a full-fledge onslaught to everyone else in that niche. No wonder they're famous for their enemies.
Then we should take it a step further and make cars that do everything possible to ensure the safety of the driver at the expense of those around them. That will sell, and will put a stop to the slippery slope. How about reactive armour? or some sort of long spikes that will launch out of a rolling vehicle to grab nearby cars and use them to stabilise?
All these games have the advantages that the action is slower (and easier to follow) than normal DM, and the team-sport objective-oriented games of CTF are more entertaining to follow than the frantic mayhem of DM.
I think the fundamental problem is that Deathmatch (and even worse Instagib) are pretty dull to watch. A good CTF game, on the other hand, would be far more entertaining. Personally, I think UT2k4 Assault or Bombing Run would rate tops for spectator sports - the action is almost always concentrated in one place, so it's easy to know where to point the cameras.
He's saying that technology is reaching the level at which it will no longer matter, and so games will soon have to be weighed based on the quality of their content. Plus, as the gaming generation ages, their tastes will become more discriminating. Blood, tits, and guns are mainstream because the audience is primarily teenaged boys.
IE bloat = sneaky underhanded spyware crammed into IE, often by the computer vendor itself. Primarily designed to pump ads to the user and monitor their actions. Installed as covertly as humanly possible. FF bloat = extension developed by opensource developers specifically to provide them with crap they want. Users go out of their way to fetch the exts and FF makes them jump through some hoops to complete the process.
not quite the same. When bonzi.com makes a firefox extension things may change, but for now they're different.
Personally, I think of leverage of having a slightly different meaning than "use" - I think of "shoehorn". I imagine a lever being used to push skill/tool X into position to solve problem Y, regardless of the applicability of it to the problem. When a company says "we're going to leverage our partner company C's product to solve our problem" I read "we're going to shoehorn their product into our project for political reasons".
Likewise, here, the guy's knowledge of Wiki is being "leveraged".
Just remember that the space shuttle was designed based on the width of two horses asses. Parts were shipped by train, trains are defined by tracks, and tracks were designed based on horse-drawn carts.
I'd believe it. The beer is a bad example. What about the music? CSI makes a big deal about music - every episode has numerous lab scenes with jumpily edited footage of people doing lab things set to a thumping classic rock song. What if they had a deal with iTuns wherein consumers could purchase said thumping song on site?
Lots of companies have gotten very far by providing consumers with things they never knew they wanted. Look at the rise (and fall) of the SUV.
Notice I said friends. My friends play game X. Game Y may be 100 times the game that X is, but if I wish to play with my friends, my choices become (a) play X, (b) bug them to abandon their progress in X and play Y (which is what I do, with minimal success).
Of course, there's also another question with the WMF patch: many programs still allow exporting to WMF. There wasn't really much of a standard vector graphics format for win32 for a long time - iirc during my undergrad, I would frequently export my Matlab, Maple, and Autocad images to EMF before importing them into Word.
Early on, I distincly remember using WMF, mostly because I assumed something with Windows in the name would have better support from Word and the operating system. Presumably other users made the same mistake.
Will we be opening old documents and finding the images broken if this patch disables part of the MS WMF parsing ability?
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No moving parts is neat - the galvanometers they use for laser-light shows are a colossal PITA.
I'm expecting to see game consoles that don't need a TV anymore - would be super-portable.
Now, the question is when we can couple this with pupil-tracking to draw the images directly onto the retina. I want my metaverse.
Quick question to all C64 users:
When Atari fanbois complain about '84 being the "dark age of video games" and suchlike, do you wonder WTF they are talking about? The worst years for Atari games were some of the best years for C64 games.
Imho, none of these are solutions - they all require behaviour on the part of the user to be polite. The opposite approach should've been default. A venue should be able to mark themselves as "quiet" or "silent" by having a "venue flag broadcasting device".
The phone would then enter either a "vibrate only" or "pager/SMS only" mode. Doctors and other emergency service personnel could, in turn, get this feature overridden by their provider if they can show need.
Parents, on the other hand, could still recieve text messages and voicemail, allowing them to excuse themselves to return the call.
This stuff, in general, should've been designed into the GSM standard a long time ago.
Old earth creationism is perfectly compatible with Darwinean (or otherwise guided) evolution. The old-Earth creationists are in the position to argue that God created the Earth and the primordial soup, and then guided the evolution of all life. That would be consistent with the fossil record and would not require redesigning the biology curriculum.
Yep - looking ot over, I can see the obvious direction this is going - outsourcing the arbitration to India.
Come on, you can hire a hundred legal clerks in India to search through your precidents for the price of one here! I'm looking forward to seeing guys in the ragged remains of three piece suits standing on the streets holding "will file divorce proceedings for food" signs.
You can order the chicken grilled instead of fried.
Insaniquarium's significance can't be understated - it's one of the best PopCap titles, and among the most original I've ever seen in the hyper-derivative webgame field. Very solid game there. That's worth getting the plugin for.
Yep. I FELAFL too like an LFNT.
Actually, I'd be very surprised if the Libertarians would have an ideological leg to stand on when bitching about this sort of thing. Unless your telco guaranteed to you somewhere in their sixty-gazillion line contract that they would not sell your info, then they're free to do so in the Libertarian mindset.
Or what? Government should make regulations and laws on telcos? Doesn't that infringe on the liberty of telcos? I mean, what if joe public throws together a voip system with discount rates in exchange for letting him wiretap you? You want to ruin his business? He's the American entrepeneur!
You can't just be Libertarian on issues that only hurt people that you don't care about.
Wow. That's the most spectacular line of bullshit I've ever seen. You know what character development takes? One good writer. You know what a solid FPS or racing game takes? A massive staff of modellers, engine developers, etc. Face it "character development" doesn't matter one iota to the development time. At worst, it means adding a few more scripted animations. Big whoop - like most modern FPS games don't have those.
You say that now, but what if your boss fired you for the stuff you post on Slashdot on your own time at home?
If I want to dress up in crotchless chaps and run down the street and get arrested for lewd behaviour, that has nothing to do with my professional standing. My boss, teacher, professional union, etc.'s business is my performance on the job and on their campus, in whatever position our relationship is.
They're not my family, and not my government. They don't get to tell me what I do on my own time. If I say something that offends them on my own time, they can either take me to court or fuck off.
No, Nolan Bushnell already has a better plan for bars - he's trying to bring back the oldschool cocktail cabinets in a new, modern form. Iirc, his models just use trackballs instead of touchscreens.
Don't be silly. Such people are perfectly capable of doing both. Face it, anybody who works in the entertainment industry knows where to get an 8-ball and a hooker and not much else.
Speaking of Words, you notice the inverse relationship? Word, Excel, Windows... MS turns dictionary words into trademarks, while their competators do the opposite.
And of course Microsoft's enemies will be talked about - that's what Microsoft does, they fight. They move into an industry with established technology companies with the expressed purpose of taking it over by dumping wads of development cash into it and making their product tightly interoperable with the rest of the MS family. Microsoft moving into a new niche is a full-fledge onslaught to everyone else in that niche. No wonder they're famous for their enemies.
So, what's the statistical likely hood of blacks being involved in accidents vs. whites? What about jews? Why stop with gender and age?
Then we should take it a step further and make cars that do everything possible to ensure the safety of the driver at the expense of those around them. That will sell, and will put a stop to the slippery slope. How about reactive armour? or some sort of long spikes that will launch out of a rolling vehicle to grab nearby cars and use them to stabilise?
Or do a Halo tourney with Julia Roberts.
All these games have the advantages that the action is slower (and easier to follow) than normal DM, and the team-sport objective-oriented games of CTF are more entertaining to follow than the frantic mayhem of DM.
I think the fundamental problem is that Deathmatch (and even worse Instagib) are pretty dull to watch. A good CTF game, on the other hand, would be far more entertaining. Personally, I think UT2k4 Assault or Bombing Run would rate tops for spectator sports - the action is almost always concentrated in one place, so it's easy to know where to point the cameras.
He's saying that technology is reaching the level at which it will no longer matter, and so games will soon have to be weighed based on the quality of their content. Plus, as the gaming generation ages, their tastes will become more discriminating. Blood, tits, and guns are mainstream because the audience is primarily teenaged boys.
IE bloat = sneaky underhanded spyware crammed into IE, often by the computer vendor itself. Primarily designed to pump ads to the user and monitor their actions. Installed as covertly as humanly possible.
FF bloat = extension developed by opensource developers specifically to provide them with crap they want. Users go out of their way to fetch the exts and FF makes them jump through some hoops to complete the process.
not quite the same. When bonzi.com makes a firefox extension things may change, but for now they're different.
Personally, I think of leverage of having a slightly different meaning than "use" - I think of "shoehorn". I imagine a lever being used to push skill/tool X into position to solve problem Y, regardless of the applicability of it to the problem. When a company says "we're going to leverage our partner company C's product to solve our problem" I read "we're going to shoehorn their product into our project for political reasons".
Likewise, here, the guy's knowledge of Wiki is being "leveraged".
Just remember that the space shuttle was designed based on the width of two horses asses. Parts were shipped by train, trains are defined by tracks, and tracks were designed based on horse-drawn carts.
I'd believe it. The beer is a bad example. What about the music? CSI makes a big deal about music - every episode has numerous lab scenes with jumpily edited footage of people doing lab things set to a thumping classic rock song. What if they had a deal with iTuns wherein consumers could purchase said thumping song on site?
Lots of companies have gotten very far by providing consumers with things they never knew they wanted. Look at the rise (and fall) of the SUV.
Notice I said friends. My friends play game X. Game Y may be 100 times the game that X is, but if I wish to play with my friends, my choices become
(a) play X,
(b) bug them to abandon their progress in X and play Y (which is what I do, with minimal success).
Of course, there's also another question with the WMF patch: many programs still allow exporting to WMF. There wasn't really much of a standard vector graphics format for win32 for a long time - iirc during my undergrad, I would frequently export my Matlab, Maple, and Autocad images to EMF before importing them into Word.
Early on, I distincly remember using WMF, mostly because I assumed something with Windows in the name would have better support from Word and the operating system. Presumably other users made the same mistake.
Will we be opening old documents and finding the images broken if this patch disables part of the MS WMF parsing ability?