There was once a Mario-branded 3d modelling tool for Nintendo-64. I forget what it was called, probably Mario Scuplt or Mario Paint or something, but it was based on the Nendo codebase. It was only released in Japan, and required the hard drive addon. Actually, I'm not sure it was actually released, I may have played it only on pre-release hardware. It was cute and fun. There was maddening cute background music.
Got to disagree with you there, I thought this game was a real snoozefest. The only strategy is to conceal your true strength, wait for someone else to shoot out in front, so that they exhaust everyone else's screw cards, then try to slingshot past them to victory. I've played millions of games like that, almost all of them more interesting.
Having said that, Munchkin has been a real hit for SJG, so I must be in the minority.
The most formidable bad guy in the first movie was French, he was just using the Nazis for his own ends. The first movie was the only one which truly achieved greatness. So I think he should continue to fight the french.:)
I'll play the fool and assume you're not trolling.
Mozilla & Firefox, as browsers, clearly raise the bar and make IE look really silly, with all their new features: typeahead find, tabs, and perhaps the dnd configurable toolbar.
TB doesn't have any revolutionary features. That's what grandpa's kvetching about.
Western languages mosey down screen slowly, paragraphs at a time, and once down you never have to go back up.
When reading western languages on a too-narrow screen, you have to pan back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, once per line. Thus the horizontalization of the scroll wheel won't work as well as the vertical scroll wheel did.
The solution to the horizontal case is non-bone-headed web authors that don't enforce a minimum width. (rolls eyes)
In the gui toolkit I worked on, you get that effect by pressing the Esc key. Of course, you can't switch to my gui toolkit, so I'm not sure what good this information does for you.:P
While we're administering the beatings for bad UI decisions, there's the pig-froker who dreamed up scroll bars that snap back to their original position if your mouse cursor gets too far away from them during a drag. What was the twisted thought process behind that decision? Oh, the user's forgotten they're using the slider, even though they're ACTIVELY HOLDING DOWN THE MOUSE BUTTON? We need to launch reprisals at them for not keeping the mouse cursor inside an invisible rectangle?
Its all part of MS's policy of torturing their users until they buy "intellimouses" with scroll wheels.
Sure, you can use gmail for your email address, but buy a domain and forward the email. Crap, it's only a few bucks a year.
That introduces another point of failure in your communications. Now you're denied your email if your few-bucks-a-year site goes down OR if gmail goes down. Worst of both worlds.
I think there is little to no interest in this as far as combat aircraft.
You said it. For one thing, we here in America like our fighers to be able to turn. At those speeds the G-forces of turning would force you into a rediculously wide arc. We learned with the F-104 that speed is worthless if you have to orbit the planet when they get past you.
Now you might find a market for Mach 10 with computer control...
To me the obvious follow up question is: Okay, so you can't free the driver software. So be it. Can you at least open up the hardware specs, so that open-source people like the DRI boys can have a shot to compete with you?
Nothing, and I do mean _nothing_, the president of the united states can do in five minutes will make the slightest difference in the "war on terror".
Au Contraire Monfrer! Our glorious leader spent the five minutes after he learned we were under attack reading "My Pet Goat" to schoolchildren. The teacher has gone on record as saying he made the right decision to continue reading, because if he had jumped into action right then and there, the children might have been scared! All you cheese eating surrender monkeys just wish you had strong, steady leadership like that.
One Russian boomer off the coast of New York can render the eastern seaboard uninhabitible in five minutes. Waiting around for congress to vote to declare war would get us all killed.
There's a good reason the power has shifted over time.
Why not emulate another dead system on the emulated Amiga?
Good idea, now if someone will just write a Dreamcast emulator for Amiga, I can use my dreamcast to play... dreamcast games! /me puts pinky to corner of mouth like Dr Evil
Wow, and here I was about to throw out my Dreamcast because its obsolete and failed. But wait! There's an emulator that lets it behave exactly like another system! Great! Only that system is even older and more failed. Yay!! Wait! I guess that means I should throw it out even faster!
There once was a Robotics program that did make a ping-pong robot. It was good. Real good. Had a robot arm, swatted the ping pong ball like it was Forrest Gump.
I think this was CMU.
Anyway, they were going to demo this to the board of trustees. They'd tested it lots, but since it was an important demo they set it up and gave a test run before the trustees came in. It performed perfectly.
The demo began. On the first serve the robot froze and locked up. The trustees and researchers gathered in around it to try to analyze the problem. The robot un-froze and smacked a trustee in the forehead.
What was going on? They'd written the robot's AI in a garbage collected language. In all their relatively short test runs they'd never triggered the GC. By running the pre-demo test, then leaving the machine warm, they'd used up all their heap, and on the first ball it'd decided to GC. This was old hardware and took several minutes (during which time people gathered in around it). When it came out of GC, it had finally computed where to swing the paddle to hit that (long dead) ball. Unfortunately that was the exact same region of space as the trustees head. SMAK!
Its funny, but there's really only one quality AA font for Linux right now: Bitstream Vera. Sure you can buy others, or loot them from your windows partition, but regardless of your disto the only good free one is Bitstream Vera.
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Heh heh, true enough.
Some people might be interested. People living around children, perhaps.
I can't speak for gramps, but personally I do.
thus I don't use it.
There was once a Mario-branded 3d modelling tool for Nintendo-64. I forget what it was called, probably Mario Scuplt or Mario Paint or something, but it was based on the Nendo codebase. It was only released in Japan, and required the hard drive addon. Actually, I'm not sure it was actually released, I may have played it only on pre-release hardware. It was cute and fun. There was maddening cute background music.
Got to disagree with you there, I thought this game was a real snoozefest. The only strategy is to conceal your true strength, wait for someone else to shoot out in front, so that they exhaust everyone else's screw cards, then try to slingshot past them to victory. I've played millions of games like that, almost all of them more interesting.
Having said that, Munchkin has been a real hit for SJG, so I must be in the minority.
The most formidable bad guy in the first movie was French, he was just using the Nazis for his own ends. The first movie was the only one which truly achieved greatness. So I think he should continue to fight the french. :)
I'll play the fool and assume you're not trolling.
Mozilla & Firefox, as browsers, clearly raise the bar and make IE look really silly, with all their new features: typeahead find, tabs, and perhaps the dnd configurable toolbar.
TB doesn't have any revolutionary features. That's what grandpa's kvetching about.
You just don't like them because they're chosen poorly.
If more splash screens were pictures of women in skimpy bikinis they might become more popular with the geek community.
Western languages mosey down screen slowly, paragraphs at a time, and once down you never have to go back up.
When reading western languages on a too-narrow screen, you have to pan back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, once per line. Thus the horizontalization of the scroll wheel won't work as well as the vertical scroll wheel did.
The solution to the horizontal case is non-bone-headed web authors that don't enforce a minimum width. (rolls eyes)
In the gui toolkit I worked on, you get that effect by pressing the Esc key. Of course, you can't switch to my gui toolkit, so I'm not sure what good this information does for you. :P
While we're administering the beatings for bad UI decisions, there's the pig-froker who dreamed up scroll bars that snap back to their original position if your mouse cursor gets too far away from them during a drag. What was the twisted thought process behind that decision? Oh, the user's forgotten they're using the slider, even though they're ACTIVELY HOLDING DOWN THE MOUSE BUTTON? We need to launch reprisals at them for not keeping the mouse cursor inside an invisible rectangle?
Its all part of MS's policy of torturing their users until they buy "intellimouses" with scroll wheels.
Your examples have not happened to me. Mine have. Except for the gmail-going-down one. But its still young.
That introduces another point of failure in your communications. Now you're denied your email if your few-bucks-a-year site goes down OR if gmail goes down. Worst of both worlds.
I think there is little to no interest in this as far as combat aircraft.
You said it. For one thing, we here in America like our fighers to be able to turn. At those speeds the G-forces of turning would force you into a rediculously wide arc. We learned with the F-104 that speed is worthless if you have to orbit the planet when they get past you.
Now you might find a market for Mach 10 with computer control...
To me the obvious follow up question is: Okay, so you can't free the driver software. So be it. Can you at least open up the hardware specs, so that open-source people like the DRI boys can have a shot to compete with you?
Www.georgewbush.com kills my mozilla, dead, everytime. Building a website is apperantly "hard work".
Mod parent up.
Failure to turn in a voter registration card is a felony offense. The guilty will do some hard time over this.
Its about time one of them, I don't kare which one, got the upper hand and snowballed.
Nothing, and I do mean _nothing_, the president of the united states can do in five minutes will make the slightest difference in the "war on terror".
Au Contraire Monfrer! Our glorious leader spent the five minutes after he learned we were under attack reading "My Pet Goat" to schoolchildren. The teacher has gone on record as saying he made the right decision to continue reading, because if he had jumped into action right then and there, the children might have been scared! All you cheese eating surrender monkeys just wish you had strong, steady leadership like that.
One Russian boomer off the coast of New York can render the eastern seaboard uninhabitible in five minutes. Waiting around for congress to vote to declare war would get us all killed.
There's a good reason the power has shifted over time.
Good idea, now if someone will just write a Dreamcast emulator for Amiga, I can use my dreamcast to play
Wow, and here I was about to throw out my Dreamcast because its obsolete and failed. But wait! There's an emulator that lets it behave exactly like another system! Great! Only that system is even older and more failed. Yay!! Wait! I guess that means I should throw it out even faster!
There once was a Robotics program that did make a ping-pong robot. It was good. Real good. Had a robot arm, swatted the ping pong ball like it was Forrest Gump.
I think this was CMU.
Anyway, they were going to demo this to the board of trustees. They'd tested it lots, but since it was an important demo they set it up and gave a test run before the trustees came in. It performed perfectly.
The demo began. On the first serve the robot froze and locked up. The trustees and researchers gathered in around it to try to analyze the problem. The robot un-froze and smacked a trustee in the forehead.
What was going on? They'd written the robot's AI in a garbage collected language. In all their relatively short test runs they'd never triggered the GC. By running the pre-demo test, then leaving the machine warm, they'd used up all their heap, and on the first ball it'd decided to GC. This was old hardware and took several minutes (during which time people gathered in around it). When it came out of GC, it had finally computed where to swing the paddle to hit that (long dead) ball. Unfortunately that was the exact same region of space as the trustees head. SMAK!
Its funny, but there's really only one quality AA font for Linux right now: Bitstream Vera. Sure you can buy others, or loot them from your windows partition, but regardless of your disto the only good free one is Bitstream Vera.
Don't leave home without it.