You'll have to invent a third type of people to include me. I tried dual head, but there was a big annoying FRAME running through the middle of my screen. Putting windows fully on one side or the other of the boundary was a bother. In the end it just wasn't worth the window-manager-fiddling-time or desk real-estate.
So in the end I did away with dual head, bought a $600 20" monitor that does 2048x1532, and haven't looked back.
Real video games don't have ends. They just keep on getting harder, and faster, and more brutal, until either you call it quits, or your score overflows 2^16 and wraps around.
Power-ups are for sissies. Health bars are for sissies. Just give me 3 lives and an extra at 10,000. A true test of skill is a game like Asteroids or Centipede or Ms Pac Man or Joust.
Oh yes I can. When I do for-fun sites, and I need some feature like translucent PNGs, that I feel MS hasn't made a good faith effort to support, I drop IE compatiblity and put an add for Firefox on the page.
Until many people start doing this, then suckers won't switch. And suckers are the bulk of the internet.
When I was growing up, all devices used one of four types of batteries. If you were going to take your portable music streaming device camping with you, you might go to one of roughly 100,000,000 battery retailers and buy some extras. This, with 1980s level technology!
Then, they decided to make a different, wonky-sized battery for every device. So the game boy, Palm, cell, and iPod all need different wall warts to charge their different batteries, and making these 'portable' devices portable on the road is a major PITA.
We should take a clue from the past and use standarized sized batteries. Whenever I can I buy devices that use standardized batteries, and I charge them, and whoa, it works. I don't have to pay for millions of chargers. If I need high performance batteries for my camera, I shell the $ for them, but if I'm going for a long bike trip, I put the good batteries in my bike light.
Apperantly Joe-sixpack-2005 is not smart enough to read the 'batteries included' label that Joe-sixpack-1980 had no problems with.
Slashdot hates it, but I rather liked it. It'll take another viewing, but I think it might bat in the same league as Return of the Jedi - lotsa cool stuff, some minor, Ewok-level BS that can be overlooked.
And yet, Oil actually finances terrorists.
Face it, if you can sell Oil to finance your operation, the money you get from pirating DVDs is chump change.
Also, the Washington Post cites reports showing 60% of suicide terrorists in Iraq are... (wait for it)... Saudi nationals. Coincidence? Possibly. Possibly not.
I never heard of this "firefox" thing before now. I had had no idea what tabs were before now. Its interesting to learn that this "Internet Explorer" isn't the only internet out there. I'm glad there's a website like this "Slashdot" to tell us these things - thank you Slashdot!
In E1 the Jedi are at the height of their power spiritually. For a thousand generations and all that...
They're quite able to see the future and deal with the occassional uppity bounty hunter. The sith, however, are quite a danger to them.
By E2, the force is waning for the Jedi. They're ambushed and killed by/droids/! Granted they're droids with the psi backing of both Dooku and possibly Sideous, so that's better than your average droid by far.
And in E3 they're practically decapitating themselves while trying to shave. Further sign that the force is/not/ with them.
You don't think the ships in the original tril are better than the ships in ep1-3?
Lets see: Trade Federation Droid Control ship versus Imperial Star Destroyer: I'll take the Star Destroyer. Maybe I'm biased because I have the lego ^^
X-wing versus any fighter in ep1-3: X-wing.
Death star versus -uh- nothing in that class.
Super Star Destroyer versus ?
Okay, vanilla TIE fighters are weak. But TIE interceptors look pretty neato.
I have to admit though, that all the Naboo VIP shuttles are da bomb, and totally outclass the Imperial shuttles.
And the millinium falcon... while not exactly a spring chicken sure has a LOT of hit points!
Uhm, why do you think technology's better in episode's 1-3?
Clearly their starfighter technology is quite a bit worse, since every spaceship in 1-3 is quite a bit Gay-er than any of the rebel ships in 4-6. Okay, so the naboo court ships were cool, and the naboo fighter wasn't terrible, but those god-awful jedi-fighters? Or clone fighters? I've made cooler ships out of legos.
The standard imperial star destroyers seemed quite stout too, clearly they're supposed to be better than the trade federation flying donuts, and they also look somewhat better than the "victory class" in Ep 3. Although apperantly capital ships can survive atmosphere in ep 1-3, which might be a lost tech by ep 4.
R2D2 has a legendarily high computer hacking skill stat. Joe R2 sixpack doesn't.
Remember, even though he plays dumb in Star Wars ANH, Obi knows damn well who R2 is, and he knows how many experience points R2 has. Since he obviously hasn't spent them on his "learn the language everyone else knows" stat, he had to spend them on SOMETHING!
That's why you'll see Ben taking it for granted that R2 can hack the network.
I find it very strange that the people I have converted (mostly not too tech-savvy) to using Firefox, still have to make re-installs themselves.
No, apt-get upgrade catches it automatically.
I'm not sure how the propritary OSes handle it. It would be nice if windows update automatically upgraded your firefox for you, but somehow I'm not holding my breath.
I'm a fscking genius when I'm in the shower, and comparitively dumb as a post when walking around doing my day-to-day activities. I can't figure out how to get in-the-shower smartness without the social stigma of wet & nakedness. Any ideas?
No, playstation games *did not* look like pre-renedered photos, they looked like playstation games. When you hold up a picture and say a game "looks like" this, the picture should be from the game, not something rendered in Softimage for marketing purposes.
Since the PS hadn't been released, it was impossible for John Q to detect the lie in their cover, and for all the public knew of 3d that really was what the PS was capable of rendering in realtime.
I suppose since PS did win, you think its okay to lie in its service?
I don't know about accelleration, but I try hard to avoid braking If I'm going 30 and see the crosswalk going red, I pay the petrol to crank up to 35 and make the green light. The alternative is to get snagged by the light, transfer all that kinetic energy into wearing down brake pads, and then having to pay to get back to 30mph.
I wonder what % efficient the hybrids are with their inductance brakes. They'd have to be better than 75% efficient to tip the balance in the above scenario, which I'd guess they're not.
Remember the time their cover screamed "How can Saturn keep up when Playstation games look THIS GOOD?", and then they had a non-realtime-rendered image that you were supposed to think was a screen-shot of the as-yet unreleased Playstation. Now *that* was a shining example of journalistic integrity.
Hi Anonomous Coward, I also live in Louisville, and my DVDs came addressed to a PO box in Louisville.
Last summer the service was great. 48 hour turn-around.
This fall it got krappy, somewhat less than 3.0 DVDs per week, they only seemed to ship on Tuesday or Thursday, so that set the ceil at 3/week, and one disc was always mislabeled or MIA or scratched or some other bull. We decided to cancel.
The Social Contract cuts both ways, and I don't see advertisers holding up their end of the bargain with truthful ads. Are the boobs in True's advertising blitz actually using the service? Methinks not. Does clicking here actually get a free iPod? Methinks not. Does whatever those damn strobing ads... nevermind, no.
When media sites start carrying advertising that's not disrespectful of their audience's intelligence, then I'll worry about bypassing it disturbing a social contract, but while its not adhering to the social contract itself then they can bite my shiney metal ass.
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You'll have to invent a third type of people to include me. I tried dual head, but there was a big annoying FRAME running through the middle of my screen. Putting windows fully on one side or the other of the boundary was a bother. In the end it just wasn't worth the window-manager-fiddling-time or desk real-estate.
So in the end I did away with dual head, bought a $600 20" monitor that does 2048x1532, and haven't looked back.
Real video games don't have ends. They just keep on getting harder, and faster, and more brutal, until either you call it quits, or your score overflows 2^16 and wraps around.
Power-ups are for sissies. Health bars are for sissies. Just give me 3 lives and an extra at 10,000. A true test of skill is a game like Asteroids or Centipede or Ms Pac Man or Joust.
If a game has an end, then it is a rip-off.
If you look at the site, you'll see it has a
"best viewed without internet explorer".
I think that's fair.
Oh yes I can. When I do for-fun sites, and I need some feature like translucent PNGs, that I feel MS hasn't made a good faith effort to support, I drop IE compatiblity and put an add for Firefox on the page.
Until many people start doing this, then suckers won't switch. And suckers are the bulk of the internet.
Laptops use standard coax plugs? That's news to every laptop I've used!
When I was growing up, all devices used one of four types of batteries. If you were going to take your portable music streaming device camping with you, you might go to one of roughly 100,000,000 battery retailers and buy some extras. This, with 1980s level technology!
Then, they decided to make a different, wonky-sized battery for every device. So the game boy, Palm, cell, and iPod all need different wall warts to charge their different batteries, and making these 'portable' devices portable on the road is a major PITA.
We should take a clue from the past and use standarized sized batteries. Whenever I can I buy devices that use standardized batteries, and I charge them, and whoa, it works. I don't have to pay for millions of chargers. If I need high performance batteries for my camera, I shell the $ for them, but if I'm going for a long bike trip, I put the good batteries in my bike light.
Apperantly Joe-sixpack-2005 is not smart enough to read the 'batteries included' label that Joe-sixpack-1980 had no problems with.
What the frack is Phrack?
Slashdot hates it, but I rather liked it. It'll take another viewing, but I think it might bat in the same league as Return of the Jedi - lotsa cool stuff, some minor, Ewok-level BS that can be overlooked.
Also, the Washington Post cites reports showing 60% of suicide terrorists in Iraq are ... (wait for it) ... Saudi nationals. Coincidence? Possibly. Possibly not.
I never heard of this "firefox" thing before now. I had had no idea what tabs were before now. Its interesting to learn that this "Internet Explorer" isn't the only internet out there. I'm glad there's a website like this "Slashdot" to tell us these things - thank you Slashdot!
In E1 the Jedi are at the height of their power spiritually. For a thousand generations and all that...
/droids/! Granted they're droids with the psi backing of both Dooku and possibly Sideous, so that's better than your average droid by far.
/not/ with them.
They're quite able to see the future and deal with the occassional uppity bounty hunter. The sith, however, are quite a danger to them.
By E2, the force is waning for the Jedi. They're ambushed and killed by
And in E3 they're practically decapitating themselves while trying to shave. Further sign that the force is
"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
If stormtroopers are a standard height, then that strongly implies they're all clones.
You don't think the ships in the original tril are better than the ships in ep1-3?
... while not exactly a spring chicken sure has a LOT of hit points!
Lets see: Trade Federation Droid Control ship versus Imperial Star Destroyer: I'll take the Star Destroyer. Maybe I'm biased because I have the lego ^^
X-wing versus any fighter in ep1-3: X-wing.
Death star versus -uh- nothing in that class.
Super Star Destroyer versus ?
Okay, vanilla TIE fighters are weak. But TIE interceptors look pretty neato.
I have to admit though, that all the Naboo VIP shuttles are da bomb, and totally outclass the Imperial shuttles.
And the millinium falcon
Clearly their starfighter technology is quite a bit worse, since every spaceship in 1-3 is quite a bit Gay-er than any of the rebel ships in 4-6. Okay, so the naboo court ships were cool, and the naboo fighter wasn't terrible, but those god-awful jedi-fighters? Or clone fighters? I've made cooler ships out of legos.
The standard imperial star destroyers seemed quite stout too, clearly they're supposed to be better than the trade federation flying donuts, and they also look somewhat better than the "victory class" in Ep 3. Although apperantly capital ships can survive atmosphere in ep 1-3, which might be a lost tech by ep 4.
R2D2 has a legendarily high computer hacking skill stat. Joe R2 sixpack doesn't.
Remember, even though he plays dumb in Star Wars ANH, Obi knows damn well who R2 is, and he knows how many experience points R2 has. Since he obviously hasn't spent them on his "learn the language everyone else knows" stat, he had to spend them on SOMETHING!
That's why you'll see Ben taking it for granted that R2 can hack the network.
Haven't you heard? Its 'free' as in 'I need a beer'.
And you are not EXPLAINING any of this either, I notice. What is a lightsynth? Please? I'll give you a cookie...
I find it very strange that the people I have converted (mostly not too tech-savvy) to using Firefox, still have to make re-installs themselves. No, apt-get upgrade catches it automatically. I'm not sure how the propritary OSes handle it. It would be nice if windows update automatically upgraded your firefox for you, but somehow I'm not holding my breath.
I'm a fscking genius when I'm in the shower, and comparitively dumb as a post when walking around doing my day-to-day activities. I can't figure out how to get in-the-shower smartness without the social stigma of wet & nakedness. Any ideas?
No, playstation games *did not* look like pre-renedered photos, they looked like playstation games. When you hold up a picture and say a game "looks like" this, the picture should be from the game, not something rendered in Softimage for marketing purposes.
Since the PS hadn't been released, it was impossible for John Q to detect the lie in their cover, and for all the public knew of 3d that really was what the PS was capable of rendering in realtime.
I suppose since PS did win, you think its okay to lie in its service?
I don't know about accelleration, but I try hard to avoid braking If I'm going 30 and see the crosswalk going red, I pay the petrol to crank up to 35 and make the green light. The alternative is to get snagged by the light, transfer all that kinetic energy into wearing down brake pads, and then having to pay to get back to 30mph.
I wonder what % efficient the hybrids are with their inductance brakes. They'd have to be better than 75% efficient to tip the balance in the above scenario, which I'd guess they're not.
Remember the time their cover screamed "How can Saturn keep up when Playstation games look THIS GOOD?", and then they had a non-realtime-rendered image that you were supposed to think was a screen-shot of the as-yet unreleased Playstation. Now *that* was a shining example of journalistic integrity.
Hi Anonomous Coward,
I also live in Louisville, and my DVDs came addressed to a PO box in Louisville.
Last summer the service was great. 48 hour turn-around.
This fall it got krappy, somewhat less than 3.0 DVDs per week, they only seemed to ship on Tuesday or Thursday, so that set the ceil at 3/week, and one disc was always mislabeled or MIA or scratched or some other bull. We decided to cancel.
The Social Contract cuts both ways, and I don't see advertisers holding up their end of the bargain with truthful ads. Are the boobs in True's advertising blitz actually using the service? Methinks not. Does clicking here actually get a free iPod? Methinks not. Does whatever those damn strobing ads ... nevermind, no.
When media sites start carrying advertising that's not disrespectful of their audience's intelligence, then I'll worry about bypassing it disturbing a social contract, but while its not adhering to the social contract itself then they can bite my shiney metal ass.