I can't figure out why people keep using "USian". It looks and sounds dumb.
Sounds bad, sure. I've never used the term in spoken conversation. I was under the assumption that part of the reason "USian" stuck was that, besides being more country-centric, was shorter to type than "American." (I've also seen UKian in use online.)
Though you are right that "US" might have worked in that case, but I had mentally "vocalized" the work as American, and my chatroom/IM typing habits took over.
What I've found interesting about the game is that it doesn't have a retro feel, or make me long for the "good ol' days"
Personally, I think most of the posters to this topic have missed the point of the original question. It's not "old games that still play well," but "games that play better on modern hardware."
That said, some client software for the various Roguelikes have employed incremental improvements over the years. My Angband client supports multiple term windows to outload display of information like monster memories and inventory; something hard to do on the original text terminals that the genre was played on. Also, I'm using a graphical tile set that gives the dungeon and monsters a basic 8-bit console game look. It beats pounding on "D's" and "P's" with my trusty Lead Filled Mace. (-; I've even seen clients providing sound effects now.
I guess I've been hanging around kuro5hin for too long...
To call citizens of the United States "American" is to ignore the fact that, technically, Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, et al, are also from America.
The stateless nature of HTTP is exactly the problem right now because every body is trying to either shoe-horn states in
Yup. But if HTTP wasn't stateless to begin with, it would not have been adopted widely in the first place.
[BEGIN RANT MODE]
A lot of government and managerial people seem to forget that freedom from restrictions and overhead are what makes technologies and social processes popular. The current rush to reassert "control" over the Web and the Internet are going to drive away the very people they are trying to gain control over, leaving on the more apathetic people behind who aren't worth controlling anyway.
Those out there seeking to usurp social convention to gain control have developed this ability to willing forget what it is like to be controlled themselves. It's like that one line from a Star Trek show about how a member of an alien species didn't want to get rid of exploitation, but to become one of the exploiters.
Of course, in my self-deluded fantasies, I dream of the day when one of the "exploiters" develops Coercive Telepathic Empanty or some such technology, and the technology "escapes" and is used on everyone... Numbness towards our fellow man is what makes Evil possible.
To an English speaker, perhaps, but not to the Japanese. The name was probably meant to suggest our "Mother Earth," given the USian name. The popular market (In Japan!) is more comfortable with effeminate or "kawaii" names and images than the USian market.
Your enemy's enemy is your friend's friend. Likewise your friend's enemy is your enemy's friend. Furthermore the enemy of your enemy is the friend of your friend. Please remember though your enemy is not your friend.
Care to expand that to foes, fans and freaks, Mr. Sun Tzu?
And don't get me started on friends of fans, foes of freaks, Friends And Family, Garfield And Friends, and Fee Fi Foe Fum.
Here were are now... On the one hand, Sony's backing the various "Open??" media standards that's been used as a key part of the Mac OS. And on the other, Microsoft is rumored to being using POWER (that is, IBM PowerPC) derived CPUs and ATI hardware for the next XBox.
And yet we Mac users, who've had both for ages now, are out in the cold in the gaming market.
SMTP/HTTP are not resource types. They are protocols.
You could have a "WWW" resource type, I guess.
This is already done, with well-known ports -- the advantage of using well-known ports is that the additional network traffic and latency is avoided.
I think you misread what the original poster meant. He wanted a given DNS name to resolve to completely different IPs depending on intended use. For example, "tempuri.org" could resolved to one IP if being accessed in "Web" domain, while the DNS server would return a different address if being used for a "Database" domain. This could have potentially reduced name disputes, if organizations didn't have the pig-headed need to lay claim to any name that merely resembles or contains their valued "trademarks" and "servicemarks."
Relying on a port number would require either server (or a third server, mostly likely) to dispatch requests to a single IP, then route traffic to other IPs based on intended use. He wanted the shift the burden of traffic differentiation up a level.
Not that I agree with this. It would put too much of a burden on the DNS system, only to make the lives of select few domain admins easier.
Hyper-Text Transport Protocol
Hyper-Text Markup Language
Have nothing to do with each other?
Yup, that's correct... (-: They are completely "orthogonal" to each other.
The notion of HTTP being a "hypertext" related technology is more of a historical accident than anything. (Hypertext was a buzzword of the 90's, everybody made claim to the word.) The developers of HTML wanted a more elegant way of serving web pages than the older protocols like FTP and Gopher, so they contributed to HTTP's development. However, HTTP's stateless nature and generic utility ended up being more useful than just for serving hypertext.
Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election.
Then protest vote. Vote Badnarik, or whoever represents the marginalized political party of your choice. (Two-party system be damned!) The beauty of it is that you can complain no matter who wins...
"Hey, I didn't vote for him!"
OR
"Hey, I didn't actually expect him to win!"
An uninformed vote does far more damage to the country than an apathetic citizen ever could.
Pssst. Here's a secret... There's no such thing as an informed vote. There are always limitations with what the populace can know about the future voting and policy potential of any candidate, especially in this era when politicians are required to lie and break promises to get elected in the first place.
Did anybody actually think about what either Bush or Gore would do in response to a terrorist attack, when we USians were arguing about hanging chads in 2000?
BOO! This guy doesn't have a sense of humor... )-:
What would and does happen is that the mass of the cat and the ability to land on it's feet far outweigh the attractive forces of the tiny amount of butter to the floor. If you increased the mass of butter to counter the mass of the cat...
YEA! You do have a sense of humor after all! ^_^
I'm not scientist, but do know that cat's backs do not repulse the floor; if you hang a cat upside down 3" above the floor and drop it, it will land on its back.
how is a Mac going to run that even when the files are copied over? Macs can't natively run PC binaries, and I'm sure that the PC installer spews files all over the place anyway.
You wouldn't use the new installer in this case. You'd simply download the most recent OS X update archive from battle.net and install it in the same directory as the PC data files that were copied over.
All of the Mac updaters I've seen from Blizzard install a standalone executable (APPL or.app) file, rather than patching a pre-existing one. Even with PC installs of their games, Blizzard's been careful to install their own intellectual property in the same folder as the executable, while third-party Windows specific stuff is installed in the various systems directories Microsoft seems to require.
Historically, the Mac platform has been able to accommidate simple "drag-and-drop" copying for installing for many kinds of software, rather than always requiring a dedicated installer front-end. The Mac OS knows how to examine a new executable package to extract file associations and dependencies in many cases, whereas Windows systems tend to require installers to muck with the Registry, et al. The fact that Blizzard even used installers on the Mac platform was more out of presentation consistency than neccesity. (Many early OS X adopters, like myself, were able to figure out how to copy over the files from the CDs without needing the still-Classic installer.) This ability to easily install (and uninstall!) most Mac apps was one of the things that allowed the Mac maintain a healthy shareware/freeware market, despite the platform's much lower marketshare.
I'd love for someone to explain to me how Apple escapes the criticism that Microsoft gets for being "proprietary" and a "monopoly". Seems to me that Jobs&Co. are much more guilty of these practices.
Because they are a smaller company.
No, really. I'm one of those Mac users that think the Mac platform has continued to exist in spite of Apple, not because of them. Your complaint raises a valid point; Apple's enjoying some political immunity right now as an "underdog," partly because Microsoft wiggled out of the USian Department of Justice's grasp.
That said, I think Apple's able to maintain a low profile over this issue since they have yet to try to leverage the iPod's success into a unrelated market, like Microsoft did with Windows and Internet Explorer. It's this "shoehorning" that's looked upon lowly, not the concept of a monopoly per se.
I do think that Apple needs to make the FairPlay DRM licensable if they want the otherwise more open AAC format to win out over WMA. (AAC itself is part of the MPEG industry standard; the DRM is a separate encoding format not part of AAC proper.)
Yes, the parallel "Red Scare" which lead to the creation of the Comics Code was a historical disaster.
What's worse was that many artists at the time bought into it. Scott McCloud once wrote (drew?) that old artists like Rube Goldburg didn't appreciate the trendy artists getting uppity and forgetting their "vaudeville" roots.
That perception persists even now. Jack Chick, the creator of those infamous Bible tracts, started making them to prempt the "Communists" and "Athiests" from stealing the hearts and minds of "Innocent, God-Fearing American Youths" via comic propoganda. To him, comics were a means to an end, not a medium worthy of respect in and of itself.
Sony helped to develop FireWire? I thought Apple created FireWire
Sony was a co-developer. If you look at the PDF formatted patent portfolio, you'll see that Sony actually owns more individual patents than Apple does. Apple's FireWire implementation usually has 6 pins, and can be use for driving power to devices like hard drives and A/V components, while Sony's iLink version usually has 4 pins and was intended as a high speed connect for laptops and consumer devices, like the Playstation 2.
This should be on the front page, not hidden back in developers, if only to make blind followers of $MY_ALTERNATIVE_BROWSER realize that they too are vulnerable, and not just MS.
The sectioning was probably due to my choice of wording in the headline...
Of course, but I think the notion that a "trusted" security site finds technology from the last millenium to be "newsworthy" to be newsworthy itself, if for no other reason than for/.'ers to ruthlessly mock them.
Seriously, though, I posted this because I was starting to notice this meme drifting through the Mac websphere (of all places!) about the non-IE version of the flaw. I wanted to "out" the fact that this affected/effected/qffected IE as well before the Microsoft apologists started to gloat.
Wow, my first news submission, and it passes. Just what has/. turned into lately? (-;
I think the original poster forgot that Defender's joystick was only two-way. This reduced the number of switches needed to implement the game's interface. A more standard joystick could simply be mapped to the two-way joystick, with the off-axis substituting for the Reverse and Thrust buttons. (I personally think the 2600 joystick was more natural than the arcade's requirement of a reversal toggle.)
You would think the cradle this thing uses would support FireWire/i.Link as well as USB 2.0. Sony helped to develop the technology, and they use it in their Vaio PCs to boot. If they are already using their own tech for the codec, why not for the connection interface?
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Sounds bad, sure. I've never used the term in spoken conversation. I was under the assumption that part of the reason "USian" stuck was that, besides being more country-centric, was shorter to type than "American." (I've also seen UKian in use online.)
Though you are right that "US" might have worked in that case, but I had mentally "vocalized" the work as American, and my chatroom/IM typing habits took over.
Personally, I think most of the posters to this topic have missed the point of the original question. It's not "old games that still play well," but "games that play better on modern hardware."
That said, some client software for the various Roguelikes have employed incremental improvements over the years. My Angband client supports multiple term windows to outload display of information like monster memories and inventory; something hard to do on the original text terminals that the genre was played on. Also, I'm using a graphical tile set that gives the dungeon and monsters a basic 8-bit console game look. It beats pounding on "D's" and "P's" with my trusty Lead Filled Mace. (-; I've even seen clients providing sound effects now.
I guess I've been hanging around kuro5hin for too long...
To call citizens of the United States "American" is to ignore the fact that, technically, Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, et al, are also from America.
Yup. But if HTTP wasn't stateless to begin with, it would not have been adopted widely in the first place.
[BEGIN RANT MODE]
A lot of government and managerial people seem to forget that freedom from restrictions and overhead are what makes technologies and social processes popular. The current rush to reassert "control" over the Web and the Internet are going to drive away the very people they are trying to gain control over, leaving on the more apathetic people behind who aren't worth controlling anyway.
Those out there seeking to usurp social convention to gain control have developed this ability to willing forget what it is like to be controlled themselves. It's like that one line from a Star Trek show about how a member of an alien species didn't want to get rid of exploitation, but to become one of the exploiters.
Of course, in my self-deluded fantasies, I dream of the day when one of the "exploiters" develops Coercive Telepathic Empanty or some such technology, and the technology "escapes" and is used on everyone... Numbness towards our fellow man is what makes Evil possible.
[RANT MODE OFF]
To an English speaker, perhaps, but not to the Japanese. The name was probably meant to suggest our "Mother Earth," given the USian name. The popular market (In Japan!) is more comfortable with effeminate or "kawaii" names and images than the USian market.
NEW YORK CITY!?!?
(Wow, my first lameness filter trigger... I'm not shouting... Okay, I'M SHOUTING! I'M SHOUTING! I'M SHOUTING! BONK!)
Care to expand that to foes, fans and freaks, Mr. Sun Tzu?
And don't get me started on friends of fans, foes of freaks, Friends And Family, Garfield And Friends, and Fee Fi Foe Fum.
And yet we Mac users, who've had both for ages now, are out in the cold in the gaming market.
Tanj. (There Ain't No Justice.)
You could have a "WWW" resource type, I guess.
This is already done, with well-known ports -- the advantage of using well-known ports is that the additional network traffic and latency is avoided.
I think you misread what the original poster meant. He wanted a given DNS name to resolve to completely different IPs depending on intended use. For example, "tempuri.org" could resolved to one IP if being accessed in "Web" domain, while the DNS server would return a different address if being used for a "Database" domain. This could have potentially reduced name disputes, if organizations didn't have the pig-headed need to lay claim to any name that merely resembles or contains their valued "trademarks" and "servicemarks."
Relying on a port number would require either server (or a third server, mostly likely) to dispatch requests to a single IP, then route traffic to other IPs based on intended use. He wanted the shift the burden of traffic differentiation up a level.
Not that I agree with this. It would put too much of a burden on the DNS system, only to make the lives of select few domain admins easier.
Hyper-Text Markup Language
Have nothing to do with each other?
Yup, that's correct... (-: They are completely "orthogonal" to each other.
The notion of HTTP being a "hypertext" related technology is more of a historical accident than anything. (Hypertext was a buzzword of the 90's, everybody made claim to the word.) The developers of HTML wanted a more elegant way of serving web pages than the older protocols like FTP and Gopher, so they contributed to HTTP's development. However, HTTP's stateless nature and generic utility ended up being more useful than just for serving hypertext.
Then protest vote. Vote Badnarik, or whoever represents the marginalized political party of your choice. (Two-party system be damned!) The beauty of it is that you can complain no matter who wins...
"Hey, I didn't vote for him!"
OR
"Hey, I didn't actually expect him to win!"
An uninformed vote does far more damage to the country than an apathetic citizen ever could.
Pssst. Here's a secret... There's no such thing as an informed vote. There are always limitations with what the populace can know about the future voting and policy potential of any candidate, especially in this era when politicians are required to lie and break promises to get elected in the first place.
Did anybody actually think about what either Bush or Gore would do in response to a terrorist attack, when we USians were arguing about hanging chads in 2000?
Wait, you mean I'm not looking at the k5 voting queue?
1. Serve The Public Trust
2. Protect The Innocent
3. Uphold The Law
Television: Corporate America in your mind.
Hmmm... seems familiar.
Bread: Ancient Rome in your body
Circuses: Ancient Rome in your mind.
We have officially come full circle. We are the new Rome.
BOO! This guy doesn't have a sense of humor... )-:
What would and does happen is that the mass of the cat and the ability to land on it's feet far outweigh the attractive forces of the tiny amount of butter to the floor. If you increased the mass of butter to counter the mass of the cat...
YEA! You do have a sense of humor after all! ^_^
I'm not scientist, but do know that cat's backs do not repulse the floor; if you hang a cat upside down 3" above the floor and drop it, it will land on its back.
BOO!
You wouldn't use the new installer in this case. You'd simply download the most recent OS X update archive from battle.net and install it in the same directory as the PC data files that were copied over.
All of the Mac updaters I've seen from Blizzard install a standalone executable (APPL or .app) file, rather than patching a pre-existing one. Even with PC installs of their games, Blizzard's been careful to install their own intellectual property in the same folder as the executable, while third-party Windows specific stuff is installed in the various systems directories Microsoft seems to require.
Historically, the Mac platform has been able to accommidate simple "drag-and-drop" copying for installing for many kinds of software, rather than always requiring a dedicated installer front-end. The Mac OS knows how to examine a new executable package to extract file associations and dependencies in many cases, whereas Windows systems tend to require installers to muck with the Registry, et al. The fact that Blizzard even used installers on the Mac platform was more out of presentation consistency than neccesity. (Many early OS X adopters, like myself, were able to figure out how to copy over the files from the CDs without needing the still-Classic installer.) This ability to easily install (and uninstall!) most Mac apps was one of the things that allowed the Mac maintain a healthy shareware/freeware market, despite the platform's much lower marketshare.
Because they are a smaller company.
No, really. I'm one of those Mac users that think the Mac platform has continued to exist in spite of Apple, not because of them. Your complaint raises a valid point; Apple's enjoying some political immunity right now as an "underdog," partly because Microsoft wiggled out of the USian Department of Justice's grasp.
That said, I think Apple's able to maintain a low profile over this issue since they have yet to try to leverage the iPod's success into a unrelated market, like Microsoft did with Windows and Internet Explorer. It's this "shoehorning" that's looked upon lowly, not the concept of a monopoly per se.
I do think that Apple needs to make the FairPlay DRM licensable if they want the otherwise more open AAC format to win out over WMA. (AAC itself is part of the MPEG industry standard; the DRM is a separate encoding format not part of AAC proper.)
What's worse was that many artists at the time bought into it. Scott McCloud once wrote (drew?) that old artists like Rube Goldburg didn't appreciate the trendy artists getting uppity and forgetting their "vaudeville" roots.
That perception persists even now. Jack Chick, the creator of those infamous Bible tracts, started making them to prempt the "Communists" and "Athiests" from stealing the hearts and minds of "Innocent, God-Fearing American Youths" via comic propoganda. To him, comics were a means to an end, not a medium worthy of respect in and of itself.
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LOL. I had to think for a moment before the reality of your comment sunk in, but it was a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when it did.
Sony was a co-developer. If you look at the PDF formatted patent portfolio, you'll see that Sony actually owns more individual patents than Apple does. Apple's FireWire implementation usually has 6 pins, and can be use for driving power to devices like hard drives and A/V components, while Sony's iLink version usually has 4 pins and was intended as a high speed connect for laptops and consumer devices, like the Playstation 2.
The sectioning was probably due to my choice of wording in the headline...
Frames are evil.
Of course, but I think the notion that a "trusted" security site finds technology from the last millenium to be "newsworthy" to be newsworthy itself, if for no other reason than for /.'ers to ruthlessly mock them.
Seriously, though, I posted this because I was starting to notice this meme drifting through the Mac websphere (of all places!) about the non-IE version of the flaw. I wanted to "out" the fact that this affected/effected/qffected IE as well before the Microsoft apologists started to gloat.
Wow, my first news submission, and it passes. Just what has /. turned into lately? (-;
I think the original poster forgot that Defender's joystick was only two-way. This reduced the number of switches needed to implement the game's interface. A more standard joystick could simply be mapped to the two-way joystick, with the off-axis substituting for the Reverse and Thrust buttons. (I personally think the 2600 joystick was more natural than the arcade's requirement of a reversal toggle.)
You would think the cradle this thing uses would support FireWire/i.Link as well as USB 2.0. Sony helped to develop the technology, and they use it in their Vaio PCs to boot. If they are already using their own tech for the codec, why not for the connection interface?
Ugh, I was quoting the script, not the TV broadcast...
I am NaN... I am a free man!