If you can still find a copy of it. It's a dogfighting game - but of model airplanes. You fly around inside a house - under chairs and over railings etc. A very fun game and not bloody.
Aside from the silent practise thing mentioned above, I don't see much point for this. MIDI was once a reasonable way to provide a compressed version of a musical performance.
In the ~15 years or so that midi has been out, wave compresssion has improved and hard drives are gigantic. I just don't see much call for midi going into the future.
People don't download midi files anymore, they download mp3s.
I loved Bolo. We played it a lot at Aldus in the early nineties. I miss it since I don't work on Macs any more. It would make a great Linux game. I wonder if the source is available.
Illinois Act 83-493 (which applies to all employee contracts with invention clauses) states:
The agreement does not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) to the business of the employer, or (ii) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) the invention results from any work performed by the employee for the employer.
I see the indies profiting from the major's stupidity. Maybe there'll be more interest in the blues and Alligator records. Somehow I don't see them messing with the music.
How odd that we just had a Heinlein poll and no one has yet mentioned that this sort of launcher was described in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" quite some time ago.
I'm still surprised how many people (even long-time unix users) don't know this: ctrl-[ is the key-sequence for generating escape. Look at any ascii table.
I have changed my capslock key to be control on both windows and unix. So, I never have to leave the home row to enter an escape character.
BTW in a similar manner ctrl-h is the key sequence for backspace. A lot of the keys on your standard keyboard are "convenience" duplicates.
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I'd use the task list and the calendar to teach the kids organization skills, task planning, etc.
Given the propensity for computer games to become addictive, it's kinda inappropriate for schools to encourage this kind of thing.
No more so than chess, go, basketball, or baseball.
If you can still find a copy of it. It's a dogfighting game - but of model airplanes. You fly around inside a house - under chairs and over railings etc. A very fun game and not bloody.
What will be the next cloned species? Dinosaurs? Bad idea...
Depends on whether they'd make good eating.
Hmmm. Would they taste like chicken or frog?
I don't have any problem using my Windows wallpapers on linux.
In the ~15 years or so that midi has been out, wave compresssion has improved and hard drives are gigantic. I just don't see much call for midi going into the future.
People don't download midi files anymore, they download mp3s.
The word you are looking for is irony. Sarcasm is more direct. Sarcasm: "What a sniveling twit." Irony: "Oh yeah, he's a genius".
What's a spring-loaded folder?
Yes, but then they renamed the project to Butthead Astronomer.
I loved Bolo. We played it a lot at Aldus in the early nineties. I miss it since I don't work on Macs any more. It would make a great Linux game. I wonder if the source is available.
and the equivalent do things "for your own good". The first rule of good software - don't piss the user/admin off.
Don't remember where I got the quote, but it applies here.
That's how IBM started too.
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to post on Slashdot.
Please don't get your monopoly all over me. I just washed.
I don't recognize this Heinleinism. Where's it from?
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Illinois Act 83-493 (which applies to all employee contracts with invention clauses) states:
The agreement does not apply to any invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) to the business of the employer, or (ii) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) the invention results from any work performed by the employee for the employer.
I think this is fair.
Since when does being old news disqualify a Slashdot story?
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My mom listens to CDs on her Mac quite often and she's quite of an age.
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I see the indies profiting from the major's stupidity. Maybe there'll be more interest in the blues and Alligator records. Somehow I don't see them messing with the music.
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coming to fruition. Cool.
CE Software and Spyglass.
I have changed my capslock key to be control on both windows and unix. So, I never have to leave the home row to enter an escape character.
BTW in a similar manner ctrl-h is the key sequence for backspace. A lot of the keys on your standard keyboard are "convenience" duplicates.