ummm, by the time the x-box comes out, the graphics chip it includes will be the cheap alternative. People seem to keep forgetting that this same chip isnt going to be worth as much in 6-12 months. By then nvidia will have already replaced it, or at least speed bumped it. This would be a good idea if the x-box was shipping in 1-2 months though
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I have 2 other friends that both have psx systems, and we have link cables. We will meet up at a friend's house, and drag over whatever we need. We usually play somewhere that already has 2 tvs, so we just need to bring one.
Multiplayer Destruction Derby is insanely fun, as is DooM. Descent is also fun if you are immune to the motion sickness it can give you.
This is something I'm sure everyone on slashdot will be happy about, but the coverage by starnews is kind of worrisome to me. The linked story calls the decision a 'potentially fatal setback' , as though this decision is a bad thing. The story goes on to say how the law was 'intended to keep children from playing violent video games' and features the quote "It would be a shame to quit at this point without pressing this on to a final decision." To me, this article just seems totally biased towards the ordinance in question, and fails to even mention any of the other sides of the story. I hope this isnt how the press in general thinks on this issue. Just my thoughts...
Quoted from the article... "When Mac OS X ships on Saturday, it's going to deliver on that promise--Apple will become the highest-volume vendor of Unix in the world. After a year or two, at the rate they have been shipping machines, they will have a nice installed *nix userbase.
The thing is tho, Linux will probably never be widely accepted as long as there isnt a standardized gui that is a breeze to use. Im sure many people will say 'that's fine', but for people that would like linux to take the mainstream by storm, this is a real problem. Until linux starts getting used by non hacker/coder types, it isnt going to be able to 'hit the big time.' Many of the coders may not truly care if linux really hits the bigtime, but there are quite a few linux companies out there banking on it. And those companies are the ones that major corporations will judge the viability of linux from.
This Texan appreciates the fact that someone is bringing some common sense into this. No, I truly doubt this will go anywhere in Texas, for a myriad of reasons. The main reason being, imho, Texans are some of the most vocal people as far as not wanting the government to tell them what to do. Believe me, this is not how most Texans think, including my >60 parents, who would wouldn't be able to install filterware themselves any better than Garcia. This will go nowhere, and is no way indicitive of how Texan's think.
I would guess that is exactly the reason, at least for the Simpsons. I would be willing to bet that Fox makes more money off of selling the Simpson reruns than they do from selling commercial time on current episodes. I imagine they prolly dont charge an arm and a leg for each rerun broadcast, because as you said, many affiliates show it up to 3 times a day. But at the same time, I think this allowed them to pretty much saturate the market areas, and make bank due to the sheer number of affiliates willing to pay the price.
Peter stated almost a year ago that he would really like to opensource the game. Slashdot covered the story here. Granted, it would be really cool if he did this, but I worry that massive cheating will destroy any fun to be had with the online play
Yea, but the guy with the tennis shoes is also wearing the suit that someone else said 'looks like it went thru a bantha colon' he apparently is the loser of the bunch;)
Considering how many slashdot readers run domains (I run 4, and 3 were registered through NSI) it seems as tho this would warrant making it to the front page.
NSI is just a shady company, and at this point, with other choices available, I would advise everyone to choose a different registrant. This is just one more crummy thing they have done.
NeXTStep services are alive and well in Mac OSX. Not too many apps offer access to this yet, but this will change. This is one of the most promising features for development on OSX imho.
yes, I mainly mean the possibility of someone accessing the data on the web server. Or possibly even snooping in on the data being sent back to the server. Im assuming this solution will be used from a centralized location or office, rather than from locations distributed in different areas/cities/etc. It more than likely would not be more difficult to develop a dekstop version (if they have good engineers) than the web version, so I'm not sure I can see a real advantage to a web interface, other than possibly write once, run anywhere ability. That could be good or bad tho, depending on their needs and paranoia. I say write a desktop version and run it from a file server, or install it where it is needed.
If you go with a web based interface, you might have to worry about what could happen if a script kiddie gets access to the programs/data/etc. If you used a desktop based approach, it would prolly be easier to keep secure. I have been dealing with a similar problem where I work (although on a smaller scale) and I spent many nights debating which way I should do it. I ended up using a mixture of both, but that appears not to be an option for you.
like when gil amelio drove the poor company damn near into the ground? screw that. that fat tub of crap, and scully did little, if anything to help apple. feh you obviously werent an apple user during those dark years. I almost wasnt as well
The emphasis is on task-based learning and goal-oriented teaching. Kids are being taught how to think, instead of what to think, out of some liberal notion that we shouldn't make their beliefs conform to our own experienced ones.
That isnt what I see in schools today. Schools today base almost their entire curriculum off of what is required in standardized tests, chosen by the state. These kids are taught exactly what you say they aren't. They are taught what 'experienced beliefs' say they shoud be learning. I my opinion, this fosters the loss of memory due to gadgets like pdas, computers, etc. If you are taught to memorize, and taught a limited set of skills, then using a pda makes it easier to not remember things. Let the pda memorize it for you.
If kids were instead taught how to think, how to learn, and how to educate themselves (which you apparently think is a bad idea), then they wont rely so heavily on the gimmick of memorization, and are more likely to actually learn things, rather than just memorize. there is a diffference.
as I understand it, that isnt why the sale of it was actually regulated. It was because kids were getting high off of it. It was killing many of these kids. Hold the bottle upright and start inhaling... get all messed up, let the bottle fall over on its side, your lungs are frozen. Game over. This happened to several people I went to highschool with in the late 80's. It was getting to be quite a problem. Anyone can feel free to provide some contradictory info if I'm wrong however.
Well, NASA seems to have enough faith that it will work that they are going to put it up there and assemble it in space for him. I doubt they would be willing to do that if they didn't think it might work. Im sure they have better things to do than assemble and set into orbit computers that they think will fail.
I just cant agree with this attitude.
A. what business do the french, or any other government have telling foreign businesses how to run things?
B. why is it yahoo's responsibility to enforce the rules of the French government? shouldnt the govt be talking to isps in *their* country about this, rather than a business outside their country?
C. what happens when the next country in line doesnt like something on yahoo auctions? take it off too, and then the next, and the next...?
this isnt good for yahoo, and it isnt a good step for a business to take on the internet. Let other countries enforce their own rules with their own money....
I don't understand why yahoo should have to buckle to this pressure. Why is it up to them to enforce another country's laws? If France wants to deny their citizens access to information and materials, I hardly see how it is yahoo's responsibility to enforce this. If they really want it blocked, they should force isps to block the site as a rule, not force a foriegn company to change the way they do business just because you dont want your citizen's to be able to buy a german ww2 bayonet or something like that. Please give me a break.
Ok, im assuming you either didnt read the article linked, or that you didnt follow the link to the denton county registration site. I live in denton, and was very interested to see what info was available. it appears to be down now, so Ill go ahead and tell you. Everything there is static info. no, the 'password' is not so you can change info. it is just used to access the info. You couldn't go in there and 'deregister' someone as you claim. There is no real chance for fraud here, just a chance for people to get your address, which there are about 1000 other ways to do. I just thought someone needed to let everyone know what can be done at the site, since most of you prolly dont know someone registered in denton that you can plug their name and DOB into the site. Adios
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ummm, by the time the x-box comes out, the graphics chip it includes will be the cheap alternative. People seem to keep forgetting that this same chip isnt going to be worth as much in 6-12 months. By then nvidia will have already replaced it, or at least speed bumped it. This would be a good idea if the x-box was shipping in 1-2 months though
I have 2 other friends that both have psx systems, and we have link cables. We will meet up at a friend's house, and drag over whatever we need. We usually play somewhere that already has 2 tvs, so we just need to bring one.
Multiplayer Destruction Derby is insanely fun, as is DooM. Descent is also fun if you are immune to the motion sickness it can give you.
This is something I'm sure everyone on slashdot will be happy about, but the coverage by starnews is kind of worrisome to me. The linked story calls the decision a 'potentially fatal setback' , as though this decision is a bad thing. The story goes on to say how the law was 'intended to keep children from playing violent video games' and features the quote "It would be a shame to quit at this point without pressing this on to a final decision."
To me, this article just seems totally biased towards the ordinance in question, and fails to even mention any of the other sides of the story. I hope this isnt how the press in general thinks on this issue.
Just my thoughts...
Quoted from the article... "When Mac OS X ships on Saturday, it's going to deliver on that promise--Apple will become the highest-volume vendor of Unix in the world.
After a year or two, at the rate they have been shipping machines, they will have a nice installed *nix userbase.
The thing is tho, Linux will probably never be widely accepted as long as there isnt a standardized gui that is a breeze to use. Im sure many people will say 'that's fine', but for people that would like linux to take the mainstream by storm, this is a real problem.
Until linux starts getting used by non hacker/coder types, it isnt going to be able to 'hit the big time.' Many of the coders may not truly care if linux really hits the bigtime, but there are quite a few linux companies out there banking on it. And those companies are the ones that major corporations will judge the viability of linux from.
This Texan appreciates the fact that someone is bringing some common sense into this. No, I truly doubt this will go anywhere in Texas, for a myriad of reasons. The main reason being, imho, Texans are some of the most vocal people as far as not wanting the government to tell them what to do.
Believe me, this is not how most Texans think, including my >60 parents, who would wouldn't be able to install filterware themselves any better than Garcia.
This will go nowhere, and is no way indicitive of how Texan's think.
I would guess that is exactly the reason, at least for the Simpsons. I would be willing to bet that Fox makes more money off of selling the Simpson reruns than they do from selling commercial time on current episodes. I imagine they prolly dont charge an arm and a leg for each rerun broadcast, because as you said, many affiliates show it up to 3 times a day. But at the same time, I think this allowed them to pretty much saturate the market areas, and make bank due to the sheer number of affiliates willing to pay the price.
Peter stated almost a year ago that he would really like to opensource the game. Slashdot covered the story here. Granted, it would be really cool if he did this, but I worry that massive cheating will destroy any fun to be had with the online play
who knows. maybe he can actually appreciate the dedication of a fan that goes to the lengths these people have gone. maybe... just maybe
Yea, but the guy with the tennis shoes is also wearing the suit that someone else said 'looks like it went thru a bantha colon' he apparently is the loser of the bunch ;)
your link didnt crash me. plz die tnx
Considering how many slashdot readers run domains (I run 4, and 3 were registered through NSI) it seems as tho this would warrant making it to the front page.
NSI is just a shady company, and at this point, with other choices available, I would advise everyone to choose a different registrant. This is just one more crummy thing they have done.
NeXTStep services are alive and well in Mac OSX. Not too many apps offer access to this yet, but this will change. This is one of the most promising features for development on OSX imho.
yes, I mainly mean the possibility of someone accessing the data on the web server. Or possibly even snooping in on the data being sent back to the server.
Im assuming this solution will be used from a centralized location or office, rather than from locations distributed in different areas/cities/etc. It more than likely would not be more difficult to develop a dekstop version (if they have good engineers) than the web version, so I'm not sure I can see a real advantage to a web interface, other than possibly write once, run anywhere ability. That could be good or bad tho, depending on their needs and paranoia.
I say write a desktop version and run it from a file server, or install it where it is needed.
If you go with a web based interface, you might have to worry about what could happen if a script kiddie gets access to the programs/data/etc. If you used a desktop based approach, it would prolly be easier to keep secure. I have been dealing with a similar problem where I work (although on a smaller scale) and I spent many nights debating which way I should do it. I ended up using a mixture of both, but that appears not to be an option for you.
like when gil amelio drove the poor company damn near into the ground? screw that. that fat tub of crap, and scully did little, if anything to help apple. feh
you obviously werent an apple user during those dark years. I almost wasnt as well
ill reply anyway. I cant speak for windows but i have done this on my macs for many many years.
The emphasis is on task-based learning and goal-oriented teaching. Kids are being taught how to think, instead of what to think, out of some liberal notion that we shouldn't make their beliefs conform to our own experienced ones.
That isnt what I see in schools today. Schools today base almost their entire curriculum off of what is required in standardized tests, chosen by the state. These kids are taught exactly what you say they aren't. They are taught what 'experienced beliefs' say they shoud be learning. I my opinion, this fosters the loss of memory due to gadgets like pdas, computers, etc. If you are taught to memorize, and taught a limited set of skills, then using a pda makes it easier to not remember things. Let the pda memorize it for you.
If kids were instead taught how to think, how to learn, and how to educate themselves (which you apparently think is a bad idea), then they wont rely so heavily on the gimmick of memorization, and are more likely to actually learn things, rather than just memorize. there is a diffference.
as I understand it, that isnt why the sale of it was actually regulated. It was because kids were getting high off of it. It was killing many of these kids. Hold the bottle upright and start inhaling... get all messed up, let the bottle fall over on its side, your lungs are frozen. Game over. This happened to several people I went to highschool with in the late 80's. It was getting to be quite a problem. Anyone can feel free to provide some contradictory info if I'm wrong however.
So that's what has been happening for 1485 hr 26 min 30.3 seconds on my computer! I was wondering what was going on with that thing...
Well, NASA seems to have enough faith that it will work that they are going to put it up there and assemble it in space for him. I doubt they would be willing to do that if they didn't think it might work. Im sure they have better things to do than assemble and set into orbit computers that they think will fail.
I just cant agree with this attitude.
A. what business do the french, or any other government have telling foreign businesses how to run things?
B. why is it yahoo's responsibility to enforce the rules of the French government? shouldnt the govt be talking to isps in *their* country about this, rather than a business outside their country?
C. what happens when the next country in line doesnt like something on yahoo auctions? take it off too, and then the next, and the next...?
this isnt good for yahoo, and it isnt a good step for a business to take on the internet. Let other countries enforce their own rules with their own money....
I don't understand why yahoo should have to buckle to this pressure. Why is it up to them to enforce another country's laws? If France wants to deny their citizens access to information and materials, I hardly see how it is yahoo's responsibility to enforce this. If they really want it blocked, they should force isps to block the site as a rule, not force a foriegn company to change the way they do business just because you dont want your citizen's to be able to buy a german ww2 bayonet or something like that. Please give me a break.
omg.... you just made me so hungry.... I live about a block from the hamburger company. stop by and we'll have a smoke sometime :)
Ok, im assuming you either didnt read the article linked, or that you didnt follow the link to the denton county registration site. I live in denton, and was very interested to see what info was available. it appears to be down now, so Ill go ahead and tell you. Everything there is static info. no, the 'password' is not so you can change info. it is just used to access the info. You couldn't go in there and 'deregister' someone as you claim. There is no real chance for fraud here, just a chance for people to get your address, which there are about 1000 other ways to do. I just thought someone needed to let everyone know what can be done at the site, since most of you prolly dont know someone registered in denton that you can plug their name and DOB into the site. Adios