Avalon hill was dying, and hasbro bought them out. As is usual with hasbro, they can't decide whether to kill them off, or keep them around. For a while they just let them sell back stock, but lately I have been seeing more and more of their old games on the market. The cry in shame is that Avalon Hill can sell the expansion to Civilization (Advanced Civilization) but not the original board game. Presumably, this is because of a dispute with Sid Meyer, or Activision, or whoever held the rights to the civilization computer game at the time.
BTW, at The Underdogs you can still get the Advanced Civilization computer game, there are some bugs, but also patches to fix most of them. Not to far from the board game.
The original movie from Toms Hardware was on an Athlon. The AMD movies are on an AthlonXP, which if you look at what has changed added a thermal diode. So the Toms Hardware blew up, and the AMD didn't. What else would you expect?
I'm sure I am -1 redundant, I'm too lazy to look at the lower scored comments
the USFS has for a long time had a policy of controlled burns, and letting things burn. Unfortunately, every once and a while things go wrong. The big fires in New Mexico last year started as a controlled burn. The Yellowstone fires started as a let them burn. When something like that happens, the USFS get ripped apart. The previous US president pushed down all sorts of orders greatly reducing their ability to do controlled burns, and mandating their fighting the small to medium fires. Which is part of why we have had these years where they have had firefighter shortages lately.
Unless things have changed drastically since last I looked (six months ago) these maps from ESRI aren't exactly free. Especially for commerical interests. So make sure you look into the license that ESRI puts on that data before you commit to it. (and BTW after they are done massaging the data it isn't that good either).
All this data comes from the US Census. If I remember right Bruce Perens has a mirror of the data on his web server. The data is essentially a dump of their database, and isn't too hard to put back together. I wouldn't suggest getting the data direct from the census, since they charge around $500 shipping and handling
Being a long time resident of Salt Lake City.... Yes the Liquor laws are absolutely bizarre. I do question his claim that there is a lack of engineers and technical people here though. Word Perfect, Novell, Evans & Sutherland were founded here, among many others. There are more game companies than you can stick a stick at (mostly owned by Microsoft now) The pay generally is lower here than in other cities, but at the same time, the cost of living is much lower. My wife having worked for IOMEGA as an enginneer, I can tell you it isn't a fun place to work. If he can't get engineers/CS guys that is his own bloody fault.
Now to answer the question;-)
For me at least the social situation is very important for a job choice. By that I don't mean how many bars/prostitutes/whatever are within walking distance of my house. The social dynamic of your work is massively important. Some jobs I have had, I hung out with "the gang" after work doing fun stuff. Others I have hated every day of my stay there because of the people I had to work with, even if the work was interesting.
I am just stating the obvious, but hey, you asked the obvious. One thing Utah does need more of is non-Chilis/TGIFridays/Bennigans/Whatever restaurants. There are good restaurants here and there, and some of the best micro-breweries in the nation, but unfortunately, there still isn't anything great to write home about.
What about the buisness that Symantec, MacAffe, and whoever else is in the anti-virus buisness. How much did they pull in for their software? I think that would be much more interesting
The thing looks pretty cool, uses normal light as opposed to lasers, but the only stuff they have on their site as far as screen shots go are picutres of employees playing guitars and the like. Still, 90 Million voxels is pretty sweet. I'd love to see a demonstration of that thing
If you check the rhino catalog
the MST3k DVDs have the MST3k episode
then the movie in its entirety on commented upon
unfortunately they don't have Mitchell yet
When I was in highschool, we decided as a group to write a networked tank game as a class, we learned graphics, event processing, networks, synchronization, and all sorts of data structures to keep things going. We made a few bad decisions that prevented us from getting the game to be even slightly fun. (Like trying to do OOP with C, and using NetBIOS under a Netware network (8 byte packets)), but I don't think college taught me a single data structure that we hadn't messed with, or had tried in that project.
for work we had to write code that interpreted the stream (you can get the garmins to do NMEA), and it is pretty easy. I had actually started one for Linux, but then my hard drive decided to go on vacation, and has yet to return (I am too cocky to make back-ups of personal stuff)
If you need pointers you can write me, and I can probably get you sample code for windows or at least the docs on how to do it.
I don't know, and would love to know about data for the whole world. But for all you amerocentrics out there
(I guess northamerocentrics to avoid offending any latin americans reading (oops I guess US-centric to avoid offending our canadian neighbors))
anyway, for all those who care, the US Census has ungodly amounts of data on the US. It is called Tiger(TM) data. it is essentially a dump of their database. It is a pain to convert to something usefull, but for example ESRI has SHP files available of them (under a non-happy license) and many other companies sell it too.
Shortly the comapny I work for is hoping to give away the data in SHP file format. The Tiger data is in "public domain" but it costs almost 500 dollars to get it from the census.
(blatant plug for my company for those who want to boot into windows, and run internet explorer, and have a really fast connection, http://www.activewebgis.com (enough of that plug)
BTW, displaying (for instance) SHP files is quite non-complex for someone who wants to do it. I am hoping to port some stuff here at work that we have done to netscape/standalone/UNIX/etc, but no promises....
On the other hand there is a project called rmap that is in C, and with it comes a conversion of some CIA data for the world... It is really cool, the guy working on it is really nice too. If you want his data converted into SHP file format let me know at mcbeth@cs.utah.edu and I can point you to it, or just get the data from him and convert it to whatever you want. But at least check out his project.
Okay, I think the whole thing is silly PocketPC vs. Palm There is plenty of room for both
quite frankly I would never dream of using my Visor for say navigation (maps) web browsing it is the perfect size for a PIM, I don't want it to do anything else (except for playing Zork in class)
I guess what I am trying to say is that there is room between the PIM (Palm, Visor, etc) and Laptop, for a Palmtop/PocketPC/whatevertheyarecallingitnow
people who need something smaller than a laptop and don't care about the "fit in pocket"
(side note) the army field tested some of the older WinCE units in their attempt to give the soldier more and more information, they got broken too fast (end side note)
A Palmtop would be great for navigation/data entry stuff, where colors/more memory/built-in wireless would be required
I have been an avid Microsoft hater going on ten years now...
But my current job forces me to develop for WinNT/98 (which are very different BTW (and Win2000 is the bastard child of both, with alot more of Win98 than Microsoft would like to admit))
But I am getting off-topic here...
While for your average user, COM/ActiveX/OLE/Bonobo aren't that useful (embedding spreadsheets in your a Word Document)
for a developer they are a mixed blessing.
They are a pain in the butt, and poorly documented, but being able to say, do some client-side ADO to get some data, and shoving that data into a Excel chart which is then posted side by side with a GIS map, all inside Internet Explorer, is pretty cool.
What I am pretty much saying is that the power of Bonobo isn't so much for a document writer, as a application writer.
Just my two cents...
(I haven't looked at bonobo at all, but I pray to whatever you believe in that the API is well thought out, well documented, and actually works as advertised, since if I have to fight one more undocumented "you can't do that" in windows I will go postal...)
According to one of my friends who works for Microsoft, they had a special unveiling for their workers, and one of the things they talked about is shipping it with things like Bleem! and UltraHLE or whatever the equivalent is when this thing finally ships so it could run PS and N64 games in addition to whatever they can convince companies to port native...
I camped out on their site almost all day waiting for this thing.
My take on it.
Like it says, self-playing demo.... pretty much it is three timedemos and a "freeflying" mode, which means you fly around in space (nothing around you) to "get used to the controls"
Gorgeous graphics, since you can't really blow anything up yet, it is hard to tell how much fun this will be.
personally I wish the configure key bindings weren't disabled so I could pick something more descent-esque than the crazy ones in there now.
oh, and who ever recorded those demos sure knows how to fly
my machine gets pretty good frame rates considering it is slowly aging.
Like I said, I can't hardly wait til the real thing comes out.
This is just curiosity, because your list of religious beliefs is surprisingly non-anti-mormon...
I would list those as religious bits, and not part of their world view.
unfortunately in any conversation and in particular religious ones, every persons definition is wildly different, and so much time is wasted using different definitions, that nothing gets done.
(from Webster)
Main Entry: 1practical Pronunciation: 'prak-ti-k&l Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin practicus, from Greek praktikos, from prassein to pass over, fare, do; akin to Greek peran to pass through -- more at FARE Date: 15th century 1 a : of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal b : being such in practice or effect : VIRTUAL 2 : actively engaged in some course of action or occupation 3 : capable of being put to use or account : USEFUL 4 a : disposed to action as opposed to speculation or abstraction b (1) : qualified by practice or practical training (2) : designed to supplement theoretical training by experience 5 : concerned with voluntary action and ethical decisions
sorry, don't see anything in there that says
6 : doesn't close video stores for no reason at all
;-)
BTW I would be willing to bet you either have mormon friends, or have lived in Utah...
Sorry, I should have been specific on my definition of bizarre extremist. I wasn't so much talking about their religous (sp?) practices as their view of the world in general...
Your average mormon, while generally classified as republican in their political views, are generally a very practical/moderate group of people.
In general (one always has to speak generally) they are neither the type who wants to have the government pull completely out of our lives, no the ones who wants it to baby them through their life.
In that they are not extreme.
The fact that Salt Lake City (the capitol, which hangs around 33% mormon at the moment) The fact that Salt Lake City is only asking that minors be "protected" is a good sign of that.
** Side Observation ** Religiously, anyone who is not of your (generic your) religion is likely to be considered an extremist (note in this sentence both atheism and agnostic are considered religions) ** End Side Observation **
First I live in Utah. Second, it doesn't take any special effort to follow this story closely. All the news stations have been doing it quite well. And the thing that they keep emphasising with this bill is that the libraries only have to block sites in the childrens area. Which really is a pretty good idea anyway IMNSHO. It is probably the best solution out there that makes both sides happy (excpet bizarre extremists (which BTW most mormons are not))
anyway, the whole point of this is that I think
Utah got this one right.
Now if the libraries just figure out that if you don't put computers isolated from the prying eyes of the public, there wouldn't be this problem in the first place;-)
I would give people a little more credit than that many of the same type of claim was made about DIVX, but precious few jumped on the band wagon. The thing that gets people to jump onto a bandwagon isn't that the company says everything is better, it is what the nerd friends that everyone has tells them... And unfortunately there are still too many nerd friends too afraid to try linux to swing that one over. I'm rambling.
What ever happened to the good old days, where if you didn't like what your country (like the draft) was doing you could run away to Canada. Now we can't evern run there without paying money for owning a CD, or something equally innoquous (sp?)
Slashdot Mirror
Avalon hill was dying, and hasbro bought them out. As is usual with hasbro, they can't decide whether to kill them off, or keep them around. For a while they just let them sell back stock, but lately I have been seeing more and more of their old games on the market. The cry in shame is that Avalon Hill can sell the expansion to Civilization (Advanced Civilization) but not the original board game. Presumably, this is because of a dispute with Sid Meyer, or Activision, or whoever held the rights to the civilization computer game at the time.
BTW, at The Underdogs you can still get the Advanced Civilization computer game, there are some bugs, but also patches to fix most of them. Not to far from the board game.
Congradulations, never have liked the distro, but it is always good to see a linux company do well.
Lets just hope this isn't one of those support deals where RedHat pays IBM to support IBMs software. Never did understand that.
The original movie from Toms Hardware was on an Athlon. The AMD movies are on an AthlonXP, which if you look at what has changed added a thermal diode. So the Toms Hardware blew up, and the AMD didn't. What else would you expect?
I'm sure I am -1 redundant, I'm too lazy to look at the lower scored comments
the USFS has for a long time had a policy of controlled burns, and letting things burn. Unfortunately, every once and a while things go wrong. The big fires in New Mexico last year started as a controlled burn. The Yellowstone fires started as a let them burn. When something like that happens, the USFS get ripped apart. The previous US president pushed down all sorts of orders greatly reducing their ability to do controlled burns, and mandating their fighting the small to medium fires. Which is part of why we have had these years where they have had firefighter shortages lately.
Unless things have changed drastically since last I looked (six months ago) these maps from ESRI aren't exactly free. Especially for commerical interests. So make sure you look into the license that ESRI puts on that data before you commit to it. (and BTW after they are done massaging the data it isn't that good either).
All this data comes from the US Census. If I remember right Bruce Perens has a mirror of the data on his web server. The data is essentially a dump of their database, and isn't too hard to put back together. I wouldn't suggest getting the data direct from the census, since they charge around $500 shipping and handling
Being a long time resident of Salt Lake City.... Yes the Liquor laws are absolutely bizarre. I do question his claim that there is a lack of engineers and technical people here though. Word Perfect, Novell, Evans & Sutherland were founded here, among many others. There are more game companies than you can stick a stick at (mostly owned by Microsoft now) The pay generally is lower here than in other cities, but at the same time, the cost of living is much lower. My wife having worked for IOMEGA as an enginneer, I can tell you it isn't a fun place to work. If he can't get engineers/CS guys that is his own bloody fault.
;-)
Now to answer the question
For me at least the social situation is very important for a job choice. By that I don't mean how many bars/prostitutes/whatever are within walking distance of my house. The social dynamic of your work is massively important. Some jobs I have had, I hung out with "the gang" after work doing fun stuff. Others I have hated every day of my stay there because of the people I had to work with, even if the work was interesting.
I am just stating the obvious, but hey, you asked the obvious. One thing Utah does need more of is non-Chilis/TGIFridays/Bennigans/Whatever restaurants. There are good restaurants here and there, and some of the best micro-breweries in the nation, but unfortunately, there still isn't anything great to write home about.
What about the buisness that Symantec, MacAffe, and whoever else is in the anti-virus buisness. How much did they pull in for their software? I think that would be much more interesting
The thing looks pretty cool, uses normal light as opposed to lasers, but the only stuff they have on their site as far as screen shots go are picutres of employees playing guitars and the like. Still, 90 Million voxels is pretty sweet. I'd love to see a demonstration of that thing
If you check the rhino catalog
the MST3k DVDs have the MST3k episode
then the movie in its entirety on commented upon
unfortunately they don't have Mitchell yet
Jeff
When I was in highschool, we decided as a group to write a networked tank game as a class, we learned graphics, event processing, networks, synchronization, and all sorts of data structures to keep things going. We made a few bad decisions that prevented us from getting the game to be even slightly fun. (Like trying to do OOP with C, and using NetBIOS under a Netware network (8 byte packets)), but I don't think college taught me a single data structure that we hadn't messed with, or had tried in that project.
I hate to say this, but
write one.
for work we had to write code that interpreted the stream (you can get the garmins to do NMEA), and it is pretty easy. I had actually started one for Linux, but then my hard drive decided to go on vacation, and has yet to return (I am too cocky to make back-ups of personal stuff)
If you need pointers you can write me, and I can probably get you sample code for windows or at least the docs on how to do it.
I just have to laugh because in the latest Linux game Terminus (which is quite fun) everything uses He3 from the moon for its primary energy source.
I don't know, and would love to know about data for the whole world. But for all you amerocentrics out there
(I guess northamerocentrics to avoid offending any latin americans reading (oops I guess US-centric to avoid offending our canadian neighbors))
anyway, for all those who care, the US Census has ungodly amounts of data on the US. It is called Tiger(TM) data. it is essentially a dump of their database. It is a pain to convert to something usefull, but for example ESRI has SHP files available of them (under a non-happy license) and many other companies sell it too.
Shortly the comapny I work for is hoping to give away the data in SHP file format. The Tiger data is in "public domain" but it costs almost 500 dollars to get it from the census.
(blatant plug for my company for those who want to boot into windows, and run internet explorer, and have a really fast connection, http://www.activewebgis.com (enough of that plug)
BTW, displaying (for instance) SHP files is quite non-complex for someone who wants to do it. I am hoping to port some stuff here at work that we have done to netscape/standalone/UNIX/etc, but no promises....
On the other hand there is a project called rmap that is in C, and with it comes a conversion of some CIA data for the world... It is really cool, the guy working on it is really nice too. If you want his data converted into SHP file format let me know at mcbeth@cs.utah.edu and I can point you to it, or just get the data from him and convert it to whatever you want. But at least check out his project.
Okay, I think the whole thing is silly
PocketPC vs. Palm
There is plenty of room for both
quite frankly I would never dream of using my
Visor for say navigation (maps) web browsing
it is the perfect size for a PIM, I don't want
it to do anything else (except for playing Zork in class)
I guess what I am trying to say is that there is room between the PIM (Palm, Visor, etc) and Laptop, for a Palmtop/PocketPC/whatevertheyarecallingitnow
people who need something smaller than a laptop and don't care about the "fit in pocket"
(side note)
the army field tested some of the older WinCE units in their attempt to give the soldier more and more information, they got broken too fast
(end side note)
A Palmtop would be great for navigation/data entry stuff, where colors/more memory/built-in wireless would be required
I have been an avid Microsoft hater going on ten years now...
But my current job forces me to develop for WinNT/98 (which are very different BTW (and Win2000 is the bastard child of both, with alot more of Win98 than Microsoft would like to admit))
But I am getting off-topic here...
While for your average user, COM/ActiveX/OLE/Bonobo aren't that useful (embedding spreadsheets in your a Word Document)
for a developer they are a mixed blessing.
They are a pain in the butt, and poorly documented, but being able to say, do some client-side ADO to get some data, and shoving that data into a Excel chart which is then posted side by side with a GIS map, all inside Internet Explorer, is pretty cool.
What I am pretty much saying is that the power of Bonobo isn't so much for a document writer, as a application writer.
Just my two cents...
(I haven't looked at bonobo at all, but I pray to whatever you believe in that the API is well thought out, well documented, and actually works as advertised, since if I have to fight one more undocumented "you can't do that" in windows I will go postal...)
Jeff
According to one of my friends who works for Microsoft, they had a special unveiling for their workers, and one of the things they talked about is shipping it with things like Bleem! and UltraHLE or whatever the equivalent is when this thing finally ships so it could run PS and N64 games in addition to whatever they can convince companies to port native...
Would make sense.
Um, just curious why you didn't use the much more well known euler equation (is there anything in math euler didn't do?)
e^(Pi*i) = -1
Actually, in mathematics alot of equations are named after the _second_ person to use the equation to avoid naming everything after Euler.
oh BTW, the music rocks.
I have already snapped up anything by this
stev guy I can find....
I camped out on their site almost all day waiting for this thing.
My take on it.
Like it says, self-playing demo....
pretty much it is three timedemos
and a "freeflying" mode, which means you fly around in space (nothing around you) to "get used to the controls"
Gorgeous graphics, since you can't really blow anything up yet, it is hard to tell how much fun this will be.
personally I wish the configure key bindings weren't disabled so I could pick something more descent-esque than the crazy ones in there now.
oh, and who ever recorded those demos sure knows how to fly
my machine gets pretty good frame rates considering it is slowly aging.
Like I said, I can't hardly wait til the real thing comes out.
This is just curiosity, because your list of
religious beliefs is surprisingly non-anti-mormon...
I would list those as religious bits, and not part of their world view.
unfortunately in any conversation and in particular religious ones, every persons definition is wildly different, and so much time is wasted using different definitions, that nothing gets done.
(from Webster)
Main Entry: 1practical
Pronunciation: 'prak-ti-k&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin practicus, from Greek praktikos, from prassein to pass over, fare, do; akin to Greek peran to pass through -- more at FARE
Date: 15th century
1 a : of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal b : being such in practice or effect : VIRTUAL
2 : actively engaged in some course of action or occupation
3 : capable of being put to use or account : USEFUL
4 a : disposed to action as opposed to speculation or abstraction b (1) : qualified by practice or practical training (2) : designed to supplement theoretical training by experience
5 : concerned with voluntary action and ethical decisions
sorry, don't see anything in there that says
6 : doesn't close video stores for no reason at all
;-)
BTW I would be willing to bet you either have mormon friends, or have lived in Utah...
Sorry, I should have been specific on my definition of bizarre extremist. I wasn't so much talking about their religous (sp?) practices as their view of the world in general...
Your average mormon, while generally classified as republican in their political views, are generally a very practical/moderate group of people.
In general (one always has to speak generally) they are neither the type who wants to have the government pull completely out of our lives, no the ones who wants it to baby them through their life.
In that they are not extreme.
The fact that Salt Lake City (the capitol, which hangs around 33% mormon at the moment) The fact that Salt Lake City is only asking that minors be "protected" is a good sign of that.
** Side Observation **
Religiously, anyone who is not of your (generic your) religion is likely to be considered an extremist (note in this sentence both atheism and agnostic are considered religions)
** End Side Observation **
First I live in Utah.
;-)
Second, it doesn't take any special effort to follow this story closely.
All the news stations have been doing it quite well. And the thing that they keep emphasising with this bill is that the libraries only have to block sites in the childrens area. Which really is a pretty good idea anyway IMNSHO. It is probably the best solution out there that makes both sides happy
(excpet bizarre extremists (which BTW most mormons are not))
anyway, the whole point of this is that I think
Utah got this one right.
Now if the libraries just figure out that if you don't put computers isolated from the prying eyes of the public, there wouldn't be this problem in the first place
I would give people a little more credit than that
many of the same type of claim was made about
DIVX, but precious few jumped on the band wagon.
The thing that gets people to jump onto a bandwagon isn't that the company says everything is better, it is what the nerd friends that everyone has tells them... And unfortunately there are still too many nerd friends too afraid to try linux to swing that one over.
I'm rambling.
netsnipes (great game that came with netware. some guy is doing a clone, maybe I ought to stop whining and help him out)
Masters of Orion (the original one)
Starcon I and Starcon II (III was stupid)
(I'll take anyone on with my Spathi)
One Must Fall (the best IMNSHO street fight game I think Epic did that one)
I think the Ultimas is a great idea even though I never liked them much.
Pirates!
Ancient Art of War
Ancient Art of War at Sea
I could go on forever.
Archon ( i know some guy is cloning that too)
What ever happened to the good old days, where
if you didn't like what your country (like the draft) was doing you could run away to Canada. Now we can't evern run there without paying money for owning a CD, or something equally innoquous (sp?)