I think Carmack got married while designing Quake3 or something like that... though he brought his laptop & did some programming on his honeymoon. Or maybe I just got the story all wrong. That's what I heard at least.
After working for a technologically-oriented grad school at a major university, I can empathize with you... I worked with a small team that mainly gave support to a few hundred students and a couple dozen professors, so it was more personalized support. However, we'd always have certain students, or visitors who would come to us 10 minutes before they had to deliver a major presentation and something wasn't working correctly of course. Even after reminding them to test the equipment an hour or two ahead of time to make sure everything is working, it happens over and over.. *sigh* Techs just don't get much respect anywhere, you're there to fix their problems, and fix them fast.
WOW AGAIN! I tried some other pink floyd songs out too, looks like quite a few of them (Like Brick in the Wall part 2) have lyrics displayed along with the songs as well.
I just gave it a try and it does look pretty damn nice. It tended to focus on simple primary colors and boxy sprites in some modes, but most of the time it was smooth. A close rival to G-Force.
Yes we should stifle development of anything with web-access because "crackers" could possibly abuse it. +5 insightful.
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While during the 2-hour main part of the movie, I agree with what you said, Blow really cranked up the sentimentality during the last 10 minutes... I could hear people around me in the theatre sniffling and trying not to cry... Not necessarily because people identify or care about the character that much, but just because what you're watching is so sad (and has the cheesy whistful-piano music in the background as well that just screams "this is emotional! cry dammit!")
They actually put out a "Black & White Gesture Trainer" a week or so before the game came out... a plugin to mIRC I think, that/me'd some stupid text... not exactly useful. The actual Sensiva program seemed kinda neat though. I like the way it handled forward/back in Internet Explorer... hold down right mouse button, drag left a few inches, then release for back, click & drag right button to the right & release for forward. I kinda got tired of it's "gimmicky" feel after a few days though.
Well I'm running W2K with a 32mb Radeon & 256mb ram on a Duron 750, and I'm just barely squeaking by with about 25 FPS on medium detail (plus my drivers blow or something). There's quite a few extra options that you can disable though... tons of eye candy that isn't really necessary.
Anonymous Cowards (unregistered users) always have a default score of 0. Registered normal users have a default score of 1. Registered normal users with a lot of karma (meaning they've been moderated up often in the past) can enable an option to post at 2 by default. See how it works? Post more, and post good, and your posts will be seen by more people.
I have to agree with you that Dell QuietKey models absolutely rock. Whatever the OEM keyboard they include with their new GX110 workstations are, they are the best keyboard I've found so far. Nice tactile feel, low noise (which is a must in a multi-person apartment) and typing seems effortless.
I recently spilled water on mine, so I swiched to a new IBM keyboard for a while, but I made so many typing errors that I never seem to make with the dell keyboard... Guess you just get used to one type of keyboard and always type best on that one =)
yeah let's fake fucking 10 mb worth of ICQ logs THAT WON'T TAKE LONG AT ALL. Anyone who's frequented an eFront member site in the past couple months is well aware of what fucking bastards the eFront execs are.
How ironic that he name-drops such authors as Heinlein, yet Heinlin wrote a nice anti-corporation short story way back in 1939 containing the following relevant text:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither indivudals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." - Life-Line, 1939, Robert A. Heinein.
Now this quote was in reference to insurance companies in the face of technology that allows people to see exactly when they'd die. I don't mean to imply that Heinlein, were he alive today, would support file-sharing like this, but it does give a good insight into the situation even from 60 years ago.
I smoked for about 2 years before I realized it had absoltuely no redeeming qualities at all, and I was only smoking because I was around others who were smoking, and because I was starting to get addicted. Since quitting cold turkey causes some nasty withdrawl symptoms, I gradually cut back over a month and finally quit for good.
Judging by your posts you seem to be nothing but a troll using stupid arguments to try and rationalize his decison to smoke. Why not just admit that you're hooked and leave it at that.
Thin H Line is almost always ranked in the top 10 comics on Big Panda. I remember reading TPLIF a while ago, but haven't looked at it in a while... too "angsty" for my tastes.
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I think Carmack got married while designing Quake3 or something like that... though he brought his laptop & did some programming on his honeymoon. Or maybe I just got the story all wrong. That's what I heard at least.
After working for a technologically-oriented grad school at a major university, I can empathize with you... I worked with a small team that mainly gave support to a few hundred students and a couple dozen professors, so it was more personalized support. However, we'd always have certain students, or visitors who would come to us 10 minutes before they had to deliver a major presentation and something wasn't working correctly of course. Even after reminding them to test the equipment an hour or two ahead of time to make sure everything is working, it happens over and over.. *sigh* Techs just don't get much respect anywhere, you're there to fix their problems, and fix them fast.
smilies would ruin the whole troll =P
What, you mean send them money? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of "free software"??
WOW AGAIN! I tried some other pink floyd songs out too, looks like quite a few of them (Like Brick in the Wall part 2) have lyrics displayed along with the songs as well.
WOW. That was a sweet hidden feature. It made my winamp exit as soon as the song ended though... is it supposed to do that?
I just gave it a try and it does look pretty damn nice. It tended to focus on simple primary colors and boxy sprites in some modes, but most of the time it was smooth. A close rival to G-Force.
He's saying that having WinXP to replace WinME is a good thing. He's not saying that WinME is good...
WinXP > WinME.
Sounds like your "fiancee" will be ignoring you for several months if she gets her hands on Black & White.
Yes we should stifle development of anything with web-access because "crackers" could possibly abuse it. +5 insightful.
While during the 2-hour main part of the movie, I agree with what you said, Blow really cranked up the sentimentality during the last 10 minutes... I could hear people around me in the theatre sniffling and trying not to cry... Not necessarily because people identify or care about the character that much, but just because what you're watching is so sad (and has the cheesy whistful-piano music in the background as well that just screams "this is emotional! cry dammit!")
what the fuck?! goatse.cx makes more sense than that picture.
They actually put out a "Black & White Gesture Trainer" a week or so before the game came out... a plugin to mIRC I think, that /me'd some stupid text... not exactly useful. The actual Sensiva program seemed kinda neat though. I like the way it handled forward/back in Internet Explorer... hold down right mouse button, drag left a few inches, then release for back, click & drag right button to the right & release for forward. I kinda got tired of it's "gimmicky" feel after a few days though.
Yeah I've been using the newest for a while... so they only blow half as much now. The blow-meter was cranked up to about 7 1/2, now it's down to 5.
Well I'm running W2K with a 32mb Radeon & 256mb ram on a Duron 750, and I'm just barely squeaking by with about 25 FPS on medium detail (plus my drivers blow or something). There's quite a few extra options that you can disable though... tons of eye candy that isn't really necessary.
Anonymous Cowards (unregistered users) always have a default score of 0. Registered normal users have a default score of 1. Registered normal users with a lot of karma (meaning they've been moderated up often in the past) can enable an option to post at 2 by default. See how it works? Post more, and post good, and your posts will be seen by more people.
I have to agree with you that Dell QuietKey models absolutely rock. Whatever the OEM keyboard they include with their new GX110 workstations are, they are the best keyboard I've found so far. Nice tactile feel, low noise (which is a must in a multi-person apartment) and typing seems effortless.
I recently spilled water on mine, so I swiched to a new IBM keyboard for a while, but I made so many typing errors that I never seem to make with the dell keyboard... Guess you just get used to one type of keyboard and always type best on that one =)
yeah let's fake fucking 10 mb worth of ICQ logs THAT WON'T TAKE LONG AT ALL. Anyone who's frequented an eFront member site in the past couple months is well aware of what fucking bastards the eFront execs are.
How ironic that he name-drops such authors as Heinlein, yet Heinlin wrote a nice anti-corporation short story way back in 1939 containing the following relevant text:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither indivudals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." - Life-Line, 1939, Robert A. Heinein.
Now this quote was in reference to insurance companies in the face of technology that allows people to see exactly when they'd die. I don't mean to imply that Heinlein, were he alive today, would support file-sharing like this, but it does give a good insight into the situation even from 60 years ago.
A 1x1 pixel image slows your surfing? You still on a 9600 baud modem there?
I smoked for about 2 years before I realized it had absoltuely no redeeming qualities at all, and I was only smoking because I was around others who were smoking, and because I was starting to get addicted. Since quitting cold turkey causes some nasty withdrawl symptoms, I gradually cut back over a month and finally quit for good.
Judging by your posts you seem to be nothing but a troll using stupid arguments to try and rationalize his decison to smoke. Why not just admit that you're hooked and leave it at that.
Thin H Line is almost always ranked in the top 10 comics on Big Panda. I remember reading TPLIF a while ago, but haven't looked at it in a while... too "angsty" for my tastes.
J: and you make that Alien a fish? H: I like fish shape object.
H:I like fish shap object.
What a amazing Engrish transration! Hoolay!
And oddly enough rotten.com is hosting the bonsai kitten site, since it kept getting shut down by its previous hosts.
cars can be used in a safe way, they have a useful function. cigarettes are not useful.