The most important thing to be in abrowser is speed and ease of use. I've got IE, an old Netscape, Firefox, and a handful of other esoteric small project browsers. It may be full of holes, but IE is the best when it comes to browsing. I'd love Firefox a lot more if it wouldn't keep telling me "Connection Refused" five or six times before I -finally- get the lucky refresh that lets the page load. IE'll do that right away. Maybe IE just doesn't tell me the connection was refused and keeps retrying for me, but that's -nice-. It's -helpful-. It's damn near -considerate-. I don't want to be George Jetson, pushing a button all the time, just to websurf.
Tho I do like the tabbed browsing. Lets me open a page five times so I can finally get one that doesn't say "Not responding".
"Space... the final frontier. When the nearest outpost of civilization could be weeks away, starship captains must act as judge, and jury. But when a captain stands accused, the greatest ally he can have is the Starfleet Legal Corps, and the crew of the USS Justice."
Master of Magic was good, yes. Very good. So good I wish I could find my copy. But where in the world did you get the sense it was an RPG? It's no more an RPG than Master of Orion was.
Given that there are connectors that allow you to hook your GBA up to a USB port, it -is- reasonable to assume that, with way, way too much time on your hands, you could hack together some code that would let you beowulf these things... lesse, figure 16 UBS ports would let you hook 16 GBAs to a PC... code up a very simple kernel... of course, you'd then need 16 GBAs and 16 E-Readers... probably not worth it beyond being able to say "Hey, look what we did."
But then, that's a good enough reason for most geeks.
Okay, more than one word, since I have to wait 20 seconds.
Up to ten people per squad, a number of squads per company, and commanders on top of that... get, say, three commanders together, each managing 30 people, and have them agree on a specific objective... and watch the enemy come a-running as a hundred soldiers, tanks, and bombers invade their continent...
...One candidate has mob ties, the other will be caught having cybersex with an underaged prostitute, and a third will vanish from the campaign because EA doesn't like his ideas for cleaning up the game...
Granted, I only played for the free week that they offered at one point, so I never did a whole lot. But if I had the money, I would have subscribed (I just can't see paying $50 and then a per-month fee... just a per-month fee and I'd be there). Why? Because it had variety.
One afternoon I'd be zooming along in my stealth ATV, single-handedly taking over enemy positions that were left undefended during a big battel elsewhere on the planet. The next night, I'd meet up with a squad that I randomly bumped into and joined so that we could do some scout-work in preperation for the next big fight. The day after, we'd all join up in a huge base fight and sweep through an entire continent.
And it was fun! No AO/E&B "Okay, do the same thing over and over until you level" crap... the other side would constantly be doing new things, and so would we. Any game that can give me the joy or strafing the enemy base in a transport bomber before jumping out, -and- sniping the enemy from a distance, -and- playing anti-aircraft defense in a jumping mini-mech, -and- parking my stealth ATV next to an enemy sniper, getting off, putting my gun to his head, and shooting him three-four times, slowly, while he looked around trying to find my invisible ass, is a fun game.
If I ever find myself in some money, I may just pick it and the expansion up and start playing again. Pity I'm so poor.
I've got a soft spot for online CCGs (Chron X, Sanctum, With Authority, etc), and Starchamber ranks up there as one of the best three I've seen. If there had been a game this good to slap the Star Trek license onto, maybe (that trek CCG) would've survived a bit longer. The game's a little simplistic right now, but most CCGs start that way when they only have one expansion... let's face it, Magic used to be just 'who gets the Shivan Dragon out first: The CCG'. There's a good, solid base there to build on, and I'm hoping this game stays around for a while.
God forbid I give a friend a copy of my game. He might even install it on his computer! He might spend an hour downloading the patch that fixes the bugs! And then he might get so frustrated by the fact he still needs a CD key, a codeword from a random page in the manual, a parallel-port dongle, and a fingerprint verification in order to start the damn game!
...the we live in a virtual economy already? I work for 40 hours a week and some virtual funds are direct deposited into my checking account. I then write a virtual check to pay my bills online. There's no such thing as money anymore; the gold standard never lasted, the paper standard is a joke, the digital standard is just a virtual economy with solid objects as the prize for playing the cubicle game. Hell, pay for your Everquest subscription using your credit card, pay the card with a virtual check, it's all just ones and zeroes!
Once more, I find myself educating those who should not need it... IT is more than just programming, people! Yes, programming jobs are going overseas. Phone support is going overseas. But in-your-office-today support? That's not going anywhere.
A government figure who actually admits there's not a whole lot they can do. Nice to see a guy with a little common sense (on this issue, at least) giving voice to his oppinions. Let's face it, he's right. Outlawing spam is -not- goingg to have an yeffect whatsoever. Look at underage drinking, pot use, etc. It's illegal, it still happens, and quite often. The 'spam bills' won't have any effect beyond making people think their senators are tech-minded.
Shouldn't the headline read "Third-Party Code Responsible For Half Of All Windows Crashes"? Or at the very least, "Microsoft Code -not- responsible for half of all Windows crashes"? Your bias is showing, guys...
It's like, since offshore accounts are used mainly for money laundering and illegal gambling and other illegal things like that, that's why it's illegal to deposit money into an offshore account, right?... Um, that -is- illegal, right?... Using this kind of logic, shouldn't it be?
Programming may be moving off-shore, but one thing's for damn sure: As long as companies have computers, the computers will break, and someone'll have to be on-site to fix them. IT Support, while getting harder to find work, will always be around. Hiring an American techie will always be cheaper than flying one in from India.
A lot of noise has been made (in the techie world, at least) about the desire of several copyright holders to enforce anti-piracy laws by taking matters into their own hands; music companies deleting music files off of privately-owned computers, movie studios doing the same thing with movie files, etc. For the moment, this sort of thing is not legal.
My question is: As a lawyer, how do you view bills that aim to legalize this sort of activity? When it comes to "making it legal", is there a connection between letting the RIAA perform 'hacks' that would be illegal for private citizens, and allowing pot to be smoked only by those who have a prescription, or only law-enforcement officers to obtain concealed weapon permits? Is there a danger of reaching a point where we go from "The movie studios can shut down your website if they think you're letting people download movies" to "If you think the neighbor stole your mailbox, you can break into his house to get it back"?
This shouldn't surprise anyone at all. Anyone involved in computer security or stability is going to have doubts about any sort of update technology, especially if it's from Microsoft. All it takes is a 'minor' 'bug', like the one in the article, and we could be facing a much lerger numbers of CodeRed targets, or zombie machines, or who knows what else.
Oh, by the way, youre car is just fine. No, no recalls at all for it. Well, one, but it's only important if you actually drive, so you're fine, I'm sure...
So you essentially have to rip the game onto your hard drive to play it?.... How big is an Xbox hard drive, and how much is your average PSX CD, again?
Somehow, I don't think this is as big a drawback as you make it sound.
I mean, this just got posted, no replies to it yet, and the damn thing's already slashdotted. Ye gods... is it a slow Friday and everyone's got nothing better to do than wait for a new link to pounce on?
Slashdot Mirror
The most important thing to be in abrowser is speed and ease of use. I've got IE, an old Netscape, Firefox, and a handful of other esoteric small project browsers. It may be full of holes, but IE is the best when it comes to browsing. I'd love Firefox a lot more if it wouldn't keep telling me "Connection Refused" five or six times before I -finally- get the lucky refresh that lets the page load. IE'll do that right away. Maybe IE just doesn't tell me the connection was refused and keeps retrying for me, but that's -nice-. It's -helpful-. It's damn near -considerate-. I don't want to be George Jetson, pushing a button all the time, just to websurf.
Tho I do like the tabbed browsing. Lets me open a page five times so I can finally get one that doesn't say "Not responding".
Since when does the US Navy have the right to start arming our railroad locomotives? And do our trains really nead defensive weaponry?
"Space... the final frontier. When the nearest outpost of civilization could be weeks away, starship captains must act as judge, and jury. But when a captain stands accused, the greatest ally he can have is the Starfleet Legal Corps, and the crew of the USS Justice."
Star Trek: Law & Order. Coming this fall.
"We're men. We have rockets. We have Saran-Wrap.... FIX IT!" --Lewis Black
Call it Stop, then? Only, on a Mobius Strip, where would you know where to Stop?
Master of Magic was good, yes. Very good. So good I wish I could find my copy. But where in the world did you get the sense it was an RPG? It's no more an RPG than Master of Orion was.
Given that there are connectors that allow you to hook your GBA up to a USB port, it -is- reasonable to assume that, with way, way too much time on your hands, you could hack together some code that would let you beowulf these things... lesse, figure 16 UBS ports would let you hook 16 GBAs to a PC... code up a very simple kernel... of course, you'd then need 16 GBAs and 16 E-Readers... probably not worth it beyond being able to say "Hey, look what we did."
But then, that's a good enough reason for most geeks.
Planetside.
Okay, more than one word, since I have to wait 20 seconds.
Up to ten people per squad, a number of squads per company, and commanders on top of that... get, say, three commanders together, each managing 30 people, and have them agree on a specific objective... and watch the enemy come a-running as a hundred soldiers, tanks, and bombers invade their continent...
...One candidate has mob ties, the other will be caught having cybersex with an underaged prostitute, and a third will vanish from the campaign because EA doesn't like his ideas for cleaning up the game...
Granted, I only played for the free week that they offered at one point, so I never did a whole lot. But if I had the money, I would have subscribed (I just can't see paying $50 and then a per-month fee... just a per-month fee and I'd be there). Why? Because it had variety.
One afternoon I'd be zooming along in my stealth ATV, single-handedly taking over enemy positions that were left undefended during a big battel elsewhere on the planet. The next night, I'd meet up with a squad that I randomly bumped into and joined so that we could do some scout-work in preperation for the next big fight. The day after, we'd all join up in a huge base fight and sweep through an entire continent.
And it was fun! No AO/E&B "Okay, do the same thing over and over until you level" crap... the other side would constantly be doing new things, and so would we. Any game that can give me the joy or strafing the enemy base in a transport bomber before jumping out, -and- sniping the enemy from a distance, -and- playing anti-aircraft defense in a jumping mini-mech, -and- parking my stealth ATV next to an enemy sniper, getting off, putting my gun to his head, and shooting him three-four times, slowly, while he looked around trying to find my invisible ass, is a fun game.
If I ever find myself in some money, I may just pick it and the expansion up and start playing again. Pity I'm so poor.
I've got a soft spot for online CCGs (Chron X, Sanctum, With Authority, etc), and Starchamber ranks up there as one of the best three I've seen. If there had been a game this good to slap the Star Trek license onto, maybe (that trek CCG) would've survived a bit longer. The game's a little simplistic right now, but most CCGs start that way when they only have one expansion... let's face it, Magic used to be just 'who gets the Shivan Dragon out first: The CCG'. There's a good, solid base there to build on, and I'm hoping this game stays around for a while.
God forbid I give a friend a copy of my game. He might even install it on his computer! He might spend an hour downloading the patch that fixes the bugs! And then he might get so frustrated by the fact he still needs a CD key, a codeword from a random page in the manual, a parallel-port dongle, and a fingerprint verification in order to start the damn game!
...the we live in a virtual economy already? I work for 40 hours a week and some virtual funds are direct deposited into my checking account. I then write a virtual check to pay my bills online. There's no such thing as money anymore; the gold standard never lasted, the paper standard is a joke, the digital standard is just a virtual economy with solid objects as the prize for playing the cubicle game. Hell, pay for your Everquest subscription using your credit card, pay the card with a virtual check, it's all just ones and zeroes!
Must be a slow news day on MSNBC...
WoTC attacks Nintendo with Lawsuit attack!
It doesn't seem to affect Nintendo very much!
WoTC is confused!
Once more, I find myself educating those who should not need it... IT is more than just programming, people! Yes, programming jobs are going overseas. Phone support is going overseas. But in-your-office-today support? That's not going anywhere.
A government figure who actually admits there's not a whole lot they can do. Nice to see a guy with a little common sense (on this issue, at least) giving voice to his oppinions. Let's face it, he's right. Outlawing spam is -not- goingg to have an yeffect whatsoever. Look at underage drinking, pot use, etc. It's illegal, it still happens, and quite often. The 'spam bills' won't have any effect beyond making people think their senators are tech-minded.
Shouldn't the headline read "Third-Party Code Responsible For Half Of All Windows Crashes"? Or at the very least, "Microsoft Code -not- responsible for half of all Windows crashes"? Your bias is showing, guys...
That million-dollar pledge? Will be used to pay the bandwidth costs for this Slashdotting.
It's like, since offshore accounts are used mainly for money laundering and illegal gambling and other illegal things like that, that's why it's illegal to deposit money into an offshore account, right? ... Um, that -is- illegal, right? ... Using this kind of logic, shouldn't it be?
Programming may be moving off-shore, but one thing's for damn sure: As long as companies have computers, the computers will break, and someone'll have to be on-site to fix them. IT Support, while getting harder to find work, will always be around. Hiring an American techie will always be cheaper than flying one in from India.
A lot of noise has been made (in the techie world, at least) about the desire of several copyright holders to enforce anti-piracy laws by taking matters into their own hands; music companies deleting music files off of privately-owned computers, movie studios doing the same thing with movie files, etc. For the moment, this sort of thing is not legal.
My question is: As a lawyer, how do you view bills that aim to legalize this sort of activity? When it comes to "making it legal", is there a connection between letting the RIAA perform 'hacks' that would be illegal for private citizens, and allowing pot to be smoked only by those who have a prescription, or only law-enforcement officers to obtain concealed weapon permits? Is there a danger of reaching a point where we go from "The movie studios can shut down your website if they think you're letting people download movies" to "If you think the neighbor stole your mailbox, you can break into his house to get it back"?
This shouldn't surprise anyone at all. Anyone involved in computer security or stability is going to have doubts about any sort of update technology, especially if it's from Microsoft. All it takes is a 'minor' 'bug', like the one in the article, and we could be facing a much lerger numbers of CodeRed targets, or zombie machines, or who knows what else.
Oh, by the way, youre car is just fine. No, no recalls at all for it. Well, one, but it's only important if you actually drive, so you're fine, I'm sure...
So you essentially have to rip the game onto your hard drive to play it? .... How big is an Xbox hard drive, and how much is your average PSX CD, again?
Somehow, I don't think this is as big a drawback as you make it sound.
Oh, yeah.... first post.
Hey, I've got karma to burn.
I mean, this just got posted, no replies to it yet, and the damn thing's already slashdotted. Ye gods... is it a slow Friday and everyone's got nothing better to do than wait for a new link to pounce on?