Motion sickness is caused when the feedback to your eyes contradicts the feedback of your inner ear (which is where you sense of balance comes from.)
I can play Quake for hours and hours on a 20" monitor with no problem, but HALO on my big-screen TV is another matter. A half-hour of driving the Warthog ("Puma", whatever) and I need to stop playing and go for a walk outside or something.
It's becoming a common enough problem that it seems there may be an opening here for arcades (which have almost all disappeared in the US since the rise of FPS, MMORPG, and the latest console generation): Build game machines which tilt to off-set this problem when playing the newest first-person shooters. Most people can't afford such elaborate contraptions at home, so you might get a few bucks a week out of them so they can play at your arcade/bar/bowling alley/etc.
Oh, and the one thing that will become obvious from reading that book is that "Information wants to be free" is incorrect. The real lesson is that "Memes want to replicate".
Except that "the real lesson" is also incorrect.
It is far more correct to say, "people want to replicate memes." In a funny kind of way, the very concept of memes is a demonstration of memetics in action. To ascribe a biological model replication to information is completely absurd, but almost too compelling to resist. The way information moves about is so complex and difficult to predict, like small-scale weather patterns when you can't look at the full scale of data. People are bound to want to see patterns in the cloud shapes, and once somebody points out the cloud that "looks like a duck" to you, it's almost impossible to see it as anything else, even if you looked at the same cloud twenty seconds ago and saw no such thing. Likewise, when people point out that ideas "want" to spread around, and the ideas which do get spread around are successful on a Darwinian level, it's very difficult not to let this completely mythical model of understanding color your perceptions.
I have a problem with bands who suddenly think they're so cool that people should pay $80 to see them play from level 3 of the local NHL hockey arena. I mean, who pays this much to not hear the music that well
Well, it is Pearl Jam after all. If it's $80 to not hear it that well, how much to not hear it at all?
I hate Ticketmaster as much as the next guy, but making a noble stand doesn't stop them from sucking.
Uh... There are a couple people on this thread alone reporting good luck with their iPods.
I imagine how you carry it is a factor. I just keep the iPod in one hand the whole time, so when the HD spins up it's usually not a problem. If somebody were to strap it to their hip or something, I can imagine it would get banged around quite a bit more.
Anyway, I've been running almost every day with this thing for months now, and never once has it skipped or failed to queue up as a result. (The battery ran down on me once or twice though. It's one of the 3G players.) In the winter, I've also run on treadmills with the iPod sitting right on the front dashboard-like area, bouncing away. No problems at all.
iPod drives are small and slow. They are built for data density and robustness, unlike most drives which are built for speed. They are obviously not as rock-solid as Flash, but they handle physical abuse considerably better than a typical desktop HD.
There is a group of people who will never like any company or group that is succesful. And there will always be people who attack the leaders just because they are leading, whether it is the NY Yankees (I try not to be one of them, but alas, I live in Ohio and I am a Cleveland fan) or google.
You are of course correct, and it is a very unhealthy way of thinking, generally speaking.
That said, I will never stop hating on the L.A. Lakers.
True, but so much of spam exists to push hoaxes, I just tend to assume that anything sold via spam is bogus. The fact that they were actually selling what they said they were selling came as a bit of a surprise.
Actually, this being slashdot, I'm surprised nobody has modded me down and/or flamed me because I carelessly mispelled "enterprising" near the end of my post.
I mean, how can you expect to blindly paste Slashdot posts into your Master's thesis if the spelling isn't always perfect?
It's not a matter of a desire to "blame things on others", it's that crime syndicates who use they Internet tend to be far more successful if they cross international borders, especially if they do so from countries where differences in laws make things a little more ambiguous. (See: allofmp3.com)
Considering that the average GP these days spends about 7 actual minutes with each patient, and in some cases prescribes more than one drug per visit, 27 scripts per hour is probably only slightly above the curve. I could easilly see this slipping under the radar if it wasn't for people hunting down the spammer he was working through.
Think about it. You sell ED medicine and generic monoxydil products... or whatever.
Are you going to ask a lot of questions if a new customer comes along and starts providing you with millions of dollars worth of orders? Would you be inclided to view their decision to order all these drugs from your manufacturing plant as "suspicious" or "lucky"?
72,000 people out there actually put pills in their bodies which came from a spammer who spells it "V1Ag ra!!!"
There was an actual doctor writing precriptions for these drugs, not just some sleazy smuggler from bolivia or some nutjob with a lab for making counterfeit placebo replacements.
The bastards are actually got caught at all, and did not turn out to be some distant Russian or Maylaysian hackers far beyond the reach of our law enforcement systems, but rather were a pair of US citizens dumb enough to think they could get away with it.
This is terrific news. Hoist a beer to your friendly neighborhood cyber-cop tonight, folks. It's not often the spooks get to be universally seen as the Good Guys.
If I'm going to go out, I'll pay the $8 cover at a jazz club and be more entertained for a much longer interval while being served booze if I wish.
The theater experience has been diminished somewhat by home theaters (mine is a 119" screen, and I would sell the car before giving it up), by those stupid ads at the beginning, and by various other hassles, but what has ruined movies more than anything else is the audiences.
It used to be that movie audiences learned how to behave from live plays. Talk during a broadway show and you will be kicked out immediately. There are legendary tales of great actors who stopped performing to scold an annoying member of the audience.
Today, people learn how to behave from the TV room. If the phone rings and there's a call you were waiting for, you answer it. If you get up and go to the bathroom (and you didn't pause the show), you ask somebody to tell you what you missed, and they tell you. If you think the show's not very good, you say so out loud. If your dim friend doesn't understand something, you explain it.
These sorts of things are mildly annoying when watching TV with a couple friends or family members, but completely intolerable in a theater, when everybody there paid for the privilege of enjoying the movie. Unfortunately, far too many people are way to inconsiderate, and make asses of themselves.
In a theater that seats 80 - 200 people, you probably have at least two or three complete assholes in the crowd. Every time you go to a movie, you gamble that none of those assholes do anything to ruin the movie
So I agree with the grandparent post. Theaters are obsolete. Sooner or later, some enterprizing go-getter is going to invent a new cheap destination where teens can take their dates, and make billions while driving most of the theaters out of business once and for all.
Both used TCP/IP... but the Windows port of the game was not compatable with the original Mac version on a binary level. A massively stupid move which guaranteed the failure of Marathon for PC in a very crowded market for FPS choices at the time.
"Hey, Marathon is out for the PC. I heard a Mac-using frind of mine raving for something like the last two years about how it's so much better than Doom. We should get this, and we can do the LAN party at his house sometime."
"Oh wait... It doesn't actually let you play against Mac users."
"Pfft. Screw that then. He'll just have to buy a PC like everybody else. Hey look! Duke 3D is out!"
Since I suspect the comic book was only found at the specialty comic and fantasy stores
Nope. It was a wide-release comic which could be found almost anywhere comics were sold. Dark Horse is a huge publisher of comics, and not only are their comics commonly seen in news stands, but the softcover book volumes of their comics can be found in any major-chain bookstore, such as B. Dalton's, Barnes & Noble, or Borders.
The movie was an adaptation of the comic, as was the game.
IIRC, Marathon Infitity was a bundle-pack of Marathon, Marathon 2, and some map expansions. It wasn't a new game.
Although, I couldn't say for sure. Once Quake arrived, my Mac's life as a game platform was over. I jumped on the Windows LAN gaming bandwagon, and my Macs remained in my home strictly for the limited purpose of doing actual work. That remained the case for almost a decade, when I closed my CoH account and took my last Windows PC off-line in favor of WoW on the Mac and all other gaming on consoles.
I still can't stand Halo with a console controller though. God meant for FPS games to be played with a mouse. I'm pretty sure that it's right there in the Bible... just under the stuff about not wearing white after Labor Day.
I recently ran across a 2600 article, "how to get out of google." I was surprised that google was falling out of favor with the hacker community, but add the NYT article to it and you begin to see the trend.
2600 used to be an amusing read for phreak antics. These days it seems to be more of a handbook for incompetent script kiddies and a screed for anti-PATRIOT/RICO/DMCA activism. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it hardly makes it the official mouthpiece of the hacker community.
As for the New York Times... Isn't that the same NYT who employees the goofball economist Paul Krugman and reporters who get caught making shit up? Yeah... I'm not turning to them for anything, let alone the general consensus of the "hacker community," assuming such a consensus is even possible.
I fully intend to remind my boss at my next salary review that salaries have surged 25-50% because of Google. Please be a team player and don't let the myth die before that negotiation, okay? Thanks.
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How about ONGINGNHFMNG!
"Oh NGod, I NGot Noodles Hanging From My Ngose!"
Try playing on a smaller monitor.
Motion sickness is caused when the feedback to your eyes contradicts the feedback of your inner ear (which is where you sense of balance comes from.)
I can play Quake for hours and hours on a 20" monitor with no problem, but HALO on my big-screen TV is another matter. A half-hour of driving the Warthog ("Puma", whatever) and I need to stop playing and go for a walk outside or something.
It's becoming a common enough problem that it seems there may be an opening here for arcades (which have almost all disappeared in the US since the rise of FPS, MMORPG, and the latest console generation): Build game machines which tilt to off-set this problem when playing the newest first-person shooters. Most people can't afford such elaborate contraptions at home, so you might get a few bucks a week out of them so they can play at your arcade/bar/bowling alley/etc.
Oh, and the one thing that will become obvious from reading that book is that "Information wants to be free" is incorrect. The real lesson is that "Memes want to replicate".
Except that "the real lesson" is also incorrect.
It is far more correct to say, "people want to replicate memes." In a funny kind of way, the very concept of memes is a demonstration of memetics in action. To ascribe a biological model replication to information is completely absurd, but almost too compelling to resist. The way information moves about is so complex and difficult to predict, like small-scale weather patterns when you can't look at the full scale of data. People are bound to want to see patterns in the cloud shapes, and once somebody points out the cloud that "looks like a duck" to you, it's almost impossible to see it as anything else, even if you looked at the same cloud twenty seconds ago and saw no such thing. Likewise, when people point out that ideas "want" to spread around, and the ideas which do get spread around are successful on a Darwinian level, it's very difficult not to let this completely mythical model of understanding color your perceptions.
I have a problem with bands who suddenly think they're so cool that people should pay $80 to see them play from level 3 of the local NHL hockey arena. I mean, who pays this much to not hear the music that well
Well, it is Pearl Jam after all. If it's $80 to not hear it that well, how much to not hear it at all?
I hate Ticketmaster as much as the next guy, but making a noble stand doesn't stop them from sucking.
Uh... There are a couple people on this thread alone reporting good luck with their iPods.
I imagine how you carry it is a factor. I just keep the iPod in one hand the whole time, so when the HD spins up it's usually not a problem. If somebody were to strap it to their hip or something, I can imagine it would get banged around quite a bit more.
Anyway, I've been running almost every day with this thing for months now, and never once has it skipped or failed to queue up as a result. (The battery ran down on me once or twice though. It's one of the 3G players.) In the winter, I've also run on treadmills with the iPod sitting right on the front dashboard-like area, bouncing away. No problems at all.
iPod drives are small and slow. They are built for data density and robustness, unlike most drives which are built for speed. They are obviously not as rock-solid as Flash, but they handle physical abuse considerably better than a typical desktop HD.
There is a group of people who will never like any company or group that is succesful. And there will always be people who attack the leaders just because they are leading, whether it is the NY Yankees (I try not to be one of them, but alas, I live in Ohio and I am a Cleveland fan) or google.
You are of course correct, and it is a very unhealthy way of thinking, generally speaking.
That said, I will never stop hating on the L.A. Lakers.
4 miles a day, no skipping.
And no, I'm not fast enough to run 4 miles in 20 minutes.
Why is it all I see on Slashdot now-a-days is stories that were on engadget yesterday?
Because you (wisely) stay away from the "AskSlashdot" and "YRO" sections?
I call FUD. I jog with my 20GB iPod every day, and I've never had a problem.
True, but so much of spam exists to push hoaxes, I just tend to assume that anything sold via spam is bogus. The fact that they were actually selling what they said they were selling came as a bit of a surprise.
Actually, this being slashdot, I'm surprised nobody has modded me down and/or flamed me because I carelessly mispelled "enterprising" near the end of my post.
I mean, how can you expect to blindly paste Slashdot posts into your Master's thesis if the spelling isn't always perfect?
It's not a matter of a desire to "blame things on others", it's that crime syndicates who use they Internet tend to be far more successful if they cross international borders, especially if they do so from countries where differences in laws make things a little more ambiguous. (See: allofmp3.com)
Considering that the average GP these days spends about 7 actual minutes with each patient, and in some cases prescribes more than one drug per visit, 27 scripts per hour is probably only slightly above the curve. I could easilly see this slipping under the radar if it wasn't for people hunting down the spammer he was working through.
Think about it. You sell ED medicine and generic monoxydil products... or whatever.
Are you going to ask a lot of questions if a new customer comes along and starts providing you with millions of dollars worth of orders? Would you be inclided to view their decision to order all these drugs from your manufacturing plant as "suspicious" or "lucky"?
Several bits of news here that shocked me:
72,000 people out there actually put pills in their bodies which came from a spammer who spells it "V1Ag ra!!!"
There was an actual doctor writing precriptions for these drugs, not just some sleazy smuggler from bolivia or some nutjob with a lab for making counterfeit placebo replacements.
The bastards are actually got caught at all, and did not turn out to be some distant Russian or Maylaysian hackers far beyond the reach of our law enforcement systems, but rather were a pair of US citizens dumb enough to think they could get away with it.
This is terrific news. Hoist a beer to your friendly neighborhood cyber-cop tonight, folks. It's not often the spooks get to be universally seen as the Good Guys.
It's awesome that they are available for free, but at this point I'm about as likely to play Marathon again as I am to play... well.. Doom 2.
If I'm going to go out, I'll pay the $8 cover at a jazz club and be more entertained for a much longer interval while being served booze if I wish.
The theater experience has been diminished somewhat by home theaters (mine is a 119" screen, and I would sell the car before giving it up), by those stupid ads at the beginning, and by various other hassles, but what has ruined movies more than anything else is the audiences.
It used to be that movie audiences learned how to behave from live plays. Talk during a broadway show and you will be kicked out immediately. There are legendary tales of great actors who stopped performing to scold an annoying member of the audience.
Today, people learn how to behave from the TV room. If the phone rings and there's a call you were waiting for, you answer it. If you get up and go to the bathroom (and you didn't pause the show), you ask somebody to tell you what you missed, and they tell you. If you think the show's not very good, you say so out loud. If your dim friend doesn't understand something, you explain it.
These sorts of things are mildly annoying when watching TV with a couple friends or family members, but completely intolerable in a theater, when everybody there paid for the privilege of enjoying the movie. Unfortunately, far too many people are way to inconsiderate, and make asses of themselves.
In a theater that seats 80 - 200 people, you probably have at least two or three complete assholes in the crowd. Every time you go to a movie, you gamble that none of those assholes do anything to ruin the movie
So I agree with the grandparent post. Theaters are obsolete. Sooner or later, some enterprizing go-getter is going to invent a new cheap destination where teens can take their dates, and make billions while driving most of the theaters out of business once and for all.
AvP issue #1: November 1, 1989
Both used TCP/IP... but the Windows port of the game was not compatable with the original Mac version on a binary level. A massively stupid move which guaranteed the failure of Marathon for PC in a very crowded market for FPS choices at the time.
"Hey, Marathon is out for the PC. I heard a Mac-using frind of mine raving for something like the last two years about how it's so much better than Doom. We should get this, and we can do the LAN party at his house sometime."
"Oh wait... It doesn't actually let you play against Mac users."
"Pfft. Screw that then. He'll just have to buy a PC like everybody else. Hey look! Duke 3D is out!"
how mainstream could it be?
Several Dark Horse comics have been made into movies, such as Mystery Men, Barb Wire, Hellboy, The Mask, and Frank Miller's Sin City.
Also, if you look at the credits, the movie Alien vs. Predator was released by... ta-da! Dark Horse Entertainment.
So, the comic book publisher actually produced the film of the same title. Still want to make the case that it was "based on a video game"?
Since I suspect the comic book was only found at the specialty comic and fantasy stores
Nope. It was a wide-release comic which could be found almost anywhere comics were sold. Dark Horse is a huge publisher of comics, and not only are their comics commonly seen in news stands, but the softcover book volumes of their comics can be found in any major-chain bookstore, such as B. Dalton's, Barnes & Noble, or Borders.
The movie was an adaptation of the comic, as was the game.
So which one is Marathon Infinity a sequel to?
IIRC, Marathon Infitity was a bundle-pack of Marathon, Marathon 2, and some map expansions. It wasn't a new game.
Although, I couldn't say for sure. Once Quake arrived, my Mac's life as a game platform was over. I jumped on the Windows LAN gaming bandwagon, and my Macs remained in my home strictly for the limited purpose of doing actual work. That remained the case for almost a decade, when I closed my CoH account and took my last Windows PC off-line in favor of WoW on the Mac and all other gaming on consoles.
I still can't stand Halo with a console controller though. God meant for FPS games to be played with a mouse. I'm pretty sure that it's right there in the Bible... just under the stuff about not wearing white after Labor Day.
I recently ran across a 2600 article, "how to get out of google." I was surprised that google was falling out of favor with the hacker community, but add the NYT article to it and you begin to see the trend.
2600 used to be an amusing read for phreak antics. These days it seems to be more of a handbook for incompetent script kiddies and a screed for anti-PATRIOT/RICO/DMCA activism. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it hardly makes it the official mouthpiece of the hacker community.
As for the New York Times... Isn't that the same NYT who employees the goofball economist Paul Krugman and reporters who get caught making shit up? Yeah... I'm not turning to them for anything, let alone the general consensus of the "hacker community," assuming such a consensus is even possible.
Shhh!
I fully intend to remind my boss at my next salary review that salaries have surged 25-50% because of Google. Please be a team player and don't let the myth die before that negotiation, okay? Thanks.
No no no... Klink was more of a warbling "Hogah-ah-ah-ahn!!!" while feebling shaking his right fist.
It was slightly more cool than the Khan scream, and an order of magnitude cooler than Darth Vader's "NOOOOOOOO."