Yeah, I'm joking. It's not really clear. I have not, so I hate the people who have. I don't actually lay around and plot the death of people with money to spend.
If I went to someone's home and they had a Quad SLI setup running to play video games, I think I would stab them and blame GTA. I'm not saying it's not useful for scientific computing, hardcore designing, or driving some sort of crazy display exhibit but spending that kind of dough to play games is sorta asking for a punch in the face.
The company can't come out with an awesome new toy every 3-6 months. Steve and Co. just had nothing to talk about, and anyways it's the WWDC. It's for developers and there were tons of new developer centric stuff Obj-C 2.0, XCode 3.0, a preview of Leopard (which I think the big things are still be held close to their chest, don't want to promise stuff like Vista and just have it trimmed every month). Wait til near Christmas, because you know there will be a new iPod or something for the masses to drool over.
Sysinternals tools are a must for sure. I use the tools Regmon and Filemon to debug user software problems in a Computer Lab often. These tools are a life saver for debugging ACCESS DENIED errors for user when using software.
One reason I think mud development is lagging, is namely that muds in my experience attract young players and are ran by teenagers and college student. I rarely meet players over the age of 30. This leads to inexperienced coding and less bleeding edge technology. That could be part of the problem.
Also, muds are in competition with each other. We had short discussion about opening up the source to the mud I work on (The Northern Crossroads), and it was determined that if we opened up the source. We would lose our uniqueness among other muds. If everyone else used our features.
Another thing, they are just games. They aren't very important on the overall realm of things, why should we be devoting tons of time and energy in keeping something alive, when its not profitable or really useful in the end.
They should have a form to submit it, but they should have volunteers do the fact checking on the items before it's accepted. Well maybe not fact checking, maybe just a glance over to make sure it's not just a bunch of jibberish. Then allow the community to do the fact checking and submit any errors. Sure this all would add to the mess, and make it more complicated, but if it is performed right we will get a high quality database as time increases for each entry.
5. How do I help out with the project? We'd love to get more people to help out with adding books and authors, so mail us at submission@iblist.com asking to become an administrator. We will contact you as soon as we can.
1.6 million? Steve Jobs is doing an incredable job with a company that probably wouldn't be around today if it wasn't for his renewed CEOship. 1.6 million isn't a whole lot in terms of CEO salery, anyone know how much he makes at Pixar? - John
Why do sites/advertisers do intrusive advertising like this in the first place? Do they think the internet is a TV or something?
I for one like the text based ads on other sites more so than the picture based ones. Namely because I can get information about the product/site w/o visiting it first, this sounds counter productive to what ads try to do (generate hits to websites) but I normally go to websites I wouldn't normally with a picture ad with a text based ad. Maybe websites/advertisers should take a hint.
Well I agree hacking is a crime. I think it should be classified by different areas. Like people nosing around public computers shouldn't get 20 years in jail, but military computers,.gov sites, sure I can understand that. Selling information about companies, sure that's bad. But I don't think most hackers should get more time then some murders and other violent crime criminals. That is just silly. Virus writers on the other hand, we can just hang them.
I watched POTA last night with my girlfriend, and I couldn't hardly stay awake. I don't think it has the same feel as the first at all, or is as powerful.
1st - Hey when it comes out on video, they can put on the back of box "We got two thumbs down from EVERYONE! So watch the world's worst movie." 2nd - They could get a Emmy for "The most horrible story line." 3rd - It could of been worse, Pauly Shore could of been the star. 4th - The sequel couldn't be any worse, UNLESS the star of it was Pauly Shore. 5th - At least it was not a musical? 6th - No One Named Jar Jar Binks in it?
All of my friends have told me to go see it. So me and my GF are going to watch it tonight. I hope it is as good as the first one. Tho most the time the first one is always the best, cept in James bond movies, in which case it was the worse, Never mind that. I just like to babble on bout nothing at all! I'd recommend Shanghai Noon which I saw last night, pretty fun stuff.
Why bother? A newer faster chip will always be out, shell out the cash if you want it. I rather do that then run the risk of burning something up, and be with out it. The chip sounds nice on lower end computers, but I'll stick to my PIII.
Heh, I think like 90% of "web site designers" need to read a book like this. I'm tired of searching endlessly for information, getting thrown to another website, blind links, being bogged down with big arse "flashy graphics" and friggin out of date information. I'm sure alot of other people would agree with me. Sorry bout the complaining:-P -= Majere =-
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That isn't useful unless you get gold plated cables, and don't forget to get the 150$ power cord.
Yeah, I'm joking. It's not really clear. I have not, so I hate the people who have. I don't actually lay around and plot the death of people with money to spend.
If I went to someone's home and they had a Quad SLI setup running to play video games, I think I would stab them and blame GTA. I'm not saying it's not useful for scientific computing, hardcore designing, or driving some sort of crazy display exhibit but spending that kind of dough to play games is sorta asking for a punch in the face.
The company can't come out with an awesome new toy every 3-6 months. Steve and Co. just had nothing to talk about, and anyways it's the WWDC. It's for developers and there were tons of new developer centric stuff Obj-C 2.0, XCode 3.0, a preview of Leopard (which I think the big things are still be held close to their chest, don't want to promise stuff like Vista and just have it trimmed every month). Wait til near Christmas, because you know there will be a new iPod or something for the masses to drool over.
Feb. 15, because I bet a lonely nerd stayed up all night on Valentine's Day to get it ready.
It's called Meta-Moderation.
Sysinternals tools are a must for sure. I use the tools Regmon and Filemon to debug user software problems in a Computer Lab often. These tools are a life saver for debugging ACCESS DENIED errors for user when using software.
One reason I think mud development is lagging, is namely that
muds in my experience attract young players and are ran by teenagers and college student. I rarely meet players over the age of 30. This leads to inexperienced coding and less bleeding edge technology. That could be part of the problem.
Also, muds are in competition with each other. We had short discussion about opening up the source to the mud I work on (The Northern Crossroads), and it was determined that if we opened up the source. We would lose our uniqueness among other muds. If everyone else used our features.
Another thing, they are just games. They aren't very important on the overall realm of things, why should we be devoting tons of time and energy in keeping something alive, when its not profitable or really useful in the end.
(Heh, not a very organized post)
They should have a form to submit it, but they should have volunteers do the fact checking on the items before it's accepted. Well maybe not fact checking, maybe just a glance over to make sure it's not just a bunch of jibberish. Then allow the community to do the fact checking and submit any errors. Sure this all would add to the mess, and make it more complicated, but if it is performed right we will get a high quality database as time increases for each entry.
Under the help section:
5. How do I help out with the project?
We'd love to get more people to help out with adding books and authors, so mail us at submission@iblist.com asking to become an administrator. We will contact you as soon as we can.
1.6 million? Steve Jobs is doing an incredable job with a company that probably wouldn't be around today if it wasn't for his renewed CEOship. 1.6 million isn't a whole lot in terms of CEO salery, anyone know how much he makes at Pixar?
- John
Why do sites/advertisers do intrusive advertising like this in the first place?
Do they think the internet is a TV or something?
I for one like the text based ads on other sites more so than the picture based ones. Namely
because I can get information about the product/site w/o visiting it first, this sounds
counter productive to what ads try to do (generate hits to websites) but I normally go to websites
I wouldn't normally with a picture ad with a text based ad.
Maybe websites/advertisers should take a hint.
or projects.
Here are some Emulation/Video game links I like, Some have been slashdoted before:
GameSX - Great site, I've been an active reader for about a year. Lots of information on video game systems.
Arcade Controls.com - Information on building your own arcade controls for emulation and other hobbies.
Sex Pistols Pinball - This guy redid a old pinball machine into a Sex Pistols pinball machine, neat.
The sBox - A Preslashdoted story. Read it here.
CmdrTaco even likes emulation - He made his own MAMEcabinet
From what I have seen in GamePro and other gaming mags, The Cube has the best controller of the next generation machines.
- Majere
Well I agree hacking is a crime. I think it should be classified by different areas. Like people nosing around public computers shouldn't get 20 years in jail, but military computers, .gov sites, sure I can understand that. Selling information about companies, sure that's bad. But I don't think most hackers should get more time then some murders and other violent crime criminals. That is just silly. Virus writers on the other hand, we can just hang them.
Just my thoughts on the subject.
I watched POTA last night with my girlfriend, and I couldn't hardly stay awake. I don't think it has the same feel as the first at all, or is as powerful.
1st - Hey when it comes out on video, they can put on the back of box "We got two thumbs down from EVERYONE! So watch the world's worst movie."
2nd - They could get a Emmy for "The most horrible story line."
3rd - It could of been worse, Pauly Shore could of been the star.
4th - The sequel couldn't be any worse, UNLESS the star of it was Pauly Shore.
5th - At least it was not a musical?
6th - No One Named Jar Jar Binks in it?
-= Majere =-
All of my friends have told me to go see it. So me and my GF are going to watch it tonight. I hope it is as good as the first one. Tho most the time the first one is always the best, cept in James bond movies, in which case it was the worse, Never mind that. I just like to babble on bout nothing at all! I'd recommend Shanghai Noon which I saw last night, pretty fun stuff.
-= Majere =-
Why bother? A newer faster chip will always be out, shell out the cash if you want it. I rather do that then run the risk of burning something up, and be with out it.
The chip sounds nice on lower end computers, but I'll stick to my PIII.
-= Majere =-
Heh, I think like 90% of "web site designers" need to read a book like this. I'm tired of searching endlessly for information, getting thrown to another website, blind links, being bogged down with big arse "flashy graphics" and friggin out of date information. I'm sure alot of other people would agree with me. Sorry bout the complaining :-P
-= Majere =-
A Good UI Must have these things:
1 - Simplecity, It has to be easy to use. I don't want to read a 200 page manual, or try to figure out what 1 of 200 buttons and menus do!
2 - Customizable, I wanna be able to have the functions I use most right up front, in a menu, button, macro or something.
3 - A Good help system... I never read manuals, why bother hehehehe
These are the things I look for in a UI, but they are common sense.
-= Majere =-