I do have kids. I also was a kid as I would assume you were too. How old are your kids? Consider that when they become teenagers they will want more privacy in their lives. Did you never sneak out of bed late at night to watch an r-rated movie? Goggle at the Hustler magazine your friend stole from his dad? No one at school or a party ever asked if you wanted to smoke a joint or even a cigerette? Unless you live in a sheltered community, the presence of mature rated materials whether via cable, paper, Internet, video games etc is commonplace. It's stupid to assume your child will never see any of it. I'm not suggesting the government needs to intervene - that's not what I am saying. I mean that you need to educate your kids rather than try to keep them in the dark. If they don't know anything about drugs or sex or whatever they will be unprepared when encountering it.
So the poor child on his wedding night, takes his bride back to the suite for a nights lovemaking. He takes off his clothes and starts masturbating furiously and says "Honey, what are you doing on the bed? I can't do this properly unless you kneel down on the floor."
"My son doesn't play any game that I have not personally checked out."
Because you son is not capable of say, going to friends house and playing GTA? Your kid will get exposed to stuff you might not want them too. The key is in talking to them about the stuff before they encounter it on their own. Would you rather educate your kid about sex, or have their first exposure be a Japanese bukkake video off the Internet?
Wargames, Tron, Real Genius and of course Scotty on Star Trek all helped reinforce my desire to work with computers. But honestly it was the Atari 2600 that started my interest, moving on through the Commodore Pet, C-64, Amiga, Macintosh, PCs etc. Probably the biggest influence was the console videogame crash. At that point I stopped playing Atari and started playing on my Commodore - which led to interest in programming and learning how the computer worked.
Slot 1 was implemented because the processors at the time (Pentium 2 and early Pentium 3s) required large amounts of cache RAM to operate quickly. The slot 1 board contained the processor and the layer 2 cache RAM. By putting it on a daughterboard, they could clock the cache at a higher speed than the motherboard front side bus. I believe the initial systems ran the cache at half the speed of the cpu. In comparison the motherboards at the time were running at 66MHz - with the CPU at 233MHz or higher. The Pentium Pro used two dies in the chip package, one containing the CPU the other the layer 2 cache. This technique was dumped in favor of slot 1 because it reduced yields. Basically both dies had to be functional or else the chip was useless. Slot 1 was considered a cheap interim technique until they could integrate the layer 2 cache directly into the CPU die. Once the Pentium 3 "flip chips" with on die cache were introduced, the slot 1 was phased out. Placing the cache on die was cheaper and gave better performance than slot 1. Slot 1 was never designed to be able to swap out multiple varieties of CPUs. In fact slot 1 locked out AMD from interoperating in the same motherboard - as opposed to socket 7 which could accommodate either AMD or Intel processors.
"That's because opening a blank file is a function of starting the program, not clicking the icon in the dock. Clicking the icon pulls open applications into focus. This is the proper behavior, even if I don't have any windows open for it. This is a side effect of the mentality "the window is not the application" that is a much better paradigm in my mind. I like being able to have applications open without having a window open in them and without a new window appearing every time I focus them. The alternative is the sort of hell you get with windows where you have to have a window for every application and if you don't you can't access the program at all."
I don't think this is a better way of doing things, I think it comes down to personal preference. As someone who started out using an Amiga and spent 10 years with Mac OS in the design industry, I actually prefer the Windows style. I've seen the Mac style confuse a lot of people. For example, one employee at my work had received an out of memory error so he closed his windows to free up more memory, not realizing that the applications were still memory resident even with no windows open. This guy had been a Mac user for 15 years, so no it wasn't confusion caused by being used to Windows. If you understand that the application is not the window, it's fine, by the concept is not immediately obvious. My current users transitioning to OS X from OS 9 are getting confused because they don't have the application switching menu any more and they aren't yet used to the dock.
"This one always makes me laugh. People are willing to move or contort their fingers to try to reach a second button, when they already have modifier keys right under them. Just try using the modifier for secondary buttons for a while on a laptop after you are used to it, it is so much easier."
Maybe in the context of using a notebook. But then if you assign buttons to trackpad corners you don't need to contort at all. On the desktop I much prefer multibutton mice. Key modifiers are fine but sometimes I want to kick back in my chair and just use the mouse to get around. To be fair, this is easy enough to do with a 3rd party mouse or with Apple's new mighty mouse. The thing about keyboard modifiers is that while they are great once you learn them, they aren't obvious. Context menus are great for when you are first learning to use an application.
I was surprised when I played the Guild Wars beta weekends at how many people in the game were current Diablo 2 players. I would imagine some have migrated onward to Guild Wars. But yeah, Diablo and Neverwinter Nights still have large fanbases.
Agreed. I've always had better luck downloading the patches from a direct download link than I have had with the BT client. Doesn't matter whether I forward the ports on my router or not, it just doesn't work well. In contrast the Azureus bittorrent client works fine.
"This is of course assuming the story isn't bullshit. I seem to remember one scientist saying he had a bet with another that he'd discover a 10th planet by the end of last year."
The predecessor (GP32) was mostly used for an emulator handheld. There were a number of games released, but pretty much everyone ran NES, Sega, Commodore 64 and other emulators on it. The difference is unlike Sony which keeps enforcing the PSP lockdown through bios updates, the GP32 and this new system are designed to make homebrew and emulation easy.
Read it. Read the source materials they pulled a lot of the philosophy from. I'm not saying there isn't stuff there for people to enjoy, just for me personally I didn't have any interest in playing the MMO.
I play WoW, I've played Guild Wars. They aren't really the same sort of game. I like exploring the huge non-instanced zones in WoW. I missed that in GW. I'm sure GW will have tons of content and is a great game - it's just a different style. As for Blizzard, yeah it would be nice to have some new PVE content other than 40 man raids.
Yeah, I mean the original 1984 game. I remember buying it at the same time as Psi-5 Trading Company. Let's just say that despite Psi-5's somewhat interesting gameplay, everyone in the house got completely addicted to Elite. I don't really know why it didn't make much of an impression in the U.S. - it has to be in the top ten of all my gaming experiences.
Huh, that's funny. Matrix Online is the only MMO I've seen TV commercials for. They sure did quite a bit of advertising in gaming magazines as well. I just think too many people got turned off on the series after the last two movies to be interested.
My guild has noticed that the Horde tend to be much more organized players as well. Anyone have any idea why this phenomenon exists? I don't even play on a PVP server, so you can't say that the Horde players have to be craftier to survive in a PVP server overpopulated with Alliance. Is it just because the Alliance side is swamped with many more bad players do to sheer numbers?
The Zodiac was designed to be a game playing handheld Palm device. The form factor was chosen for comfort in playing games. It could also run the usual Palm PDA software, but the companys "hook" was that it was great for games. It really is a decent little system for running emulators on. Better than other Palm or PocketPCs because the controls are suited to game playing.
I personally find the sex scenes in Ayn Rand novels to be absolute comedy. Apparently her idea of love was to have a man come up to her, shove her to the ground, rip her clothes off, rape her and then get up and go back to creating the greatest quality products mankind could make. Well, perhaps after smoking one of those truly fantastic cigerettes they made in magical-no-socialists-allowed-objectivist-shangra- la-land.
I kind of lost interest during the triforce hunt and never ended up finishing the game. I really did enjoy the rest of the game though. I guess I'm not the only one that got bored.
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I do have kids. I also was a kid as I would assume you were too.
How old are your kids? Consider that when they become teenagers they will want more privacy in their lives.
Did you never sneak out of bed late at night to watch an r-rated movie? Goggle at the Hustler magazine your friend stole from his dad? No one at school or a party ever asked if you wanted to smoke a joint or even a cigerette?
Unless you live in a sheltered community, the presence of mature rated materials whether via cable, paper, Internet, video games etc is commonplace.
It's stupid to assume your child will never see any of it.
I'm not suggesting the government needs to intervene - that's not what I am saying. I mean that you need to educate your kids rather than try to keep them in the dark. If they don't know anything about drugs or sex or whatever they will be unprepared when encountering it.
So the poor child on his wedding night, takes his bride back to the suite for a nights lovemaking.
He takes off his clothes and starts masturbating furiously and says "Honey, what are you doing on the bed? I can't do this properly unless you kneel down on the floor."
Probably the most common for 104 in the US would be one oh four.
"Goddamn kids! Get off my lawn!" -myself in the not so far future
"My son doesn't play any game that I have not personally checked out."
Because you son is not capable of say, going to friends house and playing GTA?
Your kid will get exposed to stuff you might not want them too. The key is in talking to them about the stuff before they encounter it on their own. Would you rather educate your kid about sex, or have their first exposure be a Japanese bukkake video off the Internet?
Wargames, Tron, Real Genius and of course Scotty on Star Trek all helped reinforce my desire to work with computers. But honestly it was the Atari 2600 that started my interest, moving on through the Commodore Pet, C-64, Amiga, Macintosh, PCs etc.
Probably the biggest influence was the console videogame crash. At that point I stopped playing Atari and started playing on my Commodore - which led to interest in programming and learning how the computer worked.
Slot 1 was implemented because the processors at the time (Pentium 2 and early Pentium 3s) required large amounts of cache RAM to operate quickly. The slot 1 board contained the processor and the layer 2 cache RAM. By putting it on a daughterboard, they could clock the cache at a higher speed than the motherboard front side bus. I believe the initial systems ran the cache at half the speed of the cpu. In comparison the motherboards at the time were running at 66MHz - with the CPU at 233MHz or higher.
The Pentium Pro used two dies in the chip package, one containing the CPU the other the layer 2 cache. This technique was dumped in favor of slot 1 because it reduced yields. Basically both dies had to be functional or else the chip was useless. Slot 1 was considered a cheap interim technique until they could integrate the layer 2 cache directly into the CPU die. Once the Pentium 3 "flip chips" with on die cache were introduced, the slot 1 was phased out. Placing the cache on die was cheaper and gave better performance than slot 1.
Slot 1 was never designed to be able to swap out multiple varieties of CPUs. In fact slot 1 locked out AMD from interoperating in the same motherboard - as opposed to socket 7 which could accommodate either AMD or Intel processors.
"That's because opening a blank file is a function of starting the program, not clicking the icon in the dock. Clicking the icon pulls open applications into focus. This is the proper behavior, even if I don't have any windows open for it. This is a side effect of the mentality "the window is not the application" that is a much better paradigm in my mind. I like being able to have applications open without having a window open in them and without a new window appearing every time I focus them. The alternative is the sort of hell you get with windows where you have to have a window for every application and if you don't you can't access the program at all."
I don't think this is a better way of doing things, I think it comes down to personal preference. As someone who started out using an Amiga and spent 10 years with Mac OS in the design industry, I actually prefer the Windows style. I've seen the Mac style confuse a lot of people. For example, one employee at my work had received an out of memory error so he closed his windows to free up more memory, not realizing that the applications were still memory resident even with no windows open. This guy had been a Mac user for 15 years, so no it wasn't confusion caused by being used to Windows. If you understand that the application is not the window, it's fine, by the concept is not immediately obvious. My current users transitioning to OS X from OS 9 are getting confused because they don't have the application switching menu any more and they aren't yet used to the dock.
"This one always makes me laugh. People are willing to move or contort their fingers to try to reach a second button, when they already have modifier keys right under them. Just try using the modifier for secondary buttons for a while on a laptop after you are used to it, it is so much easier."
Maybe in the context of using a notebook. But then if you assign buttons to trackpad corners you don't need to contort at all. On the desktop I much prefer multibutton mice. Key modifiers are fine but sometimes I want to kick back in my chair and just use the mouse to get around. To be fair, this is easy enough to do with a 3rd party mouse or with Apple's new mighty mouse.
The thing about keyboard modifiers is that while they are great once you learn them, they aren't obvious. Context menus are great for when you are first learning to use an application.
I was surprised when I played the Guild Wars beta weekends at how many people in the game were current Diablo 2 players. I would imagine some have migrated onward to Guild Wars.
But yeah, Diablo and Neverwinter Nights still have large fanbases.
Agreed. I've always had better luck downloading the patches from a direct download link than I have had with the BT client. Doesn't matter whether I forward the ports on my router or not, it just doesn't work well.
In contrast the Azureus bittorrent client works fine.
"This is of course assuming the story isn't bullshit. I seem to remember one scientist saying he had a bet with another that he'd discover a 10th planet by the end of last year."
This was found by the same guy. He lost the bet by 10 days. You can read more at Xena Planet X or Big Lump of Rock.
The predecessor (GP32) was mostly used for an emulator handheld. There were a number of games released, but pretty much everyone ran NES, Sega, Commodore 64 and other emulators on it.
The difference is unlike Sony which keeps enforcing the PSP lockdown through bios updates, the GP32 and this new system are designed to make homebrew and emulation easy.
Story at eleven!
Sorry, I don't get the yolk.
Read it. Read the source materials they pulled a lot of the philosophy from.
I'm not saying there isn't stuff there for people to enjoy, just for me personally I didn't have any interest in playing the MMO.
I play WoW, I've played Guild Wars. They aren't really the same sort of game. I like exploring the huge non-instanced zones in WoW. I missed that in GW.
I'm sure GW will have tons of content and is a great game - it's just a different style.
As for Blizzard, yeah it would be nice to have some new PVE content other than 40 man raids.
Yeah, I mean the original 1984 game. I remember buying it at the same time as Psi-5 Trading Company. Let's just say that despite Psi-5's somewhat interesting gameplay, everyone in the house got completely addicted to Elite.
I don't really know why it didn't make much of an impression in the U.S. - it has to be in the top ten of all my gaming experiences.
Huh, that's funny. Matrix Online is the only MMO I've seen TV commercials for. They sure did quite a bit of advertising in gaming magazines as well.
I just think too many people got turned off on the series after the last two movies to be interested.
My guild has noticed that the Horde tend to be much more organized players as well. Anyone have any idea why this phenomenon exists? I don't even play on a PVP server, so you can't say that the Horde players have to be craftier to survive in a PVP server overpopulated with Alliance.
Is it just because the Alliance side is swamped with many more bad players do to sheer numbers?
The Zodiac was designed to be a game playing handheld Palm device. The form factor was chosen for comfort in playing games. It could also run the usual Palm PDA software, but the companys "hook" was that it was great for games.
It really is a decent little system for running emulators on. Better than other Palm or PocketPCs because the controls are suited to game playing.
Ah, Telemachus Sneezed. I had forgotten about that. Illuminatus is a great trilogy. Robert Anton Wilson rules!
I personally find the sex scenes in Ayn Rand novels to be absolute comedy. Apparently her idea of love was to have a man come up to her, shove her to the ground, rip her clothes off, rape her and then get up and go back to creating the greatest quality products mankind could make. Well, perhaps after smoking one of those truly fantastic cigerettes they made in magical-no-socialists-allowed-objectivist-shangra- la-land.
I kind of lost interest during the triforce hunt and never ended up finishing the game. I really did enjoy the rest of the game though. I guess I'm not the only one that got bored.
To play Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games obviously!
"Actually, thanks to piracy, yes we did. ;)"
Actually, thanks to the fact that the game could be bought in stores we had it.
I purchased Elite in a computer store in the US. It was available.