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Actually, I seem to recall that SGI created it afterwards, as a demo app to show off the IRIX systems since everybody at the time knew the movie scene. The README from fsn includes the authors email address, if there's any reason to be canonical about.
I just really hope I wasn't one of the trolls. Wasn't trying to be, but there was a lot of groupthink going on.
That being said, it had a few decent stories, but the volume was always quite low, and many of the stories were a screed by some person against some policy or action. Definitely not pointing fingers (heck, I couldn't tell you who the authors of the articles were), but pointing out that it didn't really fill a niche. Too few posts, too little true dialog.
AT&T, from all accounts, pays Apple $15 a month for each iPhone. I'm sure all that all Samsung/Motorola/etc get is a per-item fee. AT&T would prefer to charge you $90 a month and keep the extra $15 a month. That's why you never see AT&T advertising the iPhone - while it gets them more customers, they're making less of the iPhone customers than other customers. They want you as a customer, but if they can get you AND keep the extra money, that's what they're going to do.
Clever. Twelve characters for the part I need. Thanks, I'll test that vs s[0-9]+e[0-9]+ (14 characters). Now to go read a regex manual so I know _how_ it works.
I frequently look for tv episodes on the net, and find myself killfiling shows thusly: S[0-9][0-9]E[0-9][0-9] , which would filter something like friends.s05e10.[etc]
Is there a smaller way? The program I use is case-insensitive, but the only shorter way I can come up with "S[0-9]+E[0-9]+" would risk finding other sets inadvertently. (or would it?)
24mpg? Man, you're being optimistic. Just went to a car show, and the average was closer to 20 than 24. And went all the way down to 14 or so. The highest I saw that wasn't a hybrid (or a Mini Cooper) was only about 33hwy.
Let's see - I have a 32" TV. It's probably 10 years old, but works fine. I don't see any real need to upgrade, so Blu-Ray (or heck, Upscaling) does nothing for me. I wonder how many people are in the same boat?
Gamespot makes far more money off second-hand games than by actually selling new games. Go in sometime - they _really_ want you to buy the game used (for about $10 less than retail), and then sell it back to them afterwards for $10 or so. So for a $60 game, they're making $40 each time it's sold. Which is highway robbery, but still a choice you can make. I understand that EA/Take2/etc want to get their proper due with each copy. But it's mine - I bought it, I can do with it what I want. Is it okay to hate both groups, EA for being EA and Gamestop for being greedy bastards who don't give a rat's ass about games, they just want the money that someone _useful_ (like, say, the developers) should get instead?
Question: does anyone do higher-resolution videoconferencing than 320x240? iChat does (640x480, I believe), but for better or worse I'm on a PC, and Skype's hi-def videoconf requires a whole litany of prerequisites - dual-core processor, specific Logitech cameras, etc, etc. I bought a Philips webcame that can do 640x480, 90fps, but nothing that can come even close to that. I certainly don't need 90fps, but 640x480 would be much nicer than 320x240. (I say that - is that even the case? Would lower-resolution but higher FPS feel more "there"?)
So - is there any software that I'm missing? Many thanks.
Norman Spinrad's "Little Heroes" - pay people to "control" a virtual video star. If they complain too much, hire someone else - the star is unchanged. Think the GEICO Gecko, but with a human.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Since I do run terabyte-sized databases, I'll contradict you - poor queries _can_ tank a server, even with small tables, if the query is poor enough. While it technically may be running, if nobody else can access it, then for practical purposes the server is down. And never underestimate the ability of one user with enough knowledge to be dangerous, to spread that selfsame query across as many people as possible.
That's gotta suck - I think ours in Fort Worth just went up to $7.50 for the nighttime showings. The Cinemark Tinseltown near us has great prices though - matinees are $4.
It seemed like the main problem Auto Assault had, on launch, was people just not showing up. If there's nobody to play with/against, an MMO is not nearly as much fun. Maybe they're simply trying to launch while people are interested, and worrying about fixing everything later. Not knowing what marketing (and the buzz for the game) is doing, it's hard to tell if this is a good idea or a bad idea.
I'm surprised you mentioned Starship Troopers, but not any of the Heinlein "juvies" which were specifically written for kids.
Rocket Ship Galileo
Space Cadet
Red Planet
Farmer In the Sky
Between Planets
The Rolling Stones
Starman Jones
The Star Beast
Tunnel In the Sky
Time for the Stars
Citizen of the Galaxy
Have Space Suit Will Travel
Of these, I'd say Rocket Ship Galileo & Have Space Suit Will Travel should be the first couple. But all of them are perfect for what you're looking for.
And while not a juvie, I'd also suggest A Door Into Summer, but you should read it first and make sure my memory's not wrong.
No, the professor (unless he is the author) gets nothing from choosing a particular book. Except for the free Teacher's Guide/TA Copy/Transparencies Deck/Test Bank/etc, and possibly the opportunity to proofread the next edition, which does come with a small check ($500, but typically it's so much effort that it's hard to find professors willing to do so). The ancillaries (those aforementioned items) are what they want, since it makes their life easier. (And depending on the ancillary, were expensive for the publisher; a full set of transparencies could cost $300, and if a prof wanted two sets, if it was a decent sale you'd give him the two sets.) We would also run into profs who'd sell the book to a third-party company that resold books. They needed "an extra copy for a TA", but everybody knew that was gas money.
The industry would love to get rid of the ancillaries, but the teachers won't go for that, since it requires more work from them. You or I, given the ancillaries, could teach almost any subject.
And to the other guy who wondered where books went when editions changed: usually overseas.
And to the "well, go digital!". The industry would love to, but has no way to do a business model. The PP&B (price to publish & bind, aka the actual physical item) is one of the smaller costs of a book. The example I always use was the book that we sold for $47 (which paid my salary, the authors, the editors, etc, etc) to the bookstores, which resold for $65. PP&B was about $3.50. Can't sell to the students at cost - the bookstores would stop carrying ANY of our products. Can't charge $62 - what's the point?
(Disclaimer: in case it's not obvious, I used to work for a college textbook publisher.)
Yes, but one thing I remember reading was that students would find out what books a prof recommended, and then cancel and change classes if the prices were onerous or if there was a new edition. Clever idea, to be honest - wish I'd thought to do that in school.
(Note: I used to work for a college textbook publisher. Check my history, I've answered a lot of questions here in the past)
[...]Mesh networks offer Quality of Service [...] and support Voice-over-IP. An enlightened car company -- or better still EVERY car company -- should put a Mesh node in every car they make whether the owner wants it or not. In a couple of years, when 20 million Mesh'd cars are on the road and the car companies [...]could light that network and, in one stroke, take a big chunk of the U.S. telephone, Internet, and mobile phone markets. Just buy space on cellphone towers and tie it all together with cheap fiber [...]
My wife & I just finished it last night (she helps with the planning, I click things and go "shiny!").
It's a Japanese-style RPG (I played final fantasy for 15 minutes and got frustrated with it), with some adventure elements and a wicked sense of humor (the Lucasarts guy who worked on it did a fantastic job). So there's the "how and where do I go to make hobo meat edible" adventure-quest element, the fights are all JRPG (which works out pretty well, though I'm sure others can do more with it and still others were turned off by the whole thing), and then there's the dialogue and writing, which are top notch. I have no idea what the requirements are supposed to be, but on my Athlon (single core from about 2 years ago) 3400 with a Geforce GT7600, framerates were great - the stylized "comic-book look" works well here (duh?).
Well worth the $20. We've been playing it for an hour or so a night since it came out, and just finished it.
Try Guild Wars. Buy the game, skip the subscription. If you like it, buy the expansions. You can get deals on the first one ($30 or so), which has at least 100 hours of stuff to do.
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Actually, I seem to recall that SGI created it afterwards, as a demo app to show off the IRIX systems since everybody at the time knew the movie scene. The README from fsn includes the authors email address, if there's any reason to be canonical about.
Already exists. I think it was out the first week the iPhone App Store was open. Works pretty decently.
I just really hope I wasn't one of the trolls. Wasn't trying to be, but there was a lot of groupthink going on.
That being said, it had a few decent stories, but the volume was always quite low, and many of the stories were a screed by some person against some policy or action. Definitely not pointing fingers (heck, I couldn't tell you who the authors of the articles were), but pointing out that it didn't really fill a niche. Too few posts, too little true dialog.
AT&T, from all accounts, pays Apple $15 a month for each iPhone. I'm sure all that all Samsung/Motorola/etc get is a per-item fee. AT&T would prefer to charge you $90 a month and keep the extra $15 a month. That's why you never see AT&T advertising the iPhone - while it gets them more customers, they're making less of the iPhone customers than other customers. They want you as a customer, but if they can get you AND keep the extra money, that's what they're going to do.
Clever. Twelve characters for the part I need. Thanks, I'll test that vs s[0-9]+e[0-9]+ (14 characters).
Now to go read a regex manual so I know _how_ it works.
I frequently look for tv episodes on the net, and find myself killfiling shows thusly:
S[0-9][0-9]E[0-9][0-9] , which would filter something like friends.s05e10.[etc]
Is there a smaller way? The program I use is case-insensitive, but the only shorter way I can come up with "S[0-9]+E[0-9]+" would risk finding other sets inadvertently. (or would it?)
Any suggestions?
...and Fallout 3...
Oh, and obvideo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXkh6ho41-I
Just so long as you're using foreign booleans as opposed to those faulty domestic ones.
24mpg? Man, you're being optimistic. Just went to a car show, and the average was closer to 20 than 24. And went all the way down to 14 or so. The highest I saw that wasn't a hybrid (or a Mini Cooper) was only about 33hwy.
Let's see - I have a 32" TV. It's probably 10 years old, but works fine. I don't see any real need to upgrade, so Blu-Ray (or heck, Upscaling) does nothing for me. I wonder how many people are in the same boat?
Gamespot makes far more money off second-hand games than by actually selling new games. Go in sometime - they _really_ want you to buy the game used (for about $10 less than retail), and then sell it back to them afterwards for $10 or so. So for a $60 game, they're making $40 each time it's sold. Which is highway robbery, but still a choice you can make. I understand that EA/Take2/etc want to get their proper due with each copy. But it's mine - I bought it, I can do with it what I want. Is it okay to hate both groups, EA for being EA and Gamestop for being greedy bastards who don't give a rat's ass about games, they just want the money that someone _useful_ (like, say, the developers) should get instead?
Question: does anyone do higher-resolution videoconferencing than 320x240? iChat does (640x480, I believe), but for better or worse I'm on a PC, and Skype's hi-def videoconf requires a whole litany of prerequisites - dual-core processor, specific Logitech cameras, etc, etc. I bought a Philips webcame that can do 640x480, 90fps, but nothing that can come even close to that. I certainly don't need 90fps, but 640x480 would be much nicer than 320x240. (I say that - is that even the case? Would lower-resolution but higher FPS feel more "there"?)
So - is there any software that I'm missing? Many thanks.
Norman Spinrad's "Little Heroes" - pay people to "control" a virtual video star. If they complain too much, hire someone else - the star is unchanged. Think the GEICO Gecko, but with a human.
Deep breaths, man. You're going to burst a blood vessel.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Since I do run terabyte-sized databases, I'll contradict you - poor queries _can_ tank a server, even with small tables, if the query is poor enough. While it technically may be running, if nobody else can access it, then for practical purposes the server is down. And never underestimate the ability of one user with enough knowledge to be dangerous, to spread that selfsame query across as many people as possible.
That's gotta suck - I think ours in Fort Worth just went up to $7.50 for the nighttime showings. The Cinemark Tinseltown near us has great prices though - matinees are $4.
It seemed like the main problem Auto Assault had, on launch, was people just not showing up. If there's nobody to play with/against, an MMO is not nearly as much fun. Maybe they're simply trying to launch while people are interested, and worrying about fixing everything later. Not knowing what marketing (and the buzz for the game) is doing, it's hard to tell if this is a good idea or a bad idea.
I'm surprised you mentioned Starship Troopers, but not any of the Heinlein "juvies" which were specifically written for kids.
Of these, I'd say Rocket Ship Galileo & Have Space Suit Will Travel should be the first couple. But all of them are perfect for what you're looking for.
And while not a juvie, I'd also suggest A Door Into Summer, but you should read it first and make sure my memory's not wrong.
Good thing you never read Bio Of A Space Tyrant, then... that got downright graphic.
No, the professor (unless he is the author) gets nothing from choosing a particular book. Except for the free Teacher's Guide/TA Copy/Transparencies Deck/Test Bank/etc, and possibly the opportunity to proofread the next edition, which does come with a small check ($500, but typically it's so much effort that it's hard to find professors willing to do so). The ancillaries (those aforementioned items) are what they want, since it makes their life easier. (And depending on the ancillary, were expensive for the publisher; a full set of transparencies could cost $300, and if a prof wanted two sets, if it was a decent sale you'd give him the two sets.) We would also run into profs who'd sell the book to a third-party company that resold books. They needed "an extra copy for a TA", but everybody knew that was gas money.
The industry would love to get rid of the ancillaries, but the teachers won't go for that, since it requires more work from them. You or I, given the ancillaries, could teach almost any subject.
And to the other guy who wondered where books went when editions changed: usually overseas.
And to the "well, go digital!". The industry would love to, but has no way to do a business model. The PP&B (price to publish & bind, aka the actual physical item) is one of the smaller costs of a book. The example I always use was the book that we sold for $47 (which paid my salary, the authors, the editors, etc, etc) to the bookstores, which resold for $65. PP&B was about $3.50. Can't sell to the students at cost - the bookstores would stop carrying ANY of our products. Can't charge $62 - what's the point?
(Disclaimer: in case it's not obvious, I used to work for a college textbook publisher.)
Yes, but one thing I remember reading was that students would find out what books a prof recommended, and then cancel and change classes if the prices were onerous or if there was a new edition. Clever idea, to be honest - wish I'd thought to do that in school.
(Note: I used to work for a college textbook publisher. Check my history, I've answered a lot of questions here in the past)
I knew I remember reading this idea before. Not that I see that this is what they're doing, but if the hardware is out there, the software is easy enough to change...
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020523_000733.html
[...]Mesh networks offer Quality of Service [...] and support Voice-over-IP. An enlightened car company -- or better still EVERY car company -- should put a Mesh node in every car they make whether the owner wants it or not. In a couple of years, when 20 million Mesh'd cars are on the road and the car companies [...]could light that network and, in one stroke, take a big chunk of the U.S. telephone, Internet, and mobile phone markets. Just buy space on cellphone towers and tie it all together with cheap fiber [...]
My wife & I just finished it last night (she helps with the planning, I click things and go "shiny!").
It's a Japanese-style RPG (I played final fantasy for 15 minutes and got frustrated with it), with some adventure elements and a wicked sense of humor (the Lucasarts guy who worked on it did a fantastic job). So there's the "how and where do I go to make hobo meat edible" adventure-quest element, the fights are all JRPG (which works out pretty well, though I'm sure others can do more with it and still others were turned off by the whole thing), and then there's the dialogue and writing, which are top notch. I have no idea what the requirements are supposed to be, but on my Athlon (single core from about 2 years ago) 3400 with a Geforce GT7600, framerates were great - the stylized "comic-book look" works well here (duh?).
Well worth the $20. We've been playing it for an hour or so a night since it came out, and just finished it.
Try Guild Wars. Buy the game, skip the subscription. If you like it, buy the expansions. You can get deals on the first one ($30 or so), which has at least 100 hours of stuff to do.