I really miss the filmed advisors that CIV2 had -it was clever, and by the time it got annoying, you could turn it off. That was the best use of filmed actors that I can recall in a game.
I imagine apple made them primarily so that they could use them. Itunes Store must need a massive amount of hardware, not to mention.mac. Presumedly, apple could run on another box, but apple likes to eat its own dogfood.
This sounds like an idea with some merit. The only problem I can see with this is the situation wherin an author cannot afford to pay the tax (for a fair value) on his or her copyrighted work, but where it would not be fair to immediately put the work in the public domain.
As an example: In college, in order to graduate in my undergraduate program (English Literature), I had the choice of doing a standard thesis paper, or --with permision-- I could write a novella, under the proper faculty supervision. I choose to write the novella. Admittedly, it probably is not publish-worthy at this moment, but, someday, it might be nice (if unlikely:() if the thing were published --especially if there were a profit to be made from it. Currently, how much should I have to pay to retain my copyright?
Perhaps we should not assess a tax until a work is published or broadcast -- so, currently there would be no tax for me to retain copyright until some fair cutoff date (what that would/should be, I've no idea.
even better, they always have a 40$ phone that comes with 40$ in minute credits (and it counts as a 90 day top up), you do have to pay 5ish bucks for shipping
Groupwise acctually does something like this. identical emails and attachements will be stored once in the database, with referents pointing to the individual users who 'have' that email/file. Saves a lot of disk space here, I assure you
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my wife works in educational publishing. She's an editor. The primary tools used for textbook creation (from the design/creation side) are now usually Adobe Indesign for the layout, Photoshop and Illustrator for the pictures and Adobe Incopy for the actual content of the books, all combined with a managment tool known as K4 which enables collaberation and versioning
i recieve almost one help desk call a week asking how to move the task bar back to the bottom (in win2k) and often see employees who have simply adapted to having their taskbars on whatever side it has inadvertantly been moved to. (although, really you should keep in on the right or left side, it is a more efficent use of space, especially on a wide screen monitor)
i believe Nextstep/Openstep had a dock which is equivelent to a task bar first. Actually much of windows 95 seems like a borrowing and recasting of many of nextstep's UI decisions (close button, globally accessible application launcher that can be hidden)
neverending story is slightly different, as the first movie only covered about half of the children's book. The 2nd movie's plot is actually sorta similar to the 2nd half of the book
if i recall correctly, nintendo also wouldn't get any royalties (like they do from all their console developers) from games made to run on the sony/nintendo SNES+32 bit CD system, only from the cartridge games.
I would've backed out of it too
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why not just write your own craptastic movie, and not have to pay for both a script and a videogame to 'base' it off? That's the one thing i've never understood about this whole thing
you mean like amazon.com, or ebay.com? stupid, catchy names were part of the original.com boom weren't they? then the secondary companies came about, who thought that having pets.com or buy.com or computers.com would automatically make them a mint.
Re:What ever happened to 2AM, $3 overnight shippin
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I hate when they won't just leave the package. I can understand if they'd like to get something in writing saying that they're not liable for the package once it is out of their hands, but let me fax them some standard form, which they can keep on file. No one in my house is ever home during business hours, and my wife's job doesn't allow personal packages to be sent to her work address, and my job has such over active security (everything has to be hand checked, and put through a metal detector/xray by security), that there are packages I wouldn't and can't have come to work.
Around here, UPS never just drops the package --except when it is an amazon super-saver (although fedex will most of the time), I will actually not shop at online stores who's shippers have given me the "will try again X# of times" slip --I'm simply not going to be home.
when my wife was a first grade teacher, she used to keep tampons in her drawer. Why? Because her first year teaching, 2 girls had their first period in her class --6-7 year olds
Tokyo Godfathers (an very good anime movie) was released subtitled only, and I bought it in Target, all things being equal for somereason when it comes to anime, I far prefer to watch them with english dubbing, and if possible with the literal japanese translation if possible playing in subtitle.
Oddly enough, I prefer 'normal' --i.e. non-anime foreign movies-- in subtitled (with no dubbing)
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I really miss the filmed advisors that CIV2 had -it was clever, and by the time it got annoying, you could turn it off. That was the best use of filmed actors that I can recall in a game.
you could script that using netsh and and arp. It isn't as easy, but it is do-able
What about LCD vs Rear projection DLP? on top of that, is 720p fine or should I spend the extra 700ish dollars and get the 1080p screen?
I imagine apple made them primarily so that they could use them. Itunes Store must need a massive amount of hardware, not to mention .mac. Presumedly, apple could run on another box, but apple likes to eat its own dogfood.
This sounds like an idea with some merit. The only problem I can see with this is the situation wherin an author cannot afford to pay the tax (for a fair value) on his or her copyrighted work, but where it would not be fair to immediately put the work in the public domain.
:() if the thing were published --especially if there were a profit to be made from it. Currently, how much should I have to pay to retain my copyright?
As an example: In college, in order to graduate in my undergraduate program (English Literature), I had the choice of doing a standard thesis paper, or --with permision-- I could write a novella, under the proper faculty supervision. I choose to write the novella. Admittedly, it probably is not publish-worthy at this moment, but, someday, it might be nice (if unlikely
Perhaps we should not assess a tax until a work is published or broadcast -- so, currently there would be no tax for me to retain copyright until some fair cutoff date (what that would/should be, I've no idea.
interestingly enough microsoft office for windows has the same mac-like inactive window mouse click feature, and I've always wanted to know why
even better, they always have a 40$ phone that comes with 40$ in minute credits (and it counts as a 90 day top up), you do have to pay 5ish bucks for shipping
Civilization's (I, II, III, IV) maps?
Groupwise acctually does something like this. identical emails and attachements will be stored once in the database, with referents pointing to the individual users who 'have' that email/file. Saves a lot of disk space here, I assure you
.mac comes with a subscription to virex.
plus you could probably do something with the vibration motors inside the wand.
the appleIIGS was a development platform for nintendo at some point, I think perhaps for the Super Nintendo
my wife works in educational publishing. She's an editor. The primary tools used for textbook creation (from the design/creation side) are now usually Adobe Indesign for the layout, Photoshop and Illustrator for the pictures and Adobe Incopy for the actual content of the books, all combined with a managment tool known as K4 which enables collaberation and versioning
try this: http://www.olofsson.info/
you can buy, for like 50 bucks windows software to read and write mac disk (HPFS) , it's called macdrive. Also Mac OS X can read, but not write NTFS
i recieve almost one help desk call a week asking how to move the task bar back to the bottom (in win2k) and often see employees who have simply adapted to having their taskbars on whatever side it has inadvertantly been moved to. (although, really you should keep in on the right or left side, it is a more efficent use of space, especially on a wide screen monitor)
i believe Nextstep/Openstep had a dock which is equivelent to a task bar first. Actually much of windows 95 seems like a borrowing and recasting of many of nextstep's UI decisions (close button, globally accessible application launcher that can be hidden)
neverending story is slightly different, as the first movie only covered about half of the children's book. The 2nd movie's plot is actually sorta similar to the 2nd half of the book
if i recall correctly, nintendo also wouldn't get any royalties (like they do from all their console developers) from games made to run on the sony/nintendo SNES+32 bit CD system, only from the cartridge games.
I would've backed out of it too
why not just write your own craptastic movie, and not have to pay for both a script and a videogame to 'base' it off? That's the one thing i've never understood about this whole thing
you mean like amazon.com, or ebay.com? stupid, catchy names were part of the original .com boom weren't they? then the secondary companies came about, who thought that having pets.com or buy.com or computers.com would automatically make them a mint.
I hate when they won't just leave the package. I can understand if they'd like to get something in writing saying that they're not liable for the package once it is out of their hands, but let me fax them some standard form, which they can keep on file. No one in my house is ever home during business hours, and my wife's job doesn't allow personal packages to be sent to her work address, and my job has such over active security (everything has to be hand checked, and put through a metal detector/xray by security), that there are packages I wouldn't and can't have come to work.
Around here, UPS never just drops the package --except when it is an amazon super-saver (although fedex will most of the time), I will actually not shop at online stores who's shippers have given me the "will try again X# of times" slip --I'm simply not going to be home.
to unman: to castrate
when my wife was a first grade teacher, she used to keep tampons in her drawer. Why? Because her first year teaching, 2 girls had their first period in her class --6-7 year olds
Tokyo Godfathers (an very good anime movie) was released subtitled only, and I bought it in Target, all things being equal for somereason when it comes to anime, I far prefer to watch them with english dubbing, and if possible with the literal japanese translation if possible playing in subtitle.
Oddly enough, I prefer 'normal' --i.e. non-anime foreign movies-- in subtitled (with no dubbing)