Floor space is really cheap... until you run out. Once you run up against a hard limit like that, getting more can be very expensive in money and time.
It was a typo, of course. I've typed "darth"-something many more times than "dart"-something else in my life.
'80 was probably too early. I would have been single digits. It was probably more like '84-'85 maybe? I remember some people had personal channels they would use, like some dude named Greg hung out in channel 32 I think?
I guess it would be kind of weird and wrong to ask what your username was? I can't even remember mine for sure; it might have been Warewolph, or The Hoodlum. Both awful handles that I discarded soon afterwards.
Back in the day, I knew people that could provide me with magic phone numbers that would allow me to dial anywhere in the world, for free. Imagine that, right? I was only like 13. Statute of limitations and all that. This was in the 80s I guess.
Anyway, I remember we used to somehow dial into a Darthmouth mainframe and from there we could do a couple things. They had some kind of multiuser Zork (or Zork-ish) text adventure that you could play. I tried it a couple times but I couldn't get into it at the time, even though I loved Infocom games.
The biggest appeal was getting into the chat system. There, we could chat with what I assume were Darthmouth college students. "JOIN XYZ" I think was the command from the main menu.
There was this cool VT display of who was in the chat, so you could tell how many people were there. I used to chat with these people all the time. It was great for a precocious 13 year old who couldn't talk with his peers because his vocabulary and worldview was greatly expanded from theirs. How unfortunate that my social skills were so backward at the same time.
The details are a bit foggy, but I'm sure with some conversation with some of the same folks who used to chat there, I could dredge up those memories. Anyone remember chatting on that system?
* Launchy: I switch from my sitting desk to a standing desk throughout the day. Instead of using a glitchy duplicate Start button, I use Launchy to run things. Now I don't use the Start button very often anymore, even when it's on the screen.
* Dual Monitor, for duplicate task bars. It's glitchy, though. Crashes a couple times a day, but at least it's not a destructive crash. I should write an AutoHotKey script to restart it when it crashes...
* AutoHotKey: There are a few things I use this for, and it really comes in handy to do those little things that make life easier, like cheating in Cookie Clicker. Actually, its primary use for me is to move all my windows from my 2-screen sitting desk layout to my 1-screen standing desk layout with a simple key combo. But, it comes in handy when I need to quickly automate any repetitive task.
* KeyNote NF: It's a hierarchical note-taking app like Evernote used to be. It's lightweight and intuitive to use, although I'm still looking for something that works with mobile and web that isn't heavy like Evernote is now.
* LICEcap for capturing GIFs easily, cleanly, with a small-ish file size. Better than GifCam, and GifCam is pretty great.
"Notch," the developer behind the famous Minecraft game, also ostensibly proposed pulsars as navigation beacons for his now-defunct game "0x10c." He used (generated) data collection from a pulsar as part of a series of puzzles related to PR for the game.
I've thought about creating a social game that integrates real world data for creating instant communities, but every mapping solution I've looked at requires you to host hundreds of gigabytes of image data, or purchase views after X number of free queries per month. As an independent developer, neither of those is practical for me.
Is there a truly free-as-in-beer map database that actually looks good at, say, a 10-mile radius zoom level that doesn't consume hundreds of gigabytes?
I tried that when I purchased the ASUS P8P67 motherboard. It had *tons* of reviews, and was one of the top-rated LGA1155 boards with more than 100 reviews.
Just purchased an ASUS P8P67 motherboard for a brand new Core i7 2600k install; my first new PC in like 5 years. I chose the P8P67 because it had a good assortment of SATA 3 and USB 3 ports for expansion. I had a DVD burner and 3 SATA drives to put into it; I like lots of storage.
I hooked up the drives, putting my brand new WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA 3 hard drive in the first SATA 3 port, and started installing Windows 7. It seemed to take a long time. The installation finished and I started installing all the usual utilities, apps, and games that one has to install on a new PC. I noticed that my system kept pausing, however. I would try to install something, and I would get frequent hourglass pauses, and sometimes the system would seem to lock up for up to 20 seconds at a time.
Eventually, I looked into the system log and saw that there were a bunch of errors coming up every time this happened; disk unavailable, and a driver name. The driver was for the Marvell SATA controller.
I moved that drive to one of the Intel SATA 3 ports (the other drives were not on the Marvell ports) and I have had no problems of that nature in the three weeks since then.
So, basically two of my SATA 3 ports, one of the primary reasons I chose this motherboard, are of no use to me.
Oh, funny fact; my older system had an ASUS P5N SLI motherboard. Marvell SATA chipset. My and I had both problems with that controller too (identical systems.)
Instead of lowering the price to license, it would make much more sense to *increase* the license price for SOE because SWG was going nowhere. Why have a powerful property giving bad impressions and diluting the marketplace for the new game? Lucas is motivated to make his IP look good with a successful MMO, so he'd want to give it the best chance by killing off the crappy implementation: SWG. Fans go to ToR, SOE gets to shut down servers that are already on life support, and everyone's happy except the few people that actually liked SWG.
In EverQuest, an MMORPG that predates WoW, people have been using third-party software to automate many things for years, including selling items in the Bazaar (marketplace.)
Due to common errors in logic, it was fairly easy to spot, and somewhat easy to exploit, these scripts. The scripts would re-price their items based on other items for sale, either to lower the prices to just below the lowest price, or raise them when competing items were sold and theirs were the only items of that kind for sale.
I know this isn't real currency, but I think it's interesting to see the parallels.
I'd rather have a buggy Flash as an option than to have no choice at all.
It should get there eventually. Until then, use it when it works, disable it when it becomes a problem. Hardware inconsistency is one problem I'm sure, and it's really a shame that some vendors created slow, resource-starved Android phones.
Agreed! Considering I have a high definition 65" screen at home, free food and a pause button to use the bathroom means the theater loses almost every time (Avatar and Tron: Legacy in 3D being notable exceptions!). Even buying it at full Blu Ray price is a better deal than paying for tickets and concessions for me and my wife, but it's still beyond the "impulse buy" limit for something that loses almost all of its value after one screening.
Excellent comment. Friends who own ebook readers have said the exact same thing to me. This is not an uncommon phenomenon.
A few game companies are doing this sort of thing for old school games, like Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 anthologies. Other industries should catch on.
I agree, it's not overpriced right now as an early adoption technology. It's not like you can't read any books without it.
As time passes and Amazon makes back their investment, more competition gets into the market, and manufacturing processes drop even lower, I expect decent reader prices to drop near the $50 mark or lower....as long as booksellers stop this ridiculous overcharging on mainstream ebooks and drop them to a reasonable range. There have been a lot of great ideas killed by greedy people taxing it or overcharging it into oblivion. Or deliberately making something unprofitable for political or strategic reasons.
All books are free if you know where to look. If you end up liking the book, support the author by purchasing their books. If you don't like a book after the first couple chapters, just delete it.
That's a good idea, actually; give people the first few chapters of a book for free. If they like it, let them purchase the rest. Oh wait, then only quality would make money instead of overrated garbage; can't have that. At least with music, you usually get to hear the "best" track on the radio, and if you want you can just purchase that track (only an option relatively recently), or try to find the rest of the band's music online to see if you like it and want to buy the album.
I got a Kindle for Xmas. One of the best things ever. I've read over a dozen books since I got it, and at that pace I will have read 10x as many books as I read last year.
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Have had terrible experiences with Marvell. I know, anecdotal. YMMV.
And just because you know how to do something doesn't mean it isn't prohibitively expensive or time-consuming.
Floor space is really cheap... until you run out. Once you run up against a hard limit like that, getting more can be very expensive in money and time.
It was a typo, of course. I've typed "darth"-something many more times than "dart"-something else in my life.
'80 was probably too early. I would have been single digits. It was probably more like '84-'85 maybe? I remember some people had personal channels they would use, like some dude named Greg hung out in channel 32 I think?
I guess it would be kind of weird and wrong to ask what your username was? I can't even remember mine for sure; it might have been Warewolph, or The Hoodlum. Both awful handles that I discarded soon afterwards.
They look at hearing people as second class people.
They look at those that get implants as traitors.
Fuck all those paraplegic people that get prosthetics or use wheelchairs, crawlies forever!
Back in the day, I knew people that could provide me with magic phone numbers that would allow me to dial anywhere in the world, for free. Imagine that, right? I was only like 13. Statute of limitations and all that. This was in the 80s I guess.
Anyway, I remember we used to somehow dial into a Darthmouth mainframe and from there we could do a couple things. They had some kind of multiuser Zork (or Zork-ish) text adventure that you could play. I tried it a couple times but I couldn't get into it at the time, even though I loved Infocom games.
The biggest appeal was getting into the chat system. There, we could chat with what I assume were Darthmouth college students. "JOIN XYZ" I think was the command from the main menu.
There was this cool VT display of who was in the chat, so you could tell how many people were there. I used to chat with these people all the time. It was great for a precocious 13 year old who couldn't talk with his peers because his vocabulary and worldview was greatly expanded from theirs. How unfortunate that my social skills were so backward at the same time.
The details are a bit foggy, but I'm sure with some conversation with some of the same folks who used to chat there, I could dredge up those memories. Anyone remember chatting on that system?
> One language is bad because it enforces tidiness
When you have to scroll sideways to look at your code because of all the tabs, it's an aesthetic issue that encumbers a potentially great language.
* Launchy: I switch from my sitting desk to a standing desk throughout the day. Instead of using a glitchy duplicate Start button, I use Launchy to run things. Now I don't use the Start button very often anymore, even when it's on the screen.
* Dual Monitor, for duplicate task bars. It's glitchy, though. Crashes a couple times a day, but at least it's not a destructive crash. I should write an AutoHotKey script to restart it when it crashes...
* AutoHotKey: There are a few things I use this for, and it really comes in handy to do those little things that make life easier, like cheating in Cookie Clicker. Actually, its primary use for me is to move all my windows from my 2-screen sitting desk layout to my 1-screen standing desk layout with a simple key combo. But, it comes in handy when I need to quickly automate any repetitive task.
* KeyNote NF: It's a hierarchical note-taking app like Evernote used to be. It's lightweight and intuitive to use, although I'm still looking for something that works with mobile and web that isn't heavy like Evernote is now.
* LICEcap for capturing GIFs easily, cleanly, with a small-ish file size. Better than GifCam, and GifCam is pretty great.
> DLNA is perhaps the worst method of delivery
Absolutely. I have literally tried 7 different DLNA boxes and *none* of them were able to fast forward and rewind properly.
"We acknowledge that our customers will move completely to e-books once they get used to the idea and find out they can save money."
"Notch," the developer behind the famous Minecraft game, also ostensibly proposed pulsars as navigation beacons for his now-defunct game "0x10c." He used (generated) data collection from a pulsar as part of a series of puzzles related to PR for the game.
I've thought about creating a social game that integrates real world data for creating instant communities, but every mapping solution I've looked at requires you to host hundreds of gigabytes of image data, or purchase views after X number of free queries per month. As an independent developer, neither of those is practical for me.
Is there a truly free-as-in-beer map database that actually looks good at, say, a 10-mile radius zoom level that doesn't consume hundreds of gigabytes?
I tried that when I purchased the ASUS P8P67 motherboard. It had *tons* of reviews, and was one of the top-rated LGA1155 boards with more than 100 reviews.
Just purchased an ASUS P8P67 motherboard for a brand new Core i7 2600k install; my first new PC in like 5 years. I chose the P8P67 because it had a good assortment of SATA 3 and USB 3 ports for expansion. I had a DVD burner and 3 SATA drives to put into it; I like lots of storage.
I hooked up the drives, putting my brand new WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA 3 hard drive in the first SATA 3 port, and started installing Windows 7. It seemed to take a long time. The installation finished and I started installing all the usual utilities, apps, and games that one has to install on a new PC. I noticed that my system kept pausing, however. I would try to install something, and I would get frequent hourglass pauses, and sometimes the system would seem to lock up for up to 20 seconds at a time.
Eventually, I looked into the system log and saw that there were a bunch of errors coming up every time this happened; disk unavailable, and a driver name. The driver was for the Marvell SATA controller.
I moved that drive to one of the Intel SATA 3 ports (the other drives were not on the Marvell ports) and I have had no problems of that nature in the three weeks since then.
So, basically two of my SATA 3 ports, one of the primary reasons I chose this motherboard, are of no use to me.
Oh, funny fact; my older system had an ASUS P5N SLI motherboard. Marvell SATA chipset. My and I had both problems with that controller too (identical systems.)
Instead of lowering the price to license, it would make much more sense to *increase* the license price for SOE because SWG was going nowhere. Why have a powerful property giving bad impressions and diluting the marketplace for the new game? Lucas is motivated to make his IP look good with a successful MMO, so he'd want to give it the best chance by killing off the crappy implementation: SWG. Fans go to ToR, SOE gets to shut down servers that are already on life support, and everyone's happy except the few people that actually liked SWG.
In EverQuest, an MMORPG that predates WoW, people have been using third-party software to automate many things for years, including selling items in the Bazaar (marketplace.)
Due to common errors in logic, it was fairly easy to spot, and somewhat easy to exploit, these scripts. The scripts would re-price their items based on other items for sale, either to lower the prices to just below the lowest price, or raise them when competing items were sold and theirs were the only items of that kind for sale.
I know this isn't real currency, but I think it's interesting to see the parallels.
I'd rather have a buggy Flash as an option than to have no choice at all.
It should get there eventually. Until then, use it when it works, disable it when it becomes a problem. Hardware inconsistency is one problem I'm sure, and it's really a shame that some vendors created slow, resource-starved Android phones.
The emulator also runs like a piece of frozen dogshit. Its speed is horrible, and should not be used as any indicator of performance.
Additionally, it cannot emulate (without a LOT of effort) any of the specialized sensors like accelerometer, multitouch, GPS, and so on.
Agreed! Considering I have a high definition 65" screen at home, free food and a pause button to use the bathroom means the theater loses almost every time (Avatar and Tron: Legacy in 3D being notable exceptions!). Even buying it at full Blu Ray price is a better deal than paying for tickets and concessions for me and my wife, but it's still beyond the "impulse buy" limit for something that loses almost all of its value after one screening.
Excellent comment. Friends who own ebook readers have said the exact same thing to me. This is not an uncommon phenomenon.
A few game companies are doing this sort of thing for old school games, like Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 anthologies. Other industries should catch on.
I agree, it's not overpriced right now as an early adoption technology. It's not like you can't read any books without it.
As time passes and Amazon makes back their investment, more competition gets into the market, and manufacturing processes drop even lower, I expect decent reader prices to drop near the $50 mark or lower. ...as long as booksellers stop this ridiculous overcharging on mainstream ebooks and drop them to a reasonable range. There have been a lot of great ideas killed by greedy people taxing it or overcharging it into oblivion. Or deliberately making something unprofitable for political or strategic reasons.
All books are free if you know where to look. If you end up liking the book, support the author by purchasing their books. If you don't like a book after the first couple chapters, just delete it.
That's a good idea, actually; give people the first few chapters of a book for free. If they like it, let them purchase the rest. Oh wait, then only quality would make money instead of overrated garbage; can't have that. At least with music, you usually get to hear the "best" track on the radio, and if you want you can just purchase that track (only an option relatively recently), or try to find the rest of the band's music online to see if you like it and want to buy the album.
I got a Kindle for Xmas. One of the best things ever. I've read over a dozen books since I got it, and at that pace I will have read 10x as many books as I read last year.
Anyone can pick up PHP in a few short online lessons and make something productive in an afternoon.
Yes, inexperienced web developers can throw up insecure, poorly-designed sites. Yes, PHP could have more built-in security measures.
However, it's not rocket surgery to create your own standards and libraries to help with security once you have a little knowledge and experience.
If you didn't pirate it, would you buy it?
If you answered no, it's all right to pirate it.
If you can't buy it even if you wanted to, that's the same thing.
No harm, no foul.
Rats. I hate when I read through all the replies only to find the gist of what I was going to post has already been done!
Anyway, my theory is that it's an as-yet unannounced meteor that will devastate the world with tsunami and such.