This will never effect any of us, just like the GIF thing a while back....and even if they tried to "strong arm" their Patent via fees and such, they would be the scourge of the tech world, and someone will just make the next "JPEG" compression scheme....talk about bringing heat to your company....its amazing that companies try this.....especially the weekly occurances of " Hey we have the patent/copytright on hyperlinks " LOL
Man, the way they were looking years ago, Acclaim could've rented out space on THEIR gravestone! *ba-rump-bump! This seems like some spin to drum up "controversy", but hell, with Funeral Costs as high as they are in the US at least, if some ppl could re-coup some cash, I'm sure they would.
Remember, this is the country where ppl would name their children after dot coms and radio call letters! LOL
Note to Acclaim: continue to stay away from cookie cutter Movie License games and you will survive!:D
....and for those to refer me to w3c, don't bother. Thats ideal, but we are talking about the real world here.
I'm an old-schooler, Wordpad is my editor of choice as far as web coding goes, GUI's just add alot of extra crap in the code/pages, thats a given.
Browsers don't meet standards, the w3c standards that are set aren't enforced (which isn't a BAD thing, we don't need police for web code:), and the standards change on occasion, so you could write code till your fingers bleed to make it "nicey-nice" with all browsers, then if theres a w3c revision, and the next wave of browsers come out *plop* there goes your work.
I try to code for as many browsers to work as possible, in all honesty, the hierarchy is roughly: IE/Netscape/AOL/Opera/Mozilla(s)
There's an app I'm doing now that works perfectly in all EXCEPT Opera, and I simply don't have the time to go thru the guts of Opera to find out why......and thats really the bottom line with the issue, Deadlines and how many can we cover the quickest in user base, sorry to say IE is it, IMO
I'd love for them all to work the same, but there's too many "sub-standards" out there and most of us don't have time to "troubleshoot" the ones that don't work 100%.
I will say I am shocked at the use, or lack thereof, of ALT tags....but thats just me:)
Also I find that ALOT of people don't care if a page is w3c compliant, as long as it looks good, they are happy....most won't even know what w3c is. And those who do know, instead of moaning online in message boards such as this, send email to the webmaster...consistantly, thats the ONLY way they will even consider revising their code.
Man, this topic could go for days, and the above mentioned really is one of the funnier offshoots of the un-seperation of church and state....
Like the Bible is some sort of "truth-machine"
It really is silly when you think about it, let's play on superstition to try to MAKE people tell the truth....LOL!
So if/when they try any people of any non-christian faith are they going to have to...swear to tell the truth...ON THE BIBLE?!
And if you lie under oath, why does mankind punish you with purgery? Isn't it between you and God at that point? I'm sure God can take care of business, right?
I'm all for let everyone believe what they want, but erally when you look at how much religion is almost subliminally inserted into our lives, thats wrong
I'm entertained! Thanks a bunch!
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Wow.
The MSNBC article was right on the money IMHO. Except for maybe the "it's for geeks" statement, now I'll consider myself a geek, but I know a few who delved into Linux-land and who aren't super-tech-savvy and fared just fine.
The response here for a large percentage was pure textbook knee-jerk, and for that show, I thank you all, VERY entertaining!
>>And people on Slashdot haven't worked out that this is in fact the first time the geeks get to fleece the suits.... shame on you.
hahaha
My thought exactly, and actually I wouldn't be surprised if after this initial launch, and the hype of it dies down, it will be a virtual ghostown, kind of like a ironic joke TLD.
>>Take this article from Scientific American for example Watching Wrestling Linked to Violent Behavior [sciam.com]. Other studies have found simmilar results. Kids are like monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do.
This bill is going NOWHERE, its been tried before and it'll be tried again I'm sure.
As far as wrestling (erm.....sports entertainment)goes, if some disaffected kid sees being some sort of badass asskicker as an outlet for whatever issues they have, methinks the root ISSUES are more important to address, why they identify themselves with that persona in the first place.
>>The report says that a virus known as W95.CIH.1049, a slight variation of the W95.CIH bug dubbed the Chernobyl virus when it began spreading four years ago, has been detected in recent infections of the Klez worm.
>>The state's negotiators were no match for the professionals at Oracle, according to a state auditor's report, which highlighted several aspects of the contract that it found objectionable. For example, the report noted that the six-year term was unusually long in an industry with rapidly changing technology, that the state wasn't protected in the event Oracle lowered its prices and that the purchase price didn't include software upgrades.
Wow, I know that government agencies can get stooped over on large contracts with technology vendors, but god, I'm honestly shocked that that deal got pushed through, normally theres multiple "sign offs".....nobody, NOBODY saw that this was a shaky deal?? LOL Especially for the price tag involved
"The 88-pound spacecraft will also carry a camera that will capture pictures of the solar sails during the mission. "
Wow, talk about a lean ship....why don't they do more like this..? Send a 12" ball covered in solar panels, lil cam and lil' jet propellers to right itself when need be, and just fire that sucker out of a cannon or something into space?
Well that was a very carttonish description, but really, just like other tech. smaller may be the way to go here as well.
Its really disturbing that a foreigner is being detained, for explaining how half baked a software companies' protection scheme is.
PLEASE RE-READ THE ABOVE SENTENCE
Now think about it for a moment, this is some scary shit! How can any authority feel that they are even REMOTELY justified in taking this action?
God, I guess I better cancel my seminar on how much I dislike the WindowsXP GUI and possible ways to circumvent the look.:) ....you know, just in case I may ANNOY someone at MS, wouldn't want the "cops in their pocket" at my door! -----------------------------
[SEVERE SARCASM]when I was a young man, oh say around 1st grade age; you see....since we used to play games like "Cowboys and Indians" with real-looking guns and rifles, it came so very easy to actually gun down a real indian boy in the neighborhood, so I see where these ppl are coming from... [SARCASM OFF]
Man oh man, I'm sure I couldn't comprehend the loss these families went through, but this is getting _REALLY_ tired.
But.....in all seriousness, if I ever go off the deep end....and I am able to control a REAL weapon with a KEYBOARD AND A MOUSE, lookout!!
Oh yeah, and I'll need the "Crosshair" option turned on in real life since my aim isn't all that hot without it:) LOL -----------------------------
People have been making new games for old systems for quite a few years now...or ports of exsisting games (ex. Tetris on 2600) a good number of which are made into limited production carts, which naturally, some collectors go nuts over:) There's a guy in New Jersey that creates new titles for Vectrex, Coleco and Oddyssey2 and is a pretty good guy all around.....you can check out his stuff at http://www.classicgamecreations.com/ ------------ -----------------
In one of my other replies I'd acknowledged that there's a small amount of games worth playing on N64.....but honestly....like 5 "must have" games for a console system?! Thats a little skewed..and not really a success IMO Virtual Boy actually has some fun titles on it....but it was just too odd for most people. Tempest2000 on Jag is excellent....
>>Are you sure the N64 is a failure?
It depends on what you consider a failure...there's maybe 5 games that are worth playing on that console...now if 100,000 kids buy it for pokemon stadium or zelda or mario64....and then forget about it....is it really a success? I know more people that were let down and felt that their money was wasted on N64 than on Saturn and Jaguar combined!
Good call on the Atari 7800..yeah it definately was late out the door....but for alot, that backwards compatabilty was actually appreciated! The Second coming of Christ himself would pale in comparison of NES stranglehold on the market...does that mean SMS was an outright bomb? That system lasted for a good amount of time.
Slashdot Mirror
Incorrect! That would be for a MS Certified Solution Provider @ $1 per / hour, plain ol' MCSE's are $0.60 per /hour.
This will never effect any of us, just like the GIF thing a while back....and even if they tried to "strong arm" their Patent via fees and such, they would be the scourge of the tech world, and someone will just make the next "JPEG" compression scheme....talk about bringing heat to your company....its amazing that companies try this .....especially the weekly occurances of " Hey we have the patent/copytright on hyperlinks " LOL
Man, the way they were looking years ago, Acclaim could've rented out space on THEIR gravestone!
:D
*ba-rump-bump!
This seems like some spin to drum up "controversy", but hell, with Funeral Costs as high as they are in the US at least, if some ppl could re-coup some cash, I'm sure they would.
Remember, this is the country where ppl would name their children after dot coms and radio call letters! LOL
Note to Acclaim: continue to stay away from cookie cutter Movie License games and you will survive!
....and for those to refer me to w3c, don't bother. Thats ideal, but we are talking about the real world here.
:), and the standards change on occasion, so you could write code till your fingers bleed to make it "nicey-nice" with all browsers, then if theres a w3c revision, and the next wave of browsers come out *plop* there goes your work.
:)
I'm an old-schooler, Wordpad is my editor of choice as far as web coding goes, GUI's just add alot of extra crap in the code/pages, thats a given.
Browsers don't meet standards, the w3c standards that are set aren't enforced (which isn't a BAD thing, we don't need police for web code
I try to code for as many browsers to work as possible, in all honesty, the hierarchy is roughly:
IE/Netscape/AOL/Opera/Mozilla(s)
There's an app I'm doing now that works perfectly in all EXCEPT Opera, and I simply don't have the time to go thru the guts of Opera to find out why......and thats really the bottom line with the issue, Deadlines and how many can we cover the quickest in user base, sorry to say IE is it, IMO
I'd love for them all to work the same, but there's too many "sub-standards" out there and most of us don't have time to "troubleshoot" the ones that don't work 100%.
I will say I am shocked at the use, or lack thereof, of ALT tags....but thats just me
Also I find that ALOT of people don't care if a page is w3c compliant, as long as it looks good, they are happy....most won't even know what w3c is. And those who do know, instead of moaning online in message boards such as this, send email to the webmaster...consistantly, thats the ONLY way they will even consider revising their code.
....is the latest trendy fetish, you know the one where the one person takes sausage links, a tub of "I can't believe it's not butter ©", then using a rachet set........ ..oh, that "deep linking"......hehe my bad!
>>taking bibles out of swearing in ceremonies
...swear to tell the truth...ON THE BIBLE?!
Man, this topic could go for days, and the above mentioned really is one of the funnier offshoots of the un-seperation of church and state....
Like the Bible is some sort of "truth-machine"
It really is silly when you think about it, let's play on superstition to try to MAKE people tell the truth....LOL!
So if/when they try any people of any non-christian faith are they going to have to
And if you lie under oath, why does mankind punish you with purgery? Isn't it between you and God at that point? I'm sure God can take care of business, right?
I'm all for let everyone believe what they want, but erally when you look at how much religion is almost subliminally inserted into our lives, thats wrong
Wow.
The MSNBC article was right on the money IMHO. Except for maybe the "it's for geeks" statement, now I'll consider myself a geek, but I know a few who delved into Linux-land and who aren't super-tech-savvy and fared just fine.
The response here for a large percentage was pure textbook knee-jerk, and for that show, I thank you all, VERY entertaining!
"The Slashdot olde tyme knee-jerk reaction show!"
*applause*
yep.....Seth Able the Bard
that game was alot of fun, makes me wanna setup a ol' wildcat! BBS just for grins
>>It requires Doors or something like that.
DOORS? DOORS?!? Are you talking of ol' days of old BBS game systems?
*wipes tear from eye* I remember!
L.O.R.D. was always popular around my area....those were fun simple mulitplayer games
A round of applause for this Anonymous Coward! Great, entertaining review!
bwahahaaha! :)
Where will technology take us next my friend?!
Unofficial Tempest Info site :)
Just for those who may not know the jist of it, ALSO DIY shielding techniques!
when you see someone holding this laptop sideways it means one thing......
they're on Playboy dot com, checking out the centerfold, the way they were meant to be checked out!
:)
Cool device though.....
>>And people on Slashdot haven't worked out that this is in fact the first time the geeks get to fleece the suits.... shame on you.
hahaha
My thought exactly, and actually I wouldn't be surprised if after this initial launch, and the hype of it dies down, it will be a virtual ghostown, kind of like a ironic joke TLD.
Ahhhh who knows?
>>Take this article from Scientific American for example Watching Wrestling Linked to Violent Behavior [sciam.com]. Other studies have found simmilar results. Kids are like monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do.
:D
Well shhhhhhhiiittttt, that explains why as a child I was determined to run a cat thru a harp's strings, thusly cutting it into little cross sections of itself, cause I've seen that played out many times on "Old School©" Tom and Jerry cartoons.
I learn something new every day!
This bill is going NOWHERE, its been tried before and it'll be tried again I'm sure.
As far as wrestling (erm.....sports entertainment)goes, if some disaffected kid sees being some sort of badass asskicker as an outlet for whatever issues they have, methinks the root ISSUES are more important to address, why they identify themselves with that persona in the first place.
>>The report says that a virus known as W95.CIH.1049, a slight variation of the W95.CIH bug dubbed the Chernobyl virus when it began spreading four years ago, has been detected in recent infections of the Klez worm.
;p
For Klez worm infections they need a dose of good ol' PC-Illin ©
Ba-Rump-Bum! *kssshhhhh*
God did I just do that?
>>The state's negotiators were no match for the professionals at Oracle, according to a state auditor's report, which highlighted several aspects of the contract that it found objectionable. For example, the report noted that the six-year term was unusually long in an industry with rapidly changing technology, that the state wasn't protected in the event Oracle lowered its prices and that the purchase price didn't include software upgrades.
Wow, I know that government agencies can get stooped over on large contracts with technology vendors, but god, I'm honestly shocked that that deal got pushed through, normally theres multiple "sign offs".....nobody, NOBODY saw that this was a shaky deal?? LOL Especially for the price tag involved
WalMart can go even further or on a variation of this progressive "No OS" option by having the PC's installed with
"SAM'S CHOICE WAL-INUX"
sans the nasty softmodem.
"The 88-pound spacecraft will also carry a camera that will capture pictures of the solar sails during the mission. "
Wow, talk about a lean ship....why don't they do more like this..? Send a 12" ball covered in solar panels, lil cam and lil' jet propellers to right itself when need be, and just fire that sucker out of a cannon or something into space?
Well that was a very carttonish description, but really, just like other tech. smaller may be the way to go here as well.
Interesting stuff
>>He could have been referring to any OS, so why did you assume that he meant Linux?
What website are we on?
Who manufactures the xBox?
Do you need any more clarification?
LOL
:p
Its really disturbing that a foreigner is being detained, for explaining how half baked a software companies' protection scheme is. :)
....you know, just in case I may ANNOY someone at MS, wouldn't want the "cops in their pocket" at my door!
PLEASE RE-READ THE ABOVE SENTENCE
Now think about it for a moment, this is some scary shit! How can any authority feel that they are even REMOTELY justified in taking this action?
God, I guess I better cancel my seminar on how much I dislike the WindowsXP GUI and possible ways to circumvent the look.
-----------------------------
[SEVERE SARCASM]when I was a young man, oh say around 1st grade age; you see....since we used to play games like "Cowboys and Indians" with real-looking guns and rifles, it came so very easy to actually gun down a real indian boy in the neighborhood, so I see where these ppl are coming from... [SARCASM OFF] :) LOL
Man oh man, I'm sure I couldn't comprehend the loss these families went through, but this is getting _REALLY_ tired.
But.....in all seriousness, if I ever go off the deep end....and I am able to control a REAL weapon with a KEYBOARD AND A MOUSE, lookout!!
Oh yeah, and I'll need the "Crosshair" option turned on in real life since my aim isn't all that hot without it
-----------------------------
People have been making new games for old systems for quite a few years now...or ports of exsisting games (ex. Tetris on 2600) a good number of which are made into limited production carts, which naturally, some collectors go nuts over :)- -----------------
There's a guy in New Jersey that creates new titles for Vectrex, Coleco and Oddyssey2 and is a pretty good guy all around.....you can check out his stuff at http://www.classicgamecreations.com/
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In one of my other replies I'd acknowledged that there's a small amount of games worth playing on N64.....but honestly....like 5 "must have" games for a console system?! Thats a little skewed..and not really a success IMO
Virtual Boy actually has some fun titles on it....but it was just too odd for most people. Tempest2000 on Jag is excellent....
>>Are you sure the N64 is a failure?
It depends on what you consider a failure...there's maybe 5 games that are worth playing on that console...now if 100,000 kids buy it for pokemon stadium or zelda or mario64....and then forget about it....is it really a success? I know more people that were let down and felt that their money was wasted on N64 than on Saturn and Jaguar combined!
Good call on the Atari 7800..yeah it definately was late out the door....but for alot, that backwards compatabilty was actually appreciated!
The Second coming of Christ himself would pale in comparison of NES stranglehold on the market...does that mean SMS was an outright bomb? That system lasted for a good amount of time.