The online material for textbooks is how the textbook publishers assassinated the second-hand market. The one-time-use codes for Mastering Chemistry/Mastering Calculus/Mastering Physics/whatever are the biggest racket these criminals could have added to their already-a-racket.
Guitar Hero, etc. are not guitar simulators. They are rock star simulators. People play guitar rhythm games for similar reasons to playing e.g. flight sims or military games -- immediate access to a role that would otherwise take years of training and luck to get, combined with the ability to use resources that even learning "The Real Thing" wouldn't get you to.
You can take flying lessons on your own, but you're never going to get to fly an F16 and blow shit up. You can enlist in the Army and be trained as infantry, but you're (very likely) not going to get to go on covert missions on a disputed island stealing Russian tanks to use against them.
You *can* learn how to play the guitar, but the vast majority of people who know how to play are never going to stand in front of a crowd of 30K people and wow them by tipping your guitar up at the right time.
The wide array of rhythm games have very little to do with music. The sooner that elitist amateur musicians like yourself get over that fact, the sooner you can accept that these games can be *fun* while not diminishing your hobby at all. Those who don't accept it can continue to feel threatened by these games and make the same tired argument you posted.
If you're running Gentoo you have to recompile your kernel with --funroll-loops and --egg-foo-yung (and of course the ever-present -O3 and -j256), but at least then the whole system will be tuned specifically for handling UTF-8 on your exact CPU.
It wasn't *our* planned downtime, it was the upstream provider's. Their announcement said there would be short blips of downtime; the part that didn't grab our attention was that they would also be upgrading router software and "streamlining configurations".
What this ended up meaning was that when they finished rebooting routers, IP stopped flowing since their side and our side weren't on the same page anymore. We had to roll a person to the datacenter at 4am.
Pope declares nanotechnology against the will of the Lord, demands Catholics around the world put an end to this horrible atrocity of wasting the sacred seed.... and Michael Palin sings a song about it.
It appears to be some sort of web-based simcity-alike game where you get resources/points/money based on pageviews, obviously a gimmick to generate ad impressions. Some of the players trick people into doing pageviews ala rickrolling or goatse, except now they've realized getting a first or second post on slashdot generates a bazillion clicks, accidental or otherwise.
Romeo. yo wot lite thru windo brakes? itz the east n julietz the sun!1!!!
Juliet. o romeo lol y r u namd romoe??!? rose bi ne othr name wuld smell @ swet
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Macbeth. is ths a daggr wich i c b4 me, handle 2 my hand? cum let me clutch the! i haf ye not but i c the still! lulz, i b trippin frum heat. omg britney is on tmz n all ur yestrdays haf lited wai 2 dustey death, lif's but a walkin shadoe a poor playa who strutz n fretz hoor on d stage n then herd no mor! itz a tale told bi n idiot full f snd&fury signifing nothing.
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Hamlet. 2b r not 2b is d Q. weather is nobeler 2.... lol this z borin, u now this rite? blabla every1 dies.
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I'm sure you can tell whether these are from the apes or the college kids.
First, I'm pretty sure it's "raritanium". Granted, I'm playing in 720p and not 1080p so the resolution might just not be there.:)
I thought some of the sixaxis control parts were horrible, ESPECIALLY the roll-the-marble-around-the-labyrinth-like-you're-in-the-waiting-room-for-the-dentist. But then again, I've hated the unlock-a-door minigame in every previous R&C game. They take you out of the main game too long, require entirely different hand-eye skills compared to shooting stuff, and generally require you to restart the whole thing from the beginning if you screw up at the last second.
Also, the space-shooter levels were tough since you suddenly needed to use two analog sticks. I'm not one for first-person-shooters on consoles, so the only thing I've ever really used two analog sticks simultaneously for was Katamari Damacy. This doesn't provide you a good warm-up for having to position your ship (dodging shit at the same time) AND positioning your targeting reticle at the same time. I ham-fisted my way through them and didn't even bother to go back for the skill points or platinum bolts... and that's saying a lot since I'm an anal-retentive completionist on games like this (and lego star wars, with its even more frustrating "percentage complete" meter).
But yeah, it boils down to being the Reason I Bought A PS3(tm), and also boils down to Thank God I've Finally Got Something To Play On This Really Expensive Paperweight That's Mostly Been A Blu-Ray Movie Player(tm). It's everything I wanted the next-gen Ratchet and Clank to be. And yeah, it does feel like playing a Pixar movie, as much as I hate the reviewer-speak analogy.
... wasn't that a show on Nickelodeon with Bill Cosby? He'd show you his password for various systems, and make silly sound effects to go with whatever sort of line he was drawing. It had a theme song: Picture Passwords, Picture Passwords, lots of fun with Picture Passwords, lots of fun with crayons and with pencils!
"an email from Attorney Jack Thompson stating that his 15-year-old son purchased the Mature-rated game BioShock from a local Best Buy."
Jack's son: if you're reading this, don't worry. We know your dad forced you to do it, and you're not as much of a tool as he makes you out to be. In another three years you can move out, and we'll all pretend this crap never happened.
It was a combination of requirements that LVS met the best at the time, for all the sites. And now it doesn't. We're deploying F5's for the new datacenter.
Only the bad guys have red LCDs. That's how you tell them apart from the good guys, who always have blue or green.... or purple, I guess, if you're a bad ass motherfucker.
Slashdot Mirror
Autopilots aren't infallible.
But they *are* inflatable. Or, at least, Otto is.
"No, I was thinking of that mountain goat over there."
^^^^^ THIS.
The online material for textbooks is how the textbook publishers assassinated the second-hand market. The one-time-use codes for Mastering Chemistry/Mastering Calculus/Mastering Physics/whatever are the biggest racket these criminals could have added to their already-a-racket.
Textbooks are turning into extortion.
"It's on the boundary between the impossible and possible"
I call it... the possimpible.
http://www.barneysvideoresume.com/
Guitar Hero, etc. are not guitar simulators. They are rock star simulators. People play guitar rhythm games for similar reasons to playing e.g. flight sims or military games -- immediate access to a role that would otherwise take years of training and luck to get, combined with the ability to use resources that even learning "The Real Thing" wouldn't get you to.
You can take flying lessons on your own, but you're never going to get to fly an F16 and blow shit up. You can enlist in the Army and be trained as infantry, but you're (very likely) not going to get to go on covert missions on a disputed island stealing Russian tanks to use against them.
You *can* learn how to play the guitar, but the vast majority of people who know how to play are never going to stand in front of a crowd of 30K people and wow them by tipping your guitar up at the right time.
The wide array of rhythm games have very little to do with music. The sooner that elitist amateur musicians like yourself get over that fact, the sooner you can accept that these games can be *fun* while not diminishing your hobby at all. Those who don't accept it can continue to feel threatened by these games and make the same tired argument you posted.
No longer the last domain available.
If you're running Gentoo you have to recompile your kernel with --funroll-loops and --egg-foo-yung (and of course the ever-present -O3 and -j256), but at least then the whole system will be tuned specifically for handling UTF-8 on your exact CPU.
It wasn't *our* planned downtime, it was the upstream provider's. Their announcement said there would be short blips of downtime; the part that didn't grab our attention was that they would also be upgrading router software and "streamlining configurations".
What this ended up meaning was that when they finished rebooting routers, IP stopped flowing since their side and our side weren't on the same page anymore. We had to roll a person to the datacenter at 4am.
Pope declares nanotechnology against the will of the Lord, demands Catholics around the world put an end to this horrible atrocity of wasting the sacred seed. ... and Michael Palin sings a song about it.
It appears to be some sort of web-based simcity-alike game where you get resources/points/money based on pageviews, obviously a gimmick to generate ad impressions. Some of the players trick people into doing pageviews ala rickrolling or goatse, except now they've realized getting a first or second post on slashdot generates a bazillion clicks, accidental or otherwise.
Yeah, it's stupid.
More like Dilbert.
By the way, we're moving the deadline for your report up a week.
Excerpts from the research:
Romeo. yo wot lite thru windo brakes? itz the east n julietz the sun!1!!!
Juliet. o romeo lol y r u namd romoe??!? rose bi ne othr name wuld smell @ swet
----
Macbeth. is ths a daggr wich i c b4 me, handle 2 my hand? cum let me clutch the! i haf ye not but i c the still! lulz, i b trippin frum heat.
omg britney is on tmz
n all ur yestrdays haf lited wai 2 dustey death, lif's but a walkin shadoe a poor playa who strutz n fretz hoor on d stage n then herd no mor! itz a tale told bi n idiot full f snd&fury signifing nothing.
----
Hamlet. 2b r not 2b is d Q. weather is nobeler 2.... lol this z borin, u now this rite? blabla every1 dies.
----
I'm sure you can tell whether these are from the apes or the college kids.
First, I'm pretty sure it's "raritanium". Granted, I'm playing in 720p and not 1080p so the resolution might just not be there. :)
I thought some of the sixaxis control parts were horrible, ESPECIALLY the roll-the-marble-around-the-labyrinth-like-you're-in-the-waiting-room-for-the-dentist. But then again, I've hated the unlock-a-door minigame in every previous R&C game. They take you out of the main game too long, require entirely different hand-eye skills compared to shooting stuff, and generally require you to restart the whole thing from the beginning if you screw up at the last second.
Also, the space-shooter levels were tough since you suddenly needed to use two analog sticks. I'm not one for first-person-shooters on consoles, so the only thing I've ever really used two analog sticks simultaneously for was Katamari Damacy. This doesn't provide you a good warm-up for having to position your ship (dodging shit at the same time) AND positioning your targeting reticle at the same time. I ham-fisted my way through them and didn't even bother to go back for the skill points or platinum bolts... and that's saying a lot since I'm an anal-retentive completionist on games like this (and lego star wars, with its even more frustrating "percentage complete" meter).
But yeah, it boils down to being the Reason I Bought A PS3(tm), and also boils down to Thank God I've Finally Got Something To Play On This Really Expensive Paperweight That's Mostly Been A Blu-Ray Movie Player(tm). It's everything I wanted the next-gen Ratchet and Clank to be. And yeah, it does feel like playing a Pixar movie, as much as I hate the reviewer-speak analogy.
... wasn't that a show on Nickelodeon with Bill Cosby? He'd show you his password for various systems, and make silly sound effects to go with whatever sort of line he was drawing. It had a theme song: Picture Passwords, Picture Passwords, lots of fun with Picture Passwords, lots of fun with crayons and with pencils!
Something strange is afoot at the Enrichment Center.
"an email from Attorney Jack Thompson stating that his 15-year-old son purchased the Mature-rated game BioShock from a local Best Buy."
Jack's son: if you're reading this, don't worry. We know your dad forced you to do it, and you're not as much of a tool as he makes you out to be. In another three years you can move out, and we'll all pretend this crap never happened.
*Avoid*??!? Shit, I read the instructions wrong.
Pfft, I've just replayed the whole game like 6 times. I don't need no stinking MP3.
Look at me still posting when there's SCIENCE to be done!
It was a combination of requirements that LVS met the best at the time, for all the sites. And now it doesn't. We're deploying F5's for the new datacenter.
Pfft, software problem. I didn't get paged.
root:*x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
SSH keys everywhere.
I sent some cellphone pics to Taco. I dunno what he's gonna do with them. For the general idea, see http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=323935&cid=20928895 from the previous history posts.
There isn't any.
... yet. That's what I'm for.
Only the bad guys have red LCDs. That's how you tell them apart from the good guys, who always have blue or green. ... or purple, I guess, if you're a bad ass motherfucker.