Garfield was way over-saturated in the 80s. I remember MAD Magazine printing an article "Sure Signs of Insanity", one of which was "You don't know where you could buy any Garfield merchandise".
Maybe that's what made Jim Davis step in and take control of the situation.
WipeOut WipeOut XL / 2097 Wip3out No One Can Stop Mr Domino! The Sentinel Returns Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Oddworld: Abe's Exxodus Rollcage Rollcage 2 Colony Wars III: Red Sun
Most of these acclaimed classics have no equivalent PS2 game... WipeOut Fusion is sufficiently different to the first three that it can't really be called the same game, and of course Oddworld Inhabitants are Bill's bitches now.
I also played Driver on PS2, until GTA3 came out, and played Silent Hill on it too. Looking forward to Driv3r...
I bought the GameCube partly for the ability to play the N64 Zelda games, which I had never played but had heard such wonderful things about. (And indeed, they are wonderful games.)
Or pay $12 a year for pobox.com redirection and spam filtering. No ads, and you can send the mail to whatever real e-mail account you like, and change it at a moment's notice (unlike personal domains).
Yeah, I once had the pleasure of discovering a TV crew was going to be filming a talk I was giving. Coincidentally, my talk was going to tear into the media, criticizing the way they systematically slant topics by doing things like (a) only airing things which can be reduced to 8 second sound-bites, (b) assuming that there are always two equally valid sides to any issue, and (c) failing to address any kind of criticism of their own behavior.
I thought about it for a while, and decided to run with it. As they stood at the back of the room with the cameras, I delivered the talk exactly as I'd planned. The audience loved it, but the TV crew turned the cameras off after a couple of minutes, precisely demonstrating my point...
Naturally I didn't appear in a single frame of their eventual segment.
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I switched from emacs to vi, then to vim, and I've never looked back. Vim is much more ergonomic and easier to master than emacs.
Everyone had access to MINIX's source code. All the important bits were published on paper in Andy Tanenbaum's book on operating systems, which was a standard recommended college text at many universities at the time, and is still highly recommended today.
The workings of MINIX are discussed in the book in detail, and the complete source code and binaries are on a CD which comes with the book. The book was the standard cheap way to get MINIX, so it's pretty damn likely that Linus had a copy.
I was running Minix on my Atari and hacking the kernel source to support Cyrillic at around the time Linus started writing Linux, which was originally a replacement kernel for Minix. Linus did it because Andy Tanenbaum wouldn't add 386-only functionality to Minix, because he wanted it to be portable to whatever machines students had available to them--e.g. my Atari. Linus wanted protected virtual memory, so he started hacking on 386 assembler using his Minix system to do so.
All of this is pretty common knowledge, I thought, so I'm perplexed that so many people posting to this discussion seem unaware of it.
And interestingly enough, the Amiga OS also grew out of a teaching system--the Tripos OS, written at Cambridge by people including Professor Martin Richards, who invented BCPL and worked at Bell Labs with Kernighan and Richie... who were inspired by BCPL when designing C.
At least one person has built nvu for OS X successfully, but reported that it was a bit buggy... so I imagine eventually there will be OS X builds on the site.
Maybe I'm missing something very obvious, but after installing Firefox 0.9 and then Thunderbird 0.7, I *still* can't click on a URL in Thunderbird and have it open Firefox at the appropriate page. Why the hell not? Isn't this fairly basic functionality?
It's ironic. The big problem with the all-in-one Mozilla suite, for me, was that it always tried to launch Mozilla Mail even though I had defined a different e-mail package as my system mailer. Now I have the opposite problem.
(Using Linux, on the off chance that anyone actually knows the answer.)
People don't care about stretchy layout when you describe it that way, sure. Now try saying "Would you like the site design to still work if you select large fonts because you find small text hard to read?"
For CSS vs tables, again you don't describe that as the choice--you say "Would you like the site to be faster to download?" and "Would you like to be able to access the site from your PDA or web phone?"
All the technical crap has sound end-user reaons for being there. You just don't see it discussed that way here, because this is a site for technical crap.
I was thinking it'd be cool to set up your SMTP server so that each piece of detected and rejected spam would make it play a successive phrase of the SPAM Song.
Spam... Spam... Spam... Spam... Lovely Spam!... etc.
In fact, if you look back through Google history a bit, you'll see that Dave gave his weblog software Manila away for free for a year or two, then suddenly jacked the price up to $899 a year subscription fee. That change was without notice too. So it's not like he hasn't pulled this kind of shit before.
Static rendering. No CGI required. You need Perl modules, but only on the machine where you render the pages. Then you just mirror them up to your web host.
Slashdot Mirror
Garfield was way over-saturated in the 80s. I remember MAD Magazine printing an article "Sure Signs of Insanity", one of which was "You don't know where you could buy any Garfield merchandise".
Maybe that's what made Jim Davis step in and take control of the situation.
And when the big corporation does approve something interesting by mistake, they kill it as soon as possible, even if it's so good it wins awards.
Invader Zim.
The New Fantasy Island.
Firefly.
The Lone Gunmen.
Harsh Realm.
I thought TNG 97 really showed how risk-averse Star Trek had become, compared to the original series.
Remember, TOS had the first on-screen interracial kiss... yet TNG didn't even have the guts to show Dr Crusher attracted to another female.
My PSOne game collection:
WipeOut
WipeOut XL / 2097
Wip3out
No One Can Stop Mr Domino!
The Sentinel Returns
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Exxodus
Rollcage
Rollcage 2
Colony Wars III: Red Sun
Most of these acclaimed classics have no equivalent PS2 game... WipeOut Fusion is sufficiently different to the first three that it can't really be called the same game, and of course Oddworld Inhabitants are Bill's bitches now.
I also played Driver on PS2, until GTA3 came out, and played Silent Hill on it too. Looking forward to Driv3r...
I bought the GameCube partly for the ability to play the N64 Zelda games, which I had never played but had heard such wonderful things about. (And indeed, they are wonderful games.)
Or pay $12 a year for pobox.com redirection and spam filtering. No ads, and you can send the mail to whatever real e-mail account you like, and change it at a moment's notice (unlike personal domains).
Yeah, I once had the pleasure of discovering a TV crew was going to be filming a talk I was giving. Coincidentally, my talk was going to tear into the media, criticizing the way they systematically slant topics by doing things like (a) only airing things which can be reduced to 8 second sound-bites, (b) assuming that there are always two equally valid sides to any issue, and (c) failing to address any kind of criticism of their own behavior.
I thought about it for a while, and decided to run with it. As they stood at the back of the room with the cameras, I delivered the talk exactly as I'd planned. The audience loved it, but the TV crew turned the cameras off after a couple of minutes, precisely demonstrating my point...
Naturally I didn't appear in a single frame of their eventual segment.
I switched from emacs to vi, then to vim, and I've never looked back. Vim is much more ergonomic and easier to master than emacs.
Everyone had access to MINIX's source code. All the important bits were published on paper in Andy Tanenbaum's book on operating systems, which was a standard recommended college text at many universities at the time, and is still highly recommended today.
The workings of MINIX are discussed in the book in detail, and the complete source code and binaries are on a CD which comes with the book. The book was the standard cheap way to get MINIX, so it's pretty damn likely that Linus had a copy.
I was running Minix on my Atari and hacking the kernel source to support Cyrillic at around the time Linus started writing Linux, which was originally a replacement kernel for Minix. Linus did it because Andy Tanenbaum wouldn't add 386-only functionality to Minix, because he wanted it to be portable to whatever machines students had available to them--e.g. my Atari. Linus wanted protected virtual memory, so he started hacking on 386 assembler using his Minix system to do so.
All of this is pretty common knowledge, I thought, so I'm perplexed that so many people posting to this discussion seem unaware of it.
And interestingly enough, the Amiga OS also grew out of a teaching system--the Tripos OS, written at Cambridge by people including Professor Martin Richards, who invented BCPL and worked at Bell Labs with Kernighan and Richie... who were inspired by BCPL when designing C.
Lemme see... Bush and Kerry... which one's the military hero, and which one's the draft dodger?
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Time to go browse the deck of Republican Chickenhawks.
http://www.chickenhawkcards.com/chickenhawkcard
I think we've already established that he does, he's just wondering how dangerous it is.
That's nothing, those stupid Egyptians have *three* great pyramids. Why those idiots haven't torn down the other two I'll never know.
"Wow"?
I *literally cried* when I saw the Saturn V at the Kennedy Space Center.
Worthless piece of scrap? I don't think so.
That's nothing, I could only afford a 1D laptop. I have to read Slashdot a line of pixels at a time.
At least one person has built nvu for OS X successfully, but reported that it was a bit buggy... so I imagine eventually there will be OS X builds on the site.
Maybe I'm missing something very obvious, but after installing Firefox 0.9 and then Thunderbird 0.7, I *still* can't click on a URL in Thunderbird and have it open Firefox at the appropriate page. Why the hell not? Isn't this fairly basic functionality?
It's ironic. The big problem with the all-in-one Mozilla suite, for me, was that it always tried to launch Mozilla Mail even though I had defined a different e-mail package as my system mailer. Now I have the opposite problem.
(Using Linux, on the off chance that anyone actually knows the answer.)
Sure, if failing to make a single penny in profit is "pretty well"...
...if having only 1 game in any of the annual top ten sales charts, and that being "Halo" from back in 2001, is "pretty well"...
...if having sold even fewer units than Nintendo's GameCube is "pretty well"...
...if being outsold by the PSOne in Japan is "pretty well"...
...then yes, Xbox has done pretty well. And to think people accuse Slashdot of being anti-Microsoft!
People don't care about stretchy layout when you describe it that way, sure. Now try saying "Would you like the site design to still work if you select large fonts because you find small text hard to read?"
For CSS vs tables, again you don't describe that as the choice--you say "Would you like the site to be faster to download?" and "Would you like to be able to access the site from your PDA or web phone?"
All the technical crap has sound end-user reaons for being there. You just don't see it discussed that way here, because this is a site for technical crap.
Slashdot is really broken, you basically can't use anything but 7-bit ASCII. No accented characters, no proper quotation marks, and so on.
Us techies have this amazing new technology called the paragraph break. You might want to try it some time.
I was thinking it'd be cool to set up your SMTP server so that each piece of detected and rejected spam would make it play a successive phrase of the SPAM Song.
Spam...
Spam...
Spam...
Spam...
Lovely Spam!...
etc.
I know you're joking, but in fact British American Tobacco (BAT) is one of the world's largest sellers of life insurance policies.
(And yes, they do charge more in premiums if you smoke their other products.)
A Maytag washing machine killed my mother, you insensitive clod!
In fact, if you look back through Google history a bit, you'll see that Dave gave his weblog software Manila away for free for a year or two, then suddenly jacked the price up to $899 a year subscription fee. That change was without notice too. So it's not like he hasn't pulled this kind of shit before.
Static rendering. No CGI required. You need Perl modules, but only on the machine where you render the pages. Then you just mirror them up to your web host.