I have a Japanese GameBoy Advance and the worm light sucks with it. What you want is a LightBoy Advance. It's a unit that sits on top of your GBA and magnifies and fully lights the screen. It requires additional batteries and is more expensive than the worm light but it's well worth it.
Yeah right... That's why it's still on all the sidewalks in my neighborhood more than a month after it happened? This is a bit different than some kid's chalk drawings.
This is good?! This is the start of something very scary. You can't cross a street in my neighborhood (Upper Haight/San Francisco) without seeing this bullshit painted in the crosswalks. It pisses me off and I'm a supporter of Linux. Yes, this gets IBM publicity but at the cost of the people who live in these neighborhoods and have to look at this crap every day, most of whom couldn't care less about Linux or any other operating system for that matter. I can almost stomach this because I'm a supporter of Linux but how cool is it going to be when we start seeing ads for Camel cigarettes or McDonald's painted in the street?!
A few years ago when I was taking software engineering in college, we used xfig. It was simple but it worked. If you're familiar with xfig at all, you know that all you can do with it is create the graphical representation of the model -- no round-trip engineering, no validation, none of the other good features you'll find in a real object modelling tool. But it's one of the lightest weight tools you can find and it's free. When you can afford it, I would strongly recommend looking at some higher end tools such as Rational Rose or Together/J.
The review/editorial on "I Want To Blow Up Silicon Valley" is ridiculously short-sighted. Tech has ruled and people have been making ludicrous amounts of money in Silicon Valley since the mid-eighties and before. It's nothing new. Long before there were any "dot-coms", Silicon Valley was flush with money. The dot-com backlash as of late is largely a creation of the media including Salon.com. Yes, there are problems with the extreme influx of money that the net economy has brought to Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas. I would say that the gentrification of certain San Francisco neighborhoods is far more substantial than homes in Silicon Valley going from "very expensive" to "extremely expensive". It's time to stop the blind demonization of all that is "dot-com", start looking at the real problems, and start looking for real solutions.
The five-day acceptance portion of web services contracts is pretty much a necessity. This not only applies to the final site but to milestone deliverables as well. Nothing impedes site development like clients that are slow to make a decision. When a requirements document, use cases, storyboards, visual designs, etc. are submitted to a client for signoff and they don't have a contractual obligation to give feedback on those in a timely manner, they are often slow to make a decision. This kills project momentum and generally results in a poorer quality product or a slipped schedule. As far as final site approval goes, five days is probably a little short.
I think this is a horrible book. The author is extremely opinionated and frequently off base. His assertion that AOLServer will cure all the world's problems is ridiculous. In fact, the entire book seems to be an advertisement for AOLServer. The book is filled with ludicrous gems like "no one uses Java for server-side scripting". Take with a heavy dose of salt...
I would agree with the previous post. I've registered two domains though register.com, the first of which I planned to handle the DNS myself. It was a complete nightmare. I had the same problem where changes to the authoritative name servers didn't stick. I finally gave up and hosted DNS with them. Once I did this, everything was a breeze. My advice would be this: If you want to host DNS yourself, do not go with register.com. If you don't mind having your DNS hosted through your registrar, go with register.com. They offer a great interface for managing your domain and DNS settings (including MX records) and I've found their service to be reasonably reliable.
I wouldn't say that this was taken out of context at all. Here are the two questions pertaining to this issue (from http://www.dailyradar.com/features/game_feature_pa ge_98_1.html)
Daily Radar: You've got ambitious sales goals: two million units by March, six million by end of year 2000. Can you meet them? What happens if you don't?
Isao Okawa: Well, I can't really comment on that, but I will say that the future doesn't necessarily lie in the hardware business. I think in the future there is the possibility of Sega becoming a software-only company. I think, if you look to the future, after e-commerce, the next trend after that will be e-services. I want Sega to be there, and I think games may be one of the major reasons for that trend to take off, so we will still be making a lot of efforts in games and entertainment! But that role may be redefined in time.
DR: So, if Dreamcast doesn't sell, you will make a shift to being a software-only company?
IO: Well, even if Dreamcast does sell, we will make that shift! Online and networked entertainment is the future, and that is how we will compete in the future. It really doesn't matter how fast we sell hardware in regard to the speed with which we transition ourselves into the new networked century. And the Dreamcast machine has a huge competitive edge right now for this.
Daily Radar seems to think they're putting all their eggs in one basket. I think they're betting on a sure thing. Sega has already bowed out of the hardware market. Nintendo won't even have anything available to show at the Tokyo game show next summer. Microsoft has yet to confirm the existence of the X-Box. With it's DVD playback, backwards compatibility, modularity, and huge developer support, PS2 is not gonna fail. And doesn't Sony make a few other successful products as well?
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I believe it outputs it's own data file in a similar manner as the QuakeC compiler did for the original Quake.
Basically, I think that this console will be marketed on the basis of a fast connection. That's the one advantage that the other consoles don't, and can't, have.
Hmmm.... This isn't entirely factual. The US Dreamcast is shipping with a 56K modem that is swappable for future upgrades including ethernet for cable modems/DSL connections. I don't see home connections getting much faster than this in the next couple of years. PSX2 isn't announced to ship with any modem but will likely feature similar modularity allowing for multiple types of connectivity.
There are aspects of the M$ rumor that are pretty revolutionary for the console market. It scares me that it's coming from Redmond. Given Microsoft's track record, the already f*cked up world of console gaming is going to get a whole lot wackier.
And on the Linux front, rumors of PSX2 Linux SDKs abound. And possibly a slimmed-down Linux kernel running as the PSX2 OS?! Interesting times indeed...
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I have a Japanese GameBoy Advance and the worm light sucks with it. What you want is a LightBoy Advance. It's a unit that sits on top of your GBA and magnifies and fully lights the screen. It requires additional batteries and is more expensive than the worm light but it's well worth it.
Great post, neighbor.
Yeah right... That's why it's still on all the sidewalks in my neighborhood more than a month after it happened? This is a bit different than some kid's chalk drawings.
This is good?! This is the start of something very scary. You can't cross a street in my neighborhood (Upper Haight/San Francisco) without seeing this bullshit painted in the crosswalks. It pisses me off and I'm a supporter of Linux. Yes, this gets IBM publicity but at the cost of the people who live in these neighborhoods and have to look at this crap every day, most of whom couldn't care less about Linux or any other operating system for that matter. I can almost stomach this because I'm a supporter of Linux but how cool is it going to be when we start seeing ads for Camel cigarettes or McDonald's painted in the street?!
Lame.
A few years ago when I was taking software engineering in college, we used xfig. It was simple but it worked. If you're familiar with xfig at all, you know that all you can do with it is create the graphical representation of the model -- no round-trip engineering, no validation, none of the other good features you'll find in a real object modelling tool. But it's one of the lightest weight tools you can find and it's free. When you can afford it, I would strongly recommend looking at some higher end tools such as Rational Rose or Together/J.
The review/editorial on "I Want To Blow Up Silicon Valley" is ridiculously short-sighted. Tech has ruled and people have been making ludicrous amounts of money in Silicon Valley since the mid-eighties and before. It's nothing new. Long before there were any "dot-coms", Silicon Valley was flush with money. The dot-com backlash as of late is largely a creation of the media including Salon.com. Yes, there are problems with the extreme influx of money that the net economy has brought to Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas. I would say that the gentrification of certain San Francisco neighborhoods is far more substantial than homes in Silicon Valley going from "very expensive" to "extremely expensive". It's time to stop the blind demonization of all that is "dot-com", start looking at the real problems, and start looking for real solutions.
I wonder if IAM's VC is running out and they need to generate some income or maybe they're looking for a free "do over".
Exactly... Nothing says free advertising like "Lawsuit"!
The five-day acceptance portion of web services contracts is pretty much a necessity. This not only applies to the final site but to milestone deliverables as well. Nothing impedes site development like clients that are slow to make a decision. When a requirements document, use cases, storyboards, visual designs, etc. are submitted to a client for signoff and they don't have a contractual obligation to give feedback on those in a timely manner, they are often slow to make a decision. This kills project momentum and generally results in a poorer quality product or a slipped schedule. As far as final site approval goes, five days is probably a little short.
I think this is a horrible book. The author is extremely opinionated and frequently off base. His assertion that AOLServer will cure all the world's problems is ridiculous. In fact, the entire book seems to be an advertisement for AOLServer. The book is filled with ludicrous gems like "no one uses Java for server-side scripting". Take with a heavy dose of salt...
I would agree with the previous post. I've registered two domains though register.com, the first of which I planned to handle the DNS myself. It was a complete nightmare. I had the same problem where changes to the authoritative name servers didn't stick. I finally gave up and hosted DNS with them. Once I did this, everything was a breeze. My advice would be this: If you want to host DNS yourself, do not go with register.com. If you don't mind having your DNS hosted through your registrar, go with register.com. They offer a great interface for managing your domain and DNS settings (including MX records) and I've found their service to be reasonably reliable.
Daily Radar: You've got ambitious sales goals: two million units by March, six million by end of year 2000. Can you meet them? What happens if you don't?
Isao Okawa: Well, I can't really comment on that, but I will say that the future doesn't necessarily lie in the hardware business. I think in the future there is the possibility of Sega becoming a software-only company. I think, if you look to the future, after e-commerce, the next trend after that will be e-services. I want Sega to be there, and I think games may be one of the major reasons for that trend to take off, so we will still be making a lot of efforts in games and entertainment! But that role may be redefined in time.
DR: So, if Dreamcast doesn't sell, you will make a shift to being a software-only company?
IO: Well, even if Dreamcast does sell, we will make that shift! Online and networked entertainment is the future, and that is how we will compete in the future. It really doesn't matter how fast we sell hardware in regard to the speed with which we transition ourselves into the new networked century. And the Dreamcast machine has a huge competitive edge right now for this.
Daily Radar seems to think they're putting all their eggs in one basket. I think they're betting on a sure thing. Sega has already bowed out of the hardware market. Nintendo won't even have anything available to show at the Tokyo game show next summer. Microsoft has yet to confirm the existence of the X-Box. With it's DVD playback, backwards compatibility, modularity, and huge developer support, PS2 is not gonna fail. And doesn't Sony make a few other successful products as well?
I believe it outputs it's own data file in a similar manner as the QuakeC compiler did for the original Quake.
Hmmm.... This isn't entirely factual. The US Dreamcast is shipping with a 56K modem that is swappable for future upgrades including ethernet for cable modems/DSL connections. I don't see home connections getting much faster than this in the next couple of years. PSX2 isn't announced to ship with any modem but will likely feature similar modularity allowing for multiple types of connectivity.
There are aspects of the M$ rumor that are pretty revolutionary for the console market. It scares me that it's coming from Redmond. Given Microsoft's track record, the already f*cked up world of console gaming is going to get a whole lot wackier.
And on the Linux front, rumors of PSX2 Linux SDKs abound. And possibly a slimmed-down Linux kernel running as the PSX2 OS?! Interesting times indeed...