By the way
Speaking of our freinds at loki it apears that there is a tremendous sale going on over
at the site run by the good folks at EB world.
As seen here
Type "linux" in the search box and viola
Support loki. $10.00 for Quake. Life is good.
40 hours a week, full time college student (night school.. Yay night school)no coding, moslty Linux tinkering, & about a good solid 8-12 hours a week gaming(PC, PS2) Homework is mostly done at work. What I do is tech support at Investmment bank for $53,000 a year. Pays the bills....
I completely agree. We are going to reach a point where the technology to make things so small that they become inconvenient to use, looking at some of the ridicously small cell phones I could agrue that we are their already. Once a device or process is invented that removes the physical limitations on interacting with devices could we see something like this "finger" become viable. We will reach a point where we are limited by the speed at which our thought can interact with those devices, and not the devices theselves.
Shadowrun anyone? How far are we from literally inserting a diveiceinto our skulls that allow is to interact the internet, or an internet-like environment.
"Course the last thing I need is get my head 0wn3d by some l337 hax0r.
Sounds cool, but would it lose the ability to play the PS2 games? I'd be interested in it only if I could dual boot between linux & the PS2 os. May be more feasable once the hard drive & connectivity issues for the PS2 are solved with that addons due out in a year or so.
Still a great step in bringing Linux to the common everyday AOL user, if they can make it in a nice, sexy easy to install (&cheaper than $200) package.
Nintendo lnows what the market is going to be like Gamecube has to get HARD CORE SOLID REVIEWS.
They have to compete w- Sony, who already has 10 million + of their consoles in homes, and the XBox, which appears to be a media darling. Nintendo has to beat the "kiddie" console image Pokeman helped establish for them to be a serious contender in the console market
soo... how many points do I gett for shooting down unarmed Missionaries?
Sorry. That was tasteless
Seriously, it would be great if we could devote all our drug war resources to some sort of complex game, but we still couldn't eliminate the big drug problem.
Demand.
Until there are no customers for drugs, we will keep on spending billions on keeping the drugs away..
I seemed to have missed that whole "free gun to point to at your harrassers at school" that must have come with their version of Quake.
Serriously, the games ARE labled as being violent, if the parents payed any attention at all they would have noticed that the boys were playing violent video games. The real problem is the fact that so many people ignored the warning signs that these boys were troubled that they obviously (and understandibly so) feel guilty.
'Course the best way to releive your guily feelings is to get everone to blame everyone else, because if you took resposibilty for your own actions (or lack thereof) that would make you as much a murderer as the shooters.
I don't think thats what he's trying to say. Yes, an open source game box would be very cool, but this is not the market to present something just because it's cool. Between Sony's already huge stranglehold on the market, the emerging Xbox and Game cube, and the early losses of Indrema and Sega, well, this may not be the time to present a somewhat untested platform. Developers where hesitant to develop for Sony, and Sony is HUGE. No one would be able to make enough money off of the "nix box to justify the cost of developing for it.
Instead I prefer to support the Linux-devloped games that are already on the consoles, like Timesplitters for example.
1. Yippee. Spammers lost in court.
2. Yippee. The Good guys got paid.
3. It was only a lousy $50.00.
I applaud the effort, and it's VERY cool that you won, but I'm disappointed that you didn't get the $500.00 you expected.. Fifty bucks is fifty bucks, but come on, that barely covers dinner. If I take a day off I lose more money than that.
Not really. My work is pretty cool and it wouldn;t be a problem.... but you get my point. I just wish it would've cost more than the lawyers+$50+court costs.
The EP-3 is a sophisticated peice of equipment. While the aircraft itself is an aging design they have proved themeselves easy to maintain and to have more than adeqate performance for their roles.
John Katz is an aging piece of work lacking sophistication. If Dubya where to attempt a trade with the chinese, a Katz for the captuered concept, the US would have a valid reason to apoogise to the Chinese government, and the Chinese would have something to run their tanks over other than dissident students.
Probably not. While I would be as happy as the next geek to see the evil empire that is Bill go down, I don't think this will do it. M$ can simply afford to maintain a long drawn out court battle on many fronts. Really, why would you sue M$ when the chances of winning are not that great, but the chances of staying in court for months, even years are very likely? Who can afford to pay the lawyers?
Who's going to invest any serious $ in a product that is going to compete against two industry giants, M$ & $ony, in a environment that has already produced casualties like the SEGA box?
Bravo for the idea, and I would've LOVED to see the indrema happen, but the chips were stacked against them from the beginning.
.....It might be too late for microsoft. Many people have already sworn to never use hotmail again.....
Unfortunately those preople are in the minority, being techies,/. readers, etc. M$ is still going to continue to rape and pillage the common man much the same way AOL does... by making it easy to not be tech-savy.
Not for anything, but NT only runs the email, general file structure, training programs.. blah blah blah..
The fire control, navigation systems, and other mission critical items are still stand alone entities, not microsoft related at all. the worst that could happen is some irritated boatswain can't play minesweeper. 'Course, who wants an irritated boatswain?
The host is Ahmet Zappa, on of Frank's many kids. I don't think this is the Robot Wars show, It's my understanding that in robot wars a "Home built" robot competes against the shows' own robots... like a mechanised American Gladiator. Robotica features home builts competeing against each other in 4 different arenas;Combat, a maze, a race, & something called "gauntlet". The TLC website for the show is here.
Violence has always played a role in the US. Even the Lone Ranger had a gun, and so did Davey Crokett, but all those kids in the 50's didn't run around themeselves or each other. The real problem is lack of parenting. Parents need to take a more proactive role in the raising oftheir children. Many, any parents today seem to be more worried about being their kid's friend rather than a father,or a role model. We need to stop putting them in front of the TV or in front of the computer and hoping that it will keep them entertained. Our kids do not need tobe entertained, they need to be tought right from wrong, and we need to pay enough attention to them to see when they need someone to turn to. Parents need to stop being lazy.
just my 2 cents
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By the way
Speaking of our freinds at loki it apears that there is a tremendous sale going on over at the site run by the good folks at EB world. As seen here Type "linux" in the search box and viola
Support loki. $10.00 for Quake. Life is good.
40 hours a week, full time college student (night school.. Yay night school)no coding, moslty Linux tinkering, & about a good solid 8-12 hours a week gaming(PC, PS2) Homework is mostly done at work. What I do is tech support at Investmment bank for $53,000 a year. Pays the bills....
Shadowrun anyone? How far are we from literally inserting a diveiceinto our skulls that allow is to interact the internet, or an internet-like environment.
"Course the last thing I need is get my head 0wn3d by some l337 hax0r.
Sounds cool, but would it lose the ability to play the PS2 games? I'd be interested in it only if I could dual boot between linux & the PS2 os. May be more feasable once the hard drive & connectivity issues for the PS2 are solved with that addons due out in a year or so.
Still a great step in bringing Linux to the common everyday AOL user, if they can make it in a nice, sexy easy to install (&cheaper than $200) package.
4.P0RN
Click on the link... trust me... :)
They have to compete w- Sony, who already has 10 million + of their consoles in homes, and the XBox, which appears to be a media darling. Nintendo has to beat the "kiddie" console image Pokeman helped establish for them to be a serious contender in the console market
Sorry. That was tasteless
Seriously, it would be great if we could devote all our drug war resources to some sort of complex game, but we still couldn't eliminate the big drug problem.
Demand.
Until there are no customers for drugs, we will keep on spending billions on keeping the drugs away..
Serriously, the games ARE labled as being violent, if the parents payed any attention at all they would have noticed that the boys were playing violent video games. The real problem is the fact that so many people ignored the warning signs that these boys were troubled that they obviously (and understandibly so) feel guilty.
'Course the best way to releive your guily feelings is to get everone to blame everyone else, because if you took resposibilty for your own actions (or lack thereof) that would make you as much a murderer as the shooters.
Seriosly, it is a shame what happened. I think most of us /.'ers can understand the Seans point of view.
Instead I prefer to support the Linux-devloped games that are already on the consoles, like Timesplitters for example.
2. Yippee. The Good guys got paid.
3. It was only a lousy $50.00.
I applaud the effort, and it's VERY cool that you won, but I'm disappointed that you didn't get the $500.00 you expected.. Fifty bucks is fifty bucks, but come on, that barely covers dinner. If I take a day off I lose more money than that.
Not really. My work is pretty cool and it wouldn;t be a problem.... but you get my point. I just wish it would've cost more than the lawyers+$50+court costs.
....then again, it may prevent me from paying taxes......reading Katz articles...maybe a good idea...
When are they going to invent something REALLY usefull, like a car that goes from 90 to 55 in .5 seconds....
Just a thought
John Katz is an aging piece of work lacking sophistication. If Dubya where to attempt a trade with the chinese, a Katz for the captuered concept, the US would have a valid reason to apoogise to the Chinese government, and the Chinese would have something to run their tanks over other than dissident students.
I've seen more excitement at nursing homes. I understand, it's the kernel, how exciting can it be....
but COME ON...
M$ can afford the lawyers. Bet on it.
If they can make money off of it, then it will get money.
but investers just don't line up to throw money into an already competetive market when their stocks are on the brink of going Bull....
Bravo for the idea, and I would've LOVED to see the indrema happen, but the chips were stacked against them from the beginning.
As seen here
Unfortunately those preople are in the minority, being techies, /. readers, etc. M$ is still going to continue to rape and pillage the common man much the same way AOL does... by making it easy to not be tech-savy.
The fire control, navigation systems, and other mission critical items are still stand alone entities, not microsoft related at all. the worst that could happen is some irritated boatswain can't play minesweeper. 'Course, who wants an irritated boatswain?
Isn't that the basis for those termnator movies?
The host is Ahmet Zappa, on of Frank's many kids. I don't think this is the Robot Wars show, It's my understanding that in robot wars a "Home built" robot competes against the shows' own robots... like a mechanised American Gladiator. Robotica features home builts competeing against each other in 4 different arenas;Combat, a maze, a race, & something called "gauntlet". The TLC website for the show is here.
er.. and possibly they need to be tought how to spel better. Please no trolling you vicous spelling Czars..
Violence has always played a role in the US. Even the Lone Ranger had a gun, and so did Davey Crokett, but all those kids in the 50's didn't run around themeselves or each other. The real problem is lack of parenting. Parents need to take a more proactive role in the raising oftheir children. Many, any parents today seem to be more worried about being their kid's friend rather than a father,or a role model. We need to stop putting them in front of the TV or in front of the computer and hoping that it will keep them entertained. Our kids do not need tobe entertained, they need to be tought right from wrong, and we need to pay enough attention to them to see when they need someone to turn to. Parents need to stop being lazy.
just my 2 cents