This is a sad day. One of the best content sites on the net has vanished. My faith in humanity in ruins.
You know why all this shit has happened? Because bandwidth costs never fell like they were predicted to. Hell, if things went like they were supposed to, I could host DailyRadar from my house for $40 a month.
Curse you, Cisco... Microsoft... HP... Linksys... AT&T... Sprint... TimeWarner... and everybody else who held on to their 1 year plans instead of investing in a medium that could garner real returns. I'm crying.
The biggest barrier to the continued growth of the Internet will be the cost of hosting and the low payoff of advertising. A majority of the internet with real quality and personal expression is supported mainly by advertising dollars. These sites have a danger of dropping off of the planet, despite high viewership, simply because Internet advertising isn't as lucrative as once thought. If we had the ability to host from our own homes, through our standard broadband internet connections, then... the internet would really take off... of course, you'd have to put up with more crap, but those true creative quality sites will be even better diamonds in the ruff.
Actually, yes I have. I was joking. Macross Plus was friggin' awesome and I enjoyed it thouroughly. I just got a kick out of the Hospital Hallucination scene in Akira. Made me feel warm inside.:)
Yeah, a 50-50 vote in this country is an indication that people want something more to the extremes... Please. I dare you to move farther left... free votes for us!!!
I refute you!
The WinCE environment has been under development for a relatively short period of time. With the WinCE 3.0 environment, most of the things you talk of aren't there anymore. First, WinCE 3.0 has it's own FREE! development kit, requiring no Visual Studio at all. It's standalone. If you have any familiarity with Visual Studio, it's very easy to use. We're not in the early days anymore. You don't need DOS. As for Win32 API calls, almost all of them are there now, with the exception of some of the Win16 carryovers.
The machine itself is a lot beefier in all cases now. Back to the original argument, don't judge the viability of a platform by the early examples. Palm has been around for years, and they have done a good job of working around the hardware. The newest WinCE developments are coming out as easy or easier to deveop for than Palm. The only thing I agree with you on is the price of the newest devices. But, as seen with the Dreamcast, and soon with the PS2, prices drop.
Ah, very interesting. That makes perfect sense to me. I bet he pulled that explanation right from some geek on a message board or something who was merely hypothesizing. That explanation definitely sounds like an afterthought, not something that the astronomer Lucas would have written into the script originally.
God Wondering Whatever Happened To That Planet Where He Made All Those Monkeys
HEAVEN-- Reminiscing Monday, God wondered aloud what happened to "that one planet I made, like, four and a half billion years ago, the one with all the monkeys." "Man, I haven't thought about that planet in forever," God said. "I have no idea why it suddenly popped into My head. I remember it was really crude, one of My weaker early efforts, back when I was experimenting with the oxygen atmospheres and those ridiculous carbon-based lifeforms. And I was on that whole upper-primate kick. Huh." God said He couldn't remember the planet's name but was pretty sure it was "something like Ursh or Orth or maybe Ert."
I laughed my butt off.
Before I saw the pictures in the article, I was under the assumption that the device had, like, 3 legs and was smart about it's hopping. The landings would then be shock absorbed by the legs, and the things could bound off into the sunset at a rather quick rate with minimal impact on the body. If the thing got turned over, just retract the legs, let it roll to the weeble-wobble position, extend the legs, move on.
The programming could allow the thing to move in random directions, or can go into a semi-directed mode where coordinates are fed to it, and a path finding algorithm goes into effect to get it there.
Holy Christ! Do you know what children had to look forward to 25 years ago (closer to 30)? They got to look forward to being forceably put on an airplane, given a real automatic weapon, and told to actually take the lives of some people who happened to have a different political belief as their country. It wasn't the evil media that robbed these children of their childhoods... it was the same government who doesn't want them to see a boobie or know what a gun is today. Don't harken back to a better time when adults would be appalled by what they would see today.
Charge a micro-payment to download and let it get deposited to the programmer who originated the game
It would be similiar to the game being put into syndication like a TV show. Every week, the game shows up on a lesser format, to be consumed at much lower numbers than when they were new, and a check finds its way to the original actors every 3 months.
I almost agree with you there, but it won't work in the real world. Example: I own Batman on VHS... I want it on DVD, but I can't go banging on Warner Brothers' doors asking for the copy I'm entitled to.
In addition, I can't take an old Foghat 8-track to (insert correct label here) and get my brand new SuperCD and Audio DVD versions, much less download a legal copy ripped from a high quality CD off of the net. As much as I would wish it to be true (maybe payment for the medium), it probably isn't going to be that way.
How about microphone on the pinky, speaker on the thumb. That way, you can do the 'Call Me' sign you learned when you were 3 1/2.
Added Bonus: when you don't like what the person on the other end is saying, just rub your pinky and thumb together: instant feedback!
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No doubt! I would love it if I could hook up the car's internal CPU as an input device... that way, I could use the actual steering wheel I'm sitting behind as the game controller!
Back in my day in school (ok, a year ago), we had to build a robot car (out of legos) and all we used for control was a Motorolla M68HC11 chip. We wrote everything in assembly language and it did much of the same stuff (not to mention driving it uphill 5 miles in the snow). Man, if we could have written our code in CodeWarrior or (god forbid) a WinCE C++ compiler, we could have produced some amazing results. These kids and their fancy shmancy new technology.
Even better, mail those bricks to a mason, and have them build a wall with them on a plot somewhere near the whitehouse... that would be helluva cool. That way the public can see the cumulative effect too.
What if 1 million people sent an email connected with a $1.00 donation using paypal? Can a million dollars be ignored? Pretty nice lobby, if you ask me.
I wish the person who submitted a story that was selected could have mod points at least on that particular discussion. Oh well. Maybe I'll send Rob a million emails asking for this right.
I got a call last Saturday morning from Electronic Boutique. I had preordered, and they told me that Sony wasn't going to make demand. They told me that to guarantee my PS2, I would have to go down there and pay in full. So, duh, that's what I did. I'm like #20 on their list. They were originally expecting about 400... I hope they can handle 20.
As for Killer Apps, I think GT2000 will be really nice (although not in time for release), and there are a bunch of other nice ones.
A supliment to the CNet article is found at Daily Radar.
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This is a sad day. One of the best content sites on the net has vanished. My faith in humanity in ruins. You know why all this shit has happened? Because bandwidth costs never fell like they were predicted to. Hell, if things went like they were supposed to, I could host DailyRadar from my house for $40 a month. Curse you, Cisco... Microsoft... HP... Linksys... AT&T... Sprint... TimeWarner... and everybody else who held on to their 1 year plans instead of investing in a medium that could garner real returns. I'm crying.
Politicians like to blame video games and culture, because these things can be regulated and legislated. Bullies don't respond in quite the same way.
The biggest barrier to the continued growth of the Internet will be the cost of hosting and the low payoff of advertising. A majority of the internet with real quality and personal expression is supported mainly by advertising dollars. These sites have a danger of dropping off of the planet, despite high viewership, simply because Internet advertising isn't as lucrative as once thought. If we had the ability to host from our own homes, through our standard broadband internet connections, then... the internet would really take off... of course, you'd have to put up with more crap, but those true creative quality sites will be even better diamonds in the ruff.
Actually, yes I have. I was joking. Macross Plus was friggin' awesome and I enjoyed it thouroughly. I just got a kick out of the Hospital Hallucination scene in Akira. Made me feel warm inside. :)
My hero JeffK wrote a User Friendly comic in Flash: User Friendly
Dude, what are you talking about? There's no beating the Car Mech vs. Teddy Bear Mech scene.
No, silly. The rule is that for every English song you download, you must download the same song in French as well.
Yeah, a 50-50 vote in this country is an indication that people want something more to the extremes... Please. I dare you to move farther left... free votes for us!!!
The WinCE environment has been under development for a relatively short period of time. With the WinCE 3.0 environment, most of the things you talk of aren't there anymore. First, WinCE 3.0 has it's own FREE! development kit, requiring no Visual Studio at all. It's standalone. If you have any familiarity with Visual Studio, it's very easy to use. We're not in the early days anymore. You don't need DOS. As for Win32 API calls, almost all of them are there now, with the exception of some of the Win16 carryovers.
The machine itself is a lot beefier in all cases now. Back to the original argument, don't judge the viability of a platform by the early examples. Palm has been around for years, and they have done a good job of working around the hardware. The newest WinCE developments are coming out as easy or easier to deveop for than Palm. The only thing I agree with you on is the price of the newest devices. But, as seen with the Dreamcast, and soon with the PS2, prices drop.
I only wish I had mod points to give you.
Ah, very interesting. That makes perfect sense to me. I bet he pulled that explanation right from some geek on a message board or something who was merely hypothesizing. That explanation definitely sounds like an afterthought, not something that the astronomer Lucas would have written into the script originally.
I disagree. I think they meant the 1 Anstrom... kind of like traveling in light years, or making the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.
God Wondering Whatever Happened To That Planet Where He Made All Those Monkeys
HEAVEN-- Reminiscing Monday, God wondered aloud what happened to "that one planet I made, like, four and a half billion years ago, the one with all the monkeys." "Man, I haven't thought about that planet in forever," God said. "I have no idea why it suddenly popped into My head. I remember it was really crude, one of My weaker early efforts, back when I was experimenting with the oxygen atmospheres and those ridiculous carbon-based lifeforms. And I was on that whole upper-primate kick. Huh." God said He couldn't remember the planet's name but was pretty sure it was "something like Ursh or Orth or maybe Ert." I laughed my butt off.
The programming could allow the thing to move in random directions, or can go into a semi-directed mode where coordinates are fed to it, and a path finding algorithm goes into effect to get it there.
Holy Christ! Do you know what children had to look forward to 25 years ago (closer to 30)? They got to look forward to being forceably put on an airplane, given a real automatic weapon, and told to actually take the lives of some people who happened to have a different political belief as their country. It wasn't the evil media that robbed these children of their childhoods... it was the same government who doesn't want them to see a boobie or know what a gun is today. Don't harken back to a better time when adults would be appalled by what they would see today.
It would be similiar to the game being put into syndication like a TV show. Every week, the game shows up on a lesser format, to be consumed at much lower numbers than when they were new, and a check finds its way to the original actors every 3 months.
I almost agree with you there, but it won't work in the real world. Example: I own Batman on VHS... I want it on DVD, but I can't go banging on Warner Brothers' doors asking for the copy I'm entitled to.
In addition, I can't take an old Foghat 8-track to (insert correct label here) and get my brand new SuperCD and Audio DVD versions, much less download a legal copy ripped from a high quality CD off of the net. As much as I would wish it to be true (maybe payment for the medium), it probably isn't going to be that way.
Added Bonus: when you don't like what the person on the other end is saying, just rub your pinky and thumb together: instant feedback!
No doubt! I would love it if I could hook up the car's internal CPU as an input device... that way, I could use the actual steering wheel I'm sitting behind as the game controller!
More importantly, can they send your head a cease and desist letter?
Back in my day in school (ok, a year ago), we had to build a robot car (out of legos) and all we used for control was a Motorolla M68HC11 chip. We wrote everything in assembly language and it did much of the same stuff (not to mention driving it uphill 5 miles in the snow). Man, if we could have written our code in CodeWarrior or (god forbid) a WinCE C++ compiler, we could have produced some amazing results. These kids and their fancy shmancy new technology.
Even better, mail those bricks to a mason, and have them build a wall with them on a plot somewhere near the whitehouse... that would be helluva cool. That way the public can see the cumulative effect too.
What if 1 million people sent an email connected with a $1.00 donation using paypal? Can a million dollars be ignored? Pretty nice lobby, if you ask me.
I wish the person who submitted a story that was selected could have mod points at least on that particular discussion. Oh well. Maybe I'll send Rob a million emails asking for this right.
As for Killer Apps, I think GT2000 will be really nice (although not in time for release), and there are a bunch of other nice ones.
A supliment to the CNet article is found at Daily Radar.