Really now -- how much do RPG gamers typically spend on thier book collections (generally measured in bookshelf-yards -- I'm only up to about 4 feet or so, but I've been slacking off lately)? I don't even want to START adding up the cover prices of those books. Is a little extra cash to get the convinience of some of that data on a computer really going to hurt the pocket book?
Anyway, I don't see anyone complaining about the fact that you have to pay for all of the GURPS character creators, as SJ Games certainly won't let you give thier data away for free. But it happens to a d20 chargen, and people start whining? Whatever.
Highly unlikey, as it's not going to be IRC (i.e. you won't connect to a central server and join channels).
It will be MSN Messanger chat (quite literally, as it will just link to the Messanger objects) with some file sharing, audio streaming and conferencing components added.
I don't know if they still do, but at one point microsoft ran an IRC network for thier "Microsoft Chat" application (it was also sometimes called "Comic Chat"). It was a gay, but popular for it's time, IRC client that had little comic characters interacting. We're talking circa 1996 here.
The protocol it used was ontop of IRC, so each time you joined a channel that was dedicated to this client, you saw the protocol used to control the comic graphics as part of the chat (the client filtered it out, so you wouldn't actually see the protocol as part of the discussion if you used Microsoft Chat, but since it was still RFC 1459, you could join the server with a normal irc client and talk in the channels).
I belive they ran it on chat.microsoft.com, but that doesn't exist anymore. The one thing I remember about it was that the IRCops on that network were call-centre scripted to only respond in certain ways. It was horrible.
I suppose it hadn't occured to you that Event Horizon ripped it's plot off of the original Solaris, did it?
Hell, even Ebert caught that one in his review of it.
As for EH, I didn't mind it -- I can handle movies that are inspired by others, and it's evocation of memories Solaris added to the atmosphere -- until the end. It just became nonsensical garbage after a while. They had a great atmosphere, some really great scenes (his dead wife in the bathtub of blood was unforgettable), but it's like they couldn't finish the movie in any kind of cohesive manner.
Someone really needs to remake Event Horizon and give it an intelligent ending.
No the local book shops will continue to do what they do best sell GOOD and hard to find books, focus on what the customer wants, and build lasting relationships for steady sales. Barnes and Noble or Chapters might rake in more at 33% off the cover price of bestsellers but they'll get no loyalty from their customers. And no love from the real book lovers.
So now the local indy shops that can't match the $8 a CD that the big chains can sell for will go under. They're already more expensive, but it just got pointless for them to even try.
I have had nothing but good experiences with this one. It's a smaller (64M onboard, can take a 128M smartmedia card) solid-state player that I got mainly to take something cycling and such with me.
The Linux support is great, if you don't mind using a commandline tool. The USB hookup works flawlessly.
It holds about 3 hours worth of music (at 192M), but the advantage of being small is that it also plays for about 8 hours on a single AA cell.
10. Why is bash configured with --disable-net-redirections?
It can produce completely unexpected results. This kind of feature should not be part of a shell but a special. tool. And that tool has existed for years already, it's called netcat.
People would copy japanese LD's, subtitle them themselves, and sell them (not for much, but still), and no one found anything wrong with this -- because the episodes/movies/oavs were not available in any english language format. The copyright owners usually never said a word. The fansubbers would respectfully, not distribute something that was available in english in north america.
Your whining is reactionary and unessecary.
That's what I get for coming back to slashdot, I guess...
From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman: "You can't have your cake and eat it too -- One can't use something up and still have it to enjoy. This proverb was recorded in the book of proverbs by John Heywood in 1546, and is first attested in the United States in the 1742 'Colonial Records of Georgia' in 'Original Papers, 1735-1752.'
So basically, imagine a huge, beautiful, wedding-style cake put on a pedestal for display. You can't both eat the cake, and still have it there to enjoy as a decoration. You have to make a choice.
Another good analogy for the situation is to imagine the old attidute towards women (which is probably still around in places). You can't have a virginal, "pure" bride, and still take her to the bedroom and fuck her like a $2 whore. Because then she's not pure anymore. You have to make a choice.
I AM NOT WITHOUT A LIFE, I am just someone who can't grok the co-relation between geekdom and sci-fi/anime/cartoons/monty-python/mp3s/etc etc, and guess what? I HATED LotR here is my prrof.
Einhander (no, I didn't get the accent right, it's square's side scrolling shooter)
R-Types
R-Type Delta
FFVII - FFIX
The various Street Fighter collections
There was a launch title (!) for the PS1 that was the Raiden I & II arcade games I've been trying to find.
The SNK 2D fighters -- Fatal Fury, and KoF series.
Konami released a rather entertaining arcade classics disc which I've been entertained by -- it has Scramble on there, which they honour in the intro to Gradius Galexies on the GBA
Dragon Warrior VII, when it comes down in price.
There were one or two Darius games released for the PS1 -- I've been trying to track them down.
I'm pretty sure that counts at 10. For people who like certain genres of games that are becoming known as "retrogaming" (i.e. 2D fighters), or have been considered retrogaming for a few years now (i.e. 2D scrolling shooters), having a library of PSOne games that contains even a few of these kinds of games is a blessing.
It's like having the protagonist of a movie explain to you, in a voice over, what you gathered the meaning of his actions was -- the clueless people aren't going to be anymore enlightened, and the intelligent people feel ripped off.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the whole points of The Bill Formerly Known as the SSSCA was that people weren't buying and using enough broadband, because media companies didn't put any content on the net.
Now, we have an example of the broadband providers charging more and more for the people who *are* using the net for watching movies and listening to music (illegal though it may be, the bandwidth used by a legal movie download wouldn't be signifigantly different than an illegal one).
So, if AOLTW is having problems with a few ( 5% ) of thier customers using thier connection for movies and music, how do they feel about Sen. Hollings plan to have as many people as possible using this much bandwidth?
Perhaps there's a connection, perhaps there isn't -- just an occured thought.
I'd enjoy it *alot* more if it's control system didn't suck ass. Is there a way to play it that doesn't suck? It feels like an arcade game that needs a) a "paddle" control (a'la Arknoid), for rotation, b) a joystick with a few buttons on it for movment, firing, and weapon selection.
I love the idea behind the game, and the backgrounds are really nice. But the control system needs a good working over.
The IBM tech for the buckling spring 'boards got sold to Lexmark, and then to a company called Unicomp, who now make and sell buckling spring keyboards.
They're $49 US. I ordered two (one for Work, which I took with me upon the downsizing), and I love them. They feel exactly like the old IBM ones, but they don't have the removable keycaps that the original model M's do.
What was more amazing was actually getting it to run.
I'd love to see an updated engine that I can actually play, without having to deal with the Pure Evil that Origin inflicted upon thier users with that hack of a DOS memory manager that they included with the game.
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Really now -- how much do RPG gamers typically spend on thier book collections (generally measured in bookshelf-yards -- I'm only up to about 4 feet or so, but I've been slacking off lately)? I don't even want to START adding up the cover prices of those books. Is a little extra cash to get the convinience of some of that data on a computer really going to hurt the pocket book?
Anyway, I don't see anyone complaining about the fact that you have to pay for all of the GURPS character creators, as SJ Games certainly won't let you give thier data away for free. But it happens to a d20 chargen, and people start whining? Whatever.
Highly unlikey, as it's not going to be IRC (i.e. you won't connect to a central server and join channels).
It will be MSN Messanger chat (quite literally, as it will just link to the Messanger objects) with some file sharing, audio streaming and conferencing components added.
I don't know if they still do, but at one point microsoft ran an IRC network for thier "Microsoft Chat" application (it was also sometimes called "Comic Chat"). It was a gay, but popular for it's time, IRC client that had little comic characters interacting. We're talking circa 1996 here.
The protocol it used was ontop of IRC, so each time you joined a channel that was dedicated to this client, you saw the protocol used to control the comic graphics as part of the chat (the client filtered it out, so you wouldn't actually see the protocol as part of the discussion if you used Microsoft Chat, but since it was still RFC 1459, you could join the server with a normal irc client and talk in the channels).
I belive they ran it on chat.microsoft.com, but that doesn't exist anymore. The one thing I remember about it was that the IRCops on that network were call-centre scripted to only respond in certain ways. It was horrible.
I suppose it hadn't occured to you that Event Horizon ripped it's plot off of the original Solaris, did it?
Hell, even Ebert caught that one in his review of it.
As for EH, I didn't mind it -- I can handle movies that are inspired by others, and it's evocation of memories Solaris added to the atmosphere -- until the end. It just became nonsensical garbage after a while. They had a great atmosphere, some really great scenes (his dead wife in the bathtub of blood was unforgettable), but it's like they couldn't finish the movie in any kind of cohesive manner.
Someone really needs to remake Event Horizon and give it an intelligent ending.
T.V. sucks ass. How can you people stand to watch that kind of banal, mundane completely insipid mind numbing garbage?
You're talking to people reading slashdot comments.
SO people complain when CDs are too expensive, but also when they are too cheap?
You mean there aren't supposed to be different people in this world? With different opinions, even?
Damn, I must have missed the hivemind meeting.
No the local book shops will continue to do what they do best sell GOOD and hard to find books, focus on what the customer wants, and build lasting relationships for steady sales. Barnes and Noble or Chapters might rake in more at 33% off the cover price of bestsellers but they'll get no loyalty from their customers. And no love from the real book lovers.
So now the local indy shops that can't match the $8 a CD that the big chains can sell for will go under. They're already more expensive, but it just got pointless for them to even try.
It'll be like bookstores all over again.
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I have had nothing but good experiences with this one. It's a smaller (64M onboard, can take a 128M smartmedia card) solid-state player that I got mainly to take something cycling and such with me.
The Linux support is great, if you don't mind using a commandline tool. The USB hookup works flawlessly.
It holds about 3 hours worth of music (at 192M), but the advantage of being small is that it also plays for about 8 hours on a single AA cell.
Yeah, but you have to put up with thier crappy personalities...
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Hug your debian maintainer today.
Haven't you ever heard of Anime fansubs?
People would copy japanese LD's, subtitle them themselves, and sell them (not for much, but still), and no one found anything wrong with this -- because the episodes/movies/oavs were not available in any english language format. The copyright owners usually never said a word. The fansubbers would respectfully, not distribute something that was available in english in north america.
Your whining is reactionary and unessecary.
That's what I get for coming back to slashdot, I guess...
So, by "succeeding", you must mean "not losing quite as badly as they could be", right?
From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman:
"You can't have your cake and eat it too -- One can't use something up and still have it to enjoy. This proverb was recorded in the book of proverbs by John Heywood in 1546, and is first attested in the United States in the 1742 'Colonial Records of Georgia' in 'Original Papers, 1735-1752.'
So basically, imagine a huge, beautiful, wedding-style cake put on a pedestal for display. You can't both eat the cake, and still have it there to enjoy as a decoration. You have to make a choice.
Another good analogy for the situation is to imagine the old attidute towards women (which is probably still around in places). You can't have a virginal, "pure" bride, and still take her to the bedroom and fuck her like a $2 whore. Because then she's not pure anymore. You have to make a choice.
Indeed...
Nope, he's right.
You can check the world Clue matrix to verify that, indeed, it was a Conservatory.
Imagine if you're Doug, though!
Yes. I'm trying to get them all now.
I'm pretty sure that counts at 10. For people who like certain genres of games that are becoming known as "retrogaming" (i.e. 2D fighters), or have been considered retrogaming for a few years now (i.e. 2D scrolling shooters), having a library of PSOne games that contains even a few of these kinds of games is a blessing.
Disclaimers on that kind of stuff spoil it so...
It's like having the protagonist of a movie explain to you, in a voice over, what you gathered the meaning of his actions was -- the clueless people aren't going to be anymore enlightened, and the intelligent people feel ripped off.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the whole points of The Bill Formerly Known as the SSSCA was that people weren't buying and using enough broadband, because media companies didn't put any content on the net.
Now, we have an example of the broadband providers charging more and more for the people who *are* using the net for watching movies and listening to music (illegal though it may be, the bandwidth used by a legal movie download wouldn't be signifigantly different than an illegal one).
So, if AOLTW is having problems with a few ( 5% ) of thier customers using thier connection for movies and music, how do they feel about Sen. Hollings plan to have as many people as possible using this much bandwidth?
Perhaps there's a connection, perhaps there isn't -- just an occured thought.
And it's available for Linux, too!
I'd enjoy it *alot* more if it's control system didn't suck ass. Is there a way to play it that doesn't suck? It feels like an arcade game that needs a) a "paddle" control (a'la Arknoid), for rotation, b) a joystick with a few buttons on it for movment, firing, and weapon selection.
I love the idea behind the game, and the backgrounds are really nice. But the control system needs a good working over.
My mother still uses Eudora 3.1 Light.
You can certainly find a copy if you need to -- it won't be on quallcomm's site, though.
Where are the omnikeys available?
The IBM tech for the buckling spring 'boards got sold to Lexmark, and then to a company called Unicomp, who now make and sell buckling spring keyboards.
They're $49 US. I ordered two (one for Work, which I took with me upon the downsizing), and I love them. They feel exactly like the old IBM ones, but they don't have the removable keycaps that the original model M's do.
Nope, just him and his fingertips.
No Ultima 7?
Ultima 7 was fucking amazing.
What was more amazing was actually getting it to run.
I'd love to see an updated engine that I can actually play, without having to deal with the Pure Evil that Origin inflicted upon thier users with that hack of a DOS memory manager that they included with the game.