I still have The Lost Treasures of Infocom on my Apple II GS in my room... Perhaps I should turn the ol' thing on and give Zork, Planetfall, and the ever-interesting Suspension (the one with the 6 robots?) another go.
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"It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
I don't think that's true. Newspaper ads are effective, and there is not an "arms race" to make them bigger and bigger. Clearly bigger is better, however.
There's another very important point here: bigger newspaper ads don't use bandwidth. Sure, they take up space on a page that may have been used for something else, but no one has to wait for newspaper ads to load. In a world with infinite and free bandwidth, this would not be as much of a problem. But as a member of the vast majority of 'net users - a modem boy - banner ads are really bothersome, since I have to wait for them to load (on some pages) and take that much bandwidth away from my latest download (GetRight: something's always coming).
I desperately hope that Gnutella or Freenet are ready by the time Napster decides to implement there new flawed business model.
Personally, I never used napster. Tried it once, didn't work, scrapped it. I've seen/used it on my gf's computer, and I don't miss it - I use the AudioGalazy satellite. Granted, the search is VERY centralized (web-based, at their site) but it's waaay better than Napster in most other respects. Besides a search that can read ID3 and differentiate between Artist/Song name, The client hasn't fallen prey to creeping featureism - it's basically a current downloads list with menus and a button that takes you to the website. Oh, and did I mention it can resume transfers?
A friend of mine told me about iMesh today, too. It can resume as well, and deals with more formats than just mp3 (video and image and such). The only downsides, he said, are the pointless skin option (turn it off) and that it doens't always show extended mp3 info such as bitrate.
state your thought and then systematically layout the logic to support/explain your thought. Don't see a lot of that on/.
Heh. Just to play Devil's Advocate, I don't see much support for your thought in that post.
Don't get me wrong, I agree. My explanation may as well include the post quoted above. I am not, however, about to set my threshhold to -1 and count all the good arguments vs. rhetoric-recitals.
corrolary: When a screenplay was intended to be a trilogy or whatnot from the start, the above does not apply.
I believe it's when hollywood tries to write more scripts with the only goal of re-using popular characters that things tend to go really bad. of course, there are exceptions.
- A form of fiction that just happens to take place in the future. It didn't happen [yet], so authors don't have [as much] pressure to stick to what's known now. This is likely the simplest explanation.
- Sci-fi is a great way to get ideas on issues across. Watch any given ST:TnG season and you'll find plenty o' parallels to various social issues. Additionally, I respect X-Men [I refer to the FOX Kids cartoon] quite a bit for being almost entirely about "racial" discrimination. That, and because for a show with a lot of fights, I've yet to notice anyone actually die (ie if a tank/building blows up, you see people running away first).
I'm not saying you don't know, only offering more ideas to the $0.02 pool.
Quick, somebody figure out what 6.02E23 mod 180 is and let's have a party where it intersects the prime meridian.
6.02E23 mod 180 = zero.
well, according to my TI-83+: 6.02E11 / 180 = 3344444444.0
multiplying that by 1E12 would hardly introduce any more numbers less than one.
Have fun at the north pole! Don't forget to insulate and heat your yacht, though - I imagine it would get rather chilly above the water around there. pretty deep, too.
Don't forget that in the US your vote is counted. Get involved, make sure there is no election fraud in your distrcit (even if it is to your favor!). Alone we lose freedom, togather we stand up for everyone in a force that the corruption in DC cannot hope to match.
I agree wholeheartedly. With the risk of having someone invoke Godwin's Law, I'd like to point out the Nuremburg trials - One of the major points there was that bad things happened when people decided they couldn't do anything and went along with the flow.
Believe you can do it, help others know the same, and there will be progress. Believe you cannot, and you will be correct.
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copies of Warcraft 3 are going to hit servers weeks or days before the game is actually released
they alreay have - the War3 Beta is extremely popular around here right now, and I don't know anyone who actually got picked.
Don't let the bad times get to you."
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1 Debember 1974 - 23 March 2001
(Mr. Milne was a very loved social studies - 9th/10th grade - teacher who died recently of Leukemia)
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"It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
I don't think that's true. Newspaper ads are effective, and there is not an "arms race" to make them bigger and bigger. Clearly bigger is better, however.
There's another very important point here: bigger newspaper ads don't use bandwidth. Sure, they take up space on a page that may have been used for something else, but no one has to wait for newspaper ads to load. In a world with infinite and free bandwidth, this would not be as much of a problem. But as a member of the vast majority of 'net users - a modem boy - banner ads are really bothersome, since I have to wait for them to load (on some pages) and take that much bandwidth away from my latest download (GetRight: something's always coming).
I desperately hope that Gnutella or Freenet are ready by the time Napster decides to implement there new flawed business model.
Personally, I never used napster. Tried it once, didn't work, scrapped it. I've seen/used it on my gf's computer, and I don't miss it - I use the AudioGalazy satellite. Granted, the search is VERY centralized (web-based, at their site) but it's waaay better than Napster in most other respects. Besides a search that can read ID3 and differentiate between Artist/Song name, The client hasn't fallen prey to creeping featureism - it's basically a current downloads list with menus and a button that takes you to the website. Oh, and did I mention it can resume transfers?
A friend of mine told me about iMesh today, too. It can resume as well, and deals with more formats than just mp3 (video and image and such). The only downsides, he said, are the pointless skin option (turn it off) and that it doens't always show extended mp3 info such as bitrate.
Heh. Just to play Devil's Advocate, I don't see much support for your thought in that post.
Don't get me wrong, I agree. My explanation may as well include the post quoted above. I am not, however, about to set my threshhold to -1 and count all the good arguments vs. rhetoric-recitals.
corrolary: When a screenplay was intended to be a trilogy or whatnot from the start, the above does not apply.
I believe it's when hollywood tries to write more scripts with the only goal of re-using popular characters that things tend to go really bad. of course, there are exceptions.
There are several possibilities:
- A form of fiction that just happens to take place in the future. It didn't happen [yet], so authors don't have [as much] pressure to stick to what's known now. This is likely the simplest explanation.
- Sci-fi is a great way to get ideas on issues across. Watch any given ST:TnG season and you'll find plenty o' parallels to various social issues. Additionally, I respect X-Men [I refer to the FOX Kids cartoon] quite a bit for being almost entirely about "racial" discrimination. That, and because for a show with a lot of fights, I've yet to notice anyone actually die (ie if a tank/building blows up, you see people running away first).
I'm not saying you don't know, only offering more ideas to the $0.02 pool.
well, according to my TI-83+:
6.02E11 / 180 = 3344444444.0
multiplying that by 1E12 would hardly introduce any more numbers less than one.
Have fun at the north pole! Don't forget to insulate and heat your yacht, though - I imagine it would get rather chilly above the water around there. pretty deep, too.
I agree wholeheartedly. With the risk of having someone invoke Godwin's Law, I'd like to point out the Nuremburg trials - One of the major points there was that bad things happened when people decided they couldn't do anything and went along with the flow.
Believe you can do it, help others know the same, and there will be progress. Believe you cannot, and you will be correct.