I visited the UK a few summers ago, and I was browsing around inside a "pound store", where all of the products were priced at 1 GBP. Imagine my surprise when everything did really cost only one pound. =)
Jumping into his tornado and doing a diving kick (with Zoom) will often hit him right out, and almost always gets in a few hits with the splash damage. Holding Slow during the dive will allow you to dodge in the event that he is swinging at the level you happen to be at, at the time you happen to be there.
This method is slow as molasses, but easy to repeat once you've had a little practice, and it works just fine for me to defeat Fire Leo.
Psygnosis released a game called Wiz 'n' Liz for the Genesis. Man, that game was awesome.
The premise was that you played as one (or two in horizontal-split-screen) wizard(s) who had to run around levels collecting their lost rabbits. When collected, the rabbits would grant random items like extra time, stars (money), or fruit. The wizards could then use the fruit to cast spells, which did all sorts of cool things. As I recall, there were twelve kinds of fruit, and 144 specific interactions depending on how you combined them.
I'd spaced it, but that is definitely one of my favorite platformers ever. =)
The story was like this. Psy-crow, an evil intergalactic crow, either built, bought, or stole this suit of armor that would have made him indestructible. However, in transit, somehow it fell out of his ship and crashed to Earth, landing on a brave young earthworm named Jim. The suit interacted with Jim's molecules, turning him into the Earthworm Jim we know and love.
So basically, Earthworm Jim has this super-powerful suit, and has to go around defeating various bad guys (like the nefarious Bob!!), while defending himself from Psy-crow.
However, Microsoft *earned* a steady and widespread hatred from many Slashdotters from years of screwing customers and competitors alike over. They're simply paying for their original actions in installments.
This is the best, most concise reason I've seen for why people like to bash Microsoft. If I'd had mod points, they would be yours. =)
Because of this game, I'm excellent at Paintball, Fencing, and just common reflexes in general. Even my doctor told me that I had outstanding reflexes -- he asked me what kind of activities I've been participating in. Not just Quake, but all FPSs in general.
Heh. I love that Police 911 game, the shooter where you have to move your body to control your avatar's cover and exposure. When you stop playing, the game calculates your skill along various axes (I think there's 5 dimensions), one of which is Reflexes. The diagram of my skill always looks like an arrowhead, going from the center to max Reflexes and max Reflexes alone. =P
...people whine about losing jobs, then when you show them where the jobs are, they give you all sorts of reasons why they can't take THAT job...
To be fair, having to move to India for a job is probably a good reason for not taking that job.
Not that people don't whine about minor stuff like the type of soda provided in the free soda machine next to the employee lounge/game room, but this is an entirely reasonable grievance. Some people try very hard to find jobs (in America) and don't whine a bit. If the best advice you can give those people is to move to India, then they have my leave to whine a little. =P
Yakavetta: I'm having a shitty day. I'm depressed. Tell me a funny joke.
Rocco: Uh, OK. There's these three guys walking on the beach, a spic, a white guy, and a black guy.
Yakavetta: Nigger!
Rocco: Yeah, right. So they find this pot, rub it, and a genie comes out. The genie says you can wish for whatever you want. So he asks the Mexican what he wants, and he says "I want all my people in America to be happy and free, and in Mexico." So the genie goes poof! It's done. Then he says to the black guy --
Vincenzo Lipazzi: Nigger.
Rocco: Yeah, right, he says to the nigger "What do you want?" And the nigger says "I want all my nigger brothers to be back in Africa, and happy and free and everything." So the genie goes poof! And they're all back in Africa. So... I'm not funny today, really, this joke sucks, I know...
Yakavetta: Continue the joke.
Rocco: Uh, so he says to the white guy, "What's your one wish?" And the white guy says, "Wait, you mean to tell me that all the spics and niggers are out of America?" The genie goes yeah, and the white guy says, uh, "I'll have a Coke, then."
Oh, and re: parent, if people didn't assume that every black person they met was a criminal and likely to rob/kill them, I suspect that fewer black people would become criminals to fulfill society's expectation of them. Or if popular black actors and artists stopped glamorizing violence, maybe fewer black people would consider that a valid path.
I know lots of black people, some who are criminals and some who are not, and the only difference I can see is that some of them bought into what society told them they should do. Sending everybody with a high level of melanin in their skin pigmentation to a different country isn't going to solve anything.
He worked out a deal with SwordsOnline.com to draw The Forge for them, and they paid him in store credit. As I recall, the Buster Sword was the first sword he had them make for him.
His sword collection is pretty ridiculous, but it's awesome all the same. =)
There are three axes upon which you can control the drag-and-drop functionality. The first is item type, and the choices are "executable" (.exe,.bat,.com) and "non-executable" (everything else). Note that this does not apply to all versions of Windows; starting with Windows 2000, I think, the item-type distinction was removed and all dragged files follow the same rules. The seond axis is location: on the same partition or not. The third is key combinations: Control, Shift, both, or neither. Control forces the Windows Explorer to enter "copy" mode, Shift forces "move" mode, and both together force "shortcut" mode (while holding neither of them just uses the defaults).
The defaults are like so:
(pre-Win2K) If you drag an executable anywhere, I believe the default is to create a shortcut to the executable and place it in the drop target.
If you drag a file from one spot to the other on the same partition, the default is to move the file to its new location.
If you drag that same file to a different partition, the default is to copy the file.
If you hold down Shift, regardless of whether you're dragging to a target on the same partition or not, Windows Explorer will move the file.
If you hold down Control, regardless of whether you're dragging to a target on the same partition or not, Windows Explorer will copy the file.
If you hold down both Control and Shift, Windows Explorer will create a shortcut to the file and place it in the drop target.
I think that's everything. Helpful hint: the icon you're dragging will have a little box in the lower-right corner that changes depending on the mode you're in. For moves it isn't there at all, for copying it's a little "+", and for making shortcuts it's a little shortcut-arrow-icon.
Also, you can drag with the secondary (usually right) mouse button instead of the primary one. When you reach the drop target and release the button, Windows Explorer will give you a dragging context menu that lets you choose what to do with the dropped file.
It was a pain in the ass to learn, but it's handy now to not have to think about where my files are going when I drag them.:-)
People from California do not generally sound like they have accents in other countries. The reason I've heard for this is that most of the American television, and thus English, the world watches comes from California, so that "California Accent" becomes the de-facto standard way English is supposed to be spoken.
I found this to be the case when I travelled in Europe; people knew I was an American from my customs and mode of dress, but not once did anybody have difficulty understanding me or complain about my accent.
And blacks are gifted in "worship and celebration," white people "know how to tap into money," Native Americans are "gifted spiritually" (and know "how to sneak up on people"), Asians are "gifted in creation, creativity and inventions," and Hispanics are "gifted in family structure."
I'm not one to get overly uppity about racial or cultural pigeonholing. I believe that stereotypes are probably there for a reason. But there's a difference, a logical leap that bridges the gap between "many people who are good at X hail from country Z" and "all people in country Z are good at X," which is not to be taken lightly.
Make all the jokes you want (I certainly do), but think hard about why you believe what you believe about other people before prejudging them.
YOUR QUOTE: "Their response? They will sell it back to her for what they paid the thief. As for the Playstation, she's simply out of luck." (Extra double emphasis mine)
I somehow suspect that the money they made from selling the Playstation was a larger amount than any "restocking" cost they might have to keep stolen merchandise for a day or so before reselling it.
Jesus man, try to check your own facts before you get all high-and-mighty.
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I predict wonderful "learning experiences" as RFID reading/duplicating technology moves down to individuals.
In fact, just this week, I pulled on the same push door... twice.
I failed in my first attempt to get through, and then I pushed it open and held it for somebody to walk through. That person asked me a question about the building, so I let go of the door and pointed out the answer to her. I then turned around and immediately proceeded to pull on the push door again. =(
Times like this remind me that, no matter how funny I may think these stupid user stories are, there's probably a office service workers' network (maintenance/janitorial) where they all laugh at us stupid people who can't figure out the doors.:-P
Parent's sig: Sick of gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!
Yeah, I'm also sick of those damned Gentoo folks, and their users always plugging their package management system. Somebody should kick them off of Slashdot completely.
Here's my question:
If they choose to create free software, then the value of their labors is... $0? Why would they create something that doesn't have monetary value? I'm not saying there's no reason to, and I'm not saying there's no value to the software (there obviously is), but I'd like to hear the rationale.
Speaking for myself as a software-writer-person, if I create hobby software, it's either because I want to learn something that writing that software will teach me, or I want to use something that does not yet exist (or is not suitable to my needs). Often, both of these are considerations for my hobby programming. (This of course does not cover software I write as an agent of an employer; I'm generally not allowed to make licensing-sorts of choices about that software.)
Given those premises, once I've written a piece of software, I see no problem with sharing it freely with others. If that makes me foolish, then so be it, but there are lots of reasons I have for making that decision.
If I wrote software to teach me something, then there exists the possibility it may teach somebody else something as well. I believe that education is a noble goal, and so I will take action to help other people learn.
I may want my software to become widely adopted for selfish reasons. For example, if I write a program to play chess online, I want to use my program to play with (since I wrote it to scratch my own itch and thus it's the best program for me). However, if nobody else is using my chess program, then I have nobody to play against. Therefore, it's in my best interest to give my chess program away for free, to increase the number of potential opponents for myself.
I may want my software to be widely adopted for unselfish reasons. For example, one of the projects I'm working on is a dropbox application. You run it, and give it a folder to share and a password; it then starts a lightweight HTTP server which responds to requests for files (both up- and downloads). Very, very simple, easy to use, reasonably secure in its default configuration. I'm writing it because there have been too many times where I've wanted to copy a file from my desktop to my laptop without going through a big thing of Samba shares or FTP servers or AOL IM sending, etc. etc. However, once I've gotten it finished, I'm going to make it freely available to the world, simply because I've seen other people have this sort of problem, and I think the world would be a better place if everybody could copy files between machines easily and quickly, without having to do a lot of extra work. UUCP style.;-)
Karma.;-)
Really, what's the harm in my giving it away for free? Am I a fool for wanting to allow other people to use the fruits of my labor? Even though I may not charge $ money for said fruits, they may still be very useful to a lot of people, and the satisfaction I receive from knowing I've contributed something positive to the world is enough compensation for me.
In the end, I write software that I want to use, and I don't worry about who else has it or uses it. I'm happy, other people are happy, and I don't have to waste my time counting pennies and trying to outsmart and track down people "stealing" my software. I can't speak for anybody else, but I certainly don't feel much like a fool.
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I know the feeling.
I visited the UK a few summers ago, and I was browsing around inside a "pound store", where all of the products were priced at 1 GBP. Imagine my surprise when everything did really cost only one pound. =)
Jumping into his tornado and doing a diving kick (with Zoom) will often hit him right out, and almost always gets in a few hits with the splash damage. Holding Slow during the dive will allow you to dodge in the event that he is swinging at the level you happen to be at, at the time you happen to be there.
This method is slow as molasses, but easy to repeat once you've had a little practice, and it works just fine for me to defeat Fire Leo.
The game which became Mario 2 in the US (I can't remember the name of it, anyone else know?)
Doki Doki Panic.
Oh hell yes, I remember now..
Psygnosis released a game called Wiz 'n' Liz for the Genesis. Man, that game was awesome.
The premise was that you played as one (or two in horizontal-split-screen) wizard(s) who had to run around levels collecting their lost rabbits. When collected, the rabbits would grant random items like extra time, stars (money), or fruit. The wizards could then use the fruit to cast spells, which did all sorts of cool things. As I recall, there were twelve kinds of fruit, and 144 specific interactions depending on how you combined them.
I'd spaced it, but that is definitely one of my favorite platformers ever. =)
Oh hell yeah. I loved Earthworm Jim. =D
The story was like this. Psy-crow, an evil intergalactic crow, either built, bought, or stole this suit of armor that would have made him indestructible. However, in transit, somehow it fell out of his ship and crashed to Earth, landing on a brave young earthworm named Jim. The suit interacted with Jim's molecules, turning him into the Earthworm Jim we know and love.
So basically, Earthworm Jim has this super-powerful suit, and has to go around defeating various bad guys (like the nefarious Bob!!), while defending himself from Psy-crow.
Such an awesome game. =)
However, Microsoft *earned* a steady and widespread hatred from many Slashdotters from years of screwing customers and competitors alike over. They're simply paying for their original actions in installments.
This is the best, most concise reason I've seen for why people like to bash Microsoft. If I'd had mod points, they would be yours. =)
Jesus saves...
And takes half damage!
Because of this game, I'm excellent at Paintball, Fencing, and just common reflexes in general. Even my doctor told me that I had outstanding reflexes -- he asked me what kind of activities I've been participating in. Not just Quake, but all FPSs in general.
Heh. I love that Police 911 game, the shooter where you have to move your body to control your avatar's cover and exposure. When you stop playing, the game calculates your skill along various axes (I think there's 5 dimensions), one of which is Reflexes. The diagram of my skill always looks like an arrowhead, going from the center to max Reflexes and max Reflexes alone. =P
The time it takes varies, case-to-case.
In his case, maybe it needed another 150 years? =P
...people whine about losing jobs, then when you show them where the jobs are, they give you all sorts of reasons why they can't take THAT job...
To be fair, having to move to India for a job is probably a good reason for not taking that job.
Not that people don't whine about minor stuff like the type of soda provided in the free soda machine next to the employee lounge/game room, but this is an entirely reasonable grievance. Some people try very hard to find jobs (in America) and don't whine a bit. If the best advice you can give those people is to move to India, then they have my leave to whine a little. =P
Remember: The old adage "fight fire with fire" does not apply to non-metaphorical fires.
I love your sig. =)
If the US military would do what I say, and refuse to do what Bush say, I would be the effective president of the USA.
...Couldn't be much worse.
;-)
VOTE EIVIND!!
Yakavetta: I'm having a shitty day. I'm depressed. Tell me a funny joke.
Rocco: Uh, OK. There's these three guys walking on the beach, a spic, a white guy, and a black guy.
Yakavetta: Nigger!
Rocco: Yeah, right. So they find this pot, rub it, and a genie comes out. The genie says you can wish for whatever you want. So he asks the Mexican what he wants, and he says "I want all my people in America to be happy and free, and in Mexico." So the genie goes poof! It's done. Then he says to the black guy --
Vincenzo Lipazzi: Nigger.
Rocco: Yeah, right, he says to the nigger "What do you want?" And the nigger says "I want all my nigger brothers to be back in Africa, and happy and free and everything." So the genie goes poof! And they're all back in Africa. So... I'm not funny today, really, this joke sucks, I know...
Yakavetta: Continue the joke.
Rocco: Uh, so he says to the white guy, "What's your one wish?" And the white guy says, "Wait, you mean to tell me that all the spics and niggers are out of America?" The genie goes yeah, and the white guy says, uh, "I'll have a Coke, then."
Boondock Saints is one awesome movie. =)
Oh, and re: parent, if people didn't assume that every black person they met was a criminal and likely to rob/kill them, I suspect that fewer black people would become criminals to fulfill society's expectation of them. Or if popular black actors and artists stopped glamorizing violence, maybe fewer black people would consider that a valid path.
I know lots of black people, some who are criminals and some who are not, and the only difference I can see is that some of them bought into what society told them they should do. Sending everybody with a high level of melanin in their skin pigmentation to a different country isn't going to solve anything.
I know that if I had a dollar for every time somebody whose computer I've just fixed tells me that I'm going to be the next Bill Gates...
...I would be. =P
In fact, they originally made one of those swords because Greg, the author of Real Life Comics, requested it.
Here's a picture of the one Greg has.
He worked out a deal with SwordsOnline.com to draw The Forge for them, and they paid him in store credit. As I recall, the Buster Sword was the first sword he had them make for him.
His sword collection is pretty ridiculous, but it's awesome all the same. =)
The deal with the Windows drag-and-drop is this.
There are three axes upon which you can control the drag-and-drop functionality. The first is item type, and the choices are "executable" (.exe,
The defaults are like so:
- (pre-Win2K) If you drag an executable anywhere, I believe the default is to create a shortcut to the executable and place it in the drop target.
- If you drag a file from one spot to the other on the same partition, the default is to move the file to its new location.
- If you drag that same file to a different partition, the default is to copy the file.
- If you hold down Shift, regardless of whether you're dragging to a target on the same partition or not, Windows Explorer will move the file.
- If you hold down Control, regardless of whether you're dragging to a target on the same partition or not, Windows Explorer will copy the file.
- If you hold down both Control and Shift, Windows Explorer will create a shortcut to the file and place it in the drop target.
I think that's everything. Helpful hint: the icon you're dragging will have a little box in the lower-right corner that changes depending on the mode you're in. For moves it isn't there at all, for copying it's a little "+", and for making shortcuts it's a little shortcut-arrow-icon.Also, you can drag with the secondary (usually right) mouse button instead of the primary one. When you reach the drop target and release the button, Windows Explorer will give you a dragging context menu that lets you choose what to do with the dropped file.
It was a pain in the ass to learn, but it's handy now to not have to think about where my files are going when I drag them.
People from California do not generally sound like they have accents in other countries. The reason I've heard for this is that most of the American television, and thus English, the world watches comes from California, so that "California Accent" becomes the de-facto standard way English is supposed to be spoken.
I found this to be the case when I travelled in Europe; people knew I was an American from my customs and mode of dress, but not once did anybody have difficulty understanding me or complain about my accent.
(I'm from California too, btw.)
And blacks are gifted in "worship and celebration," white people "know how to tap into money," Native Americans are "gifted spiritually" (and know "how to sneak up on people"), Asians are "gifted in creation, creativity and inventions," and Hispanics are "gifted in family structure."
Remarks by Reggie White before the Wisconsin State Assembly, 3/25/98
I'm not one to get overly uppity about racial or cultural pigeonholing. I believe that stereotypes are probably there for a reason. But there's a difference, a logical leap that bridges the gap between "many people who are good at X hail from country Z" and "all people in country Z are good at X," which is not to be taken lightly.
Make all the jokes you want (I certainly do), but think hard about why you believe what you believe about other people before prejudging them.
YOUR QUOTE:
"Their response? They will sell it back to her for what they paid the thief. As for the Playstation, she's simply out of luck." (Extra double emphasis mine)
I somehow suspect that the money they made from selling the Playstation was a larger amount than any "restocking" cost they might have to keep stolen merchandise for a day or so before reselling it.
Jesus man, try to check your own facts before you get all high-and-mighty.
I predict wonderful "learning experiences" as RFID reading/duplicating technology moves down to individuals.
RFID reading technology.
On a side note, this site is awesome. Check them for all your random-parts-with-simple-computer-interfaces needs. =)
Remember, /. people are intelligent, and intelligent people conceal identity whenever possible.
So Linus, RMS, that ESR guy... they're all dumbasses then?
There's a difference between concealing your identiity and making sure that your private data stays that way.
You know, I thought that same thing. The door had the sort of curvy tube which so often invites me to pull on it to open the door it's attached to.
Also, as curvy-tube handles are much less efficient for pushing open doors than, say, crash bars, I just assumed this one was for pulling upon also..
Then again, I can't pass the entire buck onto the door's designer. There was a nice shiny "PUSH" sticker for me to read. =)
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
Lord knows I have.
:-P
In fact, just this week, I pulled on the same push door... twice.
I failed in my first attempt to get through, and then I pushed it open and held it for somebody to walk through. That person asked me a question about the building, so I let go of the door and pointed out the answer to her. I then turned around and immediately proceeded to pull on the push door again. =(
Times like this remind me that, no matter how funny I may think these stupid user stories are, there's probably a office service workers' network (maintenance/janitorial) where they all laugh at us stupid people who can't figure out the doors.
Parent's sig:
Sick of gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!
Yeah, I'm also sick of those damned Gentoo folks, and their users always plugging their package management system. Somebody should kick them off of Slashdot completely.
I'm sorry, but I had to. =D
If they choose to create free software, then the value of their labors is... $0? Why would they create something that doesn't have monetary value? I'm not saying there's no reason to, and I'm not saying there's no value to the software (there obviously is), but I'd like to hear the rationale.
Speaking for myself as a software-writer-person, if I create hobby software, it's either because I want to learn something that writing that software will teach me, or I want to use something that does not yet exist (or is not suitable to my needs). Often, both of these are considerations for my hobby programming. (This of course does not cover software I write as an agent of an employer; I'm generally not allowed to make licensing-sorts of choices about that software.)
Given those premises, once I've written a piece of software, I see no problem with sharing it freely with others. If that makes me foolish, then so be it, but there are lots of reasons I have for making that decision.
- If I wrote software to teach me something, then there exists the possibility it may teach somebody else something as well. I believe that education is a noble goal, and so I will take action to help other people learn.
- I may want my software to become widely adopted for selfish reasons. For example, if I write a program to play chess online, I want to use my program to play with (since I wrote it to scratch my own itch and thus it's the best program for me). However, if nobody else is using my chess program, then I have nobody to play against. Therefore, it's in my best interest to give my chess program away for free, to increase the number of potential opponents for myself.
- I may want my software to be widely adopted for unselfish reasons. For example, one of the projects I'm working on is a dropbox application. You run it, and give it a folder to share and a password; it then starts a lightweight HTTP server which responds to requests for files (both up- and downloads). Very, very simple, easy to use, reasonably secure in its default configuration. I'm writing it because there have been too many times where I've wanted to copy a file from my desktop to my laptop without going through a big thing of Samba shares or FTP servers or AOL IM sending, etc. etc. However, once I've gotten it finished, I'm going to make it freely available to the world, simply because I've seen other people have this sort of problem, and I think the world would be a better place if everybody could copy files between machines easily and quickly, without having to do a lot of extra work. UUCP style.
;-)
- Karma.
;-)
Really, what's the harm in my giving it away for free? Am I a fool for wanting to allow other people to use the fruits of my labor? Even though I may not charge $ money for said fruits, they may still be very useful to a lot of people, and the satisfaction I receive from knowing I've contributed something positive to the world is enough compensation for me.In the end, I write software that I want to use, and I don't worry about who else has it or uses it. I'm happy, other people are happy, and I don't have to waste my time counting pennies and trying to outsmart and track down people "stealing" my software. I can't speak for anybody else, but I certainly don't feel much like a fool.