Yep, that's what it'll be. Everyone will run screaming to get old used cars, the aftermarket for modding these things into everything will flourish.
Blackboxes, maybe even with 802.11 so the CHP can spy on you (drives fast, changes lanes frequently, tailgates, yeah... better send them a recruitment letter), beyone the obvious invasion of privacy argument (He's parked in front of your house again, sarge, shows up two minutes after you leave for work everyday...) there's certainly going to be a firestorm of protest at jacking up the cost of cars. We'll spend insane amounts of money once we got them, but don't even think about charging $200 more on the sticker price...
I'm totally fed up with the attitude that my personal time and space can be invaded until I say no.
Use the anology my mother often did, if I had to tell [everyone in China] not to bug me, I'd spent more than a lifetime doing so. Ergo, the time of my life isn't worth squat to the people who'd waste it, but they'll be happy to tell me how much they value me as a customer, yada yada yada.
If [everyone in China] had to wait until I said "ok" to each of them, I'm allowed to pick and choose, and if I do opt-in, they should value me much more as a potential customer rather than just wossname somewhere on the list.
Granted this is US law and has nothing to do with China, but there's enough people pestering me already that it's a problem.
BTW, just got some auto-downloading email-spam yesterday, two of them. So now you don't even have to visit websites to get that sort of invasion.
CmdrTaco on imdb?
on
Revolution OS
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· Score: 2, Funny
I really doubt that a new color
will boost PC sales all that much.
Conversely, Henry Ford was credited with saying, "You can have any color you like, as long as it's black." In the context of things, it was important to be able to get a car first, then if you had the money, get something more to your tastes. Beige, has actually been the OLD black. Once other nameplates arrives, with even beige color, Ford's inflexible thinking saw his company eclipsed by GM, which even today seems to push image over substance (but that's my humble opinion from living in the heart of GM country for 37 years.)
A few smaller makers, their names escape me because they pretty much disappeared years ago, predated Apple with attempts to make fashionable computers. Imagine a cabinet with walnut trim and chrome, eh? The personal computer has arrived as such a commodity that style is getting some serious effort. Probably more important among those who don't actually do anything, but just like waving the toy under someone else's nose (i.e. another executive.)
Evolution of the Hobby/Personal Compute:
Open case on a table or work bench, i.e. an OSI 540 board decked out with 12K static RAM, hooked up to jury-rigged composite input in a 12" b/w tv, bundle of wire to an open air keyboard, running off a couple HeathKit power supplies, storing/reading programs off a cassette recorder bought at JC Penney
Same computer mounted in a recovered cabinet from some idustrial electronics and bought at a HamFest, maybe even a short Relay Rack if you're c00l
Ugly TRS 80, Beige Apple ][, PET computers blocky, but who cares, you're too busy turning the whites of your eyes red staring at the screen all hours of the day and night.
IBM PC XT and AT hit the workplace, IBM could have said, "You can have any color you want, as long as it's beige."
Atari and C64 two-tone computers show up, both manufacturers start to dable with slick designs, but colors don't get much better.
A few niche makers offer cabinets, monitors, keyboards, etc. with different looks, but most are gone and forgotten because at the cost of computers and with the fascination of actually getting it to do things overrides appearance.
Fastforward to the late 90's, everyone's getting computers, the market is heavily commoditized, used computers with still some kick can be had for next to nothing, enter:case modders.
Hideous bulged, blobby looking cases appear on Compaqs, Dells, HP's, etc. trying to get away from the rigid geometric shape in favor of something that won't fit well on your desk, but might look impressive to anyone without a milligram of taste.
Really cool cabinets, which actually cost a few $$$ arrive and in the gap left between cost of a "pretty good" PC and $1,000 can be filled by putting a sharp looking case on it. Or black plastic if you're Dell.
Manufacturers selling over the web offer you a choice of color and or style for your plain vanilla computer guts? Why not. To a limited degree this is probably happening, but not by major players, yet.
I.e. Brushed anodized aluminum as opposed to the plastic black of the Dell at work. I picked up a Lian Li case and like the look of it. More importantly, it's metal, which I prefer over plastic.
Beige was ok, when new, but so much of it seemd to discolor, like it had been breathed on by heavy smokers, after a while. There's also the variance in this beige and that beige, when you line up a few drives in the front of a cabinet and their color is off by a slight amount. Maybe it'll be all the rage, next, to have mixed and matched. Kinda a retro 70's style.
Thank you for taking your valuable time away from being wined, dined and brainwashed by lobbyists to read this letter. I strongly oppose the U.S. Federal Government setting precedent in support of a known and guilty monopolist. Please insist upon an Open Standard, arrived at by a broad spectrum of those with strong experience in the areas of Preservation of Individual Privacy
and Integrity & Security of Data. Do not allow this perceived opportunity to lock the people of the United States of America into a closed standard which has proven non-secure in the past and the goals of the provider so transparent.
After buying a couple of John Gray's books, I was scratching my head on some of his theories. While some seemed like common sense, others smelled strongly of stereotypes and assumptions the quality of which one can find in any sit-com.
A while back I did a litter searching to find out a little more about the authors of the Mars and Venus books. Here's a grain of salt to take with them.
I wish I could remember the reference, but there was some parable I read about a man making a pact with the devil that he would never need to sleep again. Somewhat wiser the man realized what he had given up in his headlong pursuits, with some phrase like "vile demon you haven't saved me from sleep, but have come to steal my dreams." Lewis Carroll?
I wish I could recall the instance, as IIRC the context of the idea of sacrificing one's sleep
for gain is ultimately a high price.
I seem to recall burning the candles at both ends for a long time and not having any dreams I could remember during the period.
I have to watch sugar and caffeine, particularly the sugar. Like we just had the monthly birthday party for everyone (guess who was nuts enough to volunteer to man the grill) and there's this big cake covered in frosting. I eat only the cake part, as the sugar will give me a 20 minute rush, then I crash and can't think or do anything for the rest of the day. (Had bloodwork, MRI, etc. no medical conclusion other than keep away from processed sugar)
On a job I left 5 years ago I was going through a pound of expresso beans, myself, each week as I put in 16-18 hour days. The cost was lying in bed until noon on Saturday and basically going through detox on Sunday before starting it again on Monday mornings. I don't miss it and have few illusions about caffeine and dependency. OTOH, beer makes me hyper, I'm pretty tired right now so it's probably not a bad idea to head down to the pub after work for a couple pints of ol' wossname.
A company I worked for bought a financial system from Oracle, only later to find the number of licenses (1,000) was insanely more than we actually needed. Trying to weasel back out of the contract was murder, as Oracle sales, screw goodwill, wouldn't release us from the obligation for the excess licenses. The question really was, between the spec and the signed contract, where'd all the extra come from. It pays, literally, to read a contact before putting pen to it. I'm not accusing anyone of slight of hand, but it sure looked like it.
Meanwhile, in a lair in Redmond, WA, a figure with glasses and a bad haircut jabs another pin into stuffed tux and mutters, "but... we have the way out..."
I'm positive there are intangible benefits, such as MS agreeing to port Doze aggressively onto x86-64 platforms that are motivating Sanders.
No, I think you mean Tangible. Having a 64 bit WinXP or such for the Hammers is, I'm sure, weighing heavily on Sanders mind. That awkward bit about holding Intel to the same standard, well, must be in terms of 'if you don't write XP for us, then don't write for them', dunno sounds like desperation.
The pity for Sanders now, after the truth comes out...
"You've never checked to this day whether what Mr. Gates told you...
was true in the remedies," Gutman challenged. Sanders agreed he had not
read the states' proposals.
-- Gates had told him they were "crazy" and would fragment the Windows operating system.
... is that his credibility is now shot. You can just hear the MS lawyers sucking their fists and squirming after that collapse. How about a quick rigged demo, while finding a more credible witness. Sanders will have much to think about as he heads back home and what people in the Valley will say behind his back for sticking his neck out like that.
Would... developers pump millions into development... for something like... 25% market share?
They used to. Think back to when there were a plethora of OS's or, your way, video game machines. We had great diversity and some of those products which launched on the non-dominant paradigm were pretty damn good. (On that note, we could certainly spend a lot of bandwidth revisiting the issue about why games suck so much and lack originality, right?)
Sander's statement "Microsoft's dominance in PC operating systems fosters diversity rather than
limits consumer choice" is dead wrong. While providing a fairly unified platform for development, it's also been heavily leveraged by the guilty monopolist to force out perfectly good technologies for enrichment. Doesn't anyone ever wonder why Gates, Allen, Ballmer, et al are billionaires? Would they be without the MS deathgrip on the desktop? Would MS products be better if they truly competed? Absolutely! Every day here on Slashdot, yet inexplicably sometimes forgotten, like a pain in the leg you learn to live with.
The entire software industry agreeing on open standards would provide much better products, in much the same way business and consumers have benefitted from open standards on dynamic memory (SDRAM) JEDEC, despite Rambus' machinations is the right way to go about joint development, rather than MS coming out with the standard of the day and proclaiming it, only to build advantages into their OS and do things outside the API when it suits them, to effectively castrate the competition.
It then goes on with some stupid con about huge potentials, etc., all written with less thought and care than the average slashtroll post (You'd think someone who was going to engender the ire of thousands would at least put some effort into it, see sample below)
All you guys out there in Internet land get your fingers in gear and go directly to this website and do this
simple...YES I SAID SIMPLE (AND CHEAP!) program right NOW!
Click Here:
http://LearnTo.at/CollectCash
WE ARE ALL HERE TO MAKE MONEY (yes, I want your money - I'm not gonna lie) and this is one of the easiest
routes WE ALL can take to build some revenue without interupting any other ventures you are undergoing.
>>>>SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?????
DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!
THE POTENTIAL IS INSANE!!! IF YOU DON'T SEE IT YOUR BLIND!
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN!
TAKE ACTION!...DO IT!...JUMP!
DON'T JUST SIT THERE LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG! GIVE YOURSELF WHAT YOU DESERVE! YOU ARE WORTH IT!!!
YOU WILL BE REWARDED BEYOND YOUR HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS!
( VERY IMPORTANT...Don't forget to give at least 10% to a good charity after you collect!)
I'll try to forward you the bits to do this. One small, yet annoying matter. Your cash is actually stored as both a signed and unsigned 16 bit integer. This means you have to be careful with longer running games, as you could sell so much inventory that you roll over. Probably an afternoon's hacking would resolve this, simply find an unused bit of memory and write a better routine to allow full unsigned 16 bits, however, once you get up to the 32767 level, it's only a couple turns until you hit the rollover at 65535.
If you find creative ways to fritter away your money you can avoid this and ultimately drive your fellow planeteers into losing land.
Clearly 12 months is sufficient for the average player, but 18 brings out economic cyles which they evidently coded in, but don't really get warmed up and going in the building phase, i.e. first 10 months.
My particular take on the game would be to allow 12,18,24, or even longer matches where more balancing events can come into play. Perhaps increase the playfield. My goal is to design a generic engine and then taylor out a few gamesets, which are true to M.U.L.E, then let include a few standard new sets and then leave a simple interface for the user to define how they'd like to play and save those. Finally include multiplayer network capacities, but all this in good time.
I first was attacked to Amazon, years ago, because of their ability to track down those old OOP books. It's rather nice seeing options for used books to come up in searches, although they need to police their affiliates better as some are pretty bad about delivering books or inflation grading them (i.e. torn jacket, food fingerprints/smudges on pages == Mint)
I also know a few authors and as far as they are generally concerned they prefer to see books in print sell befor used copies, if it's out of print then they're usually more supportive of the used book market, as they'd like people to read and become acquainted with their works. It's a two edged sword, and I'd prefer not to think of anyone as being greedy, in particular authors as many don't make en entire living by it.
Because, you silly english knnniggit, plants convert the CO2 and H2O back into O2 while using C and H as building materials.
AFAIK there's no plant that converts H20 alone to 4 H2 + O2, if that were the case, explain fresh water lakes. In the upper atmosphere some water does seperate into H+ and O-2 ions, but it's expecting a lot of that process to replace the quantities placed in water molecules.
Hum it? I frequently find myself falling into live improvisations based on it, on the piano and synth.
It might be a sign that you're really a geek if you start dancing to it - Do the M.U.L.E. da-dooda-dooda da-dooda-dooda doomp da-doomp doomp da-doomp...
There's the possibility I've logged more hours playing M.U.L.E. than anyone else on Slashdot, along with Impossible Mission (which I usually finished but just kept trying to better my time).
I've installed CCS, the C64 emulator on my laptop and have recently logged several more hours in pursuit of Crystite and the Mountain Wampus, too bad the sound is cruddy and blanks out from time to time. So conditioned was I to playing M.U.L.E. and eating spaghetti, I pretty much have to have a plate of noodles and pasta sauce to make the experience complete.
I've also explored the code and data areas of the game, back in the day and recently, to extend gameplay to beyond 12 months, where it starts to get interesting, if you play hardball with your fellow planeteers.
I'm planning my own take on M.U.L.E. this summer. I'll take a stab at doing it in Java to make it available to more than just the Wintel crowd. I'll probably be asking for playtesters, on a variety of platforms, and some assistance when I get there.
One last thing, the theme music was and still is the best ever for any video game. Ever found yourself humming it?:)
This has got to be the most inane, greedy
thing I have heard of yet! The owners of the billboards on Times Square
are suing Sony and those involved with the production of Spider-Man 'for
digitally superimposing advertisements for other companies over their billboard space in
the film.'
As you've stated "If these companies have paid for advertising space in Times Sq., they must be factoring in the fact that Times Sq. is a
well known location, and likely to feature in films/TV etc. Consequently a percentage of the ad cost would reflect this?"
IMHO New York City, among other cities, usually has some sort of agreement filmmakers have to abide by to shoot in the city. It is certainly not unthinkable to have a clause which requires advertisements to remain unaltered. If it's not in there, I betcha it soon will be, since these ads do cost $$$$.
Their argument: '[the ads] do not depict the area accurately.' Oh, and a guy in spider costume swinging from the buildings does? Give me a break!
Sure, where would you like it? Maybe knock some sense and another perspective into your noggin. Who's more greedy, the advertisers who actually paid to have their product featured in a prime location, or a movie studio which sells out to USA Today for product placement? I expect the billboard people have a perfectly legit gripe. Now if, instead of USA Today, they advertised the fictional Daily Bugle (or whatever paper JJJ runs now) there'd probably not be such a bone of contention. Also, they producers could easily have just fudged in another billboard over some windows, but noooooo...
1. The strip carried in newspapers is the dullest ever. Last time I followed a plot it was something that could be knocked off in a standard comic, but took about 14 months to resolve (in the Sunday paper) I don't understand why it's still in any papers.
2. The marriage to MJ, rather than make the stories more interesting have made them worse. She's portrayed as a dumb harmless female. Geez, you'd think being Mrs. Spiderman he'd insist she take some Tai Kwon Do or Jujitsu and get a gun permit, after all the damn city is overrun with dangerous criminals all the time!
Last thought: Are we going to see the same stupid kill-off-the-villains that happened in the Batman movies? Talk about writing into a corner, without some of his prime adversaries, they'll have to invent new ones and ya know how lead-balloon-like that goes over.
Spelt Musenski in title, rather than Musenki (I thought fo a arf a mo an old bud named Musenski (or was it Musinski, Bull Moose anyway) was in the biz.
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Blackboxes, maybe even with 802.11 so the CHP can spy on you (drives fast, changes lanes frequently, tailgates, yeah... better send them a recruitment letter), beyone the obvious invasion of privacy argument (He's parked in front of your house again, sarge, shows up two minutes after you leave for work everyday...) there's certainly going to be a firestorm of protest at jacking up the cost of cars. We'll spend insane amounts of money once we got them, but don't even think about charging $200 more on the sticker price...
Use the anology my mother often did, if I had to tell [everyone in China] not to bug me, I'd spent more than a lifetime doing so. Ergo, the time of my life isn't worth squat to the people who'd waste it, but they'll be happy to tell me how much they value me as a customer, yada yada yada.
If [everyone in China] had to wait until I said "ok" to each of them, I'm allowed to pick and choose, and if I do opt-in, they should value me much more as a potential customer rather than just wossname somewhere on the list. Granted this is US law and has nothing to do with China, but there's enough people pestering me already that it's a problem.
BTW, just got some auto-downloading email-spam yesterday, two of them. So now you don't even have to visit websites to get that sort of invasion.
Linus, sure.
Stallman, eh..
Taco? damn..
Conversely, Henry Ford was credited with saying, "You can have any color you like, as long as it's black." In the context of things, it was important to be able to get a car first, then if you had the money, get something more to your tastes. Beige, has actually been the OLD black. Once other nameplates arrives, with even beige color, Ford's inflexible thinking saw his company eclipsed by GM, which even today seems to push image over substance (but that's my humble opinion from living in the heart of GM country for 37 years.)
A few smaller makers, their names escape me because they pretty much disappeared years ago, predated Apple with attempts to make fashionable computers. Imagine a cabinet with walnut trim and chrome, eh? The personal computer has arrived as such a commodity that style is getting some serious effort. Probably more important among those who don't actually do anything, but just like waving the toy under someone else's nose (i.e. another executive.)
Evolution of the Hobby/Personal Compute:
Open case on a table or work bench, i.e. an OSI 540 board decked out with 12K static RAM, hooked up to jury-rigged composite input in a 12" b/w tv, bundle of wire to an open air keyboard, running off a couple HeathKit power supplies, storing/reading programs off a cassette recorder bought at JC Penney
Same computer mounted in a recovered cabinet from some idustrial electronics and bought at a HamFest, maybe even a short Relay Rack if you're c00l
Ugly TRS 80, Beige Apple ][, PET computers blocky, but who cares, you're too busy turning the whites of your eyes red staring at the screen all hours of the day and night.
IBM PC XT and AT hit the workplace, IBM could have said, "You can have any color you want, as long as it's beige."
Atari and C64 two-tone computers show up, both manufacturers start to dable with slick designs, but colors don't get much better.
A few niche makers offer cabinets, monitors, keyboards, etc. with different looks, but most are gone and forgotten because at the cost of computers and with the fascination of actually getting it to do things overrides appearance.
Fastforward to the late 90's, everyone's getting computers, the market is heavily commoditized, used computers with still some kick can be had for next to nothing, enter:case modders.
Hideous bulged, blobby looking cases appear on Compaqs, Dells, HP's, etc. trying to get away from the rigid geometric shape in favor of something that won't fit well on your desk, but might look impressive to anyone without a milligram of taste.
Really cool cabinets, which actually cost a few $$$ arrive and in the gap left between cost of a "pretty good" PC and $1,000 can be filled by putting a sharp looking case on it. Or black plastic if you're Dell.
Manufacturers selling over the web offer you a choice of color and or style for your plain vanilla computer guts? Why not. To a limited degree this is probably happening, but not by major players, yet.
Beige was ok, when new, but so much of it seemd to discolor, like it had been breathed on by heavy smokers, after a while. There's also the variance in this beige and that beige, when you line up a few drives in the front of a cabinet and their color is off by a slight amount. Maybe it'll be all the rage, next, to have mixed and matched. Kinda a retro 70's style.
Thank you for taking your valuable time away from being wined, dined and brainwashed by lobbyists to read this letter. I strongly oppose the U.S. Federal Government setting precedent in support of a known and guilty monopolist. Please insist upon an Open Standard, arrived at by a broad spectrum of those with strong experience in the areas of Preservation of Individual Privacy and Integrity & Security of Data. Do not allow this perceived opportunity to lock the people of the United States of America into a closed standard which has proven non-secure in the past and the goals of the provider so transparent.
Regards, {Insert Your Name Here}
A while back I did a litter searching to find out a little more about the authors of the Mars and Venus books. Here's a grain of salt to take with them.
I wish I could recall the instance, as IIRC the context of the idea of sacrificing one's sleep for gain is ultimately a high price.
I seem to recall burning the candles at both ends for a long time and not having any dreams I could remember during the period.
On a job I left 5 years ago I was going through a pound of expresso beans, myself, each week as I put in 16-18 hour days. The cost was lying in bed until noon on Saturday and basically going through detox on Sunday before starting it again on Monday mornings. I don't miss it and have few illusions about caffeine and dependency. OTOH, beer makes me hyper, I'm pretty tired right now so it's probably not a bad idea to head down to the pub after work for a couple pints of ol' wossname.
A company I worked for bought a financial system from Oracle, only later to find the number of licenses (1,000) was insanely more than we actually needed. Trying to weasel back out of the contract was murder, as Oracle sales, screw goodwill, wouldn't release us from the obligation for the excess licenses. The question really was, between the spec and the signed contract, where'd all the extra come from. It pays, literally, to read a contact before putting pen to it. I'm not accusing anyone of slight of hand, but it sure looked like it.
Meanwhile, in a lair in Redmond, WA, a figure with glasses and a bad haircut jabs another pin into stuffed tux and mutters, "but... we have the way out..."
No, I think you mean Tangible. Having a 64 bit WinXP or such for the Hammers is, I'm sure, weighing heavily on Sanders mind. That awkward bit about holding Intel to the same standard, well, must be in terms of 'if you don't write XP for us, then don't write for them', dunno sounds like desperation.
The pity for Sanders now, after the truth comes out ...
"You've never checked to this day whether what Mr. Gates told you... was true in the remedies," Gutman challenged. Sanders agreed he had not read the states' proposals.
-- Gates had told him they were "crazy" and would fragment the Windows operating system.
They used to. Think back to when there were a plethora of OS's or, your way, video game machines. We had great diversity and some of those products which launched on the non-dominant paradigm were pretty damn good. (On that note, we could certainly spend a lot of bandwidth revisiting the issue about why games suck so much and lack originality, right?)
Sander's statement "Microsoft's dominance in PC operating systems fosters diversity rather than limits consumer choice" is dead wrong. While providing a fairly unified platform for development, it's also been heavily leveraged by the guilty monopolist to force out perfectly good technologies for enrichment. Doesn't anyone ever wonder why Gates, Allen, Ballmer, et al are billionaires? Would they be without the MS deathgrip on the desktop? Would MS products be better if they truly competed? Absolutely! Every day here on Slashdot, yet inexplicably sometimes forgotten, like a pain in the leg you learn to live with.
The entire software industry agreeing on open standards would provide much better products, in much the same way business and consumers have benefitted from open standards on dynamic memory (SDRAM) JEDEC, despite Rambus' machinations is the right way to go about joint development, rather than MS coming out with the standard of the day and proclaiming it, only to build advantages into their OS and do things outside the API when it suits them, to effectively castrate the competition.
We know better, don't we?
Worth noting tho, is that AMD has been very friendly to the Linux/BSD community. I hope that doesn't change.
ATTENTION: I WANT YOUR MONEY!!!
It then goes on with some stupid con about huge potentials, etc., all written with less thought and care than the average slashtroll post (You'd think someone who was going to engender the ire of thousands would at least put some effort into it, see sample below)
All you guys out there in Internet land get your fingers in gear and go directly to this website and do this
...DO IT! ...JUMP!
simple...YES I SAID SIMPLE (AND CHEAP!) program right NOW!
Click Here:
http://LearnTo.at/CollectCash
WE ARE ALL HERE TO MAKE MONEY (yes, I want your money - I'm not gonna lie) and this is one of the easiest
routes WE ALL can take to build some revenue without interupting any other ventures you are undergoing.
>>>>SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?????
DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!
THE POTENTIAL IS INSANE!!! IF YOU DON'T SEE IT YOUR BLIND!
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN! TAKE ACTION!
DON'T JUST SIT THERE LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG! GIVE YOURSELF WHAT YOU DESERVE! YOU ARE WORTH IT!!! YOU WILL BE REWARDED BEYOND YOUR HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS!
( VERY IMPORTANT...Don't forget to give at least 10% to a good charity after you collect!)
Pathetic.
If you find creative ways to fritter away your money you can avoid this and ultimately drive your fellow planeteers into losing land.
Clearly 12 months is sufficient for the average player, but 18 brings out economic cyles which they evidently coded in, but don't really get warmed up and going in the building phase, i.e. first 10 months.
My particular take on the game would be to allow 12,18,24, or even longer matches where more balancing events can come into play. Perhaps increase the playfield. My goal is to design a generic engine and then taylor out a few gamesets, which are true to M.U.L.E, then let include a few standard new sets and then leave a simple interface for the user to define how they'd like to play and save those. Finally include multiplayer network capacities, but all this in good time.
Replace 'attacked' with 'attracted'... too much video gaming lately :-)
I also know a few authors and as far as they are generally concerned they prefer to see books in print sell befor used copies, if it's out of print then they're usually more supportive of the used book market, as they'd like people to read and become acquainted with their works. It's a two edged sword, and I'd prefer not to think of anyone as being greedy, in particular authors as many don't make en entire living by it.
AFAIK there's no plant that converts H20 alone to 4 H2 + O2, if that were the case, explain fresh water lakes. In the upper atmosphere some water does seperate into H+ and O-2 ions, but it's expecting a lot of that process to replace the quantities placed in water molecules.
It might be a sign that you're really a geek if you start dancing to it - Do the M.U.L.E. da-dooda-dooda da-dooda-dooda doomp da-doomp doomp da-doomp...
It's a beautiful spring day. You are...
Not reading Slashdot to see what articles have already been posted.
Well, considering the engagement, he's probably got other things to do... ;)
I've installed CCS, the C64 emulator on my laptop and have recently logged several more hours in pursuit of Crystite and the Mountain Wampus, too bad the sound is cruddy and blanks out from time to time. So conditioned was I to playing M.U.L.E. and eating spaghetti, I pretty much have to have a plate of noodles and pasta sauce to make the experience complete.
I've also explored the code and data areas of the game, back in the day and recently, to extend gameplay to beyond 12 months, where it starts to get interesting, if you play hardball with your fellow planeteers.
I'm planning my own take on M.U.L.E. this summer. I'll take a stab at doing it in Java to make it available to more than just the Wintel crowd. I'll probably be asking for playtesters, on a variety of platforms, and some assistance when I get there.
One last thing, the theme music was and still is the best ever for any video game. Ever found yourself humming it? :)
As you've stated "If these companies have paid for advertising space in Times Sq., they must be factoring in the fact that Times Sq. is a well known location, and likely to feature in films/TV etc. Consequently a percentage of the ad cost would reflect this?"
IMHO New York City, among other cities, usually has some sort of agreement filmmakers have to abide by to shoot in the city. It is certainly not unthinkable to have a clause which requires advertisements to remain unaltered. If it's not in there, I betcha it soon will be, since these ads do cost $$$$.
Sure, where would you like it? Maybe knock some sense and another perspective into your noggin. Who's more greedy, the advertisers who actually paid to have their product featured in a prime location, or a movie studio which sells out to USA Today for product placement? I expect the billboard people have a perfectly legit gripe. Now if, instead of USA Today, they advertised the fictional Daily Bugle (or whatever paper JJJ runs now) there'd probably not be such a bone of contention. Also, they producers could easily have just fudged in another billboard over some windows, but noooooo...
2. The marriage to MJ, rather than make the stories more interesting have made them worse. She's portrayed as a dumb harmless female. Geez, you'd think being Mrs. Spiderman he'd insist she take some Tai Kwon Do or Jujitsu and get a gun permit, after all the damn city is overrun with dangerous criminals all the time!
Last thought: Are we going to see the same stupid kill-off-the-villains that happened in the Batman movies? Talk about writing into a corner, without some of his prime adversaries, they'll have to invent new ones and ya know how lead-balloon-like that goes over.
Spelt Musenski in title, rather than Musenki (I thought fo a arf a mo an old bud named Musenski (or was it Musinski, Bull Moose anyway) was in the biz.