I spent some time around NSA, and I thought it was funny, cause the guys in the Laurel area would be like, "I can't tell you where I work." Which meant I work for NSA. Then when you got to places like Ft. Smallwood/Jacobsville, and Columbia. "What do you do for a living?" "I work at NSA." "Oh then I guess you can't say what you do." "Well lets just say it involves the fact I speak Russian/Spanish/some other language," or "I use a lot of math to figure stuff out about where satellite signals come from."
Well I intend for one to make a game one day. I don't have the time right now, working full-time and going to school full-time sort of make it hard to do fun stuff. Which brings in one really useful feature, I can put all of my games on to one cart. So all I am toting around is my GBA, but I still have 3-4 games. Cause you never know if you are going to have enough time to jump in to Golden Sun some more, or if you only have enough time for some mini-games on Wario Ware. Then when I am done, I can take my SRAM and put the info on to the original cart. All very useful and nice. While I have had games that I didn't own on it, they are very few in number, and I wouldn't have bought them anyways (back in the color days). Now I am more selective about my games and only have time for the games I would buy anyway, so of course I am buying them, and sometimes I get Japanese ROMs to check games out months before they come to the states.
Gabe of Penny Arcade said it best on June 11th. He talks more about how much the device sucks, but specifically about the trash talk he says this, "Your second mistake was in allowing Mr. Raiskinen to ever open his fucking mouth in public. His statement is so absurd that it borders on the humorous. In fact if I were not quite certain that he was serious I would think it was a joke. Not a good idea to take out a game boy in a public place? Does this man even live on this planet? Did he make these comments from inside some kind of protective bubble orbiting the earth, insulated from the day to day happenings of itâ(TM)s inhabitants? If I am out with my buddies on a Friday night and we are waiting in line for a movie or some other event I can guarantee that Game Boys will come out. Not one of my friends is without a GBA. They are practically a necessity at this point. Like bread or water. It is the poor young man still playing snake on his cell phone in the airport that gets the pitting look from our group.
We even strung our link cables across the seats in the airplane on our way to E3 in order to partake in some four player Puyo Pop. Whereas airline regulations will not even allow me to turn on your masterfully designed game system while anywhere near a fucking airplane much less play a game to pass the time. Oh and speaking of great design, having to remove the battery in order to change gamesâ¦brilliant. "
This fits my own sentiments dead on. Almost all of my friends have SPs and you better bet we will pull them out when we are sitting waiting for a table or a movie to start. That is the beauty of my SP, I can play high quality games where ever I happen to be. So I can have a social life without having to sacrifice my gaming completely. I was interested in checking out the N-Gage, but now I feel that out of principle of not contributing to its success I won't. I am your target demo graphic, young geek male with loads of disposable income. Way to go Nokia.
On a recent spending spree at Best Buy, I picked up Ikaruga. Since the Penny Arcade kids had mentioned it favorably and I needed a good game I could pick up for only short game breaks. Ikaruga is really fun, but its not something I can play for extended period of times, which is good cause I still need to finish Wind Waker, and I have high hopes of playing through most of the Final Fantasy series again this summer.
The whole polarity thing really puts an interesting twist on the game. Basically you switch between black or white, and the enemies are one or the other color. If you are the opposite color you do twice as much damage, you absorb enemy bullets of the same color as you.
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I copied some protected file from my friend, and when I went to play them in the Finder, it asked to open iTunes to authorize me. So bypassing the DRM is going to take more work than just using the Finder or something similar.
If we are already tracking how much something is downloaded couldn't we just take it a step farther and charge the appropriate parties. Seriously if I am only listening to band X, Y and Z I only want them to give them my hard earned cash. I don't want to support some band just because a label decided to sign them. Also you have the potential for abuse, just think how crap the music scene is that attracts those with lots of time on their hands who could artificially inflate band z's share of the profits. (read: the young pre-teen/teens who don't have jobs). Granted if you are in to the boy bands I imagine this would be a great system.
I worked at a web developement company that had cubes. The cubes were roomy, and fairly open, we had four developers with our backs to each other. A table in the middle for small ad-hoc meetings. The heating/cooling for the building was handled thru water pipes so we had a white noise that made it virtually impossible to distract anyone except for maybe your closest neighbor. You were only heard if you wanted to be heard (the boss callling us all in for a meeting, etc.). Pretty much everyone worked with music playing all day, and you did not hear it, even if you turned your music off to take a call or something. The white noise was real annoying to me at first, but after a few weeks I rarely noticed it.
Really it all depends on the worker's ability to adapt. I now work in an office that is open. I really like this way, I can collaborate with the designers and other developers without moving. Granted sometimes it is a little crazy when people are collaborating and others are on the phone, but all in all it works well. We had a designer that could not handle that he wasn't at least in a cube. He couldn't concentrate on anything.
Get the SP. I have played my Advance games so much more since I got it. Castlevania is finally playable at times other than high noon. Or as you said, get an afterburner, I've heard that they are pretty good as long as you have (or know someone) with good soldering skills.
Make sure you print out/make copies. My friend was starting to talk to a lawyer and his computer crashed hard, he couldn't get his hours logs off of the hard disk.
I think it is supposed to be a school of 10,000. At least that is the way they did it in my school district as I was leaving. Each school had its own Power School server. First the high schools rolled it out, and then the Junior Highs and Elementary Schools.
It was nice to be able to see what my teacher had recorded for my grade without having to make an appointment, luckily though it was only a trial test while I was still in school so my parents never bothered with it. It would've gotten really old telling them that I had turned in those assignments and that the 0 was just there cause my score hadn't been put in yet, thus it appears I am failing, when I am not.
I think he really has hit the nail on the head. Tabs aren't for everyone, but its stupid for someone building a browser to not implement them. If I were to hypothetically speaking gotten my hands on v64 build of Safari, I would hypothetically know that tabs are being implemented like Dave describes. I've already adopted Safari as my primary browser, non of its current deficiencies are so glaring that any other browser is better for me overall.
It is nice to see competition in the browser world, cause in the end its the user who wins.
I think one thing that having MS is good for, is that it provides an overall real world example of what the programmers are going for. I know that when I can't devote serious constant time to a project, it is real easy to lose the vision of the forest down in the trees, especially around the wrap up time. A lot of the work being done is by people that have lives (well at least jobs/school) outside of writing software. That with the often times broad geographic differences, time schedule conflicts lead to a office clone, for example, not being able to have the focus and such that a programming team in a company has.
I really like the concept of open source software, but at the end of the day I want applications that work, and work well. That is why I have MS Office on my mac. I don't think that we would even be at the level we are if it weren't for something to clone/copy.
same potential problem here, and the Covad DSL isn't all that great $60 for 1.5 Mbs/128 K. It works fine most of the time but in the rare case I'm working from home the upload cap is some what limiting.
I admit that I am not your average 'web surfer', I'm a web developer. I love tabs. Why? Because at any given moment I have three to four different pages loaded. Tabs make it very easy for me to switch back and forth without have to go up to a menu to see what is even open. It keeps my screen cleaner which is nice. The other great thing about tabs is that my mom can use Mozilla and never even see them. What is it with the whole tabs are too complex crap? Tabs aren't a default thing on any browser I've come across.
Oh and the relationship between tabs is that they are both 'documents' the browser has/is rendering. That is it. There is no other relationship than that, and I hope that no one gets it in their head to make it more than that (I'm thinking JavaScript and dom stuff).
So it seems that Ask Slashdot has become Ask a Lawyer. Though I do have to admit that it is probably handy to hear what all the 'geeks' have to say before going to the suits.
I'm happy to see this, and will be ordering one today. I have/had a Flash linker for my Gameboy color. Did my Flash cartridge ever have games on it I didn't own, yes. Did I try my hand at Gameboy development with it, yes, did I try roms from the net and then purchase the game later, yes, did I have games that I played and never bought, yes.
The primary use was that I could have 7-8 of my games on one cartridge. That made it a lot easier for me to carry it around a play with while commuting to school/work. That has been the major drawback on my Advance. I have to cart around the unit and at least 2, 3 games I'm working on, plus another 2, or 3 should my friends want to link up.
So my use of a linker really isn't hurting the industry any. I'm buying the games I play, I'm just willing to pay to be able to stick all my roms on one flash cart. Besides this is a great boon for the gameboy developement community. There are a lot of people out there who can get their foot in the door of the industry with it. I think it is great.
Last time I checked there was a lot more to Macromedia than Flash. Most notably are ColdFusion, and Dreamweaver. Fireworks and Freehand aren't all that great, but they have their niche. The question is does your hate for flash equal or exceed what it will mean if Microsoft really does acquire Macromedia?
> Would adobe finally make photoshop cross platform, invest more in making their own SVG Editor (flash level) & viewer if that would happen? Last time I checked it is. IIRC Adobe makes their products for Mac OS and Windows, that would make it cross-platform. I wouldn't hold my breath for a Linux port.
My boss is big into being as wireless as possible. TiBooks, bluetooth cell phones, Tungsten T, and when he saw the MS mouse he picked it up. Of course having the TiBook with a spoon sticking out its back end was unacceptable as well so he bought DLink blue tooth adapaters.
Unfortunatly we ran into the same problem, what is the pairing password. After a quick search of the CD's on a windows computer and trying all the default pairing passwords we had seen, we gave up and took the mouses back, MS apparently doesn't want our money. Which is unfortunate cause while I was trying to pair the stupid thing I grew like the no wire feel of the mouse.
On another note, it is sad that there isn't more blue tooth adoption. I remember blue tooth first getting a lot of press over two years ago, and people are still early adopters today. I personally plan on getting a Sony-Ericcson T68i and a Tungsten T based purelly on the geek appeal of it all.
The 26-year-old man from Hengelo detained on Friday afternoon has confessed that he also started a fire on the grounds of the University of Twente on Wednesday morning 20 November 2002. In this fire two wings of one of the buildings on the grounds were completely destroyed and damages caused of between 40 and 50 million euro. The 26-year old was detained Friday afternoon after witnesses had observed the start of a small fire in another building. On the directions of these witnesses the 26-year old could then be detained.
On the how and why of the arson on the 20th no further announcements can be made at this moment. The suspect will be undergo further questioning on this. We can announce that the 26-year old is an employee of the University of Twente. The University staff has been informed of his confession by now. He will be brought before the magistrate in Almelo today.
I am a web developer, and I am interested in looking into this book further. Granted I am most concerned with how IE renders the pages I create, I'm not happy until Mozilla is rendering it right as well. This is important because Apple hired the guy doing Chimera, soon all those mac kids will be browsing with a gecko rendering engine.
All the stuff the version 4 browsers promised is finally becoming reality I can more than experiment with. Also your assertion that developers should spend more time making sites accessible is true. It is still possible to have DHTML and still be accessible, it all depends on the developer and how educated they are in their field. I agree that in most cases the use of DHTML/JavaScript is insane concerning advertising crap. Your belief that DHTML's only application is advertising on the web is crap. There are at least of few of us using it to enrich the user experience. For example forms are probably benefit the most from DHTML and JavaScript. You can have a dynamic changing form that can do a lot of first level data validation without having to submit the form over and over.
I agree with you mostly. I understand the need for people to mourn those they lost. You bet if I lost someone I loved, today would be different. The fact is that I had NSA, and top secret government buildings all around me. One of the people I was with was afraid something would happen nearby, I knew that they were either the best targets to hit, or the worst cause anit-air wouldn't let it happen. Of course since they had already lost the element of suprise I knew I was safe. Which is exactly what most Americans were safe.
9/11 has nothing on Pearl Harbor, the way I see it most of the country isn't going to be affected much by the war on terrorism. The show of pride in America seems to be a shallow gesture. Nobody is banding together, or making sacrafices for their country they weren't before, except of course the armed forces involved. Lots of people have pride in this country and being a citizen I am one of them, I just didn't rush out to show it. I would rather see Americans love their neighbors than flags everywhere.
IIRC, back when Quake 3 came out I could only get it to run on my computer in Linux. Because I wanted to best FPS I could get, I started X and had it only run Quake. Today my computer is a lot faster and such, but I would probably still run the UT client the same way. The point I'm trying to make is that a game or a couple of games doesn't make the desktop. The word type applications and such, those are the things that the desktop is made of. Unfortunally after playing with Jaguar (Mac OS X.2) I agree with the Apple kids. Linux can't touch Jaguar when it comes to being my workstation. I got the cool/stable *nix under the hood, but my window manager and all my apps run the same way.
I'm more interested in seeing the Mac version personally.
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I spent some time around NSA, and I thought it was funny, cause the guys in the Laurel area would be like, "I can't tell you where I work." Which meant I work for NSA. Then when you got to places like Ft. Smallwood/Jacobsville, and Columbia. "What do you do for a living?" "I work at NSA." "Oh then I guess you can't say what you do." "Well lets just say it involves the fact I speak Russian/Spanish/some other language," or "I use a lot of math to figure stuff out about where satellite signals come from."
Well I intend for one to make a game one day. I don't have the time right now, working full-time and going to school full-time sort of make it hard to do fun stuff. Which brings in one really useful feature, I can put all of my games on to one cart. So all I am toting around is my GBA, but I still have 3-4 games. Cause you never know if you are going to have enough time to jump in to Golden Sun some more, or if you only have enough time for some mini-games on Wario Ware. Then when I am done, I can take my SRAM and put the info on to the original cart. All very useful and nice. While I have had games that I didn't own on it, they are very few in number, and I wouldn't have bought them anyways (back in the color days). Now I am more selective about my games and only have time for the games I would buy anyway, so of course I am buying them, and sometimes I get Japanese ROMs to check games out months before they come to the states.
Gabe of Penny Arcade said it best on June 11th. He talks more about how much the device sucks, but specifically about the trash talk he says this, "Your second mistake was in allowing Mr. Raiskinen to ever open his fucking mouth in public. His statement is so absurd that it borders on the humorous. In fact if I were not quite certain that he was serious I would think it was a joke. Not a good idea to take out a game boy in a public place? Does this man even live on this planet? Did he make these comments from inside some kind of protective bubble orbiting the earth, insulated from the day to day happenings of itâ(TM)s inhabitants? If I am out with my buddies on a Friday night and we are waiting in line for a movie or some other event I can guarantee that Game Boys will come out. Not one of my friends is without a GBA. They are practically a necessity at this point. Like bread or water. It is the poor young man still playing snake on his cell phone in the airport that gets the pitting look from our group.
We even strung our link cables across the seats in the airplane on our way to E3 in order to partake in some four player Puyo Pop. Whereas airline regulations will not even allow me to turn on your masterfully designed game system while anywhere near a fucking airplane much less play a game to pass the time. Oh and speaking of great design, having to remove the battery in order to change gamesâ¦brilliant. "
This fits my own sentiments dead on. Almost all of my friends have SPs and you better bet we will pull them out when we are sitting waiting for a table or a movie to start. That is the beauty of my SP, I can play high quality games where ever I happen to be. So I can have a social life without having to sacrifice my gaming completely. I was interested in checking out the N-Gage, but now I feel that out of principle of not contributing to its success I won't. I am your target demo graphic, young geek male with loads of disposable income. Way to go Nokia.
It wasn't my original reason for registering, but it ended up being a great perk that I could block his stories.
On a recent spending spree at Best Buy, I picked up Ikaruga. Since the Penny Arcade kids had mentioned it favorably and I needed a good game I could pick up for only short game breaks. Ikaruga is really fun, but its not something I can play for extended period of times, which is good cause I still need to finish Wind Waker, and I have high hopes of playing through most of the Final Fantasy series again this summer.
The whole polarity thing really puts an interesting twist on the game. Basically you switch between black or white, and the enemies are one or the other color. If you are the opposite color you do twice as much damage, you absorb enemy bullets of the same color as you.
I copied some protected file from my friend, and when I went to play them in the Finder, it asked to open iTunes to authorize me. So bypassing the DRM is going to take more work than just using the Finder or something similar.
If we are already tracking how much something is downloaded couldn't we just take it a step farther and charge the appropriate parties. Seriously if I am only listening to band X, Y and Z I only want them to give them my hard earned cash. I don't want to support some band just because a label decided to sign them. Also you have the potential for abuse, just think how crap the music scene is that attracts those with lots of time on their hands who could artificially inflate band z's share of the profits. (read: the young pre-teen/teens who don't have jobs). Granted if you are in to the boy bands I imagine this would be a great system.
I worked at a web developement company that had cubes. The cubes were roomy, and fairly open, we had four developers with our backs to each other. A table in the middle for small ad-hoc meetings. The heating/cooling for the building was handled thru water pipes so we had a white noise that made it virtually impossible to distract anyone except for maybe your closest neighbor. You were only heard if you wanted to be heard (the boss callling us all in for a meeting, etc.). Pretty much everyone worked with music playing all day, and you did not hear it, even if you turned your music off to take a call or something. The white noise was real annoying to me at first, but after a few weeks I rarely noticed it.
Really it all depends on the worker's ability to adapt. I now work in an office that is open. I really like this way, I can collaborate with the designers and other developers without moving. Granted sometimes it is a little crazy when people are collaborating and others are on the phone, but all in all it works well. We had a designer that could not handle that he wasn't at least in a cube. He couldn't concentrate on anything.
Get the SP. I have played my Advance games so much more since I got it. Castlevania is finally playable at times other than high noon. Or as you said, get an afterburner, I've heard that they are pretty good as long as you have (or know someone) with good soldering skills.
Make sure you print out/make copies. My friend was starting to talk to a lawyer and his computer crashed hard, he couldn't get his hours logs off of the hard disk.
I think it is supposed to be a school of 10,000. At least that is the way they did it in my school district as I was leaving. Each school had its own Power School server. First the high schools rolled it out, and then the Junior Highs and Elementary Schools.
It was nice to be able to see what my teacher had recorded for my grade without having to make an appointment, luckily though it was only a trial test while I was still in school so my parents never bothered with it. It would've gotten really old telling them that I had turned in those assignments and that the 0 was just there cause my score hadn't been put in yet, thus it appears I am failing, when I am not.
I think he really has hit the nail on the head. Tabs aren't for everyone, but its stupid for someone building a browser to not implement them. If I were to hypothetically speaking gotten my hands on v64 build of Safari, I would hypothetically know that tabs are being implemented like Dave describes. I've already adopted Safari as my primary browser, non of its current deficiencies are so glaring that any other browser is better for me overall.
It is nice to see competition in the browser world, cause in the end its the user who wins.
I think one thing that having MS is good for, is that it provides an overall real world example of what the programmers are going for. I know that when I can't devote serious constant time to a project, it is real easy to lose the vision of the forest down in the trees, especially around the wrap up time. A lot of the work being done is by people that have lives (well at least jobs/school) outside of writing software. That with the often times broad geographic differences, time schedule conflicts lead to a office clone, for example, not being able to have the focus and such that a programming team in a company has.
I really like the concept of open source software, but at the end of the day I want applications that work, and work well. That is why I have MS Office on my mac. I don't think that we would even be at the level we are if it weren't for something to clone/copy.
same potential problem here, and the Covad DSL isn't all that great $60 for 1.5 Mbs/128 K. It works fine most of the time but in the rare case I'm working from home the upload cap is some what limiting.
and now Apple is leading the pack with the Powerbooks. Now if only Steve Jobs would relent and give us an update to the Newton.
Oh and the relationship between tabs is that they are both 'documents' the browser has/is rendering. That is it. There is no other relationship than that, and I hope that no one gets it in their head to make it more than that (I'm thinking JavaScript and dom stuff).
So it seems that Ask Slashdot has become Ask a Lawyer. Though I do have to admit that it is probably handy to hear what all the 'geeks' have to say before going to the suits.
The primary use was that I could have 7-8 of my games on one cartridge. That made it a lot easier for me to carry it around a play with while commuting to school/work. That has been the major drawback on my Advance. I have to cart around the unit and at least 2, 3 games I'm working on, plus another 2, or 3 should my friends want to link up.
So my use of a linker really isn't hurting the industry any. I'm buying the games I play, I'm just willing to pay to be able to stick all my roms on one flash cart. Besides this is a great boon for the gameboy developement community. There are a lot of people out there who can get their foot in the door of the industry with it. I think it is great.
Last time I checked there was a lot more to Macromedia than Flash. Most notably are ColdFusion, and Dreamweaver. Fireworks and Freehand aren't all that great, but they have their niche. The question is does your hate for flash equal or exceed what it will mean if Microsoft really does acquire Macromedia?
> Would adobe finally make photoshop cross platform, invest more in making their own SVG Editor (flash level) & viewer if that would happen?
Last time I checked it is. IIRC Adobe makes their products for Mac OS and Windows, that would make it cross-platform. I wouldn't hold my breath for a Linux port.
Unfortunatly we ran into the same problem, what is the pairing password. After a quick search of the CD's on a windows computer and trying all the default pairing passwords we had seen, we gave up and took the mouses back, MS apparently doesn't want our money. Which is unfortunate cause while I was trying to pair the stupid thing I grew like the no wire feel of the mouse.
On another note, it is sad that there isn't more blue tooth adoption. I remember blue tooth first getting a lot of press over two years ago, and people are still early adopters today. I personally plan on getting a Sony-Ericcson T68i and a Tungsten T based purelly on the geek appeal of it all.
Press release Twente Police 25 November 2002
Confession concerning fire UT
The 26-year-old man from Hengelo detained on Friday afternoon has confessed that he also started a fire on the grounds of the University of Twente on Wednesday morning 20 November 2002. In this fire two wings of one of the buildings on the grounds were completely destroyed and damages caused of between 40 and 50 million euro.
The 26-year old was detained Friday afternoon after witnesses had observed the start of a small fire in another building. On the directions of these witnesses the 26-year old could then be detained.
On the how and why of the arson on the 20th no further announcements can be made at this moment. The suspect will be undergo further questioning on this.
We can announce that the 26-year old is an employee of the University of Twente. The University staff has been informed of his confession by now.
He will be brought before the magistrate in Almelo today.
All the stuff the version 4 browsers promised is finally becoming reality I can more than experiment with. Also your assertion that developers should spend more time making sites accessible is true. It is still possible to have DHTML and still be accessible, it all depends on the developer and how educated they are in their field. I agree that in most cases the use of DHTML/JavaScript is insane concerning advertising crap. Your belief that DHTML's only application is advertising on the web is crap. There are at least of few of us using it to enrich the user experience. For example forms are probably benefit the most from DHTML and JavaScript. You can have a dynamic changing form that can do a lot of first level data validation without having to submit the form over and over.
9/11 has nothing on Pearl Harbor, the way I see it most of the country isn't going to be affected much by the war on terrorism. The show of pride in America seems to be a shallow gesture. Nobody is banding together, or making sacrafices for their country they weren't before, except of course the armed forces involved. Lots of people have pride in this country and being a citizen I am one of them, I just didn't rush out to show it. I would rather see Americans love their neighbors than flags everywhere.
I'm more interested in seeing the Mac version personally.