Looks like they took the "important phone numbers" link down. Fat chance, wankers! Your precious POTS numbers are immortalized in a +4 moderated Slashdot post.
Now he can tell his future employer that he was the subject of a story on Slashdot, get a nice salary from a computer security firm, and wreak revenge on his oppressors in a Count-of-Monte-Cristo style. Sounds like he's got it made!
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Yeah, I think about 1 in 3 Apollo astronauts yuled, despite their bravado before the mission.
What is even scarier is that at least one Apollo astronaut did not have a bowel movement all the way to the moon and back... that's two weeks... talk about yer low-fiber diets:)
Why don't you just write an adapter class, so that you can use 13 or 12-month years depending on your.conf file options, and... oh wait, this is the real world, never mind..
It works by harnessing parents' guilt, combined with a rationalization of letting their kids play all day long -- these forces are then converted into $899.
Strange that there should be 254, not 256 screens... does this mean there is the possibility of an Easter Egg that has remained dormant all these years?
Also does anyone know how many FPS he was getting?:)
Not true, you just can't reverse course and head for home; orbital mechanics doesn't work like that. You have to wait for the Earth to be in position again, since it has moved ahead in its orbit since you set out for Mars. "The Case For Mars" has a very good treatment of the subject for many different Mars trajectories and abort options. Some depend on a "free-return" trajectory, using Mars' gravity to slingshot back toward Earth -- much like what was used during Apollo.
I never click on banner ads, ever. So should I not be allowed to use the Web because my browsing does not contribute to the economy? If I hack my browser, am I a criminal? Will I be forced by legal mandate to watch a given number of hours of advertising per week? Will we have to ship the lawyers & advertising agents to a remote planet on Ark #2?
I'm willing to make peace with the advertisers, if they will stop thinking of me as an animal to be beaten into submission. Give me things I want. Web sites, make partnerships with other sites to help me buy Christmas presents this season. As it stands, I am a helpless consumer without gift-buying direction this season, and am so inundated with advertising that I don't hear it anymore. Some company is losing money because they haven't effectively reached out to me, and I imagine the story is the same with many others on this site.
So an ISO 9660 filesystem is not a standard? I can see organizing it so that the directories load faster, and maybe a manifest, but the only easy way to navigate 500+ filenames is to have a text display & keyboard.
My main editor is "joe" which has WordStar bindings (^K-B, ^K-E, etc). They suck, but they're not any less hated than Emacs bindings saving throw against Emacs Magic Missile).
Also I live near the reel mower activist capital of the world (maybe?) -- Takoma Park DC (where old hippies go to die).
As for the rest of the technologies, let 'em collect dust in museums.
If you ran into problems two months out, if should take at least a month to return, and more likely 3
Much worse than that... depending on the trajectory it would take anywhere from 1 1/2 years to 3 years to return! Seems that manned Mars missions call for heavy redundancy...
Zork and all the other early Infocom games used a VM (called the Z-machine) to run their games on 8-bit platforms. This VM spec is still used today for new IF games. Also, the Apple ][ ROM had an interpreter for performing 16-bit integer math calculations, called "Sweet 16". Applesoft itself was interpreted, like many other BASICs.
The white paper is a crackpot spewing about "state of mind" and "genomes" and trying to appear academic. If he has any new ideas, I'm not able to penetrate the BS to find them. Turing machine == Von Neumann machine == any calculating device, so what's new here?
If he was posting on USENET he would be using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS for certain KEY TERMS that expressed his REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS.
I think we have more important things to worry about over the next century than a particular file format, of all things.
You are saying that preservation of historical documents is not important? I would bet that even now there are Word/WordPerfect/WordStar/etc documents being trashed because people just don't have the time to hunt down the proprietary viewer to read them.
I'm using the Internet, all the time. I order shit online, I talk to my relatives all the time... what's "peaking"? I watch TV on TV and go outside into the real world when circumstances warrant. Let it grow!!
What happened in 1985 was because Atari was the 600-pound gorilla in the industry, and they completely mismanaged their product line -- also because it was too easy to write a crappy 4K ROM and put it in a cartridge. One year later, video games bounced back, but it wasn't a U.S. company leading the way.
Also, it's easier than ever to port software to a new platform. In ye olde days, you had to completely rewrite Z80 assembler code in 6502, for example -- now you just write a new wrapper for your video/sound/control routines and recompile (I'm simplifying a great deal of course). And XBox will make that process even easier.
Well companies like Apple spent a lot of time and money doing UI research and making their products look and feel as nice and consistant as possible.
This is why MacOS 10 users have to hack their system to restore the look-and-feel they had in version 9 of their OS? Doesn't seem too consistent to me.
Gamers are the new artists, visionaries, and story-tellers of our time, sparked by astonishingly inventive new technologies like the PS 2.
The PS2's technology doesn't spark imagination. It is an incredibly difficult-to-program machine, and if anything, inhibits creative game design. Publishers will take less risks since just getting the game out the door is risk enough. If you want real storytelling, go to www.ifarchive.org and play some interactive fiction.
I always thought that the buying service was horrible. I mean, if I want advice, I'll search the newsgroups for " and review", not look at a bunch of meaningless 1-10 ratings. Anyway epinions.com ate their lunch.
I think the quality of games is directly proportional to the ease of programming. PS2 games require so much wrangling of metal that by the time you finish optimizing, there's no time left to make a good game. Maybe when developers have more time and experience with the system, games will get better -- as was the case with PS1.
Verizon's servers are spammer's heaven. Their mail servers are blacklisted by ORBS and I have often gotten connect errors when trying to send mail -- so their servers are probably not administered properly. That's why I keep my mail elsewhere. I have had severe DSL outages in the past with them -- not lately though.
Compassion, people. It is difficult just to stay alive in the PC game industry. The complexity of games is higher, the competition is more intense, platforms are more varied, talent gets harder and harder to find, and sales are being eroded by consoles. Not to mention that your game is being hacked, modded, tweaked, and run on dangerously overclocked hardware that was assembled by a Dr Frankenstein. Support is a nightmare -- and having to support folks with their own custom compiled operating system is just too much to handle.
After reading Bryan Burrough's "Dragonfly", about the tensions on board the Mir-Shuttle missions, I can understand this story better. First of all, there was a great friction between the astronauts and the ground controllers. Because of poor integration between Russian and US controllers, the ground crew was not always as well prepared as they could have been. Also compounded by this is the fact that cosmonauts get paid "bonuses" for work accomplished -- a successful manual Progress docking gets you $2k or so -- so there is more animosity toward the ground when they can't solve a problem.
Gotta love our administration... rather than address the problem through education or doing additional reentry studies, they spend shut-up money to postpone the problem until the next administration. Those satellites are coming down sometime, it's just a matter of when!
Why not take the $72 mil and buy everyone in the U.S. an ice cream cone instead?
You're right... but why stop there? Let's consolidate even more! How about "food.microsoft.com", "shelter.microsoft.com", "doublethink.microsoft.com"... one-stop shopping!!
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Looks like they took the "important phone numbers" link down. Fat chance, wankers! Your precious POTS numbers are immortalized in a +4 moderated Slashdot post.
Now he can tell his future employer that he was the subject of a story on Slashdot, get a nice salary from a computer security firm, and wreak revenge on his oppressors in a Count-of-Monte-Cristo style. Sounds like he's got it made!
Yeah, I think about 1 in 3 Apollo astronauts yuled, despite their bravado before the mission.
... that's two weeks... talk about yer low-fiber diets :)
What is even scarier is that at least one Apollo astronaut did not have a bowel movement all the way to the moon and back
Why don't you just write an adapter class, so that you can use 13 or 12-month years depending on your .conf file options, and ... oh wait, this is the real world, never mind..
It works by harnessing parents' guilt, combined with a rationalization of letting their kids play all day long -- these forces are then converted into $899.
Strange that there should be 254, not 256 screens... does this mean there is the possibility of an Easter Egg that has remained dormant all these years?
:)
Also does anyone know how many FPS he was getting?
Not true, you just can't reverse course and head for home; orbital mechanics doesn't work like that. You have to wait for the Earth to be in position again, since it has moved ahead in its orbit since you set out for Mars. "The Case For Mars" has a very good treatment of the subject for many different Mars trajectories and abort options. Some depend on a "free-return" trajectory, using Mars' gravity to slingshot back toward Earth -- much like what was used during Apollo.
I never click on banner ads, ever. So should I not be allowed to use the Web because my browsing does not contribute to the economy? If I hack my browser, am I a criminal? Will I be forced by legal mandate to watch a given number of hours of advertising per week? Will we have to ship the lawyers & advertising agents to a remote planet on Ark #2?
I'm willing to make peace with the advertisers, if they will stop thinking of me as an animal to be beaten into submission. Give me things I want. Web sites, make partnerships with other sites to help me buy Christmas presents this season. As it stands, I am a helpless consumer without gift-buying direction this season, and am so inundated with advertising that I don't hear it anymore. Some company is losing money because they haven't effectively reached out to me, and I imagine the story is the same with many others on this site.
So an ISO 9660 filesystem is not a standard? I can see organizing it so that the directories load faster, and maybe a manifest, but the only easy way to navigate 500+ filenames is to have a text display & keyboard.
My main editor is "joe" which has WordStar bindings (^K-B, ^K-E, etc). They suck, but they're not any less hated than Emacs bindings saving throw against Emacs Magic Missile).
Also I live near the reel mower activist capital of the world (maybe?) -- Takoma Park DC (where old hippies go to die).
As for the rest of the technologies, let 'em collect dust in museums.
If you ran into problems two months out, if should take at least a month to return, and more likely 3
... depending on the trajectory it would take anywhere from 1 1/2 years to 3 years to return! Seems that manned Mars missions call for heavy redundancy...
Much worse than that
Zork and all the other early Infocom games used a VM (called the Z-machine) to run their games on 8-bit platforms. This VM spec is still used today for new IF games. Also, the Apple ][ ROM had an interpreter for performing 16-bit integer math calculations, called "Sweet 16". Applesoft itself was interpreted, like many other BASICs.
The white paper is a crackpot spewing about "state of mind" and "genomes" and trying to appear academic. If he has any new ideas, I'm not able to penetrate the BS to find them. Turing machine == Von Neumann machine == any calculating device, so what's new here?
If he was posting on USENET he would be using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS for certain KEY TERMS that expressed his REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS.
I think we have more important things to worry about over the next century than a particular file format, of all things.
You are saying that preservation of historical documents is not important? I would bet that even now there are Word/WordPerfect/WordStar/etc documents being trashed because people just don't have the time to hunt down the proprietary viewer to read them.
I'm using the Internet, all the time. I order shit online, I talk to my relatives all the time... what's "peaking"? I watch TV on TV and go outside into the real world when circumstances warrant. Let it grow!!
What happened in 1985 was because Atari was the 600-pound gorilla in the industry, and they completely mismanaged their product line -- also because it was too easy to write a crappy 4K ROM and put it in a cartridge. One year later, video games bounced back, but it wasn't a U.S. company leading the way.
Also, it's easier than ever to port software to a new platform. In ye olde days, you had to completely rewrite Z80 assembler code in 6502, for example -- now you just write a new wrapper for your video/sound/control routines and recompile (I'm simplifying a great deal of course). And XBox will make that process even easier.
Well companies like Apple spent a lot of time and money doing UI research and making their products look and feel as nice and consistant as possible.
This is why MacOS 10 users have to hack their system to restore the look-and-feel they had in version 9 of their OS? Doesn't seem too consistent to me.
Gamers are the new artists, visionaries, and story-tellers of our time, sparked by astonishingly inventive new technologies like the PS 2.
The PS2's technology doesn't spark imagination. It is an incredibly difficult-to-program machine, and if anything, inhibits creative game design. Publishers will take less risks since just getting the game out the door is risk enough. If you want real storytelling, go to www.ifarchive.org and play some interactive fiction.
I always thought that the buying service was horrible. I mean, if I want advice, I'll search the newsgroups for " and review", not look at a bunch of meaningless 1-10 ratings. Anyway epinions.com ate their lunch.
So can I go to jail for 7 years for hacking a Quake server?
I think the quality of games is directly proportional to the ease of programming. PS2 games require so much wrangling of metal that by the time you finish optimizing, there's no time left to make a good game. Maybe when developers have more time and experience with the system, games will get better -- as was the case with PS1.
Verizon's servers are spammer's heaven. Their mail servers are blacklisted by ORBS and I have often gotten connect errors when trying to send mail -- so their servers are probably not administered properly. That's why I keep my mail elsewhere. I have had severe DSL outages in the past with them -- not lately though.
Compassion, people. It is difficult just to stay alive in the PC game industry. The complexity of games is higher, the competition is more intense, platforms are more varied, talent gets harder and harder to find, and sales are being eroded by consoles. Not to mention that your game is being hacked, modded, tweaked, and run on dangerously overclocked hardware that was assembled by a Dr Frankenstein. Support is a nightmare -- and having to support folks with their own custom compiled operating system is just too much to handle.
After reading Bryan Burrough's "Dragonfly", about the tensions on board the Mir-Shuttle missions, I can understand this story better. First of all, there was a great friction between the astronauts and the ground controllers. Because of poor integration between Russian and US controllers, the ground crew was not always as well prepared as they could have been. Also compounded by this is the fact that cosmonauts get paid "bonuses" for work accomplished -- a successful manual Progress docking gets you $2k or so -- so there is more animosity toward the ground when they can't solve a problem.
Gotta love our administration... rather than address the problem through education or doing additional reentry studies, they spend shut-up money to postpone the problem until the next administration. Those satellites are coming down sometime, it's just a matter of when!
Why not take the $72 mil and buy everyone in the U.S. an ice cream cone instead?
You're right... but why stop there? Let's consolidate even more! How about "food.microsoft.com", "shelter.microsoft.com", "doublethink.microsoft.com"... one-stop shopping!!