This article reminds me of how in the early 486 days, I'd ask about video cards that did better than 8 bit colour, and everybody kept saying, "Humans can't distinguish more than 200 colours anyway!"
Well said. It seems like people can't smell bullshit these days.
One point I'd like to see addressed publicly is, "what is a scientific theory?" If people knew what it meant, they wouldn't go around saying things like, "Oh, evolution is just a theory."
If the problem is that the readers can't grow up and engage in meaningful conversation on an interesting article, then it's their fault. Why bother bickering about how someone gets a lot of articles accepted? The articles were accepted, and thus were deemed interesting.
I like that idea, but it's quite a lot of work for someone who just wants to get their stuff working.
Let's set up a website where people who can't use open source software because they're missing drivers, features, etc. can band together and donate money to a pot that, when large enough, will be used to pay someone to do the work. Programmers who wish to be paid to create drivers in a timely fashion can sign up to be developers. They can provide key words to flag themselves as interested in certain types of projects and be automatically notified of new requests. Those who donated are forever immortalized in the code.
Some things are hairy and need to be worked out, but let's get cracking. Talk to me. Within a year, get-oss-drivers.com could cut bitching about missing software by at least 50%.
I remember a cool science teacher in High School getting people to write papers on the science of Star Wars. Rather than do anything particularly scientific, I gathered all the fictional information I could find on the ion engines in TIE fighters. I did not do well.
Of course, ion engines do exist now. I want some marks back.
They loused up the Memory Stick format... For a while they floundered, but then finally admitted, "we screwed up: we can't make a MS bigger than 128MB... Here's Memory Stick Pro."
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Actually, the reviews start off saying "Halo 2 is great!" then devote several paragraphs to describing how bad it is: that the level design is boring and repetitive, yadda yadda. (GameSpot)
Looks like the world has gone cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Halo again.
Is there no way of obtaining an XBox-compatible DVD drive for replacement?
Mine still works, but is making awful, awful noises. I doubt it will work for long. I lucked out: mine is a v1.0 XBox and it still pretty much functions.
Take it easy this article is a lot more correct then most of the ones I read here!
It is unclear what your goal is with that message. Just to clarify for those who don't know (and who want to learn), the correct version of that sentence is:
"Take it easy: this article is a lot more correct than most of the ones I read here!"
Mac OS X is tasty. The only reason I don't have a Mac is because of the high cost of buying one. I'm sure that for at least a few people, x86 OS X would be a "gateway drug" to buying the actual Apple hardware.
I'd buy Mac OS X if it would run on my Athlon XP, and I just might end up buying an iMac later on because of it.
I actually went through and finished that game. If they weren't so obsessed with the technology, it would have been brilliant. It had pretty good level design as I recall.
The fact that you had to explicitly control and position your one functioning arm was pretty annoying. If it had been an option that you could use to your advantage rather than a crippling requirement it would have been great. It was also really strange being able to "use" one arm but not the other. I think they made some lame excuse that your other arm was broken or something. That's certainly what it felt like.
The engine was a disaster too... An attempt to create a rendering engine that supports great distances by rendering distant objects to a sprite and using the sprite until you had moved n degrees radially from it. Unfortunately, "distant" meant "about 30 feet away," so you were basically playing DOOM at greater than 30 feet...
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This article reminds me of how in the early 486 days, I'd ask about video cards that did better than 8 bit colour, and everybody kept saying, "Humans can't distinguish more than 200 colours anyway!"
Well said. It seems like people can't smell bullshit these days.
One point I'd like to see addressed publicly is, "what is a scientific theory?" If people knew what it meant, they wouldn't go around saying things like, "Oh, evolution is just a theory."
If the problem is that the readers can't grow up and engage in meaningful conversation on an interesting article, then it's their fault. Why bother bickering about how someone gets a lot of articles accepted? The articles were accepted, and thus were deemed interesting.
I like that idea, but it's quite a lot of work for someone who just wants to get their stuff working.
Let's set up a website where people who can't use open source software because they're missing drivers, features, etc. can band together and donate money to a pot that, when large enough, will be used to pay someone to do the work. Programmers who wish to be paid to create drivers in a timely fashion can sign up to be developers. They can provide key words to flag themselves as interested in certain types of projects and be automatically notified of new requests. Those who donated are forever immortalized in the code.
Some things are hairy and need to be worked out, but let's get cracking. Talk to me. Within a year, get-oss-drivers.com could cut bitching about missing software by at least 50%.
I disagree. I care greatly about spelling and grammar, but only a fool would ignore meaning.
Sometimes, poor grammar and spelling can destroy meaning, though.
I remember a cool science teacher in High School getting people to write papers on the science of Star Wars. Rather than do anything particularly scientific, I gathered all the fictional information I could find on the ion engines in TIE fighters. I did not do well.
Of course, ion engines do exist now. I want some marks back.
Also: Bob's Quick Guide to Its and It's.
They loused up the Memory Stick format... For a while they floundered, but then finally admitted, "we screwed up: we can't make a MS bigger than 128MB... Here's Memory Stick Pro."
I really should be helpful instead of just being an ass...
braking
breaking
Awesome! I can just imagine the look on the cops' faces when their radar just cracks in half before they can get a reading.
Actually, natural selection at work. :)
Actually, the reviews start off saying "Halo 2 is great!" then devote several paragraphs to describing how bad it is: that the level design is boring and repetitive, yadda yadda. (GameSpot)
Looks like the world has gone cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Halo again.
Is there no way of obtaining an XBox-compatible DVD drive for replacement?
Mine still works, but is making awful, awful noises. I doubt it will work for long. I lucked out: mine is a v1.0 XBox and it still pretty much functions.
" Your ignorate too. I am not a lawyer but..."
Nor are you an English teacher, I guess.
Take it easy this article is a lot more correct then most of the ones I read here!
It is unclear what your goal is with that message. Just to clarify for those who don't know (and who want to learn), the correct version of that sentence is:
"Take it easy: this article is a lot more correct than most of the ones I read here!"
Mac OS X is tasty. The only reason I don't have a Mac is because of the high cost of buying one. I'm sure that for at least a few people, x86 OS X would be a "gateway drug" to buying the actual Apple hardware.
I'd buy Mac OS X if it would run on my Athlon XP, and I just might end up buying an iMac later on because of it.
Would a petition make any difference?
"does not allow for it to stand up on it's own"
Now, major publications are letting mistakes like this slide into their text. I mourn.
Bob's Quick Guide to Its and It's, You Idiots
Macrovision
Not Macromedia...
I actually went through and finished that game. If they weren't so obsessed with the technology, it would have been brilliant. It had pretty good level design as I recall.
The fact that you had to explicitly control and position your one functioning arm was pretty annoying. If it had been an option that you could use to your advantage rather than a crippling requirement it would have been great. It was also really strange being able to "use" one arm but not the other. I think they made some lame excuse that your other arm was broken or something. That's certainly what it felt like.
The engine was a disaster too... An attempt to create a rendering engine that supports great distances by rendering distant objects to a sprite and using the sprite until you had moved n degrees radially from it. Unfortunately, "distant" meant "about 30 feet away," so you were basically playing DOOM at greater than 30 feet...
Also, it's manoeuvering
Had I the points, you'd be modded up too. :)
Un-anonymously...
I believe you mean "licensed."
Wholly entertaining! I could only take it in 5 minute intervals, though...
:)
It's hard to watch dorky white guys who think they're a) cool and b) black for more than a short stretch at a time.
Someone comes along, presses a few buttons and reaps all the benefits...
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Not too bad. Still, I'm a fan of descriptive variable names myself (somethingIterator)
http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif
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I don't even have the karma to burn on this.