People don't carpool. Despite overwhelming benefits, not to mention the unbelievable cost a car puts on a person per year, the overwhelming number of cars on the highways during commute times have precisely one person in them.
Well I seem to recall there was an option for tolls and one for HOV lanes. It would be interesting to see if driver behaviour changed as you altered those - for example, if I implement toll lanes for new HOV lanes, will it fail? if I implement toll lanes for non-HOV lanes, with free lanes for multi-passenger, will it work better? And if I cut down on cops, will some of the cars start having dummies in the passenger seat as people cheat on the HOV lane multi-passenger option?
As for farming, considering the number of acres of arable land required to serve the food needs of a million people, that's why it's called SimCity, not SimCountry:)
Actually, there is a SimFarm - I have a copy at home.
Were you on Prodigy or Compuserve back then? If so, remember what fun we had when I broke the two-byte encoding scheme for buildings? And found that the actual upper limit for funds was much larger than a million (it was something like 7F FF FF FF FF FF or something - but for safeties sake I always recommended you use something like 70 00 00 00 00 etc, as it accumulated funds and buffer overflowed to a negative otherwise).
I always liked hex editing the map after a nuke explosion to repair buildings - among other things.
I just watched the World Premiere of Digby Goes Down here at the Seattle International Film Fest. And they show overhead shots of NYC - with not a single shot remaining (very noticeable "jump" in the film pan) of the WTC towers.
and away from hardware with OS bundle (aka Palm 505, V, etc).
One of the reasons I bought 1/1000th of Palm after IPO lockup drop was that I predicted they would: a. survive the dot com crash (didn't know when that would happen but did know valuations were nuts); b. increase revenue sales of the OS to other devices to the point where it would become the major share of their revenues.
Hardware usually has bad ROI, but software has good ROI, provided you're one of the lead providers.
So from this we can gather that you'll be reading many many more articles on "Palm ports OS to [insert device h/w here]" over the next year - and if you read the annual report, you can read between the lines.
In some ways, open source (e.g. BSD, Linux) threatens their market space, as the cost factor is even lower, but the patent background should permit them to survive in the evolving non-PC era of the 2001-2020 era as devices and such fade into the background. But they have successfully defended against MSFT and other attempts.
He's right, it was Canadian militia transhipped by British Regulars and Marines with British transports.
And don't forget what happened the last three time the US invaded Canada - each time the US lost territory and suffered massive casualties against the Canadians, only to have the British give it back to the Yanks.
Try actually reading a real history book sometime, not just propaganda.
Actually, the Canadian Armed Forces decommissioned that entire parachute regiment.
And cashiered some of the officers.
Those of us serving at the time were proud that they took swift and decisive action in getting rid of bad apples.
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Your examples of BMG and Columbia ignore the fact that BMG is selling defective non-CDs (since they can't carry the CD logo) which only play in my home music devices (aka an iMac and my DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW player) when I use the Magic Green Sharpie on the data track.
I actually joined the Canadian Armed Forces (Army), in part, due to my desire to create more accurate weapons simulations for Traveller and other RPG games.
In fact, during my service (was a Sargeant, in various engineer, infantry, and HQ units) I used my knowledge of practical military experience to develop better simulation methods for road, bridge, and boat building and demolitions for fantasy and SF RPGs.
One of my games even came to me after a six-week bridge building exercise in the Chilcotin mountain range in B.C.
So - while I understand why people might be upset by this (I'm no fan of Bush, even though I'm more of a Texan than he'll ever be) - you can't say this is that insidious.
And don't kid yourselves - some people in our administration (mostly combat-avoiding REMFs like Bush and Cheney) may be promoting this war for the wrong reasons - but it is a war we must not only fight, but win.
In fact, it infuriates me that we are prosecuting the war with attention only to the military side and ignoring actions such as cutting off their money flow for aid, education, supplies, training, and volunteers in such "allies" as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which are helping create the very terrorists attacking us, while they pretend they're not.
Charge them for the audit personnel - about $70/hour would be a fair fee, plus lab charges and expenses, rounds out to $100/hour, payable in full, in cash, prior to the audit.
Hours to be arranged during the break periods for the school district, of course.
1. The Sims (Win/Linux) is going online. 2. The Sims is being done for PS2. 3. The Sims will be ported to the GameCube - which has an audience with a high female content who like the game, plus parents who will buy it for kids instead of ultraviolent games. 4. The Sims probably won't be ported to xBox.
oh, please, anyone who's actually coded for the API knows that certain methods won't work unless you follow the example code literally, regardless of the documentation of the API.
but since many of us who post here have actually coded for the API, you really think we're going to buy excuses like that?
But, you're assuming that MSFT can buy out Sony. With the consent decrees and the hanging antitrust decree in Europe, it is highly unlikely that the FTC, SEC, or the EEC would permit any such monopolistic buyout to take place, especially during an attempt by MSFT to dump xBox on foreign markets is ongoing.
Fact is - until the price cuts, only MSFT was selling boxes below cost. Sony was at slight margin above breakeven, Nintendo was at a nice profit - and then add in the $50 USD game carts for gravy.
What we need is a price war on game prices, not game consoles. Why do they cost $50 USD - why not $30 USD?
Well, yes. You see, the problem is that we live at the beginning of a new century, when the idealists come out of the woodwork with their (usually) fanatical ideals of utopia and order.
Happens all the time.
Face it, the Empire (and, by your argument's extension, the American Empire) is efficient. Just as the Nazis were efficient.
So long as you fit in, it's a great place to live. Just don't have any ideas that challenge the order of things and you'll get along fine. Unless we deem you inferior, in which case you'll become our (insert one) slaves, serfs, or servants.
Lucas is warning us against ourselves. In fact, with amazing prescience, he warns us against the imposition of an elitist centralized growing bureaucracy, as we see evidenced in both Bush regimes (and Reagan), and encourages us towards democracy, smaller government, and true capitalism and away from despotism, growing government, and crony capitalism (a la Bush).
But will we heed the message? Or, as we frequently do, will we allow it to be subverted against ourselves, as the very program named Star Wars was used in a Machiavellian manner to destroy the USSR while producing nothing.
has anyone heard (rumors or otherwise) what Nintendo's online strategy will be?
I've heard the 56K modem will be released in late May to June and the cable modem will be "later this year" which probably means Xmas 2002 at the earliest.
They're waiting for MSFT and Sony to get their fingers burned, learn the best approach from what works, and then implement it more cheaply for the GameCube, so they can continue their profitability on the boxes (based on their annual report).
The publishers and programmers aren't making these games out of the goodness of their hearts. They get the lion share of the profits while Microsoft gets a huge royalty out of what's left. Probably $20/game. So yes, to make up for their $200/console loss they need to sell 10 games.
Thanks, AC - couldn't have said it better myself.
I've been in gaming since the dawn of time, as one of the original SMOGs, so it's nice to see that some people understand the mechanics of the business.
And those dev kits aren't cheap....
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True, MS is losing tons of money on the box, but every console manufacturer since the dawn of time has been losing money on their console. The money is not in consoles, it never will be. Its in games
Hold on. MSFT loses more than $200 now on each box. NTDOY makes money on each GameCube. Sony was breaking even on the PS2 - at best they're losing $100 per box.
With games at $50, MSFT needs to sell 10 to break even with the old price. Now it needs to break 15 games per box. NTDOY makes money on each game, so each game is gravy. Sony was in gravy for any games - now they have to sell 5-10 games at most.
With these economic realities, the best thing for Open Source is people buying xBox to turn them into Linux or BSD devices - and buying either no games or just buying Halo (one copy will do).
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People don't carpool. Despite overwhelming benefits, not to mention the unbelievable cost a car puts on a person per year, the overwhelming number of cars on the highways during commute times have precisely one person in them.
Well I seem to recall there was an option for tolls and one for HOV lanes. It would be interesting to see if driver behaviour changed as you altered those - for example, if I implement toll lanes for new HOV lanes, will it fail? if I implement toll lanes for non-HOV lanes, with free lanes for multi-passenger, will it work better? And if I cut down on cops, will some of the cars start having dummies in the passenger seat as people cheat on the HOV lane multi-passenger option?
As for farming, considering the number of acres of arable land required to serve the food needs of a million people, that's why it's called SimCity, not SimCountry :)
Actually, there is a SimFarm - I have a copy at home.
Were you on Prodigy or Compuserve back then? If so, remember what fun we had when I broke the two-byte encoding scheme for buildings? And found that the actual upper limit for funds was much larger than a million (it was something like 7F FF FF FF FF FF or something - but for safeties sake I always recommended you use something like 70 00 00 00 00 etc, as it accumulated funds and buffer overflowed to a negative otherwise).
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I always liked hex editing the map after a nuke explosion to repair buildings - among other things.
Those were the days
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It is sad to see people play with reality.
I just watched the World Premiere of Digby Goes Down here at the Seattle International Film Fest. And they show overhead shots of NYC - with not a single shot remaining (very noticeable "jump" in the film pan) of the WTC towers.
It was sad.
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Otherwise, how can I simulate Japan or Seattle?
My bet is when they do build that base, that most Americans will scream at their weak-kneed politicians about it.
Sigh.
They have a lunar base in development, and will leapfrog the US just as Russia did with Sputnik.
You snooze - you lose.
and away from hardware with OS bundle (aka Palm 505, V, etc).
One of the reasons I bought 1/1000th of Palm after IPO lockup drop was that I predicted they would:
a. survive the dot com crash (didn't know when that would happen but did know valuations were nuts);
b. increase revenue sales of the OS to other devices to the point where it would become the major share of their revenues.
Hardware usually has bad ROI, but software has good ROI, provided you're one of the lead providers.
So from this we can gather that you'll be reading many many more articles on "Palm ports OS to [insert device h/w here]" over the next year - and if you read the annual report, you can read between the lines.
In some ways, open source (e.g. BSD, Linux) threatens their market space, as the cost factor is even lower, but the patent background should permit them to survive in the evolving non-PC era of the 2001-2020 era as devices and such fade into the background. But they have successfully defended against MSFT and other attempts.
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He's right, it was Canadian militia transhipped by British Regulars and Marines with British transports.
And don't forget what happened the last three time the US invaded Canada - each time the US lost territory and suffered massive casualties against the Canadians, only to have the British give it back to the Yanks.
Try actually reading a real history book sometime, not just propaganda.
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Actually, the Canadian Armed Forces decommissioned that entire parachute regiment.
And cashiered some of the officers.
Those of us serving at the time were proud that they took swift and decisive action in getting rid of bad apples.
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Your examples of BMG and Columbia ignore the fact that BMG is selling defective non-CDs (since they can't carry the CD logo) which only play in my home music devices (aka an iMac and my DVD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW player) when I use the Magic Green Sharpie on the data track.
That's not free.
I actually joined the Canadian Armed Forces (Army), in part, due to my desire to create more accurate weapons simulations for Traveller and other RPG games.
In fact, during my service (was a Sargeant, in various engineer, infantry, and HQ units) I used my knowledge of practical military experience to develop better simulation methods for road, bridge, and boat building and demolitions for fantasy and SF RPGs.
One of my games even came to me after a six-week bridge building exercise in the Chilcotin mountain range in B.C.
So - while I understand why people might be upset by this (I'm no fan of Bush, even though I'm more of a Texan than he'll ever be) - you can't say this is that insidious.
And don't kid yourselves - some people in our administration (mostly combat-avoiding REMFs like Bush and Cheney) may be promoting this war for the wrong reasons - but it is a war we must not only fight, but win.
In fact, it infuriates me that we are prosecuting the war with attention only to the military side and ignoring actions such as cutting off their money flow for aid, education, supplies, training, and volunteers in such "allies" as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which are helping create the very terrorists attacking us, while they pretend they're not.
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I see they have Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem too. Hmm, someone goes to Rhode Island and explores past lives, with sanity levels.
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Sounds Cthulhoid to me
Who says GameCube is just for kids
Now if only they'd do The Sims for the GameCube, my world would be complete!
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The latest ghetto wear is the warez-friendly green sharpie hanging from a gold necklace.
It says "I'm bad, I like free music, and the cops can stuff it!"
Soon we'll see runway models with green sharpies on necklaces.
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Charge them for the audit personnel - about $70/hour would be a fair fee, plus lab charges and expenses, rounds out to $100/hour, payable in full, in cash, prior to the audit.
Hours to be arranged during the break periods for the school district, of course.
1. The Sims (Win/Linux) is going online.
2. The Sims is being done for PS2.
3. The Sims will be ported to the GameCube - which has an audience with a high female content who like the game, plus parents who will buy it for kids instead of ultraviolent games.
4. The Sims probably won't be ported to xBox.
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You just have to use a black marker around the outside rim of the CD and it's automagically NOT copy protected.
Copy Protection - Bad Idea for Lotus 1-2-3 - Bad Idea Now
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There was a reason why there were pictures of Seattle on those captured PCs that al-Qaeda were using.
It wasn't that they were trying to make bioweapons to use on us.
No, they got H1B visas and are coding in Redmond as we speak!
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oh, please, anyone who's actually coded for the API knows that certain methods won't work unless you follow the example code literally, regardless of the documentation of the API.
but since many of us who post here have actually coded for the API, you really think we're going to buy excuses like that?
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But, you're assuming that MSFT can buy out Sony. With the consent decrees and the hanging antitrust decree in Europe, it is highly unlikely that the FTC, SEC, or the EEC would permit any such monopolistic buyout to take place, especially during an attempt by MSFT to dump xBox on foreign markets is ongoing.
Fact is - until the price cuts, only MSFT was selling boxes below cost. Sony was at slight margin above breakeven, Nintendo was at a nice profit - and then add in the $50 USD game carts for gravy.
What we need is a price war on game prices, not game consoles. Why do they cost $50 USD - why not $30 USD?
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Well, yes. You see, the problem is that we live at the beginning of a new century, when the idealists come out of the woodwork with their (usually) fanatical ideals of utopia and order.
Happens all the time.
Face it, the Empire (and, by your argument's extension, the American Empire) is efficient. Just as the Nazis were efficient.
So long as you fit in, it's a great place to live. Just don't have any ideas that challenge the order of things and you'll get along fine. Unless we deem you inferior, in which case you'll become our (insert one) slaves, serfs, or servants.
Lucas is warning us against ourselves. In fact, with amazing prescience, he warns us against the imposition of an elitist centralized growing bureaucracy, as we see evidenced in both Bush regimes (and Reagan), and encourages us towards democracy, smaller government, and true capitalism and away from despotism, growing government, and crony capitalism (a la Bush).
But will we heed the message? Or, as we frequently do, will we allow it to be subverted against ourselves, as the very program named Star Wars was used in a Machiavellian manner to destroy the USSR while producing nothing.
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barely found the snippet in the business news section, which had a one-line summary of this news.
but good news, nonetheless
has anyone heard (rumors or otherwise) what Nintendo's online strategy will be?
I've heard the 56K modem will be released in late May to June and the cable modem will be "later this year" which probably means Xmas 2002 at the earliest.
They're waiting for MSFT and Sony to get their fingers burned, learn the best approach from what works, and then implement it more cheaply for the GameCube, so they can continue their profitability on the boxes (based on their annual report).
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The publishers and programmers aren't making these games out of the goodness of their hearts. They get the lion share of the profits while Microsoft gets a huge royalty out of what's left. Probably $20/game. So yes, to make up for their $200/console loss they need to sell 10 games.
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Thanks, AC - couldn't have said it better myself.
I've been in gaming since the dawn of time, as one of the original SMOGs, so it's nice to see that some people understand the mechanics of the business.
And those dev kits aren't cheap
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True, MS is losing tons of money on the box, but every console manufacturer since the dawn of time has been losing money on their console. The money is not in consoles, it never will be. Its in games
Hold on. MSFT loses more than $200 now on each box. NTDOY makes money on each GameCube. Sony was breaking even on the PS2 - at best they're losing $100 per box.
With games at $50, MSFT needs to sell 10 to break even with the old price. Now it needs to break 15 games per box. NTDOY makes money on each game, so each game is gravy. Sony was in gravy for any games - now they have to sell 5-10 games at most.
With these economic realities, the best thing for Open Source is people buying xBox to turn them into Linux or BSD devices - and buying either no games or just buying Halo (one copy will do).
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