There is a petition to port Half Life 2 to Linux on riblet that would be given to Valve. They have about 3000 confirmed entries by now. This is a good way to show how much interest there is to port games to Linux.
Wow! A whole 3000 confirmed entries! 3000 out of the how many million that will go buy HL2, regardless of platform, on it's release date?
Hell, if Valve said I needed a frigging Apple IIc to play it, I'd scrounge around until I had one.
3000 signatures is not going to change Valve's perspective on this. 100,000 might. But they'll still release the major Windows version first.
Now imagine you are a sophomore intern in college making $12/hr.
In this economy? I can't really imagine it. I'm a college Junior making $10 an hour at my internship. I'm lucky too. The place I work agreed to pay me the same rate as last year, when things were a little better. The other three interns this summer make $8. And we're paid as consultants, so we get to pay SS taxes ourselves too!
Of course, I feel lucky to even HAVE a summer job right now, much less a good one.
Hemos would have written it, and Taco would've written it again the next day, changing the wording, and putting in the foreward "This story seems oddly familiar."
Also, we'd wind up replacing Mordor with SOVIET RUSSIA. (In SOVIET RUSSIA, orcs eat you! [wait...])
and When the ring is finally destroyed, Frodo would shout "All your base are belong to us!"
Ummm.... it's Winter right now. My room (at college) would be positively chilly without my two computers running. It does raise the overall temp by 8-10 degrees (f), but that is welcome at this time of year. It also means I don't have to turn the heat on very high.
In summer, I'll go home and the parents have central air on all the time, and cold for summer (my mom doesn't like the heat much). My computers then keep my (slightly larger) room tolerably warm for summer. Like 70-5 instead of around 65.
More to the point, it's assumed that the teacher will write a "glowing" recommendation, or he will at least say, "Here's the recommendation I've written. It's not great, and dissuades some schools from accepting you. Read it over and seee if you really want it."
If AOL would patent pop-up advertising, it would make all other pop-up ads in violation of patent, and AOL could demand all the money from any spammers who use pop-ups.
Could that work? I mean, IANAL, but that would rock if only AOL could do pop-ups, or at least we'd know that AOL charged an arm and a leg to let anyone else do it.
For anyone who may or may not be curious, Angband was Morgoth/Melkor's dark fortress in the Silmarillian. Morgoth was Sauron's boss, so that should give you an idea of the level of villany that went on in the place.
On a side note, I bought my ticket last night for the first non-sold-out showing today.... at 9:50 PM. Of course, I'm looking forward to seeing it on the 26th more, so I can see it with loved ones.
Is AOL keeping all the money and doing nothing for it's users? Or is it going to do something to redistribute it's winnings, like refunds or discounts on on-line fees for a few months?
sci-fi author, scientist, and essayist David Brin (The two Uplift trilogies, The Transparent Society) with his thoughts about LotR. A technophillic optimist, he warns against waxing too Romantic about feudal, good vs. evil fantasy. Instead, he says, we should look ahead to the future.
Why shouldn't we be more Romantic about it? It's fantasy. It's, more to the point, a romantic fantasy (from a classical standpoint).
How about this: Swords, battles, Orcs, Legolas killing things, a couple of White Wizards, Kings, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and a great and terrible evil that must be destroyed at all costs.
Maybe we should, oh, I don't know, sit back and enjoy the films? Hello? Doesn't that just seem a little more reasonable? I mean, I love the stories, they are wonderful and they are timeless (including the Silmarillion, go read it if you haven't). Tolkien created a world to play in, and he gave that world to us. Lets play in it and enjoy it instead of overanalyzing it.
On a side note, I really hate it when people try to interpret works in absolutely ridiculous ways. I also hate it that they do it to books whose author has died. Then, the author can't say "No, that's not what I was saying at all. What were you smoking boy?"
So he design more "childish" games, not "mature" ones. I would think that his track record speaks for itself. Mario. Zelda. Donkey Kong. You know, like, all of the biggest titles from Nintendo.
It's not like money is an issue for him or Nintendo. He could try and design anything he wanted, but this is what he want to do. No one can force him to design a "mature" game, and even if they could force him, his heart wouldn't be in it, and the game would suck.
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Looks like scifi storm got a bit, oh, fucked over by their DSL provider.
I'll stick with cable, thank you very much.
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high-speed Web surfing done via cable modems, which in general costs about $10 less a month in the United States than DSL service does.
So... any idea why cable's more popular in the US?
Seriously though, DSL is expensive. When my sister ot her apartment, there was no way to get cable access and DSL was, IIRC, $70-80 a month. Much too much for a grad student to pay, unless you'd absolutely die without it.
The DSL companies may be very popular, as is cable, but if they don't drop their prices to more afordable levels, they'll lose out on customers. More importantly, we won't beadvancing the world of tech as quickly. In a few years, if it's not already, it's going to be damn near impossible to do much with a dial-up connection. Web sites are getting larger and more complicated, and more people will need wider pipes.
I have a somewhat amusing story. Just happened yesterday, as a matter of fact. I've got an integrated Highpoint Raid controller, and an Array (Raid - 0) of 2 WD Special Edition 80GB drives. I've got all my information on the drive (with key information backed up onto an additional 40GB drive -- just in case).
Anyway, I went to use my machine the other morning, after waking up. You know, check the mail, play a little music, so and so and so. Only, when I went to access the Array, where the music is, the machine promply locked. Hard. After a reboot, the Highpoint card simply couldn't detect anything past my primary drive (a 20GB drive, has the OS and backups of drivers) and wouldn't even continue or allow me to boot. Now I'm thinking "Shit. One of the drives is fried." or worse. My room and my case are not exactly the most well ventilated.
I opened it up later that night, and, get this, the cables had been knocked loose. Like, very loose. As in, not attached to the controller. It turned out that everything was fine, except that I was extremely paniced for about half an hour during the day.
BTW, the computer is at the end of what amounts to a secondary bed, under a loft. The cables, I assume, got dislodged when my SO and I were playing around there. The case got kicked a few times.
Valaquenta. Mostly an enumeration of the fourteen Valar (after his fall, Melkor was not counted among them), and the most important of the Maiar, such as Sauron and the Balrogs.
And Olorin. You know, Gandalf. Gandalf was, in actuality a Maiar who wanted to remain after the Valar sealed themselves away. Not exactly a fallen Maiar, like Sauron or Balrogs. Make for odd family reunions though.
I will say that your grasp of the parts you mentioned is fairly cohesive, excluding the parts from the Quenta Silmarillion. The other 4 parts comprise around under 20% of the book "The Silmarillion."
The Quenta Silmarillion, in addition to the creation of the sun and moon, details the creation and awakening of the elves. It deals with one of the original (or second gen, can't remember now) elves, Feanor and his lust for power. He was the one that created the Silmarils (Silmarillion -- Silmarils, it's not actually coincidence). They were three jewels crafted by Feanor and they contained light from, effectively, the tree of life.
Morgoth entered a pact with Sheloeb's kin (not entirely clear if it is or isn't actually Sheloeb) to steal all the elves jewels and drain the tree of life. They were successful, and stole the Silmarils as well. The elves and the Valar could have used the Silmarils to restore the tree, had they been present.
The rest of the Silmarillion revolves around Feanor and his offspring having taken an oath to find the Silmarils and keep them, and to fight anyone who got in their way, including the Valar. They were outcast into Middle-Earth.
The story then goes through to be one of the more potent that Tolkien has written. It details the arrival of men and dwarves, the lives of the elves and their collective struggle against Morgoth.
It contains, among other things, the stories of Turin, Beren and Luthien, the final downfall of Morgoth, and the eventual loss of the Silmarils.
So, I'm really just expounding on what you said. But, it's a great book, and I really would recommend it.
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Indiana Jones and the Search for the WMD
No, no, no. That would never work. Indy can only go after artifacts that actually exist.
There is a petition to port Half Life 2 to Linux on riblet that would be given to Valve. They have about 3000 confirmed entries by now. This is a good way to show how much interest there is to port games to Linux.
Wow! A whole 3000 confirmed entries! 3000 out of the how many million that will go buy HL2, regardless of platform, on it's release date?
Hell, if Valve said I needed a frigging Apple IIc to play it, I'd scrounge around until I had one.
3000 signatures is not going to change Valve's perspective on this. 100,000 might. But they'll still release the major Windows version first.
That's all I have to say.
Now imagine you are a sophomore intern in college making $12/hr.
In this economy? I can't really imagine it. I'm a college Junior making $10 an hour at my internship. I'm lucky too. The place I work agreed to pay me the same rate as last year, when things were a little better. The other three interns this summer make $8. And we're paid as consultants, so we get to pay SS taxes ourselves too!
Of course, I feel lucky to even HAVE a summer job right now, much less a good one.
Just my two cents.
They may have mutant bass, but all they every really wanted was sharks with fricking laser beams on their heads.
Why does the government need the source? I mean seriously, it's not like knowing how MS wrote their version of solitaire is going to help much.....
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Sheesh.
The only game I want to play is Global Thermonuclear War.
A new GBA?
Does the new one still cut through a tomato and exorcise Daemons? Also, I need to be sure that the new one still won't cause leprosy and blindness.
If /. had written it:
Hemos would have written it, and Taco would've written it again the next day, changing the wording, and putting in the foreward "This story seems oddly familiar."
Also, we'd wind up replacing Mordor with SOVIET RUSSIA. (In SOVIET RUSSIA, orcs eat you! [wait...])
and When the ring is finally destroyed, Frodo would shout "All your base are belong to us!"
Ummm.... it's Winter right now. My room (at college) would be positively chilly without my two computers running. It does raise the overall temp by 8-10 degrees (f), but that is welcome at this time of year. It also means I don't have to turn the heat on very high.
In summer, I'll go home and the parents have central air on all the time, and cold for summer (my mom doesn't like the heat much). My computers then keep my (slightly larger) room tolerably warm for summer. Like 70-5 instead of around 65.
What I'm saying is: GO HEAT!
The closer we get to the "end of Moore's" the more stories that get posted to /. about it!
In a way, there is.
More to the point, it's assumed that the teacher will write a "glowing" recommendation, or he will at least say, "Here's the recommendation I've written. It's not great, and dissuades some schools from accepting you. Read it over and seee if you really want it."
#92 - SOVIET RUSSIA
We need more Overlords!
The obvious sequel to this book will be:
Starcraft: Brood Wars
Zergling Rush!!!
Oddly, you may have stumbled on an amazing idea.
If AOL would patent pop-up advertising, it would make all other pop-up ads in violation of patent, and AOL could demand all the money from any spammers who use pop-ups.
Could that work? I mean, IANAL, but that would rock if only AOL could do pop-ups, or at least we'd know that AOL charged an arm and a leg to let anyone else do it.
Next on the list: Flash ads, and e-mail spam!
Sorry, I'm not that kind of guy.
For anyone who may or may not be curious, Angband was Morgoth/Melkor's dark fortress in the Silmarillian. Morgoth was Sauron's boss, so that should give you an idea of the level of villany that went on in the place.
On a side note, I bought my ticket last night for the first non-sold-out showing today.... at 9:50 PM. Of course, I'm looking forward to seeing it on the 26th more, so I can see it with loved ones.
Is AOL keeping all the money and doing nothing for it's users? Or is it going to do something to redistribute it's winnings, like refunds or discounts on on-line fees for a few months?
sci-fi author, scientist, and essayist David Brin (The two Uplift trilogies, The Transparent Society) with his thoughts about LotR. A technophillic optimist, he warns against waxing too Romantic about feudal, good vs. evil fantasy. Instead, he says, we should look ahead to the future.
Why shouldn't we be more Romantic about it? It's fantasy. It's, more to the point, a romantic fantasy (from a classical standpoint).
How about this: Swords, battles, Orcs, Legolas killing things, a couple of White Wizards, Kings, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and a great and terrible evil that must be destroyed at all costs.
Maybe we should, oh, I don't know, sit back and enjoy the films? Hello? Doesn't that just seem a little more reasonable? I mean, I love the stories, they are wonderful and they are timeless (including the Silmarillion, go read it if you haven't). Tolkien created a world to play in, and he gave that world to us. Lets play in it and enjoy it instead of overanalyzing it.
On a side note, I really hate it when people try to interpret works in absolutely ridiculous ways. I also hate it that they do it to books whose author has died. Then, the author can't say "No, that's not what I was saying at all. What were you smoking boy?"
So he design more "childish" games, not "mature" ones. I would think that his track record speaks for itself. Mario. Zelda. Donkey Kong. You know, like, all of the biggest titles from Nintendo.
It's not like money is an issue for him or Nintendo. He could try and design anything he wanted, but this is what he want to do. No one can force him to design a "mature" game, and even if they could force him, his heart wouldn't be in it, and the game would suck.
Sorry, forgot the damn link.
Looks like scifi storm got a bit, oh, fucked over by their DSL provider.
I'll stick with cable, thank you very much.
high-speed Web surfing done via cable modems, which in general costs about $10 less a month in the United States than DSL service does.
So... any idea why cable's more popular in the US?
Seriously though, DSL is expensive. When my sister ot her apartment, there was no way to get cable access and DSL was, IIRC, $70-80 a month. Much too much for a grad student to pay, unless you'd absolutely die without it.
The DSL companies may be very popular, as is cable, but if they don't drop their prices to more afordable levels, they'll lose out on customers. More importantly, we won't beadvancing the world of tech as quickly. In a few years, if it's not already, it's going to be damn near impossible to do much with a dial-up connection. Web sites are getting larger and more complicated, and more people will need wider pipes.
Anyway, back to work.
I have a somewhat amusing story. Just happened yesterday, as a matter of fact. I've got an integrated Highpoint Raid controller, and an Array (Raid - 0) of 2 WD Special Edition 80GB drives. I've got all my information on the drive (with key information backed up onto an additional 40GB drive -- just in case).
Anyway, I went to use my machine the other morning, after waking up. You know, check the mail, play a little music, so and so and so. Only, when I went to access the Array, where the music is, the machine promply locked. Hard. After a reboot, the Highpoint card simply couldn't detect anything past my primary drive (a 20GB drive, has the OS and backups of drivers) and wouldn't even continue or allow me to boot. Now I'm thinking "Shit. One of the drives is fried." or worse. My room and my case are not exactly the most well ventilated.
I opened it up later that night, and, get this, the cables had been knocked loose. Like, very loose. As in, not attached to the controller. It turned out that everything was fine, except that I was extremely paniced for about half an hour during the day.
BTW, the computer is at the end of what amounts to a secondary bed, under a loft. The cables, I assume, got dislodged when my SO and I were playing around there. The case got kicked a few times.
That's my story. Enjoy.
Valaquenta. Mostly an enumeration of the fourteen Valar (after his fall, Melkor was not counted among them), and the most important of the Maiar, such as Sauron and the Balrogs.
And Olorin. You know, Gandalf. Gandalf was, in actuality a Maiar who wanted to remain after the Valar sealed themselves away. Not exactly a fallen Maiar, like Sauron or Balrogs. Make for odd family reunions though.
I will say that your grasp of the parts you mentioned is fairly cohesive, excluding the parts from the Quenta Silmarillion. The other 4 parts comprise around under 20% of the book "The Silmarillion."
The Quenta Silmarillion, in addition to the creation of the sun and moon, details the creation and awakening of the elves. It deals with one of the original (or second gen, can't remember now) elves, Feanor and his lust for power. He was the one that created the Silmarils (Silmarillion -- Silmarils, it's not actually coincidence). They were three jewels crafted by Feanor and they contained light from, effectively, the tree of life.
Morgoth entered a pact with Sheloeb's kin (not entirely clear if it is or isn't actually Sheloeb) to steal all the elves jewels and drain the tree of life. They were successful, and stole the Silmarils as well. The elves and the Valar could have used the Silmarils to restore the tree, had they been present.
The rest of the Silmarillion revolves around Feanor and his offspring having taken an oath to find the Silmarils and keep them, and to fight anyone who got in their way, including the Valar. They were outcast into Middle-Earth.
The story then goes through to be one of the more potent that Tolkien has written. It details the arrival of men and dwarves, the lives of the elves and their collective struggle against Morgoth.
It contains, among other things, the stories of Turin, Beren and Luthien, the final downfall of Morgoth, and the eventual loss of the Silmarils.
So, I'm really just expounding on what you said. But, it's a great book, and I really would recommend it.