I had a light pollution breakdown and did the same thing one night. My apartment was so dark and peaceful. I have found, however, that my electrical tape leaves adhesive behind if left long enough.
What would you rather have, blinky or sticky gadgets? Add a pet into the mix and you've got a sticky, hairy gadget.
Multiplayer games have a higher capacity for elliciting emotion than single player simply because the characters in the multiplayer games are other people.
In your WoW example, if the situation was NPCs and you vs boss, the emotion wouldn't be nearly the same.
Obsidian's only made two games, NWN2 being their second.
Sure much of the Obsidian staff was in Bioware when they made PS:Torment, but that's like saying Troika Games, of Fallout fame.
Let's hope, as another poster had worried, Obsidian won't go the way of Troika, and will release less buggy products. I'm not having too much trouble with NWN2 with my low-end machine, but the camera and AI does grate.
I recall at SIGGRAPH, say, 3 years ago? My buddy and I, highly interested in new game technologies, stopped by the EA booth. My buddy lingered. He talked for quite a bit to the rep there. The rep had stated that EA has the highest divorce rate of any company, and they were proud of it. They could suck the souls out of their coders. They would eagerly replace the older coders (late 20s?) with the young kids of the street if the kids knew there things.
The place sounds like occupational hell, it has for years, glad it's getting the (geek) press finally.
GeoShell - I find the Explorer shell to suck and GeoShell is rather stable, quick to install/configure, and highly usable.
Firefox
Thunderbird
Winamp - I enjoy that 5.x comes with Milkdrop standard.
Miranda-IM - I used to have stability issues with older builds of Miranda but after that went away I haven't looked back at Trillian or the stand-alone apps.
Zoom Player - I don't quite like Winamp for movies, Zoom Player is excellent.
PowerDVD - for the codec.
MSYS and MinGW
SciTE - I used Editplus for some time until I found this.
WinRAR - I like the interface, for the most part, and it handles most formats.
Truly amusing in a bs/. sort of way that when the article says "If Microsoft closed shop" all the posts are about if MS never existed.
Really, entirely off topic. Yet, no one cares.
This community cracks me up in their vision (not to imply the/. community HAS vision, just that this thread has a vision, as silly as it is).
If MS was to close up shop tomorrow, say, what would the face of our x86 experience be? Or that of the personal computer in general?
Honestly? I think the *nix (really any unix derivative OS that ran on x86) devs would crank up the pace and finally release some sort of standard desktop system that hid the gory details from most users otherwise the x86 platform would perish and Apple would pretty much take over.
Probably, though, most people would continue to run their Windows XP machines without phase, maybe upgrade to OO.org when MS Office stopped suiting their needs, and that's about it.
My gameport Gamepad Pro was pretty much exactly as the OP described. Rarely would I get the thing to be stable (non-jittery) after doing all the calibration. The pad was less than impressive but I really prefer more definition in the cardinal points.
The slashdot.org FP phenomenon is in full force. The first posts where all around... erm... worthless. YAY!
Regarding the news post, withough bothering to read a thing, it's mildly interesting. Being able to generate such a thing is an interesting topic to me, really, in the whole faking linguistics sort of deal even through encryption etc.
*shrug*
Hmm/. should do a study on the statistics of those hits that are just to the frontpage (and seem like humans) and those that actually delve into the comments. Generally I can say the comments are, in majority, of poor and useless quality on frontpage posts.
err, isn't NSM written in.NET? I was pretty sure it was C#.
That aside, the source should be released soon. I won't wanna mess with that C# much, but then I could go play with NeurosDBM (in Java) or Positron for Linux. Or, I could just get the database format down and write my own sync dealie.
Nice features, Ogg support has been around for a bit, it's in the company's official beta firmware with pretty good results. I still haven't played with it myself, but the forums are rather active with experiences etc.
It plays pretty much any quality ogg fine over headphones. With MyFi (the FM transmission) I hear it still has some problems with transmitting high quality some -q6 and higher oggs. I'm a regular MyFi user, so I've held off for a few more optimizations.
That and, of course, the Linux sync situation is rather good with positron or the Java NDBM.
I'm really liking the player -- they want to release the source to their Windows sync program in about a week, and they are (according to their forum posts) working on getting in some nice new features.
Plenty of nerds can't do plenty of things. One of the classic things is dress well. This is changing, somewhat. Nerds still, in general, lack style. I agree that it is probably by choice. It probably boils down to the person feeling that having style, for instance, is useless and doesn't serve that person's purpose.
The coders and GUIs example is classic, and it amuses me. I'm a programmer and don't think I have a problem with GUIs, but then, I always look at software and make notes of WHY I hate to use it (;
Is it the subjectivity? Is it the superfluous notions towards style? What causes this fear/rejection?
On a related tangent, if you ditched the fear of such things and incorporated them, wouldn't that make you better off?
wow! Of course the initial responses are all useless. (;
The review sounds more like an overview which, I suppose, is fine for this audience. Style tends to be lacking in the higher geek cultures. As the geek cultures are getting more mainstream (gamers, for instance) style is starting to bleed in. We've got stylish modded (and unstylish) cases for lan parties, stylish high-performance mouse pads (yes, I actually said that, I'm laughing too), and all sorts of style coming in to the PC market.
Style is what user interfaces are all about, that's why a lot of people love the screenshots of Ximian, and people drool over OS X. Even MS is trying with Windows, to put in style (although XP has little to none).
Style is often too overlooked (or too focused on in the wrong fashion). It's had to describe how to mandate the application of style, but not nearly as hard to feel how style works in certain instances.
At the very least, the (over/re)view makes me want to read the book.
Give me a break! The guy was simply showing how completely and utterly bullshit the DRM system was. If he's sued for showing people that not using Autoplay as a workaround, let's have that dumb company sue MS for providing Auto Insert Notification in the first place!
My god, these tech lawsuits get more and more idiotic. My brain just shrivels every damn time I read about them. Damn, and I thought SCO was pushing it...
I like to buy games and I prefer to play them without the CD in the drive (for the longest time I had all my CDs packed away, and digging through them for the one game CD was a pain).
*shrug* I'm sure someone will find something wrong with using a nocd patch on a game you bought anyhow.
erm, I'm afraid you're too late -- when is the last (first?) time you've heard a non-geek talk about digital music and not mean MP3s? I haven't heard a non-geek even refer to it as digital music -- just MP3s.
silly slashdot can't do no-text comments? bah, shows how much I post here.
Try before you buy is one part of trading music to avoid paying for it. Of course, if the music sucks, it should get deleted (some people collect, but that's a different matter, if ya ask me). If the music is enjoyed, there's a chance the album would get downloaded, as well as others by that artist and similar music, and so on.
There has been little mention of this in the whole RIAA vs P2P/Traders issue. *shrug* It happens with games (well, they tend to also offer demos) and it happens with music (where demos tend to be 15-30 second clips of horrid quality streaming music through Amazon and the like).
Ah well, I can type until I'm blue in the fingers on such matters, but it's irrelevant. (;
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We have a beer called "Crop Circle" in the US (Madison, WI to be precise). Probably other places as well.
I picked up a similar device to use ScummVM and play my old copy of Loom.
Clicky mechanical graphite pencils, that is.
I had a light pollution breakdown and did the same thing one night. My apartment was so dark and peaceful. I have found, however, that my electrical tape leaves adhesive behind if left long enough.
What would you rather have, blinky or sticky gadgets? Add a pet into the mix and you've got a sticky, hairy gadget.
And who likes a sticky, hairy gadget?
heh
To an degree, that's different.
Multiplayer games have a higher capacity for elliciting emotion than single player simply because the characters in the multiplayer games are other people.
In your WoW example, if the situation was NPCs and you vs boss, the emotion wouldn't be nearly the same.
Obsidian's only made two games, NWN2 being their second.
Sure much of the Obsidian staff was in Bioware when they made PS:Torment, but that's like saying Troika Games, of Fallout fame.
Let's hope, as another poster had worried, Obsidian won't go the way of Troika, and will release less buggy products. I'm not having too much trouble with NWN2 with my low-end machine, but the camera and AI does grate.
Please Note: This recommendation only applies to THEORETICAL glass coffee tables. Any actual glass coffee tables should be left uncovered.
Huh..
Astonishingly, the best advice I've ever seen on
Forgive me if this is a repeat, but Google is solely offering up the US version of history, sadly.
As an American, I'd love to see more of the world from the rest of the world, but apparently I can't look to Google for that.
And here I was thinking maybe I could.
Anyone have any good suggestions for me on this front?
I recall at SIGGRAPH, say, 3 years ago? My buddy and I, highly interested in new game technologies, stopped by the EA booth. My buddy lingered. He talked for quite a bit to the rep there. The rep had stated that EA has the highest divorce rate of any company, and they were proud of it. They could suck the souls out of their coders. They would eagerly replace the older coders (late 20s?) with the young kids of the street if the kids knew there things.
The place sounds like occupational hell, it has for years, glad it's getting the (geek) press finally.
"Soon, copied films will be as rare as students lighting up a joint after their exams."
You mean people lighting up joints after their exams is rare? *shrug* I suppose people prefer glass these days.
Truly amusing in a bs /. sort of way that when the article says "If Microsoft closed shop" all the posts are about if MS never existed.
/. community HAS vision, just that this thread has a vision, as silly as it is).
Really, entirely off topic. Yet, no one cares.
This community cracks me up in their vision (not to imply the
If MS was to close up shop tomorrow, say, what would the face of our x86 experience be? Or that of the personal computer in general?
Honestly? I think the *nix (really any unix derivative OS that ran on x86) devs would crank up the pace and finally release some sort of standard desktop system that hid the gory details from most users otherwise the x86 platform would perish and Apple would pretty much take over.
Probably, though, most people would continue to run their Windows XP machines without phase, maybe upgrade to OO.org when MS Office stopped suiting their needs, and that's about it.
Most people simply could give two shits.
My gameport Gamepad Pro was pretty much exactly as the OP described. Rarely would I get the thing to be stable (non-jittery) after doing all the calibration. The pad was less than impressive but I really prefer more definition in the cardinal points.
The slashdot.org FP phenomenon is in full force. The first posts where all around ... erm ... worthless. YAY!
/. should do a study on the statistics of those hits that are just to the frontpage (and seem like humans) and those that actually delve into the comments. Generally I can say the comments are, in majority, of poor and useless quality on frontpage posts.
Regarding the news post, withough bothering to read a thing, it's mildly interesting. Being able to generate such a thing is an interesting topic to me, really, in the whole faking linguistics sort of deal even through encryption etc.
*shrug*
Hmm
Oh well, I suppose this post is one of them, hmm?
err, isn't NSM written in .NET? I was pretty sure it was C#.
That aside, the source should be released soon. I won't wanna mess with that C# much, but then I could go play with NeurosDBM (in Java) or Positron for Linux. Or, I could just get the database format down and write my own sync dealie.
Nice features, Ogg support has been around for a bit, it's in the company's official beta firmware with pretty good results. I still haven't played with it myself, but the forums are rather active with experiences etc.
It plays pretty much any quality ogg fine over headphones. With MyFi (the FM transmission) I hear it still has some problems with transmitting high quality some -q6 and higher oggs. I'm a regular MyFi user, so I've held off for a few more optimizations.
That and, of course, the Linux sync situation is rather good with positron or the Java NDBM.
I'm really liking the player -- they want to release the source to their Windows sync program in about a week, and they are (according to their forum posts) working on getting in some nice new features.
Plenty of nerds can't do plenty of things. One of the classic things is dress well. This is changing, somewhat. Nerds still, in general, lack style. I agree that it is probably by choice. It probably boils down to the person feeling that having style, for instance, is useless and doesn't serve that person's purpose.
*nod* Good points raised.
The coders and GUIs example is classic, and it amuses me. I'm a programmer and don't think I have a problem with GUIs, but then, I always look at software and make notes of WHY I hate to use it (;
Is it the subjectivity? Is it the superfluous notions towards style? What causes this fear/rejection?
On a related tangent, if you ditched the fear of such things and incorporated them, wouldn't that make you better off?
wow! Of course the initial responses are all useless. (;
The review sounds more like an overview which, I suppose, is fine for this audience. Style tends to be lacking in the higher geek cultures. As the geek cultures are getting more mainstream (gamers, for instance) style is starting to bleed in. We've got stylish modded (and unstylish) cases for lan parties, stylish high-performance mouse pads (yes, I actually said that, I'm laughing too), and all sorts of style coming in to the PC market.
Style is what user interfaces are all about, that's why a lot of people love the screenshots of Ximian, and people drool over OS X. Even MS is trying with Windows, to put in style (although XP has little to none).
Style is often too overlooked (or too focused on in the wrong fashion). It's had to describe how to mandate the application of style, but not nearly as hard to feel how style works in certain instances.
At the very least, the (over/re)view makes me want to read the book.
This is such utter bullshit it's amazing!
Give me a break! The guy was simply showing how completely and utterly bullshit the DRM system was. If he's sued for showing people that not using Autoplay as a workaround, let's have that dumb company sue MS for providing Auto Insert Notification in the first place!
My god, these tech lawsuits get more and more idiotic. My brain just shrivels every damn time I read about them. Damn, and I thought SCO was pushing it...
That's why you grab the nocd patch anyhow.
I like to buy games and I prefer to play them without the CD in the drive (for the longest time I had all my CDs packed away, and digging through them for the one game CD was a pain).
*shrug* I'm sure someone will find something wrong with using a nocd patch on a game you bought anyhow.
erm, I'm afraid you're too late -- when is the last (first?) time you've heard a non-geek talk about digital music and not mean MP3s? I haven't heard a non-geek even refer to it as digital music -- just MP3s.
silly slashdot can't do no-text comments? bah, shows how much I post here.
Try before you buy is one part of trading music to avoid paying for it. Of course, if the music sucks, it should get deleted (some people collect, but that's a different matter, if ya ask me). If the music is enjoyed, there's a chance the album would get downloaded, as well as others by that artist and similar music, and so on.
There has been little mention of this in the whole RIAA vs P2P/Traders issue. *shrug* It happens with games (well, they tend to also offer demos) and it happens with music (where demos tend to be 15-30 second clips of horrid quality streaming music through Amazon and the like).
Ah well, I can type until I'm blue in the fingers on such matters, but it's irrelevant. (;
Thanks for this link -- I kept meaning to grab it and put it in play, but also kept forgetting (;
I really dislike MS admin'ing (or any, pretty much) but sometimes it's a necessary evil, at least there are some nice handy tools.