I came two years ago, and this is my second time. I'm more impressed than I was the last time about this whole entire shin-dig. Its huge. This is the first year they had to turn people away from the 1300 person Bring Your Own Computer. With play by play commentary and recordings to watch of the tournaments, sponsor booths (with booth amenities), more people than I can count, and none other than Carmack himself (who posts on these pages) giving a stunning 2 hour speech, its the best one ever.
For those of you unimpressed, they set this whole LAN up in... oh... day and a half I think of actual set up. Preparation is alot longer. They use several miles of Cat5, and ALL the quake games (and the licensed ones like Jedi Knight, Half Life, etc) are hosted on servers, as well as a few file servers for patches, updates, IRC, misc files, and such. Plus there's internet acess for everyone, and everyone's comp sees the other ones.
Theres so much on sale, to do for free, and then just look at I'm going to have to budget sleep so I don't miss the developer round tables, technology workshops, blow out party on Sat, and the 100 other things I got to do.
Forgot to add... Cartoon Network is like a butcher's block for anime. You never see the whole picture or hear the correct translation because we "Westerners" would never be able to understand it, or enjoy it, so they "westernize" it. Definitly subtracts from the expierience.
Watching one episode of a limited series of Cowboy Bebop is like watching a random 5 minutes of a movie and judging it based on that one instance. A series like Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Trigun, or any other GOOD anime series is something thats better enjoyed by watching from the beginning, where the viewer can appreciate the slow changes and introduction that makes interesting characters, plot, and interaction interesting... like any other movie, show, play, book, etc etc.
Anime is not exempt from the so called Spurgeon's Revelation: In any given medium, about 95% of something is going to be a bunch of crap (paraphrased). Not all movies from Hollywood are Oscar worthy, not all TV shows are Emmy winners, not all plays or musicals will win Tonys, and not all Anime is great.
Cowboy Bebop, if watched with an open mind in the beginning, instead of the seemingly closed mind of the parent post, is clearly better than a large amount of anime thanks to the humor, style and direction, spectacular soundtrack, and gripping characters.
Of course, it makes me wander why NORAD fears those Far-Right and Left Canadians... I mean, you got to watch out for those enraged Maple Leaf fans. They came to my city once, and the crime rate doubled for the weekend...
grow a very thick beard in the few years before your license expires, wear normal glasses and say they are prescription (make sure the restriction doesn't go on the license itself though), and wear something you would rather burn later (like a.NET shirt you got at a trade show). Then shave, never wear glasses, and wear lots of Linux stuff from Thinkgeek and it'll never come up with a match. Let acne go for a few weeks too before the picture. And make sure to smile lopsidedly.
I have no idea how well this will all actually work, but I have a friend who has a drivers license picture where her hair is all put up funny, she is making a face, and wearing something very very ugly. When presented for drinks or ciggarettes, she is repeatedly told its fake. So, it might work...
Well, it wouldn't make sense it he was just looking at clouds. He'd have to look at the runway to take off. Read the article, and it might tell you they still have to pull a trigger after they've identified a target.
If this means what I think it does, I'm going to have to bump up the idle of my Windows machine just like I did in my Honda. It just kept dieing when nothing was happening...
Or would it be the other way around, and I'd redline every time the BSOD pops up? Maybe thats when I miss a gear, I know that messes up my RPM's big time.
Heh, there's a classic example of human creativity for you.
"Hey, Coronado, what's all this maze surrounding that city look like you?" In an appropriately poetic air, "It is truly the city of gold..." So what do they name it? El Dorado and we get an unfunny animated movie from it...
On the other extreme you have explorers like so:
Explorer to other explorers: "Then we got taken to the Bigger Island by the natives..." "What did they call it?" "Er... Big Island!" "Does this have anything to do with that, um, what's it called... Long Island place?" "Of course not! There's a whole new continent between there!"
Sort of like Dave Barry said once: They sent ten people to survey New Yorkers on their geography skills. Ten reported back, but unfortunately two of the survey givers fell into the Ohio river getting there and drowned...
Hmmm... lets think really hard on this one. Kids go ballistic because they feel lonely. So kids build bombs and attain firearms, storing them in their parents' houses. The parents continue to watch TV and not care that the house smells like gunpowder. The parents continue to never go into the room with very blatant psychological cries of help plastered on walls, on paper, and on their computers. The parents appear shocked when interviewed, "We had no idea he wore a trenchcoat during the warm months to hide the shotgun. We thought he must of been cold"* Whatever this judge says, it still sounds like Videogames did something to these kids alright.
I don't know about you, but in all my Blizzard games there is this thing called the Single PLayer Campaign, and to play the equivalent of this Single Player Campaign on any other game, I would have to buy a legitimate copy and abide by the EULA I agree to. Just because Blizzard had some strange notion to include multiplayer for the majority of the 3 or 4 million people who own their games, and simply wished to regulate the online gaming themselves and at no cost to the players, does not mean the fringe 1% of people who have either hardware, software, or ethical problems with Blizzard games should cry "Slaughter of Innocents!"
Sheesh people, maybe if you all payed for the illegal copies as well, Battle.net could afford some more servers to take care of the lag problems. I don't see why the same people who would pay for a Red Hat distribution because they like it have a problem paying for a free online gaming service because they like it as well. Not everything that is Free-as-in-beer is flawless.
There is no issue of fair use, nor is there any issue with the beta-test. The issue here is that bnetd is almost identical to battle.net server software that Blizzard owns, serves the same exact purpose, which is meant to serve Blizzard game players with a matchmaking service.
How is this different from a judge ruling that since one song from an artist sounds almost exactly like the other song of the second artist, the first artist has a copywrited piece of IP that has been infringed because the second artist published second. I don't have a right to patent the lightbulb even if I came up with it on my own, because Edison did it first.
Mod me down all you want, but I think people don't see the point that battle.net was there first, was copywrited, and connects people who play products from Blizzard's within Blizzard's domain. Stop whining.
And remember, for every poster on Slashdot who says they would never use an illegally attained copy of WarCraft III, there are 100 script kiddies and joe schmoes who will. If it was my software, I'd send the letter as well just to smite those few actual pirates.
I'm not one to regularly bash Katz, but if he considers mainstream media to be taking a middle-of-the-road approach to reporting news, and considered Fox News to be Right-wing, I would hate to think what Katz would think about anything published in TIME, Newsweek, the New York Times, or The Washington Post. Those publications don't have a Leftist bone in their body. [end sarcasm]
I don't even read the articles anymore, but I love the new and creative ways people can find to bash on Katz. That, my friends, is the true inspiration: That when the time comes for namecalling the Geek community will ALWAYS win with out witty words.
Someone double check me, but arn't these figures just based in the USofA, and are not world figures? So saying FFX was the killer game for PS2 in 2001 might be premature because it has sold 2 million plus from Dec 18, till February. THe article didnt mention, which would of been nice for comparison's sake, how much the Sims made this year alone, after the first year of sales. Just some thoughts of mine.
Now, where can I read something on it specifically? The article seemed to be much more of a financial report than a tech article, which leads me to believe this is in very early designs, and will take a long time to run from conceptual designs to an actual integrations.
On another note, will this let me eventually take my Palm and DoS all the cell phones in the general area of the movie theater? Just a thought...
I can tell you right now that if one of those pieces falls in my back yard, I'll rebuild it and have a webserver running on it with the new Lego set I just bought by the next day...
With the conversion being 10:1, and assuming the currencies don't fluctuate that means time with a prostitute will actually be attainable for me on a regular basis! Although, I don't know if I like the idea of her pimp DoS'ing me when I try to run off...
And here's a clipping I saw under the local sports section, as well as business.
Tickets went on sale today after a record time decision by the judge presiding over the AOL Time Warner vs Microsoft anti-trust case entailing that Steve Case would get his request to challenge Bill Gates to an obligatory 10 rounds inside a boxing rings. After securing a location in Las Vegas and a date for the event, the announcement was made that Steve Jobs would referee the event.
Ticket sales will go to the Netscape division of AOL Time Warner, but the sales are expected to be lackluster. Apparently the public at large could not tell the difference between the respective geeks or cared at all who won as long as they still got Email viruses on a regular basis through either AOL or Outlook, as told by a recent poll.
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I came two years ago, and this is my second time. I'm more impressed than I was the last time about this whole entire shin-dig. Its huge. This is the first year they had to turn people away from the 1300 person Bring Your Own Computer. With play by play commentary and recordings to watch of the tournaments, sponsor booths (with booth amenities), more people than I can count, and none other than Carmack himself (who posts on these pages) giving a stunning 2 hour speech, its the best one ever.
For those of you unimpressed, they set this whole LAN up in... oh... day and a half I think of actual set up. Preparation is alot longer. They use several miles of Cat5, and ALL the quake games (and the licensed ones like Jedi Knight, Half Life, etc) are hosted on servers, as well as a few file servers for patches, updates, IRC, misc files, and such. Plus there's internet acess for everyone, and everyone's comp sees the other ones.
Theres so much on sale, to do for free, and then just look at I'm going to have to budget sleep so I don't miss the developer round tables, technology workshops, blow out party on Sat, and the 100 other things I got to do.
Plus, the Convention itself is ABSOLUTELY FREE!
I can see where a robotic arm would be useful for people with atrophied muscles, or who lost a limb.
But disabled people without heads are called.... dead.
Forgot to add... Cartoon Network is like a butcher's block for anime. You never see the whole picture or hear the correct translation because we "Westerners" would never be able to understand it, or enjoy it, so they "westernize" it. Definitly subtracts from the expierience.
Watching one episode of a limited series of Cowboy Bebop is like watching a random 5 minutes of a movie and judging it based on that one instance. A series like Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Trigun, or any other GOOD anime series is something thats better enjoyed by watching from the beginning, where the viewer can appreciate the slow changes and introduction that makes interesting characters, plot, and interaction interesting... like any other movie, show, play, book, etc etc.
Anime is not exempt from the so called Spurgeon's Revelation: In any given medium, about 95% of something is going to be a bunch of crap (paraphrased). Not all movies from Hollywood are Oscar worthy, not all TV shows are Emmy winners, not all plays or musicals will win Tonys, and not all Anime is great.
Cowboy Bebop, if watched with an open mind in the beginning, instead of the seemingly closed mind of the parent post, is clearly better than a large amount of anime thanks to the humor, style and direction, spectacular soundtrack, and gripping characters.
Of course, it makes me wander why NORAD fears those Far-Right and Left Canadians... I mean, you got to watch out for those enraged Maple Leaf fans. They came to my city once, and the crime rate doubled for the weekend...
Yeah, that's why...
"more accessible to kids and die-hard comic book buffs, who remember the great, golden age of Marvel Comics. I'm one of them, I was there."
Wait a second, how old is Katz? He was alive in the 50's and 60's? So THAT'S why he doesn't get any of this computer and geek stuff...
... is like the one from South Park...
General: "Bill Gates, I thought you said Windows 98 was going to be faster and more stable!"
Bill: It is, it's over a 100..."
BLAM! The general shoots him in the head.
General: "Get him out of here..."
I suppose I'll just go burn the tape I had programmed to record, instead of watching the final episode after I get home from work. Thanks slashdot.
grow a very thick beard in the few years before your license expires, wear normal glasses and say they are prescription (make sure the restriction doesn't go on the license itself though), and wear something you would rather burn later (like a .NET shirt you got at a trade show). Then shave, never wear glasses, and wear lots of Linux stuff from Thinkgeek and it'll never come up with a match. Let acne go for a few weeks too before the picture. And make sure to smile lopsidedly.
I have no idea how well this will all actually work, but I have a friend who has a drivers license picture where her hair is all put up funny, she is making a face, and wearing something very very ugly. When presented for drinks or ciggarettes, she is repeatedly told its fake. So, it might work...
Well, it wouldn't make sense it he was just looking at clouds. He'd have to look at the runway to take off. Read the article, and it might tell you they still have to pull a trigger after they've identified a target.
Sheesh.
If this means what I think it does, I'm going to have to bump up the idle of my Windows machine just like I did in my Honda. It just kept dieing when nothing was happening...
Or would it be the other way around, and I'd redline every time the BSOD pops up? Maybe thats when I miss a gear, I know that messes up my RPM's big time.
Heh, there's a classic example of human creativity for you.
"Hey, Coronado, what's all this maze surrounding that city look like you?"
In an appropriately poetic air, "It is truly the city of gold..."
So what do they name it? El Dorado and we get an unfunny animated movie from it...
On the other extreme you have explorers like so:
Explorer to other explorers: "Then we got taken to the Bigger Island by the natives..."
"What did they call it?"
"Er... Big Island!"
"Does this have anything to do with that, um, what's it called... Long Island place?"
"Of course not! There's a whole new continent between there!"
Sort of like Dave Barry said once: They sent ten people to survey New Yorkers on their geography skills. Ten reported back, but unfortunately two of the survey givers fell into the Ohio river getting there and drowned...
Or something like that.
Hmmm... lets think really hard on this one. Kids go ballistic because they feel lonely. So kids build bombs and attain firearms, storing them in their parents' houses. The parents continue to watch TV and not care that the house smells like gunpowder. The parents continue to never go into the room with very blatant psychological cries of help plastered on walls, on paper, and on their computers. The parents appear shocked when interviewed, "We had no idea he wore a trenchcoat during the warm months to hide the shotgun. We thought he must of been cold"* Whatever this judge says, it still sounds like Videogames did something to these kids alright.
*Not a direct quote, just a summary.
I don't know about you, but in all my Blizzard games there is this thing called the Single PLayer Campaign, and to play the equivalent of this Single Player Campaign on any other game, I would have to buy a legitimate copy and abide by the EULA I agree to. Just because Blizzard had some strange notion to include multiplayer for the majority of the 3 or 4 million people who own their games, and simply wished to regulate the online gaming themselves and at no cost to the players, does not mean the fringe 1% of people who have either hardware, software, or ethical problems with Blizzard games should cry "Slaughter of Innocents!"
Sheesh people, maybe if you all payed for the illegal copies as well, Battle.net could afford some more servers to take care of the lag problems. I don't see why the same people who would pay for a Red Hat distribution because they like it have a problem paying for a free online gaming service because they like it as well. Not everything that is Free-as-in-beer is flawless.
There is no issue of fair use, nor is there any issue with the beta-test. The issue here is that bnetd is almost identical to battle.net server software that Blizzard owns, serves the same exact purpose, which is meant to serve Blizzard game players with a matchmaking service.
How is this different from a judge ruling that since one song from an artist sounds almost exactly like the other song of the second artist, the first artist has a copywrited piece of IP that has been infringed because the second artist published second. I don't have a right to patent the lightbulb even if I came up with it on my own, because Edison did it first.
Mod me down all you want, but I think people don't see the point that battle.net was there first, was copywrited, and connects people who play products from Blizzard's within Blizzard's domain. Stop whining.
And remember, for every poster on Slashdot who says they would never use an illegally attained copy of WarCraft III, there are 100 script kiddies and joe schmoes who will. If it was my software, I'd send the letter as well just to smite those few actual pirates.
I'm not one to regularly bash Katz, but if he considers mainstream media to be taking a middle-of-the-road approach to reporting news, and considered Fox News to be Right-wing, I would hate to think what Katz would think about anything published in TIME, Newsweek, the New York Times, or The Washington Post. Those publications don't have a Leftist bone in their body. [end sarcasm]
...aliens are really our genetic in-laws, in a 2001ish sense. That would make sense, seeing as I have to clean for mine whenever they come over...
... one step closer to no dual boot for Counter-Strike and Starcraft.
I don't even read the articles anymore, but I love the new and creative ways people can find to bash on Katz. That, my friends, is the true inspiration: That when the time comes for namecalling the Geek community will ALWAYS win with out witty words.
Someone double check me, but arn't these figures just based in the USofA, and are not world figures? So saying FFX was the killer game for PS2 in 2001 might be premature because it has sold 2 million plus from Dec 18, till February. THe article didnt mention, which would of been nice for comparison's sake, how much the Sims made this year alone, after the first year of sales. Just some thoughts of mine.
Now, where can I read something on it specifically? The article seemed to be much more of a financial report than a tech article, which leads me to believe this is in very early designs, and will take a long time to run from conceptual designs to an actual integrations.
On another note, will this let me eventually take my Palm and DoS all the cell phones in the general area of the movie theater? Just a thought...
I can tell you right now that if one of those pieces falls in my back yard, I'll rebuild it and have a webserver running on it with the new Lego set I just bought by the next day...
This could work two ways for me:
With the conversion being 10:1, and assuming the currencies don't fluctuate that means time with a prostitute will actually be attainable for me on a regular basis! Although, I don't know if I like the idea of her pimp DoS'ing me when I try to run off...
And here's a clipping I saw under the local sports section, as well as business.
Tickets went on sale today after a record time decision by the judge presiding over the AOL Time Warner vs Microsoft anti-trust case entailing that Steve Case would get his request to challenge Bill Gates to an obligatory 10 rounds inside a boxing rings. After securing a location in Las Vegas and a date for the event, the announcement was made that Steve Jobs would referee the event.
Ticket sales will go to the Netscape division of AOL Time Warner, but the sales are expected to be lackluster. Apparently the public at large could not tell the difference between the respective geeks or cared at all who won as long as they still got Email viruses on a regular basis through either AOL or Outlook, as told by a recent poll.
Well, I can dream of such an event...