If I remember correctly tho, although this might be at the end, the only way you could know what the correct tool was going to be (and it changed each time you went in!) was to see in advance what it was going to be. As luck would have it, if you had all 4 bits of fluff, you could use them to create some sort of seed which, if planted somewhere (never did figure that bit out, damn!) would grow into a machine which would let you see into the future so you would know what tool to take in (you could only take one!). There were a pile of clues about this in the game - consult guide on fluff got you started I think, it would tell you about the 4 bits of special fluff which gave you the clue about collecting fluff (which you had, of course, not been doing so you had to start again, dammit!).
Ah, those were the days - didn't know about sex in those days so I had to get my frustration fix from somewhere else.
I've often thought that this would be a great idea for football matches (proper football - you know, with feet) The most basic idea would be to stick a transponder on each player and on the ball. Relay all that positional info to a multicast server somewhere which will will then draw a map of the pitch and the position of all the players in realtime. Kind of like watching the match on Championship Manager. Coupled with audio commentry, this would give you a good idea of what was happening for not a lot of bandwidth.
The ultimate extension of the idea would be to give each player a transmitter on each limb, then use the Fifa 2004 engine to render the game on the client. THAT would be cool! - check out this for the start of this idea (uses flash, sorry, but worth checking out if you can be arsed with shockwave). Presumably somebody had to enter all the positional data by hand for those but it's a start.
Of course, multicasting the olympics has probably blown the whole idea out the water but that uses lots of bandwidth, which the majority still do not have.
dude, I know that replying to sigs is passe but I couldn't resist; First you say that you don't repond to ac's (non members?) but you hate member only websites. Which is it then dude?
briefly on topic - it is perfectly possible that gl has listened to fans, in the same way that it is perfectly possible that Bill Gates has open sourced windys.
Personally I'm fairly sure and won't be giving the git any more money (gl or bg!)
>Mod parent down. >This is an incredibly oversimplified set of assumptions. >If you change a copyrighted work, you have created a derivative work, but it does not necessarily belong to the original copyright owner, or to you.
I'm risking an offtopic here but I just had to respond to this. This is an abuse of the mod system and if I ever see anyone doing this in M2 I mark it as unfair. If you don't agree, respond, don't just mod the comment out of existence, tell us why it is wrong!
Add to the discussion, don't just censor the things you don't like!
Back on topic, as other people have pointed out, the difference is that pizza hut are paying someone for their labour. In a game you are paying someone to use their resources to build something - I think we all agree that you own what you have created, the question is whether you can transfer that ownership.
I have an AIW 8500 and I would have agreed with you a year ago but the drivers from ati have steadily got better over the last year or so. The current offering (8.5.0.0 I think) is pretty good - very few lockups if any, and the remote support is much better. And I love the remote! I can have the PC in the spare room next door and control it with the rf remote from the living room - sweet (I have video cables running under the floor from the pc to the telly so I can watch recorded TV and downloaded tv shows on the main telly). The OSD has got better (you can actually read it on the tv now!) but it is still a bit cack but myhtpc for windys is pretty damn good, coupled with xmltv and the remote, it gives me all the functionality of a tivo (except the prefs unfortunately, although I am working on a script which will process the xmltv output, look for keywords and automatically schedule the recorder).
I don't know about you but I can read your average paperback in about 2 - 4 hours. So a new paperback will cost me between 4 - 2 bucks an hour. I tend not to re-read books I have already read.
You can create a new partition, call it d: and set your home directory to d:\ using user mangler. Then you can trash c: (system part) as much as you want and your docs and settings stuff should be ok.
I'm not talking from a legal standpoint here but isn`t that already what an mp3 file is? What part of the digital data in an mp3 could the artist point to and say "I created that"?
What about divx movies? If I didn`t own the divx codec then does a divx on my machine still represent the original movie?
I know this is largely semantics but if they are going to argue that a representation which can be used to "recreate" the copyrighted works is a breach of said copyright then how about those movie "reviews" which describe each scene in a movie; I could read one of those and recreate the movie in my head. Is that breach of copyright? Is my head infringing the DMCA? Clearly not as I am not creating a perfect reproduction.
I think you might be missing the point of the two scenes: the fighting the balrog right at the start of TTT was crucial to the plot since before then we thought Gandalf had fallen to his death and here we find out that he hasn`t, and is in fact kicking seven bells out of the big nasty balrog dude. The wow factor was in the story moving on and how powerful gandalf really was. The scene where anakin dives from the speeder had absolutely no point to it whatsoever, in fact that whole 10 minute scene with the chase through coruscant was a completely pointless cgi wankfest with the sole purpose of allowing abi wan to use the "prescient" that boy will be the death of me gag.
hell, I couldn`t not weigh in with my nick now could I;-)
I used rexx for years in an all OS/2 Lan Server place and it made network admin a scoosh. I even used it (regina) for Windows NT net admin for a few years until I discovered perl.
There were even a couple of visual rexx gui creation implementations I used to create Lan Admin for dummies tools.
I remember writing rexx code to front end a terrible email program we used on a 3270 terminal - I used ehllapi to control the session, scraping the screen and sending keystrokes to the app - pretty nasty stuff but it worked;)
parse was a great command; especially "parse with" you could strip a set of parameters from an arbitrarily delimited string with that one. As was strip() for cleaning strings grabbed from command output and the like. You might guess I did a lot of run a command and grab the output type scripting;) Interpret was a belter as well; you could use it to create some really wacky self modifying code.
what, bad ass desert types sitting on the one major resource that everybody needs and can only get in the desert. Control of which is passed around all the major players in turn to make profits for the one big conglomerate that all the major players have shares in.
erm, no it isn`t and yes they do. You can download the source for the latest version if you want, you just need certain proprietary, closed-source libraries for it to work correctly. RTFL(icense)
detritus is a troll who discovered that his brain works better if it is supercooled cos trolls live in the mountains where it is really cold and become really stupid in the city cos their heads get too warm which slows down their brain functions. The zombie is called Reg Shoe.
I mentioned this last time we all had this discussion but nobody picked up on it. I picked up an old ATI 8500 all in wonder cheap cos it was end of line - its a decent card and can just about manage deux ex 2:-) but it has the killer app for this sort of thing - a RF remote. PC in the spare room, svid and audio cables running under the floor to the stereo/TV, and you can sit in the lounge and control the PC with the remote, sweet! No fan noise and all the music/TV shows/downloaded films and TV shows you can watch. Also check out myhtpc for windows for a highly customisable, TV friendly front end.
If I remember correctly, the game did give you a hint. The text said something like: you can`t see anything, you can`t hear anything, you can't touch anything and you can't taste anything. Notice it didn`t mention smell. They used this a couple of times in the game and it was always a different sense, but the clue was that only 4 of the 5 were mentioned.
You are right tho, it was a damn frustrating game, especially when you got to the end and realsied you hadn't been looking for the 4 bits of pocket lint, so you couldn't do the last puzzle, aaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
Although I loved Fight Club, something bothered me about the ending. Surely all the credit card companies had offsite backups, if not offsite datacentres. Just blowing up the headquarters wouldn't have destroyed everyone's credit histories at all.
I know it's only a movie and this is slightly offtopic but this is slashdot-the home of geek pedantry so I thought I'd get that off my chest.
I think that it is down to the constant patching and updating of apis that comes with winders. If you don`t do it exactly the way MS tell you in the docs, chances are the next time the api is "extended", your program doesn`t work anymore.
The other problem is that MS will not support you, they won`t even give you the time of day, unless your systems are patched right up to the latest levels and are setup in a completely standard way.
I know, I should be using linux but hey, I want to play games too. (not flamebait, just the truth).
Anyway, I have an old windows box in my spare room with an ATI Radeon 8500 all in wonder. Its an ok card for games but it has one killer feature for this sort of thing - an RF remote. It means that I can leave the beige box in the spare room, run AV cables under the floor to the telly in the living room, and conrtol the PC from the living room with the RF remote, sweeeet!
As an aside, although the drivers for ATI tv cards are getting better, they are still not great for controlling the PC from a telly in the next room. I would thoroughly recommend a freeware (not open source, sorry) proggy called myhtpc its fully customisable, well supported by the author, and has xmltv support. Definately worth a look if you want to stick to windys.
I know about the 12p a mile thing as my mother gets it for using her bike to cycle between the two buildings a couple of miles apart at the school she works in, didn`t know it was officially sanctioned tho, thought it was just a concession since all the other teachers get car mileage.
Just reply to this if you find anything please, I will keep checking.
...any company with cycle-parking has to provide showers, it's UK law...
Do you have any references for this, I work in the uk and would like to cycle to work occasionally but we have no shower facilites. It would be nice to have something concrete to take to personnel. cheers.
People are writing Linux Killer Apps all the time. The Beauty/Weakness of open source is these apps can be relatively easily ported to Windows/Mac/Whatever because the source is open. Therefore Linux killer app does not mean Linux lock-in. Sorry.
Also it strikes me that the reason the Linux community would have trouble creating an i-tunes service themselves would be lack of money/clout to talk all the different record companies into contributing. An-open source i-tunes clone would be useless without the clout of someone like apple serving the music to it. Writing the software is the easy part.
Most readers for the palm format anyway have excelent bookmarking and search facilities. This should mean that it is easier to backpage and return to where you were, as well as making it easier to backpage in the first place as you can search for the name of the person or whatever and let the reader do the searching for you.
btw. If you have a palm or clone, check out a reader called "read them all", you'll get it on palmgear. Its not quite as fully featured as some of the others but I just lurve that page scroll. I find the palm screen isn't quite dynamic enough for smooth scrolling text.
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If I remember correctly tho, although this might be at the end, the only way you could know what the correct tool was going to be (and it changed each time you went in!) was to see in advance what it was going to be. As luck would have it, if you had all 4 bits of fluff, you could use them to create some sort of seed which, if planted somewhere (never did figure that bit out, damn!) would grow into a machine which would let you see into the future so you would know what tool to take in (you could only take one!).
There were a pile of clues about this in the game - consult guide on fluff got you started I think, it would tell you about the 4 bits of special fluff which gave you the clue about collecting fluff (which you had, of course, not been doing so you had to start again, dammit!).
Ah, those were the days - didn't know about sex in those days so I had to get my frustration fix from somewhere else.
I've often thought that this would be a great idea for football matches (proper football - you know, with feet )
The most basic idea would be to stick a transponder on each player and on the ball. Relay all that positional info to a multicast server somewhere which will will then draw a map of the pitch and the position of all the players in realtime. Kind of like watching the match on Championship Manager. Coupled with audio commentry, this would give you a good idea of what was happening for not a lot of bandwidth.
The ultimate extension of the idea would be to give each player a transmitter on each limb, then use the Fifa 2004 engine to render the game on the client. THAT would be cool! - check out this for the start of this idea (uses flash, sorry, but worth checking out if you can be arsed with shockwave). Presumably somebody had to enter all the positional data by hand for those but it's a start.
Of course, multicasting the olympics has probably blown the whole idea out the water but that uses lots of bandwidth, which the majority still do not have.
dude,
I know that replying to sigs is passe but I couldn't resist; First you say that you don't repond to ac's (non members?) but you hate member only websites. Which is it then dude?
briefly on topic - it is perfectly possible that gl has listened to fans, in the same way that it is perfectly possible that Bill Gates has open sourced windys.
Personally I'm fairly sure and won't be giving the git any more money (gl or bg!)
Mr Gorsky, is that you? ;-D
>Mod parent down.
>This is an incredibly oversimplified set of assumptions.
>If you change a copyrighted work, you have created a derivative work, but it does not necessarily belong to the original copyright owner, or to you.
I'm risking an offtopic here but I just had to respond to this.
This is an abuse of the mod system and if I ever see anyone doing this in M2 I mark it as unfair. If you don't agree, respond, don't just mod the comment out of existence, tell us why it is wrong!
Add to the discussion, don't just censor the things you don't like!
Back on topic, as other people have pointed out, the difference is that pizza hut are paying someone for their labour. In a game you are paying someone to use their resources to build something - I think we all agree that you own what you have created, the question is whether you can transfer that ownership.
I have an AIW 8500 and I would have agreed with you a year ago but the drivers from ati have steadily got better over the last year or so. The current offering (8.5.0.0 I think) is pretty good - very few lockups if any, and the remote support is much better.
And I love the remote! I can have the PC in the spare room next door and control it with the rf remote from the living room - sweet (I have video cables running under the floor from the pc to the telly so I can watch recorded TV and downloaded tv shows on the main telly).
The OSD has got better (you can actually read it on the tv now!) but it is still a bit cack but myhtpc for windys is pretty damn good, coupled with xmltv and the remote, it gives me all the functionality of a tivo (except the prefs unfortunately, although I am working on a script which will process the xmltv output, look for keywords and automatically schedule the recorder).
Much as I hate being a pedant... (ok so I lied ;-)
;-p
I don't know about you but I can read your average paperback in about 2 - 4 hours. So a new paperback will cost me between 4 - 2 bucks an hour. I tend not to re-read books I have already read.
insightful eh?
You can create a new partition, call it d: and set your home directory to d:\ using user mangler. Then you can trash c: (system part) as much as you want and your docs and settings stuff should be ok.
I'm not talking from a legal standpoint here but isn`t that already what an mp3 file is? What part of the digital data in an mp3 could the artist point to and say "I created that"?
What about divx movies? If I didn`t own the divx codec then does a divx on my machine still represent the original movie?
I know this is largely semantics but if they are going to argue that a representation which can be used to "recreate" the copyrighted works is a breach of said copyright then how about those movie "reviews" which describe each scene in a movie; I could read one of those and recreate the movie in my head. Is that breach of copyright? Is my head infringing the DMCA? Clearly not as I am not creating a perfect reproduction.
But neither do mp3's.
I think you might be missing the point of the two scenes: the fighting the balrog right at the start of TTT was crucial to the plot since before then we thought Gandalf had fallen to his death and here we find out that he hasn`t, and is in fact kicking seven bells out of the big nasty balrog dude. The wow factor was in the story moving on and how powerful gandalf really was.
;-)
The scene where anakin dives from the speeder had absolutely no point to it whatsoever, in fact that whole 10 minute scene with the chase through coruscant was a completely pointless cgi wankfest with the sole purpose of allowing abi wan to use the "prescient" that boy will be the death of me gag.
Just an opinion mind...
hell, I couldn`t not weigh in with my nick now could I ;-)
;)
;) Interpret was a belter as well; you could use it to create some really wacky self modifying code.
I used rexx for years in an all OS/2 Lan Server place and it made network admin a scoosh. I even used it (regina) for Windows NT net admin for a few years until I discovered perl.
There were even a couple of visual rexx gui creation implementations I used to create Lan Admin for dummies tools.
I remember writing rexx code to front end a terrible email program we used on a 3270 terminal - I used ehllapi to control the session, scraping the screen and sending keystrokes to the app - pretty nasty stuff but it worked
parse was a great command; especially "parse with" you could strip a set of parameters from an arbitrarily delimited string with that one. As was strip() for cleaning strings grabbed from command output and the like. You might guess I did a lot of run a command and grab the output type scripting
ah, memories,
time for my medication...
what, bad ass desert types sitting on the one major resource that everybody needs and can only get in the desert. Control of which is passed around all the major players in turn to make profits for the one big conglomerate that all the major players have shares in.
Allegory, ya think...?
osama bin laden as kwisatch haderach, hmm...
erm, no it isn`t and yes they do.
You can download the source for the latest version if you want, you just need certain proprietary, closed-source libraries for it to work correctly. RTFL(icense)
sheesh. -5, just plain wrong.
detritus is a troll who discovered that his brain works better if it is supercooled cos trolls live in the mountains where it is really cold and become really stupid in the city cos their heads get too warm which slows down their brain functions. The zombie is called Reg Shoe.
Clueless indeed.
I mentioned this last time we all had this discussion but nobody picked up on it. I picked up an old ATI 8500 all in wonder cheap cos it was end of line - its a decent card and can just about manage deux ex 2 :-) but it has the killer app for this sort of thing - a RF remote.
PC in the spare room, svid and audio cables running under the floor to the stereo/TV, and you can sit in the lounge and control the PC with the remote, sweet! No fan noise and all the music/TV shows/downloaded films and TV shows you can watch.
Also check out myhtpc for windows for a highly customisable, TV friendly front end.
If I remember correctly, the game did give you a hint.
The text said something like: you can`t see anything, you can`t hear anything, you can't touch anything and you can't taste anything. Notice it didn`t mention smell.
They used this a couple of times in the game and it was always a different sense, but the clue was that only 4 of the 5 were mentioned.
You are right tho, it was a damn frustrating game, especially when you got to the end and realsied you hadn't been looking for the 4 bits of pocket lint, so you couldn't do the last puzzle,
aaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
Although I loved Fight Club, something bothered me about the ending. Surely all the credit card companies had offsite backups, if not offsite datacentres. Just blowing up the headquarters wouldn't have destroyed everyone's credit histories at all.
I know it's only a movie and this is slightly offtopic but this is slashdot-the home of geek pedantry so I thought I'd get that off my chest.
thanks, all better now.
maybe it's secretly ironic ;-)
I think that it is down to the constant patching and updating of apis that comes with winders. If you don`t do it exactly the way MS tell you in the docs, chances are the next time the api is "extended", your program doesn`t work anymore.
The other problem is that MS will not support you, they won`t even give you the time of day, unless your systems are patched right up to the latest levels and are setup in a completely standard way.
just answered this, sorry, didn`t see your question :
I know, I should be using linux but hey, I want to play games too. (not flamebait, just the truth).
Anyway, I have an old windows box in my spare room with an ATI Radeon 8500 all in wonder. Its an ok card for games but it has one killer feature for this sort of thing - an RF remote. It means that I can leave the beige box in the spare room, run AV cables under the floor to the telly in the living room, and conrtol the PC from the living room with the RF remote, sweeeet!
As an aside, although the drivers for ATI tv cards are getting better, they are still not great for controlling the PC from a telly in the next room. I would thoroughly recommend a freeware (not open source, sorry) proggy called myhtpc its fully customisable, well supported by the author, and has xmltv support. Definately worth a look if you want to stick to windys.
I know about the 12p a mile thing as my mother gets it for using her bike to cycle between the two buildings a couple of miles apart at the school she works in, didn`t know it was officially sanctioned tho, thought it was just a concession since all the other teachers get car mileage.
Just reply to this if you find anything please, I will keep checking.
cheers,
...any company with cycle-parking has to provide showers, it's UK law...
Do you have any references for this, I work in the uk and would like to cycle to work occasionally but we have no shower facilites. It would be nice to have something concrete to take to personnel.
cheers.
People are writing Linux Killer Apps all the time. The Beauty/Weakness of open source is these apps can be relatively easily ported to Windows/Mac/Whatever because the source is open. Therefore Linux killer app does not mean Linux lock-in. Sorry.
Also it strikes me that the reason the Linux community would have trouble creating an i-tunes service themselves would be lack of money/clout to talk all the different record companies into contributing. An-open source i-tunes clone would be useless without the clout of someone like apple serving the music to it. Writing the software is the easy part.
Most readers for the palm format anyway have excelent bookmarking and search facilities. This should mean that it is easier to backpage and return to where you were, as well as making it easier to backpage in the first place as you can search for the name of the person or whatever and let the reader do the searching for you.
btw. If you have a palm or clone, check out a reader called "read them all", you'll get it on palmgear. Its not quite as fully featured as some of the others but I just lurve that page scroll. I find the palm screen isn't quite dynamic enough for smooth scrolling text.