1up has a long piece looking at the World of Power book series, a series of novelizations of some of the most popular NES titles of the day. Castlvania, Master Blaster, and Metal Gear all received the literary treatment... with varying degrees of success.
Master Blaster? Blasphemy! Go sit in a corner this instant; you're no true NES fan.
I'm testament to this upward trend. Just started a longterm contract job today after three and a half years of complete unemployment. Within that time, I had been working for only three months on quick projects. And that's not mentioning the days leading up to my start date I was pursued for employment by two dueling organizations. Over the past month I've had more curious employers contact me after seeing my resume online, and I've had a noticeable increase in interview offers.
So if any of you are still unemployed, your salvation is near. Keep your heads up.
In fact, I have seen a friend who went from addiction to drugs and particularly pot, to replacing that complete lifestyle with religion... and boy did he replace it.
What a way to narrow one's world even further. Religion. I feel sorry for him.
It's becoming more apparent to me that laws exist, for the most part, to keep people from maiming themselves. Why someone dismisses personal responsibility for eating themselves obese at McDonald's or destroying their own hearing with an iPod is beyond me. If anything, it probably points to some sort of serious dissociative disorder. I liken it to people who walk through doors without closing them or eating at restaurants and walking out the door without throwing away their garbage -- people want all the benefits but high tail it when it comes time to be truly accountable for all their doings.
I am a gay man and an atheist who has no intention of following any superstitious belief, Islam included.
As an atheist, you offer the position that there is no all-powerful god. Lack of belief still makes you a believer. Atheism and theism are right up there alongside one another -- there's no difference between them whatsoever.
Run your browser with reduced privileges. I run IE in a seriously crippled guest environment while the remainder of my activity is done from my admin account. Create a guest account first, and while in your admin account, create a new IE shortcut and change the program details to read:
The first time you run the app, you'll notice a DOS box appear and ask you for your guest account password. Enter that once and you won't have to enter it ever again. When you do this, spyware is prevented from being written to your system directories. Any spyware that does enter your machine is confined to your guest enviornment.
1. Microsoft decided they want to name a product Windows Defender. 2. They discover that someone else is using the name. 3. They inform this guy that he is infringing on their trademark. 4. He decides not to challenge them. 5. He signs over all rights to the name. 6. Microsoft announces Windows Defender.
If I were an attorney, I'd crush Microsoft for liberal misuse of basic logic. Aside from that, I'm guessing the "Defender" name wasn't registered as a legal trademark, thus Microsoft's action was essentially a rather odd way of letting the person know, though a bit deceptively, they were taking the name. Microsoft fully expected the worst if they would have simply went ahead and used the name, hence the cease and desist letter.
The only trademark infringement in this case is the use of the Windows (TM) name. Microsoft's move in short suggests that any sequence of letters or words that follows their Windows trademark name is their rightful property. Technically then, the name "Windows is a Memory-Hogging Piece of Bloatware" attached to a piece of software I write is, according to that logic, one hundred percent owned by them.
Given that, all the person had to do was drop all mentions of the name "Windows" from his software and he'd be in the clear -- by simply calling it "Defender", he'd most likely get off scott free. From Microsoft anyway. But from Atari?
I was never able to clear Metal Gear 2. That last boss was fuckin' impossible. Imagine fighting an enemy who's only weakness is the bottom of his feet. Now picture you trying to get him to walk over mines you place, but he never does. Bingo.
Legacy of the Wizard? Don't get me started on that. That was a game you could truly become irrecovocably stuck in; that's stuck as in reset-the-unit-and-start-again stuck.
Lots of memories, especially my long days of coming home after shoplifting a half dozen games on my best days. My accomplice did equally well. Ah, such mischievious little urbanite pups were we.
Well shit, now that the Wikipedia entry has been Slashdotted, I bet the game's producers are beyond giddy. Perhaps the game's producers submitted this Slashdot story to begin with.
I tried learning Dvorak once. While I still remember where the majority of keys are, switching back and forth requires huge leaps of brain shift. When you switch back to QWERTY, you'll find your error rate skyrocket as your brain is still in Dvorak mode. It takes at least ten minutes of readjustment with the occasional error when switching. It's not easy, and I doubt anyone could do it with ease.
Slashdot Mirror
Good frickin' lord -- nobody mentioned anything about a Tron sequel?
- IP
How about a $3600 flash drive?
s /item-details.asp?EdpNo=2074958&CatId=0
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTool
- IP
1up has a long piece looking at the World of Power book series, a series of novelizations of some of the most popular NES titles of the day. Castlvania, Master Blaster, and Metal Gear all received the literary treatment
Master Blaster? Blasphemy! Go sit in a corner this instant; you're no true NES fan.
That would be BLASTER MASTER.
- IP
Extreme-G Racing
Awesome! Now please make a sequel in the style of Extreme-G 3.
- IP
For starters, how to spell. Everything else would then fall naturally into place.
- IP
Emails? Fishes? What's the difference?
And "e-mail" should be hyphenated, you silly Americans.
- IP
As a child of the eighties and still a hardcore enthusiast of acid house music, I vigorously raise my arms in protest at the audacity of this move.
- IP
Al Gore invented this too.
Seriously.
- IP
I'm testament to this upward trend. Just started a longterm contract job today after three and a half years of complete unemployment. Within that time, I had been working for only three months on quick projects. And that's not mentioning the days leading up to my start date I was pursued for employment by two dueling organizations. Over the past month I've had more curious employers contact me after seeing my resume online, and I've had a noticeable increase in interview offers.
So if any of you are still unemployed, your salvation is near. Keep your heads up.
- IP
In fact, I have seen a friend who went from addiction to drugs and particularly pot, to replacing that complete lifestyle with religion... and boy did he replace it.
What a way to narrow one's world even further. Religion. I feel sorry for him.
- IP
It's becoming more apparent to me that laws exist, for the most part, to keep people from maiming themselves. Why someone dismisses personal responsibility for eating themselves obese at McDonald's or destroying their own hearing with an iPod is beyond me. If anything, it probably points to some sort of serious dissociative disorder. I liken it to people who walk through doors without closing them or eating at restaurants and walking out the door without throwing away their garbage -- people want all the benefits but high tail it when it comes time to be truly accountable for all their doings.
- IP
The kid's code might be deadly, but after reading his blog, I notice he can barely formulate a coherent English sentence.
- P
I am a gay man and an atheist who has no intention of following any superstitious belief, Islam included.
As an atheist, you offer the position that there is no all-powerful god. Lack of belief still makes you a believer. Atheism and theism are right up there alongside one another -- there's no difference between them whatsoever.
- IP
I personally believe that even the greatest computer graphics cannot create greater fear than that which is created by the player's mind.
All fear is created by the human mind. There are no exceptions.
- IP
Run your browser with reduced privileges. I run IE in a seriously crippled guest environment while the remainder of my activity is done from my admin account. Create a guest account first, and while in your admin account, create a new IE shortcut and change the program details to read:
/u:[your_guest_account_username] /SaveCred "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\runas.exe
The first time you run the app, you'll notice a DOS box appear and ask you for your guest account password. Enter that once and you won't have to enter it ever again. When you do this, spyware is prevented from being written to your system directories. Any spyware that does enter your machine is confined to your guest enviornment.
Works damn well.
- IP
The disc contains playable demo's on the disk such as Call of Duty 2, which could also be hackable, as PI speculates.
When will you kids learn that plurals are not formed with apostrophes followed by the letter 'S'?
- IP
1. Microsoft decided they want to name a product Windows Defender.
2. They discover that someone else is using the name.
3. They inform this guy that he is infringing on their trademark.
4. He decides not to challenge them.
5. He signs over all rights to the name.
6. Microsoft announces Windows Defender.
If I were an attorney, I'd crush Microsoft for liberal misuse of basic logic. Aside from that, I'm guessing the "Defender" name wasn't registered as a legal trademark, thus Microsoft's action was essentially a rather odd way of letting the person know, though a bit deceptively, they were taking the name. Microsoft fully expected the worst if they would have simply went ahead and used the name, hence the cease and desist letter.
The only trademark infringement in this case is the use of the Windows (TM) name. Microsoft's move in short suggests that any sequence of letters or words that follows their Windows trademark name is their rightful property. Technically then, the name "Windows is a Memory-Hogging Piece of Bloatware" attached to a piece of software I write is, according to that logic, one hundred percent owned by them.
Given that, all the person had to do was drop all mentions of the name "Windows" from his software and he'd be in the clear -- by simply calling it "Defender", he'd most likely get off scott free. From Microsoft anyway. But from Atari?
- IP
I was never able to clear Metal Gear 2. That last boss was fuckin' impossible. Imagine fighting an enemy who's only weakness is the bottom of his feet. Now picture you trying to get him to walk over mines you place, but he never does. Bingo.
Legacy of the Wizard? Don't get me started on that. That was a game you could truly become irrecovocably stuck in; that's stuck as in reset-the-unit-and-start-again stuck.
Lots of memories, especially my long days of coming home after shoplifting a half dozen games on my best days. My accomplice did equally well. Ah, such mischievious little urbanite pups were we.
- IP
Mario Brothers is a cakewalk. You want a real challenge? Fire up an emulator and play a Williams game. Fetch and play Robotron: 2084 first.
- IP
Well shit, now that the Wikipedia entry has been Slashdotted, I bet the game's producers are beyond giddy. Perhaps the game's producers submitted this Slashdot story to begin with.
- IP
Gosh forbid he falls asleep smoking.
- IP
Built-in battery. Remember the fallout after Apple released their first gen iPods with built-in batteries? This is essentially a disposable device.
That's fantastic. Now only if CSS could conquer my creditors, that would be peachy.
- IP
The world record for words per minute (170) was typed on a Dvorak keyboard.
h tml
http://sominfo.syr.edu/facstaff/dvorak/blackburn.
- IP
I tried learning Dvorak once. While I still remember where the majority of keys are, switching back and forth requires huge leaps of brain shift. When you switch back to QWERTY, you'll find your error rate skyrocket as your brain is still in Dvorak mode. It takes at least ten minutes of readjustment with the occasional error when switching. It's not easy, and I doubt anyone could do it with ease.
- IP