There's also a lot of shit in the indy music world. And the indy publishing world. And in the indy-software world. Just because it's produced by a big business doesn't automatically mean "crappy mainstream" and just because it's independent doesn't immediately connotate "great quality" or whatever. The point is, you still have to wade through an incredible amount of crap to find the gems in the hay-stack, so to speak, and that goes for "mainstream" and "independent" works.
Cerebus the Aardvark is one of my favorite independents and predates "TMNT" by a long shot.
Maybe, but, you just can't beat the portability of actual paper-based comics. Somehow, I just can't get any kind of attachment to a file on a computer, but actually holding a comic, smelling the paper, feeling the texture of the paper adds a certain ambiance to the entire comic-book (or any book, for that matter) experience. Just as I buy my reference manuals in dead-tree format because I actively dislike "online" documentation (it has it's uses, yes), I like my comics printed on paper and running it through my laser printer just doesn't cut it.
One of the more amusing things I've come across lately is that there's usually a telephone "access" box attached to the exterior of houses these days so the lineman and do some cursory checks without needed access to the interior. Standard jack on the "access" box, with no lock. Just walk up, plug in, dial away...
Why isn't anyone trying to get Windows to run on one of these things, as well? Sure, Linux is nifty and all, but some of us actually *prefer* using Windows. Just curious.
Actually, make it an all-female (20's, buxom hotties) crew, give them skimpy clothing and encourage nudeness (see Ender's Game), put in a webcam, and you've just solved the funding issue. I see commericial viability here...
"What's 10 girls, all alone, in space, with no men around gonna do next?"
I've been slowly teaching myself games programming in Java for the past 6 months. Since my area of "interest" happens to be 2D games (RPG's, in particular), I've also been "looking at" gba development (www.gbadev.net, I think). I've been wishing for J2ME for the GBA (less redundant learning) for quite some time, and now it appears that I finally get my wish!
Yay!
Now if they'd just release JRE's for PS2, XBox (I'd think that it wouldn't be that hard..), and Gamecube..
As an aside: People keep wanting to "hack the XBox" to put linux on it.. Has anyone tried installing Win2K on a hacked Xbox?
That was an idea I had for winamp for streaming media. When a song was played, in the winamp browser would be a link to the song to Amazon.com (think affiliate program). That way people would buy the CD from amazon, and a few pennies would roll their way to the streaming media station and would help pay for the bandwidth/equipment. Of course, that then commercializes the stream and is possibly liable to the taxes and what-not that passed awhile back and put all those streaming stations off the air, but hey, it was (and still is?) an interesting thought...
No shit? Now if the other distros would do the same.:) I find it somewhat.. disheartening when the things that would work just fine under Redhat don't work the same under Debian without major configuration/recompilation, I suppose the same with Mandrake now. I don't hate Linux, I just hate the hassles.:P
Interesting how lots people predict that Apple will be relegated to obsolescence and should shift their business model to software-only (OS X on x86 and the like) and yet people think that MS should be relegated to.. hardware?
IIS had about a good a chance as anyone. Sure, Apache was early to the market, but MS has billions to pour into pushing it. And, frankly, IIS *did* have sizeable marketshare, although nowhere near what it has on the desktop.
A prominent CEO was once asked what makes a great CEO: "Good decisions, boy, Good decisions," he answered. Asked how one learns to make good decisions, he answered: "Bad decisions, boy, Bad decisions."
The key is learning from the mistakes of the past and not repeating them. And I don't know about you, but if I were to do a collosal fuck-up, I'd be more certain to be extra-careful and mindful the next time a similar situation arose.
There's just no pleasing some people. "I want it free!" "I want the source!" "I want you to do all the work and give it to me!"
me me me me me me me. For a bunch of so-called "community supporters", they're surprisingly self-centered and self-important. Maybe the guy should go write his own software and do whatever the hell he wants to with it.
"I want Quake for Linux!" "Okay, here it is." "But.. it's $50! I want it for free!" "Uhmm...":: sigh::
ANd that's the exact reason why it's allowed, especially in a "free" market. Eventually, their "cash-grabbing" tactics will result in the loss of their customer base, costing them revenue hand-over-fist. See "linux migration". I *welcome* these actions as it finally causes complacent managers and bean counters to examine their business and decide, on a non-legislated level, that MS is a bad deal. The "anti-trust" case against MS didn't do *jack* to MS. Their own actions are burying them into the realm of obscurity. God bless the free market.
Because there are probably more VW's on the road in just about any country you can imagine. Tell someone something was the size of a VW Bug and an image instantly comes to mind (not to mention that being an highly "odd" shape, it helps me conjure an irregular surfaced object). For example "It was the size of a VW bug" as opposed to "It was an irregular object approximately 2 meters by 5 meters by 2 meters", which is more helpful to the average person, even someone in the science fields?
Let me introduce you to a few: Ikaruga (dreamcast, import, coming soon to a gamecube near you). Done in glorious 3D, but on a 2D playing field. Working Designs has brought over: RayStorm, RayCrisis, Thunderforce V, Silpheed On the Sega Saturn, Radiant Silvergun still commands prices over $150 for an import never released here in the states. Someone else has mentioned the 194x series, which is quite good as well. If you like side-scroller/platformer shooters, same poster mentioned Metal Slug, which is tons of fun.
Yes, the genre is not as numerous as it once was, but to say that it's DEAD is a misnomer. It's nowhere close to being dead.
So what? What if there is no Walmart around, nor any of the others? I lived in a small town with no electronics store, no video game store, no nothing. Had to drive 2 hours to get to a "City" so I could get the games I could only read about in a magazine. Those poor developers! How dare some selfish corporation/company/mom and pop not stock something that I so obviously need! Whatever, dude. And then again, what if those mom and pops don't like the game content and decide not to sell it? Oh, those bastards! Taking the food right out of my baby's mouth! Boo fucking hoo! WAAAAH! Personally, I"m glad Walmart takes a stand on some things as it proves to me that not everyone will do anything just to make money. If they won't carry the latest filthy-rap album because they don't agree with the politics or lyrics, then by golly hooray! Now if we could just get them to make a similar stance on shoes made by 12 year olds in Malaysia...
So what's the solution? We have the most highly effective/advanced military force in the world. Bar NONE. Hearing all the whiners scream and yell about how "unfair" it is, you'd think they'd be happiest to have American soldiers go into battle on foot, armed only with a blunt stick in a leather thong.
Yes, the war needs to be won quickly and decisively. No, we don't need to brag about it, but at the same time it's not anything to be ashamed of.
Also, if you replace "retarded 11 year old kid" with "neighborhood bully", then it might be more accurate. When I was growing up, we had a bully, too. One day he was in the midst of beating the crap out of my brother when the bully's older brother came out and beat the crap out of HIM. "How's it feel to get beat up? How's it feel to have someone bigger than YOU beat you up?" He didn't bully us for a good long while after that. (And ever notice that the people who scream and yell about the US being a big bully are the people that.. well.. we don't allow to bully their own people either? See Serbia, etc).
Every case is different. Given my situation, I'd take the 17" LCD as I haul my current desktop, 19" CRT and all to my night job to do "other stuff" with. A 17" LCD would be a godsend for my freaking back.;)
But along your lines, I think I'd rather get one of those nifty Sony G520P 21" CRT's than spend the extra bucks on a Dell 2000FP (which is sweet, but.. not *that* sweet).
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There's also a lot of shit in the indy music world. And the indy publishing world. And in the indy-software world. Just because it's produced by a big business doesn't automatically mean "crappy mainstream" and just because it's independent doesn't immediately connotate "great quality" or whatever. The point is, you still have to wade through an incredible amount of crap to find the gems in the hay-stack, so to speak, and that goes for "mainstream" and "independent" works.
Cerebus the Aardvark is one of my favorite independents and predates "TMNT" by a long shot.
Maybe, but, you just can't beat the portability of actual paper-based comics. Somehow, I just can't get any kind of attachment to a file on a computer, but actually holding a comic, smelling the paper, feeling the texture of the paper adds a certain ambiance to the entire comic-book (or any book, for that matter) experience. Just as I buy my reference manuals in dead-tree format because I actively dislike "online" documentation (it has it's uses, yes), I like my comics printed on paper and running it through my laser printer just doesn't cut it.
Back to BBS's. :(
One of the more amusing things I've come across lately is that there's usually a telephone "access" box attached to the exterior of houses these days so the lineman and do some cursory checks without needed access to the interior. Standard jack on the "access" box, with no lock. Just walk up, plug in, dial away...
Oh god.
Maybe you've never heard of "live action roleplaying", exemplified by the "Vampire: The Masquerade" from White Wolf. I'm sure someone around here has.
Why isn't anyone trying to get Windows to run on one of these things, as well? Sure, Linux is nifty and all, but some of us actually *prefer* using Windows. Just curious.
Actually, make it an all-female (20's, buxom hotties) crew, give them skimpy clothing and encourage nudeness (see Ender's Game), put in a webcam, and you've just solved the funding issue. I see commericial viability here...
"What's 10 girls, all alone, in space, with no men around gonna do next?"
I've been slowly teaching myself games programming in Java for the past 6 months. Since my area of "interest" happens to be 2D games (RPG's, in particular), I've also been "looking at" gba development (www.gbadev.net, I think). I've been wishing for J2ME for the GBA (less redundant learning) for quite some time, and now it appears that I finally get my wish!
Yay!
Now if they'd just release JRE's for PS2, XBox (I'd think that it wouldn't be that hard..), and Gamecube..
As an aside:
People keep wanting to "hack the XBox" to put linux on it.. Has anyone tried installing Win2K on a hacked Xbox?
So, like, what would they see?
"HEY BILL! LOOKIT THIS! We got the source for Linux! Now we can crush them!"
"Muhahahahahaa.. they shall crumble before the mighty microsoft when they realize we have their trump card!"
Simple Solution, then:
Go write your own damn codec and distribute it however you please.
Intel has a job opening now?
:: sighs ::
Seriously, this sucks, though. What was that about exchanging liberty for security?
That was an idea I had for winamp for streaming media. When a song was played, in the winamp browser would be a link to the song to Amazon.com (think affiliate program). That way people would buy the CD from amazon, and a few pennies would roll their way to the streaming media station and would help pay for the bandwidth/equipment. Of course, that then commercializes the stream and is possibly liable to the taxes and what-not that passed awhile back and put all those streaming stations off the air, but hey, it was (and still is?) an interesting thought...
No shit? Now if the other distros would do the same. :) I find it somewhat.. disheartening when the things that would work just fine under Redhat don't work the same under Debian without major configuration/recompilation, I suppose the same with Mandrake now. I don't hate Linux, I just hate the hassles. :P
Can't wait until she sees that nifty USB webcam on sale at Walmart and brings it home to install it.
Once Linux is configured, it's a dream. Getting there is the battle.
Interesting how lots people predict that Apple will be relegated to obsolescence and should shift their business model to software-only (OS X on x86 and the like) and yet people think that MS should be relegated to.. hardware?
IIS had about a good a chance as anyone. Sure, Apache was early to the market, but MS has billions to pour into pushing it. And, frankly, IIS *did* have sizeable marketshare, although nowhere near what it has on the desktop.
A prominent CEO was once asked what makes a great CEO:
"Good decisions, boy, Good decisions," he answered.
Asked how one learns to make good decisions, he answered:
"Bad decisions, boy, Bad decisions."
The key is learning from the mistakes of the past and not repeating them. And I don't know about you, but if I were to do a collosal fuck-up, I'd be more certain to be extra-careful and mindful the next time a similar situation arose.
There's just no pleasing some people.
:: sigh ::
"I want it free!"
"I want the source!"
"I want you to do all the work and give it to me!"
me me me me me me me. For a bunch of so-called "community supporters", they're surprisingly self-centered and self-important. Maybe the guy should go write his own software and do whatever the hell he wants to with it.
"I want Quake for Linux!"
"Okay, here it is."
"But.. it's $50! I want it for free!"
"Uhmm..."
ANd that's the exact reason why it's allowed, especially in a "free" market. Eventually, their "cash-grabbing" tactics will result in the loss of their customer base, costing them revenue hand-over-fist. See "linux migration". I *welcome* these actions as it finally causes complacent managers and bean counters to examine their business and decide, on a non-legislated level, that MS is a bad deal. The "anti-trust" case against MS didn't do *jack* to MS. Their own actions are burying them into the realm of obscurity. God bless the free market.
Because there are probably more VW's on the road in just about any country you can imagine. Tell someone something was the size of a VW Bug and an image instantly comes to mind (not to mention that being an highly "odd" shape, it helps me conjure an irregular surfaced object). For example "It was the size of a VW bug" as opposed to "It was an irregular object approximately 2 meters by 5 meters by 2 meters", which is more helpful to the average person, even someone in the science fields?
One of the things I rarely see on KazAa or eMule are linux .iso's. If anything, here's a perfect example of a potential legitimate usage for P2P.
Huh? What? 2D space shooter dead???
Let me introduce you to a few:
Ikaruga (dreamcast, import, coming soon to a gamecube near you). Done in glorious 3D, but on a 2D playing field.
Working Designs has brought over: RayStorm, RayCrisis, Thunderforce V, Silpheed
On the Sega Saturn, Radiant Silvergun still commands prices over $150 for an import never released here in the states.
Someone else has mentioned the 194x series, which is quite good as well. If you like side-scroller/platformer shooters, same poster mentioned Metal Slug, which is tons of fun.
Yes, the genre is not as numerous as it once was, but to say that it's DEAD is a misnomer. It's nowhere close to being dead.
So what? What if there is no Walmart around, nor any of the others? I lived in a small town with no electronics store, no video game store, no nothing. Had to drive 2 hours to get to a "City" so I could get the games I could only read about in a magazine. Those poor developers! How dare some selfish corporation/company/mom and pop not stock something that I so obviously need! Whatever, dude. And then again, what if those mom and pops don't like the game content and decide not to sell it? Oh, those bastards! Taking the food right out of my baby's mouth! Boo fucking hoo! WAAAAH! Personally, I"m glad Walmart takes a stand on some things as it proves to me that not everyone will do anything just to make money. If they won't carry the latest filthy-rap album because they don't agree with the politics or lyrics, then by golly hooray! Now if we could just get them to make a similar stance on shoes made by 12 year olds in Malaysia...
So what's the solution? We have the most highly effective/advanced military force in the world. Bar NONE. Hearing all the whiners scream and yell about how "unfair" it is, you'd think they'd be happiest to have American soldiers go into battle on foot, armed only with a blunt stick in a leather thong.
Yes, the war needs to be won quickly and decisively. No, we don't need to brag about it, but at the same time it's not anything to be ashamed of.
Also, if you replace "retarded 11 year old kid" with "neighborhood bully", then it might be more accurate. When I was growing up, we had a bully, too. One day he was in the midst of beating the crap out of my brother when the bully's older brother came out and beat the crap out of HIM. "How's it feel to get beat up? How's it feel to have someone bigger than YOU beat you up?" He didn't bully us for a good long while after that. (And ever notice that the people who scream and yell about the US being a big bully are the people that.. well.. we don't allow to bully their own people either? See Serbia, etc).
Awww fuck. Next thing you'll be telling us is that some geeks actually use WINDOWS, too.
And that makes me a sad panda.
Every case is different. Given my situation, I'd take the 17" LCD as I haul my current desktop, 19" CRT and all to my night job to do "other stuff" with. A 17" LCD would be a godsend for my freaking back. ;)
But along your lines, I think I'd rather get one of those nifty Sony G520P 21" CRT's than spend the extra bucks on a Dell 2000FP (which is sweet, but.. not *that* sweet).