Also the last great Mac-only game
on
Cyan Worlds Closes
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Myst was also the last amazing game to premiere on (and for a time only ran on) Macs first. I saw a demo of it at an old Macworld Expo and it blew me away. I knew it would be something special.
When I saw the first PC versions of it in the early 90's, my little geek heart sank.
You are guaranteed to be totally psyched no matter WHAT comes out.;) (I say this as an honest-to-God Mac gamer... WoW, Desert Combat Final, Zero Hour are current faves...)
The irony is that my Apple fanboyishness led me to this PDF printer driver in the quest for "My Mac does it, why can't my soggy Windows work laptop do it?"
Works pretty decently and the only "cost" is a popup ad.
Not as nice as OS X's integrated PDF output (nor is there as remotely elegant a PDF reader on Windows as Preview.app on OS X), but does the job quite well from any Windows app.
I also believe Office intends to save to a compressed XML format natively, based on whatever press releases they have put out recently.
Strangely relevant is that I'm currently (finally) reading The Cathedral & the Bazaar which, as many readers of this site are probably aware (no really, not trying to karma-whore here!), has a lot of things to say about the consequences of keeping your code and standards private.
I really don't get why Microsoft even bothered to keep their file format closed to begin with. There could have been a whole cottage industry set up by now to manipulate the data in those difficult-to-decipher closed binary file formats... the economy of which surely would have (ultimately) added to MS's bottom line, because they would have (in theory) produced the best tools.
All Dashboard processes are suspended when you hide it. You can confirm this with a simple "top" command in Terminal. So I'm not sure how they slow overall machine performance.
I'm generally an Apple fanboy, but I echo your sentiment on Spotlight, though. I also don't get how it's not instantaneous with everything pre-indexed. Lastly, if I just want to find something by filename, the Panther way of doing it (Finder search) was actually faster... but this alternate search facility was mysteriously made unavailable in Tiger.
Microsoft To Follow Leading-Edge App From Scrappy Upstart Company With Mediocre Knockoff That Nevertheless Successfully Leverages Stupid Monopoly And Network Effect, Thus Restoring Mediocre Status Quo
I think Jobs merely wants to exercise his new weapon of choice (sorry... just love that video) as much as possible. The longer he can keep PPC on life-support, the longer he has an extra negotiating chip.
First off, thanks for your thoughts on these very important facets of modern life!
There are two things that I became a fan of and in doing so did the usual geek thing and read all about it... coffee, and sex.;) Here is merely an interesting anecdote about coffee, however...
The half-life of caffeine (the amount of time it takes your body to rid itself of half of an ingested amount) can vary from 4 (8 month old fetus) to 100ish (late-term pregnant woman OR woman on the pill!) hours, averaging about 5-6 hours. (google "caffeine half-life" for more info) Obviously, the other half sticks around a lot longer, as it too goes by the half-life rule (and so on... and so on...). So you get a cumulative effect over time. This should be kept in mind.
Last night I actually did have trouble sleeping. Whether or not this has to do with my (very moderate) coffee intake, I have found that meditation helps me get to sleep more often than not. I have a CD from this guy which has helped in this regard. FYI to fellow caffeinated geeks.
1) mark their site with a robots.txt file which would prevent Google from indexing it and have Google take down the content they've already indexed, yet... 2) still leave some pages index-able as a teaser to the bulk of their content
I too complain about my boss (in one case he explained that the md5 output from one implementation was somehow different than the md5 output from another implementation and I had to explain that it wouldn't be MD5 if it differed!), but when all is said and done, perhaps I am supposed to be the techie guy in the trenches and he is supposed to keep upper management off my back, even if he is a bit out of touch with SAN and XSL and RoR and rsync and etc. etc. etc.
Cut your boss some slack. Stop whining about his lack of detailed and timely technical knowledge and try to see what he IS doing.
I guess what I'd like to know is, what part of "MAC Address Filtering" did you folks not understand? Sure, someone could spoof a MAC address with a nebulous wireless card either by trying billions and billions of combinations, or sniffing one that works, but that would knock a device off my LAN and I'm fairly sure I'd notice that in short order.
I thought about this problem on a recent trip to the urinal and here's what I got.
1) Get (or construct) a large database of nouns of well-known objects (car, orange, bottle, phone, pencil, brick, cup, etc. etc.)
2) Retrieve image references from a (safesearch-enabled) Google image search for a random noun from your database. Pick randomly from the result set.
3) Present images to the user. "These are pictures of a..."
4) My next strategy was to figure out a combinatorial way to increase the number of possible replies so that an attacker couldn't simply create a database of knowns (such as a hash database of images)
What do you smart fellers think? other than google being pissed for scraping their site
dude how old are you and did you actually read my post, especially the parts about "application-level encryption"? This means that your DATA IS SECURE, except not at the network layer, at the application layer. So anyone managing to even get on your network is only going to sniff garbage. Which I could care less about. You do realize that all the acronyms I mentioned are secure by default, yes?
I strongly believe in application-level security (SSL, SSH, SCP, SFTP, PGP) over network-level security (WPA, WEP, etc. etc.), mainly from a "i have a million less headaches than you do and almost as much security" standpoint (but also because I'm a network gamer and like as little latency as possible). I lock down my router by only allowing devices on by MAC address filtering, and stick to secure application-level protocols wherever possible (gmail via https, secure chat, secure file transfer, secure shell etc.)
I intend to buy a PSP and when that occurs I'll simply add its MAC address to the filter and voila.
If you Google this, you can read all about Peter Tripp who never quite recovered completely from his sleep-deprivation publicity stunt. Ended up divorcing his wife, losing his job, etc. etc...
Although sleep is still mostly a mystery, it is clear that it performs some sort of restorative effect. Does anyone know how this drug works and if it just blocks the symptoms of sleepiness?
I found that this guy gets me to sleep every time, when I am having trouble though it's usually because my mind is running and this type of meditation forces you to not think about everything by focusing on your breathing.
Does anyone know how to get a hold of a database such as this? As part of our IT auditing I'd like to be able to do a join of our md5-encoded user passwords (no salts or anything) with this to see whose password is insecure... yeah, that's it...
I never heard of Spiderbait until just now, because I suspect that at the age of 33 that I've unwittingly moved underneath a rock, but thanks to some... um... research, I find that they are pretty good!
Any other examples of small-aircraft-saving music that you guys enjoy?
I was implementing some coding algorithm that required using an unsigned int. Believe it or not there is no way to create or use an unsigned int in PHP (I even tried "faking it" by twiddling the most-significant bit of a signed int by ORing with a known value, but I just couldn't fool it)... but Ruby has that capability. So I successfully implemented the algorithm in Ruby, really started to like the features of the language a lot ("everything is an object" is actually pretty nice; data that comes from the outside is automatically flagged as "tainted"; blocks; some neat features borrowed from Perl and Smalltalk; mixins vs. multiple inheritance etc.) and next thing I knew I didn't want to write any more PHP.
The "tainting" concept in particular was pretty revealing. Ruby will not only "taint" any data that comes from the outside (web forms, etc.) but also any objects that touch that data. I was kicking myself trying to figure out why I kept getting security errors, I was about to delete/usr/bin/ruby when googling finally revealed the answer- Ruby was trying to protect me from unvalidated input! All I had to do was object.untaint and it would trust me. Oooooooh, I said, that is cool! (even though it bit me in the arse at first)
There are many aspects of the language like that. And there are also many aspects of RoR like that.
I know it's just M.H.O. tho, but if I were to be a betting man, I would put my money on Ruby (carried by Rails) as the next up-and-coming enabling scripting technology. I haven't built anything large-scale with it yet, but I have found it very enjoyable to build the things I have so far.
The lack of a huge installed base is just a temporary setback. If this is one's prime motivation, then everyone should just stick to Microsoft ASP and forget about any alternatives.
Many space-farers go through a syndrome similar to depression after the novelty and excitement of the first few weeks in space wears off. It is marked by fatigue, lack of motivation, irritability, and problems sleeping.
I've had this problem now and then at every "normal" job I've worked at so far.
There are rumors of a secret way to the top of the mountain behind Ironforge, or at least, some secret part of Ironforge. When you fly by on the gryphon, there appears to be a cross or something at the top, something that is not a tree.
Even though these rumors remind me of the 9th graders who tried to sell official-looking elevator passes to the 7th graders on the 2nd day of school (there was no elevator, of course), is there anything to these rumors?
More generally, is there secret content in the game that only a glitch or a DM could get you to?
Slashdot Mirror
Myst was also the last amazing game to premiere on (and for a time only ran on) Macs first. I saw a demo of it at an old Macworld Expo and it blew me away. I knew it would be something special.
When I saw the first PC versions of it in the early 90's, my little geek heart sank.
Ditch the PC and get a Mac with OS X.
;) (I say this as an honest-to-God Mac gamer... WoW, Desert Combat Final, Zero Hour are current faves...)
You are guaranteed to be totally psyched no matter WHAT comes out.
it is not economically feasible for a couple guys in their garage to make a massively popular game
Well it might still be popular to make a moderately popular one. Here's a pretty good review.
A team of graphic artists creating textures and 3D models does not necessarily a good game make.
How foolish of me... I linked to a dead-tree copy of the book instead of the online free version. My bad!
The irony is that my Apple fanboyishness led me to this PDF printer driver in the quest for "My Mac does it, why can't my soggy Windows work laptop do it?"
Works pretty decently and the only "cost" is a popup ad.
Not as nice as OS X's integrated PDF output (nor is there as remotely elegant a PDF reader on Windows as Preview.app on OS X), but does the job quite well from any Windows app.
I also believe Office intends to save to a compressed XML format natively, based on whatever press releases they have put out recently.
Strangely relevant is that I'm currently (finally) reading The Cathedral & the Bazaar which, as many readers of this site are probably aware (no really, not trying to karma-whore here!), has a lot of things to say about the consequences of keeping your code and standards private.
I really don't get why Microsoft even bothered to keep their file format closed to begin with. There could have been a whole cottage industry set up by now to manipulate the data in those difficult-to-decipher closed binary file formats... the economy of which surely would have (ultimately) added to MS's bottom line, because they would have (in theory) produced the best tools.
All Dashboard processes are suspended when you hide it. You can confirm this with a simple "top" command in Terminal. So I'm not sure how they slow overall machine performance.
I'm generally an Apple fanboy, but I echo your sentiment on Spotlight, though. I also don't get how it's not instantaneous with everything pre-indexed. Lastly, if I just want to find something by filename, the Panther way of doing it (Finder search) was actually faster... but this alternate search facility was mysteriously made unavailable in Tiger.
Microsoft To Follow Leading-Edge App From Scrappy Upstart Company With Mediocre Knockoff That Nevertheless Successfully Leverages Stupid Monopoly And Network Effect, Thus Restoring Mediocre Status Quo
least... innovative... company... evar
I think Jobs merely wants to exercise his new weapon of choice (sorry... just love that video) as much as possible. The longer he can keep PPC on life-support, the longer he has an extra negotiating chip.
First off, thanks for your thoughts on these very important facets of modern life!
;) Here is merely an interesting anecdote about coffee, however...
There are two things that I became a fan of and in doing so did the usual geek thing and read all about it... coffee, and sex.
The half-life of caffeine (the amount of time it takes your body to rid itself of half of an ingested amount) can vary from 4 (8 month old fetus) to 100ish (late-term pregnant woman OR woman on the pill!) hours, averaging about 5-6 hours. (google "caffeine half-life" for more info) Obviously, the other half sticks around a lot longer, as it too goes by the half-life rule (and so on... and so on...). So you get a cumulative effect over time. This should be kept in mind.
Last night I actually did have trouble sleeping. Whether or not this has to do with my (very moderate) coffee intake, I have found that meditation helps me get to sleep more often than not. I have a CD from this guy which has helped in this regard. FYI to fellow caffeinated geeks.
1) mark their site with a robots.txt file which would prevent Google from indexing it and have Google take down the content they've already indexed, yet...
2) still leave some pages index-able as a teaser to the bulk of their content
idiots...
I too complain about my boss (in one case he explained that the md5 output from one implementation was somehow different than the md5 output from another implementation and I had to explain that it wouldn't be MD5 if it differed!), but when all is said and done, perhaps I am supposed to be the techie guy in the trenches and he is supposed to keep upper management off my back, even if he is a bit out of touch with SAN and XSL and RoR and rsync and etc. etc. etc.
Cut your boss some slack. Stop whining about his lack of detailed and timely technical knowledge and try to see what he IS doing.
rolling... on the floor... laughing.
whatever happened to that, um, interesting topology, anyway?
I guess what I'd like to know is, what part of "MAC Address Filtering" did you folks not understand? Sure, someone could spoof a MAC address with a nebulous wireless card either by trying billions and billions of combinations, or sniffing one that works, but that would knock a device off my LAN and I'm fairly sure I'd notice that in short order.
I thought about this problem on a recent trip to the urinal and here's what I got.
1) Get (or construct) a large database of nouns of well-known objects (car, orange, bottle, phone, pencil, brick, cup, etc. etc.)
2) Retrieve image references from a (safesearch-enabled) Google image search for a random noun from your database. Pick randomly from the result set.
3) Present images to the user. "These are pictures of a..."
4) My next strategy was to figure out a combinatorial way to increase the number of possible replies so that an attacker couldn't simply create a database of knowns (such as a hash database of images)
What do you smart fellers think? other than google being pissed for scraping their site
dude how old are you and did you actually read my post, especially the parts about "application-level encryption"? This means that your DATA IS SECURE, except not at the network layer, at the application layer. So anyone managing to even get on your network is only going to sniff garbage. Which I could care less about. You do realize that all the acronyms I mentioned are secure by default, yes?
I strongly believe in application-level security (SSL, SSH, SCP, SFTP, PGP) over network-level security (WPA, WEP, etc. etc.), mainly from a "i have a million less headaches than you do and almost as much security" standpoint (but also because I'm a network gamer and like as little latency as possible). I lock down my router by only allowing devices on by MAC address filtering, and stick to secure application-level protocols wherever possible (gmail via https, secure chat, secure file transfer, secure shell etc.)
I intend to buy a PSP and when that occurs I'll simply add its MAC address to the filter and voila.
If you Google this, you can read all about Peter Tripp who never quite recovered completely from his sleep-deprivation publicity stunt. Ended up divorcing his wife, losing his job, etc. etc...
Although sleep is still mostly a mystery, it is clear that it performs some sort of restorative effect. Does anyone know how this drug works and if it just blocks the symptoms of sleepiness?
Get your 8 hours a night!
I found that this guy gets me to sleep every time, when I am having trouble though it's usually because my mind is running and this type of meditation forces you to not think about everything by focusing on your breathing.
You're absolutely right. Or at least, that's a better alternative.
Unfortunately, I did not design the system. I would not have designed it that way. I probably would have used SHA-1 too.
Which is why I'm considering quitting so I actually get to design stuff properly...
Does anyone know how to get a hold of a database such as this? As part of our IT auditing I'd like to be able to do a join of our md5-encoded user passwords (no salts or anything) with this to see whose password is insecure... yeah, that's it...
I never heard of Spiderbait until just now, because I suspect that at the age of 33 that I've unwittingly moved underneath a rock, but thanks to some... um... research, I find that they are pretty good!
Any other examples of small-aircraft-saving music that you guys enjoy?
I was implementing some coding algorithm that required using an unsigned int. Believe it or not there is no way to create or use an unsigned int in PHP (I even tried "faking it" by twiddling the most-significant bit of a signed int by ORing with a known value, but I just couldn't fool it)... but Ruby has that capability. So I successfully implemented the algorithm in Ruby, really started to like the features of the language a lot ("everything is an object" is actually pretty nice; data that comes from the outside is automatically flagged as "tainted"; blocks; some neat features borrowed from Perl and Smalltalk; mixins vs. multiple inheritance etc.) and next thing I knew I didn't want to write any more PHP.
/usr/bin/ruby when googling finally revealed the answer- Ruby was trying to protect me from unvalidated input! All I had to do was object.untaint and it would trust me. Oooooooh, I said, that is cool! (even though it bit me in the arse at first)
The "tainting" concept in particular was pretty revealing. Ruby will not only "taint" any data that comes from the outside (web forms, etc.) but also any objects that touch that data. I was kicking myself trying to figure out why I kept getting security errors, I was about to delete
There are many aspects of the language like that. And there are also many aspects of RoR like that.
I know it's just M.H.O. tho, but if I were to be a betting man, I would put my money on Ruby (carried by Rails) as the next up-and-coming enabling scripting technology. I haven't built anything large-scale with it yet, but I have found it very enjoyable to build the things I have so far.
The lack of a huge installed base is just a temporary setback. If this is one's prime motivation, then everyone should just stick to Microsoft ASP and forget about any alternatives.
the No-Corporate-Assholes-Allowed games.
(What do you mean, NCAA is already taken?? What the hell does that stand for? You sure you don't mean NCSA??)
Many space-farers go through a syndrome similar to depression after the novelty and excitement of the first few weeks in space wears off. It is marked by fatigue, lack of motivation, irritability, and problems sleeping.
I've had this problem now and then at every "normal" job I've worked at so far.
There are rumors of a secret way to the top of the mountain behind Ironforge, or at least, some secret part of Ironforge. When you fly by on the gryphon, there appears to be a cross or something at the top, something that is not a tree.
Even though these rumors remind me of the 9th graders who tried to sell official-looking elevator passes to the 7th graders on the 2nd day of school (there was no elevator, of course), is there anything to these rumors?
More generally, is there secret content in the game that only a glitch or a DM could get you to?