Does anyone else notice the startling similarity between this beast and an Alien face-hugger? I sure as hell ain't goin' deep sea divin any time soon. Just as long as none of those researching fools try to bring one back to "study" it...
I've read quite a bit about the nintendo/square controversy. I said there were rumors, and there were. There was a (semi) recent press release here that the Square prez put out. Basically confirming your remark about what squaresoft did after they left Nintendo. However, if you had read my post, you might notice I was referring to rumors why Square left Nintendo. Here's one:
"Squaresoft staffers complained that their unique culture and traditions were being largely ignored by the predominantly anglo Nintendo employees. In 1994, Squaresoft elected a fiery separatist Premier. The Premier promised that within a year, a referendum would be held, giving Square employees the chance to decide if they wanted to separate from Nintendo. The Prime Minister of Nintendo pleaded for Square to stay, and promised his administration would be willing to grant Square "distinct society" or "sovereign-association" status in return. The PM's pleas fell on deaf ears, however. In 1996 the referendum was unanimously passed, and Square finally separated from the Confederation of Nintendo, and became its own company."
Others suggest Square didn't want to be constrained by a cartridge. I've also heard it said that Square left Nintendo because they felt Nintendo was preventing them from making games as they wanted to - because of Nintendos strict rules about game content, implemented to preserve Nintendos Kiddie Friendly Image. Nintendo and Squaresoft aren't really speaking up on the issue, so its just another rumor. Nintendos does strictly monitor content, though they are definately relaxing their strictures nowadays. Have you heard the suggestion that Square was eager to develop for both systems, but Nintendo didnt want to release them from their "exclusive" contract and let them develop for a competitor? And how Square rushed production of the middle Final Fantasy games because they wanted to finish their contract with Nintendo as soon as possible?
So I've provided reference for the information you used to somehow "prove" that I know nothing about Nintendo/Square, which had NOTHING to do with my post anyway.
I think Final Fantasy actually has quite a bit of power. How many people bought a PSX and FF7? I've spoken to several people who did. I did. A friend of mine is buying a PS2 and FFX as soon as it comes out. He's admitted it outright, Squaresoft ownz him. I will do the same, but personally I'm going to wait until the PS2 drops in price. I have Pikmin and Super Monkey Ball to distract me until then!
Thats too true. Rumor has it Nintendo lost the Square franchise over, essentially, their adamant game guidelines put in place to maintain their image as a youngster friendly system.
I agree, however I must point out that the PS2 is still selling for 300USD, while the gamecube is on shelves now for 200 bucks. And you gotta add at least 50 to any console price for a game!
I think its a great Idea. Unfortunately, should the hosting community get wind of it, packages will come in flavors of "personal", "business", "business gold", "corporate" and "slashdot-proof". In order of least to most expensive, of course.
And since every tech support guy I've known or been is too busy/impatient/both to take an hour with every user to teach them, all they do is put them back on the sticky notes. A few weeks later...back to the same user with the same problem, and still no clue.
This is very true. When Adams was asked what he was writing on he basically said that he was writing a book and it could turn into any number of things (A hitch hikers book, a dirk gently book, a different bok or a tuna sandwich) and could everyone please stop asking him about it.
I feel like Adams hadn't published this for a reason, and I don't think they can really call it a douglas adams book. Maybe a sort of "some notes that DNA had on his computer" or something.
I'm totally guessing here, but I think the only danger paintballers pose to national parks are the ones who do it without the permits. I dunno how often this happens though.
just so you (and, well, everyone else) know(s) this link is dead. I believe that MI is still available for purchase from lucasarts directly, so most abandonware sites wont touch it. But lucasarts is not unkind - if you buy Curse of Monkey Island (the third MI) you also receive the first two (Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2). All this for 15 bucks! Call now, operators are standing by!
I am happy to hear you say this, because I absolutely loved loom, and it is often overlooked or forgotten even when other lucasArts games come up. Loom was awesome because of the story and the detail. Lucasarts whipped up an entire world with a remarkable amount of detail, especially for a relatively short game.
XP marks my release from windows bondage to linux freedom. I've never had much motivation to make all my previous linux distros work since I could just pop over to windows (and no games!). Couple that with the fact that I'm usually using old junky hardware, and I've never gotten much farther than the base installation. Sure, I could keep running 2k and 98se on all my home machines, for quite a while. But when the XP bomb mmmm...DrOpZ? I want to have as much linux knowledge as possible, because I will be moving everyone I provide tech support to (small circle of friends) to linux. Which brings me around to my subject line. I have a friend who is an architect, and he is gung-ho about moving to linux with me. What linux based (not necessarily free) CAD programs exist, and how good are they?
As long as they aren't using hardware thats too new, they should be fine. I've been running a computer in a styrofoam box for a few years now, and it hasn't toasted yet. It's only a 200mhz Pentium, but this guy is running 486's. They are going to be fine. Temperature in Nangi? sub freezing at night, but better during the day. I think I'd be more worried about the Monsoon winds that bring "78 inches of rain every year."
As for the legitimacy of the software, even if M$ cared about software piracy in the sub 'thousands and thousands of dollars' range (which, finacially speaking, they don't) I doubt they would be eager to be the corporate baddies who sued a small nepalese village. More likely you would see M$ step in and donate at least a couple office suites - maybe even a few computers. Of course, the publicity on this guy would have to be astronomical to blip bright enough on the M$ radar to warrant any attention.
Very interesting. I volunteered to transcribe some of this interview, and was assigned my segment. I did the whole shebang, stuttering, laughs, ers and ahs. It certainly won't bring Woz to life on your screen, but I thought it would be neat, and I kinda enjoyed it. But Timothy told me he was going to edit out the stuttering for readability. I don't mind having my 'extra detail' edited out, but I'm reassured to know that some people are thinking along the same line (well...kinda.) as I am.
Do you keep in touch with any of the actors or actresses from ST:tNG (or any trek, for that matter)? Is it because you're 'pals' with them, or is it more like a secret order of ex star trek performers? Like the stone masons or the illuminati. And, if so, do you have a spiffy song that you sing to celebrate your secret society-ness?
I am suprised that I haven't seen anything about Joseph Campbell in this discussion (props to those who deserve, comment #2409457 linked to a good article "Star Wars: A Religious Perspective") One of the items listed in the bibliography is the Joseph Campbell video "The Power Of Myth" which I watched on PBS a "long long time ago...". It was VERY good, and also good related reading would be Campbells book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
The point being that not only did Campbell influence Star Wars, Lucas discussed the relation of mythology to the Star Wars story with Campbell. Campbell being a mythologist, and mythology being religion (Don't want to get involved regarding present day religion, but nearly all of what we call Mythology today was Religion yesterday) the Star Wars saga has all the makings of a religious story. Lucas intended the saga to be mythological, its one of the wonderful things about the first three movies. I should stop now. Go read about Joseph Campbell, it will be much better than my dissemination of the information.
I just found this link, which is about Star Wars origins (also does some matrix comparison) and it looks interesting.
P.S. I've heard it said that the reason Episode I sucked so much was because Lucas listened to his kids advice on making the movie.
Seriously though, it seems perfectly reasonable that a person who has a belief in a God (not necessarily any particular God) could be non religious, in that they practice no specific religion. It doesn't help that 'religion' has five definitions.
Since I started this thread (so, about thirty minutes) I've been surfing around reading about capsella and zoids. This page will tell you all about ZOIDS!, as will This One. And, because you care, these are all the zoids I ever owned (sadly..):
It's capsella, not capsula, though I guess they could both be right..
I sure loved my capsella sets. The only place I could find them in town was the local independant-slightly-more-expensive-yet-educationa lly-oriented toy store, where they sold all sorts of educational gidgets and gadgets. Erector sets were among the construction toys they had, but no legos. Without putting legos down, I always felt that my capsella and construx sets allowed me more creative flexibility. Especially if I wanted to make things that "did things". A search for construx on google produced some neat pages, as did capsella. I may go to ebay right now and buy all those wonderful toys from my past! (Until I see them selling for 300 bucks, that is.)
I have to say though, I loved ZOIDS best. They weren't multifunction like construction sets, but they were unbelievably cool. I had some of the very small originals, but I remember being amazed at the huge (and expensive!) zoids at the toy store.
cronically overloaded eh? Well, can't we just eliminate some crontab files? Usually when I have cronic problems, it's because users have improperly setup their cron tasks or set up too many of them. So we just get Al Gore (He invented the net, so he must have admin priveleges, right?) to go out and tidy up some of those crontab files, and we'll have this internet running at tip top speed in no time!
You might consider telling us poor uninformed techies where you do go for tech news. Slashdot is my mainstay for tech news, and all my backup sites are linked on slashdot. I could care less about criticism - you've stated your opinion its yours and thats fine. But if I agree with you (or even if I don't) I may be interested in visiting your preferred tech news sites. That way you can make your statement, contribute, pull eyes away from slashdot and help your favored sites all at the same time.
I don't like the way this looks. I could be wrong (I can't read much legalese) and they might be patenting some device or hardware, but I am always irritated when I see people or companies trying to make money off of one "pay us cuz we thought of this" idea. Why isn't every production company in the world paying Ford for the assembly line, then?
"Intellectual Property", as its called, and its laws need to be revamped major league. It is at the core of many of 'our' (you know, 'us' - the opposite of 'them') problems. But what organizations or methods exist to allow us to speak out for change? To my knowledge, none - shouldn't this be as big an issue as open source? We geeks need to mobilize - we need a technology lobbyist group, or something, an organization that can influence law but not be devoted to a single issue. I would be a paying member of such a group - lots of people I know would.
Let me add that in true geek fashion (or the geeks I know) I have no interest in founding such a project - projects mean lots of work, staying at the office late, mondo responsibility and jack squat if the project falls through. But geeks (like all people) come in all flavors, so surely one of us must have this kind of drive...
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Does anyone else notice the startling similarity between this beast and an Alien face-hugger? I sure as hell ain't goin' deep sea divin any time soon. Just as long as none of those researching fools try to bring one back to "study" it...
I've read quite a bit about the nintendo/square controversy. I said there were rumors, and there were. There was a (semi) recent press release here that the Square prez put out. Basically confirming your remark about what squaresoft did after they left Nintendo. However, if you had read my post, you might notice I was referring to rumors why Square left Nintendo. Here's one:
"Squaresoft staffers complained that their unique culture and traditions were being largely ignored by the predominantly anglo Nintendo employees. In 1994, Squaresoft elected a fiery separatist Premier. The Premier promised that within a year, a referendum would be held, giving Square employees the chance to decide if they wanted to separate from Nintendo. The Prime Minister of Nintendo pleaded for Square to stay, and promised his administration would be willing to grant Square "distinct society" or "sovereign-association" status in return. The PM's pleas fell on deaf ears, however. In 1996 the referendum was unanimously passed, and Square finally separated from the Confederation of Nintendo, and became its own company."
from this site.
Others suggest Square didn't want to be constrained by a cartridge. I've also heard it said that Square left Nintendo because they felt Nintendo was preventing them from making games as they wanted to - because of Nintendos strict rules about game content, implemented to preserve Nintendos Kiddie Friendly Image. Nintendo and Squaresoft aren't really speaking up on the issue, so its just another rumor. Nintendos does strictly monitor content, though they are definately relaxing their strictures nowadays. Have you heard the suggestion that Square was eager to develop for both systems, but Nintendo didnt want to release them from their "exclusive" contract and let them develop for a competitor? And how Square rushed production of the middle Final Fantasy games because they wanted to finish their contract with Nintendo as soon as possible?
So I've provided reference for the information you used to somehow "prove" that I know nothing about Nintendo/Square, which had NOTHING to do with my post anyway.
I think Final Fantasy actually has quite a bit of power. How many people bought a PSX and FF7? I've spoken to several people who did. I did. A friend of mine is buying a PS2 and FFX as soon as it comes out. He's admitted it outright, Squaresoft ownz him. I will do the same, but personally I'm going to wait until the PS2 drops in price. I have Pikmin and Super Monkey Ball to distract me until then!
Thats too true. Rumor has it Nintendo lost the Square franchise over, essentially, their adamant game guidelines put in place to maintain their image as a youngster friendly system.
I agree, however I must point out that the PS2 is still selling for 300USD, while the gamecube is on shelves now for 200 bucks. And you gotta add at least 50 to any console price for a game!
I think its a great Idea. Unfortunately, should the hosting community get wind of it, packages will come in flavors of "personal", "business", "business gold", "corporate" and "slashdot-proof". In order of least to most expensive, of course.
And since every tech support guy I've known or been is too busy/impatient/both to take an hour with every user to teach them, all they do is put them back on the sticky notes. A few weeks later...back to the same user with the same problem, and still no clue.
This is very true. When Adams was asked what he was writing on he basically said that he was writing a book and it could turn into any number of things (A hitch hikers book, a dirk gently book, a different bok or a tuna sandwich) and could everyone please stop asking him about it.
I feel like Adams hadn't published this for a reason, and I don't think they can really call it a douglas adams book. Maybe a sort of "some notes that DNA had on his computer" or something.
this link be dead. Dunno if they cut it off when slashdot saw it or what. But its now a denied referral.
I'm totally guessing here, but I think the only danger paintballers pose to national parks are the ones who do it without the permits. I dunno how often this happens though.
just so you (and, well, everyone else) know(s) this link is dead. I believe that MI is still available for purchase from lucasarts directly, so most abandonware sites wont touch it. But lucasarts is not unkind - if you buy Curse of Monkey Island (the third MI) you also receive the first two (Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2). All this for 15 bucks! Call now, operators are standing by!
I am happy to hear you say this, because I absolutely loved loom, and it is often overlooked or forgotten even when other lucasArts games come up. Loom was awesome because of the story and the detail. Lucasarts whipped up an entire world with a remarkable amount of detail, especially for a relatively short game.
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Mod this thread down as I waaalk a-way. As I walk away!
XP marks my release from windows bondage to linux freedom. I've never had much motivation to make all my previous linux distros work since I could just pop over to windows (and no games!). Couple that with the fact that I'm usually using old junky hardware, and I've never gotten much farther than the base installation. Sure, I could keep running 2k and 98se on all my home machines, for quite a while. But when the XP bomb mmmm...DrOpZ? I want to have as much linux knowledge as possible, because I will be moving everyone I provide tech support to (small circle of friends) to linux. Which brings me around to my subject line. I have a friend who is an architect, and he is gung-ho about moving to linux with me. What linux based (not necessarily free) CAD programs exist, and how good are they?
As long as they aren't using hardware thats too new, they should be fine. I've been running a computer in a styrofoam box for a few years now, and it hasn't toasted yet. It's only a 200mhz Pentium, but this guy is running 486's. They are going to be fine. Temperature in Nangi? sub freezing at night, but better during the day. I think I'd be more worried about the Monsoon winds that bring "78 inches of rain every year."
As for the legitimacy of the software, even if M$ cared about software piracy in the sub 'thousands and thousands of dollars' range (which, finacially speaking, they don't) I doubt they would be eager to be the corporate baddies who sued a small nepalese village. More likely you would see M$ step in and donate at least a couple office suites - maybe even a few computers. Of course, the publicity on this guy would have to be astronomical to blip bright enough on the M$ radar to warrant any attention.
I got this link to work on the second try. Perhaps its suffering from sporadic slashdotting.
Very interesting. I volunteered to transcribe some of this interview, and was assigned my segment. I did the whole shebang, stuttering, laughs, ers and ahs. It certainly won't bring Woz to life on your screen, but I thought it would be neat, and I kinda enjoyed it. But Timothy told me he was going to edit out the stuttering for readability. I don't mind having my 'extra detail' edited out, but I'm reassured to know that some people are thinking along the same line (well...kinda.) as I am.
Do you keep in touch with any of the actors or actresses from ST:tNG (or any trek, for that matter)? Is it because you're 'pals' with them, or is it more like a secret order of ex star trek performers? Like the stone masons or the illuminati. And, if so, do you have a spiffy song that you sing to celebrate your secret society-ness?
Grow far longer arms? Great! The problem however is that you'll probably end up completely unable to drink your coffee.
I am suprised that I haven't seen anything about Joseph Campbell in this discussion (props to those who deserve, comment #2409457 linked to a good article "Star Wars: A Religious Perspective") One of the items listed in the bibliography is the Joseph Campbell video "The Power Of Myth" which I watched on PBS a "long long time ago...". It was VERY good, and also good related reading would be Campbells book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
The point being that not only did Campbell influence Star Wars, Lucas discussed the relation of mythology to the Star Wars story with Campbell. Campbell being a mythologist, and mythology being religion (Don't want to get involved regarding present day religion, but nearly all of what we call Mythology today was Religion yesterday) the Star Wars saga has all the makings of a religious story. Lucas intended the saga to be mythological, its one of the wonderful things about the first three movies. I should stop now. Go read about Joseph Campbell, it will be much better than my dissemination of the information.
I just found this link, which is about Star Wars origins (also does some matrix comparison) and it looks interesting.
P.S. I've heard it said that the reason Episode I sucked so much was because Lucas listened to his kids advice on making the movie.
Atheist: There is no God.
Agnostic: God cannot be proved nor disproved.
None: God who?
Seriously though, it seems perfectly reasonable that a person who has a belief in a God (not necessarily any particular God) could be non religious, in that they practice no specific religion. It doesn't help that 'religion' has five definitions.
Since I started this thread (so, about thirty minutes) I've been surfing around reading about capsella and zoids. This page will tell you all about ZOIDS!, as will This One.
And, because you care, these are all the zoids I ever owned (sadly..):
Garius!
Elephantus!
Glidolier!
Garantulas!
Aquadon!
It's capsella, not capsula, though I guess they could both be right..
a lly-oriented toy store, where they sold all sorts of educational gidgets and gadgets. Erector sets were among the construction toys they had, but no legos. Without putting legos down, I always felt that my capsella and construx sets allowed me more creative flexibility. Especially if I wanted to make things that "did things". A search for construx on google produced some neat pages, as did capsella. I may go to ebay right now and buy all those wonderful toys from my past! (Until I see them selling for 300 bucks, that is.)
I sure loved my capsella sets. The only place I could find them in town was the local independant-slightly-more-expensive-yet-education
I have to say though, I loved ZOIDS best. They weren't multifunction like construction sets, but they were unbelievably cool. I had some of the very small originals, but I remember being amazed at the huge (and expensive!) zoids at the toy store.
cronically overloaded eh? Well, can't we just eliminate some crontab files? Usually when I have cronic problems, it's because users have improperly setup their cron tasks or set up too many of them. So we just get Al Gore (He invented the net, so he must have admin priveleges, right?) to go out and tidy up some of those crontab files, and we'll have this internet running at tip top speed in no time!
You might consider telling us poor uninformed techies where you do go for tech news. Slashdot is my mainstay for tech news, and all my backup sites are linked on slashdot. I could care less about criticism - you've stated your opinion its yours and thats fine. But if I agree with you (or even if I don't) I may be interested in visiting your preferred tech news sites. That way you can make your statement, contribute, pull eyes away from slashdot and help your favored sites all at the same time.
I don't like the way this looks. I could be wrong (I can't read much legalese) and they might be patenting some device or hardware, but I am always irritated when I see people or companies trying to make money off of one "pay us cuz we thought of this" idea. Why isn't every production company in the world paying Ford for the assembly line, then?
"Intellectual Property", as its called, and its laws need to be revamped major league. It is at the core of many of 'our' (you know, 'us' - the opposite of 'them') problems. But what organizations or methods exist to allow us to speak out for change? To my knowledge, none - shouldn't this be as big an issue as open source? We geeks need to mobilize - we need a technology lobbyist group, or something, an organization that can influence law but not be devoted to a single issue. I would be a paying member of such a group - lots of people I know would.
Let me add that in true geek fashion (or the geeks I know) I have no interest in founding such a project - projects mean lots of work, staying at the office late, mondo responsibility and jack squat if the project falls through. But geeks (like all people) come in all flavors, so surely one of us must have this kind of drive...