...but I downloaded and installed and uninstalled this thing last night. Still seems there are loads of CSS problems in it (couldn't get a navigation menu to work but using:hover pseudo-class). It'll be interesting to see what MS comes up with on this one. It'll be nice to actually have a capable version of IE to test pages against.
A common theme when it comes to burying nuclear waste is "Not in my backyard." Everybody agrees that it should be done, but nowhere near where they live. This happened with the AECL hearings back in the 1990s. The plan was to dig into the Canadian Shield (which is all Precambrian Shield), and bury the waste safely and backfill it. It did seem technically possible, but the public wasn't going to have any of it. Kind of a shame when you consider that hundreds of engineers and researchers spent a good chunk of their lives developing ways to do this. My Dad is still one of the few remaining engineers there, but I know lots of people who were laid off after the political pressure was against doing it.
I got it running under Classic Emulation on my mac mini. Had to kick it down to 256 color, which just seems to mess everything up. Got Basilisk II for OS X, but it isn't anywhere near finished. So I guess I'll have to get the Windows one running to play an old OS 7 game that won't run under OS X. Kinda weird when you think about it.
Just tried searching for it last night, all I could find on google was links to pictures of teen girls....and I'm not getting caught in that trap. Tried searching http://www.the-underdogs.net/ but no luck.
I remember playing a demo of the Teenies on my cousin's old Mac that his Dad was borrowing from the school he worked for over the summer. That game was fun, I wish I could get my hands on it again.
From what I've read, the Revolution has 2 USB 2.0 ports. I'm wondering if you could download the games onto that (probably encrypted in some form or another to prevent copying).
I did this stuff over the summer, but I went to work for somebody. After that job was done, I still did quite a bit of it on the side, but mainly because I did so much before that people knew me, and I had a good reputation for getting things fixed. Not a bad job for a teenager, and it's good money. But if you've got a shop to work in, you can at least work with some experienced people who can help you along the way (provided you're willing to learn).
If that company couldn't fill the other vacancies within an 2 year timeframe, that's really not your fault. I'd say your boss is being unreasonable here, especially for asking for another 3 months of being on call. If everything is well documented enough, you shouldn't need this. I personally would just walk away, you've gotten 6 other offers, go with them. This job would just be added grief.
I have started reading his webpage and about The Humane Interface, and I have to say that this guy really knew what computers were for. For getting work done, to use as a tool for your tasks at hand. I think a lot more programmers could learn from him.
I totally agree with this guy. I'm not seeing lots of really innovative games and systems (the closest we've got so far is the DS, and I haven't seen too many innovations there either). I think we have to realize that gameplay does win over power in a system or console. Look at Katamari Damacy, that game was amazing, and it only came in at $30 (CDN). I know this is mainly to the PC side of things, but it's the same with the console market as well. The real question is now, how do you let people know that better gameplay breeds better games?
Torvalds had a pet Cobra who he used to take for walks while wearing a white tails and tophat. He named the cobra Beverly, and he taught it how to fetch and dial phone. One day the cobra bit the maid, and with tears in his eyes, Brasky...I, uh mean, Torvalds had to shoot the maid.
I'm working at my University's helpdesk, and honestly, compared to the other jobs there, it ain't that bad. Sure it pays about $33,000 a year, and I'm kept busy but I have a few pluses going on there.
It's a small school that I finished from recently, and I worked there part time as a student, so I know how the whole place works.
I work an 8 hour day. That's it, no overtime, or require overtime. At the end of the day, I go home, and I don't worry about work. Not a lot of IT jobs that let you get away with that nowadays.
I guess the job is also different in that it's such a small campus, that I can make an appointment to go to someone's office and fix something, rather than do the entire thing on the phone (which I have done before while working for an ISP, and is generally more frustrating). I'd have to agree with someone else's post that says the IT manager has the toughest job. I don't think ours has had any freetime in a while (including during vacation).
I've been reading the comments posted before this one, and I have to agree with a few in that the tag line left behind my gamespot puts a negative slant on the game. At the same time, I've read the complaints that others have posted about how this is just an incremental update; and I don't disagree with that claim either. The way I look at it, however, is that at least when I go to drop $60 (that's Canadian $) on the game, I'm not going to be overly disappointed. I really loved the first game, and I'd be kinda P.O.'ed if the game was way different than the original.
It's the same when playing something like Half-Life 2; while I agree the game is big, and has a lot of hype behind it, it's still a continuation of the gameplay in the original game. The difference between Metroid Prime and Half Life, is that one had a longer development time than the other, so you're going to see more changes on the technical level.
I guess it doesn't matter what the reason is why you like or don't like the game, it's how much fun you have with it, and how much you're willing to invest in future releases. The people who like the series will most likely buy the game. Those that don't, obviously won't. I really can't see why people have to complain about something they're not going to play or bother with.
Back when I was in grade 6, my Mom ordered one of these of The Shopping Network for us for Christmas. Damn thing would just cause the Nintendo to do a reset each time. IIRC, the cartiridge came with a note saying that the Action 52 would have to reset 4 or 5 times before it would start working. The casing was also clear plastic, and you could see that some of the circuits were wasting away and corroding. We sent it back and got another one, but it didn't work either. What a crappy waste of money...I should download that ROM though, always wondered how bad it really was.
If you're seeing ghosting, that's just the way LCD monitors are. http://www.tomshardware.com/ Check out this site for benchmarks on new LCD monitors, they're pretty extensive. I have a Philips 170S, and there's some ghosting, but it's so minor, I don't even really notice it. But if the lag is as you describe it, check out your drivers on your system, could be something messed up.
Hmmm...I ususally find that spybot gets rid of anything you don't want. My only other guess would be to go Start -> Run -> msconfig, and go into StartUp, and uncheck anything you don't want. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like Windows is really fucked (moreso than usual).
Not that I want to advocate Windows (it works for me, but I'd like to totally switch to Linux sometime), but get Spybot if you have some horrid spyware on your system. 1.3 just came out and it's a great piece of software.
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That's not the point. Just by looking at the vi screen, it in no way tells you that at all. Mind you I have since learned this for every time I've accidentaly opened it up. The point is that vi itself is isn't very user-friendly.
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Mandrake 7.0 had vi, but that thing is a horrid joke no matter what anyone says (I'll be flamed for this). I found JOE a lot easier to use, and it was possible to discover what was going on in the program, as opposed to having to look up how to quit vi on the net somewhere. I actually started using JOE because it shares the same name as me;).
I definitely think this CSS should be used as a formatting technique for the Linux documentation project. Since you can also apply to CSS to XML documents, why not just do that instead. Use the CSS to make it look pretty, and create separate style sheets for a GUI browser, and a text based, or allow a user to use their own (I have never seen this though).
I guess the real advantage is that you can easily parse the XML and "port" the documentation to something else as well be it PostScript, PDF, or some other format that toggles your switch. In essence you're really solving 2 problems (if you consider for a moment there are 2 problems): 1) you make it look nicely formatted and pretty:). 2) the content is separated from the presentation, so if you want to switch formats later, it should be easy to parse it through with XML, and then set it up for some other document format programmatically.
I think that Apple would likely dominate with the Mac. We wouldn't have Windows/DOS, but we might have other idiosyncrasies from the Apple world that might have been left in the OS if there wasn't any competitive "instinct" to innovate the product any further than need be.
Instead of DirectX, the big question remains as to if Apple would incorporate OpenGL, or develop their own 3D API. With no X-BOX competing against the PS2 and GameCube, it'd be interesting to see if Sega would still be around (or Infinium La....nevermind, we're talking about plausible things here).
The most interesting thing would be to see how business networking would have evolved as well. Would we all be on AppleTalk for sharing files and printing, and what would you use for a server? There's no WinNT in this hypothetical reality, but would we have a UNIX variant, or something else entirely.
As said previously, a lot has come out of Microsoft's Research division for many different ares of computer science, and most importantly, usability.
Used some ideas out of my web technology course to generate all of the filenames for my comics that I like to read. Though it doesn't work if the artist has something that modifies the file name. It's getting on in years though. It'll be time to come up with something else. Besides, now that I'm finishing school, and providing I can find some work, it'll be worth to start putting some towards the artists themselves, without having to go through some jerks like the RIAA.
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...but I downloaded and installed and uninstalled this thing last night. Still seems there are loads of CSS problems in it (couldn't get a navigation menu to work but using :hover pseudo-class). It'll be interesting to see what MS comes up with on this one. It'll be nice to actually have a capable version of IE to test pages against.
I bought a Mac Mini last summer right before the Intel announcement (D'oh!). Anyways, I bought a DVI to Composite/S-Video convertor. Image quality is great coming off the DVI port, but I couldn't get it work with my PC's video cards (either a Geforce4 ti4200, or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro). You can find a link to it here on the Apple Store http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/c anadastore.woa/72208/wo/nZ1BJ9hIeFDv3cQ0TSnFsbbu4M Q/5.SLID?mco=7434E310&nplm=M9267G%2FA
A common theme when it comes to burying nuclear waste is "Not in my backyard." Everybody agrees that it should be done, but nowhere near where they live. This happened with the AECL hearings back in the 1990s. The plan was to dig into the Canadian Shield (which is all Precambrian Shield), and bury the waste safely and backfill it. It did seem technically possible, but the public wasn't going to have any of it. Kind of a shame when you consider that hundreds of engineers and researchers spent a good chunk of their lives developing ways to do this. My Dad is still one of the few remaining engineers there, but I know lots of people who were laid off after the political pressure was against doing it.
Real shame.
I got it running under Classic Emulation on my mac mini. Had to kick it down to 256 color, which just seems to mess everything up. Got Basilisk II for OS X, but it isn't anywhere near finished. So I guess I'll have to get the Windows one running to play an old OS 7 game that won't run under OS X. Kinda weird when you think about it.
Just tried searching for it last night, all I could find on google was links to pictures of teen girls....and I'm not getting caught in that trap. Tried searching http://www.the-underdogs.net/ but no luck.
I remember playing a demo of the Teenies on my cousin's old Mac that his Dad was borrowing from the school he worked for over the summer. That game was fun, I wish I could get my hands on it again.
From what I've read, the Revolution has 2 USB 2.0 ports. I'm wondering if you could download the games onto that (probably encrypted in some form or another to prevent copying).
I did this stuff over the summer, but I went to work for somebody. After that job was done, I still did quite a bit of it on the side, but mainly because I did so much before that people knew me, and I had a good reputation for getting things fixed. Not a bad job for a teenager, and it's good money. But if you've got a shop to work in, you can at least work with some experienced people who can help you along the way (provided you're willing to learn).
If that company couldn't fill the other vacancies within an 2 year timeframe, that's really not your fault. I'd say your boss is being unreasonable here, especially for asking for another 3 months of being on call. If everything is well documented enough, you shouldn't need this. I personally would just walk away, you've gotten 6 other offers, go with them. This job would just be added grief.
I have started reading his webpage and about The Humane Interface, and I have to say that this guy really knew what computers were for. For getting work done, to use as a tool for your tasks at hand. I think a lot more programmers could learn from him.
I totally agree with this guy. I'm not seeing lots of really innovative games and systems (the closest we've got so far is the DS, and I haven't seen too many innovations there either). I think we have to realize that gameplay does win over power in a system or console. Look at Katamari Damacy, that game was amazing, and it only came in at $30 (CDN). I know this is mainly to the PC side of things, but it's the same with the console market as well. The real question is now, how do you let people know that better gameplay breeds better games?
Torvalds had a pet Cobra who he used to take for walks while wearing a white tails and tophat. He named the cobra Beverly, and he taught it how to fetch and dial phone. One day the cobra bit the maid, and with tears in his eyes, Brasky...I, uh mean, Torvalds had to shoot the maid.
- It's a small school that I finished from recently, and I worked there part time as a student, so I know how the whole place works.
- I work an 8 hour day. That's it, no overtime, or require overtime. At the end of the day, I go home, and I don't worry about work. Not a lot of IT jobs that let you get away with that nowadays.
I guess the job is also different in that it's such a small campus, that I can make an appointment to go to someone's office and fix something, rather than do the entire thing on the phone (which I have done before while working for an ISP, and is generally more frustrating). I'd have to agree with someone else's post that says the IT manager has the toughest job. I don't think ours has had any freetime in a while (including during vacation).I've been reading the comments posted before this one, and I have to agree with a few in that the tag line left behind my gamespot puts a negative slant on the game. At the same time, I've read the complaints that others have posted about how this is just an incremental update; and I don't disagree with that claim either. The way I look at it, however, is that at least when I go to drop $60 (that's Canadian $) on the game, I'm not going to be overly disappointed. I really loved the first game, and I'd be kinda P.O.'ed if the game was way different than the original.
It's the same when playing something like Half-Life 2; while I agree the game is big, and has a lot of hype behind it, it's still a continuation of the gameplay in the original game. The difference between Metroid Prime and Half Life, is that one had a longer development time than the other, so you're going to see more changes on the technical level.
I guess it doesn't matter what the reason is why you like or don't like the game, it's how much fun you have with it, and how much you're willing to invest in future releases. The people who like the series will most likely buy the game. Those that don't, obviously won't. I really can't see why people have to complain about something they're not going to play or bother with.
I wonder how much I'll be scolded for saying this, but I love the concept art for Deep Thought, just seems to make sense.
Back when I was in grade 6, my Mom ordered one of these of The Shopping Network for us for Christmas. Damn thing would just cause the Nintendo to do a reset each time. IIRC, the cartiridge came with a note saying that the Action 52 would have to reset 4 or 5 times before it would start working. The casing was also clear plastic, and you could see that some of the circuits were wasting away and corroding. We sent it back and got another one, but it didn't work either. What a crappy waste of money...I should download that ROM though, always wondered how bad it really was.
I'm in Brandon, Manitoba. We used to have one here, but not anymore. They were right next door to Walmart. Go figure.
If you're seeing ghosting, that's just the way LCD monitors are. http://www.tomshardware.com/ Check out this site for benchmarks on new LCD monitors, they're pretty extensive. I have a Philips 170S, and there's some ghosting, but it's so minor, I don't even really notice it. But if the lag is as you describe it, check out your drivers on your system, could be something messed up.
Hmmm...I ususally find that spybot gets rid of anything you don't want. My only other guess would be to go Start -> Run -> msconfig, and go into StartUp, and uncheck anything you don't want. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like Windows is really fucked (moreso than usual).
Not that I want to advocate Windows (it works for me, but I'd like to totally switch to Linux sometime), but get Spybot if you have some horrid spyware on your system. 1.3 just came out and it's a great piece of software.
That's not the point. Just by looking at the vi screen, it in no way tells you that at all. Mind you I have since learned this for every time I've accidentaly opened it up. The point is that vi itself is isn't very user-friendly.
Mandrake 7.0 had vi, but that thing is a horrid joke no matter what anyone says (I'll be flamed for this). I found JOE a lot easier to use, and it was possible to discover what was going on in the program, as opposed to having to look up how to quit vi on the net somewhere. I actually started using JOE because it shares the same name as me ;).
I definitely think this CSS should be used as a formatting technique for the Linux documentation project. Since you can also apply to CSS to XML documents, why not just do that instead. Use the CSS to make it look pretty, and create separate style sheets for a GUI browser, and a text based, or allow a user to use their own (I have never seen this though).
:).
I guess the real advantage is that you can easily parse the XML and "port" the documentation to something else as well be it PostScript, PDF, or some other format that toggles your switch. In essence you're really solving 2 problems (if you consider for a moment there are 2 problems):
1) you make it look nicely formatted and pretty
2) the content is separated from the presentation, so if you want to switch formats later, it should be easy to parse it through with XML, and then set it up for some other document format programmatically.
Just my two cents at least.
I think that Apple would likely dominate with the Mac. We wouldn't have Windows/DOS, but we might have other idiosyncrasies from the Apple world that might have been left in the OS if there wasn't any competitive "instinct" to innovate the product any further than need be.
Instead of DirectX, the big question remains as to if Apple would incorporate OpenGL, or develop their own 3D API. With no X-BOX competing against the PS2 and GameCube, it'd be interesting to see if Sega would still be around (or Infinium La....nevermind, we're talking about plausible things here).
The most interesting thing would be to see how business networking would have evolved as well. Would we all be on AppleTalk for sharing files and printing, and what would you use for a server? There's no WinNT in this hypothetical reality, but would we have a UNIX variant, or something else entirely.
As said previously, a lot has come out of Microsoft's Research division for many different ares of computer science, and most importantly, usability.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
Used some ideas out of my web technology course to generate all of the filenames for my comics that I like to read. Though it doesn't work if the artist has something that modifies the file name. It's getting on in years though. It'll be time to come up with something else. Besides, now that I'm finishing school, and providing I can find some work, it'll be worth to start putting some towards the artists themselves, without having to go through some jerks like the RIAA.