They should create a lab full of Apple II's and get some Oregon Trail action going on.;)
Wouldn't it be great if that game could be networked? Then it'd be a race to see who reached the end first.
AOTC review from the Brunching Shuttlecocks
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The Empire Stumbles
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I can't imagine there are many here who don't check the Brunching Shuttlecocks on a regular basis, but here's the Self-Made Critic's review of AOTC.
"You see Mr Lucas, you suck as a writer. Really awful. And your directing...it's not very good either. So here's the deal. You write up an outline (no dialogue allowed) of Episode Three. You then hire a competent and hip writer, someone younger than, say, fifty. Said writer writes Episode Three, based on your notes. Then, you go and hire yourself a hot, fresh director--or Steven Spielberg, he'd do. You let them direct the movie while you sit back and collect lots of money. Everybody wins.
If you do that, we promise to go see it. And we will not burn you in effigy."
The world's ending! But there's still hope. Gee thanks, that's where we were at the start of the show, except we didn't know the world was ending. We knew that by Season 3. Ah well, perhaps the upcoming movie (and it is coming, see Cinescape) will resolve things.
This is probably the 100th time there's been mention of trouble with the free webmail systems like Yahoo and Hotmail that people have had.
Actually... I have had absolutely no trouble with Yahoo's webmail. I've had an account there for over a year now and have yet to receive a single--a single--piece of spam. I for one am impressed.
I love how the article is titled "The Pop-Up Ad Campaign from Hell"--and you get a pop-up when you first visit it. Also a nice Flash ad delay when you hit Back. Yep.
The transcript is available in the MP3 Insider column, and also as a downloadable MP3
I love the CNET registration you have to go through to get the MP3. My entry says that I'm a database admin for the Albanian government which has over 10,000 people.:)
Anyone remember the really really cool voice Soundwave had?:) If you'd like to experience it again, I've put up a collection of sound bites from the show.
Whilst it's likely the author had your best interests at heart there's some chance he didn't.
Some chance, but in my opinion very very little. Even virus writers and whatnot love P2P networks. Users are what allow these networks to exist, ergo, it doesn't make sense to attack them. I doubt someone would be willing to sacrifice access to music and warez just to see some trojan or virus succeed. And I don't think this is naive; after all, the networks haven't self-destructed thus far.
Seeing as how probably not everyone that reads Slashdot has had it spoiled yet, the powers that be could presumably yank down the story at least for the sake of those folks...
Foogtoot 48: THE INSTRUCTION IS OBTUSE Ataraxia 7: ? Foogtoot 48: (broken another imaginary monitor with my head) Foogtoot 48: Also, I am doing pretty well now. Ataraxia 7: ? Foogtoot 48: I keep running into technicalities is all, and they were not covered in class even though most of the special functions needed to make this project were covered only in class, is all. Foogtoot 48: However, when I say "not covered in class" I mean "not covered during lecture while I was listening" which leaves out a fair amount of lecture and also recitation. Foogtoot 48: CURSE YOU UNIX Foogtoot 48: Not to mention the month or so during which I didn't start my project, I mean what was that about? It's crazy, but we have no control over these things so why worry? Foogtoot 48: MAAAAAAAAAAAKE Foogtoot 48: MMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEE Ataraxia 7: I sense tension. Foogtoot 48: Yeah basically. Ataraxia 7: Not gonna make it? Foogtoot 48: Except I found out I have a SLIPDAY. Foogtoot 48: I probably won't make it, because of one last little technicality, but I'm very nearly finished already. Foogtoot 48: I can clear up that last bit tomorrow hopefully, and then turn it in using a SLIPDAY. Ataraxia 7: TEMPUS FUGIT Foogtoot 48: I'M TRYING Ataraxia 7: Finished yet? Foogtoot 48: No. Foogtoot 48: Closer though. Foogtoot 48: Hmm. Foogtoot 48: I'm just tremendously close now. Foogtoot 48: (breakthrough moments ago) Foogtoot 48: This is a sort of decent shell even. Ataraxia 7: Not one that meant completion, though. Foogtoot 48: Nope, and I may not be able to figure that one out on my own. Foogtoot 48: Taking a crack at it though. VIVE L'AMOUR Ataraxia 7: 28 minutes and counting. Foogtoot 48: I REGRET NOTHING Foogtoot 48: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE Ataraxia 7: 26 minutes. Ataraxia 7: 16, I mean. Foogtoot 48: I hope you did that deliberately because it was FUNNY. Ataraxia 7: Oopsie. Foogtoot 48: I am confused in FIVE WAYS. Foogtoot 48: No wait, one. Foogtoot 48: I'm tired and dizzy and I'm not even sure now whether there's a bug left, that's the problem now, not a bug but whether I even know whether there is one. Ataraxia 7: What about that thing you were going to buckle screaming under and e-mail the TA about? Foogtoot 48: SHH Foogtoot 48: It's time to write comments and I'm looking over my functions and I'm not even sure what they do. Ataraxia 7: 8 minutes. Ataraxia 7: Though my VCR says 7. Foogtoot 48: I can't afford to stay up much later. Foogtoot 48: Well, except in the sense that I can mostly. Foogtoot 48: Dude just shut my door. Foogtoot 48: I was all dizzy at him. Foogtoot 48: I wonder how loud my stereo is anyway. Foogtoot 48: (these are all comments) Foogtoot 48: There's like no way I'll comment all this and I don't even know whether it's working right, I threw in some little function called Fun() to fix everything and it might not even be running or it might be running a lot, I have no idea! Ataraxia 7: 6 minutes. Foogtoot 48: The final test: I put in a while (1) at the start of Fun() and see if my program locks up! Foogtoot 48: BRUTE LOOP Foogtoot 48: OH GOD I RAN IT AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW Foogtoot 48: DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT LOCKED UP Foogtoot 48: Never wrote a multi-process program before. Parallel computation is freaky! Foogtoot 48: YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH END IS UP Foogtoot 48: Okay well that takes care of that. Foogtoot 48: SLIPDAY, take me away!
Extensive chat features give such games a social aspect missing from offline activities,
I hear offline activities are supposed to have more of a social aspect... unless Becker is implying the obvious, in which case he gets points for tact. Kind of.
Slashdot Mirror
If this isn't waving a red flag in front of a bull, I don't know what is.
Way to give the RIAA's site lots of hits, folks. Ah well.
They should create a lab full of Apple II's and get some Oregon Trail action going on. ;)
Wouldn't it be great if that game could be networked? Then it'd be a race to see who reached the end first.
"You see Mr Lucas, you suck as a writer. Really awful. And your directing...it's not very good either. So here's the deal. You write up an outline (no dialogue allowed) of Episode Three. You then hire a competent and hip writer, someone younger than, say, fifty. Said writer writes Episode Three, based on your notes. Then, you go and hire yourself a hot, fresh director--or Steven Spielberg, he'd do. You let them direct the movie while you sit back and collect lots of money. Everybody wins.
If you do that, we promise to go see it. And we will not burn you in effigy."
The world's ending! But there's still hope. Gee thanks, that's where we were at the start of the show, except we didn't know the world was ending. We knew that by Season 3. Ah well, perhaps the upcoming movie (and it is coming, see Cinescape) will resolve things.
Cinescape has an outline of the upcoming so-called "X-Files 2," due sometime in 2004.
For those of you that want to attempt to cancel your AOL account like Jon Katz,
So if I call that number, I can be guaranteed a similar experience? Hoo-ah!
Oh no, they'll find out I'm a 75-year-old database administrator for an Albanian government of 10,000 people!
Wait, that was my info for download.com...
This is probably the 100th time there's been mention of trouble with the free webmail systems like Yahoo and Hotmail that people have had.
Actually... I have had absolutely no trouble with Yahoo's webmail. I've had an account there for over a year now and have yet to receive a single--a single--piece of spam. I for one am impressed.
Well I have a Tivo. Sometimes when I FF through the ads,
When you Final Fantasy through the ads? I do that too!
I love how the article is titled "The Pop-Up Ad Campaign from Hell"--and you get a pop-up when you first visit it. Also a nice Flash ad delay when you hit Back. Yep.
The transcript is available in the MP3 Insider column, and also as a downloadable MP3
:)
I love the CNET registration you have to go through to get the MP3. My entry says that I'm a database admin for the Albanian government which has over 10,000 people.
Just be gentle... it's off DSL :)
What audience are they targetting with language like that?
An audience who thinks that 700 MHz is "screamingly fast" I guess...
Whilst it's likely the author had your best interests at heart there's some chance he didn't.
Some chance, but in my opinion very very little. Even virus writers and whatnot love P2P networks. Users are what allow these networks to exist, ergo, it doesn't make sense to attack them. I doubt someone would be willing to sacrifice access to music and warez just to see some trojan or virus succeed. And I don't think this is naive; after all, the networks haven't self-destructed thus far.
From CNET:
KaZaA Media Desktop 1.6
Downloads: 59,733,320
Seeing as how probably not everyone that reads Slashdot has had it spoiled yet, the powers that be could presumably yank down the story at least for the sake of those folks...
Ah, thinly disguised market research...
What next, find a crack dealer to handle international trade?
;)
I dunno, chances are they would be good at raking in profits...
When I spent hours in labs browsing with Netscape 2.0...
When a webpage wasn't something you had to figure out how to escape...
When 'Back' meant back...
When there was just smooth uninterrupted navigation, and no pop-ups or banners...
When people could say pretty much say anything anywhere, no DMCA...
... remember that?
...that no sparks find their way down there.
Foogtoot 48: THE INSTRUCTION IS OBTUSE
Ataraxia 7: ?
Foogtoot 48: (broken another imaginary monitor with my head)
Foogtoot 48: Also, I am doing pretty well now.
Ataraxia 7: ?
Foogtoot 48: I keep running into technicalities is all, and they were not covered in class even though most of the special functions needed to make this project were covered only in class, is all.
Foogtoot 48: However, when I say "not covered in class" I mean "not covered during lecture while I was listening" which leaves out a fair amount of lecture and also recitation.
Foogtoot 48: CURSE YOU UNIX
Foogtoot 48: Not to mention the month or so during which I didn't start my project, I mean what was that about? It's crazy, but we have no control over these things so why worry?
Foogtoot 48: MAAAAAAAAAAAKE
Foogtoot 48: MMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEE
Ataraxia 7: I sense tension.
Foogtoot 48: Yeah basically.
Ataraxia 7: Not gonna make it?
Foogtoot 48: Except I found out I have a SLIPDAY.
Foogtoot 48: I probably won't make it, because of one last little technicality, but I'm very nearly finished already.
Foogtoot 48: I can clear up that last bit tomorrow hopefully, and then turn it in using a SLIPDAY.
Ataraxia 7: TEMPUS FUGIT
Foogtoot 48: I'M TRYING
Ataraxia 7: Finished yet?
Foogtoot 48: No.
Foogtoot 48: Closer though.
Foogtoot 48: Hmm.
Foogtoot 48: I'm just tremendously close now.
Foogtoot 48: (breakthrough moments ago)
Foogtoot 48: This is a sort of decent shell even.
Ataraxia 7: Not one that meant completion, though.
Foogtoot 48: Nope, and I may not be able to figure that one out on my own.
Foogtoot 48: Taking a crack at it though. VIVE L'AMOUR
Ataraxia 7: 28 minutes and counting.
Foogtoot 48: I REGRET NOTHING
Foogtoot 48: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
Ataraxia 7: 26 minutes.
Ataraxia 7: 16, I mean.
Foogtoot 48: I hope you did that deliberately because it was FUNNY.
Ataraxia 7: Oopsie.
Foogtoot 48: I am confused in FIVE WAYS.
Foogtoot 48: No wait, one.
Foogtoot 48: I'm tired and dizzy and I'm not even sure now whether there's a bug left, that's the problem now, not a bug but whether I even know whether there is one.
Ataraxia 7: What about that thing you were going to buckle screaming under and e-mail the TA about?
Foogtoot 48: SHH
Foogtoot 48: It's time to write comments and I'm looking over my functions and I'm not even sure what they do.
Ataraxia 7: 8 minutes.
Ataraxia 7: Though my VCR says 7.
Foogtoot 48: I can't afford to stay up much later.
Foogtoot 48: Well, except in the sense that I can mostly.
Foogtoot 48: Dude just shut my door.
Foogtoot 48: I was all dizzy at him.
Foogtoot 48: I wonder how loud my stereo is anyway.
Foogtoot 48: (these are all comments)
Foogtoot 48: There's like no way I'll comment all this and I don't even know whether it's working right, I threw in some little function called Fun() to fix everything and it might not even be running or it might be running a lot, I have no idea!
Ataraxia 7: 6 minutes.
Foogtoot 48: The final test: I put in a while (1) at the start of Fun() and see if my program locks up!
Foogtoot 48: BRUTE LOOP
Foogtoot 48: OH GOD I RAN IT AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW
Foogtoot 48: DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT LOCKED UP
Foogtoot 48: Never wrote a multi-process program before. Parallel computation is freaky!
Foogtoot 48: YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH END IS UP
Foogtoot 48: Okay well that takes care of that.
Foogtoot 48: SLIPDAY, take me away!
Extensive chat features give such games a social aspect missing from offline activities,
I hear offline activities are supposed to have more of a social aspect... unless Becker is implying the obvious, in which case he gets points for tact. Kind of.
Do they have one that will cancel out the sounds of sex from the dorm room next to mine? Something anti-thump, anti-"Ooohh!!" perhaps?
Man, this has to be the highest-scoring set of comments I've ever seen on Slashdot.