That was before Slashdotters all became Steve Jobs zombies. And part of the racial memory for Apple fanatics is II-era bitterness over how much more capable yet less expensive the '64 was.
First, it's Project Gutenberg, not "the Gutenberg Project". If you're gonna lecture for karma then at least get the name right.
Second, it's not always Gutenberg texts. I've seen segments of texts from other copyright-free texts too (including some Russian books translated to English), and even copyrighted ones like Stephen King's Misery -- I guess when someone's already engaged in the utterly selfish and inconsiderate act of spamming, copyright violation is just icing on the cake. The Annie Wilkes treatment is just too good for some of these chaps.
Why does does it seem that so many online video game reviewers/reporters/etc. think video games were invented in the mid-nineties?
Probably because unresearched claims are hallmarks of gaming web sites as much as biased opinions and PageRank whoring? (I think these guys do more gaming with keywords than with actual game systems.)
Agreed. As a title, Randy Glover's "Jumpman" beats the heck out of Japan's typical Mega Super Ultra Adjective Noun Collision X. Although to be fair, "Jumpman" was the original name for Mario, too.
The exact etymology of Donkey Kong's title is debatable. My favourite honest-to-goodness botched transliteration is that great big-top racing sim, Continental Circus.
My gut reaction was, since EA had one of the first copy-protection
schemes to require specialised software to break it -- remember "Art's
Backup" in Di-Sector, fellow Commies? -- and since such software had to
be coded by reverse-engineering the protection, they pretty well
have to be aware of reverse engineering nowadays!
While we're picking nits, do you ever get tired of pasting that link to your web site to the bottom of every single comment? That's what sigs are for, you know?
Not quite! Google Video (along with Youtube and some others) uses
Flash Video, which is a different beastie from Shockwave Flash.
You can get hotlinks for downloading from
VideoDownloader.net. Once
downloaded, you can view them with
MPlayer. Happy viewing.
Check out gamebooks.org
and with luck, maybe you'll find the series you're thinking of. Demian
Katz is a man among men (or a geek among geeks), to be sure.
C'mon, I know he must be feeling embarassed that a group of amateur
devs actually called him on his
bogus
'proposal', but does he have to throw such a sizeable tantrum
about it?
Oh, but you
can! In my experience, it's very easy to follow this form, get one
or more URLs, and copy them to wget. No help for Yahoo yet, but I'm sure
it's coming eventually.
Think! Malware authors prey upon the stupid and the careless. Why
else would there be so many phishing e-mails to the effect of "Your
account with [some bank that doesn't even have a presence in your
area] has been compromised; to recover it, enter all your personal
details on this page here"?
If you don't believe there are users too stupid to live, much less to
use a computer intelligently and competently, try following
Raymond Chen's weblog
for a while. It's a wonder the man doesn't go on a shooting spree.
a. How does encouraging people to seek one of several alternatives to a certain behaviour count as groupthink?
b. What in the world is "Most alternatives to sendmail are basically less functional sendmail clones" supposed to mean? That's like saying most web browsers are basically Mosaic clones. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, depending how strictly you define "clone"; but really, what's it matter?
Having to 'compile' the configuration file is such a farce that I could nearly hear the Laurel and Hardy theme playing whenever I messed around with it. On top of that, the 'compiled' config files have that retarded boilerplate to the effect of "By using this file, you agree to our licence, bloobloobloobloobloo must stuff face with butter". Licence 'agreements' are irritating enough in the best of times; when combined with Sendmail hassles, they're downright unsanitary! So after the nth r00t-clean-patch cycle, I finally got a clue. Hail Postfix! All bow down and praise Postfix! We're not worthy, we're not worthy!
... then you should try to get your hands on a
KIM-1, the original
testbed for the 6502 CPU. A mid-1970s kit built around Chuck Peddle's
baby... now that's historic!
Flash itself is bog-slow, indeed. However, if you can rip out the
audio/video stream from a Flash video, you can play it with MPlayer. Read the
instructions carefully, though! You'll need a CVS snapshot of MPlayer,
and also libavcodec, libavformat and libavutil from FFmpeg. Yes it's a
lot of work, but well worth the effort, I dare say.
Slashdot Mirror
Silly joke, but legitimate link.
Oh, please. Your source is Breitbart? They have about as much credibility as the National Enquirer.
Your wish is my command, oh master: Blade Runner: The Final Cut trailer. Get it while it's hot!
That was before Slashdotters all became Steve Jobs zombies. And part of the racial memory for Apple fanatics is II-era bitterness over how much more capable yet less expensive the '64 was.
First, it's Project Gutenberg, not "the Gutenberg Project". If you're gonna lecture for karma then at least get the name right.
Second, it's not always Gutenberg texts. I've seen segments of texts from other copyright-free texts too (including some Russian books translated to English), and even copyrighted ones like Stephen King's Misery -- I guess when someone's already engaged in the utterly selfish and inconsiderate act of spamming, copyright violation is just icing on the cake. The Annie Wilkes treatment is just too good for some of these chaps.
"Flamebait"? What, would "... for OpenBSD" have been more accurate?
Probably because unresearched claims are hallmarks of gaming web sites as much as biased opinions and PageRank whoring? (I think these guys do more gaming with keywords than with actual game systems.)
Agreed. As a title, Randy Glover's "Jumpman" beats the heck out of Japan's typical Mega Super Ultra Adjective Noun Collision X. Although to be fair, "Jumpman" was the original name for Mario, too.
The exact etymology of Donkey Kong's title is debatable. My favourite honest-to-goodness botched transliteration is that great big-top racing sim, Continental Circus.
My gut reaction was, since EA had one of the first copy-protection schemes to require specialised software to break it -- remember "Art's Backup" in Di-Sector, fellow Commies? -- and since such software had to be coded by reverse-engineering the protection, they pretty well have to be aware of reverse engineering nowadays!
...
How about modding you down for throwing bits of jargon around and hoping one'll stick?
While we're picking nits, do you ever get tired of pasting that link to your web site to the bottom of every single comment? That's what sigs are for, you know?
Not quite! Google Video (along with Youtube and some others) uses Flash Video, which is a different beastie from Shockwave Flash. You can get hotlinks for downloading from VideoDownloader.net. Once downloaded, you can view them with MPlayer. Happy viewing.
Check out gamebooks.org and with luck, maybe you'll find the series you're thinking of. Demian Katz is a man among men (or a geek among geeks), to be sure.
Real men use shellscripts!
$ for i in $(cat binary.txt) ; do echo -en \\x$(echo "obase=16; ibase=2; $i" | bc -l) ; done
C'mon, I know he must be feeling embarassed that a group of amateur devs actually called him on his bogus 'proposal', but does he have to throw such a sizeable tantrum about it?
Oh, but you can! In my experience, it's very easy to follow this form, get one or more URLs, and copy them to wget. No help for Yahoo yet, but I'm sure it's coming eventually.
Think! Malware authors prey upon the stupid and the careless. Why else would there be so many phishing e-mails to the effect of "Your account with [some bank that doesn't even have a presence in your area] has been compromised; to recover it, enter all your personal details on this page here"?
If you don't believe there are users too stupid to live, much less to use a computer intelligently and competently, try following Raymond Chen's weblog for a while. It's a wonder the man doesn't go on a shooting spree.
a. How does encouraging people to seek one of several alternatives to a certain behaviour count as groupthink?
b. What in the world is "Most alternatives to sendmail are basically less functional sendmail clones" supposed to mean? That's like saying most web browsers are basically Mosaic clones. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, depending how strictly you define "clone"; but really, what's it matter?
Having to 'compile' the configuration file is such a farce that I could nearly hear the Laurel and Hardy theme playing whenever I messed around with it. On top of that, the 'compiled' config files have that retarded boilerplate to the effect of "By using this file, you agree to our licence, bloobloobloobloobloo must stuff face with butter". Licence 'agreements' are irritating enough in the best of times; when combined with Sendmail hassles, they're downright unsanitary! So after the nth r00t-clean-patch cycle, I finally got a clue. Hail Postfix! All bow down and praise Postfix! We're not worthy, we're not worthy!
Lockout chips, you say? Where there's a will, there's a way.
Yes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 's Dr Clayton Forrester was named after War of the Worlds 's.
... then you should try to get your hands on a KIM-1, the original testbed for the 6502 CPU. A mid-1970s kit built around Chuck Peddle's baby... now that's historic!
Flash itself is bog-slow, indeed. However, if you can rip out the audio/video stream from a Flash video, you can play it with MPlayer. Read the instructions carefully, though! You'll need a CVS snapshot of MPlayer, and also libavcodec, libavformat and libavutil from FFmpeg. Yes it's a lot of work, but well worth the effort, I dare say.