As someone who's gone job hunting on kforce, I can assure you that nothing is remotely clever about it. Javascript and disorganized tables as far as the eye can see... ugh.
Amidst the same old 'OSS duplicates and never innovates' whining, there is this:
Face it, apart from the kernels, much *nix stuff is based around a 1/4 century old 'paradigm'. A really oldfashioned way of thinking.
As opposed to the Amiga OS, which is based around a 15-year-old 'paradigm'? Last I checked, the Amiga *did* include a command-line interface as well as the windows and icons, so perhaps its designers didn't think keyboards are as old-fashioned as all that, hmmm?
Perhaps I'm just cranky, but I thought an Amiga fan would be more open-minded about alternative OS's than the average Windozer or Macintoid. I'm sure some of you are -- please, for the sake of your reputations, speak up!
I get *so* tired of the endless yapping about Quake IV, Monkey Island XIII, and other churn-out-a-rehash crap...
Anyway, there are plenty of Infocom interpreter knock-offs available. The IF (Interactive Fiction) Archive's main site is an FTP site in Germany that's bog-slow; a list of mirrors follows.
Go to the subdirectory "infocom" then "interpreters" and pick your poison -- my personal favorite is Frotz. Happy adventuring.
The program he wrote is called "Cybernetic Poet." You can learn more about it or download a binary for Win95/98 off the net at his Cybernetic Poet website.
What, no source code? I suppose it'd be rather embarrassing if some random hacker fixed the bug that made the first line ("You broke my soul") a syllable too short and the last line ("The spirit of my lips") a syllable too long.
What's with this obsession with wood retro? Personally I think this "upgrade" takes a PalmPilot, which is a very sleek, cool-looking device, and makes it look like crap.
What's with this obsession with "very sleek, cool" looks? C'mon now, texture, people, texture!
(Of course, I would've preferred brushed aluminium surfaces and wood siding, but that probably would've been too expensive and involved...)
I am currently using [COBOL] to develop an open source, business-to-business e-commerce framework using advanced object-oriented methodologies and optimized for intranets running on the powerful Windows 2000 platform.
Haven't had much to do after you quit the Y2K racket, huh?
Aw, hustle on over to http://www.timecity.org/ and check out the progress on Time City! Heck, Slashdot's own loveable Emmett Plant is in on this one, even.
(I have to confess that the gameplay seems a bit over-convoluted to me, with this "time dilation" business — but then, if you don't like something you can use the code to roll your own system, right? Open Source Software, you know?)
Macintosh users are especially picky about having applications that are consistent in their look and feel, and the current Mozilla is about the worst offender I've ever seen.
Well! A shallow Macintosher whining about "consistency" — that's certainly a change from all the Windozers complaining about the dreaded DOS BOX [dramatic organ chord] but it's no less thick.
Go worship at the altar of Cardinal Toolbox, Mr Anonymous — like the Neil Peart quoter elsewhere in the comments tree, I will choose free will.
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mykmelez wrote:
[ A marvelous sum-up of and response to recent Mozilla-related whining, including a proper skewering of the Windoze "Duh, what's a command line?" brigade and a great shot at Mac shallowness disguised as self-righteous ranting about "consistency", concluding with ]
Mozillans: Reply with corrections/additions and I'll add them to the next version I post next time a Mozilla article comes out on Slashdot.
Slashdot, heck, submit it to the folks at mozilla.org!!
8b = 1B... It's true that sometimes, mostly in non technical articles, you're not totally sure whether they mean bit or byte...
Except for us seasoned veterans of the game-console wars, who are all-too-familiar with the heyday of cartridges whose sizes were listed in megabits (Mb) instead of megabytes (MB) to make them seem more impressive. Bleah.
The first thought that comes to mind is the National Cartoonists' Society's Reuben awards, although those are more geared toward newspaper comic strips than to comic books and magazines. More general in scope is the Michigan State University comic art collection, which is about as definitive a collection as one point on the globe can be.
Exactly how Windows-centric *is* this collection, anyway? Is there anyone who has it and has had a look through the file system?
One of the reviews on the amazon.com page you link to complains about the low image quality. Well, that's the way it goes, I guess -- as someone who has worked with scanned artwork before, I can assure you that it's damn hard getting pages with richly detailed, shaded artwork and crisply-printed black and white text to compress well. Let's hope that by the time EC produced Totally Mad II or whatever, wavelet compression will be patent-free.:)
people unwise enough to use "Microsoft Outlook" cannot read the entire "Manifesto of January 3, 2000." That's because one line of the text happens to begin with the word "begin," followed by two spaces. When Microsoft Outlook sees this, it interprets everything that follows as an attachment.... Here is a slightly reformatted version of the manifesto, deprived of that one extra space that utterly baffled the best efforts of the world's most profitable monopoly. Microsoft users, its still January 3, 2000 where I sit. Youre only a little bit behind the curve.
they must remove the silly names like "Commander Taco," get rid of the Monty Python foot, clean up their horrible spelling, and generally clean up the site so it's much more of a serious-looking place. A domain name change to "slashdot.com" wouldn't be out of the question.
There's already a slashdot.com, you moron, and anyway some of us aren't so shallow as to think that every site name must necessarily end in ".com".
There's not much point in replying to the rest of this comment, since it demonstrates exactly why Anonymous Cowardice should be abolished just fine by itself.
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As someone who's gone job hunting on kforce, I can assure you that nothing is remotely clever about it. Javascript and disorganized tables as far as the eye can see ... ugh.
Oh, I don't know. If nothing else, there's always the chance that it plays a good game of chess.
Amidst the same old 'OSS duplicates and never innovates' whining, there is this:
As opposed to the Amiga OS, which is based around a 15-year-old 'paradigm'? Last I checked, the Amiga *did* include a command-line interface as well as the windows and icons, so perhaps its designers didn't think keyboards are as old-fashioned as all that, hmmm?
Perhaps I'm just cranky, but I thought an Amiga fan would be more open-minded about alternative OS's than the average Windozer or Macintoid. I'm sure some of you are -- please, for the sake of your reputations, speak up!
Just in case anyone actually is interested, check out D. J. Delorie's The Ace of Penguins.
No, we need freely-available source code so games can be ported to any system, Linux or otherwise. But that'll never happen, right?
I get *so* tired of the endless yapping about Quake IV, Monkey Island XIII, and other churn-out-a-rehash crap...
Anyway, there are plenty of Infocom interpreter knock-offs available. The IF (Interactive Fiction) Archive's main site is an FTP site in Germany that's bog-slow; a list of mirrors follows.
Go to the subdirectory "infocom" then "interpreters" and pick your poison -- my personal favorite is Frotz. Happy adventuring.
in the USA: /if-archive/ /mirrors/if-archive/
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc
http://ftp.nodomainname.net/pub
http://ifarchive.org/
ftp://www.plover.net/pub/ifarchive/
in Finland:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/
in Australia:
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/if-arch ive/
in the UK:
http://www.firedrake.org/if-archive/
or ftp://ftp.firedrake.org/if-arch ive/
Try Open SSL. The web site doesn't seem to be accessible at the moment, but the FTP site is. Good luck integrating it into Mozilla. :)
What, no source code? I suppose it'd be rather embarrassing if some random hacker fixed the bug that made the first line ("You broke my soul") a syllable too short and the last line ("The spirit of my lips") a syllable too long.
...or better still, a door, a door, a door...
Yup, sounds like Max Headroom to me.
Not to.MENTION if they.STOPPED putting.PERIODS between.WORDS. All the.WORLD is a domain.NAME to these.GUYS, i.GUESS.
much.CONGRATULATIONS to.ETOY on.WINNING, now brush.UP on your.GRAMMAR!
What's with this obsession with "very sleek, cool" looks? C'mon now, texture, people, texture!
(Of course, I would've preferred brushed aluminium surfaces and wood siding, but that probably would've been too expensive and involved...)
Haven't had much to do after you quit the Y2K racket, huh?
...because they're one of the nominees for the Best Newbie Helper Beanie award.
Besides this topic, there's also the similarly-spelled Vote:Best Designed Interface in a Non-Graphical Application . Are Rob and Emmett having trouble using Rob's own Slashdot interface? ;)
Sounds like you need a crash course in how to get of the dang-blasted 'Shop' button.
Actually, the reporter did get through to a representative after being on hold for a long time, but didn't want to pay the $250/hr tech support fees.
Aw, hustle on over to http://www.timecity.org/ and check out the progress on Time City! Heck, Slashdot's own loveable Emmett Plant is in on this one, even.
(I have to confess that the gameplay seems a bit over-convoluted to me, with this "time dilation" business — but then, if you don't like something you can use the code to roll your own system, right? Open Source Software, you know?)
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Well! A shallow Macintosher whining about "consistency" — that's certainly a change from all the Windozers complaining about the dreaded DOS BOX [dramatic organ chord] but it's no less thick.
Go worship at the altar of Cardinal Toolbox, Mr Anonymous — like the Neil Peart quoter elsewhere in the comments tree, I will choose free will.
mykmelez wrote:
[ A marvelous sum-up of and response to recent Mozilla-related whining, including a proper skewering of the Windoze "Duh, what's a command line?" brigade and a great shot at Mac shallowness disguised as self-righteous ranting about "consistency", concluding with ]
Slashdot, heck, submit it to the folks at mozilla.org!!
...he looks kind of like Bob Newhart to me. Or maybe Phil Collins. I'm not sure which. Look at this photo and figure it out for yourself.
Except for us seasoned veterans of the game-console wars, who are all-too-familiar with the heyday of cartridges whose sizes were listed in megabits (Mb) instead of megabytes (MB) to make them seem more impressive. Bleah.
The first thought that comes to mind is the National Cartoonists' Society's Reuben awards, although those are more geared toward newspaper comic strips than to comic books and magazines. More general in scope is the Michigan State University comic art collection, which is about as definitive a collection as one point on the globe can be.
Exactly how Windows-centric *is* this collection, anyway? Is there anyone who has it and has had a look through the file system?
One of the reviews on the amazon.com page you link to complains about the low image quality. Well, that's the way it goes, I guess -- as someone who has worked with scanned artwork before, I can assure you that it's damn hard getting pages with richly detailed, shaded artwork and crisply-printed black and white text to compress well. Let's hope that by the time EC produced Totally Mad II or whatever, wavelet compression will be patent-free. :)
The print.asp page now includes the remark
On said index page is the remark
This from a site that is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98.
There's already a slashdot.com, you moron, and anyway some of us aren't so shallow as to think that every site name must necessarily end in ".com".
There's not much point in replying to the rest of this comment, since it demonstrates exactly why Anonymous Cowardice should be abolished just fine by itself.