*blinks* You enjoy SimCity 4? Are you sure you got the right version, and not like, SimCity 3000 rebranded as 4?
SimCity 4 ranks right up there on my list of frustrating and yawn-inducing games with Master of Orion 3. Horrific sequels give me a unique feeling of pain, not just for the game, but for much beloved franchises. What a shame.
I think generalisations like "any sane pilot will oppose it" are going too far.
I'm not sane, but I am a pilot, and I do oppose it.
If it's a choice between this and "OK, if you cross that line, an automatic missile system is going to fire on you instead" then I know which I'd take.
Either way, I think I'd consider your country's airspace the equivalent of a warzone, and refuse to fly there. But that's probably just me, it's not like the airlines can afford to do something like that.
Speech recognition is easy, compared to the difficulty of parsing a mere sentence into processor instructions.
If I give you the string "What is the first vowel in your last name", what are you going to do with it? How about if I give you a string "Of the vowels in your last name, please enter the last one.". And that's just one type of question. There are all sorts of types of questions. "On my way to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, and each sack had seven cats. How many were travelling to St. Ives?" Let's see a computer figure out (intelligently) what to do with that.
I assure you, this is a non-trivial problem. Perhaps the actual mathematics and character-extraction is trivial, but what you're saying is the CompSci version of "It would be easy to explore space if we had a device that changed the gravitational constant of the universe."
They still do make those keyboards, but they're not particularily cheap. Check out the Fujitsu 4725/4726 models. Heavy, clicky, and enjoyable. They have Windows keys, unfortunately, but it's almost impossible to get around that these days.
Fujitsu's 8xxx models are the cheap ones, do not mistake them for the 4xxx series, as they are nothing alike. The 4xxx models are still readily available, I've had no trouble finding them locally, and they're in plenty of places on the net (Google or Froogle for them).
Someone please mod the parent up. There are way too many ill-informed (or just plain wrong) +4 and +5 posts around, and this guy is right and backs up his assertions and he's sitting at score 1.
While I agree that is what we should be discussing, that is certainly not what the article implied.
Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?/me applies (-1, Flamebait) to the article.
and on what planet do you not have to fuck with drivers ?
Clearly you have never used Mac OS X.
Although Apple does have an advantage in that the majority of the hardware they've got to support is hardware designed and manufactured by Apple, it still doesn't change the fact that you simply *don't* have to fuck with drivers in OS X.
At least, I never have. (OS X 10.2 / PowerBook G4 12")
Its hard to claim a damaged rep, when you have no rep.
Oh, so the libel and slander laws are only for the people who are already famous, now. I find it unbelievable to think that courts would tell this guy he has no reputation at all, anywhere, for anything. There have been many similar libel cases that have won. Try reading books on libel, rather than 'threads', eh?
And since when did you become the moral police? It's pretty obvious what the guy was stating is an opinion. He's entitled to say whatever he feels is true. If Slashdot limited replies to people who are fully informed and involved with a story, there wouldn't BE any comments, and this would be a very boring website.
And what, pray tell, if I already spent my money, based on the premise that I could reboot into Windows to play while I was waiting the "two weeks"(!) for the Linux client to be released?
And yes, modding is what I do, not having it does cripple the entire experience for me...
Not that I'm really complaining about the game -- it's pretty good, or even that they're slowly releasing a second-rate Linux client. I'm only complaining that they promised everyone a concurrent release, and let's face it: this Linux client (and Mac client) release is similar to concurrent releases in the same way that "Daikatana" was too far ahead of it's time.
That logic only works on commoditized goods. Even then, undercutting your competition is a very poor business decision in many cases; ask K-Mart and other deep-discounters, or perhaps the airline industry, how price warfare worked for them.
If price was the only thing that mattered for software, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, et al would not be where they are.
Mind you this is under the assumption that the avionics are not held to Part 15. They're not. They fall under the category of "authorized radio station". You need a license to operate a plane's radio.
If you're a fan of Eterm (I am), you have two options available to you:
Pick up an older, but pre-ported copy (this one is version 8.10.0)
Grab the CVS sources for the latest Eterm and build it yourself. This is not easy, but it is possible.
Having the latest Eterm running under Apple's X11 is nice, though I still haven't been able to get it to link with imlib2 successfully (note: I am incompetent at this stuff, YMMV) The only porting really required is to change the typedef for socklen_t to int, or include the appropriate header file (sys/socket.h?). Either works.
Those are some nice blankety assumptions you make. And you know, apparently it is hard, since a lot of companies got hit.
For what it's worth, our network admin does block email attachments with most executable extensions. (I don't suppose you'd be willing to provide a complete, unabridged list of these, which is also kept up to date with new windows patches? There are a hell of a lot more than just exe, bat, pif.)
Somehow the virus still got through, and you would have to be a real dickhead to go and blame him for it. It wasn't his fault. He keeps our network running with clockwork efficiency. He contained this virus instantly and only the employee who was infected even lost any time at all. This is only the second virus infection that's happened in my 2 years at the company, and he has an extremely friendly network policy to boot. I have my laptop connected to a spare network port, for instance.
Sometimes someone deserves to be blamed and things need to be fixed. Other times, it's just life, and you deal with it and move on. "No excuse"? How about, "No one's perfect 100% of the time". Sounds like a pretty good excuse to me.
I love Final Cut, I couldn't care less about Domino and it's completely irrelevant to me, I also couldn't care less about Java and think it's dumb, and don't even get me started about how much Oracle sucks.
Did it ever occur to you that you're not the apple section's target audience?
GPL'ed AIM? That's not true at all. Nullsoft is free to (and likely would have to, being owned by AOL) release it's software -- the exact same code -- under different licenses for different people depending on who they are and what they want to pay. And that's assuming that AOL *isn't* actually the copyright holder, which they claim they are.
No, the reason IE for Mac displays PNG alpha correctly is because it's a completely different browser, different rendering engine, different CSS support, the works. No one is entirely sure why this is, but it's pretty clear as most of IE-Windows' bugs don't happen in IE-Mac.
Mind you, IE-Mac has a whole *host* of problems all of it's own...
Back in the beta1f days, I always found Quake 3 Fortress to be a much more accurate conversion of Team Fortress than I did Team Fortress Classic. I can't speak for it now, as I've lost my CD of Quake 3 somewhere.
I used to have faith in the TeamFortress team, even after they "sold out" to Valve as everyone called it at the time. The more products they create -- something which appears to have come to a stop given the speed of development on Team Fortress 2 -- the more I realize that it must have been purely by accident that Team Fortress was as good as it was, and more a function of the community of mapmakers and server admins than it was of the developers.
Ah, hm. I had given up my copy of NWN for dead. Knowing that, I might have to take another look. I agree with the other guy who replied though -- it may be too little too late, we'll have to see (like the Mac and Linux clients *sigh*)
No, he didn't. 25 is the magic age where insurance companies decide you become a good driver. Females also get lower rates, all other things equal. End of story.
Canada is just the same. I'm paying CDN$6,000/yr. with driver's ed certificate, as a 21-year-old, had my learners license when I was 17, full license at 19, driving a Nissan Sentra (economy car, not the SE-R model or anything). That's the best rate I could get. It's more than my car payments!
It's extortion, as far as I'm concerned. There's no way for a new driver to prove himself except by not having accidents -- but only once you're already paying the inflated new driver rate for 3-6 years! Ridiculous. And god help you if the insurance company ever gets wind that something might've happened to you.
I, in my naive belief of the insurance company rhetoric that they were my friends, called my insurance company to ask if they had any recommendations on a body shop, figuring they would know some decent ones in my area. I had scratched my car in the parkade of my apartment building and needed a body shop to fix it up. They're trying to tell me this is a claim, now.
Actually, the correct site requires the www. like so many other dumb sites. Although in this case, it might actually be fair -- they could have their webserver running on a different computer than bat.org itself, which I assume the MUD runs on.
So I've heard. I am not really a fan of the D&D rules myself, (I know 2nd Ed, but NWN has been my only experience with 3rd Ed.) so I can't say personally, but I've certainly heard that their implementation of the rules leaves a lot to be desired.
Again which could've been solved by ambitious users if only they had coded the rules into NWNScript instead of hard-coding it into the game.
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The big difference is that people without hundreds of thousands of dollars can succesfully start, build, and maintain a MUD. In many cases, if you can find people willing to donate hosting (there are some), you don't need a cent.
MUDs are also not generally "massively multiplayer". The largest MUD I've ever been on had a record of around 300 connected players at once. While some people prefer to have thousands or tens of thousands of people connected at once, some others do not. Personally, given the choice, I prefer a smaller, more social environment.
Also, with free environments, there's no burgeoning need to get more and more and more people connected. You get all sorts of freedom that you wouldn't if you were running a pay-for-play game, allowing you to push the envelope and try new things if you want.
As an example, if you find a particular player's roleplaying style to be lacking (whether it's simply "hahah lol i pwn j00 n00b!!!11!", or one of what EQ has termed a "griefer") you can kick him off with relative impunity, knowing that he doesn't really have a leg to stand on if he goes out and complains to everyone he sees. You get what you pay for. With cost comes the expectation of being able to please everyone.
On a slightly OT tangent: I was expecting that Neverwinter Nights was going to be the sort of graphical MUD (ie, non-massively, but still multiplayer online RPG) that I've been hoping for. With Quake-style user-run servers, user-mod support, and plenty of other things it was looking really good. Unfortunately the D&D combat system was really hardcoded in there, for one thing. They also provide no persistent world support at all (any persistent worlds have been a nasty user-made kludge so far). It's really unfortunate, NWN was very close to being in a genre all of it's own. Instead they ended up with a D&D-rules Diablo. Too bad.
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*blinks* You enjoy SimCity 4? Are you sure you got the right version, and not like, SimCity 3000 rebranded as 4?
SimCity 4 ranks right up there on my list of frustrating and yawn-inducing games with Master of Orion 3. Horrific sequels give me a unique feeling of pain, not just for the game, but for much beloved franchises. What a shame.
I saw the game for sale for $130 CDN. Before subscription. What the hell, why would anyone buy that?
The last one is a trick question. The answer is 1. You were travelling to St. Ives. The man with seven wives was just a guy you met on your way. ;)
I think generalisations like "any sane pilot will oppose it" are going too far.
I'm not sane, but I am a pilot, and I do oppose it.
If it's a choice between this and "OK, if you cross that line, an automatic missile system is going to fire on you instead" then I know which I'd take.
Either way, I think I'd consider your country's airspace the equivalent of a warzone, and refuse to fly there. But that's probably just me, it's not like the airlines can afford to do something like that.
Speech recognition is easy, compared to the difficulty of parsing a mere sentence into processor instructions.
If I give you the string "What is the first vowel in your last name", what are you going to do with it? How about if I give you a string "Of the vowels in your last name, please enter the last one.". And that's just one type of question. There are all sorts of types of questions. "On my way to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, and each sack had seven cats. How many were travelling to St. Ives?" Let's see a computer figure out (intelligently) what to do with that.
I assure you, this is a non-trivial problem. Perhaps the actual mathematics and character-extraction is trivial, but what you're saying is the CompSci version of "It would be easy to explore space if we had a device that changed the gravitational constant of the universe."
They still do make those keyboards, but they're not particularily cheap. Check out the Fujitsu 4725/4726 models. Heavy, clicky, and enjoyable. They have Windows keys, unfortunately, but it's almost impossible to get around that these days.
Fujitsu's 8xxx models are the cheap ones, do not mistake them for the 4xxx series, as they are nothing alike. The 4xxx models are still readily available, I've had no trouble finding them locally, and they're in plenty of places on the net (Google or Froogle for them).
Someone please mod the parent up. There are way too many ill-informed (or just plain wrong) +4 and +5 posts around, and this guy is right and backs up his assertions and he's sitting at score 1.
While I agree that is what we should be discussing, that is certainly not what the article implied.
/me applies (-1, Flamebait) to the article.
Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?
and on what planet do you not have to fuck with drivers ?
Clearly you have never used Mac OS X.
Although Apple does have an advantage in that the majority of the hardware they've got to support is hardware designed and manufactured by Apple, it still doesn't change the fact that you simply *don't* have to fuck with drivers in OS X.
At least, I never have. (OS X 10.2 / PowerBook G4 12")
Its hard to claim a damaged rep, when you have no rep.
Oh, so the libel and slander laws are only for the people who are already famous, now. I find it unbelievable to think that courts would tell this guy he has no reputation at all, anywhere, for anything. There have been many similar libel cases that have won. Try reading books on libel, rather than 'threads', eh?
And since when did you become the moral police? It's pretty obvious what the guy was stating is an opinion. He's entitled to say whatever he feels is true. If Slashdot limited replies to people who are fully informed and involved with a story, there wouldn't BE any comments, and this would be a very boring website.
And what, pray tell, if I already spent my money, based on the premise that I could reboot into Windows to play while I was waiting the "two weeks"(!) for the Linux client to be released?
And yes, modding is what I do, not having it does cripple the entire experience for me...
Not that I'm really complaining about the game -- it's pretty good, or even that they're slowly releasing a second-rate Linux client. I'm only complaining that they promised everyone a concurrent release, and let's face it: this Linux client (and Mac client) release is similar to concurrent releases in the same way that "Daikatana" was too far ahead of it's time.
That logic only works on commoditized goods. Even then, undercutting your competition is a very poor business decision in many cases; ask K-Mart and other deep-discounters, or perhaps the airline industry, how price warfare worked for them.
If price was the only thing that mattered for software, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, et al would not be where they are.
Mind you this is under the assumption that the avionics are not held to Part 15.
They're not. They fall under the category of "authorized radio station". You need a license to operate a plane's radio.
If you're a fan of Eterm (I am), you have two options available to you:
Having the latest Eterm running under Apple's X11 is nice, though I still haven't been able to get it to link with imlib2 successfully (note: I am incompetent at this stuff, YMMV) The only porting really required is to change the typedef for socklen_t to int, or include the appropriate header file (sys/socket.h?). Either works.
Good luck.
Those are some nice blankety assumptions you make. And you know, apparently it is hard, since a lot of companies got hit.
For what it's worth, our network admin does block email attachments with most executable extensions. (I don't suppose you'd be willing to provide a complete, unabridged list of these, which is also kept up to date with new windows patches? There are a hell of a lot more than just exe, bat, pif.)
Somehow the virus still got through, and you would have to be a real dickhead to go and blame him for it. It wasn't his fault. He keeps our network running with clockwork efficiency. He contained this virus instantly and only the employee who was infected even lost any time at all. This is only the second virus infection that's happened in my 2 years at the company, and he has an extremely friendly network policy to boot. I have my laptop connected to a spare network port, for instance.
Sometimes someone deserves to be blamed and things need to be fixed. Other times, it's just life, and you deal with it and move on. "No excuse"? How about, "No one's perfect 100% of the time". Sounds like a pretty good excuse to me.
I love Final Cut, I couldn't care less about Domino and it's completely irrelevant to me, I also couldn't care less about Java and think it's dumb, and don't even get me started about how much Oracle sucks.
Did it ever occur to you that you're not the apple section's target audience?
GPL'ed AIM? That's not true at all. Nullsoft is free to (and likely would have to, being owned by AOL) release it's software -- the exact same code -- under different licenses for different people depending on who they are and what they want to pay. And that's assuming that AOL *isn't* actually the copyright holder, which they claim they are.
No, the reason IE for Mac displays PNG alpha correctly is because it's a completely different browser, different rendering engine, different CSS support, the works. No one is entirely sure why this is, but it's pretty clear as most of IE-Windows' bugs don't happen in IE-Mac.
Mind you, IE-Mac has a whole *host* of problems all of it's own...
Back in the beta1f days, I always found Quake 3 Fortress to be a much more accurate conversion of Team Fortress than I did Team Fortress Classic. I can't speak for it now, as I've lost my CD of Quake 3 somewhere.
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I used to have faith in the TeamFortress team, even after they "sold out" to Valve as everyone called it at the time. The more products they create -- something which appears to have come to a stop given the speed of development on Team Fortress 2 -- the more I realize that it must have been purely by accident that Team Fortress was as good as it was, and more a function of the community of mapmakers and server admins than it was of the developers.
And yes, the ridiculously fast scout rocked
Ah, hm. I had given up my copy of NWN for dead. Knowing that, I might have to take another look. I agree with the other guy who replied though -- it may be too little too late, we'll have to see (like the Mac and Linux clients *sigh*)
No, he didn't. 25 is the magic age where insurance companies decide you become a good driver. Females also get lower rates, all other things equal. End of story.
Canada is just the same. I'm paying CDN$6,000/yr. with driver's ed certificate, as a 21-year-old, had my learners license when I was 17, full license at 19, driving a Nissan Sentra (economy car, not the SE-R model or anything). That's the best rate I could get. It's more than my car payments!
It's extortion, as far as I'm concerned. There's no way for a new driver to prove himself except by not having accidents -- but only once you're already paying the inflated new driver rate for 3-6 years! Ridiculous. And god help you if the insurance company ever gets wind that something might've happened to you.
I, in my naive belief of the insurance company rhetoric that they were my friends, called my insurance company to ask if they had any recommendations on a body shop, figuring they would know some decent ones in my area. I had scratched my car in the parkade of my apartment building and needed a body shop to fix it up. They're trying to tell me this is a claim, now.
In summary: Insurance companies are evil.
Actually, the correct site requires the www. like so many other dumb sites. Although in this case, it might actually be fair -- they could have their webserver running on a different computer than bat.org itself, which I assume the MUD runs on.
So I've heard. I am not really a fan of the D&D rules myself, (I know 2nd Ed, but NWN has been my only experience with 3rd Ed.) so I can't say personally, but I've certainly heard that their implementation of the rules leaves a lot to be desired.
Again which could've been solved by ambitious users if only they had coded the rules into NWNScript instead of hard-coding it into the game.
The big difference is that people without hundreds of thousands of dollars can succesfully start, build, and maintain a MUD. In many cases, if you can find people willing to donate hosting (there are some), you don't need a cent.
MUDs are also not generally "massively multiplayer". The largest MUD I've ever been on had a record of around 300 connected players at once. While some people prefer to have thousands or tens of thousands of people connected at once, some others do not. Personally, given the choice, I prefer a smaller, more social environment.
Also, with free environments, there's no burgeoning need to get more and more and more people connected. You get all sorts of freedom that you wouldn't if you were running a pay-for-play game, allowing you to push the envelope and try new things if you want.
As an example, if you find a particular player's roleplaying style to be lacking (whether it's simply "hahah lol i pwn j00 n00b!!!11!", or one of what EQ has termed a "griefer") you can kick him off with relative impunity, knowing that he doesn't really have a leg to stand on if he goes out and complains to everyone he sees. You get what you pay for. With cost comes the expectation of being able to please everyone.
On a slightly OT tangent: I was expecting that Neverwinter Nights was going to be the sort of graphical MUD (ie, non-massively, but still multiplayer online RPG) that I've been hoping for. With Quake-style user-run servers, user-mod support, and plenty of other things it was looking really good. Unfortunately the D&D combat system was really hardcoded in there, for one thing. They also provide no persistent world support at all (any persistent worlds have been a nasty user-made kludge so far). It's really unfortunate, NWN was very close to being in a genre all of it's own. Instead they ended up with a D&D-rules Diablo. Too bad.