I understand what you're saying, but I just wanted to make the point that no matter how unlikely something seems now, it's still possible. Netscape was a better product, had larger market share, and nobody really though IE was much of a competitor. MS used its muscle and position to force it out.
M$ systems sell very well. M$ browsers, not so much. No amount of FUD, or lawyer-posturing, will get an M$ browser into people's pockets over Netscape. It's too late.
That's talking about a non-games related personal web site. Two paragraphs down:
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
Maybe it's easier to get funding for medical work because it's actually worth spending money on it. Why does the fact that SETI is less worthy of getting money make it more worthy of getting spare CPU cycles?
Come on, think before you post. That is one of the most ignorant things anyone's ever said about interactive fiction. No, it's not a synonym for "Text-based Adventure Game". No, it's not just Quake without graphics.
Interactive Fiction is a genre that focuses on a story - that includes plot and character development, dialogue, and creativity - and it allows the player to interact with te development of that story. You don't see much (if any) of that in Quake.
Good interactive fiction doesn't need (and doesn't have) graphics for the same reason that pictures don't make a good book any better.
-- You can make the games play better -- Do things you can't normally do with an XBox that are interesting and fun -- Improve the development of XBox titles -- Port other cool games to XBox more easily
Or, you could just admit the real reason people use emulators:
-- You can play pirated games on a computer you already own for nothing.
Windows became the top gaming platform without any special "gaming" versions of its OS. They did this through marketing and its DirectX APIs. Get some good games and people will play them regardless of their distro. Get a "game" distro and nobody will use it without good games. Either way, the distro doesn't matter.
The Lunar Information Minister denies that the Moon posesses water, and was quoted as having said, "There are no Earthling infidels on the Moon. Never! We welcome them with cheese and shoes!"
Is anybody else concerned that this seems like a pretty underhanded way to shaft Mandrake's creditors?
I don't know the specifics here, but when a company files for bankruptcy, it isn't only investors (who are expected to deal with risk) who don't get their money. Contract employees, lessors, etc. are all out of money.
Mandrake is a business that chose to assume debt. It might be legal, but it's immoral to deliberately avoid it when there are other options.
I did just that - http://www.operasoftware.com/features.html says that Opera has "Full HTML 2.0 support" and "Most of HTML 3.2 implemented." I don't know how well Opera sticks to those standards - I assume pretty well, but I don't know because I use IE.. I actually like it (Oh my God, stone me to death).
Anyway, the latest HTML version is 4.. I know a lot of it is CSS and stuff that they maybe don't want to "bloat" Opera with, and that's not a bad thing, but that's not compliant with the latest standards.
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I understand what you're saying, but I just wanted to make the point that no matter how unlikely something seems now, it's still possible. Netscape was a better product, had larger market share, and nobody really though IE was much of a competitor. MS used its muscle and position to force it out.
warp back to 1996...
M$ systems sell very well. M$ browsers, not so much. No amount of FUD, or lawyer-posturing, will get an M$ browser into people's pockets over Netscape. It's too late.
that you're still getting pop-under ads? Time to get Firefox.
That's talking about a non-games related personal web site. Two paragraphs down:
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
Try 1024^4 = 1,099,511,627,776.. wait, where'd my 100 gigs go?
Heh. Don't you mean your 92.7 gigs?
Maybe it's easier to get funding for medical work because it's actually worth spending money on it. Why does the fact that SETI is less worthy of getting money make it more worthy of getting spare CPU cycles?
My first and only thought was 'Gimme - I wanna beta test'
Yeah... "beta test" new drugs. You need to get some sleep, it's affecting your judgement.
Lots of BBSes still around that you can access via telnet:
http://www.3dham.com/telnet/
Come on, think before you post. That is one of the most ignorant things anyone's ever said about interactive fiction. No, it's not a synonym for "Text-based Adventure Game". No, it's not just Quake without graphics.
Interactive Fiction is a genre that focuses on a story - that includes plot and character development, dialogue, and creativity - and it allows the player to interact with te development of that story. You don't see much (if any) of that in Quake.
Good interactive fiction doesn't need (and doesn't have) graphics for the same reason that pictures don't make a good book any better.
-- You can make the games play better
-- Do things you can't normally do with an XBox that are interesting and fun
-- Improve the development of XBox titles
-- Port other cool games to XBox more easily
Or, you could just admit the real reason people use emulators:
-- You can play pirated games on a computer you already own for nothing.
If I were you, I wouldn't want to make it look like I was using SCO's old furniture in my business...
Windows became the top gaming platform without any special "gaming" versions of its OS. They did this through marketing and its DirectX APIs. Get some good games and people will play them regardless of their distro. Get a "game" distro and nobody will use it without good games. Either way, the distro doesn't matter.
Skylab? Space Shuttle? Voyager? Hubble? The Internet? Pathfinder?
And thats just the major stuff American has done in space exploration.
While I share your enthusiasm for SUVs, I'm pretty sure that Pathfinder's a Japanese car.
I like the graphs showing SiteFinder traffic; they're very easy to read and they show the drops quite clearly
Yeah, nothing like those simple, easy to read graphs.
The Lunar Information Minister denies that the Moon posesses water, and was quoted as having said, "There are no Earthling infidels on the Moon. Never! We welcome them with cheese and shoes!"
Enough time hasn't passed. 22.3 years. That's how long it takes for something tragic to become funny.
The only good ideas I can see are:
But if my toaster's not networked, java is just going to be wasting RAM.
What is the largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere?
A: vulcanism.
Stinkin Romulans.
From the article: programmers usually do have a longer attention span and a greater ability to concentrate than the majority of the population.
I was going to try to figure out what the heck this guy was thinking, but I got distracted.
How do they know where I live?
I live in New York. If I sign up on one of these lists, will I get less spam because spammers just don't send to the whole list?
Of course that's assuming it was effective enough that spammers took it seriously..
Is anybody else concerned that this seems like a pretty underhanded way to shaft Mandrake's creditors?
I don't know the specifics here, but when a company files for bankruptcy, it isn't only investors (who are expected to deal with risk) who don't get their money. Contract employees, lessors, etc. are all out of money.
Mandrake is a business that chose to assume debt. It might be legal, but it's immoral to deliberately avoid it when there are other options.
If Sony followed this plan, they'd be alienating a large chunk of their market - people who don't own a PC.
Plus, the saleable life of any console is much longer than that of a PC, and over time, the cost to produce one goes down.
I did just that - http://www.operasoftware.com/features.html says that Opera has "Full HTML 2.0 support" and "Most of HTML 3.2 implemented." I don't know how well Opera sticks to those standards - I assume pretty well, but I don't know because I use IE.. I actually like it (Oh my God, stone me to death).
Anyway, the latest HTML version is 4.. I know a lot of it is CSS and stuff that they maybe don't want to "bloat" Opera with, and that's not a bad thing, but that's not compliant with the latest standards.