Listen, it's not the next generation consoles that are doing this, it's the freaking franchise! If I played X-Men legends 1, unless you drastically change this up, and make X2 extremely compelling (i.e.: the Splinter cell guys have made each revision far more interesting then the last), then why would I even bother playing X2?
It's the content that hurt sales, not the development platform or anything else. How many X-Men do we really want crammed down our throats anyhow?
Why wouldn't they just apply for "Mozilla Firefox", and "Mozilla Thunderbird"??? Granted, it's not as keen, but the industry will truncate either to the latter word, and they'll have the appropriate TM. This shenanigans is kinda dumb.:)
That Japan Times article is funny, the problem, though, is that I have friends that follow the same routine, or, at least they seem to follow the same routine... one can never really tell.
Anyway, overall it's actually quite tiresome hanging out with them because they are constantly complimenting/criticizing things that you say.
With something like VirtuaWin you can actually have a simulated dual screen setup. Enable audio on your AIM, and you know when to jump to the next screen.
I use ALT+# where # is the desktop I want to jump to. I have 1-9 configured, but normally use 1 & 2 (1 - Web surfing, 2 - Email). Then they expand from there. So 3 gives me a screen for all my putty terminals when I'm troubleshooting server issues, 4 can be a development window. 5 is for database-specific stuff (ie: 4: ASP.NET, 5: SQL Enterprise Manager). And so on. Exceeding 6 though, can get annoying due to the extra finger stretch, so I try not to, but if need be there is the ALT key on the right.
"This is a case of IBM following Microsoft," said James Mastan, director of marketing for Microsoft Speech Technologies. "IBM has not executed in bringing this technology to a broad market as Microsoft has."
IBM could have really taken the lead here if htey would have opened their doors earlier! Grr. Mind you, IBM does have the ability to really open the doors in the OS world, so all is not lost.
I was playing Chronicles of Riddick just the other day, and was flabergasted that when I visited the local hamburger joint, it was NOT a MacDonald's!!! I mean, what's the point... make my games more familiar with me.
Things I look forward to seeing in game:
- An Esso, Shell, etc, gas station. Preferably one I can blow up. - Any well branded restaurant where I can kill people. Oh how postal that would be!
I'm sure we've all plagarized somewhat, at somepoint in our lives, and in fact, I committed the most obscene plagarism back in high-school, I was utterly surprised that I got away with it. And then, a second time.
So, grade 9... the class is given an assignment to write an auto-biography. I felt with my life experiences up to that point, I really didn't want to do that. I explained this to the teacher, and he said, "OK. I'll dig up another assignment for you." And so he did. This one, a grade 10 advanced assignment, where I was to write a children's story.
Enter Stephen King.
I was reading the third installment in the Gunslinger series, entitled The Waste Land. And inside this tome of a book there's a little children's story (actually, quite large, when you hand-write the whole thing out). Well, wouldn't you know it, while watching Braveheart, I copied the thing word-for-word. It's called "Charlie the Choo-Choo", so I drew a quick Thomas-esque picture of Charlie, and handed it in.
Came back with 100%!
Then the next year, when I was actually in grade 10 advanced English, I paraphrased Charlie, and wrote Charlotte the Chevy, about a 1957 Chevy car.
Only scored 95% or so on that one, for some reason. Must have had some bad grammar or something. *shrug* That, or with the plethora of other student's papers to compare it to, it didn't stack up to much creatively.
All through the remaining 3 years of high school (in Ontario, we used to do 5 years of school) I was constantly nervous that the two teachers I had cheated would approach me on it. It never happened, but shit, that'll be the last time I do that. For sure.
Not meaning to point this directly at you, mindhaze, but it _is_ an interesting read, and if nothing else, _we_ should be reading it before slipping it into our PHBs' desks.
Uhh... if you have a PHB, then your JOB is to read it, no? That being said, of course we should read it before dumping it on our PHBs desk! This just seems like pointless meandering to assume anything else.
I wrote a small app recently, and have been less than pleased with the response. I figured there were more people out there with a need like mine.
The app is Jaio, which renames digital camera images according to their EXIF data.
That being said, I included very little documentation for the thing, and hardly documented at all the algorithm I used, since to me it was kind of common sense.
I think after reading this article, I'm going to write some more thorough docs, and then include those docs in the help menu.
Thanks Brian, for the inspiration!
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I'm sure it's far too late for this now, but what would it take for IPv6 addresses to be assigned geographically? Then, by extension, it'd be amazing if we could just reference an IP Address by the bits that are different. IE: if we're geographically close to the piece of equipment we want to reach, we would only have to reference the last few segments.
That's true, but you're talking to a man who doesn't play online games AT ALL. I don't like them, and for the most part, multiplayer gaming never turned me on. Besides, consoles are really designed for 1 player gaming.
That's funny... when I look at my Xbox, I see four controller jacks in it. Seems odd that they'd install four jacks if they're only gonna make single player games.
Whilst I agree with you on some level, I disagree with you regarding Xbox Live. The voice component makes it a great social tool. In fact, these days, about the only time I play games is WHEN I'm socializing with friends, etc. Even when I play PC games, we Skype while we're playing.
Actually, since a single company is considered a single "commercial entity", which is similar to an individual, then that company can in fact keep changes to themselves. It's only when they start to distribute their newly modified version that they have to release the code too.
What is this... Halo 2... slated to likely be The, no, make that THE, game of the year, is completely ignored on Slashdot. Just because we're computer games does NOT mean we don't play consoles. I mean, come on... if it's not a PC shooter, it's not good? BS!
What am I impressed about? A number of things.
1) Halo 2's multi-player direct feed video. It looks amazing. Halo 2 is going to rock, for sure!
2) Microsoft's press conference video. Microsoft is doing some amazing stuff in software, and the fact that they put their whole press release online is just great. More companies need to do this!
3) EA has finally grown a brain, and signed up with Xbox live!
4) Oh yeah... Microsoft's XNA technology looks AMAZING. It will seriously revolutionize gaming, probably on the same level as DirectX.
THAT'S what _I'M_ impressed about. Get over the PC shooters... Xbox is the way.
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Listen, it's not the next generation consoles that are doing this, it's the freaking franchise! If I played X-Men legends 1, unless you drastically change this up, and make X2 extremely compelling (i.e.: the Splinter cell guys have made each revision far more interesting then the last), then why would I even bother playing X2?
It's the content that hurt sales, not the development platform or anything else. How many X-Men do we really want crammed down our throats anyhow?
Yeah, I'm confident the Paint^H^H^H^H^HPhotoShop authors are going to be pissed. :)
Why wouldn't they just apply for "Mozilla Firefox", and "Mozilla Thunderbird"??? Granted, it's not as keen, but the industry will truncate either to the latter word, and they'll have the appropriate TM. This shenanigans is kinda dumb. :)
If his biggest complaint is that there's a leap year, mine would be the dumbass numbering system.
Make a 13th month, and distribute the months so there's 25 days each, or whatever the math would be. Heck! Make 15 months if you need to.
That Japan Times article is funny, the problem, though, is that I have friends that follow the same routine, or, at least they seem to follow the same routine... one can never really tell.
Anyway, overall it's actually quite tiresome hanging out with them because they are constantly complimenting/criticizing things that you say.
Virtual Desktops!
With something like VirtuaWin you can actually have a simulated dual screen setup. Enable audio on your AIM, and you know when to jump to the next screen.
I use ALT+# where # is the desktop I want to jump to. I have 1-9 configured, but normally use 1 & 2 (1 - Web surfing, 2 - Email). Then they expand from there. So 3 gives me a screen for all my putty terminals when I'm troubleshooting server issues, 4 can be a development window. 5 is for database-specific stuff (ie: 4: ASP.NET, 5: SQL Enterprise Manager). And so on. Exceeding 6 though, can get annoying due to the extra finger stretch, so I try not to, but if need be there is the ALT key on the right.
VirtuaWin!
How many eyes do they have?
An online vote will be held this December on our website
They're talking about which program people voted for the most.
Now, I know he's not real, but he's definately influential! Dilbert should be on the list!
Sadly, the following, from TFA, is true:
"This is a case of IBM following Microsoft," said James Mastan, director of marketing for Microsoft Speech Technologies. "IBM has not executed in bringing this technology to a broad market as Microsoft has."
IBM could have really taken the lead here if htey would have opened their doors earlier! Grr. Mind you, IBM does have the ability to really open the doors in the OS world, so all is not lost.
Sitti estimates his spartan prototype cost about $10 in materials to make.
:)
Great! So, show me how!
I was playing Chronicles of Riddick just the other day, and was flabergasted that when I visited the local hamburger joint, it was NOT a MacDonald's!!! I mean, what's the point... make my games more familiar with me.
Things I look forward to seeing in game:
- An Esso, Shell, etc, gas station. Preferably one I can blow up.
- Any well branded restaurant where I can kill people. Oh how postal that would be!
I'm sure we've all plagarized somewhat, at somepoint in our lives, and in fact, I committed the most obscene plagarism back in high-school, I was utterly surprised that I got away with it. And then, a second time.
So, grade 9... the class is given an assignment to write an auto-biography. I felt with my life experiences up to that point, I really didn't want to do that. I explained this to the teacher, and he said, "OK. I'll dig up another assignment for you." And so he did. This one, a grade 10 advanced assignment, where I was to write a children's story.
Enter Stephen King.
I was reading the third installment in the Gunslinger series, entitled The Waste Land. And inside this tome of a book there's a little children's story (actually, quite large, when you hand-write the whole thing out). Well, wouldn't you know it, while watching Braveheart, I copied the thing word-for-word. It's called "Charlie the Choo-Choo", so I drew a quick Thomas-esque picture of Charlie, and handed it in.
Came back with 100%!
Then the next year, when I was actually in grade 10 advanced English, I paraphrased Charlie, and wrote Charlotte the Chevy, about a 1957 Chevy car.
Only scored 95% or so on that one, for some reason. Must have had some bad grammar or something. *shrug* That, or with the plethora of other student's papers to compare it to, it didn't stack up to much creatively.
All through the remaining 3 years of high school (in Ontario, we used to do 5 years of school) I was constantly nervous that the two teachers I had cheated would approach me on it. It never happened, but shit, that'll be the last time I do that. For sure.
Maybe the problem here, is that President Bush actually read these, and thus thinks War is the only component to Leadership.
*shrug*
Searching Google Images, I found this photo of the wreck:
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http://www.gnometech.freeserve.co.uk/html/montgom
Not the greatest in quality (taken in 1990), but still, it's nice to see. The BBC article should have included a photo of it. Grrr!
As of right now, we only have one Internet
Actually, we have two. The Internet, and Internet2. But, I guess wired would say the internet, and internet2. *shrug*
Not meaning to point this directly at you, mindhaze, but it _is_ an interesting read, and if nothing else, _we_ should be reading it before slipping it into our PHBs' desks.
Uhh... if you have a PHB, then your JOB is to read it, no? That being said, of course we should read it before dumping it on our PHBs desk! This just seems like pointless meandering to assume anything else.
Looks like an interesting read, and if nothing else, something we should be slipping onto our PHB's desks!
As posted a bit further down, my project could benefit from some further docs.
http://www.nosleep.ca/jaio/
I will probably address this, but if you're willing to, it shouldn't take too much time. Let me know!
I wrote a small app recently, and have been less than pleased with the response. I figured there were more people out there with a need like mine.
The app is Jaio, which renames digital camera images according to their EXIF data.
That being said, I included very little documentation for the thing, and hardly documented at all the algorithm I used, since to me it was kind of common sense.
I think after reading this article, I'm going to write some more thorough docs, and then include those docs in the help menu.
Thanks Brian, for the inspiration!
I'm sure it's far too late for this now, but what would it take for IPv6 addresses to be assigned geographically? Then, by extension, it'd be amazing if we could just reference an IP Address by the bits that are different. IE: if we're geographically close to the piece of equipment we want to reach, we would only have to reference the last few segments.
That would rock, for sure!
That's true, but you're talking to a man who doesn't play online games AT ALL. I don't like them, and for the most part, multiplayer gaming never turned me on. Besides, consoles are really designed for 1 player gaming.
That's funny... when I look at my Xbox, I see four controller jacks in it. Seems odd that they'd install four jacks if they're only gonna make single player games.
*shrug*
Whilst I agree with you on some level, I disagree with you regarding Xbox Live. The voice component makes it a great social tool. In fact, these days, about the only time I play games is WHEN I'm socializing with friends, etc. Even when I play PC games, we Skype while we're playing.
Actually, since a single company is considered a single "commercial entity", which is similar to an individual, then that company can in fact keep changes to themselves. It's only when they start to distribute their newly modified version that they have to release the code too.
Just something to chew on.
What is this... Halo 2... slated to likely be The, no, make that THE, game of the year, is completely ignored on Slashdot. Just because we're computer games does NOT mean we don't play consoles. I mean, come on... if it's not a PC shooter, it's not good? BS!
What am I impressed about? A number of things.
1) Halo 2's multi-player direct feed video. It looks amazing. Halo 2 is going to rock, for sure!
2) Microsoft's press conference video. Microsoft is doing some amazing stuff in software, and the fact that they put their whole press release online is just great. More companies need to do this!
3) EA has finally grown a brain, and signed up with Xbox live!
4) Oh yeah... Microsoft's XNA technology looks AMAZING. It will seriously revolutionize gaming, probably on the same level as DirectX.
THAT'S what _I'M_ impressed about. Get over the PC shooters... Xbox is the way.