Wow, this does sound really cool, but then can't a player open another connection to a proxy server and pretend to be a spectator, gathering information about locations of other players, etc?
The record was last updated in February. They were arrested in November. It is possible that the records were earlier more believable. However, it is possible that they were just careless.
Can we get an Ask Slashdot on a comparison of the different dynamic scripting languages? The big players that come to mind are PHP, ASP, JSP, and CGI. What's the best in terms of ease of use? What about flexibility? Scalability? Performance?
Has this already been done? If it has been done, why is this article being posted in the first place?
Don't people ever... (Score:3)
by Wiggin on 02:25 PM April 18th, 2001 PDT (#4)
(User #97119 Info)...learn from others mistakes?
"We will learn from [Indrema's] mistakes," says Travis Riley, one of the founders of the TuxBox project.
Duh. What're the letters I'm looking for? RTFsomething?
Just so people don't think I'm selling Xerox short, I'm not referring to Jobs's creating the GUI that everybody uses today. Instead, I'm referring to a Salon article I read about drug use in IT workforce, and how it's rumored that Jobs dropped acid in an attempt to envision a new kind of GUI. So much for being witty.
When old bands do reunion tours, their new stuff blows because they lack inspiration. They get together, and try to give them new iterations of the tried and true(tm). Lord British is obviously not trying to create a chip of the old block, but rather new concepts, away from what he's been known for doing.
Yeah, the hardware is pretty good. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer, and it worked really well until my girlfriend spilled some apple juice on it. Now the button response is terrible, and I don't have any way to fix it. normally I'd open up the mouse and rinse the plastic shell, but the mouse is sealed. WTF
But this article is talking about ambient ads in games, not the interruptive kind. I can definitely see it working in a game like Deer Hunter, where the selection of guns are all S&W. In sports games, too, advertisements can actually enhance the atmosphere so it's more like in real life.
Besides, there are plenty of places to display a short interruptive ad in a computer game: loading screens. These things are so damn boring, maybe a small, entertaining advertisement would make the loading less boring (although that ad would have to cycle through different ads, otherwise the ad becomes annoying).
As if gamers actually pay attention to surroundings in the game while playing. You couldn't even ask me the color of the sky in the last level of Quake I played, how the heck am I going to remember what product a billboard displayed?
Well hey, if that means cheaper games for me, that's great. If it means more money for developers, hopefully more people will become interested in making games, and that's great, too. Worst comes to worst, the gaming industry will expand. A lot of crappy games might come with it, but increased availability industry-wide is a good thing for everyone!
Perhaps all the skins of the FPSs could be changed to well known commercial characters?
Yeah, as if that's really anything new. Quake models of Homer Simpson have been around for a while. And they feature the Simpsons in Butterfinger commercials.
Come to think of it, I remember playing CS with a grenade skinned like a coke can.
Pretty cool thought, but it still seems like it might be a fluke. Was the recession taking place during the time span reported in the earnings reports?
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Wow, this does sound really cool, but then can't a player open another connection to a proxy server and pretend to be a spectator, gathering information about locations of other players, etc?
The record was last updated in February. They were arrested in November. It is possible that the records were earlier more believable. However, it is possible that they were just careless.
But what are they doing against US crackers hacking Chinese computers? ... That's what I thought.
Has this already been done? If it has been done, why is this article being posted in the first place?
What's Macrovision?
Don't people ever... (Score:3) by Wiggin on 02:25 PM April 18th, 2001 PDT (#4) (User #97119 Info) ...learn from others mistakes?
"We will learn from [Indrema's] mistakes," says Travis Riley, one of the founders of the TuxBox project.
Duh. What're the letters I'm looking for? RTFsomething?
Just so people don't think I'm selling Xerox short, I'm not referring to Jobs's creating the GUI that everybody uses today. Instead, I'm referring to a Salon article I read about drug use in IT workforce, and how it's rumored that Jobs dropped acid in an attempt to envision a new kind of GUI. So much for being witty.
I guess dropping acid to design a revolutionary GUI can do that, right?
What does "onymous" mean, and why is this coward onymous?
When old bands do reunion tours, their new stuff blows because they lack inspiration. They get together, and try to give them new iterations of the tried and true(tm). Lord British is obviously not trying to create a chip of the old block, but rather new concepts, away from what he's been known for doing.
Yeah, the hardware is pretty good. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer, and it worked really well until my girlfriend spilled some apple juice on it. Now the button response is terrible, and I don't have any way to fix it. normally I'd open up the mouse and rinse the plastic shell, but the mouse is sealed. WTF
Besides, there are plenty of places to display a short interruptive ad in a computer game: loading screens. These things are so damn boring, maybe a small, entertaining advertisement would make the loading less boring (although that ad would have to cycle through different ads, otherwise the ad becomes annoying).
Well hey, if that means cheaper games for me, that's great. If it means more money for developers, hopefully more people will become interested in making games, and that's great, too. Worst comes to worst, the gaming industry will expand. A lot of crappy games might come with it, but increased availability industry-wide is a good thing for everyone!
Perhaps all the skins of the FPSs could be changed to well known commercial characters? Yeah, as if that's really anything new. Quake models of Homer Simpson have been around for a while. And they feature the Simpsons in Butterfinger commercials. Come to think of it, I remember playing CS with a grenade skinned like a coke can.
when can we get a CueCat? *grin*
Pretty cool thought, but it still seems like it might be a fluke. Was the recession taking place during the time span reported in the earnings reports?
Well, maybe it's just a different currency that equates to 0.02 USD when converted.
Where can I find the story about the $200 bill?
Fat pipe? Damn, I wanna smoke a fat pipe.
I mean, holy hell, this is SLASHDOT. You're like a deer with a bullseye painted on your ass.