Jeff Minter is one of very few people still making games with old skool sensibilities. Mad speed, flashing screens full of enemies. Defender II, Llamatron and Iridis Alpha all sit on my all-time favourite list, and I'd pay for them again today. No-one else makes games like that anymore, and I don't think that's a good thing.
Fashionable gameplay models should preclude previous or new ideas - currently the favourites would FPS and MMORPG/RTS, I suppose, but a look a MAME's listings shows a glut of horizontal scrolling beat-em-ups in the early 90's (green beret, golden axe, x-men etc etc), and scrolling shooters with ever-increasing powerups in the late 80's (r-type, gradius, 1942 etc etc).
I have a soft spot a few top-down 2d games that could stand a makeover as networked multiplayer games, but wouldn't be interesting to most in the current market (Paradroid, and Halls Of The Things). Personally, I'd rather pay 30UKP for a nicely remade Paradroid than FFn, which leaves me cold, regardless of how much it cost.
The other option that I came up with is, if your on a buget and you want somthing that plays cds,mp3s and what the hell even mpg video go buy your self a Dreamcast they go for as litle as 70 bucks [cnet.com]. With that you can do what ever you want even play doom.
Actually $50, at Toys R Us currently (apparently - I don't live in the US). BUT, you don't get a network adaptor in that, and they are not easy or cheap to find. $100+ is not unusual on E-Bay, for example.
They are also pretty noisy, compared to the Slimp3 mentioned elsewhere. It would be good fun to code the UI etc... it's a nice system to code for. I'd prefer an on-screen browser over a 2-4 line LCD or VFD, anyday.
could whoever modded that as a troll please explain?
I *did* do a simple google search, and *did* find the Table Magic plugin which appears to do exactly as requested, and *is* in the gimp manual. What's the troll? I don't normally care about moderation, but this is silly.
Good luck finding a BBA though - Sega stopped making them almost as soon as they started. They didn't sell that well due to the limited range of compatible games (it wasn't the same API that the dial-up online games used). They now change hands on EBay for $100 and up ($60 RRP).
Wish it wasn't the case, because talking to the DC via a serial cable is a pain in the ass.
OK, so the promised land as suggested by several previous posters is Linux, and either a 'basic' driver or coding your own, to be able to run 'some games' - in the case of native Linux games, few enough that you can list them all, and mostly ports of last years windows titles. I wonder why more people aren't interested in a deal like that?
Sure, I could zot 202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 64/8 and a few others, but more and more these netblocks are getting re-assigned to US companies that I don't want to block.
I don't understand this part. The implication is that all spam comes from "other countries". As someone in another country, I find that more or less all my spam comes from either the USA, or (for reasons I've yet to decide) China or Taiwan.
The US spam typically is for products I couldn't buy even if I wanted to (call a 1-800 number, don't ship outside US) or that it's illegal for them to sell (financial products). The chinese spam could be for nose flutes for all I know, since it's in big5 - I'm not sure why they bother.
I agree with your general point (I run a similar sized mail server), but why those netblocks?
My point was that SOAP and XML-RPC work by encapsulating the response to a function call in XML. If the response already is XML this is particularly redundant.
In the future, I might want to make the same XML available via the getXML method my Website class, and then SOAP enable my Website class.
Right. Why stop at serving bulky data, when you can wrap the bulky data in more bulky data.
I've been looking at XML-RPC a bit lately, and apart from the security issues (which for me would be solved by having some sort of broker/proxy outside the firewall and SSL), the sheer inefficiency of the thing bothers me a lot.
No, which is why I was talking about entertainment I watch:)
I didn't really mean Art with a big A, just not having a completely homogeneous middle-of-the-road movie landscape. I have a soft spot for brainless action movies of the Hong Kong style - I doubt they would be made by focus group (although I think Kiss Of The Dragon has that feeling of having a committee work it over).
Digital had already announced the end-of-life for VMS when Compaq bought them, hadn't they? Or am I mis-remembering that? I have to admit that I try to suppress most memories I have that involve VMS - they remind me too much of FORTRAN, Physics, and overly long command lines.
I'm pretty sure that there exist films without goat sex or snuff, although I haven't seen one personally for a while. I don't believe that you should expect to be able to pick any movie in a store and (1) expect to like it, or (2) have it be 'suitable' for an audience of your choice. Choose an movie with appropriate themes and content for the audience who will be watching it!
The trouble with the 'option', apart from any issues of artistic control on the part of the creator, is that like film ratings which are advisory, they become effectively required a few years down the line as major retail outlets or theatres refuse to carry the 'dirty' versions. At that point, your option is effectively forced upon me.
I'd rather not have the content of entertainment I watch driven by an amorphous blob of 'consumers'. I'd rather have the content driven by my interests or desires, and those of people who want to make a particular type of film or entertainment. Maybe broadband internet will do for moviemaking what Napster is claimed to do for independent artists. [although right now broadband internet is doing for mainstream movies just what Napster has done for RIAA - see DivX]
You'd think the editors would bother spending 2 minutes checking if the question is trivial.
Why would you think that? They typically don't appear to read the linked-to stories submitted before making glib and inaccurate comments, so why should 'Ask Slashdot' get special treatment? You must be mistaking this place for a source of reliable information.
Looking further through that same site, shows the People's Computer Company releasing their first magazine in October 1972. They were one of the first groups promoting personal computing, so that may well be the first 'personal computing' publication (The phrase 'personal computer' apparently first appears in print in the May 1976 issue of Byte (it says here)).
Doctor Dobb's Journal (Doctor Dobbs' Journal of Computer Callisthenics and
Orthodontics at the time) and Byte were both around at least from the mid-70's. DDJ's website says 1976 for them. This site says Sepember 1975 for Byte.
One of the 'wins' cited in the memo was supposedly one on the back of MS' advanced new platform (presumably XP/2k + nice backoffice stuff) and 'volume licensing'.
Is there some volume of licenses beyond which MS pay you to use the product? I can't see how else they can win on licensing.
The only other possibility is the licenses for what Digital used to call 'layered products' like the RDBMS are really obnoxious if you are use (say) DB2 or Oracle. Oracle is pretty expensive, but enough to negate the advantage of no OS/App licensing? For a whole site?
You don't need ispell to handle a lot of the spelling issues. I've been thinking for a while of writing a slashdot-oriented spellchecker/filter that would go something like:
somewhat expensive? $15000 for a 1U Dual-21264B node with 256Mb and a 9Gb drive according to Microway's website. I know it's a specialised market and scaling doesn't work lineraly, but you can get a lot of Dual P3-1Ghz for $15000. The memory consideration would have to be very important to you.
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Jeff Minter is one of very few people still making games with old skool sensibilities. Mad speed, flashing screens full of enemies. Defender II, Llamatron and Iridis Alpha all sit on my all-time favourite list, and I'd pay for them again today. No-one else makes games like that anymore, and I don't think that's a good thing.
Fashionable gameplay models should preclude previous or new ideas - currently the favourites would FPS and MMORPG/RTS, I suppose, but a look a MAME's listings shows a glut of horizontal scrolling beat-em-ups in the early 90's (green beret, golden axe, x-men etc etc), and scrolling shooters with ever-increasing powerups in the late 80's (r-type, gradius, 1942 etc etc).
I have a soft spot a few top-down 2d games that could stand a makeover as networked multiplayer games, but wouldn't be interesting to most in the current market (Paradroid, and Halls Of The Things). Personally, I'd rather pay 30UKP for a nicely remade Paradroid than FFn, which leaves me cold, regardless of how much it cost.
(Where is Andrew Braybrook nowadays?)
The other option that I came up with is, if your on a buget and you want somthing that plays cds,mp3s and what the hell even mpg video go buy your self a Dreamcast they go for as litle as 70 bucks [cnet.com]. With that you can do what ever you want even play doom.
Actually $50, at Toys R Us currently (apparently - I don't live in the US). BUT, you don't get a network adaptor in that, and they are not easy or cheap to find. $100+ is not unusual on E-Bay, for example.
They are also pretty noisy, compared to the Slimp3 mentioned elsewhere. It would be good fun to code the UI etc... it's a nice system to code for. I'd prefer an on-screen browser over a 2-4 line LCD or VFD, anyday.
yep, there have been stump-cams in cricket for some years now.
could whoever modded that as a troll please explain?
I *did* do a simple google search, and *did* find the Table Magic plugin which appears to do exactly as requested, and *is* in the gimp manual. What's the troll? I don't normally care about moderation, but this is silly.
I haven't used it, but a trivial google search found the GIMP Table Magic plugin in the gimp manual. That seems to do what you want.
Good luck finding a BBA though - Sega stopped making them almost as soon as they started. They didn't sell that well due to the limited range of compatible games (it wasn't the same API that the dial-up online games used). They now change hands on EBay for $100 and up ($60 RRP).
Wish it wasn't the case, because talking to the DC via a serial cable is a pain in the ass.
Maybe it's because we're a small company, but those sorts of things definitely happen here.
"So what, just code your own!"
OK, so the promised land as suggested by several previous posters is Linux, and either a 'basic' driver or coding your own, to be able to run 'some games' - in the case of native Linux games, few enough that you can list them all, and mostly ports of last years windows titles. I wonder why more people aren't interested in a deal like that?
Indeed, you won't have a problem deciding which driver to use, because there aren't any.
(at least according to this and this)
Sure, I could zot 202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 64/8 and a few others, but more and more these netblocks are getting re-assigned to US companies that I don't want to block.
I don't understand this part. The implication is that all spam comes from "other countries". As someone in another country, I find that more or less all my spam comes from either the USA, or (for reasons I've yet to decide) China or Taiwan.
The US spam typically is for products I couldn't buy even if I wanted to (call a 1-800 number, don't ship outside US) or that it's illegal for them to sell (financial products). The chinese spam could be for nose flutes for all I know, since it's in big5 - I'm not sure why they bother.
I agree with your general point (I run a similar sized mail server), but why those netblocks?
I understand why they would want XML.
My point was that SOAP and XML-RPC work by encapsulating the response to a function call in XML. If the response already is XML this is particularly redundant.
In the future, I might want to make the same XML available via the getXML method my Website class, and then SOAP enable my Website class.
Right. Why stop at serving bulky data, when you can wrap the bulky data in more bulky data.
I've been looking at XML-RPC a bit lately, and apart from the security issues (which for me would be solved by having some sort of broker/proxy outside the firewall and SSL), the sheer inefficiency of the thing bothers me a lot.
No, which is why I was talking about entertainment I watch :)
I didn't really mean Art with a big A, just not having a completely homogeneous middle-of-the-road movie landscape. I have a soft spot for brainless action movies of the Hong Kong style - I doubt they would be made by focus group (although I think Kiss Of The Dragon has that feeling of having a committee work it over).
Both my Firewire devices (a UMax Astra scanner and a Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge) have wall-warts.
right, like changing the VM system. No-one would do that in a stable kernel either.
Digital had already announced the end-of-life for VMS when Compaq bought them, hadn't they? Or am I mis-remembering that? I have to admit that I try to suppress most memories I have that involve VMS - they remind me too much of FORTRAN, Physics, and overly long command lines.
I'm pretty sure that there exist films without goat sex or snuff, although I haven't seen one personally for a while. I don't believe that you should expect to be able to pick any movie in a store and (1) expect to like it, or (2) have it be 'suitable' for an audience of your choice. Choose an movie with appropriate themes and content for the audience who will be watching it!
The trouble with the 'option', apart from any issues of artistic control on the part of the creator, is that like film ratings which are advisory, they become effectively required a few years down the line as major retail outlets or theatres refuse to carry the 'dirty' versions. At that point, your option is effectively forced upon me.
I'd rather not have the content of entertainment I watch driven by an amorphous blob of 'consumers'. I'd rather have the content driven by my interests or desires, and those of people who want to make a particular type of film or entertainment. Maybe broadband internet will do for moviemaking what Napster is claimed to do for independent artists. [although right now broadband internet is doing for mainstream movies just what Napster has done for RIAA - see DivX]
You'd think the editors would bother spending 2 minutes checking if the question is trivial.
Why would you think that? They typically don't appear to read the linked-to stories submitted before making glib and inaccurate comments, so why should 'Ask Slashdot' get special treatment? You must be mistaking this place for a source of reliable information.
Looking further through that same site, shows the People's Computer Company releasing their first magazine in October 1972. They were one of the first groups promoting personal computing, so that may well be the first 'personal computing' publication (The phrase 'personal computer' apparently first appears in print in the May 1976 issue of Byte (it says here)).
Doctor Dobb's Journal (Doctor Dobbs' Journal of Computer Callisthenics and
Orthodontics at the time) and Byte were both around at least from the mid-70's. DDJ's website says 1976 for them. This site says Sepember 1975 for Byte.
One of the 'wins' cited in the memo was supposedly one on the back of MS' advanced new platform (presumably XP/2k + nice backoffice stuff) and 'volume licensing'.
Is there some volume of licenses beyond which MS pay you to use the product? I can't see how else they can win on licensing.
The only other possibility is the licenses for what Digital used to call 'layered products' like the RDBMS are really obnoxious if you are use (say) DB2 or Oracle. Oracle is pretty expensive, but enough to negate the advantage of no OS/App licensing? For a whole site?
err,are you sure it wasn't Phillips?
Thanks - That's what I had. I was trying to figure if there was a way to do it without the hash.
You don't need ispell to handle a lot of the spelling issues. I've been thinking for a while of writing a slashdot-oriented spellchecker/filter that would go something like:
$input =~ s/than/then/;
$input =~ s/rediculous/ridiculous/g;
$input =~ s/copyright/trademark/g;
Aside: how would you turn then to than and than to then in a single substitution?
somewhat expensive? $15000 for a 1U Dual-21264B node with 256Mb and a 9Gb drive according to Microway's website. I know it's a specialised market and scaling doesn't work lineraly, but you can get a lot of Dual P3-1Ghz for $15000. The memory consideration would have to be very important to you.