Most linux distros stopped enabling the telnet daemon post-install years ago. Now, however, even the big vendors like Redhat leave PermitRootLogin=yes in the config file for the ssh daemon which is nearly as bad. It's on my checklist as the first thing to fix post-install on new servers.
Yeah personally I can't picture Adrian Brody and his ungodly nose being a vulcan. It's like his mother was the chicken lady from those Kids in the Hall skits and his father was Gérard Depardieu.
Fuck these casting people if these are indeed the actors for these parts. Here's a real winning lineup.
1. Kirk to be played by none other than Mark Wahlberg (for the Kirk-esque physique if nothing else) 2. Spock to be played by Christian Bale 3. Bones to be played by Josh Holloway (Sawyer from Lost, for the countrified accent and pissed-off look)
Furthermore if you expand the cast you get alot more options.
4. Uhura played by Wanda Sykes 5. Chekhov played by Yakov Smirnoff (in space, aliens find YOU)
I'd have to agree with you there. I bought a PS3 back in November, and today I picked up Blazing Saddles, Devil's Rejects and Full Metal Jacket on Blu-ray. The prices are coming down (at Frys at least) to $20 per, so they're competitive with DVDs. Now it's just a waiting game for more great movies.
They said there's a 3:1 attach rate of BR movies per PS3 sold. I just proved it.:)
I own New SMB and Brain Age. SMB just became impossible with the precision it demands from the tiny little controller (as I got pretty deep into it) and Brain Age just gets old.
I feel the exact same way about my DS Lite. It sits all alone collecting dust. I played it for 2 or 3 weeks, once the gimmick of the touchscreen wore off, I turned it off and sat it down. I don't know why these continue to sell out unless they just don't build enough of them.
OTOH my GBA got played for a solid 2 years. Ahh the great Castlevania games, FFTactics, etc. etc.
"If you don't "feed" the weasel they quit bothering you. If the weasel is your boss or client, you probably needed a different job anyway."
I totally agree with you here. You have to train your boss/bosses not to hassle you on your weekend. My co-worker/underboss was the CEO's little bitch for years. He would have to go on coffee runs, make emergency trips to the CEO's house on the weekends to monkey with wireless routers, all kinds of crap. For a salaried position making a hair over $32k a year.
Once they put me in a full-time position, my underboss friend started taking care of clients on the side, during business hours, to make up for his super weak salary. However, this shifted the previous CEO nonsense to me, because I'm on site 40 hours a week. It only took a few stupid false alarms before I put my foot down. I told the CEO that despite what my co-worker has done for him outside the scope of his job description in the past, I'm not him, and I'm not his Starbucks lackey. He has since quit bothering me with his special requests and only contacts me in an actual emergency or problem scenario.
The situation varies from company to company, but here, it's just not worth it. You can kiss this CEO's ass all day long, and you will never, ever see a single benefit from it. Actually I'm willing to bet most companies are this way. Just because you're the system administrator doesn't mean you owe the CEO anything.
OpenGL works on Mac, Linux, Xbox360, PS3, the list goes on and on. Ask EA how they managed to port all their rehashes to every system over the past year. Did they start with native DirectX code and use ugly hacks to translate it to something the PS3 can run?
The point being that if you use open, industry-standard APIs, you will have a much easier time coding something for everyone. And for a development house spending millions to make a game, you want to try and sell that game on as many platforms as you can to recoup your costs and, god forbid, turn a profit. Studios like Valve that made the mistake of coding hits (HL2) under DirectX now get to buckle under the strain of completely recoding the game from the ground up for other platforms or hand it off to another development house and pay even more money.
BTW thanks for keeping this story from a week ago alive.;p
You assume that the PS3 is "losing" and will just go away. You're wrong. Smart developers that plan to make cross-platform games or make their porting jobs easier will start with OpenGL and move horizontally from there. Ask EA what they're doing to reproduce their games on any system imaginable. Regardless of how good or how rehashed their games are, they obviously have a grip on the development flow that allows them to make one game for anything.
He's got a good point there. If everyone wasn't riding the DirectX cock, they could code in OpenGL instead (like iD and the Unreal team) and therefore make their games a hell of a lot more portable.
In the end I guess it's a numbers game. If you're targeting a specific platform, you code whatever is native for it. This is changing due to the vast landscape of consoles with PPC chips and ATI/NVidia chips in them. I'm betting that in the future alot more devs will turn to OpenGL to make their games extra-portable for PC as well as next-get consoles.
That movie was awesome. I remember it well, the astronaut comes back to Earth after being exposed to a burst of radiation. This basically turns him into a cheeze pizza with extra cheese.
The scene where they're tracking him and they find his ear on a tree branch = classic.
I seriously doubt the Wii has the grunt for Doom3. Hell, a top-of-the-line PC in 2005 barely had enough to prevent massive framerate drops in busy scenes with lots of enemies.
Sorry fellas but Nintendo gave the world yet another last generation system. They saved money, you save money...but you're stuck with mini-games and bad graphics. Forever.
A manbot will hunt for the best channel, stopping on anything with sports, explosions, or bare breasts.
A fembot will find the channel with the most commercials and leave it on that channel, permanently. Statistically this is most likely the Oxygen channel or Lifetime.
Is it just me or was this kinda underwhelming? I was picturing the robot arm reacting in realtime to each motion. Instead they were using gestures to trigger scripted movements. I guess it's still cool..but not as cool as I imagined.
"And if i'm not mistaken, blu-rays didn't even allow you to copy the movies to your HD."
You are mistaken. When the PS3 was first released, there was a little tiny hole in the Hypervisor that allowed people installing Linux on the PS3 to rip Blu-ray movies to the hard drive (with a small amount of effort). I think Sony may have patched this hole through a firmware update along the way, but it was possible for a while (if not currently possible).
It sounds very likely, and I want to believe you, but I still think most Americans are butterball sheep. We've really lost our fighting spirit as a nation. That's why 4 out of 5 of those flights didn't fight back.
So, in the event that a terrorists group hijacks your plane, you have a 1 in 5 chance of being on the plane with the mean people willing to fight back.:) If it ever happens to me in my lifetime, however unlikely, I'll probably be the guy that gives the battle cry, rushes the hijackers, and gets killed in the first 15 seconds. Afterwards everyone will sit in their seats and point at my dead ass, saying "what a fool".
Watching area? Most plasmas and LCDs will mount to the wall via a VESA mounting plate. It's not like the olden tymes where you devoted an entire living room to an enormous RCA console TV that swivels.
Yeah I know I usually spend most of my time in fast-paced racing games staring at the shadows too./sarcasm
Give me a break. Who gives a rat's ass about accurate shadows on a $500 console? My *video* card cost that much and the shadows in Battlefield 2 are *still* inaccurate. But that didn't make me say, wtf did I spend $500 on a video card...
True, but them throwing a Wiimote at 90mph towards your new 50" plasma and causing a $4,000 crater in your wallet is a little worse than 'breaking stuff'. Not saying this is always the issue but it has happened more than once.
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Most linux distros stopped enabling the telnet daemon post-install years ago. Now, however, even the big vendors like Redhat leave PermitRootLogin=yes in the config file for the ssh daemon which is nearly as bad. It's on my checklist as the first thing to fix post-install on new servers.
Yeah personally I can't picture Adrian Brody and his ungodly nose being a vulcan. It's like his mother was the chicken lady from those Kids in the Hall skits and his father was Gérard Depardieu.
Fuck these casting people if these are indeed the actors for these parts. Here's a real winning lineup.
1. Kirk to be played by none other than Mark Wahlberg (for the Kirk-esque physique if nothing else)
2. Spock to be played by Christian Bale
3. Bones to be played by Josh Holloway (Sawyer from Lost, for the countrified accent and pissed-off look)
Furthermore if you expand the cast you get alot more options.
4. Uhura played by Wanda Sykes
5. Chekhov played by Yakov Smirnoff (in space, aliens find YOU)
Hay buddy, thash for yuo to know and me to find out! Wait...thass fer me to find and you to...hey gimme another crown'en'coke buddy.
I'd have to agree with you there. I bought a PS3 back in November, and today I picked up Blazing Saddles, Devil's Rejects and Full Metal Jacket on Blu-ray. The prices are coming down (at Frys at least) to $20 per, so they're competitive with DVDs. Now it's just a waiting game for more great movies.
:)
They said there's a 3:1 attach rate of BR movies per PS3 sold. I just proved it.
I own New SMB and Brain Age. SMB just became impossible with the precision it demands from the tiny little controller (as I got pretty deep into it) and Brain Age just gets old.
I would love to trade someone for a PSP.
I feel the exact same way about my DS Lite. It sits all alone collecting dust. I played it for 2 or 3 weeks, once the gimmick of the touchscreen wore off, I turned it off and sat it down. I don't know why these continue to sell out unless they just don't build enough of them.
OTOH my GBA got played for a solid 2 years. Ahh the great Castlevania games, FFTactics, etc. etc.
"If you don't "feed" the weasel they quit bothering you. If the weasel is your boss or client, you probably needed a different job anyway."
I totally agree with you here. You have to train your boss/bosses not to hassle you on your weekend. My co-worker/underboss was the CEO's little bitch for years. He would have to go on coffee runs, make emergency trips to the CEO's house on the weekends to monkey with wireless routers, all kinds of crap. For a salaried position making a hair over $32k a year.
Once they put me in a full-time position, my underboss friend started taking care of clients on the side, during business hours, to make up for his super weak salary. However, this shifted the previous CEO nonsense to me, because I'm on site 40 hours a week. It only took a few stupid false alarms before I put my foot down. I told the CEO that despite what my co-worker has done for him outside the scope of his job description in the past, I'm not him, and I'm not his Starbucks lackey. He has since quit bothering me with his special requests and only contacts me in an actual emergency or problem scenario.
The situation varies from company to company, but here, it's just not worth it. You can kiss this CEO's ass all day long, and you will never, ever see a single benefit from it. Actually I'm willing to bet most companies are this way. Just because you're the system administrator doesn't mean you owe the CEO anything.
OpenGL works on Mac, Linux, Xbox360, PS3, the list goes on and on. Ask EA how they managed to port all their rehashes to every system over the past year. Did they start with native DirectX code and use ugly hacks to translate it to something the PS3 can run?
;p
The point being that if you use open, industry-standard APIs, you will have a much easier time coding something for everyone. And for a development house spending millions to make a game, you want to try and sell that game on as many platforms as you can to recoup your costs and, god forbid, turn a profit. Studios like Valve that made the mistake of coding hits (HL2) under DirectX now get to buckle under the strain of completely recoding the game from the ground up for other platforms or hand it off to another development house and pay even more money.
BTW thanks for keeping this story from a week ago alive.
You assume that the PS3 is "losing" and will just go away. You're wrong. Smart developers that plan to make cross-platform games or make their porting jobs easier will start with OpenGL and move horizontally from there. Ask EA what they're doing to reproduce their games on any system imaginable. Regardless of how good or how rehashed their games are, they obviously have a grip on the development flow that allows them to make one game for anything.
I guess you're not old enough to remember when VCRs first debuted. Or DVD players. Media and players were both outrageous.
The economics work themselves out over time. It's all about ubiquity.
He's got a good point there. If everyone wasn't riding the DirectX cock, they could code in OpenGL instead (like iD and the Unreal team) and therefore make their games a hell of a lot more portable.
In the end I guess it's a numbers game. If you're targeting a specific platform, you code whatever is native for it. This is changing due to the vast landscape of consoles with PPC chips and ATI/NVidia chips in them. I'm betting that in the future alot more devs will turn to OpenGL to make their games extra-portable for PC as well as next-get consoles.
That movie was awesome. I remember it well, the astronaut comes back to Earth after being exposed to a burst of radiation. This basically turns him into a cheeze pizza with extra cheese.
The scene where they're tracking him and they find his ear on a tree branch = classic.
I seriously doubt the Wii has the grunt for Doom3. Hell, a top-of-the-line PC in 2005 barely had enough to prevent massive framerate drops in busy scenes with lots of enemies.
Sorry fellas but Nintendo gave the world yet another last generation system. They saved money, you save money...but you're stuck with mini-games and bad graphics. Forever.
Depends on the gender of the robot.
A manbot will hunt for the best channel, stopping on anything with sports, explosions, or bare breasts.
A fembot will find the channel with the most commercials and leave it on that channel, permanently. Statistically this is most likely the Oxygen channel or Lifetime.
Is it just me or was this kinda underwhelming? I was picturing the robot arm reacting in realtime to each motion. Instead they were using gestures to trigger scripted movements. I guess it's still cool..but not as cool as I imagined.
The irony is that Google video seems 90% slower than Youtube. I still haven't figured that one out yet.
"And if i'm not mistaken, blu-rays didn't even allow you to copy the movies to your HD."
You are mistaken. When the PS3 was first released, there was a little tiny hole in the Hypervisor that allowed people installing Linux on the PS3 to rip Blu-ray movies to the hard drive (with a small amount of effort). I think Sony may have patched this hole through a firmware update along the way, but it was possible for a while (if not currently possible).
It sounds very likely, and I want to believe you, but I still think most Americans are butterball sheep. We've really lost our fighting spirit as a nation. That's why 4 out of 5 of those flights didn't fight back.
:) If it ever happens to me in my lifetime, however unlikely, I'll probably be the guy that gives the battle cry, rushes the hijackers, and gets killed in the first 15 seconds. Afterwards everyone will sit in their seats and point at my dead ass, saying "what a fool".
So, in the event that a terrorists group hijacks your plane, you have a 1 in 5 chance of being on the plane with the mean people willing to fight back.
"And let's not even get into how bad your site will look ...for the blind.)"
;)
I'm guessing it'll look like a series of dots.
Watching area? Most plasmas and LCDs will mount to the wall via a VESA mounting plate. It's not like the olden tymes where you devoted an entire living room to an enormous RCA console TV that swivels.
Yeah I know I usually spend most of my time in fast-paced racing games staring at the shadows too. /sarcasm
Give me a break. Who gives a rat's ass about accurate shadows on a $500 console? My *video* card cost that much and the shadows in Battlefield 2 are *still* inaccurate. But that didn't make me say, wtf did I spend $500 on a video card...
"Breaking stuff is what kids do."
True, but them throwing a Wiimote at 90mph towards your new 50" plasma and causing a $4,000 crater in your wallet is a little worse than 'breaking stuff'. Not saying this is always the issue but it has happened more than once.
Scratch the IRA, they already agreed to lay down their weapons awhile ago, at least the Provisional IRA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Rep ublican_Army#End_of_the_armed_campaign
Now the fragment you mention, Real IRA, is still quite active although much less so than in years past.
Just wanted to clear that up for anyone who sees IRA and doesn't realize there are a dozen smaller factions of the IRA.
So if you have a fire at the corner of your house, do both fire departments show up?
I wonder if there are any hacks to getting the Microsoft media center receiver and remote working with OSX and Front Row?