Yeah, it's weird isn't it. I find I spend a LOT of time educating even the programmers at work that actually there's some great games on the cube. Most people have been conditioned to think of it as a toy, and the games are kiddie oriented e.g Mario. I showed a friend of mine Resident Evil 2, and he immediately went out and bought a cube.
OK, we need to establish some ground rules early on. We bash XBox, PS2, Gamecube in that order. And I think we all agree the SNES was the best console ever:)
Last time I looked, the Symbian OS was leaps and bounds ahead of Palms. I evaluated, and decided on a Psion 5mx over a Palm 5. 32bit, pre-emptive multitasking, Java support. Take away the froth, and how do the guts compare now?
I get the feeling that there's much more to be done with link analysis. If you think about it, it's very similar to Sociology. There's elements of population and community as well as migration and economics. Do you think Tim Berners Lee could have imagined what he was letting the world in for back in 1990.
I suppose that might work. I just can't see people costing that without getting anything back in return. Maybe you could pepper the stream with some choice adverts or something...?
> Imagine going to a club with your little receiver device or whatever and while you have fun and dance and such it would download.
Hmm, Imagine going up to a DJ booth with your MiniDisc recorder and saying "do you mind if I rip off your set while you play". Can you realistically imagine anyone would allow you to do that? These guys get 4 or 5K an hour and have franchises with major record labels.
Yeah, totally. I've worked for companies who were started by a techie and yet whose whole raison d'aitre was to IPO and make loads of money. woo-hoo. As soon as the suits get involved, you lose control, and if you're a techie, you soon lose interest at having to compromise to dumb-asses who really don't have a clue. Now if you can do both (i.e make money and stay technically pure) then that's got to be the ultimate goal in my book. (God that last sentence sounds so lame, but you get my point). Carmack's one of the few who's managed to do both. Full respect to him, despite the unwanted attention that it brings to him.
Well, I thought I was in for a treat here. Hi-resolution, colour, exciting images of a bygone era: remembrance of things past. Instead I'm presented with a bunch of links (no thumbnails) of badly photographed pictures of 'art' of extreme dubious quality, unceremoniously dumped on a page with scant regard to format or presentation. One of the photos even has the flash reflecting off the frame's glass!!! Most are off-centre. I hope to God my enthusiasm of retro geek does not cloud my judgement as much as this guy's does.
Somehow that scene in war games where they're playing tic-tac-toe springs to mind. Maybe we could get a jpeg of *that*, taken with a digi-cam off my vhs recording of it when it was on TV last christmas. Yeah, cool.
I agree, well done Google. They were totally berated for their lack of concern for the internet community when they took it off line. Credit where credit's due, they've pulled it back from the brink. I, as I'm sure many others do, find usenet archives absolutely invaluable.
, but this kind of thing really pi**es me off. Despite comments to the contrary, it's not the physical effort of clicking through. It's the thought that/. get paid (more) to post articles with unavoidable adverts, and I'm somehow contributing to paying for a new car some sales guy@salon.
Is it me, or is it becoming more and more prevelant or/. Is this new policy?
I agree, this is total drivel, and I had to click through an advert to get to it. At least *try* and be subtle about it, or come clean and tell us how much you get per article.
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Have you tried ikaruga yet? You'll convice some old-timers to get a cube with that game.
Yeah, it's weird isn't it. I find I spend a LOT of time educating even the programmers at work that actually there's some great games on the cube. Most people have been conditioned to think of it as a toy, and the games are kiddie oriented e.g Mario. I showed a friend of mine Resident Evil 2, and he immediately went out and bought a cube.
Hey Simon, what happened to the blog?
OK, we need to establish some ground rules early on. We bash XBox, PS2, Gamecube in that order. And I think we all agree the SNES was the best console ever :)
Errrr, I used to be a programmer and read /. every day. I've recently been promoted to a manager and I don't know what the fuck to do. heeeeyalllp.
Last time I looked, the Symbian OS was leaps and bounds ahead of Palms. I evaluated, and decided on a Psion 5mx over a Palm 5. 32bit, pre-emptive multitasking, Java support. Take away the froth, and how do the guts compare now?
I get the feeling that there's much more to be done with link analysis. If you think about it, it's very similar to Sociology. There's elements of population and community as well as migration and economics. Do you think Tim Berners Lee could have imagined what he was letting the world in for back in 1990.
And how quickly last years radicals become this years suits.
How long before this stuff's mandatory then...
I suppose that might work. I just can't see people costing that without getting anything back in return. Maybe you could pepper the stream with some choice adverts or something ...?
> Imagine going to a club with your little receiver device or whatever and while you have fun and dance and such it would download.
Hmm, Imagine going up to a DJ booth with your MiniDisc recorder and saying "do you mind if I rip off your set while you play". Can you realistically imagine anyone would allow you to do that? These guys get 4 or 5K an hour and have franchises with major record labels.
Err, isn't this what bluetooth was about ...
Yeah, totally. I've worked for companies who were started by a techie and yet whose whole raison d'aitre was to IPO and make loads of money. woo-hoo. As soon as the suits get involved, you lose control, and if you're a techie, you soon lose interest at having to compromise to dumb-asses who really don't have a clue. Now if you can do both (i.e make money and stay technically pure) then that's got to be the ultimate goal in my book. (God that last sentence sounds so lame, but you get my point). Carmack's one of the few who's managed to do both. Full respect to him, despite the unwanted attention that it brings to him.
Well, I thought I was in for a treat here. Hi-resolution, colour, exciting images of a bygone era: remembrance of things past. Instead I'm presented with a bunch of links (no thumbnails) of badly photographed pictures of 'art' of extreme dubious quality, unceremoniously dumped on a page with scant regard to format or presentation. One of the photos even has the flash reflecting off the frame's glass!!! Most are off-centre. I hope to God my enthusiasm of retro geek does not cloud my judgement as much as this guy's does.
Somehow that scene in war games where they're playing tic-tac-toe springs to mind. Maybe we could get a jpeg of *that*, taken with a digi-cam off my vhs recording of it when it was on TV last christmas. Yeah, cool.
I agree, well done Google. They were totally berated for their lack of concern for the internet community when they took it off line. Credit where credit's due, they've pulled it back from the brink. I, as I'm sure many others do, find usenet archives absolutely invaluable.
Ok, fair enough...
/. get paid (more) to post articles with unavoidable adverts, and I'm somehow contributing to paying for a new car some sales guy@salon.
/. Is this new policy?
, but this kind of thing really pi**es me off. Despite comments to the contrary, it's not the physical effort of clicking through. It's the thought that
Is it me, or is it becoming more and more prevelant or
I didn't realise that we went straight from infocom to doom. Man, those graphics cards manufacturers sure beat moores law there ;)
I agree, this is total drivel, and I had to click through an advert to get to it. At least *try* and be subtle about it, or come clean and tell us how much you get per article.
This was a link to an advert. Could you not link directly to the article :(
FYI, the psion range of PDAs (arguably the first PDA) have had built in keyboards for a number of years. See http://www.psion.com
Haha. Or the smoke from the burning cows.
Yeah, Gnome is Not and Operating system by Microsoft Employees