I saw them on the Quadrophenia tour back in 97. I'm only 25, so I missed the 70's heyday of the Who, and I never saw Moonie, but that one show was amazing. Quadrophenia was so meaningful to me at the time, it made it all the better.
Entwistle's solo work is brilliant, though I admit I haven't heard all of it. I often found that many of my favorite Who songs were Entwistle's, or heavily influenced by him (Trick of the Light, 905, When I Was a Boy, Dangerous...).
I have the same feeling now that I did when Douglas Adams passed last year. Even though I didn't know him personally, the fact that he's gone is upsetting.
It seems like Microsoft is going to have to play nice now. They were making all this noise about how Linux would never make money (as if there were a Linux Corp. or something), and is therefore evil and not to be trusted.
So since we have mini Linux Corp. companies running around with positive cashflow, does this mean the Linux is less evil? Of course if Microsoft does recognize this, it can only mean MS Bob for Linux.
This isn't the first time this has happened. Seems that anytime someone posts in the negative regarding a company, the crap almost immediately hits the fan. In fact, not too awfully long ago, we saw this story in which 2600 was threatened for trying to register the domain name verizonreallysucks.com.
I also seem to remember AOL instituting a policy some time ago restricting AOL-hosted websites and chat rooms from having any anti-AOL sentiments published... And what about those who have been unfortunate enough to raise the ire of the Scientologists?
Sad that having negative feelings about a group or corporation means having to spend one's life savings defending oneself in court.
A lot of people I know moved from Nintendo to Playstation/PS2 if for no other reason than the fact that Square was developing exclusively for Sony.
With the Nintendo hardware being so much less expensive, the only advantage PS2/3 will have over GameCube for many gamers is the reverse-compatibility (gotta love all those $20 PS-One games).
...And, in related news, half of the Online Population still believe that "the Internet" and "AOL" are synonymous (the same half, incidentally, who thought 'The Net' was a great film).
This article should be mandatory reading for game designers everywhere. It seems that more and more games are coming out with gratuitous multiplayer functionality just to sell copies. The criteria in this article should be a pre-release checklist for any game including a multiplayer option.
There are certain games whose genre or interface makes multiplayer functionality completely cumbersome to the point of being unplayable. The Baldur's Gate series comes to mind as beautiful single-player games with horribly implemented multiplayer modes... IMO of course.
I'm a fan of multiplayer when multiplayer works, but I won't be a party to Monkey Island on Kali.
I, too, was dying to block certain asian domains from our mail servers at my former company. But, as my company was an ISP with int'l offices in Beijing and Taiwan, that solution was not going to fly. As a result, we were spammed mercilessly and infected with ILOVEYOU once before management finally approved my (year-old) proposal for anti-viral protection.
The question was raised as to why nothing is done by these ISPs. In my limited correspondence with these sysAdmins, it seems to come down to the laissez-faire attitude of many asian governments regarding technology. We've all heard the stories about China wanting to block Internet access, and build their own national Intranet. But the fact of the matter is that the digitally inclined are still largely unmolested by law enforcement in matters of e-"commerce" (just look at the blatant disregard for international copyrights). Many asian sysAdmins simply don't feel that the law is on our side in this situation.
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Unfortunately, Word Viewer is also vulnerable.
Damn it, UezeU, you beat me to my joke!
Sleep is really getting in the way of my Web surfing...
I used to blog all the time when I was employed. Now that I no longer have a job, I hardly ever feel like it anymore.
Does that make me a rebel?
The Domesday Project is now officially abandonware...
Rumor has it that MAME 0.7 will support it.
I saw them on the Quadrophenia tour back in 97. I'm only 25, so I missed the 70's heyday of the Who, and I never saw Moonie, but that one show was amazing. Quadrophenia was so meaningful to me at the time, it made it all the better.
Entwistle's solo work is brilliant, though I admit I haven't heard all of it. I often found that many of my favorite Who songs were Entwistle's, or heavily influenced by him (Trick of the Light, 905, When I Was a Boy, Dangerous...).
I have the same feeling now that I did when Douglas Adams passed last year. Even though I didn't know him personally, the fact that he's gone is upsetting.
Take care, John.
It seems like Microsoft is going to have to play nice now. They were making all this noise about how Linux would never make money (as if there were a Linux Corp. or something), and is therefore evil and not to be trusted.
So since we have mini Linux Corp. companies running around with positive cashflow, does this mean the Linux is less evil? Of course if Microsoft does recognize this, it can only mean MS Bob for Linux.
This isn't the first time this has happened. Seems that anytime someone posts in the negative regarding a company, the crap almost immediately hits the fan. In fact, not too awfully long ago, we saw this story in which 2600 was threatened for trying to register the domain name verizonreallysucks.com.
I also seem to remember AOL instituting a policy some time ago restricting AOL-hosted websites and chat rooms from having any anti-AOL sentiments published... And what about those who have been unfortunate enough to raise the ire of the Scientologists?
Sad that having negative feelings about a group or corporation means having to spend one's life savings defending oneself in court.
Is this going to affect my Bonzi Buddy??!!
Stop going to Wil's site!! My site's parked on the same server...
A bit weird, this... experiencing the Slashdot effect vicariously through Wil Wheaton.
A lot of people I know moved from Nintendo to Playstation/PS2 if for no other reason than the fact that Square was developing exclusively for Sony.
With the Nintendo hardware being so much less expensive, the only advantage PS2/3 will have over GameCube for many gamers is the reverse-compatibility (gotta love all those $20 PS-One games).
Only in the loosest sense of the word...
...And, in related news, half of the Online Population still believe that "the Internet" and "AOL" are synonymous (the same half, incidentally, who thought 'The Net' was a great film).
This article should be mandatory reading for game designers everywhere. It seems that more and more games are coming out with gratuitous multiplayer functionality just to sell copies. The criteria in this article should be a pre-release checklist for any game including a multiplayer option.
There are certain games whose genre or interface makes multiplayer functionality completely cumbersome to the point of being unplayable. The Baldur's Gate series comes to mind as beautiful single-player games with horribly implemented multiplayer modes... IMO of course.
I'm a fan of multiplayer when multiplayer works, but I won't be a party to Monkey Island on Kali.
I, too, was dying to block certain asian domains from our mail servers at my former company. But, as my company was an ISP with int'l offices in Beijing and Taiwan, that solution was not going to fly. As a result, we were spammed mercilessly and infected with ILOVEYOU once before management finally approved my (year-old) proposal for anti-viral protection.
The question was raised as to why nothing is done by these ISPs. In my limited correspondence with these sysAdmins, it seems to come down to the laissez-faire attitude of many asian governments regarding technology. We've all heard the stories about China wanting to block Internet access, and build their own national Intranet. But the fact of the matter is that the digitally inclined are still largely unmolested by law enforcement in matters of e-"commerce" (just look at the blatant disregard for international copyrights). Many asian sysAdmins simply don't feel that the law is on our side in this situation.