Given that most people end up buying two or three PlayStations over the life of each system (both PS1 and PS2) due to piss-poor manufacturing/quality, who wants to buy something at $600 three times!
Right, but it really needs to be a better game if it's going to carry that burden. I mean, this is like if I took a picture of a pile of human feces on the ground and called it "Columbine Fight or Flight", and touted it as a statement about the visceral fear inherent to the crises... it might be art. But it still a photo of a pile of shit.
But to counter one of your examples, I don't think the photographer of that Vietnamese kid when around whoring his picture to everyone that it was the best picture ever and deserving of high-art consideration.
The ratio of crap to good articles IMHO has become alarming of late and I've really started to loose respect for the staff given their poor editorial decisions. It's a shame really.
Yeah, I see manga as another format as well. In fact I feel a good value in buying the manga books. My kids are big fans of the Naruto series right now, and we pick them up at our leisure without fear that if we missed an issue we're going to have to pay premium price for it later. Oddly enough I would almost lump the Captain Underpants series in with this class as well rather than in the comic book side of the equation. Those have been a great value, and alot of fun to read.
Oh, I don't discourage them from comics (well, not consciously). Like I said, I do take them out every now and then and let them pick up a couple. But the price is exorbitant in my mind when I'm paying $1.75 for a Sonic the Hedgehog comic. I've actually been encouraging them to read web comics instead. I've even been encouraging them to try and do their own work.
Yes, I know there have been some really great graphic novels/series that have came out over the years, but I don't have the extra cash to buy lots of #1's just to find the good stuff, and by the time I hear about something being good, the #1 is going at collector's prices, making it unlikely I will get to read it. So, then I must wait for the bound set to come out (in the case of a mini-series) to have a second chance at a reasonable price for the issues... but, by then my initial peak of interest is long gone.
It just really bums me out because I had always thought this would be an appreciation I could pass on and share with my children. To be honest, if they would sell comics at reasonable prices as PDFs that I could download and share with my kids, I'd probably start buying again.
Is that Dead == Dead forever, or is that dead == "marketing dead" like Captain Marvel, Superman, Jean Grey/Phoenix/Jean Grey/Alien Substitute/Dark Phoenix/cough, etc... etc...
I used to be a massive comics reader up until the late 80's when I quit reading all together. What did it? It was the combined fiascos of the Marvel crossover series Inferno where some a$$wipe decided to unwind the entire history of Kitty Pride and Illiana (Cyclops little sister) with an "oops, it was all a group hallucination? Or was it? Well, nobody remembers or knows...(spooky music)", and the even more retarded History of the DC Universe two-issue comic that essentially said. "Hi there. You know that last 40 or so years of comics you've been reading? It's all shit, just forget about it, never happened." Atleast with Crisis, they tried to consolidate things within the framework of the existing story arcs. The "History" re-write was just a plane cop-out.
That, then combined with the sheer greed of the comic greed of comic book publishers ("Hey, buy our 94 versions of this SPECIAL!!!! issue number 113, each featuring a different minor sub-character, and each one featuring a different foil cover and unique hologram!" for $8 each... no, there is no normal version offered this month) pretty much not only killed reading comics for me, but has prevented me from encouraging my kids to read comics. On the rare occasion that I do take them to the comic store, they get one or two each, I'm down $15-$20 and I seriously consider launching my own comic company that does 4-color on pulp paper. What's the point.
On second hand, comic companies can go f' themselves. My kids reads web comics anyways now, so why should I worry about it.
"Enter the world of high-technology, make websites like a pro..."
Pretty soon the term "webmaster" became a slur on resumes meaning "I'm cool! Look at me! I know HTML!@#!@#*!@*(#&".
Technically I'm still webmaster at the company I work with, but two years ago I demanded that my title be changed so I wasn't being lumped in with people using those nifty tools people like kale77in wrote who called themselves webmasters and are not.
That reminds me of my server set up as well. Up until just a couple of months ago all of our servers were in the kitchen closet of my home. Being a cheap bastard, I didn't want to pay for co-lo space and I liked running OS/2 systems. We had originally tried to find a better space in the house to do it, but the house had been built in the late 50's and the only functional spare pair of copper for DSL terminated in the wall next to the kitchen closet... which also seemed to have an electrical outlet on the same wall which had it's own circuit. So that's where the servers went. We cut a hole in the drywall and ran an extension cord through the wall and into the outlet on the other side and wa'la! To manage heat I parked a small desk fan in the base of the door opening and left it adjar for air to blow in the bottom and out the top. In a fit of self proclaimed cleverness a few years later I registered kitchencloset.com as our primary domain at one point as well. It made for great social conversations.
Q: What's your e-mail? A:...@kitchencloset.com Q: kitchencloset? A: Yeah, that's where the server lives (said nonchalantly) Q:...(pause)... ?!? WTF!!!
Then I just go on with the conversation like nothing unusual happened.
We've recently moved though and all of the systems have moved as well to a new location where just the equipment will live, and I'm also getting ready to decomission the WSeB (OS/2 4.5) server in a matter of days. I guess the only constant is change eh?
Silly rabits, x86 has been RISC core since PPro
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x86 only refers to a set of API interfaces with the CPU architecture. As of the launch of the Pentium, the modern "x86" processor is a RISC based CPU with an internal x86 translation layer. Start you learning here. x86 is also refered to as x86-32 or IA-32. And with the current generation of processors, we are leaving that behind for "x64" also known as EM64T, IA-32e or IA-64 in its various iterations. Many of the "x64" series generally maintian "x86" interface compatibility in order to allow legacy operation. For instance you can run Warp Server on a dual Opteron server just fine.
Ah contrare... The perception many of us had was that this purchase of Rare was a case in point example of just how out of touch Microsoft was with hot development houses. I'm sure they saw a chance to score "Nintendo's ace in the hole" and profit. There is nothing in my interactions with people in the industry at the time that ever indicated otherwise. Those of us with a clue just sat back and chuckled that Nintendo snooker'd them. I might even go so far as to say that Nintendo blessed the deal as a way for Rare to bow out and save face. But that speculation is for the pervuew of CEO's and the like.
Libraries, compilers, etc... You know like that fancy Microsoft compiler which has a license that specifically states you can't write software using their languages/compilers the competes with any of their own products. For instance, gems like this... You cannot "distribute Distributable Code, other than code listed in OTHER-DIST.TXT files, to run on a platform other than the Windows platform" and "The software contains code that you are permitted to distribute in programs you develop if you comply with the terms below."...oh don't get me started.
I frequently like to point out whenever someone likes to state that Microsoft bought Rare to hurt Nintendo, that they're smokin' crack. Bad 2'dolla ho crack at that.
Rare was on the decline with Nintendo internally when Microsoft bought them. My understanding is that Nintendo was happy with the deal because they got to hamstring Rare onto Microsoft as a sinkhole. You can read my on-the-spot rant from 2002 here for my true feelings about the matter.:)
Web, Net, I-Way, etc... There were tons of dead tree magazines published between 94' to 97' that featured links of what's hot, etc... The proliferation of real search engines that worked pretty much killed that space.
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Given that most people end up buying two or three PlayStations over the life of each system (both PS1 and PS2) due to piss-poor manufacturing/quality, who wants to buy something at $600 three times!
I loose track of the differanse just to annoyie you
One by one we're loosing land lines, the agents are shutting us in!
Yeah! Loose :) damn it, I need a better spell checker that knows what I'm intending to write, not what I wrote.
Right, but it really needs to be a better game if it's going to carry that burden. I mean, this is like if I took a picture of a pile of human feces on the ground and called it "Columbine Fight or Flight", and touted it as a statement about the visceral fear inherent to the crises... it might be art. But it still a photo of a pile of shit.
But to counter one of your examples, I don't think the photographer of that Vietnamese kid when around whoring his picture to everyone that it was the best picture ever and deserving of high-art consideration.
The ratio of crap to good articles IMHO has become alarming of late and I've really started to loose respect for the staff given their poor editorial decisions. It's a shame really.
Yeah, I see manga as another format as well. In fact I feel a good value in buying the manga books. My kids are big fans of the Naruto series right now, and we pick them up at our leisure without fear that if we missed an issue we're going to have to pay premium price for it later. Oddly enough I would almost lump the Captain Underpants series in with this class as well rather than in the comic book side of the equation. Those have been a great value, and alot of fun to read.
Oh, I don't discourage them from comics (well, not consciously). Like I said, I do take them out every now and then and let them pick up a couple. But the price is exorbitant in my mind when I'm paying $1.75 for a Sonic the Hedgehog comic. I've actually been encouraging them to read web comics instead. I've even been encouraging them to try and do their own work.
Yes, I know there have been some really great graphic novels/series that have came out over the years, but I don't have the extra cash to buy lots of #1's just to find the good stuff, and by the time I hear about something being good, the #1 is going at collector's prices, making it unlikely I will get to read it. So, then I must wait for the bound set to come out (in the case of a mini-series) to have a second chance at a reasonable price for the issues... but, by then my initial peak of interest is long gone.
It just really bums me out because I had always thought this would be an appreciation I could pass on and share with my children. To be honest, if they would sell comics at reasonable prices as PDFs that I could download and share with my kids, I'd probably start buying again.
Is that Dead == Dead forever, or is that dead == "marketing dead" like Captain Marvel, Superman, Jean Grey/Phoenix/Jean Grey/Alien Substitute/Dark Phoenix/cough, etc... etc...
I used to be a massive comics reader up until the late 80's when I quit reading all together. What did it? It was the combined fiascos of the Marvel crossover series Inferno where some a$$wipe decided to unwind the entire history of Kitty Pride and Illiana (Cyclops little sister) with an "oops, it was all a group hallucination? Or was it? Well, nobody remembers or knows...(spooky music)", and the even more retarded History of the DC Universe two-issue comic that essentially said. "Hi there. You know that last 40 or so years of comics you've been reading? It's all shit, just forget about it, never happened." Atleast with Crisis, they tried to consolidate things within the framework of the existing story arcs. The "History" re-write was just a plane cop-out.
That, then combined with the sheer greed of the comic greed of comic book publishers ("Hey, buy our 94 versions of this SPECIAL!!!! issue number 113, each featuring a different minor sub-character, and each one featuring a different foil cover and unique hologram!" for $8 each... no, there is no normal version offered this month) pretty much not only killed reading comics for me, but has prevented me from encouraging my kids to read comics. On the rare occasion that I do take them to the comic store, they get one or two each, I'm down $15-$20 and I seriously consider launching my own comic company that does 4-color on pulp paper. What's the point.
On second hand, comic companies can go f' themselves. My kids reads web comics anyways now, so why should I worry about it.
Oh, nevermind, that was Studio 3DO... Doh.
What the hell? How do they do a history and skip this?!?!
"Enter the world of high-technology, make websites like a pro..."
Pretty soon the term "webmaster" became a slur on resumes meaning
"I'm cool! Look at me! I know HTML!@#!@#*!@*(#&".
Technically I'm still webmaster at the company I work with, but
two years ago I demanded that my title be changed so I wasn't being
lumped in with people using those nifty tools people like kale77in
wrote who called themselves webmasters and are not.
The developer of VRML Worlds worked on Second Life, so the comparison is quite apt!
Sorry, I still consider it a 64 iteration as being in the upgrade class. But technically you are are correct. Thanks for mentioning.
That reminds me of my server set up as well. Up until just a couple of months ago all of our servers were in the kitchen closet of my home. Being a cheap bastard, I didn't want to pay for co-lo space and I liked running OS/2 systems. We had originally tried to find a better space in the house to do it, but the house had been built in the late 50's and the only functional spare pair of copper for DSL terminated in the wall next to the kitchen closet... which also seemed to have an electrical outlet on the same wall which had it's own circuit. So that's where the servers went. We cut a hole in the drywall and ran an extension cord through the wall and into the outlet on the other side and wa'la! To manage heat I parked a small desk fan in the base of the door opening and left it adjar for air to blow in the bottom and out the top. In a fit of self proclaimed cleverness a few years later I registered kitchencloset.com as our primary domain at one point as well. It made for great social conversations.
...@kitchencloset.com ...(pause)... ?!? WTF!!!
Q: What's your e-mail?
A:
Q: kitchencloset?
A: Yeah, that's where the server lives (said nonchalantly)
Q:
Then I just go on with the conversation like nothing unusual happened.
We've recently moved though and all of the systems have moved as well to a new location where just the equipment will live, and I'm also getting ready to decomission the WSeB (OS/2 4.5) server in a matter of days. I guess the only constant is change eh?
x86 only refers to a set of API interfaces with the CPU architecture. As of the launch of the Pentium, the modern "x86" processor is a RISC based CPU with an internal x86 translation layer. Start you learning here. x86 is also refered to as x86-32 or IA-32. And with the current generation of processors, we are leaving that behind for "x64" also known as EM64T, IA-32e or IA-64 in its various iterations. Many of the "x64" series generally maintian "x86" interface compatibility in order to allow legacy operation. For instance you can run Warp Server on a dual Opteron server just fine.
And in the UK you used to have a video game magazine where the mascot was a bulldog with oversized testicals. :p
Sigh...
I'm talking about how it killed the dead tree version of hot link lists. Do people go out to buy a magazine to find out URLs for websites anymore? No.
Ah contrare... The perception many of us had was that this purchase of Rare was a case in point example of just how out of touch Microsoft was with hot development houses. I'm sure they saw a chance to score "Nintendo's ace in the hole" and profit. There is nothing in my interactions with people in the industry at the time that ever indicated otherwise. Those of us with a clue just sat back and chuckled that Nintendo snooker'd them. I might even go so far as to say that Nintendo blessed the deal as a way for Rare to bow out and save face. But that speculation is for the pervuew of CEO's and the like.
Libraries, compilers, etc... You know like that fancy Microsoft compiler which has a license that specifically states you can't write software using their languages/compilers the competes with any of their own products. For instance, gems like this ... You cannot "distribute Distributable Code, other than code listed in OTHER-DIST.TXT files, to run on a platform other than the Windows platform" and "The software contains code that you are permitted to distribute in programs you develop if you comply with the terms below." ...oh don't get me started.
Can we? Can we?
I frequently like to point out whenever someone likes to state that Microsoft bought Rare to hurt Nintendo, that they're smokin' crack. Bad 2'dolla ho crack at that.
:)
Rare was on the decline with Nintendo internally when Microsoft bought them. My understanding is that Nintendo was happy with the deal because they got to hamstring Rare onto Microsoft as a sinkhole. You can read my on-the-spot rant from 2002 here for my true feelings about the matter.
Web, Net, I-Way, etc... There were tons of dead tree magazines published between 94' to 97' that featured links of what's hot, etc... The proliferation of real search engines that worked pretty much killed that space.
What is the licensing for this language? I've found lots of copyright notices, but no licensing information.