Actually, it was called both F-19 and F-117. When the game was released for the C64, the official name of the plane was not yet known, so Microprose called it F-19. When the Amiga version was released, they changed it to the official name, F-117.
I think he was involved in Gunship as well, and probably a lot of other games from Microprose.
* I really tried to avoid a car analogy but I fear slashdot demands it.:)
Ahem, allow me:
Some people like to mix and match, and others just want the default stuff, trusting the chef, so to say.
Imagine it to be like a pizza place. Some restaurants based on this fantastic Italian dish got so much on the menu that you don't need to customize your order (except for an extra hot sauce or two!), and others don't trust the chef to make the correct choices from the great number of delicious toppings available.
Do you trust the chef? Are you happy to let an experienced chef guide you to what is the proper ingredients?
Well, that's a fairly good code compared to the launch codes of the Minute Man nuclear missiles during the cold war:
Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel. SAC remained far less concerned about unauthorized launches than about the potential of these safeguards to interfere with the implementation of wartime launch orders. And so the "secret unlock code" during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War remained constant at OOOOOOOO.
Blaming software vendors for not supporting 1.4 is kind of quirky, as it is really upto the software vendors what versions they will support, isn't it? I can imagine that quite a few of the free(ware) software will only support one version (after all, it is free), but if there's a market, I'd guess the commercial vendors would provide support for 1.4 as well?
(As for me, I've been wearing jeans and a turtle neck for a few years now, and it was only natural that I this year made the final leap, and got myself a Mac. My previous computers have all been running (Debian) Linux, except for a few laptops with Windows.
I haven't had so much fun since my old Amiga days while getting into Mac OS X. God, I love it. Granted, it is not perfect, but most of my problems have been related to thirdparty apps (Growl 1.2 to 1.3, and some confusion related to installing for all users or myself). Also, the Finder is somewhat quirky, and I don't get why I can't add folders anywhere I want on my dock.
My motivation for using Linux wasn't necessarily the fact that most of the software was free, but that I reall did loathe using Windows for my everday needs.
I am more than happy to pay my way to get working software. Of course, if it is free, yeah great, but if the stuff works and its a few dollars away, who cares anyway? Steermouse was well worth the money, as the defaut mouse setup in Mac OS X is imho retarded.
Now, if I only could get the alt-keys to work in Terminal/bash, and not just print funny letters.:-)
Well, being an oldtime PC gamer I made the switch to consoles when the PS2 came out, and I don't miss the keyboard and mouse a bit. I now play COD4 with the sensitivity on 5, and I'm still improving.
I guess I got bored by sitting in front of the PC all day and night, and just unwinding in my recliner while playing games on the projector-setup is awesome. Also, Xbox Live is great, I've met a lot of people who I regularly play with, as we seem to buy the same titles. Great fun!
Once again, what Slashdot uses MySQL for is really totally uninteresting compared to the needs of the business world, where you are moving money, not "first post".;-)
The fact that I've spent the last 6 months migrating from MySQL does not mean I haven't done a lot of work on it before. (You can find some really old posts from me moaning about their date-datatype on/., I guess)
Well, I just spent 6 months migrating a 700gb database from MySQL to a real RDBMS. The amount of data washing and general PITA of working with MySQL has deterred me from ever touching that product again.
I take it you don't work with enterprise databases containing millions and millions of records and transactions, but I can tell you, MySQL is not the hammer for that job.
On a daily basis I work with DB2, MSSQL, and until recently MySQL. I've used PostgreSQL for huge sites with gasillions of transactions, and I've delivered solutions on Oracle as well, although I won't claim any in-depth knowledge of that beast. Fine, go ahead, use MySQL. Give me a hint on Slashdot when you need help to migrate.
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Uh, if you want RI, ACID, triggers and stored procedures, or in general, a decent relational database; I cannot see how the aquisition of MySQL will solve that.
(Go ahead, you drooling MySQL fanbois, mod me down, but rest assured, I will smile smugly as you desperately look up the above mentioned key features of a relation database on Wikipedia.)
but back in the old days, my first memory of gaming is of me and a friend typing in some Battleship game on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81. We had no cassette recorder (or at least didn't know we could hook up a standard one, as they claim on the Wiki-page), so we had to type it in every time we wanted to start a gaming session. Still was fun, though:)
You think that's bad? I played a guard supposed to have his throat slith in a viking movie. The genius of a film director had forgotten to bring plastic knives, so the throat slithing was done with a real knife, only that the murderer turned the blade around to the dull edge before touching my throat.
God, I was an idiot agreeing to that.
(Not to mention the fighting scenes, which were supposed to be done at half-speed, and then being speeded up in the studio. The moron I had to fight (with a HUGE sword against my tiny, tiny axe) didn't belive in half-speed, so it felt like fighting for my life. That particalur guy was an extra, too, recruited from the local SWAT team. Me, a skinny geek with a small axe, facing some brute with a huge sword. Thank God they shoot you nowadays instead of using swords.)
I got a rather good home cinema setup (100" canvas, projector, large surround speakers etc), and I couldn't care less for who wins this war, except for one tiny thing:
The fucktards from Sony who:
* Killed SACD * Bacs Blu-Ray which, like DVDs, got this inane region/zone scheme
Why zones all over again? It is such a joy to just order HD-DVDs from anywhere and they just work on my HD-DVD player. Gahhhhh, I guess people really want this crap.
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Actually, it was called both F-19 and F-117. When the game was released for the C64, the official name of the plane was not yet known, so Microprose called it F-19. When the Amiga version was released, they changed it to the official name, F-117.
I think he was involved in Gunship as well, and probably a lot of other games from Microprose.
Good times, indeed. :)
It is just a plot to get Assange to the US, probably. "Yeah, we got a nice room booked for you. All meals covered!"
Or they used the same sequence to generate IDs for multiple tables. (Yargh.)
* I really tried to avoid a car analogy but I fear slashdot demands it. :)
Ahem, allow me:
Some people like to mix and match, and others just want the default stuff, trusting the chef, so to say.
Imagine it to be like a pizza place. Some restaurants based on this fantastic Italian dish got so much on the menu that you don't need to customize your order (except for an extra hot sauce or two!), and others don't trust the chef to make the correct choices from the great number of delicious toppings available.
Do you trust the chef? Are you happy to let an experienced chef guide you to what is the proper ingredients?
You forgot the more popular option #3: Bomb them back to the stone age.
So what the heck is wrong with making a phone or pad that supports HTML, and not plugins?
This is Slashdot, right, not the Flash Programmers Welfare Foundation?
Kraftwerk has been inspiring to this since the seventies.
users long for McAfee32.exe eating up 10-15% of CPU time, while intercepting network traffic and checking your mails. Clearly.
Well, that's a fairly good code compared to the launch codes of the Minute Man nuclear missiles during the cold war:
http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm
This is really disgraceful:
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=Tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.com/images?hl=no&source=hp&q=Tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
So much for "Don't be evil" :-/
But interestingly enough, add a typo to the name and "square massacre":
http://images.google.cn/images?gbv=2&hl=zh-CN&sa=1&q=tianamen+square+massacre&btnG=&%2332034;&%2322270;&%2329255;&aq=f&oq=&start=0
Blaming software vendors for not supporting 1.4 is kind of quirky, as it is really upto the software vendors what versions they will support, isn't it? I can imagine that quite a few of the free(ware) software will only support one version (after all, it is free), but if there's a market, I'd guess the commercial vendors would provide support for 1.4 as well?
:-)
(As for me, I've been wearing jeans and a turtle neck for a few years now, and it was only natural that I this year made the final leap, and got myself a Mac. My previous computers have all been running (Debian) Linux, except for a few laptops with Windows.
I haven't had so much fun since my old Amiga days while getting into Mac OS X. God, I love it. Granted, it is not perfect, but most of my problems have been related to thirdparty apps (Growl 1.2 to 1.3, and some confusion related to installing for all users or myself). Also, the Finder is somewhat quirky, and I don't get why I can't add folders anywhere I want on my dock.
My motivation for using Linux wasn't necessarily the fact that most of the software was free, but that I reall did loathe using Windows for my everday needs.
I am more than happy to pay my way to get working software. Of course, if it is free, yeah great, but if the stuff works and its a few dollars away, who cares anyway? Steermouse was well worth the money, as the defaut mouse setup in Mac OS X is imho retarded.
Now, if I only could get the alt-keys to work in Terminal/bash, and not just print funny letters.
And here I was hoping for some juicy nerd rage, but no, cheated again.
Hey Richard, you need to turn off DOS mode in Emacs, we're getting double linefeeds here.
A PC in my living room? *Iiiik*
Well, being an oldtime PC gamer I made the switch to consoles when the PS2 came out, and I don't miss the keyboard and mouse a bit. I now play COD4 with the sensitivity on 5, and I'm still improving.
I guess I got bored by sitting in front of the PC all day and night, and just unwinding in my recliner while playing games on the projector-setup is awesome. Also, Xbox Live is great, I've met a lot of people who I regularly play with, as we seem to buy the same titles. Great fun!
Don't worry, his video is like listening to a speech at a funeral, only slightly slower.
Once again, what Slashdot uses MySQL for is really totally uninteresting compared to the needs of the business world, where you are moving money, not "first post". ;-)
/., I guess)
The fact that I've spent the last 6 months migrating from MySQL does not mean I haven't done a lot of work on it before. (You can find some really old posts from me moaning about their date-datatype on
I would just like to thank the one who came up with the article tag "myhovercraftisfullofeels". Hilarious :)
Well, I just spent 6 months migrating a 700gb database from MySQL to a real RDBMS. The amount of data washing and general PITA of working with MySQL has deterred me from ever touching that product again.
I take it you don't work with enterprise databases containing millions and millions of records and transactions, but I can tell you, MySQL is not the hammer for that job.
On a daily basis I work with DB2, MSSQL, and until recently MySQL. I've used PostgreSQL for huge sites with gasillions of transactions, and I've delivered solutions on Oracle as well, although I won't claim any in-depth knowledge of that beast. Fine, go ahead, use MySQL. Give me a hint on Slashdot when you need help to migrate.
Uh, if you want RI, ACID, triggers and stored procedures, or in general, a decent relational database; I cannot see how the aquisition of MySQL will solve that.
(Go ahead, you drooling MySQL fanbois, mod me down, but rest assured, I will smile smugly as you desperately look up the above mentioned key features of a relation database on Wikipedia.)
but back in the old days, my first memory of gaming is of me and a friend typing in some Battleship game on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81. We had no cassette recorder (or at least didn't know we could hook up a standard one, as they claim on the Wiki-page), so we had to type it in every time we wanted to start a gaming session. Still was fun, though :)
You think that's bad? I played a guard supposed to have his throat slith in a viking movie. The genius of a film director had forgotten to bring plastic knives, so the throat slithing was done with a real knife, only that the murderer turned the blade around to the dull edge before touching my throat.
God, I was an idiot agreeing to that.
(Not to mention the fighting scenes, which were supposed to be done at half-speed, and then being speeded up in the studio. The moron I had to fight (with a HUGE sword against my tiny, tiny axe) didn't belive in half-speed, so it felt like fighting for my life. That particalur guy was an extra, too, recruited from the local SWAT team. Me, a skinny geek with a small axe, facing some brute with a huge sword. Thank God they shoot you nowadays instead of using swords.)
tried to design a HD movie distribution system.
Oh, bummer.
I got a rather good home cinema setup (100" canvas, projector, large surround speakers etc), and I couldn't care less for who wins this war, except for one tiny thing:
The fucktards from Sony who:
* Killed SACD
* Bacs Blu-Ray which, like DVDs, got this inane region/zone scheme
Why zones all over again? It is such a joy to just order HD-DVDs from anywhere and they just work on my HD-DVD player. Gahhhhh, I guess people really want this crap.
11 years, and still trying to copy a product. God, those guys are really innovative.