No One Lives Forever (NOLF) 1 and 2 were the games that first made my wife (I know, I know, insert standart/. joke about the unlikliness of a 'wife' existing) enjoy PC gaming. Every now and then we'll still yell "AAABBBIIIGAAAAAIIIILLLLL" at each other and smile. Good campy humor combined with good stories in a FPS that works for both men and women? NOLF 3? Yes please!
While you're comparing yourself to a male narwhal, do you also do this (from TFA): "[the] tactile sense might explain why...two males gently rub tusks together"?
So typical of Logitech to toss out a new mouse with *great* new features (human like response!) two weeks after I buy their latest dual-laser bluetooth model. Anyone know the DPI on this new mouse?
Not only is this not very funny (why is it on/.?), I'm willing to bet that the person who submitted it first saw it via bbspot (under 'What Should You Do'). bbspot as a satire/humor site periodically can throw up the clunker of a dumb link, but why is slashdot choosing this as the best of humor/news for nerds on the web?
Whatever. Give credit next time when you see a link on another site and then submit it here.
Hmm, why can I not help but think about Electric Dreams, that campy 80's movie about a computer 'gone bad' that takes over a guy's house when both the computer & the guy fall for the girl upstairs.
I'll also preempt the inevitable pron references by saying, yes, there were also movies listed on Amazon that have the same name. Simply pointing that out does not make for a creative reply!
Of course that's not the real problem. At least here in DC, I play a constant game of hopping in and out of cabs until I find a driver willing to take me to my neighborhood. It's not tough at all to hail a cab while you're downtown, the problem is finding a driver who is willing to take you to a neighborhood that he considers dangerous (or at least unlikely to result in a return fare). You can get that cab downtown/in the tourist areas real easy - but just watch how fast he'll work to get you out of his cab if it turns out he doesn't want to drive where you've asked him to take you. What we could really use is a system that not only tells a driver where you are but lets him know in advance where you'd like to go. Then I wouldn't have to spend a half-hour boucing in and out of cabs until I find a driver willing to take me home.
I gotta keep this short 'cause I have to go uninstall Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition to make sure that my company lawyers have a good defense for some of our employees.... Hell, I might just turn off our firewall and load MS Backoffice for an OS as long as we're looking to give more people/programs easy access.
I was a Sophmore at American University in DC when Mosaic was announced. I remember going to the main computer center on campus and inquiring about this 'web browser' program and if they'd let me load it on a machine there, since the 386sx in my dorm wasn't going to cut it (or, failing that, if they'd load it themselves). Having been shuffled from person to person, I finally ended up with the lab manager who stated "Why would you want to do that? You can get everything you would want off of UseNet. We can't have students loading every flash-in-the-pan technology on these machines."
Fine, he was rather right - there wasn't going to be much to do with Mosaic and I *did* get most things from usenet. But I would just love to go back and ask him today if he still considers web browsers a 'flash-in-the-pan'.
And, since it doesn't have a floppy drive, Dell is happy to charge you $59 for one for the modular bay. I know that this is inevitable, it has a cd-rw, blah blah blah, but for $2400, it seems like they could include a floppy.
I realize this is a small point, but there is no way that you posted that the WTC & Pentagon was attacked as the headline at 9:12 Eastern a year ago. The Pentagon wasn't hit until a little after 9:30 (as I and everyone else in DC would tell you). I know that you updated the story and changed the headline when it occured, but clearly at 9:12 last year folks in DC were still in shock from the acts in NY and very few of us realized that we'd be evacuating our city and streaming over our bridges on foot like our friends in NY.
That's great! No more slowpoke airplanes for me! Now I can finally hope to see in my lifetime my dream come true of cheap, reliable, balloon flights anywhere in the world. I'll keep my eyes set on Travelocity for the moment when they add a 'balloon' search and I'll be the first to book my flight.
(Stupid millionaires with nothing better to do with their money. Lord, some of us have to WORK - okay, fair enough, I'm playing at/. not working but you know what I mean - not just blow through cash in pointless excercises.)
And now, because I'm a damn slow typer, this is going to be modded (-1, Redundant). I really hate typing out a message, checking links and submitting only to discover that faster typers submitted before me. Oh well, it's only Karma!
Here, read the actual things submitted to the FCC here including internal photos, a manual for the 270, etc., etc. Or you can just go to Visorcentral (www.visorcentral.com) and read their writeup on it. But the FCC's page is more informative, IMO.
The Rendition cards, like most cards, were quite good presuming that the folks coding the games knew how to utilize the power of the card. My personal favorite game (Grand Prix Legends) is a little over 3 years old but was written specifically for Rendition cards and Voodoo2 cards - OpenGL support was tacked-on later. And of the three, there was no doubt that Rendition was the best for that game. Nothing inherantly wrong with the cards, imo, but they just got done in by the Voodoo cards of the time (which, of course, got done in themselves not much later).
Anyway, thanks for asking if I remembered Rendition!
This will probably get modded down as 'offtopic' or the like, but I'm so tired of seeing these "make sure to visit eff and write to your congressman" posts. Yes, it's true, but as a longtime resident of the District of Columbia, who should I write to? I don't have a representative, senator or anyone else in congress and I can assure you that reps from other districts only care about feedback from their constituants. So when I want to voice my opposition to SSSCA I should...? What?
Just another case of me not being allowed to participate in the democratic process.... Taxation without representation is alive and well in our nation's capital.
Ahem. Sorry 'bout that. I just needed to vent for a moment there.
I don't think that DOJ ever 'threw out some of the comments.' What they decided to do was to categorize the comments they received for the ease of the judge to review. In other words, they had paralegals label some as 'redundant' or otherwise, but nothing got thrown out. The judge will have access to all the comments that were submitted during the public comments period.
Meanwhile, DOJ announced here that all comments will be published on the DOJ website and also "the availability to the public, at no charge, of CD-ROMs containing all of the comments." So, nothing was thrown out...
You can read and comment about DC Serial cables vs. DMCA here on/. or do the same thing with the existing thread at kuro5hin.org. I'm glad to see that he's working hard to get his story publicized!
DOJ is planning on publishing (on the web/cd/federal register/whatever) the ENTIRE e-mail that they received from people commenting on the case. This means that along with your comment, your e-mail address will be available to anyone who chooses to sort through whatever DOJ ends up releasing. It isn't too much of a stretch to then think of people who decide it's a good idea to send an e-mail to all the folks who spoke against MS or for MS, promoting whatever their cause is.
I won't even think about the poor fools who thought it would be a good idea to include home addresses, phone numbers and other personal information in their signature.
I'm quite sure, though, that the media outlets will pour over these addresses to look for trends like what they did with the screwed up ballots in Florida after the last election....
Personally, I'm just glad that I used an account I barely ever use when I submitted my comment - no need having my work e-mail address published by DOJ!
How can anything that has the label "ADVERTISEMENT" (in all caps, to boot) above it be considered 'highly misleading'? It seems pretty clear to me....
Okay, you don't have to like this type of advertisement and there can be thoughts about the 'psudo journalism' feel of it, but as long as it says that it's an add, how is it any different from the "Special Advertisement Section" that shows up periodically in Newsweek, Discover, Sports Illustrated, etc.? Just ignore it and continue reading what you want to read....
I don't know that I really agree with the idea that physics need to be wildly realistic in the 'games' that I play. Honestly, I don't want to know what kind of recoil the rocket launcher in Half-Life would inflict on my character. I'm happier just watching the rocket track nice and straight towards my target instead of attempting to pick myself up off of the ground where I slid to a stop from the highly realistic recoil.
On the other hand, when I play a 'simulation' the physics are quite important. The best physics I've found in a sim are in a 3-year-old game: Grand Prix Legends. You're racing 1967-era Formula One cars, which means skinny tires, no downforce, high powered...which is a combination for difficult driving. But the physics engine is spectacular: you touch the gas when in neutral, you can feel the torque twist the body of the car; each wheel has its own model; touch the gas a bit to hard in a corner and be prepared to swap ends of the car, etc., etc.
The graphics are what you'd expect for a 3 year old game, but a dedicated community has sprung up to support the sim with everything from replay analysers, new tracks and graphics, and even a movie maker!
It seems that if you make a sim with good enough physics behind it, the fans of it can create new 'eye candy' to keep the sim looking good. But if you have crappy gameplay (see: Andretti Racing) and good graphics, the game will quickly be relegated to the bargin bin when something prettier comes along.
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No One Lives Forever (NOLF) 1 and 2 were the games that first made my wife (I know, I know, insert standart /. joke about the unlikliness of a 'wife' existing) enjoy PC gaming. Every now and then we'll still yell "AAABBBIIIGAAAAAIIIILLLLL" at each other and smile. Good campy humor combined with good stories in a FPS that works for both men and women? NOLF 3? Yes please!
So, I guess this will be the end of dupes on /. I feel like I'm losing one of the features that makes slashdot so special...
The review seems to have left out the important "disco ball" and "actuator man" features of perpendicular drives. More information is available from Hitachi here: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ead/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
While you're comparing yourself to a male narwhal, do you also do this (from TFA): "[the] tactile sense might explain why...two males gently rub tusks together"?
So typical of Logitech to toss out a new mouse with *great* new features (human like response!) two weeks after I buy their latest dual-laser bluetooth model. Anyone know the DPI on this new mouse?
I'd write my senators but I live in DC and don't have congressional representation.
You might look at the time on Dent's alarm clock in the preview for an answer to your question...
I suspect that won't be the only place you see 42.
Not only is this not very funny (why is it on /.?), I'm willing to bet that the person who submitted it first saw it via bbspot (under 'What Should You Do'). bbspot as a satire/humor site periodically can throw up the clunker of a dumb link, but why is slashdot choosing this as the best of humor/news for nerds on the web?
Whatever. Give credit next time when you see a link on another site and then submit it here.
mmmmmmmmmm...succulent nutmeat (drool)
Hmm, why can I not help but think about Electric Dreams, that campy 80's movie about a computer 'gone bad' that takes over a guy's house when both the computer & the guy fall for the girl upstairs.
I'll also preempt the inevitable pron references by saying, yes, there were also movies listed on Amazon that have the same name. Simply pointing that out does not make for a creative reply!
Of course that's not the real problem. At least here in DC, I play a constant game of hopping in and out of cabs until I find a driver willing to take me to my neighborhood. It's not tough at all to hail a cab while you're downtown, the problem is finding a driver who is willing to take you to a neighborhood that he considers dangerous (or at least unlikely to result in a return fare). You can get that cab downtown/in the tourist areas real easy - but just watch how fast he'll work to get you out of his cab if it turns out he doesn't want to drive where you've asked him to take you. What we could really use is a system that not only tells a driver where you are but lets him know in advance where you'd like to go. Then I wouldn't have to spend a half-hour boucing in and out of cabs until I find a driver willing to take me home.
I gotta keep this short 'cause I have to go uninstall Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition to make sure that my company lawyers have a good defense for some of our employees.... Hell, I might just turn off our firewall and load MS Backoffice for an OS as long as we're looking to give more people/programs easy access.
I was a Sophmore at American University in DC when Mosaic was announced. I remember going to the main computer center on campus and inquiring about this 'web browser' program and if they'd let me load it on a machine there, since the 386sx in my dorm wasn't going to cut it (or, failing that, if they'd load it themselves). Having been shuffled from person to person, I finally ended up with the lab manager who stated "Why would you want to do that? You can get everything you would want off of UseNet. We can't have students loading every flash-in-the-pan technology on these machines."
Fine, he was rather right - there wasn't going to be much to do with Mosaic and I *did* get most things from usenet. But I would just love to go back and ask him today if he still considers web browsers a 'flash-in-the-pan'.
-Mark
And, since it doesn't have a floppy drive, Dell is happy to charge you $59 for one for the modular bay. I know that this is inevitable, it has a cd-rw, blah blah blah, but for $2400, it seems like they could include a floppy.
I realize this is a small point, but there is no way that you posted that the WTC & Pentagon was attacked as the headline at 9:12 Eastern a year ago. The Pentagon wasn't hit until a little after 9:30 (as I and everyone else in DC would tell you). I know that you updated the story and changed the headline when it occured, but clearly at 9:12 last year folks in DC were still in shock from the acts in NY and very few of us realized that we'd be evacuating our city and streaming over our bridges on foot like our friends in NY.
Mark
That's great! No more slowpoke airplanes for me! Now I can finally hope to see in my lifetime my dream come true of cheap, reliable, balloon flights anywhere in the world. I'll keep my eyes set on Travelocity for the moment when they add a 'balloon' search and I'll be the first to book my flight.
/. not working but you know what I mean - not just blow through cash in pointless excercises.)
(Stupid millionaires with nothing better to do with their money. Lord, some of us have to WORK - okay, fair enough, I'm playing at
Mark
And now, because I'm a damn slow typer, this is going to be modded (-1, Redundant). I really hate typing out a message, checking links and submitting only to discover that faster typers submitted before me. Oh well, it's only Karma!
Cheers.
Mark
Here, read the actual things submitted to the FCC here including internal photos, a manual for the 270, etc., etc. Or you can just go to Visorcentral (www.visorcentral.com) and read their writeup on it. But the FCC's page is more informative, IMO.
Mark
The Rendition cards, like most cards, were quite good presuming that the folks coding the games knew how to utilize the power of the card. My personal favorite game (Grand Prix Legends) is a little over 3 years old but was written specifically for Rendition cards and Voodoo2 cards - OpenGL support was tacked-on later. And of the three, there was no doubt that Rendition was the best for that game. Nothing inherantly wrong with the cards, imo, but they just got done in by the Voodoo cards of the time (which, of course, got done in themselves not much later).
Anyway, thanks for asking if I remembered Rendition!
Cheers.
This will probably get modded down as 'offtopic' or the like, but I'm so tired of seeing these "make sure to visit eff and write to your congressman" posts. Yes, it's true, but as a longtime resident of the District of Columbia, who should I write to? I don't have a representative, senator or anyone else in congress and I can assure you that reps from other districts only care about feedback from their constituants. So when I want to voice my opposition to SSSCA I should...? What?
Just another case of me not being allowed to participate in the democratic process.... Taxation without representation is alive and well in our nation's capital.
Ahem. Sorry 'bout that. I just needed to vent for a moment there.
-Mark
I don't think that DOJ ever 'threw out some of the comments.' What they decided to do was to categorize the comments they received for the ease of the judge to review. In other words, they had paralegals label some as 'redundant' or otherwise, but nothing got thrown out. The judge will have access to all the comments that were submitted during the public comments period.
Meanwhile, DOJ announced here that all comments will be published on the DOJ website and also "the availability to the public, at no charge, of CD-ROMs containing all of the comments." So, nothing was thrown out...
Mark
You can read and comment about DC Serial cables vs. DMCA here on /. or do the same thing with the existing thread at kuro5hin.org. I'm glad to see that he's working hard to get his story publicized!
Mark
DOJ is planning on publishing (on the web/cd/federal register/whatever) the ENTIRE e-mail that they received from people commenting on the case. This means that along with your comment, your e-mail address will be available to anyone who chooses to sort through whatever DOJ ends up releasing. It isn't too much of a stretch to then think of people who decide it's a good idea to send an e-mail to all the folks who spoke against MS or for MS, promoting whatever their cause is.
I won't even think about the poor fools who thought it would be a good idea to include home addresses, phone numbers and other personal information in their signature.
I'm quite sure, though, that the media outlets will pour over these addresses to look for trends like what they did with the screwed up ballots in Florida after the last election....
Personally, I'm just glad that I used an account I barely ever use when I submitted my comment - no need having my work e-mail address published by DOJ!
-Mark
How can anything that has the label "ADVERTISEMENT" (in all caps, to boot) above it be considered 'highly misleading'? It seems pretty clear to me....
Okay, you don't have to like this type of advertisement and there can be thoughts about the 'psudo journalism' feel of it, but as long as it says that it's an add, how is it any different from the "Special Advertisement Section" that shows up periodically in Newsweek, Discover, Sports Illustrated, etc.? Just ignore it and continue reading what you want to read....
-Mark
I don't know that I really agree with the idea that physics need to be wildly realistic in the 'games' that I play. Honestly, I don't want to know what kind of recoil the rocket launcher in Half-Life would inflict on my character. I'm happier just watching the rocket track nice and straight towards my target instead of attempting to pick myself up off of the ground where I slid to a stop from the highly realistic recoil.
On the other hand, when I play a 'simulation' the physics are quite important. The best physics I've found in a sim are in a 3-year-old game: Grand Prix Legends. You're racing 1967-era Formula One cars, which means skinny tires, no downforce, high powered...which is a combination for difficult driving. But the physics engine is spectacular: you touch the gas when in neutral, you can feel the torque twist the body of the car; each wheel has its own model; touch the gas a bit to hard in a corner and be prepared to swap ends of the car, etc., etc.
The graphics are what you'd expect for a 3 year old game, but a dedicated community has sprung up to support the sim with everything from replay analysers, new tracks and graphics, and even a movie maker!
It seems that if you make a sim with good enough physics behind it, the fans of it can create new 'eye candy' to keep the sim looking good. But if you have crappy gameplay (see: Andretti Racing) and good graphics, the game will quickly be relegated to the bargin bin when something prettier comes along.
-Mark