I know where one can get it now. I just mean his rationale has a problem in that while the music he copied back then is still for sale, the software most likely is not.
In Ohio at least, when you get to the table to get your ballot, they check off your name and next to it is your signature. You must sign and they check to see that it is your signiture. Once that is done, you can't vote again. So there is already a "challenge" inside the building. There is no need for people outside to be challenging people, especially not people who are strongly tied to a party. The real reason the Republicans want to do this is voter intimidation.
A bigger problem I think is release timing. When games come out for the Mac, it is often weeks or months or even years behind the PC and console releases. This makes it hard for Mac gamers to find people to play online with as by the time we get the damn thing, PC gamers have gotten bored with it and have moved on to the next big thing.
Apple isn't a gaming company and it is a bad idea for them to port games. However they do have resources for gaming developers and they work with the likes of Aspyr and Westlake to port games.
However gaming isn't the cure for Apple's market share woes. Mac gamers can get a cheap PC or a console to play non Mac games on. That is what I do, though I do buy the Mac game ports so that I support the mac gaming community at the same time.
Apple's main push is in usability and productivity of the computer user, the area where they shine and that is where their main focus should be. They can continue to make porting games easier for developers, but they should do no more than that. The developers can take Apple's help or they can sell less games. It's their choice.
Nice of Nintendo to do this, but they should be careful when throwing out letters like this. This is serious buisiness, not, must I say it... a game.
My guess as to what happened is that they were looking for sites which advertise wares/porn/spam etc via meta tags so that searches for that game will bring them up in the top 10 on google and other engines. They probably came up with a list of porn and other sites, searched google for them and lists of their games and that is how these letters were generated, based on which of these sites used that. It was apparently Nintendo's attempt to deal with link spammers, which I'm sure most of us also despise. Hopefully this will case them to re-think their approach. I would like as much as anyone to see these link spammers cut down, but this approach here is too likely to finger innocents like these girls.
It's cool to see more stuff seen on Star Trek coming out for real. In this case I refer to the episode of Deep Space 9 where Cisco and the others steal a Jem Hadar warship and the viewscreen consists of a pair of glasses which uses a laser to display the image inside the eye. That way only the commander of their ships know what is going on. It had the neat effect of letting Cisco turn his head and the view turn with him, giving him a 360 degree view outside his ship.
I can see this technology being of great use to fighter pilots and astronauts in the future.
Also reminds me a little of that Dr. Who episode where the people of Atrios were fighting a losing war and it turned out they were fighting a dead planet who's fleets were all controlled by a war computer.
I also don't understand how we are supposed to help them track down the perps if we can't even talk about it.
Bungie, what happened to you? You used to be so cool. I can understand being upset over the leak but not even letting us discuss it and then asking for our help in the same breath? Forget it. I won't even buy the game now.
Is it just me, or is griping about the internet the new fad of late?
Oh god, the internet is broken, oh god, the internet is doomed. Oh there's no control over the internet (isn't that a GOOD thing, even with some of the bad stuff?)
I keep hearing over and over from certain individuals that the internet is broken and doomed. I get on it every day and read up on topics of interest, chat with others, download files, etc and it doesn't seem very broken to me. Yes there are a lot of unsavory types and sites out there, but the same applies to the real world. The internet right now seems to work just fine as is, so why made such a radical change to who runs it if most of the problems on the internet are avoidable today? How is making the UN run things going to change the corporate corruption and 'stock kiting?' I don't see how this helps or changes anything.
If Microsoft decides that their way is the way to go, they can implement it in all of their product offerings, thus forcing others to follow suit or risk being cut off from the vast majority of the Internet using public.
Those of us who have been with Bungie since the old days when they were a Mac only shop will recognize this as the classic strange humor of the Bungie team. Anyone who has played the Marathon trillogy will recognize the ramblings of a rampant AI which fills the site in several places.
So this isn't a truely hacked site, but one they have made up to look that way.
He was the co-founder of Microsoft, but he left the company in 1983 and struck out on his own.
He has done many great things for astronomy and spaceflight since, such as donating to this as well as the Allen telescope array. But he did this on his own. Microsoft had little to nothing to do with this.
What I would like to see would be an @home project to process data taken on stars to search for wobble or to filter an image of a star from say Hubble over and over looking for telltale signs of less than jupiter sized planets.
Of course there is only currently a limited number of telescopes that can collect such data but that should increase in the next 20 years. I hope to see enough of such data to let us start looking for actual planets and enough of it that an @home is required for that too. That will help us zero in on possible inhabited worlds far more effeciently than searching for random gaussians will.
Even better, something with a nice wide touchscreen built into the panel that could also act as a navigation system.
I am getting a used 2003 Ford Crown Victoria (the P71 Police version) and what I am going to use for my sound system is the following.
Itronix 6250 Pro laptop. Got it for $125 on Ebay, comes with a color touch screen, 64MB ram and a 6 gig hard disk. Runs Win98SE just fine and I put WinAMP in double size mode so it's easier to poke at while driving. You can also use the shortcut keys (like V for pause/play, B for next, etc).
You can plug the laptop in using an intverter OR you can get a plug that lets the laptop run directly off the 12V cigarette lighter. The Itronix is a military grade laptop and can withstand shocks, being run over by a truck and extreme heat. It will likely do better in an accident than you will.
For the audio, I got a Soundblaster Go! for $50. It connects to the USB port and can hook up to the tape adapter or straight to the car system if you have optical in or standard RCA jacks in. I tested his in my current car (A '95 Grand AM with the crappy stock sound system) using the tape adapter and it sounds surprisingly good! Can't wait to see how it will sound in the nice system I will have put in the Crown Vic.
I am going to mount the laptop using a crown vic police laptop mount and I will also test out a Co-Pilot navigation system on it too at some point when I get the money to score one of those. I might also upgrade the laptop HD to a 20GB one.
So that gives me music and navigation for under $1000. Nav systems alone cost about $2000 at the dealer if it comes with the car.
Poor graphics? A study doesn't have to be prettied up to be a good study.
I think that mainstream P2P may have gone down. However underground P2P is going waaaay up. All the RIAA has done is to force this underground. The Pew study likely doens't look at the underground methods. I think most of us know what software I mean.
But let them think they've won. Hopefully it will blind them to reality and hasten their well deserved end.
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I know where one can get it now. I just mean his rationale has a problem in that while the music he copied back then is still for sale, the software most likely is not.
While I can believe you on the music, I'd really like to know where you found that copy of Beyond Castle Wolfeinstein for the IIe still for sale.
Yeah but I really hate those Covenant guys with the swords, especially the invisible ones.
No you aren't missing anything, but whoever is paying $265 is certainly missing something.
In Ohio at least, when you get to the table to get your ballot, they check off your name and next to it is your signature. You must sign and they check to see that it is your signiture. Once that is done, you can't vote again. So there is already a "challenge" inside the building. There is no need for people outside to be challenging people, especially not people who are strongly tied to a party. The real reason the Republicans want to do this is voter intimidation.
A bigger problem I think is release timing. When games come out for the Mac, it is often weeks or months or even years behind the PC and console releases. This makes it hard for Mac gamers to find people to play online with as by the time we get the damn thing, PC gamers have gotten bored with it and have moved on to the next big thing.
Apple isn't a gaming company and it is a bad idea for them to port games. However they do have resources for gaming developers and they work with the likes of Aspyr and Westlake to port games.
However gaming isn't the cure for Apple's market share woes. Mac gamers can get a cheap PC or a console to play non Mac games on. That is what I do, though I do buy the Mac game ports so that I support the mac gaming community at the same time.
Apple's main push is in usability and productivity of the computer user, the area where they shine and that is where their main focus should be. They can continue to make porting games easier for developers, but they should do no more than that. The developers can take Apple's help or they can sell less games. It's their choice.
Some games are still best played with a keyboard and mouse. Consoles don't really offer that experience yet.
I for one prefer having a keyboard and mouse when gaming. The only games that a joypad works best for are games like Mario Bros and some shootemups.
Nice of Nintendo to do this, but they should be careful when throwing out letters like this. This is serious buisiness, not, must I say it... a game.
My guess as to what happened is that they were looking for sites which advertise wares/porn/spam etc via meta tags so that searches for that game will bring them up in the top 10 on google and other engines. They probably came up with a list of porn and other sites, searched google for them and lists of their games and that is how these letters were generated, based on which of these sites used that. It was apparently Nintendo's attempt to deal with link spammers, which I'm sure most of us also despise. Hopefully this will case them to re-think their approach. I would like as much as anyone to see these link spammers cut down, but this approach here is too likely to finger innocents like these girls.
It's cool to see more stuff seen on Star Trek coming out for real. In this case I refer to the episode of Deep Space 9 where Cisco and the others steal a Jem Hadar warship and the viewscreen consists of a pair of glasses which uses a laser to display the image inside the eye. That way only the commander of their ships know what is going on. It had the neat effect of letting Cisco turn his head and the view turn with him, giving him a 360 degree view outside his ship.
I can see this technology being of great use to fighter pilots and astronauts in the future.
And I screamed, "What are these god damn animals"? as I swatted frantically at them with my flyswatter.
I looked to my companion. He was calm but the poor bastard would see them soon enough.
Also reminds me a little of that Dr. Who episode where the people of Atrios were fighting a losing war and it turned out they were fighting a dead planet who's fleets were all controlled by a war computer.
I also don't understand how we are supposed to help them track down the perps if we can't even talk about it.
Bungie, what happened to you? You used to be so cool. I can understand being upset over the leak but not even letting us discuss it and then asking for our help in the same breath? Forget it. I won't even buy the game now.
OT, but dude, use metamoderate (log in first!)
Is it just me, or is griping about the internet the new fad of late?
Oh god, the internet is broken, oh god, the internet is doomed. Oh there's no control over the internet (isn't that a GOOD thing, even with some of the bad stuff?)
I keep hearing over and over from certain individuals that the internet is broken and doomed. I get on it every day and read up on topics of interest, chat with others, download files, etc and it doesn't seem very broken to me. Yes there are a lot of unsavory types and sites out there, but the same applies to the real world. The internet right now seems to work just fine as is, so why made such a radical change to who runs it if most of the problems on the internet are avoidable today? How is making the UN run things going to change the corporate corruption and 'stock kiting?' I don't see how this helps or changes anything.
I think he meant the machines were getting smaller, more portable.
;)
Generally the performance of processors hasn't shrunk over the years but rather gained, unless maybe you are using certain Intel processors
If Microsoft decides that their way is the way to go, they can implement it in all of their product offerings, thus forcing others to follow suit or risk being cut off from the vast majority of the Internet using public.
Where do I sign?
Those of us who have been with Bungie since the old days when they were a Mac only shop will recognize this as the classic strange humor of the Bungie team. Anyone who has played the Marathon trillogy will recognize the ramblings of a rampant AI which fills the site in several places.
So this isn't a truely hacked site, but one they have made up to look that way.
He proved it could be done. No matter what becomes of Space Ship One, this is a crowning achievement and could pave the way for further advancement.
Any research like this is well worth doing, even if the end benefits are not immediate.
He was the co-founder of Microsoft, but he left the company in 1983 and struck out on his own.
He has done many great things for astronomy and spaceflight since, such as donating to this as well as the Allen telescope array. But he did this on his own. Microsoft had little to nothing to do with this.
If they follow your .sig's suggestion and use free software, then the MS office problem goes away, right?
What I would like to see would be an @home project to process data taken on stars to search for wobble or to filter an image of a star from say Hubble over and over looking for telltale signs of less than jupiter sized planets.
Of course there is only currently a limited number of telescopes that can collect such data but that should increase in the next 20 years. I hope to see enough of such data to let us start looking for actual planets and enough of it that an @home is required for that too. That will help us zero in on possible inhabited worlds far more effeciently than searching for random gaussians will.
Even better, something with a nice wide touchscreen built into the panel that could also act as a navigation system.
I am getting a used 2003 Ford Crown Victoria (the P71 Police version) and what I am going to use for my sound system is the following.
Itronix 6250 Pro laptop. Got it for $125 on Ebay, comes with a color touch screen, 64MB ram and a 6 gig hard disk. Runs Win98SE just fine and I put WinAMP in double size mode so it's easier to poke at while driving. You can also use the shortcut keys (like V for pause/play, B for next, etc).
You can plug the laptop in using an intverter OR you can get a plug that lets the laptop run directly off the 12V cigarette lighter. The Itronix is a military grade laptop and can withstand shocks, being run over by a truck and extreme heat. It will likely do better in an accident than you will.
For the audio, I got a Soundblaster Go! for $50. It connects to the USB port and can hook up to the tape adapter or straight to the car system if you have optical in or standard RCA jacks in. I tested his in my current car (A '95 Grand AM with the crappy stock sound system) using the tape adapter and it sounds surprisingly good! Can't wait to see how it will sound in the nice system I will have put in the Crown Vic.
I am going to mount the laptop using a crown vic police laptop mount and I will also test out a Co-Pilot navigation system on it too at some point when I get the money to score one of those. I might also upgrade the laptop HD to a 20GB one.
So that gives me music and navigation for under $1000. Nav systems alone cost about $2000 at the dealer if it comes with the car.
Now there is a match made in hell...
As has Mac OS X.
The problems won't be in the OS so much as in the router hardware and the application software.
Poor graphics? A study doesn't have to be prettied up to be a good study.
I think that mainstream P2P may have gone down. However underground P2P is going waaaay up. All the RIAA has done is to force this underground. The Pew study likely doens't look at the underground methods. I think most of us know what software I mean.
But let them think they've won. Hopefully it will blind them to reality and hasten their well deserved end.