Yeah, these games were not that good. So what. Baby Boomers indulge in pointless nostalgia all the time. Witness the success of various sixties-themed diners and fast-food restaurants. If playing these games for thair nostalgia value provides enjoyment -fun!- then who cares if the games are good or not? Besides, you gotta admit Marble Madness on a handheld system would be cool.
"Sooner or later, Mozilla will gain market share (we hope,) and people will have to begin building web pages that are standards-compliant not IE-compliant."
Sir, on the one hand, I think it is commendable that you believe so strongly in the platform-independant Internet. That is the way it is supposed to be, and IE's standard skewing is regrettable. That skewing is now the reality, however, and there is no way Joe User will keep Mozilla installed for more than 5 min once he sees that his pages look different - and standards compliance be damned. The average user wants their pages to look pretty. If mozilla doesn't do that, even in the name of standards compliance, most people will not use it. The only way to gain market share is to support the IE standards.
For now.:-)
But if Mozilla does grow more popular, then there's no reason it couldn't take a page from IE's book, and slowly stop supporting IE "Standards" in new releases. Once the user base for Mozilla is large enough - and remember, a period of IE compliance IS needed for this to happen - then if Mozilla starts adopting strict standards compliance, IE might be forced to follow suit. Might.
Buying a new car that has automatic transmission, 60mpg, dashboard computer, GPS, and also an 8-track player. And by the way, vacuum tubes and AGP slots were never meant to be in the same picture. I'm sorry, but it just ain't right.
My dad claims that some people like the sound of vacuum tube amps, so maybe this isn't nuts. But how do they deal with unfortunate tendency of vacuum tubes to burn out?
A friend of mine works for a company that was, for a time, seriously working on games for BREW cellphones. Programming-wise, everything you need, all the functions and graphical abilities, are there. The problem is that it's just too damn slow. BREW can't compete with Symbian, Palm OS, and Wince cellphones, I'm afraid.
"shitty quality control in the Lego components whose tolerances are so absurdly wide that it's just ridiculous."
Sir, these are TOYS, not industrial components. For toys designed to ease children into programming and systems designed, they're very good. Absurdly wide tolerances allow you to get results quickly even with crappy code, which is pretty much all the default programming environment allows. And the poor quality itself allows the components to be affordable. It's fine you don't like them, but please don't slam Mindstorms because they aren't suited for serious work. They aren't, but nor are they meant to be.
I love my diamond mako - really, a rebranded revo plus. Keyboard, sixteen megs of RAM, integrated word processor and spreadsheet apps, and you can find them on pricewatch for around a hundred. Like a sucker, I spent $300 for mine, but I still think it was worth the cash. Only problem is the lack of a backlight, but that's never been a real problem for me. Also, some people report battery issues.
In some interview I read - don't know which, might have been space.com or wired - the Rocket Guy said that if he couldn't launch legally in the US, he'd just move the entire rig and launch from Mexico, or some more friendly country.
Senator, what do you believe constitutes "fair use" of an intellectual property product, such as a DVD, computer game, etc. Do you believe people should be able to make back-up copies of such products?
Why not have a game where the object is not to GAIN territory and resources, but to lose them? Seriously. Say you start out with a certain amount of infrastructure - weapons, territory, energy plants, etc. - which will allow you to do all the standard RTS things. But all this pollutes horribly, or maybe it's radioactive, so it's slowly killing your side. But if you unilaterally disarm, the other side will destroy the uber-structure you need to keep from being destroyed in order to win the game. So the object becomes to build the smallest possible army you can to accomplish the job at hand - killing the other guy - and then destroying your own base as fast as you can. In other words, this makes huge armies and unit-hoarding counterproductive.
Say you're right, worst case scenario, and we screw up when terraforming mars. Who cares? There's no way we're going to make it LESS habitable, and we can just bring our people home. As for any martian microbes that may buy it - well, I'll shed a single tear for them, I guess.
X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves, and plain old-fashioned heat all travel at the speed of light. This star, as has already been established, poses zero threat to earth. But if it did, we'd see the light from the supernova the same time the x-rays were frying us. We'd be dead, probably, before the actual matter from the star reached us.
The problem is that a person of average intelligence would be able to pass any "gun resposibility" course you might teach, but simply choose not to apply that knowledge once they are permitted to own a gun. Or, a person might pass the course, and then decide to use their gun to harm another human being. I have no doubt that you, sir, are responsible and sane. But is the benefit you gain from being able to own a gun - recreation - worth the consequences we face, should someone who should not have a gun get one? It's not "fair", but I would be willing to see millions of Americans deprived of their - admittedly - safe and responsible sport, if anti-gun legislation could keep just one gun out of the hands of a murderer or idiot. And the most effective anti-gun legislation would be one that completely bans guns for non-police or non-military use.
Frankly, your shotgun, rifle, or handgun would be next to useless against a government armed with missiles and assault weapons, should it choose to run amok. So that argument is just plain moot.
Roblimo and Micheal, as previously mentioned, were in the military, and I also know that there are more than a few military and ex-military people who read and post to/. So maybe a lot of it is just in fun?
Every combat soldier in Afganistan right now volunteered for the duty, according to the Air Force Reserve Lt. Colonel that came in to talk to my high school french class.
I will quite readily admit I am an "anti-gun" nut, but I see no problem with these games. They're games, not guns, and I'm got no problem with guns in the hands of the military. In fact, I'd like to see them get newer, better guns. It's guns in the hands of Joe Schmoe that worry me. That said, I think all sysadmins should be issued Uzis - the one perk of a grim, bleak existence.
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Yeah, these games were not that good. So what. Baby Boomers indulge in pointless nostalgia all the time. Witness the success of various sixties-themed diners and fast-food restaurants. If playing these games for thair nostalgia value provides enjoyment -fun!- then who cares if the games are good or not? Besides, you gotta admit Marble Madness on a handheld system would be cool.
Users would just switch to IE to get rid of the "error messages."
"Sooner or later, Mozilla will gain market share (we hope,) and people will have to begin building web pages that are standards-compliant not IE-compliant."
:-)
Sir, on the one hand, I think it is commendable that you believe so strongly in the platform-independant Internet. That is the way it is supposed to be, and IE's standard skewing is regrettable. That skewing is now the reality, however, and there is no way Joe User will keep Mozilla installed for more than 5 min once he sees that his pages look different - and standards compliance be damned. The average user wants their pages to look pretty. If mozilla doesn't do that, even in the name of standards compliance, most people will not use it. The only way to gain market share is to support the IE standards.
For now.
But if Mozilla does grow more popular, then there's no reason it couldn't take a page from IE's book, and slowly stop supporting IE "Standards" in new releases. Once the user base for Mozilla is large enough - and remember, a period of IE compliance IS needed for this to happen - then if Mozilla starts adopting strict standards compliance, IE might be forced to follow suit. Might.
It worked for microsoft - could it work here?
Some of the Cubes shipped with an ATI graphics card that had a fan on it.
Buying a new car that has automatic transmission, 60mpg, dashboard computer, GPS, and also an 8-track player. And by the way, vacuum tubes and AGP slots were never meant to be in the same picture. I'm sorry, but it just ain't right.
My dad claims that some people like the sound of vacuum tube amps, so maybe this isn't nuts. But how do they deal with unfortunate tendency of vacuum tubes to burn out?
You can download the SDK here: https://brewx.qualcomm.com/developer/sdk/download. jsp
A friend of mine works for a company that was, for a time, seriously working on games for BREW cellphones. Programming-wise, everything you need, all the functions and graphical abilities, are there. The problem is that it's just too damn slow. BREW can't compete with Symbian, Palm OS, and Wince cellphones, I'm afraid.
"shitty quality control in the Lego components whose tolerances are so absurdly wide that it's just ridiculous."
Sir, these are TOYS, not industrial components. For toys designed to ease children into programming and systems designed, they're very good. Absurdly wide tolerances allow you to get results quickly even with crappy code, which is pretty much all the default programming environment allows. And the poor quality itself allows the components to be affordable. It's fine you don't like them, but please don't slam Mindstorms because they aren't suited for serious work. They aren't, but nor are they meant to be.
I love my diamond mako - really, a rebranded revo plus. Keyboard, sixteen megs of RAM, integrated word processor and spreadsheet apps, and you can find them on pricewatch for around a hundred. Like a sucker, I spent $300 for mine, but I still think it was worth the cash. Only problem is the lack of a backlight, but that's never been a real problem for me. Also, some people report battery issues.
Keyghost (www.keyghost.com) keystroke logger. I'm buying one before I leave for college - never know when it'll come in handy.
"first-fun-to-read-graphics-card-review"
Um...all of Mr. Rutter's reviews, video card and others, are fun to read. Check them out.
In some interview I read - don't know which, might have been space.com or wired - the Rocket Guy said that if he couldn't launch legally in the US, he'd just move the entire rig and launch from Mexico, or some more friendly country.
Senator, what do you believe constitutes "fair use" of an intellectual property product, such as a DVD, computer game, etc. Do you believe people should be able to make back-up copies of such products?
Why not have a game where the object is not to GAIN territory and resources, but to lose them? Seriously. Say you start out with a certain amount of infrastructure - weapons, territory, energy plants, etc. - which will allow you to do all the standard RTS things. But all this pollutes horribly, or maybe it's radioactive, so it's slowly killing your side. But if you unilaterally disarm, the other side will destroy the uber-structure you need to keep from being destroyed in order to win the game. So the object becomes to build the smallest possible army you can to accomplish the job at hand - killing the other guy - and then destroying your own base as fast as you can. In other words, this makes huge armies and unit-hoarding counterproductive.
What do you think?
Check out ifarchive.org, xyzzynews.com.
"Stars are neat :)."
Yes. Yes, they are.
Especially compared to the alternative, which would be the rather unpleasant absence of stars.
Say you're right, worst case scenario, and we screw up when terraforming mars. Who cares? There's no way we're going to make it LESS habitable, and we can just bring our people home. As for any martian microbes that may buy it - well, I'll shed a single tear for them, I guess.
...a beowulf cluster of -
Ah crap, it really is useless now. I've lost my purpose in life! *sobs*
"If a Marine can use (Microsoft) Word, he can get this plane to fly."
It looks like you are trying to crash this plane into the ground - would you like me to autoformat your controlled flight into terrain?
X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves, and plain old-fashioned heat all travel at the speed of light. This star, as has already been established, poses zero threat to earth. But if it did, we'd see the light from the supernova the same time the x-rays were frying us. We'd be dead, probably, before the actual matter from the star reached us.
The problem is that a person of average intelligence would be able to pass any "gun resposibility" course you might teach, but simply choose not to apply that knowledge once they are permitted to own a gun. Or, a person might pass the course, and then decide to use their gun to harm another human being. I have no doubt that you, sir, are responsible and sane. But is the benefit you gain from being able to own a gun - recreation - worth the consequences we face, should someone who should not have a gun get one? It's not "fair", but I would be willing to see millions of Americans deprived of their - admittedly - safe and responsible sport, if anti-gun legislation could keep just one gun out of the hands of a murderer or idiot. And the most effective anti-gun legislation would be one that completely bans guns for non-police or non-military use.
Frankly, your shotgun, rifle, or handgun would be next to useless against a government armed with missiles and assault weapons, should it choose to run amok. So that argument is just plain moot.
Roblimo and Micheal, as previously mentioned, were in the military, and I also know that there are more than a few military and ex-military people who read and post to /. So maybe a lot of it is just in fun?
Every combat soldier in Afganistan right now volunteered for the duty, according to the Air Force Reserve Lt. Colonel that came in to talk to my high school french class.
I will quite readily admit I am an "anti-gun" nut, but I see no problem with these games. They're games, not guns, and I'm got no problem with guns in the hands of the military. In fact, I'd like to see them get newer, better guns. It's guns in the hands of Joe Schmoe that worry me. That said, I think all sysadmins should be issued Uzis - the one perk of a grim, bleak existence.