Is it only me that morns the demise of 2D games? 2D platform games and "shoot-em-ups" rocked, and with more powerful computers these days I'm sure that amazing things could be done with them.
Does anyone know of some good 2D shoot-em-ups or platform games that have been released within the last few years?
This guy has the right idea. In order to stop law breaking, we must throw people in jail.
People often park in my street, which is a no-parking zone. What kind of society is it that lets people get away with so blatantly breaking the law? Throw some of them in jail for a few years, that would put the others off. And kids that drink under age. They need a good whipping. And don't get me started on people who "borrow" stationary from their employers...
Perhaps you didn't read the end of my post, where I point out that the majority of the populations in the countries in the "coallition of willing" are against the war.
Anyways, comments from us appeasers/euroweenies/liberals are just getting modded down as "flamebait" at the moment, so not much point in posting.
or who wish to remain silent for fear of reprisal from Hussein (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, and Yemen)
That's one way to spin it. Can you think of another reason why there isn't a single arabic country in the "coallition of willing" list? Come on, think about it...
The XML features they are putting into Office XP look to me as if they will only be of use in very large companies. I don't see much benefit for small or medium-sized companies. And the expense of upgrading is such that, in the current climate, I doubt many will make the move to office XP.
Microsoft used to be able to force everyone to upgrade because if you didn't, you wouldn't be able to read documents sent to you by others. I don't think that is going to be so successful now, there's too much resistance and the price is now too high.
Does anyone know of a company that is planning to move to Office XP once it's out of beta? I don't.
The stuff that you put in and never give a thought about is incredibly dangerous! [..] People like me, however, when I bring it up, are just labeled "paranoid".
Tell me about it! Here is a list of stuff that people actually eat, every day, without realising it!:
Oh, wait a minute, those are all naturally occuring in fruit and vegetables... They don't sound very nice, though, do they? And I'm sure some of them are toxic! Better stop eating fruit and veg!
And the fact is, it's going to be expensive. Hideously so.
Wood comes from trees, timber yards make trees into planks of wood, in case you didn't know that. Go to a timber yard. Ask them to sell you some untreated wood.
Stone comes out of the ground. In places called "quarries" they take it out of the ground and cut it into pieces suitable for building houses. Go there, buy some stone.
There you have the basic ingredients for your house. If you search very carefully, you might just be able to find a builder that is used to making constructions from wood and stone. I've heard they exist.
In windows, I double-click setup.exe, a GUI pops up, I pick the destination and off it goes.
Absolutely. This type of thing is essential for Linux if it is going to gain widespread desktop use.
I know it's complicated. But it just has to be made simpler for the end user, no excuses.
Like everything in the OSS world, there are loads of different projects taking different approaches. Whilst this isn't a bad thing, eventually a standard needs to emerge, and the sooner the better. I think more people should help out with Autopackage, which seems to be taking the right approach.
Correction: before al-Jazeera admitted they had the tape publicly. Or do you believe their denial of ever having heard of the tape and then airing it as Powell had predicted?
I know that the establishment in the USA has now portrayed Al-Jazeera as "baddies", but they they are actually one of the few Arabic languages stations that have a dedication to fair reporting. Not only that, but Qatar (the country where Al-Jazeera is located) is a democracy and what we would call "advanced". Just because they are Arabs does not mean that I am automatically assume what they say is a lie, just as I don't automatically assume that everything the establishment say in the USA is the truth.
The chief editor at Al-Jazeera told the BBC that he didn't have the tape when Powell read the transcript, and said the tape was handed to the station it later in the day. I have no reason to believe he is lying.
Unfortunately it seems that in the USA these days the general population has been brainwashed into thinking "USA - good, moral, truthful... Arabs, Chinese, French, foreigners generally - bad, immoral, liars).
If you do a bit of research into Colin Powell, you will find that he is not quite as squeaky clean as he is currently portrayed.
It just means that we intercepted it between Osama and the station.
But, surely then it would be a stupid thing for Colin Powell to make it public knowledge that there is a leak somewhere in the chain that Bin Laden uses to get tapes to the station? If Colin Powell had just waited a few hours, then it wouldn't alert anyone that they have a leak. I think it is more likely that Colin Powell thought that the tape had already been given to the station and made a mistake.
Oh, please give me a flying break. Please either the phone is powered down or it isn't.
Well then, perhaps it isn't completely when switched off?
There have been several responses to my message saying it is not true. All I can report is what I read. The journalist, who was also the writer of "Black Hawk Down", spent a lot of time interviewing people from the USA intelligence services, and the part of the book that talks about this is quite specific - it says they could remotely turn on Pablo Escobar's mobile phone in order to triangulate its location, and they did this at night so that Pablo wouldn't notice his mobile switching on.
I have also read it elsewhere - albeit from a slightly more dubious source. The British SAS man who now writes as "Andy McNab" mentions that it is possible to do this, albeit in a piece of fiction. But he does put a lot of true details about the secret services in his novels, which is what makes them so interesting.
Quite a few years ago, there was a spate of embarrassing phone calls by members of the Royal family that found there way into the press. The phone calls were "acidentally" overhead and taped by amateur radio enthusiasts. There was reported evidence that the phone calls had actually been played repeatedly near the homes of these amateur radio enthusiasts - presumably as a way of leaking the calls without it being traceable back to the leakers.
What has never been explained (or at least I've never come across any explanation in the mainstream press) is who did or might have done this, and why.
In a similar vein, it was never explained how Colin Powell had a transcript of Bin Laden's last taped message, before the al-Jazeera station even had the tape. To me that means either:
1) It was a fabrication or 2) They know where Bin Laden is.
Did you know that they can track the location of a mobile phone even if it is turned off, as long as there is some charge left in the battery?
I just read "Killing Pablo", about the hunt for Pablo Escobar, which says that Pablo stopped using his mobile phone because he knew it could be tracked. The book mentions how it was possible to turn it on at night when Pablo was asleep, so it's location could be tracked.
So if you find your mobile suddenly turning itself on in the middle of the night, it's time to get paranoid...
Now, after 13 years at Microsoft I am 40 and retired. I am older, wiser and RICHER than I was then, and I busted my ass to get here.
I look back on those free drinks and subsidized lunch room with great gratitude, because until I vested, that was where I got most of my meals. I got most of my exercise on the soccer field and at the Pro Club. I got most of my friendships and sexual conquests from Buildings 9 through 22.
Now, I get to do whatever the hell I want to do, like sit here in my pj's at almost 10 in the morning and look down at all the poor souls waiting to get across the 520 while I can hop in my SeaRay when ever I need to cross the lake.
It was worth every hard, long, fucked up minute I spent on campus because the rest of my days belong to me.
Well, I guess you and me have a different view of the world.
You see, I know how to enjoy myself without needing to be excessively rich. I have lots of great friends who I see very regularly, I live within a ten minute walk of the beach, I go hiking and biking most weekends. I don't work late or weekends. I often get up at 10am on weekdays, because I'm my own boss. And I don't need to be a millionaire to do any of that.
Personally I would not sacrifice thirteen years of the prime of my life for the just for the sake of money. If you think that makes me an idiot, so be it.
to paraphrase the above poster, I couldn't hack the real world so I dropped out, now I look at my ex-colleagues with a mixture of envy and spite because they're doing well. Peace, man.
Oh, far from it. I'm CEO of a small IT company now. I probably I earn a lot more than most of my ex-colleagues. And I certainly have a much better lifestyle. Frankly, many of my ex-colleagues are a bunch of sad losers. I think perhaps you imagine that I might be envious of them because, you're in their position?
You see, the real world (ie - outside of Mom's basement) works much, much differently than you think. [..] Wake up now before it's too late.
Believe me, I left my mom's basement a long time ago. I'm actually Managing Director (CEO in American jargon) of a small IT company. Myself and my staff get paid very well. There's little stress here (yes, I spend some of my day posting on Slashdot!) And nobody works weekends and rarely evenings. And we have a great relationship with all of our clients.
I started my career working for a company like Microsoft. I very quickly realised that it was a con, and most people working there were like sheep. I got out, and it was the best thing I've ever done.
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Is it only me that morns the demise of 2D games? 2D platform games and "shoot-em-ups" rocked, and with more powerful computers these days I'm sure that amazing things could be done with them.
Does anyone know of some good 2D shoot-em-ups or platform games that have been released within the last few years?
This guy has the right idea. In order to stop law breaking, we must throw people in jail.
People often park in my street, which is a no-parking zone. What kind of society is it that lets people get away with so blatantly breaking the law? Throw some of them in jail for a few years, that would put the others off. And kids that drink under age. They need a good whipping. And don't get me started on people who "borrow" stationary from their employers...
Can we please have some grown-ups moderating?
I'm a bit fed-up with this childish name calling, by both Americans and Europeans. Time to grow up.
Perhaps you didn't read the end of my post, where I point out that the majority of the populations in the countries in the "coallition of willing" are against the war.
/euroweenies /liberals are just getting modded down as "flamebait" at the moment, so not much point in posting.
Anyways, comments from us appeasers
or who wish to remain silent for fear of reprisal from Hussein (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, and Yemen)
That's one way to spin it. Can you think of another reason why there isn't a single arabic country in the "coallition of willing" list? Come on, think about it...
The coalition against Iraq counts 30 members at least. Quite a few of these are European.
The "coalition of willing" list is:
Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
And just in case you didn't realise it, in most of those countries the vast majority of the population is against the war. So, some coalition.
Yes, we all know how well European bureaucracies compete with American ingenuity... X.500 anyone?
The web, anyone?
I was so pissed the first time I saw the commercial with the teenagers saying "I helped terrorists because I bought a dime bag" (or whatever).
You're kidding! No way! I wish I had seen that. That must be just too funny.
What is the world coming too? It's a strange state of affairs when my main source of humor is reading the transcripts from Fox News.
The XML features they are putting into Office XP look to me as if they will only be of use in very large companies. I don't see much benefit for small or medium-sized companies. And the expense of upgrading is such that, in the current climate, I doubt many will make the move to office XP.
Microsoft used to be able to force everyone to upgrade because if you didn't, you wouldn't be able to read documents sent to you by others. I don't think that is going to be so successful now, there's too much resistance and the price is now too high.
Does anyone know of a company that is planning to move to Office XP once it's out of beta? I don't.
The stuff that you put in and never give a thought about is incredibly dangerous! [..] People like me, however, when I bring it up, are just labeled "paranoid".
Tell me about it! Here is a list of stuff that people actually eat, every day, without realising it!:
Carbohydrate derivatives -pectic compounds - galacturonic acid, pectin methyl esterase. Gums, mucilage - complex branched chains - gum arabic, gum tragacanth. Sugar alcohols - sorbital-hexahydric glucose mannitol, inositol. glucosides - anthocyanines, anthoxanthins, tannins - sugar and phenolic compound, cyanogenic compounds, fats, oils, waxes, esters of acid (fatty). polyhydric alcohols, aldehyde or ketone group. monosaccharides - Disaccharide, sucrose, maltose, lactose glucose and galactose, cellobiose - cellulose. Trisaccharides -raffinose - galactose-glucose-fructose, Polysaccharides, monoterpenes and deterpenes. menthol, camphor, triterpenoids - sterals sitosterol, stigmasterol, cholesterol, brassins, tetraterpenoids - carotenoids - B carotene, lycopene, poly-terpenoids...
Oh, wait a minute, those are all naturally occuring in fruit and vegetables... They don't sound very nice, though, do they? And I'm sure some of them are toxic! Better stop eating fruit and veg!
And the fact is, it's going to be expensive. Hideously so.
Wood comes from trees, timber yards make trees into planks of wood, in case you didn't know that. Go to a timber yard. Ask them to sell you some untreated wood.
Stone comes out of the ground. In places called "quarries" they take it out of the ground and cut it into pieces suitable for building houses. Go there, buy some stone.
There you have the basic ingredients for your house. If you search very carefully, you might just be able to find a builder that is used to making constructions from wood and stone. I've heard they exist.
What wood? Plywood (flooring substrate) and press board are all made with really nasty glues.
Well don't use fricking plywood or press board then!
Bricks are made of god knows what in some cases
Bricks are made of clay, baked at very high temperatues. There really isn't much more to it than that.
Mortar has really nasty things in it
Really, like, erm, lime, silica and sand?
Where do you buy your building supplies, for flips sake, Dr. Evil?
Erm, wood anyone? Bricks and mortar? Glass?
Having looked at the site, I can't help thinking that there might be a psychological element to "Environmental illness".
In windows, I double-click setup.exe, a GUI pops up, I pick the destination and off it goes.
Absolutely. This type of thing is essential for Linux if it is going to gain widespread desktop use.
I know it's complicated. But it just has to be made simpler for the end user, no excuses.
Like everything in the OSS world, there are loads of different projects taking different approaches. Whilst this isn't a bad thing, eventually a standard needs to emerge, and the sooner the better. I think more people should help out with Autopackage, which seems to be taking the right approach.
Correction: before al-Jazeera admitted they had the tape publicly. Or do you believe their denial of ever having heard of the tape and then airing it as Powell had predicted?
I know that the establishment in the USA has now portrayed Al-Jazeera as "baddies", but they they are actually one of the few Arabic languages stations that have a dedication to fair reporting. Not only that, but Qatar (the country where Al-Jazeera is located) is a democracy and what we would call "advanced". Just because they are Arabs does not mean that I am automatically assume what they say is a lie, just as I don't automatically assume that everything the establishment say in the USA is the truth.
The chief editor at Al-Jazeera told the BBC that he didn't have the tape when Powell read the transcript, and said the tape was handed to the station it later in the day. I have no reason to believe he is lying.
Unfortunately it seems that in the USA these days the general population has been brainwashed into thinking "USA - good, moral, truthful... Arabs, Chinese, French, foreigners generally - bad, immoral, liars).
If you do a bit of research into Colin Powell, you will find that he is not quite as squeaky clean as he is currently portrayed.
It just means that we intercepted it between Osama and the station.
But, surely then it would be a stupid thing for Colin Powell to make it public knowledge that there is a leak somewhere in the chain that Bin Laden uses to get tapes to the station? If Colin Powell had just waited a few hours, then it wouldn't alert anyone that they have a leak. I think it is more likely that Colin Powell thought that the tape had already been given to the station and made a mistake.
I think a more plausible explanation is that the hams in question knew what they were looking for and went out to find it.
But there were reports in the press about it being transmitted repeatedly, and in different locations.
Mr. Powell had the tape before it was broadcast.
He had it before the chief-editor of al-Jazeera even knew about it, according to the BBC.
Oh, please give me a flying break. Please either the phone is powered down or it isn't.
Well then, perhaps it isn't completely when switched off?
There have been several responses to my message saying it is not true. All I can report is what I read. The journalist, who was also the writer of "Black Hawk Down", spent a lot of time interviewing people from the USA intelligence services, and the part of the book that talks about this is quite specific - it says they could remotely turn on Pablo Escobar's mobile phone in order to triangulate its location, and they did this at night so that Pablo wouldn't notice his mobile switching on.
I have also read it elsewhere - albeit from a slightly more dubious source. The British SAS man who now writes as "Andy McNab" mentions that it is possible to do this, albeit in a piece of fiction.
But he does put a lot of true details about the secret services in his novels, which is what makes them so interesting.
Something I've always wondered...
Quite a few years ago, there was a spate of embarrassing phone calls by members of the Royal family that found there way into the press. The phone calls were "acidentally" overhead and taped by amateur radio enthusiasts. There was reported evidence that the phone calls had actually been played repeatedly near the homes of these amateur radio enthusiasts - presumably as a way of leaking the calls without it being traceable back to the leakers.
What has never been explained (or at least I've never come across any explanation in the mainstream press) is who did or might have done this, and why.
In a similar vein, it was never explained how Colin Powell had a transcript of Bin Laden's last taped message, before the al-Jazeera station even had the tape. To me that means either:
1) It was a fabrication or
2) They know where Bin Laden is.
Did you know that they can track the location of a mobile phone even if it is turned off, as long as there is some charge left in the battery?
I just read "Killing Pablo", about the hunt for Pablo Escobar, which says that Pablo stopped using his mobile phone because he knew it could be tracked. The book mentions how it was possible to turn it on at night when Pablo was asleep, so it's location could be tracked.
So if you find your mobile suddenly turning itself on in the middle of the night, it's time to get paranoid...
I should not have called you an idiot. I apologize.
Thank you. Very gracious of you. Nice to see someone being civil on Slashdot for a change!
Everything you mentioned, happened to me.
Now, after 13 years at Microsoft I am 40 and retired. I am older, wiser and RICHER than I was then, and I busted my ass to get here.
I look back on those free drinks and subsidized lunch room with great gratitude, because until I vested, that was where I got most of my meals. I got most of my exercise on the soccer field and at the Pro Club. I got most of my friendships and sexual conquests from Buildings 9 through 22.
Now, I get to do whatever the hell I want to do, like sit here in my pj's at almost 10 in the morning and look down at all the poor souls waiting to get across the 520 while I can hop in my SeaRay when ever I need to cross the lake.
It was worth every hard, long, fucked up minute I spent on campus because the rest of my days belong to me.
Well, I guess you and me have a different view of the world.
You see, I know how to enjoy myself without needing to be excessively rich. I have lots of great friends who I see very regularly, I live within a ten minute walk of the beach, I go hiking and biking most weekends. I don't work late or weekends. I often get up at 10am on weekdays, because I'm my own boss. And I don't need to be a millionaire to do any of that.
Personally I would not sacrifice thirteen years of the prime of my life for the just for the sake of money. If you think that makes me an idiot, so be it.
to paraphrase the above poster, I couldn't hack the real world so I dropped out, now I look at my ex-colleagues with a mixture of envy and spite because they're doing well. Peace, man.
Oh, far from it. I'm CEO of a small IT company now. I probably I earn a lot more than most of my ex-colleagues. And I certainly have a much better lifestyle. Frankly, many of my ex-colleagues are a bunch of sad losers. I think perhaps you imagine that I might be envious of them because, you're in their position?
Well, you started it. Peace indeed.
You see, the real world (ie - outside of Mom's basement) works much, much differently than you think. [..] Wake up now before it's too late.
Believe me, I left my mom's basement a long time ago. I'm actually Managing Director (CEO in American jargon) of a small IT company. Myself and my staff get paid very well. There's little stress here (yes, I spend some of my day posting on Slashdot!) And nobody works weekends and rarely evenings. And we have a great relationship with all of our clients.
I started my career working for a company like Microsoft. I very quickly realised that it was a con, and most people working there were like sheep. I got out, and it was the best thing I've ever done.
And you want me to wake up?