Combat rocked for it's time
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Xbox 360 for $300
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· Score: 5, Insightful
So enlighten us - what spooky awsome video action were you using in 1977 that made Combat look so lame?
Here's the history lesson: The idea that you could actually interact with images on a television screen was pretty damned novel back then. Stuff moved around, you shot at it, it went boom.
Which, in the final analysis, describes most of today's popular video games as well. The images and explosions are just prettier now. But it all still boils down to "Push button, go boom", doesn't it?
I remember the plain disbelief when I told people that Excel was originally a clone of 123. Gave me a look as if I was telling them the world was flat.
Gosh, wait'll you tell them that Excel was originally writen for the Mac! Their heads will explode!
Then you can tell them how Lotus 1-2-3 was a knock off of Dan Bricklin's "Visi-Calc", which was released before PCs even existed! Wo00t!!1!
Unlike software companies that have cutsie little "if it hoses you up beyond all hope that's just tough noogies for you" license agreements, car companies will be held liable for anything that goes wrong with a car due to hacking.
Which is why, in the final analysis, this "vulnerability" is bullshit. Microsoft can get away scott free with releasing a shoddy product that's compromised 12 minutes after starting, General Motors can't.
Cable access wherever I go? I think this is actually the wrong direction for them to persue - my strategy would be to first add some sort of uber-addictive MMORPG (which ought to be trivial) along with some other video games (subscription based, of course), and then the hard part: pizza, caffeine and beer delivery on-demand.
Then I would have no reason to leave the house, ever. I don't need to take it with me 'cause I ain't leaving.
...but you may actually do a mistake by just thinking "XP is good enough for us" and shrugging it off with a premature "Any reasons to use this? No?" like you do.
Did you read the part in the parent about the site having several hundred PCs? An upgrade like that ain't exactly trivial, or cheap. So yes, I agree the default attitude should pretty much be "Is there sufficient reason to justify the time, effort and resources required to upgrade to New Shiny Hotness worth it, given what we have with Old and Working Just Fine right now?"
And offhand I don't see "Fewer Reboots" and "Nifty Icons" cutting the mustard.
Is it just me or does it seem like all MS is doing these days is just copy catting google?
Not to start Yet Another Bash Microsoft thread ('cause lord knows around here MS is just sacrosanct:) but I can't honestly think of anything really original Microsoft has done since Microsoft Bob.
Nobody else ever thought have having a little cartoon dog log you in.
The ironic thing is that Bob (I still have a copy BTW) can be considered an admission of failure on the part of MS. It's goal was to make Windows easy to use. Gee, wasn't the goal of Windows to make the computer easy to use?
Oh well, I like the little cartoons - when they're not being annoying (Clippy).
West to East, or East to West? So easy to forget
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MSN Virtual Earth Revealed
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I hope Microsoft has their virtual earth rotating in the right direction this time.
I tried to link to the original Knowledge Base entry for this, alas, it doesn't seem to be there any more.
I imagine we'll be seeing plenty of useless (but pretty) little blinkinlites and other silly gadgets built on RJ45 plugs, for keeping the dust out of unused router ports.
Doctors (their mistakes) are the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA....
But still, a good reason to doubt your doctor.
You'd be happier if the third leading cause of death in the US was falling out of windows, or shark attacks or something?
Of all the things I could die of, I think "Dr. FsckUp" would be at the top of my list. At least I've already got the attention of someone who's trying to make me better, and if I'm that far gone already I'm probably in a hospital to boot, full of other doctors, one of which might discover the farkup. Or at lesat give me some heavy duty pain meds to make my stay a little happier.
Yup, set me up for Death by Doctor. It's gotta beat the hell out of drowning, cancer, desanguination, gangrene, starvation, etc etc etc.
Wall Street Journal quotes a doctor: 'My impression is that people believe more of what they read than what I tell them...
Of course! Because you're telling them things like "Stop smoking, don't drink so much, cut down the fat, get some excersize, brush your teeth and watch your diet". Who the hell wants to hear that? Websites aren't so much interested in your health as they are in getting ad impresions, so they probably aren't going to preach.
On the internet no one knows you're a fat lazy bastard with bad habits. [but if I were a betting man, that's where I'd put my money]
I thought that with the ability to email the editor on Mysterious Future articles, I could Make a Differnce. Y'know, try to fix the system playing by their rules, from the inside.
But I was young and idealistic then. Now that the truth has come crashing down on me I have turned bitter and cynical.
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So enlighten us - what spooky awsome video action were you using in 1977 that made Combat look so lame?
Here's the history lesson: The idea that you could actually interact with images on a television screen was pretty damned novel back then. Stuff moved around, you shot at it, it went boom.
Which, in the final analysis, describes most of today's popular video games as well. The images and explosions are just prettier now. But it all still boils down to "Push button, go boom", doesn't it?
I remember the plain disbelief when I told people that Excel was originally a clone of 123. Gave me a look as if I was telling them the world was flat.
Gosh, wait'll you tell them that Excel was originally writen for the Mac! Their heads will explode!
Then you can tell them how Lotus 1-2-3 was a knock off of Dan Bricklin's "Visi-Calc", which was released before PCs even existed! Wo00t!!1!
Unlike software companies that have cutsie little "if it hoses you up beyond all hope that's just tough noogies for you" license agreements, car companies will be held liable for anything that goes wrong with a car due to hacking.
Which is why, in the final analysis, this "vulnerability" is bullshit. Microsoft can get away scott free with releasing a shoddy product that's compromised 12 minutes after starting, General Motors can't.
Cable access wherever I go? I think this is actually the wrong direction for them to persue - my strategy would be to first add some sort of uber-addictive MMORPG (which ought to be trivial) along with some other video games (subscription based, of course), and then the hard part: pizza, caffeine and beer delivery on-demand.
Then I would have no reason to leave the house, ever. I don't need to take it with me 'cause I ain't leaving.
...the average amount of time between hooking her up to the internet and her catching an STD.
...but you may actually do a mistake by just thinking "XP is good enough for us" and shrugging it off with a premature "Any reasons to use this? No?" like you do.
Did you read the part in the parent about the site having several hundred PCs? An upgrade like that ain't exactly trivial, or cheap. So yes, I agree the default attitude should pretty much be "Is there sufficient reason to justify the time, effort and resources required to upgrade to New Shiny Hotness worth it, given what we have with Old and Working Just Fine right now?"
And offhand I don't see "Fewer Reboots" and "Nifty Icons" cutting the mustard.
I always assumed it was Gates' ego - he honestly believed the sun should rise on him before most of the rest of the U.S.
Ford ripped off Panhard & Levassor, the unoriginal SOB.
Well shucks, every dingbat with a bicycle shop was building cars at some point... hence Chevy, Dodge, Lincoln et al.
Um, I've forgotten what my point was. Oh, yes. France Pwns Ford!!1!
Meh. I was using ETAK digitized maps back in 1990. Take THAT, Intarwebs!
Is it just me or does it seem like all MS is doing these days is just copy catting google?
:) but I can't honestly think of anything really original Microsoft has done since Microsoft Bob.
Not to start Yet Another Bash Microsoft thread ('cause lord knows around here MS is just sacrosanct
Nobody else ever thought have having a little cartoon dog log you in.
The ironic thing is that Bob (I still have a copy BTW) can be considered an admission of failure on the part of MS. It's goal was to make Windows easy to use. Gee, wasn't the goal of Windows to make the computer easy to use?
Oh well, I like the little cartoons - when they're not being annoying (Clippy).
I hope Microsoft has their virtual earth rotating in the right direction this time.
I tried to link to the original Knowledge Base entry for this, alas, it doesn't seem to be there any more.
You're not cleared for that information fnord.
Thank you. I will be announcing my API Real Soon Now.
I imagine we'll be seeing plenty of useless (but pretty) little blinkinlites and other silly gadgets built on RJ45 plugs, for keeping the dust out of unused router ports.
I think his name is Token.....
That's it! Now I remember. His name is J.R.R. Token.
The thing weighs in the neighborhood of 150 pounds. I don't know if UPS will even touch that.
Can it run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
[obligatory]
Who dies in the new Harry Potter?
Whathisname, the token black kid.
The Q&A section alone is worth reading TFA.
Q: Look at the size of that thing!
A: Cut the chatter Red 2.
My bet is that all of the legit cases against doctors are because of doctors that are doctors for the money and not because they wanted to be doctors.
Reading that made my head hurt. I'm calling my lawyer!
Doctors (their mistakes) are the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA. ...
But still, a good reason to doubt your doctor.
You'd be happier if the third leading cause of death in the US was falling out of windows, or shark attacks or something?
Of all the things I could die of, I think "Dr. FsckUp" would be at the top of my list. At least I've already got the attention of someone who's trying to make me better, and if I'm that far gone already I'm probably in a hospital to boot, full of other doctors, one of which might discover the farkup. Or at lesat give me some heavy duty pain meds to make my stay a little happier.
Yup, set me up for Death by Doctor. It's gotta beat the hell out of drowning, cancer, desanguination, gangrene, starvation, etc etc etc.
Wall Street Journal quotes a doctor: 'My impression is that people believe more of what they read than what I tell them...
Of course! Because you're telling them things like "Stop smoking, don't drink so much, cut down the fat, get some excersize, brush your teeth and watch your diet". Who the hell wants to hear that? Websites aren't so much interested in your health as they are in getting ad impresions, so they probably aren't going to preach.
On the internet no one knows you're a fat lazy bastard with bad habits. [but if I were a betting man, that's where I'd put my money]
I thought that with the ability to email the editor on Mysterious Future articles, I could Make a Differnce. Y'know, try to fix the system playing by their rules, from the inside.
But I was young and idealistic then. Now that the truth has come crashing down on me I have turned bitter and cynical.
HTH. HAND.
Your a geek.
What about my a geek?
(I'm a grammar nazi, too.)
The difference between Eniac and an Athlon 64 PC are .. speed and storage..
You might think differently if you were in charge of relocating one of each.