" You know, the places where the game developer's limited what you could do because it would fsck up the pacing of the game or let you finish it too quik or they're just full of themselves and want you to do things their way (**cough** Half-Life **cough)."
Hehe. UT 2004 drives me nuts with that. It has these huge outdoor maps, and when you fly to the edge of the map *ThUnk* you hit an invisible wall. Uhh thanks guys. I really wish they had done something like had the computer automatically turn the ship around with a message like "You're not going AWOL on us!" Something with a bit more character, yannow?
"It seems to me that someone who lives in a tightly knit community and only drives a few miles to work and school should invest in a bicycle.'
It's easy to oversimplify this down to 'get a bike', but there are a couple of things to consider.
1.) It adds a significant amount of time to your job. One can spend 10 minutes driving, or half an hour riding. That does't include the time it takes to change clothes, assuming you work up a sweat. A coworker friend of mine used to ride to work, and he mentioned he had to leave an hour before work. Dunno if that's true in every case, but it is a significant amount of time lost. I never asked him about it, but he stopped using his bike to go to work shortly after his child was born.
2.) Who's to say that their course home is safe after dark? I'm thinking about my current job. I don't think I'd be in danger of being mugged or anything, but there is a long dark road with a 50 mph limit. I think I could reroute, but it'd be at a significant distnace cost. I'm sure others would have similar concerns.
My point? I'm not saying you're wrong. However, I do hope you'll consider that one needs to meet more than a couple of conditions to consider switching to a bike to get to work. Mass transit is a much broader option.
" A North American release for Final Fantasy III DS was not confirmed."
Argh! Wasn't FF3 for the SNES a huge seller? Assuming my memory isn't faulty here, I hope that little detail is considered. I'd really LOVE to play that game again. Although I'm baffled as to why this'd be a DS release instead of a GBA release. I have difficulty imagining that the DS would do much for it unless they modified it heavily. Why not release it on the platform that has several million owners?
"As administrator you should know quite well that you cannot just put a server into a production environment, especially not when you know very little about the system on it, but at any rate, it requires testing it first, including testing its security."
A.) I wasn't an administrator.
B.) It was a stupid moment, not something you can judge my character on. Unless you'd like me to claim you shouldn't have a driver's license because once you ran out of gas.
"Wait a sec, you're bitching that they won't pay you to work for them, when you don't pay them for thier product?
Holy hypocrisy..."
That's not hypocritical. I didn't buy my company's product at my previous job. Now, if you're saying that there's no income so he shouldn't be asking for money, this is true and I agree with you. It's not a sign of a hypocrite, though.
In short, I'm only nitpicking the hypocrite comment, I'm not attempting to shoot down your whole point.
"Wonder what M$ thinks is a bigger threat - Linux or OS X on the Xbox..."
I doubt one is worse than the other in their view. They want people to buy games for the machine, not bend over backwards to make it some sort of PC.
MS's moves to stop putting Linux on these machines has little to do with trying to supress it, rather they don't want to be footing the losses over it. I mean, let's be serious, if MS was making a profit on the XBOX systems, would they really be threatened by using Linux on it? Hardly. It's too isolated.
"I still think that 90% of the networking use will be DS to DS, and not involve the internet in any way. It's just not very practical."
Probably so. One of the ugly things about using console systems online is that it's not like just anybody can set up a server and get going. As for battery life... well I dunno until I get the thing. I suspect that they'll trade bandwidth for power. I mean, they don't need 10 megabits to the thing. I could easily be wrong, though. I don't know for sure if less bandwidth means less battery usage.
"Actually, your windows server was pwnd, but you lack the technical skills to actually detect said ownage."
Wrong.
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"The DS is seemingly not built to connect to standard WiFi servers - as far as I can tell from reading you'll be able to talk to other DS owners only."
Um, they can't use 802.11 and not be able to connect on the web with it. It's just software. Maybe the built in chat app won't support it, but there's no reason to suppose that other apps/games won't.
"I set you as foe previous to this little incident; mostly because you're also a friend-of-a-friend so I see everything you say and I've seen you say some things that I thought were pretty stupid. You're back to neutral, and I will read what you say in the future more carefully."
I appreciate that. In return I'll try to cut out the short quips, or at least make my meaning clearer. They've been getting me into trouble lately.
"What is the rage of WiFi? What is the range of voice?"
Well, I can talk to my gf in the other room with my voice, and I can talk to people on the other side of the world with WiFi. There's a little bit of difference.
I have trouble understanding why people don't see the 'connect to the net' feature of it.
"Seems simple enough to just shift into neutral and let the engine blow. Unless I'm missing something."
I'm going to expose my lack of car knowledge here, so no hard feelings if you point and laugh after I ask this. What about the parking break? Could gently applying it have done any real good?
"Maybe you're not familiar with how this works. You submit the story, we make the jokes."
hehe. The stupid thing is that this is a niche product, and actually its size makes it more useful for this particular purpose than a laptop.
If I were still at my previous company where I had to travel frequently, I'd probably invest in one of these. Laptops on a plane, no matter how small, are not fun.
It means you can view 99.999% of the web with IE. Seriously, and I'm not trying to be snide here, the purpose of that post was to say "it's useful to get to those hard-to-reach sites".
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" You know, the places where the game developer's limited what you could do because it would fsck up the pacing of the game or let you finish it too quik or they're just full of themselves and want you to do things their way (**cough** Half-Life **cough)."
Hehe. UT 2004 drives me nuts with that. It has these huge outdoor maps, and when you fly to the edge of the map *ThUnk* you hit an invisible wall. Uhh thanks guys. I really wish they had done something like had the computer automatically turn the ship around with a message like "You're not going AWOL on us!" Something with a bit more character, yannow?
"It seems to me that someone who lives in a tightly knit community and only drives a few miles to work and school should invest in a bicycle.'
It's easy to oversimplify this down to 'get a bike', but there are a couple of things to consider.
1.) It adds a significant amount of time to your job. One can spend 10 minutes driving, or half an hour riding. That does't include the time it takes to change clothes, assuming you work up a sweat. A coworker friend of mine used to ride to work, and he mentioned he had to leave an hour before work. Dunno if that's true in every case, but it is a significant amount of time lost. I never asked him about it, but he stopped using his bike to go to work shortly after his child was born.
2.) Who's to say that their course home is safe after dark? I'm thinking about my current job. I don't think I'd be in danger of being mugged or anything, but there is a long dark road with a 50 mph limit. I think I could reroute, but it'd be at a significant distnace cost. I'm sure others would have similar concerns.
My point? I'm not saying you're wrong. However, I do hope you'll consider that one needs to meet more than a couple of conditions to consider switching to a bike to get to work. Mass transit is a much broader option.
" A North American release for Final Fantasy III DS was not confirmed."
Argh! Wasn't FF3 for the SNES a huge seller? Assuming my memory isn't faulty here, I hope that little detail is considered. I'd really LOVE to play that game again. Although I'm baffled as to why this'd be a DS release instead of a GBA release. I have difficulty imagining that the DS would do much for it unless they modified it heavily. Why not release it on the platform that has several million owners?
"With this they probably could make a vaccine or genetically engineer a "virus" that could prevent AIDS*The disorder caused by the HIV virus*"
Maybe I just watch too much Star Trek, but this idea scares the heck out of me.
Could somebody ease my mind a bit and tell me we've successfully engineered viruses without nasty side-effects?
"Interestingly, it is linked directly to the ugly gene."
I'm gonna patent Slashdot as an AIDS vaccine.
"...it only predicts location, not WHEN the quakes will occur."
Grr, my can of coke is half empty. >:I
"As administrator you should know quite well that you cannot just put a server into a production environment, especially not when you know very little about the system on it, but at any rate, it requires testing it first, including testing its security."
A.) I wasn't an administrator.
B.) It was a stupid moment, not something you can judge my character on. Unless you'd like me to claim you shouldn't have a driver's license because once you ran out of gas.
" - Not affected by X-Rays unless you melt it (think MAD/Nukes)"
Kinda curious what Nasa would think of that. They're not a big fan of radiation causing random bits on a chip to get flipped.
"This is a new way to do binary logic mechanically, but until they get this to the speed of copper chips they're not going to be useful for much."
Would they survive an EM burst?
"Wait a sec, you're bitching that they won't pay you to work for them, when you don't pay them for thier product?
Holy hypocrisy..."
That's not hypocritical. I didn't buy my company's product at my previous job. Now, if you're saying that there's no income so he shouldn't be asking for money, this is true and I agree with you. It's not a sign of a hypocrite, though.
In short, I'm only nitpicking the hypocrite comment, I'm not attempting to shoot down your whole point.
"Wonder what M$ thinks is a bigger threat - Linux or OS X on the Xbox..."
I doubt one is worse than the other in their view. They want people to buy games for the machine, not bend over backwards to make it some sort of PC.
MS's moves to stop putting Linux on these machines has little to do with trying to supress it, rather they don't want to be footing the losses over it. I mean, let's be serious, if MS was making a profit on the XBOX systems, would they really be threatened by using Linux on it? Hardly. It's too isolated.
"I still think that 90% of the networking use will be DS to DS, and not involve the internet in any way. It's just not very practical."
Probably so. One of the ugly things about using console systems online is that it's not like just anybody can set up a server and get going. As for battery life... well I dunno until I get the thing. I suspect that they'll trade bandwidth for power. I mean, they don't need 10 megabits to the thing. I could easily be wrong, though. I don't know for sure if less bandwidth means less battery usage.
"Actually, your windows server was pwnd, but you lack the technical skills to actually detect said ownage."
Wrong.
"The DS is seemingly not built to connect to standard WiFi servers - as far as I can tell from reading you'll be able to talk to other DS owners only."
Um, they can't use 802.11 and not be able to connect on the web with it. It's just software. Maybe the built in chat app won't support it, but there's no reason to suppose that other apps/games won't.
... I'd say this star system is where the people that care about this story live.
"Apparently #38 is the common cat. I hadn't thought of cats as invasive..."
Ever have a cat in a small apartment? Mine's been trying to crack my password for 4 years now! (Fortuantely he thinks it's 255 characters long.)
"C'mon, Humans have got to rank someplace on that list."
We're not alien, everything else is!
"I set you as foe previous to this little incident; mostly because you're also a friend-of-a-friend so I see everything you say and I've seen you say some things that I thought were pretty stupid. You're back to neutral, and I will read what you say in the future more carefully."
I appreciate that. In return I'll try to cut out the short quips, or at least make my meaning clearer. They've been getting me into trouble lately.
"What is the rage of WiFi? What is the range of voice?"
Well, I can talk to my gf in the other room with my voice, and I can talk to people on the other side of the world with WiFi. There's a little bit of difference.
I have trouble understanding why people don't see the 'connect to the net' feature of it.
"we have a winner. I predict the DS will clobber the PSP (if it ever comes out)"
Perhaps, but this isn't the bit of info that'll do it in.
Games games games. It's the games. Games.
"Seems simple enough to just shift into neutral and let the engine blow. Unless I'm missing something."
I'm going to expose my lack of car knowledge here, so no hard feelings if you point and laugh after I ask this. What about the parking break? Could gently applying it have done any real good?
"Maybe you're not familiar with how this works. You submit the story, we make the jokes."
hehe. The stupid thing is that this is a niche product, and actually its size makes it more useful for this particular purpose than a laptop.
If I were still at my previous company where I had to travel frequently, I'd probably invest in one of these. Laptops on a plane, no matter how small, are not fun.
... and the first to ask "What crawled up your butt?" will get a knuckle sammich.
It means you can view 99.999% of the web with IE. Seriously, and I'm not trying to be snide here, the purpose of that post was to say "it's useful to get to those hard-to-reach sites".
" You said 99% of websites didn't render properly, which is really not true."
No, I didn't. So, nice try.