So now that this is the 10th time that it's been pointed out that the games industry is bigger than X industry and is making X billions of dollars, can we finally be rid of pandering bullshit such as the Spike TV Video Game Awards? Please.
What with this, and with his attacks against the Money Market industry and the Insurance Industry, both of which are shaking up the cronies and tycoons and is sending fear down their spines, I'd have to agree.
It's about time that an attorney general used his power for real, world-changing causes.
This guy has obviously not been reading any Hard SF or "far future" tales. I've seen more and more of these kinds of books coming out. Ever since scientists found that the universe is accellerating and will not collapse, a lot of books have started coming out which look ahead to what life might be like billions, even TRILLIONS of years in the future.
For a good example, read Stephen Baxter's "Manifold" trilogy, which is just from the last 3 years. If that's not about the future, I don't know what is.
For anyone using Sprint phones - I've never payed a single cent for ringtones or images on my phone, barring the cost per K for sending the raw data to my phone (somewhere in the realm of a few cents per K).
You can go to www.sprintusers.com, and using their Focus Uploader, you can send a JPG, PNG, QCP, or MID file directly from the internet (or from your computer, through the net) to your phone through a text message. This works with anyone using Sprint service. I love it.
I've tried looking for "real" ringtones, by going to ringtone websites or searching for "free ringtones" (which ALWAYS leads to sites asking you to pay for them... wtf?), but I've found that almost every time I could find a free, HIGHER QUALITY tone if I simply searched the web for MIDI files, totally ignoring the whole "ringtone" aspect of the search.
However, you're making a leap of judgement here. That's like saying "All squares have two sides that are equal, and two other sides that are equal, so therefore, a rectangle must also be a square!"
Just because it was assumed that young unmarried women 2000 years ago were SUPPOSED to be virgins, doesn't mean that they actually always were.
Let us not forget about the assumed "celibate" priests, and what it turns out some of THEM actually do.
So it's possible that Mary simply got pregnant before she was married, and to keep a scandal from breaking out, she said "oh no, I never had sex! it was THE LORD who fucked me". And plenty of people could be dumb enough to believe her.
I'm done raping another religion, I'll shut up now.
The only possible issue at this point is that Microsoft appears to be planning to move away from BMP based skinning altogethor and move to PNG based skins in which case any skins made for Longhorn at this point in time will not work far into the future.
WHAT?! You do realize that you can convert an image from BMP to PNG in oh.. about 1 second in any image manip program, like Photoshop?
You've obviously never been to a live show where people use tracker music as a part of it. I've been to them. It's possible. For instance: Impulse Tracker allows you to press a button to continue down the tracks of a song, line by line, at your own pace; I've had friends use that as a way to mix in tracker music with more live instrumentation...
For those of you looking for a more "classic" collection of Tracker Music (when there was a more cohesive tracker scene, hq'd on IRC in the channel #trax, and when the demo scene was all Amiga and DOS-based and was truly creative), check out The Hornet Archive.
And I don't know about you guys, but tracker music has some of the MOST original music I've ever heard, much of it is so different from what I've heard elsewhere that unless the tracking scene really picks up and becomes more like it was 7-10 years ago, I doubt we'll ever get a chance to hear the variety of music like what was coming out of that scene again anytime soon. Just search for music by "Dizzy", for instance.
Only one person so far has commented that this is only for XP.
But it's not just that... why should I have to get an entire OS SERVICE PACK just to add pop-up blocking to my browser? That's rediculous. I haven't even installed SP1 yet, because of problems I've had in the past with old Win2k service packs (ie: SP3 or later of Win2k causes the OS to crash if I use any 3dsmax files made on a machine with an earlier service pack installed).
And again, what about those who aren't even using XP? What about those who still use Win9X? Maybe this is one more way for Microsoft to force people into upgrading...
I can see it now...
MS: Hey everyone, this is Microsoft. I know those cooky Opera and Mozilla folks are telling you to just install their web browser, but that's HARD. They could DESTROY YOUR COMPUTER. Instead, why don't you spend $179 and upgrade your OS to WinXP? Then you can just use our latest bloated service pack and get the same thing!
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hey, I would have replied with a similar response (albeit without the smarty-pants recipe:)), but alas, I was asleep.
But you are NOT alone. I made that other recipe in chemistry class years ago, and so I was left thinking "wait, this was definitely NOT silly putty I remember making..."
this is utter bullshit. There are tons of great hard SF books coming out lately. What with all the hard SF that's been coming out in the last few years based around the latest revolution in scientific theories, many authors in the Hard SF sub-genre are starting to view it as a "new golden age of Hard SF".
Try reading Peter F. Hamilton books. How about Gregory Benford? Or Stephen Baxter? These guys have some GREAT ideas about the future. Especially Baxter. Many of his books deal with the FAR FAR future (trillions of years), and it's really quite a fascinating read. Like his book "The Time Ships", which is an authorized sequel to the Time Machine. Well I'll tell you, it was a trillion and one times better than the steaming pile of crap that was the "Time Machine" movie, that's for sure.
So to say people are retreating to Fantasy is I think more just a reaction to the re-sale of the Lord of The Rings books, as well as the immense popularity of Harry Potter, more than anything else. If this Spider guy had bothered to actually look at whats on the shelves, and past pure numbers, maybe he'd see a different SF world.
Well, turns out that 3dsmax is only made for rc3 or earlier of Windows 2000. If you upgrade to rc4, it actually fucks with the.max format! Any MAX 3d files I make in a machine running Win2k RC4 will end up crashing the OS of a machine using RC3 or earlier. Let me tell you, this was endlessly frustrating for a video game development team. We had to roll back all of our computers to RC3, and then load all the MAX files into XP, save them in there, re-load them on an RC3 machine, and save them again.
Bullshit. All because for some reason, upgrading (patching) to RC4 basically CHANGED THE FORMAT OF 3DSMAX files. Bullshit.
GOD DAMNIT when will Slashdot add the ability to EDIT THE ORIGINAL ARTICTLE? It's fucking DOUGAL DIXON, not Douglas Adams, and we'll have 300 people (including me) pointing out this error, repeatedly... it would be so much easier if once the article poster read these responses, he could go into the article and CHANGE WHAT HE WROTE so that no more people would have the same stupid response to a stupid mistake.
no, actually the sketch in his book "The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe" is a sketch from his own evolved man ideas. No where in the book does it actually say that Dougal Dixon ganked from WDB or vide versa. Personally, I have many books by both authors (all of WDB's, actually) and I find both of them to be intriguing and creative. I read both of their books whenever I need some inspiration (I'm an artist). I'd rather see both of them get together and work on a project, that would be awesome! You see, working together is always better than being angry *aaaw*
Planning? PLANNING? If you'd read that link a little more carefully you'd see that the "release date" is set at 1998 - a whopping 6 YEARS AGO. I have a feeling this isn't going to happen.
I thought Taken was quite good. The story did drag at times, and the yes, there were wierd plot things... but the acting was good, and the character development was even better. That's just something you hardly ever see on Sci-Fi, not to mention science fiction in general.
And this show stuck to the age old tenet of any good sci-fi - hardly EVER show the actual aliens. In 20 hours, I maybe saw 10 minutes total of aliens. That's GREAT! The story is really all about the people, as it should be. Sci-fi, at least I feel, is always better when you can relate to the people, even when their situation is totally unbelievable.
And that's what took me, really. The characters and acting. It put "Taken" on a tier above everything else that's ever been on Sci-Fi, if you ask me. And sure, sometimes it seemed predictable, but more in the way of me going "boy it would be cool if things ended up THIS way..." rather then "sheesh, I new that was coming"
I can't believe I'm still seeing this being used as "proof" that the Fett's represent white America's fear of Mexican infiltration...
Not only don't I buy into this belief, but the "proof" is incorrect! If they new ANYTHING about Star Wars, they'd know that it wasn't the SON calling Jango "baba", but JANGO calling his SON "Boba".... BECAUSE THAT'S HIS NAME! BOBA FETT! Sheesh, he's only been one of the most loved characters of the Star Wars universe for like oh, 20 years.
WHAT?! Uhm, maybe, but probably not. Not only has one never been seen nor inferred indirectly, but the tachyon was more or less just a particle that "possibly" might have been seen to exist in various point particle theories, which to this date have all but been replaced by string theory and its encompassing M-theory.
Basically, in one interesting version of point particle theory, infinities would cancel if there were in existance a certain subset of exotic particles with spin of -2, known as "tachyons". The theory was shown to be implausible, but the idea of tachyons stuck when Star Trek used them in the ships' deflector shields.
-abomb
what the hell... this is for a computer. why would he want a CRT tv? Get a CRT monitor instead if that's your reasoning, those can display up to what... 3000 pixels horizontally with high-quality ones? (3000x2000)
-a
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So now that this is the 10th time that it's been pointed out that the games industry is bigger than X industry and is making X billions of dollars, can we finally be rid of pandering bullshit such as the Spike TV Video Game Awards? Please.
What with this, and with his attacks against the Money Market industry and the Insurance Industry, both of which are shaking up the cronies and tycoons and is sending fear down their spines, I'd have to agree. It's about time that an attorney general used his power for real, world-changing causes.
This guy has obviously not been reading any Hard SF or "far future" tales. I've seen more and more of these kinds of books coming out. Ever since scientists found that the universe is accellerating and will not collapse, a lot of books have started coming out which look ahead to what life might be like billions, even TRILLIONS of years in the future.
For a good example, read Stephen Baxter's "Manifold" trilogy, which is just from the last 3 years. If that's not about the future, I don't know what is.
For anyone using Sprint phones - I've never payed a single cent for ringtones or images on my phone, barring the cost per K for sending the raw data to my phone (somewhere in the realm of a few cents per K).
You can go to www.sprintusers.com, and using their Focus Uploader, you can send a JPG, PNG, QCP, or MID file directly from the internet (or from your computer, through the net) to your phone through a text message. This works with anyone using Sprint service. I love it.
I've tried looking for "real" ringtones, by going to ringtone websites or searching for "free ringtones" (which ALWAYS leads to sites asking you to pay for them... wtf?), but I've found that almost every time I could find a free, HIGHER QUALITY tone if I simply searched the web for MIDI files, totally ignoring the whole "ringtone" aspect of the search.
However, you're making a leap of judgement here. That's like saying "All squares have two sides that are equal, and two other sides that are equal, so therefore, a rectangle must also be a square!" Just because it was assumed that young unmarried women 2000 years ago were SUPPOSED to be virgins, doesn't mean that they actually always were. Let us not forget about the assumed "celibate" priests, and what it turns out some of THEM actually do. So it's possible that Mary simply got pregnant before she was married, and to keep a scandal from breaking out, she said "oh no, I never had sex! it was THE LORD who fucked me". And plenty of people could be dumb enough to believe her. I'm done raping another religion, I'll shut up now.
first post dudes
I wonder what this does to the hollow earth theory...
Hollow Earth Theory
You've obviously never been to a live show where people use tracker music as a part of it. I've been to them. It's possible. For instance: Impulse Tracker allows you to press a button to continue down the tracks of a song, line by line, at your own pace; I've had friends use that as a way to mix in tracker music with more live instrumentation...
For those of you looking for a more "classic" collection of Tracker Music (when there was a more cohesive tracker scene, hq'd on IRC in the channel #trax, and when the demo scene was all Amiga and DOS-based and was truly creative), check out The Hornet Archive.
And I don't know about you guys, but tracker music has some of the MOST original music I've ever heard, much of it is so different from what I've heard elsewhere that unless the tracking scene really picks up and becomes more like it was 7-10 years ago, I doubt we'll ever get a chance to hear the variety of music like what was coming out of that scene again anytime soon. Just search for music by "Dizzy", for instance.
Only one person so far has commented that this is only for XP.
But it's not just that... why should I have to get an entire OS SERVICE PACK just to add pop-up blocking to my browser? That's rediculous. I haven't even installed SP1 yet, because of problems I've had in the past with old Win2k service packs (ie: SP3 or later of Win2k causes the OS to crash if I use any 3dsmax files made on a machine with an earlier service pack installed).
And again, what about those who aren't even using XP? What about those who still use Win9X? Maybe this is one more way for Microsoft to force people into upgrading...
I can see it now...
MS: Hey everyone, this is Microsoft. I know those cooky Opera and Mozilla folks are telling you to just install their web browser, but that's HARD. They could DESTROY YOUR COMPUTER. Instead, why don't you spend $179 and upgrade your OS to WinXP? Then you can just use our latest bloated service pack and get the same thing!
Humanity: Do I get mouse gestures, too?
MS: WHAT THE HELL, WHO DO YOU THINK WE ARE, GOD?!
Buy Samsung? Or maybe don't talk to people.
hey, I would have replied with a similar response (albeit without the smarty-pants recipe :)), but alas, I was asleep.
But you are NOT alone. I made that other recipe in chemistry class years ago, and so I was left thinking "wait, this was definitely NOT silly putty I remember making..."
this is utter bullshit. There are tons of great hard SF books coming out lately. What with all the hard SF that's been coming out in the last few years based around the latest revolution in scientific theories, many authors in the Hard SF sub-genre are starting to view it as a "new golden age of Hard SF".
Try reading Peter F. Hamilton books. How about Gregory Benford? Or Stephen Baxter? These guys have some GREAT ideas about the future. Especially Baxter. Many of his books deal with the FAR FAR future (trillions of years), and it's really quite a fascinating read. Like his book "The Time Ships", which is an authorized sequel to the Time Machine. Well I'll tell you, it was a trillion and one times better than the steaming pile of crap that was the "Time Machine" movie, that's for sure.
So to say people are retreating to Fantasy is I think more just a reaction to the re-sale of the Lord of The Rings books, as well as the immense popularity of Harry Potter, more than anything else. If this Spider guy had bothered to actually look at whats on the shelves, and past pure numbers, maybe he'd see a different SF world.
Well, turns out that 3dsmax is only made for rc3 or earlier of Windows 2000. If you upgrade to rc4, it actually fucks with the .max format! Any MAX 3d files I make in a machine running Win2k RC4 will end up crashing the OS of a machine using RC3 or earlier. Let me tell you, this was endlessly frustrating for a video game development team. We had to roll back all of our computers to RC3, and then load all the MAX files into XP, save them in there, re-load them on an RC3 machine, and save them again.
Bullshit. All because for some reason, upgrading (patching) to RC4 basically CHANGED THE FORMAT OF 3DSMAX files. Bullshit.
nah, his head hair is longer than his beard. the two cancel each other out. terrorist+long hair=hippie
agreed. this is the nerdiest anything, ever.
Who wants to bet they'll be the 32000 worst games ever.
GOD DAMNIT when will Slashdot add the ability to EDIT THE ORIGINAL ARTICTLE? It's fucking DOUGAL DIXON, not Douglas Adams, and we'll have 300 people (including me) pointing out this error, repeatedly... it would be so much easier if once the article poster read these responses, he could go into the article and CHANGE WHAT HE WROTE so that no more people would have the same stupid response to a stupid mistake.
*sigh*
no, actually the sketch in his book "The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe" is a sketch from his own evolved man ideas. No where in the book does it actually say that Dougal Dixon ganked from WDB or vide versa. Personally, I have many books by both authors (all of WDB's, actually) and I find both of them to be intriguing and creative. I read both of their books whenever I need some inspiration (I'm an artist). I'd rather see both of them get together and work on a project, that would be awesome! You see, working together is always better than being angry *aaaw*
Planning? PLANNING? If you'd read that link a little more carefully you'd see that the "release date" is set at 1998 - a whopping 6 YEARS AGO. I have a feeling this isn't going to happen.
Whatever deeds...
I thought Taken was quite good. The story did drag at times, and the yes, there were wierd plot things... but the acting was good, and the character development was even better. That's just something you hardly ever see on Sci-Fi, not to mention science fiction in general.
And this show stuck to the age old tenet of any good sci-fi - hardly EVER show the actual aliens. In 20 hours, I maybe saw 10 minutes total of aliens. That's GREAT! The story is really all about the people, as it should be. Sci-fi, at least I feel, is always better when you can relate to the people, even when their situation is totally unbelievable.
And that's what took me, really. The characters and acting. It put "Taken" on a tier above everything else that's ever been on Sci-Fi, if you ask me. And sure, sometimes it seemed predictable, but more in the way of me going "boy it would be cool if things ended up THIS way..." rather then "sheesh, I new that was coming"
-a
I can't believe I'm still seeing this being used as "proof" that the Fett's represent white America's fear of Mexican infiltration...
Not only don't I buy into this belief, but the "proof" is incorrect! If they new ANYTHING about Star Wars, they'd know that it wasn't the SON calling Jango "baba", but JANGO calling his SON "Boba".... BECAUSE THAT'S HIS NAME! BOBA FETT! Sheesh, he's only been one of the most loved characters of the Star Wars universe for like oh, 20 years.
Andrew
WHAT?! Uhm, maybe, but probably not. Not only has one never been seen nor inferred indirectly, but the tachyon was more or less just a particle that "possibly" might have been seen to exist in various point particle theories, which to this date have all but been replaced by string theory and its encompassing M-theory.
Basically, in one interesting version of point particle theory, infinities would cancel if there were in existance a certain subset of exotic particles with spin of -2, known as "tachyons". The theory was shown to be implausible, but the idea of tachyons stuck when Star Trek used them in the ships' deflector shields. -abomb
I love the first frame, how it's all black. Oh, the next frame... yeah... looks black, too! Nice.
wait a minute... oh hah! I get it, I can't see the video.
they almost got me there with that one.
now really, where's this real "trailer" y'all keep talkin about? It couldn't be better than my Cobra(tm) Phoenix!
a-bomb
what the hell... this is for a computer. why would he want a CRT tv? Get a CRT monitor instead if that's your reasoning, those can display up to what... 3000 pixels horizontally with high-quality ones? (3000x2000) -a