Besides the incredibly catchy stock music, it was ridiculously easy to create levels that were 100% unbeatable. If you had an IDM or Industrial / Noise cd laying about, the levels were so far beyond anything in the game that it was impossible. Yet entertainig.
While I have been using php.net's examples and documentation, along with the available mysql information, when I bought the first edition of this book it opened up a whole new level of work for me.
I mean, yeah, you can teach yourself php and mysql without any real trouble if you have a good head. But if you have never actually used a web programming language or proper database, then where do you learn the proper ways of doing something? There's only so much examples of code can teach you; they don't necessarily teach you concepts. That's what this book did for me.
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What's funny about this item is that last year I wrote up a PBS-oriented kids show, about a mad professor black hole (think of a black sock puppet with a mustache, googley eyes, and a black swirley patterned outfit) called "The Great Abyss". He went around talking with his sidekick, every now and then making hilarous jokes about Twistor Theory.
I'm sure we could dig up the old material if anyone wanted to adapt it to string theory. Heh.
Nostalga Browser. That's a good one. Can we look forward to a new version that only supports a proprietary type of Nostalgia? And then I can use an alternative nostalgia browser to suppress unwanted memories from inadvertently popping up in my head when I remember something specific.
I'm really looking forward to when my fond memories have to be signed with a digital certificate in order for me to remember them. You know, to remove the possibility that I might remember something incorrectly.
So what happens when you get your PhD through these means, and then someone says "Well, nice work, but everything you've done is utter garbage, and you've made fools of an entire community." as was the case in this scenario?
As performance artists though, I give them the highest regard.
Phoenix really is a fantastic browser as they go. Very quick, and at least for me it has been quite reliable.
I still like some features of Chimera better though, for example the drawer for bookmarks, but things like the tabbed browsing and gestures extensions more than make up for it.
I find it hard to believe that one can make a judgement on the difference between Xbox Live games and PS2 online and Gamecube online games, as there aren't any online games yet for Gamecube.
Now, the next level of this will be redundency. Walk into someone's office, and see two identical desks, with idendical pen holders, family photos, telephones and whatnot on the surface.
"What's that one for?" a casual observer might ask. "Oh, that's just my backup desk, for when my main one crashes."
Keep in mind though that people with a mind to watch Tech TV and the like already know about alternate operating systems.
I highly doubt that the average person flipping between stations is going to stop at a station about computers when there's better things on like the Home Shopping Network, TNN, or even C-SPAN 2. Too many choices!
The only time I've been around Hawking in recent memory was at Penrose's 65th birthday party (wow, was that really 5 years ago already?). He seemed pleasant, and thanked Roger for the nice party at the end of the evening.
I will have to agree with Taco's comments though on the fragility of his exterior, but at the same time I feel that it plays into the character that Hawking has become. I can only imagine what being forced to develop one's theories on the world for 30+ years can do to someone's perception of reality. Some of the ideas that Hawking has contributed to the math world couldn't have come from anyone else, and I wonder how much of a result this is from his condition.
Now if only twistor theory would win over super string theory. But that's another issue.
While no-one will disagree that this was a MAJOR problem, it has already been fixed. I have to say that it was pretty bad form for this bug to get out of the door today with the release of iTunes 2, but at the same time, I'm glad that they fixed it within 24 hours.
For a short time this afternoon the OS X installer wasn't available, but it has since been replaced with a version that doesn't randomly reformat other partitions or drives. The new installer can be found at apple's web site, free to download of course, assuming that you can run it, IE you're on a mac.
While this is currently true for the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance (it really needs a backlight), Nintendo actually made the Gameboy Pocket Light in 1998, but it was a Japan-only release.
The Pocket Light had the same size and shape as the later Gameboy Color model, but had a backlight not unlike indiglo watches.
It amuses me to no end that MIT is fully funding this effort to the tune of $10m, yet other universities that have been doing this for a while refuse to even notice that their teachers have been doing just this for years.
I'm quite biased, of course, because someone close to me is one of these teachers. Over the last two years, the University of Pittsburgh has ignored his efforts to create a fully functional course book of material online here, until this year, when they decided to ask him to teach double the normal class load, in addition to heading a new joint-department class, and setting up a series of classes to be taught exclusively online for highschool students who can't commute to the university for AP classes.
And yet, despite all of this, he effectively earns less each year, do to absolutly no funding, and a series of raises dramatically lower than the cost of living increase. Go figure.
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Besides the incredibly catchy stock music, it was ridiculously easy to create levels that were 100% unbeatable. If you had an IDM or Industrial / Noise cd laying about, the levels were so far beyond anything in the game that it was impossible. Yet entertainig.
Finally, we have a way of defending ourselves against those damn robotic sharks.
what's next? apple gets sued for music copyright infringement? oh wait...
Maybe Geoff can get his real .com domain name now.
How long before extra itunes codes wind up on ebay in lots? Will that be an appropriate thing to sell?
While I have been using php.net's examples and documentation, along with the available mysql information, when I bought the first edition of this book it opened up a whole new level of work for me. I mean, yeah, you can teach yourself php and mysql without any real trouble if you have a good head. But if you have never actually used a web programming language or proper database, then where do you learn the proper ways of doing something? There's only so much examples of code can teach you; they don't necessarily teach you concepts. That's what this book did for me.
What's funny about this item is that last year I wrote up a PBS-oriented kids show, about a mad professor black hole (think of a black sock puppet with a mustache, googley eyes, and a black swirley patterned outfit) called "The Great Abyss". He went around talking with his sidekick, every now and then making hilarous jokes about Twistor Theory.
I'm sure we could dig up the old material if anyone wanted to adapt it to string theory. Heh.
It would be nice if I could spell. Other than that, it would be hilarious.
The only problem is the generation loss and degradation in quality over time. Perfect way of forcing upgrades.
Nostalga Browser. That's a good one. Can we look forward to a new version that only supports a proprietary type of Nostalgia? And then I can use an alternative nostalgia browser to suppress unwanted memories from inadvertently popping up in my head when I remember something specific.
I'm really looking forward to when my fond memories have to be signed with a digital certificate in order for me to remember them. You know, to remove the possibility that I might remember something incorrectly.
I have fond memories of dialing up with the 300 baud modem hooked up to the old vic 20. When will I be able to relive that experience?
So what happens when you get your PhD through these means, and then someone says "Well, nice work, but everything you've done is utter garbage, and you've made fools of an entire community." as was the case in this scenario?
As performance artists though, I give them the highest regard.
I'm still laughing over those french guys who got the papers submitted to the international physics journals. That and their honorary PhD's.
Wow, I actually get to read an article before it's slashdotted. Amazing.
Yeah, but I mean, come on. Who really listens to the Rush Limbaugh show?
Doesn't that effectively cancel this out, meaning that no-one actually uses Real for anything?
Phoenix really is a fantastic browser as they go. Very quick, and at least for me it has been quite reliable.
I still like some features of Chimera better though, for example the drawer for bookmarks, but things like the tabbed browsing and gestures extensions more than make up for it.
I find it hard to believe that one can make a judgement on the difference between Xbox Live games and PS2 online and Gamecube online games, as there aren't any online games yet for Gamecube.
Yeah, if at the login prompt you type >console you automatically kill the gui and log in text mode only, to really speed up command-line processes.
Installation of Windows XP successful.
Now, the next level of this will be redundency. Walk into someone's office, and see two identical desks, with idendical pen holders, family photos, telephones and whatnot on the surface.
"What's that one for?" a casual observer might ask.
"Oh, that's just my backup desk, for when my main one crashes."
Keep in mind though that people with a mind to watch Tech TV and the like already know about alternate operating systems.
I highly doubt that the average person flipping between stations is going to stop at a station about computers when there's better things on like the Home Shopping Network, TNN, or even C-SPAN 2. Too many choices!
I suppose tomorrow we will start to see the simpsons movie on the various P2P file services. Heh.
The only time I've been around Hawking in recent memory was at Penrose's 65th birthday party (wow, was that really 5 years ago already?). He seemed pleasant, and thanked Roger for the nice party at the end of the evening.
I will have to agree with Taco's comments though on the fragility of his exterior, but at the same time I feel that it plays into the character that Hawking has become. I can only imagine what being forced to develop one's theories on the world for 30+ years can do to someone's perception of reality. Some of the ideas that Hawking has contributed to the math world couldn't have come from anyone else, and I wonder how much of a result this is from his condition.
Now if only twistor theory would win over super string theory. But that's another issue.
While no-one will disagree that this was a MAJOR problem, it has already been fixed. I have to say that it was pretty bad form for this bug to get out of the door today with the release of iTunes 2, but at the same time, I'm glad that they fixed it within 24 hours.
For a short time this afternoon the OS X installer wasn't available, but it has since been replaced with a version that doesn't randomly reformat other partitions or drives. The new installer can be found at apple's web site, free to download of course, assuming that you can run it, IE you're on a mac.
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While this is currently true for the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance (it really needs a backlight), Nintendo actually made the Gameboy Pocket Light in 1998, but it was a Japan-only release.
The Pocket Light had the same size and shape as the later Gameboy Color model, but had a backlight not unlike indiglo watches.
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It amuses me to no end that MIT is fully funding this effort to the tune of $10m, yet other universities that have been doing this for a while refuse to even notice that their teachers have been doing just this for years.
I'm quite biased, of course, because someone close to me is one of these teachers. Over the last two years, the University of Pittsburgh has ignored his efforts to create a fully functional course book of material online here, until this year, when they decided to ask him to teach double the normal class load, in addition to heading a new joint-department class, and setting up a series of classes to be taught exclusively online for highschool students who can't commute to the university for AP classes.
And yet, despite all of this, he effectively earns less each year, do to absolutly no funding, and a series of raises dramatically lower than the cost of living increase. Go figure.
I guess he's just at the wrong university.
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