correction, It looks like TurboLINUX is closing all their US offices. TurboLabs (based in Santa Fe) was a research division. My friend who worked there told me the same info as the article linked to above yesterday at lunch.
I'm not sure when the JPEG standard really started becoming popular, but I was still in Junior high when the patent was created and at that time the internet was still mainly text based.
Could it be that they haven't been enforcing their rights as the patent holder? Or maybe they recently purchased Compression Labs so they could get money for royalties?
is why the priced it as an "all or nothing" plan. Why not make the individual services available at a lower price as well, say $20/year for just email, or $30/year for email and iDisk?
true to the Lego legacy (legocy?) they still show alternate conformations on the box. I bought the "Luke, Vader, and the Emperor" small set as a decoration for my desk at home and it showed several other things you could make with the bricks.
I think your criticism of Lego may be slightly unfounded. Looking at the "themes" drop down at lego.com I see 2 out of 20 themes that are licensed (Harry Potter and Star Wars) the rest, while they may be inspired by movies (e.g. the Dinosaurs theme or Jack Stone) all seem to carry on the Lego tradition of giving you sets and letting you build whatever you want. The store also lets you buy whatever bricks you want in whatever color.
Not MAKE any special features and just release the same movie in the theaters that they release on DVD. Because that's the latest craze, every DVD has to have special features. Wow a cast biography and behind the scenes photos. Uhm, how underwhelming.
I can't believe that they can't just allow the user to set an option to watch either the theatrical version or the extended version. We're talking about DVD here not VHS.
I'm watching my James Bond "The World is not Enough" DVD, a little icon flashes in the upper right hand corner, I press a button on my remote. Bingo, I get to see extra behind the scenes footage. Why not make the DVD with an option to turn on all the extra footage? Then release all the "Behind the scenes" extras on a separate DVD for $19.95 US? The people that want to watch the theatrical release can, the people that want to watch the full movie with the extras can.
Because they want to suck as much money out of us as they can. I doubt that, for me at least, there will be anything extra on the first release that I'll care about so now I'll be waiting for the 2nd one.
It pissed me off. I still remember lying in bed next to my wife when she was reading "The Two Towers", not having ever read the series before. I too had refused to tell her whether or not Gandalf was alive.
I remember her happily saying "GANDALF!!" when she got to the part where he came back. I remember how happy she was that her favorite character hadn't died and I thought "the next movie is going to be so cool with an audience filled with people that happy." Oh well, so much for that.
They had a chance to create a nice litle movie moment, a moment for the audience to cheer and yell much like we did when Yoda tottered around the corner in AOTC. They chose to blow it instead.
The big question I have is, if they can pay him 50% more now, why give him a pay cut in the first place.
I don't know anything about this company or it's financial status but it sounds to me like they were just trying to squeeze more work for less money out of thier employees.
I don't think the argument is whether or not Perl is a better language than PHP, I think the argument is whether or not writing web apps using the CGI is better than writing web apps using PHP.
I recently started learning Perl/CGI, just for S&Gs to use on some hobby web sites I'm thinking of developing. I realized that a lot of what I was doing in Perl w/CGI I could do just as easily, and in many cases in fewer lines, in PHP. I already knew PHP so I ended up using PHP instead of Perl.
I think that Perl is still best used for it's original purpose, as Operating System "glue". It's great for system admin tasks, parsing through many lines of text, etc... PHP is better for rapid website development.
PS Visual C++.NET is still more powerful than VB.NET since it allows you to use pointers and manipulate the memory directly. So the hierarchy of power in.NET, at least with the MS family of languages from most powerful to least powerful is VC++.NET C#.NET VB.NET
- The endless character recaps by everyone there before, during, and after the game e.g. "Baldac has a 16 charisma and an 18 wisdom with a +2 mace of boring"
- The stench of geek BO, combined with smelly feet in the summer...ahhh...nothing like a rank basement to really bring out the geek aroma.
- The challenge of trying to:
a) figure out WHAT kind of food to get b) trying to find someone there who has money to PAY for the pizza (usually goes to the guy making $9/hour (e.g. "the rich guy") instead of minimum wage part time like everyone else.
- Trying to herd everyone into the room so that the game can start/continue
Jimmy Smits, who played Bail Organa in AOTC even though they never SAY his name during the movie (another annoying Star Wars thing, bit actors that have names but are never named in the movie just during the credits) that he and Lucas had talked about putting him in A New Hope, dunno if he was joking or not.
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They really screwed up the MSDN search engine, I type in words in the MSDN search engine. I get either no hits or unrelated hits.
I type the same words into Google, I get a list of relevant web pages at MSDN.
So now I use Google for all my MSDN searches.
He's a Linux guy, he doesn't wear ties!!
correction, It looks like TurboLINUX is closing all their US offices. TurboLabs (based in Santa Fe) was a research division. My friend who worked there told me the same info as the article linked to above yesterday at lunch.
PS he was told Monday that they were closing, I had lunch with him on Wednesday.
and he is no longer working there, they've closed the Santa Fe Turbolabs office.
It looks like Turbolabs is closing all their US offices and trying to sell off their products before they close their Asian offices.
I'm not sure when the JPEG standard really started becoming popular, but I was still in Junior high when the patent was created and at that time the internet was still mainly text based.
Could it be that they haven't been enforcing their rights as the patent holder? Or maybe they recently purchased Compression Labs so they could get money for royalties?
Why would I want to spend $369 dollars for a bluetooth headset
when I can spend $29.99 for a non-bluetooth headset?
or $399 for a bluetooth HP color inkjet
When I can spend $129.99 for a non-bluetooth HP color inkjet?
I don't think I'm inconvenienced by $200 or $340 to have a cord.
I think my sig more than says it all about these new announcements from Apple.
is why the priced it as an "all or nothing" plan. Why not make the individual services available at a lower price as well, say $20/year for just email, or $30/year for email and iDisk?
RPG Maker for PS and PS2
The original has been out for a while. It's similar to Adventure Construction Set.
true to the Lego legacy (legocy?) they still show alternate conformations on the box. I bought the "Luke, Vader, and the Emperor" small set as a decoration for my desk at home and it showed several other things you could make with the bricks.
I think your criticism of Lego may be slightly unfounded. Looking at the "themes" drop down at lego.com I see 2 out of 20 themes that are licensed (Harry Potter and Star Wars) the rest, while they may be inspired by movies (e.g. the Dinosaurs theme or Jack Stone) all seem to carry on the Lego tradition of giving you sets and letting you build whatever you want. The store also lets you buy whatever bricks you want in whatever color.
Not MAKE any special features and just release the same movie in the theaters that they release on DVD. Because that's the latest craze, every DVD has to have special features. Wow a cast biography and behind the scenes photos. Uhm, how underwhelming.
I can't believe that they can't just allow the user to set an option to watch either the theatrical version or the extended version. We're talking about DVD here not VHS.
I'm watching my James Bond "The World is not Enough" DVD, a little icon flashes in the upper right hand corner, I press a button on my remote. Bingo, I get to see extra behind the scenes footage. Why not make the DVD with an option to turn on all the extra footage? Then release all the "Behind the scenes" extras on a separate DVD for $19.95 US? The people that want to watch the theatrical release can, the people that want to watch the full movie with the extras can.
Because they want to suck as much money out of us as they can. I doubt that, for me at least, there will be anything extra on the first release that I'll care about so now I'll be waiting for the 2nd one.
...play Neverwinter Nights on my console.
:)
oh
But we WILL be able to play it on our Linux boxes, once we get all the flakey software drivers and hardware compatibility out of the way.
I think it was Adobe at least, anyway if an error occured while using the scanner a dialog box would appear with the text
"Bummer man, there was a TWAIN error"
It pissed me off. I still remember lying in bed next to my wife when she was reading "The Two Towers", not having ever read the series before. I too had refused to tell her whether or not Gandalf was alive.
I remember her happily saying "GANDALF!!" when she got to the part where he came back. I remember how happy she was that her favorite character hadn't died and I thought "the next movie is going to be so cool with an audience filled with people that happy." Oh well, so much for that.
They had a chance to create a nice litle movie moment, a moment for the audience to cheer and yell much like we did when Yoda tottered around the corner in AOTC. They chose to blow it instead.
embed your name in any custom graphics you create or name all the NPC's in the game after family and friends.
I did that in my D&D modules way back when, of course it wasn't to protect any IP rights I might have had.
The big question I have is, if they can pay him 50% more now, why give him a pay cut in the first place.
I don't know anything about this company or it's financial status but it sounds to me like they were just trying to squeeze more work for less money out of thier employees.
does it work under WINE or WINEX?
If it does, it can expand out the civ somewhat.
Why not work with him to make it 3D yourself?
never mind
I keep forgetting that not everyone that comes here is a programmer
I don't think the argument is whether or not Perl is a better language than PHP, I think the argument is whether or not writing web apps using the CGI is better than writing web apps using PHP.
.NET, at least with the MS family of languages from most powerful to least powerful is
I recently started learning Perl/CGI, just for S&Gs to use on some hobby web sites I'm thinking of developing. I realized that a lot of what I was doing in Perl w/CGI I could do just as easily, and in many cases in fewer lines, in PHP. I already knew PHP so I ended up using PHP instead of Perl.
I think that Perl is still best used for it's original purpose, as Operating System "glue". It's great for system admin tasks, parsing through many lines of text, etc... PHP is better for rapid website development.
PS Visual C++.NET is still more powerful than VB.NET since it allows you to use pointers and manipulate the memory directly. So the hierarchy of power in
VC++.NET
C#.NET
VB.NET
at least from what I can tell.
- The endless character recaps by everyone there before, during, and after the game e.g. "Baldac has a 16 charisma and an 18 wisdom with a +2 mace of boring"
:
;)
- The stench of geek BO, combined with smelly feet in the summer...ahhh...nothing like a rank basement to really bring out the geek aroma.
- The challenge of trying to
a) figure out WHAT kind of food to get
b) trying to find someone there who has money to PAY for the pizza (usually goes to the guy making $9/hour (e.g. "the rich guy") instead of minimum wage part time like everyone else.
- Trying to herd everyone into the room so that the game can start/continue
oh yes, I'll miss that.
sorry for replying to my own post. I found the TW 2002 & Gold site
http://www.eisonline.com/products/default.htm
Tradewars 2002 and Tradewars Gold(?) I think are still alive and well. I couldn't find a main site for Tradewars 2002 but I did find this
looks like there is a new MMORPG/RTS on the block with elements of Tradewars in it.
What is she studying? Prof. Badinovs "How to be a nogoodnik" at Whatsamatta U?
What would you need lockpicks at college for?
Now an iPod, she could get free software from the computer center at least.
Heck, get her a tape recorder so she can tape lectures or a small video camera.
Or if she has trouble paying tuition, get her a web cam and a guide to "Whoring yourself on the internet".
Jimmy Smits, who played Bail Organa in AOTC even though they never SAY his name during the movie (another annoying Star Wars thing, bit actors that have names but are never named in the movie just during the credits) that he and Lucas had talked about putting him in A New Hope, dunno if he was joking or not.
You can choose to not show Jon Katz stories on your front page in the preferences.
Seeing a post by Jon Katz is almost as bad as seeing the 20 or so comments complaining about Jon Katz.
To me, reading someone elses idiotic opinion helps me to soldify my own idiotic opinion.