Bad joke aside, UT2k3 and UT II just came out fairly recently, and there are still people creating maps, mutators, etc. for them. Hopefully this won't steal too much thunder from the UT2k3 and UT II camps, since there's still lots of good gameplay left there.
P.S. Slashcode continues to be broken. Either fix the headers for games on the frontpage, or, apply the color schemes to all the other headlines. In fact, that might be kind of cool. BSD headlines in red, Apple in the Aqua theme, etc.
My laptop is a P90. It makes a very good
X terminal to my "real" machines, all running Debian. A 400 MHz K6/2 provides adequate response from Star Office 5.2 or 6.0. I can't vouch for Open Office. So yes, your old P90 is still useful and you don't need to go buy an expenxive new computer just to buy eXPensive new software. Microsoft's technology gaps are based on obsolete software production and marketing models that they can not reconcile.
That's the point. You aren't running OO.o on your P90, you're running it on a 400MHz AMD. Try installing it on a P90 locally and see how slowly it runs.
Please see my other post in response to essentially the same question.
P.S. 2 minute posting time limit sucks!! How about incremental increases, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes. That way, if you only post a couple of comments, no problem. If you're a troll, you have to wait more and more to crapflood?
Missing feature is support for alpha-channels in MSIE.
And this is the fault of PNG how? If IE choses not to follow a standard (surprise, surprise), does it require writing a new standard? Do people really think that MS will suddenly support alpha transparency in PNGv2?
This sounds like a great way to encourage people to move away from MSIE. Show them nicely renderd alpha transparent PNG files in Mozilla, and comparable files in MSIE and let them see that IE is in fact, crippled.
Honestly, who the hell is using version 1? Most pages still serve JPEG and (God help us) GIF files for images. Was there a feature missing from PNGv1 that was slowing adoption?
As much as I agree with the idea of standards, the fact is, if no one bothers to follow them, or implement them, what's the point?
I don't really understand why the movie studios would object to this. If they are getting paid the same amount either way, what difference is it to them whether the consumer pays $10 or $1? If you assume that the low-cost cinemas will increase the number of cinemas paying money to the movie studios, then they win.
Because, this affects the movie studios and their pissing contests as to who had the largest weekend opening. They don't brag about "50 million people saw our movie!" They brag about "$200 million on opening weekend"
If they had to track tickets sold, you could see from context that the movie was good/bad/whatever. Example: If you assume that tickets cost $10/ea (in whatever currency you want), and the movie opened to $15 million for the weekend, you can assume that 1.5 million people went to see the movie. In a country of 100 million people, that sucks.
By being able to brag about money, they don't have to acknowledge that fewer people actually see the movies.
Then you'll get sued by the criminal's family for needlessly endangering his life.
Hell, he might not even have to get hurt as long as the house was messy enough to present the risk of tripping.
First, if a messy house is the beginning of a lawsuit, I'm going over the the neighbor's place right now. Second, the use of the term "accidentally" in my original post meant that you could shoot the criminal, then it's just your word against that of a dead person. Probably not a lot of argument there.
Of course, the easiest thing to do would be have a good security system that would allow the police to catch the bastard and not have to worry about leaving things out, etc.
Lets not forget the man who successfully sued a car owner for driving over his hand as he was trying to steal his hub caps.
I think it's fucked up myself too. Sure if someone is entering my house, I can shoot them. But by God if they cut themselves on a steak knife I left out I might be liable for thousands.
Oh well, in the larger scheme of things our legal system is still new. It will take a while for stuff like this to get sorted out.
Obviously, the solution is to leave a gun out that they can "accidentally" shoot themselves with.
At first glance many will disagree, and likely every one of them will have no experience with McMaster-Carr. The thing you have to realize is that their printed catalog is about 3500 pages, and they stock over 400,000 items, and this site incorporates all that and more. I have to say this is hands down the most usable e-commerce site I've ever had to deal with, putting many sites with far fewer items to shame.
To which I say, "Amen brother!"
For those who want a comparison to an industrial supplier who has a not so intuitive website, Manhattan Supply Company
McMaster may sell some items at a higher price, but the ease of finding those items makes the price more than worthwhile.
For as long as I can remember, Nintendo hasn't had a monster catalog of games available. Sony's Playstation had more games available than the SNES or N64, PS2 has more games than Gamecube. However, that's not the reason that I (or other gamers, I assume) buy the console. It's not about how many games are available, but how many that you would actually *want* to play. It doesn't matter that every possible sports title is available on PS2 if I'm not interested in playing sports games.
My take on things is, the games that are available for the Gamecube are good, high quality games that people want to play. As a result, I don't think that Nintendo is going away any time soon.
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My emphasis:
The point isn't that your way is more confusing. It isn't. Some people just look at you strange because they don't see it often. The point is that
the reciept says what actually happened. And the customer can then verify that he is getting the correct amount of change back without doing extra work. This is the entire point of a reciept in the first place, and the reason they train cashiers to use the greedy algorithm.
Provided the key punching cashier monkey actually presses the right keys, yes this is true. But, how many times have you gone into a store, handed the cashier a $20 bill for example, and had them key in 2.00 <enter>, then get this confused look like "How do I get to $20 now?"
It's probably a good idea for someone who handles cash to be able to count change without having a register tell them what it is. I've also been in a store when the power acted up, and the cashiers were powerless (no pun intended) to help anyone until the registers came up, not because they couldn't write sales reciepts, but because they couldn't count change.
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http://www.mamma.com/, Metacrawler & others have been doing this for years. Is this because their search is limited to a particular class of data?
Then you can patent just about any fucking database app. USPTO, get a clue!
Easy way to stop this:
Patent Method for storing patent information using a computer.
Sue the USPTO for violation of your patent.
You own the USPTO.
Disolve all bullshit patents and put in place an intelligent system for patent approvals
Seriously, "acoustic lens" is just a fancy term for a horn, something that has been used for years to control dispersion and distortion. Also, a mic extended from the base to measure the low-end response? Has anyone heard of a Real Time Analyzer (RTA)? Linear X makes a PC based RTA for around $900 (PCRTAjr). If you can afford a $16,000 pair of speakers, you can afford to buy an RTA to set it up, or find a dealer that has one.
Until I got a chance to read past the headline, I thought we were discussing the games insurance companies play to prevent paying claims. Oops.
Back on-topic: I think MMO games will only continue to get larger, as more people get the network capability installed in their homes to make it practical. While the Sims online didn't do as well as some expected it to, Evercrack is still addictive (from what I've heard anyway.)
Add to wider adoption of broadband, reduced costs for computers and game consoles and it seems obvious that more people will be playing games online than ever before.
Could these guys have a trademark problem with
these guys ?
Well, I would hope not, but with the whole Phoenix (Web browser/BIOS/Database/Car) naming fiasco, don't count on it. Kind of makes you wonder if they researched this at all before coming up with this name?
According to the article, this "box" has both Bluetooth and 802.11 interfaces. You walk up to any PC that supports these technologies and can access your box.
I imagine that, alternatively, you could use a Bluetooth keyboard, speakers, etc. and display? to use this.
One, I'm currently in the process of re-reading "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by ESR. In it, he discusses how ego boosting is by nature frowned upon. I'm surprised that Hans has felt compelled to take this point up.
Two, as others have pointed out, there are plenty of ways for authors to get recognition in a project.
About screens
Help screens
README files
Man pages
Web pages
Mailing lists
Developer forums (sourceforge for example)
Bottom line: grow up Hans.
P.S. random "unknown" hackers
Larry Wall
Linus Torvalds
Richard Stallman
Andrew Tigdell
Guido van Rossum
But Hans is right, programmers don't get credit for their work./remove tongue from cheek
I understand the concept of BitTorrent, but is it a faster download or is it just being nice to Terra Soft's poor little mirrors?
It's a bit of both. Because you are sharing up/down bandwidth with other users, you may find that you can d/l from 5 people each @ 200Kbps, for a d/l of 1Mbps, which may be more than the one mirror can handle. Also, since the downloads come from peers, it does reduce the bandwidth necessary for the mirror to provide.
For more info on BT, visit the official BitTorrent site.
Slashdot Mirror
Duke Nukem' Forever finally makes it?
Bad joke aside, UT2k3 and UT II just came out fairly recently, and there are still people creating maps, mutators, etc. for them. Hopefully this won't steal too much thunder from the UT2k3 and UT II camps, since there's still lots of good gameplay left there.
P.S. Slashcode continues to be broken. Either fix the headers for games on the frontpage, or, apply the color schemes to all the other headlines. In fact, that might be kind of cool. BSD headlines in red, Apple in the Aqua theme, etc.
Twitter said: (My emphasis)
That's the point. You aren't running OO.o on your P90, you're running it on a 400MHz AMD. Try installing it on a P90 locally and see how slowly it runs.
Like this:
Alt+0128 on your Windows keyboard. Linux ???
Please see my other post in response to essentially the same question.
P.S. 2 minute posting time limit sucks!! How about incremental increases, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes. That way, if you only post a couple of comments, no problem. If you're a troll, you have to wait more and more to crapflood?
And this is the fault of PNG how? If IE choses not to follow a standard (surprise, surprise), does it require writing a new standard? Do people really think that MS will suddenly support alpha transparency in PNGv2?
This sounds like a great way to encourage people to move away from MSIE. Show them nicely renderd alpha transparent PNG files in Mozilla, and comparable files in MSIE and let them see that IE is in fact, crippled.
Honestly, who the hell is using version 1? Most pages still serve JPEG and (God help us) GIF files for images. Was there a feature missing from PNGv1 that was slowing adoption?
As much as I agree with the idea of standards, the fact is, if no one bothers to follow them, or implement them, what's the point?
So, you'd like a jack in the back of your head like that in The Matrix?
Because, this affects the movie studios and their pissing contests as to who had the largest weekend opening. They don't brag about "50 million people saw our movie!" They brag about "$200 million on opening weekend"
If they had to track tickets sold, you could see from context that the movie was good/bad/whatever. Example: If you assume that tickets cost $10/ea (in whatever currency you want), and the movie opened to $15 million for the weekend, you can assume that 1.5 million people went to see the movie. In a country of 100 million people, that sucks.
By being able to brag about money, they don't have to acknowledge that fewer people actually see the movies.
G) Cowboy Neal can't fit in a Sparrow
First, if a messy house is the beginning of a lawsuit, I'm going over the the neighbor's place right now. Second, the use of the term "accidentally" in my original post meant that you could shoot the criminal, then it's just your word against that of a dead person. Probably not a lot of argument there.
Of course, the easiest thing to do would be have a good security system that would allow the police to catch the bastard and not have to worry about leaving things out, etc.
Ok, venturing way OT, but yes, there is a site where you can vote on stories. K5. However, here on /., no way.
As antis0c said:
Obviously, the solution is to leave a gun out that they can "accidentally" shoot themselves with.
MrResistor said:
To which I say, "Amen brother!"
For those who want a comparison to an industrial supplier who has a not so intuitive website, Manhattan Supply Company
McMaster may sell some items at a higher price, but the ease of finding those items makes the price more than worthwhile.
For as long as I can remember, Nintendo hasn't had a monster catalog of games available. Sony's Playstation had more games available than the SNES or N64, PS2 has more games than Gamecube. However, that's not the reason that I (or other gamers, I assume) buy the console. It's not about how many games are available, but how many that you would actually *want* to play. It doesn't matter that every possible sports title is available on PS2 if I'm not interested in playing sports games.
My take on things is, the games that are available for the Gamecube are good, high quality games that people want to play. As a result, I don't think that Nintendo is going away any time soon.
My emphasis:
Provided the key punching cashier monkey actually presses the right keys, yes this is true. But, how many times have you gone into a store, handed the cashier a $20 bill for example, and had them key in 2.00 <enter>, then get this confused look like "How do I get to $20 now?"
It's probably a good idea for someone who handles cash to be able to count change without having a register tell them what it is. I've also been in a store when the power acted up, and the cashiers were powerless (no pun intended) to help anyone until the registers came up, not because they couldn't write sales reciepts, but because they couldn't count change.
Google for Gentoo Penguin
Easy way to stop this:
Seriously, "acoustic lens" is just a fancy term for a horn, something that has been used for years to control dispersion and distortion. Also, a mic extended from the base to measure the low-end response? Has anyone heard of a Real Time Analyzer (RTA)? Linear X makes a PC based RTA for around $900 (PCRTAjr). If you can afford a $16,000 pair of speakers, you can afford to buy an RTA to set it up, or find a dealer that has one.
Until I got a chance to read past the headline, I thought we were discussing the games insurance companies play to prevent paying claims. Oops.
Back on-topic: I think MMO games will only continue to get larger, as more people get the network capability installed in their homes to make it practical. While the Sims online didn't do as well as some expected it to, Evercrack is still addictive (from what I've heard anyway.)
Add to wider adoption of broadband, reduced costs for computers and game consoles and it seems obvious that more people will be playing games online than ever before.
Well, I would hope not, but with the whole Phoenix (Web browser/BIOS/Database/Car) naming fiasco, don't count on it. Kind of makes you wonder if they researched this at all before coming up with this name?
According to the article, this "box" has both Bluetooth and 802.11 interfaces. You walk up to any PC that supports these technologies and can access your box.
I imagine that, alternatively, you could use a Bluetooth keyboard, speakers, etc. and display? to use this.
One, I'm currently in the process of re-reading "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by ESR. In it, he discusses how ego boosting is by nature frowned upon. I'm surprised that Hans has felt compelled to take this point up.
Two, as others have pointed out, there are plenty of ways for authors to get recognition in a project.
Bottom line: grow up Hans.
P.S. random "unknown" hackers
- Larry Wall
- Linus Torvalds
- Richard Stallman
- Andrew Tigdell
- Guido van Rossum
But Hans is right, programmers don't get credit for their work.For more info on BT, visit the official BitTorrent site.
Yes, we could. But then, how would you karma whore?