If you cruise through the detailed lists for Sony and Nintendo consoles, you'll see tons of AAA non-violent titles beyond sports and mini-games. The XBoxes look pretty violent by comparison.
On a related note: Guitar Hero II is awesome. It doesn't get much more AAA than that.
I'm using a Presonus Firebox and am 100% happy with it. They also make a rackmount version with more inputs/outputs called the Firepod that would probably perfect:
In fact, I recommend you not create a new language at all and just use Lua. It's a deceptively simple language that allows you to extend it through certain meta-constructs to become pretty much anything you need-- from simple data description to full Object-Orientation.
I once read through the entire dragon book with the intention of creating my own language; I gave it all up when I found Lua.
It was so
far ahead of its time and the whole premise of the story - what is it to be human and who are we, where we come from? It's the age-old questions.
...Blade Runner was the
runaway favourite in our poll.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick A very close second, this mystifying story came out of...
I simply don't see how anyone who has actually used GMail could honestly think it has any competition at all.
And I don't mean from Yahoo!, Hotmail, or the latest 2GB provider. I mean any mail client period. Web-based or otherwise.
Yes the 1GB storage capacity is awesome, but it's just icing on the cake to an amazing interface. GMail is a pleasure to use.
It's not just faster than any other web-based mail client. It's faster than any other website period. Assuming a decent amount of bandwidth, it's faster than most locally running GUI clients, except for possibly KMail or mutt.
The interface is revolutionary. It makes hot new clients like Thunderbird look backward. Expect to see GUI client knockoffs as soon it gets out of beta.
GMail kicks ass, pure and simple. It will be a very, very difficult for anyone else to catch up. The only thing Yahoo! and Hotmail have going for them right now is existing userbase and name recognition. But Google has that too and I bet that can transfer a lot of that over to GMail if they try hard enough.
Furthermore, most Bayesian filters process headers as well, so the mail would be weighted heavily towards ham simply because it was from Aunt Emma and addressed directly to you.
Um. Your sentiment is noble and all but this is in no way a classic game.
Runesword 2 is a game construction kit, released on September 4th, 2001. I suppose the original Runesword is slightly more "classic" having been released on February 6th, 2000.
Is there any technical reason why you couldn't write some clever code that would allow you to mount GMail as a networked drive, just like Konqueror does with its multi-protocol support?
Files would be stored as attachments, along with a file allocation table of some sort. Send a mail to yourself to write a file; delete the mail to erase it.. but all totally transparent to you. It'd be a bit slow, but some clever caching/buffering could take care of that.
You could theoretically get it to span across several accounts to store files larger than a gig. Just add un/pw's to a config file to increase your storage capacity.
Even if they don't end up providing pop3/smtp, you can still just script the html sessions like YahooPOPs! does.
I'm sure you all looked already, but here are the meta-tags attached to the first story:
<meta name="keywords" content="metatags are evil, metatags must die, death to the meta tags">
<meta name="description" content="If you can read this meta description tag, then the author's wish for the end of metatags has not yet come true. Someday, it will.">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="author" content="Danny Sullivan">
<meta name="channel" content="E-Commerce/Marketing Channel">
<meta name="description" content="Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time. ">
Re:It's a GPL violation, and more
on
Abusing the GPL?
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But there are simpler remedies than legal ones. If the free software developer community hears about a product using obfuscated code to circumvent the GPL, they will retaliate by creating a non-obfuscated version and using it to compete with your company's product.
Isn't there an even simpler remedy once the original developer and copyright holder hears about this? As I understand it, under basic copyright law, no one has a right to use the code at all without permission and the GPL stands as a universal license to grant additional rights with certain limitations.
So, simply revoke the company's license. The developer is still the copyright holder and has complete control over who is allowed to use the code. Revoke the license for this one company only and then they have no rights to the code whatsoever.
Knuth's plan to become a music major changed when he was offered a physics scholarship at Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve). His turn toward math came during his sophomore year when a particularly difficult professor assigned a special problem, offering an immediate "A" in the class to any student who could solve it. Although like most of the other students, Knuth considered the problem unsolvable, he made an attempt at it one day when he found himself with some free time, having missed the bus that was taking the marching band to a performance. By what he states was "a stroke of luck," he solved the problem in short order, earned his "A," and skipped class for the rest of the semester. Although Knuth reports that he felt guilty about skipping class, he was obviously able to overcome the lost instruction because the following year he earned an "A" in abstract mathematics and was given the job of grading papers for the very course he had failed to attend.
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On Wikipedia's top 20 console games of all time only two are violent: GTA:III and GTA:SA.
If you cruise through the detailed lists for Sony and Nintendo consoles, you'll see tons of AAA non-violent titles beyond sports and mini-games. The XBoxes look pretty violent by comparison.
On a related note: Guitar Hero II is awesome. It doesn't get much more AAA than that.
Cartoons are woefully overlooked demographic.
I highly recommend Lua. It's a brilliant language. The code base is clean, portable, and easy to read.
http://www.lua.org
In fact, I recommend you not create a new language at all and just use Lua. It's a deceptively simple language that allows you to extend it through certain meta-constructs to become pretty much anything you need-- from simple data description to full Object-Orientation.
I once read through the entire dragon book with the intention of creating my own language; I gave it all up when I found Lua.
Good stuff.
I simply don't see how anyone who has actually used GMail could honestly think it has any competition at all.
And I don't mean from Yahoo!, Hotmail, or the latest 2GB provider. I mean any mail client period. Web-based or otherwise.
Yes the 1GB storage capacity is awesome, but it's just icing on the cake to an amazing interface. GMail is a pleasure to use.
It's not just faster than any other web-based mail client. It's faster than any other website period. Assuming a decent amount of bandwidth, it's faster than most locally running GUI clients, except for possibly KMail or mutt.
The interface is revolutionary. It makes hot new clients like Thunderbird look backward. Expect to see GUI client knockoffs as soon it gets out of beta.
GMail kicks ass, pure and simple. It will be a very, very difficult for anyone else to catch up. The only thing Yahoo! and Hotmail have going for them right now is existing userbase and name recognition. But Google has that too and I bet that can transfer a lot of that over to GMail if they try hard enough.
Of course the interpreters for those languages are usually written in C or C++, so we haven't quite escaped the problem yet.
Furthermore, most Bayesian filters process headers as well, so the mail would be weighted heavily towards ham simply because it was from Aunt Emma and addressed directly to you.
Um. Your sentiment is noble and all but this is in no way a classic game.
Runesword 2 is a game construction kit, released on September 4th, 2001. I suppose the original Runesword is slightly more "classic" having been released on February 6th, 2000.
http://www.runesword.com/rs2.html
Not so magical, really.
Is there any technical reason why you couldn't write some clever code that would allow you to mount GMail as a networked drive, just like Konqueror does with its multi-protocol support?
Files would be stored as attachments, along with a file allocation table of some sort. Send a mail to yourself to write a file; delete the mail to erase it.. but all totally transparent to you. It'd be a bit slow, but some clever caching/buffering could take care of that.
You could theoretically get it to span across several accounts to store files larger than a gig. Just add un/pw's to a config file to increase your storage capacity.
Even if they don't end up providing pop3/smtp, you can still just script the html sessions like YahooPOPs! does.
And, less funny, the second story:
But there are simpler remedies than legal ones. If the free software developer community hears about a product using obfuscated code to circumvent the GPL, they will retaliate by creating a non-obfuscated version and using it to compete with your company's product.
Isn't there an even simpler remedy once the original developer and copyright holder hears about this? As I understand it, under basic copyright law, no one has a right to use the code at all without permission and the GPL stands as a universal license to grant additional rights with certain limitations.
So, simply revoke the company's license. The developer is still the copyright holder and has complete control over who is allowed to use the code. Revoke the license for this one company only and then they have no rights to the code whatsoever.
The DCMA makes me embarassed to be a citizen of the UAS.
From the article:
"No one is going to confuse protocol testing with cookies," says Brian Rosen, an engineer who organizes bake-offs to test a Net telephony protocol.
Well...