I waited outside of GameStop, here in manhattan for 2 hours this morning (first in line of about 40 people) since I wasn't on the waiting list...
At first I was a bit surprised that it was so large (I had played a demo unit in Best Buy last week, but it didn't seem this big), but it's actually still pretty small. I kinda wish it wasn't so thick, but I'll live. it still fits in my pocket.
Anyway, my only complaints about it are:
A) lack of games (I had to buy mario64 and my friend got feel the magic). I want a damned RPG or something that we can play multiplayer for more than a couple minutes. Metroid Prime first hunt is kinda lame...
B) it's wider than my SP, so my wrists kinda hurt, I wish the device was a little more ergonomic and curved like my hands want to. I hope I don't injure myself on this thing.
I'm actually amazed that gimp has the ability to drag the window tabs between windows. I could have sworn Adobe had a patent on that and Macromedia had gotten in trouble with it either with flash or freehand or something.
One thing I applaud the gimp team on, though, is the fact that it's not just a photoshop clone. They didn't try to clone every feature and place everything in the same places. They actually had support for certain things before photoshop supported it (ie- non-square pixels and better histograms).
There's just certain things that weren't up to par with photoshop last time I toyed with the gimp (they may be fixed now), but that's mouse tracking and text antialiasing.
But yeah, I agree with you, the non-standard size for every floating palette is a little bit of a pain in the ass. I wish they would just make everything more even so I could lay out the windows better. And the tool window is a bit clunky.;)
the cat mewing when you open a paint can is most likely a reflex caused by training. Much like that guy (um, I can't think of his name) who trained his dogs with the sound of a bell upon feeding, when he rang the bell, they would drool, your kitty hears the sound of the can and thinks it's food. forget about what it smells like, he/she/it's been trained on the sound of a can.
Hell, my mom's cats come running if you open a mountain dew or a can of Java Espresso Soda. Even if you put a can of soup on the counter, they come running, you don't even have to open it, they hear the can and think it's oh-so-delicious food.
ow hard would it have been to put a freakin CF card reader in it?
well, for those of use whose cameras don't use CF, we'd bitch "why didn't they put a SD/SM/XD/MemoryStick(TM)/card-of-choice reader in it?!" the problem is too many format choices.
I think that the day that apple has video on the iPod is the day that iMovie (or iDVD) will re-encode the video in real time (relative to the copying of data to the vPod). Perhaps with a dual 2.5ghz G5, it would be possible to down-sample a movie to the 'pod with no noticeable delay, but that's not for everyone, and Apple's all about "technology that's elegant and everyone [who has bought a computer in the last 2 years] can use.
Although, I would be happy if the Photo iPod could at least play back movie trailers, after all, they're available for viewing on the iTMS, why not make the downloadable to the 'pod?
yeah, but it works fine on my G4 and my P3, but not my G3, I dunno. it used to just be an unsigned long, but the linked site used long longs, so I switched it.;)
if they were raw image files, you could import them with photoshop, so long as you know the bpp and dimensions... photoshop is pretty good at guessing most of the time.
I'd be interested in a copy of said images for both viewing and experimentation purposes. Perhaps I could write a gimp plugin for it?
And for the poster who suggested virtual PC, what the hell? that's overkill, why not just suggest a cheap 200$ PC? heh.
this is something I wrote a while back to optimize my friend's prime finder he wrote to learn perl (I ported it to C and sped it up a LOT, although mine still sucks).
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) { unsigned long long maxprimes = atoll(argv[1]);
printf("calculating %ld primes...\n", maxprimes);
unsigned long long value = 1;//the last prime unsigned long long count = 0;//the count of primes found
unsigned long long i = 0;
for(count = 0; count < maxprimes; value += 2) { for (i = 3; i <= (value >> 1); i += 2) { if (!(value % i)) { break; } }
if (i > (value >> 1)) { count += 1; printf("%ld is prime\n", value); } }
yeah, decent RPGs are what I'm gonna hold out for, too, although, I think that may be hard. Made in wario DS looks GOOD. I got a chance to play Mawaru: Made in wario 2 for the GBA and I gotta get that game as soon as I have the $ and I beat zelda2 (I never beat it when I was a wee lad).
the last videogame system I bought was the turbografix16 (and CD) until I got my SP. I gotta say, though, that it got me back into gaming. I thought the days of console (handheld or otherwise) were over, but damn, I love my SP. the DS, hopefully, will take me to the next level... but the PSP is calling my name too...
I think Nintendo's issue with this is that they have their IP mentioned on an adult website. Although, I'm pretty sure this is fair use... it's not like it says "Watch Zelda get Fsck'd by Metroid!"
I'm pretty sure that this text was picked up by a bot that the lawfirm probably convinced nintendo to run. the bot probably ran a list of URL's that contained certain keywords and checked to see if any were adult websites. Probably part of a naked-nintendo-character-website crackdown.
I assume you mean OSX server, since the standard OSX "client" comes with your shiny new mac...
I've got linux on my G4/450 server and OSX on my G3/450 fileserver (strictly for Appleshare). But there's lot of reasons to plop linux even on newer macs. Assuming you've got a mac that you want to use as a server or a development platform, although OSX IS a *nix, it's not linux, and things that work fine in OSX tend not to work right in linux and vice versa. ie- different paths for some stuff, different libs, xinetd vs inet.d, etc.
I, myself, prefer linux for a headless server that sits in a corner. It's easier to set everything up without a monitor... unless you've got remote desktop and/or OSX server... which I've never really played with.
I was just in tokyo for vacation 2 weeks ago and the DSL I dabbled with there was crazy-fast. I was uploading pictures from my digital camera to my website at around 600K/sec, which was incredible. I was talking to a friend of mine there who has DSL and she said that speed was normal.
The thing that makes for great gameplay is simplicity. Any game that you can just sit down and play, without any serious dedication is a great game.
That's one reason that Pacman did so well, why the mario series does so well, and why games like resident evil only live until their sequel. There's not enough new games that you can just sit down and play anymore. Warioware is the newest one I can think of, and man, that game is great.
Much like when I interview people for the Art Department. I read the resume and see "Adobe" as known applications.
Some people ask if we have "Adobe."
I always have to ask "Adobe what?"
"The program," they reply.
Most people don't realize that A, Adobe is a company, and B, there is more to Adobe than Photoshop... I hate school-trained graphic artists... They don't know anything.
There's been a online gaming services with a social aspect. The only way this would make sense is if they meant "Never been seen in online console gaming"
Sheesh, I remember The Sierra Network (then ImaginNation) which had chatrooms that you could invite people to play card games, checkers, chess, then later, red baron, boogers, and other more graphical games. There was even a dungeons and dragons-type world to play in and trade items, like everquest.;)
Man, I remember when I first got that service, I only had a 2400bps modem and couldn't play red baron since it required a 9600, but my dad got a 14.4, and man, that was SWEET.
That service was my first contact with online-ness... chat, gaming and email. and that was in like 1990 or so.
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The strength of.Mac is more than just iDisk and the IMAP mail (which I was actually just looking into slashmail because of their unlimited mailbox size)..Mac also has the iSync-link for syncing your bookmarks (which isn't so hot, since I barely use them nowadays), addressbook (w00t!!!), and iCal (useful when I remember to use it... I need a new palm).
Although, I do agree that for 100$ a year, you SHOULD get 1gb, at least... I mean, there are a lot of other, cheaper alternatives (slashmail) that are better suited for your everyday geek. In fact, I think that for 100$ a year, you should get 250mb iDisk and 1gb email, and for the extra 50$, you should get a 1gb iDisk and 2gb email.
well, DNF jokes will always be funny... until someone gets hurt (ie kills themselves).
Anyway, from what I understand, the wolfman, W's concience, bigfoot, and the abomidable snowman are partners with infinium... wait, what? They don't exist? Are you sure?
Well, many of these games are java based and require screen reading and physical clicking (or programmatic mouse clicking) to do what needs to be done.
I don't see why they make it sound so hard to code something like this. There are books out there that teach you strategy for poker and what to do based on when other things happen. If you could turn that into a programmatic routine, it shouldn't be hard to have a bot that wins more often than not.
Especially with online blackjack. Bots could make a killing on that. Between card counting and the what-do-I-do-when rules.
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vDeck is actually the admin program for iPowerWeb (his real host).
what do you mean "the different C's?"
if you're talking C/C++/objC, they're compiled languages and don't require a reader....
it's perfectly possible. I know I toyed with it at my last job, which I stopped working at 18 months ago. =)
I waited outside of GameStop, here in manhattan for 2 hours this morning (first in line of about 40 people) since I wasn't on the waiting list...
At first I was a bit surprised that it was so large (I had played a demo unit in Best Buy last week, but it didn't seem this big), but it's actually still pretty small. I kinda wish it wasn't so thick, but I'll live. it still fits in my pocket.
Anyway, my only complaints about it are:
A) lack of games (I had to buy mario64 and my friend got feel the magic). I want a damned RPG or something that we can play multiplayer for more than a couple minutes. Metroid Prime first hunt is kinda lame...
B) it's wider than my SP, so my wrists kinda hurt, I wish the device was a little more ergonomic and curved like my hands want to. I hope I don't injure myself on this thing.
I'm actually amazed that gimp has the ability to drag the window tabs between windows. I could have sworn Adobe had a patent on that and Macromedia had gotten in trouble with it either with flash or freehand or something.
;)
One thing I applaud the gimp team on, though, is the fact that it's not just a photoshop clone. They didn't try to clone every feature and place everything in the same places. They actually had support for certain things before photoshop supported it (ie- non-square pixels and better histograms).
There's just certain things that weren't up to par with photoshop last time I toyed with the gimp (they may be fixed now), but that's mouse tracking and text antialiasing.
But yeah, I agree with you, the non-standard size for every floating palette is a little bit of a pain in the ass. I wish they would just make everything more even so I could lay out the windows better. And the tool window is a bit clunky.
the cat mewing when you open a paint can is most likely a reflex caused by training. Much like that guy (um, I can't think of his name) who trained his dogs with the sound of a bell upon feeding, when he rang the bell, they would drool, your kitty hears the sound of the can and thinks it's food. forget about what it smells like, he/she/it's been trained on the sound of a can.
Hell, my mom's cats come running if you open a mountain dew or a can of Java Espresso Soda. Even if you put a can of soup on the counter, they come running, you don't even have to open it, they hear the can and think it's oh-so-delicious food.
ow hard would it have been to put a freakin CF card reader in it?
well, for those of use whose cameras don't use CF, we'd bitch "why didn't they put a SD/SM/XD/MemoryStick(TM)/card-of-choice reader in it?!" the problem is too many format choices.
I think that the day that apple has video on the iPod is the day that iMovie (or iDVD) will re-encode the video in real time (relative to the copying of data to the vPod). Perhaps with a dual 2.5ghz G5, it would be possible to down-sample a movie to the 'pod with no noticeable delay, but that's not for everyone, and Apple's all about "technology that's elegant and everyone [who has bought a computer in the last 2 years] can use.
Although, I would be happy if the Photo iPod could at least play back movie trailers, after all, they're available for viewing on the iTMS, why not make the downloadable to the 'pod?
yeah, but it works fine on my G4 and my P3, but not my G3, I dunno. it used to just be an unsigned long, but the linked site used long longs, so I switched it. ;)
ew dude, yer not supposed to REPLACE the diaper! you gotta apply a new one.
damn, I guess you're not a parent (not that I am, either, but damn, even know that)
if they were raw image files, you could import them with photoshop, so long as you know the bpp and dimensions... photoshop is pretty good at guessing most of the time.
I'd be interested in a copy of said images for both viewing and experimentation purposes. Perhaps I could write a gimp plugin for it?
And for the poster who suggested virtual PC, what the hell? that's overkill, why not just suggest a cheap 200$ PC? heh.
yeah, decent RPGs are what I'm gonna hold out for, too, although, I think that may be hard. Made in wario DS looks GOOD. I got a chance to play Mawaru: Made in wario 2 for the GBA and I gotta get that game as soon as I have the $ and I beat zelda2 (I never beat it when I was a wee lad).
the last videogame system I bought was the turbografix16 (and CD) until I got my SP. I gotta say, though, that it got me back into gaming. I thought the days of console (handheld or otherwise) were over, but damn, I love my SP. the DS, hopefully, will take me to the next level... but the PSP is calling my name too...
let's see which has better titles.
you can't? how about a window on acid? rainbow colors, trails, and all... mmmmm, windows...
I think Nintendo's issue with this is that they have their IP mentioned on an adult website. Although, I'm pretty sure this is fair use... it's not like it says "Watch Zelda get Fsck'd by Metroid!"
I'm pretty sure that this text was picked up by a bot that the lawfirm probably convinced nintendo to run. the bot probably ran a list of URL's that contained certain keywords and checked to see if any were adult websites. Probably part of a naked-nintendo-character-website crackdown.
most people won't get the joke unless they understand the reference...
.cx is the christmas island TLD. as in goatse.cx
Lemme guess, these are manufactured on Christmas Island.
I assume you mean OSX server, since the standard OSX "client" comes with your shiny new mac...
I've got linux on my G4/450 server and OSX on my G3/450 fileserver (strictly for Appleshare). But there's lot of reasons to plop linux even on newer macs. Assuming you've got a mac that you want to use as a server or a development platform, although OSX IS a *nix, it's not linux, and things that work fine in OSX tend not to work right in linux and vice versa. ie- different paths for some stuff, different libs, xinetd vs inet.d, etc.
I, myself, prefer linux for a headless server that sits in a corner. It's easier to set everything up without a monitor... unless you've got remote desktop and/or OSX server... which I've never really played with.
I was just in tokyo for vacation 2 weeks ago and the DSL I dabbled with there was crazy-fast. I was uploading pictures from my digital camera to my website at around 600K/sec, which was incredible. I was talking to a friend of mine there who has DSL and she said that speed was normal.
I wanna move to tokyo.
The thing that makes for great gameplay is simplicity. Any game that you can just sit down and play, without any serious dedication is a great game.
That's one reason that Pacman did so well, why the mario series does so well, and why games like resident evil only live until their sequel. There's not enough new games that you can just sit down and play anymore. Warioware is the newest one I can think of, and man, that game is great.
Much like when I interview people for the Art Department. I read the resume and see "Adobe" as known applications.
Some people ask if we have "Adobe."
I always have to ask "Adobe what?"
"The program," they reply.
Most people don't realize that A, Adobe is a company, and B, there is more to Adobe than Photoshop... I hate school-trained graphic artists... They don't know anything.
There's been a online gaming services with a social aspect. The only way this would make sense is if they meant "Never been seen in online console gaming"
;)
Sheesh, I remember The Sierra Network (then ImaginNation) which had chatrooms that you could invite people to play card games, checkers, chess, then later, red baron, boogers, and other more graphical games. There was even a dungeons and dragons-type world to play in and trade items, like everquest.
Man, I remember when I first got that service, I only had a 2400bps modem and couldn't play red baron since it required a 9600, but my dad got a 14.4, and man, that was SWEET.
That service was my first contact with online-ness... chat, gaming and email. and that was in like 1990 or so.
The strength of .Mac is more than just iDisk and the IMAP mail (which I was actually just looking into slashmail because of their unlimited mailbox size). .Mac also has the iSync-link for syncing your bookmarks (which isn't so hot, since I barely use them nowadays), addressbook (w00t!!!), and iCal (useful when I remember to use it... I need a new palm).
Although, I do agree that for 100$ a year, you SHOULD get 1gb, at least... I mean, there are a lot of other, cheaper alternatives (slashmail) that are better suited for your everyday geek. In fact, I think that for 100$ a year, you should get 250mb iDisk and 1gb email, and for the extra 50$, you should get a 1gb iDisk and 2gb email.
Who thinks it's still funny?
well, DNF jokes will always be funny... until someone gets hurt (ie kills themselves).
Anyway, from what I understand, the wolfman, W's concience, bigfoot, and the abomidable snowman are partners with infinium... wait, what? They don't exist? Are you sure?
Well, many of these games are java based and require screen reading and physical clicking (or programmatic mouse clicking) to do what needs to be done.
I don't see why they make it sound so hard to code something like this. There are books out there that teach you strategy for poker and what to do based on when other things happen. If you could turn that into a programmatic routine, it shouldn't be hard to have a bot that wins more often than not.
Especially with online blackjack. Bots could make a killing on that. Between card counting and the what-do-I-do-when rules.
yeah, but I can't get the damn cursor to stop shaking while I look at pr0n.
erm, holding the shift key... blah, I screwed that joke up