That would be a little weird if the admin could initiate a conversation with a user. The user would expect to be minding his/her own business, and all of a sudden, some window out of nowhere pops up asking questions. I'm not even sure how these conversations would work if it's a static webpage (no java or flash). It's all like being at a store and being hounded by a salesman you don't need.
Not that I couldn't map it without it (like to the Scroll Lock Key or something), but it is nice to run from my enemies, while not wasting a finger to hold down shift.
1: I have some text that I've placed in the buffer (yank, deleted, whatever) 2: I would like to replace sections of my code with what's in the buffer. Is there a way to replace sections of code WITHOUT changing the value of the buffer? The slow way is to: find a section to replace, select it, put the buffer out, re-yank the buffer contents (as the buffer contains the code I replaced), repeat.
In windows it's just cntl-c, select,cntl-v,select,cntl-v,... repeat.
Maybe they should bring back that weird midi-effeminate-guy-choir that sang, "Se-Ga!" at the start of the games. Now, with support for different sound schemes, we can have that theme song played around the user, circling around until the user gets dizzy;)
Long gone. Sadly things aren't as cheap as they were even one decade ago. Game development costs are much higher, specialized video game boards are commonplace, and of course, everyone's expectations are higher. I miss the days from wayback when I could play Xevious or Tetris or even SFII for long periods of time. Of course, back then a whole day of games, a movie and beachgoing would cost under $8.00. So oh well. I suggest either go buy a phone with great rebates has support for free java games (so the initial cost is $0 with a minimum monthly payment) or buy a game system and umm... mod it;) ($99+ initial, err, possibly $0 monthly;) )
M$ will sure love this. Especially since mostly all the games (all but 3) that Xlink supports are Xbox titles.
Great idea though. I sure think it's a rip off to have to pay 50 a year to hear teen punks saying "Hey, get the fsck off my server!"
SBC used to be Southwestern Bell, PacTel, and others; hence its west coast affiliation. Verizon, used to be GTE and Bell Atlantic and others.
Too bad we have to discern between all these new companies whose name isn't = [Compass Direction]Bell[CompassDirection]. It would have been easier if we were all still AT&T.;)
Hmm, at first I mistook the article to mean that the Sims coders had created a 'Sims' version of the The Body Shop (off of Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood). Seemed like a weird amalgamation of real life, games and upscale umm, female employees. Maybe someone out there could actually make this a reality with the actual program.;)
Hell, the do have GUIs. I've seen the pizza hut channel on Time Warner... that gui is really bad. Slow response, confusing navigation, damn fugly colors, and a sneaking suspicion that the whole thing was a joke that just went too far. I wish it would just drop to a command line and let me type(if it had a keyboard).
Well, if they ever do start looking like one of the oozes (Shining in the Darkness) I'm going to hit them with my bronze sword. Seemed to do well enough then.;)
ABEMP Once digital 'filmmakers' have modeled say ~200 or so persons, and say, 50 different scripts, then making 'movies' will simply require running through all the combinations. (200 choose 50?)
In a related prediction, Usenet bandwidth usage will drop 99.999% as people simply download the above material and run the scripts for themselves.
Imagine, playing a game where you are playing a soccer-like game in an enclosed room, say your den. Say the walls behind you and your opponent are the goals. Also say you and your opponent are pirates who happen to say 'aye' every time you hit the ball.
gol - den - 'aye'
aka Pong
(except that some programmer will have to spend a few mintes replacing the 'bip' sound with a semi annoying 'aye' sound.)
After only 1 1/2 years of use, right clicking on ANYthing would take at least 3-4 seconds to bring up the normal windows right click pop-up. My poor registry has had probably way too many file-program asocciations installed... the only clean way to fix it was for me to reinstall WinXP.
I've tried running various regisry trimmers/cleaners, but they never seem to work that well and they just cause random crashes along the line as well.
I've found that 1 1/2 years is a good time to refresh and 'clean house' on my HDs as well. No need to keep those FAQ's for FF9 anymore;)
Well, ok, seeing how the current binary groups do it, say you wanted to get something out there that was about 700mb. UUencode to maybe 800 Mb. Say the attachment limit was 1Mb or even 2 mb. Maybe say that breaks up into 20 parts (20 individual emails). Hard limit (max total message sizes sent to it per day) was 10 mb. In that case, you only need 80 accounts. While a bit crazy for a single person to do, I can see it happening. Obviously though, a good usenet server trumps that (traffic between networks is handled automatically by the feeds... all the enduser has to worry about is their connection to their local news server)... but then you probably knew that already.
There are "emotion" games out there but emotion leads to sex and that is forbidden in the US of A.
Well, I'm sure that it's legal to play an animated hentai game. But I can't see a socially acceptable reason to to play an imouto ga suki na game here without being label some sort of nth degree perv. Just think if that game's icon was on your desktop. There's no way in hell you could convince your wife, girlfriend, parents, relatives, friends, acquaintances, teacher, boss, colleages, cleaning lady, land lady, home inspector, or even the fire marshal (Bill?) that the game associated with that icon is 'normal' or 'ok' or 'the cool thng' to play.;) Not that I'm saying that I've tried.
Of course a super game would be one that manages emotion without violence or sex. Or with. I am not sure on that one.
Wait, isn't that just any online singles chat room?... Err, I mean ones that are accessed in a public area.
Hate to say it, any hard drive represenation is boring. The normal Comp sci represenation, a cylinder, would be cool but confusing to a techie. A picutre of an external, a grey box with a little green light, would mean nothing to even techies. (do you mean turn something on?). Having a picture of an internal hard drive would be even more confusing to the non-techie type (having never seen a HD).
Maybe we need that little MS product dog to stick a file into its magic collar! That's more like saving to me [Ducks the MS haters]
Last I heard however, was that your average working geek pays their ISP for service, and they leave that ISP for another one if they don't like what their current one is doing. Now, one pissed off person's subscription isn't important to your average multi-national corp, but if people start having their rights tweeked, people will notice. AOL and Road Runner customers be forewarned.
Well, as a card carrying member of "I'm most certainly not wasting my time playing video games" club for the last 20+ years, I hope so!;)
Really though, I think playing all those twitch games (Robotron, zookeeper, etc), racing games (Pole position to Daytona), sports games (Super Breakout (hey, they had a tennis player on the cover) to NFL Street), fighting games (SFII), shooting games (duck hunt to slient scope) etc, have improved my hand-eye coordination skills. In real life, I like to play games which are more hand eye coordination related: golf (10 handicap), tennis, ping-pong, air hockey. Yes, these aren't all the bext example of hand-eye coordination, but more so compared to say sports I hate, such as running, soccer or billiards.
So the question is, do I like these sports because I was born with coordination, because I played video games which improved my coordination and made me better, or did I have coordination to begin with which made me predisposed to video games and hand-eye co-ord related games. I'd like to believe it's the second choice, but as I don't think I have any twins (evil or not) around to have as a control, I'll never know.
This story actually reminded me more of the ol 720k to 800 k trick. Back when I had an Atari ST, there was a shareware utility that wrote to the extra bit per sector. I never had any problems with it, and I think that I went about and reformatted all my floppies to fit in that extra 80k. Funny how 80k was so important back around the late 80's. Now it can barely hold a simple word document.
Right, well, I sure hope that they didn't come up with a laser that actually allowed you to burn labels on ALL cd types. I'm envisioning high wattage lasers. My poor cheapo CD's I bought using the latest Techbargains deal would find themselves burned all the way through the plastic and medium. Neat!;D
1: Insert USB Keydrive into USB port 2: Watch as the drive snaps cleanly in two as all the weight of the drive is centered upon the metal USB drive's neck. 3: Buy a new 2.5 TB USB drive. 4: Goto step 1!
I attest to this. My school had the no-cut cross-country thing as well, and one guy who was on it was the ABSOLUTE WORST runner back in junior high. But he perservered. He was absolutely teased to no end (he was very reserved, and spoke slowly) to begin with, but people saw his perserverence. He never became the most popular person or what not, but he did win the Most Inspirational Player during senior year, and he did get cheers from everyone at our school at the few cross-country events I witnessed. I think it really helped him a lot, as he was more talkative and open at graduation.
Now, on the other hand, don't have a kid try for a sport that has cuts, is really competitive, and they aren't good at. There was one guy try out for the JV B-ball team and he was absolutely terrible on the court. He had apparently been practicing for a while (playing with his friends). However, he never improved, and when you looked at him play it just seemed like it was a bad idea to begin with. I think he was crushed when the coach basically told him to stop and that he had no chance. But sports where there are not many throw-away spots, you cannot give spots to the ungifted.
Moral of the stories... competition isn't for everyone?!?... hmm, oh well.
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That would be a little weird if the admin could initiate a conversation with a user. The user would expect to be minding his/her own business, and all of a sudden, some window out of nowhere pops up asking questions. I'm not even sure how these conversations would work if it's a static webpage (no java or flash). It's all like being at a store and being hounded by a salesman you don't need.
Not that I couldn't map it without it (like to the Scroll Lock Key or something), but it is nice to run from my enemies, while not wasting a finger to hold down shift.
We have enough tributes like the Scroll lock key. No need for more ;)
OK, here's a situation I can't figure out.
1: I have some text that I've placed in the buffer (yank, deleted, whatever)
2: I would like to replace sections of my code with what's in the buffer. Is there a way to replace sections of code WITHOUT changing the value of the buffer? The slow way is to: find a section to replace, select it, put the buffer out, re-yank the buffer contents (as the buffer contains the code I replaced), repeat.
In windows it's just cntl-c, select,cntl-v,select,cntl-v,... repeat.
Maybe they should bring back that weird midi-effeminate-guy-choir that sang, "Se-Ga!" at the start of the games. Now, with support for different sound schemes, we can have that theme song played around the user, circling around until the user gets dizzy ;)
Long gone. Sadly things aren't as cheap as they were even one decade ago. Game development costs are much higher, specialized video game boards are commonplace, and of course, everyone's expectations are higher. I miss the days from wayback when I could play Xevious or Tetris or even SFII for long periods of time. Of course, back then a whole day of games, a movie and beachgoing would cost under $8.00. So oh well. I suggest either go buy a phone with great rebates has support for free java games (so the initial cost is $0 with a minimum monthly payment) or buy a game system and umm... mod it ;) ($99+ initial, err, possibly $0 monthly ;) )
M$ will sure love this. Especially since mostly all the games (all but 3) that Xlink supports are Xbox titles.
Great idea though. I sure think it's a rip off to have to pay 50 a year to hear teen punks saying "Hey, get the fsck off my server!"
SBC used to be Southwestern Bell, PacTel, and others; hence its west coast affiliation. Verizon, used to be GTE and Bell Atlantic and others. ;)
Too bad we have to discern between all these new companies whose name isn't = [Compass Direction]Bell[CompassDirection]. It would have been easier if we were all still AT&T.
Hmm, at first I mistook the article to mean that the Sims coders had created a 'Sims' version of the The Body Shop (off of Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood). Seemed like a weird amalgamation of real life, games and upscale umm, female employees. Maybe someone out there could actually make this a reality with the actual program. ;)
Hell, the do have GUIs. I've seen the pizza hut channel on Time Warner... that gui is really bad. Slow response, confusing navigation, damn fugly colors, and a sneaking suspicion that the whole thing was a joke that just went too far. I wish it would just drop to a command line and let me type(if it had a keyboard).
Dear Lord, just think if some meathead TA or prof set 'pizza-party' as the name of some programming assignment, and then they teach fork.
Chaos, rebooting, and an angry pizza guy throw down would ensue.
Well, if they ever do start looking like one of ;)
the oozes (Shining in the Darkness) I'm going to hit them with my bronze sword. Seemed to do well enough then.
ABEMP
Once digital 'filmmakers' have modeled say ~200 or so persons, and say, 50 different scripts, then making 'movies' will simply require running through all the combinations. (200 choose 50?)
In a related prediction, Usenet bandwidth usage will drop 99.999% as people simply download the above material and run the scripts for themselves.
Imagine, playing a game where you are playing a soccer-like game in an enclosed room, say your den.
Say the walls behind you and your opponent are the goals.
Also say you and your opponent are pirates who happen to say 'aye' every time you hit the ball.
gol - den - 'aye'
aka Pong
(except that some programmer will have to spend a few mintes replacing the 'bip' sound with a semi annoying 'aye' sound.)
After only 1 1/2 years of use, right clicking on ANYthing would take at least 3-4 seconds to bring up the normal windows right click pop-up. My poor registry has had probably way too many file-program asocciations installed... the only clean way to fix it was for me to reinstall WinXP. ;)
I've tried running various regisry trimmers/cleaners, but they never seem to work that well and they just cause random crashes along the line as well.
I've found that 1 1/2 years is a good time to refresh and 'clean house' on my HDs as well. No need to keep those FAQ's for FF9 anymore
Well, ok, seeing how the current binary groups do it, say you wanted to get something out there that was about 700mb. UUencode to maybe 800 Mb. Say the attachment limit was 1Mb or even 2 mb. Maybe say that breaks up into 20 parts (20 individual emails). Hard limit (max total message sizes sent to it per day) was 10 mb.
In that case, you only need 80 accounts. While a bit crazy for a single person to do, I can see it happening.
Obviously though, a good usenet server trumps that (traffic between networks is handled automatically by the feeds... all the enduser has to worry about is their connection to their local news server)... but then you probably knew that already.
Well, I'm sure that it's legal to play an animated hentai game. But I can't see a socially acceptable reason to to play an imouto ga suki na game here without being label some sort of nth degree perv. Just think if that game's icon was on your desktop. There's no way in hell you could convince your wife, girlfriend, parents, relatives, friends, acquaintances, teacher, boss, colleages, cleaning lady, land lady, home inspector, or even the fire marshal (Bill?) that the game associated with that icon is 'normal' or 'ok' or 'the cool thng' to play.
Wait, isn't that just any online singles chat room?... Err, I mean ones that are accessed in a public area.
Hate to say it, any hard drive represenation is boring. The normal Comp sci represenation, a cylinder, would be cool but confusing to a techie. A picutre of an external, a grey box with a little green light, would mean nothing to even techies. (do you mean turn something on?). Having a picture of an internal hard drive would be even more confusing to the non-techie type (having never seen a HD).
Maybe we need that little MS product dog to stick a file into its magic collar! That's more like saving to me [Ducks the MS haters]
Last I heard however, was that your average working geek pays their ISP for service, and they leave that ISP for another one if they don't like what their current one is doing. Now, one pissed off person's subscription isn't important to your average multi-national corp, but if people start having their rights tweeked, people will notice. AOL and Road Runner customers be forewarned.
Well, as a card carrying member of "I'm most certainly not wasting my time playing video games" club for the last 20+ years, I hope so! ;)
Really though, I think playing all those twitch games (Robotron, zookeeper, etc), racing games (Pole position to Daytona), sports games (Super Breakout (hey, they had a tennis player on the cover) to NFL Street), fighting games (SFII), shooting games (duck hunt to slient scope) etc, have improved my hand-eye coordination skills. In real life, I like to play games which are more hand eye coordination related: golf (10 handicap), tennis, ping-pong, air hockey. Yes, these aren't all the bext example of hand-eye coordination, but more so compared to say sports I hate, such as running, soccer or billiards.
So the question is, do I like these sports because I was born with coordination, because I played video games which improved my coordination and made me better, or did I have coordination to begin with which made me predisposed to video games and hand-eye co-ord related games. I'd like to believe it's the second choice, but as I don't think I have any twins (evil or not) around to have as a control, I'll never know.
This story actually reminded me more of the ol 720k to 800 k trick. Back when I had an Atari ST, there was a shareware utility that wrote to the extra bit per sector. I never had any problems with it, and I think that I went about and reformatted all my floppies to fit in that extra 80k. Funny how 80k was so important back around the late 80's. Now it can barely hold a simple word document.
Right, well, I sure hope that they didn't come up with a laser that actually allowed you to burn labels on ALL cd types. I'm envisioning high wattage lasers. My poor cheapo CD's I bought using the latest Techbargains deal would find themselves burned all the way through the plastic and medium. Neat! ;D
1: Insert USB Keydrive into USB port
2: Watch as the drive snaps cleanly in two as all the weight of the drive is centered upon the metal USB drive's neck.
3: Buy a new 2.5 TB USB drive.
4: Goto step 1!
I attest to this. My school had the no-cut cross-country thing as well, and one guy who was on it was the ABSOLUTE WORST runner back in junior high. But he perservered. He was absolutely teased to no end (he was very reserved, and spoke slowly) to begin with, but people saw his perserverence. He never became the most popular person or what not, but he did win the Most Inspirational Player during senior year, and he did get cheers from everyone at our school at the few cross-country events I witnessed. I think it really helped him a lot, as he was more talkative and open at graduation.
Now, on the other hand, don't have a kid try for a sport that has cuts, is really competitive, and they aren't good at. There was one guy try out for the JV B-ball team and he was absolutely terrible on the court. He had apparently been practicing for a while (playing with his friends). However, he never improved, and when you looked at him play it just seemed like it was a bad idea to begin with. I think he was crushed when the coach basically told him to stop and that he had no chance. But sports where there are not many throw-away spots, you cannot give spots to the ungifted.
Moral of the stories... competition isn't for everyone?!?... hmm, oh well.