I don't know about the rest of you, but when I think of shareware I think of the small little games you download to waste time away. Games like Commander Keen (to get really old-school), Icy Tower (and other great games by freelunchdesign.com), and . . . well, you know, those small little 1 to 3 megabyte games you download that are great to pass the time/relieve stress and have fun. Most of these games are made by one person or just a small group who got together and cranked out a little game just for fun.
These type of games seem to have dissapeared in recent years, and is it because the big download pages (download.com, fileplanet.com) are consumed with a flood of commercial demos from the big name game developers and these small games are nearly invisible because of the vast amount? Or have people stopped making these types of games, unable to compete with the desire for top graphics and gameplay.
I was on a Mac from about 1995-1999 and the quality of the shareware on the Mac platforms seemed to be far better than Windows shareware. The games were more fun, rarely crashed or didn't work. Anyone else seen this? Anyone have any reasons for this? Anyone care?;~)
i know this is offtopic, but since war driving was mentioned . ..
hey, i was reading a book and it was saying how the term "war dialing" (old-school stuff with regular modems) came from the movie War Games. is this true? and if this is true, i guess war driving/chalking come from the same source?
in the UK don't you have those cameras all over the place? i've heard some even have speakers and talk to people. well, whoever's monitoring the cameras talk, not the cameras themselves;)
also, besides the immediate privacy issues is the whole issue of conditioning people to this idea that everything can be id'd and traced. if a generation grows up with this . . . then let your imagination go
what cracks me up is how the use their employees for their print advertising and list their names and position (or relation to employee).
dunno, just cracks me up
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you know, i used to think about the same thing of the privacy zealots. i thought, if you're not doing anything wrong, than why should you worry about it. the fact is though, in America we're supposedly innocent until proven guilty. a lot of these privacy issues seem to make the everyday citizen out to be guilty without having the proper legal procedures in place.
i mean, if all wal-mart does is implement this system and guarantees that the tags will be disabled, i think that's all fine and well, but this should be monitored closely so that we don't end up with an orwellian big brother checking over our shoulders seeing what we bought.
i heard on off the hook how those member discount cards at grocery stores are monitored so feds can see if your buying large amounts of precursor chemicals for drugs (sudafed was one example). well, great, they're trying to stop the production of drugs, but they're doing it at the expense of the everyday citizen who may now be subject to investigation and hassles that may damage their reputation and/or career just because for some legitimate reason they needed a large amount of sudafed!
also, supposedly they are now implementing a massive government database to track all these purchases and scan the data looking for potential terrorist buying habits (lol!).
that's what i have . . . innocent until proven guilty; why should the government monitor citizens until it has legitimate grounds to?
at Conn's however . . . man, i just went in with a free gift card and bought a few packs of regular AA batteries and the cashier took about 5 min to ring it up. had to give a phone number . . . got some receipt that looked like a certificate licensing you to practice hairdressing . . . i just wanted the batteries.
There will almost always be exceptions with any group of people . . . generalization can cause so many problems and misconceptions, and it's time people learned that.
I think this is a great story. I mean, for a lot of people (including me) doing something like this was their childhood dream. And now to have all this publicity. Come on, when you were 12-14 or so, wouldn't you have loved to film your own (copied;) action movie? I know some kids about that age who are attemping their own version of the LOtR trilogy, complete with costumes and sets that they sew and make themselves.
guess i just like having fun and its nice to see some kids come through with it.
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yes, i agree, the important thing is the concept and ability to improve on this and work it into different games. imagine a FPS with some aspects of this. of course, i always thought it would be cool if the AI could hear or smell you or something other than remaining calm and still when the person next to him just got killed.
of course now we could go into bbspot's xbox "active death" technology . . .
along with your CTRL key thing, i'm glad that the tiny backspace key has finally seemed to go out of style. what was with that! one of the most used keys;) and they make it this tiny little thing and end up hitting that stupid slash . . . ugh
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Number of people with RSI willing to pay vs. cost of keeping company alive . ..?
i agree, for that price, cool concept or not, how long can it last . . .
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bullets and sandals are more like it
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it is possible to use VB to make more full program than word macros. actually i find it very convenient because of its ability to access Windows functionalities with ease. for example, a program i was using to rip cds wasn't giving me enough control over what the file names of the mp3's were. using VB i made a quick program to change multiple file names at the same time. all in all, it probably took me 15 to 20 min. i realize that this isn't really much more than what a simple macro can do, however it highlights how easy it is to make such a program. i have made for fully fledged programs with vb, if only for my personal use.
as for outlook, i guess it is secure if you want to be vigil all hours of the day for the next flaw to be exposed and continually installing patches upon patches . . . i still prefer to call outlook "swiss cheese"
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and for those of us who can't read german, i did a quick google translate:
Regional court Bremen bombardment in things Univention GmbH, Fahrenheitsstrsse1, 28359 Bremen Antragstellerin Prozessbevollm. represent by their managing director Peter H. Ganten,: Attorney partnership Ganten, Huenecke, Bieniek & partner, Ostertorstr. 32, 28195 Bremen AZ D Proz. Bev.: 00647/03 13/bk against SCO Group GmbH Norsk-Data-Strasse3, 61352 bath Homburg represented by her managing director Hans Bavarian Antragsgegnerin
I. the Antragsgegnerin in the way of the provisional order - because of urgency of the special without previous verbal negotiation and by the chairman alone - on avoiding a Ordnugsgeldes of up to 200.000,00 euro, as a substitute Ordnugshaft, which can be determined for each case of the Zuwiederhandlung, to carry out at the managing director of the Antragsgegnerin, forbidden, spreading in the trade the statement that LINUX Betriebsysteme contain unrechmaessig acquired mental property of SCO Unix(R) and/or final users, who use Linux, for whom associated patent right injuries of the SCO Intellectual Properties be made liable can.
II. The Antragsgegnerin bears the cost of the procedure. II the procedure value is determined at 500.000,00 euro. Bremen, the 28.Mai2003 regional court - 2.Kammer for commercial matters gez. VRLG Boehrnsen for the execution: Urkundsbeamtin of the office of the regional court
well, i guess its not that good. anyway, this is my 100th post on/.! w00t!
ham radio is still alive and kicking, i believe, although obviously not with the same popularity. i have at least 1 friend, and another online friend, that are into ham radio.
Not that I pretend to know anything about nuclear fusion, but if they're planning to use this laser for research in nuclear fusion, wouldn't that have to be built almost solely for that purpose? Then again, what else are you going to use a laser that can heat things up as hot as a star for?
Alright, this is the last time I'm telling you this! If I see one more reenactment of the blowing up the apple scene from Honey I Shrunk The Kids . . .
A well made and valid point. However there is of course the old debate of the cost of training people to use the open source stuff, although I think it has been established that it saves money in the long term.
Also, how many taxpayers would know, and comprehend, the alternatives and would be vocal enough bring this issue up to the relevant people.
You know, as much as there is an anti-establishment spirit among many of the geek/hacker culture, I think if they/we would actually do something about issues, such as writing congressmen, etc., changes could be made.
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These type of games seem to have dissapeared in recent years, and is it because the big download pages (download.com, fileplanet.com) are consumed with a flood of commercial demos from the big name game developers and these small games are nearly invisible because of the vast amount? Or have people stopped making these types of games, unable to compete with the desire for top graphics and gameplay.
I was on a Mac from about 1995-1999 and the quality of the shareware on the Mac platforms seemed to be far better than Windows shareware. The games were more fun, rarely crashed or didn't work. Anyone else seen this? Anyone have any reasons for this? Anyone care?;~)
but for us poor souls who are still on dial-up, downloading that 150mb demo isn't exactly an option.
the tricky one is PDF. your only allowed to convert files to PDF's 5 times before you have to pay . . .
i know this is offtopic, but since war driving was mentioned . . .
hey, i was reading a book and it was saying how the term "war dialing" (old-school stuff with regular modems) came from the movie War Games. is this true? and if this is true, i guess war driving/chalking come from the same source?
in the UK don't you have those cameras all over the place? i've heard some even have speakers and talk to people. well, whoever's monitoring the cameras talk, not the cameras themselves ;)
also, besides the immediate privacy issues is the whole issue of conditioning people to this idea that everything can be id'd and traced. if a generation grows up with this . . . then let your imagination go
dunno, just cracks me up
i mean, if all wal-mart does is implement this system and guarantees that the tags will be disabled, i think that's all fine and well, but this should be monitored closely so that we don't end up with an orwellian big brother checking over our shoulders seeing what we bought.
i heard on off the hook how those member discount cards at grocery stores are monitored so feds can see if your buying large amounts of precursor chemicals for drugs (sudafed was one example). well, great, they're trying to stop the production of drugs, but they're doing it at the expense of the everyday citizen who may now be subject to investigation and hassles that may damage their reputation and/or career just because for some legitimate reason they needed a large amount of sudafed!
also, supposedly they are now implementing a massive government database to track all these purchases and scan the data looking for potential terrorist buying habits (lol!).
that's what i have . . . innocent until proven guilty; why should the government monitor citizens until it has legitimate grounds to?
at Conn's however . . . man, i just went in with a free gift card and bought a few packs of regular AA batteries and the cashier took about 5 min to ring it up. had to give a phone number . . . got some receipt that looked like a certificate licensing you to practice hairdressing . . . i just wanted the batteries.
There will almost always be exceptions with any group of people . . . generalization can cause so many problems and misconceptions, and it's time people learned that.
I know some kids about that age who are attemping their own version of the LOtR trilogy, complete with costumes and sets that they sew and make themselves.
guess i just like having fun and its nice to see some kids come through with it.
of course now we could go into bbspot's xbox "active death" technology . . .
those who are using old-style keyboards being killed off worse than bubonic plauge right now . . .
along with your CTRL key thing, i'm glad that the tiny backspace key has finally seemed to go out of style. what was with that! one of the most used keys ;) and they make it this tiny little thing and end up hitting that stupid slash . . . ugh
*sigh* . . . guess you're right . . .
i agree, for that price, cool concept or not, how long can it last . . .
bullets and sandals are more like it
as for outlook, i guess it is secure if you want to be vigil all hours of the day for the next flaw to be exposed and continually installing patches upon patches . . . i still prefer to call outlook "swiss cheese"
Regional court Bremen bombardment in things Univention GmbH, Fahrenheitsstrsse1,
28359 Bremen Antragstellerin Prozessbevollm. represent by their managing director Peter H. Ganten,: Attorney partnership Ganten, Huenecke, Bieniek & partner, Ostertorstr. 32, 28195 Bremen AZ D Proz. Bev.: 00647/03 13/bk against SCO Group GmbH Norsk-Data-Strasse3, 61352 bath Homburg represented by her managing director Hans Bavarian Antragsgegnerin
I. the Antragsgegnerin in the way of the provisional order - because of urgency of the special without previous verbal negotiation and by the chairman alone - on avoiding a Ordnugsgeldes of up to 200.000,00 euro, as a substitute Ordnugshaft, which can be determined for each case of the Zuwiederhandlung, to carry out at the managing director of the Antragsgegnerin, forbidden, spreading in the trade the statement that LINUX Betriebsysteme contain unrechmaessig acquired mental property of SCO Unix(R) and/or final users, who use Linux, for whom associated patent right injuries of the SCO Intellectual Properties be made liable can.
II. The Antragsgegnerin bears the cost of the procedure. II the procedure value is determined at 500.000,00 euro. Bremen, the 28.Mai2003 regional court - 2.Kammer for commercial matters gez. VRLG Boehrnsen for the execution: Urkundsbeamtin of the office of the regional court
well, i guess its not that good. anyway, this is my 100th post on /.! w00t!
thanks for a new vocab word too ;)
Then again, what else are you going to use a laser that can heat things up as hot as a star for?
Alright, this is the last time I'm telling you this! If I see one more reenactment of the blowing up the apple scene from Honey I Shrunk The Kids . . .
Also, how many taxpayers would know, and comprehend, the alternatives and would be vocal enough bring this issue up to the relevant people.
You know, as much as there is an anti-establishment spirit among many of the geek/hacker culture, I think if they/we would actually do something about issues, such as writing congressmen, etc., changes could be made.
how exactly do you, could you, measure damages?
1) invent incredibly annoying ads 2) obtain patent 3) ???? 4) Profit
I do not believe that such things like true love could be explained by humans with numbers.
but then again, numbers may be the only hope a geek has with true love . . .