they must have an unimaginable amount of radio material from their history (assuming it hasn't been tossed out as with the Dr. Who debacle), and I for one wouldn't mind hearing it streamed via RealPlayer/QuickTime/whatever.
I probably wouldn't want to pay to subscribe to it, though. And how likely is the Beeb to do such a thing for free, coming from a land where license fees for radios and TVs help make up their operating budget?
if anybody is still reading this thread...I just downloaded GLQuake for the Mac and ran it on a standard iMac DV (a 400 MHz PowerPC G3, an 8MB Rage 128VR 2xAGP, but with 128 MB of RAM instead of 64 MB). I managed to eke out 38.7 fps running in 800x600 in 16-bit color. The rate dropped to around 22 fps when running in 32-bit color.
These tests were run under Mac OS 9.0.4 with Apple's newest OpenGL drivers, and with virtual memory turned on (plus a standard complement of Mac OS system extensions).
I would hope that a properly configured Power Mac G4 running Mac OS X final will be competetive with the BeOS results. In any case, perhaps the Mac isn't such a worthless platform for gaming after all....
Quicken for the Mac is a pure piece of shit, full of bugs made worse with every "patch" and not even fully Y2K compliant, only saved from being dropped by Intuit via a personal intervention by Steve Jobs. What makes this so aggravating is that Bill Campbell sits on the goddamned board of Apple! I hope some enterprising developer (and yes, I would do it myself, if I had the skill) will either port this to the Mac OS, or create their own version. Fuck Intuit.
Sorry for the rant, I'm still pissed off about the whole Bungie/Microsoft thing...
It's near the very beginning, where the camera is pulling out from within the trash can in the Narrator's office. He also mentions the "Microsoft Galaxy." (If you have a chance to grab the DVD, do it; it's packed full of extras on a separate disk. Plus, the film rocks.)
On a side note, while "Species II" was truly one of the worst movies of the '90s, it does open with a funny scene of a spaceship approaching Mars in preparation for the first landing n the planet....and as the ship moves across the screen we see that the side is completely covered in billboards and logos. Sadly, the film went waaaaaay downhill from there...but that's another story.
Does anyone know of a program that would be good for modeling lego structures?
Perhaps there is a market (albeit small) for a program that let you model structures using lego bricks and then calculated how many you should buy of each color and size used.
Once upon a time, several years ago, a company called Gryphon Software made a program for the Mac (possibly for PCs as well) called Bricks, which let you build virtual models out of what were dead ringers for Lego bricks. They had a wide variety of shapes, special pieces, and colors. You could even write AppleScripts to build complex structures for you. VERY slick.
I still have a copy somewhere, but it looks like Gryphon is out of business; their site link takes you to a different company and that site doesn't show any info on the program.
I think what killed it is that people found it's a lot more fun to play with real bricks than virtual ones, but it would still be useful for visualization of large designs, exactly as you described. You can try bargain bins or eBay to locate a copy.
Why build an ordinary case? Now you too can have an iMac-looking computer case without being sued. Get one of the light kits to make it really spiffy-looking at night.:-]
slightly OT: am I the only one who finds it disturbing to see so many GREEN Lego bricks available? When I was younger, green bricks were an extreme rarity, usually limited to trees, baseplates, and flats used to connect the baseplates together. Even in Denmark, they're not too common, or at least they didn't use to be. (I was born there, so I have a rather extensive collection, back to the days when Samsonite was a licensee.)
Hmmmm. "Hello, Citibank? I'd like to apply for an raise in my credit limit."
for the IIci, it was 9/20/89 (the day it was introduced). The IIfx's was sometime in March 1990. There's a Macintosh application floating around that lists literally hundreds of Apple Easter Eggs in everything from the system software for the IIgs to the Newton to the Apple Fax Modem to MPW. Astounding stuff in some cases.
BTW, if you want to know the names of the people to blame for the office assistant, follow the instructions for this Easter Egg. It worked on the office computers here.
Hmmmmm. x86 only, simultaneous release for Win/Solaris/Linux but *not* Mac OS X, no official BSD port, and no mention of J2EE for the Mac. And this after fearless leader Steve Jobs appeared onstage during the keynote. Good to see nothing ever changes at Sun. Maybe if they focused a little more on promoting widespread Java use instead of focusing on killing Microsoft.....
Why, the gas bubbles from that black hole must be moving at ludicrous speed...
Ahhh, Spaceballs. "No, no, no, go past this part. In fact, never play this again."
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It's powerful, it runs on NT and various Unixes, and as of last month, it's ridiculously cheap. And, you don't even have to learn ObjectiveC if you don't want to.
Yeah, I worry about this a lot...
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I'm 29, I've been coding on my own on and off (mostly off over the past few years) while I pay the bills doing the tech-support thing (which FUCKING SUCKS). I'm getting ready to finally go back to school part-time this year, hopefully full-time by next year, so I can learn all the theory/style/background I'm missing. Problem is, I'm experienced enough to know I don't want to work 60-70 hours a week for some might-or-might-not startup; I want to have a life and work somewhere that's past its gotta-make-it-to-the-IPO stage.
I figure as long as I learn something useful like Java, C++, XML, and/or WebObjects (hey, I'm a Mac geek, what can I say), it shouldn't matter how old I am, and my tech-support background is an asset in terms of useability consideration and the like. But is this really the case in the develpment world, or am I screwed before I start? I haven't been able to find an answer one way or the other.
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"It's a bit of a marketer's wet dream," says Kyle Shannon, cofounder of Agency.com, an Internet marketing consulting firm.
What a wonderful phrase, just the level of couth and wit I would have expected from an advertiser. I bet he uses phrases like "let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes" too.
Actually, Kurt's a writer, not an artist. I know because he's my stepbrother (yes, really). "Marvels" is my personal favorite work of his. And the story about the newspaper clipping in Astro City #2 is in fact true...
ObUselessTrivia: back in 1982 when I was 12, I lived for a year with my father and stepmother (Kurt's mom, who is now battling breast cancer, more or less successfully) in none other than Acton, MA, out by Nagog Pond. For a while, first Kurt, then one of his sisters lived downstairs as well (this was around the time he was writing for Power Man & Iron Fist). To think that if only I'd stayed, I could have joined the/. revolution fifteen years later....
Hmmmm, let's see....well, I'm not bright enough to be a mathematical hacker, I'm not creative enough to be a UI hacker (though I've read the Human Interface Guidelines from Apple and used several different types of GUI/CLIs, and I have a built-in aesthetic of what seems "right" about an interface), and I'm not knowledgeable enough to be a device driver/kernel hacker. Plus I don't want to spend the next 10 years writing plug-in code for the Office Assistants.....yeech.
What I'd ideally like to do, once I get some serious skills built up, is be one of those guys who goes around cleaning up old crufty bits of code, rewriting things to make them smoother/faster/less cluttered, updating bits of code that haven't been touched since the original developer lost interest six months ago, that sort of thing. Is there a category/place for people like that? (Other than "pathetic", that is.)
ObBitterAdvice/FeelSorryForSelfRant: Kids! Thinking about leaving school to get experience in the "real world"? For chrissakes, DON'T! You'll end up trapped in a dismal malaise of low-paying, unthinking jobs with no hope of advancement because you don't have the sheepskin, you'll be shunted away from jobs that might build your skill set and enrich your coding abilities, you'll watch your peak coding years drain away while you struggle to balance work, more work, and the one or two classes you can afford to take a semester (which means you'll have your degree roughly the same time your Social Security runs out) and your brain will rot from disuse into a pasty mush that actually wonders why anybody would use a mail program other than Microsoft Outlook. Save yourselves! Don't end up a bitter, disenchanted tech-support worker at 29! (Er, like this guy I know.)
Out of curiosity I just Timbuktu'd into my G3/450 B&W at work (which is running PowerLogix's cache boosting utility - gotta crunch those SETI units) and checked the processor temperature with Gauge Pro, and although the surface of the G3 probably isn't all that level, it's still only 41 degrees C. So no sanding of my processor for me, thanks.:-]
It's great to see that GameBlender not only recognizes Linux as a mraket, but recognizes that Linux doesn't have to run on an x86. Way too many companies still don't get that part of the equation right.
Of course, the obvious answer is to ship a CD with your game's source on it and let the user compile it on whatever system they're running, because you ifdef'd in all the right places AND released it under a free software license, right?
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they must have an unimaginable amount of radio material from their history (assuming it hasn't been tossed out as with the Dr. Who debacle), and I for one wouldn't mind hearing it streamed via RealPlayer/QuickTime/whatever.
I probably wouldn't want to pay to subscribe to it, though. And how likely is the Beeb to do such a thing for free, coming from a land where license fees for radios and TVs help make up their operating budget?
(note: that's not a rhetorical question.)
if anybody is still reading this thread...I just downloaded GLQuake for the Mac and ran it on a standard iMac DV (a 400 MHz PowerPC G3, an 8MB Rage 128VR 2xAGP, but with 128 MB of RAM instead of 64 MB). I managed to eke out 38.7 fps running in 800x600 in 16-bit color. The rate dropped to around 22 fps when running in 32-bit color.
These tests were run under Mac OS 9.0.4 with Apple's newest OpenGL drivers, and with virtual memory turned on (plus a standard complement of Mac OS system extensions).
I would hope that a properly configured Power Mac G4 running Mac OS X final will be competetive with the BeOS results. In any case, perhaps the Mac isn't such a worthless platform for gaming after all....
Sorry for the rant, I'm still pissed off about the whole Bungie/Microsoft thing...
And with every one you get a free Diamond Rio MP3 player, right?
It's near the very beginning, where the camera is pulling out from within the trash can in the Narrator's office. He also mentions the "Microsoft Galaxy." (If you have a chance to grab the DVD, do it; it's packed full of extras on a separate disk. Plus, the film rocks.)
On a side note, while "Species II" was truly one of the worst movies of the '90s, it does open with a funny scene of a spaceship approaching Mars in preparation for the first landing n the planet....and as the ship moves across the screen we see that the side is completely covered in billboards and logos. Sadly, the film went waaaaaay downhill from there...but that's another story.
Glad you're feeling better, BTW.
Perhaps there is a market (albeit small) for a program that let you model structures using lego bricks and then calculated how many you should buy of each color and size used.
Once upon a time, several years ago, a company called Gryphon Software made a program for the Mac (possibly for PCs as well) called Bricks, which let you build virtual models out of what were dead ringers for Lego bricks. They had a wide variety of shapes, special pieces, and colors. You could even write AppleScripts to build complex structures for you. VERY slick.
I still have a copy somewhere, but it looks like Gryphon is out of business; their site link takes you to a different company and that site doesn't show any info on the program.
I think what killed it is that people found it's a lot more fun to play with real bricks than virtual ones, but it would still be useful for visualization of large designs, exactly as you described. You can try bargain bins or eBay to locate a copy.
Why build an ordinary case? Now you too can have an iMac-looking computer case without being sued. Get one of the light kits to make it really spiffy-looking at night. :-]
slightly OT: am I the only one who finds it disturbing to see so many GREEN Lego bricks available? When I was younger, green bricks were an extreme rarity, usually limited to trees, baseplates, and flats used to connect the baseplates together. Even in Denmark, they're not too common, or at least they didn't use to be. (I was born there, so I have a rather extensive collection, back to the days when Samsonite was a licensee.)
Hmmmm. "Hello, Citibank? I'd like to apply for an raise in my credit limit."
BTW, if you want to know the names of the people to blame for the office assistant, follow the instructions for this Easter Egg. It worked on the office computers here.
One day, I'd probably come home to find I'd bought 337 copies of "Gilligan's Island Collector's Edition DVD Box Set" or something like that.
Cat owners will understand.
Hmmmmm. x86 only, simultaneous release for Win/Solaris/Linux but *not* Mac OS X, no official BSD port, and no mention of J2EE for the Mac. And this after fearless leader Steve Jobs appeared onstage during the keynote. Good to see nothing ever changes at Sun. Maybe if they focused a little more on promoting widespread Java use instead of focusing on killing Microsoft.....
Wow. You know, in all the software I've written, I've never thought at that low a level. Maybe I should?
Ahhh, Spaceballs. "No, no, no, go past this part. In fact, never play this again."
Just a thought.
I'm 29, I've been coding on my own on and off (mostly off over the past few years) while I pay the bills doing the tech-support thing (which FUCKING SUCKS). I'm getting ready to finally go back to school part-time this year, hopefully full-time by next year, so I can learn all the theory/style/background I'm missing. Problem is, I'm experienced enough to know I don't want to work 60-70 hours a week for some might-or-might-not startup; I want to have a life and work somewhere that's past its gotta-make-it-to-the-IPO stage.
/or WebObjects (hey, I'm a Mac geek, what can I say), it shouldn't matter how old I am, and my tech-support background is an asset in terms of useability consideration and the like. But is this really the case in the develpment world, or am I screwed before I start? I haven't been able to find an answer one way or the other.
I figure as long as I learn something useful like Java, C++, XML, and
Just one more thing to worry about, I guess.
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D'oh! Never mind, I was thinking of a different movie. And now, if you'll excuse me, I have a purchase to make from reel.com....
"And, uh...I get to keep the equipment when we're done." -- Luther
ObDVDRant: Why isn't "Hard-Boiled" available yet?
"It's a bit of a marketer's wet dream," says Kyle Shannon, cofounder of Agency.com, an Internet marketing consulting firm.
What a wonderful phrase, just the level of couth and wit I would have expected from an advertiser. I bet he uses phrases like "let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes" too.
Actually, Kurt's a writer, not an artist. I know because he's my stepbrother (yes, really). "Marvels" is my personal favorite work of his. And the story about the newspaper clipping in Astro City #2 is in fact true...
/. revolution fifteen years later....
ObUselessTrivia: back in 1982 when I was 12, I lived for a year with my father and stepmother (Kurt's mom, who is now battling breast cancer, more or less successfully) in none other than Acton, MA, out by Nagog Pond. For a while, first Kurt, then one of his sisters lived downstairs as well (this was around the time he was writing for Power Man & Iron Fist). To think that if only I'd stayed, I could have joined the
Twiki was voiced by none other than by Mel Blanc, with Eric Server as the voice of Dr. Theopolis (gotta love the IMDB).
Hawk ruled that show hardcore, though.
Hmmmm, let's see....well, I'm not bright enough to be a mathematical hacker, I'm not creative enough to be a UI hacker (though I've read the Human Interface Guidelines from Apple and used several different types of GUI/CLIs, and I have a built-in aesthetic of what seems "right" about an interface), and I'm not knowledgeable enough to be a device driver/kernel hacker. Plus I don't want to spend the next 10 years writing plug-in code for the Office Assistants.....yeech.
What I'd ideally like to do, once I get some serious skills built up, is be one of those guys who goes around cleaning up old crufty bits of code, rewriting things to make them smoother/faster/less cluttered, updating bits of code that haven't been touched since the original developer lost interest six months ago, that sort of thing. Is there a category/place for people like that? (Other than "pathetic", that is.)
ObBitterAdvice/FeelSorryForSelfRant: Kids! Thinking about leaving school to get experience in the "real world"? For chrissakes, DON'T! You'll end up trapped in a dismal malaise of low-paying, unthinking jobs with no hope of advancement because you don't have the sheepskin, you'll be shunted away from jobs that might build your skill set and enrich your coding abilities, you'll watch your peak coding years drain away while you struggle to balance work, more work, and the one or two classes you can afford to take a semester (which means you'll have your degree roughly the same time your Social Security runs out) and your brain will rot from disuse into a pasty mush that actually wonders why anybody would use a mail program other than Microsoft Outlook. Save yourselves! Don't end up a bitter, disenchanted tech-support worker at 29! (Er, like this guy I know.)
from Netcraft: "Sorry, couldn't determine what the server was for host www.macross2000.org on port 80."
Whatever it is, it isn't at the moment. (Maybe it's running off a TI-85 itself?)
Out of curiosity I just Timbuktu'd into my G3/450 B&W at work (which is running PowerLogix's cache boosting utility - gotta crunch those SETI units) and checked the processor temperature with Gauge Pro, and although the surface of the G3 probably isn't all that level, it's still only 41 degrees C. So no sanding of my processor for me, thanks. :-]
It's great to see that GameBlender not only recognizes Linux as a mraket, but recognizes that Linux doesn't have to run on an x86. Way too many companies still don't get that part of the equation right.
Of course, the obvious answer is to ship a CD with your game's source on it and let the user compile it on whatever system they're running, because you ifdef'd in all the right places AND released it under a free software license, right?