Would these qualify as parody or be allowed on some other basis of humour. It seems to me that Duke3d stood somewhat as a rival to doom, but nobody ever called them out on the "that's one doomed space marine" (or various other goodies) in the game.
Anachronox seems somewhat a cross between an RPG and an adventure game - and is done in full 3d. It's also a great game to try, if you haven't already.
I used to have rats, which make decent pets, very smart and loyal, but many people dislike the tails and they aren't all that cuddly (though they can ride on your shoulder). Sometime after my last rat went to rodent heaven, I've gotten myself a cute little dwarf bunny. She's less independant than a cat, can be kept in a bunny case (but it's better to litter train her), and is getting used to travelling (recommend that you let her sit on your lap because they slide around the cage otherwise).
In short, bunny is more friendly than your average cat, and happily sits on one's lap during computing sessions. However, I would recommend caution in letting one near cords, as from what I've heard they tend to look like bunny-treats to a hungry rabbit.
I'm hoping that at least one of my friends or family can find the courage and heart to make a joke. Mind you, it should be made at the appropriate time. At the only funeral we went to, we talked a lot about my friend's life, and made quips about how "Adults Only Video" would probably go bankrupt without his business. He would have appreciated the joke... we made much the same remarks when he was with us.
Now, for people who don't really know the deceased to make such comments, it just isn't appropriate. It also depends on the character of the person involved in the tragedy. A joke should bring light smiles and help offer some balm to the wounds of those affected, not simply be the attention-seeking acts of immaturity we unfortunately tend to see online.
Really, it's because they're people we know and respect. Well, some of us know, and many of us respect for what they do. Realistically, it could have been one of us... I'm not so popular on slashdot or OS that somebody might post an obituary for me, but we have done so for authors, actors, even scientists. Personally, I don't know all these people, and I'd not consider all of them celebrities.
If a John Doe dies and we don't know him - we'd still consider it a tragedy in most cases. However it's not so personal a tragedy. Given the relation between OS and slashdot (as mentioned), they are well enough known here, as are movie-stars, that enough of us might be touched by the news in some way.
That being said, perhaps somebody could give a brief mention of the contributions of those involved - I may not know them but that's not to say I'm not interested in what they've done.
There are LAN parties, and LAN tourneys. A LAN party should really just be a group of buddies getting together for some good ol' RTS'ing or fragging.
A tourney on the other hand, has an entrance fee, prizes, and is generally a lot bigger with a rented location. Most I've been to included prizes, and were prepared months in advance.
A few of the prizes were in the $200-300 range for the top players, other ones included higher-end CPU fans , a desk lamp, mouse pads, PSU's and various other geeky things. Local companies - mostly computer shops, etc - were named in the brochures as sponsors, and donated most of the prizes.
Now, I'm not suggesting everyone go out and try to hunt down sponsors, since then supply would dry up. But if you're willing to put the effort down for a real party, then it can turn out quite nicely. In fact, the first one I ever went to had big name sponsors (and this in a not-so-big city) from major gaming companies donating games for recognition. Remember, it doesn't take much effort to put a sponsor's name up on a poster, and there is something of automatic recognition involved when the sponsor's games are played.
Not that I really care too much, but as a point of interest - if one owns the "better" or "more recent" version of something, is there entitelement to previous versions?
For example, if I own a CD, I can rip it to Mp3. Supposedly, if I scratched said CD, I could download it anew. Probably not so if I just owned the tape and the mp3 was still ripped from CD.
Butttt... the laserdisk != the DVD. So I'm not sure that owning the edited DVD entitles one to a copy of the laserdisk, but I could probably download a divX rip of the DVD which I own?
If course, for the truly amoral spammers, they will just steal credit card numbers to use.
Not a question of morality, more a question of whether they run the risks. SPAM isn't likely to get you hunted down unless you really piss somebody off. Stealing CC'ing generalls pisses off Visa... them having lots of money to deal with CC scammers, and lots of lawyers to sue said scammers into oblivion.
Actually, the end result will be a Perl-based gallery system, with images being uploadable and resized by imagemagick upon upload, and/or when viewed.
At the moment though, not enough time for the scripts so I'll settle for a simple graphics program. And of course, average Joe would probably prefer the simple program
(don't suppose you have any perl image sizing scripts to make my work faster?)
If you count many of the widgets etc that run in the system tray, etc, most users do indeed run more than 3 programs.
Video card util/trayicon
Sound card util/trayicon
Antivirus/trayicon
How is the OS differentiating between these and larger apps as a "program." You could easily go over the limit just with the default crap that usually starts on boot.
It's up to the educated people to inform them then, or make the system safer. I've built several varieties of linux desktops, and for the mostpart the users have no idea what "root" is... as in the apps that need root access (Synaptic, apt scripts, etc) are run via sudo and everything else runs in the user level.
For the 60% of people that just want to view their picture, resize it, and do some various simple edits... he's a program for you.
Seriously, whilst Adobe is an excellent program for high-end image editing, it's not the be-all-end-all. For many users, Adobe is very much overkill.
While I do use the functionality of strong programs such as PhotoShop every now and then, I've found the PSP interface quite convenient for much of what I use. At this point I'm stuck between PSP and GIMP, with GIMP having been my only choice for 'nix.
Based on the comparison to PSP though, I'll probably check out Krita (wish there were screenshots). Sometimes you don't want to do a lot of cool "stuff," in fact most of the time I just want to resize my image and fiddle with the colour depth to make thumbnails for my webpage...
A link to the region free flash might be useful.... with that hell I might even buy one.
Changed is worse in some situations
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This is quite often true in respect to sites/companies with large webpages and hence lots of links. One company I used to work in the internet/intranet division for kept links to several partners' webpages. When one of those partners let their domain expire, it was bought out by a pr0n company.
You can imagine how much the staff enjoy the content on the new page... and the IT Security folks especially as the proxy was suddenly giving them lots of nice warnings about workers' viewing inappropriate conduct (probably due to the nasty popups, etc).
To heck with the VR gear, how about something to interact with reality? One concept would be some form of vision enhancement, perhaps in the form of an eyepath with a realtime display. Hook up a camera or something similar and display an enhanced or altered visual - would be great for nightvision type devices.
Even better would be if the display is partially transparent, you could use it as an overlay, where you can see what's around you but with added visual elements (motion trackers, edge enhancers, heat-view, infrared... graphs, stats, you name it).
I could also see this being quite useful in cameras viewfinders, etc... although on my digital camera (Kodak DX6490) the viewfinder is electronic already and seems to be quite fine at whatever resolution it uses.
How about something similar to a sheet of paper, with a small microcontroller and flash-card slot.
Store your documents on the flash-card in a compatible format, pop the card into the device, and presto you've got documentation.
Now for those that prefer paper docs I'd agree that quite often it's nicer to have real pages handy... but for things like large manuals printed off the net etc etc this would save tons (both in time, toner, and paper) on printing stuff out, be more lightweight than a large volume, and have many other advantages.
However, quite often their gain is your loss. Generally one doesn't gain from a corp (unless you're affiliated with it: shareholders etc), unless the corp is also gaining something. The best one can usually hope for is to "lose less" from one corp over another.
What were the sites that netted you the feedback. For much of my online resumes last time I posted them, I got a much more noticable increase in spam (especially "quick diploma", "pay us to find you a job" or "buy this book on making a better resume") than hits from actual employers...
How many of us actually aspired to be what we read about? While certainly some of the concepts of chivalry and conduct in novels I used to read may have rubbed off on me, I never wanted to become a jumpship operator, transdimensional starship captain, or anything of the like.
Becoming the geek I am today had a lot more to do with what I interacted with (Lego, mechano, and other things that stimulated an interest in putting things together or taking them apart, electronics, etc), my first PC, etc
Of course, I do suppose that the old QBasic book I got into way back when started me along the coders' path, but my interest in the book was probably stemmed from games that provoked an interest in coding (and making games)
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Would these qualify as parody or be allowed on some other basis of humour. It seems to me that Duke3d stood somewhat as a rival to doom, but nobody ever called them out on the "that's one doomed space marine" (or various other goodies) in the game.
Anachronox seems somewhat a cross between an RPG and an adventure game - and is done in full 3d. It's also a great game to try, if you haven't already.
I used to have rats, which make decent pets, very smart and loyal, but many people dislike the tails and they aren't all that cuddly (though they can ride on your shoulder). Sometime after my last rat went to rodent heaven, I've gotten myself a cute little dwarf bunny. She's less independant than a cat, can be kept in a bunny case (but it's better to litter train her), and is getting used to travelling (recommend that you let her sit on your lap because they slide around the cage otherwise).
In short, bunny is more friendly than your average cat, and happily sits on one's lap during computing sessions. However, I would recommend caution in letting one near cords, as from what I've heard they tend to look like bunny-treats to a hungry rabbit.
Do we now once again start buying music produced in conjunction with Sony, as a show of good faith in their newly-regained trust of the consumer?
I realize many bought discs despite these issues... but I've actually abstained for the mostpart these past few years.
Given the last verse to that, I would have thought that the song would be better suited to apple.
*ducks* cmon fellas... it was a joke
I would be interested in hearing about what applications you use for this.
Email me? slashREMOVEdot2REMOVE@phormix.com
You still need a MacOS... but...
A feel dirty even posting this, but we use it for the macs that have "essential" windows applications.
I'm hoping that at least one of my friends or family can find the courage and heart to make a joke. Mind you, it should be made at the appropriate time. At the only funeral we went to, we talked a lot about my friend's life, and made quips about how "Adults Only Video" would probably go bankrupt without his business. He would have appreciated the joke... we made much the same remarks when he was with us.
Now, for people who don't really know the deceased to make such comments, it just isn't appropriate. It also depends on the character of the person involved in the tragedy. A joke should bring light smiles and help offer some balm to the wounds of those affected, not simply be the attention-seeking acts of immaturity we unfortunately tend to see online.
Really, it's because they're people we know and respect. Well, some of us know, and many of us respect for what they do. Realistically, it could have been one of us... I'm not so popular on slashdot or OS that somebody might post an obituary for me, but we have done so for authors, actors, even scientists. Personally, I don't know all these people, and I'd not consider all of them celebrities.
If a John Doe dies and we don't know him - we'd still consider it a tragedy in most cases. However it's not so personal a tragedy. Given the relation between OS and slashdot (as mentioned), they are well enough known here, as are movie-stars, that enough of us might be touched by the news in some way.
That being said, perhaps somebody could give a brief mention of the contributions of those involved - I may not know them but that's not to say I'm not interested in what they've done.
There are LAN parties, and LAN tourneys. A LAN party should really just be a group of buddies getting together for some good ol' RTS'ing or fragging.
A tourney on the other hand, has an entrance fee, prizes, and is generally a lot bigger with a rented location. Most I've been to included prizes, and were prepared months in advance.
A few of the prizes were in the $200-300 range for the top players, other ones included higher-end CPU fans , a desk lamp, mouse pads, PSU's and various other geeky things. Local companies - mostly computer shops, etc - were named in the brochures as sponsors, and donated most of the prizes.
Now, I'm not suggesting everyone go out and try to hunt down sponsors, since then supply would dry up. But if you're willing to put the effort down for a real party, then it can turn out quite nicely. In fact, the first one I ever went to had big name sponsors (and this in a not-so-big city) from major gaming companies donating games for recognition. Remember, it doesn't take much effort to put a sponsor's name up on a poster, and there is something of automatic recognition involved when the sponsor's games are played.
Not that I really care too much, but as a point of interest - if one owns the "better" or "more recent" version of something, is there entitelement to previous versions?
For example, if I own a CD, I can rip it to Mp3. Supposedly, if I scratched said CD, I could download it anew. Probably not so if I just owned the tape and the mp3 was still ripped from CD.
Butttt... the laserdisk != the DVD. So I'm not sure that owning the edited DVD entitles one to a copy of the laserdisk, but I could probably download a divX rip of the DVD which I own?
If course, for the truly amoral spammers, they will just steal credit card numbers to use.
Not a question of morality, more a question of whether they run the risks. SPAM isn't likely to get you hunted down unless you really piss somebody off. Stealing CC'ing generalls pisses off Visa... them having lots of money to deal with CC scammers, and lots of lawyers to sue said scammers into oblivion.
Actually, the end result will be a Perl-based gallery system, with images being uploadable and resized by imagemagick upon upload, and/or when viewed.
At the moment though, not enough time for the scripts so I'll settle for a simple graphics program. And of course, average Joe would probably prefer the simple program
(don't suppose you have any perl image sizing scripts to make my work faster?)
If you count many of the widgets etc that run in the system tray, etc, most users do indeed run more than 3 programs.
Video card util/trayicon
Sound card util/trayicon
Antivirus/trayicon
How is the OS differentiating between these and larger apps as a "program." You could easily go over the limit just with the default crap that usually starts on boot.
It's up to the educated people to inform them then, or make the system safer. I've built several varieties of linux desktops, and for the mostpart the users have no idea what "root" is... as in the apps that need root access (Synaptic, apt scripts, etc) are run via sudo and everything else runs in the user level.
For the 60% of people that just want to view their picture, resize it, and do some various simple edits... he's a program for you.
Seriously, whilst Adobe is an excellent program for high-end image editing, it's not the be-all-end-all. For many users, Adobe is very much overkill.
While I do use the functionality of strong programs such as PhotoShop every now and then, I've found the PSP interface quite convenient for much of what I use. At this point I'm stuck between PSP and GIMP, with GIMP having been my only choice for 'nix.
Based on the comparison to PSP though, I'll probably check out Krita (wish there were screenshots). Sometimes you don't want to do a lot of cool "stuff," in fact most of the time I just want to resize my image and fiddle with the colour depth to make thumbnails for my webpage...
A link to the region free flash might be useful.... with that hell I might even buy one.
This is quite often true in respect to sites/companies with large webpages and hence lots of links. One company I used to work in the internet/intranet division for kept links to several partners' webpages. When one of those partners let their domain expire, it was bought out by a pr0n company.
You can imagine how much the staff enjoy the content on the new page... and the IT Security folks especially as the proxy was suddenly giving them lots of nice warnings about workers' viewing inappropriate conduct (probably due to the nasty popups, etc).
To heck with the VR gear, how about something to interact with reality? One concept would be some form of vision enhancement, perhaps in the form of an eyepath with a realtime display. Hook up a camera or something similar and display an enhanced or altered visual - would be great for nightvision type devices.
Even better would be if the display is partially transparent, you could use it as an overlay, where you can see what's around you but with added visual elements (motion trackers, edge enhancers, heat-view, infrared... graphs, stats, you name it).
I could also see this being quite useful in cameras viewfinders, etc... although on my digital camera (Kodak DX6490) the viewfinder is electronic already and seems to be quite fine at whatever resolution it uses.
How about something similar to a sheet of paper, with a small microcontroller and flash-card slot.
Store your documents on the flash-card in a compatible format, pop the card into the device, and presto you've got documentation.
Now for those that prefer paper docs I'd agree that quite often it's nicer to have real pages handy... but for things like large manuals printed off the net etc etc this would save tons (both in time, toner, and paper) on printing stuff out, be more lightweight than a large volume, and have many other advantages.
From I've seen... China generally is very lax towards American copyright - so somehow I doubt that would be a problem.
However, quite often their gain is your loss. Generally one doesn't gain from a corp (unless you're affiliated with it: shareholders etc), unless the corp is also gaining something. The best one can usually hope for is to "lose less" from one corp over another.
For the reference of all us geeks here:
What were the sites that netted you the feedback. For much of my online resumes last time I posted them, I got a much more noticable increase in spam (especially "quick diploma", "pay us to find you a job" or "buy this book on making a better resume") than hits from actual employers...
How many of us actually aspired to be what we read about? While certainly some of the concepts of chivalry and conduct in novels I used to read may have rubbed off on me, I never wanted to become a jumpship operator, transdimensional starship captain, or anything of the like.
Becoming the geek I am today had a lot more to do with what I interacted with (Lego, mechano, and other things that stimulated an interest in putting things together or taking them apart, electronics, etc), my first PC, etc
Of course, I do suppose that the old QBasic book I got into way back when started me along the coders' path, but my interest in the book was probably stemmed from games that provoked an interest in coding (and making games)
How about creating a new DB? Some mySQL exploits?
We could populate that sucker with crap records for eternity and fill his HDD...
I can't do it right now because I'm at work... how about somebody with 'leet mySQL hacking skills that's at home right now?