Really, what would these writers think of fertility idols?
I think the idea is that their exaggerated body parts symbolise what those gods are good at. If idols that had nothing to do with fertility, but, say, the harvesting of crops or whatever, had those same exaggerated body parts, then that would be as odd as what we have now.
It's not quite the same thing as spandex clad people with big breasts or bulging muscles shooting at each other.
I think you missed the gp's point. He wants to center a container object, not text or the text within a container. text-align is a text property.
While margin: 0 auto; is the correct way of doing this, IE demands you use text-align anyway, even though it's intended for text (this is IE's fault, not CSS's). Use text-align: center; on the element that the one you want to center is inside of, and then text-align: left; to counteract it again for the element itself.
What CSS does is seperate style from actual content, and also seperate style intended for monitors from, say, style intended for a printed copy of the page. Once you start to think in this mindset, it makes a lot more sense than using HTML to define both the content and style in the same place, all mixed in together.
It can also save a lot of time. For example, with CSS you can specify that every h1 element should be centered with a single line of code, which is much quicker than specifying the alignment of every single h1 element by hand in every page, one at a time.
That and it saves a lot of bandwidth, as each page can link to the same CSS file.
Does this movie feature attractive girls (elsewhere than on computer screens), humour, action, adventure, love (relationships to chat bots not counted), message (other than that life sucks and your imaginary girlfriend doesn't)?
What is it with so many people on this site acting like it's an integral part of being a geek to not have a partner or even be attractive? I have a lover, and she's also a computer geek. Just because we fell in love with each other doesn't stop us being geeks. It's possible to have a partner and still qualify as geek, is all I wanted to say.
I hope that in a couple thousand years, if we haven't blown up the planet, civilizations will look back at the Christ story and the Biblical creation myths as exactly that, a mythology, one viewed in the same way that we look at the myths of the old Greek and Roman gods.
Zeus will smite you with thunderbolts for saying that!
When I'm stumped on a technical problem, whether computer or automobile related, and web searching doesn't help, often I can find the problem already solved on usenet. Or I can find a group to post to and get help.
I search Usenetbefore the web - Usenet posts don't have banner adverts or ask you to sign up for an account before you can see the answer to the question.
[it's full of thugs, imbeciles, etc...] "All this is true mostly of the Alt newsgroups, which were designed to have few inhibitions. Other groups, such as Comp, Sci, Soc and Humanities, fare much better, largely because they can be moderated. They contain lots of valuable stuff.
Newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy can be moderated too, it just happens that most aren't. There's a list of active newsgroups, including which ones are moderated and which aren't, at faqs.org.
Usenet is deeply flawed. Its democratic dream offers no defence against viruses, spammers, criminals, hucksters or deranged individuals. Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
While that's close to the case when it comes to some unmoderated newsgroups, some newsgroups are moderated, meaning that every single post to that group has to be approved by one of the group's official moderators before it becomes public. Moderated newsgroups therefore do not have any spam, and although it's possible for moderators to abuse their power, I haven't seen this to be the case. Moderating a newsgroup probably takes a lot of time and responsibility.
Even unmoderated newsgroups can be a useful resource. I make a habit of searching Usenet for an error message before wasting someone's time asking what it means and how to avoid it, as you're guaranteed to find at least one person who has asked the same question previously.
If you're taught from birth that God made you out of clay, you're going to believe that the evolution part of the class is the "garbage".
Not necessarily. My partner was raised Catholic, and went to a Catholic school. She grew up to be a Nine Inch Nails fan and an Atheist. Never underestemate people's ability to rebel as a teenager and mellow out somewhere between the two extremes as an adult.
The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer's logbook with the words: "first actual case of a bug being found."
Why would they say that, if the term "bug" didn't exist? I mean, you wouldn't find a rat in your car and say "First actual case of a car 'rat' being found" if you didn't use it as a term to indicate something. You'd just say "this bug caused computing errors". I smell a car rat.
That's right, the term bug has been used before the first literal case of one being found in a computer. That famous anecdote is just a case of people being excited about a pun coming true. Wikipedia has some information on the etymology of the word, as does the Jargon file.
"Nintendo and Wayport will offer complimentary Wi-Fi hotspots... enabling DS owners... to play online games with or against each other."
Aah, so this is about linking happy childhood memories with a brand of products. So it's really just an extension of them having other games available at their eateries in order to entice kids there. Just like the play areas and clowns, only with higher technology.
screw Social Security, they're going bankrupt anyway... on my emergency flash drive it's all about the pr0n.
Even better, use steganography to sneak important data such as your social security number into the seemingly innocuous porn. That way you get the best of both worlds, and a pretense for the porn.
There a are a lot of quirks. For example, All You Need to Know About the Music Business mentions in passing at one point, that until recently, jukebox owners didn't have to pay royalties every time a song got played, because they were legally toys.
Please... no software simulation touches the real Roland TB-303.
Yeah, the virtual buttons on software just don't stick like the real thing. It used to take me a long time to program a patch on my old TB-303 because it would think I'd pressed a note twice when I hadn't. That and I needed to use an adapter to connect it to my MIDI set-up. The TB-303 is old and overrated, and can do with updating, in my opinion.
OK, the actual article is here. My own write-up on the game is here. The Zzap!64 review is here.
For those of you still not sure what this is, it's a game where you have a person in your computer, and you can feed him (they're all male for some reason), buy him books and records, ask him to play the piano, and scritch his hair. If you don't feed him, he'll go to bed, turn green, and die. It's a pretty original game, and you can get the C64 tape re-release second hand for around its original cost of £2.99 quite easily. It's reminiscent of tamagotchi and, I've been told, The Sims. It's quite good fun, anyway.
This theory would immediately make the fast-forward button on VCRs/DVD players illegal.
That's absolutely correct, actually, if I remember the Betamax decision correctly. Fast-forwarding through commercials creates an unauthorized derivative work.
The "problem" (for corporations who own the copyright of other people's work) here is that anyone can press fast-forward. But don't worry, at the rate DVDs are going, by the time they're replaced with high definition discs, you won't be able to fast forward through adverts or legal notices because your player won't let you, unless you illegally decrypt and modify the video.
Will this be the real end of innovation in videogames?"
I'm as much against patents as the next person here, but if people can't make new games that resemble existing games, that should surely encourage innovation. Each arcade game used to be radically different from the last in the eighties. Shoot-'em-ups already existed, so people started making games where you were a marble in a maze, or a plumber attacking turtles. These days the majority of games can be pigeonholed neatly into a category such as first person shooter (formerly called "Doom clones"), beat-'em-up, platformer and so on.
Maybe if people tried to make truly original and innovative games (although this would be better if they did it of their own free will rather than being forced to by patents), the industry would become as interesting as it once was.
Your diary must look odd: "Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch- death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower..."
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Game creators and especially marketers create disincentives for women to play through sexist or oversexualized portrayals of females. Examples: Hijacking Lara Croft's image from female Indy to Drips-With-Sex-Balloon-Boobs; Bloodrayne; too many to list.
Are they being sexist? It seems like they oversexualise their portrayals of males too (all muscles, no brains, etc), but no one seems to complain as much about that. From what I've heard, it's just a male thing to oversexualise everyone. Now, if there were more women making the games, maybe there'd be realistic characters, female and male, which would certainly be a step in the right direction.
Of course, that theory in itself is sexist, so just ignore me:)
If you want to play a game with your significant other, how about a game that's based on two player teamwork? (Actually, that might apply to Dance Dance Revolution; I've never played it).
In particular, if your girlfriend likes puzzle games, cooperation and extremely cute cats (mine certainly does), it's worth giving Uo Poko a try on MAME. Um, assuming you live in Japan and own the arcade game. Otherwise you'll be prosecuted to the full extent of the jam.
Be brought forward some new huge bands like Marylin Manson and Filter
Interesting. How did he help out Filter? I know that with Marilyn Manson, he signed them to his label, produced their first few albums to get that distinct NIN-like sound, and even played the Mellotron on Antichrist Superstar. That's a pretty big break he gave them!
There's even a WHOLE movie that's based off the images of the video for "Closer"
sony's piece of shit first try at a digital music player
I hate to break it to you, but CDs, MiniDisc and DATs are all digital formats, and Sony make players for all three. They've all been around a lot longer than mp3s have, too.
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Really, what would these writers think of fertility idols?
I think the idea is that their exaggerated body parts symbolise what those gods are good at. If idols that had nothing to do with fertility, but, say, the harvesting of crops or whatever, had those same exaggerated body parts, then that would be as odd as what we have now.
It's not quite the same thing as spandex clad people with big breasts or bulging muscles shooting at each other.
I think you missed the gp's point. He wants to center a container object, not text or the text within a container. text-align is a text property.
While margin: 0 auto; is the correct way of doing this, IE demands you use text-align anyway, even though it's intended for text (this is IE's fault, not CSS's). Use text-align: center; on the element that the one you want to center is inside of, and then text-align: left; to counteract it again for the element itself.
Which is one of the many reasons why I don't like Internet Explorer.
CSS took the totally simple CENTER tag and "improved" it with kludgy auto-width margins that don't work in IE5/Win.
text-align: center;
What CSS does is seperate style from actual content, and also seperate style intended for monitors from, say, style intended for a printed copy of the page. Once you start to think in this mindset, it makes a lot more sense than using HTML to define both the content and style in the same place, all mixed in together.
It can also save a lot of time. For example, with CSS you can specify that every h1 element should be centered with a single line of code, which is much quicker than specifying the alignment of every single h1 element by hand in every page, one at a time.
That and it saves a lot of bandwidth, as each page can link to the same CSS file.
Does this movie feature attractive girls (elsewhere than on computer screens), humour, action, adventure, love (relationships to chat bots not counted), message (other than that life sucks and your imaginary girlfriend doesn't)?
What is it with so many people on this site acting like it's an integral part of being a geek to not have a partner or even be attractive? I have a lover, and she's also a computer geek. Just because we fell in love with each other doesn't stop us being geeks. It's possible to have a partner and still qualify as geek, is all I wanted to say.
Sorry, rant over.
I wish I had a dollar for every smirk on the /. readers' faces who read this article and have preached against Microsoft in the last few years.
Why? Microsoft have way more money than that, and they can't even make things that work.
I hope that in a couple thousand years, if we haven't blown up the planet, civilizations will look back at the Christ story and the Biblical creation myths as exactly that, a mythology, one viewed in the same way that we look at the myths of the old Greek and Roman gods.
Zeus will smite you with thunderbolts for saying that!
When I'm stumped on a technical problem, whether computer or automobile related, and web searching doesn't help, often I can find the problem already solved on usenet. Or I can find a group to post to and get help.
I search Usenet before the web - Usenet posts don't have banner adverts or ask you to sign up for an account before you can see the answer to the question.
[it's full of thugs, imbeciles, etc...] "All this is true mostly of the Alt newsgroups, which were designed to have few inhibitions. Other groups, such as Comp, Sci, Soc and Humanities, fare much better, largely because they can be moderated. They contain lots of valuable stuff.
Newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy can be moderated too, it just happens that most aren't. There's a list of active newsgroups, including which ones are moderated and which aren't, at faqs.org.
Usenet is deeply flawed. Its democratic dream offers no defence against viruses, spammers, criminals, hucksters or deranged individuals. Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
While that's close to the case when it comes to some unmoderated newsgroups, some newsgroups are moderated, meaning that every single post to that group has to be approved by one of the group's official moderators before it becomes public. Moderated newsgroups therefore do not have any spam, and although it's possible for moderators to abuse their power, I haven't seen this to be the case. Moderating a newsgroup probably takes a lot of time and responsibility.
Even unmoderated newsgroups can be a useful resource. I make a habit of searching Usenet for an error message before wasting someone's time asking what it means and how to avoid it, as you're guaranteed to find at least one person who has asked the same question previously.
If you're taught from birth that God made you out of clay, you're going to believe that the evolution part of the class is the "garbage".
Not necessarily. My partner was raised Catholic, and went to a Catholic school. She grew up to be a Nine Inch Nails fan and an Atheist. Never underestemate people's ability to rebel as a teenager and mellow out somewhere between the two extremes as an adult.
The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer's logbook with the words: "first actual case of a bug being found."
Why would they say that, if the term "bug" didn't exist? I mean, you wouldn't find a rat in your car and say "First actual case of a car 'rat' being found" if you didn't use it as a term to indicate something. You'd just say "this bug caused computing errors". I smell a car rat.
That's right, the term bug has been used before the first literal case of one being found in a computer. That famous anecdote is just a case of people being excited about a pun coming true. Wikipedia has some information on the etymology of the word, as does the Jargon file.
"Nintendo and Wayport will offer complimentary Wi-Fi hotspots... enabling DS owners ... to play online games with or against each other."
Aah, so this is about linking happy childhood memories with a brand of products. So it's really just an extension of them having other games available at their eateries in order to entice kids there. Just like the play areas and clowns, only with higher technology.
screw Social Security, they're going bankrupt anyway... on my emergency flash drive it's all about the pr0n.
Even better, use steganography to sneak important data such as your social security number into the seemingly innocuous porn. That way you get the best of both worlds, and a pretense for the porn.
There a are a lot of quirks. For example, All You Need to Know About the Music Business mentions in passing at one point, that until recently, jukebox owners didn't have to pay royalties every time a song got played, because they were legally toys.
Try to say "I should get less than some people", it is logically equivalent but somehow much harder to pronounce :-)
No, they should get more. Less is the free equivalent of more, and this person doesn't believe in free software :)
Please... no software simulation touches the real Roland TB-303.
Yeah, the virtual buttons on software just don't stick like the real thing. It used to take me a long time to program a patch on my old TB-303 because it would think I'd pressed a note twice when I hadn't. That and I needed to use an adapter to connect it to my MIDI set-up. The TB-303 is old and overrated, and can do with updating, in my opinion.
I didn't have time to give the article a full read, but this guy was way, way ahead of his time
He wasn't the only one. What about Paul Otlet? He also contributed to hypertext.
OK, the actual article is here. My own write-up on the game is here. The Zzap!64 review is here.
For those of you still not sure what this is, it's a game where you have a person in your computer, and you can feed him (they're all male for some reason), buy him books and records, ask him to play the piano, and scritch his hair. If you don't feed him, he'll go to bed, turn green, and die. It's a pretty original game, and you can get the C64 tape re-release second hand for around its original cost of £2.99 quite easily. It's reminiscent of tamagotchi and, I've been told, The Sims. It's quite good fun, anyway.
This theory would immediately make the fast-forward button on VCRs/DVD players illegal.
That's absolutely correct, actually, if I remember the Betamax decision correctly. Fast-forwarding through commercials creates an unauthorized derivative work.
The "problem" (for corporations who own the copyright of other people's work) here is that anyone can press fast-forward. But don't worry, at the rate DVDs are going, by the time they're replaced with high definition discs, you won't be able to fast forward through adverts or legal notices because your player won't let you, unless you illegally decrypt and modify the video.
Will this be the real end of innovation in videogames?"
I'm as much against patents as the next person here, but if people can't make new games that resemble existing games, that should surely encourage innovation. Each arcade game used to be radically different from the last in the eighties. Shoot-'em-ups already existed, so people started making games where you were a marble in a maze, or a plumber attacking turtles. These days the majority of games can be pigeonholed neatly into a category such as first person shooter (formerly called "Doom clones"), beat-'em-up, platformer and so on.
Maybe if people tried to make truly original and innovative games (although this would be better if they did it of their own free will rather than being forced to by patents), the industry would become as interesting as it once was.
Your diary must look odd: "Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch- death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower..."
- Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
Game creators and especially marketers create disincentives for women to play through sexist or oversexualized portrayals of females. Examples: Hijacking Lara Croft's image from female Indy to Drips-With-Sex-Balloon-Boobs; Bloodrayne; too many to list.
Are they being sexist? It seems like they oversexualise their portrayals of males too (all muscles, no brains, etc), but no one seems to complain as much about that. From what I've heard, it's just a male thing to oversexualise everyone. Now, if there were more women making the games, maybe there'd be realistic characters, female and male, which would certainly be a step in the right direction.
Of course, that theory in itself is sexist, so just ignore me :)
If you want to play a game with your significant other, how about a game that's based on two player teamwork? (Actually, that might apply to Dance Dance Revolution; I've never played it).
In particular, if your girlfriend likes puzzle games, cooperation and extremely cute cats (mine certainly does), it's worth giving Uo Poko a try on MAME. Um, assuming you live in Japan and own the arcade game. Otherwise you'll be prosecuted to the full extent of the jam.
Be brought forward some new huge bands like Marylin Manson and Filter
Interesting. How did he help out Filter? I know that with Marilyn Manson, he signed them to his label, produced their first few albums to get that distinct NIN-like sound, and even played the Mellotron on Antichrist Superstar. That's a pretty big break he gave them!
There's even a WHOLE movie that's based off the images of the video for "Closer"
Which movie's this? I'm curious now.
sony's piece of shit first try at a digital music player
I hate to break it to you, but CDs, MiniDisc and DATs are all digital formats, and Sony make players for all three. They've all been around a lot longer than mp3s have, too.