This will make a symbolic link to your home directory that will show up as your desktop. Best of all, if you have to delete your Gnome configuration for some reason, this will still work afterwards.
I cannot recall for certain, but I believe that this also works for KDE.
I'd say it is to the contrary, really: most MMO'ers I know play it because it is only $15/month. After the initial purchase/download, if the game can keep their attention, they are pleased as punch because otherwise they would spend at least that much buying one game every few months.
With an MMOG, they can keep their same game going from month-to-month, without fear of starting over from scratch, for only a pittance compared to buying a new game every few weeks. And since MMOGs are tiered to release new content the higher a character's level is, and release brand new content for everyone on a regular basis, that one "golden game" can keep thousands of people for months.
[quote]Theres nothing wrong with hand-waving. Obi-wan did ok by it.[/quote]
Are you kidding, dude? He totally got killed for hand waving! From now on, I'm just going to grunt in people's general direction instead of being cut down for being Jedi scum!;)
During my "breaks" at "work," I like to play a little game I call Read Slashdot. What you do is, everyone goes to slashdot.org. Then everyone reconvenes and talks about the interesting stuff they read on Slashdot. Optionally this can be done next to a water cooler for convenient cool water consumption.
Then play Quake III Arena with the remainder of your time. If you see the boss coming, switch over to a running instance of lynx so it looks like you are doing technical work. Have fun!:)
Now, if my prediction that Microsoft will have a Linux or other UNIX-like kernel in Windows by 2015 holds up I'll consider myself the Nostradomus of IT.
Going by the knowlege from Evangelion that the Second Coming happens in 2015 which signals the end of the world, I think you are right.;)
When the attacks of 2001/09/11 happened, trust in the airlines and passenger safety plummeted to an all time low. Millions of dollars were lost by the airline industry, with several airlines going out of business or being bought up at extreme loss. For months Boeing was laying off thousands of employees.
So in an attempt to recouperate, the airlines have made passenger safety their only priority, in an attempt to regain what was lost. As a result airline passengers have lost both dignity and privacy due to the pervasiveness of it all. This has made jetsetters annoyed, delayed, and indignant. Thus many unnecessary business trips and personal trips have been cancelled by the frequent flier.
However, that shouldn't be the airlines' main concern. They should stop and think how many thousands of U.S. and international citizens have now left the skies, not out of fear of being in a terrorist's plane, but out of unwillingness to go through with these extreme measures. The tourist dollars are the most free flowing of all monies, and the airlines have effectively shut themselves out of nearly all of them.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who heard the story of the granny who wasn't allowed to board an airplane due to her having knitting needles in her carry-on bag from a few month back. She wasn't allowed to go on the trip she was planning on to see her grandchildren who lived several states away. Her entire vacation plans were ruined because she didn't have the forsight to leave behind a "harmless potential weapon." Do you think she will be planning on another air trip soon? Could you blame her for not traveling the airlines again due to fear of rejection from the plane because of something she never thought of as a weapon?
>No idea why people don't seem to have much problem with women in bikinis at the beach, but feel that you're a slut or whore with no dignity if you show your nipples.
Because the women in strip clubs are exhibiting for money. The women at the beach are wearing swimwear appropriate for effective aquatic movement and cooling.
Pretend that you are newcomer anime company VDA. Now you have very little assets to spend on acquiring new anime properties for N.A. distribution. Do you:
A) Buy up the really popular and thus expensive shows currently airing in Japan, knowing full well that such a show might not enjoy the same popularity in America due to the culture difference. B) License lots of cheap shows (which culminate into large cost) hoping one will be a break-out hit in N.A. and pay for the other shows' cost. C) Look at what the popular torrents are and go for those you can afford which seem likely to pay for themselves or moreso
Now options A and B might work out well for a company with pockets as deep as A.D. Vision, but for an average, independent translation house that route just can't fly.
---
A few more things: 1) Most fansubs today are not only high-quality, but they are direct pulls from the Japanese commercial DVDs. The fansubbing on these surpasses what can be done with simple DVD subtitles, and often includes on-screen translations of all the Japanese text on items such as signs and posessions alongside the original kana. 2) Really popular shows such as Naruto, which has now been licensed by ShoPro, are very widely distributed online. How much so? 400,000 downloads every time a new Episodes is released. I got this information from Wizards of the Coast's magazine Anime Insider. Now if anime companies are not paying attention to fansub downloads, then where did ShoPro and Anime Insider get those numbers from?
Slashdot story -> Comments -> Highly modded comments -> Such comments with links -> Those links get followed -> Sites' servers get Slashdotted
This scenario is basically the same, but with a horrible twist:
Slashdot story -> Comments -> Highly modded comments -> Comment links to Slashdot -> That link gets followed -> Slashdot -> back to Slashdot story -> Endless loop kills Slashdot!
For the sake of my fellow nerds who want to read news that matters, I hope a very hungry grue is near you and that a power outage there is imminent.
Just as DVDs are encoded per region, so are the movies for the PSP. The games, however, remain region-free, so there is no worry there.
Apparently, movie companies are worried more about imports than game companies, though I don't see the difference myself. But then again, it seems that while handheld gaming has always been region-free, the home consoles are not.
It's a crazy mixed up universe, but there's still a little place... called Albeqerquee!
You know, we often hear the old hash of a joke about Slashdot readers not reading the linked articles. On one hand I can understand this, because they are often Slashdotted. However, just because they can't be read by a viewer does not mean that those said viewers should then make comments about the article site unseen.
For example, Albert Pussyjuice (675113) here gripes about "For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2, check out the awards for a different side of gaming than you are used to," being a comment by cyrus_zuo. Well, Mr. PJ, if you were to even cursorily glimpse the actual article you would seen that this is a direct quotation from the first paragraph in the linked article. Amazing, isn't is, what an ass a minor convenience has made you to be!
Then there is saltydogdesign (811417)'s comments in a sister post where he breaks down the initial paragraph of the article into pieces and lamblasts the author. Well let's read that paragraph in whole again:
"For all those who think that the best games that came out this year were all sequels prepare to open your mind. For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2, you are about to see a different piece of gaming than you are used to."
As one can see when he stops to obsorb the actual meaning of this paragraph, he can see that the author is addressing those whom believe the best games of this year were sequels such as _Halo 2_. saltydogdesign somehow takes this personally though he is obviously not the group that the opening paragraph is addressed to. The point of the linked Web site's author's writing of the column is to hopefully "wake up" those he considers "in the dark" about the other side of gaming, the small, independent studios' games rather than the large juggernaut publisher's games.
Albert Pussyjuice, saltydogdesign, and others like them would be better off if they would not attack Slashdot for posting opinions in the article summaries when they themselves don't read the article. Often the articles summaries are either partially or in whole taken from the original article anyway.
So I propose we all make a deal: when we as the Slashdot viewers start reading the featured sites' content before posting comments then we can complain about the admins duping and posting false stories and opinions because they did not RTFA themselves.
Indeed Prince of Persia: Arabia Nights was not originally titled as an official sequel in the series.
However, the game from the start was heavily inspired by Tomb Raider, which in turn is little more than a 3D iteration of the classic Prince of Persia game series. Then the publisher sought to license the PoP name for the game as the material was so very similiar. These coupled with the fact that the development team imagined this as a sequel and designed it as so makes it quite close to being as real a sequel as possible without actually involving the original development crew.
That, and it's (if you'll pardon the puns) leaps and bounds better than Prince of Persia 3D though somewhat more difficult.
I'd say go with a touchpad and mouse combo. That way he'd have the somewhat insensitive movements of a mouse, and the sensativeness of a touchpad's clicks.
http://ringtonetools.mikekohn.net/ has a great little F/OSS program called Ringtone Tools for generating your own ringtones from a variety of different formats for a cavalcade of phone models. The program (Ringtone Tools) runs on Windows, DOS, and *nix'es, with source fully available, and some purchasable PHP and Java versions. Really nice tool, I've used it to translate Nokia text ringtones into ones for my Motorola t120.
Yes, that's right, older cell phone models used to actually let you type the ringtones directly into them, without special software or cables, though that option has always seemingly been available for these types. Very nice, economical solution for those of us who want custom or special ringtones but not enough to pay a high price for them. Besides, it's not like these companies are making anime ringtones (Go Totoro!) available anyway.
I went to a client's home today to help him install a new printer/scanner/fax. When I arrived, he already had hooked it up. Since I was already there I showed him how to use the new device (about 20 min. worth of time). Before I left, I asked him what he was going to do with the old combo device. When I did, he asked me if I wanted it. I readily agreed and walked off with a printer/scanner/fax well worth several times my minimal call charge.;)
Here Iwata is saying "Innovate or die!," supposedly to justify the new DS system Nintendo put out. When I read this, I couldn't help but feel deja vu all over again.
To understand what I mean, you would have had to follow the Dreamcast throughout it's "life" as a system. When SEGA was to put out the system, as a company, it had to decide whether to try the old new system routine or to go third-party like it's current (at the time) president had wanted for quite a few years. SEGA decided to release the Dreamcast.
In order to sink or swim, they decided to break their internal development divisions out of the umbrella of SEGA and into their own companies, with the message of, "Make innovative games to stay afloat on your own or sink into obscurity and die." Thus the first-party software that SEGA put out on the DC was both innovative and ground-breaking. This thrilled hard-core gamers but scared the public at large. The public wanted nice, cozy game types that it was familiar with, and even if that was SEGA's focus, it still would have failed with the DC; contradictively, "same-old, same-old" won't sell well unless it is in an established series, and even then people would complain about it's lack of creativity and would have mediocre sales at best. Then again, that wouldn't have mattered much here in the U.S. anyway, as everyone seemed to just be waiting for the PlayStation 2 one way or another.
So to me, it sounds at though Iwata is echoing SEGA of the past, the SEGA who had to cut out all stops to try and make their company succeed, SEGA who had to drop out of the hardware business or disappear forever, the same SEGA that was recently acquired by Sammy Corporation. I only hope that Nintendo doesn't follow SEGA's suit.
Slashdot Mirror
Or better yet, do what I do.
At a terminal, type:
'ln -s ~ Desktop'
This will make a symbolic link to your home directory that will show up as your desktop. Best of all, if you have to delete your Gnome configuration for some reason, this will still work afterwards.
I cannot recall for certain, but I believe that this also works for KDE.
> Reading while under the influence?
Hey, you saw that Family Guy episode too!
I'd say it is to the contrary, really: most MMO'ers I know play it because it is only $15/month. After the initial purchase/download, if the game can keep their attention, they are pleased as punch because otherwise they would spend at least that much buying one game every few months.
With an MMOG, they can keep their same game going from month-to-month, without fear of starting over from scratch, for only a pittance compared to buying a new game every few weeks. And since MMOGs are tiered to release new content the higher a character's level is, and release brand new content for everyone on a regular basis, that one "golden game" can keep thousands of people for months.
[quote]Theres nothing wrong with hand-waving.
;)
Obi-wan did ok by it.[/quote]
Are you kidding, dude? He totally got killed for hand waving! From now on, I'm just going to grunt in people's general direction instead of being cut down for being Jedi scum!
During my "breaks" at "work," I like to play a little game I call Read Slashdot. What you do is, everyone goes to slashdot.org. Then everyone reconvenes and talks about the interesting stuff they read on Slashdot. Optionally this can be done next to a water cooler for convenient cool water consumption.
:)
Then play Quake III Arena with the remainder of your time. If you see the boss coming, switch over to a running instance of lynx so it looks like you are doing technical work. Have fun!
Dude, you're thinking of a Dreamcast.
Going by the knowlege from Evangelion that the Second Coming happens in 2015 which signals the end of the world, I think you are right. ;)
That explains it all! Obi Wan Kenobi uses oxytocin for his shaving cream. I should've seen it before now!
When the attacks of 2001/09/11 happened, trust in the airlines and passenger safety plummeted to an all time low. Millions of dollars were lost by the airline industry, with several airlines going out of business or being bought up at extreme loss. For months Boeing was laying off thousands of employees.
So in an attempt to recouperate, the airlines have made passenger safety their only priority, in an attempt to regain what was lost. As a result airline passengers have lost both dignity and privacy due to the pervasiveness of it all. This has made jetsetters annoyed, delayed, and indignant. Thus many unnecessary business trips and personal trips have been cancelled by the frequent flier.
However, that shouldn't be the airlines' main concern. They should stop and think how many thousands of U.S. and international citizens have now left the skies, not out of fear of being in a terrorist's plane, but out of unwillingness to go through with these extreme measures. The tourist dollars are the most free flowing of all monies, and the airlines have effectively shut themselves out of nearly all of them.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who heard the story of the granny who wasn't allowed to board an airplane due to her having knitting needles in her carry-on bag from a few month back. She wasn't allowed to go on the trip she was planning on to see her grandchildren who lived several states away. Her entire vacation plans were ruined because she didn't have the forsight to leave behind a "harmless potential weapon." Do you think she will be planning on another air trip soon? Could you blame her for not traveling the airlines again due to fear of rejection from the plane because of something she never thought of as a weapon?
>No idea why people don't seem to have much problem with women in bikinis at the beach, but feel that you're a slut or whore with no dignity if you show your nipples.
Because the women in strip clubs are exhibiting for money. The women at the beach are wearing swimwear appropriate for effective aquatic movement and cooling.
Pretend that you are newcomer anime company VDA. Now you have very little assets to spend on acquiring new anime properties for N.A. distribution. Do you:
A) Buy up the really popular and thus expensive shows currently airing in Japan, knowing full well that such a show might not enjoy the same popularity in America due to the culture difference.
B) License lots of cheap shows (which culminate into large cost) hoping one will be a break-out hit in N.A. and pay for the other shows' cost.
C) Look at what the popular torrents are and go for those you can afford which seem likely to pay for themselves or moreso
Now options A and B might work out well for a company with pockets as deep as A.D. Vision, but for an average, independent translation house that route just can't fly.
---
A few more things:
1) Most fansubs today are not only high-quality, but they are direct pulls from the Japanese commercial DVDs. The fansubbing on these surpasses what can be done with simple DVD subtitles, and often includes on-screen translations of all the Japanese text on items such as signs and posessions alongside the original kana.
2) Really popular shows such as Naruto, which has now been licensed by ShoPro, are very widely distributed online. How much so? 400,000 downloads every time a new Episodes is released. I got this information from Wizards of the Coast's magazine Anime Insider. Now if anime companies are not paying attention to fansub downloads, then where did ShoPro and Anime Insider get those numbers from?
You sick bastard!
The usual Slaskdot workings:
Slashdot story -> Comments -> Highly modded comments -> Such comments with links -> Those links get followed -> Sites' servers get Slashdotted
This scenario is basically the same, but with a horrible twist:
Slashdot story -> Comments -> Highly modded comments -> Comment links to Slashdot -> That link gets followed -> Slashdot -> back to Slashdot story -> Endless loop kills Slashdot!
For the sake of my fellow nerds who want to read news that matters, I hope a very hungry grue is near you and that a power outage there is imminent.
Just as DVDs are encoded per region, so are the movies for the PSP. The games, however, remain region-free, so there is no worry there. Apparently, movie companies are worried more about imports than game companies, though I don't see the difference myself. But then again, it seems that while handheld gaming has always been region-free, the home consoles are not. It's a crazy mixed up universe, but there's still a little place... called Albeqerquee!
You know, we often hear the old hash of a joke about Slashdot readers not reading the linked articles. On one hand I can understand this, because they are often Slashdotted. However, just because they can't be read by a viewer does not mean that those said viewers should then make comments about the article site unseen.
For example, Albert Pussyjuice (675113) here gripes about "For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2, check out the awards for a different side of gaming than you are used to," being a comment by cyrus_zuo. Well, Mr. PJ, if you were to even cursorily glimpse the actual article you would seen that this is a direct quotation from the first paragraph in the linked article. Amazing, isn't is, what an ass a minor convenience has made you to be!
Then there is saltydogdesign (811417)'s comments in a sister post where he breaks down the initial paragraph of the article into pieces and lamblasts the author. Well let's read that paragraph in whole again:
"For all those who think that the best games that came out this year were all sequels prepare to open your mind. For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2, you are about to see a different piece of gaming than you are used to."
As one can see when he stops to obsorb the actual meaning of this paragraph, he can see that the author is addressing those whom believe the best games of this year were sequels such as _Halo 2_. saltydogdesign somehow takes this personally though he is obviously not the group that the opening paragraph is addressed to. The point of the linked Web site's author's writing of the column is to hopefully "wake up" those he considers "in the dark" about the other side of gaming, the small, independent studios' games rather than the large juggernaut publisher's games.
Albert Pussyjuice, saltydogdesign, and others like them would be better off if they would not attack Slashdot for posting opinions in the article summaries when they themselves don't read the article. Often the articles summaries are either partially or in whole taken from the original article anyway.
So I propose we all make a deal: when we as the Slashdot viewers start reading the featured sites' content before posting comments then we can complain about the admins duping and posting false stories and opinions because they did not RTFA themselves.
Indeed Prince of Persia: Arabia Nights was not originally titled as an official sequel in the series.
However, the game from the start was heavily inspired by Tomb Raider, which in turn is little more than a 3D iteration of the classic Prince of Persia game series. Then the publisher sought to license the PoP name for the game as the material was so very similiar. These coupled with the fact that the development team imagined this as a sequel and designed it as so makes it quite close to being as real a sequel as possible without actually involving the original development crew.
That, and it's (if you'll pardon the puns) leaps and bounds better than Prince of Persia 3D though somewhat more difficult.
Tut tut, don't forget Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights for SEGA Dreamcast.
And .tar.gz is his name. Become one with the source, for there can only be one! May the source be with you and all that jazz.
(Okay, somebody mixed up his pop-culture references a wee bit too much. No more Malt-O-Meal for me!)
I'd say go with a touchpad and mouse combo. That way he'd have the somewhat insensitive movements of a mouse, and the sensativeness of a touchpad's clicks.
http://ringtonetools.mikekohn.net/ has a great little F/OSS program called Ringtone Tools for generating your own ringtones from a variety of different formats for a cavalcade of phone models. The program (Ringtone Tools) runs on Windows, DOS, and *nix'es, with source fully available, and some purchasable PHP and Java versions. Really nice tool, I've used it to translate Nokia text ringtones into ones for my Motorola t120.
Yes, that's right, older cell phone models used to actually let you type the ringtones directly into them, without special software or cables, though that option has always seemingly been available for these types. Very nice, economical solution for those of us who want custom or special ringtones but not enough to pay a high price for them. Besides, it's not like these companies are making anime ringtones (Go Totoro!) available anyway.
I went to a client's home today to help him install a new printer/scanner/fax. When I arrived, he already had hooked it up. Since I was already there I showed him how to use the new device (about 20 min. worth of time). Before I left, I asked him what he was going to do with the old combo device. When I did, he asked me if I wanted it. I readily agreed and walked off with a printer/scanner/fax well worth several times my minimal call charge. ;)
Here Iwata is saying "Innovate or die!," supposedly to justify the new DS system Nintendo put out. When I read this, I couldn't help but feel deja vu all over again.
To understand what I mean, you would have had to follow the Dreamcast throughout it's "life" as a system. When SEGA was to put out the system, as a company, it had to decide whether to try the old new system routine or to go third-party like it's current (at the time) president had wanted for quite a few years. SEGA decided to release the Dreamcast.
In order to sink or swim, they decided to break their internal development divisions out of the umbrella of SEGA and into their own companies, with the message of, "Make innovative games to stay afloat on your own or sink into obscurity and die." Thus the first-party software that SEGA put out on the DC was both innovative and ground-breaking. This thrilled hard-core gamers but scared the public at large. The public wanted nice, cozy game types that it was familiar with, and even if that was SEGA's focus, it still would have failed with the DC; contradictively, "same-old, same-old" won't sell well unless it is in an established series, and even then people would complain about it's lack of creativity and would have mediocre sales at best. Then again, that wouldn't have mattered much here in the U.S. anyway, as everyone seemed to just be waiting for the PlayStation 2 one way or another.
So to me, it sounds at though Iwata is echoing SEGA of the past, the SEGA who had to cut out all stops to try and make their company succeed, SEGA who had to drop out of the hardware business or disappear forever, the same SEGA that was recently acquired by Sammy Corporation. I only hope that Nintendo doesn't follow SEGA's suit.