A real throw-back to when games were hair-pullingly difficult, its a simple platformer filled with tons of references to old NES and arcade classics, like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and Ghouls and Ghosts. Its surprisingly addictive, too.
Does anybody remember the old NES Civil War-themed game North vs. South? It had a bunch of mini-games, one of which was essentially a basic side-scroller with one player trying to run to the end of the level (a fort, I think) controlling your usual videogame character: can take quite a few hits more than the common bad-guy, has longer-range attack, etc.), while the other player had a twenty weak (one-hit and you die) characters who he could throw at his opponent one at a time (essentially having twenty respawns). The second player's goal was to kill the single commando-guy before he reached the end of the level.
Anyway, essentially what it boiled down to was it was pretty fun getting to play on "the other side" as the weak but well-numbered cannon fodder. I can see this idea, if done right having the same feel.
If NewYorkCountryLawyer in fact reads the above comment and wants to respond to it, I'd just like to explain that by "leecher" jafac means some one who downloads music but does not share it back -- he essentially answered this in question #3 and basically said that yes, leechers are safe.
I'd also like to say in regards to BitTorrent: 1) BT in no way anonymizes you -- at least, the standard implementation does not. It is trivially easy to see the IP addresses of those who you are downloading from. 2) In standard BitTorrent downloading, the seeders are people who by definition have the complete file and if there are no other downloaders or other seeders, you will in fact download the entire file from them (thus of course missing the real advantage of BT, but it certainly does happen) 3) Lastly, BT is very "social karma" oriented, and for a reason -- Azereus complains when you try to remove a file you haven't seeded a fully copy back to the swarm, many torrent sites with user logins track the download/upload ratio of their users.
Why would people want a hip computer? You don't carry it around in public with you, you don't flash any iconic white earbuds on the subways with it.
Certainly there are some people who want stylish hip everythings, but there are some people who like those hideous Paris Hilton toy dogs.
Most people just want a computer thats just not completely ugly that they can stick in their home office or den and use. Thats why those black Dells sell so well (or at least one reason).
I still think this is a good move, and that Apple will sell a lot of these computers, but I feel like some of the people on this board are stretching it a little.
Yeah, I haven't fully understood what the recent crazy about Desktop Searching has been. Sure, there's a number of people who have a good use for it, examples I've read by other slashdotters in other threads, but seriously, how many people actually need this? The windows search tool isn't great, but its certainly been enough for the couple of times I've actually had to search for a file in the last couple of months. And I have a buttload of files: well over 200 gigs. Most people barely fill their 10 gig Dell laptop hard drives. As for the other uses for GDS: email searching? Every email program does this, and good enough. I don't really even want to get into the other features, they all are along the same lines, except for the text-searching, which grep and yes, windows search tool do too. Maybe not as good, not as fast, but how many people do that often enough to make it worthwhile to install a whole new program to do if for you?
What I'm saying is that while I certainly can see a use for this for power users, I don't see enough whiz-banginess for all these big-name companies to start pour vast funds into. I just feel like these articles should be about some no-name freeware software from nonags.org or a geeky open-source project from sourceforge. Does grandma really need this?
That was because when HL1 came out, there were cards that did not support DirectX and D3D. In fact, I remember that I was playing it with a Voodoo 2 card that had some kind of 'MiniGL' wrapper for 3dfx's Glide.
As the others said, yes you could. The exception is for extremely popular, strong brands, ones that are so big that using the trademark in other industries still could conceivably confuse customers. For example, you might get into trouble if you started sold Coca-Cola potato chips or Microsoft condoms (the prophylactic you can trust!).
Hehe. I'm from Long Island too. When I first met my friend's girlfriend who lives way out by Buffalo she tried to describe quite how middle-of-nowhere her town was with "I'm an hour west of hicksville."
Seeing my confused look ("Queens?") my friend quietly said "Sweetie, Hicksville is an actual town on Long Island..." =)
One of my favorite things about the blackout of '03 was standing on a roof in midtown Manhattan and watching a bunch of life-long New Yorkers go crazy at seeing stars.
All in all though, I consider myself very much a city boy, and I'm happy that I have landed a NYC. That said, this is somewhat good news, for if I am forced to move to keep my job I'd far rather stay in America. (not bashing the rest of the world, its just those language barriers and being near family/friends things)
Search for the extension "Super Drag and Go" (don't know if it works with 1.0 yet). You just left click links and drag them off some where (anywhere) and when you let go, the link opens in a new tab. Its a neat way to have quick mouse-based tabbing without worrying about the middle mouse button.
Absolutely. I've repeated this story before on slashdot, but when I installed Mandrake was given the obtion to use two user interfaces -- KDE or GNOME (plus icewm and fvwm, I think). That was it. No explanation as to what the differences were, operational or philosophical, just two random names. I chose KDE simply because I thought GNOME's name was dumb, and still use it today as I've gotten used to it.
Choice is fine, but give us reasons to make a choice!
Yeah, this would be great for me too. I already do all my work in Linux partially because it actually doesn't play most videogames. I don't have wine installed or any linux games, so to play a game I have to reboot my computer and wait for Windows to load up. Now of course, if I really am set on slacking this wont stop me, but for those "just a 10 minute break and then back to work I swear moments", its great. Now with this program, I'll be even more productive! Bye bye slashdot!
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Codeweavers sells a compatibility layer for MS Office. Doesn't help you if you don't already have MS Office (legally... ahem), but if you do and just want excel in linux, its worth a shot.
Didn't Stephen King already do that? (Although he might have later released it in paper form and I didn't hear about it. Also, at 66-pages, this isn't a novel but should be more properly be called a novella.)
That was Coolio, not Snoop Dogg, but yeah, he really shouldn't have to ask permission. Hell, I hear amature "parodies" on the radio all the time. This is B.S., pure and simple.
I remember feeling the same way when my ex-girlfriend's brother asked me if the GTA games prior to GTA3 really were in 2D. Sheesh. I remember playing some games which didn't even have specialized pixels and instead used ASCII characters to represent your "tank" or "adventurer". (Albeit still well after some of you old-timers who remember when text-based games were "teh hottness".)
More on topic, I also remember getting grossed out by the blood when watching my dad play wolfenstein 3d (specifically how your little face icon would get increasingly more beat-up as your health decreased -- how awesome was that, you didn't even have to look at a health bar to know how badly you were doing!)
Of course, a few years later when I played Doom with my friends, there simply wasn't anything cooler than shooting a barrel with a bunch of enemies around it and watching that glorious two-second animation of them turning into bloody mush. The sound effect that accompanied that animation is still one of the most satisfying sounds in videogame history. =)
Halo wasn't the worst example of this, but it was one of the most blatant I've seen. After walking into the exact same curved coridor with enemies hiding behind boxes three times in a row I started getting really annoyed.
It was as if I was writing a paper and instead of doing the normal lazy student's way of extending a paper's length by rephrasing myself over and over again, I just copied and pasted one paragraph several times!
Copy, paste, paste, paste. Okay, 20 hours of game time, I'm done!
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One of the hardest games you'll ever play: I Wanna Be The Guy.
A real throw-back to when games were hair-pullingly difficult, its a simple platformer filled with tons of references to old NES and arcade classics, like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and Ghouls and Ghosts. Its surprisingly addictive, too.
Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?
Anything that increases musical horizons is good.
On that note, I would just like to say that I am pleased to see that The Wrens are on there.
Does anybody remember the old NES Civil War-themed game North vs. South? It had a bunch of mini-games, one of which was essentially a basic side-scroller with one player trying to run to the end of the level (a fort, I think) controlling your usual videogame character: can take quite a few hits more than the common bad-guy, has longer-range attack, etc.), while the other player had a twenty weak (one-hit and you die) characters who he could throw at his opponent one at a time (essentially having twenty respawns). The second player's goal was to kill the single commando-guy before he reached the end of the level.
Anyway, essentially what it boiled down to was it was pretty fun getting to play on "the other side" as the weak but well-numbered cannon fodder. I can see this idea, if done right having the same feel.
Its Tuesday ... says so in the lower right hand corner of my screen!
Forecastfox has the weather for me, and as for what my neighbor looks like, thats what MySpace and Meetup.com are for!
What's reality, anyway?
If NewYorkCountryLawyer in fact reads the above comment and wants to respond to it, I'd just like to explain that by "leecher" jafac means some one who downloads music but does not share it back -- he essentially answered this in question #3 and basically said that yes, leechers are safe.
I'd also like to say in regards to BitTorrent:
1) BT in no way anonymizes you -- at least, the standard implementation does not. It is trivially easy to see the IP addresses of those who you are downloading from.
2) In standard BitTorrent downloading, the seeders are people who by definition have the complete file and if there are no other downloaders or other seeders, you will in fact download the entire file from them (thus of course missing the real advantage of BT, but it certainly does happen)
3) Lastly, BT is very "social karma" oriented, and for a reason -- Azereus complains when you try to remove a file you haven't seeded a fully copy back to the swarm, many torrent sites with user logins track the download/upload ratio of their users.
Yeah, that was a great gag.
Why would people want a hip computer? You don't carry it around in public with you, you don't flash any iconic white earbuds on the subways with it.
Certainly there are some people who want stylish hip everythings, but there are some people who like those hideous Paris Hilton toy dogs.
Most people just want a computer thats just not completely ugly that they can stick in their home office or den and use. Thats why those black Dells sell so well (or at least one reason).
I still think this is a good move, and that Apple will sell a lot of these computers, but I feel like some of the people on this board are stretching it a little.
Yeah, I haven't fully understood what the recent crazy about Desktop Searching has been. Sure, there's a number of people who have a good use for it, examples I've read by other slashdotters in other threads, but seriously, how many people actually need this? The windows search tool isn't great, but its certainly been enough for the couple of times I've actually had to search for a file in the last couple of months. And I have a buttload of files: well over 200 gigs. Most people barely fill their 10 gig Dell laptop hard drives. As for the other uses for GDS: email searching? Every email program does this, and good enough. I don't really even want to get into the other features, they all are along the same lines, except for the text-searching, which grep and yes, windows search tool do too. Maybe not as good, not as fast, but how many people do that often enough to make it worthwhile to install a whole new program to do if for you?
What I'm saying is that while I certainly can see a use for this for power users, I don't see enough whiz-banginess for all these big-name companies to start pour vast funds into. I just feel like these articles should be about some no-name freeware software from nonags.org or a geeky open-source project from sourceforge. Does grandma really need this?
one of the best bash quote evar
That was because when HL1 came out, there were cards that did not support DirectX and D3D. In fact, I remember that I was playing it with a Voodoo 2 card that had some kind of 'MiniGL' wrapper for 3dfx's Glide.
Things have changed in these six years.
As the others said, yes you could. The exception is for extremely popular, strong brands, ones that are so big that using the trademark in other industries still could conceivably confuse customers. For example, you might get into trouble if you started sold Coca-Cola potato chips or Microsoft condoms (the prophylactic you can trust!).
Hehe. I'm from Long Island too. When I first met my friend's girlfriend who lives way out by Buffalo she tried to describe quite how middle-of-nowhere her town was with "I'm an hour west of hicksville."
Seeing my confused look ("Queens?") my friend quietly said "Sweetie, Hicksville is an actual town on Long Island..." =)
One of my favorite things about the blackout of '03 was standing on a roof in midtown Manhattan and watching a bunch of life-long New Yorkers go crazy at seeing stars.
All in all though, I consider myself very much a city boy, and I'm happy that I have landed a NYC. That said, this is somewhat good news, for if I am forced to move to keep my job I'd far rather stay in America. (not bashing the rest of the world, its just those language barriers and being near family/friends things)
Gotta have a Steam account when you install it, but then you can go internet-free any time you want to play single player.
I still think its bullshit, no matter how many of Valve's users have an internet connection.
Lemme guess -
Bumbler: Rumsfeld
Bitch: Rice
Moron: Bush
Crook: Cheney
But who's the flunky? Powell?
Anyway, next could be Rice. Maybe Rumsfeld, but less likely. Oh, and Powell's days have been numbered for a while.
Search for the extension "Super Drag and Go" (don't know if it works with 1.0 yet). You just left click links and drag them off some where (anywhere) and when you let go, the link opens in a new tab. Its a neat way to have quick mouse-based tabbing without worrying about the middle mouse button.
Absolutely. I've repeated this story before on slashdot, but when I installed Mandrake was given the obtion to use two user interfaces -- KDE or GNOME (plus icewm and fvwm, I think). That was it. No explanation as to what the differences were, operational or philosophical, just two random names. I chose KDE simply because I thought GNOME's name was dumb, and still use it today as I've gotten used to it.
Choice is fine, but give us reasons to make a choice!
Ummm...
Yeah, this would be great for me too. I already do all my work in Linux partially because it actually doesn't play most videogames. I don't have wine installed or any linux games, so to play a game I have to reboot my computer and wait for Windows to load up. Now of course, if I really am set on slacking this wont stop me, but for those "just a 10 minute break and then back to work I swear moments", its great. Now with this program, I'll be even more productive! Bye bye slashdot!
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Codeweavers sells a compatibility layer for MS Office. Doesn't help you if you don't already have MS Office (legally... ahem), but if you do and just want excel in linux, its worth a shot.
Didn't Stephen King already do that? (Although he might have later released it in paper form and I didn't hear about it. Also, at 66-pages, this isn't a novel but should be more properly be called a novella.)
That was Coolio, not Snoop Dogg, but yeah, he really shouldn't have to ask permission. Hell, I hear amature "parodies" on the radio all the time. This is B.S., pure and simple.
I remember feeling the same way when my ex-girlfriend's brother asked me if the GTA games prior to GTA3 really were in 2D. Sheesh. I remember playing some games which didn't even have specialized pixels and instead used ASCII characters to represent your "tank" or "adventurer". (Albeit still well after some of you old-timers who remember when text-based games were "teh hottness".)
More on topic, I also remember getting grossed out by the blood when watching my dad play wolfenstein 3d (specifically how your little face icon would get increasingly more beat-up as your health decreased -- how awesome was that, you didn't even have to look at a health bar to know how badly you were doing!)
Of course, a few years later when I played Doom with my friends, there simply wasn't anything cooler than shooting a barrel with a bunch of enemies around it and watching that glorious two-second animation of them turning into bloody mush. The sound effect that accompanied that animation is still one of the most satisfying sounds in videogame history. =)
spamgourmet is another similar service.
Halo wasn't the worst example of this, but it was one of the most blatant I've seen. After walking into the exact same curved coridor with enemies hiding behind boxes three times in a row I started getting really annoyed.
It was as if I was writing a paper and instead of doing the normal lazy student's way of extending a paper's length by rephrasing myself over and over again, I just copied and pasted one paragraph several times!
Copy, paste, paste, paste. Okay, 20 hours of game time, I'm done!