Give them a BASIC book from a local library, and a Apple II. If they don't stay up until 3am drinking Mt Dew and eating cold pizza trying to write a PacMan clone, they're perfect.
Photoshop CS was $649 last time I checked. And worth every penny. If you don't think it is, try an alternative such as PaintShopPro ($99) or the GIMP (free)
If you subscribed to Nintendo Power magazine, back when the SNES first came out, they'd give you catalogs once in a while with Nintendo merchandise. They had the basic t-shirts and hats, and they had cooler things like figurines and zelda swords.
One thing they sold were game music CD's for a few games. DKC was one of them..
There is far less stress in open source. You have more freedom with release dates, slipping the schedule, features, etc.
You need to work on games like Daikatana, and Duke Nukem Forever then.
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He's probably just burned out.
Game programmers usually don't have really long careers. A big hit or two, and that's about it. Guys will start a company, have a huge game, then it'll break up.
One example would be David Crane, he's made a number of games, from the late 70's (Atari hits like Pitfall!), to the 80's/90's (NES games like Simpsons), to the recent remakes of Pitfall on PC/16 bit consoles.
On the other hand, you've got some of these 'old' guys working on Linux and other open/free projects, that have been cranking out code since the 70's.
4183 Strike on Iraq by CmdrTaco 3314 Saddam Hussein Arrested by CmdrTaco 3265 Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion by CmdrTaco 3212 What's Keeping You On Windows? by Cliff 3042 An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? by Cliff 2764 Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks by CmdrTaco 2722 Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional by michael 2574 Major Strike on Iraq Underway by CmdrTaco 2549 US Starts Attacking Afghanistan by CmdrTaco 2465 U.S. Attack -- More Updates by Hemos
2 of those aren't 'political'
I'm not exactly big on politics, but it looks like a large amount of readers are.
Another feature I found unique to AbiWord is when you restore the AbiWord application itself, make is smaller, the text within your document is minimized. If you look at the screenshots below, you will notice how the text is made smaller when the AbiWord window is restored. The first screenshot shows AbiWord maximized while the second screenshot shows AbiWord restored; notice how the text is minimized in the restored screenshot. This feature is useful because you don't have to scroll sideways to view the entire text. Also shown below is MS Word restored to show the differences between the two.
Ever heard of 'Fit to page' ?
Another great feature in AbiWord is the insert field option. Under the Insert tab you can choose to insert a field such as date and time. If you choose to insert time, you will actually insert a clock into your document as the screenshot below demonstrates.
Word has this too!
Abiword doesn't even have text boxes or math equation editors yet.
I would have loved to have this application around back when I was running Windows 98 on my Compaq Presario with 64MB of RAM
Want a small, fast, Word-compatible word processor?
According to the article AbiWord is better because of the larger icons as they are easier to distinguish. The smaller memory footprint which is ~6MB instead of what they claim is ~30MB for Word but which I claim is only ~17MB according to my tasklist).
Mine shows up at 15MB, but I have a few add-ins loaded, for Goldmine and Acrobat.
The user interface in AbiWord is very similar to that of MS Word except that AbiWord uses much bigger icons than MS Word. In my opinion this is a good thing simply because the icons are easier to see and distinguish; not only that, but you would imagine that because the icons are bigger there would be less space available, this is actually not true because AbiWord places the most used icons in the taskbar.
I guess they've never gone up to the TOOLS menu, then gone to OPTIONS, then checked the 'Large Icons' box. *sigh*
Lets rememeber not everyone purchased a PS2 Network Adapter to go online. Almost all the people I know, have used them to hook up hard drives, and the rip games to it.
HD LOADER, most any bargain-of-the-week HD, and a little time and you can have 60+ games on your PS2, without needing a single CD.
When companies like ID release the 'game source' (not the actual engine code, but the code to the game) it helps mod makers, and ultimately gets more people to play the game, especially in it's modified form.
Eventually they released the source to games like Wolf3D, Doom, and Quake but that doesn't really hurt them. Heck, the Quake source code was stolen from Crack.Com where Dave Taylor was doing a port, and that didn't seem to affect them much at all.
That's a 1.6 or 1.8GHz G5 processor, 533 or 600MHz frontside bus, 256MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB graphics memory. So you'll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment.
Is there a Mac Doom III out yet? Can we have some benchmarks?
Yes, I'm going to agree with you. Let 100 people chime in and say Java is the same speed, or even "Faster than C++". It might be the case on a benchmark or two, but I've never seen it happen in real life
One example would be some software that our company uses to produce contract Documents. The old program was a Windows application. The new version of the program is Java based.
We use Pentium III 500MHz desktops with 128MB of ram.
The new program is VERY slow, and takes up nearly 190MB of RAM by itself. We've had to upgrade each workstation to 384/256MB. Guess what, it's written in Java. Exact same end result (this documents haven't changed much in YEARS) but the 'new' program is a hog.
The way to 'stop' piracy would be to use data formats that are prohibitive for the common person to write to...This worked for music CD's for about the first 15 years.
Why do you think video games used to use cartridges, instead of much cheaper floppy disks?
I regularly spindles of CDRs and in one out of four cases, when I unwrap them and open them, *man* there's some really nasty chemical smell coming from the CDs.
That CD-R smell is usually Cyanine. Some other brands smell like coconuts.
Prepare for weird looks from bystanders at CompUSA...
As expected, the passwd file showed the user accounts I had created with a/dev/null for the shell. But there were two accounts that had a real shell: root and an interestingly named account--ourtelnetrescueuser, that looked like a back door account used for debugging or recovery purposes.
test_user:scEPG0VnVyqmE:2000:501:::/dev/null te st2:scEPG0VnVyqmE:2001:501:::/dev/null test3:sc50 wKPq.zChw:2002:501:::/dev/null But in order to use these accounts, I would need to have their passwords. I started down the path of cracking the passwords before I came out of my stupor and realized all I had to do was edit the passwd file and replace the encrypted password with a known encrypted password from one of my other accounts! I could also just add a valid shell to one of my accounts, but for starters, decided to just put a new password in for root and leave the rest of the accounts alone.
*nix n00b question, maybe, but why not just blank the password out?
As neat as this is, I can't help to wish there was a little more security in devices like this. What about when someone adapts some worm code to install a custom, ddos-zombie installation on the thousands of Linux-powered Linksys/etc routers out there?
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The margins on the larger LCD TV's are HUGE.
A friend of mine works at Sears, doing commission sales on home entertainment products. He'll make $300+ on the sale of 1 big LCD TV
Give them a BASIC book from a local library, and a Apple II. If they don't stay up until 3am drinking Mt Dew and eating cold pizza trying to write a PacMan clone, they're perfect.
"We'll be on Mars in 30 years"
That statement is just as true as it was 30 years ago.
We'll be on mars with our flying cars and Linux desktops.
Photoshop CS was $649 last time I checked. And worth every penny. If you don't think it is, try an alternative such as PaintShopPro ($99) or the GIMP (free)
At the same rate, it's only $20, why register it?
If you subscribed to Nintendo Power magazine, back when the SNES first came out, they'd give you catalogs once in a while with Nintendo merchandise. They had the basic t-shirts and hats, and they had cooler things like figurines and zelda swords.
One thing they sold were game music CD's for a few games. DKC was one of them..
There is far less stress in open source. You have more freedom with release dates, slipping the schedule, features, etc.
You need to work on games like Daikatana, and Duke Nukem Forever then.
He's probably just burned out.
Game programmers usually don't have really long careers. A big hit or two, and that's about it. Guys will start a company, have a huge game, then it'll break up.
One example would be David Crane, he's made a number of games, from the late 70's (Atari hits like Pitfall!), to the 80's/90's (NES games like Simpsons), to the recent remakes of Pitfall on PC/16 bit consoles.
On the other hand, you've got some of these 'old' guys working on Linux and other open/free projects, that have been cranking out code since the 70's.
Just get a bunch of mosquitos, and a bunch of tree sap...Then we just need someone to extract them in 65 million years!
Look at Slashdot's "Hall of Fame"
4183 Strike on Iraq by CmdrTaco
3314 Saddam Hussein Arrested by CmdrTaco
3265 Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion by CmdrTaco
3212 What's Keeping You On Windows? by Cliff
3042 An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? by Cliff
2764 Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks by CmdrTaco
2722 Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional by michael
2574 Major Strike on Iraq Underway by CmdrTaco
2549 US Starts Attacking Afghanistan by CmdrTaco
2465 U.S. Attack -- More Updates by Hemos
2 of those aren't 'political'
I'm not exactly big on politics, but it looks like a large amount of readers are.
I don't see much sticking in 3 days. I could see an installfest of sorts
Give them a big fat Linux book and tell them to go home and read.
Another feature I found unique to AbiWord is when you restore the AbiWord application itself, make is smaller, the text within your document is minimized. If you look at the screenshots below, you will notice how the text is made smaller when the AbiWord window is restored. The first screenshot shows AbiWord maximized while the second screenshot shows AbiWord restored; notice how the text is minimized in the restored screenshot. This feature is useful because you don't have to scroll sideways to view the entire text. Also shown below is MS Word restored to show the differences between the two.
Ever heard of 'Fit to page' ?
Another great feature in AbiWord is the insert field option. Under the Insert tab you can choose to insert a field such as date and time. If you choose to insert time, you will actually insert a clock into your document as the screenshot below demonstrates.
Word has this too!
Abiword doesn't even have text boxes or math equation editors yet.
I would have loved to have this application around back when I was running Windows 98 on my Compaq Presario with 64MB of RAM
Want a small, fast, Word-compatible word processor?
Try Word 97. Or hell, even Works.
According to the article AbiWord is better because of the larger icons as they are easier to distinguish. The smaller memory footprint which is ~6MB instead of what they claim is ~30MB for Word but which I claim is only ~17MB according to my tasklist).
Mine shows up at 15MB, but I have a few add-ins loaded, for Goldmine and Acrobat.
The user interface in AbiWord is very similar to that of MS Word except that AbiWord uses much bigger icons than MS Word. In my opinion this is a good thing simply because the icons are easier to see and distinguish; not only that, but you would imagine that because the icons are bigger there would be less space available, this is actually not true because AbiWord places the most used icons in the taskbar.
I guess they've never gone up to the TOOLS menu, then gone to OPTIONS, then checked the 'Large Icons' box. *sigh*
Lets rememeber not everyone purchased a PS2 Network Adapter to go online. Almost all the people I know, have used them to hook up hard drives, and the rip games to it.
HD LOADER, most any bargain-of-the-week HD, and a little time and you can have 60+ games on your PS2, without needing a single CD.
When companies like ID release the 'game source' (not the actual engine code, but the code to the game) it helps mod makers, and ultimately gets more people to play the game, especially in it's modified form.
Eventually they released the source to games like Wolf3D, Doom, and Quake but that doesn't really hurt them. Heck, the Quake source code was stolen from Crack.Com where Dave Taylor was doing a port, and that didn't seem to affect them much at all.
That's a 1.6 or 1.8GHz G5 processor, 533 or 600MHz frontside bus, 256MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB graphics memory. So you'll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment.
Is there a Mac Doom III out yet? Can we have some benchmarks?
File this one along with the following classic:
A network engineer sits at his workstation late one night in a datacenter.
*finishes typing*
"There. That should do it. Now all the members of AOL have access to the Internet."
Yes, I'm going to agree with you. Let 100 people chime in and say Java is the same speed, or even "Faster than C++". It might be the case on a benchmark or two, but I've never seen it happen in real life
One example would be some software that our company uses to produce contract Documents. The old program was a Windows application. The new version of the program is Java based.
We use Pentium III 500MHz desktops with 128MB of ram.
The new program is VERY slow, and takes up nearly 190MB of RAM by itself. We've had to upgrade each workstation to 384/256MB. Guess what, it's written in Java. Exact same end result (this documents haven't changed much in YEARS) but the 'new' program is a hog.
The way to 'stop' piracy would be to use data formats that are prohibitive for the common person to write to...This worked for music CD's for about the first 15 years.
Why do you think video games used to use cartridges, instead of much cheaper floppy disks?
Some may disagree, but at least in the near future, as far as e-mail is concerned - 1 GB will more than suit 97% of the webmail users out there.
640k ought to be enough for everyone
My other suggestions would be to try used equiptment. Because it's used, the smell may have already dissapated.
Yes, buy eBay. No better source for computer equipment that smells like cigarettes, wet basements, or grandmas attic.
I regularly spindles of CDRs and in one out of four cases, when I unwrap them and open them, *man* there's some really nasty chemical smell coming from the CDs.
That CD-R smell is usually Cyanine. Some other brands smell like coconuts.
Prepare for weird looks from bystanders at CompUSA...
test_user:scEPG0VnVyqmE:2000:501:::/dev/null
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test3:sc5
But in order to use these accounts, I would need to have their passwords. I started down the path of cracking the passwords before I came out of my stupor and realized all I had to do was edit the passwd file and replace the encrypted password with a known encrypted password from one of my other accounts! I could also just add a valid shell to one of my accounts, but for starters, decided to just put a new password in for root and leave the rest of the accounts alone.
*nix n00b question, maybe, but why not just blank the password out?
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh
??
As neat as this is, I can't help to wish there was a little more security in devices like this. What about when someone adapts some worm code to install a custom, ddos-zombie installation on the thousands of Linux-powered Linksys/etc routers out there?
haven't seen any of the QuakeCon setup, but any deathmatch style clips I've seen broadcast on G4 have always been from the first person point of view.
Congratulations for being the only person that watches "G4 TechTV" since the switch.