I would imagine that the Q can tell the difference between a gamecube disk and a standard sized disk
and it won't (or shouldn't) allow you to play a GC game on a standard sized disk.
As far as Nintendo being unhappy about it, I'm fairly certain they'd be all over Panasonic's tukus in the legal arena if this wasn't a joint effort.
"'...For hours on end, hackers here squint over thousands of lines of numeric coding that translate to great feats of accomplishment on a video game.'" Good work, if you can get it.
I'm not sure I agree with that one. Personally, squinting over thousands of lines of hex code for hours at a time does *not* sound like good work.
Uh, thanks, but my WRX is so damn fast now I couldn't deal with any extra horsepower. Would be fun on a rally course, tho...
Yeah.. so's mine.. maybe when I need to start looking for replacement parts and I'm out of warranty. You can usually get more bang for your buck when you go aftermarket vs. factory replacement.
For those with Subarus and not VW's.. Cobb Tuning has done similar work with Subarus. A lot of the tuning (but most definitely not all) that is done on turbocharged and supercharged cars nowadays is through software, making sure you're making best use of the fuel used - different programs for different octane levels.
Think more along the lines of magazine presses which are less likely to exhibit flaws (in my experience). The production of newspapers is done with less concern about details - as long as the thing is basically readable, no one's going to complain about a $.50 paper and the newspaper presses know this. As the circulation goes down and cost of issue goes up, people are more likely to complain. In this case, the circulation is going to be extremely low - everyone isn't going to be buying a computer every day, week, or month. The company would naturally have to make sure that this roll process is accurate enough that they can limit the number of misprinted computers to an amount that can be recovered by profits without a problem.
Oh.. and btw.. the title is incorrect.. it's top 15 most influential, not 15 best (#12 comes to mind as a counter-argument *grin*).
15. Wing Commander
14. Ultima III: Exodus
13. Alone in the Dark
12. Ultima Online
11. Tomb Raider
10. Falcon 3.0
9. Sim City
8. Half-life
7. Civilization
6. Diablo
5. Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis
4. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
3. Myst
2. Doom
1. Quake
And.. for your enjoyment.. the 10 runners up..
The Seventh Guest
WarBirds
Pool of Radiance
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Deer Hunter
X-Com
Populous
Myth
Test Drive
MechWarrior II: 31st Century Combat
I've got a few rants about the games chosen.. but I'll leave that to you guys.
I've been told that I look like John Linnell (and it was a compliment strangely enough). Has either of "Everyone's favorite Johns" ever been mistaken for someone else famous? possibly even another John? John F. Kennedy? Jr? Pope John Paul? II? John Paul Jones? John Lennon? John Denver? John Woo?
I'd like to say that I'm a "long-time" reader (about 3 years now) and fan of your works. With the exception of your video casettes and book there's not much in the way of Cringely merchandise out there. There are a few items I'd personally be interested in owning, and I'm sure there are others out there that feel the same way.
Pulpit/Triumph of the Nerds/Nerds 2.0 t-shirts
Triumph of the Nerds/Nerds 2.0 on DVD
Also, I was curious on what was the status (if any) of a sequal to Accidental Empires.
P.S. - Yes, my sig below is a quote from the Pulpit, but there wasn't room for the quote and to give you credit for it (sorry:))
I'm by no means a CPU architecture expert (i hated my computer architecture class), but I do know that the K7, as with all the other K series chips from AMD, is a RISC based processor that uses one or more instruction translators. I'm not sure if it's possible to write code that bypasses the instruction translators, but if it *is* possible, then yes... it'd be nice if some optimizations were made to GCC, etc.
I find it interesting that HP would release information regarding support of Linux on the same day that a news.com article announces that Dell, who ships workstations/servers with Redhat, has surpassed HP in the workstation market. This should keep the stockholders a little happier.. letting them know "Hey, we might not be first in workstations.. but we've got this new software package that's coming out.. ". Either way, it sounds interesting and promising.. this could mean that businesses running exchange servers could allow/insist that some/all of their employees use Linux (development groups maybe?:))
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and it won't (or shouldn't) allow you to play a GC game on a standard sized disk.
As far as Nintendo being unhappy about it, I'm fairly certain they'd be all over Panasonic's tukus in the legal arena if this wasn't a joint effort.
See, I knew it: Little is better.
So.. that's why it's not Commander Burrito
"'...For hours on end, hackers here squint over thousands of lines of numeric coding that translate to great feats of accomplishment on a video game.'" Good work, if you can get it.
I'm not sure I agree with that one. Personally, squinting over thousands of lines of hex code for hours at a time does *not* sound like good work.
Yeah.. so's mine.. maybe when I need to start looking for replacement parts and I'm out of warranty. You can usually get more bang for your buck when you go aftermarket vs. factory replacement.
For those with Subarus and not VW's.. Cobb Tuning has done similar work with Subarus. A lot of the tuning (but most definitely not all) that is done on turbocharged and supercharged cars nowadays is through software, making sure you're making best use of the fuel used - different programs for different octane levels.
Doesn't the DCMA protect them against anyone decoding the messages even if they're encrypted using bad encryption? </sarcasm>
PS1='\u@\h: ' Am I the only one who puts a space at the end of the prompt?
Hubble goes to 11.
I'd like to apologize to anyone who actually saw that movie.. and.. to the moderators who have to deal with yet another off-topic post :)
Diablo 2 has been successfully run under Linux.. I wouldn't necessarily assume that Rob's playing it on a windoze box.
Think more along the lines of magazine presses which are less likely to exhibit flaws (in my experience). The production of newspapers is done with less concern about details - as long as the thing is basically readable, no one's going to complain about a $.50 paper and the newspaper presses know this. As the circulation goes down and cost of issue goes up, people are more likely to complain. In this case, the circulation is going to be extremely low - everyone isn't going to be buying a computer every day, week, or month. The company would naturally have to make sure that this roll process is accurate enough that they can limit the number of misprinted computers to an amount that can be recovered by profits without a problem.
15. Wing Commander
14. Ultima III: Exodus
13. Alone in the Dark
12. Ultima Online
11. Tomb Raider
10. Falcon 3.0
9. Sim City
8. Half-life
7. Civilization
6. Diablo
5. Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis
4. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
3. Myst
2. Doom
1. Quake
And.. for your enjoyment.. the 10 runners up..
The Seventh Guest
WarBirds
Pool of Radiance
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Deer Hunter
X-Com
Populous
Myth
Test Drive
MechWarrior II: 31st Century Combat
I've got a few rants about the games chosen.. but I'll leave that to you guys.
I've been told that I look like John Linnell (and it was a compliment strangely enough). Has either of "Everyone's favorite Johns" ever been mistaken for someone else famous? possibly even another John? John F. Kennedy? Jr? Pope John Paul? II? John Paul Jones? John Lennon? John Denver? John Woo?
This guy should register "gu1n3zz-b33r-b1tez-b1g-0nez.com" and see what they do..
I'd like to say that I'm a "long-time" reader (about 3 years now) and fan of your works. With the exception of your video casettes and book there's not much in the way of Cringely merchandise out there. There are a few items I'd personally be interested in owning, and I'm sure there are others out there that feel the same way.
Pulpit/Triumph of the Nerds/Nerds 2.0 t-shirts
Triumph of the Nerds/Nerds 2.0 on DVD
Also, I was curious on what was the status (if any) of a sequal to Accidental Empires.
P.S. - Yes, my sig below is a quote from the Pulpit, but there wasn't room for the quote and to give you credit for it (sorry :))
IIRC, 5.6 was supposed to be the C++ rewrite. I've been wrong before.. stranger things have happened. :)
#include <beer.h>
Only $25.95 for a set of four.
#include <beer.h>
I'm college educated.. *and* a deviant.. how does that figure into their survey? *grin*
I'm by no means a CPU architecture expert (i hated my computer architecture class), but I do know that the K7, as with all the other K series chips from AMD, is a RISC based processor that uses one or more instruction translators. I'm not sure if it's possible to write code that bypasses the instruction translators, but if it *is* possible, then yes... it'd be nice if some optimizations were made to GCC, etc.
- coug
Why couldn't it have happened right before I started high school? Maybe I could've gotten laid more often.. *shrug*