I enjoy everything I choose to do with my life, my girlfriend, and my friends. I work a lot, but its very rewarding. I spend the time I spend with my girlfriend because I want to. I spend the time I spend with friends because I want to. Thank you.
To get back on topic, I will not be playing Spore because, per initial post, my interest in it has waned after three years. Other, more (personally) interesting activities have come up. On top of that, the delayed released dates -- even if they were maybies -- just further buried my interest in the game. I'm not insulting anybody.
@Ant P. I don't drink heavily on a regular basis or take zoloft on a regular basis. Read the threads before posting, please.
WTF you guys? Her Wii bowling score is better than mine (and we're both Pro)!
Looks? How'd that get in the picture? I'm not going to even give you the satisfaction of starting an OT thread of how you smartass fuckers choose to assume rather than ask follow-up questions or just STFU all together.
But fyi, we can talk for hours and then sit on the couch with laptops and not say a word to each other for hours. I can go out w/ my friends and get drunk and take my zoloft as much as I want to without even asking. She's cute, a photographer, uses BBedit and knows what STFU means.
PC == the incorrect but general term applied to a Windows computer, as opposed to a Mac. "iTunes. Available for Mac or PC," for example.
I see that spore IS coming out for Mac, but smeh... its still sunny outside in September.
...only I'm now about 3 years older than when I first heard about this game. I no longer use a PC, and I'm no longer in college. Most of my free time is spent away from the computer, doing errands (food, misc. real life stuff), or spending time with my wonderful girlfriend.
Sorry EA/Maxis. You missed your opportunity with me. I'm sure its a wonderful product but lets be honest with our release dates from now on.
... except it's revolutionary user interface. It still just played mp3s, like all its competitors. But it ALSO had a killer interface. Yet it sparked a real portable music player revolution.
So far, that's the best of -- IMHO -- many sweet attributes of this machine. Like the iPod, it's coming at a time when all competitor UIs suck hard. They're playing the same game over again, and it's likely to revolutionize again.
Just wait until the iPhone Mini comes out. Then the iPhone Nano. Then the sexy RED iPhone Nano.
I basically agree with this guy, he's got more or less all my immediate thoughts about this summary, and I wonder what all the fuss is about. Movies are an artistic vision. Whomever the artist or group of artists may be should make their art look as it is supposed to.
Ads, however, are promotional and are legally mandated not to lie. However, I'm not going to get into what this means exactly; that's the job for someone more knowledgeable and experienced than I.
Just remember this golden rule about the digital age: if it can be displayed on a computer screen, it can be manipulated.
I'm blown away by the utter crapiness of Apple TV myself. They dare release a hard drive-equipped media player for my tv and not have a dvr? How bout the fact that iTMS videos are in 480p and yet this thing _requires_ an hdmi connection?
And on that note, my parents Sony Bravia -- a pretty high-end TV -- has two hdmi inputs and they were already taken up by the HD cable box and DVD/home theater the day it was mounted on the wall. Most sub-2k$ TVs, therefore, probably only have 1 hdmi port. Steve's asking a lot out of a world where, despite soring HDTV sales, we're still probably 5 years or so away before a reasonable amount of the population has them.
What amazes me about this recent macworld is not the good or bad surrounding the iPhone -- wait for the freakin' thing to come out and lets get some customer reviews -- but the fact that Apple TV didn't get slammed enough for being quite possibly one of apple's worse products to date.
Right to privacy and anonymous ballots and all that are great, but if we're going to insist to use these highly hackable electronic voting machines, then it may be time to think about forgoing this whole annonymous ballot thing. The quick and easy solution: have a real person standing in the booth with you.
This guy will see thousands of votes during his shift. What is the likelihood that he is going to a) remember any of them, b) care about what you're voting on, c) do something if he does care?
Having an individual there who could call you out if you're trying to tamper with a machine could alleviate this problem. Knowing that this offers some minor amount of remedy, how do we feel about this?
Need to adjust a width for IE only but don't want to completely redo all the CSS you've done so far?.ie #wrap becomes an IE-only selector. It's flawless thus far...
I don't recommend becoming too dependent on this kind of trickery. I first do valid mark-up, then apply CSS, debug across browsers, _then_ if something just absolutely won't work well in browser X and it's not worth the time to retrace my steps, I throw in this javascript, make my selector, and move on. Nice and future-proof too: when IE7 comes out and fixes issue Y, just knock out the selector from the CSS and get on with your life.
... i'm happy that NVIDIA & ATI keep coming out w/ these overly slick, largely under-utilized cards into the gaming market, as they continue to drive the price of pre-existing, under-utilized cards down. The mobo/v-card combo i've been eyeing was ~$400 a month ago. Now it's ~$300. I'll be drooling over HDR Oblivion by the end of the summer;-)
I've yet to play this yet; i'm waiting for the DS lite and then i'll purchase both at the same time.
BUT
from what I've read about this game, it sounds like a sure-fire winner... and it's a 2-D side-scroller... in 2006. I've always felt that there was plenty of life left in side scrollers considering so few got the chance to make use of next-gen technology. Stuff like getting the Mega Mushroom and blasting through the level as a giant... that's something that'd be nearly impossible to do well with sprites, but pretty effortless with 3-d and zippy hardware. The Castlevania side scrollers since Symphony of the Night have taken the other route and made impressive use of newer consoles to push the boundries of sprite detail in a 2-d game. Both soultions are beautiful, and I hope more developers take note of this.
Video games are now an industry that has the man & machine power to do anything... the problem is that they try to do everything... in every game. As the boys over at 37signals explain in Getting Real (excellent read for any techie... esp. the code monkeys), constraints can be breading grounds for creativity.
I use Firefox over Opera mainly because I live alongside the web developer toolbar. Not the optimal way to code in all situation but great for squashing formatting bugs.
http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
no... but they do consider the possibilities that new technologies -- 'innovations' some may say -- pose a challenge to the status quo, no matter how geeky that quo may be.
sorry to be off-topic but i think this a matter that we dear/.ers need to consider...
We have an innate ability to pick apart those that don't belong in a group (all the article talked about)? No wonder why Western civilization has become the most powerful one on Earth: we're always ostracizing those that aren't part of the group! Definitely the best at that skill...
A couple people have said it so far, but i think it can't be stated how much we actually need a real, living, breathing desktop environment with the google touch. I'm thinking Ubuntu with the google flair for seamless interactivity.
Now is probably not the time. Wait until they finish their OpenOffice experiemnts (and makes it web-based... if only as an 'on the go' version). I'm not too worried about all of our stuff being consumed by the Google Grid. So be it. We've been tormented in this Microsoft hell for long enough.
Now, just to be on the safe side, i'd say that 2009 is the year of (Googe) Desktop Linux.
US control of the Internet simply allows our trans-global corporations to spread thier products, services, and wealth across the globe with little interference. They are also the backbone of our economy. Of course we want to make it as easy for them to do business as possible. They are saturating the world with US brands and eliminating the diversity of this great world in its wake. McMonoculture. Get it?
A global network should be operated by a global entity, financially bound to no country's GDP. $.02.
This is welcoming news to a new Powerbook owner. I needed a highly portable laptop for this upcoming semester (and into the future), and have wanted a Mac since OS X 10.0, but I was cautious about purchasing an apple product knowing that the future was headed toward intel. No one really knows how long they will keep support and software coming for PPC systems, but eventually, they will be phased out. I know people who have had their G3 and earlier Apple laptops and can still run newer software, oftentimes improving their system performance. I was afraid I was at the end of this chain.
But with PPCs in portables til 2008, that means software will probably support PPC into 2010, if not longer.
The Aztecs predicted the end of the world to happen on December 12, 2012. Seven years out of a mac portable? I'm satisfied.
Not that this will get noticed at this point...
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... but the comment above that predicts that larger network speeds = less likely that there will be a beige box in every home is probably right. This is the natural step the internet will take since it is just as likely to become AS BIG AND IMPORTANT a part of our lives as text has become.
Think about books. In the beginning, books were huge manuscripts owned by few, and the only interaction with them were through people reading them aloud to others. The modern day equivalent would be the first comptuer that took up a gymnasium. They were few and far between and only a few people could actually make use of them, though many more felt its effects.
Then the printing press came along and more people had access to them and more and more _types_ of books were made. These are PCs. Think of the large libraries that developed as the internet. Now think of all the information people started to garner from them, and how widespread literacy has become to more advanced societies. This network of books has made literacy almost an _intrinsic attribute_ of modern peoples. Now we can read maps, signs, instructions on how to build a bridge... this is the kind of stuff we do to _function_ in society.
So now that we've nearly mastered the internet, its going to become integral that we be able to interface with it nearly anytime, anywhere. The decentralization of the computer, the rise of the Network Machine.
The guy behind this article may be a nut, but props to thinking in the right direction.
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I enjoy everything I choose to do with my life, my girlfriend, and my friends. I work a lot, but its very rewarding. I spend the time I spend with my girlfriend because I want to. I spend the time I spend with friends because I want to. Thank you.
To get back on topic, I will not be playing Spore because, per initial post, my interest in it has waned after three years. Other, more (personally) interesting activities have come up. On top of that, the delayed released dates -- even if they were maybies -- just further buried my interest in the game. I'm not insulting anybody.
@Ant P. I don't drink heavily on a regular basis or take zoloft on a regular basis. Read the threads before posting, please.
WTF you guys? Her Wii bowling score is better than mine (and we're both Pro)! Looks? How'd that get in the picture? I'm not going to even give you the satisfaction of starting an OT thread of how you smartass fuckers choose to assume rather than ask follow-up questions or just STFU all together. But fyi, we can talk for hours and then sit on the couch with laptops and not say a word to each other for hours. I can go out w/ my friends and get drunk and take my zoloft as much as I want to without even asking. She's cute, a photographer, uses BBedit and knows what STFU means.
PC == the incorrect but general term applied to a Windows computer, as opposed to a Mac. "iTunes. Available for Mac or PC," for example. I see that spore IS coming out for Mac, but smeh... its still sunny outside in September.
...only I'm now about 3 years older than when I first heard about this game. I no longer use a PC, and I'm no longer in college. Most of my free time is spent away from the computer, doing errands (food, misc. real life stuff), or spending time with my wonderful girlfriend.
Sorry EA/Maxis. You missed your opportunity with me. I'm sure its a wonderful product but lets be honest with our release dates from now on.
... except it's revolutionary user interface. It still just played mp3s, like all its competitors. But it ALSO had a killer interface. Yet it sparked a real portable music player revolution.
So far, that's the best of -- IMHO -- many sweet attributes of this machine. Like the iPod, it's coming at a time when all competitor UIs suck hard. They're playing the same game over again, and it's likely to revolutionize again.
Just wait until the iPhone Mini comes out. Then the iPhone Nano. Then the sexy RED iPhone Nano.
That's when pseudo-news makes the front page. All that's fit to print, here on dot
I basically agree with this guy, he's got more or less all my immediate thoughts about this summary, and I wonder what all the fuss is about. Movies are an artistic vision. Whomever the artist or group of artists may be should make their art look as it is supposed to.
Ads, however, are promotional and are legally mandated not to lie. However, I'm not going to get into what this means exactly; that's the job for someone more knowledgeable and experienced than I.
Just remember this golden rule about the digital age: if it can be displayed on a computer screen, it can be manipulated.
I'm blown away by the utter crapiness of Apple TV myself. They dare release a hard drive-equipped media player for my tv and not have a dvr? How bout the fact that iTMS videos are in 480p and yet this thing _requires_ an hdmi connection? And on that note, my parents Sony Bravia -- a pretty high-end TV -- has two hdmi inputs and they were already taken up by the HD cable box and DVD/home theater the day it was mounted on the wall. Most sub-2k$ TVs, therefore, probably only have 1 hdmi port. Steve's asking a lot out of a world where, despite soring HDTV sales, we're still probably 5 years or so away before a reasonable amount of the population has them. What amazes me about this recent macworld is not the good or bad surrounding the iPhone -- wait for the freakin' thing to come out and lets get some customer reviews -- but the fact that Apple TV didn't get slammed enough for being quite possibly one of apple's worse products to date.
Right to privacy and anonymous ballots and all that are great, but if we're going to insist to use these highly hackable electronic voting machines, then it may be time to think about forgoing this whole annonymous ballot thing. The quick and easy solution: have a real person standing in the booth with you.
This guy will see thousands of votes during his shift. What is the likelihood that he is going to a) remember any of them, b) care about what you're voting on, c) do something if he does care?
Having an individual there who could call you out if you're trying to tamper with a machine could alleviate this problem. Knowing that this offers some minor amount of remedy, how do we feel about this?
I wouldn't say plenty. Enough do that i wouldn't make it mission critical... sometimes enough is enough when it comes to IE tho.
Anyone have actual stats or estimates on how many people browse the internets w/out JS, just out of curiosity?
IMHO, not enough web developers know about the these lovely 832 bytes of JavaScript that make my life 20x easier:
http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/
Need to adjust a width for IE only but don't want to completely redo all the CSS you've done so far? .ie #wrap becomes an IE-only selector. It's flawless thus far...
I don't recommend becoming too dependent on this kind of trickery. I first do valid mark-up, then apply CSS, debug across browsers, _then_ if something just absolutely won't work well in browser X and it's not worth the time to retrace my steps, I throw in this javascript, make my selector, and move on. Nice and future-proof too: when IE7 comes out and fixes issue Y, just knock out the selector from the CSS and get on with your life.
... i'm happy that NVIDIA & ATI keep coming out w/ these overly slick, largely under-utilized cards into the gaming market, as they continue to drive the price of pre-existing, under-utilized cards down. The mobo/v-card combo i've been eyeing was ~$400 a month ago. Now it's ~$300. I'll be drooling over HDR Oblivion by the end of the summer ;-)
I've yet to play this yet; i'm waiting for the DS lite and then i'll purchase both at the same time.
BUT
from what I've read about this game, it sounds like a sure-fire winner... and it's a 2-D side-scroller... in 2006. I've always felt that there was plenty of life left in side scrollers considering so few got the chance to make use of next-gen technology. Stuff like getting the Mega Mushroom and blasting through the level as a giant... that's something that'd be nearly impossible to do well with sprites, but pretty effortless with 3-d and zippy hardware. The Castlevania side scrollers since Symphony of the Night have taken the other route and made impressive use of newer consoles to push the boundries of sprite detail in a 2-d game. Both soultions are beautiful, and I hope more developers take note of this.
Video games are now an industry that has the man & machine power to do anything... the problem is that they try to do everything... in every game. As the boys over at 37signals explain in Getting Real (excellent read for any techie... esp. the code monkeys), constraints can be breading grounds for creativity.
As NSMB Demonstrates, this is SO true.
I use Firefox over Opera mainly because I live alongside the web developer toolbar. Not the optimal way to code in all situation but great for squashing formatting bugs. http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
no... but they do consider the possibilities that new technologies -- 'innovations' some may say -- pose a challenge to the status quo, no matter how geeky that quo may be.
sorry to be off-topic but i think this a matter that we dear /.ers need to consider...
...anyone else catching this stuff on digg hours before it appears on slashdot.....?
and the world's design population -- not to mention the numerous software companies who feed their business -- have been _DYING_ for this to happen...
This isn't news; it's sensationalizing an obviously empty threat. Ignore this sort of idiocy and it will go away.
95% of google... or 0% of google. which is better?
We have an innate ability to pick apart those that don't belong in a group (all the article talked about)? No wonder why Western civilization has become the most powerful one on Earth: we're always ostracizing those that aren't part of the group! Definitely the best at that skill...
A couple people have said it so far, but i think it can't be stated how much we actually need a real, living, breathing desktop environment with the google touch. I'm thinking Ubuntu with the google flair for seamless interactivity.
Now is probably not the time. Wait until they finish their OpenOffice experiemnts (and makes it web-based... if only as an 'on the go' version). I'm not too worried about all of our stuff being consumed by the Google Grid. So be it. We've been tormented in this Microsoft hell for long enough.
Now, just to be on the safe side, i'd say that 2009 is the year of (Googe) Desktop Linux.
US control of the Internet simply allows our trans-global corporations to spread thier products, services, and wealth across the globe with little interference. They are also the backbone of our economy. Of course we want to make it as easy for them to do business as possible. They are saturating the world with US brands and eliminating the diversity of this great world in its wake. McMonoculture. Get it?
A global network should be operated by a global entity, financially bound to no country's GDP. $.02.
"Google clandestinely ups its Gmail storage limit to 100 gigs."
Well, soon enough at least.
But with PPCs in portables til 2008, that means software will probably support PPC into 2010, if not longer.
The Aztecs predicted the end of the world to happen on December 12, 2012. Seven years out of a mac portable? I'm satisfied.
Think about books. In the beginning, books were huge manuscripts owned by few, and the only interaction with them were through people reading them aloud to others. The modern day equivalent would be the first comptuer that took up a gymnasium. They were few and far between and only a few people could actually make use of them, though many more felt its effects.
Then the printing press came along and more people had access to them and more and more _types_ of books were made. These are PCs. Think of the large libraries that developed as the internet. Now think of all the information people started to garner from them, and how widespread literacy has become to more advanced societies. This network of books has made literacy almost an _intrinsic attribute_ of modern peoples. Now we can read maps, signs, instructions on how to build a bridge... this is the kind of stuff we do to _function_ in society.
So now that we've nearly mastered the internet, its going to become integral that we be able to interface with it nearly anytime, anywhere. The decentralization of the computer, the rise of the Network Machine.
The guy behind this article may be a nut, but props to thinking in the right direction.
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eric