The Pumpkins, as I understand it, pushed Machina II out on P2P because Virgin were not interested in putting out another record in a similar vein after Machina I had done so poorly ( hell with that, I thought it was great. )
I've always heard this joke told with three envelopes, in a variety of different industries, including IT, Stevedoring and general management ( usually with different suggestions for the second envelope ). It is, however, definitely not from Traffic - this joke was being told on email lists at least as early as 1999.
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Newsflash: it doesn't matter how many people agree with Stallman, it in no way invalidates another persons opinion on what Free is and is not ( and vice versa ). Debian, the OSI and Stallman don't represent me, and that's fine.
A non-BSD SF person who believes in BSD style freedoms.
Funny comparison, I would have pegged the Stripes minimalist two piece rock as seeming more in place fifty years ago than today. Of course, fifty years from now people will cherry pick all the good stuff out and make this look like a golden age of music as well.
I think the chick in DK was named "Pauline". This is discussed at length somewhere in the "NesTacos" sprite comic ( warning, may cause you to gouge your eyes out ).
Gender projection is a wonderful trait to exploit in text adventures - my alltime favourite short adventure[1], avoids explicitly gendering the player until the final scene. While it's not as interesting as what you've just outlined, it's a step in the right direction. I projected a male persona onto the adventurer, but other people who have played it report varying conclusions.
Ever heard the joke about the trick-or-treater who dressed as a serial killer? The punchline was that he dressed the same as the everyone else, because serial killers can be anyone.
Ah, that's awesome - and much easier than a "Frank" costume! Well, I'm set for October now.
It was quite popular, but not in all regions. European copies, for example, were rare as hens teeth. I would really like to see them finish off the Shenmue series ( it was supposed to be, what, 5-6 games? ), but each one cost so much, and sales on the XBox port of Shenmue 2 were dissapointing, so I don't know if they'll ever see the light of day.
Still, worth checking out, in my opinion. One for the armchair martial artist.
I dunno, I'd kind of like both, actually. I really enjoyed F1 & 2, but the thought of camping the respawn points with a Bozar is almost too good to resist.
One day I'd love to see Microsoft as a whole company announce something like "Well, we're divvying up all the money by seniority and retiring. It's been a blast, seeya!", and then everyone goes and buys a walk in humidor. Has anyone ever heard of a company "committing suicide" from a financially priveleged situation like that?
My worst experience in this regard was trying to fit two cartridge style P3 500's into a Tyan Tiger dual motherboard. With the stock coolers, the slots were too close together to fit the modules in - the fan on processor #1 was actually touching the back of processor #2.
My friend and I sat there and drank our cokes thinking "Awwww fuck." And then finally, we grabbed both units, squeezed them together and slammed them both into place at once. No worries mate!
YLFI
P.S. Eventually this machine did go under, but I'm not convinced of a related problem... everytime you tried to use the 3d acceleration features of the graphics card, or several other graphics cards, it locked up hard after a few seconds. Temps all looked good, still suspect it was something with the AGP.
the annotated Alice (by Martin Gardner of SciAm's Mathematical Games column
Very interesting! In a pile of very old Scientific Americans I rescued from a library sale table, I found a mathematical deconstruction of the Red (?) Knights speech ( in part, "Sometimes it makes them cry. And sometimes it does not." or similar ) into symbolic logic. Would this have been the same author?
I use a Thawte p.cert to sign my email - there's a good writeup on configuring it to work with OSX's Mail.app here -- also a good example on how to provide visually appealing technical documentation that I can talk non-technically inclined people into reading.
I had no idea that a BF1942 port was in the works for the Mac, and now I'll certainly run out and pick this up, because I still miss it from my old W2K desktop, but here's a question - does anyone know if those mods need cross compilation or similar for the mac version, or are they pure script or similar?
And no it isnt plausible that the developer made the same bugs in nine different places without copying. One or two maybe, but nine?
Unless you look at the code, or look at the bugs, this is not ironclad. What if the bugs are not implementation bugs, but conceptual bugs? What if Orkut had thought "Ok, friends should be able to see friends phone numbers" and forgot to check if the friendship relationship had been validated by the second user?
It's possible, in fact likely, that such mistakes would be propagated in any form of Social software that the author wrote until they are bought to his or her attention, because the flaw is in the design, not the implementation, and the designs stem from the same source.
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Just FYI, that's not Billys site - he's over at BillyCorgan.com.
The Pumpkins, as I understand it, pushed Machina II out on P2P because Virgin were not interested in putting out another record in a similar vein after Machina I had done so poorly ( hell with that, I thought it was great. )
You can get it at beZip.de, or from the Chicago Metro's website, or finally from this fansite.
Try threading the tracks back into the original Machina order as given on Billys diagram, and I, at least, find the story a bit easier to follow.
Bummer the Machina III remix album from the aborted animated series never got released!
-- YLFIThat'll be $699, tah.
A prequel is a damn fine idea. I want an Indiana Jones style game that plays like Indiana Jones watches.
There is no Pete.
There is only ZUUL.
I've always heard this joke told with three envelopes, in a variety of different industries, including IT, Stevedoring and general management ( usually with different suggestions for the second envelope ). It is, however, definitely not from Traffic - this joke was being told on email lists at least as early as 1999.
Newsflash: it doesn't matter how many people agree with Stallman, it in no way invalidates another persons opinion on what Free is and is not ( and vice versa ). Debian, the OSI and Stallman don't represent me, and that's fine.
A non-BSD SF person who believes in BSD style freedoms.
With a cable crimper... oh the humanity!
No rumour - I suspect this is a reference to the Google Search Appliance. You just need to make your resources, as far as I know, accessible via http.
YLFITwister, actually.
YLFIFunny comparison, I would have pegged the Stripes minimalist two piece rock as seeming more in place fifty years ago than today. Of course, fifty years from now people will cherry pick all the good stuff out and make this look like a golden age of music as well.
I haven't laughed so hard at a slashdot post in some time. Hats off.
I think the chick in DK was named "Pauline". This is discussed at length somewhere in the "NesTacos" sprite comic ( warning, may cause you to gouge your eyes out ).
Gender projection is a wonderful trait to exploit in text adventures - my alltime favourite short adventure[1], avoids explicitly gendering the player until the final scene. While it's not as interesting as what you've just outlined, it's a step in the right direction. I projected a male persona onto the adventurer, but other people who have played it report varying conclusions.
YLFI[1] - Rot13 for spoiler: "Cnenqr"
Ah, that's awesome - and much easier than a "Frank" costume! Well, I'm set for October now.
YLFIIt was quite popular, but not in all regions. European copies, for example, were rare as hens teeth. I would really like to see them finish off the Shenmue series ( it was supposed to be, what, 5-6 games? ), but each one cost so much, and sales on the XBox port of Shenmue 2 were dissapointing, so I don't know if they'll ever see the light of day.
Still, worth checking out, in my opinion. One for the armchair martial artist.
I dunno, I'd kind of like both, actually. I really enjoyed F1 & 2, but the thought of camping the respawn points with a Bozar is almost too good to resist.
Red planet indeed.
One day I'd love to see Microsoft as a whole company announce something like "Well, we're divvying up all the money by seniority and retiring. It's been a blast, seeya!", and then everyone goes and buys a walk in humidor. Has anyone ever heard of a company "committing suicide" from a financially priveleged situation like that?
My worst experience in this regard was trying to fit two cartridge style P3 500's into a Tyan Tiger dual motherboard. With the stock coolers, the slots were too close together to fit the modules in - the fan on processor #1 was actually touching the back of processor #2.
My friend and I sat there and drank our cokes thinking "Awwww fuck." And then finally, we grabbed both units, squeezed them together and slammed them both into place at once. No worries mate!
YLFIP.S. Eventually this machine did go under, but I'm not convinced of a related problem... everytime you tried to use the 3d acceleration features of the graphics card, or several other graphics cards, it locked up hard after a few seconds. Temps all looked good, still suspect it was something with the AGP.
Very interesting! In a pile of very old Scientific Americans I rescued from a library sale table, I found a mathematical deconstruction of the Red (?) Knights speech ( in part, "Sometimes it makes them cry. And sometimes it does not." or similar ) into symbolic logic. Would this have been the same author?
YLFII use a Thawte p.cert to sign my email - there's a good writeup on configuring it to work with OSX's Mail.app here -- also a good example on how to provide visually appealing technical documentation that I can talk non-technically inclined people into reading.
-- YLFII had no idea that a BF1942 port was in the works for the Mac, and now I'll certainly run out and pick this up, because I still miss it from my old W2K desktop, but here's a question - does anyone know if those mods need cross compilation or similar for the mac version, or are they pure script or similar?
YLFIUnless you look at the code, or look at the bugs, this is not ironclad. What if the bugs are not implementation bugs, but conceptual bugs? What if Orkut had thought "Ok, friends should be able to see friends phone numbers" and forgot to check if the friendship relationship had been validated by the second user?
It's possible, in fact likely, that such mistakes would be propagated in any form of Social software that the author wrote until they are bought to his or her attention, because the flaw is in the design, not the implementation, and the designs stem from the same source.
YLFII have to agree, I'd adore an SDK of some kind. Can you imagine what kind of a game of Tempest you could play with that wheel and button?
YLFI