I think you're thinking of Cold Storage, an in house psygnosis musician.
He also did the soundtrack to the PC version of WOXL, which for whatever reason didn't license the tracks the PSX version did.
I find most of the big name tracks really well suited to that game, though. Actually, big FSOL fan that I am, I can't think of when ELSE you'd want to listen to We Have Explosive..:D
Is the classic 3-button mouse largely dead? If so, what are you folks moving toward?
You mean what did everyone start using so long that nobody even makes the old 3-button mouses anymore?
Most people I know use wheel mouses, duh. I use a Logitech Trackman Wheel.
In Windows the third mouse button was never very heavily used, which is why it's being relegated to the secondary function of the scroll wheel, which gets used tons. I for one find the soft rubbery click of the scroll wheel a sublime tactile sensation. Plus it scrolls stuff!
Though really, what's wrong with clicking the scroll wheel to middle click? It's in the middle (like the old middle button used to be) and if you have a stiff enough one (logitech!) then you won't also accidently scroll while doing it.
When I was last shopping for video cards, I decided to go for an nvidia gf4 ti4400. I managed to find a review of several different manufacturers of them (PNY, ASUS, gainward, etc) that was mostly comparing fan noise and vga signal quality (since the 3d was all within like.5% of each other since they're all basically copies of the reference design). Evidently the RAMDAC (the guy who makes an analog signal) can vary pretty significantly from vendor to vendor. Something to look out for.
there's also some people who use IM to communicate more efficiently and reasonably for business-related stuff. Because maybe there's a 5 minute latency on email and it sucks to say a URL into a telephone.
The term OS is vague and can have all kinds of different scope. Windows is a runtime environment which provides services to the user and to third party apps. If you think of it like that then yes, it IS reasonable to have a web browser built in. Because then developers can feel free to deliver their help in html format, and rely on it being present!
I don't know if IM will go the same way, but it might make sense for some apps to sort of integrate with it.
Disk space? You're paying $100 for windows XP and you can't afford the $1 worth of disk space it takes up? That's ridiculous.
There will always be technology out there that can be misused. The amount of that technology will only increase. Do we ban knives because people get stabbed? Do we ban nuclear power because a couple of Russians cut costs?
That's a terrible analogy. Yes, people screw up with knives, but the damage they do is limited to a couple people maximum. If you screw up with a nuclear power plant you might kill a lot of people and make a large area unlivable for a long time. Society can afford to have the occasional knife deaths. Can it afford to have the occasional power plant meltdowns?
That said, I'm not actually against nuclear power, I am merely faulting your comparison.:D
Games Magzine does not sell these games. Funagain, the online vendor of games, however is hosting a copy of the Games 100 list, with links to their own database.
If I wasn't personal friends with the owner of a local board game store I would buy all my games from Funagain. They've got a fantastic selection, and since Games's top 100 list is only listing games that are in print, there's no reason Funagain should not carry each and every one of them.
If you want REAL tales of masochism, check out the nethack newsgroups, and read the posts of people who ascended nudist atheist vegetarian illiterate tourists.
In fact if someone said "Quick, name a character from a PC game", the only memorable one for me is Kerrigan in Starcraft
Well, if you look in the adventure genre, it's easy, but that's a genre with really strong characters and stories, because they don't try to be open ended.
From just the Moneky Island series alone I can come up with dozens of names, Guybrush Threepwood, Elaine Marley, The Dread Pirate LeChuck, Wally, Largo, Murray the talking Skull, I. Chesse, etc.
Maybe I'm kind of a bad example though. I remember the name of the guy in Out Of This World (Conrad), a game with no dialog at all, and BJ Blaskowitz, the completely unremarkable main character form Escape From Castle Wolfeinstein 3D.
IANAGD, but I think that as games transition to pure 3d modeled worlds (away from side scrollers or 2d sprite based games) thier complexity rises exponentially.
You mean, O(e^n) where n is the number of dimensions? That is, a 3d game is 9/4 times as complex as a 2d game?
It's the most expensive option possible, even compared to an electric heating system.
It's only more expensive than an electric heating system if you weren't planning on buying the computer anyway. All of your electrical appliances turn the power they use ultimately into heat. The question is how much of that energy escapes the house? For a light near a window, it's some. For a radio transmitter it's a bunch. For a computer, it's almost none.
I use storage racks made by Boltz. They're sturdy, attractive (to my eye) and efficient. They are a little costly, but significantly less so than the 1100+ CDs they contain. They're also really responsive to the needs their customers (one of my friends called them and told them the TV stand he bought was a little small for his TV and was flexing a little and within a month they had a larger sturdier one on the market and replaced his old one for free!)
[Logitech] also questioned Microsoft's decision to stop scroll wheels clicking as they are spun back and forth
!!!!!!!!!
The clicky feel of the scrollwheel is the one of the finest things on this Earth! How can Microsoft even contemplate dropping that. Though Logitech has always done it better (I love my Trackman Wheel so much)
As other people said, when making financial plans, do not factor your stock options into account - there's a good chance that they will be worth $0.00 each.
As for how much is "fair" obviously that depends on a huge number of things. Unless the company is actually growing, you should ask for as many options as you need sheets of toilet paper, since that's all they'll be good for.
Generally I prefer my employee stock purchase program to my stock options. With them I'm guaranteed to make a little money, and if the stock is improving, I could make a lot. The fact that this is on a relatively short time scale (every 6 months) means that if the stock drops a bunch and then starts to rebound, I don't have to wait until the stock catches up to what it was when I got hired before I start making money again; I just have to wait 6 months tops.
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I think you're thinking of Cold Storage, an in house psygnosis musician.
:D
He also did the soundtrack to the PC version of WOXL, which for whatever reason didn't license the tracks the PSX version did.
I find most of the big name tracks really well suited to that game, though. Actually, big FSOL fan that I am, I can't think of when ELSE you'd want to listen to We Have Explosive..
Is the classic 3-button mouse largely dead? If so, what are you folks moving toward?
You mean what did everyone start using so long that nobody even makes the old 3-button mouses anymore?
Most people I know use wheel mouses, duh. I use a Logitech Trackman Wheel.
In Windows the third mouse button was never very heavily used, which is why it's being relegated to the secondary function of the scroll wheel, which gets used tons. I for one find the soft rubbery click of the scroll wheel a sublime tactile sensation. Plus it scrolls stuff!
Though really, what's wrong with clicking the scroll wheel to middle click? It's in the middle (like the old middle button used to be) and if you have a stiff enough one (logitech!) then you won't also accidently scroll while doing it.
When I was last shopping for video cards, I decided to go for an nvidia gf4 ti4400. I managed to find a review of several different manufacturers of them (PNY, ASUS, gainward, etc) that was mostly comparing fan noise and vga signal quality (since the 3d was all within like .5% of each other since they're all basically copies of the reference design). Evidently the RAMDAC (the guy who makes an analog signal) can vary pretty significantly from vendor to vendor. Something to look out for.
Apple says "We're really not making any money selling tons of music over the interent"
AOL, HP, Wal*mart, Microsoft, Napster, etc all say: "Not making any money?! Shit! I gotta get me some of that!". Hilarity ensues.
Floating eye corpse?
No thanks, just had one.
Really? All the ones I've seen are RGBG, presumably because the eye is most sensative to green (which is also why 16 bit color is usualy r:5 g:6 b:5)
there's also some people who use IM to communicate more efficiently and reasonably for business-related stuff. Because maybe there's a 5 minute latency on email and it sucks to say a URL into a telephone.
The term OS is vague and can have all kinds of different scope. Windows is a runtime environment which provides services to the user and to third party apps. If you think of it like that then yes, it IS reasonable to have a web browser built in. Because then developers can feel free to deliver their help in html format, and rely on it being present!
I don't know if IM will go the same way, but it might make sense for some apps to sort of integrate with it.
Disk space? You're paying $100 for windows XP and you can't afford the $1 worth of disk space it takes up? That's ridiculous.
Imagine having a singer with a world-class voice at your disposal, any hour of any day. She's just standing at the ready,
Is her name Sharon Apple?
There will always be technology out there that can be misused. The amount of that technology will only increase. Do we ban knives because people get stabbed? Do we ban nuclear power because a couple of Russians cut costs?
:D
That's a terrible analogy. Yes, people screw up with knives, but the damage they do is limited to a couple people maximum. If you screw up with a nuclear power plant you might kill a lot of people and make a large area unlivable for a long time. Society can afford to have the occasional knife deaths. Can it afford to have the occasional power plant meltdowns?
That said, I'm not actually against nuclear power, I am merely faulting your comparison.
So this could be a real coup for the Chinese - single-handedly force ...
Don't you mean two-billion-handedly?
Nobody sends uncompressed video anywhere. 640x480x30fpsx24bpp = 210 megabits/s You can't do that with 802.11b, 801.11g, or 100bT
Games Magzine does not sell these games. Funagain, the online vendor of games, however is hosting a copy of the Games 100 list, with links to their own database.
If I wasn't personal friends with the owner of a local board game store I would buy all my games from Funagain. They've got a fantastic selection, and since Games's top 100 list is only listing games that are in print, there's no reason Funagain should not carry each and every one of them.
Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the [popup blocking] technology
"Method for not opening a new browser window when asked to"?
Prior art: Every browser before Netscape 2 did this, very effectively!
Oh crap, you're right!
I probably also lose points for remembering the name of Mesmeron from the Pac-Man cartoon show.
If you want REAL tales of masochism, check out the nethack newsgroups, and read the posts of people who ascended nudist atheist vegetarian illiterate tourists.
In fact if someone said "Quick, name a character from a PC game", the only memorable one for me is Kerrigan in Starcraft
Well, if you look in the adventure genre, it's easy, but that's a genre with really strong characters and stories, because they don't try to be open ended.
From just the Moneky Island series alone I can come up with dozens of names, Guybrush Threepwood, Elaine Marley, The Dread Pirate LeChuck, Wally, Largo, Murray the talking Skull, I. Chesse, etc.
Maybe I'm kind of a bad example though. I remember the name of the guy in Out Of This World (Conrad), a game with no dialog at all, and BJ Blaskowitz, the completely unremarkable main character form Escape From Castle Wolfeinstein 3D.
IANAGD, but I think that as games transition to pure 3d modeled worlds (away from side scrollers or 2d sprite based games) thier complexity rises exponentially.
You mean, O(e^n) where n is the number of dimensions? That is, a 3d game is 9/4 times as complex as a 2d game?
Try upgrading the firmware. I know for a fact that the LG GCE-8160b has had some really lousy firmware versions.
So you're always one frame behind, and what's on the display has little to do with the controls you are pushing now?
On average you're half a frame behind. Which is 1/120 second. Which is not very long.
It's the most expensive option possible, even compared to an electric heating system.
It's only more expensive than an electric heating system if you weren't planning on buying the computer anyway. All of your electrical appliances turn the power they use ultimately into heat. The question is how much of that energy escapes the house? For a light near a window, it's some. For a radio transmitter it's a bunch. For a computer, it's almost none.
I use storage racks made by Boltz. They're sturdy, attractive (to my eye) and efficient. They are a little costly, but significantly less so than the 1100+ CDs they contain. They're also really responsive to the needs their customers (one of my friends called them and told them the TV stand he bought was a little small for his TV and was flexing a little and within a month they had a larger sturdier one on the market and replaced his old one for free!)
Yes, all the friction produced with regular condoms leads to potentially embarassing "sensation", which we would all clearly be best without.
[Logitech] also questioned Microsoft's decision to stop scroll wheels clicking as they are spun back and forth
!!!!!!!!!
The clicky feel of the scrollwheel is the one of the finest things on this Earth! How can Microsoft even contemplate dropping that. Though Logitech has always done it better (I love my Trackman Wheel so much)