Same here. I had to learn about memory management before memmaker came out, but it was really handy and like a geeky challenge to do better without using something like QEMM.
I set up a little boot menu with different config.sys and autoexec.bat settings for XMS or EMS.
DOOM is where me and my friends learned the most about networking. Just about everything I ever needed to know about modems or network drivers I learned trying to get DOOM to work.
Oh please....consumer choice doesn't have anything to do with this. A North Carolina company may get shut down, costing 1,200 jobs, which is why there is soon going to be a law protecting it.
I half expect Kentucky's government to jump in and ban the sale of replacement ink cartridges to protect Kentucky jobs or some other nonsense.
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What abuot Scour? Or just burning the CD?
In 99-00 I was in college and Napster was blocked there, but Scour and iMesh weren't. I never did try Napster.
Of course, just coping the CD from someone will a helluva lot easier.
People started playing the game with the intention of investing a large amount of time to farm cash/items, and sell them.
I bet a lot of people figured there would be an obsessive group of star wars fans who have to have everything and would be willing to pay for it. I've met some people who have sunk a lot of money into star wars stuff, so it wouldn't be a strech to think they would spend a lot for in-game items.
I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of the early players were 'professionals' who were just interested in selling off items and characters.
Maybe MMORPGs will become the next big speculative market. People will play a game when if first comes out not because they enjoy it, but because if it becomes popular they can sell their items and characters for a lot of money.
I'm surprised no one made a joke about SW:G auctioning "a foot."
Some schools bring in contractors for the real tech work, and have maybe ONE person that knows what they are doing and use students for anything else. Now the last time I checked, a Windows tech was a lot cheaper than someone with Linux (or unix) skills.
Most of the students, and more importantly teachers, will be coming in more familiar with Windows than Linux.
Schools and charities can get heavily discounted or donated software.
Take a look at the help wanted section for entry-level office jobs a new high-school grad would try to get and see how many mention Windows and MS Office as a requirement vs Linux and OOo.
A lot of colleges primarily use Windows and Office apps (especially in the business depts).
Most school boards are poorly run and slow to change.
Once Linux is the main OS sold with new computers... then I'll regard it as a success
When Linux is an OPTION for a cheap desktop PC direct from Dell, it'll be a success. Why should a small company (who could really use the cost savings) use Linux when just about every major retailer only sells PCs with Windows already installed.
What good is this if it would run your battery down quickly? Better keep an eye on the meter so you have another power to call someone and tell them to bring you a can of 'Off'
The best PC games and the best console games usually don't compare. I like both console and PC gaming, and I hate it when argue over apples and oranges.
Sports, platformers, racing, and fighting are often best on the console.
RPGs, FPS, strategy (especially RTS), and flight sims are best on the PC.
Of course there are exceptions. Some prefer Madden on the PC, and others think the Final Fantasy games are great RPGs.
What I don't get about the Phantom is that if it hooks up to a TV, how many people are going to want to play something like Rise of Nations in low-rez?
What about upgrades? Is that going to be something else it won't do? If I lease it, I expect to get an updated one when game requirements change. Would the video card handle Doom3 or Half-Life 2? If you buy it, are you going to need to buy a new every year or so?
Doesn't Yahoo have a games on demand service for PCs close to this, but with less hassle? For consoles why not rent the games?
I can see their arguement about cheaper games, but if I wait a little while most PC games drop down to around $25-30. I'd rather do that, and OWN the damn game.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this article was the easter egg from Summoner making a little good-natured fun of D&D. That was one of the funniest skits I've seen about the pen and paper experience.
I can really see game engines as being a great way for someone to make a short story cheap, but I can't imagine sitting for an hour and a half watching a drama made from Sims footage. It would require VERY good writing, and that is not an easy thing to come by. As the technology advances, I could see it becoming the standard way to story-board or 'pre-edit' a movie before it is even shot.
I hope some developing film maker could use it like a musician uses a demo tape, and convinence someone to fund smaller projects. At the very least maybe it will lead to a group of people that can create really good in-game cinematics or cut-scenes.
It is a pain in the ass to ship something overseas. A friend of mine tried to get some stuff shipped to him in India, and when the package arrived (no minor miracle in its own right) it had been opened and anything of value had been removed.
There is also the issue of licensing. We've had people call in from Canada and tried to buy our product, but do to a license agreement we had with another company, we aren't allowed to ship the product outside the US.
I hope Ashcroft doesn't get any ideas from this. We may wind up getting little text alerts on our cell phones when the Bill Of Rights is, and is not, in affect.
Civil Rights On....Civil Rights Off...Civil Rights On...Civil Rights Off...
I would assume most retail theft occurs when the product is actually in the store, but I could be wrong.
A LOT of it occurs in retail, but not all. Theft can occur between the warehouse and the store. Back in high school I worked at a store that had a problem with people skimming an item or two from a pallet after it was taken off the truck, but before it was checked into in-store inventory. Same for return items. A lot of times someone would bring an item back, and it would just disappear before hitting the floor again.
I'm sure improvements have been made since then, but I'm sure it still is a problem considering the narrow margins for some retail stores.
I've done some work with government organizations (not a lot so others way have had different experiences than mine) and from what I saw the biggest problem wasn't that the work was done by the lowest bidder, it was that the requirements were often created by people other than those that know the situation the best. Very little thought was given to designing something to be as usable and efficent as it can be, and more focus is given to making sure it gets finished by an arbitrary date. If it works, great, if not, it is ok as long as some department chief can say they are compliant with something by the required date. I've seen so many little problems that could have been fixed, but time involved in getting approval would have been more than then it was worth. I can't imagine the cumlative effect of all those little problems that get overlooked.
In the end you wind up with a big mess, tacking on or changing just enough to meet some kind of regulation. If you see something beyond the immediate scope of the project that would make things a lot easier and efficent, but it would require time/money or cooperation from someone else's department/division/agency it will be shot down as it won't be 'in the budget.'
Ok, that was my little rant. One time I had to sign a form to get the air conditioner turned on before the 'approved' time in a federal building, and I've been pissed off at bureaucracy ever since.
The laws Congress passes are very different when Congressmen (and -women) are affected by them. When the DMCA passed, how many of them do you think were interested in alternative ways to distribute or listen to music, or that encryption would be used to secure business methods instead of senstive data?
Rest assured, when they start worrying if their is a wireless tracker buried into the heel of their shoe, or they start getting angry letters from the eldery that start with "I voted in every election since Ike and I'll sure vote in the next one!", Congress will take a more consumer-friendly stance in regards to RFID.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in the power of an angry paranoid mob.
We as consumers probably would have the best luck getting congress to require a RFID tag to be clearly marked or in some way removable, like most bar codes are now. I myself wouldn't have any problem with them while inside the store, but they should be disabled like the security tags are now when I check out.
I can see a lot of 'urban myths' popping up about this technology. It'll take rational (read non-paranoid crackpots) citizens contacting their congressmen or anything to get done tho.
I've been wondering if there would be HIPPA problems if this kind of technology ever is applied to healthcare.
I disagree in regards to breaking up MS. A government imposed split would have taken years to work out and required lots of government oversight over what kinds of programs could be produced. I always thought that ordering MS to reveal the code for Windows for free to developers would have been the best solution. It would have still been covered under copyright.
If it is applied to music, wouldn't a ringtone for a call phone be considered a thumbnail? Both are smaller and have fewer details than the original source.
Supporting anonymous political speech is more good than illegal copying is bad, but by a factor of 100,000?
Yes.
America, not just the country but the idea, would not exist if not for anonymous political speech. If you have questions about the value of anonymous speech, pick up a biography of Benjamin Franklin for an example of how powerful it can be in times of oppression.
The RIAA exists because politically active individuals wrote anonymously, distributed their works freely or at cost, and encouraged others to share.
Does this mean people are going to start bootlegging ink? Will the great crime families ditch the drug trade for the undergound ink market? I fear the day our great cities are brought under the heel of the ink barons.
as long as Canon and HP et al aren't pulling these type of stunts, won't the market take care of this itself?
And if Lexmark wins, what would stop the other manufacturers from doing the same thing Lexmark does? When things like the DMCA are created, it can upset the free market. A free market requires free choice if it is to weed out the 'bad' products from the 'good.'
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Same here. I had to learn about memory management before memmaker came out, but it was really handy and like a geeky challenge to do better without using something like QEMM.
I set up a little boot menu with different config.sys and autoexec.bat settings for XMS or EMS.
DOOM is where me and my friends learned the most about networking. Just about everything I ever needed to know about modems or network drivers I learned trying to get DOOM to work.
Oh please....consumer choice doesn't have anything to do with this. A North Carolina company may get shut down, costing 1,200 jobs, which is why there is soon going to be a law protecting it.
I half expect Kentucky's government to jump in and ban the sale of replacement ink cartridges to protect Kentucky jobs or some other nonsense.
What abuot Scour? Or just burning the CD?
In 99-00 I was in college and Napster was blocked there, but Scour and iMesh weren't. I never did try Napster.
Of course, just coping the CD from someone will a helluva lot easier.
People started playing the game with the intention of investing a large amount of time to farm cash/items, and sell them.
I bet a lot of people figured there would be an obsessive group of star wars fans who have to have everything and would be willing to pay for it. I've met some people who have sunk a lot of money into star wars stuff, so it wouldn't be a strech to think they would spend a lot for in-game items.
I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of the early players were 'professionals' who were just interested in selling off items and characters.
Maybe MMORPGs will become the next big speculative market. People will play a game when if first comes out not because they enjoy it, but because if it becomes popular they can sell their items and characters for a lot of money.
I'm surprised no one made a joke about SW:G auctioning "a foot."
You need to take a few things into account.
Some schools bring in contractors for the real tech work, and have maybe ONE person that knows what they are doing and use students for anything else. Now the last time I checked, a Windows tech was a lot cheaper than someone with Linux (or unix) skills.
Most of the students, and more importantly teachers, will be coming in more familiar with Windows than Linux.
Schools and charities can get heavily discounted or donated software.
Take a look at the help wanted section for entry-level office jobs a new high-school grad would try to get and see how many mention Windows and MS Office as a requirement vs Linux and OOo.
A lot of colleges primarily use Windows and Office apps (especially in the business depts).
Most school boards are poorly run and slow to change.
Once Linux is the main OS sold with new computers ... then I'll regard it as a success
When Linux is an OPTION for a cheap desktop PC direct from Dell, it'll be a success. Why should a small company (who could really use the cost savings) use Linux when just about every major retailer only sells PCs with Windows already installed.
Great, now I'll be swarmed by dung beetles.
What good is this if it would run your battery down quickly? Better keep an eye on the meter so you have another power to call someone and tell them to bring you a can of 'Off'
Another case of mis-applied technology.
Point and click your mobile phone at a poster in London movie theaters this July and you'll be able to directly access the movie's Web page.
Is some guy wearing a sign going to jump in front of me and start blathering on about casinos or cheap travel discounts?
The best PC games and the best console games usually don't compare. I like both console and PC gaming, and I hate it when argue over apples and oranges.
Sports, platformers, racing, and fighting are often best on the console.
RPGs, FPS, strategy (especially RTS), and flight sims are best on the PC.
Of course there are exceptions. Some prefer Madden on the PC, and others think the Final Fantasy games are great RPGs.
What I don't get about the Phantom is that if it hooks up to a TV, how many people are going to want to play something like Rise of Nations in low-rez?
What about upgrades? Is that going to be something else it won't do? If I lease it, I expect to get an updated one when game requirements change. Would the video card handle Doom3 or Half-Life 2? If you buy it, are you going to need to buy a new every year or so?
Doesn't Yahoo have a games on demand service for PCs close to this, but with less hassle? For consoles why not rent the games?
I can see their arguement about cheaper games, but if I wait a little while most PC games drop down to around $25-30. I'd rather do that, and OWN the damn game.
they might as well let us kill stuff in them.
Lucas probably didn't want to admit that he knows that everyone that watches to movie wants to go and shoot Jar-Jar.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this article was the easter egg from Summoner making a little good-natured fun of D&D. That was one of the funniest skits I've seen about the pen and paper experience.
I can really see game engines as being a great way for someone to make a short story cheap, but I can't imagine sitting for an hour and a half watching a drama made from Sims footage. It would require VERY good writing, and that is not an easy thing to come by. As the technology advances, I could see it becoming the standard way to story-board or 'pre-edit' a movie before it is even shot.
I hope some developing film maker could use it like a musician uses a demo tape, and convinence someone to fund smaller projects. At the very least maybe it will lead to a group of people that can create really good in-game cinematics or cut-scenes.
It is a pain in the ass to ship something overseas. A friend of mine tried to get some stuff shipped to him in India, and when the package arrived (no minor miracle in its own right) it had been opened and anything of value had been removed.
There is also the issue of licensing. We've had people call in from Canada and tried to buy our product, but do to a license agreement we had with another company, we aren't allowed to ship the product outside the US.
I hope Ashcroft doesn't get any ideas from this. We may wind up getting little text alerts on our cell phones when the Bill Of Rights is, and is not, in affect.
Civil Rights On....Civil Rights Off...Civil Rights On...Civil Rights Off...
I would assume most retail theft occurs when the product is actually in the store, but I could be wrong.
A LOT of it occurs in retail, but not all. Theft can occur between the warehouse and the store. Back in high school I worked at a store that had a problem with people skimming an item or two from a pallet after it was taken off the truck, but before it was checked into in-store inventory. Same for return items. A lot of times someone would bring an item back, and it would just disappear before hitting the floor again.
I'm sure improvements have been made since then, but I'm sure it still is a problem considering the narrow margins for some retail stores.
I've done some work with government organizations (not a lot so others way have had different experiences than mine) and from what I saw the biggest problem wasn't that the work was done by the lowest bidder, it was that the requirements were often created by people other than those that know the situation the best. Very little thought was given to designing something to be as usable and efficent as it can be, and more focus is given to making sure it gets finished by an arbitrary date. If it works, great, if not, it is ok as long as some department chief can say they are compliant with something by the required date. I've seen so many little problems that could have been fixed, but time involved in getting approval would have been more than then it was worth. I can't imagine the cumlative effect of all those little problems that get overlooked.
In the end you wind up with a big mess, tacking on or changing just enough to meet some kind of regulation. If you see something beyond the immediate scope of the project that would make things a lot easier and efficent, but it would require time/money or cooperation from someone else's department/division/agency it will be shot down as it won't be 'in the budget.'
Ok, that was my little rant. One time I had to sign a form to get the air conditioner turned on before the 'approved' time in a federal building, and I've been pissed off at bureaucracy ever since.
The laws Congress passes are very different when Congressmen (and -women) are affected by them. When the DMCA passed, how many of them do you think were interested in alternative ways to distribute or listen to music, or that encryption would be used to secure business methods instead of senstive data?
Rest assured, when they start worrying if their is a wireless tracker buried into the heel of their shoe, or they start getting angry letters from the eldery that start with "I voted in every election since Ike and I'll sure vote in the next one!", Congress will take a more consumer-friendly stance in regards to RFID.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in the power of an angry paranoid mob.
We as consumers probably would have the best luck getting congress to require a RFID tag to be clearly marked or in some way removable, like most bar codes are now. I myself wouldn't have any problem with them while inside the store, but they should be disabled like the security tags are now when I check out.
I can see a lot of 'urban myths' popping up about this technology. It'll take rational (read non-paranoid crackpots) citizens contacting their congressmen or anything to get done tho.
I've been wondering if there would be HIPPA problems if this kind of technology ever is applied to healthcare.
I disagree in regards to breaking up MS. A government imposed split would have taken years to work out and required lots of government oversight over what kinds of programs could be produced. I always thought that ordering MS to reveal the code for Windows for free to developers would have been the best solution. It would have still been covered under copyright.
If it is applied to music, wouldn't a ringtone for a call phone be considered a thumbnail? Both are smaller and have fewer details than the original source.
Supporting anonymous political speech is more good than illegal copying is bad, but by a factor of 100,000?
Yes.
America, not just the country but the idea, would not exist if not for anonymous political speech. If you have questions about the value of anonymous speech, pick up a biography of Benjamin Franklin for an example of how powerful it can be in times of oppression.
The RIAA exists because politically active individuals wrote anonymously, distributed their works freely or at cost, and encouraged others to share.
Does this mean people are going to start bootlegging ink? Will the great crime families ditch the drug trade for the undergound ink market? I fear the day our great cities are brought under the heel of the ink barons.
as long as Canon and HP et al aren't pulling these type of stunts, won't the market take care of this itself?
And if Lexmark wins, what would stop the other manufacturers from doing the same thing Lexmark does? When things like the DMCA are created, it can upset the free market. A free market requires free choice if it is to weed out the 'bad' products from the 'good.'
Maybe it was nice to have SPAM keeping me company.
Want some of mine? I have plenty to share...