http://www.gameifesto.com/
I have no experience with them, but it sounds like they're thinking along the same lines that you are - a matchmaking service for game developers.
I've used MikroTik hardware in the past to build wifi hotspots for customers. It's pretty easy to use, very friendly command line. You want something like this in an enclosure something like this. They're reasonably robust, and once configured properly, will do what you want (and a whole lot more should you want to change the setup in future) for a good long time.
Find a Xexun TK-102 on ebay, they will report back their position via the mobile network (you supply a SIM card, and can send it a request for the current position, it will text you back). You can get large extended battery packs too, or you could wire it into the bike's power. They work well enough for us to track drivers at work. Just make sure you get a genuine Xexun one, the others are less reliable and tend to lie about their position, in my case being offset by about 4 miles.
There are separate car sized ones, but I have not used them.
I have been using one of these http://www.kabseating.com/office/product.asp?product=81 for the last ten years. Properly adjusted, they are fantastic. Expensive but I can't recommend them enough! I have no doubt that this has prevented my existing neck and back problems from degenerating further.
... if this really is the guy that wrote Agobot, I'd like to see him behind bars.
That has done far more damage to far more machines than simply stealing the HL2 source code; it made machines part of a huge DDoS network. God only knows what that's been used for, how many other people have had accounts compromised, etc.
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Indeed, and not just the UK, across Europe... iirc, the BBFC in the UK & whoever rates titles sold in Germany wouldn't rate the game with humans in it, so pedestrians were replaced with zombies. There was a patch available to restore the human targets, but this didn't alter the gameplay at all -- it was still damn good fun =)
Scripted comedy... no thanks
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Surely this depends on what you personally find amusing? I have fond memories of Dungeon Keeper & DK2, which I thought were wickedly funny... torture, anyone? Similarly, Carmageddon & Carmageddon 2 had me laughing out loud as zombies exploded around me whilst pulling off utterly insane stunts. A whole bunch of LucasArts games (Sam & Max, Day Of The Tentacle, etc) are funny. Grand Theft Auto's gouranga bonus. Simply playing Unreal Tournament and for example, jumping at an oppenent, emptying a weapon at them, completely missing, and they pick you off with one shot... I find that funny (or maybe I suck at UT;)). Max Payne. Countless sub/side games in countless titles.
Maybe I'm just twisted.
I don't think traditional comedy will work in games... you tend to get in-jokes in games, which is ok because those playing the games will usually get it. Jokes that are scripted and get forced at you again and again as you replay, whilst they may have been funny the first few times, they almost certainly aren't after a few dozen.
In my opinion, scripted humour can not replace gameplay touches that allow the player to make their own fun.
Is anybody aware of any reviews _of the final product_ that are available? I can't wait to see what The Reg will say when they get their hands on one.
I am reasonably sure that Ogg Vorbis support is included (most all other iRiver products support it)... as a large chunk of my music collection is in this format, I bloody hope it's in there...
On some other sites, I have read that the devices support 8 bit games, however I can't find out any details, or an SDK for developing them, does anybody know anything about this?
It's not free, but it is extremely good, and cheap compared to FileMaker. It's java based, so runs on Win/Mac/Lin/BSD/Solaris... though we're just using it on linux.
It's a Dutch product called Servoy. There's a demo available, a very helpful community (the CEO, Jan Aleman (jaleman) posts a lot), and the manuals and other materials are also available online for free. It comes with a Sybase iAnywhere licence out of the box (if it came in a box) but uses JDBC, and has PostgreSQL and MySQL support right off.
As you'll find out when you read the site, there is no file format; the solution is kept in a database. It also uses javascript as it's scripting language.
All in all, a very nifty product. And I'm not just saying that because we spent $6k on licences (previously we spent $3k on FMPro 5 licences, which were never used due to the product being inferior), I really do love working with it.
I ended up buying a Tempur bed (adjustable) and pillow. Now I get the best sleep I've ever had. It is fantastic -- unfortunately, it's also fantastically expensive... however I do not intend to buy a new bed for the next 20 years, and I figure investing in regularly getting decent sleep is a good idea.
Well, what I saw was a solid half hour of this... which the audience certainly approved of. I don't know how many episodes it was...
*** SPOILER ***
*** No I'm not kidding ***
... but it ended with Alison & co driving a truck out, then Alison disappearing into lava.
*** END SPOILER ***
Going by the length, I would *guess* that we saw up to the end of episode 2. I just watched the first episode from the site... jeez, and I thought they left us hanging at the con!
I got to see the first half hour of this at Panopticon this year (the 1st & 2nd of November... this certainly took its time to hit slashdot!)... I'm not even a Dr Who fan and I found this to be pretty good... definitely entertaining. The story just draws you in...
My GF is converting me to Who fandom. I am afraid.
The Register reported that dabs.com had made an advert reading "iBook G4" but dabs claimed it was a mistake... in this case I think it was, but it's still interesting. This update to the iBook (and eMac) line seems to have come completely out of the blue.
I work for a takeaway/home delivery place. Our nice expensive 1u server had been running for two years... IN A CHINESE KITCHEN!!! It was sitting at floor level on a piece of metal shelving. You just would not believe the amount of crap that was in that machine -- on several occasions, people spilled food and drink into the vents, plus two years worth of high-speed fans quite happily sucking in all the dust and traffic emissions and airbourne grease and redistributing it over the CPU, RAM, heatsink, motherboard, the power supply fan sucking it up too... UGH.
However... not once did we have a hardware failure caused by this. We didn't lose any data because of it. The floppy drive and CDROM were ruined but that's a lot better than having a hard drive fail (they were never used anyway). When I finally persuaded my boss to buy a new server (one that most certainly WILL NOT be going anywhere NEAR the kitchen!), he decided he wanted to clean the old one -- he took it apart completely and cleaned it with isopropanol. The truly amazing part is, it still works fine now!
For those of you who may be interested, the server in question is a SuperMicro 5010H, and it's still running Debian, Woody at the moment.
Frankly I could care less either way. I've got my eye on Thedora....
I assume you're referring to OggTheora, the Free video codec that's currently in alpha... I am also looking forward to this project evolving to a usable, stable level.
The instructions by themselves are not particularly instructive: "the procedure can be followed from the slime procedure above."
This is mentioned here. There's a bunch of other cool stuff in the same section, too.
As this Register article and the phone tech specs(mentioned here) say, you must use non-conductive ink. What they don't say is where you find such an item -- though I don't know whether manufacturers specifically mention if their inks are conductive or not. Plus bear in mind that the cut-outs go between the inside of the phone and a transparent cover. I think custom prints will last fine; time will tell.
"I think we really need to groom a new type of student who is responsible for their computer security," said Kathy Gillette, manager of George Mason University's beleaguered tech support center. "A lot of them lived at home and mom or dad took care of the computer so they've never learned how to fix them, but hopefully we'll be able to teach them that too."
*blink*
I have yet to encounter a situation where a college-level student has their home computer taken care of by a parent... quite the opposite, usually. WTF?
It should be noted that the "official" day for doing this was the 27th August, and that all the sites I've seen have not shut down, but simply replaced their front page with information on the protest, and then included a link to the original project anyway.
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http://www.gameifesto.com/
I have no experience with them, but it sounds like they're thinking along the same lines that you are - a matchmaking service for game developers.
I've used MikroTik hardware in the past to build wifi hotspots for customers. It's pretty easy to use, very friendly command line. You want something like this in an enclosure something like this. They're reasonably robust, and once configured properly, will do what you want (and a whole lot more should you want to change the setup in future) for a good long time.
Find a Xexun TK-102 on ebay, they will report back their position via the mobile network (you supply a SIM card, and can send it a request for the current position, it will text you back). You can get large extended battery packs too, or you could wire it into the bike's power. They work well enough for us to track drivers at work. Just make sure you get a genuine Xexun one, the others are less reliable and tend to lie about their position, in my case being offset by about 4 miles. There are separate car sized ones, but I have not used them.
I have been using one of these http://www.kabseating.com/office/product.asp?product=81 for the last ten years. Properly adjusted, they are fantastic. Expensive but I can't recommend them enough! I have no doubt that this has prevented my existing neck and back problems from degenerating further.
... if this really is the guy that wrote Agobot, I'd like to see him behind bars. That has done far more damage to far more machines than simply stealing the HL2 source code; it made machines part of a huge DDoS network. God only knows what that's been used for, how many other people have had accounts compromised, etc.
Indeed, and not just the UK, across Europe... iirc, the BBFC in the UK & whoever rates titles sold in Germany wouldn't rate the game with humans in it, so pedestrians were replaced with zombies. There was a patch available to restore the human targets, but this didn't alter the gameplay at all -- it was still damn good fun =)
Surely this depends on what you personally find amusing? I have fond memories of Dungeon Keeper & DK2, which I thought were wickedly funny... torture, anyone? Similarly, Carmageddon & Carmageddon 2 had me laughing out loud as zombies exploded around me whilst pulling off utterly insane stunts. A whole bunch of LucasArts games (Sam & Max, Day Of The Tentacle, etc) are funny. Grand Theft Auto's gouranga bonus. Simply playing Unreal Tournament and for example, jumping at an oppenent, emptying a weapon at them, completely missing, and they pick you off with one shot... I find that funny (or maybe I suck at UT ;)). Max Payne. Countless sub/side games in countless titles.
Maybe I'm just twisted.
I don't think traditional comedy will work in games... you tend to get in-jokes in games, which is ok because those playing the games will usually get it. Jokes that are scripted and get forced at you again and again as you replay, whilst they may have been funny the first few times, they almost certainly aren't after a few dozen.
In my opinion, scripted humour can not replace gameplay touches that allow the player to make their own fun.
Is anybody aware of any reviews _of the final product_ that are available? I can't wait to see what The Reg will say when they get their hands on one.
... as a large chunk of my music collection is in this format, I bloody hope it's in there...
I am reasonably sure that Ogg Vorbis support is included (most all other iRiver products support it)
On some other sites, I have read that the devices support 8 bit games, however I can't find out any details, or an SDK for developing them, does anybody know anything about this?
It's not free, but it is extremely good, and cheap compared to FileMaker. It's java based, so runs on Win/Mac/Lin/BSD/Solaris... though we're just using it on linux.
It's a Dutch product called Servoy. There's a demo available, a very helpful community (the CEO, Jan Aleman (jaleman) posts a lot), and the manuals and other materials are also available online for free. It comes with a Sybase iAnywhere licence out of the box (if it came in a box) but uses JDBC, and has PostgreSQL and MySQL support right off.
As you'll find out when you read the site, there is no file format; the solution is kept in a database. It also uses javascript as it's scripting language.
All in all, a very nifty product. And I'm not just saying that because we spent $6k on licences (previously we spent $3k on FMPro 5 licences, which were never used due to the product being inferior), I really do love working with it.
I ended up buying a Tempur bed (adjustable) and pillow. Now I get the best sleep I've ever had. It is fantastic -- unfortunately, it's also fantastically expensive ... however I do not intend to buy a new bed for the next 20 years, and I figure investing in regularly getting decent sleep is a good idea.
Well, what I saw was a solid half hour of this... which the audience certainly approved of. I don't know how many episodes it was...
... but it ended with Alison & co driving a truck out, then Alison disappearing into lava.
*** SPOILER ***
*** No I'm not kidding ***
*** END SPOILER ***
Going by the length, I would *guess* that we saw up to the end of episode 2. I just watched the first episode from the site... jeez, and I thought they left us hanging at the con!
I got to see the first half hour of this at Panopticon this year (the 1st & 2nd of November... this certainly took its time to hit slashdot!)... I'm not even a Dr Who fan and I found this to be pretty good... definitely entertaining. The story just draws you in...
My GF is converting me to Who fandom. I am afraid.
The Register reported that dabs.com had made an advert reading "iBook G4" but dabs claimed it was a mistake... in this case I think it was, but it's still interesting. This update to the iBook (and eMac) line seems to have come completely out of the blue.
Hah.
I work for a takeaway/home delivery place. Our nice expensive 1u server had been running for two years... IN A CHINESE KITCHEN!!! It was sitting at floor level on a piece of metal shelving. You just would not believe the amount of crap that was in that machine -- on several occasions, people spilled food and drink into the vents, plus two years worth of high-speed fans quite happily sucking in all the dust and traffic emissions and airbourne grease and redistributing it over the CPU, RAM, heatsink, motherboard, the power supply fan sucking it up too... UGH.
However... not once did we have a hardware failure caused by this. We didn't lose any data because of it. The floppy drive and CDROM were ruined but that's a lot better than having a hard drive fail (they were never used anyway). When I finally persuaded my boss to buy a new server (one that most certainly WILL NOT be going anywhere NEAR the kitchen!), he decided he wanted to clean the old one -- he took it apart completely and cleaned it with isopropanol. The truly amazing part is, it still works fine now!
For those of you who may be interested, the server in question is a SuperMicro 5010H, and it's still running Debian, Woody at the moment.
Frankly I could care less either way. I've got my eye on Thedora....
I assume you're referring to Ogg Theora, the Free video codec that's currently in alpha... I am also looking forward to this project evolving to a usable, stable level.
The instructions by themselves are not particularly instructive: "the procedure can be followed from the slime procedure above."
This is mentioned here. There's a bunch of other cool stuff in the same section, too.
As this Register article and the phone tech specs (mentioned here) say, you must use non-conductive ink. What they don't say is where you find such an item -- though I don't know whether manufacturers specifically mention if their inks are conductive or not. Plus bear in mind that the cut-outs go between the inside of the phone and a transparent cover. I think custom prints will last fine; time will tell.
Yes, I saw a bunch of places closed on the 27th, I think xbox-linux.sf.net is the first one I came across, I meant this _story_ is late =)
It should be noted that the "official" day for doing this was the 27th August, and that all the sites I've seen have not shut down, but simply replaced their front page with information on the protest, and then included a link to the original project anyway.
This is awfully familiar, don't you think? (again, near the bottom)