"Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keep things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!" - John Irving
What I really wonder is why Nintendo joined Sony and Microsoft suing Lik-Sang. The flashlinker is not just for copying games, but for developing too.
Actually, I think you've just answered your own question. Nintendo definitely charges for the GBA development kit. They don't want you to be able to make games on their system without you paying them, even if you're not distributing the game.
Besides, how can you can believe in evolution when it violates basic laws of the universe? There are so many arguments against evolution that it's ridiculous. Even those that ignore the written record of humanity cannot ignore the scientific facts making it impossible.
I very highly suspect this as a troll, but I'll give it a go:)
Evolutionists claim that universe the earth is billions of years old, but how is that possible when the rotation of the earth slows by 30 seconds every century? If the earth were billions of years old the speed at which it would have been rotating four years ago would have been so fast that it could not have held together.
Er, 30 seconds every century indeed! More like 2.2 seconds every 100,000 years.Herearesomereferences.
There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?
Well the second law of thermodynamics only makes sense when you understand what it's actually saying:P It says that the universe as a whole is moving towards disorder. This doesn't prevent portions of the universe from achieving states of increased order. And to think otherwise is completely absurd - if everything could only move in the direction of disorder, how could anything really get accomplished? This is a rediculous way to try and twist the 2nd law of thermodynamics, it reeks of manipulation.
Another problem with evolution is that certain nucleic acids cannot form without the help of certain proteins, but those proteins cannot form without certain nucleic acids. That makes it impossible to occur naturally.
Admittedly, I know nothing about nucleic acids and proteins, so I cannot comment on this.
Oh well, so I got 2 out of 3. Perhaps somebody with a biology tilt can comment in on the proteins and acids.:P
> "The NY Times (registration required, mumble... mutter..."
I really wonder what the NYT logfile-monkeys think when they see a zillion 'mumble/mutter' login attempts...
Well, they'll probably be wondering why the user I (genuinely) just registered - userid = 'mumble...', password = 'mutter...' - is logging in from so many damn IP's:)
>Too bad MS shipped the Nimda virus with their >Korean version of.Net Visual Studio
Come on. This really looks childish. That's an irrelevant story. Just let the facts speak for themselves or you lose credibility.
I agree with you about that being childish, but its worth noting that italicized text in the stories on the front page are all from the submitter. Editor comments -always- appear as non-italicized text. Its definitely silly that the poster stuck that in there, but I do have a level of respect for Slashdot not messing with submission commentary. IMHO its best that they leave it verbatim.
I know everybody finds it humorous that the main party is being held at the DNA Lounge, but it doesn't look like some tricky plot to rub the release in JWZ's face. Instead, it looks more or less like an act of goodwill from JWZ. The location was suggested by JWZ in Bug 10039, the bug slip that seems to have started the party idea:
------- Additional Comment #48 From Jamie Zawinski 2002-04-07 17:13 -------
You are welcome to have your party at DNA Lounge if you cover our staff costs, and if it's on a night when we're not already booked.
So, heh. I don't know why people seem so quick to think that the Mozilla crew would do that sort of thing.
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe - the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion.
Ok, sounds fair enough. But what about compared to something like -television- that certainly many more children do for many more hours in their youth.
From the article, it sounds like they are saying video games prevent proper development, they don't cause damage. That would imply that something like TV would certainly do as much and more prevention than video games.
And television isn't mentioned at all, nor anything else. There are lots of things kids can do that don't involve any thinking...I don't know many kids that sit down and do math all day:)
Far too many developers now are satisifed with releasing crap, and even if they do fix the issues eventually, the game does not do nearly so well as if they just did it right in the first place.
Nobody wants to put out crap. A lot of pressure is put on the developer by the publisher to get the game OUT. There are often deadlines that threaten funding. It sucks that its so common to have such buggy games, and of course its the developer's fault, but its usually not because of laziness.
To clarify, ARUSH Entertainment is publishing (not developing, Sunstorm Interactive is developing it) 'Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project', a 3rd-person game in the 'Duke Nukem series'.
'The Next Duke Nukem' is more an attribute of Duke Nukem Forever, which is in perpetual development by 3D Realms (the original Duke Nukem 3D publisher/developer).
We've had a lull in the gaming world for the past few years. All technology, no development in gameplay>
Just because you don't associate with the games out there doesn't mean there aren't good
games out there.
And I agree that there has been technology
development going on, but if you're looking at who's doing the big technology development, also look at who's using that technology. How
many games out there are built on the Quake
engines, the Unreal engine, or the LithTech
engine?
A lot of technology advancements are made in
those engines, and then licensed off to people
making the games.
If you're looking for some good games, try looking at:
Fallout
Deus Ex
Jagged Alliance 2
HomeWorld
Tribes
Each of those titles are different styles of games. Sure some of them are not the FIRST with that technology or gameplay style, but how does that make them less enjoyable?
Hmm. I think there's reason to believe the person that registered 'salshdot.org' did so in good faith.
If you follow that link, you'll see that the ad is presented by Namezero. Namezero will register a domain for you for free, but place their little ad frame on it. The main frame's contents aren't ever hosted on Namezero's servers, even. Namezero allows you to enter a URL for your main document, and that's it.
So, I wouldn't be surprised of some guy just kept typing 'salshdot.org' instead of 'slashdot.org', and decided to get it using Namezero to save himself some hassle.
If you like the ftp interface but want to be secure, you may want to check out Secure FTP (sftp). sftp sits on top of ssh and does not require a daemon to be run on either side. Its nice.
Something this spec completely fails to address is the problem of architecture independance. Many applications these days are written in an extremely x86-centric manner. The authors typically have nothing against their product being recompiled on other architectures (Like, say, the Alpha), but their coding methods prevent it.
I don't think authors need to test their product on every architecture out there, but if they would pay attention to certain good programming guidelines, it would allow their product to be ported much easier.
~whm
I know exactly what it means
on
The CPO Cometh
·
· Score: 4
The CPO is somebody who knows exactly how far they can go without pissing off their customers.
This isn't somebody to protect privacy, this is somebody to help them get away with as much as possible.
Now, I can't lay claim whether Home Depot or any of the other 'lock-in' sites are legit or not...but there may be an entirely legitimate reason to have this sort of redirect.
I used to run a large volume site which relies heavily on Javascript. We used something that would be classified as a 'lock in' to determine whether the browser had Javascript enabled.
1) Javascript redirect on 0 seconds 2) Meta refresh on 3 seconds. 3) Link for the unfortunate.
I can't believe so many people immediately jump to the conclusion of malicious intent.
"...blah blah blah...cyborg...blah blah blah...commercially available module...blah blah blah...connecting electronic devices such as mobile phones directly into our brains..."
Ok, ok. Does somebody have a URL yet? My Visa card isn't holding up to the pressure.
Did anybody actually read the secondary link off of their webpage? The link titled 'Read more'.
Granted their goal is still the same, it offers a lot of reasoning behind the site, and it really affirms a better description to them than 'stupid moron'.
Sometimes there are articles that I don't care about on Slashdot. Sometimes there are articles I -do- care about. Its important to understand that we don't all have the exact same interests. I think the Slashdot crew has a terrific set of categories that they post about, and if there is one category you don't like, its very easy to filter that topic out.
So, go do that if you don't like Science things:> For those of us who do like them, we'll read the articles.
So, quit with the negative attitude. If you don't like Slashdot, leave:> I think a lot of people are pleased with Slashdot (like me!).
Sir-Tech sort of went out of business....sort of:>
In the past, there were two divisions to Sir-Tech, the development division and the publisher division. I'm pretty sure both were called Sir-Tech. One was based in the US, and the other in Canada (though, I don't know which was where).
Sometime within the last 2 years, the publisher division went under. This ended up making it really hard for the development Sir-Tech to get their long awaited Jagged Alliance 2 out the door. They claimed to have the game done for months while looking for a publisher.
Well, eventually they found one..thankfully:> And its a great game!
Slashdot Mirror
"Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keep things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!" - John Irving
What I really wonder is why Nintendo joined Sony and Microsoft suing Lik-Sang. The flashlinker is not just for copying games, but for developing too.
Actually, I think you've just answered your own question. Nintendo definitely charges for the GBA development kit. They don't want you to be able to make games on their system without you paying them, even if you're not distributing the game.
It is 2:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning. You have been up all night, fragging away in a Quake3 clan match.
:)
I take it this is Thursday night still?
Besides, how can you can believe in evolution when it violates basic laws of the universe? There are so many arguments against evolution that it's ridiculous. Even those that ignore the written record of humanity cannot ignore the scientific facts making it impossible.
:)
:P It says that the universe as a whole is moving towards disorder. This doesn't prevent portions of the universe from achieving states of increased order. And to think otherwise is completely absurd - if everything could only move in the direction of disorder, how could anything really get accomplished? This is a rediculous way to try and twist the 2nd law of thermodynamics, it reeks of manipulation.
:P
I very highly suspect this as a troll, but I'll give it a go
Evolutionists claim that universe the earth is billions of years old, but how is that possible when the rotation of the earth slows by 30 seconds every century? If the earth were billions of years old the speed at which it would have been rotating four years ago would have been so fast that it could not have held together.
Er, 30 seconds every century indeed! More like 2.2 seconds every 100,000 years. Here are some references.
There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?
Well the second law of thermodynamics only makes sense when you understand what it's actually saying
Another problem with evolution is that certain nucleic acids cannot form without the help of certain proteins, but those proteins cannot form without certain nucleic acids. That makes it impossible to occur naturally.
Admittedly, I know nothing about nucleic acids and proteins, so I cannot comment on this.
Oh well, so I got 2 out of 3. Perhaps somebody with a biology tilt can comment in on the proteins and acids.
> "The NY Times (registration required, mumble... mutter..."
I really wonder what the NYT logfile-monkeys think when they see a zillion 'mumble/mutter' login attempts...
Well, they'll probably be wondering why the user I (genuinely) just registered - userid = 'mumble...', password = 'mutter...' - is logging in from so many damn IP's
~whm
>Too bad MS shipped the Nimda virus with their
>Korean version of
Come on. This really looks childish. That's an irrelevant story. Just let the facts speak for themselves or you lose credibility.
I agree with you about that being childish, but its worth noting that italicized text in the stories on the front page are all from the submitter. Editor comments -always- appear as non-italicized text. Its definitely silly that the poster stuck that in there, but I do have a level of respect for Slashdot not messing with submission commentary. IMHO its best that they leave it verbatim.
I know everybody finds it humorous that the main party is being held at the DNA Lounge, but it doesn't look like some tricky plot to rub the release in JWZ's face. Instead, it looks more or less like an act of goodwill from JWZ. The location was suggested by JWZ in Bug 10039, the bug slip that seems to have started the party idea:
------- Additional Comment #48 From Jamie Zawinski 2002-04-07 17:13 -------
You are welcome to have your party at DNA Lounge if you cover our staff costs,
and if it's on a night when we're not already booked.
So, heh. I don't know why people seem so quick to think that the Mozilla crew would do that sort of thing.
With the new "Banias" line of Intel portable processors, which of the following should be Intel's new company mascot?
:)
How about this guy?
Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe - the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion.
Ok, sounds fair enough. But what about compared to something like -television- that certainly many more children do for many more hours in their youth.
From the article, it sounds like they are saying video games prevent proper development, they don't cause damage. That would imply that something like TV would certainly do as much and more prevention than video games.
And television isn't mentioned at all, nor anything else. There are lots of things kids can do that don't involve any thinking...I don't know many kids that sit down and do math all day
Far too many developers now are satisifed with releasing crap, and even if they do fix the issues eventually, the game does not do nearly so well as if they just did it right in the first place.
Nobody wants to put out crap. A lot of pressure is put on the developer by the publisher to get the game OUT. There are often deadlines that threaten funding. It sucks that its so common to have such buggy games, and of course its the developer's fault, but its usually not because of laziness.
To clarify, ARUSH Entertainment is publishing (not developing, Sunstorm Interactive is developing it) 'Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project', a 3rd-person game in the 'Duke Nukem series'.
'The Next Duke Nukem' is more an attribute of Duke Nukem Forever, which is in perpetual development by 3D Realms (the original Duke Nukem 3D publisher/developer).
We've had a lull in the gaming world for the past few years. All technology, no development in gameplay>
Just because you don't associate with the games out there doesn't mean there aren't good games out there.
And I agree that there has been technology development going on, but if you're looking at who's doing the big
technology development, also look at who's using that technology. How many games out there are built on the
Quake engines, the Unreal engine, or the LithTech engine?
A lot of technology advancements are made in those engines, and then licensed off to people
making the games.
If you're looking for some good games, try looking at:
Fallout
Deus Ex
Jagged Alliance 2
HomeWorld
Tribes
Each of those titles are different styles of games. Sure some of them are not the FIRST with that technology or
gameplay style, but how does that make them less enjoyable?
Good luck.
Watching those foreign executions is so drab when you don't speak the language!
-This- is why I like slashdot! Thanks for the interesting post :)
~whm
Hmm. I think there's reason to believe the person that registered 'salshdot.org' did so in good faith.
:)
If you follow that link, you'll see that the ad is presented by Namezero. Namezero will register a domain for you for free, but place their little ad frame on it. The main frame's contents aren't ever hosted on Namezero's servers, even. Namezero allows you to enter a URL for your main document, and that's it.
So, I wouldn't be surprised of some guy just kept typing 'salshdot.org' instead of 'slashdot.org', and decided to get it using Namezero to save himself some hassle.
Just a thought!
If you like the ftp interface but want to be secure, you may want to check out Secure FTP (sftp). sftp sits on top of ssh and does not require a daemon to be run on either side. Its nice.
Here's the url, http://www.xbill.org/sftp/
Heath
Something this spec completely fails to address is the problem of architecture independance. Many applications these days are written in an extremely x86-centric manner. The authors typically have nothing against their product being recompiled on other architectures (Like, say, the Alpha), but their coding methods prevent it.
I don't think authors need to test their product on every architecture out there, but if they would pay attention to certain good programming guidelines, it would allow their product to be ported much easier.
~whm
The CPO is somebody who knows exactly how far they can go without pissing off their customers.
This isn't somebody to protect privacy, this is somebody to help them get away with as much as possible.
Heath
Now, I can't lay claim whether Home Depot or any of the other 'lock-in' sites are legit or not...but there may be an entirely legitimate reason to have this sort of redirect.
I used to run a large volume site which relies heavily on Javascript. We used something that would be classified as a 'lock in' to determine whether the browser had Javascript enabled.
1) Javascript redirect on 0 seconds
2) Meta refresh on 3 seconds.
3) Link for the unfortunate.
I can't believe so many people immediately jump to the conclusion of malicious intent.
~whm
"...blah blah blah...cyborg...blah blah blah...commercially available module...blah blah blah...connecting electronic devices such as mobile phones directly into our brains..."
Ok, ok. Does somebody have a URL yet? My Visa card isn't holding up to the pressure.
Did anybody actually read the secondary link off of their webpage? The link titled 'Read more'.
Granted their goal is still the same, it offers a lot of reasoning behind the site, and it really affirms a better description to them than 'stupid moron'.
Check it out.
6 months?
:>
I remember a long time ago seeing it scheduled for release in October of 1998!
Better late (and better) than crap or never
Heath
HERE is a URL that actually works for the pictures :>
I care!
:> For those of us who do like them, we'll read the articles.
:> I think a lot of people are pleased with Slashdot (like me!).
:> I bit :>
Sometimes there are articles that I don't care about on Slashdot. Sometimes there are articles I -do- care about. Its important to understand that we don't all have the exact same interests. I think the Slashdot crew has a terrific set of categories that they post about, and if there is one category you don't like, its very easy to filter that topic out.
So, go do that if you don't like Science things
So, quit with the negative attitude. If you don't like Slashdot, leave
Oh well.
Sir-Tech sort of went out of business....sort of :>
:> And its a great game!
In the past, there were two divisions to Sir-Tech, the development division and the publisher division. I'm pretty sure both were called Sir-Tech. One was based in the US, and the other in Canada (though, I don't know which was where).
Sometime within the last 2 years, the publisher division went under. This ended up making it really hard for the development Sir-Tech to get their long awaited Jagged Alliance 2 out the door. They claimed to have the game done for months while looking for a publisher.
Well, eventually they found one..thankfully
whm