from the PDF: "I used two programs, COMPARATOR and SIM [...] to compare all 26,759 lines of the IBM Code identified by SCO against all 67,797,569 lines in the Unix System V Code.
COMPARATOR reported 15 potential hits. I reviewed each of these potential hits in detail and determined them [...] to be matches of common terms in the C programming language.
Bill Conway, program director and station manager for San Francisco's KOIT-FM was surprised when he learned from a reporter that Microsoft was using his station's call letters and well-known slogan, "Lite Rock, Less Talk," to promote a mimicked version of KOIT.
it's one thing to play the same songs as the local stations and remove the idiotic DJ banter and brain-numbing commercials (a service i would consider paying for, if i actually listened to radio instead of CDs), but it's another to do it so blatantly that you even rip the fucking slogan.
getting the tiles to move around requires power, not to mention the power required to run the computers that figure out where said tiles should move, along with all the other techno doohickies that render this virtual world of yours.
pretty much any mcdonalds these days has poutine as an option instead of french fries. but considering their fries suck, their gravy sucks, and you get something like 6 cheese curds, i'd go somewhere else. nothing beats chipwagon poutine.
Warner did a really great job as Irenicus in BG2, I heartily agree; the director deserves some props as well, considering how well the spoken dialogue flows from scene to scene seamlessly with intonation, tone and all that jazz. From the manual, I'd have to guess that would be Chris Borders.
i'd like to recommend Opera; blocks popups if you want it to, turn off javascript, plugins (like flash. goodbye flash ads), and cookies at will, all within the incredibly useful menu that pops up when you hit F12. also warns you when sites try to set "illegal" cookies. gorgeous browser and very customizable.
back before mp3 was an option MODs were the shit. XM in particular had numerous things going for the format, including a nicely designed tracker (Fasttracker 2). I was into modding and tracking myself, but i stuck to Impulse Tracker. both programs are quite similar.. but to answer your question, is this a widely used format? it was. the digital music archive has numerous xm songs, if you're an unbeliever. i'm sure google has something to say about XM too.
consists of moving parts:(
Is it just me, or is the wait for solid state storage a long one?
yah, my feelings towards this type of post could only be summarized by the simpsons:
Moe: Oh, boy! The deep fryer's here. Heh heh, I got it used from the navy. You can flash-fry a buffalo in forty seconds.
Homer: Forty seconds? But I want it now!
in other words, patience... and if you're really impatient this would be a nice upgrade, as far as i'm concerned.
since, following this comment, i didn't manage to snag any answers as the the whereabouts of interplay's online mp3 collection that they were serving up here, i'd like to ask again: any ideas why they took it down? are the mp3s available anywhere else? it had the soundtracks to many classics including the baldur's gate series, fallout, planescape torment...
say you got yourself a fax machine. that fax machine alone is pretty much a glorified telephone unless you know someone else with a fax machine. know a third person with a fax machine? the value and usage of your fax machine just went up again.
what happens when you have an operating system that's being used by 90% of the people with computers? stuff gets made for it. numerous programs are shoveled out the door of numerous companies that further add to the value of the os.
people 'choose' Microsoft because that's what's out there at the moment, and with such a huge user base it's not surprising that companies cater to the needs of those users by writing programs for em. why haven't i installed linux on my box? because there's still software that i use everyday that doesn't work in linux, doesn't exist for linux, or produces things that aren't compatible with the 100 quadbillion MS users out there.
i'm not saying i prefer windows, as i think it's a massively bloated, insecure, and visually obnoxious piece of trash. and if i could get flash, photoshop, 3d studio max, and all my blackisle rpgs running reliably on linux i'd be there in a jiffy. k, no guarantees this post makes sense. i'm rambling.
not caring about proper memory management and usage leads to lazy programming. it's wasteful. why not spend the extra time to have a smoother running program that requires less of a footprint? any improvement you make now will help you in the long run, especially if you're always adding things to older code. start with a polished base and more often than not you'll end up with a polished product. this whole "memory is cheap, who cares" thing reminds me too much of how wasteful people are in general.. "why build 1 when i can build 2 for twice the cost?"
Granted, star control 2 had some of the best mod's to ever grace my ears. more recently, however, the baldur's gate series, planescape torment, system shock 2, the fallouts, and the "newer" lucasarts adventures like grim fandango or curse of monkey island all have tunes permanently lodged in my brain. if you think all video game music has to be dull, lifeless, or uninspired, please do yourself a favour and buy these games or leech their soundtracks.
inertplay had, up until a short while ago, an online mp3 collection of the soundtracks to a good chunk of the games they put out. not sure why the page was taken down.. used to be here.. anyone know what happened to it?
I'm all for capitalization, but Microsoft doesn't play by any of the rules, written or otherwise, unless they are forced to or it meets their objectives.
and this is different from the gazillion other corporate whores that exist nowadays how? i'm not just going by the IT world. business is business, and unfortunately, there's a percentage of the population that believes profit > * . what's that, nike? you can get me running shoes that cost you 12 pesos to make but are selling for 200 usd? sweet!! where do i sign?
2. If you want to try the game out before buying, don't pirate it; play the demo.
I haven't seen a good game "demo" released since the shareware version of quake 1. if you run across a demo that actually show you enough of the gameworld or the atmosphere that it sucks you into buying the damn thing, i'd like to hear about it.
3. If there's no demo, and you don't trust the developer enough to buy the game, sight-unseen, don't buy it. The developer doesn't deserve your money, but neither do you deserve to own a copy of their game.
aside from games made by bioware, the ol black isle studios, or the lucasarts adventures, i would never plop down 65 bucks for a game i hadn't had the chance to test.
i've snagged my share of warezed games, but i shit you not when i say that had i not done so, the pc video game industry wouldn't have seen a dime from me. when i run across a well designed game, a game i enjoy, I END UP BUYING IT EVENTUALLY.
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"I used two programs, COMPARATOR and SIM [...] to compare all 26,759 lines of the IBM Code identified by SCO against all 67,797,569 lines in the Unix System V Code.
COMPARATOR reported 15 potential hits. I reviewed each of these potential hits in detail and determined them [...] to be matches of common terms in the C programming language.
SIM did not report any potential hits."
so... all this SCO bullshit is finally over?
that should read Thanks but I prefer to use my Opera address bar for my [google/lycos/amazon/ebay/download.com/etc] searches.
Bill Conway, program director and station manager for San Francisco's KOIT-FM was surprised when he learned from a reporter that Microsoft was using his station's call letters and well-known slogan, "Lite Rock, Less Talk," to promote a mimicked version of KOIT.
it's one thing to play the same songs as the local stations and remove the idiotic DJ banter and brain-numbing commercials (a service i would consider paying for, if i actually listened to radio instead of CDs), but it's another to do it so blatantly that you even rip the fucking slogan.
getting the tiles to move around requires power, not to mention the power required to run the computers that figure out where said tiles should move, along with all the other techno doohickies that render this virtual world of yours.
pretty much any mcdonalds these days has poutine as an option instead of french fries. but considering their fries suck, their gravy sucks, and you get something like 6 cheese curds, i'd go somewhere else. nothing beats chipwagon poutine.
you hosers
pretty fuckin sweet compilation of games.
I recommend Mozilla or Firefox.
i'd like to recommend Opera; blocks popups if you want it to, turn off javascript, plugins (like flash. goodbye flash ads), and cookies at will, all within the incredibly useful menu that pops up when you hit F12. also warns you when sites try to set "illegal" cookies. gorgeous browser and very customizable.
back before mp3 was an option MODs were the shit. XM in particular had numerous things going for the format, including a nicely designed tracker (Fasttracker 2). I was into modding and tracking myself, but i stuck to Impulse Tracker. both programs are quite similar.. but to answer your question, is this a widely used format? it was. the digital music archive has numerous xm songs, if you're an unbeliever. i'm sure google has something to say about XM too.
consists of moving parts :(
... and if you're really impatient this would be a nice upgrade, as far as i'm concerned.
Is it just me, or is the wait for solid state storage a long one?
yah, my feelings towards this type of post could only be summarized by the simpsons:
Moe: Oh, boy! The deep fryer's here. Heh heh, I got it used from the navy. You can flash-fry a buffalo in forty seconds.
Homer: Forty seconds? But I want it now!
in other words, patience
since, following this comment, i didn't manage to snag any answers as the the whereabouts of interplay's online mp3 collection that they were serving up here, i'd like to ask again: any ideas why they took it down? are the mp3s available anywhere else? it had the soundtracks to many classics including the baldur's gate series, fallout, planescape torment...
What ever happened to the concept that the simplest explaination is probably the best?
that only works in movies starring jodie foster.
a fine rebuttal.
People 'choose' Microsoft because they are sheep.
say you got yourself a fax machine. that fax machine alone is pretty much a glorified telephone unless you know someone else with a fax machine. know a third person with a fax machine? the value and usage of your fax machine just went up again.
what happens when you have an operating system that's being used by 90% of the people with computers? stuff gets made for it. numerous programs are shoveled out the door of numerous companies that further add to the value of the os.
people 'choose' Microsoft because that's what's out there at the moment, and with such a huge user base it's not surprising that companies cater to the needs of those users by writing programs for em. why haven't i installed linux on my box? because there's still software that i use everyday that doesn't work in linux, doesn't exist for linux, or produces things that aren't compatible with the 100 quadbillion MS users out there.
i'm not saying i prefer windows, as i think it's a massively bloated, insecure, and visually obnoxious piece of trash. and if i could get flash, photoshop, 3d studio max, and all my blackisle rpgs running reliably on linux i'd be there in a jiffy. k, no guarantees this post makes sense. i'm rambling.
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
not caring about proper memory management and usage leads to lazy programming. it's wasteful. why not spend the extra time to have a smoother running program that requires less of a footprint? any improvement you make now will help you in the long run, especially if you're always adding things to older code. start with a polished base and more often than not you'll end up with a polished product. this whole "memory is cheap, who cares" thing reminds me too much of how wasteful people are in general..
"why build 1 when i can build 2 for twice the cost?"
Granted, star control 2 had some of the best mod's to ever grace my ears. more recently, however, the baldur's gate series, planescape torment, system shock 2, the fallouts, and the "newer" lucasarts adventures like grim fandango or curse of monkey island all have tunes permanently lodged in my brain. if you think all video game music has to be dull, lifeless, or uninspired, please do yourself a favour and buy these games or leech their soundtracks.
.. anyone know what happened to it?
inertplay had, up until a short while ago, an online mp3 collection of the soundtracks to a good chunk of the games they put out. not sure why the page was taken down.. used to be here
it doesn't make you look like you're talking to a taco, but i think the designers of this thing were definitely diggin' the same vibe.
I'm all for capitalization, but Microsoft doesn't play by any of the rules, written or otherwise, unless they are forced to or it meets their objectives.
and this is different from the gazillion other corporate whores that exist nowadays how? i'm not just going by the IT world. business is business, and unfortunately, there's a percentage of the population that believes profit > * . what's that, nike? you can get me running shoes that cost you 12 pesos to make but are selling for 200 usd? sweet!! where do i sign?
When will the governments of the world learn that Microsoft WILL do absolutely anything it can to achieve and maintain market dominance?
when the governments of the world learn that this is how capitalism works.
you are most kind, my good man.
i dont s'pose anyone else had issues trying to download this free 15 day trial thingamabobber?
Also, what is the basis of a search engine? Sparse-matrix navigation? How does this stuff really work? Any links to summaries of this stuff?
check out this series of essays related to search technology, as mentioned in a previous slashdot article.
2. If you want to try the game out before buying, don't pirate it; play the demo.
I haven't seen a good game "demo" released since the shareware version of quake 1. if you run across a demo that actually show you enough of the gameworld or the atmosphere that it sucks you into buying the damn thing, i'd like to hear about it.
3. If there's no demo, and you don't trust the developer enough to buy the game, sight-unseen, don't buy it. The developer doesn't deserve your money, but neither do you deserve to own a copy of their game.
aside from games made by bioware, the ol black isle studios, or the lucasarts adventures, i would never plop down 65 bucks for a game i hadn't had the chance to test.
i've snagged my share of warezed games, but i shit you not when i say that had i not done so, the pc video game industry wouldn't have seen a dime from me. when i run across a well designed game, a game i enjoy, I END UP BUYING IT EVENTUALLY.
Have you considered Quake or UT?
why was this insightful? i gained no significant insight, considering the dude who posted this story mentions quake and UT in his blurb, ala:
What I'm looking for is a few good multiplayer shoot-em-ups (like Quake, UT or Half-Life) and a nicely engrossing RPG.
Now why did I go and enroll for a Masters program next fall again?
sorority girls.