Sorry Bill, not every students gets to be one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Software was hot in 80s. Now it is a freaking commodity. Let's move on.
Maybe all the would-be CS students are using that now classic excuse:
"I don't need to go to college - Bill Gates dropped out and he's the wealthiest man alive!"
Bionic Commando was one of the best on NES - IMO much better than the arcade version. The grapple arm was so much fun and I don't remember any other game using it effectively except for Earthworm Jim on the SNES (which was, frankly, AWESOME).
The initial C&D against the website was followed up by a much nastier C&D against the emulating server. (sorry I don't have more detail, but that's the extent of what the server admin said).
I mapped my calculator key to open python (which can be used as a calculator if need be).
Of all those extra keys at the top of the keyboard, the calculator is the only one I get any use out of - it's handily positioned right above the numeric key pad.
I used to think this way too, but after 8 years in IT, I'd rather rely on technology than users (technology isn't much to rely on, but at least it can be reasoned with).
Elizabeth Price first was drawn to MUDs after a divorce left her with little money and a 16-MHz PC. At the time, it was the only computer interaction she could afford. But even after she bounced back financially, the keyboard called.
"Now I'm on a Power Mac G5 with a cable connection to the internet," she said. "I certainly could play EverQuest if I wanted to."
. and IE could have had a popup blocker all along; it's not like it would be hard for MS to code. So why didn't they?
Because they "won the browser war". When 80-90% of the world uses your browser for a couple of years, you don't feel inspired to improve on it much. Only relatively recently has IE had some competition, and thusly added a simple pop-up blocker.
Screw the pop-up blocker - what I'd rather have from IE is better CSS support (not as an end-user, as I use Firefox, but as a developer, because I'm sick of making a nice looking page only to see it mangled by IE...)
And a play-like script...going out and killing a bunch of people and then offing yourself sounds more like Shakespeare than any video game I've played. I can't think of any game that will let me turn a non-explosive weapon on myself. All the video-game avatars I've played are more in the realm of "shoot the enemy, but try to stay alive".
let me tell you that nobody listens to the TV's throught he FM broadcast. Nobody. Everybody just reads the subtitles.
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and everyone (except that one dork nobody likes) has an ipod.
Of course they are reading the subtitles - they're using ipod's which have no FM tuner. I use my crappy Ultra MP3 player at the gym, because it has 256mb onboard memory, a SD card slot for extra mem, and an FM tuner, so if I want to watch TV without squinting at the subtitles I can, and if I want to hear my own music instead, it's there. IMO it's the fact that I have a choice that counts - a choice that Apple has left out.
Notice not all the Sony players have FM - so if you want one, but have no need for FM, you can get one without it - but at least you have the choice. Apple comes off to me as a company who considers style more important than functionality, and sells more ipods based on hype than they do based on hardware.
Seems like you'd be violating some kind of monster.com EULA by posting a fake job as a cheap advertisement ruse. I'd go and check it out myself, but if I log into that site I will undoubtedly find a number of jobs paying better than this one and end up leaving work early...
Now that I think about this tho - maybe Metroid is really just a testing machine, and they really are looking for Intergalactic Bounty Hunters...anyone remember The Last Starfighter?
Yes, he covered one of his heads with a parrot cage when he visited Earth and picked up Trillian. As for the third arm, he didn't always have it - he didn't have it at that Earth party that's referenced, but had it attached at a later time (but before the time period that the books take place in - so in the stories, he always has two heads and three arms).
I personally will be disappointed if they cheese out on the two heads and three arms because there are some great little bits where they come into play - like steering his boat with one arm while he leans back with his other two hands behind his head - or at times when one head looks in one direction and the other looks in the same direction to see what the first head is looking at - little quirky things like that are what make H2G2 genius, IMHO...
They've added to the article, in the second half someone who has seen some of the screening reports:
How cheap? Cheap enough that the filmmakers use every trick in the book to NOT show Zaphod's two heads and third arm. They even go so far as to create an elaborate plot device which removes said head and arm for the entire second half of the film in what has to be the most latent attempt to save a buck I've ever seen on the big screen.
The rest of the review does not sound good - now I'm getting ready to be disappointed. DNA is probably rolling over in his asteroid....
This category is tricky, because I haven't had the chance to experience the sound of Half-Life 2.
Maybe it's just me, but good sound is almost as important as good graphics to overall gameplay IMO. I'm not really sure I understand this article - either this guy is comparing Doom3 and HL2 by what's on paper only, or he played Doom3 with sound and inexplicably played HL2 without sound. How do you play a FPS without sound? Sound is atmosphere - good sound gets your blood running - I just don't get it - I wound't even bother playing without sound.
Anyways, sorry to say, I didn't really get anything out of this article. To sum it up: Doom3 has better graphics and HL2 has better physics/AI/gameplay/multiplay. Oh you knew that already? Yeah, me too.
And then when they get sent to "the hole" they have to play ET on an original 2600. (maybe, if they can actually get ET out of one of those in-game holes, they can come out of "the hole"....)
You know, I have to agree with you (and I'm all out of mod points) - I loved the concept behind the Matrix, and the first one is a great movie, but the religious undertones really turn me off. I mean, the heroes of the story realize that their entire world is computer generated and all humans are being harvested for energy to power their robot overlords, yet for some reason they still read the bible?
I haven't had a lot of personal experience with IBM PC's since the early-mid 90's, but one of my biggest headaches recently has been 2 or 3 year old 20gb IBM Deskstars grinding to a half left and right....
I think what makes it news for slashdot is just what you pointed out - deleting his MMOG data is considered as bad as all of those things that you mentioned. The fact that the police arrested the girl for destroying virtual property makes this a tech story.
What I'm dissapointed with is that it doesn't seem to have an FM radio, much like the iPod and the Mini - why is it that there are a ton of more generic mp3 players that have an FM receiver built-in, but Apple doesn't bother with it?
in other words, it's worth all the $0 you pay for it. I played AO in beta and liked it, but not enough to buy it. I got myself a free account last week and played some, but honestly, I don't really see much of a difference between AO now and the beat I played years ago. In fact, the game world seems worse - it feels like they abandoned the older content with all their paying customers focusing on expansion content. I like the way the instanced missions work (a concept later adopted by other MMORPGs) but the content of the missions is pretty lame. I haven't been on one yet that didn't either tell me to kill this person or pick up this object. Duuuoooaahh! Mission Completed!
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Free-as-in-speech beer is all well and good, but I'd really like to see some of this free-as-in-beer beer that everyone talks about.
Beer I can afford - what we need more of is some of that free-as-in-speech.
Sorry Bill, not every students gets to be one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Software was hot in 80s. Now it is a freaking commodity. Let's move on.
Maybe all the would-be CS students are using that now classic excuse:
"I don't need to go to college - Bill Gates dropped out and he's the wealthiest man alive!"
Bionic Commando was one of the best on NES - IMO much better than the arcade version. The grapple arm was so much fun and I don't remember any other game using it effectively except for Earthworm Jim on the SNES (which was, frankly, AWESOME).
The initial C&D against the website was followed up by a much nastier C&D against the emulating server. (sorry I don't have more detail, but that's the extent of what the server admin said).
I mapped my calculator key to open python (which can be used as a calculator if need be). Of all those extra keys at the top of the keyboard, the calculator is the only one I get any use out of - it's handily positioned right above the numeric key pad.
the education of users
I used to think this way too, but after 8 years in IT, I'd rather rely on technology than users (technology isn't much to rely on, but at least it can be reasoned with).
Here's an example that I did for Fark (safe for work)
Whoa - if you work with with elephants, be warned LINK NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
Elizabeth Price first was drawn to MUDs after a divorce left her with little money and a 16-MHz PC. At the time, it was the only computer interaction she could afford. But even after she bounced back financially, the keyboard called.
"Now I'm on a Power Mac G5 with a cable connection to the internet," she said. "I certainly could play EverQuest if I wanted to."
No you can't.
. and IE could have had a popup blocker all along; it's not like it would be hard for MS to code. So why didn't they?
Because they "won the browser war". When 80-90% of the world uses your browser for a couple of years, you don't feel inspired to improve on it much. Only relatively recently has IE had some competition, and thusly added a simple pop-up blocker.
Screw the pop-up blocker - what I'd rather have from IE is better CSS support (not as an end-user, as I use Firefox, but as a developer, because I'm sick of making a nice looking page only to see it mangled by IE...)
war-monger - RTSer
And a play-like script...going out and killing a bunch of people and then offing yourself sounds more like Shakespeare than any video game I've played. I can't think of any game that will let me turn a non-explosive weapon on myself. All the video-game avatars I've played are more in the realm of "shoot the enemy, but try to stay alive".
let me tell you that nobody listens to the TV's throught he FM broadcast. Nobody. Everybody just reads the subtitles.
...
and everyone (except that one dork nobody likes) has an ipod.
Of course they are reading the subtitles - they're using ipod's which have no FM tuner. I use my crappy Ultra MP3 player at the gym, because it has 256mb onboard memory, a SD card slot for extra mem, and an FM tuner, so if I want to watch TV without squinting at the subtitles I can, and if I want to hear my own music instead, it's there. IMO it's the fact that I have a choice that counts - a choice that Apple has left out.
Notice not all the Sony players have FM - so if you want one, but have no need for FM, you can get one without it - but at least you have the choice. Apple comes off to me as a company who considers style more important than functionality, and sells more ipods based on hype than they do based on hardware.
Seems like you'd be violating some kind of monster.com EULA by posting a fake job as a cheap advertisement ruse. I'd go and check it out myself, but if I log into that site I will undoubtedly find a number of jobs paying better than this one and end up leaving work early...
Now that I think about this tho - maybe Metroid is really just a testing machine, and they really are looking for Intergalactic Bounty Hunters...anyone remember The Last Starfighter?
Yes, he covered one of his heads with a parrot cage when he visited Earth and picked up Trillian. As for the third arm, he didn't always have it - he didn't have it at that Earth party that's referenced, but had it attached at a later time (but before the time period that the books take place in - so in the stories, he always has two heads and three arms).
I personally will be disappointed if they cheese out on the two heads and three arms because there are some great little bits where they come into play - like steering his boat with one arm while he leans back with his other two hands behind his head - or at times when one head looks in one direction and the other looks in the same direction to see what the first head is looking at - little quirky things like that are what make H2G2 genius, IMHO...
They've added to the article, in the second half someone who has seen some of the screening reports:
How cheap? Cheap enough that the filmmakers use every trick in the book to NOT show Zaphod's two heads and third arm. They even go so far as to create an elaborate plot device which removes said head and arm for the entire second half of the film in what has to be the most latent attempt to save a buck I've ever seen on the big screen.
The rest of the review does not sound good - now I'm getting ready to be disappointed. DNA is probably rolling over in his asteroid....
This category is tricky, because I haven't had the chance to experience the sound of Half-Life 2.
Maybe it's just me, but good sound is almost as important as good graphics to overall gameplay IMO. I'm not really sure I understand this article - either this guy is comparing Doom3 and HL2 by what's on paper only, or he played Doom3 with sound and inexplicably played HL2 without sound. How do you play a FPS without sound? Sound is atmosphere - good sound gets your blood running - I just don't get it - I wound't even bother playing without sound.
Anyways, sorry to say, I didn't really get anything out of this article. To sum it up: Doom3 has better graphics and HL2 has better physics/AI/gameplay/multiplay. Oh you knew that already? Yeah, me too.
And then when they get sent to "the hole" they have to play ET on an original 2600. (maybe, if they can actually get ET out of one of those in-game holes, they can come out of "the hole"....)
You know, I have to agree with you (and I'm all out of mod points) - I loved the concept behind the Matrix, and the first one is a great movie, but the religious undertones really turn me off. I mean, the heroes of the story realize that their entire world is computer generated and all humans are being harvested for energy to power their robot overlords, yet for some reason they still read the bible?
Keep your religion out of my science fiction....
I haven't had a lot of personal experience with IBM PC's since the early-mid 90's, but one of my biggest headaches recently has been 2 or 3 year old 20gb IBM Deskstars grinding to a half left and right....
I think what makes it news for slashdot is just what you pointed out - deleting his MMOG data is considered as bad as all of those things that you mentioned. The fact that the police arrested the girl for destroying virtual property makes this a tech story.
What I'm dissapointed with is that it doesn't seem to have an FM radio, much like the iPod and the Mini - why is it that there are a ton of more generic mp3 players that have an FM receiver built-in, but Apple doesn't bother with it?
RTFA:
In creating the list, the group hoped to single out "25 non-medically related technological innovations that have become widely used since 1980
Up, Sapphire, extra olives, and go easy on the vermouth.
You are supposed to show us you believe in something without proof.
What's so bad about an "f" word?
Not a fucking thing.
in other words, it's worth all the $0 you pay for it. I played AO in beta and liked it, but not enough to buy it. I got myself a free account last week and played some, but honestly, I don't really see much of a difference between AO now and the beat I played years ago. In fact, the game world seems worse - it feels like they abandoned the older content with all their paying customers focusing on expansion content. I like the way the instanced missions work (a concept later adopted by other MMORPGs) but the content of the missions is pretty lame. I haven't been on one yet that didn't either tell me to kill this person or pick up this object. Duuuoooaahh! Mission Completed!