Tragically, without presidential leadership on the issue, teen drug-use rose dramatically during the first five years of the Clinton-Gore Administration, and it remains at unacceptably high levels today. Drug use by children between the ages of 12 and 17 more than doubled between 1992 and 1997. Recent data suggest that teen drug use may have leveled off, but is still at near record levels for the decade.
It's actually a little higher in Texas. Whatta rube.
I still don't understand why we hear on and on about the hardware, when the real victor was the code -- anyone know who the programmers were on the Big Blue vs. Kasparov project?
They were the real heroes, not some chunks of silicon...
Anyway, it's the coolest damn thing I've ever used.
It's essentially a universal remote with PC control and a mouse built in, with left and right mouse buttons on the bottom.
It's an RF device, and I've used it from the lawn to control the PC upstairs. There's software for it to reprogram the buttons to launch anything you want to on your PC -- I have all of the # keys programmed to launch different playlists, and because it's RF I can launch them and control the volume from anywhere in the house.
This software I've been using is for Windows, but there are Linux projects out there as well.
I can't recommend this thing highly enough, I use it constantly.
Ah, grammarians, how thee dost not fit the realm of technology.
We had a PR person totally filibuster a design meeting she'd managed to weasel her way into, arguing that we couldn't capitalize the options in a menu (like Older Stuff or Privacy or Awards off on the left of this page).
Now, I was a Lit/Creative Writing major, and I've got a strong grammatical background coming into tech, and there are a bazillion times that I see stupid debates like this -- spell it the way you want to, let Strunk and White battle it out later.
Back in te Doom days, there was a.wad called houses12.wad which was our absolute favorite -- you were running through bedrooms, down halls, leaping over the couchi nto the living room firing the double-barrel shotgun....
I've often wished that there were realistic levels of malls, etc. for Quaking...
Maybe some of these architectural designs could be relased.... The one that's in the screenshots looks pretty cool.
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Wait, gnome? Maybe someone could come up with a good gnome vs. KDE argument for us. Hasn't been one of those in almost a week.
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...over and over and over and over and over again.
How many times has this debate come up? I can remember at least 3 specific instances over the last 6 months...
...and let them know that you think they're impeding any progress in the American ploitical process.
I sent them this last night:
I'm just wondering how you people sleep at night knowing that you are hampering any progress that this country has tried to make past the same old crap spewed forth decade after decade by the two parties whom you solely represent.
The American public, as well as the global community, is appalled at your evil nature for not allowing Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan to speak to the American public.
People all over the world are mocking Americans for your exclusion. We know that any non-partisan inclusion in your decision making was removed about 8-10 years ago when the formerly conscientious comittee resigned in disgust at your two party insistence, stating that they would not be involved in "hoodwinking the American public."
I am a patriot, and I love my country, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so due to your heavy-handed control over the political process. How your representatives can stand in front of a live television audience and feel good about themselves while screwing us all is beyond me.
The political process needs to be fair to all Americans. Your process is so self-interested that it leaves us all wishing that someone within your organization would wake up one morning and say, "My God, how can I continue to belittle the American political process and silence the voices of millions in the elections."
Hopefully, someday, your consciences will speak up and you will fight to help us regain some voice in our own political process.
Once the hardware platform's gone, you can't possibly sell anymore copies of the game. Fuggedaboudid. Its over Jack. Go ByeBye.
Uh, how is that? The hardware can obviously be emulated, right? So the copyrights are useless on the software because it's not being run on the original hardware?
So all of that "Requires a 486" software is free now too, right?
"This makes his views on copyright quite surprising!"
The fact that someone wrote an emulator doesn't make them automatically against copyrights that still exist for the old machine.
The idea that these things should be free to anyone who wants them even though people spent weeks, months or years writing them shouldn't be as prevalent as it is these days.
Just because the current gaming market isn't full of these games, people presume that they're free for the taking. Such short attention spans.
It's entirely possible that within the next couple of years the actual copyright holders could release a CD to stores with an emulator and a couple dozen of their old games. It'd be a revenue stream on old copyrights and old games which are still valued -- Williams has done this with a lot of their old arcade games, releasing new packages for the PSX and the PC... But still, people continue to claim them as free and post them wherever they want to....
All of a sudden my email to/from my lastfoot.com account started bouncing, and now www.lastfoot.com is a marketing site for NeTraverse, the Win4Lin people.
Anyone know what happened there? No notifications or anything, just *poof*, gone.
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Tragically, without presidential leadership on the issue, teen drug-use rose dramatically during the first five years of the Clinton-Gore Administration, and it remains at unacceptably high levels today. Drug use by children between the ages of 12 and 17 more than doubled between 1992 and 1997. Recent data suggest that teen drug use may have leveled off, but is still at near record levels for the decade.
It's actually a little higher in Texas. Whatta rube.
I still don't understand why we hear on and on about the hardware, when the real victor was the code -- anyone know who the programmers were on the Big Blue vs. Kasparov project?
They were the real heroes, not some chunks of silicon...
What is your source for that number? I'm not being a dick, I'd just like to be able to point people to it....
This statement:
Unless, perhaps, he was a journalist, and was acting under freedom of the press.
is mighty scary.
At the current rate of acquisition, maybe 1 or 2 percent of all of your press outlets will *not* be owned by major corporate media conglomerates.
If only journalists are allowed freedom of the press, and all of the journalists are owned, where does that leave us?
Is right here...
Anyway, it's the coolest damn thing I've ever used.
It's essentially a universal remote with PC control and a mouse built in, with left and right mouse buttons on the bottom.
It's an RF device, and I've used it from the lawn to control the PC upstairs. There's software for it to reprogram the buttons to launch anything you want to on your PC -- I have all of the # keys programmed to launch different playlists, and because it's RF I can launch them and control the volume from anywhere in the house.
This software I've been using is for Windows, but there are Linux projects out there as well.
I can't recommend this thing highly enough, I use it constantly.
heheheheh...
? shoot NORTH
you missed
? shoot NE
hit!
? use BFG
you are now using the Big F-ing Gun
? shoot NE
you have killed the llamas.
Ah, grammarians, how thee dost not fit the realm of technology.
We had a PR person totally filibuster a design meeting she'd managed to weasel her way into, arguing that we couldn't capitalize the options in a menu (like Older Stuff or Privacy or Awards off on the left of this page).
Now, I was a Lit/Creative Writing major, and I've got a strong grammatical background coming into tech, and there are a bazillion times that I see stupid debates like this -- spell it the way you want to, let Strunk and White battle it out later.
Back in te Doom days, there was a .wad called houses12.wad which was our absolute favorite -- you were running through bedrooms, down halls, leaping over the couchi nto the living room firing the double-barrel shotgun....
I've often wished that there were realistic levels of malls, etc. for Quaking...
Maybe some of these architectural designs could be relased.... The one that's in the screenshots looks pretty cool.
Wait, gnome? Maybe someone could come up with a good gnome vs. KDE argument for us. Hasn't been one of those in almost a week.
...over and over and over and over and over again.
How many times has this debate come up? I can remember at least 3 specific instances over the last 6 months...
Yeah, those damn luddirtes are always thinking cautiously. I mean, what's up with that?
Technology for technology's sake, and damn the possible consequences which the scientists haven't really considered.
heheheh.... I agree with you, but it was a web form and not the greatest spot for explaining a plan...
I'm not sure what other candidates actually are on enough state ballots to make a difference, but I was pretty sure that Nader and Buchanan were.
I heard today that Nader is suing the debate comittee, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
...and let them know that you think they're impeding any progress in the American ploitical process.
I sent them this last night:
I'm just wondering how you people sleep at night knowing that you are hampering any progress that this country has tried to make past the same old crap spewed forth decade after decade by the two parties whom you solely represent.
The American public, as well as the global community, is appalled at your evil nature for not allowing Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan to speak to the American public.
People all over the world are mocking Americans for your exclusion. We know that any non-partisan inclusion in your decision making was removed about 8-10 years ago when the formerly conscientious comittee resigned in disgust at your two party insistence, stating that they would not be involved in "hoodwinking the American public."
I am a patriot, and I love my country, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so due to your heavy-handed control over the political process. How your representatives can stand in front of a live television audience and feel good about themselves while screwing us all is beyond me.
The political process needs to be fair to all Americans. Your process is so self-interested that it leaves us all wishing that someone within your organization would wake up one morning and say, "My God, how can I continue to belittle the American political process and silence the voices of millions in the elections."
Hopefully, someday, your consciences will speak up and you will fight to help us regain some voice in our own political process.
Once the hardware platform's gone, you can't possibly sell anymore copies of the game. Fuggedaboudid. Its over Jack. Go ByeBye.
Uh, how is that? The hardware can obviously be emulated, right? So the copyrights are useless on the software because it's not being run on the original hardware?
So all of that "Requires a 486" software is free now too, right?
It's when you see quotes like this:
"This makes his views on copyright quite surprising!"
The fact that someone wrote an emulator doesn't make them automatically against copyrights that still exist for the old machine.
The idea that these things should be free to anyone who wants them even though people spent weeks, months or years writing them shouldn't be as prevalent as it is these days.
Just because the current gaming market isn't full of these games, people presume that they're free for the taking. Such short attention spans.
It's entirely possible that within the next couple of years the actual copyright holders could release a CD to stores with an emulator and a couple dozen of their old games. It'd be a revenue stream on old copyrights and old games which are still valued -- Williams has done this with a lot of their old arcade games, releasing new packages for the PSX and the PC... But still, people continue to claim them as free and post them wherever they want to....
my patent on checking links before posting them is prohibiting people from posting quality content.
for some reason, even though I've granted a free-use license to my company, my boss is still reticent to check links before updating pages...
And look, there's a shiny red button....
/. is a bastion of gadgetry, but doesn't it eventually all start to look the same?
Really, I understand that
Do all of our electronics now have to look like some 13 year-old's WinAmp skin?
Maybe it's time to start porting OpenGL to IOS :]
Hey, ya know, not all of us have time to read every post. I know it may sound strange, but some of us have other things to do.
I apologize for not reading and absorbing all the posts. I'll try to do better next time. Wouldn't want to piss off an anonymous coward.
..because then we could all run around yelling "One point twenty-one gigahertz? One point twenty-one gigahertz?"
That's all I want out of life. Is that so much to ask?
Can we cluster them? Does it run X and Apache? Is there MAME out for it yet?
Either way, it kicks the sorry ass of Microsoft's robotic dog.
All of a sudden my email to/from my lastfoot.com account started bouncing, and now www.lastfoot.com is a marketing site for NeTraverse, the Win4Lin people.
Anyone know what happened there? No notifications or anything, just *poof*, gone.
Thank you, Anonymous Coward.
heheheheh.... oh, wait. i'm offtopic. but that was funny.
is it really a debate if they're both lying through their teeth?