The multiplayer issues with Doom 3 were disappointing, so myself and some friends put together this mod that allows up to 32 players in a multiplayer networked game.
This is great for kids because thanks to Internet (and Internet 2), they have more learning opportunities/access than EVER before.
(BTW, I have 2 Google GMAIL invites left on my one account and 3 on the other. REPLY TO THIS WITH A FUNNY RACIST JOKE and I'll pick the best 5 for free accounts. Include your email in case you win.)
First it was the big Linux guys -- Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. They GAVE AWAY their best products for FREE.
Then Big Blue, good ol' IBM, does the unthinkable and embraces free software as well.
Then we had Sun Microsystems consider doing the same with their Solaris beast and their Java libraries.
Now even old-timers like Computer Associates are trying to get in on this model. Is this THE NEW WAVE OF THE FUTURE?
Do we just GIVE AWAY SOFTWARE like it's nothing and then talk up our support staff and technical documentation?
We LOVE CODING too much to do that, so personally we're gonna keep doin what we love and selling it. Helping people with our products has never been fun anyway!
He's probably sick of answering it to, so I'll post here so he doesn't have to.
Why don't you use Java? After all, there are many languages that target the Java VM.
You basically asked WHY NOT USE JAVA? Java is USED BY EVERYONE.
Well, you CAN can get very good tools for doing Java development on free systems right now. Red Hat has contributed a GCC front-end for Java that can take Java sources or Java byte codes and generate native executables; Transvirtual implemented Kaffe a JIT engine for Java; Intel also has a Java VM called ORP.
Unfortunately, the JVM is not designed to be a general purpose virtual machine. The Common Intermediate Language (CIL), on the other hand, is designed to be a target for a wide variety of programming languages, and has a set of rules designed to be optimal for JITers.
I met Miguel, like, back in '98 at a conference in Mexico. Yes, Linux existed there back then!
We chatted and I quickly found he was more than just a Rob Malda or Rusty Foster, guys who talk the talk and get all the fame but can't back it up when it comes to lines of code per hour counts.
Miguel simply AMAZED me with his knowledge and skill. He ever opened up a digital projector and messed with the PROM or jumpers or something and fixed it within 20 minutes, just in time for his talk.
de Icaza is nothing short of amazing. I DO however question his judgement to kind of jump into the MS camp with MONO/.NET emulation, but I know that since he's smarter than me he must be doing the right thing.
First off, we're VARY surprised that the iPod wasn't mentioned (perhaps we missed it, it's early in the morning here) and I'm sure others here will complain seeing as how half of all registered Democratic and Green Party voters have one.
But to our main point: We LOVE Yamaha. No, seriously, they're one of the greatest companies of all time.
We own and are very pleased with the following Yamaha products:
Yamaha motorcycle
Yamaha waverunner
Yamaha guitar
Yamaha golf clubs
Yamaha piano
We think they are one of the WORLD LEADERS IN DESIGN and are continually amazed at the quality and reliability and pleasure that we get out of their products. No, SERIOUSLY GUYS, they're shit is top-notch.
American companies should EMULATED these guys, these SUPERIOR Japanese designers and engineers. We should continue to STRIVE to be like them and put out great products year after year.
Here's a GREAT link that I KNOW you guys'll enjoy to the Yamaha design site. Most of the text is in Japanese but it's translatable quite easily: http://www.yamaha.co.jp/design/
Seriously though guys, check that site out, you'll definitely enjoy it and be impressed. Check out our journal too.
We forgot we had read it, but just now we went back to the article and remembered the final few paragraphs of the reporter interviewing Lucas at a gay AIDS banquet:
"We caught George Lucas wandering around the grounds with his daughter, Katie. The director said the title of Star Wars: Episode III won't officially be announced until November, when the first trailer hits theaters.
But he conceded that fans on Web sites already have guessed correctly. So we threw a couple of rumored titles at him: Rise of the Empire? "No, that's not it," Lucas said. How about Revenge of the Sith?
With that, Lucas smiled knowingly, backed away and teased, "That's a possibility. Lots of titles out there...""
Can you believe THAT?! He basically gave it away over a month ago and no one said anything for the most part!
Anyway, that's awesome, but we have some other suggestions. We just don't care for the title that Lucas picked.
Here. Here's a poll for your favorite GOOD Star Wars title.
Pick from the following and reply to this post with your favorite:
Star Wars Episode III: Dawn of the Empire Star Wars Episode III: Final Strike Star Wars Episode III: The Fallen Jedi Star Wars Episode III: The Lost Prophecy Star Wars Episode III: The Deception Star Wars Episode III: Hope Lost Star Wars Episode III: The Lost one
"This would mean, some years down the line, someone in the UK could go online and request a book in a US library at 3am in the morning. A robot in the US library could fetch the book and, as directed by the web user, turn to the correct pages and scan the text and images. This would save on the expense of digitising tonnes of material in libraries worldwide."
The problem with this is the following:
First off, the technology is years off from now. Who will fund the advanced research?
Libraries should be worried about actually getting our fine young brains to start reading. Most kids these days watch movies, play videogames involving stealing cars, killing cops, and fucking prostitutes, and eat fast food.
Finally, we need a better browsing mechanism. I use the Web for most of my research because browsing is easy (after all, we have Web BROWSERS). But in libraries, it's just not feasible anymore these days..Sig = http://slashdot.org/~Real%20Troll%20Talk/journal/7 8271
"Engineer Ed Beaudry was quoted by the New Scientist as saying that the body would not find using urine to rehydrate food toxic in the short term, but in the long term it would cause kidney damage."
I think I'd rather steal food from natives than eat US Amry-supplied kidney damaging "food".
"People choose," replied Hachamovitch (IE lead engineer). "Hundreds of millions of people actively use Windows and they get to choose. Nothing in Windows as it ships keeps them from downloading other software that extends their browsing experience (e.g. the Google or Ebay toolbars) or changes it (e.g. an alternative browser)."
No they don't. Maybe I do, but I'm a computer expert.
My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet".
There's a reason AOL is still popular with 20+ million people -- because it's easy and most computer users are idiots when it comes to technical knowledge/know-how.
I find Microsoft guility of contempt -- contempt of not upgrading their browser. They kept quoting x-million users but then saying they had a choice. No they didn't. They used what popped up when they clicked on a Web address somewhere on their computer, and they've used that default browser from Day fucking One.
Microsoft is going to be looking at major lawsuits if they don't immediately push this RC-2/SP-2 patch series out immediately. They owe it to the world and they owe it to those of us who write proprietary software that DOESN'T suck.
(P.S. GMAIL invites! I woke up this morning and saw that my other gmail account got 2 new invites, so if you reply with a funny joke about sex and befriend me, I'll give em out to my two favorite ones.)
Releases are available already. One of the (many) reasons I switched to the Gecko browsers from IE, because they actually update their software.
Note how fast it was patched compared to the fact that IE still doesn't have tabbed browsing.
This is largely irrelevant if you have experience
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Since most of us are advanced computer users or even computer experts, I think we largely know how to search for content.
For one thing, I always give my filenames relevant titles, not things like document06.doc.
Also, I already know how to search through files for content using basic grep or advanced Windows searching.
I mean, sure, meta data like ID3 tags for MP3s that I steal offline are important because my Nomad mp3 player indexes based on that info, but in general I'd say meta data is not quite as important as some may suspect.
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The multiplayer issues with Doom 3 were disappointing, so myself and some friends put together this mod that allows up to 32 players in a multiplayer networked game.
See here for info and download kits.
This is great for kids because thanks to Internet (and Internet 2), they have more learning opportunities/access than EVER before.
(BTW, I have 2 Google GMAIL invites left on my one account and 3 on the other. REPLY TO THIS WITH A FUNNY RACIST JOKE and I'll pick the best 5 for free accounts. Include your email in case you win.)
Oh please give us a break.
I can barely browse there without reading about married 50 yr olds wanting to sock a nice young hung muscular cock or whatever. It's absolutely gross.
What's this IPO business too these days? First Google, and they've basically already shot themselves in the foot, and now these other sites.
HINT: 1999 is over. Let's not repeat it.
First it was the big Linux guys -- Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. They GAVE AWAY their best products for FREE.
Then Big Blue, good ol' IBM, does the unthinkable and embraces free software as well.
Then we had Sun Microsystems consider doing the same with their Solaris beast and their Java libraries.
Now even old-timers like Computer Associates are trying to get in on this model. Is this THE NEW WAVE OF THE FUTURE?
Do we just GIVE AWAY SOFTWARE like it's nothing and then talk up our support staff and technical documentation?
We LOVE CODING too much to do that, so personally we're gonna keep doin what we love and selling it. Helping people with our products has never been fun anyway!
He's probably sick of answering it to, so I'll post here so he doesn't have to.
Why don't you use Java? After all, there are many languages that target the Java VM.
You basically asked WHY NOT USE JAVA? Java is USED BY EVERYONE.
Well, you CAN can get very good tools for doing Java development on free systems right now. Red Hat has contributed a GCC front-end for Java that can take Java sources or Java byte codes and generate native executables; Transvirtual implemented Kaffe a JIT engine for Java; Intel also has a Java VM called ORP.
Unfortunately, the JVM is not designed to be a general purpose virtual machine. The Common Intermediate Language (CIL), on the other hand, is designed to be a target for a wide variety of programming languages, and has a set of rules designed to be optimal for JITers.
I met Miguel, like, back in '98 at a conference in Mexico. Yes, Linux existed there back then!
We chatted and I quickly found he was more than just a Rob Malda or Rusty Foster, guys who talk the talk and get all the fame but can't back it up when it comes to lines of code per hour counts.
Miguel simply AMAZED me with his knowledge and skill. He ever opened up a digital projector and messed with the PROM or jumpers or something and fixed it within 20 minutes, just in time for his talk.
de Icaza is nothing short of amazing. I DO however question his judgement to kind of jump into the MS camp with MONO/.NET emulation, but I know that since he's smarter than me he must be doing the right thing.
But to our main point: We LOVE Yamaha. No, seriously, they're one of the greatest companies of all time.
We own and are very pleased with the following Yamaha products:
Yamaha motorcycle
Yamaha waverunner
Yamaha guitar
Yamaha golf clubs
Yamaha piano
We think they are one of the WORLD LEADERS IN DESIGN and are continually amazed at the quality and reliability and pleasure that we get out of their products. No, SERIOUSLY GUYS, they're shit is top-notch.
American companies should EMULATED these guys, these SUPERIOR Japanese designers and engineers. We should continue to STRIVE to be like them and put out great products year after year.
Here's a GREAT link that I KNOW you guys'll enjoy to the Yamaha design site. Most of the text is in Japanese but it's translatable quite easily: http://www.yamaha.co.jp/design/
Seriously though guys, check that site out, you'll definitely enjoy it and be impressed. Check out our journal too.
A USA Today reporter guessed this title over a month ago! We can't believe it.
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Listen up, this is a true story!
Last month we were reading this USA Today article at http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-06-14-ai
We forgot we had read it, but just now we went back to the article and remembered the final few paragraphs of the reporter interviewing Lucas at a gay AIDS banquet:
"We caught George Lucas wandering around the grounds with his daughter, Katie. The director said the title of Star Wars: Episode III won't officially be announced until November, when the first trailer hits theaters.
But he conceded that fans on Web sites already have guessed correctly. So we threw a couple of rumored titles at him: Rise of the Empire? "No, that's not it," Lucas said. How about Revenge of the Sith?
With that, Lucas smiled knowingly, backed away and teased, "That's a possibility. Lots of titles out there
Can you believe THAT?! He basically gave it away over a month ago and no one said anything for the most part!
Anyway, that's awesome, but we have some other suggestions. We just don't care for the title that Lucas picked.
Here. Here's a poll for your favorite GOOD Star Wars title.
Pick from the following and reply to this post with your favorite:
Star Wars Episode III: Dawn of the Empire
Star Wars Episode III: Final Strike
Star Wars Episode III: The Fallen Jedi
Star Wars Episode III: The Lost Prophecy
Star Wars Episode III: The Deception
Star Wars Episode III: Hope Lost
Star Wars Episode III: The Lost one
You forget to fill in the "dept" text box form field for this story.
We have proof at this screenshot that our team just took of the story.
Please MODERATE THIS POST UP so that it can be fixed and read our latest journals.
The researchers propose the following idea:
"This would mean, some years down the line, someone in the UK could go online and request a book in a US library at 3am in the morning. A robot in the US library could fetch the book and, as directed by the web user, turn to the correct pages and scan the text and images. This would save on the expense of digitising tonnes of material in libraries worldwide."
The problem with this is the following:
First off, the technology is years off from now. Who will fund the advanced research?
Libraries should be worried about actually getting our fine young brains to start reading. Most kids these days watch movies, play videogames involving stealing cars, killing cops, and fucking prostitutes, and eat fast food.
Finally, we need a better browsing mechanism. I use the Web for most of my research because browsing is easy (after all, we have Web BROWSERS). But in libraries, it's just not feasible anymore these days. .Sig = http://slashdot.org/~Real%20Troll%20Talk/journal/7 8271
"Engineer Ed Beaudry was quoted by the New Scientist as saying that the body would not find using urine to rehydrate food toxic in the short term, but in the long term it would cause kidney damage."
I think I'd rather steal food from natives than eat US Amry-supplied kidney damaging "food".
I love the Internet and peer to peer but I would hate to have pirates ruin great bands like U2 because of it.
Who knows, they might never make an album again out of frustration...
Mirror of the picture of the monkey walking upright
Thousands of macaque monkey porn images from Google
Groovy macaque toys on eBay
Printable version of the story from Canada
How can we TRUST the big bully corporations to tell us the truth?
After F9/11, I just don't trust anyone with $ any more.
We're eliminating Open Source stuff (support issues) and outsourcing to India and Canada.
Good thing I'm a manager.
Let alone TWO stations!
"People choose," replied Hachamovitch (IE lead engineer). "Hundreds of millions of people actively use Windows and they get to choose. Nothing in Windows as it ships keeps them from downloading other software that extends their browsing experience (e.g. the Google or Ebay toolbars) or changes it (e.g. an alternative browser)."
No they don't. Maybe I do, but I'm a computer expert.
My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet".
There's a reason AOL is still popular with 20+ million people -- because it's easy and most computer users are idiots when it comes to technical knowledge/know-how.
I find Microsoft guility of contempt -- contempt of not upgrading their browser. They kept quoting x-million users but then saying they had a choice. No they didn't. They used what popped up when they clicked on a Web address somewhere on their computer, and they've used that default browser from Day fucking One.
Microsoft is going to be looking at major lawsuits if they don't immediately push this RC-2/SP-2 patch series out immediately. They owe it to the world and they owe it to those of us who write proprietary software that DOESN'T suck.
(P.S. GMAIL invites! I woke up this morning and saw that my other gmail account got 2 new invites, so if you reply with a funny joke about sex and befriend me, I'll give em out to my two favorite ones.)
Thanks to commercial interest, space is getting more press than ever recently.
Kudos to Paul Allen and Burt Rutan and John Carmack and all the space innovators.
They are the Charles Darwins and Lindberghs of the 21st century.
Thanks NASA for everything, but your time is up. Onward and upward with Open Designs, Open Spaceships, and Open Source.
(P.S. I still have two Gmail invites left so reply with a VALID email address if you want one of them... I already gave my dad and brothers invites)
Look what the cat drug in -> New Slashdot Google group.
Click here to join it or this About: link to read more about it.
Nothing was greater than when Google bought out Delphi and took over the largest USENET archive of all-time.
Google always does things the right way without ruining the user experience or their wallets.
In Google We Trust...
(P.S. I have three Gmail invites anyone up for one -- I already gave away 5 to friends/family?)
Releases are available already. One of the (many) reasons I switched to the Gecko browsers from IE, because they actually update their software.
Note how fast it was patched compared to the fact that IE still doesn't have tabbed browsing.
Since most of us are advanced computer users or even computer experts, I think we largely know how to search for content.
For one thing, I always give my filenames relevant titles, not things like document06.doc.
Also, I already know how to search through files for content using basic grep or advanced Windows searching.
I mean, sure, meta data like ID3 tags for MP3s that I steal offline are important because my Nomad mp3 player indexes based on that info, but in general I'd say meta data is not quite as important as some may suspect.