carmack will win, he'll have a hidden monster closet filled with imps that jump out on gates the moment gates walks past. Seriously though, is it me or has the carmack been very quiet of recent?
I found a recent interview with him interesting as in it he mentioned that he was far from the only one nightly sneaking into US Gov computer networks, saying that he saw many others from all over the world doing exactly the same as him. How well protected are these systems really then?
in this story because this could be the only reason that/. is so obsessively pimping googles old features that have been around for ages. What kind of back hander are you getting???
Today in other news a fresh new search engine is wowing all comers with it's simple design and elegant solution to searching the web.
I hope someone submits a story about this new fangled search engine to/., people need to know about google, it's tremendous.
dupolicious.
It's unsurprising that MS and Google are in this fracas, there has been alot of talk about google stealing ms employees and vice versa.
I find it greatly amusing that in a few years google has gone from being another search engine to the biggest threat MS has ever encountered.
only if you happen to buy a certain regions edition of WoW. If I went and bought an American copy or Korean even though I'm in europe I could play on the other regions.
I play on eu-thunderhorn and there are plenty of chinese farmers on there from my experience.
i give a rip because i had an ipod and it didn't work properly, so i returned and and decided to go for something else that was cheaper. As it turned out my iriver was cheaper, more useful and functioned more in the way i wanted. If i am annoyed when I see so many people with ipods it's because I don't think they are as good value as other mp3 players on the market, which seems to me a perfectly reasonable thing to base my comment on. As it happens my iriver can also transfer pictures across from cameras without a computer which was one of the reasons I got it, and it's also great for recording audio and watching videos. I got it for its functionality, not to be obscure or elitist.
My complaint was purely that people are buying the ipod in such droves because they don't realise the choices they actually have, and if apple arn't marketing it as a fashion accessory then then i'll happily cut off my left leg.
I have an iriver h320 and I completely agree that it is much harder to use, however I would choose it any day over an iPod. While you may not treat your ipod as a fashion accessory I believe a lot of people do. It reminds me of yoyo's when I was little. The soft drinks companies brought out branded yoyo's and we all went insane for them, never did I think when I was getting them 'why don't I get a normal one' because it was about having the same as the next guy.
I'm kind of sick seeing people with white earbuds in the street now, and it makes me glad I returned my first ipod and bought my iriver in it's place. It has the functionality I want and was much cheaper than an ipod.
Also I would suggest checking out the iriver h10 http://www.iriver.com/html/product/prpa_product.as p?pidx=61 as an example of an incredibly stylish, functional and small mp3 player which is definately 1up from the clunky design of my h320.
Just a small aside from whether campbell crunches kernal code, if you have the chance you should watch the 2002 film Bubba Ho-Tep, with Bruce Campbell playing a retired Elvis in a Nursing home. In the film he and a very old JFK have to battle an egyptian mummy, as the tagline says "The King of Rock vs. The King of the Dead". I realise it's an relatively old film to be pimping but it well worth watching whether or not you are a Campbell fan or not as it's incredibly funny, with an extremely poignant ending.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0281686/
what epitomizes film-nerd culture more than the b-movie, and I can think of few more cult actors within b-movies than Bruce "Dont Call Me Ash" Campbell. I'm a massive fan of Campbell and would certainly hope to see news about him on/.
Certainly there is an element of truth in that, however a kid then getting professional certification is still little heard of, whatever the value of that certification might be.
Comparably we have kids now sitting their gcse's or a levels (I'm british) at extremely young ages, perhaps kids are just getting smarter.. or have a more information and learning available to them more easily. I can hear the crow of a thousand 'grumpy old men' mumbling "In my day..." but I think that this 9year old and any other prodigious kids achievements are certainly worthy of some recognition.
that sounds more sensible then actually trying to arm and protect yourself, although I would still feel uncomfortable. I guess I feel uncomfortable with the whole notion of guns in any case, feeling they would be provocative in the first place, although I guess it would be important to have them if you accidently enraged a rhino:D
I agreed totally with your assessment up to the point where you said "carry a weapon". What in all names of holy would the point of that be? If you're looking for a good way to get yourself into trouble in an African country I could think of few ways better than taking a fire arm, or similar around with you.
It seems that the BBC is more and more in the press recently, pushing innovation in tech and approaches to broadcasting, I for one as a brit paying my bit for the bbc am very glad to see my money being used in a way that I would like to see it being put to use. Certainly the bbc are not the first to offer their shows over the web (i'm thinking in particular of Battlestar galactica in particular as an example of this new phenomenon) but it's excellent to see them embracing it.
Also even more importantly The mighty boosh has to be one of the most humourous pieces of comedy I have seen in recent years, well worth tuning in. More info on the boosh here: http://www.themightyboosh.com/
you mentioned it in the first place; farcry. I had the luck to be given an old copy by a friend who couldn't run it on his computer, I installed it on mine, which was a bit beefier and fired it up.
From the moment I started playing I realised that Farcry was a very different beast from anything else I had ever played, and this is coming from someone who's been a quake fanboy since Quakeworld days.
I've since then played D3 and HL2 through and they just truly cannot compare to what Farcry brought back to the genre for me, and that's FEAR. The last game to make me as tense, and as scared as that was thief, but with farcrys stunning outdoor jungles and heartstopping tenseness I was hooked in a way I havn't been to a game in a long time. I always know when I really like a game or not, based on whether I get so bored I bring down the console and/godmode it just to get to the end.
With Farcry though its replay value was so great, I kept on coming back. I especially liked the bit near the beginning where you had to sneak through the jungle sneaking up on mercs cutting their throats. Hmmm I need to get that psychotic streak seen to, but it makes playing games sooo much more fun!
i don't usually complain about dupes but I'm almost sure this is actually a dupe of a dupe, and if this goes one we could end up with an all powerful dupe-sourceror and everyone knows that we're all fscked when that happens. I mean really, there must be a reasonable way to check for dupe stories before publication, this shouldn't be an issue on an important geek news website, really it shouldn't.
itunes has lots of potential for addons, perhaps it will be possible to write a plug-in to handle swarmed podcast downloads. I'm sure it's already a glimmer in some thoughtful coders eye... here's hoping!
there have been occassions where friends have so b0rked their computers with spyware and viruses that it can much longer than just an hour to fix it.
I think also he may not have meant to be literal, just to suggest that spyware is a serious problem on PCs and takes up much more time fixing then it should.
er, is there a google css template floating around the web because it seems to have been employed on bittorrent.com. I need it too to ensure my website is successful!
sounds like a child stamping his foot, saying "it's not true, it's not true". Perhaps MS believe if they say it enough times to as many people as possible they can convince people that Google is a one hit wonder, rather than the most dangerous rival they've ever had to face.
the devil you know. Simply put people know and hate windows and you will hear anyone and everyone complain about it, but the majority of users arn't technically minded and the idea of changing to something else is incredibly daunting. The only reasonable alternative for someone like that is in my opinion mac os x, which out of the box "just works". However up until the mini-mac the price of mac hardware was prohibitive. The interesting time will be in 6-12 months time when we see if there has been a big take up of the mac mini. If it gets pimped enough then perhaps Apple will make real headway into decreasing redmonds user numbers.
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carmack will win, he'll have a hidden monster closet filled with imps that jump out on gates the moment gates walks past. Seriously though, is it me or has the carmack been very quiet of recent?
mod grand-parent down, his reactionary statement say's very little when you read this. Mod parent up most definately.
I found a recent interview with him interesting as in it he mentioned that he was far from the only one nightly sneaking into US Gov computer networks, saying that he saw many others from all over the world doing exactly the same as him. How well protected are these systems really then?
in this story because this could be the only reason that /. is so obsessively pimping googles old features that have been around for ages. What kind of back hander are you getting???
Today in other news a fresh new search engine is wowing all comers with it's simple design and elegant solution to searching the web. I hope someone submits a story about this new fangled search engine to /., people need to know about google, it's tremendous.
dupolicious.
It's unsurprising that MS and Google are in this fracas, there has been alot of talk about google stealing ms employees and vice versa. I find it greatly amusing that in a few years google has gone from being another search engine to the biggest threat MS has ever encountered.
krol blade?!?! that's a hunter weapon! nerf shamans!!!1
only if you happen to buy a certain regions edition of WoW. If I went and bought an American copy or Korean even though I'm in europe I could play on the other regions. I play on eu-thunderhorn and there are plenty of chinese farmers on there from my experience.
i give a rip because i had an ipod and it didn't work properly, so i returned and and decided to go for something else that was cheaper. As it turned out my iriver was cheaper, more useful and functioned more in the way i wanted. If i am annoyed when I see so many people with ipods it's because I don't think they are as good value as other mp3 players on the market, which seems to me a perfectly reasonable thing to base my comment on. As it happens my iriver can also transfer pictures across from cameras without a computer which was one of the reasons I got it, and it's also great for recording audio and watching videos. I got it for its functionality, not to be obscure or elitist. My complaint was purely that people are buying the ipod in such droves because they don't realise the choices they actually have, and if apple arn't marketing it as a fashion accessory then then i'll happily cut off my left leg.
I have an iriver h320 and I completely agree that it is much harder to use, however I would choose it any day over an iPod. While you may not treat your ipod as a fashion accessory I believe a lot of people do. It reminds me of yoyo's when I was little. The soft drinks companies brought out branded yoyo's and we all went insane for them, never did I think when I was getting them 'why don't I get a normal one' because it was about having the same as the next guy. I'm kind of sick seeing people with white earbuds in the street now, and it makes me glad I returned my first ipod and bought my iriver in it's place. It has the functionality I want and was much cheaper than an ipod. Also I would suggest checking out the iriver h10 http://www.iriver.com/html/product/prpa_product.as p?pidx=61 as an example of an incredibly stylish, functional and small mp3 player which is definately 1up from the clunky design of my h320.
Just a small aside from whether campbell crunches kernal code, if you have the chance you should watch the 2002 film Bubba Ho-Tep, with Bruce Campbell playing a retired Elvis in a Nursing home. In the film he and a very old JFK have to battle an egyptian mummy, as the tagline says "The King of Rock vs. The King of the Dead". I realise it's an relatively old film to be pimping but it well worth watching whether or not you are a Campbell fan or not as it's incredibly funny, with an extremely poignant ending. http://imdb.com/title/tt0281686/
what epitomizes film-nerd culture more than the b-movie, and I can think of few more cult actors within b-movies than Bruce "Dont Call Me Ash" Campbell. I'm a massive fan of Campbell and would certainly hope to see news about him on /.
Certainly there is an element of truth in that, however a kid then getting professional certification is still little heard of, whatever the value of that certification might be. Comparably we have kids now sitting their gcse's or a levels (I'm british) at extremely young ages, perhaps kids are just getting smarter.. or have a more information and learning available to them more easily. I can hear the crow of a thousand 'grumpy old men' mumbling "In my day..." but I think that this 9year old and any other prodigious kids achievements are certainly worthy of some recognition.
that sounds more sensible then actually trying to arm and protect yourself, although I would still feel uncomfortable. I guess I feel uncomfortable with the whole notion of guns in any case, feeling they would be provocative in the first place, although I guess it would be important to have them if you accidently enraged a rhino :D
I agreed totally with your assessment up to the point where you said "carry a weapon". What in all names of holy would the point of that be? If you're looking for a good way to get yourself into trouble in an African country I could think of few ways better than taking a fire arm, or similar around with you.
It seems that the BBC is more and more in the press recently, pushing innovation in tech and approaches to broadcasting, I for one as a brit paying my bit for the bbc am very glad to see my money being used in a way that I would like to see it being put to use. Certainly the bbc are not the first to offer their shows over the web (i'm thinking in particular of Battlestar galactica in particular as an example of this new phenomenon) but it's excellent to see them embracing it. Also even more importantly The mighty boosh has to be one of the most humourous pieces of comedy I have seen in recent years, well worth tuning in. More info on the boosh here: http://www.themightyboosh.com/
you mentioned it in the first place; farcry. I had the luck to be given an old copy by a friend who couldn't run it on his computer, I installed it on mine, which was a bit beefier and fired it up. From the moment I started playing I realised that Farcry was a very different beast from anything else I had ever played, and this is coming from someone who's been a quake fanboy since Quakeworld days. I've since then played D3 and HL2 through and they just truly cannot compare to what Farcry brought back to the genre for me, and that's FEAR. The last game to make me as tense, and as scared as that was thief, but with farcrys stunning outdoor jungles and heartstopping tenseness I was hooked in a way I havn't been to a game in a long time. I always know when I really like a game or not, based on whether I get so bored I bring down the console and /godmode it just to get to the end.
With Farcry though its replay value was so great, I kept on coming back. I especially liked the bit near the beginning where you had to sneak through the jungle sneaking up on mercs cutting their throats. Hmmm I need to get that psychotic streak seen to, but it makes playing games sooo much more fun!
i don't usually complain about dupes but I'm almost sure this is actually a dupe of a dupe, and if this goes one we could end up with an all powerful dupe-sourceror and everyone knows that we're all fscked when that happens. I mean really, there must be a reasonable way to check for dupe stories before publication, this shouldn't be an issue on an important geek news website, really it shouldn't.
itunes has lots of potential for addons, perhaps it will be possible to write a plug-in to handle swarmed podcast downloads. I'm sure it's already a glimmer in some thoughtful coders eye... here's hoping!
there have been occassions where friends have so b0rked their computers with spyware and viruses that it can much longer than just an hour to fix it. I think also he may not have meant to be literal, just to suggest that spyware is a serious problem on PCs and takes up much more time fixing then it should.
er, is there a google css template floating around the web because it seems to have been employed on bittorrent.com. I need it too to ensure my website is successful!
sounds like a child stamping his foot, saying "it's not true, it's not true". Perhaps MS believe if they say it enough times to as many people as possible they can convince people that Google is a one hit wonder, rather than the most dangerous rival they've ever had to face.
that's fine with me, as long as i can install iTunes on it I will be happy ;)
i'm going to cite this in my exams
the devil you know. Simply put people know and hate windows and you will hear anyone and everyone complain about it, but the majority of users arn't technically minded and the idea of changing to something else is incredibly daunting. The only reasonable alternative for someone like that is in my opinion mac os x, which out of the box "just works". However up until the mini-mac the price of mac hardware was prohibitive. The interesting time will be in 6-12 months time when we see if there has been a big take up of the mac mini. If it gets pimped enough then perhaps Apple will make real headway into decreasing redmonds user numbers.