Do a search on Sourceforge for it. Let's you download all your Yahoo mail with any POP3 compatable client. There are others for hotmail and other services, but of course Yahoo POPS is the relevant one to this issue. As you can see, there is already an incentive to start using it instead - keeps away those nasty web-based worms. You can always still disable images/javascript in your e-mail client just the same as your browser. Think how many times do you need javascript on to read an e-mail versus make a website work?
Problem solved.
Thanks! Now that we see the pictures we can all add ShadowGate929 to our MSN contacts! You'd think as a privacy concern, someone would MAKE time to edit that stuff out. Whenever I'm at work and need to send a screenshot you can bet I crop out the taskbar. I don't think they'd like it if they knew I was chatting, playing games and browsing the internet all at the same time.
Since this subject has been brought up, I was wondering if anybody could offer some insight into this: I've been trying to get the Image:Size perl script to get the dimensions of a swf file. I've got it on a loop for a directory of files, and I need to pass Image::Size a variable which gives it the name of the file. After some headaches and research, I found that you can't pass it a (like this: $var) variable to give it a location. I heard this was an ImageMagick problem rather that Image::Size, yet there's all this talk of being a command line utility. Anybody have similar problems, or know of a workaround? Any example of what I'm looking to do can be found at my link in the arcade section (which the site doesn't seem to be working now for some reason...). Right now all the swf links have a default size which makes them look funny. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
In my professional opinion (see nick) I would say all religon is overrated. And in my opinion that is a fact. It blows my mind how many fools are out there that would believe in things that there is no proof for. For whatever reason I guess it gives them a sense of purpose to believe in something, but you can count me out.
I've lived in Indiana for oh... about 20 years now (from birth). My freinds have tried to teach me Euchre, but I just don't get it (usually I'm drunk when they teach me - not a good idea). They enjoy it, it seems fun if you get the hang of it, and yes from what I've seen these days, with younger people euchre beats poker or any other card game in popularity by about 3 fold.
Also, for your intellectual improvement, we're called 'Hoosiers', not Indianians or Indians.
Personally, when I need a quick fix I turn to ZSNES for some classic Super NES action. The system requirements are low and you can easily network the games as if you were sitting in front of a real unit with two controllers. Of course, this would apply to almost any good emulator out there for any system (but due to your specs, you problably wouldn't have the horsepower to emulate N64 games). I also like to play Starcraft, and if you play on a small map like bloodbath, the game should be over in about 20 minutes anyway. If you're into FPS, then try the classic Doom games, revamped for better graphics and multiplayer support using the Doomsday Engine (google it, I'm too lazy). That should still be easy enough on the CPU and allow for a quick frag-fest.
You may consider alternatives as well. I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes I just want to relax during my break. As embo pointed out, play a game of cards, or go for a car ride (location/scenery permitting). Also, maybe call somebody you havn't talked to for awhile. Maybe do something productive or creative in 30 minutes? Call me crazy, but lately I've been cringing at the thought of all the time I've wasted in my life playing video games. I love video games as much as the next guy, but I also enjoy the finer things in life. And if you still have so much time on your hands and don't feel like just snoozing on a couch for awhile, you're not working hard enough. Maybe you should consider a move to blue collar...
I'm 19 too, and you got some good advice. A little alcohol will help. Just to brag, I f-ed a 29 year old in her own bathroom last night after a couple Yagger bombs. I think if a chick is drunk enough she doesn't much care, she just wants the D. Hope my post gets modded for being useful. Fuck it, I'm still hung over....
Ok, so people ask when we'll be able to download the contents of our brain, or when the CPU will come close to our brains capabilities and what-not. Well how exactly do we know how powerful our brain is? Who gets to judge that? Humans have love, jealousy, greed and the like; some emotions are chemical responses, while others come from our brain. But we can't mathematicaly calculate pi, or vertex shaders and polygons (really don't know what I'm talking about with the graphics, but you get the idea). What do they judge our brain power on? Could anyone provide some insight on this? I'm highly interested.
Yay! Another medium of data storage. Floppies, hard discs, cd's, dvd's, holographs, and now wire? I guess on the upside it would be a really secure means of storage seeing as though nobody (not even you) can access it. Think of it as a digital time-capsule. You can write all your pictures and movies on it, and even if you tried, you wouldn't be able to access it for at least another 50 years, so voila! No dirt, no mess!
They almost had me on this. I thought it was going to be a real preview of the next sequel. I remember an interview with a Rockstar developer saying that the next (real) installment was going to be nothing like the previous three and will be about as big of a jump technically as going from GTA2 to GTA3 was.
Instead, I get treated to a crummy article mixing two games that are so different this could never even happen. I think the next GTA is a few years off anyway, hardly past the storyboard sketching phase yet I'm sure.
Ok, the article says that a fine for up to $6,400 for each copy ditributed. But let's say there were only 98%, 83%, and 4% of each movie actually transferred. Does that still constitute a full copy of each movie?
Great machinma idea! (spelling waaaay off) Who needs money when you could have the entire/. army of opensource to do all the work. Come to think of it, as long as it was fan based and you didn't charge for it, it could problably be called a mod and would be perfectly legal. Anybody interested? I'd love to get something like this going. E-mail me! jetstorm_riot at yahoo dot com.
I think that's exactly true. To me, Doom is what it is for a reason. Right now, I'm feeling low because I'm not looking forward to see how bad they screwed it up. id should have hired their own professional screenwriter and bossed him around a bit till he spit out what they wanted. Just like a politician and their speechwriter. You give them exactly what you want, and they polish it in a way that will make it look like it wasn't written by someone that failed high school english.
So I say to hell (no pun intended) with the Hollywoodization of this project. I want my hellspawned demons pouring out of a science project gone bad (on Mars!). I want (almost) everybody dead, I want my marine so lonely that his animal instincts kick in and he's not afraid to grow a pair and throw himself out in a room blasting imps and hellknights with rocket launchers and machine guns.
I want a movie where our lone marine must save himself before he can worry about anybody else on the planet, and THEN maybe save Earth in the sequal. I would say more, but it all comes down to wanting a movie based on the game, not somebody's idea of a another 'horror' movie that's the same plot, just different characters in another place.
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Do a search on Sourceforge for it. Let's you download all your Yahoo mail with any POP3 compatable client. There are others for hotmail and other services, but of course Yahoo POPS is the relevant one to this issue. As you can see, there is already an incentive to start using it instead - keeps away those nasty web-based worms. You can always still disable images/javascript in your e-mail client just the same as your browser. Think how many times do you need javascript on to read an e-mail versus make a website work? Problem solved.
How much you wanna bet most /. readers ARE from the U.S.?
Thanks! Now that we see the pictures we can all add ShadowGate929 to our MSN contacts! You'd think as a privacy concern, someone would MAKE time to edit that stuff out. Whenever I'm at work and need to send a screenshot you can bet I crop out the taskbar. I don't think they'd like it if they knew I was chatting, playing games and browsing the internet all at the same time.
Since this subject has been brought up, I was wondering if anybody could offer some insight into this: I've been trying to get the Image:Size perl script to get the dimensions of a swf file. I've got it on a loop for a directory of files, and I need to pass Image::Size a variable which gives it the name of the file. After some headaches and research, I found that you can't pass it a (like this: $var) variable to give it a location. I heard this was an ImageMagick problem rather that Image::Size, yet there's all this talk of being a command line utility. Anybody have similar problems, or know of a workaround? Any example of what I'm looking to do can be found at my link in the arcade section (which the site doesn't seem to be working now for some reason...). Right now all the swf links have a default size which makes them look funny. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
In my professional opinion (see nick) I would say all religon is overrated. And in my opinion that is a fact. It blows my mind how many fools are out there that would believe in things that there is no proof for. For whatever reason I guess it gives them a sense of purpose to believe in something, but you can count me out.
Also, for your intellectual improvement, we're called 'Hoosiers', not Indianians or Indians.
You may consider alternatives as well. I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes I just want to relax during my break. As embo pointed out, play a game of cards, or go for a car ride (location/scenery permitting). Also, maybe call somebody you havn't talked to for awhile. Maybe do something productive or creative in 30 minutes? Call me crazy, but lately I've been cringing at the thought of all the time I've wasted in my life playing video games. I love video games as much as the next guy, but I also enjoy the finer things in life. And if you still have so much time on your hands and don't feel like just snoozing on a couch for awhile, you're not working hard enough. Maybe you should consider a move to blue collar...
I'm 19 too, and you got some good advice. A little alcohol will help. Just to brag, I f-ed a 29 year old in her own bathroom last night after a couple Yagger bombs. I think if a chick is drunk enough she doesn't much care, she just wants the D. Hope my post gets modded for being useful. Fuck it, I'm still hung over....
Ok, so people ask when we'll be able to download the contents of our brain, or when the CPU will come close to our brains capabilities and what-not. Well how exactly do we know how powerful our brain is? Who gets to judge that? Humans have love, jealousy, greed and the like; some emotions are chemical responses, while others come from our brain. But we can't mathematicaly calculate pi, or vertex shaders and polygons (really don't know what I'm talking about with the graphics, but you get the idea). What do they judge our brain power on? Could anyone provide some insight on this? I'm highly interested.
Aww shucks. Can't ever win on /. can I?
That's all I wanted to say. Go Shatner!
Yay! Another medium of data storage. Floppies, hard discs, cd's, dvd's, holographs, and now wire? I guess on the upside it would be a really secure means of storage seeing as though nobody (not even you) can access it. Think of it as a digital time-capsule. You can write all your pictures and movies on it, and even if you tried, you wouldn't be able to access it for at least another 50 years, so voila! No dirt, no mess!
Thanks for the info, mines already on the way. And to think it was free? Oh, glorious day!
Instead, I get treated to a crummy article mixing two games that are so different this could never even happen. I think the next GTA is a few years off anyway, hardly past the storyboard sketching phase yet I'm sure.
Ok, the article says that a fine for up to $6,400 for each copy ditributed. But let's say there were only 98%, 83%, and 4% of each movie actually transferred. Does that still constitute a full copy of each movie?
Great machinma idea! (spelling waaaay off) Who needs money when you could have the entire /. army of opensource to do all the work. Come to think of it, as long as it was fan based and you didn't charge for it, it could problably be called a mod and would be perfectly legal. Anybody interested? I'd love to get something like this going. E-mail me! jetstorm_riot at yahoo dot com.
So I say to hell (no pun intended) with the Hollywoodization of this project. I want my hellspawned demons pouring out of a science project gone bad (on Mars!). I want (almost) everybody dead, I want my marine so lonely that his animal instincts kick in and he's not afraid to grow a pair and throw himself out in a room blasting imps and hellknights with rocket launchers and machine guns.
I want a movie where our lone marine must save himself before he can worry about anybody else on the planet, and THEN maybe save Earth in the sequal. I would say more, but it all comes down to wanting a movie based on the game, not somebody's idea of a another 'horror' movie that's the same plot, just different characters in another place.