I think that creativity is just as important as technical expertise. Carmack/id hasn't shown much of that in years.
I remember playing Doom when I was a high school student that finally begged my parents enough to get a PC as a replacement for our dead C64 more than six years ago. Somewhere around that time, you could play it over the network, too, and you could probably find some mods on your local BBS between sessions of TW:2002.
As far as I can tell, everything by id from Doom on has been the same FPS with more sophisticated engines (see: Quake) and/or packaging (see: Heretic). Starsiege: Tribes has had team gameplay for years, and Quake is just now getting there. What's the next big project? Wolfenstein 2. Gee, lots of creativity in that choice...
If you like FPS, that's fine. To me, it's old and tired. I like inventive/innovative games. Since Doom (well, it goes back farther), I can only think of a handful that have really interested me. Warcraft II was so awesome that I still refuse to play Starcraft, and hybrid games like the god/action ActRaiser (SNES) and the chase/cyoa/race game Driver: You Are the Wheelman (various) are excellent examples of how much fun a game can be without support for the latest 3D buzzwords and spending six months' salary on a rig that can handle them.
Speaking of IE tweaks, I have written the equivalent of the Digital Blasphemy Magic Dictionary, using Everything2 instead of Webster's. You simply select some text in your browser, right click, then choose the Everything2 Dictionary option to look it up on Everything.
Uh huh. He and I did tech support -- his cube was adjacent to mine (and vice versa). I found a different job and he left the company (in opposite order), and we haven't really kept in touch since then.
Won't nobody print yo' books no mo'??? Awww, po' Jon-boy... Is that possibly the reason you are looking to nontraditional media? Maybe you aren't getting published because your material sucks! There is something to be said for being accurate and factual, but that has always been a failing of this site.
/. used to be full of life, then you sucked it all away -- all that remains is disease, yet you continue to drain. The parasite dies with the host, and you are the parasite.
I normally just ignore your work, but today was too much. Don't fuck with me on a Monday.
I see you've changed your homepage to something funny for a change -- none of that pro gun or white power shite you usually link to. Once again, I'm not going to see eye to eye with you.
The intent to be a conduit for illegal activity is not illegal. That's why I can go to a neighborhood head shop and buy a four foot bong...
Separate the law from your conscience. You are not necessarily doing right just because you have done something legal, so why do people think that it is wrong to do something legal?
Trading copyrighted music might be illegal, but I don't see it as wrong.
As far as Napster goes, it doesn't violate any copyright laws. It's a great conduit for illegal materials, but then again, so is just about anything else. Name one Internet protocol or application that isn't in some way used for trafficking pirated materials.
I'd wager the average overclocked system is more reliable than the comparable non-overclocked system. People that overclock (like myself) understand what is going on inside their systems, and make a point to take care of them.
Silly AC. It would make for a great introduction to the character, and maybe in the process of his introduction explain why he looks like... er, why The Bounty Hunter looks like him! Meta-conspiracy is something that The X-Files thrive(s) upon...
Katz is really showing his true colors. He's a wannabe geek (or at least trying to make a connction with the demographic), and he's been trying to make that connection with frequent flashes of his ignorance.
It's important to make conclusions with valid data, and Katz doesn't understand some fundamental concepts. As you said, Magneto isn't a bad guy per se, for which I can somewhat forgive him (though he should be better acquainted with geek lore), but at the very least he could spell M-A-G-N-E-T-O correctly! Katz's review should be discarded because of bad data.
A title like "Engines of Our Ingenuity" is suspiciously Katzish, so I HAD TO see whether Katz was behind the curtain. Did you click through for the same reason?
While I dislike the work of JonKatz, this is not the issue. The important argument in this thread is that in their preferences, many people have specified that they do not want Katz articles, but on at least three occasions, the/. staff has given those people (including myself) a Trojan Horse. This is very upsetting.
My suggestion for repairing this problem is very simple. If Katz is not going to be the author of all his articles, he should at least be his own subject, just like Science, BSD, etc. -- subjects can also be filtered. Better yet, get another commentator (one with a clue) and make a "commentary" subject that people could choose to filer out, or simply watch and see how the two compare.
Here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, there is a fair amount of variety in the weather. The southesat suburb of Eagan supposedly got 8.5 inches of rain in one night (and had severe flooding), while Minneapolis (where I live) supposedly got only half an inch. I beg to differ on the latter stat, because I was up when the storm started. I had the blinds open, some smoke in my hand, and Pink Floyd turned waaay up -- there was more than half an inch of rain.
It's just an example of how most storms and are far from uniform here. St. Paul has a HUGE heat plume, thanks to the hot air being blown by mayor Norm Coleman, governor Jesse "The (ahem) Mind" Ventura, and the state Legislature...
Lately, I've been noticing a lot of billobards in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area pitching Eschelon Communications. I don't care how they spell it -- could you have even the least bit of trust in their PBX and/or Internet services???
Please don't flame me about problems you have had with PLATO®, because I have nothing to do with its development other than going to lunch with a couple of folks on that end of the building...
I do tech support for their educational/instructional software. I think it's an excellent option in classrooms where teacher-led instruction is not the most practical. When you have a classroom of students with widely varying skills, or just a few students that would benefit from remedial/advanced instruction, it's great for the school and for the kids.
The people responsible for computers in the classroom need to know what the hell they're doing, just like any other tool. Unfortunately, most schools can't afford quality IT, and have "lab managers" that are simply glorified hall monitors/lunch aides. This opens a Pandora's box to trouble when they go up against a 13 year old with the skill and/or motivation to raise hell, or to simply steal the balls from a few mice. In a school with a skilled IS person/staff and the proper equipment, computers and education work quite well together.
I'd like to add that I have heard that PowerNow! is a technology that is somewhat independent of the core. The K6-2+ will be great for power consumption in smaller devices, but PowerNow! laptops based on Durons and Thunderbird Athlons will eventually become available.
I'm not sure if this will be as significant, however. I haven't seen any mention of power consumption with the Tbird cores, but I assume they will require a lot of juice -- probably more than an Intel SpeedStep, despite the fact that AMD has the better implementation.
What's up with people with low userid's? The last I knew, all the new users had ID's of 200K+!!!, and even many of them are well aware of "hot grits", and sengan...
Well, since you've (presumably) had such a high comment threshold for ages, I'll fill you in. "Hot grits" is approximately a year old. I'd say it was a popular troll sometime in the (northern) summer or fall of 1999. It was around the same time that the Natalie Portman thing got started, so no earlier than May of last year.
I think the creators of the name were using hash. If you care to argue that it is intelligence dulling (anti-drug FUD), I will argue that it is an enhancement of one's creativity. If you had cutout characters of `C++' on a table, you could mangle it to look like C#...
Besides, it wouldn't be much fun to take the hash out of the "hash bang slash bin slash bash", everyone would have to use stupid arrays with Perl, and frankly, plain corned beef is boring...
How would I know? AFAIK, my life has not been significantly affected by either technology. It seems to me that Java is really good at three things and not much else: animation/morphing of text animation/morphing of graphics animation/morphing of text AND graphics simultaneously
The reason corporations are using IIS isn't because of the Active Server Pages backend -- there is already mod_perl, mod_php and others to use in place of server side (VB|J)Script and ODBC connectivity.
The big thing is (has been?) that with NT/IIS, strong encryption and certificates for SSL are much easier to obtain. The only other common option is Solaris/Netscape, so where does Apache fit in?
If Open Media is supposed to reflect heavily on its readership, why are you still boring us to tears? Why are "Closed Media" institutions more reliable and trustworthy? There is no such thing as open/closed media -- every media source listens to its readership and the outside world, the only question is how much they do it. This is not new.
Open Media or Open Mouth? You decide. Jon should try the former and give up the latter sometime. He has done work for any number of "narcissistic" "Closed Media" entities, including Rolling Stone and Wired, but now you have "seen the light" that this style of journalism is wrong.
For a long time, newspapers and magazines have been "open". They're called LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, and are written by people who have taken the time to compose a note and drop a few cents on postage, rather than the knee-jerk reactions found so often in "Open Media". They pick the best, and print them -- even if your comments weren't published (ooh, you'd hate that, wouldn't you, Jon?), that doesn't mean you haven't contributed.
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I remember playing Doom when I was a high school student that finally begged my parents enough to get a PC as a replacement for our dead C64 more than six years ago. Somewhere around that time, you could play it over the network, too, and you could probably find some mods on your local BBS between sessions of TW:2002.
As far as I can tell, everything by id from Doom on has been the same FPS with more sophisticated engines (see: Quake) and/or packaging (see: Heretic). Starsiege: Tribes has had team gameplay for years, and Quake is just now getting there. What's the next big project? Wolfenstein 2. Gee, lots of creativity in that choice...
If you like FPS, that's fine. To me, it's old and tired. I like inventive/innovative games. Since Doom (well, it goes back farther), I can only think of a handful that have really interested me. Warcraft II was so awesome that I still refuse to play Starcraft, and hybrid games like the god/action ActRaiser (SNES) and the chase/cyoa/race game Driver: You Are the Wheelman (various) are excellent examples of how much fun a game can be without support for the latest 3D buzzwords and spending six months' salary on a rig that can handle them.
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Then again, I remember being a little kid and hearing a recording of my own voice -- it sure as hell didn't sound like me!!!
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Check it out at my crappy page.
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/. used to be full of life, then you sucked it all away -- all that remains is disease, yet you continue to drain. The parasite dies with the host, and you are the parasite.
I normally just ignore your work, but today was too much. Don't fuck with me on a Monday.
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I see you've changed your homepage to something funny for a change -- none of that pro gun or white power shite you usually link to. Once again, I'm not going to see eye to eye with you.
The intent to be a conduit for illegal activity is not illegal. That's why I can go to a neighborhood head shop and buy a four foot bong...
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Separate the law from your conscience. You are not necessarily doing right just because you have done something legal, so why do people think that it is wrong to do something legal?
Trading copyrighted music might be illegal, but I don't see it as wrong.
As far as Napster goes, it doesn't violate any copyright laws. It's a great conduit for illegal materials, but then again, so is just about anything else. Name one Internet protocol or application that isn't in some way used for trafficking pirated materials.
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I'd wager the average overclocked system is more reliable than the comparable non-overclocked system. People that overclock (like myself) understand what is going on inside their systems, and make a point to take care of them.
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I find it hard to believe that FascDot has not squeezed in with a plug for MailOne...
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Silly AC. It would make for a great introduction to the character, and maybe in the process of his introduction explain why he looks like... er, why The Bounty Hunter looks like him! Meta-conspiracy is something that The X-Files thrive(s) upon...
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Geez, if they want a guy like that, why don't they just have Brian Thompson (The Bounty Hunter) play the role?
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It's important to make conclusions with valid data, and Katz doesn't understand some fundamental concepts. As you said, Magneto isn't a bad guy per se, for which I can somewhat forgive him (though he should be better acquainted with geek lore), but at the very least he could spell M-A-G-N-E-T-O correctly! Katz's review should be discarded because of bad data.
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A title like "Engines of Our Ingenuity" is suspiciously Katzish, so I HAD TO see whether Katz was behind the curtain. Did you click through for the same reason?
/. staff has given those people (including myself) a Trojan Horse. This is very upsetting.
While I dislike the work of JonKatz, this is not the issue. The important argument in this thread is that in their preferences, many people have specified that they do not want Katz articles, but on at least three occasions, the
My suggestion for repairing this problem is very simple. If Katz is not going to be the author of all his articles, he should at least be his own subject, just like Science, BSD, etc. -- subjects can also be filtered. Better yet, get another commentator (one with a clue) and make a "commentary" subject that people could choose to filer out, or simply watch and see how the two compare.
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Also, what's up with the new Slashdot icons? Bring back the crappy old photorealistic ones!
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Here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, there is a fair amount of variety in the weather. The southesat suburb of Eagan supposedly got 8.5 inches of rain in one night (and had severe flooding), while Minneapolis (where I live) supposedly got only half an inch. I beg to differ on the latter stat, because I was up when the storm started. I had the blinds open, some smoke in my hand, and Pink Floyd turned waaay up -- there was more than half an inch of rain.
It's just an example of how most storms and are far from uniform here. St. Paul has a HUGE heat plume, thanks to the hot air being blown by mayor Norm Coleman, governor Jesse "The (ahem) Mind" Ventura, and the state Legislature...
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Lately, I've been noticing a lot of billobards in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area pitching Eschelon Communications. I don't care how they spell it -- could you have even the least bit of trust in their PBX and/or Internet services???
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You can find VNC, which is under the GPL, here:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
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I do tech support for their educational/instructional software. I think it's an excellent option in classrooms where teacher-led instruction is not the most practical. When you have a classroom of students with widely varying skills, or just a few students that would benefit from remedial/advanced instruction, it's great for the school and for the kids.
The people responsible for computers in the classroom need to know what the hell they're doing, just like any other tool. Unfortunately, most schools can't afford quality IT, and have "lab managers" that are simply glorified hall monitors/lunch aides. This opens a Pandora's box to trouble when they go up against a 13 year old with the skill and/or motivation to raise hell, or to simply steal the balls from a few mice. In a school with a skilled IS person/staff and the proper equipment, computers and education work quite well together.
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I'd like to add that I have heard that PowerNow! is a technology that is somewhat independent of the core. The K6-2+ will be great for power consumption in smaller devices, but PowerNow! laptops based on Durons and Thunderbird Athlons will eventually become available.
I'm not sure if this will be as significant, however. I haven't seen any mention of power consumption with the Tbird cores, but I assume they will require a lot of juice -- probably more than an Intel SpeedStep, despite the fact that AMD has the better implementation.
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What's up with people with low userid's? The last I knew, all the new users had ID's of 200K+!!!, and even many of them are well aware of "hot grits", and sengan...
Well, since you've (presumably) had such a high comment threshold for ages, I'll fill you in. "Hot grits" is approximately a year old. I'd say it was a popular troll sometime in the (northern) summer or fall of 1999. It was around the same time that the Natalie Portman thing got started, so no earlier than May of last year.
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Well if you want to look at it that way, ActiveX is much more useful -- in a Windows application, it's practically inescapable.
Java Servlets certainly aren't doing anything that hadn't been done before they existed...
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I think the creators of the name were using hash. If you care to argue that it is intelligence dulling (anti-drug FUD), I will argue that it is an enhancement of one's creativity. If you had cutout characters of `C++' on a table, you could mangle it to look like C#...
Besides, it wouldn't be much fun to take the hash out of the "hash bang slash bin slash bash", everyone would have to use stupid arrays with Perl, and frankly, plain corned beef is boring...
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How would I know? AFAIK, my life has not been significantly affected by either technology. It seems to me that Java is really good at three things and not much else:
animation/morphing of text
animation/morphing of graphics
animation/morphing of text AND graphics simultaneously
FWIW, I could live without both.
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The reason corporations are using IIS isn't because of the Active Server Pages backend -- there is already mod_perl, mod_php and others to use in place of server side (VB|J)Script and ODBC connectivity.
The big thing is (has been?) that with NT/IIS, strong encryption and certificates for SSL are much easier to obtain. The only other common option is Solaris/Netscape, so where does Apache fit in?
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If Open Media is supposed to reflect heavily on its readership, why are you still boring us to tears? Why are "Closed Media" institutions more reliable and trustworthy? There is no such thing as open/closed media -- every media source listens to its readership and the outside world, the only question is how much they do it. This is not new.
Open Media or Open Mouth? You decide. Jon should try the former and give up the latter sometime. He has done work for any number of "narcissistic" "Closed Media" entities, including Rolling Stone and Wired, but now you have "seen the light" that this style of journalism is wrong.
For a long time, newspapers and magazines have been "open". They're called LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, and are written by people who have taken the time to compose a note and drop a few cents on postage, rather than the knee-jerk reactions found so often in "Open Media". They pick the best, and print them -- even if your comments weren't published (ooh, you'd hate that, wouldn't you, Jon?), that doesn't mean you haven't contributed.
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