You don't have to have a rain forest to wipe out species. Tell a San Francisco garter snake he's not endangered because he doesn't live in a rain forest. If you can find one.
I haven't bought a single PC game in recent memory that I didn't
download a demo or or borrow from a friend first (well there was
Half-Life, but that was a gift. And come on, it's Half-Life!) There
are hundreds of PSX titles out there, but I only own 7 of them,
because I have no reasonable way of finding out which ones I'd
like. Gaming journalism is largely a joke, the writers tend to have
$5000 PC's and every console in history, have played more games
than I've ever even seen or heard of, and have editors that won't
let them come out and say a game sucks balls. And renting games
based solely on the box-back propaganda (and maybe some of the
aforementioned BS journalism) for $5 doesn't float my boat.
Disclaimer: I have been big into both PC and console gaming at various times in the past.
The console market seems to be slowly coming around to demos, demo discs often come with videogame magazines just like they do for PC gaming. That said, scrounging up a PSX demo disc is not nearly as convenient as clicking on a web site to download a PC demo, then playing it without ever getting out of your chair.
I think you're wrong about console game reviewers not being objective, at least on the Internet. I'm a big fan of VideoGamespot, I think they give consistent reviews and they aren't afraid to tell you an overhyped game is a piece of crap (or more likely, just average). There are certainly other sites on the net with similar ethics, you just have to find them.
Over the years I've come to trust videogamespot's ratings overall. If a game gets a 9+ from them I can buy it feeling confident it will be a good game and I've never been disappointed (maybe I'm just not critical enough).
I didn't really dig the new 3D trend very much either for a long time.
If you have an N64 do yourself a favor: check out the 3D Zelda game from last year, "Occarina of Time". I found it a genuine pleasure to play, the controls made exploring and fighting in 3D effortless.
It's hard for me to even conceive of a residential
situation that doesn't include parking space. This certainly rules
out the project car, the trailer for the motorcycle, the jetski...
It's the city man, of course there's no parking.
If you want to live in a parking lot and have a three-car garage for your Ski-Doo, there's plenty of asphalt down in the Valley.
Personally I like not having to hassle with a car.
The reason L&O has survived so many casting changes is because L&O isn't about the characters at all. I find this very refreshing in a TV lineup filled with sitcoms and other drivel.
Every L&O ep is completely about the case, we see only what the cops and lawyers see on the job. They do a little character development to keep it from turning into a documentary, but the story is what drives the show, not any particular character.
If the X-Files could abstract away from the central characters a little more and focus on the cases, it might be possible for the show to continue post-Mulder-and-Scully. Honestly I find the Mulder-angst-fixation eps to be the most boring of the lot, I'll be happy to see him less.
I walk or take mass transit almost everywhere, and I have been hanging onto my car for basically the same reason: grocery shopping. It sounds silly, but it's true.
Then we started using Webvan. Now the groceries come to us. I'm starting to run out of reasons to keep the car.
Thank you for posting this. Too many people seem to think transparent X widgets are the definition of "cool hack" these days. Your washing machine is one of the coolest things I've heard of in a long time.
I've decided that I think it's OK to make an exception for Mozilla because it's not like every other application out there: it's supposed to be my web platform.
Every web page out there has a different interface. Slashdot is different from Gamespot is different from Freshmeat, there is no consistency. I see Mozilla as a direct extension of the web in this way. It's a window to a web of 1000 different interfaces, who cares if the button bar at the top is the same as my word processor?
Regardless, it probably won't take long for a Mac developer to build a browser with native Mac widgets that uses many of the nice reusable components from Mozilla that I keep hearing about. You don't have to just take the stock Mozilla ditstribution or nothing, there are sure to be shades of grey.
RH writes their installers in Python, and their text-based installer seems decent enough to me. Find out what they use and see if it will work for you.
Maybe the point is: you won't get rich making an album of 8 songs every 2 years anymore. Those days are over now.
Though I'm talking out of my ass here, I think it's possible that a lot of musicians were hurt, not helped, by the invention of the phonograph. How many live acts lost work because they were replaced by jukeboxes and radios at diners and saloons? Didn't those musicians have a right to get paid?
No, there's no right to get paid for what you do: if you need money, you do something people are willing to pay for. And sometimes technology comes along and shakes up your business, and like the buggy-whip makers and big-band musicians, you have to figure out some other way to make money.
I would like to get paid to drink beer, but that isn't really possible for me. So I do something else that pays me money (writing software) and drink beer as a hobby.
The raw performance of the hardware being used for scientific and parallel programming has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 10-20 years. However, most folks still program these supercomputers much the same way they did in the 80's: Unix, Fortran, explicit message passing, etc.
You have worked in research with Legion and in industry at HPTi. Do you think there is hope for some radical new programming technology that makes clusters easier for scientists to use? If so, what do you think the cluster programming environment of tomorrow might look like?
You know nothing about graphics, apparently. 3D cards have absolutely nothing to do with professional 3D graphics. Professional 3D graphics use raytracing renderers, which deliver the best quality you can get but are very slow. 3D cards use scanline renderers, which are much faster but give lesser quality (however, the quality is still easily enough for games). But because that's not used in professional 3D graphics, the fastest 3D card in the world makes no difference at all for pro stuff.
_I_ know nothing about graphics, so I don't feel ashamed to ask you this question:
How does one do 3D modelling with a raytracer? I though it was desirable to actually interact with the model as you build it...
An applications company will necessarily develop for all platforms, since it will not care about the success of a particular one. Office for Mac and Linux is right around the corner. An applications company will seek to maximize profits by making it's product available on all possible platforms. I would have to say evidence is to the contrary. There are plenty of software companies out there who have never been part of MS and only develop for Windows. There are even hardware companies who only make Windows drivers. Why would "MS-Apps" develop for any new platforms if lots of other companies don't?
I think Dr. Zowie has hit the nail on the head. From what I can tell from the ruling, the issue with DMCA has nothing to do with copyright, it's about access.
Apparently when I purchase a DVD, I'm not purchasing a license to view the movie on the DVD. I've purchased the right to view the movie by playing the DVD _on a player licensed by the DVD CCA_.
So if I don't happen to own a licensed player (e.g. because there isn't one for Linux or BeOS or DOS or whatever) I'm out of luck, I shouldn't have bought the disc.
When Sony was asked about this they said (last I heard) that they have decided not to have the PS2 provide any kind of graphical enhancement or speed improvement to the old games, even though they have a ton of processing power to do it with.
They want the backwards compatibility to be "completely backwards" (my words).
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Meteos and Mario Kart are system sellers for the DS in my opinion.
Metroid Pinball and the Kirby game are pretty good too, but not as outstanding as the first two.
I didn't care for Nintendogs, but I have real dogs.
Office for MacOS X doesn't use X11, it uses the native OS X GUI. IIRC they are using Carbon, a transitional API from older MacOS's to OS X.
IIRC the TiVo uses one of the embedded PowerPC variants, not x86.
You don't have to have a rain forest to wipe out species. Tell a San Francisco garter snake he's not endangered because he doesn't live in a rain forest. If you can find one.
Disclaimer: I have been big into both PC and console gaming at various times in the past.
The console market seems to be slowly coming around to demos, demo discs often come with videogame magazines just like they do for PC gaming. That said, scrounging up a PSX demo disc is not nearly as convenient as clicking on a web site to download a PC demo, then playing it without ever getting out of your chair.
I think you're wrong about console game reviewers not being objective, at least on the Internet. I'm a big fan of VideoGamespot, I think they give consistent reviews and they aren't afraid to tell you an overhyped game is a piece of crap (or more likely, just average). There are certainly other sites on the net with similar ethics, you just have to find them.
Over the years I've come to trust videogamespot's ratings overall. If a game gets a 9+ from them I can buy it feeling confident it will be a good game and I've never been disappointed (maybe I'm just not critical enough).
I didn't really dig the new 3D trend very much either for a long time.
If you have an N64 do yourself a favor: check out the 3D Zelda game from last year, "Occarina of Time". I found it a genuine pleasure to play, the controls made exploring and fighting in 3D effortless.
It's the city man, of course there's no parking.
If you want to live in a parking lot and have a three-car garage for your Ski-Doo, there's plenty of asphalt down in the Valley.
Personally I like not having to hassle with a car.
Looking at the industry, it appears that there already is a standard "bytecode" that almost every platform can run:
x86 code.
Alan Moore wrote _Watchmen_.
to play games you cannot get on the PC!
No. The reason(s) for buying a console is:
The reason L&O has survived so many casting changes is because L&O isn't about the characters at all. I find this very refreshing in a TV lineup filled with sitcoms and other drivel.
Every L&O ep is completely about the case, we see only what the cops and lawyers see on the job. They do a little character development to keep it from turning into a documentary, but the story is what drives the show, not any particular character.
If the X-Files could abstract away from the central characters a little more and focus on the cases, it might be possible for the show to continue post-Mulder-and-Scully. Honestly I find the Mulder-angst-fixation eps to be the most boring of the lot, I'll be happy to see him less.
Then we started using Webvan. Now the groceries come to us. I'm starting to run out of reasons to keep the car.
From the man page:
I like the icons.
Thank you for posting this. Too many people seem to think transparent X widgets are the definition of "cool hack" these days. Your washing machine is one of the coolest things I've heard of in a long time.
I've decided that I think it's OK to make an exception for Mozilla because it's not like every other application out there: it's supposed to be my web platform.
Every web page out there has a different interface. Slashdot is different from Gamespot is different from Freshmeat, there is no consistency. I see Mozilla as a direct extension of the web in this way. It's a window to a web of 1000 different interfaces, who cares if the button bar at the top is the same as my word processor?
Regardless, it probably won't take long for a Mac developer to build a browser with native Mac widgets that uses many of the nice reusable components from Mozilla that I keep hearing about. You don't have to just take the stock Mozilla ditstribution or nothing, there are sure to be shades of grey.
RH writes their installers in Python, and their text-based installer seems decent enough to me. Find out what they use and see if it will work for you.
Maybe the point is: you won't get rich making an album of 8 songs every 2 years anymore. Those days are over now.
Though I'm talking out of my ass here, I think it's possible that a lot of musicians were hurt, not helped, by the invention of the phonograph. How many live acts lost work because they were replaced by jukeboxes and radios at diners and saloons? Didn't those musicians have a right to get paid?
No, there's no right to get paid for what you do: if you need money, you do something people are willing to pay for. And sometimes technology comes along and shakes up your business, and like the buggy-whip makers and big-band musicians, you have to figure out some other way to make money.
I would like to get paid to drink beer, but that isn't really possible for me. So I do something else that pays me money (writing software) and drink beer as a hobby.
The raw performance of the hardware being used for scientific and parallel programming has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 10-20 years. However, most folks still program these supercomputers much the same way they did in the 80's: Unix, Fortran, explicit message passing, etc.
You have worked in research with Legion and in industry at HPTi. Do you think there is hope for some radical new programming technology that makes clusters easier for scientists to use? If so, what do you think the cluster programming environment of tomorrow might look like?
_I_ know nothing about graphics, so I don't feel ashamed to ask you this question:
How does one do 3D modelling with a raytracer? I though it was desirable to actually interact with the model as you build it...
My Toshiba Portege 300CT has this type of screen. I run XFree on it with its full 1024x600 resolution, it works great for me.
An applications company will necessarily develop for all platforms, since it will not care about the success of a particular one. Office for Mac and Linux is right around the corner. An applications company will seek to maximize profits by making it's product available on all possible platforms. I would have to say evidence is to the contrary. There are plenty of software companies out there who have never been part of MS and only develop for Windows. There are even hardware companies who only make Windows drivers. Why would "MS-Apps" develop for any new platforms if lots of other companies don't?
Maybe I shouldn't admit this on a public forum, but I still watch the Conan movies anytime they come on TBS.
But you're right, fantasy movies tend to automatically suck for some reason.
I think Dr. Zowie has hit the nail on the head. From what I can tell from the ruling, the issue with DMCA has nothing to do with copyright, it's about access.
Apparently when I purchase a DVD, I'm not purchasing a license to view the movie on the DVD. I've purchased the right to view the movie by playing the DVD _on a player licensed by the DVD CCA_.
So if I don't happen to own a licensed player (e.g. because there isn't one for Linux or BeOS or DOS or whatever) I'm out of luck, I shouldn't have bought the disc.
When Sony was asked about this they said (last I heard) that they have decided not to have the PS2 provide any kind of graphical enhancement or speed improvement to the old games, even though they have a ton of processing power to do it with.
They want the backwards compatibility to be "completely backwards" (my words).