This is a good development. I've bought counterfeit software by accident before--companies rarely give you any sort of compensation and demand you send them the media. Screw that, eh?
Many were the days where I played Moraff's World on a Trident chipset...
I've got an SIS something-or-other in my desktop. It sucks so horrendously it makes grown men cry like babies.
I could plug khMUD (the codebase I'm working on), but I'll pass on that.
MUDs involve a greater degree of practice and--I think, at least--to be successful on a MUD you have to be a good bit brighter than the usual MMO gamer. If your MUD is a roleplaying one, it can greatly help your English skills; I've been playing a couple of MUDs continuously for about seven years and more or less as a direct result of it my typing has greatly improved, as has my English.
TFA makes some good points. However, the bit about A ports being plugged in upside down makes me go "erk?". The bit of plastic inside the metal sleeve of the plug only allows it to go in one way. You'd have to seriously force it. And nobody likes hearing their USB ports go crunch.
However, he's got a point in that it's hard to tell which way is up. My computers don't have front-panel USB ports and I have to fiddle with them in order to get them to work. Yes, USB plugs have the little holes in one side, but that's really not enough to work properly.
I've got some experience writing drivers for USB peripherals (wrote my own iPod driver for Windows 98, because I'm a curmudgeon) and I agree fully with him when he says that wireless using the USB spec has promise. It may be a bit odd to implement, but it could potentially be a godsend. As they stand, wireless devices usually need a base station of some sort, and at least 3/4 of the ones I've used suck.
Insane - hell, okay, you've got to be somewhat insane to write science fiction, it comes with the territory.
Christian - Oh my God, he's a Mormon. How dare he.
Homophobe - Here's the problem. See, that little article you quote says that he's against the federal courts more or less making laws. I would agree with that, even though homosexual marriages don't bother me. If he was homophobic as you claim, I seriously doubt that he'd treat homosexual characters as benevolently and well as he does (Earthfall comes to mind).
Sticking just with consoles, two series come to mind that wallop the tar out of every FF game. Granted, these are from 32-bit systems, but the LUNAR games started on the Sega CD and were still better games.
-Suikoden I/II (Please ignore III and IV, they're the inbred cousins we don't talk about). 108 characters, all of which actually have some value to your party (unlike...say...Relm), deep storylines, and storylines that actually respond to the player. Unlike the FF games, which are on rails and thoroughly nonresponsive to the player.
-LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete and LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete. They're on rails, and the combat is somewhat outdated--but if you don't find the LUNAR stories to be up there with the most touching you've ever played, I can't do anything but shake my head.
NASA is the only government agency ever to pay for itself. Add to that the things in everyday life that are the direct or indirect result of NASA's research (everything from Velcro to MRI machines) and you have an organization that should be maintained.
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DSLinux guys, I hereby award you the Woolen Spork of Uselessness. And maybe a six-pack too.
Gotta love murder simulators, eh?
Practice kissing ass in real-time!
That doesn't make it any less illegal, and demanding you give them the counterfeit media without compensating you for it is bullshit.
This is a good development. I've bought counterfeit software by accident before--companies rarely give you any sort of compensation and demand you send them the media. Screw that, eh?
Many were the days where I played Moraff's World on a Trident chipset... I've got an SIS something-or-other in my desktop. It sucks so horrendously it makes grown men cry like babies.
I could plug khMUD (the codebase I'm working on), but I'll pass on that. MUDs involve a greater degree of practice and--I think, at least--to be successful on a MUD you have to be a good bit brighter than the usual MMO gamer. If your MUD is a roleplaying one, it can greatly help your English skills; I've been playing a couple of MUDs continuously for about seven years and more or less as a direct result of it my typing has greatly improved, as has my English.
TFA makes some good points. However, the bit about A ports being plugged in upside down makes me go "erk?". The bit of plastic inside the metal sleeve of the plug only allows it to go in one way. You'd have to seriously force it. And nobody likes hearing their USB ports go crunch.
However, he's got a point in that it's hard to tell which way is up. My computers don't have front-panel USB ports and I have to fiddle with them in order to get them to work. Yes, USB plugs have the little holes in one side, but that's really not enough to work properly.
I've got some experience writing drivers for USB peripherals (wrote my own iPod driver for Windows 98, because I'm a curmudgeon) and I agree fully with him when he says that wireless using the USB spec has promise. It may be a bit odd to implement, but it could potentially be a godsend. As they stand, wireless devices usually need a base station of some sort, and at least 3/4 of the ones I've used suck.
Nuclear power lift vehicles will not happen for quite some time. Nuclear explosions are verboten in space, sayeth a couple of various treaties.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
Insane - hell, okay, you've got to be somewhat insane to write science fiction, it comes with the territory.
Christian - Oh my God, he's a Mormon. How dare he.
Homophobe - Here's the problem. See, that little article you quote says that he's against the federal courts more or less making laws. I would agree with that, even though homosexual marriages don't bother me. If he was homophobic as you claim, I seriously doubt that he'd treat homosexual characters as benevolently and well as he does (Earthfall comes to mind).
So, uh--smile! You're wrong!
We address him as the Colonel now, thank you.
Dammit, I wasted those pilots! Lost so many suits in that fight...but my drones won in the end!
Wrong. English is a proper noun. It is always capitalized.
Sticking just with consoles, two series come to mind that wallop the tar out of every FF game. Granted, these are from 32-bit systems, but the LUNAR games started on the Sega CD and were still better games.
-Suikoden I/II (Please ignore III and IV, they're the inbred cousins we don't talk about). 108 characters, all of which actually have some value to your party (unlike...say...Relm), deep storylines, and storylines that actually respond to the player. Unlike the FF games, which are on rails and thoroughly nonresponsive to the player.
-LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete and LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete. They're on rails, and the combat is somewhat outdated--but if you don't find the LUNAR stories to be up there with the most touching you've ever played, I can't do anything but shake my head.
To everyone that decries NASA as too expensive:
NASA is the only government agency ever to pay for itself. Add to that the things in everyday life that are the direct or indirect result of NASA's research (everything from Velcro to MRI machines) and you have an organization that should be maintained.
Because, sadly, the GP32's hardware is gimpy as all hell.
I remember when I got pepper sprayed...tasering is worse. Not going to say where it happened.
Not looking it up at the moment, but something like Bonanza or Gunsmoke probably is up there, too.
Sorry, no. As the previous poster said, you're talking about free software.
Excellent work being wrong. Back to your RMS hole.