The video Wall-e watches is Hello, Dolly, which is an actual movie. Since Pixar wanted to use scenes from that film, they forced themselves to make anything from that 'era' live action.
The deeper meaning is the transition of the look of humans from live-action to cartoonish (note the pictures of the captains) represents their loss of humanity. It's a particularly brilliant solution to the problem.
Reserving the right to be dead wrong on this, but I could have sworn squiggleslash (parent) was refering to Theo de Raadt being locked out of NetBSD and forming OpenBSD. (Note "major free software operating system").
Steve Purcell (the creator of both the Sam & Max comic books and the LucasArts game) is helping Telltale make the new Steve & Max games (I believe they are planning on making 7 episodes). Gamespot has some movies posted (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/sammaxep1/). I can't say whether the game will be great or live up to Hit the Road, but it looks interested and rumours put the price at $10.
Petroglyph will be releasing a military style RTS around the same time (actually a guess, since neither EA's or Westwood's games have solid release dates as of now).
In other news, the department of agriculture passed with flying colors. Though they haven't figured it how to plug in their 486 yet, so it's not entirely a fair fight.
Google has the same system for Opera, which leads me to conclude they want Opera and Firefox to be the top browsers (which wouldn't be a bad situation, if you ask me).
Judging by how little I use Google's front page any more, I am guessing that the future of search engines is through the browser's search bar. Should the day come where the world is dominated by Mozilla and Opera, it would be very hard for any other search engine to buy into the "put me first in your browser's search bar" setup when Google already has 4 years of paying Opera/Mozilla for just that.
Google is probably quite aware they will lose their power in the search field if they treat users as a commodity. The fact that Google makes sense as the default search engine now won't make a difference in 4+ years.
The question remains though whether members of the US's administration wanted to go to war with Iraq and magically found evidence to support that. I personally believe Bush is a lot more intelligent than what he is made out to be, but he hasn't shown a lot of evidence (to me) that he is capable of catching and fixing various problems his administration makes.
And why would they? It's not hard to restrict access to a wiki, either from within the code or using a firewall. No different than restricting access to subversion or equivalent. However, unlike subversion and other versioning control systems, a wiki makes it very easy to make excellent documentation.
My recommendation is to use subversion and write a script that copies the source files to the wiki whenever someone commits changes, if such a script doesn't already exist.
Better yet, modify the Wiki code (MediaWiki uses PHP, which wouldn't be very hard to mod) to get a copy of the code from the repository rather than looking for the page inside the wiki database. This would work really well as a wiki template ({src repository_name file_name.cpp} to 'include' a copy of the source on the wiki page). As a template, it would prevent anyone from modifying the source from within the wiki (which may or may not be a bad thing, but I wouldn't recommend a wiki as a source editor). You would probably have to roll your own syntax highlighter, but that probably wouldn't be too bad.
I wonder if I can patent the process of filing patents on common technologies, suing everyone to get licenses, and then not actually using the patent to do anything?
What was the percentage in recent years? Assuming the trend is decreasing amount of sharks, how fast is it going? If ten years ago, the sharks percentage was decreasing at.0025/year, but now it's.005/year, that's probably really bad. If now the rate is now.001/year, that's more or less a good thing. At the highest point, what percentage of the ocean had sharks?
Kind of like having a 50% off sale without saying what the original or final price is. Sounds great...
I wonder if the newspapers have considered that a majority of Google News reader probably won't go to their site unless the user see an interesting article on google news?
Why pay for advertising when you can get someone else to do it for you for free?
Yeah, that's what I thought. The first think I thought when I saw the article was "No way, EA would never pass down something like that. They must have meant some other company."
Though I wouldn't doubt that Maxis is the reason behind this.
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The video Wall-e watches is Hello, Dolly, which is an actual movie. Since Pixar wanted to use scenes from that film, they forced themselves to make anything from that 'era' live action. The deeper meaning is the transition of the look of humans from live-action to cartoonish (note the pictures of the captains) represents their loss of humanity. It's a particularly brilliant solution to the problem.
I think you are referring to Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
Reserving the right to be dead wrong on this, but I could have sworn squiggleslash (parent) was refering to Theo de Raadt being locked out of NetBSD and forming OpenBSD. (Note "major free software operating system").
The song is Blag, Steal, and Borrow and they have a Video, if you wish to hear the song.
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I believe this was the last Edgy artwork.
Steve Purcell (the creator of both the Sam & Max comic books and the LucasArts game) is helping Telltale make the new Steve & Max games (I believe they are planning on making 7 episodes). Gamespot has some movies posted (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/sammaxep1/). I can't say whether the game will be great or live up to Hit the Road, but it looks interested and rumours put the price at $10.
Do they have deadlines on assignments?
Petroglyph will be releasing a military style RTS around the same time (actually a guess, since neither EA's or Westwood's games have solid release dates as of now).
http://www.petroglyphgames.com/press/segaann.html
Coincidence?
Did any department pass?
In other news, the department of agriculture passed with flying colors. Though they haven't figured it how to plug in their 486 yet, so it's not entirely a fair fight.
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility" Ambrose Bierce
Linux is for loosers interview Slashdot Interview Various emails from when he was kicked off the NetBSD project The world doesn't need any more BSD v Linux wars, and I never though I would see BSD v BSD wars until I heard of him. Theo is basically a complete dick and has no tolerance for anything other than his narrow ideals. It shouldn't be vary hard to see why both companies and users are less than enthusiastic about funding him.
Google has the same system for Opera, which leads me to conclude they want Opera and Firefox to be the top browsers (which wouldn't be a bad situation, if you ask me).
Judging by how little I use Google's front page any more, I am guessing that the future of search engines is through the browser's search bar. Should the day come where the world is dominated by Mozilla and Opera, it would be very hard for any other search engine to buy into the "put me first in your browser's search bar" setup when Google already has 4 years of paying Opera/Mozilla for just that.
Google is probably quite aware they will lose their power in the search field if they treat users as a commodity. The fact that Google makes sense as the default search engine now won't make a difference in 4+ years.
I agree. Borland's free C++ compiler is excellent (and free!), even though it hasn't been updated since 2000.
The question remains though whether members of the US's administration wanted to go to war with Iraq and magically found evidence to support that. I personally believe Bush is a lot more intelligent than what he is made out to be, but he hasn't shown a lot of evidence (to me) that he is capable of catching and fixing various problems his administration makes.
And why would they? It's not hard to restrict access to a wiki, either from within the code or using a firewall. No different than restricting access to subversion or equivalent. However, unlike subversion and other versioning control systems, a wiki makes it very easy to make excellent documentation.
My recommendation is to use subversion and write a script that copies the source files to the wiki whenever someone commits changes, if such a script doesn't already exist.
Better yet, modify the Wiki code (MediaWiki uses PHP, which wouldn't be very hard to mod) to get a copy of the code from the repository rather than looking for the page inside the wiki database. This would work really well as a wiki template ({src repository_name file_name.cpp} to 'include' a copy of the source on the wiki page). As a template, it would prevent anyone from modifying the source from within the wiki (which may or may not be a bad thing, but I wouldn't recommend a wiki as a source editor). You would probably have to roll your own syntax highlighter, but that probably wouldn't be too bad.
I wonder if I can patent the process of filing patents on common technologies, suing everyone to get licenses, and then not actually using the patent to do anything?
What was the percentage in recent years? Assuming the trend is decreasing amount of sharks, how fast is it going? If ten years ago, the sharks percentage was decreasing at .0025/year, but now it's .005/year, that's probably really bad. If now the rate is now .001/year, that's more or less a good thing. At the highest point, what percentage of the ocean had sharks?
Kind of like having a 50% off sale without saying what the original or final price is. Sounds great...
Graphs are really nice.
No podcast is worth $7/month (at least the ones I've heard). That's more than what I used to spend on dial up Internet access.
Shoot, are we all going to have to leave Canada for France?
I hope everyone is aware that this expensive, complex anti-counterfeiting setup is just begging to be broken by some sort of extremely simply method.
Quite true. But when was the last time you met someone who was right winged socially and extremely libertarian?
Or maybe the intelligent designer supervisors saved a lot of money on creating the world by outsourcing to geckos.
I wonder if the newspapers have considered that a majority of Google News reader probably won't go to their site unless the user see an interesting article on google news? Why pay for advertising when you can get someone else to do it for you for free?
Yeah, that's what I thought. The first think I thought when I saw the article was "No way, EA would never pass down something like that. They must have meant some other company." Though I wouldn't doubt that Maxis is the reason behind this.