Actually, the point of it being a haiku is twofold:
It's a relatively small amount of text. This makes it simple to stuff into a mail header. Haiku is a recognised art form. This is intended to clearly establish coyright protection.
They sure do. I just set up our first three of the current crop of Apple 23" LCD displays and they're beautiful. The image quality is fantastic, and 1920x1200 is vast tracts of screen real estate. Our Photoshop jockeys haven't been happier. One guy had Warcraft III up late in the day, and it looked good.
Rabid fan base ? Check. I'm posting this after all. Global fan base ? Check, I routinely see Spanish, Russian, English and Hungarian in online chat - often in the same game. User base in the 100,000s ? Check. The developers are Russian and have sold massively in Russia. Odds are, most IL-2 players don't speak English at home. Better than the Microsoft alternative ? - probably, haven't played CFS3 to know for sure. Obscure topics ? - Triple check, Russia, Finland and Hungary in WW2.
The demo available now is for Il-2 and is 2 major patches out of date. It's still hella cool. Forgotten Battles upgraded things substantially in both flight modelling and graphics. No due date on the demo for FB. Just play the IL2 demo with the knowledge that the current retail product is (amazingly) a heckuva lot better.
Microsoft is very fond of including moving targets in their interfaces. Win2K (Office 2K ?) introduced the "smart menus, which changed over time as you used them. So just as you learn where something is, the OS moves it. Then you have to find it all over again. The multi-rowed tabs that move suck even more, since it's in your face and moving things around while you're trying to use it.
It's true:-( But when you get to the current set of desktops, a dual 1.25 GHz is silky smooth in the Finder. Of course, it should run *real well* on any G4.
Ket's face it. Kazaa is annoying. Sure, you can get free music. But you still have the problems of mislabelled files, low quality rips, disconnects, slow transfers, interrupted transfers, incomplete 'catalogues', scarcity of uncommon material... The list goes on and on. The BIG advantage of a commercial (B2P ?) service is that, unless Akamai goes down, the files are always Right There. It's the classic "you get what you pay for" situation.
An Apple-designed service can be expected to be well-designed, reliable, and cool. If 4 major record labels really do provide content this could take off in a major way. This could materially increase Apple's marketshare. Contrast this with Microsoft's DRM-laden plans and you'll see that there will be a clear choice
My employer pays a lot of ASCAP fees, and we have to support Limewire because we have legitimate needs for rapid access to a vast music library. The #1 question during the iTunes 'rollout' was "can I download MP3s with this ?" That answer is about to change.
No, cast Jennifer Garner as Fujiko, and then keep the name. The Japanese have been putting Japanese names on Caucasian faces (modulo hair color, which varies wildly) for so long it's time Hollywood acknowledged it.
As for Jigen, go for Christian Slater or, in the rapper-turned-action-star trend, and I'm-gonna-hate-myself-for-saying-this cast Eminem in the role.
I'd rather have Slater personally, but apallingly enough, Eminem just might work in the role. My "only" concern is he's a bit young for the role. Maybe MikeD ? On seocnd thought, definitely a Beastie Boy. (this is either +1 Insightful, +1 Funny, or -1 Wrong).
Zenigata ? Christopher Frantz, let him have FUN with a role for once.
Well, if they're calling you late at night... that's your first clue:-)
A lot of small businesses don't have an IT staff at all. But do own a server (see 'Code Red' and NIMDA for further details) and outsource administration. So you'll be dealing with anyone from power user [1] to the cupholder guy.
I'd like to thank Sean from the Studio at the office for being an invaluable source of tech savvy when I'm out of the office or swamped.
I hadn't done any flight-sim gaming for ten years (CYAC) before I finally gave the updated IL-2 demo a try. The first one didn't grab me, but the updated demo hooked me badly on online gaming (a mix of mostly "air quake" and "hardcore settings" servers). And the demo only does 4-player online games.
Ubi has also given the lead developer, Oleg Maddox (this crazy Russian programmer), and his company a great deal of latitude in terms of free patches (several very large updates, with new planes) and communicating with fans. They have a very well-run forum, with both an official Ubi presence and fan moderators (take that however you will). Their policy seems to be very fan-centric, at least as far as IL-2 goes.
Whatever else Ubi has done, they've done the Right Thing with IL-2 (which you should try).
I'm just downloading the new video from the expanion now.
ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/games/il2sturmovik/media/V id eo_IL-2fb.zip
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Actually, the point of it being a haiku is twofold:
It's a relatively small amount of text. This makes it simple to stuff into a mail header.
Haiku is a recognised art form. This is intended to clearly establish coyright protection.
They sure do. I just set up our first three of the current crop of Apple 23" LCD displays and they're beautiful. The image quality is fantastic, and 1920x1200 is vast tracts of screen real estate. Our Photoshop jockeys haven't been happier. One guy had Warcraft III up late in the day, and it looked good.
"Prepare three envelopes..."
IL-2 Sturmovik is a Really Good flight sim. Try it if you've got the servcie.
Don't mind us, we're just deriving humor for a syntactical (and I'm being generous) ambiguity.
How about IL-2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles ?
Rabid fan base ? Check. I'm posting this after all.
Global fan base ? Check, I routinely see Spanish, Russian, English and Hungarian in online chat - often in the same game.
User base in the 100,000s ? Check. The developers are Russian and have sold massively in Russia. Odds are, most IL-2 players don't speak English at home.
Better than the Microsoft alternative ? - probably, haven't played CFS3 to know for sure.
Obscure topics ? - Triple check, Russia, Finland and Hungary in WW2.
The demo available now is for Il-2 and is 2 major patches out of date. It's still hella cool. Forgotten Battles upgraded things substantially in both flight modelling and graphics. No due date on the demo for FB. Just play the IL2 demo with the knowledge that the current retail product is (amazingly) a heckuva lot better.
Check it out.
And I smoke crack.
And even if it did, the OS X print-to-pdf would look better. It might be *bigger*, but there are ways to optimize PDFs.
Microsoft is very fond of including moving targets in their interfaces. Win2K (Office 2K ?) introduced the "smart menus, which changed over time as you used them. So just as you learn where something is, the OS moves it. Then you have to find it all over again. The multi-rowed tabs that move suck even more, since it's in your face and moving things around while you're trying to use it.
And combo boxes still suck.
I like the battle axe analogy.
Apple Menu/Dock:System Preferences:Desktop:Appearance
Try "Graphite". All of the blue elements in the Aqua look become a nice grey. It's very low-key, not "in your face" at all.
It's true :-( But when you get to the current set of desktops, a dual 1.25 GHz is silky smooth in the Finder. Of course, it should run *real well* on any G4.
It's entirely unfair of you to put pcd@pwlaw.com on a website known to be trawled (and trolled) by spammers.
"I hear chopping, but I don't hear digging..."
It's still a funny joke.
"We need walkie-talkies, lots of walkie-talkies."
At the bottom of the chart:
"Original UNIX history chart created by Eric Levenez. Copyright (C) 1996-2003, Eric Levenez. January 2, 2003. Used with permission."
They're fine on this one.
Ket's face it. Kazaa is annoying. Sure, you can get free music. But you still have the problems of mislabelled files, low quality rips, disconnects, slow transfers, interrupted transfers, incomplete 'catalogues', scarcity of uncommon material... The list goes on and on. The BIG advantage of a commercial (B2P ?) service is that, unless Akamai goes down, the files are always Right There. It's the classic "you get what you pay for" situation.
An Apple-designed service can be expected to be well-designed, reliable, and cool. If 4 major record labels really do provide content this could take off in a major way. This could materially increase Apple's marketshare. Contrast this with Microsoft's DRM-laden plans and you'll see that there will be a clear choice
My employer pays a lot of ASCAP fees, and we have to support Limewire because we have legitimate needs for rapid access to a vast music library. The #1 question during the iTunes 'rollout' was "can I download MP3s with this ?" That answer is about to change.
No, cast Jennifer Garner as Fujiko, and then keep the name. The Japanese have been putting Japanese names on Caucasian faces (modulo hair color, which varies wildly) for so long it's time Hollywood acknowledged it.
As for Jigen, go for Christian Slater or, in the rapper-turned-action-star trend, and I'm-gonna-hate-myself-for-saying-this cast Eminem in the role.
I'd rather have Slater personally, but apallingly enough, Eminem just might work in the role. My "only" concern is he's a bit young for the role. Maybe MikeD ? On seocnd thought, definitely a Beastie Boy. (this is either +1 Insightful, +1 Funny, or -1 Wrong).
Zenigata ? Christopher Frantz, let him have FUN with a role for once.
I have no idea who could play Lupin himself.
Well, if they're calling you late at night... that's your first clue :-)
A lot of small businesses don't have an IT staff at all. But do own a server (see 'Code Red' and NIMDA for further details) and outsource administration. So you'll be dealing with anyone from power user [1] to the cupholder guy.
I'd like to thank Sean from the Studio at the office for being an invaluable source of tech savvy when I'm out of the office or swamped.
Hmmm... How about - shut it down, open it up, pull the drive and FedEx it to me ?
S'right !
Classic stuff. All of it.
I hadn't done any flight-sim gaming for ten years (CYAC) before I finally gave the updated IL-2 demo a try. The first one didn't grab me, but the updated demo hooked me badly on online gaming (a mix of mostly "air quake" and "hardcore settings" servers). And the demo only does 4-player online games.
V id eo_IL-2fb.zip
Ubi has also given the lead developer, Oleg Maddox (this crazy Russian programmer), and his company a great deal of latitude in terms of free patches (several very large updates, with new planes) and communicating with fans. They have a very well-run forum, with both an official Ubi presence and fan moderators (take that however you will). Their policy seems to be very fan-centric, at least as far as IL-2 goes.
Whatever else Ubi has done, they've done the Right Thing with IL-2 (which you should try).
I'm just downloading the new video from the expanion now.
ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/games/il2sturmovik/media/
Someone really ought to submit it as a story, probably to kuro5hin.
Let me get back to you on that in a couple hours.
Aha ! I didn't get the Birds reference, I haven't seen that for decades (drove through Bodega Bay 6 weeks ago :-).