How is this different from setting your IRC client from pinging when a questioner utters a keyword which you decide you want to help people?
I understand that you have not intended to replicate IRC, and that this might be a good way to get more support for users who are intimidated by IRC. The analogue would be the way that web forums seem to have displaced USENET. But in practice, haven't you simply reimplemented, over jabber, things that have existed over IRC for quite some time?
I guess what I'm really asking is this--who has really ever played "air piano"? Because, really, that's all Guitar Hero is--a kind of reification of an Air Guitar.
OK, I'll own up to playing "air piano" every so often. But that's because I play the real instrument [badly]
...I would be very interested to see how a Piano Hero would work. Guitar Hero has, well...zero...to do with actually knowing how to play guitar. Would they similarly "abstract" the keyboards? Could they?
The frustration level will be high for a game that would (at its highest "level") require both feet and all ten fingers moving independently.
Ah, but a rich and lucrative private sector has emerged, giving users their choice of Windows documentation....for a price. Linux documentation lags well behind the development of the actual software.
In fairness, however, the most-used, best-established software in Linux tends to be exhaustively (obsessively?) documented, I think. The most aggravating no-docs situations seem to arise on desktop apps under heavy development.
With respect: you've passed through the looking-glass.
At home, in uhMURRkuh, you are so thoroughly immersed in your culture and sub-culture that you're not aware of it. You might as well ask whether a fish notices water.
Abroad, in Japan, or elsewhere, you have to deal with a new culture, and how you "slot in" to that new culture. While I accept (and know from my own cultural/linguistic experiences) that many things *are* in fact different in each culture, I have noticed that the very strangeness of a new culture totally changes your relationship/perception with even those parts that are most analogous to your "home" experience.
In your case, you're seeing a great deal of negativity in Japan against people who play videogames, even though you know that millions of people must be playing videogames. Hadn't it occurred to you that precisely the same negativity exists in your home culture? It probably has, at some level, but since you're so comfortably ensconced in your sub-cultural niche, you never gave it much thought. It has taken a cultural dislocation to make you see there are other ways of thinking about games and gaming.
This, folks, is why people *should* travel. Experiencing other cultures doesn't just mean drinking their liquor--although that's part of it, as well.
The banning of Skype at some departments and colleges at Cambridge comes as no surprise to me.
I was at Cambridge during the late 90's-early Noughties, and I seem to recall a number of stern warnings to students about bandwidth usage from both College and University computing authorities. One of them even included a plea to use European or British mirrors as much as possible.
The shame is that while the Cambridge University Data Network had bandwidth to burn within Cambridge, it seems that the trouble was always further upstream on JANET.
Things got so bad that there were rumours at the time that the poorer colleges were going to start charging their students for bandwidth. I never heard anything of it, and it didn't stop the proliferation of p2p (both in the form of Napster and samba shares) in my time there.
I once had the opportunity to meet with and talk to one of the men who was involved in breaking the Enigma cipher during World War II. "If you have anything important to say," he said, "don't transmit it over the air. You can be sure someone will be listening, if they want to. And if you've encoded it, it's a matter of time before they decode it. If the Germans hadn't been so dependent on radiotelegraphs and had bothered to use cables, we wouldn't know half as much as what we finally found out."
The article is about New South Wales, which is only one Australian state. While it's big news that NSW has decided to put Novell on its Approved Vendors list, the summary seemed to imply that the deal was with the federal government. it is NOT.
This is roughly the same as, say the state of New York or Ohio putting Novell on its approved vendors list. News, but not massive news. C'mon, slashdot editors. Learn some geography/politics.
As for the light bloom, blurs and other effects, while producing a neat result, especially in stills I tend to find distracting during gameplay. I've seen several games with these kinds of effects and the majority tend to overdo it. It's like I have cataracts or something. Someone with good eyesight doesn't see the world that way. I realize they're going for a cinematic feel, but at least don't overdo it.
Amen. "lens flare" effects are overdone to DEATH...I love how it seems that in games, all the "lenses" have nearly circular apertures, a bad problem with internal reflections/ghosting, and what look like dozens of air/glass interfaces. It seems to me that if you care enough to put flare/ghosting effects in, you should at least bother to make them believable (polygonal apertures instead of circular, effects of flare on overall image colour/contrast, etc).
I guess there are really precious few laptops on the market--there are many portable computers, but few of them are really usable on the lap without inelegant kludges like add-on cooler tables.
Heck, I wouldn't flame for that, and I'm an Ubuntu user. Once they're running Linux, that's the first big step. Besides, it's only a matter of time before they switch distros, anyway./p?
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How is this different from setting your IRC client from pinging when a questioner utters a keyword which you decide you want to help people?
I understand that you have not intended to replicate IRC, and that this might be a good way to get more support for users who are intimidated by IRC. The analogue would be the way that web forums seem to have displaced USENET. But in practice, haven't you simply reimplemented, over jabber, things that have existed over IRC for quite some time?
The technical mac community is assumed to be so small that everybody knows everybody else?
File chapter 11 and liquidate those assets already.
I always thought that chapter 11 was "reorganization" and chapter 7 was "liquidation"
I guess what I'm really asking is this--who has really ever played "air piano"? Because, really, that's all Guitar Hero is--a kind of reification of an Air Guitar.
OK, I'll own up to playing "air piano" every so often. But that's because I play the real instrument [badly]
...I would be very interested to see how a Piano Hero would work. Guitar Hero has, well...zero...to do with actually knowing how to play guitar. Would they similarly "abstract" the keyboards? Could they?
The frustration level will be high for a game that would (at its highest "level") require both feet and all ten fingers moving independently.
Kulintang Hero would actually be pretty fun. Imagine the multiplayer--you'd get a full-blown kulintangan going. That'd be a blast!
Ah, but a rich and lucrative private sector has emerged, giving users their choice of Windows documentation....for a price. Linux documentation lags well behind the development of the actual software.
In fairness, however, the most-used, best-established software in Linux tends to be exhaustively (obsessively?) documented, I think. The most aggravating no-docs situations seem to arise on desktop apps under heavy development.
...so those totally-unfounded rumors of someone playing Halo on an Origami prototype start seeming a bit more substantial.
...and if I remember correctly, it was precisely this market the DS was intended to capture. Score one for our cartoony overlords.
With respect: you've passed through the looking-glass.
At home, in uhMURRkuh, you are so thoroughly immersed in your culture and sub-culture that you're not aware of it. You might as well ask whether a fish notices water.
Abroad, in Japan, or elsewhere, you have to deal with a new culture, and how you "slot in" to that new culture. While I accept (and know from my own cultural/linguistic experiences) that many things *are* in fact different in each culture, I have noticed that the very strangeness of a new culture totally changes your relationship/perception with even those parts that are most analogous to your "home" experience.
In your case, you're seeing a great deal of negativity in Japan against people who play videogames, even though you know that millions of people must be playing videogames. Hadn't it occurred to you that precisely the same negativity exists in your home culture? It probably has, at some level, but since you're so comfortably ensconced in your sub-cultural niche, you never gave it much thought. It has taken a cultural dislocation to make you see there are other ways of thinking about games and gaming.
This, folks, is why people *should* travel. Experiencing other cultures doesn't just mean drinking their liquor--although that's part of it, as well.
I know we're talking about the kernel, but isn't this sort of the same thing as Debian's Stable/Testing/Unstable versioning scheme?
Thus, we see once again how Ignorance bullies Enlightenment to STFU. At least on Slashdot.
The banning of Skype at some departments and colleges at Cambridge comes as no surprise to me.
I was at Cambridge during the late 90's-early Noughties, and I seem to recall a number of stern warnings to students about bandwidth usage from both College and University computing authorities. One of them even included a plea to use European or British mirrors as much as possible.
The shame is that while the Cambridge University Data Network had bandwidth to burn within Cambridge, it seems that the trouble was always further upstream on JANET.
Things got so bad that there were rumours at the time that the poorer colleges were going to start charging their students for bandwidth. I never heard anything of it, and it didn't stop the proliferation of p2p (both in the form of Napster and samba shares) in my time there.
All that bling, and no lossless encoding?
Yeah, when was the last time you heard of an Atari ST getting hacked?
I once had the opportunity to meet with and talk to one of the men who was involved in breaking the Enigma cipher during World War II. "If you have anything important to say," he said, "don't transmit it over the air. You can be sure someone will be listening, if they want to. And if you've encoded it, it's a matter of time before they decode it. If the Germans hadn't been so dependent on radiotelegraphs and had bothered to use cables, we wouldn't know half as much as what we finally found out."
the Tuttle Times isn't running the story at all.
Because the people who buy them are assumed rich enough that mere mortals scurry out of their way. Or at least the asshats drive that way.
The article is about New South Wales, which is only one Australian state. While it's big news that NSW has decided to put Novell on its Approved Vendors list, the summary seemed to imply that the deal was with the federal government. it is NOT.
This is roughly the same as, say the state of New York or Ohio putting Novell on its approved vendors list. News, but not massive news. C'mon, slashdot editors. Learn some geography/politics.
Amen. "lens flare" effects are overdone to DEATH...I love how it seems that in games, all the "lenses" have nearly circular apertures, a bad problem with internal reflections/ghosting, and what look like dozens of air/glass interfaces. It seems to me that if you care enough to put flare/ghosting effects in, you should at least bother to make them believable (polygonal apertures instead of circular, effects of flare on overall image colour/contrast, etc).
I have a feeling that the Reality Distortion Field has already cancelled whatever negative effect this has had
that's another kilo, and yet another part.
I guess there are really precious few laptops on the market--there are many portable computers, but few of them are really usable on the lap without inelegant kludges like add-on cooler tables.
so it would seem to utterly defeat the point of a laptop that it should only be useable if placed on a cooling table.
Both companies thrive on vendor lock-in. so why really differentiate between the two?
Heck, I wouldn't flame for that, and I'm an Ubuntu user. Once they're running Linux, that's the first big step. Besides, it's only a matter of time before they switch distros, anyway./p?