Hi, my name is EverPhilski, and I played Everquest for years. Then I started feeling the burn, and decided to back down and play some WoW. Man, that was some weak !@#$, and I kept having night sweats and curling in the fetal position in the shower mumbling Avril Lavigne lyrics from withdrawl. I dropped that !@#$ and hopped back on the EverCrack.
I caught a glimpse of one of the astronauts obviously attempting to retrieve some e-mail from his laptop.. And then complaining over the com that he was getting a "you can only have one instance of Outlook running" - ground control advised for a laptop reboot, but the guy upstairs wasn't too keen on doing that
The personal communication laptops the astronauts have are windows machines. The machines that run both ISS and Shuttle are **not**. They are derivatives of UNIX, and, as grandparent said, have many eyes and many thousands of dollars poured into each line of code. There was a good article not too long ago in Fast Company about the shuttle coding team.
From the article: the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors. That's impressive. The same care went into the ISS computers, at least from the US's side. I can't speak for Russia as I don't have that level of familiarity with them.
Last, everyone is talking about the 'russian' computers.. Well, this guy last night in the press conference did state these were actually "western style" *european* computers !
The Russian computers failed. The US computers have 'taken over' temporarily. Why? Because we have this nice little satellite network called TDRSS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System) which lets us relay communications with shuttle over the vast majority of the orbit. Russia does not. They can only communicate over line of sight, which is a few times each day for about 8 or so minutes.
PR is priceless. Another press release stating 'Another distro signs up for patent protection with Microsoft' is just another accomplishment under the belt for MS and another step towards this being the norm. Doesn't matter if they lose a little occasionally to make the big boys roll over.
The only people it's alienating are people who would never use the GPL anyway.
False. TiVo. And any GPL-based entity that wants to do a Novell type deal in the future. (You may not agree with either, but they are people who are using the GPL.)
The obvious conclusion is that if people aren't willing to pay enough to make it a viable business model, the entertainment industry should look for another business model instead of trying to create artificial monopolies with the help of broken technology to make the failed business model viable.
So if people aren't willing to pay enough to make car salesmen a viable business model, then they should re-think the model? I don't know about you, but I call those people car thieves.
Yeah. The 1-9 is a 3x3 matrix of buttons with the middle button 'funny' (mine has a little nub on it). With your thumb on the middle key (5) it is pretty trivial to shift up and around (1-3) left (4) right (5) or down and around (5-9).
If a companies embedded OS cant work on that speed of a processor then they need to simply give up and stop.
Yeah, at the speeds processors were running nine years ago. I had a Phillips Nino with over 200mHz processing speed in 1998. Seriously, the hardware is gimp, that's the problem.
sure, it works for slashdot, but does it work for a site dedicated to something more neutral, like say migraine headaches (predominantly female, 75/25 maybe) or cnn.com? Things that are somewhat gender neutral?
I know, you were trying to be funny, but if this thing works across the board, 4 out of 5 positive ID's ain't bad.
No, i meant exactly what i said. The concept has been around for more than two years now, although CoH did get to it first. And if you count the titles in Everquest (most aren't combat related, rather, tradeskill and AA completion oriented) then you have to go back 8 years. There is nothing new under the sun, Everquest did 99% of it...
Funny, cause AIAA (aerospace engineering journal) takes submissions in Word... templates are online here (yes, written three journal articles - and thesis - in Word. It really isn't that hard and they all came out great.)
I agree 110% and is why my Everquest account still remains active (on and off, but more on than off) to this day. (and the reason it goes on and off is I'm working on my PhD and have a wife and 2 kids!)
Wow is a lowest common denominator game. Why should we all want to aspire towards WoW? That's like saying, gee, 51% of the world is men, so all women should aspire to get sex changes so they should be part of the majority. Ridiculous, isn't it?
Personally, I played it for three months and sold my account (for a tidy profit, no less). I'm a huge Blizzard fan - wasted way too much of my college life on Starcraft and Diablo II. But don't aspire for the common denominator. Games should be held to their own standards of uniqueness, etc. For example, I prefer EQ, because of the complexity of the game over WoW. It has aspects that just haven't been replicated in the current crop of 'carebear' MMO's. I'm not trying to rant, my point is, MMO's should strive for specific crowds (like the hardcores, or the sci-fi buffs, or... ? whats next?) instead of trying to be the 10,000lb gorrilla.
A tool that I created, but isn't perfect... it can be improved, changed, modified for new situations I didn't think about. A tool that anyone can use, regardless of color, creed or persuasion. That's why I say, fuck the GPL. Truly free code comes with no restrictions whatsoever. No stipulations. Use it, abuse it, pimp it, delete it. Who cares. I got my use out of it and I'm contributing it for the betterment of everyone, not just a select subset of people I choose to like.
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Buy stock in gcc..
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Yeah, cause, you know, Intel doesn't make their own http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na
less games than a xbox360. Cost more than 360 and Wii combined. lame
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oh, wait
Hi, my name is EverPhilski, and I played Everquest for years. Then I started feeling the burn, and decided to back down and play some WoW. Man, that was some weak !@#$, and I kept having night sweats and curling in the fetal position in the shower mumbling Avril Lavigne lyrics from withdrawl. I dropped that !@#$ and hopped back on the EverCrack.
*twitch*
They said 1-2 hours total, and gaming within that 1-2 hours ... damn, I spend almost 8 hours a day at work in front of a 'screen'. I'm screwed.
I caught a glimpse of one of the astronauts obviously attempting to retrieve some e-mail from his laptop.. And then complaining over the com that he was getting a "you can only have one instance of Outlook running" - ground control advised for a laptop reboot, but the guy upstairs wasn't too keen on doing that
The personal communication laptops the astronauts have are windows machines. The machines that run both ISS and Shuttle are **not**. They are derivatives of UNIX, and, as grandparent said, have many eyes and many thousands of dollars poured into each line of code. There was a good article not too long ago in Fast Company about the shuttle coding team.
From the article: the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors. That's impressive. The same care went into the ISS computers, at least from the US's side. I can't speak for Russia as I don't have that level of familiarity with them.
Last, everyone is talking about the 'russian' computers.. Well, this guy last night in the press conference did state these were actually "western style" *european* computers !
The Russian computers failed. The US computers have 'taken over' temporarily. Why? Because we have this nice little satellite network called TDRSS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System) which lets us relay communications with shuttle over the vast majority of the orbit. Russia does not. They can only communicate over line of sight, which is a few times each day for about 8 or so minutes.
PR is priceless. Another press release stating 'Another distro signs up for patent protection with Microsoft' is just another accomplishment under the belt for MS and another step towards this being the norm. Doesn't matter if they lose a little occasionally to make the big boys roll over.
keep stuff in beta :P
... when you are aiming at non-traditional playerbase.
...)
(but then again, I'm one of the Sony Faithful, I still play EQ
instead of a gratuitous personal and down right offencive on Alan Cox, Stallman and the FSF.
says emacsuser@linuxmail.org
The only people it's alienating are people who would never use the GPL anyway.
False. TiVo. And any GPL-based entity that wants to do a Novell type deal in the future. (You may not agree with either, but they are people who are using the GPL.)
It seems to me that an engineer who, knowing that it is impossible to create a DRM system
They also said it was impossible to land a man on the moon...
The obvious conclusion is that if people aren't willing to pay enough to make it a viable business model, the entertainment industry should look for another business model instead of trying to create artificial monopolies with the help of broken technology to make the failed business model viable.
So if people aren't willing to pay enough to make car salesmen a viable business model, then they should re-think the model? I don't know about you, but I call those people car thieves.
maybe the number is $10B because Ballmer switches to throwing iPhones?
Ahhhhh!
Can you really use a cell phone by touch?
Yeah. The 1-9 is a 3x3 matrix of buttons with the middle button 'funny' (mine has a little nub on it). With your thumb on the middle key (5) it is pretty trivial to shift up and around (1-3) left (4) right (5) or down and around (5-9).
If a companies embedded OS cant work on that speed of a processor then they need to simply give up and stop.
Yeah, at the speeds processors were running nine years ago. I had a Phillips Nino with over 200mHz processing speed in 1998. Seriously, the hardware is gimp, that's the problem.
Why? It's working ...
sure, it works for slashdot, but does it work for a site dedicated to something more neutral, like say migraine headaches (predominantly female, 75/25 maybe) or cnn.com? Things that are somewhat gender neutral?
I know, you were trying to be funny, but if this thing works across the board, 4 out of 5 positive ID's ain't bad.
No, i meant exactly what i said. The concept has been around for more than two years now, although CoH did get to it first. And if you count the titles in Everquest (most aren't combat related, rather, tradeskill and AA completion oriented) then you have to go back 8 years. There is nothing new under the sun, Everquest did 99% of it ...
not a hypocrite. Just had to speak down to my audience's level.
Funny, cause AIAA (aerospace engineering journal) takes submissions in Word ... templates are online here (yes, written three journal articles - and thesis - in Word. It really isn't that hard and they all came out great.)
because, apparently, everyone-else-and-their-dog just won't understand unless you compare to it :/ sad, really.
I agree 110% and is why my Everquest account still remains active (on and off, but more on than off) to this day. (and the reason it goes on and off is I'm working on my PhD and have a wife and 2 kids!)
Seriously. Fuck them.
... ? whats next?) instead of trying to be the 10,000lb gorrilla.
Wow is a lowest common denominator game. Why should we all want to aspire towards WoW? That's like saying, gee, 51% of the world is men, so all women should aspire to get sex changes so they should be part of the majority. Ridiculous, isn't it?
Personally, I played it for three months and sold my account (for a tidy profit, no less). I'm a huge Blizzard fan - wasted way too much of my college life on Starcraft and Diablo II. But don't aspire for the common denominator. Games should be held to their own standards of uniqueness, etc. For example, I prefer EQ, because of the complexity of the game over WoW. It has aspects that just haven't been replicated in the current crop of 'carebear' MMO's. I'm not trying to rant, my point is, MMO's should strive for specific crowds (like the hardcores, or the sci-fi buffs, or
That is all.
EQ2 has the same sysetm, you get titles for slaying a certain number of gnolls/orcs/undead/etc. And this predates WoW, though not CoH.
A tool that I created, but isn't perfect... it can be improved, changed, modified for new situations I didn't think about. A tool that anyone can use, regardless of color, creed or persuasion. That's why I say, fuck the GPL. Truly free code comes with no restrictions whatsoever. No stipulations. Use it, abuse it, pimp it, delete it. Who cares. I got my use out of it and I'm contributing it for the betterment of everyone, not just a select subset of people I choose to like.