SOF is pretty sickening. I wonder how many of you discussing it have actually seen it.
Now, I play Marathon, and Myth, and Quake, and I love putting a rocket at someone's feet or planting a shotgun in their chest.
But the point of those games (and probably anything that can be considered a game) is the sport of it: aiming while running, dodging, being where you're not expected, etc. I enjoy planting a shotgun in my friend's chest because it means I out-thought, outmaneuvered, out-played him/her.
Tactics. Maneuver. Not killing. Not blood.
If you're playing a game for the blood you need to be removed from society, cause you're a sick fuck.
Well, what I thought could only be a rumor calculated to maximally piss off Bungie fans turns out to be true.
I'm grateful to Bungie for a great run of fun games, and I don't at all begrudge them the opportunity to strike it rich after all their hard work, but anyone who thinks this isn't the end of the line is delusional. They are not Bungie anymore, so we won't be seeing any Bungie games anymore, period.
Our longtime Marathon group (every Friday night for almost 4 years, see here) is already in the process of moving over to Quake 3. We were getting tired of waiting for Halo, though we still look forward to Oni.
As for X-box, well it's like this: between us we have Playstations, Nintendo, Dreamcast etc. None of us plays them much except for exceptional games like Gran Turismo or Tekken 3. Games like Soul Caliber--great eyecandy in a dull game--are the norm in my experience, so why waste money on another console? If Halo turns out to be of superb quality I might be tempted; otherwise it's much simpler, funner, flexible and fragalicious to keep using our pc's. Bungie pioneered transparently multiplatform games, so console-only would be a large, painfully ironic step backward.
And personally, I think I'd be nauseous if I ever saw a Halo by Microsoft splash screen. Just too much cognitive dissonance going on there.
No, actually, dehydrated mothers in Central Africa with HIV and cholera are the most pathetic people on Earth.Get some perspective, d00d.
Apple zealots are no more pathetic than Linux zealots or Winbigots.
My point, and I think it's well understood in this community, was that Windows' underlying structure confounds smooth operation for third-party and Micros~1 stuff alike. What is emerging to my mind is that Linux zealots for all their vaunted technical expertise are as stymied as any other novice when it comes to systems they're not familiar with. A little humility is in order for all of us.
I was tempted to ridicule you for being unable to handle Mac software tweaks, of all things for a geek to have trouble with...
But then I've been doing this for years, so I know to keep the old MoviePlayer app around since the new one's such a mess. People not familiar with Macs under-the-hood might not.
The sneer in your post notwithstanding, why should Apple have any better success than anyone else getting their stuff to install into Windows? Given how smoothly QuickTime runs on Macs and how badly MediaPlayer runs on Windows, my guess is the installation difficulties lie with Windows. So chill...
Saw this a couple months ago. It gives some nice perspective on how guys who are presumably used to dealing with well-though-out UI feel about Microsoft's efforts.
It *IS* in orbit. It's just that it's in orbit at a distance where its orbital velocity is equal to the Earth's rotational speed, and so it appears to hang over a fixed spot on Earth's surface. It's actually moving quite fast.
As far as other celestial objects' gravitation tugging on the staellite, those forces are dwarfed by the Earth's gravity.
Clan Plaid's Townhall is a good forum with knowledgeable and helpful people. The Mill also has reviews of the original Leggo TC and maybe this as well.
IIRC, light can do it because photons have zero mass.
It's particles that have non-zero mass where the zero denominator causes trouble, because their mass theoretically approaches infinity as their velocity approaches c.
I would guess that as faces of the satellite's hull catch sunlight they reflect a flash into telescopes that is much brighter than the objects the scope is trying to see, thus interfering with research and maybe even damaging the instruments.
Why doesn't the air force just use them to test anti-satellite weaponry?
This would have allowed the engines to operate normally and only be shut-off when the switches could triggered when the engineers would be sure that the lander would be at a realistic height above the surface.
I hope you're not suggesting that the engineers get into the landing-sequence control loop? They are many light-seconds away and lose a lot of dexterity because of it.
OK folks, now we really need our browsers to have heavy-duty cookie control, IP filtering, and perhaps even some Java, JS and html "smell-checking".
I for one would like to see antibookmarks. Control-click on a banner, that server is blocked. Surf into a trap website, hit an fkey, add its domain to a killfile.
Websurfing is supposed to be promiscuous; that's the idea, I thought. (No pr0n jokes, OK?)
Mac users also have the simplest option of all: replace the MagicCookie file in your Netscape prefs folder with a folder of the same name. No more cookie problems, ever. Of course, you get none of the benefits either, but do we care? Didn't think so.
It's an inverted kind of tyranny in which the most hostile people are truly the freest.
I don't know about that, Jon. We're all about equally free online, bandwidth aside. The fact that newbies are more easily intimidated or bamboozled is not specific to online. There's just a lot of focus on online now, and nothing in history has allowed as many people to interact as immediately. Naturally there's friction.
I think friction is a good thing. How do you know where to polish if you don't know what sticks? Say something ignorant, get flamed, think about why, become (maybe) less ignorant. Given a choice between free expression and orderly tranquillity I'll take expression any day.
It is important to remember that the right to free speech does not include the right not to be offended. Being easily intimidated or offended are symptoms of being sheltered, sensitive, or having the proverbial chip, and while sensitivity is a useful virtue for a poet, if we're to make online become the new agora we have to not let anything distract us from our arguments. That's why we're doing this, right? To argue our views and establish truth through the fire of scrutiny. As anyone in (traditional) public life will tell you, a thick skin is essential if you want to get anything done.
I haven't used VM since RAM was $1k for 32mb, and Photoshop never crashes on me (unless there are bad blocks on the scratch disk!) I'm not sure in what universe you heard about this infamous relationship. As for memory protection, when an app goes down I check the debugger for obvious clues, and usually restart the app and continue working. When I go for another coffee I reboot.
Photoshop and Macs go together like tomatoes and salt. It's Netscape, much as I like it, that crashes my box, or trying to watch nine MPEGs simultaneously while playing MP3s. But in work mode it's rocklike. Unlike your, um, cred. "Technically inferior," rofl.
Well, unless the thing does OCR, faxes take up quite a bit of disk space. And as has been mentioned, voice takes disk space too. Would you want to be going into the second half-hour of an important conference call and have it run out on you? I wouldn't.
I'd rather have flash RAM, but a fair amount of some kind of storage is needed.
Only if there are thirty or forty heads sitting in the field smoking up enough of a storm to generate an IR signature. I think they're more likely to repair to someplace with a Playstation.
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SOF is pretty sickening. I wonder how many of you discussing it have actually seen it.
Now, I play Marathon, and Myth, and Quake, and I love putting a rocket at someone's feet or planting a shotgun in their chest.
But the point of those games (and probably anything that can be considered a game) is the sport of it: aiming while running, dodging, being where you're not expected, etc. I enjoy planting a shotgun in my friend's chest because it means I out-thought, outmaneuvered, out-played him/her.
Tactics. Maneuver. Not killing. Not blood.
If you're playing a game for the blood you need to be removed from society, cause you're a sick fuck.
...'cause it's "aught". Not "ought".
Windows users can get their dialog boxes in the middle of a double-wide screen and not centered between two screens. LOL.
I thought they were under (somewhat onerous) contract for _three_ films, which were Toy Story, Bug's Life, and TS 2.
They're done with that, so any new stuff with Disney is part of a new and I hope much more lucrative deal.
Well, what I thought could only be a rumor calculated to maximally piss off Bungie fans turns out to be true.
I'm grateful to Bungie for a great run of fun games, and I don't at all begrudge them the opportunity to strike it rich after all their hard work, but anyone who thinks this isn't the end of the line is delusional. They are not Bungie anymore, so we won't be seeing any Bungie games anymore, period.
Our longtime Marathon group (every Friday night for almost 4 years, see here) is already in the process of moving over to Quake 3. We were getting tired of waiting for Halo, though we still look forward to Oni.
As for X-box, well it's like this: between us we have Playstations, Nintendo, Dreamcast etc. None of us plays them much except for exceptional games like Gran Turismo or Tekken 3. Games like Soul Caliber--great eyecandy in a dull game--are the norm in my experience, so why waste money on another console? If Halo turns out to be of superb quality I might be tempted; otherwise it's much simpler, funner, flexible and fragalicious to keep using our pc's. Bungie pioneered transparently multiplatform games, so console-only would be a large, painfully ironic step backward.
And personally, I think I'd be nauseous if I ever saw a Halo by Microsoft splash screen. Just too much cognitive dissonance going on there.
Douglas Adams is so far ahead of me I've given up trying, frankly. (grin)
But the original inspiration for my post was the pinball game in the Grateful Dead Movie animation.
Holy moly, galactic billiards!
I'm going to have to get down to the Patent Office and get dibs on that... but first, Tau Ceti in the corner pocket.
...in Photoshop 5 is accomplished by pressing shift-M now.
Nice that they allow >99 layers now, but what I'd really like would be the ability to group/hide/move layers within the layers floater.
No, actually, dehydrated mothers in Central Africa with HIV and cholera are the most pathetic people on Earth.Get some perspective, d00d.
Apple zealots are no more pathetic than Linux zealots or Winbigots.
My point, and I think it's well understood in this community, was that Windows' underlying structure confounds smooth operation for third-party and Micros~1 stuff alike. What is emerging to my mind is that Linux zealots for all their vaunted technical expertise are as stymied as any other novice when it comes to systems they're not familiar with. A little humility is in order for all of us.
I was tempted to ridicule you for being unable to handle Mac software tweaks, of all things for a geek to have trouble with...
But then I've been doing this for years, so I know to keep the old MoviePlayer app around since the new one's such a mess. People not familiar with Macs under-the-hood might not.
The sneer in your post notwithstanding, why should Apple have any better success than anyone else getting their stuff to install into Windows? Given how smoothly QuickTime runs on Macs and how badly MediaPlayer runs on Windows, my guess is the installation difficulties lie with Windows. So chill...
... and boors, too. Not only were you angry and they disagreed with you, but you were wrong. And then you got coarse about it.
If you think semantics are meaningless, you don't understand the meaning of the word, period. Look it up. Please.
Saw this a couple months ago. It gives some nice perspective on how guys who are presumably used to dealing with well-though-out UI feel about Microsoft's efforts.
lwn.net/980212/a/shuttle.html
It *IS* in orbit. It's just that it's in orbit at a distance where its orbital velocity is equal to the Earth's rotational speed, and so it appears to hang over a fixed spot on Earth's surface. It's actually moving quite fast.
As far as other celestial objects' gravitation tugging on the staellite, those forces are dwarfed by the Earth's gravity.
On this topic Edward Abbey said that "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Actually it went like this:
Reporter: What do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
Pretty sure you need the full game.
Clan Plaid's Townhall is a good forum with knowledgeable and helpful people. The Mill also has reviews of the original Leggo TC and maybe this as well.
IIRC, light can do it because photons have zero mass.
It's particles that have non-zero mass where the zero denominator causes trouble, because their mass theoretically approaches infinity as their velocity approaches c.
Physicists, please confirm/correct this!
I would guess that as faces of the satellite's hull catch sunlight they reflect a flash into telescopes that is much brighter than the objects the scope is trying to see, thus interfering with research and maybe even damaging the instruments.
Why doesn't the air force just use them to test anti-satellite weaponry?
This would have allowed the engines to operate normally and only be shut-off when the switches could triggered when the engineers would be sure that the lander would be at a realistic height above the surface.
I hope you're not suggesting that the engineers get into the landing-sequence control loop? They are many light-seconds away and lose a lot of dexterity because of it.
OK folks, now we really need our browsers to have heavy-duty cookie control, IP filtering, and perhaps even some Java, JS and html "smell-checking".
I for one would like to see antibookmarks. Control-click on a banner, that server is blocked. Surf into a trap website, hit an fkey, add its domain to a killfile.
Websurfing is supposed to be promiscuous; that's the idea, I thought. (No pr0n jokes, OK?)
Mac users also have the simplest option of all: replace the MagicCookie file in your Netscape prefs folder with a folder of the same name. No more cookie problems, ever. Of course, you get none of the benefits either, but do we care? Didn't think so.
It's an inverted kind of tyranny in which the most hostile people are truly the freest.
I don't know about that, Jon. We're all about equally free online, bandwidth aside. The fact that newbies are more easily intimidated or bamboozled is not specific to online. There's just a lot of focus on online now, and nothing in history has allowed as many people to interact as immediately. Naturally there's friction.
I think friction is a good thing. How do you know where to polish if you don't know what sticks? Say something ignorant, get flamed, think about why, become (maybe) less ignorant. Given a choice between free expression and orderly tranquillity I'll take expression any day.
It is important to remember that the right to free speech does not include the right not to be offended. Being easily intimidated or offended are symptoms of being sheltered, sensitive, or having the proverbial chip, and while sensitivity is a useful virtue for a poet, if we're to make online become the new agora we have to not let anything distract us from our arguments. That's why we're doing this, right? To argue our views and establish truth through the fire of scrutiny. As anyone in (traditional) public life will tell you, a thick skin is essential if you want to get anything done.
I haven't used VM since RAM was $1k for 32mb, and Photoshop never crashes on me (unless there are bad blocks on the scratch disk!) I'm not sure in what universe you heard about this infamous relationship. As for memory protection, when an app goes down I check the debugger for obvious clues, and usually restart the app and continue working. When I go for another coffee I reboot.
Photoshop and Macs go together like tomatoes and salt. It's Netscape, much as I like it, that crashes my box, or trying to watch nine MPEGs simultaneously while playing MP3s. But in work mode it's rocklike. Unlike your, um, cred. "Technically inferior," rofl.
Well, unless the thing does OCR, faxes take up quite a bit of disk space. And as has been mentioned, voice takes disk space too. Would you want to be going into the second half-hour of an important conference call and have it run out on you? I wouldn't.
I'd rather have flash RAM, but a fair amount of some kind of storage is needed.
Only if there are thirty or forty heads sitting in the field smoking up enough of a storm to generate an IR signature. I think they're more likely to repair to someplace with a Playstation.