Thanks for that. Ninite.com looks like a cracking way to go. Seriously, it looks like it would make populating a new build a snap. Which is quite timely actually as the missus' machine is due a reinstall.
100% certain I'm geeky enough to be in the target audience and I found the droid bionic advert sexy as hell. I want one. In fact I want two. And I want them to mate.
And if that wording is a copy paste, surely holding the IPs I've been assigned for the last 18 months is worthless. See, I'd hold that data no problem, just wouldn't associate any timestamps with it.
o.O Seriously? Neither of you are slating the Prince of Persia movie as the unmitigated pile of crap that it was? I'm now wondering if we've seen different films under the same name... It was utter garbage. Truly embarrassing. From Gyllenhaal's hair (and the selection of Gyllenhaal as the prince in the first place), through the use of what for all the world looked like the font Papyrus (argh!) to the dagger being used precisely three times and not one of which was in combat or a time of great peril as per the major point of the bleedin' game. I made the mistake of seeing that pile of trash at the cinema and both I and the missus (she'd played sands of time and enjoyed it thoroughly) were the closest we'd ever been to storming out of the theatre. Having paid actual money to be there however, we stuck it out. In retrospect, I wish we'd have left.
Interesting counterpoint: I've had an HTC Desire on Vodafone for a while now and the missus just got hers today. Since I got it, on contract mind you, it has not once actually flashed a vodafone logo at me. Furthermore (despite the hoohah vodafone caused with their *not really an upgrade* software upgrade) I've not got any vodafone 360 shovelware on my device and never have. In addition to this, the missus' sim doesn't go live until tomorrow and while I was copying the contacts over by putting her pay as you go O2 sim into it, I found I was able to make calls with the O2 sim in the Desire. I don't know if this means that the handset is completely unlocked, or if it's just pre pay sims that work, but it made me smile. Just thought I'd raise these points, not really in favour of carriers as I'm fairly sure they're all bastards, but it seems like vodafone at least didn't go the whole hog in the bastard contest for this particular handset. YMMV and all that.
Debian and Ubuntu (and possibly others) have GUI package managers. Been the case for a while. Mighty handy they are too, since you can text search the repo in the GUI to find the package you want. Plus the selected package will normally contain a description in the lower pane telling you exactly what it does. Chimps could use it, I'm fairly sure.
I loved Uru, it was the business. Previous Mysty games were awesome too.
I'm a little excited now...
Shame I read this article just after getting in to work.
o.O
*drums fingers and watches clock*
You're right to be disappointed by Spore, hell knows I was.
Serious overuse of "shit" though considering you didn't even say the sequels were SimShitty.
"I'm one of those incredibly stupid, ignorant, Bible believing Christians"... "I'm one of those "public school kids are awful" people."
Are these related? Serious question. In a public school? 3D modeling in 6th grade? Is that an elective (electives in 6th grade?), or what? I really fail to see how educational games and teaching 3D modeling is going to help the problem of kids not getting a good education in rather basic things like language and grammar....
If I could've had a decent grounding in 3D modelling when I was a kid, instead of pissing about on Imagine on my Amiga (not that Imagine was a bad package or Amiga a bad platform, just that I'd have liked some classes in what I was actually doing), I'd probably have a more interesting job than I do right now. and why inoculate them with Flash and Maya, since I'm on slashdot... why not, oh I don't know, Blender?
Because if they tried to teach them Blender, they'd end up learning a set of keyboard shortcuts that don't get used in any other package. It's great when you know all the shortcuts in Blender, but it's better when you know all the theory in *any 3D modelling program*, and preferably one that has buttons to ease the learning process.
Once properly hacked out and compiled, your average(ish) citizen could run simulations to determine legal outcomes, making lawyers obsolete.
Download the latest Law API, set up your environment, run the "Bludgeon enemy with mallet" program and see the outcome.
Sounds like a cracking idea. Although, one could run enough simulations to find the loopholes/bugs that got transcribed into the package and plot the perfect crime!
Oh Hans, if you'd only waited!
Hee hee, I followed your link but misread the table and thought you meant that HR 3200 was like: "a very minor update to 3.0a that fixed a cosmetic problem with the Japanese version of Windows 95"
Good times.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, the terrorists have won.
Neat innit? How this sort of threat looks and quacks just like all the others and garners the same response.
Interesting really.
You missed it.
How is it possible that there are people saying "Author not looking for art but for porn." or "What I don't understand is how does classifying something as art give it a special dispensation to show material that wouldn't be deemed appropriate in other media." when even TFS let alone TFA say nothing of the sort?
It's a fairly ranty article against censorship that highlights the absurdity in the difference between what can be shown in an 18 rated movie or described in some other art form e.g. literature, and what cannot currently be shown in video games regardless of their rating.
I tend to agree, although there are problems with movie ratings too IMHO.
Why shouldn't a game developer be able to make a story driven game with all the gritty reality of some of the more shocking hollywood movies, while presenting a story that, if it were in movie form, would win huge numbers of writing/cinematography awards showing it's acceptance as a work of art.
It's ridiculous, and I think that's some of what the author was trying to get across.
Once you can see a video game more as a delivery platform for a story and less as a child's toy, it's fairly simple to grasp.
Well, I think it is anyhow.
Meh.
"Not the TV license does not cover iplayer, which is used after the broadcast, nor does it cover Radio or internet use -- you're perfectly legally fine to use non-TV BBC services without a license."
Almost.
Iplayer and some BBC websites will now serve up some channels "as broadcast" and the pages shown contain a warning that you should have paid your tv license if you're watching it.
First example that comes to mind is the BBC News channel.
Drunk and pissed off enough to think you didn't see my accidentally anonymous post. Therefore I'm reposting now. CBA putting the formatting in so if you have serious trouble viewing it then check out the AC post for a properly formatted response.
_______________________________________
Ok, let's start from your assertion:
""But to the extent that there are any rules for such things, "disk", in the context of computing, is spelled with a "k".""
This is, at this moment, untrue.
I pulled these links from a (very) quick google search on "disc vs disk" so bear in mind they're not neccessarily 100% trustworthy, however I hope to make up for their possible sketchiness in volume.
Here goes.
This one's pretty straightforward - disk=magnetic, disc=optical. Both used in computing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300 [apple.com]
This one almost supports your assertion, but if you take into account that compact discs are pretty standard in the computer world these days, then maybe not.
http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-disc-disk.asp [future-perfect.co.uk]
Another one making the magnetic/optical distinction, but with no reference to the supposed computing/audio distinciton.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/disc.html [wsu.edu]
Whether or not the history of this one is accurate, I can't say, but all in all I came away from reading it without the belief that in computing, it is always "disk".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc [wikipedia.org]
Finally (because I'm at work and can only slack off for so long) there is a short discussion on the matter here, which, while it is between regular joes, not industry experts, is interesting in that it points out (as do one or two of the other links I've posted) that the English usage was previously disk and was changed over time to the latin rooted disc. Again, this has little to do with disk=computing disc=something else, which was your original assertion.
http://everything2.com/title/disc%2520vs.%2520disk [everything2.com]
Hope that helps explain where I was coming from.
Back to work now...
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for that. Ninite.com looks like a cracking way to go.
Seriously, it looks like it would make populating a new build a snap.
Which is quite timely actually as the missus' machine is due a reinstall.
*Raises a glass*
Ach
100% certain I'm geeky enough to be in the target audience and I found the droid bionic advert sexy as hell. I want one. In fact I want two. And I want them to mate.
That's nice. Records must be kept securely so they can't be snooped on, unless we want to snoop on them.
Yay for security.
And if that wording is a copy paste, surely holding the IPs I've been assigned for the last 18 months is worthless. See, I'd hold that data no problem, just wouldn't associate any timestamps with it.
Well hoooooo leeeeee shit that's a large pile of stupid.
Haven't seen a pile of stupid that big since... well I'm not sure I ever have.
Crikey.
"it is simply their servers trying to the translation right"
I think you a word in your sentence.
You must have been living in Wales.
o.O
Seriously?
Neither of you are slating the Prince of Persia movie as the unmitigated pile of crap that it was?
I'm now wondering if we've seen different films under the same name...
It was utter garbage. Truly embarrassing. From Gyllenhaal's hair (and the selection of Gyllenhaal as the prince in the first place), through the use of what for all the world looked like the font Papyrus (argh!) to the dagger being used precisely three times and not one of which was in combat or a time of great peril as per the major point of the bleedin' game.
I made the mistake of seeing that pile of trash at the cinema and both I and the missus (she'd played sands of time and enjoyed it thoroughly) were the closest we'd ever been to storming out of the theatre.
Having paid actual money to be there however, we stuck it out.
In retrospect, I wish we'd have left.
Interesting counterpoint: I've had an HTC Desire on Vodafone for a while now and the missus just got hers today. Since I got it, on contract mind you, it has not once actually flashed a vodafone logo at me. Furthermore (despite the hoohah vodafone caused with their *not really an upgrade* software upgrade) I've not got any vodafone 360 shovelware on my device and never have.
In addition to this, the missus' sim doesn't go live until tomorrow and while I was copying the contacts over by putting her pay as you go O2 sim into it, I found I was able to make calls with the O2 sim in the Desire. I don't know if this means that the handset is completely unlocked, or if it's just pre pay sims that work, but it made me smile.
Just thought I'd raise these points, not really in favour of carriers as I'm fairly sure they're all bastards, but it seems like vodafone at least didn't go the whole hog in the bastard contest for this particular handset.
YMMV and all that.
Debian and Ubuntu (and possibly others) have GUI package managers.
Been the case for a while.
Mighty handy they are too, since you can text search the repo in the GUI to find the package you want.
Plus the selected package will normally contain a description in the lower pane telling you exactly what it does.
Chimps could use it, I'm fairly sure.
It works bitches!
At least you made a neat gun!
I mean, seriously, the mice who are still alive will really appreciate it.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I loved Uru, it was the business. Previous Mysty games were awesome too.
I'm a little excited now...
Shame I read this article just after getting in to work.
o.O
*drums fingers and watches clock*
Chatting him?
Perhaps with some online collaboration, the summary may have been improved.
Gah.
You're right to be disappointed by Spore, hell knows I was. Serious overuse of "shit" though considering you didn't even say the sequels were SimShitty.
"I'm one of those incredibly stupid, ignorant, Bible believing Christians" ... "I'm one of those "public school kids are awful" people."
Are these related? Serious question.
In a public school? 3D modeling in 6th grade? Is that an elective (electives in 6th grade?), or what? I really fail to see how educational games and teaching 3D modeling is going to help the problem of kids not getting a good education in rather basic things like language and grammar....
If I could've had a decent grounding in 3D modelling when I was a kid, instead of pissing about on Imagine on my Amiga (not that Imagine was a bad package or Amiga a bad platform, just that I'd have liked some classes in what I was actually doing), I'd probably have a more interesting job than I do right now.
and why inoculate them with Flash and Maya, since I'm on slashdot... why not, oh I don't know, Blender?
Because if they tried to teach them Blender, they'd end up learning a set of keyboard shortcuts that don't get used in any other package. It's great when you know all the shortcuts in Blender, but it's better when you know all the theory in *any 3D modelling program*, and preferably one that has buttons to ease the learning process.
Hee hee, "root" cause. Nice.
Once properly hacked out and compiled, your average(ish) citizen could run simulations to determine legal outcomes, making lawyers obsolete.
Download the latest Law API, set up your environment, run the "Bludgeon enemy with mallet" program and see the outcome.
Sounds like a cracking idea. Although, one could run enough simulations to find the loopholes/bugs that got transcribed into the package and plot the perfect crime!
Oh Hans, if you'd only waited!
Hee hee, I followed your link but misread the table and thought you meant that HR 3200 was like: "a very minor update to 3.0a that fixed a cosmetic problem with the Japanese version of Windows 95"
Good times.
Damn you I was just about to bring that up.
He's either applying a 'circumvention device' or disabling an 'anti-circumvention device'.
Silly author.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, the terrorists have won.
Neat innit? How this sort of threat looks and quacks just like all the others and garners the same response.
Interesting really.
You missed it. How is it possible that there are people saying "Author not looking for art but for porn." or "What I don't understand is how does classifying something as art give it a special dispensation to show material that wouldn't be deemed appropriate in other media." when even TFS let alone TFA say nothing of the sort?
It's a fairly ranty article against censorship that highlights the absurdity in the difference between what can be shown in an 18 rated movie or described in some other art form e.g. literature, and what cannot currently be shown in video games regardless of their rating.
I tend to agree, although there are problems with movie ratings too IMHO.
Why shouldn't a game developer be able to make a story driven game with all the gritty reality of some of the more shocking hollywood movies, while presenting a story that, if it were in movie form, would win huge numbers of writing/cinematography awards showing it's acceptance as a work of art.
It's ridiculous, and I think that's some of what the author was trying to get across.
Once you can see a video game more as a delivery platform for a story and less as a child's toy, it's fairly simple to grasp.
Well, I think it is anyhow.
Meh.
The HTC Magic was released very recently in the UK. So that makes two. (both by HTC but hey, more than one.)
"Not the TV license does not cover iplayer, which is used after the broadcast, nor does it cover Radio or internet use -- you're perfectly legally fine to use non-TV BBC services without a license."
Almost.
Iplayer and some BBC websites will now serve up some channels "as broadcast" and the pages shown contain a warning that you should have paid your tv license if you're watching it.
First example that comes to mind is the BBC News channel.
Drunk and pissed off enough to think you didn't see my accidentally anonymous post. Therefore I'm reposting now. CBA putting the formatting in so if you have serious trouble viewing it then check out the AC post for a properly formatted response. _______________________________________ Ok, let's start from your assertion: ""But to the extent that there are any rules for such things, "disk", in the context of computing, is spelled with a "k"."" This is, at this moment, untrue. I pulled these links from a (very) quick google search on "disc vs disk" so bear in mind they're not neccessarily 100% trustworthy, however I hope to make up for their possible sketchiness in volume. Here goes. This one's pretty straightforward - disk=magnetic, disc=optical. Both used in computing. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300 [apple.com] This one almost supports your assertion, but if you take into account that compact discs are pretty standard in the computer world these days, then maybe not. http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-disc-disk.asp [future-perfect.co.uk] Another one making the magnetic/optical distinction, but with no reference to the supposed computing/audio distinciton. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/disc.html [wsu.edu] Whether or not the history of this one is accurate, I can't say, but all in all I came away from reading it without the belief that in computing, it is always "disk". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc [wikipedia.org] Finally (because I'm at work and can only slack off for so long) there is a short discussion on the matter here, which, while it is between regular joes, not industry experts, is interesting in that it points out (as do one or two of the other links I've posted) that the English usage was previously disk and was changed over time to the latin rooted disc. Again, this has little to do with disk=computing disc=something else, which was your original assertion. http://everything2.com/title/disc%2520vs.%2520disk [everything2.com] Hope that helps explain where I was coming from. Back to work now...