Through their complicity, these Jews were responsible for the millions that were slaughtered in the camps. Oh dear, it was the fault of the Jews all along, was it...who'd have guessed it!
So there you are, surrounded by all your technology and information - and still...
Maybe you should try our free personality test...?
If you haven't played the AD&D game Baldurs Gate then definitely give that a try. Best i've ever played by a country mile.
Back ontopic, for me the greatest thing about these old platform games was the way that you had to keep trying again and again to get past the tricky bit. Not only did this add to the addictiveness but this gave you enough time to appreciate their subtle brilliance and wonderfully drawn graphics.
Maybe its just me but games don't seem nearly as tough as they once were.
Most of my favorite platformers were seriously tough - I seriously doubt if most players today would have the patience for Revenge of Shinobi and Quackshot. Castle of Illusion wasn't that hard and has to be mentioned (#1 favorite) but it made up for it with looks.
Feeling a bit old now. Off to play with some nice bits of cloth.
It's a bit more than a codec library - without it you probably wouldn't have Youtube or VLC, as well as countless other online and offline applications.
No one would expect you to be grateful, but you might want to demonstrate some knowledge of a domain you're so quick to pass comment on.
Palm make great wm phones - treos are tough as hell
the best thing about all wm phones (especially wm6) is that the battery life is superb, even if you're listening to music a lot. this is my main priority really.
i had an iphone(3g) for about a week before it went back to the shop - lovely animations but it seemed to drop calls and ran out of juice too soon. not really practicable as such.
once a better range of android phones emerges i might have to try one.
No points for originality but 34sp name their servers after robots (etc) from the screen: Holly, Queeg, Mother, Orac, Marvin, Joshua, Kitt, Gort, Bishop, Earth, Carr, Pris, Deepthought, Colossus & Twiki.
As far as i know they don't have one called Proteus - and you can hardly blame them for that - he was a nasty bit of work. Then again i don't remember Colossus as much fun either - at one stage in the filim he has a bunch of people executed ffs!!! Not the fondest memory of my childhood watching that on tv:0
I wasn't having a go at the fact that the sites design was childish - it just looked very dated and i couldn't see any evidence they used recent web technologies.
The link you included indicates that actually they use flash in their activities so my initial judgment was off.
Quick question, have you actually visited the starfall site???
I'm afraid to say that it looks like a dogs dinner to me. Chances are it probably works as well as it looks.
Like most stuff that sticks to the "html than thou" attitude it comes across as a rotten 90s throwback. Definitely unfit for consumption.
If you actually ever have anything to do with educational software in any way shape or form (as I do) then you might find out that this is just another example of why Flash is king, like it or not.
Just remember, freeloaders, someone had to buy the original CD in the first place before you got it for free.
After years and years of being ripped off by the music business (and watching artists get the same kind of treatment) people might argue that even the money spent on that one CD is more than the wretched suits deserve.
To me it is plainly ludicrous to think that free market capitalism will contribute toward space exploration in any meaningful way - unless you seriously think that pleasure trips into low earth orbit for rich individuals are what its all about that is.
The only way that capitalism can really help out here is by continuing to wreck the planet to such an extent that people need to buy themselves an escape. Even here there is the problem that the inability of capitalism to see or plan ahead is what makes them so effective at polluting - and terraforming requires very serious planning, if it can ever work at all that is.
Even when capitalism had a global superpower behind it, it seemed to bogged down by its own shallow goals and could never really produce the goods. If you look at the contrast between the goals of the two respective programmes (US vs USSR) then this is borne out effectively.
For example, even to a child without the benefit of hindsight, I could never see the point of going to the moon, unless you're engaged in pointless showboating.
It seemed to me that the US reacted to the fact that the USSR had gotten the satellite into space, the first man into space etc and needed a publicity stunt to try and convince the public that they were keeping up.
While the US went on to quietly forget about the moon and tried to get somewhere with the increasingly disastrous shuttle, the Russians pushed ahead with their space station Mir, which was by all accounts a huge success.
What you seem to ignore is that often there is often no real incentive to decide against using Flash, especially when it comes to full screen Flash websites, and you will find this quite often in situations where profit is important. In fact, in certain areas such as educational websites, you would be rather silly to use anything else.
I'm not sure what you mean by actual code, as you will find that Flash is very much made up of code.
In my view the usefulness of Flash outweighs the complaints of any number of head-banging ideologues shouting from the periphery, and the efforts of Adobe to open Flash up are a great bonus, and a likely reason for why it has been so widely adopted by the open source community. http://www.osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects
Strictly speaking it doesn't mean nowhere - clearly the term utopia has come to mean something quite different since More wrote Utopia 400 odd years ago.
It's certainly true that he meant "no place" at the time; the society that he envisioned was put up as a lame duck imho.
An example up of this, and one of my favorite bits in the book is when King Utopus says that it's pointless trying to explain to people how such a society (Utopia) could work - one would have to see it at close hand. Obviously the place is fictional, and thus More is making clear his view on the notion that you can engineer a new society from scratch.
Obviously there are completely different ways of understanding this playful book - part of the reason why it's considered one of the most important Renaissance books, and a great humanist text.
The thing that is so objectionable to me about advertising is the way in which fundamentally it's a form of censorship - it has to restrict information about the product it is selling to positive facts or opinions.
Also, imho adverts are also almost always rubbish - lacking in any redeeming features at all.
You've touched on an issue that must be quite important for a lot of people; as someone who uses CS3 day in day out, the only barrier to taking the plunge into Linux is whether or not wine can effectively do the job of running it - is there anyone who can vouch for this kind of setup and its workability?
The other thing is that while my experience of virtualisation (in xp) has been pretty good, if you have to install xp into a virtual machine, then doesn't that kind of defeat the object of moving over to Linux in the first place? I'd still have to pay for an xp license at the end of the day.
I'm probably going to give it a try anyhow, but it would be good to know if anyone has any thoughts (or particularly useful links.)
I thought we needed to shed our civil liberties in order to win the war on terror; if it turns out that the real enemy are the single mums, maybe there's some clever way of targeting all the surveillance on them?
there is not much more pathetic than listening to someone who judges others by their own standards.
can you not get it into your thick head that just because we might think that apple make shit computers, or that they rip people off, does not mean that we love microsoft!!!!!
it should bring together the huge power of flex with the multimedia and animation capabilities of flash (about to be enhanced by the addition of hidef video.) if its automatically downloaded with the flash plugin then a lot of people will have access to it straight away. trust me, air has more to offer than active channels, silverlight etc.
I just think it's a bit funny (and convenient) how faith-healers always tend to 'cure' conditions that may well have gone away of their own accord.
If you think that "demonstrating the power of the Spirit baptism' has the persuasive power of a re-grown leg then that's fair enough - clearly i need to work on my faith.
Its quite possible that you might not of heard of AIR unless you're a web developer or working in some associated area.
Imho the power of adobe flex combined with the hoards of flash developers out there will do a great deal to make AIR a success.
There has been talk of downloading it automatically with the next iteration of the Flash plugin. The ubiquity that this product would achieve at that point in time shouldn't need explaining.
As long as its kept (relatively) open, in the same way as flex and flash have been thus far, then there's every chance it will be very useful and popular.
You are right about me not being the target demographic here, i have worked on apple computers enough to realize that they're definitely not for me - my main objective is to get my work done as quickly as possible, regardless of how pretty the interface or actual computer is.
also, i have never found a need to express myself or my lifestyle with a consumer purchase; to be honest i find that kind of thing a bit difficult to understand. it does take allsorts i suppose.
as far as ultramobile laptops are concerned, i'm definitely an advocate. the main reasons i have a fujitsu lifebook s series is that they're fast, stable and light. another factor is that they are put together very well (like an expensive camera.)
my work as a flex developer requires a fairly powerful machine, but i have to take it to japan (from europe) three or four times a year, so a 4kg dell would go down like the proverbial french kiss at a family reunion.
also, i most certainly do not want lots of attachments hanging round that need to be connected if i'm to burn a cd, connect to a wired network etc. i'd have thought that anyone who is moving around with their computer (the target demographic) would appreciate this.
you could argue that there are those that might like the experience of carrying around, plugging-in and then unplugging various widgets; again it takes allsorts.
i would have to wonder though, exactly what kind of target demographic wouldn't want to have the choice of being able to carry an extra battery with them, or know that when it needs to be replaced they'd be able to just buy one and put it into the machine without needing to carry out surgery on it?
When the iMac was released i can remember my neighbor saying that he'd bought his daughter one to stop her from taking up loads of time on his computer.
Turns out that once she'd gotten over the novelty of the machine, they soon realised she still had to use his machine for word processing - she simply couldn't put her essays etc onto a disk and take them into school with her, because of this missing floppy drive.
Pilotwings & Mario cart are great, but with games like Jungle Strike, Herzog Zwei, RoadRash 2, Speedball 2, PGA Tour Golf and Micro Machines 2, the Sega Megadrive wins hands down.
I noticed the other day that someone was suggesting otherwise, because of the various ill-fated attachments that were knocked out (32X and Megacd). That seems a rather weak reason to dismiss a particular console; surely you didn't have to buy them?
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Through their complicity, these Jews were responsible for the millions that were slaughtered in the camps.
Oh dear, it was the fault of the Jews all along, was it...who'd have guessed it!
So there you are, surrounded by all your technology and information - and still...
Maybe you should try our free personality test...?
If you haven't played the AD&D game Baldurs Gate then definitely give that a try. Best i've ever played by a country mile.
Back ontopic, for me the greatest thing about these old platform games was the way that you had to keep trying again and again to get past the tricky bit. Not only did this add to the addictiveness but this gave you enough time to appreciate their subtle brilliance and wonderfully drawn graphics.
Maybe its just me but games don't seem nearly as tough as they once were.
Most of my favorite platformers were seriously tough - I seriously doubt if most players today would have the patience for Revenge of Shinobi and Quackshot. Castle of Illusion wasn't that hard and has to be mentioned (#1 favorite) but it made up for it with looks.
Feeling a bit old now. Off to play with some nice bits of cloth.
It's a bit more than a codec library - without it you probably wouldn't have Youtube or VLC, as well as countless other online and offline applications.
No one would expect you to be grateful, but you might want to demonstrate some knowledge of a domain you're so quick to pass comment on.
Palm make great wm phones - treos are tough as hell
the best thing about all wm phones (especially wm6) is that the battery life is superb, even if you're listening to music a lot. this is my main priority really.
i had an iphone(3g) for about a week before it went back to the shop - lovely animations but it seemed to drop calls and ran out of juice too soon. not really practicable as such.
once a better range of android phones emerges i might have to try one.
well i was just thinking that Bruce was a funny name for a server...
No points for originality but 34sp name their servers after robots (etc) from the screen: Holly, Queeg, Mother, Orac, Marvin, Joshua, Kitt, Gort, Bishop, Earth, Carr, Pris, Deepthought, Colossus & Twiki.
As far as i know they don't have one called Proteus - and you can hardly blame them for that - he was a nasty bit of work. Then again i don't remember Colossus as much fun either - at one stage in the filim he has a bunch of people executed ffs!!! Not the fondest memory of my childhood watching that on tv :0
Point taken matey.
I wasn't having a go at the fact that the sites design was childish - it just looked very dated and i couldn't see any evidence they used recent web technologies.
The link you included indicates that actually they use flash in their activities so my initial judgment was off.
Quick question, have you actually visited the starfall site???
I'm afraid to say that it looks like a dogs dinner to me. Chances are it probably works as well as it looks.
Like most stuff that sticks to the "html than thou" attitude it comes across as a rotten 90s throwback. Definitely unfit for consumption.
If you actually ever have anything to do with educational software in any way shape or form (as I do) then you might find out that this is just another example of why Flash is king, like it or not.
Just remember, freeloaders, someone had to buy the original CD in the first place before you got it for free.
After years and years of being ripped off by the music business (and watching artists get the same kind of treatment) people might argue that even the money spent on that one CD is more than the wretched suits deserve.
To me it is plainly ludicrous to think that free market capitalism will contribute toward space exploration in any meaningful way - unless you seriously think that pleasure trips into low earth orbit for rich individuals are what its all about that is.
The only way that capitalism can really help out here is by continuing to wreck the planet to such an extent that people need to buy themselves an escape. Even here there is the problem that the inability of capitalism to see or plan ahead is what makes them so effective at polluting - and terraforming requires very serious planning, if it can ever work at all that is.
Even when capitalism had a global superpower behind it, it seemed to bogged down by its own shallow goals and could never really produce the goods. If you look at the contrast between the goals of the two respective programmes (US vs USSR) then this is borne out effectively.
For example, even to a child without the benefit of hindsight, I could never see the point of going to the moon, unless you're engaged in pointless showboating.
It seemed to me that the US reacted to the fact that the USSR had gotten the satellite into space, the first man into space etc and needed a publicity stunt to try and convince the public that they were keeping up.
While the US went on to quietly forget about the moon and tried to get somewhere with the increasingly disastrous shuttle, the Russians pushed ahead with their space station Mir, which was by all accounts a huge success.
What you seem to ignore is that often there is often no real incentive to decide against using Flash, especially when it comes to full screen Flash websites, and you will find this quite often in situations where profit is important. In fact, in certain areas such as educational websites, you would be rather silly to use anything else.
I'm not sure what you mean by actual code, as you will find that Flash is very much made up of code.
In my view the usefulness of Flash outweighs the complaints of any number of head-banging ideologues shouting from the periphery, and the efforts of Adobe to open Flash up are a great bonus, and a likely reason for why it has been so widely adopted by the open source community. http://www.osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects
Strictly speaking it doesn't mean nowhere - clearly the term utopia has come to mean something quite different since More wrote Utopia 400 odd years ago.
It's certainly true that he meant "no place" at the time; the society that he envisioned was put up as a lame duck imho.
An example up of this, and one of my favorite bits in the book is when King Utopus says that it's pointless trying to explain to people how such a society (Utopia) could work - one would have to see it at close hand. Obviously the place is fictional, and thus More is making clear his view on the notion that you can engineer a new society from scratch.
Obviously there are completely different ways of understanding this playful book - part of the reason why it's considered one of the most important Renaissance books, and a great humanist text.
The thing that is so objectionable to me about advertising is the way in which fundamentally it's a form of censorship - it has to restrict information about the product it is selling to positive facts or opinions.
Also, imho adverts are also almost always rubbish - lacking in any redeeming features at all.
You've touched on an issue that must be quite important for a lot of people; as someone who uses CS3 day in day out, the only barrier to taking the plunge into Linux is whether or not wine can effectively do the job of running it - is there anyone who can vouch for this kind of setup and its workability?
The other thing is that while my experience of virtualisation (in xp) has been pretty good, if you have to install xp into a virtual machine, then doesn't that kind of defeat the object of moving over to Linux in the first place? I'd still have to pay for an xp license at the end of the day.
I'm probably going to give it a try anyhow, but it would be good to know if anyone has any thoughts (or particularly useful links.)
I thought we needed to shed our civil liberties in order to win the war on terror; if it turns out that the real enemy are the single mums, maybe there's some clever way of targeting all the surveillance on them?
there is not much more pathetic than listening to someone who judges others by their own standards.
can you not get it into your thick head that just because we might think that apple make shit computers, or that they rip people off, does not mean that we love microsoft!!!!!
it should bring together the huge power of flex with the multimedia and animation capabilities of flash (about to be enhanced by the addition of hidef video.) if its automatically downloaded with the flash plugin then a lot of people will have access to it straight away. trust me, air has more to offer than active channels, silverlight etc.
I would imagine that a lot of people would share your new found interest in air. This is great news indeed.
As the first poster says, it would be nice to see photoshop and flash (ide) on linux - any news on that?
I just think it's a bit funny (and convenient) how faith-healers always tend to 'cure' conditions that may well have gone away of their own accord.
If you think that "demonstrating the power of the Spirit baptism' has the persuasive power of a re-grown leg then that's fair enough - clearly i need to work on my faith.
"...regrow parts of the body"
Any faith healers care to take this challenge up? no i thought not.
Its quite possible that you might not of heard of AIR unless you're a web developer or working in some associated area.
Imho the power of adobe flex combined with the hoards of flash developers out there will do a great deal to make AIR a success.
There has been talk of downloading it automatically with the next iteration of the Flash plugin. The ubiquity that this product would achieve at that point in time shouldn't need explaining.
As long as its kept (relatively) open, in the same way as flex and flash have been thus far, then there's every chance it will be very useful and popular.
You are right about me not being the target demographic here, i have worked on apple computers enough to realize that they're definitely not for me - my main objective is to get my work done as quickly as possible, regardless of how pretty the interface or actual computer is.
also, i have never found a need to express myself or my lifestyle with a consumer purchase; to be honest i find that kind of thing a bit difficult to understand. it does take allsorts i suppose.
as far as ultramobile laptops are concerned, i'm definitely an advocate. the main reasons i have a fujitsu lifebook s series is that they're fast, stable and light. another factor is that they are put together very well (like an expensive camera.)
my work as a flex developer requires a fairly powerful machine, but i have to take it to japan (from europe) three or four times a year, so a 4kg dell would go down like the proverbial french kiss at a family reunion.
also, i most certainly do not want lots of attachments hanging round that need to be connected if i'm to burn a cd, connect to a wired network etc. i'd have thought that anyone who is moving around with their computer (the target demographic) would appreciate this.
you could argue that there are those that might like the experience of carrying around, plugging-in and then unplugging various widgets; again it takes allsorts.
i would have to wonder though, exactly what kind of target demographic wouldn't want to have the choice of being able to carry an extra battery with them, or know that when it needs to be replaced they'd be able to just buy one and put it into the machine without needing to carry out surgery on it?
When the iMac was released i can remember my neighbor saying that he'd bought his daughter one to stop her from taking up loads of time on his computer.
Turns out that once she'd gotten over the novelty of the machine, they soon realised she still had to use his machine for word processing - she simply couldn't put her essays etc onto a disk and take them into school with her, because of this missing floppy drive.
I never got to play tits - sounds like fun. What was the objective?
That's a fairly easy question for me to answer.
Pilotwings & Mario cart are great, but with games like Jungle Strike, Herzog Zwei, RoadRash 2, Speedball 2, PGA Tour Golf and Micro Machines 2, the Sega Megadrive wins hands down.
I noticed the other day that someone was suggesting otherwise, because of the various ill-fated attachments that were knocked out (32X and Megacd). That seems a rather weak reason to dismiss a particular console; surely you didn't have to buy them?