While I'm sure that version is a little buggy, your question is answered by the leaflet in the mailbox:
This version is a PHP web hack of the original Dungeon, which allows you to LOGIN, SAVE, and RESTORE your game. You can see your fellow players, but since they are running their own instance of the game you can't do much other than SAY things to them.. or at least you will be able to once that bit has been coded. It is a work in progress.
but my point is that it is not such a important game, it is almost unimportant at all.
And everyone is rightfully pointing out to you how you are very very wrong on that point. It's funny that you're sitting there saying that Zork was unimportant, yet you want to put Prince of Fucking Persia on the list? Warning: Bad Car Analogy Ahead - That's like saying that Henry Ford is insignificant in the world of cars, but that John DeLorean should be on the list because he made a car out of stainless steel (not that you'd know who John DeLorean is)...
It's very clear that you were born in the early nineties and that anything that happened before that is "unimportant" in your world...
Extensions are a great feature of Firefox, but it is best to select the 10 or so that really increase your productivity and let the rest go.
Agreed. After trying a fair number of extensions, the ones I've found most useful for casual surfing are AdBlock Plus, All-in-One Gestures, Download Statusbar, and User Agent Switcher. Throw ForecaseFox in there if you live somewhere where the weather changes often.
Yeah, but it's got a nice little ode to Pam Berry, who was in a number of great bands during the 90s (Black Tambourine, Glo-Worm, Belmondo, The Shapiros, The Seashell Sea, and The Castaway Stones, not to mention her work on the Chickfactor zine with Gail O'Hara). But yeah, otherwise the album's generally 'meh'...
By simply asking the question here, you've indicated that you are more of a deliberate type of person--the kind of person that needs to be sold on things. That trait right there indicates that you won't particularly make a great salesman. That's not to say that you'll be a bad one, just that you'll more likely try to actually help the customer and give them what they need. Many of your customers will appreciate this. However, your boss won't. And at the end of the day, you answer to your boss. I'd avoid the sales position myself. Try to continue working with the marketing people if possible, but don't make a full transition.
Unless the problem is so widespread that they don't want to acknowledge it even exists until a class action lawsuit is brought against them. I love Macs and have used them for a long time, but I'll think seriously about buying another one after the hell I went through with the last one...
How long do you think it will be until some maroon somewhere plunks a hard drive into an unpadded envelope and drops it in the big blue mailbox on the corner?
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Nope. Pandora doesn't automatically analyze music. IIRC, they have a whole bunch of people who have studied music extensively who sit down and listen to a bunch of music. They then categorize each track/band by a whole ton of esoteric qualities that most people wouldn't be able to pick out--tempo/cadence, key, chord progressions, orchestration, types of harmonies, etc etc etc. It's these combinations of things that we generally are attracted to in music.
I worked for a brief while in the music industry and can tell you that this won't mean a thing. The airtime that will be devoted to independent labels will get sucked up by independent imprints and offshoots that still very much bow to their corporate overlords. There are quite a few "independent" labels out there that are run by someone in the A&R department at a major label. Consider it their "hobby" record label. However, quite often they have agreements whereby the major label that the "independent label" owner works for has first rights to signing any bands that the "independent" label managed to dig up. Labels like this are just another cog in the machine, and I assure you this is where the majority of that airtime will be going...
I have a feeling this is doomed to fail. Anyone who is old enough to remember when Commodore was a decent gaming platform has probably grown into the type of person who builds his own machines. And the Amiga users will just sit there reminiscing about the good old days...
My favorite was always the "If you heat up a needle and put it through this particular spot on your Tomb Raider CD, Lara Croft will be naked!" How many did that one disappoint, I wonder?
But that one really worked. I did it myself. I swear!
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Google should just be grateful that they weren't sued in Britain...
It's like me saying that the Model T is unimportant beacause it was not a great car...
No, it's exactly like you saying the Model T was unimportant because you'd never heard of it before.
While I'm sure that version is a little buggy, your question is answered by the leaflet in the mailbox:
This version is a PHP web hack of the original Dungeon, which allows you to LOGIN, SAVE, and RESTORE your game. You can see your fellow players, but since they are running their own instance of the game you can't do much other than SAY things to them.. or at least you will be able to once that bit has been coded. It is a work in progress.
but my point is that it is not such a important game, it is almost unimportant at all.
And everyone is rightfully pointing out to you how you are very very wrong on that point. It's funny that you're sitting there saying that Zork was unimportant, yet you want to put Prince of Fucking Persia on the list? Warning: Bad Car Analogy Ahead - That's like saying that Henry Ford is insignificant in the world of cars, but that John DeLorean should be on the list because he made a car out of stainless steel (not that you'd know who John DeLorean is)...
It's very clear that you were born in the early nineties and that anything that happened before that is "unimportant" in your world...
That would certainly change the situation a bit. Thanks for the link.
Hot Hardware doesn't allow linking to the printable version, which you would have known had you checked your link before posting.
verbs = details and looks
Not only will the advertising possibilities be 'limitless,'
That does it for me right there. Sign me up!
Sends and Recieves Phone Calls
I'm amused that this is listed as a "feature" of a telephone.
It can't even handle the most basic miss-spellings now.
It seems to work just fine for me...
Extensions are a great feature of Firefox, but it is best to select the 10 or so that really increase your productivity and let the rest go.
Agreed. After trying a fair number of extensions, the ones I've found most useful for casual surfing are AdBlock Plus, All-in-One Gestures, Download Statusbar, and User Agent Switcher. Throw ForecaseFox in there if you live somewhere where the weather changes often.
Yeah, but it's got a nice little ode to Pam Berry, who was in a number of great bands during the 90s (Black Tambourine, Glo-Worm, Belmondo, The Shapiros, The Seashell Sea, and The Castaway Stones, not to mention her work on the Chickfactor zine with Gail O'Hara). But yeah, otherwise the album's generally 'meh'...
Don't be so positive yet. We've still got the DST thing coming up on Sunday morning... (if you're in the US)
Alternately you can just use one hand and do the metal "devil horns" sign (thumb on cmd-opt, index on R, pinky on P).
By simply asking the question here, you've indicated that you are more of a deliberate type of person--the kind of person that needs to be sold on things. That trait right there indicates that you won't particularly make a great salesman. That's not to say that you'll be a bad one, just that you'll more likely try to actually help the customer and give them what they need. Many of your customers will appreciate this. However, your boss won't. And at the end of the day, you answer to your boss. I'd avoid the sales position myself. Try to continue working with the marketing people if possible, but don't make a full transition.
...for consumer support.
Unless the problem is so widespread that they don't want to acknowledge it even exists until a class action lawsuit is brought against them. I love Macs and have used them for a long time, but I'll think seriously about buying another one after the hell I went through with the last one...
How long do you think it will be until some maroon somewhere plunks a hard drive into an unpadded envelope and drops it in the big blue mailbox on the corner?
Nope. Pandora doesn't automatically analyze music. IIRC, they have a whole bunch of people who have studied music extensively who sit down and listen to a bunch of music. They then categorize each track/band by a whole ton of esoteric qualities that most people wouldn't be able to pick out--tempo/cadence, key, chord progressions, orchestration, types of harmonies, etc etc etc. It's these combinations of things that we generally are attracted to in music.
I worked for a brief while in the music industry and can tell you that this won't mean a thing. The airtime that will be devoted to independent labels will get sucked up by independent imprints and offshoots that still very much bow to their corporate overlords. There are quite a few "independent" labels out there that are run by someone in the A&R department at a major label. Consider it their "hobby" record label. However, quite often they have agreements whereby the major label that the "independent label" owner works for has first rights to signing any bands that the "independent" label managed to dig up. Labels like this are just another cog in the machine, and I assure you this is where the majority of that airtime will be going...
I wish I owned ten ATMs. I'd be able to buy just about anything I wanted...
I have a feeling this is doomed to fail. Anyone who is old enough to remember when Commodore was a decent gaming platform has probably grown into the type of person who builds his own machines. And the Amiga users will just sit there reminiscing about the good old days...
Excellent commentary. 8/10
I'd like to issue a correction for this review. The correct score should be 4/5.
My favorite was always the "If you heat up a needle and put it through this particular spot on your Tomb Raider CD, Lara Croft will be naked!" How many did that one disappoint, I wonder?
But that one really worked. I did it myself. I swear!
No, it's an OS on top of an OS (your webbrowser) on top of an OS (your uhm OS).
So where does emacs fit in there?