There's a rumor going around that a small radio station in Cincinatti rented one of theae for a marketing stunt in November. The CEO has been tight-lipped on the matter.
Mario was in 12 games starring him in 21 years. Final fantasy did 14 over 23 years.
It's even murkier than that. Look at Super Mario Brothers, then 2, then 3, then Super Mario World, then Super Mario 64, then Super Mario Sunshine, then Super Mario Galaxy. You don't play *any* of those games the same way. I don't mean that they have expanded levels or extra features, I mean the skills you learn from 2 don't directly apply to 3. Compare this to Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Sure, there are additions and improvements along the way, but you could be driving around Liberty City then suddenly materialize in Vice City and there wouldn't even be a hiccup in the gameplay.
I realize some of you are tired of hearing the name "Mario". I get it, no prob. But if you're going to rake anybody over the coals over video game sequelitis, is it really going to be Nintendo? There's a difference between having a game that has "Mario" in the title and creating a sequel. Super Mario Galaxy II is a sequel to Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario Galaxy is in the same franchise as Super Mario Sunshine. See how Galaxy isn't called Super Mario Bros. 7?
But in the next mario, he has a puppy! you're not a brainwashed throwback-pretentious hipster if that gimmick isn't enough to make you beg to hear ole Mario say "lets-a-go" one more time!!!
Being a fan of Nintendo's idea of what a sequel should entail is pretentious? Well I guess I had better take my glasses off and go back to playing FPS shooters.
Just for clarification: Are you saying that if we did get a signal, Starfleet would suddenly be formed with a sword for a logo and all officers would be required to wear goatees and eyepatches?
So I hope you're uploading those for archive purposes, to be sorted later. If you're sharing all of them, your audience will likely get bored fast.
When I was a kid, every year my dad would take us on a two week trip where we'd drive across a corner of America. In one trip we hit the Rocky Mountains, Las Vegas, and lotsa neat places in Utah whose names I cannot remember right this second. If my dad called me up and said "We wanna do this trip again!" not only would I be interested in doing what the star of this Ask Slashdot is doing, but I'd easily be shooting 300+ photos a day... only I wouldn't be wasting any of the photos. Unlike him, though, I wouldn't be opposed to DropBox.
I like to shoot time lapses. I bought a $50 timer for my camera and well I just plain love setting it up and letting it go. Utah, for example, has some awesome rock formations and I would *love* to get the stars rotating behind them. I also would be sorely tempted to get a GigaPan head so I can shoot some reallllly high-res panoramas. Believe me, I could chew up the gigs.
If I were about to go on this trip the first thing I'd do is set it up so I can easily dump the memory card to my laptop right to a dropbox folder. I'm not too worried about security of these files, but if I were, I'd write a quick lil script that'd winRar each of these files with a password. (or maybe 7-zip.... suggestions appreciated. Actually SpiderOak would be considered, too, but I haven't used it enough yet to feel comfortable it'll do the syncing properly.) I would not bother with TrueCrypt because I'd want these files in as small of chunks as possible for quick syncing. I would then have my laptop set to connect to any wifi allowed. I believe during just about any part of the trip I could get my laptop near a wifi hotspot. Heck, most hotels probably have it. I'd just leave the laptop running all night and DropBox would automatically handle getting as many files synced as is possible with the resources available.
I don't think this would steal much time away from the trip, either. Some of you may have seen the poll Slashdot had a few days ago about how much storage of our is solid-state. I'll be up-front and say I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about this thread because I had an asshole attempt to ridicule me over the way I qualified the word 'storage'. I said that I had plenty of memory cards and USB sticks etc, but I leave them blank, mainly so they're available to use again. (also I don't want data getting into unauthorized hands.) In my hands these devices don't store data for longer than a day. Well, now I have an opportunity to elaborate on that a bit. Regardless of if I were trying to do cloud backups along the way or not, I'd take that memory card and MOVE the files to the laptop anyway. The card would then be returned empty and ready to be maxed out with a new set of time-lapse photos. Since I'd be doing that anyway, and since DropBox really doesn't require anything more than just putting the files into the folder, the only additional overhead this would add to the trip is getting the laptop on the wifi. The only reason I might not do this typically is my smartphone is sufficient to ease my information-hunger-pains. I don't think I'd eat up too much of my vacation time trying to get these files into the cloud.
Frankly I'm disappointed that he wouldn't just use Dropbox. Without it he could find himself needlessly troubleshooting the setup as he's out on the road. *But* if he really insists on doing it that way, I do have one suggestion: Get some FTP space and use Allway Sync. He'd dump the photos to his laptop, run AllwaySync, and it'll log in via FTP, compare the files from the source folder to the target folder, and upload the new ones. My only concern about that is if he's shooting lots of photos like I suggested I would, the bit where it catalogs the files on each side might start taking longer and longer to do. Shitty wifi at a hotel may make that imprac
That's a dumb thing to say in virtually any context. It's especially dumb in this one because of Apple's excellent track record in bringing a good end-user experience. If the AppleTV rumors are true, the ability to to tell my remote "I want to watch Boardwalk Empire" or "record all new episodes of Game of Thrones" could be a game changer that will cause DirecTV to scramble to catch up.
That said, I do think he can afford to be somewhat defiant about it. A $1,500 50" TV is not likely to sell like hotcakes. If Apple holds to their current pattern he's got time to react.
Yes, they would want to contact us much in the same way we'd be insanely curious if any other creature on this planet demonstrated creative story-telling.
I'm sorry to poop on your post but that Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that inspired your reply is over 20 years old.
Sure, a pretty actress's or NFL player's first career is over quickly, but why should they be set for life at that point? When my mainframe know-how became largely obsolete in the late 80s/early 90s, I learned new PC-centric skills and got another job. Why shouldn't that apply to these people?
Their unique contribution to the project brought in tens of millions of dollars.
Well, if Apple sues Samsung for making a tablet with the same dimensions, but black, despite prior art (Space Odysessy 2001)..
Not what happened and unrelated anyway.
then why can't Technicolor sue Apple for something equally obvious?
You know that "on a computer' phrase people like to bitch about around here? This is an example of why you really want that despite what the dudes with the mod-points say.
If the Apple Retina display is already beyond the point a human eye can resolve - what's more resolution going to get you?
If I were looking at photos on my phone and wanted to see a detail up closer, I'd bring the phone closer to my face. I could see myself really enjoying this resolution. It won't, however, make me buy a new phone for more-or-less the reason you're mentioning. Although useful to me, only in a few cases.
I sort of agree with that. But I don't remember it being all that great. Most of the arguments I remember (and I'll admit I'm guilty of what I'm about to accuse others of) were never-ending piss-fests intended to save face. If somebody defeated you with logic or facts or whatever, your best bet was to find some inaccuracy somewhere in their post, even if off-topic, and point that out Then you could 'win' on that debate. You could defeat a pro-Microsoft post with grammar nazi'ism. I know I've made an ass of myself a few times, I cannot imagine others not remembering it being like that.
I don't really understand why my original post was modded down. If I really did miss some great era of Slashdot history I really would like to know about it. When I think back to 1999-2000, I remember lots of comments about how the Editors were useless, the news was twisted to grab eyeballs, dupe or old stories, and Slashdot was going down-hill. The only real difference I've seen in the last decade was we seem to have way more commentors who are... for lack of a better term... more 'mass-market' than the crowd Slashdot used to attract. I think this corroborates your comment about accusations of people watching Fox news.
Wait, when was this? I've been here since 99. From day one it was sensationalist stories about Microsoft, verbal fellatio for Linux and Mozilla, and people falling into a big dog-pile to make the first "this is not news!!!" comment.
Either I missed a very very brief period in Slashdot's history or somebody's looking back with rose-colored glasses.
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You might have to wait an extra day, some of Opera's features are harder to copy than others.
Heh. No. They used Opera because it had a ton of features that Netscape didn't have and Mozilla hadn't ripped off yet.
Opera earned the elitist attitude us fanboys have for it.
There's a rumor going around that a small radio station in Cincinatti rented one of theae for a marketing stunt in November. The CEO has been tight-lipped on the matter.
Just after reading the headline i half expected that they were going to say the erratic way they fly provided a bonus against ever hitting a raindrop.
Oh well, sustaining the impact is cool, too.
Thank you!
We did too, and we all turned out okay!
Isn't that about the time the Klingons dismantled their military and wrote the inspiration for a bunch of popular plays?
Compare Mario 1, 2, and 3 to Sonic 1, 2, and 3 and you'll see why just labeling them 'side-scrollers' is insufficient to have this discussion.
Mario was in 12 games starring him in 21 years. Final fantasy did 14 over 23 years.
It's even murkier than that. Look at Super Mario Brothers, then 2, then 3, then Super Mario World, then Super Mario 64, then Super Mario Sunshine, then Super Mario Galaxy. You don't play *any* of those games the same way. I don't mean that they have expanded levels or extra features, I mean the skills you learn from 2 don't directly apply to 3. Compare this to Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Sure, there are additions and improvements along the way, but you could be driving around Liberty City then suddenly materialize in Vice City and there wouldn't even be a hiccup in the gameplay.
I realize some of you are tired of hearing the name "Mario". I get it, no prob. But if you're going to rake anybody over the coals over video game sequelitis, is it really going to be Nintendo? There's a difference between having a game that has "Mario" in the title and creating a sequel. Super Mario Galaxy II is a sequel to Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario Galaxy is in the same franchise as Super Mario Sunshine. See how Galaxy isn't called Super Mario Bros. 7?
But in the next mario, he has a puppy! you're not a brainwashed throwback-pretentious hipster if that gimmick isn't enough to make you beg to hear ole Mario say "lets-a-go" one more time!!!
Being a fan of Nintendo's idea of what a sequel should entail is pretentious? Well I guess I had better take my glasses off and go back to playing FPS shooters.
Just for clarification: Are you saying that if we did get a signal, Starfleet would suddenly be formed with a sword for a logo and all officers would be required to wear goatees and eyepatches?
So I hope you're uploading those for archive purposes, to be sorted later. If you're sharing all of them, your audience will likely get bored fast.
When I was a kid, every year my dad would take us on a two week trip where we'd drive across a corner of America. In one trip we hit the Rocky Mountains, Las Vegas, and lotsa neat places in Utah whose names I cannot remember right this second. If my dad called me up and said "We wanna do this trip again!" not only would I be interested in doing what the star of this Ask Slashdot is doing, but I'd easily be shooting 300+ photos a day... only I wouldn't be wasting any of the photos. Unlike him, though, I wouldn't be opposed to DropBox.
I like to shoot time lapses. I bought a $50 timer for my camera and well I just plain love setting it up and letting it go. Utah, for example, has some awesome rock formations and I would *love* to get the stars rotating behind them. I also would be sorely tempted to get a GigaPan head so I can shoot some reallllly high-res panoramas. Believe me, I could chew up the gigs.
If I were about to go on this trip the first thing I'd do is set it up so I can easily dump the memory card to my laptop right to a dropbox folder. I'm not too worried about security of these files, but if I were, I'd write a quick lil script that'd winRar each of these files with a password. (or maybe 7-zip.... suggestions appreciated. Actually SpiderOak would be considered, too, but I haven't used it enough yet to feel comfortable it'll do the syncing properly.) I would not bother with TrueCrypt because I'd want these files in as small of chunks as possible for quick syncing. I would then have my laptop set to connect to any wifi allowed. I believe during just about any part of the trip I could get my laptop near a wifi hotspot. Heck, most hotels probably have it. I'd just leave the laptop running all night and DropBox would automatically handle getting as many files synced as is possible with the resources available.
I don't think this would steal much time away from the trip, either. Some of you may have seen the poll Slashdot had a few days ago about how much storage of our is solid-state. I'll be up-front and say I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about this thread because I had an asshole attempt to ridicule me over the way I qualified the word 'storage'. I said that I had plenty of memory cards and USB sticks etc, but I leave them blank, mainly so they're available to use again. (also I don't want data getting into unauthorized hands.) In my hands these devices don't store data for longer than a day. Well, now I have an opportunity to elaborate on that a bit. Regardless of if I were trying to do cloud backups along the way or not, I'd take that memory card and MOVE the files to the laptop anyway. The card would then be returned empty and ready to be maxed out with a new set of time-lapse photos. Since I'd be doing that anyway, and since DropBox really doesn't require anything more than just putting the files into the folder, the only additional overhead this would add to the trip is getting the laptop on the wifi. The only reason I might not do this typically is my smartphone is sufficient to ease my information-hunger-pains. I don't think I'd eat up too much of my vacation time trying to get these files into the cloud.
Frankly I'm disappointed that he wouldn't just use Dropbox. Without it he could find himself needlessly troubleshooting the setup as he's out on the road. *But* if he really insists on doing it that way, I do have one suggestion: Get some FTP space and use Allway Sync. He'd dump the photos to his laptop, run AllwaySync, and it'll log in via FTP, compare the files from the source folder to the target folder, and upload the new ones. My only concern about that is if he's shooting lots of photos like I suggested I would, the bit where it catalogs the files on each side might start taking longer and longer to do. Shitty wifi at a hotel may make that imprac
Kids these days just spam the button on their DSLRs, relying on quantity to provide them with a good shot after the fact.
What a bunch of elitist bullshit. You know damn good and well that you missed lots of opportunities to shoot because of film rationing.
He could be shooting time-lapses.
He'd probably think the market of people who want to pay for a whole new TV isn't all that big.
That's a dumb thing to say in virtually any context. It's especially dumb in this one because of Apple's excellent track record in bringing a good end-user experience. If the AppleTV rumors are true, the ability to to tell my remote "I want to watch Boardwalk Empire" or "record all new episodes of Game of Thrones" could be a game changer that will cause DirecTV to scramble to catch up.
That said, I do think he can afford to be somewhat defiant about it. A $1,500 50" TV is not likely to sell like hotcakes. If Apple holds to their current pattern he's got time to react.
Hoookay. What happened, did I respond after reading the article and embarrass you or something?
So, seriously are you saying it's mod-abuse or can you point out what's wrong with what I said in *this* thread?
Downmodded? Why? What am I wrong about?
Yes, they would want to contact us much in the same way we'd be insanely curious if any other creature on this planet demonstrated creative story-telling.
I'm sorry to poop on your post but that Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that inspired your reply is over 20 years old.
Sure, a pretty actress's or NFL player's first career is over quickly, but why should they be set for life at that point? When my mainframe know-how became largely obsolete in the late 80s/early 90s, I learned new PC-centric skills and got another job. Why shouldn't that apply to these people?
Their unique contribution to the project brought in tens of millions of dollars.
No, it's not. I'll give you a hint: 25.
Well, if Apple sues Samsung for making a tablet with the same dimensions, but black, despite prior art (Space Odysessy 2001)..
Not what happened and unrelated anyway.
then why can't Technicolor sue Apple for something equally obvious?
You know that "on a computer' phrase people like to bitch about around here? This is an example of why you really want that despite what the dudes with the mod-points say.
If the Apple Retina display is already beyond the point a human eye can resolve - what's more resolution going to get you?
If I were looking at photos on my phone and wanted to see a detail up closer, I'd bring the phone closer to my face. I could see myself really enjoying this resolution. It won't, however, make me buy a new phone for more-or-less the reason you're mentioning. Although useful to me, only in a few cases.
I sort of agree with that. But I don't remember it being all that great. Most of the arguments I remember (and I'll admit I'm guilty of what I'm about to accuse others of) were never-ending piss-fests intended to save face. If somebody defeated you with logic or facts or whatever, your best bet was to find some inaccuracy somewhere in their post, even if off-topic, and point that out Then you could 'win' on that debate. You could defeat a pro-Microsoft post with grammar nazi'ism. I know I've made an ass of myself a few times, I cannot imagine others not remembering it being like that.
I don't really understand why my original post was modded down. If I really did miss some great era of Slashdot history I really would like to know about it. When I think back to 1999-2000, I remember lots of comments about how the Editors were useless, the news was twisted to grab eyeballs, dupe or old stories, and Slashdot was going down-hill. The only real difference I've seen in the last decade was we seem to have way more commentors who are... for lack of a better term... more 'mass-market' than the crowd Slashdot used to attract. I think this corroborates your comment about accusations of people watching Fox news.
Help restore /. to it's former nerd news glory..
Wait, when was this? I've been here since 99. From day one it was sensationalist stories about Microsoft, verbal fellatio for Linux and Mozilla, and people falling into a big dog-pile to make the first "this is not news!!!" comment.
Either I missed a very very brief period in Slashdot's history or somebody's looking back with rose-colored glasses.