It was blinding fast for a compiler of its day, running on a 1 MHz Z-80. There was no debugger, but if a Turbo Pascal program halted with an error at a given location (which it would politely print out before quitting), you could run the compiler to find out which line of code that location represented. It was cheap, too -- fifty bucks or so at a time when other compiler makers were charging $300 or more.
I wrote a computer game in Turbo Pascal that got me my first job in the game industry. VERY fond memories.
It influenced Western thinking for centuries; throughout the Middle Ages anything in Aristotle was taken as gospel because he was the smartest man they knew. Unfortunately, much of it is bollocks (objects in motion tend to come to rest; the brain is a device for cooling the blood). But it's definitely a "classic" science book.
Freud, too. He was a terrible scientist, but hugely influential. Kinda like Ptolemy's epicycles -- imaginative and dead wrong. Worth knowing about if only to see how far we've come.
WTF do they think a newspaper is for? The minute you try to "democratize" is, politicians and PR types will try to game the system to make sure that only stories beneficial to them will get published.
Establish a system whereby all your data is re-encrypted daily using a random keyfile that is generated every day and stored on the Internet somewhere, not on your own machine (someplace where you know they don't make backups). The keyfile is deleted at midnight. If you have not re-encrypted your data with a new keyfile by the time the old keyfile is deleted, the data is irrecoverable.
When they seize your computer, invoke your right to silence and stall until midnight.
You risk losing all your data that way if you don't get it re-encrypted before the keyfile goes away, but for some it may be worth the risk.
Adventure games didn't go away; they just went from being one of the biggest genres to a niche genre as the rest of the market expanded and they did not. Hardcore games will do the same thing. The insanely-difficult, insanely-repetitive shooter may be a major genre now, but in 5 years it will be as niche as adventure games are.
Similar reasons, too: the fan base won't grow as fast as the fan base for other games does, and the cost of development is high.
The Air Force has these secret radars that can tell the difference between a mosquito and a gnat, and right now they're using them to track all the alien spacecraft that they're not telling us about, because of course you know that the Air Force is really run by a bunch of nigger lesbian feminist illegal immigrants who are secretly in the pay of the international Jewish banking conspiracy. See, if the international Jewish banking conspiracy ever let honest God-fearing white Americans find out just how many aliens are visiting the Earth each day, the banks might collapse and...
She was too optimistic. I would paraphrase that to read: "Never doubt that a small group of vicious, ruthless, bigoted bastards motivated by religious zealotry can change the world; it happens all too often." Applies equally well to Al Qaeda and the Bush administration, although the relative scales of their crimes are different.
I started using the Internet when it was the ARPANET. Nice place. Interesting people. Cool projects. Then it became the Internet, then AOL hooked in, and suddenly I discovered that a large percentage of my fellow countrymen are ignorant, illogical, paranoid, quasi-literate, parochial, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual believers in UFOs.
I mean I knew they existed, but not in such numbers. The Internet is democratizing, and it sure as hell shows what's wrong with democracy.
At least, that was the point of the DOD funding. There was supposed to be massive redundancy so the data just got routed around any breaks. I myself have multiple ways of accessing the 'Net -- cable modem, land-line telephony, and wireless telephony.
How did we get to the point where an idiot with a backhoe can bring down Silicon Valley itself?!
I asked about Saddam's dead Iraqis; the source you quote includes dead Iranians. Iranians are not Iraqis.
It's a bit of a toss-up as to who should carry the can for the estimated 500,000 Iraqi children who died as a result of the trade sanctions. Could Saddam have saved them? Could the US/UK have saved them? Both, probably.
The Japanese declared war on the USA, and attacked Pearl Harbor. The USA declared war on Japan. Four days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the USA. The USA then declared war on Germany.
None of this had anything to do with the Holocaust. The USA conceivably might never have declared war on Germany if Germany had stayed out of the USA's fight with Japan.
Saddam kills a kid with gas; US/UK kill a kid with a bomb. The kid is just as innocent and just as dead.
Saddam considered himself to be legitimately putting down a Kurdish rebellion. It was bullshit, but that was his claim.
The US/UK did not "slide on ice" into the war in Iraq by accident; they attacked Iraq when Iraq was no threat to them. It was aggressive war, pure and simple. They said it had something to do with WMD. That, too, was bullshit.
In other words, both sides claim legitimacy, and both sides are full of it. But who killed more people?
What IS the exact count for each? In terms of sheer body count, there's a pretty fair chance that the US/UK coalition killed more Iraquis than Saddam did during his entire reign. Of course, the coalition killed them in order to liberate them, so that's OK.
It's not cyanide. We had it in thermometers and extra-quiet light switches and all kinds of places for decades, and the world did not die of mercury poisoning. The major causes of death were, are, and will remain heart disease, cancer, strokes, being hit by a car, and being shot by your nephew (in the USA).
We used to PLAY with mercury, FFS -- it was great fun. Of all the things to be scared of, fear of mercury is below fear of pointed sticks.
No, don't try to pretend you don't understand me. If you publish the fact that you have evidence of a crime, but you don't offer that evidence to law enforcement -- and especially if you name the criminal -- you've committed a crime yourself. The guy laid himself open. I suspect he's not nearly as well-versed in the law as he thinks he is.
Contrary to what you may think, in America you can't just set up a website and anonymously accuse people of crimes on it. It's libel at best, and may be criminal. If you don't understand that, then for your own sake, stay off the Internet.
The guy was, at best, running an ongoing campaign of character assassination against certain Phoenix police officers. No crime there, although what he said may have been libelous. But if he was accusing police officers of breaking the law, then it is his duty as a citizen to present his evidence to whatever the local equivalent of the Internal Affairs Department is. If he was withholding that evidence, he was obstructing justice.
Bloggers aren't journalists. They don't have to live up to any standards of ethical journalism, and so they don't get protection for their sources. If that's what he's claiming, he's going to get a rude shock.
Bottom line is, we don't have all the facts. Phoenix isn't some podunk town. It's hard for me to imagine that both the cops and a judge in a large metropolitan area would do something this egregious.
PCs will always survive because people need them for things other than games. A console is a lousy personal computer -- cheap, weak, and not customizable. Also, you don't need anybody's permission to write a PC game, and you don't have to pay the manufacturer a royalty.
If the retailers aren't careful, they'll kill off their own source of supply. Used games are a big win for them and a big win for the consumer, and a big loss for the publishers. If the retailers drive the publishers to digital distribution ONLY, they won't have anything left to sell.
You'll notice that major bookstores don't sell used books, only new ones.
Within 20 years games may become a service like cable TV, not a product you buy and take home.
For the most part the pro-gaming leagues were set up by random entrepreneurs, not game publishers. Yes, they represented publicity. But the jury is still very much out on whether people will pay to watch other people play video games. They do in Korea, for sure, but not in the USA. So it was never obvious that the PR they represented was really worth the expense of running them. That's why it wasn't the publishers that set them up.
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It was blinding fast for a compiler of its day, running on a 1 MHz Z-80. There was no debugger, but if a Turbo Pascal program halted with an error at a given location (which it would politely print out before quitting), you could run the compiler to find out which line of code that location represented. It was cheap, too -- fifty bucks or so at a time when other compiler makers were charging $300 or more.
I wrote a computer game in Turbo Pascal that got me my first job in the game industry. VERY fond memories.
It influenced Western thinking for centuries; throughout the Middle Ages anything in Aristotle was taken as gospel because he was the smartest man they knew. Unfortunately, much of it is bollocks (objects in motion tend to come to rest; the brain is a device for cooling the blood). But it's definitely a "classic" science book.
Freud, too. He was a terrible scientist, but hugely influential. Kinda like Ptolemy's epicycles -- imaginative and dead wrong. Worth knowing about if only to see how far we've come.
WTF do they think a newspaper is for? The minute you try to "democratize" is, politicians and PR types will try to game the system to make sure that only stories beneficial to them will get published.
Establish a system whereby all your data is re-encrypted daily using a random keyfile that is generated every day and stored on the Internet somewhere, not on your own machine (someplace where you know they don't make backups). The keyfile is deleted at midnight. If you have not re-encrypted your data with a new keyfile by the time the old keyfile is deleted, the data is irrecoverable.
When they seize your computer, invoke your right to silence and stall until midnight.
You risk losing all your data that way if you don't get it re-encrypted before the keyfile goes away, but for some it may be worth the risk.
Think designers of Viet Nam games shouldn't talk to any Vietnamese? Korea games? WWII games?
The rank stupidity of knee-jerk jingo "patriots" is enough to make you weep.
And the rest of you would do well to remember that the authors of articles very seldom have any say in the article's headline.
How the fuck do you know what their lives were like? And who the fuck are you to pass judgment in any case?
Adventure games didn't go away; they just went from being one of the biggest genres to a niche genre as the rest of the market expanded and they did not. Hardcore games will do the same thing. The insanely-difficult, insanely-repetitive shooter may be a major genre now, but in 5 years it will be as niche as adventure games are.
Similar reasons, too: the fan base won't grow as fast as the fan base for other games does, and the cost of development is high.
Can't capitalize, can't punctuate. The shift key is just there for decoration, isn't it?
People like you were extremely few and far between when it was just the ARPANET.
The Air Force has these secret radars that can tell the difference between a mosquito and a gnat, and right now they're using them to track all the alien spacecraft that they're not telling us about, because of course you know that the Air Force is really run by a bunch of nigger lesbian feminist illegal immigrants who are secretly in the pay of the international Jewish banking conspiracy. See, if the international Jewish banking conspiracy ever let honest God-fearing white Americans find out just how many aliens are visiting the Earth each day, the banks might collapse and...
Uh-oh.
She was too optimistic. I would paraphrase that to read: "Never doubt that a small group of vicious, ruthless, bigoted bastards motivated by religious zealotry can change the world; it happens all too often." Applies equally well to Al Qaeda and the Bush administration, although the relative scales of their crimes are different.
I started using the Internet when it was the ARPANET. Nice place. Interesting people. Cool projects. Then it became the Internet, then AOL hooked in, and suddenly I discovered that a large percentage of my fellow countrymen are ignorant, illogical, paranoid, quasi-literate, parochial, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual believers in UFOs.
I mean I knew they existed, but not in such numbers. The Internet is democratizing, and it sure as hell shows what's wrong with democracy.
It already has a future in Korea. Does it have one in the USA? Possibly. How big? Not very. Americans like their athletics real.
It's probably about the level of, say, American Gladiator: a viable niche at best.
At least, that was the point of the DOD funding. There was supposed to be massive redundancy so the data just got routed around any breaks. I myself have multiple ways of accessing the 'Net -- cable modem, land-line telephony, and wireless telephony.
How did we get to the point where an idiot with a backhoe can bring down Silicon Valley itself?!
I asked about Saddam's dead Iraqis; the source you quote includes dead Iranians. Iranians are not Iraqis.
It's a bit of a toss-up as to who should carry the can for the estimated 500,000 Iraqi children who died as a result of the trade sanctions. Could Saddam have saved them? Could the US/UK have saved them? Both, probably.
The Japanese declared war on the USA, and attacked Pearl Harbor. The USA declared war on Japan. Four days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the USA. The USA then declared war on Germany.
None of this had anything to do with the Holocaust. The USA conceivably might never have declared war on Germany if Germany had stayed out of the USA's fight with Japan.
Saddam kills a kid with gas; US/UK kill a kid with a bomb. The kid is just as innocent and just as dead.
Saddam considered himself to be legitimately putting down a Kurdish rebellion. It was bullshit, but that was his claim.
The US/UK did not "slide on ice" into the war in Iraq by accident; they attacked Iraq when Iraq was no threat to them. It was aggressive war, pure and simple. They said it had something to do with WMD. That, too, was bullshit.
In other words, both sides claim legitimacy, and both sides are full of it. But who killed more people?
What IS the exact count for each? In terms of sheer body count, there's a pretty fair chance that the US/UK coalition killed more Iraquis than Saddam did during his entire reign. Of course, the coalition killed them in order to liberate them, so that's OK.
It's not cyanide. We had it in thermometers and extra-quiet light switches and all kinds of places for decades, and the world did not die of mercury poisoning. The major causes of death were, are, and will remain heart disease, cancer, strokes, being hit by a car, and being shot by your nephew (in the USA).
We used to PLAY with mercury, FFS -- it was great fun. Of all the things to be scared of, fear of mercury is below fear of pointed sticks.
No, don't try to pretend you don't understand me. If you publish the fact that you have evidence of a crime, but you don't offer that evidence to law enforcement -- and especially if you name the criminal -- you've committed a crime yourself. The guy laid himself open. I suspect he's not nearly as well-versed in the law as he thinks he is.
Contrary to what you may think, in America you can't just set up a website and anonymously accuse people of crimes on it. It's libel at best, and may be criminal. If you don't understand that, then for your own sake, stay off the Internet.
The guy was, at best, running an ongoing campaign of character assassination against certain Phoenix police officers. No crime there, although what he said may have been libelous. But if he was accusing police officers of breaking the law, then it is his duty as a citizen to present his evidence to whatever the local equivalent of the Internal Affairs Department is. If he was withholding that evidence, he was obstructing justice.
Bloggers aren't journalists. They don't have to live up to any standards of ethical journalism, and so they don't get protection for their sources. If that's what he's claiming, he's going to get a rude shock.
Bottom line is, we don't have all the facts. Phoenix isn't some podunk town. It's hard for me to imagine that both the cops and a judge in a large metropolitan area would do something this egregious.
PCs will always survive because people need them for things other than games. A console is a lousy personal computer -- cheap, weak, and not customizable. Also, you don't need anybody's permission to write a PC game, and you don't have to pay the manufacturer a royalty.
There will always be PC games.
If the retailers aren't careful, they'll kill off their own source of supply. Used games are a big win for them and a big win for the consumer, and a big loss for the publishers. If the retailers drive the publishers to digital distribution ONLY, they won't have anything left to sell.
You'll notice that major bookstores don't sell used books, only new ones.
Within 20 years games may become a service like cable TV, not a product you buy and take home.
For the most part the pro-gaming leagues were set up by random entrepreneurs, not game publishers. Yes, they represented publicity. But the jury is still very much out on whether people will pay to watch other people play video games. They do in Korea, for sure, but not in the USA. So it was never obvious that the PR they represented was really worth the expense of running them. That's why it wasn't the publishers that set them up.
It sits in the Oval Office and is used by all the presidents. It wasn't given to the man, but to the office.