I was too young when I saw RotJ to think it was cheesy. I loved it, but I'll even admit, having watched it many times later that it got a little stupidly cutesy. I guess I was around 9-12 when I saw it.. hmm if that's who's being targeted now, it's a sad commentary on the crap kids like - or maybe it's just what they think kids will like.
It was written by a well-intentioned Linux advocate and sent to The Register because it would give the people of Slashdot a reason to cheer.
If it was the other way around, i doubt we'd hear many people desribe it as a "well-intentioned Microsoft advocate". More likely, we would see people seeking a law suit and citing it as typical Microsoft underhanded business practice.
It's pathetic. You can dress it up how you like, but it's a lie, and I don't think much good can or would come to it.
IMHO, the continual Linux/Microsoft debate/comparison (whatever you want to call it) makes the Linux community seem a little unprofessional and childish (especially in the light of half a dozen x-window/desktop managers taking cues from Windows style elements) and if I were not in the know (ie, some clueless IT manager), I might be more skeptical of Linux and it's use in my business.
...to add a little humor to our lives. think of the countless anecdotes that might be generated by a plan like this. it would have to be that the detector results won't be taken as gospel, and if you check out after a short double check, you can fly. rare is the anecdotal aspect factored into the use of new technology in inappropriate ways.
We hear this too often. One of the few measures we, as consumers, can take is to boycott products made by companies who engage in hassling people running sites - especially if they promote the use of their products.
It might help to have a site that consolodates reports and stories such as yours, to help make consumers aware of these occurances. Is there a site like this already?
Maybe this is obvious and is why not many mentioned it, but I think there is a difference between a game that is art and a game which uses art. Quake III is a good example of the latter. There are some beautiful (some not so interesting) levels and textures used in the game. The weapons are artful. I don't find the gameplay artful. I did in Doom though, but I might be biased due to the novelty of the game at the time. It seemed like the levels were designed to take you through a journey in some certain way. Doom provoked some emotions from me, mostly fear, but some others.
Quake III, while some levels are interesting, rare do I feel any were made to bring out something special. Perhaps a few large rooms were made just right to have large chaotic battles, but I don't think it that was hard to do or particularly well done if that was what they were going for.
I have a hard time drawing the line between a bad game and bad game as art. It's hard to judge this kind of thing because you're not sure if the makers were going for art, and not knowing that makes it difficult to critique a game. I really don't think they were going for art in Quake III. Maybe some of the level makers or artists, but they had a practical job to do in making their art which was more important than the art itself. Aliens vs Starship Troopers I guess... if Starship Troopers (which I enjoyed) is considered art, then I guess Quake III should be too.
In a perfect world no, but people are trying to sell crap all the time.. it's up to consumers to check out what they're buying, and it's nice when they let others know.
If you weren't one of the few people who bought this the first day it came out, you could have checked numerous discussion groups (mp3.com had some user info about this thing) and found out about all the shortcommings first. If you're going to spend this much on something, it might help to do some reasearch.
Having owned the PJB first, the Nomad Jukebox is very annoying to use, for all the reasons.. It's not very ideal to use on a crowded subway for instance, since it's quite a painsaking process to do anything on it. I've been using it has a portable storage device quite a bit recently, renaming files to.wav and moving them over, and renaming them back. It works great for recording live shows and my band practices, where I have a little time to prepare. The recording quality is pretty good too, and I still haven't played around with all the settings that much.
I think the PJB is more 'open' than this is. There are some tools available to help, I believe as well. I once owned a PJB 6 gig mp3 player shortly before the Nomad Jukebox one came out. I returned it and got the creative labs one mostly for the recording aspect, to record my band's practice sessions.
The PBJ had a far greater interface... I could usually manage to operate it without looking at it, in my pocket, whereas the Nomad Jukebox is very difficult to operate and not intuitive, as far as music players are concerned. When you hit "back", it should go to the begining of the song, but this one goes to the previous song. You have to save your playlists, or see them occassionally and semi-predictably get lost when you use other functions of the Jukebox (such as the recorder). Saving your playlist with good name is fun.. it's about as hard as entering your name on a high score coin-op video game, but imagine using annoying buttons and having to delete a 14 character name first.
I inadvertently bought a video card a few years ago called the Diamond 3000 or somesuch. It was able to play Sega Saturn games, I believe, or maybe just Sega Saturn games lightly modified to play on the PC using this card. It had 2 Sega Saturn joystick ports, and I think it came with 2 joysticks... a friend of mine had a Saturn and tried those instead, and they worked. I still have that darn card... never really used it to it's potential.
Some guy only identified as 'Wallace' says some stuff and you believe it? If you knew someone named Wallace would you believe anything he said? Just what kind of name is that? Who names their kid 'Wallace' anyway.
I don't know if most of these EQ and UO type games have any policies posted about such things. But maybe as the number of these 'massivly multiplayer' games increase, we'll see more that flout one policy or another, and the folks who want to play to sell their virtual propery for cash and those who want a game where someone can't simply buy their way to the top with real life cash will only play a game after they check out the policies.
As a gamer, I don't really like the idea of playing a game for a awhile, building my character or empire up and see another player do the same by spending some extra bucks. I mean, maybe it means I'm pathetic, but part of the reason I play multiplayer games is to enjoy myself in an environment where people can't cheat, steal and kill outside of the game rules to get to the top. I don't even think I'm an especially competitive online gamer, and I don't have anything against those who are, but it's not fun when someone buys their way to what you've taken time to build up.
I think they covered this when one of the first Anime stories was posted and they made an anime icon for such stories. The general slashdot opinion was that anything that was 'interesting' or 'cool' was fit to post.
True, but I guess my point is that many companies go the open source route to save money. Since they don't want to spend the extra cash to check source themselves, they'll be more likely to go with the better known programs, in this case, MySQL or Postgres, assuming they haven't gone to a commercial product. If trust is lost in Open Source, when could happen is less corporate support for the lesser known projects (and Interbase isn't so unknown), leaving only a few to survive.
They aren't just paying for 'high-quality' apps.. they're paying to cover their asses so that if something like this was found in a commercial app, they have financial and legal recourse. A bug like this can conceivably cost a company millions in bug fixes, lost revenue and invalidated contracts. I wonder how many business contracts have involved what amounts to vouching for open source code bases that nobody at the company has audited or even skimmed over.
And who's going to pay the expense of an audit on a few hundred thousand lines of code when there are several other open source databases out there that are more popular, which hopefully, but not necessarily, means they have this kind of thing in them.
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A mud as cool as the name sounds. Take every genre of sci-fi and a little bit of leftover Circle/Diku type fantasy mobs turned into natives and you got TDome. TDome has a lot of firsts for muds - implants, mutants, real guns (not wands named M11 Machine gun), reloading guns, making your own ammo. Unfortunately not a lot has been added in the last few years, so a lot of muds have surpassed it in terms of players, code base and areas (the mud also had a major set back when they lost a lot of new features due to some technical problem). But not in style. TDome has a unique style, a hard post-apocalyptic edge. TDome was probably the first sci-fi mud, having started 6 or 7 years ago. There were others, but they didn't really 'feel' sci-fi.
Did you see all the shows? The 2 shows I've seen, the Dans played. I heard that at the DC show, Mark Donato and Mark Lerner may have been there instead, but I'm not sure if that is true or representative of the rest of the shows. Also, you're right Miller was at the Conan show, I think I'm thinking of TMBG's appearance on some show where they played Boss of Me.
I didn't mean Flans plays on State Songs, I meant the State Songs are similar to TMBG songs where Linnell sings and Flans just plays some small guitar part, i.e. Also, I saw The Statesmen live, and I thought the 3 Dans were playing with Linnell.
I saw 6 of your 9 shows of November, and recorded about half of them using my Nomad Jukebox. I've bought nearly everything that you officially sell, and I 'steal' anything else you don't make available. I've heard varied accounts of your position on bootlegs, unreleased alternate and live versions. I thought a cool idea for your e-music subscription service would be to allow subscribers to upload bootlegs of concerts for other subscribers to download. Subscribers could be allowed to upload anything you do not sell (or have not sold) through other channels. Uploads could be reviewed by E-music, TMBG or user volunteers before distribution. This would increase content on TMBG Unlimited and make it more attractive to prospective users. It would also legitimize some of the bootlegging going on, which is nice for those of us who would glady buy an album for each concert you've had and rathe, but resort to illegally recording it. I realize there may be copyright issues dealing with the various publishers/record companies you've worked with, something I know little about, so excuse me if my suggestion sounds simplistic or naive.
Thanks for your wonderful music,
Deltran Municipa
Those other band members, The Band of Dans, toured with Linnell on his State Songs solo project, and play in nearly every song on the album. State Songs songs are not much different than TMBG songs which are written and sung by Linnell while Flans just plays guitar or something quietly, i.e. James K. Polk. If I didn't know State Songs was a solo project, I'd probably have no idea that it was one.
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I was too young when I saw RotJ to think it was cheesy. I loved it, but I'll even admit, having watched it many times later that it got a little stupidly cutesy. I guess I was around 9-12 when I saw it.. hmm if that's who's being targeted now, it's a sad commentary on the crap kids like - or maybe it's just what they think kids will like.
Yeah.. I wish I could say I won't see it.. but I know I will. I'll even see it in the theater... damn me!!!
It was written by a well-intentioned Linux advocate and sent to The Register because it would give the people of Slashdot a reason to cheer.
If it was the other way around, i doubt we'd hear many people desribe it as a "well-intentioned Microsoft advocate". More likely, we would see people seeking a law suit and citing it as typical Microsoft underhanded business practice.
It's pathetic. You can dress it up how you like, but it's a lie, and I don't think much good can or would come to it.
IMHO, the continual Linux/Microsoft debate/comparison (whatever you want to call it) makes the Linux community seem a little unprofessional and childish (especially in the light of half a dozen x-window/desktop managers taking cues from Windows style elements) and if I were not in the know (ie, some clueless IT manager), I might be more skeptical of Linux and it's use in my business.
how much worse does it have to get before I'm sorry I ever saw the first movies.
...to add a little humor to our lives. think of the countless anecdotes that might be generated by a plan like this. it would have to be that the detector results won't be taken as gospel, and if you check out after a short double check, you can fly. rare is the anecdotal aspect factored into the use of new technology in inappropriate ways.
We hear this too often. One of the few measures we, as consumers, can take is to boycott products made by companies who engage in hassling people running sites - especially if they promote the use of their products.
It might help to have a site that consolodates reports and stories such as yours, to help make consumers aware of these occurances. Is there a site like this already?
Maybe this is obvious and is why not many mentioned it, but I think there is a difference between a game that is art and a game which uses art. Quake III is a good example of the latter. There are some beautiful (some not so interesting) levels and textures used in the game. The weapons are artful. I don't find the gameplay artful. I did in Doom though, but I might be biased due to the novelty of the game at the time. It seemed like the levels were designed to take you through a journey in some certain way. Doom provoked some emotions from me, mostly fear, but some others.
Quake III, while some levels are interesting, rare do I feel any were made to bring out something special. Perhaps a few large rooms were made just right to have large chaotic battles, but I don't think it that was hard to do or particularly well done if that was what they were going for.
I have a hard time drawing the line between a bad game and bad game as art. It's hard to judge this kind of thing because you're not sure if the makers were going for art, and not knowing that makes it difficult to critique a game. I really don't think they were going for art in Quake III. Maybe some of the level makers or artists, but they had a practical job to do in making their art which was more important than the art itself. Aliens vs Starship Troopers I guess... if Starship Troopers (which I enjoyed) is considered art, then I guess Quake III should be too.
In a perfect world no, but people are trying to sell crap all the time.. it's up to consumers to check out what they're buying, and it's nice when they let others know.
If you weren't one of the few people who bought this the first day it came out, you could have checked numerous discussion groups (mp3.com had some user info about this thing) and found out about all the shortcommings first. If you're going to spend this much on something, it might help to do some reasearch.
.wav and moving them over, and renaming them back. It works great for recording live shows and my band practices, where I have a little time to prepare. The recording quality is pretty good too, and I still haven't played around with all the settings that much.
Having owned the PJB first, the Nomad Jukebox is very annoying to use, for all the reasons.. It's not very ideal to use on a crowded subway for instance, since it's quite a painsaking process to do anything on it. I've been using it has a portable storage device quite a bit recently, renaming files to
I think the PJB is more 'open' than this is. There are some tools available to help, I believe as well. I once owned a PJB 6 gig mp3 player shortly before the Nomad Jukebox one came out. I returned it and got the creative labs one mostly for the recording aspect, to record my band's practice sessions.
The PBJ had a far greater interface... I could usually manage to operate it without looking at it, in my pocket, whereas the Nomad Jukebox is very difficult to operate and not intuitive, as far as music players are concerned. When you hit "back", it should go to the begining of the song, but this one goes to the previous song. You have to save your playlists, or see them occassionally and semi-predictably get lost when you use other functions of the Jukebox (such as the recorder). Saving your playlist with good name is fun.. it's about as hard as entering your name on a high score coin-op video game, but imagine using annoying buttons and having to delete a 14 character name first.
I inadvertently bought a video card a few years ago called the Diamond 3000 or somesuch. It was able to play Sega Saturn games, I believe, or maybe just Sega Saturn games lightly modified to play on the PC using this card. It had 2 Sega Saturn joystick ports, and I think it came with 2 joysticks... a friend of mine had a Saturn and tried those instead, and they worked. I still have that darn card... never really used it to it's potential.
Some guy only identified as 'Wallace' says some stuff and you believe it? If you knew someone named Wallace would you believe anything he said? Just what kind of name is that? Who names their kid 'Wallace' anyway.
I don't know if most of these EQ and UO type games have any policies posted about such things. But maybe as the number of these 'massivly multiplayer' games increase, we'll see more that flout one policy or another, and the folks who want to play to sell their virtual propery for cash and those who want a game where someone can't simply buy their way to the top with real life cash will only play a game after they check out the policies.
As a gamer, I don't really like the idea of playing a game for a awhile, building my character or empire up and see another player do the same by spending some extra bucks. I mean, maybe it means I'm pathetic, but part of the reason I play multiplayer games is to enjoy myself in an environment where people can't cheat, steal and kill outside of the game rules to get to the top. I don't even think I'm an especially competitive online gamer, and I don't have anything against those who are, but it's not fun when someone buys their way to what you've taken time to build up.
I think they covered this when one of the first Anime stories was posted and they made an anime icon for such stories. The general slashdot opinion was that anything that was 'interesting' or 'cool' was fit to post.
True, but I guess my point is that many companies go the open source route to save money. Since they don't want to spend the extra cash to check source themselves, they'll be more likely to go with the better known programs, in this case, MySQL or Postgres, assuming they haven't gone to a commercial product. If trust is lost in Open Source, when could happen is less corporate support for the lesser known projects (and Interbase isn't so unknown), leaving only a few to survive.
They aren't just paying for 'high-quality' apps.. they're paying to cover their asses so that if something like this was found in a commercial app, they have financial and legal recourse. A bug like this can conceivably cost a company millions in bug fixes, lost revenue and invalidated contracts. I wonder how many business contracts have involved what amounts to vouching for open source code bases that nobody at the company has audited or even skimmed over.
And who's going to pay the expense of an audit on a few hundred thousand lines of code when there are several other open source databases out there that are more popular, which hopefully, but not necessarily, means they have this kind of thing in them.
199.2.139.13 5555 A mud as cool as the name sounds. Take every genre of sci-fi and a little bit of leftover Circle/Diku type fantasy mobs turned into natives and you got TDome. TDome has a lot of firsts for muds - implants, mutants, real guns (not wands named M11 Machine gun), reloading guns, making your own ammo. Unfortunately not a lot has been added in the last few years, so a lot of muds have surpassed it in terms of players, code base and areas (the mud also had a major set back when they lost a lot of new features due to some technical problem). But not in style. TDome has a unique style, a hard post-apocalyptic edge. TDome was probably the first sci-fi mud, having started 6 or 7 years ago. There were others, but they didn't really 'feel' sci-fi.
The only surprising thing is that Dianetics didn't appear just above or below Atlas Shrugged.
On the album credits, it seems only Hickey is listed. Kind of strange.
Did you see all the shows? The 2 shows I've seen, the Dans played. I heard that at the DC show, Mark Donato and Mark Lerner may have been there instead, but I'm not sure if that is true or representative of the rest of the shows. Also, you're right Miller was at the Conan show, I think I'm thinking of TMBG's appearance on some show where they played Boss of Me.
Also, I think Hickey and Weinkauf played with Linnell on his State Songs appearance on Conan. I was curious was Dan Miller wasn't there.
I didn't mean Flans plays on State Songs, I meant the State Songs are similar to TMBG songs where Linnell sings and Flans just plays some small guitar part, i.e. Also, I saw The Statesmen live, and I thought the 3 Dans were playing with Linnell.
I saw 6 of your 9 shows of November, and recorded about half of them using my Nomad Jukebox. I've bought nearly everything that you officially sell, and I 'steal' anything else you don't make available. I've heard varied accounts of your position on bootlegs, unreleased alternate and live versions. I thought a cool idea for your e-music subscription service would be to allow subscribers to upload bootlegs of concerts for other subscribers to download. Subscribers could be allowed to upload anything you do not sell (or have not sold) through other channels. Uploads could be reviewed by E-music, TMBG or user volunteers before distribution. This would increase content on TMBG Unlimited and make it more attractive to prospective users. It would also legitimize some of the bootlegging going on, which is nice for those of us who would glady buy an album for each concert you've had and rathe, but resort to illegally recording it. I realize there may be copyright issues dealing with the various publishers/record companies you've worked with, something I know little about, so excuse me if my suggestion sounds simplistic or naive. Thanks for your wonderful music, Deltran Municipa
Those other band members, The Band of Dans, toured with Linnell on his State Songs solo project, and play in nearly every song on the album. State Songs songs are not much different than TMBG songs which are written and sung by Linnell while Flans just plays guitar or something quietly, i.e. James K. Polk. If I didn't know State Songs was a solo project, I'd probably have no idea that it was one.