I thought the "timber wolf in ocean-going ship on the street outside the NY public library" scene was a work of surreal genius. Yeah, the movie had cheesy bits-- but all of those were related to the cheesy premise. Once you learn to accept the cheesy premise, everything falls into place and you'll see it's not that bad a movie at all.
I mean, hell, look at the cheesy premise behind Godzilla and King Kong, and those movies are considered all-time greats.
I'm sick of this type of argument, usually seen in political circles. Target A gets caught doing some harm, so partisan followers change the subject with "Yeah? Well Target B is just as bad, so let's talk about them instead." How about we just keep talking about Target A, the subject at hand.
God yes. Every time somebody points out something wrong with Linux, the reply is always:
"Yeah, well, maybe installing software in Linux is hard... but it's a lot harder in Windows!"
That type of thinking is really counter-productive.
Well, I'd love it, but my problem is that, from looking at it, it seems impossible that I could fit it in my PowerMac G5 case... I only have three PCI slots in the back and the video card fills one of them... if this was plugged in atop the video card, I doubt there'd be room for DIMMs in it. (Also, it's some distance away from the SATA connector.)
Is the PCI used only for power? Or does the disk info go through it also?
If anybody has hacked one of these into a G5, could you post photos and some info on it please?
Not to mention... Grim Fandango was good, but the last high profile adventure game? What about The Longest Journey? Or Uru (the Myst sequel?) What is he smoking?
Let's say I want to be a school teacher. Show me a teaching position that's non-union. Seriously, I'm waiting... where is it?
You may be right about some unions, but many unions have a monopoly on the field they control. Try to star in a major motion picture without being a member of SAG. Try to be a teacher in Washington State without being in the WEA. It's impossible. In fact, that's the very reason I didn't go into education in college... I want to be a teacher, but I sure as hell don't want to support that union.
Yeah, but RPG stands for "role playing games." There's no role playing on MMORPGs, there's just getting a list of numbers to change into slightly higher numbers. That's boring as hell to me, and a lot of other people I know.
A MUD like (ahem) Eternal Struggle (http://esmud.com/), on the other hand, has a close-knit community, detailed backstory (that players actually *read*), and tremendous character interactions.
Here are some of the things that encourage RP that MMORPGs haven't done:
1) RP Leveling. ES, as well as a few other RP MUDs, have a system where you can gain levels by role playing with other characters.
2) Separation of In Character and Out Of Character game elements. Channels are clearly marked unlike in MMORPGs. (Is the General chat channel IC? Or OOC? Are Tells? If Tells are, does that mean our characters are psychic?)
3) Immersion. MMORPGs are about the least immersive games there are... hell, just look at how every character can clip through every other character. It's like the game's full of ghosts. Eternal Struggle allows you to turn off EVERY OOC communication in the game and immerse yourself entirely.
4) Character Recognition. When you walk along the street, you don't see huge names floating above people's heads. Similarly, you don't know a person's name in ES until they introduce themselves-- and if they give a fake name, so be it. This adds a lot of depth to the game.
Anyway, I'm not saying that all of these features have to be present in a good RPG. But the fact of the matter is that the staff of ES spent time to think about every one of those points and, for the most part, MMORPG makers simply don't.
(And of course there's always number 5) Players who don't suck ass. It's really hard to get immersed in a game where half the players have names like "Cellphonia" or "Goku69KIKIKI".)
The Snopes article on the Chevy Nova thing uses the example of a dining set named "Notable." Well, nobody would buy that dining set, would they? Because it has no table.
Email isn't my problem, it's the damned phone. Everyone here uses the phone for every thing all the time... if I could get people to actually USE the expensive email system we've installed, I'd be a lot happier.
Those potential sacrifices, waking up an hour later or going to bed an hour earlier are more than made up by the availability of sun later in the day to allow traditional summertime activities.
Please! I live in Washington State. We have like 7 hours of sunlight, max, during the winter. They can turn the clocks forward, turn them back, turn them upside-down and watch the gears spill out, but I can guarantee that you can't do "summertime" activities during the winter here.
If you click on the clock, the date appears directly below it. I think clicking and actively showing the date is a low quicker than hovering and waiting for Windows to figure out that I want to see it (which is about 2-3 seconds.)
Not that is dimishes your complaint, but my solution is to set Expose to trigger using a screen corner instead of a function key... if you do that, you can easily drag an item to an arbitrary window without using the keyboard.
Stupid question, how would a package manager have helped that situation? (Remember, in the Mac world, deleting an application consists of dragging it to the trash can... for the most part, there's no such thing as an "uninstaller" on Macintosh.)
I think this experience highlights what I think is the best part of Apple's whole initiative.. they have simplified the computing process for the average user.
Just FYI, Apple (or at least Macintosh) products have *always* been that way. You make it sound as if Apple changed their focus or something... the entire point of the Macintosh line of computer, even in 1984, was to make a computer that anybody can use easily.
I had (a few) bad logic boards in my G3 iBook. After the third logic board went bad, I got the guy at the Apple Store to declare the computer a lemon (3 AppleCare repairs = lemon) and I got me a brand new G4 iBook. They were even nice enough to let me keep the extra power adapter.
So the logic boards might still suck, but if you have AppleCare, and back up your data regularly, you should still be set.
Also, the original poster said he never turned them on... so he spent, what, $600 towards console hardware he never turns on? I'm sorry, in my eyes, that makes you an idiot... thus my sarcastic snipe.
I am a PC gamer and while I own most of the consoles, I never turn them on because I prefer the PC experience and my high-resolution cutting-edge graphics to playing on a "tee vee".
For something that's not meant to be a cheap stab, that's a pretty cheap stab.
I like my Xbox because it has the biggest selection of adventure games even made for a console. I bet you didn't see that one coming.
(True, it would be nice if it had some flight sims that weren't "arcade"-y, and some experimental Katamari Damarcy games would be appreciated, but I think the Xbox has a pretty good balance of games, overall.)
Some networks, like Cartoon Network, are terrible at targeting ads. They show, for instance, ads for the digidraw toy during their bloody, violence, definately adult Adult Swim broadcasting, and mop commercials during their kids programming in the day.
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I thought the "timber wolf in ocean-going ship on the street outside the NY public library" scene was a work of surreal genius. Yeah, the movie had cheesy bits-- but all of those were related to the cheesy premise. Once you learn to accept the cheesy premise, everything falls into place and you'll see it's not that bad a movie at all.
I mean, hell, look at the cheesy premise behind Godzilla and King Kong, and those movies are considered all-time greats.
I'm sick of this type of argument, usually seen in political circles. Target A gets caught doing some harm, so partisan followers change the subject with "Yeah? Well Target B is just as bad, so let's talk about them instead." How about we just keep talking about Target A, the subject at hand.
God yes. Every time somebody points out something wrong with Linux, the reply is always:
"Yeah, well, maybe installing software in Linux is hard... but it's a lot harder in Windows!"
That type of thinking is really counter-productive.
Well, I'd love it, but my problem is that, from looking at it, it seems impossible that I could fit it in my PowerMac G5 case... I only have three PCI slots in the back and the video card fills one of them... if this was plugged in atop the video card, I doubt there'd be room for DIMMs in it. (Also, it's some distance away from the SATA connector.)
Is the PCI used only for power? Or does the disk info go through it also?
If anybody has hacked one of these into a G5, could you post photos and some info on it please?
Feh. It's going to be really hard to be an elitist techno jerk with you people here always reminding us who the intended users of the product are!
Not to mention... Grim Fandango was good, but the last high profile adventure game? What about The Longest Journey? Or Uru (the Myst sequel?) What is he smoking?
Let's say I want to be a school teacher. Show me a teaching position that's non-union. Seriously, I'm waiting... where is it?
You may be right about some unions, but many unions have a monopoly on the field they control. Try to star in a major motion picture without being a member of SAG. Try to be a teacher in Washington State without being in the WEA. It's impossible. In fact, that's the very reason I didn't go into education in college... I want to be a teacher, but I sure as hell don't want to support that union.
Yeah, but RPG stands for "role playing games." There's no role playing on MMORPGs, there's just getting a list of numbers to change into slightly higher numbers. That's boring as hell to me, and a lot of other people I know.
A MUD like (ahem) Eternal Struggle (http://esmud.com/), on the other hand, has a close-knit community, detailed backstory (that players actually *read*), and tremendous character interactions.
Here are some of the things that encourage RP that MMORPGs haven't done:
1) RP Leveling. ES, as well as a few other RP MUDs, have a system where you can gain levels by role playing with other characters.
2) Separation of In Character and Out Of Character game elements. Channels are clearly marked unlike in MMORPGs. (Is the General chat channel IC? Or OOC? Are Tells? If Tells are, does that mean our characters are psychic?)
3) Immersion. MMORPGs are about the least immersive games there are... hell, just look at how every character can clip through every other character. It's like the game's full of ghosts. Eternal Struggle allows you to turn off EVERY OOC communication in the game and immerse yourself entirely.
4) Character Recognition. When you walk along the street, you don't see huge names floating above people's heads. Similarly, you don't know a person's name in ES until they introduce themselves-- and if they give a fake name, so be it. This adds a lot of depth to the game.
Anyway, I'm not saying that all of these features have to be present in a good RPG. But the fact of the matter is that the staff of ES spent time to think about every one of those points and, for the most part, MMORPG makers simply don't.
(And of course there's always number 5) Players who don't suck ass. It's really hard to get immersed in a game where half the players have names like "Cellphonia" or "Goku69KIKIKI".)
The Snopes article on the Chevy Nova thing uses the example of a dining set named "Notable." Well, nobody would buy that dining set, would they? Because it has no table.
Email isn't my problem, it's the damned phone. Everyone here uses the phone for every thing all the time... if I could get people to actually USE the expensive email system we've installed, I'd be a lot happier.
Those potential sacrifices, waking up an hour later or going to bed an hour earlier are more than made up by the availability of sun later in the day to allow traditional summertime activities.
Please! I live in Washington State. We have like 7 hours of sunlight, max, during the winter. They can turn the clocks forward, turn them back, turn them upside-down and watch the gears spill out, but I can guarantee that you can't do "summertime" activities during the winter here.
If you click on the clock, the date appears directly below it. I think clicking and actively showing the date is a low quicker than hovering and waiting for Windows to figure out that I want to see it (which is about 2-3 seconds.)
Not that is dimishes your complaint, but my solution is to set Expose to trigger using a screen corner instead of a function key... if you do that, you can easily drag an item to an arbitrary window without using the keyboard.
Stupid question, how would a package manager have helped that situation? (Remember, in the Mac world, deleting an application consists of dragging it to the trash can... for the most part, there's no such thing as an "uninstaller" on Macintosh.)
I think this experience highlights what I think is the best part of Apple's whole initiative.. they have simplified the computing process for the average user.
Just FYI, Apple (or at least Macintosh) products have *always* been that way. You make it sound as if Apple changed their focus or something... the entire point of the Macintosh line of computer, even in 1984, was to make a computer that anybody can use easily.
I had (a few) bad logic boards in my G3 iBook. After the third logic board went bad, I got the guy at the Apple Store to declare the computer a lemon (3 AppleCare repairs = lemon) and I got me a brand new G4 iBook. They were even nice enough to let me keep the extra power adapter.
So the logic boards might still suck, but if you have AppleCare, and back up your data regularly, you should still be set.
That's fine, but some people aren't rich.
Also, the original poster said he never turned them on... so he spent, what, $600 towards console hardware he never turns on? I'm sorry, in my eyes, that makes you an idiot... thus my sarcastic snipe.
Beyond Good and Evil (arguably a platformer), Syberia, Syberia II, the new Myst game, one called Broken Sword which I haven't played.
I am a PC gamer and while I own most of the consoles, I never turn them on because I prefer the PC experience and my high-resolution cutting-edge graphics to playing on a "tee vee".
Wow, you are a savvy customer.
For something that's not meant to be a cheap stab, that's a pretty cheap stab.
I like my Xbox because it has the biggest selection of adventure games even made for a console. I bet you didn't see that one coming.
(True, it would be nice if it had some flight sims that weren't "arcade"-y, and some experimental Katamari Damarcy games would be appreciated, but I think the Xbox has a pretty good balance of games, overall.)
Why is it so difficult, even for some on /. to grasp the difference between free and free.
/., to grasp the difference between colorful and colorful?
/., to grasp the difference between bad and bad?
/., to grasp the difference between blue and blue?
Let's play fill-in-the-blanks:
Why is it so difficult, even for some on
Why is it so difficult, even for some on
Why is it so difficult, even for some on
It has a great interface and file/folder management system (finder)
You *like* the OS X Finder?
Holy shit, you should have seen the Finder we had in MacOS 9... you'd be pissing your pants with excitement.
I guess in a world of 6 billion people, there has to be at least one who would like the OS X Finder...
You say there's no version of Outlook for Mac, then in the next sentence you say there's a version of Outlook for Mac... the hell?
Thanks for the tip, but I knew already... I used Outlook (for Mac) for several years before switching to Gmail.
Gruh. I meant to type "might help," not "make help." Sorry.
Just write an AppleScript, it'll take like 10 seconds... You do mean the Mac version of Outlook, right?
(Make help to actually give us some useful information in your post. What OS? That would be a good start.)
Some networks, like Cartoon Network, are terrible at targeting ads. They show, for instance, ads for the digidraw toy during their bloody, violence, definately adult Adult Swim broadcasting, and mop commercials during their kids programming in the day.