I'll hand them the switch to Unreal, because Unreal really was *that much better* when it came out, and at that time they had no funding difficulties. But, man, you gotta put your damned foot down some time.
Whether they had gone Unreal or Quake, they could have put out iteratively improved Duke Nukem games as those engines released new versions for relatively little effort, and completely cleaned-up the PC games sales charts.
On the bright side, their unfinished Duke Nukem was probably better than the release of Daikatana... but then again, on the other hand, Daikatana *was* *released*.
That is what George Lucas became to his own films. After a great piece of artwork has become culturally accepted, it should be cast in stone, and be preserved as it is.
It also had some godawful dialog. Specifically: (paraphrased)
Helpful Rebel Guard: "Sir, it's too cold out there! Your Taun-Taun will freeze before you make the first marker!" Han Solo: "Then I'll SEE YOU IN HELL!"
IE8 development is moving at lightning pace-- I would argue that IE8 is caught-up with all competing browsers in every area except Javascript execution speed. IE vs. Firefox is neck-and-neck... and IE has some very nice features (tabs run in independent processes) that Firefox has barely started working on.
Not that it fundamentally changes any points in this thread, I just don't want people to fall into the trap of comparing Firefox 3.6 to IE6 and declaring it so amazingly superior.
My MSI Wind U100 running Windows 7 has no problem running full-screen movies from Netflix or Hulu. I also frequently play full-screen MP4 movies that I've ripped from DVDs with absolutely no performance problems.
More to the point, it would be *really* hard to prove consumer confusion between a design firm and a Internet search engine, even if they were aggressively defending their trademark.
Well, if it hasn't aged in 30 years, then obviously it also hasn't aged in 20 years also. *cough* It's not like I just botched a really, really simple math problem or anything.
Whatever, the free publicity is worth as much as you would have gotten in donations anyway, and it's not like you're out anything. I still say stop griping.
I'm guessing in 20 years, they'll still be teaching Alien in film school while Avatar will only be a footnote.
I've been wrong before. But Alien is such an innovative, creative, masterpiece... it's hard to imagine otherwise. And other than the DOS-looking computer screens, the movie hasn't aged in twenty years.
That's all great and all, but you're not a charity, you're a political action group. And therefore, clearly disqualified from this competition. So stop whining.
Political action groups are registered as non-profits. That doesn't make them charities, and that makes it entirely reasonable that they would be excluded from this program. I'm not sure what the fuss is about really.
Obviously, you missed the part about "the agreement" being intentionally and maliciously complex, to the point that it is indecipherable to the average customer.
Ok, so don't sign it for THAT reason.
It's not difficult. Don't sign a contract you don't understand. Don't sign a contract if you don't want to live up with the obligations spelled-out in it.
If Verizon loses customers because their contracts are too complex, then they'll either go out of business or they'll fix the problem. That's how the free market is *supposed* to work.
However, what usually ends up happening is that retards sign the contract, then get mad that they didn't read it, then petition the government to step-in to save them from themselves. Hello, nanny state!
You have to register for the Starbucks loyalty card. Once you have a card, wifi is free. (You also get free drip coffee refills, and some other perks.) IIRC, the card is free but you have to make at least one purchase before you can use the wifi.
The one in my hometown is actually really nice. Padded seats, tasteful paint and paintings on the wall... I can't speak for quality of the playland. I've hung around there and used my wifi, but only when I was working from home and my house power went out... McDonalds had lights + wifi, and that's all I need.
People rag on McDonalds all the time, but the one thing that stands out for me is that it's the only fast food place near me where the staff is always polite. I've never had a rude cashier at McDonalds, but that's all I seem to get at Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, or KFC. (Arby's and Burger King are usually ok.)
you and your obsessions. fat people are not discriminated against or humiliated in any way in my country. the country is turkey.
I guess the Turkish obsession is insulting entire nations on messageboards, eh?
and i have never yet seen any other country nearby, leave aside any european countries in which overweight people were ridiculed, belittled, bullied or discriminated against in any respect.
They aren't in the US, either. So... what's your point?
i very much have the idea that you people are so obsessed with your own socioeconomical circumstances,
And "you people" are not? People in Turkey say, "I'm so happy I'm poor and unloved! I'd never obsess over this!"
Maybe you should travel outside Turkey and find out how much like you everybody else is. Hint: A fucking LOT.
It could just be an exercise game, like Yourself! Fitness or Dance Dance Revolution in workout mode. In which case, the game itself would know when you've been slacking, as you haven't logged in for a few days.
You can't program a GUI app for Windows or OS X in Java without it looking and running like crap. I think that's at least a small measure of.net's success.
It's still strong on the server, and it's strong on mobile, but on the desktop? It's always had extremely weak GUI tools.
The really crazy part about B5 ship design (and virtually every other game/movie/etc) is color. The only two viable options are really fully reflective, or fully black. There's no point in going for anything else.
Well, since their 3D renderer didn't really do light sources very well, it turned out ok I think. They probably were working within the limitations of the technology when they designed the stations and ships... besides, something ink-black in realistically-lit space would look like pretty much nothing at all.
Slashdot hasn't made a new icon since like 2004. Even when they did the redesign a couple years ago, one of the requirements was to be compatible with all their existing (read: shitty) icons, because they were too fucking lazy to make new ones, and they don't care enough to hire someone to.
If you ever have a question about anything relating to Slashdot, just imagine what the laziest person on Earth would do and you'll have your answer.
Ok, well, in Babylon 5 the "hyperdrive" was retarded. So I stand by that. They basically entered a new dimension that was exactly like our dimension, but colored differently.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, two points:
1) The work environment, when they were hemorrhaging money, was probably really, really fun. Free food, free drinks, office full of toys.
2) Despite that, the team *did* start defecting after a few years.
I'll hand them the switch to Unreal, because Unreal really was *that much better* when it came out, and at that time they had no funding difficulties. But, man, you gotta put your damned foot down some time.
Whether they had gone Unreal or Quake, they could have put out iteratively improved Duke Nukem games as those engines released new versions for relatively little effort, and completely cleaned-up the PC games sales charts.
On the bright side, their unfinished Duke Nukem was probably better than the release of Daikatana... but then again, on the other hand, Daikatana *was* *released*.
That is what George Lucas became to his own films. After a great piece of artwork has become culturally accepted, it should be cast in stone, and be preserved as it is.
Seriously? You honestly believe that?
It also had some godawful dialog. Specifically: (paraphrased)
Helpful Rebel Guard: "Sir, it's too cold out there! Your Taun-Taun will freeze before you make the first marker!"
Han Solo: "Then I'll SEE YOU IN HELL!"
The most mystifyingly bad line in the movie.
IE8 development is moving at lightning pace-- I would argue that IE8 is caught-up with all competing browsers in every area except Javascript execution speed. IE vs. Firefox is neck-and-neck... and IE has some very nice features (tabs run in independent processes) that Firefox has barely started working on.
Not that it fundamentally changes any points in this thread, I just don't want people to fall into the trap of comparing Firefox 3.6 to IE6 and declaring it so amazingly superior.
My MSI Wind U100 running Windows 7 has no problem running full-screen movies from Netflix or Hulu. I also frequently play full-screen MP4 movies that I've ripped from DVDs with absolutely no performance problems.
Your problem might be your OS, not the hardware.
It seems like Microsoft respected Lindows to the tune of $20 million.
What message am I supposed to be taking from your post? "Microsoft doesn't respect IP! They just pay massive amounts of cash for it."
Unless your "yeah, right" *wasn't* intended as sarcasm, in case I guess it all makes sense.
More to the point, it would be *really* hard to prove consumer confusion between a design firm and a Internet search engine, even if they were aggressively defending their trademark.
Well, if it hasn't aged in 30 years, then obviously it also hasn't aged in 20 years also. *cough* It's not like I just botched a really, really simple math problem or anything.
Whatever, the free publicity is worth as much as you would have gotten in donations anyway, and it's not like you're out anything. I still say stop griping.
I'm guessing in 20 years, they'll still be teaching Alien in film school while Avatar will only be a footnote.
I've been wrong before. But Alien is such an innovative, creative, masterpiece... it's hard to imagine otherwise. And other than the DOS-looking computer screens, the movie hasn't aged in twenty years.
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html#photo37
A man was stoned to death just this year.
That's all great and all, but you're not a charity, you're a political action group. And therefore, clearly disqualified from this competition. So stop whining.
Non-profit != charity.
Political action groups are registered as non-profits. That doesn't make them charities, and that makes it entirely reasonable that they would be excluded from this program. I'm not sure what the fuss is about really.
Obviously, you missed the part about "the agreement" being intentionally and maliciously complex, to the point that it is indecipherable to the average customer.
Ok, so don't sign it for THAT reason.
It's not difficult. Don't sign a contract you don't understand. Don't sign a contract if you don't want to live up with the obligations spelled-out in it.
If Verizon loses customers because their contracts are too complex, then they'll either go out of business or they'll fix the problem. That's how the free market is *supposed* to work.
However, what usually ends up happening is that retards sign the contract, then get mad that they didn't read it, then petition the government to step-in to save them from themselves. Hello, nanny state!
You have to register for the Starbucks loyalty card. Once you have a card, wifi is free. (You also get free drip coffee refills, and some other perks.) IIRC, the card is free but you have to make at least one purchase before you can use the wifi.
Anyway, it's "mostly free".
The one in my hometown is actually really nice. Padded seats, tasteful paint and paintings on the wall... I can't speak for quality of the playland. I've hung around there and used my wifi, but only when I was working from home and my house power went out... McDonalds had lights + wifi, and that's all I need.
People rag on McDonalds all the time, but the one thing that stands out for me is that it's the only fast food place near me where the staff is always polite. I've never had a rude cashier at McDonalds, but that's all I seem to get at Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, or KFC. (Arby's and Burger King are usually ok.)
you and your obsessions. fat people are not discriminated against or humiliated in any way in my country. the country is turkey.
I guess the Turkish obsession is insulting entire nations on messageboards, eh?
and i have never yet seen any other country nearby, leave aside any european countries in which overweight people were ridiculed, belittled, bullied or discriminated against in any respect.
They aren't in the US, either. So... what's your point?
i very much have the idea that you people are so obsessed with your own socioeconomical circumstances,
And "you people" are not? People in Turkey say, "I'm so happy I'm poor and unloved! I'd never obsess over this!"
Maybe you should travel outside Turkey and find out how much like you everybody else is. Hint: A fucking LOT.
Dude, relax.
It could just be an exercise game, like Yourself! Fitness or Dance Dance Revolution in workout mode. In which case, the game itself would know when you've been slacking, as you haven't logged in for a few days.
You can't program a GUI app for Windows or OS X in Java without it looking and running like crap. I think that's at least a small measure of .net's success.
It's still strong on the server, and it's strong on mobile, but on the desktop? It's always had extremely weak GUI tools.
The really crazy part about B5 ship design (and virtually every other game/movie/etc) is color. The only two viable options are really fully reflective, or fully black. There's no point in going for anything else.
Well, since their 3D renderer didn't really do light sources very well, it turned out ok I think. They probably were working within the limitations of the technology when they designed the stations and ships... besides, something ink-black in realistically-lit space would look like pretty much nothing at all.
Slashdot hasn't made a new icon since like 2004. Even when they did the redesign a couple years ago, one of the requirements was to be compatible with all their existing (read: shitty) icons, because they were too fucking lazy to make new ones, and they don't care enough to hire someone to.
If you ever have a question about anything relating to Slashdot, just imagine what the laziest person on Earth would do and you'll have your answer.
Ok, well, in Babylon 5 the "hyperdrive" was retarded. So I stand by that. They basically entered a new dimension that was exactly like our dimension, but colored differently.
That's nothing!
When I was watching Watchmen on a 40' tall IMAX screen, there was a giant glowing blue dong on the screen during parts of the movie.
I hate modern "Making Of" specials.
"How did they make that cool action sequence where the shark jumps the speedboat?"
"Well, we did it in a computer."
"How did they make that awesome detailed camera pan over 17th century China?"
"In a computer."
"How did they show us a fly-through of the human nervous system?"
"Computer."
"How did th--"
"Computer."
Ok, we don't need to see the "Making Of" specials anymore full of overweight guys in darkened rooms working on computers, k thx bye.