according to the FAQ (http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#24):
Q: Will more Google applications be ported to Linux under Wine?
If Picasa for Linux is successful, then other Google applications (and future versions of Picasa) may also be written to the Wine APIs so that they can easily run on both Windows and Linux. For more info on Wine, please visit http://winehq.org./
I second MP and MK. They're the only games my GF really enjoys, and both allow for either Team play or head to head play. Team play is great for getting used to the game - then when she gets good enough, she's down for head to head. Sadly, despite my superior video game skills, she still manages to outrace me in MK...
She seemed to like Mario Baseball, but that game doesn't allow for team play (what kind of sports game doesn't allow team play?) - so she got frustrated pretty quickly being that she had to play against me, and she lost interest.
I'm in the Auto-Assault Weekend Beta-testing group. You actually can destroy just about everything in the game (part of the initial tutorial forces you to learn the destructability of inanimates such as buildings, etc). I'd be very curious to see if they allow advertisements to be destroyed the same way (assuming they'd respawn a few minutes later anyway).
Thus why it applies only to "Internet Applicants" - I'd say someone probably did some research and found out that minorities were a tad bit under-represented in applications submitted via the web. Maybe it would be more important to bridge that "digital divide" they've gone on about for some time now, but I can see the purpose in this "rule".
Thanks for the link to ars, it was much more informative than that crap article from Fortune.
More importantly, how are they going to fit the story of how the alien/parasite suit came into being? Am I the only one who remembers that Spidey himself used to wear it?
Something tells me they will leave the whole Battleworld story out of the movie....
I'd like to think of it more as:
highly paid designers working in labs for month come up with new, extremely slick technological devices - let's see how fast the rest of us can tear them apart out of spite^H^H^H^H^Hcuriosity.
I might buy one if only they supported more formats (like ogg....)
(1) gamers that play one game
(2) gamers that play more than one game
Seriously, I knew some EQ players that only played EQ, and that was it. I know other people that play one game, and never buy new games because they have their one game.
For those of us that play more than one game, a game like WoW, no matter how good, is not going to keep us from buying other games, because we like to play all kinds of games, and aren't going to just want to play a good MMORPG, we want to pay some FPSes, some RTSes, maybe even some TBSes. Hell, sometimes we want to play on a PC and sometimes you can't beat sitting on the couch with a GC/PS2/xBox controller.
The game industry should quit worrying about the best way to milk gamers (up-front v. subscription) and worry instead about producing quality games.
If you want my money, forget about the subscriptions. Make a good game, and lower the cost of said game (or give me a raise).
Since I use a backpack to carry my laptop(s) in, just about anything could be in there at any given time, but the only techie things are either the G4 17" PowerBook or the aging Dell Inspiron 5000 (one of these days I will replace that guy for a lighter PC lapper) and my piece of crap Dell Axim x5 (soon to be replaced by a Zaurus).
I didn't happen to catch which particular sites with pictures of slaughterhouses that this guy linked to, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume they weren't promotional. I'm pretty sure people in the meat-fab industry don't have pictures of cows being slaughtered posted on public sites. So it's fairly likely that those images were hosted on sites that were pro-animal rights.
If you ran an animal-rights website, would you be upset at suddenly exposing a bunch of burger-loving Americans to the truth? I think you'd probably eat the cost of the bandwidth and call it a win...
But this is a larger problem than meets the eye. If software is used to start a car, how long until government gets creative? What kinds of algorthims can be put in the car computer?
Awesome, someone let me know when the open source CarOS comes out.
Anyways, forget all that computer crap - I think car-tech should be moving us towards flying cars. We're 20 years overdue for those.
I do however like using the web browser from the couch.
...or from the John.
I think all technological improvments should be measured by their ability to aquire and present pornography - bonus points for requiring only single-handed usage.
Since the game devs seem to think that MP games are the only kind that count, I'll have to assume that "Project Offset" is also MP-only.
And what happens when you "assume"? Say it with me - you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me"!
From the site:
"Yes this game will have single player! And you will be able to play with friends as well. We have many things planned for this single player that will excite fps players and rpg players alike. Information about our single player/coop will be given soon."
Let me get this straight: he can't afford to buy furniture, but can afford to register a domain name and host a website? What kind of screwed up priority is that?
Oh, it's Slashdot - never mind.
No, it's the US economy. Domain names can be had for less than $9 a year, and it costs less to host than to feed a Sally-Struthers-child for a day. Necessities like clothing, food, and shelter, however, are much more expensive.
Incidentally, he's currently hosted in the Netherlands.
Watch baseball on tv and tell me how often each of the outfielders actually has to move and do something, then tell me if you want to sit in front of your pc doing the same thing.
In my day we had a single left-right knob, and we LIKED it!
You were lucky to have a knob! When I was a kid, we used to play Pong by havin' our father shine a flashlight in our eyes while our mother whacked us across the forehead with a belt. Then we'd have to hold up our hands and move them up and down, chasing the white spots burned into our retinas.
But try tell that to the kids of today - they won't believe ya.
"Awful review" was a great review of the Linspire review. The author plainly stated his opinion and then backed it up with a tightly prepared bullet-point synopsis of serveral points. I especially enjoyed the comments regarding the length of the article and the photographed screenshots. I couldn't agree more.
The only bad thing I could say about this review (of the review) was that it was anti-climatic. After an intense, bullet-driven analysis, the author leaves us with no conclusion, instead leaving us to ponder over the difficulty of disk partitioning rather than tying together the point he was trying to make.
... for the poor saps in businesses too small to have their own IT department, but who nevertheless get the honour of running round like a tit every time a company director claims the Interweb is broken... IN ADDITION to doing their regular job.
Right - I've heard this story before. The part you're leaving out is several months back when you chimed in "I can fix that!" one day when something came up. (instead of the much more appropriate "We really need to hire a sysadmin.")
If you think it's bad for you, imagine how bad it is for real IT staff to have to deal with the untrained designated "computer guy" when providing external support to your office.
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according to the FAQ (http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#24):
Q: Will more Google applications be ported to Linux under Wine?
If Picasa for Linux is successful, then other Google applications (and future versions of Picasa) may also be written to the Wine APIs so that they can easily run on both Windows and Linux. For more info on Wine, please visit http://winehq.org./
"these new digital scenarios in every corner of the world, from Indianapolis to Istanbul"
As usual, the USA is the center of a world, and those exotic other places are in the corners.
Indianapolis, altho exotic, is actually part of the USA.
I second MP and MK. They're the only games my GF really enjoys, and both allow for either Team play or head to head play. Team play is great for getting used to the game - then when she gets good enough, she's down for head to head. Sadly, despite my superior video game skills, she still manages to outrace me in MK...
She seemed to like Mario Baseball, but that game doesn't allow for team play (what kind of sports game doesn't allow team play?) - so she got frustrated pretty quickly being that she had to play against me, and she lost interest.
I'm in the Auto-Assault Weekend Beta-testing group. You actually can destroy just about everything in the game (part of the initial tutorial forces you to learn the destructability of inanimates such as buildings, etc). I'd be very curious to see if they allow advertisements to be destroyed the same way (assuming they'd respawn a few minutes later anyway).
Thus why it applies only to "Internet Applicants" - I'd say someone probably did some research and found out that minorities were a tad bit under-represented in applications submitted via the web. Maybe it would be more important to bridge that "digital divide" they've gone on about for some time now, but I can see the purpose in this "rule".
Thanks for the link to ars, it was much more informative than that crap article from Fortune.
I can't be trying to do a quest and have people who can't understand "Ok, sap that guy." or "Please don't break that sheep"
I've been speaking English for almost 30 years and I'm here to tell you good sir, that both of those phrases are nonsensical.
Don't you realize it makes you look smarter if you bash PHP for it's security? Scoffing at things is what seperates man from animal...
(seriously, I'd mod you up but I've not the points...)
That's going to end up sounding like a chihuahua being molested by a cheese grater.
Since the parent was referring to a Coldplay album, I think they're better off with the grated chihuahua...
More importantly, how are they going to fit the story of how the alien/parasite suit came into being? Am I the only one who remembers that Spidey himself used to wear it?
Something tells me they will leave the whole Battleworld story out of the movie....
I'd like to think of it more as:
highly paid designers working in labs for month come up with new, extremely slick technological devices - let's see how fast the rest of us can tear them apart out of spite^H^H^H^H^Hcuriosity.
I might buy one if only they supported more formats (like ogg....)
(1) gamers that play one game
(2) gamers that play more than one game
Seriously, I knew some EQ players that only played EQ, and that was it. I know other people that play one game, and never buy new games because they have their one game.
For those of us that play more than one game, a game like WoW, no matter how good, is not going to keep us from buying other games, because we like to play all kinds of games, and aren't going to just want to play a good MMORPG, we want to pay some FPSes, some RTSes, maybe even some TBSes. Hell, sometimes we want to play on a PC and sometimes you can't beat sitting on the couch with a GC/PS2/xBox controller.
The game industry should quit worrying about the best way to milk gamers (up-front v. subscription) and worry instead about producing quality games.
If you want my money, forget about the subscriptions. Make a good game, and lower the cost of said game (or give me a raise).
Since I use a backpack to carry my laptop(s) in, just about anything could be in there at any given time, but the only techie things are either the G4 17" PowerBook or the aging Dell Inspiron 5000 (one of these days I will replace that guy for a lighter PC lapper) and my piece of crap Dell Axim x5 (soon to be replaced by a Zaurus).
My backpack is one of those made specifically to carry a laptop in.
I didn't happen to catch which particular sites with pictures of slaughterhouses that this guy linked to, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume they weren't promotional. I'm pretty sure people in the meat-fab industry don't have pictures of cows being slaughtered posted on public sites. So it's fairly likely that those images were hosted on sites that were pro-animal rights.
If you ran an animal-rights website, would you be upset at suddenly exposing a bunch of burger-loving Americans to the truth? I think you'd probably eat the cost of the bandwidth and call it a win...
But this is a larger problem than meets the eye. If software is used to start a car, how long until government gets creative? What kinds of algorthims can be put in the car computer?
Awesome, someone let me know when the open source CarOS comes out.
Anyways, forget all that computer crap - I think car-tech should be moving us towards flying cars. We're 20 years overdue for those.
I do however like using the web browser from the couch.
...or from the John.
I think all technological improvments should be measured by their ability to aquire and present pornography - bonus points for requiring only single-handed usage.
As an employee of the state (Oregon Univerity System) I'm guessing it has more to do with budgetary concerns....
Don't forget keanunet, with a capacity of 60GB (I think).
The only uses I can think of involve coupling it with a USB wifi and going to a convention or a lan-party and doing...bad...things...
(columbine, anyone?)
The ratings are there as a guide, but everyone knows, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
That's where all the bad colts come from....
Since the game devs seem to think that MP games are the only kind that count, I'll have to assume that "Project Offset" is also MP-only.
And what happens when you "assume"? Say it with me - you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me"!
From the site:
"Yes this game will have single player! And you will be able to play with friends as well. We have many things planned for this single player that will excite fps players and rpg players alike. Information about our single player/coop will be given soon."
Let me get this straight: he can't afford to buy furniture, but can afford to register a domain name and host a website? What kind of screwed up priority is that?
Oh, it's Slashdot - never mind.
No, it's the US economy. Domain names can be had for less than $9 a year, and it costs less to host than to feed a Sally-Struthers-child for a day. Necessities like clothing, food, and shelter, however, are much more expensive.
Incidentally, he's currently hosted in the Netherlands.
Good luck, FedEx.
Watch baseball on tv and tell me how often each of the outfielders actually has to move and do something, then tell me if you want to sit in front of your pc doing the same thing.
Ever play a cleric/healer?
In my day we had a single left-right knob, and we LIKED it!
You were lucky to have a knob! When I was a kid, we used to play Pong by havin' our father shine a flashlight in our eyes while our mother whacked us across the forehead with a belt. Then we'd have to hold up our hands and move them up and down, chasing the white spots burned into our retinas.
But try tell that to the kids of today - they won't believe ya.
"Awful review" was a great review of the Linspire review. The author plainly stated his opinion and then backed it up with a tightly prepared bullet-point synopsis of serveral points. I especially enjoyed the comments regarding the length of the article and the photographed screenshots. I couldn't agree more.
The only bad thing I could say about this review (of the review) was that it was anti-climatic. After an intense, bullet-driven analysis, the author leaves us with no conclusion, instead leaving us to ponder over the difficulty of disk partitioning rather than tying together the point he was trying to make.
4(/5)
Right - I've heard this story before. The part you're leaving out is several months back when you chimed in "I can fix that!" one day when something came up. (instead of the much more appropriate "We really need to hire a sysadmin.")
If you think it's bad for you, imagine how bad it is for real IT staff to have to deal with the untrained designated "computer guy" when providing external support to your office.