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Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 15, 2002 5:59pm PDTLady at the bank today: "Hmmm... oh yeah, that's not right, something is wrong here. Ok well you owe $74 total" Me: "Ok, so I owe $74 in penalties on something that isnt right?" Lady: "Yeah, that's right. Just pay the penalties and we'll close out the error" Me: "The penalties on the error that wasnt my fault?" Her: "Yeah" Me: " ... " Me: " ... " Lady: "You know what, you shouldnt owe any penalties or have to pay them, since this isnt your fault" Me: " ... "
- Vanilla Coke is showing up around the country today. It any good? - According to this teacher, sometimes you just gotta smack a kid around - Young japanese hooker stories. Hmmm. Thanks Fark - Teenagers find $50,000, cant keep secret - Bobbit wont be in celebrity boxing. Bummer I guess Thanks Lynn - More on SonicBlue and DVRLastly, StarWars movie tonight! We'll put up a thread around 1.30am CST for the folks to start sharing their impressions of the flick. I'm thinking I should go actually watch Phantom Menace all the way through before watching this one? Also, new Matrix trailers tonight! Mmmmm...
I'm releasing the public beta test of Brainworks tomorrow (and the official version a week or two after that). I did a bunch of debugging tonight and found bugs in the following features:
- Item Timing
- Strafe jumping
- Missile Dodging
- Awareness system
Ooops! They ranged from "totally dysfunctional" (strafejumping) to "minor" (awareness), I've thoroughly tested all of them. They are excellent (except strafe jumping which is just 'pretty damn good' because I don't have access to the internal movement engine code).
Since my only "high bandwidth" ftp location is fileplanet, I'm letting you guys get the same thing I'm releasing tonight before I officially announce tomorrow. Waiting in line at fileplanet sucks, but it's the only mirror I have. You can use this link but it's not designed for massive traffic so don't spread this URL around!
http://www.planetquake.com/artofwar/tmp/brainworks-0-7.zip
PS: If you'd like to put up a mirror, shackmsg it to me and I'll include it in the release notice tomorrow.
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http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657487 SMDEVER
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657581 And SMDEVER's okay. :)
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653636 El Guapo
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653776 Don Vito Corleone
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3658020 kryooyrk
Mega-fucking HUGE First Post IN REVIEW!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653273 First post!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653751 Monkey ninjas! Independent made movie by shacker El Guapo
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653290 Adriana Lima = hot babe alert!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653291 GTA3 4 PC. That pic looks hella cool. :)
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653318 Penny Arcade! It's hella funny!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653451 "TokyoBreakfast.asf"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655708 "Leno > Letterman"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654015 "The best thing that could happen to us would be a car wreck."
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654479 "Best Metal Song of the 1980s"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654207 "Hrmm, trying to decide where to order GTA3 from."
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655146 "can someone link me to the DC++ download place?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654459 SHACKPOLL: What was your favorite Disney or animated movie as a kid?
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654863 "Best Co-op experience in a game?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654675 "Nintendo will rise once again."
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654354 Whats your favorite era of music?
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655269 Roper vs Roger Ebert on AOTC! Fight!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3654460 Favorite super hero?
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655461 Where do you buy your PC parts? I kinda like Mirco Pro. :)
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653807 "When is the shackstore expecting 4200's?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655702 "What's on everyone's to-buy list for games in the coming 2 months?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655179 "Fuck all the middle men!"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3656342 Go work at Blockbuster!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655647 Consol price war debate
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3656106 Conjoined Gummy Bear Twins!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3656305 OverBurN: "Is my friend VENGER around?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655438 "Any predictions on what the new ShackLaw will be?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3656978 Raindrops keep falling on my head!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657075 "Best cat picture evar:"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657012 TOMSERVO PICTURES!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657206 "low quality ascii shit with japanese background music"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657280 Create a shack database to document all facts about the shackers?
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655705 "advice or anything on where to look for jobs 'in the industry'?"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657971 "DOOM 3 Release Date: November 29th" ?!!!!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657689 Guy has sex with girl! News update at 11!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3658119 'Taking suggestions for wedding music..."
Informative!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3653895 "Interesting snip from the MSNBC console price-war story:"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657070 MS critical updates.
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3657969 "Atari 2600 to be re-released!"
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3655328 And lastly, here's what the fuck I'm been up too. So sorry about the downtime but I never got highspeed access before and it was important to get it up and running as soon as possible. All I can say it's way faster than I expected. I live in a rural area so I can't imagine too many people clogging up the line. :)
I thank you all and have a good night. Evening Reading in reveiw will be posted in the morning. maybe :)
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xvdl and a number of other people are heaping blame on Bush and his administration for not "doing more" to prevent Sept 11th.
So let's look into this a bit. Let's say Bush did take everything seriously and it's now Sept 10th. The only way to prevent terrorist activity would be a total lockdown in security, prompting allegations of a "police state", etc, etc, especially since it was just a "threat".
Racial Profiling would have to be done at EVERY AIRPORT IN AMERICA, causing Arab groups to scream of racism and inequity. Liberals like xvdl would just scream and holler about that as well.
So tell me, liberals, what the fuck should he have done?
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hoorj?
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the whole 2d/3d thing is not an issue for me
the whole 'fps' thing isn't either - first person is just a medium, the shooter thing isn't mandatory (thief, system shock, deus ex, morrowind, etc)
the significant caveat that I don't think will be surmountable is content. I greatly fear the ravenization of the length. how do you craft a giant 3d world that can be explored, and then explored again when you acquire new goodies? you CAN do it, but outside of online rpgs (and morrowind :P), I have yet to see a truly massive 3d world crafted for a first person game. without a giant, sprawling, immense, monstrous penif world, metroid will be a bad shooter, instead of a great metroid :(
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So there was nothing I could do there, and I found out after working for 37 hours over two weeks. The key to all this was that I didn't know if I would pass Calculus until two days after I signed up, so I assumed that I would be signing up for a class. Once grades got out, I concentrated on the job itself, and they never asked me if I was still signing up for a class.
It's all good, I guess; now I get to work with my father at the jobsite. I'm still as pale as a ghost, and a little out of shape, so I need this. It even pays better, too. And I'll definetly be able to go to Falmouth for the summer.
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Several people close to the negotiations said Microsoft had been trying to force software publishers to offer their online games on data-serving computers controlled by Microsoft, a move that could potentially give Microsoft access to information about customers.
"Any developer who accepts an agreement that doesn't respect their relationship with the customer is like a turkey accepting an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner," said Jeff Brown, a spokesman for Electronic Arts.
Add to this the Leaked paper about the X-Box networking and you have the suck..
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here's mine: integration of AutoCorrect and the Office Assistants into all of Windows. Every text box, from text fields in HTML pages in IE, to notepad.exe, to the Run dialog, is monitored closely by these two.
It looks like you're installing non-Microsoft software. Do you need "help"?
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Click Order Now. Then Create a M$ Passport.
WAAHLAA! Windows XP Pro for 50 bucks!
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Somethings bound to go wrong!
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CR
Costa Rica
CU
Cuba
CV
Cape Verde
CX
Christmas Island
CY
Cyprus
CZ
Czech Republic
:DDDDDDDDD
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Including the following quote:
"WeÂ’re at a point where 200 frames a second in Quake just doesnÂ’t offer the same marginal utility that playing Flight Sim across three displays in Surround Gaming offers."
He said "marginal utility"! I smell an economics major...
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http://www.opera.com/
It sucks though. I am personally loyal to my boss, but I disagree with him on a large number of issues, which means I tend to side on the investor's side. I'm not really political enough to really play this game either.
:-(
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