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But the dashing asterisk can be whatever you imagine it to be, and that makes it better.

Umm. Dude. The "dashing asterisk" represents a rock. Or maybe a coin.

(But who am I to dictate your fantasies... have fun with that.)

I played 'Vultures Claw' and 'Vultures Eye' which provide a isometric view of each level based on what the ASCII rendering of 'nethack' would display. Many of the levels are exactly as you would imagine (fire levels with lava, water levels/Jubilex/Astral Planes).

Does it have select fire to switch between semi-automatic, full auto, or three round burst?

It's not just field-strippable, it's field-scriptable.

Well, neither of those systems were networked or quite up to par with the business machines out there in the day, but there were plenty of Amiga viruses floating around, thanks to its widespread homebrew and piracy.

The Commodore 64 and Atari didn't exactly have permanent storage, so the worst you could do would be to have an annoying attachment to a diskette/tape/cartridge that wouldn't transfer to other media unless used during the same session. However, that in mind, there does happen to be at least one Commodore 64 virus widespread enough to have been documented.

Well here's mine: decreasing the radioactive content of "fake" whiskey to match that of the "genuinely" old stuff!

Well, if you do manage to invent the nuclear damper and accelerate the 1/2 life decay of carbon-14, let me know. I can think of a lot of people who'd be interested in forcing accelerated decay of stuff like plutonium.

I once got a text from a friend telling me where to pick him up mid-city to drop him off at the airport. Thing is, at the time he was already in my car, and we were halfway to the airport. This is Auckland, New Zealand, so that's a fucking long time.

I did work on another project, Plutonia 2, that was released a few months ago. My first contribution was in mid-2001, IIRC, which makes 7.5 years.

In fact, I did join the Mordeth team a couple of years ago, but quit...

The Doom mod Mordeth has been in development for over 12 years.

Nanoscale Inanimate Carbon Rod!

Hrmm, maybe that explains Harold then ...

"The tools are fairly good, but, in my experience, they'll always report 3-7% or so of your paper as plagiarized"

Plagiarism is a concept in academia based on the idea that if you are going to do something wrong, at least you should do something nobody has done before. Your professor or other academia leader decides whether your plagiarism is truly original, or only a copy of a previous plagiarism.

See Wikia for additional information.

While smash brothers is a fun game it is not in the same league of complexity as the good fighting games.

Let me guess: you never got as far as the "L-cancel" chapter in Smash Bros. techniques. The "ukemi" technique (aka "L-cancel" in SSB64/Melee and "tech" in Brawl) doesn't appear in the manual, but if you guard immediately after you land under some conditions, you can recover faster and keep your combo going. Not to mention obscure tricks like FLUDD jumping. My point is that the control doesn't get in your way for these tricks.

While smash brothers is a fun game it is not in the same league of complexity as the good fighting games.

Let me guess: you never got as far as the "L-cancel" chapter in Smash Bros. techniques. The "ukemi" technique (aka "L-cancel" in SSB64/Melee and "tech" in Brawl) doesn't appear in the manual, but if you guard immediately after you land under some conditions, you can recover faster and keep your combo going. Not to mention obscure tricks like FLUDD jumping. My point is that the control doesn't get in your way for these tricks.

To what, exactly, is God not immune?

A puff of logic?

A strawman argument?

To what, exactly, is God not immune?

A puff of logic?

What ever happened to that storage technology breakthrough that could store ridiculous amounts of data on a roll of scotch tape? I think it was some 5+ years ago I first heard of that technology here on slashdot. Nothing ever come of it?

As I read about the technology, I got stuck on the fact that they are still using disks as media. How about a nice cube or pyramid shape like these?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Holocron

There's also the flu wiki. (Insert joke here about doing amateur genetic engineering on H1N1).

I think there is already a religion that worships Transformers.

A book's contents, conveniently embedded in the physical, tangible medium of dead tree.

Just be careful you don't buy a swarm of Vashta Nerada while you're at it.

the "Library Grape," http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Library_grape from Neil Stephenson's Anathem. I happen to be re-reading it right now, and just got through the dissertation on the Library Grape yesterday. I love coincidences like these.

Lawyers are alive they are undead, the highest lawyers work for IBM and they are know as NazgÃl.

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Nazg%C3%BBl#Behind_the_Scenes

I remember seeing a TV show that described the smell of space. Highly interesting stuff.

I certainly am hoping there is no hot coffee involved: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Mutant_Master.jpg

Also, interesting to note is the algorithms being used to obscure their identities in the videos and photographs. I remember several articles about how the German authorities (99% certain) had developed the ability to remove the blurring on several photographs

Yes, they had developed the amazing ability to apply Photohop's "swirl" effect in opposite direction.

No, it's Captain Obvious to the rescue! :)

Absolutely. But it's not a freedom (unless you conflate the meaning of "freedom" with "right").

I never said it(murder) was either a right or a freedom, I was merely explaining why the activity is legislated against. You were the one that said "thinking about it, murder is freedom for the murderer".

I'll need proof that there are no commercial artists who would stop creating once they stop being compensated.

I probably can't give you proof of that, since you modified artists with commercial. When I used the word artist in the statement you quoted, I backed it up by the next statement referring to people planting flowers in their yard. Perhaps you don't consider that artwork, but as they say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". I can however give you proof of artists creating because they are driven to do so, regardless of monetary compensation, but I shouldn't have to, as a quick perusal of many websites across the internet should make that very clear. If not, take a look up and down the street while you are out one day and see all the cars with aftermarket products that enhance their looks. I'll admit that some look tacky, as do the plastic pink flamingos, but you can see that people create art all the time. In fact, I'm willing to bet that most people create art in some form or another, even if it's just a simple arrangement of furniture. Before we had TV, many people spent their time doing crafts such as quilting, knitting, woodwork, making bird houses out of gourds, etc. In fact, there are so many examples of people creating art for the pleasure of doing so, instead of making a living doing this, that I have a hard time understanding how we will run out of new artworks to share, as our civilization is built around this simple fact. As I said earlier, we are only in danger of running low on high budget artwork, but we will only run just so low on that. The money that is saved by not having to support such art as that will bring it back to a more sustainable level where more people are happy.

Current art creation rates have been dependent, for years, on culture penetration.

We have just the created the most valuable tool that allows for the deepest culture penetration known to mankind. The internet and ability to share files are having a larger impact on our culture than the spice trade and trade in native artifacts across the world ever did.

Again, I'll need some evidence.

Have a child. Raise him or her. Will you hang his/her drawings on the refrigerator? Will you take a picture of it to share with your friends?

To top all of this off, take a look at this:

http://wesnoth.org/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page (cause civilization should be free ;))
http://www.simutrans.com/
http://www.globulation2.org/

Art, and the human desire to create will die when the last man dies. We are never in danger of losing this, as this is why we live. I pulled most of those links from a quick browsing at http://happypenguin.org/ , but you can look around more places for more things. I for one would be willing to pay an ISP to maintain access to these works. If others are willing to pay for access to the works then we'll not be in danger of losing them. We are only in danger of losing what we don't want, presuming that we don't lose our civilization to some catastrophe. We have nothing to fear by the removal of these monopolies that inhibit our creativity. This is what these people who control those works and regulate the creation of new works have done their best to make you believe.

UnNews:General Motors to recall 533,000 SUV drivers WASHINGTON, Friday (UNN) -- General Motors Corporation said Friday it was recalling 533,000 urban SUV and pickup truck drivers because of potential idiocy problems. GM said it has received reports of 1100 accidents and sixty-seven injuries connected to the recall.

The automaker has come under tremendous criticism for its four-wheel-drive vehicles. "We're at the stage where we can just do without this shit," said GM clue installation engineer B.F. Skinner. "The trouble is SUVs have been adopted by what in technical terms we call 'fuckheads.' The seven percent of SUV drivers that actually leave the goddamn highway might have some use for the things. It's the other ninety-three percent that are problematic and in need of repair.

"I mean, SUVs burn more gas, pollute more and are way dangerous in crashes. We know this. But like proper trucks, if they're not driven by idiots they're not a problem. Like you wouldn't give a soccer mom a semi-trailer. Much as they'd like one. But we haven't managed to get laws passed saying you need an IQ test before buying them."

The recalled drivers had notable problems with spurious justifications and clueless public statements [1] such as "I, as proud owner of an F-150 pickup, would strap myself to my windshield with dynamite taped to my chest before I let the National Coalition of Yugo-driving Salad-eaters take my truck away" or "I like that sport-utility vehicles make a lotta noise, that big, powerful truck sound, that vrooom, that you don't get in a car."

Some SUV justifications were difficult for cluefulness engineers to repair. "We keep seeing accident reports ending with 'The truck driver walked away unharmed,'" said Skinner. "That's what leads to people buying a Hummer to pick the kids up from grade school half a mile away. If you're in a crash and you're the one not in the SUV, you die and these wastes of fucking oxygen continue to breed, brains untouched.

"Our only hope for the gene pool is an SUV-pocalypse, where these vehicles will only crash into each other. Then we'll see them roll badly, fail to protect the driver, crunch into a ball and hopefully serve as an instructive example to any surviving spawn."

Actuaries from State Farm Insurance have noted[2] that sport utility vehicles save insurers money because they are more likely to kill the occupants than to maim them, and serious injuries tend to yield bigger settlements than deaths. "We're considering a nine-inch spike in the middle of the steering wheel," Skinner said.

Owners will be notified in mid-February of their being recalled and dealers will attempt to replace their brains with ones that work, at no charge to the owners' families.

The SGC then rented their original gate back.

They later bought it from Russia with a 304. Very lucrative fishing expedition for the Russians, if you ask me.

Does Steve Ballmer run your ISP?

Like Elbonia?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Republic_of_Dave

A failed donation can make you feel like crap

So can a successful one.

another scapegoat that you can blame stuff on too

Ah, Tibor, how many times have you saved my butt?

You may be interested in this:

http://solarcooking.wikia.com/

Solar cooking isn't practical in every climate, but when it works it can be very effective.

I came here to mention the Pac Man level 256 bug but looking for a link I found a whole glitch wiki!

I came here to mention the Pac Man level 256 bug but looking for a link I found a whole glitch wiki!

No, the Nintendo events were the only way to get a legitimate Mew without abusing a glitch. Since Bulbapedia seems to be down, the best site I can find is http://errors.wikia.com/wiki/Pokemon_Blue_and_Red-_Mew_Glitch

But they will succeed in January 2076. The proof is right there on the Internets!
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline#2076

OK, so maybe we could use perpetually spinning cats (or falling peanut-buttered bread - both sides) for energy generation.

If you ever see a game console that uses a rip-off PS2 controller, run the other way. FAST.

The Xbox 360's name was ripped off the PlayStation family controller. Here's proof.

Does it come with a Fallout Boy?

Fallout Boy, Fall Out Boy, or FalloutBoy?

at least, not until she meets her brother, John Henry

Am not ready to entrust my data to a talking, masked, styrofoam cup!

Actually, I agre 100% with you - the article is fud. Read further.

Methinks overheated rhetoric like the one in this post and tomhudson's below ...

You mean this one? http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1178961&cid=27369677

Developing for the iPhone used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.

It's not anymore. It's about money and control and refunds and chargebacks, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can distort reality the longest or get the fanbois to shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a walled-in garden in order to legitimize the "Cult of Stevie.". Individuals notwithstanding, Apple and the iPhone store as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics, money and control.

s/bsd/iphone/gmi; FTW:

FreeBSD used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.

It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.

Source: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/BSD_is_Dying

I guess I should have put the <sarcasm> or <crymeariver> tags around it ... because I agree 100% with you that this whole article was a bunch of disinformation. It should be bleedingly obvious that (1) the story itself is highly inaccurate - these terms were in the original dev agreement, so this is not "news", and further, that apple has said that it doesn't apply it that rigorously (probably saving it only as a stick for when some dev. really abuses users, eg: putting out spamware, spyware, or malware). But who sticks to either common sense or actual verification when it's so easy to go "OMG LOOK WE'RE BEING FUX0RED! It's just the nature of the beast :-)

No, this clearly proves that someone has already developed the Sun Crusher. We're losing the interstellar arms race here, people! Let's get cracking!

In the episode, the lizards are a non-native tropical species, and thus would not have either the physiology or instinct to hibernate.

Speaking of MST3K, I guess no-one from the colonial fleet had ever seen "Teenage Caveman"
http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Teenage_Cave_Man

linkie...

Playing too much Nethack, are we?

Are they sure it's not a mynock?