"The game starts with the user assuming the role of a lowly Ensign Seventh Class on the S.P.S. Feinstein, a starship of the Stellar Patrol. Overbearing superior Ensign First Class Blather assigns the player to mop decks, not exactly the glorious adventures promised by the recruiters on Gallium. But a sudden series of explosions aboard the ship sends the player scrambling for an escape pod, which eventually crash-lands on a nearby planet."
What I'd really like to see, is a "re-boot" -- or updated port, of a whole generation of games onto mobile devices
Baldur's Gate (As in the PC versions, not the X-Box stuff...) -- BG2 still rules as the best RPG ever made. Wing Commander -- Why are there no good space flight / space operas anymore anyway? M.U.L.E. -- for those who know... X-COM -- This game could be done on an iPhone oh so well...
First: See if he can identify when the "Wi-Fi" is on or off.
Second: If he can (which would be highly unlikely and scientifically amazing)... see if he can differentiate between Wi Fi, Bluetooth and his Microwave.
Why do we report bizarre claims to Slashdot without requiring the scientific method to be applied.
If I claim to be psychic and to be able to use ESP to read emails out of thin air, does qualify for the front page of Slashdot?
Not that Opera doesn't have serious funding... but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this javascript would be more expensive, most of the time . .
if (is.explorer) { window.location.href="config/error.htm"; }
"'If they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow photographers to maintain the copyright.'"...and I suppose they could go one step further and allow writers to keep the copyright too.. Oh wait, that goes against the entire concept of Wikipedia.
If publicists are so "horrified" by the photos on the site, they should buy the rights to the photographs from the publishers, and release the rights to the public for use on Wikipedia.
This idea is completely crackable and you don't have to be a psychic genius here folks.
You take the image, and run a digital filter on the image -- creating thousands of new "images" which emulate the possibilities for the plastic window.
You then interpret the results (A simple OCR of the resulting images should do), and you try those passwords.
Yes, it's brute force -- but it's no safer than a non-image password.
By the way, my E*Trade RSA digital passkey is a great system of 3 point password protection. Why isn't everyone using that?
Before you mod this as flamebait, please read this whole post: . As an indie developer myself, I've been somewhat appalled by the utter lack of quality among indie games. We live in a world where there are hundreds of thousands of beautifully designed "indie" websites, but when it comes to indie games, we're apparently supposed to pretend that professional-quality design is something that requires lots of money. We're asked to somehow equate "indie" with "unprofessional". . This is not only bullsh*t, but it's a disaster for everyone. . The problem with indie games on X-Box Live is that Microsoft has utterly failed at creating a Darwinian process of user reviews, and user promotion. Because users can't rate games (or vote to have them removed), we end up with an enormous amount of "noise" on X-Box Live. Users are confronted with dozens of truly sub-par, poorly designed games, and given no way to filter the best of the best.
This lack of promotion/filtration disincentivizes both indie and commercial game developers alike, because they end up with something akin to the AppStore-Problem -- which is a glut of too many sub-standard titles.
We don't need more restrictions on indie developers. What we need is quality control, and it needs to be done by (and for) the community.
The newspapers are trying to establish ownership of the underlying INFORMATION, not just the words they use to convey that information.
Newspapers who actually go out and "get" news are trying to establish control over that information so that those who re-report do not compete directly with the original report.
This isn't about copyright, it is about establishing a new 'estate' of IP which establishes ownership over directly sourced/reported information.
This game was actually challenging. These days game designers are so worried that you won't see 100% of their work, that they make the game easy.
As a result, most games today are more "sandbox" than they are "game" and the whole thing just gets boring.
I wish Bethesda would make another extremely challenging game. They need to stop worrying so much about easing players into a nice, unchallenging bath -- and give players more depth, more complexity and more challenge.
Somewhere along the line, Bethesda concluded that console gamers are too stupid to play games like Daggerfall. This is what has ruined their more recent games. While they're still enjoyable -- they're not the kind of thing that drives you to know what's beyond the next mountain... and to spend a day figuring out how to equip yourself in order to get there...
"Outpaces" is one of those sketchy words often used to describe comparative speeds. It is almost a sure sign of a release designed to manipulate public opinion.
e.g.: If Microsoft is growing at 3% annually, and my small one-man software company is growing at 20% annually -- I can put out a press-release saying that I'm "Outpacing Microsoft". But that doesn't mean I'm creating real competition for Microsoft.
Disclosure: I haven't RTFA -- I'm just calling b.s. on semantics...
Mod parent up. Guild Wars PVP is pure skill, but it's not a twitchy shooter. There are dozens of play styles -- from reflex driven Mesmers, to infinitely more strategic builds. For those who like the grind, there is always PVE, and rare armor sets, rare weapons, etc.
Funny to hear how much ire there is for bicyclists in other parts of the country.
As a Manhattan native I can confidently say that the most annoying thing on the road is the douchebags who feel like its a good idea to bring their massive cars in from Jersey, Westchester and Long Island -- and clog up traffic.
From a NY perspective, the traffic problems have nothing to do with cyclists at all. They have more to do with a perceived right to bring a massive metal and glass behemoth into the world's most crowded places. Keep that sh*t parked outside the city and take public transportation.
I'm all for a $50 toll for commuters. Clogging up the city should be incredibly expensive for non-commercial traffic.
Cities should be primarily mass transit, taxis, pedestrians and bicycles. Douchebags feeling like they have a right to bring their suburban into the city is a much bigger problem than some dude on a bike.
Huh? What? Why are you talking about individual wealth when the issue here is net/public wealth?
Let's be clear: Michigan's debts and financial obligations vastly exceed available funds. This isn't about poverty -- this is about liquidity. Michigan is deeply strapped for cash.
Of course I don't think the entirety of Michigan is poor. I also don't think the entirety of Albania, Belarus or Myanmar is poor.
Slashdot Mirror
SQ was awesome, no doubt.
Planetfall though, was one of the best text adventures ever written. If you're a SQ fan, I highly recommend it...
... a plot shamelessly stolen from Planetfall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall
"The game starts with the user assuming the role of a lowly Ensign Seventh Class on the S.P.S. Feinstein, a starship of the Stellar Patrol. Overbearing superior Ensign First Class Blather assigns the player to mop decks, not exactly the glorious adventures promised by the recruiters on Gallium. But a sudden series of explosions aboard the ship sends the player scrambling for an escape pod, which eventually crash-lands on a nearby planet."
What I'd really like to see, is a "re-boot" -- or updated port, of a whole generation of games onto mobile devices
Baldur's Gate (As in the PC versions, not the X-Box stuff...) -- BG2 still rules as the best RPG ever made.
Wing Commander -- Why are there no good space flight / space operas anymore anyway?
M.U.L.E. -- for those who know...
X-COM -- This game could be done on an iPhone oh so well...
This is an incredibly easy claim to test.
First: See if he can identify when the "Wi-Fi" is on or off.
Second: If he can (which would be highly unlikely and scientifically amazing)... see if he can differentiate between Wi Fi, Bluetooth and his Microwave.
Why do we report bizarre claims to Slashdot without requiring the scientific method to be applied.
If I claim to be psychic and to be able to use ESP to read emails out of thin air, does qualify for the front page of Slashdot?
Exactly.
The web is filled with creativity that was made with absolutely no profit motive (or potential) whatsoever.
The proof against the case made by the commercial media industries is everywhere.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Does the expression "on crack" mean, "better"? And if so, why?
Not that Opera doesn't have serious funding... but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this javascript would be more expensive, most of the time
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if (is.explorer)
{
window.location.href="config/error.htm";
}
"'If they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow photographers to maintain the copyright.'" ...and I suppose they could go one step further and allow writers to keep the copyright too.. Oh wait, that goes against the entire concept of Wikipedia.
If publicists are so "horrified" by the photos on the site, they should buy the rights to the photographs from the publishers, and release the rights to the public for use on Wikipedia.
Why is this so complicated?
This idea is completely crackable and you don't have to be a psychic genius here folks.
You take the image, and run a digital filter on the image -- creating thousands of new "images" which emulate the possibilities for the plastic window.
You then interpret the results (A simple OCR of the resulting images should do), and you try those passwords.
Yes, it's brute force -- but it's no safer than a non-image password.
By the way, my E*Trade RSA digital passkey is a great system of 3 point password protection. Why isn't everyone using that?
... and stop using all of your web-apps... sigh...
Before you mod this as flamebait, please read this whole post:
.
As an indie developer myself, I've been somewhat appalled by the utter lack of quality among indie games. We live in a world where there are hundreds of thousands of beautifully designed "indie" websites, but when it comes to indie games, we're apparently supposed to pretend that professional-quality design is something that requires lots of money. We're asked to somehow equate "indie" with "unprofessional".
.
This is not only bullsh*t, but it's a disaster for everyone.
.
The problem with indie games on X-Box Live is that Microsoft has utterly failed at creating a Darwinian process of user reviews, and user promotion. Because users can't rate games (or vote to have them removed), we end up with an enormous amount of "noise" on X-Box Live. Users are confronted with dozens of truly sub-par, poorly designed games, and given no way to filter the best of the best.
This lack of promotion/filtration disincentivizes both indie and commercial game developers alike, because they end up with something akin to the AppStore-Problem -- which is a glut of too many sub-standard titles.
We don't need more restrictions on indie developers. What we need is quality control, and it needs to be done by (and for) the community.
Mod Parent up ... to 11.
I might actually start playing games on the thing...
Please, some inspired iPhone hacker... take up the challenge!
This isn't about free web content, or copyright.
The newspapers are trying to establish ownership of the underlying INFORMATION, not just the words they use to convey that information.
Newspapers who actually go out and "get" news are trying to establish control over that information so that those who re-report do not compete directly with the original report.
This isn't about copyright, it is about establishing a new 'estate' of IP which establishes ownership over directly sourced/reported information.
This game was actually challenging. These days game designers are so worried that you won't see 100% of their work, that they make the game easy.
As a result, most games today are more "sandbox" than they are "game" and the whole thing just gets boring.
I wish Bethesda would make another extremely challenging game. They need to stop worrying so much about easing players into a nice, unchallenging bath -- and give players more depth, more complexity and more challenge.
Somewhere along the line, Bethesda concluded that console gamers are too stupid to play games like Daggerfall. This is what has ruined their more recent games. While they're still enjoyable -- they're not the kind of thing that drives you to know what's beyond the next mountain... and to spend a day figuring out how to equip yourself in order to get there...
Well... the original intent of copyright was as applied to "commercial copying"... his reading of the law is 100% valid.
"Outpaces" is one of those sketchy words often used to describe comparative speeds. It is almost a sure sign of a release designed to manipulate public opinion.
e.g.: If Microsoft is growing at 3% annually, and my small one-man software company is growing at 20% annually -- I can put out a press-release saying that I'm "Outpacing Microsoft". But that doesn't mean I'm creating real competition for Microsoft.
Disclosure: I haven't RTFA -- I'm just calling b.s. on semantics...
Mod parent up. Guild Wars PVP is pure skill, but it's not a twitchy shooter. There are dozens of play styles -- from reflex driven Mesmers, to infinitely more strategic builds. For those who like the grind, there is always PVE, and rare armor sets, rare weapons, etc.
Funny to hear how much ire there is for bicyclists in other parts of the country.
As a Manhattan native I can confidently say that the most annoying thing on the road is the douchebags who feel like its a good idea to bring their massive cars in from Jersey, Westchester and Long Island -- and clog up traffic.
From a NY perspective, the traffic problems have nothing to do with cyclists at all. They have more to do with a perceived right to bring a massive metal and glass behemoth into the world's most crowded places. Keep that sh*t parked outside the city and take public transportation.
I'm all for a $50 toll for commuters. Clogging up the city should be incredibly expensive for non-commercial traffic.
Cities should be primarily mass transit, taxis, pedestrians and bicycles. Douchebags feeling like they have a right to bring their suburban into the city is a much bigger problem than some dude on a bike.
There's something tragically ironic about the spelling error: "skils"
Actually that disturbance was all 9 of the world's still-living Cobol coders.
BSG humor is mandatory whenever Cobol comes up...
So ... does this mean that this bacterium is now the "oldest living thing"?
Huh? What? Why are you talking about individual wealth when the issue here is net/public wealth?
Let's be clear: Michigan's debts and financial obligations vastly exceed available funds. This isn't about poverty -- this is about liquidity. Michigan is deeply strapped for cash.
Of course I don't think the entirety of Michigan is poor. I also don't think the entirety of Albania, Belarus or Myanmar is poor.
You're still missing the point.