In that case, let me mention the Discworld MUD:
http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/
A strange place where for over 15 years many, many people have been wandering around on the back of a giant turtle.
The downside of text games is when the puzzles devolve into Guess The Verb.
I remember using a hex-reader to scan the code to find the ascii text literals in games when I got tired of trying to guess what obscure verb the programmer had come up with.
"it can smoke most internal combustion cars off the line, +OR+ it can run for more than 200 miles on a single charge."
-- I fixed it for you
Full power operation SERIOUSLY sucks down the battery. 200 mile range requires balloonfoot driving techniques.
The power of the Congress to pass laws and have them enforced does derive from the constitution. That doesn't mean that every law is a "constitutional right".
Yes, the authority to pass laws is created by the Constitution.
But Constitutional Rights are superior to laws. Thus when the 9 geezers in gowns rule a law is Unconstitutional, it is Game Over.
Until Congress comes up with a new way to weasel around the Constitution.
The constitution grants congress the right to pass laws granting control of distribution. This doesn't mean that the right to control distribution is itself constitutionally derived.
Actually, in the US all law must ultimately descend from the Constitution. It, like Judge Dread, IS the law.
The problem is that what the Constitution means on any given day depends on the opinions of 9 senile old coots in funny black dresses.
The Bushie is really guilty of conspiring to commit treason, during time of war, and the whole lot of them should be taken out and hung as the traitors they are.
But we don't always get what we want.
On the Other Hand: Well Played, Dubya, Well Freeking played. That dodge has been the first sign of intelligence to come from the White House in far too long a time.
On the Gripping Hand: Slick Willy's 'lie of omission':
If you watch the footage of the deposition where Clinton was asked the key question:
"Are you having a sexual relationship with that woman?" (meaning Monica)
Clinton glanced down under the table and made sure, before answering, truthfully (and in the present tense): "NO".
And the prosecutor, being an IDIOT, didn't ask "Have you ever..."
Now that Kodak has put out a line of inkjet printers that break the 'Give away the printers to sell the ink' business model, the other printer makers must answer the challenge.
According to TFA Epson commissioned the study, and surprise, Epson printers came out on top.
Also in TFA are links to another Epson press release slamming Kodak, which makes me think the whole FA is just an Epson Press Release.
I hope Kodak has a winner, as this is one printer user who is tired of replacing hideously expensive ink cartridges when they die prematurely, or fake their deaths for marketing purposes. By my reckoning, when a set of replacement inks cost almost as much as I paid for the damn printer, and lasts about 20 pages, there is a hosing going on.
I figure it might be time to try a machine where where it is cheaper to replace the ink cartridge when it dies, lies about remaining ink, or dries up.
The markup reflects the risk premium that is needed anytime you are producing and distributing Illegal Goods.
Whenever a farming account is detected and shut down, they don't get the 'gold' back.
If it ever becomes a big enough problem Blizzard could put an end to it in a forceful and hard-coded fashion.
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Be sure to note that DVR users not only watch the ads, but/.ers that use DVRs have been known to upload your ads to the web and share them with friends.
So be sure to buy lots of ad time on the shows/.ers like to watch.
Thank You.
Instead of securing iPods, and eventually TVs, Blenders, Toasters, Cars and Flashlights (or 'torches') maybe the Home Secretary could try securing Criminals in Jail.
Besides, I am sure that turning over an unusable iPod to a mugger would be prosecutable as fraud.
I love the (Friday) morning quarterbacks who will now proceed to beat up RIM for a system outage after a 'non critical' upgrade.
And a bunch of suits will want the heads of the technicians responsible.
I feel for them, I really do.
A few years ago I put in a minor maintenance change that made headlines for my employer.
This is a natural result of the budgetary constraints we have to live with in the real world. Testing and certification is expensive, and the more complex the environment, the more expensive it gets. It is difficult to justify a full blown certification test for minor, routine maintenance, unless you are talking about health and safety systems. So a worst-case event occurred, RIM suffers some corporate embarrassment, some low-level techs will get yelled at, and possibly fired, and a bunch of people had to suffer crackberry withdrawal.
Nobody died. No planes crashed. No reactors melted down.
RIM will work up some new and improved testing standards, and tighten the screws on system maintenance so much that productivity will suffer, they may even spend a bunch of money on the equipment needed to do full-production-parallel certification testing. And then in a year or so cut the budget to upgrade the certification environment as 'needless expense', and come up with work-arounds to reduce the time it takes to get trivial changes and bugfixes rolled out.
I wish them luck. Especially to the poor sods who did the implementation.
At least when I did my 'headline-making-minor-maintenance' it only made the local papers for a couple of days.
Thank You!
I thought I was just getting old and crotchety, or just old, when I found that reading Wired gave me a headache.
I especially appreciate their use of oddball text and background color combinations to make passages almost unreadable.
Of course much of their drivel isn't worth reading anyway, so there it is.
Oh sure, still running Win2000 Servers, cause they get the job done with no fuss, no hassle.
Other then having to manually update the DST table.
And we got no budget this year to move hundreds of user machines from XP to Vista.
MS could make a really stupid mistake and make Office 2007 Vista-Only... which will insure that we won't be buying it.
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He will be missed. Amazing how long he kept playing, and how many people he influenced.
In that case, let me mention the Discworld MUD: http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/ A strange place where for over 15 years many, many people have been wandering around on the back of a giant turtle.
The downside of text games is when the puzzles devolve into Guess The Verb. I remember using a hex-reader to scan the code to find the ascii text literals in games when I got tired of trying to guess what obscure verb the programmer had come up with.
"Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games". - Barnaby Conrad
"it can smoke most internal combustion cars off the line, +OR+ it can run for more than 200 miles on a single charge."
-- I fixed it for you
Full power operation SERIOUSLY sucks down the battery. 200 mile range requires balloonfoot driving techniques.
Musta been an article about it in an in-flight magazine.
Yes, the authority to pass laws is created by the Constitution.
But Constitutional Rights are superior to laws. Thus when the 9 geezers in gowns rule a law is Unconstitutional, it is Game Over.
Until Congress comes up with a new way to weasel around the Constitution.
Actually, in the US all law must ultimately descend from the Constitution. It, like Judge Dread, IS the law.
The problem is that what the Constitution means on any given day depends on the opinions of 9 senile old coots in funny black dresses.
I strongly recommend Aberenbo Shogun.
Of course it ain't a kiddie show, so perhaps this advice is wasted.
But we don't always get what we want.
On the Other Hand: Well Played, Dubya, Well Freeking played. That dodge has been the first sign of intelligence to come from the White House in far too long a time.
On the Gripping Hand: Slick Willy's 'lie of omission':
If you watch the footage of the deposition where Clinton was asked the key question:
"Are you having a sexual relationship with that woman?" (meaning Monica)
Clinton glanced down under the table and made sure, before answering, truthfully (and in the present tense): "NO".
And the prosecutor, being an IDIOT, didn't ask "Have you ever..."
According to TFA Epson commissioned the study, and surprise, Epson printers came out on top.
Also in TFA are links to another Epson press release slamming Kodak, which makes me think the whole FA is just an Epson Press Release.
I hope Kodak has a winner, as this is one printer user who is tired of replacing hideously expensive ink cartridges when they die prematurely, or fake their deaths for marketing purposes. By my reckoning, when a set of replacement inks cost almost as much as I paid for the damn printer, and lasts about 20 pages, there is a hosing going on.
I figure it might be time to try a machine where where it is cheaper to replace the ink cartridge when it dies, lies about remaining ink, or dries up.
Pollution control measures of the past 40 years are paying off.
Except in the subways, which are stilled called the Electric Sewer(tm).
And there is always a nice breeze, thanks to all the water. And the lack of Denver or LA style mountains to trap stagnate air.
The markup reflects the risk premium that is needed anytime you are producing and distributing Illegal Goods. Whenever a farming account is detected and shut down, they don't get the 'gold' back. If it ever becomes a big enough problem Blizzard could put an end to it in a forceful and hard-coded fashion. ----
Be sure to note that DVR users not only watch the ads, but /.ers that use DVRs have been known to upload your ads to the web and share them with friends.
So be sure to buy lots of ad time on the shows /.ers like to watch.
Thank You.
Don't forget Seiko Detonators... for torpedoes that WORK.
This one made me proud to be a New Yorker. I mean prouder then usual. And usual around here is "Unbelievably Fragging Arrogant".
Instead of securing iPods, and eventually TVs, Blenders, Toasters, Cars and Flashlights (or 'torches') maybe the Home Secretary could try securing Criminals in Jail. Besides, I am sure that turning over an unusable iPod to a mugger would be prosecutable as fraud.
And a bunch of suits will want the heads of the technicians responsible.
I feel for them, I really do.
A few years ago I put in a minor maintenance change that made headlines for my employer.
This is a natural result of the budgetary constraints we have to live with in the real world. Testing and certification is expensive, and the more complex the environment, the more expensive it gets. It is difficult to justify a full blown certification test for minor, routine maintenance, unless you are talking about health and safety systems. So a worst-case event occurred, RIM suffers some corporate embarrassment, some low-level techs will get yelled at, and possibly fired, and a bunch of people had to suffer crackberry withdrawal.
Nobody died. No planes crashed. No reactors melted down.
RIM will work up some new and improved testing standards, and tighten the screws on system maintenance so much that productivity will suffer, they may even spend a bunch of money on the equipment needed to do full-production-parallel certification testing. And then in a year or so cut the budget to upgrade the certification environment as 'needless expense', and come up with work-arounds to reduce the time it takes to get trivial changes and bugfixes rolled out.
I wish them luck. Especially to the poor sods who did the implementation.
At least when I did my 'headline-making-minor-maintenance' it only made the local papers for a couple of days.
Thank You! I thought I was just getting old and crotchety, or just old, when I found that reading Wired gave me a headache. I especially appreciate their use of oddball text and background color combinations to make passages almost unreadable. Of course much of their drivel isn't worth reading anyway, so there it is.
We are. Some of us are thinking very hard about how to insure our children grow up as free citizens, not subjects.
Oh sure, still running Win2000 Servers, cause they get the job done with no fuss, no hassle. Other then having to manually update the DST table. And we got no budget this year to move hundreds of user machines from XP to Vista. MS could make a really stupid mistake and make Office 2007 Vista-Only... which will insure that we won't be buying it.