So I noticed some time ago that my Idle filter no longer filters Idle garbage off the front page. I followed up by filtering out anything by samzenpus, but this one got by. PLEASE MAKE IT SO THE IDLE FILTER WORKS AND I DON'T HAVE TO VIEW THIS UNFUNNY NON-NEWS, kthxbai.
Sounds great - too bad I won't be buying it.
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Review: Civilization V
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I've owned every Civ game since the original. I've sunk hundreds of hours into each iteration of the game since to 1990s. I will not be buying Civ5, because I can't "buy" it, I can only "rent" it via Steam. I do not purchase any software that requires online activation of any form. If I need somebody's permission to play, forget it. Sure, I know there are probably cracks already, but that isn't the point. When (not IF, WHEN) Steam ceases to exist someday, anyone who owns this will own a useless plastic disc.
This, of course, assumes you have or can obtain such a card. I can't. I cannot get any credit cards due to "age of credit references." Meaning, because I don't have one, I can't get one. So I'm locked out of that world. Probably for the best overall, it hasn't caused me too much trouble in life so far, but...
An interesting idea in theory, maybe, if it ran on rails. But as a BUS? No way. How will the driver keep track of vehicles below him? Vehicles in front will be in great danger of being rear-ended by the edges of this thing. And let's say you are brave/stupid enough to drive under it - unless the roads are perfectly straight and level there will be collisions occuring all of the time. Mounting it on rails could alleviate SOME of these problems, but...
There's a very interesting project aimed at "decapping" chips from arcade motherboards. They burn the tops of the chips off with fuming nitric acid until the silicone is exposed, and the silicon is then put under a microscope, and the resulting image is then somehow processed to obtain the ROM's actual contents. I don't see why it couldn't be applied to consoles as well, if necessary. See http://guru.mameworld.info/decap/ for more details (and how you can help).
As to the article's position that emulation is not "good enough," well, perhaps not. Even assuming we have the exact decapped ROM contents, full documentation, and an absolutely perfectly coded emulator, we would still lack the original hardware - specifically the controllers and display. I used to play games on my Commodore with an old Atari 2600 joystick in a little 13-inch television. Its a tad different with my USB gamepad on my 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor, and there just isn't much for it.
Couldn't agree more. Once I saw it was almost $600 I dropped my plans to buy it and went with an unlocked Nokia E61i at half the price. Been using it for over two years now with few complaints.
Oh, except that you actually CAN get the pirated DLC for Dragon Age, every bit of it. Check Pirate Bay. I did, and I'm running it. I have a legitimately purchased DVD version of the main game, and a legitimately purchased DVD version of Awakenings, but I flatly refuse to pay for something that is not issued to disk and that will only work if some server says I can run it. Now, if they issue all the DLC to a disk later, I will certainly be happy to purchase it (see Knights of the Nine for Oblivion), but...
Because the state of Michigan has NO MONEY - Comcast has tons.
Please get rid of this.
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Iron Baby
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I have Idle specifically blocked in my preferences. That seems to have ceased to function as of a few months ago, so I blocked all stories by samzenpus. Do I now have to block kdawson as well?
I was a Commodore guy in the 80s. One of my friends had an IBM PC, and I would laugh at how primitive it was - CGA graphics and that horrible blatting from the speaker! But what REALLY got me was that he had to insert a DOS disk to load another program! I mean, just imagine - the Commodore you just turned on and it was ready to roll into action. It wasn't until many years later when I saw a system with VGA graphics and a Soundblaster - and I was still on my Commodore 128. Ooof. How theonce mighty fell.
Indeed. The Zeon forces in the One Year War managed to drop an entire space colony on Sydney during Operation British. It wasn't their actual target, but as you say, it was so much easier to hit...
According to Wikipedia, "On July 15, 2007, Bar announced that the openMOSIX project would reach its end of life on March 1, 2008, due to the decreasing need for SSI clustering as low-cost multi-core processors increase in availability."
Seriously, its a dumb plan. My girlfriend is on Facebook, and I'm pretty sure she would have the following objections:
1) New people couldn't find her. 2) This new plan is already WAY too complicated. She can't point a browser at some weird piece of hardware that she has to install herself, no matter how "easy" it is to install or point to. 3) She can't play with her facebook farm(s).
The images on the official website aren't loading (probably slashdotted already), but even if they were, I don't think I'd have had a very good sense of what this game looks like without a video.
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So I noticed some time ago that my Idle filter no longer filters Idle garbage off the front page. I followed up by filtering out anything by samzenpus, but this one got by. PLEASE MAKE IT SO THE IDLE FILTER WORKS AND I DON'T HAVE TO VIEW THIS UNFUNNY NON-NEWS, kthxbai.
I've owned every Civ game since the original. I've sunk hundreds of hours into each iteration of the game since to 1990s. I will not be buying Civ5, because I can't "buy" it, I can only "rent" it via Steam. I do not purchase any software that requires online activation of any form. If I need somebody's permission to play, forget it. Sure, I know there are probably cracks already, but that isn't the point. When (not IF, WHEN) Steam ceases to exist someday, anyone who owns this will own a useless plastic disc.
This, of course, assumes you have or can obtain such a card. I can't. I cannot get any credit cards due to "age of credit references." Meaning, because I don't have one, I can't get one. So I'm locked out of that world. Probably for the best overall, it hasn't caused me too much trouble in life so far, but...
An interesting idea in theory, maybe, if it ran on rails. But as a BUS? No way. How will the driver keep track of vehicles below him? Vehicles in front will be in great danger of being rear-ended by the edges of this thing. And let's say you are brave/stupid enough to drive under it - unless the roads are perfectly straight and level there will be collisions occuring all of the time. Mounting it on rails could alleviate SOME of these problems, but...
There's a very interesting project aimed at "decapping" chips from arcade motherboards. They burn the tops of the chips off with fuming nitric acid until the silicone is exposed, and the silicon is then put under a microscope, and the resulting image is then somehow processed to obtain the ROM's actual contents. I don't see why it couldn't be applied to consoles as well, if necessary. See http://guru.mameworld.info/decap/ for more details (and how you can help).
As to the article's position that emulation is not "good enough," well, perhaps not. Even assuming we have the exact decapped ROM contents, full documentation, and an absolutely perfectly coded emulator, we would still lack the original hardware - specifically the controllers and display. I used to play games on my Commodore with an old Atari 2600 joystick in a little 13-inch television. Its a tad different with my USB gamepad on my 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor, and there just isn't much for it.
Couldn't agree more. Once I saw it was almost $600 I dropped my plans to buy it and went with an unlocked Nokia E61i at half the price. Been using it for over two years now with few complaints.
Oh, except that you actually CAN get the pirated DLC for Dragon Age, every bit of it. Check Pirate Bay. I did, and I'm running it. I have a legitimately purchased DVD version of the main game, and a legitimately purchased DVD version of Awakenings, but I flatly refuse to pay for something that is not issued to disk and that will only work if some server says I can run it. Now, if they issue all the DLC to a disk later, I will certainly be happy to purchase it (see Knights of the Nine for Oblivion), but...
Fortunately, my real name actually is KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR, so I won't be needing to change my battlenet ID.
NinjaVideo.net and TVshack.net? Never heard of either one - UNTIL NOW. I hope one of them has Blake's 7, haven't seen that since I was a kid.
Oh yeah? Well, the Jerk Store called - they're running out of YOU!
Because the state of Michigan has NO MONEY - Comcast has tons.
I have Idle specifically blocked in my preferences. That seems to have ceased to function as of a few months ago, so I blocked all stories by samzenpus. Do I now have to block kdawson as well?
I was a Commodore guy in the 80s. One of my friends had an IBM PC, and I would laugh at how primitive it was - CGA graphics and that horrible blatting from the speaker! But what REALLY got me was that he had to insert a DOS disk to load another program! I mean, just imagine - the Commodore you just turned on and it was ready to roll into action. It wasn't until many years later when I saw a system with VGA graphics and a Soundblaster - and I was still on my Commodore 128. Ooof. How theonce mighty fell.
Indeed. See also http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Bureaucratic_Fuck
It begs the question: What's wrong with your faaaaaaace?
Indeed. The Zeon forces in the One Year War managed to drop an entire space colony on Sydney during Operation British. It wasn't their actual target, but as you say, it was so much easier to hit...
According to Wikipedia, "On July 15, 2007, Bar announced that the openMOSIX project would reach its end of life on March 1, 2008, due to the decreasing need for SSI clustering as low-cost multi-core processors increase in availability."
Hot Tub Turing Machine!
She says I'm cute enough already!
Seriously, its a dumb plan. My girlfriend is on Facebook, and I'm pretty sure she would have the following objections:
1) New people couldn't find her.
2) This new plan is already WAY too complicated. She can't point a browser at some weird piece of hardware that she has to install herself, no matter how "easy" it is to install or point to.
3) She can't play with her facebook farm(s).
Rather than apply electrical current to a key holder, wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to apply a $5 wrench?
For $530, I expect, nay, demand, to have actual physical buttons to dial with.
Why are you asking Slashdot? Have you tried, like, asking THEM? I know you're nerds and all, but geez.
I stopped participating on Wikipedia years ago due to deletionists slashing and burning any and alls article in the name of HURR HURR NOT NOTABLE. I mean, why bother? That said, I recently saw something interesting - about two months ago someone wrote an article about her negative Wikipedia experience - Bullypedia, A Wikipedian Who's Tired of Getting Beat Up. As a result of this article, some folks got together to start WP:NEWT, where they wrote articles while posing as n00bs to see how they were treated. In some cases, they were in fact treated poorly indeed. Gems include "The reason I deleted the article was that the wikilinks did not have the proper markup. In addition, "See also" should be used instead of "See articles" and "External links" should be substituted for "Sites". Willking1979 (talk) 02:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)" and User:Multixfer throwing a total shitfit when (fully appropriately) outed as being a total asshole.
The images on the official website aren't loading (probably slashdotted already), but even if they were, I don't think I'd have had a very good sense of what this game looks like without a video.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBXpNpwDFzw
Gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneQefAchHQ
Reminds me a little of another recent independent game, Osmos. Check it out at http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/