In EQ1 I was disappointed that the war of Evil vs Good races never went anywhere. The backstory told of an attack on Freeport by the Evil races. I wanted to be able to take Freeport, get a group of PCs and enough strength to take out the Freeport guards and other NPCs.
Was never going to happen.
DAoC had the territory system and that was good, though organising 100s of people to do a raid was always a bit random.
Dynamic systems are a tricky business though. Keeping the balance right is an obvious challenge.
Eventually it will work out, all the MMO people know it. It's just a matter of time.
I was in hospital one time after an operation and I was on a self administered morhine drip. But it would only give 1mg every 2 minutes (or whatever is the appropriate dose). But the machine also logs how many times you press the button so the staff can see how much pain you think you're in.
So I wouldn't have to count, I pressed the button every time the track changed on my mp3 player. Best hospital visit evar!!!1
I was lying there one time, opened my eyes and the Everquest HUD was there. In the chat window I was being spammed with :
You need to go to the toilet. You need to go to the toilet. You need to go to the toilet. You need to go to the toilet.
Eventually I went and everybody who spoke on the journey, their chat came up in the window.
It was ace.
When they checked the machine they asked me if I was in a lot of pain, I ust said "no I like the morphine" and we all had a laugh. Until they took it off me.
Then they gave me these awful morphine based tablets and they gave me a bad trip so I stopped taking them.
The masses don't care about the philosophical ramifications of open vs. proprietary software and frankly I think the FOSS community puts too much emphasis on it....
In either case I think you've grossly over generalized a lot of people.
lol, pot kettle
> I'm stuck hacking away at a bash prompt for a very large chunk of my day five days a week trying to deploy servers while maintaining other servers.
I have hardware that doesn't work in Windows but works in other OSes, so what ?
Most users never install Windows either.
I challenge you to get a novice to install Windows and have the network working, a non US keyboard set, a non US input locale, and VGA running at 1600x1200 without help.
If they manage that, give them a nForce motherboarded PC and no driver CD.
Slashdot Mirror
you assume that someone who believes in liberty believes in borders
kernel
don't know why it's so hard to spell !
In EQ1 I was disappointed that the war of Evil vs Good races never went anywhere. The backstory told of an attack on Freeport by the Evil races. I wanted to be able to take Freeport, get a group of PCs and enough strength to take out the Freeport guards and other NPCs.
Was never going to happen.
DAoC had the territory system and that was good, though organising 100s of people to do a raid was always a bit random.
Dynamic systems are a tricky business though. Keeping the balance right is an obvious challenge.
Eventually it will work out, all the MMO people know it. It's just a matter of time.
I read that 2 minutes was the point at which cutting an engine saves fuel.
Trying to find a link for that is a tad tricky.
Go on, calculate how much fibre optic cable you need to delay a photon by 1 day.
lets do some wild calculations :
The speed of light = 299,792,458 m / s
One Day : 86,400 seconds
So to delay 1 photon by 1 day would take a path :
25,902,068,371,200 m long
Fibre optic cable :
$0.01 per metre
So your 1 day 1 photon time machine is going to cost at least :
$ 259,020,683,712
I don't know what it's data rate would be but at $3bn per day you're going to need some pretty worthwhile events to pass the information on.
How much notice would you need for something like Katrina (which was predicted anyway!).
MySQL outdoing Oracle, HAHAHAHAHAH roll me another one!!
The BBC Microcomputer
Instead of one of those C-64 children's toys.
I had a Slackware CD Rom in the days before bootable CD Roms.
I had to copy it on to 22 floppies before I could install it.
Happy times
bah, what did you tell me that for, now everyone will wonder why I'm distilling my urine !!
DMT rules
It was outlawed to protect the US paper industry. THC was an excuse.
see http://www.nemeton.com/axis-mutatis/hemp.html
and plenty of other sources
Mind you, not that I was there in 1937 to witness it but it sounds true.
'cos morphine rules !!
I was in hospital one time after an operation and I was on a self administered morhine drip. But it would only give 1mg every 2 minutes (or whatever is the appropriate dose). But the machine also logs how many times you press the button so the staff can see how much pain you think you're in.
So I wouldn't have to count, I pressed the button every time the track changed on my mp3 player. Best hospital visit evar!!!1
I was lying there one time, opened my eyes and the Everquest HUD was there. In the chat window I was being spammed with :
You need to go to the toilet.
You need to go to the toilet.
You need to go to the toilet.
You need to go to the toilet.
Eventually I went and everybody who spoke on the journey, their chat came up in the window.
It was ace.
When they checked the machine they asked me if I was in a lot of pain, I ust said "no I like the morphine" and we all had a laugh. Until they took it off me.
Then they gave me these awful morphine based tablets and they gave me a bad trip so I stopped taking them.
So now Linus is Time Magazine hero, just like Finland's friend good old Adolf.
Or pehaps Linus is one of the Soviet war babies !!
lol
lol, I've never understood why people get wound up about you, I like your contribution.
Reminds me of my friends being accused of being Quake BOTs all the time just because they're good.
Marketing : can't we make it fit in with otu hi-fi range and make it stackable.
Engineer : It overheats when you stack it, better make it unstackable.
They don't need to send you an e-card, just cop some malware.
We get spam sent to the email address we only use in the Errors-To field of our email notifications !
> validate the form that the referrer is from within the site itself - all others should be banned for the session/future use
as well as any organisations that strip referrer headers at the proxy / packet filter
> What if I were to say some random FORTRAN line and then tell you that that line makes FORTRAN better than say C#.
If I was bothered, I would go look it up before bitching.
If you know little about the subject under discussion, then what is your opinion worth ?
:)
You've also demonstrated Windows users lack of information finding skills
> I don't really see any tangible part of Linux that Windows can't preform adequately well.
/mnt/mountpoint
try :
mount -t FSTYPE file
where FSTYPe is one of
adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent, cramfs, debugfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, ncpfs, nfs, nfs4, proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs, umsdos, usbfs, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs.
Him pa ellenrof andswarode!
"manufacturers have no choice but to accede"
er, no
The masses don't care about the philosophical ramifications of open vs. proprietary software and frankly I think the FOSS community puts too much emphasis on it. ...
In either case I think you've grossly over generalized a lot of people.
lol, pot kettle
> I'm stuck hacking away at a bash prompt for a very large chunk of my day five days a week trying to deploy servers while maintaining other servers.
Time to get a better OS
I have hardware that doesn't work in Windows but works in other OSes, so what ?
Most users never install Windows either.
I challenge you to get a novice to install Windows and have the network working, a non US keyboard set, a non US input locale, and VGA running at 1600x1200 without help.
If they manage that, give them a nForce motherboarded PC and no driver CD.
> I can't think of a single user who has used it for email purposes.
O h1KOR4J+V4MOB7MteANfty
Alow me to introduce myself. I am a user that sends gifs as part of HTML email.
Nice to meet you.
Except you can't see my mesage!
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID:
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