The gameplay is very similar to the OS/2 version, in that you still colonize planets, and fight pretty much the same people. The combat system is still pretty much the same, as well.
The diplomacy system is completely redone, and you can make any offer at any time, instead of going through a list of predefined offers. In addition, you also fight to control galactic resources, which provide bonuses to your entire civilization.
Of course, the tech tree, ships and planetary improvements are changed somewhat.
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Enjoy your 12 bucks. Seriously, that's how much I got for mine. Not even enough for one game. Guess that's the price you pay for backward compatability; the market gets flooded with the older system.
Wow, that's great. Slack has the same thing, and you can do it with just your PC. So, I don't see that as making a huge difference, especially since a dreamcast (out of the box) lacks stuff like a keyboard, and a hard drive, a mouse, etc.
I'm all for making the browser more standards-compliant, but 'fastest browser on earth' is a completely useless claim.
In fact, the claim may be entirely counter-productive. The average user isn't really going to understand that the network is the bottleneck, anyway. So, when they hear the claim "fastest browser on earth," they'll probably have the expectation that Opera will turn their crappy 56K line into a faster line, and that they'll get faster downloads somehow.
So, when it takes just as long to download the pages that they want to view, they'll think that the Opera people are a bunch of lying bastards and go back to IE or whatever it is that AOL comes with.
The work may eventually give sound a bigger role in computing.
Sound already has an important role in computing: drowning out office noise. I'd hate to stop the flow of music as I program and let in office noise, and then still try to pick out sounds from the debugger. Especially when the people in nearby cubes insist on playing god-awful pop.
You can spend days or weeks playing a single character.
However, if you're planning on playing on a laptop (which I guess the guy would be doing, since it IS on a plane), I would strongly suggest that you get an external keyboard or keypad.
Ten pages wouldn't do it. Would you drop another seven bucks for ten pages? Uh uh. What people would do then is read the book, then go over to the bookstore and read the last ten pages there. It only takes a couple of minutes, and looks like ordinary browsing. Also, for a lot of books, the last ten pages if past the most exciting part, and are just there to say that everything turned out A-OK.
Huge negative results, right? Britney is probably something that every college kid in a dorm has pirated by now, so no one would even bother. They're probably not aware of what they're doing when they download stuff off a P2P system. It's probably better to start fresh this way, with an artist that no one has pirated yet, and see what happens.
You know, a lot of people don't make special trips to go to the video store. On my way home from work, I pass by 3 or 4 video stores, any of which I could drop by really quickly to get a movie. That whole distance is pretty insignificant, especially when you consider that many video stores are right next to grocery stores, meaning that you can get groceries AND videos at the same time. That further reduces the amount of fuel spent exclusively for a DVD.
Go down to the bargain bin at your local BestBuy/Software Etc/whatever and look at the software they have there. Those are in standard jewel cases, yet they probably don't play music on your cd player. So, people probably won't see the shape and think "Great! A music CD!"
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The University has already disclaimed any liability for the content of the site, and has specifically said that it does not endorse any views. This seems to be a pretty fair indicator that the University is not censoring ITSELF, since these were not the official viewpoints of the university.
Actually, this is brilliant. I think that what is happening here is an attempt to bring down the page through the power of an effect that not even this guy (or the timecube guy) can comprehend... the Slashdot Effect!
Slashdot Mirror
The gameplay is very similar to the OS/2 version, in that you still colonize planets, and fight pretty much the same people. The combat system is still pretty much the same, as well.
The diplomacy system is completely redone, and you can make any offer at any time, instead of going through a list of predefined offers. In addition, you also fight to control galactic resources, which provide bonuses to your entire civilization.
Of course, the tech tree, ships and planetary improvements are changed somewhat.
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http://www.nintendo.com/systems/gcn/gbpla
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What did I miss?
Enjoy your 12 bucks. Seriously, that's how much I got for mine. Not even enough for one game. Guess that's the price you pay for backward compatability; the market gets flooded with the older system.
Yeah, it also works if you turn off all javascript, instead of just using popup suppression.
These guys don't know what they're doing at all.
Watch "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams" sometime. Then you'll understand.
personal hygiene takes a back seat and even Counter Strike and Warcraft III become unappealling
If counterstrike and warcraft are what you do for fun, somehow I doubt that personal hygeine is an issue. Or friends, for that matter.
Maybe whoever submitted this didn't have anti-aliased fonts.
installation = insert CD and turn on
Wow, that's great. Slack has the same thing, and you can do it with just your PC. So, I don't see that as making a huge difference, especially since a dreamcast (out of the box) lacks stuff like a keyboard, and a hard drive, a mouse, etc.
I'm all for making the browser more standards-compliant, but 'fastest browser on earth' is a completely useless claim.
In fact, the claim may be entirely counter-productive. The average user isn't really going to understand that the network is the bottleneck, anyway. So, when they hear the claim "fastest browser on earth," they'll probably have the expectation that Opera will turn their crappy 56K line into a faster line, and that they'll get faster downloads somehow.
So, when it takes just as long to download the pages that they want to view, they'll think that the Opera people are a bunch of lying bastards and go back to IE or whatever it is that AOL comes with.
The work may eventually give sound a bigger role in computing.
Sound already has an important role in computing: drowning out office noise. I'd hate to stop the flow of music as I program and let in office noise, and then still try to pick out sounds from the debugger. Especially when the people in nearby cubes insist on playing god-awful pop.
The official site is http://thangorodrim.angband.org
You can spend days or weeks playing a single character.
However, if you're planning on playing on a laptop (which I guess the guy would be doing, since it IS on a plane), I would strongly suggest that you get an external keyboard or keypad.
Ten pages wouldn't do it. Would you drop another seven bucks for ten pages? Uh uh. What people would do then is read the book, then go over to the bookstore and read the last ten pages there. It only takes a couple of minutes, and looks like ordinary browsing. Also, for a lot of books, the last ten pages if past the most exciting part, and are just there to say that everything turned out A-OK.
Yeah, that's what I thought too, until I discoveded Plucker.
Huge negative results, right? Britney is probably something that every college kid in a dorm has pirated by now, so no one would even bother. They're probably not aware of what they're doing when they download stuff off a P2P system. It's probably better to start fresh this way, with an artist that no one has pirated yet, and see what happens.
And to think, the FSF had already said as much previously:m l
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/bsd.ht
Looks like someone needs to go back and review their own pages.
Wow, that's nice.
And it's short enough to be a sig. Hmm....
No, it's brilliant. Now, they'll know exactly who's recording their shows! And when they find out...
Oh and, say... Ogg Vorbis is any better?
Huh? You mean running around as in motion? No way they'd try that.
You know, a lot of people don't make special trips to go to the video store. On my way home from work, I pass by 3 or 4 video stores, any of which I could drop by really quickly to get a movie. That whole distance is pretty insignificant, especially when you consider that many video stores are right next to grocery stores, meaning that you can get groceries AND videos at the same time. That further reduces the amount of fuel spent exclusively for a DVD.
You go inside to drop off a movie? I just put it in that little slot outside.
Go down to the bargain bin at your local BestBuy/Software Etc/whatever and look at the software they have there. Those are in standard jewel cases, yet they probably don't play music on your cd player. So, people probably won't see the shape and think "Great! A music CD!"
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The University has already disclaimed any liability for the content of the site, and has specifically said that it does not endorse any views. This seems to be a pretty fair indicator that the University is not censoring ITSELF, since these were not the official viewpoints of the university.
Actually, this is brilliant. I think that what is happening here is an attempt to bring down the page through the power of an effect that not even this guy (or the timecube guy) can comprehend... the Slashdot Effect!