I disagree about this. The sudden appearance of a purple L or h (only noobs die to D and &:p) is a bigger shock for me than anything in more modern games, probably because the stakes are higher in nethack, what with the permanent death and all.
I also think it's somewhat unfair to compare a roguelike to an FPS since the FPS has the additional element of "I have to figure out what to do in the next 0.5 seconds or I die".
This is wrong. I'm about as hard core as they come piracy wise; as long as I've known about the internet I've pirated all my movies and TV shows as a matter of principle.
Recently, a friend suggested I watch babylon 5, so I started watching them on Hulu for some reason. Hulu only has up to season 2, and when I finished watching that, all of a sudden it seemed like a huge fucking hassle to have to torrent them. The difference in convenience between click->watch in 30 seconds (after the 1st hulu ad) and click->watch in 15 minutes (after the torrent finishes) cannot be overstated.
Not to mention, anyone under 30 should easily be ADD enough to tab over to slashdot and read 2 stories in the time it takes a 15-second hulu ad to play.
>Anything Microsoft = bloat, crashes, unsecure. Get out of the 90's. 95 = bloat, crashes, unsecure 98 = bloat, crashes, unsecure ME = bloat, crashes, unsecure NT/2k = good XP = somewhat bloat but mostly good Vista = bloat, crashes, unsecure
To me it looks more like the norm for Microsoft is bloat, crashes, unsecure, and occasionally they get it right on a fluke. I'll wait a year or so after 7 is officially released to think about evaluating it.
Feel free to intercept my DNS requests when you can guarantee that your DNS server will always be 100% up-to-the-minute correct and will have 0.000000% downtime. Until then, no.
Agreed Xilinx software is pretty quirky and buggy. All I want is support for spaces in filenames/paths! Is that so much to ask? IS IT?!?
That said, things have come a long way since I was in school and it's not nearly as disorganized/crashy as it was back then.
Space Vulture... I believe I've read that one.
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That's the one about the gang of motorcycle enthusiasts who ride around killing mine workers with their bike-mounted concussion grenade launchers, right?
Maybe I'm thinking of something else...
Have you tried 9? The "FF6 is awesome everything after is dog feces" crowd usually likes that one. I give you My Permission to pirate it or buy it used so as not to support Square/Enix.
That sounds a little better, but I still have to listen to the whole message at least once to figure out what's in there. Someone should make an iphone app that is exactly like visual voicemail, but also displays a text-to-speech version of the voicemail while you're playing it back. Preferably you would also be able to set it for "text only" mode or "text first, play audio if I tell you to" mode. That I could tolerate.
Pfft, Monster may be fine for your amateur dog-and-pony-show setup, but I only use paper speakers made from old growth redwood pulp. It gives the sound an indescribable "warm feeling" that I just don't get from any other paper speakers.
GP wasn't suggesting that we credit God, he was attempting to draw similarity between those who would credit God and those who use "Quantum Mechanics Did It" as an explanation for things they don't understand, thereby implying "quantum mechanics is the new God", at least to people who don't really understand the theory.
You can't address the privacy concerns of SAAS with encryption. Google has to be able to see the plaintext of a document for me to be able to edit that document in Google Docs. The only way you could get around it would be for the entirety of the editing to happen in my browser via javascript or similar, and at that point Google Docs becomes indistinguishable from a program running on my machine except that it now comes with some storage space on Google's servers.
Holding previous administrations legally responsible for their actions would cause productivity problems if the work you're trying to get done is "undermine the constitution". As applied to the president and his administration, I'm a big fan of "if you've got nothing to fear, you've got nothing to hide".
The script allows you to copy the Kindle's internal 10-digit ID number. The ID number is copyrighted (I assume) and the Kindle does not allow it to be viewed or copied by the user. The script allows you to make a copy of copyrighted information that is protected by an effective technological measure. How does the DMCA not apply?
(Not defending Amazon, just pointing out logical holes...)
Scientology traditionally liked to keep the details of its backstory secret from the public, so an action that causes increased exposure of the word "xenu" can be considered anti-scientology.
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I disagree about this. The sudden appearance of a purple L or h (only noobs die to D and & :p) is a bigger shock for me than anything in more modern games, probably because the stakes are higher in nethack, what with the permanent death and all.
I also think it's somewhat unfair to compare a roguelike to an FPS since the FPS has the additional element of "I have to figure out what to do in the next 0.5 seconds or I die".
Petitioning to add "-1, Fight Club" to moderation options.
This is wrong. I'm about as hard core as they come piracy wise; as long as I've known about the internet I've pirated all my movies and TV shows as a matter of principle.
Recently, a friend suggested I watch babylon 5, so I started watching them on Hulu for some reason. Hulu only has up to season 2, and when I finished watching that, all of a sudden it seemed like a huge fucking hassle to have to torrent them. The difference in convenience between click->watch in 30 seconds (after the 1st hulu ad) and click->watch in 15 minutes (after the torrent finishes) cannot be overstated.
Not to mention, anyone under 30 should easily be ADD enough to tab over to slashdot and read 2 stories in the time it takes a 15-second hulu ad to play.
>Anything Microsoft = bloat, crashes, unsecure. Get out of the 90's.
95 = bloat, crashes, unsecure
98 = bloat, crashes, unsecure
ME = bloat, crashes, unsecure
NT/2k = good
XP = somewhat bloat but mostly good
Vista = bloat, crashes, unsecure
To me it looks more like the norm for Microsoft is bloat, crashes, unsecure, and occasionally they get it right on a fluke. I'll wait a year or so after 7 is officially released to think about evaluating it.
so by "sophisticated translation of body physics into in-game movement" I assume they mean "wave your left arm to jump, wave your right arm to shoot!"
Feel free to intercept my DNS requests when you can guarantee that your DNS server will always be 100% up-to-the-minute correct and will have 0.000000% downtime. Until then, no.
Agreed Xilinx software is pretty quirky and buggy. All I want is support for spaces in filenames/paths! Is that so much to ask? IS IT?!? That said, things have come a long way since I was in school and it's not nearly as disorganized/crashy as it was back then.
That's the one about the gang of motorcycle enthusiasts who ride around killing mine workers with their bike-mounted concussion grenade launchers, right? Maybe I'm thinking of something else...
Have you tried 9? The "FF6 is awesome everything after is dog feces" crowd usually likes that one. I give you My Permission to pirate it or buy it used so as not to support Square/Enix.
That sounds a little better, but I still have to listen to the whole message at least once to figure out what's in there. Someone should make an iphone app that is exactly like visual voicemail, but also displays a text-to-speech version of the voicemail while you're playing it back. Preferably you would also be able to set it for "text only" mode or "text first, play audio if I tell you to" mode. That I could tolerate.
More publicity = less chance of getting in... Let's try to keep this just between us, ok guys?
Is is just me or does the very existence of the department of "culture, media, and sport" indicate a government gone off track?
I figure it'll take them about, say, 2.5 years more to get it going? Yeah, that sounds about right...
Pfft, Monster may be fine for your amateur dog-and-pony-show setup, but I only use paper speakers made from old growth redwood pulp. It gives the sound an indescribable "warm feeling" that I just don't get from any other paper speakers.
GP wasn't suggesting that we credit God, he was attempting to draw similarity between those who would credit God and those who use "Quantum Mechanics Did It" as an explanation for things they don't understand, thereby implying "quantum mechanics is the new God", at least to people who don't really understand the theory.
You can't address the privacy concerns of SAAS with encryption. Google has to be able to see the plaintext of a document for me to be able to edit that document in Google Docs. The only way you could get around it would be for the entirety of the editing to happen in my browser via javascript or similar, and at that point Google Docs becomes indistinguishable from a program running on my machine except that it now comes with some storage space on Google's servers.
I object, this device is clearly not made "entirely from bacon." >:(
Holding previous administrations legally responsible for their actions would cause productivity problems if the work you're trying to get done is "undermine the constitution". As applied to the president and his administration, I'm a big fan of "if you've got nothing to fear, you've got nothing to hide".
That's such a shame. We could have learned a lot from a civilization advanced enough to build a super collider the size of a Hadron.
The script allows you to copy the Kindle's internal 10-digit ID number. The ID number is copyrighted (I assume) and the Kindle does not allow it to be viewed or copied by the user. The script allows you to make a copy of copyrighted information that is protected by an effective technological measure. How does the DMCA not apply? (Not defending Amazon, just pointing out logical holes...)
You take things too seriously. People like you ruin everything good.
Scientology traditionally liked to keep the details of its backstory secret from the public, so an action that causes increased exposure of the word "xenu" can be considered anti-scientology.
If you can't play a profitable game of blackjack while also watching the pole dancer in the middle of the table, you need more practice.
This post has basic accessibility issues. WTF happened to your apostrophes and quotes?
Insert mode is new in vim? How did you type new text in vi? Did you have to move the cursor and 'r'eplace each blank space with the desired character?