So what's next? First up is Wright's current obsession: The Sims Online. "It's an interesting project," he explains, "because I'm discovering that, in many ways, this game is a combination of The Sims and SimCity."
And after he's sucked our lives away with The Sims Online? The Hall-of-Fame designer hints that he's got a brand-new project in development, but he chuckles, "If I talk about that, Maxis and EA are going to kill me."
Way back when I first played SimCity I read the notes in the manual that mentioned their goal was to make a bunch of modular games that could be integrated into a vast sim world.
The technology was not there at the time but it is now.
I would like to see my sim tower (yoot saito) running for each tower in my city. Sim Farm running for each farm in my city. The Sims running for each village/town/house/apartment. Streets of SimCity running for the roads in my city. Sim Safari for the wilderness areas of my city.
Combine internet access with the comupters available today and you have the ultimate platform.
Break out and modularize the components and sell them individually with "SimCity CORE" as the base engine with all other modules either downloadable or seperately purchasable. Make sure SCCORE is a playable game in it's own right.
Release the spec for building modules and watch as the gaming community starts coming up with modules that were never before thought about.
I am pleased to read that this release will alow for multiple cities to interact with each other. I would like to see how that actually turns out.
Nothing bothers me more than seeing the World Trade Center edited out of TV/Movies etc.
In fact, a survey immediately after the disaster foundthat people were renting flicks and watching shows SPECIFICLY TO SEE that landmark that had been a monument to US construction and capitalism.
They were looking for validity that, Yes, it really did exist and it really was that huge and that this really was a sick event that should never ever be allowed to happen again.
Instead we have over zealous network execs removing these images because they might "offend" people.
I am offended at this censorship.
I have been working on a SC3K NYC with the WTC and look forward to continuing with SC4K
Context: We want your cities to look like they are actually somewhere -- that they have arisen in their own special circumstances. And so we've provided some really cool tools for shaping your terrains, complete with an impressive assortment of environmental effects, including fog and even nighttime. Even more, your city is now only one part of a much larger region of cities. You can play several cities together -- sharing resources and spreading growth -- and create a sprawling megalopolis! This means so much more game-play that I can't wait to see what you all do with this feature!
So since a liter is a measure of volume and does not take into account pressure or temperature, it is a poor choice of a measurement unit for this discussion.
This is an artistic work. It has effects all over the place. I can film whatever public place I want and change it however I want in my own artistic work. -I hope. Someone please tell me I am correct in this belief.
Reading through his ordeal (up until he stopped updating it) I really wich people would look more closely.
Just like the federal income tax is supposed to be voluntary, AND that it was implimented to pay for the Civil War, many things that people think are requirements really are not so.
Just because office workers are using windows does not make it a requirement.
Here is a legal use of liksang products. to create on a blank cartridge a Linux Distro. to boot that distro in my kids Game Boy Advance. And try to port TuxRacer to it.
However, some fool has decided that is an item can be used to break a law that item is illegal.
When can I buy liksang items here in the USA ?!?!?!
If I purchace any item I should be able to do whatever I want to it. Including and not limited to: modification destruction reverse-engineer to make myown. transferral to another party via resale or gift
However, what I cannot do is make cloned copies and re-distribute them as the original.
If I go to the store and purchace the latest Stephen King novel and then read it, It is completely within my right to resell that book.
I do not own the copyrighted work, the text of the work. I own the materials that make up this specific copy of the work. This gives me the right to do whatever I want with my copy of the work. I can paint all the pages blue and stick feathers on the covers. I can then sell my Stephen King case-mod.
I can even try to sell it at a price greater than my purchace price. It is my copy. I can redistribute my copy!!!
I can buy 100 copies of the book. Do the same mods as well as number them. I now sell them as a limited set.
This all should be well within my right as I am taking materials that I legally aquired and combining them. I am not, however, making "copies" of the work.
I can even sit down and try to write my own stephen king type story. (I suck. I cannot write anything near SK)
I cannot try to redistribute my cloned King as the real thing (aside from the fact that it would suck and noone would believe it was him anyway)
People are choosing to use Napster and other data sharing software to redistribute their own unmodified "copies" of the original work.
This is where the law is being broken.
I can make as many copies as I want for my own personal use. I can do whatever the heck I want with my copies. I can NOT, however, redistribute those personal copies unless they ALL go with the original.
I can make a photocopy of parts of a StephenKing book to take with me on vacation. I do this for MY PERSONAL USE. Not to redistribute. This should be legal.
I cannot redistribute my own copies without the permission of the copyright holder. Or until the copyright expires.
Lets try another analogy with Beverages. I purchace a case of Beer(tm). I can then do whatever I want with the liquid in the can.
I can modify it - make beer batter shrimp. I can destroy it - pour it over a fire. I can transfer it to someone else -
sell it at a concert for 10x price.
give it away at a party
I cannot make exact duplicates for redistribution. (even if we had cheap materials duplication technology)
However -- I can brew my own beverage that is indistinguishable from the original. As long as I do not attempt to pass it off as the original.
It really should be that simple. If it is not, someone please tell me where I am wrong.
The software can be bought seperately for $14.95 !!! from ther site::
"The Xoxide Tachometer Modificaiton is now availible to anyone with a tachometer lying around. Just supply your own tach, serial cord and power, and using our software you'll be able to have the same quality modification provided by our own tachometer mod. Note that this software will not work on all tachometers, we've had success with most electronic tachometers with a setting for 4 cylinder cars.
Please feel free to contact us for more info. No refunds will be offered in the event that your tachometer is not compatible so please check or ask us.
Product Contents:
Installation CD
Schematics
Free Phone/E-Mail Support Availability: Usually ships the next business day. $14.99
to get a story posted to slashdot. I always wondered how to get my articles actually up there. NExt time I have a story, I will shove it into a stuffed animal and prepare my servers for slashdotting.
So, are there any NewEngland agri-tech employers looking for UNIX Admins? Any non-internet centric companies with a penchant for biological systems and UNIX.
Slashdot Mirror
When asked about his favorite games, Wright's answers reveal his love of simplicity, wide-open experiences, and gameplay. Number one on his list is Go, the ancient boardgame; number two is Sid Meier's Civilization; and number three is the original Legend of Zelda on the NES.
So what's next? First up is Wright's current obsession: The Sims Online. "It's an interesting project," he explains, "because I'm discovering that, in many ways, this game is a combination of The Sims and SimCity."
And after he's sucked our lives away with The Sims Online? The Hall-of-Fame designer hints that he's got a brand-new project in development, but he chuckles, "If I talk about that, Maxis and EA are going to kill me."
Way back when I first played SimCity I read the notes in the manual that mentioned their goal was to make a bunch of modular games that could be integrated into a vast sim world.
The technology was not there at the time but it is now.
I would like to see my sim tower (yoot saito) running for each tower in my city. Sim Farm running for each farm in my city. The Sims running for each village/town/house/apartment. Streets of SimCity running for the roads in my city. Sim Safari for the wilderness areas of my city.
Combine internet access with the comupters available today and you have the ultimate platform.
Break out and modularize the components and sell them individually with "SimCity CORE" as the base engine with all other modules either downloadable or seperately purchasable. Make sure SCCORE is a playable game in it's own right.
Release the spec for building modules and watch as the gaming community starts coming up with modules that were never before thought about.
I am pleased to read that this release will alow for multiple cities to interact with each other. I would like to see how that actually turns out.
Hey, if you are going to dream, dream BIG
Nothing bothers me more than seeing the World Trade Center edited out of TV/Movies etc.
In fact, a survey immediately after the disaster foundthat people were renting flicks and watching shows SPECIFICLY TO SEE that landmark that had been a monument to US construction and capitalism.
They were looking for validity that, Yes, it really did exist and it really was that huge and that this really was a sick event that should never ever be allowed to happen again.
Instead we have over zealous network execs removing these images because they might "offend" people.
I am offended at this censorship.
I have been working on a SC3K NYC with the WTC and look forward to continuing with SC4K
Context: We want your cities to look like they are actually somewhere -- that they have arisen in their own special circumstances. And so we've provided some really cool tools for shaping your terrains, complete with an impressive assortment of environmental effects, including fog and even nighttime. Even more, your city is now only one part of a much larger region of cities. You can play several cities together -- sharing resources and spreading growth -- and create a sprawling megalopolis! This means so much more game-play that I can't wait to see what you all do with this feature!
WooHoo multi-player simcity
So since a liter is a measure of volume and does not take into account pressure or temperature,
it is a poor choice of a measurement unit for this discussion.
Professor Freund said that his team had "tantalizing evidence" that as much as 1,000 litres of hydrogen may be trapped in each cubic metre of rock.
Umm, isn't one liter the amount of water in a cubic decemeter?
would there not be 1000 litre's of water in 1 cubic meter of water?
Can someone explain the difference in volume between a litre of hydrogen and a liter of water?
I do believe that if you shuffle the eletrons enough you can turn any element into another element. - basic molar equations prove this.
However, it takes a lot of energy.
This is an artistic work.
It has effects all over the place.
I can film whatever public place I want and change it however I want in my own artistic work.
-I hope.
Someone please tell me I am correct in this belief.
corporate lawers go to hell.
Reading through his ordeal (up until he stopped updating it) I really wich people would look more closely.
Just like the federal income tax is supposed to be voluntary, AND that it was implimented to pay for the Civil War, many things that people think are requirements really are not so.
Just because office workers are using windows does not make it a requirement.
Does anyone have an iomega hipzip mp3 player? I have heard rumors (from reliable sources) that this player will play ogg vorbis files.
Can someone please test and confirm this?
We will be really strong but we will all only be 5 feet tall.
I am going to have chainsaw arms
BZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I must say that this is the best LAN party mod I have seen in a long long time.
Well done.
-- now, if I could only do that with a Sun E10K
Here is a legal use of liksang products.
to create on a blank cartridge a Linux Distro.
to boot that distro in my kids Game Boy Advance.
And try to port TuxRacer to it.
However, some fool has decided that is an item can be used to break a law that item is illegal.
When can I buy liksang items here in the USA ?!?!?!
he says that they are close to 'being able to discover' earthlike planets. He did not say that they were close to making the actual discovery.
C'mon people. Work on your reading comprehension.
Would this mean that using copyright law to ban napster, thereby acting as a bar to progress, is unconstitutional?
If I purchace any item I should be able to do whatever I want to it. Including and not limited to:
modification
destruction
reverse-engineer to make myown.
transferral to another party via resale or gift
However, what I cannot do is make cloned copies and re-distribute them as the original.
If I go to the store and purchace the latest Stephen King novel and then read it, It is completely within my right to resell that book.
I do not own the copyrighted work, the text of the work. I own the materials that make up this specific copy of the work. This gives me the right to do whatever I want with my copy of the work. I can paint all the pages blue and stick feathers on the covers. I can then sell my Stephen King case-mod.
I can even try to sell it at a price greater than my purchace price. It is my copy. I can redistribute my copy!!!
I can buy 100 copies of the book. Do the same mods as well as number them. I now sell them as a limited set.
This all should be well within my right as I am taking materials that I legally aquired and combining them. I am not, however, making "copies" of the work.
I can even sit down and try to write my own stephen king type story. (I suck. I cannot write anything near SK)
I cannot try to redistribute my cloned King as the real thing (aside from the fact that it would suck and noone would believe it was him anyway)
People are choosing to use Napster and other data sharing software to redistribute their own unmodified "copies" of the original work.
This is where the law is being broken.
I can make as many copies as I want for my own personal use. I can do whatever the heck I want with my copies. I can NOT, however, redistribute those personal copies unless they ALL go with the original.
I can make a photocopy of parts of a StephenKing book to take with me on vacation. I do this for MY PERSONAL USE. Not to redistribute. This should be legal.
I cannot redistribute my own copies without the permission of the copyright holder. Or until the copyright expires.
Lets try another analogy with Beverages.
I purchace a case of Beer(tm).
I can then do whatever I want with the liquid in the can.
I can modify it - make beer batter shrimp.
I can destroy it - pour it over a fire.
I can transfer it to someone else -
sell it at a concert for 10x price.
give it away at a party
I cannot make exact duplicates for redistribution.
(even if we had cheap materials duplication technology)
However --
I can brew my own beverage that is indistinguishable from the original. As long as I do not attempt to pass it off as the original.
It really should be that simple.
If it is not, someone please tell me where I am wrong.
I am looking for sources of various thicknesses of plexi. as thick as 1/4 inch (about 7mm) down to 1/16 inch (about 1.6mm) or smaller
As well as multipurpose fish-safe solvents/glues.
this will be used in a number of projects including case mods and computer-fishtank conversions.
ok microsoft word programmer.
add buckets of features.
add buckets of bugs
add buckets of code
does that make a worthwile employee?
make valuable features.
please the most end users.
resolve the noisiest issues.
that makes a valuable employee.
Why is it that we need to go to Germany to get software to protect our freedom of speech?
What is wrong with this picture?
interviews:
Karl Berry
The software can be bought seperately for $14.95 !!! from ther site::
"The Xoxide Tachometer Modificaiton is now availible to anyone with a tachometer lying around. Just supply your own tach, serial cord and power, and using our software you'll be able to have the same quality modification provided by our own tachometer mod.
Note that this software will not work on all tachometers, we've had success with most electronic tachometers with a setting for 4 cylinder cars.
Please feel free to contact us for more info. No refunds will be offered in the event that your tachometer is not compatible so please check or ask us.
Product Contents:
Installation CD
Schematics
Free Phone/E-Mail Support
Availability: Usually ships the next business day.
$14.99
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See that pile of stuffed animals over there?
that is my Bear-Wolf cluster.
Check this out
I made a quilt full of old ATX boards. it is a Tera-Mr.Floppy SuperComforter.
I expected to see some modifications to a Teddy Ruxpin. Remember those? robotic teddy bears that reacted to the TV show the kids were watching.
how about turning a furby into an IR hub?
just shoving computer parts into a different "chasis" in this case a stuffed animal, is not new.
C'mon people now.
to get a story posted to slashdot. I always wondered how to get my articles actually up there. NExt time I have a story, I will shove it into a stuffed animal and prepare my servers for slashdotting.
Gimme a break already.
What kind of farm? (Dairy, potatoe, server, etc)
what state?
So, are there any NewEngland agri-tech employers looking for UNIX Admins? Any non-internet centric companies with a penchant for biological systems and UNIX.