The first was in the Spider-Man and Fantastic Four 'graphical text adventure' games for the C64. Spider-Man was in a building, and pretty much a different villan in each room. Never could figure out what to do, other than ripping open the elevator, and going out a window. The Fantastic Four game started out with the Thing in a tar pit; eventually he'd drown. No idea what one was supposed to do.
The other was Quest For Glory 4: Shaodows of Darkness for the PC, original issue on floppy disks. Oops, there was a scripting bug that simply stopped the game dead in it's tracks; a required event simply would not fire. Of course, at the time, no Internet, and not wanting to dial into a BBS somewhere in the states, I never knew this.
It needs to be human readable to prevent the machine saying 'You voted for Candidate 1!' while the ballot actually claims you voted for Candidate 2. The voter needs to be able to verify that the ballot says what they want it to say.
This is the problem with electronics; at some point, you're trusting a machine, programmed by somebody else, to give a truthful rendition. With marked paper ballots, you can confirm that you marked the correct spot, or that the correct spot is marked by the printer, and you have three-plus people, when counting, all confirming that the ballot says that something.
The official ballot needs to be delivered to your hands, so you can inspect it, and visually confirm that it says you voted for whom you voted. You then take that, fold it, and, by hand, drop it into the lockbox, while being witnessed by any party members who are there for that purpose, as well as an elections board rep.
Then, while the electronic tallys are used for quick reporting, the official count is done by hand, of the ballots, again, by an election board rep being witnessed by party reps.
This isn't rocket science, and other countries manage to do it just fine.
Harmonix, I have one request - include a 'karaoke' mode where one can a) have the lyrics scroll by, karaoke style, and b) turn off the vocal track for the song.
I stopped playing Fallout Tactics when I realized that my team couldn't get over a three foot high pile of sandbags at the base of some stairs because the level designers willed it. I tried jumping, moving, knifeing to let the sand out, TNT to blow the damn things up, then I realized that, no, it's not a puzzle, it's just a stupid barrier, and the designers want you to go all the way around the GD map to get to the roof of that building.
Say your character walks up to an iron pole. You, with your trusty wiimote, take a big swing. Good old fashioned straight horizontal right to left cut, shoulder level. Think baseball swing.
Your wiimote, of course, will wind up somewhere to the left of you. Your character, however, will have his sword back to his right, as it will have bounced off of the pole.
How to reconcile the fact that your wiimote's phyical position no longer corresponds to the virtual sword's position?
Run it using scheduler, rather than at boot and sleeping, have it report a unique ID, and have it take action if the response it gets back from the server says 'hey, you've been stolen!' like resetting passwords, encrypting the drive, setting the hard drive to not be bootable, changing the Windows splash screen to 'help help I've been stolen!' and so on, will at least deny the computer to the enemy.
That, and, of course, if you're renting equipment out, you're getting a signed statement saying that equipment not returned after X days will be charged, at full replacement cost, to the below credit card number, with, of course, the deposit being forfeit, yes?:-)
Not 'a SQL Server,' but Microsoft SQL Server. Like it or not, that small business is likely going to be using various softwares, such as CRM packages, that play really nicely with SQL Server and Exchange.
Our setup is not great on redundancy... but we can afford a couple of days of downtime (we had to, once or twice over the years) more than we can afford doubling our setup. Our services are used by a small number of employees (six, actually) and none are critical.
And this is the point.
The question that management needs to answer is "Ok, lets test this. If I go unplug the One True server, right now, and leave it unplugged till end of business day, how will that impact our business?"
Or, it means that they're giving a bit more priority to their workstation market, and acknowledging that some people use graphics cards for things other than games.
Yup, as detailed in, as I recall, two published adventures and a novel. And Universal Brotherhood was a sweet suppliment.
I actually have a ton of first and second ed Shadowrun splatbooks, adventures and novels (as well as about thirty or so other RPG series) that I'm slowly selling off; if anybody wants something, email me and we'll see if I have it.
Yes, they are. Then, go read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, in that order. Then you can think about reading Gibson's Virtual Light/Idoru/All Tomorrow's Parties/I think there's one in there I'm forgetting.
Note that the Sega Genesis contained a Z80 chip for the purposes of a) doing sound processing for Genesis games, and b) providing backwards compatibility for Sega Master System games, much like the PS2 contains a PS1-onna-chip. You required a physical adaptor to take the Master System carts/cards, but it did nothing but the physical conversion.
May have been 'born' in 1995, but remember that redbook audio CD was 'born' in the late 70's; wasn't widely adopted for quite a while.
Matrix was one of the first real blockbuster movies, released 'day and date' with the VHS version, and specifically designed to really showcase what DVDs could do.
Remember also that up until around '98/'99, we were still waging the battle against Circuit City's DivX format of pay-per-view discs.
1999 really was about when the format started to take off in a serious way. This was back when there were still complaints about day-and-date releases, knowledgeable insiders pointing out that there were warehouses full of Men In Black DVDs, and people were importing the laserdisc for The Phantom Menace from Japan, as Star Wars wasn't going to be released on DVD.
Say you've got Jimmy the Weasel. Jimmy agreed to turn informant.
Somebody notices that sometimes they tell something to Jimmy, and it gets to the wrong ears. Then they see a picture of two undercover cops, and hey, that's the guy that Jimmy was hanging around with a lot last year. Click.
Or, you know they're undercover cops in New York, now you have a picture, now you can start looking for their precinct. Then you can find out where they live. They you can follow the kids to school.
Publishing the photo just for the sake of publishing it is, in my most humble view, distressingly cavalier and dangerous.
Or, you walk in to buy the stuff to make supper, and gee, there's meals to go, and do you really want to go to the effort of preparing, cooking, cleaning?
In other words, change ONE standard lightbulb to a compact flourescent, and you're ahead of the game. Change ALL the lights in your house, and not only are you substantially ahead of the game, but you're probably going to lower your cooling costs ever so slightly.
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Brannan (probably SIC) and Braga.
Ten points!
I have two vivid memories of things like this.
The first was in the Spider-Man and Fantastic Four 'graphical text adventure' games for the C64. Spider-Man was in a building, and pretty much a different villan in each room. Never could figure out what to do, other than ripping open the elevator, and going out a window. The Fantastic Four game started out with the Thing in a tar pit; eventually he'd drown. No idea what one was supposed to do.
The other was Quest For Glory 4: Shaodows of Darkness for the PC, original issue on floppy disks. Oops, there was a scripting bug that simply stopped the game dead in it's tracks; a required event simply would not fire. Of course, at the time, no Internet, and not wanting to dial into a BBS somewhere in the states, I never knew this.
Konami games, actually, most notably Contra.
Ten points if you can identify 'abacabb' though.
It needs to be human readable to prevent the machine saying 'You voted for Candidate 1!' while the ballot actually claims you voted for Candidate 2. The voter needs to be able to verify that the ballot says what they want it to say.
This is the problem with electronics; at some point, you're trusting a machine, programmed by somebody else, to give a truthful rendition. With marked paper ballots, you can confirm that you marked the correct spot, or that the correct spot is marked by the printer, and you have three-plus people, when counting, all confirming that the ballot says that something.
The official ballot needs to be delivered to your hands, so you can inspect it, and visually confirm that it says you voted for whom you voted. You then take that, fold it, and, by hand, drop it into the lockbox, while being witnessed by any party members who are there for that purpose, as well as an elections board rep.
Then, while the electronic tallys are used for quick reporting, the official count is done by hand, of the ballots, again, by an election board rep being witnessed by party reps.
This isn't rocket science, and other countries manage to do it just fine.
Harmonix, I have one request - include a 'karaoke' mode where one can a) have the lyrics scroll by, karaoke style, and b) turn off the vocal track for the song.
I stopped playing Fallout Tactics when I realized that my team couldn't get over a three foot high pile of sandbags at the base of some stairs because the level designers willed it. I tried jumping, moving, knifeing to let the sand out, TNT to blow the damn things up, then I realized that, no, it's not a puzzle, it's just a stupid barrier, and the designers want you to go all the way around the GD map to get to the roof of that building.
Say your character walks up to an iron pole. You, with your trusty wiimote, take a big swing. Good old fashioned straight horizontal right to left cut, shoulder level. Think baseball swing.
Your wiimote, of course, will wind up somewhere to the left of you. Your character, however, will have his sword back to his right, as it will have bounced off of the pole.
How to reconcile the fact that your wiimote's phyical position no longer corresponds to the virtual sword's position?
Run it using scheduler, rather than at boot and sleeping, have it report a unique ID, and have it take action if the response it gets back from the server says 'hey, you've been stolen!' like resetting passwords, encrypting the drive, setting the hard drive to not be bootable, changing the Windows splash screen to 'help help I've been stolen!' and so on, will at least deny the computer to the enemy.
That, and, of course, if you're renting equipment out, you're getting a signed statement saying that equipment not returned after X days will be charged, at full replacement cost, to the below credit card number, with, of course, the deposit being forfeit, yes? :-)
Hundred and eighty some-odd posts, and no requests for CatS from Zero Wing?
Not 'a SQL Server,' but Microsoft SQL Server. Like it or not, that small business is likely going to be using various softwares, such as CRM packages, that play really nicely with SQL Server and Exchange.
And this is the point.
The question that management needs to answer is "Ok, lets test this. If I go unplug the One True server, right now, and leave it unplugged till end of business day, how will that impact our business?"
abacabb on the Worlds of Honor screen, baby.
Or, it means that they're giving a bit more priority to their workstation market, and acknowledging that some people use graphics cards for things other than games.
Yup, as detailed in, as I recall, two published adventures and a novel. And Universal Brotherhood was a sweet suppliment.
I actually have a ton of first and second ed Shadowrun splatbooks, adventures and novels (as well as about thirty or so other RPG series) that I'm slowly selling off; if anybody wants something, email me and we'll see if I have it.
Yes, they are. Then, go read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, in that order. Then you can think about reading Gibson's Virtual Light/Idoru/All Tomorrow's Parties/I think there's one in there I'm forgetting.
Note that the Sega Genesis contained a Z80 chip for the purposes of a) doing sound processing for Genesis games, and b) providing backwards compatibility for Sega Master System games, much like the PS2 contains a PS1-onna-chip. You required a physical adaptor to take the Master System carts/cards, but it did nothing but the physical conversion.
Don't forget that by that point, playing both blu-ray and HD-DVD will be a standard feature for $150 set top boxes.
May have been 'born' in 1995, but remember that redbook audio CD was 'born' in the late 70's; wasn't widely adopted for quite a while.
Matrix was one of the first real blockbuster movies, released 'day and date' with the VHS version, and specifically designed to really showcase what DVDs could do.
Remember also that up until around '98/'99, we were still waging the battle against Circuit City's DivX format of pay-per-view discs.
1999 really was about when the format started to take off in a serious way. This was back when there were still complaints about day-and-date releases, knowledgeable insiders pointing out that there were warehouses full of Men In Black DVDs, and people were importing the laserdisc for The Phantom Menace from Japan, as Star Wars wasn't going to be released on DVD.
Say you've got Jimmy the Weasel. Jimmy agreed to turn informant.
Somebody notices that sometimes they tell something to Jimmy, and it gets to the wrong ears. Then they see a picture of two undercover cops, and hey, that's the guy that Jimmy was hanging around with a lot last year. Click.
Or, you know they're undercover cops in New York, now you have a picture, now you can start looking for their precinct. Then you can find out where they live. They you can follow the kids to school.
Publishing the photo just for the sake of publishing it is, in my most humble view, distressingly cavalier and dangerous.
Or, you walk in to buy the stuff to make supper, and gee, there's meals to go, and do you really want to go to the effort of preparing, cooking, cleaning?
Lion did the rock theme song for the animated Transformers movie back in the 80s.
Something evil's watching over you....
I'm curious; what are you thoughts on what should be done instead?
You capture a terrorist who you know has information that you need. What do you do with said captive?
In other words, change ONE standard lightbulb to a compact flourescent, and you're ahead of the game. Change ALL the lights in your house, and not only are you substantially ahead of the game, but you're probably going to lower your cooling costs ever so slightly.