This seems to be a case where a modern Paul Revere might use telecommunication equipment instead of those old smelly oil burning lamps. A text messaging enabled cell phone might do the trick, AND he could convert the message to base 2.
int british_check(Redcoat& rc) { if (rc::land.by())
return 0; else if (rc::sea.by())
return 1; }
Each of the three films in THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES - THE COMPLETE DVD MOVIE COLLECTION was painstakingly restored by Lowry Digital Images - the film industry's most noted preservationists - whose work has included such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sunset Boulevard.
Here is a related David Brin article [salon.com] from a few years ago, though it doesn't seem that this is the one you're referencing. -
"Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists
Here is another instance of science fiction predicting the future. In Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" there was a stereo-tank (it's been a while, I can't remember if this is exactly what it was called) that has an uncanny resemblance to the device described in this article.
Now if only everyone would join a polygamist marriage and stop wearing so much clothing.
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"I can cast any of these, right? On the list?"
"Yes, a..any of the first level ones"
"I wanna cast Magic Missle!"
"Why are you casting magic missle? there's nothing to attack here!"
At the very least, text adventures (or adventures of any sort) are a game of you against the game designer. Yes, sometimes the game designer has not made puzzles that make any sense in the world they are trying to reproduce (as painfully described in the oldmanmarray article). The puzzles are not the reason to play the game though. Text adventures, or interactive fiction (if you're in "the know"), are all about the plot, characters, and story line. Or at least most of the good ones are. I don't think anyone would disagree that this is something lacking from the FPS genre, except in few and far between instances such as half life and system shock 2 (which isn't even a true breed FPS). The only reason for a puzzle in good interactive fiction is to put a break on the player so they can't finish the game in 20 minutes. Of course, the puzzle should be well integrated in the setting and shouldn't be evident at first glace to the player. When the puzzle is solved, it should have been made logical to the player so they can say "that made sense" or even "I wish I would have came up with that puzzle".
Interactive fiction has a learning curve like any other game. You cannot simply sit down at the ">" prompt without any prior knowledge of the command parser or game objectives any more than you can sit down and rocket jump perfectly in quake for the first time.
Most interactive fiction also has the attribute of lacking any violence. This is more than you can say for any FPS that comes to mind.
Single-player FPSes are puzzles that are so intricately molded that you can't tell they are puzzles.
I don't consider deciphering which way the computer opponent will jump next and which volley of weapons it will release a puzzle. It's more of a trial and error and Simon sort of game. This is not to say there are not any puzzles in FPSes though. Sometimes a player is required to go down a previously unexplored hallway, explode some more bad guys, and find the correctly colored key to open the door to the next area. Lot of thought process there.
At any rate, interactive fiction is alive and well today. Not in the commercial sector, surely, but there are many hobbists creating envoloping stories. I highly recommend photopia by Adam Cadre for a first experience interactive fiction title. It can even be played online now! Photopia
Getting on topic now, I think everyone's just greedy. We need a system where everyone is equalized, and which would prohibit anyone from being lower or higher than others. Information will also not have limits on it, and limits would be barred.
I agree with your statement. Our current economic system in western culture endorses greed to the point where it has become an attribute rather than a fault.
People without money make me sick. People who can't afford to feed and shelter their families properly. 3rd world nations where the majority of the population does not have an opertunity to rise above the rest in some sort of darwinian model. What makes me ill is not that these people don't have money, but the fact that there are other people with so much money that they would never know what to do with it. And how did it get this way?
Greed.
I may be preaching and generalizing, but please consider what I've said.
Gopher doesn't clog up your screen with complex and confusing "images." Gopher cuts through all that meaningless drivel and gives you your information crystal clear.
WWW's search engine naming conventions make them difficult to remember? Why is this? There isn't one, that's why! What does "altavista" mean to you? What about "lycos"? Sounds like a cough serum, doesn't it? "Yahoo"? Wie doggie! Gopher is different because most of Gopher's search engine names rely on a standard instead of incomprehensible gibberish. This standard is, of course, the Archie comics from your childhood (or perhaps your second childhood). You've got all your ol' pals Veronica and Jughead ready to surf the Goph and give you some friendly advice on where to go next. Gopher is truly better than the WWW!
There have been stories posted on slashdot before about CD players that will play data CDs with MP3s. This would be completely awesome, but it seems that these products never made it. Is this product ever going to be a reality?
Here is a/. reference. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/16/100223.sht ml
I believe Unreal Tournament has recently also went gold.
IMHO, Unreal is a much cooler game than any version of Quake anyday. Especially the upcoming Tournament which I've been demo playing steadily for the past few weeks.
They bill this device as allowing the user to "Avoid irritating and painful working postures." It seems that it would be just as bad for strain as any other hand controlled device when used for hours at a time.
I'm holding out for retina controlled pointer devices. Or better yet - psychic!
IE is just works and looks so much better than Netscape. It doesn't crash as much, it dithers jpg mostly correctly, it does tables better than Netscape, the "favorites" directory turned out to be a better idea than a huge "bookmark" html documentos (for me anyway - I can see the usefulness of both approaches), java script in Netscape is just great, one word - speed!, and probably a lot of other stuff I'm forgetting.
Now I don't love microsoft anymore than anyone else, but after taking the m$ challenge of secretly switching to IE for a week I was hooked. If Netscape even begins to come close to what IE has now, I'll be the first to download it.
Is the software that I paid my hard earned money for going to be unusable at the turn of the century? Is that fair for me? Come on Microsoft, get that Windows for 286s y2k patch crackin.
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Is this the part where we get to say wiki-wiki-wiki again?
wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki
Shut up!
wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki
One if by land, and two if by sea...
This seems to be a case where a modern Paul Revere might use telecommunication equipment instead of those old smelly oil burning lamps. A text messaging enabled cell phone might do the trick, AND he could convert the message to base 2.
int british_check(Redcoat& rc)
{
if (rc::land.by())
return 0;
else if (rc::sea.by())
return 1;
}
Super green!
simply brilliant.
Here is a related David Brin article [salon.com] from a few years ago, though it doesn't seem that this is the one you're referencing. -
"Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists
You're not going to get very far in nethack if you're trying to play it with one of those quaint N64 controller as the topic picture suggests :)
Question: Do You Have Stairs In Your House?
Space Robot Bonanza
Here is another instance of science fiction predicting the future. In Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" there was a stereo-tank (it's been a while, I can't remember if this is exactly what it was called) that has an uncanny resemblance to the device described in this article.
Now if only everyone would join a polygamist marriage and stop wearing so much clothing.
"I can cast any of these, right? On the list?"
"Yes, a..any of the first level ones"
"I wanna cast Magic Missle!"
"Why are you casting magic missle? there's nothing to attack here!"
"I.. I'm attacking the DARKNESS!"
(insert nerdy laughter)
Interactive fiction has a learning curve like any other game. You cannot simply sit down at the ">" prompt without any prior knowledge of the command parser or game objectives any more than you can sit down and rocket jump perfectly in quake for the first time.
Most interactive fiction also has the attribute of lacking any violence. This is more than you can say for any FPS that comes to mind.
I don't consider deciphering which way the computer opponent will jump next and which volley of weapons it will release a puzzle. It's more of a trial and error and Simon sort of game. This is not to say there are not any puzzles in FPSes though. Sometimes a player is required to go down a previously unexplored hallway, explode some more bad guys, and find the correctly colored key to open the door to the next area. Lot of thought process there.
At any rate, interactive fiction is alive and well today. Not in the commercial sector, surely, but there are many hobbists creating envoloping stories. I highly recommend photopia by Adam Cadre for a first experience interactive fiction title. It can even be played online now! Photopia
These comics contain humor the likes of which the world has not yet seen. "I INSTALLED LUNIX AND FPROTTED THIER TARBALL!!!!!@#"
People without money make me sick. People who can't afford to feed and shelter their families properly. 3rd world nations where the majority of the population does not have an opertunity to rise above the rest in some sort of darwinian model. What makes me ill is not that these people don't have money, but the fact that there are other people with so much money that they would never know what to do with it. And how did it get this way?
Greed.
I may be preaching and generalizing, but please consider what I've said.
Do you have pictures of this? I'd like to see how you handled the drive mounts and power sources.
Gopher is better!
Gopher doesn't clog up your screen with complex and confusing "images." Gopher cuts through all that meaningless drivel and gives you your information crystal clear.
WWW's search engine naming conventions make them difficult to remember? Why is this? There isn't one, that's why! What does "altavista" mean to you? What about "lycos"? Sounds like a cough serum, doesn't it? "Yahoo"? Wie doggie! Gopher is different because most of Gopher's search engine names rely on a standard instead of incomprehensible gibberish. This standard is, of course, the Archie comics from your childhood (or perhaps your second childhood). You've got all your ol' pals Veronica and Jughead ready to surf the Goph and give you some friendly advice on where to go next. Gopher is truly better than the WWW!
God bless Gopher, each and every one!
There have been stories posted on slashdot before about CD players that will play data CDs with MP3s. This would be completely awesome, but it seems that these products never made it. Is this product ever going to be a reality?
/. reference. t ml
Here is a
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/16/100223.sh
I believe Unreal Tournament has recently also went gold.
IMHO, Unreal is a much cooler game than any version of Quake anyday. Especially the upcoming Tournament which I've been demo playing steadily for the past few weeks.
Unreal is the coolest.
They bill this device as allowing the user to "Avoid irritating and painful working postures." It seems that it would be just as bad for strain as any other hand controlled device when used for hours at a time.
I'm holding out for retina controlled pointer devices. Or better yet - psychic!
Microsoft is right again. All right everyone.. time to give up Linux and start using NT since Microsoft has proven that it's so much better.
IE is just works and looks so much better than Netscape. It doesn't crash as much, it dithers jpg mostly correctly, it does tables better than Netscape, the "favorites" directory turned out to be a better idea than a huge "bookmark" html documentos (for me anyway - I can see the usefulness of both approaches), java script in Netscape is just great, one word - speed!, and probably a lot of other stuff I'm forgetting.
Now I don't love microsoft anymore than anyone else, but after taking the m$ challenge of secretly switching to IE for a week I was hooked. If Netscape even begins to come close to what IE has now, I'll be the first to download it.
Come on Netscape!!
Do robotic butlers dream of electric sheep?
Check out the old man. He's about to get a mouthfull of monitor if gravity still applies in this ergonomic world.
Is the software that I paid my hard earned money for going to be unusable at the turn of the century? Is that fair for me? Come on Microsoft, get that Windows for 286s y2k patch crackin.
If you liked this article, you might be interested in BoW.
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For anyone who needs a good laugh check out "AMH"'s hompage at http://www.hallofmirrors.com/
Make sure to check out his latest album in real audio. It's a keeper.