One of the first MMO's, Asheron's Call, has been around since 1999 and is still going today. It is based on a completely unique world and lore that's not used in any other game, book, or movie. IMO it's the best MMO ever made, and I've played a bunch of them. Characters are completely customizable (skill-based ala UO), it has a full hardcore PvP server, and combat is based more on skill than on your level or equipment.
The immense advantage of getting to play in the safe online konsole kiddie sandbox, instead of having to duke it out with real men using real input devices?
Ah, Software Etc.! Absolute best software store I've ever been in, for games or anything else. I bought about 50 million games there, as well as packages like Corel Draw and Visual Studio. They seemed to have at least 1 copy of every game ever made. I was bummed when they went out of business, the Great Northern mall never was the same after that.
Oh dude, that's right, it was the Yeti!!! I either missed the pie or ate it, and even though I had like 93 other things in my inventory that seemed like they could have dealt with the Yeti, too bad. Had to have the pie.
It was also nice how if you had a certain system config, you'd get to the VERY END of KQ V and it would run out of memory, and Sierra wouldn't patch the stupid thing.
KQ V and VI were hardcore adventure games... Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing. Made me want to break my keyboard multiple times.
Every few days I run into whole sections of core Facebook functionality that are just plain broken for hours. Earlier this week, my main page wouldn't load for most of the day. And every couple of weeks I'm greeted with a "Sorry, you can't log in right now." message.
I would not want to write "Hello World" in COBOL. After seeing people on a z/OS mainframe use COBOL and assembly to send XML messages... no thanks. Never.
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One of the first MMO's, Asheron's Call, has been around since 1999 and is still going today. It is based on a completely unique world and lore that's not used in any other game, book, or movie. IMO it's the best MMO ever made, and I've played a bunch of them. Characters are completely customizable (skill-based ala UO), it has a full hardcore PvP server, and combat is based more on skill than on your level or equipment.
The immense advantage of getting to play in the safe online konsole kiddie sandbox, instead of having to duke it out with real men using real input devices?
And you're sarcasm detector is broken.
And you're starting an irreversible reaction which will ultimately result in the longest reply chain in the history of Slashdot.
Careful, you're superior private education is showing.
And YOUR inferior education is showing.
"I love the MEMS gyroscope... it's so bad."
Nope, not as good as a Power Glove.
Man, it's been WAYYY too long since I last saw a Beowulf cluster joke.
I think you were :(
Ah, Software Etc.! Absolute best software store I've ever been in, for games or anything else. I bought about 50 million games there, as well as packages like Corel Draw and Visual Studio. They seemed to have at least 1 copy of every game ever made. I was bummed when they went out of business, the Great Northern mall never was the same after that.
Wow, this is one of the most eloquent replies ever. I'd +5 this if I could.
Oh dude, that's right, it was the Yeti!!! I either missed the pie or ate it, and even though I had like 93 other things in my inventory that seemed like they could have dealt with the Yeti, too bad. Had to have the pie.
It was also nice how if you had a certain system config, you'd get to the VERY END of KQ V and it would run out of memory, and Sierra wouldn't patch the stupid thing.
LOL very true, I probably spent as much time doing that as I did playing some games. LHX Attack Chopper was awful for that.
KQ V and VI were hardcore adventure games... Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing. Made me want to break my keyboard multiple times.
I was shocked to see that this wasn't posted as Anonymous Coward, because it meets ALL of the criteria.
That is a more roundabout way than I would have expected.
Didn't submit a bug report, I never knew they had such a page. They certainly don't display it in a place where it's easily noticed.
Every few days I run into whole sections of core Facebook functionality that are just plain broken for hours. Earlier this week, my main page wouldn't load for most of the day. And every couple of weeks I'm greeted with a "Sorry, you can't log in right now." message.
Ah, but it's much simpler now. They took the '2' out, so it's just JEE.
Java will probably have the most job opportunities, but thats just because most jobs are for internet code monkeys.
I have yet to see a monkey that can write JMS web services in a distributed JEE environment.
Also, please show me how to write a web service in Mathematica.
Anonymous Coward, I'm pretty sure that Mathematica script of yours will not output "42" in its current state.
Sorry, I try to be diligent about these things, but just chose a bad time to leave my mom's basement for a few minutes.
package com.wolfram;
public class Alpha {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("42");
}
}
I would not want to write "Hello World" in COBOL. After seeing people on a z/OS mainframe use COBOL and assembly to send XML messages... no thanks. Never.