Well, you can only rent movies or stream them from Netflix in the US, but I imagine anyone can open an account, and anyone with a US-based proxy server could still stream video into Europe.
It would be more amusing if it actually were a Chinese server that went down.
The reality is that the PhysicsWorld.com server hosting the article went down.
Interestingly, I've observed the same things with the Police Quest series, specifically Police Quest 2: The Vengeance, an adventure game that used a parser as an interface. I originally had the game on our family's first PC (given to us by my mother's boss some time around '90). I don't know where it came from, but it was on there. As I was four years old when I started playing it, I have to say it was the game that taught me how to use a keyboard, how to read, and how to use deductive reasoning. Some ten years after playing it in monochrome on a who-knows-what system, I found the entire Police Quest collection (Police Quest 1-4 and the PQ: SWAT interactive FMV) at an electronics store, and immediately loaded up PQ2.
The game had two versions, one, the original MS-DOS version with the parser interface, and a VGA version with a point-and-click interface. I ran the VGA version, assuming it would run better under Win95 than the DOS version (turns out it didn't make a difference), and found out the point-and-click remake version of the game was pretty much exactly the same, but with a much more clunky interface (especially since sometimes your character had to walk off the screen and look at an object that wasn't visible to you, the player).
Also, I have found that the parser interface is just more fun - there are a lot of recognized commands that you wouldn't think were recognized commands. I can't count how many commands I tried that weren't necessary to the completion of the game that I discovered to be quite hilarious in their own right.
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Well, you can only rent movies or stream them from Netflix in the US, but I imagine anyone can open an account, and anyone with a US-based proxy server could still stream video into Europe.
It would be more amusing if it actually were a Chinese server that went down. The reality is that the PhysicsWorld.com server hosting the article went down.
Yes, whoosh indeed. Shortly after posting, I realized my fatal mistake.
I love to watch donkey porn but don't tell my mother. That's actually what it says. Hardly steganography.
Interestingly, I've observed the same things with the Police Quest series, specifically Police Quest 2: The Vengeance, an adventure game that used a parser as an interface. I originally had the game on our family's first PC (given to us by my mother's boss some time around '90). I don't know where it came from, but it was on there. As I was four years old when I started playing it, I have to say it was the game that taught me how to use a keyboard, how to read, and how to use deductive reasoning. Some ten years after playing it in monochrome on a who-knows-what system, I found the entire Police Quest collection (Police Quest 1-4 and the PQ: SWAT interactive FMV) at an electronics store, and immediately loaded up PQ2. The game had two versions, one, the original MS-DOS version with the parser interface, and a VGA version with a point-and-click interface. I ran the VGA version, assuming it would run better under Win95 than the DOS version (turns out it didn't make a difference), and found out the point-and-click remake version of the game was pretty much exactly the same, but with a much more clunky interface (especially since sometimes your character had to walk off the screen and look at an object that wasn't visible to you, the player). Also, I have found that the parser interface is just more fun - there are a lot of recognized commands that you wouldn't think were recognized commands. I can't count how many commands I tried that weren't necessary to the completion of the game that I discovered to be quite hilarious in their own right.
There is nothing wrong with Pinko idealism, comrade.
It's okay, I thought I was going to read about a new type of (green) plant made of plasma that literally ate garbage, a la Venus flytrap.