Ultima V, for the C-64, in 1988 had an "AI" with free-flowing conversation that went slightly better than this even:) You could actually talk with random NPCs fairly naturally. Though you could get away with stuff like "food?" or "inn?" if you really wanted to.
I miss that sort of thing; a few other games had it, too. But as computer games became mainstream they got dumbed down to appeal to the nintendo-playing mouth breathers who started buying PC games. Ultima 5 had it done well. Ultima 6 had the same system, only they highlighted keywords so you didn't have to guess (fortunately you could turn it off). Ultima 7 went the next step and had preformulated responses you made, and every RPG since then has had the same.
I can remember running X-windows on an 8MB 486 machine. I could run LaTeX, several terminals over the same dialup session (mmmm, pr0n over 14.4K slip =), and I had a C environment that just worked. Plus xv, xfig, and a couple of other shineys.
Hell I remember running animated, scrolling wallpaper on a 486 6mb machine. You're right, in those days Linux was incredibly far ahead of anything else available. Windows closed the gap in recent years, though obviously it hasn't caught up.
Now look at the content of the first page of results for "American woman sues", oh look most of them are about American Women or American people suing. For example this gem "Recording 'Ass.' of America Sues Dead Woman". That the kind of thing we see everywhere else in the world.
The first link lists a woman who's suing to get the medical records of the donor who's DNA she was wrongfully inseminated with. She, quite reasonably, wants to find out if her child faces any possible future medical problems.
The second link is a completely made up article. It's parody.
The third article has what I would consider a good reason for a lawsuit.
They rarly happens anywhere else. You have no idea how much fun American lawsuites have given us over the years. Not to mention how utterly stupid it makes both the legal system and the country look. But, an American will never understand this and just yell and scream about something called justice and freedom. 2 words an american really have no idea what encompasses.
Like most people outside the country you live in total ignorance of the American legal system. Do you have a concrete example that gave you such a chuckle? Or do you just rely on your local news? Because while most American newspapers aren't that great, they're far better than the complete and utter trash that 95% of the world has presented to them as "news". So I can guarantee that those stories that you use as such an ego boost just aren't credible.
1. "I werked at Macdonalds for 3 years"
2. "...teh use of a hydrolic jack..."
3. "Resoomay"
Well that's not so bad considering your applicants' backgrounds. Your examples above are a lot less depressing than something like:
1. "I werked at Mt. Sinai Medical Centir as cheif of neurosurgery"
2. "argeud before the supream court"
3. "tought gradute level english classes"
Microsoft has unparalleled influence throughout the Federal government.
Oh puh-lease. There are plenty of companies with that kind of clout; there are plenty with a hell of a lot more. Compared to Halliburton or McDonnell-Douglas or Boeing, Microsoft is strictly amateur hour.
Oh a Harvard degree isn't proof of intelligence or competence, but the fact is Ballmer had a relatively successful career before Gates hired him. Yep, being Gates' buddy got him the job, but if he had never met Billy he'd still probably have ended up in upper management somewhere. And probably not at the local Denny's.
You don't know much about Web design do you? CEOs routinely blow off Mac users when they design banking and e-commerce sites.
Mac users don't have any money, they spent it all buying their macs. And any money they get after that gets blown on gourmet coffee and avant-garde theater.
If there was ever a clear-cut example of someone in over his head, it's Ballmer. If he hadn't been BG's college buddy, he'd be running a Denny's restaurant somewhere.
Yes, because that Harvard BA and Stanford MBA would qualify him only for the service industry.
When they would get older classical type books, the kind noone really wanted to buy used to read, but that have the nice old decorated hardback spine, they would line them in a seperate area for "decorative books". People would buy them by the yard as filler, either to fill their library with impressive looking books, or for theater props or whatever. All they really needed to do was look good filling a shelf.
Likewise Hesse's Siddartha should probably be paired with or replaced with either Demian or Steppenwolf.
Well strongly disagree with you here,I think Siddartha was brilliant and Steppenwolf so-so. Haven't read Demian.
And everything seems to stop around Vineland. No DeLillo, Eugenides, Ellis or Eggers. Its like literature stopped with the post-modern singularity.
That IS kind of weird. I'd assumed it was either a matter of later works being too expensive or impractical to get the rights to, or the editors not being willing to classify newer books as "classics", but the lack of Rushdie makes no sense. sense--Midnight's Children came out earlier than Vineland, and my copy's actually a Penguin book.
If you can't be bothered to figure out for yourself which books you "ought" to read to get a good grasp of western literature, are you going to read the books some people at Amazon think you "ought" to read if they just end up on your shelves?
Actually it's the editors of Penguin Books, not the people at Amazon.com.
I read a lot, and the idea of this is pretty distasteful to me. Sure, you'll get some of the good books, but you'll also get the awful crap that snotty english types swear is "fine literature".
It's a horribly laggy site; obviously a lot of this is probably bandwidth problems, but I'm sure some of it is CPU lag. Also, in terms of size it's growing enormously; look at the recent articles link and you'll see that dozens of new articles are being added a day.
Does being good at chess correlate to anything else? Does chess score indicate IQ? Does chess scores indicate earning power? Anyone have a t-shirt that says "I play chess... Love me before I become rich"?
There is a definite correlation between skill at chess and interest in playing chess. That's pretty much it.
What is it that causes legal-types to completely lose their marbles whenever anything high-tech happens? This seems roughly the equivalent of doodling in a textbook (in eraseable pencil) and sharing a Maxim magazine around in the halls. Hardly a felony.
What legal types? It's the school administration that's going crazy. And it's the legislature that writes the law. If the judge doesn't toss it out, THEN you start blaming the legal people. Believe it or not lawyers aren't the cause of all society's ills.
Its not like its their money. Until government civil servents can be fired instead of collecting big fat pensions, we will NEVER get any changes from the government.
Where did you get the erroneous idea that government civil servants can't be fired?
Slashdot Mirror
Ultima V, for the C-64, in 1988 had an "AI" with free-flowing conversation that went slightly better than this even :) You could actually talk with random NPCs fairly naturally. Though you could get away with stuff like "food?" or "inn?" if you really wanted to.
I miss that sort of thing; a few other games had it, too. But as computer games became mainstream they got dumbed down to appeal to the nintendo-playing mouth breathers who started buying PC games. Ultima 5 had it done well. Ultima 6 had the same system, only they highlighted keywords so you didn't have to guess (fortunately you could turn it off). Ultima 7 went the next step and had preformulated responses you made, and every RPG since then has had the same.
I'd give Syllable a better shot than Haiku. SkyOS will never go anywhere, though.
I can remember running X-windows on an 8MB 486 machine. I could run LaTeX, several terminals over the same dialup session (mmmm, pr0n over 14.4K slip =), and I had a C environment that just worked. Plus xv, xfig, and a couple of other shineys.
Hell I remember running animated, scrolling wallpaper on a 486 6mb machine. You're right, in those days Linux was incredibly far ahead of anything else available. Windows closed the gap in recent years, though obviously it hasn't caught up.
Now look at the content of the first page of results for "American woman sues", oh look most of them are about American Women or American people suing. For example this gem "Recording 'Ass.' of America Sues Dead Woman". That the kind of thing we see everywhere else in the world.
The first link lists a woman who's suing to get the medical records of the donor who's DNA she was wrongfully inseminated with. She, quite reasonably, wants to find out if her child faces any possible future medical problems.
The second link is a completely made up article. It's parody.
The third article has what I would consider a good reason for a lawsuit.
They rarly happens anywhere else. You have no idea how much fun American lawsuites have given us over the years. Not to mention how utterly stupid it makes both the legal system and the country look. But, an American will never understand this and just yell and scream about something called justice and freedom. 2 words an american really have no idea what encompasses.
Like most people outside the country you live in total ignorance of the American legal system. Do you have a concrete example that gave you such a chuckle? Or do you just rely on your local news? Because while most American newspapers aren't that great, they're far better than the complete and utter trash that 95% of the world has presented to them as "news". So I can guarantee that those stories that you use as such an ego boost just aren't credible.
When we get more games whose gameplay genuinely appeals to female players
Ummm, like a game involving cooking and cleaning?
But anyway, from Mexico, it's common the rumour that americans are oh god the cream of the crop and they're so superior to us in everything.
Geeze, have a little chip on your shoulder, don't we?
Greatest hits:
1. "I werked at Macdonalds for 3 years"
2. "...teh use of a hydrolic jack..."
3. "Resoomay"
Well that's not so bad considering your applicants' backgrounds. Your examples above are a lot less depressing than something like:
1. "I werked at Mt. Sinai Medical Centir as cheif of neurosurgery"
2. "argeud before the supream court"
3. "tought gradute level english classes"
Microsoft has unparalleled influence throughout the Federal government.
Oh puh-lease. There are plenty of companies with that kind of clout; there are plenty with a hell of a lot more. Compared to Halliburton or McDonnell-Douglas or Boeing, Microsoft is strictly amateur hour.
Good for them. Intel's actions are exactly what anti-monopoly laws were passed to suppress.
Oh a Harvard degree isn't proof of intelligence or competence, but the fact is Ballmer had a relatively successful career before Gates hired him. Yep, being Gates' buddy got him the job, but if he had never met Billy he'd still probably have ended up in upper management somewhere. And probably not at the local Denny's.
Oops, he dropped out of the MBA program, my mistake. But the sarcasm still is appropriate.
You don't know much about Web design do you? CEOs routinely blow off Mac users when they design banking and e-commerce sites.
Mac users don't have any money, they spent it all buying their macs. And any money they get after that gets blown on gourmet coffee and avant-garde theater.
If there was ever a clear-cut example of someone in over his head, it's Ballmer. If he hadn't been BG's college buddy, he'd be running a Denny's restaurant somewhere.
Yes, because that Harvard BA and Stanford MBA would qualify him only for the service industry.
Now we know!
And knowing is half the battle!
Though how are you going to get the crack onto the machine? Unless they allow firmware changes via CD?
When they would get older classical type books, the kind noone really wanted to buy used to read, but that have the nice old decorated hardback spine, they would line them in a seperate area for "decorative books". People would buy them by the yard as filler, either to fill their library with impressive looking books, or for theater props or whatever. All they really needed to do was look good filling a shelf.
Ah, Texans.
Likewise Hesse's Siddartha should probably be paired with or replaced with either Demian or Steppenwolf.
Well strongly disagree with you here,I think Siddartha was brilliant and Steppenwolf so-so. Haven't read Demian.
And everything seems to stop around Vineland. No DeLillo, Eugenides, Ellis or Eggers. Its like literature stopped with the post-modern singularity.
That IS kind of weird. I'd assumed it was either a matter of later works being too expensive or impractical to get the rights to, or the editors not being willing to classify newer books as "classics", but the lack of Rushdie makes no sense. sense--Midnight's Children came out earlier than Vineland, and my copy's actually a Penguin book.
If you can't be bothered to figure out for yourself which books you "ought" to read to get a good grasp of western literature, are you going to read the books some people at Amazon think you "ought" to read if they just end up on your shelves?
Actually it's the editors of Penguin Books, not the people at Amazon.com.
I read a lot, and the idea of this is pretty distasteful to me. Sure, you'll get some of the good books, but you'll also get the awful crap that snotty english types swear is "fine literature".
Examples?
It's a horribly laggy site; obviously a lot of this is probably bandwidth problems, but I'm sure some of it is CPU lag. Also, in terms of size it's growing enormously; look at the recent articles link and you'll see that dozens of new articles are being added a day.
Does being good at chess correlate to anything else? Does chess score indicate IQ? Does chess scores indicate earning power? Anyone have a t-shirt that says "I play chess... Love me before I become rich"?
There is a definite correlation between skill at chess and interest in playing chess. That's pretty much it.
What is it that causes legal-types to completely lose their marbles whenever anything high-tech happens? This seems roughly the equivalent of doodling in a textbook (in eraseable pencil) and sharing a Maxim magazine around in the halls. Hardly a felony.
What legal types? It's the school administration that's going crazy. And it's the legislature that writes the law. If the judge doesn't toss it out, THEN you start blaming the legal people. Believe it or not lawyers aren't the cause of all society's ills.
Its not like its their money. Until government civil servents can be fired instead of collecting big fat pensions, we will NEVER get any changes from the government.
Where did you get the erroneous idea that government civil servants can't be fired?
This happened on Monday. Today is Friday.
With the lines down there was no way to communicate the outage to the outside world.
People who have been playing games since Wolfenstein 3D know what the best FPS controller is, and it's the keyboard and the mouse.
Actually back then the best controller was a gravis gamepad. It wasn't until FPSes started having an "aim" component that the mouse became superior.