Damn newbies, fucking shit. You FORGOT THE FRIGGIN PUNCH LINE.
Damnit.
Ah, mods excuse this, but I just cannot allow this otherwise great joke to go unfinished.
RatCity-ism (replace with the name of an old Stoner's BBS in your area, that was my local one): You have two/sheep/ but you keep them both for the sake of personal pleasure.
Ok ok, a lot funnier when done in ANSI.
On topic though, these basic concepts (you have many of something, big bad evil government takes part of that many away from you) was something that was being seen more and more often in the last past few years. I predict that an opposite trend is likely to show itself this year. (not exactly rocket science that prediction.:):) )
Ah, Post 9-11 Capitalism. You have two cows that fulfill all of your milk needs but the advertisers insist that you buy two more so as to fulfill your patriotic duty. . . .
Not the posters fault though, only a Google.com search turns up the real site, the one linked off of their intro page is even either old or just has not been updated with the latest content yet.:(
Man I love that show, hard as hell to catch though. One of the local PBS affiliates (there are three in my city, yaah! w00t w00t, one f which runs the Classical Arts Showcase for twelve hours a day, DAMNIT the Northwest rocks!:):);) ) seems to run it sporadically, but in this case sporadically could very well mean "I just don't catch it all that often."
Darnit.
They don't have their video archive up yet (says coming soon. . ..) and I doubt that I'd find this series on most P2P file sharing programs.:)
The Computer Nerd that they have on there is a little bit too much New Agey for me though, he is one of those "The Internet Will Change All Of Mankind" types of people who uses WAAAY to many buzzwords and has in the past (at least on that show) went on about how such and such technology was going to vastly change us all but in the end said technology just flopped.
Oh well, still a kick ass show though.:) Even if they/do/ tend to over analyze things a bit, hehe (tis their job after all.:):):) )
I actually turn my vCore up by.1 in the winter to keep my hands from going numb. No seriously, I used to have that problem after using the computer for a long period of time, now with my nice 120f K7 CPU going on. . . . Heh.
I have a 36inch monitor, seems to be an insignificant source of heat. The static field is quite amazing though.:) In the summer time when the window is open moths fly on to the monitor and can not get off. ^_^
Your posts take about what, half a second to scroll by? Oh wait, not even that long!
Jeez. Get an original troll for crying out loud! No wonder CT gets fouled up and starts banning people, he has to put up with unoriginal uncreative CRAP like what you put out!
Hey you know what? I think that the sheer STUPIDITY of your post is FAR more annoying then any attempted troll value that you seek to put into it. Keep on showing yourself to be an unoriginal dunderhead with no sense of creativity at all and I guarantee you that you will piss off far more people then you will by seeking to attempt these pathetic little trolls of yours.
Unoriginal, undaring, uncreative, none risky, unoffensive. The Amish are more offensive then your pathetic little attempt at a troll.
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Ask me about Loom(tm)"
Loom was a great game my Lucas Arts I do believe. I may have a copy of it sitting around here someplace. It was a fantasy adventure game that was based upon a magical system that used musical notes.
The game was quite short, under a day to complete, but even in 1994 or so (long after its release) it was still capible of astrounding people with how nice it looked and how great it sounded. This is despite using only (as I recall. ..) MIDI sound. Ultimately Loom was more a work of art then it was a game, but it was one great work of art.
CatGirls, elves, fae, oh yah! The more planets there are the better the odds are that we may find some sapient humanoids who resemble characters from modern fantasy! Kicking.
Hell if necessary we can colonize a few billion planets, and if THEY don't have the 'desired' females on them, we can start going into parallel dimensions until we eventually do find the 'desired' 'results'. w00t!
This species (homo sapiens) is/SOOO/ going to rock the galaxy(metaverse? Kickin!) in another few hundred years!
How about a complete computer with a DVD drive on it and a (resonably) high quality video out card (I do believe that they should be able to do HDTV resolutions, not like HDTV is/that/ great, yeesh).
In fact computers are EASIER to play DVDs on then a regular stand alone DVD player is.
Hmm.
Mabye that would be ONE good thing about these D-VHS systems, FINALY being able to use the as a passthrough! Star topologies SO suck for A/V equipment.:`(:`(:`(:`( (if you've ever had to manage one in which NOTHING automaticaly detects anything else, you would cry too. I have to manualy select the friggin audio decompression method on my stand alone DVD player for crying out loud!)
I just open my computers DVD-ROM drive up, pop in a DVD, close the tray, and walla, the movie starts to play! Yaah.
10-15 seconds, slow tray.
bleh.
That is the ONE thing that I seriously miss about VHS, the ability to have EVERYTHING running through the VCR. Perferably in a nice serial method. Nintendo to Cable Box, Cable Box to VCR, VCR to TV. Yah. Since my standalone DVD player DOES NOT HAVE A FRIGGIN OFF SWITCH on the remote control, anytime the TV is tuned to the DVD player's inpt channel I get that blue APEX DVD screen, ickies! Not fun.
Ah, of course the sound system doesn't help things any, hehe. Damnit I wish that somebody would invent a single *High Quality* wire that transfered over both video and {2,4,5}.1 surround sound data. Man that would rock. Alot. Seriously. Hell make it all digital too, hehe, I'm willing to pay for an A/D converter in each seperate device (uh, lets see, Speakers, TV, thats it. ^-^ ) in exchange for the convience of just ONE CORD between devices!
"would work with a one button mouse and lots of command key shortcuts, "
And then have troubles as 99.99% of the mac community would be unable to figure out what they keyboard thing is.
Of the.001% that did realize how to use a keyboard, only half of them would realize that you could press more then one button at a time!
And oh yah, PC users have far superior cases.:)
My current $60 Full Tower ATX case can support over 200lbs of weight on top of it. How do I know? Simple, I have used it as a stepping stool before.:)
"Cocoa-based GUI for OS X"
I do hope that you remember to turn off all of the eye candy, or else you could have some serious issues for say. . . . Window resizing? (man, even win2k could do this outa the box, LOL)
Hehe. I can just imagine the shipping container/floating/ down onto the battle field.:) Yah that would rock, hehe. Best part would be if it could change its own size and stuff so that when it came out of the shipping container it expanded to a few hundred feet in diameter and proceeded to blow the entire arena up and create a crater a few miles in diameter.:)
First off both sides would set up shorter methods of doing it.
The Linux dudes would likely have scripts setup to do things quickly, typing T45 for instance for turning 45 degrees. Or even T for a ultra quick method. It would accept signed integers of course.:)
The Windows people would likely be using their sidewinder controlers, heh. Or mice. Or just have a TON of shortcuts on their desktop linking to various different degrees that the bot could be turned too, heh. Then they would have to rush out and buy a bigger screen and hurry up and install that because their screens resolution would not be high enough to view all of their desktop shortcuts.:)
I would just get something with a rocket launcher on it and blow the other teams up.
Way I see it you could drag your vehicle along after that and you would still win.
All you need is here
Uh. . . Okaaay. . . Why not just download and run the appropriate program on your PC? I mean really, in ten years computers are going to be times more powerful then they are today and what we consider to be 'performance issues' today will be laughable.
Ah, at least until Office 2010 comes out, heh. Who wants to bet that that little piss ant paper clip will be using real time ray tracing to draw his annoying arsed self on the screen by then? Eh?;)
Hmm, didn't the postal service manage to pull this off though? Damnit, I can't remember the name for privately held corporations that are government run. NASA would rock as a for profit agency.:-)
NASA should -really- start working on becoming self sufficent.
Mining some astroids would be good for starters. The PR would also be quite nice. "And NASA announced their new plan today to start turning a 200 million dollar a year profit by 2005."
(numbers just thrown out there of course)
Either that or get a dude on Mars and, oh yah, STOP FUCKING THINGS UP. Heh.
And get the damned space station done already, people can't figure out why everything isn't just built at once and then all shoved up there as fast as possible. Whats with the delays? Fuck the russians, I want my space station NOW damnit!:)
Uh, until I saw this review _I_ was going to see it.
Thought it looked like another action movie with lots of fighting and that I would just ignore the three or so lame jokes in it (since the trailers normaly do contain any and all funny parts of a movie.)
Had some strategy/puzzle/luck games that you could play with other players.
Basicaly it was like this.
Say a 4 player game.
Everybody anted up 25 cents. The winner got 75 cents and the website pocketed 25 cents.
Basicaly a slight 'fee' or 'tax' is imposed on to every transaction to ensure that the company does indeed make some money.
Sure you can likely hunt down that Great Super Duber Uber Sword in the Forest Of Really Really Nasty Critters, but then after your 5 or 6 hours of work you will go into the town and sell it to some dude who is paying $5 real life for it.
The exchange rate system is likely NOT 1 to 1. A 1 :.85 rate or some such is more likely. Though 1 :.75 is what I would expect them to charge.
In other words if you put $5 real life into the games currency, expect to only get $3.75 out.
That means that if you get 100units (whatever cash, I forget what it is called, read the article, no memory. ^_^ ) for $10, and you pay some dude 100units for his Super Duber Uber Armor, and that dude that withdrawls 100units from the game, he will only get $7.50 in real life cash.
::shrugs::
Company pockets $2.50 for your 5 or 6 hours of server usage (not half bad, heh) and since items are guarnteed to degrade, there is no chance of all of the system ever reaching an inert economy, there will always be money flowing in and out of the system, and with each transaction in and out of the system the company in charge of the system will be collecting a little bit of money.
Actualy having items degrade is not/STRICTLY/ necessary, it just hastens things up a bit. It will ensure that not everybody all at once never ends up with the Armour Of invincibility and never die or need to buy another item again.
In Ragnarock Online though, tons of Zeny (the games form of internal only cash) was being spent for some time on mere collectors cards (doh) that did absolutly nothing at all other then, uh, well, they actualy did absolutly nothing!
If the creators of this new game can learn how to properly manage fads and whatnot and manipulate supply and demand, they could make a FORTUNE off of these things.
Remember those electronic collectable card games that all bombed awhile back? Yah the ones that wanted you too pay money for booster packs? Heh.
If they can setup such a system within their game and actualy make it successful. . . .
Think Pokemon but with almost *ZERO* production costs.:)
I hope that this does not become the policy after ATTBI becomes dismantled, as it is they carried over without flaws (for my household at least, heh) the old @Home policy of an extra $5 a month for an extra IP address. Under @Home it was a static IP address (in my area, they wanted you to go dynamic, but you didn't have too) but under ATTBI now it is a dynamic IP address.
Even with a NAT installed (I have one. . . . will take it outa the box one day, I swear!) I would want the second IP address just for having at least one computer in a demilitarized zone (something that many NATs apparently can't do without an extra IP, including the NAT I have. . . . sitting in the box that is, heh. Almost a year old now. ^_^ )
Nah, judging from the size of it (the article says about the size of a washing machine, but that would be one/small/ washing machine) it would be the Dancing Baby and a Hard Light projector.
Slashdot Mirror
You missed one.
/sheep/ but you keep them both for the sake of personal pleasure.
:) :) )
Damn newbies, fucking shit. You FORGOT THE FRIGGIN PUNCH LINE.
Damnit.
Ah, mods excuse this, but I just cannot allow this otherwise great joke to go unfinished.
RatCity-ism (replace with the name of an old Stoner's BBS in your area, that was my local one): You have two
Ok ok, a lot funnier when done in ANSI.
On topic though, these basic concepts (you have many of something, big bad evil government takes part of that many away from you) was something that was being seen more and more often in the last past few years. I predict that an opposite trend is likely to show itself this year. (not exactly rocket science that prediction.
Ah, Post 9-11 Capitalism. You have two cows that fulfill all of your milk needs but the advertisers insist that you buy two more so as to fulfill your patriotic duty. . . .
Here is a link to the part of the site that actualy has some CONTENT on it (GASP!)
:(
:(
Here
Not the posters fault though, only a Google.com search turns up the real site, the one linked off of their intro page is even either old or just has not been updated with the latest content yet.
Oh yah, ASF files with required plugins ahoy.
(the site is also dying fast to, hehe.)
Man I love that show, hard as hell to catch though. One of the local PBS affiliates (there are three in my city, yaah! w00t w00t, one f which runs the Classical Arts Showcase for twelve hours a day, DAMNIT the Northwest rocks! :) :) ;) ) seems to run it sporadically, but in this case sporadically could very well mean "I just don't catch it all that often."
.) and I doubt that I'd find this series on most P2P file sharing programs. :)
:) Even if they /do/ tend to over analyze things a bit, hehe (tis their job after all. :) :) :) )
Darnit.
They don't have their video archive up yet (says coming soon. . .
The Computer Nerd that they have on there is a little bit too much New Agey for me though, he is one of those "The Internet Will Change All Of Mankind" types of people who uses WAAAY to many buzzwords and has in the past (at least on that show) went on about how such and such technology was going to vastly change us all but in the end said technology just flopped.
Oh well, still a kick ass show though.
Use the laser beam to destory your opponents in Ultimate Machine Combat
:)
See, the debate over which weapon system to use in that competition is finally over.
Dito that.
.1 in the winter to keep my hands from going numb. No seriously, I used to have that problem after using the computer for a long period of time, now with my nice 120f K7 CPU going on. . . . Heh.
:) In the summer time when the window is open moths fly on to the monitor and can not get off. ^_^
I actually turn my vCore up by
I have a 36inch monitor, seems to be an insignificant source of heat. The static field is quite amazing though.
Hey dude guess what?
SLASHDOT AUTOMATICALLY CUTS OFF LONG POSTS!
Yah yah yah, big surprise eh?
Your posts take about what, half a second to scroll by? Oh wait, not even that long!
Jeez. Get an original troll for crying out loud! No wonder CT gets fouled up and starts banning people, he has to put up with unoriginal uncreative CRAP like what you put out!
Hey you know what? I think that the sheer STUPIDITY of your post is FAR more annoying then any attempted troll value that you seek to put into it. Keep on showing yourself to be an unoriginal dunderhead with no sense of creativity at all and I guarantee you that you will piss off far more people then you will by seeking to attempt these pathetic little trolls of yours.
Unoriginal, undaring, uncreative, none risky, unoffensive. The Amish are more offensive then your pathetic little attempt at a troll.
Somebody is OBVIOUSLY not a hentai fan. ^_^
(sorry, just got done playing an Anime Based RPG that has a large amount of people with catear headbands on. Catgirls rock!)
Just try and tell me these are not cool.
"--
.) MIDI sound. Ultimately Loom was more a work of art then it was a game, but it was one great work of art.
Ask me about Loom(tm)"
Loom was a great game my Lucas Arts I do believe. I may have a copy of it sitting around here someplace. It was a fantasy adventure game that was based upon a magical system that used musical notes.
The game was quite short, under a day to complete, but even in 1994 or so (long after its release) it was still capible of astrounding people with how nice it looked and how great it sounded. This is despite using only (as I recall. .
CatGirls, elves, fae, oh yah! The more planets there are the better the odds are that we may find some sapient humanoids who resemble characters from modern fantasy! Kicking.
/SOOO/ going to rock the galaxy(metaverse? Kickin!) in another few hundred years!
Hell if necessary we can colonize a few billion planets, and if THEY don't have the 'desired' females on them, we can start going into parallel dimensions until we eventually do find the 'desired' 'results'. w00t!
This species (homo sapiens) is
Their Russian based.
:)
:) )
Why the hell would you need any sort of a payment program? Sheesh, a US McDonalds employee could likely afford kit from that place.
(some assembly required? Just because I know somebody is going to make that joke. . . .
Hmm, $2000 USD.
/that/ great, yeesh).
:`( :`( :`( :`( (if you've ever had to manage one in which NOTHING automaticaly detects anything else, you would cry too. I have to manualy select the friggin audio decompression method on my stand alone DVD player for crying out loud!)
Heh.
How about a complete computer with a DVD drive on it and a (resonably) high quality video out card (I do believe that they should be able to do HDTV resolutions, not like HDTV is
In fact computers are EASIER to play DVDs on then a regular stand alone DVD player is.
Hmm.
Mabye that would be ONE good thing about these D-VHS systems, FINALY being able to use the as a passthrough! Star topologies SO suck for A/V equipment.
I just open my computers DVD-ROM drive up, pop in a DVD, close the tray, and walla, the movie starts to play! Yaah.
10-15 seconds, slow tray.
bleh.
That is the ONE thing that I seriously miss about VHS, the ability to have EVERYTHING running through the VCR. Perferably in a nice serial method. Nintendo to Cable Box, Cable Box to VCR, VCR to TV. Yah. Since my standalone DVD player DOES NOT HAVE A FRIGGIN OFF SWITCH on the remote control, anytime the TV is tuned to the DVD player's inpt channel I get that blue APEX DVD screen, ickies! Not fun.
Ah, of course the sound system doesn't help things any, hehe. Damnit I wish that somebody would invent a single *High Quality* wire that transfered over both video and {2,4,5}.1 surround sound data. Man that would rock. Alot. Seriously. Hell make it all digital too, hehe, I'm willing to pay for an A/D converter in each seperate device (uh, lets see, Speakers, TV, thats it. ^-^ ) in exchange for the convience of just ONE CORD between devices!
"would work with a one button mouse and lots of command key shortcuts, "
.001% that did realize how to use a keyboard, only half of them would realize that you could press more then one button at a time!
:)
:)
And then have troubles as 99.99% of the mac community would be unable to figure out what they keyboard thing is.
Of the
And oh yah, PC users have far superior cases.
My current $60 Full Tower ATX case can support over 200lbs of weight on top of it. How do I know? Simple, I have used it as a stepping stool before.
"Cocoa-based GUI for OS X"
I do hope that you remember to turn off all of the eye candy, or else you could have some serious issues for say. . . . Window resizing? (man, even win2k could do this outa the box, LOL)
"Let's face it, the worst thing about those robot shows is the combat. It's never particularly destructive, and it's not very exciting to watch. "
May I suggest you change shows?
Battle Bots this year rocks. Last night a spinner chewed through some dudes half inch titanium armor.
200lb robots flying through the air, kick ass.
Hehe. I can just imagine the shipping container /floating/ down onto the battle field. :) Yah that would rock, hehe. Best part would be if it could change its own size and stuff so that when it came out of the shipping container it expanded to a few hundred feet in diameter and proceeded to blow the entire arena up and create a crater a few miles in diameter. :)
Why go with just some piddily little EMP? You can buy a friggin TANK from http://www.rusarm.ru
::groans::
:)
:)
No no no.
First off both sides would set up shorter methods of doing it.
The Linux dudes would likely have scripts setup to do things quickly, typing T45 for instance for turning 45 degrees. Or even T for a ultra quick method. It would accept signed integers of course.
The Windows people would likely be using their sidewinder controlers, heh. Or mice. Or just have a TON of shortcuts on their desktop linking to various different degrees that the bot could be turned too, heh. Then they would have to rush out and buy a bigger screen and hurry up and install that because their screens resolution would not be high enough to view all of their desktop shortcuts.
I would just get something with a rocket launcher on it and blow the other teams up. Way I see it you could drag your vehicle along after that and you would still win. All you need is here
Uh. . . Okaaay. . . Why not just download and run the appropriate program on your PC? I mean really, in ten years computers are going to be times more powerful then they are today and what we consider to be 'performance issues' today will be laughable.
;)
Ah, at least until Office 2010 comes out, heh. Who wants to bet that that little piss ant paper clip will be using real time ray tracing to draw his annoying arsed self on the screen by then? Eh?
DOH! Damnit.
:-)
Forgot about the politicians, hehe.
Oh well.
Hmm, didn't the postal service manage to pull this off though? Damnit, I can't remember the name for privately held corporations that are government run. NASA would rock as a for profit agency.
NASA should -really- start working on becoming self sufficent.
:)
Mining some astroids would be good for starters. The PR would also be quite nice. "And NASA announced their new plan today to start turning a 200 million dollar a year profit by 2005."
(numbers just thrown out there of course)
Either that or get a dude on Mars and, oh yah, STOP FUCKING THINGS UP. Heh.
And get the damned space station done already, people can't figure out why everything isn't just built at once and then all shoved up there as fast as possible. Whats with the delays? Fuck the russians, I want my space station NOW damnit!
Uh, until I saw this review _I_ was going to see it.
Thought it looked like another action movie with lots of fighting and that I would just ignore the three or so lame jokes in it (since the trailers normaly do contain any and all funny parts of a movie.)
Had some strategy/puzzle/luck games that you could play with other players.
.85 rate or some such is more likely. Though 1 : .75 is what I would expect them to charge.
/STRICTLY/ necessary, it just hastens things up a bit. It will ensure that not everybody all at once never ends up with the Armour Of invincibility and never die or need to buy another item again.
:)
Basicaly it was like this.
Say a 4 player game.
Everybody anted up 25 cents. The winner got 75 cents and the website pocketed 25 cents.
Basicaly a slight 'fee' or 'tax' is imposed on to every transaction to ensure that the company does indeed make some money.
Sure you can likely hunt down that Great Super Duber Uber Sword in the Forest Of Really Really Nasty Critters, but then after your 5 or 6 hours of work you will go into the town and sell it to some dude who is paying $5 real life for it.
The exchange rate system is likely NOT 1 to 1. A 1 :
In other words if you put $5 real life into the games currency, expect to only get $3.75 out.
That means that if you get 100units (whatever cash, I forget what it is called, read the article, no memory. ^_^ ) for $10, and you pay some dude 100units for his Super Duber Uber Armor, and that dude that withdrawls 100units from the game, he will only get $7.50 in real life cash.
::shrugs::
Company pockets $2.50 for your 5 or 6 hours of server usage (not half bad, heh) and since items are guarnteed to degrade, there is no chance of all of the system ever reaching an inert economy, there will always be money flowing in and out of the system, and with each transaction in and out of the system the company in charge of the system will be collecting a little bit of money.
Actualy having items degrade is not
In Ragnarock Online though, tons of Zeny (the games form of internal only cash) was being spent for some time on mere collectors cards (doh) that did absolutly nothing at all other then, uh, well, they actualy did absolutly nothing!
If the creators of this new game can learn how to properly manage fads and whatnot and manipulate supply and demand, they could make a FORTUNE off of these things.
Remember those electronic collectable card games that all bombed awhile back? Yah the ones that wanted you too pay money for booster packs? Heh.
If they can setup such a system within their game and actualy make it successful. . . .
Think Pokemon but with almost *ZERO* production costs.
I hope that this does not become the policy after ATTBI becomes dismantled, as it is they carried over without flaws (for my household at least, heh) the old @Home policy of an extra $5 a month for an extra IP address. Under @Home it was a static IP address (in my area, they wanted you to go dynamic, but you didn't have too) but under ATTBI now it is a dynamic IP address.
Even with a NAT installed (I have one. . . . will take it outa the box one day, I swear!) I would want the second IP address just for having at least one computer in a demilitarized zone (something that many NATs apparently can't do without an extra IP, including the NAT I have. . . . sitting in the box that is, heh. Almost a year old now. ^_^ )
Nah, judging from the size of it (the article says about the size of a washing machine, but that would be one /small/ washing machine) it would be the Dancing Baby and a Hard Light projector.
I can tell ya right now whats in that box;
Either a mini generator or an array of batteries with a few fans hooked up for sound fx.