>>>AC-2 had lots of action, required tactical thinking from time to time, looked amazing, minor puzzle elements, immersive gameplay, extras (stupid stuff to collect) that prolong it's appeal somewhat.... I dunno, maybe the attitude there is all wrong, but AC is to me a good example of a game that got it pretty damn right. >>>
Speaking as a gamer since 1977 - sounds boring. POINT: One person's masterpiece is another person's tradein.
For me a near-perfect game example would be Zelda Ocarina of Time. Good story, challenging puzzles, and likable characters. Plus a sense of accomplishment when you reach the save the kingdom. And it was long but not padded with boring nonsense (spend an hour sailing to your next destination). Of course if you don't like solving puzzles this is not the game for you, but it's still as close to perfect for that genre as is possible.
Think WINE 1.2 will run Netscape ISP's Dialup program or Web Accelerator? Last time I tried Wine crashed on both of these these programs. It also didn't run any Internet Explorer more advanced than IE6.
Anticipated question: "You're still on dialup?"
Yes because I can't afford Cricket's $40/month bill you insensitive clod!/end meme. And also because I can't take my DSL with me when traveling. Plus it makes for a nice backup when the DSL fails.
What Murdoch and other Rich corporations (ATT, Verizon) are trying to do now is get the FCC to take-away free access to the news. The FCC has developed a plan to lock-up previously free content by handing frequencies to cellphone companies. What was once free (via antenna) will now only be available via an expensive Cellphone subscription (~$100 a month) or Cable Net subscription (~$60/month). The surprising part is that Obama announced he supports the plan.
>>>Basically, you'd have giant nuclear powered vats where yeasts, algae, bacteria, plankton, etc are grown
Possibly but then that means the machines don't need humans. They can just use the nuclear electricity directly. And there's probably tons of coal and natural gas plants generating electricity too.
Actually there are lots of stories that could carry the name Science fiction, because they could exist in the real world. Like Robert Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" about a future where people travel on giant escalators instead of in cars.
The movie "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison was also firmly rooted in reality, and could happen (someday).
Star Trek? Star Wars? No. Pure fantasy. Which is fine if you like fantasy but it no more deserves the label "science fiction" than does Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
>>>>>No sun == no plants == no nutrients to consume. Remember what happened to the dinosaurs when their sun was blotted out? >> >>You do, of course, realize that this happened to 'humans' as well at that exact same time, do you not?
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I didn't think it possible for someone to be that dumb. *Humans didn't exist in the time of dinosaurs.* The only things that survived were little mouse-like mammals and dinosaurs (which eventually birds). Anything as big as a human being starved due to lack of sun, and lack of food.
If that's true then the Egyptians invented writing, and the Western and Indo cultures simply copied it (by way of trading with the Phoenicians). I wonder why the Greeks/Indians didn't invent their own writing styles early on?
>>>You will always have people telling you what you can and can't do. It's called 'society.' Rational adults realize that we have to make compromises in order to live together in peace and prosperity, >>>
The problem is that most adults are Not reasonable. It is why I can't marry a man. Or smoke marijuana later tonight while watching SyFy Channel. Or have more than one wife. Or show a topless woman on broadcast TV (but Jack Bauer torturing people is a-okay). Or let my daughter drink beer, even if I am German and it's part of our culture. Or let my lawn "go natural" with wildflowers, but instead must have a monoculture grass, or else face fines from the city.
The other adults have placed non-reasonable and illogical restraints upon me. So basically your entire premise of "reasonable adults can tell other adults what to do" is flawed. The adults are not reasonable - they are oftentimes tyrannical.
Therefore I submit it is wiser to follow this simple rule: "No man has a right to physicall harm his neighbor - and that's all the government should restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson. i.e. Marry a guy. Have two wives. Let your kid have beer. Smoke marijuana while watching topless Amanda Tapping stroll around the Stargate. These are victimless acts and should not be outlawed. That's called FREEDOM and liberty. I think that's the best philosophy to follow.
>>>Your life is as constrained by our bullshit corporatist state as the Chinese are by their bullshit corporatist state.
Yeah except we (the US and EU) have a Constitution/Lisbon Treaty that protects us from the Dickhead Politicians. They are basically chained by it. And as for the corporations, killing them is as easy as stop buying their products. Your dollar is your vote, and if you withhold your vote, then the corporation goes bankrupt. As happened with Circuit City.
>>>[He_Depu and other locked-up Chinese dissidents] would make me think the Chinese can't
I just learned today that China is now fencing-in the poor. The government got tired of poor people stealing bread, so now it's erecting fences around the poor slum areas to keep them trapped. That reminds me of something - that Jessica Alba show. Fallen Angel or something. PLUS one of those DS9 time travel episodes where everybody was fenced in.
Back to story: I'll be glad when we get third 'tard George DUH Bush out of power and replace him with that sexy Barak Obama. Then these censorships of websites will stop.
(someone whispers in my ear). Oh. So Barak Obama IS the president? Huh. Well I guess that makes it okay then.
C'mon guys. As I'm sure you're aware I'm no fan of Apple's short 3-4 year OS turnover, or its locking down of systems, or its overpriced $1000 hardware, or the fact my G4 is now obsolete (can't run anything newer than OS 10.4, or Safari 5, or the latest iTunes).....
Um, what was my point? Oh yeah.... they are doing the right thing. Did they drag their feet? Yes but so do most corporations. Look at Toyota: They've had engine problems since the 2000 which cost customers $5000 to replace blown-out engines after only 10-30,000 and they didn't finally acknowledge the problem until 2006 (under pressure from the US DOJ).
Apple solved this problem in just three weeks time, by giving away bumpers to protect the antenna from being shorted by the human hand. Bravo for them.
>>>If it were really an inalienable right, the GP wouldn't be allowed to go away and ignore it.
Uh... you clearly don't know the meaning of the word. Inalienable basically means "indivisible" or "inseparable" such that you can not separate me from my mouth. i.e. You can not stop me from exercising the vocal cords nature has given me.* OF COURSE the grandparent poster has the right to go-away from my mouth so he can no longer hear it.
* * Unless I'm standing on your private property. * Then I'd be trespassing.
Ditto Puppy Linux but they both suffer the same flaw - not well supported (at least that's my experience). With the 96 megabyte Lightweight Ubuntu you have a lot of software to choose from and onlinehelp backing you up.
>>>Win95 had pre-emptive multitasking, just as all MS 32-bit OSes have had since NT 3.1 back in 1993
Only for 32 bit apps. Not for 16 bit programs. And while Windows 3.x was 32 bit, it had no preemptive multitasking whatsoever - it was wholly cooperative tasking. Just like the 32 bit Mac OS.
You're right about the NT 3.x and 4.x OSes - I tend to forget they existed, because NT was aimed towards commercial use (like Betacma) rather than home use (like Betamax), and virtually never seen on anybody's personal computer.
No. Do you routinely set-up Strawman Arguments just so you can knock them down more easily, rather than debate a real person directly? - While there were other OSes like GEOS64 or AmigaOS that had trashcans, none of them had a shutdown procedure. None of them had shortcut icons. Those things were distinctly Mac, and Windows95 copied them directly. They even copied the cute little "You may now turn off your computer" screen that Macs had.
>>>it's only relevant to dumb hicks in the boonies
I'll be sure to tell that to my friend who lives just 30 miles from Pittsburgh, but still has nothing but Dialup and Antenna TV. That was very un-Democrat of you to make that remark.
>>>What you seem to have done is attempted to claim that they ignored the fact altogether
No actually I was saying the the world of the Matrix has about the same chances of happening, in real life, as Harry Potter. i.e. Matrix doesn't deserve to carry the label "science fiction"
Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?
Also what does it mean? The Euro Sign is a stylized E, to represent Europe's currency. And the Dollar Sign is a slashed S to represent Spain's currency (where the symbol originated).
>>>using human brains and imagination as computing power
Yeah because brains don't need to be fed. Oh wait. Yes, they do. The problem still remains of how to keep the human brains alive when there's no sun & no plants to feed them.
>>>They lost me in the The Animatrix when the Humans decided to "win" the war by blacking out the sun
That was actually described in the very first movie (they said the humans blackened the sky and blotted-out the sun). I enjoyed that movie, but I immediately knew that it was an unsustainable culutre. Within ten years there'd be less than one million humans left. All the rest would have been killed and eaten.
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>>>It's Cricket, fuck no there's no data plan. It's meant to be a portable local phone
http://www.mycricket.com/broadband $40 a month for 5 gigabytes of high speed, and dialup speed after you hit that limit
>>>AC-2 had lots of action, required tactical thinking from time to time, looked amazing, minor puzzle elements, immersive gameplay, extras (stupid stuff to collect) that prolong it's appeal somewhat.... I dunno, maybe the attitude there is all wrong, but AC is to me a good example of a game that got it pretty damn right.
>>>
Speaking as a gamer since 1977 - sounds boring.
POINT: One person's masterpiece is another person's tradein.
For me a near-perfect game example would be Zelda Ocarina of Time. Good story, challenging puzzles, and likable characters. Plus a sense of accomplishment when you reach the save the kingdom. And it was long but not padded with boring nonsense (spend an hour sailing to your next destination). Of course if you don't like solving puzzles this is not the game for you, but it's still as close to perfect for that genre as is possible.
>>>I raid 25/10's under wine with no problem
Think WINE 1.2 will run Netscape ISP's Dialup program or Web Accelerator? Last time I tried Wine crashed on both of these these programs. It also didn't run any Internet Explorer more advanced than IE6.
Anticipated question:
"You're still on dialup?"
Yes because I can't afford Cricket's $40/month bill you insensitive clod! /end meme. And also because I can't take my DSL with me when traveling. Plus it makes for a nice backup when the DSL fails.
Don't celebrate yet. They aren't done.
What Murdoch and other Rich corporations (ATT, Verizon) are trying to do now is get the FCC to take-away free access to the news. The FCC has developed a plan to lock-up previously free content by handing frequencies to cellphone companies. What was once free (via antenna) will now only be available via an expensive Cellphone subscription (~$100 a month) or Cable Net subscription (~$60/month). The surprising part is that Obama announced he supports the plan.
>>>Basically, you'd have giant nuclear powered vats where yeasts, algae, bacteria, plankton, etc are grown
Possibly but then that means the machines don't need humans. They can just use the nuclear electricity directly. And there's probably tons of coal and natural gas plants generating electricity too.
>>>But then nothing else does, either,
Actually there are lots of stories that could carry the name Science fiction, because they could exist in the real world. Like Robert Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" about a future where people travel on giant escalators instead of in cars.
The movie "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison was also firmly rooted in reality, and could happen (someday).
Star Trek? Star Wars? No. Pure fantasy. Which is fine if you like fantasy but it no more deserves the label "science fiction" than does Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
>>>>>No sun == no plants == no nutrients to consume. Remember what happened to the dinosaurs when their sun was blotted out?
>>
>>You do, of course, realize that this happened to 'humans' as well at that exact same time, do you not?
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I didn't think it possible for someone to be that dumb. *Humans didn't exist in the time of dinosaurs.* The only things that survived were little mouse-like mammals and dinosaurs (which eventually birds). Anything as big as a human being starved due to lack of sun, and lack of food.
If that's true then the Egyptians invented writing, and the Western and Indo cultures simply copied it (by way of trading with the Phoenicians). I wonder why the Greeks/Indians didn't invent their own writing styles early on?
>>>if we say something is the law, you follow it or suffer the consequences
Unless the law violates either the US or the local State Constitution. Or the Bill of Rights of same. Then that law is nullified.
>>>invisible.
Aaaaah..... Jessica... Alba... without clothes..... gaaaah.
>>>You will always have people telling you what you can and can't do. It's called 'society.' Rational adults realize that we have to make compromises in order to live together in peace and prosperity,
>>>
The problem is that most adults are Not reasonable. It is why I can't marry a man. Or smoke marijuana later tonight while watching SyFy Channel. Or have more than one wife. Or show a topless woman on broadcast TV (but Jack Bauer torturing people is a-okay). Or let my daughter drink beer, even if I am German and it's part of our culture. Or let my lawn "go natural" with wildflowers, but instead must have a monoculture grass, or else face fines from the city.
The other adults have placed non-reasonable and illogical restraints upon me. So basically your entire premise of "reasonable adults can tell other adults what to do" is flawed. The adults are not reasonable - they are oftentimes tyrannical.
Therefore I submit it is wiser to follow this simple rule: "No man has a right to physicall harm his neighbor - and that's all the government should restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson. i.e. Marry a guy. Have two wives. Let your kid have beer. Smoke marijuana while watching topless Amanda Tapping stroll around the Stargate. These are victimless acts and should not be outlawed. That's called FREEDOM and liberty. I think that's the best philosophy to follow.
>>>Your life is as constrained by our bullshit corporatist state as the Chinese are by their bullshit corporatist state.
Yeah except we (the US and EU) have a Constitution/Lisbon Treaty that protects us from the Dickhead Politicians. They are basically chained by it. And as for the corporations, killing them is as easy as stop buying their products. Your dollar is your vote, and if you withhold your vote, then the corporation goes bankrupt. As happened with Circuit City.
>>>[He_Depu and other locked-up Chinese dissidents] would make me think the Chinese can't
I just learned today that China is now fencing-in the poor. The government got tired of poor people stealing bread, so now it's erecting fences around the poor slum areas to keep them trapped. That reminds me of something - that Jessica Alba show. Fallen Angel or something. PLUS one of those DS9 time travel episodes where everybody was fenced in.
Back to story: I'll be glad when we get third 'tard George DUH Bush out of power and replace him with that sexy Barak Obama. Then these censorships of websites will stop.
(someone whispers in my ear). Oh. So Barak Obama IS the president? Huh. Well I guess that makes it okay then.
C'mon guys. As I'm sure you're aware I'm no fan of Apple's short 3-4 year OS turnover, or its locking down of systems, or its overpriced $1000 hardware, or the fact my G4 is now obsolete (can't run anything newer than OS 10.4, or Safari 5, or the latest iTunes).....
Um, what was my point? Oh yeah.... they are doing the right thing. Did they drag their feet? Yes but so do most corporations. Look at Toyota: They've had engine problems since the 2000 which cost customers $5000 to replace blown-out engines after only 10-30,000 and they didn't finally acknowledge the problem until 2006 (under pressure from the US DOJ).
Apple solved this problem in just three weeks time, by giving away bumpers to protect the antenna from being shorted by the human hand. Bravo for them.
>>>If it were really an inalienable right, the GP wouldn't be allowed to go away and ignore it.
Uh... you clearly don't know the meaning of the word. Inalienable basically means "indivisible" or "inseparable" such that you can not separate me from my mouth. i.e. You can not stop me from exercising the vocal cords nature has given me.* OF COURSE the grandparent poster has the right to go-away from my mouth so he can no longer hear it.
*
* Unless I'm standing on your private property.
* Then I'd be trespassing.
>>>SUSE might be the greatest OS ever made, but I want to take a moment to plug
I just suddenly realized I sound like Kanye West. "Taylor Swift congrats on your award, but I want to take a moment to plug my girl Beyonce'!"
>>>DSL can run Linux with 32 megs of memory.
Ditto Puppy Linux but they both suffer the same flaw - not well supported (at least that's my experience). With the 96 megabyte Lightweight Ubuntu you have a lot of software to choose from and onlinehelp backing you up.
>>>Win95 had pre-emptive multitasking, just as all MS 32-bit OSes have had since NT 3.1 back in 1993
Only for 32 bit apps. Not for 16 bit programs. And while Windows 3.x was 32 bit, it had no preemptive multitasking whatsoever - it was wholly cooperative tasking. Just like the 32 bit Mac OS.
You're right about the NT 3.x and 4.x OSes - I tend to forget they existed, because NT was aimed towards commercial use (like Betacma) rather than home use (like Betamax), and virtually never seen on anybody's personal computer.
>>>Windows 95 pre-emptively multitasked
Only for 32 bit applications. For 16 bit applications it continued using cooperative tasking.
>>>So you're saying
No. Do you routinely set-up Strawman Arguments just so you can knock them down more easily, rather than debate a real person directly? - While there were other OSes like GEOS64 or AmigaOS that had trashcans, none of them had a shutdown procedure. None of them had shortcut icons. Those things were distinctly Mac, and Windows95 copied them directly. They even copied the cute little "You may now turn off your computer" screen that Macs had.
>>>it's only relevant to dumb hicks in the boonies
I'll be sure to tell that to my friend who lives just 30 miles from Pittsburgh, but still has nothing but Dialup and Antenna TV. That was very un-Democrat of you to make that remark.
>>>What you seem to have done is attempted to claim that they ignored the fact altogether
No actually I was saying the the world of the Matrix has about the same chances of happening, in real life, as Harry Potter. i.e. Matrix doesn't deserve to carry the label "science fiction"
Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?
Also what does it mean? The Euro Sign is a stylized E, to represent Europe's currency. And the Dollar Sign is a slashed S to represent Spain's currency (where the symbol originated).
>>>using human brains and imagination as computing power
Yeah because brains don't need to be fed. Oh wait. Yes, they do. The problem still remains of how to keep the human brains alive when there's no sun & no plants to feed them.
BTW I never knew there was a Matrix short story?
>>>They lost me in the The Animatrix when the Humans decided to "win" the war by blacking out the sun
That was actually described in the very first movie (they said the humans blackened the sky and blotted-out the sun). I enjoyed that movie, but I immediately knew that it was an unsustainable culutre. Within ten years there'd be less than one million humans left. All the rest would have been killed and eaten.