Sure - the literal translation can mean 'one who hails from a bay', however, the original term, 'adh fara i viking' (sorry, I can't seem to get the old Norse letters to/.) conveyed the meaning 'to go on a sailing trip, raiding coastal villages in foreign parts, and possibly returning a wealthy man'.
Piracy is more about raiding ships, I suppose, something that was generally seen as impractical in those times - the only ships that had anything of worth were chock full of vikings anyway.
Why read the article when you get a summary on Slashdot, anyway?
You know, it wasn't Hit and Run that got sued, it was Road Rage. Not that I'm implying that Hit and Run isn't derivative, just that, to my knowledge, it hasn't been sued yet.
... the way some people change their underpants... (emphasis mine). Do you change your hardware configuration by first inserting one leg, and then the second, then pulling it up until it covers your genitalia and anus? Sounds kind of weird to me. Also, 'some' people? I take it you are referring to the non/. crowd?
Erik Simon is one of the guys behind one of my favourite Atari ST games, Dragonflight. It's copy protection was so good that it's one of the few games that I cannot seem to locate on an abandonwarez site. Erik brings up a surprisingly relevant point - IMHO, much more relevant than some news about CIV4. Copy protection seems to be something that most companies just don't care about. Games get cracked in no time - and fear of litigation seems to do nothing to deter crackers. I have a feeling that Erik's point about time may be right - the games industry, as a whole, would do a lot better if they'd manage to keep the games from being cracked in the first couple of weeks. BTW, IIRC, some of Thalion were active members of the demo scene, and had some connections to the other 'scene'.
Happens here in Iceland as well - we get like 10 minutes of static screens in an intermission - suited for a pee break as well as for the theater to sell us more watered down sodas and over-salted pop corn.
Let's not start a high level scripting language advocacy war on this, shall we?:) I think any high level scripting language should be quite efficient for the job - all you need is some simple game logic engine and a text parser. Writing a game logic engine isn't trivial, but it's at least no harder in a scripting language than in assembler. And of course, all the content. I don't know whether mr. Panks writes the game content in HLA as well? Btw, there are some links to interactive fiction interpreters (including Inform, which can run Infocom games) here.
It seems that this question goes wholly unanswered. The only specific mention of HLA is:
HLA stands for High Level Assembly, and it's a great way for people to learn assembly without being submerged off the bat in offsets, memory locations and MOV instructions.
There is nothing on the website that explains why the author didn't choose a scripting language instead - my guess is that the author simply didn't think of a better way, and is obsessed with writing in assembly, for speed of execution.
You should have gotten a bunch of real-looking fake tools to show off. Perhaps program some green glyphs scrolling upwards on a black background. Then yell 'look, there it is again, that DoS attack!'
Parent post is actually a link to the article! Do not click on it, or you'll be unable to post your wild speculations, untainted by what the government wants you to 'know' on the subject. When I clicked that link, my tinfoil hat started humming and heating up. Luckily, I was wearing it, or my brain would have been LAZORED and rewritten to suit the Council of Earth Management. What is wrong with people, trying to lure innocent/.'ers to RTFA! The article is ALWAYS WRONG. The voices in your head are ALWAYS RIGHT. Because they say so.
These keyboards can take anything! I have owned three, two of which are still operational. The third died when car windshield detergent accidentally leaked into it, when I was storing it in my trunk. Apart from that, the only trouble I've had with them is the kids peeling off the labelled caps from the keys and hiding them (I have to guess where F1 is on my keyboard). P.S. I haven't actually shot my keyboards, though. The stupid laws of my country require too much effort for me to get hold of a handgun.
Beware the DrPhil plugin! It claims to tell you things as they are, but it only tells you what you want to hear. And only if you're a middle aged woman, at that.
This actually sounds a lot like a pop-up ad - instead of popping up ads on web pages you visit, it pops up ads on places you visit physically.
I don't know though. I would perhaps pay some money for a tourist information system in a foreign city. It'd be a whole lot better than some pisspot tourist guide. Apart from that, I just don't know. Seems like it'd not be something I'd use a lot.
Is humanity allowed an infinite number of rematches? That's cheating. Besides, Garry Kasparov lost already, shouldn't we get someone else? Someone better at Human-vs-Machine chess? And why are the machines using another computer? Adding insult to injury perhaps? 'Puny human, Deep Blue beat you already, try beating it's slower cousin, which, despite evaluating less moves per minute than I, is considered by you hue-mans to be a superior chess player !'
What? Do you mean you'll not be listening and writing everything down to have your own dictated copy of the linux source? I know I will be. Imagine, running linux off something you typed in from the radio.
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Sure - the literal translation can mean 'one who hails from a bay', however, the original term, 'adh fara i viking' (sorry, I can't seem to get the old Norse letters to /.) conveyed the meaning 'to go on a sailing trip, raiding coastal villages in foreign parts, and possibly returning a wealthy man'.
Piracy is more about raiding ships, I suppose, something that was generally seen as impractical in those times - the only ships that had anything of worth were chock full of vikings anyway.
Why read the article when you get a summary on Slashdot, anyway?
Well, if violence isn't the answer, you're clearly not asking the right question!
It wouldn't even need to display them. Just issue the right http GET commands, and not even listen for the result.
Yes, but the number of four-letter words available, for instance, is sadly finite.
Bold text isn't in ASCII. Hmm. Unless we used that funky bit number 8, that noone uses anyway, to indicate boldness of text?
You know, it wasn't Hit and Run that got sued, it was Road Rage. Not that I'm implying that Hit and Run isn't derivative, just that, to my knowledge, it hasn't been sued yet.
... the way some people change their underpants... (emphasis mine). /. crowd?
Do you change your hardware configuration by first inserting one leg, and then the second, then pulling it up until it covers your genitalia and anus? Sounds kind of weird to me.
Also, 'some' people? I take it you are referring to the non
Erik Simon is one of the guys behind one of my favourite Atari ST games, Dragonflight. It's copy protection was so good that it's one of the few games that I cannot seem to locate on an abandonwarez site.
Erik brings up a surprisingly relevant point - IMHO, much more relevant than some news about CIV4. Copy protection seems to be something that most companies just don't care about. Games get cracked in no time - and fear of litigation seems to do nothing to deter crackers. I have a feeling that Erik's point about time may be right - the games industry, as a whole, would do a lot better if they'd manage to keep the games from being cracked in the first couple of weeks.
BTW, IIRC, some of Thalion were active members of the demo scene, and had some connections to the other 'scene'.
Happens here in Iceland as well - we get like 10 minutes of static screens in an intermission - suited for a pee break as well as for the theater to sell us more watered down sodas and over-salted pop corn.
Let's not start a high level scripting language advocacy war on this, shall we? :)
I think any high level scripting language should be quite efficient for the job - all you need is some simple game logic engine and a text parser.
Writing a game logic engine isn't trivial, but it's at least no harder in a scripting language than in assembler.
And of course, all the content. I don't know whether mr. Panks writes the game content in HLA as well?
Btw, there are some links to interactive fiction interpreters (including Inform, which can run Infocom games) here.
There is nothing on the website that explains why the author didn't choose a scripting language instead - my guess is that the author simply didn't think of a better way, and is obsessed with writing in assembly, for speed of execution.
Probably a little bit of both. Personally, I find Windows 2000 stable enough not to bother spending cash and a little bit of time upgrading to XP.
I take it you don't have kids. Or a girlfriend for that matter? :)
You should have gotten a bunch of real-looking fake tools to show off. Perhaps program some green glyphs scrolling upwards on a black background. Then yell 'look, there it is again, that DoS attack!'
Parent post is actually a link to the article! Do not click on it, or you'll be unable to post your wild speculations, untainted by what the government wants you to 'know' on the subject. When I clicked that link, my tinfoil hat started humming and heating up. Luckily, I was wearing it, or my brain would have been LAZORED and rewritten to suit the Council of Earth Management. /.'ers to RTFA! The article is ALWAYS WRONG. The voices in your head are ALWAYS RIGHT. Because they say so.
What is wrong with people, trying to lure innocent
These keyboards can take anything! I have owned three, two of which are still operational. The third died when car windshield detergent accidentally leaked into it, when I was storing it in my trunk. Apart from that, the only trouble I've had with them is the kids peeling off the labelled caps from the keys and hiding them (I have to guess where F1 is on my keyboard).
P.S. I haven't actually shot my keyboards, though. The stupid laws of my country require too much effort for me to get hold of a handgun.
Thanks for not providing the link to Google, jackass. Now I have to look "Google" up in a search engine.
Not for long, though.
No, but noone cares if Russians die in space.
Uh, there's no way they can encrypt anything if they've lost the key either. They didn't make a claim of uncryptability as well, did they?
Beware the DrPhil plugin! It claims to tell you things as they are, but it only tells you what you want to hear. And only if you're a middle aged woman, at that.
This actually sounds a lot like a pop-up ad - instead of popping up ads on web pages you visit, it pops up ads on places you visit physically.
I don't know though. I would perhaps pay some money for a tourist information system in a foreign city. It'd be a whole lot better than some pisspot tourist guide. Apart from that, I just don't know. Seems like it'd not be something I'd use a lot.
Is humanity allowed an infinite number of rematches? That's cheating.
Besides, Garry Kasparov lost already, shouldn't we get someone else? Someone better at Human-vs-Machine chess?
And why are the machines using another computer? Adding insult to injury perhaps? 'Puny human, Deep Blue beat you already, try beating it's slower cousin, which, despite evaluating less moves per minute than I, is considered by you hue-mans to be a superior chess player !'
What? Do you mean you'll not be listening and writing everything down to have your own dictated copy of the linux source? I know I will be. Imagine, running linux off something you typed in from the radio.
don't forget: goatse.cx