Nethack can be played by the blind, so you might be able to find a way to play it also. The problem is that it is very annoying to play without being able to use a keyboard, so I'm not sure it would be worth it unless you can type at a reasonable rate. If so then you are in luck since it is the best game of all.
Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
Is it just me or does the blurb not match the text from the website?
I have been reading slashdot daily for six or so years and I'm a on the varsity ltwt rowing team at my university. We aren't a slow school either, we will almost certainly medal at Eastern Sprints and the IRA championships. And I'm not one of the slower ones on the team either.
To clarify, the New York Times can't even run their own website so why are they trying to run another one? They make 24 cents per user per month according to the january issue of business week (as seen on joi.ito.com), but considering the huge asset they have they could be making much more than this.
They are a newspaper, not a web business. They already have one website, so why don't they learn how to optimize their profits with that before buying something else. Basically I think this is going to turn out to be the scandal of the decade. Everyone who has spent ten minutes surfing the web knows about.com, and knows it's not even worth 100 million let alone 400.
html.about.com can be useful for looking up tags once and a while, but as a whole it's just a fake community website that exists to turn a quick buck by luring people in from search engines. I can only see the value of about.com going down in the future as collaborative blogs and other technologies gain more popularity, and this is going to take the New York Times down with it. I feel sorry for whoever made this decision once it becomes obvious to everyone else at the paper what a bad move this really was.
I want to go on record saying this is going to be a horrible move for the Times. Please mod this comment up so that five years from now if anyone sees this comment then I look like a genius for predicting the future.
Everyone who visited blackboxvoting.org before a year ago was supposedly put onto an FBI watchlist. There are more details on the website.
I say this because I know that this includes most slashdotters, and because it is on topic to the article. I'm not sure if is true, but I do know that recently I am 7/7 for getting frisked at airports. Perhaps it is possible that everyone who visited this website is now in the airline shit list database.
I don't mean to sound paranoid, but the issues here are very real whether people realize them or not.
This question isn't for me but I'm asking for a friend. Anyway I have this friend who isn't that good looking but he's a huge computer nerd. Thus at college he was able to get much sex in exchange for fixing girls' computers.
His question is that since Firefox came out he is able to get significantly less sex due to their computers having less spyware and viruses. Firefox also has tabbed browsing. He is worried that if the Mac Minis catch on then he will be completely celibate. Do you have any advice for my friend?
I already know what other people will use it for, what I am asking is what will I use it for? I'm not a gamer anymore nor am I a scientist. If 99% don't have a compelling reason to by it then they won't, so it won't make money and more cool stuff like this won't be invented in the future. So my question is, what is going to make 99% of people buy it, not what will make 1% of people buy it which is what you have answered.
This seems good, but what exactly can I do with a cell processor other than play games with better graphics? It seems like the vast majority of people don't use even half of the power their computers have today, and if there are bottlenecks in todays computers it is because of RAM and the OS and not because of the CPU. Other then games, when will I be able to do other than maybe look for aliens faster.
Never ascribe to randomness what can be ascribed to slashdot whoring out to advertisers and big corporations.
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Except for that NASA has already been buying parts of eBay for years. Where do you think they get all their old computer hardware that is no longer sold in stores?
Can we really say anything more than 'well deserved'?
I hope you remember you said that when the government locks you up for violating interstate commerce laws because you downloaded some warez from the next state over. Copying and selling the information in a private database is bad, but there is no way that it is worth setting a new and dangerous legal precedent just to get this asshole a couple extra months in jail.
MUDs are text based except for a few that have ASCII graphics for outdoor maps. What I am talking about is something with ASCII graphics a la Nethack. And don't say nethack is only for old people because I'm only twenty.
Well others had the ideas before koster, but koster was the first that I know of to collect them all into a single list. Also, I disagree with you on kosters implementations. UO was the best MMORPG when it came out and nothing to my knowledge has surpassed it since for hardcore gamers. There were no non-PK zones, player housing, boats, and you could pick up and move every item without any slotted inventory type system. Now all of the MMORPGs that come out like WoW are dumbed down for the masses, and it is unlikely that any more games as 'real' and unforgiving as UO will be coming out any time soon.
He fixed a lot of the problems UO had in the early days, and until the UO team for some reason decided to dumb itself down for newbies it was a lot of fun. I would bet the reason SWG sucked was more because of EA aiming it towards newbs who have never played a MUD or MMORPG before and less because of Koster.
The real problem with MMORPG's though is you can only play one. After having played UO I can never imagine investing that much time in any other game again, since they are all pretty much the same. Well maybe if someone maybe a really good MMORPG in ASCII graphics I'd play it, but that doesn't seem too likely to happen soon.
Koster was also the first to realize the value of "elder games", i.e. the things that keep players into a game after they have already hit the max levels. These include things like collecting rare items (stamp collecting), player housing, guild warfare, becoming a counselor or seer (in UO a counselor is like a minor GM and a seer facilitated role playing, basically player GMs with some limited powers). Anyway I have heard claims from others that he ruined UO in the later years, but in the first couple years at least he was doing a great job. He also communicated very well with players and started the trend of fortnightly player chats with game devs in IRC which no other game to my knowledge has done before
Back when Raph Koster was the lead of the UO live team he published an infamous list of rules for all MMORPG's. Koster is probably the smartest guy in the MMORPG world, so it's great that he finally wrote a book. My only gripe is that I feel like everyone has a book these days, and that you have to read their book first before you talk to them. Does anyone else feel this way?
Steve Jobs strength is that he makes good decisions. However a lot of Apple's loyalty can be attributed to Guy Kawasaki, who is credited with creating the image that attracts crazed fanboys./crazed fanboy
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Nethack can be played by the blind, so you might be able to find a way to play it also. The problem is that it is very annoying to play without being able to use a keyboard, so I'm not sure it would be worth it unless you can type at a reasonable rate. If so then you are in luck since it is the best game of all.
Is it just me or does the blurb not match the text from the website?
I have been reading slashdot daily for six or so years and I'm a on the varsity ltwt rowing team at my university. We aren't a slow school either, we will almost certainly medal at Eastern Sprints and the IRA championships. And I'm not one of the slower ones on the team either.
I'll bet you 20 bucks it wins the palme de Moore
They are a newspaper, not a web business. They already have one website, so why don't they learn how to optimize their profits with that before buying something else. Basically I think this is going to turn out to be the scandal of the decade. Everyone who has spent ten minutes surfing the web knows about.com, and knows it's not even worth 100 million let alone 400.
html.about.com can be useful for looking up tags once and a while, but as a whole it's just a fake community website that exists to turn a quick buck by luring people in from search engines. I can only see the value of about.com going down in the future as collaborative blogs and other technologies gain more popularity, and this is going to take the New York Times down with it. I feel sorry for whoever made this decision once it becomes obvious to everyone else at the paper what a bad move this really was.
I want to go on record saying this is going to be a horrible move for the Times. Please mod this comment up so that five years from now if anyone sees this comment then I look like a genius for predicting the future.
With all the bribes Microsoft gives to politicians, it's no wonder why he is the former White House cybersecurity and counterterrorism adviser
Where is Mr. Katz when we need him?
It's comments like this that make me wish posts could be moderated above five
I like this
Everyone who visited blackboxvoting.org before a year ago was supposedly put onto an FBI watchlist. There are more details on the website.
I say this because I know that this includes most slashdotters, and because it is on topic to the article. I'm not sure if is true, but I do know that recently I am 7/7 for getting frisked at airports. Perhaps it is possible that everyone who visited this website is now in the airline shit list database.
I don't mean to sound paranoid, but the issues here are very real whether people realize them or not.
His question is that since Firefox came out he is able to get significantly less sex due to their computers having less spyware and viruses. Firefox also has tabbed browsing. He is worried that if the Mac Minis catch on then he will be completely celibate. Do you have any advice for my friend?
I already know what other people will use it for, what I am asking is what will I use it for? I'm not a gamer anymore nor am I a scientist. If 99% don't have a compelling reason to by it then they won't, so it won't make money and more cool stuff like this won't be invented in the future. So my question is, what is going to make 99% of people buy it, not what will make 1% of people buy it which is what you have answered.
This seems good, but what exactly can I do with a cell processor other than play games with better graphics? It seems like the vast majority of people don't use even half of the power their computers have today, and if there are bottlenecks in todays computers it is because of RAM and the OS and not because of the CPU. Other then games, when will I be able to do other than maybe look for aliens faster.
Never ascribe to randomness what can be ascribed to slashdot whoring out to advertisers and big corporations.
Except for that NASA has already been buying parts of eBay for years. Where do you think they get all their old computer hardware that is no longer sold in stores?
CowboyNeal is defending Microsoft. Someone take a screengrab, Slashdot's been hacked!
I hope you remember you said that when the government locks you up for violating interstate commerce laws because you downloaded some warez from the next state over. Copying and selling the information in a private database is bad, but there is no way that it is worth setting a new and dangerous legal precedent just to get this asshole a couple extra months in jail.
MUDs are text based except for a few that have ASCII graphics for outdoor maps. What I am talking about is something with ASCII graphics a la Nethack. And don't say nethack is only for old people because I'm only twenty.
Well others had the ideas before koster, but koster was the first that I know of to collect them all into a single list. Also, I disagree with you on kosters implementations. UO was the best MMORPG when it came out and nothing to my knowledge has surpassed it since for hardcore gamers. There were no non-PK zones, player housing, boats, and you could pick up and move every item without any slotted inventory type system. Now all of the MMORPGs that come out like WoW are dumbed down for the masses, and it is unlikely that any more games as 'real' and unforgiving as UO will be coming out any time soon.
The real problem with MMORPG's though is you can only play one. After having played UO I can never imagine investing that much time in any other game again, since they are all pretty much the same. Well maybe if someone maybe a really good MMORPG in ASCII graphics I'd play it, but that doesn't seem too likely to happen soon.
Koster was also the first to realize the value of "elder games", i.e. the things that keep players into a game after they have already hit the max levels. These include things like collecting rare items (stamp collecting), player housing, guild warfare, becoming a counselor or seer (in UO a counselor is like a minor GM and a seer facilitated role playing, basically player GMs with some limited powers). Anyway I have heard claims from others that he ruined UO in the later years, but in the first couple years at least he was doing a great job. He also communicated very well with players and started the trend of fortnightly player chats with game devs in IRC which no other game to my knowledge has done before
Back when Raph Koster was the lead of the UO live team he published an infamous list of rules for all MMORPG's. Koster is probably the smartest guy in the MMORPG world, so it's great that he finally wrote a book. My only gripe is that I feel like everyone has a book these days, and that you have to read their book first before you talk to them. Does anyone else feel this way?
Because when assholes like you throw your monitor into the landful then the lead gets into the drinking water of people like me.
The website says the demobar requires windows 95 and better. Does that means it runs on OS X and Linux?
Steve Jobs strength is that he makes good decisions. However a lot of Apple's loyalty can be attributed to Guy Kawasaki, who is credited with creating the image that attracts crazed fanboys. /crazed fanboy