It's not dirt cheap, but the POD (http://www.line6.com) is accessible to most. $300. It lets you record direct, with excellent results. No expensive mics, no soundproofed rooms, no studios necessary.
With the limited range of vision the camera affords you (I haven't see the mods that change this yet, can you give me a link?) the monster is usually on top of you by the time you're done casting, if the other party members haven't finished it already.
The camera, besides creating a "stiff" feel, and the real-time aspect make the game feel more like a twitch game and far less tactical than Baldur's Gate and real D&D.
Given the fact that, although the encoding is random, there is a 1 to 1 relationship between the encoded character and a number, I think it may be possible to crack a one-time pad based on the frequency of numbers in the encoded message.
How, I'm not exactly sure, but it does seem like you can at least get started on these.
What is the difference between the underground metal tape traders you thanked in the liner notes of Ride the Lightning and Napster users? (Other than they're trading different kinds of music.)
Even as late as 1991, people were exposed to Metallica via tapes of albums before actually buying the albums.
I think you cared even more about the art back then, yet for some reason, you didn't try to stop the tape trading.
Right - it's good for creating interfaces or simple apps for Windows. I could see it doing fine with something that just uses yes/no input to make a simple decision. Since this is an expert system, I'd figure they'd use Lisp, but then again, there may have been speed problems, difficulty getting a good interface going. But then again, maybe it doesn't even have to be a real expert system. It might just use the yes/no answers to walk down a tree.
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It's not dirt cheap, but the POD (http://www.line6.com) is accessible to most. $300. It lets you record direct, with excellent results. No expensive mics, no soundproofed rooms, no studios necessary.
And both inspire scads and scads of metal lyrics!
With the limited range of vision the camera affords you (I haven't see the mods that change this yet, can you give me a link?) the monster is usually on top of you by the time you're done casting, if the other party members haven't finished it already.
The camera, besides creating a "stiff" feel, and the real-time aspect make the game feel more like a twitch game and far less tactical than Baldur's Gate and real D&D.
This was basically a suicide. He chose an odd way to do it, but that's probably all it was.
It's unlikely that he got "hooked" or didn't know any better.
Given the fact that, although the encoding is random, there is a 1 to 1 relationship between the encoded character and a number, I think it may be possible to crack a one-time pad based on the frequency of numbers in the encoded message.
How, I'm not exactly sure, but it does seem like you can at least get started on these.
What is the difference between the underground metal tape traders you thanked in the liner notes of Ride the Lightning and Napster users? (Other than they're trading different kinds of music.)
Even as late as 1991, people were exposed to Metallica via tapes of albums before actually buying the albums.
I think you cared even more about the art back then, yet for some reason, you didn't try to stop the tape trading.
Right - it's good for creating interfaces or simple apps for Windows. I could see it doing fine with something that just uses yes/no input to make a simple decision. Since this is an expert system, I'd figure they'd use Lisp, but then again, there may have been speed problems, difficulty getting a good interface going. But then again, maybe it doesn't even have to be a real expert system. It might just use the yes/no answers to walk down a tree.