What?! No burning hands!? That is hardly a mage at all! In my opinion, the only spell you need is burning hands! Why, I once took out 14 orcs with one burning hands spell! All you need is a nice tight corridor and a forgiving DM.
Graphics are a bonus. I love nethack, and some of the best games I've ever played have been text based. Younger gamers can't deal with games without cutting edge graphics. With games like Ultima IX, Homeworld, etc. out, people expect good graphics to go along with good gameplay.
First, gather a lot of wood, and during the night, slap it together so it looks like a horse.
Get everybody to climb inside. Then, in the morning, roll it up to the gates of Troy.
This seems cool, but there have got to be better ways to do 3D.
Take the IMAX thing a bit further. Instead of projectiong two images with different polarizations, project two images directly onto your retinas. This would give true 3D, and it seems easier than their method.
It doesn't do you any good, but think of all the money to be gained from selling nifty graphical representations of the web now that we know what it is shaped like.
IBM has hit a gold mine. Think of all the things they could sell!
I work at a bookstore that sells online through a certain online used books website.
The site we sell through is used by quite a few bookstores. (about 150) They have three tech support guys, who all take lunch at the same time, and if anything goes wrong with their server, they get 150 calls pretty quickly. Amazingly, whenever the server goes down, they are at lunch. Hmmm, must be some murphy's law thing....
We are still here, but are discouraged by NASA's failure to send more men to the moon in the last thirty years. NASA is too busy studying the effects of weightlessness on jelly beans to go back to the moon, and we have given up.
If people are going to go to the trouble to download [insert band name]'s music, they will probably go buy a cd at some point, or go to a concert, or something. Every person that likes [insert band name] because of Napster is going to make money because of it.If you can't get it from Napster, you can tape it off of the radio, or burn it from a friend's CD.
Check it out. If you want to know if a target is acceptable, you can try and submit it. It will tell you if the target is valid, and then if it is, we can start voting for it. I put the link in the article, but if you missed it, here it is again.
It would seem that now, with the rate at which things are changing, people would welcome change, but the fact is, no one wants to spend time learning how to do something just to find out that something new has come out which can replace the thing that they already know.
It makes them feel like they have wasted their time learning C. Personally, I would hate to have to start over and learn a new language when I was comfortably entrenched within my knowledge.
If they are small enough, you could have a head mounted unit. If eyeglasses interfere, why not mount them on the eyeglasses themselves? Then the camera could observe the pupil from a short distance without getting reflection interference, since it would be calibrated with the glasses on.
That would eliminate the interference problem and the problem with moving around all in one step, since the camera would move with your head.
I think that the introduction to the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (A collection of all the Hitchhikers Guide books) had some mention of where he got the idea. It was something about hitchhiking through Europe with a book called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe", or something to that effect, maybe "How to Travel Europe on 5 Pounds a Day," I don't have it handy. He was lying on his back in a field, drunk, looking at the stars, and wondered if there was a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That is all I remember about it.
The Guide says that a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster contains:
One bottle of Ol' Janx Spirit One measure of seawater from Santraginus V Melt three cubes of Arcturan Mega-Gin into it Bubble four liters of Fallian Marsh Gas through it Float one measure of Qualactin Hypermint over the back of a silver spoon One Algolian Suntiger Tooth, dissolved A sprinkle of Zamphuor An olive
Now, for those of us unlucky enough to have a Sub-Etha Sens-o-matic and an Electronic Thumb, most of these are very difficult to find. The Guide does list 5 ways to get off of the planet, but from my experience; 1. NASA can't even get their own missions to succeed. 2. I don't have any friends at the White House. 3. I don't speak Russian very well. 4. I'm not Catholic, and the Pope probably doesn't have much interest in Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters. It wouldn't do to have your congregation hammered from communion. 5. I live in a suburb of Chicago, and as I understand it, flying saucers only visit people out in rural areas, where there are few people to confirm their existence.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because I like those numbers.
What?! No burning hands!? That is hardly a mage at all! In my opinion, the only spell you need is burning hands! Why, I once took out 14 orcs with one burning hands spell! All you need is a nice tight corridor and a forgiving DM.
Graphics are a bonus. I love nethack, and some of the best games I've ever played have been text based. Younger gamers can't deal with games without cutting edge graphics. With games like Ultima IX, Homeworld, etc. out, people expect good graphics to go along with good gameplay.
I programmed mine to conquer the world when it is not keeping track of my address book. You will all soon fall under it's sway. Mwahahahaha!
Gnotella works. Unfortunately, I have an OC-3, and I have not been able to get any decent speed out of anything.
I offer you one million tumtums for it!
First, gather a lot of wood, and during the night, slap it together so it looks like a horse. Get everybody to climb inside. Then, in the morning, roll it up to the gates of Troy.
Wait, that is something different.
glasses that you wear, and they superimpose the net over the real world, so you can pull up a webpage just by looking at something.
When you look at a can of peas, it pulls up nutritional information, price comparisons, other places to buy peas, etc.
Sounds like what you need is one of Willam Gibson's data havens, ala Neuromancer.
Trouble is, I don't think such a thing exists yet.
This seems cool, but there have got to be better ways to do 3D.
Take the IMAX thing a bit further. Instead of projectiong two images with different polarizations, project two images directly onto your retinas. This would give true 3D, and it seems easier than their method.
Probably be hell to program graphics for.
IBM has hit a gold mine. Think of all the things they could sell!
I work at a bookstore that sells online through a certain online used books website.
The site we sell through is used by quite a few bookstores. (about 150) They have three tech support guys, who all take lunch at the same time, and if anything goes wrong with their server, they get 150 calls pretty quickly. Amazingly, whenever the server goes down, they are at lunch. Hmmm, must be some murphy's law thing....
We are still here, but are discouraged by NASA's failure to send more men to the moon in the last thirty years.
NASA is too busy studying the effects of weightlessness on jelly beans to go back to the moon, and we have given up.
Things left on the moon:
The Lunar Rover
various cameras (we saved the film, and left the cameras)
The LMs
Well, you get the idea. NASA has no qualms about leaving junk on the moon.
If it comes back that it is a valid target, e-mail me, and we will see if we can get a campaign going to vote for it.
Paradoxial@ync.net
I remember seeing someone use an additional moniter to scroll through his source code while the program output to the first moniter.
That was roughly ten years ago, on an old mac.
If people are going to go to the trouble to download [insert band name]'s music, they will probably go buy a cd at some point, or go to a concert, or something. Every person that likes [insert band name] because of Napster is going to make money because of it.If you can't get it from Napster, you can tape it off of the radio, or burn it from a friend's CD.
It isn't like Metallica is hurting for cash.
Check it out.
If you want to know if a target is acceptable, you can try and submit it. It will tell you if the target is valid, and then if it is, we can start voting for it.
I put the link in the article, but if you missed it, here it is again.
The Hubble Heritage Society
Of course people are reluctant to change.
It would seem that now, with the rate at which things are changing, people would welcome change, but the fact is, no one wants to spend time learning how to do something just to find out that something new has come out which can replace the thing that they already know.
It makes them feel like they have wasted their time learning C.
Personally, I would hate to have to start over and learn a new language when I was comfortably entrenched within my knowledge.
Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a very interesting fact, and I would mod you up if I had any points.
I caught the Arthur Dent thing, I was just saying I don't remember it being mentioned when he was telling the story of how he got the idea.
How big are the video eye trackers?
If they are small enough, you could have a head mounted unit.
If eyeglasses interfere, why not mount them on the eyeglasses themselves?
Then the camera could observe the pupil from a short distance without getting reflection interference, since it would be calibrated with the glasses on.
That would eliminate the interference problem and the problem with moving around all in one step, since the camera would move with your head.
I wonder if someone could learn to use lowercase letters and spaces?
I think that the introduction to the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (A collection of all the Hitchhikers Guide books) had some mention of where he got the idea. It was something about hitchhiking through Europe with a book called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe", or something to that effect, maybe "How to Travel Europe on 5 Pounds a Day," I don't have it handy. He was lying on his back in a field, drunk, looking at the stars, and wondered if there was a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That is all I remember about it.
The Guide says that a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster contains:
One bottle of Ol' Janx Spirit
One measure of seawater from Santraginus V
Melt three cubes of Arcturan Mega-Gin into it
Bubble four liters of Fallian Marsh Gas through it
Float one measure of Qualactin Hypermint over the back of a silver spoon
One Algolian Suntiger Tooth, dissolved
A sprinkle of Zamphuor
An olive
Now, for those of us unlucky enough to have a Sub-Etha Sens-o-matic and an Electronic Thumb, most of these are very difficult to find.
The Guide does list 5 ways to get off of the planet, but from my experience;
1. NASA can't even get their own missions to succeed.
2. I don't have any friends at the White House.
3. I don't speak Russian very well.
4. I'm not Catholic, and the Pope probably doesn't have much interest in Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters. It wouldn't do to have your congregation hammered from communion.
5. I live in a suburb of Chicago, and as I understand it, flying saucers only visit people out in rural areas, where there are few people to confirm their existence.
Possibly those ingredients can be mail-ordered...