Did anyone else find that the best way to create realistic landscapes was to just take topographic maps of the world and either zoom in or rotate them (or both) so that most players wouldn't recognize say, the Grand Canyon, the Himilayas, etc. Even the Great Lakes look weird when turned around and cropped down a bit.
I do find that world creation is the most satisfying part of gaming. Too bad there's not enough time to play through all the stuff I've created, even if I could find in the boxes in the attic.
I'm married with child now. Back when I was single, there were two occasions where I had three women at once (or rather, we all had a slimey, gloopy, fun time together) and numerous other times with two women. Nothing like having a bi-sexual girlfriend who liked to share and that all the women wanted. I'll admit that my time spent gaming that year was somewhat less than in other years.
I started with the first version (three books in a white box) and within a year or two (memory fading now-a-days) had a copy of the Player's Manual and Monster Manual (v. 1). Did several years of playing but kept running into rule natzi's. Eventually settled in with a group of friends that did very open-ended play (really needed a good DM/GM for this). Got away from the books altogether and our games really became free form story telling.
A few years later, wanting to get into Traveller, I got into GURPS and really like the system. It's looser than D&D (as I remember it, not getting into v2 of the hardback books) but provides as much framework as you like or need.
While not gaming with D&D any more, I'm still RPGing with GURPS. Waste of time? Perhaps. But it's cheaper than drugs and less morally repugnant than professional sports (of what possible connection is there between me and a bunch of rich jocks playing a game with a ball?). Wife doesn't get gaming much, but then she's a solitare fanatic on the computer. Go figure.
But these aren't the 'true' X86 Linux, as conceived by bored, overachieving Scandanavians (a moose once bit my sister. No, really!). These versions of Linux are tainted by being compiled for another type of processor (what floats on water? Churches!). Unless you run Linux on a 486, with 5.25" drives, you are a loser (Kneeh!). Forget the gourd. Go like our lord, with one sandal!
Even though humans have been working with dogs for 20k+ years and cats for only 8k years, we haven't really done all that much with cats. Yeah, we've taken their fur off and flattened their faces but the basic size of the house cat has remained the same. Compare that to the difference between the mastif and any of those anoying 'pit' dogs (carried in the arm pit by little old ladies). For what people use cats for, there hasn't been any need to change their size. Also, cats are a really great carnivore. The way one professor I had put it; "Evolution got a great carinivore with the cat and hasn't done much else with it. There are size variation for the local envrionments but over all, they really haven't changed that much in the last 25 million years."
I must admit it sounded a little presumptuous when they said that squids would take to the land to fill the void
How many large invertibrates are roaming the land now or have roamed the land. Insects like the giant cockroach and dragon fly had a time of it, before lizards and such made it onto land. Once that happened, vertibrates had their way (other than the fact that small bugs outweigh all other animals on the planet).
More likely, some other small omnivore that needs brain over braun to survive will evolve into another people. This could be from racoons, squirls, and rats or some kind of small lizard. They all have a grasping kind of hand which seems to be useful to find things on the internet.
For another look at evolution, go back 25 million years ago. Try to find a dog, a horse, and a cat. All you'll find is the cat. The basic form of the cat hasn't changed all that much in 25 million years. It's evoloved to fill just about all the land ecological niches as a great carnivore. Even man has only changed it's basic appearance, not it's over all function. Look how much more man has changed dogs.
I guess you could have hair length (bald, buzz, short, average, long, Crystal Gail). There could also be a body hair category, butt category (back, average, board (as flat as)), legs, face, hands, action, etc.
At this point, are you getting turned on by porn or by the classification of porn? Some people collect baseball cards for the cards, others like the sorting and filing. Go figure!
Should my porn directory be organized into movies, stills and texts or perhaps perverted, spicy and nice? Whichever atrribute I choose I will have trouble searching on the other.
How about store the files alphabeticaly, by model name? Install PostgreSQL/PHP and assign key words. Use drop down menus (breast size, hair color, action, file type (image, movie, etc.) etc.) to only bring up what you're looking for. It seems that this is what this guy's doing, only for KDE save/open.
And finally: Why do so many sysadmins dedicate their lives to looking like freaks? Find a shower, a razor, a comb, and use them, people!
I happen to like wearing jeans and t-shirts, having long hair and I hate to shave. I'm not a employed because of my looks (worked in radio as well; have a face for it, as they say) or my personality, so why should I emulate the look and behavior of every other cube monkey out there? I could make more money with the corporate look but quality of life is important to me.
Why did the bums live in the abandoned warehouse in Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday? Because that's how they wanted it.
...About three years ago I drew a rough floorplan of the apartment we lived in until I was two. I had the living room and kitchen, table, couch, TV (big cabinet on legs), record player/albums and the stairs up to my room. The only thing I didn't have down was my parents room or the bathroom. A couple of weeks later, I took it over to my Dad's and he confirmed that that was our apartment. Told me that I wasn't allowed to wander into their bedroom or bathroom and was carried in there each time.
I also remember pulling out the Door's "LA Woman" album so that my Dad would play "Riders on the Storm". I'd lay on the floor, looking at the album, with the storm sounds on the record player while a thunder storm would roll in across the Indiana fields (we lived in Muncie).
I have a few other very vague memories from back then but those are the only definate ones. Oh yeah, I remember my baby sitter having high boots, knee length, earthtone skirt and long brown hair and glasses (1969 college student). Guess what kind of girls I've been attracted to ever since? My wife's 10 years older than I, long brown hair, glasses, long skirts, hippie blouses and is into all the same '60's music I am. Too cool!
Just goes to show how the early years of a kid's life can really shape things down the road.
Tech Industry needs something like Bar or AMA?
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Unless the tech industry starts to police itself like Lawyers, doctors, and accountants (ha-ha!) do, we might end up facing outside regulation. Think about all the personal/financial data even a lowly pc tech has access to, not to mention passwords, etc.
Reciprocal conceiled carry permits are recognized in several states. I don't have the full list here but know that I can use my Florida conceiled carry permit through Georga, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan. That's enough to let me carry all the way home (family home in MI).
Florida has 'Shall Carry' conceiled weapons perimiting. As a law abiding citizen, you will granted a conceiled carry permit after a background check/application. It's up to the state to prove that you are not a law abiding citizen before they can restrict you from having a conceiled carry permit. If you are law abiding, they must issue you a permit.
I really like both his Terro-Human Future History and his Paratime stories. His main characters are another version of the Cambellian competent man but well written. His science is a little light but his sociological insights are pretty good. Part of this stems from his use of historical precident in laying out his stories.
Unfortunately most of his work is out of print. There's been two recent collections put together, The Complete Paratime and The Complete Fuzzy. These are out of print but still available at Amazon. The Paratime one has most of the Paratime stories as well as Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen, his only Paratime novel. The Fuzzy compilation contains Piper's Fuzzy novels but nothing else. For the rest of Piper, it's eBay.
John F. Carr has been writing Lord Kalvin novels and information on them can be found at hostigos.com.
Re:Especially when you see the adds :)
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Maybe it's time for a slashdot poll concerning what OS you use when browsing slashdot?
His site's hosted on.Mac. I wonder how it's holding up? I didn't notice any slowdown at 8:45am. Wonder what it would take to knock out.Mac (not malicously, just overload with geeks jazzing on Star Trek and Legos)?
I had the chance to get a new Mac 18 months ago (just sold house-cash on hand). Looked at what I'd really be using it for at home (sideline DTP, playing with apps, etc. No real production work) and decided on a beige G3 off of eBay. Since OSX 10.2 came out, I've upgraded the processor to a 450MHz G4, maxed out the ram, added ATA 100 card and am planning on a ATI Radeon 7500 PCI card next.
Would I like a new G4? Hell yeah, but I'd rather put the $1200 towards an overdrive tranny for my Impala.
I've seen a lot of Apple Airport base stations failing due to leaking caps. Now I know why. Hope the Linksys wireless routers don't use the same pieces. As cheap as they are, probably do. Bummer!
All new Macs come with OSX 10.2. Free 10.2 to K-12 teachers is so they can install it on their existing Macs. All Apple's trying to do is push migration to the new OS.
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Did anyone else find that the best way to create realistic landscapes was to just take topographic maps of the world and either zoom in or rotate them (or both) so that most players wouldn't recognize say, the Grand Canyon, the Himilayas, etc. Even the Great Lakes look weird when turned around and cropped down a bit.
I do find that world creation is the most satisfying part of gaming. Too bad there's not enough time to play through all the stuff I've created, even if I could find in the boxes in the attic.
I might be a virgin in my ear.
I'm married with child now. Back when I was single, there were two occasions where I had three women at once (or rather, we all had a slimey, gloopy, fun time together) and numerous other times with two women. Nothing like having a bi-sexual girlfriend who liked to share and that all the women wanted. I'll admit that my time spent gaming that year was somewhat less than in other years.
I started with the first version (three books in a white box) and within a year or two (memory fading now-a-days) had a copy of the Player's Manual and Monster Manual (v. 1). Did several years of playing but kept running into rule natzi's. Eventually settled in with a group of friends that did very open-ended play (really needed a good DM/GM for this). Got away from the books altogether and our games really became free form story telling.
A few years later, wanting to get into Traveller, I got into GURPS and really like the system. It's looser than D&D (as I remember it, not getting into v2 of the hardback books) but provides as much framework as you like or need.
While not gaming with D&D any more, I'm still RPGing with GURPS. Waste of time? Perhaps. But it's cheaper than drugs and less morally repugnant than professional sports (of what possible connection is there between me and a bunch of rich jocks playing a game with a ball?). Wife doesn't get gaming much, but then she's a solitare fanatic on the computer. Go figure.
But these aren't the 'true' X86 Linux, as conceived by bored, overachieving Scandanavians (a moose once bit my sister. No, really!). These versions of Linux are tainted by being compiled for another type of processor (what floats on water? Churches!). Unless you run Linux on a 486, with 5.25" drives, you are a loser (Kneeh!). Forget the gourd. Go like our lord, with one sandal!
"...I felt this incredible surge of power...like God must feel when he's holding a gun."
Even though humans have been working with dogs for 20k+ years and cats for only 8k years, we haven't really done all that much with cats. Yeah, we've taken their fur off and flattened their faces but the basic size of the house cat has remained the same. Compare that to the difference between the mastif and any of those anoying 'pit' dogs (carried in the arm pit by little old ladies). For what people use cats for, there hasn't been any need to change their size. Also, cats are a really great carnivore. The way one professor I had put it; "Evolution got a great carinivore with the cat and hasn't done much else with it. There are size variation for the local envrionments but over all, they really haven't changed that much in the last 25 million years."
I must admit it sounded a little presumptuous when they said that squids would take to the land to fill the void
How many large invertibrates are roaming the land now or have roamed the land. Insects like the giant cockroach and dragon fly had a time of it, before lizards and such made it onto land. Once that happened, vertibrates had their way (other than the fact that small bugs outweigh all other animals on the planet).
More likely, some other small omnivore that needs brain over braun to survive will evolve into another people. This could be from racoons, squirls, and rats or some kind of small lizard. They all have a grasping kind of hand which seems to be useful to find things on the internet.
For another look at evolution, go back 25 million years ago. Try to find a dog, a horse, and a cat. All you'll find is the cat. The basic form of the cat hasn't changed all that much in 25 million years. It's evoloved to fill just about all the land ecological niches as a great carnivore. Even man has only changed it's basic appearance, not it's over all function. Look how much more man has changed dogs.
Cool! Since OSX came out, I've pretty much stopped paying attention to Linux. Will have to grab some of this stuff and play around with it. Thanks!
What are some platforms that NetBSD runs on but Linux doesn't?
Mac68k! My Quadra 650's been running as NAT for a couple of years. Took over from my old IIci.
The closest thing to Linux on old Mac 68k hardware is MKLinux and that's really not being developed any more. NetBSD is current!
I guess you could have hair length (bald, buzz, short, average, long, Crystal Gail). There could also be a body hair category, butt category (back, average, board (as flat as)), legs, face, hands, action, etc.
At this point, are you getting turned on by porn or by the classification of porn? Some people collect baseball cards for the cards, others like the sorting and filing. Go figure!
Should my porn directory be organized into movies, stills and texts or perhaps perverted, spicy and nice? Whichever atrribute I choose I will have trouble searching on the other.
How about store the files alphabeticaly, by model name? Install PostgreSQL/PHP and assign key words. Use drop down menus (breast size, hair color, action, file type (image, movie, etc.) etc.) to only bring up what you're looking for. It seems that this is what this guy's doing, only for KDE save/open.
And finally: Why do so many sysadmins dedicate their lives to looking like freaks? Find a shower, a razor, a comb, and use them, people!
I happen to like wearing jeans and t-shirts, having long hair and I hate to shave. I'm not a employed because of my looks (worked in radio as well; have a face for it, as they say) or my personality, so why should I emulate the look and behavior of every other cube monkey out there? I could make more money with the corporate look but quality of life is important to me.
Why did the bums live in the abandoned warehouse in Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday? Because that's how they wanted it.
I did see one about 5 years ago;
Wanted: Web master. 10 years experience.
...About three years ago I drew a rough floorplan of the apartment we lived in until I was two. I had the living room and kitchen, table, couch, TV (big cabinet on legs), record player/albums and the stairs up to my room. The only thing I didn't have down was my parents room or the bathroom. A couple of weeks later, I took it over to my Dad's and he confirmed that that was our apartment. Told me that I wasn't allowed to wander into their bedroom or bathroom and was carried in there each time.
I also remember pulling out the Door's "LA Woman" album so that my Dad would play "Riders on the Storm". I'd lay on the floor, looking at the album, with the storm sounds on the record player while a thunder storm would roll in across the Indiana fields (we lived in Muncie).
I have a few other very vague memories from back then but those are the only definate ones. Oh yeah, I remember my baby sitter having high boots, knee length, earthtone skirt and long brown hair and glasses (1969 college student). Guess what kind of girls I've been attracted to ever since? My wife's 10 years older than I, long brown hair, glasses, long skirts, hippie blouses and is into all the same '60's music I am. Too cool!
Just goes to show how the early years of a kid's life can really shape things down the road.
Unless the tech industry starts to police itself like Lawyers, doctors, and accountants (ha-ha!) do, we might end up facing outside regulation. Think about all the personal/financial data even a lowly pc tech has access to, not to mention passwords, etc.
Reciprocal conceiled carry permits are recognized in several states. I don't have the full list here but know that I can use my Florida conceiled carry permit through Georga, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan. That's enough to let me carry all the way home (family home in MI).
Florida has 'Shall Carry' conceiled weapons perimiting. As a law abiding citizen, you will granted a conceiled carry permit after a background check/application. It's up to the state to prove that you are not a law abiding citizen before they can restrict you from having a conceiled carry permit. If you are law abiding, they must issue you a permit.
I really like both his Terro-Human Future History and his Paratime stories. His main characters are another version of the Cambellian competent man but well written. His science is a little light but his sociological insights are pretty good. Part of this stems from his use of historical precident in laying out his stories.
Unfortunately most of his work is out of print. There's been two recent collections put together, The Complete Paratime and The Complete Fuzzy. These are out of print but still available at Amazon. The Paratime one has most of the Paratime stories as well as Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen, his only Paratime novel. The Fuzzy compilation contains Piper's Fuzzy novels but nothing else. For the rest of Piper, it's eBay.
John F. Carr has been writing Lord Kalvin novels and information on them can be found at hostigos.com.
Maybe it's time for a slashdot poll concerning what OS you use when browsing slashdot?
Win
Mac
Linux
BSD
Unix
Cowboy Neal ate my OS.
His site's hosted on .Mac. I wonder how it's holding up? I didn't notice any slowdown at 8:45am. Wonder what it would take to knock out .Mac (not malicously, just overload with geeks jazzing on Star Trek and Legos)?
Would I like a new G4? Hell yeah, but I'd rather put the $1200 towards an overdrive tranny for my Impala.
Sounds like Newton OS and SOUP.
I've seen a lot of Apple Airport base stations failing due to leaking caps. Now I know why. Hope the Linksys wireless routers don't use the same pieces. As cheap as they are, probably do. Bummer!
All new Macs come with OSX 10.2. Free 10.2 to K-12 teachers is so they can install it on their existing Macs. All Apple's trying to do is push migration to the new OS.