Well, all I can say is a coworker just broke the news to me and before heading here to Slashdot to see it for myself I just said "Weeeee!" in a high pitch while pushing myself on the chair around the office...
Argh, a little gem of a genuine good joke here on slashdot and it's all full of funectomized answers, that to add insult over injury try to patronize the grandparent!
Grumble. I suggest you go outside and take note on what people say just before all laugh, then you can build a bayes predictor with that data and use it to check a post before replying to it and showing you're not from this planet.
Well yeah they do have 1 main quest per class, there is a plot, and for talking enemies, most inteligent enemies will say something to you when you #chat with them, though it only serves to get feedback on their health sometimes, there are some that affect more gameplay like:
Shopkeepers: Talk to them to buy sell or try to calm them(ie: bribe them) if you robbed them in the past.
Temple priests: Can give you buffs for money.
The oracle: Will tell you many tricks useful to know in the game, and also will tell you an important part of the plot.
The named demon lords: Some of them can ask you a bribe to let you through their domains(or you could just smite them).
And of course the wizard of Yendor: He will be trash talking you from the moment you find him to the end game.
Though it doesn't appear in the game, your god also talks a fair bit to you, and when you fight demons and angels they often tease and taunt you.
As for other quests, while they aren't explicitly "given" to you by a npc in a story like mode, you can find many special levels and entire branches of the dungeon with special properties and flavor, and a coherent structure. For example the gnomish mines, with a gnomish town in the middle, with all their citizens and shops, or of course the medusa level, croesus castle, or hell, which you reach crossing the valley of the dead.
Well I've only scratched the surface of the game but I hope it will be enough for you to see nethack has a very complex gameplay.
BTW maybe IHBT, I thought everybody knew at least that nethack was complicated and full of things, if not graphics, put it was a pretty good opportunity to evangelize it:P
Well if you read the article carefully, you'll see this:
At one point during my visit with the Badirs, I pull out my cell phone and make a call. Before it even connects, Shadde, who is sitting across the room, recites all 12 digits perfectly.
Ramy smiles at the parlor trick. "It used to be disgusting to be blind," he says. "Today, you scare people. You possess skills that those with sight cannot possibly understand."
This is something normal people usually can't do, but i've known blind people that can do that kind of "tricks"(they can also tell you if you're standing or sitting while talking on the phone, for example). Certainly being blind gives them some good social-engineering-enabling abilities, and they can also play the poor-blind-victim that'll probably soften the most paranoid secretary;
Of course, if instead of touch-tone passwords these secretaries had been typing their passwords in a unix terminal, they would be screwed, and no amount of over-the-shoulder peeking would have helped them!;)
Well, I'd say that X is lean and fast enough, though some drivers could use some work, maybe from the video card manufacturers(SiS this goes for you).
The good thing about this consolidation is that finally xlibs is mantained with people close(and interested) in the workings of the main toolkits, Qt and GTK+; In the past the X dev team has shown a bit of disdain towards the toolkits and their developers. Now, thanks to Keith Packard and many other volunteers this is starting to change, i hope this leads to xlib and Qt/GTK+ working together in a better way, and, now that they can add things to X directly, to a more standard desktop!
Kudos do Keith Packard and the fd.o team for this!
I realize you're trying to be funny, but the sad reality is that whatever the solution is(if there is one), it will only work if there's enough mail clients and servers that apply it, and the matter of fact is that Microsoft holds the keys to a very large client base. While they alone can't do it, they must certainly be part of the solution for it to work. So while we may despise Microsoft, the fact is on this issue they both are on our side, and we WANT them here.
Bill Gates will find that that approach is infeasible even for him.
E-Mail has an enormous and heterogeneous install base, and while outlook has a strong grip on the client market, that's not the only place where it counts. There are a lot of servers which use non-microsoft software, and making even a sizable majority of them swap will be a daunting task.
Yep, the strength of it relies on that it's not restricting your rights to the code, but enhacing them, so it'll be very strong in front of a judge.
Moreover, tough it got critiques about being 'viral', etc, it has the mechanisms to ensure the code doesn't get coopted in comercial code, and closed. If you want to use it, you have to give back, and that's something that can only strenghten free software.
For one they have added a clause where any code redistributed automatically grants patent licenses to use it, and if you try to litigate some of them, you lose the licenses to other patents not owned by you in the code. In the face of the current legal environment(SCO, code patent extortion, etc...), I think it's a good preventive measure to add it to the license.
IANAL, but what it seems to mean in plain english is that you have a license to use all patents existing in the code shared(by the patent owner, of course), and, likewise, you have to grant licenses to the patents that you have and use in the code you add to Apache. If somebody starts threatening with patent lawsuits, he inmediately loses the automatic licenses to all other patents in the code. In practice that means you can no longer continue redistributing it, because you will be infringing many patents.
IMHO a good deterrent to SCO-like lawsuit happy companies.
The more Microsoft campaigns against linux the more it will backfire, because while this won't sway us geeks to their side, will increase Linux visibility between suit types and PHBs, and that can only be good. When they have heard enough about the penguin, they will ask and seek information about it.
When they come to you, just give them the facts, and eventually we will convince some of them to give it a try, and that's enough.
In conclusion: Go Microsoft! With your help, we will bring linux to the masses faster!;)
I have to disagree. For one, the SP is too small for my hands(which I'd admit are pretty big), and the shoulder buttons are badly positioned. I've used it for some time(switched it with a friend to give it a try) and after 20 min playing my hands hurt, and it seems I can't learn to use them properly.
Two. The afterburner(with the dimmer chip, no way i'm going to carve a hole in my GBA) gives you an important choice, because in many situations you don't need full light, and dimming the afterburner gives you a measurable boost in battery time.
However i like the way the screen is protected in the SP. i have to change the front cover everytime i drop the GBA in the same pocket where i have my keys:(
Microsoft is paying al legal expenses for all the users of his insecure OS, that we all know is easily rooted, and thus easily used for distributed DOS attacks and/or spam messaging.
Or Outlook, that being the insecure POS it is, has let lots of viruses spread, costing trillions(or so say analists) in bandwidth and damages.
So, i'm thinking that next time we get hit by any DDOS or our mail server gets clogged by so many viruses, instead of cursing our bad fortune, we should instead sue whoever was used to relay the attack!
No worries about them being just another victim like you, because is Microsoft who will get stuck with the bill, and with the load of money Microsoft has, I'm sure there will be hundreds of lawyers willing to take these cases "pro bono", for a cut of the (big) pie!
So you know what to do now! Sue early and often, you'll have at least a chance of getting money out of this, as well as helping Microsoft with all that monopoly money they have around!
Of course, I prefer it now that I've modded it with the afterburner and dimmer chip(and a battery).
My hands are somewhat big and i find the grip on the SP model too small and awkward, the old model is a bit bigger, but with the afterburner, i actually think you're better off(the dimmer chip has different levels of intensity, and an auto-off feature, very handy if you leave it turned on because you can't save at that moment).
By the way, i think Nintendo has done wrong requiring an adaptor for headphones, because in both the old GBA and the SP the speaker is practically useless.
Well, no, in at least the case of Spain and Russia it was because they overspended on the military side, and neglected their economy, while their competitors strenghtened theirs and eventually surpassed them in everything else. I suppose it's a typical case(me? thinking in something concrete? naahh...)
When i went to see EP2, I loved Jango, and the fight with obi wan was the better moment of the movie, because i liked him, and wasn't sure he could escape unscathed. Then there comes this mace windu and kills him in a most anticlimatic way. Oh well.
I think the first thing(s) i would try to clone if i could would be anything resembling human DNA in the shroud. It would be hilarious if some blond/black chinese guy(or even girl) come out of the clonation!
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MAC => Media Access Control => A long and hopefully unique number that identifies your network card in the local network.
(And yes i know you were talking about the chic computers)
Well, all I can say is a coworker just broke the news to me and before heading here to Slashdot to see it for myself I just said "Weeeee!" in a high pitch while pushing myself on the chair around the office...
Grumble. I suggest you go outside and take note on what people say just before all laugh, then you can build a bayes predictor with that data and use it to check a post before replying to it and showing you're not from this planet.
- Shopkeepers: Talk to them to buy sell or try to calm them(ie: bribe them) if you robbed them in the past.
- Temple priests: Can give you buffs for money.
- The oracle: Will tell you many tricks useful to know in the game, and also will tell you an important part of the plot.
- The named demon lords: Some of them can ask you a bribe to let you through their domains(or you could just smite them).
- And of course the wizard of Yendor: He will be trash talking you from the moment you find him to the end game.
Though it doesn't appear in the game, your god also talks a fair bit to you, and when you fight demons and angels they often tease and taunt you.As for other quests, while they aren't explicitly "given" to you by a npc in a story like mode, you can find many special levels and entire branches of the dungeon with special properties and flavor, and a coherent structure. For example the gnomish mines, with a gnomish town in the middle, with all their citizens and shops, or of course the medusa level, croesus castle, or hell, which you reach crossing the valley of the dead.
Well I've only scratched the surface of the game but I hope it will be enough for you to see nethack has a very complex gameplay.
BTW maybe IHBT, I thought everybody knew at least that nethack was complicated and full of things, if not graphics, put it was a pretty good opportunity to evangelize it :P
Then, of course, the target player is called something like "Thiberphrondath", so you still have to do some fast typing with that...
Well if you read the article carefully, you'll see this:
This is something normal people usually can't do, but i've known blind people that can do that kind of "tricks"(they can also tell you if you're standing or sitting while talking on the phone, for example). Certainly being blind gives them some good social-engineering-enabling abilities, and they can also play the poor-blind-victim that'll probably soften the most paranoid secretary;
Of course, if instead of touch-tone passwords these secretaries had been typing their passwords in a unix terminal, they would be screwed, and no amount of over-the-shoulder peeking would have helped them! ;)
The good thing about this consolidation is that finally xlibs is mantained with people close(and interested) in the workings of the main toolkits, Qt and GTK+; In the past the X dev team has shown a bit of disdain towards the toolkits and their developers. Now, thanks to Keith Packard and many other volunteers this is starting to change, i hope this leads to xlib and Qt/GTK+ working together in a better way, and, now that they can add things to X directly, to a more standard desktop!
Kudos do Keith Packard and the fd.o team for this!
I realize you're trying to be funny, but the sad reality is that whatever the solution is(if there is one), it will only work if there's enough mail clients and servers that apply it, and the matter of fact is that Microsoft holds the keys to a very large client base. While they alone can't do it, they must certainly be part of the solution for it to work. So while we may despise Microsoft, the fact is on this issue they both are on our side, and we WANT them here.
E-Mail has an enormous and heterogeneous install base, and while outlook has a strong grip on the client market, that's not the only place where it counts. There are a lot of servers which use non-microsoft software, and making even a sizable majority of them swap will be a daunting task.
That said, for one time i hope Bill is right.
Moreover, tough it got critiques about being 'viral', etc, it has the mechanisms to ensure the code doesn't get coopted in comercial code, and closed. If you want to use it, you have to give back, and that's something that can only strenghten free software.
For one they have added a clause where any code redistributed automatically grants patent licenses to use it, and if you try to litigate some of them, you lose the licenses to other patents not owned by you in the code. In the face of the current legal environment(SCO, code patent extortion, etc...), I think it's a good preventive measure to add it to the license.
IMHO a good deterrent to SCO-like lawsuit happy companies.
When they come to you, just give them the facts, and eventually we will convince some of them to give it a try, and that's enough.
In conclusion: Go Microsoft! With your help, we will bring linux to the masses faster! ;)
Liquid War - The simplest and most addictive wargame ever made -- And free as in beer and speech!
It doesn't need a big machine, so give it a try already!
Note: it is more fun against people; The IA is very dumb
Two. The afterburner(with the dimmer chip, no way i'm going to carve a hole in my GBA) gives you an important choice, because in many situations you don't need full light, and dimming the afterburner gives you a measurable boost in battery time.
However i like the way the screen is protected in the SP. i have to change the front cover everytime i drop the GBA in the same pocket where i have my keys :(
Microsoft is paying al legal expenses for all the users of his insecure OS, that we all know is easily rooted, and thus easily used for distributed DOS attacks and/or spam messaging.
Or Outlook, that being the insecure POS it is, has let lots of viruses spread, costing trillions(or so say analists) in bandwidth and damages.
So, i'm thinking that next time we get hit by any DDOS or our mail server gets clogged by so many viruses, instead of cursing our bad fortune, we should instead sue whoever was used to relay the attack!
No worries about them being just another victim like you, because is Microsoft who will get stuck with the bill, and with the load of money Microsoft has, I'm sure there will be hundreds of lawyers willing to take these cases "pro bono", for a cut of the (big) pie!
So you know what to do now! Sue early and often, you'll have at least a chance of getting money out of this, as well as helping Microsoft with all that monopoly money they have around!
announcing themselves so much, else SCO could give a look to their code, and find it strickingly similar to their own...
My hands are somewhat big and i find the grip on the SP model too small and awkward, the old model is a bit bigger, but with the afterburner, i actually think you're better off(the dimmer chip has different levels of intensity, and an auto-off feature, very handy if you leave it turned on because you can't save at that moment).
By the way, i think Nintendo has done wrong requiring an adaptor for headphones, because in both the old GBA and the SP the speaker is practically useless.
nevermind.
(Or: In Soviet Russia reflexive action goes undisturbed)
In Soviet Russia undisturbed goes reflexive action?
Whatever...
Well, no, in at least the case of Spain and Russia it was because they overspended on the military side, and neglected their economy, while their competitors strenghtened theirs and eventually surpassed them in everything else. I suppose it's a typical case(me? thinking in something concrete? naahh...)
When i went to see EP2, I loved Jango, and the fight with obi wan was the better moment of the movie, because i liked him, and wasn't sure he could escape unscathed. Then there comes this mace windu and kills him in a most anticlimatic way. Oh well.
I think the first thing(s) i would try to clone if i could would be anything resembling human DNA in the shroud. It would be hilarious if some blond/black chinese guy(or even girl) come out of the clonation!
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