Fargo also brought us Wasteland, IMHO one of the best RPGs to ever hit production Fallout was a series inspired by the greatness of Wasteland, but that fell short of a true WL2.
If this guy is really as bad off as he makes out, playing Everquest 24/7 may well be within his means. At this rate assuming he has any gaming skill, he should be able to start selling some l33t equipment on Ebay shortly. I'm not an expert on this financial model, but certainly someone who is restricted to his home and has a high-end PC should see a fantasy world (where he can aquire wealth that may transfer to the real world) as a posibility. I wish him the best of luck even if his bio is a bit "poor me".
IIRC the slashdot crowd or at least the ones modded 2+ hated his short story on salon. I thought it was ok, though a bit contrived. I'm all for a new sci-fi author getting his works out, and his distribution methods seem very/. friendly; I still have to wonder if the content is all that good though. Guess I'll be reading it myself. sigh.
It is the reddest object so far seen within in the solar system and appears to give out more heat than it receives from the Sun, perhaps from either radiation bands around Jupiter or tidal heating.
The source of the heat is not the core of the moon.
Seriously, as interesting as it would be to find alien life on one of these moons, the more probable scientific interest here would be unlocking a new method of heat creation.
In the future as we attempt to colonize anything other than earth, we might find it's a bit chilly out there. Generating long-term, sustaining heat on a planetary scale without a nearby sun would be a feat indeed! Through closer study we may learn how to artificially introduce these systems to climates that are less hospitable.
I like listening to good music. I also haven't ever had a real stereo or set of speakers. SO I decided to take the plunge and set up a good Music/Movie system. It will cost plenty (about 5000$) but the end result is a 7.1 system with quality components that I can listen to anything in my collection on (except my 3 LPs).
I am looking at the new Pioneer Combo Players. These babies will play both SACD and DVD-A and have an imprssive video feature set as well.
For those who say "blah blah.. I have my mp3s". I do too. I have ripped all my CDs and don't plan on having to swap discs out unless I want to listen to the high quality DVD-A or SACD stuff. TO accomodate this I will have a digital feed from my computer into the back of my receiver. I can play whatever I cue up in my playlist!
I may be different in that I don't have a lot invested in old technology, but it seems that these formats have a lot of multichannel love to offer in the near term for me. I'm not an audiophile.
How soon till the RIAA slams Kazaa as long and hard as Napster? Surely they don't think that joining forces with European companies somehow protects them from the long arm of the RIAA?
Magic will be a force in the gaming community for a VERY long time. The strength of its support and sheer popularity will make it viable on the tournament scene, and the nature of magic itself will make it popular outside of tournaments for even longer.
The difference to me lies in the number of creative and fun ways there are to play. I like to play a format called backdraft. Instead of drafting the best deck possible, you draft the worst, and then exchange that deck with your parner. Another format that was recently written up by the wizards staff was the Big Draft Box. This simply was a collection of one copy of every magic card ever. While out of reach for most players, the principle remains sound, stuff one copy of a ton of different cards into a big box and draft 'em.
What makes magic different seems to be the ways the cards interact with each other. Drafting in other games just isn't as easy because of the necessity of an initial game state. Magic has no initial game state except for cards in hand and a library.
As for player support alone, if it came to that, I think Magic would still survive. There are enough people who love to play the gmae no for prizes or cash or cards, but just because it's fun. Other CCGs, such as Middle Earth: The Wizards(a once-popular CCG produced by the now defunct Iron Crown Enterprises) survives today on it's fan base alone. As the web editor for the North American council pages, I can say we're still very active.
In the end, games that people love to play will always survive.
Reviews aren't always about Quake 3 FPS or multimedia benchmarks. I agree that he has no numbers and that's not a great thing, but he does offer a great look inside the smallest case out there. The review adequately covers the pluses and minuses of the product and details the hardware they tried, failed, and finally triumphed with. Ok, so it's not Tom's Hardware, it's still a decent overview of a new product from a non-biased source.
From her well thought out posts on the subject, Ms. Ian has already defined the players and their perspective roles. From what I have gleaned the two biggest "players" at the moment (due to their activity?) appear to be the RIAA and the P2P community.
While good suggestions have been made for experiments in change, let us suppose for a moment that neither of these entities takes a step towards the middle. With tensions mounting on both sides, how does the future of the industry appear if the situation continues as it has been? Is there anything that people who are sick of the actions of the RIAA, but who aren't comfortable with copyright violation can do to help brighten this future?
Had you read the article, I dying fad for/. readers I fear, you would have seen that the entire excersise was devoted to:
a) Science - how many connections can we see warflying?
b) Curiousity - can we see these connections form the air
c) Good Hacking - Alerting people that there are hundereds of unprotected or poorly protected nodes which may belong to businesses or military instillations, nevermind individuals.
It's sad to see how fast some people jump to conclusions and think that just because people have the power to exploit security flaws that they will.
How stable is all this going to be? I have to believe this is only working in vacuum conditions at the moment. I doubt it's going to be hitting the inside of anyone's computer in the near future. As the article says, the first applications will probably be high power microscopes. Not too much else seems feasible in the near term.
Is it just me or is this crap really stretching it. I think with 10 years and a good budget, I could write a convincing enough paper describing how cow feces is similar to chocolate.
Several software genres besides games push the technology envelope. Computation heavy imaging apps or other number crunchers crave processing power in the form of CPU/GPU or both. The reason gaming as a genre forces the issue is that there are more gamers buying hardware than imaging geeks. This tidal wave of demand forces the technology to keep up. Companies see a demand as cash and rightfully so.
However, should number crunching apps that break crypto or 3-D modellers for cyberworlds become more popular than say games like doom3, you could rightfully say that it was the hackers and artists driving the advent of technology, not the gamers.
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I thought the solution was in peril. Damn those sneaky barnacles!
and found nothing of interest.
Fargo also brought us Wasteland, IMHO one of the best RPGs to ever hit production Fallout was a series inspired by the greatness of Wasteland, but that fell short of a true WL2.
Yeah those were awesome.. Alternate Reality the City, Alternate Reality the dungeon. What a badass series of games. Oh.. you didn't mean those?
If this guy is really as bad off as he makes out, playing Everquest 24/7 may well be within his means. At this rate assuming he has any gaming skill, he should be able to start selling some l33t equipment on Ebay shortly. I'm not an expert on this financial model, but certainly someone who is restricted to his home and has a high-end PC should see a fantasy world (where he can aquire wealth that may transfer to the real world) as a posibility. I wish him the best of luck even if his bio is a bit "poor me".
IIRC the slashdot crowd or at least the ones modded 2+ hated his short story on salon. I thought it was ok, though a bit contrived. I'm all for a new sci-fi author getting his works out, and his distribution methods seem very /. friendly; I still have to wonder if the content is all that good though. Guess I'll be reading it myself.
sigh.
To save you all some pixel strain and brain cells, the gist is that the MAVAV server traces to a gaming clan's IP.
The cat has left the bag.
I'd go to see a stoner orgy that used life-sized chess pieces.
I just ordered mine from Deep Discount DVD. I chose this site based on a search from DVD Price Search.
Brave new world here we come.
From the article:
It is the reddest object so far seen within in the solar system and appears to give out more heat than it receives from the Sun, perhaps from either radiation bands around Jupiter or tidal heating.
The source of the heat is not the core of the moon.
Seriously, as interesting as it would be to find alien life on one of these moons, the more probable scientific interest here would be unlocking a new method of heat creation.
In the future as we attempt to colonize anything other than earth, we might find it's a bit chilly out there. Generating long-term, sustaining heat on a planetary scale without a nearby sun would be a feat indeed! Through closer study we may learn how to artificially introduce these systems to climates that are less hospitable.
I like listening to good music. I also haven't ever had a real stereo or set of speakers. SO I decided to take the plunge and set up a good Music/Movie system. It will cost plenty (about 5000$) but the end result is a 7.1 system with quality components that I can listen to anything in my collection on (except my 3 LPs).
I am looking at the new Pioneer Combo Players. These babies will play both SACD and DVD-A and have an imprssive video feature set as well.
For those who say "blah blah.. I have my mp3s". I do too. I have ripped all my CDs and don't plan on having to swap discs out unless I want to listen to the high quality DVD-A or SACD stuff. TO accomodate this I will have a digital feed from my computer into the back of my receiver. I can play whatever I cue up in my playlist!
I may be different in that I don't have a lot invested in old technology, but it seems that these formats have a lot of multichannel love to offer in the near term for me. I'm not an audiophile.
How soon till the RIAA slams Kazaa as long and hard as Napster? Surely they don't think that joining forces with European companies somehow protects them from the long arm of the RIAA?
Find it odd that this was filed under toys? It'd certainly be the biggest most expensive toy on the market.
I rarely find video featuring small shafts entertaining.
Magic will be a force in the gaming community for a VERY long time. The strength of its support and sheer popularity will make it viable on the tournament scene, and the nature of magic itself will make it popular outside of tournaments for even longer.
The difference to me lies in the number of creative and fun ways there are to play. I like to play a format called backdraft. Instead of drafting the best deck possible, you draft the worst, and then exchange that deck with your parner. Another format that was recently written up by the wizards staff was the Big Draft Box. This simply was a collection of one copy of every magic card ever. While out of reach for most players, the principle remains sound, stuff one copy of a ton of different cards into a big box and draft 'em.
What makes magic different seems to be the ways the cards interact with each other. Drafting in other games just isn't as easy because of the necessity of an initial game state. Magic has no initial game state except for cards in hand and a library.
As for player support alone, if it came to that, I think Magic would still survive. There are enough people who love to play the gmae no for prizes or cash or cards, but just because it's fun. Other CCGs, such as Middle Earth: The Wizards(a once-popular CCG produced by the now defunct Iron Crown Enterprises) survives today on it's fan base alone. As the web editor for the North American council pages, I can say we're still very active.
In the end, games that people love to play will always survive.
Reviews aren't always about Quake 3 FPS or multimedia benchmarks. I agree that he has no numbers and that's not a great thing, but he does offer a great look inside the smallest case out there. The review adequately covers the pluses and minuses of the product and details the hardware they tried, failed, and finally triumphed with. Ok, so it's not Tom's Hardware, it's still a decent overview of a new product from a non-biased source.
Judges always get away with Killing?
From her well thought out posts on the subject, Ms. Ian has already defined the players and their perspective roles. From what I have gleaned the two biggest "players" at the moment (due to their activity?) appear to be the RIAA and the P2P community.
While good suggestions have been made for experiments in change, let us suppose for a moment that neither of these entities takes a step towards the middle. With tensions mounting on both sides, how does the future of the industry appear if the situation continues as it has been? Is there anything that people who are sick of the actions of the RIAA, but who aren't comfortable with copyright violation can do to help brighten this future?
People may try to drop a lot of bad cake on the poor thing.
Had you read the article, I dying fad for /. readers I fear, you would have seen that the entire excersise was devoted to:
a) Science - how many connections can we see warflying?
b) Curiousity - can we see these connections form the air
c) Good Hacking - Alerting people that there are hundereds of unprotected or poorly protected nodes which may belong to businesses or military instillations, nevermind individuals.
It's sad to see how fast some people jump to conclusions and think that just because people have the power to exploit security flaws that they will.
How stable is all this going to be? I have to believe this is only working in vacuum conditions at the moment. I doubt it's going to be hitting the inside of anyone's computer in the near future. As the article says, the first applications will probably be high power microscopes. Not too much else seems feasible in the near term.
Is it just me or is this crap really stretching it. I think with 10 years and a good budget, I could write a convincing enough paper describing how cow feces is similar to chocolate.
Several software genres besides games push the technology envelope. Computation heavy imaging apps or other number crunchers crave processing power in the form of CPU/GPU or both. The reason gaming as a genre forces the issue is that there are more gamers buying hardware than imaging geeks. This tidal wave of demand forces the technology to keep up. Companies see a demand as cash and rightfully so.
However, should number crunching apps that break crypto or 3-D modellers for cyberworlds become more popular than say games like doom3, you could rightfully say that it was the hackers and artists driving the advent of technology, not the gamers.