I really think the future of online gaming is not going to be 3D accelerated shooters. These types of games appeal to a much larger audience and almost everyone has the hardware to handle it.
Some of my favorite online games? Kingdom of Loathing - Hilarious multiplayer RPG The Game Show - A daily phrase puzzle similar to family fued. Diplomacy - Famous war game without random elements. Global Combat - Risk-like war game, except all moves are made at the same time.
If anyone likes playing around with markets and such, Kingdom of Loathing has a great economic system for players level 5 and up. You can buy and sell game items that fluxuate in price depending on supply and demand. For example, when a certain game item went from being indestructable to breaking after x number of uses, I quickly bought up a lot of its components and sold them at a huge profit.
In addition to the cool economic side of it, the game is an amazing web based RPG that everyone should check out anway.
"LLC is more like a cross between a corporation and a partnership. There seem to be some tax benefits, depending on the situation."
It doesn't really provide you with a better tax situation, but it does keep people from suing you and taking your personal belongings. They can only sue the LLC. It also forces you to define a few fuzzy variables that most business start out with (who owns what, etc.)
I had all the required ID checks last week when I flew, but no one caught the Swiss Army Knife I accidently took on the plane with me (it was attached to my keychain and I totally forgot about it).
You won't need that pref bar extension once you've installed the Web Developer extension. It lets you turn off cookies, javascript, check cookie info, validate CSS/HTML, resize to various window sizes, turn off images, outline block elements, show image paths/sizes, etc.
I got the Bill Gates email from a friend around Thanksgiving of 1997. We made fun of my him for sending it around, but he reasoned "it's probably not true, but it's worth the 2 seconds to send it in case it is."
So when I got back to school after Thanksgiving break I forged the headers in my email to write a message "from" Bill Gates to my friend. The message thanked him for participating in the study and gave him instructions for collecting his $1000. All he had to do was send a self addressed stamped envelope to Microsoft with a letter containing his name and a confirmation number.
Over a year passed by and I never brought it up to my friend. I think it was around Christmas of '98 when we were all home again from college and hanging out when someone brought up the Bill Gates email hoax.
My friend said, "Did I ever tell you guys what happened with that? I got an email saying I won the money, so I followed the instructions and sent back a self addressed stamped envelope, but Microsoft just sent the envelope back to me. I guess it wasn't real, but it was worth the 37 cents just in case it was real."
I finally told him what happened after I laughed for about ten minutes.
This isn't Dreamworks or Pixar, but I had a job interview a few years ago with Blue Sky Studios who created Ice Age. They had a render farm of over 250 machines, but they were hardly "blow your mind away" servers. I believe they had 1Ghz. processors in them which at the time wasn't bad, but not quite top of the line. They said each frame took around 9 hours to render and each machine was working on one frame at a time.
This old guy used to pay me $15/hour in college to help him out with his computer. I'd set things up for him and transfer files from his Mac to his new PC. He used email and the Internet every single day, so I was shocked to hear him ask me the following question.
"Hey Ben, if I have the address of a web site how do I get there without a search engine?"
"Do you see that white bar at the top of the browser?"
"Yeah, it says 'http://www.altavista.com'"
"Type the address in there"
As odd as that request was, I stopped returning his calls after he left this message on my answering machine. Can you figure out what the heck he is saying?
I'm sure the declaration went something like this...
SirElfZer: Gleam is a danger to our children in this text based society. Chemical dependency wastes out currency and poisons our soul. SirEflZer: Merchants caught selling it will have their licenses revoked and will be banished to the northern caves. * Wild Dog bites SirElfZer for -4 hit points * SirElfZer: QUICK! Someone get me a potion!
Is your goal to hunt down and put an end Dracula's reign of terror? Hell no!
YOU are Dracula walking down the street of a suburban neighborhood. If you see eyes peeking out of a window, go up and knock on the door. If the person is dumb enough to come out, chase them around and bite them. Bite x number of people and get back to your coffin before sunrise.
"When I set up a Windows box for a neophyte (admittedly, not often) I do everything I can to purge Internet Exploder from the system"
Wait until they have to use some poorly built online banking software or online billing system that blocks Mozilla users. Keeping people in the dark about what browser they're using will give them a reason to badmouth Mozilla for not working properly when they find out what you did.
I like Firefox, but as long as certain websites require IE you're doing your "neophyte" friend a disservice by "purg(ing) Internet Exploder from the system."
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I'm getting to that point now, too, but you have to admit when you first play the game it's a lot of fun.
I really think the future of online gaming is not going to be 3D accelerated shooters. These types of games appeal to a much larger audience and almost everyone has the hardware to handle it.
Some of my favorite online games?
Kingdom of Loathing - Hilarious multiplayer RPG
The Game Show - A daily phrase puzzle similar to family fued.
Diplomacy - Famous war game without random elements.
Global Combat - Risk-like war game, except all moves are made at the same time.
You're right about the television ads. All I remember is a stuttering, hyped up guy yelling about "Pee-Pee-Pee-Pee-Hats."
The Legend of Zelda was the best NES game by far, and there were a lot of good ones.
If anyone likes playing around with markets and such, Kingdom of Loathing has a great economic system for players level 5 and up. You can buy and sell game items that fluxuate in price depending on supply and demand. For example, when a certain game item went from being indestructable to breaking after x number of uses, I quickly bought up a lot of its components and sold them at a huge profit.
In addition to the cool economic side of it, the game is an amazing web based RPG that everyone should check out anway.
"LLC is more like a cross between a corporation and a partnership. There seem to be some tax benefits, depending on the situation."
It doesn't really provide you with a better tax situation, but it does keep people from suing you and taking your personal belongings. They can only sue the LLC. It also forces you to define a few fuzzy variables that most business start out with (who owns what, etc.)
Why not release a swinging blade above your head. Fix the build too slow and... chop!
At double the speed, it still would have taken an hour.
"Whats the point of blazing high speeds without the content???"
The other day I had to upload 500 digital photos to an online photo printing/sharing service. It took a few hours even on a decent cable connection.
I had all the required ID checks last week when I flew, but no one caught the Swiss Army Knife I accidently took on the plane with me (it was attached to my keychain and I totally forgot about it).
You won't need that pref bar extension once you've installed the Web Developer extension. It lets you turn off cookies, javascript, check cookie info, validate CSS/HTML, resize to various window sizes, turn off images, outline block elements, show image paths/sizes, etc.
It makes my life easier.
My response to all the hoax accusations...
Yeah, the postage was different. I didn't feel like looking up what the rates were in 97.
The quotes from me and my friend are very close, but obviously I can't remember the exact wording of our conversations.
Other than that the story is 100% freakin' true. In fact, he just got married on Saturday and I was the best man in his wedding.
I got the Bill Gates email from a friend around Thanksgiving of 1997. We made fun of my him for sending it around, but he reasoned "it's probably not true, but it's worth the 2 seconds to send it in case it is."
So when I got back to school after Thanksgiving break I forged the headers in my email to write a message "from" Bill Gates to my friend. The message thanked him for participating in the study and gave him instructions for collecting his $1000. All he had to do was send a self addressed stamped envelope to Microsoft with a letter containing his name and a confirmation number.
Over a year passed by and I never brought it up to my friend. I think it was around Christmas of '98 when we were all home again from college and hanging out when someone brought up the Bill Gates email hoax.
My friend said, "Did I ever tell you guys what happened with that? I got an email saying I won the money, so I followed the instructions and sent back a self addressed stamped envelope, but Microsoft just sent the envelope back to me. I guess it wasn't real, but it was worth the 37 cents just in case it was real."
I finally told him what happened after I laughed for about ten minutes.
I think every Best Buy in American sells it for $9.99 on DVD.
Weird Al introducing the deleted scenes is classic.
"10Gbs etho and blow your mind away servers"
This isn't Dreamworks or Pixar, but I had a job interview a few years ago with Blue Sky Studios who created Ice Age. They had a render farm of over 250 machines, but they were hardly "blow your mind away" servers. I believe they had 1Ghz. processors in them which at the time wasn't bad, but not quite top of the line. They said each frame took around 9 hours to render and each machine was working on one frame at a time.
This old guy used to pay me $15/hour in college to help him out with his computer. I'd set things up for him and transfer files from his Mac to his new PC. He used email and the Internet every single day, so I was shocked to hear him ask me the following question.
"Hey Ben, if I have the address of a web site how do I get there without a search engine?"
"Do you see that white bar at the top of the browser?"
"Yeah, it says 'http://www.altavista.com'"
"Type the address in there"
As odd as that request was, I stopped returning his calls after he left this message on my answering machine. Can you figure out what the heck he is saying?
I'm sure the declaration went something like this...
SirElfZer: Gleam is a danger to our children in this text based society. Chemical dependency wastes out currency and poisons our soul.
SirEflZer: Merchants caught selling it will have their licenses revoked and will be banished to the northern caves.
* Wild Dog bites SirElfZer for -4 hit points *
SirElfZer: QUICK! Someone get me a potion!
So far I'm the only person I know who can beat a game I made (not that many have tried).
Spew, a tetris clone where the board spins around while you try to play. There are 7 levels. See if you can beat it.
"it's because they are likely 'brain damaged' and have lower attention spans."
I'm outraged!
Who wants to go ride bikes?
"Will it help me get a chick in the pub?"
Leave the chickens alone!
" Has anyone tried it with ramen noodles? I figure, no need to drain!..."
They'd stay hard.
Dractula for Intellivision
Is your goal to hunt down and put an end Dracula's reign of terror? Hell no!
YOU are Dracula walking down the street of a suburban neighborhood. If you see eyes peeking out of a window, go up and knock on the door. If the person is dumb enough to come out, chase them around and bite them. Bite x number of people and get back to your coffin before sunrise.
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"When I set up a Windows box for a neophyte (admittedly, not often) I do everything I can to purge Internet Exploder from the system"
Wait until they have to use some poorly built online banking software or online billing system that blocks Mozilla users. Keeping people in the dark about what browser they're using will give them a reason to badmouth Mozilla for not working properly when they find out what you did.
I like Firefox, but as long as certain websites require IE you're doing your "neophyte" friend a disservice by "purg(ing) Internet Exploder from the system."
"I'm more interested in the length of the nanotubes than in their strengh"
Isn't the point that it needs to be strong enough to hold it's own weight?
Even I laughed at that moderation.