Not because of the right-wing sensate headlines at the top. But because of the source links at the bottom. Where else can you find Agence France-Press, BBC, Tass, Pravda, and New Republic on the same page? Saves the trouble of book marks. Really.
I have a working copy on the INVENT3K machine at INVENT3K.OPENMPE.COM (use simple telnet):
INVENT3K2: INVENT3K2:HELLO PLAYER.ADVENT HP3000 Release: C.75.00 User Version: C.75.05 MON, MAY 29, 2017, 12:22 PM MPE/iX HP31900 C.45.05 Copyright Hewlett-Packard 1987. All rights reserved.
(banner snipped because it does not pass the slashdot junk filter)
OPEN FAILED INITIALIZING... TABLE SPACE USED 9712 OF 9800 WORDS OF MESSAGES 742 OF 750 TRAVEL OPTIONS 297 OF 300 VOCABULARY WORDS 140 OF 150 LOCATIONS 53 OF 100 OBJECTS 31 OF 35 ACTION VERBS 201 OF 205 RTEXT MESSAGES 10 OF 12 CLASS MESSAGES 9 OF 20 HINTS 32 OF 35 MAGIC MESSAGES
ARE YOU A WIZARD? NO
VERY WELL. INITIALIZATION COMPLETED.
WELCOME TO ADVENTURE.. WOULD YOU LIKE INSTRUCTIONS? YES
SOMEWHERE NEARBY IS COLOSSAL CAVE, WHERE OTHERS HAVE FOUND FORTUNES IN TREASURE AND GOLD, THOUGH IT IS RUMORED THAT SOME WHO ENTER ARE NEVER SEEN AGAIN. MAGIC IS SAID TO WORK IN THE CAVE. I WILL BE YOUR EYES AND HANDS. DIRECT ME WITH COMMANDS OF 1 OR 2 WORDS. I SHOULD WARN YOU THAT I LOOK AT ONLY THE FIRST FIVE LETTERS OF EACH WORD, SO YOU'LL HAVE TO ENTER "NORTHEAST" AS "NE" TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM "NORTH". (SHOULD YOU GET STUCK, TYPE "HELP" FOR SOME GENERAL HINTS. FOR INFOR- MATION ON HOW TO END YOUR ADVENTURE, ETC., TYPE "INFO".) - - - IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE CONTACT THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR MACHINE. YOU MAY ALSO CONTACT THE DEVELOPERS WILLE CROWTHER (CROWTHER@PARC-MAXC), DON WOODS (DON@SU-AI), AND GARY PALTER (PALTER@MIT-MULTICS). IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, CONTACT ANY OF US...
YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING. AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLY. QUIT
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO QUIT NOW? YES
OK
YOU SCORED 27 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 350, USING 1 TURNS.
YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A RANK AMATEUR. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.
TO ACHIEVE THE NEXT HIGHER RATING, YOU NEED 9 MORE POINTS.
END OF PROGRAM CPU=20. Connect=1. MON, MAY 29, 2017, 12:23 PM.
Then there are those of us doomed to the corporate limitation of only "authorized" software. Only two browsers are allowed, Chrome and the thing with the big blue "e" icon.
Back in the day, I remember nomenclature of "father" processes "spawning" "son" processes. Later changed to "parent" "child" processes. But still the "spawning" process is more like fishes.
Been running text games on various addresses for over a dozen years.
Latest Tournament game regenerated Yesterday:
To connect, use Telnet or VT to: empire.openmpe.com The log on command is HELLO PLAYER.EMPIRE4
Game parameters are: - 599x599 sector grid - 99 islands, starting island is random - build and movement points accumulate every 60 minutes - 0 starting time units - ship movement is updated every 6 hours - 255 Player limit - Player identification is created on first log on - Game is always open, no sign ups required - Normal information hiding
This message generated by a batch job on the Empire machine. (Cut and pasted manually.)
Sometime in the future all our U.S. jobs will have been replaced by robots. Shortly thereafter, they will be outsourced by cheaper Indian or Chinese robots.
It will be to laugh as out of work U.S. robots join us on skid row looking for a spare hit of oil.
Slashdot Mirror
Wally has his job for life:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-25
(Like me.)
And will Billy Mumy model them?
Not because of the right-wing sensate headlines at the top. But because of the source links at the bottom. Where else can you find Agence France-Press, BBC, Tass, Pravda, and New Republic on the same page? Saves the trouble of book marks. Really.
Actually I'm a retired OSINT collector. This is funnier that most folks think.
Typo on Subject line, should be "Working" vice "Workint".
The Feeling of Power:
http://themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.htm
I have a working copy on the INVENT3K machine at INVENT3K.OPENMPE.COM (use simple telnet):
INVENT3K2:
INVENT3K2:HELLO PLAYER.ADVENT
HP3000 Release: C.75.00 User Version: C.75.05 MON, MAY 29, 2017, 12:22 PM
MPE/iX HP31900 C.45.05 Copyright Hewlett-Packard 1987. All rights reserved.
(banner snipped because it does not pass the slashdot junk filter)
OPEN FAILED
INITIALIZING...
TABLE SPACE USED
9712 OF 9800 WORDS OF MESSAGES
742 OF 750 TRAVEL OPTIONS
297 OF 300 VOCABULARY WORDS
140 OF 150 LOCATIONS
53 OF 100 OBJECTS
31 OF 35 ACTION VERBS
201 OF 205 RTEXT MESSAGES
10 OF 12 CLASS MESSAGES
9 OF 20 HINTS
32 OF 35 MAGIC MESSAGES
ARE YOU A WIZARD?
NO
VERY WELL.
INITIALIZATION COMPLETED.
WELCOME TO ADVENTURE.. WOULD YOU LIKE INSTRUCTIONS?
YES
SOMEWHERE NEARBY IS COLOSSAL CAVE, WHERE OTHERS HAVE FOUND FORTUNES IN
TREASURE AND GOLD, THOUGH IT IS RUMORED THAT SOME WHO ENTER ARE NEVER
SEEN AGAIN. MAGIC IS SAID TO WORK IN THE CAVE. I WILL BE YOUR EYES
AND HANDS. DIRECT ME WITH COMMANDS OF 1 OR 2 WORDS. I SHOULD WARN
YOU THAT I LOOK AT ONLY THE FIRST FIVE LETTERS OF EACH WORD, SO YOU'LL
HAVE TO ENTER "NORTHEAST" AS "NE" TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM "NORTH".
(SHOULD YOU GET STUCK, TYPE "HELP" FOR SOME GENERAL HINTS. FOR INFOR-
MATION ON HOW TO END YOUR ADVENTURE, ETC., TYPE "INFO".)
- - -
IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE CONTACT THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THIS
PROGRAM AT YOUR MACHINE. YOU MAY ALSO CONTACT THE DEVELOPERS
WILLE CROWTHER (CROWTHER@PARC-MAXC), DON WOODS (DON@SU-AI), AND
GARY PALTER (PALTER@MIT-MULTICS).
IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, CONTACT ANY OF US...
YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY.
QUIT
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO QUIT NOW?
YES
OK
YOU SCORED 27 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 350, USING 1 TURNS.
YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A RANK AMATEUR. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.
TO ACHIEVE THE NEXT HIGHER RATING, YOU NEED 9 MORE POINTS.
END OF PROGRAM
CPU=20. Connect=1. MON, MAY 29, 2017, 12:23 PM.
The Cult of Youth sounds 'idealogically driven' with a 'strong religious component'.
Just by posting this, I don't even have to look them up or send my resume!
I'm on their radar now.
Why is it I imagine somewhere in Germany there is a concentration camp where they have sent the insects?
Of course they would deny it.
Then there are those of us doomed to the corporate limitation of only "authorized" software. Only two browsers are allowed, Chrome and the thing with the big blue "e" icon.
Got a "B" in it.
Never had a virus outside the lab. (And the lab story is still told.)
45 years ago my German High School teacher retold a story where a student (in Germany) addressed the Professor with "Du" instead of "Sie".
It still goes on.
I want to storage that is File System Atheist!
(And would that be like Write Only Memory?)
Back in the day, I remember nomenclature of "father" processes "spawning" "son" processes. Later changed to "parent" "child" processes. But still the "spawning" process is more like fishes.
The wings remind me of the gull winged WT715 in H.G. Well "Things to Come" but without the ducts.
Yes on my old Empire machine at empire.openmpe.com
Enter:
HELLO PLAYER.TREK
or
HELLO PLAYER.SUPRTRK
or
HELLO PLAYER.SUPRTREK
(Haven't tested them in while. Let me know if they crash.)
Been running text games on various addresses for over a dozen years.
Latest Tournament game regenerated Yesterday:
To connect, use Telnet or VT to: empire.openmpe.com
The log on command is HELLO PLAYER.EMPIRE4
Game parameters are:
- 599x599 sector grid
- 99 islands, starting island is random
- build and movement points accumulate every 60 minutes
- 0 starting time units
- ship movement is updated every 6 hours
- 255 Player limit
- Player identification is created on first log on
- Game is always open, no sign ups required
- Normal information hiding
This message generated by a batch job on the Empire machine. (Cut and pasted manually.)
Sometime in the future all our U.S. jobs will have been replaced by robots. Shortly thereafter, they will be outsourced by cheaper Indian or Chinese robots.
It will be to laugh as out of work U.S. robots join us on skid row looking for a spare hit of oil.
All they had to do was fill out form 27b-6!
Too bad Hulu can't seem to renegotiate lasting contracts. Good content disappears after a year or two, but the crap stays.
I could be tempted to use a kill code with a cell phone. I think operatives of certain agencies have something like that.
Per the other story today.
Alaska seems a long way to get my Home Affordable Refinance Program request approved.
Oh, there is another "A" in the acronym? Never mind.