When the Nigerian scammers are using Chinese for their daily business, then I'll believe that it's supplanted English as a major language on the Internet.
Does everybody else here enjoy the delicious irony of this? This is the same organization that, for the past several centuries, have castigated and demonized the very groups of early scientists who laid the foundation for this technology to begin with?
Sure, renounce your science, at least until we can use it and claim we're doing what's right for the planet.
It's a sad day indeed. Contrary to what the bible-thumping religious right would have you believe, many of us had so many positive things to take from D&D, and almost all of them could be directly attributed to Mr. Gygax himself. When I started playing it in '79, you could still go out and buy paperback pocket versions of Greyhawk, Blackmoor, and Eldritch Wizardry. There were many rules, but comparatively speaking, it was a much simpler game than it is now. That simplicity is what made it fun to pretend you were a hero battling evil, instead of a player trying to figure out which table to look up numbers in. It was all about the role-playing, the camaraderie, and the wonder of imagination.
I enjoyed reading at that age (I was 11 when I started playing), but the most powerful part of all the D&D literature was that it forced me to take my reading skills up a level or two. The intelligent prose contained within the manuals and modules, prose that should have been way over an 11-year-old's head, imparted on me self-learning tendencies that I carry with me to this day. I still may not be the brightest crayon in the box, but I've never been afraid of wanting to learn knew things.
Gary, you gave that gift to me. You gave me the gift of finding friends that I could relate to, and you gave me insight into the kind of person I wanted myself to be. For that, I fear that I could never fully repay you.
Yeah, well, you're also supposed to have certain fair use rights, too. That never stopped the **AA. The way they tell it, the act of ripping a CD to an MP3 for my iPod would be an anti-American act of treason punishable by having my neck stretched at the gallows. What kind of treacherous terrorist am I for using my music the way I want?
Of course, I could avoid this by caving in^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H settling for 6-10 weeks worth of paychecks.
I love the bugaboo about how a lot of linux contributors don't use their real names and could actually be spies. He compares it to Soviet Russia which dovetails nicely with his 'commune' question. Oh noes! Linux is the red menace!! (He's smart enough not to be too direct with this but it is rather plain to see). When I first read that, I thought, "He's right. Who are these unknowns that we put our trust in, using pseudonyms like Linus, Alan, Marcello, Ingo and others!"
Personally, I love it when people pull out the arguments like that. Its similar to the whole umbrella of "Intellectual Property". I see Microsoft getting sued left and right for "IP" violations, and their code is "sooper sekret". Linux is wide open, and there's been no successful attack against it, just buckets of innuendo thrown here and there. Even SCO is fluttering on the sand, and they've had access to every version of Linux, AIX and Dynix under the sun.
I'm a cynic as much as the next Slashdotter, but you twits are amazing.
State of the art in 1995 was 2G, according to Wikipedia. How many out there were still using a 2G drive in their systems last year (well, besides me, anyway, I'm not only a cynic, I'm a cheap bastard).
10 years MTBF sounds pretty freakin reasonable to me.
I do remember RE1 having an impact on me, but the one game that, if you let it, really ran up the creep factor was Sanitarium. It was a shame the game didn't get more run than it did. In terms of completely drawing you into the psychological drama, there have been very few that rank higher.
I always thought Myst was _almost_ the same way when it first came out, but there was just something missing that really made you a part of the game instead of a bystander.
I wonder if the Register and Andy both realize that many of the same arguments they make against Wikipedia can also be made against heavily-biased media, like the New York Times or the Boston Globe, particularly lately. There are only two major differences:
1) Their contributors actually get paid. 2) Their acerbic contributions make the front page, though any corrections or retractions get buried somewhere between the obits and the funny pages, if they get printed at all.
I don't understand what the difference really is. Maybe because they're professionals, well then, it's okay.
It's all about money, pure and simple. You and I know that much of the regurgitated pizzle on top 40 radio blows donkey chunks, but they're still making money off the teenage sheep that pour their cash into the product. When the money stops pouring in, they'll bleed whatever's left of the product dry and move on to the next thing.
The depressing part about it is that the whole thing starts with some fresh, new act with a completely different sound (think Pearl Jam or Nirvana*), followed by the recording industry's attempt to capitalize on the fad with scores of cookie-cutter copycats and cheap Times Square knockoffs.
Tim
* btw, I never was much of a fan of the Seattle grunge sound, I just use them as an example.
I know what MD5 hashing is...What the hell is "Shah 0", discussed in the eWeek article? Does this mean that Iran is giving us encryption now? It must not be very good, if it's in danger of being cracked.
Is it just me, or did anybody else actually read through the press release:
The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX operating system, helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses...[yada yada yada]...
I wasn't aware that the Open Group just up and died...
There was a game that came out a while back that I picked up on a bargain aisle somewhere called Sanitarium. It was a sleeper title that got some really good reviews, but didn't do too well at the stores. It harkened back to the good ol' time when games actually had story lines and made you think, but also had the eye candy to go along with it.
It was definitely one of those games that you didn't want to play in a dark room with headphones on. Voice of experience talking here.
I think the claw marks are still in our old apartment's ceiling from when my wife came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder.
I may not have read far enough down yet, but has anybody done any kind of analysis on this "feature" to determine just exactly how much memory IE is not releasing properly to the operating system after it crashes? I could imagine that, in instances where the browser windows that were previously open contained memory intensive content (ie flash, java, etc), that this might be a big deal after a few null exceptions.
I just think it's rather amusing that, in more than one part of the article, Microsoft uses the argument that certain solutions in Linux "tie" you to a specific distribution....which makes perfect sense. Look at all of the different versions of Winders that you can run SQL Server 2000 or Exchange 2000 on.
There are so many flaws still remaining in their arguments that it makes me brain 'urt, but at least they're fighting with jabs and uppercuts instead of rabbit punches and shots to the groin.
Slashdot Mirror
Shows how much I pay attention to them any more. They're not even worth the comic value these days.
Did somebody add a corollary to Godwin's Law and not tell me? I know religion != Hitler, but sheesh...
When the Nigerian scammers are using Chinese for their daily business, then I'll believe that it's supplanted English as a major language on the Internet.
Does everybody else here enjoy the delicious irony of this? This is the same organization that, for the past several centuries, have castigated and demonized the very groups of early scientists who laid the foundation for this technology to begin with?
Sure, renounce your science, at least until we can use it and claim we're doing what's right for the planet.
It's a sad day indeed. Contrary to what the bible-thumping religious right would have you believe, many of us had so many positive things to take from D&D, and almost all of them could be directly attributed to Mr. Gygax himself. When I started playing it in '79, you could still go out and buy paperback pocket versions of Greyhawk, Blackmoor, and Eldritch Wizardry. There were many rules, but comparatively speaking, it was a much simpler game than it is now. That simplicity is what made it fun to pretend you were a hero battling evil, instead of a player trying to figure out which table to look up numbers in. It was all about the role-playing, the camaraderie, and the wonder of imagination.
I enjoyed reading at that age (I was 11 when I started playing), but the most powerful part of all the D&D literature was that it forced me to take my reading skills up a level or two. The intelligent prose contained within the manuals and modules, prose that should have been way over an 11-year-old's head, imparted on me self-learning tendencies that I carry with me to this day. I still may not be the brightest crayon in the box, but I've never been afraid of wanting to learn knew things.
Gary, you gave that gift to me. You gave me the gift of finding friends that I could relate to, and you gave me insight into the kind of person I wanted myself to be. For that, I fear that I could never fully repay you.
Tim
D&D Fan for 28 years
Yeah, well, you're also supposed to have certain fair use rights, too. That never stopped the **AA. The way they tell it, the act of ripping a CD to an MP3 for my iPod would be an anti-American act of treason punishable by having my neck stretched at the gallows. What kind of treacherous terrorist am I for using my music the way I want?
Of course, I could avoid this by caving in^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H settling for 6-10 weeks worth of paychecks.
Personally, I love it when people pull out the arguments like that. Its similar to the whole umbrella of "Intellectual Property". I see Microsoft getting sued left and right for "IP" violations, and their code is "sooper sekret". Linux is wide open, and there's been no successful attack against it, just buckets of innuendo thrown here and there. Even SCO is fluttering on the sand, and they've had access to every version of Linux, AIX and Dynix under the sun.
Never mind. I'm a dork. RTFA and all that...
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that we haven't seen a blog entry from Mark since May. Apparently the silence has already begun.
I'm a cynic as much as the next Slashdotter, but you twits are amazing.
State of the art in 1995 was 2G, according to Wikipedia. How many out there were still using a 2G drive in their systems last year (well, besides me, anyway, I'm not only a cynic, I'm a cheap bastard).
10 years MTBF sounds pretty freakin reasonable to me.
I do remember RE1 having an impact on me, but the one game that, if you let it, really ran up the creep factor was Sanitarium. It was a shame the game didn't get more run than it did. In terms of completely drawing you into the psychological drama, there have been very few that rank higher.
I always thought Myst was _almost_ the same way when it first came out, but there was just something missing that really made you a part of the game instead of a bystander.
I wonder if the Register and Andy both realize that many of the same arguments they make against Wikipedia can also be made against heavily-biased media, like the New York Times or the Boston Globe, particularly lately. There are only two major differences:
1) Their contributors actually get paid.
2) Their acerbic contributions make the front page, though any corrections or retractions get buried somewhere between the obits and the funny pages, if they get printed at all.
I don't understand what the difference really is. Maybe because they're professionals, well then, it's okay.
It's all about money, pure and simple. You and I know that much of the regurgitated pizzle on top 40 radio blows donkey chunks, but they're still making money off the teenage sheep that pour their cash into the product. When the money stops pouring in, they'll bleed whatever's left of the product dry and move on to the next thing.
The depressing part about it is that the whole thing starts with some fresh, new act with a completely different sound (think Pearl Jam or Nirvana*), followed by the recording industry's attempt to capitalize on the fad with scores of cookie-cutter copycats and cheap Times Square knockoffs.
Tim
* btw, I never was much of a fan of the Seattle grunge sound, I just use them as an example.
Forget encryption. You could just ZIP or RAR the file and beat that kind of fingerprinting.
I may be off my rocker here, but...
I know what MD5 hashing is...What the hell is "Shah 0", discussed in the eWeek article? Does this mean that Iran is giving us encryption now? It must not be very good, if it's in danger of being cracked.
Thoroughly cracked myself...
Tim
I was only suprised by their arrogance, and how it seems to be elevating itself to new highs...
Kinda like yours.
Is it just me, or did anybody else actually read through the press release:
The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX operating system, helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses...[yada yada yada]...
I wasn't aware that the Open Group just up and died...
There was a game that came out a while back that I picked up on a bargain aisle somewhere called Sanitarium. It was a sleeper title that got some really good reviews, but didn't do too well at the stores. It harkened back to the good ol' time when games actually had story lines and made you think, but also had the eye candy to go along with it.
It was definitely one of those games that you didn't want to play in a dark room with headphones on. Voice of experience talking here.
I think the claw marks are still in our old apartment's ceiling from when my wife came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder.
I may not have read far enough down yet, but has anybody done any kind of analysis on this "feature" to determine just exactly how much memory IE is not releasing properly to the operating system after it crashes? I could imagine that, in instances where the browser windows that were previously open contained memory intensive content (ie flash, java, etc), that this might be a big deal after a few null exceptions.
I just think it's rather amusing that, in more than one part of the article, Microsoft uses the argument that certain solutions in Linux "tie" you to a specific distribution. ...which makes perfect sense. Look at all of the different versions of Winders that you can run SQL Server 2000 or Exchange 2000 on.
There are so many flaws still remaining in their arguments that it makes me brain 'urt, but at least they're fighting with jabs and uppercuts instead of rabbit punches and shots to the groin.