"Crossover plugin" is a bit of a misnomer. It's actually a plugin generator. It generates a.so containing a Netscape plugin that has Wine run the corresponding Windows Netscape plugin. So the code for all of the system calls needed to run the various Windows plugins supported by Crossover has been submitted to the main Wine branch, but the code to generate the Linux plugins from the Windows plugins has not.
No, the base two numbers are stupid. They are only marginally reasonable for RAM size, but it makes no sense for harddrive sizes. Can you tell me how many bytes are in 43MB, quickly? Mixing base 2 and base 10 makes no sense because humans always have to convert it to base 10 in the end.
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Tension? That's a bit of an understatement. It's brought me to tears on more than one occasion. Before anyone makes fun of me, I would like to see you get all the way to the bottom level as a vegetarian monk only to have your quest artifact stolen (thus removing my only source of magic resistance) and your robe vaporized (thus preventing you from successfully casting any spell which might help to improve your situation) and NOT cry. I've also died on the astral plane while holding a couple of amulets of life saving (I forgot to take off the amulet of magical breathing after the plane of water). This game isn't just tough; it will break you. You die hundreds of times and then you finally get a character that you think can make it, but all of a sudden, at the time calculated by the game to be most devestating to you, your character meets up with something that you're not quite prepared for, or that you wouldn't expect to give you any trouble and your character is dead.
Re:Am I the only one who doesn't see the appeal?
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That reminds me of my favorite way to get rid of trolls as a monk. For those who don't know, trolls come back from the dead, over and over and over. Most of the time you keep them from reviving by eating their corpses. But monks aren't supposed to eat meat. The solution is to chuck them into a pool of water. When they revive they drown. The only problem is that pools of water aren't that common and this doesn't work on water trolls. I haven't tried it on Slashdot trolls, but I imagine it should work.
I've become too accustomed to the graphical ports to go back to the TTY port. Every time I try to it always irritates the hell out of me that I have to press space when there is more than one message in a row.
Every port I've tried has some sort of problem. The Qt port has memory leaks (or something, it becomes overwhelmingly slow if I play for too long and I have to save and restore to fix things). In the Gnome port you have to hit enter after making any choice through a dialog. Falcon's Eye and Allegrohack don't let you see enough of the map at once. Lately I've been using the Gnome client. Maybe some time I should go on a crusade to rid it of all of its shortcomings.
Re:What's the big deal about Nethack?
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It's also very well thought out. This is in contrast with Slash'em, a Nethack fork. The Slash'em developers basically just add everything they can think of without stopping to think if it really improves the game. There are some good things in Slash'em and I would like to see some of them brought to Nethack. But the Slash'em developers should really try to make the game more balanced. Try playing as a doppelgangen monk to see what I mean (you get polymorph control at level 9 and all sorts of excessively powerful techniques). It's like riding through the dungeon in a wheat thresher.
Nethack isn't perfect though. I think the Monk could use some tweaking (perhaps a slight improvement in fighting ability or the ability to advance beyond the basic skill level in attack spells in exchange for a stricter penalty for eating meat).
I was told that the temperature of the salt ice mixture was the coldest temperature that Fahrenheit could find. As such, 0 degrees Fahrenheit is an overwhelmingly crude approximation of absolute 0.
It works. Not well enough to be used for a power source since the costs would be so high. Eventually they should be able to get more energy out of it and reduce the cost to build the reactor.
Actually, I think A Pup Named Scooby Doo is perhaps the only cartoon featuring younger versions of well-known characters that can actually stand on it's own merits. Let's face it, the original Scooby Doo can only be enjoyed for it's mind-blowing mediocrity. Think about all of the times you've heard something like this: "Jinkies! This piece of paper has the answer to the whole mystery on it, but I won't say what's on it until the unmasking because the show's writers want to salvage the last scrap of suspense but they can't think of a clue that has even the slightest bit of subtlety." Well, not exactly like that, but you get the point. There were also the horribly inadequate explanations as to how the ghosts performed their ghostly deeds. For example, in the case of the Snow Ghost, they said that the Snow Ghost looked like it was flying by using transparent skis. This doesn't even make sense given that the ghost was always flying head first and never touched the ground.
A Pup Named Scooby Doo was really a parody of the old show. All of the old devices are exaggerated and they reformulated the previously bland Fred and Daphne as an idiot and a bitch, respectively.
Even if you don't agree with me you have to admit that it could have been a thousand times worse. Look at Tom and Jerry Kids. Blecch!
Not completely correct. You can prevent cheating by not trusting the client. You could have the server do all the work and have the client just render the result. Of course, this is very inefficient. So you have to find a middle ground; trust the client as little as possible without overtaxing the server and requiring too much bandwidth.
WOW! Now maybe someone will create a "learning" game that will teach congress that they can't take money from the MPAA/RIAA/etc. and give them whatever they want.
Will it make use of "force feedback?"
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I would like to see digital rights management used if it is used properly. DRM should empower musicians, not the RIAA. I would like to be able to buy music online and download an arbitrary bitrate MP3 (or whatever) or losslessly compressed file. I would also like to be allowed to play the music I download with my MP3 player and burn CDs. What should be stopped is file-sharing of songs not marked as free to share.
What I really want is what other people have said they want: a micropayment system with the majority of the payment going to the musician. I don't think such a system will work without DRM. If this system were in place the file-sharing clients could ignore files without DRM information.
I am opposed to the SSSCA though. I would prefer to have things worked out without anyone being forced by law to do anything.
Somehow I knew someone would say something like this. Which do you think would be easier: making sure that a compiler generates safe code, or making sure that no buffer overflows, memory leaks, or any other such things are in ANY programs or libraries. Why not fix things once rather than having to fix them everywhere?
What about some of the new stuff on Cartoon Network. Genndy Tartakovsky and others have done some wonderful work. Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack are all great shows.
Also, Mo Willems' Sheep in the Big City is back on the air and it's hilarious. How can you not love a show that ends every episode with a ranting Swede?
I've always favored the idea of magical pixies living inside the particles. If the physicists ever prove the existence of the pixies, the pixies will be obligated to grant us three wishes. Then we can wish for the pixies to alter the very workings of reality to make faster than light travel and all sorts of other useful things possible.
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With Final Fantasy III people just started making up absurd rumors for fun. A lot of them were pretty funny.
I guess it's just a matter of preference but I would say that Microsoft is second best at making input devices. I tend to prefer Logitech mice.
"Crossover plugin" is a bit of a misnomer. It's actually a plugin generator. It generates a .so containing a Netscape plugin that has Wine run the corresponding Windows Netscape plugin. So the code for all of the system calls needed to run the various Windows plugins supported by Crossover has been submitted to the main Wine branch, but the code to generate the Linux plugins from the Windows plugins has not.
Shit! My PS7 just died!
No, the base two numbers are stupid. They are only marginally reasonable for RAM size, but it makes no sense for harddrive sizes. Can you tell me how many bytes are in 43MB, quickly? Mixing base 2 and base 10 makes no sense because humans always have to convert it to base 10 in the end.
Tension? That's a bit of an understatement. It's brought me to tears on more than one occasion. Before anyone makes fun of me, I would like to see you get all the way to the bottom level as a vegetarian monk only to have your quest artifact stolen (thus removing my only source of magic resistance) and your robe vaporized (thus preventing you from successfully casting any spell which might help to improve your situation) and NOT cry. I've also died on the astral plane while holding a couple of amulets of life saving (I forgot to take off the amulet of magical breathing after the plane of water). This game isn't just tough; it will break you. You die hundreds of times and then you finally get a character that you think can make it, but all of a sudden, at the time calculated by the game to be most devestating to you, your character meets up with something that you're not quite prepared for, or that you wouldn't expect to give you any trouble and your character is dead.
That reminds me of my favorite way to get rid of trolls as a monk. For those who don't know, trolls come back from the dead, over and over and over. Most of the time you keep them from reviving by eating their corpses. But monks aren't supposed to eat meat. The solution is to chuck them into a pool of water. When they revive they drown. The only problem is that pools of water aren't that common and this doesn't work on water trolls. I haven't tried it on Slashdot trolls, but I imagine it should work.
Every port I've tried has some sort of problem. The Qt port has memory leaks (or something, it becomes overwhelmingly slow if I play for too long and I have to save and restore to fix things). In the Gnome port you have to hit enter after making any choice through a dialog. Falcon's Eye and Allegrohack don't let you see enough of the map at once. Lately I've been using the Gnome client. Maybe some time I should go on a crusade to rid it of all of its shortcomings.
Nethack isn't perfect though. I think the Monk could use some tweaking (perhaps a slight improvement in fighting ability or the ability to advance beyond the basic skill level in attack spells in exchange for a stricter penalty for eating meat).
I was told that the temperature of the salt ice mixture was the coldest temperature that Fahrenheit could find. As such, 0 degrees Fahrenheit is an overwhelmingly crude approximation of absolute 0.
It works. Not well enough to be used for a power source since the costs would be so high. Eventually they should be able to get more energy out of it and reduce the cost to build the reactor.
A Pup Named Scooby Doo was really a parody of the old show. All of the old devices are exaggerated and they reformulated the previously bland Fred and Daphne as an idiot and a bitch, respectively.
Even if you don't agree with me you have to admit that it could have been a thousand times worse. Look at Tom and Jerry Kids. Blecch!
And I suppose you think that the people who designed the G4 case work for free. There are plenty of costs other than the materials.
Not completely correct. You can prevent cheating by not trusting the client. You could have the server do all the work and have the client just render the result. Of course, this is very inefficient. So you have to find a middle ground; trust the client as little as possible without overtaxing the server and requiring too much bandwidth.
Actually his dad helped a little too.
They still have to code *some* AI. All of the cheating in the world won't help if the computer just does nothing every turn.
It would seem that you have been reading Machiavelli lately.
Will it make use of "force feedback?"
Exploit visionary eyeballs!
You have overwhelmingly bad taste.
What I really want is what other people have said they want: a micropayment system with the majority of the payment going to the musician. I don't think such a system will work without DRM. If this system were in place the file-sharing clients could ignore files without DRM information.
I am opposed to the SSSCA though. I would prefer to have things worked out without anyone being forced by law to do anything.
Somehow I knew someone would say something like this. Which do you think would be easier: making sure that a compiler generates safe code, or making sure that no buffer overflows, memory leaks, or any other such things are in ANY programs or libraries. Why not fix things once rather than having to fix them everywhere?
I hate to tell you, but in English "y" is not a word.
Also, Mo Willems' Sheep in the Big City is back on the air and it's hilarious. How can you not love a show that ends every episode with a ranting Swede?
I've always favored the idea of magical pixies living inside the particles. If the physicists ever prove the existence of the pixies, the pixies will be obligated to grant us three wishes. Then we can wish for the pixies to alter the very workings of reality to make faster than light travel and all sorts of other useful things possible.