Compare it to Elf Life, or Clan of the Cats, or Sluggy. It's not bad art, but I wouldn't class it as good art either. Kinda in the middle. Maybe I'm being too critical though:)
In other words not all Flash will play on linux without Crossover. Quite a bit of Flash on the web these days uses more a more up to date version than 5, so if you like pointless shockwave games, you're missing out!:)
Here's some online comics that might be worth checking out:
Sluggy - Students, aliens, ghosts, psychotic rabbits, evil kittens. One of the oldest and niftiest comics online. User Friendly - Linux, geeks. You get the idea. Megatokyo - An online manga following Piro and Largo whilst stranded in Tokyo. Schlock Mercenary - Not too good art, but usually a very good and suitably sci-fi-ish plot. Clan of the Cats - A modern-day witch cursed to change into a panther. Good artwork. RPG World - Great art. A parody of almost any role playing game (the console variety) you'd care to play. Ghost Cat - It's a cat! It's a ghost! It's ghost cat! Elf Life - Elves, fairies, barbarians, time travel, romance, comedy, and very well drawn as well. Exploitation Now! - An anime-ish comic with good art and an interesting, if sporadic, plot. Real Life - It's real life. Except it's not. Reasonably funny. Penny Arcade - The mother of all gaming comics. Very funny:) Sephen - A relative newcomer, but wow! Great pencil-work! 8-bit Theater - The grandpappy of all sprite comics. I think. It's funny anyway. Go read:) Demonology 101 - Fantastic art, fantastic plot! If only it came out more often! Ah well, the world isn't perfect.
Oh, and I can't really get away without mentioning my brother's sprite comic, Pixelated!. It really isn't bad. No, really!:)
But it's happened many times before, species have survived (in fact, have -any- species actually died from this?), and the atmosphere is still here. I think it's safe to say it won't be that big a deal, and we've got 1000 or so years to go anyway.
I think its more the lessons learnt in living inside the ISS. Remember that the trip to Mars will take many months at best, and most likely several years. In fact, wasn't there a study that suggested that staying too long (i.e. years, not months) in a 0G environment would kill a human?
The ISS relatively convenient place to test the effects and problems of living in space. I'm certainly a lot happier to know that we have somewhere to put theory into practive.
Talking about people who are horribly horribly annoying...
But I digress, and am off topic. I just wish people would be more polite, and refraim from posting on slashdot unless they have both manners, and intelligence. Then again, that would effectively halve/.'s readership:)
And if you're going to troll, at least be more creative.
Seaquest DSV? I seem to remember the captain had a holographic AI projected onto a fog screen in his office. And that series was quite a few years ago now... I wonder if we'll be seeing a/. stroy on a "dolphin translator" next:)
Exactly, and even if they did have the same legal system, would that make them any less different countries? England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are part of the UK, but definitely separate countries.
MP3s don't have as good bass as CD quality, at least from what I've heard. Oggs do seem to handle bass very well though; quite often I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between them and the real thing.
There is already an algorithm which can find out if a number is prime or not, and has been around for some time. Or, at least, it can say that a number is "probably" prime. And, if that probability is, say 2^400 - 593, (i.e. 0.9999999...), then in practical terms this is good enough. When you get to probabilities that are so high that computer component failiure is more likely, it ceases to matter that the solution isn't quite perfect.
Discovered by Micheal O. Rabin, it depends on the notion of integers being a "witness". If one witness number can be found, the number is not prime. According to theory, if the number is not prime, then more than half of the integers in the set {2, 3,... , n - 1} are witnesses. So obviously, the more numbers tested for "witness capability", the lower the chance of the number being prime.
A witness number is defined to be any integer w satisfying either of the two conditions below:
w^(n-1) = 1 mod n
For some integer k, m = (n - 1) / 2^k is an integer and 1 < gcd(wn - 1, n) < n
So this discovery, is not, in fact, anything that will lead (at least directly) to anything new at all.
That's what I mean. All (or practically all) EULA's have that clause. Hence the large odds, which I'll clarify as being 1 million to 1 against it not having such a no-liability section.
Legally anyway. I haven't looked at the EULA for Gamespy (haven't downloaded it, actually), but I'm betting some large odds it'll have some clause in it saying they're not responsible even if it destroys your computer, sets fire to your home, and heralds the End of the World.
Whether this will stand up in court would be interesting to see, though. And the precedent it would set would be very wide ranging.
I take it you don't live in the EU then? Have you ever been there at all? I would moderate you troll, sir, if I had any points.
You're measuring Europe by history for one; by the same reasoning you could argue that the US is inhabited by people who like to genocide Native Americans (falwed reasoning I know, but now more flawed than the parent). And you're also arguing that terrorism means intolerance - only true for the people blowing themselves up or planting bombs. And Europe is more used to terrorism (as it has a lot of borders, and therefore more friction), which means it's less likely to pass draconic laws.
And secondly, the EU *is* democratic. MEPs (Members of European Parliment) are elected in a democratic fashion. The only thing undemocratic about it is that the presidency is rotated from country to country. So one year it would be headed by the French, then after 5 years it could be the Germans, say, and so on and so forth. But that's really quite a sensible option, as it encourages fairness.
Furthermore, the vast majority of government descisions are national. Only when they affect the EU Declaration of Human Rights or some other higher law is there a problem. And member countries can always disagree (even though, generally, the policies of the EU are fairly sensible).
I find that Ogg sounds better, especially for bass (mp3's tend to sound a little flat in that area), and also seems to take -less- processing time (comparing mpg123 and ogg123). Perhaps you used an earlier version of Ogg Vorbis?
They don't; at least not by said company. It seems to work currently, after all, as those hackers have other jobs. Ok, so in a world where there is no proprietry you could argue this wasn't true; but then companies may instead look upon programmers as Research and Development. No initial gain, but an implied gain through support. Other companies could offer the same support, but the company creating the software would have the edge. And whoever said that all software had to be open source anyway?
I tend to agree. Surely everybody can see that the whole point of the human battery nonsense was just an excuse to get some really cool action shots that would be implausible even to the dumbest of people if it wasn't set in a virtual world.
Still, with some of the other movies they have valid points. Planet of the Apes had me going "huh?" every few minutes.
Grpahics aren't everything. Whilst Dungeon Siege is a good game, it lacks the balance that you find in Blizzard games. Like comparing AoE to Starcraft; the latter was far more well designed. And, of course, the story in DS isn't really much more than an excuse to descend through lots of dungeons and catacombs ("Nah, the road is block to that place - looks like you'll have to go through one 'o 'em dungeons to get to where you want to go").
Don't get me wrong; I like DS, but it seems to me that Warcraft 3 will be a lot better in terms of playability. Remember that Blizzard rarely (never?) make a cutting edge game - they stand out because of balance and gameplay, rather than graphics. Although at the end of the day I guess it's just a matter of taste.
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Compare it to Elf Life, or Clan of the Cats, or Sluggy. It's not bad art, but I wouldn't class it as good art either. Kinda in the middle. Maybe I'm being too critical though :)
Flash: Native for Linux at version 5.0
:)
In other words not all Flash will play on linux without Crossover. Quite a bit of Flash on the web these days uses more a more up to date version than 5, so if you like pointless shockwave games, you're missing out!
Here's some online comics that might be worth checking out:
Sluggy - Students, aliens, ghosts, psychotic rabbits, evil kittens. One of the oldest and niftiest comics online. :) :)
User Friendly - Linux, geeks. You get the idea.
Megatokyo - An online manga following Piro and Largo whilst stranded in Tokyo.
Schlock Mercenary - Not too good art, but usually a very good and suitably sci-fi-ish plot.
Clan of the Cats - A modern-day witch cursed to change into a panther. Good artwork.
RPG World - Great art. A parody of almost any role playing game (the console variety) you'd care to play.
Ghost Cat - It's a cat! It's a ghost! It's ghost cat!
Elf Life - Elves, fairies, barbarians, time travel, romance, comedy, and very well drawn as well.
Exploitation Now! - An anime-ish comic with good art and an interesting, if sporadic, plot.
Real Life - It's real life. Except it's not. Reasonably funny.
Penny Arcade - The mother of all gaming comics. Very funny
Sephen - A relative newcomer, but wow! Great pencil-work!
8-bit Theater - The grandpappy of all sprite comics. I think. It's funny anyway. Go read
Demonology 101 - Fantastic art, fantastic plot! If only it came out more often! Ah well, the world isn't perfect.
Oh, and I can't really get away without mentioning my brother's sprite comic, Pixelated!. It really isn't bad. No, really! :)
Crossover does a lot more than just play Quicktime stuff. Flash, Realplayer, Trillian and all sorts of other plugins are included too.
But it's happened many times before, species have survived (in fact, have -any- species actually died from this?), and the atmosphere is still here. I think it's safe to say it won't be that big a deal, and we've got 1000 or so years to go anyway.
I think its more the lessons learnt in living inside the ISS. Remember that the trip to Mars will take many months at best, and most likely several years. In fact, wasn't there a study that suggested that staying too long (i.e. years, not months) in a 0G environment would kill a human?
The ISS relatively convenient place to test the effects and problems of living in space. I'm certainly a lot happier to know that we have somewhere to put theory into practive.
> The great brothers are obviously Microsoft and Intel.
Oh, obviously.> horribly, horribly annoying
/.'s readership :)
Talking about people who are horribly horribly annoying...
But I digress, and am off topic. I just wish people would be more polite, and refraim from posting on slashdot unless they have both manners, and intelligence. Then again, that would effectively halve
And if you're going to troll, at least be more creative.
Seaquest DSV? I seem to remember the captain had a holographic AI projected onto a fog screen in his office. And that series was quite a few years ago now... I wonder if we'll be seeing a /. stroy on a "dolphin translator" next :)
This nearly made me laugh out loud. Not a good idea in a quiet, computer science room :)
I hope.
Exactly, and even if they did have the same legal system, would that make them any less different countries? England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are part of the UK, but definitely separate countries.
MP3s don't have as good bass as CD quality, at least from what I've heard. Oggs do seem to handle bass very well though; quite often I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between them and the real thing.
I'm curious; what makes Opera's MDI mode better than Mozilla et all's tabbed browsing feature?
Oh, and by the way, is there a keyboard shortcut for changing tabs in mozilla?
There is already an algorithm which can find out if a number is prime or not, and has been around for some time. Or, at least, it can say that a number is "probably" prime. And, if that probability is, say 2^400 - 593, (i.e. 0.9999999...), then in practical terms this is good enough. When you get to probabilities that are so high that computer component failiure is more likely, it ceases to matter that the solution isn't quite perfect.
Discovered by Micheal O. Rabin, it depends on the notion of integers being a "witness". If one witness number can be found, the number is not prime. According to theory, if the number is not prime, then more than half of the integers in the set {2, 3, ... , n - 1} are witnesses. So obviously, the more numbers tested for "witness capability", the lower the chance of the number being prime.
A witness number is defined to be any integer w satisfying either of the two conditions below:
So this discovery, is not, in fact, anything that will lead (at least directly) to anything new at all.
Yep! :)
That's what I mean. All (or practically all) EULA's have that clause. Hence the large odds, which I'll clarify as being 1 million to 1 against it not having such a no-liability section.
Legally anyway. I haven't looked at the EULA for Gamespy (haven't downloaded it, actually), but I'm betting some large odds it'll have some clause in it saying they're not responsible even if it destroys your computer, sets fire to your home, and heralds the End of the World.
Whether this will stand up in court would be interesting to see, though. And the precedent it would set would be very wide ranging.
Um, that seems to be stretching the definition of "One nation under God" a mite too far.
I take it you don't live in the EU then? Have you ever been there at all? I would moderate you troll, sir, if I had any points.
You're measuring Europe by history for one; by the same reasoning you could argue that the US is inhabited by people who like to genocide Native Americans (falwed reasoning I know, but now more flawed than the parent). And you're also arguing that terrorism means intolerance - only true for the people blowing themselves up or planting bombs. And Europe is more used to terrorism (as it has a lot of borders, and therefore more friction), which means it's less likely to pass draconic laws.
And secondly, the EU *is* democratic. MEPs (Members of European Parliment) are elected in a democratic fashion. The only thing undemocratic about it is that the presidency is rotated from country to country. So one year it would be headed by the French, then after 5 years it could be the Germans, say, and so on and so forth. But that's really quite a sensible option, as it encourages fairness.
Furthermore, the vast majority of government descisions are national. Only when they affect the EU Declaration of Human Rights or some other higher law is there a problem. And member countries can always disagree (even though, generally, the policies of the EU are fairly sensible).
> The only problem is that she's a lesbian...
Why is that a problem?
A profit? Yeah, I suppose LOTR is going to rake in a lot of cash...
I find that Ogg sounds better, especially for bass (mp3's tend to sound a little flat in that area), and also seems to take -less- processing time (comparing mpg123 and ogg123). Perhaps you used an earlier version of Ogg Vorbis?
> How do *those* people get paid?
They don't; at least not by said company. It seems to work currently, after all, as those hackers have other jobs. Ok, so in a world where there is no proprietry you could argue this wasn't true; but then companies may instead look upon programmers as Research and Development. No initial gain, but an implied gain through support. Other companies could offer the same support, but the company creating the software would have the edge. And whoever said that all software had to be open source anyway?
I tend to agree. Surely everybody can see that the whole point of the human battery nonsense was just an excuse to get some really cool action shots that would be implausible even to the dumbest of people if it wasn't set in a virtual world.
Still, with some of the other movies they have valid points. Planet of the Apes had me going "huh?" every few minutes.
Grpahics aren't everything. Whilst Dungeon Siege is a good game, it lacks the balance that you find in Blizzard games. Like comparing AoE to Starcraft; the latter was far more well designed. And, of course, the story in DS isn't really much more than an excuse to descend through lots of dungeons and catacombs ("Nah, the road is block to that place - looks like you'll have to go through one 'o 'em dungeons to get to where you want to go").
Don't get me wrong; I like DS, but it seems to me that Warcraft 3 will be a lot better in terms of playability. Remember that Blizzard rarely (never?) make a cutting edge game - they stand out because of balance and gameplay, rather than graphics. Although at the end of the day I guess it's just a matter of taste.