> This will not work for most games. Gamers need to keep their eyes on the screen.. no gamer I know ever looks at their controller.
The point to this is that it/is/ a screen. You don't necessarily even have to keep the buttons in the same spot, they could have menus or change according to the mode you're in or the unit you've got selected. You're interacting with it, both sending information to and receiving information from it. That's why it's so cool.
> We could be spending research time finding a way to get 500 miles to a gallon instead of worrying about showers.
Research doesn't work like in Master of Orion 2, or *craft, or any of the other games that I know. Each scientist is different. It takes more than just resources to actually research something. Maybe Dr. Schmidt just wasn't suited for researching the kind of stuff that would directly apply to the automotive industry.
>...so the music industry can start their own Napster-like service...
If that's true, why didn't they just BUY Napster? It would've been cheaper than all this crap they're going through now, and people (like us) wouldn't be so pissed at them right now.
> That would be vandalism. The schools have to make punishments stiff in order to DETER students from vandalising school property.
Except, I can't think of more than a handful of people who could've done that. It'd be one thing if they were taking a magnet to the hard drive or some such crude, destructive thing, but what I did was (pretty easily) repairable. That doesn't make it ok, but I'm just saying that that's not an entirely valid argument.
> You got 10 days. Live with it.
Done and done. And I do mean done!:-)
> 10 days is a little extreme for that type of violation.
That's what it was for me. I dunno what, exactally, he did, but I got the maximum time for a suspension here in the Beaverton School District in Oregon.
I managed to obtain a copy of some of the admin tools... I don't know how many of you are familiar with FoolProof for the Mac, but back in the day they had two external tools: one was called SuperINIT Control, which makes it so that FP still loads even if you turn extensions off on boot (hold down shift), and the other was called HD Locker or some such. That one made it so that you couldn't get to the HD except through FP. So, I got those, and unlocked a computer. Then, I screwed around with some of the system folder stuff (hey, I was in 7th grade, and I had never had a chance to do that before). When I was done, it could no longer boot without a boot disk with the HD Locker.
Anyway, got the full ten days for that. A bit out of proportion for something so simple as trashing a single computer, I think. A more appropriate punishment probably would have been to repair it. Wouldn't have been too hard....
That's not true. My ISP is Expert Net (www.xprt.net), and they have the same policy. I had problems a few times, and I was able to use Juno to get support. Now, if I had problems, I could also use my connection at school.
I think that no phone tech support is worth -$7/month (or, to rearrange the negatives, I don't think that phone tech support is worth $7/month).
>> He didn't limit all of innovation to those 8 items, and 6 of those 8 have occurred in the last 1-200 years. Since it was supposed that technology should advance faster now that we have the internet, we should surely have had more since that time.
> 150 years/6 inventions = 25 years/inventions
I think that he meant that it would be an exponential function, as our rate of discovery increases due to increasing technology... with the internet, we should be able to create more, since no one would have to recreate the wheel.
And, of course, if you are able to make cartriges at all, maybe you could compile code that others send you and make a cartrige out of their game. I, for one, would certainly pay to have my own game on the NES.
I use base 5 when I'm counting on my fingers... you can't count as high, but it's easier to keep track of and convert.
(ie, my left hand is the "tens" column, or 5^1, and my right is the ones column.)
I can count up to 30 this way, which kinda breaks the base-5 thing (since I count all five fingers on both hands, which is 55, and that can't exist in base 5).
Lotsa fun.
-Jason-
"What? No, no, no, 'All your bases belong to us.' No 'are'!" -me
> Notebooks, notebooks, notebooks. I've lost plenty in my time.
Good God, how do you lose a NOTEBOOK? If I had one, I'd be guarding it with my life, not leaving it laying around to be LOST. Oh, how I wish that I could follow you around for a while....
;-)
So, because it was campus police rather than real police, they didn't need a warrent? Did the student sign away that right as a part of getting the dorm room, or what? And, the follow-up question to that: did they have to stay on-campus?
-Jason-
> Creative, +2 research, +1 Production -20% down the middle... the standard Custom race.
What are you TALKING about? It's ALL about the Creative, Charismatic, Subterranean, and hits to spy, ground, and food or reproduction to make room for the Telepathic later.:-)
> But I personally am hoping for:
>...
I'd like to append some kind of control over the automation (ie, of build order), and/or build lists you can save. That was the one thing that I wished for in MoO2. I play the expand and conquer way (like Zerg in SC, or Borg in ST), and by the time I'd finished researching the basic stuff (as opposed to hyper-advanced), my build order for a new planet was/exactally/ the same every time. Got real tedious.
Heh, scroll bars would also be nice -- for the ship components, of course.;-)
> You could for example randomly put n electrically charged particles on the sphere (same charge of course), and run the physics simulation until stability is reached, wich will give you the desired result. (I think that's the method they used to model the 100 faces dice)
That sounds like a bogo-sort. I find it hard to believe that this is the best we have, that there are NO methods to distribute a set of points (the first time, not recursively). Does anyone know for sure?
-Jason-
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> I would much rather see someone be honest and open about who they are rather than have them to kowtow to what is "publicly acceptable".
How do you know he didn't put that front on to get exactly the reaction you have? He had to know that it would get out.
IIRC some scientist made similar message, and gave it to his collagues. Result no one did understand the message. Message was supposed to be as simple as possible.
If *I* recall correctly, it was something to do with the spectrum emitted by hydrogen or something. Definately had to do with hydrogen.
If you take simplicity too far, understanding can be lost.
The problem with that cheat in SC is that, unlike with DII, the games are not being hosted by the b.net servers, but rather the user's machines (definiately in !b.net games, and I think in b.net games, too). Thus, in order to decide who can see what, one side needs to see everything (you could devide the map into squares, and set a toggle for a person's ability to see it, but that gets rather complex, and at the very least, unit positions can be inferred), and so can be cheated.
How do you take into account new music? A lot of times, when I get a new song (after hearing it on the radio or whatever), I listen to it many times. After that, it may either be worn out (heard it too often) or just another song. Maybe have it mod it up and down more than usual the first couple times, you skip to/from it, then go back to normal.
ATI's TV Wonder has a closed-caption seach program which, I presume, can run in the background and record or pop-up when it hits key words you give it.
Requires a PCI slot, though.
-Jason-
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> This will not work for most games. Gamers need to keep their eyes on the screen.. no gamer I know ever looks at their controller.
/is/ a screen. You don't necessarily even have to keep the buttons in the same spot, they could have menus or change according to the mode you're in or the unit you've got selected. You're interacting with it, both sending information to and receiving information from it. That's why it's so cool.
The point to this is that it
-Jason-
> We could be spending research time finding a way to get 500 miles to a gallon instead of worrying about showers.
Research doesn't work like in Master of Orion 2, or *craft, or any of the other games that I know. Each scientist is different. It takes more than just resources to actually research something. Maybe Dr. Schmidt just wasn't suited for researching the kind of stuff that would directly apply to the automotive industry.
-Jason-
From the October 1993 issue of PC/Computing (page 301, for those who actually still have it) (modified slightly):
[ 1;66H$D$E[0;37;40;m$E[u$p$g
prompt $E[s$E[H$E[1;32;45m$E[K$E[1C$P$E[1;36;H$T$H$H$H$E
Note that there are no spaces in there (except after the initial "prompt"), contrary to the supreme all-knowningness of slashcode.
-Jason-
> ...so the music industry can start their own Napster-like service...
If that's true, why didn't they just BUY Napster? It would've been cheaper than all this crap they're going through now, and people (like us) wouldn't be so pissed at them right now.
-Jason-
> That would be vandalism. The schools have to make punishments stiff in order to DETER students from vandalising school property.
:-)
Except, I can't think of more than a handful of people who could've done that. It'd be one thing if they were taking a magnet to the hard drive or some such crude, destructive thing, but what I did was (pretty easily) repairable. That doesn't make it ok, but I'm just saying that that's not an entirely valid argument.
> You got 10 days. Live with it.
Done and done. And I do mean done!
-Jason-
> 10 days is a little extreme for that type of violation.
That's what it was for me. I dunno what, exactally, he did, but I got the maximum time for a suspension here in the Beaverton School District in Oregon.
I managed to obtain a copy of some of the admin tools... I don't know how many of you are familiar with FoolProof for the Mac, but back in the day they had two external tools: one was called SuperINIT Control, which makes it so that FP still loads even if you turn extensions off on boot (hold down shift), and the other was called HD Locker or some such. That one made it so that you couldn't get to the HD except through FP. So, I got those, and unlocked a computer. Then, I screwed around with some of the system folder stuff (hey, I was in 7th grade, and I had never had a chance to do that before). When I was done, it could no longer boot without a boot disk with the HD Locker.
Anyway, got the full ten days for that. A bit out of proportion for something so simple as trashing a single computer, I think. A more appropriate punishment probably would have been to repair it. Wouldn't have been too hard....
-Jason-
That's not true. My ISP is Expert Net (www.xprt.net), and they have the same policy. I had problems a few times, and I was able to use Juno to get support. Now, if I had problems, I could also use my connection at school.
I think that no phone tech support is worth -$7/month (or, to rearrange the negatives, I don't think that phone tech support is worth $7/month).
-Jason-
> Timothy get's an F in grammar today.
/. free of grammatical errors. ;-)
I think you meant "gets an F...", not "get's an F...".
Just trying to keep
-Jason-
They didn't say how. No people means no cancer, right?
-Jason-
> even nerds like to f**k ;-}
Like to, not get to.
>> He didn't limit all of innovation to those 8 items, and 6 of those 8 have occurred in the last 1-200 years. Since it was supposed that technology should advance faster now that we have the internet, we should surely have had more since that time.
> 150 years/6 inventions = 25 years/inventions
I think that he meant that it would be an exponential function, as our rate of discovery increases due to increasing technology... with the internet, we should be able to create more, since no one would have to recreate the wheel.
-Jason-
And, of course, if you are able to make cartriges at all, maybe you could compile code that others send you and make a cartrige out of their game. I, for one, would certainly pay to have my own game on the NES.
-Jason-
I use base 5 when I'm counting on my fingers... you can't count as high, but it's easier to keep track of and convert.
(ie, my left hand is the "tens" column, or 5^1, and my right is the ones column.)
I can count up to 30 this way, which kinda breaks the base-5 thing (since I count all five fingers on both hands, which is 55, and that can't exist in base 5).
Lotsa fun.
-Jason-
"What? No, no, no, 'All your bases belong to us.' No 'are'!" -me
Yeah, and while we all know that monsters come from the moon, there weren't any there when we went. Maybe they were hiding.
-Jason-
> Notebooks, notebooks, notebooks. I've lost plenty in my time.
Good God, how do you lose a NOTEBOOK? If I had one, I'd be guarding it with my life, not leaving it laying around to be LOST. Oh, how I wish that I could follow you around for a while....
;-)
-Jason-
Sorry 'bout this. This is why spelling is so important (warrent vs warrant).
-Jason-
So, because it was campus police rather than real police, they didn't need a warrent? Did the student sign away that right as a part of getting the dorm room, or what? And, the follow-up question to that: did they have to stay on-campus? -Jason-
> Creative, +2 research, +1 Production -20% down the middle... the standard Custom race.
:-)
...
/exactally/ the same every time. Got real tedious.
;-)
What are you TALKING about? It's ALL about the Creative, Charismatic, Subterranean, and hits to spy, ground, and food or reproduction to make room for the Telepathic later.
> But I personally am hoping for:
>
I'd like to append some kind of control over the automation (ie, of build order), and/or build lists you can save. That was the one thing that I wished for in MoO2. I play the expand and conquer way (like Zerg in SC, or Borg in ST), and by the time I'd finished researching the basic stuff (as opposed to hyper-advanced), my build order for a new planet was
Heh, scroll bars would also be nice -- for the ship components, of course.
-Jason-
> You could for example randomly put n electrically charged particles on the sphere (same charge of course), and run the physics simulation until stability is reached, wich will give you the desired result. (I think that's the method they used to model the 100 faces dice)
That sounds like a bogo-sort. I find it hard to believe that this is the best we have, that there are NO methods to distribute a set of points (the first time, not recursively). Does anyone know for sure?
-Jason-
> I would much rather see someone be honest and open about who they are rather than have them to kowtow to what is "publicly acceptable".
How do you know he didn't put that front on to get exactly the reaction you have? He had to know that it would get out.
-Jason-
If *I* recall correctly, it was something to do with the spectrum emitted by hydrogen or something. Definately had to do with hydrogen.
If you take simplicity too far, understanding can be lost.
-Jason-
The problem with that cheat in SC is that, unlike with DII, the games are not being hosted by the b.net servers, but rather the user's machines (definiately in !b.net games, and I think in b.net games, too). Thus, in order to decide who can see what, one side needs to see everything (you could devide the map into squares, and set a toggle for a person's ability to see it, but that gets rather complex, and at the very least, unit positions can be inferred), and so can be cheated.
-Jason-
How do you take into account new music? A lot of times, when I get a new song (after hearing it on the radio or whatever), I listen to it many times. After that, it may either be worn out (heard it too often) or just another song. Maybe have it mod it up and down more than usual the first couple times, you skip to/from it, then go back to normal.
-Jason0
ATI's TV Wonder has a closed-caption seach program which, I presume, can run in the background and record or pop-up when it hits key words you give it. Requires a PCI slot, though. -Jason-
What's the difference between DVD-RW and DVD+RW?