You just can't do better than that game. It was the first to totally capture my gaming spirit. I even loaded it up the other day and realized I still have the first 5 levels memorized. How sad is that. Who remembers the creeping coins, talk about an exp stream.
Anyway, as with all games it hold a strong grip on what I love as a game. Build, crawl, build, craw.....I would still love to see a game just like PGOTMO to come on in an online form. You controll a group of 6 leveling characters as a group, turn based timed combat. I telling you this would be very interesting PVP in an online setting. Anyway, you just have to love that first Wizardy it was the game that started it all with me.
We had A night janitor that would always, how can I say this. Well, steal stuff that we could never prove. The only thing we were real sure of was his rounds, and at what time he did them. So what we did was set up a couple of web cams late one night and locked down our computers and turn the volume all the way up.
So we waited until we could see him on the web-cam and fire away. "I can see you", from our speakers. We have never laughed so hard. The poor guy shot out of his shoes. The next night he came by looked all around and started cleaning. This time our recorded soundbite blared "Don't touch that!". Not only did he drop the trashcan but he ran from the office screaming. We found out the next day that he ran from the building and did not report back work.
Well, you know we did not have the heart to stop. Our system is still in place and we are now on our 4th cleaning crew and it just keeps getting better. MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Take the time to look behind what is going on here. The government has given away this to one of it's biggest supporters or vendors if you want to call it that. NeuStar, is NeuStar Inc. which is just a sub-sid of Lockheed Martin. Talk about having control. So let me see if I understand this, please correct me if I am wrong. It happends all the time. The.biz, and.us is now under the control of a "neurtral" thrid party...right.
What you need to do to clear this up is goto www.microsoft.com/xbox and download the newest Service Pack (sp1) for the Xbox. This should clear everything up for you. We will be releasing some Hotpatches in the next couple of days as our beta testers get thier hands on the games. I am sorry I ment to say our customers get thier hands on the game. We will not be changing the release date we will just include the SP1 cd with the release.
You can download the Sp1 for the Xbox, should clear everything up. We will be shipping the service pack with the Xbox rather than delay the shipping date. You can expect a couple of Hotpatches in the next couple as our beta testers get a hold, I mean our first customers get a hold on the games.
Just wondering but after leaving a project like the ones these developers where do you guys think they will land. Gnome? IBM? RedHat? Some other branch of *BSD?
Seems a waste of some talent, someone here has to have an idea where this level of development team would be headed.
Just wondering if a virus was writen that made a robot freak out and kill someone if the owner of the robot would be responsible. If you so, if your desktop computer is infected and involved in a DOS or something like it, and cause damages are you responsible under the same logic.
Just a passing brain cramp, but it should be interesting to think about.
Agreed on most everything. That is really the questions now is it not? What do you want Linux to be?
If your goal is to make Linux profitable in the marketplace your going to have to give up and bloat it a bit in the cause of making it easy for the average user. When I say the average user I mean just that. The average user is a windows user.
I agree that Linux is no harder than windows if, and this is a big if, you start on Linux having never touched a windows machine in your life. Then your would be amazed how easy Linux is, it is indeed windows that causes Linux to look hard. Take someone from a pure Dos environment and they flurish in Unix/Linux. I have seen it and truely stunned at a friend of mine that inhaled Linux like it was a fine cigar.
I don't think your going to argue the the average windows user even knows what the registry is, let alone what REG_SZ or a DWORD is. That is part of the point, they never will in most cases.
As you so clearly pointed out with ease was that it all depends on what you want. What your willing to give up to make it that way and what you get out of your OS. Geeks like Linux for the control, what they can do with it, and to be blunt that fact that marketing has no earthly idea what the hell your talking about. Next time your near a Markitoid ask them if he/she cares how to fork something without silverware involved.
So well, hummmm... yea I agree to most of that, even if I am somewhat incoherant at this point after deploying a 2000 dns/dhcp/wins cluster on a 1200+ node network today. I got to see first hand what the average windows user is all about.
skipped the spell check in fear of seeing how bad at it I really am.
I agreed across the board with you and the options. You can look a Gnome, which is getting to the point that it is starting to bloat out a bit in the sake of making it easy.
I don't think there is going to be an easy solution.
Yea agreed that a good bit of mail once out of the "internal" network is handled by a *nix. Also, agreed that Linux/unix has a place with many many people. I was suggesting that the views of what people what to do with the OS, or goals are different. I happen to agreed with the open source mod., but people seem to focus on the short term and want Linux to "replace" windows. Linux will always have things it does better, and people that can use it better than the general population.
Sometimes I wonder if Slashdot has become any besides just a bunch of people that have nothing better to do besides sit around and look for something to in an artical to bitch about.
You don't agree that open source and microsoft don't have different goals? You don't agree that linux is not harder than windows? You don't agree that Linux, if it wants to claim market share and gain in the corprorate world it need to take a different approach. If your goal is to keep linux to yourself, that is great. You want the other people in the world to use it, it is going to have to be easy to use. Period.
Your troll to get me to respond did work. You show your a class act by, cursing me, quoting me out of context, and being somewhat limited in your ability to reason.
Thanks for letting me prove a point Anonymous Coward, your did your good deal for the day. Hugs and kisses...
no spell check or grammer check, on this one...we will all live.
If anything Microsoft is not stupid. They are never going to make a piece of software that is a "all in one fix". Then they would only sell one thing. They are never going to make something that they can't improve, that would be killing there money stream. As long as there is something to fix, add, or tweak they have a reason to create a "new" os.
Lets make something crystal clear when you put Microsoft vs Open Sorce. They have different goals. Microsoft is to claim the market share and reap the rewards of profit. Open Source is to share, improve, and make better to finish something. Microsoft will never "finish", and I hate to put it to you they make things easy, and in this world that is enough. When the open source movement sees that it is not the features but "ease of use" is when the tides will start to turn. The world does not care about if it can control the software, the OS, or the kernal. They care about sending and e-mail, making a spread sheet, and buying a DVD online without having to learn perl, or reading a book.
Make it easy, and hide the hard stuff. That is how you win, and Microsoft knows it. We as open source, praise the hard stuff. We love it, we bask in it as if it was holly water, and it is our downfall.
I agree with most of what you have said. Katz just used his limited power to stroke the feelings of the slashdot community to his end, which has only sparked flamebait and trolls. It is endless, and not productive.
I wish you and everyone else the best of luck, we will all need it to get though this.Your right though I don't have to read it. So point taken.
It is not like we don't have this on every channel of our TV. It is not like you have some special perspective on what is going on. Please, this is not your "I want to post my feelings" soap box. I was there, I saw it. It is sick, it is unthinkable, but please your monotirade on the subject can be passed on. Please people are coming here to have something else to read besides the 24/7 views we have on TV. Not to forget or forgive, but to look at something else. So as not to get desenitised by it all and become apathetic. Sometimes there is such a thing as just to much. I feel for you, as I feel for everyone envolved, but please do us all a favor and print something besides a rehash of things we are being forced to deal with every minute of the day. Sometimes the best thing is not to have it in your face all the time, otherwise it just gets old. This is not something that was can afford to have people thinking "Jezz enough already", this need to be something that we keep burning until it is righted.
I tried to get in touch with him early early today, and still have not heard from him. Please don't bog him down with useless stuff, I am sure his e-mail was strained to the max at 9am eastern when I tried, and it is sure to get/.ed now.
Looks like the roster is coming home to rest. I still think it is going to take a long time to get either side to convert or give and inch, but at least someone is pushing forward.
It will be interesting to see the beta scripts that get pumped out of this.
I was there also, peoples reactions are mixed.
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People went from amazement to shock, to anger. To put the Television on and see those kids and adults jumping around for joy that someone had struck such a blow. He we were standing on the Hudson thinking how awful it was, watching the towers fall and seeing someone else on the other side of the world jumping for joy.
I really hope that we as a nation take the correct next step, what has happend is horrible but what could come because of it chills me to the bones. On one side I want to strike back, on the other I am scared straigh shitless of what will come from the actions that are sure to follow. Our world has changed, I mean mine and everyone else. Because where you want to see it or not this is going to have an impact on all of us, not just the US. Get ready, because someone is poking the sleeping giant and I fear what will happen.
I watched the 2nd plane this the WTC, I watched the towers fall. It is just scary as hell if you ask me. I am more scared of what the US is going to do, and god help all the people that have died in this. Lets hope our leaders keep there heads and people do the right thing here.
You can check out the pictures from my digital camera I took from the hudson if you want.
You know back in the day....well not that far back Trumpet was the best connect software rolling around. What did you have maybe 2 or 3 that did anything worth talking about, that you configure and get working with any consistancy? Cammilion and Trumpet where the best, please correct me if I am wrong, and Cam was sad.
Interesting enough with the os that would be compat with winOS that is free. It would seem that the linux community would have done this years ago if for nothing else to put a funnel on the venture capital. If Linux had become 100% comp with windows software, via a deamon or what have you....things could and would be very different in many ways. Then again part of problem with windows is the software, so Linux would end up bringing bugs in...it is kind of catch 22 sale to the devil....
I think you need a little anger management. #1, it was strapping the laser to the head of the robot, which is controlled by the computer. Hence the quake.....You know robot like men running rouand on your computer with lasers shooting at each other. #2 Breath good air in, Breath bad air out, no hum a C# note and think "life is good". Maybe that will help.
You know this is a really cool little deal. What is really going to be pretty neat is when you can set up rock'em socke'em robots.
With lasers on them to plug into your computer though a wireless network work. Then play with them though a head mounted camera! -- Opss wait that is Quake.
Yea well check this VR-Quake out.
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http://www.vr-atlantis.com/default.htm
This place already has units in Korea, and a couple other amusement parks. I spoke with the Pres at one time about a job. Very nice set up they have and they plan to ip them world wide.
Strap into a VR-Quake machine for 5 bucks and play someone half way around the world in life size VR.
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You just can't do better than that game. It was the first to totally capture my gaming spirit. I even loaded it up the other day and realized I still have the first 5 levels memorized. How sad is that. Who remembers the creeping coins, talk about an exp stream.
Anyway, as with all games it hold a strong grip on what I love as a game. Build, crawl, build, craw.....I would still love to see a game just like PGOTMO to come on in an online form. You controll a group of 6 leveling characters as a group, turn based timed combat. I telling you this would be very interesting PVP in an online setting. Anyway, you just have to love that first Wizardy it was the game that started it all with me.
Grow a beard.
Grow your hair into a long pony tail.
Avoid the sun at all costs.
Bash windows.
Develop a god complex.
Ding you have just leveled up to Unix Admin.
We had A night janitor that would always, how can I say this. Well, steal stuff that we could never prove. The only thing we were real sure of was his rounds, and at what time he did them. So what we did was set up a couple of web cams late one night and locked down our computers and turn the volume all the way up.
So we waited until we could see him on the web-cam and fire away. "I can see you", from our speakers. We have never laughed so hard. The poor guy shot out of his shoes. The next night he came by looked all around and started cleaning. This time our recorded soundbite blared "Don't touch that!". Not only did he drop the trashcan but he ran from the office screaming. We found out the next day that he ran from the building and did not report back work.
Well, you know we did not have the heart to stop. Our system is still in place and we are now on our 4th cleaning crew and it just keeps getting better. MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Take the time to look behind what is going on here. The government has given away this to one of it's biggest supporters or vendors if you want to call it that. NeuStar, is NeuStar Inc. which is just a sub-sid of Lockheed Martin. Talk about having control. So let me see if I understand this, please correct me if I am wrong. It happends all the time. The .biz, and .us is now under the control of a "neurtral" thrid party...right.
What you need to do to clear this up is goto www.microsoft.com/xbox and download the newest Service Pack (sp1) for the Xbox. This should clear everything up for you. We will be releasing some Hotpatches in the next couple of days as our beta testers get thier hands on the games. I am sorry I ment to say our customers get thier hands on the game. We will not be changing the release date we will just include the SP1 cd with the release.
Enjoy.
You can download the Sp1 for the Xbox, should clear everything up. We will be shipping the service pack with the Xbox rather than delay the shipping date. You can expect a couple of Hotpatches in the next couple as our beta testers get a hold, I mean our first customers get a hold on the games.
Enjoy.
Just wondering but after leaving a project like the ones these developers where do you guys think they will land. Gnome? IBM? RedHat? Some other branch of *BSD?
Seems a waste of some talent, someone here has to have an idea where this level of development team would be headed.
Just wondering if a virus was writen that made a robot freak out and kill someone if the owner of the robot would be responsible. If you so, if your desktop computer is infected and involved in a DOS or something like it, and cause damages are you responsible under the same logic.
Just a passing brain cramp, but it should be interesting to think about.
Agreed on most everything. That is really the questions now is it not? What do you want Linux to be?
If your goal is to make Linux profitable in the marketplace your going to have to give up and bloat it a bit in the cause of making it easy for the average user. When I say the average user I mean just that. The average user is a windows user.
I agree that Linux is no harder than windows if, and this is a big if, you start on Linux having never touched a windows machine in your life. Then your would be amazed how easy Linux is, it is indeed windows that causes Linux to look hard. Take someone from a pure Dos environment and they flurish in Unix/Linux. I have seen it and truely stunned at a friend of mine that inhaled Linux like it was a fine cigar.
I don't think your going to argue the the average windows user even knows what the registry is, let alone what REG_SZ or a DWORD is. That is part of the point, they never will in most cases.
As you so clearly pointed out with ease was that it all depends on what you want. What your willing to give up to make it that way and what you get out of your OS. Geeks like Linux for the control, what they can do with it, and to be blunt that fact that marketing has no earthly idea what the hell your talking about. Next time your near a Markitoid ask them if he/she cares how to fork something without silverware involved.
So well, hummmm... yea I agree to most of that, even if I am somewhat incoherant at this point after deploying a 2000 dns/dhcp/wins cluster on a 1200+ node network today. I got to see first hand what the average windows user is all about.
skipped the spell check in fear of seeing how bad at it I really am.
I agreed across the board with you and the options. You can look a Gnome, which is getting to the point that it is starting to bloat out a bit in the sake of making it easy.
I don't think there is going to be an easy solution.
Yea agreed that a good bit of mail once out of the "internal" network is handled by a *nix. Also, agreed that Linux/unix has a place with many many people. I was suggesting that the views of what people what to do with the OS, or goals are different. I happen to agreed with the open source mod., but people seem to focus on the short term and want Linux to "replace" windows. Linux will always have things it does better, and people that can use it better than the general population.
What do you read only part of what I wrote?
Sometimes I wonder if Slashdot has become any besides just a bunch of people that have nothing better to do besides sit around and look for something to in an artical to bitch about.
You don't agree that open source and microsoft don't have different goals? You don't agree that linux is not harder than windows? You don't agree that Linux, if it wants to claim market share and gain in the corprorate world it need to take a different approach. If your goal is to keep linux to yourself, that is great. You want the other people in the world to use it, it is going to have to be easy to use. Period.
Your troll to get me to respond did work. You show your a class act by, cursing me, quoting me out of context, and being somewhat limited in your ability to reason.
Thanks for letting me prove a point Anonymous Coward, your did your good deal for the day. Hugs and kisses...
no spell check or grammer check, on this one...we will all live.
If anything Microsoft is not stupid. They are never going to make a piece of software that is a "all in one fix". Then they would only sell one thing. They are never going to make something that they can't improve, that would be killing there money stream. As long as there is something to fix, add, or tweak they have a reason to create a "new" os.
Lets make something crystal clear when you put Microsoft vs Open Sorce. They have different goals. Microsoft is to claim the market share and reap the rewards of profit. Open Source is to share, improve, and make better to finish something. Microsoft will never "finish", and I hate to put it to you they make things easy, and in this world that is enough. When the open source movement sees that it is not the features but "ease of use" is when the tides will start to turn. The world does not care about if it can control the software, the OS, or the kernal. They care about sending and e-mail, making a spread sheet, and buying a DVD online without having to learn perl, or reading a book.
Make it easy, and hide the hard stuff. That is how you win, and Microsoft knows it. We as open source, praise the hard stuff. We love it, we bask in it as if it was holly water, and it is our downfall.
I agree with most of what you have said. Katz just used his limited power to stroke the feelings of the slashdot community to his end, which has only sparked flamebait and trolls. It is endless, and not productive.
I wish you and everyone else the best of luck, we will all need it to get though this.Your right though I don't have to read it. So point taken.
It is not like we don't have this on every channel of our TV. It is not like you have some special perspective on what is going on. Please, this is not your "I want to post my feelings" soap box. I was there, I saw it. It is sick, it is unthinkable, but please your monotirade on the subject can be passed on. Please people are coming here to have something else to read besides the 24/7 views we have on TV. Not to forget or forgive, but to look at something else. So as not to get desenitised by it all and become apathetic. Sometimes there is such a thing as just to much. I feel for you, as I feel for everyone envolved, but please do us all a favor and print something besides a rehash of things we are being forced to deal with every minute of the day. Sometimes the best thing is not to have it in your face all the time, otherwise it just gets old. This is not something that was can afford to have people thinking "Jezz enough already", this need to be something that we keep burning until it is righted.
I tried to get in touch with him early early today, and still have not heard from him. Please don't bog him down with useless stuff, I am sure his e-mail was strained to the max at 9am eastern when I tried, and it is sure to get
Looks like the roster is coming home to rest. I still think it is going to take a long time to get either side to convert or give and inch, but at least someone is pushing forward.
It will be interesting to see the beta scripts that get pumped out of this.
People went from amazement to shock, to anger. To put the Television on and see those kids and adults jumping around for joy that someone had struck such a blow. He we were standing on the Hudson thinking how awful it was, watching the towers fall and seeing someone else on the other side of the world jumping for joy.
I really hope that we as a nation take the correct next step, what has happend is horrible but what could come because of it chills me to the bones. On one side I want to strike back, on the other I am scared straigh shitless of what will come from the actions that are sure to follow. Our world has changed, I mean mine and everyone else. Because where you want to see it or not this is going to have an impact on all of us, not just the US. Get ready, because someone is poking the sleeping giant and I fear what will happen.
WTC pictures from the Hudson
I watched the 2nd plane this the WTC, I watched the towers fall. It is just scary as hell if you ask me. I am more scared of what the US is going to do, and god help all the people that have died in this. Lets hope our leaders keep there heads and people do the right thing here.
You can check out the pictures from my digital camera I took from the hudson if you want.
WTC Pics
You know back in the day....well not that far back Trumpet was the best connect software rolling around. What did you have maybe 2 or 3 that did anything worth talking about, that you configure and get working with any consistancy? Cammilion and Trumpet where the best, please correct me if I am wrong, and Cam was sad.
Interesting enough with the os that would be compat with winOS that is free. It would seem that the linux community would have done this years ago if for nothing else to put a funnel on the venture capital. If Linux had become 100% comp with windows software, via a deamon or what have you....things could and would be very different in many ways. Then again part of problem with windows is the software, so Linux would end up bringing bugs in...it is kind of catch 22 sale to the devil....
Goes legit? Interesting way of saying we would like to make money on this now.
These things are like water now days, and they all seem to be the same stuff. Will they ever narrow cast down to something that means anything?
I think you need a little anger management. #1, it was strapping the laser to the head of the robot, which is controlled by the computer. Hence the quake.....You know robot like men running rouand on your computer with lasers shooting at each other. #2 Breath good air in, Breath bad air out, no hum a C# note and think "life is good". Maybe that will help.
You know this is a really cool little deal. What is really going to be pretty neat is when you can set up rock'em socke'em robots.
With lasers on them to plug into your computer though a wireless network work. Then play with them though a head mounted camera! -- Opss wait that is Quake.
http://www.vr-atlantis.com/default.htm
This place already has units in Korea, and a couple other amusement parks. I spoke with the Pres at one time about a job. Very nice set up they have and they plan to ip them world wide.
Strap into a VR-Quake machine for 5 bucks and play someone half way around the world in life size VR.