First game I played with speech (even if it was just the intro, since I couldn't afford the speech pack and the game...) To this day I can still recite the intro word for word.
"Arise, grandson. How goes the war against the humans?", and such.
Starflight! The savegames worked by modifying the executables themselves...so unless you played off a backup copy (or the hard drive) the first time you lost you could never play again.
There's only one of the "witch arc" books that outright requires prior knowledge to not be totally lost, and it warns you at the beginning. I believe it's Carpe Jugulum.
And "comes first chronologically" can be a bit confusing...Pyramids, Thief of Time, and Night Watch will all make your head hurt if you try to place them in order. (Night Watch made my head hurt in general.)
Buffy - Ending after the upcoming season 7 (SMG's contract is running out, and Buffy doesn't work so well without Buffy) Stargate SG1 - Ending after the upcoming second half of season 6 (planned end of arc). Note that this means SciFi is losing the ENTIRE Friday night lineup after the upcoming spring.
I wouldn't be too worried about Enterprise, it seems unlikely UPN would cancel a Trek - hell, even Voyager lasted 7 years!
Only Lexx has four-episode seasons, and that was just the first one. Every Farscape season up to and including this one has been 22 episodes.
This is the last four episodes of Season 3. They're just separated from the rest of the aired season for some bizarre profitmongering scheme by Sci-Fi channel. Either that, or SFC is trying to promote international file sharing of Farscape eps...
Don't worry, when the season ends, you'll know it.:P (stupid evil kemper)
"A more accurate comparison would actually be to the $5 billion-plus porn industry. In terms of sales, the numbers are roughly equivalent. And in terms of audience -- to judge by the waves of young guys trudging glassy-eyed through Staples Center, sporting that same look of paralyzed stupor that is native to fans of both Quake III and "New Wave Hookers IV" -- they're almost exactly the same."
Well, if he'd tried checking out the LA Convention Center, where the show was actually being held, instead of the next-door Staples Center, which wasn't holding any events last week, he'd have found plenty of games that weren't being sold by booth babes...I guess an empty arena forces him to invent some sweeping generalizations.
"Whatever the motive, the GOD lot was packed with flesh-addled gamers gathered for the booby show -- while the GOD games themselves went almost entirely ignored."
Ah yes, that explains the line to get into the Myth 3 showroom and the crowd gathered to watch the Age of Wonders 2 demo.
Last I checked, even if you work for the worst-paying employer in town (Cornell University), you're still not ever going to find a programming job below, minimum, the $27k payband. You can easily make $50k from other employers. Which is low, yes, but not nearly as low as the FUD you're posting. 15k is 7.20 an hour. Even the traditionally low paid intern worker class makes more than that.
Spare us the whining and try picking up a Chronicle sometime. Or better yet, move to Boston, where the pickings are so much better.
Let's take a hypothetical area of the country...oh, say, Upstate New York. Now, say there is precisely ONE upstream provider that universities in said area can use. Now, let's say this upstream provider peers with only one backbone...oh, let's call it Sprint. And this provider's hypothetical peering points are clogged to hell...on Sprint's side.
Not to mention that those networks are supposed to be used for educational research. That's why the universities can get the bandwidth they do at the rates they do. Pegging a T3 at 100% outgoing due to constant Napster data streaming out (most of which is illegal to serve up anyway) is hardly educational research.
Colleges are not ISPs, and bandwidth isn't free. They have very limited bandwidth for their userbase, often doubly hampered by halfassed attempts at upstream providers. If ANY application starts pegging their outgoing traffic at 100% 24/7, they're going to ban it or shut it down.
I spoke with the admin of a large university in upstate New York, who told me that the actual content of the traffic doesn't concern him unless someone complains about it - but if any one person or application starts using huge amounts of bandwidth, irrespective of what they're doing, he'll move to shut them down.
So long as bandwidth isn't free, Napster cannot exist in the high-speed environment of a university LAN. While I personally don't like the DMCA and would like nothing better than to see it repealed, this particular issue has nothing to do with it.
When you launch the napster client, it attempts to connect to some sort of metaserver (hardcoded into the client, at least on the Windows version) on port 8875. (Which tends to be down more than up...). This server then responds with the IP and port of another Napster server, which appears to be chosen more or less randomly. However, last I checked, all the servers are contained within a single class C. (208.184.216.x, if I remember correctly) Implement a simple rule on the router, and Napster goes bye-bye.
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First game I played with speech (even if it was just the intro, since I couldn't afford the speech pack and the game...) To this day I can still recite the intro word for word.
"Arise, grandson. How goes the war against the humans?", and such.
Starflight! The savegames worked by modifying the executables themselves...so unless you played off a backup copy (or the hard drive) the first time you lost you could never play again.
Ah, memories.
There's only one of the "witch arc" books that outright requires prior knowledge to not be totally lost, and it warns you at the beginning. I believe it's Carpe Jugulum.
And "comes first chronologically" can be a bit confusing...Pyramids, Thief of Time, and Night Watch will all make your head hurt if you try to place them in order. (Night Watch made my head hurt in general.)
Buffy - Ending after the upcoming season 7 (SMG's contract is running out, and Buffy doesn't work so well without Buffy)
Stargate SG1 - Ending after the upcoming second half of season 6 (planned end of arc). Note that this means SciFi is losing the ENTIRE Friday night lineup after the upcoming spring.
I wouldn't be too worried about Enterprise, it seems unlikely UPN would cancel a Trek - hell, even Voyager lasted 7 years!
Only Lexx has four-episode seasons, and that was just the first one. Every Farscape season up to and including this one has been 22 episodes.
:P (stupid evil kemper)
This is the last four episodes of Season 3. They're just separated from the rest of the aired season for some bizarre profitmongering scheme by Sci-Fi channel. Either that, or SFC is trying to promote international file sharing of Farscape eps...
Don't worry, when the season ends, you'll know it.
As opposed to The Princess Bride, where the special edition wasn't announced until AFTER the first release had shipped.
1. Main characters fart around for a while.
2. Main characters go to archaeological dig.
3. Bad Stuff Happens.
4. Goto 1
Don't forget the Realms of Arkania series. Mmm, Shadows Over Riva. Gotta love the happy music in the desolate swamp!
"A more accurate comparison would actually be to the $5 billion-plus porn industry. In terms of sales, the numbers are roughly equivalent. And in terms of audience -- to judge by the waves of young guys trudging glassy-eyed through Staples Center, sporting that same look of paralyzed stupor that is native to fans of both Quake III and "New Wave Hookers IV" -- they're almost exactly the same."
Well, if he'd tried checking out the LA Convention Center, where the show was actually being held, instead of the next-door Staples Center, which wasn't holding any events last week, he'd have found plenty of games that weren't being sold by booth babes...I guess an empty arena forces him to invent some sweeping generalizations.
"Whatever the motive, the GOD lot was packed with flesh-addled gamers gathered for the booby show -- while the GOD games themselves went almost entirely ignored."
Ah yes, that explains the line to get into the Myth 3 showroom and the crowd gathered to watch the Age of Wonders 2 demo.
Last I checked, even if you work for the worst-paying employer in town (Cornell University), you're still not ever going to find a programming job below, minimum, the $27k payband. You can easily make $50k from other employers. Which is low, yes, but not nearly as low as the FUD you're posting. 15k is 7.20 an hour. Even the traditionally low paid intern worker class makes more than that.
Spare us the whining and try picking up a Chronicle sometime. Or better yet, move to Boston, where the pickings are so much better.
No, it's available for legitimate uses. This isn't RC5 here.
Let's take a hypothetical area of the country...oh, say, Upstate New York. Now, say there is precisely ONE upstream provider that universities in said area can use. Now, let's say this upstream provider peers with only one backbone...oh, let's call it Sprint. And this provider's hypothetical peering points are clogged to hell...on Sprint's side.
Not to mention that those networks are supposed to be used for educational research. That's why the universities can get the bandwidth they do at the rates they do. Pegging a T3 at 100% outgoing due to constant Napster data streaming out (most of which is illegal to serve up anyway) is hardly educational research.
Colleges are not ISPs, and bandwidth isn't free. They have very limited bandwidth for their userbase, often doubly hampered by halfassed attempts at upstream providers. If ANY application starts pegging their outgoing traffic at 100% 24/7, they're going to ban it or shut it down.
I spoke with the admin of a large university in upstate New York, who told me that the actual content of the traffic doesn't concern him unless someone complains about it - but if any one person or application starts using huge amounts of bandwidth, irrespective of what they're doing, he'll move to shut them down.
So long as bandwidth isn't free, Napster cannot exist in the high-speed environment of a university LAN. While I personally don't like the DMCA and would like nothing better than to see it repealed, this particular issue has nothing to do with it.
When you launch the napster client, it attempts to connect to some sort of metaserver (hardcoded into the client, at least on the Windows version) on port 8875. (Which tends to be down more than up...). This server then responds with the IP and port of another Napster server, which appears to be chosen more or less randomly. However, last I checked, all the servers are contained within a single class C. (208.184.216.x, if I remember correctly) Implement a simple rule on the router, and Napster goes bye-bye.