Yeah, it started as a fantasy "Panzer General" but has really taken off. There are tons of units and the maps look good. I just wish someone would make a mod with Shermans and Panzers instead of spearmen and griffins!:)
A journalist's favorite site is a hardcore lefty news organization. Nice. And how dare you impugn the honor of the New York Times, all their stories are fact-checked. At least, that's what I was angrily told last time I dared to question the veracity of the Grey Lady on slashdot.
It was a joke...that web page is from 1995 or so. You couldn't do anything from a Windows 3.1 box on SLIP dialup. I didn't expect it to get +5 Informative...I was planning on +5 Funny, but go figure.
Some sites are slow, down, whatever. Try again later.
These sites use advanced authentication methods, such as reverse authentication look-up to local FTP daemon. Anonymous might not allways work if the address that you're coming from doesn't look 3l33+ enough, you might have to use your own userid and password. Also, disabling or enabling a proxy might help.
Also, simple PC's with Wind0wz are also totally off the limits. Go to your shell account and use a real operating systems. L4m3rs without multitasking can't get in.
1. Editor needs something to put on the front page, surveys what's in the queue, and decides we haven't had a games story for a while. Poof.
2. Editor gets bribed. As an editor myself, I can certainly say that it works. Sometimes the bribe is shockingly small. I smell bribery all over Slashdot's consistently odd choice of articles. It's like living in 1975 and watching Betty Ford stagger around and not really understanding what's the problem, yet you know something just ain't right.
Yeah...they could never possibly be wrong. We should never question them, because they're better than us. Even to test their theories smacks of iconoclasm and heresy. It is well and good that the Inquisition ensures that we don't think for ourselves and instead rely on the reputation of academics.
I, for one, am glad you showed such a shitty attitude towards frontline government employees. Don't want to enter America! That's a good one! PS Chicago didn't get the Olympics because they didn't bribe the IOC enough, had nothing to do with immigration policy. But thanks for venting on a totally unrelated subject!
Telegram from the real world: if you don't have any money, then you're not Nintendo's customer and they are not sad at all to see you go. In my business, I get people who just aren't in the category that I serve. They ain't my customer and it's not a good idea to spend any time or money on them (and in business, time is money.) It's a cold, cruel world out there.
PS Nintendo executives don't watch cartoon shows. Try golf instead.
Uh, no, actually the book happened to be on the shelf next to me when I picked the nickname. I always pick something random as a login. PS please stop projecting your feelings onto random internet people.
Look, Mr. Score: 3, Informative, I didn't literally mean that there has not been a single game since the beginning of time where commies were the villian. But thanks for backhandedly illustrating my point by dredging up some obscure title nobody has ever heard of. This review even remarks about how unusual commies as villians are.
It's only among leftwing Westerners that Mao-worship still exists. The city council of Berkeley, California openly describe themselves as Maoist. Otherwise, the only regions of the world where Maoism is still a going concern are horrid backwaters like Nepal or Jharkhand. Chinese people say Mao was 70% right (kicking out the Nationalists and warlords) and 30% wrong (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Hundred Flowers Movement, etc. etc.) Nobody in China recites his poetry or wears T-shirts with his picture on it. 100% of the Mao items for sale in shops are in tourist areas...nobody would buy that crap here.
The reason he's not hated is that he unified China after a period of fragmentation. This happens a lot in Chinese history, and the conqueror is always a hero no matter how many puppies he kicks.
The nazis are loved by nobody. The commies, especially Trotsky, are still worshipped and respected in some parts of the world. And not only ignorant parts, either - highly educated people believe in it! That makes it pretty much a no-go as far as video game villains go. You need someone who nobody sympathizes with, like aliens or nazis or corporations.
It wasn't some sort of master win by the IBM PC that doomed Apple to obscurity. IIRC, IBM lost some sort of lawsuit which opened up their platform. They fought it tooth and nail, IBM would have been quite happy to have a walled garden architecture just like Apple. Heck, we're still using PCs today!
a) Do people need to know who represents them in Congress? Do people need to know who Da Vinci was? (no he was not a cryptographer) Why does anyone need to know anything?
b) See? If there was but a single morsel of pop culture that mentioned this, it would be ingrained by now. But no, the only frame of reference is classes back at school where it was mostly algebra anyway.
Yeah, I had the idea back in 1982 or so. Video games use joystick controllers, why can't they use some sort of controller that requires physical action? Software could monitor you and make sure to rotate the muscles being used. Heavy computer users would develop great physiques.
That was along with my other idea, inject facts into popular culture and music. Heck, people can remember all the lyrics to Jay Z and every special move in Mortal Kombat but they have no idea what acceleration due to gravity is. If Jay Z put a lyric in one of his songs that said "yo beeyotch da speed dat sumtin accelerates is 9.8m/s" everyone'd know it within 6 weeks. Too bad the idea seems to be poorly implemented - you get people creating works that are almost, but not quite, factual. They'll put an extra 5% bullshit or stuff that agrees with their politics and pass it off as the real deal.:(
I wouldn't call it "stupid" at all. Failure to consider the human element and designing something for yourself is a classic mistake. Hell yeah if I'm getting paid crap, I'm sure as hell not caring about some guy's alarm. Is it broke? No, then don't fix it. Not surprising to me it turned out that way at all. You should look at old telco systems, they knew how to design around people.
Wow, thanks for denouncing a 1950s movie as sexist pig. Glad you got that out there. Even in the movie it was more of a joke, even the Soviet agreed it was a good idea!
It's racist to put people in a situation where they could be allowed to steal. The fault was yours for making sure the employee wasn't properly supervised at all times.
Which ism are you talking about? Satanism? Stoicism? It ain't socialism because (a) it doesn't fit into your clue and (b) socialism doesn't "solve" problems.
As others have said, there is the Public Broadcasting Service (TV) and National Public Radio, both of which are widely available to anyone who wants to tune into them. Despite being publicly funded, unfortunately both organizations tilt quite far in the same ideological direction.
PS you appear to have an unhealthy fascination with Americans...this story was about micropayments and your whole post is "AmeriKKKans are so stupid!" take a break man.
Starfleet Academy is just the US Naval Academy, adapted for space. Hogwart's is an idealized version of a British school for upper-class pinheads. I don't know how you draw a connection between these and real life. Neither spacemen nor sorcerers need pay for airline tickets or pay rent in those neighborhoods near the university.
What planet are you on where exists such a thing as a "chemistry set"...much less one expressly designed for children? Are you mad, sir? Sounds like a liability nightmare, not even counting the ones who do it right and synthesize chemicals right there in their houses, with no plan for disposal. No vent hood, no fire extinguisher, no eye protection...seriously who came up with an idea like this? 'Timmy tries chemistry' indeed.
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This would be it, then?
Yeah, it started as a fantasy "Panzer General" but has really taken off. There are tons of units and the maps look good. I just wish someone would make a mod with Shermans and Panzers instead of spearmen and griffins! :)
A journalist's favorite site is a hardcore lefty news organization. Nice. And how dare you impugn the honor of the New York Times, all their stories are fact-checked. At least, that's what I was angrily told last time I dared to question the veracity of the Grey Lady on slashdot.
It was a joke...that web page is from 1995 or so. You couldn't do anything from a Windows 3.1 box on SLIP dialup. I didn't expect it to get +5 Informative...I was planning on +5 Funny, but go figure.
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2. Editor gets bribed. As an editor myself, I can certainly say that it works. Sometimes the bribe is shockingly small. I smell bribery all over Slashdot's consistently odd choice of articles. It's like living in 1975 and watching Betty Ford stagger around and not really understanding what's the problem, yet you know something just ain't right.
Yeah...they could never possibly be wrong. We should never question them, because they're better than us. Even to test their theories smacks of iconoclasm and heresy. It is well and good that the Inquisition ensures that we don't think for ourselves and instead rely on the reputation of academics.
A man who goes to a hardware store to buy a power drill doesn't really need a drill. He needs holes. The customer is always right.
I, for one, am glad you showed such a shitty attitude towards frontline government employees. Don't want to enter America! That's a good one! PS Chicago didn't get the Olympics because they didn't bribe the IOC enough, had nothing to do with immigration policy. But thanks for venting on a totally unrelated subject!
Uh, guy? Maybe you and Sarah Palin consider this science fiction, but let me tell you, it ain't.
PS Nintendo executives don't watch cartoon shows. Try golf instead.
Uh, no, actually the book happened to be on the shelf next to me when I picked the nickname. I always pick something random as a login. PS please stop projecting your feelings onto random internet people.
Look, Mr. Score: 3, Informative, I didn't literally mean that there has not been a single game since the beginning of time where commies were the villian. But thanks for backhandedly illustrating my point by dredging up some obscure title nobody has ever heard of. This review even remarks about how unusual commies as villians are.
The reason he's not hated is that he unified China after a period of fragmentation. This happens a lot in Chinese history, and the conqueror is always a hero no matter how many puppies he kicks.
The nazis are loved by nobody. The commies, especially Trotsky, are still worshipped and respected in some parts of the world. And not only ignorant parts, either - highly educated people believe in it! That makes it pretty much a no-go as far as video game villains go. You need someone who nobody sympathizes with, like aliens or nazis or corporations.
It wasn't some sort of master win by the IBM PC that doomed Apple to obscurity. IIRC, IBM lost some sort of lawsuit which opened up their platform. They fought it tooth and nail, IBM would have been quite happy to have a walled garden architecture just like Apple. Heck, we're still using PCs today!
First time on slashdot that I've heard un-crippling technology described as despicable. Comes a day for everything, I suppose.
b) See? If there was but a single morsel of pop culture that mentioned this, it would be ingrained by now. But no, the only frame of reference is classes back at school where it was mostly algebra anyway.
That was along with my other idea, inject facts into popular culture and music. Heck, people can remember all the lyrics to Jay Z and every special move in Mortal Kombat but they have no idea what acceleration due to gravity is. If Jay Z put a lyric in one of his songs that said "yo beeyotch da speed dat sumtin accelerates is 9.8m/s" everyone'd know it within 6 weeks. Too bad the idea seems to be poorly implemented - you get people creating works that are almost, but not quite, factual. They'll put an extra 5% bullshit or stuff that agrees with their politics and pass it off as the real deal. :(
I wouldn't call it "stupid" at all. Failure to consider the human element and designing something for yourself is a classic mistake. Hell yeah if I'm getting paid crap, I'm sure as hell not caring about some guy's alarm. Is it broke? No, then don't fix it. Not surprising to me it turned out that way at all. You should look at old telco systems, they knew how to design around people.
Wow, thanks for denouncing a 1950s movie as sexist pig. Glad you got that out there. Even in the movie it was more of a joke, even the Soviet agreed it was a good idea!
It's racist to put people in a situation where they could be allowed to steal. The fault was yours for making sure the employee wasn't properly supervised at all times.
As others have said, there is the Public Broadcasting Service (TV) and National Public Radio, both of which are widely available to anyone who wants to tune into them. Despite being publicly funded, unfortunately both organizations tilt quite far in the same ideological direction.
PS you appear to have an unhealthy fascination with Americans...this story was about micropayments and your whole post is "AmeriKKKans are so stupid!" take a break man.
Starfleet Academy is just the US Naval Academy, adapted for space. Hogwart's is an idealized version of a British school for upper-class pinheads. I don't know how you draw a connection between these and real life. Neither spacemen nor sorcerers need pay for airline tickets or pay rent in those neighborhoods near the university.
What planet are you on where exists such a thing as a "chemistry set"...much less one expressly designed for children? Are you mad, sir? Sounds like a liability nightmare, not even counting the ones who do it right and synthesize chemicals right there in their houses, with no plan for disposal. No vent hood, no fire extinguisher, no eye protection...seriously who came up with an idea like this? 'Timmy tries chemistry' indeed.