I can't believe that some people would actually fork over the money to do pay for this. Not only will it be a total waste of energy, but if there IS intelligent life out there, and it has the technology to decode what we are sending, then they will realize that it is nothing but junk mail being sent, and decide to not even bother with looking at the Earth for contact.
Anyway, doesn't the Earth put out enough radio waves as is?
I checked with internic because I thought that it was going to be a hoax, but it looks like the domain name windows2000test.com is registered to microsoft. I do know that the page is down right now, so that might have something to do with what happened to you, but I know that it is registered at least to someone at M$ (or someone who knows a good deal of M$ info, like their street adress and stuff like that).
If I remember correctly, the Starcraft AI knows exactly where everyone is, all the time. The other irritating thing that it can do (and does) is with Broodwar the AI can sensor sweep an unlimated number of times even if it doesn't have a com station. I remember nuking their entire base and doing some mopup work and getting six sensor sweeps in the span of 15 seconds. Thats wrong, especially since I had wasted all of their command centers. Go figure.
Starcraft is scripted (it uses the same AI as Warcraft II with a few minor tweeks). Here is an example of how bad the Starcraft AI really is: it has a line in its resource management script that states something along the order of "if resources100, get 5000 resources" making it impossible to lay true siege to the computer and its supply lines can never be severed because it doesn't have any.
And I will third it. I won't say that I am the best fps player, but I have to say that any enemy that will use my own tactics against me (it HUTS to have a Skaarj Scout circle straif you while you are trying to do the same to it, its better at it). From what I heard, the guy who did the Quake ReaperBot in his spare time got hired by Epic to do the Unreal AI.
Another thing about Windoze 2000: if you can believe computer magazines, win2000 isn't going to have any 16 bit app support, and that it was decided to leave that out. Personally, I hope that this isn't true (no, I am not a Microsoft fan, so please don't flame me, I just think that a possibly ok OS is going to be made totally not-even-having-a-chance-at-being-ok because of this stupid desision.
Heheh, you forgot the other original meaning of hacker. If I remember correctly, it was originally coined at MIT as someone who playes practical jokes and generally goes places that the MIT administration doesn't like them getting into.
Well, if you ask me, I think that (no matter how bad it is) it is probably going to get somewhere along the lines of a 99% review in PC gamer (Just look at the trend, Civ 2 97%, Alpha Centauri 98%). What really bugs me about this is that Civ 2 wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, and Alpha Centauri seemed just an updated version of Civ 2 really. So giving it the best rating that PC Gamer has given anything is really agrivating (they should save the top ratings for revolutionary games: ex. Descent, its old, but it was one of the very first games with true-ish 3D effects). Well, thanks for hearing me out. . .
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I can't believe that some people would actually fork over the money to do pay for this. Not only will it be a total waste of energy, but if there IS intelligent life out there, and it has the technology to decode what we are sending, then they will realize that it is nothing but junk mail being sent, and decide to not even bother with looking at the Earth for contact.
Anyway, doesn't the Earth put out enough radio waves as is?
I checked with internic because I thought that it was going to be a hoax, but it looks like the domain name windows2000test.com is registered to microsoft. I do know that the page is down right now, so that might have something to do with what happened to you, but I know that it is registered at least to someone at M$ (or someone who knows a good deal of M$ info, like their street adress and stuff like that).
I stand corrected.
If I remember correctly, the Starcraft AI knows exactly where everyone is, all the time. The other irritating thing that it can do (and does) is with Broodwar the AI can sensor sweep an unlimated number of times even if it doesn't have a com station. I remember nuking their entire base and doing some mopup work and getting six sensor sweeps in the span of 15 seconds. Thats wrong, especially since I had wasted all of their command centers. Go figure.
Starcraft is scripted (it uses the same AI as Warcraft II with a few minor tweeks). Here is an example of how bad the Starcraft AI really is: it has a line in its resource management script that states something along the order of "if resources100, get 5000 resources" making it impossible to lay true siege to the computer and its supply lines can never be severed because it doesn't have any.
And I will third it. I won't say that I am the best fps player, but I have to say that any enemy that will use my own tactics against me (it HUTS to have a Skaarj Scout circle straif you while you are trying to do the same to it, its better at it). From what I heard, the guy who did the Quake ReaperBot in his spare time got hired by Epic to do the Unreal AI.
Another thing about Windoze 2000: if you can believe computer magazines, win2000 isn't going to have any 16 bit app support, and that it was decided to leave that out. Personally, I hope that this isn't true (no, I am not a Microsoft fan, so please don't flame me, I just think that a possibly ok OS is going to be made totally not-even-having-a-chance-at-being-ok because of this stupid desision.
Heheh, you forgot the other original meaning of hacker. If I remember correctly, it was originally coined at MIT as someone who playes practical jokes and generally goes places that the MIT administration doesn't like them getting into.
Well, if you ask me, I think that (no matter how bad it is) it is probably going to get somewhere along the lines of a 99% review in PC gamer (Just look at the trend, Civ 2 97%, Alpha Centauri 98%). What really bugs me about this is that Civ 2 wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, and Alpha Centauri seemed just an updated version of Civ 2 really. So giving it the best rating that PC Gamer has given anything is really agrivating (they should save the top ratings for revolutionary games: ex. Descent, its old, but it was one of the very first games with true-ish 3D effects). Well, thanks for hearing me out. . .