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  1. Re:Hello sailor on Legends of Zork Goes Live · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's not even middle english, let alone old. For a point of reference, not even Shakespeare is middle english

  2. Re:Is it just me...? on Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's just you. This is like finding the short story that the first EVER novel was based on, when that short story was written by a completely different person than the novel. It's a work of art, primitive maybe, but no less art and in one of the few actually original media of the 20th century.

  3. Re:Low Magic? on Iron Heroes: A low magic tabletop game · · Score: 1

    Nice try - but the probability doesn't change when they pick a door because you've already picked a door and that's when the probability of a correct guess should be determined. Observe. You have a one in three chance of picking the right door - you pick it, you've got a 1/3 chance of getting it right. They open a door - has your chance of picking the right door initally changed? Nope! Still one in three. The only thing that changes is the probability of the other door being correct. Your four option scenario actually shows the same thing. If the right door is B there is 100% chance they will open C, and the same with B if the right door is C. On the other hand, if A is the right door the chance of B being chosen is only 50% all things being equal and the same with C. So the chances of A being right is 50+50/50+50+100+100, or 1/3. QED

  4. Re:XHTML is a bad solution on Web Designer's Reference · · Score: 1

    Plain Old Text in the drop down box is obviously a complete lie.

  5. Re:XHTML is a bad solution on Web Designer's Reference · · Score: 1
    It has always been formally wrong. HTML has in it's very acronym the words Mark-Up. What you have discovered is that the

    tag, in some browsers, creates white space - so you are using it presentationally. However, this whitespace is not guaranteed in all browsers and it does nothing to 'mark-up' the document as it isn't showing where paragraphs begin, which is the point of the

    tag, and thus your accessibility suffers.

    If you just want a couple of line separation, you could use the

    tag twice, which, while ugly, is at least using tags correct. But you should, optimally, surround paragraphs with the

    tags, so that you can define whatever paragraph break you want in the CSS, which is the place for presentational information.

    If you just want readable text, write a .txt file (or an .rtf if you must have formatting). You can argue that 'it just works' and most of the time (only most) you'd be right. You can type with a stick six feet from the keyboard too, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. The book you read was crap.

  6. Re:Awww, that's so romantic on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't Spider-Man do this all the freakin' time? Often leading to violence? Friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man my lilly white ass! Stalker-Man more like. There oughta be a law.

  7. Re:Um, because. on MST3K Rightsholders Sue Over Theater Commentary · · Score: 1

    It is in fact a crime and I will be suing all those who have ripped off my famous "Wise cracking dad, devoted wife and cute kids" formula, not to mention my "wisecracking group of people who work together" formula and its sibling, "group of people who hang out together a lot wisecracking about sex". To be honest, I going with Mr Sinus on this one. There's too much of a difference between a live show and a television program for it to be trademark infringement. IMHO IANAL etc.

  8. Re:New Zealand release names on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 1

    Ben Goodger, lead developer of firefox, is JAFA. Many of the codenames for firefox releases have been Auckland suburbs or places (One Tree Hill, Greenlane etc). Wellington, myself.

  9. Re:Bad choice of hook on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 1

    Leading to accusations of Liberal Software bias - namely favouring the 0s over the 1s

  10. Re:Another generation of frustration on Both Tea And No Tea - Updated Hitchhiker's Game · · Score: 1

    You can just take the particle - no need to use the a tool.

  11. Re:problem #1 on Turbine Starts The Spin For Middle-Earth Online · · Score: 1

    As opposed to, say, druids?

  12. Re:I want to be a Men class. on Turbine Starts The Spin For Middle-Earth Online · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of a scene in Bbylon 5 where two psi-cops (telepaths) were practicing their psychic combat. They sat at a table and representations of their attacks and defenses appeared betweens them. While it wasn't hugely exciting, it doesn't take much to see how Jackson could have interspersed shots of two wizards concentrating until breaking point while colorful representations of their metal battle fought around them. Would have been better than old-man-fu IMHO.

  13. Re:Normal mapping vs. bump mapping? on On The Trendiest Concepts In Game Design · · Score: 1

    And for those who can't figure out how to type in normal mapping in the wikipedia search bar - here's the other link

  14. Re:Normal mapping vs. bump mapping? on On The Trendiest Concepts In Game Design · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. The next big thing on On The Trendiest Concepts In Game Design · · Score: 1

    Having absorbed this information and passed the sand/racing/historical coaxial data structure through my Trendo-O-Mogrification device I can confidently predict the the the next great game icon will be none other than...Speed Buggy!

  16. Re:Monkeys!!! on Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal · · Score: 1

    It was even funnier when I got it in my email a few ago. Google 'charred monkeys' and see what turns up. +5 funny for a cut and paste job. Nice going, RevDobbs ;-) Why, yes I do enjoy the taste of sours grapes. Why do you ask?

  17. Re:Click to View is better... on Jabberwocky In ActionScript · · Score: 1

    It still works in 9.x (I've had it in 9,1 and 9.3). Just install it from the extension room, and note that there's a post down the bottom of that page that tells you how to remove it (which is still currently problematic).

  18. Re:Replaced by Spock on More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek · · Score: 1
    I see someone else went to the Alanis Morissette School of Not Knowing What the Word "Ironic" Means.
    They were being ironic.
  19. Re:-1 Troll - Anti-Semitic Hitler Salad Cream on Will LOTR:ROTK Extended Edition Hit Cinemas? · · Score: 1

    pedant
    Euthanasia is from the greek - 'Good Death' and is more properly applied to 'mercy killings' and assisted suicides. I think you're thinking of eugenics - which means making sure undesirable (physical, mental or religious) elements don't perpetuate themselves in the gene pool, either by sterilisation or a swift bullet to the back of the head. /pedant

  20. Re:There's a trilogy? on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    One thing to remember is that Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carrol was a mathematician, so a lot of the 'dream-logic' is represented by explicit examples of logical fallacies as demonstrated by conversation. I was vaguely aware of this at the time I read it but the annotated Alice (by Martin Gardner of SciAm's Mathematical Games column fame, inter alia) really fleshed it out - as well as providing a key to many of the in-jokes and now-obscure yet then contemporary references. Not to mention including the originals of the various nursery rhymes Dodgson parodies.

  21. Re:the name stays! on A Scanner Darkly Film Preview · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming you realise that's a paraphrase of a biblical quote and are being sarcastic, because otherwise you'd be calling God grammatically challenged and then I'd have to smite you in the NAYUM of the LOOOORD.

  22. Re:'Most faithful adaptation' is subjective... on A Scanner Darkly Film Preview · · Score: 1

    why were the people in PKDs world so interested in this virtual suffering. I dunno. Why did so many people go and see 'The Passion of the Christ'?

  23. Re:Benefits. on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 1

    In a summer job at my mother's work, the boss called me into a meeting room and asked if I could hack my way into an NT sever. The password it should have been set up with didn't work, and there was a 1125 litre bottle of whiskey for me if I could do it. I asked what the password was supposed to be, typed it in, and bingo, off it went. Maybe they'd used a capital A in administrator or something. Easiest grog I ever scored, though it did rot my hippocampus so much that now I can't recall my own name.

  24. Re:I sense a disturbance in the Force... on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1

    True. But Episode IV hasn't always been 'A New Hope'. A long time ago, but in this actual galaxy, it was just called 'Star Wars'.

  25. Re:The flagship... on D&D Is 30 · · Score: 1

    The historical medieval one is almost certainly Chivalry and Sorcery.