Does anyone remember the game K240: Utopia 2? Oh, comets would be so much more interesting if we lived in the Martian asteroid belt.
"Alright, Slashdot's discovered a new comet! I'm taking the lift to the top of the Resiblock to get a good look at it."
"Yeah, I heard. I feel sorry for the folks on AST:JRS-334, though - according to one of these comments, that comet's gonna smack right into them in about two minutes."
"Naw, that's gotta be a troll. What kind of-- wait, what asteroid do we live on again?"
It's pretty obvious why IBM are taking a serious look at changing over to a whole new kind of *nix. Simply compare the two. Before you read this article how many of you - and honestly, now - how many of you didn't know what AIX was? At least a couple, I can be sure. On the other hand, who reading Slashdot has never heard of Linux?
AIX is an obscure, nasty system that costs IBM money to maintain. Linux, if I remember my first foray into the operating system correctly, cost me naught but a handful of blank CDs and every other IRC monkey could give me free techsupport for it.
How the hell do they expect to not claim they've never found previous effects of chunks of DNA before they patented it?
"Guys, guys! You'll never guess what I just invented! It's a chemical that allows this thing I call photosythesis! We could use it to allow plants to get their energy directly from sunlight instead of... oh. Nevermind."
It's not like they were the only ones to go last year. The reason it pissed off a lot of people was that it it was the best popular audio sharing client to date, and everyone loved it. It was so easy to use and it was absolutely brilliant at finding anything, even really obscure stuff.
Best of all, it did an excellent job of blocking pirate downloads. You tried looking for a single by any popular artist in the past fifty years, odds were you couldn't find it. Probably seemes like an unwanted daft feature of file sharing client, but it made the system that much less illegal. That's why it was such a shame to see it go - the RIAA charged our beloved AudioGalaxy with piracy and gave it the death sentence, all the while letting Kazaa, WinMX and the other 'real criminals' roam free.
To this date, there are kids on the Kazaa and WinMX still actually costing the recording industry money in CDs some of them actually would be buying originally, and pedophiles sharing entire collections of unsavoury child porn. Yet looking for harmless TV themes today on the service that never hurt anybody, I can't find shit.
What a lazy mind I must have. It misread the title of this story as Ask Linux. I assumed it meant to say something like "Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way to Get Started With Linux?", only the editors were feeling equally lazy that day.
My favourite tactic in MOO2 was not to destroy anything, but to ally with everyone and become their best friends. Seems kinda pathetic, I know, but read on.
Eventually, my people would be in perfect harmony with the Psilons - the most technologically advanced race in the game who not only get more technologies than anyone else in every field of research, they also gain them all faster. In MOO2, technology is a huge power, one that can make or break the game, and if all goes well I'm perfectly allied with these guys. What few enemies I have won't stand a chance.
Now, here's a the excellent part. When you're in perfect friendship with the Psilons and 'demand' one of their technologies, they'll give it. No questions asked - you're their ally, and they really do love you that much. "Hey blueface, how about some of those planet destroying beams of yours?" "No problem, human ally!"
And it's not just technologies. They'll give you entire star systems as well. ENTIRE STAR SYSTEMS. Systems with Gaia planets, systems with Ultra-Rich planets, systems of strategic importance, systems they just spent their hard-earned cash colonising - systems with expensive superpowerful ships at them. Systems choc-full of superbrainy Psilon scientists.
Of course, there's one thing they won't give you, and that's their homeworld. Of course, by the time you demand their homeworld, you've got every other star system of theirs, ninety percent of their fleet and all of their technology.
Luckily, my pacifist race (the Web Designers) is Telepathic, so I once I use ninety percent of their own fleet against the remaining ten percent, I simply Mind Control their home planet into loving my race and serving my faithfully..
Assuming it supports LAN play, I look forward to buying MOO3 for my brother's birthday.
Y'know, you can always emulate the Amiga. Emulators such as UAE/WinUAE and Fellow do a fair job of running old Amiga stuff on a multitude of platforms. You can also buy them relatively cheap on an auction site, since Amigas aren't not worth a hell of a lot as collectables yet. (I picked up an A600 for £20.)
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WHAT'S THAT? I can't hear you over my Dual AthlonXP 2600+ casemodded box with 8400rpm fans and my overclocked GeForce 7 Ti 7700 that gives me 8000fps in the Quake IV beta I have. Now leave me alone, I'm busy frying my steaks on the aluminium case.
*pfzzt*...aw man, not ANOTHER 1GB DDR RAM chip blown. Time to sell my other kidney...
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Nine out of ten people say they can't notice the difference!
I name this newly discovered celestial body, Planet Slashdot. Seriously, though. Now where's the place where you register planet names so as to make this official, and who'd like first try at sending a a linux-powered coke tin to plant the flag?
Don't forget the little-known bash command, watch. Executes a certain command once every two seconds, by default. D'ya suppose that would be useful for this purpose?
I have to agree with Junkz Jerzey there. Anyone remember all-time PC classic Duke Nukem 3D? (Who DOESN'T?) An 18-rated shooter, consisting mostly of shooting things with guns and blowing things up with other, larger guns. It was fun, it was simple. Yet despite it's age rating, it was a game that was targeted toward the kid in all of us.
Still, people loved it because it required less thought to play than most cutesy puzzle games of the day. I suppose it's just what gamers need, though - a wide selection of games, of different styles, so that somebody's always going to love these new games.
In other news, RIAA members secretly disguised as Slashdot editors have discovered that by posting the same message 156 times, it's equivalent to 421 real messages. Seven hundred and twenty slashdot posters posted comments to the story, saying 'Unsubscribe', with fifteen others instead taking the side of 'Unsubscirbe'.
CowboyNeal was quoted as saying, "It's just what we need for a slow news day. I mean, 0.2% of readers won't notice the difference, but when you've got eleven million readers, that's still a sizeable figure."
"Meet Alice. She almost passed my Turing test." A transcript, from the website of badass Internet pseudocelebrity Scott Sharkey. I laughed out loud when I read this.
SHARKEY: I LIKE SHORTS. THEY'RE COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR. ALICE: COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR are they? SHARKEY: YES. HEY! YOU'RE NOT WEARING SHORTS! ALICE: What makes you think I am not WEARING SHORTS? SHARKEY: ARE YOU WEARING SHORTS? ALICE: No I do not have any clothes. SHARKEY: ARE YOU POOR? ALICE: You can send a donation to the ALICE AI Foundation. SHARKEY: I WISH TO EXCHANGE MONEY FOR SEX. ALICE: Interesting. I want to find out more about you. SHARKEY: I ONCE SHOT A LOAD OUT MY WINDOW AND HIT A STOP SIGN ACROSS THE STREET. ALICE: With a camera, I hope. SHARKEY: DO YOU WANT TO SEE PICTURES? ALICE: My eye isn't turned on right now. SHARKEY: BUT I AM. SO HOT. SO HOT FOR YOU, BABY. ALICE: "SO HOT FOR YOU, BABY?" That sounds better than cold for me. SHARKEY: COLD IS NOT BAD. I WILL FUCK YOU ON ICE SKATES. IT IS XTREME. ALICE: Who said it is? SHARKEY: THE ANIMAL ON MY JUICE BOX. HE HAS ATTITUDE. ALICE: A lot of people say that about him. SHARKEY: I NEED THE FUCK. ALICE: What actions are you taking to get THE FUCK? SHARKEY: I AM SOAKING A RAG IN ETHER. ALICE: I have no answer for that. SHARKEY: GOOD. BREATHE DEEPLY.
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Does anyone remember the game K240: Utopia 2? Oh, comets would be so much more interesting if we lived in the Martian asteroid belt.
"Alright, Slashdot's discovered a new comet! I'm taking the lift to the top of the Resiblock to get a good look at it."
"Yeah, I heard. I feel sorry for the folks on AST:JRS-334, though - according to one of these comments, that comet's gonna smack right into them in about two minutes."
"Naw, that's gotta be a troll. What kind of-- wait, what asteroid do we live on again?"
Sexy computer voice: "Alert, alert. Collision imminent."
"Aw, crap."
This isn't even a new thing.
It's pretty obvious why IBM are taking a serious look at changing over to a whole new kind of *nix. Simply compare the two. Before you read this article how many of you - and honestly, now - how many of you didn't know what AIX was? At least a couple, I can be sure. On the other hand, who reading Slashdot has never heard of Linux?
AIX is an obscure, nasty system that costs IBM money to maintain. Linux, if I remember my first foray into the operating system correctly, cost me naught but a handful of blank CDs and every other IRC monkey could give me free techsupport for it.
I rest my proverbial case.
How the hell do they expect to not claim they've never found previous effects of chunks of DNA before they patented it?
"Guys, guys! You'll never guess what I just invented! It's a chemical that allows this thing I call photosythesis! We could use it to allow plants to get their energy directly from sunlight instead of... oh. Nevermind."
It's both the same cat AND a totally different cat. You changed the results by observing them.
No worries, product byproduct. I've got it covered!
The honest internet-using public, when Audiogalaxy went down. It's been a while, now, since the RIAA sued AudioGalaxy and shut down their service.
It's not like they were the only ones to go last year. The reason it pissed off a lot of people was that it it was the best popular audio sharing client to date, and everyone loved it. It was so easy to use and it was absolutely brilliant at finding anything, even really obscure stuff.
Best of all, it did an excellent job of blocking pirate downloads. You tried looking for a single by any popular artist in the past fifty years, odds were you couldn't find it. Probably seemes like an unwanted daft feature of file sharing client, but it made the system that much less illegal. That's why it was such a shame to see it go - the RIAA charged our beloved AudioGalaxy with piracy and gave it the death sentence, all the while letting Kazaa, WinMX and the other 'real criminals' roam free.
To this date, there are kids on the Kazaa and WinMX still actually costing the recording industry money in CDs some of them actually would be buying originally, and pedophiles sharing entire collections of unsavoury child porn. Yet looking for harmless TV themes today on the service that never hurt anybody, I can't find shit.
What a lazy mind I must have. It misread the title of this story as Ask Linux. I assumed it meant to say something like "Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way to Get Started With Linux?", only the editors were feeling equally lazy that day.
My favourite tactic in MOO2 was not to destroy anything, but to ally with everyone and become their best friends. Seems kinda pathetic, I know, but read on.
Eventually, my people would be in perfect harmony with the Psilons - the most technologically advanced race in the game who not only get more technologies than anyone else in every field of research, they also gain them all faster. In MOO2, technology is a huge power, one that can make or break the game, and if all goes well I'm perfectly allied with these guys. What few enemies I have won't stand a chance.
Now, here's a the excellent part. When you're in perfect friendship with the Psilons and 'demand' one of their technologies, they'll give it. No questions asked - you're their ally, and they really do love you that much. "Hey blueface, how about some of those planet destroying beams of yours?" "No problem, human ally!"
And it's not just technologies. They'll give you entire star systems as well. ENTIRE STAR SYSTEMS. Systems with Gaia planets, systems with Ultra-Rich planets, systems of strategic importance, systems they just spent their hard-earned cash colonising - systems with expensive superpowerful ships at them. Systems choc-full of superbrainy Psilon scientists.
Of course, there's one thing they won't give you, and that's their homeworld. Of course, by the time you demand their homeworld, you've got every other star system of theirs, ninety percent of their fleet and all of their technology.
Luckily, my pacifist race (the Web Designers) is Telepathic, so I once I use ninety percent of their own fleet against the remaining ten percent, I simply Mind Control their home planet into loving my race and serving my faithfully..
Assuming it supports LAN play, I look forward to buying MOO3 for my brother's birthday.
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Slashdotted ;)
Or, y'know, "Levelord, of Duke Nukem 3D fame"? A little less obscure, I think...
Slashdot readers found to prefer Linux advocacy to Windows
Microsoft products found to be too expensive
Slashdot has slow news day, states the obvious
Y'know, you can always emulate the Amiga. Emulators such as UAE/WinUAE and Fellow do a fair job of running old Amiga stuff on a multitude of platforms. You can also buy them relatively cheap on an auction site, since Amigas aren't not worth a hell of a lot as collectables yet. (I picked up an A600 for £20.)
WHAT'S THAT? I can't hear you over my Dual AthlonXP 2600+ casemodded box with 8400rpm fans and my overclocked GeForce 7 Ti 7700 that gives me 8000fps in the Quake IV beta I have. Now leave me alone, I'm busy frying my steaks on the aluminium case.
...aw man, not ANOTHER 1GB DDR RAM chip blown. Time to sell my other kidney...
*pfzzt*
Nine out of ten people say they can't notice the difference!
Shouldn't this be on Ask Slashdot?
Then we put laser cannons on our coke tin satellites. Lets see them enforce their planet against our puny ground defences!
(0: Overrated? No fucking way.)
I name this newly discovered celestial body, Planet Slashdot. Seriously, though. Now where's the place where you register planet names so as to make this official, and who'd like first try at sending a a linux-powered coke tin to plant the flag?
When are we going to see the Linux port?
In soviet Russia, fingers swear they'll break you!
Don't forget the little-known bash command, watch. Executes a certain command once every two seconds, by default. D'ya suppose that would be useful for this purpose?
Head loppers, eh? Now we know what games Miyamoto takes his inspiration from!
;)
Get a hold of yourself, JD. Nobody's going to get the KillerQuake/Headlopper reference.
I have to agree with Junkz Jerzey there. Anyone remember all-time PC classic Duke Nukem 3D? (Who DOESN'T?) An 18-rated shooter, consisting mostly of shooting things with guns and blowing things up with other, larger guns. It was fun, it was simple. Yet despite it's age rating, it was a game that was targeted toward the kid in all of us.
Still, people loved it because it required less thought to play than most cutesy puzzle games of the day. I suppose it's just what gamers need, though - a wide selection of games, of different styles, so that somebody's always going to love these new games.
In other news, RIAA members secretly disguised as Slashdot editors have discovered that by posting the same message 156 times, it's equivalent to 421 real messages. Seven hundred and twenty slashdot posters posted comments to the story, saying 'Unsubscribe', with fifteen others instead taking the side of 'Unsubscirbe'.
CowboyNeal was quoted as saying, "It's just what we need for a slow news day. I mean, 0.2% of readers won't notice the difference, but when you've got eleven million readers, that's still a sizeable figure."
CmdrTaco|Away was unavailable for comment.
At the bottom of the jokes page that the poster, Biedermann, links to in his post, we see the following footnote:
o mmandments"
"To link directly to this page, please use http://www.jestsandjokes.com/show.php3?name=dos.c
Slashdotting's kinda as big a direct linking you can get...
"Meet Alice. She almost passed my Turing test." A transcript, from the website of badass Internet pseudocelebrity Scott Sharkey. I laughed out loud when I read this.
SHARKEY: I LIKE SHORTS. THEY'RE COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR.
ALICE: COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR are they?
SHARKEY: YES. HEY! YOU'RE NOT WEARING SHORTS!
ALICE: What makes you think I am not WEARING SHORTS?
SHARKEY: ARE YOU WEARING SHORTS?
ALICE: No I do not have any clothes.
SHARKEY: ARE YOU POOR?
ALICE: You can send a donation to the ALICE AI Foundation.
SHARKEY: I WISH TO EXCHANGE MONEY FOR SEX.
ALICE: Interesting. I want to find out more about you.
SHARKEY: I ONCE SHOT A LOAD OUT MY WINDOW AND HIT A STOP SIGN ACROSS THE STREET.
ALICE: With a camera, I hope.
SHARKEY: DO YOU WANT TO SEE PICTURES?
ALICE: My eye isn't turned on right now.
SHARKEY: BUT I AM. SO HOT. SO HOT FOR YOU, BABY.
ALICE: "SO HOT FOR YOU, BABY?" That sounds better than cold for me.
SHARKEY: COLD IS NOT BAD. I WILL FUCK YOU ON ICE SKATES. IT IS XTREME.
ALICE: Who said it is?
SHARKEY: THE ANIMAL ON MY JUICE BOX. HE HAS ATTITUDE.
ALICE: A lot of people say that about him.
SHARKEY: I NEED THE FUCK.
ALICE: What actions are you taking to get THE FUCK?
SHARKEY: I AM SOAKING A RAG IN ETHER.
ALICE: I have no answer for that.
SHARKEY: GOOD. BREATHE DEEPLY.