You're all missing the point.
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Greenbacks No More
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Let's compare the advantages and disadvantages of money of different colours and sizes:
Advantages:
Vastly more efficient recognition of denominations.
Easier to use for the poor-sighted.
Denominations can be recognised at a distance by merely a brief glance.
Disadvantages:
It's what everyone's used to.
The advantages vastly outweigh the disadvantages. And I'm sorry, but calling everyone stupid for not wanting to stop and read every single note does not count as an argument against the coloured notes.
The second one is such a bollocks shape you'd have to break your neck to be able to see the screen, and the first one looks like it's no more than a few inches deep.
What a rip-off, you may as well just get a decent jacuzzi and put a telly next to it. It would probably cost less as well.
I don't mean to be negative or anything, but that screenshot is terrible. It stinks of amateurism. The text is awkward to read. The buildings look lobsided and skewed. All that grey stuff at the bottom is just a complete mess. The buildings don't look like they fit, but like they're merely floating above the ground. The little icons at the top are hard to see.
You could have at least chosen a better screenshot than that.
How dare they? I mean, why the hell should people who cost them more money have to pay more? Don't they realise that these noble, honourable souls constantly downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s and porn deserve a free ride?
I've never been a fan of graphical MUDs. The problem is that the graphics are awful. With a text-based game, you're left to your own imagination, whereas with Everquest you get the cheapo cartoon graphics forced down your throat.
Secondly, without a strong player-killing element I don't see how interest can be sustained. Pre-programmed quests can only go so far, and AI is no match for fighting against real opponents.
I recommend that the next Everquest has an ongoing war, with two opposing sides. There would be no restrictions on killing the other side, and would ensure the game is much more exciting and constantly fresh. This is what it's like in the MUD I play (MUME), and the game has several extra dimensions because of it. In fact, the game technically revolves around it.
The game is constantly dangerous and exciting, you can never let your guard down, because you never know when you might come accross *a Dreadful Orc* who is ready to knife you in the back.
Everquest has already ripped off many things from MUDs, so why don't they rip off the best parts?
...not only do you have the licence costs to think about, you have the added costs of the hardware upgrades needed to support such slow and bloated OSes. With Linux, you get speed and stability, with Windows you have to pick one.
Am I the only one who doesn't see the appeal?
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Nethack 3.4.0
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· Score: 1
I've played it before, but within 15 minutes I'd lost interest. 90% of the game consisted of walking around corridors trying to find secret doors, kicking walls and doors to try and get out. Hardly interesting stuff. When an enemy did come, all there was to do was walk into them a few times until they died. Add to the fact that whenever you walk over something it automatically picks it up, and you have a dull, frustrating game.
If you want an interesting, RPG style game with no fancy graphics, then play a MUD.
Why are keys needed? Why can't this all be done with the GUI? And why is it not built in as a standard? The reason why Linux is so unsuccesful is because anything useful requires cryptic commands to activate, and is never there by default.
What right does the government have to steal people's money in order to fund corporations? There is absolutely NO justifiable reason to tax people in order to benefit private corporations. This is an absolute disgrace. Whoever is responsible for this should be deported.
The only solution to this is to import everything from the US for a much lower price, and to pirate much more music as revenge. Actually, it wouldn't be piracy, as the music has already been paid for through taxes.
If you think like that, then ALL women are whores. Any woman is capable of shagging someone they've just met. Just because you and everyone you know are terrible at seducing women doesn't mean the rest of us are. Also, you have not got the best looking girl in the world. You have got the one that you are so obsessed over that your have drastically over-valued.
And as for your girlfriend's loyalty: don't count on it. Believe me, I've shagged plenty of women who, as far as they're boyfriends are concerned, are monogamous and loyal. Your obsessive one-itus is closing your eyes to the harsh reality.
Erm, I don't know about you, but if it was legal to steal, I'd steal all the time. I'd shoplift whenever I could, as there'd be no punishment if I got caught. Most people are probably less of a bastard than me, but there are still many people for whom the law is all that's stopping them from stealing.
I don't think is' so good. White text on a green-white gradient just doesn't work. A green-bloack gradient would be much better, and would make the text somewhat readable. Also, the green bars don't lin eup with the grey rectangles, and those horizontal lines at the top look terrible.
Yours is the unrealistic, comforting view. You think what you want to be true. I'd rather have hundreds of quality women, rather than having to settle for one mediocre one because I couldn't get any other.
Your life may revolve around omney, but my doesn't. Physical possesions do not affect me. Having a 40" telly or a diamond-encrusted house doesn't interest me. Maybe I'm just more enlightened by you, but I can think of better means of happiness than a hundred-grand car with a gold interior. You may be happier with money, but I am far from unhappy with little. I have a great life. Money would be a convenience, nothing more.
If you are married and you are intimate with someone else, then what is the point in being married? Surely an MLTR situation would be more preferable. You say you wouldn't want a load of 'whores', but then you contradict yourself by saying you have threesomes and foresomes. How are the women you shag better quality than mine? You may be such a poor quality seducer that you can only seduce 'whores', but I can do much better.
You may think you have a lovely wife. So might I. I infact may sleep with her. Don't think that being married to a woman gives you a monopoly over her. I have laid several married women.
Also, I don't shag 'whores'. I shag quality, attractive women. Your experience may lead you think that you can only 'whores' are into casual sex, then you have not been around very long. I know tons of women who on the surface may appear innocent and monogamous, but when the right man seduces them, they just can't get enough dick. What's with the word 'whore' anyway? It is such a derogatory term. In my experience, the only men who call women whores are the ones who can't get any, and are jealous of women getting more than they do.
Finally, love is not a great thing. It is a mental weakness. It is illogical obsessing over a particular woman, even when there is nothing special about her at all. It is something to be avoided. It makes no sense to become obsessed over one woman, when there are many other women who are far more attractive, have far better personalities and have much more in common with you in the world.
You call me shallow, but you are the one attacking me because my viewpoint happens to differ to yours, and because I see through the comforting fantasies that cover your eyes.
Yes, there is more to sex. There is more to money too. That was the point I was trying to make. Sex was merely an example, but you managed to miss the whole point of the post by attacking a small part of it. But I suppose that's easier than actually considering the issues I raised.
Maybe he did find the woman he loved. Or, more likely, he found one, and his inability to attract women meant he became quickly obsessed with her. She was probably one of the only women he would ever get, so he had to lock himself to her through fear of losing her.
And no, my life isn't bland. Bland is shagging the same women day in, day out. His relationship is meaningless. He's only there because he can't get any others. A severe case of what I like to call 'one-itus'.
As for your call to mod me down, I understand why you would think that. The way I think completely contradicts what you've been brough up to think, what you've been brainwashed by society into feeling. Of course, what I say threatens the credibility of your comforting fantasies, so modding my comment down and putting away where you can't see it is the only answer. We can't have people seeing it as it really is, can we?
Slashdot Mirror
Sad bastard.
Advantages:
Vastly more efficient recognition of denominations.
Easier to use for the poor-sighted.
Denominations can be recognised at a distance by merely a brief glance.
Disadvantages:
It's what everyone's used to.
The advantages vastly outweigh the disadvantages. And I'm sorry, but calling everyone stupid for not wanting to stop and read every single note does not count as an argument against the coloured notes.
$40 for ten beers? They'd better be about 3 pints each for that price.
The second one is such a bollocks shape you'd have to break your neck to be able to see the screen, and the first one looks like it's no more than a few inches deep.
What a rip-off, you may as well just get a decent jacuzzi and put a telly next to it. It would probably cost less as well.
I suspect this whole story is a hoax.
Oh no, I got a piece of plastic pulled out on me, I'm so scared.
Tell that to Gazza in the '90 World Cup semi-final.
I don't mean to be negative or anything, but that screenshot is terrible. It stinks of amateurism. The text is awkward to read. The buildings look lobsided and skewed. All that grey stuff at the bottom is just a complete mess. The buildings don't look like they fit, but like they're merely floating above the ground. The little icons at the top are hard to see.
You could have at least chosen a better screenshot than that.
How dare they? I mean, why the hell should people who cost them more money have to pay more? Don't they realise that these noble, honourable souls constantly downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s and porn deserve a free ride?
It would be great to have a clone.
He could do all the housework and bring me beer whilst I sit about watching the telly and reading Slashdot.
Cloning is great.
I've never been a fan of graphical MUDs. The problem is that the graphics are awful. With a text-based game, you're left to your own imagination, whereas with Everquest you get the cheapo cartoon graphics forced down your throat.
Secondly, without a strong player-killing element I don't see how interest can be sustained. Pre-programmed quests can only go so far, and AI is no match for fighting against real opponents.
I recommend that the next Everquest has an ongoing war, with two opposing sides. There would be no restrictions on killing the other side, and would ensure the game is much more exciting and constantly fresh. This is what it's like in the MUD I play (MUME), and the game has several extra dimensions because of it. In fact, the game technically revolves around it.
The game is constantly dangerous and exciting, you can never let your guard down, because you never know when you might come accross *a Dreadful Orc* who is ready to knife you in the back.
Everquest has already ripped off many things from MUDs, so why don't they rip off the best parts?
...not only do you have the licence costs to think about, you have the added costs of the hardware upgrades needed to support such slow and bloated OSes. With Linux, you get speed and stability, with Windows you have to pick one.
Save all the bullshit, just use Linux.
I wouldn't like to be under one of those when it falls out of the sky.
Every time I go to a site like this, I am bombarded with hundreds of giant images taking up all my bandwidth and RAM.
Have they never heard of thumbnails?
But what if someone gobs on the sushi or puts a bogey on it and then puts it back on the conveyor belt?
Where I come from, we just have to piss in the coat pocket of the bloke in front of us.
What's all this bollocks about 'All planets are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there'???
Sounds like my local kebab house.
I've played it before, but within 15 minutes I'd lost interest. 90% of the game consisted of walking around corridors trying to find secret doors, kicking walls and doors to try and get out. Hardly interesting stuff. When an enemy did come, all there was to do was walk into them a few times until they died. Add to the fact that whenever you walk over something it automatically picks it up, and you have a dull, frustrating game.
If you want an interesting, RPG style game with no fancy graphics, then play a MUD.
It was a perfectly legitimate comment. Although nowadays, anyone criticising Linux is automatically a troll.
Why are keys needed? Why can't this all be done with the GUI? And why is it not built in as a standard? The reason why Linux is so unsuccesful is because anything useful requires cryptic commands to activate, and is never there by default.
What right does the government have to steal people's money in order to fund corporations? There is absolutely NO justifiable reason to tax people in order to benefit private corporations. This is an absolute disgrace. Whoever is responsible for this should be deported.
The only solution to this is to import everything from the US for a much lower price, and to pirate much more music as revenge. Actually, it wouldn't be piracy, as the music has already been paid for through taxes.
If you think like that, then ALL women are whores. Any woman is capable of shagging someone they've just met. Just because you and everyone you know are terrible at seducing women doesn't mean the rest of us are. Also, you have not got the best looking girl in the world. You have got the one that you are so obsessed over that your have drastically over-valued.
And as for your girlfriend's loyalty: don't count on it. Believe me, I've shagged plenty of women who, as far as they're boyfriends are concerned, are monogamous and loyal. Your obsessive one-itus is closing your eyes to the harsh reality.
Erm, I don't know about you, but if it was legal to steal, I'd steal all the time. I'd shoplift whenever I could, as there'd be no punishment if I got caught. Most people are probably less of a bastard than me, but there are still many people for whom the law is all that's stopping them from stealing.
I don't think is' so good. White text on a green-white gradient just doesn't work. A green-bloack gradient would be much better, and would make the text somewhat readable. Also, the green bars don't lin eup with the grey rectangles, and those horizontal lines at the top look terrible.
Yours is the unrealistic, comforting view. You think what you want to be true. I'd rather have hundreds of quality women, rather than having to settle for one mediocre one because I couldn't get any other.
Your life may revolve around omney, but my doesn't. Physical possesions do not affect me. Having a 40" telly or a diamond-encrusted house doesn't interest me. Maybe I'm just more enlightened by you, but I can think of better means of happiness than a hundred-grand car with a gold interior. You may be happier with money, but I am far from unhappy with little. I have a great life. Money would be a convenience, nothing more.
If you are married and you are intimate with someone else, then what is the point in being married? Surely an MLTR situation would be more preferable. You say you wouldn't want a load of 'whores', but then you contradict yourself by saying you have threesomes and foresomes. How are the women you shag better quality than mine? You may be such a poor quality seducer that you can only seduce 'whores', but I can do much better.
You may think you have a lovely wife. So might I. I infact may sleep with her. Don't think that being married to a woman gives you a monopoly over her. I have laid several married women.
Also, I don't shag 'whores'. I shag quality, attractive women. Your experience may lead you think that you can only 'whores' are into casual sex, then you have not been around very long. I know tons of women who on the surface may appear innocent and monogamous, but when the right man seduces them, they just can't get enough dick. What's with the word 'whore' anyway? It is such a derogatory term. In my experience, the only men who call women whores are the ones who can't get any, and are jealous of women getting more than they do.
Finally, love is not a great thing. It is a mental weakness. It is illogical obsessing over a particular woman, even when there is nothing special about her at all. It is something to be avoided. It makes no sense to become obsessed over one woman, when there are many other women who are far more attractive, have far better personalities and have much more in common with you in the world.
You call me shallow, but you are the one attacking me because my viewpoint happens to differ to yours, and because I see through the comforting fantasies that cover your eyes.
Yes, there is more to sex. There is more to money too. That was the point I was trying to make. Sex was merely an example, but you managed to miss the whole point of the post by attacking a small part of it. But I suppose that's easier than actually considering the issues I raised.
Maybe he did find the woman he loved. Or, more likely, he found one, and his inability to attract women meant he became quickly obsessed with her. She was probably one of the only women he would ever get, so he had to lock himself to her through fear of losing her.
And no, my life isn't bland. Bland is shagging the same women day in, day out. His relationship is meaningless. He's only there because he can't get any others. A severe case of what I like to call 'one-itus'.
As for your call to mod me down, I understand why you would think that. The way I think completely contradicts what you've been brough up to think, what you've been brainwashed by society into feeling. Of course, what I say threatens the credibility of your comforting fantasies, so modding my comment down and putting away where you can't see it is the only answer. We can't have people seeing it as it really is, can we?