I am running Windows XP right now and typing this on IE 6, moron. Thanks for being another mindless Slashdot drone (pro-open source or otherwise, doesn't really matter.)
Maybe you should consider that, once in a while, the consensus about an idea or a product is actually CORRECT. Instead you seem to take pride in the fact that you disagree with whatever the consensus viewpoint is, which is just as the anti-MS people you criticize.
I also disagree that I didn't consider the Tablet's good points. I did mention that you can carry it anywhere! But, like I said, who cares? The disadvantage of a Tablet is that it performs like crap. So, on balance, I would say that a PDA or a laptop is better (including, you fucking slut, a Windows-based laptop.)
Overall though, I kind of think buying a portable anything is stupid for college. Unless you're in some kind of program where you have to take your laptop/whatever into a lab for data or something, then you're not really going to take your laptop with you and do useful work. It's just as bad as trying to be in a study group. Much more effecient to study alone.
Too bad I was using the title "God" in a purely exclamatory sense, which had no religious influence on my commentary. Try reading posts before flaming them sometime.
"Like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, you'll have a certain amount of choice in The Bard's Tale. However, your paths won't be those of good and evil, but rather...good and wiseass."
So basically, good or good? What a fucking wonderful set of choices.
"There are also some clever twists, like levels that use floating platforms"
Holy shit, since when are FLOATING PLATFORMS a "clever twist?" I had my share of floating platforms after Super Mario 2.
"As you discover new weapons, you won't have to wait to go back to town to trade them in. If it's worse than your current weapon then you'll automatically get its value in gold. If it's better than your weapon then your old one will be converted to gold and you'll wield your new arm."
AWESOME, YOU DON'T EVEN GET TO CHOOSE WHAT WEAPONS YOU EQUIP? I love it when my "RPGs" get reduced to math exercises in max/min-ing, so it's even better if the game does it for me.
I've never understood either the greens or the far right. Why can't I have cheap energy, a high standard of living, and a clean environment?
The main problem with your three demands is that one of them, "a high standard of living," is impossible to satisfy. Regardless of whatever the current standard of living is, people always demand a higher standard of living: more stuff and cheaper. If this wasn't true, then the GDP could only grow at like, inflation + population growth, but instead it grows much faster. People aren't going to be satisfied with X amounts of stuff; they're only satisfied with more stuff relative to their neighbors (local or international.)
One of the fundamental tenets of contemporary capitalism is unlimited, never-ending economic growth as the keystone of prosperity. Unfortunately, no matter how little pollution you produce or how few resources you consume to fulfill the standard of living, you are eventually going to run out of SOMETHING. You can't grow forever.
layed out some good ideas about how space mining could be feasible in his Mars series, which began with Red Mars.
I think the most important parts of his ideas were getting space elevators (one on Earth and one on Mars, if we're going to mine anything on Mars) and getting advanced automated robotic factories that could be launched at asteroids, build engines into the asteroids after landing using the asteroid's resources, and sail the asteroids back to Earth orbit where we can finish exploiting them.
This is not off-topic. At least in Nethack it's possible to win the game doing this whereas in the posted story the writer isn't even entertaining the possibilty of completing the later 4/5 of the game...
This site has the largets compendium of "spoilers" (thorough guides on a variety of subjects) that I know of.
DO NOT READ THEM ALL AT ONCE.
If you find that you keep dying from the same thing, then don't do it. =) For example, drinking from fountains is one of the single largest causes of newbie frustration. Just experiment a lot, and if you find yourself really, really confused, consult a guide at that website. They often have useful advice.
Some things, like scrolls, just take a while to learn the effects of. It's all about those little one-line messages like "Your hands begin to glow red," or "You feel like someone is helping you."
Don't despair; it's really one of the most complex and interesting games out there. It just takes a while to get the hang of.
Read my post, fuckhead. I am not asking why better things are not submitted. I do submit my own stories as well. What the hell do you know about what I submit? NOTHING. You're just some self-righteous jackass. I wasn't even talking about Diablo II not being news. I'm talking about the STYLE of the news stories relating to Diablo II. Not their existence. Get some fucking reading comprehension skills for Christ sake. For some reason the Slashdot editors pick story submissions about Blizzards THAT ARE BASICALLY ADVERTISEMENTS.
I'm not just talking about this one post about a patch. I play Diablo II myself and I'm glad this patch is out and I understand how long it has been anticipated. But everytime Blizzard takes a piss it gets an incredible level of hype. I am not saying this is not news. I am saying there is such a thing as neutral reporting which is not being exercised here. In fact the author of the submission admits he was too lazy to bother.
we find Slashdot doing Blizzard's advertising for them. There are thousands of better and newer games than Diablo II, yet one patch for this game makes it onto Slashdot.
Editors, why are there always "stories" about the newest Blizzard games and why do they always read like press releases? Can we even get the pretense of journalistic integrity, please?
Funny, I was always under the impression that we created government to protect us from ourselves and to help create a better life for people as a whole.
Jump on the fashionable anti-government bandwagon if you will, but remember that government is not only a necessity but also a GOOD thing.
I'm not saying this one project is a good thing, but don't forget that government is here to GOVERN us.
This sort of thing happens with environmental and consumer issues all the time. Corporations fund groups that, on the surface, appear to be grass-roots, citizens organizations (real activists call them "Astro-turf" lobbies.)
For example, the "National Wetlands Council" presents itself as a citizen lobby that is concerned about the environment, but in relaity it's sponsored by the oil and real estate industries who want turn wetlands into shopping malls and drilling sites.
"Keep America Beautiful" is funding by the bottling industry and sponsors anti-litter campaigns while lobbying against any kind of mandatory recycling for the corporations.
"Consumer Alert" fights government regulations of product safety.
Massive industries funding what basically corporate front-groups is no surprise. Someone find out where that guy's funding come froms - I bet he has several large software companies behind. Since the average person, even the average legislator, doesn't undertsand the Open Source movement, it's easy for corporations to obscure the issue like this.
Given the fact that there are 4 comments (counting this one and a troll) 7 1/2 hours after the story "broke," I would agree: no, they aren't relevant anymore.
Yes, it's got all the obvious suggestions like "anti-gravity fields" and "magnetic sail" but it's also got "ESP" and "astral projection"... Apparently someone thinks researching these dead horses will lead to something.
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Maybe you should consider that, once in a while, the consensus about an idea or a product is actually CORRECT. Instead you seem to take pride in the fact that you disagree with whatever the consensus viewpoint is, which is just as the anti-MS people you criticize.
I also disagree that I didn't consider the Tablet's good points. I did mention that you can carry it anywhere! But, like I said, who cares? The disadvantage of a Tablet is that it performs like crap. So, on balance, I would say that a PDA or a laptop is better (including, you fucking slut, a Windows-based laptop.)
Overall though, I kind of think buying a portable anything is stupid for college. Unless you're in some kind of program where you have to take your laptop/whatever into a lab for data or something, then you're not really going to take your laptop with you and do useful work. It's just as bad as trying to be in a study group. Much more effecient to study alone.
That makes even less sense; so you are saying that shadowxtc says that "people don't ask questions to hear adently believed commentary?"
Too bad I was using the title "God" in a purely exclamatory sense, which had no religious influence on my commentary. Try reading posts before flaming them sometime.
Haha, how it is a "Troll" or "Flamebait" if almost EVERYONE OTHER PERSON AGREES WITH ME?
Sure, you can carry it anywhere, but it still performs like crap no matter where you take it.
"Like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, you'll have a certain amount of choice in The Bard's Tale. However, your paths won't be those of good and evil, but rather...good and wiseass."
So basically, good or good? What a fucking wonderful set of choices.
"There are also some clever twists, like levels that use floating platforms"
Holy shit, since when are FLOATING PLATFORMS a "clever twist?" I had my share of floating platforms after Super Mario 2.
"As you discover new weapons, you won't have to wait to go back to town to trade them in. If it's worse than your current weapon then you'll automatically get its value in gold. If it's better than your weapon then your old one will be converted to gold and you'll wield your new arm."
AWESOME, YOU DON'T EVEN GET TO CHOOSE WHAT WEAPONS YOU EQUIP? I love it when my "RPGs" get reduced to math exercises in max/min-ing, so it's even better if the game does it for me.
The main problem with your three demands is that one of them, "a high standard of living," is impossible to satisfy. Regardless of whatever the current standard of living is, people always demand a higher standard of living: more stuff and cheaper. If this wasn't true, then the GDP could only grow at like, inflation + population growth, but instead it grows much faster. People aren't going to be satisfied with X amounts of stuff; they're only satisfied with more stuff relative to their neighbors (local or international.)
One of the fundamental tenets of contemporary capitalism is unlimited, never-ending economic growth as the keystone of prosperity. Unfortunately, no matter how little pollution you produce or how few resources you consume to fulfill the standard of living, you are eventually going to run out of SOMETHING. You can't grow forever.
"Directly proportional" would indicate that as his mastery of the game increased, so would his sex appeal.
Sigh... if only life were like that.
I think the most important parts of his ideas were getting space elevators (one on Earth and one on Mars, if we're going to mine anything on Mars) and getting advanced automated robotic factories that could be launched at asteroids, build engines into the asteroids after landing using the asteroid's resources, and sail the asteroids back to Earth orbit where we can finish exploiting them.
Or MORE than fine, depending on how you deal with it...
What a waste of a perfectly good opportunity to enrich the world created in FFX.
But did the DC version have the special attachment?
This is not off-topic. At least in Nethack it's possible to win the game doing this whereas in the posted story the writer isn't even entertaining the possibilty of completing the later 4/5 of the game...
DO NOT READ THEM ALL AT ONCE.
If you find that you keep dying from the same thing, then don't do it. =)
For example, drinking from fountains is one of the single largest causes of newbie frustration. Just experiment a lot, and if you find yourself really, really confused, consult a guide at that website. They often have useful advice.
Some things, like scrolls, just take a while to learn the effects of. It's all about those little one-line messages like "Your hands begin to glow red," or "You feel like someone is helping you."
Don't despair; it's really one of the most complex and interesting games out there. It just takes a while to get the hang of.
Apparently not.
I'm not just talking about this one post about a patch. I play Diablo II myself and I'm glad this patch is out and I understand how long it has been anticipated. But everytime Blizzard takes a piss it gets an incredible level of hype. I am not saying this is not news. I am saying there is such a thing as neutral reporting which is not being exercised here. In fact the author of the submission admits he was too lazy to bother.
Editors, why are there always "stories" about the newest Blizzard games and why do they always read like press releases? Can we even get the pretense of journalistic integrity, please?
Jump on the fashionable anti-government bandwagon if you will, but remember that government is not only a necessity but also a GOOD thing.
I'm not saying this one project is a good thing, but don't forget that government is here to GOVERN us.
This sort of thing happens with environmental and consumer issues all the time. Corporations fund groups that, on the surface, appear to be grass-roots, citizens organizations (real activists call them "Astro-turf" lobbies.)
For example, the "National Wetlands Council" presents itself as a citizen lobby that is concerned about the environment, but in relaity it's sponsored by the oil and real estate industries who want turn wetlands into shopping malls and drilling sites.
"Keep America Beautiful" is funding by the bottling industry and sponsors anti-litter campaigns while lobbying against any kind of mandatory recycling for the corporations.
"Consumer Alert" fights government regulations of product safety.
Massive industries funding what basically corporate front-groups is no surprise. Someone find out where that guy's funding come froms - I bet he has several large software companies behind. Since the average person, even the average legislator, doesn't undertsand the Open Source movement, it's easy for corporations to obscure the issue like this.
Or, perhaps in this case, maybe it's the "You spend too much time karma-whoring on Slashdot."
Also known as the 'You don't spend enough money on me anymore' speech.
I hope your wallet is fat enough to deal with this one.
It's not. He just wanted to say it is to avoid looking as though he was violating a precedent.
Given the fact that there are 4 comments (counting this one and a troll) 7 1/2 hours after the story "broke," I would agree: no, they aren't relevant anymore.
Yes, it's got all the obvious suggestions like "anti-gravity fields" and "magnetic sail" but it's also got "ESP" and "astral projection"... Apparently someone thinks researching these dead horses will lead to something.
"Real HGH is illegal to sell" They still SELL it to you when you get a prescription, moron. That's why I said it was "controlled."
Its because the parent post in this thread IS A LOAD OF ABSOLUTE CRAP. He doesn't know what he's talking about at all.