...and run and do quite a few gestures (like 50)...
I don't know when you last checked out the beta but it seems to me that it is improving fairly rapidly... When I read about this project last time it was on slashdot I was spectical - when a friend told me was playing it last week my intital reaction was "Oh, you mean it's not vaporware?"... You can download and play it for free so I gave it a try...
The first time I tried it I had a hard time finding any other players at all and so the game seemed really boring... Finding players to intreact with has not been a problem the last few days though... I'm starting to get more worried that all the land will be claimed and soiled far too soon... And that brings me to another point...
I think the world is really nice - the actuall terrain with plants and stuff that is... I was kind of surprised to find how much I enjoyed just running around an looking at the landscape - clibming a mountain just to get to the top and running through a forrest of strange trees... The terrain is really diverse and there is a great variety in different environments...
Sure, there are some problems - eg the "lag" where your character is yanked around at times - but there is a real feeling that things are changing... Since I installed it last week the install has been approved and a bug I encountered in the avatar creation has been fixed... I don't know if this will really work out in the end but I do feel confident that pretty much all of the problems and objections voiced here on slashdot has been considered...
Eg, about the economy, as I understand it, stealing from other players will be impossible... It probably will be possible to kill players but you get no loot - the inventory stays with the ghost... Currently, the ways to make money in the game that I know of are to either kill "monsters" or to do mining...
Killing monsters seems to be a bit like gambling currently since there is a high randomness to how much you get for a kill... There is a "Hall of Honor" listing of the biggest kills and I think the biggest last time I checked was like 15000 PED - that's 1500$ that you can transfer to your bank account...
What I think of this game in one word: Interesting...
He was bad and obnoxious. I hated how he shouted "keep me safe" and almost drowned the real kid to death.. obviously he didn't follow the 3 Laws of Robotics - especially the first one: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
1. Nothing says that a robot has to follow Asimovs laws... I certainly don't believe that every robot in the future will...
2. They didn't try to build a robot like that... They tried to build something more... Which pretty much is the point in the story...
I hated the dumb ending, too. It was so depressing. It made me miss Asimov's stories, and also Data.
I loved the entire movie - including the ending...
So I was on topic?;)
I felt You made it out to be a bad thing - I think it's a good thing - that's a debate as good as any?
> Fact of the matter is there is alot more in "geekdom" and "nerds" then just linux and thinkgeek.
True... So Rob didn't hire a lawyer to help formulate that... Big deal... Most words have different meanings in different contexts - if You don't agree with the definition of "geekdom" and "nerds" here that doesn't give You any right to expect them to comply with Your interpretation of those words... They're just different, accept it...
>...it would be nice if slashdot got back to its grass roots.
I guess that would be nerds according to a different definition than Yours...
(Some people have noted in this discussion how much better it was in the good old days - I suspect that's mostly Your memory playing with You - the same issues were discussed back then as well)
I read slashdot because here I can find the news that interest me - and that matches what You listed very well...
Slashdot is not suppose to make everyone happy and I don't see any indication that they ever intended to... Slashdot is for those who care more about mozilla than internet explorer and more about thinkgeek than amazon... I'm guessing there's lots of news sites that covers the other half of the field, right? I don't really know since I'm happy with slashdot...
In short - I never seen any reason to believe that the slashdot admins wants us to believe that they're telling us everything - quite the opposite! I think it's clear that they have very specific interests and that's the way it should be! Seek other news elsewhere...
Reading the comments here I can't help wondering if any of the posters followed the Friends of Randal Schwartz link above... Several posts mentioned having a hard time finding a description of what he did... Well, it was two clicks for me following that link... Granted it is in favor of the defendant but I think You should read it before judging...
No evidence that Intel disapproved of Randal's behavior
exists, except as remembered after the decision
was made to prosecute him.
Not so much as a hand-written note indicates anyone had a
problem with Randal beforehand.
Lest those testifying for the prosecution,
all of whom had financial interests in the good will of Intel,
forget Intel's concern in this matter,
an Intel Security person sitting at table next to the prosecutor
served as a convenient reminder.
Intel was heavy-handed in making its presence felt throughout.
The police prepared the search warrant at Intel premises,
three Intel employees helped search Randal's house,
and one helped police interrogate Randal.
This interrogation produced the prosecution's "best" evidence:
police statements that put the words of a full confession
in Randal's mouth.
Indeed they claim Randal confessed to a history of hacking
everyone he had done business with.
(All these other "victims" provided witnesses for the defense,
and Randal was charged with none of this activity.)
The police claim to have memorized Randal's highly technical
statements with the aid of a few "cryptic" notes,
and reproduced them accurately later at the station.
It is hard to overstate what an incredible
feat of memory this is.
Det. Lilley, who produced the more complete statement,
didn't know what the word "directory" means in computer lingo.
Mere mortals with similar backgrounds would have found it
impossible to follow the discussion,
much less memorize it verbatim.
In other contexts, Intel had previously
authorized Randal to commit both the acts
allegedly unauthorized in this instance:
cracking passwords and building a gateway to the Internet.
Randal was well aware of the steps a computer criminal usually takes
to avoid detection of his activities and took none of them.
The fact that so many seems not to like it only makes me love it even more! *grin* It's so wonderfully _weird_! I _like_ not understanding what's happening until the forth time I watch it...:)
I think it's about as good a The Matrix... Not sure which one of those is my all-time favorite...
It depends on how You turn it...:) If You turn it upside down by rotating it 180 dergees in '2d' it will still be a 2... (like if You turn a piece of paper around) If You do it by rotating it in '3d' it'll be a 5... (that would have to be something transparent/doublesided)
First: I don't care about evolution... Whether or not it is true has no relevance for my beliefs... I will not reply to arguments concerning that...
Second: I do agree that evolution should be teached in shools... Not because I think it is true but because I think we shouldn't hide information like that from our children...
But: This outrage against people who have different beliefs bother me far more! There is no such thing as scientific truth! Science is, by defenition, not the truth... When science becomes the truth it is no longer useful since it is not open for discussion... Everything has to be open for discussion...
Well, I don't want to get too involved in any debate and I think I've made my main point so that'll just have to do for now...
/Daniel
A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. - X-Files
>At least with Buchanan you might have a president >who would put a stop to big business importing >aliens to take away tech jobs.
Well, I guess that would make our government happy... Over here the problem seems to be to get our people to stay... Swedes like to think of themselves as international... It's not hard to be more international than the average american... : )
Slashdot Mirror
yup
...and run and do quite a few gestures (like 50)...
I don't know when you last checked out the beta but it seems to me that it is improving fairly rapidly... When I read about this project last time it was on slashdot I was spectical - when a friend told me was playing it last week my intital reaction was "Oh, you mean it's not vaporware?"... You can download and play it for free so I gave it a try...
The first time I tried it I had a hard time finding any other players at all and so the game seemed really boring... Finding players to intreact with has not been a problem the last few days though... I'm starting to get more worried that all the land will be claimed and soiled far too soon... And that brings me to another point...
I think the world is really nice - the actuall terrain with plants and stuff that is... I was kind of surprised to find how much I enjoyed just running around an looking at the landscape - clibming a mountain just to get to the top and running through a forrest of strange trees... The terrain is really diverse and there is a great variety in different environments...
Sure, there are some problems - eg the "lag" where your character is yanked around at times - but there is a real feeling that things are changing... Since I installed it last week the install has been approved and a bug I encountered in the avatar creation has been fixed... I don't know if this will really work out in the end but I do feel confident that pretty much all of the problems and objections voiced here on slashdot has been considered...
Eg, about the economy, as I understand it, stealing from other players will be impossible... It probably will be possible to kill players but you get no loot - the inventory stays with the ghost... Currently, the ways to make money in the game that I know of are to either kill "monsters" or to do mining...
Killing monsters seems to be a bit like gambling currently since there is a high randomness to how much you get for a kill... There is a "Hall of Honor" listing of the biggest kills and I think the biggest last time I checked was like 15000 PED - that's 1500$ that you can transfer to your bank account...
What I think of this game in one word: Interesting...
I certainly wouldn't want a system that did rm -rf / all the time by default... :)
Wasn't that with the chinese ship in 2081? :)
Was a long time since I read these books so I might very well be confused...
Just do it... I can promise you that someone will reply... ;)
1. Nothing says that a robot has to follow Asimovs laws... I certainly don't believe that every robot in the future will...
2. They didn't try to build a robot like that... They tried to build something more... Which pretty much is the point in the story...
I hated the dumb ending, too. It was so depressing. It made me miss Asimov's stories, and also Data.
I loved the entire movie - including the ending...
> Well DUH, isn't that what this topic is about?
;)
...it would be nice if slashdot got back to its grass roots.
So I was on topic?
I felt You made it out to be a bad thing - I think it's a good thing - that's a debate as good as any?
> Fact of the matter is there is alot more in "geekdom" and "nerds" then just linux and thinkgeek.
True... So Rob didn't hire a lawyer to help formulate that... Big deal... Most words have different meanings in different contexts - if You don't agree with the definition of "geekdom" and "nerds" here that doesn't give You any right to expect them to comply with Your interpretation of those words... They're just different, accept it...
>
I guess that would be nerds according to a different definition than Yours...
(Some people have noted in this discussion how much better it was in the good old days - I suspect that's mostly Your memory playing with You - the same issues were discussed back then as well)
/Daniel
I read slashdot because here I can find the news that interest me - and that matches what You listed very well...
Slashdot is not suppose to make everyone happy and I don't see any indication that they ever intended to... Slashdot is for those who care more about mozilla than internet explorer and more about thinkgeek than amazon... I'm guessing there's lots of news sites that covers the other half of the field, right? I don't really know since I'm happy with slashdot...
In short - I never seen any reason to believe that the slashdot admins wants us to believe that they're telling us everything - quite the opposite! I think it's clear that they have very specific interests and that's the way it should be! Seek other news elsewhere...
/Daniel
From Intel's Prosecution of Randal Schwartz (linked from Friends of Randal Schwartz):
Some Highlights from the Ongoing Farce
Just felt I had to point that out...
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler" - Einstein
Can You prove that? ;)
Duh...
I didn't like the taste of that... to bitter...
The fact that so many seems not to like it only :)
:)
makes me love it even more! *grin*
It's so wonderfully _weird_!
I _like_ not understanding what's happening
until the forth time I watch it...
I think it's about as good a The Matrix...
Not sure which one of those is my all-time favorite...
And I haven't read the books!
/Daniel - weird == good
It depends on how You turn it... :)
If You turn it upside down by rotating it 180
dergees in '2d' it will still be a 2...
(like if You turn a piece of paper around)
If You do it by rotating it in '3d' it'll be a 5...
(that would have to be something transparent/doublesided)
:)
/Daniel
:)
Lego comes from Denmark...
It means 'play well'...
/Daniel
Same difference really... :)
If You think about it...
Hehehe... ;)
Exactly!
First:
I don't care about evolution...
Whether or not it is true has no relevance for my beliefs...
I will not reply to arguments concerning that...
Second:
I do agree that evolution should be teached in shools... Not because I think it is true but because I think we shouldn't hide information like that from our children...
But:
This outrage against people who have different beliefs bother me far more! There is no such thing as scientific truth! Science is, by defenition, not the truth... When science becomes the truth it is no longer useful since it is not open for discussion... Everything has to be open for discussion...
Well, I don't want to get too involved in any debate and I think I've made my main point so that'll just have to do for now...
/Daniel
A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. - X-Files
*nod*
Most things that makes Linux good are not really
Linux projects...
And that's the way it should be...
Xfree86 definitely is a big part if the system
that most people refer to when talking about Linux...
/Daniel
That's just too good... : )
>At least with Buchanan you might have a president
>who would put a stop to big business importing
>aliens to take away tech jobs.
Well, I guess that would make our government happy...
Over here the problem seems to be to get our people to stay...
Swedes like to think of themselves as international...
It's not hard to be more international than the average american... : )
Just to add something positive to this mess...
I run Debian potato (2.2 unstable) with
2.2.2 kernel and a sb awe32...
Works like a charm if You ask me...
You know a contract is _short_ when it
_doesn't_ need a FAQ... : )