You say "if the university's THAT desperate to save money, maybe it's not the best place to go." Unfortunately, this is the way all Australian public universities are heading, thanks to mind-numbingly short-sighted government spending cutbacks on higher education. Linux has a lot of potential for these unis, and it wouldn't surprise me if most of them aren't using it already, at least in CS faculties.
Assuming you don't mind text-based RPing,
DartMud sound like what you're looking for.
In particular, stats and skills are only described, not given numbers. The system is completely skill-based - no levels or experience points. There are no classes, you can learn whatever combination of skills you like (not neccessarily easily, but it is possible). Combat is limb-based, very flexible and detailed (you can wield as many weapons as you have arm-like limbs). There is an extensive range of non-combat skills, too - food & farming activities, crafting (wood-working, metal-working, sewing, leather-working, etc), and so on. The world is certainly not static - there have been one-off quests run in the past (and probably will be in the future). There are a number of races that characters can choose, each with their own strengths and disadvantages. The magic system is worth mentioning too - each spell is a skill, there are over 100 spells released, but many can only be obtained from other players, and you'll need astounding powers of persuasion to do so.
Role-playing is, of course, strongly emphasized. The creators keep their distance - apart from enforcing the rules (no cheating, no unattended botting, etc), they don't get involve in mortal affairs.
As for the world of Ferdachi itself, it is a completely original creation, as far as I know. There are extensive areas to explore, including an Underdark area which automatically extends itself as players explore it.
They have a homepage .
You mean, like the Leonid meteor showers that weren't visible in the Southern hemisphere ?
I think "all" and "always" are overstating
things a little. I suppose the air is generally less polluted (outside of cities), which would help in viewing these events.
Everywhere I've seen yEnc used, I've also seen vicious flamewars about its use. Many people are of the opinion that yEnc needed more "thinking time" before actually being released into use. (It was the work of one person, and I believe there were problems with the "1.0" version of the "standard"). Also, not all newsreaders / browsers support it yet.
If his Australian University was anything like the one I went to, then the course was indeed mainly theoretical, with actual languages used only for demonstrating an example of the theory.
That is, any language could be used - in my first year, the main language used for our exercises was Pascal, in second year Modula-2, and in third year we used about 10 different languages over the course of the year - but the point, in all cases, was not to say "I know language X", but to say "I understand algorithm/theoretical concept Y, and I happen to have programmed it in language X".
(Because, IMHO, Computer Science can't remain purely theoretical - at some point, you have to get your hands dirty (metaphorically speaking, mostly, although some of the computer lab keyboards were a bit grotty) and go from algorithm-on-paper to actual-working-program-which-doesn't-crash)
David.
First post?, and he's prepared for slashdotting
on
Lego Segway
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· Score: 5, Informative
Looks like someone gave the guy pre-warning, his
page only has links to some mirrors, e.g.
Here or here or even here .
Errr. "135 size" film is 35mm film. And where I am, Fuji 1600 ISO film is readily available (or Kodak TMZ (3200 ISO) if you don't mind B&W).
And you can always get film "pushed" when developing, to get a higher effective ISO, at the cost of a grainier image.
Not really, since it was named SunOS back in those
days. See the SunOS & Solaris Version History . Also, x86 support dropped out for a long time between SunOS 4.0.2 and Solaris 2.1.
--
David.
Slashdot Mirror
Except for the bits in Australia, which were allowed to drink 2 years ago (age 18).
... )
(yeah, Aussies mature more quickly, that'd be it
David.
You say "if the university's THAT desperate to save money, maybe it's not the best place to go." Unfortunately, this is the way all Australian public universities are heading, thanks to mind-numbingly short-sighted government spending cutbacks on higher education. Linux has a lot of potential for these unis, and it wouldn't surprise me if most of them aren't using it already, at least in CS faculties.
David.
Assuming you don't mind text-based RPing, DartMud sound like what you're looking for. In particular, stats and skills are only described, not given numbers. The system is completely skill-based - no levels or experience points. There are no classes, you can learn whatever combination of skills you like (not neccessarily easily, but it is possible). Combat is limb-based, very flexible and detailed (you can wield as many weapons as you have arm-like limbs). There is an extensive range of non-combat skills, too - food & farming activities, crafting (wood-working, metal-working, sewing, leather-working, etc), and so on. The world is certainly not static - there have been one-off quests run in the past (and probably will be in the future). There are a number of races that characters can choose, each with their own strengths and disadvantages. The magic system is worth mentioning too - each spell is a skill, there are over 100 spells released, but many can only be obtained from other players, and you'll need astounding powers of persuasion to do so. Role-playing is, of course, strongly emphasized. The creators keep their distance - apart from enforcing the rules (no cheating, no unattended botting, etc), they don't get involve in mortal affairs.
As for the world of Ferdachi itself, it is a completely original creation, as far as I know. There are extensive areas to explore, including an Underdark area which automatically extends itself as players explore it. They have a homepage .
David.
I mean, "fokelore" ? Really ?
Try "folklore".
David.
You mean, like the Leonid meteor showers that weren't visible in the Southern hemisphere ?
I think "all" and "always" are overstating things a little. I suppose the air is generally less polluted (outside of cities), which would help in viewing these events.
David.
Everywhere I've seen yEnc used, I've also seen vicious flamewars about its use. Many people are of the opinion that yEnc needed more "thinking time" before actually being released into use. (It was the work of one person, and I believe there were problems with the "1.0" version of the "standard"). Also, not all newsreaders / browsers support it yet.
David.
What part of "Reply, don't moderate" don't you understand?
What part of "both are neccessary to make SlashDot what it is" don't you understand ?
Replies for agreement, disagreement, adding information, and the occasional diversion.
Moderation to rate and maintain the quality of discussion.
(so I can read at a threshold of 2 and read only around 30-40% of comments, which is more than enough for most topics to get discussed thouroughly).
(ok, ok, IHBT, HAND, all that)
David.
If his Australian University was anything like the one I went to, then the course was indeed mainly theoretical, with actual languages used only for demonstrating an example of the theory.
That is, any language could be used - in my first year, the main language used for our exercises was Pascal, in second year Modula-2, and in third year we used about 10 different languages over the course of the year - but the point, in all cases, was not to say "I know language X", but to say "I understand algorithm/theoretical concept Y, and I happen to have programmed it in language X".
(Because, IMHO, Computer Science can't remain purely theoretical - at some point, you have to get your hands dirty (metaphorically speaking, mostly, although some of the computer lab keyboards were a bit grotty) and go from algorithm-on-paper to actual-working-program-which-doesn't-crash)
David.
Looks like someone gave the guy pre-warning, his page only has links to some mirrors, e.g. Here or here or even here .
Errr. "135 size" film is 35mm film. And where I am, Fuji 1600 ISO film is readily available (or Kodak TMZ (3200 ISO) if you don't mind B&W).
And you can always get film "pushed" when developing, to get a higher effective ISO, at the cost of a grainier image.
David.
Not really, since it was named SunOS back in those days. See the SunOS & Solaris Version History . Also, x86 support dropped out for a long time between SunOS 4.0.2 and Solaris 2.1. -- David.