"While I was working for Red Hat, I got very sick... I ultimately had to go to 10 doctors to be diagnosed. "
Good news, under Obamacare, you'll never have that problem again.
1) Are you connected to a political bigwig? Goto #8. 2) Set appointment for doctor. Wait X months. 3) Get appointment. Roll 1d6 and goto #5 on a "6." 4) Otherwise, learn you cannot see specialist now, goto #2. 5) Get appointment with specialist. Wait Y months. 6) Get diagnosis. If you do not like it, goto #2. If you go like it, get on list to be treated. 7) Die of old age. 8) Get approved for treatment. 9) Begin treatment.
>> Is it really so damning the Obama didn't consider Afganistan "his war"
I think it is, for a different reason. A lot of folks elected Obama to get us out our middle eastern wars as fast as possible. The fact that Obama's been dragging his feet on that front, even starting new wars (e.g., Libya), suggests (reaffirms?) that Obama has been a spineless president, bullied into more military action by his military advisers, Gates included.
I'd start by looking through http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/ - looks like there's plenty of off-brands that could use a push from a dedicated publisher.
>> Arrakeen Tactical
Always a good way to launch a for-profit brand: rip off a major desert+space+melee-combat science fiction franchise. Hope you cleared that with your attorney first...
OK, so the guy resigned in Klingon - probably before his local constituency voted him out. However, if he'd run and won using Klingon, that would be news.
Seriously, if you're going to learn a language, why not Spanish or Chinese something else you can use to communicate with and represent real people with real problems. (If you're a politician, that's really your only job.)
>> Star Control 2 came with the Super Melee option, which is pretty much what you are describing
Not really. SC1 came with a couple of different strategic scenarios built around a dozen or two stars. You'd move and use your fleets to secure star systems which offered benefits like extra citizens or mining. There was strategy in securing the right stars, using diversionary feints, building the right sets of ships to counter the enemy, etc.
When SC2 came out and replaced that part of the game with a grinding, probe-driving RPG (yippee, MORE aluminum)...I pretty much lost interest.
I might be the minority, but I loved SC1...not so much SC2. The advantage of SC1 was that you could whoop on your friends for hours in 2D combat...or play a QUICK strategy game. By the time SC2 rolled around I was in high school...and just didn't want to invest in an RPG slog to build up my fleet.
Personally, I'm hoping they make the core like a space battle version of Super Smash Brothers with a little solo-play piece grafted on to allow you to unlock more ships. I'm also hoping that some kind of "can play in under an hour" PvP strategy game comes back.
>> Glass separates you. It sets you apart from everyone else. It says you not only had $1,500 to plunk down to be part of the “explorer” program, but that Google deemed you special enough to warrant inclusion
Um...OK. Self esteem problem much?
>> his wife wanted him to take pictures and shoot videos of their child's birth, but not with Glass
Maybe she's one of those "passive aggressive" weirdos who doesn't want video of their private parts uploaded to the Internet. Good luck in divorce court, man.
My two boys were born in the early 2000's. Through MAME and other emulators they were exposed to just about all major platforms and games from 1980-2000, but the only ones that they were attracted to enough to learn the controls were: * Super Nintendo: Super Mario World * Nintendo 64: Mario Kart
As far as legacy platforms, there was no traction on basic HTML or Basic but Javascript was enough of a hit to keep their attention for a while.
Two years ago Spore was the game of choice, and today they play Minecraft on the PC and all other video games on their tablets (Android tablets, of course). All "coding" they do is still in Javascript, but they also haven't made the jump to consuming their own apps on tablets. (Sniff - call it a parental stretch goal.)
Myself? I really only find myself going back to these games/platforms: Nintendo8:Zanac, SegaGenesis:StarControl, Nintendo16:StreetFighterII...and then not too often, because Team Fortress II is only a click away if I get a half hour free here and there.
>> Convincing students from user culture to toss aside decades of advances in graphical user interfaces for a UNIX command line is a tough sell
BS. Simply point out that GUI-only IT grunts are being replaced by the truckload by cheap Indian and Chinese labor (and why not) while those who have specialized in security, automation, programming and other areas that require you to use a keyboard continue to make top dollar and find interesting work even in this crappy economy...and I think you'll make your case.
(Or...just point out that "decades of GUI advances" led us into the Windows 8 ditch - your choice.)
>> why researchers have remained largely silent in the wake of the revelation that (US gov does bad thing)
Just follow the money to...federal research grants. Even if an individual professor decided to rock the boat, their local university would do their best to shut them up.
Related: http://www.aipg.org/students/pdf/So%20you%20want%20to%20be%20a%20professor.pdf George D. Klein - former professor: " A professor is viewed as a profit center by university administrators...Faculty members will survive as a professor if she/he is awarded lots of grants with lots of over-head for the university coffers..."
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>> Spectacular New Martian Impact Crater...formed sometime early this decade
"While I was working for Red Hat, I got very sick... I ultimately had to go to 10 doctors to be diagnosed. "
Good news, under Obamacare, you'll never have that problem again.
1) Are you connected to a political bigwig? Goto #8.
2) Set appointment for doctor. Wait X months.
3) Get appointment. Roll 1d6 and goto #5 on a "6."
4) Otherwise, learn you cannot see specialist now, goto #2.
5) Get appointment with specialist. Wait Y months.
6) Get diagnosis. If you do not like it, goto #2. If you go like it, get on list to be treated.
7) Die of old age.
8) Get approved for treatment.
9) Begin treatment.
>> "Misstatement," of course, being the favorite euphemism for "lie."
I though it was, "If you like your X, you can keep your X." :)
Or...just spend $60 for a GoPano for iPhone
http://www.gopano.com/store/
I'd say the price war is on - $200-500 bucks for this gizmo already seems too high.
"If you like your space station you can keep your space station."
Let's hope Obama wasn't kidding this time.
>> wrote his own software for the new device. Total cost: $50.
Sure, if the time to write the software was worth nothing.
>> And that means the prospecting of asteroids is likely to become a highly secretive commercial endeavor in the not-too-distant future.
Given the large numbers of even hobby astronomers, the chances of sneaking a payload into space are pretty small. (See also: X37).
>> Is it really so damning the Obama didn't consider Afganistan "his war"
I think it is, for a different reason. A lot of folks elected Obama to get us out our middle eastern wars as fast as possible. The fact that Obama's been dragging his feet on that front, even starting new wars (e.g., Libya), suggests (reaffirms?) that Obama has been a spineless president, bullied into more military action by his military advisers, Gates included.
Yahoo is launching a "tech" section? How cute.
>> first purchase we made was of Darklight Interactive's work which was on Drive-Thru RPG
Sweet - because I wasn't kidding about the quality out there. Good luck!
>> He's actively looking for games to publish.
I'd start by looking through http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/ - looks like there's plenty of off-brands that could use a push from a dedicated publisher.
>> Arrakeen Tactical
Always a good way to launch a for-profit brand: rip off a major desert+space+melee-combat science fiction franchise. Hope you cleared that with your attorney first...
Nah...it's that it's "heading eastward" (e.g., to New York, etc.) that "makes it news."
Thanks SlashDot - where else could I get the weather report?
>> David Waddell is obviously a (nutjob)
OK, so the guy resigned in Klingon - probably before his local constituency voted him out. However, if he'd run and won using Klingon, that would be news.
Seriously, if you're going to learn a language, why not Spanish or Chinese something else you can use to communicate with and represent real people with real problems. (If you're a politician, that's really your only job.)
>> Star Control 2 came with the Super Melee option, which is pretty much what you are describing
Not really. SC1 came with a couple of different strategic scenarios built around a dozen or two stars. You'd move and use your fleets to secure star systems which offered benefits like extra citizens or mining. There was strategy in securing the right stars, using diversionary feints, building the right sets of ships to counter the enemy, etc.
When SC2 came out and replaced that part of the game with a grinding, probe-driving RPG (yippee, MORE aluminum)...I pretty much lost interest.
I might be the minority, but I loved SC1...not so much SC2. The advantage of SC1 was that you could whoop on your friends for hours in 2D combat...or play a QUICK strategy game. By the time SC2 rolled around I was in high school...and just didn't want to invest in an RPG slog to build up my fleet.
Personally, I'm hoping they make the core like a space battle version of Super Smash Brothers with a little solo-play piece grafted on to allow you to unlock more ships. I'm also hoping that some kind of "can play in under an hour" PvP strategy game comes back.
>> someone anonymously dumps 1000 bitcoins on him,
Same thing as what happens if someone leaves an envelope filled with 500 crisp $100 bills at the office.
...instead of fixing their slow and buggy web filtering software. (Ducks.)
>> Glass separates you. It sets you apart from everyone else. It says you not only had $1,500 to plunk down to be part of the “explorer” program, but that Google deemed you special enough to warrant inclusion
Um...OK. Self esteem problem much?
>> his wife wanted him to take pictures and shoot videos of their child's birth, but not with Glass
Maybe she's one of those "passive aggressive" weirdos who doesn't want video of their private parts uploaded to the Internet. Good luck in divorce court, man.
ISWYDT - c'mon moddy people - this is FUNNY
My two boys were born in the early 2000's. Through MAME and other emulators they were exposed to just about all major platforms and games from 1980-2000, but the only ones that they were attracted to enough to learn the controls were:
* Super Nintendo: Super Mario World
* Nintendo 64: Mario Kart
As far as legacy platforms, there was no traction on basic HTML or Basic but Javascript was enough of a hit to keep their attention for a while.
Two years ago Spore was the game of choice, and today they play Minecraft on the PC and all other video games on their tablets (Android tablets, of course). All "coding" they do is still in Javascript, but they also haven't made the jump to consuming their own apps on tablets. (Sniff - call it a parental stretch goal.)
Myself? I really only find myself going back to these games/platforms: Nintendo8:Zanac, SegaGenesis:StarControl, Nintendo16:StreetFighterII...and then not too often, because Team Fortress II is only a click away if I get a half hour free here and there.
>> Convincing students from user culture to toss aside decades of advances in graphical user interfaces for a UNIX command line is a tough sell
BS. Simply point out that GUI-only IT grunts are being replaced by the truckload by cheap Indian and Chinese labor (and why not) while those who have specialized in security, automation, programming and other areas that require you to use a keyboard continue to make top dollar and find interesting work even in this crappy economy...and I think you'll make your case.
(Or...just point out that "decades of GUI advances" led us into the Windows 8 ditch - your choice.)
>> so wholly lacking in the functionality of a UNIX shell
That's why I use the GnuWin32 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ tools: basically your standard Unix utility set on Windows.
We're the only audience of sheeple who might care. Alas...I skimmed the summary and still don't. Zzzzzz...
>> why researchers have remained largely silent in the wake of the revelation that (US gov does bad thing)
Just follow the money to...federal research grants. Even if an individual professor decided to rock the boat, their local university would do their best to shut them up.
Related: http://www.aipg.org/students/pdf/So%20you%20want%20to%20be%20a%20professor.pdf
George D. Klein - former professor: " A professor is viewed as a profit center by university administrators...Faculty members will survive as
a professor if she/he is awarded lots of grants with lots of over-head for the university coffers..."
Also: http://www.academicmatters.ca/2012/11/the-quiet-campus-the-anatomy-of-dissent-at-canadian-universities/
Not sure I want anything fapping around my backyard, thank-you-very-much.