Master of Orion 3 is being developed by veteran developer of classic strategy games Quicksilver Software, Inc and features a wide range of multi-player and solitaire play options, 16 highly-distinctive alien races, crisp graphics and an intuitive user interface. Master of Orion 3 is available for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP PCs.
Oh... 16 races... and the paragraphy immediately below this one:
From Quicksilver Software, Inc., the developer of such classic strategy games as STAR TREK: STARFLEET COMMAND, CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD and CASTLES, MASTER OF ORION 3 features a wide range of multi-player and solitaire play options, 8 highly distinctive alien races, and a level of graphics and interface design that will raise the stakes for the entire genre.
I go to Western Washington University in Washington state and the Art History 270 course (India, Japan, China) taught by Momi Naughton takes an entire lecture period to talk about anime with a self-professed anime maniac, whose name I forget. He goes way back to influences such as Hokusai and brings basically the entire span of what we learned in the class and how if affected the development of anime. Quite interesting...
Why don't we just massively upgrade telephone numbers? We know we're going to need it in the future, bring on 15 digit numbers... same goes with IP addresses, increased them to 1024x5...
I hope you don't actually have to touch the surface that it's being projected on. A couple weeks back somebody posted a link to a modified typewriter keyboard to use on a computer because his wife's fingers reacted badly to the jarring motion of using a touchtype keyboard. Imagine how jarring it would be to repeatedly slam your fingers against such a hard surface...
I'm sure when his parents see long time friends they proudly announce that their wonderful son/daughter is director of the International Network for the Improvement of the Banana and Plantain...
I wonder how I can get on the board of directors...
wetware/wet'weir/ n. [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. "Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers." 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See liveware, meatware.
I didn't know what it meant... figured other people may not either.
One of the big advantages of digital input is the ability to input text faster than you can write it, graffiti never made any sense to me for that reason.
Not only was (and still is) text recognition HORRIBLE, especially for people that have "unique" handwriting, like myself, but it's just so slooooow.
The aluminum looks all sleek and cool, yeah... but what about when you install a bunch of nasty beige devices into it? Isn't that just going to look super super tacky? Is there an easy (ie. w/o disassembling each component) way to make it all match up?
Andrew Gray said, "Master of Orion 3 has been talked about forever, hyped over the last year, and the release date pushed back until February now. Chances are we'll be talking about MOO3 in the same way we talk about Duke Nukem Whenever (the sarcastic nickname for Duke Nukem Forever; see below)."
They put the final entry on it's own page, you know... to keep it suspenseful... morons...
I suggest that all computers on the internet be required to have a miniature billboard monitor (2 or 3 feet wide will do) above the normal monitor that rotates various advertisements.
Or, require 24 hour full screen ads that are transparent so as not to completely interfere with normal usage.
My roomie and I have discussed at length the massive amounts of money companies could make if they did more things like this. Nintendo could easily release all the NES games ever made on one Gamecube disc and charge a bundle for it. I wouldn't mind paying $100 maybe more, Animal Crossing has taught me two things... first, that the old NES games still rule and second, that playing on a TV is way better than emulation.
I wonder how this company got the rights to do this legally...
Yeah I know they were around ages before I was... I used to lie about my age and say I was 14 because I thought I'd be more 31337. Haha...
A plea to all sci-fi film makers...
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Can we pleeeease have a sci-fi film WITHOUT a black trench coat?
Back in the day... (for me 1992)
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I remember seeing my first "loader" back in 1992, I had just started drawing ANSI for a local 206 art group called RaT. I remember it quite clearly, it had an ANSI logo that faded in and out and text that scrolled from right to left that faded from dark grey (or more accurately, bright black) to dark white to bright white then back again with really horrible fire effects at the bottom.
I've always loved textmode demos, they bring me back to a world before the internet was the gargantuan beast it is now, when I called 64 BBS's a day (and would have called more except my modem program only supported 64 entries).
When I was a kid I overheard my dad talking about how my mom was applying for citizenship because she was an alien. Of course when I heard "alien" I assumed the outer space kind (or as I said back then, "out of space") because I had no knowledge of the foreign kind. The next day at school I told everyone I knew that she was an alien, it went over quite well.:)
This was obviously meant in the way that Hollywood computers (ie. films in movies) have overly fancy and unrealistic interfaces and bringing some of those pure eyecandy features to the Linux desktop. Way to *totally* miss the point.
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duh, this is slashdot there needs to be at least one typo in each psot. :)
Master of Orion 3 is being developed by veteran developer of classic strategy games Quicksilver Software, Inc and features a wide range of multi-player and solitaire play options, 16 highly-distinctive alien races, crisp graphics and an intuitive user interface. Master of Orion 3 is available for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP PCs.
Oh... 16 races... and the paragraphy immediately below this one:
From Quicksilver Software, Inc., the developer of such classic strategy games as STAR TREK: STARFLEET COMMAND, CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD and CASTLES, MASTER OF ORION 3 features a wide range of multi-player and solitaire play options, 8 highly distinctive alien races, and a level of graphics and interface design that will raise the stakes for the entire genre.
Hmm...
Possibly... he was asian but didn't have an asian name. Big guy, probabably around 6ft tall.
I go to Western Washington University in Washington state and the Art History 270 course (India, Japan, China) taught by Momi Naughton takes an entire lecture period to talk about anime with a self-professed anime maniac, whose name I forget. He goes way back to influences such as Hokusai and brings basically the entire span of what we learned in the class and how if affected the development of anime. Quite interesting...
Why don't we just massively upgrade telephone numbers? We know we're going to need it in the future, bring on 15 digit numbers... same goes with IP addresses, increased them to 1024x5...
I'd like to see something like this where you could switch between keyboard layouts like QWERTY, Dvorak, Typematrix, Kinesis, etc...
I hope you don't actually have to touch the surface that it's being projected on. A couple weeks back somebody posted a link to a modified typewriter keyboard to use on a computer because his wife's fingers reacted badly to the jarring motion of using a touchtype keyboard. Imagine how jarring it would be to repeatedly slam your fingers against such a hard surface...
Haven't roll-up displays been "two years away" for about seven years now?
I love the concept... but really, shouldn't we have at least one low quality, high priced, first generation consumer product by now?
no... actually you didn't.
I'm sure when his parents see long time friends they proudly announce that their wonderful son/daughter is director of the International Network for the Improvement of the Banana and Plantain...
I wonder how I can get on the board of directors...
According to The Jargon Dictionary wetware is:
/wet'weir/ n. [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. "Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers." 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See liveware, meatware.
wetware
I didn't know what it meant... figured other people may not either.
One of the big advantages of digital input is the ability to input text faster than you can write it, graffiti never made any sense to me for that reason.
Not only was (and still is) text recognition HORRIBLE, especially for people that have "unique" handwriting, like myself, but it's just so slooooow.
great post, wish i had mod points... i'd love to see this question answered.
The aluminum looks all sleek and cool, yeah... but what about when you install a bunch of nasty beige devices into it? Isn't that just going to look super super tacky? Is there an easy (ie. w/o disassembling each component) way to make it all match up?
Andrew Gray said, "Master of Orion 3 has been talked about forever, hyped over the last year, and the release date pushed back until February now. Chances are we'll be talking about MOO3 in the same way we talk about Duke Nukem Whenever (the sarcastic nickname for Duke Nukem Forever; see below)."
They put the final entry on it's own page, you know... to keep it suspenseful... morons...
I suggest that all computers on the internet be required to have a miniature billboard monitor (2 or 3 feet wide will do) above the normal monitor that rotates various advertisements.
Or, require 24 hour full screen ads that are transparent so as not to completely interfere with normal usage.
Genius!
I haven't read 1984 in a long time, but I don't remember big brother coming from the amazon.
Team Slashdot was 5th overall for RC5-64... maybe it's time to step it up a notch, except that there is no Slashdot.org team yet. :-/
the current stats page doesn't seem to be linked from the main page anywhere... anyway, here's the link.
My roomie and I have discussed at length the massive amounts of money companies could make if they did more things like this. Nintendo could easily release all the NES games ever made on one Gamecube disc and charge a bundle for it. I wouldn't mind paying $100 maybe more, Animal Crossing has taught me two things... first, that the old NES games still rule and second, that playing on a TV is way better than emulation.
I wonder how this company got the rights to do this legally...
Hey, I'm almost 23! :)
Yeah I know they were around ages before I was... I used to lie about my age and say I was 14 because I thought I'd be more 31337. Haha...
Can we pleeeease have a sci-fi film WITHOUT a black trench coat?
I remember seeing my first "loader" back in 1992, I had just started drawing ANSI for a local 206 art group called RaT. I remember it quite clearly, it had an ANSI logo that faded in and out and text that scrolled from right to left that faded from dark grey (or more accurately, bright black) to dark white to bright white then back again with really horrible fire effects at the bottom.
I've always loved textmode demos, they bring me back to a world before the internet was the gargantuan beast it is now, when I called 64 BBS's a day (and would have called more except my modem program only supported 64 entries).
It's great to see people still doing this.
When I was a kid I overheard my dad talking about how my mom was applying for citizenship because she was an alien. Of course when I heard "alien" I assumed the outer space kind (or as I said back then, "out of space") because I had no knowledge of the foreign kind. The next day at school I told everyone I knew that she was an alien, it went over quite well. :)
This was obviously meant in the way that Hollywood computers (ie. films in movies) have overly fancy and unrealistic interfaces and bringing some of those pure eyecandy features to the Linux desktop. Way to *totally* miss the point.