A 3D consortium--which includes Toshiba, Sony, Olympus, Kodak and Microsoft among its founding members--was recently established to hammer out standards for hardware manufacturing and software development.
Microsoft and standards. Heh. Taking bets on wether the next Windows version will horribly ignore their own standards or not.:)
15" LCD displays in every seat, hooked up to satellite internet broadband connections. Unlimited browsing. Headphones would let people listen to streaming media available on the net. Interactive games also available.
Newsflash!
Boeing 747 with 400 people shot down by the RIAA interceptors for "piracy of copyrighted works".
It's amusing to see retro styles like this coming to our modern computers. All those fancy blinking lights and millions of colours and yet people still enjoy and actively use styles that are supposed to represent 16 bit or 8 bit GUIs or CLIs.
Maybe it's more evident for me to see these trends because I wish I was back in the days Amiga began, though at this age, with more programming knowledge and a wad of german Marks to buy Amiga from commodore. Then I'd hire this aspiring student from Helsinki Uni called Linux Torvalds, lock him into a room with an Amiga 500, some computer running Minix next to another one running some BSD unix, a bunch of programming tools and with an infinite supply of an odd mixture of Guiness/Red Bull. After a few months of hyper-evolution, Linus would crank out a basic kernel and a few nicely ported programs, including word processors and other office relics that were used back in '83, along with some basic GUI. (Think of xfree68x 0.0.1)
After this, program developers would be VERY interested in the Amiga, a system running mainstream office programs based on the proven reliability of unix. Game developers would start to prefer the graphical powers and the motorola processors of the Amiga and Microsoft would be out of business before they even started. Or they'd start to develop for the Amiga, ruining my whole fantasy as it would simply turn the tables, making Amigas with Windows XP mainstream in 2002 and x86 based pcs a rarity, only to be maintained by a bunch of zealots who would make religious fundamentalists blush...:( Dammit, I hate it when I kill my own fantasies! *sob*
Like marketroids care. But to be honest, I got the name from the dutch remark "Hansworst", which is sometimes used to describe a clumsy person in an obvious yet funny way. I took the word apart and "germanized" it just because it sounded funnier.:) (Yes, I've got a warped mind, I know...)
I couldn't agree more. Companies should be happy with my cash, I pay them for a product or service, they do (or, in case of my ISP, do not do) as they stated earlier and that is it. They want my data? They want to know where I live, what my phone number is and what my general interests are? Okay, that's information people are interested in and information these days costs money, so why don't they pay us consumers for our info we give to them?
Or for laughs, you can just give false info. According to a few sites, I'm now either an Iraqi military official with an interest in gardening, a german marketroid named Hanz Wurst with a yearly sallary of 50k+, 3 cars, a wife and 4 kids or a russian computer programmer named Pitr...
A WIFI adapter will NOT jam a military radar but rather show up as an unknown emitter which in a time of war will generally cause the ship/plane/helicopter to go "defensive" and defend against the potential threat!
... meaning that you'd better have a fast vehicle if you go wardriving near any military installation because you might just end up with a HARM missile chasing your SUV down the interstate. Although if you're in a suicidal mood, you could ping something from your car and mock the HARM missile as it locks onto the emitter, which shut down after sending the echo-request packet, causing the missile to loose lock, after a bit your wifi card sends out another icmp-request packet, causing the HARM missile to momentarily re-aquire a lock onto you again, etcetera.
Can you imagine some poor pilot having to report to his CO why his HARM missile is continously losing lock in the middle of NYC?
Prolly better ones then the ones where I was invited:
Mate: Hey, want to come to this lan party me and a few more people are setting up? Me: Sure, which games will there be, mainly? Mate: Er, what? Just counterstrike of course... Maybe a few random odd games, but we're planning on this really massive counterstrike tournament where the best groups wins a few meters of beer and- Me: I'm sorry, I can't... I have to hand in a report the day after so I need to spend time on that... Mate: I didn't even mention a date yet Me: I'm sure something will come in between, I'll make sure of it
Looking into the source code might require signing a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) that states that all financial damages which occur due to leaking the source can be reclaimed on the person who signed the NDA. It can't be that hard to hide some obscure hex value in a constant in some unimportant part of windows which can be traced to people who have access to the sources. Also, do you think MS would give it's source code to companies that are against MS?
I never really understood why MUDs are fun, they are too "limiting" because everything follows set rules and code, not allowing the flexibility of AD&D paper & pencil RPGs nor the eye-candy of graphical MUDs. Ah well...
As for online mobs, it's quite diverse. On my old MUD I've seen the biggest idiots grouping up with pedantic puppets to form a mob out of a pop of 500 which would be laughable were it not for admin support. And I've seen groups of 3 or 4 people dominating an entire 10+k forum community with sheer volume of posts and dry, though good British wit/humour. Those were the times.:)
No, because I was talking about a mace in the first place. Besides, if the bird is on his right shoulder and I hit the bird 20cm to the left, I'd most definately hit the head. Or not, we didn't really care.
Ah yes, AD&D. I once tried to play it seriously, but my friends were a bit fcked up in the head (like me usually) so it kind of involved vampires with fake teeth, immortal baby seals and naked blonde women. Hey, we were 17 back then, puberty is to blaim for that. (That ought to keep SlashChick away from me with a 45 page rant about sexism on the net. Ahem.)
Yes well, anyways, things went like this after we gave up on one of our campaigns and started a new one:
DM: So Seth, made a character yet? Me: Yeah, got her stat sheet right here. DM: Her? You're not another sicko playing a female character, are you? Two other guys playing female characters glare at DM DM: Anyways, stats look okay, I'll put her into my storyline. Friend with female char: Does his char have bigger boobs then mine? Only guy with male char: You people are sick in the head. Very sick.
Of course, that was even before the game started, at which it became worse.
DM: You slowly approach the sound of someone playing a lute, the serene sound reverbing throughout the forest... Friend with male char: Too quiet and I want to kill something. Do we see anyone or anything yet? DM: Lots of trees. Attack one of those. Friend with male char: Sure thing! *rolls for initiative* 20! DM: You headbutt the tree and knock yourself out. Friend with male char: I hate you.
Or...
DM: Okay, so you approach the sound of the lute and see a woodsman sitting on the ground, surrounded by various animals... Friend with cleric: I cast detect evil, do I sense anything? DM: The woodsman is okay, the bird on his right shoulder is more vile then Satan himself. Me with cleric: I attack the bird with my mace! DM: I was kidding you sick fuck! Me: Who cares, I'll attack it anyways. DM: Phacia (my char) is now chaotic evil. You got the element of surprise so roll for hitting the damn bird. Me: Er... A four? DM: You bloody miss the bird by 20 cm to the left. Friend with male char: Isn't that where the woodsman's head was at? DM: Er, yes, wel... Roll for damage then. Me: A six, max damage on the back of his head? DM: Damn you all to hell. You kill the woodsman!
Ah yes, those were the times.. Wish someone around here played some truely serious AD&D. I ran away screaming in agony when they suggested DBZ AD&D crossovers, so I've been without AD&D ever since then. Anyways, to make this post seems even remotely on topic, the worst thing about most RPGs on computers I played is the "toughening" of it all. Really, if you want to make battles harder, make it harder in a realistic way, not just by flinging more grunts/monsters at the main party. Also, avoid gaping plot holes like how on earth some old nearly disabled lady manages to get from town A to town B before you while you had to cross two dungeons, a cavern with really deep pitfalls, molten lava and a name involving a homonym for "doom", "evil" or "horror", fight 30 battles without saving and a boss battle in the end. Seriously, did that old lady know of a shortcut or something?
May the powers that be have mercy upon my corrupted soul as I slowly wither and perish in insanity because of this one line...:(
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It'd be funnier if Mr. Gibson would drive around in a custom paint GMC G series van (a la A-TEAM) with trusty old Mr. T as his sidekick. Mad Max, Mr. T, helluva ebonics and a spiffy van. Can't go wrong.
Knowing Gamespy, they will prolly encourage modding some more. hosting projects for various games and eventually "aqquiring" said mods, rebuild them to make them backwards incompatible and make them part of the Gamespy hive. That said, I'm convinced that Gamespy is a blight on the gaming community. Gamespy Arcade is a digital deathtrap, the Gamespy fileservers where demos are hosted require (free) registration at the cost of Gamespy opting you in on 10+ (spam/commercial email)* lists. The whole Gamespy play-online network absolutely sucks and the whole thing just reeks "monopolize" all over it.
* = Choose your poison. Furthermore, if they want me to go to Gamespy to download a demo at 5KB/s while suffering huge ammounts of spam from signing up, then they can go straight to hell. I'm not going to buy a game anymore which involves GameSpy any way whatsoever. *kicks his BF 1942 cds*
Don't forget, the greatest artists and scientists were ridiculed in their own times. Great thinkers and wonderful artists such as Galileo, van Gogh and loads like them were considered odd and thus were ridiculed merely because they were far ahead of their time. Now I'm not glorifying RMS here, but surely history thought us that people with odd ideas on how things work/look like should be listened to and not disregarded.
Impossible, the US goverment fails to recognize the The Hague courts as valid. In fact, wasn't there some law proposed (or possibly signed already) about giving US forces the right to attack The Netherlands (another NATO country) in case there were ever US military personell put to trail there? The Hague isn't going to help your stupid legal system when it's flattened...
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Microsoft and standards. Heh. Taking bets on wether the next Windows version will horribly ignore their own standards or not. :)
Newsflash!
Boeing 747 with 400 people shot down by the RIAA interceptors for "piracy of copyrighted works".
Clearly, the "Forever" bit is related to the development time...
It's amusing to see retro styles like this coming to our modern computers. All those fancy blinking lights and millions of colours and yet people still enjoy and actively use styles that are supposed to represent 16 bit or 8 bit GUIs or CLIs.
Maybe it's more evident for me to see these trends because I wish I was back in the days Amiga began, though at this age, with more programming knowledge and a wad of german Marks to buy Amiga from commodore. Then I'd hire this aspiring student from Helsinki Uni called Linux Torvalds, lock him into a room with an Amiga 500, some computer running Minix next to another one running some BSD unix, a bunch of programming tools and with an infinite supply of an odd mixture of Guiness/Red Bull. After a few months of hyper-evolution, Linus would crank out a basic kernel and a few nicely ported programs, including word processors and other office relics that were used back in '83, along with some basic GUI. (Think of xfree68x 0.0.1)
After this, program developers would be VERY interested in the Amiga, a system running mainstream office programs based on the proven reliability of unix. Game developers would start to prefer the graphical powers and the motorola processors of the Amiga and Microsoft would be out of business before they even started. Or they'd start to develop for the Amiga, ruining my whole fantasy as it would simply turn the tables, making Amigas with Windows XP mainstream in 2002 and x86 based pcs a rarity, only to be maintained by a bunch of zealots who would make religious fundamentalists blush... :( Dammit, I hate it when I kill my own fantasies! *sob*
Like marketroids care. But to be honest, I got the name from the dutch remark "Hansworst", which is sometimes used to describe a clumsy person in an obvious yet funny way. I took the word apart and "germanized" it just because it sounded funnier. :) (Yes, I've got a warped mind, I know...)
Yes, they got into contact with a few goverment agencies and it became known as "The Echelon Project" instead of HailStorm...
I couldn't agree more. Companies should be happy with my cash, I pay them for a product or service, they do (or, in case of my ISP, do not do) as they stated earlier and that is it. They want my data? They want to know where I live, what my phone number is and what my general interests are? Okay, that's information people are interested in and information these days costs money, so why don't they pay us consumers for our info we give to them?
Or for laughs, you can just give false info. According to a few sites, I'm now either an Iraqi military official with an interest in gardening, a german marketroid named Hanz Wurst with a yearly sallary of 50k+, 3 cars, a wife and 4 kids or a russian computer programmer named Pitr...
... meaning that you'd better have a fast vehicle if you go wardriving near any military installation because you might just end up with a HARM missile chasing your SUV down the interstate. Although if you're in a suicidal mood, you could ping something from your car and mock the HARM missile as it locks onto the emitter, which shut down after sending the echo-request packet, causing the missile to loose lock, after a bit your wifi card sends out another icmp-request packet, causing the HARM missile to momentarily re-aquire a lock onto you again, etcetera.
Can you imagine some poor pilot having to report to his CO why his HARM missile is continously losing lock in the middle of NYC?
I can already imagine the following:
Prolly better ones then the ones where I was invited:
Mate: Hey, want to come to this lan party me and a few more people are setting up?Me: Sure, which games will there be, mainly?
Mate: Er, what? Just counterstrike of course... Maybe a few random odd games, but we're planning on this really massive counterstrike tournament where the best groups wins a few meters of beer and-
Me: I'm sorry, I can't... I have to hand in a report the day after so I need to spend time on that...
Mate: I didn't even mention a date yet
Me: I'm sure something will come in between, I'll make sure of it
Looking into the source code might require signing a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) that states that all financial damages which occur due to leaking the source can be reclaimed on the person who signed the NDA. It can't be that hard to hide some obscure hex value in a constant in some unimportant part of windows which can be traced to people who have access to the sources. Also, do you think MS would give it's source code to companies that are against MS?
I never really understood why MUDs are fun, they are too "limiting" because everything follows set rules and code, not allowing the flexibility of AD&D paper & pencil RPGs nor the eye-candy of graphical MUDs. Ah well...
As for online mobs, it's quite diverse. On my old MUD I've seen the biggest idiots grouping up with pedantic puppets to form a mob out of a pop of 500 which would be laughable were it not for admin support. And I've seen groups of 3 or 4 people dominating an entire 10+k forum community with sheer volume of posts and dry, though good British wit/humour. Those were the times. :)
No, because I was talking about a mace in the first place. Besides, if the bird is on his right shoulder and I hit the bird 20cm to the left, I'd most definately hit the head. Or not, we didn't really care.
Ah yes, AD&D. I once tried to play it seriously, but my friends were a bit fcked up in the head (like me usually) so it kind of involved vampires with fake teeth, immortal baby seals and naked blonde women. Hey, we were 17 back then, puberty is to blaim for that. (That ought to keep SlashChick away from me with a 45 page rant about sexism on the net. Ahem.)
Yes well, anyways, things went like this after we gave up on one of our campaigns and started a new one:
DM: So Seth, made a character yet?Me: Yeah, got her stat sheet right here.
DM: Her? You're not another sicko playing a female character, are you?
Two other guys playing female characters glare at DM
DM: Anyways, stats look okay, I'll put her into my storyline.
Friend with female char: Does his char have bigger boobs then mine?
Only guy with male char: You people are sick in the head. Very sick.
Of course, that was even before the game started, at which it became worse.
DM: You slowly approach the sound of someone playing a lute, the serene sound reverbing throughout the forest...Friend with male char: Too quiet and I want to kill something. Do we see anyone or anything yet?
DM: Lots of trees. Attack one of those.
Friend with male char: Sure thing! *rolls for initiative* 20!
DM: You headbutt the tree and knock yourself out.
Friend with male char: I hate you.
Or...
DM: Okay, so you approach the sound of the lute and see a woodsman sitting on the ground, surrounded by various animals...Friend with cleric: I cast detect evil, do I sense anything?
DM: The woodsman is okay, the bird on his right shoulder is more vile then Satan himself.
Me with cleric: I attack the bird with my mace!
DM: I was kidding you sick fuck!
Me: Who cares, I'll attack it anyways.
DM: Phacia (my char) is now chaotic evil. You got the element of surprise so roll for hitting the damn bird.
Me: Er... A four?
DM: You bloody miss the bird by 20 cm to the left.
Friend with male char: Isn't that where the woodsman's head was at?
DM: Er, yes, wel... Roll for damage then.
Me: A six, max damage on the back of his head?
DM: Damn you all to hell. You kill the woodsman!
Ah yes, those were the times.. Wish someone around here played some truely serious AD&D. I ran away screaming in agony when they suggested DBZ AD&D crossovers, so I've been without AD&D ever since then. Anyways, to make this post seems even remotely on topic, the worst thing about most RPGs on computers I played is the "toughening" of it all. Really, if you want to make battles harder, make it harder in a realistic way, not just by flinging more grunts/monsters at the main party. Also, avoid gaping plot holes like how on earth some old nearly disabled lady manages to get from town A to town B before you while you had to cross two dungeons, a cavern with really deep pitfalls, molten lava and a name involving a homonym for "doom", "evil" or "horror", fight 30 battles without saving and a boss battle in the end. Seriously, did that old lady know of a shortcut or something?
May the powers that be have mercy upon my corrupted soul as I slowly wither and perish in insanity because of this one line... :(
It'd be funnier if Mr. Gibson would drive around in a custom paint GMC G series van (a la A-TEAM) with trusty old Mr. T as his sidekick. Mad Max, Mr. T, helluva ebonics and a spiffy van. Can't go wrong.
Knowing Gamespy, they will prolly encourage modding some more. hosting projects for various games and eventually "aqquiring" said mods, rebuild them to make them backwards incompatible and make them part of the Gamespy hive. That said, I'm convinced that Gamespy is a blight on the gaming community. Gamespy Arcade is a digital deathtrap, the Gamespy fileservers where demos are hosted require (free) registration at the cost of Gamespy opting you in on 10+ (spam/commercial email)* lists. The whole Gamespy play-online network absolutely sucks and the whole thing just reeks "monopolize" all over it.
* = Choose your poison. Furthermore, if they want me to go to Gamespy to download a demo at 5KB/s while suffering huge ammounts of spam from signing up, then they can go straight to hell. I'm not going to buy a game anymore which involves GameSpy any way whatsoever. *kicks his BF 1942 cds*
Some of you people got weird sexual obsessions. I mean, what's so special about a stoned girl? I see them often enough... (Granted, I'm dutch.)
Natalie Portman is an entirely different story... Rawr!
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Vigilante justice is better then bad justice IMHO.
Don't forget, the greatest artists and scientists were ridiculed in their own times. Great thinkers and wonderful artists such as Galileo, van Gogh and loads like them were considered odd and thus were ridiculed merely because they were far ahead of their time. Now I'm not glorifying RMS here, but surely history thought us that people with odd ideas on how things work/look like should be listened to and not disregarded.
A picture says a thousand words.
Impossible, the US goverment fails to recognize the The Hague courts as valid. In fact, wasn't there some law proposed (or possibly signed already) about giving US forces the right to attack The Netherlands (another NATO country) in case there were ever US military personell put to trail there? The Hague isn't going to help your stupid legal system when it's flattened...