It's slightly different where in drunkeness is a direct result of using a specific object, like mario eating a mushroom (I hope I don't get sued for this reference), but sanity is more ambient.
I think you could patent horniness though, it's kinda along the same lines... I'd say patent it and then sell the rights to some game dev corp for loot!
I'm not terribly familiar with the Call of Cthulhu, so correct me if I get off target here (which I'm sure plenty will), but this isn't a patent for special effects to represent sanity.
This is a feature of the game engine to track sanity, much like hit points or stamina, based on the characters atmosphere and events.
This seems like an obvious idea (many ideas seem obvious once you see them), but as far as I know, this is a unique idea.
The effects that the game uses to represent sanity in this patent are irrelevant.
I love Nintendo, and have been playing their consoles since 1985, but I think it's a stupid thing to patent though.
All I ever needed was the edit command from the command prompt. Quite possibly the first multi-tabbed text editor around. (I say "quite possibly" because I really have no idea)
That was the best text editor I've ever used before I started working with TextPad.
Yeah, but you can buy a replacement cell phone battery and switch it yourself.
The iPod batteries lasted much shorter than they should've before needing replacement, and the charge for replacement was nearly the cost of the whole unit anyway.
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I think the complaints are mostly because google isn't the small underdog anymore. Nobody likes a leader.
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
"Um...a UPS? Or small personal generator? An inverter hooked up through your car (I actually used this once for temporary power when the power was out in my house, in conjunction with a long extension cable, because I couldn't find a wired phone). All you have to do is think outside the box, and you could easily have power to your router/modem during an outage for quite some time."
I didn't imply that it was impossible to get power. More that it's impractical. UPS's only last so long, a generator would be ideal, but they're not as common in your average house. Even with a generator, I would be focusing my energy on lighting and food storage as opposed to checking weather.com or cnn.com. I know the news I need to hear... I'm in the middle of it. Preserving food and providing light are more important.
You could use a car, but not everybody has a power inverter or a car for that matter (think New York City). And either way you'll then need to be running some wires, which may or may not be feasible in the situation.
Sidenote: the expression "thinking outside the box" has lost all implications of creativity. All it means now is that you subscribe to the corporate mindset.
"But I think that the most significant hurdle to all of these broadband technologies is keeping the network running even in a disaster like an earthquake or hurricane. Power lines fall down, are torn off the poles by falling trees, and generally succumb to events that they should not encounter everyday. In a lot of places, power lines are run underground, which gives them added protection from above-ground disasters.
Phone lines, too, are affected by such disasters, though in many places the lines are laid under the earth. However, in a large earthquake like is expected in the Bay Area, shifting land could easily sever those lines, stranding thousands of people."
If you don't have power, it's unlikely you'll be able to use your computer. And if you have a laptop, what is powering your wireless router?
Besides, if there's a major earthquake or something, I think internet connection should be pretty low on your list of priorities.
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Steam is a very useful tool for the independant game maker out there.
Being able to create mods with some of the biggest engines out there, and then distributing it simply and easily helps out alot.
There is tons of creativity and original ideas in alot of those mods, and without steam they'd never be heard from.
Excellent thread!
This is a shining example of what slashdot should be. If only there were more fine people like yourself.
Intelligent conversations that down break down into bullshitting and name calling. Unfortunately, this is too rare around here.
It's slightly different where in drunkeness is a direct result of using a specific object, like mario eating a mushroom (I hope I don't get sued for this reference), but sanity is more ambient.
I think you could patent horniness though, it's kinda along the same lines... I'd say patent it and then sell the rights to some game dev corp for loot!
I'm not terribly familiar with the Call of Cthulhu, so correct me if I get off target here (which I'm sure plenty will), but this isn't a patent for special effects to represent sanity.
This is a feature of the game engine to track sanity, much like hit points or stamina, based on the characters atmosphere and events.
This seems like an obvious idea (many ideas seem obvious once you see them), but as far as I know, this is a unique idea.
The effects that the game uses to represent sanity in this patent are irrelevant.
I love Nintendo, and have been playing their consoles since 1985, but I think it's a stupid thing to patent though.
Whoa there tiger... no need to over do it!
All I ever needed was the edit command from the command prompt. Quite possibly the first multi-tabbed text editor around. (I say "quite possibly" because I really have no idea)
That was the best text editor I've ever used before I started working with TextPad.
Don't bother...
It got modded -2 flamebait and is below your threshold.
It's really a pointless article which can me summed up rather shortly: "L1nUX i5 t3h R0x0zrzrzrz, WiBlows B10w5!"
I fail to see what OSX has to do with a discussion on Linux.
If this were a BSD discussion I could see maybe some sort of connection.
or a judge...
Maybe he's just not happy with the direction the company has been heading.
Being a fan doesn't mean you have to agree and support everything they do.
Leo is primarily a mac/linux guy. That's what he prefers for his home systems anyway.
Windows just pays the bills.
Looks like the only person less intelligent than Dvorak is you.
Yeah, but you can buy a replacement cell phone battery and switch it yourself.
The iPod batteries lasted much shorter than they should've before needing replacement, and the charge for replacement was nearly the cost of the whole unit anyway.
People are made because the got the iShaft.
I have 8e6 R3000 and work and yes it does block that too.
Although babelfish is open for me to use.
What's even less special is that it's only 2 hard drives.
Dear Chrispy1000000 the 2,
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I humbly request that you provide me with a list of guidelines so that, in the future, I may be held to the same high standards at which you yourself post. I now realize that I should have thought out far in advance your reaction to how you could've misinterpreted what I had written and altered my posting to meet your requirements. I'd hate to think that I'd somehow failed to meet the approval of some rude stranger on the Internet.
Indeed... it was in the style of the kahn scream.
Google has ordered it's PR staff to decline any interviews from /. editors...
{emote=scream style=Kahn}Googleeeeeeeeeeeeeee!{/emote}
You know it was coming.
Btw, nice Stewart style there.
I think the complaints are mostly because google isn't the small underdog anymore. Nobody likes a leader.
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
Those guys were awarded their wings from the FAA, not NASA.
Whole different story there.
Those were awarded by the FAA, not NASA.
From all that I've read on the news lately, it looks like the various variants are battle each other... so they may be keeping their own numbers down.
That's why I never take my own car through it :)
"Um...a UPS? Or small personal generator? An inverter hooked up through your car (I actually used this once for temporary power when the power was out in my house, in conjunction with a long extension cable, because I couldn't find a wired phone). All you have to do is think outside the box, and you could easily have power to your router/modem during an outage for quite some time."
I didn't imply that it was impossible to get power. More that it's impractical. UPS's only last so long, a generator would be ideal, but they're not as common in your average house. Even with a generator, I would be focusing my energy on lighting and food storage as opposed to checking weather.com or cnn.com. I know the news I need to hear... I'm in the middle of it. Preserving food and providing light are more important.
You could use a car, but not everybody has a power inverter or a car for that matter (think New York City). And either way you'll then need to be running some wires, which may or may not be feasible in the situation.
Sidenote: the expression "thinking outside the box" has lost all implications of creativity. All it means now is that you subscribe to the corporate mindset.
"But I think that the most significant hurdle to all of these broadband technologies is keeping the network running even in a disaster like an earthquake or hurricane. Power lines fall down, are torn off the poles by falling trees, and generally succumb to events that they should not encounter everyday. In a lot of places, power lines are run underground, which gives them added protection from above-ground disasters.
Phone lines, too, are affected by such disasters, though in many places the lines are laid under the earth. However, in a large earthquake like is expected in the Bay Area, shifting land could easily sever those lines, stranding thousands of people."
If you don't have power, it's unlikely you'll be able to use your computer. And if you have a laptop, what is powering your wireless router?
Besides, if there's a major earthquake or something, I think internet connection should be pretty low on your list of priorities.
Well spoken!
Although I'd have to say that, if there is a god, he'd probably have something better than a hammer and chisel... probably some kinda... god tool.
I don't believe in god, but a god tool would totally rock!