my pet bug, been waiting for over two years for someone to rename a symlink, currently the system hangs on shutdown / reboot (very annoying on the desktop, you'll need to call tech support on a server)
I can play Sins without needing the disc. Without shitware being installed on my system. Without a company that knows better treating me like a goddamned thief.
This is also one of the reasons I bought world of goo (the other reasons being that it's one of the most fun games I've played in years, and that paying for the windows version will give you access to the linux one when it comes out of beta \o/)
"Every soul shall have the taste of death, all that is on earth will perish."
Every post so far has concentrated on it being removed to appease the muslims, but maybe they just removed it because it's f'ing creepy, and this is supposed to be a kid's game?
Yes, and yes. Admittedly I design for standards and look fine everywhere except IE, then spend an extra 10% of my time on IE specific hacks, but its not *that* hard~
I'm not sure whether to be happy, because desktop linux is simple to the point where building from source is considered unusual and hard; or sad, because I'm hearing this from people who are supposed to be geeks...
When they don't work with the tools (various browsers).
Who said they don't?
If the choice was code for one browser, or code for none, then one would be better; but you seem to be missing the option of "code to standards and look right everywhere"
It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious'
Equally profound: can a submarine swim?
I'm with dijkstra - who cares? At best, it's a question of semantics, based on how we define swimming - and the question of AI is even more silly, since we haven't defined consciousness properly in the first place...
Reading through the first conversation, I thought "This is obviously a bot, and not even a very good one -- I've had more convincing conversations with the emacs doctor!"...
OK; and I'll write a e-mail to the boss telling him that he's an asshole but preface it by saying "using this information to terminate, or demote or deny employment or other opportunities may result in legal action."
Protip: When you invent a new "anonymous" identity, don't mix it with your regular one -- even if they hadn't just clicked the link to your profile, and instead started with *only* the name, sticking that name into google gives your slashdot user page as first hit:P
Somewhat on a tangent, but thinking back to why I liked the first so much, one of the things that comes to mind is the number of completely optional areas, each of which has just as much detail as the necessary parts. Things like the MJ12 base in the sewers, the flooded tunnel, the prototype AI...
My other favourite game, FFVII, was very similar -- you could reach the credits in under 20 hours, but even after playing for so long that the in-game timer ran out of digits, I was still finding new bits.
I wonder if this is actually a secret to making an awesome game? If you have an optional huge, high quality stealth bit, an optional puzzle bit, an optional run & gun bit, optional snippets of background story all over the place, etc; people will pick & mix and "complete" the game while actually only having played the 20% of the content which particularly appeals to them~
stress and worry when I am supposed to be enjoying myself
When you play tetris, do you play the variant with only one column, and all your blocks are 1x1?:P
Stress and worry are very enjoyable, when you overcome them. Where's the enjoyment in getting to the end of a game with zero challenge?
I found the specialisation aspects of DX1 to be one of my favourite parts, as it allowed me to play the game according to my own personality (making use of stealth and gadgets); then once I'd done that a couple of times, trying different approaches (athlete, heavy weapons spec) had very different experiences. An important difference between DX and real life is that if you don't like your choice of specialisation in DX, you can start over and choose a different one~
Can't they let him off on the basis that the initial evidence was found illegally, and then on the basis that a cop saw him with illegal stuff, get a legal warrant, search him a second time, and arrest him for the second results?
Another example would be a different post in this thread speculating that men were better programmers because they were "wired" to be bigger risk takers (huh?)
Not "men are better", but "men are more extreme, so they tend to end up right at the top (see this list) and right at the bottom (see The Daily WTF)"
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Parent was modded funny due to wishful thinking typo: "wither away" should have been "flourish"...
my pet bug, been waiting for over two years for someone to rename a symlink, currently the system hangs on shutdown / reboot (very annoying on the desktop, you'll need to call tech support on a server)
Unfortunately, that may not be an option, depending on where you live...
England :-(
I can play Sins without needing the disc. Without shitware being installed on my system. Without a company that knows better treating me like a goddamned thief.
This is also one of the reasons I bought world of goo (the other reasons being that it's one of the most fun games I've played in years, and that paying for the windows version will give you access to the linux one when it comes out of beta \o/)
Yes. You do know that they have computers outside america, right?
(And even if the language isn't understood, that only makes it slightly less creepy IMHO)
"Every soul shall have the taste of death, all that is on earth will perish."
Every post so far has concentrated on it being removed to appease the muslims, but maybe they just removed it because it's f'ing creepy, and this is supposed to be a kid's game?
When an game is sold $60, it is sold here in Europe for 60 Euro.
Or in the UK for £60 = 70eur = $120 :(
And no, compiling from svn doesn't count, especially given the number of components / dependencies
Dependencies are minimal, it's designed to run anywhere. The components can be downloaded and built with a simple shell script
I may have had time to dork with that when I was in college, but not now...
You're on slashdot, you have free time :P
Blackbox seems to be using all of 4MBs of RAM here, and next to no CPU time. With a 3MB binary, that's not surprising.
E17 is using 12MB here, no cpu time, with a 1.1MB binary :P
Yes, and yes. Admittedly I design for standards and look fine everywhere except IE, then spend an extra 10% of my time on IE specific hacks, but its not *that* hard~
The repository is here, it works fine.
I'm not sure whether to be happy, because desktop linux is simple to the point where building from source is considered unusual and hard; or sad, because I'm hearing this from people who are supposed to be geeks...
That's not an HTML error, it's a small artifact that comes from hiding the secret message :)
When they don't work with the tools (various browsers).
Who said they don't?
If the choice was code for one browser, or code for none, then one would be better; but you seem to be missing the option of "code to standards and look right everywhere"
That looks like an angry OAP; For real bad-assery, you really need a truck
It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious'
Equally profound: can a submarine swim?
I'm with dijkstra - who cares? At best, it's a question of semantics, based on how we define swimming - and the question of AI is even more silly, since we haven't defined consciousness properly in the first place...
Reading through the first conversation, I thought "This is obviously a bot, and not even a very good one -- I've had more convincing conversations with the emacs doctor!"...
OK; and I'll write a e-mail to the boss telling him that he's an asshole but preface it by saying "using this information to terminate, or demote or deny employment or other opportunities may result in legal action."
It sure will.
The legal action of you getting fired :-P
Protip: When you invent a new "anonymous" identity, don't mix it with your regular one -- even if they hadn't just clicked the link to your profile, and instead started with *only* the name, sticking that name into google gives your slashdot user page as first hit :P
Somewhat on a tangent, but thinking back to why I liked the first so much, one of the things that comes to mind is the number of completely optional areas, each of which has just as much detail as the necessary parts. Things like the MJ12 base in the sewers, the flooded tunnel, the prototype AI...
My other favourite game, FFVII, was very similar -- you could reach the credits in under 20 hours, but even after playing for so long that the in-game timer ran out of digits, I was still finding new bits.
I wonder if this is actually a secret to making an awesome game? If you have an optional huge, high quality stealth bit, an optional puzzle bit, an optional run & gun bit, optional snippets of background story all over the place, etc; people will pick & mix and "complete" the game while actually only having played the 20% of the content which particularly appeals to them~
stress and worry when I am supposed to be enjoying myself
When you play tetris, do you play the variant with only one column, and all your blocks are 1x1? :P
Stress and worry are very enjoyable, when you overcome them. Where's the enjoyment in getting to the end of a game with zero challenge?
I found the specialisation aspects of DX1 to be one of my favourite parts, as it allowed me to play the game according to my own personality (making use of stealth and gadgets); then once I'd done that a couple of times, trying different approaches (athlete, heavy weapons spec) had very different experiences. An important difference between DX and real life is that if you don't like your choice of specialisation in DX, you can start over and choose a different one~
Can't they let him off on the basis that the initial evidence was found illegally, and then on the basis that a cop saw him with illegal stuff, get a legal warrant, search him a second time, and arrest him for the second results?
Over here in the UK our ISPs boast of their massive 15GB caps :(
Another example would be a different post in this thread speculating that men were better programmers because they were "wired" to be bigger risk takers (huh?)
Not "men are better", but "men are more extreme, so they tend to end up right at the top (see this list) and right at the bottom (see The Daily WTF)"
What about those of us who have a need for a good database on a good OS, and need it now?
If you want your software to run on multiple Linxen, you need to make it open and let the distros compile it and build the packages. That's it.
Or use Java :-)
*ducks*