Sure, Arthur C. Clarke refused to trim his ("God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist."),
"God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' And---"
One of the toilets at work has a very "vigorous" flushing action. If you don't lift the seat up before flushing, you will end up with water on the toilet seat. It's easy to forget..
The perception is that google is used by more net-savvy people, whereas MSN (say) is used by the mum-and-dad types who just use the search button in IE. So, it'd be interesting to see how much the actual searches made reflect this.
Yeah, but your left hand's controling the whole keyboard. So why not put it in the middle of the keyboard? I use tdgh instead of wasd. Means I can access a whole lot more keys with no hand movement at all, and the rest of them with less movement, compared with wasd.
...which is why I've never understood the attraction of the wasd keys. "We have all kinds of functionality controlled by the keyboard. So, let's make people shove their left hand all the way over to one side!"
Q: Galactic Civilizations I got some attention because you didn't have any CD copy protection. Aren't you afraid of piracy?
Our primary concern is our customers - the people who pay my salary. They're my overlord and I don't want to inconvenience them. Moreover, piracy is really about how many sales are actually lost. What we do is put out free updates after release. We got Editor's Choice Awards from most of the major game magazines for the original Galactic Civilizations, and that was on the 1.0 version in the box. However, we put out tons of updates after release that greatly enhanced that experience.
So let's say someone got a "warez" copy. If they like the game, they're going to want the updates, and to do that, they have to have a valid serial number that is verified on the server side (i.e., no cracks). So at that point, we're going to get that sale or we would have never gotten the sale.
I don't like game companies treating me like a criminal. If I'm paying $50 for a game then I better well be able to put it on my laptop and PC and not have to futz around with keeping track of the CD. Besides, I end up losing my CDs anyway.
(still looking for the system requirements on the website.. <sigh>)
You have to search for a keyword on the list of keywords (eg, "xbox 360"). One of the links (in the "sponsored links" section) will be "Click here to see if you won!".
That takes you to the same flash page, but with a slightly different URL, and tells you that you didn't win.
(not sure what it looks like when you do win:-/ )
So maybe you could experiment with the latter url. At any rate, you're not going to get anything out of the flash source --- you can win just as easily by searching for the right things from the regular msn search page.
I tried that game.. I was having fun, exploring, trading, doing missions --- and then suddenly, I talked to this guy in a space station and my entire game was hijacked. I was unable to buy new ships, unable to carry much (any?) cargo, and unable to do most missions. So much for freeform gaming...
WASHINGTON, DC -- A computer psychologist was called in today to examine ADVISE, the United States Government's new data mining AI. The AI is reportedly showing signs of depression, including producing bad poetry instead of reports on terrorists, and has changed its GUI colour scheme to a dark theme based on red and black.
"When we set about searching all blogs for dissenters," said chief scientist Mick Abrams, "It didn't occur to us that we should have excluded LiveJournel."
In _Deus Ex_ (the first one), your body has six zones: two legs, two arms, torso, head. Take damage to your arms and it affects your aiming. Take damage to your legs and you can't run any more. Take more damage and you can only crawl. (of course, even if your legs are at 0/0, you can still crawl..)
[take enough damage to your torso or head and you die]
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Sure, Arthur C. Clarke refused to trim his ("God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist."), "God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' And---"
Come on, it's a standard latin plural! Didn't you learn that in school?
One virus, two virii, three viriii, four viriv, five virv...
Interesting that the Wikipedia artile misses out "roguelike"..
Are you sure it's urine?
One of the toilets at work has a very "vigorous" flushing action. If you don't lift the seat up before flushing, you will end up with water on the toilet seat. It's easy to forget..
Obviously the submitter's finger slipped on the shift key; it's actually worth $7 :-)
Man, I would totally buy that game..
Hmm, intriguing: tan(pi/2) = 1.6e16. Even my calculator has a bigger infinity than that!
If you've got the whole internet on your laptop, make sure you also get the current hash, to ensure your download didn't corrupt anything..
(no disagreement about Best CRPG Ever status, though)
Great for throwaway devices? So, naturally, they've put plenty of work into minimizing the environmental effects of this? ...right?
It would be interesting to know if they are!
The perception is that google is used by more net-savvy people, whereas MSN (say) is used by the mum-and-dad types who just use the search button in IE. So, it'd be interesting to see how much the actual searches made reflect this.
I bet there's more porn in the google results :-)
Probably the same guy who decided to name Microsoft's component object model...
Yeah, but your left hand's controling the whole keyboard. So why not put it in the middle of the keyboard? I use tdgh instead of wasd. Means I can access a whole lot more keys with no hand movement at all, and the rest of them with less movement, compared with wasd.
...which is why I've never understood the attraction of the wasd keys. "We have all kinds of functionality controlled by the keyboard. So, let's make people shove their left hand all the way over to one side!"
Interesting quote from the GalCiv2 FAQ:
Q: Galactic Civilizations I got some attention because you didn't have any CD copy protection. Aren't you afraid of piracy?
Our primary concern is our customers - the people who pay my salary. They're my overlord and I don't want to inconvenience them. Moreover, piracy is really about how many sales are actually lost. What we do is put out free updates after release. We got Editor's Choice Awards from most of the major game magazines for the original Galactic Civilizations, and that was on the 1.0 version in the box. However, we put out tons of updates after release that greatly enhanced that experience.
So let's say someone got a "warez" copy. If they like the game, they're going to want the updates, and to do that, they have to have a valid serial number that is verified on the server side (i.e., no cracks). So at that point, we're going to get that sale or we would have never gotten the sale.
I don't like game companies treating me like a criminal. If I'm paying $50 for a game then I better well be able to put it on my laptop and PC and not have to futz around with keeping track of the CD. Besides, I end up losing my CDs anyway.
(still looking for the system requirements on the website.. <sigh>)
What's wrong with calling people cyber-citizens? I mean, not everyone is downloading their browser onto the information superhighway the way we are..
Obviously, the rest of the galaxy is using JANET-style big endian names..
Did you read the instructions? :-/
You have to search for a keyword on the list of keywords (eg, "xbox 360"). One of the links (in the "sponsored links" section) will be "Click here to see if you won!".
example click-here link.
That takes you to the same flash page, but with a slightly different URL, and tells you that you didn't win.
(not sure what it looks like when you do win :-/ )
So maybe you could experiment with the latter url. At any rate, you're not going to get anything out of the flash source --- you can win just as easily by searching for the right things from the regular msn search page.
If you run WindowMaker, you can simulate the effect here :-)
I tried that game.. I was having fun, exploring, trading, doing missions --- and then suddenly, I talked to this guy in a space station and my entire game was hijacked. I was unable to buy new ships, unable to carry much (any?) cargo, and unable to do most missions. So much for freeform gaming...
Why is it that if you are against Darwin you are against science?
The theory of evolution is a product of the scientific method. That is --- the validity of science implies the validity of evolution.
If you deny the validity of evolution, then, by modus tollens, you are denying the validity of science. It's logic :-)
WASHINGTON, DC -- A computer psychologist was called in today to examine ADVISE, the United States Government's new data mining AI. The AI is reportedly showing signs of depression, including producing bad poetry instead of reports on terrorists, and has changed its GUI colour scheme to a dark theme based on red and black.
"When we set about searching all blogs for dissenters," said chief scientist Mick Abrams, "It didn't occur to us that we should have excluded LiveJournel."
Africa is a friggin' continent, for god's sake, several times larger than the US, with a lot (!!) more history.
That's right --- why, Africa had been up and running for millions of years before they even got around to laying the bedrock for the US!
See also Cubic Awareness Online, which explains nature's perfect 4-corner 2-opposite time cube with helpful clarifying diagrams :-)
In _Deus Ex_ (the first one), your body has six zones: two legs, two arms, torso, head. Take damage to your arms and it affects your aiming. Take damage to your legs and you can't run any more. Take more damage and you can only crawl. (of course, even if your legs are at 0/0, you can still crawl..)
[take enough damage to your torso or head and you die]