Thanks stonecypher for Adv Civ's history. Yes I messed between about Adv Civ and Civ Adv. I was, as you indicated, talking about Adv Civ. I specified Avalon Hill in my post, so it was obvious I wasn't talking about Meier's!
You're asking to "mod me down". Why?! I believe, and so does some modders, that my comments about why I love the Adv Civ can be interesting to some.
Civilization (Avalon Hill) is really the only boardgame I'll play with my limited time redirected to games (with some Go). Here's why:
- Almost no luck at all involved, yes this is important - It is not exponential: the more you lose, the more the game mechanics makes you win, the more you win, the more the game makes you lose. So you have to be wise in balancing your civilization and adapt yourself to other player's styles -You can win without fighting, playing peacefully, you can win through religion, of course you can with with force, etc. There is plenty ways to manage your civilization and they can all be good.
Only cons is that it is a long game, 7-10 hours. It almost can't be found anymore. Like another poster said, Civ Adv is 200$+ on eBay!!
Also: bu sure to play Civilization Advanced, since the "advanced" fixes important flaws of the game and is way improved....happy gaming !:-)
Interesting trick, but after hours of trackpad pat (ok, a few minutes;-), I can't sucessfully do it on the first gen iBook G4. No matter the timing between fingers.
Anyone seriously wanting to know more about eschatology (Us and the End of the Universe : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology) should read Tipler's Physics of Immortality.
This was previously discussed on this
Slashdot story. Also of interest is this announcement:
Apple announced their financial results for the fourth quarter today,
reporting a profit of $295M, or $0.70 per share. They shipped 4.58M
iPods, an increase of 525 % over the year ago quarter. But more
surprisingly, Apple CPU sales were up 26% themselves over the year ago
quarter. Over 1,046,000 Macs went found their way into customer's hands
in the quarter.
See http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jan/12results.html
After reading comments from the other/. story discussing the Mac Mini, I believe this Mac Mini is doomed for a **huge** success. Good for competition. Good for everyone:-)
Great to hear:-) Concerning Venezuela's ability make their own choices, The Economist has an interesting article today about Venezuela having forged new major oil contracts with China (I admit it has no immediate relation with open source, but hey, it -is- two great news for their ability to be free:-).
"PlanetMath is a virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively: the main feature is the mathematics encyclopedia with entries written and reviewed by members. The entries are contributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) in order to preserve the rights of both the authors and readers in a sensible way."
These words are probably useless, too
many comments already (/. suffering from its own success). Anyway, there
goes some links I have not seen yet in the threads.
Probably much more interesting links. I *really* liked B5. It helped me
see things differently and actively participated in my "growing up". I published a Babylon 5 book of quotes if you're interested.
Like many others, I fear a movie won't be good enough. One of the
strengths of B5 was telling a story over countless episodes, not only 2
hours. Time will say.
"We create the future, with our words, our deeds and with our beliefs"
- Lady Ladira, B5: "Signs and Portents"
I love APOD. I go there daily. My main problem with APOD is the mass reusing of pictures without any way of knowing if the "picture of the day" is a duplicate or not.
Yes I tried contacting the APOD maintainers as indicated in this previous APOD
slashdot story:-)
This page is
one place to learn more. It's Jonathan's Space Report, a reference
monthly newsletter from a guy working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics.
It tells us FSW 20 - The FSW
recoverable satellite launched by China on Sep 27 returned to Earth at 0248 UTC on Oct 15, falling
through the roof of a house in the village of Penglai, Sichuan province
I rather care about Apple giving the best computer-experience available
right now. But if they have a healthy business strategy, great for
competition and the consumers. Great news then !
I tried to make them add a way to know on the APOD's website when an image is a repost or not, but got no answer. I guess they may want us to believe every day they have a *new* picture, which is actually not the case.
You're right! Thanks. Auto Update only shows if the app is *directly* in the application folder. I guess this applies to other Apple apps.
Hope this behavior will change in the next OS versions. This is anoying if you want the regroup keynote files (the app and additionnal templates) or Garageband files (the app and demo songs) in the same folder, etc.
Of very related interest is http://vterrain.org , a great open source terrain modelling. It uses remote sensing and geomatics data. It is also related to http://www.openplans.org/, the Open Planning project.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Page_s ize . I was
rather talking about "Article sizes", not multimedia files. Sorry for
the confusion. This said, Wikipedia is limited (as of today) by the
maximum size of articles and the format of articles.
Wiki is great. I mean *GREAT*. But it has limitations. Such as the file
size for every entry.
I discovered this when I wanted to put on wiki my list of Earth Observation Remote
Sensing Satellites. Such spreadsheets are NOT wiki-friendly. This,
hopefully, will change with time.
Well, ok, not only solar energy, better than this actually. The Renewable Energy Magazine is a great resource in the domain. It is also free providing you work with renewable resources. I have been reading this magazine for a year and learned so much on renewable energies. Worthed. See http://www.jxj.com/magsandj/rew/index.html
Wow. A free B5 game. Too bad it's only for windows.
For B5 fans like me:-) Numerous Great Babylon 5 quotes right
here in a pdf. I even published a book, in french
however, including these quotes and many more.
"[...] and as a result, we spend too much time trying to be serious, as
if that
proves that we are more enlightened, better than everyone else. But we
can't
be free until we learn to laugh about ourselves, once we look in the
mirror
and see just how foolish we can be, laughter is inevitable and from
laughter
comes wisdom"
- G'Kar, B5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
Slashdot Mirror
You're asking to "mod me down". Why?! I believe, and so does some modders, that my comments about why I love the Adv Civ can be interesting to some.
Overreacting?
- Almost no luck at all involved, yes this is important
- It is not exponential: the more you lose, the more the game mechanics makes you win, the more you win, the more the game makes you lose. So you have to be wise in balancing your civilization and adapt yourself to other player's styles
-You can win without fighting, playing peacefully, you can win through religion, of course you can with with force, etc. There is plenty ways to manage your civilization and they can all be good.
Only cons is that it is a long game, 7-10 hours. It almost can't be found anymore. Like another poster said, Civ Adv is 200$+ on eBay!!
Also: bu sure to play Civilization Advanced, since the "advanced" fixes important flaws of the game and is way improved. ...happy gaming ! :-)
Too bad :-)
Anyone seriously wanting to know more about eschatology (Us and the End of the Universe : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology) should read Tipler's Physics of Immortality.
A great read about us, AI, evolution and physics.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/tipler.html
This was previously discussed on this Slashdot story. Also of interest is this announcement :
s .html
/. story discussing the Mac Mini, I believe this Mac Mini is doomed for a **huge** success. Good for competition. Good for everyone :-)
Apple announced their financial results for the fourth quarter today, reporting a profit of $295M, or $0.70 per share. They shipped 4.58M iPods, an increase of 525 % over the year ago quarter. But more surprisingly, Apple CPU sales were up 26% themselves over the year ago quarter. Over 1,046,000 Macs went found their way into customer's hands in the quarter.
See http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jan/12result
After reading comments from the other
Always interesting how someone, in this case Chavez or Castro, can be seen as a Good Guy and as a Bad Guy, depending on whom you ask...
They say the first casualty of war is the Truth. This applies when talking of software FUD wars as well as politics...
Great to hear :-) :-).
d =3521240
Concerning Venezuela's ability make their own choices, The Economist has an interesting article today about Venezuela having forged new major oil contracts with China (I admit it has no immediate relation with open source, but hey, it -is- two great news for their ability to be free
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_i
There has been a major security issue with Slashcode revealed this week. See http://www.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/20/1 946225. I hope today's Slashdot troubles are not related to this...
There is a huge difference, in the long run, between "free of charge" and "open source". I choose open source :-)
I don't know about math.com, but there's
http://planetmath.org/
"PlanetMath is a virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively: the main feature is the mathematics encyclopedia with entries written and reviewed by members. The entries are contributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) in order to preserve the rights of both the authors and readers in a sensible way."
Well, Apple, not IBM. Yes it was supposed to be an MSOffice killer, the idea was *great*, but never really took off. Learn more by yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
The Lurker's Guide (already in the threads)
B5 quotes
More quotes
I Found Her - Free great B5 game (worthed a look)
Probably much more interesting links. I *really* liked B5. It helped me see things differently and actively participated in my "growing up". I published a Babylon 5 book of quotes if you're interested. Like many others, I fear a movie won't be good enough. One of the strengths of B5 was telling a story over countless episodes, not only 2 hours. Time will say.
"We create the future, with our words, our deeds and with our beliefs"
- Lady Ladira, B5: "Signs and Portents"
I love APOD. I go there daily. My main problem with APOD is the mass reusing of pictures without any way of knowing if the "picture of the day" is a duplicate or not.
:-)
Yes I tried contacting the APOD maintainers as indicated in this previous APOD slashdot story
This page is one place to learn more. It's Jonathan's Space Report, a reference monthly newsletter from a guy working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
It tells us FSW 20 - The FSW recoverable satellite launched by China on Sep 27 returned to Earth at 0248 UTC on Oct 15, falling through the roof of a house in the village of Penglai, Sichuan province
I rather care about Apple giving the best computer-experience available right now. But if they have a healthy business strategy, great for competition and the consumers. Great news then !
Time wasters... yup ! :-) But don't
waste your money !! Take a look at the open source ToME: Troubles of
Middle-Earth. It's based on Angband. It
also has a Multiplayer
Online version, but not as mature as the single player mode.
Damn right. The good guys at APOD *often* do reposts of the picture of the day.
d /apod_search?earth+at+night
Proof:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apo
I tried to make them add a way to know on the APOD's website when an image is a repost or not, but got no answer. I guess they may want us to believe every day they have a *new* picture, which is actually not the case.
You're right! Thanks. Auto Update only shows if the app is *directly* in the application folder. I guess this applies to other Apple apps.
Hope this behavior will change in the next OS versions. This is anoying if you want the regroup keynote files (the app and additionnal templates) or Garageband files (the app and demo songs) in the same folder, etc.
Of very related interest is http://vterrain.org , a great open source terrain modelling. It uses remote sensing and geomatics data. It is also related to http://www.openplans.org/, the Open Planning project.
To those interested in this "new economy" ; you might be interested in The Economist free newletters. They're great summaries.
http://www.economist.com/email/
No one mentionned this ?
Ad-blocking with Mozilla is GREAT. See http://adblock.mozdev.org/
It even works with Slashdot ads....
Thanks Jon,
s ize . I was
rather talking about "Article sizes", not multimedia files. Sorry for
the confusion. This said, Wikipedia is limited (as of today) by the
maximum size of articles and the format of articles.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Page_
Wiki is great. I mean *GREAT*. But it has limitations. Such as the file size for every entry.
I discovered this when I wanted to put on wiki my list of Earth Observation Remote Sensing Satellites. Such spreadsheets are NOT wiki-friendly. This, hopefully, will change with time.
Well, ok, not only solar energy, better than this actually. The Renewable Energy Magazine is a great resource in the domain. It is also free providing you work with renewable resources. I have been reading this magazine for a year and learned so much on renewable energies. Worthed. See http://www.jxj.com/magsandj/rew/index.html
Wow. A free B5 game. Too bad it's only for windows.
:-) Numerous Great Babylon 5 quotes right
here in a pdf. I even published a book, in french
however, including these quotes and many more.
For B5 fans like me
"[...] and as a result, we spend too much time trying to be serious, as if that proves that we are more enlightened, better than everyone else. But we can't be free until we learn to laugh about ourselves, once we look in the mirror and see just how foolish we can be, laughter is inevitable and from laughter comes wisdom"
- G'Kar, B5:"Meditations on the Abyss"