So how will they filter out all the people like me? Using foxylicious I use del.icio.us to handle all my bookmarks so I can access them everywhere. You'll have lots of tags that will look like Automobiles->Aircraft->Homebuilt->Airplanes. Which doesn't seem that hard to parse until you realize del.icio.us expects them to be space (" ") delimeted lists and that everyone will have different methods of sub categorizing (the default is a period, in that case you'd get Automobiles.Aircraft.Homebuilt.Airplanes).
In related news a local gas (petrol) station attendant was sued for providing directions.
"All the time people would come by and ask me how to get to the local motel. Now I have to tell them that there is no local motel. How' was I to expect the motel would sue me for telling them how to get there?"
That's a horrible solution. Some of us CAN remember our friend's and family's nicknames. The better solution is to do it like jabber and email do, name@domain.com This way everyone can have their prefered name and the number of possibilities are veritably endless.
I play all three of my UrbanDead characters every single day, and because of this I've come to one conclusion. Kevan just isn't a very good coder. It takes him weeks to implement simple game additions and there have some pretty horrible known bugs floating around out there. I mean christ... there was a buffer underflow bug that was happening when zeds would get headshot-ed and his solution was to say "if their AP is over a billion it must be zero". So now instead of adding a little code that'd be something like:
he's apparently checking XP on every page load and resetting it if it's huge. Ignoring the DB overhead this is just stupid. Not to mention that he shouldn't be using an Unsigned Integer in the DB anyhow... a Signed SmallInt is MORE than large enough and if it failed it'd fail a lot more gracefully (someone having -2 XP instead of 4,294,967,293). Even an Unsigned Integer would make more sense.
Take a look at the known bugs... they're mostly pathatic, the kind of mistakes amatuers make.
Theres also a lot of things the game should do that it doesn't. For instance sorting your inventory. Dozens of GreaseMonkey scripts and Firefox plugins have cropped up on the web to fix things that'd be trivial to implement on the server. Hell, I've written a number myself. I wish he'd OSS the project (even if the license didn't allow us to use it). I'd really like to help him get the game together. I'm tired of running 8 different GM scripts just to make it playable.
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
motor n.
Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion.
A device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power.
A motor vehicle, especially an automobile
When will people learn that the two are NOT interchangable? An engine is a type of motor, but a motor isn't a type of engine. Get it right people.
Recommendation: read everything you can get your hand on by Stephenson... except The Baroque Cycle... I got half way into the second one and wondered why I was still reading. Interesting, but painful.
I do agree though... Cryptonomicon is one of my all time favorite books.
Oh come on... you can't have everything. It's a loose sampling used to construct a top ten list. I'm just waiting for the what about H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, etc. Can you really complain if you didn't vote?
Oh please... who (who has had relationships) hasn't had several of them end? Am I to assume that you think the norm is to marry the first person you ever date?
While I'll agree with you in large part I won't agree with one thing (for this discussion)... an IT worker does not a "geek" make.
One of my EXes (yes... one of my EXes... I'm one of the/. people who can manage a relationship) husband (who is an "IT guy") had to have his (graphics designer) wife explain to him how HTML worked (I had this same conversation with her a few years ago... I straightened HER out as to why she needed to know how it worked).
My point is that IT_person != geek (or IT_person <> geek , if you prefer). Many IT people are MIS majors and don't know how to find their head from their tale and weren't here for the right reasons to begin with.
OS X could be made to run just fine on whatever machines they throw at it, I think.
of course it could... I'm running it on an old 266MHz G3 that is my "porch computer". It's a iMac with the following specs (according to LowEndMac):
CPU: 266 MHz PPC 750
RAM: 128 MB
VRAM: 6 MB SGRAM
Video: ATI Rage Pro Turbo
HDD: 6 GB EIDE drive
This machine, albeit really slow, runs along just fine. As long as I don't do anything really taxing it takes it in stride. If they can't do better than those specs then they ought to reconsider trying to make "full" computers.
It's worth mentioning (for the uninitiated) that the parent is refering to areas in and around Portland, OR. Intel's main campus is in one of the Portland suburbs. Some of the names they've used so far (off the top of my head):
Willamette - A river in Oregon. Runs north-south through Portland. Prescott - A city in Oregon. Also a major street in North and North East Portland. Madison - A street in Portland... not sure it it's much else... Tualatin - A sothern suburb of Portland. Also a street in Portland. McKinley - A city in Oregon.
Tillamook is a town in western Oregon known for it's cheese factory. ALSO a street in Portland:)
I'll whole-heartedly agree that it feels like he's just making stuff up at some points. When you're reading alsong and everything's going well them BAM you're in The Wizard of Oz it'a bit unsetteling.
I feel like he had a good enough epic tale to tell without gettin into modern-day mythos. I understand that he wrote what felt right at the time, but I feel like some of it wa cheapened by harking on topics we all know.
My argumnets being said... I'm looking forward to a comic and, hopefully, a 10+ hour movie (worked for LOTR)... it's a great story that deserves to reach anyone it can. I just hope it can be told faithfully...
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You'd get mod points if I had them... I was about to ask this question. Thanks.
Don't forget Apollo 1.
I'd recomend checking out the Prototype Framework. It make all of this transparent.
So how will they filter out all the people like me? Using foxylicious I use del.icio.us to handle all my bookmarks so I can access them everywhere. You'll have lots of tags that will look like Automobiles->Aircraft->Homebuilt->Airplanes. Which doesn't seem that hard to parse until you realize del.icio.us expects them to be space (" ") delimeted lists and that everyone will have different methods of sub categorizing (the default is a period, in that case you'd get Automobiles.Aircraft.Homebuilt.Airplanes).
There's now a torrent out there for pearLyric. You can find it here: http://v.sine.com/pearLyricsV0_6.dmg.torrent
In related news a local gas (petrol) station attendant was sued for providing directions. "All the time people would come by and ask me how to get to the local motel. Now I have to tell them that there is no local motel. How' was I to expect the motel would sue me for telling them how to get there?"
Are you kidding? You can see the rectangles around the ships where they spliced them in.
This is a battle that's been being waged for years.
That's a horrible solution. Some of us CAN remember our friend's and family's nicknames. The better solution is to do it like jabber and email do, name@domain.com This way everyone can have their prefered name and the number of possibilities are veritably endless.
Oh yeah... mayhap I wasn't clear enough. I love the game... I just wish he'd let us help him make it better.
Take a look at the known bugs... they're mostly pathatic, the kind of mistakes amatuers make.
Theres also a lot of things the game should do that it doesn't. For instance sorting your inventory. Dozens of GreaseMonkey scripts and Firefox plugins have cropped up on the web to fix things that'd be trivial to implement on the server. Hell, I've written a number myself. I wish he'd OSS the project (even if the license didn't allow us to use it). I'd really like to help him get the game together. I'm tired of running 8 different GM scripts just to make it playable.
When will people learn that the two are NOT interchangable? An engine is a type of motor, but a motor isn't a type of engine. Get it right people.
Great... So now not only do they want to kills us, but they know what we look like.
Recommendation: read everything you can get your hand on by Stephenson... except The Baroque Cycle... I got half way into the second one and wondered why I was still reading. Interesting, but painful.
I do agree though... Cryptonomicon is one of my all time favorite books.
Oh come on... you can't have everything. It's a loose sampling used to construct a top ten list. I'm just waiting for the what about H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, etc. Can you really complain if you didn't vote?
Shamelessly stolen from Chris in the original thread.
Oh please... who (who has had relationships) hasn't had several of them end? Am I to assume that you think the norm is to marry the first person you ever date?
Yeah you got it.
While I'll agree with you in large part I won't agree with one thing (for this discussion)... an IT worker does not a "geek" make.
/. people who can manage a relationship) husband (who is an "IT guy") had to have his (graphics designer) wife explain to him how HTML worked (I had this same conversation with her a few years ago... I straightened HER out as to why she needed to know how it worked).
One of my EXes (yes... one of my EXes... I'm one of the
My point is that IT_person != geek (or IT_person <> geek , if you prefer). Many IT people are MIS majors and don't know how to find their head from their tale and weren't here for the right reasons to begin with.
- CPU: 266 MHz PPC 750
- RAM: 128 MB
- VRAM: 6 MB SGRAM
- Video: ATI Rage Pro Turbo
- HDD: 6 GB EIDE drive
This machine, albeit really slow, runs along just fine. As long as I don't do anything really taxing it takes it in stride. If they can't do better than those specs then they ought to reconsider trying to make "full" computers.No way Dothan is in Alabama...
Aside from the joking around, thanks for the info... I wasn't too sure about some of those.
It's worth mentioning (for the uninitiated) that the parent is refering to areas in and around Portland, OR. Intel's main campus is in one of the Portland suburbs. Some of the names they've used so far (off the top of my head):
:)
Willamette - A river in Oregon. Runs north-south through Portland.
Prescott - A city in Oregon. Also a major street in North and North East Portland.
Madison - A street in Portland... not sure it it's much else...
Tualatin - A sothern suburb of Portland. Also a street in Portland.
McKinley - A city in Oregon.
Tillamook is a town in western Oregon known for it's cheese factory. ALSO a street in Portland
For all those lonely slashdotters out there, here's the official site on how you can move over there: British Embassy in the USA: Official UK Government website
I'll whole-heartedly agree that it feels like he's just making stuff up at some points. When you're reading alsong and everything's going well them BAM you're in The Wizard of Oz it'a bit unsetteling. I feel like he had a good enough epic tale to tell without gettin into modern-day mythos. I understand that he wrote what felt right at the time, but I feel like some of it wa cheapened by harking on topics we all know. My argumnets being said... I'm looking forward to a comic and, hopefully, a 10+ hour movie (worked for LOTR)... it's a great story that deserves to reach anyone it can. I just hope it can be told faithfully...