I find nighttime TV (~11pm to ~6am) better than daytime TV (~7am to ~4pm) anymore. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim is decent much of the night, depending on how much you like their shows. Now there's Netflix and the like too.
This was late 80s, early 90s. Tom Vu was the best thing on TV at that hour.
Night shifts working in the old "cold room" computer rooms was an awesome job as a university student. In a average twelve-hour shift, there was maybe six hours of work if you really stretched things and did a little extra. Yeah, there were the panicky emergency nights where you're literally running around fixing stuff, but on average there was six hours of time to fill waiting for jobs to finish, printouts to print, and error messages to not pop up. Nighttime TV sucks. Nighttime radio sucks. There wasn't always studying to do or a paper to write. And couldn't be out of the room for longer than a longish bathroom break length of time (5 minutes maybe) just in case a problem happened. That meant plenty of time to:
- Chair race with the security guard around the cold room floor. Excellent rolling surface! Avoid the giant vaxen and Big Blue Monolith for higher score.
- Go for a walk up and down the stairs. Six flights! 14 stairs on each flight except between the 2nd and 3rd floor, where one flight had 13. Never worked that one out. Back to the room in under five minutes.
- Go down to the weight room, grab a couple dumbbells, bring them back up . Random dumbbell exercises in the room. Put them back in the weight room before the 5am fitness nutters come in.
- Sitting on an operating high speed line printer acts like one of those vibrate-the-weight-off machines. Okay, I never did that one, but female colleagues may have. Or my girlfriend. Allegedly.
Great job that I'm not sure even exists anymore. But I was the Buff Operator From Hell for those few years.
If I wrote a bitter submission to Slashdot every time a technology I learned and used became obsolete, this site would be called Tofinodot.
Learn HTML5 and move on.
If you are playing an MMORPG, your time is worthless. They are all insane time-sinks. Even a casual-friendly game like WoW where you can "just log in and out for short sessions" realistically takes close to an hour or so just to log in, check and relist auctions, do a couple of daily quests, mail off new loot to your mule, and say hi to friends. And that's just the daily-chore part of playing.
The wikipedia article indicates that people think the device was designed with compactness in mind. So why would you add the feature of calculating when 4 years had passed? It's already keeping track of the months, so couldn't you just count them as they went past? Did I miss something?
You've clearly never developed software for salespeople.
Like many others posting here, I've gone through the same ennui. I chose to stick with the profession I am quite good at and attempt to make a positive difference in the workplace as much as possible. I truly enjoy a lot of other things in life a lot more than I enjoy my job, but it's certainly more reasonable to expect to make some good cash in IT than it is running a farm or cooking, which would be my other two choices. Still, you only go through once, and you can take as long as you want to make decisions. My mum at age 48 went back to school to change careers -- ironically, to go into IT, a profession she enjoyed until she retired.
If you view the game as a single-person game, your points are valid. For many, the interesting part of the game is to see how larger groups interact either against other players or against the whacky encounters that the game throws at them. To participate in the most interesting of these interactions, you need to be maximum level, which means grinding a character there. And to some, this is no fun, so bots get brought out.
Bots are excellent at playing the rote monster-mashing levelling game, and not very good at all (yet) at teaming up with others or engaging in complex encounters.
It's irrelevant to the rights part of the discussion, but there's a segment of the adult population that can hear these sounds. We tested this out during a family party at my house last year: all the kids (oldest there was 14) could hear it, but only two adults could. (We blind-tested with someone clicking on either desktop or "play" while listener backs were turned.) I was one of them, at 36, and can also hear when a TV is turned on but not tuned to anything, and I've learned most folks can't.
Went down with my family on a shopping/relaxing weekend to Seattle back in the late 70s. The hotel vending machine room also had two pinball machines and some odd thingy called Space Invaders. My dad was gobsmacked and fed quarter after quarter into that thing for me (age 7-8) and my brother (age 4-5) all weekend while my mum headed to the Southcenter Mall to shop. Happy times.
Is the Elder Scrolls story an epic saga that continues through all the sequels, or is each game completely stand-alone? Obviously the "same world" is used, unlike, say, the Final Fantasy series, but do the storylines of the previous "episodes" affect the new games?
What about the ending to Ultima 9 or was it 10? The 3d one, Ascention. After playing tons of Ultima games and going through decades of well-written Avatar adventures, we get... a 45 second techno song.
Anyone who originally owned an NES is unlikely to be young enough to pass even 10s in In The Groove. This has nothing to do with gaming skill and everything to do with the likelihood of being physically fit and agile enough in one's 30s and beyond. I'm 34 with two fake hips and unlikely to pass PSM Oni on DDR or even many 10s (higher forget it) on ITG, but I can kick the crap out of anything requiring a controller or on my MAME cabinet:).
Frostfell is a Turbine trademark, being used in Asheron's Call as a server and a season name. Sure, nobody really plays AC anymore (this is AC1, not the AC2 that closed down, but give it time, yes, yes), but surely:).
On the other hand, consider that not only does SOE have ridiculously better lawyers than poor ol' Turbine, but SOE also does all of Turbine's distribution. I would predict a sea of quiet on this 'un.
I noticed on my commute to work the other day that there was a ridiculous, even offensive number of advertisements all over the place on the way. The roads are littered with ads, on highwayside billboards, roadside billboards, sandwich signs outside stores, and even gaudy storefronts themselves. Surely legal graffiti (meaning: the space was paid for, so it's just like a billboard) is no less crass.
I finally came to understand that High Definition is really a marketing term and that anyone believing it is amazing has sold themselves out to big business. The truth is that HD resolution is lower than that of what you'll find on many computer screens.
Um, yeah, and how exactly is this "selling yourself out to big business"? HD isn't used to describe computer monitors. It's used to describe TELEVISIONS. He can't seriously be suggesting that HD is all marketing fluff, and there's no difference in resolution between a regular SD TV and a HDTV.
It's an indie game guy reviewing indie games. As sure as all indie music mags and small publisher software plugs must mention "$ony" or "micro$oft", all indie reviews of any sort must include at least one reference to selling out to The Man.
Look, MIT. People eat fatty foods because fatty foods are extremely convenient, cheap, and taste pretty good. People gamble because they either enjoy the games or have whacky dreams of hitting it big or winning back their losses. People smoke because it tastes damn good with a beer or a cup of coffee, and for the slight nicotine high. Why does everything need to be a new Theory Of Addiction?
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Go for a walk up and down the stairs. Six flights! 14 stairs on each flight except between the 2nd and 3rd floor, where one flight had 13.
The fact that you know how many stairs there are just shows how boring the job must have been.
Yup. The point.
Nighttime TV sucks.
I find nighttime TV (~11pm to ~6am) better than daytime TV (~7am to ~4pm) anymore. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim is decent much of the night, depending on how much you like their shows. Now there's Netflix and the like too.
This was late 80s, early 90s. Tom Vu was the best thing on TV at that hour.
Night shifts working in the old "cold room" computer rooms was an awesome job as a university student. In a average twelve-hour shift, there was maybe six hours of work if you really stretched things and did a little extra. Yeah, there were the panicky emergency nights where you're literally running around fixing stuff, but on average there was six hours of time to fill waiting for jobs to finish, printouts to print, and error messages to not pop up. Nighttime TV sucks. Nighttime radio sucks. There wasn't always studying to do or a paper to write. And couldn't be out of the room for longer than a longish bathroom break length of time (5 minutes maybe) just in case a problem happened. That meant plenty of time to:
Great job that I'm not sure even exists anymore. But I was the Buff Operator From Hell for those few years.
If I wrote a bitter submission to Slashdot every time a technology I learned and used became obsolete, this site would be called Tofinodot. Learn HTML5 and move on.
Laundry Woo, you say? I think George Formby sang about that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPSdpW3FN4w
All hands on deck: Swirly thing alert!
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
If you are playing an MMORPG, your time is worthless. They are all insane time-sinks. Even a casual-friendly game like WoW where you can "just log in and out for short sessions" realistically takes close to an hour or so just to log in, check and relist auctions, do a couple of daily quests, mail off new loot to your mule, and say hi to friends. And that's just the daily-chore part of playing.
The wikipedia article indicates that people think the device was designed with compactness in mind. So why would you add the feature of calculating when 4 years had passed? It's already keeping track of the months, so couldn't you just count them as they went past? Did I miss something?
You've clearly never developed software for salespeople.
This is one of the best posts I've read on /. in quite some time, and that's not damning by faint praise. Excellent.
Like many others posting here, I've gone through the same ennui. I chose to stick with the profession I am quite good at and attempt to make a positive difference in the workplace as much as possible. I truly enjoy a lot of other things in life a lot more than I enjoy my job, but it's certainly more reasonable to expect to make some good cash in IT than it is running a farm or cooking, which would be my other two choices. Still, you only go through once, and you can take as long as you want to make decisions. My mum at age 48 went back to school to change careers -- ironically, to go into IT, a profession she enjoyed until she retired.
Bots are excellent at playing the rote monster-mashing levelling game, and not very good at all (yet) at teaming up with others or engaging in complex encounters.
Worst superpower ever, really.
Went down with my family on a shopping/relaxing weekend to Seattle back in the late 70s. The hotel vending machine room also had two pinball machines and some odd thingy called Space Invaders. My dad was gobsmacked and fed quarter after quarter into that thing for me (age 7-8) and my brother (age 4-5) all weekend while my mum headed to the Southcenter Mall to shop. Happy times.
To take the left path, press RETURN.
To take the right path, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE #1.
This was indeed awesome!
FUNNIEST one word reply in /. history.
Is the Elder Scrolls story an epic saga that continues through all the sequels, or is each game completely stand-alone? Obviously the "same world" is used, unlike, say, the Final Fantasy series, but do the storylines of the previous "episodes" affect the new games?
What about the ending to Ultima 9 or was it 10? The 3d one, Ascention. After playing tons of Ultima games and going through decades of well-written Avatar adventures, we get... a 45 second techno song.
Anyone who originally owned an NES is unlikely to be young enough to pass even 10s in In The Groove. This has nothing to do with gaming skill and everything to do with the likelihood of being physically fit and agile enough in one's 30s and beyond. I'm 34 with two fake hips and unlikely to pass PSM Oni on DDR or even many 10s (higher forget it) on ITG, but I can kick the crap out of anything requiring a controller or on my MAME cabinet :).
On the other hand, consider that not only does SOE have ridiculously better lawyers than poor ol' Turbine, but SOE also does all of Turbine's distribution. I would predict a sea of quiet on this 'un.
I noticed on my commute to work the other day that there was a ridiculous, even offensive number of advertisements all over the place on the way. The roads are littered with ads, on highwayside billboards, roadside billboards, sandwich signs outside stores, and even gaudy storefronts themselves. Surely legal graffiti (meaning: the space was paid for, so it's just like a billboard) is no less crass.
Um, yeah, and how exactly is this "selling yourself out to big business"? HD isn't used to describe computer monitors. It's used to describe TELEVISIONS. He can't seriously be suggesting that HD is all marketing fluff, and there's no difference in resolution between a regular SD TV and a HDTV.
It's an indie game guy reviewing indie games. As sure as all indie music mags and small publisher software plugs must mention "$ony" or "micro$oft", all indie reviews of any sort must include at least one reference to selling out to The Man.
In the same vein, don't miss out on hoodyhoo.com.
Look, MIT. People eat fatty foods because fatty foods are extremely convenient, cheap, and taste pretty good. People gamble because they either enjoy the games or have whacky dreams of hitting it big or winning back their losses. People smoke because it tastes damn good with a beer or a cup of coffee, and for the slight nicotine high. Why does everything need to be a new Theory Of Addiction?