Yes if someone wants to really win the console war they'll do an updated version of Elite using Wii remote controls. I've still got a bone to pick with those Thargons.
It's VGA and yet it's still the most playable fantasty strategy game I've ever run across. In fact all they'd have to do is update the GUI and I'd buy it with the same game engine.
Don't Google have some weird T&C that means they can claim ownership of anything in your email account anyway? So really they are justing providing more space to leave them nice things to own.
D&D itself is under threat from MMORGs, however face to face roleplaying isn't. Why?
D&D, which I play and enjoy, is micro scale wargaming with a little roleplaying thrown in. Listening to two kids on the train on the way into work yesterday talk about playing a MMORG (maybe Everquest) I heard the same excitement in their voices about levels, uber weapons and collecting runes and potions that I had at that age when playing D&D. They have no need to play D&D.
More and more non-d20 based games are beginning to appear that emphasis communication, games like the The Dying Earth, My Life With Master and Pantheon. These games can't easily be played over the internet until cheap video conferencing arrives, and until then I'd say they will continue to be niche, but successful, games while 3.5e D&D fails to grow much more. Having said that there are millions of D&D players.
Could "Slow Glass" be coming? Bob Shaw wrote about glass that could slow down light so that it took years to pass through and the effects it had on society in his 1972 book Other Days, Other Eyes. Anyone interested in this stuff should hunt down a copy.
It seems odd that the two largest parking hosts switched away from IIS at roughly the same time, when they also changed to IIS around the same time too. Maybe Microsoft made them an IIS offer they couldn't refuse, but have since changed that policy.
Instructions: 1. Wear your best black Ninja gear 2. Creep into office of someone who signed the NDA (if you can find them) 3. Take a copy of the documents showing the so called 'stolen' code. 4. Post them on your anon website. 5. Get Slashdotted.
Go on, someone, be a hero and show us the code, we're all meant to be using illegally. There's turnips in it for you!
There is a company, Eludo, that does card-cd and scratch card based micropayment solutions, that you buy in shops using cash rather than over the web and credit. I think some of the european games companies and new media content providers are starting to use them.
I did some work with them on a canceled project last year, if I remember correctly it was better easy going from a techie point of view.
Once again China lags behind the west in technology. First it was taking so long over Red Flag Linux and now it is it's Echelon like abililty to trace SMS's. I wonder how long it will be before they use mobile phone chasing cruise missles like the US in Afghastan?
I don't entirely see what the fuss is all about. It doesn't mean you can't say what you like about someone, just that if they find out about it, you have to post their reply. A bit like Slash. It will not stop anonymous@cowards, slander, libel or anything like that (you only have to see the UK tabloids to see that)
Of course they'll need more IT professionals to administer it...
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Yes if someone wants to really win the console war they'll do an updated version of Elite using Wii remote controls. I've still got a bone to pick with those Thargons.
Now that surely is enough carrot to at least get them to Mars.
Mod parent up (I'm out of points)
You could look at joining GAMA (Games Manufacturers Association (of America)) http://www.gama.org/ or Move to Germany ;)
Flossy is a sheep and a dangerous one at that.
It's VGA and yet it's still the most playable fantasty strategy game I've ever run across. In fact all they'd have to do is update the GUI and I'd buy it with the same game engine.
Sorry, couldn't help it.
with, like, special days marked on it.
Yeah but you couldn't get the rights to the Silmarillion could you? So the game with get stuck in the 4th age also know as the really boring one.
So PC users are gonna have to do some fast leveling to autmomatically turn these Zombies, let lone destroy the.
Don't Google have some weird T&C that means they can claim ownership of anything in your email account anyway? So really they are justing providing more space to leave them nice things to own.
It's ok, I already patched it for you ;)
Sometimes I hate it when people are right.
D&D itself is under threat from MMORGs, however face to face roleplaying isn't. Why?
D&D, which I play and enjoy, is micro scale wargaming with a little roleplaying thrown in. Listening to two kids on the train on the way into work yesterday talk about playing a MMORG (maybe Everquest) I heard the same excitement in their voices about levels, uber weapons and collecting runes and potions that I had at that age when playing D&D. They have no need to play D&D.
More and more non-d20 based games are beginning to appear that emphasis communication, games like the The Dying Earth, My Life With Master and Pantheon. These games can't easily be played over the internet until cheap video conferencing arrives, and until then I'd say they will continue to be niche, but successful, games while 3.5e D&D fails to grow much more. Having said that there are millions of D&D players.
That Conan, slayer, destroyer, king, theif, script writer. What a guy
Erm, you know you can get the actual films on DVD don't you?
Could "Slow Glass" be coming? Bob Shaw wrote about glass that could slow down light so that it took years to pass through and the effects it had on society in his 1972 book Other Days, Other Eyes. Anyone interested in this stuff should hunt down a copy.
It seems odd that the two largest parking hosts switched away from IIS at roughly the same time, when they also changed to IIS around the same time too. Maybe Microsoft made them an IIS offer they couldn't refuse, but have since changed that policy.
Instructions:
1. Wear your best black Ninja gear
2. Creep into office of someone who signed the NDA (if you can find them)
3. Take a copy of the documents showing the so called 'stolen' code.
4. Post them on your anon website.
5. Get Slashdotted.
Go on, someone, be a hero and show us the code, we're all meant to be using illegally. There's turnips in it for you!
There is a company, Eludo, that does card-cd and scratch card based micropayment solutions, that you buy in shops using cash rather than over the web and credit. I think some of the european games companies and new media content providers are starting to use them. I did some work with them on a canceled project last year, if I remember correctly it was better easy going from a techie point of view.
Once again China lags behind the west in technology. First it was taking so long over Red Flag Linux and now it is it's Echelon like abililty to trace SMS's. I wonder how long it will be before they use mobile phone chasing cruise missles like the US in Afghastan?
I don't entirely see what the fuss is all about. It doesn't mean you can't say what you like about someone, just that if they find out about it, you have to post their reply. A bit like Slash. It will not stop anonymous@cowards, slander, libel or anything like that (you only have to see the UK tabloids to see that)
Of course they'll need more IT professionals to administer it...