Most of these guides will state: if your players have a point, don't deny it. If they really want to do something, let them and improvise. If you force players into something "just because" - because you failed to foresee it - you will hear "CHOO-CHOO! RAILROAD!" and get marked as a hopeless railroading fag of a DM.
Some of the favorite motives and best gameplays in RPGs I played were where the players DID break the story and pulled it their way. Yes, the fucking genius wizard did figure out how to use the catapult. Yes, the canny gnome did repair the transport lift to get it to the surface. Yes, the greater earth elemental needed only 2 catapult hits instead of an epic battle. But the amount of heavy thinking they did outweighted the amount of heavy fighting they would do otherwise.
Of course a computer game can't reasonably improvise and react to what developers didn't think about in a way players think is reasonable. Still, instead of noise of door handle flapping helplessly, Morrowind provided the player with one of hundreds generic interiors. Instead of a thousand empty or unbreakable crates, it filled them with generic, cheap, random stuff. Instead of transparent walls it used steep slopes which you couldn't scale but could levitate over - if you were advanced enough to possess levitation, or insistent enough to buy a potion instead of better gear...
reminds me of Eye of Beholder 2, where you fall down a random pit, find a bunch of bones with a complete skeleton mixed with them, and if you bring the skeleton to an altar of resurrection, you gain a valuable party member.
In the US you have this rd/st system with roads crisscrossing at right angles.
In Europe, most cities grew as defensive fortresses, with new layers of city walls, and later beltways added as more rings around the center, with roads to/from the old city market and in circle around it.
So unless someone's gonna upgrade the light cycle firmware to run on polar coordinates vs cartesian, they won't do much good in Europe.
Many people are religious. Still, religious fundamentalist extremists are not the same as your granny going to church, and there's nothing wrong with the word "religious" in the phrase "religious fundamentalist extremists".
I'm all against renaming extremist groups because they give a bad name to a wider community they belong to. Was that you who coined the terms "ethnosceptic" and "judeosceptic" for non-extremist racists and antisemitists?
Plagiarizing is when your work bears illusion of being original - when you try to pass someone's work as your original own. If he changed the name for the game, and marketed it as something different than Lemmings, it would be plagiarizing. But it's THE Lemmings, not a different game, not another Lemmings clone, not even penguins running the same levels. This is a copy as faithful to original as possible.
d really love to watch someone try to prove that "Lemmings" is a common term in the computer software/video games category without referring to the game series itself.
But of course it is!
This is how you call all the newly graduated students who start their career by getting jobs at EA, Ubisoft, and other game-making sweatshops hoping to make a name for themselves to advance to "greener pastures" that way.
All the terrorists need now is to get police uniforms now, and they can do pretty much anything they desire. Kidnap people, tell people to move out of their operation area, forbid people from taking photos of them, essentially operate unrestricted and unhindered in broad daylight in plain sight of city monitoring. And anyone who asks them questions will get "detained" into a black bag on the back of their van.
>Heh. Don't be so sure about that - the fact that something is a common word doesn't mean it can't be a trademark, too. Or why do you think we've still got things like Windows and Apple computers?
Because trademarks are given out by retards. No, a trademark can't be a common word, except the process of granting one is cheap, quick, easy and dirty (and invalid trademarks are granted left and right) and the process of challenging it is long, expensive and usually beyond reach of small fishes.
Please recall the Windows vs Lindows case. Microsoft lost it, because Windows is a common word. Except it lost only in the US and it would lose it only in english-speaking countries because "Windows" is not a common word in other languages. So Lindows was renamed to Linspire, to be able to continue everywhere - but only after that matter was settled, and it didn't have to pay a penny to Microsoft for "using a similar name".
And even if you strike down trademark on the common word "Lemmings" (very doable if expensive), there's still the matter of all the artwork he ripped straight from the original. It's definitely non-trivial, and the answer how he managed to port it all in such a short time is that he copied the artwork and levels verbatim, porting only game engine but retaining (pirating) original game data.
One could say he could continue by releasing his ports stripped of all said data, but with some extraction tool, and allow people with legal PC copies of Lemmings to extract the game assets and use them with the engine. Like Doom for Amiga - you still had to purchase the PC original for the.WAD file - actual content of the game, while the (platform-specific) game engine was purely 3rd party without ID Software involvement or license.
13/27 = 0.(481), which is pretty far from 1/3 = 0.(33) this problem would yield without Tuesday, and almost 2% away from the intuitive 1/2, way better chance than coin's edge.
Extra PCI/PCIX USB controller cards (on top of the motherboard built-in USB) cost peanuts and provide LOTS of ports (vs pretty expensive and limited RAID cards). Massive RAID over many (USB) controllers pretty much negates the speed penalty for USB vs SATA et al. Can be done in software. The drives being external don't require massive internal PC power supply to power up a lot of them, or a dedicated PC case to host them all. USB is hotswap out of the box.
Sounds like a dream solution for homebrew RAID of epic proportions. Like (raw)~100TB for $8k
(there's still the matter of power efficiency left... all these power supplies wasting power... but I guess some tinkering could solve that.)
That's all and pretty and works pretty well... until you rotate the phone 90 degrees.
Oh, and totally sucks for developers to work with non-square pixels. Reminds me of 8-bit Atari, Graphics 11. 80×192 in landscape aspect ratio, pixels half a millimeter tall, half a centimeter wide.
Let me guess... they put the card in a spinner and rotate it at relativistic speeds......nope, can't be. Wrong direction. The card would hardly age at all.
So some company in 1925 sells new movie reels. The new film is guaranteed to last 100 years, money-back guarantee! You buy ten, for cost of a brand new Ford Model T.
And so, 2010 comes and you want to play back the movies. They should be good for another 15 years. But they all turned to sludge. Oh, the company is still in business, unbelievable! You even kept the receipt! So you go visit them and ask for refund. Yes, sir! Here's your $24 per reel of film, and we're sorry they failed!...unless they are willing to insure the data for inflation-adjusted value you claim, money-back is a pathetic excuse of warranty in this situation.
Considering the tech was analog record where width/darkness of a stripe corresponds directly to the sound waveform, re-creating sound back from that is not really difficult. The only reason it took the guy 2 years to build the device is that he insisted on rebuilding a physical playback thing, instead of scanning the tape and doing everything in software, which would take under a week for anyone remotely savvy.
Primarily, they assume/predict linear behavior of the materials. Unless they process a full test that lasts whole 100 years, all we have is hope they weren't wrong in their calculations and the materials behave as predicted - no, say, sudden decay after 38 years.
The fuse ones, yes. But there were ones that were just UV-erasable EEPROMS in cases without the transparent erase window. Most of them are blank today.
The essential difference is disk surface is not really discrete bit-wise.
In RAM, you get a path, a circuit of transistors and capacitors, and a bit of memory is built from them. They are a specific structure that holds one bit, and they can't hold 1.1 bit, or 0.8 bit - the volume is the circuit is the bit. On disk you have a continuous surface which you magnetize to your whim, and then read the layout of magnetic levels and interpret them - the fact the 0.0001mm length of surface corresponds to 1 bit is your own convention and you can change it at will, within noise levels and read speeds of your hardware. So you can reduce length of a disk bit, and work around reduced reliability with error corrections. You can't reduce the size of a RAM bit other than reducing the size of the electronics...
They can assign an officer to every high-profile, expert, world-famous and respected security expert in the area. He planned a lot of various tests too. This was the first of them.
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Most of these guides will state: if your players have a point, don't deny it. If they really want to do something, let them and improvise. If you force players into something "just because" - because you failed to foresee it - you will hear "CHOO-CHOO! RAILROAD!" and get marked as a hopeless railroading fag of a DM.
Some of the favorite motives and best gameplays in RPGs I played were where the players DID break the story and pulled it their way. Yes, the fucking genius wizard did figure out how to use the catapult. Yes, the canny gnome did repair the transport lift to get it to the surface. Yes, the greater earth elemental needed only 2 catapult hits instead of an epic battle. But the amount of heavy thinking they did outweighted the amount of heavy fighting they would do otherwise.
Of course a computer game can't reasonably improvise and react to what developers didn't think about in a way players think is reasonable. Still, instead of noise of door handle flapping helplessly, Morrowind provided the player with one of hundreds generic interiors. Instead of a thousand empty or unbreakable crates, it filled them with generic, cheap, random stuff. Instead of transparent walls it used steep slopes which you couldn't scale but could levitate over - if you were advanced enough to possess levitation, or insistent enough to buy a potion instead of better gear...
reminds me of Eye of Beholder 2, where you fall down a random pit, find a bunch of bones with a complete skeleton mixed with them, and if you bring the skeleton to an altar of resurrection, you gain a valuable party member.
In the US you have this rd/st system with roads crisscrossing at right angles.
In Europe, most cities grew as defensive fortresses, with new layers of city walls, and later beltways added as more rings around the center, with roads to/from the old city market and in circle around it.
So unless someone's gonna upgrade the light cycle firmware to run on polar coordinates vs cartesian, they won't do much good in Europe.
Many people are religious. Still, religious fundamentalist extremists are not the same as your granny going to church, and there's nothing wrong with the word "religious" in the phrase "religious fundamentalist extremists".
I'm all against renaming extremist groups because they give a bad name to a wider community they belong to. Was that you who coined the terms "ethnosceptic" and "judeosceptic" for non-extremist racists and antisemitists?
Plagiarizing is when your work bears illusion of being original - when you try to pass someone's work as your original own. If he changed the name for the game, and marketed it as something different than Lemmings, it would be plagiarizing. But it's THE Lemmings, not a different game, not another Lemmings clone, not even penguins running the same levels. This is a copy as faithful to original as possible.
d really love to watch someone try to prove that "Lemmings" is a common term in the computer software/video games category without referring to the game series itself.
But of course it is!
This is how you call all the newly graduated students who start their career by getting jobs at EA, Ubisoft, and other game-making sweatshops hoping to make a name for themselves to advance to "greener pastures" that way.
EFF is pretty much moderate copyright/freedom balance organization.
OTOH, ASCAP is a rabid extremist radical pro-copyright agenda.
All the terrorists need now is to get police uniforms now, and they can do pretty much anything they desire. Kidnap people, tell people to move out of their operation area, forbid people from taking photos of them, essentially operate unrestricted and unhindered in broad daylight in plain sight of city monitoring. And anyone who asks them questions will get "detained" into a black bag on the back of their van.
>Heh. Don't be so sure about that - the fact that something is a common word doesn't mean it can't be a trademark, too. Or why do you think we've still got things like Windows and Apple computers?
Because trademarks are given out by retards. No, a trademark can't be a common word, except the process of granting one is cheap, quick, easy and dirty (and invalid trademarks are granted left and right) and the process of challenging it is long, expensive and usually beyond reach of small fishes.
Please recall the Windows vs Lindows case. Microsoft lost it, because Windows is a common word. Except it lost only in the US and it would lose it only in english-speaking countries because "Windows" is not a common word in other languages. So Lindows was renamed to Linspire, to be able to continue everywhere - but only after that matter was settled, and it didn't have to pay a penny to Microsoft for "using a similar name".
And even if you strike down trademark on the common word "Lemmings" (very doable if expensive), there's still the matter of all the artwork he ripped straight from the original. It's definitely non-trivial, and the answer how he managed to port it all in such a short time is that he copied the artwork and levels verbatim, porting only game engine but retaining (pirating) original game data.
One could say he could continue by releasing his ports stripped of all said data, but with some extraction tool, and allow people with legal PC copies of Lemmings to extract the game assets and use them with the engine. Like Doom for Amiga - you still had to purchase the PC original for the .WAD file - actual content of the game, while the (platform-specific) game engine was purely 3rd party without ID Software involvement or license.
13/27 = 0.(481), which is pretty far from 1/3 = 0.(33) this problem would yield without Tuesday, and almost 2% away from the intuitive 1/2, way better chance than coin's edge.
Extra PCI/PCIX USB controller cards (on top of the motherboard built-in USB) cost peanuts and provide LOTS of ports (vs pretty expensive and limited RAID cards).
Massive RAID over many (USB) controllers pretty much negates the speed penalty for USB vs SATA et al. Can be done in software.
The drives being external don't require massive internal PC power supply to power up a lot of them, or a dedicated PC case to host them all.
USB is hotswap out of the box.
Sounds like a dream solution for homebrew RAID of epic proportions. Like (raw)~100TB for $8k
(there's still the matter of power efficiency left... all these power supplies wasting power... but I guess some tinkering could solve that.)
...preferably rooted (HTC G1/Dream is fine), plus Sipdroid.
No! They won't be unforseen then!
nope. Sagem MyX5-2
That won't work. They would need to spin the Earth really fast while keeping the card immobile.
That's all and pretty and works pretty well... until you rotate the phone 90 degrees.
Oh, and totally sucks for developers to work with non-square pixels. Reminds me of 8-bit Atari, Graphics 11. 80×192 in landscape aspect ratio, pixels half a millimeter tall, half a centimeter wide.
Let me guess... they put the card in a spinner and rotate it at relativistic speeds... ...nope, can't be. Wrong direction. The card would hardly age at all.
Oh, of course, money-back guarantee...
So some company in 1925 sells new movie reels. The new film is guaranteed to last 100 years, money-back guarantee! You buy ten, for cost of a brand new Ford Model T.
And so, 2010 comes and you want to play back the movies. They should be good for another 15 years. But they all turned to sludge. Oh, the company is still in business, unbelievable! You even kept the receipt! So you go visit them and ask for refund. Yes, sir! Here's your $24 per reel of film, and we're sorry they failed! ...unless they are willing to insure the data for inflation-adjusted value you claim, money-back is a pathetic excuse of warranty in this situation.
If each card gets unique serial ID written in factory, good luck.
Considering the tech was analog record where width/darkness of a stripe corresponds directly to the sound waveform, re-creating sound back from that is not really difficult. The only reason it took the guy 2 years to build the device is that he insisted on rebuilding a physical playback thing, instead of scanning the tape and doing everything in software, which would take under a week for anyone remotely savvy.
Primarily, they assume/predict linear behavior of the materials. Unless they process a full test that lasts whole 100 years, all we have is hope they weren't wrong in their calculations and the materials behave as predicted - no, say, sudden decay after 38 years.
The fuse ones, yes. But there were ones that were just UV-erasable EEPROMS in cases without the transparent erase window. Most of them are blank today.
The essential difference is disk surface is not really discrete bit-wise.
In RAM, you get a path, a circuit of transistors and capacitors, and a bit of memory is built from them. They are a specific structure that holds one bit, and they can't hold 1.1 bit, or 0.8 bit - the volume is the circuit is the bit. On disk you have a continuous surface which you magnetize to your whim, and then read the layout of magnetic levels and interpret them - the fact the 0.0001mm length of surface corresponds to 1 bit is your own convention and you can change it at will, within noise levels and read speeds of your hardware. So you can reduce length of a disk bit, and work around reduced reliability with error corrections. You can't reduce the size of a RAM bit other than reducing the size of the electronics...
They can assign an officer to every high-profile, expert, world-famous and respected security expert in the area. He planned a lot of various tests too. This was the first of them.