Someone would have posted the "First Ascension Post":)...
+ + + + By the way, this is someone's rendition of good old Slashdot saying "Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified"...
The nymph pretends to be friendly. The nymph steals your cloak. The nymph steals your robe. The cockatrice hits, you begin to turn to stone! - more - The nymph steals your armor. The brown pudding hits! - more - You turn to stone. You die. DYWYPI?
(See http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C9DB9F5.9030 702%40libero.it)
Use [Sco == Thieves] tag in all your mailing lists, and usenet posts for at least one week.
Interesting way to spread a meme.
Isn't it too far reaching anyway? Isn't it a way to find legal trouble? Wouldn't be better to use something else? Maybe [Sco Violates GPL] (even if it is long) would be a bit better as a tag. Also I think it would be too spammy. It's a good idea but it has some problems... Let's see what happens...
of the announcements that Sega made before disbanding the Hardware section of their company. ("100 more videogames before the next Dreamcast arrives!").
I begin thinking that something alien like a Nintendo branded X-Box is in the work...
I sworn that the state of OHIO was going to sue AOL because AOL didn't say that a connected computer BROADCASTED AN IP (so your privacy was violated)...
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very HUGE specifications and as hard to learn as
UNIX. You have 1000's of choices which lead
wayward programmers easily.
Well, I learned how to cope with UNIX with the following steps:
I have been tutored by a friend of mine in the basics of Unix (shell, processes, login, logout and using lynx so I was able to go on mailgate.org and see unix link there.
I began using it for stupid stuff everyday, websurfing (good old lynx), writing my shit and mail (pico and pine). When I began using pico I also gave up on using Microsoft Word.
Then I bought Redhat Linux 5.2, Unix for Dummies, and Linux for Dummies Expresso. Redhat had a very interesting manual at the time.
Most important stuff: usenet! usenet! usenet! Google for answers, post for (uncovered) questions.
I had a very funny time, but most important in 3 years I covered EVERYTHING meaningful about Unix to be able to use it as I use Windows... well... better than Windows:)
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The differences between Unix and EJB are:
You are not obliged to learn EJB every day in order to use them like you would do if you were pushed to work on a Sparc Workstation and you had to read your mail through mutt.
Thanks to Free (Speech) Software like GNU/Linux distributions, or *BSDs, you may learn Unix as an hobby... fire up slackware, tune it and then play Wolfenstein (I remember when I set up my Radeon correctly under linux... I cried. The alternative at the time was Windows ME, which showed nice red dots with my Radeon)... EJB per se is only a mean to get a work done.
You need a really solid Java background, a really solid Object-Oriented programming Design background and some knowledge of the accompaigning technologies (sql/jdbc), something that you may learn only if you really focus on it, not as a "collateral effect" if you are on a workplace or college where the admins wants you to use vi, trn and mutt. On the other hand Unix needs you to know how to switch on the computer, and how to use a keyboard. Also, mastering Java and OOD is difficult _per_ _se_ (even if Java is easier than C++ in many regards).
The lot of choices are not the problem. The knowledges required to know them is. Unix is easier on the whole. Learn regexp and use them everywhere. Learn to decipher manpages (gnu info is worse in many regards to manpages) and again you can use them on any *IX system.
All that money...dropped on a worthless project...
The problem isn't that There.inc's money dropped on a worthless project... is that some people are actually going to pay for it!
On the whole, wouldn't be better build something in the real world? Go hicking in the real world? Go to the fscking Disneyland with your kids in the real world?
What is all this craze about spending money for virtual stuff? There are already many many many free open irc channels, websites with forums, newsgroups... there is slashdot where to talk with people... and they all are FOR FREE!
I would understand if there weren't so many free irc channels or newsgroups, but since they exist and they are avaiable, I don't see the need for closing myself in an online virtual 3d ultra-zuper-duper community that doesn't even give me videogames.
(It would be different if There.Inc's community helped me to get laid more than today:), but...)
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Anyway, here on slashdot I can hear many trolls crying out loud "Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified!"... I doubt that on There.Inc I would read it...:)
Let someone else prove the market and we'll profit from it. MMOG's are just another example of this, as you have said. They were not the first and they will certainly not be the last.
The problem is: are MMOGs bringing out something innovative and that is going to stay around for a long time (like the web, instant messaging, irc or usenet) or are they something that are going to dissipate and settle in their niche (like mud gaming), after the fad passes?
Maybe OT, but this topic has been inspired by the original article:
I don't understand the relevance of creating and selling a MMOG (Multi-Massive Online Game).
I mean. It requires a lot of resources in creation, development, manteinance, and it also requires a lot of marketing in order to reach a vast audience. It is strenuous on resources, and with human nature of the players, a MMOG experience may be even worse than Real Life.
Ok, I am biased against MMOGs, I only played freeware ones and I find hard to collect the necessary time to play one anyway (I still prefer usenetting). But this "let's do a MMOG" craze looks to me like the other crazes that there were back in the days, only worse.
Example: after playstation came out, every single industry tried to put a 3d videocard for pcs (and now only NVidia, who played well, and ATI, who was relatively out of the high-end 3d business until late, are the top of the market).
Another Example: In 1996, how many IPSs were proliferating trying to replicate the success of Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy?
Third Example: Wizards of the coast came out with Magic the Gathering in 1992/1993, then everyone and their dog published their own C/TCG. (When WoTC grabbed the patent on C/TCGs the market was sweeped by WoTC fees, leaving WoTC with a monopoly).
Ok, this process of everyone investing their asses in the product may incentivate innovation, but how many wrong investments were made? And now, what MMOG should I play first without having time sinkholes, idiotic admins (problem that is seen also by the linked article - see the highly censored SWG forums), and ton of bugs et al? At least AOL delivered you the packet you wished to retrieve on the internet (yeah, ok, along with SPAM, but this is the problem of the internet in the whole, not of AOL), and 3D cards delivered you pixels arranged to resemble 3d solids on the screen... but after SWG and the other batch of would-be-evercrack, how can we say that these services are delivering FUN?
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I thank the AC who stole my first meaningful first post;_;
Everybody's a skeptic. Look they already have one major developer making games. Popcap games is going to make games for the Phantom. Diamond Mine II! WooHoo! More lens flare! Suck it down!
I mean. This article is about something "sold", and it comes without introduction, without references to any damn kind of information on this stuff. Even the "canonical fifteen seconds googling" wasn't helpful to understand what is this post about.
The official website wants me to order something about this stuff by phone or snailmail.
Googling for fansites brought me to the final desolation.
Oh... and Google also says this:
"In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
Actually I would be advocating an "Im-like" invitation-only e-mail, if it serves to slow down idiots like these spammers and their shitty, worthless e-zines that are only good for dorks.
These Idiots have been adding all my family twice or thrice to their mailings, using also "anonymous alerts" for publicizing their fscking e-zines (like the time they said that with xDSL the police could see if you had a pirate version of Office on your pc).
Slashdot Mirror
Someone would have posted the "First Ascension Post" :)...
0 702%40libero.it)
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By the way, this is someone's rendition of good old Slashdot saying "Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified"...
The nymph pretends to be friendly.
The nymph steals your cloak.
The nymph steals your robe.
The cockatrice hits, you begin to turn to stone!
- more -
The nymph steals your armor.
The brown pudding hits!
- more -
You turn to stone.
You die. DYWYPI?
(See http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C9DB9F5.903
Hey! That is from Cyde's (and other rgrn-posters) fortune txt file! Where did you find it? I can't find it anywhere on the net :(
Interesting way to spread a meme.
Isn't it too far reaching anyway? Isn't it a way to find legal trouble? Wouldn't be better to use something else? Maybe [Sco Violates GPL] (even if it is long) would be a bit better as a tag. Also I think it would be too spammy. It's a good idea but it has some problems... Let's see what happens...
I begin thinking that something alien like a Nintendo branded X-Box is in the work...
I sworn that the state of OHIO was going to sue AOL because AOL didn't say that a connected computer BROADCASTED AN IP (so your privacy was violated)...
Well, I learned how to cope with UNIX with the following steps:
- I have been tutored by a friend of mine in the basics of Unix (shell, processes, login, logout and using lynx so I was able to go on mailgate.org and see unix link there.
- I began using it for stupid stuff everyday, websurfing (good old lynx), writing my shit and mail (pico and pine). When I began using pico I also gave up on using Microsoft Word.
- Then I bought Redhat Linux 5.2, Unix for Dummies, and Linux for Dummies Expresso. Redhat had a very interesting manual at the time.
- Most important stuff: usenet! usenet! usenet! Google for answers, post for (uncovered) questions.
I had a very funny time, but most important in 3 years I covered EVERYTHING meaningful about Unix to be able to use it as I use Windows... well... better than Windows+ + + +
The differences between Unix and EJB are:
- You are not obliged to learn EJB every day in order to use them like you would do if you were pushed to work on a Sparc Workstation and you had to read your mail through mutt.
- Thanks to Free (Speech) Software like GNU/Linux distributions, or *BSDs, you may learn Unix as an hobby... fire up slackware, tune it and then play Wolfenstein (I remember when I set up my Radeon correctly under linux... I cried. The alternative at the time was Windows ME, which showed nice red dots with my Radeon)... EJB per se is only a mean to get a work done.
- You need a really solid Java background, a really solid Object-Oriented programming Design background and some knowledge of the accompaigning technologies (sql/jdbc), something that you may learn only if you really focus on it, not as a "collateral effect" if you are on a workplace or college where the admins wants you to use vi, trn and mutt. On the other hand Unix needs you to know how to switch on the computer, and how to use a keyboard. Also, mastering Java and OOD is difficult _per_ _se_ (even if Java is easier than C++ in many regards).
The lot of choices are not the problem. The knowledges required to know them is. Unix is easier on the whole. Learn regexp and use them everywhere. Learn to decipher manpages (gnu info is worse in many regards to manpages) and again you can use them on any *IX system.All IMHO and IME :)
The problem isn't that There.inc's money dropped on a worthless project... is that some people are actually going to pay for it!
On the whole, wouldn't be better build something in the real world? Go hicking in the real world? Go to the fscking Disneyland with your kids in the real world?
What is all this craze about spending money for virtual stuff? There are already many many many free open irc channels, websites with forums, newsgroups... there is slashdot where to talk with people... and they all are FOR FREE!
I would understand if there weren't so many free irc channels or newsgroups, but since they exist and they are avaiable, I don't see the need for closing myself in an online virtual 3d ultra-zuper-duper community that doesn't even give me videogames.
(It would be different if There.Inc's community helped me to get laid more than today :), but...)
+ + + + :)
Anyway, here on slashdot I can hear many trolls crying out loud "Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified!"... I doubt that on There.Inc I would read it...
The problem is: are MMOGs bringing out something innovative and that is going to stay around for a long time (like the web, instant messaging, irc or usenet) or are they something that are going to dissipate and settle in their niche (like mud gaming), after the fad passes?
I'm googling for it right now. Any additional reference anyway?
Proving that if you throw enough money at an mmog, it will suceed.
It is not said that things will stay the same forever even in the MMOG fields. Think to what happened to Pepsi and Coke, or to RIAA's industries :)
I thank the AC who stole my first meaningful first post ;_;
Ehm, ok, I refer only to the one who wrote the stuff with the leet subject: F1r57 p057
I don't understand the relevance of creating and selling a MMOG (Multi-Massive Online Game).
I mean. It requires a lot of resources in creation, development, manteinance, and it also requires a lot of marketing in order to reach a vast audience. It is strenuous on resources, and with human nature of the players, a MMOG experience may be even worse than Real Life.
Ok, I am biased against MMOGs, I only played freeware ones and I find hard to collect the necessary time to play one anyway (I still prefer usenetting). But this "let's do a MMOG" craze looks to me like the other crazes that there were back in the days, only worse.
Example: after playstation came out, every single industry tried to put a 3d videocard for pcs (and now only NVidia, who played well, and ATI, who was relatively out of the high-end 3d business until late, are the top of the market).
Another Example: In 1996, how many IPSs were proliferating trying to replicate the success of Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy?
Third Example: Wizards of the coast came out with Magic the Gathering in 1992/1993, then everyone and their dog published their own C/TCG. (When WoTC grabbed the patent on C/TCGs the market was sweeped by WoTC fees, leaving WoTC with a monopoly).
Ok, this process of everyone investing their asses in the product may incentivate innovation, but how many wrong investments were made? And now, what MMOG should I play first without having time sinkholes, idiotic admins (problem that is seen also by the linked article - see the highly censored SWG forums), and ton of bugs et al? At least AOL delivered you the packet you wished to retrieve on the internet (yeah, ok, along with SPAM, but this is the problem of the internet in the whole, not of AOL), and 3D cards delivered you pixels arranged to resemble 3d solids on the screen... but after SWG and the other batch of would-be-evercrack, how can we say that these services are delivering FUN?
+ + + + ;_;
I thank the AC who stole my first meaningful first post
But this has rotating screens: Boulder Dash EX.
And there is a remix-parody of the original Boulder Dash Tune.
I feel so lame! I haven't played the Lens-Flared version of Boulderdash :(... I'm going to pour hot grits in my pants just to repent from my sins :(
I am really sad now...
The time they did the American MC Gee's version of Strawberry Shortcake... :)
Rotflmao! That's looks so... Commodore CDTV... or worse! Philips CD-I!!!
It hasn't got Karate but... Sexy Beach 2... and also runs on your good ol' PC without Epoxy-encrusted cpus.
The official website wants me to order something about this stuff by phone or snailmail.
Googling for fansites brought me to the final desolation.
Oh... and Google also says this:
"In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
So, what is this farside stuff?
That RMS warned us about when he talked about GNU.
Look here and here.
These Idiots have been adding all my family twice or thrice to their mailings, using also "anonymous alerts" for publicizing their fscking e-zines (like the time they said that with xDSL the police could see if you had a pirate version of Office on your pc).
I hope they die.
Boys and girl, for your interest the Soviet Union dissolved in August 1991.
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch33.htm
This means that Soviet Russia jokes are sooo 12 years ago...
Putting the "?????" before "Profit!"
Wrecking the national college grades since 1996 and before...
Converting your psyche into a mess since year 2000.
Converting possible productivity from I.T. staffs into meaninlgess chatter since 1997
Hey, but H2Gt2G is full of sex! Think about Jessica Gallumbit, the Three-Breasted-Whore for example...
Hell it even tells you the life, universe and everything!. + + + + Only thing I noticed, google images doesn't cache the goatseman's pic... :(
They already did it...
Guess what is coming next?
But I am wait ing for this one.