The days of myst are over
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Myst IV Postmortem
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Unfortunately, while myst was an excellent problem solving adventure game, it's days are over. The main thing which lent appeal to Myst were its, at the time, stunning graphics. Now that we have the ability to render scenes like those shown in myst live, it's really hard to see how point and click adventures like this can survive in their current form.
Is the word 'Dupe!' thrown around. I'd actually like everybody to consider the fact that, while this is a very similar article to the one we saw a few days ago, linking to the same site, it is not a duplicate! The duplicate was posted last week, as a result of CmdrTaco's brand spanking new time machine.
Hopefully we'll see an article on apple's takeover of microsoft last week.
Stop rubbing it in - my workday is 16 hours minimum - managed to do 2 30+ hour days last week. And yes, I do mean from 7 one morning til 7 the next evening.
Don't be so silly - we get excellent value for our IT services - it's a snip, at £48,000,000,000 per year to manage 160,000 government computers - I mean, seriously, that's only £300,00 per computer, per year, which is pretty minimal - and there's no such thing as 'free' software - if there was, microsoft would have told us about it.
Anyway, I'm in charge of government IT purchasing here, and it's just fine, thanks - oh, hang on, gotta go, the kids are playing on my gold plated runway again.
Dude, that's so untrue - america is the land of the free, that kind of thing doesn't happen in real life, just in hypothetical situations - it's like worrying about government monitoring, it's totally cool and safe, i'm sure they'll never abuse it, you just need to be more trusting!
Although you might think that the 'text/javascript' followed by a string of javascript might be a giveaway. CSS wouldn't be able to do the transition, just the beginning and endstates.
Get a DVD burner, write a perl script which will once a week do a complete tarball of directories to be backed up, and burn it to DVD (tarred up, preferably, for space saving), and daily write a tarred diff of the directorys to be backed up to the DVD. You could also set it up to send you an email, or whatever, with a manifest.
You forgot the third one, liberte, egalite, et fraternite (sorry, no accents) - she should be brotherly, and let them have the domain. She's been effectively squatting for 3 years, anyway.
Sorry, in spite of them being evil, Milka is wonderful - much better than that sawdust and charcoal shit you call 'Herp^Hsheys'. Still not as good as Cadbury's dairy milk though.
Body disposal! Just drop in your least favourite neighbour/spouse/kid, and in a few days time you'll have a beautifully clean skeleton, ready for framing/grinding to make your bread!
Well... it's what they do in museums to make skeletons of samples.
They're not code diffs, and they haven't released any code - they're diffs of hex dumps of libraries and executables - a lot of strings remain human readable - play around with a hex editor a bit, or use 'strings' in unix.
Are you, by any chance, giving a Mr Rob Malda (and, perhaps, 'the missus') tickets in exchange for free publicity on a website called Slashdot, due to a certain Mr Malda's failure to purchase aformentioned tickets before they sold out?
Yes - it's a standard school trick - put everything on a page with 3" margins, top bottom left and right, double space it, and go for a nice big font. That way when you hand your assignment (bill) in, it looks like you've done a lot of work, when you've actually been out with your buddies (out *on your yacht* with your buddies).
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Unfortunately, while myst was an excellent problem solving adventure game, it's days are over. The main thing which lent appeal to Myst were its, at the time, stunning graphics. Now that we have the ability to render scenes like those shown in myst live, it's really hard to see how point and click adventures like this can survive in their current form.
I had no idea so many geeks lived in SW london! :D
You live just round the corner from me.... I live near the Hurlingham.
One megabit transfer rate? That's awful - it'd take days to fill this disk.
Is the word 'Dupe!' thrown around. I'd actually like everybody to consider the fact that, while this is a very similar article to the one we saw a few days ago, linking to the same site, it is not a duplicate! The duplicate was posted last week, as a result of CmdrTaco's brand spanking new time machine.
Hopefully we'll see an article on apple's takeover of microsoft last week.
Stop rubbing it in - my workday is 16 hours minimum - managed to do 2 30+ hour days last week. And yes, I do mean from 7 one morning til 7 the next evening.
I use the net alot less now, got a girlfriend that keeps me happy
I generally use some kind of pit to catch mine...
Kittens are vulnerable to forks by default as well - you can easily get at the kernel if you just - oh, hang on, a different kind of fork, you say?
Don't be so silly - we get excellent value for our IT services - it's a snip, at £48,000,000,000 per year to manage 160,000 government computers - I mean, seriously, that's only £300,00 per computer, per year, which is pretty minimal - and there's no such thing as 'free' software - if there was, microsoft would have told us about it.
Anyway, I'm in charge of government IT purchasing here, and it's just fine, thanks - oh, hang on, gotta go, the kids are playing on my gold plated runway again.
Kneecaps?
Dude, that's so untrue - america is the land of the free, that kind of thing doesn't happen in real life, just in hypothetical situations - it's like worrying about government monitoring, it's totally cool and safe, i'm sure they'll never abuse it, you just need to be more trusting!
Although you might think that the 'text/javascript' followed by a string of javascript might be a giveaway. CSS wouldn't be able to do the transition, just the beginning and endstates.
Get a DVD burner, write a perl script which will once a week do a complete tarball of directories to be backed up, and burn it to DVD (tarred up, preferably, for space saving), and daily write a tarred diff of the directorys to be backed up to the DVD. You could also set it up to send you an email, or whatever, with a manifest.
Next silly question?
You forgot the third one, liberte, egalite, et fraternite (sorry, no accents) - she should be brotherly, and let them have the domain. She's been effectively squatting for 3 years, anyway.
Sorry, in spite of them being evil, Milka is wonderful - much better than that sawdust and charcoal shit you call 'Herp^Hsheys'. Still not as good as Cadbury's dairy milk though.
You can get software off the internet!
This is also great fun for another reason:
Body disposal! Just drop in your least favourite neighbour/spouse/kid, and in a few days time you'll have a beautifully clean skeleton, ready for framing/grinding to make your bread!
Well... it's what they do in museums to make skeletons of samples.
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OSX emulator?
They're not code diffs, and they haven't released any code - they're diffs of hex dumps of libraries and executables - a lot of strings remain human readable - play around with a hex editor a bit, or use 'strings' in unix.
Server restart. Look at the uptime sidebar.
Thats just freaky - I was just humming that tune - then scrolled down to your post - deeply subliminal, I'm sure.
This has been around for years - and the BBC reported it (in spite of it being old news) about 2 weeks ago.
Are you, by any chance, giving a Mr Rob Malda (and, perhaps, 'the missus') tickets in exchange for free publicity on a website called Slashdot, due to a certain Mr Malda's failure to purchase aformentioned tickets before they sold out?
I can't imagine putting his head through a card reader is terribly comfortable.
KER-CHUNK-click.
'Have a nice day sir!'
Yes - it's a standard school trick - put everything on a page with 3" margins, top bottom left and right, double space it, and go for a nice big font. That way when you hand your assignment (bill) in, it looks like you've done a lot of work, when you've actually been out with your buddies (out *on your yacht* with your buddies).