Humans are the ones who code the detection algorithms.
"If a player enters a game, spits more than 1 line of text and quits within 5 seconds, it's a spambot, so don't echo the text they wrote so the other players won't see their garbage".
How hard is that? Heck, give the control of the parameters to the players, that way they control the timing and amount of text and the spammers don't have a fixed set of parameters to go around.
Will you do anything to protect us from being annoyed by spambots who can enter a game, write five lines of spam and leave the game in less than 2 seconds? Why can't you guys put protection against those idiots, it's easy enough to detect those kinds of patterns and block the user accounts.
And if you think making a private game in D2 protects you against those morons, they started using private messages to tell you about their crap, which is D2-related spam about items and stuff, which are also not allowed by Blizzard, which they should also be stopping from happening.
I know that Diablo II is old and playing on battle.net is free, but still, that doesn't leave a good impression when asking me if I want to play your future games.
AFAIK that cover was fixed areas, kinda like those old LCD games, or a 7-segment display, etc. You can only turn areas on and off, it wasn't a pixel-based display.
yea and i'll take 50 so I can get the screens and batteries to make my next Burning Man costume. Adds? I'll never see em I'll use the Mags to fuel my woodgas generator to recharge the batteries.
P.S.: please buy another 100 or so, then sell them on eBay for those of us not living in one of those two cities.
Even if you don't take Twitter into account, IMHO there's already enough problems with dead links everywhere. When (not if) those URL shortener services go off-line, say hello to millions upon millions of dead links that go nowhere.
Shrek: Ogres are like onions. Donkey: They stink? Shrek: Yes. No. Donkey: Oh, they make you cry. Shrek: No. Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs. Shrek: NO. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers. [sighs] Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions.
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I laugh at your 32-bit arcade machine.
You will bow before Z80!
This is a really bad analogy, guy.
Not to mention the Nintendo Gameboy pocket or even the Intellivision 2, to only name these two.
Can a slashdot administrator make an exception for the comment above and mod it "+9000, informative"?
Humans are the ones who code the detection algorithms.
"If a player enters a game, spits more than 1 line of text and quits within 5 seconds, it's a spambot, so don't echo the text they wrote so the other players won't see their garbage".
How hard is that? Heck, give the control of the parameters to the players, that way they control the timing and amount of text and the spammers don't have a fixed set of parameters to go around.
Will you do anything to protect us from being annoyed by spambots who can enter a game, write five lines of spam and leave the game in less than 2 seconds? Why can't you guys put protection against those idiots, it's easy enough to detect those kinds of patterns and block the user accounts.
And if you think making a private game in D2 protects you against those morons, they started using private messages to tell you about their crap, which is D2-related spam about items and stuff, which are also not allowed by Blizzard, which they should also be stopping from happening.
I know that Diablo II is old and playing on battle.net is free, but still, that doesn't leave a good impression when asking me if I want to play your future games.
AFAIK that cover was fixed areas, kinda like those old LCD games, or a 7-segment display, etc. You can only turn areas on and off, it wasn't a pixel-based display.
yea and i'll take 50 so I can get the screens and batteries to make my next Burning Man costume. Adds? I'll never see em I'll use the Mags to fuel my woodgas generator to recharge the batteries.
P.S.: please buy another 100 or so, then sell them on eBay for those of us not living in one of those two cities.
Not listed is an unspecified bonus if the device says "Bite my shiny metal ass" after gathering information.
There's an app for that.
You forgot to link to the previous relevant slashdot story.
How about releasing the latest MAME for Menuet instead?
Even if you don't take Twitter into account, IMHO there's already enough problems with dead links everywhere. When (not if) those URL shortener services go off-line, say hello to millions upon millions of dead links that go nowhere.
Shrek: Ogres are like onions.
Donkey: They stink?
Shrek: Yes. No.
Donkey: Oh, they make you cry.
Shrek: No.
Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs.
Shrek: NO. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.
[sighs]
Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions.
Wow, what a great way to waste space when shipping things.
That's right. MP4 took over.
Your steam-based engine is actually coal-based.
Isn't Mac OS X based on BSD?
All three consoles now have USB ports. Let us use a mouse and keyboard with games that are appropriate for this kind of setup (FPS, RTS, etc).
You don't play MegaMan with a godamn keyboard and mouse and you don't play Starcraft with a godamn gamepad.
Indeed, one example being that 99.99 U.S. dollars = 110.97891 Canadian dollars.
If the app isn't available in the USA store then where does the price converted to pound comes from?
Why are all the prices in British Pounds? Did they just annex all those countries overnight or is the author of the article a lazy bastard?
And why does Slashdot suck so much with unicode? I copy/pasted that line from above yet the pound sign shows up with an extra character before it.
Just mess around with the system clock before playing.
01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00111111
You should start your own event. Burning burningman.