I'm going to have to agree with another poster and say Nethack is still hard(TM). I've ascended seven characters over the years (none recently) but my ratio of winning to failure is so pathetic listing it could make me cry. There have been countless times that characters have been going well, building their ascension kit only to meet their demise due to an unfortunate set of circumstances.
For those just starting, play a Valkryie. Most easy class by far to ascend as Odin likes to hang out Mjollnir like it was candy.
I've tried at least 100 games with a Tourist and only made it past the castle a few times.
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The Dreamcast had a port of CE specialized to allow PC game makers to easily host and throw up content on Sega's box.
The bulk of Dreamcast games did not run the CE varient.
Sling deserves no praise or accolades for their Mac client. It's been "any month" now for what? Over a year? If it was a real priority they would have actually dedicated some real resources to getting it done or brought in outside help for whatever was hindering them in their internal development. Mostly they deserve a bit of snarky retribution for allowing their new hardware to ship with boxes that claimed Mac support... even though it isn't in the hands of anyone but a few beta testers.
Where I come from that is called lying.
(Yes development dates slip, things happen, but if they took the time to sticker over other platforms the support was no where near ready for, why didn't they do it for OSX? Perhaps because they are dishonest? Or Lazy? Or what?)
At least unlike Tivo they aren't outright lying to their customers.
The media companies asked us to do this and said they don't want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all, because of all of the unsigned malware that runs in kernel mode can get around content protection, so we had to do this.
No. You aren't at the beck and call of the media companies. Supposedly you are there to answer to your shareholders and ultimately the end consumer.
I think you are giving too much credence to real socialization.
The bulk of office socialization is about the "work" or a sports event or last night's tv show. In fact it is in most office guideline books you are asked to steer away from subjects that could be deemed controversial. What happens at the bulk of parties? Gossip spreading? Talking about the guy so high he is licking the floor in the kitchen? Or the girl so drunk she is rapidly shedding her clothing? Most all social interactions in life are in fact meta.
What makes those situations any more valid than the meta-talk about a game, that happens within the game?
It's true there's some social events on the game, but for the most part, I don't count dancing in a line, talking about the dancing in a line, and then taking pictures of dancing in a line as "social events".
It's true there's some social events in my dorm, but for the most part, I don't count dancing in a line, talking about the dancing in a line, and then taking pictures of dancing in a line as "social events".
The basic disconnect here is the event that happen outside of a game or any sort of constructed reality are given more weight as they obviously "really" happened. The disconnect simply happens because this is how we were taught to interact with and understand the world. Those who grow up in a world where virtual worlds are much more ingrained would view the above dancing in a line as a social event, because, well, it "really" happened. Most of the so-called real social world is just as tedious, constructed and flimsy as anything that happens in a virtual reality.
It's a city culture thing. Many people hit the corner market/grocery on the walk or bike road home. You never keep too much in the house because there's no need with such an availability of options. Personally I hit my local market two to four times a week, each trip taking under 15 minutes and since it's on my way home it's just a natural part of my traveling routine.
Do not even compare a MMORPG with a telco/financial institution on levels of complexity.
Right because if you think Blizzard's system is even remotely as complex or robust you are either totally ignorant of real financial systems or being obtuse on purpose. If there's a transaction error on a Blizzard database (and yes these do happen somewhat frequently) a person might complain via in game mail. An error with a financial transaction and laws may have been broken.
Blizzard is doing nothing special, the fact that they are having the same growing pains issues as every MMORPG simply shows their arrogance.
One thing this whole debate should be bringing up but isn't is that the whole newsletter via email mechanism used for so long is sadly out of date. With the various technologies available these days and the near always on access to the net most people have there is no reason to be receiving lengthy newsletters via the email system. They can easily be stored on a web page and pulled via RSS or simple pulled via an RSS news reader when someone *really* wants the newsletter.
Email was a great medium for this years ago, but come on, things have changed significantly in the past 10 years.
You don't have:make up stuff: to make even the most inane of job experiences worthwhile.
In this case she is, "exploring creative strategies for product and mindshare creation in a virtual economy and leveraging that into real world capital via an online simulation."
Considering the projected growth rates for MMOs she is likely to end up with a PM job at some startup.
Every time an article comes up mentioning screen res someone always something along these lines. I suggest doing a google search on DPI and optimum DPI for working on computer screens. Apple chooses resolutions in a very deliberate matter based on what it is available *and* maintaining a sane DPI that is easy on the eyes for extended work.
Thanks again for reminding us how important slashdot is to you guys now. I mean it wasn't completely apparent by your constant dupe posting, lack of editing and inability to keep the site up to date with more modern message board systems. But thanks to your so blatent declaration, and made with pride even , that you hadn't spent 5 minutes on a contest for the plebia... er readers you have made your feelings completely known.
If you guys really care so little why don't you find some people who do?
Neither of those companies had the first mp3 player with a Hard Drive.
I sure hope you don't grumble too loud when getting mad at the iPod gushers since you don't even have your facts straight.
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Don't berate the author for his examples using nested SQL when a paragraph later you call him out for not using "tac" because you assumed it is universal.
Like nested queries, tac, isn't standard across all unix platforms.
In San Francisco we have this pass called the Muni Pass which is used on all public transit systems in the city. When I used to purchase one on a monthly basis I always asked for:
"one MULTEE PhASSSSS PLEASE"
I guess they were so used to English only being the native tongue for half the residents they just went with it.
This exact same scenario happened with me and tacobell.com. I would have given Pepsi the domain if they had only asked, instead the went crazy with C&Ds and threatening me. All we ever put on it was what we had the day before for lunch from TB.
OSX-Tiger while seemingly nothing special because it contains a lot of previously existing technologies is really worth the hype. Why?
Because it takes those techs, adds just enough to them, integrates each one well with the others and provides the technologies in a slick, well managed package. Sure many on slashdot could cobble systems together to do 80-90% of what Tiger does over a weekend. But it would be extremely tuned to their way of thinking, not something they could easily share with friends, co-workers or family. That alone is worth the price of admission.
More importantly (and I say this as a once proud Desqview, Desqview/X, OS/2, Linux, IRIX, FreeBSD, BeOS, XP user) is that OSX restores the "lust for the future" in operating systems. It's like for the most part we had hit a wall of stagnation in the late 90s where each new OS was only allowed to have one or two really great new features. I was a heavy user of NeXT and kept using my hardware long past its prime simply because it was *better*. Now we get a modern OS on relatively decent hardware with a company behind it who isn't afraid to try many new things at once.
The best part about Tiger is the effect it may have on the industry. Hopefully it will allow some companies to risk being innovative again.
In my opinion OSX is the best client OS, by leaps and bounds.
Traditional platters haven't been increasing much because HD companies have been looking hard into new tech and different method of storing the bits in the same amount of space (witness the recent stacking press releases). They are only a couple short breakthroughs away from returning to the blistering capacity increases of 00-03.
The 1 billion spent at SFO was to build an entire new International Terminal and I believe also includes some of the costs of the extension train system to the regional BART transit system.
Please read some of the FAQs on CIV, the AI while not overly complex, is many times more complex than you state... perhaps in the first CIV that's the way it worked but it has not been that way in many years.
San Francisco isn't big. Did you even bother to check the square miles covered by the city/county proper? Do you even know what SF's plan is when related to coverage areas?
Oh, that would be no to both.
For those who aren't familiar unlike many cities in the USA, SF is a very compact, small place because there simply is no way for it to sprawl as it is surrounded by water on three sides.
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I'm going to have to agree with another poster and say Nethack is still hard(TM). I've ascended seven characters over the years (none recently) but my ratio of winning to failure is so pathetic listing it could make me cry. There have been countless times that characters have been going well, building their ascension kit only to meet their demise due to an unfortunate set of circumstances.
For those just starting, play a Valkryie. Most easy class by far to ascend as Odin likes to hang out Mjollnir like it was candy.
I've tried at least 100 games with a Tourist and only made it past the castle a few times.
The Dreamcast had a port of CE specialized to allow PC game makers to easily host and throw up content on Sega's box.
The bulk of Dreamcast games did not run the CE varient.
Sling deserves no praise or accolades for their Mac client. It's been "any month" now for what? Over a year? If it was a real priority they would have actually dedicated some real resources to getting it done or brought in outside help for whatever was hindering them in their internal development. Mostly they deserve a bit of snarky retribution for allowing their new hardware to ship with boxes that claimed Mac support... even though it isn't in the hands of anyone but a few beta testers.
Where I come from that is called lying.
(Yes development dates slip, things happen, but if they took the time to sticker over other platforms the support was no where near ready for, why didn't they do it for OSX? Perhaps because they are dishonest? Or Lazy? Or what?)
At least unlike Tivo they aren't outright lying to their customers.
The versions of the OmniApps that came with your powerbook *are* eligible for upgrades prices directly from Omni.
The media companies asked us to do this and said they don't want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all, because of all of the unsigned malware that runs in kernel mode can get around content protection, so we had to do this.
No. You aren't at the beck and call of the media companies. Supposedly you are there to answer to your shareholders and ultimately the end consumer.
I think you are giving too much credence to real socialization.
The bulk of office socialization is about the "work" or a sports event or last night's tv show. In fact it is in most office guideline books you are asked to steer away from subjects that could be deemed controversial. What happens at the bulk of parties? Gossip spreading? Talking about the guy so high he is licking the floor in the kitchen? Or the girl so drunk she is rapidly shedding her clothing? Most all social interactions in life are in fact meta.
What makes those situations any more valid than the meta-talk about a game, that happens within the game?
It's true there's some social events on the game, but for the most part, I don't count dancing in a line, talking about the dancing in a line, and then taking pictures of dancing in a line as "social events".
It's true there's some social events in my dorm, but for the most part, I don't count dancing in a line, talking about the dancing in a line, and then taking pictures of dancing in a line as "social events".
The basic disconnect here is the event that happen outside of a game or any sort of constructed reality are given more weight as they obviously "really" happened. The disconnect simply happens because this is how we were taught to interact with and understand the world. Those who grow up in a world where virtual worlds are much more ingrained would view the above dancing in a line as a social event, because, well, it "really" happened. Most of the so-called real social world is just as tedious, constructed and flimsy as anything that happens in a virtual reality.
Hardly.
Nokia: 800x480 screen resolution.
Mylo: 320x240 screen resolution.
When will these companies learn to view the modern web with any sort of comfort you need, at the very least 640x480.
It's a city culture thing. Many people hit the corner market/grocery on the walk or bike road home. You never keep too much in the house because there's no need with such an availability of options. Personally I hit my local market two to four times a week, each trip taking under 15 minutes and since it's on my way home it's just a natural part of my traveling routine.
Do not even compare a MMORPG with a telco/financial institution on levels of complexity.
Right because if you think Blizzard's system is even remotely as complex or robust you are either totally ignorant of real financial systems or being obtuse on purpose. If there's a transaction error on a Blizzard database (and yes these do happen somewhat frequently) a person might complain via in game mail. An error with a financial transaction and laws may have been broken.
Blizzard is doing nothing special, the fact that they are having the same growing pains issues as every MMORPG simply shows their arrogance.
One thing this whole debate should be bringing up but isn't is that the whole newsletter via email mechanism used for so long is sadly out of date. With the various technologies available these days and the near always on access to the net most people have there is no reason to be receiving lengthy newsletters via the email system. They can easily be stored on a web page and pulled via RSS or simple pulled via an RSS news reader when someone *really* wants the newsletter.
Email was a great medium for this years ago, but come on, things have changed significantly in the past 10 years.
Just so I can get this in without having to post multiple times, I am in-fact 17 years old.
n00b.
You don't have :make up stuff: to make even the most inane of job experiences worthwhile.
In this case she is, "exploring creative strategies for product and mindshare creation in a virtual economy and leveraging that into real world capital via an online simulation."
Considering the projected growth rates for MMOs she is likely to end up with a PM job at some startup.
For those who aren't aware MDX comes in a sugar-free version which tastes much better, in my opinion, than the version with sugar.
Every time an article comes up mentioning screen res someone always something along these lines. I suggest doing a google search on DPI and optimum DPI for working on computer screens. Apple chooses resolutions in a very deliberate matter based on what it is available *and* maintaining a sane DPI that is easy on the eyes for extended work.
Great.
Thanks again for reminding us how important slashdot is to you guys now. I mean it wasn't completely apparent by your constant dupe posting, lack of editing and inability to keep the site up to date with more modern message board systems. But thanks to your so blatent declaration, and made with pride even , that you hadn't spent 5 minutes on a contest for the plebia... er readers you have made your feelings completely known.
If you guys really care so little why don't you find some people who do?
Neither of those companies had the first mp3 player with a Hard Drive.
I sure hope you don't grumble too loud when getting mad at the iPod gushers since you don't even have your facts straight.
Don't berate the author for his examples using nested SQL when a paragraph later you call him out for not using "tac" because you assumed it is universal.
Like nested queries, tac, isn't standard across all unix platforms.
In San Francisco we have this pass called the Muni Pass which is used on all public transit systems in the city. When I used to purchase one on a monthly basis I always asked for:
"one MULTEE PhASSSSS PLEASE"
I guess they were so used to English only being the native tongue for half the residents they just went with it.
This exact same scenario happened with me and tacobell.com. I would have given Pepsi the domain if they had only asked, instead the went crazy with C&Ds and threatening me. All we ever put on it was what we had the day before for lunch from TB.
OSX-Tiger while seemingly nothing special because it contains a lot of previously existing technologies is really worth the hype. Why?
Because it takes those techs, adds just enough to them, integrates each one well with the others and provides the technologies in a slick, well managed package. Sure many on slashdot could cobble systems together to do 80-90% of what Tiger does over a weekend. But it would be extremely tuned to their way of thinking, not something they could easily share with friends, co-workers or family. That alone is worth the price of admission.
More importantly (and I say this as a once proud Desqview, Desqview/X, OS/2, Linux, IRIX, FreeBSD, BeOS, XP user) is that OSX restores the "lust for the future" in operating systems. It's like for the most part we had hit a wall of stagnation in the late 90s where each new OS was only allowed to have one or two really great new features. I was a heavy user of NeXT and kept using my hardware long past its prime simply because it was *better*. Now we get a modern OS on relatively decent hardware with a company behind it who isn't afraid to try many new things at once.
The best part about Tiger is the effect it may have on the industry. Hopefully it will allow some companies to risk being innovative again.
In my opinion OSX is the best client OS, by leaps and bounds.
Traditional platters haven't been increasing much because HD companies have been looking hard into new tech and different method of storing the bits in the same amount of space (witness the recent stacking press releases). They are only a couple short breakthroughs away from returning to the blistering capacity increases of 00-03.
The 1 billion spent at SFO was to build an entire new International Terminal and I believe also includes some of the costs of the extension train system to the regional BART transit system.
You remember incorrectly.
Please read some of the FAQs on CIV, the AI while not overly complex, is many times more complex than you state... perhaps in the first CIV that's the way it worked but it has not been that way in many years.
San Francisco isn't big. Did you even bother to check the square miles covered by the city/county proper? Do you even know what SF's plan is when related to coverage areas?
Oh, that would be no to both.
For those who aren't familiar unlike many cities in the USA, SF is a very compact, small place because there simply is no way for it to sprawl as it is surrounded by water on three sides.