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I've never played it, but I have a really old copy of Wasteland, in a tattered box with the manuals and stuff. It's got a set of 5" diskettes.
Question is, do you think it would be worth the time to get an old computer to play it on, or would it be better to play it on some emulator? I'm sort of afraid the disks might get corrupted and stuff if I tried to use them, but I wonder if using vintage equipment would get the "feel" of the game much better.
Let me put it to you this way - last time we had an installfest in Memphis, Tennessee, I think we had some women. However, by the time it was over we were down to only guys, so we decided to take our post-install supper at Hooters.:P We have far to go, my friends, before women are regularly into Linux - perhaps if we had a "ladies night" at LUG meetings?;)
Gee, let's see how many buzzwords we can cram into a technology:
"Introducing iFluff/XP: An XML-based Object-oriented neural networking system that will synergize the modular components of your SO/HO WAN protocols, while minimizing TCO and giving five 9's reliability by branch-predicting streaming traffic through your SAN, NAS, or ASS.
iFluff/XP allows you to commoditize and monetize the super-size networkcide as rogue packets from black hats and white hats and clue bats compete for cyber-mindshare of your Red Hat hosts.
Secure your Homeland LAN and manage your digital rights with dignitude and affordability with the help of iFluff/XP's bytecode-based embedded operating system protocols interfacing through broadband Wi-Fi connectivity and virtual presense frameworks.
A user-friendly GUI is provided through an XSLT module interfacing to leading industry applications such as Mozilla,.NET, Java 2 USS Enterprise Edition, and GNU/Emacs - soon to include POP, IMAP, P2P and B2B functionality for enhanced productivity.
When you're thinking of buzzword-compliiant, ISO9001 conformant, remotely-managed turnkey security solutions, remember iFluff.... TO THE XXXTREME!"
No, you'd need 2.4 MegaVolkswagons, each with an iPod and a clown(roughly equal to 63 Libraries of Congress), to become the world's largest supercomputer.
Bah, they just need to insert a scene where K. K. falls into a pit filled with Nair, and becomes a horribly disfigured hairless ape, to be known as Darth Kong...
Have they changed/improved the HDD installer in Knoppix? I wanted to install a debian setup from Knoppix, but in 3.3, it tries to dump the whole system into one partition, and I did not have the space for that so I ended up using the Debian Sarge installer instead... Have they made the install process more flexible since then?
Am I the only one here who thinks we need to have an Ask Slashdot called "What's your Slashdot Password" to weed the idiots out?
Wow, I'm suprised how few there are on that list. I would have thought things like city/state names, zip codes, and movie/band names would be more common.
Even better - open up a greenhouse next door, and buy some grow lamps. I'm sure geeks will pay a lot of cash for "Google Doobies":)
Google could corner the geek pothad market with their revolutionary "plant ranking" engine, and the power consumption from the grow lamps can be easily hidden in Google's normal power bill, too.
Hello, my name is Thabo Mugabe and I am a subsistance farmer in Africa. I have 5 head of cattle and a herd of sheep, of which none run Linux. Thank you for asking.:)
Sorry I can't make a clicky link, I'm not that handy with this stuff
It's easy, just go into Word, paste the URL into place, and Clippy will helpfully pop up saying, "It looks like you're trying to karma whore on Slashdot by linking to a Google cache of a Slashdotted-to-hell webserver. Do you want me to..."
Right on, what we need is something like what the EU is trying - make it easier for workers to travel from place to place, in exchange for employers being able to shift jobs around.
Someone on Slashdot once said that what we have now is better called "Labor arbitage" than "Outsourcing" because what the companies are doing is taking advantage of wage differences between countries and the inability of workers to follow the jobs, instead of actually making a commitment to invest in a country like India.
Actually, it's even worse - 25,000 cotton farmers in the U.S. and $2 billion in subsidies. source.
I don't feel that the cotton ruling by the WTO violates national soverignty any more than dumping subsidized cotton into poor countries markets do. I might have more sympathy for American farmers if their cotton was only being used domestically, and not undermining the world cotton market.
So nice of you to link to someone's personal webspace with a 1600x1200 image. For those of you who didn't click the link, it shows the effects of a Slashdotting on a poor, defenseless server:)
Just imagine that buring, twisted hunk of metal as the server, and the giant, firebreathing beast as the Slashdot effect:)
But yeah, I remember going to the Portland airshow, and I thought the whole thing was kinda lame. Why watch some truck-rally gimmick when the Blue Angels were in town?
Did anyone catch the part where the reviewer said it's not worth the money to get the Gimp at $30 or $50? I doubt he/she would think it's worth the price at free, either.
The bar chart at the end should be a wake-up call to developers; the reviewer rates the 'features' at 80%, yet the 'value' is 10% and the 'must-have factor' at 1%. It doesn't matter how many features you've crammed in, if you hide it in a confusing interface and the overall product takes up more time than saves, it's just not worth bothering with.
You raise some interesting points, so I thought I would add to them.
Sony adopted the strategy they did for the PlayStation because they have a background in the consumer electronics market, and thought of the console as another appliance for people to buy, for which they would control all the content. Obviously, it worked. Microsoft, meanwhile, has a PC background, so they think of their console as a stripped-down PC that plays ames - you can see this in their design and marketing. Both companies taylor their hardware to fit into the companies overall outlook. Given that, it's not suprising that the PS/PS2 does better in consumer electronics-friendly Japan than the X-Box.
Japanese game companies don't taylor stuff for our market because 1) It's too hard and 2) They don't have to.
Japan has roughly half the population of the U.S., and a much higher ownership rate of consoles, so it's much easier to target them and ignore the U.S. market until nearly the end of development, then just make a translation of the game. Sometimes, they don't even bother with a proper translation of them, as you pointed out.
And what' wrong with having Japanese text in the games? That is what they have in the priginals, and as long as the important dialogue and narration are in English, I don't see a need to remove them. Japanese games do have a lot of English in them, and they don't seem to mind over there.
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."
Yo, that's just wack, man. I don't know what MC say that, but haven't we lost 'nuff brothers to this eastside / westside shiznit? Us hip-hoppers gotta band together and have peace, man, or more brothers gonna die like Tupac, yo. And how we supposed to exploit, erm, celebrate da 'hood if we keep on fightin'?
My man KFG(Killa Fuckin' Gangasta?), we gotta get together sometime, settle differences 'tween our people, y'dig?
How many AutoZone customers do you think have ever heard of SCO? For that matter how many do you think would care anyway?
Ah, good point.I imagine their customers think "Linux" is some sort of disposable window cleaning towlet that keeps rain off their windshield!
I know AutoZone doesn't seem like much of a Linux-centric company, but they actually host a LUG, Group of Linux Users, Memphis at their headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. They have graciously let us use their facilities, including a nice conference room with a projector and free downtown parking. Some of their employees have also given presentations on things ranging from wireless security to apache. Please support AutoZone in this lawsuit, even if it's just in online forums. (disclaimer: I am not an employee of AutoZone, just a golum member)
The paranoid part of me suspects this lawsuit is partly a punitive move to 'punish' companies that show support for the community. AutoZone is not the biggest Linux user out there, but they seem more community-minded than most.
Well, I read the headline and thought, "My god, a guy so antisocial he mated with his computer?! At least use the USB port instead of PS2..." Thank goodness it was a Playstation 2:P
Hey, this being California, the guy might still legally wed his newfound love!
I hate to make fun of someone who was just rejected in favor of a game console, but think of it this way: The PS2 was probobly new in original packaging, never been opened. The girl, on the other hand...
Okay, that was mean:) In all fairness, I'm sure most girls would pick a GameCube over a guy.
Actually, you're wrong, but you understate your case. You're still thinking in state vs. state terms, when getting rid of the electoral college would erase all differences between states, and make the issue an urban vs. rural one.
1) Candidates wouldn't carry New York state, they'd have to carry New York city. Also the same for Texas - they need to carry Houston, Austin, and Dallas, not Texas.
2) A citydweller in Bismarck, North Dakota or Boise, Idaho will be more likely to see a campaign stop than a rural farmer in California, New York or Texas.
3) It wouldn't matter what state a candidate is from, it would matter that they don't act like a hick or a farmer. And the level of religion in candidates will drop considerably.
Getting rid of the electoral college would have good and bad effects, but I think that it's more bad than good. I do think that we need to reform how the states proportion their votes, but that's a different topic...
The grandparent poster is referring to the time when Mattel made "talking Barbie" dolls that had a voice chip with several phrases programmed in. It had phrases like "Math is hard", which upset some parents.
Toys like pokemon, GI Joe, etc. may have ulterior messages (consumerism and violence), but neither of them discourages kids from trying to achieve intellectually - in fact, I seem to recall that the GI Joe cartoon's slogan was "Knowing is half the battle".
So I think that the general consumer culture around girls does discourage them from trying math and science at an early age, though its effects are less for older kids.
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I've never played it, but I have a really old copy of Wasteland, in a tattered box with the manuals and stuff. It's got a set of 5" diskettes.
Question is, do you think it would be worth the time to get an old computer to play it on, or would it be better to play it on some emulator? I'm sort of afraid the disks might get corrupted and stuff if I tried to use them, but I wonder if using vintage equipment would get the "feel" of the game much better.
Frankly, I'd rather have a "Cone of silence" to put certain people in...
And since phone booths are going out of style, I guess we need a cellphone that can also act as a hidden trapdoor to our lair?
Let me put it to you this way - last time we had an installfest in Memphis, Tennessee, I think we had some women. However, by the time it was over we were down to only guys, so we decided to take our post-install supper at Hooters. :P We have far to go, my friends, before women are regularly into Linux - perhaps if we had a "ladies night" at LUG meetings? ;)
Gee, let's see how many buzzwords we can cram into a technology:
.NET, Java 2 USS Enterprise Edition, and GNU/Emacs - soon to include POP, IMAP, P2P and B2B functionality for enhanced productivity.
"Introducing iFluff/XP: An XML-based Object-oriented neural networking system that will synergize the modular components of your SO/HO WAN protocols, while minimizing TCO and giving five 9's reliability by branch-predicting streaming traffic through your SAN, NAS, or ASS.
iFluff/XP allows you to commoditize and monetize the super-size networkcide as rogue packets from black hats and white hats and clue bats compete for cyber-mindshare of your Red Hat hosts.
Secure your Homeland LAN and manage your digital rights with dignitude and affordability with the help of iFluff/XP's bytecode-based embedded operating system protocols interfacing through broadband Wi-Fi connectivity and virtual presense frameworks.
A user-friendly GUI is provided through an XSLT module interfacing to leading industry applications such as Mozilla,
When you're thinking of buzzword-compliiant, ISO9001 conformant, remotely-managed turnkey security solutions, remember iFluff.... TO THE XXXTREME!"
Oh god, my brain hurts now.
No, you'd need 2.4 MegaVolkswagons, each with an iPod and a clown(roughly equal to 63 Libraries of Congress), to become the world's largest supercomputer.
Bah, they just need to insert a scene where K. K. falls into a pit filled with Nair, and becomes a horribly disfigured hairless ape, to be known as Darth Kong...
Have they changed/improved the HDD installer in Knoppix? I wanted to install a debian setup from Knoppix, but in 3.3, it tries to dump the whole system into one partition, and I did not have the space for that so I ended up using the Debian Sarge installer instead... Have they made the install process more flexible since then?
If these cards are like regular network cards, maybe they needed something to cut lines of coke with?
Imagine some druggie snorting coke off of a WinXP CD with the ds3 card, "Dude this is way better than a mirror and razorblade..."
Am I the only one here who thinks we need to have an Ask Slashdot called "What's your Slashdot Password" to weed the idiots out?
Wow, I'm suprised how few there are on that list. I would have thought things like city/state names, zip codes, and movie/band names would be more common.
A sad lttle song about recovering email from Pine, to the tune of "Where did you sleep last night":
My girl,
My girl,
Don't lie to me
Tell me your login and password for mail.
In the Pine,
In the Pine,
Where the GUIs don't shine
I would guess the whole night through.
My girl,
My girl,
Where will you go?
I am going where the CLI rules.
Even better - open up a greenhouse next door, and buy some grow lamps. I'm sure geeks will pay a lot of cash for "Google Doobies" :)
Google could corner the geek pothad market with their revolutionary "plant ranking" engine, and the power consumption from the grow lamps can be easily hidden in Google's normal power bill, too.
Hello, my name is Thabo Mugabe and I am a subsistance farmer in Africa. I have 5 head of cattle and a herd of sheep, of which none run Linux. Thank you for asking. :)
Sorry I can't make a clicky link, I'm not that handy with this stuff
It's easy, just go into Word, paste the URL into place, and Clippy will helpfully pop up saying, "It looks like you're trying to karma whore on Slashdot by linking to a Google cache of a Slashdotted-to-hell webserver. Do you want me to..."
Oh, you said clickey link. Nevermind.
Right on, what we need is something like what the EU is trying - make it easier for workers to travel from place to place, in exchange for employers being able to shift jobs around.
Someone on Slashdot once said that what we have now is better called "Labor arbitage" than "Outsourcing" because what the companies are doing is taking advantage of wage differences between countries and the inability of workers to follow the jobs, instead of actually making a commitment to invest in a country like India.
Actually, it's even worse - 25,000 cotton farmers in the U.S. and $2 billion in subsidies. source.
I don't feel that the cotton ruling by the WTO violates national soverignty any more than dumping subsidized cotton into poor countries markets do. I might have more sympathy for American farmers if their cotton was only being used domestically, and not undermining the world cotton market.
So nice of you to link to someone's personal webspace with a 1600x1200 image. For those of you who didn't click the link, it shows the effects of a Slashdotting on a poor, defenseless server :)
:)
Just imagine that buring, twisted hunk of metal as the server, and the giant, firebreathing beast as the Slashdot effect
But yeah, I remember going to the Portland airshow, and I thought the whole thing was kinda lame. Why watch some truck-rally gimmick when the Blue Angels were in town?
Did anyone catch the part where the reviewer said it's not worth the money to get the Gimp at $30 or $50? I doubt he/she would think it's worth the price at free, either.
The bar chart at the end should be a wake-up call to developers; the reviewer rates the 'features' at 80%, yet the 'value' is 10% and the 'must-have factor' at 1%. It doesn't matter how many features you've crammed in, if you hide it in a confusing interface and the overall product takes up more time than saves, it's just not worth bothering with.
You raise some interesting points, so I thought I would add to them.
Sony adopted the strategy they did for the PlayStation because they have a background in the consumer electronics market, and thought of the console as another appliance for people to buy, for which they would control all the content. Obviously, it worked. Microsoft, meanwhile, has a PC background, so they think of their console as a stripped-down PC that plays ames - you can see this in their design and marketing. Both companies taylor their hardware to fit into the companies overall outlook. Given that, it's not suprising that the PS/PS2 does better in consumer electronics-friendly Japan than the X-Box.
Japanese game companies don't taylor stuff for our market because 1) It's too hard and 2) They don't have to.
Japan has roughly half the population of the U.S., and a much higher ownership rate of consoles, so it's much easier to target them and ignore the U.S. market until nearly the end of development, then just make a translation of the game. Sometimes, they don't even bother with a proper translation of them, as you pointed out.
And what' wrong with having Japanese text in the games? That is what they have in the priginals, and as long as the important dialogue and narration are in English, I don't see a need to remove them. Japanese games do have a lot of English in them, and they don't seem to mind over there.
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."
Yo, that's just wack, man. I don't know what MC say that, but haven't we lost 'nuff brothers to this eastside / westside shiznit? Us hip-hoppers gotta band together and have peace, man, or more brothers gonna die like Tupac, yo. And how we supposed to exploit, erm, celebrate da 'hood if we keep on fightin'?
My man KFG(Killa Fuckin' Gangasta?), we gotta get together sometime, settle differences 'tween our people, y'dig?
Love, P. Diddlysquat
How many AutoZone customers do you think have ever heard of SCO? For that matter how many do you think would care anyway?
Ah, good point.I imagine their customers think "Linux" is some sort of disposable window cleaning towlet that keeps rain off their windshield!
I know AutoZone doesn't seem like much of a Linux-centric company, but they actually host a LUG, Group of Linux Users, Memphis at their headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. They have graciously let us use their facilities, including a nice conference room with a projector and free downtown parking. Some of their employees have also given presentations on things ranging from wireless security to apache. Please support AutoZone in this lawsuit, even if it's just in online forums. (disclaimer: I am not an employee of AutoZone, just a golum member)
The paranoid part of me suspects this lawsuit is partly a punitive move to 'punish' companies that show support for the community. AutoZone is not the biggest Linux user out there, but they seem more community-minded than most.
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Well, I read the headline and thought, "My god, a guy so antisocial he mated with his computer?! At least use the USB port instead of PS2..." Thank goodness it was a Playstation 2 :P
:) In all fairness, I'm sure most girls would pick a GameCube over a guy.
Hey, this being California, the guy might still legally wed his newfound love!
I hate to make fun of someone who was just rejected in favor of a game console, but think of it this way: The PS2 was probobly new in original packaging, never been opened. The girl, on the other hand...
Okay, that was mean
Actually, you're wrong, but you understate your case. You're still thinking in state vs. state terms, when getting rid of the electoral college would erase all differences between states, and make the issue an urban vs. rural one.
1) Candidates wouldn't carry New York state, they'd have to carry New York city. Also the same for Texas - they need to carry Houston, Austin, and Dallas, not Texas.
2) A citydweller in Bismarck, North Dakota or Boise, Idaho will be more likely to see a campaign stop than a rural farmer in California, New York or Texas.
3) It wouldn't matter what state a candidate is from, it would matter that they don't act like a hick or a farmer. And the level of religion in candidates will drop considerably.
Getting rid of the electoral college would have good and bad effects, but I think that it's more bad than good. I do think that we need to reform how the states proportion their votes, but that's a different topic...
The grandparent poster is referring to the time when Mattel made "talking Barbie" dolls that had a voice chip with several phrases programmed in. It had phrases like "Math is hard", which upset some parents.
Toys like pokemon, GI Joe, etc. may have ulterior messages (consumerism and violence), but neither of them discourages kids from trying to achieve intellectually - in fact, I seem to recall that the GI Joe cartoon's slogan was "Knowing is half the battle".
So I think that the general consumer culture around girls does discourage them from trying math and science at an early age, though its effects are less for older kids.