I thought free internet died with the proverbial dot com fallout.. it will be interesting to see the sustainability of this project. This might also hurt online radio like shoutcast.
I agree, we need more of the good-old-fashioned text adventures, games like Rogue, the old Scott Adams adventures, and even ones with graphics like Hugo, while cheezy, were still pretty fun to play and figure out..
Here's a link to some of the old text-based adventure games:
Scroll Lock and industrial design
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Is Caps Lock Dead?
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The question of removing keybaord keys has come up before somewhere else, and people asked why Scroll Lock is still there, and one response was that it would be more expensive to take it out and change the keyboard layout than it would be to leave it there. As far as CAPS LOCK is concerned, I imagine a similar argument applies, as well as the valid arguments for keeping it that have already been posted
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It looks like they do pay royalties to a certain group that represents many artists: Or so they say here
We'll know if it's right by the RIAA factor, being how fast they can get a subpeona out to these guys.
I thought free internet died with the proverbial dot com fallout.. it will be interesting to see the sustainability of this project. This might also hurt online radio like shoutcast.
I agree, we need more of the good-old-fashioned text adventures, games like Rogue, the old Scott Adams adventures, and even ones with graphics like Hugo, while cheezy, were still pretty fun to play and figure out..
Here's a link to some of the old text-based adventure games:
http://ww1.freearcade.com/textadventures.html
The question of removing keybaord keys has come up before somewhere else, and people asked why Scroll Lock is still there, and one response was that it would be more expensive to take it out and change the keyboard layout than it would be to leave it there. As far as CAPS LOCK is concerned, I imagine a similar argument applies, as well as the valid arguments for keeping it that have already been posted