If you're going by phonetics, then backwards N is i, backwards N with thingy above it is j and e with dots is 'jo'.
The only rarely written down letter in russian is the latter, if you go by the russian rules, not the cyrrilic transliteration into latin alphabet.:>
Actually about half of the russian vowels are a combination of 'j' and some base vowel. Like '|-O' letter is basicly 'ju'... The reverse R letter is basicly 'ja'. The N with a breve is known as 'jot' (close), or eee-the short. I know. Im russian.
Well, you could throw out 'yo' () (one with the dots on top), since it is rarely used. You can't throw out "backwards N" () since it is normal and common sound/letter, as commonly used as i is in english. I would try to preserve the as well, since it is quite useful too. So there you go. Throw one letter out and you have 32 ones.
Oh, I remember that old russian alphabet had many more characters. Up to at one point 51 iirc?
The funny thing is that we here (eastern europe*cough*soviet russia*cough*) were and perhaps are experiencing the same thing. Although it is not the jobs its the brains. They got 'insourced' to western countries, US, Ireland, Canada, etc.
Like recent aquisition of Babayan's team by Intel.
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Let's see... about us
well, we ARE the Crimson Corporation, and the Crimson Corporation is us.
When the Corporation's earnings are up, our quality of life soars, and our benefit packages improve.
The further up the ladder you are, the more you profit individually.
When times are hard, the Corporation must cut costs, usually by laying off employees.
Since everything on our world is Corporation property
this means any ex-employee is instantly trespassing and is guilty of stealing Corporation property
such as air and sunlight. The only appropriate penalty for theft
is to feed the furnace.
Like in the Pacifici in WWII, the Japanese would go blindly charge at a few marines, but the highly specialised and mobile marines would wipe them all out with a few casualties.
I would like to point out a flaw in your analogy. Remember Tarawa.
That is, before the marines became highly specialised and mobile, thay went through such places as Guadau Canal (fierce month long fighting between equal forces of japanese troops and US marines), Tarawa (tiny island that was bombarded for six days, yet when the atack started by the elite 2nd marine division, which had new amphibious craft, first used during the war there, lost 90 out of 125 of them and the 5000 defending japaneese killed and wounded 3000 marines, with an unusually high percentage of deaths) and more.
Oh, btw (this is an obligatory obvious trolly-question here), when the landing in Normandy occured, the coast was guarded by two divisions (300something and 700something)... Guess where the rest of 300th and 700th divisions were?;>
When I am thinking of games of old, I can find you examples of both electronical music and orchestral music used to greatly enliven the atmosphere. That is, even then there were two approaches (Im speaking about the pc games of the beginning of 90s).
Anyone remembers Betrayal at Krondor? The cd version with awesome music? Thats one of the best examples of 'old school' archestral pieces that is far above a lot of I ever heard in a game (the floppy version has music that is not as good, but on other hand it does not have a full cd for music).
On other hand, I have to do the obligatory StarControl plug (and not to forget Ur-Quan Masters, remake with cool remixed music). Thats one of the better examples of the really good electro music.
Still, there are very good pieces in both old arcade, nes, genesis games and such like.
Get the NSF Winamp plugins, and you can listen to the really cool sound of old nes games. Do a google search on NSF files, and there are quite a few places where you can get them. My very personal favorite is music Dragon Fighter.
Hmm, too bad that I have to get back to work. There's still a lot of ground to be covered. It is so unfortunate, that Soviet Russia started with Speccy and did not have anything before it. So many great games that we (russians) did not get to play.:>
I'd be more vorried about the flight preparations. Not only you have to be quite healthy in the first place so you can survive the launch. Not only you have to spend a year, or so in training camps where they stress test you in preparation... But before you are clear for launch they remove anything that might be troublesome and can't be fixed in flight. Apendix for example. Tonsils and the like too I think?
I have to plug the Ur-Quan Masters, which is IMHO the very best one on one deathmatch game ever available, even if you don't count all other of its pluses. Much older then Quake (1/2/3) too.
You can go with the old Soviet Russia anecdote (its not valid as slashdot 'soviet russia' thing, since is a good old valid anecdote... from soviet russia...)
So, Vasiliy Ivanovich tells Pet'ka:
- Americans have landed on the moon! The politburo is sending you on a mission to the sun.
Pet'ka replies:
- Vasiliy Ivanovich, are they nuts? I'll burn there!
- Ne dreyf'(don't fear) Pet'ka! They aren't stupid. You'll fly during the night!
(This article in Moscow times explains a lot of old soviet russian humour. Good reference).
Thats right. It would be nifty if we could launch Mr. Berezovski. I bet we'd even do it for free. Still, he needs to be extradicted from Britain first.;)
Hmm. Try Tribes or Tribes 2. They are the MMO of the FPS.;) And real fun. %) And there's Tribes Vengance comming out sometime soonish (if not already). Beleive me, if you have enough people, Tribes have pace and fluidity, that is maybe even superior to Quake1/2/3 (or whatever).:)
Ah, yes, old content dense games.
I, perhaps would not kill, but am partial to commiting lesser atrocities for getting my hands on the MMO version of old gems like Star Control (2 of course). Which is much older, but also quite content dense single player game. One of the best games of all time ever made too.:)
Hopefully the Ur-Quan Masters project will take that direction somewhere after the 1.0 release. It could grow into something as fabulous as this MMO remake of the Pirates!
While there is in currently made games, and games of old that can be improved in terms of appeal for both casual and hard core gamers, there are also a lot of good ideas, that can be taken from them.
Try using Aristotle's (I think) sleeping pattern. 15 minutes of sleep every three hours.
Perhaps with those 4 hours of sleep at night added in it can be done continously.
As someone who suffered of insomnia after brain concussion, this worked for me: I started working graveyard shifts and not sleeping at night. For some reason, in periods from about noon to about six-nine pm. Hope it will works for you too.
Hmm, I lived on a 386-40 till '97. I didn't feel the need to upgrade till it died of coffee poisoning. . o O ( Note to self: when poured coffee is a major turn off for a computer. )
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If you're going by phonetics, then backwards N is i, backwards N with thingy above it is j and e with dots is 'jo'.
:>
The only rarely written down letter in russian is the latter, if you go by the russian rules, not the cyrrilic transliteration into latin alphabet.
Actually about half of the russian vowels are a combination of 'j' and some base vowel. Like '|-O' letter is basicly 'ju'... The reverse R letter is basicly 'ja'. The N with a breve is known as 'jot' (close), or eee-the short.
I know. Im russian.
Well, you could throw out 'yo' () (one with the dots on top), since it is rarely used. You can't throw out "backwards N" () since it is normal and common sound/letter, as commonly used as i is in english. I would try to preserve the as well, since it is quite useful too. So there you go. Throw one letter out and you have 32 ones. Oh, I remember that old russian alphabet had many more characters. Up to at one point 51 iirc?
33? ;)
Actually, I guess it depends on the magnitude you use. Of course for some unfathomable reason humans thing in decimal orders of magnitude. :)
The funny thing is that we here (eastern europe*cough*soviet russia*cough*) were and perhaps are experiencing the same thing. Although it is not the jobs its the brains. They got 'insourced' to western countries, US, Ireland, Canada, etc. Like recent aquisition of Babayan's team by Intel.
You wish to know more about us? Excellent! After all, knowledge should be free, eh Captain?! Let's see... about us well, we ARE the Crimson Corporation, and the Crimson Corporation is us. When the Corporation's earnings are up, our quality of life soars, and our benefit packages improve. The further up the ladder you are, the more you profit individually.
When times are hard, the Corporation must cut costs, usually by laying off employees. Since everything on our world is Corporation property this means any ex-employee is instantly trespassing and is guilty of stealing Corporation property such as air and sunlight. The only appropriate penalty for theft is to feed the furnace.
And Im not making it up.
For some piece of hardware to qualify as semi-portable it needs to have at least one handle.
And to qualify as portable it needs two...
Now I wonder what is needed for ultra-portable?
(although keep in mind it is Soviet Russia I am talking about)
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Like in the Pacifici in WWII, the Japanese would go blindly charge at a few marines, but the highly specialised and mobile marines would wipe them all out with a few casualties.
;>
I would like to point out a flaw in your analogy. Remember Tarawa.
That is, before the marines became highly specialised and mobile, thay went through such places as Guadau Canal (fierce month long fighting between equal forces of japanese troops and US marines), Tarawa (tiny island that was bombarded for six days, yet when the atack started by the elite 2nd marine division, which had new amphibious craft, first used during the war there, lost 90 out of 125 of them and the 5000 defending japaneese killed and wounded 3000 marines, with an unusually high percentage of deaths) and more. Oh, btw (this is an obligatory obvious trolly-question here), when the landing in Normandy occured, the coast was guarded by two divisions (300something and 700something)... Guess where the rest of 300th and 700th divisions were?
When I am thinking of games of old, I can find you examples of both electronical music and orchestral music used to greatly enliven the atmosphere. That is, even then there were two approaches (Im speaking about the pc games of the beginning of 90s).
:>
Anyone remembers Betrayal at Krondor? The cd version with awesome music? Thats one of the best examples of 'old school' archestral pieces that is far above a lot of I ever heard in a game (the floppy version has music that is not as good, but on other hand it does not have a full cd for music).
On other hand, I have to do the obligatory StarControl plug (and not to forget Ur-Quan Masters, remake with cool remixed music). Thats one of the better examples of the really good electro music.
Still, there are very good pieces in both old arcade, nes, genesis games and such like. Get the NSF Winamp plugins, and you can listen to the really cool sound of old nes games. Do a google search on NSF files, and there are quite a few places where you can get them. My very personal favorite is music Dragon Fighter.
Hmm, too bad that I have to get back to work. There's still a lot of ground to be covered. It is so unfortunate, that Soviet Russia started with Speccy and did not have anything before it. So many great games that we (russians) did not get to play.
There was a wedding in space already. Unfortunately newlyweds had to wait for the groom to return to the surface... Sooo... No Sex.
I think you ment the MIR station.
ISS hopefully remains as floating cost. At least for a while.
I'd be more vorried about the flight preparations. Not only you have to be quite healthy in the first place so you can survive the launch. Not only you have to spend a year, or so in training camps where they stress test you in preparation... But before you are clear for launch they remove anything that might be troublesome and can't be fixed in flight. Apendix for example. Tonsils and the like too I think?
I have to plug the Ur-Quan Masters, which is IMHO the very best one on one deathmatch game ever available, even if you don't count all other of its pluses. Much older then Quake (1/2/3) too.
You can go with the old Soviet Russia anecdote (its not valid as slashdot 'soviet russia' thing, since is a good old valid anecdote... from soviet russia...) So, Vasiliy Ivanovich tells Pet'ka: - Americans have landed on the moon! The politburo is sending you on a mission to the sun. Pet'ka replies: - Vasiliy Ivanovich, are they nuts? I'll burn there! - Ne dreyf'(don't fear) Pet'ka! They aren't stupid. You'll fly during the night! (This article in Moscow times explains a lot of old soviet russian humour. Good reference).
Please consult Proposal for Russian Transliteration Standard. Ya sebye chut' golovu ne slomal poka prochital messagi iz etogo treda. Blin!
Thats right. It would be nifty if we could launch Mr. Berezovski. I bet we'd even do it for free. Still, he needs to be extradicted from Britain first. ;)
Hey, wasn't called "Forever" for nothing. They knew what they were doing when named it like that.
Hmm. Try Tribes or Tribes 2. They are the MMO of the FPS. ;) And real fun. %) And there's Tribes Vengance comming out sometime soonish (if not already). Beleive me, if you have enough people, Tribes have pace and fluidity, that is maybe even superior to Quake1/2/3 (or whatever). :)
The TRPG is glorified Chess with bizzare rules and a side story. And -that- is what makes them rawk! (at least for me). %)
Ah, yes, old content dense games. I, perhaps would not kill, but am partial to commiting lesser atrocities for getting my hands on the MMO version of old gems like Star Control (2 of course). Which is much older, but also quite content dense single player game. One of the best games of all time ever made too. :)
Hopefully the Ur-Quan Masters project will take that direction somewhere after the 1.0 release. It could grow into something as fabulous as this MMO remake of the Pirates!
While there is in currently made games, and games of old that can be improved in terms of appeal for both casual and hard core gamers, there are also a lot of good ideas, that can be taken from them.
Try using Aristotle's (I think) sleeping pattern. 15 minutes of sleep every three hours. Perhaps with those 4 hours of sleep at night added in it can be done continously.
As someone who suffered of insomnia after brain concussion, this worked for me: I started working graveyard shifts and not sleeping at night. For some reason, in periods from about noon to about six-nine pm. Hope it will works for you too.
Hmm. Popcorn... %) Yep, I remember it being impossibly slow/fast on an AT at the same time. :)
With no relation to the Turbo button.
In either case, I've spent first half of the ninties with turbo mostly off, and second half with it mostly on.
Hmm, I lived on a 386-40 till '97. I didn't feel the need to upgrade till it died of coffee poisoning. . o O ( Note to self: when poured coffee is a major turn off for a computer. )