Mine's a 2000+ Sempron running FC3 and Apache. *chants my router could beat your router*. Sorry, joking aside, it's also my MythTV backend. Although, I'm hoping to replace it with an old Pentium running OpenBSD - just as the gateway.
I can't imagine ever buying a consumer router No, I really can't either. I explained my LAN setup to a mate the other day (he couldn't get the concept of a computer that also *routes* traffic like a "real" router). Then he accused me of having a weird setup. The truth is though, if I had a wireless-router-with-built-in-adsl-modem that most of my (non-or-slightly technical) friends have, I imagine I'd stare at it worredly for many hours, imagining it was letting in hackers behind my back...
who buys USB networking gear if they're running anything but Windows anyways?
Some of us get given them free. When I switched to a Linux (FC3 to be exact) router, it seemed a damn shame to buy a "proper" modem that plugs using a cat5 cable. Anyway, I'm damn relieved there are some kind people out there hacking linux drivers for these things!
Struggling to understand the minority influence of a small group of people -- Rome -- it wasn't until I played Medieval: Total War that I understood how it was that the group became so powerful or such attrocities were allowed to be comitted.
Then it hit me: Religeon was simply being used as a tool to gain power. In almost the exact same way I moved inquisitors around Europe to bolster belief in preparation for a crusade, so did they. Best thing I ever learnt from a game, I think.
I was so impressed with Splinter Cell's quotes on the Fifth Freedom I decided to have one of them as my MSN Messenger name. All week, I was IM'd by university majors several years older than me commenting on how (philosophically|politically) impressive my nick was!
(They were decidedly less impressed when I said it was from a game. So I gave up saying it was. Sad, but true!)
Actually, I think some scenarios where you can't win would add nice touches to the emotioneering aspect of the campaign. My ego does tend to be a little inflated when I know it's my destiny to never lose a single battle...
(Wasn't there a Starcraft map where you had to hold off the Zerg for 30 minutes before they finally overran your base? Or how about the map with the Xel'Naga temple? Not really the same though, I'm afraid...)
There is a minor problem there. The History Channel is boring. AOE is not. It's much easier to get kids to play AOE than to watch the History Channel.
Let's face it! Games are *fun*! Here we have a real chance to teach history in an *interesting* and *accessible* way, and we blow it like Hollywood on a cheap biopic.
I have no intension of reading a history book for this simple reason: they are very, very boring (to me. YMMV.)
On the other hand, I'll challenge you to a game of AOE any time you like. Even if this infringes on studying for my history exam.
Now wouldn't it be so much more efficient if we could learn and play at the same time? I don't think TFA was asking for gameplay to be changed, so this would have zero effect on the "fun" aspect of the games. Only the educational aspect.
Last point: Think back to primary school. Wouldn't you much rather play AOE if you get all your work done early than the crap that passses for "edutainment"?
No, I don't get the analogy at all. Probably because I'm a stupid blogger, eh! What you may not be able to grasp is that I know my blog is not interesting to people who don't know me. It's not for them, or for you. It's for my real-world friends and family, some who live in other countries, to see how I am. Most of them keep blogs, and it's simply the easiest way to keep in touch. Nevertheeless, the word blog does encompass these and other, community-driven web-logs such as netcraft's news site, and, yes, even slashdot. Like it or not, blogs of all kinds have a very real and useful impact in our lives. (Your life too, or you wouldn't be reading/.!)
Note to editors: I think slashback is really good. Many many times have I thought "That's an interesting story", and wondered what happened because of it. For example: Pressuring a multinational corporation. That kind of stuff always appears in the news, but very rarely do we actually see the effect of that pressure (because it isn't deemed "interesting"). In conclusion: I think slashback is one of the best things I've seen on slashdot in a long time.
Dude, I'm loving your "Cornucopia" idea. Kind of brings the Net back down to the ideal it was always supposed to be - a level-playing field, where no address is more important than any other. daniel.g14 on the same level as microsoft.a12. I like it!
Daniel
I'm not entirely sure. I just remember reading about this stunt, and did a quick google to refresh my memory. I *am* sure it was a Postmodernism Generator output that was submitted though - or so I heard.
You think that's cool? Physicist Alan Sokal apparently submitted one of the essays written by the Generator, titled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", to the scholarly magazine "Social Texts". It was accepted!
I've often wondered how hard it would be to take their hardware, objectively review it, and hand it back to them. Pay for the site using "review money", and give their product crappy reviews.
Of course, such a course of action is less ethical and has more risk (in integrity) than an another course of action. Just sayin'...
I'm just a student but I've often wondered - really really wondered - why that doesn't happen. Especially with us geeks. I do know that when I am a team leader, this is the way I'll be working. (At least to start with, to see if it works.)
As for your counterpoint, there is a sound piece of advice my dad always used to say - "Always say 'yes' to your boss. As in, 'Sure, I'll do that project in 9 months' as opposed to 'Sorry, I really can't do it in 3.'" (Assuming said project would be 6 months under normal circumstances.
I could (and should) mod you up, but I'd rather reply. I, too, do not like GTA. I reckon the reason GTA is so popular is that it's so freeform. You wanna do such and such? Go do it! Now, I'm very much a hard-core gamer, having played many many games. Freeform is nothing new to me - Deus Ex, Thief, while not exactly comparable to GTA are certainly freeform when compared to, say, Max Payne. Now two of the most popular games are MP and GTA. MP, like Doom 3, and many other games, is rather less than freeform, while GTA offers practically unlimited freedom. But that's all it has going for it. And, to me, freeform is nothing new.
I also think it's very Freudian. In GTA, where the game doesnt 'punish' you for killing policemen, or anyone else for that matter, there's no motivation not to do so. At least in Half Life killing Barney means you dont have a useful sidekick to draw fire. In Driver, it's not possible. Faced with a lack of dis-incentive not to do these actions, the id takes over and the superego is thrown out of the picture. Pure impulse + desire should = alot of fun, as there is no ego to rationalize ethics or morality into the picture.
Yes, I think GTA is the lowest of the low, mostly because it relies on such a cheap gimick for popularity, but also because it's just plain boring.
(FYI: I consider myself very liberal, although, coincidentially I *did* just buy Kingdom Hearts today. Looking forward to playing it!)
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Yeah, but the resolution sucks. I hope GM bring satelite imagery soon...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ba160bh&hl=en
Done. Now where's my pack a' smokes?
I can't imagine ever buying a consumer router No, I really can't either. I explained my LAN setup to a mate the other day (he couldn't get the concept of a computer that also *routes* traffic like a "real" router). Then he accused me of having a weird setup. The truth is though, if I had a wireless-router-with-built-in-adsl-modem that most of my (non-or-slightly technical) friends have, I imagine I'd stare at it worredly for many hours, imagining it was letting in hackers behind my back...
Some of us get given them free. When I switched to a Linux (FC3 to be exact) router, it seemed a damn shame to buy a "proper" modem that plugs using a cat5 cable. Anyway, I'm damn relieved there are some kind people out there hacking linux drivers for these things!
... and I just spent all my mod points. Damn!
Then it hit me: Religeon was simply being used as a tool to gain power. In almost the exact same way I moved inquisitors around Europe to bolster belief in preparation for a crusade, so did they. Best thing I ever learnt from a game, I think.
I was so impressed with Splinter Cell's quotes on the Fifth Freedom I decided to have one of them as my MSN Messenger name. All week, I was IM'd by university majors several years older than me commenting on how (philosophically|politically) impressive my nick was!
(They were decidedly less impressed when I said it was from a game. So I gave up saying it was. Sad, but true!)
(Wasn't there a Starcraft map where you had to hold off the Zerg for 30 minutes before they finally overran your base? Or how about the map with the Xel'Naga temple? Not really the same though, I'm afraid...)
Let's face it! Games are *fun*! Here we have a real chance to teach history in an *interesting* and *accessible* way, and we blow it like Hollywood on a cheap biopic.
Shame, really.
No, but it should be.
I'd much rather spend a few hours having fun and learning than spend a few hours having fun and not learning.
I have no intension of reading a history book for this simple reason: they are very, very boring (to me. YMMV.)
On the other hand, I'll challenge you to a game of AOE any time you like. Even if this infringes on studying for my history exam.
Now wouldn't it be so much more efficient if we could learn and play at the same time? I don't think TFA was asking for gameplay to be changed, so this would have zero effect on the "fun" aspect of the games. Only the educational aspect.
Last point: Think back to primary school. Wouldn't you much rather play AOE if you get all your work done early than the crap that passses for "edutainment"?
No, I don't get the analogy at all. Probably because I'm a stupid blogger, eh! What you may not be able to grasp is that I know my blog is not interesting to people who don't know me. It's not for them, or for you. It's for my real-world friends and family, some who live in other countries, to see how I am. Most of them keep blogs, and it's simply the easiest way to keep in touch. Nevertheeless, the word blog does encompass these and other, community-driven web-logs such as netcraft's news site, and, yes, even slashdot. Like it or not, blogs of all kinds have a very real and useful impact in our lives. (Your life too, or you wouldn't be reading /.!)
Erm, I don't know. Why would you? I find this one quite interesting though, oh, and this one too.
Note to editors: I think slashback is really good. Many many times have I thought "That's an interesting story", and wondered what happened because of it. For example: Pressuring a multinational corporation. That kind of stuff always appears in the news, but very rarely do we actually see the effect of that pressure (because it isn't deemed "interesting"). In conclusion: I think slashback is one of the best things I've seen on slashdot in a long time.
Am I the only one?
Oops, really should have previewed...
Mum: What's your website?
Me: djcf-dot-sytes-dot-net
Mum: (writes) djcf.sytes.com
Me: No, djcf.sytes.net
Mum: djcf.sytes.net.com?
Me: (screams)
Mum: What's your website? Me: djcf-dot-sytes-dot-net Mum: (writes) djcf.sytes.com Me: No, djcf.sytes.net Mum: djcf.sytes.net.com? Me: (screams)
Dude, I'm loving your "Cornucopia" idea. Kind of brings the Net back down to the ideal it was always supposed to be - a level-playing field, where no address is more important than any other. daniel.g14 on the same level as microsoft.a12. I like it! Daniel
I'm not entirely sure. I just remember reading about this stunt, and did a quick google to refresh my memory. I *am* sure it was a Postmodernism Generator output that was submitted though - or so I heard.
You think that's cool? Physicist Alan Sokal apparently submitted one of the essays written by the Generator, titled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", to the scholarly magazine "Social Texts". It was accepted!
I've often wondered how hard it would be to take their hardware, objectively review it, and hand it back to them. Pay for the site using "review money", and give their product crappy reviews.
Of course, such a course of action is less ethical and has more risk (in integrity) than an another course of action. Just sayin'...
I like it - I don't need no stinking fish, I'll take a terranium in my supercomputer!
Brilliant idea. (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe they should burn the Declaration of Independence while they're at it, after all, I saw a copy online somewhere.
LMAO. Only on Slashdot would this be modded "insightfull". (Not down-grading the humour of this post, of course.)
I'm just a student but I've often wondered - really really wondered - why that doesn't happen. Especially with us geeks. I do know that when I am a team leader, this is the way I'll be working. (At least to start with, to see if it works.)
As for your counterpoint, there is a sound piece of advice my dad always used to say - "Always say 'yes' to your boss. As in, 'Sure, I'll do that project in 9 months' as opposed to 'Sorry, I really can't do it in 3.'" (Assuming said project would be 6 months under normal circumstances.
I could (and should) mod you up, but I'd rather reply. I, too, do not like GTA. I reckon the reason GTA is so popular is that it's so freeform. You wanna do such and such? Go do it! Now, I'm very much a hard-core gamer, having played many many games. Freeform is nothing new to me - Deus Ex, Thief, while not exactly comparable to GTA are certainly freeform when compared to, say, Max Payne. Now two of the most popular games are MP and GTA. MP, like Doom 3, and many other games, is rather less than freeform, while GTA offers practically unlimited freedom. But that's all it has going for it. And, to me, freeform is nothing new.
I also think it's very Freudian. In GTA, where the game doesnt 'punish' you for killing policemen, or anyone else for that matter, there's no motivation not to do so. At least in Half Life killing Barney means you dont have a useful sidekick to draw fire. In Driver, it's not possible. Faced with a lack of dis-incentive not to do these actions, the id takes over and the superego is thrown out of the picture. Pure impulse + desire should = alot of fun, as there is no ego to rationalize ethics or morality into the picture.
Yes, I think GTA is the lowest of the low, mostly because it relies on such a cheap gimick for popularity, but also because it's just plain boring.
(FYI: I consider myself very liberal, although, coincidentially I *did* just buy Kingdom Hearts today. Looking forward to playing it!)