I was talking to a friend of mine in the computer labs in my uni's CS building today. We were talking about Windows 98, then Windows 3. This reminded my friend of something that happened. He's a part of the Tech Support mailing list that our uni has. Just recently, someone sent out an e-mail asking if anyone had the hardware and software to get some data off of some 8 inch floppies. Some medical group needed data on Vietnam vets, and had the floppies with the data on it.
Congratulations, you have 2 DVDs with backed up configs and passwords. But just having the medium with the data on it won't help you much 20 years from now, if you can't access it. They may (probably will) rot. It seems to me that that's what this thing is about (who reads TFA anyway?): making the data readable in both the sense that it's there, and we can actually get to it.
Shoot a gun downtown? Terrorism. Unless the person shot is an abortion doctor. In that case, it's not terrorism at all, but rather someone standing up for their beliefs.
[quote]We've seen it so many times before, because the advertisers have a much louder and more focussed message, so they usually get what they want.[/quote]
Where have we seen this before in video games?
"Nerf the engineer class or else we pull our adverts." "If you don't change the campaign so Nod is the canonical winner, then we won't do business with you."
Hey man, that constant is a big thing. It could be the difference between the equation giving an answer of 1 and an answer of 10000000000000000000000001.
Wow, it's an open source fundamentalist! Let's ban closed-open source marriages since they aren't pure and the most Holy of Programmers has spoken out against it.
We don't have a DVD player in my dorm room, so we just use the 360 whenever we want to watch a movie. The only problem we've had is the fact that xbox live isn't automatically signed out when a movie is put in, which just seems silly not to do.
I believe the purpose of university patents is so that the public doesn't have to pay lots of money for the universities. If they can make some money for themselves, they don't have to have the people pay for them.
Why did you need all those books? If you're a player, all you "need" is the Player's Handbook. But even that info is released as OGL. Just look at www.d20srd.org for that info and more. The other books are definitely not needed to play. Sure, they have a lot of cool stuff in them, but they aren't essential. You can have a core game and do just fine. Judging from what's on d20srd.org, they also appear to have released Unearthed Arcana as OGL, which adds a lot of variations on how to play.
Maybe you really did need 20+ books for 1e or 2e, but I kinda doubt it:)
I think those roles already existed, although not officially. The Fighter was usually the guy who soaked up damage. The Rogue was the guy who ran around stabbing things in the back for lots of damage, the cleric could heal and tank, and the wizard could blast and die really easily.
There's a book that added a Knight class, which was basically being able to control which monsters attacked who and being able to take on lots of damage. Basically an MMO Tank. But the general idea was there earlier.
Wesnoth isn't an FPS. But it does have a story. I think that most OSS games will be about networked matches, because getting people to write netcode is probably easier than getting people to write an amazing story.
Actually, the problems started after an update. I think the rush to get the update out before Christmas is what caused this, not the rush of new people. Most people will agree that the games catalogue for the Xbox 360 is the best out of any of the major next-gen consoles, and that with Xbox Live is what sold it to me. Plus they keep on working on the software emulation, which is nice too. Ninja Gaiden is quite fun;)
I started to see problems after the 22nd. Before then, everything worked really well. I thought for a while that it was my wireless connection, but I guess not.
This is the only time I've seen XBL have issues, so I wouldn't judge it just by now. It's usually great. They just did an update a few weeks ago, so that might've done this.
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The mind boggles! It does nothing!
/. has been quite good about dupes lately.
I think we can let it slide once and a while.
I was talking to a friend of mine in the computer labs in my uni's CS building today. We were talking about Windows 98, then Windows 3. This reminded my friend of something that happened. He's a part of the Tech Support mailing list that our uni has. Just recently, someone sent out an e-mail asking if anyone had the hardware and software to get some data off of some 8 inch floppies. Some medical group needed data on Vietnam vets, and had the floppies with the data on it.
Congratulations, you have 2 DVDs with backed up configs and passwords.
But just having the medium with the data on it won't help you much 20 years from now, if you can't access it. They may (probably will) rot. It seems to me that that's what this thing is about (who reads TFA anyway?): making the data readable in both the sense that it's there, and we can actually get to it.
[quote]We've seen it so many times before, because the advertisers have a much louder and more focussed message, so they usually get what they want.[/quote]
Where have we seen this before in video games?
"Nerf the engineer class or else we pull our adverts."
"If you don't change the campaign so Nod is the canonical winner, then we won't do business with you."
and that he has a sense of humor.
It's kind of hard not to "troll" Apple users when they get seriously pissed off at the slightest negative thing.
Hey man, that constant is a big thing. It could be the difference between the equation giving an answer of 1 and an answer of 10000000000000000000000001.
Big stuff.
Wow, it's an open source fundamentalist! Let's ban closed-open source marriages since they aren't pure and the most Holy of Programmers has spoken out against it.
We don't have a DVD player in my dorm room, so we just use the 360 whenever we want to watch a movie. The only problem we've had is the fact that xbox live isn't automatically signed out when a movie is put in, which just seems silly not to do.
Or MOOKXGNUL for short. I think it should be pronounced as "MOOK ZNULL".
I believe the purpose of university patents is so that the public doesn't have to pay lots of money for the universities. If they can make some money for themselves, they don't have to have the people pay for them.
It's a star wars reference! It wasn't meant to be serious.
No. It doesn't beg the question. It maybe "raises the question", but it doesn't beg it at all.
plaid speed?
If you saw it a few weeks ago, why didn't you submit it to slashdot? Your post makes no indication that you did so.
Slashdot is like OSS. If there's something you don't like, try to fix it yourself. At least that's what I've been told dozens of times.
See what I don't understand is this:
Is it a giant Fossil Rodent? I thought they turn to fossils after they die, not before.
Or is it a giant rodent fossil?
Jeez, first reddit turns into ronpaulit, now slashdot too?
Honestly, the one thing that's keeping me from learning about him is how god damn annoying his supporters are.
Why did you need all those books? If you're a player, all you "need" is the Player's Handbook. But even that info is released as OGL. Just look at www.d20srd.org for that info and more. The other books are definitely not needed to play. Sure, they have a lot of cool stuff in them, but they aren't essential. You can have a core game and do just fine. Judging from what's on d20srd.org, they also appear to have released Unearthed Arcana as OGL, which adds a lot of variations on how to play.
:)
Maybe you really did need 20+ books for 1e or 2e, but I kinda doubt it
I think those roles already existed, although not officially. The Fighter was usually the guy who soaked up damage. The Rogue was the guy who ran around stabbing things in the back for lots of damage, the cleric could heal and tank, and the wizard could blast and die really easily.
There's a book that added a Knight class, which was basically being able to control which monsters attacked who and being able to take on lots of damage. Basically an MMO Tank. But the general idea was there earlier.
I'd assume only loosely. You could still use the general ideas, but might need to toy with the mechanics a bit.
"Hardcore Wii: Putting the Hard back into the Wii"
Wesnoth isn't an FPS. But it does have a story. I think that most OSS games will be about networked matches, because getting people to write netcode is probably easier than getting people to write an amazing story.
Actually, the problems started after an update. I think the rush to get the update out before Christmas is what caused this, not the rush of new people. Most people will agree that the games catalogue for the Xbox 360 is the best out of any of the major next-gen consoles, and that with Xbox Live is what sold it to me. Plus they keep on working on the software emulation, which is nice too. Ninja Gaiden is quite fun ;)
It must be you then! GET HIM!
I started to see problems after the 22nd. Before then, everything worked really well. I thought for a while that it was my wireless connection, but I guess not.
This is the only time I've seen XBL have issues, so I wouldn't judge it just by now. It's usually great. They just did an update a few weeks ago, so that might've done this.