Yes, I know what you mean. We're a lot more advanced culturally, not just technologically - I think mature is the word - than our 15th-16th century counterparts. I just don't see ourselves raining bullets and missiles on these tribes anytime soon. (At least not on purpose.) Its probably because we have no motivation to displace these people, even though we are stronger. Our 16th century counterparts had lands to conquer, riches to get. What I'm saying is, we have next to nothing to gain by plundering these tribes, which brought me to say why hypothetically, a far more advanced alien civilization will probably view us the same way. (Unless of course I missed something there, like they plan to mine our planet to death for resources we haven't discovered yet, or haven't any use yet.)
Reading the article made me think if in the grand scheme of things, are we are the equivalent of these people to sufficiently advanced alien civilizations? "Spears against helicopters" might as well me like one of our Raptors going up against alien recon craft. Like this tribe, we'll probably think they're hostile (our literature, films are filled with alien war themes) but for all we know, they aren't really. It would probably be hubris to think something that advanced would go out of their way to invade us. (Like sending modern marines with automatic weapons against spear-wielding people, in terms of scale.)
Why was parent modded troll? My own Linux From Scratch setup weighs in at a little over 100 mb and it includes gcc, perl, python, vim, php, mysql, gtk+, some games, etc.
From the website:
When you install a regular distribution, you often end up installing a lot of programs that you would probably never use. They're just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. It's not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was approximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution. I'm running mine on a Celeron 366 with 128 mb ram. It took about a full day to compile everything. (Would take far less on a modern machine). Ok, its not for everyone, but its perfect if space is at a premium.
You didn't say in what condition they're in. Mint/Near-mint? Good, Fair? Anyway, to give you an idea, a brand-new (presumably M/NM) copy of Masterpieces of Infocom can cost up to almost $300. I'm not sure how much the boxes alone would cost though. Would be nice if the original manuals, collectibles, floppies were included. (Floppies might still work.) Compilations like Ultimate Might and Magic, Ultima Collection (I have them) fetch $30-60. I don't plan on selling the boxes. Ah, the good old days.
I don't know. In the 80s, back in the days of MS-DOS, I vowed never to switch from a CLI. A GUI (on a regular PC) was not only slow as molasses, I could think and type faster on a keyboard than use those new-fangled things called mice. I bought one just for the heck of it. It came with a primitive paint program and a TSR for shortcuts. I figured it'd have a niche but it would never hit mainstream. I wasn't the only one who felt that way. There's a lot of skepticism judging from the posts so far, but who knows? Resistance is normal I guess at the start. We'll have to wait and see.
English isn't my first language. When I picked up his books when I was around 10 back in the 80s, I learned big words/terms like milieu, gestalt, myriad, vis a vis, i.e., e.g., et al thinking they were normal for that age.
Spent an inordinate amount of time finding out what glaives, voulges, bec de corbins looked like. That was after all, long before we had internet.
Gary was a very intelligent man, but never ever condescending in how he wrote.
Sigh. Would have wanted to meet him. He'll be missed.
Yes, I agree with your points. Company-issued computers should be for company use only. I was also thinking along the lines of those freelance developers and/or small companies who use their PCs/notebooks for both work and play, where the rules may not be as cut and dried or where the developers are the owners as well. I guess you know what I'm trying to say. I should have made the distinction clearer though. My bad.
Again, I agree that one should only use their company-issued computers for their intended use.
Very true. And just because they're corporate users or scientists, doesn't mean they're not gamers in their spare time. A lot of corporate users are in fact gamers. Not necessarily hard-core gamers who play Crysis at insane resolutions with AA enabled, but gamers nonetheless.
Wish I could mod you up. Hmmm. Didn't think of that. Yeah, pretty much everything's insulated, and this is exactly what a lot of old-school people don't like. Old disliking the new. Nothing new there.
The way I see it, a very rough analogy would be like this: AD&D was like the Win9x series, based on top of OD&D. 2E was like WinME. 3E was like WinXP, and 3.5E was like WinXP SP2. And 4E is Vista. The other superior RPGs, (this is subjective, and can't pinpoint a particular game at the moment) like Linux/Mac/BSD. OSRIC, an open-source, AD&D clone is probably like ReactOS/Wine. I'm still into AD&D 1st Ed. (And yup, still dual-booting into Win98.)
1. How to find one? Start a programming reality show, with a panel of three judges. Each week, each of the candidates will program snippets of code. Viewers will text in their votes. Bottom one or two gets voted off each week till the programming superstar remains.
Winner will get a huge cash incentive plus employment, stock options, etc. Any code he makes during that time will be open-source.
2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
I can just see it now: African-american judge: Y'know, you've always been my favorite dawg! I think you started off a bit unsure, but you nailed it in the end! Female judge: Your code... Its... just so pure. It cuts thru all the obfuscation. It really moves my heart. I'm your biggest fan. Brit judge: I just don't get it. You want to take on a piece of code that big that's been done to death by Knuth, you have to at least do it right. Your naming convention is dreadful, and the algorithm's uninspired. You want to stay on the show, you'll have to do better than that.
Speaking of sturdy, are the Lenovo Thinkpads sturdy as their IBM counterparts? We owned a couple of IBM Thinkpads in the mid 90s and I'm planning to get a new one now. So far I only have anecdotal evidence that goes both ways.
Not just WarCraft, also SC1 (Original and BW) patch version 1.15.2
- patch 1.15.2
Feature Changes
- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the game. To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:
Windows Users: - Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under Explorer Folder Options. - If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq". - If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft:Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".
Thanks for the tip. I checked it out and saw this though:
Our license agreement with Wizards of the Coast has ended. This means that certain rulebooks using material from TSR/WotC products, or the D&D logo, are now unavailable from our web store. But don't worry - many are still circulating in local and online stores, such as Amazon.com! Too bad, hope they renew the license or hope someone else does.
I wonder what would happen if all of the 75,000 people signing for XP would have donated 20 dollars to the ReactOS project [reactos.org]. $1,500,000 bucks doesn't sound any bad at all. Wow, now that's a thought. The folks working on that one are pretty strapped. $1.5 million would make a big difference, maybe even push it to beta sooner than we think. Or think about what that amount of money could do for wine, which is far more polished by now. Wish I had some mod points.
I do as a matter of fact, have a 400MHz PII and a ~1.5GB (maybe less than half of that) install footprint, but I'm using LFS. I get to choose the packages that I want. It takes about a day to compile everything (I made scripts to ease the tedium). For those who won't bother, a 5 MB Ubuntu Minimal CD would do, plus a fast connection. Should be just about the same.
Or to save you a trip to the shopping cart (plus I think you have to register at rpgnow first) you can also download OSRIC here.
I wanted the real AD&D rulebooks so I headed off to paizo.com to buy the some PDF rulebooks. At $4 a pop, I got the PHB, DMG, MMs I&II, Unearthed Arcana, Oriental Adventures, for a total of $24. Not bad. The scans are decent, but nothing beats the real thing. Can't seem to find Hackmaster though.
Well said. WinMe isn't without its merits. I must admit I haven't used WinMe as extensively as Win98SE (which I still use once in a while) but whenever I do, it feels snappier than 98 and appears to be stable. Thanks for giving a balanced view of WinMe. Years from now, people would be saying almost exactly the same things about Vista on their entry-level, octa-core machines. My only gripe about Vista is its inability to run my 90s games (Homm2, Alpha Centauri, etc) without going thru hoops (and lots of them.) Then again, I'm probably a niche market. We'll see what SP1 will bring to the table pretty soon.
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And we all know that the cake is a lie.
Dude, please send the second terminator. I am still typing this on Windows, so apparently, the mission failed.
Yes, I know what you mean. We're a lot more advanced culturally, not just technologically - I think mature is the word - than our 15th-16th century counterparts. I just don't see ourselves raining bullets and missiles on these tribes anytime soon. (At least not on purpose.) Its probably because we have no motivation to displace these people, even though we are stronger. Our 16th century counterparts had lands to conquer, riches to get. What I'm saying is, we have next to nothing to gain by plundering these tribes, which brought me to say why hypothetically, a far more advanced alien civilization will probably view us the same way. (Unless of course I missed something there, like they plan to mine our planet to death for resources we haven't discovered yet, or haven't any use yet.)
"Previously uncontacted planet photographed"
Reading the article made me think if in the grand scheme of things, are we are the equivalent of these people to sufficiently advanced alien civilizations? "Spears against helicopters" might as well me like one of our Raptors going up against alien recon craft. Like this tribe, we'll probably think they're hostile (our literature, films are filled with alien war themes) but for all we know, they aren't really. It would probably be hubris to think something that advanced would go out of their way to invade us. (Like sending modern marines with automatic weapons against spear-wielding people, in terms of scale.)
Arrghh. Too much Civ!!! (One more turn...)
From the website: When you install a regular distribution, you often end up installing a lot of programs that you would probably never use. They're just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. It's not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was approximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution. I'm running mine on a Celeron 366 with 128 mb ram. It took about a full day to compile everything. (Would take far less on a modern machine). Ok, its not for everyone, but its perfect if space is at a premium.
You didn't say in what condition they're in. Mint/Near-mint? Good, Fair? Anyway, to give you an idea, a brand-new (presumably M/NM) copy of Masterpieces of Infocom can cost up to almost $300. I'm not sure how much the boxes alone would cost though. Would be nice if the original manuals, collectibles, floppies were included. (Floppies might still work.) Compilations like Ultimate Might and Magic, Ultima Collection (I have them) fetch $30-60. I don't plan on selling the boxes. Ah, the good old days.
Five days you say? Hmmm. What a coincidence. Also, it will be Israel's 60th anniversary as a nation on that date more or less.
IIRC, WfW 3.11 on a 386DX-40 with 16MB, or even 8MB of RAM was pretty decent. More than decent in fact. Now 4MB... that's a different story.
I don't know. In the 80s, back in the days of MS-DOS, I vowed never to switch from a CLI. A GUI (on a regular PC) was not only slow as molasses, I could think and type faster on a keyboard than use those new-fangled things called mice. I bought one just for the heck of it. It came with a primitive paint program and a TSR for shortcuts. I figured it'd have a niche but it would never hit mainstream. I wasn't the only one who felt that way. There's a lot of skepticism judging from the posts so far, but who knows? Resistance is normal I guess at the start. We'll have to wait and see.
A brief tribute.
English isn't my first language. When I picked up his books when I was around 10 back in the 80s, I learned big words/terms like milieu, gestalt, myriad, vis a vis, i.e., e.g., et al thinking they were normal for that age.
Spent an inordinate amount of time finding out what glaives, voulges, bec de corbins looked like. That was after all, long before we had internet.
Gary was a very intelligent man, but never ever condescending in how he wrote.
Sigh. Would have wanted to meet him. He'll be missed.
Rest in peace Gary.
Yes, I agree with your points. Company-issued computers should be for company use only. I was also thinking along the lines of those freelance developers and/or small companies who use their PCs/notebooks for both work and play, where the rules may not be as cut and dried or where the developers are the owners as well. I guess you know what I'm trying to say. I should have made the distinction clearer though. My bad.
Again, I agree that one should only use their company-issued computers for their intended use.
Very true. And just because they're corporate users or scientists, doesn't mean they're not gamers in their spare time. A lot of corporate users are in fact gamers. Not necessarily hard-core gamers who play Crysis at insane resolutions with AA enabled, but gamers nonetheless.
While not quite exact, the list is based on this.
Wish I could mod you up. Hmmm. Didn't think of that. Yeah, pretty much everything's insulated, and this is exactly what a lot of old-school people don't like. Old disliking the new. Nothing new there.
The way I see it, a very rough analogy would be like this: AD&D was like the Win9x series, based on top of OD&D. 2E was like WinME. 3E was like WinXP, and 3.5E was like WinXP SP2. And 4E is Vista. The other superior RPGs, (this is subjective, and can't pinpoint a particular game at the moment) like Linux/Mac/BSD. OSRIC, an open-source, AD&D clone is probably like ReactOS/Wine. I'm still into AD&D 1st Ed. (And yup, still dual-booting into Win98.)
Wait, are we thinking about the same person?
1. How to find one? Start a programming reality show, with a panel of three judges. Each week, each of the candidates will program snippets of code. Viewers will text in their votes. Bottom one or two gets voted off each week till the programming superstar remains.
Winner will get a huge cash incentive plus employment, stock options, etc. Any code he makes during that time will be open-source.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
I can just see it now:
African-american judge: Y'know, you've always been my favorite dawg! I think you started off a bit unsure, but you nailed it in the end!
Female judge: Your code... Its... just so pure. It cuts thru all the obfuscation. It really moves my heart. I'm your biggest fan.
Brit judge: I just don't get it. You want to take on a piece of code that big that's been done to death by Knuth, you have to at least do it right. Your naming convention is dreadful, and the algorithm's uninspired. You want to stay on the show, you'll have to do better than that.
Speaking of sturdy, are the Lenovo Thinkpads sturdy as their IBM counterparts? We owned a couple of IBM Thinkpads in the mid 90s and I'm planning to get a new one now. So far I only have anecdotal evidence that goes both ways.
Feature Changes
- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the game. To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:
Windows Users:
- Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under Explorer Folder Options.
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft:Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".
I do as a matter of fact, have a 400MHz PII and a ~1.5GB (maybe less than half of that) install footprint, but I'm using LFS. I get to choose the packages that I want. It takes about a day to compile everything (I made scripts to ease the tedium). For those who won't bother, a 5 MB Ubuntu Minimal CD would do, plus a fast connection. Should be just about the same.
Or to save you a trip to the shopping cart (plus I think you have to register at rpgnow first) you can also download OSRIC here.
I wanted the real AD&D rulebooks so I headed off to paizo.com to buy the some PDF rulebooks. At $4 a pop, I got the PHB, DMG, MMs I&II, Unearthed Arcana, Oriental Adventures, for a total of $24. Not bad. The scans are decent, but nothing beats the real thing. Can't seem to find Hackmaster though.
Well said. WinMe isn't without its merits. I must admit I haven't used WinMe as extensively as Win98SE (which I still use once in a while) but whenever I do, it feels snappier than 98 and appears to be stable. Thanks for giving a balanced view of WinMe. Years from now, people would be saying almost exactly the same things about Vista on their entry-level, octa-core machines. My only gripe about Vista is its inability to run my 90s games (Homm2, Alpha Centauri, etc) without going thru hoops (and lots of them.) Then again, I'm probably a niche market. We'll see what SP1 will bring to the table pretty soon.