Tell all your kids that Santa's coming soon, and they need to look through the catalog and pick out all their toys. When they come to you with their list, laugh at them, tell them that they are stupid, and that there's no Santa Claus. Or better yet, tell them that Santa killed himself because all the children were so bad.
They'll learn an important lesson from that, I'm sure.
I disagree. I think there will always be games that do not require online play for a number of reasons:
1) Play at your own level. I am not a game whiz. I used to play America's Army online, but I am sick of getting sniped in the first 30 seconds. There will always be enough people out there who are so much better than I am, that it's just no fun to play.
2) Play your own game. If I want to camp, I don't need a pack of 12 year olds with foul mouths cursing at me. It's my game and I'll camp if I want to.
3) AI will get better. I know we keep hearing it, but something's got to shake loose in game AI, right? If it does, that's less reason to play against another human.
I find it curious that the web page slams presentations that are made in a form that is unclear, but the web page saw fit to produce their presentation slides in a tiny size that is completely unreadable on my 19 inch LCD screen.
Yes, you are responsible. Yes, bad things can happen. Yes, RMS warned about these kinds of situations, which is why he's a hardliner on the concept that you shouldn't use anything but open source.
If you want freedom, use open source. In this case, you have a choice to trade that freedom for features. The freedom you trade might be some of that freedom you have to work on open source software.
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Ahh yes, that reminds me of the time that I discovered that a kitten makes a poor antenna for an 802.11b connection, unless you need a vaguely kitty-shaped coverage footprint.
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that burning fruitfly maggots smell not entirely unlike barbecue or popcorn
How odd for something named Drosophilia Watermelanogaster.
As I posted before, the solution to the problem, like the solution to most problems, involves a pair of naked breasts.
All that is required is a small photo on the front and the back of the box of a set of naked breasts. In the US, parents don't care about violence. We see it on TV, we read it in the newspapers, nobody cares. But, show one little nipple somewhere and all the parents in the US are rushing to cover their little ones' eyes.
The most effective warning label doesn't involve the letter 'M' for mature anywhere, it involves a pair of breasts, proudly displayed. The parents will understand, as breasts are the universal symbol for 'adults only'.
I downloaded it off Kazaa, and I'm glad I did. It's the only game I ever downloaded, because I usually never take a look at that particular genre. I only usually look at flight sims, and whatever looks like it'll be like Age of Empires.
So, because of the hype, I committed myself to the big download, fired up the game, and realized that it completely sucked. If I had actually spent the money to buy it, I would have been very pissed off. .
The article that you gave doesn't say that at all. Do you have another source?
From tracing radioactive carbon isotopes, we know where the carbon comes from. You claim that there's an estimate of 30%, but we don't have to estimate. We can know for certain where the carbon comes from.
The bottom graph is a chart of the accuracy of my bayesian spam filter. In just the three weeks that I've been tracking, the filter has gotten notably worse. I've noticed several spams that seem to be crafted specifically to get around bayesian filters.
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Tell all your kids that Santa's coming soon, and they need to look through the catalog and pick out all their toys. When they come to you with their list, laugh at them, tell them that they are stupid, and that there's no Santa Claus. Or better yet, tell them that Santa killed himself because all the children were so bad.
They'll learn an important lesson from that, I'm sure.
It appears that Soviet infiltration of the US during the Cold War was more severe than we thought.
And, both computer languages and legal languages obviously have "language lawyers."
You're right, it's not front page /. stuff. It's on the developers section page.
I disagree. I think there will always be games that do not require online play for a number of reasons:
1) Play at your own level. I am not a game whiz. I used to play America's Army online, but I am sick of getting sniped in the first 30 seconds. There will always be enough people out there who are so much better than I am, that it's just no fun to play.
2) Play your own game. If I want to camp, I don't need a pack of 12 year olds with foul mouths cursing at me. It's my game and I'll camp if I want to.
3) AI will get better. I know we keep hearing it, but something's got to shake loose in game AI, right? If it does, that's less reason to play against another human.
4) Cheating will always be difficult to stop.
I find it curious that the web page slams presentations that are made in a form that is unclear, but the web page saw fit to produce their presentation slides in a tiny size that is completely unreadable on my 19 inch LCD screen.
Yes, you are responsible. Yes, bad things can happen. Yes, RMS warned about these kinds of situations, which is why he's a hardliner on the concept that you shouldn't use anything but open source.
If you want freedom, use open source. In this case, you have a choice to trade that freedom for features. The freedom you trade might be some of that freedom you have to work on open source software.
Really, it's not rocket science. You pick.
You need a supply of T-shirts that were acquired by begging them at computer shows.
I'm a mechanical.
I'm a mechanical man.
Ahh yes, that reminds me of the time that I discovered that a kitten makes a poor antenna for an 802.11b connection, unless you need a vaguely kitty-shaped coverage footprint.
that burning fruitfly maggots smell not entirely unlike barbecue or popcorn
How odd for something named Drosophilia Watermelanogaster.
As I posted before, the solution to the problem, like the solution to most problems, involves a pair of naked breasts.
All that is required is a small photo on the front and the back of the box of a set of naked breasts. In the US, parents don't care about violence. We see it on TV, we read it in the newspapers, nobody cares. But, show one little nipple somewhere and all the parents in the US are rushing to cover their little ones' eyes.
The most effective warning label doesn't involve the letter 'M' for mature anywhere, it involves a pair of breasts, proudly displayed. The parents will understand, as breasts are the universal symbol for 'adults only'.
They don't have to go in order. The next one could easily be eleventium.
Some server boxes are so big that the entire BTX case would fit inside. So, the answer to your question is yes.
I downloaded it off Kazaa, and I'm glad I did. It's the only game I ever downloaded, because I usually never take a look at that particular genre. I only usually look at flight sims, and whatever looks like it'll be like Age of Empires.
So, because of the hype, I committed myself to the big download, fired up the game, and realized that it completely sucked. If I had actually spent the money to buy it, I would have been very pissed off.
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That's redundant. I already posted that comment, but it's toplevel and all the way at the end of the comments.
You're going to try to argue with me?
Shut the fuck up, you fucking racist.
Anyone remember This article by our favorite blowhard Jon Katz about a boy in Afghanistan that supposedly was on the net with his Commodore 64?
I rarely repeat jokes, so you'd better listen close the first time.
That ought to tell you something right there.
The article that you gave doesn't say that at all. Do you have another source?
From tracing radioactive carbon isotopes, we know where the carbon comes from. You claim that there's an estimate of 30%, but we don't have to estimate. We can know for certain where the carbon comes from.
Mod that guy up. Not enough people know about this.
And all the Slashdot liberals can take your liberal bullshit and shove it, I fucking *WANT* some racial profiling.
I think that in this one moment, I have just won every single argument that I have ever had against a conservative in my life.
What's the matter Fnkmaster? Your cotton not getting picked fast enough for ya? You're a fucking racist.
Sometimes that's not too helpful. For some people, it's a 4x4 grid of possibilities, and all the rest is just indistinguishable brown goo.
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Yep, that's just about it.
I've got some graphs on my own website for the past three weeks, and I also noticed a definite trend toward spam peaking in the middle of the week.
http://www.pdrap.org/spam_statistics/graphs is my web page with the graphs. The total height of the bar is all the mail I've received. The red part is the spam.
The bottom graph is a chart of the accuracy of my bayesian spam filter. In just the three weeks that I've been tracking, the filter has gotten notably worse. I've noticed several spams that seem to be crafted specifically to get around bayesian filters.