Oblivion had a horrendous character development model and distressingly repetitive gameplay.
The roguelikes have very simple mechanics, but free you entirely within them, and add sufficent randomness that fights are invariably different. That gives them their replayability, and makes them far more fun than "Ride your horse to the next bandit-infested mineshaft that looks just like the last one"..
I'd have guessed almost all 1920x1200 displays are in 17" laptops. It's a nice form factor for a desktop replacement, you get excellent screen resolution on a screen small enough to keep in your field of view while close enough to type on the near full-sized keyboard.
Although it's been a while now that there are people on the Internet so young they weren't born when that quote was allegedly made, it's disconcerting that the ones young enough not to have even heard of it are now posting on Slashdot.
They could do the sensible thing and avoid badly written legislation, or they could incur significantly higher costs and legal jeopardy by forcing the Government to legislate (which invariably this Government does badly).
Clearly we have a different interpretation of the word 'pussy'.
It's quite hard to report CP to the police without exposing yourself to prosecution.
After all, merely accidentally finding CP and displaying it on your screen breaks around 7 different laws, several of which include jail terms, life on a sex offender registry, limitations on post-prison employment...
All in all it's better just to shut down all browser windows, wipe the hard disk, melt the computer in acid and move house.
I'm not sure what makes me feel older, remembering that, remembering how much improved JDeveloper was from JBuilder 3 which was much improved from its two earlier incarnations, or knowing how crap they were because of the good IDEs I'd already been using for years before they were released..
I completely concur that (without Chinese intervention to help them, again) North Korea would be defeated exceedingly fast if any of a dozen nations or alliances chose to take them on.
The point is that in the first hour of such a conflict Seoul would be heavily shelled, with potentially millions of civilian casualties.
It's not that you can't beat them, it's that you can't stop them hurting South Korea rather more than that nation's willing to take first.
Sorry, I'm confused. How exactly do 500,000 men stop approximately 6000 artillery pieces from hitting a target the size of a city when they're already loaded, aimed, ready to fire and hiding in heavily fortified positions?
If North Korea decided to shell Seoul, nothing short of a pre-emptive nuke will stop them - and frankly, I'd expect a few guns to fire on Seoul even then.
Antiquated hardware? Even 100 years ago artillery was more than capable of hitting something the size of Seoul. North Korea hasn't exactly ignored their kit since..
Um, the Halabja poison gas attacks certainly were WMDs, while when we invaded we didn't find any, we can certainly know that they used to have them. The fact that the US government had bad intelligence does not equate to brainwashing. How many propaganda signs do you find? Heck, in the example that you stated were there any billboards saying "Iraq has WMDs. We must crush Iraq."? Just because we went to war on faulty intentions doesn't mean that we were brainwashed.
Fucking American historical revisionism. I can remember the arguments I had in 2002 and 2003 with fucking Americans where they insisted that Saddam was lying, that Iraq had lots of WMDs, and that they believed the US fucking government who were implying he was going to use them against the US.
Meanwhile, weapons inspectors were providing no evidence, the CIA, MI6 and Mossad were providing no evidence and no fucker else was providing any evidence that Saddam had WMDs.
Sure, we knew he used to have them - we knew where he bought them, if you haven't conveniently forgotten that one. We also had no compelling evidence that he still had them, and even less evidence that he was ever planning to use them on the US. The only thing Saddam had was oil.
I'm not pretending North Korea is some haven for sanity, but please, don't insult our intelligence by pretending there was a case for invading Iraq, let alone one based on WMD.
Based on the fact that I believe that every human has the right to basic freedoms, I can easily conclude that the USA is much better than North Korea.
Given the recent US record on human rights the rest of the world has already concluded that the USA has no fucking place telling anybody else how to run a country.
writing a block of code that implements these design decisions without bugs and to the specs/idea should be well within the capabilities of a single programmer
I'd like to refer you to approximately fifty years of bitter experience that argues against your point.
Sure, it should be well within the capabilities. There are millions of examples of where it isn't.
Pair programming is one of the techniques identified that helps address that reality gap.
Slashdot Mirror
Oblivion had a horrendous character development model and distressingly repetitive gameplay.
The roguelikes have very simple mechanics, but free you entirely within them, and add sufficent randomness that fights are invariably different. That gives them their replayability, and makes them far more fun than "Ride your horse to the next bandit-infested mineshaft that looks just like the last one"..
Utter sacrilege.
Angband is not "history".
It has history, but it's still very present. And addictive.
Suddenly I have this horrible urge to write a virus called "Swine Flu" that only attacks medical systems..
They don't, they have a stronger immune system. Hence being killed by the immune system over-reacting.
Also the suggested cause of the deaths in Mexico.
I'd have guessed almost all 1920x1200 displays are in 17" laptops. It's a nice form factor for a desktop replacement, you get excellent screen resolution on a screen small enough to keep in your field of view while close enough to type on the near full-sized keyboard.
Using one now...
You kidding me? I seldom play WoW without the TV on in the background unless I'm raiding, and if the TV is on it's usually films.
Then again I play a hunter, you don't need to pay much attention to WoW..
Thanks, now we all feel really old.
Although it's been a while now that there are people on the Internet so young they weren't born when that quote was allegedly made, it's disconcerting that the ones young enough not to have even heard of it are now posting on Slashdot.
I'm finding Paradroid a tad challenging on an unthrottled Intel Core 2 quad core processor.
Shit. I just worked it out. I'm clearly obese due to nicotine withdrawal after my mother finally stopped fucking smoking when I was 10.
No wonder I've been grumpy all my life.
Because it's badly written, boring as hell and up its own arse trying to be clever with itself.
Shit, I say that as a fan of Snowcrash and The Diamond Age...
They could do the sensible thing and avoid badly written legislation, or they could incur significantly higher costs and legal jeopardy by forcing the Government to legislate (which invariably this Government does badly).
Clearly we have a different interpretation of the word 'pussy'.
The IWF host and maintain a child pornography blacklist.
That doesn't necessarily mean they maintain any additional blacklists hosted by themselves.
Multiple blacklists, for different purposes, with different content are not a complex idea..
It's quite hard to report CP to the police without exposing yourself to prosecution.
After all, merely accidentally finding CP and displaying it on your screen breaks around 7 different laws, several of which include jail terms, life on a sex offender registry, limitations on post-prison employment...
All in all it's better just to shut down all browser windows, wipe the hard disk, melt the computer in acid and move house.
Sometimes natural curiousity leads to strange and interesting places:
http://community.livejournal.com/blizz_furries/26892.html
Good rant. (Un)fortunately on this occasion the alleged block is not in place.
It may be there for people that haven't requested an unfiltered connection, but my phone has no problem accessing TPB through 3g.
JBuilder 3 I recall.
I'm not sure what makes me feel older, remembering that, remembering how much improved JDeveloper was from JBuilder 3 which was much improved from its two earlier incarnations, or knowing how crap they were because of the good IDEs I'd already been using for years before they were released..
Hey, I chose Hunter for a reason!
Self-feeding pets mean I don't even need to click to feed it now either.
Quasi autonomous non-governmental organisation.
Don't ask me why (probably just a BBC standard) but 'autonomous' is an ever-present part of the definition of Quango in the UK.
I completely concur that (without Chinese intervention to help them, again) North Korea would be defeated exceedingly fast if any of a dozen nations or alliances chose to take them on.
The point is that in the first hour of such a conflict Seoul would be heavily shelled, with potentially millions of civilian casualties.
It's not that you can't beat them, it's that you can't stop them hurting South Korea rather more than that nation's willing to take first.
Lets see. I just clicked on that URL and it opened exactly the web page I intended it to.
Somewhere between 10 and 37000 references, cited for your pleasure.
Not academically cited, but hey, this is Slashdot.
Maybe your web browser is incapable of (or configured to fail at) rendering the page?
http://tinyurl.com/cohrt4
wtf?
Tibet.
Sorry, I'm confused. How exactly do 500,000 men stop approximately 6000 artillery pieces from hitting a target the size of a city when they're already loaded, aimed, ready to fire and hiding in heavily fortified positions?
If North Korea decided to shell Seoul, nothing short of a pre-emptive nuke will stop them - and frankly, I'd expect a few guns to fire on Seoul even then.
Antiquated hardware? Even 100 years ago artillery was more than capable of hitting something the size of Seoul. North Korea hasn't exactly ignored their kit since..
Um, the Halabja poison gas attacks certainly were WMDs, while when we invaded we didn't find any, we can certainly know that they used to have them. The fact that the US government had bad intelligence does not equate to brainwashing. How many propaganda signs do you find? Heck, in the example that you stated were there any billboards saying "Iraq has WMDs. We must crush Iraq."? Just because we went to war on faulty intentions doesn't mean that we were brainwashed.
Fucking American historical revisionism. I can remember the arguments I had in 2002 and 2003 with fucking Americans where they insisted that Saddam was lying, that Iraq had lots of WMDs, and that they believed the US fucking government who were implying he was going to use them against the US.
Meanwhile, weapons inspectors were providing no evidence, the CIA, MI6 and Mossad were providing no evidence and no fucker else was providing any evidence that Saddam had WMDs.
Sure, we knew he used to have them - we knew where he bought them, if you haven't conveniently forgotten that one. We also had no compelling evidence that he still had them, and even less evidence that he was ever planning to use them on the US. The only thing Saddam had was oil.
I'm not pretending North Korea is some haven for sanity, but please, don't insult our intelligence by pretending there was a case for invading Iraq, let alone one based on WMD.
Based on the fact that I believe that every human has the right to basic freedoms, I can easily conclude that the USA is much better than North Korea.
Given the recent US record on human rights the rest of the world has already concluded that the USA has no fucking place telling anybody else how to run a country.
writing a block of code that implements these design decisions without bugs and to the specs/idea should be well within the capabilities of a single programmer
I'd like to refer you to approximately fifty years of bitter experience that argues against your point.
Sure, it should be well within the capabilities. There are millions of examples of where it isn't.
Pair programming is one of the techniques identified that helps address that reality gap.