Comment: Blowing Up Galaxies (Score 4, Interesting) 142
My June 2007 article in the online gaming magazine The Escapist about the 2005 "New Game Enhancements" that pretty much destroyed Star Wars Galaxies: "Blowing Up Galaxies"
Comment: "Tower of Gygax" Escapist article, April 2010 (Score 2) 136
I wrote about the Gygax Memorial effort last year in the online gaming magazine The Escapist, Issue 251 (April 27, 2010): "The Tower of Gygax : Honoring the man who started everything."
Comment: Re:Star Wars Galaxies anyone? (Score 1) 328
I wrote about the disastrous Star Wars Galaxies "New Game Enhancements" in my June 2007 Escapist article "Blowing Up Galaxies."
The Gary Gygax Memorial->
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Allen Varney writes "My Escapist article 'The Tower of Gygax: Honoring the man who started everything' outlines efforts to build a monument to D&D co-creator Gary Gygax in his home town, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Two squabbling factions of Gygax's heirs, who get along like the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea, have independent projects. They've reached a truce, but they don't yet have a site or a final design."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:Poor Design (Score 4, Insightful) 150
Took me 2 minutes to come up with that.
Uh-huh. And in the two years the professional CoH designers and coders were thinking daily about this problem, in their two years of doubtless intensive meetings, not one of them ever once considered your idea. Right? The only possible alternative is that perhaps your two-minute inspiration isn't a perfect solution -- that it may even have unsuspected shortcomings. Nah, that couldn't be. Yeah, they're just dumb.
Comment: Incessant Acrobat JavaScript nagging (Score 4, Interesting) 211
It's fine that Adobe recommends disabling JavaScript in Acrobat, but it would be nice if, once you disable JavaScript, Acrobat didn't thereupon constantly nag you to re-enable it "from now on for all documents" every time you open a .PDF. "It looks like you've disabled JavaScript! Can we please turn it back on forever, you poor ignorant dimwitted user you?"
Comment: Newest Ninjalistics news story pertains to this (Score 5, Funny) 377
The newest article posted on Ninjalistics (your leading supplier of ISO 9000-compliant corporate espionage and assassination services) is, "Six additional political operatives die in separate accidents unrelated to Karl Rove."
Database design tools for Linux
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FredDC writes "I am looking for a database design tool for Linux, but so far I haven't been able to find anything good. I was wondering what other people are using?"
Angband GPL dream almost real
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konijn writes "Angband is together with Nethack and ADOM one of the 5 big roguelikes. Ever since january 20, 1997 the maintainers have been dual licensing their code and now we are looking to find the last of the missing contributors to get it 100% GPL. We need your help to find these last people and get them to support our GPL initiative! You can find more information here : http://entai.co.uk/projects/angband/opensource/ , the list of missing people is here : http://entai.co.uk/projects/angband/opensource/lis t.html"
High altitude wind farms?
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An anonymous reader writes "Why plant a rotor on the ground to generate electricity in fickle, turbulent surface winds? Here is a possible green-friendly solution that is far above any other in reality as well as in concept:
From the site: "Here we are with very high gasoline prices, now starting to pay real attention to global warming, and seriously considering nuclear fission, with all its dangers from both accident and terrorist attack, as the best potential solution. And yet the energy we need is only a few miles above us in tremendous quantity, it is clean, non global warming energy, potentially more economical than nuclear, and we are ignoring it."
A flying wind farm might just be the way to go to lower our reliance such energy producing staples as fossil fuels and their immediate pollution, the admittedly intermittent production from solar or ground-level winds, and the long-term storage concerns of nuclear waste."
From the site: "Here we are with very high gasoline prices, now starting to pay real attention to global warming, and seriously considering nuclear fission, with all its dangers from both accident and terrorist attack, as the best potential solution. And yet the energy we need is only a few miles above us in tremendous quantity, it is clean, non global warming energy, potentially more economical than nuclear, and we are ignoring it."
A flying wind farm might just be the way to go to lower our reliance such energy producing staples as fossil fuels and their immediate pollution, the admittedly intermittent production from solar or ground-level winds, and the long-term storage concerns of nuclear waste."