Comment Real AI (Score 1) 38
OK - so the machine determines what it is that needs to be done and then outsources it to humans to do the work. Welcome to the brave new world.
Comment Re: in an attempt to explain this to others.... (Score 1) 532
I hear you brother. I've been working with Solaris, Tru64 and Linux since about 99. Solaris patching is painful.
Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons 189
An anonymous reader sends in a nostalgic piece about Dungeons & Dragons and the influence it's had on games and gamers for the past 36 years. Quoting:
"Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, the same year Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong. We've never had fun quite the same way since. Looking back, these two events set today's world of gaming into motion — the Romulus and Remus of modern game civilization. For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories."
