Comment Re:You reading this, Toady One? (Score 1) 104
I'm waiting for a GTA-style, gritty, urban adventure like this.
ASCIItution and mayhem!
Might wanna check out Liberal Crime Squad, also by Bay12. Not as rogue-like as DF but still fun.
Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up 279
Eric writes "After over a year of development, Minecraft has hit Beta status today. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 17, 2009. With the new milestone, the price of the game has increased to €14.95; when Minecraft moves beyond beta status, it will sell for €20.00. The beta is more focused on polish and content. The aim is to add proper modding support via a stable API, some kind of non-intrusive narrative to help drive the game experience early on, and a late-game goal. Updates will be less frequent, so as to make sure stability is maintained thanks to more extended testing. Despite this, there have already been two beta releases: client and server Beta 1.0 followed quickly by client 1.0_01."
Comment Re:inherent scientific value? (Score 1) 399
Take a leave of absence from your job or school, your MUD, and your PC. Get a passport and a ticket to someplace in the developing world. Go someplace that it's cheap to live and where a large number of people speak a language that you understand. * I suggest India for Americans * and travel around. Stay in cheap local hotels and hostels, take the local transportation, talk to the locals in the coffee shops, talk to the other travelers. Do it until you actually begin to feel comfortable (or at least not stressed to extremes of paranoia and xenophobia).
Then return home to live that you used to live and see how weird everything is in the USA. And then get back on Slashdot and tell me with a straight face again about how much we really need space travel and moon exploration. The subject will have come up again by then.
I've been to India. The Indian space program is a huge source of national pride for them. Being able to put satellites in orbit and handle their own GPS system has numerous benefits for a developing country (some of the projects we were shown included cheap GPS units for fishermen's cooperatives, and infrared monitoring of farmlands). I have no doubt that if they were able, they'd be trying to put a man on the moon as well.
Don't think that just because most of the world is poor and hungry, they have no interest in space travel. Regardless of our nationality, we all look to the sky and dream.
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