Comment Re:This just in... (Score 1) 91
Das ist doch schrecklich!
Comment Re:I've never understood the hate for fruitcake (Score 1) 91
I agree! Fruitcake is righteously awesome and contains all color and food groups.
Submission + - The return of (old) PC graphic adventures (kingofgng.com)
KingofGnG writes: "Though they belong to a genre already considered defunct and inadequate for the mainstream videogames market years by now, adventure games have a glorious past, a past that deserves to be remembered and of course replayed. At the center of a good part of this effort of collective memory there is ScummVM, the virtual machine which acts like an interface between the feelings and the puzzles from the good old times and the modern operating systems.
As already highlighted before the ScummVM target has immensely grown during time, going from the simple support of the "classic" adventure games par excellence published by Lucasfilm/Lucasarts to a range that virtually includes any single puzzle solving game developed from the beginning of times up to the advent of the (Windows) NT platform. The last videogame engine added to ScummVM within the past days is Groovie, created by the software house Trilobyte for its first title released in 1993, The 7th Guest."
As already highlighted before the ScummVM target has immensely grown during time, going from the simple support of the "classic" adventure games par excellence published by Lucasfilm/Lucasarts to a range that virtually includes any single puzzle solving game developed from the beginning of times up to the advent of the (Windows) NT platform. The last videogame engine added to ScummVM within the past days is Groovie, created by the software house Trilobyte for its first title released in 1993, The 7th Guest."
Submission + - Are Newspapers Doomed?
Ponca City, We love you writes: "James Surowiecki has an interesting article in the New Yorker that crystalizes the problems facing print newspapers today and explains why we may soon be seeing more major newspapers filing for bankruptcy like the Tribune Company announced last week. "There's no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has dried up," writes Surowiecki but the "peculiar fact about the current crisis is that even as big papers have become less profitable they've arguably become more popular" with the blogosphere piggybacking on traditional journalism's content. Surowiecki imagines many possible futures for newspapers from becoming foundation-run nonprofits to relying on reader donations or deep-pocketed patrons. "For a while now, readers have had the best of both worlds: all the benefits of the old, high-profit regime--intensive reporting, experienced editors, and so on--and the low costs of the new one. But that situation can't last. Soon enough, we're going to start getting what we pay for, and we may find out just how little that is. ""
Comment CYA FTW (Score 1) 1
Too true. The imposition of multiple checks and checks upon checks can feel like lengths of rope wrapping around your neck. It ultimately creates a culture of paranoia where the primary goal is CYA. Productive workers can end up demoralized and miserable, or they simply head for the hills.
