Dr Brain

A liberal is someone who thinks that, after years of throwing money at a problem and seeing the problem get worse, the solution is to throw even more (of other people's) money at the problem. In other words, they are the exact opposite of scientists (people who follow the scientific method). Now, many liberals call themselves scientists, but that's just a delusion on their part. Liberalism has failed every time it's been tried. If they were truly scientists, they'd move on to a different hypothesis and the world would be a better place.

Lancs aren't the only ones on a team with FTL capability. Though I've always thought that summoner doesn't quite fit in with the others.

I wish I'd thought of that. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Discretion may be the only client that shows progress *now*, but it's a long ways from completion. There's still plenty of time for a new client to spring up.

Try adding ssdir.playsubspace.com to the list. I'm not sure what's up with the other ones.

I agree that backing a client at this point is a bad idea. Why put off other potential developers by locking in early? It gains nothing, but potentially loses the community a better client.

Bullet time meaning how long your bullets last? No. Because it would change how long everyone's bullets lasted, and lead to differences between screens and the associated yells of "OMG HAX!".

Just a symptom of a broken tax system. It's hard to blame the company, since companies can't afford to throw money away.

Did you save the file before building? I always configure eclipse to save my files before building, otherwise I forget.

Chatnut was written with the Swing windowing system, which those phones may not support. Chatnut is full of bugs anyway, and I'll probably never get around to fixing them. Chatnet clients aren't hard to write, though. If the phones each run a standard windowing system under java, one could easily write something for it.

Not in the sense that you mean it.

I'm sure you'll have lots of developers wanting to help you guys. Everyone loves making something designed to suck.

It is considered bad form to have the output files in the version control. Of course, every situation is different and you have to make judgment calls.

Unless they can fly two ships at once, how could they pull that off? And the zone has hundreds of regular players, and many thousands of created accounts. They're just never on all at the same time.

I would have tried to put newbies dying up higher, so it gets repeated more often.

I missed the part where subgame users need anything discretion offers.

Neat video.

You can watch the videos, and see that they're very similar to the other photos.

Something that runs in the background is, almost by definition, not a script. Making a program to intercept keystrokes is beyond my 5 minute helping mark. It's beyond my capability to do in 5 hours, even.

If you don't need the ctrl+d to have it output the correction, then great. I had to use it to get any output at all. I don't know what you mean about running in the background. You dump a text file into the program, and it spits out a corrected version.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html At first I thought the photos were computer simulations, but they're actual photos. The videos are neat too. I'm no expert, but it doesn't look like a missile to me.

Here's a very dumb python script: #!/usr/bin/python import sys for line in sys.stdin: line = line.strip() # remove the leading f if line[0] == 'f': line = line[1:] while len(line) < 10: line = '0' + line; print(line) Save it as barcode.py. Run it with 'python barcode.py'. Type in your f barcodes, one line at a time. Press Ctrl+D. That's how I did it on linux. Windows may need minor tweaks (might be a different key than Ctrl+D to end input).

^ what he said

Moderation has never been about making the players happy. In fact, it's usually about making the players unhappy by enforcing rules. If someone wants to write the module, I'll be happy to start a poll. Until then, there's no point. None of the devs are going to write it in time for a league. That's an "easy" solution doomed to failure. Players respawn with items, after all. All you'd be doing is removing the items on their first life.

And make scheduling so difficult as to guarantee that the league will fail? Lets not. I think the way it's set up now is about the best anyone can hope for.