Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Walmart.com - Northgate Power Cube System AMD Athlon XP 2800

[Letter from the Editor: I nixed the Walmart purchas, and chose a similar machine from Best Buy.--Kate]
Walmart.com - Northgate Power Cube System AMD Athlon XP 2800: "# AMD Athlon XP 2800
# 256K L2 cache
# 512 MB DDR
# 120 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
# DVD RW drive
# nVIDIA GeForce4 MX440-8X
# 64 MB of DDR RAM
# 56 Kbps V.90 fax modem
# Integrated 10/100 MB fast Ethernet LAN
# Integrated 6-channel audio C-Media CMI9739A
# 5.1 surround sound speaker set
# Microphone and headset
# PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse
# Front ports:2 USB 2.0, 1 S/PDIF,1 microphone, 1 headphone,1 IEEE 1394A
# Rear ports: 2 USB 2.0, 1 S/PDIF, 1 IEEE 1394A,1 LAN,1 VGA,1 serial, 2 PS/2, 1 line-in,1 line-out, 1 microphone
# Includes Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, productivity pack (9 titles), Norton Antivirus 2004"

Friday, July 23, 2004

XML.com: XML on the Web Has Failed

XML.com: XML on the Web Has Failed: "
'There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said ... no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time.'
'Until then ...'
-- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are De"

Sunday, July 04, 2004

WesnothWikiWeb - WesnothPhilosophy

WesnothWikiWeb - WesnothPhilosophy: "The way Wesnoth does it is in fact so insanely simple that I suspect many people who did not know how it is done will think 'what a naive, silly system!' when they read the following:

Quote:


The chance to hit is taken entirely from the defender's defensive rating in the terrain it is in.




So, Elves are always 30% chance to hit in forest, and 60% chance to hit in grassland. The attacker's skill doesn't come into the equation.

I decided it would add interesting strategy, though, if just a very few weapons had a special attribute that would guarantee them a certain chance to hit. I decided that was an appropriate thing for magic, to differentiate it: so, I decided that magic attacks would always have 70% chance to hit. "