Marijuana is banned by the Olympic committee, even though it doesn't really give athletes an advantage. I ran track - and knew some athletes who smoked weed before meets. The reason: it takes the edge off. Being nervous and jumpy throws their rhythm off; and rhythm is everything when wins and losses are measured in the blink of an eye.
The original Roland MT-32 was released in 1987, but what about the Roland CM-32L? The CM-32L was a later model that was internally identical to the MT-32, except that it had a larger ROM space that contained twice as many ROM samples: the original MT-32 set, plus a bunch of new sample banks unique to the CM-32L.
I've never owned an original MT-32, but I do own a still-working CM-32L, and I can confirm that it is 100% backward-compatible to the MT-32, and sounds exactly the same as an MT-32, even when programmed to use custom MT-32 patches (instrument definitions). Many games from the MT-32 era used such custom patches extensively, as did the sequencing software I used at the time, Ballade.
I'm not sure exactly when the CM-32L came out (I can't find the information on Google), but there's a good chance it was 1989 or later. If so, then how does that affect the copyright issue?
Well, his two favourites were actually M.U.L.E. and Castle Wolfenstein (way before id/Raven remade it as RtCW).
Historical footnote: You've probably never heard of it, but somewhere between the release of Castle Wolfenstein and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, there was another game with a similar theme -- an very obscure one, called 3-D Castle Wolfenstein, or something like that.
What AdAge failed to disclose in the article is that TiVo is currently an advertiser on the AdAge site.
Try it. Browse around AdAge for a while, and the TiVo banner ad should eventually show up, offering a $100 "insider" discount on an 80-hour TiVo recorder.
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, I would guess -- with lots of redundancy (such as multiple copies of everything, plus devoting a large percentage of discs to PAR-style files). It's really, really cheap.
For comparison purposes, I downloaded cs94_002.zip and recompressed it with the latest version of WinRAR (3.10 beta 3), set to maximum compression. The result:
cs94_002.rar (Source) 9.4MB (9,407,157 bytes)
WinRAR appears to compress much better than bzip2; however, it isn't free. Interestingly, as good as WinRAR is, even it doesn't come that close to having the best compression ratio out there.
For lots of useful statistics on the relative capabilities of virtually every compression engine in the world, check out Jeff Gilchrist's Archive Comparison Test. A lot of progress is still being made in compression technology, so the state of the art keeps changing.
That would look really cool, but imagine the carpal tunnel syndrome your shoulders/elbows would develop:)
You have carpal tunnels in your shoulders and elbows?! What manner of freakish monstrosity are you?
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Did you try booting from the installation CD, installing the Recovery Console, and then manually reenabling the services using the enable command? Or does the enable command require PnP too?
OK, I've found the Dexxa Wireless Optical Mouse which seems to be very similar indeed to the Logitech MX700, for a full $30 less! However, I can't find something similar from HP. Anybody around here know what the HP equivalent is?
On a side note, I've been using Logitech mice for around fifteen years now, and I've always preferred them due to their (usually) great ergonomic design, good looks, and durability. In this case, I don't know if a $30 savings would be enough to lure me away from the company that I've come to know and trust when it comes to mice. I guess I'd have to spend half an hour or so in a B&M store with both mice to really be able to decide. (Yes, I am unusually picky with my mice, in case you hadn't noticed. Keyboards, too.)
Here's another question: I seem to vaguely recall that Dexxa is (or used to be) a reseller of rebranded Logitech OEM mice. Is this correct, or am I thinking of another company?
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In the manual for the original SimCity, the designer, Will Wright, stated that he preferred to call SimCity a toy rather than a game.
You need to turn off the Welcome screen:
In the Control Panel, open User Accounts, click Change the way users log on or off, uncheck the Use the Welcome screen box, and click Apply Options.
And then there's this function in the Microsoft Windows Shell API.
Well, it's a pretty nice-looking 2.
So it must be 2's compliment.
Try this: Lua -"Least-Privilege User Account" .
Set the registry key to ignore "out of space" warnings for that drive....
What registry key is that? On Windows XP, the only relevant registry setting I'm aware of is the NoLowDiskSpaceChecks DWORD under:
But this is a global setting, and cannot be changed for individual drives.
Susan Kare didn't make any of the original Windows icons. She had no involvement with Windows until Windows 3.0.
I remember my disappointment when I noticed that Elijah Wood had gotten too old to play Ender.
Wow, so Earth really is at the center of the universe! I knew it!
The original Roland MT-32 was released in 1987, but what about the Roland CM-32L? The CM-32L was a later model that was internally identical to the MT-32, except that it had a larger ROM space that contained twice as many ROM samples: the original MT-32 set, plus a bunch of new sample banks unique to the CM-32L.
I've never owned an original MT-32, but I do own a still-working CM-32L, and I can confirm that it is 100% backward-compatible to the MT-32, and sounds exactly the same as an MT-32, even when programmed to use custom MT-32 patches (instrument definitions). Many games from the MT-32 era used such custom patches extensively, as did the sequencing software I used at the time, Ballade.
I'm not sure exactly when the CM-32L came out (I can't find the information on Google), but there's a good chance it was 1989 or later. If so, then how does that affect the copyright issue?
This time the best result I was able to come up with a 4 coin system is using 1, 3, 7, 16, 40.
That looks an awful lot like a five-coin system to me.
For a 5 coin system I came up with the following coins: 1, 2, 5, 10, 22, 47....
And that looks suspiciously like a six-coin system.
So viruses are considered "alive" now?
Well, his two favourites were actually M.U.L.E. and Castle Wolfenstein (way before id/Raven remade it as RtCW).
Historical footnote: You've probably never heard of it, but somewhere between the release of Castle Wolfenstein and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, there was another game with a similar theme -- an very obscure one, called 3-D Castle Wolfenstein, or something like that.
What AdAge failed to disclose in the article is that TiVo is currently an advertiser on the AdAge site.
Try it. Browse around AdAge for a while, and the TiVo banner ad should eventually show up, offering a $100 "insider" discount on an 80-hour TiVo recorder.
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, I would guess -- with lots of redundancy (such as multiple copies of everything, plus devoting a large percentage of discs to PAR-style files). It's really, really cheap.
In anticipation of it getting Slashdotted, I have made available a reduced-size copy of a DVD screen capture that shows the reddish tint.
For comparison purposes, I downloaded cs94_002.zip and recompressed it with the latest version of WinRAR (3.10 beta 3), set to maximum compression. The result:
cs94_002.rar (Source) 9.4MB (9,407,157 bytes)
WinRAR appears to compress much better than bzip2; however, it isn't free. Interestingly, as good as WinRAR is, even it doesn't come that close to having the best compression ratio out there.
For lots of useful statistics on the relative capabilities of virtually every compression engine in the world, check out Jeff Gilchrist's Archive Comparison Test. A lot of progress is still being made in compression technology, so the state of the art keeps changing.
That would look really cool, but imagine the carpal tunnel syndrome your shoulders/elbows would develop :)
You have carpal tunnels in your shoulders and elbows?! What manner of freakish monstrosity are you?
Did you try booting from the installation CD, installing the Recovery Console, and then manually reenabling the services using the enable command? Or does the enable command require PnP too?
For most projects, the compilation speed is *zero*.
Meaning they fail to compile at all?
Actually, that sounds about right.
Yeah, I actually stop for them. And yeah, it pisses me off every time.
Fine, I'll bite: Exactly what happens if you ignore the Fry's exitdroid and walk right past it?
Stores can prevent shoplifting by strip searching you all at the exit, but you won't go back.
I take it you've never been to Fry's.
Damn, that's a really, really, really good idea. I'm drooling already. You really should patent that, as someone else has already suggested.
Seriously, get to work on a prototype. I want one now!
OK, I've found the Dexxa Wireless Optical Mouse which seems to be very similar indeed to the Logitech MX700, for a full $30 less! However, I can't find something similar from HP. Anybody around here know what the HP equivalent is?
On a side note, I've been using Logitech mice for around fifteen years now, and I've always preferred them due to their (usually) great ergonomic design, good looks, and durability. In this case, I don't know if a $30 savings would be enough to lure me away from the company that I've come to know and trust when it comes to mice. I guess I'd have to spend half an hour or so in a B&M store with both mice to really be able to decide. (Yes, I am unusually picky with my mice, in case you hadn't noticed. Keyboards, too.)
Here's another question: I seem to vaguely recall that Dexxa is (or used to be) a reseller of rebranded Logitech OEM mice. Is this correct, or am I thinking of another company?