The same can not be said for Imperial measurements... even if SI has changed from it's beginnings, the units are elegantly interrelated. We live on the earth... the only universal (global) measurement is time. Thus everything is relative...
...And here I thought....
You were partly correct: (But it was only a suggestion)
Under certain precisely arranged conditions, atoms of the element caesium oscillate between two states at a very uniform (and fast) rate. By definition, 1 second in the time for 9,192,631,770 of these oscillations to occur. Then, 1 metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds. Although these ways of defining a standard second and a standard metre appear to be rather complicated and odd, scientists and engineers with appropriate equipment can use these definitions to measure time intervals and distances extremely precisely. When they do so, they will always all agree precisely in their measurements, an outcome that is identified above as an important goal in developing a standard system of units of measurement.
(Initially, 200 years ago, it was suggested that 1 metre be one ten-millionth of the distance from the north pole of the earth to the equator. This "standard" turned out to be insufficiently useful, because, among several difficulties, it was found that this distance was slightly different if you measured it in different places and so different users might end up with metres of slightly different lengths, causing confusion.)
I own 2 win32 (1 of which came with Mac binaries)copies and 1 Linux special edition of Quake3, Warcraft 3 works on my mac and win32 and I bought all the windows versions of NWN as well as a Mac version now.
Insofar gaming age goes, I'll be 32 this Sunday, and can kick Anarki's butt on Nightmare usually 40 to -5, and beat Normal difficulty bots on WC3 about 80% of the time... am pretty serious 'bout gaming... strangely I have a life outside of it too...;)
I really do buy a lot of games. I still play Quake (having become rather good at it if I might add)... I've got the original Linux version (that comes with Suse) as well as the windows version. (My original windows version got stolen and I bought it again.
The problem is that these Linux games only get released in the U.S. Whereas all the other games are adapted for local currencies, I have to pay the exorbitant prices in US$ to get the Linux version.
To do a bit of math... Amazon.com lists the win32 version as $15, which means that locally I can buy it for R50. The Linux version is $45 (And to import it would cost me R350 (R450 with shipping) )
Um... it's cheaper to buy windows for games if I'm going to be waiting for games this long anyway... after the 2nd game I can already buy windows... (OEM version)
With this said, the problem as I see it is with game companies like Electronic Arts etc not bringing out a Linux version immediately. For heaven's sake! MoH is based on the Quake3 engine! How hard can it be! (And it has been out for OS X for ages... mostly un*x based, right?)
Sorry, but I play games seriously. I'm more serious about games than I am about OSes... those are just tools. I will not support Linux if it's going to cost me my pleasures.
Kudos to Id for Linux Quake... but there are too few Linux games. What about Warcraft III, the standard in competitive RTS? What about Morrowind? (Best single player fantast RPG ever) X^2 the Threat? (best re-make of Elite ever!)
I've bough about 30 games in the past year... I reccon it paid for my XP + VMWare?
And with coLinux I've never looked back?
(Even though OS X on my iBook is still my favourite)
Believe me... I've tried. I'm an experienced Linux/HPUX/Irix/AIX/BSD/OS X user.
Linux will not go away if there are no games for it... we need not to worry and frantically throw more money at a bad deal. Linux will survive in spite of everything, and it will become the games platform of choice... it cannot be stopped. But to waste money now?
Hmmm...
Enough ranting.
Sorry for this pragmatic view on this evangelical forum....
All my buddies have already had the MOH PvP LAN frenzies, and now have moved onto something else... if only this was about 5 months sooner... then I may still have had some fun off it.
But now it's a classic normal game at a special-edition price. It should be $5 in shops by now for win32.
My, my... it seems to be expensive being a Linux gamer... not to mention late.
If games were released MUCH sooner for Linux/OS X I would buy those out of principle! But this has been released MUCH too late. Still a bit of single-player fun to be had, but no or little LAN multii-player.
Pity... same with my Mac OS X version of Neverwinter Nights. (I've finally got the Mac version too, but all my friends have moved on...)
Seriously though, how many people will still play this game with you? It's based on old technology and even though it may still be fun single-player, the multi-player market is dead. Thus you will only get half the intended fun out of it.
Don't shoot me down, I'm in the same boat really. I have 2 copies of Quake 3 (I bought the windows version, and later bought the Linux collectors edition anyway just to support them... even though I did not even need to)
As for NWN... I just bought my second copy for OS X (I would prefer playing it on OS X), but all my friends have moved onto other games already, so it's a bit lonely now...:(
It's a different matter if the games get released even just a week after the windows version... I would buy the Linux and OS X versions out of principle.
But 6 months!!! You MUST be kidding... it's not worth-while. (Advice I should follow too...);)
Cool, I went to your site, and read there... wasn't sure if you were 'Nick'.:)
I've got more than a passing interest in many things.;) But Leonard Cohen (music mostly), Tom Waits, Nick Cave are of the top ones.
Garfield? Hmm... nice, but more an 'Edward Gorey'/Calvin and Hobbes/Johnny the Homicidal Maniac fan..;)
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Thanks for the tip, but I've already hacked my Safari Debug menu to enable Agent switching, and I've been trying the same thing in Opera. This specific problem does not seem to be affected.:(
Hmm.. we are both saying the same things, yet we disagree.
I love middle-click-open-in-background... I love pup-up-add-when-not-requested blocking... I love better cache handling... I love mouse gestures...
And I also use all the latest versions of Safari, FireWassiname and Opera.
I've bought Opera 5 and 7. I've bought OS X I've bought a Mozilla T-shirt...;)
The fact is I still cannot get rid of IE... and telling me I don't try is just sticking your head in the sand regarding the real problems out there....
I still have some minor problems with my bank's internet, although all the serious ones were fixed now (since I kept complaining...) The thing is that my entire company is at that bank, and it would be too much of a pain to move banks.
The second one is the booking system of basically the only booking company in my country ( http://www.computicket.com/ )
The third is one of the largest software and hardware shops in the country : (Incredible Connection) - But I don't like them anyway, so I don't go there.
The most important one is the control panel system of my site hosting company : www.globalserver.com - This works fine up until certain buttons which seem to always send through for some reason. The same behaviour for Opera, Safari, Konquerer and Mozilla. IE on OS X and win32 works however. (I've tried having my browser report as IE, but to no avail...)
These and sometimes other small problems is what compels me to always use IE.
PS: You a Leonard Cohen fan?
Nobody cares which browser is better...
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All we care about is which one works.
For some reason I don't seem to be able to get away from IE. Whatever the reason there are still many (important) sites out there that still just don't work (properly) with non-IE browsers.
In general though, I will use Opera on win32, Safari on OS X and Fire on Linux as my preferred browsers.
That does not not mean that I don't ALWAYS try and use IE (on OS X and win32) when I find that the others still don't quite make the grade in site compatibility.
Same as the silly Beta vs. VHS war. The one that wins is the one that has the most support, and is therefore the better (out of a consumer point of view) browser.
And I think that's all that really needs saying.
PS: In my opinion, the best browsers are:
1) Safari (much faster than Opera on any platform) 2) Opera 3) Mozilla 4) IE (If it had tabbed browsing, it would be better than Mozilla!)
1) Download BootCD which is an app to create a BootCD from a current working installation. This will give you at least a working Finder and BSD subsystem with which you can hack around with.
2) If that isn't easy enough, the following will blow your boots off:
* The T key forces the PowerBook (FireWire) (and reportedly the Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics), though I was unable to verify that on my machine) to start up in FireWire Target Disk Mode, which is essentially the modern equivalent of SCSI Disk Mode and enables a PowerBook (FireWire) to act as a FireWire-accessible hard disk for another Macintosh.
I've also tried Warcraft Board Game, and it was fun up to a point. Just seem to be a re-hash of existing games... a bit of Magic the Gathering with some Risk, with a whole lot of Settlers. I got bored quickly.
Would rather play Settlers or Seafarers of Catan.:)
It's like I put poison in my glove compartment, and when someone steals my car and drinks it they should sue the car manufacturer for making cars that can easily be broken into...
"Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?"
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Perhaps take a gander over at:
...And here I thought....
Tattoo Page: Time
The same can not be said for Imperial measurements... even if SI has changed from it's beginnings, the units are elegantly interrelated. We live on the earth... the only universal (global) measurement is time. Thus everything is relative...
You were partly correct: (But it was only a suggestion)
Under certain precisely arranged conditions, atoms of the element caesium oscillate between two states at a very uniform (and fast) rate. By definition, 1 second in the time for 9,192,631,770 of these oscillations to occur. Then, 1 metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds. Although these ways of defining a standard second and a standard metre appear to be rather complicated and odd, scientists and engineers with appropriate equipment can use these definitions to measure time intervals and distances extremely precisely. When they do so, they will always all agree precisely in their measurements, an outcome that is identified above as an important goal in developing a standard system of units of measurement.
(Initially, 200 years ago, it was suggested that 1 metre be one ten-millionth of the distance from the north pole of the earth to the equator. This "standard" turned out to be insufficiently useful, because, among several difficulties, it was found that this distance was slightly different if you measured it in different places and so different users might end up with metres of slightly different lengths, causing confusion.)
Better luck next time with that Mars Probe!
;P
Hang in there!
One can see the original poster had no idea of arithmetic, as incorrect values listed included 39 and 40.
39 is as correct as 39.37 is. *Both* are rounded values.
40 is just rounded up, and even though further from the real value, still conforms to some system of mathematics.
The same would go for 39.4 (and 39.5)
Tsk. Tsk.
With 39.37 one would lose the Mars rover all over again anyway...
Like most else in American culture, having additional imperial measurements around is a wasteful exercise in ignorance.
Get with it. The metric system is a concise and well thought-out system - well rooted in science and interdependent across different domains.
-giggle-
This may be flame-bait/troll-esque, but I feel I need to get back at you for my University Physics textbook being outdated before I even bought it!
Using Google:
:P
10 (furlong per fortnight) = 5.54748858 × 10-12 light year per year
I've already bought NWN for PC, and have just ordered the Mac version as welll...
;)
My 3 top games:
1. Quake3 (+Team Arena)
2. Warcraft 3 (+ expansions)
3. NWN (+ both expansions)
I own 2 win32 (1 of which came with Mac binaries)copies and 1 Linux special edition of Quake3, Warcraft 3 works on my mac and win32 and I bought all the windows versions of NWN as well as a Mac version now.
Insofar gaming age goes, I'll be 32 this Sunday, and can kick Anarki's butt on Nightmare usually 40 to -5, and beat Normal difficulty bots on WC3 about 80% of the time... am pretty serious 'bout gaming... strangely I have a life outside of it too...
Hehe... can remember something like that for my Vic-20 :)
;)
Came with a cool graphics system (had a circle and flood-fill statements!) It also had extra RAM + built in speech synthesis.
Wow... those were the days.
I really do buy a lot of games. I still play Quake (having become rather good at it if I might add)... I've got the original Linux version (that comes with Suse) as well as the windows version. (My original windows version got stolen and I bought it again.
The problem is that these Linux games only get released in the U.S. Whereas all the other games are adapted for local currencies, I have to pay the exorbitant prices in US$ to get the Linux version.
To do a bit of math... Amazon.com lists the win32 version as $15, which means that locally I can buy it for R50. The Linux version is $45 (And to import it would cost me R350 (R450 with shipping) )
Um... it's cheaper to buy windows for games if I'm going to be waiting for games this long anyway... after the 2nd game I can already buy windows... (OEM version)
With this said, the problem as I see it is with game companies like Electronic Arts etc not bringing out a Linux version immediately. For heaven's sake! MoH is based on the Quake3 engine! How hard can it be! (And it has been out for OS X for ages... mostly un*x based, right?)
Sorry, but I play games seriously. I'm more serious about games than I am about OSes... those are just tools. I will not support Linux if it's going to cost me my pleasures.
Kudos to Id for Linux Quake... but there are too few Linux games. What about Warcraft III, the standard in competitive RTS? What about Morrowind? (Best single player fantast RPG ever) X^2 the Threat? (best re-make of Elite ever!)
I've bough about 30 games in the past year... I reccon it paid for my XP + VMWare?
And with coLinux I've never looked back?
(Even though OS X on my iBook is still my favourite)
Believe me... I've tried. I'm an experienced Linux/HPUX/Irix/AIX/BSD/OS X user.
Linux will not go away if there are no games for it... we need not to worry and frantically throw more money at a bad deal. Linux will survive in spite of everything, and it will become the games platform of choice... it cannot be stopped. But to waste money now?
Hmmm...
Enough ranting.
Sorry for this pragmatic view on this evangelical forum....
All my buddies have already had the MOH PvP LAN frenzies, and now have moved onto something else... if only this was about 5 months sooner... then I may still have had some fun off it.
But now it's a classic normal game at a special-edition price. It should be $5 in shops by now for win32.
My, my... it seems to be expensive being a Linux gamer... not to mention late.
If games were released MUCH sooner for Linux/OS X I would buy those out of principle! But this has been released MUCH too late.
Still a bit of single-player fun to be had, but no or little LAN multii-player.
Pity... same with my Mac OS X version of Neverwinter Nights. (I've finally got the Mac version too, but all my friends have moved on...)
Seriously though, how many people will still play this game with you? It's based on old technology and even though it may still be fun single-player, the multi-player market is dead. Thus you will only get half the intended fun out of it.
:(
;)
Don't shoot me down, I'm in the same boat really. I have 2 copies of Quake 3 (I bought the windows version, and later bought the Linux collectors edition anyway just to support them... even though I did not even need to)
As for NWN... I just bought my second copy for OS X (I would prefer playing it on OS X), but all my friends have moved onto other games already, so it's a bit lonely now...
It's a different matter if the games get released even just a week after the windows version... I would buy the Linux and OS X versions out of principle.
But 6 months!!! You MUST be kidding... it's not worth-while. (Advice I should follow too...)
PS: Your web page seems to be unconfigured:
( http://www.timalmond.com/ )
Also, 16K Ram Pack? For what machine?
-grin-
:)
:)
;) But Leonard Cohen (music mostly), Tom Waits, Nick Cave are of the top ones.
;)
Cool, I went to your site, and read there... wasn't sure if you were 'Nick'.
I've got more than a passing interest in many things.
Garfield? Hmm... nice, but more an 'Edward Gorey'/Calvin and Hobbes/Johnny the Homicidal Maniac fan..
Thanks for the tip, but I've already hacked my Safari Debug menu to enable Agent switching, and I've been trying the same thing in Opera. This specific problem does not seem to be affected. :(
There are no alternatives... believe me... I do my part when it comes to phoning people and letting them know about their site problems.
:(
I write letters to my bank.
The problem is that there are a few monopolies, and in small countries like mine there are few alternatives.
It's not really a feature either.
My Linux hosting company I use has a problem in certain pages of their management interface:
https://secure.globalservers.com/cp/
Which does not work in either Opera or Safari.
Hmm.. we are both saying the same things, yet we disagree.
;)
I love middle-click-open-in-background... I love pup-up-add-when-not-requested blocking... I love better cache handling... I love mouse gestures...
And I also use all the latest versions of Safari, FireWassiname and Opera.
I've bought Opera 5 and 7.
I've bought OS X
I've bought a Mozilla T-shirt...
The fact is I still cannot get rid of IE... and telling me I don't try is just sticking your head in the sand regarding the real problems out there....
The coolest thing about the OpenFirmware on my iBook is the fact that you can run a telnet server in it! (Google is your friend!)
;)
Great for when your Firmware stuffs up your display!
Not to mention being able to solve towers of Hanoi problems!
Don't you think I have tried?
I still have some minor problems with my bank's internet, although all the serious ones were fixed now (since I kept complaining...) The thing is that my entire company is at that bank, and it would be too much of a pain to move banks.
The second one is the booking system of basically the only booking company in my country ( http://www.computicket.com/ )
The third is one of the largest software and hardware shops in the country : (Incredible Connection) - But I don't like them anyway, so I don't go there.
The most important one is the control panel system of my site hosting company : www.globalserver.com - This works fine up until certain buttons which seem to always send through for some reason. The same behaviour for Opera, Safari, Konquerer and Mozilla. IE on OS X and win32 works however. (I've tried having my browser report as IE, but to no avail...)
These and sometimes other small problems is what compels me to always use IE.
PS: You a Leonard Cohen fan?
All we care about is which one works.
For some reason I don't seem to be able to get away from IE. Whatever the reason there are still many (important) sites out there that still just don't work (properly) with non-IE browsers.
In general though, I will use Opera on win32, Safari on OS X and Fire on Linux as my preferred browsers.
That does not not mean that I don't ALWAYS try and use IE (on OS X and win32) when I find that the others still don't quite make the grade in site compatibility.
Same as the silly Beta vs. VHS war. The one that wins is the one that has the most support, and is therefore the better (out of a consumer point of view) browser.
And I think that's all that really needs saying.
PS: In my opinion, the best browsers are:
1) Safari (much faster than Opera on any platform)
2) Opera
3) Mozilla
4) IE (If it had tabbed browsing, it would be better than Mozilla!)
The link to the second part did not get displayed:
Go HERE:
http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Mac_Keys.htm
For more reading on Open Firmware.
(One cool thing about Apple firmware: You can start a telnet server from within firmware! Wow!)
1)
:)
Download BootCD which is an app to create a BootCD from a current working installation. This will give you at least a working Finder and BSD subsystem with which you can hack around with.
2)
If that isn't easy enough, the following will blow your boots off:
* The T key forces the PowerBook (FireWire) (and reportedly the Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics), though I was unable to verify that on my machine) to start up in FireWire Target Disk Mode, which is essentially the modern equivalent of SCSI Disk Mode and enables a PowerBook (FireWire) to act as a FireWire-accessible hard disk for another Macintosh.
Too many options!
This was a no-brainer to get installed, and has probably the MOST configurable system (Zope) as a CMF support below it:
It runs on python and ZODB (A true OO DB)
Check it out
(The difficult part is learning to use Zope)
I've also tried out Drupal
I've also tried Warcraft Board Game, and it was fun up to a point. Just seem to be a re-hash of existing games... a bit of Magic the Gathering with some Risk, with a whole lot of Settlers. I got bored quickly.
:)
Would rather play Settlers or Seafarers of Catan.
It's like I put poison in my glove compartment, and when someone steals my car and drinks it they should sue the car manufacturer for making cars that can easily be broken into...
Hmm... that's premediated murder.
And example how examples don't work, I guess.
This is the new day and age where everyone can own a Unix machine and even people who don't have a clue can be a root user.
:)
Live with it, dammit!
This is a distro for people who won''t even be opening a shell... ever!
It's like saying my phone/pda runs linux, but not as root, fortunately! (Really, who cares!)
To add to this:
;)
"Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?"
-- Frank Zappa, Feb 1, 1989