I prefer using a real adress, one in Akron, OH. And I don't live in the US either, but a fake name and a real adress + zipcode gets past all those "We're sorry but our retarded computer system doesn't allow you to enter non-US adresses"-problems (these are often the same places that actually make some kind of attempt at checking if you've really entered a somewhat proper adress..)
Nice troll, FreeBSD 4.x does have SMP although it's pretty inefficient. 5.x has much better SMP but it's currently labeled "new technology release" and they recommend 4.x for production servers. 5.x is quite stable though..
Actually, if I were to smuggle something into Sweden I'd just drive across the bridge from Denmark or cross the border from Norway.. There's no need to get your own ship when you can drive a truck across the border without anyone noticing.
Know what's going on around you at all times. Walking around any kinda of area where you could get mugged wearing any kind of earphones tells those watching that you have NO awareness of much of anything except what's right in front of you. Since you're a geek, maybe not even that.
Actually, if you already look like you belong in that neighbourhood (that is, like you're more likely to be the mugger than the mugging victim) then headphones can actually amplify this, you look like you feel so safe in that neighbourhood that you don't have to know what's going on around you, kind of like how you as a tourist shouldn't take ten minutes observing traffic before crossing the street, just cross the street first chance you get..
I don't know, I think the "don't wear a backpack" rule applies more to those who dress like they actually have something valuable, when I lived in Paris (in the not so nice parts of the city btw) I had a cheap beat-up backpack to go along with my shoes that were held together with gaffer tape, baggy jeans that looked like I had stolen them from a bum and my hooded sweatshirt that had more holes than it should and I never had any problems with anyone trying to mug me..
Another hint is to always look like you know exactly where you are going but that you're not in a hurry to get there, that way people assume that even if you don't speak the language you're still not some dumbass tourist or business creature./Mikael
I find that in many modern games I spend far, far too much time wandering around lost, hoping for some indication of anything that will help me progress. If a game is an action game, then I want action. I want to move forward into the next room and fight something exciting. Not wander around retracing my steps hoping to find something I missed because I've exausted all the possible action in the region.
I'd like to somewhat disagree with you here, I think it's not that games are too non-linear but rather that they are still linear but allow you not to go in the right direction. This is why you end up wandering around aimlessly for ages just wanting to find a way past your current problem, in a truly non-linear game you could wander off and find something else to do, a completely different solution to your problem or just some mindless fun..
But I agree that action games should be linear although I think being able to choose which line to follow (so to say..) is a nice thing since sometimes you just don't want to go head to head with that guy with double flak-jackets and a grenade launcher, it might suit you better to gun down a dozen or so ordinary enemies.. (This is what I kind of miss in Max Payne 2, the ability to find alternate paths that still have the same result in the end.)
I think Fox is probably slightly right-of-center editorially, which is a nice balance to CNN, which is left-of-center. The major networks fall somewhere in between the two. I work in talk radio -- I make no claim of being objective as far as the commentary goes on the station. With news events, however, I try just to report the facts. I do local news mostly, and there's not much political commentary you can put into a story on a house fire, or a fatal car accident.
I'm not sure I agree with you about Fox being slightly right-of-center and definitely not on CNN being anything but right-wing, but then I'm one "them there foreigners" who think that your entire country is far out to the right..
Al-Jazeera, on the other hand, goes beyond being pro-Arab. As you say, it is propaganda. That it's even mentioned as a nominee casts quite a bit of doubt on the legitimacy of the other nominations with the Webby Awards.
I'll agree that Al-Jazeera is very biased but not more so than many US media outlets (where FOX is of course the timeless example).
The problem here is that I live in an apartment building that is an amazing 7km from the most central parts of town and out here the only way to get broadband is to be a university student since the uni uses some of the apartments as student housing and they promise broadband connections to all students who live in such apartments. This means that there are ethernet jacks in all apartments here but you can't use them unless you are a student.. Neat, huh?
Looking at the results, in most small towns, the backbone connections AREN'T used by more than a few percent - they simply don't want it that badly.
Bzzzt! Wrong! It simply isn't available if you live too far from wherever the actual connection to the outside is, this could in some cases probably be fixed by starting your own company and paying $$$ but the whole point here is that you shouldn't have to be a millionaire to have a decent internet connection. (I'm swedish and as some anecdotal evidence I'll point to my non-nerd friends who all use SMS and the internet for communication a lot more often than regular POTS/cellphone (yes, SMS is cellphone but it's not actual talking.))
This one is probably just to cover their backs in case some dumbass decides to sue them for WinAmp not running properly on his 286SX..
* 128MB RAM
A bit steep, but once again I'm guessing it will run on less but that they think it's better to cover their backs.
* 30MB Hard Disk Space
This isn't much to complain about in the age of several hundred meg word processors.
* 32bit Sound Card
I suppose that in theory you could use drivers for your 16bit sound card that make it seem like a 32bit card to WinAmp.. But who doesn't have a 32bit sound card?
* Windows 2000, Windows XP
Ok, what are you running? Windows 95?
* 8x speed or greater CD Burner (Required for Burning)
* 16x speed or greater CDROM (Required for Ripping)
Well obviously it's possible to do burning and ripping with slower drives, but for Joe Q Sixpack this would be too slow and probably make him go online and bitch about how the software sucks, so let's cover our backs again..
That is a matter of opinion, I can't stand the bloated WMP UI, but maybe you don't mind putting in an effort to not have half of your screen being covered by ugly window decorations.
It does do Video, but I find not very well (Sometimes my videos get tinted blue. Don't know why. Maybe they aren't very well encoded)...
I've had no problems with video playback in WinAmp, and I use it to watch cartoons and the like all the time (all the time = several hours per day).
...I use WMP, because it tucks into the Task Bar, which is nicer than the System Tray. The User Interface is better in WMP, so I wouldn't bother recommending it. WMP is just plain easier to use.
Uh huh.. In WinAmp you can choose if you want it to be in the task bar, the system tray or both, it's up to you.
And about the WMP UI being "plain easier", what sort of crack are you smoking?! It makes almost no sense, especially in non-English Windows versions, but the english version has a retarded UI as well..
What I'm amazed at is how every time someone mentions France some USian has to pull out the "oooh, we're all stupid frog-eaters who surrender before the battle has started.."-card, of course that's going to annoy europeans..
I think the HC05 has a different instruction set than the HC11 and HC08. right? a little more primitive. Hey you say 8bit for the 05 did you mean in contrast to the HC11??? cause the HC08 is 8bit also, but I though the HC11 was the same. The HC11 has a few more registers I think. The HC08 has only 8-bit Accumulator A and a 16bit index register.
It's been a while since I coded for the HC11 but I believe it had two 8-bit Accumulators (A and B) and that one 16-bit register. Also, I seem to recall there being different HC11 models with differing amounts of RAM.
Ditto, but with alqaeda.net, I decided to drop that site in 2002 after quite a few (badly written) death threats from people with AOL accounts.. humorless bastards, the terrorists handbook on alqaeda.net was funny, in a morbid sort of way...
Around here these things are a bit flaky though, since they are waaay ahead of the intersection so the light will turn green before you get there, problem is that on most 50km/h roads you need to be going 70+ km/h in order to make it to the light before it turns red again and then it won't turn green again until another car shows up..
You bought the DVD player, you own the hardware. You don't own the software, and the APEX people are free to support or NOT support any feature they want, it's their software. Obviously this "feature" that this DVD player had was an unsupported thing that they decided to remove in later versions. That's their right as authors of the software.
But they don't have the right to just remove software from his dvd player and put other software there instead, at least not when he didn't ask them to "fix" the software..
At ~50 chars per line and ~40 lines per page and an average of 230 pages per book (low estimates) You'd have 50*40*230 ~= 460kB/book
Now add a 800x800 jpeg for each map, say 60kB/map.
Add also at least 800x800 for every photo, another 60kB/photo.
Even without counting the manuscripts you would then have: 19,000,000*460 + 12,000,000*60 + 4,800,000*60 ~= 9519531 MB just there.. I could be off in my calculations though..:)
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No, you're behind the curve because you have to work from home on top of your 40hrs/week in the office.. :P
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Actually, if you already look like you belong in that neighbourhood (that is, like you're more likely to be the mugger than the mugging victim) then headphones can actually amplify this, you look like you feel so safe in that neighbourhood that you don't have to know what's going on around you, kind of like how you as a tourist shouldn't take ten minutes observing traffic before crossing the street, just cross the street first chance you get..
/Mikael
I don't know, I think the "don't wear a backpack" rule applies more to those who dress like they actually have something valuable, when I lived in Paris (in the not so nice parts of the city btw) I had a cheap beat-up backpack to go along with my shoes that were held together with gaffer tape, baggy jeans that looked like I had stolen them from a bum and my hooded sweatshirt that had more holes than it should and I never had any problems with anyone trying to mug me..
/Mikael
Another hint is to always look like you know exactly where you are going but that you're not in a hurry to get there, that way people assume that even if you don't speak the language you're still not some dumbass tourist or business creature.
I'd like to somewhat disagree with you here, I think it's not that games are too non-linear but rather that they are still linear but allow you not to go in the right direction. This is why you end up wandering around aimlessly for ages just wanting to find a way past your current problem, in a truly non-linear game you could wander off and find something else to do, a completely different solution to your problem or just some mindless fun..
But I agree that action games should be linear although I think being able to choose which line to follow (so to say..) is a nice thing since sometimes you just don't want to go head to head with that guy with double flak-jackets and a grenade launcher, it might suit you better to gun down a dozen or so ordinary enemies.. (This is what I kind of miss in Max Payne 2, the ability to find alternate paths that still have the same result in the end.)
/Mikael
I'm not sure I agree with you about Fox being slightly right-of-center and definitely not on CNN being anything but right-wing, but then I'm one "them there foreigners" who think that your entire country is far out to the right..
Al-Jazeera, on the other hand, goes beyond being pro-Arab. As you say, it is propaganda. That it's even mentioned as a nominee casts quite a bit of doubt on the legitimacy of the other nominations with the Webby Awards.
I'll agree that Al-Jazeera is very biased but not more so than many US media outlets (where FOX is of course the timeless example).
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Bzzzt! Wrong! It simply isn't available if you live too far from wherever the actual connection to the outside is, this could in some cases probably be fixed by starting your own company and paying $$$ but the whole point here is that you shouldn't have to be a millionaire to have a decent internet connection. (I'm swedish and as some anecdotal evidence I'll point to my non-nerd friends who all use SMS and the internet for communication a lot more often than regular POTS/cellphone (yes, SMS is cellphone but it's not actual talking.))
/Mikael
This one is probably just to cover their backs in case some dumbass decides to sue them for WinAmp not running properly on his 286SX..
* 128MB RAM
A bit steep, but once again I'm guessing it will run on less but that they think it's better to cover their backs.
* 30MB Hard Disk Space
This isn't much to complain about in the age of several hundred meg word processors.
* 32bit Sound Card
I suppose that in theory you could use drivers for your 16bit sound card that make it seem like a 32bit card to WinAmp.. But who doesn't have a 32bit sound card?
* Windows 2000, Windows XP
Ok, what are you running? Windows 95?
* 8x speed or greater CD Burner (Required for Burning) * 16x speed or greater CDROM (Required for Ripping)
Well obviously it's possible to do burning and ripping with slower drives, but for Joe Q Sixpack this would be too slow and probably make him go online and bitch about how the software sucks, so let's cover our backs again..
/Mikael
That is a matter of opinion, I can't stand the bloated WMP UI, but maybe you don't mind putting in an effort to not have half of your screen being covered by ugly window decorations.
It does do Video, but I find not very well (Sometimes my videos get tinted blue. Don't know why. Maybe they aren't very well encoded)...
I've had no problems with video playback in WinAmp, and I use it to watch cartoons and the like all the time (all the time = several hours per day).
Uh huh.. In WinAmp you can choose if you want it to be in the task bar, the system tray or both, it's up to you.
And about the WMP UI being "plain easier", what sort of crack are you smoking?! It makes almost no sense, especially in non-English Windows versions, but the english version has a retarded UI as well..
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I'd say this is more like walking around with a baseball bat, always ready to crack someone's skull with it if they disobey you..
/Mikael
It's been a while since I coded for the HC11 but I believe it had two 8-bit Accumulators (A and B) and that one 16-bit register. Also, I seem to recall there being different HC11 models with differing amounts of RAM.
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But they don't have the right to just remove software from his dvd player and put other software there instead, at least not when he didn't ask them to "fix" the software..
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Now add a 800x800 jpeg for each map, say 60kB/map.
Add also at least 800x800 for every photo, another 60kB/photo.
Even without counting the manuscripts you would then have: :)
19,000,000*460 + 12,000,000*60 + 4,800,000*60 ~= 9519531 MB just there.. I could be off in my calculations though..
/Mikael