First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured.
Those who lean towards the left are more likely to frequent Slashdot, and are therefore used to the occasional goatse.
Seriously, though, McCain admitting to not knowing how to send an email, and Governor Palin's poor choices of password/secret question illustrate what we have long suspected: Right-wingers are, by and large, less interested in the interwebs. Let us not forget Democratic Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens.
Perhaps a significant population of left-leaning individuals are more used to being rickrolled and whatnot.
First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured.
Those who lean towards the left are more likely to frequent Slashdot, and are therefore used to the occasional goatse.
Please don't mention LHC and "Impact" in the same sentence. It's bad enough that I have to worry about invisible black holes (worse than cancer! And twice as hard to cure!), but now I have to worry about giant lifeforms crashing into Antarctica.
Most MMOs focus on two concepts: a unique combat system and different skills to level. A Buffy MMO sounds interesting enough, until you realize that the developers would have to stray too far from the TV series in order to make it a good game.
First, the combat in the Buffyverse has always been minimal. Buffy explains in painful detail to the vampires why they can't win, and she'll kick their heads in if they try anything. Once an episode, one of them tries somethings. Buffy kicks heads in. End of episode, at least as far as fighting goes.
As for skills, well, there's not much of that in the series, either. Buffy has always been killing vampires. It's what she does. Giles is always the librarian who has read every book on the occult, but still never notices anything wrong until someone points it out first. +3 intellect/+1 cluelessness. But I am getting silly here.
The point is, the game will either conform to the Buffyverse, or the game will distort the Buffyverse to make it work. Either way, it cannot end well.
...much slower than DVD sales were. This is because for many people, DVD quality is enough, and the cost of Blu-ray discs aren't justifiable. In the same way that people are skipping Vista and waiting for Windows 7, many people are skipping Blu-ray entirely and waiting for the format after it. The question is: How many of them will give in, and buy Vista or Blu-ray? Time will tell, although personally I'm waiting for a Blu-ray-RW drive at a competitive (to DVD, per gigabyte) price.
Then why abide by the constitution at all? If the rules set forth are "impractical", why not amend it to grant more power to the legislative branch? Two wrongs don't make a right. Half a dozen wrongs certainly do not.
Mod parent up please. Mod parent of parent down.
Sacrificing freedom for security will earn you neither because it is impossible to have security without freedom. In a balance of security and freedom, erring on the side of freedom is always preferable, because once the trend toward totalitarianism begins, it is difficult to reverse.
Why, because they should be "geek" enough to pirate it? Or is the ability to play Windows-only games without a reboot not as "geek" as a chance at writing a shell script every so often?
True, but if you use GhostView to view the linked postscript file, it will only display the first page. presumably there is some obscure comand-line way to access the other pages, but at that point, PDF converters are just easier.
A Postscript to PDF converter comes in handy ( http://www.ps2pdf.com/ ), as the documentation is provided in postscript and plain text (which is badly formatted).
With that kind of processing power, it could likely run many instances of Crysis without any sort of graphics adapter.
A GeForce 8800 (which can easily run Crysis on medium settings, and can run high settings with intermittent slowdowns), for example, has somewhere around 500-600 gigaflops. Meanwhile a core 2 quad is somewhere around 30-40 gigaflops (but is obviously much faster than the typical 500mhz GPU).
Using one of the aforementioned hand calculators, we can determine that the Roadrunner could probably run over a thousand copies of Crysis. We can also determine that I am bored, although that determination does not require a calculator.
You can distribute a Havok-enabled game, as long as Havok cannot be separated from it by the end user.
You can distribute game middleware/game engines/game tools as long as Havok is not included in them at all (I guess the end user will have to get their own license)
...In graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature.
But how does it do at, say, 70C?
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The word "pwn" has been around for long enough that characterizing it as slang used exclusively by 13-year-olds is more than a little silly.
Also, with so few alternatives that have not been tainted by alternative meanings ("hack", anyone?), "pwn" is a legitimate word among hacker types.
First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured.
Those who lean towards the left are more likely to frequent Slashdot, and are therefore used to the occasional goatse.
Seriously, though, McCain admitting to not knowing how to send an email, and Governor Palin's poor choices of password/secret question illustrate what we have long suspected: Right-wingers are, by and large, less interested in the interwebs. Let us not forget Democratic Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens.
Perhaps a significant population of left-leaning individuals are more used to being rickrolled and whatnot.
It's a bit of a stretch, I'll admit.
First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured. Those who lean towards the left are more likely to frequent Slashdot, and are therefore used to the occasional goatse.
Something that can run Vista! But not Aero. They had to revert to the Server (2008) edition.
Please don't mention LHC and "Impact" in the same sentence. It's bad enough that I have to worry about invisible black holes (worse than cancer! And twice as hard to cure!), but now I have to worry about giant lifeforms crashing into Antarctica.
Most MMOs focus on two concepts: a unique combat system and different skills to level. A Buffy MMO sounds interesting enough, until you realize that the developers would have to stray too far from the TV series in order to make it a good game.
First, the combat in the Buffyverse has always been minimal. Buffy explains in painful detail to the vampires why they can't win, and she'll kick their heads in if they try anything. Once an episode, one of them tries somethings. Buffy kicks heads in. End of episode, at least as far as fighting goes.
As for skills, well, there's not much of that in the series, either. Buffy has always been killing vampires. It's what she does. Giles is always the librarian who has read every book on the occult, but still never notices anything wrong until someone points it out first. +3 intellect/+1 cluelessness. But I am getting silly here.
The point is, the game will either conform to the Buffyverse, or the game will distort the Buffyverse to make it work. Either way, it cannot end well.
...much slower than DVD sales were. This is because for many people, DVD quality is enough, and the cost of Blu-ray discs aren't justifiable. In the same way that people are skipping Vista and waiting for Windows 7, many people are skipping Blu-ray entirely and waiting for the format after it. The question is: How many of them will give in, and buy Vista or Blu-ray? Time will tell, although personally I'm waiting for a Blu-ray-RW drive at a competitive (to DVD, per gigabyte) price.
Right. And I'll rename myself Anonymous Coward. Er,.. wait.
240K ought to be enough for anybody.
This theory kind of fell apart with Vista, I have no idea what that steaming pile is in response to.
They probably saw Windows RG as a threat that needed to be outdone.
Please mod parent up. The Microsoft mentality has never been so perfectly phrased.
Then why abide by the constitution at all? If the rules set forth are "impractical", why not amend it to grant more power to the legislative branch? Two wrongs don't make a right. Half a dozen wrongs certainly do not.
Mod parent up please. Mod parent of parent down. Sacrificing freedom for security will earn you neither because it is impossible to have security without freedom. In a balance of security and freedom, erring on the side of freedom is always preferable, because once the trend toward totalitarianism begins, it is difficult to reverse.
Why, because they should be "geek" enough to pirate it? Or is the ability to play Windows-only games without a reboot not as "geek" as a chance at writing a shell script every so often?
True, but if you use GhostView to view the linked postscript file, it will only display the first page. presumably there is some obscure comand-line way to access the other pages, but at that point, PDF converters are just easier.
A Postscript to PDF converter comes in handy ( http://www.ps2pdf.com/ ), as the documentation is provided in postscript and plain text (which is badly formatted).
Better watch out, the RIAA will be all over you for using lines from a copyrighted song.
Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot again. But with their feet of clay, they probably just think they're skeet shooting.
With that kind of processing power, it could likely run many instances of Crysis without any sort of graphics adapter. A GeForce 8800 (which can easily run Crysis on medium settings, and can run high settings with intermittent slowdowns), for example, has somewhere around 500-600 gigaflops. Meanwhile a core 2 quad is somewhere around 30-40 gigaflops (but is obviously much faster than the typical 500mhz GPU). Using one of the aforementioned hand calculators, we can determine that the Roadrunner could probably run over a thousand copies of Crysis. We can also determine that I am bored, although that determination does not require a calculator.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
From the Terms and Conditions (http://tryhavok.intel.com/terms.php), it seems as though:
You can distribute a Havok-enabled game, as long as Havok cannot be separated from it by the end user.
You can distribute game middleware/game engines/game tools as long as Havok is not included in them at all (I guess the end user will have to get their own license)
Where game mods fit into this I am not sure.
I'm not a lawyer, blah blah blah
The above sentence is self-contradicting)
How about jets of hot grits?
"We're looking for real physics -- a bigger bang resulting in collateral damage."
That's what missiles are for. That's what special forces are for. I'm not sure how much "collateral damage" can be caused by hackers.
Then again, maybe General Elder has been reading the World Weekly News.
...In graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature. But how does it do at, say, 70C?
Why not take it a step further and recommend against Vista?