Uh, they turn left in NASCAR because they drive on an oval, and go counterclockwise.
If they turned right they'd slam into the wall, no matter what kind of downforce they lost. If the race was set up to go clockwise turning right would be exactly the same as turning left does currently.:P
Turning left is supposedly a trait carried over from horse races.
There's probably a certain speed where a projectile would transfer energy so fast the substance would react like it were glass.
Now whether that's hockey puck speed or not obviously I can't say for sure, but I know damn well it wouldn't do much to ease the blow the goalie feels.;)
My only complaint with the game was the long recycle time when you died, it seemed completely unneccessary.
And considering the steep learning curve of the game, many people die a LOT.
Playing that boring death animation, fading to the game over, selecting "yes", then waiting for a reload translates to a lot of wasted time. Even worse if you're stuck on a fight that leads in with a cutscene.. ugh.
So who remembers the first search query they typed into Webcrawler?
I was just crawling out of the gopher world, a short period where I was getting turned on to the web but there was no way to find links, almost everything came through the university homepage or word of mouth. Then someone pointed me to webcrawler.
What did I search for first? "fart jokes". No kidding.
Never been able to quantify it, but I've had some classic car owners claim that the pollution that their older car produces for the rest of it's useful life will still be less than the pollution created by the manufacturing process for a single modern car.
Intuitively, that makes a bit of sense. All these modern composites and exotic metals can't be clean to work with. Though I suppose it'd be easier for a factory to contain the pollutants.
Would be neat to see a study on it. I wonder what the current situation would look like if manufacturing was included in the pollution scale, and compared against recycling old vehicles.
Last summer some lady was stuck at the grocery store, her '99 chevy wouldn't turn over. She had managed to pop the hood open and was standing over the engine cursing "stupid car" over and over.
Friend and I gave her a jump and it started fine, something in the charging system was probably dead. As she ambled back into the car she said something about how the car was junk, it only had 80k miles and was already going bad.
We made comments similar to yours as she drove off, probably to her next errand where she'd get stuck again and curse at the car some more.
I think what you're actually seeing is the piracy-minded folks ranting against RIAA/MPAA in the music and movie stories, and the hardnosed "free as in speech" faction piping up in the boring lawyer stories.
I suppose a better test (over just guessing like I am now;) would be to compare lists of posters in both subsets and look for trends.
The game computes fully dynamic lighting, I noticed a lot of bump mapping and specular effects. The lighting when you use the grenade launcher in a room full of pillars is quite a joy to watch.
This is Doom3/HL2 grade stuff, it will definetly exercise the video card.
> I could buy 3 large external hard drives or more for the money.
But if the hard drive mechanics went bad, you'd be screwed. Seperating the media and the mechanics improves reliability, because if the mechanics fail, you can replace them without replacing the media. You can also remove the Iomega media (for remote storage, etc) without shutting down your machine and unplugging cables.
Not saying the price is justified or even competitive, but that such a system has very real advantages over hard drives.
They could submit the ashes to that company that turns said ashes into diamonds.. they're quite small, and I presume, light.
That process costs from $2500 to $14k. If a 0.5 carat stone only weighs 0.1 grams (according to google), you could fit a whole bunch of those stones into the capsule.
So not only do you get to spend eternity as a diamond, you get to do it on the moon.;)
> Part of the fun of Everquest was the array of > items.
Sort of. There was still always an "absolute best" that every gamer insisted on owning. The only time weapons varied were when new expansions released and people were finding new gear.
I'm not sure that there's a real solution for it. You mentioned DAoC, and they had a novel idea of giving different weapons varying effectiveness against different types of armor. I think something like that is a good start for a system that rewards all weapon choices.
Finding some way to require skill to inflict damage instead of just hitting auto-attack and damaging as dictated by an arbitrary damage rating would help too. Again, DAoC had a fair idea for this with their style system as indicated by how many games are now copying the idea.
But I agree, it still isn't quite nirvana yet. I'd like to see an MMOG utilize some form of rag doll physics.;)
> Even though I was a specialist in 2H Axe I used > to carry a set of thulian claws and a rapier.
Wow, when was that.. 1999?:) I stopped playing EQ 9 months ago and hadn't seen BTC's for years at that point.
Something I'm really looking forward to is hyperthreading. It is becoming mainstream, which means more and more applications will be written to take advantage of multi-cpu situations.
The benefit I anticipate? I can start scooping up aging dual cpu (or more if I can find them;) motherboards, get a kickass system on hardware that's 4 generations old.
I really am surprised how well my 1.5ghz has held up for modern gaming, as long as I've kept my video card up to date it's been able to take everything I've thrown at it. Though it remains to be seen if it'll survive Doom3 or HL2.
I would love to see how a dual 1ghz or so can fare.
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Gnome and KDE are dogs, granted. I tried 'em both on my lower end linux boxes. I also tried them on my newer machine, and they still ran like dogs (opengl apps, even with the accelerated nvidia driver, ran at less than 1 FPS).
Switched to one of the other managers, fvwm, blackbox, twm, didn't really matter which. Did that and every machine was instantly snappy and responsive. So the issue isn't linux's speed really, it's the bloated software we call KDE and Gnome.
I still use my Toshiba Libretto (pentium 166, 64mb memory) daily, and it is running redhat9. Never had any cause for complaint on it.
Eh, considering every generation of PC's uses up more and more power (and converting more and more of it into heat), their statement probably stands. Maybe older gear isn't as efficient, but it draws considerably less power to begin with so it balances.
That's more a product of evolution than planning, I'd think. Cities in europe got their start when everyone travelled by foot. Cities in America caught the tailend of that, and as the population spread westward transportation got easier, culminating with the auto.
Drive through any old US city like NYC or Chicago, and the highways will be crammed into two lanes with a confusing braid of onramps and offramps. Regions like Seattle or the SF bay on the west coast have massive 8 lane highways and a number of tributaries (expressways, etc) feeding cars into local streets.
That part of the world is the newest, so it benefits (though I suppose the use of "benefits" is a potential debate topic;) the most from modern transportation.
> If they offer more, the jobs will come flooding back to US soil.
Eh, no. It's about "accepting less": less pay, less benefits, less freedoms. A US programmer is just as capable as an Indian one, he just needs to be paid more.
Companies outsource because they can pay a fraction of the salary, a salary that in america would put you below the poverty line.
What you're basically saying is that in order to get jobs back in the US, computer-related jobs have to drop to a level equal to flipping burgers at mcdonald's.
I personally couldn't care less what the desktop looks like, in fact, the less I see of it the better. When the interface gets in my way by accidentially clicking a gadget or some dumbass tooltip following the mouse around, I get irritated. I'm here to work within my applications, not marvel at how flexible the interface is.
larswm and 9wm are my favorite window managers, ever. 9wm for it's simplicity, larswm for it's wonderful layout policy.
If I could ever plug my window manager into my head and have it figure out what window I want to have focus automatically, I'd be in heaven.
Slashdot Mirror
I use it daily, it really is a great text editor as editors go.
:P
I also use vi daily. I can swap between the two seamlessly, and often don't notice that I'm doing it until several minutes later.
Uh, they turn left in NASCAR because they drive on an oval, and go counterclockwise.
:P
If they turned right they'd slam into the wall, no matter what kind of downforce they lost. If the race was set up to go clockwise turning right would be exactly the same as turning left does currently.
Turning left is supposedly a trait carried over from horse races.
It would probably shatter, if anything.
;)
There's probably a certain speed where a projectile would transfer energy so fast the substance would react like it were glass.
Now whether that's hockey puck speed or not obviously I can't say for sure, but I know damn well it wouldn't do much to ease the blow the goalie feels.
You can do this now for the most part. It's a technically demanding task though, not to mention the time investment.
Blender for the modelling, and it now supports two renderers (internal, and yafray) to output with.
There's no reason the open source tools available now can't output production quality movies.
> It'll be just like Livejournal!
Ie, the cream will rise to the top.
Sure, here's google's cache of google:
clicky
My only complaint with the game was the long recycle time when you died, it seemed completely unneccessary.
And considering the steep learning curve of the game, many people die a LOT.
Playing that boring death animation, fading to the game over, selecting "yes", then waiting for a reload translates to a lot of wasted time. Even worse if you're stuck on a fight that leads in with a cutscene.. ugh.
So who remembers the first search query they typed into Webcrawler?
I was just crawling out of the gopher world, a short period where I was getting turned on to the web but there was no way to find links, almost everything came through the university homepage or word of mouth. Then someone pointed me to webcrawler.
What did I search for first? "fart jokes". No kidding.
"boobs" was second.
> It was designed by an *architect* over 4 months
:)
Given your emphasis on "architect", I am led to believe you are surprised that an individual educated such is designing buildings.
So could you explain to me precisely which profession designs buildings where you live?
Never been able to quantify it, but I've had some classic car owners claim that the pollution that their older car produces for the rest of it's useful life will still be less than the pollution created by the manufacturing process for a single modern car.
Intuitively, that makes a bit of sense. All these modern composites and exotic metals can't be clean to work with. Though I suppose it'd be easier for a factory to contain the pollutants.
Would be neat to see a study on it. I wonder what the current situation would look like if manufacturing was included in the pollution scale, and compared against recycling old vehicles.
It is sad.
Last summer some lady was stuck at the grocery store, her '99 chevy wouldn't turn over. She had managed to pop the hood open and was standing over the engine cursing "stupid car" over and over.
Friend and I gave her a jump and it started fine, something in the charging system was probably dead. As she ambled back into the car she said something about how the car was junk, it only had 80k miles and was already going bad.
We made comments similar to yours as she drove off, probably to her next errand where she'd get stuck again and curse at the car some more.
my '66 vw bug
goes slower than your 84 rabbit, handles worse, has a real transmission, and is even easier and cheaper to work on.
It's also exempt from emissions checks.
Take these two posts, and I think the moral here is that the best option is to own the oldest car you can get your hands on.
I've found myself humming along with my electric razor sometimes. :p
Matching notes with it is kind of soothing, for some stupid reason.
Slashdot is a big community.
;) would be to compare lists of posters in both subsets and look for trends.
I think what you're actually seeing is the piracy-minded folks ranting against RIAA/MPAA in the music and movie stories, and the hardnosed "free as in speech" faction piping up in the boring lawyer stories.
I suppose a better test (over just guessing like I am now
No, it's the video card.
The game computes fully dynamic lighting, I noticed a lot of bump mapping and specular effects. The lighting when you use the grenade launcher in a room full of pillars is quite a joy to watch.
This is Doom3/HL2 grade stuff, it will definetly exercise the video card.
> I could buy 3 large external hard drives or more for the money.
But if the hard drive mechanics went bad, you'd be screwed. Seperating the media and the mechanics improves reliability, because if the mechanics fail, you can replace them without replacing the media. You can also remove the Iomega media (for remote storage, etc) without shutting down your machine and unplugging cables.
Not saying the price is justified or even competitive, but that such a system has very real advantages over hard drives.
I don't know that neolithic porn was neccessary because equal rights weren't a terribly contemporary idea back then.
I figure the guy could just demand the gal strip, and if she refused he just cracked her over the head with something heavy and did it for her.
They could submit the ashes to that company that turns said ashes into diamonds.. they're quite small, and I presume, light.
;)
That process costs from $2500 to $14k. If a 0.5 carat stone only weighs 0.1 grams (according to google), you could fit a whole bunch of those stones into the capsule.
So not only do you get to spend eternity as a diamond, you get to do it on the moon.
> Part of the fun of Everquest was the array of
;)
:) I stopped playing EQ 9 months ago and hadn't seen BTC's for years at that point.
> items.
Sort of. There was still always an "absolute best" that every gamer insisted on owning. The only time weapons varied were when new expansions released and people were finding new gear.
I'm not sure that there's a real solution for it. You mentioned DAoC, and they had a novel idea of giving different weapons varying effectiveness against different types of armor. I think something like that is a good start for a system that rewards all weapon choices.
Finding some way to require skill to inflict damage instead of just hitting auto-attack and damaging as dictated by an arbitrary damage rating would help too. Again, DAoC had a fair idea for this with their style system as indicated by how many games are now copying the idea.
But I agree, it still isn't quite nirvana yet. I'd like to see an MMOG utilize some form of rag doll physics.
> Even though I was a specialist in 2H Axe I used
> to carry a set of thulian claws and a rapier.
Wow, when was that.. 1999?
Something I'm really looking forward to is hyperthreading. It is becoming mainstream, which means more and more applications will be written to take advantage of multi-cpu situations.
;) motherboards, get a kickass system on hardware that's 4 generations old.
The benefit I anticipate? I can start scooping up aging dual cpu (or more if I can find them
I really am surprised how well my 1.5ghz has held up for modern gaming, as long as I've kept my video card up to date it's been able to take everything I've thrown at it. Though it remains to be seen if it'll survive Doom3 or HL2.
I would love to see how a dual 1ghz or so can fare.
Gnome and KDE are dogs, granted. I tried 'em both on my lower end linux boxes. I also tried them on my newer machine, and they still ran like dogs (opengl apps, even with the accelerated nvidia driver, ran at less than 1 FPS).
Switched to one of the other managers, fvwm, blackbox, twm, didn't really matter which. Did that and every machine was instantly snappy and responsive. So the issue isn't linux's speed really, it's the bloated software we call KDE and Gnome.
I still use my Toshiba Libretto (pentium 166, 64mb memory) daily, and it is running redhat9. Never had any cause for complaint on it.
Eh, considering every generation of PC's uses up more and more power (and converting more and more of it into heat), their statement probably stands. Maybe older gear isn't as efficient, but it draws considerably less power to begin with so it balances.
That's more a product of evolution than planning, I'd think. Cities in europe got their start when everyone travelled by foot. Cities in America caught the tailend of that, and as the population spread westward transportation got easier, culminating with the auto.
;) the most from modern transportation.
Drive through any old US city like NYC or Chicago, and the highways will be crammed into two lanes with a confusing braid of onramps and offramps. Regions like Seattle or the SF bay on the west coast have massive 8 lane highways and a number of tributaries (expressways, etc) feeding cars into local streets.
That part of the world is the newest, so it benefits (though I suppose the use of "benefits" is a potential debate topic
> If they offer more, the jobs will come flooding back to US soil.
Eh, no. It's about "accepting less": less pay, less benefits, less freedoms. A US programmer is just as capable as an Indian one, he just needs to be paid more.
Companies outsource because they can pay a fraction of the salary, a salary that in america would put you below the poverty line.
What you're basically saying is that in order to get jobs back in the US, computer-related jobs have to drop to a level equal to flipping burgers at mcdonald's.
There's all types in the world.
I personally couldn't care less what the desktop looks like, in fact, the less I see of it the better. When the interface gets in my way by accidentially clicking a gadget or some dumbass tooltip following the mouse around, I get irritated. I'm here to work within my applications, not marvel at how flexible the interface is.
larswm and 9wm are my favorite window managers, ever. 9wm for it's simplicity, larswm for it's wonderful layout policy.
If I could ever plug my window manager into my head and have it figure out what window I want to have focus automatically, I'd be in heaven.