Ah, that takes me back to the late 90s; people complaining about DVD versions not being released day and date with the VHS versions, people buying the Japanese LD of Phantom Menace, and the entire Home Theater market getting together to crush DivX.
Actually, for danger/warning/do something right now type signals, it's much better to have prearranged indicators somewhere that the agent sees every day; blinds in a certain apartment up or down, chalk mark on a curb, guy on the subway wearing a certain type of hat and reading a specific newspaper in a specific way, stuff like that.
OTPs are good for docs left in dead drops, and to encrypt sensitive traffic between installations, and other similar things.
For the same reason that 'dead' gladiators would have hot iron brands applied to their feet; try to catch fakers. Longinus is usually regarded as having stabbed too hard; it's supposed to be a prick, basically, to the lower ribs that would cause in involuntary flinch. If Jesus wasn't already dead, he would be pretty quickly, from the stab wound.
I agree; the SNES/Genesis era was a damn good one. I'm just pointing out that this generation doen't have a lock on doing remakes/upgrades/whatevers of old games; they've been doing that since, well, the second generation of games.
Well, you conveniently ignore the fact that most Super Nintendo games were remakes or rehashes of NES games with the word 'Super' prepended to the title, and that most N64 games were, again, remakes or rehashes with the number '64' appended to the title.
What are the major hits of the Gamecube? Lets see. Metroid, goes all the way back to the NES. Zelda? Goes back to the NES. Rogue Squadron? Wow, only goes back to the N64. Super Smash Brothers Melee? A sequal to a game about old Nintendo characters. And so on.
Just the other day I was feeling nostalgic about the old Gold Box series; Pools of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades; the Dragonlance series, hell, the Buck Rogers games that used that engine, those were fantastic times, on me old C64.
Since when has "not wanting to indulge in certain types of content or wishing for my young children to see it either" equaled "evil right wing communist bible thumping"?
That would be the difference between 'I don't want my children to see X, so I don't let them watch TV shows containing X' and 'I don't want my children to see X, therefore X should be completely and utterly banned from the entire country, because either a) my children might see it somewhere, b) I can't be bothered to police their activities, so the gov't should do it, or c) NOBODY CAN POSSIBLY DISAGREE WITH ME, OR THEY'RE TEH EVIL MINIONS OF SATAN!.
Besides, TV stations don't have to listen to what any of their viewers want... they can ignore those letters if they choose.
It's not the angry letters they're worried about, it's the FCC fines in the six digit range.
Try DosBox. Works perfectly for the QFG series; I do have 4 crash out occasionally with a DOS error, but I suspect that's 4.
I got that game when it first came out, on floppies, couldn't beat it. Found out a few years later, when I was on the Internet and was thinking about it, and decided to check for a FAQ, that the game shipped with a plot bug that wouldn't trigger a visit from Katrina at a certain time to propel you into the end game.
I thought that too, until I found myself staring at a 'type in your CD key so I can phone home and register' screen after I installed the 1.0x patch (downloaded at work, as I'm on dial-up at home) and installed it.
David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series of books tries to have 'realistic' space combat; their one concession to the fact that it probably wouldn't work is to invent a 'hyperspace' to get from star system to star system, and 'gravity wedges' to allow for high acceleration within normal space, but it's all very internally consistant.
The battles themselves play out as anywhere from submarine/ASW warfare to 'the wall of battle' which basically involves two walls of really big ships flying past one another while letting the broadsides fly.
There is an constant thread, however, that the only reason space combat is feasable is because there are individual points in space, i.e. planets, that need to be defended; otherwise, needle in a haystack.
The other interesting thing is watching him figure out the implications and improvements on his own idea throughout the books, and watching the tactics, strategy, and technology evolve in ways that make sense.
From a 'literary' point of view, his first few books get awfully hammy, like naming a character Rob S. Pierre, no relation or similarity to Robspierre, nudge nudge wink wink, but he's never been afraid to royally screw with characters, or kill off major players.
Speaking as a bit of a home theater buff, make sure your television settings are approriate for DVD; in this case, it mainly means turning your 'sharpness' control all the way down, and making sure your brightness/contrast are appropriate, as well; that usually means 'lower than they are now.'
And heaven forbid you want some real-world advice on pros and cons, gotchas, pitfalls and nifty features, ease of installation/maintenance, suitability for specific purposes, or any of that other stuff.
Perhaps the sticking point here is that it's a matter of lawyer-client priviledge, which MUST be sacrosanct and inviolable. Or as sacrosanct and inviolable as possible.
This is true to an extent, with the following two caveats: 1: Never buy anything Monster brand, and 2: a digital cable will either work or not work; only analog cables can suffer from interference which degrades the sound.
You simply can't install modern distributions on the first system. And if it would be possible it would look totally stupid. You can not even install a textmode-only system with anything else than Slackware (very slow) and Basic Linux (very basic).
Debian installs to text-only quite nicely. I believe the BSDs do as well.
Don't forget that Iran is currently a theocracy due directly to the Americans overthrowing the legitimately elected leader and re-installing the monarchy, which the populace didn't like.
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Ah, that takes me back to the late 90s; people complaining about DVD versions not being released day and date with the VHS versions, people buying the Japanese LD of Phantom Menace, and the entire Home Theater market getting together to crush DivX.
And lots of major studios are on record as saying they won't make use of that particular flag.
The industry learned a pretty big lesson when the market rejected the DivX system back in the late 90s.
Actually, for danger/warning/do something right now type signals, it's much better to have prearranged indicators somewhere that the agent sees every day; blinds in a certain apartment up or down, chalk mark on a curb, guy on the subway wearing a certain type of hat and reading a specific newspaper in a specific way, stuff like that.
OTPs are good for docs left in dead drops, and to encrypt sensitive traffic between installations, and other similar things.
I believe it was 'atomspheric noise hashed with different atmospheric noise.'
You have the right to revolt; just not necessarily the guarantee of success.
For the same reason that 'dead' gladiators would have hot iron brands applied to their feet; try to catch fakers. Longinus is usually regarded as having stabbed too hard; it's supposed to be a prick, basically, to the lower ribs that would cause in involuntary flinch. If Jesus wasn't already dead, he would be pretty quickly, from the stab wound.
I agree; the SNES/Genesis era was a damn good one. I'm just pointing out that this generation doen't have a lock on doing remakes/upgrades/whatevers of old games; they've been doing that since, well, the second generation of games.
Well, you conveniently ignore the fact that most Super Nintendo games were remakes or rehashes of NES games with the word 'Super' prepended to the title, and that most N64 games were, again, remakes or rehashes with the number '64' appended to the title.
What are the major hits of the Gamecube? Lets see. Metroid, goes all the way back to the NES. Zelda? Goes back to the NES. Rogue Squadron? Wow, only goes back to the N64. Super Smash Brothers Melee? A sequal to a game about old Nintendo characters. And so on.
DVD Profiler. Next question.
To be fair, how many viruses are there for Windows 9x or NT? Sure, lots of worms, trojans and such like, but viruses?
Just the other day I was feeling nostalgic about the old Gold Box series; Pools of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades; the Dragonlance series, hell, the Buck Rogers games that used that engine, those were fantastic times, on me old C64.
KOTOR2 is still well worth playing; the ending is just a bit abrupt.
That would be the difference between 'I don't want my children to see X, so I don't let them watch TV shows containing X' and 'I don't want my children to see X, therefore X should be completely and utterly banned from the entire country, because either a) my children might see it somewhere, b) I can't be bothered to police their activities, so the gov't should do it, or c) NOBODY CAN POSSIBLY DISAGREE WITH ME, OR THEY'RE TEH EVIL MINIONS OF SATAN!.
It's not the angry letters they're worried about, it's the FCC fines in the six digit range.
Try DosBox. Works perfectly for the QFG series; I do have 4 crash out occasionally with a DOS error, but I suspect that's 4.
I got that game when it first came out, on floppies, couldn't beat it. Found out a few years later, when I was on the Internet and was thinking about it, and decided to check for a FAQ, that the game shipped with a plot bug that wouldn't trigger a visit from Katrina at a certain time to propel you into the end game.
Sheesh, I *still* play through the Quest for Glory series about every eight months or so, because they're just so damn fun.
I thought that too, until I found myself staring at a 'type in your CD key so I can phone home and register' screen after I installed the 1.0x patch (downloaded at work, as I'm on dial-up at home) and installed it.
#apt-get update
#apt-get upgrade
What do you mean, ipop3d no longer accepts plain-text logins?
Use debian daily, love it to death, but even it has gotchas.
David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series of books tries to have 'realistic' space combat; their one concession to the fact that it probably wouldn't work is to invent a 'hyperspace' to get from star system to star system, and 'gravity wedges' to allow for high acceleration within normal space, but it's all very internally consistant.
The battles themselves play out as anywhere from submarine/ASW warfare to 'the wall of battle' which basically involves two walls of really big ships flying past one another while letting the broadsides fly.
There is an constant thread, however, that the only reason space combat is feasable is because there are individual points in space, i.e. planets, that need to be defended; otherwise, needle in a haystack.
The other interesting thing is watching him figure out the implications and improvements on his own idea throughout the books, and watching the tactics, strategy, and technology evolve in ways that make sense.
From a 'literary' point of view, his first few books get awfully hammy, like naming a character Rob S. Pierre, no relation or similarity to Robspierre, nudge nudge wink wink, but he's never been afraid to royally screw with characters, or kill off major players.
Speaking as a bit of a home theater buff, make sure your television settings are approriate for DVD; in this case, it mainly means turning your 'sharpness' control all the way down, and making sure your brightness/contrast are appropriate, as well; that usually means 'lower than they are now.'
And heaven forbid you want some real-world advice on pros and cons, gotchas, pitfalls and nifty features, ease of installation/maintenance, suitability for specific purposes, or any of that other stuff.
Perhaps the sticking point here is that it's a matter of lawyer-client priviledge, which MUST be sacrosanct and inviolable. Or as sacrosanct and inviolable as possible.
This is true to an extent, with the following two caveats: 1: Never buy anything Monster brand, and 2: a digital cable will either work or not work; only analog cables can suffer from interference which degrades the sound.
Debian installs to text-only quite nicely. I believe the BSDs do as well.
Don't forget that Iran is currently a theocracy due directly to the Americans overthrowing the legitimately elected leader and re-installing the monarchy, which the populace didn't like.
Take a look at Galactic Civilizations 2; as somebody intensely disappointed by Moo3, I'm quite intrigued by GC2.