I seem to recall reading somewhere that cats don't meow at one another; they'll hiss, yowl, scream, and use lots of body language, but meowing is something they developed specifically to deal with humans.
One fine day, after installing Microsoft SMS 2.0, I wanted to try out the 'server licensing' feature; install software on each computer, tell SMS how many licenses you actually have, and it lets only that many copies run at a time, queues people up, and so on.
I decide to test it on Solitare; so I tell the thing that only one copy of sol.exe is allowed to run, fire a copy up on my desktop, try firing it up on my laptop, and sure enough, the laptop gets a message.
A few minutes later, over comes one of the Vice Presidents, asking me to kindly turn Solitare back on.
Star Trek (the original series) could also be done, as it was entirely produced on film, you could just run it through a HD telecine, and you've got a HD master. I'm not sure if much would be gained from a HD version (it's not like it was made with HD in mind at the time), but I'm sure Paramount will do it at some point.
Actually, at that point, you run into the fact that it was filed with NTSC in mind; they tried this, and were horrified to discover that you could see paint brush strokes on sets, coffee stains on uniforms, and the like.
That's the stuff. And be careful; as a gas, it can melt the flesh right off of you, causing horrific burns, and solid DHMO causes massive cellular damage, often with only minutes of direct exposure.
So what you'll want is some kind of shotgun/flechette weapon that tries to explode in the path of an incoming missile, such that said incoming runs into a cloud of shrapnel and gets shredded.
True, dat, in a lot of situations (not all of them!) a properly trained driver can stop better than antilocks.
That having been said, one might respond that if all cars were computer controlled, you often wouldn't have need for crash stops; a computer-controlled car won't cut you off, or pull out in front of you, or suddenly realize that it needs to be three lanes over to take the exit that it's now passing.....
Sure, you COULD look at it like a FF rip off. Or, you could look at how the powers line up with the characters.
Big strong guy who feels like he has to take the weight of the world on his shoulders, but deep down knows that some things can't be dealt with by huge muscles for a father? Check.
Woman who has to stretch and contort every which way to juggle all of the demands and duties of her life for a mother figure? Check.
Teenage girl, very shy, who tries to disappear into the background, and who has the ability, if not the self-confidence, to project herself into the world? Dare I say a shrinking Violet? Check.
Brash eight-year-old boy, all energy and exuberence, wants to do everything right now? Throw in a Dash (I slay me!) of the tragedy of the democratization of education, the 'if you're better, don't perform at your best, lest you make the other kids feel bad' concept, and check.
A baby with raw potential, to be anything they want to be, who's a primordial shapeshifter? Check.
Could you give me some examples of 'original powers' that haven't been done in the last seventy some-odd years of comics?
There's a reason comics have veered away from 'what the powers are' to 'what you do with them, and how you deal with them.'
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall, for example, Doom 3 having several different OpenGL 'paths;' straight-OpenGL, Geforce, Geforce 3+, ATI, and something-or-other else, mainly due to propriatry extensions.
B: Eventually make it's way to one of several 'hubs'
C: Make it's way from one of those hubs to other hubs
Say you have a dollar. You go to your local quick-e-mart, buy something. That dollar is then taken by the quik-e-mart to the bank for a nightly deposit.
The bank then gives it, with a stack of other bills, to a local wal-mart. From wal-mart, it's given as change to some guy visiting from three states over. He goes back to his home state before spending it at the local quick-e-mart....
Well, from my many many hours of watching it back when my kids were of Teletubbies age, one was dom, one was sub, and the other two were, for lack of a better term, 'normal and well-adjusted,' but I'm firmly convinced they were all homosexual.
One day, my kid was watching Teletubbies, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day she'd constructed a strange Orwellian closed-box experiment consisting of four deformed, fat, homosexual retardates.
These unfortuante test subejcts would receive random instructions from one of a number of microphones which could pop out of anywhere, and would also be introduced to new items and toys, to see how they'd interact with both said items, and each other.
They were also fed narctoic, highly addictive substances known as 'tubby custard' and 'tubby toast,' but only sometimes. Sometimes the machines which dispence these substances were broken, and the subjects were observed.
Don't even get me started on what happened after she saw Blue's Clues for the first time...
But that's not cut-and-paste, that's perfectly legitimate reprinting of an attributed source.
The parent article would be a non-issue if somebody had added a single line: "Information gathered in part from http://whatever.com/ main contributers so-and-so, such-and-such, and whats-his-face."
By contrast, the Toshiba-Sony "Emotion Engine" at the heart of the Playstation-2 performs true 128-bit ["quad" precision] floating point calculations in hardware:
And yet every time I play Final Fantasy X (to name a particularly bad example) I get motion sickness watching, in a static shot, the edges of the polygons swim around.
You're kidding, right? You are aware that before there were tomes and tomes of Windows Security books written, there were tomes and tomes of UNIX security books written, yes? You are aware that everything people say about Windows now, they said about UNIX fifteen, twenty years ago, yes?
Hell, if worms don't run on UNIX, what was that Morris Worm that ground the Internet to a smoking, train-wreck style halt? And that's just one example.
I'll never understand why so many people tout UNIX as a 'secure OS' when the definition of UNIX is 'MULTICS, with all of the security stuff removed.'
Ah, but because the Gatesians suffer more pandemics, they're more aware of how to deal with them and minimize the disruptions.
Or, put another way, Gatesians live in the Middle East. Terror attacks, while unfortunate, are something that happen all too often; so they know how to deal with them, and move on with life.
Jobsians, however, living on the other side of the planet, happily whiled away their lives assuming that it could never happen to them, until one fateful day it did...and they were never the same again.
That's why they have two analog thumbsticks; the left moves you forwards and backwards, and strafes left/right; the right controls your look. You can quite happily circle-strafe.
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that cats don't meow at one another; they'll hiss, yowl, scream, and use lots of body language, but meowing is something they developed specifically to deal with humans.
One fine day, after installing Microsoft SMS 2.0, I wanted to try out the 'server licensing' feature; install software on each computer, tell SMS how many licenses you actually have, and it lets only that many copies run at a time, queues people up, and so on.
I decide to test it on Solitare; so I tell the thing that only one copy of sol.exe is allowed to run, fire a copy up on my desktop, try firing it up on my laptop, and sure enough, the laptop gets a message.
A few minutes later, over comes one of the Vice Presidents, asking me to kindly turn Solitare back on.
SGI, to be specific, circa 1992.
Actually, at that point, you run into the fact that it was filed with NTSC in mind; they tried this, and were horrified to discover that you could see paint brush strokes on sets, coffee stains on uniforms, and the like.
That's the stuff. And be careful; as a gas, it can melt the flesh right off of you, causing horrific burns, and solid DHMO causes massive cellular damage, often with only minutes of direct exposure.
Hey, I'm all about the impromptu historical rambling.
Not if you read the CD from a CD-ROM drive, rather than a CD-R or CD-RW drive.
Actually, it was the whites who did the scalping, as proof to collect bounties for slain Indians.
So what you'll want is some kind of shotgun/flechette weapon that tries to explode in the path of an incoming missile, such that said incoming runs into a cloud of shrapnel and gets shredded.
Or, as you say, something laser-based.
True, dat, in a lot of situations (not all of them!) a properly trained driver can stop better than antilocks.
That having been said, one might respond that if all cars were computer controlled, you often wouldn't have need for crash stops; a computer-controlled car won't cut you off, or pull out in front of you, or suddenly realize that it needs to be three lanes over to take the exit that it's now passing.....
And when that fails, out comes the outright audience bribery.
Sure, you COULD look at it like a FF rip off. Or, you could look at how the powers line up with the characters.
Big strong guy who feels like he has to take the weight of the world on his shoulders, but deep down knows that some things can't be dealt with by huge muscles for a father? Check.
Woman who has to stretch and contort every which way to juggle all of the demands and duties of her life for a mother figure? Check.
Teenage girl, very shy, who tries to disappear into the background, and who has the ability, if not the self-confidence, to project herself into the world? Dare I say a shrinking Violet? Check.
Brash eight-year-old boy, all energy and exuberence, wants to do everything right now? Throw in a Dash (I slay me!) of the tragedy of the democratization of education, the 'if you're better, don't perform at your best, lest you make the other kids feel bad' concept, and check.
A baby with raw potential, to be anything they want to be, who's a primordial shapeshifter? Check.
Could you give me some examples of 'original powers' that haven't been done in the last seventy some-odd years of comics?
There's a reason comics have veered away from 'what the powers are' to 'what you do with them, and how you deal with them.'
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall, for example, Doom 3 having several different OpenGL 'paths;' straight-OpenGL, Geforce, Geforce 3+, ATI, and something-or-other else, mainly due to propriatry extensions.
Put another way, money, like diseases, tends to:
A: Travel from person to person
B: Eventually make it's way to one of several 'hubs'
C: Make it's way from one of those hubs to other hubs
Say you have a dollar. You go to your local quick-e-mart, buy something. That dollar is then taken by the quik-e-mart to the bank for a nightly deposit.
The bank then gives it, with a stack of other bills, to a local wal-mart. From wal-mart, it's given as change to some guy visiting from three states over. He goes back to his home state before spending it at the local quick-e-mart....
Well, from my many many hours of watching it back when my kids were of Teletubbies age, one was dom, one was sub, and the other two were, for lack of a better term, 'normal and well-adjusted,' but I'm firmly convinced they were all homosexual.
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
One day, my kid was watching Teletubbies, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day she'd constructed a strange Orwellian closed-box experiment consisting of four deformed, fat, homosexual retardates.
These unfortuante test subejcts would receive random instructions from one of a number of microphones which could pop out of anywhere, and would also be introduced to new items and toys, to see how they'd interact with both said items, and each other.
They were also fed narctoic, highly addictive substances known as 'tubby custard' and 'tubby toast,' but only sometimes. Sometimes the machines which dispence these substances were broken, and the subjects were observed.
Don't even get me started on what happened after she saw Blue's Clues for the first time...
But that's not cut-and-paste, that's perfectly legitimate reprinting of an attributed source.
The parent article would be a non-issue if somebody had added a single line: "Information gathered in part from http://whatever.com/ main contributers so-and-so, such-and-such, and whats-his-face."
And yet every time I play Final Fantasy X (to name a particularly bad example) I get motion sickness watching, in a static shot, the edges of the polygons swim around.
But the entire point of Debian is that 'it's the Debian Way, or the highway.'
If I wanted things where the installer defaulted them, I'd install slackware and build everything from tarballs.
You're kidding, right? You are aware that before there were tomes and tomes of Windows Security books written, there were tomes and tomes of UNIX security books written, yes? You are aware that everything people say about Windows now, they said about UNIX fifteen, twenty years ago, yes?
Hell, if worms don't run on UNIX, what was that Morris Worm that ground the Internet to a smoking, train-wreck style halt? And that's just one example.
I'll never understand why so many people tout UNIX as a 'secure OS' when the definition of UNIX is 'MULTICS, with all of the security stuff removed.'
Ah, but because the Gatesians suffer more pandemics, they're more aware of how to deal with them and minimize the disruptions.
Or, put another way, Gatesians live in the Middle East. Terror attacks, while unfortunate, are something that happen all too often; so they know how to deal with them, and move on with life.
Jobsians, however, living on the other side of the planet, happily whiled away their lives assuming that it could never happen to them, until one fateful day it did...and they were never the same again.
That's why they have two analog thumbsticks; the left moves you forwards and backwards, and strafes left/right; the right controls your look. You can quite happily circle-strafe.
What's wrong with somebody looking for user testimonials and advice about actual installation and use from a tech site?
"Tilting at windmills" is a relatively common phrase, but I agree that many wouldn't be aware of the origin.