As I recall, the company that created the dust also created the antidote. Also, it turns out that climate affected how well the dust worked; some places a Visitor couldn't walk into without dying immediately, other places they had no problems.
Also, they wern't bullet proof; they wore armor. As long as they used teflon coated bullets, they were fine.
Oh, and James..aka wots-his-face from Star Trek 2..."Full impulse power! DAMN YOU!"
My handwriting is atrocious; perhaps it is because I skipped first grade. I, personally, believe it's simply because I cannot write as quickly as I can think; in the hurry to get thought to paper, neatness loses out.
In any event, around grade four or so, they tried to put me into special handwriting classes, thought I might have been a savant or autistic or other meaningless psycho-bullshit. Guess what, I just don't write well. I'm also terrible at the visual arts; I cannot draw worth shit. I can't make stick figures, even. But, I'm a good musician.
So they got me a little portable typewriter, and everybody was much happier. Suddenly, I realized, presentation matters *more* than content. Presentation *affects* content. Presentation *is* the content. The medium, as they say, is the message. Well laid out bullshit will always trounce poorly laid out gold. A heady revelation indeed for a ten year old.
And it's nice that ANY multiplayer game will support the same voice chat, the same buddy list, the same messaging capabilities, the same ability to call up your friend playing a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT game and invite him to play with you, and so on...
The Xbox is a child now compared to even middle-end PC's.
And most PC games are designed to use five year old PCs. What PC games actually use the pixel shaders in a gefore? Hmmm. Morrowind, for the water...any other mainstream games? Or just tech demos?
Assuming, as you seem to be, that the RFID tag will be embedded in the television itself, and not in the packaging that you already threw out, how do you expect a 2 cm by 4 mm little thingy, passive transmit only (i.e. you throw energy at it, it replies) to be queryable through your house, electric grid, the material of the TV itself, and so on?
Hell, people complain about their WiFi access points being blocked by walls, and you expect to be able to read a RFID tag from 30 feet away, through several walls, without a 30^2 antenna and a big-ass microwave transmitter?
I'd suggest a tinfoil hat, but then said microwave transmitter will cause it to arc.
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Ah, but this is nothing they couldn't already be doing using a variety of technologies.
Shiney's Messiah did something similar, where all of the models were supposedly crazy-high polygon levles, but polys were simply removed for slower machines; first ones you likely wouldn't notice, and then progressing up.
An engine that can take a large poly and break it into smaller ones, with meta-data for object curvature and the like, and tiled textures (and detail textures; don't put on a picture of a belt; model a belt) would be a great idea; plus, as you get better hardware, the game would automagically look better.
This is why FF7 for the PC looks much more amazing than FF8 for the PC; FF7 used gourard shading, which meant that the higher resolutions looked higher rez; FF8 used textures, but they didn't resample them for the higher rez, but simply stretched them, resulting in a look of CRAP.
No, its not. If I go to IBM's website and I download the Eclipse IDE, its GPL. I use it, and two months later, IBM says "Oh, just kidding, its not GPL".
You make the assumption there that IBM are the people who GPL'd it. And in that case, you'd be correct.
In the Nullsoft case, though, it seems that Nullsoft did NOT have the right to place the code under the GPL.
If you walk into a car dealership, and the janitor says 'here, have a free car,' and you drive it away, it's theft. You likely wouldn't get charged, if you honestly thought the janitor was authorized to make the give-away, but you wouldn't automatically get to keep the car, either.
You made the correct assumption; it was a legitimate release. Now, however, you have had that assumption corrected. It is NOT a legal release. Hence, to continue to treat it as such, you are willfully breaking laws.
By this reasoning, if I strike a deal with Microsoft, two months later, Microsoft could simply say "The person who signed the contract didn't have authority to do it, sorry". You could void any contract this way by simply claiming the person who signed it didn't have any authority to do it.
Yes, they could. This is why you get things witnessed, and notarized, and do your due dilligence, and make sure that the person signing DOES have authority to sign.
keyboard navigation for all features, I haven't seen that in any other graphical windowing system.
Windows?
And I'm not talking about the extra 'windows keys' on the keyboard. Any program that follows the win32 usability guidelines can be completely controlled without ever touching the mouse.
Speaking as a reseller for both DSL and Cable, I have to say, with Cable, it's a binary operation; it either works, or it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, the cable company rolls a truck, and it works.
With DSL, it's a crap shoot. Maybe it'll work; maybe it'll work across the street; maybe it'll work in the next building over, maybe it'll work today, or tomorrow, but not yesterday.
However, only for a manga is it possible for one person to have copyright for the entire thing. An anime will have had contributions from others (seiyuu, musicians, Koreans, etc).
This is why, for example, we'll likely never see a version of Macross 7 over here; too much of a nightmare to license all of the music.
Kamaje (sp?) yells out "Good-o luck!" at one point.
Ah, that's differnet.
Japanese words are built out of syllables; almost every syllable is a consonant and a vowel. Some, such as 'chi' or 'shi' are two consonants and a vowel; still one syllable.
Sometimes, you'll get a vowel standing on it's own.
There is, in fact, only one consonant a Japanese word will end with; N.
Therefore, when saying ANYTHING, a Japanese person will put vowels onto the ends of syllables, and tend to break English words into their subparts.
Hence, you'll get (dashes put in for emphasis) things like 'ko-ni-chi-wa,' or 'hi-de-o ko-ji-ma,' or 'sa(y)-o-na-ra.'
When you take English words, though, you get things like 'good-o luck-u.'
A corallary to this, by the way, is that English people often have trouble with, say, the say that Japanese tend to clip their vowels; ru vs roo. Or, for example, certain German gutterals; listen to an English person say 'jawhol' or 'schadenfreude' then listen to a native German speaker say the same words; interesting stuff.
No no, it'll be like this. Some spoilers for various games below.
Snake and Otacon ride off on a snowmobile. Weary, sore, Snake slowly reaches up and pulls off his trademark headband/bandana thingy.
As he does, a torrent of long, styled, bouncy blonde hair is freed to stream in the wind! Yes! Solid Snake, Hero of Zanzibar, is none other than SAMUS, and Otacon finds up that yes, love REALLY CAN blossom on a battlefield.
The range of different tasks might all be unrelated to each other, but they're all related to the game itself.
All of the things that playing an FPS will teach you, well, going on an intensive paintballing course will teach you exactly the same things, for example.
In other words, guess what? People who actively practice keeping track of multiple moving targets get better at keeping track of multiple moving targets.
Guess what? Video games of a certain type often involve keeping track of multiple moving targets.
I remember reading about a WW1 pilot who'd take a pencil, make a small mark on a large, otherwise blank wall, then read a book for a while. Then, suddenly, he'd turn, and try to find the dot on the wall as quickly as possible.
Don't blame Microsoft for your inability to open the Start menu, select All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and System Restore, and roll back the patch.
And as an addendum to this, on the corporate side of things, you DO have windowsupdate.microsoft.com firewalled off, and distribute patches automatically after testing via SMS/Intellimirror/SUS/ZenWorks/your other choice of software distribution, yes?
You don't cold call customers to sell product, you don't submit advertising proofs to the media, you don't balance the payables and the recievables, and your salespeople, marketing guys, accountants, and everybody don't patch/upgrade company machines.
Microsoft should create a "Repair Utility" that is available to the user in the event that a large anomaly (like loss of networking should occur). The user could then browse the patches that were installed, give a description of those patches, and then provide a link to the Knowledge Base article associated with the patch.
Pick a date to roll back to, and there you go. Create manual checkpoints when you'd like, or use the system checkpoints that get created a) once a day and b) when you do 'dangerous' things like install new drivers/hardware.
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As I recall, the company that created the dust also created the antidote. Also, it turns out that climate affected how well the dust worked; some places a Visitor couldn't walk into without dying immediately, other places they had no problems.
Also, they wern't bullet proof; they wore armor. As long as they used teflon coated bullets, they were fine.
Oh, and James..aka wots-his-face from Star Trek 2..."Full impulse power! DAMN YOU!"
My handwriting is atrocious; perhaps it is because I skipped first grade. I, personally, believe it's simply because I cannot write as quickly as I can think; in the hurry to get thought to paper, neatness loses out.
In any event, around grade four or so, they tried to put me into special handwriting classes, thought I might have been a savant or autistic or other meaningless psycho-bullshit. Guess what, I just don't write well. I'm also terrible at the visual arts; I cannot draw worth shit. I can't make stick figures, even. But, I'm a good musician.
So they got me a little portable typewriter, and everybody was much happier. Suddenly, I realized, presentation matters *more* than content. Presentation *affects* content. Presentation *is* the content. The medium, as they say, is the message. Well laid out bullshit will always trounce poorly laid out gold. A heady revelation indeed for a ten year old.
And it's nice that ANY multiplayer game will support the same voice chat, the same buddy list, the same messaging capabilities, the same ability to call up your friend playing a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT game and invite him to play with you, and so on...
Xbox Live is a WONDERFUL idea.
And most PC games are designed to use five year old PCs. What PC games actually use the pixel shaders in a gefore? Hmmm. Morrowind, for the water...any other mainstream games? Or just tech demos?
Most of the gameplay? Hell, the characters were all KoF. Iori, Terry Bogard, they're all SNK standbys.
Assuming, as you seem to be, that the RFID tag will be embedded in the television itself, and not in the packaging that you already threw out, how do you expect a 2 cm by 4 mm little thingy, passive transmit only (i.e. you throw energy at it, it replies) to be queryable through your house, electric grid, the material of the TV itself, and so on?
Hell, people complain about their WiFi access points being blocked by walls, and you expect to be able to read a RFID tag from 30 feet away, through several walls, without a 30^2 antenna and a big-ass microwave transmitter?
I'd suggest a tinfoil hat, but then said microwave transmitter will cause it to arc.
Ah, but this is nothing they couldn't already be doing using a variety of technologies.
Shiney's Messiah did something similar, where all of the models were supposedly crazy-high polygon levles, but polys were simply removed for slower machines; first ones you likely wouldn't notice, and then progressing up.
An engine that can take a large poly and break it into smaller ones, with meta-data for object curvature and the like, and tiled textures (and detail textures; don't put on a picture of a belt; model a belt) would be a great idea; plus, as you get better hardware, the game would automagically look better.
This is why FF7 for the PC looks much more amazing than FF8 for the PC; FF7 used gourard shading, which meant that the higher resolutions looked higher rez; FF8 used textures, but they didn't resample them for the higher rez, but simply stretched them, resulting in a look of CRAP.
You make the assumption there that IBM are the people who GPL'd it. And in that case, you'd be correct.
In the Nullsoft case, though, it seems that Nullsoft did NOT have the right to place the code under the GPL.
If you walk into a car dealership, and the janitor says 'here, have a free car,' and you drive it away, it's theft. You likely wouldn't get charged, if you honestly thought the janitor was authorized to make the give-away, but you wouldn't automatically get to keep the car, either.
Well, what do you expect? This is classic SVR4 code.
Yeah, like this one:
THIEVERY!
Windows?
And I'm not talking about the extra 'windows keys' on the keyboard. Any program that follows the win32 usability guidelines can be completely controlled without ever touching the mouse.
I love any company that manages things like this.
Me bucko, I'll exchange all of the war stories you want. Nothing like comparing scars. :-)
Might work better to take it off-/. though.
Classic SNL throwaway....
...therefore, we here at Weekend Update have decided to give away the ending to Basic Instinct.
It is a fade to black, followed by rolling credits.
Nope; my company's a regional ISP. We've got four or five employees.
Speaking as a reseller for both DSL and Cable, I have to say, with Cable, it's a binary operation; it either works, or it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, the cable company rolls a truck, and it works.
With DSL, it's a crap shoot. Maybe it'll work; maybe it'll work across the street; maybe it'll work in the next building over, maybe it'll work today, or tomorrow, but not yesterday.
This is why, for example, we'll likely never see a version of Macross 7 over here; too much of a nightmare to license all of the music.
Ah, that's differnet.
Japanese words are built out of syllables; almost every syllable is a consonant and a vowel. Some, such as 'chi' or 'shi' are two consonants and a vowel; still one syllable.
Sometimes, you'll get a vowel standing on it's own.
There is, in fact, only one consonant a Japanese word will end with; N.
Therefore, when saying ANYTHING, a Japanese person will put vowels onto the ends of syllables, and tend to break English words into their subparts.
Hence, you'll get (dashes put in for emphasis) things like 'ko-ni-chi-wa,' or 'hi-de-o ko-ji-ma,' or 'sa(y)-o-na-ra.'
When you take English words, though, you get things like 'good-o luck-u.'
A corallary to this, by the way, is that English people often have trouble with, say, the say that Japanese tend to clip their vowels; ru vs roo. Or, for example, certain German gutterals; listen to an English person say 'jawhol' or 'schadenfreude' then listen to a native German speaker say the same words; interesting stuff.
No no, it'll be like this. Some spoilers for various games below.
Snake and Otacon ride off on a snowmobile. Weary, sore, Snake slowly reaches up and pulls off his trademark headband/bandana thingy.
As he does, a torrent of long, styled, bouncy blonde hair is freed to stream in the wind! Yes! Solid Snake, Hero of Zanzibar, is none other than SAMUS, and Otacon finds up that yes, love REALLY CAN blossom on a battlefield.
The range of different tasks might all be unrelated to each other, but they're all related to the game itself.
All of the things that playing an FPS will teach you, well, going on an intensive paintballing course will teach you exactly the same things, for example.
In other words, guess what? People who actively practice keeping track of multiple moving targets get better at keeping track of multiple moving targets.
Guess what? Video games of a certain type often involve keeping track of multiple moving targets.
I remember reading about a WW1 pilot who'd take a pencil, make a small mark on a large, otherwise blank wall, then read a book for a while. Then, suddenly, he'd turn, and try to find the dot on the wall as quickly as possible.
As I recall, he had a very good kill record.
Don't blame Microsoft for your inability to open the Start menu, select All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and System Restore, and roll back the patch.
And as an addendum to this, on the corporate side of things, you DO have windowsupdate.microsoft.com firewalled off, and distribute patches automatically after testing via SMS/Intellimirror/SUS/ZenWorks/your other choice of software distribution, yes?
You don't cold call customers to sell product, you don't submit advertising proofs to the media, you don't balance the payables and the recievables, and your salespeople, marketing guys, accountants, and everybody don't patch/upgrade company machines.
Start->(All) Programs->Accessories->System Tools->System Restore
Pick a date to roll back to, and there you go. Create manual checkpoints when you'd like, or use the system checkpoints that get created a) once a day and b) when you do 'dangerous' things like install new drivers/hardware.