Actually, the entire interesting portion of the museum could fit in a single room of, say, the Science Museum in London.
They also have a bunch of rather nice, second world war cars, but these are out of place in the museum, and mostly not apparent unless you really hunt around.
There may be a lot of interesting history regarding the site, but it has no chance of getting widespread public interest.
The reason is the same as that for the various Watermill restoration projects around the country (to pick an example of similer behaviour). It's designed to appeal to the people who work there, not to the public.
The walkthrough exhibits are cluttered, looking more like a succession of period junk shops, the code breaking huts look like crap, again poorly presented with little to make you want to look around, and the main building is, well, just a large empty house with a few signs up.
If they sell the site, the main house would be left untouched, it's a listed building. The huts? Well they may be protected, but I doubt it. More likely they'd be better off being dismantled and reassembled as a properly themed exhibit in a decent museum.
They have a decent selection of SF books (including some first rate cast based unabridged versions of the Dune books that I'm currently enjoying).
I've been using it for about eight months, and I like it.
Also, they let you convert the books to mp3. It's a bit long winded, you have to export to cd/virtual cd using a version of nero they supply, then convert them. I use mediamonkey to do that, then mp3 tag tools to sort out the tags/rename the files.
If Icahn can get the merger to go ahead, the value of his stock will skyrocket. At which point he will become even more filthy rich.
That's his only reason.
Anyone really thinking that yahoo plus Microsoft can really take on Google is fooling themselves. I don't think he's a fool. Nor is he necessarily a nasty person. He is a capitalist, and very good at it. Like it or not, this is exactly the sort of behavior that is viewed as being correct and successful in a capitalist society. Most of us little people only resent it because we aren't rich ourselves.
I haven't used a gui in linux for years. Ok, three years. I really like Linux for programming and running processor intensive applications, but see no reason to use anything but the console for my work. Why hamper the performance of a decent Linux based system with a processor hogging gui?
vim+gcc is a powerful combination, and doesn't benefit from a gui one jot, or even 0.5 of a jot.
neither of those interest me. I can see no time when I would consider a tiny screen suitable for watching video's. It's iPod 'classic' for me all the way.
Get yourself a 160Gb iPod, put some music on it, and store your data on there as well. It's not illegal to do so, and if they find it, all you have to say is yes, that's where you keep your data when you travel.
A Lava TUBE does not equal Lava. Lava Tubes are left when molten lava drains away from inside an outer shell of hardened lava, leaving a solid rock tube.
And a beach formed by the gradual breakdown of former lava flows isn't Lava either, it's rock that used to be lava..
Lava, on the other hand, being melted rock, would not be a viable habitat.
I probably should have left the email bit blank, didn't think that one through. I was more interested in possible solutions then an answer for me.
I can't move the images, it would ruin the tutorials.
I wonder if the real solution isn't the typical open source one. Get off my arse and try to create a solution myself. Possibly involving beer and hookers, ah, no, I mean php and mysql.
wrong on almost every count I'm afraid. google hosting (mostly but not all) How much more open then five years under the GPL can I be.
Yes I want someone to share the project, but employ and reimburse? I think you miss the point. I want to find ways of finding people who would want to join in. Volunteering means they get to choose what they do, not me.
Yes I didn't want to trumpet the website itself, it would seem a bit like publicity whoring, but a lot of it was the desire not to cause my friends server that provides the images for the site from going into meltdown. (I could have just removed the images I guess).
When he gets to work and reads his server logs I may need to hide.
Anyway, the question is a general one, not specific to my project I'm sure.
I mean, sure, it's cool, but a software house using Maya and 3DS max would want to real gear, and people not in that category would be unlikely to need such a hack. Especially since you *really* don't want to be using hacked up code with your Gforce card.
This does not detract from the cleverness of those who did it, but in the final analysis it's virtually pointless.
but eventually they come after you saying you haven't legally purchased your global climate predictions, or that you're sharing them with your friends online
I have a vista machine at home, connected to my network, with SP1 installed. I did a file copy this morning of a 40mb folder containing about 50 files.
4 minutes, start to finish, half of that time was spent just 'calculating time remaining' with no actual copying going on.
If it had said 'checking the files to make sure you're not a filthy, filthy pirate', I would at least understand what was going on. Their current message makes them look even worse.
The same copy operation, XP machine to XP machine takes just seconds.
has it shrunk? Really? You sure it's not just the increase in high street console game sales that make you think that.
Most of my pc game playing friends no longer purchase from shops. Services like Steam, and sites like play.com have made it almost pointless to go into a shop on the high street for the latest games.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember vehicles in Doom3? Actually, I think I got confused with quake 4 for a second there. Same engine though, and on the whole, same problems.
The monsters were pretty much all encountered one at a time orm in small groups only. This wasn't how it was in doom 1 or 2, where you often found yourself in a large room surrounded by lots of different things that wanted you dead.
2: Weapons
Ok-ish, but I found them to be balanced towards a slower pace of fighting them was the case in doom 1/2.
3: Lighting
Neither doom 1 nor doom 2 were that dark all the time. Since when was it required that you constantly be walking around in poor lighting in order for it to be a proper fps? Darkness did occur in doom 1 and 2, but it was well used, and scary.I was constantly irritated by the darkness, never entertained.
4: Fear
On the subject of fear, well, doom 3 was too similar to other games to scare me. I was bored a lot of the time. The first time a monster appears out of nowhere was a little starling, but when the only nerve inducing element is 'where will the next monster come from', it gets old real fast. There are a lot more ways to induce fear then just monster spawns, but Id seemed not to recall this.
5: Vehicles
Awful, really, really, awful. We've got used to vehicles like the warthog in Halo, and the various cars in Half life 2, and they give us bathtubs on wonky wheels.
5: undoominess
They wanted a slight departure from the original dooms, but this was a completely different game that took the doom name and otherwise failed to remind me of the originals in any respect, bar the vague similarity in shape of some monsters.
YOu're right, they would never Intentionally take measures [arstechnica.com] to prevent third parties from writing software that allows for transfer to and from the ipod.
All you have to do is set windows to show hidden files and you can copy out the entire contents of an iPod..
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Actually, the entire interesting portion of the museum could fit in a single room of, say, the Science Museum in London.
They also have a bunch of rather nice, second world war cars, but these are out of place in the museum, and mostly not apparent unless you really hunt around.
There may be a lot of interesting history regarding the site, but it has no chance of getting widespread public interest.
The reason is the same as that for the various Watermill restoration projects around the country (to pick an example of similer behaviour). It's designed to appeal to the people who work there, not to the public.
The walkthrough exhibits are cluttered, looking more like a succession of period junk shops, the code breaking huts look like crap, again poorly presented with little to make you want to look around, and the main building is, well, just a large empty house with a few signs up.
If they sell the site, the main house would be left untouched, it's a listed building. The huts? Well they may be protected, but I doubt it. More likely they'd be better off being dismantled and reassembled as a properly themed exhibit in a decent museum.
I'd recommend Audible.
.aa files.
They have a decent selection of SF books (including some first rate cast based unabridged versions of the Dune books that I'm currently enjoying).
I've been using it for about eight months, and I like it.
Also, they let you convert the books to mp3. It's a bit long winded, you have to export to cd/virtual cd using a version of nero they supply, then convert them. I use mediamonkey to do that, then mp3 tag tools to sort out the tags/rename the files.
Or you can leave them as
If Icahn can get the merger to go ahead, the value of his stock will skyrocket. At which point he will become even more filthy rich.
That's his only reason.
Anyone really thinking that yahoo plus Microsoft can really take on Google is fooling themselves. I don't think he's a fool.
Nor is he necessarily a nasty person. He is a capitalist, and very good at it.
Like it or not, this is exactly the sort of behavior that is viewed as being correct and successful in a capitalist society. Most of us little people only resent it because we aren't rich ourselves.
That's crazytalk....
I haven't used a gui in linux for years. Ok, three years. I really like Linux for programming and running processor intensive applications, but see no reason to use anything but the console for my work.
Why hamper the performance of a decent Linux based system with a processor hogging gui?
vim+gcc is a powerful combination, and doesn't benefit from a gui one jot, or even 0.5 of a jot.
neither of those interest me. I can see no time when I would consider a tiny screen suitable for watching video's. It's iPod 'classic' for me all the way.
Get yourself a 160Gb iPod, put some music on it, and store your data on there as well. It's not illegal to do so, and if they find it, all you have to say is yes, that's where you keep your data when you travel.
A Lava TUBE does not equal Lava. Lava Tubes are left when molten lava drains away from inside an outer shell of hardened lava, leaving a solid rock tube.
And a beach formed by the gradual breakdown of former lava flows isn't Lava either, it's rock that used to be lava..
Lava, on the other hand, being melted rock, would not be a viable habitat.
Life in Lava? I hope you're joking, because if you're not, you've been reading the wrong books.
If you read books that is.
Food for thought indeed, thanks a lot for the feedback.
I''l make a note of your comments on the site and see what I can do to solve those problems.
Sorry, Life of Brian just slipped in there.
I probably should have left the email bit blank, didn't think that one through. I was more interested in possible solutions then an answer for me.
I can't move the images, it would ruin the tutorials.
I wonder if the real solution isn't the typical open source one. Get off my arse and try to create a solution myself. Possibly involving beer and hookers, ah, no, I mean php and mysql.
wrong on almost every count I'm afraid.
google hosting (mostly but not all)
How much more open then five years under the GPL can I be.
Yes I want someone to share the project, but employ and reimburse? I think you miss the point. I want to find ways of finding people who would want to join in.
Volunteering means they get to choose what they do, not me.
yes and no.
Yes I didn't want to trumpet the website itself, it would seem a bit like publicity whoring, but a lot of it was the desire not to cause my friends server that provides the images for the site from going into meltdown. (I could have just removed the images I guess).
When he gets to work and reads his server logs I may need to hide.
Anyway, the question is a general one, not specific to my project I'm sure.
Not all the sites content is hosted on googles servers.
Nice one, now I'm going to get in trouble with my free hosting friend....
Who shot first, Neil or Buzz.
No really.
This patent is nothing more then a placeholder on imaginary tech that might become a reality in the future.
In the words of the deity of slashdot:
"And thus he spaketh, 'there be nothing to see here, moveth thee along'. (Gospels of CommanderTaco IV)"
I mean, sure, it's cool, but a software house using Maya and 3DS max would want to real gear, and people not in that category would be unlikely to need such a hack. Especially since you *really* don't want to be using hacked up code with your Gforce card.
This does not detract from the cleverness of those who did it, but in the final analysis it's virtually pointless.
but eventually they come after you saying you haven't legally purchased your global climate predictions, or that you're sharing them with your friends online
I have a vista machine at home, connected to my network, with SP1 installed. I did a file copy this morning of a 40mb folder containing about 50 files.
4 minutes, start to finish, half of that time was spent just 'calculating time remaining' with no actual copying going on.
If it had said 'checking the files to make sure you're not a filthy, filthy pirate', I would at least understand what was going on. Their current message makes them look even worse.
The same copy operation, XP machine to XP machine takes just seconds.
I have Linux working on Victory Stele of Merneptah..
has it shrunk? Really? You sure it's not just the increase in high street console game sales that make you think that.
Most of my pc game playing friends no longer purchase from shops. Services like Steam, and sites like play.com have made it almost pointless to go into a shop on the high street for the latest games.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember vehicles in Doom3?
Actually, I think I got confused with quake 4 for a second there. Same engine though, and on the whole, same problems.
1: Monsters
The monsters were pretty much all encountered one at a time orm in small groups only. This wasn't how it was in doom 1 or 2, where you often found yourself in a large room surrounded by lots of different things that wanted you dead.
2: Weapons
Ok-ish, but I found them to be balanced towards a slower pace of fighting them was the case in doom 1/2.
3: Lighting
Neither doom 1 nor doom 2 were that dark all the time. Since when was it required that you constantly be walking around in poor lighting in order for it to be a proper fps? Darkness did occur in doom 1 and 2, but it was well used, and scary.I was constantly irritated by the darkness, never entertained.
4: Fear
On the subject of fear, well, doom 3 was too similar to other games to scare me. I was bored a lot of the time.
The first time a monster appears out of nowhere was a little starling, but when the only nerve inducing element is 'where will the next monster come from', it gets old real fast. There are a lot more ways to induce fear then just monster spawns, but Id seemed not to recall this.
5: Vehicles
Awful, really, really, awful. We've got used to vehicles like the warthog in Halo, and the various cars in Half life 2, and they give us bathtubs on wonky wheels.
5: undoominess
They wanted a slight departure from the original dooms, but this was a completely different game that took the doom name and otherwise failed to remind me of the originals in any respect, bar the vague similarity in shape of some monsters.
if you don't use tags, you couldn't use the music *on* your ipod either...
Sigh... In answer to
YOu're right, they would never Intentionally take measures [arstechnica.com] to prevent third parties from writing software that allows for transfer to and from the ipod.
All you have to do is set windows to show hidden files and you can copy out the entire contents of an iPod..