Secret?! They used to list it in the ingredients on the side of the can! Although, it's not listed specifically anymore, so these days it probably falls into the "flavours" category.
that press release that contains 24 exclamation marks!!! it must be real!!!
Ouch! What a crushing blow to my egocentricity!
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wow! ontopic, witty, and containing insightful references to my comment, with well-placed bolding.
i am humbled before your magnificence. please identify yourself, coward, so i know where to send the fan mail...
oh, and btw, my goat is hairless all over. please demonstrate where i should be respectfully shoving my files. thank you.
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let me get this straight. if i add that line to my/etc/hosts, then whenever i use my browser (which is configured to use a proxy) it will send that proxy requests with numerical ips? wow! that's fucking amazing! i didn't realise it did that! *slaps forehead*
i would like to take this opportunity to apologise for taking the bait, and responding to a comment that looked like it was written by a 12-year-old saying "you're all idiots for not using a set-up as 'leet as mine!"
it's just that some days the utter stupidty gets to me...
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please, sir, could you add that line to my isp's proxy's/etc/hosts?
multiple redundancy. you could lose/flip some of the pixels in a glyph and still have a good idea of figuring out what it was.
crappy, but simple example: imagine sending the message using 7-segement LED displays. now imagine that every once in a while the vertical LEDs failed. now imagine you got a symbol of all 3 horizontal LEDs. what would that represent? broken 2? 3? 5? 8? maybe broken 6 or 9, even...
just because it's faster than light, doesn't mean it's instantaneous (which is what "infinitely fast' means). if you were referring to this article, this is waves travelling ftl, in a specially prepared cesium gas. i'd wait until they can do this with physical stuff (ie. particles, not waves) before placing orders for hyperdrives.
in 1945 the internal combustion engine and supporting bits occupied about 1 cubic metre. 55 years later it still does - and i wouldn't say it's any cheaper, either. since at this stage, we have no idea just what a hyperdrive is, saying they're going to be cheap and plentiful currently falls into the realm of wishful thinking. again, i'm not placing any orders until i know i can afford one.
"the thing about aliens is, they're alien." (argh! i can't remember who i got this from...)
why would they have to be peaceful and secretive? just because we haven't seen/heard them doesn't mean they're not out there, pillaging everything smaller than, say, jupiter. if you're into such thing things, try Stephen Baxter's Space for an interesting novel that suggests why we're not knee-deep in aliens. (sorry, no link. but it's a recent release, so it shouldn't be too hard to find) (oh, and for what it's worth, i am looking...)
ok, maybe i shouldn't have mentioned air and water, but i think the dirt will be difficult.
on the whole, possible, but it requires too many things to turn out perfectly my liking...
i guess that'd be possible, but with a couple of ifs:
if your hyperdrive is fast enough. my rough guess suggests it'd have to be a good couple of orders of magnitude faster than light to meet your schedule...
if your hyperdrive is cheap enough. what if your hyperdrive requires the equivalent of the entire world's manufacturing capability for years at a time to build?
if there isn't already someone there. especially someone very territorial. with bigger guns...
if cheap, portable method for making worlds habitable is available. north america wouldn't've been very popular if you had to bring your own air, water and dirt...
i doubt that the galactic empire would start with earth as it's capital. the capital would probably be more centrally located, probably near a (the?) major trading hub. and that ain't gonna happen for a *really* long time. if we're to keep up with your timetable, we'll be too busy simply expanding to spend much time/resources on trade.
sol will probably have more immediate concerns than the encounter with andromeda - like those pesky scientists accidentally unleashing "tame" blackholes to swallow the solar system, or whatever other environmental disasters we've thought up by then...
oh, and do you suppose you could chuck in ultra-longevity in the next few years, so we could see if you're right? thanks!:)
I believe that it was the first open-ended 3D space shooter.
hmm... this list is pc games, not computer games, and as the original Elite wasn't a pc game, i guess it doesn't count. but even if it was computer games, i'd hazard a guess that Starfighter on the TRS-80 would predate Elite. think of Elite without the trading, and with exceptionally chunky graphics. even if the graphics weren't 3d (kinda hard with only 128x48 pixels...) it did take place in 3d space, and if memory serves, was just as open-ended as Elite. it was real-time too! jump into hyperspace, and go get a coffee or something, while the computer made farting noises for one or two minutes, before dropping you back into real space - hopefully not too close to BT Gunship or even a Deathcaster!
If your character dies it is *D*E*A*D*. No saves, no respawn at the start.
i've been playing a bit of diablo2 lately, but it's taken me quite a while to get into it. why? because playing this game feels like cheating.
"died? well, that's ok, just reappear in town.
want your nifty stuff back? quit to the menu and restart..."
"hey that hurt! i'll just nip back to town and get healed by the blacksmith. you wait here, ok?"
"need more experience? just quit to the menu and restart to regenerate all of those easy monsters!"
after playing this for an hour or two, i'd go home and play ADOM for 3 or 4 hours. to purge that guilty feeling:)
my other main complaint about diablo2 is that i can't feed shopkeepers to my pet dragon (gotta love nethack's wand of polymorph!)
I personally have never seen an AMD advertisment on TV or in the trade mags
in melbourne, australia, they're advertising on billboards! it's a giant picture of some guy's face (with an odd expression - maybe he's constipated?) and a slogan that's something like: "Need to speed. Buy an AMD processor."
and this isn't a one-off either, these things are everywhere...
wow! thanks for correcting my outrageous claims! i've checked out these "standard international" thingies you mentioned at www.bipm.fr/enus/ and they look pretty good. i think i've been converted! can i join you in the 21st century now? please? i promise i'll be good! please?
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Secret?! They used to list it in the ingredients on the side of the can!
Although, it's not listed specifically anymore, so these days it probably falls into the "flavours" category.
Intensive testing in a controlled environment found that only 26.3% of test subjects attempted suicide.
wow! ontopic, witty, and containing insightful references to my comment, with well-placed bolding.
i am humbled before your magnificence. please identify yourself, coward, so i know where to send the fan mail...
oh, and btw, my goat is hairless all over. please demonstrate where i should be respectfully shoving my files. thank you.
let me get this straight. if i add that line to my /etc/hosts, then whenever i use my browser (which is configured to use a proxy) it will send that proxy requests with numerical ips? wow! that's fucking amazing! i didn't realise it did that! *slaps forehead*
i would like to take this opportunity to apologise for taking the bait, and responding to a comment that looked like it was written by a 12-year-old saying "you're all idiots for not using a set-up as 'leet as mine!"
it's just that some days the utter stupidty gets to me...
idiot.
please, sir, could you add that line to my isp's proxy's /etc/hosts?
multiple redundancy. you could lose/flip some of the pixels in a glyph and still have a good idea of figuring out what it was.
crappy, but simple example: imagine sending the message using 7-segement LED displays.
now imagine that every once in a while the vertical LEDs failed.
now imagine you got a symbol of all 3 horizontal LEDs.
what would that represent? broken 2? 3? 5? 8? maybe broken 6 or 9, even...
just because it's faster than light, doesn't mean it's instantaneous (which is what "infinitely fast' means). if you were referring to this article, this is waves travelling ftl, in a specially prepared cesium gas. i'd wait until they can do this with physical stuff (ie. particles, not waves) before placing orders for hyperdrives.
in 1945 the internal combustion engine and supporting bits occupied about 1 cubic metre. 55 years later it still does - and i wouldn't say it's any cheaper, either. since at this stage, we have no idea just what a hyperdrive is, saying they're going to be cheap and plentiful currently falls into the realm of wishful thinking. again, i'm not placing any orders until i know i can afford one.
"the thing about aliens is, they're alien." (argh! i can't remember who i got this from...)
why would they have to be peaceful and secretive? just because we haven't seen/heard them doesn't mean they're not out there, pillaging everything smaller than, say, jupiter. if you're into such thing things, try Stephen Baxter's Space for an interesting novel that suggests why we're not knee-deep in aliens. (sorry, no link. but it's a recent release, so it shouldn't be too hard to find) (oh, and for what it's worth, i am looking...)
ok, maybe i shouldn't have mentioned air and water, but i think the dirt will be difficult.
on the whole, possible, but it requires too many things to turn out perfectly my liking...
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- if your hyperdrive is fast enough. my rough guess suggests it'd have to be a good couple of orders of magnitude faster than light to meet your schedule...
- if your hyperdrive is cheap enough. what if your hyperdrive requires the equivalent of the entire world's manufacturing capability for years at a time to build?
- if there isn't already someone there. especially someone very territorial. with bigger guns...
- if cheap, portable method for making worlds habitable is available. north america wouldn't've been very popular if you had to bring your own air, water and dirt...
i doubt that the galactic empire would start with earth as it's capital. the capital would probably be more centrally located, probably near a (the?) major trading hub. and that ain't gonna happen for a *really* long time. if we're to keep up with your timetable, we'll be too busy simply expanding to spend much time/resources on trade.sol will probably have more immediate concerns than the encounter with andromeda - like those pesky scientists accidentally unleashing "tame" blackholes to swallow the solar system, or whatever other environmental disasters we've thought up by then...
oh, and do you suppose you could chuck in ultra-longevity in the next few years, so we could see if you're right? thanks!
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dunno about 3000 bit - the galaxy's an awfully big place.
interesting (if brief) timeline though... yours, or the back of some sci-fi novel?
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after playing this for an hour or two, i'd go home and play ADOM for 3 or 4 hours. to purge that guilty feeling
my other main complaint about diablo2 is that i can't feed shopkeepers to my pet dragon (gotta love nethack's wand of polymorph!)
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Truncate pi!? Are you insane?! A number with that many decimal places must be good!
And anyway, how the hell am I supposed to while away the hours calculating the nth digit of pi if you daft buggers go and define it as zero??
Honestly! Some people...
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usually targetted for a halloween release, so i'd say early december is right on schedule...
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so who got your upper case letters?
...and mine, for that matter...
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and this isn't a one-off either, these things are everywhere...
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I thought I was having a flashback to when pr0n arraived at 2400 baud...
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wow! thanks for correcting my outrageous claims! i've checked out these "standard international" thingies you mentioned at www.bipm.fr/enus/ and they look pretty good. i think i've been converted! can i join you in the 21st century now? please? i promise i'll be good! please?