I don't know anything about Jessica, except what is on the Ryzom site (only graphic MMO I have played), but since she joined there have been a lot of positive changes IMHO.
I even emailed two mailing lists- one for researchers, one for patients- and came up with nothing. Nobody had ever heard of this. Furthermore, if their theory were correct, we'd be seeing an explosion of Lupus cases (we haven't).
Just to point out something less tham obvious. Some diseases are so rare that only a few medical doctors even know about them. Some even are so rare to only have a handful of known and documented cases (like 1 patient in 20 years). And the chance of them doing reading a public mailing list is very small.
The point is, just because you couldn't find anything, doesn't mean anything per se.
Fonts are programs, as odd as that may sound. Postscript fonts are the obvious examples here, but Truetype fonts are also interpreted bytecode.
Really?
Fonts are data, it is that simple. A font file contains information about the looks of letters, numbers etc. A program can then read that data and generate a (graphic) output.
Whether or not documents are programs is debatable, but they are information that makes a computer behave a certain way. They take interpreter software (your reader software), but then, so does Java or Perl.
Not really, documents are data (you can't execute them either, just like fonts). True some documents might contain special data, which some software can use to run macros/programs. Note that it is the software used to open the file, and not the file, that runs the special data (embedded code, if you will).
As has already been pointed out in other posts, using a GPL tool doesn't make the result/product/etc. GPL.
Incredible is shown in his red costume, which he only gets about halfway through this movie, and not the blue "hobo suit" that he actually wore in bygone days.
This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue suit: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red suit: you stay in Wonderland and I show you the rest of the movie.
Bi-fold containing the usual stuff. And a first-aid and CPR instruction card, so I won't screw up in a panic, and of course a help for myself if I need help from someone who don't have any training.
What I like most about their games, are the detailed and different worlds they create. Morrowind so far have been the best, the overall theme is excellent made. Even common stuff is interresting like, say, the red dust winds. It wasn't as smooth running as Gothic when traveling large distances, but then I didn't have the fastest computer back then.
That being said, their games also suffers from the typical mistakes. Monsters practically everywhere, all bend on attacking you, and spawning after some time have pasted. It rather distracts from the game play* and the experience of the world. Increasing the world significant in the next game, and vary the monster a lot (more variation in missions and more real NPCs is probably to huge a task, to even ask them to do) would make the game even better. Monsters shouldn't lurk right outside heavy fortified forts, and rats/tiny creature should be clever enough not to mess with full plate armour (even less be able to damage with those ridicilus tiny teeth and claws).
Will I buy this game when it is released? I will in all likelyhood, I liked their previous games, and will probably like this one too. When this type of game is so far apart in releases, you can hardly resist. And for the love of gawd, make a Linux/Mac release:)
* Let's be honest here, like most computer "RPG" games, they are often just hack'n'slash thinly disguised. Esp. after you have cleared a few level and missions, it rarely differs, online or not.
P.S. The best 3D "RPG" is still Ultima Underworld 1+2:D
Of course the one rather annoying thing is that bethesda seems to have problems ironing out bugs before a release
Not mention after. A friend and I bought Battlespire because it had multiplayer, boy was that fun sometimes. For instance someone would find a good weapon and give it the other, who would now be in possesion of a pair of boots. Bethesda have become much better at fixing bugs though.
Your Linux distro is only as bloated as what you install, it is as simpel as that. If you choose KDE/GNOME don't expect tiny-WM performace (and since when is K/G THE desktop?).
Can anyone think of any other examples of a type of number that only has a finite number of them, even though at first glance it seems like there might be an infinite number of them?
However many have failed to address the paradoxical effects of time travel, which is how your actions in one time affect the consistency of another.
Not really, since virtual nothing is known about time travel, it is possible that it is not logical. Hence traveling back and offing yourself, might not be a paradox, even if it sounds like one.
Most difficult game, ever. I mean, you have to move up or down to bounce the square thing back. 2 possible movements, what were the developer thinking? And that is just one side, the other side can also move up and down, you have to remember 4 movements to master the game, insane I tell you. Don't get me starter on super-elite games like Space invaders, sideways movement AND firering is just the start. Ludicrous, people will never be able to play those games.
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assuming they are aware pf the technology and they are skilled enought to use it
Luckyly for us, they are eazy toe spot since tehy do'nnt use speelchecking soft-ware.
Giant catfish? Can only be Khan of Liberty Meadows fame. :)
I don't know anything about Jessica, except what is on the Ryzom site (only graphic MMO I have played), but since she joined there have been a lot of positive changes IMHO.
-CRTs don't have/get dead/stuck pixels
They do, it is just very rare.
My current CRT monitor have a dead RGB dot.
Took me 2 years to even notice it (and I still have to look hard to find it).
Manufactors of CRT have had more years to polish of the product.
If LCD is given time, it can improve a lot.
Be careful when opening it, if you break it you have splinter cells all over the place.
I even emailed two mailing lists- one for researchers, one for patients- and came up with nothing. Nobody had ever heard of this. Furthermore, if their theory were correct, we'd be seeing an explosion of Lupus cases (we haven't).
Just to point out something less tham obvious.
Some diseases are so rare that only a few medical doctors even know about them.
Some even are so rare to only have a handful of known and documented cases (like 1 patient in 20 years).
And the chance of them doing reading a public mailing list is very small.
The point is, just because you couldn't find anything, doesn't mean anything per se.
Fonts are programs, as odd as that may sound. Postscript fonts are the obvious examples here, but Truetype fonts are also interpreted bytecode.
Really?
Fonts are data, it is that simple. A font file contains information about the looks of letters, numbers etc.
A program can then read that data and generate a (graphic) output.
Whether or not documents are programs is debatable, but they are information that makes a computer behave a certain way. They take interpreter software (your reader software), but then, so does Java or Perl.
Not really, documents are data (you can't execute them either, just like fonts).
True some documents might contain special data, which some software can use to run macros/programs. Note that it is the software used to open the file, and not the file, that runs the special data (embedded code, if you will).
As has already been pointed out in other posts, using a GPL tool doesn't make the result/product/etc. GPL.
Win2000 SP4 EULA
:)
AKA the W2K Spatula.
Incredible is shown in his red costume, which he only gets about halfway through this movie, and not the blue "hobo suit" that he actually wore in bygone days.
This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue suit: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red suit: you stay in Wonderland and I show you the rest of the movie.
Another enjoyable game is Saga of Ryzom which resently launched.
Bi-fold containing the usual stuff.
And a first-aid and CPR instruction card, so I won't screw up in a panic, and of course a help for myself if I need help from someone who don't have any training.
What I like most about their games, are the detailed and different worlds they create. Morrowind so far have been the best, the overall theme is excellent made. Even common stuff is interresting like, say, the red dust winds. It wasn't as smooth running as Gothic when traveling large distances, but then I didn't have the fastest computer back then.
:)
:D
That being said, their games also suffers from the typical mistakes. Monsters practically everywhere, all bend on attacking you, and spawning after some time have pasted. It rather distracts from the game play* and the experience of the world. Increasing the world significant in the next game, and vary the monster a lot (more variation in missions and more real NPCs is probably to huge a task, to even ask them to do) would make the game even better. Monsters shouldn't lurk right outside heavy fortified forts, and rats/tiny creature should be clever enough not to mess with full plate armour (even less be able to damage with those ridicilus tiny teeth and claws).
Will I buy this game when it is released? I will in all likelyhood, I liked their previous games, and will probably like this one too. When this type of game is so far apart in releases, you can hardly resist. And for the love of gawd, make a Linux/Mac release
* Let's be honest here, like most computer "RPG" games, they are often just hack'n'slash thinly disguised. Esp. after you have cleared a few level and missions, it rarely differs, online or not.
P.S. The best 3D "RPG" is still Ultima Underworld 1+2
Of course the one rather annoying thing is that bethesda seems to have problems ironing out bugs before a release
Not mention after. A friend and I bought Battlespire because it had multiplayer, boy was that fun sometimes. For instance someone would find a good weapon and give it the other, who would now be in possesion of a pair of boots.
Bethesda have become much better at fixing bugs though.
I think I must have got hit by an early-adopter version.
:)
*envy*
You got selected to be a beta tester of a virus! That is so 1337 man
The Flinstones really were ahead of their time.
The reactors are to be pebble bed reactors
Stoneage technology rocks.
I believe that it is either a misprint or misquote, instead it should read "we have broken our back"
The Undergraduate Research Assistants (URAss), part of the Undergraduate Research Assistants Network (URAN) :p
I bet every surfer out there is now on standby call, for the greatest ride ever! :)
Use the "technobabble to english", it works great. Apparently it is about luggage getting lost on international airflights.
Not to be confused with; wc flush
Your Linux distro is only as bloated as what you install, it is as simpel as that.
If you choose KDE/GNOME don't expect tiny-WM performace (and since when is K/G THE desktop?).
And trying to get any media out of the device, is nearly impossible:
User: "Open the XPod hatch, dammit"
XPod: "I am sorry, I can't do that Dave"
Can anyone think of any other examples of a type of number that only has a finite number of them, even though at first glance it seems like there might be an infinite number of them?
My bank account...
However many have failed to address the paradoxical effects of time travel, which is how your actions in one time affect the consistency of another.
Not really, since virtual nothing is known about time travel, it is possible that it is not logical. Hence traveling back and offing yourself, might not be a paradox, even if it sounds like one.
Most difficult game, ever. I mean, you have to move up or down to bounce the square thing back. 2 possible movements, what were the developer thinking? And that is just one side, the other side can also move up and down, you have to remember 4 movements to master the game, insane I tell you. Don't get me starter on super-elite games like Space invaders, sideways movement AND firering is just the start. Ludicrous, people will never be able to play those games.