Wagic is awesome... I've been playing it (on Linux) quite obsessively for a month now.
The portable versions are the main dev platforms and it shows, but that is also the reason (IMO) that the game is single player, so I accept the tradeoff.
I had never so much as seen a single Magic: The Gathering card before playing this game, but I can say it's probably something a lot of the/. crowd would like, with the near infinite complexity in deckbuilding and rules.
As this image makes clear, Ganymede's magnetic field protects only the equatorial latitudes from Jovian radiation. The rest of surface is bombarded with heavy ions, although the surface radiation levels are admittedly much lower than on Io or Europa.
If life were to exist there, it would probably be in the subsurface oceans (as with other candidate moons) where the presence of the magnetic field is of less importance.
2. My Sony Vaio laptop. I use right-handed buttons on the mouse but with the left hand (left side). My Vaio has the fan air exit on the left side, so if I'm using an external mouse my hand is constantly receiving a not so nice (specially in summer) how air stream.
Other than that, I've never feel "impeded" by technology.
My Vaio appears to be left-handed. The CD tray is on the left side. The touch pad is placed left of the center line. The exhaust fan blows out the right side.
Thanks. TFS's link had nothing more than some British woman's voice to offer.
He's got something special going on there, but saying he can go 2 octaves below a normal bass voice is a probably pushing it, let alone 8 octaves below the end of a piano's range.
0.187Hz? Consider it takes a 64 foot pipe and a lot of blower horsepower to produce 8Hz in an organ. There are only two such organs in the world so equipped, most big organs "settle" for 32 foot stops and 16Hz. I think his voice is plenty impressive without indulging in wild hyperbole.
The problem is that lately all you see for the first half of a discussion is an endless stream of jokes ("classic" and "not so classic"). Believe it or not, most people don't come here for the jokes, they come here for technical discussion.
The problem is that slashdot has the "funny" mod, and as far as comment visibility, treats it the same as the "insightful" or "interesting" mod.
To hack around this shortcoming in the mod system, some mods choose to mod down the jokes to try to improve the S/N ratio.
If you don't want to see "Funny" posts, adjust your modifier preferences and give "Funny" a negative value.
I consider troll threads more disruptive than joke threads since they garner more responses. Half the replies in a story might be to such a thread when it is posted near the top.
Have you used the AUR? I find compiling on Arch is way easier than it was on Ubuntu.
The PKGBUILD system means only one person has to figure out the compile process and then they can easily share it with everyone. If it doesn't work on your system, you can often open it in a text editor and tweak it to find something that works.
Sometimes it takes a bit of effort, but learning to help yourself is the whole point of Arch.
One of the main points of installing Arch is that it forces you to learn about how your system is built.
While some people have reported problems with Arch's rolling updates, I have had zero troubles in my 6 months of using it. When something pops up that requires you to do anything more than "sudo pacman -Syu", you can always find the solution on the forum announcements.
It's absolutely true that I would not bother to spend the time setting up an Arch install for someone else. I gave a friend a Kubuntu install and I was surprised to see how much stuff was buggy on it compared to my own KDE Arch. So maybe there is a niche for this, but I am not at all convinced that things can be made "user-friendly" without them also becoming non-transparent.
I've never seen any evidence of RapidShare actively encouraging pirating (unlike MegaUpload, who offered cash incentives to prolific pirates)
This is historical revisionism. RS had a reward program like every other host did, they were just the first to give it up because they were on the legal battlefield first and saw which way the wind was blowing.
Pointing to MU as the exemplar of "pay to upload" hosts is always a clear sign of someone with very little personal filehost experience. MU was one of the choices avoided by uploaders with a focus on making money, because it was way too hard to get paid using them.
Your comment made me recall something I read on Wikipedia:
However, the octopus has a very poor proprioceptive sense. The tension receptors are not sufficient for the octopus brain to determine the position of the octopus's body or arms. (It is not clear that the octopus brain would be capable of processing the large amount of information that this would require; the flexibility of an octopus's arms is much greater than that of the limbs of vertebrates, which devote large areas of cerebral cortex to the processing of proprioceptive inputs.) As a result, the octopus does not possess stereognosis; that is, it does not form a mental image of the overall shape of the object it is handling. It can detect local texture variations, but cannot integrate the information into a larger picture.
The neurological autonomy of the arms means that the octopus has great difficulty learning about the detailed effects of its motions. The brain may issue a high-level command to the arms, but the nerve cords in the arms execute the details. There is no neurological path for the brain to receive feedback about just how its command was executed by the arms; the only way it knows just what motions were made is by observing the arms visually.
In other words, Octopuses would be very bad at video games using a controller.:)
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There was content on the web before there were ads, dipshit.
Anyone who thinks we can't have one without the other is wrong, because that state has already happened.
Wagic is awesome... I've been playing it (on Linux) quite obsessively for a month now.
The portable versions are the main dev platforms and it shows, but that is also the reason (IMO) that the game is single player, so I accept the tradeoff.
I had never so much as seen a single Magic: The Gathering card before playing this game, but I can say it's probably something a lot of the /. crowd would like, with the near infinite complexity in deckbuilding and rules.
Great free game. :)
I'm glad I got summers off... neither my elementary nor my high school had AC. (Both do have it now however)
As this image makes clear, Ganymede's magnetic field protects only the equatorial latitudes from Jovian radiation. The rest of surface is bombarded with heavy ions, although the surface radiation levels are admittedly much lower than on Io or Europa.
If life were to exist there, it would probably be in the subsurface oceans (as with other candidate moons) where the presence of the magnetic field is of less importance.
Right click on the panel in vicinity of your icon > Task Manager Settings > uncheck "Show Tooltips".
Simple.
A "figure 8" orbit would also probably require stars of very similar mass for it to be stable over astronomical timescales.
These stars are too different in mass for that, IMO.
2. My Sony Vaio laptop. I use right-handed buttons on the mouse but with the left hand (left side). My Vaio has the fan air exit on the left side, so if I'm using an external mouse my hand is constantly receiving a not so nice (specially in summer) how air stream.
Other than that, I've never feel "impeded" by technology.
My Vaio appears to be left-handed. The CD tray is on the left side. The touch pad is placed left of the center line. The exhaust fan blows out the right side.
I find it exceeding improbable these animals use sounds at 1.87Hz, let alone 0.187Hz.
Wikipedia list 10Hz as the bottom range for whales. Note that is a vibration more than 50 times faster than this guy is supposedly producing.
There is infrasound, and then there is earthquake sound...
Thanks. TFS's link had nothing more than some British woman's voice to offer.
He's got something special going on there, but saying he can go 2 octaves below a normal bass voice is a probably pushing it, let alone 8 octaves below the end of a piano's range.
0.187Hz? Consider it takes a 64 foot pipe and a lot of blower horsepower to produce 8Hz in an organ. There are only two such organs in the world so equipped, most big organs "settle" for 32 foot stops and 16Hz. I think his voice is plenty impressive without indulging in wild hyperbole.
The problem is that lately all you see for the first half of a discussion is an endless stream of jokes ("classic" and "not so classic"). Believe it or not, most people don't come here for the jokes, they come here for technical discussion.
The problem is that slashdot has the "funny" mod, and as far as comment visibility, treats it the same as the "insightful" or "interesting" mod.
To hack around this shortcoming in the mod system, some mods choose to mod down the jokes to try to improve the S/N ratio.
If you don't want to see "Funny" posts, adjust your modifier preferences and give "Funny" a negative value.
I consider troll threads more disruptive than joke threads since they garner more responses. Half the replies in a story might be to such a thread when it is posted near the top.
I love PPAs myself, but they aren't available for everything.
Case in point: I was interested in install Wagic the Homebrew on a Ubuntu computer recently, but I couldn't find any PPA for it.
Have you used the AUR? I find compiling on Arch is way easier than it was on Ubuntu.
The PKGBUILD system means only one person has to figure out the compile process and then they can easily share it with everyone. If it doesn't work on your system, you can often open it in a text editor and tweak it to find something that works.
Sometimes it takes a bit of effort, but learning to help yourself is the whole point of Arch.
One of the main points of installing Arch is that it forces you to learn about how your system is built.
While some people have reported problems with Arch's rolling updates, I have had zero troubles in my 6 months of using it. When something pops up that requires you to do anything more than "sudo pacman -Syu", you can always find the solution on the forum announcements.
It's absolutely true that I would not bother to spend the time setting up an Arch install for someone else. I gave a friend a Kubuntu install and I was surprised to see how much stuff was buggy on it compared to my own KDE Arch. So maybe there is a niche for this, but I am not at all convinced that things can be made "user-friendly" without them also becoming non-transparent.
I actually loved the mechanics of FFXII. As someone who had never played an MMO, it seemed like a a fresh design that was a lot of fun.
Lots of incredible music on that game... just the intro theme got me smiling the first time I started it up.
Maybe someone has been spending time looking at the ArchWiki and decided to give Slack it's own version...
Arch also uses all vanilla packages, but having so much info on the wiki has been a huge timesaver when troubleshooting.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3062943&cid=41068717
So it was just a photoshop job, eh? I'm not surprised...
I got started with the issue that came with a free game(!) It was Dragon Warrior, the start of my RPGing...
Not sure what issue that was, but it was probably a bit later (#12 or so).
So white people who don't like white people?
Peter Steele, is that you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkI_qtl6Ds
Seems like an arrangement of two fingers on one side and an opposed thumb on the other would be sufficient.
This would also be a little less "uncanny valley".
I've never seen any evidence of RapidShare actively encouraging pirating (unlike MegaUpload, who offered cash incentives to prolific pirates)
This is historical revisionism. RS had a reward program like every other host did, they were just the first to give it up because they were on the legal battlefield first and saw which way the wind was blowing.
Pointing to MU as the exemplar of "pay to upload" hosts is always a clear sign of someone with very little personal filehost experience. MU was one of the choices avoided by uploaders with a focus on making money, because it was way too hard to get paid using them.
Your comment made me recall something I read on Wikipedia:
However, the octopus has a very poor proprioceptive sense. The tension receptors are not sufficient for the octopus brain to determine the position of the octopus's body or arms. (It is not clear that the octopus brain would be capable of processing the large amount of information that this would require; the flexibility of an octopus's arms is much greater than that of the limbs of vertebrates, which devote large areas of cerebral cortex to the processing of proprioceptive inputs.) As a result, the octopus does not possess stereognosis; that is, it does not form a mental image of the overall shape of the object it is handling. It can detect local texture variations, but cannot integrate the information into a larger picture.
The neurological autonomy of the arms means that the octopus has great difficulty learning about the detailed effects of its motions. The brain may issue a high-level command to the arms, but the nerve cords in the arms execute the details. There is no neurological path for the brain to receive feedback about just how its command was executed by the arms; the only way it knows just what motions were made is by observing the arms visually.
In other words, Octopuses would be very bad at video games using a controller. :)
You also meant the Lotus Elise and not the Evora, right?
That game taught me to not live near such a power plant.
You don't want to be near by when the satellite mis-aims it's beam...
No, it's the other way around. Bittorrent became a clone of uTorrent when BT.inc bought the uTorrent program.
BT was originally an open source program and the last version from that lineage was v5.2
BT.inc has talked about splitting BT and uTorrent apart again, having BT aimed at new users with a simplified interface.
Is there a filter to hide AC posts yet?
If you aren't man enough to browse at -1, then don't.
The default threshold is 2 for a reason.