"modernistic.. crap"?
That's old stuff, so old in fact that they wouldn't have had to pay composer royalties (the bonus to using classical music if you're low on budget).
Oh, Q3 did good in the 'pushing the envelope' area. Where it was lacking was in the 'sustainable gameplay' area.
Vanilla Q3 just gets boring after a while.
MS has never taken any real precautions against copyright-infringement against their OSs (or Office/dev tools).
Lots of their vendor-lock is from people who start out on stolen copies of windows and office and then get sucked in to keeping the format. In effect, they *gain* market by being lax on personal infringers (then they get a choke hold on businesses whose employees use MS products).
Having access to a monitor and keyboard/mouse doesn't mean you have access to the system. And even if you do have access to a system, it could just be a remote dumb terminal.
On my main system I run Debian.
My current disk usage is 1.4GB and that includes everthing (OS, userspace, applications, documents).
From what I remember, a clean install (including X, GNOME and KDE) uses a few (3-5) hundred MB.
The villan of 2001 wasn't technology (HAL), but the human hubris that we could somehow build a perfect machine.
Tron... really had nothing to do with technology other than the backdrop. It could have been in pretty much any setting and the plot would have been the same. It was more of a 'man against society' idea like THX-1138.
To exemplify the fault-tolerance of the Apollo craft, Apollo 12 was hit by lightning four minutes after it launched and all of it's systems shut down, but because of the robustness of the systems they were restarted and the rest of the mission went perfectly well.
Because the source can have an insanely high number of alterations and still function the same, it would probably be easier to just get a large prime, and alter the source file until it zips to equal the prime.
I agree to your points, but I still believe that liquid gasolene flying (and sticking) everywhere is more dangerous at the scene of an accident than hydrogen wafting up and away in the breeze.
The amount of electricity required to electrolize water isn't that much, and isn't required all at once.
You could have a giant field of solar panels slowly generating electricity and breaking tanks of water into O2 and H2 with little supervision needed.
Hydrogen burns quickly and more importantly goes UP as it burns, away from the veichle.
Gasolene on the other hand burns slowly (in liquid form), flows everywhere, and sticks to everything it touches.
Now which one, do you think, would produce more 'gruesome' accidents?
If I had to choose between trying to read/write ext2, RiserFS and NFS data in windows and recompiling a Linux/*BSD kernel, guess which I would prefer...
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"modernistic .. crap"?
That's old stuff, so old in fact that they wouldn't have had to pay composer royalties (the bonus to using classical music if you're low on budget).
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If you mean the date that HAL was activated, that would have been back in 1997 if I remember correctly...
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Mozilla really has nothing to do with Gnome, but if you want a GTK based browser use Galeon (which uses the renderer from mozilla, but nothing else).
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They also make sure that that god-fearing person is fearing the correct god, and at the correct times.
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The next time a kid blows up a planet, killing billions of sentient beings, we'll know just who to blame.
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Oh, Q3 did good in the 'pushing the envelope' area. Where it was lacking was in the 'sustainable gameplay' area.
Vanilla Q3 just gets boring after a while.
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The registry is, AFAIK, a set of two binaries stored in \windows\user.dat and \windows\system.dat
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MS has never taken any real precautions against copyright-infringement against their OSs (or Office/dev tools).
Lots of their vendor-lock is from people who start out on stolen copies of windows and office and then get sucked in to keeping the format. In effect, they *gain* market by being lax on personal infringers (then they get a choke hold on businesses whose employees use MS products).
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Having access to a monitor and keyboard/mouse doesn't mean you have access to the system. And even if you do have access to a system, it could just be a remote dumb terminal.
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On my main system I run Debian.
My current disk usage is 1.4GB and that includes everthing (OS, userspace, applications, documents).
From what I remember, a clean install (including X, GNOME and KDE) uses a few (3-5) hundred MB.
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The villan of 2001 wasn't technology (HAL), but the human hubris that we could somehow build a perfect machine.
Tron... really had nothing to do with technology other than the backdrop. It could have been in pretty much any setting and the plot would have been the same. It was more of a 'man against society' idea like THX-1138.
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There's nothing custom about XBox hardware.
That's the point he was trying to make.
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It gave us experience and lessons for future missions, and you can't get experience in something without doing it.
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To exemplify the fault-tolerance of the Apollo craft, Apollo 12 was hit by lightning four minutes after it launched and all of it's systems shut down, but because of the robustness of the systems they were restarted and the rest of the mission went perfectly well.
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Heh, you're right.
I was thinking of a hash/checksum when I wrote it.
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That can't be true though, because the MPAA has a God-given right to make money at any cost to personal freedom (as shown by several US laws).
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So... does that mean that all numbers are free speech, but some arithmatic isn't?
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Because the source can have an insanely high number of alterations and still function the same, it would probably be easier to just get a large prime, and alter the source file until it zips to equal the prime.
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I agree to your points, but I still believe that liquid gasolene flying (and sticking) everywhere is more dangerous at the scene of an accident than hydrogen wafting up and away in the breeze.
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The amount of electricity required to electrolize water isn't that much, and isn't required all at once.
You could have a giant field of solar panels slowly generating electricity and breaking tanks of water into O2 and H2 with little supervision needed.
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Hydrogen burns quickly and more importantly goes UP as it burns, away from the veichle.
Gasolene on the other hand burns slowly (in liquid form), flows everywhere, and sticks to everything it touches.
Now which one, do you think, would produce more 'gruesome' accidents?
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If there were no laziness in the US, several industries would collapse overnight.
So being non-lazy is un-American!
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If I had to choose between trying to read/write ext2, RiserFS and NFS data in windows and recompiling a Linux/*BSD kernel, guess which I would prefer...
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Linux can read pretty much every non-proprietary format there is (legally), and even a few proprietary formats (semi-legally).
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Goddard made the first liquid-fueled rockets
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