Yes...but you would think that when I show up to fix things, Lord British would go - "Oh...it's you. Here...take this sword and armor and this and that. Have fun".
Two things you said:
Double stash size? The fact that the stash is too small is good In terms of realism,
These town folk are falling all over themselves, begging you save them from this and that. I would think that they would be able to provide you as much storage room as you need while you are doing quests for them.
This is the problem I had with all the Ultima games. You are the Avatar - hero of the realm...yet you start off with a t-shirt, pointy stick and no skills. Go figure.
One enhancement that would have been nice, that DarkStone had, was the ability to wear a ring on each finger, and two amulets. Yeah...you get a bit more powerful and don't have to make choices, but afterall you do have 10 fingers.
Not likely. Yes...it would lock up YOUR virtual machine. And it would make infinte directories on YOUR virtual machine/disk. But that is about it.
These things are amazing. I played on one in college a lot (well, a 3090). It was running 3 copies of McGills MUSIC system, VM/CMS and a few other things. One MUSIC system would be dirt slow cause it had a ton of students on it taxing the virtual system. Everything else one the 3090 ran just fine.
This is not the same as running multiple processes on a PC where the performance of one affects that of another. This is akin to 300 machines sitting side by side.
The basics that he has now, while amazing, are pretty much still basic. 32bit OS's have been done to death - there is a lot of reference material...many books on OS design, 386 architechure, etc...
Now...the Win32 API is HUGE. There are so many minor compatability things between this and that revision (WindowOpen, WindowOpenEx). And while the function calls are documented (though sometimes not well) it's figuring out what is done behind the scenes that is taking time.
I work at a school that is so desperate to have a BIG IT presence that they have morons on the staff and even a STUDENT teaching some of their IT courses.
It's pretty bad when you sit around explaining TCP/IP to someone who is supposed to be teaching it in their class that night.
Of course this has nothing to do with standardized tests, but just more to the general downward slope the whole US education system seems to be on.
They could have sent the capsules up to Mir and let it be the first space hotel - albiet not as nice as the one in 2001.
I'd love to see that brochure:
Come stay in Mir(*) - for just $500,000 a night (minumum 6 night stay). See tons of space debris. Spacewalk (way) above the sandy beaches of the Rivera. Battle space fungi. Join the 100-mile high club.
(*) requires return trip purchase on our carrier - round trip ticket, $20million - first class upgrades not available.
If all you want to do is archive the DV footage...leave it on the DV tapes. DVD-Rs have only now come down to $10 for a 4.7GB disc, while MiniDV tapes are about $6 for 13GB of storage. I don't know anything about the archival characteristics of DVD-R media, but tape is a known quantity, and since it's digital, you can "refresh" your archive periodically.
A great point - however if you are doing editing/post with this DV, pulling it off the miniDV tapes everytime you need something would be a pain. Storing a series of raw scenes on a DVD-R would let you keep all the data online, but not taking up your hard drive.
Of course, if you are spending major amount of time doing this sorta stuff, you probably already have a fleet of 60GB hard drives:)
Why can I install Netscape and KDE/Gnome when I install RedHat?
Because it makes sense. Instead of Redhat putting a filesystem, kernel, and/bin/etc on my hard drive and telling me to go find what I need (aka Linux circa 1992), it installs all sorts of stuff that it thinks would make my life as a consumer easier.
So, instead of MS putting just an OS on a machine and telling you good luck, the figure networking is somethign most machines do - lets add it in. Memory management at the OS level is a good thing - lets put it in. When win95 came out, not everyone had mega-gig drives, so disk compression was something the customer still wanted, so they put it in the OS as well.
Perhaps we should be bitching cause Win98 and Linux 2.4 both have USB support built in. Win95 and Linux both have TCP/IP support built in.
They both (using RedHat,Debian, etc...) have a CD player. If not for the DeCSS suit, they'd probably both have a DVD player.
As things become more of a standard, they become part of the base for the simplicity of the end user.
As for the features, I dunno - I never used QEMM or Stacker, however, those features must be like half of MS Word - no one really uses them, otherwise people would be using QEMM and Stacker instead of what MS included.
Rubber suits would be an improvement for Star Trek. With one or two exceptions, almost every alien in Voyager has just been someone with a different forehead or nose ridge.
Are we to believe that everyone in the universe has elvolved looking just like humans with a few facial ridge features?
I have a pimple on my forehead right now - I am a star trek alien!
I used to be one of the people who would share his programs out. I would do my version of it, then do a completly different version that looked nothing the same. I'd also introduce some errors, or put comments saying "figure this out yourself" in it. Not everyone liked 360 assembly!
I knew who would take my code and tinker with it. They are the people that even with their CS degree, they are not gonna get far. They are the same people who could do the modula-2 code, but could not figure out how to save the code from the hard drive to their floppy.
As for group projects, on one of our group projects, one guy did next to nothing. He was supposed to handle the printing code. What he gave us did NOTHING. I had to rewrite it rather quickly. We let the prof know that as well, since we worked our ass off (won a programming contest with the code as well!!!)
The other group project (OS) went much better - different members. The other groups hated us. The idea was each group would submit two programs that would run on the (batch) OS you had to design. My roommate's program was self-modifying code.
One piece of advice for group projects: If all three people of your group do not know C, do not do your project in C. We decided to learn it that way. I'd spend all day putting pointers in the code, my roommate would spend all night taking them back out.
fully equipped workshop come asteroid-destroying-nuclear-bomb-factory
No...there would be some rusty pipes, a transmission and muffler, and an air compressor. From that they would develop the asteroid-destroying-nuclear-bomb-factory.
Yeah...well, that would mostly be MS Advertising with a (*) somewhere the explains what you just said and that mileage may vary depending on the phase of the moon, etc...
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Defenders say that there is demand for the shows among college students and those without VCRs or the time to program them, however.
Yep...I don't have the 30 seconds to set my VCR to tape Frasier, but I have the hour it takes to pull it down off the net (after I find it!!!)
I'm happy I had bigger concerns in college!
Yes...but you would think that when I show up to fix things, Lord British would go - "Oh...it's you. Here...take this sword and armor and this and that. Have fun".
Nope...you don't have two necks - but it could be possible to put more than one amulet on at a time.
:)
As far as the twenty rings - please don't let my wife know about that idea - I'd be broke.
Two things you said:
Double stash size? The fact that the stash is too small is good
In terms of realism,
These town folk are falling all over themselves, begging you save them from this and that. I would think that they would be able to provide you as much storage room as you need while you are doing quests for them.
This is the problem I had with all the Ultima games. You are the Avatar - hero of the realm...yet you start off with a t-shirt, pointy stick and no skills. Go figure.
One enhancement that would have been nice, that DarkStone had, was the ability to wear a ring on each finger, and two amulets. Yeah...you get a bit more powerful and don't have to make choices, but afterall you do have 10 fingers.
Not likely. Yes...it would lock up YOUR virtual machine. And it would make infinte directories on YOUR virtual machine/disk. But that is about it.
These things are amazing. I played on one in college a lot (well, a 3090). It was running 3 copies of McGills MUSIC system, VM/CMS and a few other things. One MUSIC system would be dirt slow cause it had a ton of students on it taxing the virtual system. Everything else one the 3090 ran just fine.
This is not the same as running multiple processes on a PC where the performance of one affects that of another. This is akin to 300 machines sitting side by side.
The basics that he has now, while amazing, are pretty much still basic. 32bit OS's have been done to death - there is a lot of reference material...many books on OS design, 386 architechure, etc...
Now...the Win32 API is HUGE. There are so many minor compatability things between this and that revision (WindowOpen, WindowOpenEx). And while the function calls are documented (though sometimes not well) it's figuring out what is done behind the scenes that is taking time.
I work at a school that is so desperate to have a BIG IT presence that they have morons on the staff and even a STUDENT teaching some of their IT courses.
It's pretty bad when you sit around explaining TCP/IP to someone who is supposed to be teaching it in their class that night.
Of course this has nothing to do with standardized tests, but just more to the general downward slope the whole US education system seems to be on.
I can't remember how many times I tried to climb into my web browser to go to the store.
/. site and get the latest anti-ms drivel.
Just the other day, I was clicking on my steering wheel to go to the
It's just so hard to tell the two apart, with one being a big, clunky, noisy, oversized piece of junk, and the other being a car.
They could have sent the capsules up to Mir and let it be the first space hotel - albiet not as nice as the one in 2001.
I'd love to see that brochure:
Come stay in Mir(*) - for just $500,000 a night (minumum 6 night stay). See tons of space debris. Spacewalk (way) above the sandy beaches of the Rivera. Battle space fungi. Join the 100-mile high club.
(*) requires return trip purchase on our carrier - round trip ticket, $20million - first class upgrades not available.
If all you want to do is archive the DV footage...leave it on the DV tapes. DVD-Rs have only now come down to $10 for a 4.7GB disc, while MiniDV tapes are about $6 for 13GB of storage. I don't know anything about the archival characteristics of DVD-R media, but tape is a known quantity, and since it's digital, you can "refresh" your archive periodically.
:)
A great point - however if you are doing editing/post with this DV, pulling it off the miniDV tapes everytime you need something would be a pain. Storing a series of raw scenes on a DVD-R would let you keep all the data online, but not taking up your hard drive.
Of course, if you are spending major amount of time doing this sorta stuff, you probably already have a fleet of 60GB hard drives
Okay...now I vaguely remember that. Though I would have also accepted "We're too cheap" as an answer :)
Thanks! Guess I need to watch more TNG reruns.
Oh please do tell. I don't recall that one. Thanks!
Why can I install Netscape and KDE/Gnome when I install RedHat?
/bin /etc on my hard drive and telling me to go find what I need (aka Linux circa 1992), it installs all sorts of stuff that it thinks would make my life as a consumer easier.
Because it makes sense. Instead of Redhat putting a filesystem, kernel, and
So, instead of MS putting just an OS on a machine and telling you good luck, the figure networking is somethign most machines do - lets add it in. Memory management at the OS level is a good thing - lets put it in. When win95 came out, not everyone had mega-gig drives, so disk compression was something the customer still wanted, so they put it in the OS as well.
Perhaps we should be bitching cause Win98 and Linux 2.4 both have USB support built in. Win95 and Linux both have TCP/IP support built in.
They both (using RedHat,Debian, etc...) have a CD player. If not for the DeCSS suit, they'd probably both have a DVD player.
As things become more of a standard, they become part of the base for the simplicity of the end user.
As for the features, I dunno - I never used QEMM or Stacker, however, those features must be like half of MS Word - no one really uses them, otherwise people would be using QEMM and Stacker instead of what MS included.
Okay...so in the old series, they all looked like darker skinned people with fu-manchu mustaches.
;)
Start at the ST:TMP, they look like, well, I dunno...ridges, etc...
Someone once told me that Worf was asked about this and he muttered something about genetic tampering mishap under his breath.
So, what will they look like on the new series, since it is well before ST:ToS?
At least their going in the right direction with a Maxim babe!
Rubber suits would be an improvement for Star Trek. With one or two exceptions, almost every alien in Voyager has just been someone with a different forehead or nose ridge.
Are we to believe that everyone in the universe has elvolved looking just like humans with a few facial ridge features?
I have a pimple on my forehead right now - I am a star trek alien!
The only thing in common between Andromeda and Hercules is Sorbo. Sam Raimi (sadly) has nothing to do with it.
Just replace pub with cafe
No. No... NO!!! Never replace pub with cafe.
I'll be glad to sit around in a pub and discuss penis size, er, uh...cpu speed, but never in a cafe.
Getting closer. Kindall was out. His wife would not sign the NDA.
I used to be one of the people who would share his programs out. I would do my version of it, then do a completly different version that looked nothing the same. I'd also introduce some errors, or put comments saying "figure this out yourself" in it. Not everyone liked 360 assembly!
I knew who would take my code and tinker with it. They are the people that even with their CS degree, they are not gonna get far. They are the same people who could do the modula-2 code, but could not figure out how to save the code from the hard drive to their floppy.
As for group projects, on one of our group projects, one guy did next to nothing. He was supposed to handle the printing code. What he gave us did NOTHING. I had to rewrite it rather quickly. We let the prof know that as well, since we worked our ass off (won a programming contest with the code as well!!!)
The other group project (OS) went much better - different members. The other groups hated us. The idea was each group would submit two programs that would run on the (batch) OS you had to design. My roommate's program was self-modifying code.
One piece of advice for group projects: If all three people of your group do not know C, do not do your project in C. We decided to learn it that way. I'd spend all day putting pointers in the code, my roommate would spend all night taking them back out.
No...McGuyver would use dirt, gun, the tag from his shirt, and the glow-in-the-dark part of the watch.
The A-Team was always finding the old cars and powertools whereever they were.
At $1.50 per kilogram (for simplicity):
Cost for me to ride up: $163 USD
Cost for my wife to ride up: $78 USD
Cost of my wifes luggage to ride up: Twice the current national debt!!!
fully equipped workshop come asteroid-destroying-nuclear-bomb-factory
No...there would be some rusty pipes, a transmission and muffler, and an air compressor. From that they would develop the asteroid-destroying-nuclear-bomb-factory.
Sorry - TVLand had an A-Team marathon recently.
Yeah...well, that would mostly be MS Advertising with a (*) somewhere the explains what you just said and that mileage may vary depending on the phase of the moon, etc...
Yes, but if they did get into a deal with Napster, then it'd probably have something like:
We'll give you lots of $$$ if you push wma's, and make it so it will search for shared wma's first before mp3's.
Probably even an option to convert your mp3's to wma's to save disk space and get better quality, etc...
Yeah...don't you need like 100,000 users at start and in two years have to be at 250,000 users?
I remember something like this where the numbers were just huge.