Any platform requirements would have been useful in the original question. On Linux, USB gamepads can make xinput events. I only ever cared about it for the sake of disabling it, but the discussion in this Ubuntu bug may help get started on the right track. Basically you'll need xserver-xorg-input-joystick installed and may need to do some xinput set-props work (see starting around comment 24 there.)
I installed Windows 95 OSR2 on a machine without a CD-ROM drive over Interlink and a null modem cable. Took about fifteen hours, but did the trick. It's probably the best least-common-denominator option.
Thank you...and thanks to your governments for opening the back road through Rendija again. I bailed to Albuquerque Sunday night; not much to do now but follow the news and hope I have a house when we go back.
Reading that page in context, he's delivering a talk entitled "An Earthshaking Announcement". That doesn't necessarily mean he's making an earthshaking announcement.
Thank you for sparing me that:) We've had "slashdot is dead" thread drift ever since the "what's this slashdot BS, I miss chips & dips" babble died down.
Directing people to a third-party service which doesn't provide source counts as a "proprietary solution" to me. I understand more and more where Debian's apparent fanaticism about "freedom" comes from, slippery slope and all that.
Agreed, in spades. Wasting ten (or more) minutes of the seventy on violence-against-women "jokes" seriously undermines an otherwise solid argument. NSFW tag is one thing, what about a trigger warning?
Hi Kevin! I always was a tunnel rat and agree D3 has scale issues. Some open spaces would have been cool, but never getting into the really tight tunnels was annoying. The other BIG problem was the controls; I remember the fights over mouselook. I was (and still am) keyboard-only for D1 and 2, and that never really got working properly in D3. The "ramping" thing improved matters a bit, but I had to switch to a stick for 3 and never felt as comfortable with it. Still haven't finished Mercenary...probably should install one of my copies and do that sometime.
I was thrilled with how solidly Outrage backed OpenGL, including the driver-finding service you guys set up. Too bad Direct3D took hold so strongly.
A Descent reboot would need someone with serious vision to translate the greatness of the game forward a decade(!) The style of play was such a good fit to that era of technology--another issue, I think, with D3. It wasn't mammoth in terms of sales, either, IIRC...odd blend of pure action and cerebral controls (although I did get a kick out of the fact the PC Gamer reviewer puked while playing it.) Seems Volition made the right call going with Red Faction. Wish they'd take that money and make FS3, though.
The additional drawings don't address the biggest problem: Cannon is one rotten mountain. It's regularly crumbling apart in pieces large and small. (Sort of the reason the Old Man fell in the first place.) I can't envision trying to build a system of tunnels in crumbly rock and then hanging a walkway out in front. Then there's the question of what happens when a boulder from above hits all that glass.
Satellites are usually built in pairs just in case one of them fails during launch Not usually...at least none of the NASA or AFRL projects I'm familiar with has a full-build spare. It's not entirely uncommon to have a second of some of the instruments, and it's pretty common to have enough spare parts to build another copy of an instrument. (Much easier to buy a couple of spares up front rather than wait around if someone screws something up.) Then testing and integration can go much more quickly and cheaply, having done it once before. It still can take awhile, though.
(Incidentally, the title and summary for this article suck...the OCO didn't fail, it was lost in a launch failure, and it didn't "fail its mission," it didn't get a chance to start. That's like saying your car broke down because someone ran a red light and T-boned it. No offense intended to the launch team.)
I'm also trying to figure out how a solar wind shield (a few keV) would do anything for cosmic ray particles (GeV, anyone?)
I trust the folks at RAL to be doing good work. I think the real news here is in the size of the protected area: magnetic fields deflecting charged particles is hardly new. Their trial is billed as a metre across, whereas the solar wind DeBye length is on the order of 10m. So they're dealing with scales smaller than a typical plasma treatment. I'll have to read the actual article to be sure.
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Any platform requirements would have been useful in the original question. On Linux, USB gamepads can make xinput events. I only ever cared about it for the sake of disabling it, but the discussion in this Ubuntu bug may help get started on the right track. Basically you'll need xserver-xorg-input-joystick installed and may need to do some xinput set-props work (see starting around comment 24 there.)
I installed Windows 95 OSR2 on a machine without a CD-ROM drive over Interlink and a null modem cable. Took about fifteen hours, but did the trick. It's probably the best least-common-denominator option.
Same deal for 7.
Most DVDs aren't DRM-free, either. They may well be restrictions you can live with, but they are encumbered.
Somebody figured we were missing the Jon Katz days. (Although I actually kinda liked his articles.)
Hi kids!
This is the book of the blog Python Module of the Week, so you can get a look at the content there.
Thank you...and thanks to your governments for opening the back road through Rendija again. I bailed to Albuquerque Sunday night; not much to do now but follow the news and hope I have a house when we go back.
And the Pentium one was obviously a joke on the FDIV bug...
Reading that page in context, he's delivering a talk entitled "An Earthshaking Announcement". That doesn't necessarily mean he's making an earthshaking announcement.
Thank you for sparing me that :) We've had "slashdot is dead" thread drift ever since the "what's this slashdot BS, I miss chips & dips" babble died down.
I think it works better if you don't divide by six...
Directing people to a third-party service which doesn't provide source counts as a "proprietary solution" to me. I understand more and more where Debian's apparent fanaticism about "freedom" comes from, slippery slope and all that.
Agreed, in spades. Wasting ten (or more) minutes of the seventy on violence-against-women "jokes" seriously undermines an otherwise solid argument. NSFW tag is one thing, what about a trigger warning?
Note the name of the Wikimedia counsel...I have to wonder if it's that Mike Godwin.
The X-15 used rocket engines (carried its own oxidizer). This is a jet, using oxygen from the air.
I was thrilled with how solidly Outrage backed OpenGL, including the driver-finding service you guys set up. Too bad Direct3D took hold so strongly.
A Descent reboot would need someone with serious vision to translate the greatness of the game forward a decade(!) The style of play was such a good fit to that era of technology--another issue, I think, with D3. It wasn't mammoth in terms of sales, either, IIRC...odd blend of pure action and cerebral controls (although I did get a kick out of the fact the PC Gamer reviewer puked while playing it.) Seems Volition made the right call going with Red Faction. Wish they'd take that money and make FS3, though.
TFA does not mention warranty
You mean on the first page of TFA, in the giant chart that compares features, the first line that isn't prices?
The additional drawings don't address the biggest problem: Cannon is one rotten mountain. It's regularly crumbling apart in pieces large and small. (Sort of the reason the Old Man fell in the first place.) I can't envision trying to build a system of tunnels in crumbly rock and then hanging a walkway out in front. Then there's the question of what happens when a boulder from above hits all that glass.
Satellites are usually built in pairs just in case one of them fails during launch
Not usually...at least none of the NASA or AFRL projects I'm familiar with has a full-build spare. It's not entirely uncommon to have a second of some of the instruments, and it's pretty common to have enough spare parts to build another copy of an instrument. (Much easier to buy a couple of spares up front rather than wait around if someone screws something up.) Then testing and integration can go much more quickly and cheaply, having done it once before. It still can take awhile, though.
(Incidentally, the title and summary for this article suck...the OCO didn't fail, it was lost in a launch failure, and it didn't "fail its mission," it didn't get a chance to start. That's like saying your car broke down because someone ran a red light and T-boned it. No offense intended to the launch team.)
Obviously false. The 386 wasn't available in the "early 80's." Too bad...the rest of the story was plausible; you had me until I noticed that.
(And they didn't stop production until September 2007...yikes!)
He's got three kids. Although he might be a geek, I'd call that evidence he's no longer unicorn-attractant.
I'm also trying to figure out how a solar wind shield (a few keV) would do anything for cosmic ray particles (GeV, anyone?)
I trust the folks at RAL to be doing good work. I think the real news here is in the size of the protected area: magnetic fields deflecting charged particles is hardly new. Their trial is billed as a metre across, whereas the solar wind DeBye length is on the order of 10m. So they're dealing with scales smaller than a typical plasma treatment. I'll have to read the actual article to be sure.
but of course the research needs to be duplicated and checked, objections need to be raised and addressed and so on.
Before that, the paper needs to actually be peer-reviewed and published. arXiv's a non-reviewed, quick dissemination venue, not a reliable journal.
Except it gets the etymology wrong.