How can you live with a guy like that next door? I would have payed him a visit after a week, maximum.
Jeez. He's using cheap, unshielded equipment. Of course there are going to be RFI problems. Sorry, that's not the ham's problem. That said, if you can find the ham, he/she would probably be very happy to lend you a hand in helping stamp out the worst of the problem. As a favour, not because it's required.
Counseling, when done well by a professional, is certainly not a bad thing. While I agree that the reasons these kids were put in counseling are totally invalid, I think we should avoid giving people the impression that therapy is evil.
And a lot of school counselors are, frankly incompetent. Not all, not most, but many. But I think the real blame is being placed on the people who deserve it: the administrators who sent kids to counseling they didn't need, telling the counselor "This kid has violent tendencies. Get rid of them."
Oldskool has a utility that lets you play booters from disc images. I can't get through to the site right now, but they have a utilities section. So, if you can pop the drive in long enough to make a few images, you're golden.
A basic freedom? Really? This "basic freedom", by which I assume you mean "fair use" provisions was created by US Congress in the late 60s with the passage of the Copyright Act.
No, fair use is implicit in the wording of the copyright clause of the Constitution.
Be careful, though - just as you shouldn't post without reading the article, don't bash Dakitana without playing it. It's a really sucky game but is not as bad as most ignoramuses think it is.
The sucky game factor is only half of the equation. The true loathesomeness of Daikatana comes from the $20 mil. and 3 years of "Suck it down!" "John Romero is going to make you his bitch!" and (my personal favourite) "Are you ready?" which lead up to said sucky game.
Doesn't this make Linux look like a throwback to those old days of hobbies, like Amature Radio making QRP rigs in sardine tins?
Yeah, stupid stuff like low-power reliable communication. Or using repeaters to overcome line-of-site on VHF and provide great range with handheld equipment (cell phones...). Or--get this, this one is really stupid--making those computer things talk to each other over the radio.
It's all about advancing the state of the art, and I don't think anyone can laugh at that.
James Hague probably isn't ust a nostalgia buff--look at who he's working for. Volition's Red Faction is trying something rather new from a technology standpoint (real-time arbitrary geometry modification), and hoping to apply this to gameplay. Summoner's trying to be technologically sound and "cutting-edge" as well. He's not asking do games today suck but are better graphics (and technology in general) making games, across the board, more fun?.
Supposedly, Atanasoff conceived the plan of the machine drinking bourbon in a roadhouse bar somewhere in Illinois in 1937.
ISU legend states that Atanasoff was racking his brain over how to design the thing, finally gave up and got in his car. He pointed East and was at a little cafe just over the state line about three hours later (making it roughly 2 am or so--incidentally, those of you who know how far it is from Ames to the Quad Cities can do the math on how fast he was driving...). He then sat down and scrawled all of the basics of the design on the back of a menu (including basic stuff like the use of binary). The waitstaff was, of course, pissed.
Iowa State powered the thing back up and toured the country with it a few years ago.
Netscape 5 was to be based on Netscape Public Release code from 4.0, as developed by the Mozilla project.
6 is based on the all-new Gecko rendering engine, and 5 was scrapped. They were running more-or-less in parallel for awhile--in fact, it took some work to convince NS to go with the new engine.
For less than the price of an eBay PS2, we have the Sony WEGA TV. One of the
27 inch models would be very nice. They're not big, but the picture quality is impeccable.
And slash appears to be eating those URL's. That's
Note also that, since it's a derivative work, any code of Sun's which appears in it must be distributed...which might involve the source of their entire package.
(Certainly overstating a bit, but it's an interesting thought)....
Seriously though, if this card needs more power than it can get from an AGP slot, then maybe they should just hook it up to the internal power supply
They did that with the 5500. The 6000 chews up about twice the power of the 5500--100W was the figure I heard bandied about. That's a lot of power for one component to be drawing from the power supply.
Is it possible to do this same type of hack to a TI-83+ due to the fact they use the same type of proc (Dragonball Z80)?
TI-8x uses a Zilog Z80 processor, no relation to the Motorola Dragonball processors used in Palms.
So, nVidia's always been on the forefront of innovation in 3D graphics technolgy? Where were they in 1996 when 3dfx brought 3D acceleration down to the masses (sort of)?
nVidia's certainly doing some good things now, but this sounds like the sort of attitude that's dragging 3dfx down--we've always been the best, we always will be.
Eidos had all but promised LG that they would be bought out. When the moment came, Eidos didn't have the money (or so they claimed.) Sinking $20 mil into Daikatana might be one reason that they didn't have the money.
At least one ex-LGS'er has drawn that conclusion. In addition, some of them are rather pissed that they were forced to ship Thief II on a hard-and-fast deadline, knowing that there were bugs (thus the large patch right off), when Romero was given all the time in the world for Daikatana.
They're planning to charge $0.41 per message. Exactly. They're planning on charging the recipient.41 per message, if you want your email on paper. My grandmother goes and signs up for paper email to get email from me--and finds ten copies of "hot young chicks want you" in her mailbox--and a bill for $4.
It's too late now to get there before the atmosphere freezes. The original Pluto Fast Flyby proposal required a launch by 1998, IIRC. If we launch in 2004, the snow will have fallen by launch, much less arrival. The whole point of an express mission has already been lost--we should design something with a bigger payload that can send back more data and do a slower flyby, and eat the extra five or ten years of transit. No hurry to get there now.
Looking Glass went under due to reasons that could happen to anyone. It wasn't because of the type of game they made, it was due to their business troubles. Looking Glass went under partially because they were perfectionists who believed in shipping a functional, complete, stable game. Thief 2 needed such a huge patch right off because Eidos forced them to ship--they were given a hard, no-holds-barred deadline which nearly killed the development team (not hyperbole--they were in crunch mode for far longer than usual, and that ain't healthy). At the same time, Daikatana's ship date was slip-sliding away...
Every single change from literal translation was sent to Studio Ghibli for approval before being incorporated. The only two differences that I've heard of are mentioned above (the soup tasting like donkey piss vs. water, and the girl turning into Ashitaka's sister). I'd still prefer a different translation--you have different priorities for a sub. But a dubtitle would be okay.
The people behind this are pushing government regulation because parents have no way to find out what's in the game and they can't believe these games are marketed to children. They're obviously incapable of reading the box to find that the game is for ages 17 and up and contains realistic violence
They also want ratings like the movies--hello, aren't the MPAA ratings voluntary? Most theatres check ID, but they aren't required to. If you want action, push the retailers, not the government. As a first step, try to get Half-Life removed from the children's software department at Target...
You have to be 18 to be in the same room as a box for sale--it can only be available in restricted areas. So, not only do you have to be 18 to buy the game, you have to go to an adults-only shop to buy it.
First of all, I think it's horridly bad practice that slashdot will include the first paragaph of the article linked as the entire summary - it should be an actual summary, not just a copy of the article. Actually, that's what was submitted by the person who sent the story in--slash doesn't write the entire tagline, and anything in italics is quoting the original story submission.
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How can you live with a guy like that next door? I would have payed him a visit after a week, maximum.
Jeez. He's using cheap, unshielded equipment. Of course there are going to be RFI problems. Sorry, that's not the ham's problem. That said, if you can find the ham, he/she would probably be very happy to lend you a hand in helping stamp out the worst of the problem. As a favour, not because it's required.
In no particular order:
- Cell phones (from amateur repeater systems)
- Use of the microwave frequencies (formerly thought useless)
- Use of VHF (ditto)
- Use of HF/shortwave (ditto)
- Packet radio (computer networking over radio)
- LEO communications satellites/minisats
--N9RUJCounseling, when done well by a professional, is certainly not a bad thing. While I agree that the reasons these kids were put in counseling are totally invalid, I think we should avoid giving people the impression that therapy is evil.
And a lot of school counselors are, frankly incompetent. Not all, not most, but many. But I think the real blame is being placed on the people who deserve it: the administrators who sent kids to counseling they didn't need, telling the counselor "This kid has violent tendencies. Get rid of them."
Oldskool has a utility that lets you play booters from disc images. I can't get through to the site right now, but they have a utilities section. So, if you can pop the drive in long enough to make a few images, you're golden.
A basic freedom? Really? This "basic freedom", by which I assume you mean "fair use" provisions was created by US Congress in the late 60s with the passage of the Copyright Act.
No, fair use is implicit in the wording of the copyright clause of the Constitution.
I don't think anybody in the world finished that game...check out this review for a good laugh...
Be careful, though - just as you shouldn't post without reading the article, don't bash Dakitana without playing it. It's a really sucky game but is not as bad as most ignoramuses think it is.
The sucky game factor is only half of the equation. The true loathesomeness of Daikatana comes from the $20 mil. and 3 years of "Suck it down!" "John Romero is going to make you his bitch!" and (my personal favourite) "Are you ready?" which lead up to said sucky game.
Doesn't this make Linux look like a throwback to those old days of hobbies, like Amature Radio making QRP rigs in sardine tins?
Yeah, stupid stuff like low-power reliable communication. Or using repeaters to overcome line-of-site on VHF and provide great range with handheld equipment (cell phones...). Or--get this, this one is really stupid--making those computer things talk to each other over the radio.
It's all about advancing the state of the art, and I don't think anyone can laugh at that.
James Hague probably isn't ust a nostalgia buff--look at who he's working for. Volition's Red Faction is trying something rather new from a technology standpoint (real-time arbitrary geometry modification), and hoping to apply this to gameplay. Summoner's trying to be technologically sound and "cutting-edge" as well. He's not asking do games today suck but are better graphics (and technology in general) making games, across the board, more fun?.
Supposedly, Atanasoff conceived the plan of the machine drinking bourbon in a roadhouse bar somewhere in Illinois in 1937.
ISU legend states that Atanasoff was racking his brain over how to design the thing, finally gave up and got in his car. He pointed East and was at a little cafe just over the state line about three hours later (making it roughly 2 am or so--incidentally, those of you who know how far it is from Ames to the Quad Cities can do the math on how fast he was driving...). He then sat down and scrawled all of the basics of the design on the back of a menu (including basic stuff like the use of binary). The waitstaff was, of course, pissed.
Iowa State powered the thing back up and toured the country with it a few years ago.
Netscape 5 was to be based on Netscape Public Release code from 4.0, as developed by the Mozilla project.
6 is based on the all-new Gecko rendering engine, and 5 was scrapped. They were running more-or-less in parallel for awhile--in fact, it took some work to convince NS to go with the new engine.
For less than the price of an eBay PS2, we have the Sony WEGA TV. One of the 27 inch models would be very nice. They're not big, but the picture quality is impeccable.
And slash appears to be eating those URL's. That's
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Ignore spaces inserted by stupid web browser and/or slashcodeNote also that, since it's a derivative work, any code of Sun's which appears in it must be distributed...which might involve the source of their entire package.
(Certainly overstating a bit, but it's an interesting thought)....
Seriously though, if this card needs more power than it can get from an AGP slot, then maybe they should just hook it up to the internal power supply
They did that with the 5500. The 6000 chews up about twice the power of the 5500--100W was the figure I heard bandied about. That's a lot of power for one component to be drawing from the power supply.
Is it possible to do this same type of hack to a TI-83+ due to the fact they use the same type of proc (Dragonball Z80)?
TI-8x uses a Zilog Z80 processor, no relation to the Motorola Dragonball processors used in Palms.
nVidia's certainly doing some good things now, but this sounds like the sort of attitude that's dragging 3dfx down--we've always been the best, we always will be.
At least one ex-LGS'er has drawn that conclusion. In addition, some of them are rather pissed that they were forced to ship Thief II on a hard-and-fast deadline, knowing that there were bugs (thus the large patch right off), when Romero was given all the time in the world for Daikatana.
They're planning to charge $0.41 per message. .41 per message, if you want your email on paper. My grandmother goes and signs up for paper email to get email from me--and finds ten copies of "hot young chicks want you" in her mailbox--and a bill for $4.
Exactly. They're planning on charging the recipient
It's too late now to get there before the atmosphere freezes. The original Pluto Fast Flyby proposal required a launch by 1998, IIRC. If we launch in 2004, the snow will have fallen by launch, much less arrival. The whole point of an express mission has already been lost--we should design something with a bigger payload that can send back more data and do a slower flyby, and eat the extra five or ten years of transit. No hurry to get there now.
Looking Glass went under due to reasons that could happen to anyone. It wasn't because of the type of game they made, it was due to their business troubles.
Looking Glass went under partially because they were perfectionists who believed in shipping a functional, complete, stable game. Thief 2 needed such a huge patch right off because Eidos forced them to ship--they were given a hard, no-holds-barred deadline which nearly killed the development team (not hyperbole--they were in crunch mode for far longer than usual, and that ain't healthy). At the same time, Daikatana's ship date was slip-sliding away...
Every single change from literal translation was sent to Studio Ghibli for approval before being incorporated. The only two differences that I've heard of are mentioned above (the soup tasting like donkey piss vs. water, and the girl turning into Ashitaka's sister). I'd still prefer a different translation--you have different priorities for a sub. But a dubtitle would be okay.
They also want ratings like the movies--hello, aren't the MPAA ratings voluntary? Most theatres check ID, but they aren't required to. If you want action, push the retailers, not the government. As a first step, try to get Half-Life removed from the children's software department at Target...
You have to be 18 to be in the same room as a box for sale--it can only be available in restricted areas. So, not only do you have to be 18 to buy the game, you have to go to an adults-only shop to buy it.
First of all, I think it's horridly bad practice that slashdot will include the first paragaph of the article linked as the entire summary - it should be an actual summary, not just a copy of the article.
Actually, that's what was submitted by the person who sent the story in--slash doesn't write the entire tagline, and anything in italics is quoting the original story submission.