I had a DOS game back in the day that allowed you to simulate a nuclear blast in any given city and see the effect of both the blast and the resultant fallout.
I can't remember the name of the game though, but it was fascinating (even back when I was 12). Anyone know what that game was called? I can't seem to find it on the web anywhere.
I found it on a 5.25" floppy in my Dad's briefcase, back when he worked for the government when we lived in Arlington, Virginia (or was it the hills of West Virginia?)... Anyway, I'd love to know what the name of that game was (Dad always called it "Simulation"; but I think that's a silly name for a video game, so I never believed him).
This sounds just like the Invention Submission Corporation...... or any other scam that wants to "pay you [a microfraction] for your great idea [that they will make _X_illions from]".
Don't buy it. If you have a great idea, persue it through the normal channels - hard work and complete confidence and persistence in your idea/IP.
Google does that intentionally. When a product is "beta", and invitation only, they don't have to worry about liability, or the affect on their stock price. The "forthcoming" product, can't be factored in to their balance sheets because it hasn't been released to the general population yet. It's a 21st century stock-market loophole.
You mean you don't have any interest in "Toxicant Radio Song Status" widget? You must hate America you techno-hippie! How dare you actually think for yourself you selfish commie-terrorist-in-the-making.
Yahoo lost me back when they got cocky and started shoveling crap down my throat on their search page.
ICQ was also notorious for the same thing. They were just a little too ambitious for my tastes. I wanted a product, not a marketing blitz. Wow, they've even toned it down significantly. Now all the products are neatly categories within their product search engine.
I think the general consenus around here would be to go with Dells, IBMs, etc.
We use Dells. Partly, because they fully support the IPMI protocol. It's really nice to be able to remotely control the machines, see trend statistics, etc. using IPMI.
No, I was present for that lecture. However, you Sir, must have missed one of life's most exciting lessons. I think the neer-do-wells call it "Comedy".
Try partaking in it someday - you might find it humorous.;)
In this case, the Grinch is the big oil companies, their record 75% increase in profits, and our $2.99/gallon gasoline. Mommy can't buy you a new Xbox for $399 this year, because that $399 went into the gas tank so she could get to work - to pay for the roof over your head.
Get one of those big 1F (one Farad) or bigger Capacitors, wet your finger (don't use distilled water, though), and put it across the two leads at the top.
That one will always make your co-workers laugh.
Disclaimer: This is a joke. Never intentionally bridge the leads of a capacitor - dummy.
All applications have got pre-defined passwords that never change.
Then put them on their own network segment and mitigate their risk potential.
Much like most other networks, my network is a hybrid *nix/OS X/Win environment. I limit my damage potential by putting the [potentially] dipshit software on it's own segment. I limit the potential for damage further by only buying solutions that are sane (aka *nix based; because it has a 35 year history of being secure) or by buying solutions that offer SLA's that cover damages (very rare in the non-*nix world).
I work in a call-center, and our company will lose tens of thousands of dollars _each hour_ that our phone system is down. Our phone system is embedded hardware, but it still has legacy Windows "requirements". So, rather than trust those Windows machines, I isolate them and the damage they can do. The SLA contract guarantees us that if those Windows machines crash because they "caught a cold and couldn't infect anyone else, so they infected themselves to death", our company doesn't lose money [aka, spambots that can't get out].
The scope of politics shrink to the point where major parties have only minor differences, quibbling over how they think the jacket should be adjusted.
For America to rise back to the great core that it's forefathers founded, 2 things must happen:
1) there must be multiple political parties (not just 2) and 2) the Executive branch of government must become a committee, not just a single person.
The current "administration" has demonstrated that a single point of failure is not the American way. We don't settle for failure in our critical systems, why should be settle for it in our current Commander-in-Chief (whom never really served in the miliary)?
So by all means, don't vote. You'll be much better off by letting the people that care about the issues that affect _your_ life call the shots - kinda like how things are now.
I certainly hope you're not under 25 - because if you are, prepare to get drafted to Iraq. The US military can't recruit troops anymore, and the existing troops are bailing as soon as their terms are up because they see the writing on the wall (they don't get numbed by O'Reilly or Hannity because they go to sleep in piles of sand every night without TV). If you voted for Bush in 2000 or 2004, you should be first for the draft. Unless of course we leave Iraq right before the US elections "because the [political] timing was right" and "Iraq is now stable" or the "Mission Accomplished".
The Bush Crime Family has done enough damage. Vote progressive.
The resultant sand looks like a simple sine wave to me. The two differing images appear to have a different "frequency" to the wave.
The thing they discovered here, is that "fields" don't just occur in the 2 dimensions that we normally see. These fields, magnetic; etc. occur in more than 2 dimensions.
Basically, picture a sinewave (of any wavelength/amplitude), and offset it slightly on a new plane behind it, and continue that in both directions.
A new phenomenon is about to be discovered that will make the sine wave as we know it seem "obvious".
I just wish I was the person that put it together.
Hire Quentin Tarantino if you can afford him (or if he's still functional). He's the only person (that I can think of) that could possibly pull off a successful videogame->theatre release.
Hell, most of his movies seem more like video games than traditional films, IMHO. He's truly a rare breed (in a good way, if you ever read this Mr. T).
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You clearly don't work in a big city, do you?
Whoa! I think that's it! I was kind of kidding, but kind of serious about that post (kind of).
You forgot:
Donner, Blitzen, et al.
You dummy! It's:
;)
"Shall we play a game?"
I had a DOS game back in the day that allowed you to simulate a nuclear blast in any given city and see the effect of both the blast and the resultant fallout.
I can't remember the name of the game though, but it was fascinating (even back when I was 12). Anyone know what that game was called? I can't seem to find it on the web anywhere.
I found it on a 5.25" floppy in my Dad's briefcase, back when he worked for the government when we lived in Arlington, Virginia (or was it the hills of West Virginia?)... Anyway, I'd love to know what the name of that game was (Dad always called it "Simulation"; but I think that's a silly name for a video game, so I never believed him).
Thanks for any help!
Scientifically speaking, the correct equivalent would be "intelligently weighted floating".
Why would a book by Mao be on a watch list? Surely the NSA isn't having flashbacks to the 1950's!
Certainly not. If anything, it's the 'top secret' playbook for the current administration.
This sounds just like the Invention Submission Corporation... ... or any other scam that wants to "pay you [a microfraction] for your great idea [that they will make _X_illions from]".
Don't buy it. If you have a great idea, persue it through the normal channels - hard work and complete confidence and persistence in your idea/IP.
Interesting comment. May I ask how old you are? You didn't disclose it in your post.
Google does that intentionally. When a product is "beta", and invitation only, they don't have to worry about liability, or the affect on their stock price. The "forthcoming" product, can't be factored in to their balance sheets because it hasn't been released to the general population yet. It's a 21st century stock-market loophole.
You mean kind of like how Microsoft's Internet Explorer was just a purchase of Netscape?
Oh wait, that didn't happen. You just make it sound like Microsoft perfected the idea of browsers.
Is the Google calculator widget.
It's a bad sign when some of the most popular portals are to your arch enemys content.
You mean you don't have any interest in "Toxicant Radio Song Status" widget? You must hate America you techno-hippie! How dare you actually think for yourself you selfish commie-terrorist-in-the-making.
Have a blessed day!
I'll stick with the real deal.
Yahoo lost me back when they got cocky and started shoveling crap down my throat on their search page.
ICQ was also notorious for the same thing. They were just a little too ambitious for my tastes. I wanted a product, not a marketing blitz. Wow, they've even toned it down significantly. Now all the products are neatly categories within their product search engine.
Simplicity is a good. Forcefeeding is bad.
Touche.
Your point is taken.
Now go blow up a capacitor!
I think the general consenus around here would be to go with Dells, IBMs, etc.
We use Dells. Partly, because they fully support the IPMI protocol. It's really nice to be able to remotely control the machines, see trend statistics, etc. using IPMI.
No, I was present for that lecture. However, you Sir, must have missed one of life's most exciting lessons. I think the neer-do-wells call it "Comedy".
;)
Try partaking in it someday - you might find it humorous.
The grinch actually stole Christmas this year.
In this case, the Grinch is the big oil companies, their record 75% increase in profits, and our $2.99/gallon gasoline. Mommy can't buy you a new Xbox for $399 this year, because that $399 went into the gas tank so she could get to work - to pay for the roof over your head.
Get one of those big 1F (one Farad) or bigger Capacitors, wet your finger (don't use distilled water, though), and put it across the two leads at the top.
That one will always make your co-workers laugh.
Disclaimer: This is a joke. Never intentionally bridge the leads of a capacitor - dummy.
All applications have got pre-defined passwords that never change.
Then put them on their own network segment and mitigate their risk potential.
Much like most other networks, my network is a hybrid *nix/OS X/Win environment. I limit my damage potential by putting the [potentially] dipshit software on it's own segment. I limit the potential for damage further by only buying solutions that are sane (aka *nix based; because it has a 35 year history of being secure) or by buying solutions that offer SLA's that cover damages (very rare in the non-*nix world).
I work in a call-center, and our company will lose tens of thousands of dollars _each hour_ that our phone system is down. Our phone system is embedded hardware, but it still has legacy Windows "requirements". So, rather than trust those Windows machines, I isolate them and the damage they can do. The SLA contract guarantees us that if those Windows machines crash because they "caught a cold and couldn't infect anyone else, so they infected themselves to death", our company doesn't lose money [aka, spambots that can't get out].
The scope of politics shrink to the point where major parties have only minor differences, quibbling over how they think the jacket should be adjusted.
For America to rise back to the great core that it's forefathers founded, 2 things must happen:
1) there must be multiple political parties (not just 2)
and
2) the Executive branch of government must become a committee, not just a single person.
The current "administration" has demonstrated that a single point of failure is not the American way. We don't settle for failure in our critical systems, why should be settle for it in our current Commander-in-Chief (whom never really served in the miliary)?
So by all means, don't vote. You'll be much better off by letting the people that care about the issues that affect _your_ life call the shots - kinda like how things are now.
I certainly hope you're not under 25 - because if you are, prepare to get drafted to Iraq. The US military can't recruit troops anymore, and the existing troops are bailing as soon as their terms are up because they see the writing on the wall (they don't get numbed by O'Reilly or Hannity because they go to sleep in piles of sand every night without TV). If you voted for Bush in 2000 or 2004, you should be first for the draft. Unless of course we leave Iraq right before the US elections "because the [political] timing was right" and "Iraq is now stable" or the "Mission Accomplished".
The Bush Crime Family has done enough damage. Vote progressive.
The resultant sand looks like a simple sine wave to me. The two differing images appear to have a different "frequency" to the wave.
The thing they discovered here, is that "fields" don't just occur in the 2 dimensions that we normally see. These fields, magnetic; etc. occur in more than 2 dimensions.
Basically, picture a sinewave (of any wavelength/amplitude), and offset it slightly on a new plane behind it, and continue that in both directions.
A new phenomenon is about to be discovered that will make the sine wave as we know it seem "obvious".
I just wish I was the person that put it together.
"Big business is now in control of our [US] government?"
If something this simple is this easily hidden, very bad things are happening at very high levels of our government.
Be very afraid of corporate control of your civil liberties.
Good call.
Hire Quentin Tarantino if you can afford him (or if he's still functional). He's the only person (that I can think of) that could possibly pull off a successful videogame->theatre release.
Hell, most of his movies seem more like video games than traditional films, IMHO. He's truly a rare breed (in a good way, if you ever read this Mr. T).