Hah, that's a guiness record? I've parked in a space that tight before. I did bump the car behind me a couple times though. Not hard or anything, just a very light tap.
But you have to admit it bothers you when you are in stop and go traffic, and the people in front of you are just slowly drifting forward, maybe up a slight hill. Too slow for first gear... you just have to wait for a larger gap, then put it in first for a second, then.....
That reminds me of a horrible C64 game I wasted way too many hours on. It was supposed to be about the eveloution of man. You started out as an ape, and you had to get to the top of the screen and get a banana. Pretty good graphics I recall.
Except that it was nearly impossible. There were like 7 jumps you had to make with millisecond perfect timing.
Once you made that, the next level you are slightly less hairy, and you had some other goal. The point was that you evoloved more each level.
I think they spent way too much time and resources (remember only 64k to go around) on graphics. I remember the graphics were excellent for the time, you could watch the ape peel the banana and eat it, and if you died, a talking skull (I think who claimed to be "fate") would tell you the human race died out because you failed.:)
I remember something in the manual that said something like "If the streets change layouts then that's because something changed in the past to make them that way."
I wonder if they were just covering up for really bad coding?:)
On that same era, I nominate Bill and Ted's excellent advanture for the NES. The movement was HORRIBLE. You sorta walked in these diagonal lines, and just navigating around logs and inanimate objects was frustrating as hell. The only good point of that game was the dialog/interaction system, where you could choose responses to what people said.
I'm not familiar with how exicte sells ads... I assumed it was like Google adwords, a self-service thing, you type in the keywords you want your ad to come up on, and it happens.
In cases like that, I don't see how the service could be liable, any more than Xerox is liable if someone infringes on copyright in the process of using one of their photocopiers.
idea that "you just need pass the course". you can learn what you need "later".
But that idea is true, at least in some majors. In computer science, I took dozens of courses that were just busy work basically. I took maybe 3 or 4 courses that have actually proven useful to the real world.
All the rest were totally irrelevant crap, and I would have missed nothing by cheating.
By the time they are sure it's terminal, it's too late to do much useful with your life. It's not like they say "Oh, you will die exactly 5 years from now".
The purchaser of the ads is the one that should be responsible, not excite. It would produce a huge burdon to try to filter out every trademarked keyword that an advertiser wanted to purchase.
Yes, but why keep paying forever for CPU rental, when in about 6 months, something from AMD for the consumer market will blow your expensive shit away?
The problem with the 3ware cages for anything other than RAID, is that you can't just buy the cartridges (the tray the drive sits in) without buying more complete enclosures.
This is a fatal flaw if you want to use it in any capacity other than RAID, considering the enclosures cost so damn much.
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Hah, that's a guiness record? I've parked in a space that tight before. I did bump the car behind me a couple times though. Not hard or anything, just a very light tap.
But you have to admit it bothers you when you are in stop and go traffic, and the people in front of you are just slowly drifting forward, maybe up a slight hill. Too slow for first gear... you just have to wait for a larger gap, then put it in first for a second, then .....
You know what I mean right?
Bah, that's easy, didn't you see the Slashdot story on fractal based monitors?
That reminds me of a horrible C64 game I wasted way too many hours on. It was supposed to be about the eveloution of man. You started out as an ape, and you had to get to the top of the screen and get a banana. Pretty good graphics I recall.
:)
Except that it was nearly impossible. There were like 7 jumps you had to make with millisecond perfect timing.
Once you made that, the next level you are slightly less hairy, and you had some other goal. The point was that you evoloved more each level.
I think they spent way too much time and resources (remember only 64k to go around) on graphics. I remember the graphics were excellent for the time, you could watch the ape peel the banana and eat it, and if you died, a talking skull (I think who claimed to be "fate") would tell you the human race died out because you failed.
I rented that game once.
:)
I remember something in the manual that said something like "If the streets change layouts then that's because something changed in the past to make them that way."
I wonder if they were just covering up for really bad coding?
On that same era, I nominate Bill and Ted's excellent advanture for the NES. The movement was HORRIBLE. You sorta walked in these diagonal lines, and just navigating around logs and inanimate objects was frustrating as hell. The only good point of that game was the dialog/interaction system, where you could choose responses to what people said.
Heh, if you go back that far...
:)
I recall a port of Impossible Mission, that literally was impossible.
A fatal bug left you unable to get some necessary items to advance. I'm thinking it was on the Colecovision, though I may be wrong.
news.google is a great service. I can't imagine it takes up much developer time either. It's pretty much written and done.
But everything created is copyrighted automatically, so they can't distribute anything at all.
I've noticed in several games with slightly off clipping that you sometimes shoot away with great velocity.
Like, you'll hit something, embed a little way in it, and then when you shake free you go shooting off at incredible speed.
I don't know enough about 3D coding to really say what causes this, but I know I've seen it in a lot of places, on various engines.
Nah, that's later... in 5 years when MS is the next Enron, then sell it on Ebay.
I already had those skills. Why did I have to waste 4 years to "prove" it?
I'm not familiar with how exicte sells ads... I assumed it was like Google adwords, a self-service thing, you type in the keywords you want your ad to come up on, and it happens.
In cases like that, I don't see how the service could be liable, any more than Xerox is liable if someone infringes on copyright in the process of using one of their photocopiers.
idea that "you just need pass the course". you can learn what you need "later".
But that idea is true, at least in some majors. In computer science, I took dozens of courses that were just busy work basically. I took maybe 3 or 4 courses that have actually proven useful to the real world.
All the rest were totally irrelevant crap, and I would have missed nothing by cheating.
How could it be illegal to send data to and get a response from, a public server?
You are even using it the way it was intended, to search.
Google can't say you can't use any certain client, even if that client is a command line client that you trigger from a script.
Sure, they could ban you from their service, that's their right. But when you start calling it "illegal" that's another thing entirely.
Because we all know that software to recognize patterns in text is perfect. That's why no one ever gets spam anymore!
By the time they are sure it's terminal, it's too late to do much useful with your life. It's not like they say "Oh, you will die exactly 5 years from now".
The 1,200,000ms ping time is killer.
Why should excite be held responsible?
The purchaser of the ads is the one that should be responsible, not excite. It would produce a huge burdon to try to filter out every trademarked keyword that an advertiser wanted to purchase.
Yes, but why keep paying forever for CPU rental, when in about 6 months, something from AMD for the consumer market will blow your expensive shit away?
They are designed to be used with 3ware controllers.
It's the computer people that tried to redifine an SI prefix to mean something else. The SI prefixes were always a power of ten, and still are.
If you mean a power of 2 then it's mebibyte, or tebibyte, or gibibyte.
Stable means unchanging, not unfailing, in that context.
The point is that you can know all the bugs, and deal with them however you need to.
The problem with the 3ware cages for anything other than RAID, is that you can't just buy the cartridges (the tray the drive sits in) without buying more complete enclosures.
This is a fatal flaw if you want to use it in any capacity other than RAID, considering the enclosures cost so damn much.
Yeah, fuck those batards!
Did you mean something like "hoisted by their own petard"?
That's not really too interesting. Your gut is full of bacteria, and manages to keep them from infecting the rest of your body usually.