...published very well known games like Icewind Dale, the Baldur's Gate series, and Descent. Farewell, Interplay.
There was also a not so well known game called "Out of this World" which is still one of my favorite games. I just played through it again a few weeks ago.
I've searched and searched, and could never find an explanation for why these are refered to as organic.
One article I found briefly mentioned bioluminescent life forms and how they are very efficient at producing light, but didn't say anything about what that has to do with OLED displays. And a PDF I found about the subject talked about the process of synthesizing the electroluminescent materials used. Sorry, I don't have the links to these.
But if they are synthesized, doesn't that mean that they are NOT organic?
And what does electroluminescence have to do with bioluminescence.
What I've always wondered is why the orbits of objects as parts of galaxies, solar systems, or even planet/moon systems pretty much share a common plane. And then, even the rotation of the bodies themselves also line up for the most part.
Why don't they all rotate and orbit in any direction they want?
Does gravity just even this all out over time when the objects pass near each other?
Right, because these guys, who have no connection to Apple, and are themselves asking for donations to buy more iPods to add support, have the power to make that happen.:rolleyes:
Other than sharing two letters in their names, what makes you think there is any similarity?
In NYC, I can't go out for the day without seeing at least ten people with iPods. If I walk into a subway and look around, there is almost always at least one person wearing Apple's white earbuds. Sometimes, when it's crowded, there are three or four people in one car. I actually find it slightly embarassing pulling out my iPod (I don't use the white headphones) and getting looks of aknowledgement from those guys.
I certainly didn't see that many people with Pogs in their hands when they were popular.
Sure, when Apple stops selling them or they or someone else comes out with something much better, people will move on, but it's not like they're just going to get tired of using them.
Oh, and it didn't bother with the ugly low-res textures that other games at the time were using, and instead did everything (including camouflage) with polygons. This payed off more in the sequel, but both games looked really good.
Oh yeah, and fog too! There were two levels that just looked great with the mountains in the background fading into the fog. I'm not talking about the visibility-killing fog used these days to improve performance either. This was there for the effect.
It was one of the first flight sim games that had things like [relatively] realistic physics, damage (tear off a wing by hitting a building or bend your landing gear by hitting the ground too hard), wind effects, passing day/night, lens flares for the sun, stars at night, airfield lights, plane shadows, visible weapons (bombs, rockets, etc.), multiplayer modes (maybe only in the sequel), particle-based smoke trails, a mission planner/editor, 3D cockpit with controls you could work with the mouse, and probably a few things I can't think of right now.
And that's not to mention, the coolest plane ever!
A-10 Attack never came out for the PC, but the sequel (A-10 Cuba) did.
This is advertising. The companies that you need to sign up with pay for it. The free iPods guys are getting their money either way, and the only reason they'd have to ask for the stuff back would be if those companies asked for theirs back.
But that would be like Nokia asking for their money back for the TV ads they bought because people didn't buy or keep their N-Gages.
I know several people who got free iPods by signing up for the offers involved and then cancelling. If they paid anything at all, it was certainly a lot less than the cost of the iPod.
I guess if this company is making money, then not everyone bothers to get out of the offers they sign up for, but even they aren't getting ripped off.
BTW, there have been a few sites that set up referal pools, where people basically just got together and refered each other with the people in the pool.
Well, I certainly wouldn't sign up for your plan to share a 6 Mb connection with others.
But for those that do, what are you going to do to guarantee them that one of your neighbours isn't going to hog all of the bandwidth?
I know just in my house (also a 6 Mb connection), if I'm downloading something through Bit Torrent, it really slows down any internet stuff on the other computers, and if another computer here downloads a file or checks email, it makes games on mine stutter.
Are you going to give them bandwidth caps? And will those go down everytime you get a new customer?
I'm really starting ot wonder if Microsoft's comments about how great an popular their software is are actually lies to the public, or if they are just trying to convince themselves.
It's like some nerd saying "I don't get a lot of dates, but that's just because so few girls out there deserve me. I just need to find one that does."
There was a point (maybe still) when Windows Update and Norton AntiVirus would both go through a server at unknown.level3.net (or something like that).
That's not very reassuring when you're getting OS or AV updates.
It's insightful because if Microsoft wanted to slip a mickey to a Firefox user, they could simply do it through one of their own signed updates or downloads.
The way I see it, those people that can afford to sign their software through VeriSign are the very people whose software I don't usually trust in the first place.
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...published very well known games like Icewind Dale, the Baldur's Gate series, and Descent. Farewell, Interplay.
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There was also a not so well known game called "Out of this World" which is still one of my favorite games. I just played through it again a few weeks ago.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,
"That was fun."
It sure was. Thanks.
I'm not kidding. I was a Physics guy in school. Flunked my chemistry class. Anyway, I was thinking organic in terms of living or not living.
Heck, I'm also confused about the whole organic foods thing. Anyone care to answer that one too? What makes organic food more organic than other food?
Is there more carbon in it?
Do you?
I've searched and searched, and could never find an explanation for why these are refered to as organic.
One article I found briefly mentioned bioluminescent life forms and how they are very efficient at producing light, but didn't say anything about what that has to do with OLED displays. And a PDF I found about the subject talked about the process of synthesizing the electroluminescent materials used. Sorry, I don't have the links to these.
But if they are synthesized, doesn't that mean that they are NOT organic?
And what does electroluminescence have to do with bioluminescence.
What I've always wondered is why the orbits of objects as parts of galaxies, solar systems, or even planet/moon systems pretty much share a common plane. And then, even the rotation of the bodies themselves also line up for the most part.
Why don't they all rotate and orbit in any direction they want?
Does gravity just even this all out over time when the objects pass near each other?
There are those of us from Cairo, Memphis, Jakarta, Nashville, and a few others already complaining.
Exactly.
I would have thougt a site named craigslist.com would be run by someone named Craig.
Actually, I did think of it first.
When I was buying my iPod, I thought "Damn, I wish this was cheaper. Maybe those iPodLinux guys should do somehting about that."
Oh wait. No, I didn't. Because that's dumb.
Right, because these guys, who have no connection to Apple, and are themselves asking for donations to buy more iPods to add support, have the power to make that happen. :rolleyes:
Other than sharing two letters in their names, what makes you think there is any similarity?
In NYC, I can't go out for the day without seeing at least ten people with iPods. If I walk into a subway and look around, there is almost always at least one person wearing Apple's white earbuds. Sometimes, when it's crowded, there are three or four people in one car. I actually find it slightly embarassing pulling out my iPod (I don't use the white headphones) and getting looks of aknowledgement from those guys.
I certainly didn't see that many people with Pogs in their hands when they were popular.
Sure, when Apple stops selling them or they or someone else comes out with something much better, people will move on, but it's not like they're just going to get tired of using them.
Currently Using:
AbiWord (word processor)
AVG Anti-Virus Free Version (obvious)
Azureus (bit torrent)
burnatonce (cd burning)
ChatZilla (irc client)
Daemon Tools (disk image mounting)
DC++ (file sharing)
FileZilla (ftp client)
Firefox (obvious)
Free Launch Bar (taskbar/toolbar customizer)
GrabIt (usenet downloader)
HoeKey (global hotkey utility)
ImageMagick (command line image utilities)
IrfanView (image viewer)
Locate32 (filename search)
Media Player Classic (obvious... not from microsoft)
PINs (password storage)
Purrint (screen capture utility)
SpaceMonger (disk space visualizer)
Start Killer (disable start menu and/or windows key)
Startup Control Panel (control startup items)
Startup Monitor (monitor startup items)
TClock2 (takbar/clock cutomizer)
TeamSpeak (voice chat for gaming)
Thunderbird (email)
Viewtify (customize open/save dialogs)
VirtuaWin (virtual desktop manager)
VLC (media player)
Wackget (wget frontend)
Wget (command line downloader)
Wherzit (find lost windows)
Winamp (music)
Wizmo (various command line tools... i use it to sleep monitor)
XnView (like irfanview, but better)
There are more I use, but this is a new Windows install.
Google should find you the sites.
PS: Stupid Lameness Filter.
Oh, and varying level-of-detail models. That was a new one too.
OK, I'm a fanboy. I'll stop now.
Oh, and it didn't bother with the ugly low-res textures that other games at the time were using, and instead did everything (including camouflage) with polygons. This payed off more in the sequel, but both games looked really good.
Oh yeah, and fog too! There were two levels that just looked great with the mountains in the background fading into the fog. I'm not talking about the visibility-killing fog used these days to improve performance either. This was there for the effect.
Don't forget A-10 Attack!
It was one of the first flight sim games that had things like [relatively] realistic physics, damage (tear off a wing by hitting a building or bend your landing gear by hitting the ground too hard), wind effects, passing day/night, lens flares for the sun, stars at night, airfield lights, plane shadows, visible weapons (bombs, rockets, etc.), multiplayer modes (maybe only in the sequel), particle-based smoke trails, a mission planner/editor, 3D cockpit with controls you could work with the mouse, and probably a few things I can't think of right now.
And that's not to mention, the coolest plane ever!
A-10 Attack never came out for the PC, but the sequel (A-10 Cuba) did.
It's still one of my favorite games.
This is advertising. The companies that you need to sign up with pay for it. The free iPods guys are getting their money either way, and the only reason they'd have to ask for the stuff back would be if those companies asked for theirs back.
But that would be like Nokia asking for their money back for the TV ads they bought because people didn't buy or keep their N-Gages.
I know several people who got free iPods by signing up for the offers involved and then cancelling. If they paid anything at all, it was certainly a lot less than the cost of the iPod.
I guess if this company is making money, then not everyone bothers to get out of the offers they sign up for, but even they aren't getting ripped off.
BTW, there have been a few sites that set up referal pools, where people basically just got together and refered each other with the people in the pool.
Maybe the comment about the nerd with no girlfriend hit a little too close to home. :)
"Go over their house and ask them nicely to stop downloading all that porn during the day."
:)
Yeah, I can see that turning out well.
Every day, another knock on the door from Mr. Local ISP.
"Grrr.... What the hell does he want this time?!?"
Great way to make friends.
Well, I certainly wouldn't sign up for your plan to share a 6 Mb connection with others.
But for those that do, what are you going to do to guarantee them that one of your neighbours isn't going to hog all of the bandwidth?
I know just in my house (also a 6 Mb connection), if I'm downloading something through Bit Torrent, it really slows down any internet stuff on the other computers, and if another computer here downloads a file or checks email, it makes games on mine stutter.
Are you going to give them bandwidth caps? And will those go down everytime you get a new customer?
I'm really starting ot wonder if Microsoft's comments about how great an popular their software is are actually lies to the public, or if they are just trying to convince themselves.
It's like some nerd saying "I don't get a lot of dates, but that's just because so few girls out there deserve me. I just need to find one that does."
I don't know about your taste, but I'd love a pair of shoes like that.
Um, to them:
Going after pirates = more money.
Adding DRM to content = more money.
More money + more money = even more money.
Of course, "more money" is a short term thing, but they don't care about that.
There was a point (maybe still) when Windows Update and Norton AntiVirus would both go through a server at unknown.level3.net (or something like that).
That's not very reassuring when you're getting OS or AV updates.
It's insightful because if Microsoft wanted to slip a mickey to a Firefox user, they could simply do it through one of their own signed updates or downloads.
The way I see it, those people that can afford to sign their software through VeriSign are the very people whose software I don't usually trust in the first place.