Sacrifice was one of the most impressive games ever created. Massive replay value, an interface that was basically gesture-driven, spectacular spell animations and an epic soundtrack. This game really IS that good and still holds its own. If you haven't played it, try to dig up a copy somewhere. You won't regret it.
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And don't forget how some apps/games needed Expanded memory, and some needed Extended memory (which EMM386 made mutually exclusive), and then some games wouldn't run at all if you had a memory manager loaded. And then dos4gw came along...
That was my first thought as well. This bill basically means that the big guys will pay less, and the little guys will still go bankrupt trying to defend against patent claims.
The problem with that idea is that, as I understand it, you'd have to wait the age of the universe before you got a result. As you approach the event horizon of a black hole, you experience ever-increasing relativistic time dilation; time passes normally for you, but the rest of the universe appears to be speeding up. To an outside observer, you're playing out a modern example of Xeno's paradox; the closer you get to the event horizon, the less distance you are covering.
So when you drop your entangled photon into the black hole, you're going to have a -loooooong- wait before it passes the event horizon.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, my knowledge of the subject comes largely from science fiction and Discover magazine.
Problem is, of course, that this botnet could be used to shut down all the computers in Washington DC if lawmakers looked to be considering such a move.
Eh, I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. They're probably just all aligned to the north magnetic pole of the universe, or something.
Or perhaps they're not galaxies at all, but exhaust trails. Of something... big. REALLY big.
Nah, this place isn't going anywhere. It's been around for over 90 years, run by the same family. Of course you'd think that probably has something to do with their attitude toward the 'net, but the idea to implement filters actually came from outside.
My bosses fixed this by having me implement an unavoidable proxy server with a whitelist of approved sites. If you want to get onto a site that's not on the list, a manager must approve the site. Needless to say, anything not work related (including news, weather, banking sites, etc) are not on the list. Oh, and they're not playing Solitaire, either, thanks to the group policies in place that prevent the running of sol.exe and all other Windows games. And it's not like they're going to download new ones.
Problem solved, says management, who are not subject to the filter!
Of course all the employees resent being treated like children, and it's created a tremendous amount of ill will toward management, and people gripe about it all the time. At least one good employee switched companies because of the restrictive policy. But hey, at least they aren't wasting time on the 'net!
First game that ever scared me was the Wheel of Time game. Second level, inside the "deserted" city of Shadar Logoth at night (which, if you're familiar with the books, you know is a bad place to be). Everywhere you go, there's the sound of gravel crumbling, as if something just ducked out of sight. Whispering noises fill the air, and every now and again there's a faint cry, as if something horrible were in pain. You drop into a darker area, and a voice whispers "Staaaaaaaay" right in your ear, and THEN you see the tendril of fog reaching out to you from a crack in the ground. I actually yelped out loud.
Second game that ever scared me was the FEAR demo. The glimpses of the little girl were already freaking me out, and then at one point I backtracked a bit, climbed a ladder, and she was STANDING RIGHT THERE!
I actually said "yeeeAGGG" and jumped off the ladder.
You are incorrect. I am running, right now, this instant, two hardware 3d apps: Celestia and Google Earth. I have them up, side-by-side, and I can rotate Earth on either one, and indeed both at the same time.
This is on a Thinkpad T30 which has an old ATI chipset, but it is most assuredly hardware 3d acceleration.
I'm running Windows XP and DX9. If I recall correctly, I've been able to load two instances of Celestia at once since at least DX8.
So I'm not sure where you got your information. Try it yourself; it works fine.
Actually the steady meth usage is probably from legal prescription drugs like ritalin and adderall. Drug tests can't distinguish them from illegal methamphetamines.
Did someone club Anne and Sax and lock them in a room together until they figured out their feelings? 'cause that's gonna save a LOT of trouble. Trust me.
Somewhere I got the idea that the "hackers" were executed for bypassing the Great Firewall. My mistake. However, China -does- punish those who bypass its censorship controls and thus I think my original point remains valid; anyone that receives lists of proxy servers is in danger of being harassed by the government for it.
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Wow. I see "Sellafield" and all I can think of is
... kudos to anyone that gets that.
Cher-bo-byl
Har-ris-berg
Sel-la-field
Hi-ro-shi-ma
Stop! Radioactivity
it's in the air for you and me
So, like tabbed browsing except more confusing?
"That doesn't look very scary. More like a six-foot turkey!" -- Annoying fat kid
Wow, I thought you only lived on k5.
I'm not aware of any way WMA files can be "digitally protected" and not burned to CD, either. Thanks to stuff like FairUse4WM....
Sacrifice was one of the most impressive games ever created. Massive replay value, an interface that was basically gesture-driven, spectacular spell animations and an epic soundtrack. This game really IS that good and still holds its own. If you haven't played it, try to dig up a copy somewhere. You won't regret it.
And don't forget how some apps/games needed Expanded memory, and some needed Extended memory (which EMM386 made mutually exclusive), and then some games wouldn't run at all if you had a memory manager loaded. And then dos4gw came along...
Next year, on the Wii:Animal Crossing: ARMAGEDDON
Rated M for mature audiences. Requires Nintendo Wii Zapper.
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That was my first thought as well. This bill basically means that the big guys will pay less, and the little guys will still go bankrupt trying to defend against patent claims.
The problem with that idea is that, as I understand it, you'd have to wait the age of the universe before you got a result. As you approach the event horizon of a black hole, you experience ever-increasing relativistic time dilation; time passes normally for you, but the rest of the universe appears to be speeding up. To an outside observer, you're playing out a modern example of Xeno's paradox; the closer you get to the event horizon, the less distance you are covering.
So when you drop your entangled photon into the black hole, you're going to have a -loooooong- wait before it passes the event horizon.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, my knowledge of the subject comes largely from science fiction and Discover magazine.
Problem is, of course, that this botnet could be used to shut down all the computers in Washington DC if lawmakers looked to be considering such a move.
Aliens. Probably the same ones that took Earhart.
Eh, I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. They're probably just all aligned to the north magnetic pole of the universe, or something.
Or perhaps they're not galaxies at all, but exhaust trails. Of something... big. REALLY big.
Nah, this place isn't going anywhere. It's been around for over 90 years, run by the same family. Of course you'd think that probably has something to do with their attitude toward the 'net, but the idea to implement filters actually came from outside.
Well of course, I need unrestricted 'net access to do my job! As far as anyone knows.
My bosses fixed this by having me implement an unavoidable proxy server with a whitelist of approved sites. If you want to get onto a site that's not on the list, a manager must approve the site. Needless to say, anything not work related (including news, weather, banking sites, etc) are not on the list. Oh, and they're not playing Solitaire, either, thanks to the group policies in place that prevent the running of sol.exe and all other Windows games. And it's not like they're going to download new ones.
Problem solved, says management, who are not subject to the filter!
Of course all the employees resent being treated like children, and it's created a tremendous amount of ill will toward management, and people gripe about it all the time. At least one good employee switched companies because of the restrictive policy. But hey, at least they aren't wasting time on the 'net!
First game that ever scared me was the Wheel of Time game. Second level, inside the "deserted" city of Shadar Logoth at night (which, if you're familiar with the books, you know is a bad place to be). Everywhere you go, there's the sound of gravel crumbling, as if something just ducked out of sight. Whispering noises fill the air, and every now and again there's a faint cry, as if something horrible were in pain. You drop into a darker area, and a voice whispers "Staaaaaaaay" right in your ear, and THEN you see the tendril of fog reaching out to you from a crack in the ground. I actually yelped out loud.
Second game that ever scared me was the FEAR demo. The glimpses of the little girl were already freaking me out, and then at one point I backtracked a bit, climbed a ladder, and she was STANDING RIGHT THERE!
I actually said "yeeeAGGG" and jumped off the ladder.
You are incorrect. I am running, right now, this instant, two hardware 3d apps: Celestia and Google Earth. I have them up, side-by-side, and I can rotate Earth on either one, and indeed both at the same time.
This is on a Thinkpad T30 which has an old ATI chipset, but it is most assuredly hardware 3d acceleration.
I'm running Windows XP and DX9. If I recall correctly, I've been able to load two instances of Celestia at once since at least DX8.
So I'm not sure where you got your information. Try it yourself; it works fine.
They were actually Gateway 2000 back then, weren't they? Those were some good machines.
This story is worthless without pictures.
There are none here, although there's no shortage of sales brochure style summaries:
http://www.opalux.com/technologies.php
Actually the steady meth usage is probably from legal prescription drugs like ritalin and adderall. Drug tests can't distinguish them from illegal methamphetamines.
Did someone club Anne and Sax and lock them in a room together until they figured out their feelings? 'cause that's gonna save a LOT of trouble. Trust me.
That's true of Realplayer on any platform, actually.
Actually, I had two facts mixed up in my head.
a ll97-papers/kim-crime.html (search for "Shi Biao", or just Google "hacker Shi Biao")
1) China executes computer-using criminals (media reported as hackers) who embezzled money:
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/student-papers/f
2) China treats those who bypass its censorship harshly:
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/147/
Somewhere I got the idea that the "hackers" were executed for bypassing the Great Firewall. My mistake. However, China -does- punish those who bypass its censorship controls and thus I think my original point remains valid; anyone that receives lists of proxy servers is in danger of being harassed by the government for it.