This would be the same Research In Motion that tried to gouge Palm and HandSpring for patent licensing fees on the idea of a PDA with a keyboard, right?
The game engine is open-source. The art, model files, sounds, music and level designs, however, are still very much Copyright Bungie Studios, now a division of Microsoft Games.
You can probably find a copy on ebay pretty cheaply.
Googling on "microgravity bone density" and "microgravity cell damage" will lead you to a veritable library of bad news.
The short form is: your muscles (including your heart) atrophy and your bones waste away.
Vigorous aerobic exercise slows down, but does not stop the process. Compounding the problem, many people cannot sleep or eat in freefall. And centripetal force is not gravity: despite what you saw in 2001, rotating spaceships don't help that much.
Note that reading the available material on these subjects requires a pretty hefty dose of skepticism and cynicism: pro-space authors will tend to discuss these problems as if they are trifling details and as if solutions are just around the corner. You have to dig a bit before you realize that the problems have been well-known since the beginning of manned spaceflight and that there are no effective countermeasures yet available, nor any promising ones on the horizon.
The problem is that most of the Subversion installations I've seen -- including the one at work, unfortunately -- don't. Of course, the repository at work would require an SSH tunnel for access from outside the firewall in any case, since we'd never put it on a publicly visible server even with https, but having to run the tunnel on port 80 is a real pain.
So what you're saying is: Subversion provides a multitude of authentication options, and the fact that your local administrator picked one that you don't like is Subversion's fault.
Since 1951, America alone has devoted more than $17 billion [on fusion]
Ah the wonders of a contextless statistic. Wow, America has spent more than $17 Billion on nuclear fusion in the last fifty years without producing a commercially viable reactor?! Damn those profligate scientists and their free-spending ways! We must put a stop to this before they bankrupt us!
Oh wait. $17 billion divided by 53 years is... $320 Million a year.
In Federal budgeting terms, $320,000,000 is LINE NOISE. It's more than the National Endowment for the Arts gets, but that's about the only thing I can think of that's smaller. In comparison, check out these fun numbers from Table S-3 of our current federal budget:
Department of Defense: $401,000,000,000 (that's FOUR HUNDRED BILLION, and please note that that specifically doesn't include any money we are spending in Iraq)
Department of Homeland Security: $68,200,000,000
Department of Housing and Urban Development: $31,000,000,000
Executive Office of the President: $300,000,000
Yeah, you read that right: the "keep the White House bathrooms stocked with toilet paper" budget is roughly the same as the fusion budget. Oh wait, maybe we haven't been breaking the bank on fusion research after all...
"Mid-April release" usually means "disposable genre crap that the studio is rushing out early in hopes of making some money on the curiosity factor." Think "Bulletproof Monk" or "LXG".
"Late September release" means "we think this is good and we expect to make some serious money on it and maybe we'll think about a sequel."
Jesus, I'd always had a checklist like this in the back of my head, but I'd never actually bothered to write it.
BTW, I might quibble on ep11. Sure, we don't know that they're actually optically delivered physically addictive paraopiates, but it would certainly explain rather a lot about the popularity of, say, "Survivor" and "America's Next Top Model"...
It's unclear to me that this really helps. Hearing and producing single phonemes from other languages is probably the easiest part of learning a new language.
Only if your native language already has those phonemes. Otherwise... well, there's practically an entire genre of lame comedy cinema based on the asian inability to distinguish between the "R" and "L" sounds.
I often wonder if there's a similar genre in Cantonese and Mandarin cinema having to do with whitey's inability to distinguish tones.
Here's a cookie for having such a parochial worldview such as to not be able to envision a world without a morning commute, nor a radio program to listen to. Let me guess, you're from the Northeast, right?
Er, being from the northeast would probably make one more able to imagine a radio-less and/or car-less commute (if any at all), since being from the northeast would greatly increase the odds of your commute being done via a subway system.
Although thefreedictionary.com leaves a kinda weird taste in my mouth as well, it's important to remember that what they're doing is (as I understand it) not only completely legal, but encouraged under the FDL.
So think of it as an advertising-supported mirror. If wikipedia ever runs into a major cash crunch, it might be helpful to have a second source for those articles around.
Jabberdoc is helpful, but it won't do anything for this guy: he's not looking for documentation of a feature, he's looking for a feature that doesn't exist in any of the current server implementations.
Expressing an opinion on a dramatic device used in a movie is not a "troll", even if I'm pissing on a movie you happen to like. Not everyone likes the same things. Get the hell over it.
Hell, nevermind what A3D 3.0 might or might not have been, A3D 2.0 was lightyears better than anything up to and including Creative's current product line... in 1999. If the driver situation weren't so abysmal right now, I'd still be using my Diamond MX300. (And why is the driver situation abysmal? Oh right, because Creative bought Aureal's assets and then promptly buried the source code in the deepest vault they could find.)
System Shock 2 on the MX300, with good headphones and the lights turned down, was probably the single most terrifying experience of my life.
"Creative" may be the single most inappropriately named company in history.
Slashdot Mirror
This would be the same Research In Motion that tried to gouge Palm and HandSpring for patent licensing fees on the idea of a PDA with a keyboard, right?
Imagine my total lack of sympathy.
The game engine is open-source. The art, model files, sounds, music and level designs, however, are still very much Copyright Bungie Studios, now a division of Microsoft Games.
You can probably find a copy on ebay pretty cheaply.
Googling on "microgravity bone density" and "microgravity cell damage" will lead you to a veritable library of bad news.
The short form is: your muscles (including your heart) atrophy and your bones waste away.
Vigorous aerobic exercise slows down, but does not stop the process. Compounding the problem, many people cannot sleep or eat in freefall. And centripetal force is not gravity: despite what you saw in 2001, rotating spaceships don't help that much.
Note that reading the available material on these subjects requires a pretty hefty dose of skepticism and cynicism: pro-space authors will tend to discuss these problems as if they are trifling details and as if solutions are just around the corner. You have to dig a bit before you realize that the problems have been well-known since the beginning of manned spaceflight and that there are no effective countermeasures yet available, nor any promising ones on the horizon.
The best way to look at these systems is not as an attempt to actually prevent people from ripping CDDA audio from CDs: that's effectively impossible.
Think of them as an elegant method of separating the record labels from millions and millions of dollars of their money, in return for...nothing.
Hm. I'm in the wrong line of work.
Pity humans can't actually live long-term in zero-g.
I know, I know, facts are silly things...
The problem is that most of the Subversion installations I've seen -- including the one at work, unfortunately -- don't. Of course, the repository at work would require an SSH tunnel for access from outside the firewall in any case, since we'd never put it on a publicly visible server even with https, but having to run the tunnel on port 80 is a real pain.
So what you're saying is: Subversion provides a multitude of authentication options, and the fact that your local administrator picked one that you don't like is Subversion's fault.
Uh HUH.
Ah the wonders of a contextless statistic. Wow, America has spent more than $17 Billion on nuclear fusion in the last fifty years without producing a commercially viable reactor?! Damn those profligate scientists and their free-spending ways! We must put a stop to this before they bankrupt us!
Oh wait. $17 billion divided by 53 years is... $320 Million a year.
In Federal budgeting terms, $320,000,000 is LINE NOISE. It's more than the National Endowment for the Arts gets, but that's about the only thing I can think of that's smaller. In comparison, check out these fun numbers from Table S-3 of our current federal budget:
Department of Defense: $401,000,000,000 (that's FOUR HUNDRED BILLION, and please note that that specifically doesn't include any money we are spending in Iraq)
Department of Homeland Security: $68,200,000,000
Department of Housing and Urban Development: $31,000,000,000
Executive Office of the President: $300,000,000
Yeah, you read that right: the "keep the White House bathrooms stocked with toilet paper" budget is roughly the same as the fusion budget. Oh wait, maybe we haven't been breaking the bank on fusion research after all...
Huh. Guess that whole "PalmOS 6.0" thing didn't work out quite as well as they'd hoped.
The Curse of Be continues.
"Mid-April release" usually means "disposable genre crap that the studio is rushing out early in hopes of making some money on the curiosity factor." Think "Bulletproof Monk" or "LXG".
"Late September release" means "we think this is good and we expect to make some serious money on it and maybe we'll think about a sequel."
I'm guessing that Valve's engineers tried to explain the concept to Valve's lawyers, and the lawyers had a heart attack.
Jesus, I'd always had a checklist like this in the back of my head, but I'd never actually bothered to write it.
BTW, I might quibble on ep11. Sure, we don't know that they're actually optically delivered physically addictive paraopiates, but it would certainly explain rather a lot about the popularity of, say, "Survivor" and "America's Next Top Model"...
20 Minutes Into the Future...and getting closer every second.
It's unclear to me that this really helps. Hearing and producing single phonemes from other languages is probably the easiest part of learning a new language.
Only if your native language already has those phonemes. Otherwise... well, there's practically an entire genre of lame comedy cinema based on the asian inability to distinguish between the "R" and "L" sounds.
I often wonder if there's a similar genre in Cantonese and Mandarin cinema having to do with whitey's inability to distinguish tones.
It's called: total market dominance.
I kinda doubt they're quaking in their boots over this.
Here's a cookie for having such a parochial worldview such as to not be able to envision a world without a morning commute, nor a radio program to listen to. Let me guess, you're from the Northeast, right?
Er, being from the northeast would probably make one more able to imagine a radio-less and/or car-less commute (if any at all), since being from the northeast would greatly increase the odds of your commute being done via a subway system.
Although thefreedictionary.com leaves a kinda weird taste in my mouth as well, it's important to remember that what they're doing is (as I understand it) not only completely legal, but encouraged under the FDL.
So think of it as an advertising-supported mirror. If wikipedia ever runs into a major cash crunch, it might be helpful to have a second source for those articles around.
Jabberdoc is helpful, but it won't do anything for this guy: he's not looking for documentation of a feature, he's looking for a feature that doesn't exist in any of the current server implementations.
The N64 had an add-on device called the 64DD.
For values of "had" that do not include actual consumers being able to buy the device.
Expressing an opinion on a dramatic device used in a movie is not a "troll", even if I'm pissing on a movie you happen to like. Not everyone likes the same things. Get the hell over it.
What was it you found so bad about Cherry?
Other than the acting, the dialogue, the editing and the plot... nothing much.
Melanie Griffith make you nervous or something?
I dunno, is it possible to be nervous while laughing hysterically?
"Straight to Hell" was the best movie starring Courtney Love and Elvis Costello ever made.
DRUGS. MONEY. SEXUAL TENSION.
Okay, maybe you had to be 19 years old and wired on extremely illegal drugs at the time.
Me: "Don't say love. Don't you dare say love. GOD DAMN YOU DON'T SAY LOVE!"
. "
the unblinking eye of the movie screen: "The Fifth Element is...love!"
Me: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH
I could beat Luc Besson senseless with a crowbar, rifle through his wallet and retrieve my $8, but I will never get those two hours back.
Cherry 2000
Although "The Fifth Element" was almost as bad.
Hell, nevermind what A3D 3.0 might or might not have been, A3D 2.0 was lightyears better than anything up to and including Creative's current product line... in 1999. If the driver situation weren't so abysmal right now, I'd still be using my Diamond MX300. (And why is the driver situation abysmal? Oh right, because Creative bought Aureal's assets and then promptly buried the source code in the deepest vault they could find.)
System Shock 2 on the MX300, with good headphones and the lights turned down, was probably the single most terrifying experience of my life.
"Creative" may be the single most inappropriately named company in history.
Er, sorry, teach me to post before drinking my coffee. s/on spec/under contract/