What is JediKnight 2 for Windows? I only know JediKnight 2 on OS X, a Cocoa-based Aqua-compliant and all around great IRC client... strange how programmers seem to lack creativity when it comes to naming their apps.
Jedi Knight 2 is a game by LucasArts (I'm betting you actually knew this). What is creative about naming an IRC client Jedi Knight? Not only does it make no sense and provide no meaningful description of the product, the guy will be lucky if LucasArts doesn't sue him out of existence.
You would rather collect people without regard to quality. This means nothing. Budweiser is the most consumer beer, but its garbage. This is analogous to Slashdot, to stoop to your food and beverage analogy. Bud beer. Its good because a lot of people drink it.
Actually, Budweiser has some of the highest quality standards of any beer. The production is far more carefully controlled than most imports and microbrews, and Anheuser-Busch goes to great pains to insure that every Bud you buy tastes exactly the same as the last Bud.
Now, you might not like the taste. Quite a few people don't. I don't care for it myself; when I want a beer that tasteless, I'll drink Natural Light at half the price. When I want to drink beer for the flavor, I'll usually go for Bass or Newcastle.
Now, to poke the hole in your analogy: If Slashdot was like Budweiser, there would never be a writeup with a grammar or spelling error, there would be no commentary from idiots who didn't read the articles, no page widening or goatse.cx crap. You still might not like the taste of the content, but the 'quality' would be much higher.
Regarding Wolf3D: It wasn't the very first first-person game-- that title belongs to "Ultima Underworld" (1992), released a few months earlier from Looking Glass Studios....
Catacomb Abyss came out in December, 1991. Dig those EGA graphics!
Thanks for the info. I'm on 1.5m cable. I grabbed a couple of the freebies and they were fast, but the demo is (almost) always better than the real thing. The only other thing I'm wondering about is the encoding - do the MP3's sound reasonably close to CD quality? I know they're only 128k, but I've heard some 128k MP3's that sound really good, and some that sound like manure.
Well, no, obviously nothing in the real world is that simple. You are right, that is a wild wealth distribution - in the US, a "middle class" family probably makes double the median income or ~$40k. Thiry times that would be considered "rich" by almost anyone's definition. And the low end of the scale there stretches out differently also, with far more people in abject poverty.
The "average" family has never used a computer and probably never will.
Obviously not. Which, I think, is sort of the point of the original post in this thread - this is not a service for 'everybody' in India. Only the middle class and above can reasonably afford it, even though on paper it seems incredibly cheap by western standards. I'd expect anything sanctioned by the RIAA in the US to end up priced in the same relative ballpark - $3/song or so.
Yeah, I looked at eMusic after the/. article on Gateway's 'digital music PC' ads. I'm thinking of subscribing, they seem to have a good bit of stuff I'd like. I'm just wondering how quick the downloads are, how hard it'll be to get unsubscribed if I decide later it's not worth it, those sorts of things.
So, the average family income in India is Rs22,050. That's Rs424/week to live on, so downloading 10 songs will use a quarter of their weekly income. Ouch.
If you're going to be inflammatory in your subject line, you should at least have a cursory understanding of the topic.
You are suffering from a confusion between the exchange rate of a currency, and the purchasing power of individuals in other nations. The exchange rate is (apparently) 1 Rs to 2 cents. That does not mean that the average Indian makes Rs 25,000/week if the average American makes $500.00/week.
The original poster was indicating that for an average Indian citizen, the Rs 10 was roughly the same in relation to his income as $4.00 would be to the average American.
These numbers may not be exact, in fact they were probably pulled out of the Management Information And Statistics System (MIASS). The concept is correct, though.
I would have thought a 250 could do better than 70mpg. That's about a quarter of the size and power output of the engines in the cars I listed, but only a bit more than double the mileage.
I guess a motorcycle's engine is running closer to peak output than a car's most of the time?
So what's the chances these bacteria the depend on this trapped hydrogen are sensient and intelligent and will move to wipe out the human race when we try this?!
Probably about the same as the chances that Khan Noonien Singh will attempt to conquer the Earth in the Eugenics Wars during the 1990's.
It's about 30 miles (50km) from my house to my work, and there are no buses or trains to take, so I need a car. And don't tell me to move closer to work - the only places within walking distance are apartments the size of my bathroom that rent out for nearly what my house payment is.
Of course, I drive a Toyota Echo, so my consumption of fuel is about as low as I can get it.
Here's a fairly complete list of available small cars and their fuel efficiencies (where the same model has multiple engine choices, I've listed the most efficient). I've also listed the engines' power for comparison's sake. Note that these numbers are for manual transmissions.
It looks like Saturn was the American manufacturer you should have mentioned for fuel economy.
You know what really sucks? I have a 14 month old baby now. And in a few years, when she wants to go see Snow White 5 or the Hunchback of Notre Dame Part 6 because all her friends have seen it, what am I gonna do?
Or God forbid, if she wants to go to Disney World. Hopefully I can convince her to go to Sea World and Busch Gardens instead. I'd rather my money go to a beer company than Disney.
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You mean, in order of increasing density.
He's actually still correct though, because greater mass is required to collapse the star enough to reach the 'next' form in terms of density.
Oh, and besides, supermassive black holes such as at the center of galaxies aren't necessarily very dense, if you consider their mass vs. the volume inside the event horizon.
Some sort of transform coding (eg DCT) or perhaps Huffman (if the overhead of the huffman tree is acceptable) I guess reducing to 25% of the original size should be doable, of course IANATEE (telecommunications engineer, either:)
If you really need to send the signal wirelessly, why not use MPEG and deal with the artifacts? HDTV is going to be compressed into 6(?, IANATCE either)MHz channels, so that's probably good enough for SVGA resolutions - you might use a 30Hz refresh to conserve bandwidth, which won't matter since your display is a pokey LCD anyway.
Next thing you they're gonna be saying Mars is a Blue Planet! (someone's got to know what I'm talking about)
Yes, you're obviously talking about Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. The trilogy that gets mentioned in every single article pertaining to Mars on Slashdot. How could anyone not know what you were talking about?
There's no need for a bank's web site to require Javascript, pop-up windows, and ActiveX just so I can view my account balance. And I sure don't need all that crap to buy a CD. Tie your site to your ordering system on the server side, and send my browser plain, standard-compliant HTML. If you want to use javascript for form validation, fine, but make sure your site still works if I have it turned off (ie, validate again on the server). If you really want to display something in a pop-up, use <a href="whatever.html" target="_new">.
Everyone thinks this would provide perpetual motion, but I have experimentally verified that it does not. I plan to publish my results as soon as the lacerations heal.
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What is JediKnight 2 for Windows? I only know JediKnight 2 on OS X, a Cocoa-based Aqua-compliant and all around great IRC client... strange how programmers seem to lack creativity when it comes to naming their apps.
Jedi Knight 2 is a game by LucasArts (I'm betting you actually knew this). What is creative about naming an IRC client Jedi Knight? Not only does it make no sense and provide no meaningful description of the product, the guy will be lucky if LucasArts doesn't sue him out of existence.
You would rather collect people without regard to quality. This means nothing. Budweiser is the most consumer beer, but its garbage. This is analogous to Slashdot, to stoop to your food and beverage analogy. Bud beer. Its good because a lot of people drink it.
Actually, Budweiser has some of the highest quality standards of any beer. The production is far more carefully controlled than most imports and microbrews, and Anheuser-Busch goes to great pains to insure that every Bud you buy tastes exactly the same as the last Bud.
Now, you might not like the taste. Quite a few people don't. I don't care for it myself; when I want a beer that tasteless, I'll drink Natural Light at half the price. When I want to drink beer for the flavor, I'll usually go for Bass or Newcastle.
Now, to poke the hole in your analogy: If Slashdot was like Budweiser, there would never be a writeup with a grammar or spelling error, there would be no commentary from idiots who didn't read the articles, no page widening or goatse.cx crap. You still might not like the taste of the content, but the 'quality' would be much higher.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. If it's not worth doing, it's still no excuse for doing it wrong.
Regarding Wolf3D:
It wasn't the very first first-person game-- that title belongs to "Ultima Underworld" (1992), released a few months earlier from Looking Glass Studios....
Catacomb Abyss came out in December, 1991. Dig those EGA graphics!
You may understand html, but you failed to note that goatse.cx does not have the https port open.
I'm sure there's a pithy comment I could make about encryption, security, and goatse.cx, but it just isn't coming to me right now.
Thanks for the info. I'm on 1.5m cable. I grabbed a couple of the freebies and they were fast, but the demo is (almost) always better than the real thing. The only other thing I'm wondering about is the encoding - do the MP3's sound reasonably close to CD quality? I know they're only 128k, but I've heard some 128k MP3's that sound really good, and some that sound like manure.
Well, no, obviously nothing in the real world is that simple. You are right, that is a wild wealth distribution - in the US, a "middle class" family probably makes double the median income or ~$40k. Thiry times that would be considered "rich" by almost anyone's definition. And the low end of the scale there stretches out differently also, with far more people in abject poverty.
The "average" family has never used a computer and probably never will.
Obviously not. Which, I think, is sort of the point of the original post in this thread - this is not a service for 'everybody' in India. Only the middle class and above can reasonably afford it, even though on paper it seems incredibly cheap by western standards. I'd expect anything sanctioned by the RIAA in the US to end up priced in the same relative ballpark - $3/song or so.
Yeah, I looked at eMusic after the /. article on Gateway's 'digital music PC' ads. I'm thinking of subscribing, they seem to have a good bit of stuff I'd like. I'm just wondering how quick the downloads are, how hard it'll be to get unsubscribed if I decide later it's not worth it, those sorts of things.
So, the average family income in India is Rs22,050. That's Rs424/week to live on, so downloading 10 songs will use a quarter of their weekly income. Ouch.
If you're going to be inflammatory in your subject line, you should at least have a cursory understanding of the topic.
You are suffering from a confusion between the exchange rate of a currency, and the purchasing power of individuals in other nations. The exchange rate is (apparently) 1 Rs to 2 cents. That does not mean that the average Indian makes Rs 25,000/week if the average American makes $500.00/week.
The original poster was indicating that for an average Indian citizen, the Rs 10 was roughly the same in relation to his income as $4.00 would be to the average American.
These numbers may not be exact, in fact they were probably pulled out of the Management Information And Statistics System (MIASS). The concept is correct, though.
I would have thought a 250 could do better than 70mpg. That's about a quarter of the size and power output of the engines in the cars I listed, but only a bit more than double the mileage.
I guess a motorcycle's engine is running closer to peak output than a car's most of the time?
When I was little, I had a Sit-n-Spin that was more fun than a Kia. But I really wanted a burrow owl ;)
Yeah, I probably should have listed horsepower and torque, now that I think about it.
BTW, Aren't almost all diesel engines turbocharged now? I know the big Dodge trucks have Cummins turbodiesels.
So what's the chances these bacteria the depend on this trapped hydrogen are sensient and intelligent and will move to wipe out the human race when we try this?!
Probably about the same as the chances that Khan Noonien Singh will attempt to conquer the Earth in the Eugenics Wars during the 1990's.
That's nice.
It's about 30 miles (50km) from my house to my work, and there are no buses or trains to take, so I need a car. And don't tell me to move closer to work - the only places within walking distance are apartments the size of my bathroom that rent out for nearly what my house payment is.
Of course, I drive a Toyota Echo, so my consumption of fuel is about as low as I can get it.
It looks like Saturn was the American manufacturer you should have mentioned for fuel economy.
You know what really sucks? I have a 14 month old baby now. And in a few years, when she wants to go see Snow White 5 or the Hunchback of Notre Dame Part 6 because all her friends have seen it, what am I gonna do?
Or God forbid, if she wants to go to Disney World. Hopefully I can convince her to go to Sea World and Busch Gardens instead. I'd rather my money go to a beer company than Disney.
You mean, in order of increasing density.
He's actually still correct though, because greater mass is required to collapse the star enough to reach the 'next' form in terms of density.
Oh, and besides, supermassive black holes such as at the center of galaxies aren't necessarily very dense, if you consider their mass vs. the volume inside the event horizon.
I'm a bit late to the discussion, but thought I should point out that you can get IBM Model M keyboards off eBay for anywhere from $5 to $20.
Incidentally, the greater pressure required on the keys is guaranteed to give you wrist pain within 15 minutes if you try to play Q3 on it.
Some sort of transform coding (eg DCT) or perhaps Huffman (if the overhead of the huffman tree is acceptable) I guess reducing to 25% of the original size should be doable, of course IANATEE (telecommunications engineer, either :)
If you really need to send the signal wirelessly, why not use MPEG and deal with the artifacts? HDTV is going to be compressed into 6(?, IANATCE either)MHz channels, so that's probably good enough for SVGA resolutions - you might use a 30Hz refresh to conserve bandwidth, which won't matter since your display is a pokey LCD anyway.
Next thing you they're gonna be saying Mars is a Blue Planet!
(someone's got to know what I'm talking about)
Yes, you're obviously talking about Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. The trilogy that gets mentioned in every single article pertaining to Mars on Slashdot. How could anyone not know what you were talking about?
Can I have an Amen, brothers and sisters?
There's no need for a bank's web site to require Javascript, pop-up windows, and ActiveX just so I can view my account balance. And I sure don't need all that crap to buy a CD. Tie your site to your ordering system on the server side, and send my browser plain, standard-compliant HTML. If you want to use javascript for form validation, fine, but make sure your site still works if I have it turned off (ie, validate again on the server). If you really want to display something in a pop-up, use <a href="whatever.html" target="_new">.
You mean like this?
Everyone thinks this would provide perpetual motion, but I have experimentally verified that it does not. I plan to publish my results as soon as the lacerations heal.
It's better than Black Water, though, isn't it? And it sure as hell beats anything by Britney.