Yep, Me too. I won a copy at the local CompUSAs grand opening (actually renaming from SoftWarehouse). I broke it out and played it about a month ago. I got silly and beat all the computers tanks with what I termed stupid tank. It didn't move, Its AI was rotate the scanner and look for an enemy tank. Once it found one track it until it entered range or disapeared. When in range shoot until not in range. Just by buying better armor and weapons I beat it. Silly.
Try about:mozilla in internet explorer 5, and I think also in 4. You get a completely blue web page. No text to graphics, just blue. If you try about:[any other undefined string] you get a web page that echos the string you entered.
No they probably wouldn't drive tanks on the highway/freeway. Most tanks drive to slowly anyway, IIRC the M1 is the fastest tank in the world and it only has a top speed of ~60kph. The interstate highway system was designed to handle tank carriers. Big flatbed trucks with a tank or two stapped to the back which would let you move the tanks quickly into the general area of the fighting drive them off and let them proceed on their own. This cuts down on wear on the tanks, saves fuel for the fighting (trucks take less fuel to opperate than tanks) and speed up deployment.
And while Russia isn't the best example of how to set up nuclear power, they have several cities in siberia where the nuclear power plants provide steam heat for all the buildings in town. IIRC one of these cities is the secret city Krasniarsk (sp).
Um, a few points in your post. You went a bit overboard with the statement that the USSR practically single handedly cleanse the world of Hitler. The Allies had a quite a bit to do with it as well. Hitler didn't have the planes he wanted to invade russa with because he was still attacking england, allied shipping in the med, and allied forces in North Africa. The US sent tons of supplies to russa to help it fight in addition to the bombing campains waged against Germany. It is true that the USSR bore the brunt of the ground fighting against Germany in Europe, but they hardly singlehandedly won the war. Also, in regard to your comment about the megatonnage that the US put in the air during the Cuban Missle crisis, and the 6 day war. The US always scrabbled its bomber when their was an atticipated threat of nuclear war. This is so that the bombers didn't get caught on the ground. The soviet union had similar methods of preventing the possiblity of an all out first stike that would eliminate all retaliation.
Of course, to make the time tight he pried out the shaped charge, so that he finished just a couple of seconds before the timer ran out. Given that he was using a knife to pry the charge out, it would have been much faster and less messy to just have cut all the wires to the shaped charges. It was a convintional mirv warhead, not a booby trapped terorist bomb. The wires just led to the detenators in the shaped charge. Cut all the wires, the shaped charge never goes off, and all the nuclear material stayes in one nice easy to remove ball, instead of splattered around the room.
Hmm. The first one sounds a lot like an idea Doc E.E. Smith had in the Skylark of Space series, space craft engines that affected every molecule inside the craft so their was no apparent internal acceleration no matter how hard the ships accelerated.
If the LOC renders the public library obsolete to 50-75% of the public, the remainder, whether they are too poor or technically illiterate, will suffer. I'm not saying that I agree with his decision, only that the issues involved are more subtle than they first appear.
I don't think even if the Library of Congress digitized and put online every book with an expired copyright, or even somehow every book in their collection that they would render the public library obsolete to 50-70% of the public. The LoC doesn't keep a copy of every book every printed in America and haven't for some time. Most of the books they would put online in a would be of more interest to researcher than to the average person, so digitizing the LoC might hurt university libraries which is where more research is done, but wouldn't affect the average person who stopped by the library to pick up the latest novel to enjoy, or most kids doing research, since it is easier to ask the reference librarian for help locating research that it is to browse through a huge online store of information.
Well, I've only had a problem with macrovision once. Really pissed my off though. I'd just gotten the matix on dvd and wanted to watch it with a friend. I took my dvd player and disk over to his house and started to connect them to his TV. Slight problem, it was an older set and didn't have rca inputs, only a coax to antenna converter (yes it wasn't a great quality TV but it works), no problem I thought, I'll just plug the rca cables into his VCR and use the coax out from the VCR to connect to the TV. We start up the matrix and get the horible brightness variation crap that is macrovision. I don't care if it screws up video tapes, but it sucks when it screws up the picture on the TV!
It looks to me like to crucial difference here is that the RIAA isn't saying ban illegal mp3s from campus,well they are, but they're also saying to ban napster totaly becuase it is used to transfer illegal mp3s. What ywwg said is that univerisities should acually _check_ to see in the content is illegal before taking action *gasp* what a concept. Taking action against known illegal content is quite different from simply saying mp3s are illegal and should be banned.
Speaking of DOS batch files, anyone play the old Microprose game XCom. A friend of mine pointed out that the whole game was tied together by the loop in ufo.bat. The world view would run until a ground mission, the exe would shut down leaving a temp file. The next thing in the batch loop would be the ground combat exe which would pick up the temp file, when ground combat was over it dropped a temp file and exited the batch loop started the world map which pickedup the temp file and contiuned. Very scary.
Um, NT 4 will run on that. ( Didn't say it ran well or ran fast... ) Actually I'm typing this on a P166 64Meg of RAM runing NT4 SP6.0a (does that SP numbering worry you as much as it does me?) It only got the extra 32 megs of RAM last summer, before that it was NT4 SP3 running on 32 Megs. Made molasses look fast.
Actually there is something they can do about it. They have to release their money, but AFAIK the bank is not required to pay the entire account out in cash. They would issue a bank check, just like they do if you close your account to move it to another bank.
In fact on FDIC's web site they state that one of the ways that banks will deal with a possible bank run in late December is that the fed will issure more paper money than usual so banks will have more on hand, and the banks can set a maximum cash withdrawl limit per customer / per account and just issuse a bank check for the remaining amount.
>D: If one power plant goes down, the entire >eastern seaboard goes with it. Note that the >power grid is neatly divided into time zones: We >can't get help from the Central time zone, >because that would be cheating.
Actually D is closer to being true that any of the others. The easter seaboard does have a very low power reserve with a lot of its power being routed in from Canada. That is why in the big snow storms of '93 and '96 the power companies had to institue rolling blackouts. They didn't have enought fuel at dome of the power plants, and with a couple down trying to run the full east coast load would have overloaded the remaining ones and and knocked all power offline.
Theortically caught by suprise one big plant going down could overload a few more plants and when they go offline overload the rest.
Of course the reason that you agree not to mark all of your soldiers as medics is that you hope that your medics get special consideration. In otherwords that the other side won't deliberatly shoot a medic since they are unarmed and suppost to be protected. If every soldier started dressing up as a medic then the enemy would have no choise but to shoot every medic they see, which would prevent your medics form dealing with your wounded men, so it would be definatly counter productive to break that rule of war. Most of the rules of war are like that, they are simply the codified best interests of both sides.
I would tend to think that putting out white noise on the same frequency as the byproducts of your moniter / keyboard / disk drive would be a great way to get video distortions on your screen, random keypresses detected by the computer or possible corrupt data from the HD. You would end up having to shield you computer against the exact same frequencies to prevent errors as you would have had to to beat a TEMPEST scan.
It may support huge partitions, but trying to get it to install on a > 8 gig partition (IDE disk), or IDE disk that 12 gig regardless of how it is partitioned is a royal pain in the ass as I discovered trying to help a friend. Out of the box NT doesn't have large IDE disk support so it can't install on one. As far as we could figure out Microsoft's solution was to extract the large disk support from the appropriate service pack and insert in into the.cab file on the boot floppy you use for installing. It took ages to get that install working!
>But I want to make a simple point -- the >developer has an absolute right to determine the >license under which his/her product is released. >If Joe Programmer releases the most killer Linux >app ever, but his license agreement requires you >to hop on one foot to the mailbox and mail him a >check once a month, then you either start >hopping or you don't use the program.
As a corollary Joe has has the right to relicense his code, so if say Corel wanted to incorporate Joe's code they could call him up and negotiate as separate license with whatever terms are mutually agreeable. They Corel could use Joe's program however their new Corel and Joe private license C&JpL allowed while every one else still had to hop on one foot to the mail box every month to keep using Joe's killer program.
I don't know if they changed the way it works, but the first time I saw their one-click shopping it was after I placed an order a year or so ago, a web page popped up stating that they had this great one click shopping service that they had just enabled for me and that it would store the info of who I was and my billing / shipping info (or possible a reference to a central db, its been a while) on my computer so the next time I went to Amazon I wouldn't have to log in, I'd just have to click the one stop shopping button next to an item to have it shipped to me.
I turned that off as fast as I could because it meant that anyone who sat down at my computer (or possible broke into my computer and stole my cookie file) could order stuff on Amazon with my credit card. Now unless they managed to convice Amazon to change my shipping address without access to my username password then I would recieve the book, but then I'd have to go through the hassle of trying to return things that I didn't order, but were changed to me...
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Yep, Me too.
I won a copy at the local CompUSAs grand opening (actually renaming from SoftWarehouse).
I broke it out and played it about a month ago. I got silly and beat all the computers tanks with what I termed stupid tank. It didn't move, Its AI was rotate the scanner and look for an enemy tank. Once it found one track it until it entered range or disapeared. When in range shoot until not in range. Just by buying better armor and weapons I beat it. Silly.
Try about:mozilla in internet explorer 5, and I think also in 4. You get a completely blue web page. No text to graphics, just blue. If you try about:[any other undefined string] you get a web page that echos the string you entered.
No they probably wouldn't drive tanks on the highway/freeway. Most tanks drive to slowly anyway, IIRC the M1 is the fastest tank in the world and it only has a top speed of ~60kph. The interstate highway system was designed to handle tank carriers. Big flatbed trucks with a tank or two stapped to the back which would let you move the tanks quickly into the general area of the fighting drive them off and let them proceed on their own. This cuts down on wear on the tanks, saves fuel for the fighting (trucks take less fuel to opperate than tanks) and speed up deployment.
And while Russia isn't the best example of how to set up nuclear power, they have several cities in siberia where the nuclear power plants provide steam heat for all the buildings in town. IIRC one of these cities is the secret city Krasniarsk (sp).
Um, a few points in your post. You went a bit overboard with the statement that the USSR practically single handedly cleanse the world of Hitler. The Allies had a quite a bit to do with it as well. Hitler didn't have the planes he wanted to invade russa with because he was still attacking england, allied shipping in the med, and allied forces in North Africa. The US sent tons of supplies to russa to help it fight in addition to the bombing campains waged against Germany. It is true that the USSR bore the brunt of the ground fighting against Germany in Europe, but they hardly singlehandedly won the war.
Also, in regard to your comment about the megatonnage that the US put in the air during the Cuban Missle crisis, and the 6 day war. The US always scrabbled its bomber when their was an atticipated threat of nuclear war. This is so that the bombers didn't get caught on the ground. The soviet union had similar methods of preventing the possiblity of an all out first stike that would eliminate all retaliation.
Of course, to make the time tight he pried out the shaped charge, so that he finished just a couple of seconds before the timer ran out. Given that he was using a knife to pry the charge out, it would have been much faster and less messy to just have cut all the wires to the shaped charges. It was a convintional mirv warhead, not a booby trapped terorist bomb. The wires just led to the detenators in the shaped charge. Cut all the wires, the shaped charge never goes off, and all the nuclear material stayes in one nice easy to remove ball, instead of splattered around the room.
Hmm. The first one sounds a lot like an idea Doc E.E. Smith had in the Skylark of Space series, space craft engines that affected every molecule inside the craft so their was no apparent internal acceleration no matter how hard the ships accelerated.
If the LOC renders the public library obsolete to 50-75% of the public, the remainder,
whether they are too poor or technically illiterate, will suffer. I'm not saying that
I agree with his decision, only that the issues involved are more subtle than they first appear.
I don't think even if the Library of Congress digitized and put online every book with an expired copyright, or even somehow every book in their collection that they would render the public library obsolete to 50-70% of the public. The LoC doesn't keep a copy of every book every printed in America and haven't for some time. Most of the books they would put online in a would be of more interest to researcher than to the average person, so digitizing the LoC might hurt university libraries which is where more research is done, but wouldn't affect the average person who stopped by the library to pick up the latest novel to enjoy, or most kids doing research, since it is easier to ask the reference librarian for help locating research that it is to browse through a huge online store of information.
Of course this appears to be a higher standard than many human drivers are held to. Particularly the part about slowing down for bad weather.
Well, I've only had a problem with macrovision once. Really pissed my off though. I'd just gotten the matix on dvd and wanted to watch it with a friend. I took my dvd player and disk over to his house and started to connect them to his TV. Slight problem, it was an older set and didn't have rca inputs, only a coax to antenna converter (yes it wasn't a great quality TV but it works), no problem I thought, I'll just plug the rca cables into his VCR and use the coax out from the VCR to connect to the TV. We start up the matrix and get the horible brightness variation crap that is macrovision. I don't care if it screws up video tapes, but it sucks when it screws up the picture on the TV!
The colour of the sky is black. But the moon is a strange shade of blue...
84 day uptime since my sister power cycled my UPS. Grrr...
It looks to me like to crucial difference here is that the RIAA isn't saying ban illegal mp3s from campus,well they are, but they're also saying to ban napster totaly becuase it is used to transfer illegal mp3s. What ywwg said is that univerisities should acually _check_ to see in the content is illegal before taking action *gasp* what a concept. Taking action against known illegal content is quite different from simply saying mp3s are illegal and should be banned.
Speaking of DOS batch files, anyone play the old Microprose game XCom. A friend of mine pointed out that the whole game was tied together by the loop in ufo.bat. The world view would run until a ground mission, the exe would shut down leaving a temp file. The next thing in the batch loop would be the ground combat exe which would pick up the temp file, when ground combat was over it dropped a temp file and exited the batch loop started the world map which pickedup the temp file and contiuned.
Very scary.
Um, NT 4 will run on that. ( Didn't say it ran well or ran fast... ) Actually I'm typing this on a P166 64Meg of RAM runing NT4 SP6.0a (does that SP numbering worry you as much as it does me?) It only got the extra 32 megs of RAM last summer, before that it was NT4 SP3 running on 32 Megs. Made molasses look fast.
Actually there is something they can do about it. They have to release their money, but AFAIK the bank is not required to pay the entire account out in cash. They would issue a bank check, just like they do if you close your account to move it to another bank.
In fact on FDIC's web site they state that one of the ways that banks will deal with a possible bank run in late December is that the fed will issure more paper money than usual so banks will have more on hand, and the banks can set a maximum cash withdrawl limit per customer / per account and just issuse a bank check for the remaining amount.
>D: If one power plant goes down, the entire >eastern seaboard goes with it. Note that the >power grid is neatly divided into time zones: We >can't get help from the Central time zone, >because that would be cheating.
Actually D is closer to being true that any of the others. The easter seaboard does have a very low power reserve with a lot of its power being routed in from Canada. That is why in the big snow storms of '93 and '96 the power companies had to institue rolling blackouts. They didn't have enought fuel at dome of the power plants, and with a couple down trying to run the full east coast load would have overloaded the remaining ones and and knocked all power offline.
Theortically caught by suprise one big plant going down could overload a few more plants and when they go offline overload the rest.
Of course the reason that you agree not to mark all of your soldiers as medics is that you hope that your medics get special consideration. In otherwords that the other side won't deliberatly shoot a medic since they are unarmed and suppost to be protected. If every soldier started dressing up as a medic then the enemy would have no choise but to shoot every medic they see, which would prevent your medics form dealing with your wounded men, so it would be definatly counter productive to break that rule of war. Most of the rules of war are like that, they are simply the codified best interests of both sides.
Enjoy.
I would tend to think that putting out white noise on the same frequency as the byproducts of your moniter / keyboard / disk drive would be a great way to get video distortions on your screen, random keypresses detected by the computer or possible corrupt data from the HD. You would end up having to shield you computer against the exact same frequencies to prevent errors as you would have had to to beat a TEMPEST scan.
The other one I remember was:
Glory Glory Hallelujah,
Teacher hit me with a ruler,
I met her in a bank,
with a U.S. Army Tank,
and she ain't my teacher no more.
... in a parade,
... with a grenade,
... in the attic,
... with a semi-automatic,
etc for as long as you could rhyme places with weapons.
It may support huge partitions, but trying to get it to install on a > 8 gig partition (IDE disk), or IDE disk that 12 gig regardless of how it is partitioned is a royal pain in the ass as I discovered trying to help a friend. Out of the box NT doesn't have large IDE disk support so it can't install on one. As far as we could figure out Microsoft's solution was to extract the large disk support from the appropriate service pack and insert in into the .cab file on the boot floppy you use for installing.
It took ages to get that install working!
Man then proves that white is black and black is white and gets run over at the next zebra crossing.
- I said it was pointless
>But I want to make a simple point -- the
>developer has an absolute right to determine the
>license under which his/her product is released.
>If Joe Programmer releases the most killer Linux
>app ever, but his license agreement requires you
>to hop on one foot to the mailbox and mail him a
>check once a month, then you either start
>hopping or you don't use the program.
As a corollary Joe has has the right to relicense his code, so if say Corel wanted to incorporate Joe's code they could call him up and negotiate as separate license with whatever terms are mutually agreeable. They Corel could use Joe's program however their new Corel and Joe private license C&JpL allowed while every one else still had to hop on one foot to the mail box every month to keep using Joe's killer program.
Yeah an breaking into other boxes on the network would be so much easier :)
type idspispopd
and go wandering into all those locked 'rooms'
I don't know if they changed the way it works, but the first time I saw their one-click shopping it was after I placed an order a year or so ago, a web page popped up stating that they had this great one click shopping service that they had just enabled for me and that it would store the info of who I was and my billing / shipping info (or possible a reference to a central db, its been a while) on my computer so the next time I went to Amazon I wouldn't have to log in, I'd just have to click the one stop shopping button next to an item to have it shipped to me.
I turned that off as fast as I could because it meant that anyone who sat down at my computer (or possible broke into my computer and stole my cookie file) could order stuff on Amazon with my credit card. Now unless they managed to convice Amazon to change my shipping address without access to my username password then I would recieve the book, but then I'd have to go through the hassle of trying to return things that I didn't order, but were changed to me...