I remember reading a magazine article about SC3k before it came out. It sounded a lot like SC4K does now, but in the end, almost everything was left out. How can we be sure that sc4 won't just turn out to be the same as the previous 2 with yet more graphics changes?
I think it was "CASH" that caused problems. It turned all your stores into one type over time, gave you 250 bucks, and if used about 20 times, started a firestorm (SC2000 for DOS).
DAMN, HECK, and DARN woudl turn your residential areas into churches:)
You can build a city with nothing but subways, the most space-efficient method;). You do need road as you said, but only one square anywhere on the map.
I used to run sc2k on a 386sx16 w/4MB ram. bootdisk fun:). It was pretty slow, and if you did terrain modifications it was painful. But normally it wasn't all *that* bad:)
Unfortunately, that isn't sufficient. Any reasonably sharp object (knife, pen, pencil, nail, screw) can be used to scratch the top foil-like layer of a CD, making it unreadable where scratched. This would bypass the copy protection just as well.
If the purpose here is to prevent the outer track from being read, the solution is simple. Take any somewhat sharp object (knife, pen, pencil) and scratch at the top side of the CD where you would have marked on the bottom. A foil-like layer will come off, and you're done.
The article states one known bug in the Message Queuing protocol is very severe. If they know what the "coding mistake" is, can't they patch it and then release the source of the now-secure component?
Yeah... if you buy a full-page magnifier and hold it a certain distance from the screen, it projects. Unfortunately, the picture is VERY dim (my friends and I tried this). You'd want to build an enclosure going from the frenel to the monitor so that the other light doesn't light up the room too much. Its very cheap to do, but the results are not great.
Maybe you could add some reversed peltiers to get some current out of the temperature difference, and use em to power your fans. Then, the hotter it gets, the faster your fans go:)
up till last week i would have said IE was the best, but seriously, the latest mozilla builds are really nice! tabbed browsing absolutely rocks, and it renders pages very fast.
I really dislike the newer versions of MS's media players... 6.4 (start->run "mplayer2") is decent though.
for consumers, I would argue that a browser and media player ARE in fact a critical part of the computer - how many people can figure out how to install something? and what if they have a problem with what they install?
But how do they determine unused CPU cycles? My machines run scientific calculations at lowest priority, and I dont want anything taking time away (low priority so they have minimal impact on system performance). I consider nice processes to be in fact important and used CPU cycles.
Right now, it is more CONVENIENT to go to google and find a crack/serial (about 30 seconds) than to pay the author. I think if there was a more convenient way to pay, people would be more likely to buy.
One way to do this would be a centrallized ewallet... PayPal works reasonably well for this, and I imagine Microsoft will try to add something like this to Passport. Assuming that it becomes easy enough to pay, shareware/trialware will probably become much more profitable.
We started by using a dremel + cutting wheel, but that melts the plexiglass where you cut and is pretty difficult to get perfectly straight. For $5 at Lowe's you can get a plexiglass cutter... it works very well for straight cuts.
To make bends: propane torch until it gets soft.
We used metal brackets to hold it together, but epoxy also works fine.
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I remember reading a magazine article about SC3k before it came out. It sounded a lot like SC4K does now, but in the end, almost everything was left out. How can we be sure that sc4 won't just turn out to be the same as the previous 2 with yet more graphics changes?
You could trap airplanes between two arcologies if you placed them at the right instant in SC2000 :).
you could also blow them up ify ou placed the arco so the plane was actually inside it
I think it was "CASH" that caused problems. It turned all your stores into one type over time, gave you 250 bucks, and if used about 20 times, started a firestorm (SC2000 for DOS).
:)
DAMN, HECK, and DARN woudl turn your residential areas into churches
You can build a city with nothing but subways, the most space-efficient method ;). You do need road as you said, but only one square anywhere on the map.
I used to run sc2k on a 386sx16 w/4MB ram. bootdisk fun :). It was pretty slow, and if you did terrain modifications it was painful. But normally it wasn't all *that* bad :)
mod_gzip is not available for apache2 yet. the main servers would need this much more than the image server(s)
Agreed. Have you looked to see if anyone requested this already in bugzilla?
Unfortunately, that isn't sufficient. Any reasonably sharp object (knife, pen, pencil, nail, screw) can be used to scratch the top foil-like layer of a CD, making it unreadable where scratched. This would bypass the copy protection just as well.
If the purpose here is to prevent the outer track from being read, the solution is simple. Take any somewhat sharp object (knife, pen, pencil) and scratch at the top side of the CD where you would have marked on the bottom. A foil-like layer will come off, and you're done.
The article states one known bug in the Message Queuing protocol is very severe. If they know what the "coding mistake" is, can't they patch it and then release the source of the now-secure component?
I dont think it was mirrored, actually, but I'm not sure. Its not good enough to bother checking again.
Yeah... if you buy a full-page magnifier and hold it a certain distance from the screen, it projects. Unfortunately, the picture is VERY dim (my friends and I tried this). You'd want to build an enclosure going from the frenel to the monitor so that the other light doesn't light up the room too much. Its very cheap to do, but the results are not great.
um... i've never seen an athlon die from fan failure. it takes a LONG time.
Maybe you could add some reversed peltiers to get some current out of the temperature difference, and use em to power your fans. Then, the hotter it gets, the faster your fans go :)
start->run "tasks" (at least in XP. you should be able to find it for other versions). add a task to play a sound file, and leave your speakers on.
You would see that he EXPLICITLY states where he got the info he needed to do it.
up till last week i would have said IE was the best, but seriously, the latest mozilla builds are really nice! tabbed browsing absolutely rocks, and it renders pages very fast.
I really dislike the newer versions of MS's media players... 6.4 (start->run "mplayer2") is decent though.
for consumers, I would argue that a browser and media player ARE in fact a critical part of the computer - how many people can figure out how to install something? and what if they have a problem with what they install?
But how do they determine unused CPU cycles? My machines run scientific calculations at lowest priority, and I dont want anything taking time away (low priority so they have minimal impact on system performance). I consider nice processes to be in fact important and used CPU cycles.
Ook!
Durons are in fact a different core, unlike celerons. There is more to it than the cache.
Right now, it is more CONVENIENT to go to google and find a crack/serial (about 30 seconds) than to pay the author. I think if there was a more convenient way to pay, people would be more likely to buy.
One way to do this would be a centrallized ewallet... PayPal works reasonably well for this, and I imagine Microsoft will try to add something like this to Passport. Assuming that it becomes easy enough to pay, shareware/trialware will probably become much more profitable.
We started by using a dremel + cutting wheel, but that melts the plexiglass where you cut and is pretty difficult to get perfectly straight. For $5 at Lowe's you can get a plexiglass cutter... it works very well for straight cuts.
To make bends: propane torch until it gets soft.
We used metal brackets to hold it together, but epoxy also works fine.
Read the summary if not the article! MANUFACTURERS do this, not Microsoft.
But wouldn't the plane get thrown around at the same speeds as the vast majority of debris, minimizing damage?
I am referring to THIS older article, which never made it to the front page of /.