The one problem with your autobahn comparison is that to get a license in Germany actually requires knowing how to drive. Here (pennsylvania), you take a "knowledge" test. its 16 questions that a 5yr old can probably answer. then you take a driving test - about a 3 block by 3 block loop, sometimes with a stretch on the freeway. That test lets any idiot drive.
Don't speed? Maybe where you live that works, but here we have long stretches with insanely low speed limits (25 for what should be 45).
I think the problem is that the speed limit is not truly the "safe" limit. In my view, the "safe" speed is defined when:
1. I feel myself starting to slide in my seat while making curves / am concerned the car is going to slip
-OR-
2. I can't see far enough ahead to swerve/brake.
An exception would be where cars need to join a street without an onramp and need to be able to reach the flow speed quickly.
If the speed limits were set in that way, and not "hmm... how much $$ could we get out of this stretch", I would be more inclined to stay at or below them. The term "limit" would be a more true limit, rather than the suggestion that it currently is.
If the govt decided every car had to have a gps receiver + transmitter, I'd be forced to stick the receiver in a faraday cage or whatever necessary to prevent any incoming signals. or put a small transmitter next to the receiver strong enough to mask the real GPD
The scores vs. ping times. That would show not where the players "feel" that the ping is to high, but where it actually hits the magic point that people start to appear less skillful.
If I want gray between white and black... wont I actually end up with edge pixels on one side being slightly one color, and the other side being slightly another color?
How do people do it? I have a "server" PC that serves one purpose: ICS server. It connects to our dial-up ISP when needed, and disconnects after some idle time. What can I get rid of to cut the current ~250 meg windows directory down? I have everything unchecked from the Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Setup panel, but they are small anyway. I found that the biggest part is my windows\system directory. Anyone know where I might find a list of what I need to have, and what I can get rid of?
Ah, finally somebody explained "subst". That is very interesting... given this info plus the articles (which didn't really explain subst) I should be able to do it (kinda - some writing might not work... maybe at shutdown I could write the ramdisk back to the CDRW somehow)
I did not know about the non-random access. Yes, that would be a real pain:(. However, PacketCD's do seem to be random access - the idea that you could have a (small) bootable ISO section and a large packetCD portion is interesting. The issue then is to get a PacketCD driver for DOS, since to be truly completely functional, you would need to be able to write back to the registry / log files that would be updated in the ramdisk and lost otherwise.
Oh, and someone sent me a link to a way to boot from a CD-R and have a ramdisk that was in English - I'll post it when I get home.
The first sound I heard about was some old beast like that, but it didn't have a speaker. What happened is that it created radio intereference at a frequency based on the data going across the bus, and the instructions could be set up to create crude sound effects. Unfortunately, I read this too long ago to remember the source or find a link:(
and if the RIAA gets to control the opt-in list (they'd have to - otherwise, anyone could add their songs to the list) why wouldn't the RIAA say, "I'm sorry, you can't be on the list since you dont pay us anything"? Why not just give napster to the #^%&$ RIAA and move on to gnutella / freenet / openNap?
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The one problem with your autobahn comparison is that to get a license in Germany actually requires knowing how to drive. Here (pennsylvania), you take a "knowledge" test. its 16 questions that a 5yr old can probably answer. then you take a driving test - about a 3 block by 3 block loop, sometimes with a stretch on the freeway. That test lets any idiot drive.
Don't speed? Maybe where you live that works, but here we have long stretches with insanely low speed limits (25 for what should be 45). I think the problem is that the speed limit is not truly the "safe" limit. In my view, the "safe" speed is defined when: 1. I feel myself starting to slide in my seat while making curves / am concerned the car is going to slip -OR- 2. I can't see far enough ahead to swerve/brake. An exception would be where cars need to join a street without an onramp and need to be able to reach the flow speed quickly. If the speed limits were set in that way, and not "hmm... how much $$ could we get out of this stretch", I would be more inclined to stay at or below them. The term "limit" would be a more true limit, rather than the suggestion that it currently is.
If the govt decided every car had to have a gps receiver + transmitter, I'd be forced to stick the receiver in a faraday cage or whatever necessary to prevent any incoming signals. or put a small transmitter next to the receiver strong enough to mask the real GPD
The scores vs. ping times. That would show not where the players "feel" that the ping is to high, but where it actually hits the magic point that people start to appear less skillful.
If I want gray between white and black... wont I actually end up with edge pixels on one side being slightly one color, and the other side being slightly another color?
How do people do it? I have a "server" PC that serves one purpose: ICS server. It connects to our dial-up ISP when needed, and disconnects after some idle time. What can I get rid of to cut the current ~250 meg windows directory down? I have everything unchecked from the Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Setup panel, but they are small anyway. I found that the biggest part is my windows\system directory. Anyone know where I might find a list of what I need to have, and what I can get rid of?
Ah, finally somebody explained "subst". That is very interesting... given this info plus the articles (which didn't really explain subst) I should be able to do it (kinda - some writing might not work... maybe at shutdown I could write the ramdisk back to the CDRW somehow)
I did not know about the non-random access. Yes, that would be a real pain :(. However, PacketCD's do seem to be random access - the idea that you could have a (small) bootable ISO section and a large packetCD portion is interesting. The issue then is to get a PacketCD driver for DOS, since to be truly completely functional, you would need to be able to write back to the registry / log files that would be updated in the ramdisk and lost otherwise.
Oh, and someone sent me a link to a way to boot from a CD-R and have a ramdisk that was in English - I'll post it when I get home.
The first sound I heard about was some old beast like that, but it didn't have a speaker. What happened is that it created radio intereference at a frequency based on the data going across the bus, and the instructions could be set up to create crude sound effects. Unfortunately, I read this too long ago to remember the source or find a link :(
brilliant ;)
kinda like deCSS, huh?
and if the RIAA gets to control the opt-in list (they'd have to - otherwise, anyone could add their songs to the list) why wouldn't the RIAA say, "I'm sorry, you can't be on the list since you dont pay us anything"? Why not just give napster to the #^%&$ RIAA and move on to gnutella / freenet / openNap?
gnutella!!