Some scientific theories dealing with time travel have the restriction that apparently you can't go back in time to before the invention of the time machine. I don't understand why, so don't ask me.
This would also mean that humanity is the most advanced species in the universe, since otherwise some aliens would have invented time travel before us and he would be able to bring his time machine back to the present day.
Colors. With LCD monitors, there's a hard limit on colors, typically 16.7 million (also known as 24-bit color). CRTs have no such limit, which in itself is no big deal since few applications go beyond 24-bit color.
I hadn't heard about this before. Seems like another strike against LCDs for games because most gamers nowadays run their games with 32-bit color.
Haven't read the books yet, but I looked through them last week at the library where I work and the name is taken from Milton's Paradise Lost.
This passage (more or less, I don't remember exactly where it began and ended) is quoted on the first page of the book.
Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds,
In Paradise Lost this passage is talking about the chaotic elemental void from which God creates everything.
Well I believe that it's more of a $15,000 to $9,000 compared to a $50,000 to $9,000 debate, Apple hardware is known for high qc than a good deal (not all) of PC hardware
I do my own quality control when I buy and assemble the components for my x86 computers myself.
Explain that statement.
Internet. TCP/IP. Platform independent.
I was focusing more on the issue of most software not working on Macs. Software: Less scr's and viruses. Works for me.
What is "scr"? Meanwhile, I have never gotten a virus in my life. But there is a small amount of software available for Mac, especially in games, an important issue to me since I like my computer games.
I'd love to have a flat screen I could just push out of my way when I want, but bring closer to my face when I'm using it. Somebody has to innovate in the industry...
That seems cool to me too, but I don't want to pay a several hundred or thousand dollar premium for it.
You're a biggot arguing over nothingness.
Ad hominem is suck. Also you spelled something wrong.
Actually, my computer using life has gone C64 to 68040 Mac to PC. I used that Mac for a long time. Loved the OS, I would probably still love the Mac OS X if I tried it now especially that it has Unix power behind it. But when the time came for a new computer and the amount of software available for Macs had decreased a lot, and x86s were (and are) hella cheap while Macs were hella expensive, I switched over.
If Apple put out OS X for x86 right now I would go out and buy it. But I don't want the crap or overpriced hardware that can't run any of my other software along with it.
Tim
Re:Why would i switch over.. how about why WONT I?
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$700 is a lot of money.
Also consider software. If I decided to switch right now to a Mac, I think I have 1 piece of software that would work. Warcraft II from 1995.
Tim
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Except in this case the $9,000 Geo Metro probably will work just as well or better.
And what if you couldn't take the BMW on most of the roads in the world?
The engineering that Apple seems to do seems to be in how to make their computers weird shapes, cool cases, quiet, colorful, small, have that nifty power button that the Cube had, or look like a desk lamp. Not in making them be good computers.
All your fingers do with the mouse is press down every time you click. No dexterity is involved for them. If the mouse develops anything it would be the dexterity of the wrist.
I am leaning toward the idea that it is more Vivendi than Blizzard.
Blizzard has recently been practicing the "good fight" by using technological rather than legal means to try and slow down the crackers. One of their patches took a week to crack, and another one took only a day but it was rather funny since the game found out if you were playing a cracked version and generated invincible hostile monsters in your base.
I also don't think Blizzard would have been just so plain inept in their action if it was their own. Vivendi managed to legally attack all the wrong people while missing the Warforge team that actually made the Warcraft III beta playable. Eventually it seems that someone from Blizzard came to IRC and talked to the leader in a civilized and normal fashion. I don't think the details of this conversation ever came out but it is the opinion of some that they came to some sort of private agreement, which certainly seems possible.
You are thinking that the universe is truly infinite. It isn't, as far as I've heard. There is pretty much a set amount of stuff that was here from the Big Bang and that's all we have to work with.
There are also multiple-universe theories, in some of which, there DOES exist a planet where your laptop is green, since some of them postulate an infinity of universes for ever possibility.
A lot of people in Jersey actually use bottled water for any drinking or cooking. I was at a relative's house and she was cooking spaghetti. She poured a bunch of Poland Spring into the pot to boil. I looked at her and told her she was crazy to use that expensive stuff instead of tap water, but it turns out that the tap water in parts of Jersey has been linked to causing cancer....
So it might not be that expensive to start up desalinization anyway compared to buying Poland Spring in bulk.....
Go onto IRC, dalnet channel #warcraft3. Ask how many people there plan on buying the full game when it comes out. The majority of responses will either be "Yes" or "No, I am boycotting Blizzard" (because of their use of the DMCA.
Going after the beta users who made ISOs isn't really an option because when I and everyone else hanging out on IRC don't have the slightest idea who made the ISO, I'm pretty sure Blizzard doesn't.
First program the client to directly check with Blizzard before it starts any multiplayer functionality whether on Battle.net or an alternative server. Then alternative server developers would have no responsibility to prevent piracy since checks would be done entirely between the Client and Blizzard Auth Servers. (Of course this will be hacked out of the client but you can't stop that...)
Then put a delay between the Authorization Requests for a single IP. For example if you made one request and it turned out bad (packet dropped or something), you have to wait five seconds before you can do another request, then a minute, then 10 minutes, then an hour, a day.... So you would end up being able to check very few CD Keys if you were trying a brute force attack.
Their work with colors and spectrums and such can be used to tell what kind of elements there were and gain a better understanding of the early times of our universe.
Then they were like..."HEY! Let's average these all together just for fun." Then it got all popular cause the media jumped on it.
Mainframes you might get away with, but not desktops. Most people just want to use Windows, and most of those who use Linux will at least want to dual boot.
I really hope you are joking about Linux-Only Motherboards. That's even dumber than Windows-Only Motherboards.
Replace Linux Only with "non-XP certified", and it makes more sense. I think anyone building their own machine is going to be smart enough not to care about certification as long as it works.
I have flourescent light tubes in my ceiling. Surely there must be some nifty and dangerous "experiments" I can do if there really are such high temperatures inside.
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Some scientific theories dealing with time travel have the restriction that apparently you can't go back in time to before the invention of the time machine. I don't understand why, so don't ask me.
This would also mean that humanity is the most advanced species in the universe, since otherwise some aliens would have invented time travel before us and he would be able to bring his time machine back to the present day.
Tim
But, El Nino is in the Pacific!
Tim
I hadn't heard about this before. Seems like another strike against LCDs for games because most gamers nowadays run their games with 32-bit color.
Tim
This passage (more or less, I don't remember exactly where it began and ended) is quoted on the first page of the book.
In Paradise Lost this passage is talking about the chaotic elemental void from which God creates everything.
Tim
Well I believe that it's more of a $15,000 to $9,000 compared to a $50,000 to $9,000 debate, Apple hardware is known for high qc than a good deal (not all) of PC hardware
I do my own quality control when I buy and assemble the components for my x86 computers myself.
Explain that statement.
Internet. TCP/IP. Platform independent.
I was focusing more on the issue of most software not working on Macs.
Software: Less scr's and viruses. Works for me.
What is "scr"? Meanwhile, I have never gotten a virus in my life. But there is a small amount of software available for Mac, especially in games, an important issue to me since I like my computer games.
I'd love to have a flat screen I could just push out of my way when I want, but bring closer to my face when I'm using it. Somebody has to innovate in the industry...
That seems cool to me too, but I don't want to pay a several hundred or thousand dollar premium for it.
You're a biggot arguing over nothingness.
Ad hominem is suck. Also you spelled something wrong.
Actually, my computer using life has gone C64 to 68040 Mac to PC. I used that Mac for a long time. Loved the OS, I would probably still love the Mac OS X if I tried it now especially that it has Unix power behind it. But when the time came for a new computer and the amount of software available for Macs had decreased a lot, and x86s were (and are) hella cheap while Macs were hella expensive, I switched over.
If Apple put out OS X for x86 right now I would go out and buy it. But I don't want the crap or overpriced hardware that can't run any of my other software along with it.
Tim
$700 is a lot of money.
Also consider software. If I decided to switch right now to a Mac, I think I have 1 piece of software that would work. Warcraft II from 1995.
Tim
Except in this case the $9,000 Geo Metro probably will work just as well or better.
And what if you couldn't take the BMW on most of the roads in the world?
The engineering that Apple seems to do seems to be in how to make their computers weird shapes, cool cases, quiet, colorful, small, have that nifty power button that the Cube had, or look like a desk lamp. Not in making them be good computers.
Tim
All your fingers do with the mouse is press down every time you click. No dexterity is involved for them. If the mouse develops anything it would be the dexterity of the wrist.
Tim
You can rotate the camera if you know which of the game's files to edit :P.
You need an MPQ extractor and you edit ui/miscdata.txt, you can make it so the games zoom in functionality will rotate instead.
I think it would cause errors if you actually tried to play it like this with other people though.....
Tim
I am leaning toward the idea that it is more Vivendi than Blizzard.
Blizzard has recently been practicing the "good fight" by using technological rather than legal means to try and slow down the crackers. One of their patches took a week to crack, and another one took only a day but it was rather funny since the game found out if you were playing a cracked version and generated invincible hostile monsters in your base.
I also don't think Blizzard would have been just so plain inept in their action if it was their own. Vivendi managed to legally attack all the wrong people while missing the Warforge team that actually made the Warcraft III beta playable. Eventually it seems that someone from Blizzard came to IRC and talked to the leader in a civilized and normal fashion. I don't think the details of this conversation ever came out but it is the opinion of some that they came to some sort of private agreement, which certainly seems possible.
Tim
You are thinking that the universe is truly infinite. It isn't, as far as I've heard. There is pretty much a set amount of stuff that was here from the Big Bang and that's all we have to work with.
There are also multiple-universe theories, in some of which, there DOES exist a planet where your laptop is green, since some of them postulate an infinity of universes for ever possibility.
Tim
If you are seriously carrying around that many CDs, invest in a DVD-R....
Tim
I have an 8 inch floppy.
/me laughs at all the little 3.5 and 5 inchers.
Tim
I looked on the DEP site for the plan about making a large lake in central Park, couldn't find it... Link please?
Tim
A lot of people in Jersey actually use bottled water for any drinking or cooking. I was at a relative's house and she was cooking spaghetti. She poured a bunch of Poland Spring into the pot to boil. I looked at her and told her she was crazy to use that expensive stuff instead of tap water, but it turns out that the tap water in parts of Jersey has been linked to causing cancer....
So it might not be that expensive to start up desalinization anyway compared to buying Poland Spring in bulk.....
Tim
Go onto IRC, dalnet channel #warcraft3. Ask how many people there plan on buying the full game when it comes out. The majority of responses will either be "Yes" or "No, I am boycotting Blizzard" (because of their use of the DMCA.
Going after the beta users who made ISOs isn't really an option because when I and everyone else hanging out on IRC don't have the slightest idea who made the ISO, I'm pretty sure Blizzard doesn't.
Tim
Actually, Blizzard's Bug Report Form doesn't require a valid Beta CD Key. I have made about 3 bug reports if I remember right.
Tim
First program the client to directly check with Blizzard before it starts any multiplayer functionality whether on Battle.net or an alternative server. Then alternative server developers would have no responsibility to prevent piracy since checks would be done entirely between the Client and Blizzard Auth Servers. (Of course this will be hacked out of the client but you can't stop that...)
Then put a delay between the Authorization Requests for a single IP. For example if you made one request and it turned out bad (packet dropped or something), you have to wait five seconds before you can do another request, then a minute, then 10 minutes, then an hour, a day.... So you would end up being able to check very few CD Keys if you were trying a brute force attack.
Tim
Reminds me of my new plan to circumvent game EULA's... Start the installation program, turn off my monitor, and hit enter several times...
Tim
Their work with colors and spectrums and such can be used to tell what kind of elements there were and gain a better understanding of the early times of our universe.
Then they were like..."HEY! Let's average these all together just for fun." Then it got all popular cause the media jumped on it.
Tim
Hey man, if YOU are still trying to get Warez off of the WWW, not my fault.
IRC, Direct Connect, even Morpheus before Kazaa bent them over...
Tim
Mainframes you might get away with, but not desktops. Most people just want to use Windows, and most of those who use Linux will at least want to dual boot.
Tim
AT LEAST read the Slashdot writeup, even if you don't read the article.
ACPI is stuck in *ON* mode, it CANNOT be disabled with this BIOS.
I really hope you are joking about Linux-Only Motherboards. That's even dumber than Windows-Only Motherboards.
Replace Linux Only with "non-XP certified", and it makes more sense. I think anyone building their own machine is going to be smart enough not to care about certification as long as it works.
Tim
I have flourescent light tubes in my ceiling. Surely there must be some nifty and dangerous "experiments" I can do if there really are such high temperatures inside.
Please tell.