Let me guess: You haven't played the game all that much, right?
At the end of the science, going for "future cultural 23"
They only go to 10. Sell you're libraries, universities, computer centers, etc. Tell your cities to max on gold of production.
Make a command like "at ease" or something to mean "chill until the next turn"
Try the space key.
If you take over an enemy's capital, you should gain all of his/her cities.
What a lousy idea. Besides, Loki can't do that. If you want that feature, talk to the ActiVision. Loki only ported the game, they didn't design it.
Whoever goes to Atlanta will have to deal with this also. They can only do so much to the game without making it different from the windows version.
My understanding is that Loki and ActiVision have agreed to produce the same game on different platforms. This is part of why Loki was stuck with the crappy tile implimentation ActiVision made which spends so much time redrawing the screen.
If you want to make useful suggestions, ask for speed improvements and UI features. For instance, I'd like to see a feature that freeciv added, which is the ability to sell all of a particular improvement, throughout your civilization. This would save a LOT of time and effort when you build the Emancipation Act and want to sell all your city walls, or oplution is just way out of hand and you want to sell off your oil refineries.
This sort of thing could be added. Major changes, like 'loose your capital, loose the game', just aren't going to happen.
That could work well, but it raises a couple more questions.
1: Should we allow AC to raise that flag? (I think not.) 2: Now we have another set of points to keep track of, and we might want to figure out how well each persons suggestions are recieved. 3: Do we give/take karma based on the response to the suggestion that a post be moderated? (give fractional karma for each flag you raise which is acted upon, take fractional karma if the post still hasn't been moderated a week later.)
On Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing album, try encoding the very last track
I happen to already have that album encoded, so I played it and listened closely for any problems. I didn't hear any. The song is called 'Last Dance'.
I've been ripping tracks with cdparanoia (alpha prerelease 9.4) and encoding with bladenc (v0.76) at 128kbs from a 20x drive, though cdparanoia makes it clear that the data speed on the drive doesn't effect the rippping speed.
This is on a Pentium 200 Mhz machine with 128 megs of memory, an IDE cdrom drive and an IDE hard drive on seperate controller. I run X, play MP3s, act as a gateway for another box, a file server (including MP3s) for that box, a server for a couple NCDs, and I've been playing CivCTP. Idle CPU goes to distributed.net.
In spite of that load I manage to get 3 CDs encoded each day. I've now got about 150 CDs taking a little over 7 gigs.
The wav files tend to take about 10 megs per minute, and the MP3s take a bit over 1 meg per minute.
Yes, that means I've got more than 4 days of music available. And a lot of jewel cases collecting dust.
Among the errors on their W hy it's uncrackable page is this bit: So, given a large number N, if you know that N has two factors, you can find them by trying to divide N by every number up to N/2. You'll eventually find one of N's two factors this way, and after dividing, you'll have found the other as well. But, there's nothing to say that you won't have to try all possible factors, and there are N/2 of them...
First: You only have to check to sqrt(N), not N/2. Second: You only have to check the primes up to sqrt(N), not every number. Third: If the original numbers aren't really prime (say they are only good prime canditates), you don't even have to check all the primes up to sqrt(N).
While this may still be a lot of numbers, it's no N/2.
... particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
My objection to this would be the fact that it alows ongoing searches. The 4th ammendment allows searches, but it doesn't allow an ongoing, endless search. That would require that an agent of some sort be allowed to remain in the house for an extended period of time.
And that would violate the 3rd ammendment. I'm curious to know if the 3rd ammendment has been interpreted to include government agents other than strictly 'soldiers'. If so, it would be possible to argue that any sort of sniffer sprogram or hardware device is an agent of the government, and that this should be excluded by the 3rd ammendment.
If you set your machine up to respond automaticly, and documented it in/etc/issue or a web page or something, you could claim it's a 'service, freely available to anyone who does such and such', and if a script kiddie sets it off and gets burnt, that's their problem. Particularly if you warn against misuse in the documentation. Of course, this all hinges on the fact that they shouldn't be misusing your system, and should have read the documentation.
If they do it right, most of the development is platform independant. If they plan to do more mulit-platform games later, this is a good habit for their developers. Starting now gives them a real advantage over other companies later.
This is also an excelent time for building brand loyalty. Making a few games now when there aren't as many companies building games for Linux could pay off later when the Linux market is larger.
The Linux market is growing. It could also be argued that the growth in the Linux market consists of more sophisticated users than the growth in say the Windows market.
And there are certainly more users switching from Windows to Linux than from Linux to Windows.
It seems painfully obvious that the Linux market is worth spending a bit extra on development.
If I understand correctly, we are talking about a potentially really really small (mass of a few atoms) black hole, but if somehow we were dealing with a large (massive) one, the first it would do is fall to the center of the Earth.
So we might not even notice for a long time. The total effect of gravity at the surface of the Earth would still be 1G. This would decrease slowly as the core was consumed because our distance from that matter would be increasing a little bit.
Enough people have problems with NT that it would be silly to claim that NT doesn't share some of the blame.
What are you running on it when it crashes?
They are running NT, when NT crashes. If you've managed to run NT without a problem for months, consider yourself fortinute and move on. Other people are obviously having less luck with NT.
World hunger is a social problem. It will never be solved by throwing money or technology at the problem. It will go away when we adopt a social system which doesn't allow world hunger. Not until then.
It is possible to have a large ramdisk, but the Linux kernel sets the maximum size to 4M, so you'll have to change the rd_size in/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/rc.c.
I changed it to int rd_size = 131072; so I could have a 128M ramdisk.
Then I added an/etc/rc.d/rc.ramdisk:
# Install the ramdisk module. insmod rd # format the ramdisk dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=128k # Make an e2fs filesystem mke2fs -c -v -m0/dev/ram0 131072 # mount the filesystem mount/dev/ram0/data/mysql/var/RD # Copy the data into the ramdisk cp -a/data/mysql/var/Archive/Archive.*/data/mysql/var/RD cp -a/data/mysql/var/Econ/Econ.*/data/mysql/var/RD chown -R mysql:db/data/mysql/var/RD
Last I checked, Christians were fighting to get the right to --be able-- to pray in schools, not to force it on your kids. Do you realize in most schools in America, today, the laws are such that most kids cannot pray if they --want-- to, without being suspended/expelled/prosecuted because it might infringe on someone's something or other?
I was recently visiting some friends in Virginia. They have a daughter who is attending a public school. When I ask her what she had done in school the day before I was shocked at the answer.
Apparently, once a month, they do 'bible study', in class, during school hours.
She was one of the few students who didn't participate, and there was no curiculum planned for the students who were not involved in 'bible study'. Those children were told they could just sit around and draw or whatever that day.
The problem, as I see it, is that Microsoft picks the WRONG defaults. They do this in many of their programs.
You know that the typical user will just run everything they get.
You know that they will click the OK button without reading the dialog boxes.
These points have been demonstrated over and over again. They cannot be disputed.
So you should set the defaults so that they don't get a chance to run the executable unless they have specificly enabled that ability. And you shouldn't prompt them to change that default. If they don't know that they can change it, and they don't know how to go about changing it, it should stay turned off.
The people who want to use it can then turn it on, and the rest of the lusers won't be hurt by this feature that they aren't using anyway.
Why should you do this? Because you're credibility is on the line. Because the world is watching MS products delete user files, and they don't find it very funny. They aren't going to care that the users all pressed the okay button. They are going to ask why it was so easy. And if there is a way to turn off that warning, if users can say they didn't get that warning this time, it will be worse.
Take a clue from something simple like the setup/config for pine. You have to turn things on if you want to use them. If you don't know to look at the setup/config you might never know about them. Until they are turned on, you are never prompted for them. They just aren't there.
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At the end of the science, going for "future cultural 23"
They only go to 10. Sell you're libraries, universities, computer centers, etc. Tell your cities to max on gold of production.
Make a command like "at ease" or something to mean "chill until the next turn"
Try the space key.
If you take over an enemy's capital, you should gain all of his/her cities.
What a lousy idea. Besides, Loki can't do that. If you want that feature, talk to the ActiVision. Loki only ported the game, they didn't design it.
Whoever goes to Atlanta will have to deal with this also. They can only do so much to the game without making it different from the windows version.
My understanding is that Loki and ActiVision have agreed to produce the same game on different platforms. This is part of why Loki was stuck with the crappy tile implimentation ActiVision made which spends so much time redrawing the screen.
If you want to make useful suggestions, ask for speed improvements and UI features. For instance, I'd like to see a feature that freeciv added, which is the ability to sell all of a particular improvement, throughout your civilization. This would save a LOT of time and effort when you build the Emancipation Act and want to sell all your city walls, or oplution is just way out of hand and you want to sell off your oil refineries.
This sort of thing could be added. Major changes, like 'loose your capital, loose the game', just aren't going to happen.
It could be that they were included in the questions sent to Tim, but they weren't among the questions answered by Tim.
If we were to simply state that domain names don't infringe on copyright, these problems would go away.
1: Should we allow AC to raise that flag? (I think not.)
2: Now we have another set of points to keep track of, and we might want to figure out how well each persons suggestions are recieved. 3: Do we give/take karma based on the response to the suggestion that a post be moderated? (give fractional karma for each flag you raise which is acted upon, take fractional karma if the post still hasn't been moderated a week later.)
It's slow on Windows also.
Loki doesn't get to redesign the games. CivCTP has some fundamental UI problems. The graphics get redrawn much more often than they need to be.
But that's not Loki's fault. Loki did a good job on the port, but they started with a suboptimal design that they couldn't change.
I've only ever installed MySQL from source. I'm certain I couldn't have compiled it locally if I didn't have the source code.
I happen to already have that album encoded, so I played it and listened closely for any problems. I didn't hear any. The song is called 'Last Dance'.
I've been ripping tracks with cdparanoia (alpha prerelease 9.4) and encoding with bladenc (v0.76) at 128kbs from a 20x drive, though cdparanoia makes it clear that the data speed on the drive doesn't effect the rippping speed.
This is on a Pentium 200 Mhz machine with 128 megs of memory, an IDE cdrom drive and an IDE hard drive on seperate controller. I run X, play MP3s, act as a gateway for another box, a file server (including MP3s) for that box, a server for a couple NCDs, and I've been playing CivCTP. Idle CPU goes to distributed.net.
In spite of that load I manage to get 3 CDs encoded each day. I've now got about 150 CDs taking a little over 7 gigs.
The wav files tend to take about 10 megs per minute, and the MP3s take a bit over 1 meg per minute.
Yes, that means I've got more than 4 days of music available. And a lot of jewel cases collecting dust.
in fact, it's less than
1.22506 * sqrt(N) / ln (sqrt(N))
So, given a large number N, if you know that N has two factors, you can find them by trying to divide N by every number up to N/2. You'll eventually find one of N's two factors this way, and after dividing, you'll have found the other as well. But, there's nothing to say that you won't have to try all possible factors, and there are N/2 of them...
First: You only have to check to sqrt(N), not N/2.
Second: You only have to check the primes up to sqrt(N), not every number.
Third: If the original numbers aren't really prime (say they are only good prime canditates), you don't even have to check all the primes up to sqrt(N).
While this may still be a lot of numbers, it's no N/2.
My objection to this would be the fact that it alows ongoing searches. The 4th ammendment allows searches, but it doesn't allow an ongoing, endless search. That would require that an agent of some sort be allowed to remain in the house for an extended period of time.
And that would violate the 3rd ammendment. I'm curious to know if the 3rd ammendment has been interpreted to include government agents other than strictly 'soldiers'. If so, it would be possible to argue that any sort of sniffer sprogram or hardware device is an agent of the government, and that this should be excluded by the 3rd ammendment.
If you set your machine up to respond automaticly, and documented it in /etc/issue or a web page or something, you could claim it's a 'service, freely available to anyone who does such and such', and if a script kiddie sets it off and gets burnt, that's their problem. Particularly if you warn against misuse in the documentation. Of course, this all hinges on the fact that they shouldn't be misusing your system, and should have read the documentation.
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This is also an excelent time for building brand loyalty. Making a few games now when there aren't as many companies building games for Linux could pay off later when the Linux market is larger.
The Linux market is growing. It could also be argued that the growth in the Linux market consists of more sophisticated users than the growth in say the Windows market.
And there are certainly more users switching from Windows to Linux than from Linux to Windows.
It seems painfully obvious that the Linux market is worth spending a bit extra on development.
$ portscan crack.linuxppc.org
Scanning host 169.207.154.108 - TCP ports 1 through 1024
23 (telnet) is running.
80 (www) is running.
111 (sunrpc) is running.
I'm not set up to change my hostname, but perhaps someone else would like to try changing their hostname to include a serverside include.
for instance.
Like 'SUNetscAOLpe'?
So we might not even notice for a long time. The total effect of gravity at the surface of the Earth would still be 1G. This would decrease slowly as the core was consumed because our distance from that matter would be increasing a little bit.
This doesn't seem too far from growing an arm on a dog.
What are you running on it when it crashes?
They are running NT, when NT crashes. If you've managed to run NT without a problem for months, consider yourself fortinute and move on. Other people are obviously having less luck with NT.
Same thing with homelessless and poverty.
I changed it to int rd_size = 131072; so I could have a 128M ramdisk.
Then I added an /etc/rc.d/rc.ramdisk:
# Install the ramdisk module. /dev/ram0 131072 /dev/ram0 /data/mysql/var/RD /data/mysql/var/Archive/Archive.* /data/mysql/var/RD /data/mysql/var/Econ/Econ.* /data/mysql/var/RD /data/mysql/var/RD
insmod rd
# format the ramdisk
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=128k
# Make an e2fs filesystem
mke2fs -c -v -m0
# mount the filesystem
mount
# Copy the data into the ramdisk
cp -a
cp -a
chown -R mysql:db
Before birth, a fetus is a parasite, feeding off of it's mother.
After birth it's a small, helpless, hopelessly dependant human.
That gets the timing question down to the cutting of the imbilicus.
I was recently visiting some friends in Virginia. They have a daughter who is attending a public school. When I ask her what she had done in school the day before I was shocked at the answer.
Apparently, once a month, they do 'bible study', in class, during school hours.
She was one of the few students who didn't participate, and there was no curiculum planned for the students who were not involved in 'bible study'. Those children were told they could just sit around and draw or whatever that day.
Doesn't this all happen long ago in a galaxy far far away?
You know that the typical user will just run everything they get.
You know that they will click the OK button without reading the dialog boxes.
These points have been demonstrated over and over again. They cannot be disputed.
So you should set the defaults so that they don't get a chance to run the executable unless they have specificly enabled that ability. And you shouldn't prompt them to change that default. If they don't know that they can change it, and they don't know how to go about changing it, it should stay turned off.
The people who want to use it can then turn it on, and the rest of the lusers won't be hurt by this feature that they aren't using anyway.
Why should you do this? Because you're credibility is on the line. Because the world is watching MS products delete user files, and they don't find it very funny. They aren't going to care that the users all pressed the okay button. They are going to ask why it was so easy. And if there is a way to turn off that warning, if users can say they didn't get that warning this time, it will be worse.
Take a clue from something simple like the setup/config for pine. You have to turn things on if you want to use them. If you don't know to look at the setup/config you might never know about them. Until they are turned on, you are never prompted for them. They just aren't there.