wasn't in it for the music, they would probably stop being my favourite band.
There's plenty of bands out there that don't really care if people are buying cd's. People still go to concerts, enjoy their music, etc. Bands give away their mp3's free on the internet, just for exposure, or the joy of having people listen to what they've created. And for that matter, most bands signed by the RIAA never see any cash from CD sales anyway.
The IF-Archive is an excellent source of these games. Their collection is *massive*.
However, if you're into uncommon and under-rated games in general - check out Home of the Underdogs if you haven't already. Not only does it review and describe many excellent games, but it has tons of full downloads of old games too.
One particular IF game that really caught my eye was Ad Verbum. It's premise is mostly to do with words. For example, there's a room who's entire description starts with the letter N. You quickly realise that only words starting with N work in the room (note, the exit to the room is south):
>north Northward? No, necessarily not. Not north. No noticeable notch, no navigable nook.
There's all sorts of other language-based puzzles in the game, and it's an excellent test of your vocabulary. Despite being a little short, i highly recommend it. (Note, it's not part of this competition).
some Californian politicians were unimpressed when they're penis didn't GROW FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OVERNIGHT. Also, it seems that some lesbian twins didn't want their 'hot bodies' after all.
I'm aware that most people who care have read the novel (I know I have)... but this trailer spoils almost every major plot point in the thing!
*SPOILER WARNING* It's got the group meeting Gandalf again, Gandalf talking with the king, the city evacuating and going to war at helm's deep, it's got gollum attacking frodo and slam, then eventually leading them to mordor. and more. *END SPOILER*
It can't be stressed enough how important it is to have the shiny side pointing out. This is needed because the shiny side is most reflective to psychotronic radiation, while the dull side can actually, in certain environmental conditions, absorb it.
However, it is also wise to complement this with a layer of foil pointing shiny side in. This will keep your brain waves, which are also reflected by the shiny side, from being picked up by mind-reading equipment.
There is a small number of aluminum foil researchers who believe that this may cause an alpha-wave harmonic to build up in the skull resulting in memory loss or pseudo- religious visions, but their findings have never been replicated by the aluminum foil research community at large. Even if their findings are validated, the risk involved is small compared to the potential of mind-intrusion.
Ok - I use "position: fixed" (EG), that does not work. What next?
I don't know *what* you meant by that, replying to somebody talking about the W3C specs. position: fixed is part of the spec. When you say does not work, do you mean doesn't validate, or doesn't render? Netscape does seem to have trouble with it though, so try "position: absolute" as well (just chuck both of em in, its what the W3C does.)
I never would have thought that all those things could be so easily related... but there you have it!
Physical Laws
on
Printing Chips
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· Score: 2, Insightful
"It gives an unsurpassed combination of speed and resolution and isn't limited by physical laws."
Also, the tecnique will be used for a myriad of other things, including spaceships made entirely of silicon, allowing them to be freed from laws of gravity and friction.
You're wrong about render farms and video cards. The GPU's on 3d accelerators can be used by software to do vertex calculations and whatnot faster than a cpu on its own.
High-end workstations are usually fairly specialised, but if you're planning on building a farm of pc's, gpu's in those machines can make a world of difference.
Thing is, this has to cover distances of over 500km, so you just can't have high-gain antennas (at least not 802.11 anyhow) reach that far (as far as I'm aware). I'm no expert in this field, but I'm pretty sure if you want to cover that distance wirelessly, you'll need repeaters.
(I'm lucky in this regard, the nearest small town is only around 30km away)
As someone living in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia, where I can get a 33.6kbps connection on a good day (usually its closer to 28k), it's good to see that the CSIRO are taking an interest in that sort of thing.
But out here 1km, (or even 7 as they claim to strecth it in the article) isn't really very far, so they would need a lot of repeaters to get from place to place, making this a fairly expensive project. (Read: ain't gonna happen).
It may be because the square brackets are among the few valid characters in brainfuck, and writing it that way would change things. (I'm no expert, and [] probably does nothing in brainfuck if the byte at the pointer is 0).
Yeah, incadecent bulbs flicker at 120 Hz (both the positive and negative current phases heat the filament), but only by a few percent.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.:)
As for full spectrum flouros not being more popular, I'd guess its because they're more expensive. They need to put lots of different gases in there to make all the colours, which makes them more expensive to produce, this in turn leads to people not using them.
As far as I understand, your tyical filament light bulb works by using electricity to heat the filament untill it start releasing light. I don't believe that at 50 or 60Hz there is enough time for the filament to cool and stop producing light. Possibly they get a bit dimmer/brighter but I seriously doubt that its noticable.
From my experience (and I'm no expert) I've never known icandescent or flourescent to noticably flicker (except, of course, for failing flouros).
However, I also know from experience that although its not noticable, 60Hz on a monitor always made my eyes hurt and give me headaches after a while.
Either way, if flouros have circuitry that prevent flickering, the whole flicker frequency thing seems to be a moot point in this debate.
(Please folks, correct me if I'm wrong in these assumptions).
Despite sometimes containing redundant information, I like the way slashdot does things in this regard. It tells you a lot more than your k5 example. Also, you can easily modify them. The URI for your post is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=31884&cid=3435 254.
By simply adding &threshold=-1 to the end of that, I can see all the replies at -1 easily and painlessly.
Do you know how to make k5's comments nested instead of threaded purely using the URI? I'm not sure (I'm really not, this may or may not be easy at k5), but adding &mode=nested to slashdot's seems pretty easy (these can be in any order).
The point is, wether or not it takes the optimum number of bytes isn't always the priority, as with anything, there are always other factors, in the case of/., its designed to be easy to use for the (savvy) user, not easy on the server
Slashdot Mirror
Also, remember when MS shipped a CD with a virus-infected product?
.Net: Now with more Viruses
This is probably what you're looking for:
Visual Studio
Microsoft shipped VS.NET, and saved Koreans the trouble of getting infected by Nimda themselves. How thoughtful of them...
wasn't in it for the music, they would probably stop being my favourite band.
There's plenty of bands out there that don't really care if people are buying cd's. People still go to concerts, enjoy their music, etc. Bands give away their mp3's free on the internet, just for exposure, or the joy of having people listen to what they've created. And for that matter, most bands signed by the RIAA never see any cash from CD sales anyway.
I was under the impression that it was the Video Tape that would kill the Box Office
No, it was the radio star that was killed by video tape...
The IF-Archive is an excellent source of these games. Their collection is *massive*.
... nifty nappy.
However, if you're into uncommon and under-rated games in general - check out Home of the Underdogs if you haven't already. Not only does it review and describe many excellent games, but it has tons of full downloads of old games too.
One particular IF game that really caught my eye was Ad Verbum. It's premise is mostly to do with words. For example, there's a room who's entire description starts with the letter N. You quickly realise that only words starting with N work in the room (note, the exit to the room is south):
Neat Nursery
Nice, nondescript nursery, noticeably neat. Normally, nurslings nestle noisily. Now, none. No needful, naive newborns.
Nearby:
>take nappy
No! No! Negative, novice. Nasty notation.
>asdfg
No! No! Nefarious nomenclature. Narrate nicely, now.
>south
No! No! Negative, novice. Nasty notation.
>exit
No! No! Nefarious nomenclature. Narrate nicely, now.
>north
Northward? No, necessarily not. Not north. No noticeable notch, no navigable nook.
There's all sorts of other language-based puzzles in the game, and it's an excellent test of your vocabulary. Despite being a little short, i highly recommend it.
(Note, it's not part of this competition).
some Californian politicians were unimpressed when they're penis didn't GROW FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OVERNIGHT. Also, it seems that some lesbian twins didn't want their 'hot bodies' after all.
I'm aware that most people who care have read the novel (I know I have)... but this trailer spoils almost every major plot point in the thing!
*SPOILER WARNING*
It's got the group meeting Gandalf again, Gandalf talking with the king, the city evacuating and going to war at helm's deep, it's got gollum attacking frodo and slam, then eventually leading them to mordor. and more.
*END SPOILER*
I mean, way to lone gunmen are dead the thing.
fp for skib
You mean i forgot to sign the cheque?
...knew i'd forgotten something.
God dammit!
Oh well, back to my plan to take over the world using small picthforks...
POTS? Don't you mean WOKS?
Worthless Old Kalling System?
It can't be stressed enough how important it is to have the shiny side pointing out. This is needed because the shiny side is most reflective to psychotronic radiation, while the dull side can actually, in certain environmental conditions, absorb it.
However, it is also wise to complement this with a layer of foil pointing shiny side in. This will keep your brain waves, which are also reflected by the shiny side, from being picked up by mind-reading equipment.
There is a small number of aluminum foil researchers who believe that this may cause an alpha-wave harmonic to build up in the skull resulting in memory loss or pseudo- religious visions, but their findings have never been replicated by the aluminum foil research community at large. Even if their findings are validated, the risk involved is small compared to the potential of mind-intrusion.
-- AFDB
Ok - I use "position: fixed" (EG), that does not work. What next?
I don't know *what* you meant by that, replying to somebody talking about the W3C specs. position: fixed is part of the spec. When you say does not work, do you mean doesn't validate, or doesn't render? Netscape does seem to have trouble with it though, so try "position: absolute" as well (just chuck both of em in, its what the W3C does.)
There just aren't enough moderation options
This is called the broken window fallacy
I know that's talking about the kind of windows that are made of glass... but its very aptly named nonetheless.
As Matt's server screams in the dark London night, you could spell my name right...HammerslEy
;)
Well, you can't blame them for misspelling it, how many names have a capital E in the middle of them?
This may help explain things.
I never would have thought that all those things could be so easily related... but there you have it!
"It gives an unsurpassed combination of speed and resolution and isn't limited by physical laws."
Also, the tecnique will be used for a myriad of other things, including spaceships made entirely of silicon, allowing them to be freed from laws of gravity and friction.
Somebody once said that the only intuitive interface was the nipple. Everything after that had to be learned.
:/
Well, I'm on my laptop right now and getting the hang of the nipple sure took some practise.
You're wrong about render farms and video cards. The GPU's on 3d accelerators can be used by software to do vertex calculations and whatnot faster than a cpu on its own.
High-end workstations are usually fairly specialised, but if you're planning on building a farm of pc's, gpu's in those machines can make a world of difference.
Thing is, this has to cover distances of over 500km, so you just can't have high-gain antennas (at least not 802.11 anyhow) reach that far (as far as I'm aware). I'm no expert in this field, but I'm pretty sure if you want to cover that distance wirelessly, you'll need repeaters.
(I'm lucky in this regard, the nearest small town is only around 30km away)
As someone living in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia, where I can get a 33.6kbps connection on a good day (usually its closer to 28k), it's good to see that the CSIRO are taking an interest in that sort of thing.
But out here 1km, (or even 7 as they claim to strecth it in the article) isn't really very far, so they would need a lot of repeaters to get from place to place, making this a fairly expensive project. (Read: ain't gonna happen).
In fact, read the article, and that explains it perfectly. (I was wrong)
It may be because the square brackets are among the few valid characters in brainfuck, and writing it that way would change things. (I'm no expert, and [] probably does nothing in brainfuck if the byte at the pointer is 0).
Yeah, incadecent bulbs flicker at 120 Hz (both the positive and negative current phases heat the filament), but only by a few percent.
:)
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
As for full spectrum flouros not being more popular, I'd guess its because they're more expensive. They need to put lots of different gases in there to make all the colours, which makes them more expensive to produce, this in turn leads to people not using them.
Um, and you're saying that incandescents don't?
As far as I understand, your tyical filament light bulb works by using electricity to heat the filament untill it start releasing light. I don't believe that at 50 or 60Hz there is enough time for the filament to cool and stop producing light. Possibly they get a bit dimmer/brighter but I seriously doubt that its noticable.
From my experience (and I'm no expert) I've never known icandescent or flourescent to noticably flicker (except, of course, for failing flouros).
However, I also know from experience that although its not noticable, 60Hz on a monitor always made my eyes hurt and give me headaches after a while.
Either way, if flouros have circuitry that prevent flickering, the whole flicker frequency thing seems to be a moot point in this debate.
(Please folks, correct me if I'm wrong in these assumptions).
Despite sometimes containing redundant information, I like the way slashdot does things in this regard. It tells you a lot more than your k5 example. Also, you can easily modify them. The URI for your post is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=31884&cid=3435 254.
/., its designed to be easy to use for the (savvy) user, not easy on the server
By simply adding &threshold=-1 to the end of that, I can see all the replies at -1 easily and painlessly.
Do you know how to make k5's comments nested instead of threaded purely using the URI? I'm not sure (I'm really not, this may or may not be easy at k5), but adding &mode=nested to slashdot's seems pretty easy (these can be in any order).
The point is, wether or not it takes the optimum number of bytes isn't always the priority, as with anything, there are always other factors, in the case of