And most dogs will just wag their tails all friendly-like at the burglar as they come and go.
I've never owned a dog that didn't go absolutely ape-shit whenever anyone sets foot on my property. This is a small sampling, but I am 4 for 4 dogs on that count. I like a medium-large size dog with a good deep bark. Most solicitors who ring the doorbell are gone by the time I open the door because of that mean face poking through the curtains growling at them. Delivery men don't wait for a signature, they are back in the truck by the time I answer the door. I've never suffered a break-in. My father with his alarm system has - over time he got lazy and stopped turning it on when he left the house. Now he has a dog too.
I am an American who played rugby in college and have had a lifetime of watching NFL football. As my rugby coach explained things, the reason you wear pads in American football but not rugby is because American football is a game of yards, whereas in rugby only the end line matters. In rugby they teach tackling by wrapping the legs and letting the ball carrier carry you backwards over your shoulder. Using this technique I was able to tackle runners much larger than I was without injury. In rugby you only try to stop the ball carrier head on if you meet him on the goal line, and that doesn't happen very often. In American football, the goal line is the first down marker which is eternally just a little distance away all the way down the field, so every tackle becomes a "stop him here, stop him now" critical moment.
I have a Dell Latitude with 256 MB of RAM running Antix that I use for 2D game development in C++. It works perfect for when my kids are tying up my big gaming rig, and I bought it on eBay for $30. I bet the Raspberry PI using decade newer tech will kick that old Latitude's arse.
If you can find it, Darby the Dragon is absolutely wonderful. It is tons of fun, has lots of creative mini-games, and has GREAT music. My two daughters both played through it numerous times.
This is another anecdote, but this story leads me to advise others to look into Homeopathy once contemporary options have run out.
A young woman I worked with in her early 20s started getting this crazy itching in her scalp. It felt like it was coming from inside her skull, and scratching would not alleviate the itch. It was driving her crazy, and she quit her job and just stayed home. It got so bad that she could no longer sleep.
She went through several specialists and 10's of thousands of dollars in tests. Nothing they gave her helped, and they deemed the problem inoperable. After months of no REM sleep her body started to shut down, her organs failing, and the doctors gave her only two weeks to live.
As a last ditch effort she went to a Homeopathic doctor. After a 30 minute consult he diagnosed her with a brain parasite, and gave her something to take (liquid copper if I recall correctly) for $50 and told her within two days she would feel better. He was spot on, the itching went away the very next day.
I talked to her mother a year later and she was still perfectly healthy.
A bunch of buddies of mine played paintball in the woods, and after months of nagging I bought some cheap used equipment and joined them. My buddies were high school jocks, and one of the guys they played with had been in the army. The army guy sized me up and made a snide comment, and when they picked teams I was picked last and ended up on the team opposite him. That very first game I personally knocked their entire team out.
In the months that followed I played with them many weekends, and everyone soon acknowledged that I was the deadliest player there. I has shot real guns previously I was as accurate a shot as I could be with my cheap paintball marker. More importantly I have read a lot of WW2 books and I have played a lot of first person shooter games and I had a good layman's understanding about suppressing fire and flanking. Often I would let the rest of my team rush in first to draw fire while I moved around the edge a bit to study the other team's positions. Many of my kills were a single shot from the side or from behind at very close range while the target was otherwise distracted. Even when a match was down to one on one, once I got the opponent to duck behind cover I could approach their position obliquely, keeping him suppressed with bursts of fire, until I had the angle to get in a kill shot.
Then one weekend came where a bunch of serious "speedball" players joined us. My tactics weren't any good against them, because they could not be suppressed. They would use cover VERY well. They knew to return fire regardless of being under fire, exposing only the nose of their gun and just enough mask to get one eye down the sight. They were vigilant about constantly scanning for movement, so I could not flank them without running through a hail of paint balls first. Their expensive guns had long range were very accurate. That day was humbling.
I wouldn't be surprised if Lockheed Martin/Boeing secretly funded Russia's stealth fighter project to justify restarting production on the F-22. That would be business as usual - gotta keep the wheels of the industrial military complex spinning.
Frequently I find that when I dig up old DOS games (even ones that I used to adore) that I find them unplayable. The problem is I have been spoiled by the no-brainer UIs and tutorials in the newer generation of games. I no longer have the patience to memorize a bunch of key commands off a card insert.
Use a can of compressed air to purge out any accumulated dust. Less dust means a cooler box, which may just bring the unit back within whatever temperature (or, by extension, power) tolerance it is pushing the envelope on. Another technique is to wiggle every cable and connector and slotted card, just to make sure nothing has come loose. Check to make sure all the fans are running whilst powered on.
Here in Florida we have plenty of sun available. However, one prohibitive problem with solar panels is the occasional hurricane. If you have large solid panels installed on your roof, a strong wind will pick them up like a kite and tear them (plus a good chunk of your roof) right off.
I like the idea of something cheap and flexible because you could either have a system of rolling it up when a storm approaches, OR let the storm have it (like pool screen enclosures) and install a new one afterwords.
This vehicle would be perfect for me. I have a 3.5 mile commute through 25 mph residential areas. And my favorite pub is only 1.5 miles away from home through residential streets as well:-)
The question becomes: are there enough people like me with similar commutes to make this vehicle commercially viable?
I've been there twice as well. I very much enjoyed both rides, and hanging around in Quarks bar was fun. The production values of the entire place are top notch.
One of the best parts was the backstage tour. It lasted well over an hour, you got to meet the cast members, and there was lot's of interesting trivia. We got to explore a scale replica of the Enterprise bridge for as long as we wanted to.
I just did another downgrade from Vista to XP this week. A friend bought a brand new PC from Wal-Mart with Vista on it. He couldn't stand the fact that his 5-year-old machine at work running XP was more responsive than his brand new Vista box.
He wanted the downgrade bad enough that he traded me several XBox games to do the work. That is saying something right there. When I asked him if he liked the features on Vista he looked at me quizzically and scratched his head.
Never let bling interfere with usability. The "ooh, shiny" of fancy graphics and widgets lasts only a moment. On the other hand, usability issues will become increasingly frustrating over time.
The Hitler Youth fought the Canadians and British to a standstill for many days following D-Day outside of Caen. Not bad for a bunch of Boy Scouts facing naval guns and superior infantry numbers and air power.
The Pope can choose whether to save or planten booten to your arse:-)
Agreed. What happens when he removes the coils from the system entirely? Does the motor spin slower or faster than the test with the back EMF? That question is so obvious that I would have expected it to be addressed at the very start of his video.
The atheist doesn't want to prove anything about otherworldly things. The atheist's request is merely to be left alone.
In my experience atheists are far more obsessive about spreading their ideas than the religious. I cringe when the subject comes up amongst my atheist acquaintances because of all the pent up angst that invariably comes frothing forth.
I have used both NetBeans and Eclipse, and chose the latter for the open source and because the IDE was better organized IMO.
That being said, I have gone back to my do-all editor (Multi-Edit) and command line ant builds because Eclipse was juuuuust slow enough to be annoying, even on my brand new Dell laptop. I use the IDE only when I need to step through something in the debugger.
Open source libs such as CDX and SDL take ALL of the pain out of Direct X. With these tools you can get a game framework up and running on Windows with just a few lines of code.
For example, Download and install Dev-Cpp, run the built in web update to download and install SDL, and BAM you have an open source game-building IDE and libs with example code.
15-20 years ago you had to purchase a C++ compiler, purchase hardware books so that you could fiddle around with secret hardware settings to get to Mode X, monkey with sound card settings that could hang your box if set incorrectly, etc.
EXACTLY! Since they do have a legal precedent to sue, it makes sense to open negotiations with such a big first salvo. First inform him that what he currently has is worth nothing (or could actually put him in debt with the legal fees), and then offer him a pittance for the property as an alternate.
I was being overly critical, and I apologize. I would have to list Privateer as my favorite game of all time - I played the original game completely front-to-back twice, plus much random exploring after the plot was finished, plus the righteous fire expansion pack. Hence my immediate nitpicking - Privateer is permanently burned into my brain, and any differences stood out immediately to me. This wont be true for the majority of your users. I will play your remake through front-to-back as well, and from what I have played so far I am sure it is going to be quite enjoyable.
Thank you for the informative reply and for your work on the remake.
Agreed. I noticed that many of the animations are missing, such as the hands coming up for handshaking and the ship dealer waving his arms. The PDA thingy is non-existant. And the little tram pulling the luggage across the base floor was clunky. Since this new version just rips the graphics from the old game for the bases, why not make it complete for nostalgia's sake?
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And most dogs will just wag their tails all friendly-like at the burglar as they come and go.
I've never owned a dog that didn't go absolutely ape-shit whenever anyone sets foot on my property. This is a small sampling, but I am 4 for 4 dogs on that count. I like a medium-large size dog with a good deep bark. Most solicitors who ring the doorbell are gone by the time I open the door because of that mean face poking through the curtains growling at them. Delivery men don't wait for a signature, they are back in the truck by the time I answer the door. I've never suffered a break-in. My father with his alarm system has - over time he got lazy and stopped turning it on when he left the house. Now he has a dog too.
I am an American who played rugby in college and have had a lifetime of watching NFL football. As my rugby coach explained things, the reason you wear pads in American football but not rugby is because American football is a game of yards, whereas in rugby only the end line matters. In rugby they teach tackling by wrapping the legs and letting the ball carrier carry you backwards over your shoulder. Using this technique I was able to tackle runners much larger than I was without injury. In rugby you only try to stop the ball carrier head on if you meet him on the goal line, and that doesn't happen very often. In American football, the goal line is the first down marker which is eternally just a little distance away all the way down the field, so every tackle becomes a "stop him here, stop him now" critical moment.
I have a Dell Latitude with 256 MB of RAM running Antix that I use for 2D game development in C++. It works perfect for when my kids are tying up my big gaming rig, and I bought it on eBay for $30. I bet the Raspberry PI using decade newer tech will kick that old Latitude's arse.
If you can find it, Darby the Dragon is absolutely wonderful. It is tons of fun, has lots of creative mini-games, and has GREAT music. My two daughters both played through it numerous times.
This is another anecdote, but this story leads me to advise others to look into Homeopathy once contemporary options have run out.
A young woman I worked with in her early 20s started getting this crazy itching in her scalp. It felt like it was coming from inside her skull, and scratching would not alleviate the itch. It was driving her crazy, and she quit her job and just stayed home. It got so bad that she could no longer sleep.
She went through several specialists and 10's of thousands of dollars in tests. Nothing they gave her helped, and they deemed the problem inoperable. After months of no REM sleep her body started to shut down, her organs failing, and the doctors gave her only two weeks to live.
As a last ditch effort she went to a Homeopathic doctor. After a 30 minute consult he diagnosed her with a brain parasite, and gave her something to take (liquid copper if I recall correctly) for $50 and told her within two days she would feel better. He was spot on, the itching went away the very next day.
I talked to her mother a year later and she was still perfectly healthy.
A bunch of buddies of mine played paintball in the woods, and after months of nagging I bought some cheap used equipment and joined them. My buddies were high school jocks, and one of the guys they played with had been in the army. The army guy sized me up and made a snide comment, and when they picked teams I was picked last and ended up on the team opposite him. That very first game I personally knocked their entire team out.
In the months that followed I played with them many weekends, and everyone soon acknowledged that I was the deadliest player there. I has shot real guns previously I was as accurate a shot as I could be with my cheap paintball marker. More importantly I have read a lot of WW2 books and I have played a lot of first person shooter games and I had a good layman's understanding about suppressing fire and flanking. Often I would let the rest of my team rush in first to draw fire while I moved around the edge a bit to study the other team's positions. Many of my kills were a single shot from the side or from behind at very close range while the target was otherwise distracted. Even when a match was down to one on one, once I got the opponent to duck behind cover I could approach their position obliquely, keeping him suppressed with bursts of fire, until I had the angle to get in a kill shot.
Then one weekend came where a bunch of serious "speedball" players joined us. My tactics weren't any good against them, because they could not be suppressed. They would use cover VERY well. They knew to return fire regardless of being under fire, exposing only the nose of their gun and just enough mask to get one eye down the sight. They were vigilant about constantly scanning for movement, so I could not flank them without running through a hail of paint balls first. Their expensive guns had long range were very accurate. That day was humbling.
I wouldn't be surprised if Lockheed Martin/Boeing secretly funded Russia's stealth fighter project to justify restarting production on the F-22. That would be business as usual - gotta keep the wheels of the industrial military complex spinning.
Dark Forces had that first. I remember playing it and being all Ooooooooh that I walked under a catwalk that I had walked over earlier.
Frequently I find that when I dig up old DOS games (even ones that I used to adore) that I find them unplayable. The problem is I have been spoiled by the no-brainer UIs and tutorials in the newer generation of games. I no longer have the patience to memorize a bunch of key commands off a card insert.
Use a can of compressed air to purge out any accumulated dust. Less dust means a cooler box, which may just bring the unit back within whatever temperature (or, by extension, power) tolerance it is pushing the envelope on. Another technique is to wiggle every cable and connector and slotted card, just to make sure nothing has come loose. Check to make sure all the fans are running whilst powered on.
Here in Florida we have plenty of sun available. However, one prohibitive problem with solar panels is the occasional hurricane. If you have large solid panels installed on your roof, a strong wind will pick them up like a kite and tear them (plus a good chunk of your roof) right off.
I like the idea of something cheap and flexible because you could either have a system of rolling it up when a storm approaches, OR let the storm have it (like pool screen enclosures) and install a new one afterwords.
NWN has tremendous graphics, but the game play is not all that great. I found myself yearning for a larger party so that I could round things out.
I completed Avernum 4 but did not finish the NWN single-player campaign. Avernum 4 has a better storyline, IMHO.
This vehicle would be perfect for me. I have a 3.5 mile commute through 25 mph residential areas. And my favorite pub is only 1.5 miles away from home through residential streets as well :-)
The question becomes: are there enough people like me with similar commutes to make this vehicle commercially viable?
I've been there twice as well. I very much enjoyed both rides, and hanging around in Quarks bar was fun. The production values of the entire place are top notch.
One of the best parts was the backstage tour. It lasted well over an hour, you got to meet the cast members, and there was lot's of interesting trivia. We got to explore a scale replica of the Enterprise bridge for as long as we wanted to.
I just did another downgrade from Vista to XP this week. A friend bought a brand new PC from Wal-Mart with Vista on it. He couldn't stand the fact that his 5-year-old machine at work running XP was more responsive than his brand new Vista box.
He wanted the downgrade bad enough that he traded me several XBox games to do the work. That is saying something right there. When I asked him if he liked the features on Vista he looked at me quizzically and scratched his head.
Never let bling interfere with usability. The "ooh, shiny" of fancy graphics and widgets lasts only a moment. On the other hand, usability issues will become increasingly frustrating over time.
The Hitler Youth fought the Canadians and British to a standstill for many days following D-Day outside of Caen. Not bad for a bunch of Boy Scouts facing naval guns and superior infantry numbers and air power.
:-)
The Pope can choose whether to save or planten booten to your arse
Agreed. What happens when he removes the coils from the system entirely? Does the motor spin slower or faster than the test with the back EMF? That question is so obvious that I would have expected it to be addressed at the very start of his video.
The atheist doesn't want to prove anything about otherworldly things. The atheist's request is merely to be left alone.
In my experience atheists are far more obsessive about spreading their ideas than the religious. I cringe when the subject comes up amongst my atheist acquaintances because of all the pent up angst that invariably comes frothing forth.
It would be GOLD one of the cosmonauts would pie him in the face as soon as he came through the airlock. GOLD.
What a mess, though.
I would rather build a replica of the Mad Max V8 Interceptor.
I have used both NetBeans and Eclipse, and chose the latter for the open source and because the IDE was better organized IMO.
That being said, I have gone back to my do-all editor (Multi-Edit) and command line ant builds because Eclipse was juuuuust slow enough to be annoying, even on my brand new Dell laptop. I use the IDE only when I need to step through something in the debugger.
Open source libs such as CDX and SDL take ALL of the pain out of Direct X. With these tools you can get a game framework up and running on Windows with just a few lines of code.
For example, Download and install Dev-Cpp, run the built in web update to download and install SDL, and BAM you have an open source game-building IDE and libs with example code.
15-20 years ago you had to purchase a C++ compiler, purchase hardware books so that you could fiddle around with secret hardware settings to get to Mode X, monkey with sound card settings that could hang your box if set incorrectly, etc.
EXACTLY! Since they do have a legal precedent to sue, it makes sense to open negotiations with such a big first salvo. First inform him that what he currently has is worth nothing (or could actually put him in debt with the legal fees), and then offer him a pittance for the property as an alternate.
I was being overly critical, and I apologize. I would have to list Privateer as my favorite game of all time - I played the original game completely front-to-back twice, plus much random exploring after the plot was finished, plus the righteous fire expansion pack. Hence my immediate nitpicking - Privateer is permanently burned into my brain, and any differences stood out immediately to me. This wont be true for the majority of your users. I will play your remake through front-to-back as well, and from what I have played so far I am sure it is going to be quite enjoyable.
Thank you for the informative reply and for your work on the remake.
Agreed. I noticed that many of the animations are missing, such as the hands coming up for handshaking and the ship dealer waving his arms. The PDA thingy is non-existant. And the little tram pulling the luggage across the base floor was clunky. Since this new version just rips the graphics from the old game for the bases, why not make it complete for nostalgia's sake?