What's truly amusing is that those screenshots take the same amount of memory as the whole damn game. What was Pitfall- 4k IIRC? The screenshots are 6k!
I was taught how to use one just last year. (I already knew, but hey...)
Get your pilot's license. You'll have to buy a device called an E6-B computer to figure time/speed/distance/fuel burn, wind correction angles and ground speed, etc. You guessed it: it's a circular slide rule. Fast, cheap, durable, effective and never runs out of batteries.
Side note: I ban calculators in my Physical Chemistry tests. I'm thinking about giving extra credit to anyone who can do the problems with a slide rule.
I just bought Mindrover. Haven't seen a game like it since Robowar on the Mac or Robot Odyssey on the AppleII
Number 1 and 2 sellers on PC right now- The Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon. The Sims is certainly original, and RRT may be a clone of Theme Park but it's got its own unique flavor.
Yeah, there are a dozen RT strategy and first person shooters for every innovative thing out there, but they certainly exist.
Pity those of us who want to create innovative content using a "specialized plug-in" such as Chime. (Chime allows 3d molecular display in a web page. Yes, there are Java applets that do this. When one of them can do 1/10th of what Chime can at better than 1/10th the speed I might look into it again.)
Chime lets me write pages like these:
Atomic orbitals and Crystal unit cells Very useful in my line of work (Chemical education) But as soon as I do this I lock out all "alternative OSs"
Chime's actually more cross platform than most: Windows, Mac and an older IRIX version. It even is anti-MS: it runs like crap in MSIE on both Mac and Windows. (The Mozilla team fixed the compatibility problems when I sent the bug in.) But I can't do this stuff and make it truly cross-platform.
This is a problem for me: in fact, it's one of the main reasons I don't use Linux on the desktop.
There's always a use for more CPU. You need to go find it.
For example, I got an Athlon-750 a few months back. What's that good for, other than playing Quake at 100FPS?
Shortly afterwards, my grandmother-in-law commented how badly one of her pictures had faded. My wife mentioned that you could computer enhance them...
I've now got a stack of photos by my desk at home. I've bought more memory and a better printer, but the Athlon-750 seems slow when playing with 60MB picture files.
I'm busy generating some molecular model animations at work right now. More CPU would be great- I've had to cut down the number of points to get models to build quickly while testing code. I got irritated when working on a lab with Mathematica and found that some of the Eigensystem commands took forever.
There's always a use for more CPU. And, of course, Unreal is liquid smooth...
I invested in companies that actually made physical objects that people could buy. That had profits, and a decent business model.
Back during the.com hype days, my investments looked like dogs. For example, I have a fair amount of drug company stock, having worked in that area- they sucked then. But now, they've been going up the entire time of the.com crash. My high-tech stuff has fallen, but only to the level it was last year. Big whoop: I'm still ahead on all of it. Invest long term- you'll make more.
End result: I've made money since the crash started. Not a ton, but then again I don't expect 100% return/year.
Now, what's this about giving the seat to his widow? I say embalm him and nail him to his chair: he can't do any more damage that way than a normal senator.
government is far more responsive to people's needs on a local level.
Yes, witness just how responsive the southern state governments were to the needs of their people. People, of course, defined as "white". Until the feds came in and applied a ClueStick(tm), that is.
Or perhaps you'd prefer schools where evolution is never mentioned and Wiccans get suspended because a teacher claimed that a student cast a spell on him.
Or perhaps you'd like it if a state legalized medical marijuana? Oh, that's right, California did. (I certainly voted for it.) State's rights went out the door fast on that one.
I agree, local control is often better. Despite the comments above, I'm actually for smaller government. But "state's rights" has been the clarion cry for racists and religious bigots for years. The right-wing are for state's rights until one of those gosh-darn liberal states does something they don't like, at which point the feds come down heavy. Why not just admit that the federal government can set basic laws and enforce them?
After all, who would campaign in Rhode Island otherwise?
Then again, who would campaign in a "safe" state otherwise? I live in Virginia, a "safe" state for Bush. Did either candidate visit Virginia much? No. Didn't see a single TV or print ad for either candidate. (Not that I'm complaining;^)
Personlly, I say switch to the Aussie system: rank all candidates. Popular vote majority wins. If no candidate gets a majority, remove the candidate with the lowest number of votes and give them to the person ranked #2 on each ballot. Continue eliminating candidates and redistributing until one candidate has a majority.
Imagine a Windows CE or Palm device with as much processing power as an Intel PII-300.
Imagine changing the AAA batteries in my Pilot every 20 minutes. Look up the power consumption of a Dragonball sometime: Crusoe is a power-sucking hog in comparision
Transmeta's between a rock and a hard place. They're trying to say "Look at the low, low 1 watt power consumption". But that doesn't help much in laptops, since the LCD and disk take a lot of the power, more than the CPU. At the same time, that 1 watt is something like an order of magnitude higher than a Dragonball[1]: installing a Crusoe in a Pilot just isn't going to work
Eric
[1] A Dragonball uses 20 mA at 3.3V running flat out, most of the time much less than that.
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You read the quickie as "Amine Expo 2001" and wonder if it's a biochemistry or nitrogen fixation seminar...
In fact, not much of anything weaponwise. Kinetic energy only, no projectiles. Looking over the various entrants, it seems to me that the best way to store enough KE to kill is in rotating objects: see Mauler, Blendo or Backlash for good examples.
1) Move task bar to right side of monitor
2) Uncheck "personalized menus" everywhere. (This should get rid of your problem)
3) Turn off "Enable web content" in folders
4) Turn off transition fade effect
5) Set all folders to detail view
6) Place Task Manager in startup group
Feel free to add your own, but that's the minimum I can do and have W2K feel useable.
Hey, on the TV show Junkyard Wars they had to do it in 10 hours using nothing but the leavings in a scrapyard... Didn't require an engine, but tack on another 10 hours for that and you're done!
Realistically, he didn't have a chance,and I have no idea why he thought he did. Even quickbuild aircraft kits take ~500-1000 hours of assembly time, and that's having all the parts and instructions. Kitbuilding from plans is a 2000 hour-heat death of universe type job.
Umm, yes. Go to any default Netscape bookmark. It's a redirect from Netscape. MSIE default links are the same. Neither does it for user created links. Netscape even did it first!
Geez, I know/. is anti-MS, but this story is one of the most absurd, knee-jerk FUD attempts I've ever seen.
I've read a fair amount on the Russian program and you've confirmed my impressions. But does it really matter?
People have different risk limits. Some people are afraid to leave their house. Others go BASE jumping, a sport with a very high death rate. I'm getting my pilot's license. Risky? To an extent, yes: if I screw up badly I will die, and the death rate in general aviation is not zero. (Hell, there was another fatal midair in Florida today.)
Looking at the history of spaceflight over the last 10-20 years, an astronaut has something on the order of a 1-2% chance of death on a given mission. Assume the Russians are horrible right now and that they're 5x worse than they were in their heyday. That's still only a 10% death rate. The number of people willing to have an experience like flying in space against a 10% chance of death is not zero. I'd think about it if I wasn't in the process of adopting a kid right now. (Families distort risk balances.)
Go into it with your eyes open, realizing the risks, but if that's ok, go.
Can I sue the goverment for overpayment of taxes due to the surplus.
Why not? Of course, are you willing to cough up the cash you owe first? If you think you deserve money back now you must have paid your full share back when the country was running a deficit. Oh, you didn't? Your share is roughly $20,000. Pony up.
Side note. All of these suits stink. The lawyers get rich, businesses get hurt and the plainiffs get screwed. Don't cheer just because it's anti-MS. It still stinks.
The chance that a "Prime Directive" not to interfere in other civilizations is part of the cause is actually more likely than at first glance. Assume that civilizations arise at the rate of one every few thousand years. This means that the first civilization (Civ A) to arise has that amount of technological head start over the next (Civ B). At this point, we've hit the Clarke "Magic" level of technology for A over B, where civilization B could be stepped on like ants by civilization A.
Thus, we don't need every civilization to decide not to interfere. We only need the first to decide on a Prime Directive and decide to enforce it.
It gets even more likely as we go farther back: if we assume a few million years between civs, civ A is now so overwhelming that it could do anything it wanted without effort. (To paraphrase a line from Gardner, "(They) had a billion years of evolution on humans. To call them godlike would be demeaning.")
I used to think these ideas were great. Everybody can just zip around, avoiding traffic, etc. Wonderful!
Then I started actually taking flying lessons. There is a lot of air traffic, even close to the ground. It generally is hard to spot and moves very fast. (Even my little Cessna averages 100 mph.) There aren't any nice lines painted on the clouds to show you where to go: you need to know the traffic flow around the area, assuming the airspace is uncontrolled. Worse, any major city is probably going to be under class B airspace (IOW, you need ATC permission to enter.) and the ATC controllers aren't going to put up with a bunch of idiots flying around in their airspace, endangering 747s. (Hell, as a student pilot I'm not even allowed to enter class B, and I at least have the proper equipment and (most of the) training.)
And next, of course, let's deal with the wonderful issue of someone flying into a cloud, losing control and going splat. My last flight was through moderate haze and clouds- visibility was at times probably similar to that on RFK's last flight. I did fine, but I wouldn't have gone flying at all if I hadn't had an IFR rated instructor sitting next to me.
Then again, we could equip all these things with a transponder, IFR instruments and force everyone to get a pilot's license. Or perhaps we can restrict them to uncontrolled airspace and VFR flight only. Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a great idea.
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Eric
I was taught how to use one just last year. (I already knew, but hey...)
Get your pilot's license. You'll have to buy a device called an E6-B computer to figure time/speed/distance/fuel burn, wind correction angles and ground speed, etc. You guessed it: it's a circular slide rule. Fast, cheap, durable, effective and never runs out of batteries.
Side note: I ban calculators in my Physical Chemistry tests. I'm thinking about giving extra credit to anyone who can do the problems with a slide rule.
Eric
Well, let's see.
I just bought Mindrover. Haven't seen a game like it since Robowar on the Mac or Robot Odyssey on the AppleII
Number 1 and 2 sellers on PC right now- The Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon. The Sims is certainly original, and RRT may be a clone of Theme Park but it's got its own unique flavor.
Yeah, there are a dozen RT strategy and first person shooters for every innovative thing out there, but they certainly exist.
Eric
Pity those of us who want to create innovative content using a "specialized plug-in" such as Chime. (Chime allows 3d molecular display in a web page. Yes, there are Java applets that do this. When one of them can do 1/10th of what Chime can at better than 1/10th the speed I might look into it again.)
Chime lets me write pages like these: Atomic orbitals and Crystal unit cells Very useful in my line of work (Chemical education) But as soon as I do this I lock out all "alternative OSs"
Chime's actually more cross platform than most: Windows, Mac and an older IRIX version. It even is anti-MS: it runs like crap in MSIE on both Mac and Windows. (The Mozilla team fixed the compatibility problems when I sent the bug in.) But I can't do this stuff and make it truly cross-platform.
This is a problem for me: in fact, it's one of the main reasons I don't use Linux on the desktop.
For example, I got an Athlon-750 a few months back. What's that good for, other than playing Quake at 100FPS?
Shortly afterwards, my grandmother-in-law commented how badly one of her pictures had faded. My wife mentioned that you could computer enhance them...
I've now got a stack of photos by my desk at home. I've bought more memory and a better printer, but the Athlon-750 seems slow when playing with 60MB picture files.
I'm busy generating some molecular model animations at work right now. More CPU would be great- I've had to cut down the number of points to get models to build quickly while testing code. I got irritated when working on a lab with Mathematica and found that some of the Eigensystem commands took forever.
There's always a use for more CPU. And, of course, Unreal is liquid smooth...
Eric
I invested in companies that actually made physical objects that people could buy. That had profits, and a decent business model.
Back during the .com hype days, my investments looked like dogs. For example, I have a fair amount of drug company stock, having worked in that area- they sucked then. But now, they've been going up the entire time of the .com crash. My high-tech stuff has fallen, but only to the level it was last year. Big whoop: I'm still ahead on all of it. Invest long term- you'll make more.
End result: I've made money since the crash started. Not a ton, but then again I don't expect 100% return/year.
Eric
Eric
government is far more responsive to people's needs on a local level.
Yes, witness just how responsive the southern state governments were to the needs of their people. People, of course, defined as "white". Until the feds came in and applied a ClueStick(tm), that is.
Or perhaps you'd prefer schools where evolution is never mentioned and Wiccans get suspended because a teacher claimed that a student cast a spell on him.
Or perhaps you'd like it if a state legalized medical marijuana? Oh, that's right, California did. (I certainly voted for it.) State's rights went out the door fast on that one.
I agree, local control is often better. Despite the comments above, I'm actually for smaller government. But "state's rights" has been the clarion cry for racists and religious bigots for years. The right-wing are for state's rights until one of those gosh-darn liberal states does something they don't like, at which point the feds come down heavy. Why not just admit that the federal government can set basic laws and enforce them?
The federal government has far to much control over the states,
< sarcasm >
I know. Why, just a few years ago the federal government stepped in and forced states to let those darkies have civil rights!
The horror, the horror! < /sarcasm >
Are you *really* sure that state control over every aspect of life is a good idea?
After all, who would campaign in Rhode Island otherwise?
Then again, who would campaign in a "safe" state otherwise? I live in Virginia, a "safe" state for Bush. Did either candidate visit Virginia much? No. Didn't see a single TV or print ad for either candidate. (Not that I'm complaining ;^)
Personlly, I say switch to the Aussie system: rank all candidates. Popular vote majority wins. If no candidate gets a majority, remove the candidate with the lowest number of votes and give them to the person ranked #2 on each ballot. Continue eliminating candidates and redistributing until one candidate has a majority.
Eric
Imagine a Windows CE or Palm device with as much processing power as an Intel PII-300.
Imagine changing the AAA batteries in my Pilot every 20 minutes. Look up the power consumption of a Dragonball sometime: Crusoe is a power-sucking hog in comparision
Transmeta's between a rock and a hard place. They're trying to say "Look at the low, low 1 watt power consumption". But that doesn't help much in laptops, since the LCD and disk take a lot of the power, more than the CPU. At the same time, that 1 watt is something like an order of magnitude higher than a Dragonball[1]: installing a Crusoe in a Pilot just isn't going to work
Eric [1] A Dragonball uses 20 mA at 3.3V running flat out, most of the time much less than that.
Eric
Check out the rules. No EMP.
In fact, not much of anything weaponwise. Kinetic energy only, no projectiles. Looking over the various entrants, it seems to me that the best way to store enough KE to kill is in rotating objects: see Mauler, Blendo or Backlash for good examples.
Eric
Forget the discussion. I want to know what you were searching for that turned up a page entitled "Naked PC".
I mean, I'm broad minded, but some people...
What's even scarier is that by any reasonable measure he should have had at least 4
Any one of these would have put a physicist in the "legend" category. Einstein was one scary smart dude.
Eric
Checklist for new W2K setup, after install
1) Move task bar to right side of monitor
2) Uncheck "personalized menus" everywhere. (This should get rid of your problem)
3) Turn off "Enable web content" in folders
4) Turn off transition fade effect
5) Set all folders to detail view
6) Place Task Manager in startup group
Feel free to add your own, but that's the minimum I can do and have W2K feel useable.
Realistically, he didn't have a chance,and I have no idea why he thought he did. Even quickbuild aircraft kits take ~500-1000 hours of assembly time, and that's having all the parts and instructions. Kitbuilding from plans is a 2000 hour-heat death of universe type job.
Eric
Um, no.
Umm, yes. Go to any default Netscape bookmark. It's a redirect from Netscape. MSIE default links are the same. Neither does it for user created links. Netscape even did it first!
Geez, I know /. is anti-MS, but this story is one of the most absurd, knee-jerk FUD attempts I've ever seen.
Eric
How about the links in Netscape?
This is old news
Eric
People have different risk limits. Some people are afraid to leave their house. Others go BASE jumping, a sport with a very high death rate. I'm getting my pilot's license. Risky? To an extent, yes: if I screw up badly I will die, and the death rate in general aviation is not zero. (Hell, there was another fatal midair in Florida today.)
Looking at the history of spaceflight over the last 10-20 years, an astronaut has something on the order of a 1-2% chance of death on a given mission. Assume the Russians are horrible right now and that they're 5x worse than they were in their heyday. That's still only a 10% death rate. The number of people willing to have an experience like flying in space against a 10% chance of death is not zero. I'd think about it if I wasn't in the process of adopting a kid right now. (Families distort risk balances.)
Go into it with your eyes open, realizing the risks, but if that's ok, go.
Eric
Eric
Eric
Can I sue the goverment for overpayment of taxes due to the surplus.
Why not? Of course, are you willing to cough up the cash you owe first? If you think you deserve money back now you must have paid your full share back when the country was running a deficit. Oh, you didn't? Your share is roughly $20,000. Pony up.
Side note. All of these suits stink. The lawyers get rich, businesses get hurt and the plainiffs get screwed. Don't cheer just because it's anti-MS. It still stinks.
Thus, we don't need every civilization to decide not to interfere. We only need the first to decide on a Prime Directive and decide to enforce it.
It gets even more likely as we go farther back: if we assume a few million years between civs, civ A is now so overwhelming that it could do anything it wanted without effort. (To paraphrase a line from Gardner, "(They) had a billion years of evolution on humans. To call them godlike would be demeaning.")
Eric
Then I started actually taking flying lessons. There is a lot of air traffic, even close to the ground. It generally is hard to spot and moves very fast. (Even my little Cessna averages 100 mph.) There aren't any nice lines painted on the clouds to show you where to go: you need to know the traffic flow around the area, assuming the airspace is uncontrolled. Worse, any major city is probably going to be under class B airspace (IOW, you need ATC permission to enter.) and the ATC controllers aren't going to put up with a bunch of idiots flying around in their airspace, endangering 747s. (Hell, as a student pilot I'm not even allowed to enter class B, and I at least have the proper equipment and (most of the) training.)
And next, of course, let's deal with the wonderful issue of someone flying into a cloud, losing control and going splat. My last flight was through moderate haze and clouds- visibility was at times probably similar to that on RFK's last flight. I did fine, but I wouldn't have gone flying at all if I hadn't had an IFR rated instructor sitting next to me.
Then again, we could equip all these things with a transponder, IFR instruments and force everyone to get a pilot's license. Or perhaps we can restrict them to uncontrolled airspace and VFR flight only. Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a great idea.
Eric