>And, what are the rules? NVG? Hearbeat detectors? What about paint-grenades? Tripwires?
I was thinking it might be better if they used those laser guns like in laser quest. Perhaps they can get them like sniper rifles and everything like that. A lot cheaper too I expect in the long term.
Hmm, wonder if they'll use real smoke grenades....
>But.... if the Matrix *was* built by a race of cruel machines designed to control humans, then why was the Matrix programmed the way it is? Are they torturing humans with a life they once knew, before AI came into play and destroyed that which they had?
In the Matrix movie, what makes you think that the machines are cruel? They are simply trying to survive. We would use the machines to survive if the roles were reversed *cough*animatrix*cough*
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_.
Well I've seen X11 come on 3 floppies before (or is it 8?).
Anyway, the idea is, that you see what libraries it does need, and just include them. Use a hacked version of wine that doesn't have any of the display code, use only the minimum of the X11 libraries, and so on..
You run it, and pass the.torrent file as a parameter. And it downloads it. What documentation do you need?:P If you are lazy, tell the browser to always open.torrent files with it.
He says that the adventure game studio program looks to complicated. Looking at the site, it sounds very easy to use. Don't be patronising to the kids. Many people here probably could code by 9, the lower end of the age range. At the upper range, 13, I was doing advanced c++ courses at college.. Kids learn quicker than adults - remember that.
> Note that there is a 0.3% chance of impact during that encounter.
Is that 0.3% chance mostly from the inaccuracy of the devices that measure the velocity of the object, inaccuracy of the prediction models, or genuine random events (like uh being affected by random solar wind variations, or something ).
I looked at the mentioned AGS project, and it seemed very cool. Unfortunetly the guy who wrote it seems to have been burned before, and won't open source it - for those to whom such things matter (like me - I'm anal about such things unfortuntely).
From his FAQ:
Q. Then can I have the source code, to port it myself?
A. Sorry, AGS is not open-source. There are many reasons for this which I will not go into here. The main two are:
(1) I made another application open-source in the past, and someone took it, changed the copyright and tried to release it as their own
(2) The AGS file formats are proprietary to make it harder for people to "hack" other people's games. If the source code was available, it would be easy for someone to write some sort of de-compiler for use with other peoples games.
I'm sure I remember there being opensource engines for such games - anyone know gui's for them?
It would be interesting to see if you can do this with embedded linux + wine.
Advantages: * You can disable all the gui stuff (if it's embedded, then you might not need any gui) * You can hack it to make it smaller * You don't need a windows license
Does anyone know how big wine is normally when compilied? libs and all.. I have no idea if it is a few MB, or 10's of MB's.
> I remember thinking at the time that this was a neat idea, but having a third-party with the power to frag my hard drive does not fill me with comfort.
The third party was the original owner.. Most linux boxes allow anyone to frag their hard drives remotely.. ssh in , su, frag.
>Does anyone recall the low-level format utility that used to be built into hard drive controller ROMS?
Yep - I would use "debug" to load that program, then execute... they often had pretty gui's too (well... gui ncurses-like style) And I'm 22, so not that long ago..
> I'm pretty sure your argument is going to fall on deaf ears, because the right thing for you to do is "do without."
Like I said, if you want to make the argument that I should "do without", then fair enough. But not the argument that I can afford to pay for the stuff.
As for the southpark episodes - so.. there's no legal way for me watch them anyway, so again, the 'best' thing to do is just do without.
I see your point, and you are probably right, but frankly I don't hurt anyone from watching it when I perhaps I shouldn't. It's a victimless crime:) And one I'm not going to lose sleep over.
They wrote as if I had said that the EU doesn't do it (bully other states). Which is not what I said. All I did was state that the US does do it - nothing either way about the EU.
If they had said "On the other hand, the EU does it as well", that would have been good. If they agreed/disagreed , that would have been good. But to pretend that I had said something, and then argue against, that is not good.
>Pay for your stuff people, it's not that expensive...if you don't have a job and can't afford it, why are you using the internet? That costs just as much a month as a movie/book/game.
Um, yes it is 'that expensive'. I pay £100 a year for more student 10Mb/sec connection. Say I hypothetically (ahem) downloaded southpark and simpsons every week (since the uk keeps showing reruns), then how much that cost me? Not to mention my changing tastes in music, and various movies. I also (hypothetically) get startrek episodes - just them alone would cost a fortune.
I'm trying to work out how to pay the rent next month, let alone pay several thousand pounds to legally own what I have.
So no, I can't pay for my stuff. If on the other hand you say "well if you can't pay for it, don't get it - this is a capitilist society", then you would have a point.
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>And, what are the rules? NVG? Hearbeat detectors? What about paint-grenades? Tripwires?
I was thinking it might be better if they used those laser guns like in laser quest. Perhaps they can get them like sniper rifles and everything like that. A lot cheaper too I expect in the long term.
Hmm, wonder if they'll use real smoke grenades....
Maybe you shouldn't snooze so much - you totally missed the point.
Have a look at other people's comments.
Um, what about the man hours that goes into making punkbuster etc?
>But.... if the Matrix *was* built by a race of cruel machines designed to control humans, then why was the Matrix programmed the way it is? Are they torturing humans with a life they once knew, before AI came into play and destroyed that which they had?
In the Matrix movie, what makes you think that the machines are cruel? They are simply trying to survive. We would use the machines to survive if the roles were reversed *cough*animatrix*cough*
Wondering what "zenith" meant, I looked it up:
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_.
hmmm
You filter the equivalent of the 7th layer.
duh
Well I've seen X11 come on 3 floppies before (or is it 8?).
/me shrugs
Anyway, the idea is, that you see what libraries it does need, and just include them. Use a hacked version of wine that doesn't have any of the display code, use only the minimum of the X11 libraries, and so on..
I think it could be done. Why?
Hmm, I can't seem to find where I defined port forwarding.. I could of sworn I put it in..
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --dport 8888 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.2:80
From a google'd site..
For port forwarding xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8888 to 192.168.0.2:80 .
uh this is just port forwarding.
/ po st-install.html
It's no biggie - see my howto on ip masq, where I cover port forwarding in post-install bit.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO
You run it, and pass the .torrent file as a parameter. And it downloads it. :P .torrent files with it.
What documentation do you need?
If you are lazy, tell the browser to always open
I was just thinking.
If the 8-ball gives a yes/no answer, so a 50% chance of being right, and 50% chance of being wrong.
So if you did it just 5 times, and then average, then that would give you a 1-(1-0.5)^5 = about 5% accuracy...
hmm so that's why they did
> I'm quite sure they used a 8-ball to figure out if the giant-space-thingie is going to hit us or not.
oh come on, it's more accurate than that. They probably use the 8-ball 100 times, and then average..
oh come on. In any logo class I've been in when I was young, they had the whole class drawing flowers and boxes within the first 2 hours.
He says that the adventure game studio program looks to complicated. Looking at the site, it sounds very easy to use.
Don't be patronising to the kids.
Many people here probably could code by 9, the lower end of the age range. At the upper range, 13, I was doing advanced c++ courses at college..
Kids learn quicker than adults - remember that.
> Note that there is a 0.3% chance of impact during that encounter.
Is that 0.3% chance mostly from the inaccuracy of the devices that measure the velocity of the object, inaccuracy of the prediction models, or genuine random events (like uh being affected by random solar wind variations, or something ).
I looked at the mentioned AGS project, and it seemed very cool.
Unfortunetly the guy who wrote it seems to have been burned before, and won't open source it - for those to whom such things matter (like me - I'm anal about such things unfortuntely).
From his FAQ:
Q. Then can I have the source code, to port it myself?
A. Sorry, AGS is not open-source. There are many reasons for this which I will not go into here. The main two are:
(1) I made another application open-source in the past, and someone took it, changed the copyright and tried to release it as their own
(2) The AGS file formats are proprietary to make it harder for people to "hack" other people's games. If the source code was available, it would be easy for someone to write some sort of de-compiler for use with other peoples games.
I'm sure I remember there being opensource engines for such games - anyone know gui's for them?
What's the smallest you can get wine down to?
It would be interesting to see if you can do this with embedded linux + wine.
Advantages:
* You can disable all the gui stuff (if it's embedded, then you might not need any gui)
* You can hack it to make it smaller
* You don't need a windows license
Does anyone know how big wine is normally when compilied? libs and all.. I have no idea if it is a few MB, or 10's of MB's.
> I remember thinking at the time that this was a neat idea, but having a third-party with the power to frag my hard drive does not fill me with comfort.
The third party was the original owner..
Most linux boxes allow anyone to frag their hard drives remotely.. ssh in , su, frag.
>Does anyone recall the low-level format utility that used to be built into hard drive controller ROMS?
Yep - I would use "debug" to load that program, then execute... they often had pretty gui's too (well... gui ncurses-like style)
And I'm 22, so not that long ago..
> I'm pretty sure your argument is going to fall on deaf ears, because the right thing for you to do is "do without."
:) And one I'm not going to lose sleep over.
Like I said, if you want to make the argument that I should "do without", then fair enough. But not the argument that I can afford to pay for the stuff.
As for the southpark episodes - so.. there's no legal way for me watch them anyway, so again, the 'best' thing to do is just do without.
I see your point, and you are probably right, but frankly I don't hurt anyone from watching it when I perhaps I shouldn't. It's a victimless crime
hyptothetically *glances round*.
They wrote as if I had said that the EU doesn't do it (bully other states). Which is not what I said. All I did was state that the US does do it - nothing either way about the EU.
If they had said "On the other hand, the EU does it as well", that would have been good. If they agreed/disagreed , that would have been good. But to pretend that I had said something, and then argue against, that is not good.
> France holding EU membership over the heads of certain countries doesn't count as forced?
er, I didn't comment either way on that. Please comment on what I say.
>Pay for your stuff people, it's not that expensive...if you don't have a job and can't afford it, why are you using the internet? That costs just as much a month as a movie/book/game.
Um, yes it is 'that expensive'. I pay £100 a year for more student 10Mb/sec connection.
Say I hypothetically (ahem) downloaded southpark and simpsons every week (since the uk keeps showing reruns), then how much that cost me?
Not to mention my changing tastes in music, and various movies. I also (hypothetically) get startrek episodes - just them alone would cost a fortune.
I'm trying to work out how to pay the rent next month, let alone pay several thousand pounds to legally own what I have.
So no, I can't pay for my stuff.
If on the other hand you say "well if you can't pay for it, don't get it - this is a capitilist society", then you would have a point.
>All of this, however, doesn't excuse the editor from flashing his Debian-using ego around.
Jeez, it's a joke. You'll have a heart attack before you are 30 if you get stressed over such things.
> I'm pretty sure once that one is in the adoption of the program would be much wider than it is today.
Well if you put it in, you'll be sued for violating patents.
So I don't think it will happen anytime soon.