Did you put the insulating soundboard in the interior walls, or just on the outside? I would imagine that it would be a bit of a pain to take down the drywall just for some noise insulation.
Are you sure those blast doors shutting were permanent? I explicitly remember reopening them by using the switch that had its glass broken and them opening back up. Sure, if you were on the other side of the switch you wouldn't be able to open them again, but then you would just proceed with the game from that point.
It isn't the heat waves that matter, it is when the storm fronts move in and raise the humidity. Swamps can cool better in even the hottest low humidity days than in the normal heat, high humidity days in Alb. The clouds associated with the storm fronts also block the heat in really well, meaning that if you are using a swamp cooler, it will stay hot inside throughout the night. If cheap enough, this new AC can be put in alongside the swamp coolers so that it can be used in place of them when it is just too humid for them to do their job properly. The swamp coolers can still be used on normal dry days if they are still more energy efficient than the new AC.
Makes you wonder how many times he was thwarted by/.s anti shouting spam filter by trying to post over and over again until he found just the right ratio of words that he was allowed to have capitalized.
Although their is a lot of stabbings and muggings, and their citizens regularly get shot by police, you don't see much gun crime by criminals in Britain now a days, do you?
What about games that would work otherwise, but still be a pain to use? ie, are german citizens allowed to crack CD-ROM verification for software that they bought?
"For a long time, things like highlighting text in firefox and then dragging it led to flickering of the screen, "
I had a monitor that would flicker whenever I opened up certain windows only while compiz was enabled. It didn't seem to flicker if the window was too small, or for anything else other than large windows with compiz enabled, and seemed to be due to the "beam-up" animation that was displayed whenever new windows were opened. After it first flickered when opening the window, it would not flicker while opening up subsequent windows, until it would flicker again after about a minute later, at which time opening up more large windows would cause the flicker again. I never thought that the root cause could have been my video card, thinking instead that it was the monitor, so I didn't really check on what powermizer was doing at that time. That monitor died sooner rather than later and I replaced it with the same model (hannsg HG281D) that does not have this problem, so maybe it was a combination of power mizer and the monitor?
I was also raised in an environment similar to the one you described, but I also had access to the internet, and slashdot, where some of my beliefs were questioned, and when I asked the teachers, they never really had an answer. Learning how creationism is scientifically inaccurate and illogical is what sent me down the path of disbelieving everything they said, from creationism to Jesus. Sounds like you had it much worse though.
Well, I don't know if they provide linux drivers for their older models, but for the newer ones (mine is over 3 years old now), all I had to do was open up synaptic, search for the model number, and then install whatever came up. It just worked after that. I even managed to get the scanner working after going to the website for the scan drivers.
As far as the ink goes, you are definitively correct about the ink eating. The ink cartridges that came with mine weren't even close to full, and it wanted me to replace them before they were even close to empty. I suppose that is why the GP suggested an LED printer instead.
How is the article fud when proof of what it is saying is included? Even if the xiph.org article data were somehow wrong, how is it even fud to begin with? It is dispelling fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Theora, not spreading it. I do not think you know what fud means.
"Didn't sink the Bismarck but rendered it lame and set the stage for the final surface battle which sunk her."
Actually, the final battle itself probably didn't directly lead to the sinking, it only maimed it to the point that the crew had to scuttle it. At least it appears that way from expeditions to the Bismark wreckage.
There are other experiments that contradict this and show chimps that are smarter than children out there: boing link The children are a bit older than 2 years.
When North America was first being colonized, there where trees everywhere. These trees would have acted as wind breaks, turning wind into branch and leaf movement into friction and heat. Most of America's forests have since been chopped down, especially in the eastern side, with most areas being replaced with houses, which are not as high and do not cut wind as efficiently as trees do. So, technically, we've already done a lot to change wind patterns in the USA. Putting up wind turbines would be like replanting trees. It would probably have an effect, but after cutting down most of the trees out there, I would not imagine it would be much to worry about compared to that.
Wish I would have thought about it myself, or at least after watching half life speed runs, where a similar technique is used to bypass large areas of the game altogether. I also wish that the game would reward you for killing/not killing enemy combatants throughout the game, and not just at the start.
I've played it through a good 15-20 times. Funny thing is, I remember hearing that Warren Specter made Deus Ex 2 purposely shorter than 1 because he said that the average user never even finished it once because it was too long.
(I did give up one attempt after I got out of Paris catacombs without directly killing a single enemy in combat)
How did you avoid killing Anne Navarre?
I've tried the don't directly kill any enemy combatants thing before, but ended up having to kill Navarre to continue. Every other enemy was knocked unconscious with a baton strike. I didn't even use tranq darts that time through.
Another time I managed to bypass Gunther and get to Jock's copter in Battery Park after you betray Unatco, but Jock was a jerk and ignored me.:(
Even hearing about this game or it's sequels makes me want to go play through it again.
"I have re-played original deus ex upwards of 20-30 times..."
Obviously you didn't run into the same bug that I did with the GOTY version.
If you save too many time the game can't continue when it does an auto save.
Autosave? There was no autosave in deus ex 1. It would save some of the environment variables when going from one map to the other, but that's just until you get back there. It's not an actual save.
The theoreticals of the circuitry, I knew. The details of code and the reasons for how certain things are done (spacing of outlets, location and recommended height of boxes,
Aren't those just for convenience reasons? I can't think of any safety issues of doing those wrong or against code (assuming you don't put any of the outlets near or on the floor, for flooding reasons).
and the biggie, NEVER try to put an electrical line through a corner, for instance)
Well, in some places in the "West," girls hit puberty at 9-10 and start having babies at 11-12. Many are so fat that they have big floppy fatty boobs by the time they're 13.
Having bovine growth hormones in the milk you drink will do that. No big surprises there.
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Did you put the insulating soundboard in the interior walls, or just on the outside? I would imagine that it would be a bit of a pain to take down the drywall just for some noise insulation.
Are you sure those blast doors shutting were permanent? I explicitly remember reopening them by using the switch that had its glass broken and them opening back up. Sure, if you were on the other side of the switch you wouldn't be able to open them again, but then you would just proceed with the game from that point.
. . . and this is exactly why the vast majority of the public (especially the female half) doesn't take geek complaints about DRM seriously.
Because you don't think groping is sexual assault?
It isn't the heat waves that matter, it is when the storm fronts move in and raise the humidity. Swamps can cool better in even the hottest low humidity days than in the normal heat, high humidity days in Alb. The clouds associated with the storm fronts also block the heat in really well, meaning that if you are using a swamp cooler, it will stay hot inside throughout the night. If cheap enough, this new AC can be put in alongside the swamp coolers so that it can be used in place of them when it is just too humid for them to do their job properly. The swamp coolers can still be used on normal dry days if they are still more energy efficient than the new AC.
Makes you wonder how many times he was thwarted by /.s anti shouting spam filter by trying to post over and over again until he found just the right ratio of words that he was allowed to have capitalized.
As this person sadly found out the hard way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytfhzcSF-Y
Although their is a lot of stabbings and muggings, and their citizens regularly get shot by police, you don't see much gun crime by criminals in Britain now a days, do you?
What about games that would work otherwise, but still be a pain to use? ie, are german citizens allowed to crack CD-ROM verification for software that they bought?
"For a long time, things like highlighting text in firefox and then dragging it led to flickering of the screen, "
I had a monitor that would flicker whenever I opened up certain windows only while compiz was enabled. It didn't seem to flicker if the window was too small, or for anything else other than large windows with compiz enabled, and seemed to be due to the "beam-up" animation that was displayed whenever new windows were opened. After it first flickered when opening the window, it would not flicker while opening up subsequent windows, until it would flicker again after about a minute later, at which time opening up more large windows would cause the flicker again. I never thought that the root cause could have been my video card, thinking instead that it was the monitor, so I didn't really check on what powermizer was doing at that time. That monitor died sooner rather than later and I replaced it with the same model (hannsg HG281D) that does not have this problem, so maybe it was a combination of power mizer and the monitor?
I was also raised in an environment similar to the one you described, but I also had access to the internet, and slashdot, where some of my beliefs were questioned, and when I asked the teachers, they never really had an answer. Learning how creationism is scientifically inaccurate and illogical is what sent me down the path of disbelieving everything they said, from creationism to Jesus. Sounds like you had it much worse though.
Well, I don't know if they provide linux drivers for their older models, but for the newer ones (mine is over 3 years old now), all I had to do was open up synaptic, search for the model number, and then install whatever came up. It just worked after that. I even managed to get the scanner working after going to the website for the scan drivers.
As far as the ink goes, you are definitively correct about the ink eating. The ink cartridges that came with mine weren't even close to full, and it wanted me to replace them before they were even close to empty. I suppose that is why the GP suggested an LED printer instead.
Just make sure not to send any telephone cleaners up there with the politicians. We may need them later.
How science reporting works
So what you are saying is that if I hold my breath, it will make reading slashdot easier?
How is the article fud when proof of what it is saying is included? Even if the xiph.org article data were somehow wrong, how is it even fud to begin with? It is dispelling fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Theora, not spreading it. I do not think you know what fud means.
"Didn't sink the Bismarck but rendered it lame and set the stage for the final surface battle which sunk her."
Actually, the final battle itself probably didn't directly lead to the sinking, it only maimed it to the point that the crew had to scuttle it. At least it appears that way from expeditions to the Bismark wreckage.
"However, eBay specifically forbids it. I don't know why."
Because ebay owns paypal, and google checkout is in direct competition with paypal.
wiki link
There are other experiments that contradict this and show chimps that are smarter than children out there: boing link The children are a bit older than 2 years.
When North America was first being colonized, there where trees everywhere. These trees would have acted as wind breaks, turning wind into branch and leaf movement into friction and heat. Most of America's forests have since been chopped down, especially in the eastern side, with most areas being replaced with houses, which are not as high and do not cut wind as efficiently as trees do. So, technically, we've already done a lot to change wind patterns in the USA. Putting up wind turbines would be like replanting trees. It would probably have an effect, but after cutting down most of the trees out there, I would not imagine it would be much to worry about compared to that.
Indeed, after reripping my entire collection for like the 3rd or 4th time because it got corrupted randomly,
Even if it is lossy, it's still in digital format on the HD, right? Wouldn't random corruption be indicative of a bad hard drive?
I always considered that to be killing her as well.
After searching, I came up with these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjXKIK8NWEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsh24FmYlNQ
Wish I would have thought about it myself, or at least after watching half life speed runs, where a similar technique is used to bypass large areas of the game altogether. I also wish that the game would reward you for killing/not killing enemy combatants throughout the game, and not just at the start.
I've played it through a good 15-20 times. Funny thing is, I remember hearing that Warren Specter made Deus Ex 2 purposely shorter than 1 because he said that the average user never even finished it once because it was too long.
(I did give up one attempt after I got out of Paris catacombs without directly killing a single enemy in combat)
How did you avoid killing Anne Navarre?
I've tried the don't directly kill any enemy combatants thing before, but ended up having to kill Navarre to continue. Every other enemy was knocked unconscious with a baton strike. I didn't even use tranq darts that time through.
Another time I managed to bypass Gunther and get to Jock's copter in Battery Park after you betray Unatco, but Jock was a jerk and ignored me. :(
Even hearing about this game or it's sequels makes me want to go play through it again.
"I have re-played original deus ex upwards of 20-30 times ..."
Obviously you didn't run into the same bug that I did with the GOTY version.
If you save too many time the game can't continue when it does an auto save.
Autosave? There was no autosave in deus ex 1. It would save some of the environment variables when going from one map to the other, but that's just until you get back there. It's not an actual save.
The theoreticals of the circuitry, I knew. The details of code and the reasons for how certain things are done (spacing of outlets, location and recommended height of boxes,
Aren't those just for convenience reasons? I can't think of any safety issues of doing those wrong or against code (assuming you don't put any of the outlets near or on the floor, for flooding reasons).
and the biggie, NEVER try to put an electrical line through a corner, for instance)
Can you elaborate?
Well, in some places in the "West," girls hit puberty at 9-10 and start having babies at 11-12. Many are so fat that they have big floppy fatty boobs by the time they're 13.
Having bovine growth hormones in the milk you drink will do that. No big surprises there.