Oh yeah, brings back memories. How to clone good stuff without editing files: Export character from game into character file. Clone off copy of file. Give stuff to another char. Delete old char. Re-import old clone. Repeat ad nauseum. Soon everyone's running around with a vorpal sword and girdle of giant strength.
Pool of Radiance actually had a true port to the Mac, wherein all the little areas of the screen had their own windows you could drag around.
All the sequels, though (e.g. Pools of Darkness, etc.) someone had written an emulator wrapper such that you had one window, and interacted through it the same way you would have on the PC.
I used to have Satellite Internet. DirecPC, a DirecTV variant that shared the satellite dish with both TV and Internet. It required you to pay for an AOL subscription, which was enormous because it also included a Hughs hidden subscription -- it's their satellites and Internet system.
It required Windows 98, Second Edition, which wouldn't install on my computer. So I hacked at it until I got it to work on first edition, thank god. Eventually the machine crapped out and I had to reinstall, and I never could get it running again. So I cancelled went back to dialup for a year and a half before the local cable company finally got around to land line broadband.
Total cost for the 8 months I had satellite Internet, including extra cost of "special" DirecTV dish, extra AOL charges, extra cost of $70 because the installing company had to drive > 50 miles to get there (so much for free installation), and refusal by CompUSA to actually give me the $150 rebate: $130/month for those 8 months.
> One thing I noticed yesterday was that the content upgrade install blew away C:\boot.ini. > I'm sure that the intention is to actually delete \boot.ini
Yikes! It sounds rather they didn't ignore, but actually listened. The install log now shows "deleting \boot.ini, which, of course, is the boot.ini file on the root of the current drive, most likely C:.
They want to delete just "boot.ini", which, presuming they set the current directory properly, is the correct thing to do.
> The result is that anyone who installs the enhanced graphics patch overwrites the windows > XP c:\boot.ini file with the EVE client configuration file, bricking the machine on the next boot
So you're saying redesigning my unconscionably ugly-ass Caldari Moa cruiser isn't the first thing on their priority list?
> Arden, the World of Shakespeare, funded with a $250,000 MacArthur Foundation grant > and developed at Indiana University was supposed to test economic theories by manipulating > the rules of the game. There's only one problem. "It's no fun"
Presumably this wasn't one of their Genius grants...
> Ahh, so politicians know better than scientists on how to conduct research. I see.
Apparently not if Congress has to tell NASA to stop messing around with the rediculously expensive (compared to robots) Mars missions.
Really, though, it's just a slap in the face to Bush who was pushing for Mars. They want to reserve getting that started for the next president, presumably a Democrat.
I'm sure the Feds have machines at key points all over the Internet (to say nothing of direct feeds from various backbone operators), and thus it would be trivial to build a database of traffic to and from an anonymizer to correlate the messages with original senders.
Best nobody think of this, though. Thinking anonymizers are useful (even if the anon server owner is 100% truthful and reliable) works in the favor of the Feds.
So you were scared until years later, when studies came out showing no statistical anomalies in brain cancer in groups with cellphone exposure and those without? (Or big electrical transmission tower exposure, or not?)
My microwave melts butter at 10s, and that's the outside. I've cut through it and it isn't melted on the inside, though it is soft all the way through.
I used to be scared microwaves were poisoning the food. Then I learned in chemistry what was actually going on (it was causing water molecules to vibrate, which generates friction with other molecules, which turns into heat.)
Laugh? I heard a guy on the radio not a year ago doing scare mongering as to what microwaves were doing to your food (and why you should therefore buy this product.)
If there is a god, he'd be much better off filtering out soulless bastards than filtering out those who refuse to kow-tow to him.
To put it in perspective, Congress briefly contemplated literally declaring war on "terror", but then people whispered in their ears that that would activate all kinds of escape clauses in the insurance of people and property for 9/11, which exempted payments for "acts of war". And, since it's all about votes, the votes lost due to slapping the victims were deemed more fearful than the loss of those not gained by increased patriotism of an actual declaration of war.
Politics is like evolution. Just as evolution doesn't care if a baby comes from sweet love or a violent rape, neither does politics care why someone gets elected. They're the "fittest" in some disturbing sense.
What would taxing land "based on population" be for (as opposed to equal taxation)? Allow higher taxes on more valuable land, i.e. land nearer population centers, without harming farmers out in BFE? But taxing "equally" is really taxing proportionally to value, rather than square acreage.
Reminds me of the legal mumbo jumbo of one of Michigan's laws, that a particular tax was not an income tax, it's just taxed proportional to your income. Whatever, hogs.
At the end, this guy is actually torturing the scientist, now the national hero, so he will take over dictatorial power and they can remain in power behind the scenes. But he won't do it! The machine breaks, and the hero actually instructs the ignorant government official on how to fix it so he can continue the torture, and the soulless official doesn't see the irony in this.
This is interesting. Can you provide longitudinal studies showing a net, long-term decrease in the quality of life, including increases in the net costs of products and decline in availability of products in the home?
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Oh yeah, brings back memories. How to clone good stuff without editing files: Export character from game into character file. Clone off copy of file. Give stuff to another char. Delete old char. Re-import old clone. Repeat ad nauseum. Soon everyone's running around with a vorpal sword and girdle of giant strength.
Pool of Radiance actually had a true port to the Mac, wherein all the little areas of the screen had their own windows you could drag around.
All the sequels, though (e.g. Pools of Darkness, etc.) someone had written an emulator wrapper such that you had one window, and interacted through it the same way you would have on the PC.
Ummmm, good job?
I used to have Satellite Internet. DirecPC, a DirecTV variant that shared the satellite dish with both TV and Internet. It required you to pay for an AOL subscription, which was enormous because it also included a Hughs hidden subscription -- it's their satellites and Internet system.
It required Windows 98, Second Edition, which wouldn't install on my computer. So I hacked at it until I got it to work on first edition, thank god. Eventually the machine crapped out and I had to reinstall, and I never could get it running again. So I cancelled went back to dialup for a year and a half before the local cable company finally got around to land line broadband.
Total cost for the 8 months I had satellite Internet, including extra cost of "special" DirecTV dish, extra AOL charges, extra cost of $70 because the installing company had to drive > 50 miles to get there (so much for free installation), and refusal by CompUSA to actually give me the $150 rebate: $130/month for those 8 months.
Yeah, whatever.
Of course, a savaging of a book or movie is what gets you noticed, and syndicated, or more syndicated.
> One thing I noticed yesterday was that the content upgrade install blew away C:\boot.ini.
> I'm sure that the intention is to actually delete \boot.ini
Yikes! It sounds rather they didn't ignore, but actually listened. The install log now shows "deleting \boot.ini, which, of course, is the boot.ini file on the root of the current drive, most likely C:.
They want to delete just "boot.ini", which, presuming they set the current directory properly, is the correct thing to do.
> The result is that anyone who installs the enhanced graphics patch overwrites the windows
> XP c:\boot.ini file with the EVE client configuration file, bricking the machine on the next boot
So you're saying redesigning my unconscionably ugly-ass Caldari Moa cruiser isn't the first thing on their priority list?
> The DoJ also appears to buy into the RIAA's argument that making a file available
> on a P2P network constitutes copyright infringement
"Honest, officer! I didn't put my penis in the prostitute. She slid her body down around it!"
I humbly await my downmod by file sharing advocates outraged I said God doesn't exist.
> approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of
.pdf? >:(
> 13 positive to 1 negative.
"32000" is a nice, round number. Couldn't they use it for something more special than
> by a vote of 13 positive to 1 negative. A two-thirds majority is required to pass
> so it was a large margin of victory (93%)
Too bad normal laws aren't passed by a 90% supermajority.
> Arden, the World of Shakespeare, funded with a $250,000 MacArthur Foundation grant
> and developed at Indiana University was supposed to test economic theories by manipulating
> the rules of the game. There's only one problem. "It's no fun"
Presumably this wasn't one of their Genius grants...
Hehe, "As low as $135 a month".
I think they mean $149.95 a month".
> Ahh, so politicians know better than scientists on how to conduct research. I see.
Apparently not if Congress has to tell NASA to stop messing around with the rediculously expensive (compared to robots) Mars missions.
Really, though, it's just a slap in the face to Bush who was pushing for Mars. They want to reserve getting that started for the next president, presumably a Democrat.
...because secretly bribing Russian officials is something that the US government has no experience with, and is above doing in any case.
I'm sure the Feds have machines at key points all over the Internet (to say nothing of direct feeds from various backbone operators), and thus it would be trivial to build a database of traffic to and from an anonymizer to correlate the messages with original senders.
Best nobody think of this, though. Thinking anonymizers are useful (even if the anon server owner is 100% truthful and reliable) works in the favor of the Feds.
Now go on about your business.
> Things are looking good for the OLPC
On-Line Porn Collection? Let's hope things are looking good!
> Participants will use an Internet system to enter bids
Clueless Government Employee: "Wow! Bidding is up to 39 trillion dollars! It's a real battle between 'kcusu' and 'asdfjlsdf' !"
"Wit" has two t's.
To sum up: Scary headline on page 1, two weeks later a retraction in the far corner of page 37.
Retraction isn't as profitable as scary headline, so don't give them equal weight, you quality, fair, honest journalists, you!
Nothing new here, folks. Move along, move along.
So you were scared until years later, when studies came out showing no statistical anomalies in brain cancer in groups with cellphone exposure and those without? (Or big electrical transmission tower exposure, or not?)
My microwave melts butter at 10s, and that's the outside. I've cut through it and it isn't melted on the inside, though it is soft all the way through.
I used to be scared microwaves were poisoning the food. Then I learned in chemistry what was actually going on (it was causing water molecules to vibrate, which generates friction with other molecules, which turns into heat.)
Laugh? I heard a guy on the radio not a year ago doing scare mongering as to what microwaves were doing to your food (and why you should therefore buy this product.)
If there is a god, he'd be much better off filtering out soulless bastards than filtering out those who refuse to kow-tow to him.
To put it in perspective, Congress briefly contemplated literally declaring war on "terror", but then people whispered in their ears that that would activate all kinds of escape clauses in the insurance of people and property for 9/11, which exempted payments for "acts of war". And, since it's all about votes, the votes lost due to slapping the victims were deemed more fearful than the loss of those not gained by increased patriotism of an actual declaration of war.
Politics is like evolution. Just as evolution doesn't care if a baby comes from sweet love or a violent rape, neither does politics care why someone gets elected. They're the "fittest" in some disturbing sense.
What would taxing land "based on population" be for (as opposed to equal taxation)? Allow higher taxes on more valuable land, i.e. land nearer population centers, without harming farmers out in BFE? But taxing "equally" is really taxing proportionally to value, rather than square acreage.
Reminds me of the legal mumbo jumbo of one of Michigan's laws, that a particular tax was not an income tax, it's just taxed proportional to your income. Whatever, hogs.
Ding ding ding, ftw!
(You're already pegged high at 5.)
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At the end, this guy is actually torturing the scientist, now the national hero, so he will take over dictatorial power and they can remain in power behind the scenes. But he won't do it! The machine breaks, and the hero actually instructs the ignorant government official on how to fix it so he can continue the torture, and the soulless official doesn't see the irony in this.
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Eh, why bother. Pearls before swine.
This is interesting. Can you provide longitudinal studies showing a net, long-term decrease in the quality of life, including increases in the net costs of products and decline in availability of products in the home?
No they don't, they just follow leaders who gain votes by promoting outrage at science's "conflict" with religion.
Everyone knows right-minded people reserve their outrage for businessmen, not scientists.