I don't know exactly how the starcraft games might look, but when I lived in Hungary, there was a TV program where people playing Mario (!) were broadcast with commentary. These were regular guys off the street, which was easy to see, because they all kept dying in the first level from having a turtle bounce back at them.
No, torches were polygonal. Look around E1M8 for an example.
There was a light globe that used a sprite; it is never used in any of the single player levels (to my knowledge), but exists as a type of light; I have seen it in addon levels.
9 hours extreme? Ha! When I had a 2400 baud modem, it took me that long to download the Duke Nukem demo! With a 56k, I was downloading ISO images in 2 days! People these days, they just don't have any patience.
I consider myself very lucky: my CS teacher in high school has lan parties, where we use the school's machines and network. Sure, the machines may be outdated, but they can run Tribes 1 very well.
The administration has been slightly annoyed at us, but didn't ban it, instead made it so that if a student wanted to play, they had to get a sheet signed by teachers each week that says we were getting good grades. This was the same thing that sports had to do. In effect, playing Tribes in the school CS lab after school/during lunch was officially considered a sport.
I can imagine an interview at college:
Have you any sports experience?
1 c4n n41l j00 fr0m a h100dred y4rD5 w1th m4 sn1p3r r1f73!!!
Seriously, how do we know that Microsoft is telling the truth? If it's an OS bug, how come it only affects IE? I think that it is an IE bug, but because IE's intergrated deeply with the OS itself, Microsoft can make people get the OS upgrade, possibly for money, and probably for the license change.
Of course, maybe the tinfoil hat I'm wearing has affected my brain...
I think there was a/. story about that a few weeks back. Personally, I want to see Final Fantasy on the IMAX. Since it's all rendered, they could just re-render it in higher quality and it would look spectacular.
In Europe (Hungary anyway), they usually tell how large the drink is in dL. When you get 3 dL of Pepsi/Coke, the glass they give it to you in is marked 3 dL with a line, like a flask or a beaker.
In Madison, I bought Contact for seven bucks at Barnes & Noble. Later, as I was in a used bookstore, I found the same book, in only slightly worse condition, for $.50.
Try Megazeux: it has more features than ZZT, such as supporing.mod music, 'graphics' through modification of the characters (might not work in an emulator), palette modification, and a better scripting language.
The Red Army, although calling itself communist, was more dictatorial in fashion. The kind of 'communism' practiced in Russia in that era is also known as Stalinism, and it differs greatly from communism in theory. In theory, there should be no government at all in a communist state; the people should control everything. In practice, the state controlled everything and it doled it out the people in little bits and pieces.
I suggest you quit knee-jerking and try to look at the issue from different sides, as well as knowing the concepts behind it.
Someone please explain to me why I would use a USB mouse which blocks up one of my limited USB ports (which I use for my Visor cradle and wireless access point) when I could just use a PS/2 mouse which uses a PS/2 mouse port that would otherwise be wasted. I would also get easier mouse configuration under Linux, free! A lot of hardware, even modern hardware uses the serial/parallel ports; throwing them away would be a BAD THING.
I use both Linux and WinXP on the same machine, and occasionally I want to transfer data between the two. However, since WinXP uses NTFS and Linux cannot write to NTFS, it's fairly one-way; that is why I use floppies on the machine. I could also use CD-Rs, but it's really a waste to do that. As for CD-RWs, there is a nice piece of software for Windows called DirectCD that lets me use it as if it were a true random access media, but I don't know of any equivalents for Linux. Also, CD-RWs have a limited number of writes, too, just a hell of a lot more than a CD-R. Personally, I wish someone would just invent a bigger piece of magnetic media, like ZIP or LS-120, and then put it into public domain or release the specs and let others clone it so we wouldn't have this problem.
The nice thing about floppies is that until Macs started coming without them, they were universal on personal computers. We should come up with a replacement before we throw the old one away.
BTW, when I lived in Hungary (about 1 year behind the US in technology back then), my 386 had a 5.25 in floppy drive as well as a 3.5 in stiffy drive. 5.25s were a lot cheaper, and when I moved here, I was saddened that I couldn't use a lot of my old software because no computers had 5.25 in drives.
Skeptic: I used the scientific method to debunk 100% of the people claiming to be psychic.
Dogbert: Are you saying that every test turns out the way you want it to?
Skeptic: What's your point?
Dogbert: You've just proven you're psychic!
It's not the graphical install that I care about; although I do not consider myself a Linux guru by any means, using text is just as easy as using a gui. I've used Slackware, I've used FreeBSD, and neither of those had graphical installs. What bugs me about Debian is, how they mentioned in the article, that it's "very conservative." I have Red Hat 7.3, and I like how it's shipped with a 2.4 kernel, and I like how you get the choice of using ext3 for your Linux partitions, which I've used with less troubles than ext2 (once e2fsck segfaulted on boot, putting me into single user mode; I had to disable it to be able to boot into multi user again. That never happened with ext3.)
Once Debian considers keeping up with the times, I'll consider getting it.
Maybe the fact that the site is already slashdotted (about 5 minutes after the story came up) might explain something. The reason freeciv is important is because it is one of the better games out there for Linux (and unfortunately there are so few). Besides, with source code available, you can hack on it and not only make it better, but tailor it to what you want Civilization to be like; no more having to depend on Microprose to release a new addon pack with cool features.
Asimov's short story is called "The Last Question". To sum it up quickly:
The question of whether entropy can be reversed was first asked by a pair of drunken technicians of the supercomputer UNIVAC (appearently Asimov hadn't heard of the Beowulf Cluster), but the computer had insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Asimov continues this through several generations both of the human species and of computers (ending with a superorganism simply called 'Man') but no answer could be found until the universe collapsed and only the computer remained (because it was in hyperspace). Then it had all the data it needed, and proceeded to show how entropy could be reversed through a demonstration: "Let there be light." (Literally). I love those kinds of stories.
See, the thing is that religion usually isn't accompanied by proof. Here, you have proof, and also it's very logical (as opposed to religion.) Maybe the date is wrong, especially if we change our evil ways, but still, you have two facts:
- Population increases - Supplies don't
Any fool can add these up to spell eventual disaster. This isn't meant to be a spelling of doom no matter what, it says what's projected to happen if things keep following their course. Change the course, and these things won't happen as predicted.
As my driver's ed teacher repeatedly told us, cars are designed to break on impact to absorb the kinetic energy of it, so we wouldn't get knocked around as much. If we made cars from stronger materials, they would survive impacts but the passengers inside wouldn't.
Buy a Dvortyboard. It's about 90 dollars, but can switch from QWERTY to Dvorak with a button; it changes the mapping of the keys so the computer still thinks it's using QWERTY even if you're using Dvorak. The good thing about it is that if you're playing a game that uses a certain arrangement of keys for actions (eg. vi keys in Nethack or xconq) you can switch back to QWERTY.
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I don't know exactly how the starcraft games might look, but when I lived in Hungary, there was a TV program where people playing Mario (!) were broadcast with commentary. These were regular guys off the street, which was easy to see, because they all kept dying in the first level from having a turtle bounce back at them.
No, torches were polygonal. Look around E1M8 for an example.
There was a light globe that used a sprite; it is never used in any of the single player levels (to my knowledge), but exists as a type of light; I have seen it in addon levels.
9 hours extreme? Ha! When I had a 2400 baud modem, it took me that long to download the Duke Nukem demo! With a 56k, I was downloading ISO images in 2 days! People these days, they just don't have any patience.
I consider myself very lucky: my CS teacher in high school has lan parties, where we use the school's machines and network. Sure, the machines may be outdated, but they can run Tribes 1 very well.
The administration has been slightly annoyed at us, but didn't ban it, instead made it so that if a student wanted to play, they had to get a sheet signed by teachers each week that says we were getting good grades. This was the same thing that sports had to do. In effect, playing Tribes in the school CS lab after school/during lunch was officially considered a sport.
I can imagine an interview at college:
Have you any sports experience?
1 c4n n41l j00 fr0m a h100dred y4rD5 w1th m4 sn1p3r r1f73!!!
Damn. You beat me to the punch.
Seriously, how do we know that Microsoft is telling the truth? If it's an OS bug, how come it only affects IE? I think that it is an IE bug, but because IE's intergrated deeply with the OS itself, Microsoft can make people get the OS upgrade, possibly for money, and probably for the license change.
Of course, maybe the tinfoil hat I'm wearing has affected my brain...
Microsoft has existed before DRM. Hollywood has existed before DRM. They will probably exist after DRM as well, if we ever get over it.
I think there was a /. story about that a few weeks back. Personally, I want to see Final Fantasy on the IMAX. Since it's all rendered, they could just re-render it in higher quality and it would look spectacular.
In Europe (Hungary anyway), they usually tell how large the drink is in dL. When you get 3 dL of Pepsi/Coke, the glass they give it to you in is marked 3 dL with a line, like a flask or a beaker.
In Madison, I bought Contact for seven bucks at Barnes & Noble. Later, as I was in a used bookstore, I found the same book, in only slightly worse condition, for $.50.
Try Megazeux: it has more features than ZZT, such as supporing .mod music, 'graphics' through modification of the characters (might not work in an emulator), palette modification, and a better scripting language.
The Red Army, although calling itself communist, was more dictatorial in fashion. The kind of 'communism' practiced in Russia in that era is also known as Stalinism, and it differs greatly from communism in theory. In theory, there should be no government at all in a communist state; the people should control everything. In practice, the state controlled everything and it doled it out the people in little bits and pieces.
I suggest you quit knee-jerking and try to look at the issue from different sides, as well as knowing the concepts behind it.
That sure would screw a lot of people.
Exactly.
Someone please explain to me why I would use a USB mouse which blocks up one of my limited USB ports (which I use for my Visor cradle and wireless access point) when I could just use a PS/2 mouse which uses a PS/2 mouse port that would otherwise be wasted. I would also get easier mouse configuration under Linux, free! A lot of hardware, even modern hardware uses the serial/parallel ports; throwing them away would be a BAD THING.
I use both Linux and WinXP on the same machine, and occasionally I want to transfer data between the two. However, since WinXP uses NTFS and Linux cannot write to NTFS, it's fairly one-way; that is why I use floppies on the machine. I could also use CD-Rs, but it's really a waste to do that. As for CD-RWs, there is a nice piece of software for Windows called DirectCD that lets me use it as if it were a true random access media, but I don't know of any equivalents for Linux. Also, CD-RWs have a limited number of writes, too, just a hell of a lot more than a CD-R. Personally, I wish someone would just invent a bigger piece of magnetic media, like ZIP or LS-120, and then put it into public domain or release the specs and let others clone it so we wouldn't have this problem.
The nice thing about floppies is that until Macs started coming without them, they were universal on personal computers. We should come up with a replacement before we throw the old one away.
BTW, when I lived in Hungary (about 1 year behind the US in technology back then), my 386 had a 5.25 in floppy drive as well as a 3.5 in stiffy drive. 5.25s were a lot cheaper, and when I moved here, I was saddened that I couldn't use a lot of my old software because no computers had 5.25 in drives.
Take 1 bowl of grits
Heat
Original troll food.
Skeptic: I used the scientific method to debunk 100% of the people claiming to be psychic. Dogbert: Are you saying that every test turns out the way you want it to? Skeptic: What's your point? Dogbert: You've just proven you're psychic!
It's not the graphical install that I care about; although I do not consider myself a Linux guru by any means, using text is just as easy as using a gui. I've used Slackware, I've used FreeBSD, and neither of those had graphical installs. What bugs me about Debian is, how they mentioned in the article, that it's "very conservative." I have Red Hat 7.3, and I like how it's shipped with a 2.4 kernel, and I like how you get the choice of using ext3 for your Linux partitions, which I've used with less troubles than ext2 (once e2fsck segfaulted on boot, putting me into single user mode; I had to disable it to be able to boot into multi user again. That never happened with ext3.)
Once Debian considers keeping up with the times, I'll consider getting it.
Maybe the fact that the site is already slashdotted (about 5 minutes after the story came up) might explain something.
The reason freeciv is important is because it is one of the better games out there for Linux (and unfortunately there are so few). Besides, with source code available, you can hack on it and not only make it better, but tailor it to what you want Civilization to be like; no more having to depend on Microprose to release a new addon pack with cool features.
Don't you need to be root under Unix in order to install everything?
Asimov's short story is called "The Last Question". To sum it up quickly:
The question of whether entropy can be reversed was first asked by a pair of drunken technicians of the supercomputer UNIVAC (appearently Asimov hadn't heard of the Beowulf Cluster), but the computer had insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Asimov continues this through several generations both of the human species and of computers (ending with a superorganism simply called 'Man') but no answer could be found until the universe collapsed and only the computer remained (because it was in hyperspace). Then it had all the data it needed, and proceeded to show how entropy could be reversed through a demonstration: "Let there be light." (Literally). I love those kinds of stories.
See, the thing is that religion usually isn't accompanied by proof. Here, you have proof, and also it's very logical (as opposed to religion.) Maybe the date is wrong, especially if we change our evil ways, but still, you have two facts:
- Population increases- Supplies don't
Any fool can add these up to spell eventual disaster. This isn't meant to be a spelling of doom no matter what, it says what's projected to happen if things keep following their course. Change the course, and these things won't happen as predicted.
As my driver's ed teacher repeatedly told us, cars are designed to break on impact to absorb the kinetic energy of it, so we wouldn't get knocked around as much. If we made cars from stronger materials, they would survive impacts but the passengers inside wouldn't.
Buy a Dvortyboard. It's about 90 dollars, but can switch from QWERTY to Dvorak with a button; it changes the mapping of the keys so the computer still thinks it's using QWERTY even if you're using Dvorak. The good thing about it is that if you're playing a game that uses a certain arrangement of keys for actions (eg. vi keys in Nethack or xconq) you can switch back to QWERTY.
We'd probably be doing a lot more with the moon had we the budget... in any case, I hope this starts a trend.
Someone once said "Windows uses the start button to shut down, Macs use the fruit to get to the control panel. Is either one really intuitive?".