Water is an insulator on it's own. it won't short out a clean motherboard when we're talking about time periods of a few minutes to a couple hours. After that though, you should worry about the liquid water causing corrosion or absorbing enough conducting materians to gain the properties of a conductor.
Actually, I've used water in the past to clean low-voltage electronics, such as keyboards. As long as you ensure there is no liquid remaining when you put it back together, and ensure that actual components aren't saturated, the keyboard will run like new for another few years(before someone spills beer on it again.:( )
...which is still perfectly alright for what many people do. Believe it or not. If you find the right software(in this case, I'd guess Windows 98 + 98lite + microGUI), even a 486 can fly.
If the brain lost it's ability to produce brainwaves, you'd be dead. If you are dead, I don't think you'd need to worry about a good nights sleep anymore.
It's possible this isn't a meteorite. It would have hurt (but probably not much more than having the same rock thrown at you)
Yeah...A rock thrown at you at terminal velocity!
Ouch. I saw the headline, and thought "Poor girl. If she lived, it probably went clean through her foot."
No. You're right about one thing; it's likely not an actual meteorite. Maybe someone threw a rock at her from the safety of behind a house, and missed somewhat?
The reason for bitmaps vs. vectors even is that hand drawn art is a more refined art form. For something with simplistic graphics, it might not be a problem, but add a little detail, and it goes to hell.
Another interesting thought is this; have you ever considered that adding extra frames can DEGRADE graphic quality? If the scripts aren't designed to take full advantage of precision 10 years ahead of us, the motion ends up looking realistic--for a robot. It's like the trooper in Jdoom(which lets you swap out all the sprites in Doom with full 3d models). The original sprite left out parts of the movement, but seemed more natural and realistic, because the skipped frames were mere transition, and animating them (and invariably animating them badly) lead to unnatural looking movements. Instead, trying to make high resolution graphics which look perfect today will succeed because the graphics will run exactly the same in 10 years on someones Cyrix 45 Thz(It's the future -- you never know...) ubercomputer.
And yes, Cel shading really sucks, but only through the POWER OF THE X-BOX can a simple DX8 shader effect be achieved.(sorry, long rant there concerning the ignorance and sheer manipulative lies coming out of MS Marketing)
Cartoon graphics at 1024x768x32 native, hand drawn.
Not only would those be better than 3d, it would be SO MUCH better, it could make or break the game.
Cartoon effects translated into 3d suck royal ass. Trust me, I've seen too many attempts to believe otherwise. 2d is 2d. It's the reason cartoons are still on TV, despite the fact that 3d rendered TV shows are possible. 2d Graphics at that resolution would stand the test of time just as the original "Sam and Max hit the road" have, only much better. Now; install a 3d shooter from the same time period, and tell me if it looks half as good under the all-jading eyes of time and advancing technology.
Don't these ignorant bastards realize that there are legitimate reasons to make backup copies of CDs, or make ISOs of them on your hard drive? I call this reason the "shit! a scratch on the CD causes the game to crash right before the last boss!" factor.
Old Qbasic had an interesting way of doing that. You just put the right symbol at the end of the variable. It forced you to follow the standard, because anything which wasn't declared otherwise was automatically a single precision floating point number(which hurts speed -- a lot.)
I hope the next US election is as entertaining as the last. It was hilarious! Chads, warts, band-aids, 51% = lose, all the great hallmarks of a classic. I can only hope that the history books remember that slapstick election.
Another idea which would work well in this respect would be altering the language used to be more reader freindly. Much C code is written whose syntax is a greater barrier to understanding the code than any concept underneath. Seperating some aspects of the language from regular syntax (such as pointer notation -- Sure, it's simple in theory, but in practice, it takes a fantastic long-term memory to remember whether you are witnessing a pointer being set to a memory address, or a value being placed into a variable without flicking around the source code or using a third party utility, which just slows you down and interrupts your thought process). Sure, an experienced coder can decipher obusficated(spelling?) code, but if the language makes it one step easier, that's a little bit of brain power to the question of "Why the hell did the original code do that?", and takes a bit away from the question "what the hell does this code do?".
I'd call this uneconomical. I've seen the records for one user for one year, and they take up megabytes of space for just that user. I can imagine a business with hundreds of customers, or even thousands. Furthermore, the ease of avoiding detection definitely makes this useless. Who cares if the feds have millions of packets labelled with the destination proxy.dude-on-a-t3.ca I'd also say that "possession of a computer virus" is a terrible thing to make a crime. Guess what? I possessed a computer virus on an old unpatched server until Norton caught it this morning! I didn't even put it there.
On that note, does anybody know if there's a canadian version of slashdot? Not necessarily the same thing, but some tech site which chronicles tech rights and such in Canada? Reading about the states is truly depressing, but I can do something in Canada.
It's almost like a "MS Scare". Just like mcarthyism, if anyone even expresses the ideas of MS, they are pointed at and singled out. My philosophy: I like Red Hat Linux 7.3 because it's a solid piece of software. I got Red Hat Linux for free, from ftp.redhat.com. Nobody at Red Hat has attempted to take away my rights, and indeed, they have fought for them.
I believe the common phrase is "bitch, whine, moan complain. That's all I ever hear from you!"
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Water is an insulator on it's own. it won't short out a clean motherboard when we're talking about time periods of a few minutes to a couple hours. After that though, you should worry about the liquid water causing corrosion or absorbing enough conducting materians to gain the properties of a conductor.
:( )
Actually, I've used water in the past to clean low-voltage electronics, such as keyboards. As long as you ensure there is no liquid remaining when you put it back together, and ensure that actual components aren't saturated, the keyboard will run like new for another few years(before someone spills beer on it again.
If you Want a via, buy a via.
The rest of us want fast computers.
Because Windows ME is the worst operating system created by human minds.
...which is still perfectly alright for what many people do. Believe it or not. If you find the right software(in this case, I'd guess Windows 98 + 98lite + microGUI), even a 486 can fly.
"AMD approved", does that mean the case is fireproof?
Get with the times, troll; AMD has had thermal protection for months now.
Debian 4:Now with Linux 2.4 and KDE 3.0?
j/k.
If the brain lost it's ability to produce brainwaves, you'd be dead. If you are dead, I don't think you'd need to worry about a good nights sleep anymore.
uneconomical is a word. unpossible is not.
It's possible this isn't a meteorite. It would have hurt (but probably not much more than having the same rock thrown at you)
Yeah...A rock thrown at you at terminal velocity!
Ouch. I saw the headline, and thought "Poor girl. If she lived, it probably went clean through her foot."
No. You're right about one thing; it's likely not an actual meteorite. Maybe someone threw a rock at her from the safety of behind a house, and missed somewhat?
The reason for bitmaps vs. vectors even is that hand drawn art is a more refined art form. For something with simplistic graphics, it might not be a problem, but add a little detail, and it goes to hell.
Another interesting thought is this; have you ever considered that adding extra frames can DEGRADE graphic quality? If the scripts aren't designed to take full advantage of precision 10 years ahead of us, the motion ends up looking realistic--for a robot. It's like the trooper in Jdoom(which lets you swap out all the sprites in Doom with full 3d models). The original sprite left out parts of the movement, but seemed more natural and realistic, because the skipped frames were mere transition, and animating them (and invariably animating them badly) lead to unnatural looking movements. Instead, trying to make high resolution graphics which look perfect today will succeed because the graphics will run exactly the same in 10 years on someones Cyrix 45 Thz(It's the future -- you never know...) ubercomputer.
And yes, Cel shading really sucks, but only through the POWER OF THE X-BOX can a simple DX8 shader effect be achieved.(sorry, long rant there concerning the ignorance and sheer manipulative lies coming out of MS Marketing)
Cartoon graphics at 1024x768x32 native, hand drawn.
Not only would those be better than 3d, it would be SO MUCH better, it could make or break the game.
Cartoon effects translated into 3d suck royal ass. Trust me, I've seen too many attempts to believe otherwise. 2d is 2d. It's the reason cartoons are still on TV, despite the fact that 3d rendered TV shows are possible. 2d Graphics at that resolution would stand the test of time just as the original "Sam and Max hit the road" have, only much better. Now; install a 3d shooter from the same time period, and tell me if it looks half as good under the all-jading eyes of time and advancing technology.
Don't these ignorant bastards realize that there are legitimate reasons to make backup copies of CDs, or make ISOs of them on your hard drive? I call this reason the "shit! a scratch on the CD causes the game to crash right before the last boss!" factor.
Old Qbasic had an interesting way of doing that. You just put the right symbol at the end of the variable. It forced you to follow the standard, because anything which wasn't declared otherwise was automatically a single precision floating point number(which hurts speed -- a lot.)
I hope the next US election is as entertaining as the last. It was hilarious! Chads, warts, band-aids, 51% = lose, all the great hallmarks of a classic. I can only hope that the history books remember that slapstick election.
Oh! I thought the reason I didn't havw broadband was that cable blows away DSL in terms of raw speed, so I'm waiting for that.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Another idea which would work well in this respect would be altering the language used to be more reader freindly. Much C code is written whose syntax is a greater barrier to understanding the code than any concept underneath. Seperating some aspects of the language from regular syntax (such as pointer notation -- Sure, it's simple in theory, but in practice, it takes a fantastic long-term memory to remember whether you are witnessing a pointer being set to a memory address, or a value being placed into a variable without flicking around the source code or using a third party utility, which just slows you down and interrupts your thought process). Sure, an experienced coder can decipher obusficated(spelling?) code, but if the language makes it one step easier, that's a little bit of brain power to the question of "Why the hell did the original code do that?", and takes a bit away from the question "what the hell does this code do?".
I'd call this uneconomical. I've seen the records for one user for one year, and they take up megabytes of space for just that user. I can imagine a business with hundreds of customers, or even thousands. Furthermore, the ease of avoiding detection definitely makes this useless. Who cares if the feds have millions of packets labelled with the destination proxy.dude-on-a-t3.ca I'd also say that "possession of a computer virus" is a terrible thing to make a crime. Guess what? I possessed a computer virus on an old unpatched server until Norton caught it this morning! I didn't even put it there.
On that note, does anybody know if there's a canadian version of slashdot? Not necessarily the same thing, but some tech site which chronicles tech rights and such in Canada? Reading about the states is truly depressing, but I can do something in Canada.
Oops, forgot the details. Hook a vacuum cleaner up to the DCS.
There. Forgot half the punchline, but meh...
Some simple instrumentation with a web-based interface to the DCS?
Hail Messiah!
He drives in the dark! Hail Messiah! :P
Heh. Crap link. Bugzilla wised up to slashdotters, I guess.
Salvation?
It's getting a little old, but you can't complain about a browser that doesn't crash -- PERIOD.
It's almost like a "MS Scare". Just like mcarthyism, if anyone even expresses the ideas of MS, they are pointed at and singled out.
My philosophy: I like Red Hat Linux 7.3 because it's a solid piece of software. I got Red Hat Linux for free, from ftp.redhat.com. Nobody at Red Hat has attempted to take away my rights, and indeed, they have fought for them.
I believe the common phrase is "bitch, whine, moan complain. That's all I ever hear from you!"
Ahem.
BRING ON THE LUDDITES!
Thank you. That is all.