First of all, unless you're talking about members of some libertatian organization (e.g. the Libertarian Party of the USA), I suggest that you use a lower-case 'L' -- "libertarian".
Secondly, libertarianism is not anarchism. While it's probably true that some libertarians are anarchists, your garden variety libertarian recognizes that government is necessary for certain things, such as protecting the life, liberty, and property of the citizens.
Libertarianism is distinguished by the fact that its subscribers tend to have a smaller list of "necessary (or permissible) functions of government" than most people, but that doesn't mean that the list is empty.
Presumably the storyline and the quests are different -- that's a given. I'm interested in reading about changes in the game mechanics. Can anyone give us some tasty nuggets to chew on before we actually go out and buy the game?
I'd probably just copy anything that couldn't be infected by viruses/trojans/etc off to another system, then wipe the machine and start over, perhaps paying more attention to security next time. There are probably a lot of people for whom that wouldn't suffice.
I wouldn't be so quick to use Grammies to make statements about the vitality of an artist. Metallica didn't win any Grammies at its peak (before the Black Album). One year they were nominated (for the metal / hard rock category) but lost to Jethro Tull. It was only after they sold out that they started winning.
Grammies suck. All those awards suck. Nobody I like ever wins them.
I'm not sure what all contributes to floating point operations, but I can tell you this:
At my company we develop some sort of tool, and we build Linux and Solaris versions. The nature of the tool is that it does a lot of floating point number crunching, and we'd like it if the Linux and Solaris versions give the same output for the same input. Unfortunately, there are discrepencies between the floating point operations, and we have to do rather crude workarounds to try to suppress this tendency. In debugging, I've noticed that the discrepencies between the two systems often amount to multiples of seven times the smallest floating point number (with a given exponential term). For many purposes, this is OK, but if your program is basing decisions on the values of floating point numbers, you could easily go one way on Linux and the other on Solaris.
What's really interesting is something I noticed... When I would do "something", evaluate a cost function, and then undo that "something" (because of an increase in cost), the cost function after the undo would be equal to the original cost function (before the "something") more often on Linux than on Solaris.
Again, I don't really know what all contributes to the FP operations, so it may be more dependent on hardware than the libs.
Let's suppose that five years from now, most game companies develop their software with Linux portability in mind, and release Linux versions concurrently with Windows versions (or sooner, heh). Where do you see Loki in such an environment? Do you think there will be enough of a market for game porting to support Loki? Or are you looking towards shifting your emphasis as Linux gets more mainstream support?
I really hate awards shows like the Oscars, Grammys, etc.
I don't care about what "The Academy" thinks.
Most of the stuff that wins these awards (except maybe the obscure awards) sucks.
I don't care about what the celebrities are wearing.
I was thinking about complaining about this story as "Stuff that Doesn't Matter", but actually I don't really care about whether this story appears (and besides, I like South Park). I did, however, want to use this opportunity to spread my message about how awards shows suck. Enjoy!
I predict a flame war over guns and the right to keep and bear arms. I think I'll start it off with a little trolling.
We shouldn't be encouraging our children to glorify weapons with toys. Won't somebody please think of the children?
Studies have shown that you're 7652 times more likely to shoot yourself with a Lego machine gun than you are to shoot an intruder.
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution only grants an organized militia (i.e. the government) to have Lego machine guns.
The need for Lego machine guns is historically obsolete because the playgrounds are run by democratic coalitions of children and not mean kids like in the old days.
If the playground is taken over by mean kids, then Lego machine guns won't help the nice kids because the mean kids will have the overwhelming advantage of possessing Lego tanks and Lego nukes.
There is some stuff that needs correcting or clarifying in that list.
The 800 could come with less than 48K RAM, and had at least one memory expansion slot that the 400 didn't have.
The 1400XL was not a successor to the 1450XLD, but rather they were both members of a set of four computers that were once planned to be released. I think the first two in the list may have been the 600XL and the 800XL, but don't quote me on that -- it's been a long time.
The 65XE had ithe typical 64K of RAM as opposed to the 130XE's 128K.
You could replace with extra 64K RAM in the 130XE with 256K, 512K, or 1024K through a couple different hacks described in text files that floated around the BBS's. Some DOS's (e.g. SpartaDos, MyDos) had ram disk programs that would support such an upgrade, and this was how the extra RAM was used most of the time.
The 130XE's extra memory (whatever amount you happened to have) was bank switched 16K at a time by one of those FREDDIE chips mentioned in another review. The 65XE lacked this chip.
I'd like to see Alternate Reality (and it's sequel, Alternate Reality: The Dungeon) ported. I heard that The Arena was also written but was bought and squelched by a company called Software Toolworks that was really mad at software bootleggers.
This is a great game, one that I would spend money on. The only problem is that I already did, for the Winblows version. I hope they can get their ports out sooner in the future.
I'd like to see a port of a game with more intense video requirements. Diablo or Might and Magic 6 and 7 (not Heroes) would be interesting to see.
Overall I appreciate the tendency to port strategy games. Those are my favorites.
This is the first time I've heard of Hedy Lamarr the inventor. It is not the first time I've heard of Hedy Lamarr the actress.
I would like to blast the mainstream media (and, I suppose, mainstream culture) for regarding acting as more worthy of attention than invention. This will all change after the Geek Revolution (heh).
Several weeks ago I found that I was getting too fat. I bought a scale and weighed in at 198 pounds. I weighed about 160 in high school. Over the next eight weeks I followed some of the principles of the Hackers Diet... I estimated the number of calories I took in, I worked up several rungs on the exercise ladder, and I kept track of my moving average. I didn't really aim for a calorie deficit -- I just tried to avoid getting much more than I needed.
I lost ten pounds in those eight weeks. The first rung in the ladder wore me out when I started -- now I consider it to be trivial.
Many of those ten pounds came when I was moving. I was quite busy and didn't really have time for snacking. I think it's the snacking that gets me. I think the next step of my experiment is to get a little more disciplined about it. I'll probably need to do so if I am to reach my target weight of 170.
That's what happens when you make radios that can be made to switch stations upon receiving a certain signal. I don't think cracking down on these so-called "pirate" radio stations is going to help (one would think that there wouldn't be any "pirate" radio if enforcement was effective). As long as bizarre "features" like this (and, similarly, Javascript in email) exist, then people will exploit them. Nail one exploiter and two will pop up in his place. Probably the most effective solution will be a combination of
Trying to shut down as many hijackers as is cost-effective, and
Making this "feature" optional.
If I had a radio which forced a station on me, I'd probably rip it out and put an old-fashioned radio in its place.
Corel said yesterday that it and other software makers were blocked earlier this year from bidding fairly for a lucrative contract with the U.S. department because it standardized its software on Microsoft's office automation suite[...]
Huh? What exactly does this mean? I wish the press were more clear in laying down the facts. My first impression (despite my dislike for Microsoft) was that Corel was being a crybaby, so I read the article to get some more facts, but the facts (e.g. the mechanism of the government's alleged misdeed) weren't clearly spelled out. So instead of being mad at Microsoft or Corel, I'm now mad at whatever news organization provided the article (I didn't bother to find out whose web site hosts the article -- I just skipped down to the content, ignoring the rest).
Note to US Voters that may be reading this: One of the big names in the PMRC back in the music labelling/censorship debate in the 80's was Tipper Gore, the wife of presidential candidate Al Gore (Mark I). She's one of those "Senators' Wives" who decided that they needed something to do, and became busybodies. Do you want this person living in the White House?
My training is in mathematics, so perhaps this disqualifies me from commenting, but I don't find math as a field or pursuit to be a matter of belief. It's more a language, or perhaps a mechanism for making inferences based on assumptions. There may be beliefs about mathematics... For example, one might say "I believe the Continuum Hypothesis" or "I don't accept the Axiom of Constructibility", or "I don't think that proof by contradiction is valid", but these are more like choices about what one gets to play with when doing mathematics (which I view as more of a game than some kind of "search for truth").
I would tend to classify freedom of mathematics under freedom of expression, especially given my previous comment about math being a language. In any case the FBI should butt out and stick to real criminals who actually hurt people.
Great minds think alike I guess. I noticed that too. Hopefully neither of us will be moderated as "redundant". Actually, we probably just posted the same points because they're the obvious points to make. I see others saying similar if not identical things.
That's a pretty funny comment. I've had similar thoughts in the early stages of the development of my political philosophy, but there's one fact which got in the way... The government owns the roads. You can drive an unregistered vehicle without a license on your own property as much as you like. When you take it out on the streets, you're on government property.
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Secondly, libertarianism is not anarchism. While it's probably true that some libertarians are anarchists, your garden variety libertarian recognizes that government is necessary for certain things, such as protecting the life, liberty, and property of the citizens.
Libertarianism is distinguished by the fact that its subscribers tend to have a smaller list of "necessary (or permissible) functions of government" than most people, but that doesn't mean that the list is empty.
Are you trolling, by any chance?
I'd probably just copy anything that couldn't be infected by viruses/trojans/etc off to another system, then wipe the machine and start over, perhaps paying more attention to security next time. There are probably a lot of people for whom that wouldn't suffice.
Grammies suck. All those awards suck. Nobody I like ever wins them.
Max played the imperial ecologist... What was his name... Liet Kynes?
At my company we develop some sort of tool, and we build Linux and Solaris versions. The nature of the tool is that it does a lot of floating point number crunching, and we'd like it if the Linux and Solaris versions give the same output for the same input. Unfortunately, there are discrepencies between the floating point operations, and we have to do rather crude workarounds to try to suppress this tendency. In debugging, I've noticed that the discrepencies between the two systems often amount to multiples of seven times the smallest floating point number (with a given exponential term). For many purposes, this is OK, but if your program is basing decisions on the values of floating point numbers, you could easily go one way on Linux and the other on Solaris.
What's really interesting is something I noticed... When I would do "something", evaluate a cost function, and then undo that "something" (because of an increase in cost), the cost function after the undo would be equal to the original cost function (before the "something") more often on Linux than on Solaris.
Again, I don't really know what all contributes to the FP operations, so it may be more dependent on hardware than the libs.
Let's suppose that five years from now, most game companies develop their software with Linux portability in mind, and release Linux versions concurrently with Windows versions (or sooner, heh). Where do you see Loki in such an environment? Do you think there will be enough of a market for game porting to support Loki? Or are you looking towards shifting your emphasis as Linux gets more mainstream support?
- I don't care about what "The Academy" thinks.
- Most of the stuff that wins these awards (except maybe the obscure awards) sucks.
- I don't care about what the celebrities are wearing.
I was thinking about complaining about this story as "Stuff that Doesn't Matter", but actually I don't really care about whether this story appears (and besides, I like South Park). I did, however, want to use this opportunity to spread my message about how awards shows suck. Enjoy!- We shouldn't be encouraging our children to glorify weapons with toys. Won't somebody please think of the children?
- Studies have shown that you're 7652 times more likely to shoot yourself with a Lego machine gun than you are to shoot an intruder.
- The Second Amendment of the US Constitution only grants an organized militia (i.e. the government) to have Lego machine guns.
- The need for Lego machine guns is historically obsolete because the playgrounds are run by democratic coalitions of children and not mean kids like in the old days.
- If the playground is taken over by mean kids, then Lego machine guns won't help the nice kids because the mean kids will have the overwhelming advantage of possessing Lego tanks and Lego nukes.
OK, that ought to get us started.The 800 could come with less than 48K RAM, and had at least one memory expansion slot that the 400 didn't have.
The 1400XL was not a successor to the 1450XLD, but rather they were both members of a set of four computers that were once planned to be released. I think the first two in the list may have been the 600XL and the 800XL, but don't quote me on that -- it's been a long time.
The 65XE had ithe typical 64K of RAM as opposed to the 130XE's 128K.
You could replace with extra 64K RAM in the 130XE with 256K, 512K, or 1024K through a couple different hacks described in text files that floated around the BBS's. Some DOS's (e.g. SpartaDos, MyDos) had ram disk programs that would support such an upgrade, and this was how the extra RAM was used most of the time.
The 130XE's extra memory (whatever amount you happened to have) was bank switched 16K at a time by one of those FREDDIE chips mentioned in another review. The 65XE lacked this chip.
I'll cut it off here.
P.S. that web site has too many frames.
I'd like to see Alternate Reality (and it's sequel, Alternate Reality: The Dungeon) ported. I heard that The Arena was also written but was bought and squelched by a company called Software Toolworks that was really mad at software bootleggers.
astralwizard.com. I'm not affiliated with this site in any way, except for the amount of time I've spent there.
I would like to blast the mainstream media (and, I suppose, mainstream culture) for regarding acting as more worthy of attention than invention. This will all change after the Geek Revolution (heh).
I lost ten pounds in those eight weeks. The first rung in the ladder wore me out when I started -- now I consider it to be trivial.
Many of those ten pounds came when I was moving. I was quite busy and didn't really have time for snacking. I think it's the snacking that gets me. I think the next step of my experiment is to get a little more disciplined about it. I'll probably need to do so if I am to reach my target weight of 170.
- Trying to shut down as many hijackers as is cost-effective, and
- Making this "feature" optional.
If I had a radio which forced a station on me, I'd probably rip it out and put an old-fashioned radio in its place.Huh? What exactly does this mean? I wish the press were more clear in laying down the facts. My first impression (despite my dislike for Microsoft) was that Corel was being a crybaby, so I read the article to get some more facts, but the facts (e.g. the mechanism of the government's alleged misdeed) weren't clearly spelled out. So instead of being mad at Microsoft or Corel, I'm now mad at whatever news organization provided the article (I didn't bother to find out whose web site hosts the article -- I just skipped down to the content, ignoring the rest).
Not when the posts are on-topic.
Note to US Voters that may be reading this: One of the big names in the PMRC back in the music labelling/censorship debate in the 80's was Tipper Gore, the wife of presidential candidate Al Gore (Mark I). She's one of those "Senators' Wives" who decided that they needed something to do, and became busybodies. Do you want this person living in the White House?
I would tend to classify freedom of mathematics under freedom of expression, especially given my previous comment about math being a language. In any case the FBI should butt out and stick to real criminals who actually hurt people.