Not so much a store, but a quick search on eBay for Geforce 3 lands many many hits, like a NVIDIA GeForce 3 TI 200 AGP 64MB DDR RAM w/ SVIDEO Out for $31.
Yes, it's a good thing no computer magazine has ever over-hyped anything before.
That said, I will probably still pick up a copy, especially since I won't have to reboot into Windows to play it. There's a reason the old Loki Kohan is still one of my most played games even though I own Ahriman's Gift (the sequel).
No matter what the facility is, there must be a way to escape in event of fire. When there is a fire you can assume that the power can go out at any time. If there were 100 people in the bank and some dumbass plugged one to many things into a power strip and started an electrical fire then it is unacceptable to have the only escape route automatically lock. This part of the fire code does not change.
The vault might be a different matter, but if that is the case then the fire codes will most definatly require that no person be inside the vault when it is closed for any reason.
There is an outside chance that the criminal was too dumb to realize that you can push sliding doors open by hand if the power goes out, but putting that much thought into everything else seems to discount this possibility.
I use the btlaunchmanycurses.py script. It's wonderful. I log into the console on my server (using watch -W/dev/ttyv0), then twiddle the resolution up to 80x50, then start btlaunchmanycurses.py torrents. Now it will automatically download any torrents I drop in the "torrents" directory. If I'm curious how far along a download is, all I have to do is log into the box, watch the v0 terminal, and hit ^L. Once a torrent is done and I've uploaded at least as much as I downloaded, I can stop the torrent by just rming the.torrent file.
The only minor problem is that if you try to download more torrents than you have screen space for, btlaunchmanycurses will flip out and die. This has generally not been a problem for me.
For web browsing, I find that I really like w3m, it handles most basic formatting and does a pretty good job of displaying the page correctly (although a _large_ text terminal is reccomended for some sites). My only complaint is that it does not support Javascript, which makes it unusable on many sites.
For text editing, how can you forget vim? It's the ultimate text editor.:)
Because I switch between console and raster modes, I like LICQ as my ICQ client. You can use the qt_gui plugin when you're in raster mode, and the console plugin on the console. This way your contact lists (and more importantly, your history) are saved in the same place. My only complaint is that you have to hack the console plugin because it assumes you have terminals with a black background.
Man, last time I test drove a BMW the clutch was stiffer than Nancy Reagan at a Phish concert. Seriously, I had visions of people walking around with left legs 2x as large as their right legs from stop and go traffic.
Of course you loose a lot of efficency gains right at the voltage regulator. If you really want to do this right you need a DC-DC converter (generally fairly expensive, but often 98%+ efficent).
That was my point. People think that if you allow smut on the air the airwaves will be filled with nothing but smut. In reality, there probably won't be much more smut on the air than there is now. People want decent content they can listen to with their whole families.
In some ways, the situation with radio is similar to the situation with old movies. Back in the 50's before the MPAA rating system was invented, all movies had to follow some rather restrictive decency standards. Once the rating system was invented, movies were free to explore other possiblities (including stuff that got an R rating) that improved the general quality of the films considerably (IMHO).
Uh, your analogy doesn't apply very well. We don't have little always-on radios embedded in our skulls, it's not like we won't have a choice in what radio/tv/etc... we listen to. Even if the FCC didn't mandate decency standards, there would be many places where you could find "decent" radio and TV, since decency is profitable. You don't think Mickey Mouse is going to say "wang" on TV just because the FCC isn't breathing down Disney's back do you?
Now, there will be people who listen to the XXX Hot Smut Dirty Talk Hour with their kids, and then call up the station to complain; but that's better than passing legislation decreeing that nobody can listen to it (and forcing the FCC to enforce this legislation).
Did you play a hacked copy or something? In RCT, if a ride kills someone then _nobody_ wants to ride it for quite a while. If at the same time you have the intensity up around 18 or so, there won't be any takers. Such a scenario doesn't even come close to happening in the regular game.
"Access to fusion"? As in a tiny fusion plant inside of each nanobot? Those guys would be mighty hot to the touch, plus their fuel reserve would only be at most a few million atoms of Hydrogen, not much for a self sustaining reaction.
I guess the other option is to have the power transmitted directly through the nanobots somehow, but this ties them to the nearby fusion plant and really limits the possibility of a grey goo scenario (stop delivering fuel to the plant and presto, the goo shuts down).
This still hasn't convinced me that it's worth losing sleep over. The technical problems are way way more complicated than most people realize and it's possible that nanomachines will never work as good as people envision.
You might want to read up on "The Tragedy of the Commons". Hint: The Radio spectrum is like a public park.
I'm not particularly thrilled at how the FCC is also the decency police. I think they should stop at regulating how much power you're allowed to emit at various frequncies and other such related tasks. I don't even mind them testing people to insure they know how to not mess up the spectrum before they hand out licenses. Heck, I'm even mostly OK with them specifying that certain radio bands are not for commercial use. I just don't like them getting all messed up with trying to determine if something is "decent" or not. That should be decided by local authorities (perhaps even the broadcaster himself). If people have a problem they should talk to the broadcaster, not the FCC.
The biggest problem with the grey-goo scenario is that it requires an astonishing amount of work (tearing apart molecular bonds and using the resulting material to make an extremely complex machine) without taking power consumption into account. Getting energy to a machine that small is extremely difficult (your body has to basically immerse it's cells in fuel to keep them going). A machine that small recieves an absolutely puny amount of sunlight, and Tesla style distributed power doesn't work over long distances. Worse, the energy potental of almost every material on the planet is far too low to be useful in powering a tiny machine (you can't power a robot with dirt).
This problem, coupled with the fact that the nanotech people have barely demonstrated anything even remotely close to grey-goo yet, lets me sleep easy at night. There's no need to get so worked up over vapor.
You've never actually played RCT have you? The Woah Belly is wildly unpopular once you push it much beyond the default settings, oh and if a ride crashes you have to stop it and restart it, which empties out the queue.
Uh, you're forgetting about the third extremely prevelant form use of Javascript: Navigation. Many sites use javascript apps for the regular links (especially if the link is supposed to pop up a small window with a little additional information). These sites are completely unusable if you disable Javascript. The worst part is that entities like banks and businesses are the most likely to use this form of navigation (because they hired "professional" web designers).
I used to enable and disable Javascript a lot to deal with this problem, but then I swiched to Mozilla and just left it on. It hasn't been a problem for me yet.
It's actually a little annoying that 5400 RPM drives are getting so hard to find. I was building a low cost fileserver with 10 drives and went with the 5400 RPM for power and heat reasons, but they ended up costing a bit more the 7200s of the same size.
No, the headlines on MSNBC will read: "Widespread network breakdowns caused by evil pirates". Then they can have experts on the show discussing how pirates not only send spam and write these viruses, but they also leave their machines unprotected and hurt everybody, and that's why Microsoft should have a license to kill every pirate it thinks it finds.
Isn't it strange that the article spends a lot of time bemoaning the plight of the cel painter? Cel's are obsolete in modern anime, only a few companies (extremely cheap ones and Studio Ghibli) still use them. Almost all companies do their coloring on computer these days. It's possible they just kept the old terms for whatever reason, but somehow I wonder if this article isn't similar to one bemoaning the number of buggy whip manufactuerers going "overseas".
This part is a problem (for the record companies). Degrading the audio only prevents people from making additional copies of copes, you can still make as many copies of the master as you like with only 1 generation of loss.
Doh! You're right. This is what I get for running FreeBSD at home, but Redhat at work.
However, if you kldload snd_driver in FreeBSD, it will load _all_ of the sound drivers and figure out which one you actually need. After that, you can just load the one you need for your card.
It doesn't. Each copy will be slightly worse. A CD player can handle some damage to the disc (it interpolates over samples that can't be read). There is also subchannel data that is used in reading the disc. My thought was that the data would be degraded slightly each time the disc is written, and eventually the data gets so bad that your burned disc is unplayable.
It's likely that they're going to try to limit the number of copies by screwing with the disc in some way that degrades the bitstream to the point that by the sixth time you copy it the disc is so badly damaged it is unusable. That way you won't get 5 copies of the fifth copy. Either way, you can still make more copies than anybody should need, although I bet the later copies will be very fragile (fail easily when scratched for instance) and will be difficult to play correctly.
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Not so much a store, but a quick search on eBay for Geforce 3 lands many many hits, like a NVIDIA GeForce 3 TI 200 AGP 64MB DDR RAM w/ SVIDEO Out for $31.
Yes, it's a good thing no computer magazine has ever over-hyped anything before.
That said, I will probably still pick up a copy, especially since I won't have to reboot into Windows to play it. There's a reason the old Loki Kohan is still one of my most played games even though I own Ahriman's Gift (the sequel).
All of those cars are common as dirt. RFID chips are still pretty rare. Do you think this might be skewing your statistics a little?
On the other hand, it's not like your average HAM has the Deep Space Network at his disposal. 70m antennas are bigger that you might expect.
No matter what the facility is, there must be a way to escape in event of fire. When there is a fire you can assume that the power can go out at any time. If there were 100 people in the bank and some dumbass plugged one to many things into a power strip and started an electrical fire then it is unacceptable to have the only escape route automatically lock. This part of the fire code does not change.
The vault might be a different matter, but if that is the case then the fire codes will most definatly require that no person be inside the vault when it is closed for any reason.
There is an outside chance that the criminal was too dumb to realize that you can push sliding doors open by hand if the power goes out, but putting that much thought into everything else seems to discount this possibility.
I use the btlaunchmanycurses.py script. It's wonderful. I log into the console on my server (using watch -W /dev/ttyv0), then twiddle the resolution up to 80x50, then start btlaunchmanycurses.py torrents. Now it will automatically download any torrents I drop in the "torrents" directory. If I'm curious how far along a download is, all I have to do is log into the box, watch the v0 terminal, and hit ^L. Once a torrent is done and I've uploaded at least as much as I downloaded, I can stop the torrent by just rming the .torrent file.
The only minor problem is that if you try to download more torrents than you have screen space for, btlaunchmanycurses will flip out and die. This has generally not been a problem for me.
For web browsing, I find that I really like w3m, it handles most basic formatting and does a pretty good job of displaying the page correctly (although a _large_ text terminal is reccomended for some sites). My only complaint is that it does not support Javascript, which makes it unusable on many sites.
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For text editing, how can you forget vim? It's the ultimate text editor.
Because I switch between console and raster modes, I like LICQ as my ICQ client. You can use the qt_gui plugin when you're in raster mode, and the console plugin on the console. This way your contact lists (and more importantly, your history) are saved in the same place. My only complaint is that you have to hack the console plugin because it assumes you have terminals with a black background.
Man, last time I test drove a BMW the clutch was stiffer than Nancy Reagan at a Phish concert. Seriously, I had visions of people walking around with left legs 2x as large as their right legs from stop and go traffic.
Of course you loose a lot of efficency gains right at the voltage regulator. If you really want to do this right you need a DC-DC converter (generally fairly expensive, but often 98%+ efficent).
That was my point. People think that if you allow smut on the air the airwaves will be filled with nothing but smut. In reality, there probably won't be much more smut on the air than there is now. People want decent content they can listen to with their whole families. In some ways, the situation with radio is similar to the situation with old movies. Back in the 50's before the MPAA rating system was invented, all movies had to follow some rather restrictive decency standards. Once the rating system was invented, movies were free to explore other possiblities (including stuff that got an R rating) that improved the general quality of the films considerably (IMHO).
Uh, your analogy doesn't apply very well. We don't have little always-on radios embedded in our skulls, it's not like we won't have a choice in what radio/tv/etc... we listen to. Even if the FCC didn't mandate decency standards, there would be many places where you could find "decent" radio and TV, since decency is profitable. You don't think Mickey Mouse is going to say "wang" on TV just because the FCC isn't breathing down Disney's back do you?
Now, there will be people who listen to the XXX Hot Smut Dirty Talk Hour with their kids, and then call up the station to complain; but that's better than passing legislation decreeing that nobody can listen to it (and forcing the FCC to enforce this legislation).
Did you play a hacked copy or something? In RCT, if a ride kills someone then _nobody_ wants to ride it for quite a while. If at the same time you have the intensity up around 18 or so, there won't be any takers. Such a scenario doesn't even come close to happening in the regular game.
"Access to fusion"? As in a tiny fusion plant inside of each nanobot? Those guys would be mighty hot to the touch, plus their fuel reserve would only be at most a few million atoms of Hydrogen, not much for a self sustaining reaction.
I guess the other option is to have the power transmitted directly through the nanobots somehow, but this ties them to the nearby fusion plant and really limits the possibility of a grey goo scenario (stop delivering fuel to the plant and presto, the goo shuts down).
This still hasn't convinced me that it's worth losing sleep over. The technical problems are way way more complicated than most people realize and it's possible that nanomachines will never work as good as people envision.
You might want to read up on "The Tragedy of the Commons". Hint: The Radio spectrum is like a public park.
I'm not particularly thrilled at how the FCC is also the decency police. I think they should stop at regulating how much power you're allowed to emit at various frequncies and other such related tasks. I don't even mind them testing people to insure they know how to not mess up the spectrum before they hand out licenses. Heck, I'm even mostly OK with them specifying that certain radio bands are not for commercial use. I just don't like them getting all messed up with trying to determine if something is "decent" or not. That should be decided by local authorities (perhaps even the broadcaster himself). If people have a problem they should talk to the broadcaster, not the FCC.
The biggest problem with the grey-goo scenario is that it requires an astonishing amount of work (tearing apart molecular bonds and using the resulting material to make an extremely complex machine) without taking power consumption into account. Getting energy to a machine that small is extremely difficult (your body has to basically immerse it's cells in fuel to keep them going). A machine that small recieves an absolutely puny amount of sunlight, and Tesla style distributed power doesn't work over long distances. Worse, the energy potental of almost every material on the planet is far too low to be useful in powering a tiny machine (you can't power a robot with dirt).
This problem, coupled with the fact that the nanotech people have barely demonstrated anything even remotely close to grey-goo yet, lets me sleep easy at night. There's no need to get so worked up over vapor.
You've never actually played RCT have you? The Woah Belly is wildly unpopular once you push it much beyond the default settings, oh and if a ride crashes you have to stop it and restart it, which empties out the queue.
Uh, you're forgetting about the third extremely prevelant form use of Javascript: Navigation. Many sites use javascript apps for the regular links (especially if the link is supposed to pop up a small window with a little additional information). These sites are completely unusable if you disable Javascript. The worst part is that entities like banks and businesses are the most likely to use this form of navigation (because they hired "professional" web designers).
I used to enable and disable Javascript a lot to deal with this problem, but then I swiched to Mozilla and just left it on. It hasn't been a problem for me yet.
It's actually a little annoying that 5400 RPM drives are getting so hard to find. I was building a low cost fileserver with 10 drives and went with the 5400 RPM for power and heat reasons, but they ended up costing a bit more the 7200s of the same size.
No, the headlines on MSNBC will read: "Widespread network breakdowns caused by evil pirates". Then they can have experts on the show discussing how pirates not only send spam and write these viruses, but they also leave their machines unprotected and hurt everybody, and that's why Microsoft should have a license to kill every pirate it thinks it finds.
Isn't it strange that the article spends a lot of time bemoaning the plight of the cel painter? Cel's are obsolete in modern anime, only a few companies (extremely cheap ones and Studio Ghibli) still use them. Almost all companies do their coloring on computer these days. It's possible they just kept the old terms for whatever reason, but somehow I wonder if this article isn't similar to one bemoaning the number of buggy whip manufactuerers going "overseas".
This part is a problem (for the record companies). Degrading the audio only prevents people from making additional copies of copes, you can still make as many copies of the master as you like with only 1 generation of loss.
Doh! You're right. This is what I get for running FreeBSD at home, but Redhat at work.
However, if you kldload snd_driver in FreeBSD, it will load _all_ of the sound drivers and figure out which one you actually need. After that, you can just load the one you need for your card.
It doesn't. Each copy will be slightly worse. A CD player can handle some damage to the disc (it interpolates over samples that can't be read). There is also subchannel data that is used in reading the disc. My thought was that the data would be degraded slightly each time the disc is written, and eventually the data gets so bad that your burned disc is unplayable.
It's likely that they're going to try to limit the number of copies by screwing with the disc in some way that degrades the bitstream to the point that by the sixth time you copy it the disc is so badly damaged it is unusable. That way you won't get 5 copies of the fifth copy. Either way, you can still make more copies than anybody should need, although I bet the later copies will be very fragile (fail easily when scratched for instance) and will be difficult to play correctly.
My TOS explicitly allows me to resell my bandwidth, heck, my ISP even has a page explaning what it is and how you can set it up.