My understanding of why Loki failed is most (if not all) people are (understandably, I certainly am) unwilling to pay twice to play a game. Stories of management corruption and finantial bungling are more symptoms of Loki's impending doom rather than the cause of their demise.
My point: for a commercial game to succeed in Linux, the developer has to somehow provide Linux support at no extra cost. A separate download (as per id Software) is acceptable, but bundled in the box (my understanding of how UT2004 Linux support was shipped) is preferable, even if it skews the sales figures (but online games can get market info from the servers (X # windows players, Y # Linux players, etc).
If a company codes their game portably (OpenGL, OS dependent stuff (unavoidable) cleanly separated out of the engine code, standard C (or gcc on all platforms:), etc), Linux support will take, at most, one or two extra coders (maybe none if the main coders have enough experience and time). ie, Linux support won't cost the company that much extra and very well could generate more sales.
that sounds like a synergy of the negative aspects of the two companies, rather than the positive ones. eg (don't shoot me for the math, ok?:) -2 + -2 -> -5 rather than the expected 2 + 2 -> 5.
I just checked "dict", and though the primary entry does indicate combining healthy aspects, I see no requirement for positive synergy.
Hellsing is bloody good, but not for the faint of heart. My wife watched the first episode and had nightmares. It took me 2 goes to get through ep 1 myself. The ending, while enjoyable, was rather odd, but I heard that they didn't get to finish the series properly due to ratings/funding. If that's true, I can see why: not one of the episodes is easy to sit through non-stop (commercial break or not), way too intense. Still, very good and if you like vampire/ghoul stories, by all means, watch it. It's very good.
1/2 billion here, 1/2 billion there, 1/2 billion everywhere (btw, that was EU, not UK), EIIOU. If this sort of thing keeps up, Microsoft will, eventually, run out of cash (I seem to remember reading somewhere they're not actually earning any profits at the moment).
0.99 yen? As far as I can tell, 1 yen is equivalent to 1 cent. ie, the Japanese don't seem to have a dollar (that's why the yen to dollar exchange rate is so extreme).
That said, 0.99 yen would be a hell of a bargain:)
If you're using linux (might be available for windows, no idea), there's "kanatest" (debian package name). It's great for practicing kana recognition: within about 4 days I went from knowing zip to getting perfect scores in both katakana and hiragana.
You're out a bit with that hair dryer. At 2400W (max in places like Australia and New Zealand), it takes 416 seconds to go through a MJ and 555s at 1800W (max for North America (I think: I might be wrong about the 15A)). That's not quite 7 minutes and over 9 minutes, respectively. Even then, I don't think I'd want a 1800W hair dryer pointed at me. That's no hair dryer, that's a hot-air paint stripper!!!
Synchronous motors/generators (same thing, really) get locked into phase automaticly (just part of how they work). I'm not 100% certain, but I think inverters get locked in automaticly, too (if they don't, it's pretty easy to put in the extra circuitry).
No, I don't have any links, I learned this stuff 11-13 years ago as part of my electrical/eltronic engineering degree (which I never used since I went into programming instead (I only took the course because I wanted to build my own computer:))
Gasoline is cheaper than alcahol. Here in Alberta gasoline is bouncing around 70 cents/litre. Beer is about $4.44/liter (6 pack of 375ml bottles costs $10)
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The worst that happens to flesh exposed to vacuum is a modest amount of cell damage at the surfrace, and (possibly) the bends. I don't have a link, but I remember reading an article somewhere about a test pilot removing his glove while at some stupidly high altitude. All that happened was his hand got cold (it wasn't quite a vacuum), red and some minor cell damage on the surface layers. Skin does an admirable job of keeping the water in:)
Heck, large quantities of youths get smallish (~1 square inch) regions of flesh exposed to near vacuum conditions all the time with nothing worse than a red welt to show for it.
Well, this one is:) That particular url taught me to always wave my mouse pointer over links on slashdot before clicking (even when/. started puting the domains in the commens (which I've since turned off)).
Then some bastard thought it would be funny to do javascript mouse-over nastyness...
Simple: if you want to keep the copyright longer than 50 years, you have to do something about it (my take is the automatic initial copyright still stands). The $1 extention fee is a token used to show interest (I know there's a legal term for it, but IANAL:) Very often you'll find contracts where $1 is exchanged for some goods and/or services. eg, the copyright assigment contract for submitting code to FSF owned projects and I seem to remember at least one such item when I bought my house.
The generated funds is totally irrelevant. The main point is to force a paper trail documenting the transaction. $1 is a trivial amount, especially for big companies (eg, Disney), but it's likely to cost them a minimum of $100 per copyrighted item for paperwork handling fees. Then there's the fact they have to keep track of which items are about to expire. I'm sure it can get expensive pretty quickly for an entity with 100s-1000s of items.
From what I've read, a damaged piston head (really, any sharp corners in the combustion chamber) can cause hot spots which then cause the mixture to pre-ignite (detonate, ping). Really bad news for your piston, rod, crank and case (well, if you've got a lightweight aluminum (or worse, magnesium) aloy case like I (and almost (?) every other vintage VW owner) have:)
ie, the fibanocci series. Definitly non repeating but most definitly a pattern. Also happens to be easilly computable.
f(x) = (g**x - (g**-x)*e**-(j*pi*x))/sqrt(5)
where g is the golden mean (1.618... or (sqrt(5)+1)/2). And yes, that formula allows you to compute the points in between fibanocci numbers. You get a neat 3d logarithmic spiral that follows an exponential curve.
Either you're trolling, being sarcastic or just plain haven't noticed the NO WARRANTEE blurb in the MS EULA. The only software I know of that had a warrantee was some telco software I worked on a part of in my previous job and it was done on a contract basis (I'm sure there are other examples).
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My understanding of why Loki failed is most (if not all) people are (understandably, I certainly am) unwilling to pay twice to play a game. Stories of management corruption and finantial bungling are more symptoms of Loki's impending doom rather than the cause of their demise.
My point: for a commercial game to succeed in Linux, the developer has to somehow provide Linux support at no extra cost. A separate download (as per id Software) is acceptable, but bundled in the box (my understanding of how UT2004 Linux support was shipped) is preferable, even if it skews the sales figures (but online games can get market info from the servers (X # windows players, Y # Linux players, etc).
If a company codes their game portably (OpenGL, OS dependent stuff (unavoidable) cleanly separated out of the engine code, standard C (or gcc on all platforms:), etc), Linux support will take, at most, one or two extra coders (maybe none if the main coders have enough experience and time). ie, Linux support won't cost the company that much extra and very well could generate more sales.
I was able to view that just now using firefox in linux :)
that sounds like a synergy of the negative aspects of the two companies, rather than the positive ones. eg (don't shoot me for the math, ok?:) -2 + -2 -> -5 rather than the expected 2 + 2 -> 5.
I just checked "dict", and though the primary entry does indicate combining healthy aspects, I see no requirement for positive synergy.
and how many MS beta releases have not had feature removals and other de-improvements before final release?
simple, caliabrate the legal container at home :)
Hellsing is bloody good, but not for the faint of heart. My wife watched the first episode and had nightmares. It took me 2 goes to get through ep 1 myself. The ending, while enjoyable, was rather odd, but I heard that they didn't get to finish the series properly due to ratings/funding. If that's true, I can see why: not one of the episodes is easy to sit through non-stop (commercial break or not), way too intense. Still, very good and if you like vampire/ghoul stories, by all means, watch it. It's very good.
Anonymous cvs requires write access to the tree for the lock files. Annoying but true.
Well, that explains why width matters more than length... (or so I've heard:)
1/2 billion here, 1/2 billion there, 1/2 billion everywhere (btw, that was EU, not UK), EIIOU. If this sort of thing keeps up, Microsoft will, eventually, run out of cash (I seem to remember reading somewhere they're not actually earning any profits at the moment).
That said, 0.99 yen would be a hell of a bargain :)
If you're using linux (might be available for windows, no idea), there's "kanatest" (debian package name). It's great for practicing kana recognition: within about 4 days I went from knowing zip to getting perfect scores in both katakana and hiragana.
You're out a bit with that hair dryer. At 2400W (max in places like Australia and New Zealand), it takes 416 seconds to go through a MJ and 555s at 1800W (max for North America (I think: I might be wrong about the 15A)). That's not quite 7 minutes and over 9 minutes, respectively. Even then, I don't think I'd want a 1800W hair dryer pointed at me. That's no hair dryer, that's a hot-air paint stripper!!!
If it's decoded to video memory, then it can be captured. Do you maybe mean directo to video output?
Females have balls, they're just better protected :)
Synchronous motors/generators (same thing, really) get locked into phase automaticly (just part of how they work). I'm not 100% certain, but I think inverters get locked in automaticly, too (if they don't, it's pretty easy to put in the extra circuitry).
No, I don't have any links, I learned this stuff 11-13 years ago as part of my electrical/eltronic engineering degree (which I never used since I went into programming instead (I only took the course because I wanted to build my own computer:))
Heh, good one! (probably your intention:) But for those not in the know, Tang was developed to provide the early astronauts with something to drink.
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Gasoline is cheaper than alcahol. Here in Alberta gasoline is bouncing around 70 cents/litre. Beer is about $4.44/liter (6 pack of 375ml bottles costs $10)
Heck, large quantities of youths get smallish (~1 square inch) regions of flesh exposed to near vacuum conditions all the time with nothing worse than a red welt to show for it.
Then some bastard thought it would be funny to do javascript mouse-over nastyness...
Probably to make it more palatable to the likes of Disney. Foot in door type thing.
The generated funds is totally irrelevant. The main point is to force a paper trail documenting the transaction. $1 is a trivial amount, especially for big companies (eg, Disney), but it's likely to cost them a minimum of $100 per copyrighted item for paperwork handling fees. Then there's the fact they have to keep track of which items are about to expire. I'm sure it can get expensive pretty quickly for an entity with 100s-1000s of items.
From what I've read, a damaged piston head (really, any sharp corners in the combustion chamber) can cause hot spots which then cause the mixture to pre-ignite (detonate, ping). Really bad news for your piston, rod, crank and case (well, if you've got a lightweight aluminum (or worse, magnesium) aloy case like I (and almost (?) every other vintage VW owner) have:)
what about this fun pattern?
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ie, the fibanocci series. Definitly non repeating but most definitly a pattern. Also happens to be easilly computable.
f(x) = (g**x - (g**-x)*e**-(j*pi*x))/sqrt(5)
where g is the golden mean (1.618... or (sqrt(5)+1)/2). And yes, that formula allows you to compute the points in between fibanocci numbers. You get a neat 3d logarithmic spiral that follows an exponential curve.
Either you're trolling, being sarcastic or just plain haven't noticed the NO WARRANTEE blurb in the MS EULA. The only software I know of that had a warrantee was some telco software I worked on a part of in my previous job and it was done on a contract basis (I'm sure there are other examples).