Well, except that the founder of Christianity actually taught peace.
The whole clobbering each other bloody business was brought about by people in power wanting to keep it, often by stopping others from discovering the message of Christianity for themselves.
Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members. This is what life is like in Iran since the Islamists took over. This is what Islamists want for the world.
But for some reason you gullible westerners would rather get outraged at keeping boys out of girls toilets. You almost deserve it.
Yup, I still remember buying another 2GB so I could play it on my 386. A lot of people I know did that. I'm sure PC and RAM sales spiked globally around that time. Bought DooM 1.666 for top price back in the day. I remember making up a null modem cable and transferring the game to a mates PC at a whopping 115200 bps. Still faster than installing with floppies. Now that was a LAN party.
I always wanted to get a hold of an early copy of DooM that let you network three PCs to give three viewpoints: left, forward, right, for a triple monitor experience. I never did though.
There was a good modding community for a while too. I still have the Simpsons mod somewhere around here. "This will, this will, this will scare the pants off him."
The Total Conversion mods were amazing too. Aliens, Star Wars. "Can't get out that way".
Later I came to appreciate replacement engines that let you play beyond the 30fps limit imposed by the original engine, as well as of course opengl rendering and up/down mouse look.
The game was a real triumph for Shareware too. The free version was widely distributed on BBSs around the world and in probably every PC magazine at the time. It was every bit as good as the full version, it just stopped at the end of the first episode (okay not strictly true as the plasma rifle and BFG weren't there if you cheated) but left people wanting more, enough to buy the full version.
Sure this story highlights, more importantly than someone inadvertently activating an undesired mode, that the said feature is not ready for production and should not even exist in the first place.
Whether he activated it or not, no autonomous feature should cause a vehicle to drive into any object. That constitutes an unacceptable failure mode.
What is the point of the feature anyway? Con gullible people into thinking they need their car to drive up to their doorway when it's raining?
... was the owner aware that this action would activate this Summon feature? Did he know that feature even existed? Is it a useful feature in the first place or another useless selling point like mag alloy wheels?
You, a sovereign state, can't force the oil companies to charge more, but you can raise the tariffs on them. Then the oil companies don't get more money per barrel, but you do.
So how come Battlefield 1, which came out in 2002, has nicer graphics and more YouTube likes than Battlefront 4? Is this another retro thing? YouTube wasn't even a thing when this title came out.
Mind you, it came out just a few months after its target platform, the XBox 1.
It was the GP who quoted "the job's not done until Lotus won't run", to which you made a presumably sarcastic comment about Microsoft not making Microsoft software run. The implication there being that you either failed to parse the word "Lotus" or believed it to be a Microsoft product. I corrected that misconception.
But perhaps you had best just believe that all of this is orchestrated to confuse a search engine if that makes you feel more comfortable.
Yes, although the interface does seem to have inexplicably wildly different paths to accomplish the same task. Try, for example, adding a waypoint to a route whilst navigating and whilst not navigating, while keeping the destination unchanged in both cases.
Yes, that would be idiotic, and it's not just headphones that would need replacing.
Portable speakers, boom boxes, car stereos, PA systems, anything that has an AUX input would all of a sudden need a ridiculously complex interface. To the benefit to Intel's bottom line, I might add.
Manufacturers tried something not-quite-as-bad a few years ago when cheap/nasty cell MP3 players having 2.5mm headphone jacks. It was a disaster.
Well, yes, but you don't just stop at the Event Horizon. That's just the boundary within which there is no theoretical escape even for light. A bigger black hole just means you get to wait a little longer before being ripped apart by tidal forces as you approach the singularity.
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Well, except that the founder of Christianity actually taught peace.
The whole clobbering each other bloody business was brought about by people in power wanting to keep it, often by stopping others from discovering the message of Christianity for themselves.
Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members. This is what life is like in Iran since the Islamists took over. This is what Islamists want for the world.
But for some reason you gullible westerners would rather get outraged at keeping boys out of girls toilets. You almost deserve it.
To say nothing of the actual title.
Did anyone else spot the mistake?
I of course meant 2MB. I had to buy an additional 2MB to bring my system up to a total of 4MB, the minimum required to play DooM.
Yup, I still remember buying another 2GB so I could play it on my 386. A lot of people I know did that. I'm sure PC and RAM sales spiked globally around that time. Bought DooM 1.666 for top price back in the day. I remember making up a null modem cable and transferring the game to a mates PC at a whopping 115200 bps. Still faster than installing with floppies. Now that was a LAN party.
I always wanted to get a hold of an early copy of DooM that let you network three PCs to give three viewpoints: left, forward, right, for a triple monitor experience. I never did though.
There was a good modding community for a while too. I still have the Simpsons mod somewhere around here. "This will, this will, this will scare the pants off him."
The Total Conversion mods were amazing too. Aliens, Star Wars. "Can't get out that way".
Later I came to appreciate replacement engines that let you play beyond the 30fps limit imposed by the original engine, as well as of course opengl rendering and up/down mouse look.
The game was a real triumph for Shareware too. The free version was widely distributed on BBSs around the world and in probably every PC magazine at the time. It was every bit as good as the full version, it just stopped at the end of the first episode (okay not strictly true as the plasma rifle and BFG weren't there if you cheated) but left people wanting more, enough to buy the full version.
Yes, though to be fair to the GP that was essentially a black box experiment.
They connected devices up to specific inputs and outputs without knowledge of the inner workings of the eel brain.
Sure this story highlights, more importantly than someone inadvertently activating an undesired mode, that the said feature is not ready for production and should not even exist in the first place.
Whether he activated it or not, no autonomous feature should cause a vehicle to drive into any object. That constitutes an unacceptable failure mode.
What is the point of the feature anyway? Con gullible people into thinking they need their car to drive up to their doorway when it's raining?
... was the owner aware that this action would activate this Summon feature? Did he know that feature even existed? Is it a useful feature in the first place or another useless selling point like mag alloy wheels?
And where the hell am I?
Tariffs.
You, a sovereign state, can't force the oil companies to charge more, but you can raise the tariffs on them. Then the oil companies don't get more money per barrel, but you do.
High frequency trading is also legal.
That's primarily because, deserved or not, it is presently very fashionable to express hatred towards Justin Bieber.
There have been plenty before him though - One Direction, Rebecca Black and Barney the Dinosaur come to mind.
So how come Battlefield 1, which came out in 2002, has nicer graphics and more YouTube likes than Battlefront 4? Is this another retro thing? YouTube wasn't even a thing when this title came out.
Mind you, it came out just a few months after its target platform, the XBox 1.
It was the GP who quoted "the job's not done until Lotus won't run", to which you made a presumably sarcastic comment about Microsoft not making Microsoft software run. The implication there being that you either failed to parse the word "Lotus" or believed it to be a Microsoft product. I corrected that misconception.
But perhaps you had best just believe that all of this is orchestrated to confuse a search engine if that makes you feel more comfortable.
Lotus, as in Lotus 1-2-3, the primary competitor to Microsoft's spreadsheet program, Excel.
You had me at "no one should have to use proprietary software".
*sigh*
Liberal has nothing to do with the left wing which is, by definition, government control of the population.
You're joking right?
More obscure than the Firefly references that popped up here a while ago? And that show ran for only one season.
Yes, although the interface does seem to have inexplicably wildly different paths to accomplish the same task. Try, for example, adding a waypoint to a route whilst navigating and whilst not navigating, while keeping the destination unchanged in both cases.
Overall I prefer electronic maps too, but there are definite advantages in paper:
They don't have batteries that expire when you need them most.
They still work in tunnels and parking buildings.
Yes, that would be idiotic, and it's not just headphones that would need replacing.
Portable speakers, boom boxes, car stereos, PA systems, anything that has an AUX input would all of a sudden need a ridiculously complex interface. To the benefit to Intel's bottom line, I might add.
Manufacturers tried something not-quite-as-bad a few years ago when cheap/nasty cell MP3 players having 2.5mm headphone jacks. It was a disaster.
Large company wants to replace an ubiquitous standard with a proprietary overly-complex and unnecessary interface that they control.
Why should we listen to these guys again?
Isn't it obvious?
It's because the media is full of Microsoft shills, and Microsoft do not want you, the hapless consumer, to know that there is an alternative.
They want you to think PC == Windows
Funny, but wrong.
nVidia hardware performs at least as good under Linux as Windows, including CUDA processing.
I never thought Microsoft corporation would do this.
Just like I'm positive they will never ever require Intel hardware to force UEFI Secure Boot to qualify for Windows stickers.
Well, yes, but you don't just stop at the Event Horizon. That's just the boundary within which there is no theoretical escape even for light. A bigger black hole just means you get to wait a little longer before being ripped apart by tidal forces as you approach the singularity.