Gnutella is a well known bandwidth hog and has to potential to do an expodential consumption of your bandwidth based on the number of hosts you are trying to connect to for addresses of other hosts. There is a site somewhere that shows the actual numbers but i can't seem to remember what they are off the top of my head.
Actually you can have your Thompson SMG in the US, you just have to have a special licence for it. Same goes with all automatic weapons here in the US. On the 4th I was treated to seeing people doing a small battle with blanks (thompsons, mp40s, colt.45, lugers, and various rifles. Not to mention armored cars with machine guns of the.50 nature). Legaly you can own anything of this nature as long as you have an appropriate license. I used to know a guy who had a 40mm gernade launcher and the gernades to go with it. They keep track of these things through various means. He also had a BAR in his van when he died, cops got real worried about it. Armored Cars, and Tanks are also legal to own if you have the right liscense. Used to know a different guy who owned a scrap yard and when someone complained about him one time he hopped in his Sherman and pulled up in front of the guys house and sat there for a while. Whoever told you that you can't own these things doesn't know where to look. You can get most military goods if you know where to look and what paperwork you need to fill out.
Why would microsoft want to force people to use Direct X?
I would think that they would be more interested in furthering the development of the technology, then adding it to their version. What is really going on is Microsoft is trying to get rights to be able to do what they want with the technology developed through the implimentions of what they own the IP rights to. They aren't trying to kill off OpenGL (contrary to what half of slashdot (read much?) thinks). Killing off OpenGL at this point would be counterproductive and waste their time. Wait until Microsoft makes a move to kill the technology then worry, don't worry when they declair that they may have IP rights to a portion of it. Also, Microsoft isn't the only one doing this, this is a common thing to do.
Contrary to poplular beleif this is probly a good thing and will most likely help advance both sides. Microsoft isn't going to feel threatened by OpenGL anytime soon, so why would they both to kill it?
This is what is known as freedom to sue anyone you want for what ever the reason you want. It doesn't have to be justified. You can do this to people to run them through the mud and drain them of their cash. There are various groups that do use this tactic on people (the group that was previously mentioned is one of them). It really should be considered unlawful to do. Wasting tax dollars and other peoples money should be considered a felony, and should be punishable as such. BTW, I read the thread in question and have seen no real reason why (other than pure spite and evil intent) that you would go after this guy for what he did.
zork and wizardry II are both available on the PC, and as far I know are fairly easy to get and pretty small. not sure about wizardry II but I remember Zork working under most infocom emulators if you have the game file for it (i think it is data.z if i remember right on the PC version) you should be able to find them both on abandonware sites, but no one uses those right?
I really hate the trend that is going on today with making everything out of cheap plastic to save money and still charge about the same price for a cheaper product. I sit here still using the very same keyboard that came with my AT. In the past 15 years or so it is the only keyboard I have that has been able to survive more than 1 year of my abusive typing style (fast and hard). I am going to be so pissed when this thing finally breaks, as there is no place around here that carries keyboards like this.
If someone can point me to where I can get quality spring-loaded keyboards that have a hard case on them I would really appriciate it. I would never want to give up my durable loud keyboard for a quiet flimsy one again (I have gone through quite a few of those when I was up on campus where people get pissed about the loud keyboards)
And should the antifreeze actually boil you get a nice pretty smell and a very sweet residue on things (not that I have actually tasted antifreeze:) ).
I think I will call your buff. That sounds suspiciously like technobabble that comes from the lower reagion of the body. Do you write for Star Trek as well?
Well I can tell you that I have done this both ways. First we will start with the photo >> computer, then I will talk about computer >> photo.
For converting your photo's to images on a computer there are several paths that you can take to get to the desired solution. I have access to a stack-fed scanner and use that for doing bulk picture scanning, but I don't think that is in the price range of the average Joe. It is however by far the fastest solution. So I will enter the relm of reasonable prices for people.
There are machines built for scanning negatives, most of these are great if you are not to woried about loosing some of the picture quality afforded by your 35mm negative (if you still have them, a lot of people don't keep those around long for some reason), to get a really good one (note: I am pretty anal about my picture quality) you might have to pay a bit more. If you do 24mm (APS (ie. Advantix, ix240, nexia) Which by no means I suggest using) there is a device made specifically for you by Kodak (I think) that is designed for this purpose and carries a decent price tag. However for 35mm you will need to do some shopping and research as I have no scanners built for doing 35mm film scanning (I do have some masks for various aspects of the medium formats though).
For doing prints I suggest getting a fairly fast scanner if you plan to do a lot of pictures in one sitting (I suggest SCSI, but others will suggest other things). You can also cheat and scan negatives on a scanner (not suggested as you might scratch the negative) in bulk and do a mass color reversal (there are programs that will do this for you, but I don't know their names, and don't suggest that path). I highly suggest doing research into what you can and can't afford scannerwise as this can cut a lot of your time out, as software isn't one of the biggest bottle necks here.
Now for digital >> prints. The path for this really depends on how much you want to pay to get good results (I HOPE you want good results). And I will assume that a 4" digital photo printer is a bit outside most peoples buget (I have access to one of these due to working with them).
There are devices out there that can read your data source of choice and print them out for you on decent photopaper (a 150m roll of 4" glossy paper is about 25-30USD same with matte). These however are a bit expensive but are quite a bit fun. Beware that you need to mix chemicals to do this and that can be both dangerous and touchy. From what I have seen of this market price reflects quality and/or speed.
If you want to do this on a computer however your options get a bit more pricy, however, you can use your inkjet printer now to do them. There are ways to get blank photopaper (yes, the kind i mentioned abover) to become white and work in an inkjet with decent results, but this requires you to be able to make a light tight room and develop the paper beforehand. I am just going to assume here that most people don't know how to develop photopaper properly by hand, as they would be looking for a more professional result than this will produce, so I will not explain it here and let that to someone else. You can also buy paper in both matte and glossy made for your inkjet, but it doesn't look the greatest, but should pass for most people. Also there are printers (I know poloroid makes one, and I think Fuji does too) that attach to your computer and will print out 4x6" pictures, but I think most of them require special paper to do this.
Going either print>>digital or digital>>print by having someone else do it can be REALLY expensive if you are not careful. Also, if you take things somewhere to be done out of house, ALWAYS ask who they send it to and research that company a bit. I have had awful dealings with a company called Qualex before and having to explain to a customer that this company screwed there order up, destroyed their negatives, and charged the wrong price. I could correct what I could of the price (and I gave them free processing coupons as well).
actually there is a CD that activision puts out with all the text games that they made on it (well i didn't see any missing) for about $20US I have been meaning to pick it up to fill in some holes in my collection (there were a few games I didn't get around to buying back in the day when these were on 5 1/4" floppies)
yeah and the lord of the Balrog (gothmog) was killed by an elf (glorfindal?). Does that make elves more powerful than Gandalf? The Silmarillion is a much better read in my opinion, would love to see a movie made of it. PJ should do a movie or set of movies that talks about the rape of the silmarils through to the death of sauron, and maybe cover some of the creation of the world.
*** Goes off to find his copy of the Silmarillion and a good comfy spot near the fridge
The reason is that you will need some software to convert the bitmap into a writable image for the burner to work with. However, this is almost certainly going to be closed-source only endeveror, doing this open-sourced early in the ball game would only make it easier for competators to understand how exactly you are doing things, and possibly make a feature as good or better. You can of course burn all you want with your non-windows operating systems, but my guess is that you can only use the picture drawing tool in side of windows. This is like the case with some of my network cards that only state that they work with windows 9x and windows NT, but still work just fine in the various *NIX operating systems out there (worked with all the ones i got my hands on: FreeBSD, various flavors of Linux, and solaris).
actually linux wouldn't have been around for another reason. The PC would have failed as there would have been no MSDOS (and we all know where IBM went with OS/2). This might have been a good thing in its own right as it would have caused there to be some slightly more competent chips out there in the computer market instead of this 20 year old x86 archetecture. And Apple would rule the world (BWAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA).
Seriously though, where would the PC have been with out Microsoft's help in the matter. I don't really remember seeing PC's really going anywhere until Microsoft showed up with MSDOS or even Windows 3.1 for that matter. Before that the only computer I remember seeing were Apple ][ and TSR-80 style computers (and mainframes of course, but that is just in the wrong market for this topic). What the PC needed was someone to come around and make things simpler so that dumbasses could operate them. I mean the competition was simple to use, so you must retaliate with a simple product that appears more powerful (and to some extent is).
However, both IBM (until recently) and Microsoft (from the start and till the end of time) have proven themselves both too irresponsible for the amount of power that comes with what was going on in the PC world. What needs to be done is companies behave themselves and allow friendly competition, not this kill all competetors because competion stifles how much dosh we can make. And even if you take that attitude it should be your job to make as useful and well designed of a product as you can, don't go hording your cash and stabing your customers, you should be giving back to the community that gave you so much. This is part of what sucks about capitalism, people just don't know how to play nice. BTW, MS company parties are a real example of their excesses (as is the cafeteria that I visited at the Redmond site.
there was the neo-geo pocket a few years back. Not that it really had many games on it. The thing is keeping Nintendo in the center ring on the portable market is the number of games for the gameboy and the backwards compatability. The NES beat the SMS by having more games, same with the SNES as well. Playstation kicked N64s ass because there were more games for the PSX than the N64 did. And in the console market PS2 will beat out teh competition due to more games to play. The only hand held that lasted any amount of time against the game boy was the Game Gear, and that came out in the GB's infancy so they were on equal grounds game wise.
Moral of the story: he who has the most games will win out over here, doesn't matter if your system is really well designed and built (Sega Saturn, N64, SMS), it will still die if it doesn't have enough games to make a good competion in enough feilds (yes apparently the crap feild helps too judging from teh PSX's success). You can't win on your design alone, you have to play the field and get enough good companies to make games for your system, with out those games you loose.
One of my old VCRs used to have problems with anything with macrovision on it.unfortunately I had to get rid of it a few years back as it finally died (was over 20 years old too at the time). All I have to say about macrovision is that it sucks at doing it job. Another of my VCRs (one of the ones that replaced the old zenith VCR when it suddenly quit working) showed how worthless macrovision is, if you tried to record teh signal it would put out from a macrovision tape you would not be able to tell that it ever had it on there the first time (it never did get used for this purpose, and I don't remember how I found out it did this). It died quickly as did several GE VCRs, though my old Beta machine still plays perfectly, how is that for survivability (it is as old or older than my zenith was), wish they could make them like that beast.
You know, I still play that game occationally. Was also the first war game I ever played. It is such a shame I lost my original set. When I first saw the headline I thought someone made a computer game based on it, and was ready to find out when beta time was. Now if only I can find a place to start an O.G.R.E. club around here I will be in business.
depends where you go, some schools have the ability to let you install it on your home computer for as long as you go to that school (it tells you to delete it afterwords but i doubt that happens, there also is no CD-Key on these either). They usually have Office, Visual Studio, Windows (was NT4 and 98 last time i checked one out, i think it is 2k and xp now, but i am not sure). I think i remember seeing the whole office suite in the book store for 150-200 area, but I haven't looked at MSOffice since i picked up StarOffice a year or so ago.
Because you need to train them for when you do need them. It does absolutely NO good to only recruit when you need to have soldiers on the field, instead you want them to have a few years of training to get atleast decent at the art of combat. Do you send a random person on the street to fight your war, or do you send a trained professional who knows what to do out.
because since it is a vibraction your body will still pick it up. You don't only listen with your ears, it really is a full body experience. Think of your body as an antenna (not taking into account harmonic radiation and so forth that occurs in radio signals) Your ears are built for a given frequency range and recieve that range quite well, but God created our antenna a bit uneaven and we all pick up a slightly diffent ammount of frequencies. Also our body still picks up frequencies outside these bands and those frequencies our brain translates somewhat but just like a radio that isn't built for those frequencies we don't really know what to do with them, but we still get them. Process them properly or not we still will recieve out of band signals, but just not be able to process them the normal way. Think also how a snake hears with out ears.
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I did, and it was pretty poor. It really surprised me that someone would make a sequal to it. Also there is a comic out there as well for shadow man.
Gnutella is a well known bandwidth hog and has to potential to do an expodential consumption of your bandwidth based on the number of hosts you are trying to connect to for addresses of other hosts. There is a site somewhere that shows the actual numbers but i can't seem to remember what they are off the top of my head.
I see a lot of these at WWII re-enactments and model shows. It is quite amusing being actually ALLOWED to fire these things off.
Actually you can have your Thompson SMG in the US, you just have to have a special licence for it. Same goes with all automatic weapons here in the US. On the 4th I was treated to seeing people doing a small battle with blanks (thompsons, mp40s, colt .45, lugers, and various rifles. Not to mention armored cars with machine guns of the .50 nature). Legaly you can own anything of this nature as long as you have an appropriate license.
I used to know a guy who had a 40mm gernade launcher and the gernades to go with it. They keep track of these things through various means. He also had a BAR in his van when he died, cops got real worried about it. Armored Cars, and Tanks are also legal to own if you have the right liscense. Used to know a different guy who owned a scrap yard and when someone complained about him one time he hopped in his Sherman and pulled up in front of the guys house and sat there for a while. Whoever told you that you can't own these things doesn't know where to look. You can get most military goods if you know where to look and what paperwork you need to fill out.
Why would microsoft want to force people to use Direct X?
I would think that they would be more interested in furthering the development of the technology, then adding it to their version. What is really going on is Microsoft is trying to get rights to be able to do what they want with the technology developed through the implimentions of what they own the IP rights to. They aren't trying to kill off OpenGL (contrary to what half of slashdot (read much?) thinks). Killing off OpenGL at this point would be counterproductive and waste their time. Wait until Microsoft makes a move to kill the technology then worry, don't worry when they declair that they may have IP rights to a portion of it. Also, Microsoft isn't the only one doing this, this is a common thing to do.
Contrary to poplular beleif this is probly a good thing and will most likely help advance both sides. Microsoft isn't going to feel threatened by OpenGL anytime soon, so why would they both to kill it?
This is what is known as freedom to sue anyone you want for what ever the reason you want. It doesn't have to be justified. You can do this to people to run them through the mud and drain them of their cash. There are various groups that do use this tactic on people (the group that was previously mentioned is one of them). It really should be considered unlawful to do. Wasting tax dollars and other peoples money should be considered a felony, and should be punishable as such.
BTW, I read the thread in question and have seen no real reason why (other than pure spite and evil intent) that you would go after this guy for what he did.
zork and wizardry II are both available on the PC, and as far I know are fairly easy to get and pretty small. not sure about wizardry II but I remember Zork working under most infocom emulators if you have the game file for it (i think it is data.z if i remember right on the PC version) you should be able to find them both on abandonware sites, but no one uses those right?
I really hate the trend that is going on today with making everything out of cheap plastic to save money and still charge about the same price for a cheaper product. I sit here still using the very same keyboard that came with my AT. In the past 15 years or so it is the only keyboard I have that has been able to survive more than 1 year of my abusive typing style (fast and hard). I am going to be so pissed when this thing finally breaks, as there is no place around here that carries keyboards like this.
If someone can point me to where I can get quality spring-loaded keyboards that have a hard case on them I would really appriciate it. I would never want to give up my durable loud keyboard for a quiet flimsy one again (I have gone through quite a few of those when I was up on campus where people get pissed about the loud keyboards)
Isn't Palladium the game company that made the Robotech and Rifts games? Does this mean that they are trying to play on other groups Trademarks now?
why cluster Xboxes? You could probly get better performance out of clusters of PS2 units, and those already have linux for them.
And should the antifreeze actually boil you get a nice pretty smell and a very sweet residue on things (not that I have actually tasted antifreeze :) ).
I think I will call your buff. That sounds suspiciously like technobabble that comes from the lower reagion of the body. Do you write for Star Trek as well?
Well I can tell you that I have done this both ways. First we will start with the photo >> computer, then I will talk about computer >> photo.
For converting your photo's to images on a computer there are several paths that you can take to get to the desired solution. I have access to a stack-fed scanner and use that for doing bulk picture scanning, but I don't think that is in the price range of the average Joe. It is however by far the fastest solution. So I will enter the relm of reasonable prices for people.
There are machines built for scanning negatives, most of these are great if you are not to woried about loosing some of the picture quality afforded by your 35mm negative (if you still have them, a lot of people don't keep those around long for some reason), to get a really good one (note: I am pretty anal about my picture quality) you might have to pay a bit more. If you do 24mm (APS (ie. Advantix, ix240, nexia) Which by no means I suggest using) there is a device made specifically for you by Kodak (I think) that is designed for this purpose and carries a decent price tag. However for 35mm you will need to do some shopping and research as I have no scanners built for doing 35mm film scanning (I do have some masks for various aspects of the medium formats though).
For doing prints I suggest getting a fairly fast scanner if you plan to do a lot of pictures in one sitting (I suggest SCSI, but others will suggest other things). You can also cheat and scan negatives on a scanner (not suggested as you might scratch the negative) in bulk and do a mass color reversal (there are programs that will do this for you, but I don't know their names, and don't suggest that path). I highly suggest doing research into what you can and can't afford scannerwise as this can cut a lot of your time out, as software isn't one of the biggest bottle necks here.
Now for digital >> prints. The path for this really depends on how much you want to pay to get good results (I HOPE you want good results). And I will assume that a 4" digital photo printer is a bit outside most peoples buget (I have access to one of these due to working with them).
There are devices out there that can read your data source of choice and print them out for you on decent photopaper (a 150m roll of 4" glossy paper is about 25-30USD same with matte). These however are a bit expensive but are quite a bit fun. Beware that you need to mix chemicals to do this and that can be both dangerous and touchy. From what I have seen of this market price reflects quality and/or speed.
If you want to do this on a computer however your options get a bit more pricy, however, you can use your inkjet printer now to do them. There are ways to get blank photopaper (yes, the kind i mentioned abover) to become white and work in an inkjet with decent results, but this requires you to be able to make a light tight room and develop the paper beforehand. I am just going to assume here that most people don't know how to develop photopaper properly by hand, as they would be looking for a more professional result than this will produce, so I will not explain it here and let that to someone else. You can also buy paper in both matte and glossy made for your inkjet, but it doesn't look the greatest, but should pass for most people. Also there are printers (I know poloroid makes one, and I think Fuji does too) that attach to your computer and will print out 4x6" pictures, but I think most of them require special paper to do this.
Going either print>>digital or digital>>print by having someone else do it can be REALLY expensive if you are not careful. Also, if you take things somewhere to be done out of house, ALWAYS ask who they send it to and research that company a bit. I have had awful dealings with a company called Qualex before and having to explain to a customer that this company screwed there order up, destroyed their negatives, and charged the wrong price. I could correct what I could of the price (and I gave them free processing coupons as well).
actually there is a CD that activision puts out with all the text games that they made on it (well i didn't see any missing) for about $20US I have been meaning to pick it up to fill in some holes in my collection (there were a few games I didn't get around to buying back in the day when these were on 5 1/4" floppies)
if it does i should pay it a visit :)
yeah and the lord of the Balrog (gothmog) was killed by an elf (glorfindal?). Does that make elves more powerful than Gandalf? The Silmarillion is a much better read in my opinion, would love to see a movie made of it. PJ should do a movie or set of movies that talks about the rape of the silmarils through to the death of sauron, and maybe cover some of the creation of the world.
*** Goes off to find his copy of the Silmarillion and a good comfy spot near the fridge
The reason is that you will need some software to convert the bitmap into a writable image for the burner to work with. However, this is almost certainly going to be closed-source only endeveror, doing this open-sourced early in the ball game would only make it easier for competators to understand how exactly you are doing things, and possibly make a feature as good or better. You can of course burn all you want with your non-windows operating systems, but my guess is that you can only use the picture drawing tool in side of windows. This is like the case with some of my network cards that only state that they work with windows 9x and windows NT, but still work just fine in the various *NIX operating systems out there (worked with all the ones i got my hands on: FreeBSD, various flavors of Linux, and solaris).
actually linux wouldn't have been around for another reason. The PC would have failed as there would have been no MSDOS (and we all know where IBM went with OS/2). This might have been a good thing in its own right as it would have caused there to be some slightly more competent chips out there in the computer market instead of this 20 year old x86 archetecture. And Apple would rule the world (BWAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA).
Seriously though, where would the PC have been with out Microsoft's help in the matter. I don't really remember seeing PC's really going anywhere until Microsoft showed up with MSDOS or even Windows 3.1 for that matter. Before that the only computer I remember seeing were Apple ][ and TSR-80 style computers (and mainframes of course, but that is just in the wrong market for this topic). What the PC needed was someone to come around and make things simpler so that dumbasses could operate them. I mean the competition was simple to use, so you must retaliate with a simple product that appears more powerful (and to some extent is).
However, both IBM (until recently) and Microsoft (from the start and till the end of time) have proven themselves both too irresponsible for the amount of power that comes with what was going on in the PC world. What needs to be done is companies behave themselves and allow friendly competition, not this kill all competetors because competion stifles how much dosh we can make. And even if you take that attitude it should be your job to make as useful and well designed of a product as you can, don't go hording your cash and stabing your customers, you should be giving back to the community that gave you so much. This is part of what sucks about capitalism, people just don't know how to play nice. BTW, MS company parties are a real example of their excesses (as is the cafeteria that I visited at the Redmond site.
there was the neo-geo pocket a few years back. Not that it really had many games on it. The thing is keeping Nintendo in the center ring on the portable market is the number of games for the gameboy and the backwards compatability. The NES beat the SMS by having more games, same with the SNES as well. Playstation kicked N64s ass because there were more games for the PSX than the N64 did. And in the console market PS2 will beat out teh competition due to more games to play. The only hand held that lasted any amount of time against the game boy was the Game Gear, and that came out in the GB's infancy so they were on equal grounds game wise.
Moral of the story: he who has the most games will win out over here, doesn't matter if your system is really well designed and built (Sega Saturn, N64, SMS), it will still die if it doesn't have enough games to make a good competion in enough feilds (yes apparently the crap feild helps too judging from teh PSX's success). You can't win on your design alone, you have to play the field and get enough good companies to make games for your system, with out those games you loose.
One of my old VCRs used to have problems with anything with macrovision on it.unfortunately I had to get rid of it a few years back as it finally died (was over 20 years old too at the time). All I have to say about macrovision is that it sucks at doing it job. Another of my VCRs (one of the ones that replaced the old zenith VCR when it suddenly quit working) showed how worthless macrovision is, if you tried to record teh signal it would put out from a macrovision tape you would not be able to tell that it ever had it on there the first time (it never did get used for this purpose, and I don't remember how I found out it did this). It died quickly as did several GE VCRs, though my old Beta machine still plays perfectly, how is that for survivability (it is as old or older than my zenith was), wish they could make them like that beast.
You know, I still play that game occationally. Was also the first war game I ever played. It is such a shame I lost my original set. When I first saw the headline I thought someone made a computer game based on it, and was ready to find out when beta time was. Now if only I can find a place to start an O.G.R.E. club around here I will be in business.
this is probly one of the best posts I have read all day. May it be modded up to +5
depends where you go, some schools have the ability to let you install it on your home computer for as long as you go to that school (it tells you to delete it afterwords but i doubt that happens, there also is no CD-Key on these either). They usually have Office, Visual Studio, Windows (was NT4 and 98 last time i checked one out, i think it is 2k and xp now, but i am not sure). I think i remember seeing the whole office suite in the book store for 150-200 area, but I haven't looked at MSOffice since i picked up StarOffice a year or so ago.
Because you need to train them for when you do need them. It does absolutely NO good to only recruit when you need to have soldiers on the field, instead you want them to have a few years of training to get atleast decent at the art of combat. Do you send a random person on the street to fight your war, or do you send a trained professional who knows what to do out.
because since it is a vibraction your body will still pick it up. You don't only listen with your ears, it really is a full body experience. Think of your body as an antenna (not taking into account harmonic radiation and so forth that occurs in radio signals) Your ears are built for a given frequency range and recieve that range quite well, but God created our antenna a bit uneaven and we all pick up a slightly diffent ammount of frequencies. Also our body still picks up frequencies outside these bands and those frequencies our brain translates somewhat but just like a radio that isn't built for those frequencies we don't really know what to do with them, but we still get them. Process them properly or not we still will recieve out of band signals, but just not be able to process them the normal way. Think also how a snake hears with out ears.