I think the original idea was to distinguish between multiple of the same kind of machine (boxes) from multiple of different kinds of machines all in one group (boxen)... now it's just garbage since every pretentious fuck writes boxen.
I've always thought of it in the "oxen" kind of idea... workers.
Boy, you sure are right! The last thing we need is a government that makes laws that impede crime by PEOPLE. Government's supposed to represent PEOPLE, not limit them, right?
Sarcasm, right? Well, the government is *not* supposed to make owning a computer illegal, something which I believe that the US is attempting to do. Plus, an "internet cop" style thing would impede someone in another country, where the US has no jurisdiction, by claiming they violate US laws...
The US apparently believes *only* its laws apply anywhere in the world....
MIKE
STL isn't, at least not with today's compilers, although you can approximate it for the *common* errors with a sed script.
One word: typedefs.
The code becomes much easier to read when you typedef the vector::iterator to something else instead of just trying to use all the 's.... unless you mean the compiler error messages (those can get nasty, especially with typedefs - you don't see in the code what the compiler is talking about!).
I've tried Mandrake before and as far as I recall, it wasn't a case of "boot-from-cd, click click click click...", but more "boot- from-cd, type, type, click click click clik...".
I haven't tried Mdk yet, but with redhat, I have this sequence:
set boot to CD
wait for the memory load thing (It takes ~ 4mins on my machine)
Red Hat installer asks me to press enter
I hit the enter key to go to graphical install
Then I click on Upgrade (since I already have a RH system running)
Then I click next a few hundred times, changing disks when it asks
After that, I can install anything else I want.
Easy. Easier than windows (from my experience).. since upgrading windows needs to go through the entire install (IME... may not now) and RH just click a few hundred times...
I wish that my school would move to a Linux (or, probably better, *BSD) fileserver, rather than the Windows connected by NetWare for Win that we currently have. I could set it up in a weekend (at most), and have all sorts of scripts where they just type in "newusers" and then follow onscreen instructions, rather than wiping it and starting over every year. It would have the added advantage of not going down for a week monthly. (might need a reboot in the summer, but no one's around to notice). If we did that, my cool Tic Tac Toe program would still exist.
And to think, me, a student, can fix windows computers better than most of the staff... there's another guy or two like me; we're all hooked on Linux/Unix - one is currently on a Mdk or RedHat, I can't remember, but is moving to Debian, and the other has only one computer at home, that his parents need to use as well...
We as an industry demanded it of MS to do exactly what they did. Put the browser in the OS. But you all are saying its not really part of the os. Well I ask is the 'chdir' command really part of the linux os (pick your flavor)? Is it absolutly needed? No there are other ways to navigate the file structure. So why is it there? Its just taking up space! Oh my gawd we should get rid of it. How dare they give me chdir. I am very sure many shell scripts would simply stop working if that command suddely disappeared. My point is do not confuse what is put along with the OS to make the OS more usable to what the OS really needs. MS sees IEXPLORER.EXE as adding a value to the OS. A way to give the customers that demanded a browser be put in.
The difference is that they claim that IEXPLORER.EXE is not removable from the system - it is. Just as chdir (cd?) is.. the OS really is just the kernel and everything else is added on (Linux is the Kernel... everything else makes it usable). I admit that it is silly to get them to remove the various DLLs that contain the HTML renderer (shouldn't it be just html.dll?) but you break way more than the apps that use HTML if you did, unlike if you remove chdir - only the ones that use it.
In short... there is no Linux comparison to MS not being able to remove the HTML renderer component. It should be a separate component that could be installable (& probably default too), just like Nautilus & Konquerer are for GNOME and KDE, but the computer doesn't stop working if you take those out - just the respective desktops.
Why is it OK for these Minux distros to do this but not MS?
Because Mdk, RedHat, SuSE etc. include options, choice, and so on. Probably every Linux installer has the "What packages do you want to install?" then lists thousands, each app having one or two alternate choices, usually with the same setup etc. so you could switch if you want to. (Ex: PINE, MUTT, KMail etc. all on RH7.2.92 -beauty distro - which all go to ~/Mail for the mail files and store them in the same way).
The point was that MS includes all the program types (Email, Web etc.) but has no real choice... I suppose you could click the "custom install" button, but I don't know if that's still there... unless you want to dwnload.
My chemistry teacher got this wrong today too (parent post got it right)... the reason it's called Warp Speed is it actually Warps space (using an extension of the wormhole theory - or is that proven yet? I can't remember).
Anyway, he claimed that by the time anything actually reached Warp factor something it would be all energy, although the warping of space means that it is fast (c^x fast) relative to something outside of the warp bubble.
Anyone know what happens when warp bubbles collide?
On second thought, anyone know if matter + antimatter actually does = lots of energy? I thought that they were going to do some kind of experiment with that but I never heard any more.
MIKE
Two words (that are important to me if it works):
USB Visors.
My visor won't sync up with KPilot in 2.2.1 (I think). It will with whatever the tty app is, but that's a bit too much work. And this is available just in time too... I'm in my last year of High School...
MIKE
Are you suggesting piracy or purchasing an OS just for an occasional game? Either solution seems like a dumb idea...
I think he's suggesting that students (like me... nearly out of High School...) need to work full time to afford to be able to have recreational activities (such as PC gaming).
Not that I blame him, tho... every company seems to expect the same out of us... I have had one real paying job (not weekend things, or shovelling snow etc) and I don't have enough left to buy WinXP Home, if I wanted... but I'm perfectly happy with my linux box (RH 7.2) thank you...
I think that it's cool when my brother and I are playing Unreal Tournament on different machines... his PIII chokes at the flak gun while my Celeron 366 doesn't...
I want my linux native ports (I just don't have the hardware power to run Windoze!)... and I did pay for 5 Loki ports (mostly cheap at the Electronics Boutique... who have not had any more shipments and who are the only store in Ottawa that I know of that ever stocked Loki ports...).
Not being a smart arse/troll or whatever... I presume you have looked up the info on XFS.. There is a TrueType font howto at linux.org.
X knows about my fonts: I eventually figured out that X wants permission on boot (that does *not* include ~/fonts...), but read on:
KDE & Star Offfice are fine with TTF's
KOffice works with em ok.... And my desktop uses TTF's
Apparently, my problem is isolated: I cannot figure out how to get KDE to notice the fonts in the look&feel-->fonts section (kword does the same thing: no Sherwood etc.). Anyone know how to make this work? (plz. email me --mike@nospam.igs.net
Much annoyed since I went to all that trouble for X...
In KDE with RH7.1 (KDE 2.1?), you used to be able to select a custom menu for any of the mouse clicks. I just now (after a few weeks of RH7.2) found it again in KDE: Control Centre --> Look and Feel --> Desktop --> Clicks on the Desktop --> set the appropriate droplist to "custom 1" (or 2).
KMail seems to have lost some functionality (polling the web -- via proxy? -- for HTML mail images --> Daily Dilbert, for example) and the clock sometimes just shows random times... The News Ticker sometimes hiccoughs when attempting to access the latest Slashdot news...
I suppose this is as good a venu as any to ask this:
How hard is it to poll XFS for fonts? KDE and StarOffice (5.2) don't seem to poll for the fonts - I can't use any of my lots of fonts! I want TTF on my desktop! (I don't know enough right now to go code hacking...)
I haven't actually used a pure WM environment, but KDE is *way* faster than GNOME (esp. Nautilus) and looks better... just missing a few features that I want to have (read: rightmouse -> new terminal and font support and a clock that's usefull)
We're almost there, folks, but to get on the desktop, we need to have a few things in, such as *one* place for fonts (I know, I know, XFS is a b*tch to get everything in...) etc.
and if you thought it rocked you're a pretentious jackass who wants to be precieved as an intellectual.
I haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut (nor do I really want to, same thing with American Beauty - they are portrayed in a way that disgusts me), but I do know people who don't like the movie and there are people out there who do. Like the subject line suggests, movie ratings are subjective.
That said, my top five:
LotR: Fellowship of the Ring (It will be the complete LotR considered as one movie someday...)
Star Wars Trilogy (The original trilogy, with the Spec.Edition updating)
Blade Runner (Director's cut)
The Matrix
Galaxy Quest (I think, it may be one of the Highlanders, Shrek, The Fifth Element, or any number of others).
As you can see, I like scifi/fantasy movies, and until LotR, Star Wars was my favourite movie. Notice that "artsy" movies (like the incredibly messed up, but cool anyway, "Being John Malkovich" - one of those 'I don't really want to watch this, but if I leave I might miss something' movies) aren't on there. I rate the new Planet of the Apes higher than the old one (for the main reason that I don't like Charleton Heston (sp.?)), but it isn't top five.
For me, a movie is mainly meant for turning off the brain for a few hours to "veg" in front of the t.v. or movie screen. Therefore, my top 5 doesn't include the likes of Citizen Kane (which I haven't seen yet... I will someday, but it won't make my top 5). It doesn't include Final Fantasy, because the storyline was too bland to be a movieline, but it almost makes it on special effects alone (but where are the chocobos?)
My list will be entirely different from, say, Jay Stone's (he's the movie reviewer for the Ottawa Citizen... one of those "Is it Citizen Kane? No? Crap then" reviewers - but he liked LotR & Croutching Tiger... he also liked Eyes wide Shut).
Ok if only US citizens get the card. That means only US citizens have the card, so those who arent are either terrorists, illegal aliens, or criminals of some sort. Or of course they simply lost their card.
How then would I travel from Canada to the States, unless you guys want to close your borders? Would there be some form of "Traveller's ID"? This, then, defeats the stated purpose.
... and in the book "Seven Years of Highly Defective People", Scott(?) Adams wrote (paraphrase): 'what about me? I drew a cartoon about reading a book [...]'
It's nearly painful to watch these youngins complain about spending an extra $20 on memory!!
You're missing the poster's point. His point was that the *current* prices of RAM, CPU etc. are in favour of AMD rather than Intel. For that, it doesn't matter what the prices of RAM was just under a decade ago (I remember those days too, and I know that I just payed 25CAND for 256 MB RAM... SD sure, but 256 nonetheless...).
Therefore, your arguement that it doesn't matter about the price difference because it is 20$ now instead of 2000$ doesn't make sense: the price is higher for a P4 system, even if it is only 20$, but that's an extra 256 MB (well, pro'lly 128 MB DDR) RAM... choose the system you want.
For that matter, I hope that they get the Eyes of Ibad right. I sort of always thought that "deep blue whites and pupils" meant something other than "light blue pupils."
They didn't even get it right on the t.v. miniseries of Dune a while back (on Space Channel for those of us in Canada)... dark blue on the front of the eye (glowing too!), but when their heads were turned (we see a different angle of the eye), the eyes were basically white.
The t.v. series was apparently better than the film (which I haven't seen yet, but my father insists that it is so). Unfotrunately, I don't remember much about the book anymore... I'd love to compare both to the book (in the way that I believe that the Starship Troopers movie should have gotten the super-armour right...)
"if you draw a single line on a paper and call it an art, so it is". Oh c'mon... That's way too much...
I'm not so sure about that being way too much... The Canadian Art Museum (or whatever it's called) bought the Voice of Fire... (three lines drawn on a canvas, for the uninitiated...)
Otherwise all I can say about your comments about higher performance on Linux, or any other top-heavy time sharing system, is: bullshit.
I consistently get better performance in Q3 and UT (until there's just *too many* bots... that's a big number, by the way) on my Linux (RH 7.1, GNOME 1.4, KDE 2.?) box on a Celeron 366 with 160MB RAM and a 64MB Geforce2 MX400 card than on my brother's WinME machine using a PIII 750 with 512 MB RAM and a 32MB GeForce2 MX???. (well, his computer is often fully loaded with Internet proxy etc. that was set up before my box was). I don't actually have the framerates here, but I know that using the Flak Cannon in UT slows my brother's machine to a crawl with only about 4 bots, and on mine it needs about 6-8 bots before that happens.
That means:
Games, such as Q3 & UT, native to Linux seem to run faster than the Win native on WinME.
CPU intensive things depends on CPU speed, not OS (so it seems).
It seems really strange to me that my little Celeron 366 is sometimes faster than my brother's PIII...
I guess that the difference in RAM and CPU power doesn't make that much difference in the game sense (also, other than lack of sound in UT, it's more stable on my machine). However, for something like ripping a disk to MP3, on my machine it will go at maybe 2x speed, but my brother's machine is way faster (CPU thing? RAM thing?)
Oh, and just for the record, why didn't you use a logged-in account when you asked for the other guy (not me) to log in?
Please, Please, Please, if you guys want to be part of this contest (which I don't think has to be illegal), state your intentions to others in the field, document your safe guards, have your safe guards reviewed. And
most importantly be sure there is no coding to self propagate. It will be enough just to demonstrate penetration and a level of control I'm sure.
How about this situation (just happened)... I just ripped a CD to my computer (fairly old... Jewel's first CD, which I got a couple years ago). I took it out of the computer, and the disk snapped. I just took it out normally. Fortunately I (hopefully) have the backup... it was messy on the underside of the disk, so I don't know how it recorded.
With what the music companies want, I'd be screwed into buying another disk (bought this one from one of the subscription companies that went under a while back... BMG Music Group Canada or something like that)
Thanks to Fair Use, I may have recordings of the tracks on the CD that I can use to create another one to replace it.
Of these speeds, factor 5 is the cruising speed of Enterprise-D. Its maximum rated speed is factor 9.6, although 9.9 can be maintained for 10 minutes. Warp factor 9.9999 is the propagation speed of
subspace radio, and factor 10, obviously, can never be reached.
I really liked that cool episode of Voyager where they reached Warp 10. For some reason, travelling that fast causes biological de-evolution over the span of 1/2 an episode.
6. Beaming down. It is true that the physics of the transporter are pretty much out of this world. Without going into details, all the different physical problems of the concept seem to be taken care of by a
separate component to the transporter system: some of the funniest components are the Heisenberg compensator (go figure) or the transporter's "pattern enhancer". The true story is that The Original
Series' effects budget couldn't possibly cope with landing the Enterprise or even a shuttle in every episode. The transporter's instantaneus speed also helps to keep out mundane tasks like shuttle travel
out of the show.
Further to that, in TNG, there was an episode where Barkley (sp?) was beamed down in some kind of weird blue thing. That was the one with the strange transporter monsters... (I don't remember more than that, tho)
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I think the original idea was to distinguish between multiple of the same kind of machine (boxes) from multiple of different kinds of machines all in one group (boxen) ... now it's just garbage since every pretentious fuck writes boxen.
I've always thought of it in the "oxen" kind of idea... workers.
MIKE
Boy, you sure are right! The last thing we need is a government that makes laws that impede crime by PEOPLE. Government's supposed to represent PEOPLE, not limit them, right?
Sarcasm, right? Well, the government is *not* supposed to make owning a computer illegal, something which I believe that the US is attempting to do. Plus, an "internet cop" style thing would impede someone in another country, where the US has no jurisdiction, by claiming they violate US laws...
The US apparently believes *only* its laws apply anywhere in the world....
MIKE
STL isn't, at least not with today's compilers, although you can approximate it for the *common* errors with a sed script.
One word: typedefs.
The code becomes much easier to read when you typedef the vector::iterator to something else instead of just trying to use all the 's.... unless you mean the compiler error messages (those can get nasty, especially with typedefs - you don't see in the code what the compiler is talking about!).
MIKE
What does STL stand for?
Standard Template Library.
MIKE
I haven't tried Mdk yet, but with redhat, I have this sequence:
After that, I can install anything else I want.
Easy. Easier than windows (from my experience)
MIKE
I wish that my school would move to a Linux (or, probably better, *BSD) fileserver, rather than the Windows connected by NetWare for Win that we currently have. I could set it up in a weekend (at most), and have all sorts of scripts where they just type in "newusers" and then follow onscreen instructions, rather than wiping it and starting over every year. It would have the added advantage of not going down for a week monthly. (might need a reboot in the summer, but no one's around to notice). If we did that, my cool Tic Tac Toe program would still exist.
... there's another guy or two like me; we're all hooked on Linux/Unix - one is currently on a Mdk or RedHat, I can't remember, but is moving to Debian, and the other has only one computer at home, that his parents need to use as well...
And to think, me, a student, can fix windows computers better than most of the staff
MIKE
We as an industry demanded it of MS to do exactly what they did. Put the browser in the OS. But you all are saying its not really part of the os. Well I ask is the 'chdir' command really part of the linux os (pick your flavor)? Is it absolutly needed? No there are other ways to navigate the file structure. So why is it there? Its just taking up space! Oh my gawd we should get rid of it. How dare they give me chdir. I am very sure many shell scripts would simply stop working if that command suddely disappeared. My point is do not confuse what is put along with the OS to make the OS more usable to what the OS really needs. MS sees IEXPLORER.EXE as adding a value to the OS. A way to give the customers that demanded a browser be put in.
.. the OS really is just the kernel and everything else is added on (Linux is the Kernel ... everything else makes it usable). I admit that it is silly to get them to remove the various DLLs that contain the HTML renderer (shouldn't it be just html.dll?) but you break way more than the apps that use HTML if you did, unlike if you remove chdir - only the ones that use it.
The difference is that they claim that IEXPLORER.EXE is not removable from the system - it is. Just as chdir (cd?) is
In short... there is no Linux comparison to MS not being able to remove the HTML renderer component. It should be a separate component that could be installable (& probably default too), just like Nautilus & Konquerer are for GNOME and KDE, but the computer doesn't stop working if you take those out - just the respective desktops.
MIKE
Why is it OK for these Minux distros to do this but not MS?
... I suppose you could click the "custom install" button, but I don't know if that's still there ... unless you want to dwnload.
Because Mdk, RedHat, SuSE etc. include options, choice, and so on. Probably every Linux installer has the "What packages do you want to install?" then lists thousands, each app having one or two alternate choices, usually with the same setup etc. so you could switch if you want to. (Ex: PINE, MUTT, KMail etc. all on RH7.2.92 -beauty distro - which all go to ~/Mail for the mail files and store them in the same way).
The point was that MS includes all the program types (Email, Web etc.) but has no real choice
MIKE
My chemistry teacher got this wrong today too (parent post got it right)... the reason it's called Warp Speed is it actually Warps space (using an extension of the wormhole theory - or is that proven yet? I can't remember).
Anyway, he claimed that by the time anything actually reached Warp factor something it would be all energy, although the warping of space means that it is fast (c^x fast) relative to something outside of the warp bubble.
Anyone know what happens when warp bubbles collide?
On second thought, anyone know if matter + antimatter actually does = lots of energy? I thought that they were going to do some kind of experiment with that but I never heard any more.
MIKE
Loki is another flop that opted to make money out of WINE, instead of making a native port of the games it used to sell.
Loki ported to native Linux, using SDL (something along the lines of DirectX), *NOT* WINE. (they may have contributed to wine, but they used SDL)
Now, if only other people would use SDL instead of OpenGL... then maybe I could compile things...
MIKE
Two words (that are important to me if it works): USB Visors. My visor won't sync up with KPilot in 2.2.1 (I think). It will with whatever the tty app is, but that's a bit too much work. And this is available just in time too... I'm in my last year of High School... MIKE
Are you suggesting piracy or purchasing an OS just for an occasional game? Either solution seems like a dumb idea...
... nearly out of High School...) need to work full time to afford to be able to have recreational activities (such as PC gaming).
... but I'm perfectly happy with my linux box (RH 7.2) thank you...
... and I did pay for 5 Loki ports (mostly cheap at the Electronics Boutique... who have not had any more shipments and who are the only store in Ottawa that I know of that ever stocked Loki ports...).
I think he's suggesting that students (like me
Not that I blame him, tho... every company seems to expect the same out of us... I have had one real paying job (not weekend things, or shovelling snow etc) and I don't have enough left to buy WinXP Home, if I wanted
I think that it's cool when my brother and I are playing Unreal Tournament on different machines... his PIII chokes at the flak gun while my Celeron 366 doesn't...
I want my linux native ports (I just don't have the hardware power to run Windoze!)
MIKE
Not being a smart arse/troll or whatever... I presume you have looked up the info on XFS.. There is a TrueType font howto at linux.org.
X knows about my fonts: I eventually figured out that X wants permission on boot (that does *not* include ~/fonts...), but read on:
KDE & Star Offfice are fine with TTF's KOffice works with em ok.... And my desktop uses TTF's
Apparently, my problem is isolated: I cannot figure out how to get KDE to notice the fonts in the look&feel-->fonts section (kword does the same thing: no Sherwood etc.). Anyone know how to make this work? (plz. email me --mike@nospam.igs.net
Much annoyed since I went to all that trouble for X...
MIKE
In KDE with RH7.1 (KDE 2.1?), you used to be able to select a custom menu for any of the mouse clicks. I just now (after a few weeks of RH7.2) found it again in KDE: Control Centre --> Look and Feel --> Desktop --> Clicks on the Desktop --> set the appropriate droplist to "custom 1" (or 2).
...)
... just missing a few features that I want to have (read: rightmouse -> new terminal and font support and a clock that's usefull)
KMail seems to have lost some functionality (polling the web -- via proxy? -- for HTML mail images --> Daily Dilbert, for example) and the clock sometimes just shows random times... The News Ticker sometimes hiccoughs when attempting to access the latest Slashdot news...
I suppose this is as good a venu as any to ask this:
How hard is it to poll XFS for fonts? KDE and StarOffice (5.2) don't seem to poll for the fonts - I can't use any of my lots of fonts! I want TTF on my desktop! (I don't know enough right now to go code hacking
I haven't actually used a pure WM environment, but KDE is *way* faster than GNOME (esp. Nautilus) and looks better
We're almost there, folks, but to get on the desktop, we need to have a few things in, such as *one* place for fonts (I know, I know, XFS is a b*tch to get everything in...) etc.
MIKE
I haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut (nor do I really want to, same thing with American Beauty - they are portrayed in a way that disgusts me), but I do know people who don't like the movie and there are people out there who do. Like the subject line suggests, movie ratings are subjective.
That said, my top five:
LotR: Fellowship of the Ring (It will be the complete LotR considered as one movie someday...)
Star Wars Trilogy (The original trilogy, with the Spec.Edition updating)
Blade Runner (Director's cut)
The Matrix
Galaxy Quest (I think, it may be one of the Highlanders, Shrek, The Fifth Element, or any number of others).
... he also liked Eyes wide Shut).
As you can see, I like scifi/fantasy movies, and until LotR, Star Wars was my favourite movie. Notice that "artsy" movies (like the incredibly messed up, but cool anyway, "Being John Malkovich" - one of those 'I don't really want to watch this, but if I leave I might miss something' movies) aren't on there. I rate the new Planet of the Apes higher than the old one (for the main reason that I don't like Charleton Heston (sp.?)), but it isn't top five.
For me, a movie is mainly meant for turning off the brain for a few hours to "veg" in front of the t.v. or movie screen. Therefore, my top 5 doesn't include the likes of Citizen Kane (which I haven't seen yet... I will someday, but it won't make my top 5). It doesn't include Final Fantasy, because the storyline was too bland to be a movieline, but it almost makes it on special effects alone (but where are the chocobos?)
My list will be entirely different from, say, Jay Stone's (he's the movie reviewer for the Ottawa Citizen... one of those "Is it Citizen Kane? No? Crap then" reviewers - but he liked LotR & Croutching Tiger
MIKE
Ok if only US citizens get the card. That means only US citizens have the card, so those who arent are either terrorists, illegal aliens, or criminals of some sort. Or of course they simply lost their card.
How then would I travel from Canada to the States, unless you guys want to close your borders? Would there be some form of "Traveller's ID"? This, then, defeats the stated purpose.
MIKE
... and in the book "Seven Years of Highly Defective People", Scott(?) Adams wrote (paraphrase): 'what about me? I drew a cartoon about reading a book [...]'
MIKE
It's nearly painful to watch these youngins complain about spending an extra $20 on memory!!
You're missing the poster's point. His point was that the *current* prices of RAM, CPU etc. are in favour of AMD rather than Intel. For that, it doesn't matter what the prices of RAM was just under a decade ago (I remember those days too, and I know that I just payed 25CAND for 256 MB RAM... SD sure, but 256 nonetheless...).
Therefore, your arguement that it doesn't matter about the price difference because it is 20$ now instead of 2000$ doesn't make sense: the price is higher for a P4 system, even if it is only 20$, but that's an extra 256 MB (well, pro'lly 128 MB DDR) RAM... choose the system you want.
MIKE
For that matter, I hope that they get the Eyes of Ibad right. I sort of always thought that "deep blue whites and pupils" meant something other than "light blue pupils."
They didn't even get it right on the t.v. miniseries of Dune a while back (on Space Channel for those of us in Canada)... dark blue on the front of the eye (glowing too!), but when their heads were turned (we see a different angle of the eye), the eyes were basically white.
The t.v. series was apparently better than the film (which I haven't seen yet, but my father insists that it is so). Unfotrunately, I don't remember much about the book anymore... I'd love to compare both to the book (in the way that I believe that the Starship Troopers movie should have gotten the super-armour right...)
MIKE
"if you draw a single line on a paper and call it an art, so it is". Oh c'mon... That's way too much...
I'm not so sure about that being way too much... The Canadian Art Museum (or whatever it's called) bought the Voice of Fire... (three lines drawn on a canvas, for the uninitiated...)
MIKE
Preprocessed headers... 'nuff said. MIKE
I consistently get better performance in Q3 and UT (until there's just *too many* bots... that's a big number, by the way) on my Linux (RH 7.1, GNOME 1.4, KDE 2.?) box on a Celeron 366 with 160MB RAM and a 64MB Geforce2 MX400 card than on my brother's WinME machine using a PIII 750 with 512 MB RAM and a 32MB GeForce2 MX???. (well, his computer is often fully loaded with Internet proxy etc. that was set up before my box was). I don't actually have the framerates here, but I know that using the Flak Cannon in UT slows my brother's machine to a crawl with only about 4 bots, and on mine it needs about 6-8 bots before that happens.
That means:
Games, such as Q3 & UT, native to Linux seem to run faster than the Win native on WinME.
CPU intensive things depends on CPU speed, not OS (so it seems).
It seems really strange to me that my little Celeron 366 is sometimes faster than my brother's PIII...
I guess that the difference in RAM and CPU power doesn't make that much difference in the game sense (also, other than lack of sound in UT, it's more stable on my machine). However, for something like ripping a disk to MP3, on my machine it will go at maybe 2x speed, but my brother's machine is way faster (CPU thing? RAM thing?)
Oh, and just for the record, why didn't you use a logged-in account when you asked for the other guy (not me) to log in?
MIKE
Please, Please, Please, if you guys want to be part of this contest (which I don't think has to be illegal), state your intentions to others in the field, document your safe guards, have your safe guards reviewed. And most importantly be sure there is no coding to self propagate. It will be enough just to demonstrate penetration and a level of control I'm sure.
;)
Why not just GPL the virus?
MIKE
How about this situation (just happened)... I just ripped a CD to my computer (fairly old... Jewel's first CD, which I got a couple years ago). I took it out of the computer, and the disk snapped. I just took it out normally. Fortunately I (hopefully) have the backup... it was messy on the underside of the disk, so I don't know how it recorded.
With what the music companies want, I'd be screwed into buying another disk (bought this one from one of the subscription companies that went under a while back... BMG Music Group Canada or something like that)
Thanks to Fair Use, I may have recordings of the tracks on the CD that I can use to create another one to replace it.
MIKE
Of these speeds, factor 5 is the cruising speed of Enterprise-D. Its maximum rated speed is factor 9.6, although 9.9 can be maintained for 10 minutes. Warp factor 9.9999 is the propagation speed of subspace radio, and factor 10, obviously, can never be reached.
I really liked that cool episode of Voyager where they reached Warp 10. For some reason, travelling that fast causes biological de-evolution over the span of 1/2 an episode.
6. Beaming down. It is true that the physics of the transporter are pretty much out of this world. Without going into details, all the different physical problems of the concept seem to be taken care of by a separate component to the transporter system: some of the funniest components are the Heisenberg compensator (go figure) or the transporter's "pattern enhancer". The true story is that The Original Series' effects budget couldn't possibly cope with landing the Enterprise or even a shuttle in every episode. The transporter's instantaneus speed also helps to keep out mundane tasks like shuttle travel out of the show.
Further to that, in TNG, there was an episode where Barkley (sp?) was beamed down in some kind of weird blue thing. That was the one with the strange transporter monsters... (I don't remember more than that, tho)
MIKE
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