If you still want the tattoo, then here are some simple tests to see how it will look in five years.
Take some very cheap newsprint and draw your design on it. Make it exactly the same size, include every detail, and use a really fat green felt tip marker.
Now crumple the paper up into a ball and squish it as tight as you can.
Submerge the paper ball in a sink filled with water and leave it there for exactly thirty seconds.
Scatter a handful of small rocks on a picnic table and then unfold your paper ball on top of them, trying to make as much contact with the tabletop as possible.
Yup. Just about all of the Koei games, including the still-frakkin-awesome Bandit Kings of Ancient China, used the same hex-based combat system. And that was in 1989, and they were released on the Amiga for extra awesome points.
You cannot always download steam games offline. When steam servers are down, or when you have no internet connection, Steam will start in offline mode. Your games remain playable, provided that you have already downloaded and run them in that case. Steam's DRM is another case where loud-mouthed forum trolls understand even less than paying customers.
There you go. While there are some circumstances in which being 'offline' will cause troubles, most games play just fine in offline mode. Some will even play without the Steam client running. But don't let that stop you from complaining about how The Man is trying to keep you down.
Could you have program an effective hex-based map (taxes, military, etc.) for the computers in 1991?
No, you're right. The very concept of using a hexagonal grid would have been far beyond the computing power of any such system. To even begin to display a hex map like this requires at least a 3.0 GHz, quad-core processor and a DX11 video card with a minimum of 512M DDR3.
Or, of course, you could have just played Sword of Aragon, Battle Isle, Conflict: Middle East, or just about any other authentic computer wargame from that era. You could even have played Advanced Squad Leader back in 1985, which despite being a board game still has more lines of code in the rulebooks than most computer games.
Hexes are nothing new, and they're not complicated.
Or perhaps Intel is a company with more than a dozen employees, and is able to do more than one thing at a time.
It doesn't always have to be Dilbert-style "Battlin' Business Units", but there's no reason why the left hand can't work on something different than the right hand is.
No kidding. There was a 5.7 quake down here a week ago - you know who cared? No one. But a 5.0 (not 5.5, reported by TFA) hits Canada, and it's a front page slashdot story.
Don't worry. When California gets its largest quake since 1935, people will stand up and notice that too.
Go away with your ever more intrusive advertising. GO AWAY!
I think you misunderstand how the market works. If you don't like the service which you are purchasing, then you are the one who can go away. Either find another ISP or move to a country with decent broadband coverage and find another one there.
And that's exactly the angle which is missing here. If by "Preserving Virtual Worlds" all you are trying to do is make sure that your old copies of 'Elite' and 'Telengard' still work, then that's one thing. How about all those online worlds which not only were never released to the public, but also were overwritten every few months by major expansions and rewrites? What if, ten years from now, someone wanted to fall off of the boats running from Freeport to Butcherblock, visit the unpurchasable Castle plot in southern Istaria, or just see the massive graveyards one pace outside of any town in Britannia? Short of looking at screenshots and reading old guidebooks, there's no way of returning to those worlds as they just don't exist any more.
I was referring to buying insurance that replaces the government insurance. It's prohibited.
You also can't print your own Driver's License that replaces one issued by the government, or choose to pay taxes to your brother-in-law' private taxation bureau instead of to Revenue Canada. Why is this surprising?
People are seeing the error page or just waiting an insanely great long time to get pages back. Just imagine trying to do this from an iPhone in a major market!
Yeah, seeing error messages or getting pages back at all is a lot better than what usually happens when you try to use an iPhone in Manhattan.
Thats great until you want users, who use the services hosted on the sleeping machine, to be able to use those services.
Yeah, its great that an admin can wake a machine. Big deal. Been doing that for years...
Then surely it must have occurred to you that the service that those users want to use could be made smart enough to send a WOL packet to the sleeping machine, wait a few seconds and then try again. MythTV has been doing this for years.
Friend of mine has the most annoying product ever. Whenever it updates itself, it plays a recording of a voice saying "virus database updated".
You know, all your friend has to do is open up the settings dialog and turn off audio notification. It's about three clicks of the mouse and then all of those messages will disappear.
Just because you're using Windows doesn't mean you have to accept every annoying misfeature of every application as normal.
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...then just use a Sharpie and be done with it.
If you still want the tattoo, then here are some simple tests to see how it will look in five years.
Take some very cheap newsprint and draw your design on it. Make it exactly the same size, include every detail, and use a really fat green felt tip marker.
Now crumple the paper up into a ball and squish it as tight as you can.
Submerge the paper ball in a sink filled with water and leave it there for exactly thirty seconds.
Scatter a handful of small rocks on a picnic table and then unfold your paper ball on top of them, trying to make as much contact with the tabletop as possible.
This is what your butt will look in in 2020.
William Safire disagrees with you.
Screw polyethylene sheeting, just get a couple thousand rolls of Duck Tape and go to work.
Yup. Just about all of the Koei games, including the still-frakkin-awesome Bandit Kings of Ancient China, used the same hex-based combat system. And that was in 1989, and they were released on the Amiga for extra awesome points.
Time for a little copy editing...
You cannot always download steam games offline. When steam servers are down, or when you have no internet connection, Steam will start in offline mode. Your games remain playable, provided that you have already downloaded and run them in that case. Steam's DRM is another case where loud-mouthed forum trolls understand even less than paying customers.
There you go. While there are some circumstances in which being 'offline' will cause troubles, most games play just fine in offline mode. Some will even play without the Steam client running. But don't let that stop you from complaining about how The Man is trying to keep you down.
No, you're right. The very concept of using a hexagonal grid would have been far beyond the computing power of any such system. To even begin to display a hex map like this requires at least a 3.0 GHz, quad-core processor and a DX11 video card with a minimum of 512M DDR3.
Or, of course, you could have just played Sword of Aragon, Battle Isle, Conflict: Middle East, or just about any other authentic computer wargame from that era. You could even have played Advanced Squad Leader back in 1985, which despite being a board game still has more lines of code in the rulebooks than most computer games.
Hexes are nothing new, and they're not complicated.
Or perhaps Intel is a company with more than a dozen employees, and is able to do more than one thing at a time.
It doesn't always have to be Dilbert-style "Battlin' Business Units", but there's no reason why the left hand can't work on something different than the right hand is.
Perhaps she could take some advice from The Right Honourable Kim Campbell on how best to survive the experience.
And Ebola is pleasant compared to Necrotizing Fasciitis.
Does it run on banana peels? That would really be something.
It's all of that illegal make-up dumping. It leads to rouge waves, mascara storms and glitter tornadoes.
Don't worry. When California gets its largest quake since 1935, people will stand up and notice that too.
Don't worry, with the new XBox 360 Slim Microsoft has made some simple hardware improvements to make sure that the RROD will never happen again.
And if removing the red LED doesn't help improve reliability, I don't know what will.
I think you misunderstand how the market works. If you don't like the service which you are purchasing, then you are the one who can go away. Either find another ISP or move to a country with decent broadband coverage and find another one there.
And that's exactly the angle which is missing here. If by "Preserving Virtual Worlds" all you are trying to do is make sure that your old copies of 'Elite' and 'Telengard' still work, then that's one thing. How about all those online worlds which not only were never released to the public, but also were overwritten every few months by major expansions and rewrites? What if, ten years from now, someone wanted to fall off of the boats running from Freeport to Butcherblock, visit the unpurchasable Castle plot in southern Istaria, or just see the massive graveyards one pace outside of any town in Britannia? Short of looking at screenshots and reading old guidebooks, there's no way of returning to those worlds as they just don't exist any more.
But it looks like they finally found Whopping Mineral Deposits in Afghanistan.
Time to go after those WMDs, folks.
About three months ago. I bought it directly from the carrier, paid the same price as I would have in the USA, and it's unlocked.
Sorry about that.
Don't worry, the US Border Patrol very rarely beats and arrests people for trying to leave the USA. Mostly.
You also can't print your own Driver's License that replaces one issued by the government, or choose to pay taxes to your brother-in-law' private taxation bureau instead of to Revenue Canada. Why is this surprising?
And I'll save you another click. The text on that page has been changed fifteen times by six different people over the last twenty-four hours.
If you can't define 'Neutral', just look it up.
Duh.
...with yourself.
Yeah, seeing error messages or getting pages back at all is a lot better than what usually happens when you try to use an iPhone in Manhattan.
Then surely it must have occurred to you that the service that those users want to use could be made smart enough to send a WOL packet to the sleeping machine, wait a few seconds and then try again. MythTV has been doing this for years.
You know, all your friend has to do is open up the settings dialog and turn off audio notification. It's about three clicks of the mouse and then all of those messages will disappear.
Just because you're using Windows doesn't mean you have to accept every annoying misfeature of every application as normal.