Freeciv is probably the most complete Open Source game I've had the pleasure to enjoy. Supplemental nethack interfaces (Such as Falcon's Eye/a.) take a close second.
I bought Neverwinter Nights Saturday, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
With the Diamond Edition ($30 at Best Buy), you get both expansion packs, and you can follow some online directions to install to Linux without passing through Windows.
I also bought Return to Castle Wolfenstein a while back. That was good, too.
Oh, and there's DOOM, DOOM ][, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, several versions of Unreal...
If you'll go the Open Source route, there's DarkPlaces, Cube, Duke Nukem 3d (engine, anyway. You'll still need the gamedata.
Uhm...no games? How about, no hyperadvertised games?
Americans were seen as wealthy tourists. Now people are actively going out of their way to distance themselves from being american.
Those two should go hand in hand. When my mother went to Brazil, she took the hotel's advice and didn't wear fancy clothes, any jewelry, or even a visible cell phone. Still, she was mugged, because she kept taking pictures of things with her digital camera.
(Oddly enough, they didn't manage to take anything, because the fanny-pack she had everything in was firmly attached to her. She would have been happy to hand it all over if they'd gone slow enough to give her the chance. Instead, she wound up with severe bruising all over her arm where they shoved her while pulling on the fanny-pack.)
You think crummy modes are a problem? How about a video BIOS that hangs when you scan for available video modes? Oh, and the ACPI portion of the BIOS hangs when you ask about the PCI bus.
Enter the Presario 2100 laptop. Don't even get me started on the non-BIOS failings of this crummy little thing.
It's sad when quality hardware commands a premium (Apple, normally), and the only check to a quantity-over-quality policy is having to honor service contracts.
I'm curious. At what range would a Type 1a supernova be lethal to life on Earth?
As far as the size of the galaxy is concerned, 1,950 light-years is essentially in our back-yard. Keeping with scale, are we talking about a firecracker or a stick of dynamite?
As Zocalo pointed out, the star is 1,950 light-years away. So the burst in February happened "only" 1,950 years from now. The actual supernova may have already taken place, or it may not take place for another 100,000 years.
Which was my point.
The problem at hand is perspective. Does "it happens at time X" refer to the supernova event taking place at the star, or does it refer to our observation of the event, which would have to take place 1,950 after the event took place at the star?
To put it more generally, does the event's occurance refer to the cause of the observation, or the observation itself?
We don't know that from this article. For one, they don't mention how far away the star is. Two, they don't name the star, so I can't look it up. Three, evidence of a supernova could reach us anywhere in the next 100,000 years, which is about how long it takes light to reach us from the other side of the galaxy.
So if it happens tomorrow, we may not know about it for another 100,000 years. If it happened 50,000 years ago, we might see it tomorrow, or 50,000 years from now.
The article is long on grand imagery, but it's missing the information that would be important to know whether it already happened.
You're still burning vapor. Gasoline evaporates when exposed to air, just like virtually any other liquid. It just doesn't do it very quickly.
A gasoline engine depends on the injected fuel being a vapor when the spark plug sparks. If the fuel isn't intermixed with the air well enough, it won't have enough oxygen to combine with, and thus not all of the fuel will burn. If your injectors get bad enough, you'll hardly ignite any of the fuel at all.
Case in point: When I was a volunteer firefighter, a vendor came by to try to sell some foaming agent to the department. One of the demonstrations he used was to put out a 3' x 3' pan of burning gasoline by dousing it with a bucket of his foaming agent. (Which, I should point out, hadn't been made into a foam yet. He didn't smother the gasoline fire, he mixed the foaming agent with the burning gasoline.)
He then soaked some tires in another batch of gasoline, and lit them on fire. He waited until the thermometer read well over 1000 farenheit, and then splashed a bucket of gas from the pan on the tire fire. The tires darn near went out!
You see, his foaming agent, in addition to normal foaming properties when properly mixed with the fire engine's water supply, also served to prevent that gasoline from evaporating. No evaporation, no vapor. Without vapor, it was no more dangerous than a scalding hot pan of water.
I'm very much accustomed to GIMP. I've done a great deal of original work in it. Yet I have trouble figuring out how to do things in Photoshop.
Why? Because the menus aren't where they should be, the options aren't where they should be, and I can never seem to find the right filters. (Photoshop has a rich variety of filters that achieve complex results in one step, but it doesn't have the simple filters I can combine to get the effects I'm looking for.)
Now, go through my comment, and replace "should be" with "where I expect them to be." To me, the GIMP is more intuitive than Photoshop. Given the GIMP and Photoshop on the same computer, and I'll use the GIMP.
It doesn't hook any public APIs, but it does hook some internal ones. Quoth the Symantec link:
Rootkit detectors also check for the integrity of some kernel structures like the Service Descriptor Table, but Rustock.A controls kernel functions by hooking MSR_SYSENTER and other special IRP functions. [2]
If that's not functionality that should require Windows binaries to be signed, I don't know what is.
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Freeciv is probably the most complete Open Source game I've had the pleasure to enjoy. Supplemental nethack interfaces (Such as Falcon's Eye/a.) take a close second.
I bought Neverwinter Nights Saturday, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
With the Diamond Edition ($30 at Best Buy), you get both expansion packs, and you can follow some online directions to install to Linux without passing through Windows.
I also bought Return to Castle Wolfenstein a while back. That was good, too.
Oh, and there's DOOM, DOOM ][, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, several versions of Unreal...
If you'll go the Open Source route, there's DarkPlaces, Cube, Duke Nukem 3d (engine, anyway. You'll still need the gamedata.
Uhm...no games? How about, no hyperadvertised games?
Americans were seen as wealthy tourists. Now people are actively going out of their way to distance themselves from being american.
Those two should go hand in hand. When my mother went to Brazil, she took the hotel's advice and didn't wear fancy clothes, any jewelry, or even a visible cell phone. Still, she was mugged, because she kept taking pictures of things with her digital camera.
(Oddly enough, they didn't manage to take anything, because the fanny-pack she had everything in was firmly attached to her. She would have been happy to hand it all over if they'd gone slow enough to give her the chance. Instead, she wound up with severe bruising all over her arm where they shoved her while pulling on the fanny-pack.)
You think crummy modes are a problem? How about a video BIOS that hangs when you scan for available video modes? Oh, and the ACPI portion of the BIOS hangs when you ask about the PCI bus.
Enter the Presario 2100 laptop. Don't even get me started on the non-BIOS failings of this crummy little thing.
It's sad when quality hardware commands a premium (Apple, normally), and the only check to a quantity-over-quality policy is having to honor service contracts.
Yeah, but I'd rather pay cash for that at a bookstore than buy it from Amazon.
If your OS is not secure, no app running on it can be secured.
Ssh...don't tell the RIAA.
Note that this isn't a Firefox vulnerability.
The trojan is opened as a Windows executable from email attachments, and writes itself into the Firefox profile's configuration directory.
I thought that's what murder mysteries were about. Maybe I watched too much CSI.
They used to. But I'm over my grief.
Sounds like the makings of a murder mystery. Hate a guy? Give him freeze-dried blood of a different type than what he's compatible with.
Then call it a d20 reference instead. It's more generic that way.
I'm curious. At what range would a Type 1a supernova be lethal to life on Earth?
As far as the size of the galaxy is concerned, 1,950 light-years is essentially in our back-yard. Keeping with scale, are we talking about a firecracker or a stick of dynamite?
As Zocalo pointed out, the star is 1,950 light-years away. So the burst in February happened "only" 1,950 years from now. The actual supernova may have already taken place, or it may not take place for another 100,000 years.
Which was my point.
The problem at hand is perspective. Does "it happens at time X" refer to the supernova event taking place at the star, or does it refer to our observation of the event, which would have to take place 1,950 after the event took place at the star?
To put it more generally, does the event's occurance refer to the cause of the observation, or the observation itself?
Yes, I read it. But somehow I mised the name. Heck, I don't even remember that paragraph. /Hangs his head in shame.
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We don't know that from this article. For one, they don't mention how far away the star is. Two, they don't name the star, so I can't look it up. Three, evidence of a supernova could reach us anywhere in the next 100,000 years, which is about how long it takes light to reach us from the other side of the galaxy.
So if it happens tomorrow, we may not know about it for another 100,000 years. If it happened 50,000 years ago, we might see it tomorrow, or 50,000 years from now.
The article is long on grand imagery, but it's missing the information that would be important to know whether it already happened.
I'll be shocked if this happens during my lifetime. And I doubt it'll happen by the end of my grandkids' lifetimes.
(And they're not even born yet.)
So, what, did they finally add an S2 engine?
competition (countable and uncountable; plural competitions)
1. (uncountable) the action of competing
The competition for this job is strong.
You're still burning vapor. Gasoline evaporates when exposed to air, just like virtually any other liquid. It just doesn't do it very quickly.
A gasoline engine depends on the injected fuel being a vapor when the spark plug sparks. If the fuel isn't intermixed with the air well enough, it won't have enough oxygen to combine with, and thus not all of the fuel will burn. If your injectors get bad enough, you'll hardly ignite any of the fuel at all.
Case in point: When I was a volunteer firefighter, a vendor came by to try to sell some foaming agent to the department. One of the demonstrations he used was to put out a 3' x 3' pan of burning gasoline by dousing it with a bucket of his foaming agent. (Which, I should point out, hadn't been made into a foam yet. He didn't smother the gasoline fire, he mixed the foaming agent with the burning gasoline.)
He then soaked some tires in another batch of gasoline, and lit them on fire. He waited until the thermometer read well over 1000 farenheit, and then splashed a bucket of gas from the pan on the tire fire. The tires darn near went out!
You see, his foaming agent, in addition to normal foaming properties when properly mixed with the fire engine's water supply, also served to prevent that gasoline from evaporating. No evaporation, no vapor. Without vapor, it was no more dangerous than a scalding hot pan of water.
I'm very much accustomed to GIMP. I've done a great deal of original work in it. Yet I have trouble figuring out how to do things in Photoshop.
Why? Because the menus aren't where they should be, the options aren't where they should be, and I can never seem to find the right filters. (Photoshop has a rich variety of filters that achieve complex results in one step, but it doesn't have the simple filters I can combine to get the effects I'm looking for.)
Now, go through my comment, and replace "should be" with "where I expect them to be." To me, the GIMP is more intuitive than Photoshop. Given the GIMP and Photoshop on the same computer, and I'll use the GIMP.
If that's not functionality that should require Windows binaries to be signed, I don't know what is.
Space Travel is "newsworthy" again.
Too bad it took the death of several astronauts to draw peoples' attention to the risks these souls take for the sake of scientific progress.
A quick search of the history of that page didn't turn up anything. Could it have been this page?
Ah. And which Wikipedia article did you reference?