I was going to run a quasi-RTS D&D game. The idea was, you're the leader of an organization (or a god, but that position was reserved to a specific few). I'm the DM. To interact with your minions, you interact with me.
And every weekend, I'd play out all the results from all the opposing minions.
Didn't work out, though. I didn't have the spare time required. But I did put together a bunch of pages describing how it'd work, if anyone's interested.
About time someone implemented Inner Space. Can we attack our competitors? Bump into the walls? Grab fuel cans most times of the day, and tea cups in the early afternoon?
I really hate to sound like a troll, but I'd rather they focused on native Works support in Word, first. I work in a large college computer lab (66 stations), and it's frustrating to see how many students come in to print of their Works documents, when we only have vanilla MS Office installed.
Sure, there's an input filter, but every time the IT department tries it in the latest Ghost image, it makes Word unstable.
Heck; if OpenOffice supported Works files, I'd be happy. We've got it installed on one station to take care of the corrupted.doc files Word pukes on.
Focusing aid on food while neglecting education is like focusing scholarship grants on tuition while neglecting aid for textbooks. Sure, it's important, but you're only addressing part of the problem.
And so long as you're whining about how aid money is spent, why don't you tell us how much of that aid money was donated by you?
Yes, it's too much to ask me to dual-boot Windows, for two reasons.
First, a decent edition of Windows costs a lot of money. If I'm going to run an OS, I don't want to deal with a crappy restricted version. (Debian's got me spoiled, I guess.)
Second, hardware support under Linux is often better than under Windows. I find open source drivers to be typically in better shape than their closed-source counterparts. I've had fewer problems with my hardware in the entire time it's run Linux (four or five years) than in the six or seven months it ran Windows. Open source drivers tend to have more effort poured into their maintenance than the closed-source drivers I've tried.
As a result, I'm not much of a gamer. If I want to play Windows games, I go to a cyber cafe.
Starting with the information that signals take Voyager 12 hours to reach earth, I determined that Voyager is about 12.9 billion kilometers from Earth. (see my work.)
At a constant acceleration of 1/10th g, we could get there in 59.48 days. (work) And there's no reason we couldn't get to a constant thrust of.1g for 60 days, if we put our minds to it.
Of course, I don't think we should terminate Voyager until we've already launched said spacecraft.
There's going to be so many problems implementing this software in a way that doesn't piss people off that any attempt at making it mandatory will lead to a consumer revolt.
Seriously, though, I think this is a good idea. It's voluntary, and should be used by parents to keep their kids in line. (Around here, don't we normally bitch about parents not being involved in their kids' growth?)
Does the piezoelectric device keep on giving current when the button is held pushed (stationary) ? Or is there a way to differentiate the pulse that follows from pushing the button from the one that follows from releasing it ?
Yes. Piezoelectric crystals have electrons pushed out of them when compressed, and draw electrons when decompressed. The direction of your current flow will tell you whether the button is getting more or less force.
The reason they came to mind is because one needs something as simple to construct as a membrane keyboard if one wants to keep it cheap. Using piezoelectric crystals should provide a small enough footprint. Using a SPDT switch is more expensive.
As for a reflecting background, they tried that with the GBC and (I think) the original GBA. People bitched about how you could only see the screen in the brightest environments.
Instead of silicone pushbuttons, use piezoelectric devices. Allow the buttons to directly drive the ICs. Normally, with pushbuttons, you're drawing current continuously for as long as the button completes the circuit. If the button drives the circuit, it's necessarily not drawing current from anywhere.
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Hopefully the Talk of the Nation in Marketplace doesn't spoil my dinner at the Splendid Table.
About -3.58832912 × 10-9 pounds force. Assuming you weigh 100kg, the board weighs 2 kg, and your centers of mass are 3 ft apart.
:)
Check the calculation
(I love Google calculator. So many constants and unit conversions built in.
If light has no mass, wouldn't observing a stellar object's gravitic lens count as observing a gravitational action where only one object had gravity?
"Galaxy go down the hole..."
Erm...I forgot to mention I'm running Linux on that machine. Thanks, though.
I was going to run a quasi-RTS D&D game. The idea was, you're the leader of an organization (or a god, but that position was reserved to a specific few). I'm the DM. To interact with your minions, you interact with me.
And every weekend, I'd play out all the results from all the opposing minions.
Didn't work out, though. I didn't have the spare time required. But I did put together a bunch of pages describing how it'd work, if anyone's interested.
It's called harmonic motion.
If the ATI drivers supported the Radeon IGP chipset, I might. But I haven't had that chance.
About time someone implemented Inner Space. Can we attack our competitors? Bump into the walls? Grab fuel cans most times of the day, and tea cups in the early afternoon?
(Really a great game; You oughta check it out.)
I really hate to sound like a troll, but I'd rather they focused on native Works support in Word, first. I work in a large college computer lab (66 stations), and it's frustrating to see how many students come in to print of their Works documents, when we only have vanilla MS Office installed.
.doc files Word pukes on.
Sure, there's an input filter, but every time the IT department tries it in the latest Ghost image, it makes Word unstable.
Heck; if OpenOffice supported Works files, I'd be happy. We've got it installed on one station to take care of the corrupted
You forget the market: People who probably have only seen computers in the hands of aid workers.
They're not going to know the difference between a fast environment and a slow one.
Focusing aid on food while neglecting education is like focusing scholarship grants on tuition while neglecting aid for textbooks. Sure, it's important, but you're only addressing part of the problem.
And so long as you're whining about how aid money is spent, why don't you tell us how much of that aid money was donated by you?
Voting with your wallet happens when there are alternatives to a product you want, and you go for the alternatives.
And one of those alternatives is, "none of the above." There are numerous open source games and entertainment options out there.
Yes, it's too much to ask me to dual-boot Windows, for two reasons.
First, a decent edition of Windows costs a lot of money. If I'm going to run an OS, I don't want to deal with a crappy restricted version. (Debian's got me spoiled, I guess.)
Second, hardware support under Linux is often better than under Windows. I find open source drivers to be typically in better shape than their closed-source counterparts. I've had fewer problems with my hardware in the entire time it's run Linux (four or five years) than in the six or seven months it ran Windows. Open source drivers tend to have more effort poured into their maintenance than the closed-source drivers I've tried.
As a result, I'm not much of a gamer. If I want to play Windows games, I go to a cyber cafe.
We could get there again in 60 days.
.1g for 60 days, if we put our minds to it.
Starting with the information that signals take Voyager 12 hours to reach earth, I determined that Voyager is about 12.9 billion kilometers from Earth. (see my work.)
At a constant acceleration of 1/10th g, we could get there in 59.48 days. (work) And there's no reason we couldn't get to a constant thrust of
Of course, I don't think we should terminate Voyager until we've already launched said spacecraft.
And I thought I was paranoid.
There's going to be so many problems implementing this software in a way that doesn't piss people off that any attempt at making it mandatory will lead to a consumer revolt.
I said it's a good idea. I have no doubt the actual implementation has flaws.
Does it run on Linux?
Seriously, though, I think this is a good idea. It's voluntary, and should be used by parents to keep their kids in line. (Around here, don't we normally bitch about parents not being involved in their kids' growth?)
Cool!
Thanks...I've been wanting to see what everybody's been talking about.
Does the piezoelectric device keep on giving current when the button is held pushed (stationary) ? Or is there a way to differentiate the pulse that follows from pushing the button from the one that follows from releasing it ?
Yes. Piezoelectric crystals have electrons pushed out of them when compressed, and draw electrons when decompressed. The direction of your current flow will tell you whether the button is getting more or less force.
The reason they came to mind is because one needs something as simple to construct as a membrane keyboard if one wants to keep it cheap. Using piezoelectric crystals should provide a small enough footprint. Using a SPDT switch is more expensive.
As for a reflecting background, they tried that with the GBC and (I think) the original GBA. People bitched about how you could only see the screen in the brightest environments.
Just change they work.
Instead of silicone pushbuttons, use piezoelectric devices. Allow the buttons to directly drive the ICs. Normally, with pushbuttons, you're drawing current continuously for as long as the button completes the circuit. If the button drives the circuit, it's necessarily not drawing current from anywhere.
I tried to use it, but alien wasn't very successful at creating a usable .deb from the official RPMs.
Force-field "treadmills." (source)
Do I find it ironic that a judge can decide whether a jury made the right decision? Sure...