Hand cranks, combined with backfires, led to broken arms. Also, before Ford, automobiles were generally only owned by the wealthy. Many wealthy women probably weren't accustomed to physical labor. Sure, there were exceptions.
Also, remember that "driving a car" also implies maintenance such as changing a flat tire. And realize that tires of the period were unreliable by today's standards. Changing tires was a much more common activity than today. Think about the effort required to jack up the car. (Admittedly, not much, with the proper jack. But all jacks are not created equal, and the one in my car sucks.) Then think about lifting and moving tires. Then think about tightening the lugnuts so the tire doesn't come off on the road. (Another item I sometimes have trouble with.)
Manual steering (with a properly sized steering wheel) isn't too much of a problem. However, I doubt they had the technology for it down as well as they did in its twilight days. Friction, gearing and wheel size all were things that had to be addressed and improved over time.
"Let's not forget that people used to say that women couldn't drive an automobile."
Well, a long time ago, driving an automobile required a certain physical strength a lot of women didn't have. Starting the engine required using a crank, for one. That's the big one I'm not even sure I have the strength for. Manual steering was another hurdle.
Of course, things like electric starters and power steering have made driving a much less physical exercise. Biometric driver authentication is peeking is head out now, which means no more wrist-wrenching to start the car. And drive-by-wire is only a few years away. Pretty soon, the toughest part of driving will be opening the door.
It's a great film to have a running commentary on. For instance, when Clu is about to kiss Yori, a friend of mine pointed out, "He better check his permissions."
I think the whole reason brand-name PCs have become so cheap is because each PC has become a revenue stream for the OEM. I wrote about it in one my journals...
Google has a lot of powerful tools on their website with the Beta descriptor. Tools effective enough to be considered vital by many. Calling something "Beta," then, makes for a great excuse for mistakes and bad code.
FWIW, for me, the back end to Firefox is Google, not the Internet.:)
Who's to say he didn't read the T&C carefully? Maybe he approved of that clause. Otherwise, he could have chosen to go with a different provider. Certainly he had connections, through his colleagues, to at least one person who ran their own server.
They sell it here in West Michigan. You'll also find Faygo, which has a couple of flavors I haven't seen anywhere else, like Key Lime Pie and Coconut Cream Pie.
I was driving to the hospital a few minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve. Almost all of the lights were flashing red/yellow. Even lights that weren't normally flashing at that time of night on any day of the week.
This past weekend, I made a silly typo while setting my hardware clock in Linux. The result was a discovery that my hardware clock can't be set past the year 2020. And the BIOS is dated 2000.
You've never been fragged repeatedly by a camper? Funny, they bother enough other people for it to have become a cliche. I've even played a mod that specifically had a weapon named "anti-camper"... The theory is, if the guy keeps moving, it'll miss. If the guy stops, it'll hit.
keyboards can be fast, or precise, but never both.
That's why you build a strategy that doesn't depend on it.
When I was a phone tech for a small dial-up ISP, I frequently talked with people with connection quality issues. First suggestion? Pick up a "round" (read, twisted pair) phone cable from Radio Shack to connect the modem to the wall.
It worked, for most people. Of course, if it had just rained, I told them to expect it to get better after it had dried out outside, since the local phone company's hardware didn't handle moisture well. (Our equipment connected to the telco via a PRI. Our customers, of course, had analog connections. Well...some had a BRI for their ISDN connections.)
Er...low-G wasn't possible in stock Quake except in e1m8, and even then onlye because of a specific accommodation in the QuakeC. Some mods, however, added support for low-G, if you included an entry in the map. I don't recall any servers that set the cvar manually, either. But that doesn't mean they weren't out there.
Also, in e1m8, the most of the locations where you could see to target the best placed you very near walls. Since the rocket launcher is an area-effect weapon, my effective target size just got a lot bigger. I don't have to kill you in one shot, just whittle you down and annoy you.
FYI, There's a bug in Quake 1 (even in modern versions of the engine such as Darkplaces, Twilight and QuakeForge) that lets you change direction mid-jump. Hold down "+forward" and change yaw...you'll drift through the turn.
a grapple, a shotgun, a rocket launcher, etc. etc. etc....
You just don't get the precision and quick response you need with a keyboard to effectively compete with a mouse user.
Depending on the tactics allowed and the map, you don't need a quick pitch response for any weapon. If you can anticipate where an opponent is going to be, you can set up your shot seconds before they get there. If the encounter areas are mostly 2D, you don't need to change your pitch. (Which is what the use of a mouse helps the most with.)
Grappling hooks forced every non-enclosed environment to become a 3D encounter area, hence requiring quick pitch control, hence requiring a mouse...
When my family ran a local BBS, Trade Wars 2002 and Tele-Arena were our two most popular games. We ended up creating PvP and non-PvP instances of each game because we had a couple of fierce players.
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And jebus, it's mod points, it's not mana from heaven.
You're obviously someone who's had mod points in the last two years...
Hand cranks, combined with backfires, led to broken arms. Also, before Ford, automobiles were generally only owned by the wealthy. Many wealthy women probably weren't accustomed to physical labor. Sure, there were exceptions.
Also, remember that "driving a car" also implies maintenance such as changing a flat tire. And realize that tires of the period were unreliable by today's standards. Changing tires was a much more common activity than today. Think about the effort required to jack up the car. (Admittedly, not much, with the proper jack. But all jacks are not created equal, and the one in my car sucks.) Then think about lifting and moving tires. Then think about tightening the lugnuts so the tire doesn't come off on the road. (Another item I sometimes have trouble with.)
Manual steering (with a properly sized steering wheel) isn't too much of a problem. However, I doubt they had the technology for it down as well as they did in its twilight days. Friction, gearing and wheel size all were things that had to be addressed and improved over time.
"Let's not forget that people used to say that women couldn't drive an automobile."
Well, a long time ago, driving an automobile required a certain physical strength a lot of women didn't have. Starting the engine required using a crank, for one. That's the big one I'm not even sure I have the strength for. Manual steering was another hurdle.
Of course, things like electric starters and power steering have made driving a much less physical exercise. Biometric driver authentication is peeking is head out now, which means no more wrist-wrenching to start the car. And drive-by-wire is only a few years away. Pretty soon, the toughest part of driving will be opening the door.
Why? A symlink works even better. (Assuming you don't need a gaurantee that it's no longer in the old location.)
...the stickers should have read, "Evolution is a theory, and not necessarily a fact."
It may be a fact that the paint in a can reflects blue light better than any other wavelength, but that can't be proven until the can is opened.
Doh! My mistake.
It's a great film to have a running commentary on. For instance, when Clu is about to kiss Yori, a friend of mine pointed out, "He better check his permissions."
And here at Grand Rapids Community College. Several laptops were stolen, including direct-deposit routing numbers, names, and SSNs.
And someone is actively trying to use this information.
I think the whole reason brand-name PCs have become so cheap is because each PC has become a revenue stream for the OEM. I wrote about it in one my journals...
Google has a lot of powerful tools on their website with the Beta descriptor. Tools effective enough to be considered vital by many. Calling something "Beta," then, makes for a great excuse for mistakes and bad code.
:)
FWIW, for me, the back end to Firefox is Google, not the Internet.
Who's to say he didn't read the T&C carefully? Maybe he approved of that clause. Otherwise, he could have chosen to go with a different provider. Certainly he had connections, through his colleagues, to at least one person who ran their own server.
You mean, Trusted, right?
They sell it here in West Michigan. You'll also find Faygo, which has a couple of flavors I haven't seen anywhere else, like Key Lime Pie and Coconut Cream Pie.
*snort*
:)
Mod parent up.
I was driving to the hospital a few minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve. Almost all of the lights were flashing red/yellow. Even lights that weren't normally flashing at that time of night on any day of the week.
This past weekend, I made a silly typo while setting my hardware clock in Linux. The result was a discovery that my hardware clock can't be set past the year 2020. And the BIOS is dated 2000.
My parents have a box upstairs of a device that claims to be a solution to Y2K for Windows 3.1 systems. It fits into an ISA slot.
My guess is it's a hardware clock.
They haven't opened the box, though. It'll probably be a collector's item some day.
Grand Rapids Community College has nearly all of their services (including the Linux classes' box) use Novell for authentication.
You've never been fragged repeatedly by a camper? Funny, they bother enough other people for it to have become a cliche. I've even played a mod that specifically had a weapon named "anti-camper" ... The theory is, if the guy keeps moving, it'll miss. If the guy stops, it'll hit.
keyboards can be fast, or precise, but never both.
That's why you build a strategy that doesn't depend on it.
When I was a phone tech for a small dial-up ISP, I frequently talked with people with connection quality issues. First suggestion? Pick up a "round" (read, twisted pair) phone cable from Radio Shack to connect the modem to the wall.
It worked, for most people. Of course, if it had just rained, I told them to expect it to get better after it had dried out outside, since the local phone company's hardware didn't handle moisture well. (Our equipment connected to the telco via a PRI. Our customers, of course, had analog connections. Well...some had a BRI for their ISDN connections.)
What, did you play on a 9" black and white monitor or something?
/g/bug/s//feature/
Close enough...back then, I was on a 15" monitor playing at the highest resolution allowed by the DOS version of Quake.
Indeed.
Merry Christmas.
Er...low-G wasn't possible in stock Quake except in e1m8, and even then onlye because of a specific accommodation in the QuakeC. Some mods, however, added support for low-G, if you included an entry in the map. I don't recall any servers that set the cvar manually, either. But that doesn't mean they weren't out there.
Also, in e1m8, the most of the locations where you could see to target the best placed you very near walls. Since the rocket launcher is an area-effect weapon, my effective target size just got a lot bigger. I don't have to kill you in one shot, just whittle you down and annoy you.
FYI, There's a bug in Quake 1 (even in modern versions of the engine such as Darkplaces, Twilight and QuakeForge) that lets you change direction mid-jump. Hold down "+forward" and change yaw...you'll drift through the turn.
a grapple, a shotgun, a rocket launcher, etc. etc. etc....
You just don't get the precision and quick response you need with a keyboard to effectively compete with a mouse user.
Depending on the tactics allowed and the map, you don't need a quick pitch response for any weapon. If you can anticipate where an opponent is going to be, you can set up your shot seconds before they get there. If the encounter areas are mostly 2D, you don't need to change your pitch. (Which is what the use of a mouse helps the most with.)
Grappling hooks forced every non-enclosed environment to become a 3D encounter area, hence requiring quick pitch control, hence requiring a mouse...
When my family ran a local BBS, Trade Wars 2002 and Tele-Arena were our two most popular games. We ended up creating PvP and non-PvP instances of each game because we had a couple of fierce players.
Yes, Crutch, I mean you.