Interesting game you are making. I'll try it out if (and when) I get some spare time to toy around.
I actually just post this because you've got a two typos within the first line of your webpage: "exlploration", "theclassic" lacks a space. So, I really hope your coding skills are better than your writing skills;-)
Come to think of it, her surname sounds a lot like ''mouillé'', meaning "wet". That's even funnier!
Only "even funnier". Ehm... Yes, but only because your grasp of french seems not to extend to certain areas. "La mouille" (no accent in this case) is a word for vaginal secretions, those of the kind that women have when they get excited if you catch my drift. So, yes, that name is funny. But, you're right, it evidently comes from "mouillé" which means "wet".
That said, "Mouilleron" is a village in France. Probably the true origin of her surname.
Yes, I am aware you can get a static IP address for a DSL line. In many countries they even do this for free, including reverse DNS lookup. In my country it costs an insane amount of money, probably because we have few IP addresses. I don't know. The current solution works.
I do not have a router. I have an old-school DSL modem and my server is the router. I understand this setup is very uncommon these days, but I jumped on the DSL bandwagon as soon as possible. My server has two NICs: one is a private 192.168.x.x, but the other is just in the "UP" state. Over that second nick, I have a PPPoE tunnel through my DSL modem. When I ask the IP address of that tunnel, I get the public facing IP address, so my machine does have a public facing IP address.
Back in the early DSL days, routers were extremely expensive and not an option. As far as I know, you can disable the routing functionality of any home router, and enable the "modem-only" mode. Not that I need to, my 5 year old Alcatel Speedtouch is doing just fine. (My dad has the same model: it's 7 years old and works perfectly fine)
Yes, I understand... I already replied to the other guy that replied that I thought of IP addresses within the context of machines connected directly to the Intenet.
I should have known better, after all, I run my own class C private network at work I'm on a class B private network.
Ah, okay.... Sorry, indeed, I forgot about intranets and private networks. I just always think about the IPv4 to IPv6 transition in context of the Internet and not in context of company intranets and private networks. Thanks for clearing it up...
Huh? What is a public facing web server? I mean my "server" on my DSL machine that runs apache and some other nifty stuff is public facing. All machines that have an IP address are public facing for crying out loud! Sure, mine only has a domain name associated to it by dyndns but for Joe Sixpack that doesn't make a difference. For all intents and purposes I have a "public facing webserver".
There is no difference between my IP address and the IP address of Amazon, except that their reverse DNS lookup matches;-)
Frankly, I knew that that person was wrong (Just on common sense, because whatever I think of the US now, I have great respect for the brilliant minds behind the US Constitution). Alas I'm not the person that will lecture someone over their own Constitution, because it could bring me in bigger trouble than I already was. The real problem is that many Americans actually think that foreigners have no rights on their soil. This ignorance is extremely dangerous.
Worst is, this was a College educated woman... Not some backwater redneck I met in a local bar.
I don't think that any law enforcement would try anything for fear of a massive international uproar.
As if international uproar would stop the US in anything? Frankly?
Unless they can find a way to label you as a terrorist, of course. Then all bets are off.
You already gave the answer yourself. All bets are off, once there is a loophole within the system. Basic human rights can't be granted anymore... Human rights, are these silly rights I should have inherently...
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That's it! Exactly, any on one Zip drive you could store about one CD. 10Megs per song as I remember. The advantage was that the encoding was quite fast. I remember having to wait hours to compress a WAV to an MP3 on a Pentium Pro 200. Granted it was the original Fraunhofer codec on the DOS command line, so I suppose it wasn't really very optimized.
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Also, Iomega Zip drives came with software to create MP2 files....
I used to work for Fujitsu Siemens, the Consulting branch... When I worked there between 1998 and 2004, their computers were absolute shit. Shoddy build quality, really bad LCD panels, insensitive trackpads, etc.... Even their desktop weren't worth anything. Now, I swore myself never to buy a Fujitsu-Siemens.
Yet, begin this year I bought a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop. Why? Because I found that the build quality was significantly better, the screen was bright and clean and the price was extremely right. Sure, a MacBook would be better built, but it would also have been about 500€ more expensive for comparable specs.
This might be more a thing that technology advanced and that the parts have become better, but these days, I would even be inclined to recommend them. No, I don't work for them anymore....
I recall King's Quest V being the first adventure game I've played that had hi-res graphics and voice.
Voice, yes... "High Res Graphics"? No way in hell...
I had an IBM PS/2 Model 50 in about 1989, and that came with VGA. VGA as in "classic" VGA something most people don't even know. With VGA, you had 256KByte of video RAM, which allowed you 320x200 at 8bit color. In high resolution it was 640x480 at 4bit color. King's Quest V used the Mode 13h (320x200) which is not high-res, not even in those days. The abundance of colours did help reducing the feeling that it was low-res, but it was low-res.
Mode 13h was used in many games released in 1990. KQ5 might have been the first one, but I highly doubt that.
I'm European and while visiting the US, I made a joke that went way over someones head. That person said that I couldn't say that, and I replied that the US had free speech... That person then replied that as a foreigner I had no rights in the US.
Now, that person may have been joking, but it most certainly didn't look that way when she said that.... The scary thing is that right now, I'm pretty sure that is entirely true.
Not kidding, but she completely took me by surprise!
After that I had to wait *years* for my next chance. That's fucking frustrating, having had sex and not getting any more for years. Way worse than not knowing what sex is at all...
Presumably, Apple has some reason for doing this. I don't pretend to understand what. It isn't the kind of thing that would appeal to their core demographic (iPod kids and Photoshop hacks)
I'm sure you know about XServe, don't you? That's where this stuff matters... So they might not be as good as "real" Big Iron, but now they can say they are at the same level as Big Iron. At least according to that certification. This is not for iPod wielding photoshop artists, this is so that IT managers can choose Apple hardware and convince Point Hair Bosses....
Apple has a broader target demographic than you might think... They expanded it the day they released OS X.
Well, the reason I did reply was your following statement: "Mercedes used to do it routinely and the engines on mid range Fords will do 200k plus - but the Prius engine isn't a Mercedes V8. And, assuming you are writing from the US, many American auto engines used to be vastly overspecified so that in reality they were running on very light load almost all the time.".
Then I gave you examples that are neither V8 Mercedes nor American. So, small engine blocks that are non-american were long lived and efficient! My Audi 80 did 7l/100km, which translates to 33.6mpg. That was a 14 year old car in 1999! Sure, they would not live up to emission standards of these days, but I can assure you that they would pass any V8 blocks in fuel efficiency and any American car that have too big engine blocks anyway. (I remember a 2.7l Sebring I rented in California. It was a fucking slug compared to my 1.8l Audi 80!)
My parents have a Seat Ibiza 1.4 (gas) that has passed the 200000km, that's 125000 miles, without any problem. It still purrs like a newborn kitten. In terms of weight, it's 1.1tonnes, AFAIK. So why would the 1.3 gas in a Prius die earlier?
The Prius uses expensive (energetically speaking) aluminum and nickel, which also have high clearup costs.
That's the part in the whole rationale I do not understand. Once the aluminium is refined, reusing is trivial and has much less energy costs as creating new aluminium from ores. Aluminium can be recycled 100% too.... So that part is 100% fake: the reason iron can be 100% recycled is because iron is already in widespread use. Not so for Aluminium.
Ehm, last time I check passwords in Word documents are trivially crackable. (Okay, it's a long time ago that I checked...) Of course, I don't expect a person from HR to know that. Still, doing all this stuff would still have gotten me complaints by my boss. After all it was the "company internal resume" that is sent along with bids.
With recruiters this might work, though.
I didn't know one could get free certificates. That's cool...
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Interesting game you are making. I'll try it out if (and when) I get some spare time to toy around.
I actually just post this because you've got a two typos within the first line of your webpage: "exlploration", "theclassic" lacks a space. So, I really hope your coding skills are better than your writing skills ;-)
Come to think of it, her surname sounds a lot like ''mouillé'', meaning "wet". That's even funnier!
Only "even funnier". Ehm... Yes, but only because your grasp of french seems not to extend to certain areas. "La mouille" (no accent in this case) is a word for vaginal secretions, those of the kind that women have when they get excited if you catch my drift. So, yes, that name is funny. But, you're right, it evidently comes from "mouillé" which means "wet".
That said, "Mouilleron" is a village in France. Probably the true origin of her surname.
It's not lies in a schooling context... It's brainwashing and propaganda ;-)
Yes, I am aware you can get a static IP address for a DSL line. In many countries they even do this for free, including reverse DNS lookup. In my country it costs an insane amount of money, probably because we have few IP addresses. I don't know. The current solution works.
I do not have a router. I have an old-school DSL modem and my server is the router. I understand this setup is very uncommon these days, but I jumped on the DSL bandwagon as soon as possible. My server has two NICs: one is a private 192.168.x.x, but the other is just in the "UP" state. Over that second nick, I have a PPPoE tunnel through my DSL modem. When I ask the IP address of that tunnel, I get the public facing IP address, so my machine does have a public facing IP address.
Back in the early DSL days, routers were extremely expensive and not an option. As far as I know, you can disable the routing functionality of any home router, and enable the "modem-only" mode. Not that I need to, my 5 year old Alcatel Speedtouch is doing just fine. (My dad has the same model: it's 7 years old and works perfectly fine)
Already two people pointed it out... I know, I was too quick to reply. I run my own private networks.
Yes, I understand... I already replied to the other guy that replied that I thought of IP addresses within the context of machines connected directly to the Intenet.
I should have known better, after all, I run my own class C private network at work I'm on a class B private network.
I should think twice before speaking up.
Ah, okay.... Sorry, indeed, I forgot about intranets and private networks. I just always think about the IPv4 to IPv6 transition in context of the Internet and not in context of company intranets and private networks. Thanks for clearing it up...
Huh? What is a public facing web server? I mean my "server" on my DSL machine that runs apache and some other nifty stuff is public facing. All machines that have an IP address are public facing for crying out loud! Sure, mine only has a domain name associated to it by dyndns but for Joe Sixpack that doesn't make a difference. For all intents and purposes I have a "public facing webserver".
There is no difference between my IP address and the IP address of Amazon, except that their reverse DNS lookup matches ;-)
Frankly, I knew that that person was wrong (Just on common sense, because whatever I think of the US now, I have great respect for the brilliant minds behind the US Constitution). Alas I'm not the person that will lecture someone over their own Constitution, because it could bring me in bigger trouble than I already was. The real problem is that many Americans actually think that foreigners have no rights on their soil. This ignorance is extremely dangerous.
Worst is, this was a College educated woman... Not some backwater redneck I met in a local bar.
I don't think that any law enforcement would try anything for fear of a massive international uproar.
As if international uproar would stop the US in anything? Frankly?
Unless they can find a way to label you as a terrorist, of course. Then all bets are off.
You already gave the answer yourself. All bets are off, once there is a loophole within the system. Basic human rights can't be granted anymore... Human rights, are these silly rights I should have inherently...
That's it! Exactly, any on one Zip drive you could store about one CD. 10Megs per song as I remember. The advantage was that the encoding was quite fast. I remember having to wait hours to compress a WAV to an MP3 on a Pentium Pro 200. Granted it was the original Fraunhofer codec on the DOS command line, so I suppose it wasn't really very optimized.
Also, Iomega Zip drives came with software to create MP2 files....
I used to work for Fujitsu Siemens, the Consulting branch... When I worked there between 1998 and 2004, their computers were absolute shit. Shoddy build quality, really bad LCD panels, insensitive trackpads, etc.... Even their desktop weren't worth anything. Now, I swore myself never to buy a Fujitsu-Siemens.
Yet, begin this year I bought a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop. Why? Because I found that the build quality was significantly better, the screen was bright and clean and the price was extremely right. Sure, a MacBook would be better built, but it would also have been about 500€ more expensive for comparable specs.
This might be more a thing that technology advanced and that the parts have become better, but these days, I would even be inclined to recommend them. No, I don't work for them anymore....
I recall King's Quest V being the first adventure game I've played that had hi-res graphics and voice.
Voice, yes... "High Res Graphics"? No way in hell...
I had an IBM PS/2 Model 50 in about 1989, and that came with VGA. VGA as in "classic" VGA something most people don't even know. With VGA, you had 256KByte of video RAM, which allowed you 320x200 at 8bit color. In high resolution it was 640x480 at 4bit color. King's Quest V used the Mode 13h (320x200) which is not high-res, not even in those days. The abundance of colours did help reducing the feeling that it was low-res, but it was low-res.
Mode 13h was used in many games released in 1990. KQ5 might have been the first one, but I highly doubt that.
I'm European and while visiting the US, I made a joke that went way over someones head. That person said that I couldn't say that, and I replied that the US had free speech... That person then replied that as a foreigner I had no rights in the US.
Now, that person may have been joking, but it most certainly didn't look that way when she said that.... The scary thing is that right now, I'm pretty sure that is entirely true.
You're welcome. I pretty much thought you simply mixed them up. It is indeed a common mistake.
Must be the difference, sex was great the first time. To have pretty much a 10 year hiatus after that sucks.
17, with a girl that was 19...
Not kidding, but she completely took me by surprise!
After that I had to wait *years* for my next chance. That's fucking frustrating, having had sex and not getting any more for years. Way worse than not knowing what sex is at all...
The title says it all... *sigh* *deep sigh*
Presumably, Apple has some reason for doing this. I don't pretend to understand what. It isn't the kind of thing that would appeal to their core demographic (iPod kids and Photoshop hacks)
I'm sure you know about XServe, don't you? That's where this stuff matters... So they might not be as good as "real" Big Iron, but now they can say they are at the same level as Big Iron. At least according to that certification. This is not for iPod wielding photoshop artists, this is so that IT managers can choose Apple hardware and convince Point Hair Bosses....
Apple has a broader target demographic than you might think... They expanded it the day they released OS X.
No, GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix". Linux is just Linus first name "unixified".
Well, the reason I did reply was your following statement: "Mercedes used to do it routinely and the engines on mid range Fords will do 200k plus - but the Prius engine isn't a Mercedes V8. And, assuming you are writing from the US, many American auto engines used to be vastly overspecified so that in reality they were running on very light load almost all the time.".
Then I gave you examples that are neither V8 Mercedes nor American. So, small engine blocks that are non-american were long lived and efficient! My Audi 80 did 7l/100km, which translates to 33.6mpg. That was a 14 year old car in 1999! Sure, they would not live up to emission standards of these days, but I can assure you that they would pass any V8 blocks in fuel efficiency and any American car that have too big engine blocks anyway. (I remember a 2.7l Sebring I rented in California. It was a fucking slug compared to my 1.8l Audi 80!)
My parents have a Seat Ibiza 1.4 (gas) that has passed the 200000km, that's 125000 miles, without any problem. It still purrs like a newborn kitten. In terms of weight, it's 1.1tonnes, AFAIK. So why would the 1.3 gas in a Prius die earlier?
Oh, and "carburettor" is written with one "t".
The Prius uses expensive (energetically speaking) aluminum and nickel, which also have high clearup costs.
That's the part in the whole rationale I do not understand. Once the aluminium is refined, reusing is trivial and has much less energy costs as creating new aluminium from ores. Aluminium can be recycled 100% too.... So that part is 100% fake: the reason iron can be 100% recycled is because iron is already in widespread use. Not so for Aluminium.
Ehm, last time I check passwords in Word documents are trivially crackable. (Okay, it's a long time ago that I checked...) Of course, I don't expect a person from HR to know that. Still, doing all this stuff would still have gotten me complaints by my boss. After all it was the "company internal resume" that is sent along with bids.
With recruiters this might work, though.
I didn't know one could get free certificates. That's cool...