Re:Bring back Betrayal at Krondor!
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Ah, I remember that game; I wish I had the source. It always crashed for me about halfway through (while I was wandering around the northern part of the map)
You can buy and download the game off the site; I was going to do this until I realized that I needed a modern video card. I still have a Matrox G450, so no GalCiv II for me.
I respectfully disagree with your argument. I agree that forcing students to perform long division on large numbers, by hand, over and over again isn't going to help anyone. But in good classes that don't allow calculators, I've never been forced to do odious long division repeatedly. And when I have, I was doing something wrong.
It isn't the number-crunching-fu that's valuable, but the ability to reason about hard problems. It's the difference between saying that c=2*3.141*r and c=2*PI*r, or between saying that a limit doesn't exist, and using L'Hôpital's rule and giving the right answer. What we want to impart is the ability to look at a complex problem and see its constituent parts, to break them into smaller parts, and to fit all of those parts together to create a general, elegant solution.
Using a calculator often encourages students to use a brute-force approach to solving problems, which demonstrates nothing about a student's UNDERSTANDING of that problem. In a properly-designed math course, a student shouldn't have to perform arduous arithmetic if he's on the right track.
Erhm, no, not at all. The standard C library is dynamically linked. I can't remember a situation where every program had to be recompiled on the system -- even during the switch from A.OUT to ELF and from libc5 to glibc, all the libraries could reside on the system at the same time.
I don't agree. I work with two 17" monitors, one a Samsung 753DF, and one a random Apple POS that I picked up for $10 at a garage sale. Despite driving both monitors beyond their specs and mismatching resolutions AND refresh rates, they blend pretty seamlessly. The most annoying thing about the setup is that the refresh rates are close enough to set up a beat frequency line in both monitors, and even that isn't particularly serious.
Thanks a lot. I found the option for the delete command, but not for the "copy to" and "move to" options. I could manually delete the addons, but I don't want to mess with my distribution's package management. Thanks!
* 256 color support: xterm gives you a customizable color cube if you enable it. With applications that support it, this mode can produce fantastic results.
* memory use: xterm, heavyweight? With the tektronix stuff stripped out, xterm is actually pretty light. It starts quickly and doesn't connect to a sound server or load a million shared libraries
* kickass font support: xterm? modern font support? Yep. Modern versions of xterm support Xft2, which allows you to use all the modern font processing tricks fontconfig offers, as well as antialiasing. Even without Xft, though, xterm has excellent unicode support. It passes UTF-8-demo.txt and UTF-8-test.txt with flying colors.
* simple UI: xterm gives the user a box that represents a terminal. There are no menus, no tab bars, no garish scrollbars, nothing except the actual terminal, a removable scrollbar, and the window decorations. xterm's menus are probably its worst features: they're ugly and primitive. But they work, and you seldom have to use them.
I'm sure other terminal emulators are good too, but I'm sticking with xterm.
Besides, you overlook the reality of people modifying their cars. Lots of people remove catalytic converters and drive with a straight pipe, which is a crime, and nothing serious happens to them.
Also, many cars ALREADY have governers that kick in at higher speeds, about 200kph. Car owners routinely disable those, and with a lower governer setting, the incentive is that much stronger.
I've already addressed this issue in any other comment: you can't force people to drive in the way YOU consider safe when their gut is telling them that these restrictions are arbitrary and severe.
Here in New York, we also have steep fines for the offenses you mention. The fine for honking, "except for danger", is $350 in New York City. A drunk's car is seized and his license suspended. We have a system of points analogous to your demerits. We also have compulsory insurance, and premium for that goes through the roof after you've received these points. An 18 year old male can barely afford insurance even with a clean record. And we don't see many younger drivers anymore thanks to graduated licensing, which restricts when and where younger people can drive, as well as how many passengers they can carry.
We've had these regulations for years now. And you know what? PEOPLE STILL DRIVE LIKE ASSHOLES. The rules are, for the most part, blatantly ignored.
I took a road trip up to Quebec, Quebec Thanksgiving weekend. It's really not any different up there. People still ignore the speed limits, even if they are slightly higher than in the states, on your autoroutes.* People pass on the right, weave through traffic, double park, and tailgate, just like in every other place where cars can go.
Things aren't going to significantly improve with your new laws, since they don't address the fundamental issue: people ignore the rules -- not because they have any kind of malicious- intent, but because see them as being arbitrary and severe. The best example of that sentiment is the speed limit, which around here at least, and in my experience, in Quebec, people treat as a minimum speed. Get off your high horse and realize that since people will drive like this anyway, we should incorporate safety devices and technologies to make that driving safer, all in order to minimize deaths, in the end.
* Btw... why don't your autoroutes have acceleration lanes?
My friends and I like to watch that movie with both dubbing and subtitles turned on. The funniest scene with that combination is when the family is first entering the cave. The dubbed character asks "what's this?" and the subtitle answers "it's a cave!"
Hrm. That's interesting... I live downtown (3rd and 11th) and walk to class, near Washington Square Park, every day. I usually bring headphones, but it isn't a big deal if I don't. Someone accosts me, at most, about every two weeks, and those people are easy to ignore. Those people are usually charity representatives asking for money (particularly the Children International ones), but they're easy to ignore.
Granted, I'm male, but I haven't heard any of my female friends harassed either. The worst case I know about is a friend being in an elevator in my building with two Mexican maintenence workers. They were making lewd comments about her in Spanish, and she understood, since she's learning the language. Nothing on the street.
New York isn't nearly as chaotic as people make it out to be.
Problem with that approach is that an entirely sales-based economy is not sustainable. Where do people obtain the money to buy these products you're selling? Selling other things? To whom? At some point, value must be created, and that crucial process is what is being outsourced. Salesmanship is just the process, now, of draining what remaining fiscal reserves we have left. When those are gone, who are you going to sell to?
Don't have the actual equation... friend did it, actually. But look at this phase diagram of water. At a constant temperature, decreasing the pressure raises the freezing point and decreases the boiling point. Hell, below 4.88 torr liquid water can't exist at all. Air pressure on mars is 6.75 torr.
Yeah, but take into account the low air pressure. Mars' maximum air pressure is 9 millibars, which, according to google, is 0.0088823094. This means water would freeze/melt at 305 Kelvins, 27 degrees above the maximum temperature Spirit recorded.
That's really odd. I have the same problem, but, strangely enough, under Linux! XFree86 will hang, MP3s stop playing, but I can still use the magic sysrq key to SAK (though I can't start any new processes). Box responds to ping, but doesn't want to execute userspace code. Thinking it's a hardware proble, but..
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Ah, I remember that game; I wish I had the source. It always crashed for me about halfway through (while I was wandering around the northern part of the map)
Actually, Christians weren't fed to the lions at the Colosseum; that was done at the nearby Circus Maximus, a much better venue.
You can buy and download the game off the site; I was going to do this until I realized that I needed a modern video card. I still have a Matrox G450, so no GalCiv II for me.
I respectfully disagree with your argument. I agree that forcing students to perform long division on large numbers, by hand, over and over again isn't going to help anyone. But in good classes that don't allow calculators, I've never been forced to do odious long division repeatedly. And when I have, I was doing something wrong.
It isn't the number-crunching-fu that's valuable, but the ability to reason about hard problems. It's the difference between saying that c=2*3.141*r and c=2*PI*r, or between saying that a limit doesn't exist, and using L'Hôpital's rule and giving the right answer. What we want to impart is the ability to look at a complex problem and see its constituent parts, to break them into smaller parts, and to fit all of those parts together to create a general, elegant solution.
Using a calculator often encourages students to use a brute-force approach to solving problems, which demonstrates nothing about a student's UNDERSTANDING of that problem. In a properly-designed math course, a student shouldn't have to perform arduous arithmetic if he's on the right track.
its, not it's.
Erhm, no, not at all. The standard C library is dynamically linked. I can't remember a situation where every program had to be recompiled on the system -- even during the switch from A.OUT to ELF and from libc5 to glibc, all the libraries could reside on the system at the same time.
I don't agree. I work with two 17" monitors, one a Samsung 753DF, and one a random Apple POS that I picked up for $10 at a garage sale. Despite driving both monitors beyond their specs and mismatching resolutions AND refresh rates, they blend pretty seamlessly. The most annoying thing about the setup is that the refresh rates are close enough to set up a beat frequency line in both monitors, and even that isn't particularly serious.
Thanks a lot. I found the option for the delete command, but not for the "copy to" and "move to" options. I could manually delete the addons, but I don't want to mess with my distribution's package management. Thanks!
How is this possible? Did you patch the code?
I'm still using xterm. Why?
* 256 color support: xterm gives you a customizable color cube if you enable it. With applications that support it, this mode can produce fantastic results.
* memory use: xterm, heavyweight? With the tektronix stuff stripped out, xterm is actually pretty light. It starts quickly and doesn't connect to a sound server or load a million shared libraries
* kickass font support: xterm? modern font support? Yep. Modern versions of xterm support Xft2, which allows you to use all the modern font processing tricks fontconfig offers, as well as antialiasing. Even without Xft, though, xterm has excellent unicode support. It passes UTF-8-demo.txt and UTF-8-test.txt with flying colors.
* simple UI: xterm gives the user a box that represents a terminal. There are no menus, no tab bars, no garish scrollbars, nothing except the actual terminal, a removable scrollbar, and the window decorations. xterm's menus are probably its worst features: they're ugly and primitive. But they work, and you seldom have to use them.
I'm sure other terminal emulators are good too, but I'm sticking with xterm.
My two year old HP laptop does this with its special keys.
Why are nerves necessary in teeth? People have root canals, which destroy the nerve tissue, all the time.
Any particular albums you would suggest?
What if there's no time to push the button?
Besides, you overlook the reality of people modifying their cars. Lots of people remove catalytic converters and drive with a straight pipe, which is a crime, and nothing serious happens to them.
Also, many cars ALREADY have governers that kick in at higher speeds, about 200kph. Car owners routinely disable those, and with a lower governer setting, the incentive is that much stronger.
I've already addressed this issue in any other comment: you can't force people to drive in the way YOU consider safe when their gut is telling them that these restrictions are arbitrary and severe.
No, you really can't.
Here in New York, we also have steep fines for the offenses you mention. The fine for honking, "except for danger", is $350 in New York City. A drunk's car is seized and his license suspended. We have a system of points analogous to your demerits. We also have compulsory insurance, and premium for that goes through the roof after you've received these points. An 18 year old male can barely afford insurance even with a clean record. And we don't see many younger drivers anymore thanks to graduated licensing, which restricts when and where younger people can drive, as well as how many passengers they can carry.
We've had these regulations for years now. And you know what? PEOPLE STILL DRIVE LIKE ASSHOLES. The rules are, for the most part, blatantly ignored.
I took a road trip up to Quebec, Quebec Thanksgiving weekend. It's really not any different up there. People still ignore the speed limits, even if they are slightly higher than in the states, on your autoroutes.* People pass on the right, weave through traffic, double park, and tailgate, just like in every other place where cars can go.
Things aren't going to significantly improve with your new laws, since they don't address the fundamental issue: people ignore the rules -- not because they have any kind of malicious- intent, but because see them as being arbitrary and severe. The best example of that sentiment is the speed limit, which around here at least, and in my experience, in Quebec, people treat as a minimum speed. Get off your high horse and realize that since people will drive like this anyway, we should incorporate safety devices and technologies to make that driving safer, all in order to minimize deaths, in the end.
* Btw... why don't your autoroutes have acceleration lanes?
Can you cite a source?
Patent number?
Besides, I thought look-and-feel patents were thrown out ages ago.
My friends and I like to watch that movie with both dubbing and subtitles turned on. The funniest scene with that combination is when the family is first entering the cave. The dubbed character asks "what's this?" and the subtitle answers "it's a cave!"
Hrm. That's interesting... I live downtown (3rd and 11th) and walk to class, near Washington Square Park, every day. I usually bring headphones, but it isn't a big deal if I don't. Someone accosts me, at most, about every two weeks, and those people are easy to ignore. Those people are usually charity representatives asking for money (particularly the Children International ones),
but they're easy to ignore.
Granted, I'm male, but I haven't heard any of my female friends harassed either. The worst case I know about is a friend being in an elevator in my building with two Mexican maintenence workers. They were making lewd comments about her in Spanish, and she understood, since she's learning the language. Nothing on the street.
New York isn't nearly as chaotic as people make it out to be.
Problem with that approach is that an entirely sales-based economy is not sustainable. Where do people obtain the money to buy these products you're selling? Selling other things? To whom? At some point, value must be created, and that crucial process is what is being outsourced. Salesmanship is just the process, now, of draining what remaining fiscal reserves we have left. When those are gone, who are you going to sell to?
Don't have the actual equation... friend did it, actually. But look at this phase diagram of water. At a constant temperature, decreasing the pressure raises the freezing point and decreases the boiling point. Hell, below 4.88 torr liquid water can't exist at all. Air pressure on mars is 6.75 torr.
Yeah, but take into account the low air pressure. Mars' maximum air pressure is 9 millibars, which, according to google, is 0.0088823094. This means water would freeze/melt at 305 Kelvins, 27 degrees above the maximum temperature Spirit recorded.
Bullshit -- take http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout3.html for example. Works fine. Don't specify your layouts in px.
I would have to say explosives are the most abused technology is all of history.
That's really odd. I have the same problem, but, strangely enough, under Linux! XFree86 will hang, MP3s stop playing, but I can still use the magic sysrq key to SAK (though I can't start any new processes). Box responds to ping, but doesn't want to execute userspace code. Thinking it's a hardware proble, but..
Do you have an Abit kt7/kt7a?