Yeah, actually there's only one game that I'm aware of that really IS a meta-game, and not just for short sequences, and that'd be Omikron: The Nomad Soul. I'm surprised no one mentioned it yet.
In the beginning of the game a guy that's aware that you're sitting in front of your computer says you have to concentrate to enter his body by entering his dimension. Later on they explain to you that the game being sold in our world really is a trap to get players attracted in that other dimension so that demons from that world can get our soul, and that we must take the game seriously as if we got caught by demons in the game, our soul would be trapped there and our real body would just be an empty shell in front of our computer forever. The only way to save our soul is to finish the game by killing the demon.
Besides, it's a great game, I recently picked it up real cheap and I love it.
Actually I was under the impression that '419' was the part of Nigerian law that condemns those kind of scams. (There, that should answer the question above poster had too;-) )
Actually, I DO like to see a good movie twice or more when I really like it, it's just a different kind of enjoyment.
And while you can still get the enjoyment from the second time if you watched the movie without knowing anything about it the first time, the surprise you could have had in the theater is lost on you the minute you read or see a spoiler.
Well then you should try going to a movie without knowing the plot. It's a totally different experience. I HATE trailers, and try never to watch them... I try to turn my attention to something else during the trailers before a movie.
I like to go watch a movie just on advice from friends whose tastes I trust, and go watch it without reading a single thing about it and only having been told that they enjoyed it. Try it.
For instance I saw Bruce Almighty and when the guy met God and whatever, I was totally amazed cause I didn't see it coming at all... I also watched The Butterfly Effect and enjoyed it a lot more than my friends cause the plot totally surprised me, I had no idea what it was about.
From my point of view, trailers suck, and so do reviews. They just serve to ruin the movie.
Mh... 3 comments in a row posted with the clear intent of ridiculing Americans, including two from (supposedly) Americans. Does everyone hate them so much?:-P
This CNN article provides some information on tonights shower. This is actually the second shower of 2003 and this NASA article gives more details about the shower [...]
Sounds like the myth about nerds and showers wasn't exaggerated after all...
One idea is for the germans to hold 80% of AOL shares while 30% stay with Time Warner, a cooperation that would change the media-landscape.
Now that's an interesting translation;-)
Anyway, the original article said 70% for germans and 30% for Time Warner.
Not that it really matters since it seems the buyout has already been denied.
Still, thanks for translating:-)
And that's not even taking into account that, of all those tracks that have been (supposedly) downloaded by people, most wouldn't have been bought if they hadn't been available for free in the first place anyway. Can we really say it "cost" them that much in that case?
Either they already took that into account, and then they alledge that he uploaded at least 10x more than the 60Tb of data you talk about (pretty much impossible he did), or they didn't and the loss claim is totally bogus.
This is very much oversimplified and isn't realisitic at all. We don't need those two forces to be equal for someone to fall backwards.
The air drag will need to be a lot smaller than what you calculated for the system to break. What is preventing you from falling backwards when your feet are pushed forwards and the rest of your body is pushed backwards is not the friction, but simply your body muscles, especially those between your feet and your legs I guess (however they're called in english).
I do understand you just calculated the speed at which both forces would be equal and you're not claiming that would be the problem, but I still wanted to point out that the result is probably way way off...
and... 23 m/s = 51mph ? now that's a physics expert talking:)
Well actually the friction only acts on your feet, while the wind resistance acts on your whole body (the front of it anyway), so you'll very likely fall backwards rather than just stop moving forward...
"As long as 95 percent of the world's computers run MS, schools are not the place to fight this battle. Teaching students how to use Linux software won't do them much good when they graduate and enter a world essentially bereft of it."
What the hell? Students use what they have learned to use in school. Students are the future of the real world, and if they learned Linux instead of Windows, they'd use Linux at home, and Linux would become "the real world" a few years later. Anyway, not saying that this will happen anytime soon (especially with judgements like that... I like the part where microsoft says that "This is a good resolution for all sides"... since when should breaking the law be rewarded by a resolution that is good for the outlaw?)...
I'm surprised that you didn't mention it, but there's another obvious advantage about autopilots in aircrafts : they can't be hijacked. *Some* tragedy (you all know what I'm referring to) could have been avoided if there were no human pilots in the plane.
Now, I'm not saying that there wouldn't be even more accidents by software errors or things that the auto-pilots can't handle... But I'm still pretty sure that this particular event would have been avoided.
Well, now I realise I was lucky to live in France. Phone telemarketing just doesn't exist... or maybe one call in 2 years or something...
Actually I've been studying in Canada for the last 2 years so maybe this has changed since:P But I doubt it.
Of course it would be BETTER if they were open source. But the reason to support them is that you need a graphics card in your computer, and you'll choose the one that has good linux drivers. Anyway, any major company that takes Linux seriously is worth supporting. I fully support them. Like I fully support Id software even if they don't make open source games (which would be totally stupid IMHO anyway). Also, maybe some other graphic cards vendors (or other hardware or even software) will look at the highly successful nVidia, and say "hey, they make linux drivers and are successful, so maybe we should do so too."
This is so wrong. Linux has by FAR the easiest way to let users do anything they want without them being able to screw the system up. On most distributions, all you have to do is make a default install, and you're set. They can change and run anything they want in their own account. If they totally screw up their system, the next person using the machine won't even notice it.
How is it any easier to do that in windows? You can probably do it too, but you have to set those things manually whereas it's all set by default when you install Linux.
What's more, the users can run anything they download, or they code themselves, without compromising the system, instead of kludges that I read in this thread like "not allowing write and execute in the same directory"...
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And don't forget that one either.
Yeah, actually there's only one game that I'm aware of that really IS a meta-game, and not just for short sequences, and that'd be Omikron: The Nomad Soul. I'm surprised no one mentioned it yet.
In the beginning of the game a guy that's aware that you're sitting in front of your computer says you have to concentrate to enter his body by entering his dimension. Later on they explain to you that the game being sold in our world really is a trap to get players attracted in that other dimension so that demons from that world can get our soul, and that we must take the game seriously as if we got caught by demons in the game, our soul would be trapped there and our real body would just be an empty shell in front of our computer forever. The only way to save our soul is to finish the game by killing the demon.
Besides, it's a great game, I recently picked it up real cheap and I love it.
Actually I was under the impression that '419' was the part of Nigerian law that condemns those kind of scams. (There, that should answer the question above poster had too ;-) )
Actually, I DO like to see a good movie twice or more when I really like it, it's just a different kind of enjoyment.
And while you can still get the enjoyment from the second time if you watched the movie without knowing anything about it the first time, the surprise you could have had in the theater is lost on you the minute you read or see a spoiler.
419 scammers and credit card thieves are abusing the US' TTY service ?
Mh, I wonder how they counted that there were precisely 419 of them.
Well then you should try going to a movie without knowing the plot. It's a totally different experience. I HATE trailers, and try never to watch them... I try to turn my attention to something else during the trailers before a movie.
I like to go watch a movie just on advice from friends whose tastes I trust, and go watch it without reading a single thing about it and only having been told that they enjoyed it. Try it.
For instance I saw Bruce Almighty and when the guy met God and whatever, I was totally amazed cause I didn't see it coming at all... I also watched The Butterfly Effect and enjoyed it a lot more than my friends cause the plot totally surprised me, I had no idea what it was about.
From my point of view, trailers suck, and so do reviews. They just serve to ruin the movie.
Great, I knew we all wanted Bigger PDAs !
Mh... 3 comments in a row posted with the clear intent of ridiculing Americans, including two from (supposedly) Americans. Does everyone hate them so much? :-P
Anyway, the original article said 70% for germans and 30% for Time Warner.
Not that it really matters since it seems the buyout has already been denied.
Still, thanks for translating
And that's not even taking into account that, of all those tracks that have been (supposedly) downloaded by people, most wouldn't have been bought if they hadn't been available for free in the first place anyway. Can we really say it "cost" them that much in that case?
Either they already took that into account, and then they alledge that he uploaded at least 10x more than the 60Tb of data you talk about (pretty much impossible he did), or they didn't and the loss claim is totally bogus.
Or maybe instead of 60 million $, they meant only 6 million $, but their connection was really fast.
This is very much oversimplified and isn't realisitic at all.
:)
We don't need those two forces to be equal for someone to fall backwards.
The air drag will need to be a lot smaller than what you calculated for the system to break.
What is preventing you from falling backwards when your feet are pushed forwards and the rest of your body is pushed backwards is not the friction, but simply your body muscles, especially those between your feet and your legs I guess (however they're called in english).
I do understand you just calculated the speed at which both forces would be equal and you're not claiming that would be the problem, but I still wanted to point out that the result is probably way way off...
and... 23 m/s = 51mph ? now that's a physics expert talking
Well actually the friction only acts on your feet, while the wind resistance acts on your whole body (the front of it anyway), so you'll very likely fall backwards rather than just stop moving forward...
Anyway, not saying that this will happen anytime soon (especially with judgements like that... I like the part where microsoft says that "This is a good resolution for all sides"
I'm surprised that you didn't mention it, but there's another obvious advantage about autopilots in aircrafts : they can't be hijacked. *Some* tragedy (you all know what I'm referring to) could have been avoided if there were no human pilots in the plane.
Now, I'm not saying that there wouldn't be even more accidents by software errors or things that the auto-pilots can't handle... But I'm still pretty sure that this particular event would have been avoided.
Oh, I had missed that :) That's alright with me then.
Guess you failed to make ME think. Heh.
Using that argument, the U.S. is a terrorist organization a couple of orders of magnitude more deadly than al Qaeda.
And that doesn't make you THINK?
I'm sure I've read about Mandrake asking for money several times...
Well, now I realise I was lucky to live in France. Phone telemarketing just doesn't exist... or maybe one call in 2 years or something... :P But I doubt it.
Actually I've been studying in Canada for the last 2 years so maybe this has changed since
It's at least the 421st time I see this story on slashdot (by RIAA's standards and considering I have a really fast connection)
All your church are belong to the RIAA !
Of course it would be BETTER if they were open source. But the reason to support them is that you need a graphics card in your computer, and you'll choose the one that has good linux drivers.
Anyway, any major company that takes Linux seriously is worth supporting. I fully support them. Like I fully support Id software even if they don't make open source games (which would be totally stupid IMHO anyway). Also, maybe some other graphic cards vendors (or other hardware or even software) will look at the highly successful nVidia, and say "hey, they make linux drivers and are successful, so maybe we should do so too."
This is so wrong. Linux has by FAR the easiest way to let users do anything they want without them being able to screw the system up. On most distributions, all you have to do is make a default install, and you're set. They can change and run anything they want in their own account. If they totally screw up their system, the next person using the machine won't even notice it.
How is it any easier to do that in windows? You can probably do it too, but you have to set those things manually whereas it's all set by default when you install Linux.
What's more, the users can run anything they download, or they code themselves, without compromising the system, instead of kludges that I read in this thread like "not allowing write and execute in the same directory"...
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