My comment was not mainly about the difference in units, and I am sorry if you think I "jumped down your throat." It was not my intent. The main point of my comment was you seemed to miss the OP's point that Windows and Linux are not real-time systems and cannot guarantee determinism when it comes to dead-lines, which has nothing to do with computational speed.
Ignoring the fact that you are quoting a time scale much less intense than the OP, his point is that you have a hard dead-line, thus the need for a real-time OS. Windows, et. al., cannot guarantee that you will meet this dead-line each and everytime.
"of men" is a prepositional phrase and as such the sentence must still be gramatically correct without it. Thus, "a band is approaching," not "a band are approaching." It has nothing to do with collective nouns.
What are you talking about? Both my daughter and mother both have Dells and I replaced harddrives, memory, optical drives (both DVD and CD burners), and video cards without ever having to re-activate them. My machine is custom build by me, and I've changed everything down to the motherboard and never had to re-activate.
I thought it was illegal to use threats of a lawsuit. I don't remember where I read or heard it, but the jist was saying "you must do this or that or I will suit" was illegal. Any law professionals here?
Incidentally, the number of light years of the universe's size can be more than its age in years because of relativistic effects due to the acceleration of its expansion.
No, it is because the expansion of the universe can and has growth faster than the speed of light.
1) It's not that objects cannot travel faster than the speed of light. They cannot be accelerated faster than the speed of light.
2) The law governs objects traveling in space, not space itself.
My experience with ASUS was a GeForce card years ago. Half the time, installing drivers (or updates) would say there was no GeForce card in my machine. ASUS would never answer my repeated emails for support. Haven't bought anything from them since.
In the modern day and age, I shouldn't have to write things down on paper to play a computer game!
Yeah, and the games make you read! And type, too! All I should have to do is click on the pretty pictures.
Thanks I will look for it. Have you read "Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic"? I haven't yet, but I got it in my "wish list."
I think I am in the same boat as you. I bought and read the book for the history. I have always loved reading about IF history for some reason, maybe its the nostalgia.
I completely enjoyed Montfort's book, except for the first chapter which, I am not ashamed to admit, I am too dense to understand what he was trying to say.
Yes, but the confusion is that Interactive Fiction was called Adventure Games long before these graphical ones (which evolved from the textual ones) came about.
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My comment was not mainly about the difference in units, and I am sorry if you think I "jumped down your throat." It was not my intent. The main point of my comment was you seemed to miss the OP's point that Windows and Linux are not real-time systems and cannot guarantee determinism when it comes to dead-lines, which has nothing to do with computational speed.
Ignoring the fact that you are quoting a time scale much less intense than the OP, his point is that you have a hard dead-line, thus the need for a real-time OS. Windows, et. al., cannot guarantee that you will meet this dead-line each and everytime.
"of men" is a prepositional phrase and as such the sentence must still be gramatically correct without it. Thus, "a band is approaching," not "a band are approaching." It has nothing to do with collective nouns.
What are you talking about? Both my daughter and mother both have Dells and I replaced harddrives, memory, optical drives (both DVD and CD burners), and video cards without ever having to re-activate them. My machine is custom build by me, and I've changed everything down to the motherboard and never had to re-activate.
Libel. Slander is spoken.
I thought it was illegal to use threats of a lawsuit. I don't remember where I read or heard it, but the jist was saying "you must do this or that or I will suit" was illegal. Any law professionals here?
Whether or not c has an upper limit doesn't matter. The expansion of the universe is not governed by it.
Incidentally, the number of light years of the universe's size can be more than its age in years because of relativistic effects due to the acceleration of its expansion.
No, it is because the expansion of the universe can and has growth faster than the speed of light.
1) It's not that objects cannot travel faster than the speed of light. They cannot be accelerated faster than the speed of light. 2) The law governs objects traveling in space, not space itself.
Except, in the original movie they use something Creek Mountain. I don't remember the "something" though.
My experience with ASUS was a GeForce card years ago. Half the time, installing drivers (or updates) would say there was no GeForce card in my machine. ASUS would never answer my repeated emails for support. Haven't bought anything from them since.
Ada doesn't allow direct memory register manipulation
Oh no?
function read_register(Addr : System.Address) return Integer is
R : Integer;
for R'Address use Addr;
begin
return R;
end read_register;
Yep. That's my plan. They ain't bleeding me dry at 20 bucks an episode. I make good money, but I'm not going to just throw it away.
This has got to be--hands down--the funniest thread I've ever read on Slashdot!
God, this is Lord AO. Ah, you're fired, too.
I agree. I find creating the map while playing very enjoyable. I also like reading through the notes I've created while trying to solution a puzzle.
In the modern day and age, I shouldn't have to write things down on paper to play a computer game!
Yeah, and the games make you read! And type, too! All I should have to do is click on the pretty pictures.
Thanks I will look for it. Have you read "Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic"? I haven't yet, but I got it in my "wish list."
> moderate post
You have wasted your points moderating a post by an anonymous coward.
(your score has gone down 1 point.)
I think I am in the same boat as you. I bought and read the book for the history. I have always loved reading about IF history for some reason, maybe its the nostalgia.
I completely enjoyed Montfort's book, except for the first chapter which, I am not ashamed to admit, I am too dense to understand what he was trying to say.
Yes, but the confusion is that Interactive Fiction was called Adventure Games long before these graphical ones (which evolved from the textual ones) came about.
I took me awhile to understand what you were referring to. The article is not about "Choose Your own Adventure" books.
I am so embarrassed that it took me several seconds to place the reference.
What really impressed me back then was you could ask, "what is a grue?".