The role of SAM or Flak (AA) batteries is to destroy other aircraft. By YOUR definition, that would make them offensive weapons.
Just for the trivia:
The soviet AA batteries from the sixties designated as ZSU "Shilka" have proven to be effective offensive weapons when their guns are aimed to fire at ground targets.
In addition to that I hope Adobe clues in and realizes, Reader is there to READ AND DISPLAY PDFs and nothing else.
Although it is true that there could be the need of a light version of the PDF reader, do not underestimate the flexibility and power brought by Acrobat javascript engine. Have a look at this API. For example, you can invert the page ordering with just a one-liner...
Of course, not everyone needs this functionality. But not everyone needs the functionality of Excel, and it is still the dominant spreadsheet software.
Swarming and flocking behavior also inspired a freeware game called Swarm Racer, in which you get to control a swarm of micro-racing robots. For Windows and Mac OS X.
This is, at best, a very misleading answer.
- only 77 voting places (out of about 577) were using voting machines for the run-off election,
- the only models allowed are ES&S iVotronic, Indra Sistemas Point&Vote and Nedap ESF1.
I've always found RTS games require 1 strategy build a base go insane wasting 90% of resources on making an incredible defense then go away for half an hour as you start building a redicioulus sized army (scout the enemey and tailor army to match his/her units) then send out insane sized army while creating a secondary force, once the secondary force is half way complete, attack then attack with primary amd send in secondary force as re-enforcements.
My Gosh ! For how long have you been not playing online ? This strategy might have worked in the infancy of C&C when nobody really knew how to play, but these happy times are over. If it was that straightforward to win, it would be really easy to make computer opponents that would outright crush you. However, it appears that in most strategy games, the AI is unable to beat experienced players without having to resort on cheating (having an economy boost, their build time reduced, etc...).
In opposition, you can make FPS bots with insane reaction times. They might be challenged in gametypes requiring a strong team strategy (Team DM with spawning weapons, multiclass games such as TF/Gloom/Tremulous), but in my opinion, they are much more effective than their strategy games counterparts. And they will own Free For All games.
By the way, you might have noticed that your parent did not talk about Real Time Strategy games (RTS), but about Turn Based Strategy games (TBS).
Could you elaborate on this just out of curiousity ?
For my limited IM needs, I fail to see what could make me prefer gaim over Adium. That probably means we have very different IM needs, and I would like to know how they differ.
too poor on RAMDAC speed (poor output quality)
Beware: RAMDAC clock speed is not directly linked to output quality, but to the refresh rates that can be used at specific resolutions. You could have a very fast RAMDAC clock speed, but a noisy DAC and therefore end up with bad output quality. The opposite is also true.
For reference, a 250 Mhz RAMDAC can output 1600x1200 at 75 Hz. By the way, I do think that the Voodoo3 3000 RAMDAC was clocked at a higher rate than most TNT2 RAMDACs (350 Mhz vs 300 Mhz).
IMO this is a perfect example how X11's clipboard logic is way superior to the logic on Macs and Windows.
On Mac OS X, you can also drag and drop an URL (or any text string for the matter, but it has to be correctly formated) to a browser icon in the dock, and have it open in a new tab/new window. It can be handy.
If you want to run linux, great, but you're going to have to become a computer expert. You're going to have to understand what a driver is, first of all, and then understand why you need certain makes of hardware. [...]
That is exactly why there is a need for computers with Linux pre-installed, shipping with a hardware configuration certified to work with the distribution used.
I think you are failing to see the grand scheme of things by only considering the Terrans.
If we look at the Zergs, we have the lurker, which sprite is definitely black and is one of the most useful Zerg units.
Similarly, the Protoss dark templar and dark achron are pretty high up in the tech tree.
And here is the other.
If you want a "maximize" function (Mac OS X only shows a "zoom" function), you can use a collection of handy applescripts:
Spooky
It will be linked to a keystroke. If you really want to link it to the finder buttons, someone could hack it with APE or SIMBL.
I have both. I mainly use Fastmail because it has IMAP support and none of the annoying POP3 quirks of GMail.
From a spam point of view, I find both very effective, but it might be because I use the account where you have to pay $20 every year, which supposely offers enhanced spam protection.
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After all, why would you want to generate PDF in the first place when HTML would be at least as good?
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If it will somehow end to be printed, which is the case of a lots of dynamically generated documents.
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I guess I'm not the first to figure out that maybe e-books have an uphill battle to market, because a book or two is already portable.
One book or two are the key words of your sentence !
I really feel the pain of moving my books around whenever I have to move, and I know I am not alone. The heaviest boxes are almost always the ones that are packed with books. That is one of the main reasons I have always considered these ebook readers with a special interest, up to the point to be really attracted by this technology today.
Unfortunately, if I can rip my music collection with iTunes/MMJB/whatever and put it on and iPod/iRiver/Zune/etc, this is not going to be as easy with my bookshelves and an ebook reader.
And if I am not mistaken, just like GMail, YMail offers no IMAP support.
I do not really understand why they do not offer this service which is really handy when you use several computers or operating systems. GMail chose to stick to a strange implementation of POP3 where the mail you sent comes back to you through POP.
I guess not everybody has the use of an IMAP server, but until then I will continue to use other freemail services.
As with blackjack, the non-random roulette winner is fairly easy to spot. Placing bets that cover a particular segment of the wheel (the best computers right now can narrow it down to about 5 sequential positions) is a somewhat odd bet. When a pit boss notes someone winning by making a series of "segment" bets, he can simply refuse their action (and of course, take their picture and distribute it to other casinos).
Why would you have to place your bet on a sequential segment of the wheel ? It would seem to me that if you just played each time on a single number in the interval that the computer predicts, you would still tremendously increase your chances of winning : 1/5 instead of 1/37 ! Therefore, statistically you would still have a net gain at the end of the game, and would not get suspected.
I wish this partnership would have the side effect to enhance Mozilla's compability with Real streams. A lot of html embedded streaming videos are not working proprely in Firefox right now. This is probably the results of piss-poor site designs, but it is still a shame.
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If you want to read more on the subject, the essential keywords are:
segregation distortion, meiotic drive, intragenomic conflict.
As long as you can squish them by the terminating their Swiss banks credentials, they won't be much our overlords.
The role of SAM or Flak (AA) batteries is to destroy other aircraft. By YOUR definition, that would make them offensive weapons.
Just for the trivia:
The soviet AA batteries from the sixties designated as ZSU "Shilka" have proven to be effective offensive weapons when their guns are aimed to fire at ground targets.
In addition to that I hope Adobe clues in and realizes, Reader is there to READ AND DISPLAY PDFs and nothing else.
Although it is true that there could be the need of a light version of the PDF reader, do not underestimate the flexibility and power brought by Acrobat javascript engine. Have a look at this API. For example, you can invert the page ordering with just a one-liner...
Of course, not everyone needs this functionality. But not everyone needs the functionality of Excel, and it is still the dominant spreadsheet software.
Incidentally, Firewire is actually a SCSI-3 standard.
Swarming and flocking behavior also inspired a freeware game called Swarm Racer, in which you get to control a swarm of micro-racing robots. For Windows and Mac OS X.
This is, at best, a very misleading answer.
- only 77 voting places (out of about 577) were using voting machines for the run-off election,
- the only models allowed are ES&S iVotronic, Indra Sistemas Point&Vote and Nedap ESF1.
To be more explicit: you can download Java 6 preview for Mac OS X releases with a free developer account.
My Gosh ! For how long have you been not playing online ? This strategy might have worked in the infancy of C&C when nobody really knew how to play, but these happy times are over. If it was that straightforward to win, it would be really easy to make computer opponents that would outright crush you. However, it appears that in most strategy games, the AI is unable to beat experienced players without having to resort on cheating (having an economy boost, their build time reduced, etc...).
In opposition, you can make FPS bots with insane reaction times. They might be challenged in gametypes requiring a strong team strategy (Team DM with spawning weapons, multiclass games such as TF/Gloom/Tremulous), but in my opinion, they are much more effective than their strategy games counterparts. And they will own Free For All games.
By the way, you might have noticed that your parent did not talk about Real Time Strategy games (RTS), but about Turn Based Strategy games (TBS).
Thanks for your answer.
Could you elaborate on this just out of curiousity ?
For my limited IM needs, I fail to see what could make me prefer gaim over Adium. That probably means we have very different IM needs, and I would like to know how they differ.
too poor on RAMDAC speed (poor output quality)
Beware: RAMDAC clock speed is not directly linked to output quality, but to the refresh rates that can be used at specific resolutions. You could have a very fast RAMDAC clock speed, but a noisy DAC and therefore end up with bad output quality. The opposite is also true.
For reference, a 250 Mhz RAMDAC can output 1600x1200 at 75 Hz. By the way, I do think that the Voodoo3 3000 RAMDAC was clocked at a higher rate than most TNT2 RAMDACs (350 Mhz vs 300 Mhz).
IMO this is a perfect example how X11's clipboard logic is way superior to the logic on Macs and Windows.
On Mac OS X, you can also drag and drop an URL (or any text string for the matter, but it has to be correctly formated) to a browser icon in the dock, and have it open in a new tab/new window. It can be handy.
If you want to run linux, great, but you're going to have to become a computer expert. You're going to have to understand what a driver is, first of all, and then understand why you need certain makes of hardware. [...]
That is exactly why there is a need for computers with Linux pre-installed, shipping with a hardware configuration certified to work with the distribution used.
I think you are failing to see the grand scheme of things by only considering the Terrans.
If we look at the Zergs, we have the lurker, which sprite is definitely black and is one of the most useful Zerg units.
Similarly, the Protoss dark templar and dark achron are pretty high up in the tech tree.
If a pandemic flu were really to occur, I think we would have to worry about other things than the net slowing down.
And here is the other.
If you want a "maximize" function (Mac OS X only shows a "zoom" function), you can use a collection of handy applescripts: Spooky
It will be linked to a keystroke. If you really want to link it to the finder buttons, someone could hack it with APE or SIMBL.
I have both. I mainly use Fastmail because it has IMAP support and none of the annoying POP3 quirks of GMail.
From a spam point of view, I find both very effective, but it might be because I use the account where you have to pay $20 every year, which supposely offers enhanced spam protection.
I think the official stance on this issue is available here.
[quote] After all, why would you want to generate PDF in the first place when HTML would be at least as good? [/quote] If it will somehow end to be printed, which is the case of a lots of dynamically generated documents.
I guess I'm not the first to figure out that maybe e-books have an uphill battle to market, because a book or two is already portable.
One book or two are the key words of your sentence !
I really feel the pain of moving my books around whenever I have to move, and I know I am not alone. The heaviest boxes are almost always the ones that are packed with books. That is one of the main reasons I have always considered these ebook readers with a special interest, up to the point to be really attracted by this technology today.
Unfortunately, if I can rip my music collection with iTunes/MMJB/whatever and put it on and iPod/iRiver/Zune/etc, this is not going to be as easy with my bookshelves and an ebook reader.
And if I am not mistaken, just like GMail, YMail offers no IMAP support.
I do not really understand why they do not offer this service which is really handy when you use several computers or operating systems. GMail chose to stick to a strange implementation of POP3 where the mail you sent comes back to you through POP.
I guess not everybody has the use of an IMAP server, but until then I will continue to use other freemail services.
As with blackjack, the non-random roulette winner is fairly easy to spot. Placing bets that cover a particular segment of the wheel (the best computers right now can narrow it down to about 5 sequential positions) is a somewhat odd bet. When a pit boss notes someone winning by making a series of "segment" bets, he can simply refuse their action (and of course, take their picture and distribute it to other casinos).
Why would you have to place your bet on a sequential segment of the wheel ? It would seem to me that if you just played each time on a single number in the interval that the computer predicts, you would still tremendously increase your chances of winning : 1/5 instead of 1/37 ! Therefore, statistically you would still have a net gain at the end of the game, and would not get suspected.
I wish this partnership would have the side effect to enhance Mozilla's compability with Real streams. A lot of html embedded streaming videos are not working proprely in Firefox right now. This is probably the results of piss-poor site designs, but it is still a shame.
Oops:
replace Pi/2 with Pi in the previous text.