RTL and DTL parts were generally not ICs. They were typically little circuit cards with discrete components transistors and diodes on them. You would have racks with 100's of these little cards plugged into them. When the 7400 series TTL came out, it made life a lot easier for the digital designer.
Where on earth are you going to find the vintage IC's for this thing? (Didn't RTFA). In the early 60s, it was either discrete logic using individual transistors and diodes, or really crappy RTL/DTL chips.
It's coming. But knowing Valve, it could be another 5 years before it's released. TF2 has been the butt of many vaporware insults. The sad thing is that TF2 won game of the year in 1999. How vaporware can win game of the year is a mystery to me.
However... [shameless plug] Weapons Factory for HL2 is coming and will feature much of the such gameplay offered by TFC. I like to think of it as TFC on steriods. If you want to help with models, sounds, and/or mapping, come to the HL2WF website and drop me a line.[/shameless plug]
The one big problem with this idea is that if we went to a nuclear based economy, there would only be about 30 years worth of Uranium available for fuel.
If Bush would stop warmongering and shift his efforts into a real alternative energy program such as fusion research, then this would be a great idea. It would be nice to be free of being dependant on unstable countries for our life blood (oil).
So far, all we've had is a lot of lip service and a shiny hydrogen car with no viable source of fuel. We can do better.
What I did at work (before firefox) was to set up the Squid proxy server so that whenever it got a request for a doubleclick banner, it would redirect the request to the local web server which would return a blank banner. Worked liked a charm.
Thank god for Firefox and ad-block. Doubleclick and it's clones are no longer an issue for me. I would hope that the demise of doubleclick and its obnoxious marketing would serve as a warning to others who would emulate its business model.
I'm waiting for somebody to publish the private data (financial, medical, legal) of federal officials and their families on an open internet web server out of the Bahamas. Is this what it will take for the US to enact stringent privacy rules?
There's already a precedence. I don't remember that exact circumstances, but it went something like this: A local newpaper got hold of a list of people who were renting porn from the adult video store. Come to find out, the list included the names of some prominent policitians and judges in washington. The newspaper published the list which caused great embarassment to said politicians. Congress immediately passed an emergency measure which made publishing such embarassing info about politicians illegal.
If these offshore companies try to do the same, you can bet your bottom dollar that Congress will take immediate action to cover their asses. Of course, Joe Citizen will not enjoy the same protection because it's not in the national/corporate interest that his privacy be respected.
This is not a gold announcement. It just says that Valve has applied for a game rating. Plus you need to keep something in mind. Even if Valve does make a gold announcement, it doesn't mean that HL2 is going to ship anytime soon. If you remember, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero went gold and then it took another 6 months before it finally hit the store shelves. And don't forget that little legal dispute between Valve and Vivendi which could keep HL2 off the shelves.
The deal is that Valve has no real control over when the game ships. So a gold announcement from Valve is largely meaningless in terms of when it's going to ship. Wait for an *official* announcement from Vivendi (not Valve) because they are the ones who have the final say as to when it going to ship.
Ideally, if everything goes well, HL2 might be on the shelves in late November because it takes about 6 weeks from going gold to reach the stores. Also, buying thru steam won't let you get it any faster. Valve cannot release HL2 thru Steam until it appears on retail store shelves.
So what happens if this plan does in fact trash radio communications? Are they going to just say "oops" and rip it all out? Or are they going to say "Well isn't that a shame -- live with it."?
Amateur radio provides a vital fallback position in emergency situations where normal communications are wiped out. If amateur radio is splattered with broadband interference to the point were people are forced to drop the hobby, then our emergency preparedness will greatly suffer.
Why are the majority of these new anti-terrorism laws targeting American citizens? Al-Qaeda is largely based in foreign countries and consists of foreign nationals. Yet the focus of Asscrofts et. al. anti-terror efforts has been to find new and creative ways to spy on US citizens.
Habeas Corpus has been suspended. Just ask the 5000 detainees being held in the US without charges, legal representation, or access to the judicial system. You can add 600 more if you include the bunch at gitmo.
Out of these 5000, only 1 has actually had his day in court. He was convicted, but that conviction was later overturned when it became clear that Asscroft and company had fabricated and withheld evidence in order to gain their sole terror conviction. story here.
Of course, we are talking about an administration who has shown nothing but disrespect for the bill of rights from day one.
What are the odds that a terrorist organization could blow up a major switching office without anybody noticing? If a wide spread outage doesn't get people's attention, a loud explosion and flying debris probably will. And it's not like the terrorists aren't going to know what happened if they are the ones who did it.
This new policy is just so stupid. Quite frankly is smells like a simplistic way to sweep piss-poor service under the rug so that consumers can no longer make an informed choice about their phone service. The only ones who benefit from this are the telcos since it allows them to legally hide crappy service from prying eyes.
Not so fast... There is already a precedence. Have you ever heard of the mandatory broadcast flag that is being required in HDTV receivers starting next year? First televisions, then computers. It's not that big a jump.
I for one will not buy any piece of hardware that is equiped with this nonsense, unless there is a BIOS setting to fully disable it. I plan to keep a couple of spare motherboards without the DRM crap just to have for spares in case the one I'm using dies.
It seems that manufacturers and publishers are just determined to alienate the consumer with this kind of shit. The only way to stop it is to take their profit out of it. Just say no with your pocketbook. They'll get the message sooner or later, assuming they don't pay off some politicians and get a law passed to make DRM mandatory. Oh wait... we're screwed.
Personally, I think it's great that Steam is (possibly) getting a good solid kick to the groin. I've had nothing but trouble with it. Plus, despite Valve's effort to paint Steam as a user feature, it's really nothing more than brute force DRM. It offers nothing in the way of user features that wasn't available to gamers already -- with the possible exception of getting patched automagically.
I suspect that VU is going to do their best to keep Steam from distributing HL2 since it's a significant revenue threat to VU and their retail distribution channels.
Doom3 really doesn't offer anything new, other than some high-end graphic effects. It's eye-candy with little substance. If you've played Doom1/2, or Quake1/2, then you've already played Doom3.
Here's the game in a nutshell: Land on planet, end up being (nearly) the sole human survivor, go into room, get ambushed, open door, get ambushed, find keycards to unlock doors, get ambushed, etc.. Then fight the boss at the end.
Even though the gameplay is stale, the graphics are excellent. But I did notice that the GeForce4 series of cards have trouble keeping up when the action gets heavy.
My recommendation is that you would be better off waiting for Doom3 to hit the discount shelves rather than paying full price. Graphics aside, Doom3 gameplay just doesn't merit the $55.00 asking price.
The simplist way to combat spam is to prohibit the use of falsified mail headers and/or 'from:' return addresses. Violators could be fined per message sent.
This idea has been proposed before, but has been vigorously fought by spammers as unconstitutional. (I'm sure spammers are really concerned about the Constitution.) Their reasoning is that without the ability to send anonymous messages, free speech would suffer. Technically, they have a point. But you can satisfy the requirements of the First Amendment, while curtailing fraudulant headers/return addresses by simply saying that anonymous messages must have an explicit return address and sender id of (for example) 'anonymous@anonymous.anom'. Requiring the "ADV:" tag in the subject line is also a good defense against spam since it is easily filtered, yet can maintain anonymity.
None of these ideas are new, and there have been attempts to get them into law. But until we as spam haters generate enough spam of our own in the form of consumer compliants to our elected officials in an effort to overcome the lobbying dollars being spent to keep spam alive, then nothing is going to change.
What could possibly go wrong with a secret system that tags people as potential terrorists that is not subject to any oversight, accountable to no one, and has no provisions for challenging a wrongful inclusion?
The disturbing thing is that for reasons that remain unexplained, people opposed to Bush's policies seem to get added quite readily. Combine this with Ashcroft's recent defense of using FBI resources to investigate (aka harass) Bush protestors and it's not hard to imagine how such a system could and probably is being abused.
Well, if they're making money, it isn't from me. The aggressiveness of the US olympic committee, the invasive commercialism and crappy TV coverage here in the US has killed any interest in watching the games.
Actually, I was kinda surprised that they didn't use the name UAC for their space company instead of Armadillo Aerospace. Carmack is just crazy enough to do it. I guess the armadillo logo proved to be just to cute to ignore.
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RTL and DTL parts were generally not ICs. They were typically little circuit cards with discrete components transistors and diodes on them. You would have racks with 100's of these little cards plugged into them. When the 7400 series TTL came out, it made life a lot easier for the digital designer.
Where on earth are you going to find the vintage IC's for this thing? (Didn't RTFA). In the early 60s, it was either discrete logic using individual transistors and diodes, or really crappy RTL/DTL chips.
However... [shameless plug] Weapons Factory for HL2 is coming and will feature much of the such gameplay offered by TFC. I like to think of it as TFC on steriods. If you want to help with models, sounds, and/or mapping, come to the HL2WF website and drop me a line.[/shameless plug]
Wait till Half-life 2 comes out next week (nov 16). Whatever record Halo2 has set will sure to be smashed by the end of next week.
If Bush would stop warmongering and shift his efforts into a real alternative energy program such as fusion research, then this would be a great idea. It would be nice to be free of being dependant on unstable countries for our life blood (oil).
So far, all we've had is a lot of lip service and a shiny hydrogen car with no viable source of fuel. We can do better.
What I did at work (before firefox) was to set up the Squid proxy server so that whenever it got a request for a doubleclick banner, it would redirect the request to the local web server which would return a blank banner. Worked liked a charm.
Thank god for Firefox and ad-block. Doubleclick and it's clones are no longer an issue for me. I would hope that the demise of doubleclick and its obnoxious marketing would serve as a warning to others who would emulate its business model.
There's already a precedence. I don't remember that exact circumstances, but it went something like this: A local newpaper got hold of a list of people who were renting porn from the adult video store. Come to find out, the list included the names of some prominent policitians and judges in washington. The newspaper published the list which caused great embarassment to said politicians. Congress immediately passed an emergency measure which made publishing such embarassing info about politicians illegal.
If these offshore companies try to do the same, you can bet your bottom dollar that Congress will take immediate action to cover their asses. Of course, Joe Citizen will not enjoy the same protection because it's not in the national/corporate interest that his privacy be respected.
The deal is that Valve has no real control over when the game ships. So a gold announcement from Valve is largely meaningless in terms of when it's going to ship. Wait for an *official* announcement from Vivendi (not Valve) because they are the ones who have the final say as to when it going to ship.
Ideally, if everything goes well, HL2 might be on the shelves in late November because it takes about 6 weeks from going gold to reach the stores. Also, buying thru steam won't let you get it any faster. Valve cannot release HL2 thru Steam until it appears on retail store shelves.
Amateur radio provides a vital fallback position in emergency situations where normal communications are wiped out. If amateur radio is splattered with broadband interference to the point were people are forced to drop the hobby, then our emergency preparedness will greatly suffer.
This is a real bad idea.
What's wrong with this picture?
Out of these 5000, only 1 has actually had his day in court. He was convicted, but that conviction was later overturned when it became clear that Asscroft and company had fabricated and withheld evidence in order to gain their sole terror conviction. story here.
Of course, we are talking about an administration who has shown nothing but disrespect for the bill of rights from day one.
This new policy is just so stupid. Quite frankly is smells like a simplistic way to sweep piss-poor service under the rug so that consumers can no longer make an informed choice about their phone service. The only ones who benefit from this are the telcos since it allows them to legally hide crappy service from prying eyes.
Not so fast... There is already a precedence. Have you ever heard of the mandatory broadcast flag that is being required in HDTV receivers starting next year? First televisions, then computers. It's not that big a jump.
It seems that manufacturers and publishers are just determined to alienate the consumer with this kind of shit. The only way to stop it is to take their profit out of it. Just say no with your pocketbook. They'll get the message sooner or later, assuming they don't pay off some politicians and get a law passed to make DRM mandatory. Oh wait... we're screwed.
I suspect that VU is going to do their best to keep Steam from distributing HL2 since it's a significant revenue threat to VU and their retail distribution channels.
Here's the game in a nutshell: Land on planet, end up being (nearly) the sole human survivor, go into room, get ambushed, open door, get ambushed, find keycards to unlock doors, get ambushed, etc.. Then fight the boss at the end.
Even though the gameplay is stale, the graphics are excellent. But I did notice that the GeForce4 series of cards have trouble keeping up when the action gets heavy.
My recommendation is that you would be better off waiting for Doom3 to hit the discount shelves rather than paying full price. Graphics aside, Doom3 gameplay just doesn't merit the $55.00 asking price.
This idea has been proposed before, but has been vigorously fought by spammers as unconstitutional. (I'm sure spammers are really concerned about the Constitution.) Their reasoning is that without the ability to send anonymous messages, free speech would suffer. Technically, they have a point. But you can satisfy the requirements of the First Amendment, while curtailing fraudulant headers/return addresses by simply saying that anonymous messages must have an explicit return address and sender id of (for example) 'anonymous@anonymous.anom'. Requiring the "ADV:" tag in the subject line is also a good defense against spam since it is easily filtered, yet can maintain anonymity.
None of these ideas are new, and there have been attempts to get them into law. But until we as spam haters generate enough spam of our own in the form of consumer compliants to our elected officials in an effort to overcome the lobbying dollars being spent to keep spam alive, then nothing is going to change.
The deal is that the plume from the explosion/fire/burning forest should be visible on satellite photos.
Beakman and his truly luscious assistant Leeza rocked. Lester the rat was cool too. On second thought, I'll just take Leeza.
You're confusing a trust with a monopoly. Different animals.
I wonder how long before the anti-trust lawsuits kick in this time round.
The disturbing thing is that for reasons that remain unexplained, people opposed to Bush's policies seem to get added quite readily. Combine this with Ashcroft's recent defense of using FBI resources to investigate (aka harass) Bush protestors and it's not hard to imagine how such a system could and probably is being abused.
Well, if they're making money, it isn't from me. The aggressiveness of the US olympic committee, the invasive commercialism and crappy TV coverage here in the US has killed any interest in watching the games.
Actually, I was kinda surprised that they didn't use the name UAC for their space company instead of Armadillo Aerospace. Carmack is just crazy enough to do it. I guess the armadillo logo proved to be just to cute to ignore.