But thats something nostalgia people often forget: If you only pick the best 50 or so games of the decade, they _will_ be great. Comparing with the latest shooter that didnt match the expectations and then crying "back then everything was better" just isnt correct.
I downloaded some "all in one" rom package years ago, a few thousand nes roms. Sad thing was: 8 of 10 were crap. And only a few were those "gems" that make us believe back then everything was better.
I dont think the great to crap ratio has dropped significantly the last 20 years...
A good friend of mine build himself a kickass p2-300 rig back then when those were still really expensive (he also got nice stuff like a motherboard with onboard dual scsi controller, ect) and accidently switched to 110V when trying to switch on the psu...
Quite a flashbang, but in the end, only the PSU and (for some strange reason) the floppy drive were gone.
Yeah yeah. Besides the usual trolling, there is some truth in the parent.
Maybe just put a link to the (then current) revision, and not to the general article? That way, everybody will get the same article that excisted before the./ story went online.
If he is such a dependable man, so concerned about his children, then why has he no problem with wagering the future of all mankind by downplaying global warning? He doesnt trust his believes enough for $15k, so why should anybody trust him when the future of billions is on the table?
What if a plumber finds some bodyparts in the drain while repairing it.
Should he mentally try to make stupid excused ("maybe his children found those fingers and he just flushed them away") or call the police (who are in charge of finding out what really happened?)
What were you doing? (I cant imagine a case getting that hot without some serious layout problems...
Just for the record: normal thermal solutions for (stock) cpu and GPU coolers usually assume a maximum case temperatur of 40 (or 38 with later intel p4) degrees.
Come on please... if you want to benefit, stick you head into your ass, then she shit thats comming out of your mouths has a nice place to stay and doesnt pollute the internet.
Or better shoot yourself and help the world be a smarter place.
Yeah, fileplanet is a sickness. I searched an utility last week. A small programm, about 300k zipped (to be exact, an extractor for some games packfiles). The only source i could find was fileplanet. So i bit the bullet and made an account (not the paying kind, but still very "dont like"). Only to find out that there were x00 people before me in the row and i could expect my download to start in 68 minutes... Well, i tried out a blind emule search (now that i could see the exact filesize in fileplanet) and got that damn thing via the slowest filesharing program in the world before my damn queue was fininshed...
but somehow, putting a CD with an "experimentalGentoo" Release on it into my computer sounds just as fascinating and fun as open hearth surgery in nanibia or landing a space shuttle with chocolade heathshields...
You are right. I havent played those prior art games. And i feel about zero.zerozero urge to ever do. I actually _like_ seeing stuff while driving. Like the road more then 20m ahead (which this demo even doesnt, because the tarmac is always rgb 000000. Strange.
Its a _RACING_ game. The whole genre of racing games usually lives from the aspect that you just _cant_ do it outside in the real world, because you neither can afford the cars nor does the police like people running 250 km/h downtown. Its one of the very few genres were maximum realism really is wanted, because everybody known how it look to drive and have expectations how it should look like when driving, well, faster...
And to the "style" of this "demo". Well, i cant call it style, and i cant call it a demo. Its more like a short looping flash movie, and the "style" is using only one colour and making everything so dark you cant see there isnt anything too see.
Maybe you cant follow me, but the mere fact that one can have all the books of a large library on your computer, fully indexed with the possibility to do boolean and regular searches is as much an revolution as thethe printing press, imho.
And just like that (the press), it will take decades to slowly get recognition to its worth.
There wont even the possiblilities of "Burning libraries" anymore if everybody can store the whole history and culture of his country/region/religion on his ipod mk9...
At the very high frequency edge of the electromagnetic spectrum, photons start to get through matter more easily again.
But the stress is on _very_ _high_.
We are talking about GHz here. The worst penetration power is somewhere in the UV. Up to that it still declines, and further way to high energy it increases. (simply because how the photons interact with matter. With higher energy they start to directly excite molecule rotations, then vibrations or phonons in solid bodies...
So you can say: go from optical down to lower frequency, and stuff gets better "around the corner" (non-line of sight) and gets better penetration, but getting higher also gives better penetration.
But for wireless, you are still 4 orders of magnitudes to low in frequency to get there.
I wonder... Rain usually only happens at altutudes lower than 5km. At that point, the tiles have already fullfilled their purpose, and eventuall cracking/damage shouldnt alter the shuttles ability to land.
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I know. I know.
But thats something nostalgia people often forget: If you only pick the best 50 or so games of the decade, they _will_ be great.
Comparing with the latest shooter that didnt match the expectations and then crying "back then everything was better" just isnt correct.
Well. I dont know what you are talking about.
I downloaded some "all in one" rom package years ago, a few thousand nes roms. Sad thing was: 8 of 10 were crap.
And only a few were those "gems" that make us believe back then everything was better.
I dont think the great to crap ratio has dropped significantly the last 20 years...
Not always.
A good friend of mine build himself a kickass p2-300 rig back then when those were still really expensive (he also got nice stuff like a motherboard with onboard dual scsi controller, ect) and accidently switched to 110V when trying to switch on the psu...
Quite a flashbang, but in the end, only the PSU and (for some strange reason) the floppy drive were gone.
Well, my best defense was always that i used 65% de-ionizd water and 35% corrosion-inhibitor (quite toxic).
I am sure nobody would have drunk from my watercooling rig more than once...
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Yeah yeah.
./ story went online.
Besides the usual trolling, there is some truth in the parent.
Maybe just put a link to the (then current) revision, and not to the general article? That way, everybody will get the same article that excisted before the
They are called beamers or projectors, and wirelessly transmit an image onto a surgace with terahertz EM waves :)
No, they arent.
If he is such a dependable man, so concerned about his children, then why has he no problem with wagering the future of all mankind by downplaying global warning?
He doesnt trust his believes enough for $15k, so why should anybody trust him when the future of billions is on the table?
Feynman didnt BET 1000$ that nobody could build it, he offered a challenge to build one with a winning price.
Thats 2 very different things.
Child porn is also NEVER allowed on computers, ever.
Your point?
Doesnt matter.
What if a plumber finds some bodyparts in the drain while repairing it.
Should he mentally try to make stupid excused ("maybe his children found those fingers and he just flushed them away") or call the police (who are in charge of finding out what really happened?)
Its called security by obscurity and is generally considered not cool.
of the summary? If it tastes the same, i would have zero problems with artificial meat.
I dont actually enjoy having animals slaughtered just for fun.
50C case temp?!?!
What were you doing?
(I cant imagine a case getting that hot without some serious layout problems...
Just for the record: normal thermal solutions for (stock) cpu and GPU coolers usually assume a maximum case temperatur of 40 (or 38 with later intel p4) degrees.
Maybe you are a bit late, but didnt you notice that "eastern europe" has become "the NEW europe" and is whoring itself to the usa like no tomorrow?
Why bother?
You got a perfectly fine md5 hashtree from the honest distributer/uploader of the file, which guarantees you get what you want.
Wait, you are downloading warez and stuff from unknown sources without any reference what it could be besides the filename? Well, thats your bad...
Come on please... if you want to benefit, stick you head into your ass, then she shit thats comming out of your mouths has a nice place to stay and doesnt pollute the internet.
Or better shoot yourself and help the world be a smarter place.
Yeah, fileplanet is a sickness.
I searched an utility last week. A small programm, about 300k zipped (to be exact, an extractor for some games packfiles).
The only source i could find was fileplanet. So i bit the bullet and made an account (not the paying kind, but still very "dont like").
Only to find out that there were x00 people before me in the row and i could expect my download to start in 68 minutes...
Well, i tried out a blind emule search (now that i could see the exact filesize in fileplanet) and got that damn thing via the slowest filesharing program in the world before my damn queue was fininshed...
but somehow, putting a CD with an "experimental Gentoo" Release on it into my computer sounds just as fascinating and fun as open hearth surgery in nanibia or landing a space shuttle with chocolade heathshields...
You are right. I havent played those prior art games.
And i feel about zero.zerozero urge to ever do.
I actually _like_ seeing stuff while driving. Like the road more then 20m ahead (which this demo even doesnt, because the tarmac is always rgb 000000. Strange.
Its a _RACING_ game. The whole genre of racing games usually lives from the aspect that you just _cant_ do it outside in the real world, because you neither can afford the cars nor does the police like people running 250 km/h downtown.
Its one of the very few genres were maximum realism really is wanted, because everybody known how it look to drive and have expectations how it should look like when driving, well, faster...
And to the "style" of this "demo". Well, i cant call it style, and i cant call it a demo. Its more like a short looping flash movie, and the "style" is using only one colour and making everything so dark you cant see there isnt anything too see.
Maybe you cant follow me, but the mere fact that one can have all the books of a large library on your computer, fully indexed with the possibility to do boolean and regular searches is as much an revolution as thethe printing press, imho.
And just like that (the press), it will take decades to slowly get recognition to its worth.
There wont even the possiblilities of "Burning libraries" anymore if everybody can store the whole history and culture of his country/region/religion on his ipod mk9...
You are basically right.
At the very high frequency edge of the electromagnetic spectrum, photons start to get through matter more easily again.
But the stress is on _very_ _high_.
We are talking about GHz here. The worst penetration power is somewhere in the UV. Up to that it still declines, and further way to high energy it increases. (simply because how the photons interact with matter. With higher energy they start to directly excite molecule rotations, then vibrations or phonons in solid bodies...
So you can say: go from optical down to lower frequency, and stuff gets better "around the corner" (non-line of sight) and gets better penetration, but getting higher also gives better penetration.
But for wireless, you are still 4 orders of magnitudes to low in frequency to get there.
I wonder...
Rain usually only happens at altutudes lower than 5km. At that point, the tiles have already fullfilled their purpose, and eventuall cracking/damage shouldnt alter the shuttles ability to land.