I had that game for my Apple ][+. The graphics were top view on that platform.
You might want to look at Carnage Heart for Playstation (PSOne). It's the same idea, but with much better graphics, and a resource management aspect. I own it, but I haven't had time to really get into it.
It's not such a simple question, since there is no centralized authority on Jewish law. Here in the US, the reform, reconstructionist, and conservative movements of Judaism allow female rabbis. Reform female rabbis are actually relatively common.
Only your parents should be able to get IP protection (patent/trademark/copyright) over your DNA, since they created it, not you. And even then, it should be considered a derived work.
> > Where freedom of speech applies to EVERYBODY, > > even the ones with unpopular causes. Hint: > > popular causes don't NEED freedom of speech. > > If it applies to everybody, then why would > there be a need for a 3-day shutdown of London > so that protesters don't get a chance > to "peacably assemble?"
I may only have a US education, but I'm pretty sure London is in another country. It's the one with Radiohead and Boddington's.
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No, it was a choice between Reggae and Miami Vice. Each had a choice between high and low intensity versions, giving 4 palettes of 4 colors each.
I still have that exact card in a Iwill P55TV motherboard with a M2-266! Running Win2K and NT 4 Server! Gotta love the color-cycling BIOS text!
Represent! Thanks for reminding me about the BIOS palette rotation. Alas, my 386SX-16 had to be retired prematurely when it turned out one of its SIP (SIP!) sockets were bad.
Another nice thing about the ProDesigner II was that Colorrix supported it in 1024x768x256. Along with Deluxe Paint II, Colorix was one of the last of the pixel-based (no layers) paint programs.
I had an Orchid ProDesigner II (for my 386SX-16). I believe it was the first consumer SVGA card to offer 1024x768x256 (1MB RAM). At least, I remember that's why I bought it at the time (1989 or 1990). It was Tseng ET4000 based, so considered relatively fast.
Many original Playstation failures were due to people putting it directly on carpet. It tended to sink in slightly, which blocked the bottom vents (causing overheating). I can agree that this was a design failure. Later revisions enlarged the vents.
As for PS2 failures, I am one of the many people who still has their original launch-day PS2. I've carried it in a backpack on many coast-to-coast airline flights, and my apartment is a "dust rich" environment. It still keeps chugging, though. I watch DVDs on it, too.
I think this list is fake, because too many items involve adding more death and carnage, which is not at all the direction Lucas has been moving. I think it is more of a wishlist.
But, I don't understand what that has to do with anything. We don't permit people to buy things based on need. People choose to buy whatever they want, based on desire, and their ability to pay.
Some people are weak-willed, and easily swayed by car commercials and fads. Hell, some people even believe in beer commercials! That's their problem. Other people choose to buy things based on more utilitarian evaluations. Some people spend their money on impractical cars, it's their choice.
SUV owners pay more for insurance and gas (and thus gas taxes). If this is not sufficient, then very carefully constructed legislation can address the gaps. For example, the cost of registering an SUV can be raised, just as there are incentives to buy hybrids. Indeed, the original reason why SUVs were so attractive was because they were excempt from the emissions controls of station wagons and minivans, and thus got to have more powerful engines.
I don't NEED the Simpsons Season 3 DVD set, but I really don't think I need to be ashamed of buying it. I don't NEED to eat at restaurants, either, but sometimes I do. I can afford it, and it's yummy. After first taking care of buying what I need, I choose to buy what I want, if I want.
Yeah, it's pretty bad when Americans claim to have invented everything, but at least it's not Germans!
I was not trying to imply that ENIAC was the first stored program computer. I was trying to say that the ENIAC team came up with the idea (to address deficiencies in ENIAC).
Colossus was an important accomplishment, and I can agree that it is as important as ENIAC. Certainly, Colossus was much more important to the war effort!
But, neither ENIAC, nor Colossus were stored program computers. Both were "programmed" by hardwiring connections, and those connections were not in addressable memory.
EDVAC was the follow-on to ENIAC, and I believe it was the first stored-program computer. EDVAC was followed almost immediately by EDSAC in the UK, by a team that included former ENIAC people.
I recommend "The First Computers -- History and Architectures", ed. Raul Rojas and Ulf Hashagen. It covers most of the early American, British, German, and Japanese computers, in very technical detail. It also gets into why the stored-program concept is so important. There's also a great chapter on rebuilding the Colossus.
No the first aircraft was a balloon and was built by the french in the 18th century.
I think it was pretty clear from the other inventions in the list that ScrewMaster meant modern heavier-than-air aircraft.
The first atom bomb, yes but nothing to be proud about.
Getting Imperial Japan to surrender unconditionally by dropping two bombs? I think that's noteworthy.
The first computer definitely was the Zuse Z1 in 1936, german again
The Z1 was an electromechanical calculating device, not a stored program computer. It could do computations, but was not what we normally consider a computer today. The stored program concept was invented by the ENIAC team at Penn.
Now come on, what could a viking possibly be able to do to a ninja?
Ninjas are quicker, quieter, deadlier, and just all around better.
Oh, I think not:
Vikings come in hoards, ninjas fight alone
Vikings can go berserk, ninjas can merely feign death
Vikings have longships and explored all the way to America, while ninjas barely made it to Korea
Ninjas fight for a Lord to accomplish subtle political goals, while vikings rob and pillage for the hell of it.
No way could the leathery hide of a viking be penetrated by a flimsy shuriken
A ninja could try to escape with a grappling hook, but vikings have axes and war-hammer to smash down trees and walls.
...and ninja smoke bombs are useless since vikings fight blinded by rage anyway
Ninjas don't talk, while you can't get vikings to shut up.
Ninjas don't drink, or if they do, it's thimbles of sake, but vikings drink mead and ale straight from the barrel, and it makes them mean!
Ninjas are asexual, but vikings have wenches. Oh man, do they have wenches!
Vikings have way more facial and body hair than ninjas
Have you seen World's Strongest Man competition on ESPN? Lots of vikings, not so many ninjas.
Now, I don't want anybody to say I'm anti-ninja or anything. Ninjas are great. Much better than say, Legionnaires, Hoplites, or Longbowmen. They are also better than Corsairs, Magyars, Macabees, Hobbits, Mumluks, and Zulus. But, they are not better than Vikings.
I read about synesthetes in the May 2003 issue of Scientific American. The color blind ones indicated that some forms of color blindness may have to do with flaws in the "interface" of the retina, and not the "logic" deeper in the brain.
I agree with your conclusion, but I think your argument confuses things that contain computers with things that are computers.
My car has wheels, but my car is not a wheel.
Many hotel doorknobs contain computers (for the keycard readers), but I don't think it's reasonable to claim that those doorknobs are computers.
I think a PS2 is a computer, because you can easily reconfigure it to do many different kinds of things that involve decision making and abstract symbol manipulation.
As others have pointed out, the linux kit is a strong argument that a PS2 is a computer.
Even if one claims that is merely some sort of exotic add-on, consider games like Carnage Heart (actually for PSX), where the point of the game is to write programs.
Actually, "personal computer" merely implies something small enough and cheap enough for an individual's personal use (as opposed to a big expensive computer that we have to share).
While it's true that you can use an abacus for computations, it is not normally what people mean when they say "computer". I mean, by that definition, almost anything can be a computer, so the term becomes useless. For example, I can use a pile of rocks to help me count.
Restricting the term to programmable things isn't good enough either. A player piano is programmable (by swapping the rolls), but we wouldn't want to consider it a computer.
An excellent book on the subject is "The First Computers", by Rojas and Hashagen. According to them, a key characteristic of what we really mean by the word "computer" is the ability to make decisions based on the results of its own data manipulation. In other words, can use its own output as input, and it can do branching.
Of course, I totally agree with you that a game console is a computer.
Excellent point. Notice that the Al Jazeera version mentioned the nationalities, but the USA Today version didn't.
I wonder whether Swades Chaudhuri is an American born in India (or of Indian descent), or an Indian citizen? It isn't relevant to the research, but it could reveal Al Jazeera's spin.
Also notice how Al Jazeera said that was a "Pentagon-backed" project at the top of the article, while USA Today said it was DOD funded way down at the bottom.
You need to watch a certain amount of TV, to exercise your media and pop culture interpretation skills. It's like how you have to drink beer at least every so often, to maintain your alchohol tolerance. In both cases, moderation is beneficial, while going overboard is dangerous.
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I had that game for my Apple ][+. The graphics were top view on that platform.
You might want to look at Carnage Heart for Playstation (PSOne). It's the same idea, but with much better graphics, and a resource management aspect. I own it, but I haven't had time to really get into it.
> I didn't know they had female rabbis.
It's not such a simple question, since there is no centralized authority on Jewish law. Here in the US, the reform, reconstructionist, and conservative movements of Judaism allow female rabbis. Reform female rabbis are actually relatively common.
The game of chess is like a swordfight
you must think first before you move.
In the front, in the back, killer bees on attack!
Only your parents should be able to get IP protection (patent/trademark/copyright) over your DNA, since they created it, not you. And even then, it should be considered a derived work.
I agree, Sword of the Berserk is not a very fun game. If you are a fan of the anime/manga, it could be interesting, otherwise don't bother.
> > Where freedom of speech applies to EVERYBODY,
> > even the ones with unpopular causes. Hint:
> > popular causes don't NEED freedom of speech.
>
> If it applies to everybody, then why would
> there be a need for a 3-day shutdown of London
> so that protesters don't get a chance
> to "peacably assemble?"
I may only have a US education, but I'm pretty sure London is in another country. It's the one with Radiohead and Boddington's.
No, it was a choice between Reggae and Miami Vice. Each had a choice between high and low intensity versions, giving 4 palettes of 4 colors each.
I still have that exact card in a Iwill P55TV motherboard with a M2-266! Running Win2K and NT 4 Server! Gotta love the color-cycling BIOS text!
Represent! Thanks for reminding me about the BIOS palette rotation. Alas, my 386SX-16 had to be retired prematurely when it turned out one of its SIP (SIP!) sockets were bad.
Another nice thing about the ProDesigner II was that Colorrix supported it in 1024x768x256. Along with Deluxe Paint II, Colorix was one of the last of the pixel-based (no layers) paint programs.
I had an Orchid ProDesigner II (for my 386SX-16). I believe it was the first consumer SVGA card to offer 1024x768x256 (1MB RAM). At least, I remember that's why I bought it at the time (1989 or 1990). It was Tseng ET4000 based, so considered relatively fast.
Many original Playstation failures were due to people putting it directly on carpet. It tended to sink in slightly, which blocked the bottom vents (causing overheating). I can agree that this was a design failure. Later revisions enlarged the vents.
As for PS2 failures, I am one of the many people who still has their original launch-day PS2. I've carried it in a backpack on many coast-to-coast airline flights, and my apartment is a "dust rich" environment. It still keeps chugging, though. I watch DVDs on it, too.
I think this list is fake, because too many items involve adding more death and carnage, which is not at all the direction Lucas has been moving. I think it is more of a wishlist.
Of course most SUV owners don't NEED an SUV!
But, I don't understand what that has to do with anything. We don't permit people to buy things based on need. People choose to buy whatever they want, based on desire, and their ability to pay.
Some people are weak-willed, and easily swayed by car commercials and fads. Hell, some people even believe in beer commercials! That's their problem. Other people choose to buy things based on more utilitarian evaluations. Some people spend their money on impractical cars, it's their choice.
SUV owners pay more for insurance and gas (and thus gas taxes). If this is not sufficient, then very carefully constructed legislation can address the gaps. For example, the cost of registering an SUV can be raised, just as there are incentives to buy hybrids. Indeed, the original reason why SUVs were so attractive was because they were excempt from the emissions controls of station wagons and minivans, and thus got to have more powerful engines.
I don't NEED the Simpsons Season 3 DVD set, but I really don't think I need to be ashamed of buying it. I don't NEED to eat at restaurants, either, but sometimes I do. I can afford it, and it's yummy. After first taking care of buying what I need, I choose to buy what I want, if I want.
Yeah, it's pretty bad when Americans claim to have invented everything, but at least it's not Germans!
I was not trying to imply that ENIAC was the first stored program computer. I was trying to say that the ENIAC team came up with the idea (to address deficiencies in ENIAC).
Colossus was an important accomplishment, and I can agree that it is as important as ENIAC. Certainly, Colossus was much more important to the war effort!
But, neither ENIAC, nor Colossus were stored program computers. Both were "programmed" by hardwiring connections, and those connections were not in addressable memory.
EDVAC was the follow-on to ENIAC, and I believe it was the first stored-program computer. EDVAC was followed almost immediately by EDSAC in the UK, by a team that included former ENIAC people.
I recommend "The First Computers -- History and Architectures", ed. Raul Rojas and Ulf Hashagen. It covers most of the early American, British, German, and Japanese computers, in very technical detail. It also gets into why the stored-program concept is so important. There's also a great chapter on rebuilding the Colossus.
No the first aircraft was a balloon and was built by the french in the 18th century.
I think it was pretty clear from the other inventions in the list that ScrewMaster meant modern heavier-than-air aircraft.
The first atom bomb, yes but nothing to be proud about.
Getting Imperial Japan to surrender unconditionally by dropping two bombs? I think that's noteworthy.
The first computer definitely was the Zuse Z1 in 1936, german again
The Z1 was an electromechanical calculating device, not a stored program computer. It could do computations, but was not what we normally consider a computer today. The stored program concept was invented by the ENIAC team at Penn.
Ninjas are quicker, quieter, deadlier, and just all around better.
Oh, I think not:
- Vikings come in hoards, ninjas fight alone
- Vikings can go berserk, ninjas can merely feign death
- Vikings have longships and explored all the way to America, while ninjas barely made it to Korea
- Ninjas fight for a Lord to accomplish subtle political goals, while vikings rob and pillage for the hell of it.
- No way could the leathery hide of a viking be penetrated by a flimsy shuriken
- A ninja could try to escape with a grappling hook, but vikings have axes and war-hammer to smash down trees and walls.
- ...and ninja smoke bombs are useless since vikings fight blinded by rage anyway
- Ninjas don't talk, while you can't get vikings to shut up.
- Ninjas don't drink, or if they do, it's thimbles of sake, but vikings drink mead and ale straight from the barrel, and it makes them mean!
- Ninjas are asexual, but vikings have wenches. Oh man, do they have wenches!
- Vikings have way more facial and body hair than ninjas
- Have you seen World's Strongest Man competition on ESPN? Lots of vikings, not so many ninjas.
Now, I don't want anybody to say I'm anti-ninja or anything. Ninjas are great. Much better than say, Legionnaires, Hoplites, or Longbowmen. They are also better than Corsairs, Magyars, Macabees, Hobbits, Mumluks, and Zulus. But, they are not better than Vikings.I read about synesthetes in the May 2003 issue of Scientific American. The color blind ones indicated that some forms of color blindness may have to do with flaws in the "interface" of the retina, and not the "logic" deeper in the brain.
Maybe CSHOW? It had a palette-rotation feature which was good for viewing fractals (they were all the rage back then).
I agree with your conclusion, but I think your argument confuses things that contain computers with things that are computers.
My car has wheels, but my car is not a wheel.
Many hotel doorknobs contain computers (for the keycard readers), but I don't think it's reasonable to claim that those doorknobs are computers.
I think a PS2 is a computer, because you can easily reconfigure it to do many different kinds of things that involve decision making and abstract symbol manipulation.
As others have pointed out, the linux kit is a strong argument that a PS2 is a computer.
Even if one claims that is merely some sort of exotic add-on, consider games like Carnage Heart (actually for PSX), where the point of the game is to write programs.
Actually, "personal computer" merely implies something small enough and cheap enough for an individual's personal use (as opposed to a big expensive computer that we have to share).
While it's true that you can use an abacus for computations, it is not normally what people mean when they say "computer". I mean, by that definition, almost anything can be a computer, so the term becomes useless. For example, I can use a pile of rocks to help me count.
Restricting the term to programmable things isn't good enough either. A player piano is programmable (by swapping the rolls), but we wouldn't want to consider it a computer.
An excellent book on the subject is "The First Computers", by Rojas and Hashagen. According to them, a key characteristic of what we really mean by the word "computer" is the ability to make decisions based on the results of its own data manipulation. In other words, can use its own output as input, and it can do branching.
Of course, I totally agree with you that a game console is a computer.
I noticed that, too. It's almost as bad as "for all intensive purposes".
Both Doom and Doom 2 were released during reading periods for finals. That was mean.
Excellent point. Notice that the Al Jazeera version mentioned the nationalities, but the USA Today version didn't.
I wonder whether Swades Chaudhuri is an American born in India (or of Indian descent), or an Indian citizen? It isn't relevant to the research, but it could reveal Al Jazeera's spin.
Also notice how Al Jazeera said that was a "Pentagon-backed" project at the top of the article, while USA Today said it was DOD funded way down at the bottom.
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
You need to watch a certain amount of TV, to exercise your media and pop culture interpretation skills. It's like how you have to drink beer at least every so often, to maintain your alchohol tolerance. In both cases, moderation is beneficial, while going overboard is dangerous.
I know I wasn't the only one who left FF7 paused while I was at work.