The fact you have not -given- money doesn't mean there is no money to be stolen from you. Only if you're so far in debt that the most dubious credit agency refuses to lend you money you can't be stolen from. Otherwise you may go day to day happily until debt collector knocks on your door with demand to pay the loan back - the loan you never took.
I didn't need to remove that disk. I just rebooted to Linux and was unable to use the disk with Linux on the same PC any more.
And I'd much rather be confused by a convoluted and hard to understand message about potential risks, than be falsely assured with total certainty by a very clear and understandable message that there is no risk whatsoever.
Nope, the Linux on the same machine that I used to read the disk (and run UAE) couldn't read it afterwards either. And it wasn't some fancy "image mount under emulator". Linux, using AmigaFFS system would mount the Amiga partitions within its own filesystem, using standard AmigaFFS kernel module shipped with vanilla kernel, making them normally, natively accessible, R/W mounts I could normally use from Linux. Then I would launch UAE with "local directory as hard disk" pointing to these mount points. So, no, the operating system that ran on that hardware, with PC
- Most have "hardcore mode" which is permadead. - in single player there is pause, which allows for pretty much same thing as turn-based. - unlocking skills of a class (spending exp at will) vs growing in power randomly is more like a flavor than a defining characteristics.
The Horadrim Cube from Diablo 2 or the Alchemist from Torchlight?
Sure they were SIMPLE comparing to most Roguelikes - and Nethack is one of most complicated of them. There are some roguelikes comparable in simplicity to Diablo too.
What about Dwarf Fortress? In the "adventurer mode" it is a clear-cut roguelike with a vast world to explore. In the "fortress mode" it becomes a strategy game (freely switchable between RTS and turn-based.) But still it utilizes the same game mechanics, the same world (to a degree where your adventurer may find and explore your fortress), and generally is just a different mode of the same game.
Diablo and its derivatives, Diablo 2 and Torchlight - are they Roguelikes? Quite crude for roguelikes, but the generated landscape changing with each game, varied monsters, levelled dungeon with ability to backtrace, random-generated items, and generally quite a bit of roguelike elements... I think the thing that could make them apart from the genre is lack of "turn-based" mode, kinda like an active pause - even entering the inventory does not pause. But is it enough?
I still remember WinNT and my Amiga hard disk. I used it with Linux+UAE at work, and with my Amiga at home. It worked fine. Then something tempted me to see how would WinNT react to it.
No partition signature found. In order to access this disk, a partition signature must be written. This is a completely safe operation and will not affect other operating systems ability to access this disk. Should I write the partition signature? [yes] [no]
After good 12h of recovery of my files I knew for sure. NEVER trust Microsoft. They LIE.
A general knowledge quiz measures general knowledge. A spelling quiz measures your spelling knowledge. IQ tests are specifically devoid of requirements for any learnable knowledge (other than common ability to read.)
There is the usual level of other radioactive substances that have I-131 in their own fission chain, and particles excited by cosmic radiation. So there's always a minimum amount of it in the air.
The usual meanurements were around 20 microbecquerels per m^3 per day in some areas, below error level in others. That is, with count above error level, it's 1 I-131 particle in 500 000 m^3 undergoing fission in a day; with 8-day halflife, that would be roughly 32 particles per 1 000 000 m^3 of air. THIS is the usual level.
In case of I-131 dose rate is far above dangerous content - direct ingestion has marginal effect. Instead, combination of light rain (to settle the iodine on grass but not flush it down the rivers/sewers) + grazing cows + high milk consumption is the primary cause of thyroid cancer. Air->rain->cows->milk->humans->thyroid absorption, this is the primary route that causes most harm. Other vectors are at least two orders of magnitude less significant. So there is no significant dose-rate due to I-131 present in the environment, there is only direct dose absorbed with milk. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes/i131
Now the alarmist message (sorry, won't give you sources) found the CLOR report with counts of above 5000 microbecquerels per m^3 per day at various locations of the country. The levels have soared! To... roughly 8 particles per 1 000 m^3 of air. Dire news indeed!
more interestingly, the treatment involves large doses of Iodine-131. (removal of most of thyroid tissue surgically followed by killing off all the rest using radioactive iodine in doses that cause it to die instead of mutating into cancerous tissue.)
There's also information that while true, is formulated in a falsely alarmist way.
Like, true fact coming from authoritative measurements: the Iodine-131 levels in Poland have risen some 1000-2000 times above their usual level. Conveniently omitted fact: that's still about 500-1000 times less than levels causing any measurable increase of risk of thyroid cancer.
Note, for Win7. Which isn't all that old and loaded with a bunch of new DRM. Meaning possibly players that worked with older Windows didn't work with Win7 at first. And at the time he did seek, it is quite possible there were no Bluray players for Win7 at all.
Later on some have sprouted but he got disgruntled with it, and his expectations have risen: must be free.
Those against say "Games are expensive enough as it is, if there's more piracy they'll get even dearer.
You realize this is bullshit? Make the games more expensive, more people switch to piracy. The prices are so high because of massive return on investment expectations and marketing budget that dwarfs development budget by comparison.
German law is interesting in this matter: consumer laws state that if manufacturer removed some feature, the user has the right to put it back in the device by means of modifying the device. Which means the moment SONY removed "Other OS" they essentially legalized all modchips and the likes in PS3 in Germany.
Graphite is one of cheaper forms of carbon to obtain. Graphene is created by stripping thin layers off graphite. Of course to combine them into something of reasonable strength, you need lots and lots of layers. Still, at industry scale, this can be probably made quite cheap, especially that the raw material is cheaper than steel, and the processing does not involve energies required to melt steel. Still, that's a lot of graphene layers, so even if unit cost of adding a layer is low, the whole may cost quite a bit. OTOH, unlike steel (which HAS to be heated to melting temperature), this process can be optimized ad nauseam, a joule here, half a joule there, and in the end made very cheap.
A meter is my hand plus my chest width, about my waist height, I can rest my palms on walls 1.5m apart. Doors are about 2m tall. There's about 10cm from my knuckle to index finger tip, and the index finger nail is about 1cm wide. Standard office paper is 0.05mm thick.
Maybe that's why... these things really don't mix. In most countries they do entrust 18yo with a beer but not with means to blow up a city. No laws per se, you just need to gain experience with less responsible tasks first. But the US seems to have made a choice there, too young to drink and nuke, so let's let them nuke, but not drink.
Somehow consumer lobbies all over Europe managed to get a warranty to be attached to a device, not a customer.
You buy an item, the shopkeeper fills in the warranty card with the device serial number, you pack it up in the box with all the warranties you have, if you sell, you dig up the warranty card and hand it along with the device. Nobody asks your name or ID.
And unless the seller sells used, known-broken item (and you are clearly informed this IS broken), you get the warranty by default. One month for used, usually a year for new. Sometimes more, rarely less. You may purchase extended warranty or insurance, but you MUST receive a manufacturer warranty with a new purchase. The fact you can buy new hardware in the US, find it broken at home and be helpless because you didn't purchase a warranty separately seems extremely weird to europeans. Unthinkable. Usually this is also accompanied by a 3-day surety period, when you can have a faulty device replaced instead of repaired if you return it within that period (or money back if the device cannot be replaced, because e.g. they've been sold out). This too is attached to proof of purchase, no need for ID of any kind.
Nope, warranty attached to person is a US oddity, not world standard.
six days in Falujah would get T(13+) for moderate-to-high amounts of violence, no sexual themes, limited or no use of profanity, no drug use, no gambling and no bodily functions.
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The fact you have not -given- money doesn't mean there is no money to be stolen from you. Only if you're so far in debt that the most dubious credit agency refuses to lend you money you can't be stolen from. Otherwise you may go day to day happily until debt collector knocks on your door with demand to pay the loan back - the loan you never took.
I guess the digital signature contains date&time. Of course this would assume camera's internal clock can't be tampered with.
I didn't need to remove that disk. I just rebooted to Linux and was unable to use the disk with Linux on the same PC any more.
And I'd much rather be confused by a convoluted and hard to understand message about potential risks, than be falsely assured with total certainty by a very clear and understandable message that there is no risk whatsoever.
Nope, the Linux on the same machine that I used to read the disk (and run UAE) couldn't read it afterwards either. And it wasn't some fancy "image mount under emulator". Linux, using AmigaFFS system would mount the Amiga partitions within its own filesystem, using standard AmigaFFS kernel module shipped with vanilla kernel, making them normally, natively accessible, R/W mounts I could normally use from Linux. Then I would launch UAE with "local directory as hard disk" pointing to these mount points. So, no, the operating system that ran on that hardware, with PC
- Most have "hardcore mode" which is permadead.
- in single player there is pause, which allows for pretty much same thing as turn-based.
- unlocking skills of a class (spending exp at will) vs growing in power randomly is more like a flavor than a defining characteristics.
The Horadrim Cube from Diablo 2 or the Alchemist from Torchlight?
Sure they were SIMPLE comparing to most Roguelikes - and Nethack is one of most complicated of them. There are some roguelikes comparable in simplicity to Diablo too.
What about Dwarf Fortress?
In the "adventurer mode" it is a clear-cut roguelike with a vast world to explore.
In the "fortress mode" it becomes a strategy game (freely switchable between RTS and turn-based.) But still it utilizes the same game mechanics, the same world (to a degree where your adventurer may find and explore your fortress), and generally is just a different mode of the same game.
Diablo and its derivatives, Diablo 2 and Torchlight - are they Roguelikes?
Quite crude for roguelikes, but the generated landscape changing with each game, varied monsters, levelled dungeon with ability to backtrace, random-generated items, and generally quite a bit of roguelike elements...
I think the thing that could make them apart from the genre is lack of "turn-based" mode, kinda like an active pause - even entering the inventory does not pause. But is it enough?
I still remember WinNT and my Amiga hard disk.
I used it with Linux+UAE at work, and with my Amiga at home. It worked fine.
Then something tempted me to see how would WinNT react to it.
After good 12h of recovery of my files I knew for sure. NEVER trust Microsoft. They LIE.
A general knowledge quiz measures general knowledge. A spelling quiz measures your spelling knowledge. IQ tests are specifically devoid of requirements for any learnable knowledge (other than common ability to read.)
> First off, in a normal location there isn't any "usual level" of Iodine-131 because it is something that has a short half life.
Actual results were like this. Change dates for others.
http://www.clor.waw.pl/Raporty_ASS500/CLOR_wyniki_24_04_2011(a).pdf
There is the usual level of other radioactive substances that have I-131 in their own fission chain, and particles excited by cosmic radiation. So there's always a minimum amount of it in the air.
The usual meanurements were around 20 microbecquerels per m^3 per day in some areas, below error level in others. That is, with count above error level, it's 1 I-131 particle in 500 000 m^3 undergoing fission in a day; with 8-day halflife, that would be roughly 32 particles per 1 000 000 m^3 of air. THIS is the usual level.
In case of I-131 dose rate is far above dangerous content - direct ingestion has marginal effect. Instead, combination of light rain (to settle the iodine on grass but not flush it down the rivers/sewers) + grazing cows + high milk consumption is the primary cause of thyroid cancer. Air->rain->cows->milk->humans->thyroid absorption, this is the primary route that causes most harm. Other vectors are at least two orders of magnitude less significant. So there is no significant dose-rate due to I-131 present in the environment, there is only direct dose absorbed with milk.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes/i131
Now the alarmist message (sorry, won't give you sources) found the CLOR report with counts of above 5000 microbecquerels per m^3 per day at various locations of the country. The levels have soared! To... roughly 8 particles per 1 000 m^3 of air. Dire news indeed!
more interestingly, the treatment involves large doses of Iodine-131. (removal of most of thyroid tissue surgically followed by killing off all the rest using radioactive iodine in doses that cause it to die instead of mutating into cancerous tissue.)
There's also information that while true, is formulated in a falsely alarmist way.
Like, true fact coming from authoritative measurements: the Iodine-131 levels in Poland have risen some 1000-2000 times above their usual level.
Conveniently omitted fact: that's still about 500-1000 times less than levels causing any measurable increase of risk of thyroid cancer.
Note, for Win7. Which isn't all that old and loaded with a bunch of new DRM. Meaning possibly players that worked with older Windows didn't work with Win7 at first. And at the time he did seek, it is quite possible there were no Bluray players for Win7 at all.
Later on some have sprouted but he got disgruntled with it, and his expectations have risen: must be free.
Those against say "Games are expensive enough as it is, if there's more piracy they'll get even dearer.
You realize this is bullshit?
Make the games more expensive, more people switch to piracy.
The prices are so high because of massive return on investment expectations and marketing budget that dwarfs development budget by comparison.
Don't forget the DRM. The DRM put in the console must account for a lion share of the R&D costs... ...unless they bought it from someone too?
German law is interesting in this matter: consumer laws state that if manufacturer removed some feature, the user has the right to put it back in the device by means of modifying the device. Which means the moment SONY removed "Other OS" they essentially legalized all modchips and the likes in PS3 in Germany.
Graphite is one of cheaper forms of carbon to obtain.
Graphene is created by stripping thin layers off graphite.
Of course to combine them into something of reasonable strength, you need lots and lots of layers. Still, at industry scale, this can be probably made quite cheap, especially that the raw material is cheaper than steel, and the processing does not involve energies required to melt steel.
Still, that's a lot of graphene layers, so even if unit cost of adding a layer is low, the whole may cost quite a bit. OTOH, unlike steel (which HAS to be heated to melting temperature), this process can be optimized ad nauseam, a joule here, half a joule there, and in the end made very cheap.
Also, it can be used in temperatures two times lower than paper.
A meter is my hand plus my chest width, about my waist height, I can rest my palms on walls 1.5m apart. Doors are about 2m tall. There's about 10cm from my knuckle to index finger tip, and the index finger nail is about 1cm wide. Standard office paper is 0.05mm thick.
Maybe that's why... these things really don't mix.
In most countries they do entrust 18yo with a beer but not with means to blow up a city. No laws per se, you just need to gain experience with less responsible tasks first.
But the US seems to have made a choice there, too young to drink and nuke, so let's let them nuke, but not drink.
1ft=12in
1yd=3ft
1mile=1760yd
1cm=10mm
1m=100cm
1km=1000m
Now metric is base 10. Take your number, convert to base 10, and you can easily convert to metric, no matter which unit.
Now what base should I convert the number to if I want imperial? Base 3? No kidding.
Somehow consumer lobbies all over Europe managed to get a warranty to be attached to a device, not a customer.
You buy an item, the shopkeeper fills in the warranty card with the device serial number, you pack it up in the box with all the warranties you have, if you sell, you dig up the warranty card and hand it along with the device. Nobody asks your name or ID.
And unless the seller sells used, known-broken item (and you are clearly informed this IS broken), you get the warranty by default. One month for used, usually a year for new. Sometimes more, rarely less. You may purchase extended warranty or insurance, but you MUST receive a manufacturer warranty with a new purchase. The fact you can buy new hardware in the US, find it broken at home and be helpless because you didn't purchase a warranty separately seems extremely weird to europeans. Unthinkable. Usually this is also accompanied by a 3-day surety period, when you can have a faulty device replaced instead of repaired if you return it within that period (or money back if the device cannot be replaced, because e.g. they've been sold out). This too is attached to proof of purchase, no need for ID of any kind.
Nope, warranty attached to person is a US oddity, not world standard.
six days in Falujah would get T(13+) for moderate-to-high amounts of violence, no sexual themes, limited or no use of profanity, no drug use, no gambling and no bodily functions.
Oh, come on. The right contractors can definitely project a computer-aided chessboard that will be at least $2k a piece.