Funny thing was I started Half-Life and got stuck in the elevator shaft and stopped playing for a bit. When I started it back up and started over, I figured out how to continue and went pretty far.
Yep, I had that one which was why I jumped right into Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. There was an overhead tile shooter about the same time as Wolf3d that I had lots of fun with too but can't recall the name of the game.
I finished hack back in the 80's. It took two years but I finally ascended. Discovered the secret quite by accident but when I did I was pretty psyched. It wasn't until 1990 that I got on usenet and snagged nethack.
Same way they know where you are when you make a 911 call. They're not going to send you to your Pennsylvania PSAP if you're in Washington. They determine where you are based on your cell phone location and send you to the closest PSAP.
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Snapshot each question, look up the answers and go back to take the test again.
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Yep, made my own changes and added a console like display and three dimensions to the "galaxy". So you could travel up or down as well as on the single plane. I even added in a Retinal Scan to self-destruct the Enterprise!
I called it 3d-Startrek (because I changed from a 2d plane for travel to a 3d cube) and even got a mention in one of the gaming magazines.
Looks at Wii under the TV which hasn't been turned on in months. And I bought it for her on her birthday back in May. We've never had a console before that.
Yea, we have one console and seldom use it. I'm mostly on my Windows 7 system working on something or playing a game (Starcraft II) and she's on her Dell + Vista laptop watching Netflix or browsing the 'net.
Yea, not really. But wasn't there an article here not too long ago about how the game companies that were collecting stats for their games were finding people would only play for a few hours before considering themselves done and move on to the next game? Why put $500,000,000 into creating an intricate game when 95% of the players don't even get to the 10th battle scene? Heck, it looks like most companies could just create the first 4 or 5 levels and claim anything they want.
"That's right, this has 150 levels of puzzles, boss matches, and awesome graphics that will really heat up your GPUs!!!"[1]
While Starcraft II worked fine, I just spent the past 20 minutes going through four atikmpag.sys BSOD and one mysterious one where the system just rebooted while coming up.
Honestly, I'm never buying a video card from AMD again and I'm certainly not recommending one.
I just finished installing 10.10 after several crashes yesterday and today. I had to use Drivesweeper to clear out all the ATI cruft but finally got it totally cleared out (this is the "purge" I mentioned before). After installation it all seems to have worked without any issues. We'll see how it goes but I'm a bit happier. StarCraft II specifically will be a good test:)
I upgraded to a version 9 set last year I guess and had to roll back to an earlier version 8 because rolling back to the previous version 9 still crashed the system.
Honestly, when I can't even keep my 4870's working reliably, why would I bother shelling out any money for these things? Call me when they hire folks who can create a driver set that works without having to purge and upgrade every month or so.
Actually it's designed by the courts. Initially the law was pretty simple. You could pick up Blackstone and probably be a pretty good jackleg lawyer. The problem is that over the years, lawyers have continued to find loopholes in the law. At first it was easy, "the law didn't say I couldn't hit him with a hammer, only that I couldn't shoot him". So the courts had to add in "and you can't hit him with a hammer either". The more times a loophole was found, the more the law changed to account for the loophole.
So the law is very precise and the language around it too. It's gone from spirit of the law to letter of the law. You need lawyers to read the law and find that little loophole where your client can get off on a technicality.
Actually some may think of the security aspect. Trying to keep your text from being readable by a passing stranger. Certainly not all (the cheap ones) but one of my coworkers has a monitor that is unreadable from either side.
At home I have an Acer 17". Here at work I'm using an HP L1940T (19"). Both rotated 90*
The worst problem are the ATI drivers. Sometimes an upgrade will cause the rotation option to be lost. I've been able to fix it either by identifying the bug or just rolling back but ATI really should get some decent driver writers.
Maybe you should try a different job. The current and previous jobs I've held have insisted that at 40 hours, you go home. Certainly there are issues where you may need to hang around (as a sysadmin it happens) but if I put in too many 50 hour weeks, management kicks me out of the office.
And the output. I have three monitors, one set up portrait. The center one at work since I do a lot of scripting and the left one at home for reading PDFs and CHMs.
Agree. And because of such tracking, spam, malware, viruses, and other such cruft, I don't click on ads when I see them and generally don't see them due to adblock (occasionally one will pop up; literally). And noscript does help against the same payloads.
An arcology would be interesting although the recent experiments with ginormous ocean liners seem to prove that problems occur even in a small (relatively) close environment.
...why is a cookbook needed? I do various types of programming (currently with PHP and JavaScript manipulating a MySQL backend) and when I'm stuck on something I want to do, I just bring up Google and search for an answer. So far I have yet to be disappointed.
You want to work in the "metal" for the simple reason that you learn more about how and why things work. Once you have a reasonable understanding of how stuff works, you can look at libraries with the appropriate background to understand which will satisfy the problem you're trying to solve. You can then properly use the library and won't piss and moan when the library doesn't do things the way you expect them to because of an incorrect expectation.
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Funny thing was I started Half-Life and got stuck in the elevator shaft and stopped playing for a bit. When I started it back up and started over, I figured out how to continue and went pretty far.
[John]
Yep, I had that one which was why I jumped right into Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. There was an overhead tile shooter about the same time as Wolf3d that I had lots of fun with too but can't recall the name of the game.
[John]
I finished hack back in the 80's. It took two years but I finally ascended. Discovered the secret quite by accident but when I did I was pretty psyched. It wasn't until 1990 that I got on usenet and snagged nethack.
[John]
Same way they know where you are when you make a 911 call. They're not going to send you to your Pennsylvania PSAP if you're in Washington. They determine where you are based on your cell phone location and send you to the closest PSAP.
[John]
Snapshot each question, look up the answers and go back to take the test again.
[John]
Yep, made my own changes and added a console like display and three dimensions to the "galaxy". So you could travel up or down as well as on the single plane. I even added in a Retinal Scan to self-destruct the Enterprise!
I called it 3d-Startrek (because I changed from a 2d plane for travel to a 3d cube) and even got a mention in one of the gaming magazines.
[John]
Looks at Wii under the TV which hasn't been turned on in months. And I bought it for her on her birthday back in May. We've never had a console before that.
Yea, we have one console and seldom use it. I'm mostly on my Windows 7 system working on something or playing a game (Starcraft II) and she's on her Dell + Vista laptop watching Netflix or browsing the 'net.
[John]
Yea, not really. But wasn't there an article here not too long ago about how the game companies that were collecting stats for their games were finding people would only play for a few hours before considering themselves done and move on to the next game? Why put $500,000,000 into creating an intricate game when 95% of the players don't even get to the 10th battle scene? Heck, it looks like most companies could just create the first 4 or 5 levels and claim anything they want.
"That's right, this has 150 levels of puzzles, boss matches, and awesome graphics that will really heat up your GPUs!!!"[1]
[1] Your game may not actually have 150 levels.
[John]
While Starcraft II worked fine, I just spent the past 20 minutes going through four atikmpag.sys BSOD and one mysterious one where the system just rebooted while coming up.
Honestly, I'm never buying a video card from AMD again and I'm certainly not recommending one.
[John]
I just finished installing 10.10 after several crashes yesterday and today. I had to use Drivesweeper to clear out all the ATI cruft but finally got it totally cleared out (this is the "purge" I mentioned before). After installation it all seems to have worked without any issues. We'll see how it goes but I'm a bit happier. StarCraft II specifically will be a good test :)
Thanks for the heads up though. Appreciate it.
[John]
I upgraded to a version 9 set last year I guess and had to roll back to an earlier version 8 because rolling back to the previous version 9 still crashed the system.
[John]
Honestly, when I can't even keep my 4870's working reliably, why would I bother shelling out any money for these things? Call me when they hire folks who can create a driver set that works without having to purge and upgrade every month or so.
[John]
Actually it's designed by the courts. Initially the law was pretty simple. You could pick up Blackstone and probably be a pretty good jackleg lawyer. The problem is that over the years, lawyers have continued to find loopholes in the law. At first it was easy, "the law didn't say I couldn't hit him with a hammer, only that I couldn't shoot him". So the courts had to add in "and you can't hit him with a hammer either". The more times a loophole was found, the more the law changed to account for the loophole.
So the law is very precise and the language around it too. It's gone from spirit of the law to letter of the law. You need lawyers to read the law and find that little loophole where your client can get off on a technicality.
[John]
Actually some may think of the security aspect. Trying to keep your text from being readable by a passing stranger. Certainly not all (the cheap ones) but one of my coworkers has a monitor that is unreadable from either side.
[John]
At home I have an Acer 17". Here at work I'm using an HP L1940T (19"). Both rotated 90*
The worst problem are the ATI drivers. Sometimes an upgrade will cause the rotation option to be lost. I've been able to fix it either by identifying the bug or just rolling back but ATI really should get some decent driver writers.
[John]
Maybe you should try a different job. The current and previous jobs I've held have insisted that at 40 hours, you go home. Certainly there are issues where you may need to hang around (as a sysadmin it happens) but if I put in too many 50 hour weeks, management kicks me out of the office.
[John]
And the output. I have three monitors, one set up portrait. The center one at work since I do a lot of scripting and the left one at home for reading PDFs and CHMs.
[John]
So much for my ssh access to my colocated server in Florida.
[John]
Well, Clippy was originally from Microsoft Bob if that helps.
[John]
Agree. And because of such tracking, spam, malware, viruses, and other such cruft, I don't click on ads when I see them and generally don't see them due to adblock (occasionally one will pop up; literally). And noscript does help against the same payloads.
[John]
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays. :(
[John]
An arcology would be interesting although the recent experiments with ginormous ocean liners seem to prove that problems occur even in a small (relatively) close environment.
[John]
...why is a cookbook needed? I do various types of programming (currently with PHP and JavaScript manipulating a MySQL backend) and when I'm stuck on something I want to do, I just bring up Google and search for an answer. So far I have yet to be disappointed.
[John]
You want to work in the "metal" for the simple reason that you learn more about how and why things work. Once you have a reasonable understanding of how stuff works, you can look at libraries with the appropriate background to understand which will satisfy the problem you're trying to solve. You can then properly use the library and won't piss and moan when the library doesn't do things the way you expect them to because of an incorrect expectation.
[John]
That and fricking headhunters who sent me a request for a one day a week, $20 an hour job in Austin Texas.
Idiots.
[John]