White material reflects light and heat, the black tiles absorb it. This allows the ship to deal with the extremes of spaceflight and reentry. The aerodynamics of a reentry vehicle are even more limited than the choice of colours.
Though I should note that IF they had other colours available to them, they likely wouldn't go for it, if only because we've become so accustomed to seeing the familiar black-on-white colour scheme of NASA's shuttle that it makes most sense to emulate it from a PR perspective: "look, it's totally obvious what this does!"
You mean PCI-E, and it doesn't.
The Power Mac G5 has an AGP 8x slot and depending on the model, three PCI or PCI-X slots. PCI-X is an extention to PCI, like EISA or VLB were extentions to the orignal 8-bit ISA standard. PCI Express (PCI-E) is a completely different standard and has virtually nothing to do with PCI, least of all pin compatibility.
I believe There uses DirectX and IE pretty heavily, making a Linux port nearly impossible barring a significant rewrite of the renderer.
If you want to check out a 3D-VR world under Linux, give Second Life a try. It only has Windows and OSX ports, but runs under WINE almost perfectly. There are instructions on the SL forums for getting it up and running. At $10 for a lifetime subscription, how can you go wrong?:)
As far as I know, they're allowing non-US, non-Canadian users, but Second Life has some problems with keyboards other than "standard" US 101-key ones. It's basically punctuation that's the problem, so you can still use it, but if you want to do scripting, or come across as being more literate than a WebTV user, you'll want a "standard" keyboard.
As for the age restriction, they're still working on implementing parental controls. Just part of the hassle of living with the Child Online Protection Act. [copacommission.org]
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If you're not finding much on "Linden Labs", it's because the company name is "Linden Lab". Yes, even among the beta testers, everyone calls it Linden Labs. Yes, it's a source of much confusion.
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White material reflects light and heat, the black tiles absorb it. This allows the ship to deal with the extremes of spaceflight and reentry. The aerodynamics of a reentry vehicle are even more limited than the choice of colours. Though I should note that IF they had other colours available to them, they likely wouldn't go for it, if only because we've become so accustomed to seeing the familiar black-on-white colour scheme of NASA's shuttle that it makes most sense to emulate it from a PR perspective: "look, it's totally obvious what this does!"
You mean PCI-E, and it doesn't. The Power Mac G5 has an AGP 8x slot and depending on the model, three PCI or PCI-X slots. PCI-X is an extention to PCI, like EISA or VLB were extentions to the orignal 8-bit ISA standard. PCI Express (PCI-E) is a completely different standard and has virtually nothing to do with PCI, least of all pin compatibility.
Yeah, I think 0racle's "Yes I'm being an idiot." comment kind of indicated they already know that. :)
Wow, I didn't catch that. Guess I won't be likely to purchase one of those after all. :)
That's what I was just thinking. There was a modded one in Goldmember. There's no info on the "About" page though.
You should email them at support@secondlife.com. They'll tell you.
I believe There uses DirectX and IE pretty heavily, making a Linux port nearly impossible barring a significant rewrite of the renderer. If you want to check out a 3D-VR world under Linux, give Second Life a try. It only has Windows and OSX ports, but runs under WINE almost perfectly. There are instructions on the SL forums for getting it up and running. At $10 for a lifetime subscription, how can you go wrong? :)
As far as I know, they're allowing non-US, non-Canadian users, but Second Life has some problems with keyboards other than "standard" US 101-key ones. It's basically punctuation that's the problem, so you can still use it, but if you want to do scripting, or come across as being more literate than a WebTV user, you'll want a "standard" keyboard. As for the age restriction, they're still working on implementing parental controls. Just part of the hassle of living with the Child Online Protection Act. [copacommission.org] replicate
If you're not finding much on "Linden Labs", it's because the company name is "Linden Lab". Yes, even among the beta testers, everyone calls it Linden Labs. Yes, it's a source of much confusion.
For the record, the company URL is lindenlab.com.