I haven't made myself clear, and now I see I've passed a wrong impression.
I have no prejudice against violent games and have played a lot of them (I suck at CS, but it's another story). Real firearms? I've got target practice from pistols to a 12-gauge shotgun, no problem with them.
The point was, Flight Simulator can teach some things that you will possibly use in real life, while violent games are mostly inocuous. They won't teach how to kill or how to handle weapons, nor encourage real violence - unless the player is indeed a psycho, but that's another problem.
Lastly, sorry for the "gratuitous". Shortly before posting, I was playing "Postal 2";).
I agree, but there is another plausible motivation: some key members of the board and the CEO make a "behind the scenes" deal where the CEO will pay secretly a sort of "commission fee" based upon the package value. So the board will tend to approve the greatest values they could without being investigated.
7805's work reliably with at least 7V input, and are quite old now. There are more modern regulators rated "low-dropout" that require less than 1V above their nominal output voltage. I'd pick one of the latter for such a project, rather than a 7805.
I partially disagree. Flight Simulator recreates the dynamics of flight and can teach some flying when used with a yoke and pedals (say, the old Virtual Pilot and Thrustmaster RCS). I've got real flight instruction and in the early flights the CFIs were surprised with the ease I could coordinate curves, maintain altitude, etc. In the 4th flight the CFI said to me "you've born a pilot"! Unfortunately, financial problems prevented me to complete the flight instruction:(
Violent games can't be compared with flight simulators, the latter is about dynamics and balance, the former is about gratuitously destroying lives. There is a difference.
A little OT, but curious. In the 70's, Nestle distributed powder milk in Brazil in cans with precisely net 454 grams (Brazil uses the metric system for more years than I can tell, perhaps more than a century). I was a kid then, and found to be strange that a product was shipped with such a "broken" number for its quantity.
It took years to me to realize this mass is exactly one pound.
The catch here is that this product was not imported, it was manufactured in Brazil. I can't tell when this has been changed, but today the same product is shipped in 400 grams and 1,000 grams cans.
It does not take an RTC to time-seed a PRNG. A simple good seed can be derived from the interval between several button presses and their durations, at millisecond level (or microsecond, that would be even better).
I'm not familiarized with iPod Shuffle, but sometimes my mini, by chance, groups 2 songs from the same album. I have 60+ albuns in it, from which 50+ are complete, yielding ~700 songs.
One time the two songs grouped from the same album were in their natural order, I was able to realize this because in the end of the first song the artist announced the next to come. Funny indeed.
I'm sure MandrakeSoft knows Brazil is not South America. As did Conectiva, before they almost flopped and had to undercut assets and retreat from the Spanish-speaking markets in South America.
As Conectiva regained some strength and could walk over its legs again, it became an interesting starting point to MDK in South America.
With the merger and renewed strength, one can expect that localized websites/products/services in Spanish langage will be produced again.
The company I work for (in Brazil) makes an AVL system that uses a similar system since 1999. Normally, critical events are transmitted over the air, but in the event of a comm failure, the driver can read an encoded string in the truck terminal and voice it over a phone to the monitoring central.
The string encodes Lat, Lon, nature of the event and control digits to minimize errors.
Some characters are excluded, but not exactly vowels. The idea here is to prevent misreading (eg "O" (letter) and "0" (number). Or "l" (letter) and "1" (number) and so on). So the base used is not 36, but something around 30 (can't remember precisely).
Now instead of carrying a cellphone and a Zippo in my pocket, I will have the choice for a 2-in-1 combo!
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Add the problems with legal Linux distro DVD players, and I think the consumer has lost out.
On the other hand, ther is no legal problems to play VHS in Linux and - oh, wait!
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Yeah, so you are counted as one more IE user. May work in the short term, but it will contribute to shift the statistics towards IE, what is we *definitly* don't want.
I see your point. In my opinion, what Lucas did with the movies was like a software vendor releasing updated versions of its products, with bugfixes and small improvements.
You could say "cinema is not software" and I would agree with you. I'd the first to say that GL's attitude should not set a trend in the movie industry because most people can't cope with it. But I, personally, think GL's "experiment" is indeed very interesting.
Greedo shooting first is enough to get most geeks' blood boiling
I can't help about this. Ok, this WAS a bad move, but to get infuriated on it looks somewhat over the top, doesn't look?
Finally, I keep my view that the "new" Star Wars is the same product as the old, with small improvements and a (minor IMHO) bug (Han x Greedo) inserted.
Is EP2 better than EP1? IMHO, yes, although not being a classic. I can just hope that there will be a Special Edition that will correct the worst EP1 shenanigans and will consist of a EP1-3 bundle, just like EP4-6.
For now, it's enough for me to enjoy EP2 on cable TV.
he could face organized boycotts, negative reviews, and negative word of mouth advertising
He got some of it with EP1 and to a lesser extent with EP2. Let's judge the man for the stuff he puts in the market, not for his copyright enforcement.
I have purchased the 1997's EP4-6 Special Edition VHS tapes and now the DVDs, and will *gladly* buy it in a future format if it happens to exist. But I have no plans to buy EP1-3, unless EP1 is revised in a "Special Edition" to cut off its most sucky moments.
but he shows his true colors over and over: greed unfettered with respect for his loyal fans
Come on, Lucas is no worse than any other moviemaker, he's just smart enough to sell the same product again and again like Microsoft. With the difference that he's not a monopolist and you're not pressured to buy his stuff.
Just tried Moz 1.7.2 and the anti-aliased fonts were gone (maybe build options?). Furthermore, I've faced some segfaults when browsing Slashdot. Reverted to Slack 10's original Moz 1.7.
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I haven't made myself clear, and now I see I've passed a wrong impression.
;).
I have no prejudice against violent games and have played a lot of them (I suck at CS, but it's another story). Real firearms? I've got target practice from pistols to a 12-gauge shotgun, no problem with them.
The point was, Flight Simulator can teach some things that you will possibly use in real life, while violent games are mostly inocuous. They won't teach how to kill or how to handle weapons, nor encourage real violence - unless the player is indeed a psycho, but that's another problem.
Lastly, sorry for the "gratuitous". Shortly before posting, I was playing "Postal 2"
I agree, but there is another plausible motivation: some key members of the board and the CEO make a "behind the scenes" deal where the CEO will pay secretly a sort of "commission fee" based upon the package value. So the board will tend to approve the greatest values they could without being investigated.
7805's work reliably with at least 7V input, and are quite old now. There are more modern regulators rated "low-dropout" that require less than 1V above their nominal output voltage. I'd pick one of the latter for such a project, rather than a 7805.
Violent games can't be compared with flight simulators, the latter is about dynamics and balance, the former is about gratuitously destroying lives. There is a difference.
However, I DO care for it, whatever name it has. The more alternative browsers stay with a fringe presence, the more crappy sites will stay IE-only.
Cheers
I can't agree more. Cheers.
It took years to me to realize this mass is exactly one pound.
The catch here is that this product was not imported, it was manufactured in Brazil. I can't tell when this has been changed, but today the same product is shipped in 400 grams and 1,000 grams cans.
I'm not familiarized with iPod Shuffle, but sometimes my mini, by chance, groups 2 songs from the same album. I have 60+ albuns in it, from which 50+ are complete, yielding ~700 songs.
One time the two songs grouped from the same album were in their natural order, I was able to realize this because in the end of the first song the artist announced the next to come. Funny indeed.
As Conectiva regained some strength and could walk over its legs again, it became an interesting starting point to MDK in South America.
With the merger and renewed strength, one can expect that localized websites/products/services in Spanish langage will be produced again.
Cheers.
The string encodes Lat, Lon, nature of the event and control digits to minimize errors.
Some characters are excluded, but not exactly vowels. The idea here is to prevent misreading (eg "O" (letter) and "0" (number). Or "l" (letter) and "1" (number) and so on). So the base used is not 36, but something around 30 (can't remember precisely).
I'd not like to keep my hand lying on such a device for hours a day.
My 2 cents.
Now instead of carrying a cellphone and a Zippo in my pocket, I will have the choice for a 2-in-1 combo!
On the other hand, ther is no legal problems to play VHS in Linux and - oh, wait!
Yeah, so you are counted as one more IE user. May work in the short term, but it will contribute to shift the statistics towards IE, what is we *definitly* don't want.
Is this Star Wars Holiday Special Edition? I've been holding my breath for years!
No, Darth's chestplate doubles as an airplane switch panel!
You could say "cinema is not software" and I would agree with you. I'd the first to say that GL's attitude should not set a trend in the movie industry because most people can't cope with it. But I, personally, think GL's "experiment" is indeed very interesting.
Greedo shooting first is enough to get most geeks' blood boiling
I can't help about this. Ok, this WAS a bad move, but to get infuriated on it looks somewhat over the top, doesn't look?
Finally, I keep my view that the "new" Star Wars is the same product as the old, with small improvements and a (minor IMHO) bug (Han x Greedo) inserted.
Cheers.
For now, it's enough for me to enjoy EP2 on cable TV.
He got some of it with EP1 and to a lesser extent with EP2. Let's judge the man for the stuff he puts in the market, not for his copyright enforcement.
I have purchased the 1997's EP4-6 Special Edition VHS tapes and now the DVDs, and will *gladly* buy it in a future format if it happens to exist. But I have no plans to buy EP1-3, unless EP1 is revised in a "Special Edition" to cut off its most sucky moments.
but he shows his true colors over and over: greed unfettered with respect for his loyal fans
Come on, Lucas is no worse than any other moviemaker, he's just smart enough to sell the same product again and again like Microsoft. With the difference that he's not a monopolist and you're not pressured to buy his stuff.
MS x Hollywood: Whoever wins... We lose.
Maybe it's time to a new googlebomb. Say with me:
microsoft shill
Im sure Pat Volkerding already works a lot!...
Not surprising from a guy that stated that "The iPod is terrible as a PDA"!
we wouldn't be using hideously inefficient Carnot Cycle engines to run our vehicles
Just a small correction, the thermal cycle for piston engines is the Otto cycle, not Carnot.
Just tried Moz 1.7.2 and the anti-aliased fonts were gone (maybe build options?). Furthermore, I've faced some segfaults when browsing Slashdot. Reverted to Slack 10's original Moz 1.7.
My 2 cents.