I agree. The only one that I've bought and enjoyed in the last decade was the first F.E.A.R.
It had strange, unexpected cut scenes with a semi interesting plot. That said, I only played though it once and then uninstalled it.
Doom and Quake, we used to have mini lan parties with any computers we could scrape together through the 90's EVERY weekend. Substance abuse and friend abuse was abundant. Then EverQuest came out and the availability of broadband access pretty much killed our weekend frag fests. I miss those early days.
But, I sidetracked. Yes, you are correct, it has been meh since the Doom/Quake/UT days. I really don't play any games anymore. It is almost a "Been there, done this," attitude. Kind of a shame.
Congrats on your Open Water certification. I hope you enjoy the new world that is open to you!
However, there is no such thing as nitrogen poisoning. While it is true that when you are under water, your body is experiencing added pressure and the nitrogen from the air in your tank that you breathe has a much harder time escaping your blood stream you can't really be "poisoned" by it. Given you are trained, you know the importance of the 15-20 foot safety stop. The purpose of this is to let your body release any trapped nitrogen it can in the time you spend. Thus, the 3-5 minute safety stop (more if you went past deco limits - a serious no-no). If you do not make the safety stop (or make a rapid ascent), you stand a higher chance of getting the bends - nitrogen bubbles that form in your body and can cause anything from mild tingles of the arms/legs/joints to flat out passing out - and worse.
Now, nitrogen narcosis is a different beast. At the advanced recreational depths of 60-130 feet the added nitrogen will make you feel a little "drunk" and any simple math (one we use on divers going for the Advanced Open Water Cert) will take 2 or 3 times longer to do than they do on the surface. This can cause a diver that isn't prepared a whole world of trouble. You have to watch your gauges, and understand what they mean.
That said, oxygen can kill you at depth. Nitrox is a good course to take so that you understand how oxygen under pressure can be dangerous. Sure, it really has great benefits for bottom time. But, you must understand the mix you have and the depths you plan to go to.
If you are considering diving as a serious hobby, I *highly* recommend going up to the Rescue Diver (or equal) course offered by your local dive shop.
Also, if your local dive shop is talking about nitrogen poisoning, I might find a different local dive shop....
The link to the real news story, from the link in the posters writeup gave me the scoop. That's just wrong. Why not skip the osdir site and just send us to the freakin news story?
Oh, it's got "O'Reilly" up there in the corner.... that MUST be it.
Call me a troll, call it offtopic, I don't really care. But linking to a wanna be slashdot is fucked up.
Although I don't know where you got your reference on opening db2 as I didn't see it in that lengthy article linked, I'd like to think that what McNealy meant is that both are incredibly good at what they do. And, maybe this is his way of saying that and adding, "Our tool is free," without actually saying it.
As much as I don't want VoIP to become regulated, I think in the end it will be. What happens when the revenue telcos get from their PSTN/POTS and exchange services with other telcos starts to dwindle? They will look for ways to get that revenue back. Want to route a call to a user on my network? Gonna have to pay. Afterall, bandwidth isn't free, right? That's when the FCC gets involved and revamps all the old rules to work with the new technology.
Will it happen soon? I don't think so. Until VoIP is more mainstream to the general public, the PSTN isn't gonna die.
Got me there. I have even seen a couple old S/36's churning away within the last year. Guy I know still gets the occasional call to migrate a S/36 to a 400. Hey, sometimes it just works.....
I have a 120 pound AS/400 (9402 D02 minus the platters) sitting in my living room that I'm trying out figure out what to do with. Half of me says to just get rid of the beast. The other half of me is thinking of shoving the guts of my windows box and my linux box in it and wiring the front controls to things like a KVM and single power switch while trying to keep it looking original and quiet.
Of course, so far I've only thought about it. Right now, I could stick a piece of glass and a lamp on top of it and it would make a helluva end table.
that's exactly what mankind needs. A perfect head of hair. What defines a person's intelect more than the a good rug on their cranium?
It's funny. At least chuckle.
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That's pretty neat. I hadn't heard of that one before. I taught myself the old rub your tummy while patting your head at an early age and was able to swap it up just to make someone think about it a while.
After four or five tries, I still feel my foot wanting to change direction. And I haven't even tried the left side yet...
You can hope until the cows come home friend, cause I'm here to tell you that Windows is in every hospital, every clinic, and every doctors office you visit. Even the big fish: Mayo, Boston, etc. Sorry to rain on your parade.
As far as being on a lan with access to the interent, that argument is pretty much useless. One infected machine on the inside and you are a potential target. Just the way it works.
I have many systems in many hospitals and they are windows based.
Am I scared of what could happen?
You bet your life.
One of the corprate hospitals (oh yeah, they can own those too) I support had, at last report, five servers in there local server room completely down. The traffic alone on the network hindered my system, but we are still up, and a patch time is set.
"... is set?" you say?
Downtime is a HUGE issue for my company. If our system isn't up, a major communtication link that ALL hospitals rely on in one fashion or another is gone. The last thing I need is to get a call saying that a Radiologist's report on an ER patient didn't get seen or heard by the ER physician in time to save a life. You want to talk mission critical systems? 24/7 with human lives at stake. I don't think it can get more serious than that.
I remember the first time I saw a pair of skates seemingly "skate" across the road in front of me. Same situation as you described, but in this case the rope was actually fishing line attached to skates with kids hidden from view pulling them across the road.
I'm not knocking any current games that are out there. Maybe you missed my point. I've played those, and I don't really want to continue playing them now. I did play Wolfenstien and most of the HL series. They are good games. But the replay factor is the same as every other game that has come out in any different time period. I can trace my FPS shooting back to DOS with the frist Quake and Wolf. Unlike you, as I take from your response, I get bored with games that I've played a lot.
What I do like is something new. And I will play that something new until it gets copied and repackaged into Leisure Suit Larry vs. DoomGuy01.
Gaming go only go so far without getting dull and the need for TRUE innovation is a needed factor in the grand sceme of things. It's gotten dull. I don't need more fps. I don't need the same fps with different weapons. And, of course, more frames per second with different guns does me little good as well.
Maybe this is a sign that there are good things to come. I just hope that there is some true innovation involved.
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It had strange, unexpected cut scenes with a semi interesting plot. That said, I only played though it once and then uninstalled it.
Doom and Quake, we used to have mini lan parties with any computers we could scrape together through the 90's EVERY weekend. Substance abuse and friend abuse was abundant. Then EverQuest came out and the availability of broadband access pretty much killed our weekend frag fests. I miss those early days.
But, I sidetracked. Yes, you are correct, it has been meh since the Doom/Quake/UT days. I really don't play any games anymore. It is almost a "Been there, done this," attitude. Kind of a shame.
You are correct on the application of O2 on anyone that has symptoms of the bends. Followed by chamber treatment, if available.
Now that I think about it.... maybe I've never heard the bends called "nitrogen poisoning" and that would be a "mental note made" on my part.
Never-the-less, enjoy your diving!
Yes, I'm drinking. =)
However, there is no such thing as nitrogen poisoning. While it is true that when you are under water, your body is experiencing added pressure and the nitrogen from the air in your tank that you breathe has a much harder time escaping your blood stream you can't really be "poisoned" by it. Given you are trained, you know the importance of the 15-20 foot safety stop. The purpose of this is to let your body release any trapped nitrogen it can in the time you spend. Thus, the 3-5 minute safety stop (more if you went past deco limits - a serious no-no). If you do not make the safety stop (or make a rapid ascent), you stand a higher chance of getting the bends - nitrogen bubbles that form in your body and can cause anything from mild tingles of the arms/legs/joints to flat out passing out - and worse.
Now, nitrogen narcosis is a different beast. At the advanced recreational depths of 60-130 feet the added nitrogen will make you feel a little "drunk" and any simple math (one we use on divers going for the Advanced Open Water Cert) will take 2 or 3 times longer to do than they do on the surface. This can cause a diver that isn't prepared a whole world of trouble. You have to watch your gauges, and understand what they mean.
That said, oxygen can kill you at depth. Nitrox is a good course to take so that you understand how oxygen under pressure can be dangerous. Sure, it really has great benefits for bottom time. But, you must understand the mix you have and the depths you plan to go to.
If you are considering diving as a serious hobby, I *highly* recommend going up to the Rescue Diver (or equal) course offered by your local dive shop.
Also, if your local dive shop is talking about nitrogen poisoning, I might find a different local dive shop....
Here, looks like you wore yours out towards the end there.... *W key*
Or checking to see if it actually DOES run IIS?
Sheesh.
The link to the real news story, from the link in the posters writeup gave me the scoop. That's just wrong. Why not skip the osdir site and just send us to the freakin news story?
Oh, it's got "O'Reilly" up there in the corner .... that MUST be it.
Call me a troll, call it offtopic, I don't really care. But linking to a wanna be slashdot is fucked up.
Bad analogy? *Shrug*
Where exactly did it say they were going to take our rights away? And which rights? The right to trade copyrighted material?
Come on. So a new suit is going to run the axis of evil that is the RIAA, remind me how that makes PHB's turn away from open source products?
Will it happen soon? I don't think so. Until VoIP is more mainstream to the general public, the PSTN isn't gonna die.
The devices are called automatic transfer switches or bypass/isolation switches. And yes, they are regulated by code.
Got me there. I have even seen a couple old S/36's churning away within the last year. Guy I know still gets the occasional call to migrate a S/36 to a 400. Hey, sometimes it just works.....
I have a 120 pound AS/400 (9402 D02 minus the platters) sitting in my living room that I'm trying out figure out what to do with. Half of me says to just get rid of the beast. The other half of me is thinking of shoving the guts of my windows box and my linux box in it and wiring the front controls to things like a KVM and single power switch while trying to keep it looking original and quiet.
Of course, so far I've only thought about it. Right now, I could stick a piece of glass and a lamp on top of it and it would make a helluva end table.It's funny. At least chuckle.
After four or five tries, I still feel my foot wanting to change direction. And I haven't even tried the left side yet...
As far as being on a lan with access to the interent, that argument is pretty much useless. One infected machine on the inside and you are a potential target. Just the way it works.
I have many systems in many hospitals and they are windows based.
Am I scared of what could happen?
You bet your life.
One of the corprate hospitals (oh yeah, they can own those too) I support had, at last report, five servers in there local server room completely down. The traffic alone on the network hindered my system, but we are still up, and a patch time is set.
"... is set?" you say?
Downtime is a HUGE issue for my company. If our system isn't up, a major communtication link that ALL hospitals rely on in one fashion or another is gone. The last thing I need is to get a call saying that a Radiologist's report on an ER patient didn't get seen or heard by the ER physician in time to save a life. You want to talk mission critical systems? 24/7 with human lives at stake. I don't think it can get more serious than that.
I remember the first time I saw a pair of skates seemingly "skate" across the road in front of me. Same situation as you described, but in this case the rope was actually fishing line attached to skates with kids hidden from view pulling them across the road.
Was freaky the first time I saw it.
Couldn't have said it better myself. And I tried... albeit the long winded way!
What I do like is something new. And I will play that something new until it gets copied and repackaged into Leisure Suit Larry vs. DoomGuy01.
At that point, I will look for something new.
Maybe this is a sign that there are good things to come. I just hope that there is some true innovation involved.