This was one of the things I really liked about Half Life: there was a story that you were a part of. Things unfolded, and you found things out by overhearing other people talking.
That is, right up to the teleporter level. Then the story evaporated like Helium-II on a hot stove.
I hope that HL2, when it finally does come out, will be able to have enough money to carry the story through the whole game. Of course, I'd like them to throw in a few different tracks for different styles of play (the "sneak&snipe" vs. the "Grond KILL"), and of course I want it under a REAL operating system, but I digress....
About 0.7 or thereabouts, all my plugins died. No more Flash (no great loss save for losing Thugs On Film), no more Real Audio (NGL except for Car Talk). No plug-ins listed in the about:plugins page. Has this been fixed?
Also, while talking about external programs: how about being able to link to external DOWNLOADERS! I prefer to use NT (the program, not the OS) to do my downloads, and I'd like to plug that into Mozilla. I'd like to see
Plugger style functionality built-in to Mozilla to allow me to point the lizard at my video and audio format players.
Any name with "SSH" in it will be an infringing name. Therefor, any new name must not contain "SSH".
I suggest FRESH: Free Remote Encrypted SHell.
It covers the fact that it is Free Software.
It points out that the primary use is for remote access
It points out that the link is encrypted
I make this name available without restriction.
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Of course, I feel that RMS ought to use the term "liberated software" to avoid the whole "free beer/free speech" issue, but that's another story....
</Off-topic>
Why would it take much extra fuel for it to go back to earth if they could make it take off? An object in motion will remain in motion in a straight line at constand velocity unless acted upon by an outside force.
Were Eros not moving relative Earth, were Eros not at a different distance from the Sun than Earth, were spacetime flat between Eros and Earth, then yes, all it would take would be a small amount of fuel to get from one to the other.
However:
You have to put in a substantial change in velocity (delta-v) to get from Eros to Earth with any hope of not becoming a crispy critter in a meteoric reentry. You have to change your potential energy from the Sun's gravitational field. You have to make the transit so that you end up relatively motionless to the Earth at the time when you are relatively close to the Earth.
So, it takes a LOT of fuel to get there. If you take enough fuel to get BACK, you have to take even more fuel to get THERE, because you have to move the fuel to get back. Then you need even more fuel to haul the fuel to haul the fuel, and then some fuel to haul the fuel to haul the fuel to haul the fuel....
The example I like to use is that the Genome project is like the Periodic Table: it just gives you a framework to hang knowledge on.
Just as the Periodic table helped scientists to deduce the structure of electron orbitals (by observing the sequence of how chemical similarities went with atomic number) and find new elements ("There's a hole here, and what should fill that hole will have these properties. Now we know what we are looking for and where to look..."), the Genome project will allow us to better determine how genes are controlled, and look for new proteins.
So, why doesn't somebody create a.sucks.[something] second level domain (e.g sucks.cx or something), and then allow the myriad $(foo)sucks.com wannabes registers $(foo).sucks.cx
sucks.com is unfortunately already registered, but...
having it being only playable on some non-standard player available only on the Slashcode servers and not ported to anything other than Linux is even worse.
Does anybody else see this as amusing? Normally, it's us Linuxen who are left to complain about "no players for our OS".
When you get ripped off, and you have your credit card company remove the charges, who do you think eats the cost?
THE COMPANY WHO CHARGED YOU
You may eat the $50 (although any good credit card company won't even charge you that if you notify them quickly), but Egghead will eat the rest.
That's part of the problem: a credit card crook will steal from several companies, none of which were hit for more than a few hundred dollars. If the crook is in another country, it isn't worth the companies' time to go after him. They just eat the loss and write it off.
Now, if the CREDIT CARD COMPANINES were responsible and had to eat the charges, now our crook has pissed off ONE company, for THOUSANDS of $monetary_units, and it's well worth the credit card company to go after him. And for those crooks in semi-lawless places (like the former Soviet Union), it may be worth their while to sub-contract the collection of the money to, shall we say, local collection specialists.
True, were the credit card companies responsible, they would also charge the costs back to us in higher interest rates.
Guess what! They do that anyway!
(that's also why I don't carry a balance from month to month on my cards. Pay them off in full every month, manage your money, and you don't pay interest. And good cards don't charge yearly fees.)
The logic is sychronous. All modern, high-speed processors are fed with a clock signal that is a fraction of the actual internal clock rate. Inside the part, a phase-locked loop (PLL) multiplies the clock speed up.
I believe what the XScale does is dynamically change the clock multplier based on input voltage. So, it's a neat trick, but it isn't async logic or anything bleeding edge like that.
This is not a bad thing. Consider what "bleeding edge" implies....
Well, obviously I didn't consider them problematic, but you never know. It's always good to consider the possibility that you are incorrect in your thinking.
However, I think the AC who responded wasn't the person who moderated. If it was.... Well, there's always M2.
I used GEM on the Atari ST line, where it was (thankfully) not castrated by Apple.
It would have been nice had that not happened - GEM on the Atari was running in a full 32 bit flat mode. It used to kill me to try to optimize my MS-DOS machine's upper memory block layout to try to get another 10K of ever-so-valuable low memory, then go home to my ST where I had 4 M of memory available to me with no fuss.
In a way, however, Apple hath reaped what they hath sown: by crippling GEM they made it easier for Windows to flourish.
So what happens when the spammer sign up with a stolen credit card?
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If ISPs were smart, they would use caller ID on the connections. Additionally, they would require new signups to provide a phone # for confirmation: the ISP would not activate the account until verifying the phone #. In this way, even if the user is blocking caller ID on the phone, the ISP would have a phone # to tie to the account.
This would stop both the use of stolen cards and the incidents of children signing up for ISP service without their parents permission.
In the case of an abuse of the system, the ISP could get the address from the telephone #, and then pursue the offender.
Of course (one moment whilst I donn my fireproof cloths), I also feel that under normal circumstances ISPs should block access to ports 111,161, and 137-139, as well as SMTP ports other than their own mail servers. Allow customers to request the ports be opened, but don't do it by default. This would greatly cut down the number of 5|r1pt |1dd33s and Viral Basic Script attacks, as well as spammers.
(relaxes and turns the furnace down. My heating bills for this month are about to be paid by the flames...)
(One wonders: could one power a heat engine by Internet flames?)
May I ask whoever moderated my comment to explain what was "flamebait" about it? I expressed my honest opinion about 4dwm. I find it cumbersome to use compared to Gnome or KDE.
I then expressed what I had done about it (i.e. trying to get Gnome working under Irix).
I then explained why I don't just run Linux/MIPS: the lack of support for the Indy hardware. This was done to forstall the inevitable comments.
In what way was this "flamebait"? I never said that Irix itself was bad, just that the window manager wasn't what I wanted.
Given all the crap posts from trolls, why did you use a valuable moderator point on an honest opinion?
I'm deadly serious: please respond, either by email or as an AC post.
I have an Indy (named winnie after Wisconsin Platt), as well as my Linux Boxen. I HATE 4dwm! I've tried to pull down the Gnome package for Irix, but it doesn't seem to work (any suggestions from the audience of experts?).
So this is just what I don't want: 4dwm on my Linux box.
(and don't suggest putting Linux on Winnie, unless it now supports all the video hardware...)
How about ISPs simply put a clause in the service contract, something like "If you send UCE, advertise the site we host for you with UCE, or receive emails solicited via UCE on your mail account, you will owe us $10000 (adjust the currency symbol and amount as needed) per incident. We WON'T cancel your account, but we WILL disable it. If you fail to pay, we WILL destroy your credit rating, we WILL garnish your pay, we WILL charge you 5% interest per month, and we WILL make your physical address and name public on our 'Spammers Hall of Shame' page."
How many of the/.ers reading this are planning on writing their (Congressbeing|MP|*) and taking a stand against this sort of crap?
Put up or shut up.
<Humor>
Of course, if we could find a very dedicated set of twins, we could have a great deal of fun: one twin does something horrible, and the other twin tries to get busted by this system...
</Humor>
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This was one of the things I really liked about Half Life: there was a story that you were a part of. Things unfolded, and you found things out by overhearing other people talking.
That is, right up to the teleporter level. Then the story evaporated like Helium-II on a hot stove.
I hope that HL2, when it finally does come out, will be able to have enough money to carry the story through the whole game. Of course, I'd like them to throw in a few different tracks for different styles of play (the "sneak&snipe" vs. the "Grond KILL"), and of course I want it under a REAL operating system, but I digress....
OK, so the question is why does every install of Mozilla I've done not work? I've done several, including 2 on fresh, blank machines.
Where are you getting your plugin? Is it the actual Macromedia plug in or a clone?
What about other plug-ins?
OK, I'm running the 0.8 build now. Now, where is this GUI for turning off animated GIFS?
/usr/local/mozilla, installed the new Mozilla, and I don't have this GUI.
I blew away
About 0.7 or thereabouts, all my plugins died. No more Flash (no great loss save for losing Thugs On Film), no more Real Audio (NGL except for Car Talk). No plug-ins listed in the about:plugins page. Has this been fixed?
Also, while talking about external programs: how about being able to link to external DOWNLOADERS! I prefer to use NT (the program, not the OS) to do my downloads, and I'd like to plug that into Mozilla. I'd like to see
Plugger style functionality built-in to Mozilla to allow me to point the lizard at my video and audio format players.
And I just thought of another reason: while *SSH isn't itself a shell, it gives you access to a shell.
Because a) that's where the final SH in SSH comes from, and b) it was early and I couldn't come up with another 2 words that gave me S H
I suggest FRESH: Free Remote Encrypted SHell.
I make this name available without restriction.
<Off-topic>
Of course, I feel that RMS ought to use the term "liberated software" to avoid the whole "free beer/free speech" issue, but that's another story....
</Off-topic>
Were Eros not moving relative Earth, were Eros not at a different distance from the Sun than Earth, were spacetime flat between Eros and Earth, then yes, all it would take would be a small amount of fuel to get from one to the other.
However:
You have to put in a substantial change in velocity (delta-v) to get from Eros to Earth with any hope of not becoming a crispy critter in a meteoric reentry. You have to change your potential energy from the Sun's gravitational field. You have to make the transit so that you end up relatively motionless to the Earth at the time when you are relatively close to the Earth.
So, it takes a LOT of fuel to get there. If you take enough fuel to get BACK, you have to take even more fuel to get THERE, because you have to move the fuel to get back. Then you need even more fuel to haul the fuel to haul the fuel, and then some fuel to haul the fuel to haul the fuel to haul the fuel....
The example I like to use is that the Genome project is like the Periodic Table: it just gives you a framework to hang knowledge on.
Just as the Periodic table helped scientists to deduce the structure of electron orbitals (by observing the sequence of how chemical similarities went with atomic number) and find new elements ("There's a hole here, and what should fill that hole will have these properties. Now we know what we are looking for and where to look..."), the Genome project will allow us to better determine how genes are controlled, and look for new proteins.
So, why doesn't somebody create a .sucks.[something] second level domain (e.g sucks.cx or something), and then allow the myriad $(foo)sucks.com wannabes registers $(foo).sucks.cx
sucks.com is unfortunately already registered, but...
Does anybody else see this as amusing? Normally, it's us Linuxen who are left to complain about "no players for our OS".
Half right. Boston for the guitar, ELO for the planet pieces (although Yes did also have one album of that motif.)
Roger Dean has some damn cool stuff, doesn't he...
Sorry, not even half correct.
I'm thinking of motifs used on album covers, not videos (which, as we all know, killed the radio star (bonus point))
Just break up pieces of the Earth, and used the to seed other planets.
Then, get in your giant guitar-shaped spacecraft and go there.
(5 points to whomever can name the two groups...)
Nahh. After all, if a beat-up old type 40 can move a neutron star, moving little old Earth taint no thing.
Besides, you can always just time loop the sun...
When you get ripped off, and you have your credit card company remove the charges, who do you think eats the cost?
THE COMPANY WHO CHARGED YOU
You may eat the $50 (although any good credit card company won't even charge you that if you notify them quickly), but Egghead will eat the rest.
That's part of the problem: a credit card crook will steal from several companies, none of which were hit for more than a few hundred dollars. If the crook is in another country, it isn't worth the companies' time to go after him. They just eat the loss and write it off.
Now, if the CREDIT CARD COMPANINES were responsible and had to eat the charges, now our crook has pissed off ONE company, for THOUSANDS of $monetary_units, and it's well worth the credit card company to go after him. And for those crooks in semi-lawless places (like the former Soviet Union), it may be worth their while to sub-contract the collection of the money to, shall we say, local collection specialists.
True, were the credit card companies responsible, they would also charge the costs back to us in higher interest rates.
Guess what! They do that anyway!
(that's also why I don't carry a balance from month to month on my cards. Pay them off in full every month, manage your money, and you don't pay interest. And good cards don't charge yearly fees.)
My company is also looking at the XScale...
The logic is sychronous. All modern, high-speed processors are fed with a clock signal that is a fraction of the actual internal clock rate. Inside the part, a phase-locked loop (PLL) multiplies the clock speed up.
I believe what the XScale does is dynamically change the clock multplier based on input voltage. So, it's a neat trick, but it isn't async logic or anything bleeding edge like that.
This is not a bad thing. Consider what "bleeding edge" implies....
Well, obviously I didn't consider them problematic, but you never know. It's always good to consider the possibility that you are incorrect in your thinking.
However, I think the AC who responded wasn't the person who moderated. If it was.... Well, there's always M2.
I used GEM on the Atari ST line, where it was (thankfully) not castrated by Apple.
It would have been nice had that not happened - GEM on the Atari was running in a full 32 bit flat mode. It used to kill me to try to optimize my MS-DOS machine's upper memory block layout to try to get another 10K of ever-so-valuable low memory, then go home to my ST where I had 4 M of memory available to me with no fuss.
In a way, however, Apple hath reaped what they hath sown: by crippling GEM they made it easier for Windows to flourish.
How am I an obvious troll? Give me details, please.
/. was a place for civilized discussion, and I have tried to keep it that way. I find it very disturbing that you feel otherwise.
What comments of mine have you seen that are "inflammatory"? Give me the CID links, please.
I too remember when
May I ask whoever moderated my comment to explain what was "flamebait" about it? I expressed my honest opinion about 4dwm. I find it cumbersome to use compared to Gnome or KDE.
I then expressed what I had done about it (i.e. trying to get Gnome working under Irix).
I then explained why I don't just run Linux/MIPS: the lack of support for the Indy hardware. This was done to forstall the inevitable comments.
In what way was this "flamebait"? I never said that Irix itself was bad, just that the window manager wasn't what I wanted.
Given all the crap posts from trolls, why did you use a valuable moderator point on an honest opinion?
I'm deadly serious: please respond, either by email or as an AC post.
I have an Indy (named winnie after Wisconsin Platt), as well as my Linux Boxen. I HATE 4dwm! I've tried to pull down the Gnome package for Irix, but it doesn't seem to work (any suggestions from the audience of experts?).
So this is just what I don't want: 4dwm on my Linux box.
(and don't suggest putting Linux on Winnie, unless it now supports all the video hardware...)
How about ISPs simply put a clause in the service contract, something like "If you send UCE, advertise the site we host for you with UCE, or receive emails solicited via UCE on your mail account, you will owe us $10000 (adjust the currency symbol and amount as needed) per incident. We WON'T cancel your account, but we WILL disable it. If you fail to pay, we WILL destroy your credit rating, we WILL garnish your pay, we WILL charge you 5% interest per month, and we WILL make your physical address and name public on our 'Spammers Hall of Shame' page."
How many of the /.ers reading this are planning on writing their (Congressbeing|MP|*) and taking a stand against this sort of crap?
Put up or shut up.
<Humor>
Of course, if we could find a very dedicated set of twins, we could have a great deal of fun: one twin does something horrible, and the other twin tries to get busted by this system...
</Humor>