I assume by "four hundred years ago", you are reenacting a conversation that took place, ooohhh, roughly 1500 years ago??
Pythagoras advocated a spherical Earth way back circa 600BC, with general acceptance in evidence circa 100AD.
It's a common misconception that, until fairly recently, the Earth was truly believed to be flat. This is due to The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving sometime before its publication in 1828.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
The first paragraph give you the basics, further down gives better Spherical Earth understandings in Early Church, Middle Ages, and more Modern Times.
Darwinia was Linux ported??!!?? When??
I've been running it through CVS cedega since it came out and was shocked to find out there wasn't a Linux port as I so very much loved Uplink...
I have exactly the same mobo, only without the SATA and gigabit LAN options and my 9700 pro throws texture corruption all over the shop in pretty much every game I play. No amount of driver fiddling (I swap between ATi official and Omega drivers) or hardware tweaking fixes anything.
A quick snippit of info over at The Register seems to hint that the kid did in fact write Blaster-B, not the patching varient (does anyone remeber CodeGreen after CodeRed??). Seems that he was 'under surveillance', was caught testing the varient, and is going to be charged with writing the varient.
Just the ending?? That whole damn game was great. The intro, and tutorial (listening to your dead sister on tape telling you how to drive her car was a brilliant beginning), all the cut-sceness were perfectly placed (if a little shoddy in the graphics detail department), and the ending...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah.
I'm going to need you to give that stapler back now.
And maybe relocate your desk downstairs.
Yeah.
Oh sheep are very important to the NZ economy.
More important than geeks even...
In Soviet Russia, every time you kill a kitten, god masturbates
*runs and hides*
I assume by "four hundred years ago", you are reenacting a conversation that took place, ooohhh, roughly 1500 years ago??
Pythagoras advocated a spherical Earth way back circa 600BC, with general acceptance in evidence circa 100AD.
It's a common misconception that, until fairly recently, the Earth was truly believed to be flat. This is due to The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving sometime before its publication in 1828.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
The first paragraph give you the basics, further down gives better Spherical Earth understandings in Early Church, Middle Ages, and more Modern Times.
Darwinia was Linux ported??!!?? When?? I've been running it through CVS cedega since it came out and was shocked to find out there wasn't a Linux port as I so very much loved Uplink...
I have exactly the same mobo, only without the SATA and gigabit LAN options and my 9700 pro throws texture corruption all over the shop in pretty much every game I play.
No amount of driver fiddling (I swap between ATi official and Omega drivers) or hardware tweaking fixes anything.
Muchos annoying.
Heheh, I really like your description of how Linus & Linux is (un)like choas theory, mind if I quote you on my webby??
"This school has performed an illigal operation of type #592FC347A5 and needs to be rebuilt"
A quick snippit of info over at The Register seems to hint that the kid did in fact write Blaster-B, not the patching varient (does anyone remeber CodeGreen after CodeRed??).
Seems that he was 'under surveillance', was caught testing the varient, and is going to be charged with writing the varient.
Just the ending??
That whole damn game was great.
The intro, and tutorial (listening to your dead sister on tape telling you how to drive her car was a brilliant beginning), all the cut-sceness were perfectly placed (if a little shoddy in the graphics detail department), and the ending...
Simply a superb game.