Some of the designed seemed to included wind power on the top of the buildings and/or methane reactors for biomass.
Methane reactors are, at best, energy-neutral: they let you recover energy that has already been turned from light into biomass. The energy still needs to get into the system somehow, but at least it isn't going back out with the trash.
The inherited code I work with is in a language all its own. Run it through the preprocessor one way, and it becomes object-oriented ANSI C. Run it through another way, it becomes object-oriented K&R C. Run it through a third way, it becomes C++ with classes.
The really exciting part is that this is a cross-platform GUI library, supporting classic MacOS, Windows 3.1, OS/2, and Motif on Unix, with the last full re-write in 1994. The software it is used in supports MacOS X and WinXP.
Law enforcement agencies love the fact that the Pirate Bay doesn't censor child-porn torrents. You see, when you connect to a torrent, you tell everyone else connected who you are. The only thing law enforcement likes more than self-identifying criminals is self-convicting criminals.
I suspect there will be something similar for the VideoBay site.
Everybody always seems to say "the gameplay has gone downhill since X", but nobody ever agrees on the value of X. My observation? Everybody who says that has grown older since they first played X. That probably has more to do with it. This effect is not specific to Final Fantasy, you see it happening everywhere.
Over the course of about a year, I played the following Final Fantasy games, in this order:
Final Fantasy IV (US) Final Fantasy VI (US) Final Fantasy I Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy II (NES, translated) Final Fantasy V (SNES, translated) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy IV (Japan, translated) Final Fantasy Tactics
There's not much "good old days" effect here. I'd say the series started going downhill quickly with Final Fantasy VII, with the biggest mistake being releasing VIII under the Final Fantasy name.
Document-destruction companies typically confetti-shred the documents (two steps smaller than crosscut shredding), then mix the result in with pieces of documents from a dozen other companies. Yes, it is theoretically possible for someone to scan the hundreds of millions of tiny bits of paper produced, then reconstruct the documents, but it's like cracking modern encryption: there are easier ways to get the information.
When I saw this story, I skimmed the first line, then got to the second, which read: "Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case." It was a bit of a jolt. Then I went back and realized that it was referring to his wife's ex-lover, not to Reiser himself.
This is why you don't put a giant 10-word prepositional phrase between a subject and verb, especially if that phrase ends with something that could plausibly by a subject.
It's even worse here. Not only is there the long prepositional phrase, but the word wrapping is such that the second line starts off as "Hans Reiser has confessed...".
Depends on what the laser is tuned for. If it's tuned for cutting, then yes, it will leave a cauterized hole. But if it's tuned for energy transfer (think: turning water to steam), it's more like being shot with an exploding bullet.
VIII was a decent game. The only problems with it were (1) it wasn't a Final Fantasy game, and (2) the graphics don't survive up-rezzing in an emulator the way that the graphics of VII or IX do.
First, a capital-lowercase pair has a different kearning than a cap-cap pair or a lowercase-lowercase pair, so that's 51+50+49+...+2+1. Then, there are ligatures such as fi, and letter-number combinations (1st), and punctuation marks, and non-English characters such as eth, and non-Latin alphabets, and...
I can't say that 10,000 kerning pairs is surprising.
Get ready for a Second Life experience akin to IRC in the 90s.
That's more accurate than you realize. Because of trust issues, most third-party servers won't be allowed to connect to the Linden Lab network. Instead, expect to see competing networks of servers.
Untrusted third-party servers will not be able to connect to the Linden Labs servers, so you don't need to worry about an unlimited-money hack messing things up: currency records, user inventories, and the like are separate. As a real-world comparison, widespread forgery of Iraqi Dinars isn't going to upset the value of the British Pound.
Offloading some of the work to the GPU, I presume?
Offloading camera-ray intersection testing (just what the ray intersects, not the intersection point) to the GPU is one of the speedups I'm looking at. GPUs aren't quite flexible or fast enough to handle the entire process, and the communications overhead is too high for finer-grained division of tasks.
I'm working on a raytracing engine that'll knock the socks off anything LL can put out -- if you're running an 8-core or better system. Hopefully I'll be able to speed it up so that people stuck with quad-core computers can use it.
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Methane reactors are, at best, energy-neutral: they let you recover energy that has already been turned from light into biomass. The energy still needs to get into the system somehow, but at least it isn't going back out with the trash.
No, it isn't. Selling an item with the pretense that it's a different item is called "fraud".
Anyone who clicks on a link from a Slashdot post without exercising due diligence deserves the goatse they've got coming to them.
Don't forget the girls in the class telling you "You shot Bambi!"
The inherited code I work with is in a language all its own. Run it through the preprocessor one way, and it becomes object-oriented ANSI C. Run it through another way, it becomes object-oriented K&R C. Run it through a third way, it becomes C++ with classes.
The really exciting part is that this is a cross-platform GUI library, supporting classic MacOS, Windows 3.1, OS/2, and Motif on Unix, with the last full re-write in 1994. The software it is used in supports MacOS X and WinXP.
Microsoft is like the Black Plague: you want to avoid it at all costs, but it's great to see it go to work against your enemies.
Kakistocracy? It seems more like the advanced version, a kakistodemocracy.
Law enforcement agencies love the fact that the Pirate Bay doesn't censor child-porn torrents. You see, when you connect to a torrent, you tell everyone else connected who you are. The only thing law enforcement likes more than self-identifying criminals is self-convicting criminals.
I suspect there will be something similar for the VideoBay site.
Over the course of about a year, I played the following Final Fantasy games, in this order:
Final Fantasy IV (US)
Final Fantasy VI (US)
Final Fantasy I
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy II (NES, translated)
Final Fantasy V (SNES, translated)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy IV (Japan, translated)
Final Fantasy Tactics
There's not much "good old days" effect here. I'd say the series started going downhill quickly with Final Fantasy VII, with the biggest mistake being releasing VIII under the Final Fantasy name.
Document-destruction companies typically confetti-shred the documents (two steps smaller than crosscut shredding), then mix the result in with pieces of documents from a dozen other companies. Yes, it is theoretically possible for someone to scan the hundreds of millions of tiny bits of paper produced, then reconstruct the documents, but it's like cracking modern encryption: there are easier ways to get the information.
The Phantom Edit wasn't too bad.
Eventually, you'll slow down to the point where, although they are still extremely close, it's no longer an unsafe following distance.
It's even worse here. Not only is there the long prepositional phrase, but the word wrapping is such that the second line starts off as "Hans Reiser has confessed...".
Sometimes your bladder just won't wait, and trying to aim in the dark is a bad idea.
Depends on what the laser is tuned for. If it's tuned for cutting, then yes, it will leave a cauterized hole. But if it's tuned for energy transfer (think: turning water to steam), it's more like being shot with an exploding bullet.
Practical fusion has been 20 years off ever since the 1960s.
VIII was a decent game. The only problems with it were (1) it wasn't a Final Fantasy game, and (2) the graphics don't survive up-rezzing in an emulator the way that the graphics of VII or IX do.
First, a capital-lowercase pair has a different kearning than a cap-cap pair or a lowercase-lowercase pair, so that's 51+50+49+...+2+1. Then, there are ligatures such as fi, and letter-number combinations (1st), and punctuation marks, and non-English characters such as eth, and non-Latin alphabets, and...
I can't say that 10,000 kerning pairs is surprising.
That's more accurate than you realize. Because of trust issues, most third-party servers won't be allowed to connect to the Linden Lab network. Instead, expect to see competing networks of servers.
Untrusted third-party servers will not be able to connect to the Linden Labs servers, so you don't need to worry about an unlimited-money hack messing things up: currency records, user inventories, and the like are separate. As a real-world comparison, widespread forgery of Iraqi Dinars isn't going to upset the value of the British Pound.
Montana's rejection is a good deal more forceful than Washington's.
To put it simply, Washington said "no thanks". Montana said "go fuck yourself".
Actually, from what I can tell, they're usually caught when they're pulled over for drunk or reckless driving.
I've always favored an Air-Gap brand firewall.
Offloading camera-ray intersection testing (just what the ray intersects, not the intersection point) to the GPU is one of the speedups I'm looking at. GPUs aren't quite flexible or fast enough to handle the entire process, and the communications overhead is too high for finer-grained division of tasks.
I'm working on a raytracing engine that'll knock the socks off anything LL can put out -- if you're running an 8-core or better system. Hopefully I'll be able to speed it up so that people stuck with quad-core computers can use it.