I think the version was 128 when we bought it but was not labeled perhaps that was the previous version and ours was 2000. The next versions? 3000 4000 (ok, skipped it actually) 5000
All of which are based off of 20 year old Unix code...... (and fully usable on green screen terminals still)
I don't buy version 6 of anything after getting burned with PC-File years ago....
lol version 6 was entirely different product than 5.0 that ran at half the speed of the old one. It was so bad the versions sequence was 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 5.5 !!
Seriously everyone seems quite capable now of screwing up whatever version they are building:(
The.3 is a nice touch tho....at least until people find out it is fake. Then when it is buggy or lame people will probably consider everything from that maker as sucky;)
I like it too but already have my 'show-off' cases for 5 years and expect another 5 out of them. This takes up more real estate than the more standard shape and i really would not have room for this:(
A tad pricey for what you get. That is more than my clear ones were back when there were only 2 places on entire internet to get them!
Currently it is 4" square, monochrome, several minutes to draw and erase is a separate step.
To even get 3 colors, he is looking for a material that will produce the other 2 colors. I wonder if the resolution drops by a factor 3 then...anyone remember CGA graphics
Can you make a polymer with 256 different reactive materials to produce anything resembling a picture? Much less 16.7 million different types of material in a uniform polymer coating....
Even if it works on a bigger display, which wasn't a given, what is it for? X-rays and static drawings? Wouldn't a CAD-type program simulating 3D that you could manipulate still be better in most cases?
lol, i went from a 40mph indoor go-kart track to my Explorer with bad shocks and sloppy clutch. I decided to stop and get a burger on my way home instead of fight the urge:)
Video games do not transfer that same physical sensation. Going from my 180mph virtual racer to my Explorer doesn't bother me much at all.
I play an awful lot of Flatout lately where half the goal is to hit other drivers. Maybe that makes me a bit paranoid of other drivers in real life, but they are going to have work darn hard to hit me and so far noone has:)
After hundreds of hours on Flatout/Flatout2 i am much better at taking out fences without losing my line. Surely that will lower the damage done IRL because i don't have to bounce off the other cars any more;)
((How does Firefox flag Flatout but not Flatout2 as misspelled, and what the heck is the 1st correction?= Fla tout))
nor was it a particularly 'modern airplane' being at best 28 years old.
I doubt engine or fuel trouble either. Even with no place to land you could drop that into the trees very very slow. A good stall as you got to the trees would get you down below 50 mph.
Probably medical, like someone suggested he could have died 100 miles or more before impact.
Second i would bet on mechanical with the controls. My dad had a plane lock up the elevator in flight while they were practicing stalls when a cable floated up against something and jammed. Luckily a training flight so he could fuss around under the dash while the student kept it level (as it kept stalling and recovering itself, you just dont want to let it spin). Like others said, noone uses a chute for that one in a billion problem when it would be useful. The exact problem would be different as this plane as a different control setup but something similar. Structural failure is not impossible on this plane, especially if he or someone else did aerobatics with it. Our aerobatic plane was practically rebuilt every hundred hour inspection to the point of being kinda scary(having to screw the screws back into the wings..)
Or he simply didn't see the ground as suggested but he wasn't exactly a n00b;)
What does seem odd?
He was supposedly scouting for land for something wasn't he? why would he be so high up and in the mountains? unless he passed out or died and the plane kept going in a slight climb
"Not to mention the questions that would come up when the wife says, "I wonder what happened to the $1000 he always kept in his pocket, just in case he needed some cash.""
Well....since they haven't found the pocket...I could think of an out;)
Gotta be him tho, no other small plane pilot has $1000 left in his pocket after filling the tank for takeoff....
"How else do you want them to compare graphics cards?"
Actually since you asked.....
How do they compare to my CURRENT card:) That's the one i want to see.
All the $100 are similar, got it. How much better are they than the $150 card card i got 2 years ago? Any old reviews tend to use different test rigs and different benchmarks:(
He doesn't have fuel to make it across fully on it's own power i suppose. From 2500 meters one could glide across in a variety of craft it appears. This would seem about twice the glide ratio of a small plane, doesn't sound too hard with a powered wing. Especially as it seems the wing actually does fly ok, it must be a range issue.
Heck if you let me start high enough i could fly my car across. Ok i might need oxygen and better shocks but still....
Looks like fun nonetheless, at least until i have to land with 120 lbs on my back then i'd just be a squished little geek:(
Too bad noone guarantees the boxes will even work when they are required. Most i looked at had a whooping 90-day warranty. At least Radio Shack said one extended warranty could be used for either box. The ones i got run quite warm, for once that extra warranty may not be a bad idea. They are really $40 plus the coupon if you want to insure you have a working one in Feb:(
Even more annoying to me is that the sound is the last to go on analog but the first to go with digital. Even if the analog station got fuzzy for a bit one could follow along. At least ABC seems to have put their digital transmitter next to everyone else's. Their Analog transmitter is 90 degrees from all the others, thus their analog usually sucks.
I lose CBS on digital if i stand up from couch or someone walks through the kitchen:( They must have cheaped out on digital here, they are also the station with no HD and no subchannels.
This was 500 of the 1800 complaints. What where all the others about?
"I have never pirated a game without DRM when I could still buy it legally (sorry Microprose games from '85)"
huh, without DRM?
Don't feel bad...That key disk from Microprose in 1985 probably wouldn't authenticate anyways.........:/
Very few of my retail games work on my 386 because of said disks, but the pirated and shareware games do with very few exceptions. Still need to find some cracked versions of Microprose and others:(
"At a meeting this week in Hawaii, the study group has been finalizing a proposal calling for creation of a new, as yet unnamed task group to carry forward the work of crafting a standard."
No tech yet, no people yet, no name yet but it's coming soon trust us......
Slashdot Mirror
Try our accounting system.
I think the version was 128 when we bought it but was not labeled perhaps that was the previous version and ours was 2000.
The next versions?
3000
4000 (ok, skipped it actually)
5000
All of which are based off of 20 year old Unix code...... (and fully usable on green screen terminals still)
I don't buy version 6 of anything after getting burned with PC-File years ago....
lol version 6 was entirely different product than 5.0 that ran at half the speed of the old one. It was so bad the versions sequence was 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 5.5 !!
Seriously everyone seems quite capable now of screwing up whatever version they are building :(
The .3 is a nice touch tho....at least until people find out it is fake. Then when it is buggy or lame people will probably consider everything from that maker as sucky ;)
Does that mean copyrights will now be available on every street corner?
Whaddaya mean the wasn't the goal?
I like it too but already have my 'show-off' cases for 5 years and expect another 5 out of them. This takes up more real estate than the more standard shape and i really would not have room for this :(
A tad pricey for what you get. That is more than my clear ones were back when there were only 2 places on entire internet to get them!
duh
Our losing football team gets letterman jackets because they passed and our winning math team gets a $ .50 blue ribbon to hang on our wall :(
Don't think we even got a trophy for the school for the team event.
I don't see that it has progressed any since then. Well the school does have a wonderful new gym and weightroom....
I got more satisfaction from being in a mediocre drum corps than a math team that won at the state level.
ARGH
someday i hope to figure out this site....
Why the hell are pages 1,2 and 3 identical and how the hell do i continue reading comments where i left off :/
One question answered...you can learn something here :(
Now why is my screen spazzing out when i mouse over the tags :/
Has anyone actually used the tags for anything?
lol
Anyways, back to the RIAA...no wait, back away from the RIAA...errr, where were we?
I'll side with skeptical for now too.
Currently it is 4" square, monochrome, several minutes to draw and erase is a separate step.
To even get 3 colors, he is looking for a material that will produce the other 2 colors. I wonder if the resolution drops by a factor 3 then...anyone remember CGA graphics
Can you make a polymer with 256 different reactive materials to produce anything resembling a picture? Much less 16.7 million different types of material in a uniform polymer coating....
Even if it works on a bigger display, which wasn't a given, what is it for? X-rays and static drawings? Wouldn't a CAD-type program simulating 3D that you could manipulate still be better in most cases?
Ummm
If they find the gamers are 10% less likely to cause an accident they can cut their rates by 5%........
Any more questions?
lol, i went from a 40mph indoor go-kart track to my Explorer with bad shocks and sloppy clutch. I decided to stop and get a burger on my way home instead of fight the urge :)
Video games do not transfer that same physical sensation. Going from my 180mph virtual racer to my Explorer doesn't bother me much at all.
I play an awful lot of Flatout lately where half the goal is to hit other drivers. Maybe that makes me a bit paranoid of other drivers in real life, but they are going to have work darn hard to hit me and so far noone has :)
After hundreds of hours on Flatout/Flatout2 i am much better at taking out fences without losing my line. Surely that will lower the damage done IRL because i don't have to bounce off the other cars any more ;)
((How does Firefox flag Flatout but not Flatout2 as misspelled, and what the heck is the 1st correction?= Fla tout))
Apparently it was a new plane.
Silly me took the summary and article on it's word......It was a new Decathlon not the plane mentioned :/
Scratch the comment on old and bold the comments related to stress and aerobatics as that is the aerobatic model and the same as our aerobatic plane.
aye
nor was it a particularly 'modern airplane' being at best 28 years old.
I doubt engine or fuel trouble either. Even with no place to land you could drop that into the trees very very slow. A good stall as you got to the trees would get you down below 50 mph.
Probably medical, like someone suggested he could have died 100 miles or more before impact.
Second i would bet on mechanical with the controls. My dad had a plane lock up the elevator in flight while they were practicing stalls when a cable floated up against something and jammed. Luckily a training flight so he could fuss around under the dash while the student kept it level (as it kept stalling and recovering itself, you just dont want to let it spin). Like others said, noone uses a chute for that one in a billion problem when it would be useful. The exact problem would be different as this plane as a different control setup but something similar. Structural failure is not impossible on this plane, especially if he or someone else did aerobatics with it. Our aerobatic plane was practically rebuilt every hundred hour inspection to the point of being kinda scary(having to screw the screws back into the wings..)
Or he simply didn't see the ground as suggested but he wasn't exactly a n00b ;)
What does seem odd?
He was supposedly scouting for land for something wasn't he? why would he be so high up and in the mountains? unless he passed out or died and the plane kept going in a slight climb
"Not to mention the questions that would come up when the wife says, "I wonder what happened to the $1000 he always kept in his pocket, just in case he needed some cash.""
Well....since they haven't found the pocket...I could think of an out ;)
Gotta be him tho, no other small plane pilot has $1000 left in his pocket after filling the tank for takeoff....
"How else do you want them to compare graphics cards?"
Actually since you asked.....
How do they compare to my CURRENT card :) That's the one i want to see.
All the $100 are similar, got it. How much better are they than the $150 card card i got 2 years ago? Any old reviews tend to use different test rigs and different benchmarks :(
Why so high to start with?
He doesn't have fuel to make it across fully on it's own power i suppose.
From 2500 meters one could glide across in a variety of craft it appears. This would seem about twice the glide ratio of a small plane, doesn't sound too hard with a powered wing. Especially as it seems the wing actually does fly ok, it must be a range issue.
Heck if you let me start high enough i could fly my car across. Ok i might need oxygen and better shocks but still....
Looks like fun nonetheless, at least until i have to land with 120 lbs on my back then i'd just be a squished little geek :(
Silly user...
Comcast users are supposed to have cable TV and use pay-per-view from them...
If they cripple your speed as a heavy user does it go back up after 15 minutes of being a crippled light user? Rinse and Repeat?
So a 6MB Comcast tier provides 12MB for 1 min, 6MB for 14 min, and then 1MB(or whatever it is) for 15 min ???
Too bad noone guarantees the boxes will even work when they are required. Most i looked at had a whooping 90-day warranty. At least Radio Shack said one extended warranty could be used for either box. The ones i got run quite warm, for once that extra warranty may not be a bad idea. They are really $40 plus the coupon if you want to insure you have a working one in Feb :(
Even more annoying to me is that the sound is the last to go on analog but the first to go with digital. Even if the analog station got fuzzy for a bit one could follow along. At least ABC seems to have put their digital transmitter next to everyone else's. Their Analog transmitter is 90 degrees from all the others, thus their analog usually sucks.
I lose CBS on digital if i stand up from couch or someone walks through the kitchen :( They must have cheaped out on digital here, they are also the station with no HD and no subchannels.
This was 500 of the 1800 complaints. What where all the others about?
Micro: Fits on the desk
Mini: Can be used as the desk
My Wang mini is a coffee table now :) The HD is keeping other computers from sitting on the floor.
So they need one for the Middlemen - A MULA
err...wait a sec....
"I have never pirated a game without DRM when I could still buy it legally (sorry Microprose games from '85)"
huh, without DRM?
Don't feel bad...That key disk from Microprose in 1985 probably wouldn't authenticate anyways......... :/
Very few of my retail games work on my 386 because of said disks, but the pirated and shareware games do with very few exceptions. Still need to find some cracked versions of Microprose and others :(
"At a meeting this week in Hawaii, the study group has been finalizing a proposal calling for creation of a new, as yet unnamed task group to carry forward the work of crafting a standard."
No tech yet, no people yet, no name yet but it's coming soon trust us......
But should that emotional attachment really be: Ewww