Unfotunately, the odds are pretty strong it's all complete nonsense. I understand how attractive the idea of long-hidden secrets can be, but the book Giza: The Truth makes a very good case that the pyramids, the Sphinx, and all the associated Egyptian stuff are exactly what they appear to be and what conventional archaeology claim they are, funerary monuments made c. 3000 B.C, and that everything else is just publicity-seeking conspiracy theories. (N.B.: Even the authors of this book aren't completely out of the lunatic fringe, as they go to some lengths to promote "sonic levitation" as a possible construction technique. They do at least admit that "conventional" architectural techniques (ramps, rollers, cranes, etc.) were most likely sufficient, however.)
Hancock's latest, Underworld advances what seems like a somewhat more plausible idea: that the roots of civilization (the precursors to the Sumerians, etc.) now lie under coastal waters, as they were settled before the ice age ended and raised the sea levels. He at least seems to have abandoned the idea of a single global civilization leaving "clues" scattered around the globe, which was always the hardest part of his books to swallow.
If lossy compression is all you're worried about, any iPod but the Shuffle is perfectly capable of playing AIFF, ALC, and any kind of WAV, including uncompressed. Assuming SACDs and DVD-As are rippable, you might even be able to reproduce those at full quality--I'm not sure what the sample rate limits on supported lossless formats are.
Yeah, you can do that overlap in Marathon too--it's a consequence of the "portal" engine architecture, and is completely impossible in BSP engines like Quake. (We call it "5D" in Marathon, because of a net map in the original game which used it deliberately as an effect.) Marathon's engine is somewhat more limited than Build, though--you can't have slanted surfaces at all, and things approaching 3D effects like stacking open spaces over each other are only possible through horrible hacks.
Marathon, Bungie's Mac FPS from the same era, used an editor almost exactly like that. It's due to the design of the engine, which it shares with Build--it's called "2.5D". Marathon has now been open sourced and modernized as Aleph One, available on sourceforge, and an editor for Windows exists (Obed).
Yes, but only when the Intel-based equivalent of the current G5 desktops finally comes out. iMacs and MacBooks are non-upgradeable except in the trivial RAM-and-hard-drive sense.
Feel free to join the sourceforge mailing list and report the problem; more help is always appreciated. Be aware that there aren't many other people working on Irix though, so you may have to fix it yourself.:-)
According to TFA, the entire story is completely wrong. No CDs were confiscated, no prosecution was intended--hell, it wasn't even about a single business! The authorities had found several businesses selling Firefox, and contacted the Foundation before doing anything about it.
Come on guys, doesn't anyone remember Leela, Durandal, and that crazy bastard Tycho? And all is not lost if you don't happen to have an old Performa sitting around--come join us at source.bungie.org and work on Aleph One, the open source version, now available for Linux, Windows, and just about anything else you can think of! (Some nut even has it working on Irix!)
You don't really have the right to self-defense, you know. You may think you do, but if you're not extremely careful to hit the burglar no harder than he hit you, you're liable to end up in jail yourself. (God help you if you kill him.) I've heard the "crime" described as "disproportionate response" (don't know if that's an official term or not).
As for "never" having been allowed to "own handguns at home for personal protection", you have a rather limited perspective for someone in a country a thousand years old--I suggest you go read some Sherlock Holmes stories.:-)
What the hell is wrong with England?!? You people invented modern democratic society and civil rights, and you've been happily flushing it down the drain, piece by piece, ever since the end of WWII. (Would you really be any worse off at this point if the Nazis had won?) Gun control, CCTV, now ID cards--every time I look at America's problems, I can always cheer myself up by remembering that whatever we're doing wrong, you're guaranteed to do something worse.
And what kind of politics have you got going now where the Conservatives are for civil liberties and Labour are the fascists? That's just bizarre.
Regarding that "curiously", long-standing precedent regarding phone surveillance makes a distinction between surveillance which reveals "public" information, analogous to the outside of an envelope (the parties in communication and the times of their contacts) and that which reveals "private" information (i.e. the actual content of their communications). IANAL, but I'm fairly sure the police are allowed to get the phone company's records of the recipients and times of your phone calls. ("LUD"s, for all you Law and Order junkies). This is a logical extension of the same policy.
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And yet you shill for Social Security in your sig?
In that case, please explain your sig.
And would be so true to PKD....
GS: And you work across all tools?
SC: Pretty much. And everything we use is legally licensed, even in China.
Three words too long.
New NIO--is that like a PIN number for an ATM machine?
Unfotunately, the odds are pretty strong it's all complete nonsense. I understand how attractive the idea of long-hidden secrets can be, but the book Giza: The Truth makes a very good case that the pyramids, the Sphinx, and all the associated Egyptian stuff are exactly what they appear to be and what conventional archaeology claim they are, funerary monuments made c. 3000 B.C, and that everything else is just publicity-seeking conspiracy theories. (N.B.: Even the authors of this book aren't completely out of the lunatic fringe, as they go to some lengths to promote "sonic levitation" as a possible construction technique. They do at least admit that "conventional" architectural techniques (ramps, rollers, cranes, etc.) were most likely sufficient, however.)
Hancock's latest, Underworld advances what seems like a somewhat more plausible idea: that the roots of civilization (the precursors to the Sumerians, etc.) now lie under coastal waters, as they were settled before the ice age ended and raised the sea levels. He at least seems to have abandoned the idea of a single global civilization leaving "clues" scattered around the globe, which was always the hardest part of his books to swallow.
Why not replace the AppleTalk portion with ZeroConf/Rendezvous/Bonjour? That seems to be what AppleTalk grew up to be anyway.
For a second when I saw your post's subject, I thought we'd gotten onto Israeli politics somehow....
If lossy compression is all you're worried about, any iPod but the Shuffle is perfectly capable of playing AIFF, ALC, and any kind of WAV, including uncompressed. Assuming SACDs and DVD-As are rippable, you might even be able to reproduce those at full quality--I'm not sure what the sample rate limits on supported lossless formats are.
I prefer the engineers' version: E=mc^2 +/- 3dB
Yeah, you can do that overlap in Marathon too--it's a consequence of the "portal" engine architecture, and is completely impossible in BSP engines like Quake. (We call it "5D" in Marathon, because of a net map in the original game which used it deliberately as an effect.) Marathon's engine is somewhat more limited than Build, though--you can't have slanted surfaces at all, and things approaching 3D effects like stacking open spaces over each other are only possible through horrible hacks.
Marathon, Bungie's Mac FPS from the same era, used an editor almost exactly like that. It's due to the design of the engine, which it shares with Build--it's called "2.5D". Marathon has now been open sourced and modernized as Aleph One, available on sourceforge, and an editor for Windows exists (Obed).
Yes, but only when the Intel-based equivalent of the current G5 desktops finally comes out. iMacs and MacBooks are non-upgradeable except in the trivial RAM-and-hard-drive sense.
> Hey, not dissing MACs or anything
What do Ethernet cards have to do with this?
Feel free to join the sourceforge mailing list and report the problem; more help is always appreciated. Be aware that there aren't many other people working on Irix though, so you may have to fix it yourself. :-)
According to TFA, the entire story is completely wrong. No CDs were confiscated, no prosecution was intended--hell, it wasn't even about a single business! The authorities had found several businesses selling Firefox, and contacted the Foundation before doing anything about it.
Come on guys, doesn't anyone remember Leela, Durandal, and that crazy bastard Tycho? And all is not lost if you don't happen to have an old Performa sitting around--come join us at source.bungie.org and work on Aleph One, the open source version, now available for Linux, Windows, and just about anything else you can think of! (Some nut even has it working on Irix!)
You don't really have the right to self-defense, you know. You may think you do, but if you're not extremely careful to hit the burglar no harder than he hit you, you're liable to end up in jail yourself. (God help you if you kill him.) I've heard the "crime" described as "disproportionate response" (don't know if that's an official term or not).
As for "never" having been allowed to "own handguns at home for personal protection", you have a rather limited perspective for someone in a country a thousand years old--I suggest you go read some Sherlock Holmes stories. :-)
The hell with Mario, I want her!
What the hell is wrong with England?!? You people invented modern democratic society and civil rights, and you've been happily flushing it down the drain, piece by piece, ever since the end of WWII. (Would you really be any worse off at this point if the Nazis had won?) Gun control, CCTV, now ID cards--every time I look at America's problems, I can always cheer myself up by remembering that whatever we're doing wrong, you're guaranteed to do something worse.
And what kind of politics have you got going now where the Conservatives are for civil liberties and Labour are the fascists? That's just bizarre.
Regarding that "curiously", long-standing precedent regarding phone surveillance makes a distinction between surveillance which reveals "public" information, analogous to the outside of an envelope (the parties in communication and the times of their contacts) and that which reveals "private" information (i.e. the actual content of their communications). IANAL, but I'm fairly sure the police are allowed to get the phone company's records of the recipients and times of your phone calls. ("LUD"s, for all you Law and Order junkies). This is a logical extension of the same policy.
Just hit the Google Cache link instead. :)
So much for LightTable destroying Aperture!
This story has been up two and a half days, and I'm the first one to mention Fort? You all suck!