As of June 2000, the fastest running human is Michael Johnson, the American track and field star who on August 1, 1996 set the world record of running 200 meters in 19.32 seconds. Johnson, by doing this, won an Olympic title in Atlanta, Georgia and broke the longest standing field record of the time; Pietro Mennea's 1979 record of 19.72 seconds. Johnson's record can be calculated to equal 10.35 m/s or 37.267 km/h [23.16 m/h].
Your average person can run maybe half that fast...
I have also had good experiences with HP support. I was given a DeskJet 500 some years ago and ran into some trouble with the feed mechanism. Not only did the support person not ask for a serial number and proof of purchase, yada-yada, she was knowledgable enough to help me fix a mechanical problem over the phone!
Awww... what's the matter? Couldn't get linux installed like all your l33t friends? Made you feel stupid didn't it? You thought you knew a lot about computers and it turns out you just know a lot about Microsoft products.
I don't know, they hyped the single-player campaign quite a bit...
People complain about the AI, but I've found it to be adequate. Your NPCs and character getting stuck because something is directly in the way even if they could simply walk around it is kind of lame, but I suspect it's a result of trying to code around the tendency of NPCs in BG2 to take the (very!) long way around, which was even more annoying.
The magic-user opponents are pussies compared to BG2. Gone are the loads of defensive spells that keep them untouchable while they slaughter your party... sigh. I think there was too much whining on the message boards by lamers who couldn't be bothered to figure out how to beat them, and Bioware unfortunately gave in.
Why don't trolls regenerate anymore?
It's not really D&D without climbing, flying, swimming, and riding. No flying dragons, no pit traps, no loyal steeds, no thieves scaling castle walls... I'm hoping there is a NWN2 with all these things in the works.
That being said, I'm having a blast with the single player campaign, even though it is slightly repetitive compared to BG2. I haven't even tried multiplayer yet and I've already gotten my money's worth.
Try it with a low-latency or pre-emptive-scheduling patched kernel. By default the kernel is tuned as a server, not a multimedia workstation. The kernel team seems to be working to correct this by adding compile time options and/or a new scheduler, but for now, on stable kernels, it requires patches.
I've personally found that the patches make an amazing improvement in UI responsiveness and media playback. I'm looking forward to 2.6.
I have no clue why RedHat does anything they do.;-)
Fonts are cached, so running without a font server is probably more efficient unless you are low on memory and hitting your swap partition a lot... but then again they are probably cached whether they come from a font server or not.
OK. You're entitled to your opinion... I don't have any crashes with XFree86. I run the same session for weeks at a time. top(1) misreads the memory usage due to shared memory, so if that's your gauge it doesn't hog as much as you think.
Perhaps your driver is not as stable as mine. If it's a standard driver that would indeed be a fault of XFree. An nvidia detonator driver is mostly nvidia's responsibility.
Also, I only run a stable version of fvwm2 with no Gnome or KDE. This might contribute to my stability and low memory usage. I would recommend trying different configurations.
You think? I was thinking, "a pencil and paper are far simpler, cheaper, and, in the hands of someone with skill, infinitely better for drawing pictures than an Etch-A-Sketch. Kinda like Unix vs. Windows..."
You're all wrong, it stands for SATAN! Berkeley Satan Distribution. Why do you think we have a little devil mascot?
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I've always written my documents in plain ascii first and then opened up a copy in a word processor for formatting, or marked up a copy with HTML or LaTeX, depending on my needs... but I've always kept those original plain text copies. This has saved my ass a few times, especially when I used to use Word 97 on Windows 98 and it would impose its 'write corrupted nonsense to disk in case of system oops' feature on me.
The only inconvenient part is merging revisions back to the original.
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Man, nobody can run 25 mph...
As of June 2000, the fastest running human is Michael Johnson, the American track and field star who on August 1, 1996 set the world record of running 200 meters in 19.32 seconds. Johnson, by doing this, won an Olympic title in Atlanta, Georgia and broke the longest standing field record of the time; Pietro Mennea's 1979 record of 19.72 seconds. Johnson's record can be calculated to equal 10.35 m/s or 37.267 km/h [23.16 m/h].
Your average person can run maybe half that fast...
Yes I've always prefered WWWD , myself.
Looks like the isotope's power the battery.
Bob would like a word with you, please.
G-force is created by acceleration, not speed. Otherwise the speed of Earth's orbit around the sun would crush us all.
Nonetheless, I'd rather be in Sydney in 2 hours with a bloody nose and bruised ribs than endure a 20 hour flight with a bunch of Englishmen...
I have also had good experiences with HP support. I was given a DeskJet 500 some years ago and ran into some trouble with the feed mechanism. Not only did the support person not ask for a serial number and proof of purchase, yada-yada, she was knowledgable enough to help me fix a mechanical problem over the phone!
Well done!
Awww... what's the matter? Couldn't get linux installed like all your l33t friends? Made you feel stupid didn't it? You thought you knew a lot about computers and it turns out you just know a lot about Microsoft products.
Step off, lightweight.
PDF isn't really a word processing format though... it's a display format.
Actually, it was sometime in the early 80's that the term "data processing" was beginning to be replaced by "information technology."
I like "data processing" better...
I don't know, they hyped the single-player campaign quite a bit...
People complain about the AI, but I've found it to be adequate. Your NPCs and character getting stuck because something is directly in the way even if they could simply walk around it is kind of lame, but I suspect it's a result of trying to code around the tendency of NPCs in BG2 to take the (very!) long way around, which was even more annoying.
The magic-user opponents are pussies compared to BG2. Gone are the loads of defensive spells that keep them untouchable while they slaughter your party... sigh. I think there was too much whining on the message boards by lamers who couldn't be bothered to figure out how to beat them, and Bioware unfortunately gave in.
Why don't trolls regenerate anymore?
It's not really D&D without climbing, flying, swimming, and riding. No flying dragons, no pit traps, no loyal steeds, no thieves scaling castle walls... I'm hoping there is a NWN2 with all these things in the works.
That being said, I'm having a blast with the single player campaign, even though it is slightly repetitive compared to BG2. I haven't even tried multiplayer yet and I've already gotten my money's worth.
I mostly agree with you, but I thought you should see this.
Try it with a low-latency or pre-emptive-scheduling patched kernel. By default the kernel is tuned as a server, not a multimedia workstation. The kernel team seems to be working to correct this by adding compile time options and/or a new scheduler, but for now, on stable kernels, it requires patches.
I've personally found that the patches make an amazing improvement in UI responsiveness and media playback. I'm looking forward to 2.6.
I have no clue why RedHat does anything they do. ;-)
Fonts are cached, so running without a font server is probably more efficient unless you are low on memory and hitting your swap partition a lot... but then again they are probably cached whether they come from a font server or not.
You don't need to run a font server for a local X session. It's only needed for serving fonts to remote X servers.
True enough. I concur.
OK. You're entitled to your opinion... I don't have any crashes with XFree86. I run the same session for weeks at a time. top(1) misreads the memory usage due to shared memory, so if that's your gauge it doesn't hog as much as you think.
Perhaps your driver is not as stable as mine. If it's a standard driver that would indeed be a fault of XFree. An nvidia detonator driver is mostly nvidia's responsibility.
Also, I only run a stable version of fvwm2 with no Gnome or KDE. This might contribute to my stability and low memory usage. I would recommend trying different configurations.
I beg to differ about X. It doesn't suck for me. But I will agree that it does mostly suck for the non-nerd; that's probably what you meant.
It's not a Linux bug, but rather an XFree86 and mozilla bug. It would probably crash any box running those two programs just as handily...
The air traffic controllers.
You really think the pilots are setting their own flight patterns? That would be scary...
True, but that same inefficiency has also been known to cause large amounts of flaming death to be dropped in the wrong place...
Oh, but some companies can afford to charge only 10-12% ? Mhm... right.
I already paid back more than what I owed just in interest, you fuckstick. How are they left "holding the bag"?
Bah. I filed Chapter 7 a couple years ago and wiped away all that debt. In a few more years my record will be clean.
One of life's greatest pleasures is living above your means and getting away with it...
Oh, but I feel so guilty for defaulting on those nice people commiting usury at 20%. NOT!
You think? I was thinking, "a pencil and paper are far simpler, cheaper, and, in the hands of someone with skill, infinitely better for drawing pictures than an Etch-A-Sketch. Kinda like Unix vs. Windows..."
You're all wrong, it stands for SATAN! Berkeley Satan Distribution. Why do you think we have a little devil mascot?
I've always written my documents in plain ascii first and then opened up a copy in a word processor for formatting, or marked up a copy with HTML or LaTeX, depending on my needs... but I've always kept those original plain text copies. This has saved my ass a few times, especially when I used to use Word 97 on Windows 98 and it would impose its 'write corrupted nonsense to disk in case of system oops' feature on me.
The only inconvenient part is merging revisions back to the original.