I completely agree. When I first saw HDTV it was at an Audio King and they were showing the Discovery Channel HD sampler on a 60" plasma TV (the best I've seen to date) and it looked ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING in full HD. However, the last time I went there (it's now an Ultimate Electronics, but they sell the same stuff) they were demoing it using a 480p football game (on EDNet) that was incredibly poorly upscaled to 1080i, making it look worse than the SDTVs they had on display. Until the cable and satalite companies realize that people want full resolution HDTV (720p/1080i/1080p) at decent datarates, with the ability to record whatever, whenever, then I think that HDTV will be a failure.
Spybot Search & Destroy (best and most up-to-date IMHO) AdAware (the original big one, not as up-to-date as Spybot S&D, but it still catches stuff Spybot doesn't)
HijackThis (for the really nasty stuff that the others don't get, though this can mess up your computer if it isn't used properly)
SpywareBlaster (it isn't as good as the others mentioned, but it still couldn't hurt)
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I've heard that Nero's Verification feature is unreliable, many times not reporting errors that it finds and passing a disc that is bad.
Any way I have registered and am going to do plain old C ( okay, okay C++)
Get ready for a world of hurt. Writing a parser is a very difficult task. Not to mention creating a world model (i.e. how to define objects/rooms and their interactions with each other). TADS and Inform have already done this for you. All you need to do is supply the world & plot (which you'll also need to add to your C++ based game).
Another thing, get rid of calculators in school, make kids learn how to do math rather than relying on a calculator.
No kidding (and no pun). I'm in 9th grade and a student in my study hall who's in pre-algebra (he failed it last year so he has to take it again) got an assignment that consisted entirely of adding and subtracing numbers with decimals. Instead of doing it out on paper (like he should've), he did it entirely on a calculator while the teacher was standing right in front of him! They didn't even care that he wasn't learning anything beyond how to use a calculator.
I rember playing this game on my grandpa's 486. I didn't pay much attention to the plot of the game, it was just fun. Just last year I looked it up and dang, the plot is weird and the soundtrack is some great techno music. Here's the plot transcirbed exactly (with all typos) from the introduction screen.
In the year 20947 a new type of terrorist emerged. These terrorist built there system of extortion on technology, creating technological weapons that can unleash vast amounts of destruction upon its victims. Recently they have come up with a new weapon that has threatend every government in the civilized world this weapon gave the terrorist the ability to travel back and forth through time! With this new technology they have begun to reconstruct the history of the world starting at 1943. At this time the began to smuggle technology to the axis powers in an effort to take over the world. The leaders of the world now faced with complete destruction of there world join forces to create there own time machine to battle against the techno terrorist already in the past and have chosen the worlds most sophisticated and advanced fighter group... THE FLYING TIGERS
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And a 64meg Radeon 9700? I didn't think they made the Radeon 9700 any more, and they never made a 64 meg version in the first place.
I completely agree. When I first saw HDTV it was at an Audio King and they were showing the Discovery Channel HD sampler on a 60" plasma TV (the best I've seen to date) and it looked ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING in full HD. However, the last time I went there (it's now an Ultimate Electronics, but they sell the same stuff) they were demoing it using a 480p football game (on EDNet) that was incredibly poorly upscaled to 1080i, making it look worse than the SDTVs they had on display. Until the cable and satalite companies realize that people want full resolution HDTV (720p/1080i/1080p) at decent datarates, with the ability to record whatever, whenever, then I think that HDTV will be a failure.
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In A.D. 2001
War was beginning.
Bush: What happen ?
Bush Aid: Somebody set up us the bomb.
They already did, it's called DOSBox.
Because WMV is made by Microsoft and Quicktime is made by Apple, and as we all know Apple is good and Microsoft is evil.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of those things... wait, never mind.
They were never consistant in the first place! I put the model number vs. MHz on a scatterplot a while ago and it wasn't linear, though it was close.
Computer Stupidities Their stupid tech support section probably fits this article best.
Spybot Search & Destroy (best and most up-to-date IMHO)
AdAware (the original big one, not as up-to-date as Spybot S&D, but it still catches stuff Spybot doesn't)
HijackThis (for the really nasty stuff that the others don't get, though this can mess up your computer if it isn't used properly)
SpywareBlaster (it isn't as good as the others mentioned, but it still couldn't hurt)
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I've heard that Nero's Verification feature is unreliable, many times not reporting errors that it finds and passing a disc that is bad.