While your point on developer effort is valid (I don't know the validity of your RE4 anecdote, but if true, shame on them), the whole tone of the post came off sounding to me like the guy in this comic. http://xkcd.com/359/
Basically, how does other people having fun in their own way diminish you having fun in your own way?
If nothing else, the intertubes should have taught us by now, that on almost any large scale, people are going to find entertaining things that others never even imagined.
I think the original post was trying to link letting a subscription lapse with having your assets deleted.
This is usually not the case, as the other poster pointed out.
I would think that neither microtransaction or subscription games would delete your characters, honestly. It would depend on the particular terms of the game, I suppose.
On the matter of speed: If the top-speed of the F-15 of about 2.5 MACH. MACH 3 aint that much faster (relitively speaking) and you don't hear about special fuels and pilots waiting for the jet to cool off after a flight so they can get out. MACH 5 sounds about right...
For high velocities, (snip) Assuming a more-or-less constant drag coefficient, drag will vary as the square of velocity. Thus, the resultant power needed to overcome this drag will vary as the cube of velocity.
So, no, not *that* much faster, but depending on the materials involved it might be the difference between "works fine" and "failed due to heat stress".
I'm sure someone with a background in fluid dynamics could explain it better then me. Anyone out there?
The AT class machines, more specifically, power supplies (think the kind with the 'big red switch', which would still be awesome to have, but I digress) usually had a fairly hefty fan on them. That combined with case design probably provided for a decent amount of cooling on its own.
I thought that the space shuttle was low on the scale of acceleration compared with previous space vehicles.
Now, if someone can find me a motorcycle that can keep pace with an Atlas or Titan, fire me an email; That would be hilarious amounts of fun to play with:)
The 486 might be passive, but i've not seen a passive pentium before. Perhaps a later slot 1 type celeron or P2, maybe.
In fact, the original 5v pentium (think 60mhz) was one of the hottest running cpu's i've ever seen, before or since.
Thinking back on it, it probably seemed much hotter then it was on an absolute scale. The heatsyncs and fans used on those old things were tiny compared to ones on a modern cpu. But still, they ran quite hot in any case (the pentiums).
Another one of my pet peeves: I hate when people and groups (*cough* religious groups) try to enforce their ideals upon others.
Yet you find it quite acceptable to force your ideals on them...
Minds are like computers. They do not come with any OS initially.
Some of them have brilliant software installed on them, and do wonderful things.
Others, many, in fact, have mediocre software installed, and do mediocre things.
A few don't get anything put on them at all, but happily wrrrrr their way through life all the same.
However, when some "company" comes along and manages to get their own "software" installed on the "computers" without offering a choice, people forget, or never even learn, that there is a choice at all, and just go along with whatever it is that they have been handed.
Advocating for free choice is not the same as advocating for a single choice. The later is a subset of the former. Not the other way around.
Would you appreciate it if the President got up on National TV and called you a sex freak who liked to molest little boys? You mean the president would LIE?!
OR
"Takes one to know one! I'll see you at the meeting on friday!"
The town hall shooting (which is local to me) was also about free speech.
The shooter-subject in question wasn't a random guy who had a parking ticket and was pissed... this was a honest full out crazy. Batshit-Loco. This was the sorta character who was 100% unrational, and would often show up to make a scene at the meetings. People had wanted him ejected from the council meetings before, but the mayor made the decision that everyone had the right to speak in the public forum.. even if they were not going to be coherent in the slightest. It should be noted that the same mayor was severely wounded in the shooting.
So yes. Free speech. Double edged sword. Doesn't make it a bad thing though.
The site should stay up. It will stay up; streisand effect and all that;-)
What most puzzles me is why Google wants to enter a market difficult and expensive to service, and with so little prospect of a significant return. Kinda like a website that people can go to to look for other things without knowing the exact url?
If only such a site existed. Alas, it's too hard and pricey. Oh well, at least we never tried it. It might just work.
The scene whereby they were going over schematics and diagrams of the time machine, so that the damaged circuitry might be replaced. More trivia, the line referring to the fact that suitable parts would not be invented until 1947, is a lovely geek nod to the transistor. Is there anything those little gems can't do?
The GPP was referring to the fact that the firmware that apple supplies for the ipod doesn't support audio codecs besides mp3/mp4/acc as far as I know.
I believe that the ipod-linux folks have some solutions for this? I haven't been keeping up with that project... anyone know more details?
All the light means is that the floppy cable was installed backwards; The fix is to reinstall it with the cable on correctly.
This is common, because on floppy drives, unlike ATA drives, pin 1 is on the opposing side from the power connector, IE, opposite of the other drives in the computer.
Mine has two seagates and a WD right now, and although they don't have fans, they all have at least an inch of clearence above them for the heat to escape to, and openings around them for the heat to get out of the case.
Actually, the machine (its a 1.4ghz P4 on an intel 850GB board) only hase the power supply fan and a cpu fan, and it runs fine... very very rock solid. The odd part is the video card, a 5600FX, on which the fan died, so I found out accidentally that they will run fine with just a heatsink as long as there is not a card in the next slot.
Never used OS2 much, makes sense though that it would be light on ram.
heh, bad luck with the hard drive... Was that an IDE or a SCSI? "Back in the day", I can recall more NT4 machines with scsi drives in them then ide. The difference in quality of the two types has closed a lot since then, but scsi's were/are usually built like tanks.
Hrm, now that I think of it, computer design then didn't take drive heat into account very much... They still don't that much, come to think of it. I've seen some drives that are to hot to even touch when they're running.
I bet that since my linux box has its / drive mounted in a 5 1/4 inch bay (with rails) in an open case has helped it outlive its normal life. (Everyone can agree that gentoo can thrash a drive;) )
I agree totally with you about XP. It's a decent environment, but it takes ram like mad. I do have a little nitpick about tiger, though.
It's interesting with OS X, besides the fact that each release seems to get faster on the same hardware (more optimization done, although things that can't be helped like slow IO on ibooks don't improve), OS X acts predictibly depending on how much ram is in it.
Examples*: Redhad 6 + 32 megs ram = no problem. Modern Linux, *256* ram, slower then a dying pig in quicksand. Windows NT 4, 64-128 ram, worked fine, 2k was a bit larger, liked 512, and XP with less then a gig is a bit self punishing, and SP2 just makes it worse.
OS X 10.4, 128 ram, acts like an older generation OS might: Slower then the state of the art, but still decent. With more ram it flies, of course, but my point is that the preformance/ram ratio seems to degrade much more gracefully then most OSes.
Now, linux is the next best, but it takes things like icewm, or a *box WM to preform well on older/limited hardware; XP is really bad about this, even with all the eye candy off, it doesn't help much, since the underlaying system, and the miriad of things that run on top of it are the main items which slow things down.
That tiger can run its regular UI (albeit without the new core image eyecandy) and be usable on a older machine machine is just good design, I think.
Spy
* I know linux itself flies, and gnome/kde/$BLOAT are the slowdowns, but i'm trying to compare XP, Linux, and Tiger, and that means Desktop, apps, eyecandy, all that jazz.
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Where does ECT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy ) fit into all of this? Or it's newer friend, TMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation )?
While your point on developer effort is valid (I don't know the validity of your RE4 anecdote, but if true, shame on them), the whole tone of the post came off sounding to me like the guy in this comic. http://xkcd.com/359/
Basically, how does other people having fun in their own way diminish you having fun in your own way?
If nothing else, the intertubes should have taught us by now, that on almost any large scale, people are going to find entertaining things that others never even imagined.
I think the original post was trying to link letting a subscription lapse with having your assets deleted.
This is usually not the case, as the other poster pointed out.
I would think that neither microtransaction or subscription games would delete your characters, honestly. It would depend on the particular terms of the game, I suppose.
On the matter of speed:
If the top-speed of the F-15 of about 2.5 MACH. MACH 3 aint that much faster (relitively speaking) and you don't hear about special fuels and pilots waiting for the jet to cool off after a flight so they can get out. MACH 5 sounds about right...
From Wikipedia:
For high velocities, (snip) Assuming a more-or-less constant drag coefficient, drag will vary as the square of velocity. Thus, the resultant power needed to overcome this drag will vary as the cube of velocity.
So, no, not *that* much faster, but depending on the materials involved it might be the difference between "works fine" and "failed due to heat stress".
I'm sure someone with a background in fluid dynamics could explain it better then me. Anyone out there?
Oh case fans. Yes, certainly.
The AT class machines, more specifically, power supplies (think the kind with the 'big red switch', which would still be awesome to have, but I digress) usually had a fairly hefty fan on them.
That combined with case design probably provided for a decent amount of cooling on its own.
I thought that the space shuttle was low on the scale of acceleration compared with previous space vehicles.
Now, if someone can find me a motorcycle that can keep pace with an Atlas or Titan, fire me an email; That would be hilarious amounts of fun to play with :)
The 486 might be passive, but i've not seen a passive pentium before. Perhaps a later slot 1 type celeron or P2, maybe.
In fact, the original 5v pentium (think 60mhz) was one of the hottest running cpu's i've ever seen, before or since.
Thinking back on it, it probably seemed much hotter then it was on an absolute scale. The heatsyncs and fans used on those old things were tiny compared to ones on a modern cpu. But still, they ran quite hot in any case (the pentiums).
Except... Floppy drives. Which IIRC, had pin 1 on the opposite from the power.
All the rest though is sadly true. Bent pins, pin keys, etc. Most shops had a box or drawer stuffed full of ribbon cables of every shape and size.
Ctrl-F2.
If you hit Ctrl-F1, and wonder why it won't work anymore, Ctrl-F1 is a toggle to enable/disable the Ctrl-F2 functionality.
RDF techniques? I thought Google was making this, not Apple.
Yet you find it quite acceptable to force your ideals on them...
Minds are like computers. They do not come with any OS initially.
Some of them have brilliant software installed on them, and do wonderful things.
Others, many, in fact, have mediocre software installed, and do mediocre things.
A few don't get anything put on them at all, but happily wrrrrr their way through life all the same.
However, when some "company" comes along and manages to get their own "software" installed on the "computers" without offering a choice, people forget, or never even learn, that there is a choice at all, and just go along with whatever it is that they have been handed.
Advocating for free choice is not the same as advocating for a single choice. The later is a subset of the former. Not the other way around.
/me crashes a helium blimp into the flamebait :p
My spam is praying on my low self-esteem. Here's a couple I received in the past week:
*sigh*
Strong Bad must be ramping up his spammertisments again.
I, for one, would like to welcome our Newspeak overlords.
Is there such a thing as non-pointless car crashes?
NASCAR. Why else would you watch it?
OR
"Takes one to know one! I'll see you at the meeting on friday!"
The town hall shooting (which is local to me) was also about free speech.
;-)
The shooter-subject in question wasn't a random guy who had a parking ticket and was pissed... this was a honest full out crazy. Batshit-Loco. This was the sorta character who was 100% unrational, and would often show up to make a scene at the meetings.
People had wanted him ejected from the council meetings before, but the mayor made the decision that everyone had the right to speak in the public forum.. even if they were not going to be coherent in the slightest. It should be noted that the same mayor was severely wounded in the shooting.
So yes. Free speech. Double edged sword. Doesn't make it a bad thing though.
The site should stay up. It will stay up; streisand effect and all that
If only such a site existed. Alas, it's too hard and pricey. Oh well, at least we never tried it. It might just work.
Third movie.
Back to the Future, yes, but BttF III.
The scene whereby they were going over schematics and diagrams of the time machine, so that the damaged circuitry might be replaced. More trivia, the line referring to the fact that suitable parts would not be invented until 1947, is a lovely geek nod to the transistor. Is there anything those little gems can't do?
So would the sharks be a million times more powerful, or could we just use one million *tiny* fricking lasers?
The GPP was referring to the fact that the firmware that apple supplies for the ipod doesn't support audio codecs besides mp3/mp4/acc as far as I know.
I believe that the ipod-linux folks have some solutions for this? I haven't been keeping up with that project... anyone know more details?
Spy
All the light means is that the floppy cable was installed backwards; The fix is to reinstall it with the cable on correctly.
This is common, because on floppy drives, unlike ATA drives, pin 1 is on the opposing side from the power connector, IE, opposite of the other drives in the computer.
Thanks for the tips!
Mine has two seagates and a WD right now, and although they don't have fans, they all have at least an inch of clearence above them for the heat to escape to, and openings around them for the heat to get out of the case.
Actually, the machine (its a 1.4ghz P4 on an intel 850GB board) only hase the power supply fan and a cpu fan, and it runs fine... very very rock solid. The odd part is the video card, a 5600FX, on which the fan died, so I found out accidentally that they will run fine with just a heatsink as long as there is not a card in the next slot.
Spy
Never used OS2 much, makes sense though that it would be light on ram.
;) )
heh, bad luck with the hard drive... Was that an IDE or a SCSI? "Back in the day", I can recall more NT4 machines with scsi drives in them then ide. The difference in quality of the two types has closed a lot since then, but scsi's were/are usually built like tanks.
Hrm, now that I think of it, computer design then didn't take drive heat into account very much... They still don't that much, come to think of it. I've seen some drives that are to hot to even touch when they're running.
I bet that since my linux box has its / drive mounted in a 5 1/4 inch bay (with rails) in an open case has helped it outlive its normal life. (Everyone can agree that gentoo can thrash a drive
Spy
I agree totally with you about XP. It's a decent environment, but it takes ram like mad. I do have a little nitpick about tiger, though.
It's interesting with OS X, besides the fact that each release seems to get faster on the same hardware (more optimization done, although things that can't be helped like slow IO on ibooks don't improve), OS X acts predictibly depending on how much ram is in it.
Examples*: Redhad 6 + 32 megs ram = no problem. Modern Linux, *256* ram, slower then a dying pig in quicksand. Windows NT 4, 64-128 ram, worked fine, 2k was a bit larger, liked 512, and XP with less then a gig is a bit self punishing, and SP2 just makes it worse.
OS X 10.4, 128 ram, acts like an older generation OS might: Slower then the state of the art, but still decent. With more ram it flies, of course, but my point is that the preformance/ram ratio seems to degrade much more gracefully then most OSes.
Now, linux is the next best, but it takes things like icewm, or a *box WM to preform well on older/limited hardware; XP is really bad about this, even with all the eye candy off, it doesn't help much, since the underlaying system, and the miriad of things that run on top of it are the main items which slow things down.
That tiger can run its regular UI (albeit without the new core image eyecandy) and be usable on a older machine machine is just good design, I think.
Spy
* I know linux itself flies, and gnome/kde/$BLOAT are the slowdowns, but i'm trying to compare XP, Linux, and Tiger, and that means Desktop, apps, eyecandy, all that jazz.