As it would happen, a NASA study showed that we could build your "maglift", more specifically known as a space elevator, for under 10 billion dollars. It would allow lifting objects to orbit for as low as 10 dollars a pound, compared to 10,000 for the space shuttle.
Only if you play games that aren't multithreaded *rolls eyes*.
I play EVE Online, which is certainly multithreaded, and runs fast as hell on A64s. I would be very surprised if dual core didn't nearly double my FPS.
Sorry, but I'll have to be a devil's advocate here.
Personally, I believe its ethically right and in fact a duty to download and spread music on P2P. When you buy a CD, cents worth goes to the artist. A 4-man group that sells 250,000 CDs ends up with $16,000, while the RIAA pockets 3 million. Its better to deprive the musicians of a few cents, deprive the RIAA of 20 bucks, and help increase the popularity of the music (directly giving the musicians more money through concerts and such), than to buy the CD and perpetuate the problem. Every CD you buy is money the RIAA uses to abuse more musicians.
This is why I use a Lyra HD. Its a gigantic, ugly MP3 player. Its incredibly cheap: when I bought it two years ago it was just 180 dollars for a 20 gigabyte player (when iPods were 400!). Now you can get them for hardly 100 bucks. They're big, ugly, and heavy, but damnit they can take a beating. At one point a small piece of plastic got stuck in the display and wouldn't move--I solved it by banging the thing about 100 times against a hard wooden table. Kept playing the whole time too without skipping. If it was an iPod, it would be in pieces. But these things, however cumbersome they are, are built like tanks. I can drop it all I want and not have to imagine a dead-iPod-horror-story.
The Even More Incredible Machine actually came BEFORE the one I'm talking about--that was the third in the series, I played the 4th. The problem with the Even More (...) was that it was processor speed based--i.e. a faster processor ran it faster. So my 3Ghz P4 system runs an entire puzzle faster than I can blink... so I can't see what went wrong.
I still have the CD for the Incredible Machine. That is, by far, one of the greatest games ever. The one you linked to isn't the best one--I believe I would say the 4th one is the best. Some of the last few puzzles are phenomenally hard.
"I wrote a super, new compression algorithm -- I call it pigzip! Look how much space I'm saving by pigzipping all our application data!"
"I can't believe it! This pigzip took 3 gigabytes of data, and compressed it down to only... 3 bytes... wait... I'm guessing there's no decompression algorithm yet?"
Nah, EVE Online had it. Those who were around during the age of Elite call it Elite Online--its everything Elite and Privateer tried to be, online, with over 50,000 players on one server (12,800 on at once is the record) in a ruthless, space-based Machiavellian world of politics, crime, scandals, and alliances...
Except for a white login screen, meaning you have to click around to find the password box and the login button. I'm surprised that something that isn't so ridiculously high profile (Doom 3, etc) works on WineX...
Ahem, that would be because by default XP reboots automatically instead of showing a bluescreen. Uncheck that option, and you'll get your BSODs all over again...;)
If they're so smart, why do they still use AMD, use such horrible motherboards in their systems that my old 667mhz Micron outperforms my 866mhz Dell by 50% in 3Dmark03 (when the same graphics card is used in both), and still insist on the stupid "Dude you're getting a Dell" line?
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As it would happen, a NASA study showed that we could build your "maglift", more specifically known as a space elevator, for under 10 billion dollars. It would allow lifting objects to orbit for as low as 10 dollars a pound, compared to 10,000 for the space shuttle.
Only if you play games that aren't multithreaded *rolls eyes*.
I play EVE Online, which is certainly multithreaded, and runs fast as hell on A64s. I would be very surprised if dual core didn't nearly double my FPS.
Sorry, but I'll have to be a devil's advocate here.
Personally, I believe its ethically right and in fact a duty to download and spread music on P2P. When you buy a CD, cents worth goes to the artist. A 4-man group that sells 250,000 CDs ends up with $16,000, while the RIAA pockets 3 million. Its better to deprive the musicians of a few cents, deprive the RIAA of 20 bucks, and help increase the popularity of the music (directly giving the musicians more money through concerts and such), than to buy the CD and perpetuate the problem. Every CD you buy is money the RIAA uses to abuse more musicians.
Only old people use Lin--
Nevermind.
This is why I use a Lyra HD. Its a gigantic, ugly MP3 player. Its incredibly cheap: when I bought it two years ago it was just 180 dollars for a 20 gigabyte player (when iPods were 400!). Now you can get them for hardly 100 bucks. They're big, ugly, and heavy, but damnit they can take a beating. At one point a small piece of plastic got stuck in the display and wouldn't move--I solved it by banging the thing about 100 times against a hard wooden table. Kept playing the whole time too without skipping. If it was an iPod, it would be in pieces. But these things, however cumbersome they are, are built like tanks. I can drop it all I want and not have to imagine a dead-iPod-horror-story.
And I could list about 5 million games that don't work on mac... so what?
I, for one, welcome our new Linux-based bluetooth-controlled robot overlords!
Mine looks fine also... the comments DONT overlap the navbar...
Apparently slashdot has been hit! A mischevious hacker has added a second "your" to the article:
"The exploit: Redirect via 302 to another page of your choice, then watch as the URL of your your redirect script..."
In Soviet Russia, pictures colorize YOU!
As it would happen, Lokitorrent's closing by the MPAA was a hoax.
The Even More Incredible Machine actually came BEFORE the one I'm talking about--that was the third in the series, I played the 4th. The problem with the Even More (...) was that it was processor speed based--i.e. a faster processor ran it faster. So my 3Ghz P4 system runs an entire puzzle faster than I can blink... so I can't see what went wrong.
I still have the CD for the Incredible Machine. That is, by far, one of the greatest games ever. The one you linked to isn't the best one--I believe I would say the 4th one is the best. Some of the last few puzzles are phenomenally hard.
I have Xvid and Divx and it works just perfectly here...
/me reads an install guide for Linux...
/me goes back to Windows. Oh hey, not dimmed anymore!
WTF its dimmed?
Ugh. Their music sounds enough without too much volume.
I see you play EVE Online ;) So true, so true...
Combat--CCP Nerf Bat hits for 128485929385 points of damage.
Hmmm... Rollermouse... Horse... Rollermouse...
This reminds me of this Hackles Strip:
"I wrote a super, new compression algorithm -- I call it pigzip! Look how much space I'm saving by pigzipping all our application data!"
"I can't believe it! This pigzip took 3 gigabytes of data, and compressed it down to only... 3 bytes... wait... I'm guessing there's no decompression algorithm yet?"
"Its harder than it looks."
Nah, EVE Online had it. Those who were around during the age of Elite call it Elite Online--its everything Elite and Privateer tried to be, online, with over 50,000 players on one server (12,800 on at once is the record) in a ruthless, space-based Machiavellian world of politics, crime, scandals, and alliances...
Except for a white login screen, meaning you have to click around to find the password box and the login button. I'm surprised that something that isn't so ridiculously high profile (Doom 3, etc) works on WineX...
Ahem, that would be because by default XP reboots automatically instead of showing a bluescreen. Uncheck that option, and you'll get your BSODs all over again... ;)
Well, I play EVE-Online, and thats written in Stackless Python, is multithreaded, and gets a near 100% boost from dualproc... ;)
Ahhh crap, stupid me, I meant "Still use Intel" :)
If they're so smart, why do they still use AMD, use such horrible motherboards in their systems that my old 667mhz Micron outperforms my 866mhz Dell by 50% in 3Dmark03 (when the same graphics card is used in both), and still insist on the stupid "Dude you're getting a Dell" line?