From what I see, the lack of attention to detail in the Windows GUI lives on. The 16-color icons in the Internet Explorer download window are still very much alive as well as the crusty ones for Administrative Tools, the Windows 95 control panel icon on the start menu is still there, pixelated folder icons in the Explorer status car, Command Prompt still doesn't get themed, etc.
Sure, Longhorn is in beta, but the blaringly obvious mistakes in design that I noticed never get changed. Why else did the player sex change bug in Quake II live on past several patches?
Great, it's gone from a fairly logically named directory called "system" to being called "system32" to finally being named "SysWOW64". I'm waiting for "Kumquat128" so programs can risk jacking up four different directories now.
Not standard. It came as some sort of games pack - probably as part of an OEM package or with a mouse. I wish I had that game to screw around with as a kid. It was running on the demo machines at Price Club, but wasn't available as part of Windows even if it was free to get.
Not if it's a moving target (i.e. making your own and changing things that are causing it to be blocked). Most filters will block based on substrings in URLs such as "nph-proxy" or "porn", etc. Any true URL arguments appended to the CGI script running can be obfuscated. I believe CGIProxy does ROT-13 and hex conversion to make sure it's unreadable without any sort of work. As for IP addresses and DNS, those can be changed quite easily if you have a dynamic IP address for your home ISP and an account with one of the many free dynamic DNS services.
Maybe you're thinking of radial engines, not rotaries. Those actually were desirable in aircraft that needed to be durable because the engines were low maintenance and could sustain a beating because most are air-cooled (no water cooling system to break)
Also, never mind about rotary engines in this flying car, I was basing the whole rotary thing on somebody else's comment. Looking at the diagrams, it looks like a 2-cylinder inline engine.
It could very well be more efficient for long distances if there could be a way to have it extend wings so all engine power can be directed to the rear in level flight.
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Just a question: is there actually a time when using an apostrophe is acceptable for pluralization?
I need a little room to breathe.
You bring me one step closer to the edge.
I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!
You did remove the grammatical errors and angry tones of voice before you went ahead and sent it in, didn't you?
Mod this series of reponses cyclical! (but not redundant)
As for this whole science thing: is the earth flat?
No, just Kansas.
I assume that one scene with the Porche rental in Pirates of Silicon Valley was referring to that, right?
It beats rebuilding the engine every time you change drivers.
From what I see, the lack of attention to detail in the Windows GUI lives on. The 16-color icons in the Internet Explorer download window are still very much alive as well as the crusty ones for Administrative Tools, the Windows 95 control panel icon on the start menu is still there, pixelated folder icons in the Explorer status car, Command Prompt still doesn't get themed, etc.
Sure, Longhorn is in beta, but the blaringly obvious mistakes in design that I noticed never get changed. Why else did the player sex change bug in Quake II live on past several patches?
Well, technically Windows x64 Edition will be out a few days before OS X "Tiger" - which is the first version of OS X to have any real 64-bit support.
Or not.
No shit?
Great, it's gone from a fairly logically named directory called "system" to being called "system32" to finally being named "SysWOW64". I'm waiting for "Kumquat128" so programs can risk jacking up four different directories now.
Not standard. It came as some sort of games pack - probably as part of an OEM package or with a mouse. I wish I had that game to screw around with as a kid. It was running on the demo machines at Price Club, but wasn't available as part of Windows even if it was free to get.
Sorry, I think the sarcasm train left the station ten minutes ago.
Yeah, it does everything except install properly and play its own formats. Other than those faults, it's perfect!
(Try playing some older versions of Real-formatted media and you'll see what I mean)
Not if it's a moving target (i.e. making your own and changing things that are causing it to be blocked). Most filters will block based on substrings in URLs such as "nph-proxy" or "porn", etc. Any true URL arguments appended to the CGI script running can be obfuscated. I believe CGIProxy does ROT-13 and hex conversion to make sure it's unreadable without any sort of work. As for IP addresses and DNS, those can be changed quite easily if you have a dynamic IP address for your home ISP and an account with one of the many free dynamic DNS services.
Maybe you're thinking of radial engines, not rotaries. Those actually were desirable in aircraft that needed to be durable because the engines were low maintenance and could sustain a beating because most are air-cooled (no water cooling system to break)
Also, never mind about rotary engines in this flying car, I was basing the whole rotary thing on somebody else's comment. Looking at the diagrams, it looks like a 2-cylinder inline engine.
metaphor
I can't wait for the accident reports caused by rotary engine failure. There's a reason most general aviation uses piston engines.
(Assuming things are even half as bad as they were back when my brother owned an RX-7)
It could very well be more efficient for long distances if there could be a way to have it extend wings so all engine power can be directed to the rear in level flight.
I guess truckers need to learn how to use web proxies now?
And compared to MCI and DirectX - much earlier I bet.
I think I'll drop the funeral bill for the parent's joke in your mailbox. Pay up.
He only used a metronome as a reference to prove that the video is not being sped up when he starts playing really fast.
He may not be a legendary piano player, but for a bunch of basement gnomes, you guys sure are crapping on him.
All of Slashdot summed up in one post: "I wanna run OS X, but I want it on x86!"
Thank you.
WTF is cosine naming?