I guess if there are a number of solutions to a game's obstacles, I like it. I enjoy the process of attempting a strategy, refining it, possibly failing and having to find a new strategy. If I can beat a game without exhausting my strategies for dealing with challenging situations, then that game fulfills my needs, I suppose. I see it as completely independent of the amount of time it takes myself or another player to play through the game.
You gave them the information on scam artists selling full-price copies of their software (and thus taking away their sales profits), and yet they somehow owe you nothing? As you said, probably many people were scammed by these people. You have to have returned to Quicken a reasonable amount of business.
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I believe the goal is to remove the string, ring, and ball from the apparatus. I solved this a couple of years ago, seems like.
I am of the belief that God has gifted us with the intellect and necessary tools to create new things, as well as new ways of doing things. In my opinion, that is what is meant in Genesis where it says that we will become like God. If this, or a similar technique, is able to produce healthy offspring with a similar rate of success to the more natural method, I think it could well be argued that we were meant to come by this knowledge and to use it. Is it unnatural? Maybe. So is herding and controlled breeding of other species. So is agriculture in general. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I believe that God wishes us to better ourselves in the ways that we see fit.
My dad's a victim. He purchased wireless cards for the machines in his home, as well as a MIMO pre-n router/WAP. Several of the wireless cards didn't function in desktop machines, and his internet connection isn't nearly quick enough to worry about upgrading from our old 802.11b network. In short, he spent a couple hundred dollars, and the only machine getting a faster connection to the router is his laptop. For a net connection that I regularly saturate over 802.11b connections when I'm at home. Yay.
Those numbers don't work like version numbers. They are the IEEE standards numbers. If I remember correctly, the 802 sections are networking protocols, while the.ll means you're talking about wireless networking.
Arghhh! Then we'll have people asking if blue and purple work together...or should they go with the green part? I hope I don't ever end up memorizing this speculated color fiasco =/ Frankly, I'm pretty happy with acronym soup.
The current state in some schools is worse than a lack of encouragement. Using the computers for anything that the instructors don't understand constitutes "hacking", much of the time. I've gotten in trouble for writing programs on computers (in basic, non-viral, etc). It gets worse. One of my friends tells a story about changing to a non-default printer (the default was set improperly) and getting sent to the vice-principal's office.
For the most part, I was lucky, though. It is the one way I can think of that having out of date equipment was a boon. Most of my schools had machines running windows 3.1, and therefore a full copy of dos including the qbasic.exe binary. That always excited me, being able to add functionality to a machine with something I created. Then again, I'm most of the way through a computer science bachelor's degree now...
Wow...I'm guessing that you're not serious on what you've said. If you are, you're bat-shiat crazy.
I own machines that run Linux, Windows, and MacOSX (the PPC kind, thank you very much). I have the Windows since that is what I have grown up using, the Linux because it lets me get my programming work done (plus I like the value system involved), and the Macintosh machine because I LOVE the interface of OSX. I don't consider myself to be the typical PC user, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who fully conforms to the description you've placed above.
I would like to say, if you're serious about the above post, I'm sorry you've got this rock in your craw, but seriously: give it a rest! Talk about dogmatic following of someone else's ideas!
I'm guessing that the radioactive elk/wolves/etc would be a bigger problem, seeing as how they tend to be rather wide-ranging, as well as that there's the chance of hunting them...
The question at the time was of the size of the earth, and whether there were more landmasses to be found west of Europe (aside from those already discovered by going east).
Consider this: If something takes over 20 or 30 years to come into public domain, isn't there a high probability that we'll have computers sufficiently advanced to break past types of encryptions? Technology will allow the DRM to be circumvented long before the copyright expires....I hope.
I'm guessing that the gp is referring to picking a single aspect of processor performance, and equating that single aspect directly to performance of the machine, i.e. "1200Mhz will always perform faster than 1000Mhz". No manufacturer says this (that I know of), but so many consumers take it as a given, when the only number quoted to them concerning a processor is clock speed.
That isn't to say that I agree with the grandparent, though. Intel's Pentium-m processors are pretty nifty...lower power usage, high performance (compared to a P4).
So, while it may not be some amazing quantum leap, I'd say that Intel is showing plenty of innovation, at least from the standpoint of the consumer market.
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I guess if there are a number of solutions to a game's obstacles, I like it. I enjoy the process of attempting a strategy, refining it, possibly failing and having to find a new strategy. If I can beat a game without exhausting my strategies for dealing with challenging situations, then that game fulfills my needs, I suppose. I see it as completely independent of the amount of time it takes myself or another player to play through the game.
Myself, I beat Tetris in about an hour ;-)
Dear sir, your user number says differently. A good day to you =)
I think the parent is referring to high-res output to television, using a DVD player that supports decoding from divx/xvid.
You gave them the information on scam artists selling full-price copies of their software (and thus taking away their sales profits), and yet they somehow owe you nothing? As you said, probably many people were scammed by these people. You have to have returned to Quicken a reasonable amount of business.
I believe the goal is to remove the string, ring, and ball from the apparatus. I solved this a couple of years ago, seems like.
Odd...I was just listening to that song...
Narbacular Drop, upon which Portals was based, won't allow you through one portal until the second has been placed.
I am of the belief that God has gifted us with the intellect and necessary tools to create new things, as well as new ways of doing things. In my opinion, that is what is meant in Genesis where it says that we will become like God. If this, or a similar technique, is able to produce healthy offspring with a similar rate of success to the more natural method, I think it could well be argued that we were meant to come by this knowledge and to use it. Is it unnatural? Maybe. So is herding and controlled breeding of other species. So is agriculture in general. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I believe that God wishes us to better ourselves in the ways that we see fit.
In games, I have "strafed" in both senses. It all depends on the context in which the word is used.
My dad's a victim. He purchased wireless cards for the machines in his home, as well as a MIMO pre-n router/WAP. Several of the wireless cards didn't function in desktop machines, and his internet connection isn't nearly quick enough to worry about upgrading from our old 802.11b network. In short, he spent a couple hundred dollars, and the only machine getting a faster connection to the router is his laptop. For a net connection that I regularly saturate over 802.11b connections when I'm at home. Yay.
quick note: 180MBps is 8x faster than 180Mbps. Megabyte versus megabit.
Those numbers don't work like version numbers. They are the IEEE standards numbers. If I remember correctly, the 802 sections are networking protocols, while the .ll means you're talking about wireless networking.
Arghhh! Then we'll have people asking if blue and purple work together...or should they go with the green part? I hope I don't ever end up memorizing this speculated color fiasco =/ Frankly, I'm pretty happy with acronym soup.
The current state in some schools is worse than a lack of encouragement. Using the computers for anything that the instructors don't understand constitutes "hacking", much of the time. I've gotten in trouble for writing programs on computers (in basic, non-viral, etc). It gets worse. One of my friends tells a story about changing to a non-default printer (the default was set improperly) and getting sent to the vice-principal's office.
For the most part, I was lucky, though. It is the one way I can think of that having out of date equipment was a boon. Most of my schools had machines running windows 3.1, and therefore a full copy of dos including the qbasic.exe binary. That always excited me, being able to add functionality to a machine with something I created. Then again, I'm most of the way through a computer science bachelor's degree now...
Wow...I'm guessing that you're not serious on what you've said. If you are, you're bat-shiat crazy.
I own machines that run Linux, Windows, and MacOSX (the PPC kind, thank you very much). I have the Windows since that is what I have grown up using, the Linux because it lets me get my programming work done (plus I like the value system involved), and the Macintosh machine because I LOVE the interface of OSX. I don't consider myself to be the typical PC user, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who fully conforms to the description you've placed above.
I would like to say, if you're serious about the above post, I'm sorry you've got this rock in your craw, but seriously: give it a rest! Talk about dogmatic following of someone else's ideas!
I'm guessing that the radioactive elk/wolves/etc would be a bigger problem, seeing as how they tend to be rather wide-ranging, as well as that there's the chance of hunting them...
The question at the time was of the size of the earth, and whether there were more landmasses to be found west of Europe (aside from those already discovered by going east).
I thought the point was that uClinux was invented to support CPUs and microcontrollers without an MMU....
Consider this: If something takes over 20 or 30 years to come into public domain, isn't there a high probability that we'll have computers sufficiently advanced to break past types of encryptions? Technology will allow the DRM to be circumvented long before the copyright expires....I hope.
Giggidy, giggidy, awright! WHo's up fo' some action, eh?
And just mostly useless the rest of the time? What with the dupes and random, inane comments typically found on this site, of course
....You only need to get ONE woman pregnant, geekoid. Then you find two more to help her carry your child. DUH.
I'm guessing that the gp is referring to picking a single aspect of processor performance, and equating that single aspect directly to performance of the machine, i.e. "1200Mhz will always perform faster than 1000Mhz". No manufacturer says this (that I know of), but so many consumers take it as a given, when the only number quoted to them concerning a processor is clock speed.
That isn't to say that I agree with the grandparent, though. Intel's Pentium-m processors are pretty nifty...lower power usage, high performance (compared to a P4).
So, while it may not be some amazing quantum leap, I'd say that Intel is showing plenty of innovation, at least from the standpoint of the consumer market.
Hey, hey, hey....I think Pacman ate white pills. So get your facts straight before spreading lies and false rumours around, eh?