On the other hand, for certain types of devices (e.g. calculators, as mentioned above), the electrical version is far easier to understand. An ALU is a lot simpler to think about than the set of gears that do the same thing.
Just like with any written language, an individual CD is meaningless on its own but if you have enough you can figure out how it works. (With media that's compressed, or worse encrypted, you'd have a much harder job; I fear for our film heritage in the days of bluray, but with CDs it's easy). You could read a CD with a microscope and a lot of patience, and after the first one you'd know enough to build a player, much like the fancy laser turntable for playing vinyl. Of course this requires a technologically sophisticated society, but caveman-types aren't going to be bothering doing archaeology anyway. You emphatically don't need the original specs to figure it out.
Previous generations weren't even trying to preserve anything. Plenty of stuff will make it to the future; it only needs one copy of a CD or whatever to survive
I recall at least one derailment with no earthquake involved - just a driver who was running a couple of minutes late and so took the curve too fast. (infer what you will about Japan's high-pressure society)
Particles are points, right? I.e. of zero size, and therefore infinite density. So why doesn't (e.g.) an electron immediately collapse to form a black hole?
Civ is all about realism. It's a thinking game, and almost inherently political; I find myself inevitably comparing game situations to real life history and putting my interpretations on those events. Heck, war is an actual threat to many of us, and pretty prominent in Civ. For escapism I'd play something else.
Doubtful, I don't know how much storage is required for a holographic two hour presentation, but I would guess a hell of a lot more than 50GB.
I very much doubt that. 3D models are much smaller than 2D video; just look at any videogame with pre-rendered FMV. If you're talking about "filming" reality, 50GB is more than enough for doing stereoscopic, and the recording technology for a full 3D thing is decades away.
Physical media has always been a magnitudes faster than downloading for consumers, technology pushes both every year and will for the foreseeable future, until we can download a lifelike experience in a matter of seconds, we will have physical media. Since we don't even have close to the technology to even display it yet, the death of physical media is many years or perhaps decades away.
All this is true, but the death of optical media may be much closer, because the growth rate just can't keep up. When CDs first came out they were a factor of 5 or more bigger than your typical hard drive; blu-rays are 20x smaller. We'll be buying physical movies for a while yet, but they may well be on flash drives rather than spinning discs.
The modding system probably allows adding most of the techs you want. I remember the Double your Pleasure mod back in the civ3 days, that filled the tech tree screen to overflowing.
And then they shift the option in every release, until people get fed up of turning it off. And then they make it autoupdate to on. No, if something nefarious is on by default that's enough of a problem that we should call them on it.
Since most people on mobile devices now use data services, there seems to be no reason to hamstring serious computer users just to keep up compatibility with a broken historical text-messaging limit.
You overestimate the rate at which people upgrade their phones. You may be rich, but there are plenty of folks out there using 15-year-old nokias.
I don't see why an entity that created a universe can't grow a human from a rib.
Even if you assume the can (which is by no means obvious; creating the universe is to a certain extent simpler than creating a human, in the same way that creating an embryo is simpler than creating an adult), the why makes no sense. Why would an entity that created a universe so big that if I wrote the diameter in miles it would be a silly string of zeroes, care about the goings-on of one self-impressed species on one planet of one star of one galaxy, and intervene there, but nowhere else? If this entity likes creating humans from ribs, why don't we see humans being created from ribs all the time? Forgive the flippancy.
much like Israel - I believe it's the only country to be destroyed/dissolved and reform, ever
and what is wrong living like the world hasn't moved on if you can afford it? the power bill? your children repeating mistakes?
The answer's the same as to "what's wrong with being wrong about X", for any value of X. You making mistakes, and mistakes that may affect other people; if you don't harm others then I guess you're harmless, but you're still basing your decisions on things that aren't true, which I can't imagine is good for you.
That is the nature of publicly funded infrastructure. Namely, I "feel entitled to share in" (in other words, "use the politic process to extract benefit to myself") in every expenditure of public funds. If you don't like that, then build this road system using some source of money which I don't "feel entitled" to. If you didn't want me driving my car on the highway (this being the only means I can get from point A to point B, by driving my car) and perhaps, making things slightly less safe for the rest, then you shouldn't have made the road system with my money.
You have the same entitlement to use the highway as everyone else. But you don't have any right to be endangering other people, who're using the highway for its intended purpose of getting from A to B, for the sake of your own enjoyment.
Try FreeBSD. They haven't bothered with all this shifting crap. Of course you don't get per-application volume controls (except those actually in the application) or assigning random keyboard layouts when you plug in a second one via USB, but a working system stays working.
Disagree. I played chrono trigger for the first time about six months ago, and honestly I remember and care more about it than any game I've played since about 2005 (whenever it was I played Max Payne). Of course you'll remember games you played as a kid more fondly, but seriously, no modern game has managed to engage me that much with the storytelling. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, if you can give examples of those "new RPGs" I'll play them.
They offered old games that worked on modern systems without tinkering. Can't get that on Piratebay. You sure can get dubious "cracks" and viruses though!
Lies. Pirates frequently go to a lot of effort to supply a good release e.g. I've seen plenty custom installers written for old games, sometimes bundled with an emulator if needed. And every distribution channel is vulnerable to viruses etc. (pressed CDs shipping with them happens all the time).
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On the other hand, for certain types of devices (e.g. calculators, as mentioned above), the electrical version is far easier to understand. An ALU is a lot simpler to think about than the set of gears that do the same thing.
I built a 100mF capacitor bank in high school. Though yeah, doing it with just one layer of gold would be unlikely to work.
Just like with any written language, an individual CD is meaningless on its own but if you have enough you can figure out how it works. (With media that's compressed, or worse encrypted, you'd have a much harder job; I fear for our film heritage in the days of bluray, but with CDs it's easy). You could read a CD with a microscope and a lot of patience, and after the first one you'd know enough to build a player, much like the fancy laser turntable for playing vinyl. Of course this requires a technologically sophisticated society, but caveman-types aren't going to be bothering doing archaeology anyway. You emphatically don't need the original specs to figure it out.
Previous generations weren't even trying to preserve anything. Plenty of stuff will make it to the future; it only needs one copy of a CD or whatever to survive
I recall at least one derailment with no earthquake involved - just a driver who was running a couple of minutes late and so took the curve too fast. (infer what you will about Japan's high-pressure society)
It is the best episode of anything, ever. No joke.
"Israel" != "all Jews"
Particles are points, right? I.e. of zero size, and therefore infinite density. So why doesn't (e.g.) an electron immediately collapse to form a black hole?
Civ is all about realism. It's a thinking game, and almost inherently political; I find myself inevitably comparing game situations to real life history and putting my interpretations on those events. Heck, war is an actual threat to many of us, and pretty prominent in Civ. For escapism I'd play something else.
I've also never seen an implementation of PNG that supports numeric setting of compression level
Huh? Every implementation of PNG I've ever seen has worked like that - it's the zlib compression level. Never saved a PNG in the gimp?
No. But copying and giving away your own stuff (whether you bought it or made it yourself) is.
I very much doubt that. 3D models are much smaller than 2D video; just look at any videogame with pre-rendered FMV. If you're talking about "filming" reality, 50GB is more than enough for doing stereoscopic, and the recording technology for a full 3D thing is decades away.
Physical media has always been a magnitudes faster than downloading for consumers, technology pushes both every year and will for the foreseeable future, until we can download a lifelike experience in a matter of seconds, we will have physical media. Since we don't even have close to the technology to even display it yet, the death of physical media is many years or perhaps decades away.
All this is true, but the death of optical media may be much closer, because the growth rate just can't keep up. When CDs first came out they were a factor of 5 or more bigger than your typical hard drive; blu-rays are 20x smaller. We'll be buying physical movies for a while yet, but they may well be on flash drives rather than spinning discs.
(Unfortunately I couldn't compile it, SUA can get a bit confused about 64- vs 32-bit. Wine does (or at least did) run on 32-bit windows XP)
The modding system probably allows adding most of the techs you want. I remember the Double your Pleasure mod back in the civ3 days, that filled the tech tree screen to overflowing.
Surely you can find a "sticky notes" app for whatever your window environment is. (I like the kde one, but I guess you're not using that)
Try konqueror. No adverts in the new york times, no giant corporate sponsorship, just quietly building a really good browser.
And then they shift the option in every release, until people get fed up of turning it off. And then they make it autoupdate to on. No, if something nefarious is on by default that's enough of a problem that we should call them on it.
You overestimate the rate at which people upgrade their phones. You may be rich, but there are plenty of folks out there using 15-year-old nokias.
Even if you assume the can (which is by no means obvious; creating the universe is to a certain extent simpler than creating a human, in the same way that creating an embryo is simpler than creating an adult), the why makes no sense. Why would an entity that created a universe so big that if I wrote the diameter in miles it would be a silly string of zeroes, care about the goings-on of one self-impressed species on one planet of one star of one galaxy, and intervene there, but nowhere else? If this entity likes creating humans from ribs, why don't we see humans being created from ribs all the time? Forgive the flippancy.
much like Israel - I believe it's the only country to be destroyed/dissolved and reform, ever
You forgot Poland. (And probably others)
The answer's the same as to "what's wrong with being wrong about X", for any value of X. You making mistakes, and mistakes that may affect other people; if you don't harm others then I guess you're harmless, but you're still basing your decisions on things that aren't true, which I can't imagine is good for you.
You have the same entitlement to use the highway as everyone else. But you don't have any right to be endangering other people, who're using the highway for its intended purpose of getting from A to B, for the sake of your own enjoyment.
Why do you feel entitled to that? Why should the rest of our taxes go to fund your hobby?
Try FreeBSD. They haven't bothered with all this shifting crap. Of course you don't get per-application volume controls (except those actually in the application) or assigning random keyboard layouts when you plug in a second one via USB, but a working system stays working.
Disagree. I played chrono trigger for the first time about six months ago, and honestly I remember and care more about it than any game I've played since about 2005 (whenever it was I played Max Payne). Of course you'll remember games you played as a kid more fondly, but seriously, no modern game has managed to engage me that much with the storytelling. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, if you can give examples of those "new RPGs" I'll play them.
Lies. Pirates frequently go to a lot of effort to supply a good release e.g. I've seen plenty custom installers written for old games, sometimes bundled with an emulator if needed. And every distribution channel is vulnerable to viruses etc. (pressed CDs shipping with them happens all the time).