Did you know that "chloride" is related to the poison chlorine? Did you know that you eat "chloride" every day, and you would die if you didn't?
Fluoride might not be perfectly safe, but confusing elemental fluorine with fluoride ions just makes you look like a retard. Learn some basic chemistry.
They might be on dialup, and it would take too long to download.
Every distro worth using will either have Firefox available with the package manager, or be so specialized that you wouldn't want to use Firefox with it anyway.
Downloads geared to your user agent is a stupid idea. Any Linux user probably already has Firefox, so the only reason they'd be going to the website would be to download the Windows version for family/friends.
It takes 4 clicks for a Linux user to download the Windows version from the front page now, compared to 1 click for the old version. Generally everything has been dumbed down, and is more ugly looking. This new design sucks.
Akira has the most impressive animation, but My Neighbor Totoro is the greatest. It proves you don't need violence and conflict to have a great story, only great characters. I've seen it compared to the Winnie The Pooh stories (the originals, not the Disney crap), which also show how a flawless children's story can be enjoyed by everybody.
He is required to. The contributed code is copyrighted by the authors, and in the absence of other licensing terms it is assumed to be under the GPL. That guy refuses to provide the source code for the modified Windows build, so he is distributing the contributed code outside the terms of the license and comitting copyright infringement.
Posters were warned that anything they contributed might be used in the game, without any compensation whatsoever, and that although the creators would try to credit people whose material was used, it might slip their minds in the hurly burly of meeting deadlines. As the legal "boilerplate" (if you can call it that) said, "All Your Rights Are Belong to Us."
The GNOME button order is very sensible for left to right languages (if it's not automatically reversed for right to left it should be). The "ok" type default option is on the far right, which is the point where you eyes will naturally rest when looking at the row of buttons. This is the most commonly used option so it makes sense that it is accessable with the least mental effort. The "cancel" type option is always on the far left, which means you have have to actively move your eyes/mouse from the "rest" position, preventing accidently cancellation. This is consistent within all HIG compliant apps, so I don't have to think much when using buttons.
Reverting the button order just because inferior systems do it differently is a very bad idea.
I strongly recommend not wasting your time on Xenosaga. Xenosaga takes all the worst parts of Xenogears disc 2, and combines them with ugly graphics and almost no music. Read http://www.caltrops.com/review0012.php
Microscopic text (zoom is worthless here, fixed size page layout) and irritating animation is supposed to be an example of good use of Flash? Web pages are not supposed to look the same in all browsers. The text also can't be copied and pasted, and individual pages within the Flash can't be bookmarked. This site only illustrates why Flash sucks so bad.
This is a method for compensating for "hot pixels", and won't help with thermal noise. It's still a good idea for improving image quality, especially with long exposures as used in astronomy.
And the double-blind listening tests are where exactly? Don't underestimate the "it costs more so it must be better" placebo effect. If you can't measure it, it might as well not be there.
We are talking distortion, because artifacts are distortion, and with good conversion those artifacts are impossible to hear with human ears (16 bit sample depth is not "good"). The reason you're not posting listening test results proving otherwise is because they don't exist.
You're using a different definition of distortion to me. I mean "change in signal", you seem to mean "obviously overdrive tube amp guitar tone".
"Uncolored sound" means the exact same signal goes out as goes in, only louder - the mythical "straight wire with gain". This is impossible, but fortuantly human hearing isn't great, so it's easy to get good enough.
Your natural compression is still distortion, and as I said, tube amps have value when distortion is required. Transistors are much cheaper and more reliable when accuracy is your priority (just buy a powerful enough amp that you don't need to overdrive it).
ADC/DAC destroying audio quality? You got double-blind listening test results to prove that for even medium quality gear? Good ADCs/DACs introduce far less distortion than the most freakishly "golden ears" audiophile could possibly hear. You are the one who is full of shit.
"Uncolored sound" and "natural compression" are mutually exclusive. Tubes are only better when distortion is required (eg. guitar amps), for accurate sound reproduction transistors are much better.
If you're getting any harmonics at all then your amp is overloaded. This is *only* acceptable in guitar amps, when distortion is required, and in this case tubes might possibly be useful depending on current state of the art in tube emulation DSP.
Note that transients take a lot of power, so it takes a much bigger amp than you'd expect to get truely transparent audio. Big tube amps are insanely expensive, so you're much better off getting a relativly cheap solid state amp that will sound exactly the same.
I played and reviewed all the seal rated games to completion (except Gravedigger) without cheats or savestates. Reviews:
Galaxxon: The Third War This game has good graphics, but the gameplay has one very big flaw. Because only one enemy type presents a serious threat (the spinning things), it's very easy to just ignore all the others unless you need to kill one to make another enemies respawn. Because there's no scoring system and the timelimit is mostly meaningless, it's very easy to win by just sitting in the middle and hammering fire. Even if you chose to play "properly" (much more fun), there's no real challenge until at least level 4. This game is too tedious to be real fun. My ship's firing glitched up once, but it fixed itself at the end of the level. No other bugs noticed.
Dikki Painguin in: TKO for the Third Reich What little there is of this game is great. Awesome graphics, really fun gameplay, and plenty of challenge without feeling cheap. Also there's something extremely cool about playing a sword weilding pengiun who fights Nazis. Good music too. The only problem is it's far too short, I hope the "To Be Continued.." ending means more development will happen. No bugs noticed.
Grave Digger A puzzle/action game, but it's a puzzle that I find quite boring. I didn't play this for long. Good music, no bugs noticed.
Sack of Flour, Heart of Gold Graphically and gameplay-wise inferior to Painguin, but this game is still quite fun. Varied levels and an interesting dark/light world system. Challenge is almost nonexistant, I completed this game very easily.
Even sending every frame prerendered won't stop all cheating, for example aimbots will still be possible using computer vision/image recognition systems (which unlike in "real life", in the limited context of a game is an easily solvable problem.) The only real solution is to only play games with people who are physically in the same location as you, or people you already trust.
Magnatune is great. Unlike most online music stores, they sell lossless CD quality audio (in FLAC format, or WAV if you want to waste everyone's bandwidth). The selection is steadily growing, and there is some excellent music there. All their music can be previewed in 128kbps MP3, and it's only $5 (or more if you are feeling generous) an album if you want higher quality.
Three Ring's Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, not Yahoo's. You're not the first person I've seen who misread the name, maybe they should rename it to just "Puzzle Pirates".
Such a game already exists. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is completely skill based, with no real levels (levels exist but have extremely minor gameplay effect), and does not require any great time commitment. This is an ideal game for casual players, and still has enough in-depth content (eg. player run economy) for the hardcore players. It's also written in Java so it's crossplatform, and it doesn't require great hardware or internet connection. You can try it for free and subscription isn't too expensive.
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Fluoride might not be perfectly safe, but confusing elemental fluorine with fluoride ions just makes you look like a retard. Learn some basic chemistry.
They might be on dialup, and it would take too long to download. Every distro worth using will either have Firefox available with the package manager, or be so specialized that you wouldn't want to use Firefox with it anyway.
It takes 4 clicks for a Linux user to download the Windows version from the front page now, compared to 1 click for the old version. Generally everything has been dumbed down, and is more ugly looking. This new design sucks.
Akira has the most impressive animation, but My Neighbor Totoro is the greatest. It proves you don't need violence and conflict to have a great story, only great characters. I've seen it compared to the Winnie The Pooh stories (the originals, not the Disney crap), which also show how a flawless children's story can be enjoyed by everybody.
He is required to. The contributed code is copyrighted by the authors, and in the absence of other licensing terms it is assumed to be under the GPL. That guy refuses to provide the source code for the modified Windows build, so he is distributing the contributed code outside the terms of the license and comitting copyright infringement.
Reverting the button order just because inferior systems do it differently is a very bad idea.
I strongly recommend not wasting your time on Xenosaga. Xenosaga takes all the worst parts of Xenogears disc 2, and combines them with ugly graphics and almost no music. Read http://www.caltrops.com/review0012.php
Microscopic text (zoom is worthless here, fixed size page layout) and irritating animation is supposed to be an example of good use of Flash? Web pages are not supposed to look the same in all browsers. The text also can't be copied and pasted, and individual pages within the Flash can't be bookmarked. This site only illustrates why Flash sucks so bad.
This is a method for compensating for "hot pixels", and won't help with thermal noise. It's still a good idea for improving image quality, especially with long exposures as used in astronomy.
Only the CCD itself needs to be cooled, and only while it is taking pictures. Extensive cooling on the hot side of the peltier shouldn't be needed.
OK, we're just arguing semantics now.
And the double-blind listening tests are where exactly? Don't underestimate the "it costs more so it must be better" placebo effect. If you can't measure it, it might as well not be there.
We are talking distortion, because artifacts are distortion, and with good conversion those artifacts are impossible to hear with human ears (16 bit sample depth is not "good"). The reason you're not posting listening test results proving otherwise is because they don't exist.
"Uncolored sound" means the exact same signal goes out as goes in, only louder - the mythical "straight wire with gain". This is impossible, but fortuantly human hearing isn't great, so it's easy to get good enough.
Your natural compression is still distortion, and as I said, tube amps have value when distortion is required. Transistors are much cheaper and more reliable when accuracy is your priority (just buy a powerful enough amp that you don't need to overdrive it).
Exactly one DSP transfer will be required, assuming no audible distortion is introduced at a later stage.
ADC/DAC destroying audio quality? You got double-blind listening test results to prove that for even medium quality gear? Good ADCs/DACs introduce far less distortion than the most freakishly "golden ears" audiophile could possibly hear. You are the one who is full of shit.
"Uncolored sound" and "natural compression" are mutually exclusive. Tubes are only better when distortion is required (eg. guitar amps), for accurate sound reproduction transistors are much better.
Note that transients take a lot of power, so it takes a much bigger amp than you'd expect to get truely transparent audio. Big tube amps are insanely expensive, so you're much better off getting a relativly cheap solid state amp that will sound exactly the same.
I played and reviewed all the seal rated games to completion (except Gravedigger) without cheats or savestates. Reviews:
Galaxxon: The Third War
This game has good graphics, but the gameplay has one very big flaw. Because only one enemy type presents a serious threat (the spinning things), it's very easy to just ignore all the others unless you need to kill one to make another enemies respawn. Because there's no scoring system and the timelimit is mostly meaningless, it's very easy to win by just sitting in the middle and hammering fire. Even if you chose to play "properly" (much more fun), there's no real challenge until at least level 4. This game is too tedious to be real fun. My ship's firing glitched up once, but it fixed itself at the end of the level. No other bugs noticed.
Dikki Painguin in: TKO for the Third Reich
What little there is of this game is great. Awesome graphics, really fun gameplay, and plenty of challenge without feeling cheap. Also there's something extremely cool about playing a sword weilding pengiun who fights Nazis. Good music too. The only problem is it's far too short, I hope the "To Be Continued.." ending means more development will happen. No bugs noticed.
Grave Digger
A puzzle/action game, but it's a puzzle that I find quite boring. I didn't play this for long. Good music, no bugs noticed.
Sack of Flour, Heart of Gold
Graphically and gameplay-wise inferior to Painguin, but this game is still quite fun. Varied levels and an interesting dark/light world system. Challenge is almost nonexistant, I completed this game very easily.
Even sending every frame prerendered won't stop all cheating, for example aimbots will still be possible using computer vision/image recognition systems (which unlike in "real life", in the limited context of a game is an easily solvable problem.) The only real solution is to only play games with people who are physically in the same location as you, or people you already trust.
Magnatune is great. Unlike most online music stores, they sell lossless CD quality audio (in FLAC format, or WAV if you want to waste everyone's bandwidth). The selection is steadily growing, and there is some excellent music there. All their music can be previewed in 128kbps MP3, and it's only $5 (or more if you are feeling generous) an album if you want higher quality.
Three Ring's Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, not Yahoo's. You're not the first person I've seen who misread the name, maybe they should rename it to just "Puzzle Pirates".
Such a game already exists. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is completely skill based, with no real levels (levels exist but have extremely minor gameplay effect), and does not require any great time commitment. This is an ideal game for casual players, and still has enough in-depth content (eg. player run economy) for the hardcore players. It's also written in Java so it's crossplatform, and it doesn't require great hardware or internet connection. You can try it for free and subscription isn't too expensive.
The GPL applies to distribution, not use, so this analogy is completely invalid.